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their projectors Their steamboat estab-
lshments, whether on coast or on river, are
unrivaled in European States and their
Geographic lines, superior IN cheapness and
utility to ours, have been carried for thou
sands Of miles into regions where the iron
pathway has not been able to penetrate
Nor is their mineral wealth equalled by that
of the most favored quarters of the globe
Her empire Of coal her Kingdoms of cot
ton and of corn her regions of gold aud
Of iron, mark out America as the centre of
future civilization AS the emporium Of
the worlds commerce ;-as the granary aud
storehouse ont of which the kingdoms of
the East will be clothed and fed aud
We greatly fear as the asylum in which our
children will take refuge when the hordes
of Asa and the seml-barbarlans of Eastern
Europe shall again darken and desolale the
West.
In thus speaking Of America, we have no
desire to underyalue our own beloved coun-
try. We wish not to exchange for Der re-
pCblican Institutions a monarchy hallowed
by time and rooted IN the habits aud ailec-
tons of the people; and still less do we de-
sire TO replace our territorial arlstocracy,
with the arIstocracy of wealth and talent
which democratic community can alone
recognise. Our object is to persuade Eng
land to respect America-to love her as the
frst-born Of her political family -and, with
the affection of a parent, to rejoice IN her
progress, aud pray for the prosperity and
consolidation of her empire. Though
dauntless in her mien, and colossal ia her
strength, she displays upon her banner the
star Of peace. Shedding its radiance upon
US, let US reciprocaie the celestial light and
strong and peaceful ourselves, we shall have
nothing to fear from her power, but every
thing to learn from her example
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Prospective Greatness of the u
nited States.

The London Times says that by the end
of the next half centary the population of
the Unned States will be 100 600 900 and
adds, III the Union lasts that time, the u
nted States will be the greatest nation the
world ever saw ~ There eau, few imagine,
be no doubt fthls result, in the contingent
cy here stated, and we will not allow our
selves to doubt that IT will take place. Our
thus far, has increased beyond
all former example, and there is no reason
To believe that its progress will be less rap
id in future.
Imperial Rome. we believe, had under
her dominion, when IN the plenitude of her
power, about one hundred and fifty millions
of people. But her position was widely diff
lerent from that of the United States. Her
subjects were the victims of her military
power; they were conquered nations, spea-
king hundred different languages, and
bearing within their hearts neyer-dying
hostility to their conquerors. Acquiring
her ascendancy by the sword, she was com
PEELED to maintain il by the same means. -
Her whole history is one continued record
of outrage upon her neighbors, of war a.
broad, aud revolt aud conspiracy ia the boz
som of Italy. The temple of Janus was
closed but twice in five hundred years, and
the Caledonia General who said that "she
created desert, aud then called 1t peace, /"
If this speech be any thing more than a
rhetorical flourish of Tacitus, described her
whole policy IN the most accurate terms.
The great empires Of modern times have
been acquired IN the same manner. The
Russian Gar reigns over go or 1000, 900
OF human beings, and forty thrones, the
trophies of successful aggression, are shown
to the curious stranger in st. Petersburgh,
as mementoes to prove that the national ex-
lstence OF as many separate people have
been exlinguished in blood, by the over
shadowlng power of Russia. The history
of the British Empire in India is a record
of blood aud murder, which can scarcely
ind parallel in the Annals of Tacitus,
or the luminous pages of Gibbon." The
proceedings OF the earlier British satraps in
this unhappy country, we're justified by the
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The United States the CONNER
cial Centre of the World.

The States Of North America are to be
the commercial centre Of the globe. This
destiny seems so inevitable, that one hardly
requires more than Inspection of the map
to perceive IT, Both sides Of the globe
the two hemispheres-are ours by our po-
sition, for we are the land OF two oceans.
From our hlther shore we hail the Europe
an and African continents from our thlth-
er shore we greet the Oceanica aud African
continent Aud all between the oceans is
our own; to be filled with our own people,
under common institutions, speaking one
language. The interior structure Of this
continent peculiarly fits ito be the mart of
the globe. Its rivers open the interior, from
almost every part, and give natural outlets
ITS lakes are embosomed oceans, giving to
the northern frontier third shore, and an
INLAND commerce, scarcely less than the At
lantlc or Pacific shore. Such artificial ways
as are needed, especially the great thor
oughlares from ocean to ocean, the inland
highways from the Atlantic to the Pacific
are within our own bounds We have no
Prussia on our border no Russia beyond
her. Our vast interior is not grouped into
national estates, blocking each other up,
and wasting each others means by mon
strous armies of watch or attack. We can
ask of Commerce what she needs, and
whether it is northward or southwark, east
ward or westward, her path lies among onr
own people. Shortly the carrying trade of
the globe must be IN our hands Upon our
shores are the gates through which must
pass the worlds merchandise But let a
thousand cities spring up where one now
tolls and groans with the wheels of indus
Try, and let canals and roads, and rivers be
increased a hundred fold, our resources
when developed, Will require them all. Our
mineral treasures are not iew-not little
lead little iron, litIe coal-but all min
erals known to science, or discovered by
art, are here. Every years discovery teach
es US that the few, not yet found out, will
soon be added TO the catalogue. Our ag-
rlcultural products, in variety, surpass com
putatlon, and in quantities defy the lmagin-
alton. Were all our fields in nth, and the
products given to commerce for distribution,
we could supply the globe, though every
foreign acre rested for a thousand years
Hunts McrchdnfS Wqga2ine.
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Prom the North na,.h Review for February.
The United States the Centre of
future Civilization.

