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Here sweet beauty reposes, In deep fiilenco laid low; Now all (led are the rose, From tho fair cheek and hrow. Hero rests tho maiden so mild, In Death's cruel kocpinc; ; And the good old man, the child, Side by side are sleeping. Here lies tho ambitious youth, A prey to tho crawling worm ; Kipp'd while in lender growth, And thus roVoM of his bloom. Tho sou of iwmk, too, lies here, Wrapp'd in hi'; pah. throwd ; i Tad.! to leave (lie earth, tho' dear, And dwell among tho dead. Lightly, lightly, trei l lightly, Vv'iero tho 'yew branches wave;' And speak thou sorrowfully, For, ah ! this is tho grave. Brandon, Vt., Aug. 1817. Auui:mas. Forthe Voice of Freedom. Youthful Days. ITow oft the remembrance of the scones of our youthful days ll'.ts across the memory in after years, and bids tliose palmy hours cheer the weary and desponding heart to push on ward to eternal joys, of which those were but the prelibation. Ours then was innocent pleasure, and not a glance of sorrow marred our childish happiness. Who docs not, as it were, love to live over ajsiu, the by-gone days of innocent childhood V Mcthinks all love it ; even the most hardened wretch that ever gra ced the annals of crime, banishes for awhile his thoughts of evil, and turn3 back again to boyhood days; lives them over and over a gain, in memory, and wishes he were as guilt less as then. I love, when alone, to think of the happy days I spent when a school boy, with loved companions, which time can never - effaco from my memory; each countenance, and each merry, gleosome laugh are as fresh in my mind as if it were but yesterday I saw them. As I sometimes pa-'j the favored spots where wo were wont to ramble in quest of fresh sources of happiness, I pause; my thoughts revert back to the pleasant hours spent there, and a painful sadness comes over me as I think of the loved mates who wander ed with me there, that are now laid in the quiet grave ; their cold and inanimate forms' mingle with the dust of earth, and their dis embodied spirit, have fled to the spirit land, never to return. " I came to the scenes of my thihlhood, and asked, The friends of my youth, where are they ? and echo answered, where are they ?" E. M. S. Whiting, Aug. 1817. Siclir-sss in Montreal. The emigration from Ireland is a dreadful scourge to Canada, during the present seas on. The Montieal Gazette of the 14th inst. record., the death of the Roman Catholic Vi car (ieneral, another victim among the cler gy to the fever contracted at the emigrant tdieds. Dr. Cashing, a valuable physician, formerly of Burlington, has also died of the name disease. At a recent meeting of the Board of health, n report was submitted by Mr. T. S. Brown, from a select committee of the Board, giving an account of the condition of the city, from which report we make the following extracts : , Si. Allmna Sfaitsenyer. J 'The emigration of this year having been marked by a depravity seldom, or never, re corded in the shipment of living men, your ; Committee cannot. but remark, that, the bro ken down and destitute condition of thegreat- or portion of that class intending to emigrate ceedingly short time I roused my bed-fellows from the British Isles, during the present and told them what I had heard. They tho't season, should have forewarned the home au- it must bo a wolf, and as we were afraid to thorilics, of the necessity of so regulating lighten him away, yet anxious to take his their departure as to ensure som (safety on bide, it was resolved that I should hold a tho passage ; instead of which, tney have match, and the farmer should fire his rifle in been allowed to ship in numbers totally dis-, the direction of the mysterious noise, which proportioned to the tonnage of the vessels, operation was duly performed. A large pine that is to say, in numbers twice or three torch was then lighted, the rifle re-loaded, and times "realer than the same vessel would pre- the heroes of the adventure marched into the sumo to embark for any port in the U. States, outer hull of the eabiti, when we found a few and the natural, the "ceilaiti result has been ; drops of blood, and the muddy tracks of a-nover-befora-heiird-of mortality on the o- j what wo supposed to be a wild cat. The ri cean, and misery among survivors, who ar- i Human and myself then commissioned the fid rived, almost too tcrribfe to be enquired into. dler to make a fire, when we again threw our Such appears the indilferenee of commerce to selves upon the hemlock couch, every thing but gain, that free human beings The fiddler attended faithfully to his duty, are the only cargo a shipmaster can embark, and in less than twenty minutes, he had kin without somo responsibility for its safe deli if- died a tremendous blaze. The brilliant and cry, or guaranty for defieiency, on arrival , laughing flaino had such an exhilarating in nt'his destined port. Whatever vu.