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For Governor.
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The Sabine Canal.—We would suggest
Cljc journal.
MONDAY. JUNE 9, 18.11.
Sabine bay, with an estimate of the cost, at
j the earliest period possible. There is every
_ ■ reason to believe that a considerable portion
. j of stock will be taken in Eastern Texas; and
Storm—About two o'clock this mornif.g a on account ot the great extent oí country and
strong gale sprung up from the North West j number ol people interested, it will take seve-
which startled our citizens and made the dust ral months to canvass the mattter, so that it
and «and fly. The wind afterwards changed may be generally understood and the people
to the North, and in about two hours moderat-
ed; a light shower laying the dust.
We hear of no accidents except a trifling
injury to Central and Brick Wharves. Capt
have an opportunity of subscribing.
It will be readily perceived that there are
many reasons why the matter should be pressed
now. The disposition in Eastern Texas to
Fowler, of the Palmetto House, says he had i try this market should not be overlooked, and
to pipe all hands to shorten sail. The windows j the efforts being made in New Orleans to se-
were open and all the curtains and musquito
bars had to be double reeled and the hatches
closed, when the establishment was got in
comfortable sailing order and withstood the
gale with ease.
In many other places in town no other da-
mage was done by the squall than to cause a
squall.
Election News.—A private letter irom
Dallas County, dated the 19th ult., in refer-
ence to the approaching election, says:
"Col. Johnson (lor Governor,) will carry
the frontier en masse, from the Colorado- to
Red River, and will beat Greer in the East.
Gov. Bell will receive little or no support on
the frontier or in the East. I am convinced
that we have no choice to beat Greer but to
unite on Johnson." (This was written before
the announcement of Mr. Epperson.—Ed.)
Crosby will beat Ward badly in this sec-
tion, where the latter thought his main
strength lay. Howard will get no votes in
the North part of his District. Potter is
much the strongest. Gillett will get the best
vote here for Lieut. Governor."
53" We publish to-day a communication
from the pen of a friend in the interior, on the
subject of the " Public Debt." Our corres-
pondent differs with us. but holding it to be a
difference which men will usually entertain,
we cheerfully give place to his sentiments, in
order that our readers may have a view of
both sides. In our various articles relative
to the Public Debt, we are aware that our
views are opposed to those of the great ma-
jority of the people, but whatever influence
such a state of Ihings may have had on others,
it has had none on us—it neither proved the
public sentiment right, nor our opinions
wrong; and in fact, only made us the more
earnest in the advocacy of a principle which
we have considered as involving th§. future
reputation, and to a considerable extent influ-
encing the conduct of our citizens in the bu-
siness affairs of life. We shall continue to
give our reasons for the full payment of the
debt, and we bej those of our readers who
differ with us to bear in mind that it would
be a sorry newspaper indeed that but echoed
their own sentiments on every topic.
mm
lrom°iTií)er]y couñty'Jatetf'theTád inst.. says
<:the crops are suffering greatly for rain. With-
out it, in a few days, there will be a failure,
notwithstanding the fair prospect up to the
present time."
Consolation roa the Civilian.—The
Huntsville Item says:
" The Civilian must want some one beaten.
We think it would be a hard matter to elect
a man to Congress from this district who would
openly proclaim himself a supporter of Gen.
Houston for the Presidency."
The Supreme Court adjourned the ¿es-
sion at Tyler on the 30th ult.. and the Judges
left on the 31st for their respective homes.
Terebration.
Under this head, the editor of the Boston
Post thus hits off some of the evils he is com-
pelled to put up with in his sanctum. Lest
some of our readers maybe driven to look
into Webster to ascertain the signification of
the word terebration, we can inform them that
it means the " act of boring." The editor of
the Post hits some of the bores who pester him
in the wise following:
An Act from an Unpublished Drama.
Dramatis Persons—An Editor and tico
Bores.
Scene—Editors Sanctum.
[Enter two bores.]
First Bore—Good morning Mr. Editor—
fine day!
