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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-07
PERIODICALS.

We have on our table the April number of Hunt
Merchants Magazine. 1t is replete with useful mat
ter, which will prove interesting not only to the mer
chant, but to the statesman and to every reader who
wishes to render the knowledge of trade and correla
tive subjects familiar to his mind.
The March number Of the Southern Literary Mes
scnger maintains the high character which that jour
nal has deservedIy attained. We would particularly
recommend to the students of classical literature the
article on ancient and modern eoquence.
The lovers of the lighter literature will read some
beautiful tales, the creations Of acknowledged talent
and taste, in the Ladies' Companion for April. The
engraving of the village of Sing Sing have heard
pronounced an exquisite production. II may be
had at Hampton's periodical establishment.
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modations. On the twentieth of June, we spoke the
brig Olive, from New York to this port, and the cap
tain consenting to receive me- arrived In Liverpool
the LIST instant, having been at sea 33 days The
dispatches which were intrusted to my care, for
warded to Mr.. Forbes, in charge of Captain Human.
of the William Tell, to whom he consigned
stating the of my not bearing them in person,
and requesting him to forward those for Mr.. Racquet
at Rio. If the William Tell goes safely, the de.
spatches will safely reach their destination.
These, sir are the circumstances which have
brought me to England, and hope that they such
as to excuse my abandonment OF my charge. AS l
am here, have determined to devote few weeks to
the purpose of seeing the country, after which
shall have the pleasure of giving you, in person,
more detailed account of my voyage.
With high respect, your obedient servant,
sd JNO. H. PLEASANTS.
Mr.. Clay quite approves of his conduct, as
appears by his letter Of March 26, 1928. We
commend this matter to the attention of the
Clay clubs of New York, composed no doubt
in great part of mechanics" and such sort OF
people, and advise them not to come too near
Mr. Clay or Mr.. Peasants. 1t will be observed
that in furnishing the copy for Congress
the clerks in the Department omitted some
words, and supplied their places by asterisks
1t is no little pity that this license Of
the clerks should have deprived the whole
composition of some of its choicest and most
refined phrases.
When our readers shall have amused them
selves with this letter, let them remember again
the enormous offence which the Independent
lmputes to the Secretary of State. 1t is, thai
an expense of one or two hundred dollars has
been incurred in forwarding despatch to the
American Minister in Paris, known to be en-
gagged on topics Of the highest interest to the
United States; and that a gentleman who had
been many years clerk in the Department, and
a favorite of the predecessors of the present Sc
cretary, but whose services were dispensed
with, and office abolished, and who wished t.
join his friends and family in France, was made
the bearer of these dispatches.
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OREGON INDIANS

