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While all around—wilhin—is burning; He drinks the Siroc’a deadly gale, See* clouds of sand around him sad, While Fancy views the distant mountain, Or hrar* the bubbling of the fountain; Yet still no covert meeta the eye To shield him from the parching sky, No rourm’ring streams before him burst To slake hi* sou I-consuming thirst: Veto all his tod. while tail* his breath— He ainka—and finds no rest, but De^th: Thu* through the world, man toil* amain A resting place from woe to gain: Delusive hope still whispers On. On, on. he goes, but find* he none. Now storms and tempests round him rise. And whirlwinds o'er Ids dark path rave, The phantom still before him flies. tie struggle* on. and finds a grave. Yet there i* rest—a plat e on high, \A here sits enthron’d the D**ity! Where hit beloved on earth shall fly And robe themselves in purity,— There is the weary spirit blest, Thers to the vir’uou* ’tis giv’u Iq calm and holy joy to rest Releas’d from woe in heaven. [From the National Intelligencer.J MR WEBSTER. Great intellectual power has always com* I mantled the attention and excited the adntira- i lion of mankind —whether exhibited in the bat- I tie fi- Id anndst blond and carnage and desolation, i or displayed in the legislative hall in powerful ar- i gument and splendid imagery and overwhelming i eloquence: or manifested in the page of the poet | or the philosopher, charming and delighting all i who come withiu its magic influence—the con- < trolling power of talent aud genius is always ac- i know: edged. But, in our humble opinion, of all the various I modes in which genius displays its mighty influ- I enre, that of the orator, who can at his will con trol his hearers and bend them to his purpose,.af- « folds the most perfect exemplification ol human power. We thiuk a higher and more lofty grade | of intellect is necessary for this purpose, than is , required bv the successful general or the eloquent , writer. The orator must unite the energy and , decision and seif possession of the warrior, with the extensive leai inog and refined ta-te and bril- j Itoof imagma'ion of the author. T'ie«»e ideas have been suggested by a consi . deration of the character and services of Daniel j Webster. j We consider Mr. W. one of the most gifted ', and extraordinary men our country has ever pro- j ( duced; and we believe we shall he sustained by j | the deliberate judgment of a great majority of , the American people, when we say. that with perhaps one exception (our venerated Chief Jus- j; tic*-) he is the most extraordinary man who is. now engaged in the jetivi- duties of life among u-. Bv the mere forte »t nilivc talent, unaitletl bv a*single adventitious circumstance of fann y, or pariv, or friend-, he has iisen t<» a height of reputation and influence, such as laucy could haidly have pictured or hope have prophesied Whether we view him as a youth at college —as a lawyer in New Hamnshire—as a member of Congress, at the age of 32—as the pro! on ml constitutional advocate btloie the Supreme Ju- • diciarv_or as the overwhelming annihilulor of nullification in the Senate, he is always distin-, guished and always pre eminent. Fiom the period at which he first appear ed in pubic life, his histurv may he said to be interwoven with that «»f his country—it is familiar to a'l. He has been regularly and rapidiy rising in power and influence, until it would seem he could scarcely lise higher; and yet every new effort s-ems to exhibit his chaiac term a new light, and to fasten upon him, with fresh force, the admiration and applauses of his countrymeu. It is*a singu’arand remarkable fact, that there are combined in Mr Webster’s character almost all the qualities which the critics require to form a pec feet orator; and it is in this view that he is ' so grea ly superior to any who have yet appear ed in our countrv, a in) to roost of those who have been distinguished in the British Parliament.