The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 March 1842 — Page 2

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Traoton Joi»»applieAO«B'MiiPlflMW«® aul» and back, once woek. Waterloo to b« •applied from Cambridge, &«He» and tack,once* week.

NOTES-

Seven minote. are -Ifowed far opeaio^jad eloe-

1. vrhere no particular time W^^iSd1 2£5swL«d~-«"rab°VdX" SJSSS* SZZI**" it to be conveyed in preference to pas-

OT a ™dw their entire exclusion, if itaweightand Vai require '1

bc iven

one-fourth

5ncra«d

an"

for

,0 pawners brought

,bo,« ,i"d""!

o^'office blanks, mail ha?s and special agents A n««rtineni, on tbe exhibition of their cretlen•f

the

181

on Posts offices or otherwise, after the expiration of

each

LTCL

be conveyed without further charge on

Vi-«« adiniting of such conveyance.

K?aeen»areto

be conveyed without charge

'K. nfinciple railroad and steamboat lines, wh«*rc of the mails and the number of oftheoSccs M"rtouire their employment by the Department, in that case a separate apartment for the assort-

5, Mai

rai|roaj an(j

steamboat lines, wh«*rc

tails and the number of sir employment by the

in ..... separate apartment .".I «.fe-keepmg of the mail is to be provided hy the

contractor

""fi0 In all

under tbe direction of the Depart-

cases, there is to be a forfeiture of thepay

nf the trip, when the trip is not run a forfeiture of at Uast

part of u, when the running or am-

I j##0far behind time as to loose the connection with a depending mail and a forfeiture of a doe promotion oiit, when a grade of service is rendered infe£or to that in the contract. These forfeitures may be

into penalties of higher amount, according to the nature orfreqaency of the failure and the import-

pjnCT wfll be imposed, unless the delinquency be •Misfactorily explained in due time, for Tailing to take from deliver at a post office, the mail, or any part of it:

suffering it to be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed for conveying it in a place or any manner that exposes it to depredation, low, or injury for refusem® niter demand to convey a mail 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 *?t. And

lor setting

up or runing an express to transmit com

mercial intelligence in advanced the mail, a penalty will be etacted equal to a quarter's pay. 8 The Postmaster General may annul the confact for

repeated

failures for violating

required

for

.Iter

compensation,

quarter, say in February, May, August, and

The

distances are given according to

formation but no incresed pay will be allowed,!BI ould tlipy prove to be grcaier than is advertised, if the places

12°°The'f'ostmaster General is prohibited l).,/I^v from knowlingly makinga coiuract for tho ranppo ta tion of the mail'with any person who ,8,'all l\a7if1"0 tered into any combination, or proposed any combination, to prevent the making of any bid for a mail contract by any other person or Pf«ons^ho 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, nn^l!,n?^vhna ®nil to induce any other person not to bid for a mail

C°13™Onco«ch routes where the present contractor •ball be superceded by an underbidder. who may not have tho stage property requisite for the Pcrll[r* mancc of tho contract he shall purchase from the present contractor such of his coaches, teams, and harness belonging to iho route as shall he needed, and may be suitable for the service, at a fair valuation enl make payment therefor by reasonable instalments, as his pay becomes due, unless the present oon'rac'?J shall continue to run stages on the route. bhoiiia they not agree as to the suitableness of the property, the terms, or the security, each tnay choose a person who may appoint a third, and their decision shall be linal or the Post master General will name the umpire. Should the underbidder fail to comply, his bid will he offered to thecontractnr but should he decline it, the propsals of the underbidder will ho accepted unconditionally. The underbidder should give early notice of his intention to take or not to take the stock, and 1 the latter, of hi* reasons and tho present contractor is to determine, on tho first application, wether he will sell it or not. ,. 14. A bid received after tune, to wit: the 14rii April next at 3 in, or without the guarantee required by law or that combines several routes in one aunjjof compensation, cannot be considered in competition with a regular proposal, not ailjudgcded to be extravagant. 15. A bidder may offi-ron conch, railroad,or steamboat routes, where tlmt transportation is difficult or impracticable Pt certain seasons, to substitute horee or wagon conveyance, or to intermit service, a specified number of days, weeks, or months. He may propose to omit an office that is inaccessible, or is not on the stage road, the rail way, or at a steamboat landing, as the case may be, or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different days and hoursof departure and arrival, provided no more running time is asked, and it is obvious that no mail oonneciionor

other

rJH*90lm$Um

at soon as practicable

1,000

Utore.saoo

the

Office law for disobeying the instructions of the Department for refusing to discharge a carrier when

Post

by the Department for assigning the

contract without the consent of the Postmaster General, or

setting up or running an express as albre-

I^Thc Postmaster General may alter the contract and

the schedule, he allowing a pro rata increuse of

within the restrictions imposed bylaw

for the additional service required, or for the increased •need if the employment of additional stock or carriers Sundered necessary but the contractor may, in such case relinquish the contract, on timely notico, if he

orefers

it to the change. He mni, also discontmue or curtail the service, he allowing one months extra

public accommodation is prejudiced.

