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Jfantilufisitflr PUBLISHED BY BENJAMIN G. LIDDON. T. A. BURKE, EDITOR. MADISON, GEORGIA : SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1856. Our Weekly Chut, With Reader* aiul Correspondents. “Look out for showers” says our ’jai ler kirered Grier’s Almanac. So we did, for a long time, very patiently, and Satur day, Sunday and Monday we are glad to say they came, and were most welcome. It was really pleasant to see the hungry earth drink in the moistnre—and to notice bow much refreshed every kind of vegeta tion was afterwards. “Bless God for pleasant weather,” sings General Morris in one of his ballad*. So wo do, and we bless him for such welcome showers as we have just had. The drooping hopes of the farmers aro revived, tho prospect of fine crops is onco moro in the ascendant, and all Nature looks as bright and beautiful as a May morning. Let ns be thankful to Him who giveth “tho early and tho latter rain,” and bestoweth on us “every good thing in its season.” Speaking of Grier’s Almanac, re minds us of an anecdote, which was told long ago on that great almanac maker. — Traveling on horseback one day from Ids homo in Butts county to Milledgevilh be stopped at a house on the road-side to get his dinner and liavo his horse fed. — After dinner he called for his horse, in tending to reach Millodgoville that night. Tho animal was brought out by a red headed urchin, to whom t he traveler tossed a “sevenpence” as he seated himself in the saddle. “You’re gwine to get wot, io-dny, Sir,” said the boy looking up into his face, and holding the coin between his thumb and finger. “Nonsense,” said Grier, as he took a survey of tho horizon, “ there is scarcely a sign of a cloud. — You’re mistaken this time, my lad; so good day.” Sure enough, before ho lmd traveled ten miles, ho was overtaken by a drench ingrain and thoroughly soaked. Tho almanac maker was out-gene ruled that time and determined to see the boy on his re turn and inquire into tho matter. Two or three days afterwards he stopped at tho same house for dinner, and gave his horse to the weather-wise boy. “IVell, Sir,” said the little fellow, with a grin, as ho recognised Grier, “you see I was right for onetime.” “You were,” replied Grier, “and hero is a quarter, on condition you tell me how you knew it would rain.” — “Why, you see, Sir,” was the answer, “Wo’vogot one of Grier’s Alnmnncs in our house and he, tells such awful lies that I always knows it’ll rain when ho says it won’t and won’t rain when he says it will. I’d looked at it that day, before you come, and it said ‘ fair weather—no rain,’ and I know’d then we’d have rain before night. Tlmt’s the way I know’d, Sir.” -—Here is another Almanac anecdote, which will ho new to most of our readers, ns it was published many years ago. A Yankoe farmer, not the most acute in the world, looking over his almanac one day •aw the words “ Barnstable Thunder ” op posite a certain day of the month. Hav ing great confidence in the Almanac maker's prognostications of the weather, and being withal somewhat reverential, he was solemnly impressed with the belief that thero would be thunder of a most ex traordinary character, and so lie resolved to keep tho day sacred. lie dressed him self in his best clothes and waited in great suspense for the extraordinary phenome non, lint hearing one of hist neighbors threshing, he gave him a call at his barn. “ Why, how do you dare to work on such a day?" “ What should hinder my work ing, pray ?” asked Ids neighbor. “Why, didn’t you know that this was the day set for Barnstable Thunder?" “No, I heard nothing übout it.” ““Well, its in tho Al manac, you may bo certain.” The thresh er laid by his flail. But on carefully ex amining the Almanac, it was found that the word “Barnstable” was in Roman letters, and not be read with the following word thunder , in italics, but with “ Court sctß” in the same type below. Miss Clara Kean gave a Concert in our town on Tuesday evening last, assis ted by Mr. Camocns. Miss Kean has a tine voico and sings well. One or two jieiccs were sung w ith most exquisite ef fect —among others the beautiful cavatina from Ernani: ‘ Ernani, fly with me,’ and * I atn a merry Zingnra,' from Crown Dia monds. Indeed all her solos were good, but the duetts were horrid. She could as well harmonise with an asthmatic hand organ ns with Mr Camocns. llis voice is certainly very base —’though we must do him the justice to say that lie sings “ As I now view these scenes so