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THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. E E T I B W o r .Ni'Av iJOOKS. T H E GREAT HARM<-> a I ft., t>y A n d r e w J ackson D avis . 12ino. pp. 4’’f' Sus'.oa: B. B. Mu6sey& Co. K ew York: Fowlers iL V.V!Is. In this latest revriatioD from the “interior sphere,” Mr.Davis leaves the .lescription of supra- 'mnndane societies, auj the i’v.;)Osition of the tran- , Bcendental principles of I'Ciiiiv. and devotes himself •chiefly to physiology, fu'd t*'e means o f preserving health and of curing disease- His bools may be .called a system of spiriioal therapeutics, and what ever may he bis merit-' or demerits, no one can complain that it soars into regions beyond the sphere of experience, w .ere the atmosphere is too thin for any terrestria‘ hnos vo breathe. It will, however,be subjecturiO.iah' ■, ly to the same treat ment which was experi -ai e : h > his former volume; a portion regarding it ^.ith hrte less reverence than an authentic reco* 1 '*t •<; iration: and others | nature; I would not have been s( throne, nor banished from thoi were enshrined in I was constrained native so unepectedly de scenes which itions. But the interior of constrained to depart into the interior of my country—there to deplore the past and inte]> rogate the future. This change in my Itfe and habits, was the beginning of my uneasiness com cerning the issue of that event which is called ed Lmhe^- me as its vh and fearful] owned u] an everlast the Isle of ‘ tations of the g the gods to preside ipon me and claimed onraed more forcibly otiiing discoursed me ionceming the dreadfalness of my than the long and still nights, :o illuminate and animate with th a n art a n tlientic recu* i ->r •<; irau u u : auu u m e r s j everyw h e r e , i h e a r d the voice of th e J u d e a n Shep- •Dlvin\ it with the te.'*- i >vcastic criticism, the herd saying: ^ Dm k is the Valley o f the Skadow o f L l c S o e with w h ich ,, c, . . c i t y ic received hy society. Our readers account of its contani' , ; have the means of dec’-'t The author admits >; ■' ! might have beet- ' ..xpect from us a fair l i- 've do not pretend to i-., 's .-’laims. in riy things in this vol- ' . . -.1 by the u sual me- loi, bovi’-ever, avail- . I- .pi dated with even educatfon, and de- _ iree years subsequent to.wy dpthronement, I was made aware of approaebing dissolution. In view* of this final terin'iiution to my existence, my spirit sanli in-o the depths of melancholy, and was veiled in night. I was imperfectly aroused from thods of information. li ed himself of these, b<- the ordinary branch, s . pendent on the “ super; of the knowledge winch h. ''.‘tempts to communi cate. Still he does H'>t, ; b an infallible teacher ot .-c.rii' e .aid philosophy, but tippeals for the correct;’, s- ->1 his statements to the natural intuitions ar i ■ -n of man. He de mands no belief for lu - .fi' .ires, on account of the abnormal state in a, ley have had their origin, but refers e x c l u > . n i . . their intrinsic char acter and vitality. The first topic considL.. ‘ Mr. D. is the pur pose of man’s creation, tth n-’ maintains is the progressive developem- .: •• \ s whole nature, in reference to a higher lH’.-. a -. < • 1 the present. This is followed by a protr if* ’ dcioussion of the con ditions ofhealth and tl<. • ^ >i>f disease, in which th e mutual relations of Til-,.(t aii-1 matter are illus trated by a variety of cur tacts. The philoso phy of sleep and the p-.f .-..^iiliy of death are the next topics. His view's o lie change produced by death are not dissimila:- t • < ’uise which are cher ished by many philosopi ]< ...I spiritualists. “ Death is but an c-v ,.r m our eternal life. Ttis a change in the situiiUci, aad in the condition of the individual. AuJ is u is a law_ of nature that every true and spon’\..i :cih chaogeis attended w ith an improvement aii.i advancement in the condition and cohstitu i<'u o' the thing which is changed; so is man’s de.>Th to the outer.world an important and valuab'e ch ■ .go in hia situation and condition. In other Jar.. u-ia ■, death is simply a lirih into a new and mn;',- p-rreofi state of exist ence. Nature, which is mi - only true and un changeable revelation (if'*c Divine Mind, is re plete with the most b-‘;oif: 111 and demonstrative analogies, or with univeis . proc -ssqs which per fectly correspond to th.' ;■!..■ tminenon of physical dissolution. Everything is n incessantly “ bor I w'as imperfectly a _ ,.„?n thtre streamed ti :ie doctrine which supposed a resiu 'ids i ffh e s o u d that die, to live on si /enb,' isle for ever. And this lave ..iMnu” for the whole | **• ipts to communi- anticipated and named by I be considered as Atlantis.’ At the request of my few, but faithi . . . , . . ' T nir-i-ntpf) irr> be written t m. iUverythiug lb n un^ incessantly “ b ;ain,” or changed from uue state of being into and this chi tber; and this changi plished, and confirmed, bj> or p rocesses which maid lustration—^let us think impanied, accom- cional movements i term death. For il- , litri.^itri.^ germ which In k ql a l germ^ atrr.e,, whichhich inviteavi its innate w i un'.j d themselves and i.ieii'ies. And forthwith ation—^let hidden in the earth, i- u -.. , vivifying elements o f natu. e, essences and principles to u display their legitimate teu-ieu 'ies. And forthwi the germ is changed—or, i-i keep the analogy prominently before the Ihlii i, it r?/es to its original form and mode of existence Simulcaneous with this death there comes lorrh from out of the germ new forms and organizati-ns ; that is, a new body, with many branches, are unf'lded and developed. And so, likewise, by a cM .^it inn and harmonious succession of changes —or demh-i —or births, in the various ascending forms aid forces of the germ, the perfect flower is ulnui ^tely unfolded in all its ■ fair and beauteous propo'( f’iu.i. “ Everything whichhas in -c oa, life, and sensation, and which has not attaned the human form, is destined to alter its form and mode of being; and every alteration is acorn pauied with a death among some, or all, of the parts or portions o f the living organism. But there is no extinction of life, no annihilation of the persormli y of any human organization or principle m a 1 the interminable nniverse: it is merely the mode of man’s existence that is changed by death; ami which mode, in ac cordance with progressive principles, is thereby vastljT improved and eleva'^.