He may ask for a specified number of days for moro running time to tho trip at certain seasons of peculiar bad roads. But heyona these changcs, a proposal for service different from the advertisement will prevent its being considered in competition with a regular bid, not set aside for cxtrvaganco and where a bid contains any of the above alterations their disadvantages will be estimated in comparing it with other proposals. 16. There should be but one route bid for in a proposal. 17. The route, the service, the yearly

pay,

the bid

der's name and residence, und the name of each member of flie firm, where a company offers, should be distinctly stated. 18. 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 heinp dated, should be signed by the guarantor, who must be shown by tbe written certificate of a postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a man of property, and ablo so make good his guaranty. This guaranty, so cvrtifiod, should accompany each bid. "The undersigned guaranties that if his •id for carrying the mail from to —accepted by the Postmaster General, shall enter into an obligation prior to the 1st day of July next,with good and sufficient sureties, to perform the scrvicc proposed. "Dated 19 The bid should be sent under

seal,

addressed to

tl»e First Assistant Postmaster General, with Mail Proposals in the Siato of written on the face ol the letter and should be despatched in time to be rewived by or before the 14th April next, at 3 o'clock,

m. W. The contracts are to be executed before the 1st Joly next.

C. A. WICKLIFFE.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Dec. 14,1841.

TEW^i^PERWl LL. TO TUB MRRCII ANTS AXO TRADERS OF

THE WABASH VALI.EY. subscribers have erected a large PAPER MILL at Lafayette, Indiana, and have spared no «ost in obtaining the most approved Machinery and skill from the East, are prepared to supply the entire

IPA&NTA Pattry with every kind of paper wanted on the moat favorable term. The friends of Home Industry and Western Enterprise, are invited to give us a call, •ud to save their Rags, which will be received in ex* eh*«m« for

P*j«r or

iva.

Cash at fair price#.

1,1842-17-1 THOMAS &. YANDES.

NEW Finn.

I it ic. unaenngned have entered into partnership »nder ihe t»m« ami

My|e

of Blake &. Bourne, and

nave taken the old stand of Groverman St, [iow»ne, on the north stde ofth» public square, where hey are now opening an extensive assortment of Dry Gojta. Fhirdware and Groeeries. the greater part of which has just keen received from the Eastern cities. They will sell •poo very accommodating terma, and invito their friends and the public in general to rive rhent a call-

THOS. H. BLAKE, T. J. BOURNE.

Ttrre»|fa»te.Nov.a*-l*.tf

rpHE

pariotrship of Groverman & Bourne, is this .*• dissolved by mutual content, and 'be busi{He firm placed in the handaof Tho. J. Bourse. ™r.n!Lr,,rw»''»° Wbom alt indebted will please aypiy aixt make pavment,as tho same

SUM

be closed

CHAR. GROVERMAN.

_. T.J.

BOURNE.

Terro-Haaio.Nov. 4-IS-IF

LANtiWOETire.

TRUTH AND ERROR.

S wane. There'* a tuneful river, Tn Erin's Isle, viSW Where the sun-beams qdfer *. "s la silvery smile S- ^Vheie the'leases that fait 'Neath tbe autumn sks,

Grow gem-like all, And never die

'-S,

And sncliis the stream, by truth'enlightened, Thnt laves'the breast, by wladonT brightened," Where even the joys that storms dissever r' Are turned to gems that glow forever.

There's a darkling tide In the Indian clime, By whose herbless side

There's a sulphur? slime To the flowers that it touches I A scorching wave—

To the bird tnat approaches,

SXWW-W A weltering grave Ancf such are the waters of bitterness rising, In the desert bosom of dark disguising And the birds of joys and the flowers of feeling, Must perish where'er that wave is stealing.

From the Boston Pott.

O WHY SHOULD SADNESS WITHER.!'

My dear friends—the couple mentioned in my text, drank deeply from the sweetened cup of domestic content. Their humble home was lar beyond the reach of the deadly Upas of affluence—they never had been inoculated with the virus of wealth—the molasses of matrimony had not been turned to vinegar by constant exposure to the ever-changing atmosphere of extravagance—and they seemed to live as though man wanted but little here below, provided that little were just enough, and none to give away, as the old lady said of her daughter's virtue. It was on a lovely day, my friends, in the rosy month of June, that I rode out on my female nag Rebecca, as I supposed, into the wilderness, to preach truth, sincerity, morality and humility into the hard hearts of the brethren: but judge of my surprise, when, in the very centre of seclusion, surrounded by solitude, I discovered a snug little cottage rearing its nut brown crest above the blooming shrubbery of a smiling glade, that Bhone like a sunny isle in some boundless ocean. Here, said I, such preaching as mine can be of no avail: inineissuch moral physic as is administered to hearts afflicted with venality, vainness and iniquity but to those who have not yet been touched by the corroding curses of the world, it is never given. It were better that I, myself, should listen to, and be benefitted by the gentle whisperings that proceed from this hallowed spot. I brought Rebecca up all standing—listened, looked and meditated.

