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ISTSl lltrttn i" 'Ira aAernoon, at llio ('uurl-limiaa, ia I lie r 0 ** which lha landia aiinatod, Nolicti of thaaa aalaa kjia (Iran ia a public (aaalla HIXTV DAYS panama ta kfZ'jMMM** want beata pnblio anrHaw.oathaSrat l s *T, ol itin iH.ialll, hatwaao iba uaual hoaraofaala.at lha 7**” f oublio •aim in the county where the lettara lealamen- . {joiiiiiairatioa or Giiurdionuliip, may bare bean grant- tT[* (irinr SIX I'Y DAYS notion• thereof, ia one of the Satie raa'tle* ol iliia Stnte, anil nl the door of the Court- {**!? where inch anlea ara ta be held. ’n-Iimliirlhenaleol Peraonal Property.mtiai he giren in lonelier, POST Y ilavo previoua lo the day nf eale. J.ilea to die IMilora and Creditorsofau Violate iiiuat be i poKTV Uityr Il,*l applic Iiion will lio nuJn to tlio Court ofOrilion* ■ fir Im»® to tell LAND, must be published fur FOUR Nnilefu'r leave to soil NEGROES, must be published lor llON ril5§, before ooy order absolute slutll be undo Tktfton by the Court. Cir^TloNsfor letters of Adiniulslrntion, must be published rti (Lift—t" r dismission from sdininistrntion, tnoulklf six JLJnr dismisiiuu from Uuardmnsliip,/brfjrd«|rs. Rolm for the iofec'oeure of Mortgage must be published JJii/-fusr MiostAs—forestsblielttUR lost papers, for (Me LnVpacf tkrft moHlkn—\or compelling titles fromKxecu- b Mar Adminislr*tori», where a Bond hss been given by tlto rllwa«-l, of Arse mouths. J public a l i' j ii s will always be conlinued according lo thean, liha lacai requirements, unleaa mlierwirc ordered. ® 11 ill hoaincaa of ihia kind continues in racaive prompt ntten- .*.,,1,0 other of the (i EOltOI A JOU UN A L. ll *REtHTTANCRS 11Y MAll.—A postmaster may en- I loss inonav in u letter to the publisher of a newspaper, fo pey l?L. iulnerilition of a third person, and frank the letter if writ- | ,e hr hhusnlf."—Awa. K'ndall. P. M a h V&u tVv*.’ a* »*£lyAjfc m -.i fiaabil PIMP. .' . I--a ..n -ijWi VOL. XXXVI- POETICAL. I SEE THEE STILL. ST C. SPRAGUE. I see the still: Remembrance, faithful to her trust. Culls thee in beauty from the dust; Thou contest in the morning light, Tliou’rt with me through the gloomy night; I n dreams I meet thee as of old; Then thy soft arms my neck enfold, I see thee still: In every hallow'd token round: This little ring thy finger bound, This lock of hair thy forehead shaded, This silken chain thee was braided, These flowers, all wither'd now, like thee, Sweet sister, thon didst cull for me t This book was thine, here thou didst read; This picture, ah ! yes, here, indeed. I see thee still. I see thee still: Here was thy summer noon's retreat, Here was thy favorite fireside seat; This was thy chamber—here, each day, Isat and watched thy sad decay; Here, on this bed, thou last didst lie; Here, on this pillow, thou didst die: Dark hour! once more its woes unfold; At then I saw thee,pole and coldfi 1 see thee still. 1 see thee still: Thou art not in the grave confined— Death cannot chain the immortal mind, Let earth close o’er its sacred trust, But goodness dies not in the dust; Thee,0! sister. Mis not thee Beneath the coffin's lid 1 see; Thou to a fairer land art gone; t me hope To see thee i [from Arthur’s ladies’ magazine.] TO JHY ABSENT SISTER. BT DUDLEY B. TINKER. “ Oh, for a kiss, a long, long kiss— A kiss of youth and love!”—Byron. The dew-drops kiss the rosy lawn, The flowrels kiss the dew; All nature kisseB morning's dawn, Aud sunset's golden hue. Bright sunbeams kiss the sea; Aud all things kiss wliute’r they love— Then why not 1 kiss thee? Could but the medium of a thought, Sent from an anxious brow, Convey a boon so richly fraught, Thou ’dst feel one burning now. And bounding back on joyous wing, That thought would bring tome A kiss as sweet as balmy spring, For it would come from thee. MISCELLANEOUS. THE AID-DE-CAMP OF SANTA ANNA. |TRANSLATED FOR TUB ALBANY ATLAS, FROM THE GAZETTE DOS TR1BAUNAUX.] Mexico is a favored land for travellers in search bftlie romantic. Highway adventures, which for inerly lent so much renown to the narrow passes bf the Sierra Morena and of the Appenines, ore bo longer met with except in the outskirts of Mex |Co and in the forests of Vera Cruz. Robbery and bssussi nation have preserved, in these countries |heir fascination and their poetry. The Mexican drones have not exchanged their vast sombreros or the ignoble cap of our bandits, their flowing crape for a blue blouse, their machete for a knifo [There tile Robin Hoods, the Mandrills, and organ ■zed banks, still exist. Often, men enjoying gen krai esteem, public functionaries even, have been Inembers of these dangerous associations, and tliut shadow of a government which rules in Mexico jlias been unable to put an cad to such inci edible anomalies, or to oppose to these robberies any ef fectual measures of suppression. In the early part of April, 1839, Mr. L , wealthy merchant of Mexico, compelled by ini- loriam business to go to Europe with all his family, fore leuving for Vera Cruz, went to the residence f General Sunla Anna. He was introduced im mediately, for Santa Anna is easily accessible to visitors. Ho is a thin wiry man, with a piercing eye, sharp.noso, and olive complexion. His fea tures reflect his character exactly. One can read in them the crafty cunning of the Indian, and the daring of the Spaniard. Santa Anna was alone with lira aid.de-camp, Colonol Yanez, a young man of remarkable beauty. The latter was turning over the contents of a package of despatches with luch profound attention, that the Mexican merchant tittered, made his salutation and soated himself, without Yanez appearing to be aware of his pres- once. Mr. L then explained lo the Gener al that, alarmed by the attacks and assassinations which were committed evory day, he had come to bog that lie would grant him an escort, «o that he wight muko the journey from Mexico lo Veru Cruz [•'(safety. 