employments in the country that have always enjoyed the direct bounty of the federal government, is the only interest that has not prospered. From 1836, under the bounty paid per barrel on pickled fish, the tonnage gradually declined, down to 1842. From that time up to last year, it remained stationary. The tariff of 1846 repealed the bounty, and in 1848 the tonnage employed increased twenty per cent! We have alluded to the influence which the famine in Ireland, and the suspension of the navigation act of England, had upon the rate of freights. These reached their highest points early in 1847, and compared as follows with corresponding periods before and since :

RATES OF FREIGHT FROM NEW-YORK TO LIVERPOOL, JANUARY OF EACH YEAR.

The enormous prices here indicated for freights in 1847 gave a great impulse to ship building, and double the tonnage was built in the year ending June, 1848, of any former year. The subsiding of the demand for corn freights in the following year, together with the discharge of the tonnage which had been taken up by the government for the Mexican war, threw an extraordinary oversupply of tonnage upon the market, at a moment when the resumption of the navigation of France and England closed many avenues for its employment, and freights fell to a very low figure. This state of affairs was in some degree relieved by the great demand which sprang up for California, but not sufficiently to restore remunerating prices.

From these facts it is apparent, that the supply of new, well-built, and cheap American ships, is at this moment greater than ever any nation before presented at one time, and that, therefore, the interest is better prepared for entering into the competition with the mercantile marine of other countries-more particularly in relation to the navigation of the St. Lawrence, and with the West Indies. If English steamers and ships can now bring from the well-stored warehouses of Britain the goods of all nations for the supply of the United States markets, American tonnage is now at the service of our Canadian neighbors for the successful naviga

SHIP-BUILDING IN THE U. S.-REGISTERED VESSELS.

ENROLLED TONNAGE.

Built. Lost. Condemn'd. Increase. 129.929 9,093 2,838 117.997 161,833 15,207 5,003 145.618

Sold to Lost Tous Tons built, foreigners, at seu. condem'd. Increase. 1846.. 58.274 10.931 22.118 4.213 20.981 1847.. 78.849 13,907 22.078 5.096 37.766 1848... 135,836 11,079 26,872 3.602 94,332 182,189 14,795 3,552 162,464

There were sold to foreigners, of the enrolled tonnage, in 1847, 3,061 tons, and in 1848. 1,377 toas. The year 1843 is for nine mouths only. From 1841 to 1544, inclusive, the decline in registered tonuage built was very marked. In 1811 there were vessels built here for the Russian and Mexican governments, which increased the tounage reported in that year.

tion of the St. Lawrence. Under this arrangement, so great a disparity as 7s. 6d. per barrel freight, for flour, from Montreal to Liverpool, at times when only 1s. 8d. was paid for the same destination from New-York, cannot again occur. The ill-provided and clumsily-built British vessels that formerly enjoyed the monopoly of the St. Lawrence navigation, must now give place to the cheap, swift and prompt American traders. The great obstacle to Canadian prosperity is thus overcome at the moment she is about coming into the Union. This is inevitable, because she can no longer be debarred from that internal freedom of trade under which all the states of the Union have necessarily prospered.

Martyrs of freedom, your sympathies blending,
Whom here I invoke from the lone Danube's shore,
Tho' vanquished the cause of my country defending,
My spirit, unconquered, soars free as before!

II.

Up! up and arouse ye from lethargy's slumbers,
For tyrants are rivetting stronger our chains;
Up! up in your prowess, shrink not from their numbers,
Enough of Hungarian valor remains.

III.

Lo! where the despot lies foiled in his lair,
Who trampled on Freedom, usurping our right;
Tho' baffled, our hearts ne'er shall crouch to despair,
Our cause is not lost, nor our star set in night!

IV.

By our heroes who've fallen! by our home's desolation!
By their deeds which inspired a nobler doom!
By the glory of Freedom-by the hopes of a nation!
By the mourners who weep o'er the patriot's tomb !——

V.

By these, and the prayers which we offer to Heaven-
By the links which unite us in one holy tie-

By our spirits immortal, our chains shall be riven,

We'll conquer our birth-right, or as martyrs we 'll die.

THE CEDAR GLADES.

CHAPTER I.

"AND that was the end of the Halls?" said Julia.

"Thus they lived, and thus they ended," replied her cousin.

Well, do tell all about the Cedar Glades,' and 'the Woodses.' We have plenty of time," she continued.

