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UlealdwHhoAlhe tteapeat raaia,
Aad wastry Wi mmS tho abmi
Whoa thlek the wahiafaaow-drift Ale.
And carting wreathe ha vsMoye riee.
Hew sweet le ek by oeaiag'abta,
With thin w Ureal la early day,
Aa-Ultef essay a happy year
Aadaceaea teiaswatectlaa dear,
Whaa life, aaeVajniB1 by cleaa et ore,
la hmI mmtti aa Eaaa Mr.
Wh0eU4 haar) hamata play,
AadawaC lae weoary aaaaay,
shi rirahv eaahl aart
The bieaafy tia that heaaa the heart;
Oh! whaa ralaaaad fraaa khan thrall,
Oar yaathial feata ara thaa racal,
Aad Was with ratrawaetira view,
Ta Woia apart wa eeeaa naew
Ta taw af hayih glee aad a-fth,
Whila aaatcd bytha Whrtata Uaarth.
Hew eUaeant, tea, at eveaiag drear,
When bad the guety etn we he.-,
By aparkUag fire aad Uper bright.
That cheer the gloom of aullea night,
To ait in comfort and peraea
The weekly folio of new,
Thattothecottajrenreaide bring
Aceevataof away woadroaa thing
Of eirr , of grave debate,
AaddJaialhlataiyor 8tatea,
Of atace, of ceawerce, aad of war,
Of aceaes at haaae, aad deed afar,
orautJanajhyleedaadfce.
WMhaaddam daaehe aad aairden due.
Iaatraettd tiamaad ehaapry taaght
By aaga what aaiaamniat fraagbt,
Aadaawa frena al the camee af earth,
How digital ae the WWar-aHaarth !
Whaa aalM aalha batowy deep,
Aiwaid taeaa hear the storm bleat aweep;
Wham waadevaai aaU the deaart roam.
Fax ft the gli.afliatsg aaaTa of home ;
Whim Bald aw Weak, aad foeato bare.
And hH eaaaiaeUUmgh Uia air
Haoed by a warn aad blasmg fire,
May grattade ear ahw
TohteWthebeeaieoBS God of Heaven,
Who hath ao awehMhr ghrea
To xm, while Wlater Mad the earth,
A happy hone, aad cheerful Hearth !
From the London New.
(ft-Evcry additional fact in the intclli-
r a. marina, confirms us in'tho be-
lief that the race who inhabit tho north of
that immense continent are destined to rule
the south of U. They will do so from a nat
ural cause always in operation, that infalli
bly gives dominion over tho weak into the
hands of the strong, over the idle to the in
dustrious, over the" apathetic to tho men of
energy. No political com' ations, no ef
forts of diplomacy, will avan to prevent this
consummation ; it may bo very distant as
v hut mnw it will, and it is as well to con
template it as a possibility. Tho naturo oi
,n abhors a state of anarchy, confusion,
Miii mere chance existence, with neither laws
lo restrain, men to guide, or a power that can
be and do something. The northern race
possess the qualities that build up empires
and states, and hold them together by law
and custom; wherever they go, thoy carry
these qualities with them: their colonies grow
to nations, and those nations proceed in their
development.
It is as useless to complain of tho increase,
und try to stop it, astb lament the growth of
the sapling to the oak. What may bo tho
"Federations and the Powers'' that uro yet
to urise in America, none can foresee ; but
that they will be as extraordinary inN their
nature as anything tho world has yet witness
J, wo do not doubt. It is a continbnt in the
infancy of its history, armed whlj oil the
Mrength of modern sctonce. It Man its cu
rcer fittlo more than two centuricsTago, and
has an almost boundless territory. tohIi und
unworn, in which tho Railway ond Nfttflim
Engino will be but the beginning of things.
Europo has a distinct history of two thou
Kaud.yMurs, yet has got no farther. Can wo
at all estimate what tho aspect of society
would have been, had Printing, Steam, and
the Railway, been at work in it ever since
the fall of the Roman Empire? ' The sub
ject almost defies the gmip of tho imagina
tion. Yot, thus must we calculate, in look
ing forward into tho future of America.
