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CUTLER, having permanentfy onal services to the citizens of that place wa earrounding country. 0r. C. is a graduate of Yv L?iv!!Bi7 of ew York, member of the Y r: M?lcr Soeietv, and a graduate of the N. i - City Eye and Ear Infirmary; having had seve Ikl ff" "Tfrienee in the largest Hospitols in S., he natters himself that he eaneive sat- oks vuica may oe entrusted to BL ACK SHIT HI1T G. COX & BAKER. TTJISG established themselves in the' above -, ""wnws at tmponA, would announce to the Hwpie of the surrounding country that thev ar Jly prepared to do all manner of work in theii ue oi Dusiness, in the best manner. They flatter wemselves tht wUH v..-- i . "Y 77"? f rotsw & my them with their pat- nipona, August 1, 1858tf : - RNING FLUID AND LAMPS - pje oy . JIORNSBY t, FICK. From the Boston Atlas, Dee'. S3. "Wasnington, the Man of - Integrity. ' JjS ADDRI3S r KET, THEODORE PARKER.' , ifhe lecture last ereninz,- before the . Fra teroity;. Association, , was delirered by Rer. i. ueoaore f arker, ;iipon ' Washington, the llan of Integrity," and was one erery way worthy of the speaker and hi3 theme. , .? 5 In the beginniner of the last centorv, said Mr. Parker, in Westmoreland County,' Va., between the Potomac and Rapahannock riv ers, at a spot called. Bridge's Creek, there was liyine an obscure farmer, named Au gustine Washington. ; He was born in 1694, and belonged to a short-lived family, which had emigrated to Virginia in 1647. . He in herited but little, but by his xwh diligence and thrift acquired considerable property; consisting chiefly of wild land, negro slaves and cattle. In the rude husbandry of the time and place," he. raised -horned-beasts, swine and ,-toWcco. Augustine was' first married at the age of twenty -one, to Jane Butler, who became . the , mother of four children'; but she died in"1728, leaving two sons, Lawrence and Augustine. ; " Fifteen months later, for his Second wife, he mar ried Mary Bell, who' is said to have been beautiful, and the belle of the neighborhood. She became the mother of six children.- George, Washington was the. oldest: the fifth child of his father, his mother's first. She was twenty -eight at the time of his birth, and the father thirty-eight. He was born on Saturday, the 22d of. February, 1732 a day famous in the political annals of America. He first saw the light in a rude farm house, steep-roofed, with broad eaves, one story high, with four room3 on the floor, and some in the attic, a large, chimney at each end, carried up on the outside of the house. It was old and ricketty then ; not a trace of it now remains but a blue stone, with the inscription, "The Birth-Place of Washington." Descended from the com mon class of Virginia farmers, the boy has become a great man. -No ruler of Anglo Saxon stock ha3 so great a reputation for the higher qualities of human virtue. For more than a thousand years no political man has left a name so much to be coveted, none become so dear to thoughtful mankind. In the long line of Kings, Generals and Emperors, from the first monarch to the last President or Pope, none rank so high for the prime excellencies of heroic virtue. Hi3 name is the watchword of Liberty, his example and character are held up for the mode; of all men in authority. So much is he estimated at home, that the most selfish and deceitful of politicians use his name as a stalking-horse which they creep behind when they would deceive and exploiter the people. He is one of the great authorities of -American politicians. All parties ap peal to hitn j BomstimM for gool. mout ra- monly for ill. - Let us look at this new-born Saturday's child, and see what he did, what he suffered, and what he at last thereby be came and was. The lecturer then, at considerable length, sketched the life of Washington,- dividing it into six periods his boyhood and youth, his services in the French and Indian wars, his life as a Virginia farmer and as a mem ber of various political bodies, his services in the revolutionary war, then as President, and at last, the end of all. Ti.e story is one that, though often repeated, never grows old, and the large audience listened to this review of a grand life, made vivid by the fervor and eloquence of the speaker's words, and enlivened by "fine touches of nature," wiin rapt attention. Mr. Parker said he should speak first of those great acts of his life which indicated the man s character, or