My friends—I saw ihere, peace, contentment, joy, happiness and bliss all mixed together, like the hues of an autumn twilight. The thrush, concealed in the flowery hawthorn, let his tuneful notes leak out from his musical gullet, as though he could'nt help it—myriads of other little feathered songsters made the woods resound with their simple and yet their scientific carols—the wild bee lugged his load of sweets from the rose to the honey suckle, from the hooey suckle to the sweet pea, from the sweet pea to the morning glory that climbed over the cottage window—little wniteheatled cherubs, not long enough hatched to become hardened in sin, were nestling among the flowers, as full of frolic as they were fat, and as simple as they were smutty. The monarch of this Eden in miniature was dressing up the garden in its summer's bestwhile the constant hum of the good house wife's spinning wheel served as a lullaby to hush her darling babe to rest. Here, thought I, is the only place where can bo found the pure juice of happiness, imported directly from heaven. Hero industry hassupplanted every molesting thorn of want—here Plenty empties her well filled horn at theffeet of Poverty—here thesun of joy is seldom obscured by a cloud of sorrow—here the angels of peace seclude themselves from the jarring conflicts of the world—and here, also, thought 1, is the home of a contenied pair, whose bosoms have not yet been invaded by a torturing love of lucre, and who, I am well convinced, are merry and happy, but poor.

My friends—after observing and reflecting upon such a delightful Bcene, I returned quickly to the city of sin, sickness and shinplasters, with the unalterable resolution never to go into the woods again to convert creatures that need no conversion—never to attempt to patch up with the patent putty of preaching, those windows of the moral understanding in which not a single pane is broken. I came back to this mercenary ana corrupt Gotham, where people are either too poor to be comfortable or too rich to be contented and here I intend to sojourn, preaching, petitioning, and praying, till all. from tho least to the greatest, shall be made to acknowledge that simply enough is better than a feast, and that merely satisfying one's hunger with plain, substantial food is more conducive to health and happiness, than surfeiting upon the poisonous luxuries of pomp and grandeur- The wealthy I. find areconstantly annoyed by care—when they lay their feverish heads at night among the brambles of anxiety and distrust, they sigh for the softness and ease of the poor man's pillow—and I have no doubt but they sometimes feel that it is far more blest to be happy and poor than sad, miserable, and rich.

My dear hearera—if any of you have more mammon than is necessary toyourpeace,givesomeof it to me— some to the Lord, and more to those who have nought. You can, just as well as not bring joy to others by unburdening yourselves ol a superfluous load of wealth: and if you will but scatter such a surplus among the needy and deserving, you will be happier here, and laden hereafter with such riches as the_world cannot give nor eternity take away. So mote it be!

'i'

O why should sadness wither f4. The flowers that friendship gives +, j.--1 No bud of hope in fairest form

Spread forth its leaves and lives— The coldest heart may warm awhile I When love a smile bestows I Can we be friends together

In life, midst joys and woes? ,«- *,

That smile alas will gather, Few blossoms from my soul Back, a deep shade of. darker days,'

On memory will roll— Through changeless time will sorrow last, It is no idle dream— +, Yet friends will be together,

And give to hope a gleam.

SHORT PATENT SERMONS. NEW SERIES—No. LXXXVI. I shall draw my present discourse from this text:.

In a neat little cottage surrounded with green. Where woodbines encircled the door, There lived a gay couple as ever was seen—

They were merry and happy, but poor. My hearers—the great object of mankind appears to be, to luy plans, study devices and concoct contrivances, to make themselves miserable by obtaining riches They are never satisfied with enough, nor contented with comfort They wish to accumulate wealth upon wealth till it bccomes a burden upon their shoulders, and even when they find the pedestals of their peacc cracking and giving way beneath the pressing load, etiil persist in increasing their weight of wo, in obetlienco to the commands of that tyrant of all tyrants—Avarice. So long, my friends, as a person has enough to eat, drink, wear or chew, and has not had a taste of the bewitching superfluities of life, he is more happy than he is aware of, as the bear with his foot in the steel-trap said of the caged porcupine.

Dow, J*.

TIME AND EARLY RISING. Reader! if thou have lived to be one and twenty without having learned that time is money—more emphatically money than dollars and cents, you had better begin your ABC again- If you have made your fortune, beware of robbing your friends of their time whose fortunes are yet to oe achieved by industry. Never enter a merchants store, a mechanic's shop, or a lawyers office, for the purpoee of mere conversation if you have business with either, despatch it as soon as you can. Take it for granted, that every man of sense knows the present value of minutes, and endeavors to let no particle of time fall useless to tbe ground.

