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Politics and Morality.
The Rev. W. E. Channing has published
the second part of his proposed essay on the
Duty of the Free States. It will be recollect
ed that the first part of
of the affair of the Creole, the ob-
h was to set fort the great prio-
jes of justice and hui
ve no especial reference to othe case of
Creole. But th » Channing
will be best tideroa hy a a quotation
own words Tour‘
My gr at I have written and
now SeSitey on matters oF public interest, is to
reunite polities and morality ¢ to bring into
harmony the law of tie land and the law of
Gos. ‘Amnong the chief causes of the miser-
of nations is the divorce which has taken
place between politi morality ; nor can
we hope for a better ‘lay, till this breach be
hewled. Men, inteosied with government,
have always been disposed to regard. them-
selves as absolved from the laws of justice and
rauds are allo
edahetn for Thais country or their party. To
| maintain themselves against their opponents,
| they may ever I the
tnarders ani to
are not or vite on their ia
tice. In all times, government hie been the
grand robber, the grand murderer, and has yet
‘escaped the deep reprobation which breaks
forth against private guilt. Such profligacy
_ pervades thesphere of political netion, that the
confidence of the people is “ell nigh with-
drawn from political men ; and a virtuous
statesman is involved in the suspicions which
shave drawn upon
ife is thought to release
) men not only from the obligatia of justice,
| but from the restraints of good manners ; and
} accordingly the debates of Congress are too
| often polluted by volgar abuse, threats and
| brawls. So low is the standard of ‘political
| life, that a man is smiled at for bis simplicity,
who talks of introducing religion into the
“duct of public affairs. ~ Religion, it is thought,
| belongs to subbaths and churches, and would
| be.us much out of plac cabinets or halls of
legislation, asa delicate lady ona field of bat
tle. A stranger tbe Tempted to think,
that the Sergeant. Harms was mationedd a the
doors of legislative eh en-
tra © everlasting law of ‘Gol, an that
- Nothing but man’s impotence prevents the ex-
clusion of Him, Whose presence fills the uni-
verse.
Nothing i is so needed as to revive in citizens
the conviction of the supremacy of
n law, Could this Be done,
ythe earth would cease to be what nens-
+ jure it it now is, the image of hell, and “vould he-
grow Bree again with the plants o|
only trve we gwvite of life,
i
é
4
;
(
~
eace and sear
at ifennd death, are determiued, - Ont
count, every man who has studied human dive
ty, human perfection, human happiness, hrs a
ght and is bound to speak on matters of pab-
Jie concern, though his judgement may be con-
temned by hackneyed polit
indeed, to be thought, by som
are igateries, which only the i
deal with. Public questions are and ought to
cted to the moral Judgment of the
y. They oui to be referred to the
“Feligion which we pro
meant to
on from its cognizance,
# divinity, and to absolve all men
| | from its control, U
j | a sreak of the Du f the Fre
Y me eank wigher than interests, and | ile.
servo the feet re ar
1am to speak of the Duty of the Free States ;
tout ic is tnportont to observe, that T mean by
| these, not merely comm represented in
HMegislatores, but much niore, the individuals,
| the people who compose them, I shall speak not
| merely of the action of government, but of the
whi
J | influence which every man is bound to exert
} | im the sphere rovidence has placed
4 of the obligations ot ithe Godividual to
| bring public opinions and public affuirs, as far
as he may, to the staodard of truth and recti-
tude, . .
a because the feeling of in
‘iy lity is very much lost in con
f sequen vessive deference of the Pe
which
wich from the’ individual to
merged
What the government deter-
mines, the multitude of meu are apt to think
ight. We do not exercise our moral judge
eit has been forestalled by the
constintion nail by the laws. We aro me
Vers of 8 community, and this relation tri-
II othe
{1 vate man to the government ander
;
me
red of sugar ree, in Ossipee, N.
yA ‘ran blown over ina inte stort, oot has
for a long timea great curiosity in that
ighborhood. The circumference: of thi
fe at the ground was 28 feet, and continued
INGHAM
two branches.
tin dia
feet in circumter rence—a second panel “ oo
SATURDAY
The first branch extended 34
MORN
A ~ caneipondne of the Hingham Patriot,
Fraxxrort, Me., June 5, 1842.
