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MR. MAYER'S DISCOURSE.

Tah Gah-Jute, or Logan, and Captain Michael Cresap. A Discourse by Brantz Mayer; Delivered in Baltimore, before the Maryland Historical Society, on its Sixth Auniversary, 9th of May, 1851.

We are really much obliged to Mr M. for taking us along with him so pleasantly, in his excursion into the wild border region of our Western country in "olden time," and feel duly grateful to him, of course, for his incidental contribution to the history of our State. His accounts of the Cresaps, father and son, are new to us, and reasonably interesting, and the story of his hero, Tah-Gah-Jute, or Logan, is still more so, and takes a strong hold of our attention. We do not know, indeed, that we ought to thank our author for destroying, or at least somewhat impairing, the sort of romantic illusion which used to hang about this celebrated chief, in our youthful imagination, of whom Mr. Jefferson so warmly wrote, "I will vindicate, as far as my suffrage may go, the truth of a chief whose talents and misfortunes have attached to him the respect and commiseration of the world." We are, however, the humble servants of History, and shall follow her steps wherever she leads.

In this spirit, we hardly need say that, upon the evidence now submitted, we think it very clear that the charge made by Logan, in his famous speech, against Capt. Cresap, of having murdered his whole family in cold blood, is manifestly a falsehood, or a mistake; for the letter of General George Clarke, more particularly, shows distinctly that Capt. C. was absent at the time, and could not have had any hand in the deed. It is equally clear, too, we think, that Mr. Jefferson did not invent the charge for Logan, or put it into his speech, but that he merely took it up as he found it in the copy, and that he can only be blamed in fact, if at all, for giving it rather more credit and currency than it deserved though the whole evidence, as Mr. M. has pro ved, was not before him at the time.

We may add that the versions of Logan's speech which Mr. M. has favored us with in his appendix, are curious and amusing. It is quite clear, we think, from all the co

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pies he has collected, and the evidence he has submitted, that Mr. J. did not fabricate the speech, or any part of it; though he may have touched it up a little, and inserted two or three slight verbal alterations, which only serve to show the delicacy of his taste.*

* It should be noted here, however, that Mr. J. himself ascribes these improvements to Lord Dunmore. His words are: "I copied, verbatim, the narrative I had taken down in 1774, and the speech as it had been given us in a better translation by Lord Dunmore."-See Appendix to the Notes on Virginia: No. IV. p. 240, in our edition.

STANZAS.

BY THE HON. ST. GEORGE TUCKER.

[The following lines which were written many years ago by the Hon. St. George Tucker, of Williamsburg. afterwards a Judge of the Court of Appeals, &c., and which we copy from the Poetical Album by Alaric A. Watts, have found their way into several collections of fugitive poetry, and very fairly deserve a resting-place in our pages.]

Days of my youth, ye have glided away;

Hairs of my youth, ye are frosted and gray;
Eyes of my youth, your keen sight is no more;
Cheeks of my youth, ye are furrowed all o'er;
Strength of my youth, all your vigour is gone;
Thoughts of my youth, your gay visions are flown.

Days of my youth, I wish not your recall;
Hairs of my youth, I'm content ye should fall;
Eyes of my youth, you much evil have seen;

Cheeks of my yonth, bathed in tears have you been;
Thoughts of my youth, ye have led me astray;
Strength of my youth, why lament your decay.

Days of my age, ye will shortly be past;
Pains of my age, yet awhile ye can last;
Joys of my age, in true wisdom delight;
Eyes of my age, be religion your light;
Thoughts of my age, dread ye not the cold sod;
Hopes of my age, be ye fixed on your God.

Various Intelligence.

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

In compliance with a resolution of the House of Delegates, the Secretary of the Commonwealth recently communicated to that body a statistical table of the Agricultural productions, &c., in Virginia, compiled and arranged from the census returns, from which we have prepared the annexed tabular statement:

DIVISIONS.

ACRES OF LAND IN FARMS.
Improved. Unimp.

Trans. Alleghany, 1,965,040 6,954,536

Cash Value of Farms.

49,527.721

Valley,

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PRODUCE DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 1, 1850.

33.656,659

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As a matter of curiosity, we append a statement showing which counties contain the largest and smallest number of acres of land in farms, and in which the like extremes of live stock are held, and grain and other articles produced, &c.

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* Braxton, Brooke and several other Western counties do not contain any of these animals.-From the Richmond Whig of May 18..

THE LATE MR. CLAY.

We regret to record that this eminent statesman-so long and so honorably associated in all our minds with the history and progress of our country-died at Washington, on Tuesday, the 29th ult., in the 76th year of his age.

The leading points in Mr. C.'s life are well known, but must be briefly noted here. He was born in the county of Hanover, in this State, on the 12th of April, 1777. In 1791, when he was only fourteen years of age, be was brought to this city and taken into a store (of a Mr. Denny) to discharge the usual duties of a boy behind the counter. He did not, however, continue long in this business, but was soon transferred to become a writer in the office of the clerk of the High Court of Chancery, Peter Tinsley, Esq., who had the forming of many youths for the service of the courts at that time. Here he fell under the notice and won the favor of the celebrated Chancellor Wythe, to whom he acted occasionally as an amanuensis, and profited much by his instructions. By his advice, too, he commenced the study of the law under the direction of the Attorney General, Mr. Brooke, a brother of the late Judge Brooke, afterwards Governor of the State, and, in 1797, was admitted to practice, by the Court of Appeals. He did not, however, begin business here, but shortly afterwards emigrated to Kentucky, and established himself in his profession, in Lexington, being then hardly of age. Here, we are told, "his success at the bar was instant, brilliant and enduring." Here, too, he soon found his way into public life. In 1803, he was elected to the Kentucky Legislature, and in 1806 to the Senate of the United States for the unexpired term, one

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