Present forms of government sink into in
significance; they may be tho beat fvr the
time, but will not bind all generations; tho
Republic of America has not existed longer
than the duration of one human life; vet wo
doubt if tho history of tho whole world pre
scnts such anothor example of expansivo pow
er; man armed with implements unknown to
former times, placed in a new sphere of ao.
lion, scarcely feels a limit to his faculties;
he starts upou new ground, with all the skill
and wisdom that have been tho accumula
tion of the experience of centuries. What
aaarvel that he so quickly makes a conquest
of the desert and convorts tho wilderness into
a dwelling place? That ho spreads further
and farther, till men of other blood and lun.
guagca acknowledge his dominion? It is u
necessity. This is what is leading tho pow.
er of tho United States southward to .Mexico;
wo now sec but tho germs and bcgiuningH of
what will assuredly take place in time the
Government of tho" descendants of tho Span
ish Colonist: by tho Anglo-Saxon racci
The Spaniards began their sway in the
New World more liko demons let loose on
tho earth than men; they have had their re
ward; their old Monarchy, from the same
incapacity for government, and inability :
do anything but crush and destroy, fetter
and exclude, giving nothing but chains alike
to commerce and conscience, has sunk to the
weakest and most despised country, of Eu
rope; their colonies, where they shed so
much blood, huvo gone from bud to worse;
even their independence has been a misfor
tune rather than a blessing. I'nabln to unito
for any purpose, tne moment the yoko of tho
Monarchy wus thrown off they flew at each
other's throats, lighting and murdering, till
the page they have added to modern history
is one of tho most horrible that history, an
cient and modem, contains. (But humanity
wearies of anarchy; hopeless' of improve
ment, of peace, of government of any kind
from within, they are indifferent to invasion
from without.
It now appears that
States of Mexico are ra
nexation" to tho UniU
wise. The utter imU
rocitv of the men w
place. of rulers tothaaa, drive them to it;
wncn anytmng hko aweii-poncicu muio wir
ders another torn aBefconvulsed by factions,
the feeling is inevitable ; and thus the race
who' can govern, wins its way by a law as
natural as the doscent of water from tho
height to the level. It has been so from the
beginning, and will continue to be ho till the
end. This is tho tendency; but some of the
circumstances by which it is shown are not
so solemn in their nature; thus u President
stimulating a war cry for party purposes,
and then finding it uncchoed by the great
mass of the people, looks very petty indeed;
the discovery ot the cost of war und its ru
inous effects is sooner made than formerly,
and tho alarm felt on tho money part of
tho question, we hail as oneoulie best synip
toms for tho away of peace; and, an if to
conclude the discussion of the subject with
a touch of the ludicrous, the last mail con
tains the offer of an American speculator to
take tho whole Mexican war by contract!
undertaking to beat Arista and his troopw
for a much smaller sum than tho States Gov-
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eminent could do it, "pickings inciuucu !"
nyofthe Northern
ler favorable to "An-
States, than other
llity and savage fe
i have stood in the
Such a proposition could only be mado by an
American ; it is, decidedly, a new field of
commercial enterprise. 'I he "pomp, pride,
and circumstance" of clonous war never re
ceived such a shock U9 this placing iton the
level of "navies' work," or tho supply of
work-houso provisions. Think of a return
of so muny killed and wounded, "a's per con
tract!" It is worso than the "villanoussalt
pctre" that disgusted flotspur'a "cortuin
Lord" with the profession.
t Correpoii(leuce of the Journal of Commerce.
. Washington, Nov. Oth.
Monterey, and Palo Alto and Resuca del
Palma wore nothing, in public estimation, to
tho overthrow of the dominant party in New
York, New Jersoy and Pennsylvania. The
army and its victories are lait sight of, in
contemplation of theso more stirring events
which' come homo to every man's business
and bosom. - .
political speculations upon tho results are,
ofj course, very active! Somo predict Cabi
tiAt nhamres as a result. Many seem to
look to a pencrul political revolution in
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1848, as certain.
