The New York Herald (New York [N.Y.])
January 12, 1842

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MEW YORK HERALD. .\rw Y ork. WrdnroUf, .January 14. I >"-4. Circulation of tin Herald. Providence, Jan. 10, lvl'2. JAMEi> GORDON Dennett, Est;? 1 would respectfully suggest to you the propriety ol sending to this place a sufficient number oi copies of your paper to supply the wants of customers, or it such a course is now pursued, would recommend that you give the sale of thereto some person more dispo.-ed to accommodate the public lhau is rhe present agent. I have tried for tnree or four tveek- to buy copies of the Weekly Herald, and have not been able. Ssmetimea lam told that th* copies u! the Herald have not yet come;" at otlnrs that they are sold," \*o. Ve- father persons complain ua much as myself. Can vou do any thing in the premises

Remarks.?We iliave had similar complaints from Boston, Pmiadelphia and other cities. The osly remedy is to sell Heralds in ?*very city to any no (1lh#?r nl urifnld t h .1F phniidi'S to 1) 11V dlld tills We shall do. Tremendous Agitation?He peal of (he Bankrupt L.n?-1ho Nubile Meetlngi The pepu.'ar agitation on the Bankrupt Law lias ,ncrtased wiih?i geometrical force?perfectly appalling. Two tremendous Public Meetings are already preparing to be held?one by the Bankrupts? ano'her by the Anti-Bankrupis. The former party had a preliminary meeting yesterday, and agreed to nt'-et at the Merchants'Exchange, in Wall street, to morrow, at 2 o'clock. The anti bankrup's have a', o called a meeting at the same tune and place. U these meetings take place at the same time and same locality, there will be a row?a concussion of the elements?a sort o( civil war?the continence^ iii-nt of a thorough revolution. We advise both parties to meet at different places, and ut dilFerent times, so as to avoid physical collision, and thus preserve the reputation of the city intact. Let every thing be done decently and in order?present argum nts?but no pistols. It is one of the most excitable questions that ever came up in this couuUy?a question between debtor and creditor?a question between the solvent and insolvent?a question between the iaws ot the dark ages and the benign principles of the present?and care must be taken to keep the public peace. We tremble for the peace of New York, if both parties should meet on the same ground. Let the Mayor, therelore, double his police?call out the military?no very legal act?but to prevent a civil war. We live inmost excitable times. In the meantime our splendid corps of reporters arc ready to give an account of ihe proceedings of boiii parties?and to see that justice be done to the arguments of all?to the unfortunate bankrupts?to the haughty capitalists?to the proud financiers?to the great unvarnished rogues?to the character of New York?to the reputation of Congress?and to the credit of the present age. What is the cuuse of all this 1 Society has thus been reduced to two hostile, embittered camps, by the abuses of the banking sy tent?and the unlimited issue of papet money by dishonest men, and dishonest institutions. The first thing that should be dono by both parties, is to tear dowfl all the shinplaster institutions and to hang up all the paper and shinplaster financiers?then go to work cjuictly, settle their own affairs, and get a discharge ach The Wall Street Moral War against Con. grees?The First Broadside?Big Black Mall. The recent movements made by Congress, in relation to the repeal of the Bankrupt Law, have produced many singular movemen's n. 1 remarkable development* in this quarter. All thi* might have been expected, llat, perhaps, one ol the mostt vraordtn iry developments that ever appeared in any newspaper, or in any country, is h deliberate, elaborate, precise, formal statement or arraignment, or indictment (not a pork indictment) which app? and in the Courier A* Enquirer" of yesterday. In that arraignment which is contained in two consecutive articles, the Courier" charges that foreign agent-, or the agents of British creditors in this country have accumulated a secret fund of several millions of dollars, and actually bought and paid for th?' p-nl of tie Bankrupt La v, by Congressmen, at the rate ot'avote. (A capital price, too). \nd in order to give more precision and point to thi? angular?this most extraordinary und monstrous charge?the Conner" gives, in addiuou to the charge, and immediately in connexion with it the specific na lies ol the members of Congress to wtjom it points as having received the money paid by these foreign agents of Biitish creditors out of the gen tu! fund, in order to change their vet's, and thus to produce a repeal of the law. lo order that we'may not be thought mis-stating this matter, we subjoin some extracts fr >nt the "Courier's'' articl- of yesterday in r Ution to it:? Iler- is th" very fire: paragraph ay a sample of the tone of the whole The B?i?Ri rr Law The r.