The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 February 1842 — Page 2

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Trenton to be aappltcd from Mt. Pieaaant, 9 miles and back, once a week. Waterloo to be supplied from Cambridge, 5 mike *ad bock, oo«8* week.

NOTES.

1 Seren minstetarc allowed for opening and cjoshnz the mails at all officra, where no particular time ta specified but on railroad and ateatnboa: route* there i» to be no more delay than is necessary to deliver and receive the bags.

Tl»e mail i« to be conveyed in preference to pnsMn?e»,anJ to their entire exclusion, if its weight and bulk require it ... 3. preference is to be given to passengers brought in the connecting mail lines over those traveling in

^wt Office blanks, mail twee and sppcial ngents of the Department, on ilie exhibition of their crrden{nils, are to be conveyed without further charge on

lines admitinjr of such conveyance-

Mail aizents are to be conveyed without chnrge o, ihe principle railroad and steamboat linen, where the size of the mails and the numbrr of of the offices will require their employment by the Department, and in that case a sepnrntc apartment for the assorting ami safe-keeping of ihe mail is to be provided by the contractor under the direction of the Department. 6. In nil cases, there is to be a forfeiture of the pay of the trip, when the trip ia not run a forfeiture of at least

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ftfurth part of it, when the running or arri

val is so far behind time ns to lonee the connection with a dnoending mail and a forfeiture of a doe proportion of it, when a grade of service is rendered inferior to that in the contract. These forfeitures may be incrnsed into penalties of hieher amount, according to the nature or frequency of the failure and the importance of the mail. 7. Fines will b» imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing to take from, deliver at a post office, the mail, or anv part of it lor suffering it to be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed for conveying it in a place or any manner that exposes it to depredation, lrew, or injury for relnseing after demand, to convev a mnil by any coach, railroad car, or steamboat, which the contractor regularly runs on the route, beyond the specified number of trips in the contracts and for not arriving at the time ?rt. And tor setting up or runing an express to transmit commercial intelligence in advanceol the mail, a penalty will be oxacted equal to quarter's pay. 8. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failures for violating the Post Oflec law for disobeying the instructions of the Department lor refusing to discharge a carrier when required by the Department for assigning the contract without the consent ot the Postmaster General, or for setting up or running nn express as afore•aid. 9. The Postmnpter General mnyalter thecontract and alter ho ac'iedule, he allowing a prorata increase of onnwnantion, within the restrictions imposed bylaw, for the ndditional service required, or I or the increased Bpeed. if 'lie employment of additional stock or carriers ia rendered necessary hut the contractor may, in such case, relinquish the contract, on timely notice if he pref"rsit to the clmnrre. He mai/ also discontinue or curtail the service, he allowing one month's extra pav on the amount dispensed with.

The payments will he made through- drafts on Po^ts offices or otherwise, after the expiration «if each quarter, say in February, May, August, and November. 11. The fli«tancps are given according to the best information hut no incresed pay will be allowed, Bliould they prove to be greater than is advertised, if the placcs are correctly named. 12. The Postmaster General is prohibited by* law from knowlingly makingn con.ract for the transom tlon of the mail with any person who shall have entered into any combination, or piopospd to enter into any combination, to prevent the making of any bid for a mail contract by am/ other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to give or perform, any consideration to do, or not to do, anything whatever to induce uny other person not to bid for a mail contract 11. On coach routeB where the present contractor ah*lI be superceded by an nnderhidder. who m«y not have thi wage property requisite for the performance of the contract he shall purchase from ihe present contractor such of his coaches, teams, and liarn?** belonging to tho route ns shall be needed, and m*V he suitable for the service, at a fair valuation and make payment therefor by reasonable instalments, as his pav becomes due, unless the present contractor •hull continue to run sieges on the route. Should theV not agree «9 to the suitableness of the property, thn terms, or the security, cach may choose a person who may apooint a third, and their decision shall be final or the Postmaster General will name the umpire.

Should the nnderhidder fail to comply, his bid will he o(T»*re'l to the contractor but should hedeclineit. the propanls of tbo nnderhidder will be accepted unconditionally. The nnderhidder should give early notice of his intention to take or not to take the stock, and if the latter, of hi' reasons and the presen: contractor is to determine, on the first application, wether he will eel I it or not. 14. A hid received after time, to wit: the 14 Aoril next at 3 m, or without tho guarantee required by law or that combines several routes in onn sum of compensation, cannot be considered in competition with a regular proposal, not adjndgeded to be extravagant.

IS. A bidder may ofll-r on coach, railroad,or steamboat routes, where that transportation is difficult or impracticihlert certain seasons, to substitute horse or wagon conveyance, or to intermit service, a specified number of days, weeks, or months. He may propose to omit an office that is inaccessih'e. or is not on the stage road, the railway,or at a steamboat landing, as the case mav be. or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He maV propose different days and hours of departuro and arrival, provided no more running time is asked, and it is obvious that no mail connection or other public accommodation ia prejudiced Ha maV ask for a specified number of days for more running timo to the trip at certain seasons of peculiar bad roads. But heVond these changes, a proposal for ssrviee different from the advertisement will prevent ita being considered in competition with' a regular bid. not set aside for extrvagance and where a bid contains anv of the above alterations their disulvinters will be estimated in oompnring it with Ot'i-r proposals.

It?. There should be but one route bid for in proposa I.

