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would be rank nonsense. Tocompli ment his holiness on such grounds-, is, in our juJgment, the height of absur absurdity. - dity. absurdity. Alexandria Advertiser. There are a few things contained in the foregoing commnnication of Mr. Van Buren to the Pope of Rome, that require particular observation. The general tenor and spirit of the letter is that ol the most tulsome and sickening adulation. It is evident beyond a doubt, from the tons of this letter, that Van Buren is extremelv anxious to court the especial favor of the Ro Roman - man Roman Catholics, a.ugrcat and Chris tian Church," as he calls them, and especially it is evident that he is pe culiarly anxious to create and main maintain - tain maintain a friendly and cordial communica tion and intercommunication with " Holiness the Hoh Father." And all this Mr. Van Buren does not as a private man, but as an Officer of Uovernment. V or it will De reeoiiec ted that at the time of the correspon dence, he was acting as Secretary of L'l ... I 1 1 L 1 ,, I ,.1. ciaie. i u onng mis niauer iiuuic iu our bosoms, we need but ask ourselves what would have been our feelings as . f tr. IV. nmerican cmzens, nau mr. van uu uu-ren - ren uu-ren as Secretary of State iu this Repub lican Government, addressed the Pres bylerian, the Methodist, the Baptist, or anv other christian denomination. even of our own country, in tha com plimentary and congratulatory terms with which he has addressed the rope of Rome? Aye, there is the rub. What would have been our feelings in such a rase? The indignation of the American people of every name and every profession could hot have found an adequate vent so jealous are this people of that strumpet connexion between Lhurch and state. Pittsburgh Gazette. From the New York Sunday Morning DAVID CROCKETT. Ho was indeed a character one that no other country but our own ever did or ever will produce. The wbolo man, phy sical and mental, was of frontier growth. The pioneers of civilization in ihe weal were, most of them, born in a more thick thickly - ly thickly settled portion of our couutiy; but pushing westward took possession oi me wilderness, and made it bow beneath their exertions. Labor and exposure gave hardihood and independence to their character; and thev fell and acted like Inn! nf ihe soil. The axe and the nUe ro tamiliiir to their ofTjorinR from thei infancv. In ihis BocietV was David Crorfteit educated and became distin oiiiRhBd in hia vouih. for feats of strength and skill; few were stronger, and none li .I ,. tnrn i.nnrrmff dim. ihlM CrOc'.tCtt. Be soon, in the flush language of the coun try. became a steamboat. In the war of 1812 he turned a soldier, and was i brave one: a man to be led, not driven one who had mora courage than discip line. Thorc was a romance in his char acter not uncommon amodg his country nun. hut in him it was full and exalted The light of nature's sagacity, which the while man on our frontiers possesses in a greater degree than the Indian, makes ed ucation less necessary than in thickly set tied countries. Alter the war was over, Crockett was aiuccessful hunter, and a prosperous planter, and every vay a Dusy man. His hosoilality was unbounded; his doors were ooen to the wuy-faring man, and he could not pass witnoui oreas imr hread with him. and washing it down . . . . t . v i with a glass of old Monongahela. Among the evils ot a new couniry is I lie rnirn lor Dolitical life: and Crockett wns infected by this mania and placed lnmse II betore the nubile as a canaiaaie for Congress. His struggle for this hon nr wan a Ion? one. but lie at length sue ceeded. He had good lungs, fine health, and persevered in his electioneering wmi uniirinir assiduity. His voice was loud, and Well suited to stump oratory. He unmnlimRS softened his accents to COa friends, but met Ins antagonists with the growl of a bear and tbe spring of a pan ther. No disasters ever broxe mm aown, if nnscsmnaign failed, he was soon in.the field for another. If his vocabulary was scanty, he was master ot tha slang ol his vernacular, and was happy in hia .coarse figures. He spurned the idle rules of the grammarinns, and haa a rneiorica oi ins own. When he dame to Congress he Im agined he should awe many of the dandy members by his corporeal prowess, and that his skill in shooting and strerglh in wrestling, would serve as well in Washing ton as at an electioneering assemuiy. He had promised to reform many abu fa nnH thnt in a direct i short ay. The first thing, he said, that bothered him, was the rules and orders; what those ras rn'.lv ihinira were made for he could not roflinn fnr lhV it ill not Ha an V ZOud. If VW..W., rw. ..wy - u hehanncned to violate the rules ana or ders and get on a fair track, he found that his tongue did not wag so giiDDiy a h used toon the stump; and he frequently loom his resnirution Ui ncuii anu nis knees weak, when he attempted to har angue in the House. He could not under stand this, but still he foucd it was so, dav a ter dp.v. He o ten baked arouna j z to see if there was any one bigger or stron ger than himseii, mat oauseu nw

