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poetry!
From Me fit. Louis Republican.
TO
1 do not lore thee, yet why doe. thy calm,
Sweet .mile forever haunt my dream., and why
Do thy dark eye. beam gloriously on mine,
Like bright atara from the midnight heaven of aleep 7
No tone of aweeteat mimic ever full.
Upon my ear at gentle eve, but breathe.
The muaic of thy voice ; no allver wave
E’er murmur, at my feet but aeenu to gtaas
l'by face and form ; no lovely bloaaom apringa
Bealde my lonely pathway but exhalea,
The perfume of thy breath.
When thou art near,
My thrilling aplrit aeema a universe
Os happlnea. and beauty. Bided dream.
Os airy lovelineM float through my aou!;
A chaatened aplcndor rent* upon my life,
Aa a aoft pillar of the moonlight reat.
Upon the deep ; and a aoft glory come.
From thy awcet prerence o'er my heart, to charm
My aenaea Into worahlp.
On thy brow,
I read the might of lofty Intellect,
And I have llatened with a panting heart
To thy high w ord, of muaic and of pride,
And bowed my noul in homage to thy power,
Thou gloriou. son of geuiua. Every atar
That tremble. In the blue empyrean, aeema
A torch to light thy aplrlt’a sweeping track
Through heaven', aerene ahya. ; and holy night
Seems tiut a stole of solemn hue thrown routal
The radlauceof thy soul.
Tnon art afar,
I know not where, hut still the arches lone
Os memory’, sacred temple are Illumed
By the pure, blca«eil brilliancy they caught
From thy dear presence, and they echo yet
Thy voice's spirit-music, till the air
Grows tremulous with Joy. The wanderer’, o’er
The bright realm* of the rosy tinmens.
Ne'er revelled In an atmosphere of bliss
Like that which thrills around me with the spell
Os thy remembered cadences.
Andjyet
I love thee not. I only oak to lisik
With thee upon the heavens that roll serene
And beautiful above ; to ait and gate
tin the same stars thou gaiest on, and send
My soul to thine when slumber’s midnight dew.
Have fallen on thy blue-veined lids and hushed
Thy heart to rest. Oh 1 would love to flit,
The spirit of the xephyr, through thy dreams,
Waking to beauty ami to melody
Thy fancy's wiki and leaping waves ; to glide,
A star beam, through thy softly shadowed soul,
Flinging a glory o’er thy sleeping world ;
To murmur like a voice from out the air
Within thy dreaming ear, and blend my thoughts
With thy own thoughts of flame.
Then thou wouidai feel
My kisses on thy lip," and my young heart
Pressed to thy throbbing bosom as I watched
O’er thy unguarded hours, but yet no spell,
Flung on Uiy sweetly-troubled sleep, should haunt
Thy waking life with its remembered charm.
Ha ! wlmt wild power Is this that fills my soul,
Holding thought, feeling, ny my very life’,
In its resistless thrall F 'Tis strangclF sweet.
Yet there Is madness In its Influence,
And with a trembling soul and fraote, I bow
To its mysterious mastery. Ob, nnchuln
Thy victim, strong and boauteous spirit, take
Thy magic fetter from my stefl, unbind
My wing and leave me free, ua I have been,
To wander with the birds, the waves, the wirds,
The clouds, the stars, wltere’er 1 list, o’er earth
And through the blue aud boundless scope of heaven.
Mattul
LiuUriUe, Kentucky , Jan. fi, 1852
INVITATION TO THE YOUNG.
JtY WILLIS G. CLAnSE.
“They that seek me eai'.’y shall find mc.”~Paov. till. T.
Come, while the blossoms of thy 'Tears are brightest,
Ttiou youthful wanderer in u floft'fry maze ;
Como while the restless heart Is bouudiOJt lightest,
And Joy’s pure sunbeams tremble in thy ways ;
Come while sweet thoughts, like summer buds unfolding,
Waken rlcii feelings in the careless breast,
While yet thy hand the ephemeral wreath is holding,
Come and secure interminable rest.
Food will the freshness of thy days be over,
And thy free buoyancy of soul be flown ;
Pleasure will told her wings, and friend aud lover
Will to the embraces of the world have gone ;
These who now love thee will have passed forever ;
Their looks of kindness will be lost to thee;
Thou wilt need balm to heal thy spirit’s fever,
As thy sick heart broods over years to be.
Come, whilo the morning of thy life Is glowing;
Ere the dim phantoms thou art chasing die ;
Ere the gay spell which earth is round theo throwing,
Fades like the sunset of a summer’s sky.
Life lias but shadows, save a promise given,
Which lights the future with a fadeless ray ;
Oh, touch the sceptre; win a hope In heaven ;
Come, turn thy spirit frsm the world away.
Then will the crosses of thy brief existence
fieem airy nothings to thiue ardent soul;
And shining brightly lu the forward distance,
Will of thy patient race appear the goal:
Home of the weary! where In peace and renesir.g,
The spirit Ungers in unclouded bliss,
Though o'er It. dust the curtained grave Is closing,
Who would not early choose a lot like this ?
OUT OF THE TAVKRX.
JEANBLATRD FROM Till QSIIUAK.
Out of die tnvcm.l’ve just stepped tonight;
Street 1 you are caught In a very bad plight,
flight hand and left sand are both out of place;
Street, you are drunk, ’tis a very clear case.
Moon, ’tis a very queer figure you cut,
One eye Is staring while t'other is shut,
Tipsey, 1 see; and you’re greatly to blame;
Old as you are 'tic a terrible shame.
Thon.the street lamps, what a scandalous sight I
None'of th >m soberly standing upright,
flocking and staggering; why, on my word,
Each of the lampe Is drunk as a lord.
AU Is confusion ; now isn’t It odd*
I am the ouly thing sober abroad,
Sure It were rash with this crew to remain,
Better go into the taveru again.
Child’s Evening Prayer.
Jesus, heavenly Shepherd, hear me,
b(f*s thy little lamb to night;
Througi'i }he darkness be dura near mo,
Watch my .sleep till morning light.
All this day thy hand has led me.
And I thank thee for thy care ;
Thou hast warmed, and fed, find clothed me.
Listen to my evening prayer.
May my sins be all forgiven ;
Bless the friends I love so well :
When I die take me to Heaven,
Happy there with Thee to dwell.
r -*#. *
SONNET TO A CLAM.
BT JOHN 0. Si XL.
Dum tacent clumon t.
Inglorious friend! moat confident lam
Thy life is one of very litde ease ;
Albeit men mock thee With their smiles,
And prate of being, “happy as a clam P
What though diy shell protects thy fragile head
From the sharp balißt of the briny sea.
Thy valve# are, sure no safaty-valres to thee,
While rakes are free to desecrate thy bed,
And bear thee offi —aa foeinan take thoir spoil,—
Far from thy friends and family to roam;
Forced, like a Hessian, from thy nadre home,
Til meet destruction in a foreign broil!
Though thou art teuder, yet thy humble bard,
Declares, 0 clam! thy case Is shocking hard !
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THE WINNING YACHT, “AMERICA.”
i At the head of all the yacht* r tan da the Ameri
ca, whieh is here represented in her “bounding
lines of beauty, hhe is represented t a ready for
the great match at Cowes; her jib and flying-jib
sails are up, likewise her fore-sail, her main-sail,
and top-tri-sail. The waves are bound beneath her,
and the starry flag of America now meets the me
teor flag of England in a oontest of peace for the
mastery of the sea*. England excels all nations on
the face of the earth for yachts, or pleasure vessels.