Tho demonstration of popular opinion, at
those elections, would seem to be adverse to
the policy of tho now Tariff; but somo of
your papers deny that this pr any other na
tional question was a part of the uwuo. It
is certain, too, that the now Tariff could
not havo had any influence, for its effects
have not yet been manifested even prospect
ively. Wo have not a word, as yet, from Monte
rey, in addition to tho former adviocs. In
anothor week wo may hear of Gen. Taylor's
inarch to Saltillo, if ho obeys his orders from
the government. That ho will proceed any
further, under present circumstances, is not
to bo believed ; for ho will not fool himself
compelled to rick till the laurels which the
army has won, upon u movement so wild and
hazardous.
It has ruined incessantly all day ; and the
evening will bo exceedingly unfavorable to
the civic and military procession which is in
tended, in honor of the memory of tho lato
Colonel Cross, tho first victim to the Mex'i
can war. Tho remains of tho gallant Colo,
uel urc to arrive in the curs from Baltimore
this evening.
Capture cr Oil Fishes. Moses Morin,
Esq., for a great num!or of years engaged
in tho Canada fisheries, having obtained a
patent in Canada for a new mode of milking
and spreading nets, for the purpoce of cap.
turini; those large oil fishes so very numerous
on this side of the Atlantic coast; und being
prevented by unforeseen circumstances Iroin
securing a likcputetit in this country, Mould
be wilting to disjKiwt of his highly important
invention, which consists in raising from the
water, without tho least noise or dungcr of
frightening tho fish, und in the incredible
short spucc of ten minutes, u net of over
twenty acres in length and about thirty feet
in height, which is spread thus one end bo.
ing secured to thu shore, the net is curried
out five or six acres in the water, (provided
the water is not deeper than tho height of thu
net;) then it is made to run a line parallel
to the shore, tho distance of about twelve
acres; finally, tho other extremity is direct,
cd toward the shore.
The lower extremity of tho net is firmly
held, by means of anchors, to thu bottom,
where it lies in tho way it has been spread.
When it is known ihut tlio fish huvo entered
tho enclosure, then one single man, from the
yhorc, may ruiso tho whole of the upper part
of tho net tc the surface of tho water, so as
to havo a full view ijf the whulo of it, in the
Hjmcn of time ubovc stilted ; and tho fish,
Icing thus entirely surrounded, uro easily
driven ashore and destroyed. Tho net may
bo mado smaller, or even lurger, than above
described, to suit localities. Thi wholn ap.
paratus might be easily irmuugcd by ten
men.
Mr. M. is confident that, on his fishing
grounds, he can capture yearly, with one n?t
one thousand or more fishes, yielding, on an
average, as much oil as would make each of
them worth forty dollars. Merchants exten
sively engaged in fisheries may then calcu
late tho immenscradvantuge such un inven
tion might be to them.
Shepherds in Juiiea. Shortly after leav
ing the city wo met several flocks of sheep,
preceded by their shepherds, wulking slowly
toward Jerusalem, and atonco tho full forco
of all tho beautiful imagery, ond tho muny
touching similes derived from such scenes
and associations, and so often alluded to in
Scripture, came vividly before me. These
Arab shepherds, clad in the turbans and sim
plo abbas worn by their class and carrying a
wooden crook in their hands, walked in front.
The sheep which uro a peculiar and very
handsome breed, aro mostly low sized ; tho
foreparts of their bodies aro of a fawn color,
tho iiinder parts white; thoy have long, pen
dent, silken cars and sweeping tails; their
faces more oval and longer thun the species
in these countries, und they havo altogether
u more pleasing, docilo and mild expression
of countonancn.
Not onoof thorn ventured beforo tho shep
herd, but stopped or quickened their pace us
ho did ; or if a young and forward creuturo
lagged behind, or strayed to cilhor side, u
single word from thoir leader, often a very
look, brought it back and chocked its wan
derings.. A few fayorito lambs frisked about
their master, rubbing themselves against his
legs and garments.
