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Ihr the Palladium. MARTIN VAN BUUEX. No. 3. From the moment when in early youth, Martin Van Huron espoused the democratic principle, he never wavered in his course. In those days of darkness which followed the embargo, he neither apostatized, tlincheJ nor doubted. His support of the government was not merely active but zealous; nor was his the zeal of ordinary men. It absorbed his whole soul; it led to untiring exertion; it was exhibited on all occasions, and under all circumstances Neither the contumely of inflated wealth, nor the opposition of invidious talent, nor the weekly Tevilings ofa licentious press, could awe it into silence, or eoftcn it to moderation. ?K .Vn?Ui?Ceif BUch PrinciPlG. accompanied with talents like those of Mr. Van Hurcn, was not to be circumscribed within the limits of a single county It accordingly extended in the same proportion with his professional reputation; and as early as - - ..m. viivnj iuc icau m a S't.Tto sj. C t middle district.; His opponent was Edward P. Livingston, at all times a man of high character for virtue and capacity; but at that time placed, by pecuar circuntances.m opposition to the dernocy of the district. Mr. an Huron was bitterly opposed by the fcdcral.st aided by most of the old Burrites, whose incorporation (which was then a pen d ingestion) an Buren had taken high ground. A more violent struggle was hardly ever known in the State; 3lr. V an Buren succeeded, but by a majority of less j v,. uannoi America, against uian iwo uunured out ot twenty thousand votes. iaet0OHhis BCat in the Semite, in November, Id Li, at the meeting held for the choice of Presidential electors. The republican members of the legisiature having, in the preceding summer, nominated De itt Clinton for President, in opposition to .Jr. ..Iadiaon, then a candidate for re-election, and that nomination having been tendered to and accepted by Mr. Clinton, ho thought it due to consistency and good faith, to support electors friendly to that gentleman. In this opinion a majority ot the republicans in each branch of the legislature concurred, and Mr. Clinton accordingly received the vote of VT i' . an Uure. however, uniformly declared, that he should acquiesce in the decision of the majority; and that he would support to the end, every measure of the government, by whomsoever it might be administered, which was calculated to bring the war a measure which he had advocated in advance, and constantly defended to a successful result. In conformity with these principles, he took a leading part in the following winter, in the nomination of Governor Tompkins, whose patriotism had identified him with the history of the country, and whose re-election seemed essential to the safety, if not to the existence of the government. On this occasion, he wrote the address to the electors of the State, issued by the republican members of the legislature, an elaborate and eloquent production, in which the duty of sustaining the administration in its prosecution of the war was enforced by every motive that could reach the hearts, or call cut the energies of the people. It was widely circulated, and produced a great effect. Mr. Clinto1 he season of 181.1 and 1814 were particularly trying. The federalists then had the control in the assembly, and were violent and uniform in their ces, in which the points in controversy involving the justice and expediency of the war, and the con duct and merits of the national administration, not less than the particular measures in dilute were debated at large, in the presence of the two houses, by committees chosen on the part of each, and with all the energy and ardor which the spirit of the times was calculated to inspire. These conferences, from the nature of their subjects, the solemnitv with which they were conducted, and the crowded and excited auditories that attended them, presented opportunities for the display of popular eloquence, a most rivaling in dignity and interest, the assemblies of ancient Greece. In all of them, Mr. Van Huron was the principal speaker on the part of the Senate, and by his dexterity in debate, his powcriul reasoning, and his patriotic defence of the government and its measures commanded great applause. On one occasion in particular, he delivered a epeech of such eloquence and power, that immediately after the termination of the debate, a committee was appointed bv the republicans of Albanywho, in great numbers, had attended the gallenos to present him the thanks of their constituent?, and to procure a copy of the speech for publication. In September, 1S14, the legislature was convoked by the Lxecutivc to deliberate on the alarminocns:s then existing. The republicans had then --o 141 uuwi uraucnes, and various" . 1 1 r- , .llll" V1 IIUUII n ..i, vww yJl inuouuc, ana "to encourage privateering associations." These bills were each supported by .,Ir. an Rurcn; but the first and most important was peculiarly his measure, it having been matured and introduced by him. They were assailcu by the opposition, both in and out of the legislature, with unwonted violence. Written opinions, denouncing them as inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution, and the nublio fond w nro riKKl. - . f-y , "w.v I'UUllSU tho validity of the laws, and impair public confidence in those who enacted them. They were answered by Mr. an Buren in four numbers. In the first of theso papers, he took a general view of the several topics connected with this controversy; the others were devoted tominutecxaminationof the various charges snade by the authors. This controversy, as conducted Ly all t,e parties, was one of the ablest which grew out of the late war. Mr. Van Uuren's share ot it, which was distinguished by great ability and research, soon became known among his political friends, and contributed, in no small decrreft t hi. appointment as Attorney General, which took place in iebruary following. He was soon after appoiutcd by the Legislature a regent of the University. Lawrenceburgh, 19135. p At a Los oss. Jonalhon Gawk, who had just arVcrniont, in search of a brother who rtveu trom crnionl, in searcii of a brother wh resided in tho city, entered a. millinery store near the Old South, and enquired, I)o you keep tohokker?' No, sir,1 said the fair shopkeeper. Vell, don't our Sam keep here?1 . No, sir.1 'Congress-oll-Jcrusalem! Mann told me thai he kept in a store close along-side Boston tone tin1 house I1 Axcestrv. Paulding, in the talo which he has contributed to "Tho Gift" for 1835.1, says "I never knew a man boast of his ancestors, who lmd any just cause to be proud of any thing else.11 Dr. Young, the author of tha Night Thoughts,1 has a similar conceit with an epigrammatic turn:

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at the scat ot government, and comnosl hZa c

the democratic members of th J ,

1912. ho was for U first time. . clSdiih for an elective 'tv:c that of Htto r . . u

uuu many oi (us irienas, supnortcd the candidate of BUCI1 wi"PPiub UCiurei uuawercu. -hu; iristh3 opposition; and from this point a separation en- oner sai1 he woula "whiP her worse than he ever sued between that distinguished statesman and Mr" dicJ the EcliPse mare;" set ner UP in a chair, told Van Huron, which, as to all political matters con- wtncss to vvet a towel and wipe the blood from her tinued ever after. " ' " face; prisoner put on a cap and put her in bed; after

oppoMiioii 10 tne war and to its supporters. A majority ot the Senators, with Mr. Van liuren and his aole coadjutors, IS athan Sanford and Eraatus Root, nt their head, were equally inflexible :ntl.P;r.n.

portot the government. .They passed many bills of a patriotic character, which were reiected by the other branch. This led to several nuMin. rnntw,,.

..curea were adopted with the express view of aiding the national administration, in the prosecution ot the war. 1 he most prominent of these measures, were the acts 'to author. tho m;;rp c '

ni nit; lie wsnanors nmi irnnc rn :

and train the high reputation and learning of the authors, they were calculated to evnitn tUnht n t.

From iho Saturday 'Evening Visiter " Horrible Cruelty. We do not in general approve cf ministering to thai depraved and vitiated taste in reading, which craves the details of every infamous crime with which the annals of justice are filled. But there is 6uch a striking portraiture of the effects of ardent spirits, and such a warning lesson against their use, contained in the evidence which was exhibited against Peter Crine, recently tried in New York for the murder of his wife, that we subjoin the account, as worthy of being read and reflected upon by every member of community. These details are so shocking to humanity, and so contrary to the natural impulse of feeling, that we should hardly give credit to then, had we not often witnessed the influence of iirai (which we hardly need say was the exciting cause of this crime) in transforming a man into a demor.. Let the "temperate drinker" pause in a career that may, even by the remotest possibility, lead to such a result. However tenderly he may now be disposed to treat the wife of his bosom, he cannot answer for his actions when the evil spirit the spirit of intoxication

