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WEsrERN MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS ON
tue Roufg TO OaEGoN Tho National
Iuieihgencer contains very interesting
sketch Of Capt. Fremont and company's
"trip to Oregon, being his third expedition
on account OF Government, aud the intel.
gonca he gives Of that country is highly
important and valuable. The Rocky
Mountains are shown to be not tho for.
mdOblo barrier supposed. Capt. +. eros
sed them at "lour different places--in.
stead of being desola,e and impossible,
they are shown to have many excellent
passes, (of which the South Pass is The
finest, and embosom beautiful valleys.
caves and parks, with lakes and mineral
springs, riyalIing and surprising the most
enchanting parts of the Alpine regions in
Switzerland. The great Salt Lake, one
.oi the wonders Of nature, and perhaps
without rival in the world (being sat-
urated solution Of salt, Of hundred miles
dameter) is for the first time revealed
TO our view, by one who has surveyed
lis shores and navgated its waters The
Bear river valley, with its rich bottoms;
fine grass, walled up mountains, hot
springs, mineral springs, soda fountains,
volcanic rock, volcanic crater, and saline
eiiorcscences, and four thousand five hun
dred feet above the sea, is for the first
time described. The same of the Sierre
Nevada-of the rivers Sacramento and
San joaquin, which constitute the waters
of the bay Of San Francisco--and the
same Of the Great Desert, and its Arab
inhabitants, which lies south of the lati.
tude of that bay; and extends many de.
grees east towards the Rocky Mountains
None of these objects have heretofore
been described by any traveller
The Beneventura river, which has a
place on so many maps, and whose course
is traced from the Rocky Mountains TO
the Pacific, is declared to have no exis-
tence but in Imagination of writer's and
map.makers. or the geographical dis
coVeres and descriptions, the most stri-
king is that Of the Great Basin, or vas.
interior plain, which lies between the
Sierra Nevada and The Rocky Mountains,
east and west, and between the Blue
Mountains and the Wahsatch on the
south, and embracing an uera or nve or
six hundred miles diameter. The eleva-
ton Of the Sierra Nevada, being more
lofty than the Rocky Mountains, accounts
Tor the formation OF this Great Basin, as
Capt. Fremont calls it, and o. which he
! is the first to announce its existence TO
the world. A basin which may hold such
| a kingdom as France, and which has for
its rim a circle Of mountains whose sum-
mts penetrate the regions ofeternal snow,
is certainly new and grand object 10 be
revealed.
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beasts Of burden lost their footing at eve.
~ step, and rolled down in great NUN
bors into the abyss beneath; tho Gle
.phants became FESTIVE amidst prlyatlons
and a climate to which they were totally
unaccuslomed; aud the strength Of the
soldiers, worn out with inccss0nt marG
ing and fight, began TO sink before the
continued toll Of the ascent Horrors,
formidable to all, but in an especial man.
ner terrible TO African soldiers, awaited
them at the summit. 1t was the end Of
October; winter in all It's severity had al.
ready set in on those lofty soIItuGes; the
mountain sides, silent and melancholy
even at the height of summer, when en-
amelled with flowers and dotted with
hocks, presente ted then an unbroken sheet
of snow; the blue lakes which interspers.
ed overthe level valley at their feet were
frozen over, and undistinguIshable from
the rest Of the dreary eXpanse, and
a boundess mass Of snowy peaks arose
at all sides, presenting apparently an I'm.
pa ssabe barrier to their further progress.
But it was then that the greatness OF Han,
nibal shone forth in all its lustre. "That
great general" says Arnold "who felt
that he now stood victorious on the ram
prats Of Italy, and that the torrent which
rolled before him was carrying lis waters
to the rich plains Of Cisalpine Gaul, en-,
deavored to kindle his soldiers with MS
own spirit Of hope, He called them to
gether; he pointed out to them the valley
beneath, to which the descent seemed to
be but the work of a moment THAT
valley he said, is Italy; it leads TO the
country Of our friends, the Gauls, and
yonder is our way 10 Rome. His eyes
were eagerly fixed on that point OF the
horizon, and as he gazed, the distance
seemed to vanish, till he could almost fan
cy he was crossing the Tlber, and assalI-
ing the Capitol" Such were the diff
cul;ies of the passage and descent on the
other side. that Hannibal lost thirty-three
thousand men from the time he lett the
Pyrenees till he entered the plains Of
Northern Italy; and he arrived on the
Pc with only twelve thousand Africans,
eight thousand Spanish Infantry, and six
thou sand horse. Napoleon's army which
fought at Marengo was only twenty-nine
thousand, but he had lost no men in the
passage Of the Alps, and only few in
the difficult passage across the preclPlces
of Mont AIbarado, opposite of the fort o.
