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4 i up sliop! They had no specie Thirsday Mokxixo JctlV -0, 1837. THE ELECTION. The Official Returns from Eruner's precinct were received yesterday afternoon. The result was, for I am for giving no value to paper, merely as paper. 1 taper; that is to say, unredeemable paper, paper that may rot be convertible into gold and silver at the will of tie bolder.

But iciile I hold to ol lis, I Ul.exs also tjiat an exclusive gad and filter circjla' lien is att utter impcssililily, in the present state of this country and of the trorld. We shall none of vs ever see it; and it it credulity and fdly, in my opinion, tn act vndtr any such hope or exiieclalion. The Stales uiil crets of the future, sumoioned around him the chivalrous Hamilton, 'he philosophic Jefferson, the bold and sagacious Knox. Chaos immediately assumed the form of beauty. Happiness grew to the perfection of its nature.

Commerce lifted up its drooping head and spread its snowy wing5 over the boundless ocean. Prosperity lotked down on all America. Wise men were her legislators, brave men her defenders, tnd happy, indeed thrice happy, were her citizens. When shall we have such times again Whan another Washington shall exist." Nfw England Gibt.s and YouNo Men. One of the most interesting places in New England, for the beauty of its Scenery, the extent of its manufactories, and the industry of its inhabitants, is the town of Haverhill, Mass.

At Haverhill more shoes are made, Lynn excepted, than at any other place in the country. Nine-tenths of the mechanics, not long since, in consequence of the hard times, were thrown out of employ. They assembled together, laughed at their misfortunes, marched through the streets, played ball for a day, and as soon after as possible exchanged the shoe-shop for the farm-house, and the lap-stone and hammer for the hoe and the plough. The Haverhill girls have taken into consideration the good examples of their husbands, brothers and beous, and have, as we learn, found peace and contentment in playing upon a new kind of music, that will improve their usefulness, beauty, and insure their good From that time to the' present, it is supposed the amount which has passed through their hands, is fully equal to the Whole specie circulation in Hie known world. The magnitude of the disbursements may be conjectured from the following memoranda of their loans during a comparatively short period.

One billion of francs to two hundred and forty millions to Naples; four hundred millions to France; two hundred and sixty millions to Austria; two hundred millions to Prussia; one hundred and twenty millions to Brazil, together with an immense amount in smaller sums to the inferior courts of Germany. These munificent accommodations to various European powers have procured for the illustrious brothers, titles, honors, decorations, without number, which, however, they seldom make use of, inasmuch as the fame of their great wealth secures to them at all times and every where all the obsequiousness and adulation mortals can desire. Though it is to be recorded to their honor that there is no affectation of great importance no ostentation of money apparent in their deportment unassuming manners, inflexible integrity, and plain merchant like affability, being the chief characteristics of every one. Frorr. Vc Baltimore PaiHet.

Want of srEciE at The subjoined is the "last circular of this law-i on-temning Amos. The President, and his sub-ordina! e. after all their boa sting about the purely metallic currency, cannot get specie enough to pay their own bills for postage! So notice is given to their correspondents that their communications must hereafter be jst paid, or Amos's post-boys will not carry them. CIRCULAR. To roslmaslcrs by whom Express Mails are opened.

Post Office Department, June, 1G37. By direction of the President of the United States and at the request of the several heads of Departments, you are instructed not to send by Express Mail any letter to the President or any head of Department, whether marked "Express Mail," or not, and whether directed to them ofiicially, or not, unless the postage thereon he previously paid. All such letters not paid, you will send by the ordinary mail. Nor will you send by Express postage be previously paid, any letter officially directed to any other executive officer at Washington. If such letters be put into your office not paid, you will send by the ordinary mail, though marked "Express Mail." Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AMOS KENDALL.

July 1st, 1837. Ordered; That Postmasters and the special agents of the Post Office Department be authorized, in cases of emergency to send letters by Express Mail upon the business of the Department, to the Postmaster General and his three Assistants, paying the jwstagc thereon, which will be allowed in the settlement of their accounts. This order does not embrace contracts, and will in every respect be construed strictly. THE MODERN' MIPAS, AND HIS SHIN TLASTEES. h'mm the York Courier.

Further Effects. The pressure is beginning to be felt more and more throughout the country. This disease is rapidly extending itself through the remote parts of the great political system. Complaints come to us from all quarters of the difficulty of carrying on the every day small business of life on account of the scarcity of money in change or small sums. The rule generally adopted in this city, by traders who have steered eear of the shin-p'aster expedient, has been to give silver when sum to be paid to them exceeded a half dollar.

But they now find it hard even to do this. The money changers clutch at every thing in the shape of coin, und it must soon be drained from the pockets of the industrious, into which, according to Dr. Jackson, it was to run in a golden stream, brighter thun the fabled waters of Pactolus. Where, oh learned, upright and far-behglding seer, where is that stream whose waters-were to fertilizethe land! oh where! Echo answers "where!" For its current is wasted and its bed is dry. Where, oh illustrious Humbug Benton, where are the AoiTTvcitr.ier!t, nvr the most distant ee- andeMigne''ininatin- have but one feel- untuleMig tuuMVCc (pa, a pitv lor tne pity for the exceedingly unfor- equation iir which voii ate placed- wheri you are compelled to gain your bread by Haltering' petty tyrants attempting to justify, trhen practicable, but when not, then to apologize for their tyranny.

This is a Lard Bat. you are obliged by your masters, by UflrVie who have lavished the patronage of the iredernl Government opon you, to sustain your and obliged by those whe gave you your Pension of Bank Commissroner recently under the State, to go further. You have now orders to vilify and abuse all those who expose the infamous corruptions and outrageons misrule, by which the country is brought to the very verge of ruin. Acting under these influences, you ae not an object which ought to excite hostile feelings in the breast of any humano man. We say, humane, because you have been seduced into the advocacy of a cause, by the cajoling of your pretended friends, but real enemies, which you have not the ability to sustai and by which you cannot support yourself.

We therefore regard you as an object of charity, and that your seducers are alone culpable for your prostitution, and are in honor bound to support you, by securing to you a Pension equal to your present one under the State Government, or procuring you some other support compatible with your capacity. We repeat under these circumstances, that we pardon you for rour abuse of us for if you oid riot do so, and depend upon the hand that Seeds you, you might lose your brend. Now, one word at parting: you will perceive that the remarks above addressed to you are ther an apology for you than otherwise, we thus far shown you that we are your i friend; we feel warranted, therefore, in giving you a piece of advice; you may not thank us for it, but if you neglect it, you will, bye and bye, reap the bitter fruits of your indiscretion: We advise you, first, then, to give up the Editorship of a newspaper, for you are ns totally unfit as to be a Bank Commissioner you have an irritable temper and a weak mind, both of which are unsuited to an editor. Your flatterers may tell you differently, but beiieve them not. We grant that you have some talent for coarse ribaldry and unmeaning abuse this may succeed in times of high party excitement but, depend upon it, you rely on the patronage of a community who will require you to give some reason for your abuse, which your deficiency of information, and other sparing gifts with which your mind has been blessed, will disqualify you.

