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Liberal deductions mndo to those ndvortlaing by the yenr. rw All Communications should bo addressed to the Publiihers post paid. f Oinrjry, OOOD-BYE. nr kai.ru waido emr*sOK Oood-byo, proud world! Fm Rolng home? Thou'rt nht my friend, nnd I'm not thino, Long through thy wec.ry crowds I ronm, /i nvcn oas on tiio oceart's hrino? Long Tvo been tossed Who the driven foam; But now, proud world I Tm going homo. Oood-byo to flattery's fawning faco; To grnnduur, with Ida wise grimace; To upstart wealth's averted oyo; To supple office, low and high; To crowded halls, to court and street; To frosen hearts and hosting feet; To tlioso who go and th<?se wim c?mo? Good-byo, proud world ? I'm going home. Tm going homo to my own hearth-stone, Boiomed in yon green hills alono? A secret nook in a pleasnnt land, Whwo grove* the frolio fairies planned ; Where arches groen the livelong day Echo <1)0 blackbird's roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod? A spot that's sacred to thought and God. Oh' when I'm safo in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Qreeco ami Rome, And when Tm stretched beneath the pines Where the evening ^tar so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan; For what are they all in t^air high conceit, When man in the bush i??tf?'God may moot f Horn is Morris* "Sen?ons of Xovo." Seldom Iibvo the honijrn offoo.la of the passion been wore felicitously pninted:? The spring time oflovo Ts both hnppy nntl gay. i;or joy cpriiiHic* (ptMMMM And balm in our wny; TJio sky, earth, nnd ocean, In beaoty ropofo, And all th* bright future la couluer dc rexr, The summer of Ioto Is tho bloom of the henrt, fn When hill, orovfl nn?t w?1l?w o" - !""* " **"VJ ? Thoir music impart; ,/lnd tho purtVplow of heaven Is seen in fond eyes, As Inlces chow the rninhow That's hung in tho rides. ttJPtyH r***. *? IS flL Tho nutntnn of Iqvo v Ib tho senson of choor? Life'# milfl Iwlinn summer, Tho smile of tho yonr, Which comes when Use Rolden Rine Kaitvm( i? mttaat r *T -<4nd yiolda ll? own blessing*? Ileposo and reward. '* ' e ?#' -' The winter of Iqto I" tho beam that wo win, fff While the otorm scowls witliout, From tho sunshine within. , j Love's reign It eternal, heart t* iiia throtto; And ho has nil reasons v/i iihi ior iils own. ~r~^ " " ;..-T" -"*" -' ; ' rs TfTo is n most lively, good-humored and pleasant man, v, s the ills of fife as if they were !>!< ss') ins to tal 'Otli with an equal connlenanee. This sort of nnoAhded philo u, best prift that nature ear* bestow on her children; it lighten** vhc burden of eare,1' and turns every and K^uoffy Bui! 01 | and plrmlid colours. I here is i\0 joy so much as I do him; a cup and bells in a crown to him; a tun- concortuif the sun nhmm, h H lu I its beams; if the storm somes. lie ?ayly along, ant'. .?<s wet to thii skin, it only serves to make oma piearwit ftto isdry' | >m ?9 fiiy r- jlnr^rtFtfj ' THE HALANCE OF TRADE. In the comments we made yester- . day on that part of the Treasury Report, in which Mr. Corwin compares the exports of the country with its imports, and expresses his alarm at finding that we have brought more wealtn into the country than we have sent out of it, an accidental mispla- | cing of part of two sentences, made I 4 * 1 .? Hie en^uiuciii useu unintelligible. As the matter is of great importance, we here reproduce the entire passage, corrected. 'Mr. Corwin has made another dis covery, which alarms him very much. We have sent abroad, in the past year, merchandise and specie, to the value of about one hundred and fifty-1 two millions of dollars. At this dis-j covery, Mr. Corwin's hair rises on j end. Here, he exclaims, is an ex-, trava^ant mid unsafe importation, here is a vast debt due to foreigners. Boys, when they take their first lessons in political economy, are ofInn hecnt li? oiwillo" >vu uuwv '/j auiiiiai icni a< > v 111:11 they learn, however, that the goods which we send out are greatly in- 1 creased in value on arriving at a foreign market, that, in the ordinary 1 course of commerco, they are sold 1 there for prices which cover all the expenses of their transportation, and yield a profit besides to all who are concerned in forwarding and disposing of them, their alarm abates. 