text: Sitting SS tYYir r<* FRIDAY, MAY 33, 1845. A OLD K\!». PALMER, is our latest Agent for receiving Subscriptions and Advertisements for the N. A. Theeling Times-Tribune Gazette. All offices are: Labiate Street, Boston. 30 Ann Street, New York. 30 Fibre Street, Philadelphia. Corner of Broadway and Calvert Streets, Baltimore. Messrs. MASON & TUTTLE. No. 15 Nassau Street, are our authorized Agents in New York City. They will receive Subscriptions and contract for Advertisements for the Times and Gazette. The Circuit Superior Court of New York and Chancery for this county (Judge Fry presiding) can need its session yesterday. We understand that the docket is entirely of criminal prosecutions, an instance such as has not occurred in the last fifteen years. Our jail is without a prisoner, we believe.— Can these facts fail to convince us of the growing morality of our community—and may we not urge it as an important, among many other good reasons, why our city should be increased in its population, its business, and its industry. The civil docket is small. The advertisement of Jacob Berger in another column is worthy of the attention of those who want their feet well covered, he makes an excellent and beautiful book or sign. IMPROVEMENT.—AY! Like to see improvements, inventions, applications of power in hitherto unknown, (onus. We like to see labor sawing machinery, because it is in that way that the present generation are enabled to supply themselves and bring around them all that is pleasing to the senses, yet have time to enable and elevate the mind. The people of this age can make steamboats that will walk the water against wind or tide, and thunder over the ground in cases in which one may comfortably sleep by night or read by day, at the rate of thirty miles an hour. We have machines to sow our wheat with, and with which to hoe our corn, and not a few with which to gather it in the garner. We have the inductive system, by which children can read and learn what the trouble and exertion of thinking. We have the inductive system, by which children can read and learn what the trouble and exertion of thinking. We have chandeliers that eclipse the sun in brightness, and we have gold pens, ivory surfaced paper, and various cloths that rival the rainbow in beauty. We have, in fact, more than luxury can dispose of to any advantage. We have as much of that right good start, wholesome love and happiness, true enjoyment of life as our ancestors? Are we doubt, indeed. Give us a braw Scotch Ballad and rot your Italianos. But we cannot go back, for the world is bent on resuming the glory of enterprise and invention, and letting the heart take care of itself. A SUGGESTION.—There are many unimproved lots in this city, as we remarked a day or two since. To our own interests do not wish to improve them, and men who prosper in business would not desire to occupy buildings, upon the uncertain tenure of ordinary rent, if they were to erect buildings on them. Would it not then be better for them to adopt the system often adopted in the Eastern cities, of a percent on the valuation. The tenant would be more at a disadvantage in the city if he owned the property himself. It would improve it as much, and the owner would be superior to the system, that could be put up at once, if the holders would adopt the system, and carry it out liberally. LECTURES ON SCIENCE.—We have received from Messrs. Greeley and McElroy, the second, of the series of Popular Lectures on Science and Art, by Dr. Lordlier. This part furnishes the conclusion of the lecture upon that all pervading and intensely interesting subject, Electricity, in the development of the properties of which, that have almost characterized this as the electric age, Dr. Lordlier is entitled to as much credit as any man living. The Planets, Halley’s Comet, and other subjects of deep interest are discussed. With that spirit that indicates the deeply read scientific man, possessed of fine powers of mind. The work is well got up, and sold at twenty-five cents a part. They will be found at the book-stores, and will be in the hands of those who have an interest in science. TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF JOHN SMITH. The annexed extract from the Sidney (New South Wales) Herald of November 17th, illustrates one of the difficulties attending the common name of John Smith, which, if by any accident, a man should take immediate steps to change it: "Sown twelve months since, Mr. Turner, a solicitor at Maitland, posted a letter which he intended for Mr. John Smith, solicitor, McConnell Street, Sidney, but which he accidentally directed "London." Now, Smiths are exceedingly plentiful in London, and John is by no means an uncommon prefix. O'Connell Street, however, are not very plentiful. But it appears there are some; and then there are three John Smith's residing in O'Connell Street, each of whom on it and finding it was not intended