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is your father, Clack Norn's! a corpse upon the plank of wood, to get posses sion ol which, vou murdered mv father; una hero is your nxe opr n tl e mtr'-v which you made in your father's fore liend when 1 told you, as you were ri lling him on the bench, that his eyes were moving, and yon coaxed mo to leave you alone with him! See how nicely it fits! Hut I knew you, and stole back. I did, Black N -ms. And I saw the blow; and heard the crash; nnd snatched up. your hatchet .when you threw it behind you; nnd ran away with it. Give you jny for your dia monds and your gold, Black Norris. A fair, lovely dav;a fair, lovelv, bonnv day." The wrecker had been gradually raising his right arm. Ft was now nearly bro't t a level. He fired; but the charge perforated the roof. 1 1 is arm was struck up by some one, and at the same moment he felt himself powerfully pin ioned. He looked around; ho found himself in the hands of four of the pre ventive guard, accompanied by Kate's lover, with the staff of a boarding-pike in his grasp. That day having completed the bus iness which called him from home, had the young man returned. His first in quiry was for Kate. She had been at her usual praks, and stolen away. He sought her in nil her haunts; she was no where to be found; dispirited and fa tigued, too for he had walked upward ol thirty miles since morning he was repairing home when he received, from u group returning from tne wreck, and of whom he made inquiries alter her. an account of her appearance among the wreckers, and her wild mysterious pro phecy, which had been so strangely ful liled. Revolving what he had heard he lifted the latch of his mother's door and entered; but s opped short. A female, almost naked, was silting with her back toward him, herskin of so pure a white ness, that it fairly shone. The waist nnd the shoulders of such a nvald, as of i.sell apprises the beholder of the pre sence of surprising richness; although unrefined, uninformed, he is utter y at a loss to' tell in what it lies. A mo ment he stood; then, abashed, confoun ded; he was on the point of retiring when the female turned suddenly round. "Kate," burst in astonishment from, the yontig man's lips. ,The next moment, the maniac, un conscious of her situation, was hanging upon his neck. Wildly she kissid him; straining him to her bosom, and laugh ing. X "He has done it, he has done it;" she almost shrieked. '-He has "murdered his nwn father. Here is the hatchet tmth u.'hi' i ho hp.nf his torn hP:.n in. added she, springing from him to the other end of the room, and snatching up the instrument and flourishing it; her sun-burnished hands and neck forming an extraordinary contrast with the snow which had never been before re vealed to the eyes of her lover, whose mother now entering from an adjoin ing room with some articles of apparel upon her. arm, hastily retired again, drawing the poor, half-resisting girl a long with her. The former presently returned. "She has been down on the shore all day. There has been a "'reck." said she. "About a quarter of an hour ago she came in inquiring for you, that you might take Black Norris, as she said, and hang h'm; for he had murdered his own father. She was wet to the skin with the spray and the rain, and I was making her change herself when you came in. Hist, she is here." Kate entered. Her lover looked at her. Nothing appeared now, but the hue that was the child of the weather. The hatchet was in her hand. Exulta tion and impatience were painted in her looks. "Conie,come," she said ; &. opening the door atones led the way to Bkck Nor ris's. scarcely had she got fifty yards from the house, when, at a turn in the road, they came upon lour privates ol the preventive service. The men were on duty. Kate instantly accost ed them, related the transaction that had t: dc.n place upon the reef, and com manded them to accompany her. They looked and obeyed. 'Three weeks after, there was a trial and an execution. Black Norris was the criminal. Among the spectators at the latter, were a young man and a young woman. As soon as the body swung m the air, a shrill peal of laugh ter arose from the female who, the next moment lay, fainting in the aims ol her companion. Kate was conveyed home. ;She was restored to consciousness, but lier mindjso highly excited before,seem ed now to have sunk into a state of in fantile imbecility. Thus she. icmained seemed to have overspead her lover's ''mind, which threatened consequences - similar to those under which the being whom he so tenderly loved h id labored. He avoided society; he would hardly richan"e a word even wiih his mother. . Jf was continually wandering about the cliff and the shore, alone. .'' , Coe day, cs he. had thrown himself .,Ar innt ttlipi'P- sis we rela- i;.A in tlu hfiidnninrr. he . had intruded upon the slumbers of the