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I'D R T KY. THE INDIAN'S FAREWELL. Here dwelt ray tribe : these wooded hills, These grassy plains were ours, This forest, with its fruits and game, Its rivulets and flowers. 'T wtt' fall before the while man's stroke, Like my own banished race, Nor tree nor stone be left to mark Our home or burial-place. The rifle, where the arrow of The hunter whistled rings, Where, by <he wood, his dwelling stood, The grass untrodden springs. Beneath his hearth-stone breeds the snake, And weeds above it grow, And from his ^rave the bones are raked And scattered by the plough. A free-born race beside rn grew, Brave sons they were and tall, 1 saw them, by the white man's stroke, Like trees in blossom fall. And here, a withered oak I stand, Whose leaf has long been shed, That, though it feebly battle with The wind, at heart is dead. Cold are our hearth-stones?desolate? Their smoke has passed away? Moss-grown, they moulder by the lake, Where quenched their brands dccay. But, let us go! to wilds, untamed, The wolf and panther flee: The white man's home is for the slavt*. The red man's for the free. G. H Dialogue between a lady and a lover, who vai supposed that their intimacy and confidence, wou permit thr lightest allusion to any supposed iuipe fection.?Notion. JOHN. I love thy cheeks oi rosy hue, Thy pcarlv teeth, so white ; I love thy eyes of heavenly biue, But hate thy appetite. MARY. I love thy form of manly mould, Thy calm majcstic brow; I love thy weighty purse of gold, But hate thy awkvyard bow. JOHN. I love thy "zone encircled waist, Thy proud and lofty state ; I love thy sweetly modest taste, . But hate thy mincing gait. MARY. I love thy stem majestic air, Thy looks, which speak command, I love thy glossy, raven hair ; But hate thy monstrous hand. JOHN. I love thy fairy feet, so rare, Thy bust, is beauty's pride ; I hate thy curls, thy dee]) red hair Thy mouth so horrid wide. MARY. I love thy eyes of stubborn grey, Thy whiskers, large arid black ; I hate thy vain and .pompous way Thy slightly crooked back. JOHN. I love thy pouting lips, so red; I hate thy freckled skin, I hate the carriage of thy head? 1 hate thy double chin. MARY. I love thy smile, benignant, kind; I hate thy bony frame? I hate thy fickle, feeble mind, I hate thy ugly name. JOHN. I hate thy temper?thy disgrace , 1 hate thy false pretence? I hate the roupc upon thy face I hate thy want of sense. MARY. I hate thy manners, rude, uncouth ; I hate thy length of ears ; I hate thy wonted hate of truth? I hate?O I'm in tears. MI8CELLANY. AMERICA REPAYING I1ER MOTHER COUNTRY. Enthusiasts have often foretold that in less than a century from our assuming our national rank, the human mind in this country, propelled forward with an accel erated pace by the glorious impulse of free institutions?unclouded, unfettered by the corrupt and overshadowing super stitions and artificial distinctions of old monarchies, would furnish the lights of science as well as the laws of liberty to the old world.?That epoch seems alrea dy approaching. We are in a fair way of beingsoon "quittes" with our mother Eng land for all that we boast from her of the common law, "Chatham's andShakspare's tongue," and all the other inborn eleva ted attributes and enlarged capacities de rived from our Anglo-Saxon blood. The extraordinary flight too, of untrammeled American mind, into all the regions of mechanic useful inventions* threatens to be eclipsed by the masterly perfection with which those shadowings forth of the constructive organs is likely to be carried out, in that elaborate workmanship of machinery in which England has hither to, for centuries, maintained an undispu ted supremacy. Not only may we speak exultingly of such men as Whitney, whose cotton-gin is the source of our im mense trade in this staple?of Godfrey, whose plundered honors will be decreed <o him in after ngrs, by every gallant tar tlmt raises the quadiaut to t!ic heavens,? and of our daring navigators, and of tin., discovery of a continent by Palmer and Wilkes,?not only of Franklin, whose demonstration of the identity ol the thun der with the electric fluid was only equal ed by the electric power of his eloquent vindication of all our rights while at foreign courts,?not only of Cooke, the Vermont blacksmith, who first appli d electro-magnetism to rotary motion?not only uf the immortal Fulton, who, while lie beggared himself, enriched the whole world with his mighty genius,?not only our penitentiary establishments, and our railroads and inclined planes, and our naval constructions, wiiichserveas. models for Europe, and also of our mechanics, in every branch, and