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VOL. XIX, NO. 43.
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HERALD OF Tili TIMES,
NEWrory.,
Tharsday Morning Jan, 18, 1549,
Porsimeyt Bonasvarrte.—Since the time
when the nation of frons rebalied against Log,
their King, and unanimously aeeeopted the
substitution of King Stork, a<a more spirited
though somewhat less safe monarel—a ruler
who, though a little addieted 10 devouring his.
subjects, had yet wings upon which to soar;
into the clouds, greatly tothe admiration nndi
glory of his whole realmn,~the world has
never been more heartily surprised than Ly the
realization of the fable in the late cleetion of
Louis Napoleon to the Presilency of the
French Republie. Cavaignae was not alo”
gether a frog —he proved that, in the terrible
events of June, by his storm of the Darricades
and conque tof a Revolution ; but he chose
to be one,—to curb himself and fetter France
—to disarm her, and prevent “that outward
precipitation of her military order on the sur
rounding world of Furope, which, il indulged
and guided by him, mi ht have both gratified
and enslaved IFrance. and placed himselr
among the founders of royal dynastics. He
preferred to be a patviot, rather than a prince,
to imitate Washington, rather than attempt
the role of Napoleon, ‘T'he consequonce has
been the ahandonment of him by the people he
saerificed himself to serve,—his cutire and ut
ter prostration ; with the sudden eloction over
his head ofa young man, whose name,
whose origin, whose character and pub
lic acts, pointto that natural denouement of
tyranny, which the people seem, by the man
per of the eleetion, to have invited him to
bring übout as speedily us possible.
Do the people of France really refuse the
Republic? Have they not voted the restora
tion of the Timpire ! Certainly, they seem to
have turned, with the most deliberate rejection
and disgust, from Cavaignie, the stern repub
ican who offered them a plain demoeratic
chief magistrate, a mere execntive officer, de
girious simply to perform the part of a publie
gervant,—to him whosé name—nnd there was
nothing but that to reecommend him-—present,
ed them the glory and the servitude of the im
perial eagles. T'he impulse wae, unserutable
the act marvellous, and the result s a sudden
change of afluirs having the appearance of a
stroke of enchantment. On the 18th of June,
1815, the Empire of Napoleon fell at- Water
loo. Ilas Franee slept for thirty-three and a
half years? Were the Restoration,—the
Trois Jours of 1830, —the rise and the fall of
the King of the Barrieades,—aud the Provis-|
jonal Government only €0 many dreams, frum!
which France awakes to continue the reign of
Napoleon ! Tt is was a wild superstition of
some of of the persecuted sectaries at Constan
tinople in the age of Justinian, that this mon
arch, so mighty yet so dreaded, was a mere
phantasm—an airy appearance, not a real man,
—and that they who approached the sanetity
of the purple chamber at midnight, might bee
hold a spectie sitting revealed upon the throne |
—a face without features, a body without a
head. We may, without being super-|
stitious, revive the same faney, and apply it o
the person of President Louis Napoleon ; with |
regard to whom all the world seems to be sure
that he, though in the flesh, is but the illusiun;
that conceals the real ruler,—the phantom
spirit of the Man of Destiny, that fills the
throne he seems to occupy. 1
The attachicat 1o the memory of Napoleon §
wae undoubtedly the principal cause of lhe‘:;
clect on of Lis nephew ; but it is not to be:!
doubted that that event was strongly aided by
other feelings, among which, we fear, and |
sorry we arc to say it, were fear and hatred uf‘
the republie. Itis impossible to reconcile the |
extraordinaiily «wall votes for Cavaignac and
the other demoeratic eandidates with any oth
er eupposition than that of hostility to the re
publican state they wisled to found. And
this hostility —it could not have been an ihe
ront feeling—must be attributed to the frantie
ultraism of the demagogues who transform the
republie, even at its origin, into a nondeseript
monstrosity, a hippoeentaur-like compound of
Socialism and the Red Republie. It was nm!
enough for the Ledru Rollins and l{napaila.‘
the Blanquis and Caustidieres of la Jenne
France, that Frenchmen should be free ; lhe_v‘,
must be miserable also ; rocicty was to be dis
rapted, property geized, morality and rchgion!
abolished : and individuals were, in reality,
all to become the slaves of the state— friends'
and brothers, bound to cach other by law in
the bonds of compelled frateruity—that is 10‘
say, the fear, jealousy, hypoerisy, and hatre ||
of condemncd spirits. The demagogues of
Veanee have ruined and lost the l’vpubllc.—-|
Thousands of good, wis?, and moderate men|
Lave clubbed against them and against i, pl’(!-!
‘ur”“v a ”Il)ll'tr\'hy - .l"“"'hs'n even, prom.
pine woenrity of life . proporty—ta the
ssekery of a froo state which prog wed noth.
