From the Journal of the Times.
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Nineteen years ago, Gen. Brown, with
a wallet on his back containing IL or l3
days provision, journeyed into the woods,
swung his axe, and felled the first log that
ever was cut in Brownsville for the erec-
tion of human habitation. The log hut
is still standing. We will suppose, that
while he was thus employed in telling the
tree, some unseen spirit had whispered 10
his ear, that he should, at the revolution
of nineteen years from that period, be-
come Major General Of the army of the
United States--the subject OF oratorial
panegyric--the theme of the American
muse.-Would he not have been worse
than idly credulous, if he should have
placed any confidence in the prophecy !
Yet all this and more has happened to
this hardy adventurer, without the inter
vention Of miracle. These are some
amongst many Of the blessings guaranteed
by our republican form Of government.
1t affords an opportunity for the develope-