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streets, and in some places they cluster together so I as almost to drive out the dwellings of man. On tho mornings of God's holy day, our streets are almost deserted, and remain still and quiet as the tomb, until the joyous peals of the church bells summon us to prayer and the worship of Jehovah. And when the congregations are dismissed from their devotions, the vast multitudes roll back upon their homes, in long processions whose numbers swell to thousands. We know there are in FRIDAY EVEKI.W, SEPT. 13.

Correspondence of the' Eaple. Short IInnd MketchcaNo. 8. HOME BROOKLYN. September 1S44.

Whoever goes away from home leaves behind the best place in the world. The good old song, Swco1 Home," is true in every word and letter, and portrays, in sweet and touching numbers, tho footings of one who know, by theory and experience, that there's Railroad Liberality Husbandry. The several railroads from Buffalo to Albany arc manifesting commendable liberality in transmitting stock and other articles free, and passengers at greatly reduced prices, to the Slate Agricultural Fair and Cattle Show, which is to be held in Poughkeepsie, on the 17th, 18th and 19th instants. Notwithstanding the prevailing political excitement, it is gratifying to notice that the interests of husbandry are not neglected Xhe Victory in Maine. 11 Have you beard th news from Maine, Maine, Maine, Maine, So Honest and truo Coon Melody of 1840.

The Star in the Eaat grows brighter the more we see of it. The Democrats have literally Bwept the Slate, and their gain is immense. Particulars; where everything is so decidedly oho way, are br little use. Tho Boston Post says We Continue to receive trie most cheering assuran ce of the triumph of the sterling Democracy of Maine. This splendid achievement of the Maine brieade of the Democratic forces Will be hailed with joy and gladness throughout the land as one in tho i ti i i i scries 01 urutiant victories uic iu uc vun uy luc Democrats throughout tho fall campaign.

In 221 towns, which will be found recapitulated below, Anderson's majority over all is 1068 his majority over Robinson, Jive thousand eight hundred and' eighty two The Democratic net gain, compared with the Whig vote only, is eight thousand eight hundred and fifty four and over Whig and scattering it is four thousand one hundred and seventy four The towns to be heard from, in 1840, gave 2500 majority for the Democratic electoral ticket. Anderson's majority, therefore, will be little short of five thousand over all 1844. 1840. 5 75 fe a a 2 5 5 5' No. towns.

3 32 Cumberland, 29 6647 4928 845 6438 6791 28 York, 24 5199 3227 576 5473 4643 4 28 3874 5957 797 3494 6893 43 Lincoln 30 4997 4791 484 4621 5879 14 Oxford 24 2765 1401 5295 2779 2139 5 15 1533 2073 307 1590 2485 15 Franklin 8 1037 877 290 1178 1198 16 23 4025 3154 7J4 3062 3133 4 5 252 258 47 175 335 5 Waldo 19 3658 1702 409 3964 2221 3 16 1500 1247 41 1279 1405 From Ibo New York Evening Poit. A Whig Mntlrigol. To be sung at barbecues, the ladies joining in the chorusses. Election! Election! time for reflection To assemble our pros and our con To shout Harry Clay, and the I'a to pay, SJjSuId success net attend Os Rag Dow At election Should success not attend us Rag Dons. Vt6toi Harry now, Harry You must not miscarry You've it too.

often before Talk sweet, and look Wand, but don't show your hand, Or yre'l lay bur deSeal at your door, Mind, Marry lay our defeat at your door. At the South at the South, When yoa open your mouth, Be careful to dwell on free trade Of the old cotton gin, your praises begin, And your fortune is certainly made, Attho South', And your fortune is certainly made. At the North at the North Call free trade a moth, To eat up each citizen's food On your honor declare, that its laws you can't bear, they doubt you, why just your blood, At the North tf they doubt you, why just your blood. Oh The Bank Oh The Bank Its deeds they smell rank, And they fill us with doubt and dismay It both bought and sold, and got rid of its gold, Leaving nought but I promise to pay, At the Bank Lea ring nought but' I promise to pay. There's Texas There's Texas You must not annex us, Nor adhere to your re publics two But you will and you won't, you do and That's the game for us whigs to pursue, About Texas Thai's the game for us whigs to pursue Duello! Duello! Let moralists bellow, You'll go by anew standing rule You'll fight, or you'll not you'll hit, or be shot, Taking care to escape ridicule Duello Taking care to escape ridicule.