'They then begin to see that, to 1 pursue a healthy and successful trade, 1 our imports must exceed our e> ports in value; we must bring back more 1 than we send away. Mr. Corwin ' says there is a balance of twentv-six ' millions against us, He should have said, there is a balance of twenty-six ! millions in our favor. We are twen- 1 ty-six millions the richer on account ' of our foreign trade. We bring back in the proceeds of our goods, so much more tnan w? exported.' 1 We have before us BastiatV Soph 1 isms of the protective Policy,1 an ex- 1 ceedinglv clever book, translated hv Mrs. McCord, of South Carolina, ! which we would recommend to the 1 perusal of Mr. Corwin, before ho make? another annual report to Con- 1 gress. If he were to learn nothing I else from it, he might, at least, be instructed that there are ^ome ahsur- dities so completely" exploded, that it < is well to avoid them in #uch a state . paper as the annual Treaaury Report, ' if onlv for tllft of *??nnnir?f? ? imputation of ignorance in regard to he commonest matters. With respect to this fancy of Mr. Cor win, about the balance of trade, k appears from Bastiafstreatise, that the shrew der part of the French protectionists give it up, as too preposterous to be insisted upon. Mr. (*authi?r de Romilly savs: 'Assuredly no one wish esto call up from their graves the de ^ funct theories of the balance of trade. 1 Others, however* like Mr. Corwin. < cling 16 it with a certain stolid tenac- < it V, and among these is one Mr-Les- < tibndois, who states his position thus: 1 'The amount of importation is aug- 1 menting and surpassing that of ex- < portation. Every year France buys ' more foreign prodnce, and sells less * native produce. In 1842, we see J the ?xceed the exporta- ' tion by two hundred milliorts. This appears lo me to prove in the clearest 1 uimuier* ums iifuive mnor is no! sum- I cieriUy protected, that we are provi- f ded hy foreign labor, and that the 3 < ompelition of rivals oppresses our 3 industry. A country may spend, dis- I sipate its previous savings, may im- * poverish itself, and by the consump- 1 tion of its national capital go gradual ly to ruin. This is precisely what we are doing. We give every year 1 two hundred millions to foreign na- ' tions.' 1 r The position here taken is precisely ( J-*,*.. n ? _r < > nm ui iTir. v/?irwiii. Vnv rrencn ? protection'** finds thai France im- 1 ports more than she exports, to the ' amount of two hundred millions of . francs yearly. The American finan cidr observes, tbat the Ufated Siates < Import yearly twenty-six millionjof I dollars more than they export, and < concluding that we either lose that 1 amount, or are running ?ip a debt to | foreigner*. The French e^i.Omiat ? advises protective duties of Ijte rem- ? edy; ko does tht- American Secfeta- 1 ry. g ' wi. -! n i mi . i? #i ? " ' BTVnc (curacy ot doth the i1 ranchman < and American, is so neatly anfo unan- * swerahly refuted by Hasimt, that wc 1 copy the passagf here, and inasmuch J as Mi-. '|n' n?t * w^|>eHcve, J been c aous io compare on this subject, the accounts or the counter with those of the custom house, interpreted by Mr. Lestibudois, with the sanction of our six hundred legislators. Mr. T. despatched from Havre a vessel, freighted for the Uniten States with French merchandise, principally Parisian articles, valued at 200:'X)0f. 'It was sold at twenty per cent. Crofit on its original value, which eing 40,000 francs, the price of sale was 330,000 francs, which the assignee counted into cottons. The cottons again had to pay for expenses of transportation, insurance, commissions, &Cm ten per cet. so that when the return car^o arrived at Havre, its value had risen to 352,000 francs, and it. was thus entered at the custom house. Finally, Mr. T. realized again on 1 his return cargo twenty per i r. icui pruuii amounting to 7U,4UUt. The cottons thus sold for 422,400f. lIf Mr. Lestibud< is requires it, I will send him a.i extract from the books of Mr. T. He will there see credited to the account of profit and loss?that is to say, set down as gained, two sum', the one of 40,000, the other of 70,400 francs, and Mr. T. feels perfectly certain that, as regards these, there is no mistake in ius account. 