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BY S. B. SMDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1852. VOL. VI---IO. 40. THE CENTilAE GEORGIAN IS PUBLISHED E VER Y TUESDA Y MORNING, TERMS s If paid strictly in advance, per year, $1 50 If not paid at the time of;subscribing, $2 00 These terms will be strictly adhered TO, WITHOUT RESPECT TO PERSONS, AND ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE REQUIRED TO BE SET TLED UP EVERY YEAR. Advertisements not exceeding twel /e lines, will be inserted at'one dollar for the first in sertion, nnd fifty cents for each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of in- % sertions specified, will be published until for bid. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Administrators and Guardians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal Property must be ad vertised in like manner at least ten days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an es- tate ir ust be published forty days. 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All letters on business must be vosl-paid t ‘9» oh ! oh-h-h h-h-h, my poor child!* cried Mrs. Gumbo. ‘Eb, eh, e-e-e-e-e-e-e!’ screamed the child. ‘Q, murder-r-r! 0, by everlasting sin I’m wagon broken, the horse ran himsgjf to death, his owner was beaten awfully by Bob Carter, whose wife and the wives of many others were dangerously scared; the paint er was crippled, dry goods ruined, a qnaker scalded to all eternity ! Mur-der-r-r-r roar- and deacon, two Irishmen, Joe Tucker, ed the customer. town constable, Lawyer Hooker, Squire The horse, a part of the wagon, and some Catcherri, and.fiity others shamefully whip- wood, were on their mad career. The own- [ ped ! Lawsuits ensued, feuds followed,.and er of the strange dog came out of the store I the entire peace and good repute "of Frog just in time to see Joe Tucker seize a rock town annihilated-—all by a remarkable dog to demolish said dog ; and not waiting to fight1 see Joe‘let drive,’gave him such a pop in • ^ the back of the ear, that poor Joe fell forty Couulerfeiters Detected, yards up the street, and striking the foot of Some months ago a letter was received a long ladder, upon which Jim Elderberry I aQ engraving house in Philadelphia was perched—paint pot in hand— S Q me | post-marked at Chesterfield thirty feet from terra tirma, brought ladder Court House, [signed by R. VV. Smith, requesting to have Jim and paint pot sprawling to the earth; bills engraved tide a three dollar bill ef the crippling poor Jim for life, and sprinkling Bank of Wadesboro, which was inclosed in the blue paint copiously over the broad- tbe letter - The engravers immediately for- cloths, satinets and calicoes of Abraham warded the letter to die Bank, of Wades Miller, a formal and even tempered quaker, boro - The Bank instructed the engravers who ran out to the door, just as the two to com P I Y' vitb the r€ G uest ' A regular cor dogs had fairly gone at it—hip and thiofo ‘espondence ensued between the parties, in nip and catch. A glance at matters seem- Chesterfidd and the engravers. In one of ed to convince Abraham of the true state of ^ be letters ot the former, instructions were the case; and in an unusually elavated voice seQ t to forward several packages of bills, one Abraham called out to Joe Tucker, who had to Chesterfield Court House, one to Hornes- righted up boro, and one to some other post office. In ‘Joseph Tucker, thv dog’s fightino- *” answer to this, and by the instructions of ‘Let’em fight it out,’’yelled the pugna-1 the Bank > a - few bills were forwarded to POETRY. music’s powie. Have you never heard, in music’s sound Some chords which o’er your heart First fling-a moment’s magic round, Then silently depart ? But with the echo on the air, Roused by that simple lay, It leaves a world of Feelingthere We cannot chase away. Yes, yes—a sound hath power to bid them come— : Youth’s half forgotten hopes, childhood’s re membered home. When sitting in your silent home You gaze around and weep, Or call to those who cannot come, Nor wake from dreamless sleep ; Those chords, so oft as you bemoan ‘‘The distant and the dead,” Bring dimly back the fancied tone Of some sweet voice that’s fled ! Yes, yes—a sound hath 'power to bid them con e—- Youth’s half-forgotten hopes, childhood’s re membered home. And when, amid the festal throng, You are or would be gay— And seek to while, with dance and song, Your sadder thoughts away ! The strike those cords, and smiles depart, As, rushing o’er your soul, Then untold feelings of the heart Awake and spurn control! Yes, yes—a sound hath power to come— Youth’s half-fomotten hopes, childhood’s re- memberect home. [Home Journal. bid them cious owner of the strange dog. ‘Let 'em fight it out; I’ll bet a load of wood, my dog can eat any dog in the town, and I can eat the owner 1” We have said Abraham Miller was a mild man ; quakers are proverbially ' so. But the gauntlet thrown down by the burly stranger from the