Bard, in the valley of the Doria BaItea.
1t is ridiculous, after this, to compare the
passage Of the Alps by Napoleon to their
crossing by Hannibal.
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4 LrntcRous lAyKEg orioS.--Wo are
firm believers IN The true efficacy Of the
odago "augh and grow fat aud 1t is
with no ordinary effort that We constantly
strive TO profit by the ipluncton--ho ncy.
enjoys a lokc by which he cannot make
something. "Whlt is it worth 10 me2N is
the question he asks OF himself before he
ventures to laugh All arc not 50, how.
ever, aud we remember case In point
There was a clock pedlar who made a
cheap o. SINNERS by vending wooden
clocks tperchance nulmegs and hams) in
I;he slave States, and who in the course of
his pereginetons reached town in Ar.
kansas The day before his arrival, a
| slave stealer, who was sentenced TO re.
ceive one hundred lashes at the whipping
post, had escaped from jail, and ii so hap
Ipened that our Yankee clock merchant
bore a striking resemblance to the escap-
ed cuIprit, The poor pedar had scarce
| Iy completed his task Of Shutting up his
wagon and seeing his "animal" well hes
towed before the manager, ere he was
seized by the town constable and carried
to jail, in spite Of his protestatons that he
never stole black sarpint of niger in
all his life. The constable knew the
said, that he was the man, and in two
hours the sentence regarding the whip
ping was carried into effect.
Sure enough the time came. Our Yam
kee was led TO the post, and, as they say
on board Of a manof-war, "seIzed up"
The first lash fell. Our Yankee laugh
ed aloud and seemed TO enjoy the doggine
with great relish; for until the tilielt
lash he had laughed and shouted witt
great glee. The whipper paused in thu
exercise of his vocation, looked at tn,
culprit with Amusement, and then resum
ed his task, muttering that the man wa;
certainly deranged. To make long sto
~ short, the sentence, was entirely car
Iried into effect; still our Yankee kept uI
his mirthful exclamation.
The Sheriff standing near, said TO hin
I"why this seems to be very serious
very serious matter, rather than laugha
Bile one.n
"WaI, know continued the Yankee
Iindulging in the broadest kind Of guffaw,
I"but i tickles me like thunder to see how
Idarnably you are all sucked in, Why,
amt the mann
And still chuckling over the "suck in
his 1oggers had experienced, he went his
way.
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THE BlBLE.-The bible is the only book
which God has ever SENT the only one he
ever will send into this world. All other
books are Grail and transient as time,
since they are only the registers of time;
but the bible is durable as eternity, for its
pages are the records Of eternity. All
other works are weak and imperfect, like
their author, man: but the bible is re
plete with infinite power and perfection,
like its author, God, Every other vol
ume is limited in It's usefulness and inhu
ence; but the bible came forth conquering
and 10 conquer, The bible only, Of all
the myriads of books the world has seen,
is equally interesting and important to
all mankind, lis tidings, whether of
peace or Of woe, are the same to the poor,
The ignorant and the weak, as TO the rich 4,
the wise and the powerful. Among the
most remarkable OF its attributes is JUS
tice; for it looks with impartial eyes on
kings and on slaves, on the chief and the
soldier, on philosophers and peasants, on
the eloquent and the dumb. From all. 1t
eAactS Tue SdlUe ooeuleHS0 " no SO''i
mandments promising to the good the re-
ward of their loyalty, but denouncing to
the evil, the awful consequences of their
rebellion. Nor arc the purity and hoiI'
ness, the wisdom and benevolence, OF the
scriptures less conspicuous. 10 vain we
look elsewhere for true models Of charac-
ter; for the models of the husband and
the wife, the parent and the child, the pa
triot and the scholar, the phiIanlhroplst
and the christian, the private citizen and
the ruler of the nation. Whatever shall
be their respective lots, whether poverty
or wealth, prosperity or adversely, social
influence or solitary station, the bible IS
their only fountain of trulh-lheir only
source of virtue and greatness, of honor
and felicity The Presbyterian.
