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iA. and returns tliereof made to the General Land Of-
' fice, to authorize the commencement of the sales in said j
district, 6hall appoint one register auu ouo icul-iviu ut
the land office in said district, who 6hall reside at the
jlawrdesignated by the President for the land office,
"receive such compensation, give security, and discharge
all duties pertaining to such office, as arc prescribed by
law;
Approved March 3, 1847. a
Public No. 43.
Ait ACT making appropriations for the payment of
navy pensions for tho year ending thirtieth Juno,
eighteen hundred and forty eight.
Sec-vl Bo it enacted by tho Senate and Hous6
.-of Representatives of the United States of .America
in Congress-assembled, That the following sums be,
-and" ir-p same are hereby, appropriated for the payment
of navy pensions for tho year ending, thirtieth June,
'cignteennunarea ana iorcy-cigni: -
To pay invalid pensions, .thirty-six thousand dol-Jars.-
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To-pay tho pensions of widows of officers, seamen,
and marines, sixteen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be itjurther enacted, That the pro-
visions of the act of eighteen hundred and forty -five,
ch&pter "forty-one, entitfed, "-An act renewing certain
naval pensions for. the term of five years," be, and the
samo are hereby, extended to all pensions ot similar
kindlwhich have expired since the passage of said act;
.and'the pensions .which were renewed by the said act
-JP&fee)g-'P f nvo years, And which may. expire be-
"ioretneliext see -ion of Congress-, ikall-be, and hereby
uTOy-i cnewed and continued for another term of fivo
years, to the persons-entitled thereto, in the same man-
ner and subject to the same conditions as are in said
act contained, and to commence from the timo they
may severally expire, and lohe paid out of any money
in tho Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For the payment of pensions under tho privateor
pension fund, as pledged by tho government by act of
Congress of June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and
twelve, three thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1847.
.1 Public No. 55.
AN ACT for the reduction of the costs and expenses
ofproceediiigs in admirality against ships and ves-
sels. "Sec. 1. Bo it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That in any case brought in tho
.courts of tho United States, exercising jurisdiction in
admiralty, where a warrant of arrest, or -ether process
in rem, shall bo issued, it shall .be the duty of the
marshal to stay the execution of such process, or to dis-
charge the property arrested, if the camo has been
levied, on receiving from the claimant of tho samo a
.bond or stipulation in doublo.tho amount claimed by
tire libelltnt with sufficient surety, to be approved by
tbo -judge of the said court, or, in his absence, by the
collector of the port, conditioned to abide and answer
tho decree of the court in -such cause ; and such bond
or stipulation shall be returned to the said court, and
judgment on tho same,hGth against the principal and
sureties, may be recovered at the time of rendering
the decree in the origmabcause : Provided, That the
entire costs in any such case, in which the amouut re-
covered -by the libellant shall not exceed one hundred
.dollars, shall not bo more than fifty per cent, of the
amount recovered in the same, which costs shall bo ap-
plied, first to the payment of tho usual fees for witnes-
ses, and where a commissioner shall, act on tho case,
and the residue to be divided, pro rata, between the
clerk and marshal, under the direction of the judge of
tho court where tho causo may bo tried: Provided,
J'urther, That no attorney's or proctor's fees shall bo
allowed or paid out of tho said costs.
jiApproved, .March, 3, 1847.
Public No. 56.
x AN ACT to give the consent of Congress to the sale
of certain salt spring lands-hcretofore granted to the
States of Michigan, Illinois, and Arkansas.
Sec 1. Bo it enacted by tho Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of America
iu Congress asseigbled, That Jhe State of Michigan
shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered to
sell, in such manner as the legislature of said State shall
by law direct, the salt spring lauds granted to said State
for its use, by an act entitled " Au act supplementary
to the act entitled an act to establish the northern
boundary line of tho State of Ohio, and to provide for
the admission of .the State of Michigan into the Union
on certain CDnditions,',V.apprcved June twenty-third,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Sec. 2. And bo it further enaclcd. That the State
.of Iiliuofa shall b3, and hereby is, authorized and em-
powered to seS, iu such manner as the legislature o
said State shall by law direct, tho whole or any part of
.the saline lands lying iu Jackson county, in said State,
which were granted to the State of Illinois, by virtue
of "An act to enable tho people of the Illinois Territo-
ry to form a constitution and fatatc .government, and for
- tho admission of such State intojtbe Union on an equal
footing with original States," approved April eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and eighteen.
Sec 3. And bo it further enacted, That the State
of Arkansas shall be, and hereby is, authorized to sell,
in such manner as tho legislature of said Stato shall by
law direct, the whole or any part of the saline lands
granted to said State by virtuo of an act supplementary
, to the act entitled " An act for tho admission of tho
State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for
jhe due execution of the laws of the United States with
in tho same, and for other purposes," approved June
twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Approved, March 3, 1847.
L Public No. 57.
AN ACT to cstablisaWpori of catry.at.Salnria, in tho
State of Tcxasaud for other purposes.
. Sec. 1. Be it enacted .by the Senate and House of
Representatives of tho United States of America in
.Congress assembled, That all that part of tho State
of Texas south and west of tne counties of Matagorda
and Wharton, and including said counties, shall be de-
tached from iho district of Texas, and shall constitutj
' a collection district: That Saluria, on the northeasterly
-part of tho island of Matagorda, shall be the port of
entry for said district, and .that Matagorda, Aransas,
Copano, and Corpus Christi, as ports of delivery on-
ly. Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That a collector
for the district of Saluria aforcstia shall be appointed
3ythe President, with the advice and consent of tho
Senate of the Uuited .States, whoshalI hold his office
ibr the terms and for .the time prescribed by law for tho
dike office in other districts. The said collectorshall ro--side"
at Saluria aforesaid, and he shall be entitled to a sa-
lary not exceeding twelve hundred and fifty dollars per
annum, including in that sum the fees allowed by law,
and tho amount he shall coliectiu any one year for fees
exceeding the said sum of twelve hundred and fifty
dollars shall be accounted for and paid into tho treasury
of tho United States.
Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That surveyors
efor tho aforesaid ports of delivery, to wit: Matagorda,
"Labaca, Corpus Christi, andCopa.no, shall bo appointed
.by the President, with the advice and consent of the
Senate, with authority to exercise all the powers con-
, iferred by law on such officers ; and that all the salaries
.of said surveyors at Matagorda and Labaca shall be at
Vtho rate of six hundred dollars per annum ; and of
those at Copano and Corpus Christi shall bo at tho rato
.-'of five hundred dollars per annum ; and that there shall
ibo a deputy collector appointed according to law, to
reside at Arausas, and toxcxjis98iich powers under the
j revenue law as the Secretary of the Treasury may pre-
scribe; tho compensation of said deputy .collector shall
. be the legal fees on the business he may transact, and
no more ; and that the surveyor for the port of Cavallo
-shall bo discontinued.
..- Sec 4. And be itfurtber enacted, That thesurveyor J
.for the port of -ab.ne shall be discontinued, and a depu-
ty collector shall be appointed for said port of Sabiue,
jvith the same powers as the deputy collector of Aran-
(sas, provided for the third section of this act, whose sa-
lary shall be at the rate of one .thousand dollars per an-
lfnnm. '" Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That the salary
- of the collector for the district of Texas, residing at
Galveston, shall be from and after the thirtieth day of
June next, not exceeding sjveateen hundred and fifty
- dollars, including iu that sum the fees allowed by law,
" and that the amount he shall collect in any one year
for fees xcoeding tho said sum of seventeen hundred
.and fifty dollars shall bo accounted for and paid into
1'i.tho treasury of the United States.
Approved March 3, 1847.
(Public.No. 5S
" AN ACT relinquishing to the city of Madison, in the
Stato of Indiana all the right and title of tbo United
States to a certain 6trip of unsurveyed land lying
.invithin the limits f!f said city, and bordering on the
''Ohio river.
-mSec 1. Be it enacted by tho Senate and Ilouso of
Representatives of the United States or America ui
Congress .assembled, That all the right, title, and inter-
jst of the United States in and to all that unsurveyed
Setrip or parcel of land lying and being in tho county
, -of Jefferson, and State of Indiana, bounded as-follow;,
'viz: Beginning at tho southeast corner of fractional
.section number one ; thence wc-rtwardly, along the
oontli line of fractional sections one, two and three, all
"in township " three 1 north of range "ten" east, until
'aid line strikes tho southwest corner of said fractional
r- section numbered " three ;" thence from the corner last
- " mentioned, due south, to low-water mark on the Ohio
river ; thence eastwardly, up and following tho mean-
deriilgs of the river at low-water mark, to a point direct-
ly opposite tho southeast corner of said fractional
section numbered one; thenco north, from the point
last aforesaid, to tho place of beginning of the lands,
lying anp being in the Jeffersonvillo land district, bo,
and the samo is hereby, vested in the city of Madison,
for the solo uso and benefit of said city.
Approved March 3, 1847.
Princeton the Seat of Government. In looking
over a bundle of old letters, I found u letter addressed
by Rev. Ashbel Green to his father, dated Nassau Hall,
5th of July, 1783, from which I mako the following
extract, containing a description and allusions, which
will be interesting to your Princeton readers. Trenton
News.
"You have, no doubt, before this, heard of tho remo-
val of Congress, as well as the causo and manner of it.
We have tho gentlemen at present for fellow students ;
they attend upon their exercises by themselves iu the
library; they are very polite. Tho face of things is
incoucicrably altered in Princeton within a fortnight,
From a littlo, obscuro village, wo may become the
Capital of America. Instead of almost total silence
in the town, nothiug is to be heard or seen, but tho
passing and rattling of coaches, wagons or chairs, the
crying about of pine apples, oranges, lemons, and every
luxurious article, both foreign and domestic. All tho
Congress papers aro lodged in college, amounting to
about five or seven wagon loads. The members adhere
to business from 11 to 3 o'clock. Yesterday I had tho
honor of delivering u declamation beforo them, on the
dangers and advantages of republican government
After which, I received an invitation to diue with them-
Dinner began about G o'clock. It was a public occa-
sion ; all the Congress, foreign ministers and gentlemen,
with the faculty of the college, and some of the gentle-
men of the town, to the amount of about seventy or
eighty, were present In tho evening, sky-rockets, and
a variety of fire-works were exhibited, and this evening:
they are repeated. At 1 o'clock, thirteen guns were
fired iujtho front Campus of tho College. After dinner,
the President gave thirteen toasts, each accompanied
with a dischargo of cannon. I retired to my chamber
about 9 o'clock. A gentleman has ar-
rived in town, from Virginia, with a proposal to Con-
gress to this effect Ho will discover a method of
working a boat of twenty tons burthen, by tho forco
of machines, with only one mau, without sails, against
tho tide, so that it shall'-run eight miles an hour; with
the 'tide, twelve miles in an hour. Ho will mako a
machine, that shall cut eight acres of wheat in a day,
and lay it in sheaves, fit to bo bound, the machine to
work wilh a horse, and a boy to ride him. He offers
a discovery or two of less importance. He demands
fifty thousand acres of land for a reward. Not to bo.
paid, however, till tho experiments arc made, -and the
expectations of Congress satisfied. Tho man is a na-
tive of Delaware State."
The writer of the preceding letter is still living in
Philadelphia, at an advanced age, but in the full pos-
session of his faculties.
From the Muscogee Democrat.
THE FLOWER OF WILSON FARM.-
A TALE.
BY CATHARINE W. BARBER.
-The willow leaves,
With a soft check upon tho lulling tide
Forgot tho lifting winds, and tho long stems,
Whoso flowers tho water, like a gentle nurse,
Bears on its bosom, quietly gave way,
And leaned in graceful attitudes to rest. Willis.
