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THE NEW ERA.
What is it but a Map of busy Life?—Cowper. i
P () R TS M O l T II . V A.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1845.
OUR FLAG!
FREK TRADE—LOW DUTIES NO DEI1T—SE
PARATION FROM RANKS- KCt)NOMY—RE
TRENCHMENT \M) STRICT ADHERENCE
TO THE CONSTITUTION.
THE STEAMER. MASSACHUSETTS.
The auxiliary Steamer, (as she is called,) Mas-1
sacliu setts, which was to have left Liverpool on
the 19th ult., has not yet arrived, and is looked
for with much anxiety in New York. There lias
been within the past few weeks, very stormy
weather on the ocean, and we learn from a gen
tlemen who arrived in a packet ship Irotn Liver
pool, a few days since, that they had one contin
ued storm the whole passage. The Massachu
setts had 37 cabin, and 104 steerage passengers
on board.
HON. JOHN C. CALHOUN.
On the 8tli instant, Mr. Calhoun departed from
New Orleans for Memphis, Tennessee, to attend
the great Internal Improvement Convention which
is to be held there. He attended a public ban
quet at New Orleans, and gave the following
toast:
The Valley of the Mississippi—The greatest
in the world, lake it all in all. Situated as it is,
between the two oceans, it will yet command the
commerce of the world, and that commerce may
be centred in New Orleans.
A REPRESENTATIVE*: NOT CHOSEN BY
TIIK CONSTITU BN C Y.
The election fur a representative in Florida to
supply lho vacancy occasioned by'tlie election of
their former able Delegate to the Senate, lias been
extremely close, indeed so close that fur a long
time it was not known who was chosen. It is
now known positively that Brockenbrongh has re
ceived a majority, but owing to a non-receipt ol
all the votes by the Secretary of State, at a certain
time, the certificate of election has been given to
Mr. Cabell. A letter received in Richmond from
Florida, dated the 6th instant says. “ By the
law of Florida the returns of the votes are to he
sent to the Secretary of State: anil, at the end of
thirty days from the day of election, he is requir
ed to certify to the Governor who has received the
majority of the returned votes. The thirty days
expired on the 5th instant. Upon counting the
votes, Mr. Cabell was found in have a majority
affifly-onc. He was therefore entitled to a cer
tilicate of election ; and the Secretary of State
made it out accordingly, and intended to present
it to the Governor, who was expected at Talla
hassee on the night of the 6th, as soon as he ar
rived. It was, of course, expected that the Go
vernor would give Mr. Cabell the commission a*
member elect to Congress.
OREGON.
The National Intelligencer of this morning is
attempting to shield itself behind the “Charles
ton Mercury ” on the question of Oregon. With
this view, it devotes more than two columns to
a learned dissertation from the Mercury, in oppo
sition to our claims upon Oregon. The National
Intelligencer cries up the Mercury as “ a source
purely democratic;” and the Mercury, in its turn,
cries down our title to Oregon as “ a perfect hum
bug.” Between these two organs of the anti
American doctrine, our claims to Oregon would
certainly go to the wall. For one, we protest a
gainst the Mercury being considered as the pure
exponent of the democratic party upon this sub
ject. It clearly is not the exponent of Mr. Cal
houn in regard to our title, as we shall prove from
his speech of January, 1813, in which he declares,
“we all believe (it) to be a good title on our
part.” Not so the Charleston Mercury, however,
which pronounces it t« tie “ a perfect humbug.”
But we have no room this evening for our anim
adversions on this redoubtable ally of the Nation
al Intellgencer. They are crowded out by other
matters.— Union.
A NOBLE DEED!
The people of Staunton and Augusta county,
says the last Rockingham Register, under tho
impulse of a generous sympathy which does infin
ito credit to their kindness of heart, have opened
and liberally started a subscription for the pur
chase of a comfortable home for the unfortunate
young lady whose person was violated a short
time ago. The design is to procure and present
to her, a comfortable home in some populous
neighborhood in the county. •Subscriptions pi
pers for this noble and praiseworthy object are to
be found at the office of the “ Spectator” in
Staunton. Widely as we differ politically with
our Staunton and Augusta neighbors,' we must
say that their conduct throughout this melancho
ly and heart-rending affair, has been creditable to
the finpst and noblest attributes of humanity.