Editor—(lockinghard at his work and scrib-
furiously)—Yes, sir, fine weather, for
who have leisure to enjoy it—but it's
sir.
rhy. yours is the prettiest
world—I should like to be an
: has its vexations, however.
' i! indeed ! What are they?
cure the Texas trade should stimulate the
people of Galveston to activity. Iialsoseems
that it would be a desirable object, if it co^ld
be accomplished, to commence the Sabine
Canal so soon as the one to the Brazos is
finished. With the intention of recurring to
this subject, we have only now to urge
on the Company, and particularly the Com-
missioners, the importance of a survey as soon
as it can be made.
Col. M. T. Johnson.—The announcement
of this gentlemen, for Governor, was forward-
ed to us some weeks ago, but, for some cause,
did not reach us. It appears in the proper
place in to-day's paper, and the circular ac-
companying will be published in our next.
¡Or A correspondent writes us, lrom Wil-
liamson County:
'• The weather here is beautiful—the crops
fine, and the range splendid. A great coun-
try this.—come up and see us, take the coun-
try air and drink pure water."
Many thanks for the above, which, in sub-
stance, embraces the promise—"Your bread
shall be given you and your water sure."—
Then, the beautiful weather and the fine op-
portunity of becoming a Ranger, are exceed-
ingly tempting, but we cannot think of leav-
ing the whole of Western Texas in the hands
of the enemy at this particular time, when
they have made several cunning manceuvers
towards appropriating, or rather stealing, our
invincible whig measures—such as Banks and
internal improvements.
Indianola.—We learn that there were ten
vessels lying in Matagorda bay, bound lor
Atlantic ports. Indianola is improving, and
the trade of that section is evidently concen-
trating at that point. Four large stores (new)
were finished last month, and immediately
filled with goods. Saltmarsh's line sf stages,
to San Antonio, now run to Indianola, instead
of Lavaca, as formerly. Mrs. Ebberly has
again opened a boarding house at Indianola,
and we are assured that the traveling public
will be as well accommodated there as any-
where in Western Texas. The stock of mer-
chandize offered for sale, and ihe business of
the country, indicate the prosperity of the
people, at which we are rejoiced, for among
dissemminated through the worki, warmed with
eserve to prosper
—it's a
comical.
a new paper published at Tyler, in Smith
County. It is quite a respectable sheet in
appearance, and, but for its politics, might be
very useful in its neighborhood. It is ultra
democratic—locofoco, and our hat against a
bundle of shucks the people of Texas will be
tired of the preachings of such papers before
fifty moons have come and gone. The policy
that opposes the encouragement of home in-
dustry, Banks and internal improvements is
running itself so fast i; in the ground " that
many of these gentlemen will wake up some
fine morning and find themselves whistling a
different tune. Indeed some of them are ma-
king a retrograde movement already.
SCf3 In Eastern Texas the preparations for
the Convention at Henderson, with a view to
nominate a candidate to beat Judge Ochiltree,
are going on. We still entertain the opinion
that the movement will be a failure, and it
will be a blessing to Texas if it does. Un-
mindful of all advice, the Lone Star, immedi-
ately on annexation, threw itself wholesale
and bodily at the democratic footstool. Cer-
tain of her support, and ¡^ure of her docility in
the harness with which that party loaded her,
she could obtain nothing—not even common
justice, at its hands. If, on the other hand,
her politics had been doubtful, or she had
waited for overtures, instead of blindly relying
on ungrateful partizans, tier position would
have been materially different. The election
of a whig will open the eyes ol the locolocos,
and impress on them the ancient truth, that
'• if you tread on a worm it will turn."
£3=* Capt. G. K. Lewis candidate for Con-
gress, addressed the citizens of San Antonio
on the 21st ult. He announces himself a
democrat of the old school. The Texan says
his speech was charactarized by eloquence
and good reason.
tCr" The Ranger says, the Brazos river is
in good navigable order, and that the Hamer,
could safely run up to Washington.