—- t ' Patrick Henry may have equalled him in fluen- ; cy and animation; Fisher Ames in elegance and beauty of language; and the great Pinkney in power, energy, and promptitude—but it was re served for Webster to unite all these, and even ; other qualities, in his own person; with know- j ledge which may be said to be universal; with j wit and genius surpassed by none; in readiness 1 and fluency of language; in impressiveness of delivery; with powers of reasoning and imagina-1 tion nicely balanced: with self-possession which 1 never deserts him—we consider him before any orator our country has yet produced, and fully equal to any «*f whom Kngland can boast, if we except Mr.' Burke; and it may be well made a question, whether even thia gified and mighty man can. on the whole, be considered hia supe rior. Perhaps in elaborate elegance of style, and in beauty and richness of metaphor, Web ster may be inferior to Burke; but in masculine energy of thought, in impressive grandeur of sen timent, in force and variety of illustration, he is ful'y hts equal; while m strength of argument, pungency of sarcasm, and profundity of judg ment he i« probab!v his superior. . Mr. Webber’s style, like that of Burke, is, original—is ht* own.* Ur. Johnson’s character istic remark respecting the latter, may with equal truth be applied to the former. When asked if Mr. Burke did not resemble Tullius Cicero? ». No, sir,” ssid he, “he resembles Edmund Burke ” Mr. Webster’s most peruliar and striking trait of character, may be said to be atrength. He commences and carries on a contest like an in tellectual giant. He is himself armed and in vulnerable at every point, while his blows fall as thick and heavy on his antagonist as if they were dealt by the hundred-handed Brisreus. Others cut with a two edged sword, but he handles “ a sledge-hammer, and repeats his blows so often and io so many different modes, that few can again recognize the carcase he has undertaken to mangle.” In this respect he hat often been com pared to the present Lord Chancellor of Eng an , aod we consider the resemblance in some respects a striking one. Mr. W., however, is unques tionably superior to his Lordship in grace am impressiveness of delivery, as well as in elegance and propriety of language, and quite equal depth of thought and solidity of yudgoicnt. Mr W’s general and eitens.ve knowledge gives him peculiar power. It enables him to brio- anv thing and every thing, at his will, in dlusTration of hi. subject-all the beauties of na ture. and all the mysteries of art, “ whether be longing to earth or to a higher region; he seizes every thing as he proceeds and like a resistless torrent, bearing on its rapid bosom “earth, and rock, and tree.” seems to acquire new power and fresh vigor in propoition as he becomes load ed with the heterogeneous na»s. He is not a •nan of profound learning; but he has the talent, be>ond anv one we know of, of extracting from evt-rv person he meets all the information he pos ses>e»; and as his memory is retentive ami his observations acute, he has acquired a stock or knowledge in every department of human learn ing, equalled by few and surpassed by none Another important trait of character which he possesses in an eminent degree, is his uniform practical good sense. He i* alwaj, safe, as we.I ns powerful and profound. It seems to be the peculiar lot of great genius, where a brilliant and discursive imagination is not controlled and re gulated hy judgment equally strong, that mis takes in theoiv and errors in practice will be rommitted, which men of far humbler powers tie ter would have made, ami which they legald nifh unfeigned astonishment. We every day see unking exemplifications of this truth. But Mr IVeb-ter’s friends need never apprehend such HI V ,,v ’ ..~ .. iang their heads in mortification and chagrin at i false -step, or a ridiculous course; Ins well bo unced mind carries him safely through, wheie nanv a mail of genius has wofully fallen. I'as lion in him is controlled by reason; imagination s restrained bv judgment; theory gives way to iractice. In this trait, he will gain by a compa ison with the most distinguished men of any age »r country; no man has committed fewer mis akes, who has taken a part in so many matters. Mr. • Webster has always been distinguished or liberality and magnanimity as a politician.