'Now what conclusion does Mr. Lestibudois draw from the amounts ??i ??? Dincicu ui 11if5 custom nouse in mis operation? He thence learns that I< rnnce has exported 200,000 francs and imported 352,000 whence the honorable deputy concludes that she lias spent, dissipated her previous sa. vings, that she is impoverishing herself, and that she has squandered on a foreign nation 152,000 francs of her capital. sometime alter this transaction, Mr. T. despatched another vessel Eigain freighted with national produce (o the amount of 200,000 irpncs. But the vessel foundered on leaving the port, and Mr. S. had only to inscril>e on bis book# two little items thus worded: W ' 'Sundries due to X. 200,000 francs, for purchase of divers articles despatched by vessel N. 'Profit and loss due to sundries ?uu,uuu francs lor tinal and total loss if cargo.1 'Tn tne meantime the custom house nscHbed 200,000 francs upon the list if exportations, and astner^canoi course be nothing to balance this enry on the list of importations, it >cnce follows, ihnt Mr. T.f>s:tihudois md the Chamber must see in this wreck, a clear profit to France, of 200.000 francs. 'We may draw, however, yet alother conclusion, viz: that accorlinpr to the Balance of Trade theory, France has an exceedingly simple nariner of constantly doubling her ?api!ol. It is only necessary, to accomplish this, that she should, after entering at the custom house her arioles for exportation, cause them to le thrown into the sea. By this course, her exportations can speedily je made to equal her capital; imporationswillhe nothing, and our gain .vii! be nil that the ocean has swaloweii up. 'Yon are joking, the projectionists vill reply. You know that it is impossible that we should utter such abmrdities. Nevertheless, I answer, fou do utter them, and what is more, /on give them iife, you exercise them practically upon your fellow citizens is much, at least, as in your power o do. 'The truth is. that the thnnrv nf th? rmlance of trade should be precisely reversed. The profits accruing to he nation from any foreign commerce should be calculated by the werplus of the importation above he exportation. This overplus, ater the deduction of expnscs, .?the -eal gain. Here we have the true theory, and t ifl nnn tirkiAli 1mo/1o r\ 1 ? 4 ? 11} uR? ?T l\'(UI0 Uli lJl'UJf IU II CCiom in trade. 1 now, gentlemen, v inncloo you this theory, as 1 have lone all those of the preceding chap era. Do with it as you please, exiggerate i? as you will; it has nothng to fear. Vuib it to the farthest jxtreme; imagine, if it so please you, hat forearn natinns should inunHat#> is with useful produce of ?very dejoriptioti, and rsk nothing in return; fiat, our importations should be infi ute, and our {pportAtionn nothing. fmagino all this, and still I defy youi; o prove that wo shall be the poorer' 1 n conaeiuence.V ^ i ]f Mr. Corwin fihou'.d still have Wf doubt#.concerning \n-> doctrine ofj he halftnee of trade, j1 will be easy yw tn?m tft *anu\oa K? ? IW?f " ",**i ?/y a 11(1 It; ixperimcnjj on hj$1 own account. Mfr> Gorwm ia from Ohio, and pork s the great staple of this State- Let him make a purchase of one hundred barrels of Mess Pork, at Cincinnati, where it may cost him, perhaps, $1,050, and Jet him cause it to he ex ported from that city to New York. If he should feet back for it in money I and goods $1,237 50, which it would v ii * umig at ino preseui pnccs nere, M.r. Corwin, according to the theory laid down in his report, will have lost money. His imports will have exceeded his exports by nearly two hundred dollars, and lie will be so much the poorer for having sent his venture of pork to the New York market. A plain man in counting the money, and comparing it with the original cost of the commodity, wniilH nmciii-n M IV r!