maniac; re volving the cause Lich now utterly ab-si-'i bsd his mind and sou!, cad lost to external consciousness; he was startled by something falling upon his face. He looked upi and saw the loved one hang ing over him. The tear-drop stood trembling on his bed; the light of rea son beamed from her eye. She pro nouced his name, talked to him of her father's death, informed him that she believed his murderer had suffered ths penalty of his crime, hut she knew not when, "or by what means. He drew her softly toward him; encouraged her to speak on; questioned her, found that of all that had passed since her wits had gone astray, the only circumstance which had left'an impression upon her memory, was the fate of Black Norris. He now endeavored to ascertain the state of her heart with respect to him. An eye, at once cast down; a burning cheek; lips that made, soundless motion confirmed the dearest hopes and crown ed the most ardent wishes of his soul. Reason was perfectly reinstated; love had never lost its seat. He urged the soft confession ; and her face was buried in his bosom. In a weak she was his wife, nnd along with his mother, accom panied him to adistantpurt of the coun try, lest old and painful recollections miht bf; recalled by the presence ol scenes familiar. From Kendall's Expositor. TRACT NO. 2. THE SUB-TREASURY WHAT IS IT? A Treasury is a place where treasure is kept. The Conslitution of tlie United States says, that "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequent! of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account oj Vie receipts and expenditures oj all public, mon-y shall be pub. linked from time to time." The obvious meaning of this provision is, that the "receipts" or money received, shall go into the Treasury and remain there, until drawn out by authority of law, when it becomes an "expendi ture," and the object of the published "regular statement" is, to enable the people to understand how much has been received; how much has been expended, and how much remains in the Treasu ry. The object was, that the public money should be kept for public u-e legalized by Congress, and not applied to private or unauthorized uses. When the government was organized under the constitution, a Treaurer was appointed to receive the public money, carefully to keep it, and to pay it out only "in consequence of appropriations made by law." He gave bonds and entered upon the discharge of his duties. The Collectors who also gave bondj, were a sort of Sub-treasurers. Nei ther they nor the Treasurer paid out public mon ey except in pursuance of appropriation and Treas ury Warrants. But there was a class of men who desired to ob tain the public money tor private uses. They did not like this system which kept the money in the Tieasury for the public only; and they set them selves to work to overthrow it. An ingenious plan was hit upon to abolish the Treasury, make the Treasurer a Bookkeeper only and take the money which should be in the treasury for the use of mer chants, speculators and other borrowers. The plan was to hand over the public money to Banks, not to be KEPT, but to be LENT. It was called a Deposite in Bank; and the Treasurer's Books showed heavy sums in the Banks, when in fact there was not a dollar then , the whole having been loaned out, just as if it were Bank Capital. The nominal amounts in Bank were called mowys in the Treasury. Thus the people were amused with the idea of a full Treasury, when in fact their money was nil out in the hands of traders and spec ulators. Bank stockholders pocketed the interest, and the constitution became in this respect a dead letter. To perfect the scheme, a Bank of the United States was created, being the most convenient in strument through which the public money could be applied to private purposes. For many years, the nation in fact had no Treas ury at all. All its moneys went into Banks and were loaned out by them; and the balances report ed to be in the Treasury, were only the amounts which those corporations owed the United States. In 1837, the balance thus reported to be in the Treasury was many millions; yet the Banks hav ing suspended payment, the Treasurer could not command a dollar. It was all out of the Treasury but not "inconsequence of impropriations made bylaw." When the appropriations came, the mon r y was already gone. This led those in the administration of the gov ernment to consider how it was that so many mil lions had gone out of the Treasury without appro priations or Treasury Warrants. They soon per ceived, that not only the money was gone but the Treasury itself. We had a Treasurer but no Treasury Our Treasurer even, instead of keep ing our Treasure when we had any, had been met amorphosed into a mere Book Keepr. Instead of being a keeper of 1'reoewt as the constitution in tended, h had become a Keeper of Boi-ks. The remedy was