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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
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(Education.
COVINGTON FEMALE SSOkIINARY
The preceptorial care of the above I
named institution, has been conferred upon
the subscriber, by the Trustees, for the year 1851.
A large amount of money has been appropriated
by the citizens of Covington, aud vicinity, for the
erection of a Female Col!egem th ; s place. A com
modious and splendid edifice will be built, and all
the apartments tastily and conveniently fitted out.
It is confidently expected that the exercises of the
Collegiate Jourse will commence in January, 1852,
under an able and efficient faculty.
The exercises of the Seminary will commence on
the Th rteenth of JANUARY, ISSI. Competent
Assistants will be procured in the various depart
ments.
The special object of this School is to instruct
young Judies in the rudiments, as well as >u the
more advanced stages of a good education. Follow
ing the most approved systems of instruction, with
nine yeirs’ experience in teaching, the subscriber
flatters hhuself he can offer to his pupils advantages
not surpassed in any School in the State.
Particular attention will be paid to Reading.
Spelling) Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar,
' History. Composition, Penmanship, Ac ,as these
constitute the foundation of a thorough and practical
education.
The course of Instruction pursued at this Semina
ry is liberal —embracing every particular necessary
to improve the mind, form the moaners, enlighten
the understanding and prepare the pupil to move
with ease, respectability awl usefulness in any circle
of society or sphere of action.
Much of the happiness of every fimily depends on
a proper cultivation of the female mind. To accom
plish this object, and in every respect to meet the
wishes of parents and guardian*, in relation to their
youthful charge, no pains or expense will be scared.
Tue Principal will devote himself exclusively to
the instruction and discipline of the School, lie
will eon "ide r hi ms If invested with a discretionary
pare atn I authirity; constantly treating the Students
with mildness and in xlerauou, governing them by
applying the more honorable and generous excite*
ments to good conduct; but in cases which munihst
de’iberate wickedness and obstinacy of character,
when all advisory measures shall have proved inef
fectual, he will then pro-iced to inflet such punish
ment as may I e deemed necessary to reclaim the
pupil and sustain the character of the School.
Parents an i Guar liana may be well assured that
their children and wards will be accommodated with
board on he most reasonable terms, and every at
tention paid to their comfort and convenience.
The price of Tuition is reasonable, and in accord
ance with the time*. The Pupils will be charged
from the time of entering the School until the close
of the term. All dues must be paid at the c’obe of
each term.
Music, Wax-work. Drawing anti Painting, will be
taught . y skillful teachers, at reasonable prices.
To persons at a distance it may be well to say—the
locality is healthy and desirable ; the society plea
sant and cultivate I.
For further informatnn address the Principal.
<l3l w3m JAMFS L. RANDLE, A. B.
hotels.
■—ggzsjwxs • ris.wm—a
ROWLAND 6 aPßtfiidS.
a . f .~ NOT IJiTE.NDIXU to engage again
pysSn in public bu**mc« at the Springs, I would
lease them the { resent year, or fora term
oi years ; or I would sell the Property on n credit to
suit purchasers. For health, e mvenience, and ns a
place of farhit-neble resort, it has been too well
known for the last 5 years, to need a description.
For terms, Ao.. application can be made to inc at
Cartersville, Ga.
fr2l w4* JOHN S. ROWLAND.
WAIiT Ol< HOUSE,
'Ki JESSK 11. ARNOLD, fcjj;
At Monroe, IYalloti Cownty Georgia.
fe6 ts
»ISTtO » -Augus'a Ga.,
one square above the Globe Hotel, on the
side of Broad street,
F nlO-wly D. B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
EAGLE HOTEL,
MADISONVILLE, TENNESSEE,
FINHR SUBSCRIBER takes pleasure
JL iu returning his thank* to his fi tends and jSttfij
the public, for the very liberal patronage here
tnfore extended to him. And having recently im
proved and extended his buildings so as to afford the
best accommodations to almost any number of trav
ellers and persons wishing boarding, he confidently
expects an increase of public favor and patronage.
Building situated on second block south of the
Public Square - one hundred and fifty foot long—
raoms regularly laid off and well furnished. He is
alas well prepared to lake the best care of horses, Ac.
Stable large and secure—careful and attentive ser
vants. In short, the greatest attention will be paid,
and pains taken, io render all comfortable who may
call at the Eagle Hotel. JOSEPH R. RUDD.
Madisonville, August 3, IFSO. au3-wtl
VICTORIA HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE VNDERMUNEI), late cf the
p*ld Eagle d Phffinix, Augusta, and Carolina Ho
tel, Hamburg, rcFpcctfully announces to her friends,
and the public generally, that she has leased the
elerant and commodious building, known as the
VICTORIA HOTEL, whore she will be happy to
receive all who may favor her with their pitr nage.
The situation of the House renders it desirable to
tliose visiting the city either on business or pleasure.
Nu pains will be spared to render satisfaction to all 1
who may call. An omnibus will always be ready
to receive passengers at the Rail Road or boats. ■
fr2B w 4 E C. WEST. 0
T- - ■ 1 - : f
LIVERY STABLES,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
HAKHAI.I. A HARRIS ’
beg leave to announce to
their friends in Madison and
the travelling Public gene- yAT?
rally, that they have opened the above STAbI .!•>, 1
and that tliey intend to keep as fine CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES and HORSES, ascan be found in any
Stables—with careful drivers. Citizens es Madison*
and strangers visiting Madison, by coming to us will
always find ready accommodation, to go any where
they wtrb on reasonable terms.
Madison, Jan. 29 1850
GROCERIES, GROCERIES.
THE SUBSCRIBERS are now re- I
IJCn a ceiving au extensive assortment of Heavy (
■■Hi an I Fancy GROCERIES, which they
oiler to the Planters, Merchants and Families of Geor
gia, on the most advantageous terms. TLair Store
is just above the principal Hotels, and they solicit
all purchasers visiting Augusta, to favur them with a
call and examine their stock.
Tbey now offer the following Goods fersale low :
100 bales Gunny BAGGING,
260 coils j inch Kentucky ROPE,
50hhds. St. Croix, Porto Ricoand N. O. SUGAR
100 bbls. Stuart’s crushed, ground and yellow Do.
250 b<* Rio and l.aguira COFFEE,
300 aege NAILS, Peru brand,
20tonsSwedaa I RUN, assorted sixes,
200 bbls. Canal FLOUR, of the Hiram Smith
and other choice brands,
100 boxes Sperm, Adamantine and Tallow CAN
DLES,
50,000 SEGA RS of various qualil es,
100 boxes TOBACCO, of different brands,
3,000 sacks Liverpool SALT, in tine order.
And all other articles usually kept in the largest
Grocery Houses.
el-w J. R. & W. M. DOW
NOTICE.
TO PERSONS WANTING HIGH PRES
SURE STEAM ENGINES,
OR MACHINERY OF ANY KIND.
FfMIE subscriber will furnish ENGINES, of the
JU following diameter ut cylinder, and length ol
stroke, with a sufficient amount of boilers, nt the fol
lowing prices.
Piome/er of Lcneth of
Cylinder. X*r Power. Price
IS in. 72 tn. 7U nurse. 55,000
15 in. 48 iu. 45 *• 3,5u0
12 in. 42 iu. 25 •• 2,200
12 iu. 30 iu. 20 “ 2.1x0
10 in. 36 in. 15 “ 1,7(0
in 30 m. 12 “ 1,214)
b in. 15 in. 5 “ 7UU
These Engines will be finished in good workman
like manner The above prices include tCiier-
Fureo and Lilting Pumps. Ac., delivered at Charles,
ton or bavannah. put up -n complete running order,
and warranted for 6 months.
Address, wr.hin 2 mouths,
L. P. GARNER, Agent, Warrenton, Ga.
Or at any time,
W M. DkHAVEN, Minersville, Penn.
ja2l»dlw&*3m*
SPRINGHILL MACHINE SHOP.
A FOR BUILDING AND REPAIRING
AallkmL ol COI VON AND WUOL MA
makmg larse SCREWS AND
GEARING, of ail kinds—TURNING IRON,
WOOD, Ac.,
ALSO, WOOL CARDED AND BATTED,
•lx n. lesfrotn Augusta,on the Louisville road, where
the proprietors will be grateful for allaidsre —or they
can be left at C. A A M. H. WILLIAMS’S, Augus
k*—or directed to Richmond Factc»y P. O.
dJO if HACK A DUVAL
. JUST RECEIVED at the
AGRICULTURAL WARE-
HOUSE, Augusta, alotof Choice
PLOUGHS, consisting of Ikmble Mould Board. Hi’j
Side Su woii, Eagle Seif-sharpening, and one and two
Hors Plough*, otall descriptions. Also,Cyhndncai
Lhu ’•» Corn She liars m Plantvrs.St raw Cutters.
bran Cradles, Road Scrapers, Manure Forks
Iru-K, Ac.. Ac.
Ww CARMICHAEL A BEAN.
BOLTING CLOTHS
OF WARR ANTED qeaity, wished and
put up m Hobs u ,
wusfeunAsitt. wwd
«!»•?, «I>4 ol u>. .U.U, lof ml, b,
J.lB-.U D. 8V HI&MER A WiGAN
WEEIiLT
CHRONICLE ANDSENTINEL
SELECTED POETRY.
GEORGIA. DY HENRY B JACKSON.
Ye citizens of Georgia !
Ye h.iv> a noble State,
Au blest with every element
To make a people great.
She stretches fretn the mountain,
Through every varied clime,
To where the hoar old ocean
Makes melancholy chime.
From an out-gushing bosom,
Your wants .-he well supplies,
Her generous soil beneath your feet;
Above—her generous skies.
There,is no trace of beauty
You'find not on herbrow’,
With her hills, and floods, and forests,
And her fields of mimic snow.
1 cok forth up<n her surface I
Could you ask a brighter home ?
Yet her li o is in its morning still,
Her no n is still to come.
Within her liea.it are treasures
More precious far ’han gold ;
She need* but zealous spirits
Her riches io unfold.
Then why should yru desert het I
Oh ! where in South or West,
Can you meet a sweeter realm ol earth
More generously blest ?
Net tn the wild adventure,
Nor in the restless mind,
Does the exile and the rover
A true contentment find.
AU broad may be the forests,
All bright may be the streams ;
The sun atnid the western skies
May shine with golden beams;
And yet in vain ye’ll wander;
Ye cannot all forget
That you were born of Georgia,
And she your mother yet!
Then citizens of Georgia I
To the loom, the plough and hoe I
Let the din of toil be loud and long I
’Ti« all that’s wanting now.