shall have taken possession of him, and turned his natural feelings of affection into the malignant fury ofa fiend. The unfortunate victim, in this instance, was an amiable and pious woman, a kind and affectionate mother, and had always treated her husband with all that fondness and devotedness which characterize a faithful wife. The extremest sentence of the law has been passed, and will soon be executed upon Crine. 3Iana Crine, a daughter of the prisoner, twrclve years of age, after satisfying the Court of her competency as a witness, was examined, and deposed as follows: Is the daughter of Peter G. Crine; remembers the night her mother and brothers and sisters, five in number; her mother was in bed; father told her to get up, come to him, and pull her frock off; deceased obeyed him; father pushed her back on the bed, and sent Decatur (her brother) out for a whip which he brought in: prisoner whipped deceased on the bed; whipping her; then pulled her out on the floor and went to the fire; whipped her with his hand upon her head, pushed her back against the cupboard and compelled her to eat; then pulled her on the bed again; went out of the door, and got a whip about the size of the first, from a tree at the door, and whipped her again; the whip was of oak, with knots on it; mother said, 0! Peter, how can you be so cruel as to whip me so!" get seven whips and used them all up; saw him kick her mother; prisoner pulled her out of bed, and pushed her by the fire: struck her a great many times; deceased fell, and prisioner pushed her about on the floor with his foot, and when she was in the middle of the floor kicked her; prisoner then got another whip and whipped her while on the floor; turned her over and whipped her on the other side; pushed her out of doors; went to the fire and sat down; father said he must go to the mill; sat down and talk ed about it; deceased was in the cellar at the end of the house about a quarter of an hour; prisoner called her in; she requested to sit as near the fire as the prisoner did; prisoner damned her, and said she was as near as he was, and struck her with his fist; as she was sitting on a chair, prisoner pulled it from under her, and threw her on the floor, pulled the chair on her, went out and got two large whips and whipped her on the floor, and said "d n you I wish I had a barn to whip you in, this floor (ceil ing) is not high enough! asked her i: she ever had sitting by the fire a short time all went to bed except Theodore; only one room in the house; beds all in that room; father fell asleep; deceased got up, asked witness to boil the kettle and make her some tea, which she did; deceased drank a dish or two, warmed her feet, and in attempting to return to bed, fell on the floor; asked witness to assist her; she did so; and she got into bed; deceased groaned much; prisoner awoke and ordered her to quit groaning; deceased replied, "she had such a pain in her stomach she could not;' prisoner said she could stop if ehe would, and if she did not he would kick her out of bed; she answered she would try and be still if she could; but continued to groan when prisoner pushed her out of bed; she crawled towards witnessed bed, and attempted to get in; groaned on the iloor, and was ordered by Crine to "shut up;" he called her to come to bed again, two or three times, but received no reply; he then said, "Ruth, why dont you come to bed again?" she made no answer; he then continued "Mother, why dont you come to bed!" prisoner got up, went to her, ana exclaimed, "d n you! you want another horse whipping, dont youl" prisoner could not see her, and lit a candle, went to her and said, "Sis, I believe your mother is dying!" he then put her in the bed and covered her up; directed witness to get the handkerchief to tie up her face, which she did; prisoner tied up her face; she gasped twice and died. Prisoner went and set down by the fire; went once or twice to see if she was dead; said "wait awhile she may come to;" proposed going to the neighbors; witness said she did not like to stay there alone; father told her to o-0 to the neighbors, and tell them her mother fell down stairs! that she fell over the potato hole, and that she fell in the fire, and burnt herself; said they must never tell any one, if they did, he would be hung or go to jail for life; witness went to Amos and Nathan Wilcox's, to Aaron Howell's, and Mr. Smith's in company with her brother Theodore; returned home and neighbors came in; it was four o'clock when she was at Amos Wilcox's; mother was well and sound before father came home that evening; father was sitting by the fire when she returned from the neighbors; mother said to her father while beating her, "dont be bo cruel! dont be so hard hearted." Edom:. t4In meditating a journey through the confines of Edom, I had overlooked the prophetic denunciations ?giinst any who should traverse it, so literally and wounderfully enforced up to tiic present hour. None shall pass through it for ever and ever.'' " I will cut off from Mount Selr, him that ptsselh out, and him that returned).' The repeated and persevering attempts of travellers to explore Idumea have always proved abortive, rxcept in two instances. Seventeen did 'pass through,1 and died soon after at Aleppo; Burckhardt penetrated into it, but turned aside in dismay, died soon after at Curio." Monroe's Travels in Syria. A Recipe for changing the Hue of the Eyes. May kind host allowed me to occupy a flit upon his house-top during my stay at Alojjpo, in preference to being confined in a room; but the influence of the moon upon my head was so powerful, that whenever its beams reached me I was compelled to get up and move my mattrass to some part of the hypicthral chamber which was in the shade; and it was easy to comprehend tho full force of the Psalmist's prophetic promise, Thc sun shall not bum thee hy day, neither the moon by night.1 The injurious influence of the moon upon the eye in eastern countries has been noticed by various travellers. In passage from Messina to the coast of Calabria with Messrs Wordsworth, Errington, and Menzics, the captain of our spironara had eyes of so light a blue as lobe unnatural in appearance. He s iid it was occasioned by having slept under the moon's heaths. Vatre Qltnonds. A Mr. Ira Simpson, of Gates County, near Rochester, in the State of New York, has this fall raised nearly a peck of Almouds, from a limb grafted on a peach tree.

