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iiiiTiw I’Mi' r ~ ’ ''■*~™***‘ l "" " - : • §™ “ ■ ■(ijW aie fond at good poetry—the product of a B . -■-■ thinking, intpirediPMd'. We would not tßvtona couplet of such, for all the sickening lullaby B.v.aesthathaveever been crammed into newspapers. B'iiere is ssmcthiug Malty nauseating—disgusting— Hckcuing—in a large portion of the puferile product!(Bstlrat are dealt out threaders of newspapers, for Every “love-siok” school boy, thinks himcompetent to writo exquisite “verses,” on love and nine tenths of the Editors of the present l®ay, either from being under the influence of the same IHense-destroying malady, or from a want of judgment •^l^iscretion, publish column after column of such stuff, A the actual injury of their young readers, and dis* Bust of their older ones. Childish love is a disease — B subverts the reason—the judgment—the understan-■tag-and how cruel must'it be to expose its victims, y publishing what they may say, or write, when laoriilg under mental derangement 1 We nevr yet new a person, who, on coming to his proper mind, -ould not blush with shame, on looking over lines adressed “To Mgry,” “To Susan,” or to any other bject of his juvenile affections. Foibles and indiscretions are common,natural,and herefore excusable, among children; but men—Etriors OF newspapers—should seek for something hat would be useful, and interesting, to rational kinds. If any are at a loss to know what we would onsider proper for insertion, let them take the followg as a sample:— The aMutumn Evening. - f • a Behold the western evening light! It melts in deep’ning gloom: So calmly Christians sank away, - Descending to the tomb. The rods breathe low; the with’ring leaf glares whispering from the tree! So gently flows the parting breath, When good men cea e to be. Mow beautiful on all the hills The crimson light is shed 1 - ’Tis hke tfea poace the Christian gives To mourners round his bed. How mildly on the tendering cloud, The sunset beam is cast! ’l% like the memory left behind Wfcea lovsd ones breathe their last. And now above the dews of night The yellow star appears! So hope springs in the hearts of those Whose eyes ate bathed in tears. But soon the morning's happier light 1 Its glories shall restore, 1 And eyelids that ones closed in death ! ‘ Shall wake to close no more W. B-’O. P. aIMORM. Oh, how awful the idea! Stoics nay philosophize as they please, they cannot argue is out of the natural dread we entertain of death. It is impossible. Afflictions, “thick and fast,” may nake us repine, and despair of further happiness in this world, and Religion inay prepare us for another and a better one, but when the awful messenger arrives, we ciihg to the objects that arc dear to us, and cannot .consent to leave them— leave them! —and forever!! Oh no! The thought pierces the very soul, oud plants a thorn in the otherwise downy pillow of our final sleep on earth. can take leave of the partner of his heart,*•** tender infants that God may have given him, to see them no more/—leave them to struggle with the adversities *hat must beset them through life? What mother can bid a last farewell to her husband and her Bdldren; or what Jan or daughter take a final adieu •of parents, brothers and sisters, without feeling ths melancholy agonies of—we part forever! Ah, rdkkv*k! forever ! t—there is the pang. It is not like <he parting for a distant country; (though that is tarit enough;) in that ease, the sanguine anticipation of a joyful meeting again after some months or years, is mingled with the patting farewell. But to die! to be •aid down in a cold and lonely hole in the ground, never again to see on earth all that is near, and dear, ■od lovely to us!—Oh, tell us not that “’tis a pleasmto die.” The mere actMo die—to pass into a uiet sleep—may cause no physical pain —but then to think— to refleet on the consequence —there is the pointed arrow. Could we be certain of a re-unton whh our relatives and friends, after a separation for months, or years, or even ages, we could look npon •kwh with tolerable composure—could meet it with cou ragenod resolution. Bat here is We n> foil in the assurance that the righteous will inherit “an etmittjr of happiness;” but where must the wickedgo* Should we be among the blest, where may our gear and dear relatives and friends be ? It kaufutty uncertain 1 If Kmm be any one scene more trying—morekeart <han-a dear and tender parent or emaciated, with cold though parched lips, •ed sunken eye-balls, extending for the last time the hand, and faintly whispering, as the spate is departing—“ m y dear wife—my dear children—to the heart than this, it is the interment of the “dj—fee closing of thd coffin, and rattling of the 1 °ds,asfeey cover from out sight forever the remains I of felt deg being on fehom our affections were center-