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The route, the service,- the yearly pay, the bidder's name and residence, and the name nf earh member of the firm, where a company offers, should be distinctly stated. 13. The following is the form of the guaranty which should be filled. :he first blank with the name of the guarantor, the second with that of the bidder and the third and fourth with the beginning and terminating points of the'route: and after being dated, should be Siried by the guarantor, who must be shown by the written certificate of a postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a man of property, nnd able to make good bis guaranty. This guaranty, so certified, should accompan* cach bid. "The undersigned guaranties that if his bid for carrying the mail from to be accepted by the Postmaster General, shall enter into an obliga ion prior to tho 1st dav of July next.with good and auifi::ient sureties, to perform the service proposed. "Dated 19 The bid should be sent under seal, addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals in the Sate of ," written on the face of tha letter and should be despatched in time io b« received by or before the 14th April next, at 3 o'clock, m. 90. The contracts are to be executed before the 1st July next.

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DEPARTMENT, Dec. 14, 184IL

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term. The lri$nde of Home Industry

and Western Enterprise, are invited to give us a call, and to save their Rags, which will be received in exchange for Paper or Cash at fair prices. 1,1848-17-1 THOMAS & YAKDE3.

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By Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn Law Poet,of England. Within the sun lit forest, Our root the bright blue sky,

Where fountains flow and wild flowers blow, We lilt our hearts on high: ....... BenealL the frown ol wicked men.

Our country's strength is bowing.* But thnnks to God tney can't prevent The lone wild flowers lrom blowing.

High, high above the tree tops, The lark is soaring free Where streams thejight through broken clouds.

His speckled breast I see. Beneath ihe might of wicked men, The poor man's worth is dying But thanked be God in spite of them,

The lark eltll warbles, flying.

The preacher pravs Lord bless us!"* Lord bless us!" echo cries "Amen thebrerzes mupnur low, "Amen!" the rill replies: The ceaselcss toil of wo worn hearts,

The proud with pnngs are paying But here—O! God of earth and heaven The humble heart is praying1.,

How softly, in the pauses Ol Song, re-echoed wide, The cooshat's coo—the linnet's lay,

O'er rill and river glide With evil deeds of evil men,

The affrighted land is ringing But still, O Lord the pious heart And soul-toned voice are singing.

Huph hush!—the preacher preacheth Wo to the oppressor, wo!" But sudden gloom o'ercasts the sun

And saddened flowera, below. So frowns the Lord but, tyrants, ye Deride his indignation. And see ot. in his gathered brow,

Your days of tribulation.

Ppeak low. thou heaven-paid fencher The tempest bursts above God whispers in the thunder—hear

And yonder western throng ol clouds, Retiring from the sky, So calmly move, so softly glow,

They seem to Fancy's eye Bright creatures of a better sphere Conie down at noon to worship here, And from their sacrifice of love Returning to their home above.

The blue isles of the golden sea, The night arch floating high, The flovers that gaze upon11lie heavens,

The bright streams leaping by, Are living with Religion—deep On earth and sea its glories slee.p And mingle with the star-light rays, Like the soft light of parted days. ,,

Th spirit of the holy eve Comes through the silent air To feeling's hidden spring, and wakes

A gush of music there And the far depths of ether beam So passing fair we almost dream Tha'. we can rise and wander through Their open paths ot trackless blue.

Eaeh soul is filled with glorious dreams, Each pulse is heating wild And thought is soaring to the shrine

The terrors of his love! On useful hands, and honest hear's. The base their wrath are wreaking But thanked be God they can't prevent

The Btorm of heaven from speaking.

SABBATH EVENING.

How calmly sinks the parting sun Yet twilight lingers still, And beatiful as dreams of Heaven,

It slumbers on the hill. Earth sleeps with all her glorious things, Beneath the Holy Spirit's wings, And, rendering back the hues above, Seems resting in a trance of Love.

Round yonder rocks the forest trees, In shadowy groups recline, Like saints at evening bowed in prayer

Around their holy shrine And through their still leaves the night winds blow, So calm and still —their music low Seem the mysterious voice of prayer Soft echoed on the evening air.

Of glory undefiled! And holy aspirations start A Like blessed Angels from the heart And hind —for earth's dark ties are riven— Our spirits to tiie gates of Heaven.

From Critikshank'.i Omnibus. I I I S I

There is no fever so contagious as fright. It runs like a jl ell-wire, through the house, communicating from one line of agitaiion to another.

Frights, in a national point of view, are called "clouds in the political horizon." These clouds are very catching if one nation in Ku*ope has the vapors, all Iiave- as we have lately had an opportunity of witnessing. In a civic, or we should say rather in a commercial sense, frights are culled "panics they are wonderfully contageous. No sooner is one house in danger than another feels itself in peril. You walk at such a season through some vast capitol, amidst lines of lot: and durable-looking mansions, and every one that begins to totter puts at least a couple in mind of tottering also. As this nods to its fall, that returns the nod instinctively. Once set the panic afoot, and each seems inclined to be foremost, rather thnn hindmost, in the roud to ruin lei but a single firm topple down unexpectedly, and its neighbors break too, from

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hut sheer apprehension of breaking. Amidst large assemblages of people-in hall-rooms, theatres, often in churches—fright is irresistible in its progress, if once kindled. The cry of "fire," or a sound construed into the cracking of the wainscoat, is enough. The strong, the weak, the bold, the nervous, the old stager and the young novice—are all reduced simultaneously to a comon level: they become one mass of fly

ing, fluttering,

struggling, shrieking, selfish mortality

rushing to the door, nnd there efeciuaWy blocking up the way each bent on escape, and cach rendering escape impossible: trampling, stifling, crushing one another, in hideous rout and disorder, without one rational idea amongst the bewildered multitude of the reality of the danger, or one courageous impulse to face it.