-cent vote in the House of Representa'ivi t, il one of the most alarming indications of (A* maal iepiaity of thr hnu that has as yet been brought to light. This ia tolerably sweeping bi't here another more so. That the sane body of men should piss a law in July to go into operation in February, and then repeal the same before going in'o affect, anil before th People have ha 1 time to judge ot its merits, is utterly incompatible with honor'or honesty. Il this as-srtioti be true, then are uli who change th ;r vote- d! ;onwt men, in the opinion ol the Courier." Hut again If this were anew Congress, fresh from the people, there might ':>e it least the shadow of apology lar the propoacd rcj? il, on the ground that thtie had b en a change in public sentiment. Even brib ry and corniDtion in such an event, might be screened by ths appearance of yielding to public opinien. Here is a ilir t char not only that bribery und corruption fiu xtn -nployeJ, but also that inrxb rl of a Law for the ui ?s?ge of which thi y had voted in July, and thus leave tho public to infer that their vote* had been purchase I by gold. Wvdid not bclieTc we aay, that even thii 9 100,000, then we don't know what a direct charge Hut l.n n*d lately after the "Courier" dm hes ti e natl th u We know not, as yet, who the utou are that c ml t ti. the recent vote with th.)'. of las'. July. But satis.i 1 jwe sr. that millions ofH'dlars hsve beon plar t o' t*--ncoiirag ment tlieit I.nWaW n- der- things so richly deserve a POSTS (Tin P T. ftj The mail, south of Washington, did not a? ive here lest night. Washington [Correspondence of the Herald Washington, Jau 10, 1812. The Ranlartipt Law-Mr. Clay's Position? Kxtra Session and President Tyler? Correspondent of the American?The Navy. The extraordinary demonstration in the House of Representatives' on Saturday, on the bankrupt law, iu-1 piuuuuru j;rnrrui cousif million ailiuug lib ririce, the folly of the whig party in Congress. The epealofthe bankrupt law will be most appropritely followed by the repeal of the distribution law, nd then the whigs in Congress may as well be buied, for they will be dead for all useful or practical urposes, thereaher. If they give up these two iieasures, or either of them, for they are indissolu>ly connected in their passage, they give upevery hing. They abandon the whole ground, and stand elf convicted of a degree of vacillation and corrupion without a parallel in the history of legislation The merits or demerits of the measures have nothng to do with the question. No manifestation of he popular will lias operated upon Congress in reition to them. If they are inexpedient or wrong in rinciple now, they will be no less so, when, after nature deliberation and full discussion, they passed oth houses. Neither reason nor reflection will ave any thing to do with the repeal. If accomltshed, it will be an act of passion or pique, utterly ndefensible in every point of view. Every sagacious man in the nation foresaw the tiachiel which has resulted to the country from the ncalled for, impolitic and absurd extra session.? Aery sagacious man predicted the destruction f the whig party as its inevitable consequence.? ut no one supposed that at this early day, Mr. 'lay would rrpudialt, that is the dainty phrase now, re action and policy of the extra session, and adlit the necessity of undoing what was thenachievi. This he has virtually done through his partiius in the House. The movement against the bankipt law cornea from him. No man knows better tan Mr. Clay, that the distribution bill could not mc ween carrieu mrougn uongress, except Dy conectiag it with the bankrupt bill. They were linked aether like the Siamese twins, and the late of one upended upon that of the other. If the tie had en severed, the death of both would have follow 1 as a matter of course. Let the bankrupt law be pealed now, and the distribution bill shares the ime fate, just ascertain as effect follows cause here cannot be a doubt entertained on this point, he thing is clear as the sun at noonday. And :t Mr. Clay, with a thorough kuowledge el the >nsequences, instigates their movement upon the ankrupt Law, with a view to coerce the whig ;nators into a position of uncompromosing hostility wards the administration of President Tyler. His irpose is to have the repeal bill pass the House, and en to hold it over the heads of such of the whig mators as have manifested a disposition to fall in ith the administration, and endeavor to settle the irrency quesfioa. We shall see what success atnds his sinister management. I Whatever evil grow out of the extra-session, it j ould be born in mind .that President Tyler is in j i wise responsible lor it. He is guilty of all agency that piece of supreme and unspeakable folly.? t r. Clay forced it upon the country against the tier judgment of the whole party. Mr. Tyler was cidedlv opposed to it, but lh? poor compliment of king hi* udvice'was never paid him. On bis ac- 4 s.