The hand of earnest labor
Can make your noble State,
What nature has designed her—
Rich, beautiful, and great*
A GEM.
The New York Knickerbocker copies the follow
ing beautiful liues, and asks fir the name of their
amhor. They have been attributed to Bulwer, but
whether justly or not, we cannot say :
‘ Into my heart a silent look
Plashed from thy careless eyes,
And what before was shadow, took
Th* light of summer skies.
The First-born Love was in that look ;
The Venus rose from out the deep
Os those inspiring eyes.
• My life, like some lone solemn spot
A spirit passes o’er,
Grew instinct with a glory not
In earth or heaven before :
Sweet trouble stirred the haunted spot.
And shook tho leaves of every thought
Thy presence wandered o’er.
* My being yearned and crept to thine,
As if, tn tunes of yore
Thy soul bad been a part of mine
Which claimed it back once more ;
Thy very self no longer thine,
But merged in that delicious life
Which made us one of yore!
‘There bloomed beside thee forms as lair,
There murmured tone* as sweet.
But round thee brcaibsd the enchanted air
’Twas life and death to meet;
And henceforth thou alone wert fair,
And though the stars had sung for joy,
Thy whisper only sweet.’
From the Louisville Journal.
BEAU fY BY J. HUfISBLL BARRICK.
There’s beauty in the balmy spring,
When the forest flowers bloom,
And Ni 'ure wears a lively hue
Un'ike her autumn gloom :
When ibe blue skies look soft and fair,
With sunshine all the while,
And ail tnegiud and joyous earth
Seems with delight to smile.
Th-re's beauty in the summer days,
When by the running brook,
We read the language of the flowers,
As fnn an open bo- k ;
When the f. ee streams with fresher speed,
Flow wi h a sweeter strain,
Aud ail th air, the wind-harp’s strings,
A bird-l:ke bir.e attain.
There’s beauty in the autumn time,
When sadness and decay
Stea! -.’er the placid face of earth,
And its flowers fade away •
When skies grow pale, and forest leaves
Droop languishing and low,
And the streams with a mournful dirge
To sadder music flow.
There’* beautsJn winter shade.
■
And Nature of her verdure rest
Seems barren, bleak, an I old I
When ice-bound streams forget to flow,
And little birds to sing,
Their vo'ces hushed in silence long
Togreet the coming spring.
There’s beauty in the freshening mom,
When o'er the eastern sky
The golden sun looks forth
In pride and in ijnsty ;
Whan mist nml daw from earth ascend,
To blend with the mid air,
And Nature lifts her happy voice
In thinktill praise and prayer.
There’s beauty in the glorious eve,
When sunset’s lily skies
Are glowing withx thousand hues —
A thousand Eden dyes:
V* hen twilight stars steal gently out,
To gaze on all aiound,
And lovers’ heaits, to cons’aacc vowed,
With thoughts of love abound.
There’s beauty in the quiet night,
When moon and star* above
Shine out of their eternal spheres,
Like sentinels of lave :
W on the bright spirit, free from earth,
On wings of thought can rise,
’ Till tn the future it beholds
The beauty of the skies.
Glasgow, Ky., Feb., 1851.
WANTED. ““ F
JOURNEYMKN TANNERS AND SBOB
MAKERS. The subscriber wants a first rate «
TANNER and CURRIER, and a BOOT and SHOE r
MAKER, for fine work, an J also, one tor coarse peg- c
ged work. Northern men will be preferred without ]
family, nr one having a small family would not be j
objected to. Good wages will be given, and the Io- j
cation in one of the moat healthy villages ia the
world; or, if desirable, a share in the businteb will
be given. 1
Apply to the subscriber, at Clarksville, Georgia.
Those applying will be expected to be well recom- I
mended tor boneatv, industry and sobriety. I
ml>4-d-Hwl JOHN R. STANFORD. <
RANAWAY '
Jiff FROM the subscriber at Waverly Hall, j
/wj Harris c -unty, on the ’2oth February, try
jJr. b°y JACK. Jack is about eighteen years of
ace, five feet six inches in height, and heavily built. ’
He has a noted scar on the left side of his upper lip, I
and also, a scar on his left leg. I think he io ma
king his way to Augusta, Ga. A liberal reward I
will be paid for his confinement in any safe jail, and
due notice of the came to me. .
mh4-wtf WM. H. TETERS. j
SIOO REWARD,
STOP THE RUNAWAY.
Jtff It AN A WAY from the subscriber, one
At mile North of Greenville, on the night of the '
2d inst., a mulatto boy named JOE. He is ■
a bright mulatto, with blue eyes and black kinky t
hair. In conversation, he tpeaks quick and very f
fart ; but a little excited he stammers. He had on t
when he left, a blue Cluh Dress Coat, dark colored
Pants, and a black Fur Hat. He took with him a (
swab tailed Mare, either bay or sorrel, which trots
very briskly, with an old Siddle with the horn bro
ken off. It may be remarked that he has a full *
face—is nearly six feet high, or quite, close made,
and has a very smooth lace ; and is about 21 years
old.
He may possibly trade the mare in order to get 1
money to travel on—may be walking, or he may be I
in company with a white man. <
I will give One Hundred Dollars for his delivery
at my house, er Twenty-five Dollars for his confine
ment in jail ao that 1 can get him.
FREEMAN McCLENDON.
Greeevil’e, Meriwether co., Ga. mhS 2t
NOTICE.
jR< BROUGHT TO J AID. a Negro Boy,
who calls himself SAM, and says he belongs
a man by the name of John Thomas, of New
fYiStotf. He is of a dark color, and has a scar
above one of his eyea; he is about six leet high, and
weighs about one hundred and seventy-five pounds,
and appears to be a very intelligent boy, and says he
has been runaway at eut six months. The owner
will ple-tse come forward, pay all cost, and take him I
awn. p. h. Campbell, Jailor.
■MWon, Morgan co., June 15, 1850. je2Q-tf
S2O REWARD.
X® RAN AW AY from the subscribers, on the
sj 25th day of December, 1550, a Negro man
named NEI SON. Nelson is ab ut 5 feet 10
lucues hi-ti ; light con plection ; about 33 years old ;
speaks slow an I very low. The above reward will
be given tot his delivery to the sui»scfibers, or for
lodging him tn any jail so that they may et possee
aionofhin. T. H. 4 E. H. BLOUNT.
Waynesboro’ Burke County. ja 10- warn
RANAWAY
FROM the subscriber, cn the 3d of Jan
rjA, nary last, a Negro Girl named SARAH.
Said g r. is about 17 years of age, is quite
biacs, and o! .lender make. It is be ieved she was
decoyed off by some uh;.® person, and was proba
bly taken up me Georgia Rail Road. A reward of
Twenty Dollars will oe paid to any person who will
deliver said negro to me, er confine her in toy jail so
that I get her. And any in format ioo respecting her
will be thankfully received by me. al Apphng, Co
lumbia coony, Georgia
mbs-wlni’ EDWARD McDURMOND.
RANAWAY
jßff FROM the subscriber, on the morning of
i the 17th of May. my Negro Man THOMAS,
about 30 years es age, of a brown comptex
, ton, ® peaks quiek when spoken to, end rather lisps.
Said m» n ’• about 5 feet S inches high, well built;
and when be left here had on a blue str ped sack
cost, and a velvet cap. He will doubtless endeavor
to make his way to Virginia, as he was purchased
in that by John M. Cureton A Co., and *?ld to
me in Greensboro, the 15th of last March. A libe
ral reward will be given for the delivery, or for his
I betnc lodged m jail so that 1 get him.
1 5 - OP. DA Ni EU
e Greensboro. Ga.. May 19, 1850. my 19-ts
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From ArthuPo Heme Gazette.
CONFESSIONS.
0E A HOUSEKEEPER.
BY. MRS. JOHN SMITH.
NO. VI.
A CONVENIENT DISTANCE.
There are few of us who do not feel, at
some time in life, the desire for change. In
deed, change of place corresponding, as it
does, in outward nature, to change of s.ate in
the mind, it is not at all surprisinf that wo
should, now and then, feel a strung desire to
remove from the old, and get into new loca
lions, and ain id different external associations.
Thus, w r e find, in many families, an ever re
curring tendency to removal. Indeed, I have
some housekeeping friends who are rarely to
be found in the same house, or in the same
part of the citv in any two consecutive years.
Three moves, Franklin used to say, is equal to
a fire There are some to whom I could point,
who have been, if this holds true, as good as
burned out, three or four ti*nes in the last ten
years.
But I must not write too long a preface to
tny story. Mr and Mrs Smith and myself
cannot boast of larger organs of Inhubitaiive
ness—l believe that is the word u.-ud by pine
nologi.«ts—than many of our neighbors. Oc
casionally we Lave felt dissatisfied with the
state of things around us, and been me pos
sessed of the demon ol change. We have
moved quite frequently, sometimes att lining
superior comfort, and soineiimee. getting rath
er the worst of it for ‘ the change.’
A few years ago, in the early spring lime,
Mr. Smith said to me one day :
4 1 noUccd in riding out yesterday, a very
pleasant country house on the Frankford
Road, to let, and it struck me that it would be
a fine thing for ite, both as to health and com
fort, to rent it for the summer season. What
do you think of it ? ’
‘ I always loved the country, you know,’
was my response.
My heart had leaped at the proposition.
‘ it is such a convenient distance from the
city,’ said Mr Buiith.
* How far ? ’
‘ About tour miles ’
* Do the paws frequently ? ’
4 Every half hour; and the fare is on’y
twelve and a half cents ’
4 So low ’ That is certainly an inducement ’
4 Ye?, it is. Suppose wc go out aud look
at 't«e h‘*u»a 1 ’
4 Very well,’ said 1 And then we talked
ove the pica, ure and advantage that would
result Iroin a re»'dence in the country at such
a convenient distance from the city.
On the nezi. day we went to lo'»k at the
place, and found inuc.i, both in the house and
ground, to attract us. There was a line sha
ded lawn, ai d gardm with a stock of small
and Urge fruit
4 Wnni a d< I ghifnl place for the children,’
I exclaimed.
* And at such a convenient distance from
the city,’ sai.i my husband ‘ I can go in and
out to business, and scarcely miss the time.
But do you think you would like the conn
try 1 ’
4 We can move back into the city when the
summer closes,’ said Mr. Smith.
4 Why not remain here permanently ?’
4 It will be too expensive to kuep both a city
and country hou<e,’ I returned.
4 it will no to i dreurv through the winter.’
4 I don’t ihmk <o. 1 always feel cheeriu! in
the country. And. then, you know, the house
is at such a convenient distance, ami the stages
pass the door at every half hour. You tau
get to business as easily us if we reside 1 in (no
city.’