had a great influence upon it. In his boyhood and youth his opportunities for academic education were small. One Mr. Hobbie taught him read ing, writing and spelling in his early day. After his father's death, be lived with his brother, and learned geometry at a superior school at Bridge's Creek, and became quite finished in whatever studies he entered on. He had a military spirit very soon, and at 14 he obtained a midshipman's warrant; his luggage was put on a vessel ; but his mother would not let him go ; he was not to be a midshipman. On such small events do grand results hinge. He afterward learned surveying. Before he was 17 he; fancied he was in love with Miss Perry ; but the course of true love did not run smooth. He called her "the lowland beauty," but be survived her woeful scorn, and only his verses remain to prove that he was in love. He fell in love again, but this time he was cured by- athletic sports. Thereafter, he bade farewell to verses and love. His mother had a hard temper, fitted to command ; and when Lafayette visited her in the Revolution, he found her weeding in her garden, and she. had the good 'sense not to change her attire, . but came forward at once to welcome her courtly visitor!' . Wash ington acquired much of her character. He was trained, too, not by books, but by ecuu3. xie couunuea nis practice oi sur veying with 6UCCSK3. . His military carter commenced early, and he was active in raising troops to act against the savages. " When he joined the expedi tion of Braddock, Tie had more knowledge than the f commander , himself ; and had his advice been followed, , he would have been successful. After that defeat, Washingtion was appointed Commander-in-Chief. He had many difficulties to contend with, In all hi3 proceedings' he wai.firm, but very iuvuci aio, auu -uis uiuuerauuu is peculiar, since it is so rare for 'military ' men to lose an opportunity to be tyrants. From 1759 to 1774, with his rich and beautiful wife, Mr. Curtis' widow, he lived on his farm, in the old style of Virginia el egance, dressing eleganlfy " and visited by many guests. He had the Washington arms on his liveries and elsewhere, and, other ex" pensive and -fashionable goods from London. Thus the river of his life spread out over's broad shallow of ease and , pleasure. , His diary shows not a philosophic thought or tendency to inquiry, but he recorded id his diary very minute things, such s his as tonishment that four pecks of grain, should make five pecks of meal. ' One year he was in the Virginia "Assembly, .where' he made no speecnes longer than . ten. minutes, dui "was distinguished for quiet au'd dignified in tegrity .' At the coming. '.'of evil "rumors from the North, he wa3 not the first to move. In 1769 Ke" was ready tc raise and equip a thousand men, pay them and march them t Boston! ;; -' "! :' " J ' . It is not difficult, said Mr. P., to under stand a character which is so plain, the fea tures so distinct and strongly ' marked. Look at his intellect. He had not great rea sonthe philosophic power which loves universal laws and scientific truths, resting upon them for ends. ' He was' not a specula tive man ; he did not turn ' his thought to ideas.' V He. had no tendency to science; did hot Took for causes, modes of operation, gen eral laws-nly for facts. He was concerned for measures, not with principles.' He had hot much imagination, that poetic power which rests in ideal beauty for ' its end3. There was. litle of the ideal element in him. He took no notice of the ' handsome things in nature, art or literature. ' I re member but one reference to anything of the kind, and that 13 the "lowland beauty" who so charmed him in boyhood," where the attraction, probably, was not purely scientific. (Laughter.) . . He . wrote much. It is not always easy to ascertain what came from his own pen, and what from his secretary's. Almost all hi3 great state papers were partly, if not wholly, the work of other men. The cele brated "Farewell Address" must be referred to Mr. Madison, who. made the first draft in 1792, when Washington intenJed.to re tire, and to Mr. Hamilton -possibly a yet abler man who, in '97,' wrote it over again. Washington wrote it over anew with his own hand, and made alterations; still, I think the substance of the work came from Madison and Hamtltoh. Commonly, his style is conventional, tame, dull. It is refreshing to find that he sometimes departed from thi3 language. He calls