— t can never be said of him that he ««_narrowed his mind, ‘And to part) g*ve up what was meant for mankind ” UpoD the miserable shuffling «»T partisan war- i are. hiseipansive and comprehensive mind looks 1 (own with disgust. Hi* enlarged vision embra :cs his country—his whole country. His atten :ion has been directed to great and worthy ob ect*—to increase tbe happiness, and power, and nfluencr, of the American people; to elicit and ncresse tlieir resources, and to lay still broader mil deeper the foundations of their future pros jeiiiy. He is likewise an original and profound think j. >r. Like I>r. Johnson, he gives a new aspect to •verv thing he touches He takes striking ami orcible views of his subject; anil where there is u,thing positively new, his illustrations are coin- 1 nanding, thu connexions in.which he places hi» irgumeui. aie novel, ami by these means he en- i • ages and rivets the attention, while he rarncs 'apuve the judgment, by a chain of argument roii'ir uous, powerful. ii resistible. The sophisms ind chicanery by which an opponent may attempt to mistily and delude an audience, vanish before his all-grasping mind, as if touched by ili«* ma- i l»ici:in’s wand- In the discus-ion of a subject, i he combines gient originality of genius, extra ordinary acquirements, and a vast reach of thought, with uncommon minuteness of knowl edge, accuracy of detail, and a perseverance wiiith no difficulties can dishearten, and no ob siacle overt nine. We shall find few orators or statesmen of any age or country, who combine so much strength anu originality 01 uiougm, eu i much giandeur a»>d energy of expression, with so much b autv ami elegance of diction, and so gn at variety and extent of information. Mr. Webster’# oratorical display#, unlike those of Patrick Henry ami some other of our gifted speakers, lose none of theif Power ami ef- j feet, by being published. They will bear the nicest scrutiny, the closest examination—and the most fastidious critic will find liftle that lie will be able to alter for the better. His spee ches and wiitings will decend to posterity as a rich legacy, to be consulted by future legislators and statesmen, and with the “ Federalist” to be studied and admired as profound commentaries on our constitution and form of government. Perhaps the must forcible exhibition which Mr W. has ever made ol his rich and varied powers was in the debate on Foot’s Resolution. This might? effort—for pungency of wit—for bitterness of sarcasm—for power and strength of argument—for profound and statesman-like views—for force and satiety of illustration— for depth and originality of thought—for beauty , and propriety of style—for extent_gnd profoun- | dity of legal learning, we fearlessly assert, has • never been surpassed, it it has ever been equal led by the most .splendid exhibitions of Fox, or ! Pitt, or Burke, or Sheridan, or Canning, or Brougham. As a friend he is ardent, sincere and faithful j —as a pariot, puie, honest, and trust worthy—as ; * 1 am more than sustained is this estimate of the relative power of these great men, by the opinion of twu of our most distinguished citi zens—one an eminent literary character, and the other a well known southern statesman, whose names, if published, would add not a little to any opinion they might express; and both of whom have frequently hoard Lord Brougham. In a conversation on this subject last winter, they agreed that, although there was considerable sim ilarity in the characters of Lord B-tjiml Mr. W. yet the latter was decidedly the' more powerful man. • man, noble, magnanimous, and g^erous to • fault—as an orator, great, eUxjueufc. and over whelming—»* » sUteamao, caution*, and Pf viewed in any and every light, Mr. VV. is a most extraordinary oian-eitraprdioary n Ins rise in hi* progressed in hi* present standing— he lives in an interesting'’^'Vued b* .I^ure the world—*nd he i. peculiar!? fi^^ ' ire.t and by education to lead in such an enu^But^great as is bis fame, it has not yet reached ita meridian splendor, but is distined to descend to aUtejlos tentv—to increase in reputation to Kr0" fluence, and to expand in use fulness-when the bitter animosities and partisan prejudices and un principled calumnies of the day, shall have bee buried forever in the gulf of [From the Portland Duity Advertiser.'] THINGS IN NEW ORLEANS. A Walk among ihe Ghavs9w This afternoon, (April 23d,) 1 walked under a hot sun—the day was as warm as our -Hh ol July —among the tombs and the graves in the ^Catho lic burving ground. I strolled into a Catholic chapel near by. The priests in the church were performing service* over a dead body. Colored persons sat there or kneeled theie with wax ta pers in llieir hands. A sexton, with a cross or a spear, and a military band over his shoulders, stood back of the cross and the eoflin. Two priests and a little boy were making loud noise* in La tin and in French, Mid one was sprinkling the. coffin with incense and holy water. The hearse was at ihe door. The coffin was soon brought nm. 1'iie priests preceded the hearse. Men