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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. '
~J AM ES" GARDNER, JR.
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and Let’ers of business.
1 DOVE TO DIVE.
*‘l love to live,” said a prattling boy,
Ah lie gayly played with Ins new-bought toy,
And a merry laugh went echoing forth.
From a bosom tilled with joyous mirth.
“I love to live,” said astripniing bold—
**l will seek for fame—l will toil for gold ,”
And he formed in his pleasure many a plan
To be carried out v\ lien he grew a man.
•*l love to live,” said a lover true,
“Oh, gentle maid 1 would live for you;
I have labored hard in search of fame—
-1 have found it but an empty name.”
“I love to live,” said a happy sire,
Ah his children neared the wintiy fire;
For his heart was cheered to see l heir joy.
And he almost wished himself a boy.
*1 love to live,” said an aged man.
Whose hour of life was well nigh ran—
Think you such words from him were wild 1
The old man was again a child.
And ever thus is this fallen world,
Ih the banner es hope to the. world unfurled;
And only w ith ho[>e of life on high.
Can a mortal ever love to die,
I DIVE TO DOVE.
“I live to love,” said a laughing girl,
And she playfully tossed eacli flaxen curl;
And she climbed on her loving father’s knee.
And snatched a kiss in her childish glee,
“1 live to love,” said a maiden fair.
As she twined a wreath for her sister's hair;
They were bound by the chords of love together,
And death alone cou d these sisters sever.
“I live to love,” said a gay young bride.
Her loved one standing by her side.
Her life told again what her lips had spoken.
And never was die link of affection broken.
“I live to love,” said a mother kind,—
“1 would live a guide to the infant mind,”
Her precepts and example, given.
Guided her children home to Heaven.
*‘f shall live to love,” said a fading form.
And her eye was bright and her cheek grew warm;
Ah she thought on the blissful worhl on high,
She would live to love and never die.
AHd ever thus in this lower world,
Should the Banner of Love be wide unfurled.
And when we meet in the world above,
Alay we love to live and live to love.
SKETCH OF SMITHSON.
We find in the Philadelphia Pennsyl
vanian a memoir of the endovver of the
Smithsonian Institute, (tl.o Regents of
which have been recently appointed,) and
of the donation itself. Take the facts
all together, as the editor well says, and
they bear more the impress of romance
than of reality, and are destined looccn
,py a conspicuous page in our national
history.
James Smithson, the testator, was a
subject of the British crown. He was a
o’ecendant in blood of the Percys and
Seymours, names illustrious in the his
tory of the mother country. Hugh
Smithson, the ancestor of his own name,
in the year 1660, immediately alter the
restoration of the royal family of the
Stuarts, received from Charles the Se
cond, as a toward for his services to that
house during the civil wars, the dignity
of a Baronet of England. 'I he father of
the testator, by his marriage with the
Lady Elizabeth Seymour, who was de
scended by a female line from the an
cient Percys, and by the subsequent crea
tion of George the Third, in 1770, be
came the first Northumberland. His son
and successor, the brother of the testator,
Was known in the history of our revolu
tionary war, by the name of Lord Percy;
participated as a British officer, in the
battles of Lexington and Bunker Mill;
and was the bearer of the despatches
to the British Government from the Com
mander in-chief, detailing the even s of
those memorable days. These data in
the history of the Smithsons we give, not
from any love we hear for ‘blood’ or
♦lilies.* But because they serve to illus- .
Irate the singularity of the bequest Here |
Was a foreigner of the noble blood, born
&nd reared in the society of England’s
rbyalty, bequeathing the whole of his ;
itomense fortune to far distant and rival ;
people, who had within his own life lime
Vanquished his royal kinsmen on fields
of battle, and endowing an institution of j
learning in a land which he had never
himself visited ! Did ever Englishman
Before, or since, living or dead, pay tri
bute like this to tire excellence and supe- ;
riority of American institutions I Smith- ,
sou was, it is true, by birth and educa- j
l&n a Bri'.on, but enthusiastic beyond
measure must have been his admiration
of the United States viewed even from
Hfe dim distance of the Old World, to
have thus consecrated his name and for
tune to the still increasingspread of free
and liberal principles.
Smithson’s last will and testament is
dated Bentinck street, Cavendish square,
city of London, October 23, 1926, He
bequeathed the whole of his estate to his
bankers, Messrs. Drummonds, of Charing
iCross, in trust to he disposed of in the fol
lowing manner: To John Filial 1, a former
♦fetvanl, a life annuity of £IOO sterling.