the British soldiers "red coats;" Gen. Putnam, "Old Put;" talks of "kick ing up some dust in New England," ' and "making a rumpus in Massachusetts;" com plains that men are nominated for high pla ces "who are not fit to be shoe-blacks;" speaks of "the rascally tories," ' and talks of "the scoundrel from Marblehead;" but, in general, his style is plain, business-like, without fancy or figure of speech, or' even of wrath. It is not grass, that you pick up by handfuls growing in the fields, but hay, which you pull down from the mow in the barn, ready for use. ...... Washington had not much imagination. He had a great understanding, and uncom mon common sense ; that admirable balance of faculties which we call good judgment the power of seeing -the roost', oxjiedient way of doing what must be done ; a quality I find more rare than what we call genius. Yet- his understanding was not of wide range, but limited to a few principles that pertain to practical affairs. . Although thus gifted, he was not a great originator. . I think he invented nothing, discovered noth ing in politics, war, or agriculture. He was a soldier sixteen years. I do not find that he advanced anything new in military affairs. He sat in the Virginia Assembly of Burghesses, in the Continental Congress, and in the Convention to frame the Consti tution ; but I do . not find that'he brought forward any new idea, or even proposed a new measure. He wa3 eight years Presi dent, and left behind him no more marks of originating, inventive talent. But he.wasagood organizer; naturally systematic, industrious, regular, by early habit, he had the art to make . things take the orderly shape to serve the purpose he had in view. Thus, his large farm was or ganized with masterly skill. In the Freucb and Indian wars, he took the raw material and organized it into companies and regi ments, making a snug little army. In the war of the Revolution he did the same thing, on a larger scale and under greater difficulties than before. He laid out the plan of a battle with great good 6ense. I think there was no originality in his mode. He followed the old schemes, and always took abundent - counsel. As President, he had much of this organizing work to attend to, and it was admirably done ; but with the help of John Adams, Jefferson, Hamil ton, Jay, and other great - men. He had a masterly talent for laying his hands on great men and setting them to do their proper work, and of knowing when . it was well done. He did not invent, but found out who could invent, and knew when he dis covered the right thing. His great talent was that of administration. He bad that rare combination of judgment,-capacity and courage, which made him able to man age all ; things well. He was fond of de-. tails; no little thing was too minute for his delicate eye. : - Some pleasant anecdotes were told in il lustration of this trait or character," one of which was to the efieut: that Washington, distrusting the' capacity of the negro to be a good soldier, or, at any rate, to be placed on guard, one night put on an unmilitary coat and advanced to a colored sentry, and heard the challenge, . "Who goes there ?" "A friend." "Friend, advance, without arms, and give the countersign!" . Wash ington said "Roxbury." "Nosare." "Medford. "Nosare' "Boston.," No, sareV I tell you ' what, Massa Wash ington, no man go by .here . without he say Cambridge.' Laughter and applause. Washington said "Cambridge," and passed by, but gave orders that the colored man should be relieved of his duties as sentinel after that. . ' . - He administered his farm with nice and rare economy. His day-books v show what all the men were doing at home' each day. With the same skill be administered the af fairs of the army .in the 'French and Indian war, and, on a greater scale, the affairs of the Revolutionary war, " The more" yo'u look at the fact,1 the more you are astonished at the difficulty of his position, and the more tou .ire amazed at the consummate ekiH with which he administered hk humble means, ; material . and' . human,, and at the grand results he brought to pass. . . He was not a brilliant commander. ' He never fought a brilliant campaign, and on ly one brilliant battle that of , Trenton.