whose workmanship is now pressed into service even in those de partments where England was thought the strongest. Thus among other evi dences may be adduced ttie fact that the Gloucester and Birmingham rail-road company, of England, have now in use,on their road, not less than ten of the noble engines of Mr. JNorris, of Philadelphia, so celebrated tor their power, and the last accounts infomi us, have ordered four more. What is better, Yankee engineers are sent for, to conduct these machines on English roads. No one doubts that in steamships, where England has taken the lead so honorably, we could construct them in every respect as powerful and ra pid, if the embarrassed state of the times permitted.?N. Y. Star. English Manufactures.?"We are credibly informed that some kinds ofcolton goods manufactured in the northern states of the Republic, can be brought to Eng land, pay the import duty and other char ges, and be sold in the Manchester market at ten per cent, under the present low prices of similar goods made in Lan cashire."? London Bankers1 Circular. The time we think not is very far dis tant, even now we sec it in our mind's eye, when American industry, American in genuity, and American enterprise, will rival Great Britain, not in the manufacture of cotton alone, but of all other articles in which she has now an exclusive and profitable monoply. England's boast is her ships, her colonies and her com merce ; but let America become her rival in manufactures, as she is destined to be, and these three principal sources of her power and her greatness will be necessari ly annihilated; these arteries through, which the life's blood of her prosperity flows, will be dried up. Iler ships, in stead of whitening every sea, will lie listlessly in port, attractive only to barna cles; her colonies, findingno reciprocal be nefits to be derived from the connexion, will one by one, as England's power to coerce them wanes away, cut the connec ting links that joins the young and vigor ous child to the old attenuated parent, and declare themselves free, sovereign and independent; and her commerce, which is but the creation of her mamufac tures, will dwindle into nothingness as sure as efFect follows cause. The tens of thousands of her, at present, hardworked, ill-paid, badly-fed mechanics, on whom the greater part of the civilized world are now dependant for most manufactured ar ticles of luxury, ornament and use, will then be thrown idle on the world?the loom will stand still, the shuttle will cease to perform its functions, and the hammer will be silent. At such a crisis where would he the dense population?the sturdy artisans of Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and the other manufacturing towns? Would they quietly fold their arms, with that patience with which a martyr would ascend the scaffold ? They would not, for hunger is the last thing to which an Englishman will submit?they would sally out with the desperation ot infuriated lions, tramp ling on the privileged classes, sweeping away every record of the national debt, ?which so long crippled their energies, and destroying all those monarchical institu tions, which English statesmen arrogantly point to as the "admiration of surround ing nations." It was to such a slate of things as this which we have attempted to describe, that the republican-minded Lord Byron allu ded, when he said " God save the King and King?, For they cannot save themselves much longer, Methinks I hear a little bird that sings, The people by and by will be the sronger." England's manufacturing power is one of the main props on which hergreatnes? rests for support; take it from her,and her national importance will dwindle down to a size corresponding with her geogra phical limits, which will be a falling off indeed, and such a one as American enter prise and industry must inevitably effect. It is from the decay of her manufactures, and not in the defeat of her navy or her1 armies, that England's almost colossal! power will receive its first shock.?N. j O. Pic. ' I From the Southern Literary Messjngei. REFLECTIONS OF A REFORMED DRUNK ARD. It was a pleasant world, with its green fields, and sunny skies, and broad majes tic mountains, Iwforo the advent of this iron ajro. 15nt, alas! ten years have done the work oi a century. The world is changed, and we are changed with ii I No more are our sorrows lightened by i that etherial spirit, !doirlr Msspirtinggen i tly'as Ariel-?Alooi ol. The very name I sounds huge and monster like now, but a I child may remember the day when the ' weak, and the timed, and the fainting, | were not afraid ot his presence. Let me ; not indulge in the reminiscence! 