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Civil and Religious Liberty. Mr. O'Gonnell, in & letter accepting a public dinner offered to him at Manchester, for his services to the cause of Civil and Religious Liberty, thus defines each:

"Civil Liberty is nothint? but iustice rednrpfl into action. It drives the unjust, the speculator, the under-worked public officer, the partial judge, the squanderer of the public purse trom power, from station, from the opportunities of doing wrong. It gives to the people equal laws, good laws, cheap laws. It leaves every honest man in the full enjoyment of all his property not indispensibly required to defray, in the most economic manner, the expenses! of government. It scruples to levy a tax almost as it would scruple to levy as & robber, and it has its basis in the utmost possible extension of popular control over all public functionaries, with one only, a safe exception. Itelgious Liberty, is, I own it, more dear to me still. Religion is the most important and awful con cern of human existence; but its tenents are matters between man and his creator. It is Ihe great creator who alone can see the hearts of men; and he alone can judge how far each of us is sufficiently feincere, and sufficiently cautious in the adoption and maintenance of his religious belief. Our fellow men have nothing to do with it. The law of man is impious, I would say blasphemous, when it usurps the province of God, and in the pride of its usurpation dares to coerce conscience and to attempt to compel belief. I fee that in vindicating freedom of conscience I vindicate our common Christianity from the foul stain of persecution." An Extract. The Greeks sculptured the butterfly upon their tombstones ihe poetical and philosophical genius of the people seeinrr jn its transformation a type of that futurity which they believed but did not understand. They placed it there as a representative of the soul. The isiawe is beautiful and touching; and Sharon Turner taking up the same idea, has expressed a belief that the Creator appointed insect transformations to .excite the sentiment in the human heart of death being only one step in the path of life. Autdjix. The season of golden fruits and faded foilage of the fulfilment of the rich promise of Nature, coupled with the blight and desolation of all by which that fulfilment has been accomplished, again isits us in the ripeness of its fall maturity. October wanes apace Mho dead leaves strew the fcrc3t walks' and not the forest walks only, but even the busy haunts of commerce and speculation. Ere anothera week shall elapse, we shall have passed the Rubicon of a General Election, (about which no one seems to be troubling himself,) and have fairly entered upon gloomy, chilly, comfortless November the month of agues, horrors and suicides. And jet we have been very slightly subjected in this region to its influence in anticipation. The chief characteristic of our Autumn has been its uninterrupted mildness its unruffled placidity. Day afierday has the same good-natured sun looked down in beneficence upon our hundred spires and twenty thousand dwellings, though otten alter struggling tor hours through a morning fog, which might well put so wormhearted a personage out of humor day after day have all indications of approaching tempest and inclemency proved delusive and wo are still, at the close of October, enjoying and appreciating a most auspicious Indian Summer,of unwonted consistency and duration. Our city is as fully alive with business and the presence of strangers as the September of a less prosperous season; and only the sear leaves beneath our feet, and the diversified and bountiful products of the husbandman's toil, which greet U3 on every side, conspire to give