This wild alarm, like jealousy, ma es "the meet it leads on- There is something so_ contradictory in it, that the presence of numbers, which should be its protection, increases its confusion. It sees its own pale glaring, terror stricken image in each man's face, nnd its diseased imagination, multiplies the causes of fear, because its effects are manifold.

While such panics prevail, asall veracious chronicles show they Ho, nmongsi mankind, who slwll presume ungallnnily to laugh at thv innocent objects ol terror, oh. wouankind! or childhood, even at thine! All, have their favorite nntipath es. Gentlemen ere now have been appaled at the sight of a black-bottle many lady ye: looks aghast at the intrusion of a black-be-"lilif tie woile the child still screams, nffrightened at the idea of black-bogy. Leaving the first to thesatiris. and the last to the schoolmaster, let us picture to the eyes of ladies a scene, in which every fair reader almost must have been, at least once in her life, an ac*

We will suppose that sccne to be a lady's "finishing establishment"—for there are no schools now—the school went out of fashion with the shop, and the "establishment" came in with the -'depot" and the "emporium

The group is ihe prettiest possible, as a specimen ol still-life there is not a whisper, scarcely a motion the superior is silently calculating the amount of her Micliaelinas accounts the assistant is mutely wondering whether young Aristo Jackson, whom she met at Nonhainptan last holidays, will again be thereat the next breaking up and several young ladies in process ol tuition, are learning irregular verbs by heart, reading treStiers abstrusely scientific, and thinking all the time of nothing when—all of a sudden— but no. that is not the word—quicker than lightning, transformed as by magic, the scene prisents to the eye hot one image of consternation--to the eat but one note of terror and dismay.

The screams increase the servsnrsare sommoned h»RMm names titan they were ever christenedt oe*, Sarah. Betsey. Belter, Jane,Cook. Sarah. arecaV'--. tc.' her with teveral domestic who 1#« long n.»v«s awav.

In the mean time let wawatch a glance at 'he hit, dingy contemptible inwet thesaMea#'tator.t1ieChr»toph« of entomology, who has moocyntlvcreated all tin# p- laiion in tender bopoms, th»s diwofiioa of beaot (earon*. this tremNingof aod tlis«» ctird in voice* the most mosioal. Heaiands a moaaeai staptfied. petrified with astonishment at the rash and tha roar anwtnd him recovering from Via first tarprise.

In the centre of (he sacred apartment IMS oeen «e-, p^narison the most perfect instrument, the only ade :ted a small sable intruder. A cry of horror from lonnraa cif humawt*.—CWerirf**. tected one vonng ladv—"Oh! my ftoott gracious, there's a #re*t black belter' brings every other young lady he a in to In an in an wiih wild p,erctnjr screams. Every chair has MS pedes'a I led votary of Fear, itss'atueot AUrra exquieitety embodied the sola boasts a rare cluster of a?rt^ntel nympha— more aironixed by far than if they bad t»«*a, by some wickcd bachelor of a magician, locked for life into a nunnery- The lady-prwjdent, to exhibit^ example of presence oT mind, has leaped upon a chair for the purpose of pulling th« belli »t t«s *arnie. conveys a lesson of industry* for she agnates it 'ike a "ringw'' pulling for a leg of mutton and tnmrnings. The bell-rope breaks, and the other boat or

be creeps a pace or two in blank ^erpleX&jr he ties with his fears—for frightened he is onto] black wits, yon may depend upon it—runs here there, a few inches to the east, and then a few ir westward, to and fro like a bewildered thing and their making up his mind, "away he cuts" as hard as he can pelt into the obscurest corner. The enemy out of sight, the boldest of the party, after a minute or two vent ores down and nukes a desperate rush to the door others soon follow ibis heroine's example and when thay reich the landing—there pale, though recent from the ruasting-iack. and peeping up Train one of the lower starts of the kitchen flight, they perceive the face of the cook—a face whose expression is half curiosity, half fear. Aspects of wortder and wo begone'alarm are discernable beyond, and fill up the picture of agitation. "Oh. Cook! where have you been?" cry the pretty tremblers-

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Miss! what is the matter?" sighs the cook sentenientally, observing at the same .time that her heart beats that quick as she ain't sure she knows her own name when she hears it.'-' "Oh, cook'-"cries the least exhausted of the party, "here's a great—here's a great black beadle in the parlour On which a very email scream, and a pretty shudder at the recoltection, parvade the assembly.

A black-beaJle. Miss Higgins! is that all! Lauk. well that is disappincting: we thought as you was all a being murdered and so we couldn't move^ we was so frightened. Why, I minds a black beadle nn more nor—no more nor—no. that I don't! But if it had been an henr-wig. Miss Higgins! ur-r-r-rh! now that's a reptile, as I never could abide

Had it been a mad dog, indeed!" they all crv. Yes, and if it had been merely a tiny puppy with the smallest tin kettle tied to his tail, retreating affrightedly from roguish boys, they themselves would have been thrown into fright indeed. Their instinct would have led them to cry, "Oh, here's a nind dog," and to run right in his way.