I was in the mood of a change, aud so >•
happened was Mr. Smith. The more we
thought and talked about the matter, the mure
inclined were w» to break up iu the city, and
go permanently to the country. And, finally,
we resolved to try die experirusijt.
So the pleasant country house was taken,
and the town hou-o given up, and, in dtto
time, we took our flight to where nature had
just carpeted the earth in freshes green, and
caused the buds to expand and (hn trees of the
forest to clothe themselves m verdure.
How pleasant was everything A gardener
had been employed to put the garden and
lawn in order, and soon we were delighted to
see the first shoo s from seeds that had been
planted, making theii way through the ground.
To me, all was delightful. I felt almost as
light hearted as a child, and never tired ol ex
pressing my pleasure at the change.
4 Come and see us,’ said I. to one city friend
and another, on meeting them. * We’re in a
most delightful place, and at such a convenient
distance from the city. Just get into the
Frankford omnibus, which starts from Hall’s,
in Second street above Market, every half
hour, and you will come to our very door.
.And 1 shall be so delighted to have a visit from ■
you.’
in moving from the city, I took with me two
good domestics, who had lived in my family far
over a year. Each had expressed herself as
delighted at (he prospect of getting into the •
ocuntry, and 1 was delighted to think they
were so well satisfied, for I had feared lest
they would be disinclined to accompany us.
About a month after our removal, one of
them, who had look dissatisfied about some- I
thing, ca ue to tne and said—
• 1 want to go back to the city. Mrs. Smith,
I don’t like living in the country.*
4 Very well.’ I replied, *Y on must do as
you please But i thought you preferred this
to the city.’
4 1 thought I would like it, but I don’t. It’s
too lonesome.’
I did not persuade her to stay. That error
I had once or twice, ere this, fallen into, and
learned to avoid it in future. So she went
back to the city, and 1 was left but with a single
girl Tnree days only elapsed before thia o:,e
announced her intended departure
• But you wrl stay,’ said I, ‘ until 1 can get
some one in your place.
4 My week will be up on Saturday,’ was re
plied, ‘Can you gel a girl by that lime ? ’
4 That leaves me only two days, Hannah ;
I’m afraid not.’
Hannah look unamiable enough at this an-
Rwor. We said no more to each other. In
the afternoen I went to the city to find a new
domestic, if possible, bu*. returned unsuccess
ful.
Saturday came, and to my surprise and trou
ble, Hannah persisted in going away So I
was left, wi h my family of six persons, with-
out any domes.tc at all.
Sunday proved to me any thing but a day of
rest. After washing and dressing the children,
preparing breaklast, cleaning away the table, ;
making the beds and putting the ho ise in or
der I se. abo > getting dinner. This meal fur
nished and ca an, ai d the dishes washed and
put away. I found myself not only completely
tired out, but suffering from a most dreadful ’
headache. I was lying dewn, about four o’-'
clock, in a half-waking and s.eeping state,
wi h my head a little easier, when my husband,
who was siding bv the window, exclaimed—
••lf there isn't Mr. and Mrs. Peter® and
their three children, getting out of the stage I”
••No; coming here !” »uid I, starting up m
bed, while, at the same moment, my headache
returned with a throbbing intessity that almost
blinded me.
“Yes, coming here !” replied Mr Smith.
“How unfortuna-e!” came from my lips;
as 1 cia-ped my hands to aiy tempies.
Now, Mr. anu Mrs. Peters werepeop e for
whom we had no particular friendship. We
visited each other scarcely once a juar. and
never reciprocated an eveaing to tea. True,
I had. on:he occasion of meeting Mrs. Peters
about a week before, while stopping in the
‘ city, said to her, white praising my new conn
f try home,
I "••You must come and see me sometime du-
> ring the summer.”
r The invitation was intended as a compli
ment more than anyUnng else. 1 didn't particu
larly care aboot a visit from tier ; and certain
ly bad no idea that she would lake ma at my
word. So much for insincerity.
“Go down and ask them into the parlor,”
4 said Ito .Mr Smith. “I will dress myself
’’ and join you in a liule while.”
In about half an hear 1 kft my room, feeding
’’ really quite unwell. I feund ray visitors
g walking in the garden, and their cht'dren
r ranging about like wi d colts, to the partica
d iar detriment of choice snrubbery and garden
io beds.
r- • Oh. what a delightful p'ace exclaimed
ie Mrs Peters, on my meeting her. “1 really
dBwyoo! You see that 1 have accepted
your very kind invitation I said to my nut
band to aay, sava I wouldn't it be n:ce tc
make the Smiths a nUt this afternoon The?
five at such a convenient distance ; and it wil
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY’ MORNING, MARCH 19, 1851.
be such a treat to the children. Well, just as
you like, said Mr. Peters. And so, as soon as
dinner was over, we got ready and came
out. Oh, I’m delighted .’ What a sweet spot
you have chosen. 1 shall eotne and see you
• often.”
And thus she ran on, while I smiled, and
responded with all due politeness, and to a
certain extent, hypocritical preten ce of pleas
ure at the visit.
They had cone to spend the afternoon and
t take tea with us, of course, and, as the last
stage went by at seven o’clock, I was soon
l tinder the necessity of leaving my guests, in
> order to engage in certain acts
j that looked towards an early supper Oh,
> how my head did throb ; and with what an ef
fort did I drag my weary feet about!
But, the longest trial—the most painful or
deal, has au end ; and theend of this came at
s length. Our visitors, after spending a few
> hours, and being served with tea. took their
i I departure, assuring us, as they did so, that they
had «>pent a delightful afternoon, and would
> be certain to come again.
, In ten rnmu es after they left the house I
i was in bed.
i Two whole weeks elapsed before I sue
i cceded in getting a girl ; and six times during
• that period, we had friends from the city to
P take te* with us; and one young lady spent
' three whole days .’
When the season of fruits came, as we had
a few apple and pear trees, besides a s:rawber
ry bed, and a fine row of raspberry bushes,
our city friends, especial y those who had
children, were even mure particular ia their
I attention*. Our own children we could make
understand the propriety of leaving the small
I fruit to be picked for table use, so that all
, j could share in its enjoyment. But, visitors’
children comprehend nothing of this, and ri
fled our beds and bushes bo constantly that, al-
I though they would have given our table a fair
supply of berries, in the season we uever
- i once could get enough to be worth using, and
■ so were forced to purchase our fruit tn the
. city.
I After a destructive visitation of this ra-
I ture, during s rawberrv tune, I said to Mr.
Bm:t t. as he was leaving for the city one moru
i ‘ ing—
-1 wish you would take a small basket with
, you, and bring out two or three quarts of
strawberries for tea I’ve ou'y tasted them
■ once or twice, and it’s hopeless to think of get
' , ting any from our garden ”
Well, when Mr. Smith came home with his
( two or hree quarts of strawberries, we had
; six women and children visitors from the city
to partake of them. Os course, our own
I children who had been promised strawberries
i at tea :ime. and who had been looking for
i the n, did'nt gel a taste.
j And thus it happened over and over again,
i As’h ? weather grow warmer and warmer,
I particular friuiids whom wo wero glad io see,
aad friends, ao called, into wuws-j houses wo
I 1 had rarely* il ever ventured, came out to get a
i “mouthful of fresh air” arid to "see some
’ thing green ” We lived at “such a conve
nient distance” that it was no trouble at u!l to
i run out aud look at us.
I ' Twice again during the summer, I was left
without asi ogle d imestic. Gi<ls did't like to
leave the city, where Uiey had been u>>ed to
meeting their acquaintances every few./jay”;
and, tilers uro, a w<u io uum.
i it went on.
“I had poor help, and was overrun wuL
company at such rate that I was completely
( worn out. I ra.ely heard the rumble of
j the approaching rtago taa’. 1 did not get ner
vous.
i Early in August, Mr. Smith said to me, one
> ’ evening after ruinrning from the city—on that
• i very morning a amily of four had left me, after
i ! staying three data—
> I ‘1 met Mr. Gray this afternoon, and he told
1 me that they were coming out to see you to
-1 ; morrow 1 hath* wa*going away for u while,
: i and his wife thought that it would be such a
t pleasan* tune to redeem her promise of making
I you a visit.”
“Oh dear! What next!” I exclaimed, in ■
adistre-aed voice. “Is there to be no end to '
this ?”
“Net before frost, I presume,” returned Mr. |
Smith, meaningly.
“I wish frost would come along quickly, |
then.” was my response. “But, hu.v long is i
Mr. Gray going to be absent from home ?”
“He did’t say.’’
“And we’re to have his whole family, I sup
pose. during his absence.”
“Doubtless ’’
“Well, I call that taxing hospitality and good
feeling a hftie too far. 1 don’t want them
here .’ I’ve no room for them without incon
| venienco to ourselves. Besides, my help is
poor.”
| But, all my leelings of repugnance were of
no avail. As 1 was silting, on the next day,
by a window that overlooked the road. I saw
ths stajie draw up, and issue therefrom Mr i
Jones, Airs Jones, servant and five children.—
two of the latter twin babies. They had box
es, carpel bags, bundles, &«., indicating a pro
longed sojourn, and one hit e boy dragged af
ter him a pet cieg, that came also to honor us
i with a visit.
Down to meet them at (he door, w ith a*
good a grace as possible, I hurried. Words
of welcome and pleasure were on my tongue,
though 1 am net sure that <ny face did not be
i lie my utterance. But, they were all too
pleased to get into our country quarters, to
perceive any drawback in their reception.
1 will not describe for the reader my experi
ence for the next three weeks—for, Mr. Gray
took the tour of the Lakes before returning,
and was gone full three w eeks, leaving his fam
ily to our care for the whole time.
“Heaven be praised, that is over was my
exclamation, when I saw die stage move off
that bore them from our door.
Frost at length came, and with it expired the
visiting season. We were still at a convenient
disiauce from the city ; but, our friends, ail at
one**,seemed to have forgotten us.
“You ate not going to move back, now,”
said a friend, in surprise, to whom 1 mention
ed. in the (olio wing March, our intention io re
turn to the city.
j “Yes,” I replied.
“Just «■» spring is about opening T Why,
surely, a ter passing the dreary winter in the
country, you will not come to the hot and dus
ty town, to spend the summer t Yeu are at
‘ such a convenient dis ance , too; and your
friends can visit you so easi y.”
Yea, the distance was convenient; and we
had learned to appreciate that advantage. But
bick to the city we removed; and, when next
we venture to the country, will take good care
to get beyond a ronr nunt distance.
nJ . _i>. I
MI§CELI<INEOI§ LI- :
TEKITIKE AND SEWS.
