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Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel. BY WILLIAM S. JONES. WEEKLY Cjmmitlt anirj&eittinel. <£sc^> THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. I* Published every Wednesday AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANML'M IN ADVAXCK. TO CLCBB «r INDIVIDUALS sending as Ten Dollar*, SIX copies of the P.’.per will be sent for one year, thus tar nishing the Paper at the rate of isIX COPIES Foil TEX DOLLARS, or a free copy to all who may procure us jlee subscribers, and forward us the money. CHRONICLE 80 SENTINEL DAILY ANDTItI-WEBKLY, Are also published at this office, and mailed to subscribers at Die following rates, namely: Dsii.t Pipes, if sent by mail, $7 per annum. Tai-WsHur Psper, 4 “ *» TERMS OF ADTERTISIYC. Is WSKll.T.—Sereuty-flve centa per square (10 lines or loss) for the Erst insertion, jand fifty cents for each subse quent Insertion. POETRY. From the Cincinnati Commercial. MY BIKTH-DAY. Strarure feeiings wildly throng nround my heart On this my natal day. They seem to come Like mournful spirits from the distant past, And from the dim, sad future. Down, far down Into my soul I gaic, and memory, The wizard, that bears stray in that lone realm. Calls perish 'd Joys and hopes from out their graves And Idds them glow, and live, and breathe, and I geera once again a happy chilli amid The scenes of other days, with iong-iost friends Clasping my hand, or sitting at iny side, And murmuring in my ear their gentle tones Os raolody ami love. My natal day! In other, happier years, I used to hail its advent with a thrill of Joy and pride, pnr then I deemed It hut an added link To a young life that would forever wear Tile lovely rose-tints of the morning heavens That hung serene and beautiful uhove, Unbroken by a storm-cloud, but to-day A sigh, a tear, is in my soul, to tliinx Wave after wave of my existence thus Breaks on the shore of old Eternity, And sinks to silence and to nothingness. Here In my spirits’* awful solitude I mu«e upon the thousand hopes that rushed Impatient to life’s banquet, and expired In tasting of the poison-cup they thought A boon the gods might crave. My birth-day! Years Have (lorn and left me a lone mourner. Ono Ily one I’ve seen the deeply, dearly loved, Tlie friends ami guardians of my childhood, fail* Ami witiier like the leaves when autumn sets Ills many-tinted signet on the wood*. Yet I, whose life hi this drear month began, HUH linger darkly, sadly here to weep For vanished stars and lovely blighted (lowers That shed upon my life, in brighter years, Their lustre ami their perfume. But with hopes All crushed, ami eyes bathed in the heart’s best dew, 1 lift my gaze above the earth, and read Upon the far sky’s blue ami starry scroll, A beautiful and Imly promise. Uod Watches and shields the lonely'orplian here, Ay, He who kindly tempers the cold wind To the shorn lamb, will temper life’s fierce storms To itev who calls upon Ills sacred name In deep ami fervent prayer. My natal day! ’Tls slowly melting in the twilight now, Ami soon its tints along the western sky, That seem a rose-wreath on the brow of death, Will pant away. My natal day, farewell! Oil inay’st thou, if thy light shall ever come To me again on earth, behold the hopes, That droop ami fold within nty lonely soul Their broken pinions now, soar poudly up, And revel, ’mid the glories of the sky Louisville, Ky. MATTIE From the IxmlerlUe Journal. Tito Wanderer. I’alc pilgrim from the far-off Appcntnest Wild devotee at all the shrines of old, Whore mortal hearts may worship, there is strange, Deep gloom upon thy brow, ,-uy was it tints 111 tliy bright boyhood? (ih, my childhood's friend! Had, sad has been thy destiny. A heart Which poured or Ih music, as the (lowers perfume, Clasping its loneliness around it, went Out to the coM, dark world, and struggled there, Casting a mantle o’er Its holiest throbs, And sealing up Uieir melody, until The chords but echo with u fretful strain. Oh, tliou hast wandered far in search of rest, And found it not. (Hi, glorlus gifted one! Tliy weary soul for long, long years has striven With its deep sorrow, and I may but weep To sec thee tints. All, nil Is gay around. And lute tones wildly swell, and ille away, And there are murmuring sounds, anil low, sweet words, Blent with the music, and thy pale protul form Moves by with haughty scorn, thy amber hair Besting In rich, bl ight waves, upon tliy brow, And the wild beauty of tliy boyish days Is still unchanged, Imt, oh, how could, how strange! I reuil Hie spell, perchance a shadow rests On tliy high heart, liorno up from buried hours. Ah! thy full lip is quivering, and thy brow Grows pale with agony—say Is it soV Do thoughts of her, the gentle, loving one, Who flung a life’s devotion at tliy feet, HUH haunt thy writhing soul ? That last adiou, Bay, does It linger still in “ memory’s” halls, With walling sound f Though proud and cold they came, Those tmimu’red words, no chord within lior lirest Echoed re-qainsc. Hite loved thee, oh, so well — Grieved for tliy absence—breathed tliy name with prayers, Ami blockings, till the pale, and quivering lips Were stir red no more with music from her soul. Alas ! though wild and wayward, was it well In thee, to turn away with haughty words Os scorn, and anger, from that loving heart ? I watched her long, and saw in fitful gleam, Os radiance on her cheek, the bloom of death, Her hrow grew still more pule, and her dark eyes Flashed out a glory like the midnight stars. And then she tU /it. And tliou hast wandered far, Far, far since then, but yet there is no homo For thy lone spirit, un this weary earth. I leave thee to tliy sadness, with deep prayers, That jvuw may shed her rainbow hues above Thy ireo/'g heart, when the deatli-angel comes. Lavra Isirrimrr. Cumberlandlron-Worlee , Tenn. From the LenUtviUe Journal. Tills is one of «.> very finest of the shorter poems of lta accomplished author. 1 THINK OF THEM. LT J. R. OARHICK. I think of thee as of a l’leiad doomed To wander down from its bright home in heaven, Amid tlie changes of the world to roam, A dweller on the earth. I think of Hied, And feel as none can feel, save him whose heart Hath felt Its ornhantigc with mournful thoughts, | Ami the deep chords of love imvl sympathy Torn from tho idol that they cherished most, Uy the stroug grasp of death. I thluk of thee, As of a flower upon .a withered stem, That lingers on as bright and beautiful As though its sisters bloomed with the same breath. And mw with the same light and loveliness, That beams above its growth. 1 think of tliee, As one alone upon the lonely earth, An exile from the native sky that smiled Above thy younger days; yet thou hast made. Sweet friends of stranger hearts ami stranger hands Are ever wont to clasp thine with the thrill Os Love’s impassioned welcome. I think of thee, As one whose hope all radiant from thy birth Hath felt no blight, save that which comes upon The heart in memory of the loved and lost. Ah! yes I think of thee with thoughts that mock AU utterance of speech, save in the word* Os deep and holy eloquence that thrill Angel with angel in the loveot heaven. Glasgow, Ky., Jiui. lsiJ. A Song of Other Days by o. w. tioi.Mßs. As o'er the glacier's frozen sheet, Breathes soft the Alpine rose, Ho through life’s desert springing sweet The flower of friendship grows, And as where’er the roses grow Some rain or dew descends, 'Tis nature’s law that wine should flow To wet tho lips of friends. Then once again before we part My empty glass sliall ring; And he that lias the warmest heart Shall loudest laugh and sing. They say we were not born to eat. But gray-haired sages think It meaus—be moderate in your meat. And partly live to drink; For baser tribes Hie rivers Bow That know not wine or song; Man leants but little drink below, But tea nte that little rtrong. ” Then once again,” etc. If one bright drop is like the gem ■That decks a monarch’s crown, One goblet hoMs a diadem Os rubies incited down ! A fig for Caesar’s blazing brow. But, like the Egyptian queen, Bid each dissolving Jewel glow My thirsty lips between. ” Then once again,” etc. The Grecian’s mound, the Roman’s uru. Are Silent when we calk Yet stiit the purple grapes return To clutter on tlie wall; It was a bright immortal’s head They circled with the vine, And o er their best and bravest dead They p >urcd the dark red wine. “ Then once again,” etc. Mothinks o'er every sparkling glass \ oung Eros waves liis wings. And echoes o'er its dimples pass From dead Anacreon’s strings • Ami tossing round its beaded brim Their locks of floating gold. With bacchant dance and choral hrnia Return the nymphs of old. “ Then once again," etc. A welcome then to joy and mirth, From hearts as fresh as ours. To scatter o’er the dust of earth ■ Their sweetly ruiugl, d flowers; Tis Wisdom’s self the cup that fills, In spite of Folly’s frown. And Nature, from her vine-clad hills. That rains her life-bio,-1 down! “ Then ouce again,” etc. A Golden Sentiment.—Tho Mowing exquisite, tnorceav is from Longfellow's new poem, “The Golden Legend “There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of ns, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. lie who writes down The good ones, after every action closes volume, and a-weuds with it to God; The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent; which doing The record as the action fades away. And leaves a line of white across the page.” MISCELLANY. Capture of the Guerrfere. The following sketch of the celebrated action between the Constitution and the Guerriere is co pied from the N. Y. Evening Post, to which paper it was famished by a “valued correspondent.” Having; been sn American prisoner on board the Guerriere, during the famous battle between that frigate and the United States frigate Constitution, I propose giving you an account of that important action, which took place in Jane, 1812. About two weeks previous to the engagement, I left Boston in an American ship, which was cap tnred by the Guerriere some five days before she fell in with the Constitution. It was about ten o’clock in the morning when the Constitution was discovered. The Guerriere hove to, to enable her to come up. As the Constitution neared us, Captain Daeres lianocd me his glass, and asked me what I took her to be. My reply was, “She looks like a frigate.” Very soon she came within reach of the long guns of the Guerriere, wltich were tired, but with no otfcct, as tlie sea ran high. The Constitution marie no reply; but, as I saw, was manoeuvring for a position—during which Captain Daeres said to me, “Do yon think she is going to strike without tiring”’ I replied, “I think not, sir.” At this moment, seeing a severe contest was about commencing, in wltich I could take no part, being only a prisoner, I raised ray hat so Captain Daeres, and said to him—“ With your j>crmission, sir, I will go below, as I can take no part.” “O, certainly,” said he, “and you had better go into the eock-pit, and should aiiv of our men chance to get wounded, I shall feel obliged if you will assist the surgeons in dressing them.” “Certainly, sir,” said I, and then descended into the cock-pit. There were the surgeons, audsurgeons’ mates, and attend ants, sitting around a long table covered with instru ments and all necessaries for dressing the wounded, as stiff as a funeral. Within one moment alVr mv foot left tlie lower round of the ladder, the Consti tution gave that double broadside, winch threw nil in the cockpit over in a heap on the opposite side of the ship. For a moment it appeared a« if heaven and earth had struck together ; a more terrific shock cannot be imagined. Before those in tho cockpit had ad justed themselves, tlie blood run down from the deck as freely as if a wash tub full had been turn ed over, and instantly tho dead, wounded and dy ing, were handed down ns rapidly ns men could pass iiiem, till tho cockpit was filled, with hardly room for the surgeons to work. Midshipmen were handed with one leg, some with one arm, and oth ers wounded in almost every shape and condition. An officer on tho table having his arm amputated, would sing out to a comrado coining down wound ed, “ Well, shipmate, how goes the battle V' An other would utter some joke, that would make even the dying smile, arid so constant and freely were the playful remarks from the maimed and even dying, that I almost doubted ray own senses. In deed, all this was crowded into a space of not over fifteen or twenty minutes, before tho tiring ceased. 