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I.#* . B*** w mustatop. We did not take up our pen to write a treatise on this subject, but to recommend the following inimitable article, from the “Christian Examiner.” Our feelings having became deeply enlisted, hurried us insensibly along, until before we were aware that we had written more than a few introductory remarks, we found ourselves a* the last end df a well sized article, fee our readers must excuse us-and if they shouul ferfthe same interest in perusing the past lines, that \\ e did in penning them, they will not complain of the length of them. JVmtureU thread of Mteath. It seems to us strange, it seems as if idl were wrong, in a world where, from tho very constitution of things, death mufet close every scene of human life, where it hath reigned forages over all generations, where the very air we breathe and the dust we tread upon was once Animated life—it seems to us most strange and wrong, that this most common, necessary, expedient, and certain of all events, should bring such horror and desolation with it ; that it should bring such tremendous agitation, as if it were some awful and unprecedented phenomenon; that it should be more than death-—a shock, a catastrophe, a convulsion; as if nature, instead of holding on its steady course, were failifig into irretrievable ruins.

And that which is strange, is dur* strange* uoss to this event. Call sickness, we repeat, call pain, an approach to deafen Calf ' the weariness and failure of the limbs and senses, call decay, dying. It is so; it is a gradual loosening of the cords of life, and a breaking up of its reservoirs and its resources. So shall they all, one And Another, give way. “I feel”—wit! the thoughtful man say—“l feelthe pang of suffering, as it were, piercing and cutting asunder, one by one, the fine And invisible bonds that hold me to the earth. I feel the gushing current of life within me to be weAring away its own channels. I feel the sharpness of every keen emotion/And of every acute and lar penetrating thought, as if it were shortening the moments of the soul’s connexion and conflict with the body.” So it is, ami so it fehall be, till at last, “the silver cord is loosened, and the golden boWl fe broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel is broken at the cistern,' and the dost returns to the e&rfe as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.” No; it is not a strange dispensation. Death is the fellow of all that is earthly; the friend of man alone. It is not anomaly; it is not a Monster in the creation. It is the law, and the lot of nature. Not to thy eternal resting place Shalt thou retire alone. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise and good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre. The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun: the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between; . The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and complaining brooks, That make the meadows green, and poured round all, Old Ocean’s gray and melancholy wasta— Are but the solemn decorations all, Os the great tomb of man. But of what is it the tomb? Does ths spirit die? Do the blest affections of the soul go down into the dark and silent grave? Oh! no. “The narrow house, and pal), and breathless darkness,” and funeral train—these belong not to the soul. They proclaim only the body’s dissolution. They but celebrate the vamsing away of the shadow of existence. Man does not die, though the forms of popular speech thus announce his exit. He does not die.—We bury, not our friend, but only the form, the vehicle in which, for a time, our friend lived. That cold, impassive clay, is not the friend, the parent, the child, the companion, the cherished being. No, it is not; blessed be God that we can say —lt it not! It is the material world only that earth claims. It is the “dust” only, that “descends to dust.” The

gravel—let us break its awful spell, its dread dominion. It is the place where man lays down bis weakness, bis infirmity, his diseases and sorrows, that be may rise up to anew and glorious life. It is the place where man ceases—in all that is frail and decaying—ceases to beman, that he may be, in glory and blessedness, an angel of light! Why, tnen, should we fear death, save as the wicked fear, and must fear it? Why dread to lay down this frail body in its resting place, and this weary aching head, on the pillow of its repose? Why tremble at this—that in the long sleep of the tomb, the body shall suffer disease no more, and pain no more, and hear no more the cries of want nor the groans of distress, —and far retired from the turmoil of life, that violence and change shall pass lightly over.it, and the elements shall beat and the storms shall sigh unheard aroundits lowly bed? Say, ye , aged and infirm, is it the greatest of evils to die? Say, ;jb children of care and toil! say, . afflicted and tempted! is it the greatest of evilstodie? v " Chi no. Come the last hour, in God’s own time!—And a good life and a glorious hope shall moke it welcome. Come the hour of release?—and affliction shall make it welcome. Come the hour of re-union with the loved and lest on certh!—and the

