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spp j ' 8 ’ ’ gSP w f V r |P!f Jp ’ r? _ ’ sfjfffl?*' (•»» •h. '!•■*. > .'■ ftin -'•• BPmfl witlmnt tliin sboo«. Sh<- pre- water to wine, and does nos faint nt the Wen of toddy, or, in fact, faint nt nil. She never pees that it is necessary to go out of town * for the dear children's health.’ It is true she follows the fashions; hut then it is nt severed years distance. She lms the smallest possible affection for jewelry, and makes the sweet childrens Jroclts out of her old dresses. She is never •delicate,’ and would scorn to send for the doctor because she is ‘a little low.’ She j never tells her husband when any of her friends hnvo got anew hat, or exclaims, with enthusiasm, that she saw ‘such a lovely Cashmere at Stewart’s yesterday,’ and then rhapsodize on the smallness of the price. She never opens her husband’s letters; and preserves her wedding gown with a girlish reverence. She is not mis erable if she stays in town, or does pen ance in the back parlor if she does not go out of town when the season is over. She mends stockings, and makes unexception able preserves and pickles. She does not refttso to go out with her husband because she hasn’t a good gown. She asks for money sp ringly, and would sooner ‘cut. her head off’ than make anything out of the housekeeping. She always dresses for dinner. She never hides the latch-key. She rarely flirts, and it makes her too giddy to waltz oven with a French count, -vo The model wife always sits up for her hnsbaud totho most unmatrimonial hours, and etill she does not look black or say, j ‘He’s killing her,’ though he should bring daylight in with him, or even come home : with the ‘milk.’ She hangs over the stove watching the inantei-pieec clock, alarmed by every sound, jumping up nt every cab, sleepy, her only companions during the long night the mice in the cup board or n stray black beetle, and her on Jy occupation the restless fear lest her hus band should not come home safe. She cries sometimes, but never before him ; ; Hud above all—hear it, all ye wives of j Gotham—she does not Candle Lecture him when she gets him behind tho cur tains and knows there is no escape for him 1” Such a wife, wf should say, is a treasure, and we only wish we bad one. For the consolation of our Benedict readers, we give an idea of what it takes to constitute A Model Husband. “On a week day he walks out with his ■wife, and is not afraid of a milliner s shop. He even has ‘ change' when asked for it, and never alludes to it afterward. lie is not above carrying a large brown paper parcel, or a cotton umbrella, or the clogs, or even bolding the baby in bis lap in an omnibus. Ho runs on first, to knock at the door when it is raining. He goes out side if tbe cab is full. He goes to bed first in cold weather. He will get up in the middle of the night to rock the cradle, or answer the door bell. He al'ows the mother-in-law to stop in the house. He takes wine with her, and lets her breakfast in her own room. lie eats cold meat without a murmur or pickles, and is indif ferent about pies and puddings. lhe cheese is never too strong, or the beer too small, or tbe tea too we:tk for him. “He believes in hysterics, and is melted with a tear, lie patches up a quarrel with a velvet gown, and drives away tbe sulks with a trip to Epsom, or a gig in the Park on a Sunday. He goes to church regnlarly, and takes his wife to the opera once a year. He pays for her losses at cards, and gives her all his winnings. He never flies out about his buttons, or brings home friends to supper. His clothes ojever smell of tobacco. He respects the eypiins, and never smokes in ti e house. HaiSajrves, but never secretes for himself • thy brown.’ He laces his wife’s stays, even in the month of December, and never fisksVora fire in the bedroom on the most Hr ' ISpr u v wßw ■ WTwg of unchanging constancy. Shortly after, Highland Mary died. I saw that | Bible in a collection of relics of the kind, I and read on the fly leaf a verso taken from . Leviticus, I think, about fidelity in keep -1 ing vows, written by Burns for Mary. ■ Fastened to the same leaf was'a yellow ; ringlet. To me it was something to see a j lock of Highland Mary’s hair. “ Returning to Ayr, we passed a pretty t little residence, half hidden by shrubbery, ! in which Mrs. Begg, tho only surviving sister of the poet, resides. Arresting our carriage at. tho door, I rang the hell. A pleasant looking young woman answered it. Said I, ‘Would it be agreeable to Mrs. Begg to receive a call from some travelers from the United States, who wish to pay her their respects?’ ‘O yes,’ the prompt answer was, ‘my mint is always delight ed to see visitors from America.’ She ushered us into the parlor, and after wait ing a few moments, a little bright-eyed, quick-moving old lady camo rustling in. I excused our visit on the ground of a nat ural desire to see a relative of one wlios o writings were known and admired in eve ry part of the United States. Sho was evidently pleased with the compliment, and answered, ‘l’m thinkin ye ken a groat deal about Robert in America;’ and added that sho received more calls from gentlemen from ‘the States’ than from nny other part of tho world. Sho showed us some letters of her brother, written in a hold round hand; also an original portrait, which she declared was a correct likeness. Mrs. Begg is the Jenny of ‘ Tho Cottager’s Saturday Night.” 1 But lmrk! urap come gently to the door: Jenny, who kens the meaning of the same. Tells how a ueebor lad came o’er the moor, To do some errands, and convey her haute.’ “ (>ne of our frit nds made an allusion to tho fact that site was the original of this picture. She only laughed, and answered, ‘ perhaps the less that, is said about that tho better.’” Woman. What the Sphynx was'to the ancients, says.tho New York Sr us, woman is to modern non. With hoops or without hoops, there is no making her out. A mere history of her whims would fill a li brary ;by turns the slave, tlie tyrant, the snare and the deliverer, she is at once tho hope and despair of the world. In every phase of her existence, whether ns virgin, wife, widow, mother or daughter, sho is a perfect study. Despite the immense influence woman has upon the destiny ot our race, she is, like the insect that takes the color of tho food it lives on, moulded by man, and in proportion as we degrade her, the poisoned chalice is returned to our own lips. It is not our intention to give a sermon on women, hut merely to introduce an extract from an article on Florence Night ingale, which a penred in the Irish San of this week. It is from the flowing pen of its accomplished proprietor, Mr. Mea gher, and is written with even move than his usual force and felicity. We commend it to all who hold any relations with the fair sex, or who take any interest in their welfare: “ Woman's spiritual nature is purer than that of man; but if unstrengthened by knowledge, it can only work by starts of intuitive impulse, instead of regular and direct steadiness. The animal character which marked the relations between wo man and man, no longer exists in its prim itive rudeness, but as long as man contin ues to flatter the" fancy of woman, instead of appea ing to her mind, it must still dis figure the communion of the sexes with its lingering trace. The grossness of the ani mal relation has become refined. Out ward respect is paid to woman, but no re spect is paid to her loftier nature, and no homage addressed to her intellect and mind. Hence it is, that woman does not feel the inducement to gather up her strength and shake off the cloud which hangs with dull weight upon her soul. As long as man grovels in materialism and selfishness, so long will woman trifle life away in silliness and frivolity. Woman’s By ; V K W :■ Hfy Hu HB - ' ' fjp' HP’ BPBrmrme "f BEs of her intellect— htys left to guess at the ’’ never made to prebend them—an ornament of princes, a toy, a plaything, a spoiled child, a graceful drone, a thing to be cajoled and carped nt, to be looked up to fictitiously as an angel, to be tbe better in reality, trampled on as a brute—to have her fancy tickled, her sweet sinile awoke, but never to receive the tnanly homage of an enlist -r her ' and. ifH • : " 5 ’ U X mH‘; 'm faeffof nature. little while back were fcAd fn the faded fo liage of autumn, are now hare and miked, Buve where a group of pines, or some other evergreen, varies the monotony of the scene. The wind howls around the house at night, slamming the window shutters and rattling the sashes, or enters the chimney with a moaning, growling noise, ns if out of temper because it cannot force its cheerless company upon tho pleasant little circle gathered around the comforta ble fireside. To tho young, and healthy, and strong, there is much to love in this season of the year. The clear, sharp, bright mornings brace the nerves, and cause the blood to hound with increased velocity. There is none of that enervating and depressing feeling so inevitably attendant on summer. There is a peculiar buoyancy about the whole being, and everything looks bright and beautiful because tho heart is in a proper frame to appreciate it. The moon and stars shine with an increased