1 then went upon deck, and what a scene was pre sented, and how changed in so short a time. Tho Constitution looked perfectly fresh—and even at this time, those on board tlie Guerriere did not know what ship had fought them. On tho other hand, the Guerriere was a mere rolling log— almost entirely at the mercy of tho sea—Her colors all shot away, her main-mast and mizen-mast both gono by tlie’board, and her fore-mast standing by tlie mere honey-comb tho shot had made. Capt. Daeres stood with his officers, surveying the scene —all, all in the most perfect astonishment. At this moment a bout wus socn putting off from the hostile ship for the Gucrriero. As soon as within speaking distance, a young goutleman (Midship man Head, now Commodore Head,) hailed and said: “I wish to see tho officer in command of this shin.” At this, Captain Dacros stepped forward and an swered. Midshipman Bead then said : “Commo dore Hull’s compliments, and wishes to know if you have struck your flag ?” At this Captain Daeres appeared amazed, but re covering himself, and looking up nnd down, he deliberately replied: “Well, I don’t know—onr mizzen-mast is gone, our main-mast is gono—and upon tho whole, you may say we have struck our ting 1” “Commodore Hull’s compliments, and wishes to know if yon need the assistance of a surgeon or surgeon’s mate I” Cant. Daeres replied: “Well, I should suppose you bad on board your own ship business enough tor all your medical officers.” Midshipman Read replied: “Oh, no; wo have only seven wounded, and they were dressed half un hour ago.” Captain Daeres then turned to me, deeply affect ed, and said: “How have onr situations been sud denly reversed ! You are now free, and 1 a priso ner!’’ All tho boats of both ships were now put in re quisition to remove the wounded on board the Constitution. Ho dreadful was the condition of many of-them, that two days were nearly consum ed in the removal; after which the Guerriere was burned, with all her stores, armament, &e. Tlie Constitution having recently come out of port, had no room to tako scarcely an artielo. Who can imagine, the joy I experienced in find ing myself again under American colors, or the pride i felt,.at finding, from Commodore Hull down to the most humble man on board, an entire ab sence of everything, liko a boastful or even a tri umphant look, at their wonderful victory. Capt. Daeros kept his state-room till we arrived in port. About two hundred of his men were necessarily ironed, as tho ship was so crowded. Charles Mor ris, (now Commodore,) tho first officer of the Con stitution, had a ball through tiis body, atul for sev eral days his recovery was doubtful; during which ho sent for inc to come to liis room, and I well re member his perfect unconcern for himself, although the surgeon liad apprised him of liis danger. Jkery courtesy and kindness was by Captain Hull arm liis officers extended to their prisoners. On Sunday, about noon, the Constitution arrived in Boston Harbor. I was sent on slioro in the boat. Tho harbor between the ship and wharves was now covered with boats to learn the news. To tho first boats that we neared, we hailed, “ The Con stitution has captured tho Gurricrc.” Instantly tho two men in the boat took off - their hats nnd vi olently struck them on tho side of the boat, and, rising, gave cheer upon cheer. They hailed other boats, and thus the air was rent with cheers, and the victory passed along till it. reached the wharf, and then it spread like wild-fire all over the city and country. It is now nearly forty years sinco the transaction of that day proved to the Americans that British frigates wore not invincible. Who can remember that day, without feeling a glow of pride, that so early iii tho war, and in a manner so unpretending, a victory so perfect should have been aehioved 1 I writo this statement without notes, but believe it to bo true, in tho main, accurate. In justice to Captain Daeres, I add, that there was none of the boasting on his part, before the ac tion, Which has to him been attributed, as lie did not know tho ship, till Midshipman Head an nounced her name and commander.” -Benedict the Married Man. We take the following beautiful sketch from Ike Marvel’s new book, entitled “Dream Life.” “You grow unusually ntniablo and kind : you are earnest in your search of friends: you shake hands with your office boy, ss if he were your sec oiiu cousin. ’ You joko cheerfully with the stout washerwoman; and give her a shilling over change; and insist upotl her keeping it; and grow quite merry at tho recollection of it. You tap your hack man oil the shoulder very familiarly, nnd tell him ho is a capital fellow; ana don’t allow him to whip liis horses, except when driving to tlie post office. Yon even ask him to take a glass of beer with you upon some chilly evening, Vuu drink to the health of his wife. 11c says he has no wife whereupon von think him a very miserable man; and give him a dollar by wav of consolation. You think all tlie editorials in the morning pa pers are remarkably well written, —whether upon your side or upon the other, \ou think the stock market has a verv cheerful look, —with Erie—of which you arc a 'large holder—down to seventy five. You wonder why you novor liked Mrs, He mans before, or Stoddard, or any of the rest. You give a pleasant twirl to your fingers, as you saunter along tlie street: and sav—but not so loud as as to bo overboard —'She is mine—she is mine !’ You wonder if Frank evor loved Nelly one halt as well as you love Madge ? You feel quite sure he never did.’ Y'ou can hardly conceive how it is that Madge has not been seized before now by scores of enamored men,.and borne off',like the Sabine wo men in Romish history. You chuckle over your future like a boy who has found a guinea ip gro ping for sixpences. Y'ou read over tho marriage service,—thinking of the time whon you will take her hand, and slip the ring upon her finger; and repeat alter the clergyman —’for richer, for poorer : for better—for worse 1 A groat deal of ‘woreo’ there will be about it, you think 1 Through all, your heart cleaves to tliat sweet im age of the beloved Madge, as light claaves to day. Tho weeks leap with a bound ; and the months only grow long when you approach tliat day which 1* to make her yours.' There are no flowers rare enough to make boquets for her ; diamonds arc too dim tor her to wear ; pearls are tame. And after marriage, the weeks are even shorter than bctorc : you wonder why on earth all single men m the world do not rush tumultuously to the altar; vou look upon them all, as a travelled man will loot upsn some conceited Dutch boor, who has never been beyond tlie limits of li}s cab bage garden. Married’ men on the contrary, vou regard as fellow-voyagers ; and look upon their wives—uglv k* they mav be—as better than none. Y'ou blush a little, at 'first telling your butcher wliat ‘your wife’ would liko; you bargain with the grocer for sugars and teas, ana wonder if he knows you are a married man ? Y'ou practice your new wav of talk upon your office boy ; you tell him that ‘your wife’ expects vou home to dinner, and are astonished that he does not stare to hear you say it ! Vou wonder if the people in tlie omnibus "know that Madge and you are .fust married ; anti if the driver knows that the shilling von hand to him is for ’self and wife V Y'ou wonder if any body was ever so happy before or ever will be so happy again ? Y'ou enter your name upon the hotel w?oks as ‘Clarence —' —and lady;' and come back to look al it—wondering if anybody also has noticed it— and thinking that it looks remarkably well. Y'ou cannot help thinking that every third man you meet in the hall wishes your wife,’ nor do vou think it very sinful in him to wish it. Y’ou t'ear it is placing' temptation in the way ofeovteous men, to put Madge'alittie gaiters outside tho cham ber at night. Your home when it is entered, is jnst what it should be—quiet, small—with everything the wish es, and nothing more than she wishes. TTie sun strikes it in the happiest possible wav—the piano is the sweetest toned in tlie world—the library is stocked to a charm—sud Madge, that blessedtwife, is there, adorning and giving life to all. To think, 4 er possible death, is a suffering you class with the infernal tortures of the Inquisition. Y’ou F’fojF twain of heart and purpose. Smiles seem made for marriage ; and vou wonder how von ev er wore them beiore. Statue or Washington in Gexoa.—A Genoese Gentleman has erected in his grounds, on a beau tiful knoll overlooking t ha-harbor of the city, a magnificent marble statue of Washington. 1 Father Mathew’s Eetckn to Ireland.— Father Matthew, on his return to Ireland from the United States, was received by his countrymen with every demonstration of regard and esteem. The Com mon Council of Cork presented him with an ad dress of congratulation, to which he responded in a speech of much feeling and eloquence, in the course of which he thus referred to the people of the United States, and the manner in which he was received by them: “No language, gentlemen, which you could frame, can sufficiently axpress the measure of our common obligations to the noble-hearted and gen erous citizens of America. [Hear, hear.] You liave had occular demonstration of their bountiful sympathy, when, in the day of tribulation, you wit nessed in your magnificent harbor the star-span gled banner proudv floating over the frigate ‘James town,’ the distribution of whose precious freight (a great nation’s spontaneous offering on the altars of humanity) saved innumerable lives within the precincts of our famine-stricken country. I have traveled thousands of miles in the great Western Republic, and never have I experienced, not only in tlie Capital, but through the wide extent of Ame rica, aught but respect and kindness from its high minded citizens. [Hear, hear.] My transatlantic tour is fraught with a thousand fond reminiscences never to bo forgotten, [hear, hear,] and I fervently hope that the strong feelings of sympathy and friendship which now exist be tween the people of Ireland and America may con tinue as permanent and durable as the many vir tues they posse, sin common. [Load and’iong continued applause.] Your allusion to my dear expatriated countrymen, whom I had the greater happiness of enrolling among my dhiciples, lias touched a chord which vibrates through my whole frame. Though painfully struck with the sad contrast which our dearly beloved country pre sents in many particulars’with the favored land which 1 have recently left, I yet see no reason for apathy or