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shle expectations Of ali radical reformsrs, it
w;,, be found 10 show progressive improve
r,n, az The Constitution VIII i.h preceded il,
and which was. for its day and generation, o,
document far in advance Of most Of the State
Constitutions IN existence at the beginning
Of ,hs. present century. Tha. constitution
l.sted Kita century, withou, modification
or change. If adopted, no such period will
slspss before the present very imperfect and
inadeouste code will be brought inis nearer
HARMONY with the progress of the times. 4
We feel no disposition to be pleased with
,bs new Cons,itu,;on & Z Neither do we think
/, would ,bs wise to opoose IL. if /, proves 3
: whole. 10 be more suited TO the W ell.beine
and prosperity Of, the State. than the present
ons. m his scale Of comparison we have
NO doubt Il will be weighed Nv ,,,a ;ud;c;ou,
or ali parties IN tbe State. and the dscision
will be oiven 4, Il sbopld h. wber. the bal.
anse Of m.rit inclines @
The enlargement Of ,bs direc, elective
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presses, q nm'd conservatives and o. corPo-
porsts monoPolists' they may md the de-
served scofn o. all VINO desire the elevation
Of man. the advancement OF the race, and
Who love their State and revere what is good
ana great IN its institutions. Tobslieve that
any ssher result would be the consequence
- Their derclictlon from duty and principle
would % 20 question public honesty and ms
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TxnPERAx0E.- We make some ex-
srsc,s on the FIRST psgo from an article on
Temperance from Canada paper We
omitted number of local paragraphs.
IA lecture on Temperance will be Civ
enin this sown on Saturday pexs BY Rev
Nj. vsr,icsn, IN The Methodist Episco.
pal Church. Hs''' .>'s'ss
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live 'ne HOuOI 10 DC
Very respectfully, p, ...,..
Your ob't servant.
J. E. HEATH, Commissioner.

LAND WARRANT CERrIrIcATns AS
srcNABLE.-A join, resolution making
bounty lsnd warrants assignAble, II would
seem from the telegraph, has passed both
branches of Congress.-Cin. Eng.
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APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
WAsHINToN, Feb 81.

4 Hoffman, District Judge Of California.
Henry s. Pendleton ofVa. Minister 10
Bogota. 10 alaraF F
! s. G. Goodrich. Of "Peter Parley''
memory, nominated Consul to Paris.
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Beautiful wea,hc, nowadays s.i.,.
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The Coinage Of the Philadelphia. Mint
from The 2Olh of January. 10 the l4ih of
February, amounted TO $4,560,lSl, III
gold; S75, ,o5O, in silver: $l2,lo3, ii
copper; ,o'al. S4,649,243. OF The gold
coin,ge, $3, 930,2s0 was in large coin.
Tie amount yof outstanding certificates
to individuals is So, 536,3I0; and due
to government. for advances, So 900 900.
Total uncoined, $Il ,535,60O. ,,,.
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Half Shaved.

Some fifteen or twenty years ago, before
steamboats, has become so common, and there
were no means of communication between this
village and New York, except by small sloop
honored with the name of packet, party of
some half dozen merchants started for the city
to buy their Fall and Winter stock of goods.
The passage which usually occupied but day
or two, was this time stretched out to over
week, and our travellers had slight taste of
the peculiar feeling incident on voyage upon
the water. Among the company, was one who
was somewhat of a wag, and who furnished
them with considerable sport by his comical
appearance while under the influence of sea-
sickness. Just before their arrival in the city
they commenced putting themselves in proper
trim for meeting their city acquaintances. But
here was a difficulty, their boards had not stop
ped growing during their long passage, and
were now of quite unsightly length, and they
had all left their shaving utensils at home, with
the exception of our rogueish friend, who was
Immediately beset with applications to lend
them. To all their inquiries he answered that
he made it rule never to lend his razor, and
he could not let them have it at any rate. Yet,
to oblige them, if they would let him 60 to
work his own way, he would shave them. As
there was no alternative, they consented. So
after shaving himself, he called them upon deck
and told them that he must proceed according
to system, and that he should shave them all at
once in order to avoid partiality as much as
possible. He then seated them in row upon
the deck, first lathered one side of the face of
each, and then proceeded to shave it. After he
The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1851-12-04
Thirty.SecOnd Congress.