charming,” and Russel's song of “the Maniac" very well indeed. He is a good pianist. Speaking of Concerts, we desire to suggest that there arc some people who go to them for the purpose of listening to flip music. To all such the eternal clatter kept up at the last two concerts in this place must be (and is, we know from ex perience,) very trying. Harper’s Maga zine for June has a good artiele on this subject. Here is an e*tract: “Margaret Fuller once saf at a Concert pear a party of boys and girls, who laughed and talked the whole evening. Upon poniiog out she beckoned to one of the in iiiiii iistt girls, who left her friends and came to ward her. ‘Young woman,’ said Miss Fuller, ‘I hope you may never lose so much pleasure as you have made others lose to uight by your idle talking.’ “It was a severe lesson; but who that goes to public places docs not know how necessary sucli a lessou is? We have seen royal princes hissed in their own realms for coming late to concerts mid disturbing the audience. What do you suppose would be dono to anybody who should, chatter at a concert of the Conservatoire at Paris, or of the Sing-Akadamie in Ber lin?” Now, we say all this in no unkind spirit. Those gay persons who annoyed every body in the Town Hall, this week and last, did it from thoughtlessness, and we trust and believe will not be guilty of such conduct again. Persons visiting Oxford will find always at the Covington depot a pleasant and commodious hack, which will convey them to tho village in good time and con dition. Mr. Livingston, the owner, is a very estimable gentleman, and will do full justico to all who patronize him. “You did me,” writes our esteemed friend, Miss C. W. Barber, “the other day, the honor of soliciting for'your col umns a contribution now and then. The following lines written u year or two ago, by a member of the Georgia legislature, and sent to his wife, so far exceed in beau ty cf diction and eloquence of thought, any thing that I can pen, that I feel confi dent you will be glad to publish them in luo of an article from my portfolio. I hope the author will pardon the liberty thus taken with his effusions, should this chance to meet Lis eye." to sit wins On her affecting to fed hurt at being called an old wife. The World grows older every day, And Change its footprints murks on all; Empires and Kingdoms pass aivay, And mightiest structures crumbling fall; But there is one thing, ’inidlhc w aste, Through age and Change doth ever be Grcc.ter and fresher for the Past, — And that is tills heart’s love fur thee. My friends, like me, are getting gray, And feebler down Life’s vale we go; Tho wasting touch of slow Decay Our persons daily plainer show; But, if thy furm that touch bath known, / do not know, /cannot sec; The love which made thee all its own, Confers eternal youth on thee. And if, when all this world is past, And the great Life beyond begun, This only ray from Heaven may Inst And through Eternal Ages run, From God’s own throne I would lulitnto This love so dear on Earth to mo. And ’mid that all perennial bloom, Would meet an angel therein thee, The Treaty of Peace—Maritime Law, Our exchanges contain the Treaty of Peace, lately' concluded in Europe. It is very long, and ns we liavo already given quite a full and correct synopsis of it, (in our last issue) wo deem it useless to spread it in full before our readers. That portion of it, however, which contains the declara tion of the parties in regard to Maritime Law, is important to this country, and wo give it in full : Declaration respecting Maritime Law, signed by the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria, Prance, Prussia, Russia , Sardinia, ansi Tur key, assembled in Congress at l'aris, April 10, 1856. “ Tito Plenipotentiaries who signed the treaty ot Paris of the 30tli of March, 18oG, assembled in conference, considering— “ That maritime law, in time of war, lias long been tho subject of deplorable dis putes : “That tho uncertainty'of the law, and of the duties iu such a matter, gives rise to difference's of opinion between neutrals and beligerents, which may occasion seri ous difficulties, and even conflicts. “That it is consequently advantageous to establish a uniform doctrine on so im portant a point. “That the plenipotentiaries, assembled in Congress at Paris, cannot better re spond to the intentions by which' their governments arc animated, than by seek ing to introduce into international rela tions fixed principles in this respect. “The above mentioned