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PUBLIC SENTIMENT.

FKOM TBE BOSTON ATLAS.

Tat I.ticooRAL

ADDRESS.—It

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readers, the Inaugural Add ma of Prewdent HAXKISOX. Wc looked tur it with the deepest interest, and it has satisfied our highest hopes. Every V£feig, we are confident, will now be assured thst, in voting for Gen. HARRISON, lie did his duty to his country snd thousands of those who voted otherwise, will not lament that they did so in vain. Though somewhat long, we commend a careful perusal of it to every arisen of A* merica and if there is one who does not feel nim«»f made better by its mild and truly republicsn spirit, we Jtnow not of whst maierialebe is composed.

The address is perfectly characteristic of th man^ 11 speaks its origin in every line

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trines and spirit are these of the gd®d school, to which its author belong*, and we welcome them back as we would the return of a patriarch of the Revolution. There is no art, no disguise, noarrogance—but a plain, sincere, modeat, yet firm declaration of the President's views upon the important interests now entrusted to him. All that he says is clearly from the heart, cloth«d in unstudied language, but prompted by a single desire ro do his duty. The characteristics of tlie address rc of (I Jathioaed common ie*w, trtu rrpublicanum. •and gtnu'me koneity of heart, three things of which the «dministration oi our Government stands in greater .need than of all else besides. In a word, it as thoroughly a republican document as can be found in the antials of the country, and every true friend of a free government must be oeeply grateful that the spirit wnich it cvinces is once again to preside over our councils.

And while the address is thus true to the republican opirit and faith of the party which has elevated its author to his high station, we cannot too highly commend its entire freedom from bitterness towards political opponents. The antidemocratic tendenciea ol the two last Administrations could not, of course, be overlooked by the President—for it was to arrest three, more than for any other cause, that he haa been placed whrrr hr is Put brJtf* tlifri"*'g'1 bisdiuyin this "reSObCt'ir. a noble, nar, in a CniWMW «f"ra- ,T9*

tinued personal insults heaped upon him, during the canvass, have not betrayed him into a single harsh or disrespectful allusion to his predecessors or opponents, He hosdisplayed the error and danger of their proceedines. not oy an attack upon them, but by a plain,

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FROM THE SAT.EM (MASS.) RE'STFTFT..

PRESIDENT HARRISON's Inauourai..—W have porused it and reperused ii again and again, and each time with increased satisfaction: for every sentence is stamp-

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•opinion, unprejudiced by the praises or censures ot .political partisans or either side. The Address, in our estimation, is eminently corner•vafive and truly republican—differing, in its doctrines, tot6 calo, from the aogmatic, headstrong. sj»eciou«, but •destructive radicalism of the two last Administrations. "The CONSTITUTION, its broad foundation resting upon •the People, is held up as our only legitimate guide, our most sacred safeguard and its sanctity is never to be 'violated, its limits excecded^or its spirit departed from. 'The Executive is to be the Executive provide for in •the Constitution—MO/ uniting in his person the bxecu'tive, Legislative, and Judicial powers. The use of the •v*io will be restricted to extraordinary occasions, ana mot b« made a matter ol every day occurrence, in a •word, the Representatives of the. People will be leu to .perform their appropriate duties,and will be sunerea to mak* the »awa which the President i* to •xccute.

We do not intend to take up tbe topics of the Address 'in detail, but only to speak of it in the general. I here are many points, howew. to which, in perusing, we would merely direct attention, for the plain, •forward manner in which they

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eminently pure, patriotic, frank, and noble spirit whicn they breaths—such as the powers conferred by iheConstitution, Executive Patronage, the Veto, the reedom •of the Pre«, Party Spirit.&c. The mild, conciliatory, and Chriatian tone of the Address, too, is worthy of all praise. There is no harshness, no bitterness, no censure or complaint of his slanderers, no reviling his political opponents, nothing of a partisan character. 1 is whole tenor ia truly American, ami no one can doubt that it is all his own. We rejoice at this, and we rejoice tha more because it is in such strong^ contrast with the course pursued by his immediate predecessors, thereby indicating that wo are once more to nave a

President of the whole People, and not of a party merely. There is one other topic which we mu«t notice^and •that ia, the atand which the President takes in regard to Executive interference with the legislation ol Congress. This ia a strongly marked feature of the

Address, which very happy* clearly, and distinctly defines the prineipta on wnich the new Administration will be conducted, but wisely leaves the SMStmrtt to be *dopted to the legitimate source, the Representatives of the People. To call the Address per/tct »n every respcct, we do not intend but we hsvs no disposition to «nd fsult with trivial imperfections in matters of tastn or style, when its general tenor is so satisfactory. It ia an honest, sincere. btyond

triotic. manly document, and prodnction of the Pretident.-

all question t.~

As such it will receive the favor of the Peodlci and as 'General Harrison*

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lifsis a guaranty that what he

promises he will perform, wt may look forward with •confidence to a return of that prosperity by which wo were formerly distinguished, and which mn hardly •fail to result from an

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FROM TBI WRWHAVTN FATLAWN*.