To Henry Jas. HungeMord, his nephew,
the whole of the income of the residue of
ius property, during life, and after his
•demise to his child or children, legitmate
or illegitimate. In case of the death of
/ the nephew, without leaving issue, the
testator wills as follows: I then bequeath
the whole of my property to the United
Slates of America, to found, at Washinton,
under the name of the Smithsonian Insti
tute, an establishment for the increase
And diffusion of knowledge among men.”
Mr. Hungerford continued to receive the
income arising from the property until the
year 1635, when he died, without children
I and In an amicable suit in
y gjJ* wpre the Lord Chancellor, these
\y" V
fids were established, and adeciee issued
awarding Ihe estate lo the Uniud Stales
. Our distinguished townsman, Richard
Rush, was selected by President Jackson,
i;i 1836, as the special, agent of the United
States to proceed to England and prose
cute the bequest lo its final recovery,
which commission be executed most faith
ful ly and successfully. On the Ist of
September, 1838, Mr. Rush deposited in j
gold, at the Philadelphia mint, the sum ;
| of $508,318,46, being the proceeds then [
recovered of the bequest.
Unfortunately however, Congress f
snl^eqnently authorized the investment ;
of tlie fund in Slate bonds—those naughty
things which have cost us poor Ameri
cans so many severe scolds, and afforded
the Sydney Smilhs and London Punches
such glorious opportunities for displays
of their sarcasm. The Slate of Arkan
sas alone got $ 190,000 of the money, and
Ohio, Illinois and Michigan the remain
der. The object of Congress in authori
zing tins investment was doubtless highlv
cj
commendable, viz; lo increase the fund
by the accession of interest. But sub
sequent experience has too painfully s- rv
pd to demonstrate its impolicy. The
principal of most of these bonds is not
redeemable until the years 1860 and
187 u! and lo cap the climax, the Arkan
sians have paid not a cent of interest
since Jnly, 1841. T he amount due from
that Stele alone is accumulating at the
rale of $32,000 a year, and amounts at
this day (exclusive of the principal) to
over $260,000. Michigan and Illinois
have also followed suit, Ohio alone meet
ing her installments. We trust the day
is not far off when these States will he
able to wipe off this dark stain from their
escutcheons.
Nearly eight years have hence elapsed
since the United Stales came in posession
of this fund, and yet not one stone has
been piled upon another as the first step
towards fulfilling the intentions of the lib
oral minded donor. This long delay is
doubtless the offspring of the ill advised
investment aforementioned; but we are
now rejoiced to award lo the present Con
<rresc the proud testimony of having been
the first to make the proper application of
the fund. The United Stales owes the
debt to the intentions of Mr. Smithson,
and solemnly pledged her faith when site
accepted the bequest. Whether the in
debted States meet their installments or
not, does not weaken the other obligation.
This principle, we are glad to learn, was
fully recognized in the recent action of
Congress.
[From the New Orleans Picai/une Dec 25,]
LATER FKO.II THE ARMY.
Arrival of the Massachusetts —Later
from Tampico —Army Movements,
&c. &c.
By the arrival of the U S. auxiliary
steamship Massachusetts, Gapt. D. VV ood,
I we have received Tampico dales lo the
15lh and Brazos to the ISlli inst. We
acknowledge our indebtedness to Capt.
| W. for his kindness in forwarding the
| latest information, and also to Mr. A. J.
Clifton, late mate of the Neptune, for a
list of vessels in the harbor of 1 ampico.
There had been quiie an excitement at
Tampico, caused by a report that a large
body of Mexican cavalry had been seen
in the neighborhood. Os the truth or
falsify of the report we have no means of
| knowing.
On the 7ih Inst- the bark Mopang,Capt.
Hnffington, in crossing the bar < f I ompico, '
in charge of a pilot, struck on the noi h
| breaker and lost her rudder. She was
abandoned, but v a* afu rvards got ofifand :
towed to tle city, where she would be ■
sold to pay sahago.
The B: itish sloop of war Alarm, Lieut. !
Mays commanding, had arrived at I arn
| pico from Vera Cruz. Her captain was
left sick at the former place.
The U. S. steamer Fashion, with Gen.
Jessup on board, arrived at Brazos on the
ißth inst.
Gen Pillow left Mafamoros on the 14th
inst. He was to go 25 miles, and then
: wait for Gen. Patterson with the rest of
, his division and train.
