Maryland

The correspondent of the Albany Patriot writes from Cumbertand, in this State: "The universal complaint seemed lo bc, in all the villages, thal they could get nothing for their negroes. -The best able bodied men wiiuld seldom brinr sixty dollars a year, ofien not more than forty or five, and even less. The best,(handsomest !) single woraen, good cooks, would not bring a rent of $(45. A woman vith one or more children could with difficulty be hired out for their victuals and ch.thes. "Hard times" was echoed and re-echoed, on every side. by " professor and profane." Manv contrasled ihe prosperous days of 18S2-7,when men would rent for $150 and woraen for $75 to $90, with much feeling. Some were hoping that the election of Hekry Claï would restore these {rolden days of the "prosperity of the wicked." Alas for their hopes!'"Mr. Clay has said publicly in later years, 'I owe it to the community to say, that no man holds in deeper abhorrence than I do the pernicious practice,' (duelüng.) 'Its true cor rective will befound, when all shall unite, as all oughl to unit e in its unqualified proscripiion.' Jame G. Birney has ceased to be a slaveholder and denounces holding slaves as a pernicious practice. He is ncquitted of the offence of baving held raen in bondage, ano lis denunciations are regarded as coming frotn lis heart. And wby ehould not Mr. Clay be jodged with eqtial charity." - Midi. State Gazette. The whole passnge in Wincbester's Life of Clay, p. S, reads thtiB: ''I owe it to the commnnity to sny, that whatever heretofoi e I muy have donc,or, by nevitable circumstances, muy befurced to do,] no mnn holds in deeper abhorrence than I do, the pernicious practice of duelüng. Condemned as it must be, by the judgment and )hilosophy, to say nothing of the religión, of every thinking man, it ís an affair of feeling, about which we cannot, nMiongh we should, reason. The true correcte will be fourd, wben all shall unite, ts all oughl to unitc, in ts unqualified proscription." Is it fair to quote a eentence in this manner, by omitting the middle, and citing the exrenies only? But to the merits of the queslíon. The writer compares Mr. Birney's slaveholding to Mr. Clay's duelling. But ook at these points: 1. Has Mr. Birney ever intimated that "lie might be forced by inevitable circumstancee" o become a slaveholder? 2. Has he ever excused the crime because t was "an affair of feeling" about wbich we annot reason? S. Has he ever advised, aided and counelled in the purchase of slaves, in a rnanner ontrary to the laws of God and his counry?Yet these questions must be answered in lie affirmative in rcference to Mr. Clay's adocacy of duelling-. What does his profess - ons of "deep abhorrence" amount to, when, n the same breath he avows that he may be orced to fight aguin? What Bhould we think f the invetérate drunkard who Bhould in the ame sentence declare his "deep abhorrence"' f drunkennese, and yet say, os drunkenuess s an affair of feeling" about which he canot reason, he "may be forced" to get drunk gato? Doos Mr. Bates advocate such VYashngtonianism as this? {L We are happy to learn that the Libry tracts are going off finely, and tbat a ew edition will eoon be necesanry. We unorstand the frienda of Detroit havs raised ome $90 for the Tract cause.