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Fit Dm Oragas Bfectatar. f IN. Xotke IT MAX. SSUfTAN. Trw- lfe Gfc-J ( MM iw." Aa alow ear wapaarslel tea track, Their mum th teas earth efeaviaf Aad ton all il leekiaf seek, fa that dear laad thtvt MtTiaaw So toth to part from aU we tore, Frest all the Hake Out Wad as, Ttam ear heerai wharar we rove, To thoee we've left behind a. Whaa roaad tko bowl of Taafahad yean, We talk of jovoue aaomiif , sura nim wai mini wau do icw, aadUMU-b 8ofektaad WWW mwn'ry brinea as sack again, Bach amy ue teat twtad m, O tweet tbo cop that elide then, To thceo we're left behind ua. Aad when ia ether clime we iheet, Some iate or rale etehanling, Where all looks wild, flowery and tweet, And nasffct bat lore ie wanting, We tbJak how neat had been our bike, If heave had but aaiigned ua To lira aad die mid tcenee like this, With aaaae we're left behind ua. ? Yet we hare made a home once more, In the Willamette ralley, And all the boya, both nch and poor, May go and court Mini Sally, At to myaslf, I count me bleat, If you will all excuse me, To eaao the pain that'a in my breaat, III go and court Mi Stay. V. g.-OMCmEM. J Washington, May 19, 1840. In Senate. Mr. Benton, from Committee on Military Affairs, reported " An act sup plementary to an Act to provide for the pros ecution of the existing war between the Re public of Mexico and the United States, and for other purposes." "Mr. Lewis called up the bill making up propriations for the support of the Post Office Department for the year 1847. Mr. Speight skid he should not oppose tho bill, but he proceeded to denounce tiio cheap postage system as a scheme to keep up high taxes a handmaid to the tariff a burden upon one section of the country for the ben efit of another. He complained that it had broken up the stage lines in his section of the country, and destroyed the facilities of trav eling. He inquired whether the Committco on Post Offices and Post Roads intended to report a bill to-repeal or alter the existing law. t Mr. Niles in reply, observed that the Com niittee had not thought it their duty to re commend any change. He was surprised at the denunciation of .what-he regarded as one or tne most beneboial pieces of legisla tion ever consummated. As to the stage lines, they had hitherto been a burden of a million a year on the Department, and had nothing to do with the conveyance of the mails. Mr. Niles said the Postmaster of New York had informed him than the increase of letters in his office was astonishing and he (Mr. N.) was satisfied that after the next let tings, the Department would cease to be a burden upon the Treasury. Mr. Calhoun inquired what was the defi cit in the revenue this year, compared with the last. Mr. Niles replied that he believed it was about 45 per cent on the first six months. Some conversation ensued upon tho mode of compensating Postmasters, and the bill was then passed over until tomorrow. The Committee on Foreign Relations made a report upon the subject of the claim of the owners of the brig Gen. Armstrong against the Government of Portugal which was or. dered to be printed. The French Spoliation bill, being the spe cial order of the day, was then taken up. Mr. Morehead made a powerful speech in behalf of tho claimants, and left off without closing his argument. The Senate then ad journed. Home of Rcpruentativet.Army Bill. The House then went Into Committee of the Whole upon the Army Bill.' Mr. Black of a. u. aaareeeea we Committee briefly in re. card to the rations received by officers of the Amy with a jiew of equalizing them, and inducing Americans to volunteer in the de fence of the country. Mr. Black proposed two sections to the Bill the first of whioh abolished all doublo ra tions. These extra allowances were made to officers commanding military posts, dis triota, or tUrJtiou. There were from thirty to fifty of 1aieteoffiof.ri fa the U. 8. These officers performed the lightest duties and re ceivod the best pay. Thero should be as much allowed to officers fighting tho battles ofvthe country as to those in command of military posts. The second section proposed by him was to repeal the sorvice or " longevity ration" allowed by tho law of 1838, which gavo an additional ration for every five years' sorvice, and it made no difference if in the meantime the officor had risen from a lieutenant to tho rank of a colonel. To equalizo tho uav. tho double and service rations ought to bo repeal ed. Either the pay should be increased to the volunteers, or decreased to amount of ex tra allowances given to tho officers of tho rogular army. Mr. Tibbatts proposed for every officer who would volunteer in tho service, 100 acres of land if he would sorvo faithfully to the end of the war, anil an additional pay to each soldier of 93 during tho war. This", he argued, was but an act of justice, and it would be an outrage upon all true economy u prosccuto tho war which had been com menced in a niggardly way. The people of this country had as much patriotism as any class of men in the world, but they wcro not, therefore, to sow. their country for nothing. They were not able to do this. The standing army had been in creased to the number of 100 men for each company. This increase existed but on pa per, and there would be no such increase. The battles of the country had to bo fought by volunteers alone, and tho country must rely upon them, and pay them well for their services. , Mr. T. (lofended tho Executive for all that ' had been dono by him in reference to this ' war. Mr. T., before closing, congratulated Congress and tho country upon the