Then beware Then beware, How you freely declare Your thoughts on these delicate p'ints But shuffle your hand, and be certain to stand, On evasions, and quibbles, and hints Ah beware, With evasions, and quibbles, and hints, Hip Hurrah Hip Hurrah For the moral cat's paw As was Jocko's most cunning desire, "With a soul that is full, he will certainly pull, All the rest that's condemned, from the fire Hip Hurrah AH the rest that's condemned, from the fire. Frelinghuysen Frelinghuysen Antidote to Clay's p'ison, You're a moral convenience just now A religious oblation, to this great christian nation, So never look back from the plough, Frelinghuysen So never look back from the plough. My hearty My hearty The pious whig party, For grace depends solely on you So, when Harry swears, do you go to prayers Your unction must answer for two, 2VIy hearty Your unction must answer for two. Religion Religion Thou art a stool pigeon, To catch the believing whig dunce 'T13 the small of ieaven, our political heaven, So we'll just try thv virtue for once, Religion Well just try thy virtue for once. Rev renf Rev reniZ Thou art used for this end To whiggcry's game thou art lent When That Harry's done, and This Harry's gone, Perchance 'twill leave you Prcs i dent, Rev rend Perchance 'twill leave you Pres i dent.

Shout and pray Shout away, For the bold Harry Clay Swear he's this, and he's that, and he's 'tollicr To faith some must cling, while the rest they can sing; Onr political creed is whig pother: Shout away Onrpolitical creed is whig pother. To conclude To conclude And to be understood, Well sum up our argument here; Coons, cider, and rats shouts, waving of hats, And bets that there's nothing to fear. To conclude. And bets that nothing to fear. The ladies will sing this line with expression.

From China. The ship Jessore, Capt. Meacom, arrived yesterday from China, having sailed from Macoa on 2d May. She, however, brings no later news. Mr.

George D. Carter, a passenger, says that he saw Mr. Cushing at Macao the day before the Jessore sailed he was enjoying good health. Capt Meacom reports that on the 11th August, fat. 2 south, Ion.

30 west, his ship was fired into by a heavy armed brig under Spanish colors, and boarded by an officer from the brig, who stated that the brig was a slaver, 1 1 days from the coast of Africa, with 300 slaves, which, however, as not her complement She had been chased by a British Teasel of war. After being detained an hour the brig sailed to the westward. Wc are favored with full files of Canton papers up to the above date, but find no news in them. SSorn. News.

Seized on Suspicion of being intended for the Slave Trade. Yesterday, under orders of the collector of this port, the Baltimore built schooners Manchester and Devereaux, were seized at India wharf, on suspicion that they have been fitted out fi the slave trade. It is admitted that their destination was the coast of Africa, but the captains dc istarc that they only contemplated engaging in lawful commercial business. The cargoes had not been overhauled last night, and no process had issued from any of the United States judicial authorities. Should certain implements peculiar to the slave traffic "be found on board, a commissioner's warrant, upon complaint of the U.

S. district attorney, will be issued forthwith Boston Post Imbortakt, jf true The Cincinnati Commercial Bays: We learn that gentleman of this city has made an important discovery in making a new species of light, surpassing, itis said, the Bude of Druinmond, As soon as the patent can be obtainined it will be Dut in use here. One lamp, at the heieht of 200 feet. will light the whole city. The brilliancy is said to oe equal to me sun at noon, and the material cheaner than that used for any other light It is said $300 win jjgui inecity as anoveone year.

rue Aun, The way it worked in. Detroit The Free Press, of the 31st says: This city was a perfect theatre yesterday, on account of Clay's letter. The coons were the actors, and the Democrats the Little squads of WliigB would get together on Me comers, ana mase wry loccg. some would jay never mind Clay knows what he is about he's after the support of the South. Another would say ho had no business to write it it will use us up.

The Oj.d Soldier to the Democracy At a re interview between several Democrats and the venerable Patriot of the Hermitage, his parting words were your shoulders are. at the wheel. Fray to Ood for success, and push on the column Let every Democrat obey the orders of our old Com marjuer. Jirgus. something for TiiK Typob.

of my existence, SU1U Hie nrillfr In tua fmr(wthAHrt immediately made a at him, and planted her TOT between his ii's. Such an outrage." said Faust, looking her, is without a Democratic Republican Nominations. For President, JAMES K. POLK, OF TENNESSEE. For Vice President, GEORGE M.

DALLAS, OF PENNSYLVANIA. For Gortrnor, SILAS WRIGHT, OF ST. LAWRENCE. For Lieutenant Governor, ADDISON GARDINER, OF MONROE. For Canal Commissioners, NATHAN'L JONES, I DANIEL P.

BISSELL, STEPHEN CLARK, JONAS EARLL, Jr. FREE DBDIOCB.1TIC BEADING BOO01 AT THE CITY HOTEL, 163 Fallon treel, ts NOW OPEN FROM 9 O'CLOCK A. M. UNTIL 10 P. Keuiocrnlic Republican General Committee OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN.