^d. Mr. Davis supposes that he has the power o f com municating with the spirits of the departed, and gives one or two striking instances of this, in Ulus tration of his conceptions of the philosophy of death. O f course, these can be rega (led only as the sub jective visions of an active imagination, by most readers, but considered in this light, they are not without interest. W e copy his description of Solon, the Athenian law-giver, which as an exam ple of a natural prose poem, by one who has no nldll in the use o f the pen, deserves a place among the collectionH of D ’Israeli. “ I have y e t another spiritual communication to re cord in this place, for the consolation of the mourn er, trut I in this place, for the consolation of the mour and for the enlightening of the seeker afti itb. It; was imparted to me by an in^vida w as imparted to me by an i who lived on the earth several hundred 3 :er after tdividaal books. That which he communicated as faithfully as I can possibly translate tion into the English language; but I can words for only a fragment of what he breathed :e his revela- find .UttP UCCUj darkest horrors funeral paJi, sn t n o t r e p ly — th e thou lor lij now, on and mysteries—bedeckf end veiled by ignorance ? 3 st and Yea, thoi it tby spirit, therefore, m objects and influences of hend and faithfully rei notes, which, through: instruct the • istruct the Earth its diversified phenomena. “ Man\' centuries have rolh 3m the \ if earth; and let it compre- ird the sw e et and silvery trough me and thee, may musically rth's inhabitants concerning life and “ Man\' centuries h I , as one among /er the earth since Lft>itants, lived and :s iiihaftjitants, My thoughts and ex- th a t ptai when contrasted ell on the higher s a 1 d with the jrvades the but tya. uneasy, night, when contrast perpetual and peaceful Day, which interior souls of those who dwell 01 planes of the neighboring sphere. Yet my e x perience, as I neared the terminat on of my resi lence on earth, w a s a perfect history of, and ( nentarylentary upon, the influence of ignorance mythology. “ Greece was my Country and my Idol; her in habitants 1 loved as my children ; and her beauteous institutions seemed ^ me like monuments of in struction and philosophy. But, as among children, there came discord there; the government was divided into numerous Ilepubiics; and the people, looking with favor upon my temparameat and at tainments. placed me at the suminic of their aspira tions. Wherefore I became the governor, the in structor and the lawgiver of the once beloved and adored Athens. The laws tratped by me for the Athenians were none other than the desires of my inmost understanding; but, instead of orally im parting to the multitude the instinctive promptings ,5ind silent meditations of m y o -vn spirit, I caused them to be executed upon parchment; and I confi dently depended upon the most devoted of my more immediate companions,\ who were well versed in my laws and reasons, to instruct, and im prove, and harmonize the people. But hereby I .experienced a truth, which all mankind should forthwith learn, that those who are esteemed as land m u s t n o t be •ms orrevela- I ; for such mind:ii, holding a temporary power over the people, will, in order to maintain Their power and position, misrepresent and de- thi-oage the medium or person through whmh the truth is unfolded to the worid.^ Tern this darkness when lection of the di tion o f ihe souls c fair andheavenlv isle for ever. And this iavori ’ ‘................... . ’ '-eat i bad often known as Sala- 3 again that fairer Dated and named by Plato, A t the reqi friends, I dictated to be that my ashes should which so constantly embraced and moauied the fertile hut solitary shores of the Salai “ B eing prostrated with disease for several weeks, it was easy to mark the progress of those physical changes to the f n a l change which is termed death. This final change came upon me as my spirit was audibly deploring the fate of my dearly-beloved country. The sun had not yet dis appeared in the west, when I was prompted to hid my friends farewell; and the change, like named by Plat the ‘New- if my few, but faithful upon parchment, be scattered upon the sea ted and moan about .mis Isle. hid my slumber, cn ally faded aw a y , naintain a consciousness nore unconscious I beci vhich ap p e a r e d to com world, was entirely, and, a ^ nnd desire hings about a m e; until every meet me with tl f life, lengthe: : severing for t sire V should medial the outer bought, everlasting- itituted the last links end, which red lest the dashes and ; and my dc- itialpresei i accom- vaded my entire nature, which peaceful calm was speedily followed by a state of total uuconscious- “ How long I remained thus I could not tell; but I experienced a full return of the consciousness of nality. This restoration of life compi restoration o f life was ac- any n ew and sw e et influences; thoughts caused me suddenly to leel mat 1 couw now understand more concern ing the gods, and comprehend the nature of the soul’s resurrection. A super-consciousness per vaded m e ; aud my spirit was endowed with im mortal sensibilities. The instant that I realized, or thought I realized, this truth, ray breast freely inhaled the soft and silvery air; my heart swelled with emotion, and heat the musical pulsations, which would naturally flow from an harmonious in strument. Inspired with these exalted sensatioi id not realizing my spirit’- lich I had hitherl ese exalted sensations, ;’s departure from the labited, I strove body whi( open my eyes that I mij and relate to them the raeli .lo posed that I should not die, and that passed through a metamorphosis froi BufFerieg to a renew* endowing me with a superior power, woi rncfc a n d leg islate for the inhabited, I strove to that I might again behold myfriends, ’ ' f m y s o u l. Isup- l I had but mm illnessllness and . i d that I had