OUR PEN.

BENEVOLENCE.

ing stewards only of the property with which they are entrusted. By so doing they secure a double good, for giving blesses him who gives as well as him who receives, albeit, "It is more blessed to gire than to receive."

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CONGRESS has finally adjourned after a protracted session of over eight months. The most important measure of the session, in its relation to the business of the country, is the passage of the new Tarif Bill, which will go into operation in December next. As this has been a party question, we shall not compromit our neutrality by expressing an opinion either for or against the ineasure. The bill for the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, is another important measure, which has been long and we think unnecessarily delayed.The fund for this purpose was bequeathed several years ago, but Congress have been unable to arrive at any definite determination in regard to it, until the present time. President Polk has seen fit to veto the bill relative to indemnifiication for French spoliations of our commerce, and the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. We had hoped that this latter measure, so important to the interests of the country, would have been approved, but the powers that be have decided otherwise.

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"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mouru." How true to nature is the above sentiment of the poet! How many, in all ages, have been made to drink the bitter cup of affliction to the very dregs, by the inhumanity of their brother man! It seems (to borrow a comparison from a profound writer,) as if one half of mankind were born with saddles on their backs and bits in their mouths, and the other half, ready booted and spurred to ride them, And yet, such a state of things should not be, and would not, were a proper spirit of benevolence to prevail among mankind. Did they fully appreciate the dignity of AMERICAN REVIEW.-The present issue contains a their nature, they would neither have the disposition number of unusually able papers. The "Oregon Treato tyrannise over their fellows, or suffer tyranny over ty," "Thoughts, Feelings and Fancies," gems of themselves; and there is no stronger proof of the deg- truth and beauty, Emily," "Julietta, or The radation of our nature, than the fact, that, in all ages, Beautiful Head," from the German, "Beaumont and a large part of the human family have been the sport Fletcher," continuation of the Review, "Army atof the caprice of another part; to say nothing of the tack and National Defence," "A Picture from Memmillions who have, in all ages, been held in unjust ory's Gallery," "M. Arago," "Our Army of Occu bondage by those whom Providence has placed in more pation," "Sonnet," "Something about Painters," favorable circumstances, we will point our readers to Brighter Days for Poland," "Finance and Comthe numerous millions who have, in all ages, been commerce." pelled to bite the dust, to gratify the lust of power or pageantry of some warlike chief: wars of conquest, ambition and petty dispute, are written, in letters of blood, on every page of the volume of history, and continue to be the order of the day at the present time.

But, to turn another leaf, man's inhumanity to man! is exemplified in the more common occurrences of life; in the endeavors of one to overreach another-of those in power to oppress those beneath them-of capitalists to take undue advantage of the laborer, and the ten thousand other ways, in which the lordly few seek to make known their power over the many. But where shall we seek the remely for these evils? It is to be found only in the cultivation of an enlarged spirit of benevolence-in the practice of the holy precept, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you." When this lesson shall bave been thoroughly learned and practised by the great mass of mankind, will the evils of which we have been speaking cease, and human nature will stand forth disenthralled, erect in its native dignity. Mankind have, many of them, yet to learn that real enjoyment is not to be obtained by hoarding, but rather by scattering abroad, by making themselves the almoners of good to others, by be

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George H. Colton, New York, five dollars per annum.

REV. MR. GRANGER, formerly pastor of the First Baptist Church in this city, and at the present time sustaining that relation to the First Baptist Church in Providence, R. I., preached at the Cottage Baptist Church, Sabbath afternoon, to the gratification of numerous friends and a highly attentive audience. Mr. His style is Granger is a clear, logical reasoner. chaste, vigorous and concise, unincumbered by rhetorical flourish, and his manner plain, easy and dignified.

A CHRISTIAN. Some one has most beautifully remarked that "a Christian is like the firmament, and it is the darkness of affliction that makes his graces shine out. He is like those herbs and plants that diffuse their odors when bruised."

RHYME AND REASON.-When Truth and Poetry meet and embrace, the sight is truly lovely. Here is an instance.

As lone clouds in Autumn eves,
As a tree without its leaves,
As a shirt without its sleeves,
Such is a BACHELOR.

NAPOLEON.

classes; the conscription made the soldiers the real In Naper's History of the Peninsular War, we find representatives of the people. The troops idolized the following tribute to the fame and character of Na- Napoleon, as well they might, and to assert that their poleon, which is the more striking and valuable from attachment commenced only when they became solthe fact that it comes from the pen of an English soldiers, is to acknowledge that his excellent qualities dier, who was an opponent in many a hard fought and greatness of inind turned hatred into devotion the moment he was approached. But Napoleon never was Where is the proof or even probability, of that great, hated by the people of France; he was as their own man's system of government being internally depen- creation, and they loved him as never monarch was dent upon "the most extensive corruption ever estab- loved before. lished in any country?"

field.