-iou to the Presidency lie found the thing in pro- j ess and could not arrest it. Neither the tax upon e country, therefore, nor the^de molition of the i big party, growing out of the factious violence of r. Clay, and the absurd course of the party under s dictation, is to be charged upon the President, it this matter is too well understood by the people need argument or illustration. The course of a majority of the whigs in the aate 011 the fiscal plan, is to be inferred from the mediatory speech of Mr. Evans, of Maine, id it is not improbable that the bill with some edifications may be carried through, hut every Lng is in the greatest slate of confusion and extement. Tiiere has been attempts to procure the removal Mr. Skinner, one ol the. Assistant Post Master eneral?, on the allegation of franking violent partiin papers. The movement was prompted by an ipertinent clerk,who ought himselftu have been reeved long ago, and who will probably get his rserts if he lubricates further charges, agaiust his iperiors. The New York American is congratulating itself i its precious bargain of a correspondent at this ace, speaks of him as "free spoken, honest, un u. i i ii? XT -Li- r l: 1 I iii.nu rtini irniicws mn is iciiroiuii|4 anu Rightful. Free spoken" the man is, no doubt, jbody more so. The veriest drab in Uiliiugngule mid not scold more volubly, or ejaculate ridiculous unders and absurd epithets with more freedom or orse taste. Unbought" he certainly is, but only ecau.-e ihere was nobody to purchase, lie was a >ng time in the market, but the administration ?uld not buy him up. He was hanging about (he /hue House and the State Department, we underand, almo.-t from the day of General Harrison's laugurralion up to the opening of the present seeon, imploring for office of any sort. Poor devil; lis voracity was such that he grasped at every line, from the mission to Bogota down to the pettiit clerkship under the government, lie was backed p by some members of Congress, but alas! his tetensions were set aside, notwithstanding the otent support he had secured, and now he is strain, j igto avenge the slight by abusing President Tyler j nd his administration. There is a vast deal of this >rt of unbought patriotism extant in these days, and re whig press has put a considerable portion of it t requisition. The Supreme Court commenced its annual session 3-day. The entire bench was present, with the xception of Judge Thompson, who is expecttd totorrow. The Report of the Secretary of the Navy will oon be the subject of discussion m Congress and, rom the spirit of the times, it appears there is much oubt concerning the issue. The Report itself has very where met the approbation of the people of I 11 parties, and classes but the speeches and asual remarks of politicians or demagogues who re hound to indiscriminate retrenchment, intimate u intention of thwarting the noble efforts of the secretary, and of exposing us yet longer to the aunting arrogance ol Great Britain. E Hurts have iceu made and with great success, to spread a prrveri-ion 11 the Secretary's intention", to this eflect, hut the immediate design is to increase the Navy o half that ol Great Britain, at an annual expense if twenty-five millions of dollar*. Certainly no one vlio h.is rea l the Report, could so understand it. le exprcs-ly says, after enumerating the souudest rgumnts, in lavor ol increasing the Navy; "It lieoc views be not altocether deception, the policy i increasing our navy without further delay, is tbvi?u:. Hate fur it shall be increased, the wisdom >f Congress will decide." Aiiain he. says: It is etter to havp no navy at all, than to have less than notinh. I am aware any great increase of out ?uval p: w r cannot be effected in nuy short time. propose it only as the object at which our policy mghc to aim, and toward the attainment of which rout measures ought to be steadily directed A:i innnal appropriation, a* liberal ai Mu intuit* oj tin i'reumry trill nUotr; will, in a fttn years, aecom*l?s|l all that is desirible. In his tables rf estimif?? Ik Secretary promises to carry out MlMtynificent manry ?altl> >ugh b> ad loaned on the b?iom ol I Ji-u,, reposing hi- soul on the soul of immortal I love that throbbed in he m lator'i boaom?although I he aaw the glories of the tianafiyuration when hea- I ecu was let down wnh its atranre bewildering I splendor, on the niountaiti'a top?although he lie- I gered with wonder around the cross?and although I he soared like an eagle into the apocalyptic hea- I veus, and gazed in apjii* u,.t?n the Lamb on jtlouut I Sion, and aaw the rast New Jerusalem lighted by I no earthly bum, or moon walking in borrowed I brightness?yet when he would describe or detine I the eternal aud incoinprehensible Clod, in the lan- I guage of men, he used an ait ribut only aa the beat I description of an eaaeace?God it love, tie could I no more. The attempt to bring iufiuity down to I mortal comprehenaion is vain, and alwaya ends I fruitlessly. except in the lesaons we thua learn of I our own ignorance, impotence, and folly. The mya- I tcrioua power in whom we live and mora and hard I our being, can only be knowu through hia attri- I butea, aud the communications of his spirit with I ours. Yet if we tahe any single attribute, aud look I at it with the design of lurestigating ita properties I or comprehending its na* ure, we may tgpk our in- I telleclual powers to their keenest action,aud carry I them out to their nlmml limit iK? u?nlt ill H plan, with even a It*?