for the man, returned it. In Dublin there are several O'Connell Streets, and lots of John Smith's, and to O'Connell it was sent; but after all the Smiths in law had been "tried, to use the technical expression without the right one being found, it was determined to send the letter back to the writer." Endorsed with the authenticity of seventeen letters, that they had all searched in vain for the person for whom it was intended. Last week it arrived in Sidney, and was to Maitland, when the mistake was discovered, and Mr. Smith Of London street, received his letter, together with four one pound notes enclosed in it. There has been a very destructive fire in Toronto, the British Colonist published at Chicago, says the destruction of property. Principally, merchandise, great but made no estimate of the amount. There was no water in the jars, and the firemen had to depend on the supply furnished by the carts from the Argus. A STRING OF FEARS. Our accomplished neighbor of the Argus brings forward all offsets to a remark of our utmost "Well, right of Scan, " and, apparently, to prove that Wilson ought to have recognized, in that work, the right to ward the Argus for something good, he quotes the following from the Enquirer. He says he has found it (whether by the mode of search that is outlawed by the Monroe he does not say.) "In the Richmond Enquirer introductory loaned editorial unit of the faith just, under the caption of the Union. We omit some further praise of him. It and some friend remarks towards us, and come to life again." "Kl.l -'.GRANT EXTRACTS."—The following article from the "Wheeling Argus" is so full of beauty, so fraught with truth and patriotic feeling, that it will reach the hearts of all who hear it. Here is a attempt to arouse the bitterness of party excitement, for party affections; it is a calm, sensible appeal to the judgment and to the highest moral feelings. It sounds like one "sinking with authority" to his fellow citizens of all parties—like a mentor unfolding the book of wisdom and truth, and pointing out the solid foundation on which our liberties can be preserved, our high national destiny is realized. The calm which has now settled on the angry political waters in Virginia, is the proper season for such an appeal. We trust that it may sink deeper into the hearts of all who read it, and brighten the dark associations which bind us and Virginia to the Union. Richmond E. Quirtr. This itself is a very pretty specimen of swelling out, by the “boys” of the Enquirer, who seem to write “big bombast, to prove that they are as fine writers as their father. But the “Union about which our’elegant’ neighbor writes an article “so full of beauty, so fraught with truth, &c.—this Union, gentle reader, is not the Union which we all cherish will so much “patriotic feeling.” “The book of wisdom” which the Mentor of the Argus unfolds to point out “the solid foundation on which alone our liberties can be preserved,” is Thomas Ritchie’s new government paper, now “entitled the Union. Hear the first sentence of the “full of beauty” article of the Argus: “THE ‘UNION.’—This significant title is the name of the organ of the Administration, there is a felicity in the adoption of this name which will tell with magic power upon the minds of the mighty multitude, who are for all future time to be swayed by the instincts of genius and the force of judgment.” If an article written to puff the Daddy of all the Ritchies had not been puffed in turn by the young Ritchies, these younglings must have forgotten the saying on which the father has often acted—tickle me, I'll tickle you.—The appeal which our neighbor made to “the highest moral feelings,” is probably contained in the following humble confession of its editor’s backsliding: “The Republican family line had its jars; some have wandered far away; some have been shipwrecked, but naked and wounded, have found their way back to the old family altar, and devoutly admitted as they came, the solemn sanctity of the Republican creed; others have sunk into neglected and disgraceful obscurity, in unnatural hostility to the household of our faith; but many, how many at the present time, have returned home to the solemn ‘Union’ of the political fireside.” That part of the “elegant extract” wherein the Aratus “sound” with authority,” is perhaps this: “Mr. Folk is the representative of union.” His administration is the organ of the great party, which elected him, and treachery to its acts is treason to the republican faith. But lest an article “so full of lieauty, so fraught with truth and patriotic feeling” should tempt the administration to displace its influence, the editor proceeds to relieve the Ritchie of all its need, by adding, “although we will never aspire to be the organ of the Administration, we, the editor, have not yet heard of the “elegant” article on the Union, the rest of which is chiefly taken up with proving that the