until then he had never known any other causa of fear than that of a stronger man lhan himself. His great visions of reform, one after another, vanished, for he could not make the members listen to his reasonings. And after a while he be gan to suspect that there was not so much honesty among men aa be had believed there was. If ho got a fair shot at a po litical wild cat, he found that he had more lives than was ever fabled of grimalkin andeven if he knocked his brain Out the creature would not die. As he picked up a few words of English, and softened some of hid bold Sayings, in fact the more he lost of the manofthe woods, the less interest he became as a cariosity. The last time we saw him he reminded us of the savage who had lost the energy and pantomime grace Of the war dance, in taking lessons from a French master to figure in a cotillion. Such were the fascinations of Washington, And of life in the ramial. that he was anxious to be continued in Congress, but he must have his own way he, Iikb an nonesi man, would not be trammeled, and they at length refused to send him. Excitement he must have; and just as he lost his elec tion the troubles at Texas began, and here was a field for him. He could not live viihout being before the public II had been half inebriated wiih distinction for eight or ten years, and inglorious seclu sion would not answer for David Crockett and he found it hard work to gain and sup port a literary reputation. His court phru ses did not look as they sounded from the tongue, He was brave, and had tne arueiu soui of a warrior. He knew that military re - nown was more rapidly acquired if acqui. red at alK thun any other. One bold ad venture hag fixed the soldier's fate ei ther sent him lo sleeo in the bed of honor or raised him to fame and power. Rea- ... li- VT , . soning thushe went "aneaa." nor was Ins dtalinv long doubliui; lie met ine ene K ..... I . ,1,1 1 my and boldly cteo, inousanos oi ms countrymen will rise to avenge his deaiti God speed them . Tbe ashes of Crock elt were not given lo the winds in Vain A holler fljme than that which consumed his mortal remuins, will burn in the hearts of indignant freemen, until Ihe murdeter leaves the clench ot his dagger, and tne bigot, with his fagot and his torch, are stamped to dust. ANECDOTE OF 'LIFE IN THE WOODS." Among the earliest settlers in the wilds of Salmon River, was a Ver montese, by the name of Uobson a iarsren. resolute and athletic man Re turning One evening from a fruitless Irani atrer his vagrant cows-, wnrcn, according to custom in the new coun tries had been turned into the woods to procure their own sobsistenct trom ihe rank herbs?e of earlv summer: rt just before emerging from the forest upon tne clearing oi nis neigiiour, uic late worthy Job Meeper, he saw a large bear descending from a large sycamore, where he had been in quesi, orobablv. of honey. A bear ascends a tree much more expertly than he descends it, being obliged to com! down the stern foremost. My friend Dobsondid not verv well like to be joined in his evening walk by such a eompanionj and without miecung what he should do with the -varniini' afterwards, he ran up to the tree on the opposite side from the snimal's body, and just before he reached the ground, seized hi n hrmiy oy oom nis fore paws. Bruin growled and gnash ed his tusks; but he soon ascertained that his paws were in the grasp ot naws equally iron strung with his oWm Nor could he use his hinder-paws to disembowel his antagonist, as the man ner of the bear is, inasmuch ss the trunk of the tree was between them. But Dobson's nredicamcnti as he Was endowed with rather the moat reason, who. worse vet. He Could no more assail the bear than the bear could as assail - sail assail him. Nor could he venture to let go of him, since the presumption was, that Bruin would not make him a very gracious return for thus uncere moniolisly taking him by the hand. Tha twilight was last deepening into darkness, and his position was far less comfortable than it otherwise would have been at the same hour, surroun ded bv his wife and children at the ell ll il p r tahlp. in 3V noihiner of the if oom v nronnect or the nigni. ouit, as Job Sleeper's house was not far dis taut, he hoped to be able to call him lo his assistance. Hut his lungs, ihoush none of the Weakest were une n iai in Hip (ask., and. although he hallowed and bawled tne iive iong niwhii makinar the woods and Ihe wel kin ring again, he succeeded no better than old GlandoWer ol old, in caning spirits from the Vasly deep. It was a wearisome night lor uooson, sucn a game of holdfast he had never been engaged in before; Bruin, too, was probably somewhat worried, although he could not describe his sensation in English, albeit he took the regular John Bull jnelhod or mailing mo"" hisdisBattsfastiofl-thatisto a he

