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p- —-- , T| m>H AC TO. - just received, from Baltimore and fj. Philadelphia. jp boxes Virginia manufactured Tobacco; “ •• Gold leaf, a very superior article; I b “ “ Luscious Luxury; I 4 “ Fine Smoking; 1 barrel do and for sale by 4 May 23_TUCKER & BOSS, j /4i,oTlllN(i! CLOTHING!! — Just received . ■Ly from Philadelphia black Alpaca Sacks, L Plain Gingham and black Satinett Sacks, Black cloth sacks, double and single breasted; ' Superior white linen drill pants, black doeskin cas simcre do; black cloth, bombazine and white marseills V.-sts; fancy cottonade, grass linen and planter’s sacks and frock coats; black silk, black satin, fancy silk and [fancy marseills Vests; for sale bv May 23_TUCKER & ROSS. LIQUORS! LIQUORS!!- --J ust received from Cincinnati and Philadelphia. 25 barrels Dean’s superier whisky; 55 half barrels; “ “ “ jp 25 barrels Wilshires; “ 25 half barrels; “ “ ban-els sweet Malaga w ine; 12 kegs superior American brandy; 4 kegs Cherry brandy; 5 boxes Sparkling Catawba wine; 25 •• superior Champaign “ quarts and pints; 10 boxes fine Claret wine; 2 " White wine; 1 quarter cask old Maglorv brandy, a very su perior article for medical purposes. For sale bv May 80 TUCKER A ROSS. Dry goods.— Just received from Philadel- ■ phia a few packages of Dry Goods, cosnisting of o"o pieces Prints; 4" “ Ticking; •io •• < Gnaburgs, white, striped and drilled;| 30 “ Denims; 20 “ Cottonades; 40 “ Kerseys; 20 “ Janes; 5 bales Brown Domestic; 1 “ Drills; 25 pieces Bleached Domestic: 1 “ very fine Black Olotli; “ Doeskin Cassini ere; Berages, Muslins, Lawns, Black and Fancy Silks, ( etc., etc. W i will in a few days receive from New York and a very extensive stock of Dry Goods, Hard- | ware, tpiccnswarc. Boots and Shoes, which being ad d. d t■ ■ < >ur present stock will muke it the largest ever brought ro this city. W. n spectliillydnvite those wishing to purchase g '"ds in <>ur x ity to call and examine ourstock before ' pur-basing elsew here. If we cannot sell them goods, j w • .1 take a pleasure in showing them our stock. Ma ■ TUCKER xV BOSS. : ONLY ONE. ; JI ST rexci . cd per steamer Yuba, one splendid and fine tunc Rose Wood Piano Forte, six and thr •-quarter octaves, from the celebrated manufac tory "f .V. Richenbanch, Philadelphia. it i- a great Hargain. may 23 tf__ At FULTON’S. Tl/TASONIC Monthly and Week* -xit I ly Publications.—Southern ! Western Masonic Miscellany, Charles-j ton. S. <'. A. G. Mackey, editor, mon ‘■j! 7“ t hiy. price |2 in advance. ^ Krecmason's M agazine, Boston, Mass. I ('. V* . Muore. editor, price £2 in advance Masonic Mirror and Keystone. Philadelphia. Leon j Ilyii'uiuin. editor, weekly. *2 in advance. Ai.: liean Freemason. Louisville, Ky. RobertMor ris. e.liter, twice a month. SI in advance. > - -i prions to any of the above will be received ! bv Albert Pike, esq., or at the BookStore of JNO. E. REARDON, agent. . VKo New Trestle Hoard, a■ opted by the Gn n 1 Lodge* at its last session, 3 j .arts in one Vol. M \1 X'xie' 'ii of Freemasonry. Mae x>-y's Aiiiman Rezon. St.'w art's Freemason's Manual. The Anal _ry of Ancient Craft Masonry to natural and n veal -d Religion, byScott. May 23 * JNO. E. REARDON. BELLS! BELLS!! BELLS!!! fpiIH subscribers manufacture and keep on hand a 1 large assortment of Iiells suitable for Churches, Acad< ules. Factories, Steamers, Plantations, etc., ni 'imti-d with their improved Hangings, the mostetfi ci'-nt in i:mi. Their establishment has been in opera te u Thirty Years, having turned out nearly 10,000 l’> U averaging OoO lb>. each; and its patterns and I'On-t ss of manufacture so perfected, together with re cent improvements, that its Bells have an unequaled i'e] utatiou for volume of sound and quality of tone. ' i. \ k.iw just received—Jan., 1854— the FIRST PREMIUM a silver medal) of the World’s Fair in New 1 ork, over all Bells : rom this country or Europe, j Having a large assortment of Bells on hand, and be .ng in immediate connection with routes in all direc ti*.ns. either railroad, canal or river, and but 4 hours • ■ ia New York, we can execute orders with dispatch. ' \ ress A. MENEELY’S SONS, May a3.1854. ly. West Troy, Albany co., N. Y. Olliee Cairo and Fulton R. R. Co.,' Little Rock. May 18, 1.854. j I H BI.IC NOTICE D hereby given to the S >: • •kliulders of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad : • :: ■ any. that, in obedience to an order of the Board • i Directors, a call of five per cent is made upon all ! stock ~1. i*s» i i[ ' ions heretofi-re made, pavable on or be- 1 f re the first day of August next to Wm. B. Wait, Ls p. Treasurer of the company, the agents of the "Uioany oppointed to solicit stock subscriptions or to 1 < i !. r Y the Directors, who are hereby authorized to ! 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( tOPYlNG 1 -ETTIiR BOOKS. -300,500and Y Too pages, a superior article, paged and alpha beted, just received at the Book Store of May 28,1854 JNO. E. REARDON. A AN BEREA ELOER. J EST received 3,000 IDs. Van Buren Flour, equal if Lot .'Upcrior to the best St. Louis. Give it a trial. May 23 A. J. HUTT. PtOTECTION INSU RANCE COMPANY of Hartford, Conn, i Capital.ft29i,K00 D. W. CLARK, President. / Wm. Conner, Secretary. /ETNA INSURANCE CO., of Hartford, Conn. Capital.*300.000 THOMAS K. IIKACE, President. T. A. Alexander, Secretary. The subscriber, agent fur the above companies, is l'>i | ired to receive applications for Fire Risks on Buildings, Merchandize, Furniture and pro perty general]v. at current rates. WM. B. WAIT, Agent. Little Rode. May 30,1854. lOt SADDLERY! SADDLERY!! JI ST received !