Through Mr. Board, one of the pas
i sengers by tlie Massachusetts, we learn
j that Gen.*Taylor was to leave Monterey
on the 10th inst. for Victoria, with Gen.
Twiggs’s division and a ponion of Gen.
Smith’s brigade. It is also reported that
Gen. Urrea, of whom w'e have not heard
of late, was at Victoria with 6000 ca
valry* Gt?n. W ool remained at Parras
| and Gen. Worth at Saltillo. It was
positively reported and believed in camp
that Santa Anna had 28,000 men at San
Luis.
The following items we copy from the
Matamoros Flag of the 16th inst:
Mexican Reports. — A Mexican, just ar
rived from Tampico, informs us that Santa
Anna is purging his army of all officers
to whom the remotest suspicion of cow
ardicecan be attached, and rttaining only
such as ho has the most implicit confi
dence in their bravery and skill. Gen.
Ampudia, Col. Carasco, and several
others, he stated, have been imprisoned,
charged with cowardice, and an order has
been issued dooming to instant dealli any
officer who shall disgrace his flag by cow
ardly or unofficerlike conduct in battle.
Santa Anna he represents as having the
unlimited confidence of the soldiery; and
to such a pitch has he raised their ardor
by eloquent appeals to their passions that
it would be impossible lo conceive the
enthusiasm that prevails among them. A
general desire is expressed lo be led
against the invaders.
The following paragraph, in relation
to the hospital at Matamoros, we copy
from the same paper:
About two hundred sick have been
received into the hospital since bunday. ,
One hundred and thirty arrived from
Carnargo, and the remainder were left by
the 3d and 4th Illinois Regiment in break
ing up their encampments to commence
the march for Tampico. Dr. Wright has
had his bands full for the last four months
—the number in hospital averaging from
three to six bundled during this period,
and it shows him possessed of more than
common energy and industry to have
managed so successfully the complicated
; duties of his department. Deaths are
• much less frequent in hospital now than
[during the tail and snmer months, and
| patients are all doing well.
| The editor of the Flag he ds the follow
ing language in relation to the move
i ments of I mops. ~
Tue dd and 4th Illinois Regiments
broke up their encampments at this place
on Monday last, and commenced the
march for Tampico. It is the intention
we understand, to form an encampment
at Moqcete, a lancho, about six leagues
distant, and await the coming ©{‘supplies,
I which we hear it stated will take some
i eight or ten days to send forward. A
j part of the Tennessee cavalry regiment
marched with them and the remainder
i will follow in due time. The com
j (lined strength of the regiments is not
{ more than eighteen hundred men—the
i two Illinois regiments furnishing little
ove '* half the number, sickness and death
having reduced them one third their ori
j giual strength. Gen. Patteison still has
j hisquarters in the city and we cannot ven
ture a statement as to any fixed day for
his departure, such information not being
easily come at—the best wav to state h,
is to say that he will be off when he gels
ready. It is given out that the expedi
tion proceeds first to Victoria, which will
lengthen the march to Tampico one fourth
and make it a journey of near five bun
dled miles. But we shall see what we
shall see. We cannot conceive what
every body is to he sent to Tampico for.
“What do they in the south when they
should be”—somewhere else.
Murders continue to he committed in
the interior of the country. The Flag of
the 10th instant says:
Within the last week three persons are
reported to u.s as having been killed on the
road between Carnargo and Monterey,
but the name of only one we have ascer.
tained Mr. Wm. J. Downing, clerk for
Mr. Mann, sutler at Monterey. Mr.
Downing left Monterey in company with
Mr. Mann, Col. L. P. Cook, and others,
tor Carnargo, and with a Mexican ser
vantofMr. Mann, was riding sime dis
tance in the rear of the party, when he
was attacked by Mexicans or Indiansand
killed, and the servant either killed or
made prisoner and carried off. Mr. D.
! was personally know to us, as also to an
i large number of the citizens of this city,
i who will receive the news of his death
I with the deepest sorrow. He was a na
-1 live of Baltimore, Md., but has resided in
I 'Texas for a number of years—Corpus
Christi being his home for the last four
I years, where he was universally known
j and esteemed.
Passengers in the Massachusetts from
I Tampico. —(Dpi. Henry Place; Capt.
| Capdepon. From Brazos Is a nl —Me ssrs.
i Beard and servant; W. H. Hull; Hamer;
! J. Bellow, jr; L. Miller; R. D. Dentin;
: Capt. Jenkins, (late of the steamer Sea.)