Hundreds of her wealthy noblemen and merchants
linve their yachts, and being a nautical nation, the
greatest encouragements are held out to improve all
their vessels. There is a Royal Yacht Club, and
every year there is a race for a splendid silver cup,
the gilt of Royalty. This race is open to the yachts
of all nations," and the Furl of Wilton, as Commo
dore of the club, tendered an invitation to our
countrymen to contend for the roVul prize, aud to
come over and share the hospitalities of old Eng
land at the World’s Fair. In behalf of the N. Y.
Vacht Club, the invitation was accepted, and the
yaciit America, designed by Mr. George F. Steers,
of New York city, was scut over under the com
mand of the Commodore, John C. Stevens, and his
associates, Colonels J. A. Hamilton and W. E.
Stevens, to enter the lists and contend for tho Roy
al prize, which, as yet, had never been snatched
from the hardy islanders of old Albion.
/born tike Philadelphia /inquirer.
THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDI
TION.
THE POLAR REGIONS.
LECTURES BY DR. KANE.
Dr. Kane, Surgeon U. S. N., and late ofthe Ame
rican Arctic Expedition, lias just concluded a
Course of Three Lectures, before the Smithsonian
Institution, at Washington, relative to the Voyage
and Researches of tho gallant party who braved
the porils of the Polar regions, in search of
tho unfortunate Sir John Franklin. We present
our reuders with a sketch of the first lecture of the
aeries, and will give similar reports of the remain
ing two as early as practicable.
LECTURE 1.
Tho loeturcr commenced by briefly relating the
history of former Arctic Exploration’s, reminding
the audience that the discovery of tins Continent
was one of the results of a search for “a Northwest
passage.” Tlie Arctic Sea, especially, has been the
theatre of adventurous effort from tlie very earliest
periods of maritime research. In the first years of
the 18th Century, only ten years after the’voyage
of Columbus, the coast of Spain was in mourning
for tlie two brothers, Corte Real, one of whom was
lost while sailing towards North Labrador, mid the
other while directing a fruitless attempt to find and
rescue his brother. In 1552 England was thrown
into consternation by tho loss of Sir Hugh Wil
oiighby, who, “socking Cathay,” perished, with
some seventy souls. The journal of his cruise was
found, two years afterward, by some Russian fish
ermen, by tlie side ofthe frozen Commodore. Sir
Humphrey Gilbert, returning from Newfoundland,
in 1584, foundered and was lost with all his crew.
In HHO, Hudson perished: and now, in the 19th
Century, the world is doubting as to tho fate of
Sir Joliu Franklin, and liis 188 companions.
The earlier expeditions differed materially in
system and character from those of the present
day. The caraval and pinnace, and oven the open
decked boat, were the vessels used, ranging in
burthen from 24 to 50 tons; and the summer was
the only season for operations. The spirit of ad
venture then, as now, was nurtured by individual
enterprise and liberality; and Sir \V r alter Raleigh,
Ixird Lumloy, and others, whose names have since
tm&Oijie historical, stood in the same relation to the
explorer# flf Elizabeth’s time, as in a later
day have stood Sir Felix Booth, Lord Mayor of
Liudon, and Henry Grinnell, flje citizen of New
York,
The Aretic Ocean haa an area of about four and
a half millions of square miles. The region whoso
waters contribute to it is immense. On the Amer
ican side it is nearly equal to (ha tributary valleys
of the Gulf of Mexico and Carribean Sea together;
McKennie river alone, deriving its stream from an
area half as large aa the combined basins of the
Mississippi and .Missouri. Tlie water shed of the
Asiatic coast is immense, almost beyond computa
tion. Such is the ocean, with a eoaat lino of more
than 2,400 miles, which baffled for so many years
the research of navigators.
In 1816 the government of England determined
upon renewed expeditions for tlie discovery of a
northwest passage, and the Royal Soaiflty and all
the most influential men of the day lent the project
their co-operation and counsel. What was the cui
bono of these expeditions? Why this search for
an impracticable passage ? Why all this risk of
life, and nil | this appropriation of national treasure
for an objectless, or in the approved utilitarian
phrase, “a worthless chimera ?” It was not geog
raphy alone which had been made definite by these
reseiirchea. The determination ofthe figure of the
earth, by tlie vibration of the second’s pendulum,
owes its confirmation to them. The northwest
passage mar be said to have established the oblate
spheroidicity of our planet, which had been only
indicated be'fore by geodetio measurements upon
arcs of tlie meridian, and by tho inequalities of re
sult of lunar observations. The solution of the
problem of the intensity Bud direction of magnetic
forces, was alone worth’all the hazard and expense
that contributed to effect it. It was one of the
northwest voyagers who planted his signal staff' at
tho focus of converging variations, and found that
the noodle became vertical, in tact, at tUo spot
which scientific deduction had marked out before
for the north magnetio pole. To this great result
of an expedition, in some other respects a failure,
we are indebted for the noble system of interna
tional observatories, for valuable astronomical
knowledge, and for systematic contributions to
natural history. To come down to that more ob
vious utility, that is allied to some pecuniary
scheme of individual or national profit, it may be
said that the codflshery of Newfoundland grew out
of the voyage of Si'r Humphrey Gilbert; the
northwest passage of Davis opened the whale fish
ery of West Greenland; Frobisher pioneered
Hudson to the bav that now margins the greatest
Fur Company of the age; Sir John Ross led tho
whalers to Northern and Western Baffin's bay,
now the seats of mos# lucrative fishing; and Parry
extended their field to Lancaster aud Regent's
Sounds,
After briefly running over the details of the
earlier Arctic expeditions, tlie leetnrer brought the
subject down to the year KJ4, when the Erebus
and Terror, lmviiig returned from Ross's expedi
tion to tlie Antartta a»as, were devoted to the oth
er pole, under the command of Sir John Franklin,
than whom no man could have boon ejected who
combined so many admirable qualifications for the
duties of an explorer. In proof of the justice of
this tribute, Dr. Kane gave a sketch of the public
lifo of the intrepid adventurer, dwelling upon the
horrors of tlui expedition in 1819, in wltich he de
scended to the mouth of the Copper mine.
On the 26th of May, 1645, ihf Erebus and Terror
weighed anchor for that undiscovered region from
which they have never returned. The lasi that
was seen of them was on the 25th J illy following,
in lat. 74 degrees 48 minutes North, lon. 66 degrees
13 mlnutes.West, surrounded by icebergs, moored
to one of them and awaiting an opening jn the pack
to cross to tlie other side or Baffin’s Bay. During
the same mouth of the leaf two years, it was the
fortune of our little American party to be siiniliarly
imprisoned, and In the same place :
When the year 1848 arrived without tidings ct
this gallant party—then in tlm third year of their
absence— Great‘Britain at once despatched three
separate expeditions in search of the lost naviga
tors. The party front whom most was expected,
was that under Sir James Clarke Ross, which bad
assigned to m the “trail” of the missing voyagers.
But the expedition was 6 most lamentable failure.
The commander of that expedition wonderfully
unite* experience, intellect and persevenug energy.