Ting but robbery and outrage. It was thus the
(old republic lapsed, through the intermediate
‘stage of the Consulate, into the Empire. The
new enc seems to seek the same fute, with
only the difference—for variety's sake—of a
President taking the place of the Consul.
| "I'here is the same danger from political ul-
Araism in all countries ; and we should, there
fore, guard against its perils even in the U'ni-
ted States. It is to the moderation, first prac
tised by Washington and his associates, the
founders of the Union, and generally adhersd
;to with great wisdom by all our public men
‘up to the present Jay, that we owe the sue
‘cess, the prosperity and the grandear of the
i republic. If we continue in this spirit, all is
(safe——becanse Americans will retain all confi
'dence in and ail attachmect and fidelity to the
fiee wnstations whick make them happy.—
Lt us avoud the misiake of l"ram‘c, and al
ways repel with andignaton the suggestions
of demagogues——and, among the lost, of seo
tional ones. It we have our Raspails «t the
'South and our Blanquis at the North ¢ let us
'put them down, or treat them with contempt,
!Wc have for our guidance the Constitution
land the exampls of Washington and the first
‘lcgislators of the country. All that is nceess
lary, in any case, is to reject all counscls that
differ even so much asa hair's breadth from
those which have carried the state, in peace
and prosperity, through every difficulty, until
it has grown, in the short period of sixty
years, to that pitch of greatuess which other
states have reached only after the long and
calamitous struggles of many cen‘uries. The
world never before saw a republic so power
ful and happy. Let us sufler it to remain so.
Nover Svir ror Stanpen.—ln the Mid-l
dlesex Common Pleas, lately, the Dunker
1 11 Aurora says that a case for slander, Aycr‘
rs. Pressey, was tried and resulted in a verdiet|
’for plaintiff of six eents damoges, it :qx[:cms“
:lh.’lt the plaintff was a witness in a liqnnr(-.\so,'
im.d under advice of counscl left the Court
‘lluuse without recognizing for his further np-‘
pearance as the Court ordered. A precept
was issued for his arrest and given to defen
dant, (a Coustable) who one day secing the
plaintifl in the street, cried out, “*stop thief,”
and gave chase. I'or thisery of *‘stop thief,”
uttered by the Constable, the action for slander
was brought.
17 According to a report transmitted to the
Legislature by the Governor it appears that
during the year 1818 Governor John Young
has reprived two persons seutencee to he iang
ed, pardoned 105 persons scntenced to the
State Prisons for various terms, and pardoued
32 persons senteneee to the local prisons N 3
Y. Tritunce,
177 Among the bills which passed the New
Hampshire house of representatives on I'riday
week was one to “‘protect chastity.” The
senate threw it out,
117 The fortunate winner of Cole's large
pictures, who is a printer at Binghampton, has
been offered five thousand dolla's for them.
[ 7 Passion 18 like the ocean in a storm
which spends the chief of its fury on itsclf
A youngster has been arrested in New
York, on a charge of robbing his mother of
£5OO, for the purpose of going to Califorma.
15 We are indebted to the Hon, John 1.
Clarke for the annual Report of the Secretary
of the Treasury.
ANTIQUITIES.— Ninevah was 15 nules by U,
and 40 round, with walls 100 feer high, and
thick enough for three charicts sbreast,
Babylon was 60 miles within the walls.
which were 85 feet thick, and 200 Ligh, with
100 brazen gates.
The Temple of Diana at liphesus, was 525
feet high to support the roof. Tt was 200
years in building.
The largest of the Pyramids is 481 fect
high and 661 feet on the side ; iis Lase covers
cleven acres. ‘T'he stones are about 30 feet in
Jength, and the layers 208. 360,000 men
were employed in its erection.
The labyrinth of Egypt contams 300 cham-
bers and 12 halls, !
‘l'hebes, in Egypt, presents ruins 27 miles
round. It had 100 gates. |
Carthage was 25 miles round. |
Athens was 25 miles round, and contained
250,000 citizens, 400,000 slaves.
The Temple of Delphos was so rich in do
nations, that it was onee plundered of LllOO,
000 sterling ; and Nero carried trom it 500
statues.
I'he walls of Rome were 13 miles.
Uniren Srates Sexator rron N York. -
Positive intelligence from Albany, states that
neither Seward nor Collier have any chance
of being elected to the United States Nenate,
by the Legislatnre at Albany. Two other
prominent eandidates are mentioned, Wash
ington Hunt and Hugh Maxwell, The best
chances probably are on the side of the first
named,
i Spxvror Hovstox publishes o card in the
|.\'.|limm| lutelligencer, in which he disputes
the charges brought ageinst Lim by ex Presi
'alvnl Jorer, of duplieity and opposition to the
:mnwxntiun of Texas, but says he ecanno
make a statement of adverse facts until he
!cturnn to Fexas and looks over its national
Larchives,
U Th legislature of Pennsylvania hae el
el Mr. Cooper to the I S Sauate.