obvious. It was to be found in a rslurn to the Constitution and the establish ment of a Treasury, in which the Tnasurr of the country should be placed, not to bedrawnouf'but in consequence of appropriations made by law." It was, to make the Treasaiera keeper of Treas ure as was originally intended, and as his official name implies, with such assistant keepers as the ex tent of our country and the business of the govera ment.rendered "necessary and proper." Accordingly, to restore the constitution, prevent the public money from being loaned out for private uses and for the profit of Bank stockholders, or "drawn from the Treasury except in consequence of appropriations made by law," Congress passed the Act of July 4th 1840, entitled An Actio prov ide for the collection, safekeeping, transfer and disbursement of the public revenue." The First Section established a Treasury! That is to say, it prowled a place where the Pblic Treasure should be kept, in the following words: viz "Be U enacted, S(C That there skalt be prepar- ed and provided, within the new Treasury build. ing now erecting at the seat of government, suit- able and convenient, rooms for the use of the Treasurer, of the United States, his assistants and clerks; and sufficient and secure Cre-proof vaults and safes, for the keeping of the public moneys in the possession and under the immediate enn- trol of the said Treasurer; which said rooms, vaults and saf, arc hereby constituted anddu- ' clared to be, the Treasury of the United States. And the Treasuier bf the United States shall keep stll the Public Moneys which shall come to ' his hand in the Treasury of the United States as hereby constituted, until the same are drawn ' therefrom according to law." , 1 - " Inasmuch as most of the Public Moneys were received and disbursed at points distant from Wash ington, places of deposite were provided in the Mints at Philadelphia and New Orleans, in the Custom Houses at New York and Boston and in rooms provided for the purpose at Charleston, S C. and St. Louis, Mo. where the funds were to be received and kept under the charge of Public Officers bouded and sworn, for the purpose of be ing remitted to the Treasury at Washington, trans ferred to other Depositaries, or disbursed in pay ment of public dues, upon the order of the Treas urer and Treasury Warrants- issued according to law. So far from allowing the Keepers of the Public Money to use or lend it for their own profit or that of others, the seventeenth Section of this Act pro vides as follows : viz. "If any one of said officers, or of those connected with the Post Office Department, shall convert ' to his own use in any way whatever, or shall use ' by way ofinveslment in any kind of property or ' merchandize, or shall loan, with or without in- terest, any portion of the public moneys intriist ' ed to him for safekeeping, disburse":.,,!, trans- fer, or for any other purpose, every such act shall be deemed and adjudged to be an embezzlement ' of so much of the said moneys as shall thus be ta- ken, converted, invested, used or loaned, which is hereby declared to be a felony; and any ' officer or agent of the United States, and all per ' sons advising or participating in such act, being 4 convicted thereof before any Court of the Uni ' ted States of competent jurisdiction, shall be sen- tenced to imprisonment for a term of not less dian six months nor more than five years, and toa ' fine equal to the amount of the money eitbez- zlcd." "Such was the measure of the Democratic Par ty which the Whigs nicknamed, the "Sub-Treasury." It was a plan to kep the Public Mneyforpub lie uses, in compliance with the direct, positive and vniqulocal COMMAND of the Constitution. It deprived no man of his rights, but prevented certain classes of men from using money which did no i belong to them. One of the first acts of Whigism when it came into power in 1841, was to ABOLISH THE TREASURY. They repealed the Act passed by the Democrats to restore the Constitution and preserve thepublic nu-ney Jor the use of the public, virtually directing it to he place t in Banks awl loaned out by them for the profit of the stockholders and the use of the borrowers. The difference between the two par ties is here illustrated. The Democrats OBEY THE CONSTITU TION. The Whigs DISREGARD IT. The Democrats wish to preserve the Public Money exclusively for public purposes The Whigs wish to use it for THEIR OWN purposes. Little mischief has heretofore arisen from abo lishing the Treasury in 1841, because the Whigs have spent the public money as fast as they could raise or borrow it. But we are told that the Pub lie Deposites now begin to accumulate in the New York Banks, and that Speculation, vivified by the iucreased loans of the Deposile Banks, has again commenced its ignis faluus career. We only want now a Bank of the United States to con vert the Whig