/\riinn . ?wwv.. V ? *> VWI TfHI UIUI IIO was a gainer by the transaction, but that would be clearly against the theory of the balance of trade, and therefore the plain man must be in the wrong. On the other hand, if the pork were to be spoiled in the transportation to New York, so that it should become a total loss, Mr. Corwin having exported goods to the amount of SL lhni1i;nrtfl rlnll nra on/1 ? I UV..WIO, CA1 IVI gut llUUIIll^ in return, would be able to congratufate himself that although people in general might look upon him as a iGsei , yei by his own theory of the balance of trade, he had doubled the money invested in ihe enterprise.? N. Y. Ev. Post. ? ?i From the N. O. Picayune. Thi Russians of the South.? "But the honorable secretary and the other gentlemen who sell their men to work on the cotton plantations and their women for something worse." i.TT A L I TX? * "nwm. iMa you ever meet a Russian? In your own country, I mean T"?(England.) "Yes, 1 met one at dinner once." "Did you go out of the way to be upcivil to him, because he owned serfs?" "No, but didn't go out of my way to be particularly genial with him." "Exactly. The cr.scs are precisely parajie!. The Southerners are our Russians. They come up to the North to be civilized; they send their boy8 here to be educated; they spend a good deal of money here. We are civil to them but not over genial? some of us at least, are not." This precious extract is from an article in r raze'r Magazine, (London,) called "hatching a JLion by a New Yoiker," and republished in Stringer &, Townsend's International Monthly Magazine- November, 1S5C> We doubt not the source of the article ; the pen-holder out of which "this dainty driblet ran" was held-in the socallea "Metronolis" of the Union.? There are natty phrases, cant terms and "ear marks,11 enough to show that the writer knew the locality well; although he may be one of those inkpot bandits from England who migrate to New York and hire out their pens for a living; or possibly a genuine American, honestly believing what he writes?for that the feeling of many in the North towards we "Russians" of the South, is dulj described in our extract, will r.oi bear denial among those who have lived mnnli m M-.-4U :?> uuvii in me iiui mi r.nutjumny Willi the teachers and literary circles.? Let the paternity of the extract, then, be either alien or domestic, we believe the ideas developed to be those of a somewhat influential class of our own countrymen, and shall so consider them. 'That there is a ludicrous tone of annoyance, and a lordly di dain of each other in the literary clicpies of the three /yreat Northern cities has loner been evident tu me uui3iuu>?me iHuiuai nuimration Society" Boston?and odd mix of clergymen who meddle least of all with dtvtnethinpps, rampant old maids and sweet singing poets?-hold the tar, tallow, calico and Wall streets aristocracy whom Willis scented with essences and baptised into M r?nr>nicndom," kid glove* and French patents, in great contempt. The huge pumpkin regards its brother vegetanle,tne "Dutch cabbage," with eye askant and i oils over to the other side. Meanwhile tho ' Philosophical Society celique of Philadelphia now and then dip their fingers into Uncle Sam s mint, and dilate largely on tho days ?IE.- ?-J - J wiioii me ngniingien cuy was noi altogether provincial. Curious is it indeed to \h> iSicld a "Wistft? p?r!y" *t this latter home of all the talents, crave professions, erudite editors (sometimes,) potential office-holders, find sucking poets, gather over the groaning taofe of oysters, lerapiti and <glicken sal Ad, and settle the fato of doctors, medical schools, maga/mos and humble aspirants to t4th# club;" which laborious duty done Hi? lucky rtfetpthts of the "food of lion**1 many at times, low down in the small hours, be seen following irregular curves around right-angled corners, and have been known to go off at a tnngent over the curbstonel. hese be your gods, ohl lsreah* To these sets of worthies?to Cambridnr and Yale, to Saratoga and Broadway to the medical schools of Philadelphia ?do we, the Russians of the South, go