'The butt is out, and we .must drink water. Public opinion is a gud. Let ns submit as we may. Think not, reader, that I was a drunkard. JNo unbecoming levity?no want of self-respect did I betray, in thel brightest clays of the golden age. A quiet gentleman and a comely, of an uncertain age, 1 was to be seen daily perambulating the shady streets of W?my counte nance, perchance, u tritle flushed?a shade more 1 fear than the gentle exercise I had token would warrant?and my step, at times, loftier than beseemed me. I was a dreamer then. But I was injuring my constitution. Not at all! 1 but drank for amusement. I saw plainly the absurdity of purchasing present pleasure at the price of future pain.?Therefore did I practice the most rigid self-denial. . 1 flatter myself my judgment is a sufficient guide. lEst modus in rebus,' with one excep tion,?the temperance society. Like space, it has no limits. Its advocates wi'l never be satisfied, till they bring the world to sign a pledge of entire absti nance from every thing eatable and drink | able?even bread and water. I expect to I see the day when to eat an apple will be {111 i ndelible disgrace, and milk and water wi11 be sold by the druggists as a medi cine. Champaign will soon rank in point of acridity with nitric acid. I count myself a martyr. I have joined the society! I had lived a yeaf in soli tude, tho' in the midst of my friends, and could bear it no longer. For twelve long months, tny neighbors shunned me like a viper, merely because?listen, posterity! I occasionally indulged to excess in my favorite beverage, Whiskey punch! But it is all over now. ] have signed the pledge, and since it is done I will make a virtue of necessity. For the good of my country, is it, ye persecutors! that ye have required me to 'join'/' Because my neigh bo. is a drunkard I must taste no more wine! Admirable logic! Suppose he were a glutton?must I forego my dinner? Yes, I am a martyr?the prince of mar tyrs. The Decii should not be named in the same breath. They died for their country; I live! Too true alas! it is. Do you doubt it? Why then, when upon earth, did our Savior turn your boas ted water into wine? I thank heaven for that miracle. To what will not the world come? I know men who really believe wine to be a deadly poison. Let mo tell them that a Toper's stomach is stronger than they imagine. We arc not killed so easily. 'Fcrter Proinelheua * * * * insani leonis, Vino stoinachu apposuisse nostro;' and we can yet endure another draught. Nobody thinks, now a days, ofdrinking brandy; a very lew aspire to rum?but most of the old veterans of my acquaint ance have taken refuge in wine. 'Forti ter occupa Porlum? is their motto. But even here they are not secure! Quail' while ye may, my masters! T foresee'the time when you will be glad to drink water. What a quiet, delightful, dream-inles ted village was W before the broach ing of this new doctrine. There, of a summer afternoon, beneath that huge elm, might you sen the patriarchs of the town, with their sons and grandsons, and great grandsons forsooth, stretched on the green grass, or sitting at ease on the smooth pine benches, smoothing perchance, or discussing gingerly and calmly some piece of village gossip?whilst ever and anon the antique punch-bowl, long since depar ted, passed cheerfully around the circle. And were not these good men and true? Let me not insult their memory by the question. I have a fondness for antiquity. These old customs, mellowed as they seem by time ?their sharp corners worn otf by its silent and invisible flow?how it goes to my heart to see them vanishing like a ghost by candle light? The fashions of the day, like wine, want age. Ugh?this dry cough?boy, bring a pitcher and bottle of- Lackady?my pledge! Hold?we will not drink. Mine, alas! is a thirst that many iratcrs cannot quench. 1 will chew a little cam moinile. Three weeks ! It seems an age. I did not believe when L signed, that I should be ab!J to abstain so long. What would I not give for a bona fide attack of " bodi J ly infirmity." Then could 1 drink with a <?. :ar conscience?but 1 have signed the pledge, and my word is my bond. Such lias always been my fortune!?since I stop ped drinking, I linvc not seen u sick mo [ uient. It is intolerable. I would not have joined the so-iety so readily, had I not thought I could be most conveniently ill, at least six times a day. Let me Lie patient. To-morrow, I may have a glorious choice. Ah! 1 have it! I will watch with my friend L w to-night. Losing my sleep wil' I give 11 Hi u >ii' crb headache in the morn injr.nnd gin has always been my medicine. The deuce take it! 1 have watched