The first session of the thirty second Congress
commenced Monday, Dec. 1st The Hon. Linn
Boyd of Kentucky was elected Speaker of the
House Of Representatives by a majority of
twenty-four over all others. The Presidents
Message was communicated to Congress on
Tuesday, and was published in the Tribune of
that day. 1t is a long article, filling about
seven columns in the Tribune, and treats q
the Cuban invasion, Kossuth, the difficulties
between the French Republic and the Sand
wich Islands, Mexico, the railroad across the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, railroad across the
lsthmus of Panama, review of the Report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, exports and imports,
California, Texas, the Tariff Report of the Sec
retary of the Interior, the Public Lands in
California and Oregon, the establishment of an
Agricultural Bureau, land warrants, Indians,
the census, the want of 4 uniform fee bill, inn
provemen of the harbcrs of our great lakes
and sea coast and the navigation of our princi-
pal rivers, the protection of our Southwestern
frontier and the adjacent MEXICAN States
against the Indian tribes within Our border,
the army and navy, Post Office Department.
revision of the public statutes of the United
States, the extension of the Capital, the Fugi-
tive Slave Law, &c.
The present session bids fair to be one of
great interest. The friends of variety of pro-
jects are preparing to present them for action
during the session. Further reforms are asked
by the friends Of cheap postage. The friends of
Colonization want aid, and so do those of the
American Steamers. 1t is anticipated that
several amendments to- the Tariff will be pro-
posed. Bills will be presented to provide for
the location and construction of Central
National Railroad, from Mississippi River to
the Pacific, to establish Ocean Mail Steamers
from San Francisco via. Sandwich Islands to
Shanghai, China, and bill for telegraph
from the Mississippi to the Pacific But the
great business of the session will be President
making and Union saving. With the former
the People are going to have more to do than
formerly, and the Union, though it will be en-
dangered somewhere between a hundred and q
thousand times, will, we candidly believe,
manage to survive. The agitation of the
Division of California will doubtless reach Con-
gress before the half session is completed.
Slavery is at the bottom of the movement. The
" institution is bound to keep up the agitation
until it shakes itself to pieces. Its demands
for an increase of power will not be conceded
without struggle. Some friend of Freedom
may dare to propose the modification, or even
the repeal, of the Fugitive Act, but the decla-
ration of the South that it shall not be repealed
settles the question.
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A legend is popular among the people
of Vienna concerning the death of Pontius
Plate. They story is of a strange char
actcr, and throws wild and pleasing in
terest over the locality which commemo-
rates the event. Not far from Vienna is
situate a small Roman tower its walls are
built square, and rise to an unusual height.
It's lattice work overlooks the waters of
the river, and the lofty shadows of its ex-
terror envelope the shining food winding
at its base with perpetual gloom, and
seems to borrow an additional feature Of
melancholy from the character of the deed
which is presumed to have been enacted
there. This place is called the " Tout de
Manconseul." PLATE, broken in spirit,
retired to the tower to indulge in his grief,
and to conceal his lamentations from the
eyes of his unbelieving people. Here,
violently susceptible of the great wrong
and wickedness he felt himself to have
participated in, in paroxyism of despair
he threw himself from the lofty windows of
the tower, and perished in the waters of
the Rhone. The Swiss have likewise their
traditionary account of the death of PLATE.
At the foot of one of the Alpine noun
tains, called by the name of PLATE, stands
a small lake its waters are constantly in
a disturbed state, and often the scene of
violent storms Gloom and solitude are
the leading characteristics of this unfre-
quented place, which presents but wild
and ill-boding picture to the eye of the
traveller. Enfeebled in body, and his
mind prey to ceaseless remorse, PLATE is
said to have reached the margin of that
lake, and there to have seated himself and
drunk of its waters An alien from his
country and race, without friend or solace,
he resigned himself to the bitterness of his
reflections, and finally threw himself into
the waters at his feet. The tranquility of
the scene is said to have changed from that
time. The waters are often visited by
severe and unaccountable agitations, which
the legends say are the writings of the
troubled spirit Of PLATE. The adjacent
mountains are shadowed all the year
through, and the supnrstitious inhabitants
of the district affirm that apparations are
frequently to be seen in the neighborhood
and lamentations are heard upon the
winds waking the echoes of the mountain
Businesses. The subject has been before
referred to by the English travellers, and
particular allusion is made to it in Hughes
Itinerary.
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In TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR

In TIME OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR.
"A young lady Of wealthy parentage, a
Aedgling from one of our most fashionable
boarding schools, type of modern excel
lence, was recently united by the silkeD
tie of matrimony, to a gem of a beau.
The mammas and papas on both sides be-
ing surrounded by all the concommitants
of luxury and the many little agreeable
paraphernalia bespeaking the possession Of
the dust, determined to get fine establish
ment for the young people, and they were
accordingly fixed in splendid mansion on
Walnut street.
A few days after this, a school compan-
ion of our heroine called upon her, and
was surprised to find SO many servants
about the house.
why, Mary said she, what in the
name of common sense have you so many
people about for p
'O,' replied madam, Eve havn't any
more than we want. There is but one
C ok, one chambermaid, two house girls,
one housekeeper and child's nurse Pm
sure there are not too many
'Ha ha = said her friend, 'what dc
you want with child's nurse ? o! that
is funny
'Well, we havn't any immediate use for
her, but when we were married, Charles
said that We would want one, and you
know it's not always best to let things be
until the last moment
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Discovery Of n Settlement Of
Chinese Jews.