But there was something wrong. Instead of win
tering on the nv*tb?rn sids of the Sound, as the
judgment of the whaler* aspi the theoretical laws
of tlie climate indicated, he placed himself at the
mouth of Regent’s Inlet in a deeply embayed har
bor, called Leopojd, * place familiarly known as
“ ice-trap." In' his published official report, he
rks of tiff# position aa ■“ that of sl} others most
cable.” “Being *t tit* junction of the four
great channels of Barrow Strait, Lancaster bound,
I’rince Regent's Inlet, and Wellington Ch«»»al ” it
was Urdtv possiblv, he thinks, for any party after
abandoning iliofr ships to pass along the shores of
anv of those inlets .“ without finding traces of the
"proximity of our position.” de
Lmthus* mentioned as “ most desirable." U v“
unable to depart ihf more than a year, glued up in
ice. From £ noi ,<m of
could be Soon; and as so **»*, , hard t\ P 0
ble for anv party after abaudomug thetfsmp!, to
puss alomr the shores of any of snoje uuet» 2
out finding traces of the proximity of hjs poshum,
we naighf as soon expect a partv smoked »pon
Cape Henlop*n Jo discover the hen-roosts of Caps
May. In fact, at this vtTJ time, upon the most
Srominont headland of these very * snores, stood
te graves and beacon cairn of the last waudsrers.
There was on* point to which all men conversant
with these seas, looked anxiously: it was Capa
Walker—a cape first seen by Parry, but never
visited, From it Franklin was to steer to the
southward and westward; and to it Sir James
Boas was ordered tp direct his efforts, for here
When the America quietly glided into British
. waters, she was right nobly received :'she was the
first American yacht seen on those waters, and the
Earl of Wilton, and others of the Royal Yacht
- Squadron, lost no time in giving their "American
, brethren the right hand of friendship.
On the 22d day of last August, Cowes, in the Isle
1 of Wight, was a place of intense interest, especially
to England and America. On that day, the Queen’s
i cup was to be wou by England against'all the world,
or lost for the first time in her proud history. This
year witnessed another foe never seen before in
suolt a race, and from some trials aad reports cir
culated about the America’s sailing qualities, it may
be said, tliat when she unfurled her sails, as she
now looms up in our engraving, “ the boldest of
.Old England there, held his breath for a time.”—
Seventeen yachts entered the contest, but a hun
dred spread their sails together. It was a noble
Bight, suoh as can be seen in no other country. In
a short space, the America passed every yacht in
the squadron, and when it came to a place called
“the Needles,” it was asked by the Queen, “Who
was first ?” The America, was the answer; “ Who
is second ?” There is no second, was the next re
ply. The America came in the winner of the Royal
cup, and the trophy of that victory is now in Ame
rica—in possession of the New York Yacht Club.
Whem Commodore Stevens went away, he promis
ed to the members of the club to bring back the
Royal cup, and nobly did hc perfqrm hm promise^
were expected tokens of the progress of Franklin.
He passed, on his way towards the mognotie pole,
within thirty miles of this cape; but determined
not to divide the party, as he had “ originally in
tended, until he should find a more practicable
point for thoir exertions;” —which more practica
ble point he never found, and therefore never visit
ed the cape!
When all these expeditious had been fruitless,
and in the year 1850, these lost men had been five
years in the ice, the civilized world rose in ono
common sympathy. One groat directing mind,
Lady Franklin, gave form to this statement. Great
Britain renewed her efforts j Russia and Denmark,
aent to their northern colonial station* instructions
of co-operation; and America was appealed to by
a touching letter from the noble wife.
The appeal was responded to by one citizen—he is
of New York—whose name is justly inscribed on
tho furthest land range that any navigator of the
Polar soas has yet returned to verify. Henry Grin
nell furnished and fitted out at his own cost, two
vessels for an expedition of discovery and rescue,
and obtained the seemingly reluctant nssent of
Congress that they should sail under the flag of
tho United Skates.
We lull New York, a united little body of thirty
seven officers and men in the brigantines Advance
and Rescue, on the 23d of May, 1850. Twenty
five days afterwards we sighted the rugged moun
tains of Greenland, and the 7tli of July, found
oursolvos fast in the great iec-pack of Baffin’s Bay.
Tho Bay of Baffin serves aa tho groat thorough
fare of the Polar ice, on its passage to the South
from the far Northern estuaries which lead to the
Arctic ocean. During tho long winter the whole of
this great Bay may be looked upon as one field of
ice, which, whether moving or consolidated, is
known technically as “ the pack.” This groat body
of ice does not end hero. After throwing out in
numerable procosscs into the Fiords of Greenland
and America, it unites with a similar mass in Hud
son’s Bay, passes down the coast of Labrador, and
even abuts against tho Northern coasts of New
foundland and the Straits of Belle Isle, This im
mense area—equal to the United States F,ust ofthe
Alloghanies—has annual variations in extent and
condition. Influenced by winds and temperature,
sometimes it is one enormous agglutination, some
times a drifting chaos, composed of grinding frag
ments, varying in diameter from mero “ skreed”
i. o. rubbish, to “fields” many miles in diameter.
Among these, with terrific crash and turmoil, the
“ ice mountains” pursue their resistless march.
This ioc is the great bugbear of Baffin’s Bay navi
gation. In this ioe, Franklin was last seen. The
more observant of the whalers think that they can
determine its position beforehand, frotrinhe‘com
bined indieatioiia of the season and the wind. It
was to us fortwo years (1255-’5 j) a subject of care
ful study; and Ido not hesitate—speaking from
my note book, as an individual only, to sav that its
central character seemß to me overrated. "'The seat
of our imprisonment in this middle pack was most
dreary. On. all sides, save one, we were environed
by ah unbroken range of water sodden ice. The
oiie exception was towards the Coast of Greenland,
where, fur in the distance, a strange and solitary
spar of ejected trap loomed up as if in “ monumen
tal mockery” of our fixed forlonisess. On tho 28th
August, a galo arose; the icy walls of our prison
house were thrown down, and in a few hours we
were driving along through the crashing floes, in
sight of the Qlgcjers of Greenland. We were now
fairly within that mysterious region, known to the
whalers as Melville Bay, a groat indentation which
commences at the “ Devil’s Thumb”—the place of
our confinement —and extends with many lesser
bavs of different titles stir to the North.
It is during the transit of this region that most
of the catastrophes occur, which have made the
statistics of the whalers so fearful. It was here
that in 1882, more than one thousand human be
ings were cast shelterless upon the ice—their ves
sels destroyed by the pressure of the floes—and
it is rarely pQut a" season goes by in which it# pas
sage is attempted without disaster. They call it
“ running the gauntlet.” ’The in-shore side of this
indentation is fined by a sweep of glacier, through
which bore and there the dark headlands force
themselves with severe ooutrast, The slforo is
lined with a heavy lodge of ground-ice, thicker and
more permanent than that in motion. The extent
out for miles, forming an icy margin or beach,
knotsn technically as “land ice,” or “the fast.”
Against tfiis t&asgii;, tke great “drift” is in con
stant contention, sometinfts, by tbj influence |of
winds and currents, opening into a tortuous wpj
uncertain canal along its edge,—at others, closing,
unues tlie same influences, into a barrier of con
tending floes and Vessels caught between
these are said to be “ nipped.”
Through this uncertain passage the
expedition pursued their tortuous way; sometimes
fast for days in the c-foged jee; at others slowlv ad
vancing bv constant and heavy uaUiqn with hand
and wind!##* and capstan and hawaer and whole
line. Rome ide# may be formed of this sort of
progress and the exertions that attended it, from
tho fact that we were forty-two days in advancing
209 miles, and that during this period we parted
seven ten inches cables, and uncounted numbers
of whole lines. Tho thermometer was here at the
midsumnfer temperature of 2 degrees above the
freezing point; indeed tee formed freely during
those hours of “ low sun,” known aa idgfit in that
latitude. Yet the skies were warm and sffiiny,
and the weather to our acclimated perceptions,
worthier of the bay of Naples than of Baffin.