The annual expenditure of France was scarcely half that of England, and Napoleon rejected public loans which are the very life-blood of state corruption. He left no debt. Under him no man devoured the public subsistence in idleness merely because he was of a privileged class; the state servants were largely paid, but they were made to labor effectually for the state. They did not eat and sleep. His system of pub-, lic accounts, remarkable for its exactness, simplicity, comprehensiveness, was vitally opposed to public fraud and therefore extremely unfavorable to corruption. Napoleon's power was supported in France by that deep sense of his goodness as a sovereign, and that admiration for his genius which pervaded the poorer and lower classes of the people; by the love which they bore towards him, and still bear for his memory, because he cherished the principles of a just equality. They loved him also for his incessant activity in the public service, his freedom from all private vices, and because his public works, wondrous for their number their utility and grandeur, never stood still; under him the poor never wanted work. He gave France noble instructions, a comparatively just code of laws, and glory unmatched since the days of the Romans.His Cadastre, more extensive and perfect than the Doomsday Book, that monument of the wisdom and greatness of our Norman conqueror, was alone sufficient to endear him to the nation. Rapidly advancing under his vigorous superintendence, it registered and taught every man the true value and nature of his property, and all its liabilities "public or private. It was designed and most ab'y adapted to fix, add, and secure titles to property, to prevent frauds, to abate litigation, to apportion the weights of taxes equally and justly, to repress the insolence of tax gatherers without injury to the revenue, and to secure the sacred freedom of the poor man's home. The French Cadastre, although not original, would, from its comprehensiveness, have been when completed the greatest boon ever conferred upon a civilized nation by a

statesman.

To say that the emperor was supported by his soldiers, is to say that he was supported by the people; because the law of conscription, that mighty staff on which France leaned when all Europe attempted to push her down; the conscription, without which she could never have sustained the dreadful war of antagonist principles entailed upon her by the revolution; that energetic law, which he did not establish, but which he freed from abuse, and rendered great, national, and endurable, by causing it to strike evenly on all

His march from Cannes to Paris, surrounded by hundreds of poor men, who were not soldiers, can never be effaced or even disfigured. For six weeks, at any moment, a single assassin might by a single shot have acquired the reputation of a tyranicide, and obtained vast rewards besides from the trembling monarchs and

aristocrats of the earth, who scrupled not to instigate men to the shameful deed. Many there were base enough to undertake, but none so hardy as to execute the crime, and Napoleon, guarded by the people of France, passed unharmed to a throne from whence it required a million of foreign bayonets to drive him again. From the throne they drove him, but not from the thoughts and hearts of men.

UNITED STATES, FRANCE AND ENGLAND.-It is remarkable that the three legislative bodies of the world, the imperial parliament of Great Britian, the Chamber of Deputies of France, and the American Congress, have been simultaneously engaged in important and exciting debates. Greater statesman than are engaged in them, never lived--more momentous questions have not since the American and French revolutions, been discussed. It is not too much indeed, to say that these great debates are the legitimate offspring of the ideas that then, for the first time triumphed in the world. In Great Britian, the subject has been whether the aristocratic element shall yield to the demands of its opposite, and involved the existence, not merely of a cabinet but of the government itself. In France the theme has been the same idea, applied to the fundamental political constitutions; and in this country as applied to territorial extension and commercial freedom. In Great Britian there are the efforts of Brougham, Peel, Macauley, Russell and Palmerston; in France, of Guizot, Thiers, Lamartine ; in America, not to mention others, of Calhoun and Webster. Who shall say that the age of great men has passed away.-Boston Post.

HOWARD'S MAXIM.-The following is said to have been the favorite maxim of the great philanthropist ; and beautifully did his whole life illustrate the perOur superfluities should be given up for the confect harmony between his theory and his actions :venience of others ;our conveniences should give place to the necessities of others; and even our necessities should give way to the extremities of the poor."

At a bachelor's door a bundle was lately left. On its being carried to the old maiden housekeeper and inspected by her, she declared its contents to be "a crying shame."

That the Western Cherokees had an interest in the old Cherokee country, east of the Mississippi, and have a claim upon the United States for the interest. The value is represented to be about $450,000, to be divi

ded among 3000 Western Cherokees. This is the addition of their share of the invested funds.

The treaty party are to be allowed their expenses of removal and sustinence-about $53 each. The families of the two Ridges and Elias Boudinot are to have compensation for property sacrificed when they were obliged to fly after the murder of those three men.