Nothing could well exceed the beauty of the scenery
at Wilson Farm. The white house with its beautiful
flower-garden in front, and its innumerable fiowering-
shrubs and emerald colored shade trees, was pleasantly
located far away from tho dusty public road, upon the-
banks of a limpid little stream, known by tho appella-
tion thejjidiaus iiad given it many long years before,,
when tlSj
" Sought their game in tho thick wood,"
namely, Woocousa. Squire Rufus Wilson, was the
resident here. At tho earl' age of twenty one, he had!
purchased the ricb tract of laud, which now extended
ou every side of the house, as far as the eye could reach,
and by his own untiring iudustry, he had subdued the
wild growth of the place, and cultivated and improved
tho soil until ho had literally made "the desert to blossom
like a rose." There is a rich satisfaction arising from
thus planting a home iu tho wildenicssn -gi:,iinii J
known only to tho enterprising pioneer and emigr-sntVp
who leave behind them the luxuries of polished society,
and in the wilds of tho South or West, fell tho tall for-
est trees, aud create a second Eden, where Naturo
seems to blush in her primeval loveliness.
Squire Wilson had ouo child to enjoy with himself
and wife the pleasant locality of tho farm-house, but
in her it would seem the Graces liad conspired to com-
bine iu one, all that is beautiful in person, or amiable-
in character.
Emma Wilson, at the time we write of her, was only
seventeen just blushing into womanhood. She was-
a blonde, with now then a delicate tint of coloring in
her fair face. Her hair was light and flaxen ; her skin,
was almost transparent in its fairness, but upon her
-cheeks there came and went a faint flush of pink, in-
dicating a gentle and timid heart. Her voice was low
and silvery, as the sound of tho stream by which she
had had her birth, and her eyes shone out when tho
long drooping fringes were lifted from them, violet col-
ored, and unfathomable in their depth. She was one
of those fair creatures with whom we sometimes meet,
apparently too fragile, too beautiful, for contact with
a rough world a world where tears often make tho
food of love and care, disappointment and vexation,
seem woven in the very web of life. She reminded one
of the lily growing upon the long stem which just
lifts it above the silvery waters of its horse, trembling,
as it were, attho least whisporing of tho wind, rather
than of tho rose in her pride and conscious beauty, sit-
ting a haughty queen bmong tho flowers.
She was born at Wilson Farm she had lived there
all her life. No one had ever told her, in so many
words, that she was beautiful ; but had she never seen
her own reflected image from the mirror, sho must have
read this truth in every eye that rested upon her.
Every voice that spoke of or io her had in it a tone of
love every glance which was bestowed upon her
fair young Jace, was full of admiration. Her fathor
called her alternately "my pet," "my bird," "my dar-
ling," and tho fond old man would sit and watch her
fair form as it glided around his chair, ministering to
his wants, or us she bat with her flaxen ringlets droop-
ing over her delicate cheek, busy at her needle-work,
a if he wondered at the Power the Providence
which gavo him an angel wrapped up in the person of
a child. The mother's love partook of the same blind
idolatry. She had been the only one nursed upon the
maternal breast the only one which had called forth
tho gushing fountains of a mother's love for Iter only
in the quiet farm-house, the lullaby had been sung
over the cradle bed in her, only, had tho artless sim-
plicity and beautiful endearments of childhood been
shadowed forth.
It is a dangerous thing to be bom an imperfect mor-
tal, and yet treated all your lifo like a perfect immor-
tal. Tho heart is too prone to growfproud in prosperity
to forget its own infirmities aud scorn tho imperfec-
tions of others.
Emma Wilson seemed in a remarkable manner to
have escaped the petulance tho pride the selfishness
which so often aro tho fruits of unlimited parental
indulgence. Sho was as meek as she was lovely as
docile as if she feared tho rod, and tbo wants and ne-
cessities of others, were never swallowed up in her, by
inordinate self-love that spring of much social dis-
order. It was a morning iu May. Tho sun rose m unriv-
alled brilliancy above the white front ol the house at
WiUon Farm. An upper window over the lawn, near
the apple orchard, was hastily thrown open, and a fair
girl with rosy cheeks and raven hair stood for a moment
before it, and gazed oui upon the pink and snowy blos-
soms with which tho apple trees in front of her wero
loaded. The birds of the morning wero making every
bough vocal with their music, and every now and then
they shook off, as they fluttered about, a flood of silver
dew-drops to spangle the fresh green sward beneath,
or the morning wiud took off a snowy wreath of ma-
tured blossoms, and drifted them, loaded with fragrance,
upon tho face, neck and shoulders, of tho fair girl, and
scattered them throughout the open chamber. Agnes
Mcllville shook them off with a light laugh, and her
dark eye brightened at tho novelty and benuty of tho
sceno.
"Cousin Em, como hero!" she cried, in a clear,
ringing voice ; "como hero, and bee that young robin
by the apple stilo ; I believe my very soul ho will split
his throat with melody."
Emma Wilson's faco appeared soon at the open win-
dow beside the fresh cheek of her cousin, and her mild
blue eyo looked forth half dreamily upon the sceno,
heightened iu loveliness by tho balmincss of the season,
and yet familiar to her from childhood. At first thero
was a Binilo upon her sweet lips, but it faded away as
she gazed, and ended in a deep, far-fetched sigh. Her
choeks took their deepest glow of pink, however, as sho
discovered a form in the orchard, through the boughs
of a droopiug tree. Agnrs, too, had made tho samo
discovery, for hho turned with a roguish smilo towards
her cousiu, and said, "Your bridegroom elect, cousin,
must havo been brought up with excellent habits at
any rato ho is an parly riser. I did not think of seeing
him out so early. It cannot be later than six," 6ho
continued as the drew a splendid gold repeater from
tho sido of her dress. "Just six, and Frank Griscom
has lived all his lifo in tho city, where fashionable peo-
ple get out of bed at nine, and breakfast at ten. I am
roally alarmed. I must draw tho unavoidable inference
from suck conduct, thnt he cannot have had a fashion-
ablo education."