lustre nt night, and the sun creates a million spar kling jewels out of tho magnificent hoar frost in the morning. ’Tis a pleasant thing to bo able to wrap one’sself comfort ably in a cloak, or overcoat, or sliaw 1, and go forth to enjoy all the beauties of the winter landscape, or to sit in-doors by tho blazing lienrtb and while away the long winter evenings in tho pleasant society of those we love; but there are many to whom tho season brings no such pleasures, and when we think of these, the approach of winter bath quite a different look, and wo heave a sigh ot sympathy for those we cannot aid, and breathe a prayer to Prov idence in tlicir behalf: “ In rich men’s lmlls the file is piled, And ermine robes keep out tho weather: In poor men’s huts the fire is low, Through broken panes the keen winds blow. And old and young are cold together, “Ohl poverty is disconsolate!— Its pains are many, its foes are strong: The rich man in his jovial cheer Wishes ’twas winter through the year; The poor msn midst his wants profound, With all his little children round, Prays God that winter be not long!” Shakspearo tells us, in Ii is descript ion of Winter, of how tho parson could not he heard in the church for coughing; how red the noses of the old women became, in the cold; and that “while tho roasted crabs were hissing in the big bowl, the poor birds were brooding in tbe snow.” “ When icicles hang by tho wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom boars logs into the hall, Aad milk comes frozen home in pail; tV hen blood is nipt and ways be foul. Then nightly sings the stariug owl, ‘To when; to whoo.’ ” Wlmt these “ foul ways” were in Slink speare’s time, an English writer informs ns. There were scarcely any high-roads such as are common now; but few stage wagons, and coaches were entirely un known ; the merchants traveled from lair to fair and from town to town*with their goods, tied in huge packages and carried on horseback; and to the present day a pack-horse is the sign at many an alehouse in the old-fashioned count y towns of Eng land. In the deep, miry roads, on a dark winter’s night, could be heard the jingling of the bells, as the sound was borne along upon the wind, while they threaded their way along the narrow roads and lanes which led into the.city of London. Even up to the last half century, bad roads, and snow, and rain, and wind, and darkness, were not the only things the traveler in England had to contend with in winter, for footpads and daring highwaymen, mounted on fleet horses, lay in wait be hind the dark hedges, and near the old crosses, and guide posts, which stood" at the corners of the ancient roads; and if the traveler’s horse happened to stick fast in the miry ways, or the traveler chanced to be alone, or benighted, or to lose his mm iiiiii vi®s way, out rushed one or more of these rob bers, who usually cut short all ceremony by exclaiming, “Your money or your life.” In those days, villages were far apart, and towns were dimly lighted with little oil lamps; which stood here and there at tbe afreet corners; and these, in windy and tempestuous nights, were blown out, and sail the roads that lay edging upon the ’towns, were left in unguarded silence and darkness; for there were no mounted po lice in those days to watch the highways and protect travelers. Here is ii very beautiful description of Winter, written more than three hundred years ago, by Gawfn Douglas, on old Scotch bishop. Some of‘the “word-pic tures” are so distinctly drawn that you can almost see them, while reading, and the wliolc-is a very fine piece of prose poetry: “The fern withered on the miry fal lows, the brown moors assumed a barren mossy hue; banks, siUes of hills, and bot toms, white and bare; the cattle looked hoary from the dank weather, the wind made the red reed waver on the dyke. From the crags and the foreheads of the yellow rocks hung great icicles, in length like a spear. The soil was dusky and grey, bereft of flowers, herbs, and grass: in every holt and forest the woods were stripped of their array. Boreas blew his bugle-horn so loud, that the solitary deer withdrew to the dales; the small birds flocked to the thick briars, shunning the tempestuous blast, and changing their loud Hblsto chirpmg: tho cataracts roared; iind. i.-!r r whi-11-d :i!id bowed ■^Bsiiuii.hiig wet aril weary. ' bank's or will bloom. Warm eliiuilii . ::'r.