despair. Ireland—this is not the place to investigate the cause—is now passing through a severe transitory ordeal, from which I trust she will ere long bright ly emerge, and enter on that glorious career of national prosperity to which her ample resources, now in progress of development, most naturally entitle her. [Hear, hear.] I feel delight in alrea dy recognizing marked indications of a spirit of industrial activity and enterprise, which, combined with self-reliance and perseverance, cannot fail to effect for her that social regeneration which it has already accomplished for so many nations in the history of mankind. [Renewed applause.] An Incident for History. —Circumstances have been developed, by tlie arrival in this city within the last few days, ©f a family from California, which we characteristic of our time and country. They are these: In the spring of 1849, an emi grant party started from tlieir homes in Western Missouri for the land of gold. They were among thousands of other hardy adventurers whose white tents covered the Plains for many months, and made the wild prairies of the northwestern territo ry appear like tlie cump of an immense army. During the ascent of the Sierra Nevada, a daughter was born to one of the emigrants, and the occa sion was celebrated by a general halt of the party, and the devotion of a day to such festivity as the place and their stores would permit. Tne little stranger was named after the great mountain near the summit of which she first saw the light, and the emigrants resumed their toilsome march. The placers were gained towards the olose of the year, and a busy multitude were soon engaged in withdrawing from the rich vally of tlie San Joaquin the golden rewards of their toil. Our little emi nent party became in a short time the centre of a large population; houses were erected and streets laid out, and the period arrived when a new city should be incorporated and named. The incident near the summit of the great Sieroa was not for gotten ; and as the little girl, whose birth was celebrated there, prattled upon tlie knees of the founders of the new city, they declared that it should receive its name from her, and it was called Nevada. It is now a populous and thriving place, and surrounded by sources of wealth and future greatness; while the little girl, whose birth oc curred when it was a wilderness and from whom the name of the great mountain descended to it, is, after having traversed California, sailed the Pacific ocean, crossed the Isthmus nnd tlie Gulf of Mexi co, still fondlod in her mother’s arms as they now ascend tlie Mississippi towards tliat mother's early home. New Y’ork Police Report.— The Semi-annual report of George AV. Masted, Chief of Police for tho city of New-York, for the six months ending on the 31st of December, 1851, embraces a compara tive statement of the numbor of arrests made du ring each month of the years 1850 and 1851, and statements of tho whole nti/nbcr of arrests made by members of the department and description of offences from the time of its first organization to December 31st, 1851, from which it appears that there have been 189,646 persons arrested ina peri od of six and a half years, of whom 18,793 were for nssnult nnd battery ; 25,162 for disorderly conduct; 2,645 for fighting in the street; 44,888 for intoxica tion, 35,048 for intoxication and disorderly conduct; and 14,800 for vagrancy. Making 140,792 for of fences resulting almost entirely from the free use of intoxicating drinks. For the six months ending on the 81st of Decem ber 18,458 arrests were made, being an increase over tlie previous six months of 680, consisting mostly of persons arrested for intoxication or of fences resulting therefrom. There were sixteen persons arrested for murder, making thirty-six persons arrested for that offence during the year 1851. Since the first organization of the depart ment (six and a half years) there liave been one hundred persons arrested charged with the com mission of the crime of murder, averaging 15 and 1-8 persons for each vear. It is a fact worthy of remark that of the whole number mentioned above but one murder has been committed in 61-2 years with the view of obtaining money. Mr. Mastell takes the opportunity again to invite the special attention of the Mayor and City Coun cils to the great and rapidly growing evil of youth ful vagrancy, immorality and crime-existing in that community and says that the subject domands tho most effectual interference of a government conser vative at once of the public interests and public morals, nnd of tlie highest exercise of enlightened philanthropy. Tiie next AVorld’s Fair. —The New York Tri bune says: AVe are to liave a “ AA’orld’s Fair ” in New York the coming summer; for, as the projec tors have secured a proper site and ask no public nor private aid, wc do not understand tliat any contingency remains. Indeed, wo cannot doubt, in view of the perfect success of the London Exhi bition, that a good ‘ Exposition of All Nation’s In dustry ’ in New York will prove a profitable spec ulation, and coin money for those who take the re sponsibility of calling it into being. Cultivation of Basket Willow in the United States.— Mr. AVatson G. Haynes has addressed a letter to Hunt's Merchant’s Magazine, communica ting some interesting information in regard to tlie cultivation and uses of the Ozieror Basket AYillow. He thinks that four to five millions’ worth is im ported annually, tho price ranging from $l2O to $l3O per ton weight. The Salix A’iminalis is the species best calculated for basket-makers. Not withstanding representations that the fly will pre vent its growth in this country, lie lias netted over , all expenses the snug little suin of S3BB 75, during the past year, from liis cuttings from two acres. He thinks one hundred per cent, a year might be re alized on this business. Cure for Corpulency.— At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, December 15, 1851, among other papers received was one from M. Danecl on the development of fat in animals.— It conveys the results of his observations on tlie human species. Excessive corpulency is relieved by an almost total abstinence from vegetables and feculent substances, and by diminishing the quan tity of drink, and increasing, whon necessary, the quantity of meat usually consumed. Magnificent Spectacle.— Tho bed of tlie Missis sippi river, below the Falls, has presented a grand scene during the past few days. The ice, which forms far up the river, in coming over the rapids and Falls, is crushed up fine, filling in against tlie body of ice which had formed across the channel, some miles below the Falls, on Thursday last. By Friday morning the water had risen near 15 feet, and the white field of ice had grown up almost to the foot of the fall; at this stage, the body below, unable longer to sustain the immense pressure, gave way, and the whole plain of iee moved down stream with a terrible crushing. We have been iufornjed, by those who know, that this is the first year in the last twenty-four, in wltich this has occurred. Finaxces of New Jerset.— From the message of Gov, Fort, recently transmitted to the Legislature of Now Jersey, it appears that the whole receipts into the State treasury during the past year have amounted to $139,166 20. Os this amount it is cu rious to observe that $129,883 20 arc brought into the treasury by the bonuses and per capita taxes which the State exacts from the railroad and canal companies whose improvements lie within her ter ritory. No tax appears to be imposed by tho State on any of the real or personal property of its citi zens, the remaining $9,803, which make up its re venue for the year, arising from the surplus earn ings of the State Prison, pedlar’s lioenses, and in terest on money invested. This may be a very gratilViug fact to those who own property in the State, but the honesty of the policy which fills the treasury with the profits of monopolies, aud forces the traveller through its territory to support those burdens which should properly M on its citizens, must be regarded as of a veiy questionable charac ter.—Balt. American. Quails Frozen to Death.— We learn from a far mer in New Jereey, that numerous coveys of Quails have been found frozeu to death lately in that State. The snow probably aided in their destruction, by shutting off their supplies of food. Our informant himself saw three separate coveys, one of eighteen, one of twelve and one often birds all huddled, together as if striving to keep warm, and frozen stiff. It is feared that there are few left to continue the stock of this favorite bird. T— w —bought a gallon of Otard at Brady’s to taka home, and by the wtty of a label, wrote his name upon the card, which happened to be the seven of clubs, and tied it to the handle. Alder man C coming along and observing tho jug, re - marked,“That's an awful careless way to leave that liquor.” “Why so,” said Tom. “AATiy ? Because somebody might come along with the eight spot and take it.” —New York Tribune. Mackerel Isspectep in Massachusetts. —The number of bbls. of mackerel inspected in Massa chusetts, in 1851, was 329,279. This Isa larger yield than on any previous year. In 1848 the in spection amounted to 800,130, which was greater than that of any other year until the present. Louis Napoleon seems to fear assassination, ana it is said that his carriage is made bullet-proof. The ministers object to his appearing in public, even with a strong escort of dragoons, riding with each man’s right hand upon his pistol-stock. They are afraid hs will be taken off. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY’ 4, 1852. LIST OF ACTS Passed by the Legislature at the Session oT 1851 >nd 1852, 197. For the prevention of foreigners peddling in the State of Georgia. 198. To amend an aet entitled an act to protect religious societies in the exercise of their religious duties, approved Dec. 18, 1792. 199. To alter and amend an act entitled an act to authorize the subscription by the State to the capi tal stock of the Milledgeville and Gordon Railroad oompany, passed 6th February, 1850. 2w. To incorporate and endow the Georgia Academy for the blind. 201. To amend an act entitled an act to give to al! persons employed on Steamboats and other water crafts on the Chattahoochee, Altamaha and Ocmnlgee rivers, a lien on said steam-boats or water crafts for liis, her or their wages, and for wood and provisions furnished, and to point out aud facilitate the collection of the same, absented to Dec. 7, 1841, so as to extend the provisions of the same, and in saver of machinists. 202. To authorize James A. Straynge, an infirm man, of the county of Jaeksou, as’aa itinerant tra der, to vend goods, wares or merchandize within the sixth < ’ongressioual district, without obtaining license for the same. 203. To incorporate the stockholders of the Car rollton Railroad company. 2>4. To change the name of Asa Couch of the county of Elbert, aud for other purposes. 205. To exempt certain persons of Mclntosh county from road duty, end other purposes therein named. 206. To repeal the first section of an act entitled an act to prevent lumber measurers from being Clerks or agents of lumber buyers or lumber mills; and to define the mode of measuring stocks or hewn or ranging timber, so tar as the county of Chatham is concerned. 207. To repeal the first and second sections of an act approved 23d Feb. 1850, entitled an act to cur tail tlie labor of the Supreme Court, and to reduce the cost in said court, and to authorize amend ments in said court. 