assurance that we have passed the autumnal equinox. Perhaps nothing can give at a single glance a more forcible idea of the vast extent and diversity of our common country, than the conflicting statements and complaints which reach us from different sections, on the subject of the weather. A lamentation over the ravages of a deluge in NewEngland, reaches us simultaneously with the story of sufferings and losses by drought in the SouthWest. Nay, further we have even now the narrative of an unprecedented inundation in the MidWestern section of our own State, while the whole Southern portion of it, with the entire tide-water country cf the Northern States, if we mistake not. is laboring under an unusually serious privation of rain. &o, while the season has been generally a dry one on this side the Mountains, it has been remarkable, westward of the Alieganies, for its scarcely intermitting 'falling weather.1 The Ohio, witii its tributaries, has been in excellent navigable order throughout the season a most unusual circumstance while the pursuits of agriculture, in some portions of tho country lying between it and the Lakes, have been very seriously interrupted and retarded by the inclemency of the weather, and the unfavorable condition of the saturated and reeking soil. Cut Autumn pensive, gorgeous, abounding Autumn is fast receding from our anxious sight. The season of quiet joys and soothing reflection of memory, of fruition, of chastened feeling, is fast speeding to the tomb of buried centuries. Ba it so: if it has been wisely improved, we need not mourn its flight; if otherwise, better that its course had been earlier sped. But not now a welcome to its stern successornot now a smile expectant for the chilly blasts and scowling skies of the ungentle season. Sufficient unto the day is the good thereof; the evil of to-morrow need be contemplated and dwelt upon only when it is not inevitable. Jycw Yorlccr. AxECDOTE.The origin of singular names of individuals is sometimes trulv laughable. In illustra tion of this we give the following: The father of Keturn J. Meigs was born at Middletovvn, in Connecticut. For. some time prior to his settlement in lite, he addressed a fair Quakeress at Middlefiold, some few rods from his father's residence, and found much difficulty in obtaining her hand. She repeatedly answered his protestations of fidelity and attachment with "Nay, Jonathan. I resnectthee much. but cannot marry thee for better is a dinner of hcrtw and contentment, than a stalled ox and contention therewith." Mr. Meigs finally told Ruth that he was paying his last visit as a lover, and should strive to form an alliance with another family, and would therefore bid her farewell. The kind and lengthened word pronounced with so much softness, fell upon her heart with healing in its tone; and, as he mounted his horse to ride off, the Quakeress, relenting, beckoned to him to stop, exclaiming, "Return Jonathan! Return Jonathan!" Mr. Meigs went back, and fixed upon a day for the celebration of the nuptials. The first fruit of their union was a son, which the father, in commemoration of the happiest words he had ever heard spoken, had baptised "Return Jonathan," who rose to distinction, and subsequently to the office of post-master general of the United States. The Siamese Twins Outdone. There are now on exhibition in New York, a couple of Virginia born twin mulatto children, perfectly formed and united together in the upper part of their bodies, and in their necks and faces as if in close embrace, forming, by a continuity of surface and flesh, one individual. They were a premature birth, but lived several hours after they were born. Their limbs, backs, heads, eyes and features of each are perfect, and even beautiful. Boston Post.