plenipotentia ries, being duly authorized, resolved to concoct among themselves ns to means of attaining this object; and having come to an agreement, have adopted the following solemn declarations: “1. Privateering is and remains abol ished. “2. The neutral flag covers enemy’s goods, with the exception of contraband of war. “3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy’s flag. “4. Blockades in order to be binding must be effective, that is to say, main tained by’ a force sufficient really to pre vent access to the coast of the enemy. “The Governments of the undersigned plenipotentiaries engage to bring the pre sent declaration to the knowledge of the States which have not taken part in the congress of Paris, and to invite them to accede to it. “Convinced that the maxims which they now proclaim, cannot but be received with gratitude by tho whole world, the undersigned plenipotentiaries doubt not that the efforts of their governments to obtain the general adoption thereof will be crowned with full success. “The present declaration is not and shall not be binding, except between those powers who have acceded or shall accede to it.” Done at Paris, the l«th of April, 1856, and signed by the different delegates. The principles enunciated in the second and third of the articles above quoted are not new. They have been the settled pol licyr of this country for years—indeed, al most, if not quite, since the formation of our Government. The refusal of England to recognise the rights of neutrals was one of the causes which led to the war of 1812. England lias heretofore been the only one of the European nations unwilling to meet us on tin sgronnd—so unquestionably de manded by the commonest rights of hu manity and civilization. In the lieginning of the wnr with Russia, which lias just < terminated, she so far changed her policy as to dealurc a willingness “for the pre sent to waive a part of the b.ligerant j rights appertaining to her by the law ol nations” in other words she was willing to give up her right to seize enemy’s neu tral goods, not contraband of war, on neu tral vessels; to seize neutral goods, not I contraband of war, on enemy’s vessels I and the issuing of letters ot marque to privateers. In 1812 she would not recog ! uise this principle because it was not her interest to do so, hut now the case is dif ferent—her necessities compel her to it, and we may hereafter take it for granted that the American principle that a neutral flag gives neutrality to the cargo and free ships make free goods, is the doctrine of the world. The principle set forth iu the next arti ele—that there must be a sufficient power to enforce a blockade —lias also been the doctrine of this country, since tiie es tablishment of our government. At least two of our Secretaries of State, Mr. Marshall and Mr. Madison, assumed it in their instructions to Ministers. It was not, however, recognised either in Eng land or Franco, as late us tho year 1800, when the British Government, under Mr. Fox’s administration, declared the coast of the Continent, from Elba to Brest in a state of blockade, and the French Govern ment, the same year, returned the compli ment by the celebrated Berlin decree, blockading the entire British isles. The American doctrine, according to this con ference, is no v the law of nations. Whether this Government will adopt the doctrine of the first article, is a ques tion not yet settled. An effort was made in the early history of this country, to have all privateering declared illegal by tho law of nations. Even before the adoption of the Federal Constitution, Poet. Franklin desired to suppress priva teering by law, and in 1785, it was ex pressly stipulated in the treaty between this Government and Prussia that neither party should, in ease of a war, “grant commission to any private armed vessel to attack the commerce of tho other.”