and women with veils, or bare headed, some under an umbrella, and some without, followed the hearse on foot to the grave yard. 1 went into the grave yard with the procession, and saw each and all cross themselves as they i went by the crucifix. The grave yard is large, ! verv large, covering perhaps five or ten arress, it may be more «-r less—I < annot measui e acres w ith inv eve. \\ hat a spectacle is there! I he horrid image is yet in my mind I cannot drive it from imagination The tombs were ali above ground. Those who can aft’uid it, will never be buried un der ground. ’Fhe tfimbs are chiefly, or all, of brick, some plastered over, some not. they are from two and a half to three feet high—and there is a little oven-hole, or front door, into which the body is put. Some of the tombs in , this, the Catholic burying ground, are elegant j and well walled over. The weeping willow j overshadowed a few, hut a very few. A few flower pots were on the summits of some: others had little palings for a guard—and many had in scriptions. This grave yard is all a dead level, and in rainy days inundated with water. It is a morass, a swamp partly rescued from its wilderness. I followed the procession to the grave The cof fin was taken Irom the hearse. The priests re peated their ceiemoiiies. JSotpe Latin was said. A boy ill a scarf anil a robe brandished the cro*9. Hoiv water and incense were again thrown over the coflin. The pinsts censed and turned on their heels. The hea.?c galloped ufl’, and the procession dispeised. i now watched the process of interment.— The body was that of a colored person who had died o! the cholera (widen is not ari epidemic now ) The mourners were flue looking mulat toes. They tarried to see the last of then friend. The grave was not two feet ami a half deep. I measured it for curiosity. The bottom was soft mud, into which 1 could thrust a slick almost anv dppth. The water was within a foot of the lop of the grave. The clubs of earth around it were ail ciavey—such earth as would be dug from a bog. 'The coflin was put into the grave, and it floated so as to be level with the surface A negro, a fiend-like looking brute, with his pantaloons above his knees, all covered with the clay in which lie bad been working,—without hat, without coat or a whole shirt,—but villi a hoe and a spade, mounted on the top of the coflin, and trampled it und*r water, and then a brother looking bring threw the heavy clods on. The mourning womefl iton threw on a clod or two, then kneeled round the grave, devoutly crossed themselves, dropt a tear or two a» for the last time they bid adieu to a form they once valued, —and walked home alone. 1 then looked around among the graves. A > ■ . __ _I .1.-.- .. .11 ik. IIUIC line, nun n * *-j -. next comers—some six feet long or more, some three or four feet long. The water was in all the graves. The ground beneath nur feet was like that of a swamp, the surface of which the sun had inc'iisted. 1 tumbled over bioken coffins, pieces of which were piled in little heaps, and pieces of which were placed as stakes to mark the spot of the last buried The very earth gave wav under mv feet- The veg-tation was that of ' a swamp. The rank weeds flourished roughly over many a dead body. Old slicks, old poles, such as our gardeners stick peas with, with sides j of coffins were put up as grave stones. W hat a ( spectacle! 1 tell you the plain truth in unexag geraiecL words. Wandering yet further to the borders of the vard. 1 approached what appeared like ovens— j and so they are called. They looked exceeding- ( lv like the oven-doors in our kitchens. They ( were .six oi seven feet deep, six or seven feet high.; and there were three tiers—that is, three bodies ] could be laid above the same spot of earth, one above the other—*• an oven” being assigned for each. The doors of these ovens, when filled, are bricked and plaistered over. On some of these there were inscriptions —on marble, per haps. Many of these ovens were open mouthed, warning visitors of their fate, and almost, as it were, inviting them to enter. I hurried, sick ening, from the spectacle. Far from the earth pestilence seemed to be issuing- In many places the odors were insufferable. This morning, (April 24,) I rose with the sun —so as to escape its burning rays, not to be risk ed, without danger, for a long time, by a person not acclimated—and curiosity again drew roe to another grave yard. Curiosity is an impulse I cannot