■
The crops in Washington and adjoin-
ing counties are suffering for rain.
steamer Magnolia, Capt. Bod-
man, arrived this morning from the Trinity
lying at anchor, near half
the squall that occurred
her, but she drifted be-
to the wharf without
*
M it may suit our neighbors views very well !
Democrat" elected to Congress j
ho would be most likely to ¡
0 candidate lor President, if j
the election should come before the House of
Representatives, but it does not suit us or the
people.— Civilian.
We see no such contingency in the future
as that which disturbs our neighbor. Gen.
Houston's nomination for the Presidency is
very improbable, and his election impossible,
although the Civilian, full of hop#and confi-
dence. as a toddling baby, holding on to it's
mama's apron strings, no doubt entertains a
different opinion. We have no preference for
any one of the candidates for Congress, nor
can we see how it would suit our views to fa-
vor Gen. McLeod because he would vote for
Sam Patch in preference to Sara Houston,
when there is as little likelihood of the latter
being voted for as the former. .Moreover,
Gen. McLeod goes for all the Civilian's mea-
sures, except the one-man-measure—and it.
in our opinion, will never go anywhere out of
Texas.
The Whigs.—A little rabid, locofoco sheet,
up the country, always on the look-out for a
point whereon to hang a misrepresentation
of the whigs and whig measures, says:
" In the State of New York, as we find by our
Northern files, they have just been prevented,
only by the patriotic resignation of several dem-
ocratic Senators, from committing a disgraceful
act of robber)', which would have cost the people
no less a sum than nine millions.'"
The " disgraceful act of robbery " is the
canal bill, and the places of the several dem-
ocrats who resigned, have mostly been filled
by whigs. who will carry the measure through
in accordance with the wishes of the people.
Why do not these Janus-faced politicians de-
signate the propositions to invest a portion of
the ten millions in internal improvements as
"disgraceful acts of robbery?"
ICf3 President Fillmore is reported to have
said to the Mayor of Albany:
11 While there is a penal law on the statute
book. I shall always carry it into execution."
On this the News" remarks:
"Slick to that, hoss, and it 'ill make a man
of you."
It ipight have added—and asses of sundry
Filibusters and demagogues, North and
South.
It is a new doctrine, that a Whig President
is the best man to put in practice Democratic
measures.— Civilian.
Decidedly new, if our neighbor means those of
the, so-called, Democratic party. Whig Presi-
dents. up to this time, have generally put out
the practices the Democracy adopted, as it
was to that end they were elected by the peo-
ple.
H
Rev.
PAPERS.
Daniel Baker op Texas, on News-
-Dr. Baker recently prcached a sermon
at Yazoo city on the prophecies, which is spoken
of as an effort of great pith and eloquence. Mrs.
Prewelt, who notices it in her paper—"The
Whig"—was particularly struck with that portion
paper Whereupon Mrs. Prewett 'mentally ex-
claimed' with Shylock, " A Daniel come to judg-
ment !"—Memphis Eagle.
And why, does Dr. Baker " despise the
man that don't take a newspaper ?" We will
tell our readers, for Dr. Baker has told us.
He has traveled through a great many
States; mixed with the people ; conversed at
the country fire-side, and preached in the open
forest as well as the thronged city. Where
he found newspapers he found intelligence;
people whom he could talk to or listen to with
pleasure, and amongst whom his good work
prospered. As a general thing, where a
newspaper was not taken, he could tell it in
the slovenliness of the household, the igno-
rance of the children and the uninformed pa-
rents. So marked is the difference in civili-
zation between those who take newspapers
and those who do not, that the traveler in the
country will be pleased and entertained by
the one, while, like the Rev'd Daniel Baker,
he will despise the other, without knowing the
cause 'to which the difference is attributable.