E7" A special meeting will be held on SATURDAY evening, at 71 o'clock, at Demociatic Hcad Quarters, 163 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Every member is expected to be present, as business of importance will come before the meeting. THOS. GARRISON, Chairman. J.

H. Cobswell, Sec. sl3 2t Silna Wrisht'a bo did, and what he did n'l. We stated yesterday that the bare fact of Mr Wright's political opponents being compelled to go back twenty years, and revive the history of a trans action which has been passed upon and decided in his favor as many limes, was of itself conclusive proof that they felt themselves beaten and the more wc reflect upon it the stronger is our conviction that they are paying him one of the highest compliments which they could possibly bestow in adopting such a course. Immediately after the close of Mr.

Wright's senatorial term during which, recollect, the outrage upon Democratic principles is said to have been committed by (he immortal seventeen lie was twice elected to Congress by the people of the St Lawrence district the very people whom, according to Whig clamoi, he had betrayed and insulted. From that day to the present, he has been continued in the public service having occupied the most exalted stations which the people of New York could bestow upon him, and refused more and greater honors than any other living statesman. With such evidences as these of the minner in which the transactions of 1824 are viewed, it were idle to attempt an elaborate refutation of the versions put forth by the Whig journals. It is known that Mr. Wright was in favor of giving to the people the choice of Presidential Electors; but he was desirous of guarding it in the strictest manner, so as to prevent, if possible, a minority of disconcerted fac tionists from bartering away the power and influence of the State.

All assented to the general principle in volved but there was an irreconcileable diversity of opinion as to the mode of carrying it out. The im mortal seventeen contended for the majority rule; but a.q ihU wnnlrl ht, AafatoA Y.tU rw nians and that portion of the Democratic party who were opposed to Mr. Crawford, it was resisted with marked unanimity by both, and a mere plurality insisted upon as necessary to a choice. The effect of this last would so clearly have been to defeat the popular will, and enable a small minority to control the vote of the State upon a question of incalculable importance, that Mr. Wright and his friends opposed it.

Besides, only two years before, the constitution of the State had undergone a revision, and without any change in the mode of choosing electors being made or desired. It was evidently got up at that particular juncture, with sinister motives and such, in effect, has been the verdict pronounced time and again by the people. It is curious, however, to witness the changed tone of the Whig papers in relation to Mr. Wright since he was nominated for Governor. Before, they were loud in praise of his disinterestedness, ability, Sec but now the editors have rubbed their eyes, and lo I he stands before them, a subtle, ambiguous and wily politician, whose contempt for everything Democratic is really insupportable, even to them About three months ago he visited Brooklyn and addressed a Democratic meeting at the City Hall grounds, and among his hearers on that occasion was the Editor of the Star, who subsequently remarked upon his address as follows Hon.

Mr. Murphy then introduced Hon. Silas Silas Wright, amid loud cheering. This distinguished man well sustained his own character, and fully redeemed the meeting from barrenness of interest. His style of address is singularly unaffected and sincere.

He presented succinctly his views of the relative position of both parties, and alluded to the measures and candidates of the Whi? party, in lano uao which lost none of its force from being dignified and courteous. We shall not attempt a sketch of his speech, which was listened toby men of both parties (there were many Whigs present,) with great atten. tion. We heard but one opinion at the conclusion, which was that Silas Wright well deserved the honors which his political friends had heaped upon him. Such, we doubt not, was the honest opinion of the editor three months ago but circumstances have changed Silas Wright is the Democratic candidate for Governor, and the Star, of course, must oppose him.

Hence we now find the same writer talking after this fashion "Wright opposing Texas, supports Polk. Judge ye of lhe honesty of that man who shamelessly lays his principle upon the sacrificial altar of party, and openly pursues a course, which he has already admitted by his official action, to be prejudicial to the interest and inimical to the honor of the nation." Again Here is a specimen of Wright's democracy," and of his honesty." Freemen of New York, will you consent to be governed by such a man?" We suspect that the freemen of New York will be governed by the editor's opinion, as expressed three months ago. Raising ofthe Hickory Tree. A large gathering of the people took place last evening in the Old Ninth on the occasion of erecting a coon switch. Paramount duties prevented us from attending, but a friend who was present assures us that it was an interesting and enthusiastic meeting such as that remote part of the city never before witnessed.

The Hon. H. C. Murphy and Mr. Gardiner, of Williamsburgh, delivered addresses.

The Ninth must wheel into line this fall, and remain there. Fjre in Boston On the morning of tho 11th inst. a fire broke out in a two story wooden building in the rear of No. 18 Water street, Boston, wh'ch spread rapidly in various directions, and destroyed property to the value of $12,000, a small part of which only was insured. dividual exceptions to this proper observance of the Sabbath, but we believe they will continue lo de crease under the general disapprobation of public sentiment until they become rare.