-iy be the ! flue.nco upon his nerves, that he seized his casuali ties, whether they be landed healthy instrument and commenced playing, partly or sick , or whether one half have been thrown for the purpose of keeping eff the wild nni- into the sea, pounds, shillings and ponce are SOPHl'd. fni thn It'imrlif-. lo 1 ....... 1 ..... I 7, '. .uu, iiuu I. ill I'll 14 nil itiii it i.iiiiiii,.. i During the past month: in onlv ten of the vessels arrived", four from Cork and six from lAverpool, sailm-r with 4,427 passengers, there were 801 deaths on tho passu, and nassenircrs. there Vero 80-1 deaths on the paand e 847 sick on arrival, its reported in the news- papers ; but it may be well supposed that .j survivors could be otherwise, or I't'iii'ii finv ninni' 1 1 1 1 ij r i n n linn tiuni -i . on niv . . . . , , ' ",,V .. . . . frave. . Terrible as have been 1.1m tnlos nf tlm slave . , . trade, against, whir, i t in l.ntwh mitimi has so long protested, and to suppress which i r - she maintains a fleet, thev exceed not in hor rors, nor perhaps equal, the dreadful realities, to which these unfortunate wanderers have been subjected. The 'Larch' reported this morning, from Sligo, sailed with 410 passen gers, ot whom 108 died on tho passage, and 150 were sick. The 'Vim-mins' K'iiliT.1 vit.1i h 49G ri.,ss,.n,.pt.qi rlS " ti, ik lit, v. ... r,6.,... Were sick, and tllO remainder landed feeble and tottering the captain, mates and crew were all sielc. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a mercy compared with tho holds of these vessels Yet, simultaneously, as if in reproof to whom the blame of all this wretch edness must fall, foreigners, Germans from Hamburg and Bremen, are daily arriving, all healthy, robust and cheerful." From tho N. Y. Express. Adventures in the North. The AninoxDAC Mountains. John Cheney's Cahin, ) June 15, 1817. ) The Adirondae Mountains are situated at the extreme head waters of the Hudson, in the counties of Essex and Hamilton, and a bout forty miles west of Lake Champlain. iney vary trom hvo hundred to five thous and feet in height, and with few exceptions are covered with dense forests. They lord it over the most extensive wilderness region in the Northern States, and as I have recently performed a pilgrimage among them, I now propose to give an account of what 1 saw and heard during my expedition. The tourist, who visits these mountains, finds it necessary to leave the main road near Lyndsey's Tavern on the Schroon. If for tune smiles upon him he will be able to hire ahorse to take him in the interior, or per haps take a seat in a lumber wagon : but it not, he must try the mettle of his legs. With regard to my own case, fortune was non-committal ; for while she compelled me to so on ; foot,sho supplied nie with a pair of temporary v-uiiil'ti.-ii. us, iiuu ivcic goin uiio me iiuciiui to see their friends, anil have a few days' sport in the way of fishing and hunting. "One of my friends, ('both of whom were young men,) was a farmer, who carried a rifle, and the older a travelling country musician, who car ried a fiddle. Our first day's tramp took us about fifteen miles, through a hilly, thii k!y wooded, and houseless wilderness, to the Bo reas River, where wo found a ruined log shai.tce, in which we concludcdto spend the night. We reached this lonely spot at three o'clock in the afternoon ; and having pre- iously been told that the Boreas was famous for troutjtwo of us started after a mess of fish, while the fiddler was appointed to the office of wood-chopper to tho expedition. The Bo reas at this point is two hundred feet broad winds through a woody valley, and is cold, rapid and clear. The entire river does not (litter nialerially, as I understood, from the point alluded to, fur it waters an unknown wilderness. I bribed my farmer friend to as cend tho river, and having pocketed a variety of ilies, I stat ted down the stream. I pro ceeded near half a mile, when I came, to a lill water pool, which seemed to be ciuite , extensive and very deep. At the head of it, midway in the stream, was an immense boul- dcr, which I succeeded in surmounting, and , whence I threw a red hackle for upwards of three hours. I never saw trout jump more beautifully, and it was my rare luck to bas ket thirty four, twenty-one of which averaged three-quarters ot a pound, and the remaining ! region at night, lor tho purpose ot escaping thirteen were regular two pounders. Satis- j