Let it by man be driven,

But let it float forever there,

Beneath the smiles of heaven.


From Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine.

JEFFERSON’S DAUGHTER.

“It is asserted, on the authority of an American newspaper, that the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, was sold at New Orleans for $1,000.”—Morning Chronicle.

Can the blood that at Lexington poured o’er the plain,

When the sons warred with tyrants their rights to uphold,