A paper called the North China Herald
contains detailed narrative of an excur-
sion made by two Chinese Christians, in
search Of a colony of Jews, who were sup
posed to exist at K'hae-fung-foo latitude
"a deg Sc min.. N. long. deg. so min.
w. of Pekin.) As was anticipated, the
people they were in search of were dis
covered, but in the most abject and wretched
condition, having for their bed bare ground,
with only rags to cover them, and with
means barely sufficient to support nature.
1t appears that their existence were known
to the Jesuit missionaries some century
and half ago; but up to the present
time nothing had been done towards gain
ing knowledge of their history. And
what history would not this prove if it
could be traced back to the date at which
they separated from the rest of their peo-
pie In poverty and abject wretchedness
they now exist, living apart from the idol
aters by whom they are surrounded. On
the first visit little else was accomplished
than the procuring few Hebrew manu-
scripts, containing portions Of the Old
Testament scriptures. On second visit
to this interesting colony, six copies of the
Pentateuch, in the original Hebrew, were
obtained. -Fwo Of the Jews themselves
have arrived at Shanghai Tire copies ol
the Pentateuch, ere long, will be forward.
cd to Europe, and will prove of intense in
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LEARNED. A school teacher, down
South, in communication to the Mt.
Sterling Democrat, on the subject of Pub
lie Sku.es,' winds up as follows:
let me close this ere Artickel By akin
sum kwestshnns in sack Rack Tick stile.
1st had a child ort tew 60 tew Skule when
it kant keep uts nose kleen ; 2nd which
is the best lowd skule ur a still wun
3rd how long will it take an ap fletcher
tew larn Skollur tew Baker kummensin
at the judgments Nv A 4th Ort teetch-
ur ever take short nap in time Nv Book !?
5th Ort teetchur olwaze to du as the Di-
reckturs sa 9th and lastly whats good
remedy fur the Each & of so haddent
teetchurs orto olwaze tew kepe it about
um3 ide like tew here from the faculty
on these pints no tharres mutch in the
kind Nv book we uze yet the fundymentle
prinsipul Nv teetchen lie in pursuen a
kurreet sistym.'
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had finished the last one, he went to the side of
the vessel to throw the lather overheard, when
by some accident the razor slipped from his
hands and went to the bottom Turning round,
with all the concern imaginable pictured in his
face, he yelled out:
"There! Stop the critter, my razor is over
board, wouldn't take fifty dollars for it Can't
you stop and find it,"
But the razor was not found, and though he
protested that it was all accident, and that he
would not have lost the razor upon any consid-
Grafton. our half-shaved friends were Inclined
to doubt the sincerity of his good intentions.
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"Spiritual Manifestations.

The N. Y. Tribune has letter from Mr.
Charles Partridge on "Spiritual Manifesto
tions," wherein he gives an account of the
wonderous doings of the "spirits," as witnessed
by number of doctors, judges, &C., at several
meetings held for the purpose of investigating
the subject. Among all the questions asked,
and answered by the spirits" there is not one
but might have been answered exactly the re
rse to what they were said to have been, and
no one would have been the wiser; so that the
whole letter amounts to just nothing, either
pro or con, so far as proving or disproving the
truth Of the manifestations. The spirits, after
requesting the company to remain silent for q
few moments, ,'closed with the following -
Friends The bright and free day is break
ing horrid Death is being revealed and demon
strated to be but glorious Birth.
"The gloom which now attends the chambers
of Death-the stifed sobs and darkened win
dows-shall ere long be exchanged for serene,
pure, heavenly delights; weeping shall give
place to cheer, and the pure zephyrs of
heaven shall watt through open windows to
battle the brow of the topping and almost
deserted tower.
Inc music Vi the SpnereS ABOVE VIII greet
the senses Ofthe enraptured inhabitants of earth
Then mOurnful lamentations shall be no more
known.
"NOw, in the gray twilight of morn, the
dew-drops are descending almost insensibly
upon all things; but the influence of the rays
of the rising sun is required to give life there
unto. The dewdrops are Truth /; the sun is
UNDERSTANDING"
If the transcendental philosopher, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, were not yet dweller in this
fleshly tabernacle" we should say his was the
spirit that g raped" cut the above.
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/" Spirit Of COnauest.o
s Of the Literary Echo