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Frum Mrs- El et's Hamen us ths Rsvululion. ’
Georgia Women, (
Mas. Spalding—“A tribute is due to the
fortitude es those who suffered when the war
swept with violence over Georgia. After
Colonel Campbell took posee*«uon of Savan
nah, in 1778 the whole cou try was overrun j
I with irregular marauders, wider and more -
ruthless ihan th« Cossacks of the Don. As 1 (
many of tlie inhabitants a* cctild retire frem 1 1
the storm did so, awaiting a happier time to
renew (he struggle. One es these who had j .
sough refuge in Florida was Mr. Spaulding, ]
whose establishments were on the river St. ' >
John's. He Dad the whole Indian trade, from <
the Aharnana to ti.e Apalachicola. H s prop- (
er.y, witn hispursui s, was destroyed by the ,
war: yet hi® heart was ever with his country- |
men, acd the home he bad prepared lor his <
wife was the re'uge of every American pris
, oner in Florida. The first Assembly that met i ;
in Savannah recalled him and restored hi®
i lands, but could nut give h-m Dark bis business
nor secure me de bis due; while his British
creditors, with their demands for tueir accumu
lated interest, pi eased upon the remnant of his '
fortune. Under these adverse circumstances,
and distressed cn account of the lees of her
father and brothers, who had taken arms in the
American cause, Mrs. Spaulding performed
• ■ her arduous duues with a true woman’s fidelity
f and tenderness. Sue followed her husband;
ith her child when fl ght became necessary.
„ and twi-e during the v. ar traversed the two
* . hundre4 miles between Savannah and St.
n John’s River in an open boat, with only black
servants en board, when the whole country was
n a desert, without a house io shelter her and ber
infant von. Th® first of these occasions wa»
j when she viait&d her farther and brothers while
T pr.aoners in Savannah ; the secacd, whin, in
1782, ehe went to congratulate her brothers
s and ancle on th«»r victory. This lady was t«e
o daughter of Colonel Wi’ham Mclntosh, and
, y the niece of General Lachlan Mclutoeh. Ma
ili * j or Spalding, of Georgia, is her eon.
“ Mrs. Spalding’s health was se: .
rioiwly impaired by thft anxieties |
endured curing the struggle, and ;
many years afterwards it was deem
ed necessary for her to try the cli- j
mate of Europe. In January, 1800, 1
she, with her son and his wife, ■
left Savannah in a British ship of ’
twenty guns, with filly men, built
in ail to resemble a sloop of war, j
without the appearance of a car- .
go. When they had been out about j
fifteen days the captain sent one
morning, at daylight, to request the
presence of two of his gentlemen
passengers < n deck. A large ship,
painted black and showing twelve
gun* on a side, was seen to wind
ward, running across their course
She was obviously a French priva
te© r . The captain announced that
there was no hope of outsailing her
should their course be altered ; nor
would there be hope in a conflict,
as those ships usually carried one
hundred and fifty inen. Yet he
judged that if no eflbrt were made
to shun the privateer the appear
ance of this ship might deter from
an attack. The gentlemen were
of the same opinion. Mr. Spai-I
ding, heart sick at the thought of
perilous situation of his wife ane
mother, and unwilling to trust him
self withan interview till the cr:si>
was over, requested the captain
to go below and make what pre>-
ariiHL !’ f - *ohid so»
th;'* •
ende a most*touching scene.
Mrs. Spalding had placed her daughter-in
law and the other inmates of the cabin, for
safely, in two state rooms, filling the berths
with coals and bedding from the outer cabin.
She had then taken her own station beside the
scuttle which led from ths outer cabin to the
magazine, with two buckets of water. Having
noticed that the two cabin boys were heedless,
she had determined herself to keep watch over
the magazine. She did so till the danger wa
past. The captain took in his light aaile, hoist
ed his boarding nettings, opened his ports und
stood on upon his course. The privateer
waited until the ship was within a mile, then
fired a gun to windward, and stood on her
way. This ruse preserved the shio. The in
cident may serve to show the spirit of this
matron, who also bore her high part in the per
ils of the revolution.”
Venice.—There is no ci y like it in the
world. It always was an unintelligible place,
and is still unintelligible. It contains a popu
lation of 115 000 inhabitanta, located in 27,918
hoascs. There are 112 religious establish
ments. Os bridges, chiefly of marble, there
are 306. Tho city is 7 ini es in circumference.
The grand canal is 3,000 feet wide. Horsew
are unknown, and tho largest animal to be
seen is a dog. The city is built on 75 small
islands, with pile and atone foundations for the
boildings. The Church of 41 Seuta Neria de
la Salute” was construe ed in 1531, as a monu
ment of thanksgiving for the cessation of a
groat pestilence, and rests upon 1,200,000 piles.
This church contains 120 statues. It is said
said that in Venice there are thousands who
never saw a bill, ora wood, or an ear of corn
growing, vr a vineyard, or a green field, or
even a horee and carriage.
Homo and Woman.
If ever there has been a more touching and
eloquent eulogium upon the charms of home,
and its dearest treasure, woman, than is con
tained in the following extract from the Chris
tian Inquirer, it has not been vur good fortune
to meet it
“Our hemes, what is their corner-stone but vir
tue of woman, anil on what social well being rest
but on our homes 1 Must wc not trace all other
blessings of civilized life to tUe doors of our private
dwellings ? Are lot our hearth stones, guarded by
the holy forms of conjugal, filial and parental love,
the corner siones of church and Si ate ; more sa
cred than either, more necessary tb in both ? Let
onr temples crumble, and oar academies decay, let
every public edifice, our halls of justice, and our
capitals of btate be ieteded with die dust; but spire
our homes. Maa did not invent and he cannot im
prove or abrogate them. A private shelter t) cover
in two hearts dearer to each o'her than all the wcpld;
hijli wails to excl ide the profane eyes of every hu
man bein.:; seclusion enough for children to feel
ihit mother is a holy und peculiar mme—tnis is
home ; and here is the Uirth-p’nce of ever? virtuous
mpuke, ol every sacred thought. Here the church
and the Stale must come f«.r their origin and their
support. O, spire oor h< ma.<! The love we expe
rience there gives us our faith in an intimate good
nefes; the puri y and disinterested tenderness of
home is our foretaste and oar earnest ->f a be*ter
world, fn the relations there cß’al iished and fos
tered, do we find through l< o the chief solace and
joy of existence. What friends de-erve ibo name
compared with those whom a birth-right gave us.
One mother is worth a th >usand h iea<*s, one si-ter
dearer and tiuer twenty intimate ompauicns.
We who have { loyed on tho some hearth under the
lights of !«mile, who date ba k to the bMjjto season ol
; w? whoso vetns ram'the- ssfbo
blood, do we not id that ysars only make more sa
cred and importn.r. th* tie ihit binds us 1 Coldness
may spring up, distance tuay teptrate, different
spheres may divide—but those who can love any
thing, who continue love at all, must find that the
friends whom God himself gave are wholly unlike
any we can choose fur ourselves, un i that the yearn
ing fir these is the strongest spark in our expiring
affection.
Wit and Hlm©r.—Tho following is from
Valantine’e wluine of Wi; and Humor. It
will bo recogzizcd ai a part of one of his
lectures, by these who have laughed tbena
selves eore over it:
“Mr. President, I wish friends in the fore
tiri rv uumild ctrii’iih tin Pit friMr<<id
• part of the meeting would speak up, eo inenes
' having iu the back pa-t of the meeting can
i hear what’s going on in the front part of the
i ra» eiing. It is almost impossible fjr friend*
! in the back part of the meeting to hear what’s
i going on in the front part ol the meeting
' Friends in the back part of the meeting led
; hr much interested us friends in the fore part
i of ‘.he meeting; and it is highly necessary ilia!
friends in the fore part of the meeting should
speak up so that friends siring in the back pari
of the meeting can hear what’s going o» in the
front part of the meeting. And, there
fore, 1 say that if friends in the fore
part of the meeting would speak up so
that we sitting in the back part of the meeting
could hear what’s going on in the front part of
the meeting, it would be very satisfactory to
friends in the b»ck part of the meeting.”
Thk Proqrkss of Temperance.—Accord
' ing to the most authentic advioes. the total
quantity of tea coffee and cocoa consumed in
the year ending sth Jan , 183 d, amounted to
60 000.000 pounds. In 1650 it amounted to
87,000 000 pounds, being an increase of 27 -
000 OUO pounds. The total quantity of spirit®,
wine Mild beer consumed in 18’36. win 628 000
OCO gallons. In 1850 it was 583 000.000 gal
oni, Deing a decrease of 40.000.000 gallons.
Had the population of 1840-50 drank ol coffee,
tea and cocoa, the suns quantity per head as
the population of 1835-6, the increase in the
consumption of these articles would have been
only Un millions of pounds, whereas it has
been nearly twenty seven millions of pounds,
or considerably more than one third; and had
the population of 1849- 50 drank of spirits,
wine, and beer, the same quantity per head as
the population of 1835 ’6, the increase in the
consumption of these articles would have been
one hundred millions of gallons , whereas there
has I «en a decrease of forty millions of gallons,
showing the actual difference, taking the in
crease of population into account, to be up
wards of one hundred acd forty millions of
gallons or more than a film pari of the entire
quantity consumed in 1336.— Philadelphia Inq
Irish Potatoes—New Crof.—James W.
Gordon, of inis county, presented us on
Tuesday last, the 11:h inst , with a fine mess
of lri*h Potatoes, many of them fully a® large
as hen’s eggs, of this year’s growth He had
left some of the potatoes undug in the ground
where hey grew last year. About Christmas
last he covered the ground over with straw
about 18 inches thick During the warm days
in January, he discovered the potatoe vines.
• coming up through tne straw, and concluded
! j to let the.a graw and oee what they would do
’ The lastspe’l of cold weather killed the vines,
» and on examination, he feuEd them dead and
rotting some two or Wree inches belew the
surface of the straw, and supposing them to fe
entirely dead, ha commenced removing the
straw, and found tr his surprise, a tine crop of
young Pora oes, neatly imbedded under the
s-raw, and to all appearance, in -t very flourish
ing condition. lie also states that many of the
old Potatoes had taken a second growth and
attained a very large size.— Griffin Union.
From Arthur's Home Gazette.