Muassns. Witper & Git
Do you wish for a pssant summer trip? if you do,
Just step on board the good steamer Telegraph, Captain
feet from the ground meuanssd 3-feet
es in circumference, wher ee ee Howes, which makes regulary two wie Per week, from
40 pounds of sugar from in Year, and its || Bortonto Baogor, at te low price of one dollar exch way !
oduet now at the saw mill has just been as- || and ifa large, fas iting and mate boat vin @ Captain
certained to be 3,300 feet of inch board and
nine cords of wood for fuel.
Atempt of the Tiger to Devour Herr Dris-
b As this celebrated wild beast performer,
Drisbach, was perfortning with his animals at
the Bowery Theatre, New York, the Leopard
and the Tiger volunteered an exira incident to
the performance by a regular set-to while Dris-
hach was in the cage with them, which eame
near costing the Tatter his lies
Drisbach had succeeded in separating the
combatants, one of which, the leopard, he
enused to lenp upon his shoulders, when the
im aleoy and buried
unfort
er’s face
tals, even while in the most inininent peril
that some part of the audience were not aware
of the extent of the accident.
.Y.
This man is now exhibiting himself, with
his lions and tigers, at the Tremoft, Boston,
A Cnarten oF Statistics. ‘There are six
manufactories of Buttons in the United States,
employing, when in full -operation, 450 per-
cons ; eapital employed, $1,400,000; persons
employed, 2,500; value of annual product,
$1,500,000 ; persons depending on the Trade
for eruploy ment and subsistence , 10,000
There ure two manufactor vies wt Pins in the
United States yet in their infancy : persons
employed,’ 100; annual product, $100,000.
The Inhor employed in Europe is often that of
felons and paupers, which cun only be com-
peted here by the use of itoring machiv-
his
“Value of ‘conte tnaute in the | sited States,
$1,700,000 ; do brushes, $1,750,000, | About
In Europe the cost of similar labor is only 20
cents per day. “In the manufacture of bellows
200 an are employed ; capital $100,000.
of cotton goods manufactured in
the vennry is $46,000,000 per annum ; capi-
tal employed, $51,000,000 ; Inborers directly
employed in the manufaeture 72,000. There
are 141 factories in the cotton-growing States ;
capital,1,700,000; annual product,$1,200,000.
‘There are 650 vessels engaged in the Whale
fishery alone. | The aggregate expense of their
outfit is over $10,000,000 for each voyage.
Value of ships and ontfits, over $20,000.000.
Annual product, over $7,000,000 per annum,
ron Eaarta. Who would wish
mon life of man grows went
at every side,
decay, and the dearest old remembrances grow |
dim in the distance of
and lonely, . The last tree ie the forest is not
more desolate. ould be
endless existence. Its ve id be
‘The friends of our youth would
row cold and vanish ere our existence had
hardly commenced, and early recollections
wo! ou peri and perish forever. We
ur Ac vould €
past, and a cloud press voost ominously upon
our soul
Immortality on earth! When young, ovr
feelings are joyous. They whisper to u
young gods and oddest. We can cane ve
of no 0 far of for young
imental sights Tut were this our abode for
er, we would outlive ourselves. Our + feelings,
so like young and cheering genii, would soon
grow old and die, i all would wither like
bright blosson of the summer morn!
would %o longer feel
Se
=
of the grave, but the grave would refuse us a
shelter from the agony of despair. Our lot
would be to remain in the world forever !
No! ask not immortality onearth. Iinmor-
tality on earth !—i but a point, a speck o
time 5 bnt, wrap,
would be a Tone, mae eternity of misery and
woe—an eternity with men instead of angels
and saints—a home away from God!
American Magizine,
Seine men think themselves
heir wives—some,
Unpnssessedl of telng Sheol, may not
understand how ay stupid act can
MONT,
woman from her father’s hearth,
where she stood in blooming independence, to
ton her with the cares of a
10 trample on her hopes by proving that he is
no better than those for whom car.
ed or sighed—that heis no worthier than those
wlio were forgotten in ber dreams, and passed
unk with fondness to his
arm, Shaldren of iisappototment, why do wo-
men consider their lovers the ch among
the sons of men ?
of
his muddy vesture, it
and Crew, whore pleasant aucoton and agreeable man-
ners, will often remiod you of the Muster and
the Gen, Lincoln, together ‘with the geand
feom ocean and ri
of nature
7 of island, rock and forest, are tak-
0 inte the aceouot, you will certainly be well repaid for
‘your trouble and expense.