■ and three steward-; Signor Ramon Re
j villa.
List of Vessel * at Tampico, Dec. 14 th. -
j Brig Empre sario, Collins, discharging;
brig C. H. Rogers, Wilson, engaged to
1 load fustic to N. Orleans; schooner Mill’s
! Thompson,discharging; schooner R. M.
| Johnson, Harding, discharging; schooner
I Oella, Hane, discharging—had lost both
j her anchors outside; schooner Cora, ,
I waiting; schooner Monitor, Wise, waiting
i for freight; schooner H. A. Schroeder,
O 7
Failes, discharging; schooner Home,
Kenney, waiting; schooner Velasco, Tew
waiting—had several hands, marked
vinegar but containing whiskey, seized;
sloop Magnolia, Jenkins, employed as a
lighter—had lost her rudder on the bar.
The vessels inside the bar, waiting a
wind to go up to the city were, btigs
Prairie, Clark; Archerus, Gould; Millau
don, Welch; tin ee-masted schooner Arispe
Gales; schooners H. Long, Gomez; In
vincible, Morgan, with mules; Oregon,
Leach; Mors, Ware; James Marshall,
Kearney.
[Masters of vessels and others should
be notified that all spirituous liquors not
entered at the Collector’s office, wiil he
confiscated; and that no spirituous liquors
are allowed to be landed.
A Good Joke. —On the evening before
Thanksgiving Day, a Cincinnati auction mer
chant, of unimpeachable standing, sat in his
parlor, chatting with his wife. lie had been
promised a fine fat turkey for the dinner next
dav, and was awaiting its arrival. The
door beil at length rang, and the gentleman
ran down to the street door, picked up a
basket, and returned to his wife, saying,
“here dear, is the turkey, basket ami all!”
The ladv made preparations lor the disposi
tion of (lie turkey fur the night, and raised
the covering, when to her astonished eyes,
appeared an interesting infant of an hour!
Before fainting, she had only breath to say,
“Dear/ it you call (hat a fine fat turkey, you
can cook it yourself ! furl have no relish lor
such things.’’
A Hint to the Volunteers.—lt is stated by
a volunteer in Mexico that flannel shirts
were selling there for $3 each, coarse satinett
pantaloons trom six to eight dollars a pair,
coarse brogans three dollars a pair, coarse
boots from five to six dollars a pair, and
hickory shirts from a dollar to a dollar and a
half a pair. But frequently these articles
cannot be obtained at any price. It should
also be remembered by volunteers, the writer
says, that in consequence of everything near
ly that grows in Mexico being covered with
thorns, their clothing is destroyed much more
rapidly than in other places.
(rrThe very last curiosity we have seen
spoken of in the papers is “a wheel that came
off a dog’s tail when it was a waggin.” The
man that sent it in has retired entirely from
public life.
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[/Vdj/i the Baltimore American.]
ROCKET AND MOUNTAIN HOWITZER.
4’he armament of one of these batteries is
composed ot four 12 -p under Mountain How
i z *rs wtighiag only two hundre d and twenty
po inds, and caissons complete; two Rocket car
nages, with nc*Cv»»ary fixtures and m l caissons
complete; two Id pound Mortars, weighing c g ity
four pounds each, with mortar beds, also com
plete; one travelling Forge and one Battery-wag
gon, in charge of tire artificers. The travelling
Forge and Battery-waggons to be at such a dis
tance in the rear as convenience and necessity
may require, as also the Mortars, which being
required for special cases only, w.-uld not accom
pany the Battery i.i its manoeuvres on the field,
although habitually in readiness to be made
available when called for.
The officers and men are to be armed as fol
lows;—For the officers, swords and pistols; for
the non-eommissionod officers and men, no
loon's, slung; the non-commissioned officers car
rying, if necessary, a light sword. Every man
ofthe company to be an expert marksman.
1 he ammunition required for this Battery
would be—For the Howitzers, Shells, with the
improved fuzes and canister shot. For the Rock
et carriages, the usual Congreve or War Rocket,
, the greater portion to consist ofthe smaller kind,
with a lew however, of the larger sizes for spe
cial purposes. A mode is devised for packing
rockets in the ordinary ammunition boxes, like
those for tfie limbers and caissons ofthe guns,
instead of lung waggons —thus affording more
uniformity among the carriages of this Battery
and also greater facilities for rnanceuvring the
pieces and transporting the ammunition.