Paper —The materia s upon which man
kind have contrived to display their sentiments
to the eye, have, in different ages and in differ
ent eoun rtes. been extremely various. Tr>e
most ancient were stone and plates of me al.—
Tables of wood, particularly of cedar, were
afterwards used. Tfie«e were followed by tn
blets. written on, according to the fashion of
the time, either with iron bodkius, the bones
•f birds, or reed pens. The papyrus was
next invented. Ii was formed of the interior
of the stalks of the papyrus.a p ant abund tnt
ly produced in Egvpt. The date of its dis
covery is still in dispute, though there is strong
evidence of its having been ised iu Egypt
‘4OOO years before the Christian era. It whs
generally employed as a writing material down
to the end of the century. Parchment was
the nest material used It had been invented
some ten centuries previous, but was not ex
tensively employed uulii tbe eighth century es
our era. Parchment, cn accGnnt of its great
durability, is still used upon all important occa
sions. The next improvement in paper was its
manufacture from cotton. This cannot b*
traced farther back than the ten h century;
and the oldest manuscript docament written
on cotton paper is dated 1050. When or by
whom linen paper, which is new in use. wai
invented, seems uncertain. The generally ol
writers date its discovery in the eleventh oi
twelfth century, and the honor of its invention
is claimed not only by different but distant na
ties*. Tiie Cninese, however, appe.-r to hsv«
tuo best pretensions- The first book printec
on paper manufactured n England, was puo
hshed about the yea.'
Ciaetssuti, JfurrA 7.—The cholera baa ap
peered iu a uaitd term thr ughout various part
f the West, but mostly aleng the river.
From tho Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Mosaic account of the Creation*
Prof. Mitchel's Lectures.— ln his second
lecture—already briefly noticed in our columns
i —the Professor in detail, eloquently and lucid
’ ly, alluded to the process of tho French aatron
i omer, and the contemporaneous calculations
of Adams in England, in pointing nut the
’ precis© place in the heavens to which astrono
i mors might direct their telescopes, and behold
' a new and as yet unknown planet. Although
i this discovery has been variously discussed
and often explained in the public journals du
ring the last four years, no audience has per
haps met an exposition so clear, connected and
pertinently and forcibly stated. Subsequent
investigations had net verified the perfect ac
curacy of the prediction of Le Verrier. Still
fits extraordinary power as a Geome’or. and
the herculean task he accomplished, in begin
ning de novo, an entirely new examination of
the planetary worlds, and the fact, that a new
world was found nearly in the spot ho pointed
out, hud justly wreathed for him an unfading
laurel. Had he marked the place of this new
planet with even less of mathematical preci
sion, the honor of tne discovery would have
been given to him alone.
He then discussed the harmony between the
Mosaic account of the Croatian, as given in
Grenceis, and some of the mere import-nt
truths disclosed by modern discoveries in As
ronomy—ail of which ware in elucidation and
in direct proof of the inspiration of the Bible.
So far from invalidating it, every ray of light
Ahich came to u« from tho new discoveries in
his science, seemed to him to converge in a
’’;“ct focal light to prove its inspiration with
' ithout admiuiug it as tno true theory of the
formation of our system* he explained briefly
the Nebular Hypothesia. This theory suppo
ses that the sun once filled the entire orbit of
the most remote planet, which row is Neptune
—an orbit of six hundred thousand mil'ion miles
in diameter; that out of a mighty mass of matter
tu thia nebulous stats a system Idea oars has
been formed. This maos once put id motion,
and left to itself, would soon assume a globular
fcrao, as water or aay other liquid. The effect
of this rotary motion might be illustrated as
follews:—A ball attached to a cord, and put
in rotary motion, will draw upon tho cord, and
the baud or the point to which it ia attached,
with more and more power as the motion is
increased. Now take this iiameuse miss, and
attach it to a radius in space, and it will go on
moving mors rapidly. As the motion increases,
the surface will tend to fly off*. If the motion
of the earth wore seventeen limes more rap’d,
there would be an exact counter-bahnce with
gravitation, and, if it increased, things would
riy off. The equator of the revolving mass
would come oft', and. in niseteen cases out of
twenty, it would be a ring. It now becomes a
planet, aud the sun has power to keep it iu
► pace. As ages roll away, another flies off, and
becomes stable. The first planet will move in
the orbit of the equator at the time it came off,
and in the direction of that body, and hence
we account far the fact that all the planets move
in the same direction
Now in re erencc te the account of the Cre
ation given by Moses, if we adopt tho general
ly believed opinion, that God began the crea
tion about seven thousand years ago, then vve
must admit that He caused this immense river
of light, which is now being poured on the
earth, to flash forth instantaneously ; otherwise
the light from many of the stars would not yet
hase reached us. since, in some cases, it re
quires many thousands of years. Such an
admission would be doing violence to nature.
All the processes of formation and growth ia
nature were gradual.
We are told that in the beginning God cre
ated the heavens aud the earth. We know no?
when this beginning was, and the arithmetic of
heaven only can tell. If you fix the time to be
about seven thousand years since, then you
cannot reconcile it with the secund verse, for
here it is said that the earih was without form
and void. If you wished to describe thi*i mass
as it then existed, you could not have selected
better terms. Ono step farther and it is said
that darkness was on the ace of il e deep, all
was sunken in darkness and not a ray had yet
broken on tho face of the earth. Motion and
gravity were both unknown as yet Now we
com© tn the second grand movement, and the
spirit of God moved upon the face of the wa
ters; another step, and God *aid let there be
light. Here we have one of th3 most sublime
expressions th. it was ever used oy any writer
Did tho light fl ish through, or d'd it come gra
dually the mis* condunaed 1 IT our theory
be right, here is where light must have appear
ed. The mass hud become ao condensed that
it had just arrived at tint point from which it
could evolve light. Wo now arrive at tho end
of the first day’s creation, and wh it are wo to
understand by the term day a* 11 aJ hero? It
cannot have, the meaning whic*. is ordinarily
given it. W« now como to the third great pe
riod, whan God divided tho waters from the
waters. Hero it appears is a concise account
of lhe for.mation of the exopn«e A as kis prupey
ly t ran si fl tad, I«* Uk» G»ir4 Notin', '(.sod’"
£Mdl9t the waters be gathered together iu one
place. Here we reach a point where we sea
the solid fouiidatioun for the first time visible
These are exactly ©uch objects as could exist at
the time. The grass, herbs, and the fruit trees
aru now brought forward. Thai such was lhe
condition, ia such by thu revulatioas uiade by
tke earth. But we now hasten to the fourth
great period, when the I’ghis are created on
the fourih day. This atatesweiit he eaid had
perplexed many a wiser head than his. It was
his opinion that the aimunphere surrounding
this globe was not then condensed as new, and
that this condensation must have taken place
before these luminaries were visible. If you
look at the sun now, you will find an immense
atmosphere «urrounding it. Bat we were told
that these were given us for “signs and for
setons.” How wonderfully is the assertion
of this verse verified ! How utterly impose!
hie would it he to mark die progress of time
without these. By them we tread the labyrinth
of time, and go back and stand with the as
tronomer of eld, and view the same heavens
that he aid; by them we are also enabled to
stand with the astronomer of future years, and
view the heavens. The above is merely an
outline of the train of thought in this lecture,
which scarcely dees justice to the lecturer or
his subject.
Domestic Life iu Germany.
“There is certainly a kind of simplicity
about these Gormans, which one does not see
in America,” I thought to myself, as I sat in
my friend’s parlor, in a oemfortab’e house,
looking out ovei the Alster. It was rhe house
of a man of fortune, a retired merchant; yet
the whole, though bearing marks of a cultiva
ted tasta, stowed a very remarkable plaincss.
The par’or tn which I sal—a high, handsome
room. with prettily painted ceiling and tasteful
papering—had no carpet The ferniturewas
plain ; there was ne grand display of gilt and
crimson anywhere; and it was evident very
little had been laid out on mere splendor. Yet
one could net but netico how carefully even
very common implements had been chosen
with reference to grace of form. The candle
standi, the shade lamps, and even the pitcher,
or the common vase, had something exceed
ingly graceful and almost “classical” in their
shape. Th • pictures on the walls ortho table
were net expensive—often mere sketches; yet
they were very pleasant to look at, and had
not hewn placed there, evidently, mere’y be
cause ‘ pictures rr.uft be hung in every respec
table parlor.” The groups of the daguerreo
type showed the same traits; not formidable
ranks of stiff forms, but easy groups around
some animal, or in same natural position.
There were flowers, too, everywhere ; and
especially that most graceful of all fl»wer-pots.
which I bare seen alone in Germany, though I
believe it came from Italy, called the “.Imps/,”
It i« simply a half vase, very much like the
old Grecian lamp, hung with cords from the
ceiling, with some flowering vine in it, which
twinesand wreaths around it; yet the beauty
of it all can hardly be imagined. P rhaps the
only exception in thia hou-e to the general good
:aste, was ths high white Berlin stoce. looking
hke a porcelain tower wi h gilt battlements;
but possibly on; who is accustomed to our
quiet, sombre machines, must need a little dis
cipline to get to these gay articles.
Nearly every bouse I have visited in Ham
burg has been without carpets, though of
course many are so only during the summer.
Ono notices the same kind of simplicity every
where. People do not spend as much money
aa those of the same rank would in America
Men of the higher chases travel in away a
Hernan would be ashamed to with us. In
my mode of travelling I have gore much in
the third class cars and cheap conveyances, nnd
I have been surprised al the respectable class
of persons one finds in them, iu company with
the "Banner.” Students, you know, in Ger
many always take the third class cars. It was
only the other day that, travelling in thia way,
1 n.3t a gentleman from one vs the first litera
ry families of Germany, a personal friend of
' Chevalier B*jn«>n, who evidently thought it
no more etranae that be shou’d econnmise by
travelling with the peisaau, than that he wore
woolen instead of satin. I talked with him a
' ht'le in regard to it, and he said ha was thankful
_ “there were very few circles yet in Germany
1 where poverty wm a disgrace?” Tftis gen
‘ Hemau meant to live iu one of the principal
c ues of Prussia and have, as he said,‘ all the
p ! easuresof a gentleman,” such a* music, and
the e-ijoywents of arts and society, for about
S2OO a year * And lam disposed to think,
• from al toy observe*, io a, that throughout Eu
■ rope the middle classes spend less money, and
• are contented to retire from business with lesj,
1 ’han the name classes in our country. Os
• course, when one comes to the higher classes
J uu comparison can be made. But among ths
*. lawyers, and merchants, and literary men,
1 there is much less money circulating, and it is
I made with considerable more difficulty; so
that naturally there wou'd be a difference in
8 tiie spending of it. I have heard Amerioaos
fe sometim is call the Germans mean in money
• ma-.tors. but I think it has been from an igno-
II rance of thia fact. For certainly in all that be
> longs to hospitality, and kind, liberal treatment
15 of strangers, they are beyond any people 1
>! have ever met. But the more I see them, and
>r especially those of the cui ivated classes, the
n mare lam surprised at thia trait I mentioned
1 above—this simplicity, and this opeuh&artcd
e good nature, or “GatmuPag&eit,” as toey call
‘d it For al these qualities are connected, and
they certainty give an aspect to the German
character which scarcely any other nanon has.