“¢ Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable”—WEßSTEß,
Newport, R, I, Thursday NMorning, January 18, 1849,
| I Another year has been added to the
‘records of time, almost before we are ready to
:gruct its advent, and certainly before we are
ready to write the history of that which is now
numbered with the years before the Flood,
‘ Yet scldom, if ever, has any year cince the
‘era of Christianity been so ~rowded with politi
‘cal events, or more warked by discoveries
and advaneement in all the acs of life.
In the old world, a single spark, fallen into ||
a mass of combustible population, has kindled | |l,
a flame that has extended far and wide, lhrcat-“n‘
ning indiseriminately all structures of govern-! n
ment—those venerable for age as well as those .‘
of modern date—the bad, the mdiflerent, nnd; e
the comparatively good ; overturning mmc"é
empires and shaking others to their fwmd:xlions‘ g
and leaving it still doubtful whether, in tlnel o
country in which it originated, the spirit orl]y
Liberty, or the principle of gelf-government,
will in the end have gained or lost by the ex
periment. On this point, whilst cvery thingil,
iis to be hoped, expectation yet looks forward | 4
‘with intense anxicty to the news momentarily ||
expeeted from abroad.
) Whilet, however, the countries of Furope ||,
are thus convalsed by the confliet of civil wars, |,
‘we in this favored land may look baek to the ||,
'pnst year with heartfelt thankfuluces, and for- ’l
ward to the future with confidenco and with|l,
liope. '
[ Within that period, we have happily escap- ‘r
lcd, not only without discredit, but even \with,'|
ihunnr, considering the termz of the peace and l‘\
bthcir contrast with the ery for more blood and (1}
wider conquests with which, on this day u’ f
‘yvar ago, a coneerted eflort was made to drug ||
|:md madden the senses of this People. Had ||,
this attempt succeeded, (instead of being de.
feated, as it was,) where should we now have
boen! Overrunning the residue of Mexico,
“ annexing’’ Cuba, invading the Celestial Fim- ||,
pire, or prosselyting the Fejeo Islanders '— .
Who kuows to what extremes ** Manifast l)cs-‘ ‘
“liuy" would not have spurred on its devotees, |
had not the voice of the People made ilcell‘ '
heard and obeyed in the lialls and Palaces '
of this governm nt ! %
[aving returned to a state of peace auspic- |,
ious to the national prosperity and to individ-|
ual enterprise, we are enabled ealuly to com-‘
pare, with the convulsed sitate of alinost every '
other eivilized nation, the stability and quiet ©
our Government, and the certainty and safety f
’wilh wh'ch all questions that atany time :uzi»‘
tate these United States are adjudged and dc-’
' cided, ut polls opencd 1n thousands of dis
tricts, by the votes of millions ol men. ,
The election of Chief Magistrate and \'im-il
'(fhiu(', through which we lx'w(-"just pnss.wl,i‘
| furnishes @ dditional proof, were it wanung, of|
the cficiency, the order. and the moeral us wvll%l
as the political beauty of our Republican In 'l
stitutions, and of the entire adaption to the |
wants of a free and ratiopal people. In vain |
‘.~h..1‘. we look over the face of the earth for ll
l{:my other instance of a nation iu which such
an entire change in the Administration of the ;
H(}'ovcrmm'm could be hoped to be eflected, in
Ila single day, by the simpl expression of |
!'upiuinn by such a multitude of voters, not only |
“\\nhm.t tumalt or bloodshed, but without dis- :
'|i|.urbmg the even course of either publieor pri- |
|lvate affairs. s aspectof the lute clection |
l!:u least, is one the contemplation of which |
canno' but afford to al! true-hearted friends o |
the Union, whether among the victors or the
[ vanquished in the contest, the most smeere
"nml heartfelt gratification.
g Mer. Choate was recently invited by a
Natter to attend a Taylor celebration at Con-
I‘('Uu!, N. H. [le politely and promptly re
o plied, but in such a villainous handwriting,
"|l!mt the Councord Statesman says, ** the as
l,lrnlugurs and soothsayers had to be ealled 1n
ii'm decipher the reply.”