— Kent and Wheaton in their works on in ternational law both condemn the prac tice as inhuman and unworthy of the age. This government lias ever he. li disposed to discourage privateering -and lias passed stringent laws to prohibit the fitting out of private armed vessels in our limits to bo used against nations with whom we are at pence, and to prevent such vessels from entering our ports with their prizes, and this too when tho law of nations re quired no such regulations. But for this law, hundreds of our citizens would have entered into the service of Russia during the late war, and England would have been annoyed not a little. But whether our people are ready to follow England and her eon seres in tho Kangaroo leap which they have lately taken, is yet to be determined. While we tire disposed to let alone those who are friendly to ns, we are not willing to pledge ourselves to give our enemies all the advantages in n war, and this we should do if we admit this doctrine of abolishing privateering between nations beiigerent. With a navy so much dispro portioned to tiiose of England and France, and a commercial marine so much more extensive, is it politic for r.s to abandon this strong arm of defence? We think not. England is wonderfully magnanimous and humane now, when it is her interest to be so, but we are not so blind in this country, but that we can see through her. There are some hopes of a war between us, and, as she claims to he “ Mistress of the Seas,’’ she would find it very convenient now to rule out all private armed vessels. May be we will agree to it. We shall see. At any rate, wo shall take a little time to think the matter over. We take it all back. Two or three weeks ago, we published a complimentary notice of Life Illustrated, a weekly newspaper, published in New York by Messrs. Fowler & Wells. We hud been reading the paper for more than a year, mid having seen nothing in its columns to the contrary, supposed it. safe to recommend it to Southern readers. But we were mistaken. A Fowler aboli tion sheet is not published—and \vc here by recall the good opinion expressed of it. The number, bearing date May 17, is lite rally reeking with matter, betraying its enmity to the South. Under the head of “Spirit of tho Anniversaries,” wo are treated with what the editor denounces an “amusing play upon a well known ballad,” delivered at a meeting of the Anti- Slavery society, by that pink of abolition theology, Theodore Parker. The lieter tnd gentleman facetiously calls Kansas and Nebraska “ the Children of the Wood.” The mother ot “these pretty babes ” hails from the New England States, and so, by tlie-by, does the father, llow his rever ence makes it out, we don’t exactly see. The President of the United States is the cruel uncle” who bargains with “two ruffians strong ” —Democrat and Whig— one of whom kills the other and then tries to kill the babes. This lie fails to do.— “Ilie Northern mother rises from the grave: tho Northern father is not dead, but only sleeping with a Sharp’s rifle for a pillow, who knows but be, too, will rise and execute his own will?” May bo he will, Mr. Parker. Let him try it. We ruffians of the South have no objection to hte trying it on a spell. But we have no idea of criticising Mr. Parker's “amusing play’ upon a well known ballad.” One object is to show the spirit of this family journal. The editor concludes his article by telling us that “by’far the most brilliant speeches of the week were made at the Anti-Slavery meetings.” One more extract from this journal and we are done with if, for all time wo hope: “A good joke of our Minister at Paris, Mr. Mason, has come over hero. lie was at a court ball lately at the Tnilerics, and his eye happened to light on the Cliarge d'Affairesof Solouque in France, a fine looking black. Someone, observing his steady gaze, said : ‘“ Well, Mr. Mason, what do yon think of yonder blackee in his embroidered coat?’ “ ‘Think,’ replied Mr. Mason, still re garding the negro with the eye of a con noisseur, ‘ why, clothes and all, I think that fellow is worth a thousand dollars.”’ “ Perhaps,” says Life Illustrated , “the story is true; and if it be, it only proves that our Republic is represented at a for eign court by a brute and a blackguard.” Does it? Wo think differently. It proves Mr. Mason to be a sensible, calcu lating American, who took the true Amer ican view of the matter. The chances are, however, that lie was mistaken, for we don’t believe Solonque’s Minister, nor any other free negro, to be worth a thousand dollars. And now we are done with Life Illus trated. If we have, by our previous no tice of it, betrayed any one into subscrib ing for it, we beg pardon, and hereby warn all Southerners to beware of it, as an incendiary publication. For the Family Visitor. Bonnets versus Hats. Mu. Bt KKi: - I am no poet— have never ! yet been able to mount the Parnassian I steed and soar into tho realms of fancy. ' I n'tii forced to content myself with an occasional ride on a gentler animal, and in a mundane sphere. Your correspondent, I Bob Don’t-ciirc-a Cent, lias the advantage of me—w hile I mil hobbling mid balling in ! my poor pionicni way, lie Strikes off on : bis ianey steed and leaves me among the poor mortals, who, like myself, aro com pelled to do tilings in a common wav. W.