The Chnnocks, whose hunting grounds on the
north side of Columbia river, are rather slightly
built of the middle stature, and in features some.
what effeminate. Their dress consists generally of
blanket though sometimes they wear shirt and
even trousers. The women blanket and
sort Of kilt, made of rushes or wool, which reaches
to their knees. They have their ears pierced as well
as the septum of the nose, through which they put
hy-a-qua, a small shell, which they consider great
ornament. This nation has practice OF modifying
the form Of the head-dress during child rearing
The teeth of the aged people are worn so much as
to be but little raised from the surrounding gum,
which is attributed to the grinding power OF the sand
which is contained in their chief food-dried salmon
This particular state of the teeth is almost exclusive
y confined to this nation The Indians in the neigh
borhood of Vancouver and Cape DISAPPOINTMENT are
now but few in number very many have died from
fever said to be peculiar to that part Of America
When suffering from fever they are in the habit OF
;umpinp into the river to cool themselves, and when
the cold fit SEXES them they enter small hut, pre-
pared with some pebbles, made hot, and vessel of
water BY placing the stones in the water, steam is
generated in large quantities, in the atmosphere OF
which they remain until the return of the fever.
The principal food of the Chinnocks is salmon, but
they occasionally subsst on venison, sturgeon and
wild fowl and when pressed by hunger on roots and
berries.
The Fravcr's River natives, who obey hne sPe-
cimen of wild humanity as their chief, propagate
species of wolf dog, which periodically produces
them crop of long white hair, which is shorn OF a.
in case Of sheep elsewhere. This is manufactured
into blankets--the employment OF the women, lhsy
also use the wool Of the mountain goat Tor the same
purpose Ozark Eagle.
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borne In mind that in placing our practical man
ufacturers on the same footing with foreign artl-
sans, we must, inevitably lower them in the
scale of morality and intelligence, and, conse-
quently, degrade the character of our country.
The American manufacturer or tradesman, how
ever dependent on labor for support, is being
infinitely more noble and enlightened than the
two-legged animals that toll for few
pence day, in the workshops and factories
of other countries. Such being the case,
whilst care should be taken on the one
hand not to pamper them Nth privileges un-
knoWn TO The other classes Of society, there
should be just as much solicitude mol to deprive
them Of their selfrespect, The tendency Of aohich
is to make them good citizens,by preserving the
interest they have IN The perpetuity Of repubt-
can institutions. In country where portion
of the national sovereignty vests in each indi-
vidual, however humble, and whether every
man has an equal voice in appointing the SER
wants of the People, the policy must be ruinous
that would make them the servie dependents
and consequently the convenient tools of am
bilious men in procuring their own elevation.
The great constituency of our country has OBJ
legations to fulfil and duties to perform of an
exalted character and nothing should be done to
IMPAIR in the slightest degree, the fitness Of
those who compose il, Tor the execution of their
high trust. Self-government in the hands Of
Independent and enlightened freemen, con-
scious Of their rights and determined TO main
tain them, is an incalculable blessing-a pear
beyond all price-but let it be vested in the
morally degraded, the dependent, and the
vicious, and it becomes the greatest curse thai
can befal nation. If, then, in producing ne
cessary revenue to defray the legitimate e1'
penses of the Government, duties can be lait
In such manner as, whilst that object is effect
edS shall also contribute to support the respecta
biity and tone of our working classes, instead
of being burden to the nation, tariff must be
come not only bond ofunion, but the source o
nestimable blessings to our beloved country.
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farmers, are calculated to bewllder or mislead.
Chymistry, as applied to agriculture, is particu-
larly valuable, inasmuch as it furnishes know
ledge Of the constituent parts OF soils, and by
explaining the chymical relations in which they
stand to each other, elucidates the manner in
which they act as stmuants to, or supporters Of,
vegetable growths. 1t often happens that the
earth contains elements which of themselves are
worthless, but which, with the aid Of additional
ingredients, forming new combinations, become
extremely valuable. In this point of view
CHEMISTRY presents no mystery too abstruse for
solution by the most ordinary intellect. Plants
derive their characteristics from the soils in
which they grow, and it often happens that earths,
though unproductive of one kind of crop,
will yield abundantly when subjected to the
culture of some other. In this way it is that
lime, plaister-of-P Paris, and the class of manures
of similar character are used with such decid-
ed benefit. For instance, experience has shown
that what are termed old felds turned out to
waste on account of their poverty, may be
made emnently productive by lining or the
use of gypsum. To use common phrase, the
land has lost its life, but, by the application Of
the articles above named, new energy is i'm
parted, and, if it be set in clover, this plant will
shoot up and grow with vigor. In the process
of vegetation, as is well known, large portion
of the increment is derived from the atmosphere,
in gaseous form, it is true, at first, but convert.
Bile by the hand of nature into solid shapes.
These substances thus produced, on being re-
stored to the soil by ploughing, pass into state
of decomposition and add to its richness and
fertility As it is the business of CHEMISTRY to
show how these things are done, it must be evil
dent to every one that such a science must be
productive of the best practical results. In the
neighboring State of Maryland, farms that, a
few years since, were valueess, have become
sources of great wealth, and although the pro-
prietors cannot tell how the change has been
brought about, they enjoy the fruits of a revolu
ton to them as important as it is inexplicable
Had they made themselves acquainted with
the CHEMISTRY Of agriculture, the process might
have been materially FASTENED, as they could
have arrived at cnce at conclusions which
have required the experience of years to mature
them.
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now full of the most perplexing embarrassments
for a man in his condition, in other hands, whose
conduct he may control, while he yet shall not
partake in their responsibilities, he will carry on
the war; not only by means of letters, answers
to invitations, dinner speeches, &C., &C., &C.,
but by completing as soon as possible, and to
the fullest extent possible, such efficient COM
bnations among partisans, as shall be es-
teemed most likely to advance his own purposes
by thwarting the Administration of the Govern
ment, bringing it into disrepute, and keeping the
country in its present state OF distress, hiding,
meantime, the hand that chiefly powerful in
this production of mischief.
We shall soon see Developments not unim-
portant. We shall see what portion of the Peo-
pie of this country will be content to make no
eectual efforts for its relief from its present en-
barrassment and distress, preferring rather to
endure every possible public evil for three years
longer if thereby any chance may be afforded of
the qualification of Mr.. Clay's ambition.
In one most important aspect, Mr.. Clay's
Manifesto cannot but prove of the greatest ad-
vantage to the Administration. 1t shows who
is the chief and bitterest enemy of that Admin
stration, and who is to lead the forces which
are to make war upon it. 1t places Mr.. Clay,
and his election to the Presidency, in direct,
full-faced opposition to all decent support of the
measures of the Administration. 1t clears the
course of thousand collateral questions. and
brings one broad issue, and one only, before the
people and that is, whether the country shall
be relieved, by giving fair support to the mea-
sures recommended by the Administration, or
ruined, for the purpose of making Mr. Clay
President three years hence.
This issue we are prepared to try
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AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.