-b* < cheer, 1 stole to l.eil, ami lay to sleep, W lieu J saw the moon shed ■(•ugh the window her t v, inkling glances TOid wintry light; I heard tho horned bird, the night-owl, shrieking horribly with crooked bill from her cavern; I heard the wild geese, with screaming cries, fly over the city through tho silent night. I was soon lulled to sleep, till the cock, clapping his wings, crowed thrice, and tho day peeped. , I waked anil saw the moon disappear, and heard tho jack daws cacklo on the roof of the house. The cranes, pr< gnosticating tempests, in a firm phalanx pierced the air, with voices sound ing liko a trumpet. The kite, perched on an ohl Irso fast by my chamber, cried la mentably, a sign of the dawning day. I rose, and half opening my window, per ceived the morning, livid, wan, and hoary; the air overwhelmed with the vapor and cloud; tho ground, stiff’, grey, ami rough; the branches rustling, the sides of the hills looking black and hard with the driving blasts; tho dew-drops congealed on the a,. , bio and rind of trees; the sharp hail stones deadly cold, and hopping on the thatch." President ’* Messngc. The annual Message of President Pierce was delivered to Congress on Tuesday the 2d. We aro unable to give more than the following synopsis: The President claims that the result of the late election is a condemnation of the sectional policy sought to bo introduced into tho government, and a vindication of tho equality of the States. He condemns, generally, tho agitation of the slavery question, and gives a history of its pro gress. lie defends tho Kansas-Nebraska Act and the repeal of the Missouri Com promise. which latter, he maintains, was no breach of faith on tho part of tho re pealers. lie reviews the recent events in Kansas, and says tho disorders in that Territory have been generally exaggerated, for party effect. The real trouble was, Kansas was made the battle-field of tho late Presidential election. All civil war there, he says, is now ended. The greater portion of the message is devoted to this subject. The reference to foreign affairs is briof and unimportant. During the past fiscal year, the receipts from customs hnvo been over $64,000,000, and tho receipts from all sources amount to $73,018,000; which, with the balanco on hand in July 1850, mako a total of present resources $92,850,000. Tho expenditures, including $3,000,000 for the execution of the treaty with Mex ico, and excluding the stuns paid on the public debt, amount to $90,172,000. The public debt has been reduced to $30,900,000. He recommends a reduction of the reve nue derived from customs to fifty millions of dollars. Certain changes are recommended in the policy of distributing troops, lie also re commends an increase of the naval force, and the negotiation of new contracts for convoying the mails via Tehuantepec and Nicaragua. A supplemental treaty has been conclu ded with Great Britain, and tho Central American controversy, arising out of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, finally adjusted. The Sound Dues question, with Den mark, is still unsettled, but in a fair way tor adjustment. With Spain no new difficulties have arisen though but little progress has been made in the settlement of those that are pending. Tho negotiations for relieving our commerce with Cuba from some of its burthens, and providing for a more speedy settlement of our local disputes, have not yet been attended with any satis factory results. The President assents to the abolition of privateering, as proposed by tho seven Powers at the late Paris Conference, pro vided it be so amended as to exempt the private property of beligerents from seiz ure, except such as shall be of a contra band character. He hopes this amend ment will be accepted. He lias refused to receive either of the Ministers accredited to this Government from tbe Republic of Nicaragua, on the ground that it is impossible to determine, at present, which of the contending par ties is the Government de facto. The Message declares that tbe President will resist the attempt of New Grenada to execute her tonnage, or mail taxes, upon the tjnited States, and charges that the Government of that country is responsible for tbe Panama riots. He lias demanded full indemnity for the outrage, and pro vision for the families of those of our citi zens who were killed. A special Commis sioner has been appointed and sent ont to negotiate idemnity for the past and secu rity for tbe future. Have we a Newspaper among n»? We learn from the Augusta Comtitu tionaliet of the 30th ult. that the Town Council of Madison hav'e appointed eight delegates to the Commercial Convention at Savannah. We presume, as our citizens were first notified of the fact through a distant paper, that the honorable body aforesaid, or some of its officers, are not aware of the existence of a