"Yon forgot cousin, that you yourself, a city-bred
belle, are standing here in full dress, at the self-same
hour. What inference are wo to draw from this fact,
in regard to your city rank.
"O, la ! cousin Em, I am in tho country at this time,
you very well know, ou very important busiuoss.
Nothing less than in.the capacity of brides-maid, and it
would be treated very unbecoming in me to bo snooz-
ing in bed, when I should bo up arranging tho wedding
attire, and dreaming of conquests innumerable among
tho couutry beaux, during to-day's festivities. Cousin
Em ! don't your heart beat straugely, when you think
of tho ceremony to be porformed four hours hence?"
"Do not tcazo mo now, cousin Aga ! Do not I be-
seech yon ! I am not in tho mood to hear it. Look
out upon tho ulad beauty of the morninc. Here I havo
lived from childhood hero I have loved and been he-
loved, but to-day I go forth, to return I know not when
to-day I give up tho mother who has fondled mo
with love unutterable from my cradle upward "tho
father who has never contradicted my slightest wish,
aud go out to lean for sympathyand love, aud undy-
ing faith upon another a strangps, mot, as it were but
yesterday. O, spare me ! and do not teazo mo with
idle nonsense to-day."
"You speak as if you half regretted your engage-
ment," exclaimed Agnes, becoming instantly sober,
and twining her small whito arm about tho fragile form
of her cousin Em, arc you sorry that you havo loved
Frank Griscom, and that to-day is your wedding day?
Would you go back now if you could 1"
"No, cousin, I would not go back if I could 1 I love
FraukGriscom idolizo him, I am ashamed to tell you
how much. To mo he seems tho most noblo creature
in the universe. Free from affectation noble in his
sentiments, and beautiful in his person. But, Aga, I
may havo been deceived ho may not be what ho
seems. Even if ho is all that I now fancy him to bo,
it is no small sacrifice which I am making to-day for
his sake."
"I thought," said Aga, impressively, "that true love
regretted nothing doubted nothiug. So J must love,
before I give myself away."
"You cannot lovo better than I do, Aga, and yet
Icanuot help being sad. I shall go with Frauk to-day
to tho city, 1 am unused to city life, but Lhope I shall
like it &gw and then I shall come back here to the
farm, anfripend a pleasant Christmas or Thanksgiving.
O, I will be happy ! Help me to banish, my dear
cousin, every dqubt" A tear sprung to Emma's eyo
as she said this, and sho leaned her head foudly, yet
heavily upon tho shoulder of her cousin.
Emma said truly. It is no tiling of minor importance
for a maiifealostako faith and hope by the hand, and
go faT,mHdMHlHHHJll sacrifice to give up
ths-i'riendsBkars, and
it may
wife gaze
tear spangled
have erased 1
maidonhood!
aud beautiful in thy vory tf
Jbiiiiina Wilson and her
pare for tho bridal sceno which
with hearts sobered and subdued. They met in tho
breakfast parlor with tho family at an early hour, and
tho countenance of all present were sad. The old far-
mer tried to speak cheerfully as usual, and made aa
effort to sustain a conversation with Frank Griscom,
tho bridegroom, who had arrived tho evening before at
tho farm-house. But the trial was in vain, and both
at length contented themselves to remain silent Mrs.
Wilson, a fat, healthy woman, officiated at the head
of tho table, bat with a very ill grace. She turned tho
cream into the sugar Jjnein, and tho coffeo was thick
and muddy in consequence of tho nervous motion with
which she handled the urn. Neither Emma or her
cousin seemed disposed to converse, and it was a rolief
to all present when the meal was fairly over.
At au early hoar the ceremony was performed in
tho front parlor of Wilson House, umid an assembled
company of neighbors and friends. It was brief, yet
touching iu its simplicity, and those who witnessed it
could not help joining heartily in the prayer which was
afterwards offered by tho officiating clergyman, for tho
future health, usefulness and prosperity, of tho two
young beings who had then and there, in the presence
of God and assembled witnesses, vowed eternal love
and.constancy. f
Emma Wilson with tearful eyes, kissed each lip that
was pressed to hers at partiug, and then entered tho
carriage which was to bear her far from Wilson Farm,
supported ou one side by her idolizing parents and on
the other by her husband.
The first year Emma's city life glided away peace
fully and happily. Her husband was an enterprising
merchant, and his house was the centre of fashion aud
refinement Emma's beauty aud grace rendered her
peculiarly fir to discharge tho duties of her station, and
it seemed that the sunlight of prosperity was destined
to irradiate her fair brow, during all tho years of her
life. Two boautiful daughters graced her fire-side
Alice and Adelaide. It seemed that these twin-buds,
growing upon the samo parent stem, were peculiarly
favored. But, alas ! who can read the future ? Who
can look upon the brightness of to-day, and say that
it shall continue through the morrow?
Mr. Griscom became, in the year 1836, connected
with a partner in tho mercantile business of doubted
honesty and unsteady habits. By him he was gradu-
ally influenced to abandon his upright demeanor, and
to indulge in the up that intoxicates, until his health
was ruined his reputation injured, and peace had fled
forever from his abode.
Then the clouds began to gather thick around the
way of Emma. At first sho strove to close her eyes
upon her husband's faults, and whispered to her aching
hoartthatthedarkness wouldbo dispelled. She humor-
ed her husband's petulance studied economy, and at-
tended sedulously to the education of her children, but
in the shadows of night, when her husband was far
away on his bachanalian revels, and no eyo was upon
her savo that of God, she wept tears of agony, and
prayed earnestly for her erring, misguided one.