n-.t of it naiism nf m.r leW tn manf frst an especial preference for lips of this kind. There nih Sonnr nhniit r-tich, which no shrivelled lip, pout as it it-rriigftt. - rriigftt. it-rriigftt. could ever aspire to. Plato mast have wr)rn such, for We are told that the heet Used to hover about hi Hps when he was an infant, in I tn these things the judgments of o e are only inferior to 1oe ol bacrelorS. 1 Knew an OiO n'-ero unctr, who ubu m,nificent jfl af,moerlip. It was with m mooel, alih -ih not without ahadow h p(ured down. a rt, coUracl 0f p. t waj ,jf the shape aod size of a half grown . . . .. . i . L- L.J - greyhound's ear. He had no chin and his Up, which had swallowed it up, cir cled over his jaw bone, in amply apology. At a distance yod would have mistaken it for a ton!"jf. too large for the caoacity j o ' - o I ' i of his month or a red banner hung out to tell which way the wind blew. I was c shaver in theSu days, and well d I re collect sundry provocations wnicn i gave him touching his lip, and then he would shiver it at me, add give chase, while at every leap he look, 1 could see the lip flipping the lower jaw like a huge wing Poor fellow-, hes dead r.ow, he died not. exactly of a broken heart, bat of overmuch lip. My aunt Saly pax marits! nor a lip of another kind. It was a mere streak along the horizm -an ashy margin along an ocean of mouth a strip to tell yon where her teeth were. My aunt never married and had she jone to ihe altar, it would hve been an interesting spectacle lVhen shegava the bridal ki. I remember t sJliiti tion She gae me once, when, like Fan ny, I was younger than I am now and 'prettier of course.' Instead of the delightful senmion which arise from an application of soft; spongy e las'ic lips, it Was q iite the reverse; and it seemed that fhe wastoucn ing my cluck wiih iron hound bits of flesh, or her teeth. When She would uaiher the lips of her mouth together with a slight pucker, it was ihe inevi: table harbinger of a coming storm; In the choice of a wife, I mean to a void your thin, bluish, starved Id deaih stripet of fl'sh, Which people miseall lips. Thert are two sort? of lips the nec taritte and the vinegar -deserving of especial notice The nectarine swell out in beautiful round curvatures, while the vinegar are very sharp, and mike you smack your mouih when you rook at them. The first belong Irt the amiable the litter to those of acid tempers Everlasting Spring lives in ihe blossoms of a nectarine lip it fragrance is perennial and; falling id love with the ownpr of such a bless blessing, - ing, blessing, you have nothing to fear frortt acrid humors. Eternal Winter dwell upon a vinegar lip and no Stray rill of blood ever spreads the hue of health oVer ttv There arc lips which are locked or) in one unswerving purpose. They belong to the resolute and decisive; There are others Which are everlast- ingly apart as if there had been a civ il war. and thev had agreed upon con tinual separation. These, it is suspec ted, generally appertain to heads whose Wits, to say the most of them, are quite fathomable. Some lips are poetical, Smiles fling a light like a morning ray upon them and they ire glorious in tneir ongni ongni-neiS. - neiS. ongni-neiS. You feel as, if you were borri to worship, an appropriate shrine wal before you. Your eyes are fixed id admiration, whose spell you would never break. Every word which their tairer possessor utters, oniy series iu heighten their magic,and display some new form which you dream the voice of your destiny must come. You may talk of their influences, but vairt ly would you attempt to descnoe them. Imagination can conceive ot nothing; more d'liciods than kissing such lips I am overwhelmed at the thought of such bliss. S. English papers stale that theekeavi tions of Pompeii and Hercullnelim are Hill carried ort with spirit by the Nea Neapolitan - politan Neapolitan Government. An Inn ha been discovered It Herculam um, cort iisting of Iwo divisions the first of: lering a large vesiibule with a court yard lor (he acoortioioda'iori of domes tic animals; the olher a court fdr cartsj funked by pilaster forming vaults for merchandise. Much of it remain! yet to be cleared. The pavement is in Mosaic work represeilting fljwerS. A discovery has also been made at ! Pompeii, of late bnh of no ordinary richness. It is t hduse in the street of Mercury ; containing some paintings' of Narcissus and Endy mion.four Vises' of silver, and a great quantity of tried als, ambng which were tiveniy nlnfl pieces bf gold of the Brit Roman Em Emperor. - peror. Emperor. Two vises of silver of five inches diameter Ornamented with relievos of Cupids md Centaurs, ifld emblems of Bacchus and Ceres hare so been found