':t We hope perusing the above parapraph will
':nul inspire any sapheads to imitate Mr.
l;i(lhonte‘fl chirography. The blemishes of
| 'genius sometimes make it eonspicuous but
'|illwy are blemishes nevertheless, and are worse
'V lin weak-minded imitators. Park Benjamin
l;unvv gaid, to rthymsters who fuddle themselves
-1 and serawl unintellighly, in order to ape By
"‘mu,
"’;‘ Yon lack the genius, though you bave the gin.
|| (72 The sccond lecture before the Middle”
d!:‘mwn Lyceum was delivered on Wednesday
l‘c\’vuing, by W. IL. Cranston, on * The Ar
.I istoeraey of Mind ' A friend from Middle-
E lln\\'n took us out in bis sleigh, and when abont
'0 half way there, the sleigh was capsized, and
|wu were rolled over and over some half dozen
times on the ice, losing our eap and speetacles
'in the operation, and bruicing our rial
% {fr:\mc to such an extent that we have found
l'i‘il extremely diflicult to walk sinee Cather
¢ ing up ourfragments we walked on about @
l'”miln and a half, in the biting eold, when we
"rilfmnu! the horse and sleigh stationary in the
I'rond ; resuming our seats, we rode on, and ar
-1 rived in safety at the house. There was a
" 'full and intelligent audienes, and, amid our
!wmmds and bruises, we endeavored to enter
¢ ’l:\in them. 1f any of our brethren of the
® :|m-u can relate a more romantie adventure,
Ilwc should like to hear it.
Branrss AT Now Opppans—On the 7th
there had been sales of 6000 bales of cotton at
1-1 cent advance since the Furopa's advices,
Flour was firm and active. Sales of 10,000
bushels of wheat at 15c. Molasses 10¢
Provisions tising. Freights 1o Liverpool
eady
‘ Excrrivg Scese iy v Outo Lesistarune. }
'Mr. Whitman, fiom the Committee np()intv'dj
|[to assist the Speaker in counting the votes |
l read a report, in which were set forth reasons
glor rejecting the vote of Loraine county, Mr |
H Weller was here declared elected Governor by
i!‘)HU majority, The Speaker pronounced th f
| report out of order, l
H Immense eonfusion ensued for nearly an
' hour. Mr. Whitman was determined to be!
({heard at all hazards. The Speaker finally
: agreed to his reading the report, Mr, \\'hn—:
|| man spoke in an exeited manner for two lmurs.t
;l The Speaker rose and declared Ford (Whig)
ilclected Goveenor, Various members attempt |
‘ ed to interrupt the Speaker ; and oaths we't
| tmtered, charging him with violating his o:n"'
l of office, §e. I'he Convention broke up
"Ithc greatest excitement, :
Avararne Servap or vue Cuorena, Des,
patches received state that the chiolera was rap
ing at Vicksburg, Memphis, Cineinnati, Wheel
ng and Louisville, ;
At Baltithore the southern mail brings ad
vices, that the cholera had broken out among
the Bth lufantry at Fort Lawson, Texas, and
Iraged with intensity. Intwo weeks there had
been 40 deaths dailv, and on ene occasion 40
one night. {
The dead lay piled in heaps. Half the rogi-:
ment were swept ofl. Another aecount says
hat only 75 of them had died. Lieut Deny/
was the only officer dead. The camp was
broken up. ‘T'he disease has sinee abated, |
Terrible consternation prevailed among the
inhabi-tants. 'There had been 13 cases at Hous-|
tHon., |
PiiLaperpyia, Jan. 9
Frightful Occurance.—A most friglnuu]”
occurance happened this afternoon on thm’ [
Schaylkill river, near Fairmount. A larg«-[lt
’piecc of iee, with 100 porsons on it. floated ml',i«
into the eurrent. Great consternation prov:nl-‘;il
lc'l. Numbers were resened by a boat, others, |
jumped into the water. Three persons wer [l
earried over the damn—a man, a boy, and :ni'i
Little girl. The latter was the daunghter nl,{
Morgan Ashi. She stirack her forehead .'uz.uilx.st
v eake of iee, which eut a dreadiul wound, Al l
were flnally rescued, and no lives lost, ‘I
Tue Fiee v e Geserat Post Orrer.—| |
The Union says that the fire in the post office |
ot Washington, noticed yesterday, was in o
basement room among a heap of rubbish, con.|
sisting mainly of old postbills that had been |
flung into this receptacle. wntil called for by |
the paper-makers. A judicial investigation a- |
to the origin of the fire has been ordered. '
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17 The New York Journal of Commeree, 3
iepcal;ina of the recent troubles in Glilo, says i||
'ln one respect they have redounded to the'!‘
'\hmmr of the American eharacter and I|\stitu-1“
!llimls, viz : as showing that the highest «h-;:rcu‘
i,ui' political excitement ean exist without a re
|surt to physical violenee, In any republic but |
’ithis siich a collision as has existed in Ohio |
!{“'ould have been attended with bloodshed
((but there public sentimoent, or gomething |
ffa-lnc, restr-ined the arms of the members and
s‘lho excited mass of spectators until their
1 blood had opportunity 19 eonl. ’
!! RAILROADS AT THE CLOSE OF THE VAR 1505,
ke Railroad Journal, summing up the extra-
I;ur‘liuary influences of railroads upon this
eountry and upon the world, eays it may be
j:s:nv!y estimated that the entive cxpenditure
"within the last twenty-five yeuars, in the pro
‘J‘nclion and construction of rail roads, will not
:l':xll short of one thousand million of dollars,
‘and that their influeness in faeilitating business
in reducing the expenses and fime ol travel,
'and in opening up new regions of countey,
(has given an incerascd value to property of
Chwice that amount § and yot their influences
areonly just beginning to be iclt.