If ou have learned a trade, or any other hones; occupation, return to it without delay for the party to which you have attached your fortunes is destined soon to fall, and then li.way goes Othello's occupation. Read Woolsey's soliloquy, and you will perceive that a man of the highest order of talents cannot depend upon the favor of Princes. You will find that office seeking will be a bad business even if your party maintain their ascendency, for your talents will never place you above the rank of a third rate subal-tern-Uyour pay will be a mere starving subsistence. Remember what we tell you now, or you. will certainly repent it hereafter.

Good- bye, and may you profit by these hints. TliE TRUE CAUSES OF OCR DISTRESS. We maintain that the infatuated and selfish policy of tt'8 pas administration alone, has thrust the cfttion tlmost into the jaws of bankruptcy, by calling into existence, and sedulously fostering wild and extravagant speculations and hazardous enterprisesj and we differ from him entirely in his belief that the inordinate increase of banks and banking facilities with their tfain of multitudinous evils were beyond the control of the general government. The government held out the" glittering lures, and thousands were ready to clutch them. During thepast seven years, banks have increased by hundreds, and banking capital and circulation by hundreds of millions; the previous ten years were unmarked by any such monstrous expansion of the paper system; on the contrary the number of banks remained nearly stationary, augmenting by the trifling number of ttt-ete.

And during that time internal improvements on the grandest scale were projected and completed; lands were settled and towns arose in the Atlantic cities made vast strides in the career of wealth and greatness, and the "gigantic spirit of public enter-prize" was abroad through the land and on the sea, in the maturition of its powers; and yet with all these "effects" connected with and dependent on the credit system in their growth no "laboratories of paper money, in the different states," called into action: conclusively showing that the late increase of banks and the consequent speculations did not result front the strict temper of the times the activity aud industry of the people; but were goaded into' existence by the acts of the federal administration. There is no reason why the moderate and safe ratio of the increase in banks from 1820 to 1830 should not have ob tained with but slight difference from 1830 to 1837, had the policy of the general govern ment remained unchanged during both periods. National Gazette. Whitney Co. If any candid Van Bu ren man will say that such a scape-gallows ought to be sustained as the principal manager of the treasury of this great nation, then we will acknowledge that we have put an erroneous estimate on their patriotism.

Yet Claiborne and Gholson were his principal bottle-holders last winter, when he outraged the dignity of the Houso of Representatives. Yes, the traitor who swore allegiance to our enemies during the late war, is the fulus achates of men who are now again candidates to represent the people of Mississippi in the called session of Congress. Who, that has the feelings of a Mississippian who, that has the spirit of a freeman who, that can blush for the degradation of his country can read the account without burning to revenge the outrage by voting against Claiborne and Gholson, the aiders and abettors of Whitney in his arrogant and impudent abuse of the public treasury. Vicksburg Sentinel. The venerable Nathaniel Macon, for a long time member of Congress from North Carolina, died on the 29th June, in the 83d year of his age.

THE MOUNT VERNON FARMER. The fame of General Washington as a soldier and statesman is universally known and highly admired by all wiio appreciate talents, worth and love of country, but his character as a farmer was less known in his day, and his memory in this respect is not venerated according to its desert. Possessing ample means, and tha most ardent love Of rural life, he was one of the first experimental and practical farmers of Virginia. His estate at Mt. Vernon consisted of 10,000 acres of land in on body, equal to about 15 square miles.

It was divided into farms of convenient size, at the distance of 2. 3 and 5 miles from his mansion house. farms he visited every day in pleasant weather, and was constantly engaged in making experiments for the improvement of agriculture. Some idea of the extent of his farming operations may be formed of the following tacts, in 17o7 he had COO acres in grass sowed 600 bushels of oats 700 acres with wheat, and prepared as muph more for corn, barley, potatoes, beans, neas, and 150 with turnips. His stock consisted of 140 horses, 112 cows, 235 working oxen, heifers and steers, and 500 sheen.

He constantly employed 230 hands and kept 21 ploughs going during the whole vear. when the earth aiwl the state of the weather would permit. In 178G he slaugh tered 130 hogs, weighing 18,500 lbs, for the use of his family, besides provisions for his negroes. "extract. 1 "Generat.

Washington. The Cabinet of Washington was one of extraordinary splendor, talent and patriotism, and which in the force of its character, its indefatigable industry, the unspotted purity of its motives, and the- nronhetic wisdom of its councils, has ilwer been surpassed or even equalled, by flie cabinet or this, or pernaps oi any x.uropuau nation. This splendid pre-eminence will not appear strange, if we consider the peculiar inttnences under which it was warmed into life. Not in the silence of the lettered closet not in the enjoyment of fastidious ease, but on the bloody field where nations battled tor victorv, for glory, for" liberty not under" the protection of a wise and humane government but when time iiau beaten tne oia conieuer-acv into a pile of ruins, when the national treasury was a mere starveling, and the laws but hives of folly, weakness and despair it wjs in the darkest hour of this dark period 1 that Washington, look-ing iuto very s-3 The Van Buren Legislature ct iNew lorn Being in session, immediately LEGALIZED the suspension The VAN BUR EN Gov ernor of Virginia galled the Legislature of that State together, and a law as been passed also legalizing the suspension of Bpecie payment The Van Buren Governor of New Jersey convened the Legislature of that Staiff and recommended the passage of a law to re-lieTe the banks by legalizing their refusal to pay specie. The House of Representatives, a majority of whom are Van Buren partisans, immediately passed such a law, but the Senate, which is composed of men of different political views, refused to give its assent, and the Legislature broke up hi a fracas.