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AScENE AT WASHINGTON When Mr.
McLane was Secretary Of State, new
minister arrived from Lisbon, and day
was appointed Cor him TO be presented tC
President Jackson. The hour was set
and the Secretary expected the minister
to call at the State Depar tment for him
but McLane's French is like that Of tho
present translator 10 the Department
rather difficult Of comprehension, and the
| Portuguese misunderstood him, and pro,
ceeded to The White House alone. He
rang the bell, and Jenny O'Neal, Mar
tins predecessor, came TO the door,
"Je suis venu voir Monsieur lie Presi-
dent" said the minister.
"What the divi does that mean?' NUT
tered Jemmy-"he says President. though,
and s'pose he wants to see the gineral."
Oui, oui," said the Portuguese, bowling
So Jenny ushered him into the green
room, where the General was smoking
his corncob pipe with great composure.
The minister made his bow to the Presl-
dent, and addressed him in French, Of
which the general did no; understand one
word.
"What does the fellow say, Jenny"
"Divil know | knows reckon he S
furriner."
"Try him in Irish, Jenny" said Old
Hickory,
Jenny gave him touch of the genu-
inc MiIesian, but the minister only shrug-
ged his shoulders with the usual "plalt'iI."
"Och!" said Jenny, che can't 90 the
Irish, sir-he's French, by the hill O.
Howthm
"Then send for the French cook, and
let him try and fud out what the gentle
man wants"
The cook was hurried from the kitchen,
sleeves rolled up, apron on, and carving
knife in hand. The minister, seeing this
formidable apparilion, and doubling that
he was in the presence Of the head Of the
nation, feared some treachery, and made
Tor the door, before which Jenny planted
himselfto keep him ia. When the cook,
by the Generals order asked him who he
was and what he wanted, he gave very
subdued answer, to the advertisement OF
the cookgthe President, and Jenny, who
now discovered for the first time the
character Of the stranger
In this stage OF the business McLane
came 10, and the minister was presented
in form-but the matter could never be
alluded to in Old Hickory's presence with
GU, throwing him into passion,
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The BLESSINGS OF CHRISTIANITY.-A
beautiful writer says, that christianity en-
ters the hut Of the poor man, and sits down
with him and his children ii makes them
contented in the midst Of privations, and
leaves behind an everlasting blessing. 1t
walks through cities, amid all their pomp
and splendor, their imaginable pride and
their unutterable misery, purifying, en-
nobling, redeeming angel. 1t is alike
the beautiful champion of childhood, and
the comforting associate Of age, It en-
mobiles the noble, gives wisdom TO the
wise, and new grace to the lovely. The
patriot, minister, poet, and eloquent man ,
derive sublime power from tho influence.
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WHERE is HOME.

Tis home where e'er the heart is,
Where e'er its loved ones dwell,
h cities or in cottages,
Thronged haunts or messy dell;
The hearts q rover ever,
And thus on wave and wild,
The maiden with her lover walks,
The mother with her child.
Tis bright where e'er the heart is,
It's fairy spells can bring
Fresh fountains to the wilderness,
And to the desert spring.
There are green isles in each ocean,
Ger which affection glides;
md Haven on each shore,
Where loves the star that guides
rTs free where e'er the heart is;
~. Nor chains, nor dungeon dim,
May check the minds aspirings,
Ill The spirits pealing hymn
The heart gives life its beauty,
Its glory and its power
aTs sunlight to its ripping stream,
And soft dew to its flower.
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PASSAGE OF THE ALPS BY HANNIBAL
The pride Of the French historians has
|Dfen led them TO compare Napoleon
|paesage Of the great ST. Bernard TO Han
|nihal's passage Of the Alps: but without
|dolracling from the well-earned fame oil
1.-The General, il may safely be affirmed
|thaf his achievement will bear no sort Of
|nonparison with the CarthageEian hero
when Napoleon began the ascent Of the
| Abs from Martigny, on the shores OF the
|nhhne, above the lake, Of Geneva, he
|foNbd the passage of the mountains clear
|0d hy the incessant transit of two thou
|6An1 years. The road impractjcable for
|carriages, was very good lor horsemen
| ard foot passengers, and was daily traver.