|
; Manriseuna, Jan, 9, 10, ‘
. The Whigs of the Legislature to-day, in
caucus nominated James Cooper to the U, 8.
Senate. For Cooper there were 39 votes, for
Meredith 3, Forward 5, (2 Lancaster members
and 2 Philadelphia voting for him) ; 6 ot the
Alleghany members refused to pointo Caucus
Y Reported Death by Cholera of Col. Dir.~
ftis reported on good authority that Col.
Dix, of the army, died in a stage eoach near
Wheeling, of Cholera. ,
L Asrcnors oF Wasmsaron. —One day, as
Gen. Washington sat at a public dinner, he
found the fire belind him very large, and un-|
comfortably hot. Me eompluined, and said he!
; must remove, A gentleman ohserved that o
| general ought to stapd fire. Washington re
plied that it never beeame a soldicr to receive,
; the fize in the rear. l
Prorsssor Samren Coorek, an eminen |
' Pinglish surgeon, and anthor of Cooper’s Sur
gical Dietionary died reecntly in London, i
{ L (7 There has been a fivo in the general
Post Ofice, at Washiagton, which destroyed
, some of the oflicial papers. 1
, |
g The Syracvsians have been making "
Jottery eake, eloven feet high, us the newspa
pers say, containing the following choice bits |
' a diamond ning. a pearl ring, two gold pen
' cile, 1 gold tooth piek, a dozen fine gold rings,
* aud aset of diminutive tea spoons, in all
' worth $5l.
1 | Drarnora Spaatok=Mr Sevier of Ar
kansas died in that State on the Tst st
fr - We learn that the [Ton, Edward Ever
ett has presented the company of young men
who are about to leave for California in the
¢hip that hears hus name, a valvable and well
ted hibrary
Tak Lowkrn Ginrs.—ln consequenco of
the reduction of their wages in the Lowell
fomorics, some of the girls have given notice
of their intention to leave the mills, They
would like good situations elsewhere, and if
the llowing invetnory of their capabilities and
their chanus, copied from one of their papers,
which is of course in every partienlar correet,
does not procure them one,it will be strange
¢ Wa are now working out our notice,
<hall soon be out of employment—ean turn onr
hand to most anything—don’t like to be idlo—
hut determined not to work for nothing where
fulks ean afford 1o pay. Who wants help '—
We ean make bonnets, dresses, puddings, pies
or eake
or cake ; pateh, darn, knit, roast, stew, and i}
fry ; make batter and cheese, milk cows feed °
chickens, and hoe corn ; sweep out the kiteh- ’:
‘en, put the parlor to vights ; make beds, nplit‘;h
'w«md, kindle fires, wash and ron, hesides lm-“;j'
ing remarkably fond of babies; in faet, )
“can do anything the wost aceomplished lmusu-a\
“wifg is eapable of, not forgetting the scolding
Enn Mondays and Saturdays; for specimens of
Cspunk we will refer you to our overseer,— |
'Speak quick! Black eyes, fair forchead, c-lus-'
Sering locks, beautiful us Hebe ; ean sing like |
‘a seraph, and smile most bewitchingly. Any
celderly gentieman in want of a housekeeper, |
(o 1 & niee youny man in want of ad wfe, wil-;|
Hing to sustain either character in fact mv"
‘:m' in the maket. Who bids? Going, g()_‘
g, gone. Whao's the lueky man !