The Telegrapi te leaves Lincola’s wharf, Boston, at six
Friday afternoons, giving you a fine
sail Hmong, and view of the inlnds inthe harbor of Boe
delighted now—
yeu come in sight of the dangerous ledge called “Hatr-
y Rock,” at tendons and at bulf past eight, you
wrod yourself abreast of
Then if you find it too Sd on dec! you to re-
main for the purpose of contemplating that noble acene,
tunate enough to obtain one) retire to your eot, and refresh
yourselves with sleep, while bounding along at the rate of
{wel or thitcon Kero ts per hoor.
you to be astir, “right early"—say by two o'clock in the
moraing—for at two o'clock and twenty-five minutes, you
will find yourselves abreast of Cape Elizabeth, avd in
twenty minutes more, alongside of the wharf in the city of
Portland, where, if you are so d
ramble for a couple of hours in the morning twilight; and
if you please, call at the Cusco Hause (a true Wash-
ingtonian) and take a cup of coffee, for fear the waters of
Casco Bay through which you are to pass, will destroy
your appetite for breakfast on board the Boat. Having
performed a jou 1e hundred and ten miles from
0
Half-w
To
Pemaquid, Eraoklin, Menhegaa, orig ng
ehead und Owl's Head Lights, arri
aston a quarter before eleven, at Camde
na ver ‘lor
xy, very fine, and will be up
at the mouth of the Penobscot River, at half-past two 0”
clock, P.M. Passing wp thie noble atream, among the
lumber eraft, herring wares, hna drift wood, you will ar-
rive at the beautiful village of Bucksport, at ten minutes
before three, and at Frankfort Lower Village, at half-past
three, P. M., having proceeded at the rate of about twelve
and a half miles per hour, being a little short of the aver-
age the night before, owing probably,to the tides and cur-
rents among the islands.
J would recommend to the lovers of relaxation, at o
delightful season, a trip with Capt. H. to Frankfort
place is a new and commodious Public Houre, i
by our own townsman, Maj. Joshua Hersey, Jr. ,and mer
ithgs on a te score of its excellent aecommodat
large share of patronage. Thence
venient carriage, and very y obliging driver, will take ‘hoes
bank of
re throng varied and
tre to
to Bangor, along the
tau be conreyed by raion
through the \rooib-ctcattered here and there wi ne
Canins—to Oldtown, twelve miles beyond B. near
which place is a village of the ‘Americap Indian as Ax
185? which has moch to interest the friends of the early
rs of our soil, In fine, T believe that
week and moderate means, can be more
5
a leisure
isfactorily ex-
pended by a journey Eastward, than ing more fash-
ionable places of resort.
| Yours, &e, c
Exploring Expedition.
Arrival or Tar Vincesnes. The U.S,
Expedition, arrived at New York, from a cruise
of nearly four yeai & crew all well,
e Vincennes left Manilla on the 21st of
Ianuery, Singapore on tbe 25th of February,
Cape Town on the 17th of April, and St. Hel-
ena on the 2d of May.
The South Sea Surveying and Esplocing
Expedition. The Exploring Squadron sailed
from the United States on the 18th of August,
1838, and has heen ‘ahrene nearly four yeurs ;
uring which ¢ learn that the different
ewes have auiled about four bondeed ther
sand miles, The Expedition has thoroughly
executed every pat of the duties confided to
it hy the gover rt
The positions ansigne ed on the charts to sev-
eral vigius, reefs, shonls and islands, have been
carefully Jooked for, ron. over, and found to
have no existence in or near the places as-
signed them.
‘The officers, scientiGe gentlemen and men,
have heen constantly employed, as will appear
hy the labor performed and the results of the
cruise, '
In addition to the large collections alrealy
teceived from the Expedition, the Vincennes
has now on board a large and valuable collee-
tion, including several boxes of live plants, &e,
collected i Pacific, Sooloo,
Singa
Sever
in the Pacific Ocean have been visited, exain-
ined and surveyed, a fricully intercourse, and
protective commercial regulations, established
withthe chiefs and natives; aggression on our
citizens and commerce @ redressed, sod a iuenly
merited punishment meted © flee
teases of ‘inproveked and. cold booted
|
|| corvette Vincennes, flug ship of the Exploring
|
|
inurder,
The discoveries in the Antarcti Ocean (a
taretic continent—observations for fixing the
Southern Magnetic: pole, Se) preceded those
of the French and English expeditions.