LATE FROM EUROPE. . The packet ship Independence, Capt. Nye, nrrived oa Saturday from Liverpool, whence she sailed on the 26th ult. Her intelligence is of little

moJent )ment. Don Corlos has appointed the Holy Virgil comk tknPnal Standard is to be distinguished with the title of 11 IU11 v V. 1-1 IJ-VL1I V. 1 VT 1 IVII llbll I t III I IV A frv Jf 1 generalissimo, is never to be lowered to any person and is to be treated with the same honors end salutes as the Holy Sacrament! Nothing woildseem too monstrous for monkish trickery and Spanish credulity. I here has been another revolution in the Min istry of the Queen Regent. It can no longer be disguised that the new Government has no hold upon either the affections or confidence of the Spanisu people. Louis Philip positively declines to extend anv efficient aid to the Constitutional Government of Spain. There is no longer any doubt llut he is in full communion with the Northern Despots. ve copy a lew additional items from the Star, JScw Yorker. That remarkable man, O'Connell, is making a triumphal progress through Scotland. The people of Manchester gave him a public Dinner the peopie of Newcastle, ditto the people of Edinburg, auto uie people ot Glasgow, ditto. From Glasgow tie goes to Ireland, where he is to be feted at Dublin, Belfast, and even the Orange hold Londonderry. Every where he has been received with such honors as never before have been accorded to a private, unofficial man. Think of soberminaca .cainourg sending out 15U,UUU men to meet him! Lord Brougham was expected at the O Connell dinner, at Edinburg, but declined the invaaiioil. I The Count Torreno, late prime minister of Spain, is appointed amdassdor to the French court. Mehemet Redschid Pasha, the commander-in-chiefof the Sultan, against the Kurds, his an army oflG,000men. He recently captured COO men, who were drowned in the Alack Sea on their way to Constantinople, where it is probable they awaited a more painful and ignominious death. The London Gazette of September23d contains me ionowing announcement: l lie lung lias been graciously pleased to nominate Henry Stephen Fox, Esq. now his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States ".mr,ca . Kalisch, where, under the disguise of a military review, the tloly Alliance are to settle the affairs of Europe is a small town in Poland, 130 miles from Warsaw. During one of the reviews before the Emperor, there were seen performing there evolutions, besides 800 Kourdish horsemen and Tscherkessess and Cossacks, ccc. &c. also a body of 1G00 Circassian cavalry, presenting in costume and movement a most picturesque spectacle. The sh ining helmets and glittering hauberks of silver mail of ihe fifty Circassian Princes, recalled the scenes of Ivanhoe. The 400 Kourdish. in a chares they made, were so furious that several were wounded, and their enthusiasm to seize the victori ous standard won at Erzerum could only be repressed by their padischah holding up his finger. The Prince Frederick, of Netherlands, was there with his brilliant suite, and was embraced by tho Rus sian Emperor during the review. Paris, Sept I5th. Defeat of X)1 Adb-El-Kader near Z)1 Gran. Tho Government have this day received the following telegraphic despatches, dated Algiers, Sept.GiIi. To Murshal Clauscl, Minister of War Abd-El-Kader experienced a severe blow near D'Ora n on the 29th August. The Bay Ibrahim and Douares fought bravely. The fire of our artillery decided their letreat. The loss of the enemy is very considerable." The French vessel Recherche, Capt. Trehonert, sent to the north polar seas, in search of the Lilloise, oapi. uiosseville, has discovered no trace of that navigator. The Emperor and Empress of Austria, are on an excursion to Bohemia. Metternich has gone to Konigswarth. The Duke de Nemours, second son of Louis Phillippe, is visiting the English manufactories at Birmingham. Shipwreck and loss of one hundred and thirty lives. The convict ship George the Third, bound to Hobart Town, was lost on the 22th of April, and of those on board, 132 perished. Advices trom Greece to the 15th of Aug. state that Col. Gordon at the head ofa moveable column, had succeeded in destroying near Corinth the band of robbers who murdered Capt Kraus and 50 Germans. The Cholera in Italy appears to be subsiding. The aggregate number of deaths at Genoa is elated at between 3000 and 4000, of which 1000 occurred in a single week. It appears by the London Morning Chronicle the accredited organ of the Whigs, William IVth is at last convinced of the necessity of going forward with the popular voice for reform. He does not any longer give much ear to the Conservatives, and consequently is on more harmonious terms with his present ministry. Later. Private advices from New Orleans state that the American Schooner San Felipe, Captain Hnrd, which captured and brought to that port the Mexican Revenue Cutter, le Correo. sailed" acain on the lOih inst for Brazoria, Texas, loaded with merchandize, arms and ammunition- wiihotit hnvino taken any papers from the Mexican Consul at New Orleans. Capt. Ilurd previously made a consider noio aaaiuon to his tormer armament, and appears determined to carry on the war, on his private account. The same advices add that the Mexican expedition which landed at Copons on the 5th October, under the command of General Cos, sailed for Metamoras on the 3d, and that more transports were preparing there for the same destination wiih a similar number of troops. The port ofCopoas as is situated beyond Matagorda, and at about 40 leagues from Matarnoras, where most of the Jroops for the expeditfon of Taxas, are assembled. The distance from Copoas to San Antonio de Bexar, where Gen. Cos intends to unite his forces with those of Colonel Tgarteceea, is about fifty leagues. A Noble Act Rewarded. Wo a short time since, published the fact that a man by the name of Wood, had unexpectedly inherited the sum of i,7,000 sterling, bequeathed to him by some friend in iMigiana. ji appears that the fortunate person is Mr. Joseph Wood, of Trenton, in this Slate, and that the bequest was made under the following curious circumstances: Several years ago, the only chil J of an English gentleman fell overboard from a steamboat in the Delaware, at the foot of Chesnut street wharf, Philadelphia, and would inevitably have perished, but for the promptitude of Mr. Wood, who instantly plunged into the water, and with great difficulty and danger succeeded in

