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--sxssv- . CTws-w.'agwawrtlwryMK THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. ' ~J AM ES" GARDNER, JR. T e k m s. Daily, per annum, $S 00 Tri-W eekly, per annum, 6 (»U If paid in advance, a 00 Weekly, per annum, .i 00 j If paid in advance 2 50 JCT’AII new subscriptions must be paid in adv ance. Postage must be paid on all Commumcalk ns 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. "rr • " i i —■nriiin TWf.Ti htjuli-ll xsmm rr»B wimi i [/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 O O 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- S 3 C- “ 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 . . 9 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; \ k ' ’ ) p Jjk