*v the undersigned, a large v ami well selected stock of saddlery, comprising Mens’ saddles in great variety; Womens’ “ “ “ bridles, martingales, saddle bags, surcingles, and everything in this line usually found in stores in this place. Purchasers would do well to give him a call i bafoK- purchasing elsewhere, for he is determined to sell cheap and at one price. A. J. IIUTT. May 9 ’54 j Blacksmith Tools. 11E undersigned has now in store a fine assortment of blacksmith tools, among which will be found the following: Nashville bellows, assorted sizes; Eastern « “ ** best mouse hole Anvils; •: •• Screw Plates: c Hock and Die; J ‘‘ Colton Key Vice; 1 - H aid Hammers assorted; y Sledge “ « v' h are offered very low. Call and examine before purchasing. a. J. HUTT. May 9. THE TRUE DEMOCRAT [S PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING BY JOHNSON & YERKES. Terms of Subscription. 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D., and pronounce it one of the ablest and sound est treaties that we have ever seen on the sub ject. In a short preface he says: “ Striping off the skin of the negro, he pro poses to demonstrate to the senses as well as the ! reason, that he is not a black white man, or a man merely with a black skin, but a different and inferior species of man—that this difference is radical, and total, and relatively as great in the primordial arrangement of elementary par ticles, or the single globlule of blood, as in the color of the skin, or the grosser facts, palpable to the senses—that it is original, invariable, and indestructible, as long as the present order of creation itself lasts—that the physical structure of the race is necessarily and perpetually link ed with corresponding faculties, wants, neces sities, in short, with a specific nature, and is thus i designed by the Almighty Creator for corre sponding purposes, or a social position harmo nizing with thos’e wants, etc.—that therefore all the charges against the social system of the South being based on false assumptions, are themselves necessarily false—that so-called sla very is neither a ‘wrong’ or an ‘evil,’ or its ex tension dangerous, but a normal condition, a na tural relation, based upon the ‘higher law,’ in harmony with the order, progress, and general well-being of the superior one, and absolutely essential to the very existence of the inferior race.” In support of these grounds, the writer then shows, that the Caucasian, or white race, are al most as far removed from the negro race, as the latter is superior to the orang-outang. Speaking of the conformation of the brain in the two races, he says— “ The Caucasian brain measures 92 cubic in- I ches—with the cerebrum, the center of the in- ! tellectual functions, relatively predominating over the cerebellum, the center of the animal instincts; thus it is capable of indefinite pro- j gression and transmits the knowledge or ex perience acquired by one generation to subse- I quent generations—the record of which is his tory. The negro brain measures from 05 to 70 cu- j bicinches—with the cerebellum, the cent/e of i the animal instincts, relatively predominating over the cerebrum, the center of the intellec tual powers; thus, as its acquisition of know ledge is limited to a single generation and inca pable of transmitting this to subsequent ones, it can have no history. A single glance at eternal and immutable facts, which perpetually sepa rate these forms of human existence will be sufficient to cover the whole ground—thus, could the deluded people who propose to im prove on the works of the Creator, and elevate the negro to the standard of the white, actual ly perform an act of omnipotence, and add 25 or 30 per cent, to the totality of the negro brain, they would still be at as great a distance as ever from their final object while the relations of the anterior and posterior portions of the brain re- j mained as at present.” And in reference to English “liberty and equa lity.” “ There are in England four millions of pau pers, and ten millions of laborers to whom the ownership of property, whatever may be the theories or abstractions about British freedom, etc., is just as impossible, as a fact, as it is in the case of Southern negroes. Most of them are also in far less favorable position foracquir mg intelligence than those same southern slaves;” and there are multitudes of men and women and children, whose joints and mucles and skeletons are so distorted by excessive la bor, by privation and physical suffering as al most to seem to belong to another race. But these results of wrong and oppression, frightful and monstrous as they are, are nothing in the minds of Englishmen, whem compared with American “slavery,” or to the oppressions and wrongs supposed to be inflicted on the nem-o which, according to their notions, have not only crushed his intellect below thatof the mostde-1 graded class of their own population; but in! some incomprehensible mannner changed bis physical structure, and blackened his skin, as well as degraded his mind. Thus are two con- i ditions, totally dissimilar, confounded with each ! other; and the fact, that the British peasant is j vastly superior to the Southern negro, is as_, mined as conclusive proof that he is less op pressed or less wrronged; and British and Ame rican abolitionists now rely mainly upon this fact as the basis of their hostility to negro sla very. The delusion in the case consists in con founding the results of human contrivances, or of man’s oppressions, with the works of the Creator. (The English peasant is the work of British institutions; the negro the creation of nature. The former artificially degraded; the latter naturally inferior.) Of the multitudes of stolid and debased pea sants that till the lands of a British “ noble,” there is probably not a single one who, if taken when in his cradle, and bread as the offspring