208. To regulate the mode of executing the bonds of Receivers of Banks, appointed according tc the provisions of the aet assented to Dec. 13, 1842. 209. To give a construction to the fourth section of the Statute of frauds, so lhr as the same relates to a party defendant being chargeable upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of a third person, <fcc. 210. To point out the mode of paying commis sion to administrators, executors and guardians, and for other purposes therein named. 211. To appropriate money to improve the navi gation of the Altamaha, Ocmnlgee and Oconee livers; and to appoint commissioners for the same. College at Macon, Georgia. 213.. To alter and ameud tlie militia laws of Georgia so far as relates to the first regiment, first brigade, first division, G. M. 214. To incorporate tho Sweet AYatcr Manufac turing Co. 215. To change the name ofMurtha R. Harvev to Martha. R. Dixon. 216. To compensate executors, administrators and guardians in certain cases. 217. To incorporate the Bartlesville Male and F'cmale High School, and to appoint trustees for the eame. 218. To change tho name of Eliza Jarette of Harris county to that of Eliza Hatchett. 219. .To incorporate the male academy at Atlanta, and Flint River academy in Upson county, and to appoint trustees for the'same. 220. To extend the charter of the Augusta Insu rance and Banking Company. 221. To give the election of marshal and deputy marshal of the city of Atlanta to the people, to authorize their removal from office in certain cases therein named, and in those cases to mako them inelligible to re-election. 222. To compensate the grand and petit jurors of Union county. 223. To incorporate the Baptist Church in the town of Marietta in the county of Cobb, and to ap point trustees for tlie same ; also, to incorporate the Piscali Baptist Church in tho county of Floyd j also to incorporate the Baptist ehureli of Christ in Fayetteville in Fayetto county, and to appoint trustees for the same. . 224. To authorize the several railroad compa nies of this. State to establish through rates for the transportation and conveyance of produce, mer chandise and passengers, over tlieir respective roads jointly. 225. For the relief of Sarah G. Foster of Butts county, and to grant her certain privileges. . 226. To define and point out the mode of ser vice of writs of scire facias. 227. To repeal so much of an act entitled an act to change tlie names and legitimatize the persons therein named, and for other purposes, approved Feb. 16tli, 1850, so fur as relates to the change of tho name of AA r m. Hardaway. 228. To fix tlie price of grants of lands in tlie 10th and 11th dist. of AVare county, sold under an aet passed the 11th day of Feb. 1850. *229. To change the name of Martha G. Nelson and Charles Y’. Nelson, to that of Martha G. Cald well and Charles Y. Caldwell. 230. To alter and change tho countv line be tween the counties of Clark and Madison so as to include the land and residence of Obadiah Thomp son of the county of Madison in the county of Clark. 281. To authorize a grant to issue to Henry S. Roberts, illegitimate of Swain’s District, Emanuel county, to lot of land number 102, of the 14th Dis trict, 2d section of originally Muscogee county, and to correct the record ih the different offices in rela tion to said lot of land, so as to make it appear that said lot of land was drawn by said Henry S. Roberts instead of Sarah Roberts, as it now stands, and to authorize the cancelling and destruction of tlie grant now in existence from the State to said Sarah Roberts illegitimate. 232. To add lot of land No. 62 in tlie seventh district of originally Baldwin now Twiggs county to the county of Bibb. 233. To alter and amend the 4th section of the 11th Division of the Penal code. 234. To incorporate a savings Bank in the city of Augusta, and to incorporate and confer certain powers upon certain associations therein named. 235. To authorize Rhaesae MeCroane of the coun ty of Bulloch, him, his heirs and assigns, to build a bridge across the Great Ogeecheo River, on his own land, near tlie seventy mile station, Central Railroad and to construct a crossway through the swamp of said River. 236. To organize a volunteer Battalion in the citv ofSavannah, to be called the Independent Volun teer Battalion of Savannah. 237. To carry into effect tho amended Constitu tion of this State in reference to the ordinaries of said State, and for other purposes. 238. To change tlie name and legitimatize the persons therein named and for other purposes. 239. To incorporate the Rome Branch Magnetic Telegraph Company. 240. To incorporate the Central Female College under the care of the Methodist Protestant Church Georgia District, located inCulloden, and to incor porate Mount A’ernon Academy in Butts county. 241. To incorporate certain Churches, Camp Grounds, Academies, Masonic Lodges, Odd Fefo lows Lodges, Divisions of Sons of Temperance and other associations and for other purposes therein named. 242. To amend an act entitled an act to autho rize all free white citizens of the State of Georgia and such others as they may associate with to prosecute tlie business of manufacturing, with cor porate powers nnd privileges, passed on the 22d, Dec., 1547, so far as the Hancock Manufacturing Company are concerned, and to incorporate said company and to grant to said company certain privileges ; to incorporate and confer certain pow ers upon certain Gass Light Companies in Au gusta and Macon. 248. To provide for the education of a certain number of State Cadets in the Georgia Military Institute, to defray the expenses of the same, auA for other purposes therein mentioned. 244. To establish, change and abolish certain election precincts therein named. 245. To require all wills of personal property to bo executed and proved in the same manner as is now prescribed by law for the execution and proof of divises of real estate. 246. To change the time of holding the Superior Courts of Richmond county and the court of Com mon Pleas of Augusta. 247. To appropriate monev for the support of the Government for each of the political years 1852 and 1853 and for other purposes therein specified. 245. Supplementary to an aet entitled an act to levv and collect a tax for the political years 1852 and 1853, approved January 9, 1852. 249. For the relief of Ruben S. AVillingharu, tax collector of Lincoln county. 250. To authorize a grant to issue to Thomas A. Jones to lot of land No. 181, 10th District, Carroll county. 251. To authorize the consolidation of the Stocks of the Georgia Railroad nnd Banking Company, and of the Washington Railroad or Plank Road Company, incorporated sth Feb., 1850, and for other purposes. 252. To incorporate Atlanta Lodge, No. 59, Per ry Chapter No. 18, in the town of Perry, Houston oonnty, and Houston Lodge No. 35, and Thnrmund Lodge, No. 107, and Lincoln Lodge No. 78, and Thomaaton Chapter No. 29, and Morning Star Lodge, No. 27. of Free and Accepted Masons, and Grcenesboro Division, No. 67, Sons of Temperace and Ringtrold Lodge No. of Free and ac cepted Masons. 253. To alter and amend an act entititled an act to protect the estates of orphans and make perma nent provisions for the poor, approved Dee. 18, 1792, so for as relates to the amount of tlie bond to be given bv administrators; also to authorize the 6ale of real estate of free persons of color aud to provide for the disposition of the proceeds. £ 254. To amend an act entitled an act to incorpo rate the Savannah Female Asylum in the city of Savannah. 255. To authorize tlie Justices of tlie Inferior Court of Cherokee county to examine and to allow the Tax collector of said county, their insolvent lists. 256. To authorise the Savannah and Ogeeehce Cana] Companv to extend the Savannah and Ogee ehee Canal to the Altamaha river. 257. Amendatory of so much of an act passed by the Legislature’of 1849, as authorizes the City Council of Milledgeville to levy and raise a tax on the assessed value of the real ’property owned or leased for the term of years within the corporate limits of said city, so as' to extend the time within which to raise an amount to pay the subscription for stock in the Milledgeville aud Gordonßaiiroad. 258. To incorporate the town of De Soto in the county of Floyd. 259. To limit the time for taking out grants to the State's half and informer's half of any lot of land fraudulently drawn in any of the land and gold lotteries of this State and to’ provide for the granting of the same after the expiration of said time. 260. To appropriate money for the purposes therein designated. 261. To change the name of JohnSheahan of the county of Chatham, to the name of John The odore McFarland, and to allow and qualify the said John under the name of John Theodore McFar land to inherit property from John McFarland of Chatham county. 262. To alter and amend the first section of an act entitled an act to alter and amend the several acts in relation to itinerant traders and to pre scribe the mode of obtaining license, approved Not. 27th, 1845, so far as respects the county of 268. For the relief of the teachers of poor children of the county of Hall for the year* 1844 and 1845. 264. To alter and amend the road laws so far as they refer to Mclntosh county, so as to relieve the hands subject to road dntv who are resident upon Sapalo sland from working the roads upon the main land. 265. To repeal the first section of an act approved the 19th Dec., 1849, entitled an act to repeal all laws respecting the importation of slaves in this State and to give certain powers to municipal cor porations in relation to slaves, and to amend the act thereby revived. 266. To alter and amend the third section of the first article of the Constitution of this State. 267. To authorize His Excellency the Governor to cause to be corrected errors in the transcription of grants in the office of Secretary of State, upon certain conditions therein named. 269. To alter and change the name of Andrew Jackscn of the county of Telfair, to that of .Andrew Jackson Passmore, his reputed father. 269. To prescribe tho order of the argument of cou isel in criminal cases. 270. To in' -orpate Fraternal Lodge No 37 of free and accepted Masons, at McDonnoughin the coun ty of Henry. Pcnton Lodge No. -of free and accepted Masons at Baruesville in the county of Pike, and Generous AA’arren Lodge No 24, of free and accepted Masons in the county of AA’al tOD. 271. To incorporate the Lanier Home Companv at Macon. 272. To incorporate the Atapulgns Female Acad emy in the county of Decatur, the Crawfordville Academy in the county of Taliaferro, and tlie StarksvilV Academy in the county of Lee, and ap point trustees therefor. 273. To limit tlie lien of Judgment rendered in any of the Courts of this State. 274. Amendatory of an act assented to 22d Dee., 1834, to alter the laws relating to the cottn t) Academies, ao far as relates to the county of Said win. Tib. To extend the corporate limits of the town of Eatonton, to regulate licenses therein, and to change the time of electing commissioners, and for other purposes. 276. To alter and change tho line between the counties of Lee and Sumter, so that lot No. 58, 15th Disriet, Sumter, whereon Moses AV. Bryan resides, shall be added to and included in the county of Lee, and to change the lines be tween the counties of Lumpkin and Hail, between the counties of Cobb and Cherokee and other lines therein named. 277. To authorise the Governor of the State of Georgia to issue a grant for a certain lot of land therein •: entioned to Zadok Bonner upon the con di ions therein specified. 