- Bui. I do not think . that .'Akxanker or Cae sar ; that Napoleon, or even Hannibal; had more aaministraiive sxui, save ouiy in ius he lacked the power of making rapid con centrations upon the field of battle. He must think it all over, draw it on .paper, and plan his movements, and . fix the place for his troops. t Hence he was successful only in attacks, and not equally able; when the assault was made on him. .7 He had a far-sighted judgment; in much time he pre pared and wrought for much time. He had military talent, not geniu3 for war. . As President, be administered, the polit ical affairs of the nation with the same skill, the same patience in details, the same com prehensive diligence. He was a man of judgment, not genius. In all important matters, he required every Cabinet omcer to write out a complete report in the case which was presented to him, and to tell what monsures he thought ought to be adopted ; then, studying all these carefully, he made up his mind, after a thorough knowledge of the facts, and getting the opin ions of three or four able men.. i: J. . But the superiority of Washington . was not in intellect. Hewas always surround ed by men who were greatly his .superior in mental force. His excellence was moral. He had that admirable balance of the moral powers which is to virtue what good sense is to intellect. One of the most cautious of men, he was not morally enthusiastic or transcendental. There was no "moonshine" in his moral, more than in his military char acter. His virtue was not "Too fair and good For human nature's daily food." His natural temptations, I think, did not incline him much to the vices of passion in his youth, for he was of that stern and aus tere make that leads to asceticism, rather than to indulgence. He wrote in his copy book at the age of thirteen, "Labor to keep alive in your hearts that spark of celestial fire called conscience. In few hearts did it ever burn with steadier or more constant flame. , Yet he was a man, not ascetic. He had a nice love of order, a quick instinct for decorum. , Thii appears in his note books, in the accuracy of his diagrams as a a surveyor, in the clear, round hand, and hard, lucid style of his writings, in the regu larity of his habits, in the stately deportment that marked him iij the camp, in the crowd, and in the Senate of the nation. Yet, if you look carefully, you find more order in things and less order in thought. He was' accurate in his accounts, punctual in regard frm tiuiij, T7I dcily-irmH -tbinga.- , ; : 7 He had a great power of wrath. Inher iting the high, quick temper of his mother, in youth he was "sudden and quick in quar rel;" in middle life his wrath was tremen dous, sometimes getting vent in words, sometimes in blows. He. never overcome this. Jefferson tells us of one occasion on which the President was much inflamed, and got into one of those fits of passion, and called a certain man a "rascal," (I do not think he m-called him,) and said, "By I had rather be in my grave than in ray present situation." Hamilton, who worshipped him in'public, and led him be hind the scenes, complains that in the later years of the Revolutionary war, his temper greatly offended the officers. There are some men wno una great fault with Washington for this. I do not love a man for losing his temper ; but I have lived too long, arid seen too many men, to sup pose that when men fire cannon, they dip their Pope's head in holy water to swab them out, and utter benedictions before touching off their piece ! Laughter. It is with great passions that men fight great wars ; and when I find a great man, I ex-, pect him to be great all round, in his mate rial basis as well as in nis mental super- j structure. But it is rather a refreshing fact to find that this cool, cautious, diplomatic I man, could once in a while swear. Laugh-, ler and loud applause. '. r i By nature and education he had strong love of approbation ; he was greedy of ap plause. Proof of that you find in all his life ; but yet, in all his manly public life, as legislator, general, President, you can not find a single instance in which he court ed popularity. An office always sought him he never it. In no instance did he ever stoop his proud head to shun abuse, or to pick up favor out of the 'mire where the mob and politicians tread with unclean feet. Admirers were about him -he could not help that ; but there was no place for a flltterer ; and in all his public addresses, in his official letters, in his private letters, in his journals, in his writings, in his familiar talk, there is no evidence that he ever re ferred to himself, or alluded to. any great or good deed be ever -did. i