Bankrupts under the law of the Extra Session, into paper-money potentates and millionare Bankers. From the Saturday Courier. FOREIGN NEWS. Arrival or the Steamship Caledonia. TWENTY-THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. O'Connell and his associates convitedthe Soci ety Mantis great fire in Manchester Nort1! Eastern Boundary Oregon Territory news from Spain O'C'onncll's address to the Irish People. The steamship Caledonia arrived at Boston, on Friday. The news is important and interesting. She brings Liverpool dates to March 5. The English fleet on the North American and West Indian stations was to receive immediate re inforcements. Additional strength w'js also to be sent to South America. New troops are under "draft" for the Canadas and Nova Scotia, and a re-inforcement will reach those stations shortly. In the British Parliament, Lord John Russell's motion for a committee of the whole House on the state ol Ireland, after a great debate, was negatived on the 24th of February, by a vote of 324 nays to 225 yeas. Cotton was selling at Liverpool, at the latest dates, at the same prices as those current previous to the departure of the steamer of the 4th of Febru ary. The speculative feeling, however, appeared to have abated. ' Several regiments are held in readiness for im mediate embarkation for Ireland, should the step be deemed expedient. .. The Anti-Corn Law League is still active as ev er, and its influence begins to tell upon the Gov ernment with wonderful force. The action of our Congress upon the Tariff was looked forward to with a great deal of anxiety, by the British c mmercial public. Wales was tolerably tranquil at the last accounts, though there were incipient signs of another cam paign against the toll-gates. In Yarmouth, and near Stockton, a large num ber of vessels were lostand several lives destroyed. At the last accounts from New Zealand, anoth er conflict had taken place between the English and the natives of Cloudy Bay. The natives were beaten and driven off with codsiderable loss. The censorship of the press in France, is gradu ally raising up a powerful party against Louis Phil lippe, numbering many in its ranks who were at one time among his staunchest supporters. A military insurrection of n small force, some 600 men. had occurred in Portugal, but met with no countenance among the people, and the revolt ed troops had retreated into Spain, where tbey were immediately disarmed. The City of Carlisle steamer was totally wrecked at the entrance of VVainfleet harbor, Lincolnshire all saved in the boats ; She was of 200 tons burden.' The Dutch Ea3tIndiaman,A''em,ofS00 tons, was lost on the Sicily Inslands, on the 26th Febru ary : only 2 ol screw of 21 persons being jsvcJ excitement about the society . . . " " islands. - " The ne ws that the French had taken possession of Tahiti, and compelled Queen Pomare to place herself under their potection the installation of a new Governor the hoisting of the French and the lowering of the English flag, and other doings, had reached England, and excited considerable surprise as well as indignation. The subject was alluded to in the House of Commons, when Sir Robert Peel expressed his hope and belief that the proceedings had been done without the consent, or even the knowledge of the French Government; and indeed the whole proceedings have been formally repudi ated by Louis Phillippe and his Cabinet. GREAT FIRE IN MANCHESTER. It is stated that a most destuctive fire occurred at Manchester, March 2. - It commenced in Wm. Bryant's warehouse, No- 9 George street, and soon the whole block of seven story buildings was in flames. The warehouses of Amschel, Toblerfc Co. were also destroyed, and the Silk warehouses Francis Makin & Co., and Joshua Le Mare & Sons, were considerably injured. The amount of property destroyed is believed to be more than 100,000. IRISH STATE TRIALS. The Irish State Trials had closed. The verdict, which was rendered on the 12th ult. , was guilty, generally, against all the defendents, except the Rev. Mr. Tierney, who was found guilty on two counts only. The Court had adjourned to April 15th, and the defendants remained as before, sub ject to their own recognizances to appear at the ensuing term, when judgment would be given, unless delayed by motions which were to be offer ed in arrest of judgment. In the House of Commons, a speech has been made by Mr. O'Connell, spirited, but at the same time conciliatory. The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Asso ciation was held on the 26th ult., in the Concilia tion Hall; the chair wai occupied by John O'Con nell, Esq, M P. He addressed the meeting at considerable length, expressing his gratitude to the people ol England, for the deep feeling of sympa thy whit.li they had manifested towards the traver sers, and tin. feeling of indignation which had been stirred up