the tormenting flies ; and as he spoke so con ficd with my luck, I returned to tho shantee, I fidently of wdiat he intended to aceoiuplish,we where I found my companions, one of them ' awaited his effort with a degree of anxiety sitting before a blazing fire and fiddling, and , Soon as the quiet night had fairly set in, he the other busily employed in cleaning the trout he had taken. In due time followed the principal event of the day, w hich consisted in cooking and eat ing a wilderness supper. We had brought a supply of pork and bread, and each one hav ing prepared for himself a pair of wooden forks, we proceeded to roast our trout and pork before a huge fire, using the drippings of the latter for seasoning, and a leather cup of water for our beverage. We spent the two following hours in smoking and telling stories', and having made a bed of spruce hoilnhs:. and rennirod tho. vii'lrotv nnrItiftn o i . . i -... j , i iiii.il ui.iuvv vi... vii. ui .hi; vuuiil ij uill nil. , other end, which was all open, we retired to ' repose ! W c had no blankets with us, and an agreement was therefore entered into that we should take turns in replenishing tho fire, diir'nn the night. An awfully dark cloud settled upon the wilderness, and by tho mu sic of the wind among tho hemlock trees we were soon lulled into a deep slumber. A short time after midnight, while dream ing of a certain pair of eyes in the upper part of Broadway, I was awakened by a footstep on tho outside of the cabin. I brushed open my eyes, but could see nothing but the faint glimmer of an expiring ember on the hearth, 1 held my breath and listened tor the myste rious fool step ; I heard it not, but something a little, more exciting the scratching of a liue;e paw upon our slender door. In an cx- "THE INVIOLABILITY OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS BRANDON, Thursday, September 2, 1847. mals, but mostly for his own amusement. 'PI 1.. .. 1 . 1 I II i i . . J.IH.-U laying iisiuu ins mime no oogaa to sin"; ' : ..i.. . ! . . . . . li i ' . nne of wl,l,.h wa , U timent, imTir, w d n Zj W at the time, than anything I had ever before heard. I could not find "out. hv whom it was at t m timn. 1 1:111 iinvHrnvr r Inir nvnr hn Urn heard. I could not ind out. v wl i it w j ...,k- 'written, or what was its exact import, but in the lonely place where wo were sleeping, and at that hour. if. m;ul a vrpv iWn itunrow. i - j l' 1"- J iuu uu inuiu. iiiu uuruieu oi ine song m.. ...... .:.,, r li. . t" . f(,Il.a .i ,... ;.. u,- :h. ..." ",' """o jiviuii. imuvu iuv 1111I1.3L1 tiiu hlv; fire-light, and ' the rude cabin presented Wo parted in silence, we parted at night, On the hanks of that lonely river j Where tho shadowy trees their boughs unito Wo met. and wo parted forever, The night bird sail.', and tho stars abovo Told many a touching story, Of friends long passed to the mansions of rest, Whore tho soul wears her mantle of glory. Wo parted in silence our cheeks were wet lly tho tears that wero past controlling ; We vowed wo would never, no never forget, And tliose vows at the time wero consoling lint tho lips that echoed my vows Are as cold as that lonely river ; The sparkling eye, the spirit's shrine, Has shrouded its lire forever. And now on tho midnight sky I look, Sly eyes crow full with weetaiur. F.ach star to mo is a scaled book, Sonio tale of that loved onekeoping. We parted in silence, we parted in tears On tho banks of that lonely liver, lint the odor and bloom of by-gone years Shall hang o'er its waters forever. But sleep.the 'dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health,' soon folded tho singer and his listeners in her embrace, and with tho rising sun wo entered upon the labors of another day. While the fiddler prepared our breakfast, (out of the few trout which cer tain beastly robbers had not stolen during the night,) tho rifleman went out and killed a largo hare, and I took sketch of the cabin where we had lodged. After breakfast we shouldered our knap sacks and started for the Hudson. Y c struck this noble river at the embryo city of Taha wus where wo found a log house and an un finished saw mill. Here we. also discovered canoe with which we boarded aiid naviga ted the stream to Lake Sanford. This por tion of tho Hudson is not more than one hun dred feet broad, but quite deep and pictur esque. On leaving our canoe, wo took our way up a mountain road, and after walking about four miles we came out upon an eleva ted clearing of some two hundred acres, in the centre of which was a solitary log cabin with a retinue ot out-liouscs ana Ibis was the famous Nowcomb Farm. The attractions of this spot are manifo!d,for it lies in the vicinity of Moose Lake and Lake Delia, and commands the finest distant pros pect of the Adirondae mountains which has yet been discovored. Moose Lake lies at tho west of the Fa'm. and about six miles distant. It is embosomed among mountains, and is the fountain head of the Cold River, which empties into the St. Lawrence. In form it is so nearly round, that its entire shore may be seen at ono view ; the bottom is covered with white sand, and tho water is perfectly cold and peifeeily clear. Considering itssizc, it is said to con tain more trout than any lake in this wilder ness, and it is also celebrated as a watering place for deer and moose. In fishing from the shore, one of our party caught no le.