After 1790, the eyes of the nation, yes, the eyes of the world were on the nobfest man in it. . : His eye was on the nation. and onGod's . eternal . right ;. it was ; not , on George Washington, or his' great deeds." Popularity it" is the boy's bonfire in the street; ..Merit it is the heav enly light of sun, moon, and , stars, ; which never sets, and, asks no faVor.ofTany man. " Washington was 'courageous. ' H? bad that animal 'courage - which laughs at dan ger and despises fear. . This was tempered with caution.; it. was a ; discreet valor, that did not waste its strength. But he had that high moral ; courage : which dare; confront perils worse than whistling bullets upholds a righteous cause, though ever.so unpopu lar, and fears nothing so '. much as to do wrong. When defeated, he still-bore xip, '"batieg no jot of. heart orhope' nd wrote homel "Our cause is so good, God will not permit it to faiL" ' . . The highest moral quality ia integrity faithfulness to conviction and delegated trust. That isthe crowning virtue, and Washing-; ton had it i in I the highest degree. . . Here know not who is his superior. . .In thewhple range of 'American history I find 'ao eupsr ! rior I cannot put my finger upon a single act of his public or private life which would detract from this high praise., He did get angry, ne aia swear, uei.mm uoso; ne kept his .integrity, and if be did .wrong in his wrath, be asked the man's forgiveness when the wrath was over. He bad no sub tlety, no cunning, no duplicity. He hated liars it I was a great merit..- He withdrew from" Jefferson when be found ihimv fraudu lent, and from his secretary, Mr, Lee, whom he loved as his own brother, when he found him false to some small trust.' He, would not give 'Aaron Burr ah office, because, "al though he has got a great intellect, he is an intriguer." : .j - j . -.-.... Jm: . There was nothing little, . nothing mean in him. .There wes. nothing selfish in his ambition. ; He rises above the most of men about him, in thercamp, in the cabinet, as the uui pine tree acove me iuue uusues at its toot. Some ot tne omcers 01 me armv , aiaea Dy monarchical men in the States, wanted to make Washington King, but be pushed the crown away from him with conscientious horror. In all the history of mankind, where do you find such an . example of for bearance ? A triumphant soldier refusing power, preferring to go, back and till his ground ! , , j - "His means were honest aa his ends I must say a word.of his religious char acter, for that is the great, deep thing in him. Here there appears the same peculiar ity as in his intellectual ' and moral charac ter. He had : much of the principle, little of the sentiment of religion. He was more moral than he was pious.,. In early life, a certain respect for ecclesiastical forms made him a vestryman at two churches. This respect for outward, forms, - with ministers and reporters for newspapers, : very often passes for the substance of religion. It does hot appear that Washington took a deep and spontaneous delight in religious emotions, more than in poetry, in works of art, or in the beauty of nature. But he had devout reverence for the First Cause of all things a deep, a sublime and unfailing trust in that Providence which watches over the affairs of nations and of men, and is sure to give the just the ultimate victory. I find his religion in his stern determination to do his duty to his God, with his habitual reverence for that holy name. In the last years of his life, from 1776 to the time of his death, he partook of the Lord's Supper but once. Ministers have taken their re venge for the omission, and have denied his religious character. ascertain in detail his theological opinions,' for these he kept to himself. In one of his addresses he speaks of the "pure and be nign light of revelation," and of the "Divine Author of our blessed religion." Silence is a figure of speech, and in the later years of j bis life; 1' suppose his theological opinions -were those of John Adams. Dr. Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, only be was not a speculative man. and did not care to publish them to the world. , Anxious to claim him for the Christian Church, ministers have rested his Christian character on the fact that he ' whipped men for swearing, that he had prayers in Fort Necessity in 1754,; was a vestryman in his youth, and once in high office, attended the Communion, and partook of what is called the Sacrament. If they are satisfied with such proof, I am content ; but I find the proof of Washington's religion in his Ye rnciousness, in his abhorrence of falsehood. in that moral courage which never failed him, and in that matchless integrity, where he stands superior to the rest of mankind. Above all, 1 find it in his relation to the na tion's greatest crime. He was born a slave holder, he was hi ought up with slavery all about him,slaves fell to him by marriage, the entailed property of his wife. Washington wished to get rid of it, but could not. Ibe African slave trade was thought as honora ble as dealing in land, cotton, wheat or oil. Washington always dislikedslajrery ; thought it wrong, wicked. In June, 1774, he was chairman of the committee that drafted the Fairfax Resolves, and they declared that no slaves ought to be imported into any of the British colonies on this continent. They express their wish to have an entire stop put forever to this "wicked, cruel and unnatural work." When Lafayette bought a plantation on one of the t rencb islands, for the purpose of emanci pating the slaves, Washington wrote to him "I should be happy to join you in so noble a work. Would to God a like spirit would infuse itself into the -minds of the people of Virginia! But I despair of it. By degrees' it might be done. Decidtdly, it ought to be effected, and that by the leg islative authority." He sought J to pro mote the emancipation of all slaves in Vir ginia. This could not be done. At last, by his will, he sets free all his own bond men their deliverance to take place at the death of bis wife it could not before j and he charges his executors to see that this clause respecting the1 slaves be religiously fulfilled, without evasion, neglect or delay. Here he was superior to his age ; here I find nroof of bis religious character. r If Christianity be more than one of , the hum bucrs imposed - upon a groaning world, it is because it teaches a religion which consists in piety Ibe natural lore of God, and mcr ality. the natural keeping of his laws: and if tneiv and morality be religion, then who shall dare te charge Washingtoa with' lack of Christianity ? Ministers who fawn upon wickedness,' and statesmen who enact iniq uity invo law j joeiore ne leit the earth, he wrenched-the fetters ?frbm off eacb 'bond man's loot,' and as he beiran: his flight to neav,en, be, dropped them into the bottom less' pitwhera they who seek j perhaps may nnai j Applause. J ., .-,-- After stating some facts to show that Washington, although in character as much a New Engtahder as Franklin or either Ad; ams, yet could not understand New Eng land and the equality wbiob existed1 here among all classes, Mr. Parker aid;; I have beard it stated that Washington, was not a great soldier. Certajnly, ; he created an ar my outof . tha roughest material, ;nd out gsneraL'ed everyibing that . $rit$iu "aent against him; and in the midst of poterty. in the midst of opposition, 'Cffgsjl&Sljrieto Tfr; -He was not brilliant nor. rapid;r ha jscaa slow, defensive, and victorious. He inew T inake'an empty bag 'stand upngat, which Poor Richard says is is irtaift t&ttg. Washington is. the first man of &a ty&t. When will there be another? As yt AmV jcan rhetoricians do not tell half his excel lence, because they are afraid tha . people cannot comprehend if. '' Cromirell 'was th greatest Anglo-Saxon that ever ' ruled oa large scale. ; In intellect ha ,was superior-to Washington, in integrity immeasurably be low him. ; Washington never dissembled- he sought nothing for himself; in him there is no unsound1 spot, save his wrath ' and that is hardly unsound rather a protuber ance than a weak spot. : There is; nothing little or mean in his .character. ;.,The whole was clean and presentable; J think better of mankind because he lived; enriching the earth with a life so fnll of humanity: Shall we make an idol of him? Worship him with huzzas - on Fourth of ; Julys and stu- Eid rhetoric the rest of the year? .