by the unfair conduct of the Government towards them. He was not prepared for such a manifestation of manly English feeling. He re ferred to the reception of his father at the Anti Corn Law League meeting, which was the most enthusiastic he ever witnessed in his life. He rap idly reviewed the progress of the Irish debate, and concluded by observing, that as the Liberal mem bers of the Imperial Parliament were powerless to crry their good wishes and intentions into effect, they must still exert themselves anew to carry Re peal by every lawful means left them. THE VERDICT POPULAR EXCITEMENT. The accounts from the country, show that the verdict of "guilty" against Mr. O'Connell has produced extreme excitement and in itation in all quarters. A letter from Loughrea, dated Tues day, 6ays: "Thenews of O'Conneli's conviction completely paralyzed the people here at the fair yesterday, and business was wholly suspended for some time; but the account to-day, that there was no attempt to imprison him, greatly abated the ex citement," The Galway Vindicator says, that when the news of O'Connell's conviction reached Tuam, "the people put their houses in mourning, and ob served the day as a black fast" ADDRESS OF O'CONNELL. O'Connell, on the 27th of February, issued aft ad dress to the people of Ireland, condemning the outrages of the wilful burning of corn, hay, and farming implements. He says, "outrages such as these are not only exceedingly wicked, but, as a measure of revenge, egrcgiously foolish. They are wicked, because, in a country where the peo ple have but too little food, it is truly wicked to destroy any of the provisions that may be consum ed by men, or in the fattening of beasts. It is also exceedingly wicked because it is an offence against the law of man, and a violation of the law of God. In this address he says : "Letthe people of Ireland but persevere let their perseverance have a double aspect. First, perseverance in perfect quiet and tranquility, and the absence of every species of outrage. Let them next persevere in ihe demand for Repeal let there be no despondency, no despair that man is not worthy of freedom who everdespairs'ofthe fate and fortunes of his native country. Perseverance and tranquility, and we must succeed. "Let us take especial care in future, to distin guish between the people of England and the Gov ernment of Britain. All that Ihe wise and the good amongst the English people require, is to be come properly informed of the oppressions the poverty the d. stress the destitution of Ireland, in order to rouse them in our support. The wise and the good in England are with us. In short, we have an English support at present such as we never before experienced in the history of the con nection between the two countries. "Let there he no despair; it is impossible that the people of England should not arouse to a sense of the degradation of being deprived of the effectu al power of representation. It is impossible that they should long put up with the insult of being di vided into two classes the one .beiug the muter da, and enjoying franchises, votes, and represen tationthe other being a slave class, having nei ther franchise, votes, or representation. Thissys tem of government cannot long continue. "Besides, the period cannot be remote when the British Government will require the aid of the Irish people they shall have that assistance but the Irish people '"Shall have their own again-' . "I am fellow countrymen, Your ever faithful and devoted servant, "DANIEL O'CONNELL" THE NORTH EASTERN BOUNDARY. The British Government, desirous of prosecu -ting with expedition, die survey of the Disputed Territory, between the United Slates and the Co lonnial possession of Her Majesty in North Amer ica, has issued orders for the immediate employ ment of an additional force of non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the Royal Sappers and Miners. The Baundary Survey party will now consist of about twenty non commissioned officers and privates of the Royal Sappers and Mi ners, with Capt Broughton and two other officers of the Royal Engineers, under Col. Estcourt, the Commissioner. OREGON TERRITORY. Mr. Everett is now in correspondence with Lord Stanley, the Colonial Secretary, upon the Oregon Territory question The American Min ister has had several interviews with his Lordship, at the Colonial Office. . ' EXPULSION OF POLISH EMIGRANTS. From Prussia, we learn that all Polish emigrants who bad taken part in the Revolution, had been ordered to leave the country in a fortnight ' COMMUNICATIONS. - For the Spirit of Democracy. Ma. EniTORt- : I feel truly gratified, Sir, to find one individual who is sufficient ly honest, to come out and justify the laws relating to Capital Punishment. 