Every man his his "fright Toidg arc exceedingly unpopular. The deathwatch, like conscience, doth make cowards of us all. Spiders are unwelconi visiters. Rais (politics apart) are eminently disagreeable. One of a party who went out to kill buffaloes, happening to run away st as his courage was required, explained ihe circumstance to his friends thus. "One man dislikes this, and another man that animal genjjeinen, my antipathy is the buffalo." But in certain climates, people are accustomed to horrors they sup full of them. Nobody there screams out, "Oh here's a scorpion!" or "Good gracious, here's an alligator!" The visits of such common-places are not angelic, being neither few nor far between. It is only some rarer monster that con hope to make a sensation. Now, a hippopotamus, once a season, would come with a forty black-beetle power to an evening party and group of timid ladies, kicking the mere crocodiles nnd rattlesnakesawav. may well he imagined lushing into a corner. startli.'d by an unlooked-lor intruder, and crying out "Oh, my! if here Isn't a mammoth! Mamma! here's a great large leviathan!"

POWER OF TIIE MINISTRY. There is no one thing on which a minister's power so much depends as on his piety. If the love of God and the love of souls he wanting, whatever he his oiher qualifications, he is sure to fail. Here was the secret of VVhitefield's power neither his energy, nor his eloquence, nor any artifices of style, nor all these united, will account for the effectiveness of his preaching. The secret lay in a heart habitually imbued with the Holy Spirit, and which cherished a deep 8'dicitude for the salvation of souls- "Man is guilty and may obtain forgiveness he is immortnl, nnd must ripen here for endless weal or wo hereafter, are the I homes which, expended into innumerable forms, ami diversified by nn infinite variety of illustrations, were ever in his henrt and on his tongue Let who would invoke poetry to embellish the Christian system, or philosophy to explore its depths, from his lips it was delivered as an awful and urgent summons to repent and believe."

He was thoroughly and continually in earnest, nnd possessed therefore precisely that state of mind in which ulone eloquence, properly so called, can he engendered, and a mora! and intellectual conquest won. If we seldom witness this kind of eloquence in ministers of the Gospel, the fault is their own no class of men are called to speak on subjects so thrillingly interesting, nnd on occasions so awfully momentous. The pulpit imperatively demands the highest efforts of the human mind, and there is no place where the wholeof a man's powers mny be so advantageously employed. His reasoning powers, his imagination, his memory, his acquaintance with human nature, his mastery over men's passions and wills, all here are had in requisition. Nu man need fear in entering theministry,and giving himself entirely nnd exclusively to his profession, that his mind, however capacious, will be cramped, or that his acquisitions, however extensive, will l.e uncalled for? Let them he baptized in the Holy Ghost, nnd consecrated upon tho sacred nltar, and they will spring to newness of lite. There is no profession, where every mental and moral power, and every variety of knowledge, nre so available. A minister may Iny the universe under tribute. If acquainted with what is known by men in other professions, it will enable him to perform with the more efficiency the duties of his own. Whatever he can learn from history—whatever he may know of the tins and sciences, or of the language and literature of different nges and nations whalcvcr information he can obtain from the farmer, the merchant, the mariner, or the mechanic—every thing pertaining to matter or to mind, to the ocean or the dry land, to this world or the world to come- all mav be brought'to bear upon his appropriate work, nnd enhance the power of the pulpit.— Christian Review.

THE BIBLE.

In every generation nnd wherever the light of Revelation has shone, men of all ranks, conditions, and states of mind have found in this volume, a correspondent for every movement towards the better felt in their hearts The needy sou*, has found supply—the feeble a help (he sorrowful a comfort, yea, be the recipiency the lenst which consist with moral life, there is an answering grace ready to enter. The Bible has been found a spiritual world—spiritual, yetnt the same time outwnrd nnd common to all. You in one place, I in another, all men somewhere and at sometime, meet with an assurance that the hopes and fears, the thoughts nnd yearnings, which proceed from or tend to aright spirit in us, are no dreams or fleeting singularities in us. not voices heard in sleep or spectres which the eye suffers, not perceives. As if on some dark night, a pilgrim, suddenly beholding a bright star moving belor* him, should slop in fear and perplexity. Bat lo, traveller after traveller passes by him, and each, being questioned as to whither he is going, makes answer.

I am following my guiding star." The piljfriiji quickens his own steps and presses onward in confidence. More confident still will he be, if by the wayside he shouid find here and there ancient monuments cach with his votive lamp, and on each the name ol some former pilgrim, and a record that there he had first seen or first begun to follow the benignant star! No, otherwise is it with the varied contents of the Sacred Volume- The hungry have found food, the thirsty a living spring, the feeble a staff, and the victorious wayfarer songs of welcome and strains of music and as long as ench man asks an account of his wants, and asks what he wants, no man will discover aught amiss or deficient in the vast and many chambered store bouses. Good and holy men. and the best and wisest of mankind, the kingly spirits of history, enthroned in the hearts of mighty nations, have borne witness its influences, have declared it to be beyond

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jaato organ of humaaity.—Coleridge.

Tat Mo**w OF THK AGE.—11 i» very common with a r'.i'i class of croakers to cry down tbe moral and r» jcbaracter of the present »ge. and enlogixe that of The preceding genera'ion. ami, in some tespects.