From Lieut. Wooibach’s memoir, which' re
ceived the consideration and approval ol the De
partm. nl, the following statemenTis taken,show
ing “the nature ofthe services proposed for this
new crops, which remarks upon its supposed effi
ciency in certain cases.” It is proper to add that
to this diligent and well-informed young officer
t te project ofthe new organization with its ela
borated details, is mainly to be ascribed.
A battery of this description could be of much
service in the three following cases* viz. iu the
field, in the attack of towns, and among tue passes
and d’fiits ofthe mountains.
Ist.' i\>operate against masses in general, like
other light aitillery. 2d. More particulary against
Cavafy, by forcing them with the lire of the
rockets from position, and by effectually resisting
their charge upon squares of Infantry, or upon
the battery 3d. By the effect ofthe rockets also
upon the opposing Light Artillery, destroying or
dispersing their horses, when in battery and by
checking their direct advance or change ofposi
tion. 4th. By the direct effect of the iiowitzers
when brought to bear upon squares, columns or
other bodies of infantry, taking position beyond
range of musketry, and discharging canister
shot, eacii canister containing 148 musket balls
or 270 carbine balls, and at the rate of firing 7
rounds to the minute, delivering4.ooo bads per
minute from the four Howitzers ot tins battery.
sth. By the use of shells from the same, either as
grapnell shot or for ricochet firing, which, with
good fuzes, would prove very destructive- 6th.
Be the peculiar lightness of this, battery, afford
ing facilities for passing obstacles, rivers, ravines,
marshes, &c., which would check other Light
Artillery, and, from the celerity of its movements,
being always in readiness and particularly fitted
for accomnanying light troops on special expedi
tions or other detached movements.
2d. Wherever the ether light batteries could
he made available in front of the place invested,
by supporting the flanks, guarding avenues and
passes, or repelling so ties. 2d. Bv the incen
diary effect ofthe rock, ts and shells charged for
ihi t purpose, 3d. By the destructive use of (he
rccaets and canister shot of the battery in enfi
lading streets, bridges, &c., after an entrance has
once been effected into the town. 4th. Ihe
Howi zers, it will be racoiieeted, weigh only 2~0
pounds each, and their carriages, with wheels,
complete, onl 1 ,242 lbs, more, and as the parts are
1 susceptible of being readilv detached, the win Jo
can be pack ad on the hacks of horses orcarrud
on the shoulders of the men, through narrow pas
sages and avenues where othar fight Artillery
could not enter. It could thus he brought up to
1 after down door-ways and force entrances into
fortified buildings aud even to he placed in bat
tery upon the roof tops ot the houses ("it like those
of Monterey.) and there obtain command over
the barricades and defences into the s reets be-
I )W. Riflemen might certain!y do the iiAv; hut,
where three rifles would discharge, from anv aper
ture or window, their twelve shots per minute at
most, this small Howitzer, firing at the rate be
fore mentioned, could shower down in the same
space of time its 1,000 musAel balls upon those in
rear of the barricades. Tojhis, add the destruc
tive fire of the rocAets and rifles ot the rest ofthe
corps and the effect wocld be most severely felt by
the enemy.
Among the passes and narrow defiles of the
mountains, would seem, however, to he the pro
per field for this battery,in which it would prove so
much the more efficacious as other Light Ai tillerv
could not manoeuvre at ail, or it so, to very- great
disadvantage, thus: Ist. By cleaning passes of
opposing troops, and as the track ot Hie carnage
w hoe's is only r 28 A inches, (and I am told the e
, are defiles on the road to the citv of Mexico only
three feet wide,) it could be taken through the
narrowest pass, access ble only to pick miles,
and he brought to bear where other Ar i'.lery
could not approach. 2d. In ascending with it the
mountain sides and by circuitous routes, taking
position above and in the flanks ot tue enemy's
batteries planted in the passes below, aid thus
obtain a plunging the upon them with the Rock
ets and Howitzers. 3d. In conjunction with
such flank attacks, an attack in front could be
kept up from 12-pounficr mortars ofthe battery
which by their vertical fires could do serious,
injury among those in rear ofthe works defending
the pass.