Baltimore Convention that nominated Polk was a “Democrat of Concord! and with crooking the hinges of the knee to Polk himself, possibly, that thrift may follow fawning.” While we have our hand in, (it does us good to string together the elegant effusions of our home democracy) we must add a pearl or two from the very Lords of the Argus. First we shall treat ourselves to a taste of the profound obscure. This morceau is a note appended to a poem called “The sold that grins and gains,” (a significant title) which appeared in Brown son's Review and was thence copied, as in duty bound, by the Argus. As a writer who tags his lines with rhymes has a right to be either above or beneath common sense, we shall not inflict upon our readers the task of deciding on which side of that line the poem is, by re-printing it. But here is the note: “NOTE.—The idea of a Trinity is complex, and its philosophical analysis gives Will Reason, Dive. Will is manifested by a power. Power is the rest of volition, an effect of the will. No power can be philosophically conceived which is not the result of volition, from the motion of a human limb to the action of a steam engine, that powerful instrument of the human brain. And if it requires Will to construct the engine, whence the force of lower that rolls a world or halancesa system, the Trinity in one of its hypotheses is Will, the manifestation of which is Power. In the next, it must be. Intellect, intelligence, Reason. Wisdom:—it will require a rigid and long contemplation of all these to get the true idea of the second, which planned the worlds and comprehends in itself all history and science—the central conception from which all springs, and the infinite complexities which bind all together.—Will is mere power, of itself a blind energy; Reason is the directing brain or mere intelligent principle; where is the motive, the impulse, the end, and the object of God's action? Is not creation the product of Divine or malice? God or Demon? Who can conceive the divine? See Dr. Clarke on the Word "Elolim,"—1st Genesis. Wheeling, Virginia. We need not now the author of this note For the purpose of the text. The Colonel sticks out. We regret that we have not a parody on the poem and note, which was written by a gifted man for his own amusement, that we might bring it here in its proper place. If we had room, this would be an appropriate occasion to quote from the 'Philosophy of Philosophy.' We, but our string of pearls has grown so long that we must now give place to our elegant extract, from the last biennial speech of Hon. L. Steen, which it is against the tariff and concludes as follows. Swelling seems to be the characteristic of the family, and of the Democracy in general. When the downtrodden masses can no longer look to the constitution to stay the progress of oppression and usurpation, and to this end, to their representative's for relief, what then must ensue? Some spirit, touched with the sentiments of the people, moved and stood on by their grievances, and perhaps gifted with the spirit of the Roman Gracchi, may rise and make the last appeal to the living masses, and invite them to the last struggle for restitution and retribution. In this moment, pregnant with revolution, the empire of the Caesars, the crown of the Corsican hero, or the inviting Italian fields that were laid open to the Curthagen spoiler, were but a poor prize in comparison to what every citizen would have in this moment of peril. In a moment like this, then, might these I tremble in their strongholds of wealth and power, and cling to their ill-gotten gain, and find. Perhaps, too late, the error into which they laid been betrayed; and like the strong man of old, that, as they pulled down the mighty pillars of the temple under which they reposed, it was but to be doomed to be crushed and buried beneath it. As a citizen, I would deplore such a calamitous event; and as a statesman, I would desire to avoid it. Then let me implore you to pause ere you press this system further, which, I honestly believe, is charged with such fatal consequence, alike to our institutions and the people. We regret that we cannot give “the last slippery plunk,” and have not before us the speech where in Henry Clay “reposed his bluing axle.” The above must suffice now. And now, at the hazard of violating a scriptural injunction, we cast our eyes before—the Argus. We are pained to see that our suggestion of a new order of knighthood, has already set the Dorric heroes on fire with a fierce ambition to wear the badge of the “Hod Heifer.” To win such illustrious an honor, they are unable to get up another Christmastide more blood-thirsty than the first. The following is from the Richmond Whig: DORRIS M—ANOTHER EMBEZZLE THREATENED!