country, stirred the gall of Abraham, and he rushed into his store. From the backyard—having slipped his collar—Abraham brought forth a brindle cur—long, strong, and all-powerful. ‘Friend,’ said the excited quaker, ‘thy dog shall be well beaten, I promise thee 1 Hike 1 seize upon him. Turk-—here boy 1’ and the' dog went at it Bob Carter, the smith, coming up in time to hear the stranger’s defiance to the town and bent on a fight with somebody, for the insult and damage to his wife, clamped the collar of the stranger, and by a series of ten pound tens upon the face and back a::d sides of his bully antagonist, with his natu rai sledge hammers—-Bob stirred up the strength and ire of the. bully stranger to the top of his compass, and they made the sparks fly dreadfully ! Joe Tucker’s dog, reinforced by that of ■Abraham Miller’s, took a fresh start, and between the two, the strange dog was be ing cruelly put to his trumps 1 Deacon Pugh, one of the most sedate and substan tial and pious men in Frogtown, came up, and indeed the whole town was assembling —and Deacon Pugh, armed with his heavy walking stick, and shocked at the spectacle before him, marched up to the dogs, ex claiming as he did so : “Fie, fie, for shame; disgraceful—you men, citizens of Frogtown, will you stand by and—’ ‘Don’t thee, don’t thee strike my dog, Deacon Pugh !’ cried Abraham Miller, ad- Chesterfield Court House; to the address of R. W. Smith. This package, it was ascer tained, was called for and taken from the office by William R. Griffith, Ordinary of the District. Ou Tuesday of the last week, Col. Hammond, Cashier of the Bank, was at our Court House, with the letters, which all who saw unhesitatingly pronounced to be in Griffith’s hand write. Some how, on that night, Griffith got wind of Col. Hammond’s business, and fled, and has not yet been ar rested. Subsequently R. W. Smith and Berry Evans, who were concerned with Griffith, have also fled, and have not yet been arrested. It is not known that any of the counterfeit bills are in circulation, but the probability is, that they are. Thus, one of the boldest attempts at villany which ever disgraced our District, has been nipped in the bud. Griffith was Ordinary of this Dis trict about two years ago, and is supposed to be worth several* thousand dollars over and above his debts. He has respectable fam ily connections, and involves in bis disgrace an interesting family.— Cheraw Gaz. [PROM THE BALTIMORE SUN.] Washington, Oct. 10,1852. Mr. Soule’s Select Committee have been in session during the past’week, and com pleted their arrangements for sending a Commissioner to Mexico to examine the mines designated by Dr. Gardiner and Dr. Mears, as those which they worked, and from which they allege that they were ex pelled by the Mexican Government. They have probably some other duties to discharge in connection with the course of investiga tion adopted by the committee. The com mittee appointed three commissioners on their part, to wit: Capt. Dupont, of the Na vy; Samuel A. Patridge, and Buckingham Smith. On the part of the President, Cap tain French, of the Army, and Lieut. W. W. TFISCELLANEO US. A ReBMarttaWe Dog Fight. Or, Frogtown in a Grand Furore. BY FALCONBRIDGE. Who ever saw a dog fight, without cu riosity to see it out, go in—put in a word get excited, and not unfrequently fight al so ? VVe have no distinct recollection of having ever seen a serious, regular pitched battle between two dogs, without a general fight.arnong the by-standers, or a scrim mage between the owners of the animals, at least. But the most remarkable dog fight on record, perhaps, came off at Frogtown,. on the frontiers of Maine, some years ago. It beat all plug musses’ of the kind we have ever heard of; it engiossed the entire com munity in one general and indiscriminate melee—interminable law suits or suits of lawsuits—distraction of the town, its down fall and rain! A fanciful genius named Joe Tucker, a man about town—a lounger—-without visi ble means of support—a do-nothing, loaf- ing, cigar smoking, good-natured sort of fellow—owned ai yellow dog; a slick, intel ligent and rather pretty beast, always at Joe’s heels, and known as well as his mas ter, and liked far more, by the Frogtown ers. One day, Joe and his dog were pass ing Bunion’s grocery store, when a great piebald ugly-looking deg standing along side of a wood wagon, pounced on Joe Tuck, er’s dog—knocked him heels over head, A so frightened Bob Carter’s wife; who was passing towards her husband’s blacksmith shop, with his dinner, that she stumbled back’ards, and her old sun bonnet flopping scared the horse attached to the wood wagon. He started—hit Latherem’s barber pole—upset the load of wood, half of which falling down Gumbo’s refreshment cedar, struck one of Gumbo’s children on the head killed it, for a time, stone dead; and so a- larmed Mrs Gumbo, that she dropped a stew-pan of hot boiling oysters into the lap instead of the diab, of a customer, who sat waiting