The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-02-22
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PREArIcE, Of The LouisuHe Journal,
~ not on y a writer of rare humor, and
IA satarISt OF the first stamp, Lut he is a
poet, and good one.--Even his prose,
much Of it, has all the clements of true
poetry. Th" following eloquent SEM
fences are from his fertile and fluent
pen: "Thcre is but breath ofair and
beat OF the heart betwixt this world
and the next. And in the brief interval
OF painful and awful suspense, while we
Ieel that death is present with us, that
we are powerlcss, and the last faint pull
satlon here is but the prelude of endless
HE hereafter; we feel, in the midst of
the stunning calamity about to beiaIl us,
that earth has no compromising good to
mitigate the severity of our loss.-But
there is no grief without some benih-
cent provision to soften its intenseness.
| When the good and the lovely die, the
memory of their good deeds, like he
moon-heams on the stormy sea, lights up
our darkened hearts, and lends to the
surrounding gloom a beauty so sad, so
sweet, that We would not, if We could,
diSpel the darkness that environs it,"
BISHOP CApERs, of South Carolina,
appears in the Charleston Mercury, in a
solemn admonition TO his fellow citizens
against the madness Of attempting sep
aration fromth Union. Bishop Capers,
our readers, perhaps, do not need to be
informed, is a distinguished divine of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. In
his extensive journeys through several
States Of the South, he may possibly
have acquired from his more compre-
hensive associations a habit of looking
at political questions less narrow and
provincial than that of the majority of
the people in South Carolina. His adj
dress cen hardly fail Of having great eff.
feet. He demands a convention of sober
and wise men, instead of boys, and men
half-made, which is significant enough.
The PUBLIC PR1NrrNG.--A dispatch
from Washington, Feb. 18th, to the
Philadelphia American says:
"The mystery which has surrounded
the bids for the public printing is clearing
of. A gentleman of experience, who is
IN favor OF the propositions Of all the
! proposcrs, has just shown me an ex-
tended calculation, which proves Mr.. A.
Boyd Hamilton to be the lowest bidder
for every portion Of it, and at higher
prices than those paid Belt 4 Trenholm
| (Ritche's contracD by about $4,000 in
the aggregate, and more than 100000
above the contracts of Wendell & Van
Benthuysen, and Tippin & Streeter, four
years ago. Mr.. H., who is in this city,
says he will go on with the contract, and
fulfil its condition in all particulars.
| TACITURNGTy OF GENIus.-ln CONVEX
sation Dante was taciturn or satirical;
Butler was silent or caustic; Grey and
Aliieri seldom talked or smiled. Des-
carries, whose avocations formed him for
meditation and solitude, wan silent; Ros-
seau was was remarkably trite in CONVEX
sation-not word Of fancy or eloquence
warmed him. Milton was unsocial, and
even irritable; when much pressed by
the talk of Others Addison and Moliere
were on y observers in society: and Dry
den has very honestly told us, s'conver-
sation is dull and slow, humor saturnine
and reserved; in short, am not one of
those who endeavor to break jests in
company, or make repartees.
A MONEY ls.-Thcre has been a
pamphlet recently published from the
pen Of Hon. Samuel d. Ingham, former
y Secretary Of the Treasury under Gen.
jackson, in which he predicts crisis in
our monetary system, arising from the
change of relative values as between
gold and silver, Mr.. Ingham recom-
mends the coinage of a limited amount
of small silver coins lighter than those
now in use, which would protect them
from expectation and their use in the arts,
and likewise prevent the evil of the cir
culation of small deprecated foreign
COINS and small paper money.
| EM1GRATIoN IN 1S50.-According to
the annual report Of the New York Com
misrloncrs of emf grailon, just submitted
to the Legislature, the whole number of
passengers arrived at that port during
the year 1850 was 232, 16S. OF these,
1892 were citizen, of the United
States, and 212,7o6 aliens. Natives Of
Ireland, 1l7,03S; Germany, +5, 1886; 9TH
er countries, 5O,223. The amount of
Communication money received from emf
grants during the year was $316,267.
A great amelioration in the mode Of
carrying passengers is noticed.
! JUVENILE PRECoclTY.--A consideruia
mother having advised her child "nev.
er to put off till tomorrow wat Va,
can do to-day" the precocIc:us bow 70.
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