Accustomed TO look with wonder upon
the civilization Of the past-upon the un-
blesl glories OF Greece and OF Rome-up-
on mighty empires that have risen but to
lall-the English eye has never fixed itself
ON the grand phenomenon of Great Ma
ton at School. Viewing America as for
ward child that has deserted IT'S home and
ablured IT'S parent, we have ever looked up
on her with a calous heart, and with an
evil eye Judicially bind to her progress In
a region teeming with vegetable lie-rest-
ing upon the subleIranean treasures of CIV
intersected by noble rivers, y hose
tributary and capillary streams carry food
and life into every part of the land, The An
glo-SaXon race has established itself in nigh
~ cities, the centres manufacturing, COM
meIclal, and agricultural wealth; aud has
lntrenched itself amid noble Institutions
with temples enshrned ia religious tolera-
tlon,-wIth universities of private bequest
and public organization with national and
unshackleG schools, and with all the resour-
ces which science and literature and phllan-
thropy demand from the citizen or from the
State. Supplied from the old world with
ITS superabundant life, the Anglo Saxon
llue hds pech SdiiylnS lis multiplied pOpn-
laion TO the West, flushing onward through
imperyous forests ,-levelling their lofty
pines, chasing before it the jenizens OF
the Jungle, aud driving to an ocean frontier,
where civilization will at last find them, the
savage hordes that still usurp the faresl
portions of creation. Nor is this living
flood the destroying scourge which Proyi-
dence sometimes lets loose upon our species.
1t breathes in accents which are our own.
1t is instinct with English life and IL
bears on It's snowy crest the auToral light OF
the East to gid the darkness of the West
with the purple radiance of salvation, OF
knowledge, and of peace.
But while the frontier OF civilization is
thus advancing with giant strides, the fixed
population of the American States has been
yying with European communities in the
cultivation of the arts which contribute to
domestic comfort and national aggrandise-
ment. Their railroads, with all their i'm
projections, supply the necessities of the
traveller, and remunerate the public spirit OF
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American Eloquence.