I have sometimes thought something of the
p- tame tai s appeared in their literature, one
ns flails so hit e sumie wit or honor in it; and
whoa wit does appear, it is so broad or gro
tesque that one could hardly call it wit. For 1
instance, no Punch could ever be sustained
among tho Germans at the present day ; and
' I believe no satiriat like cither Swift or Dickens >
1 has over appeared among them lam not dis
posed to attach quite as much value to this i
“good nature” of the Germans as I did once. :
1 It seems rather the result of circumstances
than of any hard struggle with ‘ bad nature.”
’ The nation has long been in a ©ituatien where
they were shut out from many of the most
' absorbing and intense struggles of life; and
1 their activity has expended iteeif very much on
j abstract subject. They have become easy and
good-natured because there was so little to dis
turb them. However, this is mere theorising,
and may be taken lor what it is worth
We should remember in regard to lhe econ
omy of the Germans, that it is not a mere at
tempt to save money lor the sake of saving.
. It seems to bo merely the choosing of one class
of pleasures rather than another. The Haus
frau prefers being without an expensive carpet
for the sake of having many tasteful objects
around her, or that she may have more means
for social company. Tne gentleman goes on
tho fore-deck of the steamboat, so that he may
have more money for the next concert, or may
be able to fill his library belter.—C. S. in lhe
Independent.
The Norman Face.—The beauty of the
Norman is a proverb all over the world. Nor
has the universal admiration bestowed upon
it inthe slighted degree exaggerated its lofty
and exquisite character. The men, in their
way, are as handsome as the women. They
have the fine oval face, sedate, bright ©yes,
and dear complexion of the eld raoe. You
U*»ok in ' • ii.n of ibeir Teutonic
decent in these sculptured features; the
skin and hair alone suggesting a remiitisesnee
of their Saxon ancestry. The women are
remaikable for the natural digoity of their
carriage, which harmonizes strikingly with
their tall and commanding figures, and the
gravity and reserve of their expression. Like
lhe men their faces are oval, with the slightly
acquiliue nose, large flashing eyes, and curved
lips.
Their complexions are peculiarly transpa
rent, the cheeks mantling over with a blush,
rich in color, but delicate in its diffusion. A
smile sits in their eyas, but the most inquisi
tive observer cannot delect in their looks or
manners the remotest indication of levity. A
sweet seriousness is their predominant char
acteristic It is strange enough to an English
manto meetgroups of these people, men and
women, reproducing before our eyes that
famous Norman head with which we all are
so familiar. It carries us back at once to the
eleventh century. Wherever we turn, we
see. as in a magic glass, William the Conquer
or moving up lhe streets and highways.—
Bayside Pictures, in Bentley's Miscellany.
Compliment to American Ship Builders
—An English mercantile house in New l r ork
received by lhe Pacific orders from parlies is
England to have a clipper ship of 1,100 tuns
built in this country. Tne admirable running
qualities of the clipper line between our pons
and San Francisco seems to have waked up
the English merchants, and the receipt of
such an order hero is a tracit acknowledgement
of the superior skill of Anrricau shipwrights.
We may also mention, as another complimen
tary circumstance, lhe fact that the British
Government lias chartered tho American clip
per ship Raman, to convey troops to Bombay.
Balt. Sun.
Extraordinary Precocity.—Tho Fort
Smith (Ark.) Herald says there is at present
living iH that place a lad. nine years of age, who
speaks and writes the Hebrew, Latin, French.
Spanish and Italian languages with as much
ease and fluency as he dues the English He
is of humble parentage, but possesses indomita
ble perseverance. Th© Herald learns that an
effort is to be made to procure him further ad
vantages.
Newnan Seminary.—During court week
at Newnan, we had the pleasure of visiting the
Seminary, and are constrained lo say, in our
opinion it will favorably compare with any
similar institution in the S'ate, or indeed in
the Sjuth The principal Mr. M P. Kellogg,
has spared no pains or reasonable expense to
famish the institution with suitable Apparatus
—among which, we were pleased to notice
Wightman’s Improved Leslie Air Pump, with
the accompaniments, in which is a High Lifter
of sufficient power t7 raise a man by pressure
of Air. Feather and Gninea Apparatus of two
varieties, showing that light and heavy bodies
fall in the same time when lhe resistance of
air is removed. Electrical Machines, 24 inch
plate with lhe accompaniments. Amongst the
electrical jars, is one that Dr. Franklin used
in performing his experiments, in this branch
of Natural Philosophy. It was presented to
Mr Kellogg, by James M. Wightman, Esq.,
of Boston. It bears prima facie evidence of
its authenticity.
A fine ©hip Barometer, Thermometers,
Rain Guxge, aqd all that are necessary
"* mak 1 uglhotoorologicaTdeserVSlUJlss7 A table
is kept et the Seminary. A QuahnniT" ana
Surveying Instruments. Eleelro-Magnetism
is illustrated by one of Morse’s fine working
Telegraph Machines. A Magneto -Electric
Machme, Batteries of various descriptions.
Mechanics fully illustrated. Optics by aspleti
<!id Magic Lantern. Compound Acrumatio
Mieroscopo. A variety of Mirrors* Lenses,
aud a superb Telescope, just imported from
Europe Chemistry by a large amount of
Apara us, in which is the Compound Blow
Pipe, Parabolic Mirrors, <fcc. A great variety
of Maps, Charts, &c.
In the Seminary is a Library of 500 volumes.
There are at present about 190 pupils in at
tendance.—Griffin Union.
Marietta Schools.—There are few places
in our State that poesass greaier advantages or
hold out stronger indncemenls to parents anx
ious for the welfare of their children than
Marietta. Its elevated position, healthy cli
mate and good water make our village a most
favorable point lor the establishment of go id
school). Theicare now engaged in instruc
tion, or will be in the course of the present
year in this placa, more 'han twenty persons
in someone or other department of Education.
Besides the Military School, there are for boys
and youths the Male Academy under Col, A
Alden, r e School of Rev. Mr. Hunt, that of
Air. Heath, and that of Mr. Clarke. Then
there is the School for yonug ladies, of Mr.
Wayland, the Female Academy under Miss
Alden, Kennesaw Female Seminary in conn c
tion wi h St. James* Church, Rev M'. Eatun’s
Female Institute, and also the private Schoo)
of Mrs Maddox, and ‘hat of Mrs. Wrght
There is no subject o r trore importance to the
prosperity of Marietta thau the efficiency and
success of its schools. Every good citizen will
feel an interest in the encouragement o' ita
many able and devoted Teachers.—Ada.
Academies add Colleges of New York
—AI a meeting of the Regents of the Univer
sity, held at Albany, on Friday las!, an annual
report was made. Reports were received
from eleven colleges, (two of them including
the medical branches of the institutions.) The
students in these are as follows
LZTBRARY COLLEGES.
Columbia College 118
Union College .....210
Hamilton College 151
Geneva College 42
University City of New York 115
Madison University.......... 75
St. John’s College. ........................... 6S
Genesee College.. .......a. 48
The total number reported in 1350 was 948
MEDICAL COLLEGES.
College of Physicians and Purgeons, N. York 2'30
Geneva Medical Institution !♦>!
University of the City of New Yorti 11l
Albany Medical College 92
Medical Department University of Buffalo.. . .115
9’9
The total number reported in 1550 was 818
The whole number of academies at the date
of the reports, subject to the visitation of the
Regents, was 204. Os thes •, 7 had been in
corporated since March 1, 1850, by the Re
gents, and 2 by the Legislature ; of these 196
had reported. The number of students for
the term ending nearest to January 1. 1851,
was 15 447, while at same time in 1850, it was
15,000. The whole number attending during
the year had been 31 859, while that of 1850
was 28,941. The number claimed as classical
students, or students in the higher branches of
English education, or both, was 17.993.
The total amount of fixed capital, in lots,
buildings, libraries, philosophical apparatus,
and in other property get apart for the support
of the Ac »demie« wai §1 6J4 €69 ; while that
reported for l“50 was $1,686,054. The deb’B
had. however, increased from $lO4 749, in
1850, to $169 718 in 1851.— Com. Ado.
Scientific exploration of Europeas vol
canoes —Among the passenger* by th*; steam
er Baltic to Liverpool, are Dr Benjamin Sdfi
man, Professor of Geolog . &c. in Yale Col
lege, his son. Professor rfd i au. junior, of the
same in? itu ion, who vi i: Europe for the pur
pose chiefly ol making a geogfaptreal explora
tion of the central end fourhern portions of that
continent The N. V. Post states that irn nedi
ately on reaching Liverpool, they will proceed
to the continent, an 1 after visiting the voicanic
I regions of central France, will nv.ke the tour
I of Italy, visiting Vesuvius and E na. and will
• return to England in lime to attend the meeting
of the British .Academy of Science, which
I takes place at Ipswich in July. They wui
• I subsequently visit Switzerland and the Alps,
f • and return to this country iu the autumn.
!
Mock Turtle. —Take two calf 's feet, and
• one chicken, cut them into pieces us for a
!
1 osions, a large handful of parsley, and a few
1 sweet herbs ; chop them all together ; then sea
3 son the meat, let the calf’s feet stew two hoars
and a half in three quarts of water ; then put ir
’ the chicken, let it stew ha fan hour; then tak
‘ the juice of two lemons ; some cayenne pep
per ; put mat in last; let it all slew together
half an hour and serve it up m a soup-dish.
J Forced-meat balls of veal may be laid at the
'j top, and hard eggs.
d Pupl’lation or Tennes-ke. —The following
able sh«ws the population of Tennessee, and
d he increase since 184 U:
u Increase
l - East Tennessee 262 312 35 4:
e Middle “ 477/86 65,971
e West “ 256,b00 7U.89.
d
>. Total 1.006,898 175,331
VOL.LXV—NEW SERIES VOL.XV--NO. 11*
From the Baltimore American, Bth inst.
Further by the Pacific.
The Pacific sailed from Liverpool on the
22d nit., and arrived al Now York oh Thnrs
day afternoon, in a run of twelve days and
: two hours .across the Atlantic—the second
wonderful winter passage of the Ccllina steam*
ers The Baltic, it will be recollected, made a
similar short run last month.