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Had wc rushed down stairs sooner, just before the first ring of the bell, a kitchen-group might have presented itself, not unworthy of being sketched. There should we have seen a feminine p-irty of four seated round a table spread with solid viands the actresses have played their parts to perfection not like unfortunate players on the mimic stage, who raise to their parched lips empty japan cups, Hnd affect to eat large slices of pasteboard turkeys. No they have in the fullest sense of the w.ird, dined and are in that delicious state of dreamy repose, induced by a hearty meal, about mid-day in summer, after having risen early and "washed" till twelve! It is at this juncture they hear the loud, quick ring of the parlour-bell. At such a moment, when Missus know'd they was at dinner! Again, again, again nay, the peal is continuous, and mingled with confused screams. Terror and the cold beef combined, strong ale and intense alarm, prevent thern from stirring. Still the beil rings, thescrenms' continue, and grow more destmct! Sarah faints, I Betsey manages about half a fit. and Jane staggers a I few paces ami fails into the arms of Robert the gardener. A jug of ale, which the cook mistakes for water, flung into the face of the fair insensible, causes a sensation that arouses the whole party and curiosity wards the daughter of the tfishop overcoming fear, leads them towards the stairs, where, ried the Marquis of Camden, and she is now principal hushed and horror-stricken, they await the dread in- lady of the bedchamber, and one of the few femaleftptelligenee that "a great black beadle has got into the pointmentsof the court that give general satisfaction, parlour." his first appeirance this season!

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PJCTOKESQUE BEACTT OF MINIS OF COAL.—'The coal mines of Bohemia, are stated by Dr. Buckland, to be 4h«most beautiful he had ever visited. We will deScribe them in his own eloquent language: The most etffborated imitation of living foliage on the painted ceilings of Italian palaces, bare no comparison tfith the bwiutiful profusion of extinct vegetable rorms with which the galler es of these instructive coal mines are overhung. The roof is covered as with a canopy ot gorgeous tapestry, enriched with festoons of most graceful foliage, flung in wild Regular profusion over every portion of its surface. T^ie effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables, with the light groundwork of the rock to wmch they are attached. The spectator feels transported as if by enchantment, into the formats of another world, he beholds the trees of form and character, now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to Ins senses almost in thebeautyand vigor of their primeval life their scaly stems and bending branches with their delicate apparatus of foliage,are all spread before him little impaired by the lapse of indefinite ages, and bearing faithful records of distinct systems of vegetation, which began and terminated in times of which these relics are infallible historians. Such are the grand natural herbaria wherein these most ancient remains of the vegetable -kingdom are preserved in a state of integrity little short of their living perfection, under conditions of our planet which exist no more."

A ROMANCE AT COURT.—The Marchioness of Camden has been appointed one of the ladies-in-waiting to her Majesty. There is rather a curious circumstance with reference to her connection with the court of Queen Victoria, which occurred when_ her Majesty came to the throne. As Princess Victoria, the Queen was a resident at Ramsgate about six years ago. During her sojourn there, she became acquainted with Miss Murray, the daughter of the Bishop of Rochester The Princess and Miss Murray, being about the same age, became very intimate. When the court ol the Queen was in progress of lo.-mation upon her accession, she expressed her pleasure that "Miss Murray should be one of her maids of honour." On the morning after this expression, a letter was received at Buckingham Palace from a Lady Elizabeth Murray, in Scotland, requesting an appointment for her daughter as one of the maids of honour. Through some unaccountable mistake the writer was believed to be (lie parent of the yonng lady whom her Majesty had so specially named, She therefore receivid an answer by return of post, signifying her Majesty's consent to her daughter's apI pcintment. The denouement was not long in taking I place for in a few days, instead of her Majesty's wish-ed-for friend, another young lady made her appearance at court. Explanations ensued, but it was considered too late to annul the appointment. Not long afterwards the daughter of the Bishop of Rochester mar-

REV. MR. MAFFIT.

The following account ofthe oratory of this gentleman is from the Washington correspondent of (he New York Express.

I have given you hot the merest outline of Mr. Maffit's sermon, bu have omitted little or nothing which could be regarded as useful or important. Many truisms were uttered, drawn both from the bible, from history, and from observation,—all exhibiting a vivid, eloquent and at all times a powerful imagination. Metaphor was piled upon metaphor, simile up comparison, until the excess of imagery became tiresome from its excess. Paradise had not so many flowers ill it. as Mr. Maflfit put in his sermon of an hour Every sentence was illustrated and every idea made figurative. There was beauty withofit simplicity,and gorgeousness wiihout power. Like the court garden of the Bey of Sultan, so beautifully described in the German story of '"Melecksala," which Ernst, a Christian count, captured of the Saracens in his pilgrimage, wns doomed to transform from what was beautiful tosomething new.—so our preacher, with an eloquent text nnd a prolific subject, commencf his work of transformation, jumbling in variegated confusion what he found before him, making nil things different nnd nothing better. The exotics were mingled with the nntive flowers, and in such profusion that the senses nched with abundance. An Arabian garden filled with lavender, mnsltroses, nodding violets, ox islips, pale primroses, lilies, all were mingled together nn I spread out like a flower bed, but without much order, and sometimes in ve:y had taste. Nor were these all the sources which contributed to "paint the city," "gild refined gold," "throw a perfume o'er the violet." The sea and lake, the feathered spray from the tumbling cataract and the roaring rapids, the babbling brooks running in sweet melody over the white pebbles, nnd the gentle cascade --the forked lightning, seraphim nnd cherubim, every thing indeed froin the archangel's trumpet, to the music of man, nnd from the Divinity of the Saviour of man to the infidelity of man, were scattered over the serinon like stars along the firmament. Yet, as I have said, the sermon was attractive in tlfe extreme, nnd enough so to exact the closest nttention of all, and from those even who were compelled to listen without seeing, nnd to henr from the distance, hut a part of what was said.