—The Rhode Island legislature having adjourned without liberating that vagabond hero and blustering Demagogue, Thomas W. Dorr, the leader threatens another outbreak and another Christmastide! No, not a Christmastide—that’s a tender word—but another castile will be stormed, they say. “The influence of the people cannot be abused much longer, (writes the New York News.) If that heroic prisoner is not soon restored to the liberty of which a tyrannous oligarchy has deprived him, there will be another Bustile to storm!” Another Democratic press takes up the tale, and proclaims, that “Gov. Dorr is not a disgraced and infamous felon, but a devoted patriot, and a friend to the principles of free suffrage, LANGUISHING AND DYING under the cruel and reprehensible persecution of an unfeeling aristocracy!” On this deplorable state of the “doomed patriot,” the editor of the Jonesboro Gazette Whig, who recently visited Dorr, thus comments: "But what are the facts—not as represented by the Union, but as they exist, and as I beheld them with my own eyes, after this editorial was written? They are, that Thomas Wilson Dorr, for the crime of high treason against the State of Rhode Island, is confined to the Penitentiary of the State, instead of having his own throat shot or lying. For a similar offense, what is the treatment for a similar offense? Why, instead of being shaved like other convicts, and forced to wear the prison dress, he actually wears his citizen's clothes—has the best victuals in all the land to eat—and a neat room elegantly furnished with bed, and bedstead, bonks, table, pen, ink, and paper, and a large rocking armchair! As to his labor, it is light, being that alone of tainting fans, and he only follows it when it suits him, taking special care that it shall not suit his convenience more than three hours in such a day. His "languishing and hying" condition, is the one of a man in his 31st year, 5 feet 8 inches high, and weighing 200 pounds, with an appetite equal to a dog!—such kindness was never extended towards a convict, in any State Prison in the Union, of any rank or condition. And as to the "unfeeling aristocracy" of Rhode Island, who are thus persecuting this "patriot," they are Governor Fenner, an uncompromising Democrat, headed by the "Law and Order" people of the State, and lucked and sustained by Mr. Ames the Speaker of the House of Representatives who married Dorr's sister—two other brothers-in-law, his uncle Allen—his Mother's brother, one other uncle—two brothers, and two other brothers-in-law. Now, all this I know to be true, for I was there on the spot—I saw these things with my eyes, and heard them with my ears! GAMMON!—THEONK TERM PRINCILE.—The Washington Union says:—“The President has already declared more than once, that he himself will not be a candidate for a second term of office. He has authorized us to declare it again in the prospectus which we have submitted to the nation as the creed of our own faith and the guide of our own course. He goes in for one term only, to serve his country to the best of his ability, and anxious to testify his gratitude to the people who have honored him by their confidence, by devoting himself to their service, and not his own continuance in office. He does not, therefore, design to shape his administration to assist any aspirant, or to make his appointments to promote his own re-election; but to carry out faithfully the powers which the people have placed in his hands. EDITORIAL CONVENTION —The M. Vernon Banner, some weeks ago, put forth a suggestion, for an Editorial Convention to assemble at that place sometime during the summer, and “took the responsibility” of nominating Grant for President. The professed object for the Convention is to harmonize the editorial fraternity. We see no need of this, as there is not a prejudice enough, at present, among the fraternity, to differ. All opinions, however absurd, all policy, however selfish and ridiculous, which emanate from the editor of the Statesman, is now swallowed, we don’t say relished, by almost the entire democratic press in Ohio. Many those who love to pay homage to the “dictator” go unto Mr. Vernon, and how their heads, and bend their suppliant knees to their most worshipful “President.” We have other with to fry—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dr. Brandreth has been re-elected President of the In the midst of Sing Sing, we hope he will purge the city of all moral, as well as physical evils. A wonderful people! There can be no doubt of this true—us all will conquer. It is used by us all—and we are grateful for the following purpose: From the X. V. Courier. If we have to leave—which may be freely rendered, at least for our present purpose, and an exhibition of serious truths, in a sportive manner—is allowed to be allowed to be given. Our talk will we think, agree with us, in reading the annexed extract of a genuine letter—unwarranted by a genuine American to a political enemy of the dominant party—that for a while it is well carried out. NEW YORK, 15th May. “We are wonderful people, and under the new administration, this