The zeal and activity which they ferreted out
and brought the villains who committed the out
rage to justice, and now the generous feeling
which prompts the purchase of a home for the
unfortunate, cannot he too highly praised. We
are proud of the spirit which onr neighbors mani
fest in this instance. We trust that the effort to
procure adequate subscriptions for the purchase
will he successful. Let the home Ire procured :
it will be the proudest and noblest monument ol
the magnanimity of the people of Augusta w hich
they can possibly erect.
ROBBERY OF A VALUABLE MAIL.
The mail pouch for Nnv York and Philadel
phia, made up at Albany ori the 11 th instant,
was robbed on its way to New Y ork city. R vvas
exceedingly valuable, containing d-afts of banks
to the amount of #120,000. It was not n charge
of a mail agent, and the person whose duty it js
to take them from the boat, on her arrival nt
New Y'>rk, to the Post-office, found the mail bags
lying on the deck of the boat, the officcrin whose
!
rooms they were usually placed for safeguard ha
ving retired to his berth and left them on the deck,
instead of rnlaining them in his room, and deliv- |
ering them to the post-office porter when the boat .
arrived. The pouch spoken of was not among
them. The boat reached New York at 4 o’clock
in the morning. The mail must have been taken
ofl' in the interval between the landing and the
arrival of the porter from the post-office. The
Albany Argos says the Commercial Hank had en
closed in it drafts to the amount of $70,000, the
State Bank $20.000—in all about 0120.000.
These were in all instances we believe drawn
payable to order, and a forged endorsment will
be necessary before they can he made available
to the robbers. No money, as far as yet ascer
tained, was lost. 'I'be information of the rob
bery came so late as to render unavailing all ef
forts for the recovery of the loss or the detection
of its authors. These efforts are, however, pushed
vigorously, and we trust successfully, hy Bust
master Morris, of New York. Mr. Wasson sug
gests that possibly the mail may have gone on
South—by mistake. This, of course, will soon
be known.
From tlic Now York Morning1 Nowj.
THE OREGON.
Nothing displays in a greater degree the utter
want of nationality, which is characteristic of
certain persons and parties among us, than the uni
formity with which they take sides against their
own country. This matter of Oregon is a singu
lar instance. The whole of the territory is the
undoubted property of the American Union, but
because our agents became the dupes of English
policy and signed a treaty of peace, leaving open
for future dispute certain questions of temturial
limit, England manufactures a claim to part of
Oregon. I*or the sake of penee, the United
States allow it to remain an open question. They
then offer to give m> 5i degrees, not from the 49th
degree to 54th degrees 40 minutes, of the ground
1 to settle it. This is refused, and the matter still
remains open. The settlement of the country
now requires a final adjustment. What do the
English government and the English people in
the matter ? Why, the Premier asserts in Par
liament that the mere fact that the President, in
addressing the American people, has dared to as
Sort an undoubted right to the whole territory,
endangers the peace of the two countries. The
whole English press, and the whole people sup
port their government to a man, and by so doing
give him a tower of strength in closing his bar
gain with the American Executive, and by sodd
ing win universal respect. What do the Ameri
can press? Why, nine tenths of them are busied
asserting the rights of England and condemning
their own country, and an/ man or any press that
endeavors to support the Executive in the con
duct ot a troublesome bargain, is denounced as
“bloody thirsty,” as “ bullies,” as “ more ready
to run ihnn fight,” as “ disorganizes,” and what
not. To this fact may be ascribed a portion of
that unmitigated contempt which is sometimes
expressed for everything American. Now one
great cause of our difficulties is the knowledge
possessed by the English government that such a
class of parasites exist among us, and they take
advantage of it accordingly. The Journal of
Commerce, however, goes far beyond this, and
asserts that which has not a shadow of truth in
it ; ns, for instance, it stated on Saturday as fol
lows.
There is one expression in this extract, which
invites remark. “ If Great Britain is determined
to push her claims by force,” it is because we
“ force” upon her that alternative. It was no
wish of hers to disturb the existing arrangement.
Rut finding it was the desire of our government
to terminate the joint occupancy, she offered In
divide the territory in such a way as to give us
the largest and best part of it.
I' mding at length that nothing could be effected
by way of compromise. Great Britain proposed to
refer the dispute to disinterested arbiters. This
too was refused.