Here, too, the berg# vrg'e numerous, and the phe
nomena of reflection upon a setae c,f marvellous
iplendo#.
Oh the 13jth <f f August, a breeze from the north
cast, soon freshing to a gale, (prove us on our way
towards Lancaster Sound, As yu neared it, we
met the brother expedition or Captain Fenny, mid
still scudding onwards, the solitary yacht of gallant
old Sir John Ross. One day more and we were off
Port Uoopold, and were joined by the Prince Al
bert, the Veseyl &ted out by the noble Lady Frank
lin, on which she liad expended the last dollar of a
liberal fortune. On the 24£h, our vessiff, .ho -Ad
vance, reached Cape Riley, where we found Out j
consort, the Rescue, before us. In company with ;
Capt. Oimnasoy. of one of the British vessels, her ,
officers had lanffed at tha Cane, and tho two par
ties together had already discovered the traces of
Franklin's first encampment on the Arctic border
land,
It was on the morning of vhu ?“th August—not
the dog star month at home, hut one of those
dear, cold day* typed by a dry spdl in our Ameri
can midwinter: we hail doubled the projecting
headland which forms the entrance to Wellington
Sound, and, somehow or other, had come into
close neighborship with Sir John Ross aud Capt.
Benny. While quietly talking with these gentle
men onboara ike Lady FranlSin, the vessel of the
latter, a good Scotchman, tamed Andrew, came
running in, as breathless as the messenger oi Mara
thon, exclaiming “Graves, Capt. Pennv, graves!”
It was a weary walk to reach them, bat I shall not
soon forget the sight that greeted ns—De Haven,
Penny, Phillips and myself. After we had suc
ceeded in crossing the “shore ice,” we came to a
long sloping shingle beach of slaty limestone, which
formed sort 0# Isthmus or neck^connecting a bold
blftff headland with*he main. >lff» headland was
Beeeby Island, which rose in a quadrangular block
at the very confluence of the two great inlets.
From the spot at which we stood, we oould see the
channels of each—one Lancaster, blue and watery
—the ojber, Wellington, a plain of unbroken ice.
On the ores* of this connecting slope, the only
points which caught the eye atwdtl the sterile uni
formity of snow and slate, were the head-boards of
iLtm graves, made after the old otrhodox fashion
of grave aton*s a*, home, and “sacred to the memo
ry of Franklin's dead.'’ Thg date* were of the win
ter aud early part eff 180-46. liras which forms
the eod with us, was a heavy tile of fhg largest
limestone slates—at once mound, grave, ai;d for
what we know, coffin; for in this always fr ozen re
gion, to dig is impossible, so that the onlv protec
tion from in* wclf and the bear consisted m this
heavy tablet.
The scene was deeply affecting. Even the rudest
of the sailors were silent; and men who had no
thought* beyond their dinner and their duty,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1852.
i The America was visited by the' Queen in person,
3 as a mark of the estimation’in which she held the
s America.
t In the contest for this cup, many Americans
i were afraid that the America would not liavc fair
play, and Commodore Stevens had many warnings
9 about the pilot. The Admiral of the Portsmouth
f station, however, furnished him with a pilot, and
i said he would be personally responsible for him:
, everything was done fairly, openly, kindly and
i courteously. On the 28th *dav of last August, the
i America beat the Titania, an iron yacht of R. Ste
- phenson, C. E., in a contest for JllOO. The Titania
’ was a lighter vessel than the America, but the vic
: torv was easily won, although the Titania was a line
‘ sailor. The America was built by W. H. Brown,
of New York. She is 170 tons burden, has a keel
■ 82 feet long, and a deck 94 feet. Her greatest width
s is 22W feet; her depth of hold is 9 feet 8 inches;
i her fore-mast is feet, and her main one 81 ft.
i Her bow-sprit is hollow and 82 feet long: her fore
-1 gaff is 24 feet, and her main-gaff 2? feet. The
> main-boom, on which the foot of the main-sail is
> extended, is 58 feet.
After the race with the Titania, the America was
1 sold to an English nobleman. In some trials which
- had been made with the yacht Maria and the Ame
. rica, previous to the latter sailing for Europe, the
- former proved the victor; so that, although the
) America proved the fastest sailing yacht in Europe,
• _ n swifter is in America still.
seemed to avoid, afterwards, the dark shadow of
Beechy Island, as it stretched itself over the snow.
Near one of these graves—that of a poor boy
named Torrington—was the mastoid process of a
fox. The rest of the skull had disappeared; but
in the cavity that had been filled by the nice me
chanism of the ear, was a turf of moss, “set, as if
in mockery,” and quickened by the products of
decay; and from this sprung a flowering plant
typical of death—the poppv. A few saxefrages
and carices grew somewhat further down, but this
was all the vegetation that folded the graves.
Quito near them were the cinders of the black
smith’s shop, with scraps of iron among them. At
another part of the Isthmus, or hill slope, were
pilos of emptied meat cases, the hermetically sealed
S revision of Arctic voyages, stacked in regular or
er. We counted 600 and odd. Indeed, all over
an area of two or three miles, wo met traces of hu
manity, mounds showing the seat of some un
know industry, carpenters’ shavings, bits of paper
—some with names on them, some with the calcu
lations for meridian altitudes —small portions of
clothing, iron, wood, and canvas. It was" evident
that in the Kay before us, now called Franklin’s
Bay, and on the Isthmus that looked out upon the
two estuaries, had wintered that gallant Command
er and his lost crews. But there was no record of
his departure thence, nor of his intended course.
Wliut that courso may probably have been, and
what the fate of his party, will bo endoavored to be
shown in the earlier part of next Lecture.
LECTURE 11.
It was on the 18th September that, after many
adventures, the explorers found themselves again
forced together with the English exploring vessels
at Grilfith Island. This island is west of tho meri
dian of tho Magnetic Pole ; so that in crossing it
we had attained a point whore the magnetic needle
would have been found to vary 180 degrees, or, in
other words, North would have pointed South.
This interesting observation they had not time to
verity; but the extreme sluggishness, indeed inu
tility, of tho compass had long been manifest.
Griffith’s Island was the greatest westing, the
greater barrier of ico beyond preventing further
progress. The ice was gathering rapidly around
them. The thermometer tell to but 8 degrees above
zero, aud ice formed rapidly whenever the sea was
at rest. By the morning of the 14tli, the squadron
was frozen up, fast in winter ice. The habitual
rule of Arctic explorers is to seek a winter harbor;
the present was the first recorded example of ves
sels caught in the open sea. Soon after the great
sea of ice was in motion, northward, carrying, of
course, its prisoners with it! Soon the commotion
of the ice prevented fires. The thermometer fell
to 11 degrees below zero. Ico formed in the bed
ding, and soup froze upon the table. Every day
pew Coast passod before the eyes of the party, but
around them the same interminable ice, But tho
20th, they had reached the latitude of 75 degrees
25 minutes—a latitude never before attained in
that meridian by keel of Christian ship. From
this point was seen stretching along to the N. E.
to nearly due North a mountain-topped land,
which was named after Henry Grinnell; the chan
nel which defined its shores was named after
Lieut. Maury.
A “water-sky,” a dark blue stratus, contrasted
with the whiteped glare of an ice horizon was seen
to the northward. How impossible was it, at such
a moment, not to think of a Polar Sea! The move
ments of the vessels and their ice-prison were evi
dently unimpeded bv anv ice masses from the
North.