A writer has good remark upon Amer
lean eloquence
g But am | asked what is the best field Of
American eloquence answer, the stump,
decidedly the stump! This is the Ameri-
can rostrum from which are to come the
highest efforts Of eloquence. The direct ad-
dress TO the people themselves. is, so far as
the production of eloquence is concerned,
incomparably superior to that Of the legis-
latlve halls. Our congressional and legis-
lative oratory is not, nor can be, of the high
est order, for the want of that prime ele-
ment OF oratory-proper sympathy between
the orator and the audience. All are alike
bound down by the adamontine chains of
party and sectional interests, which no pow
er of eloquence can move or sway. So far
as any practical Influence upon the audi
ence which he is addressing is concerned,
the orator may just as well address the pill
lars around him, or the marble statues
standing in the inches of the wall. But
when he is speaking to the people, he knows
he is speaking to those who are both honest
of purpose and free to act. He may have
to remove; but the people will
listen 10 reason and argument, and when
convinced will burst asunder all the ties Of
party, and go for the right"
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in this manner. What can so have disturb
ed your young mindf You certainly be
ieve there is God, TO whom you owe
debt of gratituder
T" His eye kindled, and to my surprise
might almost say horror--I heard from
his young lips,
No, don't believe there is Godp
Yes, that little BOY, young as he was,
was an atheist, and he even reasoned in
logical manner, for mere child like him.
go cannot believe there is God said
he; for if there we're God, he must be
mercIiul add Just; and he never, nerer,
NEVER could have permitted my father, who
was innocent, to be hanged Oh, my Ia
ther my fathcrp he exclaimed passionate
ly, burying his face in the pillow, aud sob
bling as If his heart would break G
q was overcome by emotion; but ali
that | could say would not change his de-
terminaton--he would have no minister of
God beside him-no prayers by his bed
side. was Isndoie with all my endeavors,
to apply any balm to his wounded heart.
" A few days after this called as usual,
IN the morning, and at once saw very clear
ly that the little boy must soon depart.
g" Willie said |, have got good news
for you to-day. Do you think that you can
bear to hear itP for | really was at loss
how to break to him what | had to commu-
nlcate.
" He assented, aud | listened with the
deepest attention. then informed him, as
best ] could, that from circumstances that
had recently come to light, it had been
rendered certain that his father was inno-
cent of the crime for which he had suffered
an gnominous.de
" never shall forget the frenzy of emo
ton which he exhibited at this announce
ment. lie uttered one scream-the blood
rushed from his mouth--he leaned forward
upon my bosom-and died
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man who defended them most successfully
Lord Erskine) on the ground Of expedi-
ency, or rather, necessity alone. On no
other was il possible to defend them. There
is this thing about the history ofthese great
empires, which should be a warning to all
nations who eyince disposition to enter
upon a career of conquest. The conquer
ed country may add TO the numbers, but it
cannot increase the strength of the con-
queror. On the contrary, 1t is always a
thorn in its side The immense armies
which Rome found it necessary TO employ
IN order to keep down the spirit Of revolt in
the provinces, drained her of her wealth,
dcbased the minds of her people, placed the
Government at the mercy of the military,
and after plunging her for centuries into
mserles, of which modern nations can form
no conception, led finally TO her complete
humiliation as power. Ireland is at this
day thorn in the side Of Great Britain.
and Poland is an effectual cure upon the
ambition of Russia. "se'
But the case is widely different with the
United States We have here no conquer
ed provinces to hold in subleclion-no re-
volts TO suppress by the arm Of the militia
ry-no foreign nations bound in letters and
foaming for revenge. Every State is sover-
ereign aud independent-each has the same
number Of privileges with its sisters-all
regulate their own internal affairs by means
of their own l.egislatures-and all submit
the conduct Of external matters to a COM
mon head No nationalties have been ex-
tngushed IN our progress-no captive peo-
pie weep over the days OF their national in
dependence. If then, the Union should
hold until we shall have acquired such a
population as that indicated, we shall be the
most wonderful nation in more respects than
one. We shall be homogeneous, for all ma
tons melt into the great Anglo-American
family, and assimiate with the utmost iaclli-
ty.-Richm0nd Dispatch.
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To TAKE SPECK FROM THE EYE. We
lately learned very clever and safe mode
of extracting any little speck from the eye,
when it cannot be easily removed by the
hand. IL consists in licking it out with the
tongue. The person affected lays his head
down with his tace upper-most, aud the OPP
orator, desiring that the eye shall be kept
open, comes across it gently with his tongue,
so as efectually to wipe it clear of the ex-
traneous body. This. we find. has been a
common practice among some classes Of
stone-cutters, on getting what is called FIRE
in their eye; and we doubt if the whole of
the resources of the medical art could afford
better remedy. This process Of remov-
ing specks from some eyes must be both
delightful to the operator and the per- son
operated upon.
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PoisoNs.-vessels of copper often give
rise to poisoning. Though the metal nn-
dergoes but little change in dry Amos
phere, it is rusted if moisture be present.
its surface becomes covered with a green
Observation-Disclosures or the Protoxide Of
copper, a poisonous compound. 1t has
sometimes happened that a mother has, for
want of Knowledge, poisoned her family
Sour krout, when permitted to stand some
time in copper vessel has produced death
in few hours. Cooks sometimes permit
pickles to remain in copper vessels, that
they may acquire rich green color, which
they do by absorbing poison. Families
have often been thrown into disease by eat
ing such dainties, and may have died. in
some instances, without saspecting the
cause-Dr. Thompson.
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BIBLICAL. Mr.. Rees, a well known
street preacher in Cincinnati, was accosted
by would be wag the other day and qaes-
toned as follows:
DO you believe what the Bible says a.
bout the prodigal son and the fatted calf"
Certainly do"
Well. can you tell me whether the calf
that was killed was a male or female calf.
ELI 2"
" Yes, it was a female calf"
" How do you know that 7"
Because" said Rees, looking the chap
in the face, A" see the male is now alive
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THE DAISY.