* appropriation than is grant*- i innu.ily to the war department. Every one wil atliaif, that we should have a navy at least sulficien' o protect our traders in all parts of the world, and the 500 millions of American property afloat in every see, and be also ready to prevent the landing of any maritime force upon our shores. That we were not 30 prepared, in the recent quest ions of difficulty with Great Britain, when our shores were daily liable to invasion, every owner of property on the Atlantic coast was fearfully sensible. Shall we still continue unprepared, until we learn the folly of it by dear experience, and the enemy have again destroyed onr capitoll Every day's advance in the arts show how increasingly important navies have become, for purposes of natural defence or offence. The history of every modern nation shows that much more has been accomplished by navies than by armies Sinoe the grand Spanish Armada roused England to naval enterprises, chivalry liaa been launched upon the seas," and there it ahould be kept. The United States is possessed of the moat extensive and exposed coast, and tha most active, widespread commerce of any nation in the world. We should therefore have a navy equal at least to any other power except Great Britain yet we know it to be the shameful fact that not only Great Britain, but France, liussia, Turkey, Egypt and even Halland, each have navies in actual commission superior or eqial to ours. Can it be said that we have not proportionate resources to support a suitable navy! With a thriving population of seventeen millioua of people, an inexhaustible soil, a cheap government, no standing army, and merely a nominal debt of small amount, can it be presumed that we cannot easily increase and improve our navy in proportion to the demands of the times, and the efforts of other nations 1 Is not our ntaratune and coast property worth the little proportionate premium of insurance which a suitable navy would cost 1 If not?if the people, through their representatives, parsimoniously refuse to aid the navy Secretary in securing safety for their property?then let it remain as it is, a tempting bait for foreign aggressions. The Secretary of the navy now asks for only twe or three millions more than last year to accomplish all he proposes for the present. Tbis sum is not to be given to foreign countries for rail road iron, or cloths,'or silks, but is to be returned to the people for tea-stores, for beef, pork, flour, cotton and j woollen cloths, canvass hemp,(timber,Arc.?to educate the sons of sick and poor for an honorable pro- fessien, and to sustain and train up hundreds of honest native tars. TWBKTT-SKVBVTU CONGRESS. Second Session. The First Sermon of the Rev. J. Jf. Haffltt, Chaplain to the House of Representatives. On Sunday morning last, the Home of Representatives was crowded at the usual hour for the commencement of Uiviae Service, the rumour having run through the city on the wings of the wind that the eloquent and distinguished Chaplain to the House of Representatives?Professor John Newland Mattitt?had arrived by the Railroad cars on Saturday evening from Baltimore, to enter upon the duties of bis Chaplaincy. Many members of both branches of Congress were present, and inhabitants of the District generally, but the display of ladies was very imposing. The number, however, will doubtless be greatly increased on Sunday next, all doubt having been removed of his arrival The Rev. Gentleman entered the Hall encircled in the ample folds of a rich blue cloak, and proceeded to the Speaker's chair, where a temporary reading desk was placed, where be knelt down for a few minutes and was eviden'ly engaged in aeeret prayer. He then commenced the service by fading a chapter from some part of the New Testament, after which h- made a prayer, but all this part of the service was gone through in so low a tone of voice that we could only hear an occasional word, and therefore are unable to give the readers ?f the Herald his devout supplications. The devotienal exercises being over, the Reverend Professor took from his pocket a manuscript sermon, which to avoid the possibility of even inelegance ofdiction,he had doubtless been induced to prepare, by an announcement that the Reporter for the HerahI would be present to secure a full report for the beuefit of mankind, but that intentioa was nearly defeated by the too gentle accents in which he commenced his address. His introductory remarks were wholly lost, but it may suttice to say