“ We were bornealoug,” said the leoturer, “like
specks upon a vast floating raft towards the un
known North! without possibility of escape or
rescue, or even effort, and without the poor chance
qf leaving on the shore some hurried memorial to
tell where we had goqe. We Bpoke little of these
things to eaoh other; but the reflection could not
be avoided. How likelv it is that Sir John’s ves
sels may have travelled as we are doing! How
possible that our fates may be the same.
Mr. Kane proceeded to discuss tho supposed po
sition of Sir John Franklin, and the probabilities
of his eventual rescue —commencing with an ex
planatory resume qf the geography of the Arctic
regions, illustrated with well prepared diagrams.
One of these was so arranged as to exhibit the
seat of seareli after Sir John Franklin, and upon
it were drawn the lines of iee-drift of the Ameri
can Expedition. The experience of Parry and his
followers prove that this region is a vast archipela
ga. whose main approach is by a large Sound, called
Lancaster; and whose most prominent passage to
the North is by a large estuary or inlet, named af
ter the Duke of Wellington. This inlet has been
frequently observed free from ice.
Franklin was the British Admiralty
to proceed thicugh Lancaster Sound for some three
hundred and fifty miles, to a cape culled Walker;
thence he was to* steer to tho southward and west
ward, towards Behring’s Straits. Failing to accom
plish this, lm was ordered to attempt a passage to
tho north bf Wellington Chance). Hr. Kane, by
a scries of practical arguments, which seem almost
conclusive, shows that tills was the passage which
he adopted, and, although a few of the English
officers differ with him in opinion, the recent pub
lications of the British press fully sustain this
view. The position of Sir John Franklin’s first
winter quarters, at the very mouth of this channel,
is conclusive as to the fact of that judicious com
mander haying Contemplated it.s future navigation.
It was tho alternative' enjoined by his “orders,”
and the lecturer detailed many fncts to show that
it was a favorite alternative. I>r. Kune, in investi
gafirg the natural laws which regulate the ice drift,
shbtred that me eastern sides of this channel are
earlier and more frequently open than the western;
and the peculiar position of Sir John Franklin en
abled him to see and take advantage of the very
qtst (jf those early openings.
Add to this thq siiigula*- ar,d petTlexing fact that
Franklin left no written record or his intentions,
and it really seems as if the ice had suddenly open
ed to the North, and that Sir John, with nis dar-
I ing and energetic promptitude, had pushed into
I this new water without delaying to give to the
j world behind liiwi a notice of las course. Certain
; it is that the deserted encampment bears marks of
hasty departure. If then, Franklin passed to the
North, continued Dr. K., why has he not return
ed ? The answer is conjecture. The treacherous
leads may Lave olcted upon him as they did upon
ns. He may have been'borne as we were, imbed •
ded in some vast ice field. The saipe wind that ,
fcTCed the Advance and its surrounding ice-raft to
the latitude of 75
blown upon him a few days longer than it did upon 1
US. Os, more fortunately perhaps, at the outset, he (
may have found tbs ws.ter lead still open before
him. In either case, a few weeks—it nlay be days j
—of progress, and he must have entered upon tliat ,
dark ana unknown water, which tinged our last i
winter’s horizon as we floated on Lis track. <
li is now six years since he passed beyond the j
recorded frontier of our worldt What Las been j (
liia fete; or rather can he have survived i The . ,
consideration of this question was made exceed- | ,
ing]v interesting by the lecturer. The casualties (
of A'retic navigation, though frequently disastrous, j 1
are not generally attended by the destruction ol :
life. The ice masses which crush by their lateral
pressure or their incumbent weight, almost always (
give nqtica of their approach, and not unfrequent- ,
Iy‘bridge the way for escape. Storms pf wind are ,
comparatively rare; and even when they do Occur, ;
the ice which’ destroys the whale ship, is almost the i
certain refuge of her crew. In the memorable
gale of 1832, of the 1,000 seamen whose vessels
were totally demolished, but seven lost their lives. ]
Besides, vassals eeijjug in company, avoid as far as ,
possible such a proximity as would expose both to
the same peril at the same moment. The siinulta- i
neons destruction of the Erebus aud Terror there- 1
fore, the Doctor looks upon as not at all possible. ■
Kor is there much reason to apprehend that the ,
missing party has perished fronj caid, or starva
tion, or disease. The Igloe, of snowhouse, Os the ]
Esquimaux is an excellent and wholesome shelter, i
Tba servants of the Hudson's Bay Company, pre- j
ferred it to the winter hat, and for clothing, the
fur* of the Polar regions are better than any of the
product* of Manchester. The resources which !
that region evidently possesses for the support of
human life are certainly surprisingiv greater than
the public are generally aware. Narwhal, white
whales and seal—the latter in extreme abundance
—crowd the waters of Wellington channel; indeed,
it was described as a region “ teeming with ani
mal life.” The migrations of the eider duck, the
brent goose and the auk—a bird about the size of
our teal—were absolutely wonderful. The fattv en
velope of these marine animals, known as blubber,
supplies light and heat; their furs, warm and well
adapted clothing; their flesh, wholesome and an
ti-scorbutic food. The reindeer, the bear, and the
fox also abounded in great number, even in the
highest latitude, attained. Add to all this, the three
years provision whieh Franklin carried out was
calculated according to the provervial liberality of
the British Admiralty, and was indeed abundant
for a support during four years and a half, and that
he was the man of all others whom necessity had
taught the lesson of husbanding his resources and
of adding tojthem when occasion permitted, and
we have a summary of what might be made a con
clusive reply to the apprehensions on the score of
a want of rood. In a word, Dr. K. announced
that after a care fid comparison of the natural re
sources of this region, he was convinced that food,
fhel, and clothing—the three great contributors to
human existence—were hero in superabundant
plenty.
I have endeavored, (proceeded the lecturer.) to
compress into these few remarks my reasons for
supposing that tlie still further search’ for Sir John
Franklin’s party, is not among the projects which
a sound argument should reject. But lam sensi
ble that it is not easy to convey by words that
strong sentiment on this question which my own
mind received during our northward drift in’ Wel
lington Channel. It scarcely needed the long and
melancholy blank in the story of Fiankhn’s voy
age, to admonish ns that a few short hours might
place us, without the intervention of any new mis
hap, in a region unknown to our brother voyagers,
from which no missive could tell of our course or
our necessities, aud out of whieh, unaided, there
might be no escape.
Referring again to the theory of an open sea
around the pole, Dr. K. alluded to the fact that
Capt. Penny (an energetic whaler, for whose views
the lecturer" seemed to have great respect.) had con
firmed the unmistakable sign, the dark cloud
known as the “ water sky” by sighting the water
itself. Such an open sea has been vaguely called a
Polynya, or Polinlya—a term from the Russian,
which implies an open space. Dr. Kane cannot
think that, in a literal sense, such a sea exists in
regions where the mean temperature is so far below
the point of congealation. He fully advocated,
however, the existence of a comparatively iceless
sea, in which the drift never agglutinates." It ism
this region, not far to tho north and west of the
point which the American Expedition reached,
that he supposes Sir John Franklin and his com
panions to be immured ; surrounded bv seal, and
the resources before described, but unable to leave
their hunting ground and cross the “frigid Sa
hara,” winch intervenes between them and tlje
world from which they are shut out.