war news which had been received. Mr. Dromgoole, of Virginia, in like man ner defended the acts of the Executive, and tho right of Texas and the United States to all the country upon the left bank of the Rio Grande. Mr. D. was for prosecuting the war with vigor, now that it had commenced. He would carry tho war into the enemy's country, and in view of the proclamation of Ampudia, recently published, he would hang him up for it, as we had a right to do, under the laws of nations. Mr. Hunt, of New York, said ho was one of the members who had originally been op. posed to the annexation of Texas, but he had acquiesced in that measure when it was done. He had, however, predicted that the conse quences would be war. Nothing less was to be expected. cut in his acquiescence or annexation he had not agreed that a part of tho Mexican territory should be seized, which ho con tended was done, by sending the army to tho Rio Grande and claiming that for the boun dary between the two Governments lino to which we had no just claim or constitu tional right. Mr. Cooke, of Tenn., addressed the com mittee briefly in conclusion of the day. He was not disposed to inquire now whether there had been any violation of power or not. He saw danger, and was prepared to meot it, and for lending the entire energies of the government for tho vigorous prosecution of the war. Mr. C. was advocating the 910 per month for the pay of the soldiers, when the hour of two o'clock arrived, and the voting com menced upon tho pending and othor amend ments. The chair ruled the amendment of Mr. Tibbatts to be out of order. The amendment reducing the rations was rejected by a vote of 91 nays to 67 yeas. The amendment appropriating $2,000,000 for the expenses incident to the increasing of the army was carried without a count. The bill was then ' reported to tho House, where Mr. Jones, of Ga., moved tho previous question, which was seconded by tho House. Mr. J. R. Ingersoll called for the yeas and nays upon the amendment, limiting the tra velling expenses of the officers of the army to six cents a mile. This was carried, Yeas 105, nays 89. The bill was then passed by a vote of, yeas 101, nays none. Several territorial bills were then reported, and the House ad journed. A fop, about starting down to New Or. leans, proposed to purchase a life preserver, "Oh, you'll not want it," suggested the clerk" kttqfvmd won't tink?p Christianitv. Notwithstanding all the objections which infidels and skeptics have brought aguinst Christianity, yet it hnu noth ing to fear from impartial examination. It will bear tho closest inspection of tho most wise, and outstand all the virulent attempts of tho most wicked. It will afford instruction to tho philosopher, however exalted, mid ren der consolation to tho ignorant, however wretched. It doctrines are sublime, just, and pure ; its precepts uro founded on the most consummate wisdom, truth, and Jove, every way calculutcd to promote tho holiness, peace, and interest of mankind. Its privi leges are great and extensive, allowing its votaries the most noble ami refined pleasures in the present state, and oponing before them a boundless prosoct of immortality and glory in the future. As to the effects of Christianity, they have been and still aro considerable, and afford at least a collateral proof of tho superiority and excellency of the system. " Destitute of all human advantages," says one, " protected by no authority, ussistod by no art ; not recom mended by the reputation of its authors, not enforced by eloquenco in its advocates, the word of God grow mighty and prevailed. Twelve men, poor, artless, and illiterate, we behold triumphing over tho fiercest and most determined opposition ; over the tyrannies of tho magistrate and the subtleties of the philosopher ; over the prejudice of tho Gen tile and the bigotry of the Jew." " The religion of Jesus," says Bishop Taylor, " trampled over thc'philosophy of the world, the arguments of the subtil, the dis courses of tho eloquent, the power of princes, the interest of states, the inclination of nature, tho blindness of zeal, the force of custom, the solicitation of passions, the pleasure of sin, ind the busy arts of tho devil. Sir Isaao Newton set out in life a clamor ous infidel, but on a nico examination of the evidences for Christianity, he found reason to change his opinion. When tho cclcbnUcd Dr. Edmund Halley was talking infidelity before him, Sir Isaac addressed him in these qr the liko words : " Dr. Halley, I am al ways glad to hear you when you' speak about astronomy, or other parts of the mathematics, because that is a subject you have studied, and well understand ; but you should not talk of Christianity, for you have not studied it. I have, and am certain that you know nothing of the matter." This was a just reproof, and ono that would bo very suitable to be given to half the infidels of tho present day, for they oAcn speak of what they have never studied, and of what, in fact, they arc entirely ignorant. Dr. Johnson, theroforc, well observed, that no honest man could be a deist, for no man could be so afier a fair examination of the proofs of Christianity. On the name of Ilumo being mentioned to him, "no sir," said he, "Ilumo owned to a clergy man in the bishopric of Durham, that ho had never read the New Testament with atten tion." Lord Bacon, toward tho latter end of his life, said, that a little smattering of philoso phy would lead a man to Atheism, but a thorough insight of it would lead a man back again to a first cause, and thut the first prin ciple of right reason is religion ; and seri ously