-s than forty pounds of trout in about two hours. There were two varieties, and they varied from one to three pounds in weight. Our guide to this lake, where wo encamped for one night, was Steuben Hewitt, the keeper of the Newcomb Farm, who is (inite a hiui- ter. This woodsman got the notion into his head, that he must have a venison steak for his banquet. We had already seen some half dozen deer walking along the opposite mar gin of the lake, but Steuben told us that he would wait until after dark to capture his game. Ho also told us that the deer were in ti... i.ni.tf ti, ,:i,t i..i-.. ,. ii,: . LI1V. I lilll I Ul .ISllillL; nuiii-i lanvjB I'l II'IO shipped limisell on board a wooden canoe, (a rickety affair, originally bequeathed to this i.,i i. .,.., .i,...,.(...i T...i:..., :.. iu i,-,. , f j i.li. u u nomi; injjmi l..ii Aiiiii.iii, ill but; uv i which was a lire jack or torch holder. Sep arating this machine from himself, as he sat. in the centre of the canoe, was a kind of screen made of bark, which was sufficiently elevated to allow him to fire his gun from underneath ; and in this predicament, with a loaded rifle by his side, did he paddle into the lake. After floating upon tho water for one hour, in perfect silence, he finally heard a splashing I near the shore, and immediately lighting his ; torch he noiselessly proceeded in the direction j i 1 w i ui iiiiv nuuiin, iiukiu i.vvii..i,iyTVlvvi t. uv.lillll ill deer standing knee deep in the water, and looking at him in pcrleet wonder. 1 lie poor creature could see nothing before it but the mysterious light, and while standing; iu the most interesting attitude imagin .0 le, tho hunter raised his rifle and shot him through tho heart. In half an hour from that time the carcass of the deer was hanging from a dry limb near our camp fire, and I was lee- ' turing the hard-hearted hunter on the cruel- ; tv of thus capturing the innocent creatures ! of tho forest To all of my remarks, howev- or, ho replied : 'They wero given to us for , food, and it matters not how we kill them.' Jake Delia, through wmcli you have to pass in going to Moose Lake, lies about two miles west of tho Newconib Farm. It is four milos long and less than ono mile in width, and completely surrounded with wo id-crown- ed hills. Near the central portion, this lake is quite narrow and so shallow that a rude bridge has been thrown across for the aecom- modation of the Farm people. The water uu- der this bridgo is only about four feet deep, and this was the only spot in the lake when! I followed my favorite recreation. I visited it on one occasion with my companions, late in the afternoon, when the wind was blowing, and we enjoyed rare sport in angling for sal mon trout as well as a large species of the common trout. I do not know tho number that we took, but I well remember that wo had more than we could conveniently carry TT 11.. il. 1 1 i..l !. Usually the salmon trout aro only taken m deep water, but in this and Mooso Like, they seem to be as much at homo in shallow asm! deep water. On ono occasion I visited Lake Delia, alone, at an early hour in tho morning, It so happened that I took a riflo along with me, and while quietly throwing my fly on man he used to light a good deal with the fed -the old bridge, I had an opportunity of using ci'tdists, and took a good deal of pride in it j IS THE ONLY SECURITY OP PUBLIC LIBERTY. it to some purpose. i . . 1 My movements in that IT.. .1.. .1 . lonely place were so . . u.m:ubuiii"iv bum, mm, , .,1". " . '' .. t ... . i ii ... 5 . " ,. Z ZZ.u Z "T' " nnm t 1B , : Z "s " i.i.ii my Lniii,i,iii,i ui mi uuii iiuu uioii i pearod. panions 1 ,.!.. f..,i n. ...I.,.. ..(,. 11111.11 vu .m YUiiitini iu iiiji u vyiii nivum.mi u tr.i. ni.