Thcdescrip’ion of troops thut could he most
effectual!y opposed to tins force would evidently
be the Light Infantry and Riflemen, detaching
themselves as skirmishers, and firing upon the
men serving the guns and rockets. To meet
such cases, (his corps should always be supported
by a body of select Riflemen, co-operating in ail
their movements, and forming, if necesary, one
command under a common commander. For
further efficiency, and to insure thiir protection
when detached by themselves, the men of the
company should, as before stated, be armed with
jifes and musquetoens, and one-half of them kept
in readiness to act, either as traiiknrsand fiuak
cis or to replace the disabled men at the pieces.
Important Notice — Writing on Newspa
pers. The Postmaster General has issu
ed a circular to deputy Postmaste's di
recting them to remove the wrappers from
all transient newspapers, printed circu
lars, price currents, pamphlets and ma
gazines received at their respective of
rices, and if found to contain any manu
script or memorandum of any kind, either
written or stamped, or any mark or silrs,
except the name and address of the per
son to whom it is directed, shall be
charged with letter by weight;
and if the person to whom it is directed
shall refuse to pay such postage, tha post
master is to send it to the office from
whence it came and have the offender
prosecuted for the penalty of 'The
name of the sender written or stamped
on the wrapper of a newspaper, subjects
him to the same penalty.
Snake Bites. —lt is said that charcoal,
made ints a paste with hog’s lard, is a
grand antidote for snakes biles. In a
had case it should be changed often. It
will probably prove effectual for llm sting ,
of bees, and all other similar cares ot poi- .
son. |
[ From the N. O. Picayune , Dec. '2blh.\
COUNTING THE COST.
We regret to notice the frequency with
which the Mexican war is discussed hy the
press, with reference only to its cost- The
cost of the wa r should have been considered
before it was declared; hut now that we are
in the midst of one, it is scarcely proper to
assail the administration upon that score,
.-ave only as it may make an improvident
use of the money appropriated by Congress
for m lilary < perations. In regard to the
commencement of the war, we are amongst
those who do riot think the United State
drew the sword any too soon. Tire Mexican
Government did not give us an option in the
easy. Toe question of war was settled In
“an act of the enemy”—Congress so decided
—so that the matter of cost was at once ad
journed to the overbearing necessity of the
case. Congress might have decided that o
was 100 expensive to chastise insult and op
pression, 100 extravagant to invade Mexico,
and contented themselves by ordering Gen.
Taylor to guard the Eastern bank of the Rio
Gnuide or, indeed, to retire behind the Nue
ces. But such a course would not have
taiisfied the American people any more than
it met the sanction of the National Legis
lature.
if, in the numerous homilies we read upon
the cost of tlie war, particular instances were
cited of extravagance,or needless and waste
ful expenditures were pointed out. there
would be less of querulousne?t> in them.—
Taking the sum total of the war expenses,as
presented in the Secretary of the Treasury’s
report, it does not app< ar that >he co.-t ha?
been disprojrortionate to the achievements of
the .Army. The Government has been madt
to pay dearly for some of its purchases; but
this was unavoidable, ami the lime that
would have been consumed in cheapening it.-
bargains was wortii more than the money
that might have been saved. The economi
cal system upon which the military estab
lishment of the United Stales has been kept
for a series of years, was not auspicious to 4-.
vigorous and cheap invasion of a fbreigi
country upon an emergency. The rank am
fie of the regular service was insufficient to
garrison the fortifications on our coast and
frontier, and the means i f transport ng even
tiiis meagre force was wholly inadiqute
The sudden enlistment of volunteers demand
ed as sudden an enlargement of all the ap
pointments and materiel of the service. To
provide this at once required a heavier ex
penditure than the same things vvouid have
cost, if they had been collected leisurely.—
Taking every thing into consideration, the
war Inis been conducted cheaper than it was
supposed it would be, and certainly as cheap
1 as it should have been.
j If there lias been a fault in this re pect it
I has been upon the opposite side. It is qu?s
j tionable, for instance, if the Government
j should not have had vessels for the Gulf ser
vice constructed at heavier cost than the
| sums paid for such as have been purchased
:at second hand. The navy lias been sadly
| in need of steam tugs of greater power titan
the revenue cutters that have been operating
! with it. Large quantities of provisions and
munitions of war have been !o?t hy not hav
ing more sea worthy steamers in lire trails
portal ion service. Some of the equipments
of the Army have not been made of the besi
material. In these respects there may have
been extravagance in a desire to economize;
but how far, if a! all, the Gi vernment is n
i blame, we would lie glad if the “cost coun
ters” vvouid signify. War is an exjensivf
luxury, and no outlay is extravagant which i?
atteuded vvi h corresponding eliectiveness ii
; military operations. Tnere is no grcatei
j mistake than to suppose that a cheap vva.
j will cost the people less than an exj en iv<
| on ’, if the heavier appropriations are wise)'
an I prompt y applied. A cheap war w 1
last for ever. A sharp war is short and rosi
ly. One would be a chronic drain upon ih<
treasury; the 1 tht r a sudden exhaustion an
a speedy convalescence. Let the war he a
shoitand as sharp as money can make 1
and .Mexico will save us the trouble of count
ing its cost.