Among the most interesting phenomena of the
ice-world, described by Dr. K., were the noises,
diverse and fearful, which accompanied tho disrup
tion aud movement ofthe frigid masses. So appal
ling were these “ voices of the ice,” that he hesita
ted, lest the words of description should seem over
wrought. The friction of smooth, vibratory sur
faces, the compression of elastic planes, the frac
tures and grinding of broken-up masses, with
hosts of varied causes of the same sort, gave rise
to nearly every variety of sounds, shrieks, groans,
the humming" of fectories, the shrill whistle of the
locomotive, and the hiss of escapting steam—all
were found in the voices of the ice, rising up by a
sublime crescendo , to a climax of inconceivable
intensity and then dwindling down toa nearly com
plete silence.
All the winter the entire party kept themselves
prepared to leave their vessel at an instant’s warn
ing, in view of some sudden disruption which
might destroy it. Whenever the danger seemed
imminent, all left the ship and fled to the ice,
where an india rubber boat was kept launched in
constant readiness. Upon one of those occasions
of alarm, while all were out upon the floes, each
man awaiting in helpless silence the course of
events, the brig suddenly rose by a series of con
vulsive jerks of at least a foot each, heeling
over at the same time so ns to bring her yards
nearly in contact with the show. She had’ thus
been lifted up nearly seven foot, when the boat
swain, supposing her übout to capsize, called out,
“ Stand from under.” During tins commotion, it
occurred to some of tho party tliat the upsetting of
the stoves would set fire" to the vessel. Upon re
gaining the brig and running below, in laughable
contrast with tlie scone around, an esteemed mess
mate was found quietly eating his dinner, and as
quietly waited upon by tlie steward. In reply to
the wondering queries of his companions, he said
that “he hadiio idea of going out upon the ice on
an empty stomach ;” that the rest were all a din
ner ahead of him. As to the steward, he made it
a point of honor not to abandon his crockery. So
accustomed had all become to the perils of that re
gion, that they were viewed almost with indiffer
ence.
Now Year's day, exactly one year ago, (continued
Dr. K.) we found ourselves entering Baffin’s Bay.
Including our march up Wellington, we had drift
ed about four lumdroa miles. The premonitory
cracks (fissures) had now opened into black rivers,
traversing the icc for miles around-like ramifying
arteries. Everything pointed to our expected ice
battle.
One of these great rivers, nearly as wide aa the
Schuylkill was astern of us, and over if a few
nights’ congealation had spread a film noariy afoot
in thickness. That night—l ttsethe word artificial
ly, for it was all night with us—of the 18th, after
repeated “ alarms,” we were stretched out upon
our Buffalo robes with our knapsacks at hand,
when tlie officer on deck called to us to hasten up.
The thermometer was 40 deg. below zero—7o deg,
below the freezing point; but the night, oiear and
starry, enabled us to penetrate the darkness to
some distance astern. A white mass, seemingly in
the air, was moving, with steady march, directly
upon our brig. This we knew to be the crest of a
gigantic hummock, its ridge of crumbling ioe as
white in the contrasting darkness, as the foam of
rolling serf. Accompanying it was the solemn
orchestra of ice voices, the booming diapson of the
compressed floes. Presently cume the mysterious
cessation of these noices.* The clamor ceased.
Wo heard each other speak. A moment after
came the well-known renewal —the puppies, tho
shrieks aud the locomotives. On came the cr est;
and now tumbling from it, we could see the heavy
blocks of ice and hear their hollow coughs upon the
snow-padded floes. Nearer yet we could define its
masonry, and feel the transmitted undulation of
the six foot ice, which, powerful as it was, formed
no barrier to its advance. Now, to our quivering
ship, came a vibratory trembling tliat made our lips
tingle, as in a cotton factory at home. The colos
sal mass bears down upon its—closer—six yards-*-
three yards—six feet—it ceases : its pulse had beat
en, and the mysterious interval (of silence and
quiet) had arrived. All that night we waited for
its renewal; but the renewal never came. Five
months afterwards that great ridge of ice stood
in the same position beside us, a monument of
God’s meroy and man’s own helplessness,
Lecture 111.
A brilliant assembly of the ladies and gentlemen
of Washington, honored the lecturer with their
presence on Friday evening last, and manifested
their appreciation of his effort, in frequent dcinon
trations’of applause.
.Dr. Kane in commencing,recapitulated some of
the poimts of previous lectures, and proceeded with
a description of various Arctic phenomena, wit
nessed during tlie pogrees of theexpedition. The cold came
upon the voyagers gradually, and by habit they sue enabled
to keep as warm as necessary, without fires, for weeks after
the thermometer was several degrees below zero. Iu the se
cond week of September, the water casks froze up, and It
became necessary to quarry out the ice and melt it before It
could be tued By and bye. the waters of the sea convegled
around them, and they were glued up in fixed Ice. Moisture
began to be a rarity, everything being frozen jierfectly dry.
The opening of a door was followed by a gust of smoke-like
vapor, and outside every smoke-pipe exhaled purple steam.
All their eatables froze into a mass of laughable solidification.
Sugar was soon cut with a saw, butter with a chisel, and beef
with an axe or crowbar!
The “crawl," the chill, the sensation of “cold" which at
home is a temporary change of state, was here unknown—
cold, °f a highly wrought intensity, the one unvarying condi,
tion ! When the mercury froze and the alcoholic thermom
eters fell below 50 deg. or SO odd below the freezing point,
regular inspections took place during and after the walks of
the mpn. A white spot on the nose, lip of' cheek, was the
signal for a most uncharitable rubbing with snow; and many
a time poor Jack, when pining for a warm stove, has been
obliged to take, instead, a course of medical friction, with
compulsory exercise. On one occasion, a poor fellow, recov
ering from an attack of inflammation of the lungs, was ask
ed by his doctor how a certain frost bitten ear came op ?
“Wl.y,” tiffd h,e. prcducingL carenuiy fajed scrap of an
old newspaper, “I did’nt want io trouble you,' Doctor; it
dropped off last week; here it is.” But the most distressing
feature of their Arctic winter was the darkness of its long
night, when for eighty days the sun was not risible. During
this season the Aurora Borealis was an almost nivhtlv vis:
ter. the Aurora ot me m frortli, however, is not the splen
did display, either of Illumination or color, or movement,
which we see in the more southern latitudes; it resembles a
white moonlit cloud, impressed clearly against the pure tyue
of the sky. Many other interesting phenomena of ta« Arc
tic night ven. dye J-bed by the lecturer
At length the sun returned, gradually and slowly, until on
the 10th of April the night was over, and the long Arctic day
had commenced. But the return of the sun brought no ad
ditional warmth. On the contrary, the augmented evapora
tion and dryness were by a greater intensity of
Lust.
During the months immediately following the return of tho
sun, the entire horizon seemed lifted up and indefinitely ex
tended. lou saw on every side an inclined plane— vast and
interminable except by tlie aerial limit, of distance. An
other form more startling, because more circunwcribed was
that of a great circus. You looked as from the apex of a
hollow cone, np a great encircling talas, whoje summit
crowned by a steep and Well built wall. This effect was
strangely impressive. The beholder was in the mid« of a
vast, apparently artificial arena, whose centre, walk where
you would, was still yourself; and whose walls always there
conveyed the idea of a moveable pfttor.