Industry, perseverance, punctuality and integrity, are all greatly advanced by early rising. A vouth may learn many sciences and languages merely by making proper use of the early hours of daylight in tbe summer season- Early rising is perhaps by some considered a vulgar habit—therefore, it is a thing well enough for mechanics and laborers, but by no means to be adopted by the higher classes of society. But those who think so, either know nothing of the biographies of eminent men or have perused them with little attention. It is indisputable that few men ever lived to a groat age, and fewer still ever became distinguished for their abilities, who were not in the habit of early rising. If you rise late, of course you cannot get about jrour business till a late hoar and then every thing goes wrong throughout the day. Dr. Franklin aaya "that he who rises late may trot all day and not overtake his business at night," indeed it may he confidently affirmed, that he who is in the habit of early rising in hiayoaih, will be much more likely to be a distinguished and oseful man in society, and mote likely to pasa a pleasant and peaceful life than be who makes a practice of lying in bod till a late hoar as many do.

NEXT TO T» un or FLOWISS TN LOVE or Bins.—Teadi yoer children in mercy to spare the nests of the harmleaa little birda, and if yoa have a heart to be thankful, it will rise ap in union with Uw tittle songsteri coral, to think your lot ia east in sock a pleasant va'e of flow*** end singing btrde These are some of the many things provided to lighten tbe only a toil of labor, and it is vitiated taste acqnired from a false system of edocstioo, thai prevents us from deriving a great deal of bappine» from soch accompaniments of the jonrney el life-

PERFECTIONISTS—OBSTIBJ^TFLF.

During a late trial before the Superior CoSr *t New Haven, Ct as we learn from the Herald, a Mrs. Tattle was brought into Court as a witness bnt refused to be sworn, when the following scene was enacted:

JUDGE. If you have conscientious scrttples against taking an oatn, you may afirm. Mrs. T. I decline to take an oath, or give testimony of any kind.

JcDtiE. We will give you time to consider and take advice of counsel, until tpe afternoonMrs. T. I do not wish kny time to consider. I I cannot recognize tbe principles on which. Courts are baeed. They are not in accordance with" the principles of Christ- I have thoueht deliberately, and ask tor no counsel, and wish for no time. I expect to abide the consequences.

When the Court met again Mrs. Tuttle was called and the parties agreed that she might relate her evidence without oath or affirmation.

JUDGE. Be so good, madam, as to relate what you know. Mrs. T. I do not feel at liberty to do so.

JUDGE. DO you refuse. Mrs. T. I do. The Judge said he could not avoid committing hef for a contempt, though he issued the mittimus with great reluctance. She was taken into custody—and then asked if her husband might go to jail with her, to this the Judge had no objection if the jailor had not, and they were committed (ill the iurther order of the Court.

She expressed great satisfaction at the comfortable quarters provided for her, saying they were much better than her Savior had. They are perfectionists and non-resistant," recognizing no human institution. The cause remains in statu quo. wailing for her to yield

Ttuxltf DO SALLT."—One of our WashingtonTans, last Monday evening, said he knew a farmer in Connecticut, in very good circumstances, who used frequently to get drunk. He had a very nice wife, and one winter he would often come home so drunk that she would have to undress him and put him to bed, when she would carefully tuck in the bed clothes all around for the purpose of keeping him from tumbling out. One evening he got particularly boozy, and mistaking the gate which led to the barn for the door of tbe house, went to the pig pen, climbed over, and fell into the trough. The pigs probably thinking it was something to eat, commenced rooting and turning him over with their noses. After awhile supposing it was his good wife performing the customary office of tucking in the bed clothes, the old man stammered out, "That'll do, Sally, come to bed."—Exchxnge paper.

A PAINFUL AFFAIR-AN ELOPEMENT* A young Miss in her 14th year, from the West, perhaps the richest heiress in the whole West, whose property too was in her own right, recently left New York for Live pool with a man aged about 60. The young Lady was left by her Father at a boarding school near this city, where the gentleman became acquainted with her, and it is believed, that a marriage ceremony was performed before they left. The news must be most painful to the parent, who doted upon this, his only child.—N. Y. Express.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.,

The elopement we alluded to yesterday,-of a young girl of the West, from a well known boarding school on Staten Island, has attracted a great deal of attention.