Mr. Maffit's manner would be excellent forthe stage. He has a voice of great compaus, flexibility and sweetness. He can give volume to it until it becomes strong enough to make the welkin ring, and in a moment change to a tone as soft and 9weet as the notes of a lute. Nature has done much for it,and art even more than nature,—far too much at times, even almost to an excess ol affected pronunciation

But almost every word is "well spoken and with good emphasis," and with gestures and tones of voice, with looks, attitudes and* positions, and every thing indeed that makes the finished performer. "What a good Hamlet he would make," said one—"a bet tor Romeo," said a second.—" I would like to henr him read Shakespeare and Milton," saysn third, nnd so on through the crowd, for every botiv has a remark to make and a dislike to express. But enough. If you were to ask me for an opinion of Mr. Maffit's style of preaching, I should take an illustration furnished by himself in his sermon to-day, when the well remembered Dr. Mason in company with another clergymnn, had been listening to a prcacher distinguished for his fine writing, he was asked by his companion—"Do yon not think il a splendid sermon." "Yes, sir," said the Dr. "elegentlv written, well expressed, and wanting in but one thing. It neede.d to be baptised iu the name of Ihe Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost!

AIDS-UE-CAMP

0^7"Mr, McRea, bearer of instructions from President Tyler to Judge Ellis, U. S. Minister in Mexico, we understand left yesterday afternoon, to proceed from the Balize in a revenue cutter, to Vera Cruz, on his way to the Mexican capital. We undestand the instructions of the President to authorise our Minister to demand the immediate release of Messra Kendall, of New Orleans, Combs, of Kentucky, and Howard, of the District of Columbia, citizens of the U. S., captured while going to Santa Fe, as well as others similarly situated, whose citizenship can be proved. The President has the approval of his constituents for his prompt action in the matter, and we only hope that our representatives in Mexico may act in the same spirit, and be successful in his efforts.—N.O. Bulletin-

WiLfc GEB£E.~A most singular advantage has been taken of these wild fowls on We understand

tbe Prairies in this county.

-U

flocks of W|,d

as modi crime in proportion to population, m* there is zen over that their wings became useless BP-

tafee

dnwwrtng and rfepTOTiiur de-

Hera Ida in tbowdapv,

tu:_

ctn-.a** and*made the most of—at !»*t if theae of them were enptured. The old saying tn carrion did exiM we have not heard of them. "when the sky falls we can catch lark a," but Bat ttgh

are aa

whole, worse titan oar ancestors, time «no teiiinx

how lone we may remain apon an *qaaitf with them, Sieet falls we cat) catch geese.—Loporte (/»1 if the knowledge that certain chaw* are

JMMNHF—

were so completely fro-

,we?

co IM to

their heels for their only chance of

escape from the eager pursuer, and during

L.I /j„i®

be h««JMess nnd forlorn condition, large flocks

jrrt, «poa tbe ,.

Whir,

mr ewmmon—whkfc the fmhtiewtiwM we fpeak of iiMHWtrieaaljr prqpagat* proceeds mack farther "Beil Pendantry crams one's bead with learned «n« *wn cram to be dntasrrfal Exrkunge P*£*r- room for if.

St Lkr .,

probable ooe note, when the

AGRICULTURAL.

ARTICLES FROM THE CULTIVATOR.

THE ICK MELON—Messrs. Editors—The seeds of the Ice Mellon, recieved by you from the*outh,and part of which you kindly placed at my disposal, I planted in my garden, with the exception of few hiils. which I distributed to some friends. They fully answered the recomendation given, being far superior to the ordinaty melons grown in our gardens, or offered in our markets. The complaiuts made, that the planting of the citron melon in the same beds with the watermelon, has seriously deteriorated the latter, by giving a thicker rind, and a less juicy Rnd delicate meat are evidently just to every one who purchases melons grown in the middle states for the northern markets. The ice melon has a rind so thin and brittle, that, when ripe, a gentle pressure of the thumb was sufficient to rapture it, and the flavor was ofthe richest kind. The melons were not large, whether owing to the extreme dryness of the season, or to the natural constitution of the fruit, I cannot stty but I think it will prove a great acquisition to the lovers of good melons.

WEIGHT

SALT

WASHINGTON.—TWO of

these officers who composed part of the family of Washington, are still alive, viz: Col. John Trumbull, of Connecticut, and the Hon. Judge II. Baylies, of Massachusetts. Col. Trumbuli was appointed the first year ofthe war, in July 1775, and Judge Baylies in the last, in 1782. Col. Trumbull is now 85 years old, and Judge Baylies 86, and though it is 68 years since the former, and 59 since the latter served on the staff of the Father of our Country—they are both in good bodily and mental health, both surrounded by children and grand children, who have grown up like olive plants around their tables, and both like living ties, uniting the past age and the present, both helping to plant the tree of liberty^ —both now sitting under its shades and enjoying its fruits.—Shield.