yaarly to be civilized and ed* ucated. * We spend our money there; "argal>" we are civilly treated, but not genially. OhI no of course not. But our dollars are genial enough 1 Now, without alluding to the slander on slavery impliea in the commencement of the extract* or giving undue importance to the impertinence of its writer, we ask our reades r * ? ii xnere is never to Oe a time when the South will be independant in mind, society, and manufactures? why may not New Orleans' by carrying out her contemplated improvements, stand forth the exponent of southern civilization! Arc our colleges always to be effects, and our j schools hot-beds for Northern uni i versities? Have we not self-respect, 1 which will spare those who thin?: with the magazine contributors the need i of apolgizing for keeping our company? It is useless to say such feelings do not exist. They do; and the evidence is the catalogues of Northern colegei, the millinery billsof Southern ladies, the rush of Southern planters to Northern watering places; and the publication of such articles in a European magazine of note, copied for 1 home circulation into a poDufar New 1 York periodical. We have no desire to fan'the present sectional excite-1 merit, and, so far as that is concern 1 /v * . ? 1 eu, we can anord to laugli at the stories of "chaining negroes at night in gin-houses, ana feeding them gn boiled cotton seeds;" of Secretaries of the cabinet at Washington vending their slaves at New Orleans for prostitution and similar amiable stories of the Hutchinson Family, Whitter, Russell Lowell, and other Abolition poets. But we are earnest, for a total secession in matters of education and for independence thought on what is best for southern manners and interests. A few more Vicks in the face like the one that . 'e have copied, and possibly we may have a beginning made at Home literature; and our planters will discover that the south is "genial1' as well in summer as in winter. TruT!" is Pon'ettfuii.?"The Herald, published at the Court Hcus< of Clarke county, in this State, in its issue of the 25th instant, makes the following announcement: "Our readers will perceive, from the following article, that we have changed ground upon the great question of tho day, and are now battling for what pvnrv SnnlhApn mon . j ?? a?l?UI OHUUIUf viz: "Equality in the Union, or Independence out of it." The reasons given for the change are strong and cogent; we regret the 1 crowded state of our columns will ' not permit us to lay them before our 1 readers. The Herald has been a 1 strenuous advocate of the the com- ( promise measures from their first in- ' traduction in Congress. It is now, however, satisfied* and has the manliness to avow it, that the theory 1 which appeared plausible on paper, 1 when put in practice works but one ] way?the North's portion, excluding slavery from the territories, works 1 admirably, while that apportioned out 1 to the South, can't ninvft ? We welcome our friends of (tho 1 Herald to full fellowship. [Montgomerj' Advertiser. iSimll Pox.?The Asheville, TV. C. Messenger of the 1st inst says: 44 We will state for the information 5 of all, that thus far, the Small Pox hns been strietlv confined tiTTnndnr sonville and imnriftdiate neighl>orhood, and that there have been just 14 cases in a!!, only one of which ha* ! yet proved fatal, All other repor's 1 are entirely false in every particular. ' There is one more, however that is J nov doubtful." The editor of an exchange paper ! says he never saw but one gnost, and I that was the ghost of a sinner who < died without paying for his pape?. i a. ww* iiumiuu mi iuok. upon?ino M fthost of Handot was nociicumstanco i to it. ( Tojj make a blockhead pass for a wiUbeatow upon him a fortune of i $10,000 a vear. There is sftmethimr t ill the voice of doubloons that conv .? mar?|8 attention in the best regulated 1 i ? 41 ' * . ^ ammatmmmammmmmtaimammammm Death op Editors-?Th? Wtt? mington Commercial of Tuesday nanounces the death of Henry 1. Toole, Esq., editor of the Aurora of that place. Mr. Toole has been for soma years connected with the press of North Carolina, and was a man of more than common ability. The commercial sayoof him: "flis social qualities acquired a large circle of attached friends, and his talents com l_j a !