-11, you know the old couplet: “ Some sulks can i .t be a pact, So n.orcVi a .beep cm be a ge-jt.” An l so it's my misfortune, rather than my fault. Boh doubtless thinks be lias vanquished me, but lie hasn’t. True, it is very trying to tiie u eves of a lone unmarried female, to he su jeeted to such furious onslaughts as his, and I would not again venture be fore your readers, but to show you that 1 an not entirely gone, and to relieve Bob’s horrible suspense. It would scarcely lie a source of endless misery to him to know that lie had caused tho destruction of n “ fay re lady e.” But, be easy, Bob, I mil not dead—only scared badly. Bob says: “ I never thought it worth my while to emanate a sonnet Upon n thing so near to nothing ns a lady's bonnet.” St> Hob “emanate?* sonnets 1 ’ sometimes, docs lie? The one in question which lie has, at length “ thought it worth while to emanate” about the bonnets, must he re garded, we suppose, as an especial favor. It was certainly a great condescension in him to string his Imrp to so contemptible a thing. I trust that lie may, when lie emanates another, have a more inspiring subject. But to the matter in dispute. Bob gives but one reason for wearing his hat caved-,n, and that 1 consider a very’ poor one. I should think, Bob, if your sweet heart or wife were to give you such a lick as to mnsli in your hat, you would he very apt to straighten it out as soon as possible, in order to remove from the eyes of tho world all traces of such a catastrophe. Bob seems to liavo great fears of the broomstick. It may be that ho really de serves such treatment at the hands of his lady friends. 1 liavo heard of such in stances. It lie or any other gentleman were to wear his hat into the parlor when lie went to call on a lady, lie would deserve to have his head as well as his hat mashed. But Bub's reason, in my opinion, is not the correct one. 1 imagine that these lints arc sometimes used for carrying something beside heads. 1 was walking down the street, a few days since, and saw a young man describing a very croak ed line on tiie side walk just before me. As I passed olio of the stores, before which, lor a rarity, quite a number of young gentlemen were standing, I heard one of them say: “Bricks iu his hat.” He wore one of the mashed up kind, mid since then I have made up my mind that carrying bricks in them is what so much endangers their beauty. Bob’s defence ot the “bec-guins” is both novel and unanswerable. I have no dis position, Mr. Editor, to interfere with the conveniences, or lessen tho comforts, of that really unfortunate class, old bachelors, and if they have no other place for “socks, handkerchiefs,” &c., far be it from me to deprive them of their wardrobes. I have heard of men carrying their wardrobes on their backs, but never before of their being worn on tiie head. I have learned since I read Bob’s commuuication that they are made very useful to their owners, on cer tain occasions. Gentlemen start out sometimes, to bo gone several days, with neither valise nor carpet bag—their whole stoek of fix-ups in this portable wardrobe —and I have heard of more Hum one who has traveled extensively, and carried not only wearing apparel hot shaving utensils in the hat. Bob seems to entertain considerable fear lest our brains should exude from an orifice made by a pin’s point. Now, Bob, that is cruel; arid to say the least, nngal lant. It lias been said, “the true mastery is of the mind," and in all ages homage has been paid to snpenority of intellect. Woman has in nil civilized countries re ceived tiie universal homage of great and little men. Don’t tell me it is a flattery paid to licr physical and mental weakness. Men do not respect and adore weakness of intellect —on tiie contrary, they despise and abuse it. It is woman’s superiority which wins this adoration. But I am off the subject. I do not tliir.k, Mr. Editor, that Bob has answered a single one of the points I made in my first article. He lias not proved that mashed-up bats are handsome, nor either the bee-gums, though I am frank to admit their usefulness. In conclusion, allow me to say to Bob, that more depends oil ids hat than he is willing to admit. “ Have a good hut—the secret of your looks Lies with the bearer ill Canadian brooks; Virtue uiuy flourish iu an old cravat, Hut :oau aud nature scorn the shocking bad hat." * PEGGIE. P. S.