no let go in the case, and Do6on was , iherefore under the necessity of hold ibg fast, until it seemed to his clench ed and aching ftagers ts though ihe bear's paws and his had grown togeth together. - er. together. As daylight returned, and the smoke from Mr Sleeper's chimney began to curl ao srraeefullv. though rather l.im , . '. . n L . ly in the distance, Bobson again repeat , ed his cries for succor; and hi. hesrt j wis soon gladdened by tlie appearance i of his worthy but inactive neuhtior, ! who had at last been attracted by the voice of the impatient suS rer, b-;ir-ing an axe upon his shoulderi Uobson had never been so much rejoiced at seeing Mr Sletper before, jlbeit he was a very kind and estimable neigh bor. Why dot yoU mske haste, Mr Sleeper, and not be lounging along at that rate, when yoa see a fellow chris lian in such kettle of fi-h as this?' ' run! Is that you, Mr Dobston, up a tree there? And was it you I heard hollowing so last nigh'? I guess you ought to have your lodgings for noth ing if you've stood up again ihe tree all night. 'It's no joke, though, I can tell you, Mr Job Sleepei ; and if you had hold of the paw, ot ihe black varmint all nighty it strikes me you'd paid dear enough for it. Hot you heard mecal iing tor help in ihe night, why did'nt you come and see what ws ihe irou bit?' 'Oh, I was going tired to bed, after laying up a log feuce all da; , and I though I'd Wait till morning, and come oui bright and early Bjt, if I'd known 'twas vou ' 'Known 'iwas me'.' replied Dobson. bitterly, 'you knew 'iwas somebody who had flesh and blood loo good for these pleaguy black varmints, though; and yc-u know there's been a smart sprinkle tf bears about the settlement, ill this snrin" ' "Well, doo"i be in a hu$, Tommy. It's never too Isle to do good. So, hold tight now, and don'i lei the tar tar-ual - ual tar-ual crittar get loose, while 1 split his head open .' 'No, no,' said Dobson-. "After hold ing the beast here all night, 1 think 1 ought to have the satisfaction of killing him. ao, you list taxe noiu oi nis paws, here and t Will take the ate and let a streak c! daylight tato his skull about the quickest The proposition was a fair One; Mr Sleeper was too reasonable a man to object. He was no coward, neither; and he, therefore-, stepped dp to the tree, and cautiously taking the bear with both hands, relieved honest Djb son from h s predicament. The hands of the latter, though sadly stiffened by the tenacity with which ihey had been clenched lor so many nour, were soon brandishing Ihe axe, and he anna rently made all preparations for giV ing the deadly blow and deadly it would have been, had he struck; since; like the sons of Zeruiah, Dobson nee ded to strike but Once. But to ihe surprise of Sleeper, he did not Strike; and, to his furiher consternation, Dob son swung she axe upon his shoulder, and marched aay, whistling as he went, With as much indiuerence, as the other had shown when coming to his relief. It was Sleeper') turn to make the forest vocal with his cries. In vain he raved, and called, and threatened. Dobson walked On and disappeared, leaving his friend as sad a prospect is he himself had for his supper. To relieve the suspense of the rea reader; - der; reader; it is right to add, that Dobson re turned and killed the bear in the course of the afternoon. I Vat die's Port Folio. A FEW THOUGHTS ABOUT LIPS I love a wholesome lip. People are too much in the habit of regarding tins as mere appendages (o the human face divine nrnninenis to Set off its beauty. This is to detract from ilieir USe and excellence. They serve other purpose..; and whert properly regarded; are indicia imle.tes of chnracter; I think irt the general, people nrb (im (imposed - posed (imposed td CorSider their noses ol more im importance - portance importance ihan their lips, and nl uiy saucy nriies seem lo be of Hie sarrle way of thinking as we see ilienl turning up with nn expression of scorn as If the lips were r.ik... W.i sensible nisi: i mi iiivii linen"'3, - i ever guilty of such dastardly effrontery; sa.iu.1. ... nnp it is Irde. may occasionally flap its nostrils, and crow lustily dver its nei"hbor; as if it were cock of the walk; but the lip wiih a soft insinuation, Will soon tame the monarch down lo a mere I mean by a WholeSome lip, Is" one of iHe cdlor of a morello cherry, and which pout like a rose-budooe which might lead a bee astray by its prdmise of sweetness. I understand that in the olden time when kissing was In it pride sor sorry - ry sorry am I that it should ever have gotten