John Ross is to account for the enormous sums of money received by him; and the residue of the five million fund, after deducting all proper charges, is to be invested or otherwise disposed for the benefit of the nation.

The Cherokee country is not to be partitioned at present, but ample provision is to be made for enabling the several parties to try and live peaceably together.

YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.-The New Or. leans Courier announces that some cases of yellow fever have appeared in that city. The Picayune, on the contrary, doubts whether the cases were the real yellow fever.

MORSE'S ELECTRO MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.-The late news. -New York was literally electrified on Siturday morning by the publication of the Cambria's

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.-The S'eamer Great Western, arrived in New York on Monday morning, at half past 7 o'clock, having made the trip in 15 days. She brings London dates to the 24th,news in this city simultaneously with its appearance and Liverpool to the 25th. The news is not of much importance.

France is interested in a canvass for the new Chamber of Deputies, and the opposition expect to carry Paris and other great towns; but there is no doubt of there being a strong majority for the ministry, in the general result. Peace, prosperity and Guizot are popular with the electoral body.

Spain is engrossed with the marriage of the young Queen of France and Don Francisco de Paula; and another cousin is about to establish a journal to forward their views.

in the newspapers in Boston, Washington, &c, &c. Never was there a more remarkable evidence of the utility of the invention, than then; on the arrival of the steamer in sight of Boston, it was known at once, almost, in Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and for two hours before the vessel arrived at the wharf at East Boston, public speculation as to the tenor of the advices, was as rife in the other cities as in Boston.

The Boston Telegraph s'ation commenced writing to

New York about seven o'clock P. M. We had the pleasure of sending on the news to the Washington Union at a comparatively early hour in the evening, thus securing its publication in Washington as soon as in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston.

The Court of Inquiry in the case of Gen. Gaines met on Monday, 3d inst. In reply to the General's application for summonses to be issued to the Govern--N. Y. Sun. ors of Louisiana and Kentucky; Col. W. Preston, Louisville, Ky.; Gen. Felix Houston, New Orleans or Texas; and Col. J. F. L. Claiborne, Editor of the Jeffersonian, New Orleans, as witnesses, the Court decided that it would first be necessary for Gen. Gaines to state the purpose for which these witnesses were required, and what he expected to prove by them. To this the Gen. replied that he was sure he would then be able to prove "all the material facts necessary and sufficient for his entire and triumphant vindication against the grave array of imputations upon which he had been brought before the Court." He wished to be allowed either the testimony asked for, or the privilege of a trial before a General Court Martial upon the Rio Grande. The Court, without any decisive action in the case, went into secret session.-Tribune.

EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL OPERATION.-The Cincinnati Atlas gives an account of an operation which was lately made by a surgeon, the first of the kind ev er performed. A man whose nose turned up was placed in the operating chair, a wedge shape piece taken from the cartillage that separates the nostrils, and the parts were then brought together and firmly stitched. The operation being concluded, the patient took a look at himself and was mightily tickled at the improvement in his nasal organ, but concluded that the point had not been brought down low enough, and that another slice must be taken out. The stitches were withdrawn and the operation performed a second time, when the patient expressed himself perfectly satisfied. The Atlas states that some days after, the man was well, and his friends would hardly know him, so great was the improvement in his appearance.

Extract of a letter dated Richmond, July 25, 1846.

PICTURE THREE MILES LONG.-A late number of Gen. Morris' new paper contains a notice of a painting which will when completed, cover a canvass upwards of three miles in length. It will form a perfect-An unpleasant occurrence took place in this city, panorama of the Mississippi and Onio rivers, showing yesterday. A man who has a number of hired newith the greatest fidelity, all the beautiful scenery on groes tu his employment was proceeding for some their borders, with the islands, cities, towns, villages, slight offence, to punish one of them by whipping, and woodyards. It is a vast and noble conception of when the poor wretch, knowing his master's unmercithe artist's mind: and we are pleased to hear that heul nature, implored that he might be hung instead of is making rapid progress towards the completion of whipped. This of course would not answer, and on the work. The panorama commences at Pittsburg, tying the negro's hands behind him in the usual manshowing the Ohio river from thence to its junction withner, the employer went into another room to procure the Missisippi at Cairo, and the great father of waters,' from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, a continuous line of scenery of more than three thousand miles in extent.

his cowhide, when the negro taking advantage of his absence, rushed from the room, jumped into the river and was drowned. The body has not yet been recov ered."