The Franklin arrived st Cowes at 3 P. M ,
on the 20th. »he left New York on the after
noon of the 8:h Feb., and has thus made lhe
passage in twelve days.
The Arctic arrived a! Liverpool on the night
of Sunday the I6th ult. The Arctic left New
York on the sih uh„ thus making the run to
Liverpool in a little over eleven days. This is
another excellent passage.
The Pacific sailed from Liverpool at a quar
ter past 3P. M., Feb. 22d. Lost 8 hours by
the ice (,n the Banks. Came iu contact with
it in 43 30 N. latitude, and got through in 42
30, leaving very extensive fields to the South,
also naw man? large icebergfl. Allowing for
the loss of time in the ice, the Pacific’s pass
age would bo only 11 days and 8 hours.
The Queets of Portugal gave birth lo a prin
cess on the 3d ult. It died immediately after
its birth
American securities ia the London market
wera without change on the 21st ult. Annex
ed were the quotations 00 that day: United
Slates Fives, 1853, 92 a 93; do sixes, 1662,
102A a 103; do do, 1868, 108$ a 109 ; do six
per cent slock, 1867. 104 a 105.
England.— Liverpool, 22d Fob., 1851.—Tho
political nows is interesting in tho extreme.
On Monday the Cheneellor of Exchequer
brought his *• budget’ before the House of
Commons, from which it appeared that the
surplus revenue for the year, was £2,500 000,
nearly half of which he proposes to apply r.o
the liquidating of the National debt.
With the remaining portion es the surplus,
he deals as follows: He proposes to abolirb
the windew duty altogether, which produced
£1,800,060 and ho imposes a henae duty
which is estimated to yield £1,100.060. All
houses uuder £2O a year arc to be exempt
from the duty; those above£2o a year are to
pay two- birds of the amount now paid for
window duty. New Hanses above the value
of £2O, are hereafter to be charged at the rate
of five per cent., excepting shop and farm
aauds, which, in certain cases, will only pay
9d on the pound. By this arrangement, he
contends 160,000 houses will be exempted frees
taxation altogether. The duty on coffee of all
kinds is to be reduced from six pence to three
pence per lb., and foreign chicory is to be
charged the same duty as coffee. The loss to
the exchequer is calculated at £l7O 000. This
is considered tube the most judicious feature in
the budget. To encourage the ship building,
the Chancellor proposer to remit half lhe duty
on foreign timber, the loss on which wll be
£2BO 000. The reduction of lhe differential
duty on sugar this year, w’ill entail a loss of
£330,000. The other remissions are £3O 000
on seeds used by farmers, and £150,000 at
present incurred by lhe agricultural districts
for the conveyance of pauper lunatics, which
is to be transferred to lhe consolidated fund.
Ho also proposes to continue the income tax
for another three yean?, and with these state
ments callfl upon the House to sanction the es
timates. The debate upon the main features
of the budget was to have taken place last night,
but Lord John Russel begged amid the pro
found silence of tho House, to have it post
poned until Monday next. This motion wan
agreed to.
The following is a copy of the address pre -
sented to Her Majesty in tho Royal closet on
the 1 Ilia ult., by the Lords Vaux* Dormer, and
Lovat, and signed by 400,000 English Catho
lics:
“ To the Queen’s Moat Excellent Majesty.—
May it please your Majesty, we, the undersigned,
eubjects of your Majesty, residing in England, and
proft ssing the Roman Catholic religion, beg to ap
proach your Majesty’s throne, there to express our
sentiments of unimpaired and unalterable fide'ity to
your Ma jesty’s Royal person, Crown and dignity.
“ At a moment when attempts are being made to
impeuch our loyalty, we consider it a duty to give
fresh utterance to these our feelings.
“ During centuries of exclusion from the privileges
of the constituiioß, and from tha rights enjoyed by
the r fellow subjects, lhe Catholics of England re
mained true to their allegiance to the Crown of this
realm, and yielded to none in their readiness at all
limes to defend i(s rights and its prerogatives against
every fee. And now that, under your Majesty’s
wi* e rule, we enjoy equal participation with others
in the benefits of the constitution, wc are more than
ever animated with the same sentiments of fidelity
and attachment, and are equally ready lo give proof,
when occasion may present itself, of the sincerity of
cur loyal professions.
“ The dearest of the privileges to which we have
thus been admitted by the wisdom of the British Le
gislature is that of openly professing and practicing
the religion of our lathers, in communion with the
See of Rome. Under its teaching we have over
learnt as a most sacred lesson to give to Caasar. as
wo give to God the things that are of God. In what
ever. therefore, our Church has nt any time done for
establishing itt- regular system of goverament awioog
rirs inernbmtTiWx beg roost fervently
nd ? nnsi Kin merely, to Mai city that ths
organization granted to us is
and its authority purely spiritual.
41 But it leaves untouched every title of your Majes
ty’s rights, authority, power, jurisdiction and prero
gative, as our Sovereign and ae Sovereign ovsr these
realms, and does not in the least wi-e diminish or
impair our profound reverence, our loyalty fidelity
and attachment te your Majesty’s august person and
throne. And we humbly assure your Majesty that
among your Majesty’s subjects there exists no class
who more solemnly, more continually, or more fer-
vently pray for the stability of your M• jetty’s throne,
for the preservation of your M ijesty’s life, and for
the profperitv of your Majesty’s empire, than the
Cathcltca es Rngland. in whon religion loyalty is a
Mori>d dsty and obedience a Christian virtue ”
Ilia Excellency, the American Minister, and
Mrs. Aho t Lawrbiice had a grand reception on
Thursday night at the Ametiean Legation in
Piccadilly, London ; and no withstanding the
unfavorable state of th * weather, Hot less th in
400 personages of rank graced the beautiful
saloons of the legation by their presence.
The anihofities of Southampton have re
ceived official information that a number of
exiles, detamed in Turkey, would shortly ar
rive et that port.
The Catholics of Ireland and England have
commenced a fomiid b?e agitation against the
miuiet* ral measure in reference to (heir re
ligion. Mseuugs hav .* been held in Manches
ter, Dub in, &c. Tne weathet is extremely
mild.
T’he state of trade in general is good, though
the political events of the psst week have rath
er had a tendency to depress it
The steam ship Atlantic, which had been
lying since her return at her mooriugs in the
Sloyne. was on Wednesday lowed into ’he
HusKisson Lock, where she is expected to lie
for about three mouthi, by which time the will
again be ready for sea.
Tucker &. Co ,of Liverpool, have addressed
a letter to the London Times, in which they
state, that if any English geniemen back them,
they will accept the challenge of the Ameri
cans, and build a vessel of 1,600 tons, or up
ward*, to surpass in speed any of like pro
portions that may be built in /America
Supposed Nexts of Sir John Prnnklin.— An
extra published hy the Colombo Observer
contains, under Singapore, January 6, the fol
lowing “ 1 have it in my power this month
to give yen later information of the search
which is being prosecuted for the recovery of
Sir J. Fianklin and bi< party, than even the
Admiralty itself is of. Her Majesty’s
surveying ship Herald arrived here from the
Arc ic regions, via the Sandwich Inlands and
Hong Kong, during the last week and she has
the latent accounts frem the far nertb. Near the
extreme station of the Russian fur company
they learned from the natives that a party of
white men had been encamped 300 or 400
indeK inland, that the Rils ans had made an at
tempt to supply them with previsionsand ne
ccbsaries. but the natives who are at enmity
with the Russians had frustrated all attempts
No communication coaid be opened with
the spot where they were said to be, as a hos
tile tribe intervened. From the Esquimaux
they had this vague story very satisfactorily
confirmed, with the addition that the whites
and natives having qaar re I led the former had
’ been murdered. As to the possibility of those
unfortunates being Sir John Franklin’s party,
I leave you and your readers who have pa d
' attention to the case in ail its bearings to judge
. Whether these men spoken of were er not fiir
I John’s company, little hopvsean now be enter
I tained of finding them alive, as their provi-
sions must have been expended one year, and
their fuel which is as neeessary must have been
burned oat two years since.”
t Ireland.— The only news of interest, by
this arrival, from Ireland, is reports of large
j public meetings; held to condemn and de
-1 nonnee the penal enactments proposed by
Lord John Russell. against the assumption of
lilies by the Roman Catholic Clergy. Lord
John’s resignation will, of coarse, entirely
change the complexion of this difficulty. Te
nauirigbt meetings are still bei:;g held tn vari
ous parts of the lelasd.
'• France. — Political events in France have not
at racied, this week, so much public interest av
- at previous intervals; but we are vt-ry much
* deceived if greater intrigue and greater ac
tivity have not been brought into p‘ay, th'eat-
1 erm?, in the sequel, more danger to the peace
c of Europe than, perhaps, £at any antecedent
r period during the last three years. We in
ll formed our readers.-, last week, of the re»olu
g cion taken at Dresden, under the sar ction <»f
h he Emperor ot Russia, to admit Austria into
ii the new German Confederition, with all her
i. Solave and I’alian provinces—a pretty scheme
whereby the barbarian Croats from the south
will be sent t> Hamburg to keep down the
n spirit of revolution in that city, whilst the sturdy
e Germans will he marched southward to crush
e any of AL Mazzini’s exploits in that quarter.
v This is the German “ Unity” we have never
L ceased to deride and condemn, having be. n all
■f. along quite alive to the consequences. But,
of course, far higher political considerations,
as they affect the peace of the continent, are
, involve lin this bold, this rash attempt of the
r Xew Holy Alliance. As we predic ed Lord
i Palmers.on, on the part of England, has p*«-
e tested, in the strongest manner, that we will net
perai: the balance of power, as ie:tled by the
treaty of Vienna, to be disturbed, unless wi-h
g ihe lull consent of the contracting pa: ties, *o
3 that treaty. But with wha rver iaeln g o.’ r*-
ssnimeat we mar vie** ibis aggrewre, a< *e
». -Mid last week. Franco i< the mos
ui*-diate:y a <d directly in ••rested in pi even ; g
t its consummation.
Toe Emulative Assembly, on accent of tr e
division-, watch render it a
H has not yet pronounced its opitien; but ia ah
diplomatic cirels. in Paris the utmost excite
ment prevail, upon the .abject.
We have contradictory report, abent the
concentration of the Au.tr,.. f orc ., OB lhß
frontier, of Lombardy; but it is certain that
Switzerland is threatened with absorption by
Germany, and the first soldier who ■ »-m e« the
frontier, and enter, the Cantons, -u'd be a
clear caeue belli, and the signal for Frano. to
march her armie. to the Rhine and avroaa the
Alps and a general war would be inevitable.
