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pipe-bowl, beautifully finished from' stone, was also found, the bowlof which is nearly round, rises froth n base, on he bottom of which are the figures '1461.' Measures have been taken un under - der under the supervision of some intelligent citizens farther to explore this singular mound. There is little doubt that these plates contain the history of some for former - mer former race ill it has inhabited this country countryand - and countryand farther discoveries will be awaited with impatience. Judsati Female Institute. The annual examination of the pu» pils of the Judson, closed or lust Thurs Thursday - day Thursday evening. Concerts were given by Mr. Ohuse and the ladies of the Insti Institute, - tute, Institute, in th- Baptist Church, on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It were an act of superrei ogourin to speak in terms of praise of a Judson Concert. O i Thurs Thursday - day Thursday night the exercises of tho Gradua Graduating - ting Graduating clni3a, reading essays, conferring diplomas, &c. took place at the church. The dense crowd and excessive heat rendered it less agreeable than we hove seen it on former occasions. The es essays - says essays of the young ladies, struck its as being rema'kably good. Without ex exception - ception exception they were beautifully written - chasle and elegant in style, entirely free from the profusion of metaphor which' maiksthe productions of most young persons of both sexes ; they also display displayed - ed displayed a variety of knowledge, a strength' and an acuteness of reasoning, and a familiarity with general principles which' we confess we were nut prepared to hear, and winch would actually have done credit to a practiced and popufaT writer. The exercises were concluded by the singing of a ' Parting Hymn," written' for the occasion, by our friend and fel fellow-iownsman, - low-iownsman, fellow-iownsman, Chas. Grenr.ell, Esq , in. his happiest strain. We were prevented by other eng agements 'he pleasure of unending any portion of (he exatnina exatninati - ti exatninati >n, bm have heard it spoken of in high terms. - Marion News. A Good Toast, - When (he Hon. D'Xon ff. Lewis was viciltng the city u short time since, he was invited by one of the proprietors of Coney Island, to visit that far famed place to eat clam" chowder. He very graciously accep accepted - ted accepted the invitation, and alter embarking <>n boatd the Amencun Eagle, soon found himself indulging in ail the luxu luxuries - ries luxuries of the Governor's Mansion. A party of gentlemen had assembled to Welcome the honorable Senator, and toasts and chonlpaigne flowed and spar sparkled - kled sparkled with the brilliant flushes of wit and good humor which lent their uid to the conviviality ol the scene. Being railed upon for a sentiment,' Mr. E- arose and 'let off' the fol following - lowing following f "Our Worth! G^est: His heart and body hate been striving to out grow each oilier ull bis life - but, I as j et, hia heart has it! '

.Mr. Lewis. Since '31, Mr. L»wis hns encountered none or If* serious opponents in Ills election lothe House of Representatives of the United States of which lie con tinued a member up to the spring '44, when Governor Fnzpntrh k, appointed him to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon William R. King, The legislature at the succeed succeeding - ing succeeding session, elected Mr. L'wis to fill Mr King's unexpired term. From the fir-t day Mr. L*wis look his seat in tile Senate of the U. Slates until this hour, he has taken an active part in ull the great measures that came before that body. Upon the question of the annexation of Texas, he was fi.m, and as active as prudence required - Above all, upon the great meustne of free trade, tie has stood foremost in the front rank of the ami-protectionists. - His reports and discussions to the Sen Senate, - ate, Senate, made on that subj"ct, as head ul I lie Finance committee are monuments of unwearied research, profound thought, statesman-dike foiecast, and 6onnd Ann l icnn sentiment. The speech by which he vindicated that report, as well ns the report itself, will long stand as enduring monuments of the grenl mind acting un under - der under the guidance ot truth. It is conce. ded that lh< nation is n.ainly indebted to him for the larifl'of '46. Mr. Lewis is no politician in the ordi ordinal - nal ordinal y sense of that term - but a stateman of llip highest older of talent and geni genius. - us. genius. Frank arid nrtless as n child, he has no concealment - lie would disdain to obtain popular apptobalion at the ex' pense of honor, or by deceiving the peo pie. He is a patriot in every sense of ihe word. He loves his constituents to whom he owes so much,and whom have manifested an unlimited confidence in him, but his patriotism is sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the whole nation from the Aroostook to the Il'O Grande, and even to the Pacific. At the head of the committee upon Indian affairs, and in many olher situations,and I oil various occasions he has manifested his great abilities, and the interest he lakes in the welfare and prosperity of the whole country. He hns been not inappropriately called the Robert Peel of America - long may he continue to er.joy the public confidence, nnd exert a happy and salutary influence, by his councils nnd discussions, upon the in interests - terests interests of Ihe whole American people. PllOClON.

