Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-01-05


the moralist his pen on attempting to
devclope the inscrutable mystery by
which the complicated machinery Of
animal life is set in molten.
a ToUcH or THE sUBLt E.--.Educa-
tion,' said member of the Massacbu-
sets legislature during the last session,
''cducation, like asplendid orb Of light,
stands associated with darknoss-nalde
more dark by the reilcc:pn."
The Mussuliilan wrIse sscals, an
ignorant Arab, who being asked how
he knew any thing about the cxistancc
Of God, replied '.just as know by
the tracks in the sand whether a man
or beast has passed there, so when
| survey the heaven with its bright
stars, and the earth with productions
do feel the existence and the power
Of God.n
DEMOCRATIC GovFRaMENr.- Demo
eracy governs BY means Of truth, disco
ycred by the activity Of The public
mind, and applied by the deliberate
exercises Of the public viii; but tyran-
ny checks discussion; it holds back the
light; it intercepts truth. A Govern
mcnt Of the people is Government
conducted by the mind Of the country,
freely enlightened and freely exerted;
tyranny cannot reach the public mind; ;
and tyranny in Democracy is there
fore an impossibility. -Bancrof.
Theship Hamilton, arrived on the
9th inst. at New Orleans, in tzvclpe days
from New York.
DEMocRAcY is plant congenial to
1.-THE American soil and will there -four
ISL md produce abundantly Of its rich
fruits unless clloakea oat hy the nox-
ious weeds Of Federalism. It's seminal
principles are imbeded by the hand Of
1.-THE great Author Of the human mind,
IN every young mans bosom, and there
they will grow, If they are not destroy
ed BY the frosts Of scliishncss.
\ Il ishardly . figure Of speech 70 w
that rail ways have aHnihilatcd dis
lance. People iii the northern states
no longer say it is so many miles to
such and such place, but so many
hours. For instance, it is seven hours
from Philadelphia to Baltimore and
Two and / half from the latter place to
Washington. We should not be sur
pfised to find in the course Of a few
years some new measure Of distance
adopted in this country--at present a
mile and even a leagnar has ecnrceiy
any meaning.-Bee.
A son of the celebrated, but ecccn-
trio MATURIN, the Irish novelist, is at
present residing in New York, and sad
to be engaged in writing for many Of
the Magazines. A few days since we
noticed neat poetic article in one 81
our exchange papers, from his pen;
which VIC attributed to his father, not
having examined the dates.
GERMAN EMIGRANTs-A letter from
Bremen, dated September 26, to a
house in st. Louis, says: Fifteen YES
sells are up at this port for New Orleans
with about 1000 emigrants, most all q
them you may expect at st. Louis; the
majority of them are respectable and
wealthy.-La. Adv.
THE LARGEST STEAM smTp.-The
steamer British Queen was advertised
to leave London for New York on the
9th Of December. Her tonnage is saiC
to be over 1900, almost as much a,
our mammoth Pennsylvania ship Of tn,
line.
THE LATE Col. BURR.-The Messrs
Harpers Of New York have now il
/ press, the ''private journal Of Aaror
| Burr" by Mathew L. Davis.
IRISH P6rAToEs.-Upwards Of tel
thousand bushels potatoes have beer
shipped from Great Britain to the Uni
ted States during the present year.
CONG THE "wHoLE Hoa."-Th,
Cincinnati News of the Sd last. iays:-.
! Five thousand hogs were slaughterc,
during last week in this place at th,
single establishment Of Mr.. CIarkson
up town.
| FAST SAILING The packet shiI
j United States, which sailed from Ney
York on the 9Th Of October, was cnI
4 fifteen days from that port to. Liver
4 pool, a distance oE200D miles.
Il The SrEANBolr CONSTITUTION ha
been taken into the service Of the Uni
lied States,on Lake Eric.