How stands the matter in Pennsylvania Governor RITNER refused to countenance the illegal and unwarrantable conduct of the Van Buren party in destroying the currency, and the SPECIE SYSTEM The Governors of Maryland and Louisiana both Whigs, have also refused to call their Legislatures together for so improper an object. With these undeniable facts staring us in the face, we have come to the incontrovertible conclusion, (gjthat ail the evils we are iww enduring has been brought on vs by the Van Buren Safety Fund Deposite BANK YS-TEMS that the conduct of that party has caused the SUSPENSION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS and brought upon the Country the fond of SHIN FLASKS RS which Ms been put forth by every corporation in America that the conduct of the Legislatures 6f the leading Van Buren States, has done much to fasten this SHIN PLASTER system tipon us, inasmuch as it is impossible for the Pennsylvania Banks to resume specie payments so long as the New York Banks refuse Who does not therefore see that the Van Buren party' are responsible for the shin plaster system, and have earned the title of the "SHIN PLASTER PARTY." By that ap-pellatiou that party will hereafter be known. Admirable compliment. The Free Trader of yesterday referring to the party candidates Claiborne and gravely asserts, "WE KNOW OUR DOGS BY THEIR Now this doggish comparison is rather mora severe upon these gentlemen than we would suppose that the Radical-Shin-Plaster organ would dare to be. Dogs! indeed Messrs.

C. and G. only think of that! They may well exclaim, "the un-kindest cut of all." What a similitude for the candidates of a free people for one of the noblest stations on earth. If the party have such an estimate of these individuals, we candidly confess that it is.in a far more debasing attitude than we would have even dream'd (representing them. The Free Trader says of them, "We know bur dogs by their bark, and they have never yet been caught barking up the wrong tree." The Radical-Shin-Plaster presses in the State glory in the fact, that they 'barked' loud arid long in favor of Reuben M.Whitney, and 6n this principally do they rest their advocacy of them.

Whether this was not "barking up the wrong tree," we appeal to every friend to Lis country, to every foe to treason and treachery, to every honest man in the community. And who is this Whitney, that the defence of him should be such a jewel in the chaplet of fame with which a fawning parasite press would feign encircle their brows. Let the annexed facts tell who and what the man is, and who and what the rneri are who came out as his champions and abettors. Let them be read and then fellow citizens, if you can, vote for such men to represent you rn the' councils of the Nation. ClAIBOBNE AND GlIOLSOS FBIESBS OF R.

M. WniTxEr. "The following questions were propounded to said Whitney, when examined before the committee in 1832: Question by Mr. Watmough: "How long nave you been a resident of this country! Answer: 'I was born in this Question by same: 4 Were you not a resident ot Canada during the late Answer: I resided there from 1903 to the spring 1816, when I removed to this Question by Mr. Adams: In what place in Canada did yoa reside during the late war' Answer: 'In Montreal.

I went to Canada as a clerk. I afterwards became engaged in business on my own account. When the war broke out, I had a great deal of money scattered about through the country, having sold much on credit; all of which I should have sacrificed by leaving it when war was declared. I remained therefore, having the permission of the British Government to do Question by Mr. Adams: Did you ever ask permission of the Government of the United States to remain there! Answer: 'I never did.

Question by Mr. Adams: 'On what condition did the British Government permit you to remain in Canada during the war! Answer. I took an oath to observe the laws' of the country while I remained there. Question' 'Did you understand that to be an oath of Answer:" 'No, I did not, permanency. "Not 'feeHi ajently! continued Mr.

Pey-ttn No, sir, ho" only took an oath of during the u-dt, from 1812, to 1816. "Sir, tin's lame apology, which places Whitney's avarice in' bold relief with his patriotism, is wholly untrue. He was a traitor, who obtained the favor of the King of England by jierpetrating treason aga'mst his country, as he did the favor of General perjury against the bank of which he had been a director. "A few words more, Mr. Chairman, and I have done.

When the true patriot, quitting liis peaceful avocations in the workshop or the field, dropping his plough handles, or his jilanes, regardless of home and its endearments, tearing himself from the wife of his bosom, and shaking off the children even that cling around his knees, rushed to the rescue of his bleeding country when the star-spang- Jted consecrated and hallowed as it Was, and is, with so nany and such glorious recollections was seen streaming to the breeze, aft bathed iti blood, its crimson folds appealing to every American heart to rally a round and defend it when the cloud of war, hirid with the cinders of the' Capitol, hung over this devoted city when, on the night of the twtuty-tbird and morning of the ever- glorious eighth, Gen. Jackson, with the chiv airy of the West was winning imperishable renown, and rearing to the American name a monument which will stand a landmark on the steps of Famo whilst Mississippi rolls its waters to the ocean where, then, was Reuben M. Whitney 1 A traitor in the hostile camp! The sworn subject and officer of a foreign nowej. A Hritisli mii(Tnrlin(T i- gol aittF driving hfcrds to pay and feed the troops! Could he, with one throb of American feeling in his bosom, have remained Within the hearing of his country's cannon, pealing on the plains of Chippewa and Bridge-Water, and thundered from the' leagued battlements of Erie, without trampling in the dust his traitor's livery and adding one arm to those which struck for victory and his native land! Sir, he could and did; and yet this man is high in the'cbntidencB of an Executive who is mainly indebted for his station to the laurels which he rfon in that contest, and is enabled to drfy with impunity the process of a committee of Congress!" Gaines and Scott and other spirits, wjiose achievments brighten so many glorious pages of ear history, are and sought to be disgraced, while this minion of favoritism is to be shielded and protected, in contempt of justice, and in defiance of the lawful authorities of this House. Text." Take and keep it." Free Trader.

"Comment." Ftotn Hut IlrpiMictn. "fdidhnCbidthe age Uit its chuitis, Ihl (A I known rules of ancient liberty, HOtrn slraitway a barh.troas noise envirotifd Of Owls and Cuckoos, Asses, Axs and Dogs." TO TUB BANK COMMISSIONED, ETC. AT NATCHEZ. Sir In your last paper, you indulged yourself in somewhat coarso personal abuse of the Editor of the Wood ville Republican. We expected little else from you.

And perhaps you may he surprized, moreover, when we inform you, that vou have excited in us not the least Prentiss Acee -Claiborne Gholson 2G none none The whole county cf Adams has given the following vote. For Prentiss (Whig) Acee (Whig) Claiborne (Van Buren) Gholson (Van Euren) 5T7 .550 210 187 Hurrah for Old Adams; SHE, at all events, has done her duty. Go ahead. The citizens of Franklin (La.) have secured a staunch, strong built and fast running little boat, called tlie Easy, to tow vessels betwetn that port and the Gulf of Mexico. This is not tlie first evidence we have seen of tlie commercial capacity and cnter-prize of that town its citizens have several times before chartered vessels in New Orleans to carry their staple to northern ports, but owing to the ignorance of ship masters in navigating the Atchafalaya and Teche rivers, that plan was attended with an insupportable expence.

