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Hv Riaotrr.
From the Port-Gihson Correspondent.
A t'ARGUKLL
Farewell ! I feel how sad it is to part !
With nil that's nearest dearest to the heart!
To leave a homo of harmless jovou mirth,
And wander o'er a dreary cheeriest earth :
No soul can toll no language can express
The melancholy thoughts the restlessness
The deep anxiety of those who roam
Far from their friends, tlnir country and their
home.
In vain I look for aup;ht on which to rest
A mind disturbed, corroded, and opprest
Bill ah ! the thirsty soul as well might look
On Arabs sands to find a cooling brook ;
A stranger's voice can never greet my ear
In such soft accents as I used to hear
A stranger's hand can never seem so kind
As some I prest in grief and left behind.
Home scene enjoyed in earlier happier days
Around the fond imagination plays
And seems ten thousand thousand times as dear
As when that very scene itself was near.
One thought alone supports the sinking soul,
And beckons onward to a promised goal
iic muugiii mui an tins anguisn, toil a'ld pain
man oe forgotten when wk 'ei:t again!
HOOSHIER
Port Gibson, Feb. 27.
j debtor, whom he might tear limb from limb,
aim presently met our triend X; " There
stocks lower, and pork hnrher tha 11 rvor.
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i neo tue successful operator, with half a
smile. John thought the smile a sneer,
though it waa but the natural svinptoiu of a
kind heart and lull pocket; for "the fact was,
he had no pork, but a large amount of stocks,
and besides, his eyes were wrong end fore
most. "What the old bovdo I care for
Mocks and pork?" growlod he, and clapt
anuiiiLT wrniKie to nis Mow. Stocks low
er," ho muttered to himself, as he turned
into the bank, ' I've a vast muvi to come
out Jackson man, if it were only to grime
mm nirnson speculator, tint must come
anu ten me slocks are lower, foul fall
mm; 1 shall get mad before the
through, at this rate."
that ws a terribler-forctfoon at the dis
count-board i houses of adamantine credit
trembled; the friends of otWenuwed nntaa
groaned inwardly; and more'han one saga
cious nod, and mystic remark, threw con-
sternatton over the endorsers and upholders
ji me uurrison speculator.
Meanwhile, at home, Mrs. John, every
uouy Knows her, ihe
est,
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day's
Miss Landon is always peculiarly hannv
in Iier graphic manner ol portray ing nature,
ana giving her scenes a brightness more
fcweet and beaut. ful than even that of sun
shine. The following lines display a pic
ture that ought to make a young painter
wild with excitement; though, wc fear, did
ho ask his palette for colors to perpetuate it
upon can a ass, he would be wild with des
pair.
" It was an eve when June was calling
I he rose to its summer state.
When the dew-like tears around are fallins;.
Such tears as unon nitv wait.
1 ill' w i s 1 - 1 I II' rrmi-ii pel.
Which vet shone throuirh the shadowv screen,
With gold amid the kindling irrecn.
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s men, opening to a garden, made
its own. 111st iliirhtlv broken, shade.
111:111.1111 1 mill nil! 1 1 rriirc sivrr in.
Illl lavolv nlilllls in vmsiil Ilium
Wore colors caught iu other skies;
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Made captives for their radiant eyes.
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A fountain, like an April shower.
To many a jinlu and ilroonine llower.
mil. wearied wn 1 ino suiirv nuiiii.
The isolation of sovereign
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state is also
lines:
" Alas, the steps of that young (piecn
I'pon life's rudest path hath been.
An orphan! ah, despair is heard
In but the echo of that word !
Left in her infancy alone,
On that worst solitude a throne."
MIS(JKLIjANF.OI!S.
From the Cincinnati Mirror.
THE WORTH OF A WJFE.
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Having began wrong, ne very naiurauy
oir Benjamin, and half the papers were not
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dirtied, and pulled about, without one mo
ment's comfort; it was worse than being a
1 1 VK I .A.r.nAn. II, III, I!
wished he'd been bom a blacksmith.
Pinched by his passions, and worried by
M.!r . jsa
treet, noping 10 meet 'some uciiuijuuh
prettiest, nicest, kind
ilYfi luiitnot . . 1 . I-.. 1
i..iii.1nrni, ui:cniii nonat liirest in
body that ever was in the world, was hard
at it, rubbing and scrubbing, and running
up sums and down, as busy as a ber, and
nil n m.l- I. l ! 1 " r .!
... .nunc i,ci iiusuaiiu coimoriaoie; lor
she knew his humor to be variable and his
temper touchy, and she worked well to cure
him, not by scolding, bless me, not she! but
by doing every thing so nicehy feeling
every thing so keenly, and being herself
forever in such an active, not 'passive
Christian, not stoical, good humor, that old
Bluebeard himself, would havo lived with
her till this time, I doubt not. And now
the table was set, and 'he hair smoothed,
and the cape accommodated, und the hearth
swept, and the work-b skct open, and she
was all ready to look up at him with her
bright f.nd brightening face, and put her
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uiiuo aiuuuu ins ttecK, anu out we
must go back to John. 1
A'er Hank-hours, selling his teeth, and
looking the storm fjll in the face. (Tor h'd
forgotten his umbrella) he took his wav
homeward. Never was a man so crossed,
and worried, and laughed at, as he d been :
the dogs he met seemed to sneer at his
losses, and a venerable old pig that stood his
ground on th.o tidewalk, was evidently
assuming airs because of the fall of stocks;
he went out of his way to get a stone, and
threw it at the sarcastic porker with so
much.passion as to lame his shoulder for a
week,
Presently he came to his own door; it
was locked ; that was too much, to be fas
tened out of his own house, lie drew a
long breath, winked two or throe times
very quickly, and thought of staving the
door in; while he yet thought, it opened, and
his wile stood bel'oro him; he put her aside,
laid down Ins hat, and walked to the fire,
leaving his muddy marks behind him. 1
need say nothing about the sudden ebb of
her sea of joy and hope the tears sprang
to her eyes, though she tried stoutly to
choke them down and.as he threw himself
into a chair, she came and sat at his feet,
and looking up into his dark countenance,
asked, "What it was that she had done
wrong?" and behold, his eyes, which had
been blind, were opened, and he saw.
The next week came Christinas; and
John, when ho went to church, heard of the
great lire in New York a matter of much
consequence to him, as he was deoply in
volved with tlio'e tliat might have been
ruined. Troubled and anxious, he was
bound homeward, when the cashier of the
bank stopped him, with a long story
From Bulwer'i Rirnzi.
A PRISON SCEN&
The lapse of y ears his strange adven
tures his unbroken snirit the rlinr
of Rome when relieved from his inflexible
justice the new power that intellect daily
and wonderfully excited over the minds of
me rising generation the eloquence of
1 et rarch, and the common sympathy of the
vulgar far fallen greatness. all con.mwwi
to make Rienzi the hero of the age. Not a
town through which he passed which would
not have risked a siege for his protection
not a house that wo ild not have sheltered
him not a hand that would not have struck
m his defence. Refusing all offers of aid
disdaining all occasions of escape, inspired
oy ins fnoomitaoie nope, and his unalloyed
Delict m ihe brigliincss of his own destinies
the tribune sought Avignon and found
dungeon!
These, his external adventures are brief
ly and easily told, but who shall iell what
passed within ! who narrate the fearful
history of the heart? who paint the rapid
plunges 01 emoinin ami 01 thought the in
dignant grief the stern dejection the
naiignty disappointment that saddenod whib
It never destroyed the resolve of that great
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soui 1 wno can say what must have been
endured, what meditated, in the hnrinitniro
ot Maiella; on the lonely hills-of the per
ished empire it had been his dream to res
tore; in the courts of barbarian kiiiTS.-
and, above all, on returning, obscure
quitcd.'1
"Ha!penk asain."
"Thou wilt be heard, my Gila thou must
bo free! Great God, 1
about some acceptance on v hich lie had be
come liable, and dropped a hint that some
drafts on New York, in consequence of tho
great fire, might come back protested, &lc.
ifcc. &c; every word of which converted
our friend John's heart into ashes, and made
every mercantile nerve in his body twitch
with excess ot misery. Uuined in business,
nervous ana irritated 111 body, what was
there to live for? Again he wished (lim
it a dog, a clod-hopper, a scovengor, any
thing, nothing: to be beggared by .1 lire 11
thousand miles oil'! what folly to leave his
affairs in such a state! he belicvod he was
born a fool, not fit to drive a dray; there
was nis neignuor maKing $du,uuu in porn,
while he, like an idiot, was losing all his
father left him.
He stopped an instant, at his tUor to real
ize that he was a beggar, and, ns he stood,
the vision of his wife came up before him.
Would she care for him? Would she love
him the less for his beggary? Would she
labor the less to please, to quiet, to improve
him? And his brow grew smooth again as
he thought of her glad face, and his eye
joyous as it met, though but in fancy, hers.
He turned, walked down the steps again,
and cleaned his shoes as carefully as if hVd
come courting.
Her warm affection her gentle, May
like dependence her self forgetting devo
tion broke the sealed fountain of his heart.
" There is something to live for!'1 and he
almont shouted it " Something better than
wealth, more godlike than knowledge, more
satisfying than fame:" and though he did
not say what it was that ho was so crazy
about, you might have guessed, perhaps,
had you been one of the circle round his
lire-side . There were children to kiss, and
babies to play with, and more than one
damp palm to press, and press again. There
were Dick, and Sophia, and Mary, and lit
tle Billy Button, and all so bright and so
merry; and yet, believo me, there was not
among them one so truly merry as that
ruined merchant fi r he had conquered a
bosom si : his better nature, which, like
tho Prodigal Son, had been dead, was alive
again it had been lost, and was found
ami
disguised, amid the crowds of the Christian
worm, to the seat ol his former power?
What elements of memory, and in what a
wild and fiery brain! What recollections
to be conned in the dungeons of Avignon,
by a man who had pushed into till the fer
vor ol fanaticism four passions, a sinle
one ot which has, in excess, sufficed to
wreck the strongest reason passions which,
in inemseivcs, it is most difficult to combine
the creamer the aspirant the nymph
oplept of freedom, yet of power of knowl
edge, yet of religion.
In a few minutes he was apparently ab
sorbed in the Icaiure; so intent indeed was
he in the task, that he did not hear the
steps which wound tho spiral- stairs that
conducted to his cell, and it was not till the
wards harshly grated beneath the huge key,
and the door creaked on its hinges, that
ltienzi, in amaze at intrusion at so unwont
ed 1111 Ji inr, lifliid bia io Tk. ,I,. ,A
rcclosed on thedungeon,and by a lonely and
pale lamp, he btliold a figure leaning, as
or supprt, against the wall. The figure
was wrapped from head to fixit in hat, shad
ed tiy illumes, concealed even the feature
ol the visitor.
Rienzi gazed long and wistfully
"Speak," he said at length, putting his
hand to his brow. "Methinks either long soli
tude has bewildered me, or, sweet sir your
apparition, dazzles. I know you not I am
sure? "and Rienzi's hair bristled while
he slowly rose "Am I sure that it is
ing man who stands before me! Angels
have entered the prison-houso before now.
"Alas ! an angel's comfort never was more
needed."
The stranger answered not, but the cap
tive saw that his heart heaved even beneath
his cloak; loud sobs choked his voice; at
length, as by a violent effort, he sprung for
ward, and sunk at the tribune's feet. The
disguising bat, the lung mantle fell to the
ground it was the face of a woman that
b acquitted.
"And Rome
think then!"
L The Iribune sank on his knees, and nev-
had his heart, ,,, ,js youngest, purest
Kur, poured forth thanks'giving more fer
nt, yet less selfish. When he rose again
tie whole man seemed changed, llljpvn
had resumed its earlier expression of deep
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.iu surruo comma iiu. fli ijosty sat upon
his brow. The sorrows of the exile were
forgotten, injjis sanguine and rapid tho 'ghts
! stnejl aV aM-ttVo jrwrdmn ofh
couutr) and its sovereign!
SINGULAR INCIDENT.
Dh. Fuxt, in his lecture last week on
the anatomy of the brain, illustrated the
astonishug influence which the nervous,
sy stem ttercitM over the whole corporeal
mental functions, bv a v . II authenticated
anecdote, which is too remarkable to be
lost. He stated that in Berlin, in Prussia.
. . . . .
an HioHtduai, during a violent dispute with
irs wne,in tne course which both narties
became much enraged, undertook to admin
ister a little salutary chastisement. He
struck her with his hand, a lisht blow r.n
the back of her neck. Tho woma n instant
ly fell, and became apparently immediately
deprived of all sensation and after various
methods were restored to without success
to reanimate her, she was pronounced to hr
dead: gnsve. clothes were provided, and
some persons commenced stripping the
body for its interment. On removing a han
kerchief from her shoulders, the woman to
the great consternation of all orespnt. start
ed up, assumed a menacing attitude, and
proceeded to finish an opprobrious term
which she was applvins to her husband
when he struck her Ihe blow thataouearedto
have produced such serious results.
It was ascertained, on subsequent inves
tigation, that a pin, which confined a cer
tain portion of her garments to her neck,
was, by force of the blow, driven through
the integuments and spine until it reached
the spinal marrow, and wns the cause of
this instantaneous suspension of all the
functions of the body or mind. She was
restored to consciousness, and to the full
possession of all her fncultic. as soon as i
was removed. iVctr York Journal. 1
A DOWNING LETTER.
WMUHM City, (East Room.W
Saturday nirhf. Jan. 30. 1S38 I
To the Printer of Major Jade Downing'
ii in, t'oruamd, ttale of Maine.
Sir: I feel very bad to hear that my
cousin, the Major, is' still at Downingville,
and cant attend to his paper. Neverthe
less, the great duties I owe to mv country in
general, and to the Gineral in particular,
maki-s it necessary that I should write a
letter to-day to inform the readers of the
Gazette, that we are at last, thanks to the
perseverance of the Gineral, safe and sound
out of the French difficulty. Toe Gineral
has at last, after two or three years bard
struggling for it, made peace with the French
and got em penned right up io a corner, so
that they've got to pay over the money
whenever it's asked for. This is what I
call doing tho business up about right. I
dont think there was ever sich a man be
fore as the Gineral is. Gineral Washing
ton was considerable of a man in his day,
but he was no more to be compared to the
Gineral, than a mouse in a cheese to a bear
m a cornfield.
OONOBBfS.
Monday, Feb. 32.
The House of P "oresentati vaa. KH an
sit. The following message was received
in the Senate from the President :
Presidents .We$sge.
The following Mesage was, on Monday,
transmitted to Congress by the President of
the United States :
To the Senate and
House of Representatives:
I transmit, horcwith, to Congress, -rpi
otthe correspondence between the Secre
tary of State snd the Charge d'Affuraof
His Britannic Majesty, relative to the me-
uiauon ol lireat Britain m ourdisagret
witn France, and to the determination of the
French government to execute the Tnut.
of Indemnification, without further delay,
ob the application for payment by the agent
of the United States.
The grounds upon which the mediation
was accepted will be found fully developed
in the correspondence. Oa th m r
Ther's no mistake about ihw.V. 1"T wen Pub
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j. ' ' WHIM UO iv
ooked upward through passionate and gla
zing tears the arms of a woman that clasp
ed the prii-oner'sknees! Rienzi gazed mute
and motion'ess as stone. "Powers and
saints of heaven!" he muttered at last, "do
ye tempt me further! is it! no, no vet
.-peak!"
"Beloved adored! do you not know
me?"
"It is it is!" shrieked Rienzi wildlv, "it
is my a ina my wite my " llis voice
forsook him. Clasped in each other's arms,
the unfortunates for some moments seemed
to have lost even the sense of delight at
their reunion. It was an unconscious and
deep trance, through which some thing liitc
a dream only faintly qnd indistinctly stirs.
At length recovered at length restored,
tho first broken exclamations, the first wild
caresses of joy over Nina lifted her head
from hor husband's bosom, and gazed on
his countenance "Oil what thou hast
known since we parted! what, since th,at
hour when borne on by tho bold heart and
wild destiny,thou dids'. leave me in the im
perial court, to seek again the diadem and
find the chain! Ah! why did 1 heed thy
commands why suffer thee to depart alone !
How often, in thy progress hitherward, in
doubt and danger, might this bosom havo
been thy resting place, and this voice have
whispered comfort to thy soul! Thou art
well, my lord my Cola ? Thy pulse beats
quicker than of old thy brow is furrowed.
Ah! tell mo thou art well!"
"Well!" said Rienzi, mechanically.
"Methinks so! die mind diseased blunts all
senses of bodily dpcay. Well! yes! And
you you, at least, afc not changed, save
the maturer beauty. The glory of the laurel-wreathe
has not faded from my brow.
Thou slmlt yet" then breaking off abrupt
ly "Homo tell me of Rome! And thou
how earnest thou hither! Ah! perhaps
my doom is set, and in their mercy they
have vouchsafed that I should see thee once
more before the deathlisman blinds me. 1
remember, it is tho grice vouchsafed to
malefactors. When Fwas a lord of life or
death, I, too, permitted the meanest crim
inal to say farewell to those ho loved."
"No not so, Cola!" exclaimed Nina,
putting her hand before his mouth. "1
Suiao: -On Friday last, the steamboat
.luuinftfMnil. notn rtert-riieuiiu, len me
body orchard D. Halsay, of New York
at our town for burial, who tommitted 6ui
cide on the 29th ult. by stabbing himself
through the abdomen. The causes given
for the deed are contradictory. It is said
he left New York city a few "months since,
ana settled in iXatchez, with a view of prac
tising law,of which profession he was a prom
ising member that lie became enamored ol
a widow lady of much beauty and wealth,
neglected his pursuits, squandered his mo
ney, rtnd being unlortunate in Ins attach
ment, in a fit of despair, committed the
horrid deed. He was thought to be about
25 yjars old. Randolph Rec.
Pretty considerable cold! -The editor of
the Newcastle Gazette relates a storv about
a couple of gentlemen in that neighborhood.
who had a tjre kindled in their sleeping
room, a fow evenings since, and kept it bur
ning all night: but such was the extreme
coldness of the weather, that, on awaken
ing in the morning, they discovered hang-
ng troii each end of the big back-Ion;
"large icicles, sit or seven inches in length!'1
Itic editor ol the Gazette says he aint afraid
to put this fact against any thing this side
of k'K-land.
The beautiful Duchess de B , when
Napoleon inquired her age, she answered
thirty-five. Napoleon very coolly turned
to her son who was standing by "And how
old are you?" he inquired. "Precisely one
year older than my mother, Sire," was the
native reply.
EXPENSE OF WAR.
The War with Black Hawk, is found to
have cost the country $1,500,000, though
the fofte employed, did not amount to 2000
men. It is calculated therefore, that the
Military force to be employed in Florida,
exceeds 5000 men ; the cost of tho Semi
nole Campaign, will be near $5,000,000.
The "Spy in Washington" romaks that our
administration will thus have succeeded by
its wisdom and foresight, in reducing ihe
dreaded surplus revenue by a pretty con
siderable subtraction.
A letter from Washington to the Journal
of Commerce, says
"The President is outrageous and furious
in his denunciations of the Pennsy lvania
Legislature, for presuming to reharter the
United States Bank. He threatens ven
geance against all tho public men and po
litical aspirants who have been concerned
in it. Mr. Rush and Mr 1-illas, as you
have before heard, have gone to Harris
burg, to claim the right of appearing at the
bar of the Senate, as the delegates of a pnb
1 ic meeting, to oppose the passage of the
bill in that body. Tho President, appre
hensive that the bill will pass the Senate,
has held a Kitchen Cabinet Council, in
which it was determined to appeal from the
Legislature to the people of the State, and
to direct the assemblage ofa State Conven
tion, composed of the Democratic Jackson
party, who are to be instructed to take mea
sures for the destruction of the bank, at all
hazards and to create a revolution, if Ihe
end is to bo attained in no other way."
the matter fairly settled, and vou ma v tell
the readers of the Gazette ihey need'nt be
afraid of the French war any longer, but
goon with tbttr birds-egging as fast as they
piease. j nem mat has got vessels may
ioaa em ana send em trom Dan to Beershe
ba, and the French wont touch one on em
The banks may untie their money bans and
pourout a little without being afraid that
every body is going to fail and not pay tbeir
notes. Them that has got lands mav now
stir about and sell em, and them that is tra
ui ng may fill up their stores.
Tell all hands to to to work like irood fel-
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iows, wr mere 'it be as good a time for busi
ness the year to come as ever there was
in the world, and if they only stir round a
little they can in a little while make ud for
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naving to noia back so the last year.
Now, for all this good luck every body
ougni to give tnanks to the Uincntl. It's
all his duins, and I can prove it. It is true
it has been'brought about jest now by what
mey can English mediation; but if we trace
it all through we shall find that the Gin
eral was at the bottom of the whole of it.
this mediation was brought over last
week to Norfolk in the king of England's
Pantaloon ; not his corderoy pantaloons, but
bis brig Panmloon. Well now, how came
the king of England to send over this ves
sel and offer to settle this hash business be
tween us and France? Why it was because
the French had called home their charge
aim meir minister, nnn mere seeinea to Be
no other way left to settle the business, tin
less it was to go to fighting. Well, what
made the French call home their charge
that was here to see to the business? It
was because the Gineral called home ourn.
And what was the reason the Gineral call
ed home ourn? It was because the French
would'nt pay the money. And what was
the reason the French would'nt pay the mon
ey ? It was because the Gineral called
them sich outrageous names in his message
fall before last, and would'nt make an ex
planation. And why would nt the Gineral
nako an explanation? It was because he
had'nt a mind to.
And there you come to the end of the
worsted. So you see, tracing it all through
step by step, and connecting it altogether,
the gineral is the whole cause of England's
sending over to settle this confounded French
quarrel. And if it had'nt been for the gin
eral it would'nt have been settled in the
world. The gineral is at the top and bot
tom of the whole of it; and though 1 say it
myself, he has done more for his country
than any one else ever did: and I think he
ought to be President as long as he lives
and then appoint the one to reign after him.
I remain the public's nnd the gineral's
faithful and humble servant,
SARGENT JOEL DOWNING.
ceived here.
From the Baltimore American, March 3d.
The following gentlemen will compose
the board of directors for the new Bank of
the United States, chartered by the State
of Pennsylvania:
DIRECTORS.
Nicholas Biddlc,
John Sergeant,
J nomas P. C opo,
Manuel Eyre,
John R. Neff,
William Piatt,
Charles Chauncey,
Joshua Lippincott,
Ambrose White;
Lawrence Lewis,
Matthew Newkirk.
John A. Brown,
Richard Price.
John Beylard, Jr.
Henry Troth,
James Worth, of
Bucks,
Jona. Roberts, of
Montgomery,
Amos Ellmaker, of
Lancaster
Charles Ogle, of
Somerset,
William Robin9on,
Jr. of Alleghany s
M. L. Beven, Esq. has been elected
President of the Board of Directors of tho
old bank of the United States, vice. N. Bid-
dlo resigned. Mr. Biddle has been elected
President of the State institution.
Mobile, Feb. 3.
A rumor came yesterday by passengers
on me steamboat Dover, from Montgow lery,
that hostilities have actually commenced on
the part of the Creek Indians in Georgia,
against the white citizens of lhat state. A
rencounter had taken place between a
company of whites, about twenty in num
ber, und r charge of a cadet from West
Point, and about 300 Indian warriors. This
engagement took place within 13 miles of
Columbus, and, it is said, resulted in the
defeat of the whites, with two of their party
killed, and five wounded, Mer, Adv.
At Ihe Stock Exchange N. York, on the
19th ult., 100 shares of the Planters' Bank,
Mississippi, were sold at f 125. JV. y. Cour
1A7u:i. 1 .
"uusi eacn 01 me two Gov
ernments has thus discovered just solici
tude to resort to all honorable means of ad
justing amicably the controversy between
them, it is a matter of congratulation that
the mediation has been rendered unneces
sary. Under such circumstances, the anti
cipation may be confidently indulged, that
the disagreement between the United States
and France will not have produced more
than a temporary estrangement. The heal
ing effects of time a just consideration of
the now ;rful motives for a cordial mmA un
derstanding between the two nations tho
strong inducements each has to respect and
esteem the other, will no doubt soon oblite
rate from their remembrance all traces of
that disagreement.
Ot the elevated and disinterested part tha
government of Great Britain has acted, and
was prepared to act, l Have already had oc
casion to express my high sense. Univer
sal respect, and the consciousness of merit
ing it, are with governments as with men,
the just rewards of those who faithfully ex
ert their power to preserve peace, restore
aarmony, and perpetuate good will.
1 may be permitted, 1 trust, at this tinto.
without a suspicion of the most remote de
sire to throw off censure from the executive.
or to point it to any other department or
branch of the government, to refer to the
want of effective preparations, in which our
country was found at the late crisis. From
the nature ofour msrf ration Vhe movement!!
of the government in prepared n for humili
ties must .ever be too slow for the exigencies
of unexpected war. I submit it then to you,
wnemer me nrsi duty wo owe to the people
who have confided to us their power, is not
to place our country in such nn attitude as
always to be so amply supplied with the
means of self-defence, as to afford no in.
ducemenls to other nations to presume tiritin
our forbearance, or to expect important ad-
antages trom a sudden assualt, either upon
our commerce, our sea-coast, or our interior
frontier. In case of the commencement of
hos. ilities during the recess of congress, the
time inevitably elapsing before that bodv
could be called together, even under the
most favorable circumstances, would be
pregnant with danger, and, if we escape d
without signal disaster or national dishonor,
the hazard of both unnecessarily incurred,
could not fail to excite a feeling of deep re
proach. I earnestly recommend to you,
therefore, to make such provisions, that in
no future time shall we be found without am
ple means to repel aggression, even al
though it may come upon us without a note
of warning. We are now, fortunately, so
situated, that the expenditure for this pur
pose will not be felt; and, if it were, it
would be approved by tho?e from whom ail
its means are derived, and for whose bene,
tit only it should be used, with a liberal eco
nomy and an enlightened forecast
In behalf of these suggestions, I cannot
forbear repeating the wise precepts' of one
whose counsels cannot be forgotten: u The
United States ought not to indulge a per
suasion th.it, contrary to the order of human
events, they will forever keep at a distance
those painful appeals to arms, With which
the history of every other nation abounds.
There is a rank due to the United States
among nations, which will be withhold, f
not absolutely lost, by the reputation of
weakness. II we desire to avoid insult, we
must be able to repel it. If we desire to
seeure peace, one of the most poweful in
struments of our rising prosperity, it must
be known that we are, at all times, ready
for war." ANDREW JACKSON.
February 22, 1836.
Upon this message being read, the Tele
graph says:
. Mr. CLAY arose, and addressed the sen
ate, in his happiest manner. He congratu
lated the senate on the important part which
they had acted in preventing hostilities be
tween the two countries. This they had
done, hrst, by musing to accede to the
wish of the executive, that an act of contin
gent reprisals should be passed by congress
Had that been done, war would inevitably
have been the result. And then their refusal
of the three millions appropriation was ano
ther act, by which the likelihood of hostile
collision betwedh the two nations was far
ther removed.
He would not, he said, now enter into an
examination of the principles claimed in the
message of the president, that no foreign
government had any right to use any kind
of interference with the internal affairs of
another, or to ask any explanation of An
acts of public functionaries, in tbeir inter
course with each other; If it were true,
then this very administration has,insund y