newspaper in their own town. We are at a loss wheth er this latter fact results from our own obscurity, or a certain other cause which might be mentioned. We incline to the latter, however, ns certain parties at a dis tance are aware of our existence* and, therefore, ignorance of the fact at home is without excuse. We shall, in futi r«, read the Augusta papers with renewed interest, as they are to be enriched by the proceedings of the Town Council of Madison. Geu. Walker and Nicaragua. Wo invite attention to the .article, in this morning’s paper, from the New York Herald. The Charleston Mercury attach es considerable importance to it, from the fact that Walker's agent was in New York at the time it appeared, and had doubtless given Bennett his cue: The Weather* There was a slight fall of sleet here on Thursday night between ten and eleven o’clock. The weather, since Tuesday night, has been clear and cold, and our cit izens are improving ti e opportunity to kill their hogs. I’en-and-ScisKorlnss* We see “a seamless skirt’’ advertised for ladies. Good! Anything that wjll rnako their skirts seem less will be grate ful to gentlemen. The inventor deserves a service of plate—if he can pay for it. ....The Governor of Louisiana has ap pointed one hundred and fifty delegates to the Southern Commercial Convention. ... .Major N., upon being asked if lie was seriously injured at the bursting of the boiler on a steamer, replied that he was not, as he lmd been blown up so many times by bis wife that n mere steamer ex plosion bad no etVect on him whatever.... The Nashville Union says that full returns from Tennessee—all but three counties of ficial-show a majority for Buchanan of 7,426 J votes... .Dick told his wife, when he saw her out walking in her new silk dross, that ho never before fully realized the force of the novelist's remark of his heroine, “ that she swept gracefully along.” John Mitchell lms been lecturing at Nashville, T enn. Subject: Europe, Peace or no Pence... .People who don’t like the headache should never undertake to come between man and wife while they are “exchanging smoothing irons.” We tried it once, ami got a black eye that cost us six shillings a week for raw oysters for the next two months. ...Oxygenated Bitters —This pleasant and highly efficacious me dicine has been fairly tested by our citi zens, who do not hesitate to pronounce it superior to all other tonics for any weak ness of the digestive organs.... “ Bee here my friend, you are drunk 1” “Drunk! to be sure I am, and have been for the last three years. You see my brother and I are on the temperance mission. He lec ture* while I set a frightful example 1”.... It is said that, the Hon. Howell Cobb will not accept a seat in the Cabinet, hut will prefer to be Speaker of the House of Re presentatives A man recently hanged iu a neighboring State, confessed that his first commencement in crime and villany was stopping his paper without paying for it.... Samuel Swartwout, the government defaulter during A an Bnren’s administra tion, died in New York city on the 22d u1t.... In Oregon, lately, hailstones fell as large as watermelons. The snow-flakes of that country are frequently as large as umbrellas. So says somebody.... What will cure my chilblains?—Perry Davis’ A egetable Pain Killer will do it. It is al so the best medicine for sprains, bruises, rheumatism, cramps in the limbs or stom ach. It is, in short, a medicine no family should be without... .The expenditures of the Quartermaster's Department of the Army, lor the last fiscal year, amounted to nearly $7,000,000 A female school teacher, in her advertisement, stated that she was complete mistress of her own tongue. ’lf that’s the case,’ said a caustic old bachelor, ‘she can’t ask too much for her services.’.... A Washington despatch suites that President Pierce was so ill on Monday, 24th, as to be confined to his room A young lady, fond of dancing, traverses in the course of a single season about four hundred miles. Yet no lady would think of walking tjiat distance in six months....lt is mentioned as a faet that there are more than ten times the number of newspapers printed in the Ger man language in the United States, that there are in Germany.... A late advertise ment in an Irish paper, setting forth the many conveniences and advantages to be derived from metal window sashes, among other things, observed “that the sashes would last forever, and afterward, if the owner had no use for them, they might be sold for old iron.” • For the Visitor. She is Dead. Close the waxen lids over the dove-like but now lustreless eyes—fold the thin hands