letamorphosis fro i ed condition of my life, which luld enable to instrnct and legislate for the Athenians. Gradually my senses opened, and, l o ! instead of seeing the external forms of my friends, I be held their interior life, and read their inmost thoughts— I saw them deploring, in tears, the de- p^ture of some dearly-beloved one from tell them that d e s e e d tenemei ho' ent was nothing, and that 1 possessed a body, and stood among them; but, instantly. I saw that there could be no communication between u s ; because they were living in one condition of being, and I in another; they could converse only through the instrumen- talit5' of the material senses, and 1 could discourse only through the pure mediums of thought and de sire. But I was too highly inspired withi new and jptions, to be; knew that ii this knowlei new and jsfcow much desire idance beside the e me. I internally Tell \with them; and issive com ere soothingly closed; and now my exalted sensibilities gathered themselves into friendly groups throughout my nature. In a few moments I passed into a calm and profound slumber. “ I was aroused from this serene and partial state of unconsciousness, by experiencing a peculiar breathing sensation upon my face and head, where upon my eyes opened, and I beheld, in the scenes and forms about me, more concentrated love and friendship, more grandeur and magnificence, thi thou canst understand; thou bend, or record, wha I realized the divim had promised the early ini Shall I tell thee that I stood tisisle? Yea, I believed d; thoucouldst not compre- I saw. Shall I tell thee that resurrection, which the gods nrly inhabitants of earth?— i upon the Now Atlan- the gods were faithful; )f immortal duration jSalamis! A pure, serene air constantly entered my b reast; my ear was entranced with the most liquid and silyery music, which seemed to float upon the atmosphere; and my eyes contemplated a boundless and magnifi cent country. Anon, I was inspired or penetrated witha divinity of ineffable sweetness. And a thought came before me, and said: Seek thou ike things idiich draw thee most.” And, immediately, I was at tracted to a.group offriendly persons,whom I beheld conversing near me. W h a t a thrill of unutterable joy ran through niy now exalted nature, when among them I discovered and embraced two o f the dearest friends I ever knew in Atheris ! This meeting, unexpected and sweet, imparted to my soul mo happiness than I had ever enjoyed on earth from that moment, I began to unfold in Loi Wisdom. It was onl I learned that the go( and that the glorious come an inhabitant was not, as I had supposed, the new-born republic of the isle of the sea—no; I learned of mjr higher life; and progressed to under stand that I lived in a tenfold more heavenly state than my earthly imaginings bad dreamed of—be cause each inferior faculty o f my nature was drawn :o intimate conjunction with the True, the and the Divine! Thou seest now what a simple and ennobling 8 it is to d ie; thou seest now that there is Iley ’ of fearful ‘ shadows' to pass through; int ‘ dp.ath ’ is not ‘ an everlasting sleep.’— that it is only the good w , I began to unfold in Love and only by perpetual development, ! gods did not bring me thither; of which I bad be- up into Good, a see st now process it is to d ie ; no ‘ valley ’ of feai' and that ‘ death ’ i pervade this c “ The earth’s inhabitants will now see (even though they do not believe it) that to die is to be, born again; and that to die sweetly, they should ihink, act, and unfold, in harmonious order; for it have blossomed, though in rui the flower must have blossomed, though in rude places, peacefully and purely, out of whose heart rich fragrance flows to h eaven!” The remainder o f the volume is principally oc cupied with the treatment of diseases, and it must be confessed that the author admits , into his phar- macopia an astounding list of remedies, enough to frighten the regular faculty altogether out of their propriety. The’efl’ect on the patient w e sr-ould rather not be able to speak o f from experiance. “ T h e C ommon E n g l ish V e r s io n ,” is the title of a pamphlet on the question now under dis cussion by the American and Foreign Bible Socie ty, with regard to the circulation of a revised trans lation of the Sacred Scriptorea under their au spices. It purports to b e a reply to the pamphlet issued by B ev. Spencer H. Cone and Mr. W illiam H. Wyckoff, in favor of that measure, and contains the proceedings of a recent meeting in the Oliver- Bt. Baptist Church, the Report of the Committee presented by Rev, Mr. Turney, a brief History o f''' the English Version b y Christopher Anderson, and a letter to the member of the Amity-st. Baptist Church by their pastor. Rev. W illiam R. Williams. This last is a characteristic and very able docu ment, showing the fruits of much learned research, and couched in terms o f elaborate pungency. W e give the concluding paragraph as a specimen: . “ Of the whole undertakine. then, if the doenrm lj.J V> lhU VYUTUU fcUC x o v ieiu ii 10 hU UC5 1 n augur no toed. I say it with deepest pain; id only a regard to the rights of Truth, and to the merits of our most excellent version, greatly wrong ed by these attacks, wrings from me the expres sion of nay deepest conviction that the document is Buch that any denominational recognition and adop tion of it v.’ould only bring on the literary character of our cliurche.'