By keeping the "Easy" in their trade this difficulty will be removed and the spirited Franklin-ites now calculate to do their own shipping business. Success to all such attempts, say we. Mortality. For the last some weeks wc Lave observed our friends in New Orleans, Grand Gulf and other places talking of the healthy condition of their respective habitations. This we ourselves have not remarked before, but we would joint to our Sexton's Report of this week to shew that the "City of the Bluffs" is unrivalled in salubrity.

It shews one death in a week. Natchez Ferry Boat. This boat which is intended as a ferry conveyance between our landing and Vidalia, arrived on Tuesday last. It is undergoing some repairs necessary before it goes into operation, which it will in a few days. We doubt not it will cause a much more constant intercourse between the two places, or rather we might say, the two States.

Penmanship and Stenography. We have been requested by the Committee of Arrangements appointed at a former meeting, to inform our fellow citizens that the classes for instruction in these arts by Mr. Worster, have now been arranged. The first attendance will be given by that gentleman, this morning, at the Mechanics Hall between the hours of 9 and II, and subsequent attendances between 3 and 5 in the afternoon, and 7 and 9 in the veni ng" at same place. These classes are intended to be organized for gentlemen only, although the two latter periods of attendance will after this week, be all that will be devoted to' them, the Ladies being to be formed on Monday morning next at nine o'clock, and to continue between that hour and eleven during the A National Bank.

The following is the copy of a memorial to be presented to Con gress in its special session in September; it is a document well calculated to call forth the serious considerations of tlie bodies from whose votes the desired boon is asked; it will be the voice, not of a faction not of a party, but of a whole people. There is no denying the fact that many members of Congress who would have repudiated such an expression of opinion twelve months ago, would now willingly see their names appended to this very memorial for a National Institution. And whilst we admit that the Bentonian mania still clings to a few overheated brains for a protraction of its existence, a rational contemplation of the progress of events over the country leaves no room to doubt that even those who have the misfortune to be afflicted With it will soon see the necessity, virtually to abandon what, even in the heat of their error, very few of them have the moral courage to avow to their constituents and their country. To the Honoralde the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates in Cun-eress assembled. The memorial of the subscribers, inhabitants of in the State of EzsrEcx- fcllv represents: That, in the midst of profound pcacp, embarrassed by no great political struggles, surrounded by "all the elements of prosperity, we find our country involved in financial ruin; the hand of industry arrested; all harmony and concert in our monetary operations destroyed; all interchanges of property impeded; all internal exchanges embarrassed, and the whole nction forced to the desperate resort of a suspension of specie payments.

Thus are contracts lendered insecure, public and private faith violated," the value of property unsettled, and the people exposed to the imposition of uncontrolled issue of irredeemable State bank notes. In addition to these disasters, new enterprizes, which would furnish profitable employment to the laborer, the ruo-I chanic, and the agriculturist, are prevented; and, in line, general confidence, winch judiciously guided and controlled is tlie safe basis of agricultural and commercial prosperity annihilated. Vour memorialists confidently avow the belief, that the only remedy for these accumulated evils is within the jurisdiction of your Honorable Bodies that it exists in the creation of a specie" paying National Institution, obligated to perform such fiscal duties as may be required by Government, and whose energies and resources shall chiefly be directed to the collection of moneys, and furnishing of drafts on all parts ot the mted states, so as to effect in equalization of exchanges throughput the' country. Such an institution, by extending its prosperous influence to the thresh-hold of every Citizen, would, your memorialists believe," prove a national blessing. In the creation of such an Institution, two great objects intimately connected with the well-being of the nation, would in the judgment of yoiir memorialists be attained.

1st. A resumption of specie payments, without which, no safe standard of value can exist. 2d. An equalization, so far as practicable, of the Exchanges of the United States. As to the power of the Government to organize such an institution, no doubt it is presumed, can now be entertained.

It was exercised during the administration of Washington, and has received in some form', more or less direct, the sanction of al? his successors. Your memorialists accordingly request that Congress will create such an institution as is herein suggested, by which great advantages will be conferred on the country, while the rights of the general Government and of the States, may at the same time be scrupulously protected from encroachment and injury. And your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Mb. Webster's opinions of tiie Ccreex-ct.

An extract from speech of Daniel Webster is often quoted by the Van Buren press, in order to insinuate that he is upposed to all banks. The following is the whole paragraph in which the extract is contained: And now a word or two, gentlemen, upon this hard money scheme, and the fancies and the delusions to which it has given birth. Gentlemen, this is a subject of delicacy, and one which it is difficult to treat with sufficient caution in a popular and occasional address like this. I profess-to be a buffionist, in the usual and accepted sense of that word. I am fora solid specie basis for our circulation, so far as it may be practicable and convenient.

matte banks, and these will issut paper; and the longer the Government of the United Slates neglects its duly in regard to pensyres for rcg ulating the currency, the greater trill be the amount of bank paj.er overspreading the country. Of this I entertain not a particle of doubtr CinnccSpoRDtncc of ttjr XatrJitj Conrfrr. St. Lovis, We arrived at this city this morning after an unusually long passage. Steamers are generally seven days from New Orleans to St.

Louis and eight to Louisville. We have been eleven days on the way. There is a greater difference in the rate of sailing of these western steamboats than is commonly supposed. The Prairie, on which we came from the mouth of the Ohio, left New Orleans the same day that the Tern left Natchez, yet tlie Toni was only six hours before her to the mouth. Some boats will make the pasge from New Orleans to St.

Louis or Louisville, three days sooner than others, and three days more or less on a passage up the Mississippi is r.o trifling affair. I should always recommend passengers, particularly pleasure travelling passengers, to wait a day or two, and take passage on a fast and well-appointed boat, rather than, by taking tlie first that offers, run the chance of lengthening a chain, which is long enough at tlie best. Travelling for pleasure! what a misnomer! Such travellers are always wishing for tie port that is to terminate their voyage, when on beard ships or steamers, and get in a stage with prayers for a speedy arrival to their destination. It i- attended with hurry, bustle, disapjiointmei.t and vexation of spirit. There is the bagjrage to see to, waiters to bawl after, porters to quarrel ith, landlords to growl at, eeli and ram, vicissitude ot season ana enwte to.