meekly over the silent bosom — hands that will work no more—bosom that will beat no more. Wrap tlie wind ing-sheet over the still white breast, and take thy last fond look. Place her in the coffin gently—press thy last lias on the moveless lips, and know that she is dead 1 Dead! Can it be, orphan that thou art, alone in the world ? Is the voice that murmured but to bless thee hushed forev er? —the hand that labored but for thy comfort, indeed cold and still ? Has the heart that beat but for thy welfare cessed its fond beatings? Is the face, the dear face upon which you have pressed so fond kisses marble-like, illumined by the light of sonl no more? Yes, orphan, thy mother is dead! Life is before thee-- what of that? the is no longer here to gladden it. Y'outli is thine—what of that? the is gone. The flowers still bloom, and the birds still sing—the lamps of heaven still light the azure vault, but—what of that? The flowers bloom no more for her —they only deck her grave. She hears no more the birds—they only chant above the grassy mound where she moulders to dust: and the stars—she tells yon no more of the God who made them, and you—they, pale, silent watchers, now keep vigils over the white tombstone beneath which she lies, food for vilest worms. Yes, orphan: she is dead now! you must fight life’s battles alone, and—how many grief-lines did your hand mark upon that brow before the marble-slab bid it forever? How many anguished moans did disobedience cause that heart before Death’s icy finger touched the"strings, and said, “Peace—ho still?” Ah! yon think of it now. How mncli yon wonkl give to have her back once more —so you might on your knees plead for forgiveness. But— the it dead! Never!num: will the loved lips murmur, ** Thou art forgiven”—neeer more will the dear lips press a pardoning kiss— nevermore will the soft hand linger with gentle pressure on your aching fore head ! Oh ; you who have a mother—love her —cherish her—make no grief-lines on her already furrowed sac no arrows in her heart; for the time will some when the remembrance of such will gnaw at your heart; and remorse, with its serpent fang, prey upon you like the vulture of Prometheus! Jenny Woodbine. Georyia. Report of the Secretary of the Navy. AA’asiu noton City, Dec. 2.—The Secretary of the Navy in his report to Congress recommends that the Pacific squadron lie kept in active service—that hereafter the gunnery practice system he established—states that the new frigates have realized the most sanguine expec tations of the department—advises the construction of additional sloops-of-war, of light draught, capable of entering southern ports, and urges a steady aug mentation of our naval force—recom mends shorter cruises, and not exceed ng two years—the promotion often appren tices, annually, to the post of midshipmen —an increase in the crops of assistant pursers—the creation of the office of Judge Advocate—and an increase in tie pay of of the same grade of officers. Mr. Simmsin thbNobth. —The” Alba ny Argus” regrets that Mr. Simms should have yielded to clamor. Out of the rt gioti of influence of the New Yoik city press (which after reviling each other like rogues who had fallen out, have now fallen into combination to revile al] others,) ho would have found audiences that would have delighted to have lis tened to him and honored him. In Al bany at least he would have had a kindly audience. AA r e indeed perhaps carry toleration too far, when we sit down quietly and hear a lecturer like AA’endell Philips assail Mr. Everett for not bringing the slavery question into his discourse on the Life and Character of Washington. The name of AA’asbington is one on which our patriotic citizens love to dwell; the history of the American Union is to them a noble and congenial theme ; and the career of the fyvolutiquary Fathers is one which inspires no other sentiments than those of lore and reverence. Mr. Simms would have been welcome here ; as will be Mr. Everett; and if he should come, not less so, Mr. Benton. We need such men to speak to us at a moment when faction and fanaticism are weakening the faith of men in their Country, their God and Truth. The New Orleans Delta is out in favor of the re-establishment of the Afri can slave trade. ESP” Come get up —you’ve been in bed long enough, as (lie gardener said when he was pulling np carrots to send to market, Gen. Walker and his Objects. For several weeks past, and while Gen. Walker \yns obtaining marvelous vic tories over the Central American troops that were allied agninst him, and thereby establishing his sway in Nicaragua on an apparently solid basis, the