resist. It gets the better even of coward ice, and all the disgust which haunted me after yesterday’s stroll. I went to the Protestant, the American burying ground. The tombs there are all above ground, but not any were at neat as I saw in the French grave-yard, it is a more shameful affair than even the scene I have de scribed before. The tombs are badly covered; the ovens are badly plastered. There is little like neatness, propriety* or even decency. The whole is shameful—and the Americans here would not tolerate it, if they made thi, their abiding place, and noi the place to alight and make money in. But no man calculate* on dy- j ing here-and if he does, so far from friend,, if matter* not much to him how mr where Ins body is laid. , , Graves ready dog are here aho.kept tor sale. An oven can be had for silty or seventy do ars. ; A tomb must cost a large sum. The graves were all lull of water. The earth we walked over sunk under our feM- More pieces of coffins are seen here than in the Catholic vnrd. I had heard ftmrh of the trenches or pits in which the chole ra victims were buried. Language cannot, if It were proper to array words in the description, portray the lacts as they happened at that alarm ing season. A friend tells me, the worst accounts but ha if realized the terror ot those times He, himself saw bodies, without coffins, piled in m isses around these pits. The dray-men raced off full gallop lo the yard, so brisk was their bu sine**—-and then boasting their profits. Two of these pi'9 were tided with victim*, and dirt was thi o» n over them. The earth was moist, and with a stick I sounded the ditches. My stick was pushed down with case. I know not how far it could have been diiven. The eshala'ions from these ditches were insupportable. I turn ed from it to cutrh a breath of purer air. The third ditch was* tided only with water. Thank God, tlieie wa* no call tor it. I hurried from this scene, from this wilderness of the dead once more to the busy and populous parts of the city. The dravs were now rolling by me. AH was ani mation, chceifu'ness, and business. My hotel was full of the gay, the courteous, and the happy, calculating un life many years yet, and large masses of wealth. I lost only a break fast from this stride among the tomb*, gratifying a curiosity i have no wish to indulge again. The *pecuule is too revolting. It i* not solemn, im pressive, and awful there, a* 10 ordinary grave vai (is. On no. one even laughs or gitfisa ghast ly smile, and despises his own frail tenement destined to such rnrniptmn and insignificance, and yet having the audacity to be proud and am bitious! Death loses its terrois in suili a grave vnril. mill IiIp. it* obierts. and allurements.—for what is there w orth living foi ? an oven. — \ hole of clay ami mud and dirtv water! Bury your dead with decency. Have a fitting grave yard,—if 1 had the power, I would emblazon these words on every lamp post in New Orleans. AVKRY'S TRIAL The investigation will probably, according to our latest accounts, b- protracted far beyond ge neial antic;pa'ion. On Saturday week, one hun dred witnesses had been examined, aud as many mure weie to follow. The following remarks from the correspondent ul the Bo-ton Daily Advocate, indicate the great and growing impoitunce and deep excitement which this dial has occasioned:— Nkwpoht, Saturday, May 18 j The dial of Mr. Avery »* drags its *iow length along,** and we cannot yet even begin to look at the end. The whole range of human •cietiries. professions, occupations and feelings, are more or less brought into it, and there never was a case which vo thoroughly illustrated the ‘maxim that a lawyer ought to know a little of every tiling There is the law of (he case, that is for the lawyer; the anatomy of it tor the doctor; the : theology of it. (connected with points that have j been introduc ed touching the discipline of the J Methodist Episcopal Church, ami their mode of conducting Camp Meetings; lor the minister; the | nature and effects of diil'eretit kind- of knots, and the movements of the Ferry Boats, for the ! Sailor; the kind ol cords used hi Cotton Mills, j &t. lor the Manufacturer; the yveather and the i optical medium for the Astronomer ami Philcuo-, plicr; the regulations of the Post office for the j Po.