for the savory concoction—by a table in the corner. Mrs. Gumbo rushed to the child—the customer for the door ! Mrs. Gumbo screamed, the child screeched and the customer yelled 1 - vancing upon the deacon, who was about (tr , . XT - . . , to cut right and left amoig the dogs with | H " nte ‘’ oftb . e appomted his cane. ‘Your dogs?’ shouted the deacon, with evident fervor. It was understood by the commiitee that Dr. Gardiner was to accompany the com missioners, and that he had agreed to do so. ‘Not „ dogs, Deacon Pugh,- echoed the I ’““what didyou say so for, then ?' shouted f Legation in Mexico, on the ground that J 1 he was prejudiced against his claim, and re fused to go with the party if Smith were to form one of it. Some other objections were the deacon ‘I never said dogs, Deacon Pugh.’ ‘You did 1’ responded the deacon excitement. ‘Thee speaks groundlessly Deacon Pugh I’ said the quaker. ‘You tell a falsehood, Abraham Miller!’ ‘Thee utters a mendacious assertion!’ reiterated Abraham. ‘You—you—you tell an infernal lie!' bawled the deacon. ‘Thee hast provoked my evil passions, Deacon Pugh,’ shouted the stalwart qua ker, ‘and I will chastise thee !’ And into the deacon’s wool went th£ quaker. The deacon, nothing loth, enter ed into the spirit of the thing; and leave them thus ‘nip and tuck,’ to ' also made in regard to the time of trial, Gardiner wishing to secure ample time if he went out with, the party. The committee considered the objections as a refusal on the part of Gardiner to go, and informed him that the party would proceed him and dis charge their duty under the instructions of the committee. It was doubtful, therefore, yesterday whether Gardiner would go with the commissioners or not; but if not, he was, as is said, to proceed to Mexico indepen dent of them. It is understood that the judicial trial will not take place till after the commission we j shall report, which will probably be in Jan- Webster on tbe Evidences Christianity, There are very few, we think, who will not agree with us, after reading the follow ing, in the opinion that Daniel Webster would have been as distinguished in the pul pit as he has been at the bar and in the Senate: A few evenings since, sitting by his own fireside, after a day of severe labor in tbe Supreme Court, Mr. Webster introduced the last Sabbath’s sermon, and discoursed in animated and glowing eloquence for an hour on the great truths of the Gospel, cannot but regard the opinions of such man in some sense as public property. This is my apology for attempting to recall some of those remaiks which were uttered in the privacy of the domestic circle. Said Mr. Webster; “Last Sabbath I listen ed to an able and learned discourse upon the evidences of Christianity. The argu ments were drawn from prophecy, history, with internal evidence. They were stated with logical accuracy and force; ; but, as it seemed to me, ihe clargyman failed to draw from them the right conclusion. He came so near the truth that I was astonished that he missed it. In summing up his arguments, he said the only alternative, presented by these evidences is this: Either Christianity is true or it is a delusion produced' by an excited imagination. Such is not the alter native, said the critic; but it is this: The Gospel is either true history, or it is a con summate fraud; it is either a reality or an imposition. Christ was what he professed to be, or he was an imposter. There is no other alternative. His spotless life in his earnest enforcement of the truth, his suffer ing in its defence, forbids us to suppose that he was suffering an illusion of a heated brain. Every act of his pure and holy life shows that he was the author of truth, the advo cate of truth, the earnest defender of truth, and the uncomplaining sufferer for truth. Now, considering the purity of his doctrines, the simplicity of his life, and the sublimity of his death, is it possible that he would have died for an illusion? In all his preach ing the Saviour made no popular appeals His discourses were all directed to the indi vidual. Christ and his Apostles sought to impress upon every man the conviction that he must stand or fall alone—he must live for himself and die for himself, and gi ve up his account to the omniscient God, as though he were the only dependent creature in the Universe. The gospel leaves the individu al sinner alone with himself and his God. To his own master he stands or falls. He has nothing to hope from the aid and sympathy of associates. The deluded advocates of new doctrines do not so preach. Christ and his Apostles, had they been deceivers, would not have so prea,ched. If clergymen in our days would return to the simplicity of the gospel, and preach more to individuals and less to the crowd, three would not be so much complaint of the decline of true religion. Many of the min isters of the present day take their text from St. Paul, and preach from the newspapers. When they do so, I prefer to enjoy my own thoughts rather than to listen. I want my pastor to come to me in the spirit of the gospel, saying, “You are mortal! your pro bation is brief; your work must be done speedily. You are immortal too. You are hastening to the bar of God; the Judge standeth before the door.” When I am thus admonished, I have no disposition to muse or to sleep. These “topics,” said Mr. Webster, “have often occupied my thoughts; and if I had time, I would write on them myself.” The above remarks are but a meagre and imperfect abstract, from memory, of one of the most eloquent sermons to which I ever listened.