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passionate yearnings of affection, and fee strong aspirations of faith, shall bear us their blessed land. Come death to this body—feis burdened, tempted, frail, foiling, dying body t—and to the soul, come freedom, light and joy unceasing! come the immortal life! —‘He that liveth’—saitli the eonqUerorover the Devil—‘he that liveth and-believ-eth in me shall never die* - - Christian Examiner. jM.iiYij.jH ■r-mrgirrT 21ST. CONOHEB3. I , , | BBOOIfP (SESSION* ‘ Washinctott, Monday, £ lec. 6) 1880. IN SENATE. N Precisely at 12 o’clock, the Hon. 4iuel Smith, of Maryland, took the Chtir, as President pro tern. Messrs. Baker of Illinois, and Poindexter of Mississippi, appointed to fill vacancies, presented their credentials And took their seats; also, Mr. Forsythe, elected by the Legislature of Georgia, presented h credentials, and took his seat, On motion of Mr. Holmes, of Maine, the members were each, to draw equal to three daily newspapers during the session. . The Senate then adjourned till Tuesday. Tuesday , Dec. 7—A message was received from the House, informing fog Senate that a quorum of that body had assembled. On motion of Mr. Woodbury, the Senate bailotted for Chairman of the Committee on Finance, when Mr. afimith of Maryland was elected. 9r

The following standing committees wert then announced from the Chair:— f ■ On Foreign Relatione.—Messrs. White,' Bell, Tazewell, Stanford and King. On Finance.—Messrs. Smith of Md. SnfoAtfS. C. Silsbee, King and Johnston. _ V<:j On Commerce.— Mesas, Woodbury, JnSguon, Silsbee, Sanford and Forsyth. On Manufactures.— Messrs. Dickerson, Rubles, Knight, Seymour and Bibb. On Agriculture.—Messrs. Marks, Willey, Noble, Brawn and Seymour. " On Military. Affaire.—Messrs. Benton, Barnard, Troup, Naudain and Iredell. On the Militia.— -Messrs. Barnard, Frelingheysen, Claytoi., Noble and BibbOn Naval Affairs.—'Messrs* Hayne, Tazewell, Robbins, Livingston and Webster. - On Public Lands. — Barton, McKinley, Kane, Ellis and Sprague. On Private Land Claims. —Messrs. Kane, Burnet, Poindexter, Grundy and Naudain. On Indian Affairs. —Messrs. White,Troup,Hendricks, Dudley and Benton. Or/ Claims. —Messrs. Ruggles, Bell, Brown, Foot ana Chase. On the Judiciary. —Messes. Rowan, McKinley, Webster, Hayne and Frelingheysen. On the Pint Office and Post Reads. —Messrs. Grundy, Burnet, Forsyth, Ellis and Seymour. On Pensions. —Messrs. Foot, Holmes, Marks, Chase and Chambers. On the District of Columbia. —Messrs. Chambers, Tyler, Holmes, Clayton and Sprague. On the Contingent Fund— Messrs Iredell, Baker, On Engrossed Bills. —Messrs Marks, Willey, and Baker. , _ On Roads and Canals—Messrs Hendricks, Tyler, Ruggles, Dudley and Poindexter. Messrs. Grundy and Woodbury were appointed to wait on the President, in conjunction with the Committee jrf the other House. ' Jfo At half past one o’clock, tiro President’s Message was received, and read; and 5000 copies, with 1,500 of the accompanying documents, ordbred'to be printed for the Senate. The bill authorising agsubscription to the Louisville and Portland T&nal, returned by the President with his objections to it, was laid on the table* The Senate then adjourned till Wednesday. Wednesday, Dec. B.—The annual Report of the Secretary of the Senate, on the Contingent Fund of the House was read; a number of petitions introduced, notice given of the intended introduction of several bills, the various subjects embraced in the President’s Message referred to appropriate Committees, and ° -

The Senate adjourned till Thursday. Thursday , Dec. 9.—On motion of Mr. Sanford, a Select Committee was appointed to report such amendments of the existing laws concerning Coins, as may be deemedexpedient. On Motion, the Senajtc resolved, as an evidence of respect to the memory of the deceased members, Mr. Adams of Miss, and McLane of Illinois, to wear crape on the left arm, for one month. The Senate then adjourned till Monday. Monday, Dec. 18—After the transaction of soma business, generally local in its character, the Senate resolved itself into a High Court of Impeachment, for the trial of James H. Puck, U. S. Judge for the District of MisspOrV but certain witnesses not appearing, lhe~2Wh was set as the day on which the Senate \would again sit in that capacity. Messrs. Buchannan, McDuffie, Spencer and Wicklifle, of the House of Representatives, were appointed to conduct the prosecution, rind Messrs. Wirt and Meredith are counsel for the defendant. The Senate adjourned until Tuesday. Tuesday\j)ec. 14.—The President of the Senate presented the memorial of the Baltimore and Obib.Kail Road Company. This