Among several instances 0| refraction related, was the
spectral land off Cape Adair. On the evening of the 10th
February, while looking over the waste of snow, a flame-
Uke streak, some 18 deg. in length, was seen playing a short
distance above the South eastern horizon. Soon after from
its lower edge, depended a range of rqd? iff#** aaotia, which
quickly assumed the *u<i appearance of a range of
hill.. Bunging Inverted in the ah’; while, at the same time a
corresponding set, not inverted, rose to meet them below—
their bases remaining beneath the horizon. The anoe---
ance of these mountain, meeting at their top* »aa attchas
to make the valleys be'vreup M assume the aspect of
Si*’ distal und resurrected was more yp
On the sth June, a. if by some miraculous agency the
ice suddenly broke up, and in twenty minutes from the' first
alarm, the vessels were in a sea of tumoltnoas ice. Ftve
days afterwards they shook the free waters from their bows
and plunged along in a heavy seaway, after an imnrisor.
meet of two hundred and nxtv-seyer day*, and a drift of
I'OO miles After gtring a vtVSI description of the icebergs
and other Arctic phenomena, Dr. K.. concluded aa follows
In fifteen month, of varied adventnre we had entered um
on th.- path of Sr John Franklin, had struggled with the
ice pack at the same spot where he was seen hat, had traced
him to his first winter's resting place ;qd mmer tae InDu
«eCe of cays*, beyemi pitman control tad been borne to
ward the Polar sea and back again aa by a resutles. neces
sity, to the very vestibule of Arctic exploration. We had
striven to rqoin our associate in the field of oar united
search. But in vain. The glory of bearing our flag through
the crosade of rescue, the »> even feflnemingits
kioni —tnese were not for us.
Still the search cannot, wilt not be abandoned The
pride of a heroic nation can never consent to yield up the
children she ha. sent forth to peril without tracing out their
path way of disastrous duty, and at least gathering their
bones into a grare. Science that recognizes no nationality
leea romprebenrive than the World it enlightens—Christian
philanthropy that has expounded the circle of brotherhood,
till it includes all who suffer—the chivalry of the age, that
assigning the fint rank of daring to some, flecoks all the
rest to follow for support or rescue—manhood ittclf, respon
sive to the appeals of a noble spirited and heart-stricken
wife—all these reject the dishonor of leaving Sr John Frank
lin and his companions to perish unremembered, and engaged
the sternest and most exalted and ennobling of human ener
gies to work out the mysterious iwoblem of their fate.
Note.—This lecture embraced many interesting descrip
tions of Arctic phenomena, impossible to be given in the
limits of this sketch.
A Sketch from French History
Previous to tho 9th of November, 1799, the
French Government consisted of Five Director*—
Sjeyes, Dncos, Burras, Gohier, Monlins; A Coun
cil of Ancients ; A Chamber of five Hundred. On
the 9th of November, Sieves and Dueos made a re
port to the Council, intended to awaken the at
tention anJ excite the alarm of the French people.
Paris, they said, was fillJß with enemies of public
order—persons dangerous to the welfare of tlie Re
public. The council rendered a decree transferring
the seat of the legislative body to St. Cloud, charged
Bonaparte with the execution of this decree, and
placed the whole military force at his disposal. On
receiving these orders, the General thus addressed
tho Council:
“The Republic was about to perish; you foresaw
it, and saved it by vour decree. Wo betide those
who threaten it with trouble and discord! Aided
by Gen. Lefebvre, Gen. Berthier, and all my faith
ful corapanions-in-anns, I will defeat their "designs.
They need not search the past for precedents by
which our action may bo arrested. Nothing in
Instory resembles the close of the present century.
Nothing in the close of this century resembles tlie
present moment. Y'our wisdom’ conceived this
decree : our anus will know how to execute it. We
want a Republic founded upon real liberty. We
will have it. I swear it! I swear it P*
After this Bonaparte reviewed ten thousand
troops at the Tuillcries. The Directors, who per
ceived they were about to be displaced, then
sent an agent to offer tenns to him ; his replv is
well known. It was couched in the most indig
nant terms :
“What have you done,” he cried, “with that
France whieh I left so glorious in your hands! I
left you at peace; I find you at war." I left you vic
torious ; I find nothing hut disasters. I left you
millions of treasures of Italy; and I find on all sides
extortion and wretchedness. What have you done
with the hundred thousand Frenchman, compan
ions of mv glory, all of whom I knew ? They are
in their graves. This state of things must cease; it
would lead us all to despotism. \Vhat we want is
the Republic, the Republic, the Republic seated
firmly upon the foundations of equality and liber
ty.”
On the next day ho suddenly appeared in tlie
Chamber ofthe Five hundred at St. Cloud, with a
chosen body of armed grenadiers. Athis presence
the Deputies rose in tumult and filled the hall with
cries of Dictator! Crotnwcll ! Ciesar ! Down with
him ! So energetic was their resistance at first, u
resistance only in words, tliat the Conqueror of tlie
Pyramids faltered in his design. He turned back
from the Assembly and retired from the hall.
It was upon this occasion that his brother Lu
cien who occupied the chair as President of tho
Assembly, decided the fate of France. Stepping
over the threshold of the hull, he gave instant or
ders to a battalion of grenadiers to enter the As
sembly with bayonets fixed. They cleared the room;
the deputies riishingout in wild dismay, and many
escaping through the windows. The ’same nigh’t
tho two councils were called together by Lucien.
The Bonapartists appeared in force; decreed the
abolition of the Directory ; the institution of a pro
visional consular government, and a legislative
committee of fifty, and Franco became a Consulate
with Napoleon Bonaparte for her Chief Magistrate,
and thus entered upon the beginning of tho Nine
teenth Century.
The conduct of Louis Bonaparte, at the begin
ning of the second half of the nineteenth eentnry,
is intended as a close imitation ofthe part played
by his uncle in this affair.— New York Poet.
Far-Off Beauty.
Are not all natural things, it may be asked, as
lovely near as far away ? Nay, not so. Look at
the clouds, and watcli the delicate sculpture of
their alabaster sides, and round lustre on their
magnificent rolling. They were meant to be seen
fur away; they were shaped for their place, high
above your head; approach them, and they fuse in
vague mists, or whirl away iu fierce fragments of
thunderous vapor. Look at the crest of the Alps,
from the far away plains over which its light is cast,
whence human "souls have communion with its
myriads. Tlie child looks up to it in the dawn,
and' the husbandman in the burden and heat of
the day, and the old rnuii in tlie going down of tlie
sun, and it is to them all as the celestial eitv on tho
world’s horizon; dyed with tho depth of heaven,
and clothed with the calm of eternity. There was
it Bet, for holy dominion, by him who marked for
the sun his journey, and bade the moon know her
going down, It was built for its place in the far
off sky; approach it, and as the sound of the
voice of man dies away about its foundation, and
the tide of humun life shallows upon the vast tcrial
shore, is at last met by the eternal, ‘ Here shall thy
waves be stayed;’ tho glory of its aspect fades into
blanched fearfnines*; its purple wails are rent into
grisly rocks; its silver fretwork saddened into
wasting snow; the storm-brands of ages are on its
breast—the ashes of its own ruin lie solemnly on
its white raiment.
Arabian Ideas of English Travellers. —Their
general opinion of an English traveller is, that
lie is either a lunatic or a magician ; a lunatie, if
on closely watching his movements, they discov
er that lie pays little attention to any thing around
him, a confirmed lunatic, if ho goes ont sketching,
and spends his time in spoiling good paper with
scratches and hieroglyphics, and a magician when
inquisitive about ruins, and given to picking up
stpnas and ahalls, gathering sticks aud leaves of
bushes, or buying up old bits of copper, iron and
silver. In these cases, ho is supposed by aid of
his magical powers, to convert stones and shells
into diamonds of immense prico ; and the leaves
and sticks are charms, by looking at which lie can
bestow comforts upon his friends and snakes and
pestilence upon his luckless enemies. If a traveller
Eioks up a stone and examines it carefully, he will
e sure to have at his tail a host of maipert little
boys deriding him, keeping at a very respectful
distance, ip deference to Ills magical powers.