— Congregational Journal. Farmer’s Weather Ometer BY A RURALIST. “A rainbow in the morning. Is the SJieperd’s warning, But a rainbow at night, Is tbe sheperd’s delight.” A rainbow in fair weather denotes foul— if foal, fair weather will follow. A double rainbow indicates much rain. A predominance of the purple color on the rainbow, snows, wind and rain—dark red, tempest—light red, wind—yellow, dry weather—green, rain—blue denotes that the is clearing. If the Aurora Borealis appeaF after sev eral warm days, it is generally succeeded by a cloudiness of the air. If the Aurora Borealis has been considerable, either an increased degree of cold is immediately pro duced, or bodies of clouds are immediately formed. If a very wet season the sky is tinged with a sea green color, near the bottom where it ought to. be blue, it shows that rain will speedily follow, and increase; when ft is of a deep dead blue, it is overcharged with vapors, and the weather will be show ery. When t^e sun appears white at the set ting, or goes down into a, bank of clouds, which lie in the horizon they indicate the approach or continuance of bad weather, When it rains with an east wind, it will probably continue twenty-four hours. The harvest rains, when of long contin uance generally begin with the wind blow ing easterly, which .gradually veers roued to the south, and the rains do not cease un til the wind has gone to the west, or a little northwest. While rain is falling, if any small space of the sky is visible, it is almost a certain sign that the rain will speedily cease. If. the clouds that move with the wind become stationary when they arrive at that part of the horizon which is opposite to the wind and appear to accumulate, they an nounce a speedy fall of rain. A frequent change of wind with an agi tution of clouds denotes a sudden storm. A fresh breeze generally springs up be fore sunset, particularly in the summer, The weather usually clears up at noon but if it rains at midnight, it seldom clears up till sunset. The winds which begin to blow in the day time are much stronger and endure longer than those which begin to blow on ly in the night. A hollow or whistling wind denotes rain If the wind follow the course of the sun fair weather will follow. Weather, either good or bad, which takes place in the night time, is not generally of long duration and for the most part, wind is more-uncommon in the night than in the day time. Fine weather in the night with scattered clouds does not last. Violent winds prevail more in the vicini ty of mountains than in open plains. A Venitian author says, a “sudden storm from the north does not last three days.” If it thunders in December, moderate and fine weather may be expected. If it thunders at intervals in the spring season, before the trees have acquired leaves cold weather is still to.be expected. - Thunder in the morning denotes wind at noon—in the evening rain and tempest. If in summer there be no thunder, the ensuing Fall and Winter will be sickly. uary. the stranger and Bob Garter,, who fit, j General Scott’s tour is to be continued in fought, fought and fit, until Squire Catch- j Qjjj 0} an( j extended, during the next week, em and the town constable came up ; and western New York, whence he will re in their attempt to preserve, the peace and ^ urn c jty via New Jersey and Balti arrest the offenders, the squire was^ thrust more> Q n Tuesday, the T2th, local elections through the window of a neighboring j w jjj ta j. e plaee in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and watch-maker, doing a heap of damage, while Lawyer Hooker, in attempting to aid the constable, was hit, in a mistake, by the furious blacksmith, in the short ribs, and went reeling down Gumbo’s cellar with frightful velocity I The friends and fellow churchmen of Deacon Pugh took sides a- gainst the quaker antagonist, and thashop- boys of Abraham, seeing their employer thus beset, came to the rescue, while a brace of stray Irishmen—full of valor and whiskey, belieying it to be “free fight,” tried their hands Jil sticks upon the combat ants indiscriminately; so that in less than one hour, the quiet and happy borough of Frogtown was shaken from its propriety, by one grand, sublimely ridiculous and ter rific battle! Heads and windows were smashed—children and women ran. screech ed and screamed—dogs barked—dust flew; labor ceased, and so furious, mad