(ni!v ..;.wK piu' iuuhvlu tv i inn niui . x inuiu r nimr i -. . AY. ' eatea my veracity liowever, lor on the lul- ntnl nnf vni'i fi f hnwiM-i... IVit. nn llin l'..l iDivnig u.iy uiey liisuoveruu a iiean oner ua the lake shore, and concluded that I had told tho truth I must not ..l...l.. l.,H ...tll.m.f i-uiiL-muu lius ii:uvi iTuiiuui, giving you an additional paragraph about the JNewcomb I1 arm. My friend Steuben llew- aim as the boys take when they fire crackers After making all proper allowances, the in ilt's nearest neighbor is eight miles off, and on tho 4th of July, rind did about us much ox-' crease of population for tho year could not as his family is small, you may suppose that eeution. At last I found out a way that I ( have been less than 1500, with a prospect he leads a retired life One of the days that i could malpe the old veteran fight like a Turk that the increase the present year will be I spent at his house, was quite an eventful and hold on like a bulldog. It was by giving ! equally great. Our population at the pres onc with him, for a town election was held him a notion at any time that ho was fighting ' ent time is over 14,000, and we think that tho there. X ho electors met at nine o clock and tho poll closed at five ; and as the number of votes polled was sevejc it may wen tie sup posed that tho excitement was intense. But with all its loneliness the Xewcomb Farm is I well worth visiting, if for no other purpose than to visit the panorama of mountains which it commands. On every side but one, may they be seen fading away to mingle their deep blue with the lighter hue of the sky, but chief among them all is old laliawus, King of the Adirondaes, whose summit is perpetually encompassed with a wreath of snow; and this mountain, with its ninny interesting a.sso- ciatious,shall bo tho subject of my next letter. u u. From tho National Era. THE SONG OF TOIL. IlTAt'OUSTISE DLOASNi:. I.e.t hiui who will, rehearse the song Of gent le love and bright romance l.et him who will with tripping tongue, Lead gleaming thoughts to Fancy's dance; lint lot nie strike mine iron harp As northern harps were .t.aick of old And let its music, stern and sharp, Arouse the free and buld ! My hands that iron harp shall sweep, Till 'from each stroke now strains recoil, And forth, tho sounding eciioe- leap, To join the arousing Song ot Toil: Till men of tho't their thoughts outspeak, And thoughts awake in kindred mind; And stirring words shall arm the weak, And fetters ceao to hind! And crashing, soon, o'er soul and senso, That glorious harp, whose iron strings Are bailor's mighty instruments, Shall shake the thrones of mortal king-: And ring of axe. and anvil note, And rush of plough through yielding -oil, And laboring engine's vocal throat, Shall swell the Song of Toil ! WKSTKlUi EXCJIA.NGI:, l'lUJ.ATlhLl'HIA, July 37. Another Letter from Major Jack Downing. 0 THE ROAD TO THE WAP., AUGUST , 184 7. Mr. Gat.es & Seatox My dear old friends : I spose you'll be a nmzingly disypitited to find I'm way off here, pusliin on to the scat of war, and didn't call to see you when loumc through Washington. But you musu't blame me for it, for I couldn't help it ; the 1'rcsident wouldn't let me call : he said I was getting quite too thick, with y ou, writing letters to you and all that. And when bespoke about letters, he looked kind of red ar.i! showed considerable spunk. Says he, Major Downing, 1 have put a good ileal of confidence in you as a friend of my administration ; and if you are a friend to it, you must let Gales and Sealon alone; keep out of their way and have nothing to do with them ; they are dangerous, mischief-making fellers, eternally' peekin at my ad ministration, till weathers. Let me try to keep things ever so ?nug, and lay my plans ever so deep, they are sure to dig tin in all up, lug them into the Intelligencer, and blaze 'em ail over the country. Couibuml their pictur.s, they ale the most trouble.-ome custo mers an administration ever had; they've tome pretty near swamping nie two or three times. So, if you are. my friend, I warn you not to bo so thick wit h Ga'es and Seaton. Well, says I, Colonel, you know I am a friend to you and your administration, as much as I ever was to tho old Gineral and his administration ; and I shall stand by you and do every thing to help you out of this scrape you've got into about the war. But 1 don't know as that need to make me break with (rales and Seaton. We've been old friends so long, it would be kind of hard for me to give 'cm up now; and I don't hardly think they are quite so bad as you think for. They may not mean to do you so much hurt when they put these things into their paper, and only put them in because they think folks want to know whats gom on. Air. lliehie sometimes puts thing.; into his paper that folks think don't do you no good. The President give two or three hard chaws upon his cud of tobacco, and says