The Boston Traveller speaks in high terms of
a work just published from the pen of Profess
sor Webster of Harvard University, in which
the writer discourses most ably on the science
of CHEMISTRY as applied to the purposes Of agri
culture. Holding, as we do, the pursuit of till
ing the soil in the highest estimation, we are
grafed to find that our countryman is disposed
to add to its consequence by investing it with
the charms of scientific attainment. 1t must
not however, be supposed that we attach any
undue weight to theoretical disquisltions which,
being beyond The comprehension of practical
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From, the .Ne,p HAMPSHIRE Patriot.

The President has recommended in special mes
sage the repeal of the law for the distribution of the
proceeds of the public lands. The democracy will
thank him for this independent and noble step. He
will receive not only their praise but their cordial
and strenuous support in this measure. We shall
how the Federal party will treat this patriot
ic course of Mr. Tyler. Clay and his Chareys VIII
pour out maedcton upon his head, but let him stand
by the country and the country will stand by him.
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MR.. CLAY'S DECLARATION OF WAR
AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION.


On retiring from the Senate, Mr.. Clay has
issued his declaration of war against the Pres-
dent and the Administration. We are glad it
has come.
The Manifesto takes the shape of letter to
certain Wings in North Carolina. This mode
of commencing hostilites is matter which has
been arranged of course between the head OF
the belligerant party and the late retiring Secre-
tary of the Navy, with the aid, perhaps, of a
friend or TWO from the same State in Congress.
We confess, with all sincerity and truth, that
we see this letter with pleasure. Knowing for
acertanty that the President, and every person in
any way connected with his Administration,
and every member of Congress, evnclng IN
inclination to give it decent and reason
able support, had become already an object OF
Mr. Clay's implacable hate, we have desired no.
thing more than to see the time when we might
pronounce this truth, without appearing to pro-
woke that hostility, of the real and actual exls
tence of which we were well assured, and o
which we have now manifest proofs. Mr.. Clay
now goes into opposition openly, avowedly
with talents which no one denies, with feelings o
personal ambition exasperated to the keenest de
gree by many, and especially by recent disap
pointments, and with objects resembling tn,
heights of the Andes or the Himilaya noun
tans, clear and distinctly to the sight, but utterly
and forever unatanable.
By all his talk of retirement, and the solac'
of privacy, and the repose which age may re
qure from care and toll, Mr.. Clay means M
more, than that he now resolves to transfer hi
personal labors from one field to another; AM
leaving the duties of Member Of Congress
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I5PA Medical Board has been ordered to con-
vene in Philadelphia, the ID of May next, for the
examination of Assistant Surgeons for promotion
and of candidates for appointment, in the Medica
Staff of the Army.
The Board is composed of
Surgeon Til. G. MOWER, President.
Asst " J. NJ. CUYLER,
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nThe Special British Minister, Lord Ash
burton, having arrived in the City on Monday
evening, called at the Department OF State the
next morning, and was, we learn, presented to
the President yesterday to present his ofhclal
letter from the Queen.
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took ihsr places the haul pas, opposite 10 III
Queen, on the nth sido of the altar, Wis
The King # Prussia
| Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent proxy 70
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sake Co
burg
His Royal H ghnes. the Duke Of Cambridge.
Her Royal IIighness the Duchess oil Cambridge
proxy for her Royal Ilighnsss the Dschess d
Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cam
bridge, proxy for her Royal IIishness the Erin
cess Sophia
His Serene Hghness Prince Ferdinand of Sake Co
burgh.
The Queen and his Royal Hghness Prince Alder
aud other Royal personages, not being Sponsors III
their respective attendants, in the following order
proceeded from the Chapter room, and entered ths
choir at the door on the north side and took THEN
places on the haul pas, on the north aide OF the
ALTAR
The Senior Gentleman Usher Quarterly Waiter
Gentl-man Ushsr to @ ,ntleman Usher Of
the sword Of State the Black Rod.
Garter King OF Arms
Groom in Waiting Groom OF the Groom in W .itng
on II. II. Stole to
Primes Albert. H. H. the q Ieen.
Sergeant-atAr Arms. The sword Of Ssrgesn.-,t Arms.
The Lord State The Lord
Steward tn. Duke .S sf WELLINGTON n oA'"0trl'H.
Lord ia Waiting The Quxrs Lordis Waiting
on n n II. and n. r. H. on the
Prince Albert. Psrrcs ALsrnr. Queen.
sergeant-atA Arms. Sergeant at Arms.
Master OF the Horse. Mistress Of the Robes.
Lady OF the Bedchsmber
Two Msids Of Honour.
Bedchamber Woman.
The Lord Chamberlaia. accompanied by the
Groom Of the Stole TO his Royal Hghaess Prince
Albert, then proceeded 10 the Chapter-room, and
conducted his Royal Highness the infant Prince of
Wales into the chapel, attended by the Lord asd
Groom in wsiag.
When the Queen entered the choir, short volun-
tarIes, selections Of sacred mHsc, were performed
and continued until the commencement Of the
baptismal service.
The whole OF the members OF her Msjestys pr.
waite banc, and several of the state band, led by Mr.
Francis Cramer, occupied the newly erected gallery
IN the south side ut the organ, al which DR.. G.. |.
Elvey presided. The instrumental performers Goa
sisted Of three trombones. three trumpets, two
fute- two elsrionets. two hautbeys, two basssoas,
one serpent six fist violins, seceld violiss two
violas, double bass viol, violoacelIo, drurs
&c Including the following distinguished profess
sora.-
vroliss--Mr. F. Cramer, master; Mr. BIagove,
Mr.. G. Anderson, Mr.. ]. Loder, MIR. I. Cook and
Dir. w. Cramsr.
Yiola-Mr. A. Moralt.
Troni5oncs--Mr. Smithie and Mr.. Smihie IT,
Trumpcs-Mr. Harper and Mr. lrvn.
Ga the entrance Of lhe procession into the CHER,
the march of +" JGdss Maccat eus'' was performed !;
at the conclusion Of which the Archbishop OF Can.
terbury commenced reading the service, the Amens
being sung by the full choir, among whom
noticed MIR. Vaughn, Mr.. Knyvet,, Mr.. Hobbs, and
several other gentlemen Of the Chapel Royal asd oil
the choir at Westminster, in addition To the gentle
men Of the choir Of st. Georges Chapel.
The sponsors were the King Of Prussia, and the
Duke o. Cambridge, the Duchess Of Cambridge, ~
proxy tor the Princess Of Sake Coburg, and the
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- Completein feature and in mind,
With all good grsce 10 grace gentleman~