Political Forbearance.—The Rich-
mond Whig makes some very truthful com-
ments on the existing sentiment in different
sections of the Union, from which we copy the
following I
It was the South—always eager for the
importation of foreign philosophies—always
captivated with the last fancy of opinion—
always addicted to the new-found chimera of
political discovery—ever as speculative as the
North was practical—that first, by foisting
into our eatliest national act of Anglo-Saxon
freedom the silly paradox of Rosseau about
the inherent and indefatigable equality of all
men. set inevitably on foot Abolitionism.—
They who sow the wind of such dor-trines.
must, sooner or later, reap the whirlwind. He
who scatters rats-bané in his house, may well
expect to get poisoned: he that plants ser-
pents' teeth through his fields, ought not to
complain of others, when he gets bitten.
It is no doubt very nice to set up, for your
convenience, laise but captivating ideasiJbut
what if somebody should afterwards see good
to turn them against yourself, and plague the
inventor with his own invention ?
Who, upon the same principles, took a lead-
ing part in procuring the adoption, by the old
confederation, in 1787, of the ordinance forever
excluding slavery from territories beyond the
Ohio ? Who but, with the concurrence of the
other Southern States, Virginia ? Nay, to
make the fact more signal, she did not content
herself with merely giving away to the Union
that vast patrimony of her children and cut-
ting them off with a shilling, but to make for-
ever memorable her zeal for the principles of
Emancipation, she attached to her foolish gift
a still foolisher condition—a condition against
herself—-'lie exclusion of slavery ; which, in
effect, was the exclusion of her own people
from the territory.
Again, when, in 1830, from our own shallow
and supine neglect of that Police which a
Slave system everywhere requires, the South-
ampton massacre occurred, what was not done,
what was not said, in the unmanly panic of
that hour, to spread abolitionism 1 If a State
—if a great and strong and brave old State—
neglects all care of an important part of her
population ; fills the world as far as she can
with Jacobinical and insurrectionary notions ;
and sits forever babbling in her public coun-
cils about the Madison Report of 98, while her
neglected Negroes are left to be preached to
by Nat Turners; then at such an outbreak as
this, falls into one, gencal convulsion of alarm;
and next, assembling the collective wisdom of
her legislature, proceeds to discuss Slavery
with all the terror of women and all the folly
of boys, and is at last barely saved by the
calming voice of Watkins Leigh and a few
others irom casting herself head-long into the
gulph of a General Manumission law: if, we
say, such madness as all this can be enacted
in a Southern State, can we not make some
little allowance for folks in the North, whom,
at the very worst, we have inoculated with the
disease they are sick o!?
A little charity, then! a little forbearence! o
little patience! We have all been wrong, in
giving into licentious and wild ideas of Free-
dom. That: they should at last come tobe
visited back upon us was inevitable. Errone-
ous ourselves, let us bear at least with the er-
rors we have taught., and until we shall! have
corrected them in ourselves. How long since
we ceased to be ready to applaud any and
every body's insurrections, anywhere, every-
where, about anything, everything, or nothing
amante
we stand ready to "sympathize with" (id est
Americane, to aid) any body; no matter how
vrrtmrr or rau'r. WfiO pretends to be
'•striking ior freedom." ' The South Carolina
gentlemen will have it that the Union is but
a treaty, under the name of a Constitution :
if, then, we violate all other treaties at our
whim, why should the Northern States not
not break the treaty with us, and "sympa-
thize" with only one more revolt than we do?
If we keep no faith abroad, we needn't expect
much at home. In fine, there must be better
sense and more morals, or we shall suffer for
it.
An Interesting Incident.—The other
day. in conversation with Miss Dix. the philan-
thropist during her visit to Greenville, a lady
said to her: 'Are you not afraid to travel
all over the country "alone, and have you not
encountered dangers and been in perilous sit-
uations?" "I am naturally timid," said Miss
Dix. ' and diffident, like all my sex; but, in
order to carry out my purposes, I know that it
is necessary to make sacrifices and encounter
dangers. It is true. I have been, in my tra-
vels°through the different States, i;. perilous
situations. I will mention one, which occurred
in the state of Michigan. Iliad hired a car-
riage and driver to convey me some distance
through an uninhabited portion of the country
In starting. I discovered that the driver, a
young lad. had a pair of pistols with him. In-
quiring what he was doing with arms, he said
he carried them to protect us. as lie had heard
that robberifes had been committed on our road.