memorial represents that 18 miles of the road have been constructed over the worst part of fee route; and the remaining 50 miles between Baltimore and the Potomac ajein such A state of forwardness as to be compfe* ted to the “Point of Rocks” by the end of the year 1831. A branch Bail Way, it is also expected, will be finished by the same time. Railways, aided by locomotive steam power, are found by experiment to surpass-all other’ moons of conveyance ever di6covered, aod the Company are encouraged to commence the construction of a latUural or bradrh way from the main route, to some eligible point in the District of Cbfumbia, under the consent of Congress, which they solicit. A Rail way is now under construction trim the Chesapeake to Delaware Bay, by fee aid of which, When completed, the distance from Washington to Philadelphia, may be passed in 12 hours. On motion of Mir. Dickersork the following resolution was referred to a select committee, to Consist of Messrs Dickerson, Sanford, Woodbury, Seymour and Grundy, to wit.;| Resolved, That so much of the Presidents Message a* relates lathe distribution of foe surplus funds of the United States, after the payment of foe naridnal debt, be referred to a Select Committee, to consist of five members, and to report thereon by M}l or Otherwise. The Rev. Henry Van Dyke John wan elected Chaplain to the Senate. A number of petitions were introduced. The Senate adjourned till Wednesday. Wednesday, Dec. 15.—Mr. Sanford presented a report and bill from feu committee on coins, 1000 copies of which were ordered to be printed, and the bill passed to a second reading. Mr. Marks introduced a bill for the improvement of fee Alleghany and Monongahela rivers, which passed to a second readipff. On motion of Mr. Hendbioks, fee memorial of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company was ordered to be printed for the Senate. , , Mr. Hendricks introduced a resolution from the Committee on Indian Afiairs to inquire into the expediency of providing for fee pay* ment of annuities to the Miamj find rotawatamie Indians, fee present year. . - The following resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Caatton, of Debtwalfo, was now considered, viz: / Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to examine and report the present condition of foe Post Office Department, in what manner the laws regulating the Department are administered, the distribution of labor, the number of Clerks and the duties assigned to each, the number of Agents, when and how employed, the compensation of contractors, and, generally,the entire managementof the Department; and whether further and what legal provisions be necessary to secure foe proper administration of its Affaire. After some debate, in which Mr. Noble took part, and A motion to refer it to fee Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, the resolution was adopted. Report says Mr. Hendricks voted against, and Mr. Noble in favor of the resolution, but wc have not the Ayes and Noes, Mr. Hendricks, being one of fee Committee, the other four members of which are warm partisans, and equally divided, will probably be looked upon as responsible for any report feat may be made by the Committee. Sundry petitins were presented. The Senate adjourned till Thursday.. Nothing important was done during fee remainder of the Week. Numerous petitions, resolutions and bills, were introduced; a bill by Mr. Hendricks, to provide for carrying into effeet certain Indian treaties, and one by Mr. Noble for the sate of Certain lands, and relief of Thomas Fitzgerald.

Monday, Dec. 20.--Several petitions and resolutions were introduced; a resolution-by Mr. Hendricks, Concerning certain ;?ost routes in Indiana. Four Private bills were passed. The Senate then sat as a court of Impeachment, on the case of Judge Peck. Tuesday, Dec. 21.—Sundry petitions and resolutions were introduced, among several petitions to have the Sunday Mails stopped. , The remainder of the day was spent on Judge. Peck. Wednesday, Dec. 22.—Petitions and resolutions introduced; resolutions by Mr. Hendricks, for sundry Post roads, and for an enquiry into the expediency of authorizing Florida to open a Canal through the public lands, from Chipola river to St. Andrews Bay, in West Florida. Judge Peck’s case still pending. f . • Thursday, Dee. 23—Mr. Hayne of S. C. now took his seat. The Senate considered executive business, and spent the remainder of the day on Judge Peek’s case. Friday, Dec. 24.—Mr. Hendricks presented the petition of citizens of Indiana, praying aid to construct a Turnpike Road from Lawrenceburgh to the southern bend of St. Joseph’s river; also a resolution for a Post road in Michigan Territory. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, Dec. 6,1830. At 12 o’clock the roll wus called by Matthew St. Clair, (the Clerk,) when it was found that a quorum was present; but on the suggestion of Mr. Archer of Va. that