"Oh, no-it's too late-see, Lucy is sleepy, Lizzie is thoughtful, and it's time we had all retired."

In less than a score of minutes, the party were all asleep.

It was in the month of January, 1827, on a bitter, stinging night, a snow, which had melted away in exposed parts, spotting the earth; the sky gemmed with stars, the moon's disc bright as a silver mirror, the frosty stillness of one o'clock reigning over all things,-when two figures stealthily, yet briskly, approached a residence. This residence stood on the banks of a brawling rivulet, known as "Roaring Rock Creek," which may be found on the map of Central Tennessee. It was built of hewn logs, as were nine tenths of the mansions in the Western States twenty and thirty years ago. A tree was felled, and being hewn on each side, until it was about four inches thick, was ready for the builder's use. The house alluded to, was built of two pens, as it were, which may be called the right and left wings, while in the centre was an open space, equal to one of the pens, called the passage. The upper story had three rooms, the size of the lower ones, the third one being over the passage. In front, facing west, was a portico, extending the length of the house, supported by cedar columns. The logs used in the construction were red cedar, all others being disdainfully rejected. The building was flanked at each end by an enormous chimney, built of rough-hewn, blue lime-stone. The northern chimney rested on the banks of the stream, and was perched, apparently, at a very menacing altitude, its base being not less than ninety feet from the foaming surges of "Roaring Rock." Just forty-five feet due south stood the other chimney, also on the banks of that streamlet. The "Roaring Rock," after making a circuit of threefourths of a mile, returned, as it were, to the same spot, and thus was formed the peninsula, on whose isthmus stood "McDaniel's house." Its rear was supported by a goodly number of out-houses, kitchen, cabins, smoke house, &c. Near the southern chimney was an ancient cedar, which waved its thick boughs, of unchanging verdure, over limestone crags, which were at least one hundred feet above the rippling waters below. A large gate, whose hinges were riveted into this cedar, closed the space between it and the chimney. The peninsula was taken up in a variety of small orchards, of plum, peach, &c., and in enclosures for potatoes, turnips, and other esculent crops. The "Big Road," from Nashville to Huntsville, crossed Roaring Rock" some sixty yards above" McDaniel's," and swept by, parallel to its western front. On either side of the stream, to the west of the house and road, lay the broad tobacco fields of old Arthur McDaniel. Old Arthur's children had all married, and left him, except his youngest son, of the same name. The old man was hearty, hale, testy, stubborn, and contented. He went

to the elections, always voted, had a number of enemies, some friends, and was noted for nothing. His son, who lived with him, might be aptly called the junior edition of the same work.

About two miles from McDaniel's, stood the ungainly mansion of Reuben Woods, his son-in-law. Woods had three sons, Samuel, Reuben, and Jerry; and several daughters, (for he had been married twenty years and better,) of whom Miss Frances was the eldest. Samuel was his eldest child, and Miss Frances was seventeen. Woods, the father, had some property, and was reported to be semi-honest, and had been, (for a short time,) a J. P., owned a grist-mill, running four sets of stone, with a saw-mill to match. The "Mills" were known far and wide. Thither did the streams of the grain-carrying and meal-seeking population pour. The urchin, with his sack of corn, on his raw-boned horse, brought the grain of the yeoman; the grizzly-bearded Ethiopian, with his heavily-laden ox-team, brought the wheat and corn (maize) of the planter-thither came men of all characters, ages, colors, and callings ; boys of all sizes, castes, and dispositions. Monday, Tuesday, on to Saturday, witnessed the incessant arrival and departure of these everrecurring streams of human activity-while Sunday was a gala day for the world around. The spring and fall musters of the militia were held here, and there gathered the riflemen of the land, from far and wide, the old and the young-the old, who a score of years before had driven the bear and the panther, the Indian and the wolf, from cane-brake and swamp, from cedar-thicket and beech-grove-the young, who gloried in bringing down the deer at two hundred yards, and in driving the centre at almost any given distance-each and all came there to have their shooting-matches, to make up their hunting-matches, and afterwards. to count the scalps. At the Mills, all "quarter-races," foot-races, "gander-pullings," fights of man or dog, public meetings, barbacues, and Fourths of July, were deemed lawfully and rightfully (for a scope of country larger than Rhode-Island) held; and nowhere else in the whole region. There all quarrels of neighborhood, of caste, of "kith and kin" were settled,-birgains were there made, horses were there swapped, and trades were there struck. At the Mills could be found the she.iff, the constable, and the magistrate. Thus can it be seen, that the currents of human activity bore down upon this point with an intensity, marked, striking, palpable,-making it an urbs in rure, without the houses. At the Mills was a grocery, (as it was called, on the "lucus a non lucendo" principle,) where you could purchase powder and ball, (i. e. lead,) liquor, and tobacco, fish-hooks and gun-flints, while every other item of human wants was rigorously and imperiously excluded, because, in the language of old Tom Swine, a bear-hunter of a past age, "All tother brings women about, and this aint thar place no how."