The respect paid to tho Sabbath is a very good criterion by which to judge the morals and religion of a community and by this standard our own city will rank high in the scale, if not by the very side of the most conspicuous in our own or any otbei country. Art and science too have come lo our assistance, and laid out our city with great care to comfort, convenience and beauty. The streets are regular and spacious, and so arranged that they arc cooled by the gentle breezes, and swept whitened by running streams collected from the showers. Long rows of trees, on cither side, shut out the heat of the sun, and furnish a shady promenade for Ihc belle as she walks forth at noon. The birds sing and build their nests, and the locust tunes his mournful whistle, in the day time, among their branches and there the busy katydid scratches away upon his harsh fiddle, in the evening, as the moon throws gaily down through the quivering leaves a diamond shower.

The neat, clean houses, with their garnished yards, and well trimmed gardens, all exhibit sure tokens of peace and plenty. And the mingled music of piano and the sweetest voices coinrs swelling from their open windows on the evening air, in strains that hush all the wicked passions of the human heart, like the inspired notes of the harp of the Monarch of Israel. This is the home of the living. But we have not been unmindful of the dead. They have a home even more peaceful and enchanting than ours, the lovely, the charming, the truly beautiful Greenwood.

These are strange terms to apply to a burial ground, but they are true in their most poetic meaning when applied to our Greenwood Cemetery. Our ideas of things and names are formed from what we see and hear. The images in our minds arc but counterparts of material objects fashioned there by that wonderful camera, Ihc human eye. We have been accustomed to look upon the Monster Death upon a grim, ghastly skeleton, whose insatiate scythe is whetted by revenge whose greedy appetite, tliongli sated with the lives and blood of millions, can never clothe his fleshlcss bones even with leanness. Wc have been wont to see the burial ground a crowded, confused, unsightly churncl house, where every mound, monument, and stone, and every thing, told only of human mortality, decay and death.

We have seen the old church torn down by the ruthless hand of modern improvement, and the mouldering bones, our very kindred, brother dust, thrown from their sacred vaults in heaps, as if they were the bones of dogs. We have seen the grave yard invaded by the raven fnot of speculation, and the rounded graves smoothed nicely down, that the toe of mirth and fashion might skip iherc and not stumble. Wc have beheld the spot where, The spiry maize luxuriant waves Its tall, green leaves o'er heroes graves And thoughtless swains the harvest reap, Where our stern fathers' ashes slocp." Wc have been used lo regard the grave and all paraphernalia of pall and shroud and hearse, its as terrors of Ihc living. But we hope and trust ihj day is speedily coming, ay, has already come, when all these things shall cease to be. It is a proud reflection, that our city of Brooklyn is among the foremost in this humane and pious reform.

We have selected a spot for a cemetery, among hills and dales, groves and little lakes, far removed from our city's din and strife, where the revered remains of the loved and lost" will forever securely rest in undisturbed repose. Nature has lavished her choicest beauties upon it with an unsparing hand, and we have only to remove the mask from their face to disclose them all to the light of day. We have set it apart "nd consecrated it to the memory of those wc loved, to the mortal lorms of those wtmao cnic we trust are now in heaven, yes more, to our own selves when wc have ceased lo live. It is a place so lovely that we have never seen its like before. We forget when we arc there that wc are in the presence oAhe dead.

The very tombs seem smile; and their sleeping tenants to say to the living, "you have done us a last kind office in laying us down to rest in this enchanting spot." Avarice can never enter its yutcs. nor the eagle eye of gain find aught lo covet. Its quiet seclusion will ever protect it from the ploughshare and (he sound of the hammer. The consolation that we are to sleep our last sleep in its quiet bosom will smooth the bed of death. Who docs not shudder at the thought, thai alter death, his morlal body, senseless though it bo, will be cast into a pit, or, what is litlle better, be up in the crowded vaults of a cily church yard, to be knocked about, and trampled upon by an unfeeling posterity? It need not be so with us.

The dead here have a home, and it is their own. We, the livinir. will ernnt. thorp the simple monuments of love and affection to the memory of departed friends we will go down there iinu piani nowers around their graves, whose stems and blossoms, shooting and opening upwards, will wave as emblems of their risen spirits. And when our souls arc sad and heavy with tho bereavements of our lost companions or htlle ones, we will retire there to banish sorrow and mourning from our hearts.

