Text And Comment

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men ure created free and equal, and are endowed with certain inalienable rights, among which are, "Life: A Baltimore pnper of the ITtli inst., says, that n soa of Gen. Mathews of Charles county, Md., deliberately shot pne of hls fnther's slaves lor di.sobedience of of some direction. He remaitis unmolested. "Liberty: Several persons, citizena of Massachusetts, have ben recently imprisoned n .New Orleans, for not being of the legnl color. "And the pursuit of happiness:" A very old man was tried and c(J)de(nned on the 16th instant, in Frederick, Md., to pay a fine or besold for life as a dave, tor entering that State, lie being a free man, also of an improper color. He and liis family had been em.incipated in Virginia, o condition that they would leave the State, and tliey were on their way (lirough Mnryland to Pennsylvania. when lie was airesled. The people, however, were betterthan their lav,and the iine as ratsed by contribution, and iie pcrrnitled to depart. Our readers, groaning under "the tyranny of Great Britnin, are nforitied that the text was the faith, and the comment the p rad ice of his great and enlightened people. Readers at humo nre requRSted-flot to believe this arliclo, ns it is an outrageous attaele u pon our "lnstitution." - Anti-Siuvcnj Standard.ft"? The usesof steam seem to be innumerable, lt can do the greatest and mallest things. The Buflalo Pilot has the following notice of the manner i which t loadsj Canal Boats. "The new Elevator. - We went over, for the first time since its complet ion, a day or t vo since, to seefho new Elevator, erected last season by Jamks Wadsworth, Esq., of Geneseo. It is located between Ohio and Elk streets. It is an immense building, canable of storing from 75,000 to 80,000 bushels of wheat in its reservoirs or bins. Underneath these bins is constructed a canal, where boats come when to be loaded. Mere the wheat is drawn by a tunnel into a weighing hopper, which is suspended and swung over the hatchway of the boat. The wheat is elevated from the vessels in which it is transported from the west by extensivewooden tubes with ele vating buckets which are thrust down into fhe hold of vessel. After it reaches the highest story of the building, it is conducted along wooden tubes or elongated boxes, by means of a largo iron screw, and from thence distributedthrough conductors into the large bins beneath. The whole of the machinery is driven by abeautiful engine of moderate power, constructed for this purpose, by the Buffalo Steam Engine Works.- The Elevator is capable of discharging a cargo at the rate of 1,000 bushels per hour. It is one of the most convenient and labor saving machines we ever saw The building has been made as strong as oak could make- which is necessary to cnable it to bear up under the enormous weight of grain supported by it."tt?" The great natioiml gambling horso race bctween Peytona Bnd Fashion was deciled lately on the Long Island course. Jt is coroputed that one hundred thoueand persons werc present, ond that half n million of dollars changcd hands! Most of the money goes to the Soutij . Pey tona won bolh licate, one by two Icngths, nnd the othcr by one.- Vaetly importanl !