Tut iNAtwcRAt. AWHLKSB —Before tbe delivery of the Inaugural, tbm wars,doubtless, few Whip tllat did not fee) some little sppteHension concerning it. It was to be the first official document of the new

and, though the speeches, letters,, and character of General Harmon cottttituted a satisfactory pledge that hie Inaugural would he la the main sanActojry, £t itw

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go no further thn« to the

Inaugural Addrese of (he fanner, tnd the Inst N*k? of the IktMt. The risctntjf with which Pen

BMWS ot tha latter. The a»c*r*y Wftn wuwn 1«1- ^(tr ana «nwra I erel fRrrisowVeismtiurhlr d»es»imrinii hoard thet *Hhe Almyhtjr forgets not •re protnulfwei to the greatsst surety toWsoftosMtent

discharge oft hem, heeaaee. by saying only what he Ael*, he will no* heant te target whsfhesmL

Conscious of his lirtitfty to err, notwithsthtodiiif hii experience as a Maiesiian end the study he has the ConstitatkM and to the character of the

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straight-forward statement of the indispensable necessi- I impoverished condition of the Treasury, the wretched tvofthe opposite course, which he himself intendt to state or the country, and the defencelessnees of our nursue Not only is he republican in his doctrines, but cities and frontier, have rendered it the imperative he la manly courteous. Christian in his manner of ad- duty of the President to »ll an extra session ofConvsncing them.

man who opposes his doc- gress.

nor a man. An inaugural address must, of necessity, be somewhat general, and must ileal in principles rather than details. President HARRISON, from the present position of the country, and the peculiar character of the contest which has resulted in hiselection, wasbound to express himself upon a greater number of distinct oomts than moat ol his predecessors. In complying with this duty, lie lias been lull and frank- And in going through with cacli topic, weeanuot find a sctitiinent which we would have omitted.

trines can ever bn deemed a true democrat, so he who On no former occasion hns a retiring Administration can hereafter s|*»k of the President with personal dis- left the Government and the People in such a state respect, whatever sl« he may be, is neither a Chttstian dilapidation and collate. Mr. VAN BGREN «ime power with an overflowing Treasury. The People were surrounded with every element of prosperity.

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moro familiar we become with us merits, the brighter 4ind more estimable it appears. It

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ceived by the People with the most distinguishel consideration and the greatest delight, il ihey suffer themselves to form an unbiassed judgment of its merits, vve hope, therefore, that every one, be he friend or Joe, will read for himself, and deliberately make

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doctrines with those promulgated by others occupying the same station. We perceive that our opponents are not very severe upon this Address. They generally, however, complain that few or no principles are set forth in it. We shall show them that they are vastly mistaken in that particular, (or the whole Address is but a declaration of principles, and they are mostly the ereat and vital nrinpics of our republican system. They mean, perhaps, tha: no particular measures arc suggested in fact, the Hartford Times, now before us,says it cannot tell from the Address what are General Harrison's views in regard to a Bank, the Public Lands, Independent Treasury. See. See. The complaints only show that those who utter them are not nice at distinguishing the difference between an Inuagura! Address to the People, and a Messago "giving Congress information of the siat« of the Union,"

"recommending such measures

as he (the President) shall judge necessary and expedient."

discourse, then, on the subject of Banks, Public Lands, SLC. would have been improper, unless by way of reference to them, either as an indication of the growth or prosperity of the country, or by way of illustrating some principle and such a discourse, too, would have been without precedent, if we except the rigmaroles of Jackson ana Van Buren. We have before us the Addresses of all the American Presidents and, with the exceptions spoken of, they all consist of gene-ral-declarations of the principles upon which the Government is founded and should be conducted declarations, it is true, which have often been greatly misinterpreted and misapplied, but which, nevertheless, are useful Isndmsrks by which the People are much aided in their efforts to test the sincerity and merits of any Administration. Jefferson's Inaugural, it will be remembered, was a rambling dissertation on the duties of good and patriotic citizens.

FROM THE ALBANY EVENING JOURNAL. EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.—There is to be an extra session of Congress. The question has been, it is said, settled in Cabne» council. Congress will be convened about the 1st of June. We had hoped that this measure would not have been found necessary, but the

Nothing was required but the fostering care aud protecting arm of Government to enable us to improve and enjoy the bounties and blessings ol Providence. But

unhapply the Administration proved a scourge and a curse. Its policy was hostile, and its measures destructive of the interests and welfare of tho People and the country. The surplus revenue was squandered in a wanton, wasting, inglorious war with the Indians. A national debt is rolling up. The Goverment, professing to have fallen back upon a gold and silver cur-, rency is sustaining itself with Treasury notes. The currency, of the country is deranged and depreciated. Confidence and credit have "perished" under the profligate and destructive auspices of Van Burenism. In-

arc suffering, in their utmost latitudo, all the horrors of misgovornment, For these miseries there is no remedy but in prompt and enlightened legislation. Congress must convene and carry otit the measures of Reform and Relief which the public welfcyre demands and requires- The miserable, petty, but exhausting war with the Seniinsles should be terminated. The currency should be nationalized Foreign luxuries ought to furnish a revenue for the support of the Government. The proceeds of the public lands should be apportioned among the States, to enable them, not only to meet their engagements, but to perfect a system of inter-State improvement which will furnish the cement to unite a People destined to estshlish upon this continent a Republic as rich and powerful, and far more enlightened, happy, and virtuous, than any of the Empires of the Old World.

FROM THE (rHILAD.) NORTH AMERICAN. THE INACGORAL ADDRESS.—This document is thoroughly democratic there can be no difference ol opinion among candid men on that point. It relinquishes and restores to the People, where it belongs, the power which the national Executive hns been for some years gradually gathering to itself. We have come back again to first principles, and are about to take a fresh start. With the lessons of experience, and the admonitions of the past, we may hope to do better—we can hardly do worse. We have had the symbols and professions of democracy long enough, let us now have the substance. Let the good of the country, of its confiding millions. be the paramount object, the all-controll-ing motive of this Administration: let private ambition ana individual aggrandizement be forgotten in the wants and welfare of the nation.