? a dishonor, which the lapse of one generation would scarce suffice to eftace. W ade some of its changes suggested may be admi ’aale, could tjjej he made apart from the others, there are others trivial in the extrem e; and others again which, if mede, mitenable as They mv, would only defoan our New, nt, avd leave ihe biok, if prelfr ed bt this dt cmm nt. not less miblo tj t'le ex ceptions, on T'.hich it inf^ists as condno\ Iirva school- boj£f, and far more liable than it now i^, to tho con- deranaiion of true echolars. Had tho resp.3cted brethren who*.sign thva document, with the eiiteem- ed brother whose liberality furnishes the prollered Btereotype plates, cast themselves, unexpectedly to their brethren thronghout the churches, but under a strong impulse of duty, into some great strong hold of Truth, wresting it from the hands of its en emies, as Jonathan and bis armor-bearer clambered up into the Philistine fastness, they might well ex pect their brethren to admire their prowess, and to aid them in manning and retaining the captured post. But here it seems not so. The document, instead, assumes some positions that are not critic ally or doctrianlly tenable. W hile speaking only of the revision of a version, it seems actually to re- quir# the re\visiou o f onr systems of Christian mor als as to what is or is not an oath, the imposition of n e w law s up o n th e G r e e k lan g u a g e an d th e E n g lish, settled as the existing laws are by the best classics and the usage o f centuries, and the ingraft- ment upon History of what has no historical basis, as to the motives and spirit of our older translators; and all these grave changes are to be promptly on resoiuuons, maue more suuuu yr uuieusioi Fact would b e still fact; and the classics of G r t __ and England would look with calm serenity upon the hand that had camped on a miry and unsound position, a mere Serbonian bog, in the hope of as sailing thence the inexpugnable grounds of settled classical usage. For our brethren to summon us thither, to stand at their sides, is to ask us to come down from the rampart and the hight occupied by our fathers, and aid these adventurous innovators in pitctiing a camp upon the Slough of Despond.— True charity and fraternity consist rather in remon strating against such rash flounderings in B iblical, Criticism; in aiding our brethren to wipe away, with a kind oblivion, the memory of some of their emendations far more daring than just; in assuring them that for their personal worth and services they will be ever regarded, hut not as revisers of the received English version, and in reminding them that to themselves, more than to the old scholars they so harshly impugn, infallibility will never belong, while w e remain on this side the gates of the Celestial City. (New-York: Printed by J. A. Gray.) From GoJey's Ladles Book. G o ssip about Children. In a Familiar Epistle to ' the \ Editor. BY X.EWIS GAYLORD CLARK. M y D e a r G o d e y : I love children. I used to think, -when I was a bachelor, (it is a good many years ago now,) that there was something rather presuming in the manner in which doting fathers land mothers would bring their “ wee things” .around them, and, for the especial edifica tion of ns single feflows, cause them to “ mis-speak halt-uttered words,” and to go through with divers little lessons in manners and elocution. But both parents and children were made so apparently happy by it, that I never could think, as certain of my irreverent companions were wont to think, and to say, thatit was “ a bore.” No, I never thought lOr said that; but I liiiZ think, I I'emember, as I have said, that there was a little bad taste, and not a little presumption in such a course. I don’t think so now. W h en a father—and how much more a m o ther- sees for the first time the gleam o f affection illu minating, with what the Germans call en “interior when that innocent soul, fresh from heaven, loc for the first time into yours, and you feel that yoi: is an answering look to that new-bora iutelligen —then, I say, will you experience a .sensati which'is not “ of the earth earthly,”,hat belongs to the “ correspondences’’ of a higher antRi filer spliere. I wish toI gossip a little with you concerning c^-il- gossip a little with you concerning c> idi'en. You are a full-grown man now, friend Godey, full-grown; yet you were once a boy; and I am well assured that you will feel interested in a few incidents which I am going to relate in illustra- ition of my theme—incidents which I hope yon will judge to he not unfruitful of monitory lessons to “ children of larger growth” than mere girls and 1 be asked for? And do not the best of parents frequently m u ltipty prohibitions until obedience to them becomes impossible ? Excuse me; hut all your readers have been children; many o f them are happy mothers; many more that ere not will be in God's good tim e ; and I cannot but believe that many who shall peruse these sentences will find something in them which they will remember hereafter. “ The sorrows and teai-s of youth,” says W a sh ington Irving, “ are as bitter as those o f a g e ;” and he is right. They are sooner washed away, it is true; but oh! bow keen is the f resent sensibility, how acute the passmer mental agony I My twin-brother W illis—may his ashes repose in peace in his early, his untimely grave !—and my self, when w e were very little boys in the c-rautry, saw, one bright June day, far up in the blue sky.,'a paper-kite, swaying to and fro, rising and sinking, diving and curveting, and flashing back the sunlight in a manner that was wonderful to behold. W e left our little tin vessels in the meadow where w e were picking sfrawberries, and ran into a neighboring field to g et beneath it; and, keeping our eyes con tinually upon it, ‘ gazing steadfastly toward heaven,’ w e presently found ourselVes by the side of the architect of that magnificent creation, and saw the li ne which held it reaching into the skies, and little white paper messengers gliding alongupon it, as if to hold communion with the graceful artificial ‘bird of the air* at the upper end. I am describing this to you as a boy, and I wish yon to think of it as a hoy. W ell, many days after unsuccesi ‘ _-3eze to speed his vessel oh her v o y a g e _______ w e for a wind that should send our paper messen- tbat unhappy father bend over the couch of his dying son. Once, indeed, ’ djong son. Once, indeed, he thought he saw a smile of recognition light up h is dying eye, an I he leaned eagerly forward, for he would have given worlds to have whispered one kind word in his eai*, and have been answered; hut that gleam of ap parent intelligence passed quickly away, and was succeeded by the cold, unmeaning glare, and the wild tossing of the fevered limbs, which lasted un til death came to his relief. Two days afterward the undertaker came with the little coffin, and his son, a playmate -of the de- cieased