Beautiful Greenwood I how strange thou art so young! I he weight of scarce fourycars is yet upon thee. Why didst thou sleep among the hills so long, iniu ici my ocaunes Waste their sweetness on the desert air" Ah, the fault is not thine, it is ours. Such arc some of the reasons why wc love Brook lyn, and such are some ot the circumstances which have established it paramount in our minds as the city of cities and tho heart swells with honest pride as wc piainiy lorcseo us incrcaseU greatness and splendors far away in futurity. We must now announce, with the deepest regret, that the firm of Co. is dissolved.

Wc be iiuvt; ujui. uvuj uuiiauiu ciuini upon me tirm has been promptly met and honourably discharged. We have all shaken hands together at parting, and pledged our right hands in token of lasting friendship. Each, hereafter, will go on his own hook," and anxiously lrok forward for the time to come when a concurrence ol fortunate circumstances shall enable us to resume and prosecute together the same joint ousincss. under the same happy and successful auspices as before.

Co. For the Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Editor. I see that the Whigs arc delighted with an incident said to have occurred at New Ha.

ven, on the 4lh in which the valiant Gen. Combs, of and a live eagle were the principal actors. The former had been speaking about Washington, Jefferson, Van Buret) and Polk, when, descending abruptly to lesser objects, he proceeded as follows "Now look at the pedestal of nenry Clay, rising higher and higher for the lust forty years. Aye, sec him like an eagle with untiring pinion, soaring against the sun. (Here the audience were startled by the cry of" An Eagle, An lglo." Every oye was raised toward Heaven, and there with outspread wings, the proud bird of our country seemed to pause as if dc.

lighted with the scene beneath him. Gen. Combs looked up, and exelainiod Oh, proud bird of my country's banner, 1 accept the omen. Long, long may you soar in majesty above those banners wavinsr over lhe land of the free and the home of the brave Now, sir, it would gratify me to know whether Gen. C.

caught the omen in his hat, or received it upon the crown of his head us two or three of his Whig brethren did a similar one at the Long Island Mass Convention. In either case it would scarcely have excited the eloquence, or elicited the admiration of a Democrat. The fact is, probably, that the noble bird was indignant at the association of such names as I have mentioned with that of Clay, and when discovered by the meeting was no doubt contemplating whether it would ho most fining to descend and give the orator a specimen of his talons, or exhibit his displeasure hy some other and more appropriate On! Men! 1 no place like home." No ono can fully feel its deep pathos and stern reality of sentiment, unless he has sometime been a strangor in a strange land, and then it will come home upon him with all the convincing power of an axiom. As it came from the heart of tho writer, so it reaches the inmost heart of the reader, and receives an involuntary, quick response to its truth, it is so, it is so As it is said of the Sailor who goes round to the western coast of Mexico, he leaves his conscience at Cape Horn," so it may be said of him who goes away from home, he leaves behind him there his heart and its loves. Home is the place where are treasured up the best and holiest feelings of human nature, and it will not let them go.

Look in upon a happy and peaceful home, and what do you see? Little, very little of what is quaintly called the world, or ofthe dark, fierce passions that war upon its bosom, and rend and scar the fair proportions which its maker clothed with beauty. It is bcautilul all all is Bright and happy there. It is the spot Where sweet affections meet," the paradise of earth. The fond, confiding hearts of husband and wife, bound together by affection's strongest, golden cords the undying love which parent lias for child, knitting their very existences together into a common life tho wreaths of pure and lasting friendship, greenest and best and all the endearing domestic joys and relations all, all are garnered up in home, ana can noi ue ijkcii away without suffering injury or loss. These bind together the happy family with a chain which can not be broken in one link without wounding the whole.

They are the attractions that draw us to our homes, and bind us willing captives there around their sacred hearths. The immortal author of The Task" has beautifully described the presiding genius of home, Domestic Happiness, the only bliss Of Paradise, that has survived the fall Thou art the nurse of Virtue, in thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heaven born, and destined to the skies again." We would not barter our homes, our dear and happy homes, for the crowns of the world we would not sell them for the wealth of the Indies we would not part with them no we would part with life as soon. The man who has no home is a wanderer an exile a vagabond a very outcast, staying in the world, but living nowhere, tic can noi taiu uicpiviiejia of a citizen, for the law does not recognize him as one. He is worse than a hermit, solitary as it were, and yet tantalized with the presence of thousands. Ue lives and labors without hope.

His heart, instead of being lighted and warmed by the pure sun of social affection, is gloomy and dark dark without a star. He is on a whirlpool that has no centre of rest, no welcome shore or rather, his bark of life is floating upon a broad, turbulent sea, which has no sheltering harbor to invite his fated vessel, and the heavens no cynosure to direct his course. His eye looks out upon the waste of waters, wanders from east to the farthest west, with a vacant stare, and finding no object on which to rest, vision returns to itself dim and sickened by its efforts to grasp at nothing. The soul may look upward, and discern vague shadows of a peaceful resting place beyond the grave, a house not made with hands but that it may never reach. Is not this despair indeed Hear him exclaim, in bitterness of spirit, "I am a miserable and wretched man I have no home I will lay me down and die." Again, home is a spotwhich has ever been'watched withmost jealous care, and guarded by the strongest barriers.