After tho sheep came somo young goats
and lambs, and tho whole procession closed
with about two dozen of old patriarchal look,
ing goats, which brought up tho rear. Those
goats have long horns and pendent cars thai
hang almost to tho ground, and thoir hair is
a glossy black and of the finest grain; ih
sheep and goats were perfectly distinct. x
These shepherds am often to be seep about
sunset, slowly approaching the city from all
sides, to seek shelter for their flocks, during
tho night, in some of tho deep valleys by
which it is surrounded, carrying tiro lamU
in their bosoms. It is almost incredible, the
influence' that tho shepherds of Palestine
possossover their flocks; many of them ha vi
no dogs, but a word is quite sufficient !
mako them understand and obey Iho will of
their shepherd.
Ho sleeps among them at night, aiid-intln
morning leads them forth to pasture; always
walking before them, guiding them to thus'
places where thoy can enjoy tho best food,
und resting when ho thinks they havo obtain,
ed a sufficiency, or during the heat of the
day, in some cool shady, place, where the
all' immediately lio down around him.
'He'hsVgeairadly'twolpr throe -fcvorite
lambs which do not mix with the flock, but
follow close at his side, frisking and fondling
about him liko dogs; indeed tho degree of in
telligence and understanding that exists be
tween the Arab and his flock is truly aston
ishing. "Thoy know his voice, and follow
him;" and "ho careth for the sheep." It
was probably to such shepherds as these that
tho angel announced the glad tidings of the
Saviour's birth. Wilde's Narrative.
Monument to Du. Watts. Our Lon
don correspondent alludes to the erection of
u statun to the memory of Dr. Watts, iu Ah-ney-park
Cemetery. The ceremony of in
augurating this monument took place on the
'.Titli of November, tho U7th anniversary of
the death of Dr. Walts. On the ground of
tin- cemetery formerly stood the mansion of
Sir Thomas "Abney, tho friend of Dr. Watts.
In this mansion Dr. W. died in 1748, alter
un abode of more than 30 years with Sir
Thomas, and after his death with his lady.
The monument, so appropriate to the place,
is erected about tho centre of the grounds.
It hraTjunTength figure of the distinguished
divine, nine feet in height, and in academ
icul costume. Tho pedestal, of Portland
stone, is sixteen feet highand six feet square.
In the left hand is a book, and. two other
liooks arc upon a pillar on the right side.
The countenance is said to bear a striking,
resemblance to tho best portraits of Dr W.
und the whole work is pronounced beautiful.
Un the side facing Abncy Chapel is the in
scription, which is as follows:
In memory of
Iuac Watt, I). D.
In trxtimony of the high aad farting eetecm. in
Which hi character and writing were held,
In Iho grrst Clirwtian community by whom the
KugiMi language i tpoken. Of hi nabna and
1I)hum it inny be predicted iu hi own word.
1 Agr unborn will make hi aang
The joy and labor of their tongue.
He Ma bom at Mouthainpton, July 17th, 1G-17.
' And died November 35th, 1748,
After n reaidmicfiiif iliirtyix yeanin the manaion of
Sir Thomas Abney Kut, theiisiaudin on thtea grouiidx.
Erected by public lubacnption.
On tho occasion of inaugurating and open
ing this statun to the public view, an address
was delivered by Rev. Dr. Morrison, a copy
of which we have before us. It is a deserv
ed tribute to tho memory of "tho sweet singer
of our Christian Israel," and embraces a
just estimate of his character as a poet, a
philosopher und a divine. Tho address as.
sens, "with tho utmost firmness," that Dr.
Watts was neithor an Arian nor a Socinian ;
and that great injustice has been dono, in
imputing to him a change of opinion in re
gard to tho doctrine of the Trinity. It i
perhaps on his "Moral and divino songs for
children" that Dr. Watts' fame rests, inoru
than on airy-other of his works, even hi
Psulms and Hymns. It has been well re
marked, that in producing theso imperisha
ble little rhymes, hn achieved the noblest tri
umph of condescending genius; as certainly
ho mndo the most extensive appeal to tho
judgment and sympathies of mankind. Dr.
Morrison, iu his eulogy, expressed it as hii
deliberate conviction that tho cenotaph now
reared in Abney-park would have been well
deserved, if Dr. Watts had only produced
his matchless songs for children. IJotton
Trav.
Raltimore is said to bo the largest tobae
co markot in tho world.
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