Iced by great numbers o. both IN every
season of the year. Comfortable villa
|geecn the ascent and descent afforded ca.
Icy accommodation TO the weared soldiers
both by night and by day; the ample
sores Of the monks at the summit, and
th9 provident foresight Of the French
generals, had provided meal to every
NAan and horse that passed. No hostile
Troops opposed their passage; their guns
were drawn up in sledges made of hol-
loved frs; and in four days from the time
tA9s they began the ascent from the banks
81 the Rhone, the French troops, without
lQHlng man, stood on the Doria Paltea
snH increasing waters Of which flowed to-
WAFds the Pc, amidst the gardens and
neyards, and under the sun of Italy
1sntihe case was very different, when
aannlbal crossed from the shores Of the
Uugance TO the banks Of the Pc. The
n1enntain sides had not yet been cleared
~ lhe centuries Of laborious industry
presented continual forest, iurrowed a
tafy hollow by headlong Alpine torrents
lfiuges there were none to cross these
fpetualIy recurring obstacles; provls
lQ9a scanty at all times in those elevated
s9aludes, were then nowhere to be found
laving been hid by the atfrighted inhab
us on the approach of the invaders
Ho powerful army oil mounlOineers oc
peg The entrance OF the deiiles, defen-
sq with desperate valour the gates o.
sAsir country, and, when dispersed by tht
PRIOR discipline and arms Of Hannibal.
Y Rlers, still beset the ridges above theil
Of march, and harrassed his troop:
continual hostility When the woody
'on was passed, and the vanguard en-
,*ed INTO the open mountain pastures
&N'ch led to the verge Of perpetual snow
% difficulties awaited them. The turf
n the gliding down Of newly Taller
RF on those steep decliv:ties, was Sc
perry, that it was often scarcely posi-
Tor the men TO keep their feet; The
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DEsERvING.-"D Do you know Mr..
Brown" "Yes, my dear. ais he not a
deserving man?'' "Yes, he deserves
logging, and if he ever gallants you
again, | will give it to him. Boston Post.
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"IN order 10 love mankind, expect but
little from them; in order 10 view their
faults without bitterness, we must accus-
tom ourselves to pardon them, and per
ceive that indulgence isa justice which
frail humanity has right 10 demand IRON
wisdom"
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Ina PREDIcAMENT. -"HaIlo jim, how
are your" inq hired young man, OF
friend, whom he had called upon, and
found confined to his chamber.
"I'm not WE'LL"
''Not we'll what's the matter with you1"
"l'm ina predcament."
Sin predicamenl! How do you make
that out?"
81 have not paid my board these six
weeks"
sis that all? why, my dear fellow, you
don't pretend to say that is the cause Of
your iIness!"
"Yes, but | do! They won't allow me
to go away ill pay my board, and they
won't allow me to eat till settle up"
His friend picked up his harand remar
ked he must be going
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A sailor being summoned to give tesil-
mony before court, was questioned by
the Judge. as 10 his religious creed: "Are
YOU an Episcopallan2 "No sir" care
YOU Cathoic?" "No sir" GA metho,
ilstY' "No sir" "What are you, them
81 am captain OF the fore.top, sir"
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SOMETHING NEw.--A correspondent Of
the London Miners Journal, asserts that
he has lately written on paper made OF
iron, and seen book, the leaves and bind
ing of which were made Of the same ma
terial.
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An hours industry will do more to be-
get cheerlelness, suppress vile humors,
and retrieve your affairs, than months
moaning.
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1t is indeed humiliating reflection, that
one cannot, like an angel OF mercy, In
tercede between two human beings, ar
rayed in combat against each Other With
out getting a kick for ones philanthropy,
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"NANcY," said girl to her companion,
which railroad train do you like best9
THAT one," replied Nancy, (which fur
nishes spark catcher"
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A GOLDEN couch brings no relief TO the
victim Of disease, and splendid fortune
adds nothing to the comfort OF fool.
Johnson
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"Afilc.ions are sent by God, only to
cut the cords which bind US TO the earth,
that like the balloon our spirits may Use
into higher and purer atmosphere. "
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From the Southern itIrdry Messenger
MUSINGS.
DY AMELIA or LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

ffuW we nVHtdtFH itkfWV M'SN'HRtFs
MUSINGS.