'Frankly,’said Santa Anna, after a mo- mein’s reflection ; ’if you carry with you gouds of considerable value, I advise you not to lake on es oort, fo t you know that our dragoons too often up propriato to themselves the property they are clurgod to prutocl. It would bo best to direct Vermont a French saddler in the street Las Cade na Momnkoa trunk with a fulse bottom, m which jour wife’s diamonds and your most valuable arti cles might bo concealed. If you arc attueked, [Open your trunk without hesitation, and abandon to them iu contents, which you should take care lo w»ko as trifling as possible.’ This advice hazurd- ousos it npiiourod to be, seemed to Mr, L- I osoiuy one that it would bo expedient lo follow. I '“look leave of the General, and whilst ho was IS’Jing tuwurdw tho door, Col. Yuncz who during the lconveraatiou appeared to be absorbed in reoding, I waved his head imperceptibly, and cast on the mer. L l" 11 keen, rapid glance. Tim trunk with the I * *e bottom was ordered from Vermont’s,and Mr. I .TT~~“quitted the city of Mexico daring lh. night r;, "8 “ n horseback liy tlto aide of lb. )iu.r In I “•“« lii» wife and children wore, a number of ar- Horoa, guarding the mules Men with the laggage. j He little caravan reached I’uobla without acci ^enl, resting there for two days, aud again aetlimg toiAh at (unset on the evening of the third. They aaw shining in the distance the gigantic paak Ori- v.uba, crossed the plain of Acijilu,and arrived safe, ly at tha mountain gorge which terminated it. This ta a narrow dafk ravine, at the extremity of whicli diflerent paths meet. Fur a longtime this ravine has had a bad reputation, and five or Six while stones surmounted by crosses, which rise here and there, attest, tliut it has not boon undeserved. Accord ing to tho custom of the Spanish muleteers, the nr riuros, half sleep on their mules, sang the well known air Del Cabal/o : Mi BINper eni caballo Se marieroii oh (tempo.' My hone anil my wife Died the some day VVhst was their nurprtso when many sonorous voices, mingling with theirs, continued the couplet by these two lines— Que mngerjf que demonie El Caballo e» to que tlenlo, II ia not the wife,liui by the devil It ia ilia horse that I regret. They had not timo however, to reflect very long on tiiis strange incident, for the caravan was al most immediately surrounded by a score of bri gands, issuing, as if by enchantment, from the ra vine. Notwithstanding the cries of terror which escaped from his wife, Mr. L— was not discom posed, he saw without apparent emotion the rub bers upset his baggage und seize his trunk. He presented them the key of it, when one of them, with an expressive gesture showing his long sharp weapons, skilfully put it between the body of the trunk and false bottom, which he at once lore off. The merchant, at firat motionless with astonish, ment, went into a violenco of rage ; but the bandit pointing to the shining blade of his knife, said to him in a very soft lone, ‘No useless resistance Se- nor, if you love your life.’ Then turning towards Mine. L -, who pale with fear, was shielding her two children with her body ; 'have no fears, Seuora’ he added, ’we are cavaliers and know the respect due to ladios.’ Disdaining to appropriate lo themselves articles of trifling value, they limited themselves to seizing tho diamonds of Mme L and some black Californian pearls of considerable value. Returning to Mexico; Mr. L—— hastened to make his deposition, and to relate to the judge all the circumstances of this singular robbery. It was very evident that the attack had been premedi tated. Now two men only had been informed of tho false bottom contrived in Mr L - ’s trunk; General Santa Anna and the French saddler, Ver mont. The latter was arrested in consequence, but to the accusation against him he opposed the clearest and most minute explanations. Every thing combined to show his innocence, his high re putntion for honesty, his solitary hfe, the testimony of his neighbors which proved that he Imd not left Mexico on the day of the robbery nor on '.hose pre ceding it. In consideration of these facts unde niably established. Vermout was set at liberty, and the real instigator of the robbery was yet un discovered. This event was not yet forgotten when the rumor was circulated that a murder had just been commit ted in broad daylight in the house of the Swiss Consul, M. Maigret, not far from the palace of the former viceroy, Count de Galvez. At first no one gave credit lo this news, because the street San Casino, on which M. Maigret’s residence was situ ated, is one of the most frequented in the city. What added still more to the improbability of the story was that at noon, the hour when they said the murder hnd been committed, M. Duflaudis minis ter from France, Mr. Packenhem, the English en voy, with several of their colleagues had met at a morning party given at a mansion directly opposite that of the Swiss Consul. The report