new phase of the democracy, we shall doubtless become one of the greatest people on the face of the earth! More people than England, more warlike than France, more numerous than the Chinese, more Tartars than the Tartars themselves, we shall leave behind us, in the race of greatness and of glory all the nations of the globe! Ours is the embit of the world, and the residue of mankind is only to be recognized as “outside barbarians.” “It is true that just now we have no money, no army, and little or no navy! But we have got democracy and the ghost of democracy.” General Jackson! We have no military defenses, no batteries, no munitions of war. But we line demagogues that can whip all the world on the floor of Congress! And we have Southern Hotspurs that can tour an army to slaughter and Western fighting cocks that can swallow the Constitution, and lick two line and in the midst of the Lips with one hand! We are indeed a great people—a wonderful people. "We only, to be sure, when we come to the scratch with England, get most drubbed for a year or two. We may have all our cities off the scaffold battered down about our ears! We may have our little Navy annihilated, our commerce cut up by the roots, our mercantile marine swept from the ocean! But what of that? We may lose four hundred millions of property, and add two hundred millions to our National debt? But who cares for that? We can do a great deal of mischief in England. We call starve her operatives, bankrupt her treasury, revolutionize her Government, and play the very devil with her, inside and out! "It is true we may lose two hundred thousand men. So much the better! We may plunge the country in ruin—we may throw it back a thousand years! But what of that? All we have to do is to come forward again. We may in short lose the landmarks of the Union. What if we do? Nobody cares for the Union nowadays! We may have a servile war—possibly a black kingdom in the South! "Tout Mieux. We like variety. We may lose the legacy of the revolution—we may lose everything that a great people hold valuable." Very well, let it go! We shall still have Ritchie and Benton and Blair! Then we shall be rich in the great staple of democracy, and what more do we want? "We are truly a wonderful people! It is our destiny to be great—our destiny to annex! England may bluster and kick up a bobbery if she thinks best, but we shall go on—we must go on—it is our destiny to go on—to annex Texas, Mexico, California, and the two Canadas! So, hurrah! boys—and tiled—I take the hindmost. ITEMS OF NEWS. Capt. Piaster Flowery, of the schooner Spitfire, has been indicted at Boston for being engaged in the slave trade. Dixon H. Lewis, not the big Alulaina Senator, but a full blood Choctaw, is preaching at Natchitoches. The German Reformed Congregation of Frederick, Md., are about to build a new and elegant church. Hon. John Gilmore, of Butler, Pennsylvania, formerly a member of Congress, died on the 11th instant. The crops of wheat and rye in Adams county, Pa., never presented a fairer prospect than they do at present. Immense quantities of herring are now in progress. Theodore Pennoyer and William Dean, arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the Hoboken murder, have been examined and discharged, nothing having been found against them. The Marine Hospital at Cleveland, is at length about being commenced. Major H. S. Webb. formerly of the U. S. Army, has been appointed agent to superintend the erection. Forty-five thousand dollars, old Spanish coin, have recently been dug from the earth, at a place on the East bank of the Altamaha river, about five miles below the junction of the Oconee and Oconee, in Tattanall county, Ga., and divided between the discoverer and his relative, a poor widow who owned the land. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE—A MOTHER CITY IN RUINS.—Alligator City, situated on Bayou Catfish, not far from the beautiful boy of Brook Tete, Louisiana, was entirely consumed by fire a few days since. The Plaquemine Gazette states, that the city contained one dwelling, made of picket slabs, ten by twelve, the root fallen in, and the kindly consisting of a man, a hound and a jug of whisky had left the premises one year before the disaster. None of the furniture was saved except a picket stool that stood under a tree some distance off. “Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.” ACID DENT TEXAS MERIOLA.—In coming out of the Iowa river on Friday last, the steamer loin ran upon a sunken log, which broke between thirty and forty of her hull timbers and caused her to spring a leak in several places. She had on board the time a large lot of wheat belonging to a Mr. Holt, of Iowa city; six or eight hundred bushels of it were badly damaged, and the boat. was only saved by being run upon by sand bar, where she put out her cargo, stopped the water in her hold then started down, and arrived here yesterday morning.