he, Yes, Major, that's too true, it must be con fessed ; and it annoys me beyond all patience. But then have to forgive it and overlook it, because Mr. Richie d m't mean it. The old gentleman is always sorry for it, and always willing to take it back. ' And then he's such a tulf old feller to figlit tho federalists, I can't have a heart to scold at him much about his mistakes and blunders. Wcll, says I, Colonel, being you've named federalists, I want to know it any ot them au , inials is really supposed to bo alive and where iu the country noiV-a days. Seeing sii h aw- ful accounts about them in the Union paper all the time, I enquired all the way along through New England, where they used to bo the thickest, and 1 couldn't get track of one ; and when 1 asked the folks if there was any federalists any wherein them quarters, they all stared at me and said they didn't know j what kind of critters they was. When I got to Diwningvillu I asked uncle Joshua about it. lie said, in his younger days there used to be considerable many of 'em about, but they wasn't thought to bo dangerous, for tiiey never was much given to fighting. But he said ho guessed they'd all died out long ago, for he hadn't co no across one this twenty years. S now Colonel, says I,hnw is it they aro so thick in Mr. Richie's paper all the time ? At, that he give me a very knowing kind of a look, and lowered his voice down almost to a whisper ; and says he, Major, I'll tell you how that is. When Mr. Richie was a young and now tho fancies and scenes of his youth i II ..... uu seem to come bar k Vex 1 tr h u m mil im I v. . ., . .. ""out any th.iuj else, prehend, were prepared, except those whoso r"- i ... ! ZZ". "1 ' ue,. ' ,i,;.,:. .; r..t - wi itiu iiuiYniiiiiiiu m 1 1 i.t , i v i ii-.i i 1 1 1 ( 1 1 ' i ! in i in - n inn ui.-M i iinuil. l)Ul I.VU3 U3 JlAJllt tl nuuiKi; ' im- xf. 1... ... - unui (, iviiuiv 1JIV 11 lit 11. 111U UU 1 YV IlilL 1UI tta tri. irnliniir. I. ... ...1 ...C.a ..!.... " -w , "7 . uun, lur. ivicme soinenow (nun c seem to uu- i derstand 'em ; no matter how hard they fired at me, ho didn't seem to hear it: and when I n..lln,l 1. I .. t 1- I 1.1 . i-iiih;i.i iu iii.n iu nre unci., jic woiuu luuac up and touch off ii few squibs with abotit as good with federalists. Since I made that discov - ery lie s been more help to me. Whenever I nee the cneniv entrenching himself around ut, mm vuiiui up 1113 o.'.i o.:riu3 lu ilic llliu my administration, all I have to do is to wliis- per in Mr. Richie's car and say, 'Mr. Bich-'e, the air smells cf federalism ; you may depentl upon it there is federalists abroad somewhere.' In a minute, you've no idea with what fury tho old o'eiitlcninn Hies round, and mounts Lis heaviest guns, and sels his paper battery in a j Buffalo by Railroad, and New Buffalo in one. roar. His shols fly rigid and left, and some- year or so will have a Railroad with a heavy times knock down friends as well as foes. To : rail to Detroit. Railroads are making in Cana ba sure they don't make a very great impress-1 da from near Deli oir, so that Detroit will ion upon the enemy ; but then there's this ad- readily connect with Buffalo. When the heavy vantage in it : if he don't kill or beat off the j rail shall be laid down from the Hudson enemy, he keeps the administration so per-1 River to Buffalo, a traveler may go from fectly covered up with smoke that (he enemy j Troy or Albany to Galena on the Mississippi can't see half the time whereto fire at us. ; in 50 or 52 hours. A journey to Chicago will On the whole, Mr. Richie is a valuable man ! occupy two davs. The Railroad from Chicago !...! i .. ...1. . .. ! Hi . tit -iii .i , i i ,f to my administration, notwithstanding all his mistakes and blunders Just then the door opened, and who should come in but Mr. Richie himself. As he o peued the door he ketched the sound of the two last words the President was saying. 'Mistakes and blunders !' says Mr. Richie, says he; what, have you got something more of Scott and Taylor's blundering in Mexico ? Nothing more to-day, says the President. I was only telling Major Djwninghow their blunders there have come pretty near ruin ing the country, and how it is absolutely nec essary to get the stall out ot their hands somehow or other before they quite finish the job. I'm going now to fry one more plan, .Mr. iviclne ; but lie careful that you don t say anything about it in the Union, and blow it all up. I tried once to send Col. Benton on tor the same purpose, and Congress blowed that up. Then I sent Trist on lor the same purpose, and Scott has blowed him up. Mow I'm going to send Major Downing, not as a regular Chaplain, but as a sort of watch up on