was, how ever but too true. The assassins had entered the house by the street door, they had seized the Indian servant, his only domestic, gagged and bound him firmly ; then they had rushed on the Consul, whom the noise of the struggle hud attracted to the spot: M. Maigret, although taken by surprise, had oppos. ed to his murderers a terrible resistance. There wero deep and frightful wounds in his temple, and on his breast. And they drew from the clenched bund of the corpse a metal button, hanging to a pieco of blue cloth. This was but s feeble glim mer of light to guide the investigations of justice and they were almost wearied with their efforts, when Messrs, Duflaudis and Packenhnm, acting as the organs of all the diplomatic and consolate bo dies energetically insisted upon persevering in the search. Their determined movements were not fruitless. Suspicion wns directed towards a dra goon of the 4th regiment, who from being a poor man with nothing but his soldiers pay, had suddenly become rich and prodigal, without being able to ex plain in a satisfactory manner the origin of his in exhaustible resources, A search secretly conduct ed, changed suspicion into certainty by the discov ery of a blue cloth coat on which a button was wanting. The one found in the dead man’s hand was compared with the others, and the metal, cast ing and style were found to be the some. As al most, always happens, the murderer had neglected to destroy the only evidence which could convict him. He was arrested. Strengthened by now proofs, the charges which weighed on the accused had acquired so great a load of evidence that it was impossible lo deny his participation in tho crime. Nevertheless, all the cflbrts of the Judge could not move him to confess the details of it, und in the hope, doubtless, that a hidden and powerful protector would shelter him from punishment, he obstinately refused to namo his accomplices. Criminal justice is expeditious. The third Jay after the condemnation, a mournful truin entered tlie street of San Cosmo, and stopped before the mansion in which the deed had been committed.— with his head shuven, his neck and feet bare, the murdorer, holding a lighted taper in his right hand, nnd attended by n Spanish Franciscan friar, was obliged to kneel upon the threshold and nsk pardon. This first expiation accomplished, the train again took up tho march through crowds of people, who thronged from the gates of St. Augustine to the shady walk of tho Alineda. 'J hey noticed that the condemned sought to catch from some one in the multitude, some signal; but disappointed in his ex. peciatinn his brow contracted and he hit his lip with rago. This mark of irritation, however, wns tho only one that escaped him—for men of such temperament liavo a profound disduin for life. They kill without pity—they dio wiiliout fear. Although belonging to the army, the dragoon An tonio. having committed an infamous murder, was not doomed worthy n soldier’s death ; he was con demned to the garrolte. The garrotte is not unliko the guillotine, and not more cruel in ils operation It consists ol a platform elovaled about six feet; in MlLLEimEVlLLE-, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1846. KO. 19- officer and with a loud, distinct voice, aaid—’Senor, my principal accomplice, the ohief of our ie Gol. Yanez, the aid.de-camp of Gen. 8anla Anna.’ This unexpected disclosure excited ae much aur- prise as distrust. How could they beiiove that the most distinguished officer in Mexico, the intimate friend of Santa Anna, the lover of his sister Duio- rez, was a highway robber, an assassin I Howev er impossible,iho fact might appear, the authorities were determined to clear up the tnysterios.—-The execution of Antonio was consequently doluyed. The General Count Josa de la Cortina, then Gov ernor of the ciiy, ordered tho officer, Cnpl. Ologa- zu, to the residence of Yanez. A search there led lo very important discoverios—the seizure of a u mysterious correspondence in cypher, a quantity of jewelry, of valuable articles of every kind, the greater part of which were afterwards recognised as belonging to Mr. L——, plundered a month before, on the road to Vera Cruz. The same the middle is a seat placed against a post, to which open, is suspended. The exe- an Iron collar, half open, cutioner, standing behind the chair, passes the col lur round the neck of tho condemned closes it in a twinkling, then turns a screw, inflicting instant death. A long curtain descending at the name mo. ment from the top of the post, envelopes the dying man completely- Arrived before the scaffold, the prisoner again cast a lingering gazo on the crowd ; then shaking his head at though he had loat his last temple with bia last hope, he turned toward* an day, Yanez wns arrested, when going out of the Government Palace, and confined in the public prison. Things were in this condition, when a la dy enveloped in a black silk mantle, her face cov. ored with a thick veil presented hersolf at the house of the magistrate, Cnpt. Ologaza* The un known visitor employed all the resources of her mind, words of winninir. persuasiveness and elo quent tears, 10 the Interest the Juuge in me tato of Yanez, and to prevail upon him to destroy the evi dence against him. She even went so far as to offer him 30,000 piastres ; but the soldier repulsed this offer with indignation, although he might have easily recognised by her