—“Buile Dogge” complains of weakness at tho stomach after reading about bonnets and hoop dresses. Maybe the weakness was produced by drinking bad whiskey? Written for the Visitor. Choir Singing and Church Pews. Bishop Pierce, who is not of the old Fogy school, is out severely against choirs iu churches leading tho music—and the movements somewhere in view of [Hit ting [>ews in tiie churches—both being contrary to the original plans of metlipd ism. The Bishop will not be so strenuous on l.ii points when he reads Dr. Garvin’s reply in the last Christian Advocate. — The old droning, nosey way of singing may yet be tolerated iu out of tiie way places but it will not do without scien tific attention in cities and large villages where music is considered one of the modern sciences. The present state of tilings as to [tews for families require dif ferent arrangements than were common thirty years ago. If a family is willing to pay for a comfortable pew or sent where tohaei o spittle is not spattered over the floor, or o' seen • langi a;e sc il>’>! and o i the buck or front of the scats —and where of fenders of this kind can be moved back a little—surely, no harm or evil can grow out of it. Progressive times require im provements in accordance with then*— The Bishop’is probably quite conscientious and fears innovations; but all innovations are not to he condemned because we do dot follow up old usages, many of which are better laid aside as tilings which have been—and not as things which should be. PRACTICAL. Written for the Visitor. Desecration of the Sabbath. The great diplomatic representatives of the kingdoms in Europe niado Sunday their great conference and final settlement days, using the 30tli of March and the 27th of April tor the exchange of ratifications. Both the Catholic and Protestant bibles, forbid by a strict fundamental law, the use of the Sabbath for such work. Christian ity, doccncy, respect for divine command forbids such action. These great dignita ries have disgraced themselves; and wo imagine it would not have been done in any other country except France, where the people neither fear God or keep his commandments. PRACTICAL. Pen-and-Scissoriugs. The editorial department of the Dalton Expositor lias changed hands. Its late editor, Col. William Gordon, lias retired, and is succeeded by Mr. 0. L. Barbour, re cently ofthe Atlanta Examiner Queen Victoria’s steam yacht is said to be as large as the steamship Persia A pro position will be introduced in a few days in Congress tor n recess from tiie first of July until the first of October A let ter from Constantinople says: “Omar Pasha has been married to a daughter of Hafix Pasha, a young lady not quite 15.” ....It is said the Hon. Reverdy Johnson has been secured as counsel by the friends of T. Keating, who was killed iu Washing ton by Mr. Herbert We learn that an accident occurred on the LaGrange rail road on Friday, which resulted in the death of Mr. Isaac Smith, the engineer of the train Mr. Herbert has been re leased from custody on SIO,OOO bail A Kansas Association has been formed at Petersburg, Ya Congress lias been in session nearly six mouths and lias passed, it is said, eight public bills, and very few private ones “ Poor rule that won’t work both ways,” as tiie boy said when he threw tiie rule back at his master Tiie prospect of a good sugar crop in Louisiana is very poor A bill lias passed tho Senate of Massachusetts devoting SI,OOO to experiments by Prof. Agassiz in the artificial propagation of fish The Gen eral Assemblies ofthe Presbyterian Church, both Old and New School, commenced their sessions in New York city, Thursday last Mr. Daniel Burgess, an eminent book publisher of New York city, died on Tuesday last at his residence in Brooklyn. Tiie Nashville Whig, ofthe 14th inst., says a free negro named Stratton was ar rested in that city for stealing $2,00.0 from tiie Steamer Huntsville Mrs. Napole on’s baby lias been enrolled as one of the Grenadiers of the French Imperial Guard. M e should have supposed a place in the rants of the infantry would have been inoreappropriatc. His grandmother should have an appointment among the granny dean k The largest water wheel in the world is at Troy, N. Y. Its power is equal to one thousand horses. It drives machinery which works up annually 10,000 tons of Iron into horse siioes, spikes, and various other small manufactures The President has determined to dismiss ! Mr. Crompton, the British Minister, and will carry it into effect next