Let ,,s be willing to look at the subject in its
true light. We have all along conceded, by pub
lic and solemn nets, that Great Britain “ had
rights” to Oregon. We did not say to what ex
tent, lint by admitting her to a joint and equal
occupancy of the whole territory, from lat 42 to
lat. »4 40, we left room for ihe inference that we
considered her rights about equal to our own.
Now these are all false statements, and made
in support of the British claim, which is from its
inception one of fraud. She did not offer to divide
and give os the best portion. On the other hand,
we offered to give her the best harbors, the Is
land and five degrees and a half, which she twice
refused. And the Journal says she found noth
tng could be done in the way of compromise!_
The Journal next states that our former conces
sion for the sake of peace, left room for the infer
cnee that her rights were equal to oor own. By
the lapse of time and offers of concession on our
part, and not accepted by her, we gradually lose
all title, according to this sophistry of the Jour
nul. V\ e offered the 49ih parallel, and she re
fused it. 1 lie Journal therefore says we liavp
now no rights beyond that li„B. Ry ,he same
rule, if now we offer the line of the Columbia,
and she refuses it, we shall then have no rnrlils
beyond that river, and then if she wants to come
down to the 43d degree, the Journal will say
•bat s fair. In a committee, composed
of W. Cost Johnson. J. Q. Adams. James Cooper,
, Thomas F. Marshall, &r., reported in favor of
Issuing $200,000,000 of United States stock ns a
"relief to the States,” on pledge of the public
lands. They called upon the Land Commis
siouer for a statement of the lands, and he report
ed as follows :
(»ewkrar. Land Office, Oct. 31. 1843.
In making Ihe foregoing estimate the parallel
ol 49 degrees of north latitude was taken as the
northern boundary of Oregon 'Territory. If tho
parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes (ihe northern
most line claimed by the United Stales) he taken
as the boundary, then 104.640,000 acres must be
added to llie whole surface, and the aggregate
amount of tfir* public domain remaining to lie sold
by the United Slates will be 1.042,731,765 acres.
which, at the minimum price of the public lands,
would yield a revenue of $| ,303,414,706.
A true copy from the record ;
Thomas II lit, \ kf.. Commissioner.
Hon. VV. Cost Johnson.
Chairman Select Corn., on State Relief. House
of Representatives.
Now, what did John Quincy Adams and Cost
Johnson do ? Did they hesitate to make the land
up to 51 degrees 49 minutes a basis for slock is
sues ? They reported as follows ;
Uy the estimate of tbc Commissioner of tlie
(i tipnl I,and Office, (see .Appendix, I".) the
cpnnliiy of laud yet unsold, as claimed by the
I niled Stairs, is une thousand lorty-t\v«i million
seven hundred and thirty-one thousand seven
hundred and sixty five aeres, which, estimated at
one dollar and twenty five cents per acre, the
minimum Government price, would make the sum
of their value to he one thousand three hundred
and three million four hundred and fourteen thou
sand seven hundred and six dollars and twenty
five cents, being nearly seven times the amount
of Government stock proposed to he issued
So tar Irmii hesitating at the 49th degree, thev
proposed to pledge the whole up to 51 degrees 40
I minutes to the public creditors. The idea of our
having no right to them never entered their
heads; hut now, according to the Journal, we
have no right there. It seems that the quantity
ol land beyond the 49th degree is ten per cent, of
the whole domain of the United Slates. Now.
it because we olTered to compromise at the 49th
degree, and it was refused, we impaired our rights
beyond it, no new offer can he made on our part,
hut to claim the whole and wait for a more mod
erate English offer. If, however, by operating
through the anti national party among us, Rng
land can frighten our Executive into backing not,
as she frightened France in relation to tin* Qoin
tuple treaty, she may obtain her object ; and this
agency is now actively employed. Daniel Web
ster’s speech at Faneuil Hall on Friday opened
his theory about—
“ I lie period, then, is not far distant, when,
from the shores of Western America, we should
see springing up a great Pacific republican nation,
which would nut consent to acknowledge nllegi
nnco either to this country or to England; that
this great republic would probahly adopt all the
great principles which we have inherited from our
, fathers. He would not undertake to sav where
it would he located, whether on the Columbia
river, or further south, hut that a great and in
dependent nation tvnuld arise on the shores of
the 1 aeific, and at a period not so remote as many
persons might suppose, lie was confident.’’