restoring the child to the arms of it agonized par' ents. lie pea ted and liberal offers of reward have since been inado to Mr. Wood, which have been as constantly refused by him, on the ground that

he had done no more than his duty, ana me consci ousl feeling of a worthy action carried wiih it its Amn TPWATil. Inn nenileman. however, wno re - I - . . . it 1 . ccnlly died, could not lorget the nooto disinteresu iv.li.i-. 3 7 ted conduct ot tlie preserver 01 ma cnuu o hkjj am l ... -i? . r 1 a . .i on opening his will, it was found to contain th above munificent bequest, of which Mr. Woodisbeen duly apprized. I luiy a magnificent rewar for a noble action ! New Jersey Gazette. The frencu utJESTiojf . The stale of this que? lion is, at this moment, accoromg iu uui t. . - i nu : tm! ..iiii l?M no it final. sion, very criHcai. aiic iiiuummij m, lv massed, requires ua satisfactory explanation77 oi the lansuase held bv the president in his message to congress at the commencement of the last seB3ion as a preliminary to the pavmcnt of the money. Mr. Livingston, on the eve of his departure from Pari?. and while the indemnity bill was yet unoer consmcration, addressed an oiiicial note to tl?e minister ot state, explaining the character of our government in reference to the presidents connection w?th congress, and protesting against the construction Pt upon the message by the French government. A-' ter Mr. Livingstones return, the president, it appears by the statements of the Globe, officially aau publicly declared his approbation of Mr. Livingston7s letter, ''repeating to the French government that the construction of the enemies of peace here and in Europe, converting the message into an insuit and menace, was wholly unauthorized by its terms or the intention of its author.11 This would seem to us to amount to a "satisfactory cxplanation " and we lmaoine. Frnm tho tone of thn rmh lie press, that it is as much, in the W3V of exnlamtion, as the feeling of the country will approve of or allow. It remains to be seen whether tho French government considers the explanation as "satisfactory," and on the arrival of tho next packet from France, the government may receive advice ofa definito character. It is hinted to us, from private sources, that M. Pageot,the French charge des affaires at Washington, has advised his government of the fact that Gen. Jackson had in his communications with him, approved of Mr. Livingston's letter, and directed him to assure tho French government that the message was not intended to convey any menace or insinuation ofa character inconsistent with the friendly relations subsisting between the two corernments. M. Paceot had not. at the date of our o last intelligence from Washington, received any reply from his government. It is well known that M. I'ageot feels deeply anxious upon the subject, and has exerted himself greatly to prevent the occurrence of any thing unpleasant to eithergovernment at this critical juncture. M. Pageot is an inmate of the president's family, having married Miss Lewis, and is on a footing of friendly intimacy and confidence with him. From M. PageoOs representations to his govern ment, we therefore look for the most gratifying results; and, indeed, we confidently expect, in our next paper, to have the pleasure of announcing tho complete and satisfactory adjustment of the question. N. Y. Sunday Morning News "To lie in cold obstruction and to rot 11 is the lot of all, and is the greatest of (he many bug