Mr. Reuben Woods owned, as before said, the mills, the grocery, and, it may be added, the race-course, (track, it was called,) fish-traps, and a few thousand acres of land around them. Woods was selfish, avaricious, and cruel. He was feared by a few, despised by many, and trusted by none. His children were healthy, brawny, aud bravely cruel, execrable in morals, vitiated in tastes and feelings, ignorant and proud. To school they refused to go, and as to a church, scarce knew the meaning of the word. Mr. Woods did, but his family would not, visit his father-in-law. He wished to own slaves, and so did his wife; but she and they never could agree. She was altogether too masculine in her assumptions of

authority, especially in the corrective department, and the result was that slaves would not stay at Mr. Reuben Woods' house. He, therefore, had to sell them, (for he could not afford to do without the use of that much capital,) as they run, i. e. while they were runaways, which he always did at a ruinous loss on original cost. Old Arthur McDaniel was almost the only man, in that whole region of country, who had ready cash-he was, therefore, enabled to cash Woods' negroes at his own price, Woods being compelled to raise the money. Repeated experiments were made to have slaves remain with them, but they (i. e.) the negroes, would always disappear, and thus old Arthur McDaniel was able, annually, to gather in an increasing crop of tobacco from his annually enlarged fields. Old Arthur loved cash articles, but the cash itself a great deal more. Tobacco was a cash article-and the increase of hard dollars in his hands was, pari passu, with the increase of tobacco hogsheads.

When Woods married, his father-in-law gave him nothing; at the end of ten years he gave him a negro boy of fourteen, who the succeeding year died, as Mrs. Woods asserted, of "infernal laziness." The world did not agree in opinion with that lady about that matter, but, on reliable authority, believed that the boy was beaten to death.

No love, no respect, no esteem, no reverence, but hatred, bitter and dark, existed on the part of Mrs. Woods towards her father, and her children coincided with their mother in those feelings. In their young bosoms was an intensity of hostile emotion utterly uncontrollable, inhuman, and diabolical. "He," said they, "harbored all mammy's niggers, and stole them, and kept them."

Every two or three months old Arthur and his son, his overseer, and four or five of his faithful slaves, each armed with a rifle, and mounted on a separate horse, would ride over to "the Mills." Whenever they could, his grand-children would cut in pieces the bridle-reins, the stirrupleathers, the girths, the saddle-skirts, make a horse one-eyed or totally blind, cut off its ears, and perform sundry other acts of cruelty and revenge, on the property of the old man, their grandfather. Thus matters worked.

On the 20th of October, 1826, late in the afternoon, an affray, unusual for its ferociousness, even amid "Mill scenes," took place. A large shooting-match for beef, in which liquor and money were the side-bets, had just come off, and Jordan, one of McDaniel's slaves, a large, rawboned, double-jointed, thin lipped, yellow-eyed, savage-looking negro, had been the winner over Sam. Woods, for five hind quarters of beef.

“I'm d―ned if it's right-that d--ned, old red-eyed rogue--that old h-l roaring nigger thief, shan't bring his infernal crew here any more, to shoot with white folks-that's the words, by h-ll, with the bark on it." In five minutes after these words were uttered by the hopeful Samuel, the affair was all over. Old Arthur had been knocked down, his fice horribly gashed; Jordan had a broken arm, and four of his teeth mashed out-(his head had swelled to about the size of a sixty pound pumpkin;) Pea, McDaniel's overseer, was stabbed in several places; Sam Woods was shot in the shoulder, while young McDaniel, Reuben and Jerry Woods, as old Swine said, "had been bunged about, and kotched h-1].”

A man named Ring, and his wife, lived about a mile from McDaniel's, on land belonging to Woods. His house was situated on the edge of "the Cedar Glades," and was a small, sixteen by eighteen feet, cedar cabin.