them, you know,lo work round and do the business up before any body knows it. He isn't to go to Scott nor Taylor, nor have any thing to do willi 'em, but work his way into Mexico, and go right to Santa Anna and knock up a bargain with Lim. 1 don't care what he gives. The fact is, Mr. Richie, the country needs peace, and I'll have pcaco,cost what it will. An excellent idea, says Mr. Richie ; an ex cellent plan, sir. I'm for peace at all hazards, if it is to be found anv where in Mexico that is, if we can getliohl of it before Scott or Taylor does. And I think Majoi Downing is just the man for it a true stanch democratic republican ; and whatever he does will go torthe benefit of the Administration. Now the country's shins are aching pretty bail with the war, if we. can fix tip a good smooth peace right off, and not let Si olt or Taylor have any hand in it, who knows, Mr. President. but it might make our administration so popular that you and I might both be elected to serve another four years V But when is the Major to start? Right oil' tonight, says the President, or, rather, in the morning before daylight be fore any body in Washington funis out that ho has got back from Dowuingville. I have forbid his calling at the Intelligencer of'iee, and I don't want they should find out or mis trust that he's been here. Ifthey should get wind of the movement, they would be sure to throw some constitutional difficulty in the way, and tty to make a bad botch of the business. The Piesidcnt shot mo into his room, and charged me not to leave the bouse, while he sent for Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Marcy to fix up my private instructions. 'While he was gone, Mr. Richie fixed nie tip a nice little bundle of private instructions too, on his own hook, modeled, he said, on the Virginia Resolutions of 'OS. Presently the President came back wiih my budget all ready, and give me my instructions, and filled my pock ets with rations, and told me how to draw whenever I wanted money ; and before day light I was oil' a good piece on the road to the war. To-day 1 met a man going on to carry let ters to the Government from Gineral Scott's side of the war, and I made him stop a little while to take this letter to you ; for I was afraid you might begin to think I was dead, lie says Seott is quite wrathy about the Trist business, and wants to push right on and take tho city of Mexico, but Mr. Trist is disposed to wait and see if he can't make a bargain with Santa Anna's men. I shall push along as fast as I can, and get into tho city of Mex ico if possible before Scott does, and if I only once get hold of Santa Anna, I have no doubt I shall make a trade. I don't know yet whether I shall take Scott's road or Taylor's road to go to the city of Mexico; it will depend a little upon the news I get on fhe way. Two or three times, when I have been stopping to rest, I have been looking over my private instructions. They are fust rate, especially Mr. Richie's. I rem tin your old friend, and the Presi dent's private Embassador, MAI Oil JACK DOWNING. Moor; oi- Puiui'viNii Watkh. It is not that. so geuerully known as il ought to he that ' and ninety feet, deep. To complete bis di pounded alum possesses the property of puri- lemma, the stones with which he by his hands i'viu" w.ilor. A table snonnl'ul of nulvci ized slcidiiul his uncertain hold, came out. Alter alum sprinkled intoa hogshead of water, the, . fi ..... . water stirred round at the tune. )will, alter the lapse of a few hours time by precipitating to the bottom the imp ire parliolos, so purify it ; that it will be found to possess all the freshness ' and clearness of the finest spring water. A pailful, containing four gallons, may bo puri- fiod by a single tcuspoonful. No. 11. J.F.McCOLLAM, Printer. Growth op Wohcester. The valua- Hun ...i.'.. l .. .i. ,... r town, discloses a tact, lor which few, we ap- , nits made tucm unniiar witn mo grow , of tho place. . It s this, that the num- v Hfiv n.. t .. i . 1 1 . l t . t'"' -"v-.v,.. ....v. ...v 21 per cent in a single year. In 18-1C they were 3,555, and in 1847 they were 4,.J03. In- Crease 7 18 I J ho sump r:ilin nf in'Wfitu mi 'lite l . i . " ' popunuion woum amount to some- tiling like twenty- ve hundied. The rot 10 however, would not hold "ood, because I than the usual pro-jortiori'of thos who enme. 1. . 1 ' , , , nuo lowu are unmarried men. , or newly mar- j rieel couples who have not much family. 