‘The Expedition, during its absence have al-
|
2+ ||
|
| surrounded by dukes and earls, judges and
so examined and surveyed a large portion of
the Oregon Territory, a part of Upper Califor-
a in ia and Sacramento
thei us tributari ever
al exploring pasties from the Squadron have
Xai
ed those portions
known, “A map
ts Rivers, Sounds,
has been prepar-
te overnent with a
muass of valuable information relative to our
possessions on the Northwest Coast, and the
who a of Or regon
ands not laid down in the charts
have heen Mlucovered, one of which the na-
tives offered worship, evidently believing that
Ueir visitors had came from the
al of the Tianna,
s later from England.
The Brien” “Tteainer Britannia, arrived
Boston on Saturday morning last., She left
Liverpool on the fourth instant, and has made
her passage in 13} days. She brin,
files of London and Liverpool papers to the
4th inst. being 14 days Inter than advices by
the Great Western.— Atlas.
The only news of much interest is that of
a foolish attempt which some boy had made
to gain notoriety, by snapping a pistol at the
Queen. It was only a flash in the pan, bow-
ever. :
papers give long accounts of the de-
tails ote rash attack upon the life ofthe Quern,
on the 30th May.
madman, or a mon:
mautness, has suiemped the assassination of
the beloved soverei
companied by Prince Albert, w
¢ Palace, an assassin presented a pistol, and
tried to discharge it at the Queen, from very
nearly the same spot from which Oxford fired ;
but the w
fire.
now in custody.
be a foreigner, but it apper ence wna jv, that
he ‘is an Englishman, named olin Francis,
c
son to a’scene-shifier at one of the theatres.
He is about 20 yeard of age.”
This attack upon the life of the ‘Sovereign
excited the liveliest sensation among all class-
es of the people. The two Honses ar Parlin
ment voted an Address to her Majesty. .'The
prisoner had been committed for trial, and
the papers were speculating upon the legal na-
pro
stably Buia
to agree with
the Liverpool Mail in the following opinions:
this poor thief, the son of a scene-
shifie er, ad any real or premeditated intention
to assassinate Her Most Gracious Majesty is
what we do not believe. eyond the
Fimite of imam credulity. “The whole facts
show this. It does not appear that there was
ball or shot of any kind in the pistol, There
may have been some loose powder, but that
was all. The Queen heard no report—was
not conscious that any pistol had heen pointed
at her—and was not informed of the auempt
until after she had reached the Palace.
“Nevertheless “n that the prisoner aimed
at was accomplished. ‘The monster assassin
was instantly vest and he was dragged to
the Palace, then to some station, and next to
the Home-afiice in Whitehall, where he is
magistrates, ministers of the Crown, and high
officers of state. What a sight for the son of
a scene-shifter ! Then ouses of Par
ment both adjourn in dismey—the Lord May-
or with a mournful countenance, ‘rides in his
conch to Buckingham House—the Duke of
Walling | is seen toenter the Home-oftice—
all London consternation—St Paul's
Shakcoscbuiens tspended—prople enpe
at each other—all is horror and di
would not be the son of a scene-shifer ?
“Our own private opinion is, and we rather
i Lord Brougham, that if the police
bad taken the little dirty wretch and flogged
the skin off his back, and afterwards worked
him ow the trend for three months, bread
and water being bis only far
re-
tending to shoot the Queen than all the ad-
dresses of the Houses of Parliament, all the
proceedings of the Privy Council, and all the
flashy parade of a public trial will ev
complish. If this had been done in Oxford's
case, we should never lave heard of Jobn
rancis.”
ectat Mrssexcer rxou Exotaxp.. The
Stenmer Radamanitos arrived at Halifax on
ya from Plymouth, Eng-
land, having on boards Special h
despatches from the British Goveramene “for
Lord Ashburton, She put into Halifax for
coal, &c. and was to sail fur New York, on
the tvening of the 161
Her Hs yesty has been rraciouly pleased to
confer th knighthood on Me. (now
Sir Hen) Bishop, the eminent sie com-
Pp
8
Carr. ‘Exuor—Tesas Consul. ' Sir Rob=
* Peel has volunteered a (lecloration, that
after careful investigation into the conduct
of Cape Elliot in China, he lina arrived st the
that “ev, onfilence may be
placed in his integrity and ability 10 perform
his fonctions.” The captain bas, consequently
departed for his consulship at Tex hic
removes of course, any remaini ¢ doubt, ifany
existe, as tothe Formal | compte ion of he
s between Great
| rade,
BY WILDER & GILL, AT $250 PER ANNUM, OR TWO DOLLARS IF PAID IN- ADVANCE.
VOL. 4.
lowing statistical details of the destruction of
Property by the late calamitous fire :—Streets
destroyed, 61 ; Janes ditto, 120; houses ditto
498
in streets, 1992 ; small houses in
cellars, 468 ; inhabitants dispossessed, 21,526.