This young girl, who is nearly connected with two among the most distinguished officers in the army, was left, by her fond parent, in a boarding school on Staten Island, with some three years yet before her to complete her education in where a Capt. Shinley late an officer in the British army, and serving either in the field of Waterloo or New Orleans, first became acquainted with her. Through the instrumentality, as it is said, of the son of the lady who kept the boarding school, but without her knowledge or her consent, the acquaintance of this Capt. Shinley ripened into an agreement to be married and elope. He boarded for a long timeat the Pavilion,but he subsequently became a resident of the house itself, on account of a previous matrimonial connection he had formed with tjie family of the lady whose school the young lady was in* On Saturday week, the young lady was permitted to come to the city on pretence of visiting her father who had just been here, but was not here then, when the marriage took place and Feb. 2d, after having returned home, under another pretence she again came to the city, when they both sailed in the packet ship Mediator for London, which brought out all the facts in the case.

This Capt. Shinley is now one of the mixed commission for the suppression of the Slave Trade, stationed at Demarara. His age iq variously represented. The lowest point is stated at 49, and the highest at 70, this disagreement of computation arising from a savage looking pair of mustachios and whiskers which the Captain wore, while it is affirmed he rouges not a little, and wears a wig and false teeth, such ornaments as all will allow,often adds much youth to tho appearance of old men. The Captain too dresses remarkably well, waltzes admirably, and has figured not a

nected in England, and he has left behind his marriage certificates in the hands of a respectable merchant. This is his third wife. Under a late law of New York, it may be as well to add here, the marriage of a young girl under 16 is voidable, but not void.

Another of the New York papers says: The young lady referred to is Miss Emily Croghan, the daughter of a Mr. Croghan of one of the western states, who has been an Indian agent in the service of the government, Her uncle is the celebrated hero of Sandus^ ky, Col. Croghan of the U. S. army. Her father is now in Washington. She is th$ heiress it is said, of half a million of dollar*• The affair has produced a great excitement in fashionable circles, and execrations are, of course, thrown out at random upon all parses concerned. -f.

A SNAKE IN BED.—A young lady in th® third Municipality, one of the coldest nights last week, said her prayers and read over he* lover's last letter for tbe twentieth time, warmed her little toes at the cheerful coal fire, and turned down the sheets to go lo bed. What was her horror when she discovered a large snake coiled up just about in the middle of tb« bed! She screamed, the family got scared and his snakeship got killed. He was of tbe harmless species denominated "house snakes," about 3 feet long, and beautifully marked— red, yellow and black spots. The cold weatb* er had called him from the damp interstice# between the laths and bricks but he should have known better than to have crawled into a beautiful young lady's bed, and she too on Ike point of marriage with one of our wealthiest merchants. Had it been an old maid DOW^ it wouki'nt have been so much matter.

EXPE %SE OF COLT'S TRIAL.—Ata Ute meeting of tbe New York Board of Supervisors, some items of expense were brought up which are worthy of notice. In the case of Colt, recently tried for murder, the following bills were sent in for payment: for refreshments for jurors, (chiefly on Colt's trial) #409 for dinners for judges oo Colt's trial, 9175 for lodgings for the jury on Colts trial, 9156 for deputy sheriff? for aiteodanc^

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little in our fashionable society, so that when our ingenious fellow citizen, Mr. VV inans, he concentrated all these ornaments and fac* turns out a new locomotive. The process ulties to fascinate and bewitch a young girl may go on in Oregon as easily as in Iowa or not yet 14, who knew nothing of the world,! Wisconsin. Mr. Senator Linn is ready lo it is not at all remarkable that he succeeded, stand god-father to a new birth west of the He is said, however, to be respectably con-! Rocky Mountains

1 From the Baltimore American.

OREGON.

The New Orleans Bulletin says that at the latest accounts from the Oregon country, preparations were in progress there to organize among the settlers a regular form of government. Immigration had increased rapidly. The fertility of soil, the salubrity ofthechmate,and the ample extent of territory, through the fitie valley of the Oregon, present strong inducements to the Seekers after a new home.

The "lar West,*' which for years past has been shifting and changing from one point to another, is fixed at last. It lies along tho shore of the Pacifiic. The Alleghany mountains once denoted it then the Mississippi became its ultima Thule it travelled up the Missouri with so much J-apidity that the different points exhibiting its progress seemed like spots that might mark the nightly encampments oi an army on its march. But the goal is reached now and soon we may expect to see a refluent tide rolling back from tho Pacific to meet the ever advancing wave pressing westward through the gorges of the Kocky Mountains.

Thus we goon steadily to fulfil one destiny, at least the consummation of which no earthly power, no vicissitudes of fortune, no contingencies of things, can ever defeat. We have a great country to Occupy, and it must be made ready as a theatre of great events. The progress of civilization westward since first the vigorous germs of a freedom-loving race were planted in the bosoms of the old Thirteen communities of transplanted Englishmen, has been uninterrupted—and so it must continue under all circumstances to go on. If prosperity attends the older States the enterprise thus generated and fostered will propel to the enlargement of its field of action the East will pour forth out of its exuberance to fill the ample sphere extended in the West. If distresses and troubles, untoward calamities or disasters of any kind, foreign or domestic, should visit the country, the pressure will only stimulate the tendency to emigration multitudes will strive lo escape from the turmoils of the times and gain a quiet abiding place in the great interior by the side of some tranquil river, or amid the shades of tbe forest, where "rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful or successful war" may never reach them more.