, Disparon or A Revisve Correr von ('.'.l.!ii
ponsta.—Orders were received at New York i
lnn Monday morning last, from \\‘ashinmun.'l
|direeting the 1. 8. Revenue Cutter ]':\-in;!';
;lu sail immediately for California. She wnw“
ot in readiness in a fow hours and procecded
“Jown the bay but was compelied to anchor ”'l‘
Quarantine and wait for the first fair wind, |
1 This sudden and vuexpeeted movement (.[;\
| the Revenue Department, we understand, isi
'caused by the lawe astounding intclligeuce re-|
}l'::l\‘(‘(‘ from California, ** Sovart are the
l: treasurcs of gold spoken of in tlese accounts,”’!
|says a rorcespondent, ‘¢ that government ap-’
pears afraid to publish them lest the Atlantie
citics should be depopulated anl commerce in-|
|to:rrupwd by the multitules of people \\'hu:
;\\‘nuhl wish to emigrate to the Gold regions !"i'
| e ————————
| 7 There is religion n everything :lrrnum!:‘
| us—there is a calm and boly religiong not only
); in the animate, but in the inanimate, uubrunh-ll
ing things of Nature, and we would be wise tu|“
iiv«n'xsi(lur it. It is a meek and blessed iuflucnrni‘
‘lstealxng as it were upon the heart. Tt has not i
errors, it rouscs not the passions, and 1s un-l‘
trammelled by the crecds and superstitions of|
| men, ’
Mesruis, Jan, 8.
' I'he deaths in this city by cholera, n\'«trngni
;10 per day. Considerable alarm exists among !
our eiiizens, a number of whom are leav ng. |
' oepe M Archiizon has been re-clected Senne
~tor from Missouri, .
I vln New Orleans on the 7th the cholera
was disappearing, The weather was pleas '
ant. The number of intermeats from toe
Hospital the preceding 24 hours was REN {
(7= The Provisional arliament of Canada
will assomble on the 15th of January for the
dispatch of business. !
|
17 The Massachusetts Legislature lave
clected Gov. Briggs and Lieut. Governor
Recd.
o Vie newly electel Whig U N, Senato
L Florida, Mr. Morton, was one of the Taylor
' Electors in that State, |
L ATw. Wenstenr 48 ax Avrnor.—Mr. Web
Ceter is said to be engaged in owriting a lis
tory of Washington's a'ministration; at least,
' .' is friends say so. }
)7 Labor, though the oflspring of want, is
the parent of health and eontentmnnt.
" p A letter from Washington savs that gov l
| crnment is in receipt of such astounding news
« hom California, that they dare not publish at.
15 The grand lodge of Alabama f'x."m.'l-l
“wons and the grand royal areh ehapter, ot theit
" Jate session in Montgomery, appropriaied all
' their surplus funds o the purposes of cduea
| tion,
) -
l g 3 The London Chronicie savs thot Louis
l Napoleon s eleetion mdicates nothing but ex
Meessive * herooworship®
|1 I'he last number of the Daguerreotype s
i an exeellent one. s contents are var ed,
| sound and replete with learning. It containe
} | among other good things, Milnes™ Lifo ol Ke
!‘:u-, frm the North Beitish Review. 1t may
[he had at the hookstora of C. 1. Ham nett, Jr.
\ person who had been Listening to a very
dull address remarked that everyiling went
ofl well, especrally the auhence, |
3 “The state debt of New York at the close
of the last fizeal yoar amonnted, o over twen
-Iy-four million of dollars, The canal and rail
road olls received, amounted to nearly thiee
and a halt mullion of dollars.
(Corrcepondence of the Cineinnati Gazette. )
Barox Rovae, Dee. 15, 1848,
1 have just made a visit to the * Wlhite
House' in which resides the good old man we
Liave selected to bring about a much needed
veform in the affairs at Washington. | found
General Taylor, not exaetly in camp, but dwel
ling in a small house of as humble pretentions
as himsclf, in garrison here,
None except the biterest loenfocos speak of
hit in anything but terins of decp respeet lor
hs excellent character, and in full satistaction
of his ecommanding übilities and talents for the
office of 'regident,
General Taylor told me that he was already
everwhelmed with applieations {or oflice wo
mach go that it ocenpicd all his time not nee
essarily devoted 1o business 1o read the numer
ous letters, many of which are long and
tedious, so that 1t is quite out of his power o
pive answers., = 1 YA
© Fesides,” #ays the General, ““1 am not
yet President, and when [ am, let these appli
cations be made through the proper depart
ments, and if' it is wished to remove an incumn
bent, let it he shown that he docs not answer
he Jeflers ovian standard for an office holder,
ind that the applicant does: for as far as lies
omy power, | intend that all new appoint
nents shall be of men honest and eapable, 1
lo not intend 1o remove any man from office
weause he voted against me, for that is a free
nan's privilege ; hut such deseeration of of
fee and olficial patronage as some of them
have been gailty of, to secure the election of
the master whom they segged as slaves is de
grading to the charaeter merican {reemen,
and will be a good cause iof removal of fiiend
or foe. ‘The offices of the government should
be filled with men of all parties ; and as 1 ex
peet 1o find many of those now holding to be
good honest men, and as the new .’\];pnim
ments will of course e Whigrs, that will bring
about this result. Although 1 do not imo-m..l
* . . * "
1o allow an indiseriminats removal, yet Q¢
grieves me 1o think that it will be necessar)
to require a great many to give place to bette
men. As tomy cabinet, [ intend that all o
terests and all seetions of the country shall be
represented, but Nor as some of the newspa
pers will have ity all parlics. Tam a Wiig
as | have always been free to acknowledge,
but 1 do not belicve that those who voted for
me, wish me to be a mere partizan President,
and 1 shall therefore try to be a President ol
the Ameriean people. ~As to the new territo
ry, itis now free, and slavery cannot exis
without a law of Congress authorizing it, and
that Ido not believe they will ever pass. |
WS nrpnmrd to the aequsition of this tereitory,
as | also was to the aequisiion of Texas. ]
was opposed to the war, and, although by oe
cupation a warrior, [ amn o peace man.”’