The daley biossons on the rocks
Amid abe purple heath,
Il blossoms on be- ftot's lant.,
That threads the glons beneath
Tho eagle, a. hi. pride Of place,
Bshold' j., by his aest
And in he mead, ii cushion. soit
The LARA. descending breast
Before the cuckoo, earlios, spring
lissiisof oireiet snows,
When ereen,ns bud. begin swell,
And zephyr melt. the saows,
And vixen December hrreEes bowl
Along the moorlsnd. bare,
AID only bloom. The Christmas rose,
The daisy sili IS there
semari'an dower toit
lluee. afe alike,
The saitasr o. be sisriol height
The Dutrhnun By be dyke
The seal sklu-,eatol Esqaimrua,
Bee,ri with icy seas,
And undefneaiL tAe burning noon
The parasol'd Cheese.
The emf erani 90 distant shore.
Mid seems. and faces strange,
Beholds ii Towering 90 she swafl.
whcfu'er bus Footsteps range
And when hi' yeamiag home.ics heart
Would bow TO its despair,
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painfully, "who do you call boyi" and
0 the emphasis.
But testing aside--an honest, blunt, mer-
~ m,sch'evous boy, IS something to be proud
OF whether as brother or son for in all his
scrapes his good heart gets the better Of
hun, and leads him soon to repentance
aud be sure he will remember his fault--at
least five minutes.
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The married ladies' of Paramount, N. j.,
have organized themselves into an Indepen-
dent Order Of Odd Ladies, in order to be
revenged upon their Odd Fellow husbands.
Their lodge is kept open half an hour long
er nighls than the Odd Fellows.
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Fetching Water from the Well.

Ea,lg ON q sunny morning,
While the lark We. singing sweet,
Come beyond ihe ancient hfm-house,
Sounds Of lightly tnppius feet.
iva. loueil ma'ien going,
WHY. ivi Young hearts tell,
Wth her lourly pitcher laden,
Touching water from the wol.
Shadows lay athwsft tine pathway,
An along the quiet laoe,
And the hteezcs O fthe morning
Moved them TO AID 10 again.
o'er the sunshine, Der the shadow,
Passed the maiden oftho farm,
with a charmed heart within her,
Thinking Of no III OF harm.
Pleasant, surely, were her musings,
For the nodding leave. 10 vain
Sought to pres. their bushining image
Ga her ever bus5 BRAIN.
Leaves md Joyous birds went b, her,
Like a din, half-~akiag a,sam,
Aad her soul was osly conscious
OF iife's gladdcst summer CLEAN
A, the old lanes shady tuning
Lava well Of water bright,
Singing, .on. ~ halleluiah
To The gracious morning light
Fern leaves, broad and green, bent DER It
Where ns siiy'ry dfoplets fell,
And the fairies dwelt beside il,
10 the spotted fox-goso bell
Back she bent the shading fern losyes,
Dipi u'o pitcher ia the tide,
Drew it, with the dripping waters
Flowing DER H. glazed side.
But, before her nfm could place ii
gu her SHAY, ~asy hair,
d, hoi side youth wa standing!
Love Tsjoieed TO see the pair!
Tones Of ttemulous emotion
Tailed upon The mofniug breeze,
Gentle words Of heaiidevouon
Whispered meath The ancient trees.
But the holy, blessed secrets,
IL heseoms me not 10 tell;
Life had me another meaning,
Fetching watef fion the Vel!
Down the iufal lane they saunteied:
He the burdsn- pitcher bore
She, with dewey eyei down-looking.
Grew more heauicous than beiote
When they heard the tilent homestead,
Up he :aisod the pitcher light
Like hiiing crown he placed
On heI hair Of waveless bright;
Embems Of the coming burdens
That Tor lore Of bin she'd bear,
Calling every burden blessed
Ifhis lose but lighted there.
Then, slIll waving benediotions,
funhor-iunhef of be drew,
While his shadow seem'd glory
That across the pathway gew.
Now about her household duties
Silently the maiden went,
Aud an esef-radieni halo
With her radieni lille was blent.
Little knew tho aged matron,
A her feet like music fell,
Whia abundant treasure found she,
Fetching water from the well. =
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iOoctrp.
ELLA LEE.

\ SONG OF THE SOUTHERN LAND.
BY JULIA.
Lay her whore the woodbino clingeth
To the datk Maruoia treci
where me hfsez, low music bdngoih
Prom the bosom ofthc soa
with sofrowful devotion,
lay hot where sweet violots be-
Where the leuves Keep gentle motion
To the breathing oftae .oa.
There, there, lay her,
There, there, leave her,
Our mir Ella,
Our yonug, Ella,
Our lost Ella,
Ella Leo
Evqr blooming as the summer,
Ever hummins like the bee,
We believed her some bright conner
ftum the lend where souls ffoo.
Oh, she was sweet aud holy,
Mortal nc &c could io,ellof be-.
And she len brightly, slowly,
a the son-sei loasos The seq.
Yes, NC have lost her,
Ever loot her,
our sweet Ella,
Our lair Eiia,
Our young Ella,
Ella Loel
Lay her where The long gras. swespeih
on the bark ufmauy auee--
Where the lonely willow woepoih,
Lilo a mouruer by the sea.
sho lovely, he Wa seatlc,
Asall gifted spirits hes
Folded 10 d linen mantle,
slumbeung near the signing sea-
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WELL Pur. OLD LADY. Mrs. Parting
,ngton asks very Indignantly, if the bills
before Congress are not counterfeit, why
should there be such difficulty in passing
Them
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