Thus it must be. Among a people such as ours, possessing extraordinary qualities of energy, vigour, boldness and hardihood, with an ever moving impulse towards action, there must be expansion and progression. See how England from one little central point has spread herself over the world! On a rock, as it were in the midst of the ocean, a tree has sprung up, which overshadows both hemispheres. The same sort of working—the same inherent power of genius, that gave energy to the Grecian spirit until with concentrated might it rose predominant over the empires of the East— the same general tendency which drove the the iron-armed Roman to conquest, subduing the nations and establishing over the earth a dominion co-extensive with its attainable limits—is now propelling the republican energies of our people with the combined force of individual enterprise and united strength. The conquests which we go forth to make are not indeed over fellow men it is to subdue the forest to subject the uncultured soil to the plough to remove the obstacles which nature kfcs iuterposed in the way of mutual intercourse so that enterprise, industry and art may have free scope and human happiness be increased. No blood marks the tracks of the advancing army of civiliztion but the signs of culture appear—fields and gardens are seen rich with flowers, emblems of abundance and of beauty- Never were a people called to empire under happier auspices.

The creation of a new kingdom or State in the old world is a great afiair. It generally takes place amidst convulsions and the strife of war. On this side of the Atlantic we make States after a fashion of our own, and regard the thing with so much indifference that no patent has ever been taken out for the invention. The coming in of new commonwealth is regarded with as little note as the advent of un additional youngster in a growing family. A new government with organizutton nil complete and as regular as clock work is turned off ready for action with a workmanlike skill similar to that with which

A WESTERN LOVE LETTER. Did you ever see a regular, genuine love letter, from a western gal—one who can run faster* ride harder, and leap higher than any of our degenerate young men this side of the Alleghcnies? If you never enjoyed that felicity, read the following, for it is of the right sort:

April the 2th 'h

1000—eight hundred and 30 nine. My Dear Henry—I embrace this opportu nity to let you knough as how I am had a spell of the argur, and I hope theas few lines may find you enjoying the same

God's Blessin!

Why dont you only rite 1 sweate line to tell suff rin Kithrun all about her sweet Henry. Oh my sweethenry—my turkle dove—my pudging—my deer, deer henry—how my poor sole is longing for your sweate voice—I think I hear him singing yanky doodle as he kums from his plough now. Mary menden has got a baby 1 Oh my henry do cum out and let's get married.—So no more at present, but re main your loving...'

KATHRUN AN TILDEN.

To my sweet henry. P. S.—Part sekkund, Jem Blasieet has raised a house and Sally docs live so snug, but she fits him sumtimes when hes a little over. My sweet henry let us keep house, and if you luv me I wont whip you indeed, nor wont look at nobody else, so I wont, daddy says as bow I must get married bekase Ive let it run on to long already. So no more at present. VK. A. T. P. SL—Part third, my pen is Bad my ink is pale, my love to yoa shall never (alefar

beery it my own tree lov,

my dear, my Dock, my Turtle DBV. ao no more at present. K. A. Tiucr. P. S.—Noty Beay—Mother's ded and Robert has tbe fever. so no more at present from your loving,

KATHKTTN AN

To my dear henry over tbe Nailyganies in the Pennsylvenny Skate. „6

ABSENCE OF MIND.—An absent minded man went out tbe other morning to shot up some pigs. Late in the afternoon he bad not returned, and after some search be was found squealing ia the pen, having shut himself up, and let the pig* out.

FOREIGN NEWS.

Correspondence of the N.Y. Courier and Enquirer. LONDON, Jan. 7th, 1842. Since your accounts by-the steam*sbip of the 4th inst., the overland mail has arrived from India, and has brought intelligence from China, where afiairs remain warlike, and the operations being removed to the neighborhood of the capital of the empire, it is possible that the defenceless Chinese mutt Submit to the invaders at a very early time. The taking of Amoy and 500guns, without the loss of a single British soldier, is trumpeted forth as an extraordinary achievement—but in reality this whole war-is against a people to conquer whom is not much more valiant thud to attack so many flocks of sheep.

The market for tea was lower, after the arrival of the intelligence yesterday, and Company's cargoes are this afternoon at 9$ per lb. for cash.1

The vessel of war in which the specTfe piid as the first instalment of the idomnity money, arrived at Plymouth on Monday last, and has nearly 2,000,000 of dollars on board.

The money market here continues to be-come-more relieved from the pressure which has so long prevailed, und the payment of the dividends commences to-morrow (Saturday,) and an important improvement is very confidently expected in general business, in the course of the ensuing week. Thecolton market is rising considerably in Liverpool, and there is every where the appearance of returning hopes of bttter times.