professes, that, after all his studies and inquisitions, he durst not dio with any other thoughts than those of religion, taught us it is professed among tho christians. To tho above we may add tho names of Mr. C. Gildon, Lord Lyttleton, Gilbert West, Esq., Soame Jenyns, Esq., and, the late Sir John Pringle, who, though they had imbibed de ifjtical principles, were afterward converted to tho christian faith, and four out of tho five wrote in defence of it. Infidels should never talk of our giving up Christianity till they can proposo something superior to it. Lord Chostcrfield's answer, therefore, to an irifidol lady was vory just. When at Brussels, ho was invited by Vol tairo to sup with him and with Madamo C. The conversation happoning to turn upon tho affairs of England, " I think, my Lord," said Madamo C, "that the parliament of Eng land consists of five or six hundred of the best informed and most sensible men in tho kingdom." " True, Madamo, thoy aro go nerally supposed to be so." " What, then, my Lord, can bo tho reason that thoy toler ato so great an absurdity as tho christian re ligion?" " I suppose, Madame," replied his Lordship, "it is because they have not been ablo to substitute ariV thing better in its stead; whon thoy can, I don't doubt but in their wisdom tbey will readily adopt H." Christianity is tho test system for raising the standard of morals, and promoting tho happiness of a government. Tho French, after making the boldest experiment in pro fuuenoaa over made by a nation in casting off its God, and fo a timo seriously deliberating whether there should bo any God at all; afior madly stamping on the cross of Christ, unci attempting to establish order on the busls of a wild and profligate philosophy ; wure obliged at length to bid'un orator tell the abu sed multitudo, that under u philosophical re ligion, every social liond was broken in pieces; and that uhristianity, or something like it, must be reestablished to preserve any degree ol order or ocoency WKAI.TH AND COMMEUCi: OF LONDON. Loudon is tho point of-mtcr-communicn-tion between colonies which stretch almost from the North Pole from Canada to the Capo of Good Hope and which brings the indigo of India, and tho wool of Australia, from the antipodes, to enrich the mnuufac turcn. of Leeds. It is the seat of a com incrco that would seem fabulous to thy mcr. chants of Venice, Tyro, and Carthago, in tho olden times ! Thero we're 100,000 houses of business, to half of which shops wcro attachrd, and all the details were upon the same gigantic scale. The water companies supplied '237, 000,000 hogsheads per year; the gas com panics supplied 10,000,000 cubiuufect every twenty-four hours; of ulc and iier thero wore consumed 2,000,000 barrel every year; at Smithficld in 1830, there were sold cattle, 160,70; sheep, 1,103,100; there came 70,000,000 eggs annually from .the continent ; the paving and sewerage of London cost 500,000 per annum ; its news, paper used 30,000,000. stamp, per annum; its steamboats carrier! 10,000 passengers daily, in pursuit of business or hculth ; 1,000 miles of railway was completed at a cost of 17, 000,000, and fiO canals at a cost of 14, 500, 000, connecting it with the most distant parts. The monthly business transacted by London bankers through the clearing-house, avera gcd 75,000,000. Put all these elements together add the intelligence and enter prise of the London merchants the skill and industry of her people ami London may challenge tliG world to produce such a combination f power und wealth. Then take the population in London. In 1801, it. was888,108; in 1831,1,508,400; in 1841, 1,833,00!) ; or 3,000,000 in round numbers, now. Its length from cast to west was five miles and a half; or reckoning from Chel sea to Blackwall, seven miles and a half. Its breadth from north to south was three miles and a half a principality of brick. It had a river which marked it out for the scat of commerce, from the earliest times, crossed by six bridges, which cost 5,000,000 ; Lon don alone, cost 2,000,000; Southwark, 800.000 ; Waterloo, 1,180,000. The Lon dor jcks covered 100 acres the vaults con turning cellarage for 05,000 pipes of wine ; the West India docks, 205 arrcs spuce for 500 vessels ; the Commercial docks, 40 acres, (40 water,) used principally for tho Baltic trade ; und St. Katharine's docks, 24 ucres, (11 J water.) The port of London, in 1840, received 2,950 ships tonnage, 591,000 manned by 32,000 men. Tho tonnage of the colliers in tho river, in tho samo year, was 2,628,325. Tho tonnage of vessels trading with the colonics, (1,083 ships) in that year was 417,130; with Ireland, (007 ships) 142,000; and those engaged in tho coasting trade, colliers included, (20,205 ships) 2,080,021 ; 3,106 British, and 2,335 foreign vessels, of 021,404 tons; total ton nage, 4,107,164 from Russia, Sweden, Ger many, Holland, France, tho Mediterranean, China and tho Unilcd States. London had paid, upon an average of tho last ten years, 11,000,000 in custom duties out of tho 23,500,000 to which tho total customs rev enue of tho United Kingdom amounts. The valuo of tho produco that entered and left her port had been roughly estimated at 800,000,000 per annum ; while 2,000 mer chants and brokers had thoir counting-houses within a mile and a half of tho Exchange. New Science. Tho science of imbuing tho minds of tho rising generation with ele. ments of aristocracy is termed by tho United States Journal, tho .science of Haughty-ov-ture or a method of refining tho breed or bumpkins. ii ln Mu In. what a beautiful skv how I admire it." "Yes, John, I wish I wu a s-k-y."v