that he was understood to express the minglad emotions which be felt ou being placed so unexpectedly in the prominent position ot Chaplain to the National Legislature. He then read his text fmin the 33rd verse of the 11th chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Roman's the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knmoledge of G''d; how unsearchable are .His judgments, and Ids torn* past finding out. After craving the prayers of his christian friends Tor the Divine aid in his arduous labors,he wa? understood to say,?and if we li.ivc not done the liev. Profe-sor strict justice, it must be attributed to the difficulty* we found in heariug him?that these words were the outbre .kings of a heart overpowered with a'l ineffable view of the different points in the character of God. The Apostle had taken a survey of the economy of Grace, and bright gleams of the divmu perfections broke through the veil of tlesh upon his soul,as the sun bursts penetrate the morning vapours la the commencement of his theme the Apostle inquires. Hath Hod cast away his people The answer comes back, God forbid. Hut ail! his people have fallen?nud their (all has been like the gush of ten thousand fountains of life to the surrounding world. Yet,even now there is hope, for the people of the Lord chosen of old They shall be restored again. Recalled from ibeir A .'W ill m.l. -il*. 4"| of the Cherubim of Hope shall wave over them, and l ng forgotten joy* shall coiue bark to their bosoms like youthful icmembrances and the hiesscd spirit of inspiration seals the irrevocable promise, that, as the temporary casting away ot the ancient people of lied, hud heeu the reconciling i of the world, their reral should thrill Christen- dotn with moral nsations not iti like lift from the 1 dead. Wonderful people Selected from the mass i of mankind in tbore early year.', when the earth i looked out like a virgin from herdiluvian baptism, I and continued,to up the presnnttimv, win therin the i sunshine of Almighty Love, or in the gloom of an i overshadowing curse, a standing evidence of the faiihfulne sand power of God. W tnderful people whose ruin is balm to the earth; whose reinstate ncnt will impart new vitality to mind, as if life had descended upon the pale dominions of death, and had overcome the palsy and torpor of thegraie! The Apostle for a moment contemplates the grafted branches of the wild olive, standing in the original tree, only by laith. He points to the ie- i I cent traces of the severe knife of judgment, which had for a srason, cnt olF the ancient branches, and tenderly admonishes the nesphytic world, t.-?/> n c >n 'Vi wit' e -1 of the ve l.ng of divinity hi hit be the same?it will end, on the one hand, in laying our life low in the dust, and nn the other, in infinity. Contemplate his wiadom, and we a hall find it infinite Hie goodness, or bia pewer, or hia bolinesa, or hia justice, and lo, infinity ie their measure Naturetells of God?but pointa no weary wanderer to the boaona of eternal lore Nature ia eh quent in praise of the wiadmn and power of her creator? yet none of her toic-i have ever apolten of hie resence. The loud organ of the winda of heaven? the deep-toned thunder?the rnuaie of the blue watere, or the babbling breoka, leaping in white and playful ripples over tbe shining pebbles, have neverarticulated one word to indicate thair knowledge of Hia nature, oifto initiate us into the myateriesef Hia unrivalled perfections. The extent of oar intellectual power-second only to those bright spirits who bask forever in bin smiles?iatoo limited to comprehend the exhauatlesa, because unapproachable, subject of uncreated?undefined Deity, He noet by me, eaya Job, and ire Him not. behold I ao forward and he it not there aiul backward,'bu! cannot perceive Him. The poverty of human language as well as of thought and conception should abase us iu the dust The words we use to express the actions of the Divine mind toward us, are but the puling expressions of our limited nature. They all point to our ignorauce, and are utterly iuadeqnate to express the action of the unfathoincd founiain of intellect in its mighty radiatious over the empire of mind. It we wc say that the Lord is grieved," angry," "pleased," "provoked," reponts" him clan impending judgment?turns again and calls after the moral wanderers who are scattered like sheep over the mountains of sin and delu- ion?can we for a moment felicitate ourselves t"at our expre-s ons have done ius ce toourtlnd? I No. No. i'he condescension of that GoJ it the only reason why the red thunder bolt* are not oat an the wiDgs of the storm to avenge the moral wrong we do our creator ?very time we express the motions of the inetiabla mind, as we clothe the iction of our finite passions?cndeavoting to wrap eternity in the drapury of time. The great scriptural lesson which we woald learn on this part of Bur subject is humility. Every preat view of God, teaches this lesson. Abraham, I-aac, Jacob, Giieon, Mansah, and