bears which agitate tho brief span of life allowed to us. How often have we heard ladies, or tho most cultivated minds, and possessed of the highest degree of fortitude in regard to present ills, express the most soul-sickened horror at tho thought of the.exposure of their mortal remains to worms, to consuming mould, and perhaps to the eyes of gloating and morbid curiosity, or mercenary speculation. Even the hardier spirits of males cannot altogether resist the feeling ofdisgust anuCJfVor at the prospect of the dissecting room, and the anticipation of the brutal laugh of the demonstrator, and of his stupid and unfeeling assistants and pupils;. The Roman and Grecian custom of reducing tho remains to ashes, and of inurning and preservingthem, for the continued love and respect of the bereaved parent, wife, husband, child or friend, is a proof of the superiority of those nations in refinement and civilization. No improvement, in modern times, brings us so nearly to the grade of ancient civilization, in this respect, as the stone coffin of Mr. John White of Syracuse, exhibited at the late fair of the American Institute. This coffin is made of an artificial stone cement, and the lid is laid on after the last gaze of the living has been fixed upon the dead. The whole coffin then becomes one solid, thick, and impervious mass of stone, which, if taken up by the medical faculty, can be of no use to them, without the apparatus by which they would undertake to split and sever blocks of granite. At the moment of tho union of the lid with the box, the air from the coffin may be easily exhausted, in consequence of which the remains of the mortal inside becomes forever incorruptible. The last trump will bring them before tho throne of the everlasting, in their original form and feature. iY. Y. Sunday Morning Newt, Loss of the eastern mailThe Salem Gazette of Tuesday morning stales, that the great eastern mail was stolen from the stage on Sunday evening a. ter it had been shifted at the post office iathat ' , , ' ho Ioss was not discovered till the stage i re.aclie? Boston. No trace of it had been discover- , n JN.11onday night. The opinion prevails that the mail must have been stolen from the stage, in the yard of the Lafayette rcoffee house, by some villains who had come n from the eastward for tho purpose. There was a irreat rush and r.nnfrtir.n of passengers in the yard at tho time when the man was changed, on account of the arrival of three extras at the same moment with the mail stage, in addition to tho usual throng. It has since been recovered. N. Y. Sunday Morning News. One half of that valuable paper the Providence' Journal, is, we notice, for sale affording a rare chance to a young enterprising printer, with a small ready capital. It is the only daily paper printed in Rhode Island, and sustains a high rank among the journals of the day. Mr. Paine, the junior editor, advertises that he is shortly to leavo the concern, and remove to the western country. N. Y. Sunday Morning News. By the last accounts from Para. (Brazil) the Indians, &c. had entire possession of tho town, and would probably continue to hold it. Most of tho former inhabitants who were fortunate enough to escape inasacre. had fled to Maranham, many cf them in a tate of great destitution. Journal of Commerce. The New York Courier States that a fine looking young white female was married on Vednedav evening last, in that city, by Rev. Mr. Ilaybom, to a full blooded negro, of unmixed descent.