with my friend? broad awake all night? <lr;"ik a glass of cold water at n idnight-? hoping to induce the cholic?another at sunrise?and feel this morning us if had slept ni Paradise. It is loo irisullurable. The fates are against rnc. I foar 1 shall never see another sick day- If I had con tinued to di u! 1 warrant I should have j had the headache daily, as usual. But now that I want an e.v:uro for taking ihe leasi drop in the world, I l'eel as light as a swallow. Well, some people are born to fortune. I was always a luckless dog! If I detest any thing, it is water. Ho race speaks of a fountain whose waters were better than the glass. ? Fin * Bundusi? iplendior rilo.' We have no suchsprings here?though it is true a slight dash of water in your wine, of a hot day, is not out of place?a mere trifle; it gives it adewey freshness, which?but why should 1 dwell on 'this! I am without hope. 'My pulse bleats like an eight-day clock.' L despair of the headache, ami will bethink me of some other excie 11 1 could but find an apol ogy fin "ije -in would lay upa stock of "bodily infirmity" for a year. After all, can I deny that they are in the right? Think oi' the wives lonely and desolate?the children starving?the wretched victims ofdrunkenuessstrongly bound in these woven and strong-linked chains which it is so hard for mo to break. I Think of these! I do not regret?struggle as thou wilt?thou almost invincible hab it, that I have disappointed thee! I re member now that men wagged their heads as I passed them, and said?what they shall not say again. No! I am no drunk ard! My hand is firmer. It trembles not as before. My step is lighter?my sleep is sweeter?tChat thirst, burning like fire within me, is less agonising. I tortures are dying away with the llama ? and now, O God! as I look back", I see ?I feel?I know that I was almost (was I not quite!) a drunicaud! Yet one glass! It would still my heart's* throbbing?only one? I shall desire no more. It shall be the last?the farewell glass, it is at my lips?the liquor has a celestial fiagrance. I can imagine no deeper bliss than such a draught inspires ?and it is at my lips! I taste its spark ling foam. Once?once only! Shall I drink? One moment to decide! No ! Again I am a man. Drop by drop. I pour it out upon the ground, like water. Cod ! I thank thee, 1 am safe ! Once of the most costly, stupendous and magnificent works now in course of prosecution in this country is theCiiOTON Aqueduct, by which the city of New York designs to supply itself with an abun dance of pure and wholesome water for drinking and all other domestic purposes. New York, it is well known, is worse oil' on the score of ?;ood drinking water than any other city in the Union, and in endea voring to remedy this great want, her citizens have wisely resolved to obtain- a supply of water, of which the quality shall not only lie all that desirable, but of which tbequantityshall be adequate to the public requirements (or many years to come. Tlx; great work o( this Aqueduct was therefore undertaken, by which the limpid streams of the river of that name are to be made to flow into the city of New York. The original estimate of the coast of this work was $4,718,000 ; but is now ascertained that it will not fall short of $10,000,000? the expenditures upon it to the 1st of Jan uary last having already reached within a fraction of $4,000,000. Mr. Tanner, in his useful and interes ting work on the canals and railroads of the United States, remarks that, "of the true character and magnitude ol this im portant work (the Croton Aqueduct) but few, even of the citizens of New York, have an adequate conception." National Antipathies.?It is said that a Frenchman has as great an antipathy to plum pudding as an Englishman has to irog fricaussee. We'd take a well made Yankee pumpkin pie in preference to either dish.?Pic. Catlin's gallery of Indian portraits is extremely attractivein London. Theelite of English society visit it in crowds. Commodore Edwin Moore, comman der of the Texian Navy, is a native of Alexandria, D. C. AGRICLLTURE From ' e Philadelphia Saturday Courier. IIAKVIjltjT. Husbandman, lift tip thine tyes aiiJ seo How the Lord of the harvest is blessing thee ! He causes the sun on thy fidc'i to glow; llu speaks the woid and the waters flow; 'L'lie cvii and good his bounties t'.arc, The just and unjust are still his core? The f;raio at his bidding grows up around, And herb- ror the :eivice ?>' man a^./uud. The cattle are his on f thotiifi: H hills, P.'iey quci c il.( ir thirst at ciysuil rhls Which iptiuft 101 th-'i.-i at the sound "f his voice, And tii>' forests, ..nd iiK.