tribute to bis eminent set vires hi the cause of free trade, and equul rghts. A genuine whig is u genuine Bourbon, lie forgets nothing and he learns nothing L Ite the boy that It's master Ihreft encd to flog for using crooked words, li.ims horns if l die by it." Under what cir cinnstances more favornhle to "big principles could the people of the U. S. have been culled noon for their sufira sufirages - ges sufirages than at tlie late Presidential election? According lo lheir own representations, llie candidate of the whig parly, was in comparably the supetior of Mr. Polk in knowledge, experience, practical statemanship and talents. Nntwilhstnnd ing, they were most signally condemn condemned, - ed, condemned, and their principles rebuked by lire people. And yet - tins party have the folly to imagine that their Bank, tariff, and internal improvement schemes can he again brushed up, and under other auspices, submitted with greater hopes of success to the favorable considers lion of the people! Eternal vigilance is the practice of liberty. The circum circumstances - stances circumstances of th ? country call imperatively for the closest union of the whole de democratic - mocratic democratic party. The protective policy, the Bank humbug - and the improve improvement - ment improvement schemes, can never obtain a per permanent - manent permanent footing in the country, if the Re publicans will continue to act with any reasonable degree of union and energy. A true democrat belongs to the progres progressive - sive progressive party. His piinciples are expansi expansible, - ble, expansible, and his patriotic heart is large enough to embrace the w hole country There is a catholicity in the school of strict construction, which renders more intimate the communion of the various sections of the country, while it holds faSt by the constitution, and prevents the federal machine fiom degeriei uliog inio a consolidation - or in other words ftom being converted into a bloated and unwieldly monarchy. The vigilance necessary generated by a contest for the lights of the Slates, is u perennial fountain, continually diffusing freshness, vivacity, and interest into our political polemics - in rhe highest degree saluta salutary - ry salutary to tho body politic, and beneficial to

Coiii-toy a ino.-tiis of Success. Uncourteous k.ibiis have prevented many a man's success in life. Hiiatj, hot-brained, care-for.nobody individuals often plunge themselves into difficulties in consequence of their clownish, nrro- - gant, or overbearing manners, of rude I or ungenileinanly language, though it may be thoughtlessly expressed. It is | often not the great, but the little acts ol incivili y that are treasured up and re remembered. - membered. remembered. Great men have usually usuallyhad - had usuallyhad occasion to attribute their success j in life lo their uniform courtesy. Wash j ington was always distinguished for | courtesy of manner, as Il.e arerdote i of his politely returning the bow of the I negro slave beautifully illustrates. Boys, ! whatever be your slaiion in life, do not be fearful, but he courteous - be polite - be affable. The tradesman w ho has the politest cleiks does the largest business Probable Discovery of tke His History - tory History of a Former Race - The Lower Sandusky (Ohio) Democrat states that ahout two miles from that village on land known as the -Kerr tract," there is an ancient mound, circular at the base, about 39 feet in diameter, rising only lo a point, which is surmounted by an oak en s'ump probably originally two feet in diameter, which is almost totally de decayed - cayed decayed from age. A few days since some boys dug into the mound ; and nearly under the stump, at the depth of three feet, a skeleton was found, docuycd, hut portions of it in a fair degree of pre servation. Near the head was found two stone hatchets, an airow head, a stone pipe, and far more singular, a lot nf plates, apparently isinglass, which are covered with lines and hieroglyph hieroglyphics - ics hieroglyphics of different and- beautiful colots. - The colofcand workmanship betoken a more advanced and entirely different state of the aria than has been hereio hereiofore - fore hereiofore discovered in temains of Indian tribes. Some of the plates were des destroyed, - troyed, destroyed, but thdie are fifteen preserved They are circular, ovat in shape, and about seven inches by ten in size. A