-t Masiei; coal mines and lo-sils for the Geo logist; the nature of grounds, stackyards, hint ' dutks./og grass, Sic. for the Farmer; combs and paper, tor the Coinb and Paper Maker; the ex plosion of nicks for the Engineer; the measur ing of distances for the Surveyor, Hie capacity of passing b-tween different points for the pedes trian; toe regulations of store keepers, in admit ting customers behind their counters, for the tra iler—and in fact I might fill a sheet in enumerat ini' the ramihcatmn* into wniclt tnm most extra oidinary of all extraordinary cases has been car ried. The printers will come* in for their full share, in publishing a cargo of Reports. Kven poetrv has not been w anting One of the witnesses to day, n prompt, pretty damsel, repeated a long piece of poetry, with must approved emphasis, which she had treasured up, ami which a young mao.had written in praise of the unfortunate deceased, whose death has gi ven rise to this trial. Wherever she is traced, she seems to have car ried a remarkable power of fascination, and com manding influence over those around her, what ever may have been her vices. This has been fully exemplified in her biography, which has been the subject of the two last day's examina tion, exclusively. On ibis topic alone, twenty one females and eight men, have been examined, yesterday and to day, making thirty-two witnrs- | ses for the prisoner; so that we now have had , just one hundred witnesses on the stand, and as many more arc to come. 1 hose who have testi fied yesterday and to day, have traced the de ceased from the cradle to the fatal stack yard, and the fruitful theme of her character is by no means exhausted. It is to be resumed on Mon day. Thus far the defence has been confined to ana tomical and surgical investigations upon sui cide and hanging, and the private history of the deceased. The main points are yet to come, ! though less voluminous. The court are very in-' dulgent to the prisoner as they should be; and the Attorney General, who always enforces the rules of law with extreme reluctance iu such ca-, •es, admits evidence of every possible relation to this case, with extreme liberality. Names of in dividuals, who little dream of the immortality they are to receive by this trial, are called up, by t the witnesses in strange shapes. The viJIage tales of Lowell, Dover, Great Falls, Slatersville, j Thompson, Bozrah, Jewett's City, Pawtucket,' Woodstock, Waltham, Millville, and half the factory villages in New England, have been pre sented with exceeding minuteness of detail, and great vivacity of imagination. Love, murder, suicide, devotion, profanity and inanity ' drawn out in alternate ‘'i*l»t and |j ^Hf would learn more of human nannt- ,n (li|> 7*®! vation of a day than tie can gather in tk / of a year, should come to Newport || here anv tioie next week lie oui ti,,J a the stand. r,,*^B Still all this is in •one degree neces*ar, ,| ^B indispensable to the defence id t e |)risonrr^^B The Jtle of a fellow being is involved, and n^B majesty of justice is to be upheld, and n,Vi, which she now holds in sinpeiue uv..r of the unfortunate piisoner, are to lH* i*ffM^B guarded, that they may be rightfully tun The occasion is serious and solemn! but m’^B of the by scenes of the melancholy tugetiT^^B exceedingly ludicrous. 6 - fFrom the /.oiulun Athenaeum.' |^B NIILLIFIKltS. ■ James Hamilton, Jr is*l,t> di,tingm,;,Pl| H leader of the party of Nullification llyi,j ''^B live of Pennsylvania, hut having bren b>.*!l^B when a youth to South Carolina, a tortunaie « ^^B riage to a •• hundred negroes” ha, identified *B with the interests of the South. Ilj.mitmi .'^B been attached to the regular army of the U^^B Stales, and served in the last war again,t G -Bl Hi itain, for he writes, •* that he sought the e.'!^B lilies of his country where they were’ nui«tlikJ,^B to be found ” As a public speaker, he do,j‘'«B^ excel, being a short and bustling persuing*, Be out any oflhe advantages ol General ^B Hi* principal merit is in a polished, flowing. j'^B sounding style of writing. ^B J C. Calhoun, the laU Vice President of Cv^B United States, is also in the van of tlu> bs»t|f ^^B the Tariff He is a native of the upland di. n..^D of South Carolina, and raised himseliby hjy w ,^B eminent abilities to the offices of S-muri y B War, snd Vice President of the United ShVB standing even prepared toa^cend the presidin',.! Bi chair, when an unfoi tunate personal quarrel vi F^B General Jnckson, in the year 1831, altered entire aspect of his political life. This arose nut of transactions many yeais nld—ht^B campaign in Florida, the seizure hv (imt-a^B Jackson oflhe Santsh postsof St. Maik ami sai ola. This proceeding, at (lie time, w.,* p ductive of much discussion, and was 2,.ner, ,^B CMiKii hi«i *»^ mi uurtuiM«j; i/.m Aim ariHifjrt Vi ^Ejf oluttoh ol tlu* principles of mtei national 'a■«; and.