1 census of 1850 will show a greater per cent increase, since 1840. than sun- other town of similar size m the State. Mat, - Rail Road to Galf.xa. Wm. B. OwDK.v, President of the Galena and Chiergo Union Rail Road Company, is now takinor active , measures to get subscriptions for a Rttilr from Galena to Chicago, KiO miles. Measi Iroad isnres are beinor taken to connect ChieiiTo with New to Galena will be through a rich and lertitej country and will brii:gincredib!e quantities of lead, wheat, beef, wool and other articles to our markets. The cost of tho line from Galena to Chicago is estimated at S 2,058,000. The total income of the road yearly is set down at :!93,000. If these estimates of tho engineer are correct, this road may be count ed on as a permanent 10 or 12 per cent stock. We have no doubt the road will form a great thoroughfare from the valley of the Missis sippi and open a great country of immense productive capacity. We shall soon hail Chi cago and Galena as our neighbors. Ludrjcl. The Bostoa and Ogdensbnrgh . Railroad. We now propose to name fomo of the ad vantages which the route thro' this place to OgdcHsLurgh has over either of the routes in contemplation. In the first place, as we have already remarked, this is the shortest, beslnnd cheitjKtt route. Il is at least do n.iies shoiler than the 1'lattsburgh route and nerly seventy miles shorter thau the Rouse Point recto, j which, at the least calculation, must l.,o a i - nig to the stoekholucrs of about fcS0vr Another advantage is, the excellent harbors which this place and basin harbor afford Lv the establihiiig of a Ferry. In fact there are no better harbors on the hike. The easy grades w hich this route possess is highly favorable to its success. From Ver gennes to Basin Harbor, a distant e of crdyG miles, the country is uncommonly level. From this place the route already surveyed from Port Kent to Ogdcnsburgh can be reached (at Clintonville) by an easy passage, at only L'l miles. The balance of the route to Og dcnsburgh, nil interested in this route mo well acquainted with. We will now speak briefly of the most es sential advantage which this route pessc'scj and that which gives it a vast pre-eminence over the other roads, viz : the resources of the country thro' which it will pass. The de posited of ore arc inexhaustible. Hie estab lishments for (he manufacture of iron, and for marketable lumber, are vastly numerous and rapidly increasing. The instant the lo comotive touches cur shore, it almost tcir.es in contact with an iron establi.-,hmcnt ; and us it winds its way through our county and tho borders of Clinton, up the far-fiined valley ot Ausable, it will pass the thresholds of a hundred forgc-fiics, and sixty saw-mills which manufacture about 18,000 tons of iron per annum, and 2,220 0oo pieces of lumber, besides rolling mills, nail factories, founder ie, woolen factories, tanneries &e., &e. In short itpassnss through the very heart of tho iron district of Northern New York. B'c. port Patriot. Life iv thi: Vv"i:st. Constable Philips,of Council Bluff, was married night before last, and as common iu the:-c parts, a parcel of his acquaintances feltinduty bound to give him a ttircrn.c on the occasion. We understand ho told them if they did, they would have to abide the consequence. This did not deter the. "fun ;" and the consequence was, that when the medley began, Philips threw among the crowd somo " deu-'ii.sh machines," which ex ploded, and lodged several large shot in some three of them. John Ross, late a volunteer nf Opt. Crow's company, had I t or 15 bilg ed in different parts of his body, and is sup posed to be in a dangerous situation. Doctor Johnson has been out to see the wounded. Philips is not at home, and officer Gallagher is looking him up. So much for not allow ing one's acquaintances toget married without saluting them wilh a medley of'frumpets.bejls, kettle drums, and any number of wind in strumcnts. (inlena Ji-jfersonian. A T.vcident at Then ton Fai.t'. The visitors at Trenton Falls on Sunday last, had the excitement of an incident, which is thus related in the Ulica Gazette. A visitor from New York Mills undertook au exploration of the ravine much farther up than it is usu ually, if it ever has been travelled. lie suc ceeded in reaching a point a mile and a hah' above the refreshment house, when his track along the perpendicular walls itself cuae to a point, and left him a choice, between sealing some two or three hundred feet without foot hold, or dropping fifteen feet into the water, subsequently ascertained to be between eighty . , an instant's suspense over the bilk waters. the law of gravity determined the question. and he fell into Ihe stream. He was borne by the rapid current several yards down the sl'rcatn, when he fortunately made out to ef fect a landing, whence he pursued his way t 11 hn came, iu sight ot some other wsitors, a wetter and a wiser man.