melodious voice and bril . liant beauty, the sister of the President, la Senort x Donu Dolorez. A week had not elapsed, when Capt. Ologaza , seized with violent pains after breakfasting, died i n frightful convulsions, which left no doubt in th s minds of the physicians called in, that he had bee n poisoned. Crimes proceeded no further, but tho secret in • fluences continued. Seduced by the offer of fivi 3 hundred ounces of gold the clerk of the unfortua - ate judge consented to withdraw tlie papers whicl i compromised Yanez. But he had no sooner effect- • ed his purpose, than a vague remorse seized him , and lie went to relate all to his confessor. The > Priest refused him absolution, threatening him with > eternal perdition if he did not replace tho stolen pn. pers. The clerk, in dismay, obeyed the command but was unable to return tlie 8000 piastres to the - mysterious giver, whose name he knew not and whose face he had not seen. The second Judge, Col. Don Jose Calvo, who was charged lo proceed with the case commenced by Ologaza was a cour- agous and honest man. He was a Spaniard, born at Havana, and had fought with honor in the wars of the Peninsula. Made prisoner by the French, and kindly treated by them during his captivity, he had retained a grateful recollection of France.— He was anxious to prove to tho diplomatic corps, anJ particularly to M. Deffaudis, who, as Minister from France, was by treaty specially bound to pro tect Swiss residents, that Mexico was also a land of justice and civilization. Not that ho was blind to the danger of his position. Although Santa Anna, witli accustomed dissimulaiion. had affected abso lute indifference in tlie circumstances, yet Col. Cal vo was not ignorant that Yanez had been his aid- de-camp and his friend. He remembered that General Valencia, commander of the department, when informed, a few minutes after the assassina tion, that t.vo of the suspected murderers, had ta ken refuge in a tavern in the suburbs, had replied— •Que lot dejen, lot probecitos,’ ‘Let them go, the poor wretches !’ In fine, the fate of his predeces. sor, poisened by a drug mixed in a cup of chocolate, was assuredly of a nature lo make him reflect.— There was peril, hut there was devotion too. As to Yanez, the good fortune of his life of lib- ly followed him to prisou. He had received these numerous marks of interest, and the day after his arrest, this jailer had delivered lo him a small note, on which were traced in a feminine hand the three words, ‘Courage, Love, Hopo.’ He learned be sides, through the same hidden agency, that the pa. pers which proved his guilt had been withdrawn from the package and without doubt destroyed.— In the absence of these proofs, the confessions of Antonio alone could, by enlightening justice, arm against him its severities. But Yanez never doubt ed that at the sight of his Chief, Antonio would re tract. In fact what could he gain by making two victims ? This conviction strengthened Yanez against all fear, and never perhaps had iie appeared more completely master of himself, thun on the day when he appeared before his judges. Scarcely had he taken his place on the prisoner’s bench, when Antonio came to seat himself there with six other accomplices, whose arrest had ta ken place. By a movement either involuntary or intentional, Yanez recoiled with disgust, and with out saying a word, fixed upon this false brother, who had betrayed his chief to tho executioner, without having for his information even the excuse of his own interest—a look full of withering contempt end indignation, that Antonio, stupifled.starnmered forth some unintelligible replies to the pressing interrog. atories of the judge, turned pale, then red, and strik ing the bur with bis clenched hand, angrily replied, •I will say nothing, 1 know nothing—my life is your’s, take it.’ Yuncz believed himself saved. He did not know that the letters found in bis house had been replaced in the package by the clerk. So lie confined himself to scornful denials, and when Colonel Calvo displayed the enormity of the crimes imputed to him, holdiog him forth as a robber chief, an assassin, planning murder, and from afar put ting in motion tiiu hands whicli executed it,—Yanez replied by a cold smile lo these terrible words. Then Don Jose Calvo exhibited tlie futal papers. This was like a thunderbolt. The doubt which had seizad tlie mind of the judges, gave place lo deep conviction. Tlie sentence of the Court Mar tial, given amidst profound silence, doomod Yanez and seven accomplices lo death. A shriek, the thrilling anguish of which no words can describe, followed tho reading of the sentence. As lo Ya nez. lie preserved all his firmness. ’Man condemns, and God absolves !’ said he ; and rising, he saluted his judges, Three days after a countless m iltitude composed of Leperos and Indians thronged the plain on which the instruments of punishment had been erected. An altar wns placed at the right of the scaffold. The balconies on those streets which led to tho place were filled with high born damea among whom it was easy lo distinguish Dona Do- lurez by her beauty and her paleness; Very soon appeared a parly of alguazils in black robes, with heavy carbines, piercing‘the Brother hood of the Dying.’ A capuchin, bare-footed, girl about hy a rope, reciting with a low voice the penitentiul psalms, walked near Antonio and the other prisoners, each of whom held a crucifix in his hands. Yanez who had fainted when leaving the prison, was borne on a mule, led by one of the in ferior officers. As this frightful train approached Dona Dolorez convulsively pressed between her fingers the beads other rosary, and when it passed beneath her bal cony, tire leaned her hoad over the balustrade, gaz ed anxiously on her lover, and remarking hia fixed eyae aad marble like countenance, exclaimed sritb a buret of wild joy— •No, Yanez, the executioner ahnll notrar touch i he living.’ Then drawing from the fold* of her Irene, a poignard, the raised her arm to strike her- •elf with it, when her husband a grave, stern man, who standing behind her, had observed with alien- l ion every movoment, grasped her arm, saying i toldly, ‘You have the right to live—now that ho is d ead.’ Yanez had been poisoned that very morning with a no of those quick poisons so well known lo the f lexicon Indians and which kill almost iustantane- 0 usly. This was the Inst proof of love, which he li -ai received from Dolorez, His corpse was nev- e rtholesscarried upon the scnffuld before Antonio, * »ho submitted to his fate with marvellous intrepid!- t y. They nny that Santa Anna, who did not leave Inin palace during the whole day, imitating Louis -SHI.—said to General Vulcncia, pointing to the 8 ky, dark with fullering clouds— ‘Our dear Yanez will have unpleasant weather to- die in.’ By moans of, a consider i ble sum, Dona Dolorez 0 1 otained from (ho nrchbishop permission lo hove the hi jdy of Yanez buried in the garden of San Fer- in indo. The Cathedral at Seville.—The correspon dent of the New Haven Heruld gives the follow, ii ig description : Tun wiioiu uHiuuurui iius eigmy-iwu uiiuis. xrp- wrards of eighty priests, besides attendants, minis, t ers in the vurious ceremonies. It is said that five hundred masses are said here every day ; the an nual consumption of wine is fifteen hundred arro* has (the arrohas is twenty-five pounds) oil eight hundred, and wax one thousand. The floor is of marble mosaic work: There ore eighty windows of fine stained glass, the work of a Flemish artist, each of which cost one thousnnd ducats. A strong tall box wns opened containing a circular temple inado entirely of silver, the lower story of one or- der of architecture, tlie second another, and the third and last still another. It looked like tlirce temples, one above the other; its weight was thir teen hundred pounds. It is used but once a year, then in the procession of “Corpus Christi j” twen- ; ty-four men, with a relay of the same number, bear it on their shoulders. At the opposite end of the roam was a long box, resting on a marble basei about three feet high. On opening the doors we beheld through glass a profusion of gold and pro clous gems; I wns struck with the brilliancy ol two things mndo of solid gold, each about one foot i high, with a broad bottom to stand on; Their tops j terminated in a cross with a circle of rays ; in the ■j centre of the cross were oval glasses—each had itwo; between these glasses it placed tlie host, and i then it ira placed in the temple just described, and I carried in t.he procession of “Corpus Christthey were also ornamented with diamonds and other pre cious si<iii-es. 1 judged them worth at least fifty Ihousund dollars. The next lump of gold was a plain cro is, about fourteen inches high ; in four places we ro inserted pieces of the real cross oil which ou.'Saviour suffered—(so said our guide.) This to o was ornamented with the rarest gems. The ne xt was a sort of cross with a platform near the botlo rn and underneath tlie cross-piece a cano py ; on t his platform stood four figures, hand in hand, :fo rming a circle. This was about a fool high, and. made from tho first gold brought from South A merica hy Columbus. I noticed throe other things which I will de ■cribo : Oik i is an exquisitely formeed cup of gold, ele gantly c based, in the shape of the nautilus shell— would h old about a pint. This is used once a year tin adirii aislering the sacrament to the Governor, AlcahJa , and other public functionaries of Seville ( Theoi I lor we ro two keys formed of gold and orna memo d with jewels. The last thing shown us here was a t horn from the crown which our Saviour wore at his mock trial. We passed on to the ex aniinn ti on of the contents of two huge cases, con . tablin' • the crown of Spain on a lurge scale—sev i oral sa i ms, largo as life—one dozen candlesticks ■ about ft iur feet high. I lifted one of them—should think it would weigh about 50 pounds. Another dozen i if candlesticks about six feet a high, all of silver. Rel.ig (ion in the Navt.