newspa pers in these Northern Stale have been publishing statements made by general and other officer-, who had been in his service. These statements were, for the most part, adverse to him and intended to prejudice his interests. It has been represented that in his course in Nicara gua he has been animated principally by a desire to propitiate the sympathies and. secure the support of the Southern por tion of this Confederacy, and that it was in that view he annulled the decree pro hibiting the existence of slavery in Nica ragua. Those representations are not borne out by facts. AVe liavu reliable information that General Walker has not been operating with the views thus attributed to him, but that he has Rad before his mind a totally different and moru'ccrDprehensive course of policy*— AA e publish this mornuig several commu nications which may serve to throw light ' upon this matter. The scheme on which Walker lias kept his eye steadily fixed, fiom the first day on which he entered Nicaragua, has been to re-organise that and the other little Republics of Central America, ana to form of them an 1 Mexico a federal Southern Republic, which would act as a counterpoise to the infinenco of the United States. It was a grand and politic scheme. lie calculated thereby, and very reasonably, 100, to conciliate France and England, and to enlist their governments iu his support. T. at he has not been unsuccessful in this plan is evidenced by the good relations and kind ly feelings that have existed between him and the officers of the English rnan ot war lying in Sail Juan, to whom lie had, perhaps, communicated' illsvhsws. It was in furtherance of that distinct tirre-of policy that he conmiissiorild GenA era! Goieouria as Minister to Eit'dand. This gentleman, however, who lias gain ed much distinction as an energetic- and influential member of the Cuban Junta iu th.r city, does not seem to have com pletely understood or appreciated Walk er s ideas. He hail gone to Nicaragua and attached himself to the fortunes of the revolution there with the principal object in view of making tlint. - move ment auxiliary and subservient to his own plan of overthrowing Spanish domin ation in the island of Ctilip. Mr. Oak smith and others, who lmd also joined Walker’s standard, had dune so with the same object in view. But the course of policy which Walker had chalked out for himself had rro reference whatever to Cuba. It was altogether outside of his programme. That was a distinct mallei, into which he had neither the in clination nor the leisure to obtrude him self. lie 1.-tt it to the Cuban fillibusteros 10 settle for themselves; and, for bis part, he had an eye singleto thfcorganisa tion of agn at Southern republic. Ac cordingly, when Messrs. Goieouria and Qaksrnith, and others, manifested their real objects and sentiments, lie found out that he coul 1 not lely upon them, and thereforesujiereeded them in their respec tive functions as ministersto Englandand the United States. Hence some of the communications that have been publish ed reflecting on Walker’s honesty- and ability. Mr. Soule, however,seems to have fully appreciated and chimed in with General Walker's idea. He saw that to this scheme alone could the sympathies and support of the English and French gov ernments bo secured. He is now in the United States, engaged in forwarding Walker’s views, and in raising supplies of men and money to enable him to hold his ground and establish his Government on a firm and permanent basis. Under the incoming administration he will probably find no obstacle to carrving for ward a grand plan of military coloniza tion in Nicaragua. There is nothing in our neutrality laws to prevent this. The expeditions which may be sent out from here cannot legally be interfered with. They will not have been got up for the purpose of making war upon a nation with which we are at peace, but simply as volunteer emigrant companies. In this light, *ud with the inducements which Walker can hold out, there can be no limit set to the number of men who can be at his disposal. But say that he i can, within six or twelve months calculate on an army of ten men, what obstacle could he then posed to the realization of his project a great Southern republic ? The governments of Mexico and of the Cen tral American republics could offer but little resistance to bis progress. Franco and England, seeing in it the best means of counterbalancing the influence pf the United States and re-organizing Central American society, would rather aid and abet him than otherwise, and as for our Government, it could have no excuse for