Napoleon at the weak period, of hi. career,
turned t» Russia for support to enabl. him to
clutch the imperial crown; when he became
Emperor, he alternately cajoled Alexander and
invaded his dominions. Louis Nspsleen
seems, just at this juncture, to be loookiag for
support to Russia. Will he prefer the c.rewee
of the Emperor Nicholas to the glory ant) in ,'c
pendence of France f Our own opinion is
that he cures not aru«h what happens, so that
he can compass his ambitions projects-
The Legislative Assemble has been occupied
with the law relating to Communal arrngo
ments, and the upshot of their effxrt. st ems
likely to be the perpetuajon of that centrali
zing system whielt make. Parte ths su..renin
central despotic authority, and which keeps
the peop'e in the departments in pref'' nd u
noranco of the de’aik of mu. ict pa.! gever io nt,
China— The t.-p-ri from Can'in is I :t .
Cenuniseionir Lin, who r ■ -zed '.be E ; li.-.i
opium in 1&36 is deed. Murders f •>
seem to be os riis as <> <r in tiie Rd hi vua*, Jfe
notwithstanding all tile al!< g. d seven.y "f the
.nitaornic- i>, • • ■ « .
tea to Gteat-Brinur; iio 3lKr, D»rmgr<r.
1850, were '' ■■ ■- ■ ..... .33*
lbs. the prev '
Penang. Xub-ourj.
Dixey, of Ni
wrecked, and plundered by the native, of about
sls 000, in Regus Bay, Ist Nov.; crew saved.
Egypt —lt would appear by the new. from
Alexandria that tie Porte h« required the
Viceroy of Egypt te reduce hisarmy o 20 000
men, p ace ha. fleet at the disposal of the Sal
tan, and comply with many miner arrange
merit. of an equally unsatisfactory character.
The practical reply to this has been, that iho
Viceroy has ordered new l.viss of 4* 000 aseu
for his land forces and 15 000 for hi. navy, and
he threaten’, te resist the Snltan'a demand.;
necessary, by force of arias.
Parther Items by the Pacific,
Franee.— The report of the Austrian ag
gression on Switzerland and Italy exoites an
easiness A strong French protest te spoken
of. The President’s firm determination to
refuse a public subscription raise, his popu
larity.
The second Council of War sitting at Ly
ons have sentenced a number of persons—
three to two years imprisonment, two to one
year, six to six month.’, and all to 500 francs
fine, and interdiction from civil rights daring
three and five years, for having belonged to a
•ocrot soeiety, the chief seat of whioh was at
Sauls, in the Department of the Haute-
Soane.
The Moniteur announces that varioas chan
ges have been made among the judicial func
tionaries in the Departments.
The Menitenr announces the appointment
of General llerbillion to the commaud of the
first Brigade of the army of Paris, vice Julien,
' resigned. General Levaillant has been ap
pointed to the command of Toulon, vise Gen.
llerbillion ; and Gen. Mellinet te the com
mand of Lyons, vice Levaillant.
1 Mr Germain Sarrut, a member of the lato
constituent Assembly, has been sentenced to
imprisonment and fine for belonging to an il
legal eociaty.
Germany— lt is authoritatively stated that
Anstriaand Prussia intend to monopolise the
military system, and to occupy the most im
potent position in Germany. An army of
the two powers will occupy the country from
Ba.'adt to Dusseldorf, with fit headquarters at
Mayence and Frankfort. Vienna letters con
tradict the late rumor of the intended move
ment of the Hesse and Holstein troops into
the Austrian provinces. They likewise con
tradict the rumor of a proposed Russian loan
of 160.000,009 florins. The Breslau Zeitnng
states that the concentration of large masses of
troops in and around Vienna tad given rise to
the most alarming rumors.
Advices from Berlin state that at one o'clock
on the Idth inst. Baron Manteuffel returned
most unexpectedly from Dresden He was
immediately admitted to an audience by the
King. It was slated that Baron Manteuffel
would return to Dresden on tbo 19ih. The
Ministerial papers sta e that France will me
diate between Germany and Switzerland, aud
that England intends to support the latter pow
' er. The German States will reserve their
measures until the Central Executive Power
; shall have been constituted. Our advices from
' Cassel are of Feb. 17. The Bavetteti troops
in Hesse have been ordered to return to thuir
' own country. They are to march ou the 24th
tost ' 'faliifil'igiiiMMßMiMMii
, It is aunouucoi that
I madn n» appoprgn£O-M|t '
rather surori
Island. He and Mazzi
pie mean-, ere making
moms lor the revolutionizing of Italy in
' the Spring. All kinds of snrmtees are
thrown out respecting their allege! iiitentinis,
Arckbithrift Hugh sat Rome— i'.e Ron.au
correspondent ol the Daily News writes on
, Feb. 4, as follows: —Arche shop H
mixed congregation in the Church of Saint.
a „. ». r r» ■ _ .. .
Andreadcis Fra te increases in number ua
tiach sjcceeding Sunday, as many p. --Starrs
are induced b> cariosity to listen to his “ißi*-
lar arguments Dr. Hughes’topic©.■ •-
fore yesterday wa« t!;e unity <»| the C.m • <•■*», ?•
support ot winch he p'odieted the f»r <- . u
tfciv nfall of Pr.»(c«t-.a- Min, ssyin*' » r n
long it will have p -e’iftfd from 6-,. did
as compile’,} r• • i<utal urn /i
aia e and Manh’i '
He mfciDim’H ; N. co ■v a “plori. u * |. t
t. fli rted pun ill. ’ Hi- )to U’i i I -I •* ,
p »<iay of e, E ./ , •* a.;d Pr.v* i t v*i.b a
treed im h s-” cOu.ilcrod . > i»&
ini’FiRPN"•% .• *i ’’y ol '!••> p ilei’,
'foo much ent .t-itsm Lu ver. may ba par
donable in Df. H r- -’ ’ L-L, as it is go»,eiaiiy
believed mat be i prc.np i» ;» for a cardinal s
hat. Whui tl.c Yan‘. 'u;-. w*i say on seeing eno
us the.r na'uruhz d coun r « men don the scar
let robes, may be . d lr m the feci that
they strongly object* I •<» Dr ILighet’ having
assumed the three corm' red hat. purple stock
ings, and gold chain ot a m hsxgtutre, on his
arrival at R>me ; it being consntaied beneath
the dignity ot an American citizen to put ou
any other garb than that of hts own country,
a principle on which the diplomat c represen
tatives ot the Unite«l State- act in defiance of
•he court enqueue of Europe »n Governments.
Most sensible Americans with wh. m I have
bad an opporturii'y of discussing the subject,
seem to < eirider that although the promotion
of Archbishop Hughes to the Sacred College
will be a mt tier us perfect indifference to their
coun'rymen m general, it will not be faverable
to the spread of Cathol.'cism in the New
World, on account of the jealousy with which
an assumption of superiority by any clans of
religionanes is regarded
Turkey— The Hungarians.— lt it said that
General Dembinski has been sent to Constan
tinople, but that Kossuth and the others are
still at Kutahia. AH of the refugees have left
Shumla.
A letter from Trieste, of Feb. 12, gives
some add.lional particulars under date of Alex
andria, 6ih inst. It says:
• The Sublime Porle has sent instructions to
the Egyptian Government to make the follow
ing reforms iu the administration of the coun
try : 1. Reduction of the existing land tax to
one-third of its present amount. 2 Reduction
of the standing army of Egypt to 20,000 men.
3. Total dismantling of the fleet, or rather to
place it at the entire disposal of the Porte. 4.
Fixed residence of a Turkish General Inspec
tor in Egypt (Mohammed Ali Pacha ) 5 Re
gulation of the revenues of the Egyptian
princes on a fixed scale—abeut as follows:
Abbas Pacha (the Viceroy 7) from 300 to bOO
drachmas; said Pacha, (his uncle,) 150 080
drachmas; the remaining sous of the late Me
homed Ali, 75,000 yearly. Abbas Pack a is no
ways incline i to comply with these requeue,
but will, if necessary, oppose them by arms;
he has ordered a levy of 40 000 men, 25 000
for the army, and 15 000 for equipping the
fleet, which io to be done with all {possible
speed,”
Hex Cotton.— We understand that Cheya-
lier Claussen has abandoned the idea of spin
ning ti.ix on the ordinary oolton machinery.
The common system ofcardiag cotton is found
not to be at all applicable to the flax fibre, and
that a more extensive aud tedious process will
have to bo adopted.
The “Yorkshire.”— The ship Yorkshire, of
New Vork, which sailed from Liverpool or the
4 h January, bound foi New York, with a gen
eral cargo and 315 emigrants, encountered
very severe gales from the westward until the
10m ult, when it was discovered that the rud
der was damaged After securing it as well as
t cireninstances would allow, the vessel bure up
. for the ncare t port, with favorable winds from
i tne westward.
On the morning of Wednesday last, when
- off Holy head, the ebb tide took the ship on
he larboard bow, and forced her into Holy
: nead Biy : when she came near the land *ho
let go an anchor, which brought ths ship up ;
and when the tida had ebbed cobside a-ily. she
r uegan to strike on the bottom. The slips
o«dt was then etnt on shore for aaairtanee, and
shortly after ene wa» boarded by a p -ot *‘®d
Mr Jones, the agent for Lloyd s. By the aid
•jf suuie steamers, and other boats, th- York
shire was towed into harbor, when ail the i as
sengere were*afely landed, and forwards j in a
steamer to Liverpool.
Rumis Banditti The followin? priiate let-
I ter describes a most daring act
“ Rome Jan. 31 1 have to d.y to relate
< no-’ sin ’alar sod almost incredi e la-1. the
» iuthent; 1’ o| wl.irh, however, is vsieb'i.
> oy the most incontestable evidence, ir®; tiding
I ? hat of Otlici”l reports.
On the 27;h of this month the thua'zieal
corps of Fc r»ni-PopOi! wae playing the Z '4ti '<
Cce/ar Ferhni Pop :li i* a tow.i of
iboc 4.SJO irr*bi->.ti?B ; enclosed by a high
entered by tt*o gMes, and -car* y live®
mises trorr: t. f e l v. uof i , c» i. •! wh.cn it . a
1 kind of fubu.b. Ey & o clock in th*; c»• ». ■g,
• sti n-ur w '* iGxP’ or n n i a.y,
I d movement u - vi--r rr-r*** ir - ■- *,
windows are cm*-I.', c l 'i'.n3 ife."»* i-nta • xva
5 .eared to th*-r Uui.i, me c».-ilee-bvas* s, ®r
juaires. Line x.ose .c« o: a? ivry in h®
1 eiraeto, which every cue remarks at Kou.e, is