week A man has been arrested in Yillenow, Wal ker comity, Ga., charged with passing j counterfeit bills on the Planters’ Bank of Tennessee, ami spurious bills of the Louis iana State Bank Tp many of our rea ders it must be a great relief to know that Pulmonary 'Consumption can be perma nently cured in many cases bj - tl e Wild Cherry preparation of Dr. Wistar —that such cures have been effected is beyond a doubt Mrs. Rossiter, wife of T. P. Rossiter, the American Artist, died in Paris ou the 30th ult. She was greatly esteemed in that city Richter says: “No man can either live piously, or die righteously without a wile.” Avery wicked bachelor of our acquaintance says to this, “O, yes! sufferings and severe trials purify and chasten tho heart.”.... On Thursday 13th and lfitli inst., 234 va cant lots in Brunswick, sold for the ag gregate of $89,4-25 We are curious to know how many feet in female arithmetic go to a mile, beeanse we never met with a lady’s foot yet whose shoe was not, to say the least, “a mile too big for her.”... The Brunswick and Florida Railroad Com pany have determined to proceed on with their line of railroad without regard to the Main Trunk road The editor of the New York Dutchman, speaking of a drink he once had an occasion to indulge in, says he couldn’t tell whether it was brandy or a torchlight procession going down his throat A gold mine is said to have been discovered in Montgomery county, N. Y., and a lump weighing over 18 ounces taken out of it Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was live hundred and eighty years of age when she was married. Courage, ladies!.... Avlona is the name of anew Post Office in Putnam Cos., of which N. S. Walker isP. M One of the Irish newspapers contains an advertisement an nouncing as lost, a cloth cloak, belonging to a gentleman lined with blue The present graduating class at Cambridge numbers 105 members, being the most nu merous of any class which has hitherto been graduated lion. Thomas Butler King, was in -Jackson, Miss., the lOtli inst., o i his return home from a visit to Texas, o t business of the Southern Pacific Rail road Company According to tho Na tional Review, Louis Napoleon lias bor rowed since the coup d'etat, 1,700,000,000 francs Mr. George Shute, tho first violin player of the Campbell troupe, died suddenly at the American House, Chicago, of disease of the heart, a few days ago A Spanish danseuso was once asked where abouts in Spain she thought the women most virtuous. “Bn hi emin,” (in the cradle) she replied Franz Tides, agent tor Ole Bull, on his last visit to Richmond absconded with a large quantity of that gentleman’s funds The subscription in aid of Col. Walker, in New Orleans, is over $5,000, and daily increasing. .. .The bill to prevent the adulteration of milk by lino and imprisonment, has passed the Massachusetts House Every day af fords new proofs of the peculiar effects of Perry Davis’ Pain Killer. In cases where a disordered condition of the stomach, liver and bowels, is combined with great debility, nervous weakness, and intense melancholy, its effects are most beneficial and wonderful. It should be kept by every family The London Times is about to put in operation one of Hoc’s “six cylinder lightning presses.” The Great Thunderer lias to call in the aid of 5 ankee lightning The Washington Star states that the President having re ceived the new Minister from Nicaragua, has determined to prevent, at all hazards, the departure of armed bands from the United States lor Central America Ihe Old School General Assembly of Presbyterians have chosen Lexington, Ky., as their next place of meeting.:.. .George W nlker, Esq., of Pulaski county, is en gaged in the laudable enterprise of boring an Artesian well, with good prospects of success ... The wife ot ex-Senator Uphatn, ot Vermont, died at Moutepelicr on the Bth, aged 61 The Deficiency Bill lias been approved by the President. Its ag gregate of appropriations amounts to about $4,200,000 One hundred Polish families, mostly fanners, have settled in Kansas county, Texas, near the San Anto nio river. The Florida Rail-road. The Jacksonville News of the 10th inst. says: W e learn from the Secretary of the Florida Rail road, who has just returned from the North, that the Company has just purchased four thousand tons of h nglish Rails, sufficient to iron about forty miles of their road, the delivery of which will commence early in August, so that the Company will be enabled to open about that much of their road to the public about the first of next year. These forty miles will bring the Flor ida Railroad to or near to the point where it intersects the Central Rail-road, the grading on .which last is also beirnr puslted forward with great rapidity, so that our friends in the interior and tile middle portion of our State will soon have a choice of outlets to the Atlantic. LATEST NEWS. OSE WTiSr LATER FROST EVROPr .Arrival of the Canada. Halifax, May 21.