^K as such, it appears to ha«c inpiireil theexerci^^B of considerable diplomatic skill on the pari dHf Mr. Muuror and Hi- Cabinet to prevent i ilrc'i-Hl ration of w ar by the Court of Spam. f't.c ness of corresponding w ith General JaiUnn n his quarters, in Florida, devolved upon Mr l’«|. Hj 1,011 ii, who tiien tided the office ol Setrelaiv a; War, and fin* tenor of his letters was ruosilcr. Kjj| ed bv the General as holding him clearly paieil in the view of the Cabinet, for the »er/me Hj of the Spanish posts. The affair had been f>K years forgotten bv all but the rejidcis ol thtHj »» History of the American Republic,’’ when, m 1831, an intiigue. now traced to Mr. Crawford, H of Georgia, a disappointed candidate fur the H Presidency, brought into the hands of Genrul ^B Jackson a'series of letters, lending to pttme tint, H at the period of the occupation of the Spamsti B posts, the language and opinions of Mr. (’allmiin, H in the Cabinet, bad been widely different from B those contained in his correspondence with tht H General. Upon this, application was made In Mr H Cal'iuun, slm, in a pamphlet which he subsequent Hgj ly published, describing the whole transaction, B made answer by reference to the original correi pondence itself, as preserved in the Department B of War, for proof that the opinions of him*elfand ■ the other members of the Cabinet of Mr. Mao H roe, were very far indeed from acquiescingiotht B justice of the invasion of the Spnniwh territory.— H| The charges »f hypocrisy and bad faiih irt B triumphantly refuteif by Mr. ( alhuun in this ^H pamphlet; and yet the General expressed hnrself B dissatisfied, and, in terms of scorn and indigna- HI lion, closed his correspondence with the Nice ^F President forever. The public of the 1 mted B Slates,however, universally agreed, that no cm RR whatever existed for the animosity displayed by ^B General Jackson, and the weight of public tn-l'g B| nation was forthwith directed agaiut Mr. ( ns* ford, wliu, it appeared, out of feeling* of pcrwS* ^B al enmitv towards Mr. Calhoun, had Is’iatrd ^R and falsified th** pioceedmgs of the Cabinet-— ^R Notwithstanding this, the General departingh"’ ^R the usual magnanimity of his character, ha* ne- H| ver consented to h reconciliation with Mr C« • ^B boun, who, hdving, previously to tin* affair, pre* ^B nerve*I an impenetiable silence upon »»ie ». j * of the Tariff*, has now vacated the "flier "• u President of the,United Slates, ami t!irown l>n self into the foremost ranks o( the gr--at p.vt' •' the South. Mr. Calhoun is of noddle age. '"«‘h respected in private life, and possessed «l erable property in the upland district ol Carolina. Reduction of 11 ages. — We learn, "id n"'’1 regret, that peremptory orders hate been re. 1 • ed from the War Department, to reduce toe na‘ ges of the artisans employed in the Aimory -t Harper’s Ferry twenty ner cent. I bis ,s a *lM’ ous event to the working citizens of mat j'!3C,’~ indeed it may be termed a calamity Wc !lMf not been in the habit of saying inu- It in the present Administralion. but really »•* ,'l’> confident that a reconsideration of this mea^*r? would move the authorities at Washington h'1 prompt and cheerful reversal of the order. ' ^ cannot believe that the President will large a body of useful and meritorious turn f" reduced to a condition of absn'ute and U«** drudgery.—Charlestown Fret A Mistake —The Frederick Times question upon the apportionment of,hc ®’’“. sionai Districts of this state, by the last leg • ture, which presents a curious dilemma thereby made doubtful whether the second*1' (ion district in Frederick county, (iocMing city of Frederick) is embraced within any gressional district of the State. In the 1 ported originally, this district wis the upper district, with Washington ami Ai - ny; but in the amendments, alteration* which the bill received in its course throng ^ Legislature, the district was, inadvertent, suppose, dropped out of the bill, »nd is no mentioned io the law as engrossed.—t™11- * It seems that no part of the I*ehigh Canal ^ been injured, and that the whole line is i plcte order for use. On tbe State Ca • damage is confined to a single section, nj* - ton, where about 150 feet ot the baok has