OUR STEAM MARINE,
Is, and must bn, while our lakes and rivers re
main to ns. the greatest in the world. Thp
Statesman of Europe cannot understand this ; they
eount up their battle ships of war steamers, their
thousands ef slaves to work them, and smile,
as well they may. at our comparatively awkward,
hohind-the-nge and limited navy. Ruilt. manned
and officered as it is, they feel that it would he a
reed before their best armaments, and wonder
how young America can count so complacently
its strength. They do not comprehend, though
every intelligent laborer in our streets does per
feetly, that the regular force of the. United States,
whether by sea or land, is but an inconsiderable
atom of the national defence—that every vestige
of our regular navy could he swept away In-rnnrrnw
without materially impairing our national strength,
lie knows what Sir Robert Reel does not, that
every one of our merchant steamers is a fort_a
moveable, manageable, efficient fort; that within
call of each stands an invincible hand of oit:7.en
soldiers, ready with every needful implement
from cannon and mortar for an open enemy, to
ropes for an Arnold if an Arnold can he found,—
prompt at the first note of invasion to gather in
such array as no hostile fleet could pass, and live
long enough to rejoice in its success. We have
a long line of coast, such an one thank heaven
as no despot could sufficiently guard, hut with
freemen to sentinel every mile of it, with oui
swarming keen eyed hold-hearted coasters nr
tho look out, aid with t ie lightning to conve\
their earliest warnings, an invader would nevci
steel upon us quite unprepared. Whichever way
he turned his prows he would find, not stone bat
tlements nor tall war ships, but low, swift, change
fnl. well mounted steamers, crowded with hea'rts
of steel, rejoicing to have a holiday in making
war on a detested pirate. It is true those steam"
ers would not be of the strongest, but they would
carry cannon and men who would aim them well,
and they would make a had mark for the enemy
while they did last. We shall never he the ag
gressor, tor we do not fancy the glory of whole
sale murder, hut if any nation insists upon having
it, they will find it no child's play. Our well
behaved merchant ships will torn to reaving pri
vateers. and devour their commerce, while their
navies will he stung to death by our home steam
i rs like lost calves in a swarm of hornets._JV.
Y. Sun.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
DIFFICULTIES AT HARVARD IINIVER
SITY.
I he students of this institution are in rebellion
against its government, because the government
have expelled one of the students for infraction ol
tiie rules. A party of the senior class were revel
ling in the room ol one of them, at a late hour._
According to a letter in one of the newspapers,
and probably written by one of the offenders]
“ wit and merriment were there; the joke and the
laugh went round ; their hilarity momentarily in
creased, until unconsciously they verified the
p let’s assertion. ‘ There \rns n sound of revelry
by night.’” In plain English, they were drunk
and noisy, and thus violating roles. In this con
ditinn they are addressed by an officer of the U
, niversity. who demands of the occupant of the
j room the names of those present. The occupant
resists this, because he declines being an informer.
And for this offence, the Faculty sentence him to
a suspension for six months. All his fellow gtu
, dents escort him away in triumph, and the Facnl
I ty and the students are at war.
i iiiirv;ifu univesuy seems to he always in
hot water. It exhibits more rebellions in any
term of years, than ail the other colleges of the
I'nion. Is its government more defective than
that of any other ? Y\ e know no good reason for
this supposition. Are its students more disorderly
than those of other colleges? Why should they
he ? In all the colleges of New England, the
system of government is radically defective; and
in this defect do we find the cause of these fre
quent rebellions, fine defect consists in oovern
ing Students like slaves, by espoinage and penalty,
and not like freemen, by appeals to the higher
i moral instincts. Another defect consists in eser
: ejsirig no supervision over the manners of students,
■ *n keeping them at great social distance from
their rulers They aro furnished with the rulrx.
: told that they will be punished for violating them.
and are watch-id for the discovery of violations.