of a Sutherland, but would be his equal; in deed, in view of the physiological deterioration ot hereditarg aristocracy, most probably superior to the standard of the n®ble order; while the otifepring of Sutherland, bred in the hovel of the laborer would, in no respect whatever, vary from the ordinary standard of peasant life. “ Among the thousands of deformed and brutalized women of the mines of Cornwall, except those deformed by scrofulous diseases (and this, by the way, amid all their filth, and want and suffering, is not as often the case as among the ‘noble’ order,) there is not a single one who, had she been exchanged with Mrs. Sutherland while in their cradles, but would exhibit the personal graces and mental capaci ties, if not ‘philanthropy,’ of that interesting person. Nor would the last, excluded from the light of day from every childhood, and com pelled to perform the labor of the other sex, as is the fate of these unfortunates, differ from them in the slightest particular. ******* “ But the condition of things at the South has no resemblance whatever to the artificial one confounded with it. The negro servant, or ‘slave,’ taken from some Uncle Tom’s cabin, when an infant, and bred in the mansion of the planter, unlike the case of the British pea sant, remains the same. He may be taken North—to England—may be educated at Ox ford, or bred in the family of the Sutherlands, and supplied with all the wealth of the Roth schilds; yet the whole combined power of man kind will be utterly incompetent to change him the millioneth part of an atom. “ To be sure, his intellect will be cultivated beyond that usually manifested by his race; but with the same color, the same hair, the same lonned limbs, the same animalized pelvis, the same small and receding brain—in a word, with the same physical inferiority, will be the same mental inferiority that the Creator has stamped upon the race. He may, with the fullest de velopment of the faculties inherent in his race, together with the imitated or borrowed intelli gence of the superior one, thus forced upon him, seem superior to vast multitudes of uncul tivated white men. But, if of pure negro blood, it is as impossible for him to reach the standard capacity of the white man, as it is to change any other order or form of nature, and as wholly beyond the power of human force to accomplish, as it would be to change a cow in to a horse or to raise the dead, or in a word, as to change the color of his skin. Jfc * it- •*. *1* “ In all the countries of Europe, nearly half the people are armed to keep down the'other hall. England is no exception; for though her standing army is less, (in perfect keeping with the fraud and hypocrisy of her whole system,) an armed j>olice, equal to the regular soldiery or the more manly despotisms of the continent, is kept in pay and constant, unsleeping activity, to keep down the people. \\ as the European aristocracy to place it self in the same position towards the people that the planters ol the South do, in respect to their negroes—were kings and nobles to disband their armies, to present themselves stripped of all artificial support, face to face with theirsub jects, as the planter does daily and constantly to his negroes—to trust to their assumed and fictitious superiority, as the planter does to his real and natural superiority, the entire crew of fictitious and painted humanity would be receiv ed with a roar of derision from the Volga to the Thames; their actual inferiority and utter in significance would be so palpably revealed to the people, that the latter would scarcely con descend to punish them for their past'trans gressions. “ The continued ascendency of an aristocracy, or ruling class, on the contrary, instead of the laws of nature, rests wholly on the ignorance of the masses. With the government, the wealth, all the forces of the States in its pos session, it cultivates its own intelligence, and withholds the means of mental improvement from the people. Thus the same parliament in England which voted forty thousand pounds to educate the people, appropriated eighty thou sand to repair the Queen’s stables; making the physicialcomfort of the dumbanimalsof double importance to the moral well-being of the peo ple. Thus, too, while plundering the laboring classes of some five millions annually to pa}’ the interest on money squandered to elevate the negro to a common level with the former, they annually appropriate about a hundred thousand pounds for education, or allow the people to use about the fiftieth partof the former amount to elevate themselves; or, when robbing a Bri tish laborer of fifty cents to elevate the negro to his own level, permit him to use one cent to elevate himself to the level of these with whom God and Nature has made him equal. Yet, strange, indeed, this atrocious imposture and unapproachable villanv passes for ‘philanthro py;’ and there are even Americans so debauch ed by Britishism, and so stultified in their moral perceptions, as to glorify it as an act of humanity and a great‘national effort’ in behalf of ‘ liberty.’ Nor is this misconception or confusion between artificially degraded classes of a superior race, and the natural condition of an inferior one, con fined to Europe. Throughout the northern States, those with whom British books and Bri tish writers are standard authorities, universally adopts the same notion. And it will always be found that those most in favor of class distinc tions in their own race, or most in favor of spe cial legislation, or those schemes or contrivances that foster artificial distinctions amongst the whites, are those, too, most hostile to what is termed ‘ southern slavery.’ * * * * * * “Forthis purpose, and the accomplishment of this end, British aristocracy, and European monarchists, their tools and instruments all over, everywhere, openly or convertly labor inces santly. They know instinctively the danger and the men, the ideas and the representative of ideas, that threatens to destroy their own vile ‘sys tems’ of oppression; and from the day that the brutal old tory, Dr. Johnson, declared that ‘the negro drivers of America were the loudest yel pers after liberty’ to the present moment, all their efforts have been directed to break down a system in deadly hostility to their own—to crush ideas destined to revolutionize Europe— to destroy a class, the founders and true defen ders of democratic institutions. “ But delusion and imposture have most pro bably reached their limits. The fraud, indeed the monstrous impiety of the British aristocracy, who pretending to benefit labor, to defame ‘hu manity,’ to force an inferior race to a level with their own flesh and blood, and to blot out the distinctions ofi the Almighty, that they may preserve those of their own creation—will be understood. “The mask that has so long concealed the hideous features of British ‘ philanthropy,’ is destined ere long to be torn aside forever, and all men, even the benighted and besotted beings I in our midst, who have so faithfully labored to propagate its lies and to spread its delusions, will yet agree in denouncing it—as the mightiest im posture and the most deplorable delusion that j has ever darkened the understanding or per verted the moral instincts of mandkind.” A Month Later from New Mexico. Eull Details of the Different Battles with the Indians. The Santa Fe mail arrived at St. Louis on the 26th. We take the following extracts from the Republican of the 27th: Independence, May 20, 1854. The Santa Fe mail arrived here to-day.— From the official reports, as you will see in the Santa Fe papers, there were killed of Lieut. Davidson’s command twenty-two men, and twen j ty-seven wounded. For this, as well as other j deeds of theirs, Gen. Garland, aided by the civil authorities, is determined to destroy, or in the language of Kit Carson, wipe out this baud ot Jicanilla Apaches. Col. Cooke has recover ed some of the property lost by the United States troops in their former battles, and at last accounts was in close pursuit of the retreating savages. The returning mail party were at one time entirely in the power of a band of the Chey ennes, and if the conductor and his men had not showed some braverj’, their lives would have paid the forfeit, and it would have been attributed to some of the hostile tribes.— Near Cedar Spring, at noon time, the mules were just turned loose, (notan Indian or any thing else in sight,) and they had commenced staking them out, when, as quick as thought, and before the party could get to the stage for their guns, (their pistols they had,) the mules were swept off from before their eyes, and had j not a gun been leveled at the chief’s head, no doubt they would never have been returned— i this act urged him to cry out that he was a friend—they, they, were very hungry, and wanted all the provisions, etc.—this was refused, until the mules were brought back. The Indians, even after this, were very inso lent, and would not sutler the party to move until they pleased to let them go, taking off the bridles as fast as the men put them on. Every i day discloses more and more of their treachery, and unless punishment, even to the best of them, is soon administered, we shall hear of more trouble in every quarter. To small par ; ties going out or coming in, protection must be j afforded, but not such protection as was furnish 1 ed the mail that went into Mexico month before last—three or four men on jaded horses and some footmen. The mail party coming in | could not get an escort; it was asked for, but | none could be had. From the Santa Fe Gazette, of the 15th April, j we make these extracts; The Fiirht at (“ieneguilla, BETWEEN THE JACARILLO APACHES AND THE UNITED STATES DRAGOONS. The following is the official account of the fight between the L. S. Dragoons and the Apac die Indians. After the fight between Lieut. Bell and Lobo’s part}’, the Indians crossed the mountains, and showed themselves on the road between Taos and Santa Fe. On the evening of the 29th ult., Major Blake1 ordered Lieutenant David son, with sixty men, to make a scout in search of the enemy. He left the cantonment the I same evening. The next morning, Lieut. D., with his command, came upon a party of Apaches, supposed to number near two hundred warriors, at the foot of the north slope of the mountains, and not far from the small Mexican I village of Clencguilla. When the troops ap peared in sight, the Indians immediately raised ! their war-whoop, and manifested a disposition ; to make an attack. rl he camp of the Apaches was situated upon a mountain ridge, and in a position naturally j strong and difficult of access. Lieut. Davidson I saw that an action could not be avoided, and j therefore made the necessary preparations for i battle. He dismounted his men, and with a small guard to protect and hold them, placed his horsis a little ways in the rear. With the balance of his command, not more than fifty I strong, he made an attack upon the camp of the Indians. The soldiers charged bravely up the ridge, and carried the position of the Apaches, who were forced to retreat. They rallied, how ever, almost immediately, and attacked the troops at close quarters, with great desperation; they were several times repulsed, and upon each occassiou, seven in all, rallied again to the charge, ill every instance exhibiting the utmost determination and bravery. The troops main tained this unequal contest for nearly three hours, when they were forced to give way and retreat, which they succeed 3d in doing, and reached Taos the same afternoon, with their wounded. 