f 1 n ...to .w a I -1 . IU ViX Van Huren, dated May I, 1830. v " - in which ha informs him of his official . . visit to the Pope. ' His holiness re received - ceived received me," says Mr. Cicognani, "in ihe most benign manner, and expres expressed - sed expressed the most favorable ser.timents for the government, as well as for the na tion of the Uuited States of Ameri America. - ca. America. The following is Mr. Van Burens reply to Mr. Cicognani, and we have italicised some remarkable passages: Department of State, Washington, 20lh July, 1830. Felix Cicognani Consul of the V Slates at Rome. Sir Your letters of the 1 1th of April, and the 1st of May, Ihe first an licipsling (he favorable sentiments of his Holiness the Pope, towards the government of the United States, and last, coi finning your anticipations, have been received at this department and submitted to the President, by whom I am directed to convey to his Holiness, through the same channel, an assurance of the satisfaction which he derives from this communi cation, of the frank and liberal opin opinions - ions opinions entertained by the Apostolic bee inwards this Government anil the neo pie, and of the policy which you like wise slate hi holiness has adopted, and which is soworlhu of the head - . V of a great and Christian Church, as sidiously to culiivate,in his intercourse with foreign nations, the relations of amity and good will, sedulously to ab stain from all interterence in their oc casional differences with each other, except with the benign view of effec. ting reconclialions butween them. You will accordingly seek an early opportunity to make known to the Pope, in the terms and manner better oiled to lha occasion, the lisrht in - . - - 0 which the President views the commu nication referred to, and likewise you will assure him that the President reciprocates to their full extent and spirit, the triendly and noerai senu meuts entertained bv his holiness io Wardi the Government and the peo nle of the United Slates, by those which he entertains towards the Apos tolic See, and the People of the States of the Church; andrii is the President's wish that von should, on the same oc casion, offer his congratulations to the Holy rather, upon his recent sue cpssion to the Tiara, not from any Hereditary Claim on his part, hut the preponaering influence wucn a just estimate of his talents and vir J . . I, , , ..m ah 4 k n , . . nv 01 Mil T j r lues had unon the enlightened coun - g i cils by which that high distinction was conferred, and which afford the best pledge that his poniifi aia will be a Wise and beneficent one. You will take care, likewise, to as s ire his Holiness, in reference to the paternal solicitude Which he exprts ses in oehaif oj the Koman vatnoncs in the United Stales, that all our citi 2ens professing that religion stand upon the same elevated ground which citizens of all other religious denomi nations occupy, in regard to tne rights of conscience, that of oerfect liberty, contra-distinguished from toleration; that they enjoy an entire exemption from coercion in every possible shape, upon the score of religious faith, and they are free, in common with their fellow cilia 'lis of all other sects, to adhere or to adopt the creeds, And prac .1 1.1. . I A - I . . I lice tne worship, oesi auapieu to ineir reason or prejudices, and that there exists a perfect unity of faith in the United states among religionists ot all professions, as to the wisdom and poli cy of that cardinal feature of all our constitutions and forms ot government those of the United Stales and the sep arate states of the Union, by which this inestimable right is formally rec recognized, - ognized, recognized, and the enjoyment of it invio lably secured. I have given directions for the trans mission to you of the acts of Congress which you request, by the earliest convenient opportunity. In the mean time, I am, sir, respect fully, Your obedient servant, (Signed) M. VAN BUREN. The lustian compliments to the ho ho-in - in ho-in father Kfiniained in his rcnlv. are of the author. A vast majority of the people of this country repudiate nauseating flattery. To compliment a Pope on his election, because it is not in virtue of a heredi tary right, is going pretty far out of the way, when every school boy knows that nv hareditarv claim amonat a j J o priesthood condemned to celibacy.