—St. Louis News Era. The Union seems to discountenance the idea that any special minister will be sent to England to negotiate on the Oregon question. In allusion to a remark of the Charleston Mercury, which we quoted the other day, it declares itself quite willing to leave the trouble, and honor of the negotiation to Mr. Calhoun, and adds:—“We presume that the negotiation is really resumed, and will be prosecuted in this city, and not in London, to some definite conclusion—peaceably, we should hope; but we wish for no peace but an honorable peace.” In another paragraph the Union refers to the suggestion which has been made of leaving the decision of the question to arbitration, and says: “We understand that Mr. Culhoun declined this proposition when made by the British minister—and declined it, it is said, upon grounds of the strongest character. We are content to wait for the publication of the document, with the general remark, that it is seldom, if ever, that the amicable matter of a third power has been able to settle satisfactorily the controversy between two States in relation to disputed territory.” A writer of laconics furnishes the following rule, which we commend to correspondents and other writers for the press. He says: “That writer does most, who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the most time. In letters, as in finance, much power and much property may exist.” . MIND AMONG THE SPINDLES." SELECTION FROM "THE LOWELL OFFERING." Most of our readers are, no doubt, aware of the miscellany, chastely compiled by the factory girls of Boston, in Massachusetts, has been published at that place since October, 1842. The publication arose out of the incongruities of an association of young women, called the “Mutual Improvement Society.” Two volumes of this interesting work were completed in December, 1842, and, from the contents of these volumes, an English publisher, Mr. Charles Knight, has selected the materials for a publication under the title of “Mind Among the Spindles.” Respecting the Low Offering, the North American Review says: "Many of the articles are such as to satisfy the reader at once that if he has only taken up the ‘Offering’ as a phenomenon, and not as what may bear criticism and reward perusal, he has but to own his error and dismiss his condescension as soon as may be. The editor of the volume is before us says: “We must honestly confess that we looked at the perusal of these closely printed eight hundred pages (the two volumes of ‘The Offering') as something of a task. We felt that all literary productions, and, indeed, all works of art, should in a great degree be judged without reference to the condition of the producer. It was a duty to read the ‘Lowell Offering.” The day that saw us begin the first paper was witness to our continued reading till night found us busy at the last page not for a duty but a real pleasure. Mr. KnioiiT thus states his opinion of the "Offering": "The qualities which most struck us in these volumes were chiefly these. First, there is an entire absence of all pretension in the writers to be what they are not. They are facto girls; they always call themselves 'girls'; they have no affectation of gentility, man by a natural consequence, they are essentially free from all vulgarity." Miss Martinis All states the association in a few forcible words: “There is nothing of good in the American factory system which may not be emulated elsewhere, exemplified elsewhere, when the people employed are so educated as to have the command of themselves and of their lot in life, which is always and everywhere controlled by mind, far more than by outward circumstance." OHIO AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. —In the last Ohio Cultivator we find the following notice, of a convention of the friends of Agriculture to be held in Columbus on the 25th and 26th of June next: CONVENTION OF THE FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE IN OHIO—To be held at Columbus, June 25th and 26th, 18-15.—This Convention is for the purpose of considering what measures can best be adopted for promoting the improvement of agriculture and advancing the great farming interests of this State; and especially to discuss the merits of the several bills having reference to this subject that were brought before the late General Assembly, with a view to the recommendation of such as may be deemed most necessary for adoption by the next General Assembly. And in order that the delegates may have their COMMERCIAL RECORD. RATES OF DISCOUNT Wheeling, va. OHIO. All solvent Banks, discount - - | to L Farmers Bank of Canton, il Bank of Hamilton,... 15' Miami Exporting Co. - - no sale Lancaster Ohio Bank,... 10 Commercial Bank Lake Erie, - 9 Urbana Bank,.... 50 Granville Almanac Society 22 Bank of Cleveland, - Commercial Bank Scioto, - All others no sale. INDIANA. State Bank and branches * to 1 SUCCESS KENTUCKY. 