AND

H. M. GAYLOBD.

Stnithfield market in I^ondon, prow? that within one hundred years, the average weight of the cuttle killed for tlinl market, has nearly doubled, rising fioin between four and five hundred to between covi and eight hundred, nnd the grealer part of this increase has been in the last forty years. It is calculated that the cattle oflcrcJ tit the Brighton market, near Boston, average at least fifty per cent, more at the present time than they did twenty years since. This improvement we owe to the knowledge brouglit lo bear on the breeding of cattle and agriculture generally.

INDIAN CORN—The benefits of skillful cultivation, are shown in the improvement of the corn crop, as much perhaps as in any other way. A crop of seventy-five bushels per acre is now as common as fifty was twenty years since and there can be little doubt that one hundred bushels per acre are now oftner reached than wns seventy at that time.

ASHES

CULTIVATION

MIXED FOFT ^TOCK.—A

dencv as respects the health of slock, I will

merely say in conclusion, thit I am acquaint-!tried

ed with several farmers that have made the

OF THE

fore us a communication on this subject from

quire support, tic them to the stakes. "To make wine, carefully gather the ripe grapes, and, after crushing them with a wooden pestle in a barrel or other suitable vessel, then prest out the juice in a suitable machine, in the same manner that cider is procured, and barrel it up. Let it stand until it is well settled, then draw it off carefully, leaving the dregs in the bottom of the barrel, and the process is finished, save whit time will accomplish. No alcohol is used, the Catawba wine being what it purports, pure iuice of the grape

VALUE

PEOPERTV

CHAKCOAL

CATTT.E.—The records ofthe

CEMENT

respondent of the Farmer's Journal, presents for three or fourdn^s longer, and temper the following testimony as his experiancc of again, until it becomes smooth, yielding, tough the value of mixing suit and ashes for stock and gluey. The floor being then lovelled,

which the ingredicn's should be given, are one part salt to seven of ashes. Tho salt should be fine, and thc ashes dry and free from coals. If thought necessary, tho salt may be increased in quantity to two or even three quarts instead of one.. Try it, farmers, ond see if it followng is a correct account of the produce doth not do good like a medicine.'" nitrate, 48 bushels, weight per bushel 50 lbs straw, 2 tons, 4 cwt., 3 qrs., 56 lbs. The

rows seven feet apart, and four feel apart in hundred dollars of the value of all property the rows. entered on the general list for taxation, also"When prepared for planting the slips, be-, for State purposes, a poll tax of fifty cents on gin by digging cach hole about a foot deep, or each poll subject to taxation by law, which. the depth of a common spade but two slips tax shall be assessed and collectcd agreeably in the hole, one on each side,straight with the to filtv. lines you intend for rows. Two are put in SEC. 2. That ten ccnts on cach hundred each hole in order to provide against acci- dollars valuation of the aforesaid tax, be set", dents. If both grow, one must be transplant- apart annually for thc redemption of Treas-^ ed. In planting, always observe that two or three buds of each must remain above thc surface of the ground. Press thc earth tightly

around them with the feet- Vhe ground must the Treasury for the purpose of liquidating: be kept in order by ploughing between the Treasury notes, or other liabilities of the State, rows but carc must be observed not to in-j SEC. 4. All ar tscoming within the purview jure the tender buds, which may be springing of this act be, and Ihey are hereby repealed, from the vine. Around the vine, apply the SEC. 5. This act to be if) force from and' hoe, keepingi down the weeds carefully.— after its publication in lhf5s JLndiana Jpurnal When the vines are sufficiently grown to re-! and State Sentinel..!''

The most difficult thing ,n .h» ""T

the vine isll* n,t of pruning, ond on thi. we if 'T'a.Tn'

shall before long give full and accurate direc "tions from the most authentic sources. The cultivation of the vine will, we have no doubt, engage much attention in this country before long. There is no longer a doubt that the best wine can be produced here and, inasmuch as the supply of all our ordinary agricultural products exceed the demand, the tillers ofthe soil must turn their attention to new production*. None promises as great profit as the vine nnd temperance would be promoted in a high degree by makiug wioe, instead of whiskey, the popular drink. In all wine-produc-ing countries drunkenness is rare. Mr. Davis has reduced the price of his wine to &ev-ty-five cents a bottle." ',i"*••*

SHSEF—A gentleman who

FOK

owns a large reat estate in Maine, tells us that sheep ure very fond of charcoal, and will eat it in considerable quantities. He names several instances in which ihey have been known to thrive rapidly, and to rid them of ticks when they could have access to coal and coal dust. Our friends who keep sheep will do well to consider whether free access to a coal-pit would not prove as useful to sheep as to hogs, nnd tend to prevent or to mitigate the diseases to which they are subject. We are inclined to think it probable, that coal dust would prove very unwelcome to ticks and to other veimin, which find a harbor in the coats of animals but we have never tried it.—Ex.

In the northern parts of France, corn,'ton* sidered only as forage and wiihout any view to tho gathering ofthe grain, offers one of the most precious resources imaginable, for green food in the stables of oxen, cows, nnd even horses. By planting il successively, every fifteen or twenty days, on the waste lands, form the first of May to the middle of July, they procure, during three or four months, an abundance of the best green food that can be grown. It is nccessnry for this to manure the land in the spring, or the corn in the hill. Plant it in rows about two feet a part and with the plough and the hoe. Care should be taken to keep the land in perfect order, in which ense an excellent crop of wheat may be obt tined after this crop. It should be cut when the male floowers [tho tassel'] begin to show their points at tho top of the plant, and you mny continue to cut after it is in full tassel. If there is a superfluity of it, the surplus should be dried, and will make a good food for cattle in the winter. 1 cannot, after my experiancc, too highly recommend to farmers this mode of using corn, which adds to the advantages of maintaining the cattle for many months that of a great augmentation of manure.—Far. Register.