-mt;ttns, and ail-jsr^ ji;! Hushan.lmari, bow th_ heart pud knee, For the i.ord of tiiu harvest tails to '? ee! He calls to thee from !h? waving plain, From the rip. ning corn, and slaiitlin^ grain? He speaks to thee in the rf-di.<g t under, In each parking bree/..;? i ei lislTi ar.d wonder: "Harken, oh man., unto thre I call, 1 ru thy 'Maker, the God of all:" Man ! who go'st forth in the morning t<~ toil, Who reaper it the fruits of thu teeming soil, As evening advances thy labors close, And, wearied, thou seek .. the sweets of repose? O man, ere in slumber 'hy pillow is press'd, Think of th' God who h;is given the? r< >t ! Tune j'our clear voice in a hymn of praise, Vour ho a it in grateful penitence raise, And Ihe Lord of the harvest, who cares for the", l'lr Father, thy Friend, and Redeemer will be! Willi many persons there is a preju dice against green crops for cattle : they believe that nothing will pay but corn or grain crops. On walking with one of these, and admiring his fine crop of beets, he said, " 'tis all very well, but beets pay no rent, remember." But lot himmakea calculation of the profit in cattle-feeding and manure, and compare the condition 01 the land with the same, after a grain crop?it i.s by taking things for granted that men keep themselves hoodwinked. Poor and exhausted lands may be re covered by a coiu'cso of green and root crops, equally well as by being laid down to grass; and these would pay far better than light crops of corn or grain to those farmers who know how to expend them upon their own premises, and those who do notrtai: 1 much in need of information. Lands which will not grow grain enough to pay for harvesting, might soon be re" claimed by those me-.ins and left in fine tilth and condition.?Cab. The Striped Bug.?Every person who cultivates cucumbers and melons must be acquainted with the yellow strip ed bug. In formeryears we depended most on our activity iu catching them, chiefly in the cool of the morning and evening, but we have an en ier way to manage them. Tn the hottest weather they are the most active and seemingly the most voracious ; and some days ago, when ihe mercury stood at is J", aware of this dan ger, we visited the cucumbers, and found the bugs in great numbers. A sprinkling of quick lime, however, scattered them in haste; and we have not seen a dozen since in the whole garden. But the large brown bug that infest squashes and pumpkins, must be treated differently, and nothing is better than decapitation.?New Genncsee Farmer. Anchor .Worm.?This is the cogno men of an insect which has made its ap I pearance in Michigan. A cor respondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, after slating that the Hessian fly had made great havoc in many places, adds,?"Lat terly a new enemy has appeared, called the Anchor Worm?they are nearly as numerous ;is the ilies of Enypt. So an noying and plenty have they been, that I they would inundate whole lii Ids, and the I farmers luno in some instances made trenches around their fields and houses, to save themselves. They move in a mass from one field to another. After finishing a repast and crossing a road, the earth is nearly obscured for many rods." ?Baltimore Fanner. Hoeing Ruta Baga.?An inexperien ced cultivator of the ruta baga may com monly be known by his leaving the plants about fourtimes as thickly together as they ought to stand. On ground of any tolerable degree of fertility, the distance of one foot at least should be allowed be tween the roots except they be in drills three feet asunder, when they may be suffered to stand a little nearer, if sown brond cast, eighteen inches square should be allowed to each root. If the land is rich enough, they will be so much larger in consequence of this increased space,') as considerably to increase the amount ol'j the crop and greatly diminish the labor of harvesting. We have observed, on the best soil, well manured previous years, where the crop have been sowed broadcast, and two feet square allotted to each plant, roots weigh ing from ten to fifteen pounds, and yield ing about fifteen hundred bushels an acre. If the soil be poor, the above remarks will not of course apply, and the roots must be much nearer together, as they cannot be made to grow large, and num ber must be made to compensate, in a small degree though it be, for a want of magnitude. T III MM I I IIIII I I IIB -?.