hoy, bringing the low stools on which it was to stand in the entry-hall. “ I w a i with Henry,” said the lad, “ when he got into the water. W e wereplaying down at the Long Whai'f, Henry, and Charles Munmrd, and I ; and the tide was out very low; and there was a beam run out from the wharf; and Charles got out on it to get «i fi*h-ime and hook that hung over where the water IS d eep; and the first thing w e saw, he had sli| oflj and was straggling in the ped oflj and w as straggling in the water! Henry threw off his cap and jumped clear from the wharf into the water, and, after a great deal of hard work, got Charles out; and they waded up through the mud to wherei the wharf was not so wet and slip pery ; ahd then I helped them to climb up the side. Charles told Henry not to say anything about it for, ifh e did, h is father would n everlethim g o n earthe water again. Henry was very sorry; and, ali the way going home, he kept saying— “ ‘W h a t will father say when he sees me to night ? I wish w e bad not gone to the wharf!’ ” “ Dear, brave hoy!” exclaimed the bereaved father; “ and this was the explanation which I cruellyrefusedto hear!” and hot and bitter tears rolled down his cheeks. * Yes, that stem lather now learned, and for the fii-st time, that %vhat he had treated with unwonted severity as a fault, -was but the impulse of a gene rous nature, which, forgetful of self,- had hazarded life lor another. It was but the quick prompting of that manly spirit which he himself had alwa3'S en- ’ 'to gratt upon ung as hi lore than Let me close this story in the very words of father, and let the-lesson sink deep into the hf ol eveiy jjarent who shall peru-ne this sketch: “ Everything that I now see, that ever belonged to him, reminds me of my lost boy. Yesterday, I iound some rude ijencii-Eiket-jhes v/hich if wa^ i\ij dell’-lit to make lor the amuaement of his that manly spirit which he himselt had alwa3'S en- desvi red to gratt u his susceptible mind, and which, young as be was, bad alwa\’.s manifested itself oi> more than one occasion. 'V in the very words of that hi o ther. to make lor the amuaement of his younger . To-d«y, in rummaging an old closet, I crots his bnots, still covcreil v-dth dock-mu\1 rs v.'beii he Iti-. t v-ore them {You ina3’ t’aink it strap’ e, hr.t that which is u uallj' S'l unsightly au object, is LOW ‘ mc-st precious to roe.”) And every inoni’up end cvej 5;i«', I pros the .qrou'c 1 where my genk v( d-o raiig th/m e u ici.t .imong his |fiatmates. “ All th. so thi gs sp.“nh to rie vivfllyofhis active life; but 1 carfiot—though I have t'ftt-u tried—I cannot rtcc.ll any other exo-v'-sion ofthe dear boy’s Let tbsn that n'ute, mournful one wirh which he turr.ed horn me on the. night I so harshly repulsed him. Then my heart bleeds afresh! “ Oh, how careful should w e all be that, in our daily conduct toward those little beings sent us by a kind Providence, w e are no^ laying up for our selves the sources of manj’ afu.ure bitter tear! Hovr cautious that, neither by inconsiderate nor cruel word or look, w e unjustly grieve their gen erous feeling! And how guardedly ought we to weigKeverj' action against its motive last, in a moment ol excitement, we be led to mete out to the venial errors ofthe heart the punishment due only to willful ciirue! “* Alas ! perhaps few parents suspect how often the fieice rebuke, the sudden blow, is answered in their cldidren by the tears, iiof of passion 'oor of phj sical or iileiital pain, bat of a loving y et grieved or outraged nature.” I will add no word to reflections so true; no cor relative incident to an experience so touching. bYTELEGfiAPH TO THE MEW-YORK THIBUN’E CONGB-ESS.. . .F irst Session. IN SENATE . . . . W a s h in g t o n , Tuesday, May 21. After the presentation of petitions, Mr. Y olee moved to take up his resolution submitted yester day in relation to the invasion of Cuba. Mr. H ale hoped it would not be taken up, as it must le$d to debate, and the time had now arrived was of. ipposetl revolution. •essed th From information v/hich h e had received, he w'aj inclined to believe that the expedition referred ti was not a military expedition such as contemplated by our neutrality obligations. He recognized in the highest degree the importance of preserving onr neuti-ality obligations, and designed to make no ob jection to all proper constitutional measures to that end. W h a t he desired £0 call the att mtion o f the Senate to, what seemed to him to h e a gross usurpation of power by the President, an attempt to cover up a delinquency at home, by the commis sion of a great wrong abroad. An expedition had left our shores, not for the commission of any act the ibteigri jtiTisdict , ^ national vessels was to prevent its landing upon that foreign coast, and to prevent the landing of stores and supplies. This act was grossly in viola tion and denial of the rights o f emigration, and ex patriation. It was an outrage also upon the free dom of commerce. National law provided that wherever k civil wav brealis out, or the flag o f re volution is unfurled, there being two belligerent parties in the field, it is a nentral commercial right of any citizen of the United States ig hire or sell his vessel for the purpose of famishing eithei'of the belligerent parties with supplies of arms or any thing else. This right the Executive was charged with having violated, in a manner, in his opinion, most unjustifiable and inexcusable. In conclusion, Mr. Y ul ? e declared, that while he had no pre\ ions information \with reference to this expedition, his mpathies were with the Republicans who were er.di avoring to release themselves from tju’anny sr.d oppression. S Mr. W e b s t e r regretted that Mr. Walker had thought necessary to move the amendme.nt h e had' ofi'ered, because it was rather offensive in its terms, and was pot exactly regular, as it inquired under \wliat authority a certain alleged aet had been done, before any evidence of the execution of that act had been furnished. Ha hoped the amendment would be withdrawn, butfif it was not he would vote for the Resolution, even as amended. He had been exceedingly surprised at some of the proposi tions asserted by the