The luxuries of her city residence were ono after
another relinquished, and at last she left tho stately
mansion to which sho had been conveyed ahappy bride,
and became tho tenant of a wretched hovel in ono of
the back streets. The check of sweet Emma Griscom
faded, and her eye had a meeker light, but still she
bore on as woman often does' when similarly situated,
and murmured not.
But tho climax of her miseries came at last Her
beautiful twin-children the pride of her heart tho
light of her humble dwelling perished ; the victims of
afathcr's abuse.
0, Intcmpercnce ! what a work is thine ! Tho advo-
cates of reform are often met with objections innumer-
able. They aro told that their efforts aro in vain in
short, that they are premature and unnecessary. Did
such cavillers ever enter tho wretched abode of inebri-
ety, and view the ravages which this vice had made
in the bosom of a ouco happy and respectable family?
Did they ever listen to the tale of unrequited love from
woman's lips, and do they remember that "cursed is ho
who putteth the cup to his brothers lips?" The tale of
wretched hopes disappoiuted affections and a broken
heart in woman, occasioned by the intoxicating cup i3
a trito one ; alas! too trite, because too often true.
Could a history of all tho heartaches tho crushod
hopes aud ruined fortunes the tearful prayers and ag-
onizing entreaties wrung from tho lips of tho injured,
by strong drink, be written on paper, no city could
show a library spacious enough to contain tho volumes.
Emma saw her two children committed to tho dust,
and then went back homc,careles3 and wreckles of the
future. Sho was broken-hearted. No ono would have
rccogn.zed in that faded, bowed down aud abused crea-
ture, tho gay girl of other j-ears The Flower of
Wilson Farm. She lingered but a littlo whilo to
mourn over hor bereavement, for when the wild flow-
ers of Spring came, they blossomed above her uoglec-
ted grave.
Her husband still lives "Uvea" did I say ? No, no ;
that wretched exUtenco of his can hardly bo termed
life. Her husbad still breathes, and wanders through
tho city, bloated aud loathsome a creaturo that the
boys hoot at, and tho rcspectablo shun.
I know that tho sequel of this tale will be called a
melancholy ono but more melancholy, gentlo reader,
is tho sequel of tho husband's life. Melancholy? yea,
terrible, is tho devastation, which ho works through
all his days pulling down tho altars of domestic life,
where IIopo and Lovo lay thoir garlands, and tram-
pling upon tho wreathes until their fragranco is lost in
the dust
Shun, then, tho cup that faciuatcs whilo it poisons !
La Fayette, Ala., April 2Dth, 1847.
Condition of the Bank of France. The
statement of tho Accounts of the Bank of
France for the first quarter of the year, made
up to the 25th ultimo, shows the following re-
sults : Actif. The bank had on that day, in
cash, 79,035,81 Of. 87c; in discount and loans,
212,2 15,665f. 67c; in branch banks' accounts,
78,459,960f. 67c; in rentes, public securities,
and reserve funds, 64,261, 88 If. 50c; crests
and various items, 594,895f. 98c Passif.
Amount of banknotes in circulation, 249,404,-
69 If. 9 lc; accounts current, 93,4 12,463f. 89 ;
SoTMkHiHb hr
wvLiaurrfnmmmmf
capital and reserve, 81,900,000f.; different
items, 5,351,364 89c.; total, 435,068,623f.
89c. The discounts, advances, and loans,
made during the quarter, amounted to 201,-
587,9621. 77c; movement of the accounts cur-
rent (private) 8,130,992,900f; (public) 274,-
849,000 ; general movement of the caisses,
3,741,631,-400
Saltillo, Mexico, May 17, 1847.
A long, tedious, eight days' fever having
partially left me, I am able to write you again
with some little idea of what f am doing, .and
to furnish you with a few items of news. I
mentioned that a squadron of dragoons had
gone out in pursuit of the party of Indians who
had committed the recent outrage, but it ap-
pears I was mistaken, and that their mission
was pacihe and merely intended to endeavor
to get back from our excellent friends, the
Commanches, some American horses and
mules which had accidentally found their way
into their possession. Justice, however, swill
and terrible retributive justice, has overtaken
them, spoil-laden as they were, and half their
number have bcen sent to overtake their
victims.
Lieut. Col. Mitchell and a portion of the ad-
vance of Col. "DoYriphan'a command arrived
here yesterday morning from Parras, having
arrived at camp the day before. This morn
ing, before breakfast, a number ot men came
in and announced that, on Friday last, a de-
tachment of Col. Doniphan's Regiment, under
command of Capt. Reed, consisting of fifteen
men, and accompanied by Don Manuel Ibarra,
a very wealthy citizen of Parras, who owns
an extensive vineyard, set out for the Rancho
del Poco, about thirty miles from Parras, after
the Indiana. He furnished them all with fresh
horses, and they made a rapid march for del
Poco. At the rancho they were joined by a
party of some twenty men, an advance of Col.
Doniphan's main command, and before long
the Indians came up. The conflict was quite
desperate, for the Indians fought like, devils.
Captain Reed was wounded in the chin and
shoulder by arrows, and several horses were
killed. On the side of the Indians the slaugh-
ter was more deadly. The all-powerful rifle
caused seventeen bold warriors to " bite tho
and the rest fled, leaving most of their
and the greater portion of their women
Idren. We also captured about 2,000
f horses and mules, whfch they had sto-
Dan Manuel, who is spoken of as being
c as he is generous and hospitable,
fought desperately. You will hardly believe,
that, after this generosity on the part of our
troops, in ridding an enemy's country of a ma-
rauding party, some of the grateful Mexicans
at Parras. were detected in the act of stealing
some of the horses belonging to the command.
The whole of Col. Doniphan's command will
be here in a few days, and after remaining a
while to recruit their men and horses will
proceed down towards the mouth of the river.