To the Editors Of the Literary Echo
Were it not that the subject of friend
DPS first article is one of serious impor-
tance, should refuse entirely to notice
his second article for it seems to have
been dictated by spirit contrary to that
which ever should characterize the writer
for public journal. l may have altoge--
ther mistaken the spirit which pervaded it.
I wish not I" to accuse any falsely" If
4" attempted criticism, a sw assumptions, and
a few interr0gatiOns are not arguments"
neither are sarcasm and personal reflection.
IF, therefore, I do not reply to to the re-
joinder, it is because due regard for self
respect would seem to forbid.
But relative to the questions raised in
my first article, l. can assure friend ID. that
they were propounded, not from desire
to "deserve the unenviable reputation of
installing criticism for authorship" nor
from a desire to engage in controversy,
but from desire to discover truth, and
much regret that friend d. declines fair
and candid answer to my interrogation.
Because believe he would have thrown
light upon subject, which is of vast i'm
portance. I consider it one of the ques-
tions of the day, which Christians, and
ministers especially, must meet. And, as
my object was to open door for inquiry,
I am sorry that friend d. seems to take it
so unkindly. Should your columns be open
and my time permit, I intend to say few
more words on the subject and should
1 differ from friend d. in my views of it, |
hope he will not let such difference de-
tract from that respect and courtesy which
each has right to expect from the other.
GREENMASvILLE, Ct, /. Dec. 1851. S.S.G.
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1ass" West and Bennett. charged with barn
burning in Stonington, for a year past, were
convicted at the term of the County Court, re-
Gently held at Norwich. The evidence against
them was of the strongest character, and fully
justified Justice F. A. Palmer, before whom
they were examined, in binding them over. We
presume the citizens of Stonington are we'll
satisfied that the law has reached the real cul-
prits. 1t will be recollected that a reward of
81 900 was offered for the apprehension and
conviction" of the persons who fired the barns
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Ess- We would say to our friends, and to the
rest of mankind" in this vicinity, that we
have increased our facilities for job printing Of
every description, by the addition of new type
and one of Gordon's Original Yankee Presses -
which bears the palm from all competitors by
the beauty and speed with which it works so
that we are enabled to fulfill all orders for plain
OF fancy job printing--such as cards. circulars,
catalogues, banks notices and checks, hand
bills, labels, bill-heads, pamphlets, auction
notices, druggists labels, legal notices. by laws
for societies, &C., &c.-with degree of rapidty
neatness, and cheapness, unsurpassed by any
other Office. Those having business in that line
will find it for their interest to give us call
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FEMALE observation-disclosures much a
woman may detest her husband, the griev-
ance is too irremcdiablc for her to find any
comfort in talking about it; there is never
any consolation in complaining of great
troubles silence and forgetfulness are the
only anodynes. Women have generally a
Spartan fortitude in the matter ofhusbands;
if they have made an unblessed choice, it
is a secret they instinctively conceal from
the world, cloaking their sufferings under
every imaginable color and pretence.
They apparently feel that to blame their
husbands is to blame themselves at second
hand.
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nD~ Have the courage to tell man
why you will not lend him money-he will
respect you more than if you tell him you
can't. Have the courage to pass the bot
tie, without filling your glass, and laugh at
those who urge you to the contrary. Have
the courage to discharge a debt while you
have the money in your pocket. Have the
courage to speak your mind when it is ne
cessary that you should do so, and to hold
your tongue when it is better that you
should be silent.
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LITTLE THoRNs.-The sweetest, the
most clinging affection is often shaken BY
the slightest breath of unkindness, as the
delicate rings and tendrils of the vine are
agitated by the faintest air that blows in
summer. An unkind word from one be-
loved often draws blood from many heart
which would defy the battle-axe of hatred,
or the keenest edge of vindictive satire.
'ay, the shade, the gloom of the face
familiar and dear awAkens grief and pain.
These are the little thorns which, though
men of rougher form may make their way
through them without feeling much, ex-
trcmely incommode persons of a more re-
fined turn in their journey through life
and made their travelling irksome and un.
pleasant.
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In DlLEMMA.-We were much anus
ed by an incident which friend of ours
related to us the other day. A gentleman
who had been absent for a considerable
time, and who during his absence had
raised pretty luxuriant crop of whiskers,
moustachios, &C., visited a relative whose
child, an artless little girl of five or six
years-he was very fond of. The little
girl made no demonstration towards salut-
ing him with kiss as was usual. Why,
Child said the mother, don't you know
your uncle Hiram Why don't you give
him kiss p 'Wby, ma returned the
little girl, with the most perfect simplicity
{ 1 don't see any place!'
Poughkeepsie Tel.