278. To pardon James Mouchet, convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence. 279. To amend an act entitled an act to exempt from levy and sale under execution, certain pro perty therein mentioned, assented to Dec. 11, 184l’, and to extend the provisions of the same. 280. To amend an act authorising certaiu commis sioners to raise by lottery a fund lor the erection of Monuments in memory of Green nnd Pulaski in t e city of S .vannan, passed December, 1887, and the original act of which the same is an amendment. 281. To prescribe the rate of tax which shall be pa d by tlie Macon and Western Railroad, and the Rome Branch Railroad Companies, and the manner and time of giving in and paying the same. 282. To amend the road laws of this State, so far as respects the counties of Columbia and Jef ferson. 253. To incorporate the Lawrenceville Railroad Companv. 294. To repeal the 9tli and 19th sections of an aet incorporating the Gainesville Railroad Compa nv, approved Dec. 28th, 1847, and for other purpo ses therein mentioned. 285. To secure the property of minors against the mismanagement of their Guardians by requir ing bond ana security. 286. To alter und straighten the line between the counties of Jasper and Newton, so as to include the premises of Obadiah Fielder, A. 8. Bell, Aaron Parker, William Pope, 8. Conway, D. M. Bell, Christopher F'inclier and Andrew J. Fincher, in* the county of Newton, und to alter the line be tween the counties of Gordon and Floyd, and the line between tlie counties ofAVilkes and Lincoln, aud the line between the counties of Polk and Paulding. 287. To render valid all records made, or other ofiieial acts done in certain cases therein specified. 288. To authorize George L. Bird and others to practice physic on the Homcepatluc system, and for other purposes. 289. To amend an act entitled an act to alter and amend the several acts in l elation to itinerant tra ders, and to prescribe the mode of obtaining li cense, approved Nov. 27th, 1345, so far as to in crease the tax on said itinerant traders in the counties of Pike. Franklin, Sumter and Stewart, also to prevent tile issue of license to peddle, to any other than citizeus of the United States, for any county in this State, except Bulloch. 290. To outhorize Elijah J. Dupree of the coun ty of Paulding, a minor, to transact his own busi ness in the same manner and subject to the same responsibilities as though he was of full ago, and for other purposes. 291. To authorise the Superior Court of Baker county to be held such time as may be necessary to do the business, and to regulate the service of Jurors in said county. 292. To authorise a grant to issue to Wm. P. Hightower of Campbell county for fraction No. 151 in the eighth Dist., of originally Coweta, now Campbell county, and also a grant to issue to Jef ferson Allford o's the county of Upson for fraction No 2, in the first District of formerly Troup, now Meriwether county. 298. To authorize the Bock Island Factory of Muscogee county, the Augusta Machine Works, by their proper officers, the Coweta Falls Manu facturing Company, the Howard Factory, and all other Manufacturing Companies in this State, to issue and sell the bonds of the Companies and se cure the same, and for other purposes therein named. 294. To incorporate the Dado Turnpike Compa ny, and to grant certain privileges to the same. 295. To authorize Wm. McKinney, Thomas Kel ly and H. W. Cannon to appoint some fij and pro per per. on in lieu of O. T. Dickerson, should they deem such a course necessary, to survey the first and second districts of Kabun county. 296. To amend the laws regulating'the village of Sparta in the county of Hancock, also to authorize the city couucil of Augusta to make a donation to the Augusta Orphan Asylum, and to incorporate and confer cert in powers on said Association. 297. To amend the several acts in relation to is suing grants on Head Bights in this State so far ns to extend the time of granting the same, until the 25th of December, 1858, and to make valid certain surveys and grants therein specified. 298. To amend an act to authorize the Savannah and Albany Railroad Company to make and use a plunk road and branches in connection with their Railroad and branches, or in lieu thereof, approved Fee. 21, 1850, so as to authorize the construction of Macadamized, graded, or plank Roads, and for other purposes therein named. 299. To appropriate and refund to Joseph Mar shall, tax collector of Decatur county, a certain sum of money therein named, and to reimburse money to Uriah Smith, for over payment of Tuxes. _ 800. To amend the acts incorporating Oglethorpe University, and 'o appoint additional Trustees. 801. To incorporate the Baptist Church in Lex ington, Oglethorpe county, and other Churches and Camp Grounds therein named, also to incor porate certain academies therein named, certain Lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows and Divis ions of Sons of Temperance, and to establish a Ferry on Flint River and to incorporate certain other associations therein named. 802. To incorporate the town of Jefferson in Jackson county, to incorporate the proprietors of the city of Brunswick, in the county of Glynn: to confer certain powers upon the Mayor and council of Columbus, and to amend the 7th section of the act of December 86th, 1837, incorporating the City of Millcdgeville. ■ s 308. To reduce the bond of the Sheriff of Musco §ee county: from forty thousand dollars to twenty ve thousand dollars, and to extend the provisions of an act entitled an act to allow certain fees to the Sheriffs of Chatham county r , approved January 18th, 1850, to the Sheriff of Muscogee county. 804. To amend the several acts heretofore passed, incorporating and relating to the Southwestern Railroad Company, and to authorize said company to build and maintain a Railroad down the South western Railroad, at Fort Valley, crossing the Flint river to or near a place called Wolf Pen in the county of Macon and there to join the Rail road of the Muscogee Railroad Company. 805. To authorize the levying of a tax for the perpose of building a jail m Blairsville, Union county. 806. To amend the several acts passed in this State, incorporating the Brunswick and Florida Railroad company, and the several acts amendatorv thereto. 807. To incorporate the Indian Springs Railroad Company. 308. To confer oertain privileges upon certain persons therein named, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 309. To authorize the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia to lease and work suc-h Railroads as now connect or may hereafter connect with the Central Railroad and to authorize the Boards of Directors of such Railroad Com panies as now have or may hereafter have their respective Railroads connecting with the said Central Railroad, to make leases thereof for a tenn of years, or during the continuance of their respective charters. 810. To change the name of Margaret Jane Brooks to that of Margaret Jane Chappel, and to make her the heir at law of John B. and Margaret W. Chanpel. * 311. Toamend an act psssed the 23d day of Dec.. 1828, granting to the corporate authority of the town of Macon, a certain tiact of land adjoining the said town for the pmpose of preserving the health so far as to declare the public regulations of the City of Macon of force over said land, and to alter and amend the 2d, 6th, 21st, 22d, and 84th sections of an act entitled an act to alter and amend the several acts incorporating the city of Macon, approved Dec. 27,1847, so far as to change the time of holding the city elections in Macon and to amend the act passed the 22d of February’ 1850, relating to the election of Marshal afij Deputies for said city. 812. To alter and amend an act entitled an act toinco «. uv f. cw York and Savannah Steam Navigation Company. 813. To relieve James J. B. Crawford of the county of Madison from the disabilities and pro lection of minority. 814. To appoint trustees for the Camden county Academy. 815. To regulate the practice of the Supreme Court, and of the Superior Courts of this State, and for other purposes, and to relieve snitors in the Supreme Court, and of the Superior Courtaof this State, and for other purposes, and to relieve suitors in the Supreme Court, and to change the district times and places of holding the Superior Courts. 816. To appropriate money to compensate cer tain persons therein named, for pursuing and erresting James Williams, who is charged with the offence of murder, and to reimburse ’said per sons for expenditures in having said James Wil liam* committed Vo jail; and to appropriate a sum of money to pay John Mnllin9, a reward paid by him for the arrest of Alfred Crawford. 817. To add an additional section to tho act supplementary to the act for the appointment of comity officers, approved Dec. 4th, 1 1 99. 318. Amendatory of the Statute of Limitations. 319. To prescribe certain rules and regulations to be observed by the several Railroad companies in running engines upon their respective tracks, and annex a penaty for the violation of tlie same. 820. To incorporate the Mount Zion Academy in the county of Murray, and tlie HawkinsviUo Aca demy, and mipoint trustees for the same, and tlie Fort Valley Female Seminary or High School. 821. To change the time of holding the Superior Courts for the county of Taliaferro, Madison and Elbert and the Inferior Court of Heard. 822. To incorporate the Griffin Collegiate Semi nary for young ladies and to appoint trustees for the same. 828. To incorporate the village of Cave Spring in the county of Floyd, and to provide for the election of Commissioners for the same. 824. To incorporate the town of Marietta in the county of Cobb, and also to enlarge the bounds of said town, and to incorporate tlie same under tlie name of the City of Marietta, and to provide for the election of a Mayor and City Councilmcn, and such other officers us may be required, and confer upon them specified powers, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 325. To alter and amend an act approved Dec. 22d, 1847, to compensate tho grand and petit jurors of Campbell county, and to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court to levy an extra tax for thatpurpose. 826. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior Conrt of Dade oounty to levy an extra tax. 827. To legalize and make valid any process heretofore signed by any Deputy Clerks, or which may hereafter be signed by them. 328. To change idler and fix the time of holding the Inferior Courts of the County of Early. 329. To amend an act entitled an aet to lay oft’ and divide the State into eight Congressional'Dis tricts, and to point out the mode of electing mem bers to Congress in each district, and to provide against illegal voting, ro far as to reorganize Baid Districts. 330. To confer upon the Justices of the Inferior Court of the counties of Carroll, Hall and Lee, the power of examining and allowing Tux Collectors lnsblvent lists. 831. To revive nnd continue in force an act to make permanent tho publio buildings iu the coun ty of W alker in the town of Chattooga, to incor porate said town aud appoint commissioners for the same, assented to 22d Dec., 1835, also to define the corporate limits of said town of Chattooga, now LaFayette, in the said oounty of AValkor. 832. To’incorporate the Albany Bridge Compa ny, and for other purposes therein specified. 