Senator, who had said, among other things, that this supposed act of the President looked like an act o f war. \War against whom,? W h a t country ? W h at colony ? W h a t province ? It wms important that w e should govern ourselves by some distinct understanding of the neutral du ties o f this Government, and of all her citizens, as defined by the law of 1818. If w e meant to be neutral,' w e were to consider our treaty stipula tions. Everybody knew that in our stipulations with Spain, the Executive power of the United Si hSB, over and o\\' ------ - ------------ ^ far these stipulations were binding on Congress thehe Senateenate thathat suchuch stipulatipula but simply to remind t S t s s tions had been given, as far back as Jackson’s Ad ministration, and made for the purpose, and with the view, of inducing Spain not to part with Cuba to tho advantage o f European power, and the con sequent detriment of our interests. And these Tiews and acts of the Executive had been pub lished again and again, and no objection to them '(ri’ been heard. But what was it that had about? It was said that the • ofthe specific purposes, ai ___ _______ _ ______ ^ ______ , and supposed to be, those purposes were not only legal, right and Constitutional, but the course as cribed to the Executive was made his duty by pos itive statute. This was a military expedition fitted out in the United States to act against Cuba—if that was the fact, as the law /orbade, andwas-ds- B'/gnod to prevent the fitting out of such expeditions in the United States, whatever the President had done was correct; whatever had been done had Executive was by law directed, v.'henever he could wifi-in and under the jui-isdiction of the United _ States, to exert both the military and Naval power, to suppres the expedition.— If an American v essel was found on the coast of Cuba in the execution o f the purpose of the E x p e dition, it was as much under our jurisdiction as if lying at one of our harbors, for it was a generally admitted fact that the jurisdiction of the United States on board of American vessels extended wherever otu* flag floats. The Senator had also said that if a landing was made upon the Island of Cuba under a Revolutionary flag, that was a break ing out of a civil war in which w e must remain nentral between the parties engaged in it. That he admitted to be true, hut when such civil edm- motion was aided on the one side or the other by the fitting out in this country o f an armament, that v/Rs agaiiiBt the law of 1818, and what that law was expressly designed to prevent. The Senator had also thrown out a general remark, that lie was sfreid this act o f the President was auotherof nev- eral aef-s calculated to lead to the suspicion, that the policy of tho administration is rather anti-Re- puhlican.* iBSTER thought the remark gratuitous ded; he believed the Fresidentdesigned Mr, \W e ) and onibundei to execute the law houestl3', fairly and firmly. He knew o f nothing in his life or acts to lead to the suppositif’n that the Presidei-.fc was not as good a Republican as the rest of them. Mr. C lay looked upon the movement as alto other premature, and did not design to enter into d fhat the Senate would turned from the admission pedition fitted out in the e moved that the resolution be laid on the table, for the purpose of taking up the special order, which was agreed to. The Senate tnen resumed the consideration -of the Omnibus bill, and Mr. Soule addressed the Sri!ate in support of the amendment submitted _hy Jefferson Davis against the proposed compromise Echeme. After a general reference to the former qur'stions pending between ttie North and South, he subniiJted Feme remarks on the Texas boun- dan,’ quesrion, and objected to the provision of the' bill which Cut off tv,-o and a half degrees, which, by the compact with Texas, fell to -the slavehoJding territory. The fugitive slave bill had come back burdened with restrictions; the ques tion re faTCd to the .Disti’ict of_ CGlurnbia was embarrassed with pro’- if ions which gave up all the rights v/bicb tbe Sontb bad claimed, and freed all slaves who were brought into the District, aud iited a citizen from getting a slave, 'rhe ue\t prevent pro-posil zen from gettiiig a siave. 1 he ue\t tbe admission of California, iuclud- Urig hiniscif to tins vote be desired to consii t r ra'hir-.' aad extent c f the comiiensationgiven to ihe Snuih in the f-.’strtWisbmonf of Territorial Gov- erLir.fcLts. Readii.g the tenth s; ction of the bill w’hii-h prohibits the Territorial Legislatures from passing any law in relation to Slavei-y, he asked, what was this compensation? Nothing more than the stat7( qvo of Mexican law—the statu qu'o of Mexican law ’sit’itb a vengeance. First, the Report declared that Slavery does not exist by Mexican law, end next the bill prevented the Legislature from even recognizing Slavery. Mr.Davis’ amend ment did not surrender tbe doctrine of non-in terference, it merely protected rights which belong to citizens o f the Territory under the Constitution. Tbe tenth section was a counterpart of the second resoliitbn submitted by Mr. Clay, which was met w’iri’ such a birost of indignation and alarm. The bill, instead of leaving the question of the exist ence of Slavery in Mexico to bo determined, pro hibited the Territorial Legislature from passing any l.aw on tbe subject, and gave to Congress the power of voting anj\ Territorial law. He also con sidered the question of the existence of Slavery in New-Mexico. He admitted that a Constitutional Congress in Mexico in 1824 abolished the Slave Trade. The measure was considered by Mexicans as belonging to thafen class of legislation which is called organic. It was considered by the Mexican authorities that the Mexican law was superceded t an American c might become a slave to Mexicans. Vermont established the same kind o f Slavery, b}' the first section of her Constitution. It existed as an insti- ained that he did 1 fore tbe Senate was upon an amendment involving a single point, in the discussion of which Senators had lanched out upon every branch of the whole subject. In vindication. of the action of the Com mittee, he felt bound to answer some of the objec tions which had been urged by the Senator from Louisiana. The Senator objects to this scheme of compromise. 