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the Speaker Mr. Stevenson, was prevented by Indisposition from reaching there -tha* House adjourned till Tuesday! 3 s !.: Tuesday , Dec. 7.-—The Speaket tobk fee Chair; the President’s Message recehtod And read; a Chaplain f 12 o’clock appointed as the hour tor* meeting during the session. ' The House adjourned till Wednesday. ' Owing to fee continued indisposition of fee Speaker, no business of consequence was done on Wednesday, and the House adjourned to give'uW time to pre rr Standing C Thursday, Dec. o.—The several subjects of fee Message, were referred to appropriate committees. amendment, debate ensued, the amendment being obviously designed to take from Mr. McDuflte, fee power of Again rescuing feat invaluable institution, the I Js Sk Bank, from fee blow aimed bl 1 It by the President: “ Resolved, That so much of fee Aakl Msageas relates to fee Public Debt; fee Revenue; its security and collection; fee Bank of fee United States and fee organization of e bank founded on public end individual depositee,be referred to fee Committee of Ways ami Means.” Mr. Wayne moved to etrike out fee word* “the Baukofthe IT. States end the orgeuisAtieß of e bank founded on public ana individadi depositee,” and to refer that portion of the resolution to n Select Committee. Mr. Taylor called for a division of fee question, so as to take the question on fee motion to strike oat The question was then put on striking out the above words, and was carried in the negative, only 64 rising in the affirmative. The resolution was seen agreed to. 1 ? Friday, Dec. 10.—-Tho memorial of thn Chesapeake end Ohio Canal Company, asking aid front the United States, waa referred to fee Committee on Roads and Canale. The Speaker now announced fee follow* in ® STANDING COMMITTEES. On Elections—Meaora. Alston, Tucker, Claiborne, Randolph, Johnson, of Tenn. Buchanan, and Coleman. On Ways and Means—*Messrs. M’Duffie, Verplanck, Dwight, Ingersoll, Gilmer, Overton. and Alexander. On Claims—Messrs. Whittlesey, Wil* Hams, M’Coy, Barber, of Conn. M’lutyre, Ramsey, and Lea. On Corfamerce—Messrs. Cambreleng, Gorham, Harvey, fetfeerland, Howard, Loyall and Lamar. On fee Public Lands—Messrs. Wickliffe, Jennings, Duncan, Hunt, Potter, Irvin, of (Ntio and Clay. On fee Post Office and Post Roads— Messrs. Johnson, of Kentucky, Conner, Magee, Hodges, Russell, M’Creery, and Lent On fee District of Columbia—Messrs. Powers, Allen, Washington, Varnum, Taliaferro, Ihrie, and Demmes. ' On fee Judiciary—Messrs. Buchanan, Davis, of S. Carolina* Ellsworth, Daniel, White, of Louisiana, Foster, and Gordon. On Revolutionary Claims—Messrs. Bure ges, Dickinson, Wingate, Yansey, De Witt, Brown, and Crane. ' Os Pubfie Expenditures—MessrS. Hall, Davenport, Lyon, Halsey, Spencer, of Maryland, Thompson, of Ohio, and Norton. Os Private Land Claims—Messrs. Steri* Kre, Nuckolls, Pettis, Baylor, Fenny, Dudj j find Drftpcr. Os Manufactures—Messrs. Mallary, Stan berry, Condict, Irvin, of Pennsylvania, Monell, Barbour, of Virginia, and Huntington. Os Agriculture—Messrs. Spencer of New York, Roane, Wilson, Rose, Smith, of Pa. Standifer, and Chandler. On Indian Afiairs—Messrs. Bell, Lumpkin, Hinds, Stores, of Conn. Hubbard, Gaither, and Lewis. On Military Affairs—Messrs. Drayton, Vance, Desha, Findlay, Blair, of S. C. Mitchell, and Speight. On Naval Affairs—Messrs. Hoffman, Crowinshield, Milter, Canon, Dorsey, White of N. York, add Anderson. On Foreign Affairs—. Messrs. Archer, Everett, of Mass. Taylor, Polk, Crawford, Barnwell, and Wayne. On the Territories—Messrs. Clark, Strong, Creighton, Armstrong, Angel, Cowtes, and W. B. Shepard. On Military Pensions—Messrs. Trezvant, Lecompte, Chilton, Hammons, Bockee, Ford, and Butman. On Rpvisal And Unfinished Business— Messrs. Pearce, Reed, and Pierson. / On Aoeounts—Messrs. Maxwell of New York, Swann, and Brodhead. SELECT COMMITTEES. On Internal Improvement—-Messrs. Hemphill, Merer, Blair of Tenn. Hqynes, Letcher, Vinton, and Craig- jL|| Distribution of fee Surplus Revenue— Messrs. Polk, Patton, Fry, Earll, Jarvis. Leavitt, and Evans of Maine. > Amendment of fee Constitution—Messrs.