-. ShalLwe uild him a great monument, and bottom it in a slave pen? 1 They may do it' who like. His glory is already writ on the contfrient! More than two hundred places 'bear . his name. . He is entrenched in the great earth works of t Ameri6a. The people, are his monument. The Indians understand him. The New -York Indians' say Washington alone, of all white meni has been admitted to the Indian heaven. - There, opposite the large'gate where the good Indians go, in, there is, in a great park, a palace .which is General Washington's home. There every Indian sees him, with his military coat and his great hat, anl his sword by his aid. With reverent homage they salute the great man; he returns the salutation his hand upon his sword, but says nothing. , Such, says the Indian, is his reward . from the Great Spirit, for his justice to the red man God be thanked for such men: . "Souls supreme, in eaeh hard instinct tried, ' Above all pain, all passion, and all pride; . .. The rage of power, the blast of public breath, - The lust of lucre, and the dread of death." The lecture of Mr. Parker occupied one hour and forty minutes, but the latge au dience listened with, unabated interest to the close. - . Annexation of Main oJ to Canada. "The New York Tribun publishes a pri vate letter from' London containing state- It is not easy tcM,ments tnat are "important if true." They aare, euusuaiiimuy, mat me oiave 01 iuame is necessary to the complete construction of the great Colonial Railroad through Canada, and Lord Lyons is to be sent to Washington to secure its annexation to Canada. He says: "The scheme to which I have ; referred consists in the acquisition of the State of Maine by Great Britain, and in constituting s.:? it a member of the confederation of provinces '" extending from Vancouver's Island to New- foundland, north of the American line to the Arctic regions." . i . . . : Maine abounds in good seaports, accessi ble at all seasons of the year, and -is conse quently the most prolific school for sailors in the New Woild. Its proximity to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland ami other Islands, is thought to present an ob stacle to the before mentioned plan of a vice regal empire, as well as to be dangerous to the commerce likely to flow from it! ' Be sides, there is already established an English railway from Portland to Montreal. Its ter minus at Portland is being ' filled up with English families, representatives of impor tant Canada and British interests. These interests the imperial 'government has decla red its intention to protect and enlarge by fair and honest means, if possible, but the possession of the State of Maine is consid ered so essential to the development of the projected Canadian Empire, as well as the security of the trade between it and the Brit ish West Indies and Europe, that it has, I believe, been decided to take it by force if the reasonable representations of the English Government to the Cabinet at Washington, backed by the offer of a liberal ' pecuniary indemnity, should fail. ' : GUa Diggings. i The following is an extract of a letter from Mr, W. p. Kirk, to his wife, dated ' Gila River, December 3d, 1858. . He says: "I had a very hard trip; I had to walk nearly all the way. ; I was out prospecting yesterday, but did cot find a fortune. 'The j mines here are quite different from any that j I ever saw, and I certainly cannot boast of ' them.'-, There are some rich ravines here, but thev are so email and the dirt ao aha low that by a few day's work tbey are entire ly exhausted. Tell all my friends not to be in a hurry till they - bear trom me, which they shall do as. aoon as practicable. . There is one miserable littlampnta bank in opera tion here, but.it amounts to nothing! ' This is the most God forsaken eountrr taat I ev er aaw ; everything is Tery high, but it graauaiiy coming aown,:. . 'Still Another lot ofrnegroea zmmberiDg. ptmrjJ seventy-five.rTeft yesterday on the steaaua.. 7 ' Sew Falls ChV iThese negroes are Sfe, . 3'.' 1 - V... fr -Til I4 rl made up of several; small lots, shipped, bf different trseri a Southern aAtU ft V it ippeared to us' tliat' females, and chiji f compriasd the majority of the onmber " .L-The long row- of. sooty faces, artjpgfd along the boat's hurricane deck, and gaxTng quietiy-onj-the "wharf, taking nearly theur last lcwk; on the ; Missouri soil, fro which, they, had just stepped forever, as hundred of their species are doing every week, could not but be very ruggestive to. the mind oC the reflective spectators. One of cur pro slavery friends remarked to us, "It is one of , the signs of the times the niggers are vanishing sure." St. Lou It is net what we'earn, but what we save. that makea'us rich. It is not what we eat. n but what we digest, that makes us fat. It a.;;; is sot'what we readbut what we reseBbsiT that makes us learn. 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