'Would the Senator bring forward bis scheme of compromise—his pi'oposition, which should give peace to the disitacted country? It ’ivas his duty to say what he wanted. The Sena tor had objected that tbe Compromise Committee had brought back the fugitive slave bill, burdened with restrictions instead of improvements. It was a little remarkable, that tbe objections to tfie fugi tive slave bill came from those States which suf fered little or none from the escape of slaves, while it was entirely satisfactory to those States which suffered most from that cause. Mr. C lay proceeded to defend the bill from the objections which Mr. Soule had urged. In the course of bis remarks, Mr. SotJLE, interposing, admitted that Slavery was abolished by the Mexican law, but contended that the Constitution of the United States set aside the law of Abolition—eo instanti. Mr. O la y resumed—If the Senator so believed, what more did be want? W h at did he ask? W h at■ wouldould behave?—Woulde thehe Senatorsaj'?enator *wS.ing w h have ?—Would t S saj' ? Mr. Soi'LE expressed his readiness to answer. He was will to abide by the tenth section, if lended as proposed byhi's friend from Mississippi ments. Mr. C lat Mr. l/LAT was giad to hear the Senator so e x press himselt—there was some hope of him after all. He had. supposed, from his speech, that he fitted irrevocably against a stricken out sltogether ? Mr. S oule would be satisfied with tbe amend ment of Mr. Davip. Mr. C la y —^Bnt the Senator knew that thej could not agree to that, because it assnmed which he denied, that Slavery already bat they „ _ , because it assu a fact, lich he denied, that Slavery already exists id ixico, and also, that the Constitution of the Uni- l States carried Slavery there. I^ however,, he luld be satisfied with a provision, that the Legis lature should neither establish nor exclude'Slavery, he {Mr. Clay) would assent to it. It was time that the troubles in the country should be composed.— H e had not been among those who believed that immediate danger to the Union had existed; but he w'as one of those who believed that if this agi tation was continued a year or tw,o longer, there w a s no telling what danger might ensue: if the dissolution of the Union, in terms, did not ensue, that which was next to it to be dreadod would— tbe disspluti which hind that which w as nex t to it tbe dissolution of the ties of Christian brotherhood. Nation. He also ex- notbing would be done for California—the territo ries, and a fugitive slave act; nothing to soothe the agitated feelings of the country, and to save the a gitated feelings of the country, effusion of blood. And even i f , Copgress should )f these measures, it _ ectupon the country, cause one section would continne bitterly to re- )achach thee other,ther, for havingaving securedecured itsts ownwn endsd have no benefit pro th o for h s i o en without making provisions for the others He alsi again contrasted the President’s plan of settlemen with that which the Committee had presented, and called upon the friends of the former in preference £0 the lattei’, to stand up face to face in its defense.— H e challenged the contrast. All agreed that it was necessaiy to restore peace tind prosperity to the country by some means ; what then were the mea sures proposed/or that purpose ? Thpre were five gaping wounds, all and each hleedirig, and threat ening destructioa. 'What was the plan o f the Pres-,- ideut:—to heal all these wounds ? No, but to close upon one of them only, and leave all the rest to pro duce certain death, instead ofproposing a plan, com prehending the whole subject. He had proposed one which was at most a feeble palative. (Mr. 1 with surprise and regret the resis- the Chief Magistrate to the scheme of C lay had seen u 1 plan recommending the admission of Galilbmta. The Senate agreed to that as far as it went, but thought it necessary to go further, and so pro posed. Tho President ought then, in the spirit pf Compromise which should prevail in both ends of the avenue, when the Committee proposed addi tional enactments, £0 heal up tliese wounds, he should have hailed the measure with joy and given it his sanction and support, instead of opposing it in anymanner whatever. Mr. Clay also again com mented upon the evils of a Military Government in a time of pi’ofdund peace, as applied to the Terr’*- ries, and ridiculed the idea of any action by wl the South should maintain the equilibrium of poi in the Union. Slavery was not the onl3' intei 7 in this in tbe minority in this country ; the manufacturing, fishing, commercial and other interests were all in the minority, and yet the majority had not de stroyed them. I d conclusion, he referred to the settlement o f the Missouri question, and predicted that the joy, tiiumph and exultation which, filled the country upon its adoption, would be again wifc- nt’f'Sed upon the consummation of the pending measure, while the agitators, who rode this Slave- rj’ hobby for personal and party purposes^ would be huHlicd in silence by' the arclainations of joy. Mr. U pham took the floor, and the Senate ad journed. _ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES M'’. H arris of 111. introduced an amendment to tbe Canadian reciprocity bill. Mr. F ullsr reported a hill reimbursing Maine r expenses growing out of the North-Eastern onndary trouble. ^ . Mr. T uck asked l e a v e to introduce a bifi-reErn- latin g th e p a y of th e officers of the Customs, but it as objected to. Mr. COLCOCK reported bills for tbe establish ment o f new pubic warebSuses at Mobile, Ala. and Balb, Me. ReieiTed. 