They have now been in the service eleven
months and when they reach here will have
marched two thousand eight hundred, miles from
Fort Leavenworth, Mo., their place of ren-
dezvous. They have been constantly on the
march for eight months, and have been with-
out tents since last fall, nor have they drawn
a single dollar of pay since they have been in
the service. We all look forward here to the
prospect ofa speedy movement upon San Luis
with confidence, and daily expect the arrival
of fresh troops from below. It is thought that
the Parras route will be selected, and it is
represented to me as a most delightful one.
A train is about starting off, and I have not
time to write more. It is the 2d Ohio Regi-
ment that goes to-day. They are now enter-
ing the town. J. E. D.
We hope our correspondent's anticipations
in regai-d to the speedy arrival ofa force suf-
ficient to admit of an advance upon San Luis
will be realized. Eds. Delta.
Drs. Owen and Norwood, with several gen-
tlemen, attached to the expedition, are now
here, on their way to the unexplored district
near Lake Superior and the sources of the
Mississippi. They are to make the necessary
geological and other scientific explorations of
the government lands there, prior to bringing
them into market. The region is said to
abound in copper and other minerals. They
will be absent about five months on this sci-
entific tour, and we shall look with interest to
that valuable district. The previous reports
of Dr. Owen have commanded profound atten-
tion among learned men, and being of great
practical benefit to the Government. Dr.
Norwood, who is associated with 'him in this
scientific tour, is a gentleman well qualified
for the task.
A party of surveyors will be sent to run the
principal meridian from the Illinois boundary
to Lake Superior, also the township and sub-
division lines in that district. St. Louis Union.
FARMING.
by an old fakjier.
Farming, like all other things, and perhaps
more than other things, is in a revolution.
We once knew as much about growing corn,
potatoes and grass, as our farming neighbors;
but we have glanced at enough of the science
in its modern improvements, to feel that all
we knew is of very little worth, and that in
attempting to write about fanning now, we
are more likely to get laughed at than admir-
ed. But no matter, farming has become a
science. If a farmer wishes to grow wheat
on his land, he tends wheat to a chemist to
be analyzed, that he may find of what it is
composed, or rather looks into some modern
work on chemistry, and reads it there. He
then sends a sample of earth from his lot to
the chemist, to ascertain of what ingredients
the soil is composed; and whatever of the
component parts suiled for wheal is not found
in it, he piocurcs and spreads upon his land.
A field may have in abundance all the in-
gredients for the production of wheat but one,
and yet not be able to produce wheat. By
science, the Grahams have discovered the ap-
palling fact, that butter and beef are in the
grass and fruits ; that the cow is only the
manufacturer ; and that they, like the trans-
muting priest, abjure butter and beef, and yet
eat butter and beef all the while. The far-
mer who has no science, will perhaps at
great cost, add those ingredients of which
there are already enough ; but that will not
cause a crop to grow. This accounts for the
fact which is often so surprising, that manure
which has produced great crops on one soil,
has no good effect at all on another. A sci-
entific farmer knows little of poor land. All
land is good to him, for it will produce well if
only furnished with the proper ingredients.
So land that would only produce a very poor
crop, has been made to produce a very large
crop by spreading upon it one or two different
ingredients. '
These ingredients are, some of them, to be
found in almost all substances: limef oys-
tcrshells, ashes even of anthracite coal, char-
coal dust, fish, bones, die. Every thing is
composed of ingredients which must be had
for the reproduction of itself, and many other
things. Fruit trees cease to bear often, be-
cause they have exhausted the soil of one or
two ingredients which compose their fruit.
Give them but these, and-they will at once-
return to production. A pear tree may grow
in a soil which has not all the qualities neces-
sary to constitute pears, and it can no more
make pears without the necessary ingredients,
than the Israelites could make brick without
straw. One crop exhausts one set of ingre-
dients, and another to some extent a different
set ; and so farmers learn the fact, without
knowing the cause perhaps, that the same
crop should not be grown for successive years
on the same land. Yet there is no difficulty
in growing the same crop interminably, if on-
ly tho exhausted ingredients are supplied.
A great deal has been learned about the
mode and time of cutting and curing hay and
grain. Grass, while lying to be thoroughly
dried perhaps may get repeatedly wet, makes
much better hay if, with much less drying, it
is preserved with a bushel of salt to a ton.
Salt is often cheaper than hay, so that the far-
mer makes a profit by putting it in, while the
labor of curing is much diminished, and the
good qualities of the hay. much increased.
Wheat cut in the milk has been found to weigh
six or eight pounds a bushel more than when
left to ripen to the weight. So, farmers havo
perhaps been suffering great lossbr ages, by
cutting their grain at too late a stage of its pro-
gress. The application of science to agriculture
has developed wonders in the capabilities of
the ground, which have lain from the creation
unobserved. Men are astonished when they
see what boundless blessings the Creator has
spread thick around, and how slow the race
has been in observing them. They have
spent century after century in shedding each
other's blood, in creating and shedding poi-
sonous superstitions, and in every possible
way destroying all that was good. Despising
the blessings of creation and providence, they
have sought their happiness in the employ-
ment of fiends, and if the malice of men could
but have had its way, the race would long
since have been extinct, and the earth would
have rolled on to the end of its course, its
treasures unexplored and useless. Science
shows us that the capacities of the earth, have
hardly begun to exist, either in numbers 'or
individual enjoyment. Evidently, no sort of
conception has been formed in the minds of
more than a few, of the swarming millionsM
which this earth is capable of sustaining in
luxurious plenty. Land and labor have been
brought so ignorantly together, that nothing
almost .has been the product. The meagre,
stinted crops, which have so poorly repaid the
labor of the farmers, have exhibited the meas
ure of man's ignorance rather than earth's
barrenness. We are opening now upon an
era, when every field will be a scientific abor-
atory, most interesting in its operations to
every noble feeling. The change will ope-
rate to compensate the farmer near the great
markets, for the competition they, endure from
the cheapness of western land. In proportion
as the quantity of crops is increased, the val
ue of proximity to market is increased. If
the crop of wheat were doubled per acre, the
expense of transportation per acre would be
doubled, and this would go to enhance the val
ue of land near the market, to the amount of
the capital upon which this saving would pay
the interest.