I said to him, 'give me the pistols, I will take
care of them.' He did so, reluctantly.
;,In pursuing our journey through a dismal-
looking forest, aman rushed into the road,
caught the horses by the bridle and demanded
my purse. I said to him, with as much self-
possession as I could command, 'Are you not
ashamed to roba woman? I have but little
money, and that I want to defray my expenses
in visting prisons and poor-houses and occa-
sionally in giving to objects of charity. If you
have been unfortunate, are in distress and in
want of money, I will give you some.' Whilst
thus speaking to him, t discovered his counte-
nance changing, and he became deathly pale.
'My G.id,' he exclaimed, 'That voice!' and im-
mediately said that he had been in the Phila-
delphia Penitentiary, and had heard me lectur-
ing some of the prisoners in an adjoining cell,
and that he now recognized my voice. He
then desired me to pass on. and expressed deep
sorrow at the outrage he had committed. But
I drew out my purse and said. I will give you
something to support you until you can get.
into honest employment.' He declined, at first
taking anything, until I insisted on his doing
so. for f ar he might be tempted to rob some
one else before hecouid getinto honestemploy-
ment."
Had not Miss Dix taken possession of the
pistols, in all probability they would have been
used by her driver and perhaps both of them
murdered. ''That voice" was more powerful
in subduing the heart of a robber than the
sight of a brace of pistols.—Greenville (III-)
Patriot.
Tug Seventeen Year Locusts.—A let-
ter to the Baltimore Sun gives the following
account of the appearance of these singular
insects:
The seventeen }rear locusts arose out of the
ground in vast numbers last night and early
this morning, their resurrection having been
delayed by the late heavy rains. I noticed
some coming up, showing boots and spurs
first, then attaching themselves to any thing
near, and holding fast with old legs till the
new ones are ready. Then, disengaged from
the old shell, they climb up the nearest shrub,
and expand their gilded and jeweled robes,
gaze about with admiring eyes, andaré espe-
cially and evidently wrapped up in admiration
of themselves. These are not the devouring
locusts; though they are sometimes devoured
by birds, hogs, and even in former times, at
least, by some communities ef men. They
are very destructive, as 1 had occasion to no-
tice to-day, to young fruit trees—the twigs on
which they lay eggs being blighted and
blackened.
Tre Comanches—Probable discovery of Mrs.
J. M. White's Child.—The Fort Smith Herald
has a letter from a correspondent in the Chickasaw
Nation, dated April 28,- in which the writer says
that a company of Shawnees have lately returned
from trading with the Comanches, high up on
Red River, and report that the latter tribe have a
white child, abo^t three years old:, and, as there is
considerable trade between them and Apaches, the
Shawnees think it may be the child of Mrs. J. M.
White, which was captured by the Apaches, at
the time of the murder of its mother. The Shaw-
nees were going out again and would endeavor
to purchase the child and bring it in. They are
aware that $1,000 is offered by the United States
Government for its recovery. The Shawnees re-
port that the Comanches are anxious to live in
peace with the United States. The Herald's cor-
respondent thinks that if Captain Marcy was sent
out to them with full power to treat, and explain
to them the true relationship of Texas to the Uni-
ted States, they would cease their depredations
upon the frontier of Texas.
Emigration to Missouri, Illinois, Iowa ano
Minnesota.—All the accounts we receive from
the West, agree in representing the tide of emi-
gration as flowing with great volume into Mis-
souri, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota—indeed, it is
said, that at no time since 1840, has the emigra-
tion into those States been so general. The St.
Louis Republican, in a paragraph on the subject,
says.