1 the ( rtmaster Gen era! to contract for carry- ing.tbs mail in steamboats betv/een New-Orleans- and 'Vera Cruz, and intermediate ports. Referred to the Post-Office Committee. The House then went into Committee of tbe Wfcple on tbe State of the Union, on THE CALIFORNIA MlSSAGE Mr. H aym ond , (Whig,! of V a. bad taken his po sition be ( re the assem'bling of Congre-ifi, in favor of ti.e admission of Cali'oniia, and had s e t a notbiug to change his views. He defende'd the President from the charee cfusui’p’nF; legislative power, and invoked tbe North and South to stand on the plat form of j'lOD-iiitevventicn. said that he and Mr. Beale (Loco) represented one-fifth of the white population of Virginia, and there Viras not a sane m’dn in favor of a Southern confederacy. The peo ple in tbe north-eastern section believe that the Nathviile Convenflon was conceived in sin, and pisdi’oininn. Thei need be no fears for tfce Th--' 'frE^irdonisis in that Gun t.y her the object of tbe gettei'R-upb a be no feaxs for th Old Durninlon’s pa'riotism. ’ealch would be tumonwealch wpuli pl.t to route t.y h e r sixty c’erk'zrn otiice h ere. Mr. G:-'.Ri-.Y, (Loco,.) of kU 'we, S'lid t ' -it the peo ple (:■{' the Eorib, in oomro'in wiih tb.e oivi!izf-‘.-i . worid, have no sympathy with Slavery, and, with a few jiif&raons exceptions, will sacredly a ’ld reJi- pi' Ufly discharge tho duties which they o ‘ fTivion and slaveholding States. They dm uioi., 11c lui iio v i B o u r n o jrru v i _Mr. K ing , (Whig,) of Mass, advocated the mission of California, and wanted Congress adopt the Proviso. This done, we should hear more about tbe annexation of Cuba, and tbe tiable thirst foi’ extension would be quencbei id for ever. The Committee rose, and the House adj’d- G ra n d R a p id s , M ic h .— H en r y R . \W il l ia m s (Wlfi’g) has been elected Mayor of tliis new City, together with W h ig General and Ward officers in the five \Wards except a Constable, Aldermanand Assessor. The Ithaca D a ily Chronicle appears in a new dress, looking healthy and smart. Glad to see it. HOUSEHOLD MAKKETS. ■ [Reported for Wednesday’s Tribase.J ho.se business it isVi'e would recommend him to extend his researches to the piles of filth on the piers, which look at a distance like a range of mountains. Somehody’ may wish to navigate a wagon over them, and there would pi'obably be a case for tbe Coroner. K you won’t have a market, Messrs. Aldermen, pray keep the streets clean on the site of the present dilapidated stable. A pples , D ried —By the quart, 15^ cts. \Very scarce. A pples , G reen —Very scarce and high; Rus sets $4 to $5 per bbl.; per half peck, 37^ cts. A sparagus —B e s t bunches sell a t 18^ to 25 cts. Not very plenty. B acon —Smoked and dry brings 11 and 12| cts. ^ B ananas —Good quality are sold at 4 to 6 cents each, e B eef —^Fore quarters, 5 to 6 cts; hind quarters, 8 cts. per Ih; roasting pieces, 14i cts. retail; soup pieces, 10 cts; porcef boasS geeaks, 18f c steaks, 12J c ts ; corned beef, best, 10 cts. B eets —Rather scarce, and bringing cts. per bushel. B lackberries —A few sanvedfrom Charleston, selling at 12^- cts. per basket. -B ologna S ausaues — Fresh sell at 18| cts. per lb. Dry, of first quality, is worth 25 cts. B utter — First quaiitj' of Orange C ringing 50 to 62| 15 t 12| C abbage —(sprouts) sells at 6I cts. per half peck. C arrots —By the bushel sell readily at 50 to 62 | cts. average about 75 cts per p ^ iLAMS—Good are, as in si^e 25*37^, and 50 cts. per 100. C ocoa N uts —Per 100 $2 25 to 62 50. E ggs —By the barrel you get 12 for a shilling; retail, 11 for a shilling. F ish , F resh — A great variety in market. The reta 1 prices -IP Ife are—Halibut, 8 cents ; Porgies, 4; Eels, 6 to 10; Mackerel, 6 to 8; Sturgeon, 6; Pickerel, 12^; Salmon, fiO; Striped Bass, 8 to 10; Sea Bess, 8 to 10; W eak Fisb, scarce, 8 • Codfish, 4; Lobsters, 5 ; Shad'12i to 25 cents each. F ish , S alt — Pickled Cod, 63 50 ^ bbl; retail, 4c lb. Pickled Salmon, 10c IP lb for a whole one; Smoked Salmon same price. Sword Fish 6c. Mackerel, No. 1, 612 bbl; 8c ^ lb retaU; No. 2, 68 50 to 69 i ’' bbl; No. 3, 66 50 to 67 ¥ bbl. Dry Cod, 62 75 IP quintal, 4c ^ lb retail. Smoked Shad, 15c each. F owls —Range from 75 cents to 61 per pair, ac cording to size. H ams —Best City cured, whole hams, IQi cts, per lb. retail 12^ cts. Western Hams, 9^ cts. retail, 11 cts. Second quality Western, 8 to 10 cts. H ickory N uts — Scarce and bring $2 23 per bushel, or 9 cts. per quart. H orseradish —Ground sells at 25 cts. per quart; roots, 75 cts. to 62 25 per dozen. L abib —Very high; good quality is sold at 16^ cts. per lb. L a r d — Good quality can b e h a d b y th e bbl. for bunch. )ox for t L e t t u c e —F r e s h and crisp is w o r th 50 to 75 ccs. L a r d —Good quality can be 7| cts; at retail, 9 cts. per lb. L eek s —Sell a t 12J c ts . p e r bunc h . L emons — Bring 62 75 per box for the best .sort. L e t t u c e — F r e s h an d cris p is w o r th 50 to 75 ccs. per dozen heads. M aple S ugar — Season over; a little left 9 to Iff cts per lb. ’ M utton —Pleaty and cheap enough ; range* a* in quality from 4 to 6 cts. ^ lb. O nions —R ather scarce; they bring 61 50 F bushel. 100,' a c c o rding t o s ize and quality. P arsnips —A re selling at 75 cts. to 61 f ” bushel for f ir s t quality. P e a c h e s , D r i e d — V eiy Charleston; sell at Cucum- P eaches , D ried —Very scarce and liigh; 31 cts. per quart being the price. ^ P eas , G reen — Brought from Charleston; sell at 25 to 31 cts. per ^ peck, or 61,75 cts. per bush. P ickles — The principal varieties are; Cucum- berg, 38 to 63 cts. per 100; Onions, ready to eat,- 50 cents per gallon; Beets, 38 cts. per dozen; Man gles, 75 cts. per dozen; Beans, 50 cts. per gallon. P igeons — Are worth almost 61 per dozen; not many on banc!. P ine A pples —Are getting plenty, and sell At 68 per 100, or about 12i cts. retail. P lums , D ried —Good are worth from 22 to 25 cts. per quart. v * P ork — \V/hole Hog, 6^ to 7 cts. per lb. Corned Pork is worth about 9 cts. W estern Red, 61; Kidneys, I f . 1 75; Mercers, 1 50 ; Mountain June, 61. P otatoes , S weet —The best of these bring 4 25 per bbl. R adishes —^Not very good yet; such as they are, they bring 2 to 3 cents per bunch of a few. R hubarb - T here appears to be a large suppily in market; i t sells at 8 cents per bunch. B o r r e l (fo r Greens)—15^ cents per half p T om atoes —^A few, come from the South, s6ld at 9 7 ^ cts. per quart. T ongues — Corned or smoked bring from 56 to 75 cts. each. T urkys —^Vei-y scarce, and worth 61 50 to62 50 best is worth 12| cts. W a t e h c e e s s e s —Veiy nice, and to be had at cts. per quart.