other ancient saints whenever they saw the covenant God, clothed in his angel restment*,?s he walked the patriarchal earth, were either overwhelmed with tear, or abased in tho deepest huiuilition of soul. Mansah, after he had seen the couateaance of God very terrible, cried lut?We shall surely die, because see have teen God. The Prophet Isaiah, exclaimed, after having seen the Lord *st//ing|ufxm a throne, high and if ted up ?IVo is me for I am undone, becaause I am i man of unclean lips, and 1 dwell in the miosi of upeo lie of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King he Lord of Hosts- And in the prophtt Daniel, luring his exalted spiritual communing with his naksr, there remained no strength; for, says he, ny Jomliiwss was turned into convption, ana I reamed no strength?a hand touched me ?I stood tremding We learn a lesson from God hitaaelf in the lispensationof the law from the Mount?one of the vildest, grandest scenes of terror and majesty hat ever astonished nature, opened on Sinai. An iwfol crown of cloud surrounded the mountain, oiling billow above billow, toward the heaven* vbile, like a mighty brand in the centre, the mean* ain was altogether in a flame. The hoarse and leepening thunder, like a trumpet, long and exleedingly terrible, blew the peal of terror, and itartled Israel gathered around Its base. Did r he King of Eternity then disrlose to man hi?, iatare and his essence I No. Jehovah renaiaed in his paviliou of thick darkness lis Will blazed forth awfully, palpable/and disinct in the perfer' law, and in the gleaming ires that suwt their unearthly glare upan the sur- I ounding hills?but Deity lay concealed. The Ireadfni mandate was?(inye not up into the mount, ir touch the border of it let not the priest and the ptoile brink through, to come up unto the lAird, lest he ireak forth upon them Even the inhabitants of Heaven, whose spiritual nature has never been ainted by sin or companionship with earth, and inable to climb the heights or fathom the depths of he great lirriiviTE, whose nature and essence, nust ever ftmain, as in the beginning, incompreicnsiblc and iuapproaehable. How then shall man, i being hut of yesterday, a fallen star, aspire to hat which the bright spirits rdL God of Hosts; Ueaven au 1 l.arlh are full of Hit (lory? \v hat should he the language of fallen man! What the" understand.* not so much as itself We know not what our spirit is. We oiu'. timcs almost question i s origin?whether from heaven, earth, or meu. We know- but Utile of its substance, powers and facull.es. Where is thie strange, busy principle, that actuates and informs this wonderful piece of workmanship, so that it ca? freely move ofitse f, and be sensible of pleasure and pain, honor and disgrace 1 Who can discover the source ol hi* owe i leas, m- how, by reflection, they are brought up by the mind into the result of reason! W here begins it to c mpare, distinguish, and eoucl'idul Who knows by wuat secret mechanism the passions anil affections are moved, or how all the notices of things past?the images of sight or hearing?are traced upon the memory, or take up their boditnent in the brain! Well might David exclaim, He (ire fearfully and wontltrfuHy mule." In the arcana of nature the Sam-- d.fficutirs exist. We are c nfusi-d in (ae multiplicity and endless variety of matter. And although at time* the veil may be thrown aside, and si me of the secret workings i f curative power in the wonderful phenomena that alternately alarm, astonish, and delight us, h.trome tangible: yet we are lar from Comprehending even there. V'v e suppose ourselves comp-tr-ut to the deveiopement of canse* and effect*, w hen suddenly an unseen baud throws dilficuliifv in our way ard a thick palpable cloud settle* d?\vn upon the mind. Perplexed, bewildered, and rnnlniitidcd, we sire up in despair under 'be humiliating conviction, that we had dared ton much, and I it how ver correct our conclusion*, \if aiiip but in part and pmpUrrird only in part. It Cannot he d' r.icd fl at a b- auty and fitness, soothing ami enchatiti:-n. Go out into thu fields, around which the everlnsti g mountains have drann their lino "f sentry and observation, fringed with the forest drapery. I,ct your eye take in the expanse of pain and mountain and river, and sen the m'>a w'lite ca'arac1 leaping from rock to rnck down I e l ie i f t ,e precipice, dashed into feathery clouds of foam, as if the pure element was lei down IVom a region higher than the earth. Look abroad on a'l thia scene of ceaseless echoing action, relievsti by quiet lo oks, in which infant angels mi^ht lull their silken eicliJi to sleep, and scy, if an eloquence do#? not plead in your bosom for the ere stof ef this wondrous diveraided picture. AtccuJ that aky-pointiug peak, which divides the storm ?h u 1 a- it marches on to i! waery de!i; ej no in op?m at reck look fnr ,vn wbro the r, lii'.i ?tiric aihss'j n I I

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