'Philos" has my sinceie thanks for the reply. It is a source of gratification to know that my former remarks have had the desired eiTect, in awakening the dormant faculties in the mind of an individual, who, I suppose, is able to raise the curtain that has shrouded me, and those who ihink as I do, in igno rance, and if we are in error, expose it and set us right. The objeel, as was before remarked, is to arouse the latent energies, of not only those whose in terest mightorretliem to condemn the abolition of 'Capital punishment but those who have but one object one motive the general welfare of their fellow men, in the establishment of such laws, and such only, us are founded upon principles consistent with and o bedienl to the law of God. That punishment is due to the offen der, even for crimes "fa trifling char acter, is freely admitted. It is there lore, unjust for uur friend "Philos" to brand us either directly or indirectly, with endeavoring to abolish all kincis ol punishment. That punishment oiHit to be inflicted, in proportion to the !.-- J - - r .i .i i . mngiiiiuue oi me crime, is mo law oi God; but that law whn h demands lif? fur life, I can view in no other lij.rht th in as being the law of the Devil. Savages gave it birth superstition era deled it. and nothing but ihe insatiate thirst for filthy lucre, props up the tot tering fabiic, which is fast wending its way to the repository of things obso lete. While the right of a human judicato ry to direct the amount ot punishment that shall be inflicted is admitted; the right of any human tribunal to pro nounce the sentence of death is abso lutely denied, for this would necessari ly imply a right to execute. The gen tleman seems to think that the first thing to be considered, U the right to inflict Capital punishment, and con cludes that if the right can be estab lished the expediency will follow as a matter of course. In this, however, I im bound to dill'er with him. It is up on the question of right that I wish to meet him. If he cn establish unequi vocally, the right to inflict this kind of punishment, the battle wi I in all proba bility cease, without discussing the ex pediency. It will be necessary for us, in the first place, to inquire into the nature of Governments, how and lor what pur pose they were formed. Governments were established by man for the gener al ood, prosperity, and happiness of his race. That this is the end for which governments were instituted, it is pre sumed will not be denied; this being the end of man's creadon. I would like to know wherein the individual is benefited, who is. thus instantly hur'ed from the stage of action, crrrying with him all his pollution and sin; his hands yet stained with the blood of the mur dered, to take up his abode among dev ils and damned spirits? God save the American people fro n the sin and dis grace of a longer toleration of such un holy practices. With the admissun that governmenls were instituted by man, it may be laid down as a general principle, that tliey cannot poss bly be invested wth more power, than m.m their creator, possessed, without a vio lation of justice. The question that would naturally arise then, would be something like this. Have men the natural right to commit murder? Cer tainly they hive not. If they had the l i-ht. it would be a palpable usurpat on for a human tribunal to sentence a man to death, fordoing th 1 1 which he hid the inalienable nght to do. Since it is t tie question of right w are consider ing, it is netessiry to go back and en deavor to ascertain what is right i.nd what is wrong, or wha-are the natura: rights of individuals';""" The" first-und highest natural right of man istl;,- the least infringement of which, is at war with the eternal principle of justice. The second is liberty, without whion life would be a curse instead of a bles sing and the great object of man's cre ation defeated. ' It is sail, that the murderer "forfeits his life to justice." But is the law as it now exists in our Statute books, jus tice? If its antiquity constitutes its justice, then verily it may be just. My friend "Philoi" has admitted that it was beyond the jower of "hum in wisdom', to make laws just. How can it be p"S sible, then, that man forfeits his life to the laws? Is life th- gift of the law? If not, then it cannot le torteited to tlie law; for the very term forfeit, as I un derstand it, implies n gift, and the gift can only be forfeited to that source from whence it is derived. Wi'l friend "l'hilos,,plea8e tell fne where, save in b oks of law, any authority can be found for such a course of conduct? h it in the case of the first murderer, Cain? Is it based upon the conduct dis played by Infinite Wisdom on that oc casion? Why,sir,lhe very languago of Deity at that time, is sufficient to stop the mouths forever of all the advocates of Capital punishment. IJear it. "And the Lord said unto him, (Cain)' there fore whosoever slayeth Cain, vmgeance .un i. u:. iv i j ! snail uo mncu uu nun - nevru