and ex cited became the whole community, that a quiet looker-on, if there had been any, would haveswornh—1 had broken loose and the devils were all in Frogtown 1 A heavy thunder storm, finally, put an end to the row; the dogs were all more or less killed, a child severely wounded, a man scalded. Indiana, which will have an important bear ing on the Presidential election. Ion. A good story is told of a poor fellow who had spent hundreds of dollars at the bar of a certain groggery, and being one day faint and feeble and out of change, asked the landlord to trust him for a glass of liquor. “No.” was the surly reply; “I never make a practice of doing such things.” The poor fellow turned to a gentleman who was sitting by, and whom he had known in better days, saying “Sir, will you lend me sixpence?” “Certainly” was the reply. The landlord with alacrity placed the de canter and glass before him; he took a pret ty good horn, and having swallowed' it re placed the glass with evident satisfaction; he then returned to the man who had lent him the sixpence, and said—“Here is the six pence I owe you; I make it a point, degra ded as I am always to pay borrowed money before I pay my grog bill?” , - Economy.—A man who chews $14 worth of tobacco annually, and stops his newspa per because he cannot afford to take it. From Turk’s Island. The barque Chase, in sixteen days from Turk’s Island, arrived at New York on Sat urday with dates to the 8th ult. The Royal Gazette notices the arrival at the city of Santo Domingo, from the United States, om the 23d August, of Cols. Fergus sou and Pickett, to enter into preliminaries for the introduction into Santo Domingo of 4,000 or 5,000 American emigrants. On the 6th ult., an attempt was made by a foreigner named Monel air, to as assinate, or otherwise injure, President Forth. The individual was committed to jail. The Gazette, of the 8th, has the follow- ing: “We understand that the American brig Alfonso, which arrived on Thursday last from St. Martin’s, had on board the last of the Salt Crop (about 2,000 bushels) re maining on that Island, they having had the heavy rains at St. Martin’s last year which were experienced at those islands. The Great Pitch Lake of Trinidad. Fred. Taylor, Esq., a distinguished natural ist and mineralogist, has arrived at Trinidad; the object of his visit being, it was under stood, the further development of the cele brated Pitch Lake to other purposes than those to which its use has hitherto been limited. The extent of the Pitch Lake about 100 acres, of which 23 were some time since leased to the Earl of Dundonald; and in the past year no less than 800 tons of asphalt were exported from this part of the property to England and the United States, where it has been chiefly employed in the production of gas. . . A Common Case.—“Silence! keep si lence in Court!” said an angry judge.— “Here we have judged a dozen cases this morning, andT have not heard one of them.” Justice was deaf as well as b-ind. Cotton Crop. In Texas;—We take the following from the. Galveston News of the 1st inst, “Weather has been clear, warm and pleasant, daring the week, and favorable for picking cotton and for ripening cane. The rains mentioned in previous reports seem to have been confined to the coast, and were most heavy on this Island; from lower Brasos, Oyster Creek, Bernard, Caney and Colorado, we hear of injury done to tiie cotton, such as to reduce crops one- fourth to one-half beiow previous expecta tions; we find no reason, however, to change our opinion that the State will make an av erage crop of cotton, and if favored by dry weather and late appearance of frost, a heavy yield of fine sugar.” The Austin Gazette learns that the army worm has destroyed the cotton crop in Mis sion Valley, Victoria county. The Nacogdoches Chronicle says that the crops in San Augustine, Sabine, Jasper and Angelina counties are unusually fine. Most farmers are raising as much as they can gath er. TheHouston Beacon says there was frost on the 21st ult., at Chambers on Cypress Creek. The Houston Telegraph, of the 1st inst., says the daily receipts of new cotton in that city, exceed one hundred bales In Alabama.—The Dallas Gaaette of the 1st inst, says: “We have heard within the last few days accounts from the cotton crop in the coun ties of Montgomery, Lowndes, Autauga, Perry, Marengo and Wilcox. In each coun ty the worm and rust -have done immense injury. The general opinion appears to be that the crop in these counties will fell'short at least one-third the yield of last year. In this county the condition of the crop fo no better. The late rains have completely des- Damage to Florida Cotton Crop. The Wakulla (Florida,) Times of Wed nesday Last in an account of the late storm says: As far as we have heard from the aur* rounding country, much damage has been done to tjjje cotton crop, From the , cotton growing portion of our own county, we learn that the portion of the crop which reinain- ed unpicked