The law has thrown its protecting shield over and around it. Every man's house is his castle. Jn i anrl and say, this is mine, let him beware who touches it." The veriest Suliote in the world can place himself upon the threshold of his hut of mud, and defy the King himself to lay a rude finger upon it If the world is cold or friends prove false or fortune lower or all the evils of Pandora's box be let loose upon him, he can retire there, shut them ali out, and in the cheering society of his beloved wife and family, enjny a season of happiness and peace without fear or sorrow. And why? because itis his home, and the home of those he loves because it is a sacred spot consecrated to him and them alone. We Laird, lassie, lads," and all, have safely returned to our homes aain, in our good city of Brooklyn, and are each pursuing his and her several and respective avocation, as in times of yore.

Our short journey has been one of unniingled delight. We never expect to enjoy its like again. But whether aye or no, wc are satisfied as it is. The measure of its gratification is not yet full. As it passes through our minds on the wing of memory, day after day, it will make many an hour glide pleasantly away fur a long time to come.

Indeed wc believe that its happy influence will never be lost, so long as wc shall live. When we meet, it will make the merry laugh go round to recount our adventures, and revive the joint stock associations of our jolly firm. If we arc no richer, wiser or better than before, we may, at least, be more contented with our lot in this our own transcendent city. We have seen, it is true, but a small part of our Empire State, but we have seen the best part, her largest and most opulent cities her most fertile vallies, plains and hills her largest rivers and mightiest cataracts her great internal improvements and sources of wealth her manifold charming lakes and landscapes and lastly her vaunted places of fashionable dissipation and amusement and after all, wc will put our own city of Brooklyn against the whole of them, and would choose our home here, without a moment's hesitation, if left to our choice a thousand times. Brooklyn is a glorious place, whether its inhabitants know it or not.

It will compare triumphantly with the proudest cities in our land in every respect, natural, civil, municipal, moral, religious. We can in truth say to Brooklyn, Nature for Ihce hath done her part do thine." She has thrown up the site of our city into every variety of hill, dale, plain and landscape she has given to our soil a congenial fertility to produce for us fruits and flowers without stint she has covered our uplands with forests, and spread uniit our hill sides wilh tho greenest of Spring's green robes she has tenanted our valleys with Honing streams, and our little valleys with pools of water she has hung about our windows, for a cooling shade, the thick, waving boughs of the elm, willow, sycamore and linden she has heaved up our "heights" in rugged masonry, above whose green, sloping revetments we can proudly stand and look down upon our more powerful neighbor she has spread out all along our shore the deep, blue sea she sends down the gentle showers and dews of heaven to nourish the rose and vine she fills our wells with the purest of pure, crystal waters she pours out upon us from a thousand vesper urns a cool, salubrious atmosphere and is not this enough Brooklyn is truly a city of law and good order. Go into the streets in the daytime, evening, or night, and you are not dogged by libertines, rudely jostled by loafers, or insulted by ruffians, All is quiet, orderly and civil as a New England country village. Our city might well be called "the land of steady habits" junior. Point to scenes of bloodshed, and wanton destruction of property, enacted by riots and mobs, and your finger will never rest on Brooklyn.

Our homes stand securely protected by wholesome laws, and a high toned public opinion pervades our community to see those laws strictly enforced and rigidly executed and obeyed. As a people we have no sympathy for criminals of any sort and this is well understood and felt by the scoundrel fraternity. It is a notorious fact that rogues and knaves had far rather be caught and caged in our sister city of New York than with us. They do not like to ''put themselves upon the country" of the county of Kings. This speaks well for our ministers of justice, and the virtue of the people which sustains them.

That we are a sober, moral and religious people is manifest lo every one who has eyes to see with, and makes use of them. The holy Sabbath here is a proud day for the moralist and christian, as they tychold, all around them, the sure evidences of the triumph of their faith. In what other city, of our numbers, are seen so many tall spires pointing upward to the sky from the temples of the living God Altars for divine worship meet the eye at almost every corner of the Arrest of an Heilderbergii Indian. A roaai named Mcintosh, was arrested at Albany on Wednesday, on suspicion of being one of the party who so brutally treated Battcrman, the Sheriff, a few days since, when Ostcrhout was with him. It is said that Osterhout was put on his track by a young girl whom he, Mcintosh, was in the habit of visiting at a house about five miles from the city, and to whom he confessed ho was one of the party, who, in disguise! maltreated the Sheriff.

