Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-04-18

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stands up to defend. Now, the valuation
OF foreign goods is made not by the a
mericpn authority, except in suspected
cases, but by foreigners, and abroad
They assess the vafae, and we the duty;
but. as the duty depends in most cases,
upon the value, It's manifest that tlinse
who assess the value, fix the duty. The
home valuation will give our Govern
ment what it rigbtfully possesses. both
the power to ascertain the true value OF
The thing which it taxes, as well as the a
mount of that tax.
4th. That strict and wise economy,
IN the disbursement of the public money.
be steadily enforced sand that to the end,
all useless establishments, all unnecessa-
r.y offices and places, foreign and domes-
TIC, and all extravaganza. either in
The collection or the expenditure of the
public revenue, be abolished and re-
pressed.
l have not time to dwell on details in
the application Of this principle. will
say that pruning knife. long, broad and
sharp. should be applied to every De-
partment Of the Government. There Is
a5un liant ,upe for honest and skillluI
surgery. The annual expenditure may,
III easonabe time, be brought d0wa
from its present amount of about forty
millions to uear oae- third of that sum.
9Th. The several States have made
such great and gratifying progress in
their r, speetiye systems of Internal I'M
provements, land have been so aided by the
distribution under the deposite act. that
in future. the erection of new roads and
canals should be left to them with such
further aid only from the General Gov
eminent as they would derive from the
payment of the last instalment under
that act, from an abstract relinqulshment
OF the right of Congress 10 call upon them
to refund the previous instruments, and
from their equal and just quotas, to be
recei, ed by future distribution of the
nett proceeds from The sales Of the public
lands.
And 9th. That the the right TO slave
property, being guaranteed bv the Con,
stitution, and recognized as one Of the
compromises Incorporated in that instrti-
ment by our ancestors, should be left
where the Constitution has placed it,
undisturted and unagitated by Con-
gress.
THE Fork and the Potato .-PhaSm is
ne of the most amiabe and accOmmO-
ating creatures in the word; but, then,
iere is limit TO amiability itself, as a
.rsnn Ea,a.al-- .L.>-...I.~-=-lls -
.e Of Phasm's nearest neishbors, at the
BILE of public house in this city. The
Iividual, for several days, had been
constantly in the habit OF troubling
asm, instead of the WATERS. for this,
at, and The other article, on the ia
,. that the latter began to feel 'wol-
, not only about the head and shout
rs but all ouer, and was ready For al
ost any kinl of a 'lare-up' with his
g. An opportunity was finally offered.
II trouble YOU said Phasm's tormen-
r. at the same time giving him his fork,
stick my fork into the potato No
uble at all. sir, said Phasm, plungins
: fork into the potato, aud there lear
it. .rll trouble you for my fork
". if you please No trouble at all
lied Phasm. pulling the fork Oat Of
Dotafo. and returning il! Phasm says
he has not been trou6lsd-by that
p-since -1raa.
SSe-
EfghtM Scene agith LeoPard.-Oa
0th iust.. Herr Driesbach, famous
licn-tamer, attached to travelling mem
aaerie, took out with him, at Baltimore
a pet leopard under his arm. He, with
Others. aIighted from their carriage and
went into coffee-house. A boy, about
10 gears of age. was pushed by hts COM
panions against the leopard, which IN
great rage, took the hoyfs head in his
mouth. wountlng his head and lace Sc
vereiy- Driesbach, after desperate ell
fort, rescued the boy by thrusting his
hand down the animals throat. Dries
bach was arrested and sent to prison;
butwas admitted to bail in 81 200.
-eSa-
Dreadfsi Explosion 1t is our mel
ancholy duty, says the Petersburgh In
teIIisencer OF Saturday, to record anoih-
err Of those dreadful catamites against
VIII CHI no human foresight can guard
On Friday morning. a locomotive, with
train Of 81 burden cars, left the depot of
the Petersburg and Roanoke road at a
bout 9 O'Clock. After passing the first
curveson the read it WIS discovered that
Que Of the cars had got OF the track, and
the engine was Of course immediately
stopped the engineer getting down TO
see what was the nature of the difficulty.
As soon as tae car had been placed on
the track, the engineer returned to his
post ard put the engine in motion. No
sooner had he done so, than the boiler
burst, tearing the engine 10 atoms and
the engineer literally frafo pieces; at the
same time killing negro man. wne was
a fireman, aud very severely iniuring an
other.
JUST RECEIVED.
YUyHE subscribers have just received a fresh
u supply OF Sugar, Coffee & Molasses.