383. To alter and repeal an act passed the 26th Dec., 1837, consolidating the Academic and Com mon Shod funds of the State of Georgia, and all subsequent acts in relation thereto, so far as relates to the county of Lowndes, and for other purposes. 334. To alter and change the name of Robert Fenn, formerly of Clark now AVilkiuson county, to that of AYm. Robert Fenn, also, the name of Wm. O’Neal of Lowndes oounty to that of AVm. Lindsey, and to legitamatizo and change the name of certain perpons therein named. 335. To incorporate an Institution for the pro motion of moral and theological information, em bracing common School Education, Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, with apparatus, Books, Maps, Charts, Printing establishment, &c., to be styl ed a Southern Liberal Institute, at Griffin, in the county of Spalding. 836. To provide for tlie education of the Poor. 837. To exempt certain persons of Pike county from the perfomance of malitia duty, in certain cases and upon certain conditions, and also to en courage volunteer companies in said county, and for other purposes. 838. To incorporate Carrollton Cliapter, No. 22, Carrollton, Carroll county, Georgia. 839. To alter and amend an act entitled an act to alter and amend an act for the better regulation of tlie town of Monticello, in the county of Jasper; and to authorize the Commissioners of the town of Forsyth to pay a Marshal. 340. To amend an act to incorporate tho town of Americas in Sumter county, assented to 22d Dee.. 1882. 841. To incorporate the Griffin Synodical Col lege, and to grant to Bueh corporation certain rights, immunities and privileges. 842. To amend the acts incorporating and grant ing corporate powers to the town of Bainbridge in the county of Decatur; and to amend an act incor porating the town of Cassville, assented to 27th December, 1843. 843. To amend the road laws of this State, so far as concerns persons constantly employed in con ducting transportations, and repairing track upon tlie different Railroads of this State. 844. To amend the several acta now in force, regulating the fees of magistrates and constables in the State of Georgia so far us relates to the coun ties of Bibb, Richmond, Monroe nnd Lee, and to provide for the mode of collecting the same. 345. To alter and regulate the times of holding tlie Superior Courts of the Flint and Coweta Dis tricts, to allow a longer time for holding a part of said courts, and to authorize tho drawing of other I'urics for u part of them, and to fix the time of lolding the inferior Courts in the counties of Up son, Fike and Spalding. 346. In relation to the issuing of change Bills, and private banking, for the puuishment of the same, and to authorize the Baiilss of this State to issue bills of certain denominations and for other purpose. 847. To incorporate tho City of Oglethorpe, and to alter and ameud an aet to incorporate tlio town of Oglethorpe, in the county of Macon. 848. To alter nnd amend and aet entitled an act to incorporate the Muscogee Asylum for the poor, to make provisions for their support and to author ize the Inferior Court of Muscogee county, to bind out poor children to said corporation under certain circumstances, and to provide for their education. 849. To create a new precinct in the county of AVarren to be called Burmuda, and for other pur poses therein specified. 350. To incorporate the Lawrenceville Manufac turing Company. 351. To incorporate the Oglethorpe Bridge and Turnpike Company, and to punish those who may wilfully injure the same. 852. An act to be entitled an aet to grant exemp tion, to Cavalry corps, nnd for the formation of Squadrons of cavalry, and to confer certain privi leges upon the Baldwin Bines. 853. To incorporate the Henderson and Marthas ville Plank Road Company. 354. To antliorize the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Atlanta, and tho Mayor and Council men of the City of Rome, to levey and collect a tax within tho corporate limits of the said Cities. 855. To nutliorize the Inferior Court in Lee cpnntv to build a Conrt House and Jail at Starks ville, the present county site of said county, and to authorize Baid Court to levy and have collected an extra tax of not exceeding ono hundred per cent, on the State tax for that purpose, for tne years 1852 and 1853. 356. An aet to be entitled an act to incorporate the LaGrange Steam Mill Company, and for other purposes. 357. To amend an act entitled an act ammenda tory of and in addition to the various acts licreto tofore passed in reference to tlie city of Savannah, approved, Dec. 8, 1849, to allow an appeal to a special jury in tlie Superior Conrt of Chatham county, from any decision made under the sixth section of that act, nnd also to provide for tho reg istry of the name of all persons entitled to vote for Mayor aud Aldermen of said city, aud to pre vent pesons from voting for such Mavor and Al dermen whose names are not registered. 358. To revive and make of force an act to in corporate the Thomaston nnd Baruesville Railroad Company, with power to construct a Railroad from some point on tlie Monroe Railroad at or near Baruesville in Pike county to the town of Thomaston in Upson county, and to punish per sons who may wilfully injure the same, and to confer all corporate powers necessary to effect said object, assented to Deo. 28,1839. 859. To prevent the evading of tolls on the plank roads in the States of Georgia. 360. To authorize the city council of Columbus to loan the bonds of said corporation for seventy five thousand dollars to the Muscogee Railroad Companv. 861. r to incorporate the Culloden Railroad with powers to construct a Railroad from the town of Culloden iu Monroe county to the town of Barnes ville in Pike county, and there to connect with the Macon and AVeste’rn Railroad, and to confer all powers necessary to effect said object. 362. To compel persons owning five thousand or more acres of land lying in the counties of Clinch, Decatur and Rabun, to give in and pay taxes for the same in said counties. 363. To incorporate the Coosa and Chattooga River Railroad Company. 364. To incorporate the Georgia and Flordia Railroad Company, and to confer certain powers and privileges therein mentioned. 865. Amendatory of the general road laws of this State, so far as relates to the county of Bald win. 866. To authorize the Ordinaries of AVayne, Bulloch and Montgomery counties to keep their offices at their own residences. 867. To authorize the commissioners of public roads of Chatham county to shut up permanently the creek between YVhitemarsh and (Jutland's Islands, and to exempt the people of Skiddaway Island in said county from road duties for one year, and their hands. 868. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior Conrt of Cobb county in this State, to cause a new Court-house to be built in and for said county of Cobb, and to make valiid and binding ail such contracts and agreements as the Justices of said Inferior Court may make in regard to such new Court-house, and to authorize said Justices of the Inferior Court to secure the use of a house or room in which the Superior and Inferior Courts of said county may be held until the new Conrt-house is completed,’ and for other purposes. 369. Th open and construct a Railroad from the terminus ofthe North Carolina Railroad at or near the Locust Stake on the line, at A thence by the most practicable route, byway of Clayton, Rabun county, to intersect the South Carolina Railroad at Anderson Court-house. _ , 870. To incorporate the St. Bla Plank Road regulate the advertisements of Clerks, Sheriffs and other State and County officers, ana to provide for the preservation of the newspapers containing said advertisements and for other pur rK 37-L To incorporate the Macon, Perry and Alba ny Plank Road Company, and to confer certain Pm* inflate the Ogechee Plank Road Companv and for other purposes therein nameT 374 T to incorporate the Columbus and Green ville Plank Roald and Turnpike Road Company and the Columbus and the Lannahassee Plank and Turnpike Road Company, and the Atlanta and Sweet Water Plank and Turnpike Road Company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 375. To incorporate the Columbus and West Point Railroad and Plank Road Company, and to punish persons for violating the same. 1 376. To relieve Robert H. Dixon of Talbot coun ty from the operation and effect of an act to regu late the returns of Executors, Administrators and Guardians, approved 22d February, 1850, so as to prevent a forfeiture of his commission as admin istrator of the estate of A. Bedell. VOL. LXVL-NEW SERIES VOL. XVI.-NO. 5. 877. To authorize Robert C. McCullock of the city of Criffin and county of Spalding, to practise medicine upon the Dutch and Indian system of practice, and to charge therefor; and to allow Bailey Kirbey of Rabun county to practise medi cine and charge for the same. 878. To require persons applying for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum in any State case to give prosecutors notice of the tune and place when said application will be heard. 879. To appropriate money to Jas. J. Tooke of the county of Talbot, and to Thomas 11 . Pol hill of the county or Jefferson, on account of tho over payment of taxes. The Tax Law. Tus following is the Tax Act adopted by the lost Legislature: Ax Act to lory a»J collect a 71m for each of tho political years 1852 and thomifler, until repealed. Sec. 1. Tliat from ttud after the passage of this act, all real and ]...sonal csh.te eithin this State, whether owned, by individuals or corporations, resident or non-resident, shall be U .ble to taxation, subject to the exemptions birein afier specillcd. Sec. 2. That the terms “real estate,” as used in this act, shall be construed to include land itself, all buildings or other articles erected upon, or affixed to, the same; all mines, minerals, fossils, :< nd quarries in and under the same, except mines belonging to the State, and the term “person al estate,” as used in this act, shall be construed to Include all chattels, monies, debts due from solvent debtors, wheth er on note, bill, draft judgment or mortgage, or open accounts, goods, wures and merchandise, capital invested in shipping or tonnage, or capital otherwise invested, ne gro slaves, pleasure carriages, public stocks, and stocks in monied corporations; also such portion of the capital of in corporated companies liable to taxation on their capital as shall not be invested in real or personal estate. Bsc. 3. That the following property shall be exempted from taxation, to wit: All exempted from taxation, by the Constitution of-the State or of the United States, every building erected for the use of and used by u college, incor porated academy or other seminary of learning, every building for public worship, every school house, court house, andjail, and the several has whereon such build ings are situated, and all the furniture belonging to each of them, all books and philosophical apparatus not held as merchandise, and fur the purpose of sale, every poor house, alms house, house of imfantey, and any house be longing to any charitable institution, or connected with the same, the real and personal estate of any public library, and other literary associations, all stocks owned by the State and by literary and charitable institutions, also all plantation and mechanical tools, all household and kitchen furniture not above the value of three hundred dollars, not held for purpose of sale, or as merchandise, libraries—all poultry and S2OO value of other property belonging to each tax payer, and also the annual crops and provisions