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No CHOLERA IN PERSIA.-Paragraphs have of late The nuinber of deaths in New York city from June appeared in some of the journals, declaring that the 27th to July 25th, was 1096. Died of apoplexy, 47; cholera was raging in Persia so violently, that the cholera infantum, 192, about one ninth of the whole third of the population had been carried off by this mal-mortality; consumption, 115; delirium tremens, ady. Late intelligence, however, from that country, dropsy, 77; convulsions, 100; marasmus, 60; conp announces that so far from that being the case, the de soleil, 21; diarrhea, 31; drowned, 17; dysentery, sanitary condition of Persia is at present most satis-30; fevers, 60; disease of the heart, 11; inflamations, factory.-London paper. 139; old age, 7; palsy, 15.

COMMON LAW ON THE MISSISSIPPI.-The St. Louis New Era of the 25th ult.,states that a short time ago a stea boat arrived at St Louis having on board a quantity of whiskey. It was found that the bands on the boat had bored holes in the heads of the birrels and had sucked out about a gallon from each barrel, and on this account they deducted 25 cents from the wages of each hand. The hands all repaired to a jus- | tice of the peace and brought separate suits against the boat. The taking of the whiskey was proved, but the plaintiffs introduced testimony that, from time immemorial, it has been the usage and custom for boat hands to suck whiskey from the barrels thus carried for freight. Oa the proof of this usage, the case was decided against the boat and judgement rendered against it in each case for 25 cents. An appeal was taken.

IMPORTANT RUMOR-Negotiations with Mexico.-It is currently reported in Washington, that negotiations with the Mexican government are in progress, and that Paredes, and the Mexican Congress propose to give up the whole of California and Santa Fe to the U.S, as an indemnity for the expenses of the War and for the instalments yet due by Mexico to the Amreican citi

zens.

It is supposed that these terms, which have been proposed in Savannah by the Agents and Plenipotentiaries of Paredes, will be satisfactory to this Governmeat.-N. Y. Tribune.

The gambling in railway shares in France last Autuma, produced, as all gambling does, an immense number of disasters. It appears, for example, that at no time for many years, had the sale of family mansions and estates been so numerous as at that period, and they have since continued to exceed the average. It is the same with respect to mortgages. There are at present inscribed in the public ledger not less than 700,000 mortgages, amounting in the whole to 16,000, 000 francs.

At the People's theatre, in Cincinnati, tecently, Jack Reeve, the Irish comedian, was stabbed to the heart by a man named Cook, the Treasurer of the establishment. Reeve was acting as prompter, and having said something to Mrs. Cook about not knowing her part, she complained to her husband, and he immediately stabbed him on the stage.

A CURIOSITY.-We have been shown a 6 cent piece, upon one side of which has been engraved, in letters which can be perused with the naked eye, The Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments.The letters are beautifully formed.-Pittsburgh Journal.

POTATOE ROT.-The Hartford Courant says that this disease is showing itself to an alarming extent in that region. Many bushels of potatoes which were dug by the farmers on Saturday, and which appeared healthy at the time, were a mass of putridity on Monday morning.

Another STAR has been added to our glorious constellation, the Senate having yesterday admitted Wisconsin into the Union. The sisterhood now number twenty-nine. Little lowa is preparing to take her place as the thirtieth. Where will the next come from? N. Y. Sun.

THE CABINET.-The Union of Monday says-" The Washington letter writers are for the thousandth time at a fault about the Cabinet. There is to be no change, and with the free consent of all its members, as it was in March, 1845, so it will be in August, 1846."

WORTHY OF IMITATION.-The Superintendent of the County of New York has presented to the Board of Education, a report in favor of establishing free Evening Schools for the education of apprentices and oth

ers.

next.-Bult. Pat.

ATTENTION, PRINTERS!

Mr. McLane, our Minister at London, who has asked leave to return home, and which has been grantTHE WIDOW OF CAPT. PAGE.-After the death of ed, is expected to reach here about the 1st of October Capt. Page, his widow at once left for the East, and we are happy to say, met with the greatest attention on the way. No boats, rail roads, or hotels, would accept any pay, until she reached Schenectady. Nor would they at Schenectady, had they known who she was. This compliment is the more valued, as Capt. Page has left a handsome fortune, and his wife is thus fortunately placed out of the reach of troubles that money can avert.-Express.

Late from the ARMY.-The New York is at New Orleans, with dates to the 29th. We have time only for the following. Letters had been received stating that Paredes had arrived at San Louis, with 9000 men; but having received dispatches by express, he countermoved his command, and proceeded to retrace his steps to the city of Mexico. The reason of this sudden about-face, is only to be attributed to some pronunciamento at the Capital.

A Washington letter writer calls Mr. Yell, of Arkansas, "a very amiable man with a very noisy name."

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