It isa government like this thot wc want it is an administration of our affairs like this that we expcct, and require at the hands of Willism Henry Harrison. If he shnll be in act whet he has been in word if they who surround him redeem their pledges, they will receive the cordial support o( every honest man through the land but if, like their prefleccsaors, they disregard I heir professions, and sacrifice to party the great interests of the country, they will soon be disrobed of their honors, and their names be covered with reproach.— But wc hope for the best we see no occasion for distrust s'.ill, the language o! admonition and appeal better bccomea the occasion than that ofcredulonseulogy. Commendation comes in season when it is given to claims well established in past action. Gen. Jackson received his political canonisation in advance, and when the real time shall arrive for this sugust solemnity, there will be very few, we apprehend, to pay their adorations. Gen. Harrison has passed through the fires of a moral martyrdom, and gloriously survived it, but Jet us wait for tKe fruits of this triumph to himself and the couniry before we weave our duplet. The garland Should not be shaded with the after regrets of those by whom it 1MS been conferred.

FROM THE CIRCLKVIIJLE (O.) HERALD. WARCB 6. THE END OF MISRULE.—Reader, we care eot a single grain of send what are your politics—whetheryoo arc Whig. I«ocofoco, Conservative, Abolitionist, Butt-Kn-dcr. or Huge Paw—whether vou are for or agninst the sao-lSeasury, a National Bank, a High Protective Tariff, Negro Slavery, or the soap-bubble dognrts of an exclusive metal lie currency—we care not whether yoo are

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not feel some tfwre snouta oenn eoex^i*tsd snd unpJsasant diflfeisswe ofopinioo on some of public policr Imeroeti I^Melf snd «be great "**of tbe P»»ple. But. happily.theperwalol must instantly haveaMwipatsdevery tsarandjcocinnoed every hope in reyetd to it. The reader »a at fit«ww with the hoosetf, franknsas, and the author—that prominent trait in his cneraeter-^ which seems to pervsde vmf line of we Addrese, «oa in a manner beyond the wn of design. In tta* Particular, were toe world Marched over, we thmk it would be diffkmlt to find a grseter contrastthen between William Harrison snd Martin Van Buretr, and, to prove this,

hoer of

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office-holder or an office-seeker, or what

may be your occupation—we take to ourselves the liberty of offering our most cordial and unfeigned congratulations that the days of morale in this "land of the free and home of the brave*' ere el enrf/thst the magician* wand^s broken that Martin Van Buren no longer presides over the destinies of the American Re-

^Lei os, therefore, RBJOICB, in the spirit end fem»Cv of patriotic aitlor and of grateful emotion, that tne high omnipotence of a free and enlightened intelligence bes at length prevailed over the corrupt and selnstt t»eheets of pertv, that we have finally succeeded in driving the Goths from Rome." The 4ib of March will long be remembered as he day of deliverance of tbe destinies of the American People oat of the buds of a corrupt and venal AdroisiMrauoo—*n Administration which

made the idol of its worship, and sooght

onlynhe promotion ol party purposes meat of party eixto. Agntn we

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VOL. 9. TERRE-HAUTE, IND: APRIL 3, 1841.-

FOR TBE WABASR cotntixr..

By the treaty of Ghent all possessions, &c. which either par'.y haa taken during the war were to be given up to the original owner, ana the American settlement at tbe mouth of the Columbia was included in the number to be given up to the United States.

The southernmost point to which the claim of Russia can extend was fixed by a treaty with Great Britian, in 1825, at 54 deg. 40 sec. and bv the treaty between the U. States and Spain, concluded 22d February, 1819, the latter gives up to the U. States all north of 42d deg.

The'claim ol the United States to the Oregon Territory is questioned by no nation except Great Britian, who wishes herself to possess this vost and fertile empire. Not content with adding half of the opposite continent of Asia to her overgrown possessions, her boundless rapacity induces her to lay claim to one* fourth of the New World upon whose resources she may batten, and add still more to her bloated wealth. If Great Britian has any legal, political, or moral right to this Territory she has just as much to the soil upon which we stand, or upon which the Capitol at Washington stands, and if our Government yields one inch of it the mark of Cain will be upon her brow, lor all to insult, and smite with impunity.

It need not be added that the British traders have almost exclusive possession of this Territory have built half a dozen forts, and by avoiding duties and land carriage, drive off the American, and undersell him on his oum ground.

As public attention is now turned to the encroachments of Great Britian on our Maine frontier, I have compiled the above facts in relation to a subject of no less importance, for the time is not far distant when we must nave a settlement, and the books had as well be completelj^bajanced at once. L.

FROM THK CINCINNATI MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

ORKGON.

The chief advantages which our Government would derive from the occupation of this Territory are:—a vast Indian and fur trade, with an uninterrupted intercourse between the Valley of the Mississippi and the Oregon or Columbia it would open a direct trade with China, Japan, and the Sandwich and other islands of the Pacific presenting some of the finest harbdrs on the western coast, it would afford places of security for the American whalers in the Pacific, numbering more than eight thousand men, with twelve million dollars worth of property afloat, now left exposed to every foreign power with whom we might beat war: and it would be the means of neutralising British influence over the Indian tribes, and close up a vast and unguarded frontier by which thewe tribes might swarm into our country under the British flag in case of war wjth that Government.