How to Get Kick. —'The lato Judge
Martin, left his parental roof at Marseil
les, while a lad with font hundred franc?
in money as his sole patrimony. II
rami led about the West Indies and fi
nallv reacdied North Carolina.. There
his monev exhausted, and to avoid star
vat ion lie got a place as an apprentice fr
a printer. After three, yeats service h«
was received as a journeyman and be
came entitled to wages. So well did
he manage his affairs, that in three year?
he had laid up enough to buy out his cm
plover. Some years afterwards he camr
to Louisiana. Here while he was a Judge
of the Supreme Court, he was also part
ner of a brick yard. After seven yea r?
his partner in the brick yard died. In
settling their partner-ship it became ne
ccssary to exanfno their books. It was
found that every item of their joint house
hold expenses was marked down from
day to day,and tl at the whole seven \ ears
they had shared the same table together
they had each expended, on an average
only twenty five t enis per day; including
food and clothing for their servants and
all the other expenses of house keeping.
During all this time the Judge was rc
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ceiving a salary of £SOOO per year, be
sides large profits fiom the brick yard,
and from his rents and money placed at
interest, ID 400 francs have since in
creased to £-100.000 and upwards! The
Judge lived a very poor man and died a
very rich one. During the third of a
century he held office, he had to decide
upon immense interests submitted to the
Court anil no one ever supposed that for
millions of money his opinions could be
made to swerve a hair’s breadth. His
integrity was above the slightest suspi
cion from any quarter. — N. O. Bulletin.
Female Fears of Gun Colton.-**- A lady of
our acquaintance, insists upon it, that the
new kind of explosive cotton is a mere bug
bear, with which to frighten her sex out of
the use of wadding; and asserts that she
knows an elderly single lady, who has actu
ally been engaged for more than a week past
in removing all thestulfing from her dresses,
for fear that it might “go off” some day.—
Western Continent.
The Printers, as a class, have contributed
more than their quota of men in the forma
tion of Hie Pennsylvania regiment of volun
teers. No less than thirty are numbered
among the three companies from Philadel
ph;a.
~ AUGUSTA, GEO.. *
Tlil’RSlMV MORNING, DECK. 31, ISIG.
lowa. —The Legislature convened at lowa
city, Dec. 7th. The Senate elected Demo
cratic officer?;—Thomas Baker, of Polk co.,
President; Jno. 15 Russell, of Bloomington
Secretary, The House elected Whig?; —*
Speaker, J. H. Brown, of Lee co.; Chief
Clerk, Silas A. Hudson, of Burlington.
U NPARLIA ME N T ARY LANG U A GE.
We notice with ragret that language has rc-
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cently found admission into the debates in the
popular branch ol the national ieghlulure, which
not only violates taste but all those proprieties of
discussion which should characterize oratory in
the halls of legislation. Mr. Gentry of Tonu.
recently applied by obvious inucudo, if not direct
charge, language to the President of the U. S.
against which, his official station should have
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protected him; but his colleague, Mr. Martin,
while reprehending this vv mt of respect to tln»
Chief Magistrate, indulged in language which
showed as little respect to the body he was
addressing ns that of his legislative associate. —
There was no personality in Mr. Martin’s die
lion, but it trespassed so greatly in the use of
certain idiomatic phrases which are only lit for
’he pot-house and not of sufficient propriety even
or the hustings, that we could perceive little dif
erence between the two Tennessee orators. The
time was when such unparliamentary language
would not have been suffered to invade the halls
t legislation, hut with the introduction of laio
into that bodv of men below the average talent
which is found in our Slate Legislatures, has
een’comhinetl manners and tastes as hr beneath
the standard for both in these assemblies, that
nothing stands more widely contrasted than the
character ot their debates.— Charleston Evening
News, Dec. “;).