Some months ago, the Massachusetts Peace
Society offered a handsome reward for the
best essay on the origin and result of the Mex-
ican war. We give below the only one we
have met with, as having been written for
the prize:
AN ESSAY
UrON THE
WAR WITH MEXICO,
ITS ORIGIN AND ITS RESULTS.
Carefully Considered und Methodically Digested.
BY AX ODD SORT OF A FELLOW.
CHAPTER I.
On tlic Origin of the War.
1. Texas.
CHAPTER II.
On the Result of the War.
1. Taxes.
FINIS.
Give Mr. " Odd Sort of a Fellow" the five
hundred dollars, Mr. Peace Society. Con-
servator. Bo very careful in speaking of subjects upon which
you aro not acquainted. Much is to be learned by
confessing your iguorance nothing can be, by preten-
ding to knowledgo which you do not possess.
Mind your own business Who has not follies
enough to answer for, without prying into their neigh-
bors' affairs? Mind your own concerns, and look into
yourown heart, and if you do not havo crime and follies
enough to answer for, hero is our head for a foot ball.
Perform fearlessly5jvhat yon beliovo to be right, al-
ways extending to thoso who honestly differ with you
in opinion the same charity you askjfor yourself. N ev-
er mind the opposition made by your enemies. Thoy
cannot harm you. The thrusts of those who hate you,
or envy you, will nover hurt you in the end, if you are
faithful to your duty.
The importance of dress can bo scarcely overrated,
but by comparison. It is, with tho world, the outward
sign of both character aud condition, and since it costs
no more to dress well than ill and Js not troublesome,
every one should endeavor to do tne best that his cir-
cumstances will allow.
The right, being tho post of honor, is given to supe-
riors and ladies, except in the street, when they take
tho wall, as farthest from danger from passing carria-,
ges, in walking or meeting them.
Bo industrious. Rich or poor, engage in some reg-
ular, useful employment Labor, of some kind, is a
necessary that sweetens many a bitter or insipid cup.
It is a fatal mistake with some folks, that honest work-
fa degrading or ungenteel.
Important Decision. Slaveholding law does not
hesitate to exact justice from the rum-seller. One of
those licensed murderers, in South Carolina, sold Bob
a gallon aud a quart of whiskey. The negro got drunk,
lay out all night in consequence, and died before morn-
ing from exposure to tho cold. His owner brought a
suit against tho rumseller for the loss of his slavo aud
rocovered 700. Tho samo principle of justico would
award heavy damages to the suffering family of the
drunkard, whom the liquor dealer robs and afflicts.
We wish that suits of tho kind wero instituted among
us ; it would bo one of the most effective movements
against the coffee-house that could be made.
The Wealth of the Soil. Tho story is familiar to
all, of the dying father, who called his sons to hfa bed-
side, and informed them that a considerable treasure
was hid iu tho field. Not having any directions in
which part of tho field they should look for it, they
tliorougly explored overy part with plough and spado,
tumiug it over and over, till thoy wero fully satisfied
thero was nothing to bo found unless it was very deep.
Resolving to dig dcopor tho next year, they put in
their seed, and reaped a harvest far more abundant
than they had over known. The following year the
result was tho samo ; und the young men learned that
there is an inexhaustible treasure in every field, and that
the soil well turned is a mine of wealth.
If it is truo in tho comparatively sterile field? of the
North, how inestimable aro the treasures ofa Mississip-
pi valley, or a Southern prairie 7 And who ho rich, and
who so independent, as the man who can call somo
acres of tho soil Ins own, and be Mire of finding in its
boson a new treasure, at overy return of tlto season
With proper attention to cultivation, it is never exhaus-
ted by use, aud there is probably no invotnicnt made
whether it bo in labor or in money, which uniformly
yields so certain and large au increase, as that which
u expended upon a good boil. It has tho promise of
heaven upon it. All tho elements of nature conspiro
to furtheHitV The rain and the sunshine, the heat and
cold. thaSvInd anil the "dew, in the ceaseless interchange
and&icissituues, are not only friendly but necessary,
IO lis pcrieut ucwtcun-u
It is1 clear, however, that a good soil and a favorabloY
climate, alone, will not confer wealth, independence,
or even comfort upon their possessor. The sweat of
tho brow must be given to it The plough and spado '
must be often omployed upon it It must bo turned
up and over, till every ounce of it has seen the suit and
snufFcd tho air. Norman's Supplement.
Is bleeding, caused by Pruning, injurious tto the
Vine. That tho bleeding of the vine is not so -serious
an event as is generally believed, is well.'known. to
practical men, and they are certainly right ; 'for tho
risiug sap of the vino consists mainly of water, carbonic
acid, and ammonia, all derived from a sonrce of inex-
haustible supply. If no other matters were present,
the vino would be of the nature ofa slender water-pipe,
through which this fluid passes in its way to the leaves ;
but it is not so. On tho contrary, the rising-sap, also
dissolves in its passage, all soluble mattersjwith which,
it is brought into contact, among which, are sugar and
gum, tho organizable matters out of which tho luture
leaves and fruit must be prepared. Now, a plant can-
not?obtaiu, these substances from the soil r they lie in
its own tissues and there only ; and it is obvious that
if they are washed out by the passage of an enormous
quantityof watery matter through the plant, most of
which is wasted, there can bo no formationof leaves,
flowers or fruit Theoretically, therefore, bleeding is
a dangerous circumstance, and may be fatal.
But in truth, Nature is so prodigal of all means or
materials required for tie security of life that jg-chanst-ion
isbySo mearu? easy. Infinitely more ci' everything;
is provided than is really required, on purpose to com
pensate for accidents. A tree fa loaded with countless
flowers ; a hundredth part of them, when changed to
fruit, is more than the plant can bear ; they, therefore
drop off by thousands, and strew the ground, to tho
alarm, of tho inexperienced gardner, who is afterwards
susprised at an abundent crop. Strike a fir-tree in the
spring and forthwith the air fa filled with myriads of
millions of pollen grains, provided for the fertilization
ofa few dozen cones ; some hundreds of seeds receive
the influence, tho rest of pollen-grains fly to waste.