—A work of reformation is very obviously and extensively tuking place amungt t all classes of seamen, and rapidly eleva ting the i n to a high rank of respectability among men, i In addition to the cheering tidings of this 'Charactt ir, which have lately reached us fruin abroad —from t he U- S. ship Cumberland, the flag ship on tlie Mei iiterranean station, and others,—a friend has just given us information of an interesting scene wli dch bus transpired last Sabbath at the Na va! Hosp ilal in East Brooklyn. A chapel for the regL'Iar v rorship of God has been recently fitted up in that sp acinus establishment, by order of the Sec retary of the Navy, ou tlie application of Dr. Rus- chetio ege r, the present distinguished Surgeon of the H ospi tal ; and last Subbath it was very solemn ly ded icat ed to the Most High, by appropriating services ii ► connection with a sermon hy the Rev. C. S. Ste wart, chapluin in the Navy, from the text, ‘‘ In a II places where I record my namo, I will come u nto thee, and I will bless thee.” The ordi nance o I 1 taplism was then administered, on con fession of fuilh, to three seamen in the service ; who wit.h t iiree others, also in tho navy, made a public prefe ssion of religion, and joined with a few Christian fi tends present, in Sacramental Commu- nion, admin. : slercd by Mr. Stewart, assisted by the Rev. Ben not t of tho Brooklyn Bethel, who has for many yea,rs ( ;iveu voluntary attendance in religious services ait th e Hospitul. An eloquen .1 address was also mado on the occa sion by Cu pt. Elliott, of the “Sailors’ Home” in this city, Ce pt ains Hudson and Gedney, and other officers wer e p resent, besides a crowded attendance of man-of-a ui ’s men, connected with the Hospital and from the > N'orth Carolina and the Navy Yard, and the exer cis es throughout are said lo have been solemnly attt >cli ng and interesting. In connect ion with these facts we mnr state that in addition to the Mariner’s Church in Roosvelt st. which has be en established for many years, four houses of worsh ip for seamen have been opened the last year; alt of which are well attendod, and not unfrequent ly, as we understand was the case last Sabbath, c rot vdbd to overflowing.” Usakitta Starr. The following ie a laughable account of tha mb' fortunes that hotel an American gentleman upon a visit to a lady in Paris, lo whom he bore letters of introduction. After relating a number of ludicrous and amusing mistakes upon his entrance into the presence of the lady, he thus proceeds: The ordinary routine of a French dinner com menced. A regular seiios of servants appeared each instant at our elbows, inviting us to partake of a ihousund diflerent kinds of wine, under strings of names which i no more understood thun I un derstood their composition, or they did my gauche- ries- Resolute to avoid all further opportunities for displaying inv predominant trait, 1 sat in the most obstinate silence, saying out lo everything that was offered to me, aud eating with the most devoted application, till my fuir neighbor, tired with my taciturnity aud her own, at length herself began conversation by inquiring how I was pleased with (he opera. I was just raising a large morsel of po tato to my mouth, und in order to reply as quickly s possible, I hastily thrust it in, intending lo swat, low it hastily. Heavens ! It was as hot as burn, ing lava. What could I do ? Tho lady’s eyes were fixed upon me, waiting a reply to her question,— But my mouth was in flame, i rolled tho burning morsel hither nnd thither, rocking my lieud from had flxed on her, were strained from their sockets. She regarded my grimaces, of the case of which she was ignorant, with an oxpressionof ainusemont and surprise, at which I can laugh now when 1 think of it. Monsieur is ill!” at length she gently nnd in anxious tone inquired ; I could bear no more. My mouth was flaying with intoloruhle pain ; so quiet, ly abandoning the point, I opened it lo the utmost and out dropped the infernal brand upon my plule. Not the slighost tondency lo risibility ruffled tlie mperlurable politeness of (he lady. She soothing ly condoled with mo on my misfortune, then grad- ally led the conversation too variety of topics, still exerting tho magic influence tliAl true polite ness always exercises, and 1 began to forget even my own blunders. Gradually my choeks burned less painfully, and I could join in the conversation without the fear that every word I uttored shared the fate of tlie action 1 attempted; I even ventur ed to hope ; nay to congratulate myself, that the catalogue of calamities was completed for the day. “Let no man call himself happy before death," said Solon, and he said wisely. The Ides of March were not yet over. Before us stood a dish of cau liflower, nicely done in butter. This 1 naturally enough took for a custard pudding, which it suffic iently rosembled. Unfortunately my vocabulary was not extensive enough to embrace all the techni calities of the table, and when my fair neighbor in quired if 1 was fond of corjleur, I verily took it lo he the French for custard pudding, and so high was my panegyric ofit that my plate was bountifully laden with it. Alas, one single mouthful was enough to dispel my illusion. Would to Heaven that the chorjteur had vanish ed with it. But that remained bodily, and as I gazed dospondingly on the large mass that loomed almost as large as burning Vesuvius, my heart died within me. Ashamed to confess my mistake although I could as readily have swallowed an equal quantity of soft soap. I struggled on man fully against tlie mountainous heap at its base—and shutting my eyes and opening my mouth lo inhale as large masses as I could without slopping to taste it. But my stomach soon began intelligibly enough to intimate its intention to admit no more of this nauseous strauge beneath ils roof,if not even expell ing that which had gained an unwolcome admis sion. The seriousness of the task I had undertaken, and the resolution necessary to execute it, had giv en an earnestness and rapidity to my exertions which appetite could not have inspired, when my plate, having got somewhat over the edge of the ta ble, upon my leaning forward tilted up, and down slid the disgusting