17 We all possess, to aeertain extent, the
elements of mental greatness and usetulness
We do not meau by this asscrtion that all mei
are the natural possessors of giant intellects
or that all are competent to eope with eacl
other. There are narked gradations of tal
ent, various degrees of geniue and distinetions
of intellectual power ; but we all have a ecer
tain amount of talent, which it is our duty t ”
eultivate, and which we shail one day have 10,
acconnt for. Fvery young man, nt the pr(-:-“‘
entday, has eminent advantame= in the varions il
departments of literature, in comparison 1o i
what our FPathes bad, in the days oftheir boy- ||
hood. In the progress of thic age, one of the ]
greatest and most valuable improvements that ||
: . |
has been made, is the establishment ol ow l’
Common Schools, and a general advancement '
in the cause of ldueation, Now, ou: Com |
mon Schools are #o admirably regalated, tharj|
the vouth of the land exn recievean excellent ||
education,—and, we are proud to say, these !
halls of learning arc accessible to the poor as |
| |
well as to the I'lt‘!l,--lllt‘h'r-’rl‘, none need b |
under the neecssity, as in tines gone by, ol |
arising from vouth to manhood, in the bond H
age of ignorance. We are sorry 1o say that !
-~ |
{too many of the youth of our day are M‘”);
negligent of these invaluable opportu ites foi
imental improvement ;3 they do wot .||-|»r4"'i;m-j.l
‘their advantages w.th that wis Jom and eai-!!
;H-’)&:Hl‘)fi\ which they should, now in the bright |
‘merning of their unclonded existenee. Child-||
hood is the sweetand happy portion of our|!
livas : then no ¢ oud settles oo the brow, and
no troubles perplex the soul | we have no !
carces and responsibilities, nud when the plw:m—E
ares of e day are over, we lay our weary |
{forms 10 rest, and are soon lost in slumber, |
while the soul wanders to a beautiful dream ||
tand, where all is fragrant as the blossoming
Sprng. o the morming, we oaw ake as the |
parly notes of the birds are breaking upon onrt!
ears, and start with the onent sun, fieshed [
by our repose, and, with a light and glml“
heart, commence the exercises of the day.—|
l'l"mu we pass the morning of life, until wel
‘gradually approach the years of manhood,
when eares surround ue and anxietics per
plex us § them, the whole secne 1 vh:m;wd.l
"t'ur we have commeneed the arduous and res- |
porieible dutics which are upon ue, and we
‘ |
st perform our partin the great and thl
ling drama. Sull, we are never satisfied ;3 n
childhiood, w e are restloss and ill-at-case, look
ang forward to the time when we shall be |
‘men, and can do and et like men, We are |
‘eager to bear our part of the burden, without
!
knov ing the danger o be wmeurred, because
‘we have no acequate eomprehension of ro.«-:
ponsibility. Aad then, as the first dawnings
ol maturiny begin to rest gently upon us, we,
L[atru not satisfied beeause we cannol assume
the whole eharge, and make as conspicuous 8
figure as those who are more advance d. ‘\ga‘m.;
l wo are never satisfied, and consequenily we
| » s .
never perform oor work, We begin with en
“ergy and vigor, and fond hopes are chonshed
| - ‘ :
by our anxious friends, who have seen the
folly of their hasto snd indiserction, that we
ahall profit by their experience, and evade the
shoals upon which they tonched. Bt it
aot s, Man is 80 conctituted that he will
| 3
wof profit by the experience of others, hut re
WHOLE NO. 969.
fors to pumue his own course, even though h
is warned of danger, and has every probable
reason 1o foar the consequences that may en
sue ; he is a self-willed and obstinate ereature,
and rather glories in hiz own misfortune, if he
can only follow the dictates of his own wild
funcy.