of the citizens of this State, and all fire arms and other instru ments, and all munitions of war not held as merchandise, wearing apparel of the tax payer and family, and the holder or owner of stock in any Incorporated company liable to taxation on itscapital shall not be taxed as an individual for such stocks. Sec. 4. That all lands held under warrants, and surveyed, but not granted by the State, shall be liable to taxation In the same manner as if actually granted. Sec. 5. That all monied or stock corporations deriving income or profit from their capital or otherwise, except as before excepted, shall be liable to taxation. Sec. 6. That each and every free person of color in this State betwcecn the ages of eighteen and fifty shall be taxed annually the sum of five dollars. Sec. 7. That the sum of five dollars shall be levied upon all practitioners of Law or Physic or Dentistry and Da guerrean arts. Sec. 8. That each and every male citizen between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, shall be taxed annual ly hereafter, twenty-five cents. Sec. 9. That the receiver of tax returns In each county, shall receive all returns to him on the oathß of the persons making them and at such valuation as they may affix, and if any person shall fail to make a return, or to affix a value, the receiver shall make such valuation, assess the tax there on from the best information in his power to obtain, and in cases where no return is made or no valuation made by the persons returning, he shall aesess a double tax. Sec. 10. That it shall be the duty of the receiver to assess all real and personal estate not returned, or not assessed by the person returning the same at the full market value. Sec. 11. That the receiver of tax returns shall require all persons to give hi each and every tract or parcel of land, lie or she may own, specifying its location, quality, and the number of acres, if known, and the aggregate value, includ ing the value of the buildings, machinery, toll bridges or ferries on the same, a classification of the personal estate subject to taxation, as defined In the second section of this act, specifying the number of negro slaves and their aggre gate value, and the aggregate value of all other chattels, moneys, debts due or to become due from solvent debtors In whatsoever form, aud each classification shall be entered in separate columns. Sec. 12. That the Receivers of tax returns throughout the State shall administer to each and every person giving in his or her taxable property, the following oath, to wit: You do solemnly swear (or affirm) as the case may be, that the account which you now give in is a just and true account of all the taxable property which you were possessed of, held or claimed on the first day of January last, or was In terested In or entitled unto, either in your own right or in the right of any other person or persons whatsoever, as Parent, Guardian, Executor, Administrator, Agent, or Trus tee, or any other manner whatever; amt that it is not worth more than the valuation you have affixed to it, to the best of your knowledge and belief—so help you God. Sec. 18. That it shall be the duty of the several tax Re ceivers within this State to take in all taxables herein be fore enumerated, and enter the same in his book or digest with the appraised value thereof, following the c lassifica tion specified in the second and eleventh sections of this act, and return a copy of the same made out in fair and legible hand writing, to the Comptroller General, and one to the Clerk of the Inferior Court anil tax collector, on or before the Ist day of July In each year, In which digest shall be carefully made out, an abstract, stating each subject of Taxation, the amount of aggregate value of each, the num ber of acres of land, number of slaves, polls, free persons of color, professions, Ac. Sec. 14. That when the Comptroller Ceneral shall have received said digests, he is hereby required to examine the same carefully, to detect any error or errors therein con tained, and having corrected the same, if any shall be found to exist, he shall then foot up each column and ascertain the aggregate amount of each of the digests, and report the same to his Excellency the Governor, who with the as sistance of the Comptroller shall assess such a rate per cent, not exceeding 12th of one per cent, on the entire amount as will raise an amount of revenue corresponding to the wants of the State, and notify the several Tax Collectors throughout the State of the rate per cent, so imposed, aud the numant to be collated by him in each county. Sec. 15. That the amount so required to be assessed and collected, shall not exceed the sum of three hundred and seVfhty-Qve thousand dollars annually. Sec. 16. That the amount of tax to be paid annually to the State upon the amount of real aud personal estate taxa ble under this act, shull be one-twelfth of one per cent., which shall be levied and accounted for according to the ex isting law, together with the poll tax and tax on practi tioners of law, medicine, free negroes, dentists, Daguerre an artists. Sec. 17. That it shall be the duty of the Comptroller Ge neral, with the assistance of the Treasurer, after the re turns of tax have been made by the tax receivers of the several counties in this State, to make an estimate of tho sum total of taxes which will be raised under this act ac cording to the per cent, assessed, and if it should appear that tiie sum total should oxceerl the amount of taxes re quire! by this act to be raised; then tlq; Comptroller Ge neral shall is-uc his circular directing Uic tux collectors es this State to make such deduction in an equal ratio upon every thing taxed according to value, at will reduce the sum total cf taxes, as Dearly to the amount required by this act to be raised, ns Is practicable. The Comptroller speci fying the per cent, deduction necessary to be made. Sec. 18. That the tax receivers and collectors shall re ceive the same compensation now allowed by law. Sec. 19. That to net the digest a3 provided for In the Tth section of the act of 1845, for the receivers, the default list shall he deducted, and for the collectors the insolvent list shall be deducted from the total umount of the digeste, and that all taxes due and payable under nny of the provisions of this act, shall be paid in gold or silver, or in the hills of specie paying Banks of this State. Sec, 2U. That the fourth and fifth sections of an act pass ed the 22d of February, eighteen hundred and fifty, to levy and collect a tax for each of the political years, 185 U and 1851, and thereafter be, and the same are hereby continued in full force anil effect, saving excepting so much of the fourth section as In the following words to wit: not being over sixty years of age, or valueless from decrepitude or disease. Sec. 21. That nothing in tills act shall be so construed as to relieve Banks, Railroads, or agencies of Foreign Banks from any special tax heretofore assessed on them or any of them. Sec. 22. That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, except such parts of the tax acts now in force in this State, as may be necessary to carry out this act, and which are declared in full force, be, and the same are here by repealed. Tho Revolution in Chill. The following letter, which we have received from our intelligent and reliable private correspon dent in Chili, will bo read with interest. It is from a source certain to be well informed, and its state ments, therefore, may be relied on:— X. 0. Pica yune. Santiago, Cniu, Nov. 24, 1851. There lias been no abatement in the civil war in Chili since my last, but on the oontrarv it contin ues to rage with increased violence. Even the la dies and clergymen have caught the contagion, and many of them are taking an active part in favor of the revolution. Writs have been issued for tho ar rest of a leading and popular priest of Santiago, while it is understood that the whole body of the clergy in the north have joined the revolutionary party. Dona Rosa Carrera, a widow lady, who re sides in this city, received a notice from tho au thorities not long since, to the effect that her pre sence in the city was incompatible with tho public safety, and she was ordered to leave, which she declined to do, but sought an asylum in the house of the Peruvian Minister, where she remains. Two ladies, who were ordered to leave Valparaiso, took refuge on board the U. 8. frigate Raritan, now in that port, and have been refused permission to re turn to their houses under penalty of imprison ment in the common jail, Tho first named lady is the sister of Carrera, who is at the head of the rev olutionary party in the North. She is wealthy, accomplished, and related to the first families m Chili. Her step-father was the President of the Senate at the last session of Congress. On the 28th of October there ooourred a severe conflict in Valparaiso, in which the Government was successful, with a loss of about fifty in killed and wounded. The loss on the other side is not About the same time the miners of Chanareitlo rose, to the number of two or three thousand, and committed most shocking atrocities on persons and i property: burning, and otherwise wantonly dc- j stroving tales of goods and barrels of flour, which thev were unable to carry off, to an amount exceed- I ing‘ SIOO,OOO, besides plundering and filling up i valuable mines, &c. . The latest intelligence from Coqmmbo was to the 16th. The city was bombarded the night be fore many hundreds of balls and shells having been thrown into it by the Government forces, who have closely invested it for months. The revolu- ; tionists liave fortified themselves and main tain a stout defence. The latest accounts from the South are to the 20th inst., by which it appears that Gen. Bulnes, the commander of the Government forces, had sufficient address to avoid Gen. Cruz, the revolu tionary commander, who had fortified the south bank of the river Nuble, and cros-ed that stream several leagues above; that Gen. Cruz then fell bock, and that Bulnes was advancing upon him; that there had been a severe skirmish, principally between the cavalry of the two armies, in which Cruz's forcos were routed with the loss or two guns. It is understood that a portion, say 150 of Bufr.ai’s cavalry, have gone over to Cruz, and that another portion had been cut off by the Aruneavo Indians, to whom Gen. Bulnes sent an officer with an es cort for thejpurpose of inducing them to join his standard. There is but little doubt that both par ties have made overtures to these Indians. This country presents a gloomy picture at this time. Martial law is in force; the ports are closed, all business is interrupted, the prisons are filled, even the penitentiary with State criminals; while hundreds have ben killed iu battle, transported to the Straits of Magellan or condemned to be shot. It is much to be feared that unless there be a speedy close to thiß unfortunate strife. Chili is des tined to lose her proud title of the model Republic of the South. t i On Tussday night we witnessed a brilliant dis- j play of Aurora Borealis, lighting up the Dortbe. i sky. It was visible nearly all night, and at tunes was very bright.