FOR

FLOORS.—The manner of mak

ing earthen floors for country houses is as follows: Take two-thirds lime, and one of coal nshes, well sifted with small quantity of loam clay. VMix the whole together, temper it with water, and make it up into a heap letting it lie a week or ten days, and then

cor- temper it well over again. After this, let it lio

Having tested the utility of the practice, lay tho plaster nb«ut two and a half or three I am now per pa red to speak favorable of it.' inches thick, making it smooth with a trtfwel. and from a firm conviction that stock, of all The hotter the season is, the better and when desriptions, are essentially benefitted thereby, it is thoroughly dry, nothing can make abetter My cows, work-horses and young cattle, us floor. If any one would wish their floors to well as sheep, have been regularly supplied look very handsom, let him take lime of ragwith it, ns often as once 9 week, since the snow stones, well tempered with whites of eggs, went oft, and notwithstanding the feed in the covering he floor about half an inch with pastures lias been quite short, in consequence this mixture, before the under flooring is too of drought, for a Inrge part of the svason, (he dry. If this be wefl done and thoroughly animals are healthy, and generally in better dried, it will look, when rubed with a little? condition than wc have known them for years. linseed oil, nearly as transparent as metal ori^* "Sheep, especial')', are extremely fond of glass, and endure for many years, without^ it, preferring it to pure salt, and eating ns ea- crack or blemish.— Farmers' Cabinet. gerly as they do meal or corn. As lo the general efficacy ofthe practice, and its ten-

A ,nte

Liverpool pn pur gives un account or

interesting agricultural experiment lately'

,ow"

6,h of

Mn.v lnsf»

same trial, and tlmt in no instance, with measuring one acre, two roods, and^ four perch-' which I am familiar, or which has fallen un*

wwf0

dermy notiee, has it been attended with oth- 'n 'ew days, the difference betwetHf er than the best effects The proportions in

Cheshire county. On tho

A* alternate ridgesof wheat,

sowed with five cwt of nitrate of so-

thc wilh the

n«fate

GHAPE.—We have be- other 32 bushels weight per bushel 50 lbs

Mr. J. Davis, near Utica, Clarke county, Indi- ity of both was inferior, but the nitrate wheal ana, which he was induced to make for the \vnnM h.ove been a belter crop if a less quan* information of those who mav be disposed to tity ol the nitrate had been sown.—Intel. purchase cuttings of the Catawba nnd Isabella grape vines, of which he has a large quantity for sale. His process of plantingand cutting is as follows: "Plough the ground as deep as possible by running the plough t« or three times in each furrow, and then harrow. Layoff theground

and the interven

ing ridges of the suite size could bediscernetf at a considerable distance from tho field, which continued throughout the summer.— The two sorts have been reaped, threshed, measured, and weighed seperately and tho

straw, 1 ton, 5 cwt 1 qr.,2 lbs. The qual-

Indiana Laics.

AN ACT levying a tax for State purposes, and for the gradual redemption of Treasury Notes. j/

SEC.

in lines seven feet apart one way nnd^ four be levied for the purpose of defraying the orfect the other, placing a strike ot each inter- dinary expenses of thc State Government, and section to mark the place where the cuttings for the gradual redemption of Treasury Notes,, nre to stand. The vines will thus stand in

Be il enacted by the General As-

sembly of the Slate of Indiana, That thereshall

an annual tax of twenty cents on each one

ury uotes. SEC. 3. That the Treasurer of State be authorized to appropriate any available fundsin.

JOHN W. DAVIS,

••it Speaker ot the ftotise of Representatives, r* i-r.- .i ,1 SAMUEL HALL,

1 Uh

ACT giving

President ofthe Senate.

Approved, January 31, J842. SAMUEL BIGGKR. AN

additional stay of execution,

where specie is demanded.

SEC.

Be it

enacted,

tit*

Ju"icf

General Astern*

btyofthe Slate of Indiwa, That when tho plaintiff or plnintifls in any judgement rendered or to be rendered, in any court in this State,

Pfce- ,ha" 1 em»"i

andrefuf

P*!*' bonk*.

bleat the State Bank, from the defendant or defendans in said judgment, in payment of

the amount due thereon, the said defendant or defendants, upon giving replevin security to the satisfaction of tbe officer issuing the execution, ond which shall be taken in the same manner as now prescribed by luw, shall be entitled to a stay o( execution for the period of twelve months, in addition to the stay already allowed by existing law: Provided, That the Bank or any Insurance Cotnpanv^ shall not be entitled to the benefit of this

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and Je in1^' force from and after its publication in the far diana Journal and State Sentinel.

NEW YORK—The I ,f..m SAMUEL HALL,

assessed amount of property in the State of N. I President of the. Senate*.-* York for 1841, was *655,296. In 1899 the Approved January 29, 1842. assessed value of property, was, §650,661,770. SAMUEL BIGGER, \7ZTThr.

uSkMJa

JOHN W. DAVIS,

8peaJ?Sr of the House of Representatives.