! I hrse rules are mere arbitrary prohibitions of in
temperance, profanity, theft, and other crimes and
vices, and arbitrary regulations about hours of
rising, retiring, study and other things, suited to
the discipline of a camp. In short, the whole
system of college government, imported from Eng
land, says to the student, “ you must do 90 and
sy, beeatise we, your masters, order it; and as we
take for granted that yon are rascals, and will
violate our rules if yon'can, we shall watch you
closely, and punish i.* we caich yon. So begone
ami look out for yourselves!” Such is the go
verntnent of colleges . arifj we can only character
ize it as a government transmitted from the dark
ages, and conceived by ruffian tyrants for the con
irol of ignorant barbarians. And while these posi
tive laws are enforced by espoinagn and punish
menl, the manners of the students are left with
out any substitute for parental supervision, and
hence become or remain coarse, rough, uncouth
and low. College rust and collego vices are pro
verbial.
'Phis very difficulty at Harvard exhibits, in a
forcible degree, these college manners and this
college government. A party of students are
indulging in low revelry,at a late hour. Ami the
author of the letter from which we take this ac
count, says that the senior class to which they be
long Ins not been excelled for frentlemnnli/ con
duct. Can he find any genllcmnly conduct in a
drinking frolic? In our estimation, it is exceed
ingly low, the very reverse of the conduct exhib
ited by real gentlemen, and shows that these stu
dents entertain very erroneous ideas of thecharao
ter. But where shall they obtain better ideas?
Not from their teachers, who never make any ef
f >rts to define the character of the frrntlrmnn.
Lord Chesterfield’s suggestions are not a classic
in any college, though they ought to be in all.
And while they are revelling, an officer steals up
on them, and demands the names of all present;
and the occupant of the room will not inform.
1 l**rc then we find concealment of delinquency a
point of honor among students; and it is made so
by the system of the Faculty, which places no os
tensible confidence in their integrity, hut watches
them as thieves. If left to form their own man
ners, are they not in danger of becoming vulgar
debauchees? If watched like thieves, will they
not become knaves? And kept at a distance by
their teaehers as hoys, will they feel the pride and
dignity and self-respect of men ?
President Nott, of the Union College, in New
York, was an exception to most college teachers.
He endeavored to elevato the feelings of the stu
dents above low sports and malicious mischief,
and generally succeeded. He treated the students
as his sons, appealing to their affections and moral
instincts, and not as a set of disorderly reprobates,
to he watched and whipped, and reached only
through an appeal to fears. Why do Captain
Partridge and the preceptors of Georgetown Col
lege succeed so well in governing studpnts ? Be
cause they cultivate their hearts as well their
heads, superintend their manners and principles,
inspire them with honorable and dignified senti
ments and feelings. Under such teachings, buys
easily become gentlemen ; under espoinage, penal
ty and neglect of manners, young men become
knaves and clowns and debauches.
OUTRAGE.
A moat outrageous assault was committed in
Baltimore lately, upon a women named Margaret
Ehrman, by five gentleman, who drove away
her protector, whom they terrified with threats of
assassination. Four of thorn accomplished their
hellish purpose, as all would have done, but for
interruption. One of the gentlemen—the second
monster in the tragedy, as sworn to, and acknowl
edged by himself, E. P. Roberts—was convicted
last week of assault, with intent only to commit
the deepest crime. Two of the parties to the
abominable case, Musgrave and McIntosh, have
had their trials removed to Annapolis and How
ard district. It is said that the jury, in the case
of Roberts, are endeavoring to procure k pardon.
A writer at Baltimore, says, it is a pity his vic
tim was not one of their wives or daughters. It
is, indeed, a pity. Had such a fiendish outrage
been committed upon any person of standing in
society, the whole land would have rang with the
enormity, and justice would have sharpened her
sword to smite the violators; but, as the victim
wars only a poor German emigrant, justice slob
bers over the affair, and changes the inhuman
crime into a very venal afTair. Oh. shame!
will justice never be even handed?—vV. V. Al
ias.
BEWARE OF A VILLI AN.
Some ten years since a fiend in human form,
named John G. B. Robinson, came here from
New York, where he left a wife and child. Here
he married a highly respectable young lady, whom
he has now left with two children, after robbing
her of several thousand dollars, entrusted to es^
tahlish him in business; and, as it is presumed
ho will, on the first oppportunity, ruin other fe
males and their families, it is deemed advisable
to publish him.
lie is 39 years of age. a fine looking fellow,
about six feet in height, fair skin, very florid com
plexion when in toll health, bine eyes deeply set,
a profusion of light hair and whiskers, (hut he
would dye them black and himself too. if he finds
it necessary ;) he weighs about 170 pounds, large
bead, bis hat made by J. McKain. A new swcll
bodied trunk of black leather, 20 inches long,
brass nails and patent lock ; a handsomely orna
mented rifle, a gold mixed box coat, dark bronze
metal sporting buttons,dark striped cassimere vest
and black satin vest, black cloth pantaloons, nar
row plaited bosom shirts and other clothing were
taken with him.
Any one knowing of bis whereabout would ren
der a great service by informing the Mayor of
Fittsburg as early as possible, as there are, no
doubt, numerous persons be has swindled in every
possible manner.
He lias assumed different names, and may do
so again. One of his aliases is Edwin Robinson,
which, with an anchor, he lias marked with Indian
ink on bis wrist or arm. He is a most artful,
plausible, insinuating and black hearted villian
Since writing the above, we find he has. among
other articles, obtained on credit, a gold pencil
case, ring, watch chain, and gold patent lever
watch, double back gold lever, white face, engine
turned cases, No 39,985.—Pittsburg (F*a.) (Vo
j zclle.
THE TELEGRAPH ANT) THE PRESS.
The New Orleans Bee discourses as follows:—
“ Upon journalism as a profession, in all ilg
multiplied ramifications, the effect will not be
less apparent and profound. The Telegraph will
suspend, in a great measure, the subscription for
papers by individuals at distant points. Who
will care in New Orleans, for instance, to read
the New York Courier Enquirer eight days
old, when the passing events of the hour may be
obtained from the Telegraph in one city, ere they
ran be printed by the compositors of tin? other ?__
Newspapers will probably have a more local and
limited circulation ; and the intellectual features
of a public journal will constitute its leading claims
to favor while the mere caterers and clippers of
news by the mails will find their occupation ren
dered superfluous by the Telegraph, This is a
change that will condemn to death hundreds of
journals which now live, move and have their be
ing chiefly, if riot wholly, by the persevering in
dustry with which the functions of the scissors
and pastepot arc performed.”
A mesmeric lecturer in Ohio has run off with a
Miss Kush, from her parental roof. .She is repre
sented as a lady of rare accomplishments and per
fect beauty. This. then, is what we should call
going it with a perfect liuth.
From the Roumu Citizen.
CAUGHT A TARTAR.
We found ourselves a few days since, on board
the floating palace, the “ Burlington,” commau
ded by that prince of captains, Capt. Sherman
gliding over the waters of the beautiful Champ
lain. The day was delightful, and the passen
gers had sought the promenade deck to enjoy the
attractive scene. Good humor and delight shone
upon the features of all, as they in groups, and
solus, gazed upon the enchanting scenery, chatted
ami promenaded. Among the crowd shone con
spicuous three pompous specimens of monarchy,
whose stiff cravats, straight-buttoned suttouts’
ami military air, indicated their profession, and
who bore upon their frontispiece the Royal Coat
of Arms, tel ling* that they wore it by permission
oi Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. With majesty
in their mein, and lordly contempt for the dwel
lers in pum/ikiii land upon their royal brows,
they paced the deck in evident satisfaction with
themselves, and with an occasional glance of
condescending pity upon the Yankee natives about
thorn. At length their eyes lit npon one of those
queer specimens of New England production fnB )
quently seen from every feature, whose face spoke
the Yankee. He was a lank six-footer, with a
careless, sauntering air. his hands thrust into the
pockets of his coat, his cap set on the back of his
head, and with supreme indifference to all about
him, was lazily pacing hack and forth before the
British officers, whistling Yankee Doodle. He
chanced to wear upon the front-piece of his can,
stamped in leather, the American Eagle, with
some appropriate motto. Taking advantage of
this, and wishing to have a little sport at his ex
pense, one of the representatives of Royalty ac
costed him with
“ Well, my friend, I see you wear the eanle •
I suppose yon belong to the Army.”
Not exactly,” replied the Yankee, touching
his cap. a la mode de mililaire, •* but I have the
pleasure of informing you that I hold a lieuten
ant’s commission in the 2d Company of the 13th
Regiment of infantry, in the State of Connecti
cut.”
Indeed, said the officer, “ is that the regi
ment in which they use pumpkin-vines for trum
pets, and bean poles for muskets?”
“Look here, Mr. John Hull,” said Jonathan,
“ if that’s your game, you’ve woke the wrong
passenger. Maybe pumpkin-vines and bean poles
would do to trash the impudence and starch out
of you hull-headed beef-eaters, but on a pinch we
can muster yet a few of the same old muskets
and Long-Toms with which that pumpkin-eat
ing Yankee McDonnough once made your tur
key cock, Downie, pull down the British flag,
on this frog pond of ours, and hlnbber for quarters.
You’ve hearn tell of that bit of a spree, hain’t
ye ?”
This home thrust evidently disturbed the offi
cer, and by this time the passengers had gathered
about them. But rallying he said,
“ That was rather an unfortunate affair for us.
But what do you think would be the result of a
war now ?”
“ What do yon think?” replied Jonathan,
“ whv, I think we’d lick you like d-n.’
“ You think so ?”
\\ ouldn l we, though ? By the time wo
got through with you, there wouldn’t he enough
left to make a grease spot. YVe’d use y„u
up, run you out, excommunicate you, ’radicate
you. I tell you what, stranger, if you don’t
want to wake up and find your cake dough,
you had better keep that lion of yours mighiv
quiet.”
“ Kut you don’t imagine you could take Que
bec?”
“ fake Quebec? Why, we’d walk into that
Gibraltar of yours, and put up the Eagle on
your flag staff, some morning between sunrise
and breakfast, just for diversion to sharpen our
appetites.”
“ "ell, you seem very confident of your
strength, where is your Army to do all this?”
“ Army ! Maybe, stranger, you hain’t trav
elled through these parts much. Army! Why,
did you ever hear of Plattsburgh, of Saratoga, of
Bunker Hill, of Bennington, of New Orleans, of
Yorktown, and some other such interesting places
to you British ? Well, the blood of the John
Bulls that manured them places, has raised a
mtghty tall lot of regular Hong-Toms—every
house in these parts is a barrack, and every man,
woman, and child is an enlisted soldier ; and at
the first growl of your Lion, we’d he down upon
him like a chain of thunder bolts. You wouldn’t
he nothing in our hands. We wouldn’t leave
you n foot of land from New Brunswick to Oregon.
" e’d sweep you so clean from the face of the
earth that the devil never would be able to find
more than half of you.”
'The crowd had greeted these sallies of the
Yankee with shouts of laughter, and our officer
i seeing that he had mistaken his man, began to
• edg»> off, hut Jonathan followed him up, pouring
j in his broad sides. At last the officer said :
i “ Well, rny friend, f do not pretend to be much
j acquainted with your military resources in the
States, and you must excuse me, 1 must go be
low ; turning at the same time on his heel,
and he with his brother officers, steering for the
stairs.
r Hold on,’ said Jonathan, “ don’t go off mad.
y,,u needn’t have told us of your ignorance.
I he way faring man, though a fool may read
that; but wait and I’ll give you a few items of
information that may he of advantage to you.”
But John Bull had disappeared,and our Yankee
resumed his walk and his Yankee Doodle.
Pp.RMATVRE INTERMENTS.—BuRIEI) ALIVE.
: —The Apalachicola Advertiser says that a fami
1 ly. With whom the editor was intimate, desired
Ins attendance at thp removal of the remains of
one of its deceased members. Prompted by cu
riosity, the lid of the coffin was removed ; when,
to the otter astonishment of all present, the corpse
was found with its lace downwards, and in the
i ntnnner indicating a complete change in the
position of the body. Added to this, as far as the
i hands could have reached, the lining of the coffin
was torn, and wound into a knot; aod a conside
rable quantity of hair was strewed at tho feel
All these circumstances, together with tho sodden
and singular manner of ins (supposed) demise,
■ left scarcely a shadow of doubt that here was an
| other instance of a too precipitate haste in c«n
j signing to the grave the body of those supposed
i to be dead.
j Tar,Kt»vf>.—One half of the mischief in the
world is done by talking. And one half of the
j difficulty we get into as we go along through life
I is the result of our saying what we might just n*
well have not said. There’s much wisdom in the
old maxim ; keep yonr mouth shut and your ears
open. I herp is, rely upon it. I do not know any
body in any situation or profession of life to whom
this adviee is not applieable, It is sometimes said
that lawyers live by talking ; that talking is their
trade and soon ; but the fart is, the lawyer* are
as apt to talk too much as any body, and to suffer