He is now in jail. From Nauvoo. Wc have intelligence direct from Nauvoo, that Lyman Wright has raised a company of two hundred men, ostensibly for the purpose of emigrating to the pine country; but the general ffn pression amongst those who have a chance of knowing, is that the real design is to attack Carthage and' Warsaw Vfursaw Signal. We don't believe a word of it, though the Cartha genians and their neighbors have good cause to take counsel of their fears. Another Foul and Aitalling Murder.

Onr Tuesday morning we reluctantly were constrained to publish a horrible murder a female beat to death in' Cross street by a man named Quitu To day we have to record that our City authorities have been called upon to arrest a man named Michael Dowd, who on Wednesday afternoon deprived the partner of his bosom of li To by heating and kicking her in a most horrid manner, at their residence No. 245 Mott street. Mrs. Dowd's name was Bridget, of Irish descent and about years of age. Her husband is a carlman, owning two horses, For some time past, Dowd and his wife had not lived happily together and frequent quarrels ensued.

On Wednes day morning he hired persons to take charge of his carls, expressing a determination to go home and finish his wife. He went lo his dwelling and beat her in a most wanton and unmerciful manner, and she was snnn afterward a corse. The cowardly ruf fian then fled, and ihc affair becoming known, Justice Taylor despatched several officers in pursuit of him. He has not been, at present, taken, but the Coroner was called to hold an inquest on the body. The female was cuciriitc at the time.

Tribune. 3 On Thursday morning. 1 instant, of typhus fever, Charles Wood, in 1hc year of his age, Ilis fiiends and acquaintances arc invited to attend his funeral from his late residence on Bedford avenue, East Brooklyn, this afternoon at4o'clock. Hurrah for Younc; Hickory, Dallas and Viciory! Convention 2d District. 0" Tho following Resolution was adopted by the Congressional Convention of the Second District, composed of the Cuunties of Kings and Rich, moncl.

held at the house of Charles Hart, in the city of Brooklyn, on tho 4 th day of October, 1842 Resolved, That the next Congressional Convention for this District be held at JNautilus Hall, Caff tloton, on the 1st Tuesday of October, 1844, and that ihc Chairman and Secretaries of this Convention give four weeks' nolicc prior thereto in the Democratic papers of lhe District. NATHAN BARRETT, Chairman. Wm. A. Thomson, Denvse Desyse, sl2 COUNTY CONVENTION.

At a meeting ofthe Democratic Republican Standing Committee of the County of Kings, held in the city of Brorklyn on Wednesday, the lltli instant, it was Resolved, That it he recommended to the several Wards and Towns In met at iheir usual places on WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant, for the purpose of electing Four delegates from each of the wards and Six delegates from each of the towns in the County, to meet at the house of Mrs. Schoonmaker, in the town of Flalhmh, on Monthly, the 23d at 3 o'clock P. for the purpose of appointing the usual number of delegates to tho Senatorial and Congrcssii nal Conventions. It was further Resolved, That this notice be published in the Brooklyn Kaglc, Williamsburgh Democrat and Democratic Advocate. TUNIS G.

BERGEN, Ch'n. Thomas J. Geuali, Secretary. sl2 6t SEHTATOKBAI, CONVENTION 1st DISTt LCT The following Resolution was adopte I by the Democratic Republican Senatorial Convention for the First District, held at Tammany Hall on the 4th day of October, 1843, viz: Resolved, That the next Democratic Senatorial Convention for ihe First District meet at Tammany Hall in the cily of New York on the first Tuesday of October, 1844, at 12 o'clock at noon, and that the officers the Convention cause four weeks not cc of the sam to be published in the Dcmocra, tic papers of the JAMES C. CHURCH, Chairman.

Edmund J. Porter, Thomas S. Henry, "claries. s9 3w PRaCIiAilIATIOJV. Whereas several fires have occurred in this city which, there is reason to believe, were caused by incendiaries therefore J.

SPRAGUE, Mayor ol the City of Brooklyn, do, bv virtue of a resolution of the Common Ccuniil, hereby offer a reward of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS for the apprehension and conviction of any person or persons, who have, within the last three months, set fire to any buildings within the City of Brook jji, woo may uu convicted 01 setting nre to jr buildings within the Citv of Brooklyn, previous to the first day of April next, said sum to be paid upon the conviction of the offender or offenders. (. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto. L. s.

set my hand and affixed the seal of tho Mayoralty of the City of Brooklyn, this 7th day of August, 1843. au7 J. SPRAGUE, Mayor. INFORMATION WANTED. Tho person or persons who purchased in my store, in May last, hox settl Maple and one canc scat and cane hack large Birdscyu Maple Rocking Chair, arc earnestly iviucsted lo call and have an interview with the subscriber, who ill remunerate them for the trouble.