Prom the Tuscaloosa Observer. lion. Dixon II. Lewis. It is a subject of gi eat gratification to every true hearted citizen of Alabama, to witness the honors paid to our worthy Senator by the democratic party in the Northern States. The great mass of j the democratic party in the Northern i State3. are the true (itends of the South i - they have a communion of feeling,and entertain an identity of principle with jus. It has been sufficiently ascertained. | that a high protective tariff adds nothing to the wages of the operative, and aidin' I there is great trigilance and energy con 1 Itnuallv exercised on the part of the | lordly owners of the manufacturing es establishments, - tablishments, establishments, in the prosecution of their schemes of plunder and profit, "by con congressional - gressional congressional enactments; - those schemes of plunder and profit, when successful, add nothing to the wages of the laboring man.* they increase the magnificence of the semi annual dividend, but yield no additional reward lo the hand of indus industry. - try. industry. The great body of the wot king men in ihe Northern Stairs ore (here* fore democrats, and they are only in induced - duced induced to separate themselves from their brethren of (lie South, when misled by the clamor of demagogues. There is no place in the world where ihe princi principles - ples principles of political economy, are belter un understood, - derstood, understood, loan in the rily of New York. The merchants of that city put an end '.<> the United Slates Bank of Pennsyls vania, and relieved the country of on institution which was endeavoring to emulate, in its fraudulent aspirations, the monster Bank crushed by the aveng ng hand of Jackson. The tarifl" of 1840 will he sustained by the merchants of N. York, and the country delivered from the regeneration of a system of plunder and rapine, under pretence of fostering American industry. Hence the cordi ality with which Mr. Lewis was greeted, on his recent visit to that city, - a just

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The mvlropolilan," Isthe title of a neat and spirited week weekly - ly weekly sheet, just commenced publication in the city of Montgomery, under ihe Ed Editorship - itorship Editorship of Hardy Herbert, Esq., it gentleman who is well known to lire cit citizens - izens citizens cf South Alabama, as a man of worth and n consistent whig; und published by Henry A. Livingston, a your g gentleman well known to the cit citiz-ns - iz-ns citiz-ns of Wetumpka, as an industrious und energetic, practical printer. We are confident, the pub lie spilit which so plentifully abounds in Montgomery, will not let such men invest their talent and cipit.il without Contiibuting a reasonable share of patronage to iheir support. - May success attend the men, but not their principles. The Governor of Mississippi Ins re received - ceived received a requisition from the President for five companies of volunteers, each I company to consist of 100 men, and to be organized into an independent batted' ion and commanded by a Lieut. Coin' nel, and are to rendezvous at Vicksburg. The Baton liogue Advocate says that a fiaiboatmuu was arrested in that place a few days since, in the attempt to pass counli licit 'dimes." There were found in his boat every necessary apparatus for making, and some two hundred coun-. lerfeil dimes. We find the following in the New York Herald: ''The Junk Loo Clung Warn Frong 300 days from Canton, with a cargo of crape shawls, nankins, and fancy articles, consigned to £ K KCollin - Collin KCollin lays at the foot of Whitehall street, off the Battery. She has brought many beautiful Chinese young women, which are in themselves a curiosity. - Visitors received from 10 a. m. till 6 r. The 'Metropolitan' sai s that there is no doubt but the Slate House will be in readiness for the accommodation of the Government in due time,not withstanding some apprehensions to the contrary.

port was piesented lo the House, by the Hon William Anderson, of Marengo county, chairman of the coifimiilec raised upon resolutions introduced by Mr, Anderson, proposing Gen. Jackson j for the Presidency, 'i'he report was drnwr. up by Mr. Lewis, and presented in the horse in his hand writing. In 1828, among other great measures in which Mr Lewis took a prominent part - the subject of the relations between the United Steles and the Indian tr bes, occupied his aitention, and drew front him a report, in which he proposed the cession of ihe lands occupied by them as afterwards look place - and the re removal - moval removal of the tribes lo the west of the Mississippi. In 1829, when this Stale had but three representatives in Congress, Mr. Lewis was elected over the late Samuel W. Oliver, then at Conecuh, and the late Major Francis W. Armstrong, of Mo I bile. Both these gentlemen were ar ar| - | ar| dent supporters of Gen. Jackson's ad administration, - ministration, administration, together with Mr. Lewis himself - his majority was large. In 1831, Mr. Lewis was opposed by the late Governot John Murphy, titan whom few more amiable, honest, benevolent, and well informed gentlemen has Alaba nta ever been able lo boast. Mr. Lewi's majority was about two to one. Shortly after Mr. Lewis took his seat in the House of Representatives of the United Stales, in Febtuaiy or March. 1830, lie brought himself prominently into notice, by a bold and vigorous speech which lie made in favor of gran granting - ting granting privileges lo the sellers upon Ihe public lands, and rel eving those who had pruchased under the credit system. In 1832 he made a very able speech against Ihe protective system. This speech was matked by a close reason* ing and investigation, that it dtew foith some most complimentary remarks from the Han. John Q. Adams, who upon all great tneasuies, was tiie antipodes of