—A". F. Cam. Prince Esterhazy and Kossuth. Yesterday we published an extract from a lottcr of Count Batov any, a compatriot of Kossuth, ex pressing his opinions of tho Mngvar’s course. Be low we give an extract from a letter of Prince Es tkrhazy, who was likewise a prominent and dis tinguished actor In tho Hungarian struggle : “ There were at the head of several departments, 1 as I mentioned before, men of trustworthy oharac • tor, who labored under no illusiou ns to the politi cal tendenoy aud tho clandestine plans of their colleague, and endeavored, although unsuccess fill, to counteract them. “I may dispense with pointing him out. His name is but tyo much heard in England, whore the would be friends of Hungary have prepared for bun a reception, showing a striking contrast to the evidence ot high treason, and to the calamities and misfortune which, by subversive schemes, he ho brought on his country, as woll as to tho state in which he left it at tl.o moment of his flight. “It is evident that two ways were open to the pursuit of those patriotic views wbioh he boasted of. One of them was the path of legality, in devo ting his tin Jeninble ability to the task of effacing the means employed in extorting concessions front the crown. “But the secret motive which guided him, his vanity, aud tho party ta which lie was devoted, drove him into the opposite path, and following this direction ho brought oo tho catastrophes of which his couutry has been the theatre, and was himself led to acts of treason, with their just con sequences. This result of the proceedings, of winch lie was at onoo the moving power and the instrument, tho frequent difference betwcou his words and hits deeds, and his reluotance to act man fully, in cose of need, bv courageously exposing his life, have now, 1 think, blotted out among the majority of tho nation tho phantasmagoria of his unpropitious influence. To tliat the last blow was given, when, socing the end of his ephemeral power fust approaching, he resorted to the republican utopias, more intend ed, I apprehend, for exportation to foreign markets, than for home consumption in our own, as 1 can luvrdly think him capable of such an egregious mistake as really to indulge in tho"hope of'making such a scheme palutuble to a population w hose ge nius, traditional history, feelings, and habits, are so eminently monarchical and aristocratic.” Count Batthyany and M. Kossuth. —lt seems only proper and right that Count Casimir Bntthya ny, who equally with Kossuth was engaged heart and soul in the struggle for Hungarian indo pendouce, should have a hearing among us, who, as a people, cordially sympathise with all who have labored for liberty and independence. Tho fol lowing is the oonolusiou ot a long letter from this distinguished patriot, published in the London Times. It deserves to bo thought ovor Moan while, my own decided opinion on the sub ject is this—tliat Kossuth has not the least right to set himself up as tho solo and exclusive represen tative of his country—not tho least right to reas sume the titlo of Governor and tho functions of Dictator, as lie does in his address from I’russia to the citizens of tho United States; aud that it is a most unwarrantable, us well as most illogioa), pro ceeding on his part to contend, ns lie does in the same documout, that the Hungarian nation could not legally outer into any engagement or adopt any measure that would be incompatible with the act by which lie was raised to the dignity of Governor: it being obvious, even if lie had not resigned this dignity, that when the nation was reconstituted on its former constitutional basis, its legal repre sentatives in Diet assembled would have the right to act in whatovor way they might deem the most conduoive to the welfare of the country. I am also of opinion that, so far from following a sound policy in wishing, as lie docs, to remodel the reformed constitution of 1848 and engraft on it principles of republicanism and unleavened de mocracy—principles which are at variance with our national laws and institutions, as well as with the manners, customs, and genius of tho people—he would have acted more wisely aud rendered a more esseqtial service to his oountry, if after his liberation from the thraldom of detention, lie had appeared before tho world in the simple character of a private individual. The conspicuous part which lie took in tho affairs of his country, ana his subsequent misfortunes, would have secured him general respect, while the modesty of his demean or, by effacing from the minds of bis countrymen the recollection of the faults and errors ho eommit od, and through which Hungary haß been brought to her present state of misery and servitude, would have given him a precedence by courtesy among Ills companions in exilo, and placed him m a posi tion to receive that useful advioo and assistance which they would have gladly offered him for tlio purpose of hereafter repairing, by a course of sound and moderate policy, the injuries inflicted on tho land of their birth. But instead of acting in this muuner, he lins set himself up as the Dictator of him countrymen. It is, therefore, tho snored duty of thoso who, al though far from wishing to fetter his activity, are not disposed to udinit his claims, publicly to pro test against liis proceedings. Without dwelling tmy longer on tho weighty motives for caution which may be deduced from his past caroor, I will merely observe that, his pretension to be still re garded ns Governor is the more bnrefacod from tho circumstances attending his resignation. The cir cumstances are these: He was summoned by Gorgey and three members of the ministry to re sign. He instantly complied, and resigned the governorship without convening the council of state, that he wiib bound by law to consult on every important occusion. lie resigned without intimat ing his intention of doing so to the tin eo other min isters, (of which I was one) and who were, conse quently, quite unawaro of the fact. He did not resign his authority into the hands of the minis ters—as under such circumstances he was hound to do—but into the hands of Gorgey. He even in vested Gorgey with a power and authority with which he lmd not been invested himself—viz: the dictatorship. He delegated a power which he only held himself personally, and in suet provisionally, by a direct maudnlo of tho Diet. lie resigned in tho namo of the ministry, which ho had no right whatever to do. Although it may be safely affirmed that he was in a state of inorul and physical coercion when he gave in his resignation, it must be borne in mind that lie voluntarily confirmed this actwhon he was free from all restraint, and could never be persua ded to reossumo his abandoned power, neither ot Lugos, in the midst of General Bern’s army, nor subsequently at Mehndia, when Bern urgently re quested him to do so, and try the last chance tliat remained of Buecesg, to which request ho again re turned a negative answer in writing. By thus acting, he abandoned Hungary to her Site, and ex posed all those who had taken a part in the war to the vengeance of Austria. He confirmed bis avowed intention of retiring into private life by crossing tho frontier and unter ingtrie Turkish dominions beforo the capitulation of Vilugos could possibly be known to him, and while there were still fortresses and armies in Hun gary by which the national came could have been sustained. In liis letter of refusal to General Bern, he in fact suggested the expediency of calling to gether some eminent men in order to form a Pro visional Government. On his arrival at Widdin, he again publicly doclared (in a letter since publis hed,) his resolution of retiring into private life—a resolution which for a short time ho acted upon. The Young Astronomer. — Wo gather from a Western correspondent the following interesting facts connected with a life of the young Kentuckian who has lately become attached to the U. 8. Patent Office at Washington ; W m. C'hauncy Langdon, although occupying tho post of a scientific offices under the government, is now barely twenty years of age. 11l first became interested in the science of Astronomy at the age of twelve years, whileutNew Orleans,by the eomet of 1848 and the lectures of the celebrated Dr. Lard ner, which made their appearance there simulta neously. Since then, though suffering strangor vi cissitudes of fortune than frill to tho lot of many at so tender an age, he has always been devoted to its study. In the autumn ol'lßso, ho graduatedat the Transylvania University, at Lexington, and went adrift upon the world, to pursue (at the inssance of Mr. Dodd and other professors of tho University) a scientific life. An unexpected invitation to deliver a few lectures at Lexington (in the absence of the regular professor) sent him to Cincinnatti for prep aration, where, under tho guidance of the learned Prof, Mitchell and others, who saw liis rising tal ent, he was enabled to prose his studies moro thor oughly than ever. He returned to Lexington with a course of six lectures, but his failure was so sig nal, that lie delivered only two of them. The good people of Lexington could not understand how a mere boy whom they had known as a college stu dent among them for two or three years, could en lighten them cm any subject, and they would not go to hear him. Young Langdon, however, was hot discouraged, and shortly afterwards (during the winter of’so-’al) he delivered the whole course in two or three other places, and with complete suc cess. At this time, his ago being but nineteen years—he was appointed an adjunct professor or lecturer on Astronomy in one of the Kentucky Colleges. About the time of the meeting of the American Scientific Convention in Cincinnatti last May, the notice of Profit, Henry, Bache and other distinguished members of that body became strongly directed to the youthful savant, and upon their return. to Washington they securod for him at their own instance (and without his solicita tion or knowledge)theapixnntmentof Assistaut Ex aminer to Dr. Lane in the Patent Office. . His first appearance on the lecture stand wince his removal from the West will shortly be made in Baltimore, before the Maryland Institute, when he will deliver a course of three lectures upon his fa vorite subject. The interesting character of the young lecturer’s history, and tho beautiful subject upon which he will speak must secure for him a highly flattering reception. Exaggeration. —ls there be any mannerism that is universal among mankind, it is that of coloring too highly the things we describe. We cannot be content with a simple relation of truth ; wc must exaggerate : wo must have “a little too mnoh red in the brush.” Who ever heard of a dark night that was not* ‘pitch dark ?” of a stout man who was not “as strong as a horse ?” or a miry road that wan not “up to the knee ?” We would walk “fifty miles on foot” to see that man who never carrica turcs a subject on which he speaks. But where is such a man to be found ? “From rosy morn to dewy eve,” in our conversation, we are constantly outraging truth. If somewhat wakeful in tho night: “we scarcely had a wink of sleep if our sleeves eota little damp in a shower, wo are as wet as if dragged through a brookif a breezo blows up while we are “in the chops of the chan nel ” the waves are sure to “run mountains high and if a man grows rich, we si say he “rolls In money." No later than yesterday a friend, who would shrink from wilful misrepresentation, told ns hastily as he passed that the “newspaper had nothing In it but advertisements.” Noble Reply of a Circassian Cunt?.—“Surren der !” was the summous of General Rosen to Ham- Bad Bey, “surrender! resistance is in vain; the hosts which I bring against you are numberless as the sands on the sea shore 1” “But my hosts,” was the answer, “are like the waves of the sea, which wash away the sands 1”.