10 All solvent Bunks. - * to 1 ILLINOIS. State Bank, 9G Shawnee Street, 9G TENNESSEE. All solvent Banks, - - - - 5 to 9 ALABAMA. All Banks, 10 NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. All solvent Banks, - - - 1 GEORGIA. Augusta, 9 Savannah, 9 LOUISIANA. Good Banks, - - - 1 to 2' PENNSYLVANIA. Relief Notes, 10 Bank Notes, 1 to 9 Pittsburgh Script, 11 MICHIGAN. No sale. EXCHANGE. 1 Baltimore, 1 Philadelphia, 1 per cent premium. New York, pleasures; the little follies of some of their number, the pure tastes and inexpensive enjoyments of others. They feel and constantly proclaim without an effort that they think it an honor to labor with their hands; they recognize the real dignity of all useful employments. They know that there is no occupation really unworthy of men or women but the selfish pursuit of what is called pleasure, without the desire to promote the good of others by physical, intellectual, or moral exertions. Secondly, many of these papers clearly show under what influences these young women have been brought up. An earnest feeling of piety pervades their recollections of the past and their hopes for the future. The thoughts of home, too, lie deep in their hearts. Thirdly, there is a genuine patriotism in the tone of many of these productions, which is worthy of the descendants of the stern freemen who in the New England solitudes looked tearfully back upon their fatherland. Fourthly, like all writers of good natural taste who have not been perverted into mere imitators of other writers, they perceive that there is a great source of interest in describing simply and correctly what they have witnessed with their own eyes. Lastly, although there are necessarily in these volumes, as in every miscellany, some things which are tedious and some puerile, mock sentimentalities, and labored efforts at fine writing, we think it would be difficult upon the whole for a large body of contributors, writing under great indulgence, to produce so much matter with so little of bad taste. Of pedantry there is literally none. The writers are familiar with good models of composition, they know something of ancient and modern history; but there is never any attempt to parade what they know, and we see that they have been readers only, as we discover the same thing in the best educated persons, not in a display of their reading, but in a general tone, which shows that cultivation has made them wiser and better. All this is high praise; to which we add a few words from the pen of Mr. Dickens. He says: "I brought away from Lowell four hundred good solid pages, (the first volume of the 'Offering,'') which I have read from beginning to end, and I have read from beginning to end." Articles having been written by these girls after the arduous labors of the day, that it will compare advantageously with a great many English annuals. The publication before us consists of thirty-seven articles, the production of twenty-nine individual contributors. Mr. Knight adds, in his introduction to this selection, the following kind expression of his feelings towards the writers of the Lowell Offering: "May the love of letters which they enjoy, and the power of composition which they have attained, shed their charms over their domestic lives when their days of mill-service are ended! The efforts which they have made to acquire the practice of writing have had their own reward. In dwelling upon the thoughts of others, in fixing their own thoughts upon some definite object, they have lifted themselves up into a higher region than is attained by those, whatever be their rank, whose minds are not filled by images of what is natural, and beautiful, and true." To the people of the United States, this publication is an absolute demonstration that, the employment of human beings in manufacturing establishments does not necessarily impair their understandings, degrade their moral feelings, diminish their possession, or deprive them of the exercise of any of the higher powers of their nature. We advocate none of the oppressions nor the wrongs, none of the systems of long days' work and short wages, none of the abuses which we are told are part and parcel of the manufacturing systems of other countries. We advocate the encouragement and the protection of American manufactures, and we are warm friends to a system which, whilst it is productive of great national and social advantages, need not and is not (as established in the United States) associated with the dehasing and cruel effects which its opponents have charged upon it. The "Lowell Offering" is a triumphant reply to this allegation. There is a very interesting letter from Miss Mahtineau to Mr. Knight in the volume before us, dated May 20, 1811, in which she describes her visit to Lowell. She says that whilst sitting in the lyceum during a lecture delivered by Mr. Emerson to the factory girls, and seeing them listening to their lecturer, all wakeful and