BY AMELIA or LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
| wandered out ono summer night,
Twas when my years were few
The breeze was singing in the light,
And was singing too,
The moonbeams lay upon the hill,
The shadows in the vale,
And here and there leapiug ril,
Was laughing at the goe.
One neecy cloud upon the air
Was all that met my eyes
| 1t Aoated like an Angel there
Between me and The skies.
j clapped my hands and warbIed wild
As here and there flew,
For was but a careless child,
And did as children do.
The wave came dancing DER the sea
In bright and glittoring bands;
Lake little children bright with glee
They linked their dimpIed hands;
They linked their hands-but ere caught
Their sprinkled drops Of dew,
They kissed my feet, and quick as thought
Away the riPPles flew.
The twilight hours like birds flew by,
As lightly and as free;
Ten thousand stars were in the sky,
Ten thousand in the sea;
For every wave with dimpled cheek,
That Ieaped upon the air,
Had caught star in its embrace,
And held it trembling there.
The young moon, too, with upturned sides
Her mitror'd beauty gave;
And as bark at anchor rides,
As she rode upon the wave.
The sea was like the heaven above,
As perfect and as whole,
Save that it seemed 10 thrill with love,
As III rills tho immortal coul. -.r--
The leaves, by spirit-voices stirr'd,
Made murmurs on the air.
Low murmurs, hat my spirit heard,
And answered with prayer:
For twas upon the dewy sod,
Beside the moaning seas,
| learned at fist to worship God,
And sing such srains as these.
The flowers, all folded TO their dreams,
Were bowed in slumber free,
By breezy hills and murmuring streams,
Where e'er they CHANGED to be-
No guilty tears had they TO weep,
Nor sins to be forglven
They closed their eyes, and went 10 sleep,
Right in the face Of heaven.
No costly raiment round them shone,
No jewels from the seas,
Yet Solomon upon his throne
Was ne'er arrayed like these.
And just as free from guilt and art,
Were lovely human flowers,
Ere Sorrow set his bleeding heart
On this fair world Of ours.
| heard the laughing wind behind,
A playing with my hair
The breezy fingers of the wind,
How cool and moist they were!
| heard the nght-brd warbing DER
Its soft enchanting strain
never heard such sounds before,
And never shall again
Then wherefore weave such strains as these
And sing them day by day,
When every bird upon the breeze
Can sing sweeter lay3
I'D give the world for their sweet art,
The simple, the divine:
I'd give the world to melt one heart
As they have melted mine.
IHE BLESSINGS OF CHRISTIANITY.-AI
beautiful writer says, that christianity en-
tiers the hut Of the poor man, and sits down
with him and his children; it makes them
contented in the midst Of priyatlons, and
leaves behind an everlasting blessing 1t
walks through cities, amid all their pompI
and splendor, their imaginable pride and
their unutterable misery, a purifying, en-
nobing, redeeming angel. 1t is alike
the beautiful champion of childhood, and
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From the Albany Argus
THE WOOL. GROWER AND "THE TARIFF
AS 1T lS.''
The Batavia Times illustrates the effect of the
tariff as il is upon the article of WOOL by some i'm
portant facts:
"We have at our Office some samples of wool,
which were lately procured by "a gentleman of this
village, from the custom-house in the city Of New
York One parcel of this wool was imported from
Brazil, in South America. Is quite as fine q The
best common ,rooi Of this country The other parcel
was imported from Cordova, in Spain. II is very
dirty, but a small portion Of the parcel which has
been washed, is pronounced by good judges to be
equal in fseness to the full blooded Merno ,cool raised
in this country"
This wool, the Times states on the best anthori-
ty, was imported under the nominal duty Of 5 per
cent, having been invoiced as costing less than
cents abroad 1t is the kind Of wool Of which thir-
teen millions of pounds were imported last year,
according the report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury.
II is scarcely to be wondered at, under the invita-
ton to imporatons of this article, held out by the
tariff Of l842 that wool can be bought as cheap in
this country as anywhere else; and that recently
large quantities have been brought here for manu-.
features in England. But the fact speaks volumes
as 10 the degree ofprotection which the farmer
ceives under the tar il is, contrasted with the
manufacturer, with his 80 and 40 per cent rate Of
protection.