-
IheQueen appeared somewhat pale aud agltated,
g the horses Of the state coach became very FESTIVE
from the continued shouts Of the people She bsw-
ed, however, with her usual sweet smile-a smile,
- Al who have ever seen it knew at once dipnified
and winning. The King of Prussia soon after fol-
lowed, and was warmly applauded. He could not
be seen well, ~ he leant back in the carriage bui
he Was seen now and again bowinQ to the crowd
with that open unaffected and bear; NO
which so strongly characterises him. The Duchcss
of Kent was vehemently cheered. Her ROYAL
Hiehness looked the very picture Of happiness.
"The Duke" was rspturously eheered The pro-
eession, after forming in Wolsey's Chapel. and re-
manning within about - minutes, returned In the
same order in which it came.
TN CHAPEL.
The arrangements within the Chapel for the ad
mission and location Of the, persons who were to
take part be present at the important ceremony
OF the day were ell that could be desired, and not
moment
The emily respect in which the chapel differed
nom is ordinary appearance was in the platform
raised tor the accommodation Of the royal party in
front Of the communion table. A carpet also bear
ing tor pattern the star and motto Of the order nj
the Garter, was laid along the whole length of the
choir.
BY the kindness Of the Lord Chamberlain. accom-.
mediation was made for the representatives of the
London Press at the west Of the chapel mme diatsy
opposite the communion table, from which an sx-
cehent view OF the ceremony was obtained
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1842-01-13
Spinine of Blood,

\ Isanother dangerous symptom 81 Pulmonary sE
feelian atf difficult 10 arrss, vh.,,, neglected Fl
eomnrfres with cough, eotiioris exnre,ers,ien
which consists Of bright Irolisy matter or black
and elp,ldd with blood therr Is tlo.ry some fever
headache, Pslpiiaiion Of the hrait Pushes Of heat
and retluess u the cheeks; sisheatx Of bresthing
soreness Oh the Nthrost. and saltish taste in The
mouth, &s.7 DR.. DuneaR's ExptetorasG Remedy
will be found 10 arrest this rompl4int One single
bottle, in many eases. will answer if used Il the
6rst aIiack bus when aegIeetkd iimay require ma
~ m9re. Those vho may b. sflet-d with splitting
Of blood should lose no time 10 procuring the above
medicine, - this disease mostly proves serious
when not eaily attended to-
Also, for salesst The Stores Of
MI J. HI. BEARD a. CO.
ii chsyi,st0son,
SAMUEL KILHAM,
HgPsrs-FarSy.