was nearly destroyed. GoL Richardson’s gin bouse was blown down; A gentleman from Jefferson gives it as his opinion, that from fields which have not been picked, there cannot be obtained one bale of cotton from ten acres. We are told that on the Turpentine Plantations the number of trees blown down is greater than was ever blown down by any storm which has heretofore visited this section of country. The Tallahassee Sentinel, of the 11th, contains what follows : ' The roads are all obstructed—few peo ple have come in from the country, as yet but these" few bring in melancholy news. The cotton plant in this vicinity it will be recollected, was stripped of all its leaves two or three weeks ago, and the hot and dry weather since' that time, bad opened most of the bolls, that were approximating to maturity. The consequence was that a vast proportion—probably at least two thirds of the whole crop lay exposed in the fields, and the leafless stalks were white with the tint. Meantime, planters were straining every nerve at gathering, and the vast majority of them bad their gin bouses full of Cotton in the seed. Under such cir cumstances, wherever the force of this gald has been felt, it seems to us that an almost total destruction of .the crop is inevitable. The exposed fields, (withoutseeing them) we are confident must be as bare of lint as if picked by hand. In the leafless condi tion of the stalk and exposed to a hot aim, as most of the lint had been for a fortnight < or more, a stiff breeze would have been disastrous ; but such a gale it would ap pear, must have torn off nearly every lock of cotton. From the great destruction of out houses that we hear of in the county, we believe, also that a large proportion of the picked and unpicked cotton is gone, .and , we shall be agreeably disappointed if a good deal of the provision crop has not been destroyed. At the very best, it can not be doubtful that half the cotton crop in this vicinity is lost. , J83T Miss Nancy says a man is good for nothing until he is married; and (according to her experience,) he aint worth but a dreadful little when he is 1 The ropes lately used at the execution of murderers at Now Ybrk, were made of silk. An Editor in the Blues.—The editor of the Saratoga (N. Y.) Republican, thus pours forth his lamentation Having made pre cisely money enough at the printing busi- ~ ness, the subscriber is satisfied to give up and retire to the poor-house. Under these . circumstances, he is induced to offer the printing establishment of the Saratoga Re publican for sale. The paper has; a circu- ation of about 1,000-^one fourth of which may be called paying, and the other three- fourths non-paying, patrons. The office has good variety of Job Type, and a fair run of work of this description, provided the work is done at the reduced New York prices, and the printer will take “cats and dogs,” for pay. This village is one of the prettiest places in the world for a newspa per publisher. Everybody will find fault; do the best you can, and the editor that pleases himself will stand but aslim ehaiica of pleasing anybody else. The subscrip tion list and good will of the office will be thrown in, if the purchaser will take the type, presses and materials, for what they, are worth, and pay for them, so that there will be no probability of the present pro prietor being obliged to take the establish ment back and to return to the business.” Cuba and the United States.—‘We learn from the New York Evening Times of Mon day, that orders were received from the Na vy Department at Washington on Saturday night, directing the sloop of-war Cuane, Hol lins, commander, to prepare immediately for sea, and to sail for Havana at the earli est moment possible. As the Cyane bad just arrived from Norfolk, she was ready for sea, and accordingly took her departure on Sunday morning. She was towed outside the Hook, in order to get a fair breeze, and is now on her way to Cuba. It is also re ported that the U. S. steam frigate Missis sippi has been ordered to follow the Cyan* with all dispatch. The object of this movement, although nothing certain ean be known in regard to it, cannot be difficult of conjecture. The Times says: “We take it for granted that the com manders of these vessels will be instructed to avoid everything which can give the Spanish authorities the slightest ground of just complaint, but at the same time to re sist and repel, at every hazpd, and by aQ needful measures, every attempt to exercise undue authority for er vessels of the IJ. States, or to infringe in any vyay the rights and privileges to which American citizens in Cuba are entitled.” A Way to Get Off.—“Pray, madam,” said a Jonathan, in a low tone of voic^ at the close of a qniltiag party, “shall I see you home ?” “No,” answered the lady, sharply, will be all that is now anticipated.” ' « T “I understood you lot at all,* to ask for i iyouri “If all the world were bli ancholy sight it would be,” clerg f ?!m r, - VjgSjjj