interested, all well-dressed and ladylike, I could not but feel my heart swell at the thought of what such a sight would be with us; and adds— "I am not in the amount of wages; it is not in the amount of toil, for they worked seventy clear hours per week. The difference was in their superior culture. The minds ate kept fresh and strong, and free by knowledge and power of thought; and this is the reason why they are not worn and depressed under their labors. "At Waltham, where I saw the mills and conversed with the people, I had an opportunity of observing the invigorating effects of mine in the life of labor. Twice the wages and half the toil would not have made the girls I saw happy without that call nation of mind, which afforded them perpetual support, entertainment, and motive for activity." Surely, we have adduced strong and mischievous proof of the correctness of the only conclusion. It is, that sound and correct rudimental mutterings that will come before the convention, they are reminded that the projects include the establishing of a permanent State Board of Agriculture—encouragement of County Societies—an Agricultural Survey of the State—obtaining Agricultural Statistics—protection of Sheep from destruction by Dogs—together with several minor questions, all of which have been noticed or discussed in the columns of the “Ohio Cultivator.” As the questions to be decided by this convention are of great and lasting importance to all parts of the State, it is very desirable that all the counties be represented, and that the delegates, as far as possible, be well informed as to the condition of agriculture, and the wants of the farmers in their several districts. In those counties where agricultural societies exist it is expected that delegates will be appointed by the societies, (several of them have already made their appointments.) In other counties a meeting of farmers and friends of agriculture should be held forthwith and a delegation appointed. If this is not done, the farmers of a single township or neighborhood can meet together and appoint some one or more of their number, who will agree to attend and represent their township or county. Now is the time for action, friends of agriculture—patriots! Your own Ohio demands your efforts! Not in the work of party strife, this has too long been the bane of your noble state—but to consult together for the general good; to greet each other as friends and brethren, and strengthen each other’s hands in the great work of advancing the noblest and best pursuit on earth. Such a meeting cannot fail to be highly interesting to those who attend, and will no doubt be productive of the most beneficial results. Reflections from the N. Y. Mirror. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN N. Y.— This Hour’s Execution.—As we go to press, a human being is launched into eternity! His body, warm with health, and life while this is written, will be still warm—though with its pulse irrevocably hushed—when this is read! Human hands, this hour, force a fellow creature, in one step, hence to judgment, and still forming of sickness on this heart— no clearing of the mind and passions by that human being of our own. Sorrows of sickness on this heart— no clearing of the mind and passions by that human being, which God makes the cleansing gut to his presence. Our heart sickens while we realize it. A stone’s throw from where we are, this inhuman violence is going on, and now to stay it. God is it not time that pity and reason turned to look at this savage relict of inhuman law-murder, and substituted something for its fiendish violence! We forget who is Governor of this State, but whoever he is, he should have known that his power of pardon is given him to represent public opinion, when its sense of justice supercedes the law. This poor Eager killed a man in the belief that he had violated his wife. The husband dies this hour, for a blow that few men in the community would have forborne to strike—and yet, with every man thinking so, and the Governor put in his place to represent this unanimous constituency, the penalty is not commuted. Away goes the drop—perhaps at the instant we are recording it—now! It seems to us such a mockery—the eloquence with Which the city is flooded at this moment—thousands assembled in the churches listening to eloquence on reforms and missions while a human life is crushed out—the largest meeting of all, literally, within the hearing of the withdrawn bolt, and the criminal unthought of and unnamed. Why is there not some good man, whom God has gifted with eloquence, to break his way into the pulpit of the Tabernacle, and hold up his hand to the assembled multitude, with the news, that, but a step thence, a soul is being forced off of the violin to judgment! We trust the momentous subject of capital punishment will find an alarum in today’s prison bell, and arouse us to think of becoming humane and merciful. 