IUIU. What, vengeance taken on him who, should take the life of a murderer! Then, is it supposible that Infinite Wisdom would have thus permitted this, the first, most attrocious and un natural crime to have passed, without demanding of the murderer'Cuin", his life to pay the forfeit? Would there have haon nnv .AnidtAnrir in thp A Imirrhtv permitting the guilty to live, and 8 wear ing vengeance against any "who find ing him might slay him?" As I understand friend "Philos"'to s ly, that his fort is well defended with breastwork, 'cannon" &c; 1 suppose we will hear some heavy volleys from his artillery. Our shooting irons are comparatively small, but thero is no scarcity of munition. And as he is desirous to see the enemy "sailing," it is thought best to define our position at as early a period .is possible, least he should be under the necessity of rais ing the siege, a d occupying auother position, for 1 think it unfair, in an hon orable warfare, to take the enemy by surprise. I hold the doctrine that no human tri bunal has the right to take that from its fellow man, which is not inks power to restore, except acting as the immedi ate or direct agent of tleaven, or by the express command of God. The question then for us to consider, and which would naiually arise, would be: Have we the s .nciion- of the Su preme Kuler of the Universe in pro nouncing sentence of death up m our fellow men? Jf the affirmative of this can be sustained, then with "Piiilos'' we agree, that the right to sentence, presupposes the right to execute. On the contrary, if it cannot be sustained, i shall expect to see my worthy com petitor, wheel in under tlie anti-capital punishment banner, and like many oth er noble men have done, condemn that which he now advocates. But why do I talk thus? since "Phi los" notwithstanding his "phrenological developements'' has made all the admis sion that 1 can ask, in the second sen tence of his communication, viz: "The author of this article ( VPs) nodoubt fee ling consi ienciously opposed to the ex isting laws sanctioning the unrighteous infliction of punishment with death for capital crimes," &c. Now if the gen tleman does really conceive them to be "unrighteous," 1 confess, I cannot see the propriety or consistency of con demning a thing and then turning round and justifying the same. Owing to the pressure of other busi ness, (this being court week,) I have not been able to give the subject that attention that it demanded, 1 however, shall submit the above for the present, hoping that our friend "Philos" will favor us with a crack from his big gun. Your friend, M. We notice in a North Carolina uaDer the marriage of a Mr. James Plank to Miss Kebecca Play n. If ihatplank don't get the rough edges playned of', we are no judges of human nature. Jonathan Slick says he saw a lady in Nova Scotia, so modest, that she put the legs of her piano in trowsers. A heartless coquette is a perfect in carnation of Cupid; for when her trem bling lover is about to pop the question she hug her beau in a quiver, A man in Cincinnati quarrelled with his wiL l e seized an axe, and before the poor womnn could tel out of tlie wav rushed into the vard and split some w.iod. . , " . I have somewhere saei (ays Willis) wagg ish mention of an approved water proof s!ioe,inride of ihe skin of a drunk id's mouth warranted never to let in wntttr. . ' KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE. That the horuir of creating a .National Funded Debt in - time of profound peai belong! to the Whig party. In little more than thic yeara the General Government baa had to contract, to meet its current expenses, upwards of twenty millions of debt. The bare interest on this debt, as appear by the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, is equal to $2 a minute, $2,829,87 per day, and $1, 035,639,02 per year. When Whig politician! talk about Henry Clay and the Whig party, Dem ocrats' can point to this sum in the General Govern ment, and to the twenty millions indebtedness in in thia State, making forty million of debt which be people have got to wipe out by Taxation, di: rect or indirect And yet dear as is this experience whilo politician are imploring the people to try them again. JVt Y. Plebeian. 'There is but one pascage in the Bible where th girls are commanded to kist the men, and thatia In the golden rule, Whatsoever ye would that men should" do unto you, do you even so to them.' LOST HIS RIGHT HAND. ' A boy in Wheeling, Vs., lost his right band by punching the fire with an old gun barrel which had been used at poker for more than a year. It bad a load in it and went off while being used, the ball passing through the boy's right hand, which was so shattered as to render it forever useless, even if it shall not have to be taken off. It is possible that the charge might bave been put in through malice of mischief. - : '