In a commercial point of view, tbe occupation of this Territory by our Government, is of the greatest importance, and it ia this view of the case which makes Great Britian so anxions to retain, or rather gain, possession. Many yean will not elapee, probably, before a ShipCanal Will be cut across the Isthmus of Darier.. by which tho whole trade of the eastern world will be changed and the future seaports on the western coast of America wilt become the great marts of export and import to and from India ana the South Sea iatanda. It is therefore tbe policy of Great Britian to gain possession of a foot-bold whence such great advantages will accrue and it should be the wise policy of our Government to do the same. By tbe researches of Lewis and Clarke and more recently of Col. Dodos, we learn :be important fact that passes of venr gentle declivity traverte tbe range of the Rocky Moan tains, making the transportation of merchandize over them, by no means a great undertaking. If then we hare undisputed possession of tbe Oregott—'tbe Isdian tribe conciliated— roads constructed and the .passage over land to the nearest navigable point of tbe Columbia, be made easy and secure a direct rente woeJd be opened to India and present to the commercial eniattris* of nnr coontry. now in its infancy, a channel into which a laige pwrtioa of the commerce of the East might be drawn.

The security of onr frontier settlement is one great advantage to oe derived from the occupation of this Territory, for if It should fait into the pomession of England she might, in cans of war, send into oar western Suites a vast powsr which might iaopard the independence of oar Republic. It is well known that her settled policy is to secure tbe friendship of the Indian tribes, and this she dots through the medium of tbe Hudson^ Bay Company. Every year she dsiri botes arms and amreoniiioo among the tribes, from the St. Lawrence to the Colombia, and this friendship fineness the whole of tbetaeroteQcons mass of pupalotion that fiUs the deep giens and rolling prames erf the regifl«sof the Rocky Mountains. r.t3 -mm

I E N N E S S E E The Whig State Convention, which met at MurfrMcboroa? on lh«4ii instant, far OK purpose Afsrieeuag a candidate far t«M ofiee of GowrtH* °f Tennes* "y nominated James C. Jones. Bar. of

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CLAIMS OF GREAT BRITIAN TO OREGON. By the Convention of Great Britian.of 1813, it was stipulated thst the 49th parallel of latitude should be the dividing line between the possessions of tile two Governments (United States ana Great Britain,) fying east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Lakes, and that the Territory west of the Mountains, should be free and open to the citizens and vessels of both powers for ten years, without prejudice, however, to the claims of either Government.

In 1823 so important did the occupation of this Territory appear that negociations were entered into between the two Governments, for the permanent settlement of tbe boundary line. But when our Minister, Mr. Rush, presented "the facts for maintaining onr right the British Commissioners controverted all. and declared that Great Britian considered the whole of the unoccupied territory of North America as open to her future settlement, and rested this claim chiefly on alleged priority of discovery. The negociation terminated in 1827 by extending the arrangement of 1818 indefinitely, allowing either party to abrogate it by twelve montha notice.

Let us examine the foundation of this clojm of Great Britian. In the negociation of 1823 her Commissioners supported her claim to this Territory by the alleged discovery of Sir Francis Drake, in 1578. But they declined to put this in writing, although urging it verbally, with vigor

Now there is not only no evidence that Sir Francis Drake saw the Columbia River, or landed any where near it south of Nootka Sound, but ihpre is not the least probability of it. Besides had he landed on every five miles of the coast, the Spaniards had discovered it long before. Cabrillo, thirty-five years before, explored up to the 42d parallel of latitude—the mouth of Columbia being a little north of the 45th. But suppose he had first discovered the western shore of North America, suppose he had even discovered the mouth of the Columbia (of which there is not the slighest evidence) and had sailed up i: a hundred miles, it would avail nothing, for. by tbe treaty of Phris, in 1763, Great Britian renounced all claim to any portion of North America weft of the Mississippi River.

Since that t:me nothing has occurred to give her the least title to it. According to documents whose authenticity cannot be questioned—on t'ne7th May, 1792|CaptRobert Gray, in the ship Columbia of Beaton, sailing under the flag of the United States, entered the mouth of a large river on the western coast of America near the 45th degree of north latitude, which was tho first time (there Deing no evidence on record to the contrary) that it was ever seen by a citizen of a civilized nationThe harbor he called Bullfinch's harbor, the river Columbia after the name of his ship and country, and named the cape on the north side Cape Hancock, on the south. Point Adnms. He sailed lip the river fifteen miles, and remained there till the 21st May, trading with tbe Indians and making observations of the shores on either side.

In 1803 the United States Government sent an expedition to explore the region of the Rocky Mountains, west to the Columbia, which was successful. This expedition was followed by that of Lewis and Clarke who penetrated to the Pacific, and after their return an American settlement was formed at the mouth of the river and called Astoria*

As urged by the British, that ''the discovery of the mouth of a river gives to the discoverer, right to the country watered by the river and its tributaries," and as "discovery, accompanied with subsequent and efficient acts of sovereignty or settlement are necessary to a title"—by this rule the title of the United States to that Territory would be perfect.

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RICH AND POOR.

When God built up the dome of bine, And portioned earth's prolific floor, tmf The measure of his wisdom drew A a

And till that vault of glory fall. Or beauteous earth be seared with flame, Or saving love be all in all, 1 That rule of life will rest the same.