mass into my lap. My hanker- chief, unable to bear so weighty a load, bent under in its turn, and a great portion of it landed safely in my hat. The plate righted itself—as 1 raised my person aud saw as I glanced my eye around the ta ble (hat no one had noticed my disaster, I inward'y congratulated myselftlmt the nauseous deception was so happily disposed of. Resolved not to be detected, I instantly rolled my Imnkerchief together, with ils remaining contents, and whipped it into my pocket. The dinner table was at length deserted for the drawing room, where coffee and liquors wero serv ed round. Meantime Iliad sought out what I coi a d. ered a tafe hiding place for my hat, beneath a chair in the dining room, for 1 daro not carry it any lon ger in my baud, having first thrown a moisel of pa per to hide the cauliflower, should any ono chance, in seeking for his own hat,tc look into mine. On my return to the drawing room, I chanced to be again seated by the lady by whom I hnd sat at the table. Our conversation was resumed, and we were in the midst ofan animated discussion, when a huge spider wus seen running up her arm. “Take it off—take it off," she ejaculated in a terrified voice. I was always afraid of spiders; so, to avoid touch ing hint with my hand,I caught my pocket handker chief from my pocket, and clapped it at once upon the miscreant, who was already mounting her tem ple with rapid strides.—Gracious heavens ! I had forgotten the cauliflower, which was now plastered aver her face like an emollient pouLlico, fairly kill ing the spider, and blinding an eye of the lady— while little streamlets of soft butter glided gently down hor neck and bosom. “Mon dieu ! Mon dieu!” exclaimod (he aston ished fair. broke «Sb there be rood, the *oA hi* eheeka, UtodUgbia mvttaebae, ear* aoa>«h gat that apeetteie. Vmg the Coloaeua, aad*a»op r forcibly cloaed. Mm raw' dy and dripping cauliflower ant pore I raid no longer, bet attainta hia bat.Lnriigl from the hooae, jumped Into a Hwerar and arrfe- ed aafely home; heartily reaolrod that, lo mjr lat- eat hour, I would never again deliver a Utter of in troduction. Curious Diskov bry.—A highly curious and in teresting discovery , not ouly to geologists, but oth ers likewise, ban j ust been made nt the Pentwyn iron works, neat Ptintypool. While tlie workmen engaged in those wi irks, and occupied in one of (lie mine levels, were proceding with their operations, they met with a fossil treeofvery considerable size. It was found in an e reel position and perpendicular to the plane of it.rati'.fication. The circumference at the base, immec'iu tely above the point of junction with the root is slx led and from thenco it dimin- ishes to four feet, .in a height of about five feet. So it is.—Wiia'o a person doesn’t stand in need of friends they trt> as pleuty as musquitoes in the latter part of August; but when he really waot* thorn, they are aa scarce a* grasshoppers in Janua ry. Wound a porposc and hia comrades are aura to attack hun; So it ia with a man in misfortune ; they needn’t expect any mercy from a fellow man. ‘Hit him again, b* hac no business to be a bora*.’ ‘•Mon dieu f” was re-echoed from every person’s mouth. “Have you cut your hand I” inquired one. “No 7 no !—the spider—monsieur is killing the spider.” “Whata quantity of entrails !” ejaculated an as tonished Frenchman, unconsciously to himself. Well might he be astonished ; the spray of the execrable vegetable had spattered her dress from head to foot; For mysolf, tho moment the accident occured, I had mechanically returned my handker chief to my pocket, but its contents remained. “What a monster most it have been,” observed a young lady, as she helped to reliove my victim from her cruel situation, “I declare I should think it had been living on cauliflower.” At that moment I felt some one touch me ; and on turning, 1 sow my companion who had come with me. “Look at your pantaloons,” he whispered. Already half dead with the confusion and disas ter I had caused, I cast my eyes upon my once whito dress, nnd saw at a glance the horrible extent of my dilemma. I hnd been tilling on the futal pocket, and had crushed out the liquid butter, and the soft, paste like vegetable which had bedaubed and dripped down them, till it seemed a* if it were actually dissolving my pantaloons. Darling from tha spot, I sprang to the place where 1 had left my hat; but before I could reach it a sodden storm of wrath was beard at tb* door. “Sacra ! beta! sacra I therein lha firat syllable baiu mad* to roll like a watchman’s mill*, min- gled with another epithet and name that ae engrjr M r. Editor,—Being one of your many reader*, I take the liberty to respond to your questions ou “Night feeding,” in the Ploughman of Nbv. bOtfi. Hope others may do Iba same if thoy rheas. Question First—“Is it proper to dUurb outlie that have not labored through tho dep, by giviag tliem food late at night 7” 1 think Jt is not. fi dooa not appear to be sound praotie* to rouao cattle from slumber latest night in order toibedtbnnsifbba possible to nttend to their oomfort nnd wants atan earlier hour. A cow differs from the hone, h» that site can mnsticale and swallow her topper quicker, leaving a part lo lha alter performaace of rumination. Comparatively speaking she can eat Iter meal nearly as quick aa a imd $ so that she may swallow her supper early—which ahe will never fail to do if left to go u> bod early Lettko “notion” run*. Question Second.