contend with; there is Use fear of boiler! berat ing, and stages upsetting the annoyance 1 close state rooms, and unciianged sheets, mo ney taking to itself wings, and Eying from you on all sides, and on all sices disagreeable sights, disagreeable sounds, disagreeable people, which altogether would drive a man mad at home but which are to be borne with, forsooth, abroad as the accidents of travel. Travelling for pleasure! It empties tlte purse, sours the temper, makes one pettish, complain- ful and selfish, unsocial, morose and miserable. Travelling for pleasure! What is it! To exchange a comfortable feather bed in winter or clean cool niattrass in summer, with snowy curtains, snowy sheets and snowy pillows, sweet blankets aud coverlids, a capacious bedstead aud an airy room for a narrow box of a state room, containing a berth; which. when the achievement of getting into it is with sundry bruises effected, fits you like your coffin, and in which you are flanked by a board partition on one side, and a precipice of some six feet, on the other, for sheets, that, although the chambermaid asseverates on her honor that they are clean, smell like the towels the waiters some times, flourish about our noses, for blankets that look as if horses as well aa men might have been benefitted by their warmth, and coverlids of no particular hue for close, unhealthy air, constant confinement, ill health and the rheumatism. It is to exchange tlie pleasant circle around our own hearths, for a mixed crowd of strangers, who feel no interest in us nor we in them, whose selfishness, rudeness, ill breeding, vulgarity or malignity, destroy our equanimity and excite our disgust, dislike or content, those sensations that a pleasure traveller should never allow admission into his breast.

It is exchanging the delightful society of your rawing room for the heterogeneous gatherings of all countries, men who will tread on your corn and look fiercely at you fur wincing, your pleasant sparkling fire for a close stove, your garden for the steamboat guards, your own well appointed table and cheerful fa.ee, for tlie doubtful messes, abhorrent devourers, aud unseemly scenes of a steamboat dinner. -It is ia fact, to exchange earth for purgatory, happiness for misery, comfort for discomfort, destroy your temper, learn to grumble, snarl and and altogether to make a fuol i ones Thank fortune for I am indebted to her.) Irani no traveller for pleasure. There is no law to resist compulsion, or I should not now be trusting myself to the tender mercies of boilers, steamboat captains, and landlords, anl exposing myself to all the other ills to which travellers are heirs If I had my own will, I should never place foot on stage or steamboat more, but in some quiet corner of the world, where tlie noise of escaping steam, the horn of the stage driver, the sound of a hotel dinner hell have never penetrated, where, secure in my own quietude, I should regard travellers, as a set of desperate men, whom heaven has visited with a desperate madness, and bd thankful for my sanity among such universal lunacy. Twelve miles below St. Louis, and on the same side of the river, we passed Je3eroa barrack.

The public buildings, and the dwellings of the orlicers, "are neat and imposing, and pleasantly situated on the side and summit of a broad hill sloping to the river. The barracks did not appear to me so pleasant as those at Eaten Ronge. They are not constructed with equal taste, nor is their position so striking when seen from the water. Forest trees standing here and there, with greent lawn-like slopes around them, give tlie whole an air of elegance and rural beauty. The society of the barracks 1 am informed is very agreeable as it usually is in being generally composed of officers wives, sisters, cousins and visiters.

The society or tlnS post may also bo considered a part of that of St. Louis. A fine road running along the-banks of tlie river, connects it with the town From the barracks to the city the river banks, wliich retire a gradual elevation from -the water, were more cultivated than we had yet seen, and occasionally appeared a rrat country house. Wc passed a singular shot tower above the barracks, it overhangs- the cliff, aud the lead is dropped, from the summit to the base. Between St.

Louis awl the barracks is a small village called Vect-bush, by the boatmen on the river. It is a. corruption of two French words, meaning "empty purse," given to it by Frenchman of the vicinity who used to visit the place with a full purse, but through passion for gamlbisg, he always lefi with an empty one no very uncommon thing but he gave the name- of "Empty-purse" to tlie town, saith tradition, and it has ever since retained it. There shouU be many towns thus named, if names we real ways given with reference to character. A-bout four miles below St.

Louis, we could see-over an intervening island, the glistening spire of thecathedral, the eupolas ot" the court houses and churches, and ina few minutes afterwards the city opened upoa us in full view, to the north west. Rising gradually from the water, with a front cf more than a mile ia length, it covered a large surface, spreading over the summit of a slightly elevated ridge which sloped for two miles to the water. The most prominent object in the view was the shining spire of the Roman Catholic church, which towered nearly a hundred feet above every other object. Three cupolas twenty or thirty feet high, one on the top of the court liouse, another on the presbyterian church, were the only other objects that relieved the long line of roofs. I never was more than now impressed with the effect spires produce upon the appearance of a city beheld at a distance.

The citizens of St. Louis are greatly indebted to the Roman Catholics for the noble ornament they liave added to the aspect of their city, which, without it, presenting near. iy ieei anc oi rools would anocar to the oDserver rather tame in its character. I observed that the opposite shores wore level anj the adjacent country but little elevated, no portion of it being higher than the site of tho town. The prospect around is extensive and agreeable to the eye, althur.gu not very densely populated, or altogether removed from its wild state.

But the foivsta here, have so much the appearance of groves, that the whole country has the appearance, even in its natural state, of being under thecara of the agriculturist. We came up to St. Louis in fine style, tha engineer with professional pride making hit engine do ils utmost. As we approached tho-long lino of steamers lining the levee, our firemen, eight in number, arranged themselves along the guard, and when they cauro within, hearing of the crowd on the thronged levco. Wednesday Morning, Jul a 19, 1S37.

'THE ELECTION. The Polls closed last evenirg. in this city is as follows: Whole number of votes polhd Prentiss (Whig) Acee (Whig) Claiborne (V. -Gholson (V. The result 433 415 134 138 Making Prentiss's OTer Claiborne 279, over Gholson 295.

Acee's majority over Claibori.e 2G1, over Gholson 277. Well done, Xatclnz! The Official Returns from the Washington Trecinct, are Prentiss 50 Acee 4G Claiborne 33 Gholson 27 KINGSTON TRECINCT, Prentiss 49 Acee 49 Claiborne 7 Gholson 7. of.gan's frecinct, Prentiss 19 Acee .20 Claiborne 16 Gholson 15 At Pine Ridge no poll was held. Eruner's Trecinct only remains to bo heard from. OUR COUNTRY'S CAUSE.

Under this broad banner we have enlisted, nud although yesterday closed the campaign for the special session, we again unfold the standard to the breeze with the names of rRENTISS AND ACEE, inscribed thereon, as candidates for the Congressional election to be held in November. What the result of the election just terminated may have been, is of course uncertain. If the Whigs are defeated, it will be by no means surprising. The order for the election allowed us no opportunity of taking the field in a fair and equal canvass. One of our candidates too is absent from the State, and the other, from the shortness of time, did not, -that we are aware of, resort to any of the usual electioneering expedients.