A calculation proving" this is to be found in the. London
Botanical Register, where the editor shows that 27,000,
000,000 pollen-grains were provided on ono plant of
Glycino sinensis, in. order to ensure tho fertilization or
4,050,000 seeds, or about 7000 pollen-grains to each
seed! And so it is, with few exceptions, throughout
nature. Tho starch giim, or sugar, lodged in a plant,
however, fa no -exception. Some of those substances
.must be present ; but they are provided in such prodi
gal abundance in the teeming bosom of Nature that
common accidents can hardly exhaust them.
We would not, however, advise persons who havo
weak vinesjo disregard their bleeding ; nor aro wo
sure that the strongest and most vigorous vines might
not ba injured by a continuance of profuse bleedine;
although an occasional effort may be home. A strong-,
roDustman, win Dear ine loss oi a puu oi Diooa wnnoux.
inconvenience; but tako from him four times the quan-
tity, and his nature will prostrate under the effort. In
like manner an ailing 'old man will perish under
,what a stout healthy boy would endure without com
plaint Agriculturalist.
9 May the 27th, 1847.
At a large and respectable meeting of the
citizens of Navarro county, on the subject of
the colony, the Rev. N. T. Byars -was called
to the chair, and, on motion of Mr. Cook, a.
committee was appointed to draft a preamble
and resolutions expressive of the senste of the
meeting ; the committee being named by the
chair, withdrew and brought in the following;
report :
Whereas, we the citizens of Navarro county,,
feeling ourselves aggrieved and our rights
intruded on by Mr. Wm. N. Anderson and
others, whom he has seen fit to send .out as
surveyors, said Anderson claiming to be aa
agent for Charles F. Mercer, and bis asso-
ciates in a certain colony contract; and
whereas the said Anderson is 'sending out
surveyors that do not respect claims that,
have long been located, lands for which we
have fought, and many of our fellow citizens
have bled and died ; and whereas said con-
tract is undergoing an investigation by le--gal
process, therefore be it resolved
1st. That we are a law abiding people,,
but whenever the laws of our country, and the
rights of our citizens are trampled under foot
by a lawless or speculating set of men, for-
bearance ceases to be a virtue consequently
duty and self preservation compel us to defend
our rights.
2nd. That we feel a deep and an abiding;
interest in the welfare of every emigrant, to
our country, who is willing to settle among
us as a good and respectable citizen, and we
are willing to aid and assist him in procuring
him a home in any legal way.
3d. That we request Mr. Anderson to de-.
sist from further surveying, and that he calL'
in all his surveyors until this matter is ended
by law ; and that this request must be prompt-
ly attended to. "
4th. That we are fully persuaded in our
own minds, that the colony contract was un-
constitutional from the begining, and if con-
stitutional, that its conditions have never been
complied with. "
5th. That we request all other counties of
the State to call meetings and express their
sentiments on the subject of the cblony.
6th. That this preamble and resolutions be
published in the Houston Telegraph and
Northern Standard, and that the aforenamed
papers, irc .hereby requested to publish ihe
same, and all other papers friendly'otheAn-
ti Colony cause to copy. j
N. T. BYARS, Chairman.
ELIJAH SMITH,
JACOB HARTZELL,
DAVID W. COOK,
' D. B. HARTZELL, . t
Wr. W. FROST, . .
JOHN TREDWELL,
JOHN ROARK, . ,
Committee
Pathetic A short time since a man was heard la-
menting the death of two of his sons. "Two sto'ur,
hearty boys," laid he, "and died just afore hayin"
its enymost ended me !
Tho works in operation for draining the lake-, of
Haarlem, seem to have stimulated tho ingenuity of the
projectors to a still more gigantic undertaking-, which
may be safely charaterized as tho boldest enterprise of
the ace ; namely, tho drainage of tho Zuyder Zee,
which, accordiug to a plan published at the Hague, is
supposed to be affected by the construction of an im-
mense dike, cutting off the communication with tho
North Sea, and by forming a canal between Amster-
dam and the coast, into which are to be diverted the
rivers which at present empty themselves into the Zuy-
der Zee. The expense of this undertaking fa estimated
at ten millions sterling. The reader may not be aware
that the Zuyder Zee was at one timo an inland, fresh
water lake, such as is described by Pomponis Mela,
and that its conversion into a gulf of the sea, was effected
in tho thirteenth century, when violent storms destroy-
ed the barrier between the ocean and the lake. Tra-
ces of this barrier still exist in tho sandy islands and
shores betuxeu tho Kelder and Tcr Schelling.
A Cuittocs Mcdal has been found in Georgia. It
has on one sido the portrait of Mr. Whitfield, and on
the other, the inscription, "To the Memory of tho Rev.
Geo. Whitfield, A. M., who with nnreluctant grandeur
gave, not yielded up, his soul sublime, at Newbury, P.
N., America, 1770, in the 56th year of hfa age. His
couduct fa a legacy for all." It will be remembered
that the Georgia Orphan House, was established by
Whitfield. This was burned down and the medal
found in its ruins.
A rich joke occurred recontly in Portland, Mc. A
lady of that place expecting'a large company to tea,
sent for a quantity of cream of tarter to raise her biscuit
By mistake tartar emetic was got The biscuit werb
beautifully light, and tho guests ate heartily, one lady
exclaiming, 'there never was anything so nico.' Tho
meal was hardly over, when tho emetic began to work,
and gentlemen and ladies fell to vomiting with might
and main. Tho causo of tho vornito was socn discov-
ered, and the party signed a 'total abstinenco from hot
biscnit,' pledge, for six mouths.
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