An Explosion of Sixty Kegs nf Powder. —
The Providence 'Transcript of the 23J Dec ,
says—This morning at quarter past three
o’clock,the city was alarmed by an explosion,
which shook the buildings and startled many
persons from their sleep. A powder house
belonging to Messrs. Storey, Wood & Veder,
containing about sixty kegs of powder, had
1 been set. on fire by some incendiary. The
building was situated about 2 1-2 miles from
the bridge in this city, near the residence of
L. C. Eaton, Esq. The mansion house of
Mr. Eaton was much injured, and some of
the furniture destroyed. The farm house on
the estate was much injured, and the trees
and fences were blown down.
Elopement and Present. —A* member of
the Senior Class of Williams College on
'Thanksgiving day ran away with and mar
ried a young lady of Wiliiamstown, and his
class lias voted him a cradle. —Boston Ads,
[Correspondence if the Bull; more Clipper.]
Washington. Dec. g(j. IS4G.
Anticipated Duel between Messrs. Bundy
and Vdtis. —Inconsequence of the sn?vver
made to Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, by Mr.
Bayly, of Virginia*, “It is a lie,” (>n the 23d
instant, in the Horn** of Representatives.)
Mr. Davis, on Ihe : 4 1 tent to Mr. Bayly a
noteascir.g fur an exp analum. No satisfac
tory reply vi as given. Friends of both par
ies, at night, interchanged visits. In cense
jiieuce of this, into; niation was laid before
Justice Goddard, that there was reason to
apprehend a duel between the gentlemen r -
erred to. This was at half-past twelve o’-
clock on Chris ! mas morning. Mr. Baylv
was, in consequence, arrested, anJ brought
before the Justice, at the watch house, where
lie was obliged Jo enter in o bonds to the
tmounl of two thousand dollars, to keep lie
peace towards ail persons, and not to accept
1 challenge, or leave the District for that
jurpo.-e. An hour or two after, the officers
went in pursuit of xMr. Davis. He was in
>ed. The gentleman acting ns marshal, in
the place of Gen. Hunter, it is said, was
hrust out of the room by Mr. Davis, who
locked the co ir.and then secured himself un
til 5 o’clock in the morning, when he took
the cars for Baltimore, where, it was thought
if Mr. Bay! y went on, ihe preliminaries for a
duel would be arranged. Mr.,Bayly was in
the city to-day alter the cars left.
Mr. Barrow, of the Senate, was the friend
of Mr. Davis, and Mr. JSeddun, of the House,
the friend of Mr. Bayly.
From Havana and the Pacific Ocean
By ihe arri’ 1 yesterday of the fast sailing
packet Chflsfoval Colon, Cant. Smith, in l>
days from Havana, the New York Sun, re
ceived special despatches and files of Spanish
journals by Overland Mail from Panama,
Ecuador, Peru and Chili.
'The latest dales are: Havana, Dec. 11,
Lima and Callao, Nov. 7, Valparaisa, (Jet. 23,
Santa Fe de Bogota, Oct. 22. Our most im
portant advices relate to the threatened coi -
quest of the ilispano—American Republics
by the monarchists of Europe, under the V •
rection of (Jen. Fiores, the denosed usurper
of Equador, now in Spain. Venezuela and
New Granada had signified their intention to
repel Flores, should Ins expedition against
Equador attempt to enter their ports, la
Equador.itself, active preparat ons were mak
ing to resist the invasion. 'The parent coun
try and the monarchists generally are severe
ly den mneed for countenancing this pirati
cal expedition against a nation at peace with
them. The movement of Flores, coming
simultaneously with the monarchical alli
ance against the Argentine Republic, has
aroused ail the South American Republics.
1 iioso who at first were indifferent to the
aggressions of England, France and Brazil
upon the States of the Plata, now unite in
denouncing the monarchies. Should Flores
ever land on South American Republican
soil, hi* (ate is sealed.
T.ie Congress of Chili had assemble! 1 .
1 resident Bulness, in his message to that
body, congratulates the people upon the
traqui! condition of the country. 'The com
mercial treaty with Spain is expected to
have a salutary influence upout he business
interests of Chili. Tranquility prevailed
throughout all the countries ou the West
Coast. 'The war between the British and
the .New Zealanders had terminated. Mr.
1 nilip Pardo has been appointed Minister
Plenipotentiary to Chili from the Peruvian
government.—iVev York Sun 26:
Departure of the Pennsylvania Vol un
leer sf rain Pittsburg. —The Western mail
brings Pittsburgh papers, from which we
learn that the Pottsville Artillery, CapU
Nagle; Monroe Guilds, Capl. Small;
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