1 he loss on the part of the troops was very severe. The official report shows twenty-two killed on the field, twenty-three wounded, se veral of them badly; and upwards of forty-five horses killed and lost in the action. On the arrival of the troops at Taos, Major Blake im mediately started lor the scene of action, to bring in the dead bodies, and took with him twenty soldiers, all he could Jmount, a few Mexicans and Americans, and a small party of Pueblo Indians. They succeeded in recovering the bodies of those killed, which they took to^Taos, and had them interred. Since the fight the Indians have retreated to the west side of Rio del Norte, and are now hotly pursued by Col. Cooke with nearly two hundred dragoons and riflemen, and a spy com pany of citizens and Pueblo Indians, under the command of Mr.Jas. H. Quinn, of Taos. The troops are on their trial, which leads among the mountains of the north; and as the Indians are encumbered with their women and children, and are reported in low spirits, we think there is some chance of their being overtaken. Gen. Garland has taken the most prompt and vigorous means to bring the war to a speedy and successful termination. A large number of troops under the command of gallant and experienced officers, have been ordered to the north, and are now in rapid pursuit of the enem v. ANOTHER FIGHT WITH THE APACHES—BATTLE OF AGUA CALIENTE CREEK. Major Nichols, Assistant Adjutant General, has kindly placed in our hands the official re port of Lieut. Col. Cooke of this fight with the Apaches at Auga Caliente Creek, Saturday, the 8th inst. The report was brought in by a dra goon who left the camp the same evening of the battle, and arrived in Santa Fe Wednesdey, the 12th inst. Lieut. Col. Cooke, with nearly two hundred men, had been following the trail of the Apaches for some days on the west side of the Rio del Norte, now and then obtaining information of them. From Ojo Caliente, where last heard from, he marched in a northwest direction, un til the afternoon of the 8th inst., when he came in sight of the enemy’s camp. It was almost a surprise, as he got very near them before he was discovered. They had only time to send off their women and children and part of their baggage, before the troops were down upon them. They immediately took post in a very strong and almost inaccessible mountain; but the troops bravely charged them from it, and pursued them for about a mile and a half, fording a difficult stream, passing over a very broken country, and keeping up a runningfight. All the lodges and camp equipages, a large quantity of provi sions, and many of the horses of the enemy fell into the hands of the troops; and they also left behind a number or the arms and equip ments lately captured at Cieneguilla, which were recovered by Col. Cooke. Six dead Indians were found on the field. Of the troops one man was killed, and one man of the 2d Artillery severely wounded. The day of the fight the troops marched through snow two feet deep, and it was also snowing some of the time. Major Carleton, with a reinforcement, joined Col. Cook, about an hour after the battle, and will unite with him iu the further pursuit of the enemy. Since the action on the 8th inst., Col. Cooke and his command have been in active pursuit of the enemy, whom they pressed so hard they were obliged to separate into small parties to save themselves. They led the troops overthe most inaccessible country in New Mexico, with snow in some places three feet deep; and Kit Karson, who is their guide, says it is the rough est country he has ever seen. The Indians have suffered very much, and their bare foot prints were seen in the snow. When the Indians separated they took a di rection south-west, and it is supposed they will attempt to make their way to the southern part of the territory. .From indications, it is supposed the Moscalero Apiches have joined the Jicar illas and have been present wtth them during the campaign. Satire well Applied—“Presentation of Plate.” The Buffalo Democracy gives a flaming ac count of a silver currycomb presented to Wil liam Backstrap by the passengers conveyed in his omnibus from the Southern Michigan stea mer to the Plantagenet hotel. The following is a sketch of the happy speech of Mr. Phule on the occasion: “Mr. Backstrap was seated on the outer edge of a blue velvet lounge ‘in the ladies’ parlor, and held his hat between his legs in a very modest manner. His efforts at hiding his whip behind his ankles were ingenious and pleasing, i he passengers arose and stood in a half circle before him. ‘Mr. William Backstrap’—‘that’s the ticket sir!’ said Mr. Backstrap, intelligently closing one of his eyes. ‘Mr. William Back strap,’ resumed Mr.Phule, ‘why are you here?’ If there arose in Mr. Backstrap’s mind a de sire to answer, ‘because we ain’t thar,’ it was soon checked by the orator’s continuing: ‘We are here te honor merit. Why, Mr. Backstrap, do we honor merit? Because it is better to be landed safely than to be wrecked upon the voy age. Perils of lamp posts and of opposite hubs, and pavements, and the traitorous devices of competition encircle the omnibus passenger and the ark of his hopes. You evaded these, Wil liam Backstrap, with masterly skill and courage. \ ou bafled an insiduous attempt of an unprin cipled solicitor to decoy us to the Universal Do minion, an inferior hotel. You were mighty in the use of that coercive dialect, which, though elsewhere deemed profane swearing, the exi gencies of frade and travel have established upon the docks as an element of order and an aid to justice. Why, William Backstrap, do we speak of order and make mention of justice? Because they beatutifully herald the brilliant triumph of art, which I carefully cherish in my black coat pocket, and which, William Backstrap, I now produce.’ “ The currycomb was here taken out, and Mr. Backstrap in the most affecting manner immediately hid the better part of his counte nance behind a red cotton handkerchief, spirit edly ornamented with the picture of a trotting match. Notwithstanding his emotion, howev er, he was enabled to keep his right eye unco vered, with which to give respectful attention to the proceedings. ‘Accept, William Back strap, this silver currycomb, as a slight testimo nial of our respect and gratitude for the devo tion, courage and skill displayed by you on the last trip of your omnibus from the Southern Michigan to the Plantagenet house.’ “Mr. Backstrap, completely overcome by his feelings, took the currycomb and stuffed it into his hat, and with a graceful backward motion ot his right leg; and a short bow, he gathered up his whip and left the room. In the hall he relieved his feelings by drawing his breath deep ly, and then took out the currycomb, and re garded it tor awhile with looks of affection and curiosity. ‘ If this ere,’ said Mr. Backstrap, ‘ain’t up the spout* in less than 2:40, I hope to be spavined.” -[*At the Pawnbroker’s.] Served Him Right. Many years ago, (sa}’s a writer in the De troit Free Press,) Racer the Wyandotte, of Brownstown, ( at the seat of the council fire of a branch of the tribe,) entered my office, and, with a sorrowful, down cast look, handed me a letter from the territory, requesting me to at tend to the Wyandotte’s complaint. On inquiry, I ascertained that a few days be fore, in a drunken carouse at the Wyandotte village, the Racer, an old warrior, had “fought his battles over again”—had boasted of the nu merous pale faces who had felt the weight of his war club—ot the wasting desolation he had carried through our frontiers during the late war — of the numerous scalps he had borne away from his bleeding victims—of the numerous sons of Kentucky that had fallen before his deadly rifle. The eyes of the old sachem kin dled with fierce delight as he recounted his glo rious deeds on the war path. It so happened that John Atkins, one of Ken tucky’s tall volunteers, was there. John stood about six foot and a half in his boots. All si new and bone was John, gaunt as a greyhound, and brave as a lion. He listened awhile to the boastings of the chief; his muscles twitched, his eyes glistened, and when the savage spoke of his bloody deeds on the borders of Ken tucky, John’s wrath exploded like a volcano. “ You infernal tiger,” cried John, “ was you the critter that done that thar? Are you one of the cantankerous varmints that perused about and burnt our shanties, murdering and scalping our woming and children down thar on the bor ders of Kentucky? ’ I’ll show you how good it feels to be scalped;” and so saying, he seized the Wyandotte bv the scalp-lock, dashed him to the ground, and with a flourish of his knife he took the Racer’s scalp clean off. The crest fallen boaster arose to his feet as tounded. A Wyandotte warrior had lost his scalp in time of peace. His credit and stand ing with his tribe had gone. He was a ruined brave. An appeal to his tomahawk would be useless. John was enraged, and would have killed him with as much pleasure as he would a rattlesnake. The savage knew it, and appeal ed to the law. John was arrested, indicted, and brought to court, before Judge Morrell, I think. When brought up to plead the indictment, he strode about the court room, with clenched fists, say- j ing: “ Am I to be catouselled in this here court? Am I to be recuperated in this here way for nothin but scalpin an Ingin? No sir-ee, Mr. Judge, I’ll scalp the whole Wyandotte tribe if they dare to boast and brag before me in that thar way anyhow.” John’s case was duly considered, and as the scalping was thought to be a fair set off to the boasting, he was discharged, with the verdict, Served him right.” The Privateering Story. The report brought by the Europa, that the barque Grapeshot, awhile ago freighted at New York with muskets by Mr. George Law, had turned privateer, under Russian letters of mar que, and had captured a French vessel off the English coast, has naturally excited considera ble interest; but the particulars which have now come to hand incline us to the belief that the whole story, from beginning to end, is a fa brication—or at least, they show satisfactorily that it was not the American barque Grapeshot which had captured a French vessel in the chan nel. By accounts in the English papers it ap pears that the barque has turned out to be a “ Russian frigate”—and that, too, a mere phan tom ship probably. As this terrible Grapeshot was lying at the mouth of the Mississippi river at the time she was said to have been seen in the English chan nel, of course no stronger 'alibi could be desired. The Newr York Courier says: “ But, for those who may think that nothing is impossible for the ‘muskets,’ we will further say that the Grapeshot is a small Eastern built bark of about 350 tons burthen, not constructed with any special regard to strength, so that the discharge of a twelve-pounder on her deck would not be unattended with danger to those on board. Her fitness to cruise on the icy coast of Finland may be judged when we recall the fact that she was cut through by the ice in our rivers last winter, and sank with a cargo of breadstuff on board. That voyage was aban doned, and she has been purchased by Mr. Law, and loaded with unloaded muskets, which were bought, through the agency of a Frenchman, for the Mexican government. That govern ment has not been ‘flush’ lately, nor does its credit stand high in any money market in the world, and for that reason