. , - .u .i.ir...., . n, ...-i. i ainit him. ann nro i it s i- a revui sion in nublic sentiment as to defeat i his election. Hut all these exertions of his enemiss failed of their d -sired object, although they had connived, in some instances, to convert the sa sacred - cred sacred pulpit into a political rostrum against him. His honesty anil meg meg-rity - rity meg-rity raised him to the elevated siaiion to which he aspired, and his machina ting enemies dwindled into insignifi cance before the popular feeling. As with Mr Jefferson, so wiih Mr. Van Ouren. Some of the opponent! of the latter have endeavored to excite Various religious denominations against him by representing him as being a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The motive for such repre dentations must easily be seen by Catholics as well as all other denomi nations of Christian, for it is nothing more nor less than an attempt to de. feat his election to the presidency, as in the case of Mr. Jefferson. In order to shew that this is the design of Mr. Van Buren's enemies, we publish the following letter from Hon. Aaron Van derpoel, member of the House of Rep resentatives of the U. S. from the dis trict in which Mr. Van Buren was born. The letter is in answer to one from the Hon. Zjdock Casey, mem ber from Illinois; in which Mr. Casey made the enquiries therein answered. For ourselves, we do not support or condemn a man for office on ac count of his religious opinions; we leave him to settle that matter with his creator We require Mr Jeffdr Jeffdr-son's - son's Jeffdr-son's test uIs he honest, is he capa capable - ble capable is he faithful to the conslUu 4ion,"Ohio Patriot. Washington City, House of Reps April th,1836. Si- I have just received your letter of this date, requesting me to state fur lhr information of certain citizens of Illinois whether .Mr Van Buren is or bis been a member of the Roman Cath vlic Church. Agreeing with you in the great prin cinle to which you lefer, as well as also in the tuliei, tnai mere can, notwithstanding, be no valid obiec tions to have the fact upon the point o which your inquiry relates truly stated, f cheerfully comply with your request. 1 have been arflnainted with Mr. Van Buren and his family, from my I . Sl . 1 1 ..... U . a fa earliest recollection. I was bornin, and now reside in Kmderhook, which is the native town of both of as. He is not) and never has been a Roman Catholic. That (here may no longer be any excuse for the further circula tion of the stateniuii s which hare al already - ready already been so extensively and indus tnously spread upon this subject i have thought proper in fulfilment of 'your wishes, to obtain his authority for this declaration. Mr: Van Buren was bred in the re ligious principles of the Reform Pro testanl Duich Church, whose tenets are similar to those of the old Presby terian Churches. Whilst he resided in Kinilerhook, this was the only Church in the village; his parents at attended - tended attended it, and he was baptised in i :, end until his removal to the city of Hudson, he was a regular attendant on its services. There being no Dutch Church in Hudson, and Mrs. Van Bu Buren - ren Buren becoming a member of the Presby terian Church at that place, he atten attended - ded attended with his family, until her death, a church of that denomination, first at Hudson, and afterwards it Albany, under the care of the late Dr. John Chester. Since the death of Dr Ches ter, which occurred, 1 think, in tha beginning of 1829, he has been a pew holder in the Church, and has usually attended when in Albany, on the min istrations of the Rev. Dr. Welch of the Baptist Church, a selection which 1 presume may be ascribed to person at friendship, and to the high charac ter of that distinguished clergyman for ability and eloquence It is due to Mr. Van Buren to add, Viai he is no sectarian, and that he um fnrmlv has been and is a decided advo cate of freedom of conscience, and of