We know not why, we know not bow,, Mankind are framed for weal or wo

Yet, let no cloudy dreams destroy One truth, outmining bright and clear Tbe wealth is only hope and joy,

And poverty but pain and fear^T

Whatever else besets our way Each day may bring sufficient ill But we can meet and fight it through, If hope sustains the hand of will,

And conscience is our captain, too.

But to th' eternal law we bow teMr & If such things are, they muii be so,

Behold onr children as they play Bfe&t utatuTCB, frcafe nature^ hand:* The peasant boy as great and gay

As the young heir to gold and land.

Their various toys of equal worth Their little needs of equal care And halls of marble, huts of earth, I

All homes alike endeared and fair.

Tliey know no better! would that we

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Could keep our knowledge safe from worse So power should find and lesve us free So pride be but the owner's curse So, without marking which was which, 4

Our hearts would tell, by instinct sure. What paupers are th1ambitious rich! How wealthy the contented poor!

Grant os, O God! but health and heart. And strength to keep desire at bay, And ours mutt be the Getter part, &

A CHRISTIAN LYRIC.

Are there no strains to wake the Cliristain lyre To notes of power Must we, who hope to sing in heaven's quire,

Lose I ife's short hour Lose in chill silence all tho waiting span Till He apiear? 1 fain would sing the dying, god-like man,

While prisoned here. Why not anticipate the joyful strain, And touch the chord. In preparation—till He come again— welcome Lord, Ye shall not wrest the mystic harp away,

Ye throng profane Of godless songsters, who with measures gay Try every strain, But this, the tenderest, highest, most serene.

Go, with your loves. Your orgies bacchanal, your heroes mean, Where fancy roves. Your Muse is heathen—no Urania glides

To cheer your night: Your lays are Lust's—your brow state is Pride's, Your themes too light. Let my soul gather amaranthine flowers*

From banks all green. Beside the River where celestial powers, In dazzling sheenAmidst the twelvefold fruits and healing leaves,t

A countless throng, The mild Redeemer to his arms receives With harp and song. Let my faith's vision catch a glimpse of thoso

My spirit faints, Love-smit lor Him who loved me without measures. Like tliousandssaints. Redeemed and now triumphant I desire,

With breaking heart, To see him nearer and to laud him higher, Till each his part In the high an'.hem we have learnt—and Joy,

An ocean-stream, Breaking beyond all boundaries, employ Our love supreme. J. W. A.

•See 1 Pet. v. 4, in the original. tEzek. xlvlii. li. Rev. xxii. 1, !, {Rev. vii. 9.

FROM THE MISSOURI AROrS. EDEN

18 MY IIOMB.

BY THK REV. JOHN N. MAFFIT.

Oh, I have roamed through many lands, A stranger to delight Not friendship's hopes nor love's sweet smiles

Could make my pathway bright Till On the sky a star arose And lit night's sable dome.' Oh steer my oark by that sweet star,

For Eden is my home.

Oh. Eden is my place of rest 1 long to reach its shore, To shake these troubles from my breast,

And weep end sigh no more. To that fair land my spirit flies And angels bid me come, Oh steer my bark by Jordan** wave, •For Eden ie my home.

Oh take me from this world of woe To my sweet home above, Where tears of sorrow never flow

And all the air is love. My Sister spirits wait for roe, And Jesus bids me come. Oh steer my bark to that bright land,

For Eden is my home.

YOUNG MEN-REGULAR EMPLOYMENTOCCUPATION. Regutsr employment is the price of happiness: and the first step in general, after taking leave of onr alma mater, is tne adoption of a profession. No matter bow bountifully Fortune may have showered her gifts, some settled occupation is essential to real enjoyment. Who has ever known a perfectly indolent, that was not a miserable man! There is in this country no

daas of men of fortune, who* only care in life ii to kill time and squander money and who associating together, may keep each other in countenance, though ihey cannot purchase contentment.

The misery of such a condition was illustrated in the fate of the Frenchman, who, with rank and high connexion*, ample fortune, jronth, health, repute, and "troops of friends." found life without employment so ''weary, flat, stale and unprofitable"—one dull daily routine of rising, dressing, eating, drinking, deeping —that he preferred death by his own hand, to its longer endurance. Something of tbe feeling which precipitated the fate of this wretched suicide, must have been experienced by every man who has bad tbe misfortune to live ia this world without any thing in tbe world to do.

Some difference will always exist in toe degree of consideration which various occur*tions enjoy, owing to tbe unequal degrees of skill and intelligence required by them but true ambition wonld rather impart honor to one's profession, than seek to derive respectability from it. Our country is fortunately exempt from tbooe castes which separate soctetv rise where into distinct compartments, to each of which a peculiar occu-

tv—and one striking and important benefit of the liberal education yoa have received *. that it has rode wufntmm in the most extensive seta* far qoalificd by it aa yon are to enter upon any prolessioa,

World is ail before yoo where u» choose/! A of cultivated mind ana seal nrat out never

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bis lostre smted by any honest vocation, well It is indeed far from being a disadvantage imisrei abilities a«perior to tfe* requisition of one's eaOiai-^ By the proper exertion of these, he issnreof rising to distinction his pandits, and of reaping all the benefits be may confer.

An efderiytpentfeman travelling in ascageeoMh, was a mooed by the consunt fire of wards kept op by two tafisa- One of them kindly inquired if their con versa Hon did net make his bead aehe—when he answered, with great deal of "No, madam, I haeebeten mmrrieJtmrntt-right feers."