41 Large accessions are daily made to their po-
pulation from other States of the Union, and sec-
tions of the country which have heretofore been
passed by, are rapidly filling up with population:
and the lands, as their worth is developed, aré
becoming valuable. In ad;lition to the tide from
other States, greatly increased numbersof foreign
emigrants are a
the South,
Nearly every boat from
boats from the Ohio,
these emigrants.—
means of ascertaining
number. A portion
Mormons—will he
some of them have pro-
destination, the Salt
er portion of the emi-
live in this, or some of
«o Men.—Love all the pretty
V one of them as soon as posible—
itely—go to church regularly—
¡ustrious— mind your own bu tú neis—
i newspaper, pay "for it, and your grey
*• -with honor.
f COMMUNICATED.]
The Public Debt.
Mr. Editor,—I have noticed several arti-
cles in your paper on the subject of our Public
Debt. You advocate the payment of the full
Amount claimed against us. I differ with you
as I do no not think it will be treating all our
creditors alike.
No one, perhaps, is more in favor of doing
justice to our creditors than I am.. But to do
that, it is necessary first to ascertain what jus-
tice is. Is it justice to pay the creditor who
loaned us $1000, in our early struggle for
independence, the face of his paper and inter-
est? You will say it is. I grant it.. Then
would it be justice to pay the holders of $1000,
in Treasury notes, issued in 1841 or 1842, at,
say 25 cents on the dollar, the full amount of
$1000, and interest up to this time? If that
is justice to the latter, it can hardly be to the
former. It is scarcely probable that the lat-
ter creditors of Texas have become bank-
rupt, or seriously injured by investing their
means in Texas liabilities. They understood
the situation and condition of Texas to pay,
too well for that. Then, if we pay the holders
of our paper issued at 25 cents on the dollar,
100 cents on the dollar, what ought we in
justice to pay those creditors who came for-
ward in 1836 and advanced their means to aid
us in our earliest, and what was considered by
many, doubtful struggle for independence.
But our'-honor" is at stake!—the word hon-
or is too vague and indefinite, and has nothing
to do with the matter. It has become too
much the slang of theduellést—unjust assail-
ant of the rights of others—Southern fire-
eaters, and Northern Abolitionists to be named
in a business transaction of dollars and cents,
between debtor and creditor. Justice is a more
proper word—justice to debtor and justice to
creditor is all that should be taken into con-
sideration in the adjustment of our public lia-
bilities. If it is justice to pay the speculator
who bought our paper at 10 or 15 cents on
the dollars, 100 cents on the dollar, what in
justice should we pay the sympathizing friend
of 1836, who, ia the hour of our most immi-
nent peril, generously, almost against the
hope of its being refunded, furnished the
means to aid us through our earliest struggles.
SAN GABRIEL.
A Novel Pet.—We saw a Mexican on
Long Wharf yesterday, leading by a string
a good sized cub of the grizzly species. He
had caught him when quite young, and has
succeeded in making it as gentle as a dog.
We saw him refuse six ounces for it;—Pacific
News.
■ w■■ ■« ■■ iiu.i.un ur—jrrr
Naval Ship.—A correspondent of the New
York Sun has the following reference to a
net. Which reflects seriously upon our naval
service:
Speaking of the Decatur, I cannot help
saying a few words about her appearence, &c.
She is the dirtiest looking American ship-of-
war that I have ever seen in Havana. Even
her guns looked rusty and neglected. She
was anchored at the mouth of the harbor'four
days before she came up, and then fired her
salute. But what a salute! Everj' body in
Havana laughed at. the bungling way in
which it was done. The Captain says he was
frying a new plan. I hope that when he re-
turns to this fort he will paint and clean his
vessel, and feel some national pride in com-
plying strictly with the port regulations about
salutes, &c., and when he does fire, let him
learn to do it well.
Strange Superstition.—We have al-
ways, known that the tars on the ' salt sen
wave were somewhat superstitious in regard
to going to sea on Friday's and launching of
their ships on that day, but we did not know,
until a few days ago. that our river men were
imbued with any such notions. Sitting in
conversation, not long since, in the social hall
of the S—, with the captain, a gentleman came
in to take passage for himself and horse to
St. Louis; the price was agreed upon, and
the man started off. He had hardly reached
'he gangway, however, when the captain
rushed out after him, upsetting, in his way,
several chairs.