the cargo of the Grapeshot has not been delivered, but remains in the gulph ‘on call,’ waiting for action in Washington on tire Gadsden treaty, as its rati fication would have raised the credit of Mexico to a point which would make it safe to trust her with the muskets, without danger of their ‘going off’ unpaid for. The New York agent for the purchase of these arms has been so en couraged by the recent action of the Senate on tin* treaty, as to commence negotiations for the shipment of another cargo.” The Bible. Go, fling the gaudy robe aside, Unbind the jewels from thy hair, And casting thoughts of earth away, Oh! maiden, bend thy heart in prayer; And turn thee to the page of truth, Then seek the guiding love of heaven, Counsels that well may guard thy youth, And teach the love to mortals given. Let men with impious spirits dare The sacred word of God to scorn, And scoffing hopes and comforts there, From all its blessed percepts turn. But ne’er should woman, week and frail, Dare cast her guiding chart aside; W hen earthly hopes so often fail, Where shall she turn on earth beside. Oh! when the heart is sad and lone, And wearily the spirit droops, And blessings perish one by one, And pass away our youthful hopes; Where should the drooping spirit turn, But to that page of sacred truth, Where wisdom may true knowledge learn, And age know brighter hopes than youth. Col. Benton’s “Vision.” Col. Benton, in 1830, described our imme diate future of to-day as if with a prophet’s eye. Let what is passing before our eyes say wether this will not exactly apply. In 1830, I Benton said: 1 can have a vision also, and of a banner with inscriptions upon it, floating over the head of the Senator from Masschusetts, [Mr. W.] while he was speaking the words, “ Missouri Question, Colonization society, anti-slavery, Georgia In dians, Western lands, more tariflj internal im provement, anti-Sunday mails, anti-masonry.” A cavalcade under the banner—a motely'group a most miscellaneous concourse—the spekeled progeny of many conjuctions—federalists—be nevolent females—-politicians wlw have tost their caste—national republicans—all marching on to the next prsidential election, and changing the words on the banner, and repeating, “Under these signs we conquer.” Did you know it, Mr. President? Your looks say no. But I can not be looked out of my vision. I did see some thing, the shade at least of a substance—the apparition of a real event—making its way from the womb of time, and casting its shadow be fore. I shall see it again—at Philippi—and that before the Greek kalends, about the ides of November, 1832.” And suppose, adds the Boston Post, that one of his brother Senators, say a whig—say Mr. Clay—had risen in his place and said: “Yes, and you, Mr. Benton, will be leader of this speckled progeny.” What a scathing rebuke the then democratic champion would have utter ed ! “ I, sir, ever to be the leader of such a motely groupe, sir! Never, sir! I repeat, sir, never! The very suggestion, sir, is a libel on my reputa tion,sir!” Time, ambition and disappointment work great revolutions. Now the motley army is forming, and this Benton is striving to be commander. Mr. Eaerett’s Sucessor.—Abbott Law rence, esq. Gov. Gifford, Robert 3. Winthrop and Rufus Choate are talked of as candidates for the honor of succeeding the retiring United States Senator of Massachusetts. Mr. Choate is in Washington attending a meeting of the Regents of the Smithsonian institute. Mr. Win throp has once declined a seat in the Senate.— Mr. Clifford, the Boston Atlas formally announ ces as having been appointed Attorny-General of Masschusetts, to succeed Mr. Choate. Utah.—Brigham Young, in his address to his people, speaks thus of his authority: “I have no fears whatever of Franklin Pierce excusing me from office, and saying that an other man shall be governor of this territory. “We have got a territorial government, and I am and will be governor, and no power can hin der it, until the Lord Almighty says: ‘Brigham, you need not !>e governor any longer,’ and then I am willing to yield to another, I have told you the truth about that.” The Mormorn manner in electing a delegate to Congress is, to says the least of it, quite un ique. Young, as presiding Elder, is preaching, when he says: “It came into my mind when brother Bern hisel was speaking, and as the same thing strikes me now, viz: inasmuch as he does first rate as our delegate in Washington, I was going to move that we send him next session, though it is the Sabbath day. “I understand these things, and as other peo- i pie sav, ‘We are Mormons.’ We do things < that are necessary to be done when the time comes for us to do them. If we wish to make political speeches, and it is necessary for the best interest aud kingdom of God, to make them on the Sabbath, we do it. Brother Kim ball has seconded the motion that Dr. Bernhis el be sent back to W ashington as our delegate* all who are in favor of it raise your ri<dit hand.” [More than two thousand hands were at once seen above the heads of the congregation.] “It is all right. I would never call for an opposite vote. I will try it, however.” [Not a single hand was raised in opposition.”] Fanny Fern. A New York correspondent of one of our co temporaries, says:— Woman literature is all the rage now. Our authoresses certainly have the public by the ear —ves and by the heart and pocket too. There is Fanny Fern fo: instance. What a cuccess hers has been! Not two years since, she was living in poverty; herself and children subsist ing on bread and milk, with uo one to aid or sympathize with her; nursing her little sick one day and night, and warmly writing at intervals while it slept; and now she is wealthy; her name has become a household word in thou