With all these disadvantages, it is truly surprising and no less honorable to our party, with what unanimity and concert the Whigs rallied to the support of Messrs. Prentiss and Acee. A higher compliment to the worth and talents of these gentlemen could not have been paid, than the late unsought support they have received from the free and independent voters of Mississippi. On the other hand, if we have triumphed in the very teeth of such fearful odds, it will be indeed a glorious victory, even such a one as Mississippi never before witnessed. The Van Buren candidates were in the field and since their return from the last Congress have been all activity and energy, backed as they were by a duly organised party and a reckless subsidized Press.

The result, be it what it may, must be met with renewed promptness and vigor, and whether Vanquished or Victorious we pledge ourselves to use every honorable means to promote the success of Our Country's Cause at the November Election, and we call upon the friends of that cause, to arouse themselves to the mighty work of a Nation's redemption troin thraldom and tyranny, aud trusting in the kind providence, that in the hour of our country's severeit trials sustained the patriot band of the Revolution, to exert the influence and the talent that God has given them for the glorious and blessed purpose of preserving and transmitting to posterity, the rights and the privileges, with which that all-wise being has crowned our once happy but now bleeding country; To promote this noble object wo firmly be lieve that the exigency of the times demands from us, that a Convention should be held at our State seat of government in which the friends of the people in" every county, should be represented, and after a full and free interchange of opinions to adopt such measures and make such nominations in reference to the November election as may be decerned advisable'. In Union is strength and in what more no ble cause can that' strength be exerted than in re-edifying the crumbling fabric of our free in ititutions. NORTHERN SLAVERY. is the principal diflbrence between the domestic institutions of the Southern and Northern States In the former they have negro slaves in the latter they have while ones. We have sometimes thought, when reading of Abolition Societies at the North, that there was an ample field for the benevolence of the Southern community existing in the degraded condition of a large part of the Northern laboring class, and more particularly, of those of the female sex who are apprenticed out to a worse and more severe servitude than even Egyptian bondage was, and of those who depend upon their daily toil for their daily bread.

Read the following from the New York Express of the 7th inst Rather Tough. A little orphan girl, about the age of 11 or 12 years, was committed to Bridewell yesterday, because she complained of ill-treatment from her mistress, whom she charged with starving, beating and almost killing her with hard work compelling her to wash for a family of eight persons, and flogging her because she gave out. The little prisoner was a mere skeleton, and exhibited the marks of -flagellation upon her shoulders. She brought two witnesses who lived in the same house to prove her charge, but their evidence was not regarded the respectability of the accused party being above impeachment. Besides this, the indentures, by which authority was claimed, expressed that she was merely to learn the tailoring business, without any reference to house work, and were moreover illegal in themselves, being bound in the name of the woman while her husband was living.

Our Country's Cause it's march is on-warb. The propriety of a National Convention at the present exigency to settle upon a candidate for the Presidency, who will be sustained unanimously by the friends of our country and her cause, is now every where conceded. The times these evil times call aloud for a remedy, and with the voice of the pco pie every patriot will concur. The Grots. Accounts of the various crops in all parts of the United Stales are very favo raLle.

The prospects of the planter and farmer are the more particularly encouraging at the present sad and calamitous condition of the country in other respects. One hundred and eleven thousand barrels of flour wero inspected in the city of Richmond luring the last year. health. "A young lady," says the Haverhill i Gazette, "of high accomplishments, (and no I pride; in absence ot the servant, stepped to the door on the ringing of the bell, which announced a visit from one of her admirers. On entering, the bean, glancing at the harp and piano, which stood in the apartment, exclaimed, 'I thought I heard music on which instrument were you performing, miss 1 'On the gridiron, sir, with the accompaniment of the frying-pan replied she; 'my mother is without help, and she says that I must learn to finger those instruments sooner or later, and I have this day commenced taking a course of lessons." N.

Y. Express. From ths AV Yerk Courier tnd F.njuirer: Mr. Webster. The Globe really rivals, in its love of invention, Satan himself.

Like him, it is not only a falsifier, but the father of falsifiers. Not content with scattering its own gross impostures all over the country, it picks up those of all others, and adopts them into the infamous affiliation of its columns. Thus we find in its last No. the following gross mis-stntement, which, by the Globe, can surely not be ignorantly propagated, It is impossible that it should not know better. Frm tke A'atkrilU (Tnia.) t'aiam.

"In this good city, we have a party who are desirous of testifying their zeal for the federal doctrines by inviting Mr. Webster, of Boston, the Grand Lama of the old federal party, now called Whigs, to visit Nashville, to receive the honor of a public dinner, and make us a speech in favor of John Bell, and his followers of the. "new born school." Who does not know that Daniel Webster was a member of the Hartford Convention of tories in 1814, whose design was to compel Mr. Madison to resign the Presidency, and dissolve the Union! held at a time, too, when our fortunes were lowest in the late war; but thank God. when Provi dence was preparing for its close before New Orleans, in a blaze of national glory." Jilr.

ebster was not a member of the Hart ford Convention, and the editor of the Globe must be aware of it Opposed to the war of 1812, he certainly was; and no very great friend to Mr. Madison's election in 1812. Does flie Globe know of n6 other distinguish ed politicians, now high in office with the party, who stood in at least one of these predica ments. From the York Com menial. A JACKSON PREDICTION.

Ere the passage of the gold humbug the Globe issued the following alarming prediction, which was echoed by the collar presses through the land "In seven months from this time bank rags will be abolished, and the whole country Will be overspread with gold. Every farmer and merchant of the west will have a long silk purse of open net work, through the interstices of which the yellow gold, will shine and glitter." HOW IT HAS BEEN FULFILLED Is known to us all. Corporation shin plas ters, and individual due bills for sixpences and shillings, are appearing in all directions. And the vaunting Globe itself, tunes its instrument to the following minor key. Through the action ot the United States government, there will still be a circulation of specie a limited one indeed, but still sufficient to enable dealers to measure the depreciation of bank notes at different times and places.

Without this, how could dealers car ry on business, wjth any degree ot fairness! Now they will be able to tell the exact degree in which the paper currency in different parts of the country falls below the specie standard, and be able to regulate their sales and purchases accordingly." Bravo: circulation of specie but very limit ed indeed yes, very. Enough however to show tlie worthlessness of the "better curren cy" with which the nation has been provided by these tinkers on subjects of finance. But where are the long silk purses! And what do we see through the "interstices!" Ras and lampiilack. From Ou meeting, Fm. Time: The official organ at Washington seeks to excite the sympathy of the people for the loss sustained by Government trom the pet banks.