—The British msil steam ship, Canada, Capt. Lang, has !r rived, with Liverpool dates to the i 0 tU instant. The Brokers’ Circular quotes th e Cot ton market unchanged. The sales of the week were 40,000 bales, of which speculators have taken 13,000, and ex porters took 5,000. Fair Orleans 7J Middling Orleans to Ofd.; Mobile, Ojvl.; Middling do., 6^d.; F a j r Uplands, Gfd.; Middliug do., Sales on Saturday (the day the steamer sailed) 10,000 bales. Slock on hands, 539. 000 bales. ' Flour lias advanced Gd. to I*. barrel. Corn lias improved, and prices ad vanced 6d. to 9d. quarter. There is no change in rice. Business in the manufacturing districts is unchanged. The money market is unchanged.— Consols have advanced -J, and are quoted at 92L Bell ik Son’s Circular quotes the de mand for American Stocks quiet, and the market unchanged. The new loan of £5,000,000 has been offered, and the bidding was entirely in consols. The bullion in the Bank of England had increased £83,000. Tile political news is unimportant. The English Parliament has been prorogued or continued in session. The Queen bad pardoned all offender! except those who escaped. The American clipper, Racer, is re ported to be lost, but all the passengen were saved. Arrival o 1 the Fulton. Here York, May 21.—The steamship Fulton, from Havre, has arrived, with dates to the 7th inst. Lord Clarendon’s reply to Mr. Marcj is received. He says that if the laws of the United States have been infringed, the American government is entitled to demand, and England will not hesitatu to offer, the most ample satisfaction ; but tho British government unequivocally disclaims any intention to either infringe the laws or disregard the policy of the sovereign rights of the United States. It is further stated that Crampton, the British minister, and the consuls at Nov \ ork, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, sol emnly deny the acts charged against them ; and that the United States non has the opportunity of weighing the de clarations of those four gentlemen, of unimpeachable honor and integrity, against evidence upon which no reliance ought to be placed. Lord Clarendon concludes by hoping that these explanations may prove satis factory, as it is the desire of tho British government to continue unbroken rela tions ot friendship between the two governments. Congressional. Washington, May 21.—The bill grant ing lands to aid in the construction of several railroads in the State of Alabama, has passed lire House. Ihe President is considering anew proposition for the settlement of the enlistment question, which is regarded by many as not likely to be available. The President has sent fresh orderi for troops in Kansas to sustain the laws at all hazards. \Ye are expecting to hear news of bloodshed hourly. New York, May 21—The Know Nothings and Fusionists of Connecticut have nominated James Dixon for United States Senator. The vote stood, Dixon seventy-seven, and Gillette sixteen. A etc York, May 21. —The British steamer America left Boston to day with $750,000 in specie. New York, May 21.—There is only a moderate business doing in Cotton, a though prices are unchanged. Sales today 1,200 bales. Middling Uplands lOf cents. I I lour. — There has been a decline of 8 cents per barrel to-dav. Washington, May 29.—The House of Representatives has refused leave for the introduction of a resolution for in quiring of the President in relation to the recent alleged murderous assaults in Kansas. The House passed joint resolutions authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to dispatch a vessel to Cape Verdes with provisions privately contributed. St. Louis, May 17.—The Hon. John G. Miller, a member of Congress from the fifth district of this State, died on Sunday last. St. Louts, May 16.—The committee of Congress are now in session at Leaven worth, and it is understood that when they return to Washington, Mr. Oliver will make a minority report. Gen. James Gadsden, our minister to Mexico’ was in Augusta jfon Wednesday last. He left that night for Charleston ert route for Washington.