sands of families in both hemispheres, were she is known by her works and admired and loved for her brilliant genius, her womanly tenderness and her unmistakable goodness and purity of heart. I sometimes meet this lady in Broad way, and it may please you to know what man ner of woman she is like. Well, then, she is a little above medium height: her figure is perfectly symmetrical, and her bust and shoul ders, and the setting and lift of her head, would excite the envy of Venus herself. She has a delicate, beautiful, florid complexion; glossy golden hair, an honest, handsome face, a daunt less, loving blue eye, and a hand and foot of most juvenile dimensions. Her carriage is graceful, her step firm and elastic, her mien commanding aud indomitable, yet winning; in short, she looks like Fanny Fem. She dresses in perfect taste, generally wearing black, and sweeps along Broadway with a grace, abandon and self-forgetful characteristic of the accomplished lady of society and nature’s gen tlewoman—two characters which are seldom united in the same person. Her name, by the way, is not Farrington, Ferrington or Farming ton, as it has been variously reported, nor any thing that resembles either of these names in sound, appearance or outhography. Of this fact I have been assured, both by her publishers and her lawyer. She limits her acquaintance to a small and select circle; and to gain an in troduction to her, or obtain her autograph, is one of the things that may be classed among the serious difficulties of life—as I know by a most unsatisfactory experience. This, however, will not prevent me from buying an early copy of her Second Series of Lern Leaves, which is advertised as an entirely new work, and which will probably outsell the First Series as two houses in this city have already ordered eight thousand conies! Sufficient.—The Typoes of the Lexington (Miss.)Advertiser, thus tersely but all sufficient ly apologise for deficiencies there may be in their last issue: Our foreman is absent, the editor gone on a marrying expedition, and the “devil” and his imps left to get out the paper. The Oath. “ Do you,” said Fanny, t’other day, “ In earnest love me as you say? Or are these tender words applied Alike to fifty girls beside?” “Dear cruel girl,” said I, “ forbear— For by these cherry Ups I swear!” She stopped me as the oath I took, And said, “you’ve sworn, so kiss the Look!” Here is an improvement from the “ outside barbarians” of the old world, which everv one who has ever assisted in putting down a carpet will devoutly pray may be domesticated among us— “ Perhaps eight out of every ten of our rea ders have experienced the annoyance of lay ing down carpets; have felt the rush of blood to the head; the straining of the nether garments; the unpleasant rappings of the tops of the fin gers instead of tops of the tacks, which that employment is heir to. The foreign corres pondent of the Newark Advertiser, writing from Florence, suggests the basis of a reform which all houskeepers will apperciate and desire. “ Here,” he says, “ iron rings are fastened in the floors when the carpets are laid, and they have hooks in the binding, for which these rings are eyes, so there is no taking out and nailing in of tacks, and carpets are raised and lain as noiselessly and easy as bed covers.”— There are a good many people about this time, we imagine, who will approve of the hook and eye system for carpets, aud the abolition of the tack, hammer and bruised fingers.— Troy Whiy. A Most Foul and Horrible Murder.—The Frankfort (Kv.) Yeoman, of Saturdrv last, re lates the particulars of a murderous outrage, which has few parellels in hellishness: We hear various accounts of the horrible mur der perpetrated near Lawrenceburg, in Ander son county, of Mrs. McBrayer, wife of Jas. Mc Brayer, Esq., and daughter of Thomas Bond, of this place, it seems, from a summary of the reports, that some time between nine and eleven o’clock night before last, after Mr. and Mrs. McBrayer had retired to rest, a man en tered their room with an ax, and, approaching the bed, passed his hand over her face, iiSorder to be sure of the right one, which awoke her. Being satisfied that it was her, he commenced cutting with his ax, first striking her arms in many places; he then, with several strokes, se vered one of her legs entirely off Mr. McBray er, being awakened by the noise, reached out his hand to protect his wife, and received a blow cut ting his hand in two. The incarnate fiend; think ing he had killed her commenced striking about at random over the bed, with the hellish inten tion to kill their youngest child, who was in bed with them, but not finding it,he went to the lounge in the room where slept their other child, and aim ed a blow at its head, but only cut the back of its neck. He then went out, leaving the bloody ax at the door. Mrs. McBrayer had life enough left to tell who, as well as she could see, in the darkness, had committed the horrible deed. From her statement, her step-son has been ar rested and put in jail to await his trial. California and its Wealth.—We are in debted to a mercantile friend of this citv for the following extract of a letter, just received from an intelligent person in the California gold region: “ The writer has just returned from the nor thern mines, and can assure you that the ridi culous stories about the falling off in gold are without the slightest foundation. They are cnly beginning adevelopment, a continued series }f profitable workings, which must give em ployment to ten times the present number of miners for a century to come. The agricul ;ural wealth of California is only equalled by ts mineral, and the comforts of miners here ire far more than they are in the coal regions >f Pennsylvania.”