" Halloo, sir," cried he, hailing the gentle-
man. " what is the color of yonr horse ?"
•' Grey, sir," was the re&ponse."
" Then, by golly, you nor your horse cant
travel on this boat at any price. What is
more, I'll bet your a preacher, and I never
had a grey horse and a preacher for passen-
gers that my boat did n't blow up or sink; why
if I should take you, I could n't get a crew.''
The gentleman, who was a minister of the
Methodist persuasion, smiled and walked
away.—Cin. Enquirer.
StormyJVomen.—What is more disagreeable
than a stormy woman ? A friend of ours, who
lives in Pearl street, says that he has been on the
unfathomed deep when the heavens, pregnant
with the direst vengeance, were deliveieu of their
children of wrath—when mighty Jove rode his
thundering chariot over the mountains of the sea
and the red lightnings glared at his courser's feet
—when the demons of the tempest bellowed in the
blast, and the angel of destruction spread his dark
pinion's over the mariners bark; but all these
unutterable horrors didn't begin with his wife
when out of temper. When she saw the mercu-
ry of her husband's anger begin to rise, she'd
throw fat into the fire, and in two minutes be fur-
ther up the ladder of wrath than he could evei
climb without taking off his boots; and the way
he would catch hot dumplings on the head was
not slow. Some women love toscol"
themselves best when in a violent
they are as unlovely a¡> lobsters.
as stale mushrooms. We'd rather
wildcat in the forest than a pe¡
anger.—Albany Knickerbocker.
Chinese Edict asainst Christianity.
The Journal of Commerce translates an
amusing document from a Chinese publica-
tion—it being an edict of tne government re-
specting Christianity, issued the latter part of
last year, on occasion of the arrest and impri-
sonment of several native Roman Cat 10 ics^in
Kiaying Chan. The argument ol the learn-
ed heathen author has at least the merit of
originality and forcible expression, and will
undoubtedly have the effect ™ #iÍl *21
con veris "tremble and obey." as they
commanded. Here is an extract,
Wan. prefect of the inferior department ot
trvindated to his d1
raised ten
Kiaying Chan, translated to his present post
The Syracuse Blasphemers.—We do not
~ er to have read such a tissue of
I blasphemery «fo speeches of
htsomsts at the Syracuse convention.
"John
from another of the same degree,
steps ond recorded ten «mes?, puts forth a pro-
clamation in earnest language ; ^ that he
hearts of men may he rectified, and that the
laws me y be held in dtfe respect.
-Be it known, that there is in the western
world a doctrine of the Lord of Heaven which
originated with Jesus. So long as the barba-
rians propagate or practice this among them-
selves expounding its books ftnd worshiping
according to its ritual, there is no occasion to
take notice of it. but it is not permitted them
to enwr the Inner Land to propagate this doc-
trine. ami natives of the Inner Land, who, in-
vite men fr"m far ph ices to flock hither, who,
in league with them inflame, and unsettle the
minds of the people, who inveigle témales [to
join their sect.J or commit any other offences
contrary to the law, are punishable under the
statute still in force. The provisions of the
code are still explicit; who shall venture to
act otherwise than in observance of it ?
"You should oe aware that Jesus, born
the time of Ngai Ti, of the Han dynasty, ranks
no higher than Hwa To. Chuh-yu and others
of the same class; being merely skilled to re-
lieve mankind by curing them of disease His
power of breaking seven cakes into lood tor
three thousand men, is not either any more
than the witchcraft of the Rationalists, by
which things are shifted from one place to an-
other; in other ways he had no peculiar ah:l-
iiy. As to his extravagant title of Lord who
made heaven, bethink vou. the three sove-
reigns (B, C. 3300—2322,) the five emperors
(2169.) Yau Shun, Yu. Tang (1743.) Wan,
Wu (1105,) the Dul<e of Chau, arid Kung
(Confucius) the Philosopher (500.) spread
abroad civilization as the agents of heaven,^
duriii"- thousands and tens of thousands of
years" the different countries beyond the sea
had from an early date rulers and people,
forms of government, and laws to punish crime;
did noneof these «xíst until Jesus appeared to
create them in the timeol ihe Han ?"