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GENERAL MILLER.

1 This gallant soldier, whose brilliant achievement in the Iste war, at the battle of Brldgewater, has wreathed hiabrow with imperishable laurels, was/it Washington at the recent Inauguration. A correspondent of the National Intelligencer, who noted General MIL-

UK's presence among the vast throng at the Capitol, has furnished the following sketch of the incidentsconnected with the occasion referred to: "I'LL TRY, SIR."

An incident of the Battle of Bridgewater. On the 25th of July, 1814, the bloody battle of Bridgewater and Lundy's Lane look place near the banks of the Niagara. It was six o'clock, and a sultry evening, when the British forces under Gen. DRUXMOND advanced to meet the American columns and a more deadly contest never raged on the soil of our beloved country than thst which then commenced the roar of the neighboring cataract loet itself in the booming of the cannon—the voices of many waters and the VOMMS of battle sang base together—and the dead alept in sweet forgetfulness upon the moonlit hill. Tbe first brigade undo- Gen. SCOTT, with TOWSOM'S artillery and a body of cavalry, sustained the attack of the British army lor an hoar unhided. Gen. RIPLEY with fresh troops now arrived, and relieved Gen. Scorr, while the latter, with his exhausted brigade, formed a reserve in the rear.— The British artillery had taken post on an eminence at the head of Lundy's Lane, and were pouring forth a most deadly fire on the Americans. Gen. BROWN, the commander of the American forces, seeing the terrible havoc made by the enemy's cannon, concluded that it was nccessary to dislodge them or retreat. It was a dreadful duty. The troo()s that were to march up Lundy's Lane might well say their prayers and make their wills before moving. It was certain death to every second man of the forlorn hope. As the commanding General rode along the foot of the hill, in thoughtful mood, he saw the brave Col. MILLER advancing at the head of his newly-raised regiment tor further orders.— He rode up to him. "Win you advance and capture that battery?"said the General, "I will try, sir," said the modest Colonel. The General rode on, and the regiment gallantly wheeled and moved up Lundy's Lane. At every rod the artillery on the height sent its messengers of death through the denso column hut still there was no flinching. The Tpice ol the noble MILLER, as he waved his sword before the bloody gap, was heard uttering the short ond expressive orders. "Strndy men—close ranks—march?" Around him, the flower of his regiment fell like the withered leaves of autumn hut he heeded not his loss he was ordered to take the battery on the hill, and he intended to do it. He advanced therefore, coolly and steadily to his object. Amidst a tremendous blaze ol artillery, and at the point of the bayonet he carried the height. It was a gallant deed. I have never heard of its equal except at theseige of San Sebastian. It was superior in temerity to Bonaparte's attack upon Little Gibraltar, at Toulon, because MILLER had no recovering for hi» troops in case of a retreat. It was a dead march to glory yen, at every step the rear rank trod upon the dead and the dying and the groans of suffering humanity mingled in with tUu hoarse rattle of the drum.

When the conqueror, with his remnant of a regiment, trod upon the heights at tho head of Lundy's Lane, and turned the cannon upon the astonished enemy, a death struggle ensued between the American and British armies. "These guns will decide the battle they must be regained, or the army of Britian will be cut to pieces, and, if regained, the Americans will be conaucred." Such were the thoughts of each General. Now came the iron gripe of war. A terrible conflict raged upon the height nnd, when the morning sun arose upon Bridgowater, l,fi00 soldiers, friends and foes, lay sleeping in gory death upon the hill side in Lundy's Lane. Surety, the battle of Bridgewater will never he forgotten by the patriot, the historian, or the poet and, while the laurels of a SCOTT and a RIPLXI are green and unfading, let us not forget that the gallant MILLER is alive, and that his country owes him a debt ofgratitude which she can never repay. She, however, can say with her children when asked to aid him, as the hero said at Bridgewater to hisenmmander when called upon to render him service, "I will try, sir."— LET HER TRT, for the iake of her honor and may the day never dawn when'the hero of Lundy's I^ane'shall be forgotten by an American citizen. We glory in the services of the brave. May the laurel circle the victor's brow in life, and at last hang upon a broken column over a deathless tomb! Reader, the hero of Lundy's Lane is beside you! D.

MOTHERS AFTER ALL

Col. Ethan Allen was a bold officer of the American revolution. He ceuld (ace the enemies of the country with the most determined braverv. But he was an opposer to Christianity and gloried in the character of an infidel His wife, however, was a pious woman, and taught her children in the way of piety, while he told them it was all delusion. But there was an hour coming when Col. Allen's confidence in his own sentiments tfould be closely tried.

A beloved daughter was taken sick—he received a message that she was dying he hastened to her bedside, anxions to hear her dying words. "Father," said she, "I am about to die shall "1 believe in '.lie principles which you have taught me, or shall I believe what my mother has taught mef"

This was an affecting scene The intrepid Colonel became extremely agitated, his chin quivered .his whole frame shook, and after waiting a few moments he replied, Believe as yonrmother has told you/"

SINGULAR WILL.