With what reason that is called for or expect ed we cannot perceive. Besides being warn ed of the inevitable results of trusting the funds in the treasury to small" and irresponsible agents, oil the floor of Congress, General Jackson and his cabinet were told by the Sec retary of the lreasury, who refused to do the bidding of the President, what would be the result, and their attention especially directed to former times, when a like loss was sustained like irresponsible agents. If a man turns ms sneep into me naunisoi tne won, is he entitled to our sympathy, if they are destroyed! The truth should have been evident to the experimenters, without instruction they should have known that though the smaller banking institutions were useful in their way and proper place, they are unfit instruments for the executions of trusts, such as the government a that time reposed in them. Unseen Genehos'itv. An illiterate persen age, Who always volunteered to go round wi Ji the hat, but was suspected ot sparing ins own pocket, overhearing one day a hint to Uiat effect, ina'dc the following speech: "Other gentlemen puts down what they may think proper, and so do I.

Charity's a private and what I give is nothing to nobody." Tho mas Hood. TO MY BROTHER. B7 CHARLES 6 We ark but two the others sleep Through death's untroubled night; We are but two let us keep The link that bind us, bright. HHrt leaps to heart the sacred flood That warms us is the same; That good old man his honest blood Alike We fondly claim. We in one mother's arms were locked Long be her love repaid; In the same cradle we were rocked.

Round the same hearth we Oiir'boyiyi sports wrre all tlie same, Kach little joy and wo: Lrt manhood keepalive the flame, Ljy up So long ago' We are but osr. be that the bond" To hold uatill we die; Shoulder to shoulder let us stand, Trtl ekle by side wo lie. Poverty of the Goverxmest. The last National Gazette says that "one of the last and ripest fruits of the Experiment is, that on an application being made to the Girard (De-posite) Bank in Philadelphia, for a Navy pension, payment was refused for trant of the pension funds." Married On Thursday, June 29th, 1837, by James Gwin, Esq. Dr.

Prior L. Gwin, of Harrisonburg, La. to Miss Catharine Adams, of Ouachita parish, La. Died, yesterday, Marguerite Eloise, infant daughter of Linnaeus Dupuy, aged 11 mos. "flic friends of the' family are respectfully requested to attend the funeral this morning at 9 o'clock, (without further notice) from his resitretize on Franklin street.

COMMERCIAL. New Orleans. Cotton bales 12th and 13th were: 42 bales Mississippi 12c 10 0k 9 if A 22 do do S3 31. 1 do do da db do Mobile Tenn. Lou.

The chief secret of the unparalleled success of these brothers, is the harmony with which they unite in every transaction. Though residing in different and distant cities, no contract of moment is entered upon without the judgment of each being first passed upon it, and the concurrence of the whole obtained and when the negotiation is so determined, each takes his purt in fulfilling its stipulations, with such promptitude and energy, and with such certainty, that "as sure as the Rothschilds," has become a proverb or phrase of assurance, among European tradesmen of all Amshel or Anselm, the oldest of the five, was born in 1773, and resides at Frankfort upon the Maine his house being considered a sort of nucleus, or head quarters, where all assemble to discuss any important proposition. The second brother, Solomon, resides alternately at Berlin and Vienna, though the latter is the principal place of his abode. Charles, the fourth brother, bora 1778, in established at Naples. The youngest, Jacob lives at Paris, and has a family, by the daughter of his second brother.

Nathan, the third brother, and best known on this side of the Atlantic, on account of his more immediate connection with American mercantile matters, resided, up to the period of his demise, whichoccurred recently, in The four surviving member's of this remarkable family are looked to, at the present crisis, as the chief arbiter of many destinies. Ey their immediate command of vast Capital they can sustain the integrity of the governments; and by the millions which they hold on matured obligations, they cab, if disposed, bring ruin upon the trade of nations. But as far as we have learned, they have made great exertions and sacrifices to relieve the present universal pressure. N. Y.

Sun. Look out, Osceola. We learn from the Washington papers, that Mr. Van Buren reviewed, in person, a brigade of rr ilitia in front of the palace, on the 4th of July Prentice. At Bergen Hill, N.

a'sr A few days ago, seized a large pig Tn his talons and flew off with him to his eyrie. We hail it as a good omen. For some years past, the swine have: (biien trampling tne eagle under foot. Prentice. In a Bad Box.

A very clever caricature this. Mr. Woodbury and Mr. Van Buren, In the shape of rats, comfortably caged, with a huge monster ready to swallow them if they attempt to escape. The monster is ridden by Mr.

Biddle, seated "calm as a Summer's morn-" ing," wid seeming to have the beast under complete control. The trap Was baited ith a bag of specie and a crown. Atlas. THE VESTIBULE OF THE MAMMOTH CAVE OF BY DR. H.

M. BIRD. "What now do we see 1 Midnight the blackness of darkness nothing? Where are we Where is the wall we were lately elbowed out of the way It has vanished, it is lost; we are walled in by darkness," and darkness canopies above. Look again; swing your torches aloft Ay, now you can see it, far up, a hundred feet above your head, a gray ceiling rolling dimly away like a cloud; and heavy buttresses bending under the weight, curling and toppling over their base, begin to project, their enormous masses from the shadowy wall. How vast, how solemn, how awful And how silent, how dreadful silent The little bells of the brain are ringing in vour ears; vou hear nothing else, not even a sigh of air, not even the echo of a drop cf water falling from the roof.

The guide triumphs in your looks of amazement and awe, he take3 advantage of your feelings all so solemn and romantic "Them that says the Mammoth an't rale tear-cat, don't know nothing about it With which truly philosophical interjection he falls to work on certain old ooden ruins, to you yet invisible, and builds a brace or two of fires; by the- aid of which you begin to have a better conception of the scene around you. You are in the vestibule, or anti-chamber, to which the spacious entrance of the cave and the narrow passage that succeeds it should be considered the mere gateway and covered approach. It is a basilica of an oval figure, two hundred feet in length, by one hundred and fifty Wide, with a roof which is as flat and lerefas if finished by the trowel of the plasterer, of 50 or 60, or even more feet in height. Two passages, each a hundred feet in width, open into its opposite extremities, but in right angles to each other; and as they preserve a straight course for five or six hundred feet, with the same flat roof common to each, the appear ance to the eye is that of a vast hall in the shape of the letter L. expanded at the angle, both branches being 500 feet long by a 100 wide.