—“If it is proper lo wake ap cattle late at night and giva them food, is it not equally proper to wake up pigs that ara faltiag aad to feed them in the night 7" Yea. oo doubt, and the whole posse of domaMia animals that may chauce to inhabit the farm yard. If it is proper in the one case, it must also bo in the other- But such a practice does not prevail, h ie the custom with our best formers, so far M my boowledge ex tends. to feed cattle aarly at night nnd aarly in the morning ; and lo be regular aa possible in quantity and quality of tha food given—not n feast to-day nnd a fetut to morrow. And then ehottid alto be fed statedly—punotually aa posstbln. Much more might be said on this subject, if ne cessary. It is presumed no labored arguotent is required to settle this point. II it ia healthy far man to take Ills supper early and to gooarly to bod and rite with the sun or before, it mutt also be equally so for cattle. If any ona baa uighl to say to tbs con trary let us hear him. The reflecting, prudent fbrmer look* d-fly to th* health and comfort of all hie domestic aaimala— secs that each has hia due portion of keep in due season. A beast that ia worth beeping at ell, is worth keeping well. What a noble sight to look upon, Ie ■ good, smooth lieired stock of cattle—happy in themselves, being well and duly supplied with ill the necessary moans of health and comfort i Respectfully, B. F. W. Butters Vale, Doc. 37,1844.—Ploughman. Presksvation or Pumpkins.— 1 This fell lot eve ry farmer gather aa many of hi*, beat matured pumpkins as will suffice to supply bia stock with a mess daily through the winter, aad deposits them carefully in a close and secure repertory, accord ing to the following succinct and definite rules: 1st, lay a siratuoi of butts of straw from the thrashing floor, o-a foot thick; un this stratum deposita an other of pumpkins, and cover them carefully with another layer of straw, and so to the end of your heap, Jn (his way, pumpkiua may be preserved most of the year, aa street and freah aa when taken from the field* Try it, friends, and nnt leave every thing to be discovered by accident, ns ia the case with experiments in agrieulture generally. Value or txb Sugar Bbbt.—Mr. A. C. Holt, in the Detroit Farmer, give* the following method of obtaining vinegar from the sugar beet.— “The last season 1 grated about a bushel of the sugar beet to a fine pulp, and pressed the juice there, from, of which l obtained six gallons, 1 put the same in a vinegar barrel, which wee entirely empty,. and in less than two weeks I had e* good end as- pleasent vinegar, aa I ever obtained from cider, and was equally as strong and clear,’' Hints to Fahmers—We do not know whether or not the following plan has been adopted by many farmers, hut there can be no barm in calling their attention to the circumatane*. A farmer in o neighborhood has for some time past, put garlic in the bottom of the grain stacks, and since he hat adopted this plan, has never been troubled with ver min. Before adopting this plan, on taking down a stack of grain, he ana his assistant! never killed less titan from 15 to 20 rati, nnd above 100 mice. This is a very simple, cheap and effective method of preserving grain in atackf. A practical Farmer inform* the Hartford Time 1 that in taking up a fence that had been aet 14 years, he noticed that soma of the post* remained nearly sound, while others were rotted off at the bottom. On looking for the cause, ho found that those posts that ware aet limb part down, or inverted from the way they grew, were sound. Those that were set as they grew were rotted *ff- This fact is worthy the attention of all farmers. Heavy Yield of Wheat.—Mr. Jaa: M. Under- wood of the town of Middlesex, in this county, cut 62 bushels and 60 pounds of wheat upon one acre of ground, selected from about thirty, which he thinks will yield nearly the ram* amount.—Pan- syleania Yankee Democrat. Cooking Food for Swinb Dr-Lee, in an ar ticle on pork making in the last N. E. Farmer. »nys :—‘‘From some experiments of my own, nud considerable research into the published result*of tho experience of others, I am satisfied that ten bushels of boiled potatoes, thoroughly mixed with the pudding that can be made from threo bushel* of potatoes, and six bushels of corn or peas (ed raw.” Large Hog.—Mr. Jedediah Ealaa of North Ber wick slaughtered a hog, a few days since, twelve months old, which weighed 604 pounds.—Saco Democrat. A Wisu.—“I wish you bad been Eve,” aaid an urchin to an old maid who was proverbial for her meanness. “ Why so f’ “Because,” said he,“you would have eaten all the apple, instead of dividina with Adam.” * A Shocking Bros*—The Milton, (No. Ca.) Chronicle of the 16th inst. rays (—“Turner John son, of Orange, was shockingly murdered by bf* daughter, (about 12 year* of aaej oo the night of the flth inst. Report rays that Johnson wool heme intoxicated—found no ono about but Ihia little girl, threatened to kill her if she didn’t kill him—laid himself down before the fire, whereupon hia daugh ter approached him, ex* ie hand, aad, with on* blow, split hie skull open! The daughter baa been committdd to jail. This horrid deed may excite the surprise of some of our reader*, hut oothlac surprise* ua now-o-days.” . Tom Thumb, in ana war to > qoeotlaa by tha mod. ical geutlamen of York, bow ho slap! ol eight, re- p^-Ietoaptoff quen pot, •ofwadvUi akte-