-r Paint your Tools.?Every farmer rihould be provided with a small quantity of the coarser kind of paints?a few paint pots and brushes and paint oil. It is very easy to learn to mix them, and by koep i11ff a small supply, he might keep bis im plements always in a g )od state of preser vation. The expense would be triffling, and the trouble next to nothing; and be sides it is wisely ordained that we can neither sow nor reap without trouble. Thogttwtfc. t of all troiiol-'s must be that of having nothing to do. To have a place for every tool on the farm, and to k np them all painted a: d in good order, ,..d when not used protected from sun and air, ought to be an amusing, as it is undoubtedly, a bindmg obligation on every fanner.-?Baltimore Farmer. Early Discovery of America.?The Co penhagen Antiquarians have recently disco vered new evidences of t!.e early settle ment of this continent by the Scandinavians. Dr. Lund, a celebrated Danivh geologi?, has ommunicated to the Northern Archcso '"rical Srciety, an interesting account of niff exhumations made by him in the vi cinity of Bahia, in Brazil, which are confir matory of theScandinavian, hypothesis. His disrovc !es began with the fragment ot a flag stone, covered v.'ith engraved Runic charac ters, but greatlv injured. Having succeed ed in decyphering several words, which ho recognized as belonging to the Icelandiah tongu?, lie extended las researches, and soon came upon the foundations of houses in hewn stone, Ivaiing :t strong architectural resemblance to the ruins existing in th^ nor thern parts of Norway i in Iceland, and in Greenland. Thus encouraged he went re solutely on, ^nd at length, after several days' digging found the Scandinavian god of thun der, Thor, with all his attributes?-the ham mer, gauntlets,' and magic girdle. The So ciety had commissioned Prof. Rain (who first established in an authentic manner, the existence of ancient relations between Fee land and North America, anterior to the dis covery of this part ol the world by Colum bus).to report on the subject of Dr. Lund's letter and to publish his report, with a view to direct the attention of the learned to this very interesting discovery, which would seem to prove that the ancients of the North had not only extended their maritime voyages ( to (South America, but even formed perma nent establishments in this country. Native American Minstrels.?We have been favored with so many foreign minstrels, Hungarian, Tyrolese, Styrian, &c.; have imported so many Savoyards, Bavarian broom girls and Italian vocalists, that our country is in a fair wayofheeom* inginoculated with the divine art through foreign channels, if in no other way. But thank fortune, whether by imitation or otherwise, we are falling back on our domestic resources, and, as in domestic manufactures, are carrying oitr American system into music,, as well as into cotton bags. We too can now boast of our Ame rican minstrels. We have before had occasion to notice a quartette or glee party of those native born Boston boys, who were about a year since in our city. They are again with us, and are, we bc live, at the Astor, where they dined yes terday afternoon, and soon after the cloth was removed unexpectedly and delight fully entertained those present by sudden ly bursting forth in most harmonious and heart-stirring strains, on a beautiful air oi" their own composition, set to the words of one of Morris'Americun ballads. They favored the company with a number of other popular native airs from the same esteemed writer, as set to music by Horn, and arranged as glees by Mr. White, one of these Euterpeian songsters. They art; on their way to Saratoga, and we know that their pure and natural style of sing ing, comprehending a beautiful soprano and powerful basso, and two intermediate voices, will meet with great patronage. Let us encourage a native taste for music, for it is certainly innate in our people. The New England psalmody in schools proves it: and Morris and Horn have touched a cord which has vibrated with responsive feelings throughout our land. These ballads are bcconte our household gods, and we owe them gratitude for "liv ing them embodiment and charms so at tractive. Who in America, or peradven ture across the big deep, lias not listened, as a large and enchanted assemblge did yesterday, to that delicious air, " N<>ar the hank when.* ilroops the willow. Long time a:?o>" A. Y.Star. Emigrants to America.?Such was the number of Gern:ui (amilies travel ling from Paris to Havre, there to take shipping for this country, at the last ac counts, that tho ordinary vehicles were insufficient to accommodate them, and additional diligences were put in requisi tion for their use. Mr. Healy and Mr. Rand, two Ameri can artists, arc now pursuing their pro fession in London. The former has recent ly returned from Paris, where he was honored by a sitting from Louis Philippe; the latter has ju>t painted a portrait of our Minister, Mr. Stevens.