- - ? - iiiuiuivu respsui in every suuauoo nv was called to fiH.M From the Alabama papers we ar? pained to learn the death of John McCormick, esq., late of the Montgomery Advertiser, who has for many years besn a distinguished member of the editorial corps of Alabama. He waa accidentally drowned while crossing the Alabama river, on the 24th ult. The West Alabamian refers to him in the following terms: "The deceased was a man of strong mind, which had been highly improv ert by reading and reflecting, of great sociability of disposition, of warm nnd generous feelings, a high-toned gentleman, an upright, public spirited and useful citizen. As an editor, he had but few equals in the State. He Ifijivpfl a widow and three children to mourn his umirnoly death." W? learn from the Vicksburg Sentinel that Gen. C. M. Fric#, for ten years the able and efficient editor of . 1 -ax?- f ine xmssissippian, died at Jackson on Friday n ornmg, the 20th tilt., at 5 o'clock. Mr. Lemuel Gill, publisher of tho Eutaw (Ala.) Democrat, Hied in Mobile on the 20th ult. He arrived there a few days previous, suffering from diarrhoea, which became aggravated and caused his death. South Carolina Atlantic and Steam nr ^ navigation fjompant/.? I he Charleston Courier says: uTTie entire amount of private subscription to this company, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, was taken up yesterday forenoon, in a very short time after the. hooka were opened. By the Act of incorporation, a like amount of 19-5 000 wil1 Inanod to the compa 1. j* **. - ny Dy \r*z Mate, and the.y have authority (h extend their capital to one million of dollars. It is estimated that the subscription, made yesterday, will build the first ship, and that she may be put afloat by the first of July next. One subscription only went to the highest nmi-nin* linnWe?* by the law ($12,000,) the rest for smaller sums, many being for a, single share, $1000. Gentlemen, out West.?[They seem to have good standards, off to* ward the Prairies. We have received a copy of a Discourse, delivered by Rev. J. H. Linebaugh, at tSaton Rouge, La., which is full of the chiv alric sentiments and judicious teachings which a new country most needs. The following passage will show the tone of it:?Home Journal.) "Manners alone make not the gentleman. They may be, and are one of the evidences of a (Dfentleman, because of their connection with good principles and good feelings. As dissociated from sterling principles and benevolent ffiolinira. tV?Atr nothing worth. Bv gentlemen, we mean nirn who in character is honest and honorable, who, through the loftiness of principle scorns to do what is unjust, or dishonest, or dishonorable, who never deceives the unwary, nor iir>ooses upon the unsuspecting, nor deirauds tne ignorant, nor betrays the innocent, who has continually abidingly, in the language of Mr. Burke, that sensibility of principle* that chastity of honor which feels a stain liko a wound. We menfi him who, to the loftiness of virtue, adds I the gentleness and forbearance of a generous and magnanimous chivalry; who shields and protects the person and character of the humblest and most friendless female, because she wears the form, and has the weakness of woman; who to Ms enemies is iortvniirigi tliwUgh hfi ha? the pow2r to injure*, who to the poor is coni' sconcing and kind, tnough they have no power to repay; who to the rich, and great, and distinguished, is respectful without beincr obsequious, civil without being sen ile; who to the iuimility, gentleness and charity of I she christian, adds that firmness, dur lity and self-respect, necessary for the vindication of his own honor, when mpeached, for the preservationof his >wn character, when assailed.' Truth.?He who speaks lightly of em*1* society is either a numskull or i knave-the former n ?g?b rt;.? U- * ^ Miovuitti lui-Mrunfi;) jK-iHi tiio alter hating the restraint it lay? up