II. J. TODD, jr.lS 8 Fulton etreet. 221 35487 29605 4814 341563 H2S Complete. Robert P.

Dunlap is elected to Congress in the third district, lately represented by a Whig by a triumphant majority. John D. McCrate, a sterling Democrat, is probably chosen in the fourth district by 2 or 3000 majoriiy. Hannibal Hamlin is re elected in the sixth district, in spite of the bitter Whig opposition. Mr.

Williams, Democrat, has carried the seventh district. In the first district the Democrats arc all powerful on Governor, but have failed on the Congressman through division there is no choice, and the district is sale lor the Democrats whenever they unite. The fifth is yet uncertain and the Whigs are able to hold on to old Federal Kennebec only. As to the Legislature the Whigs will scarcely make a show in the Senate, and will have only one third of the House. In short, Maine has done nobly, and will be prepared to give POLK and DALLAS a tremendous vote a vote worthy of the candidates and the cause.

Decency. The Advertiser, commenting upon the discharge of several workmen from the factory of Harris and Randall, in Scituate, R. for the crime of attending the Democratic Mass Meeting at Providence on the 4th inst. holds this language (the italics being ours :) We feel indebted to the writer for this first rate notice in the Boston Morning Post of an act which reflects so much credit upon the above mentioned whig manufacturers. The cry raised by the Post and News of "proscription" in this case, is at once amusing and characteristic.

A master mechanic finds his apprentice in constant communication with blacklegs and pickpockets and he discharges him from his service what shameful proscription. Wr cl i v.o uiuuLll ed imputation. Our only object in copying it is to show the depth of ignominy to which an unscrupulous partisan can stoop in the effort to serve his masters. The delegates from this city all of whom may safely challenge a comparison with an equal number of their opponents, for probity, integrity and honor will, no doubt, place a fitting estimate upon the journal which indirectly stamps them as blacklegs and pickpockets," and manifest their appreciation ofthe compliment at the proper time and place. While upon this subject, it may be well to put down one, of the many base and unmitigated falsehoods, coined by the Express, relative to this Providence expedition.

It represented the boat, on her return, as a perfect bedlam, and said that beds were cut open, furniture smashed, and all sorts of threatenings uttered by the captain. Now the truth is, that when the committee who were under obligations to make good any damage that accrued asked the captain if anything had been broken or damaged, he replied that a few had been injured, but that it was altogether so trifling as to be un worth' of notice and of course no charge was made. We have received, through the politeness of a lady, three peaches, which grew in the garden of John Dikeman, right fresh from the waving bough. According to our botany, they are of the genus ele phantussplcndidissinius species, pluviam in ore fa ciens color, blushing buff and have a slight resemblance to the common Tom Thumb peaches in everything but size. Each one weighs half a pound and measures ten inches in circumference.

Just imagine our Eagle with such an expander in his beak. Their flavor is most delicious, and as for sweetness, there is sufficient sugar in each one to saceharate the sourest temper of the veriest shrew in Christendom into a Hebe. We arc ready now to match Brooklyn against the world in a general sweepstakes for producing anything that is fair and fine. Naval. We learn from the Norfolk Beacon, that the U.

S. frigate Potomac, at Philadelphia, has been ordered round to the GosportNavy Yard, to be taken into the dry dock and overhauled. The U. S. steamer Poinsett, Lieut.

Semmes Commanding, arrived here (says the Pcnsacola Gazcttc.l on Wednesday morning from Apalachicola via St. Andrews Bay, having completed the survey of the different harbors between this and Sl Marks. The U. S. Marine schr.

Duanc, John L. Prouty, Lieut. Commmanding, on a cruise, with C. H. Minge, Collector of the port of Mobile, on board, arrived at Pcnsacola on Sunday week, and sailed for Mobile on Wednesday.

Whig Convention. The Whig Convention for the nomination of State Officers met at Syracuse on Wednesday last, and nominated Millard Fillmore for Governor Samuel J. Wilkin for Lieut. Governor John A. Collier and Willis Hall for State Electors and David Lcavitt, of Brooklyn, Elector for the Second district.

The first will draw as well as any man they could pick but the last, one would think, must have been set up for the bowled down. express purpose of being Health of General Jackson. A letter from General Jackson to a friend, of a recent date, says: I am gTcatly debilitated reduced to a skeleton, with a constant cough and pain in my left side with, lately, great shortness of breath I can scarcely wield my pen, but delight to hear from you and your numerous family, I have summoned up resolution to attempt it." iCT The Algerinesof Newport, R. actually fired a salute on tho 10th inst. in honor of Perry's victory upon Luko Luke Eric I.