An English miser, John Pleech lately died in London, leaving the following will:—I give and bequeathe to my'nephew my old black coat I give and bequeathe to mv niflce the flannel waistcoat I now wear I give and bequeathe to each of my sisters' grand childnrn one of the earthen pots on tbe top of my wardrobe finally, I give and bequeathe to my sister, ss a Inst token of tbe affection I have slways felt for her, the brown stone jug at the head of my bed. Tbe disappointment of the legatees when this strange will was read, mav easily be imagined. The deceased was spoken ofbv all in away by no meamfttartering to him, and his sistn, in a fit of anger, gave the brown jug, her legacy, a kick, which broke it to pieces, when lota complete stream of guineas flowed out ol it. Each hurried to examine his or her legacy, and the flannel waistcoat snd little eartbern pots, were found equally filled, the testator having only wished to cause them an agreeable surprise.

The following communication was addreessd to the Editor of the Charleston Courier on the virtnes of "Brandy and Salt," as a medicine. "sur—i Take the libberty of addressing yew a bout tbe brandy ttir swalt. was eflicted with dreadful townes of sperit &rewmatwm wich having freely splide the abuvbas booth Disapeared. sir my way of Applying iathe swalt outside wonstaday and tbe brandy in twice evvery our. its eflfex is sumtimes realy Astonishin- my wife allso takes op the abnv Meddisin in her tea. Si. finds great bennifits.—HUT yewr Most obedient. "TUMMA3 SPOONEY. 'P. g. sft a twyber of min Tride tbe abnv on his wife'jean Bad akalded killinga pig but Untokky forgot to Pat in the swalt. owever it

was

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tbe brandy aloan Cared his wife, and now he's got tbe Swalt to

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bis baknn."

Fanny ElMer has made ai engagement with tbe 8t. Charles theatre to dance for §1000 a night! She received $20,000 for eight nights" performance at the Tscon theatre, and on tbe 11th February, her benefit night, rite received more than $7,600 at tbe doors of that establishment! After the plav was over sb« wascsrtied home in the carriage of the Count Penalner, accompanied by an immense concourse of people, with music, &cThe whole proceeds of her benefit were reckoned to exceed $10 000.

This girl will probably receive more money for kiciiiqjr op her keel* and exposing her person in one year than any half dose* men of science l»sve received Bring the whole coarse of their lives, for all their services to society and the country.

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CULTURE OF THE lo mv last I promised to gire\ vating the strawberry. which hav en or eight years, producing a full! much less labor, is, I conceive, wor? public. Tbe duration of a bed cultivated after my plan« is also a matter of great consequence.

I have never grown any of the cfjoicest vanet les except Keene's seedling, nor have produced fruit so largs as I have seen figured or described, but

NO 30

And the following from an account of the Berkshire* catile show, held in New Vork. Of swine, the Berkshire seem to "stsml alone in all their glory,'and have driven away every other variety off the ground. This, to me, was a source of gratification, for when

to The

amount prodneed on a-given apace. 1 think I can compete with the most fortunate or skilful.

For soil I chose that between the extremes of dry and moist, a littlefravelly I prefer, which 1 prepare by mixing well rotted (eaves, rotten wood, and cow yard manure in about equal quantities, whicn I have well mixed with the soil, by spading or ploughing in deep,

plough, some two or three times. I that*

level the ground, but do not raise it above the walkt^ so that it will receive and retain all the water whichi falla upon it. Thus prepared with my plantation, either^., in autumn or apring. The former is preferable, August or September, so that the young plants can tak? root sufficient to endura the winter. In planting I ar-

say the first year, the second of wet or rotting leaves* and the third of some light mold or well rotted manure, and so on alternately. The tan or leaves are best tha first, ss either of them better protect the plants. If tflfr plantation was made in autumn, by next July or Au' gust the whole surface should be weii covered with the vines, whi^h will spring up through the top dr without modi difficulty: at which time I r—~ "L the plantation with a spade, ciitting througli wise, about one spit wide, snd turning under the plants, then leaving about the same width,andsoon alternately through the whole bed. Top drew as above for the winter and next spring as soon as tho frost is out anL« the ground sufficiently dry to leave the earth or aoilt light and mellow, I cut through the bed crosswise with the spade, in the same manner as before, If the plan* tation was made in the spring tbe first spading should* he performed the next spring and so on semi-annually* from year to year. In an ok! bed I take care to turnr. trader the old nlants, so as always to keen up a specs—•S^*' ion of new ana vigorous plants—I never disturb the ma nuren, and do not know but the best time to perform^

top dressins pass through' tIi, say length'

the second spading or tbe season would be immediately after gathering the fruit, so ss to give the runners light open soil to take root in. From the success I have met with by this process, I am inclined to think that a bed or plantation will last twenty years or perhaps even a centtiary. I had a bed seven years old, in a gar-* den I abandoned without any care fast spring or every last yeor after the March working, which produced it». usual quantity oF fruit this season.

During the blooming season, unless in Wtet weather* I always givea slijla watering from a pot with a rose every evening to set the fruit. This must never be"omitted if fruit bean object.

Another circumstance must not be overlooked, that you have hearing or fertile plants.

little observa

tion or skill on the part of the cultivator will enabf#" him to distinguish the barren from the fertile plants, from the large showv flowers, with long stamens, red or black anthers of the former, while the latter are al most destitute of slamenror anthers, and the petals oil" the flowers are very small. It is said to be necessary to plant Itotli kinda together in order to succrsa Of tho" truth of iliis I have some douhfs. but I have notexperi-* men ted sufficiently on the matter to determine.

As *o the produce, I believe, without difficulty by my plan of culture I can grow ow hundred and sixty bush' els of this delicious fruit to the acre per annum, or one bushel to every square rod. Indeed, I have by actual measurement greatly exceeded this.