The London Journals are filled with discussions on the subject of the correspondence between the Governments of England and America, respecting the slave trade und the right of search. There is nothing, however, very warm in the remarks of any of the newspapers, but the tone and style are unusually moderate and subdued—presenting a strong contrast to the previous violence and ignorance displayed in the case of McLeod. From the manner in which that affair terminated, an important change has been observed in all the language applied to the institutions and the people of the United States.

The appointment of Lord Ashburton to the special mission to the United States, is also the subject of universal discussion—nor \»as there ever more discordance of opinion on such an occasion—the ministrial journals representing this appointment as one of almost miraculous wisdom on the part of Sir Robert Peel—whilst tho whig or opposition newspapers describe his Lordship as the weakest, most incosistent and ridiculous politician of the tirrfe. It appears that ho is to set out about the 24th of tho present month, in a Government steam ship.

The Corn markets remain dull, und the duty yesterday rose Is. 6d. per quarter on barley,oats, beans and peas. The duty remains at 23s. 8d. per quarter for foreign wheat, and 14s. 3d. per barrel of flour of 196 lbs.

Still nothing has transpired on the subject of any alteration in the Corn Laws—but from the announcements in the Court Circular of frequent visits of the leading ministers to tho Duke of Buckingham at the Star, it is supposed that the plan will be known i:t the course of a few days.

The market for tobuccd has been lower during the last month—ubout 1400 hogsheads having been sold in London at a roduction of per cent. The imports, deliveries and stocks of tobacco have been larger in J841, than in the preceding year.

The stocks of Bengal Ricc are large, and extensive public sales are about to take-place. |The only sales of the present week have been 190 bags of good middling white Java at 10s. 6d. per cwt. and Curolina in smaller quantities at 32s. a 36s. per cwt.

The election for the city of Dublin is expected to be in favor of Loid Morpeth, who is now in the United States

Mr. Duff Green, formerly of Washington, has been publishing a series of very able letters in the Morning Chronicle, in defence of the credit, and explaining the resources of the United States. These letters have produced a great impression on the public mind. The signature is "An American in London," and the author is about to leave for France. To inquire into the cheap postage system, is the business here of Mr. Duff Green and an important circumstance in its favor has just come under his observation in the published account of the revenue for the last quarter of 1841, which show an income of £29,000 in the Post Office, notwithstanding all the distress of the times.

Mr. Peel, uncle to the Prime Minister, died yesterday, worth £2,000,000. y,,

LONDOX POST OFFICE.

Mr. Pitt's report on the British Post Office department thut enumerates the number of clerks employed thete. He says that the general post office and the city office, are not, as with us, separate and distinct from each other, but are connected the city officers being under the immediate organization of the department is as follows: Secretary's office containing 20 clerks. Mail coach office 36 Solicitor's office 4 Receiver general's office 11 Accountant general's office 27 Money order office 12 Dead letter office 17 Ship letter office 8 Marine guard 13 Inland office 113

Messengers 51 Letter carriers and sub-sorter -345 Two-penny post office, containing 88 clerks Letter receivers 428 jLetter carriers "724 Messengers 6 Si

". TotalT 1,983 f:1,'1 The above comprises all letter carriers and receivers employed within a circle of twelve miles from the post office. In this circle letters are delivered at the residence of the person addressed, and taking up from the receiv-ing-house 3 times per day. There is, besides, an inner circle of 3 miles from the poet office, within which there are 7 deliveries per day, and also7 collections from the receiving houses, to go by the general post.—Phila.Gax.

A HIGHWAY ROBBER SHOT.—A highway robber was shot dead near Wellsboro,' Tioga county, Pa., last week by a traveller whom he attempted to rob. Tbe traveller, on looking at his pistol, discovered that the charge had been removed at tbe tavern where be put up, and the pistol stuffed with bran. This excited his snspicioa, and he put something more substantial into the weapon. On his way be was attacked, he fired, shot tbe robber, and then discovered that tbe latter was his landlord of tbe previous evening.

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WABASH AND ER1E CANAL IN OHIO. The Wabash and Erie Canal has been vitjorously prosecuted for the post year. Seventy miles of different portions of the line are completed. From the eastern termination at Mauhattan, 31 miles to the bead of the Rapids, the earth work and culverts are cotrplet-' ed, and all the locks, eight lift and one guard lock, wUI 5c completed at the opening of navi-, gallon. I*

The two locks on the Toledo side cut, and the five ou the Maumee side cut, are finished, except the gates, which will be finished this winter. The outlet on the Maumee side cut will be fini?h«din May—theacqueduct across Swan creek, in. July—which will complete the canal communication to Manhattan. It is expected that the connection between the canal and the Maumee river will be ready for navigation at Maumee in May, at Toledo in April, and at Manhattan in July next. The canal from the head of the rapids, eighteen miles, to Maumee, has been navigated the past season, and it is expected that the water will be let into it nine miles further to Toledo, the present month.