' How many a promising young man has
commenced his eareer, under the most flatter
ing auspices, with every favorable circams:ance
to waft hita onward to that enviable position
among his fellows, which w ould make hie
name honored in life, and his memory revercd
in death. But ore he has fanly gained the
troubled bosom of the vast occar, he uegleets
the ship that be is w geide, whizh s lis owa
character,—and while he is yot in full view of
Lis anxious friends, who have watehed around
ihe shrine of his boyhood ,—he is wreeked up
on the shoals and reefs of life, which we call
;dmmpzmuu and foly. He considers it manly
to embark in all the frolies and frivoliies which
80 often prove the ruin of young men, and he
‘eanniot resistahe temptation to beeome dissi
'pated and vicious, beeause he will not be con-
L.‘mdcru! unfashionab’e. Henee, if he has the
Cmeans, he will not be outdone in the gentecl
;i'l:rpluy of the nge,—and, in this way, the prol
‘iitr‘ of hig business are soon ahsorbed in the
Lgratification of Lis folly. 1 his means are lin
lited, as is the case with a majority of youn
!lmtn. when they first eommenee life, his busi
Laess 18 goon broken up, and he is a piuable
.l‘”' cle, when he should be anoble ormament 1o
| socletly.
‘l, “T'he Practical Teacher' s the title
"‘;;uf a new weekly paper just started in Provi
Tydenes, It is published by A. (. Greene, of
“lhc Transeript, and edited by W. 8. Baker.
H\\'c cannot give our readers a better adea of
‘iu object than by quoting from the editor’s iu
!ltrmluclnry remarks. He says,— :
” The great objeet of this paper will be to
Hgive instruetion to children and youth in every
Illh-pnrlnmm of useful knowledge. While we
‘idmll do all in our power to interest those
Hwho are in the echools we shall not forget
il'l.:n there arc many who have not the privil
‘ ege of attending schgol as. much 15 desirable,
|| they being obliged o work a great part of the
“_vnur inthe manufactorics both day tuge and
evening. We shall especially endeavor 10
&lhh”“ how they, by spending even & swall
|| portion of time each evening, can become well
.’mfonnml upon the same subjects that others
] ae studying in school.
The new Emperor of Ausiria, Francis Jo
eph 1, is a young man of fine natural abih
ties, which have been improved by all the ac
complishments of the age. lHe has bewn
Lained under the direction of his mother, the
\reh-duchess Sophia, a woman of great spir
and intelligence. le was popular with hm
ountromen, particularly with the Bohemians,
whose language he epoke at a very early nge,
I'he young sueeessor to the thone of the Ca
ars avows hig mtention of hasing his govert
ment upon the principles of trne liberty, equal
justice to all races and mdividoals, and free
participation of the people in the legislaiive
i)fl\\()' ‘
Sec it ofF Boavry.—A lady's beauty ‘o
ponds so mueh upon expression that it 1o bo
spoiled, farewell to her charms g Notting ten's
more o bring this about than a eountenans:
sonred with imagiuary eares, instead of b
lighted up with thankfulness for inpumeraly!
blessings. Thi< s the eause of so rany -
Jies' withering into wrinkles early in W'
while pothing renders their beanty 0 lactin g
a 8 that p]:u'id look of pure bhenevolonee, whi h
emanates from a heart full of thanktalvess 1)
Mheaven, aflection tor those dearest ard neaico
tothem, and good will 1o all mar kind,
! & ura Avva =T distingmsheds Gener
al continnes quict in Jamaiea, and is making
no demonstrations in relation to Mexico | nor
i there any party in Mexieo, disposed at pres
“q-nt. 1o encourage the return of Santa Auna,
e speaks in bitter terms of the cowardise and
Htreachery of his officers, Juring the war with
Cthe United States 3 and as long as he remains
‘quict, and avoids imrigue, his property
‘Mexico will not be confiseated.
£ ————————
| New Jepsev.— A Survey of the Stste of
New Jersey is now huing made, with the pur
pose of publishing a series of county maps.—
Fach map will show the public baiMings,
mills, sehool houses, stores, smith #hops, &ec.,
and be also macked with the rames and Joca
tions of owaers of property.
| . .
| N liogones on being asked what wiid
beast was the most dangerous, prompily, and
~we thiuk truly ephied="The Calumuiator,
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C Sarah Goffith, eighteen years of age, dicd
lately in Montreal from an affoction of the Leart,
prodoswd, as | hysicians affivmed, by tght lae
g, Remember this, ye lovely guls who
Cknow not what the pedection of leinide o 18
w aeserted by Power's Groek Slave and by
all painiers and sculptors, The corset las
made many a corse.
f 11 A Lath Machine in operation at Cleave
and takes the green log, and whittles out of it
Cone hundrod and twenty pieces of lath per
ponite. 1 supplios them at $1 95 per thou
land