"Then, this doctrine pretends to the encour-
agement of virtue and the repression of vice;
but this is the language constantly held by
the literati (Confucianists.) Its dogma, that
those who believe in the Lord of Heaven will
be made happy, and that after death their
spirits will ascend to heaven ; and that those
who do not so believe will be visited with mis-
ery, and that after death, their spirits will
enter the prison of bell, is of the same import
as the saying ol Wu Sansz, ''Those who are
good to me are good, those who are evil to
me are evil.' Suppose the believers in the
Lord of Heaven, all robbers and vicious per-
sons: happiness is tube hereafter bestowed
upon them all. while those who are not be-
lievers although just men with a store of merit,
are all to be hereafter subject to myeery.
Never was the fair order of reward for virtue,
and the punishment for vice, so inverted aud
confused.
Bu.1 be fuuinl ihat ofatl nations be-
yond the sea, none so much believe in the
Lord of Heaven as Germany, and yet [its in-
hat>flanis arej scattered, [ns power j is in ruins,
and more than one partition of its territory
has been made; why, as believeing in the
Lord of Heaven, none can compare with
Japan ; on a quay in their port is engraved a
crutifi.í, and every merchant who repairs
thither, and does not. as he lands, tread on
•lie crusifix, is immediately beheaded as a
warning to others ; there is. besides this, out-
side the city gate, an image of Jesus sunk in
the ground, so that it may be daily exposed to
the insult of being trampled on ; and yet this
kingdom has endured 2900 years; why has
not the Lord ol Heaven visited it with calam-
ity ? It follows accordingly that the statement
regarding the }v>wer to confer happiness and
misery is utterly without foundation ;tf will-
merely make the simple people in this life
leave their ancestors without the power of
enjoying the oblation of sweet, smelling in-
cense, and of the offerings which should be
set before them in sacrifical vessels; while
after death, they are to become blind ghosts,
undergoing, in addition, the torments of burn-
ing till their bones arc scattered in ashes.
W hat happiness results from such a doctrine?'*
1 ecumseh's War Hatchet.—We have
in our office, says the Cleveland Plaindealer'
a most interesting relic—a war hatchet of the'
great 1 ecumseh. It was picked up durinc
the battie in which that crafty chieftain lost
Ins life, and has passed through various hands
to us present proprietor. Mr" Russell. The
offence part is of English manufacture, is
about six inches Jong, very narrow, like an
adze, and seems suited to inflict an ulgly
g<!f,h. 1 he handle is of oak, most beautifully
stained, and perforated so as to answer the
purpose of pipe stem to the head of the hatch-
et, which is the bowl. A strip of silver, with
the word '• Tecumseh " engraved upon it, or-
naments the face of the weapon.
In the streets of Leicester, one day, Dean
Swift was accosted by a drunken weaver,
who staggering against his reverence, said :
i have been spinning it out."
' les," said the Dean, I see you have
and now you are reeling it home."
The Mexican Awards—The Washinff-
^^Tn^ntofthe Ch«rl^ton Courier
says that the Mexican awards were in parts
paid off on the lbth, at the Treasury. A num-
nn!rw b>'the Government
indlS i6. Pj£h!b,t'ng payments to persons
indebted to the United States, and some were
adverse-K?n UCC0Unt of the presentation of
?'dC,0n beaufi(ully said-if a man be
gracious to strangers ,t shows that he is a citi-
hear' ?"" islrd
joins them. W ^ d conti^°t that |
in<^wheU,er^^„c-WM dOTbt"
or Death;
him;
" but wh
put, " said "he.
that." '
is a very
Mr. Lewis Lance i„.ul U1J
and another printer in the
at Huntsville, in W;
iay the
ay stabbed his
places in his left side .. „ iai
wounds, he think;? are mortal.
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