From the head of the Rapids to the foot of Flat Rock, twenty-two miles, there are three locks and six culverts unfinished, in different stages of forwardness. This portion cannot be prepared for navigation before July From the fuot of Flat Rock to the Indiana line thirty-five miles, can be completed in May. Six miles, this side of the Indiana line, have been navigated since June last—making in all thirty-three miles in use. An appropriation of $250,000 is required to complete this work.—Cincinnati Gazette.

PAY or THE MEMBERS OF THE OLD CONTI-* NBNTAL CONGRESS.—The statement below as to the pay of the members of the old Congress, was given by Jared Sparks, In a recent lecture in New York. If we consider the difference in time, means of payment, and value of things, the pay to the Continental members was considerably higher than it is to the members of Congress now: 1. New Hampshire—Each member had all his own personal expenses paid, also, thoso for his servant and two horses, and half a guinea besides,

2. Massachusetts the same as New Hampshire in regard to the expenses, and $2 a day. 3. Connecticut, tho same in regard to expenses, and $3 a day. 4. Rhode Island—40 shillings a day, and no expenses paid. {.-U'J: .y 5. New York—$4 a day. 6. Pennsylvania—20 shillings a day, and all expenses paid. 7. Maryland—40 shillings a day, and no expenses paid. 8. Virginia—A half Joannes a day. 9. North Carolina—£500currency a year. 10. South Carolina—£300 for their ser-J vices during the first Congress. 11. Georgia—£100 a month during thoi session. rj

OFFICIAL.

TREASURY NOTES.—The Secretary of tho Treasury, states that the amount of Treasury Notes issued, und# the provisions of ihu acts of Congress of 1837, 1838, 1839, and 1840, is $2(T,081,337 53 redeemed of that amount, 925,301,673 88 Leaving outstanding, $ 1,319,063 75. Issued under act of Feb-, ruary 15,1841. viz: Prior to the4th of March, 1841, 8673,681 32 since the 4th ol March, $5,623,575 38 making ®6,298,256 70 re-s turned to the Treasury «f that amount, 8777,197 05—85,521,059 66 leaving the aggregate outstanding 86,540,723 30.

THE UNITED STATES TKURITOMES.—Tho Governor of Wisconsin receives a salary of 82,500, and the Governors of Iowa and Florida each the same. Tho Secretaries of Wisconsin and Iowa receive $1,200 each, while the Florida Secretary receives 82,500.— There are three U. S. Judges in Wisconsin, and three in Iowa, who receive $1,800 each. In Florida there are four, three of whom receive $1,800 each, and ono $2,300.

OPERATION* OF THE BANKRUPT LAW.—Surprise is manifested in certain quarters at the small number of applications, thus far, under the nutional bankrupt law. The reason is this: In consequence of the passage of that law, and the failure of the attempt to repeal it, there have already been a vast number of adjustments between debtor and creditor, which would not otherwise have taken place. All this is well nay better, indeed, than would have been such liquidations by virtue of tho law. The work of settlement in such cases undoubtedly gives greater satisfaction in most instances, on both sides, than would compulsory proceedings under the law. Hence tho bankrupt law is of double efficacy—operating where its aid is not invoked as well as where it is.—N. Y. Com. Adv.

REMEDY FOR HAHD TIMES.—It would be criminal to disguise the fact, that the difficulties of the times must increase for a period. The people, in the mass, have gone beyond their means—and they must themselves begin to do exactly what the Banks are compelled to do—curtail, -retrench, and buy noth ing but articles of indispensible necessity. However mortifying to our pride it may be, we must come to the resolution to brush up old fabrics instead of buying new ones—and standstill until the fashions come round again. Too much money is sent abroad for every thing, and nothing but a spirit of severe economy and self denial, will put us right. Will we be pardoned for asking tho people to pause and ponder ?—Virginia Free Presi. y'

THE EXCHEQUER.

"It is not easy at this time, indeed it is im-* possible, to say what amount of support cither of these plans will be able to secure in either house but it is pretty certain the Western Whigs will yield to either of them a very re-a luctant support, if indeed, they do not oppose both of them. They say they are not the institutions to answer the purpose of theic section of the country, and will be worse than nothing to tbem. What they want is, a good, substantial, well-guarded national bank and many of them prefer to remain as they are, bad as their condition if, to compromising for anything less than an institution that will answer their purpose. The Eastern and Northern Whigs, on the contrary, mostly say they would rather have an exchequer, on either Mr. Tallmadge's or Mr. Cusbing's plan, than get nothing. Tbe Locofococoes will generally go against both some of them, however, may support one or the other, so far as their votes go."—U. S. Gazette.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed, than the night can happen before the sun is set.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost*