by a county an of ours, the captain of an American vos sel now in our harbor. Walking through the rowded streets here a few days since, he had a pert Miss, who was hanging on the arm of an officer of the army, as he passed her, exclaim, in a rather sharp tone, 'What! is that a Yau ce?' 'Yes,' replied the captain, turning shot round,' (a nautical phrase,) a true-blooded Yankee, direct from Bunker Hill, bearer of Pkenham's despatch.' Upon receiving this retor, the young lady walked off in another direction.

gard to the precise import of some of the colors of the glo; but it may be stated, in general terms, that the colors employed are red, blue, chrystal, lite and gold; and these, with certain modifitions or shades, serve to distinguish

what are denominated the nine ranks.' It

should be e narked, however, that the badges do not enable the beholder to discriminate with infallible acuracy, between officers of the gav ernment and private citizens. The nominal rank, and of course the distinctive costume, of any of official grades, may be purchased of the Emperor. It is however rarely done, as the suin dem in led for the privilege is very large. Houqua, o instance, the richest of the Hong merchant, purchased his nominal rank at the enormous p ice of $100,000. We should nat. urally co c'ude that some notable advantage would acer e to the purchaser in such a case. Neverthe ess, such does not appear to be the

the act of escaping, was dressed in a light robe, || all they can do is to guide the eye and correct
in the folds of which coins were found, which his judgment, but that they do not work for him,
have been sent to the scientific institutions at goes on to say: "From all these prior ones, the
Lima for investigation. A female was also present invention differs totally in this respect,
found, sitting in a chair before a loom, which viz: that, by means of this contrivance, it is not
contained a picce of cotton stuff, which she the artist who makes the picture, but the pic-
was in the act of weaving. The cotton stuff, ture makes itself! All that the artist does, is to
(which is of a gaudy pattern, but very neatly dispose of the apparatus before the object whose
fabricated,) is about eighteen inches in diameter, image he requires; he then leaves it for a cer.
and appears to have been only half completed. | tain length of time, at the end of which he re-
A great number of antiquities and curiosities turns, takes out his picture, and finds it finish-
found in this American Herculaneum, has been ed! The agent in this operation is solar light,
sent to the museum at Lima.
which, by being thrown by a lens on a sheet of
prepared paper, stamps upon it the image of the
object, whatever that may chance to be, that is
placed before it."

MISCELLANY.

THE NEW ART: OR, THE PENCIL OF NATURE.
There has been published an account from a
French paper of a wonderful discovery made
recently by a M. DAGUERRE-that of transfer-
ring the picture of any object to paper, by the
action of the solar light acting by means of the
camera obscura; which paper, being prepared
and endowed with certain chemical properties,
will retain the impression for an indefinite
length of time; and thus a perfect copy from
nature may be produced. This discovery, it is
obvious, will be of the greatest advantage to the
arts and, unless the accounts which have been
received from abroad are grossly exaggerated, it
has already been brought to very great perfec-
tion.

The London Literary Gazette of the 2d of
February, contains a long and very interesting
account of a similar discovery which has re-

cently been made in England by H. Fox Tal.
bot, a gentleman of great scientific acquire.
ments. It appears that Mr. Taibot has for some
years devoted much labor and attention to the
perfection of this invention, and having brought
it to a point deserving the notice of the scientific
world, and while actually engaged in drawing

Society, the same intention has been announced
by M. Daguerre, of France! Who is entitled
to the honor of the original discovery is a grave
question to be settled by scientific men.

fact. The only benefit derived,' says Mr. Da-up an account of it to i e presented to the Royal
vis, is this, that in case of a breach of the
law, the individual cannot be punished on the
spot, nor u til he has been formally deprived of
his ball, button, a process which is not long
in perfor n ng.'

A BURIED CITY.

The cutain of an American vessel, named Ray, has lately discovered, on the coast of Peru, in the crv rons of Tuscillo, an ancient buried city of considerable extent. Following the course of some excavations he had made, he found the walls of an edifice still standing, and many of them in a complete state of preservation. He inferred from the number and extent of them. that the population of the city could not have been less than three thousand souls. Great numbers of skeletons and mummies, in a perfect state of preservation, were found among the priv. tc and sacred edifices, and a great num- || ber of domestic utensils, articles of furniture, coin, ar curious antiquities. The earthquake by whic's it was engulphed appears to have surprised the inhabitants, like those of Pompeii, in the midst of their daily avocations-and many of then were found by Capt. Ray singularly preserved by the exclusion of atmospheric air, in the precise situation of the moment when overwhelmed. One man, standing up as if in

Mr. Talbot has produced a number of exqui. site specimens, which mark his progress, and demonstrate his success; from which it appears there is a very considerable difference between the materials employed by Mr. Talbot, the means used, and the results obtained, and those of M. Daguerre. At the Royal Institution, a variety of specimens were exhibited by Talbot, which differed from those of M. Daguerre, especially in this, that Mr. Talbot reverses the natural effect-representing dark objects light, and light objects dark. Different preparations of silver are supposed to be used to effect this singular result, and Mr. Talbot has succeeded admirably in devising a method of fixing his drawings so that the sun can affect or alter them no more. He copies from engravings, by first getting them with the lights and shades reversed, and then again copying from the reversed impression.

Mr. Talbot, in a letter which is published in the Literary Gazette, after speaking of various instruments which have been devised at various times to abridge the labor of the artist in copying natural objects, and showing that, after all,

Again: Mr. Talbot says, in another part of his communication, "No matter whether the object be large or small, simple or compound; whether the flower branch you wish to copy con tains one branch or a thousand, yet set the instrument in action, the allotted time expires, and you find the picture finished in every point and in every minute particular.”

In a paper relating to the transactions of the Royal Society, it is stated that pictures which Mr. Talbot has had in his possession for years, are now as vivid as when they were first produ. ced. The image obtained is white; but the ground is beautifully colored, and readily obtainable, either sky blue, yellow, rose color, or black; green is excluded. Objects the most minute are obtained-the delineations of the leaves of plants-the most minute and tiny bivalve calynx--nay, even a shadow is followed by the spell of the inventor, and remains perfect and permanent long after it has been given back to the sunbeam which produced it. In short, the picture is" ended as soon as begun."

It appears that Sir Humphrey Davy made some unsuccessful attempts to bring about this great result, but fortune did not smile upon his undertaking, and he abandoned it. By laying the nitrate of silver on paper, he succeeded, by means of the camera obscura and the solar rays, in obtaining perfect impressions of any object, but on exposure to the light they faded, and af ter a while totally disappeared.

The French call this instrument by the name of its inventor, the Dagueroscope. It is also called in poetical language the Pencil of Na. ture. Mr. Talbot calls the process the Art of Photegenic Drawing. But, whatever it may be called, it is certainly one of the most won. derful inventions in this inventive age. Hence. forward, travellers who have never taken lessons in drawing may bring home the most finished and accurate sketches. They may even multiply them on the spot to an indefinite extent. Henceforward every man may be his own draughtsman.

Boston Mer Journal.

THE OLD MAID'S FIRST offer.

I must tell you the heart-rending story-I have long wished to do so, and the time has at length arrived. (Here her voice dropped into a confidential whisper.) Poor dear Major Ogilvie who is now dead and gone-heigh ho!—had long been showing me marked attention; in fact paying his addresses, though he never made his declarations; when one morning after having sung me a song of Farinelli's-the music I be.

lieve was Gluck's-ah! you should have heard through the long months of summer did the write in a very obscure, infirm, and eccentric the Major, he was such a sweet singer. Well, lovers keep their tryste, parting only at each character, such as Byron, Chalmers, Jeffi §, the Doctor had gone out to buy a newly inven- meeting more and more endeared to each other. || and Bonaparte. ted fish sauce, poor dear man! he does like At length Wai-o-naisa was ordered off upon a Washington wrote a fair, manly, straight to have his fish well dressed-and I remember secret expedition against the Sioux: he depart-forward line, every letter legible and distinct; he took Franchette, my little beauty of a span- ed so suddenly that there was no opportunity of Jefferson's hand-writing was bold and mas u iel with him, so that the Major and I were all bidding farewell to his betrothed; and his tribes- line; Bonaparte wrote a most unreasona' le alone in the breakfast parlor, when, looking be- men, the better to give effect to his errand, gave || scrawl; Burk's was uneven and hurried; Ha aseechingly in my face, he suddenly went down out that the youth was no more, having perish. ilton wrote a running hand, sparing of ink; on one knce before me-ah! there was gallan.ed in a fray with the Menomones, at the Winne-Canning's permanship had a chaste and clai try in those days!—and taking my hand which bago portage. Rau-che-wai-me was inconsola- cal appearance; Brougham writes a ha ty he tenderly pressed, made a passionate avowal ble, but she dared not show her grief before hand, but with a good pen and full of ink; of his love. I felt myself blushing crimson, her family, and the only relief she knew for her Peel writes with a stiff pen, but with conside a when at this agitating moment, just as I was sorrow was, to swim over to the island by star-ble taste and firmness; Dr. Chalmers writes as going to utter a palpitating confession of my light, and calling upon the name of her lover, partiality, my eyes began to twinkle-I felt a bewail the features she could behold no more. tingling in my nose, my mouth opened in spite One night the round of her voice attracted some of myself, and I sneezed like an explosion of of her father's people to the spot; and, starting gunpowder right in his upturned and imploring at their approach, she tried to climb a sapling in face! Now do tell me lady Susan, you know order to hide herself among its branches; but how tremendously I always sneeze, did you ev. her frame was bowed with sorrow, and her weak er-of all the awkward occurrences!

The Major started, as well he might, but recovered himself-so did I-he gazed at me ten.

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if he used the feather end dipped in ink—a real scrawl; Washington Irving writes a perfect lawyer's hand, as though he wished no one to read it but himself.

RICHES.

has fifty thousand dollars, or one million of dl

What are they? Who is rich? Is it he who

lars? Kings are beggars sometimes on th ir

limbs refused to aid her. Waw-o-naisa,' she
cried, 'Waw-o-naisa!' and at each repetition of
his name, her voice became shriller; while, in thrones, and merchants whose ships float on (v.
the endeavor to screen herself in the underwood, lend. To be rich is to want for nothing; to
cry sca--yet a poor mechanic has something to
a soft plumage began to clothe her delicate have no wishes which he cannot gratify; and
limbs, which were wounded by the briars, and
the term 'getting rich,' should not mean layi g
lifting pinions shot from under her arms, which
she tossed upwards in distress-until her pursu-up money but retrenching superfluous desir‹ 9.
Napoleon, with his imperial power, was more a

derly and expectingly, and I was just about to
relieve him from his suspense, when I sneezed
with a second and louder explosion, that seemed
to shatter the very nose from my face. This
was a confusion to me and the Major, but still
holding my imprisoned hand, and looking downers, when just about to seize the maid, saw noth-
wards to avoid the shower bath that I wns unin-
tentially scattering round me, he swore that he
never would rise from his knees till I had pro.
nounced. I uttered a heartfelt sigh, and the||
soft avowel was just trembling on the tip of my
tongue, when I felt something on the tip of my
nose! Lady Susan-Lady Susan-it was be-
ginning to bleed!—did you ever-of all the dis-
tressing moments!

I struggled to withdraw my hand, that I might get my handkerchief, an action which the Major attributed to coyness, and there fore did but hold it more firmly. In the contest, after fright. fully spotting my tabbinnet silk gown, three ve. ry large drops of blood fell upon the Major's wrist! He started up-I close my eyes and sunk into a chair, overwhelmed with confusion. Supposing I had fainted, the major hastily scized a large tumbler of water, and threw it into my face. At such an unexpected sousing, I scream. ed with surprise and terror. The Mareschal powder which I wore I was always famous for my powder-mingling with the water and blood, converted my face into a hideous specta. cle; when, just at that moment, the door flew open, and Franchette, thinking her mistress was ked, flew at the poor dear Major, and bit a large mouthful out of his left leg; while the ber-stricken doctor let the bottle of newly sauce to fall from his hand and be bes on the floor. Now, dearest er what must have been my Beer!-such a scene!

ing but the bird, which has ever since borne the
name of her lover, flitting from bush to bush
before them, and still repeating, 'Waw-o-naiaa!
Waw-o-naisa!

Hofa's Wild Scenes.

THE FLOWERS OF THE SEA.

slave than a common soldier, who received a certain stipend a day, however mean. Wealth brings wants, hills on hills, and alps on alps t rise.' It is incompatible with true independene. Diogenes was richer than Alexander. The one had all he desired in the warmth of the su: ; the other, though master of a world, wept over the narrowness of his power. Behold the co1

trast!

HEROES.

reason with their left. Their pride is their title, and their power puts them in possession. Thei pomp is furnished from rapine, and their scarlet is dyed with human blood. If wrecks, au ruins, and desolation of kingdoms are marks of greatness, why do not we worship a tempest. and erect a statue to the plague? A panegyri upon an earthquake is every jot as reasonable as upon such conquests as these.

A Thrilling Story.—An extraordinary story is told by Capt. Wallace, of a lover and his mistress, who were saved in a singular manner from the jaws of a shark. A transport with a regiment on board, was sailing with a gentle It were well if there were fewer heroes, for I breeze along the coast of Colney; one of the scarcely ever heard of any but did more mischief officers was leaning over the poop railing, con- than good. These overgrown mortals commonvorsing with a young lady who had inspiredly use their will with their right hand, and thei: him with the tender passion. The lady was in the cabin, in the act of handing a paper to her lover, when, over-reaching herself, she fell into the sea, and, supported by her clothes, drifted astern; the officer lost no time in plunging in after her, and upheld her with one arm. The sails were quickly backed, the ship lay to, and prepartions were made to lower a boat, when, to the dismay of all on board, a large shark appeared under the keel of the vessel, and gliding toward the victims, a shout of terror from the agonized spectators called the attention of the officer to the approaching danger; he saw the monster's fearful length nearing him; he made a despe. rate effort, plunging aut splashing the water so as to frighten the shark, who turned and dived out of sight. The current had now carried the officer and the lady close to the vessel, when the shark appeared a second time along side,and was in the act of turning on his back to seize one of the hapless pair, when a private of the officer's company jumped fearlessly overboard with a bayonet in his hand, which he plunged in the back of the shark, who instantly disappearing, the three were released from their peri. lous situation.

HAND WRITING OF EMINENT MEN.

It is generally believed that men of genius

* ABSURDITIES.

To make yourself generally disagreeablo, and wonder that no one will visit you.-To spend your carnings for liquor, and wonder that you are ragged. To judge of people's picty by their attendance at church. To keep your cleiks on miserable saleries, and wonder at their robbing you. To make your servants tell lies for you, and be angry when they lie for themsciver.-Te expect to make people honest by hardening them in a jail, and afterwards sending them adrift without the means of getting work.—To keep a dog or a cat on short allowance, and complain of its being a thief.-To lose money at play, and then fly into a passion about it.-To tell your own secrets, and suppose others will keep them. -To attempt to borrow money on the plea of extreme poverty.

One morning in summer a female form went out to rove in the bowers of Pleasure. She was beautiful. The blushes of Aurora were upon her checks; and each flower that waved around her pathway seemed to catch a more beautiful brightness from the living lustre of her eye. In those bowers music wandered unbroken; and fresh fountains rippled on beneath the fairy forms that were mirrored in their wave. At length she reached a bower more beautiful than the rest, and there she beheld Time sleeping. His wings were become bright from the lustre of the lovely things that lingered around him-his scythe had forgotten for a moment the commands of death; but flowers withered and sprang up afresh beneath the sands that fell from his hour-glass. She covered him with roses, and idly passed on to revel in the glories that breath, ed and brightened around her. After a while she returned. Not a trace of youth had faded from her check-not a blemish mingled with her raven tresses-not a beam of her eye had departed in that slumber which bound Time in the bowers of pleasure. As she approached him, the loud music of minstrelsy echoed through the bower, and Time roused himself from slumber. He glanced at that lovely one, and the chill of long years pervaded her bosom-her locks paled in the light of his hour-glass-and every trace of her beauty withered beneath the shadow of his wings.

THE ESSAYIST.

THE STUDY

For the Poughkeepsie Casket.
OF HISTORY.

Carthage, the aristocratic faction fomented in- The ninth stood in mute astonishment. The testine broils, and for want of public freedom to || clerk, perceiving the mistake, called to his lordanimate her sons to noble deeds, they fell an|| ship, just as he was opening the door to leave easy victim to Roman valor, whose arms sur- the court. Turning about, and casting a look There is no study more entertaining or in-mounted every obstacle under the influence of of surprise at the prisoner, he hurried back to structive than history; for, while it amuses and conscious greatness. The Romans, through the his seat, and putting on, the black cap, he adgratifies the thirst of curiosity, it expands the fac-splendor of victory, lost sight of the means by dressed the prisoner in the following manner, ultics of the mind, and we soar as it were above which they acquired it; and Julius Cæsar sub- giving at the same time a profusion of bows;the narrow and contracted sphere of common verted the constitution of his country, and erect 'My good man, I really beg your pardon for conception, and in a comprehensive view see the ed upon its ruins an arbitrary and military gov. the mistake, it was entirely, a mistake-altopast and present world as it really was and is; ernment. Ignorance and indolence grew up gether a mistake, I assure you. The sentence we at once see flourishing empires, investigate in the room of knowledge and activity; and in of the court on you is, that you be taken to the the causes of their greatness, and the causes of three centuries the Goths and Vandals overrun place whence you came, thence to the place of decline and ruin. Nothing can be of greater the empire, which, while public liberty was the execution, and there be hanged by the neck consequence than that the men with whom the pole-star to which every regulation tended, until you are dead. And may the Lord have people deposite a portion of their power for the knew no bounds to greatness and dominion. mercy on your soul. I do beg your pardon; I'm regulation of the public concerns, should be in- Power, place, preferment, grandeur and opu- very sorry for the mistake, I assure you.' So timately acquainted with the history of the diflence possess extraordinary power to dazzle the saying, he made another low bow to the unhapforent nations that have preceded us, and espe- weak head, and warp the tainted heart, to ap- py man, and then quitted the court. cially of that of Greece and Rome, where learn prove the worst men and the vilest measures; ing was promoted and human rights better but if the main body of the nation remain ununderstood than among any other people of an corrupted, and knowledge is inculcated, and the cient date. The experience acquired from the dignity of man preserved-if the people are not misfortunes of others is the safest, though the inflated with the vanity of vicing with other evidence and conviction arising from our own is nations for splendid nonsense and the shadows without doubt the most forcible-in fact, we need of greatness-then the efforts of the would-be not ransack the annals of Greece and Rome to aristocrats and monarchists will recoil upon discover the sources of a nation's exaltation or their own heads, and the development of their debasement. At this day, a knowledge of prin- black designs and hateful intrigues will hold ciples is widely diffused; and the people of the them up as fit objects for public exceration. United States know, better than any other, that 'The idea of an existence of tyrannical principles, public Liberty, the child of Temperance, of and the detection of plans where these principles Knowledge, and of Virtue, will carry a people were reduced to practice, never fail to arouse to the summit of human happiness, and will the republican clergy of the people. Public blige every inan to take an oath at the gate,

And charmed the impassioned heart with Tully's

tongue.'

It was this spirit that gave energy to the elo-
quence of Demosthenes, and that animated a
Leonides; that obtained an English Magna
Charta' from a tyrant; that invigorated the
zeal of a Wallace, and gave dignity to the scaf
fold of a Sidhey. It was this that framed an
English 'Bill of Rights,' and that dictated a
Declaration of American Independence.' It
was this that armed brave Poland's sons with
that terrible valor before which death and exile
were preferred to the yoke of the Russian Au.
tocrat. And it is this spirit, and this alone, that
will eventually overturn and root up every ves-
tige of feudal and tyrannical power, and clear
the world of the pestiferous races of kings, of
tyrants, and of aristocrats.
La Grange, May 28, 1839.

there remain stationary as long as the means of freedom enveloped in a film of delusion and
her exaltation are revered and practised.
alarm, receives a double lustre from the rapidity
As far back as we can trace the history of any of its motion; and every head is erect, and ev
nation that has in its turn made a shining figure ery pulse beats high, when actuated by a con-
in the world, it is apparent that their flourishing|sciousness that his exertions must preserve
condition was entirely owing to the excellency unsullied this palladium of his country's glory;
of their national constitution. Wherever civil he feels the enthusiasm-
and religious liberty prevailed-where the na-That thundered high in Rome with Cato's voice,
tion was inspired with the sentiments of free.
men-where the people properly estimated their
own dignity, and felt conscious that they con-
stituted the sovereign will-there we find active
labor, bravery, and a noble solicitude to rush to
danger, and oppose every open and insidious
attempt to weaken or destroy the government
that insured to them these inestimable blessings;
but where inequality and tyranny rear their
horrid heads the people are pusillanimous and
indolent, careless of their own fate, and secretly
wishing the annihilation of that power that en-
tails misery on themselves and their offspring.
Whether we look into the history of Greece,
of Carthage, or of Rome, we always find that
the increase of virtue and the sciences in peace,
and valor and superiority in war, go hand in hand
with public freedom. The petty republics of
Greece maintained their independence against
the numerous fleets and armies of Persia; they
did more, they gradually reduced the land and
maratime power of the Persians till, with Alex.
ander at their head, they gradually made an
absolute conquest of that vast empire. Public
liberty did not nerve the arm of the Persians;
and the increase of luxury, of corruption, and
of venality in Greece, prepared her in turn to
fall a sacrifice to the ambition of unprincipled
tyrants.

VARIETY.

EXCESSIVE POLITENESS.

B. F. D.

sentence of death for various offences. It so Nine unhappy men were appointed to receive happened, however, that in entering the names of the unfortunate parties, on being convicted, ted one of them. The nine were brought up, on his own slip of paper, Baron Graham omitand the eight whose names were on the paper, A spark of republicanism only was left in received sentence. They then quitted the bar.

ORIGIN Of fairs.

When bishops and abbots observed that crowds of people assembled to celebrate the festivals of their patron saints, they applied to the crown for charters to hold fairs at those times, for the accommodation of strangers, and with a view to increase their own, revenues by the tolls which their charters authorized them to lery at these fairs. Hence the multitude of attendants increased, some of whom were actuated by religious, and others by commercial views. When a fair was held within the precincts of the cathedral or monastery, it was not uncommon to o

before he was admitted, that he would neither

lie, steal, nor cheat, while he continued at the

fair.

LOVE FOR ILL-TEMPERED WOMEN.

take more pains to cultivate the affections and We have frequently observed that young men elicit the good will of ill-tempered damsels,than to reciprocate and cherish the kind feelings of those who are frank and amiable. We suppose that this must be accounted for on the same principle that people are willing to pay a higher price for vinegar than sweet cider.

CONJUGAL AFFECTION,

The Roman Emperor Caligula had such a desire to commit any crime that was outrageously wicked, that when engaged in fondling the beautiful throat of his favorite wife Caesonia, his desire to have it cut was almost uncontrolable.

POWER OF FASHION.

The female will unmake the loveliest figure which God has made on earth, and compress herself, at the risk of asthma, consumption and death, into ugly and waspen deformity, for the purpose of avoiding the whisper, that she is out of taste.

CURIOUS FACT FOR NATURALISTS.

It is stated in an ancient Greek history of an. imals, that goats do not breathe through their nostrils, but through their ears. Query.-How does a clam breathe?

A TREASONABLE OFFENCE.

A Scotchman named Henry Thomson has been lodg ed in Toronto jail for whistling Yankee Doodle !

THE CASKET.

B. J. LOSSING, EDITOR.

POUGHKEEPSIE, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1839.

POUGHKEEPSIE CASKET.

so, that those of our nation who have become your
children, and have determined to die, may know what
to do. In this case, ene chief has said he would ask
you to put him out of pain; another, who will not think
of dying by the hand of his father or brother, has said
that he will retire to the Chateaugay, east of the fatal
root, and sleep with his fathers in peace. Before you
determine upon a measure so unjust, look up to God
who made us as well as you. We hope he will not
permit you to destroy the whole nation.'
In conclusion he remarked:

We

"Lo the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind!" Scarcely three centuries have passed since this whole great continent was in the possession of the red man; and he roamed the forest or ploughed with his canoe 'Father: The game which the Great Spirit sent into every river, lake and estuary from Darien to the frozen our country for us to eat, is going from among us. north. Then the umbrageous woods shadowed the thought he intended we should till the ground with the whole country, and the bear, the deer, the elk and the plough, as the white people do; and we talked to one panther, were as free as the ocean wave, and feared but another about it. But before we speak to you concernseldom the destructive powers of man. Bit now, how ing this, we must know from you whether you mean to changed! From the lagoons of Florida to the lakes of leave us and our children any land to till. Speak plainthe north-from the shores of the Atlantic to the greatly to us concerning this great business. The land we valley of the Mississippi, scarcely a wigwam is seen, the war-whoop is silent, the chase is suspended, and a population of nearly twenty millions of another race occupy the fishing and the hunting grounds of the fathers and the brethren of Pocahontas and their neighboring tribes. But while civilized man rejoices in the exchange of occupancy, and the Christian gives thanks' that the light of religion has so extensively illuminated once pagan Americ, it should cause feelings of the deepest regret and shame when we reflect upon the injustice which achieved all this.

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live on our fathers received from God, and they trans-
mitted it to us for our children, and we cannot part
with it.'
'Astonished at what we heard from every quarter,
with hearts aching for our wives and children, we were
thus compelled to give up all our lands.'

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'The Chippewas and all the nations who live on the
lands westward, call to us and ask, Brothers of our fa-
thers, where is the place reserved for us to lie down up-
on? They ask continually, Where is the land which
our children, and our children's children after them, are
to lie down upon? You told us, say they, that the line
drawn from Pennsylvania to Lake Ontario would mark
it forever on the east, and the line running from Beaver
Creek to Pennsylvania would mark it on the west, and
we see that it is not so. Cornplanter is silent, for he
* He loves peace,
has nothing to answer.
and all he had in store he has given to those who have
been robbed by your people, lest they should plunder
the innocent to repay themselves. The whole season
which others have employed in providing for their fam-
ilies, he has spent in his endeavors to preserve peace;
and at this moment his wife and children are lying on
the ground, and in want of food; his heart is in pain
for them; but he perceives that the Great God will
try his firmness in doing what is right,'

To this speech, Washington returned a friendly anwritten on parchment, and in return Cornplanter gave this eloquent response:

swer,

'Father: You speech written on the great paper is to us like the first light of the morning to the sick man, whose pulse beats too strongly in his temples, and prevents him from sleep. IIe sees it and rejoices-but is not cured!!

of the seed of Abraham.' The editor is not sure that in those days the turtles were in the habit o climbing trees, but means to investigate the matter. Whoever made the inscription, 'B. C. 200,' must have been a prophet, and foretold the coming of Christ 200 years before! We presume this turtie must have been of the same species as the one seen by Peter Marvellous, having an inscription, Paradise, year 1.—Adam.'

WAR.-The late farce between the northeastern boundary, as well as the tragedies of past centuries, called wars, did and have generally originated in the

From the first settlement at Jamestown till the present
time, it is too true that duplicity, cupidity, hypocrisy,
and the most palpable injustice, have too of en marked
our diplo natic intercourse with these original inheritors
of the soil. When we view the inhuman chastisements
for a trifling offence, inflicted by the colony of Sir Wal-
ter Raleigh, the secret intrigue and open coercion with
threats and arms of Capt. John Smith, and the bad
faith and plunder of many of his successors, as well as
the colonies of New-England, is it to be wondered at
that the spirit of revenge, more or less warm in every
human heart, should have been aroused into the most
powerful action, and retaliatory acts performed in the
most sanguinary manner? Certainly not; and when
we consider that they were guided in their moral con-
duct by the light of nature alone, without the subduing
influence of holy religion to mould their passions into a
milder form, there seems to be a full and ample apology
for all their impated retributions. The harsh measures
of the early colonists, as well as the hypocrisy of later
diplomatists, were as unnecessary as they were unjust,
for the mild policy of Penn was a triumphant evidence
that the best feelings of human nature grew spontane-
ously and luxuriantly in the heart of the Indian. Patri
Of the courage and more than Roman firmness of
otism, courage, gratitude and sympathy were the lead-the Indians, we have many instances on record. We
ing virtues of these children of the forest; and the
thousand crimes known among civilized communities
had never found a dwelling place, nor even an introduc-
tion, among them. Simple in their habits, strangers to
intrigue, and credulous in the extreme, they were alter-
nately cheated of and driven from their vast possessions;
and the conclusion of the war of the Revolution found
them receding far into the interior, to find other hunting
grounds, and a place of safety from the molestation of
their white brethren. They saw their weakness, and
bitterly did they mourn over their reverses. Ardently
attached to places where reposed the ashes of their fa-
thers, deep indeed was their grief when they turned
their faces toward the setting sun, and saw the white
man sacrilegiously treading upon the graves of their
kindred. And who cannot with sincerity deeply sym-
pathize with them, when he admits the full force of the
golden rule-Do unto others as you would have them
A TURTLE STORY.-The editor of the Maumee Ex-
do unto you." Their wrongs awakened the native el-
oquence of their chiefs; and we challenge the whole || press,' who belongs to the school of Comus, tells a sto
range of oratory, from Cicero to the present, to presentry which is a pretty big one, even for a 'sucker' to tell.
anything more affecting than the speech of Cornplanter || He says-'As our imp was busily engaged in splitting
to Gen, Washington, in reference to the breach of a
treaty, guaranteeing to them a large tract of land in
this state. We make a brief extract:

Father: You have said that we are in your hands, and that by closing it, you would crush us to nothing. Are you determined to crush us? If you are, tell us

have room only for one. A short time before the bat-
tle of Tippecanoe, a talk was held between Gen. Har-
rison and Tecumseh. The General first arrived, ac-
companied by his suite in their gay regimentals. Te-
cumseh soon after arrived, dressed in splendid Indian
costume, and with haughty tred approached the spot.
As the warrior approached, General Harrison pointed
to a seat and said, 'Your white father requests you to
be seated.' 'Tecumseh cast upon the General a look of
the most withering scorn and indignation-'You my fa
ther said he. No. The Sun' (pointing to that lu-
minary above him) 'is my father! The Earth' (pointing
to the ground) is my mother! And throwing himself
on the ground, exclaimed-'I will rest nowhere but on
her bosom!'

How grand and sublime was that reply of the Indian

warrior!

most trivial acts, where the least forbearance on the part of the injured would have prevented the spilling of oceans of blood, and waste of treasures.

oven-wood the other day, he found embedded in the || heart of a huge pepperage log, a living mud-turtle with the following inscription, in the Hebrew character, engraven upon his shell, B, C. 200'-thus proving conclusively the age of the animal to be at least 20 centuries, and that the original settlers of this country were

'Pete, you sha'nt play on our cellar door no more.' 'Why?'

"'Cause yon sha'nt; it's our'n,'

"But I am the biggest, and will: so help yourself." A clinch-hair pulled-cheeks scratched-parted by a third boy, and the 'war' is ended, and both go to playing upon the cellar door again. Such is the war of nations.

All Europe was once thrown into commotion origina. ting from a qurreel about a bucket! In 1006, some soldiers of Modena ran away with a bucket from a public well, belonging to the state of Bologna. It was worth twenty-five cents, but it produced a fiery quarrel and a bloody war. Henry, the King of Sardinia, assisted the Emperor Henry of Modena to keep possession of the bucket, and in one of the battles he was taken prisoner. His father, the Emperor, offered a chain of gold that would encircle Bologna, (seven miles in compass,) for his son's ransom, but it was denied. He languished 20 This fatal bucket is years in prison, and then died. still exhibited in an iron cage, in the tower of the Cathc

In this village, on Tuesday evening last, by the Rev Dr. Reed, JOHN ADAMS, of the firm of Tallmadge & Adams, to MARGARET JANE, daughter of Dr. John Cooper.

New-York, on the 18th inst., by the Rev. Orville Miss HANNAH S., youngest daughter of the late Capt. Dewey, HENRY W. M'COUGHTRY, of this village, to Pardon Howland, of New-Bedford, Mass.

At Gallatin, on the 19th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Birch, JOHN 1. SILVERNAIL, Esq., of Chatham, to Miss ELIZA, daughter of Isaac B. Smith, Esq., all of Columbia Co. At the village of Rhinebeck on the 14th May, by the Rev. N. W. Goertner, Mr. JoHN T. MCCARTY, to Miss JULIA A. HOLDRIDGE, all of Rhinebeck.

In Washington, on the 22d instant, by the Rev. L. W Webster, Mr. EDMUND GERMOND, of Dover, to Miss RUTH GREGORY, of Washington.

By the Rev. Frederick W. Hatch, HENRY B. HINDALE, of New York, to MARY ANN, daughter of F. W. Hatch, of this village.

At Pleasant Valley, by Lyman Northrop, Esq. Mr. JOHN LOSEE, to Miss HELEN LEROY, both of Po'keepsie, On Monday, 20th inst., at Stormville, Dutchess Co.. by the Rev. Abraham Polhemus, Mr. FRANCIS HI, BowNE, of the firm of Hoagland & Bowne, merchants, to Miss SUSAN, daughter of Johu I. Storm, deceased, all of the same place.

At Congleton, Eng., lately, Mr. THOMAS MUDD, to Miss ELIZA THOMPSON.

In Portsmouth, (N. H.) Mr. JAMES WHITE, to Miss
CLARISSA L. BERRY, both of Portsmouth.

Berries, you know, will change their hue;
When red we pluck them with delight:
Some berries change from green to blue,
But here's a Berry now changed to White.