I.DILLE.

BERKSHIRE HOGS.

The following is an extract from a letter of Solon Robinson, to the editors of lite Cultivator, dated Septeniber 2, 1840:

BERKSHIRE VS. COMMON HOOS.—It is often sssertecT that the difference in breed iamore in the difference of1" keeping than any thing else*, in fact, I believe I have tried hard to make myself believe this doctrine but experience, that good old teacher1 has entirely eradica ted that error. The Berkshire pigs that 1 procured this summer from A. B. Allen, Buffalo, which cost me, de-r livered in mv yard, $32, I would not give for 33 com~ mon pigs of the same age, and yet 1 would give them freely to any believer in the popular error, "that tho difference was all in keeping," if ho will produce a pair of the common kiml of equal age and equal keeping, that equal these in any particular. The fact is, the point must be given up, that there is'a proper sight of odds' in the breed of hogs. 'A hog is hog,' is the end of argument with sonic hoggish argufiers. So is sheep a sheep but I defy any snd all men to make a coarse woo! sheep fine by feeding or breeding until all* the coarse wool is bred out. A dog is a dog too, yet I? suppose no one will attempt to argue that there te no* difference in them. He mtghtjust as well argue that, as that there is little or no difference in the breed of hogs. In this case'seeing is believing,'and feeding ia knowing. It isa fact that speaks loudly in favor of the Bcrkshircs, 'that all who buy them are satisfied with the improvement.'

first exhibited thia very excellent

breed at one of their fairs some five yearsago. the samo objection was made to them as to the Durhom cattle the color—s black hog could not be endured. Now not a white hog was to ne seen in the pens showings most conclusively that the inieyigen: farmers of Berk-. shire are open to conviction."

t, T~ Specie:" We understand from the Sentinel, thai there are pef sons engaged in this city in bringing suits against the Banks for the non-payment of their notes in spscis, and as soon as it is paid them by the Banks, on the re-' Mirn day of the writ, go immediately to the brokenr and tell the specie at a premium of 5 or 6 per cent, for' other notes, upon which they again commence new*' proceedings against ths Banks. 1 hese are the persohr who cry out lustily for a specie

tcurrency,and

the mo--

ment they get any specie, sell it for dotes. We have heard of sums of specie as low as three dollars being offered for sale to the brokers- On some notes the premium obtained is much greater.—Phil- Chronicle.

We have met with many similar instsnresof meanness. itK and, if posaible, one or two grades lower— While in Washington, during ths special session oC 1837. we taw several members of Congress—loco-foco'S| who were outrageously clamorous for the specie currency—draw their pay in specie, sell it to the brokers at' a premium of eight or ten per cent., and pay off their' board and tsvern bills in the depreciated peper of the District. Many of orrr ctistom-house officers, at that' period, did the ssme thing, and then repaired to Tammany Hall, to shout ':SnocieCurrency tili they were hoarse again! So it will always be found those who mske the most noise for specie are tbe first to take advantage of any adscititious circnttistancos that itsflnctuations may give them. So long asbanksare solvent and able to cancel their notes, if compelled to go into liqudation. their paper is as good, if not better,' for all the essential purposes of lo»l trade, ss specie. Want of liberality and confidence is the main barrietr to better times ami greater prosoerity in business. (Sunday M.Tfrwt.,

ITEMS OF NEWS.

By rettirns from the State department, which, bowever, re incomplete. it appears that 115,206 persons came into the United Suites by sea during tbe year 1840.

Jsmes D- Westcott, who has fillsd many of the most importsnt offices of

New

Jersey, snd

wss

the last ten

years the Secretary of that 8tate, died at his resident^ in Trenton, on the 2d inst. In early life, Mr Mfast-. cott was a practical printer.

Mr. Biddlc is about publishing a statement of the. affairs of the U. 8. Bank at t^tc ume he resigned tbe presidency tiwreof.

It is estimated thst 900,000 tons of iron are menu-, factored snnually in Pennsylvania, or an increase of,100,000 tons since 1833.

A contractor on the public works of Illinois bas patented a new drill for excavating reeks. It is worked by horse power, and will drill into ePid ipck, in QOt day. to the depth ol forty-wpp fast.

The Nstional Intelligencer presents a statement from, one of its southwestern collectors, in which tbe aggrents loss by exchange on collections to tbe amount of $8,616. was not less thsn $3,220 15!

The U. S. Supreme Court have decided that the negroes captured in the L*Amistad should be set st liberty arid thot Lieut. Gedney and officers are felly entitled to salvage for capturing the vessel.

Winfield'scarpet factory, at Poughkeep««. bas65 o^Tativea. and turns out 100.000 yasds of carpeting ami a million of binding annually.

,4the

married men's ball'* in

writer ia the Hartford Content proposes^to ran on at a ad to S id under the city of Hartford* st cost ot #42,90(K foratb# complete srehed tunnel.

Tbe Senate

of Pennsylvania

has

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f* It oot flnroge that «o coif gctheisd vtityvu^ tStipwrw o"""1 •"'j '.m, rfU.tuM.rftk. C«Min•i_iuL,ui,Ttirr- tiofl."ssid a yooth the other d*y of patrician blood, to

passed joint

lotion amendstosy of &>n*Houan. sate

1 able force for John Ball to compete with.

another of a more ptehoiaa origin. "Who cares far

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