Itie passage on the right hand is the great bar room; that in front, the beginning of the grand gallery, or the main cavern it self. The whole of this prodigious space is covered by a single rock, rh which' the eye can detect no break or save at its borders, where is a broad sw'eeping cornice, traced in a horizontal pannel-Vork, ex ceedingly noble and regular; Oota' single pier or pillar or any kind contributes to support It needs no support; it is like the arched and ponderous roof of the poet's mausoleum, "By its own weight mado steadfast and imnibVe-" tuie." Tlie floor is exceedingly irregular, consist ing cf vast heaps of the nitrous earth, and of the rujis of the hoppers or vats, composed of heavy planking in which the miners were ac customed to reach it. This hall was in tact oiie of tl.eir chief factory rooms'. Before their day it wis a cemetery: and here they disin terred many a mouldering skeleton, belonging, it seems, to that gigantic eight or nine foot race vf men of past days, whose jaw bones so irany thousand voracious persons have clapped over their own, like horse col lars, without laying by a single one to cori-vince the soul of "Such is the vestibule of the Mammoth' Cave a hall which hundreds of visitors have" passed through without being conscious of its existence. The path leading into the grand gallery hugs the wall' on the left hand, and is besides ia hollow flanked on the right hand by lofty mounds of earth, which the visitor if he looks at thei'n, all, as he will scarcely do at so early a period after entering, will readily suppose to be tlie opposite walls, Those who enter the vast rooms into' flying visitors are seldom conducted will in deed have some fain' suspicion for a moment that they are passing through infinite space, but the walls of the cave being so dark as not to reflect one single ray ot light from the dun torches, and a greater number being necessary to dispel the gloom than are usually em ployed, they will still remain in ignorance of the grandeur around them.

In an attempt which we made to secure a drawing of the vestibule, we had it lighted up with a dozen or more torches and flambeaux, and two or three bonfires beside; but Still the obscurity was so great that it was necessary, in sketching any one part, to have' tne torches for the time held before it. It was, in fact, imnossi' ble to light it up so as to embrace all its strik ing features in one view." We saW enough ot it, however, to determine its quality. It possesses not one particle of beauty; but its grandeur, its air of desolation combined with majesty, are unspeakably impressive. The experiment lias nearly broken up the The people will have their revenge by break ing up the silken purses through who.te green interstices the farmers' eyes were to view the yellow gold! Where!" Still echo answers "Where! For unless the government depart from its infamous course of policy, soon will the farmers sell all their specie for bank rags at from 10 to 20 per cent premium, and not have a silver shilling left with which to buy their silken purses and even "silken purses" they must go without, unless forsooth they can make them out of "sow's ears." The Carolina Gazette, published in Ruther-fordon, N. says that even there, where they thought themselves safe from the effects of the experiment, the merchants arc beginning to "utter" loud complaints; and shin-plasters from two dollars down to sixpence.

So goes on the metallic currency. The illustrious ex-President, who continues to keep himself in a pretty profuse perspiration during the hot weather by banging his sledge-hammer on the proof-armour of Judge White, may now be dignified with another name, by the admirers of "Glory Enough." The New Midas. There is only one difficulty in the way. Instead of converting every thing he touches into gold, he has transmuted gold into paper. However, he richly merits the palm of the "Asses' ears." As if, nevertheless, to prove the truth of the old adage, that "there is no evil without its good," we perceive one grand effect of the experiment.

It is jumping Jim Crow, with the whole man worshipping party. "Turn about and turn about." Every day witnesses thousands of complete political conversions, and if the disease be allowed to spread itself over the entire surface, it will act like an externally irritating application in medicine, drawing off the malady, which was about to destroy the internal md vital health. But the exciter oi the disease will not be regarded with that complacency which is experienced towards a successful physician. When the whole people of the United States shall ob serve the currency depreciated, ami credit prostrate; when they shall perceive the eflects of the experiment so far carried out, that they have not "a penny left to bless themselves withal," they will then regret that they did not sooner exclaim to the tyrants of the present dynasty, in the words of Rolla: "We seek no change and least of all, such change "As you can bring us." "The administration has a single eye to the good of the people. Trenton Emporium.

Don't you mean the goods of the people! Prentice. New fangled Democracy as illustrated by a simple record of facts. "Congress passed Mr. Clay's Land Bill but the Executive destroyed it. Congress re-chartered the National Bank the Executive destroyed it.

Congress said the Dcpositcs were ssfe in the Bank of the United States the Executive removed them. Congress refused to issue a Specie Circular it was issued by the Executive. mgress rescinded the Specie Circular and tire Executive defeated the rescision." Shameful Speculation. The Post Office receipts arc deposited in specie and drawn in specie. Amos Kendall sends on a friend with drafts sells the specie for a premium of ten per cent, and buys Western money at a discount of ten per cent, and thus somebody coolly pockets twenty per cent, by the operation.

N. Y. Express. Incendiarism. On the 3d July, a daring attempt was made to fire the State House in Boston'.

A fire-was kindled at tlie foot of the stairs leading to the Cupola but was discovered in time to prevent its spreading. HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILDS. In these times, when mighty merchants can be bought for sixpence, and' Banks are, as Young says of another subject, but mere Broken rends on whose sharp points The people bleed, and their hopas expire; it is re 'reshing to contemplate any instance of pecuniary stability in the world, or even out of it. That wonderful brotherhood known as the House of Rothschilds, have been purse bearers to' all Europe for the fifth of a century, and are pow considered absolute beyond the reach of any untoward tide in human affairs; having a foundation at least as secure as the dynasties which they may be said to sustain. As an instance of what can be achieved by genius and industry; they areas extraordinary in their career, as Napoleon was in his.

The father of the present firm was born in Frankfort, Germany, about 1710, and was early left, a pennyless orphan. His activity, talents and amiability, however, secured to him many friends through-whose means he was enabled to acquire, a respectable education and, at a proper age, a clerkship in a celebrated banking house in Hanover. It was by his assiduity ond economy while in this situation that he laid the foundation of his subsequent splendid forture, and the present monetary potency of his sons. His introduction to the favor of Princes was through the influence of the Landgrave of Hesse; having in 1810 performed the very important service of rescuing the entire fortune of that prince from the rapacity of the French soldiery. About the same time he furnished ten millions of florins to the King of Denmark, ho being the first crowned head that vouchsafed to become his debtor in the way of a heavy loan.

About 1820, the elder Rothschild died; leaving his five sons, Amshel, Solomon, Nathan, diaries, and Jacob to prosecute the stupendous operations upon which he in connection with hear had entered..