Ispia e London Sun of the 3d instant
states Dy as p Extraordinary Express from,
Paris w6 jearn that the id Mail from’
Ingia arrived tt Muraeiieson Wednestey vighn:
pect any, as suffici
conducting the operations which Plenipoten-
tiney Sir H. Poutinger designed ‘to carry on
against Pekin. We have important, and to
some extent distressing intelligence from Aff
he The most painful news is the sur-
of the strong fortress of Ghuznee,wher
Colonel Palmer commanded, the celebrated
storming 61 by General Keane, was re-
warded with a Peers ige and a pension.» Cotn-"
peiled by hunger to capitulate, Colonel Palmer
agreed to evacuate the town, on a promise for
ante conduct for himaet Mf his men to Caubnl.
‘This is the a i Fortu-
ately, the reverse side esas amore ch
ing appearance, . Col, Pollock hes forced the
celebrated Khyber Pass, and fortified all the
ke commanding I, reparatory to mare
Sale, at t dellaahad
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t he:
human life this advantage was purchased, but
we should suppose it considerable,
Rumors were afloat that Shah Soojab was
poisoned and ‘hat the assassin Akhbar Khan
ely wounded. ‘This news, if true, is
very “import
From China we have no news whatever;
and from France, Spain, and oiher countries
of Europe, nothing important
Dangers of St. Petersburg.’ The Gulf of
Finland stretches in its greatest Jength
Heghtties from Petersburg westward.
st violent winds from this quarter, and ihe
Waters of the gulf are thus driven direct upon
| the city. Were: the gulfspacious in this part,
there would not be €0 much to apprehen nd
but anfortunately the sho:
ately towarils Petersburg, which lies at ite
nermost point ;“while close to the city the wa
ters lie hemmed in the narrow bay of Crons-
waters into the gulf, thus encountering the vi
alent waves from the west i
a1
whiel alaces of Petersburg take
root, are pericnteri flat and'low. Op their
outer and uninhabited sides towards
sea,
they, completely lose thenselves beneath the
To bring about this Int="
ter disaster nothing more is requisite than:
that a strong: west w shoul exseiy con-
cur ‘vith high Water and ic T
ice massess from the gulf woul the be ariv-
en landward, and those of the Nev ard,
Whilst in this baile of the ‘Titans, the iner.
princes and beggars, would he swallowed in,
the floods like Pharoah in the Red Sea.
Scarce may we speak thus lightly of the fu-
ture, for, in truth, the danger lies so near that
many a Petersburg heart qunilsat the thought. '
in the improbability of
spish
There only hope fi
these three enemies; west wind,
and ice-paseage, combining agai
one and the saine tiene. Foruneicly fre
there are sixiy-four winds in the compas
Had the old Finnish’ inhabitants of the Neva
islands made their observations and hequested
them to their sucecssors, the average chances
uld have warned them how often in a
thousand years such a combination must o
cur. In short we shall not be" astonished to
hear any day’ that Petersburg, which, like a
brilliant meteor, rose from the Finnish marsh-
es, had just as suddenly been extinguished in
the same. God protect it!—Rohl's Scenes in
Petersburg. -
water,
3
Texpra Covetsme.” Ther
modes of avowing the tender r passion, in
ferent countries ; and som
are in general use amon:
not seem to be particularly. calculated to’ pro-
duce a reciprocal feeling in the bosom of the
beloved object. We are told by traveller:
that the young ladies of New Caledonia ant
the adjacent islands, are wont to repair with
patrinrehal sien rity 10 the we
tains of their neighborhood for water
a youth has seen anil eonceiv pr for a
lovely belle, he repairs to the fountain, and
lies in ambush in the thickets beyond a rock.
As the Jady approaches with her pitcher, and
stoops to draw the water, her gallant lover,
taking advantage of her when she is in the
most defenceless posture, ‘rashes upon her,
and svikes her down with a club, ‘Then seiz~
ing her by the bnir ofthe head, he drags her
way, wounded and bleeding, to hig hut, a
thus she becomes his it ‘
dif-
ne
W het
Bad men. are never completely bappy al-
though possessed of every thing this world
ean bestow 5 anil good men are never coms
pletely miserable, aithough deprived of every
reali en G id Tex:
The Fire at Hanbure. We have whe. “fol
» ° ‘
thing the world can take away.
vellous city, with all its palces and fortresses,”
are various.