Should he indeed turn round suddenly and pursue
them a few steps, they fly in agony of fear, the
veryveinsin their naked little legs almost bursting ;
and they never stop to look back till they have got
well amongst the crowd again, where, panting for
breath, they recount to their auditors the dread
ful look that devil of a Frank gave them, making
fire come ont of his eyes and adders ont of his
mouth.— Neale's eight years in Syria, Palestine,
and Asia Minor.
Newspaper Debts.—A easo was recently tried in
Philadelphia, where a suit was brought against a
subscriber for twelve years’ subscription, and the
defendant pleaded the statute of limitation, The
Judge delivered the following charge to the jury:
“ Judge Ke'ly charged the jury that, when a per
son subscribes for a paper, and gives directions
where it shall be left, he is bound to pay for it, un
less he prescribes the time for which it shall pe
left. If a subscriber wishes tq discontinue his pa
per, it is his duty to Bquare his accounts and then
giye notieo of a discontinuance. If a paper is sent
to a person through the post oftico, aud he takes it
out, he is bound to pay for it. If a subscriber
change. Ins residence it does not follow that tho
earriir must take notice of it; and a delivery of
the paper at the place where he wttt firsff directed
to leave it is a delivery tp, vile HuUcriher, unless
the publisher receives notieo to discontinue or send
it to another place. The statute of limitation did
not affect the case, as tlie defendant had paid some
thing on account m June, 1844. Verdict fqr nlaiu
tiff m 59.”
Proposed Museum or Mankind. —Mr.C'atlin,tho
great traveler, among the North American Indians,
is now engaged in a novel scheme for the purpose
of forming a museum of mankind. In conse
quence of the march of civilization, and tlie clear
ing of the forests of America, several tribes of
Indians arc now nearly extinct. He proposes to
engage a large steam-vessel to visit the coasts of
America, and there to collect individuals c.f those
tribes that will in a few years entirely pass away,
and with his out, collection of American Indian
curiosities, to visit the principal cities of America
and Europe, affording thereby to the public a sighi
of those extraordinary people who will soqn Uc lost
forever. The scheme has recejyad great fgvor from
a number of scientific of England, and
eyqrticiis are being made to carry it into effect.—
Charleston paper.
Good Advice.—Dr. Baily. qf the “National
Era,” says to his correspondents: “ When you
write for the press, use black ink, clear, good pa
per, written on one side only, letters large and
plain enough to be red like prsat, and, if you sus
pect defects jq style, grammer, or punctuation,
get a friend to correct and do not call upon the
editor to do.it. He lias no time, and it is not his bu
ness.”
J^aeuiage.—Tacitus says, early marriage lrgikes
us immortal. It is the soul and chief prop of em
pires. That man who resclK* to live without
womaq, apd ike woman who resolves to live with
out man, are enemies to the community in which
they dwell, injurious to themselves, destrwtlve
to the whole world, apostates frerq nature, and re
bels against heavep pnd earth.
Wkifht, ofthe Lycoming (Pa.) Gazette, is p phi
losopher—not a spurious on?, VjA the genuine arti
cle—as our reactars will perceive by perusing the
following, whieh we clip from a late number of his
paper:
“Take rr Fas'?"—Years enough have we had in
its ways, and great tribulation enough have we
passed through, to confidently state, after mature
reflection upon the past, anff due consideration of
the probabilities of .the future, that the beet philos
ophy -a that which teaches ns to take our fortune,
be ft good or ill, with imperturbable calmness
and good humor. We never knew a man who
looked complacently on all kinds of luck, to come
out at the “tittle end ofthe horn,” while on the con
trary, your fretting, irrascible mac, who has “the
blues” eternally, is sure to die bfore the frost kills
off the other vegetables. Now we have not two
cents in our pockets, and if past experience guide
onr hopes, we do not expect to have for six months
to come, yet no man bites an unpaid for crust with
a greater "relish than onrscl ves, and nobody aspects J
a greater of future beatitude, Th* iuater who remark
ed to his companion in misery and equestrianism, .
whom the bojwhad put astride the small rail,
u Tale it easy, Jem; ithnrts ns to vunn ourselves
about, more nor it does the rail,” wte 6 philosopher ,
ofthe first water, and Biu*U have a premium for
th? dieseveuv of the first principle. The world’*
a rail on which we are all astride; ‘take it easy,” 1
An Irishman sued by a doctor for the amount of
his bill for medicine and attendance, and Paddy
being called upon to state why he refused to pay
replied, “Why should I pay for such stuff? The
medicine was of no use to me; sure he sent me two
emetics and ne’er a one of them could I keep on my
stomach.
VOL. LXVI.—NEW SERIES VOL. XVI.-NO. 6.
Minute* or Points,
Decided by the Supreme Court of Georgia, 6t Co
lumbus, January Term, 1862.
Cook vs. th* State.— From Marion.—l. The
co-habitation of a married man with a single wo
man is adultery in the man, and fornication in the
woman. 2. Wherever the Indictment atates the
offence in the terms of the Code, or so plainly that
the Jury may clearly understand the nature ofthe
offence charged, it is sufficient. Thus, an indict
ment for incestuous adultery, which charges the
defondant, being a married man, with criminal
connexion with a single woman, who was hia
daughter, is sufficient. 8. Upon an indictment for
incestuous adultery, the marriage of the defendant
may be proved by, the admission of defendant,
and by proof of liis living together with his
alleged wife, as man and wife. It is not necessary
to produce the record of the license and tlie tes
timony of witnesses present at the ceremony.—A.
C. Morton, forPl’ffin error; Sol. Gen. Williams,
for Defendant.
Duncan vs. Bryan, trustee, &c.—From Dooly.
L Where a person is appointed, by the Superior
Court, Trustee, to protect tho separate property of
a Feme covert, and accepts such trust, it is not
competent for him, afterwords, (when called upon
to account by the Cestui que Trust) to deny the
Trust, nor to deny that there is any separate right
of the wife in the property, received bv him under
the appointment.—S. T." Bailey, for Pl’f; G. R.
Hunter, for Defendant.
Bryan, Trustee, et al vs. Duncan. —From
Dooly. 1. The Trust property of a Feme Covert
being levied on by Fi Fas. vs. her husband, her
Trustee interposed a claim. Being advised by
Counsel that the property was subject, the Trustee
Cestui que Trust and Hnsband agreed to a sale of a
portion of the Trust property sufficient to pay the
Ii Fas, tho Trustee, through a brother, became tho
purchaser. Held, tliat if the sale aud purchase was
oonajids, and for a full consideration, it is not
fraudulent and voider see. 2. A will by which
the testator lends personal property to a legatee,
with a limitation over it at Tier death, conveys an
interest to the legatee, equally ns great as if the
testator used the language give or hoqueath. 8. Tho
advice given by counsel to his client, as to the le
gal lights of tno client, is not such a confidential
communication as would be inadmissible in evi
dence.—Mounger & Hunter for Pl’tf; S. T. Bailey
for Defendant.
The Administrators of Godwin vs. Deavors. — •
From Sumpter. _ 1. A Tax Collector in Georgia
Ims the right to issue executions against defaulters
failing to pay their taxes. 2. The Tax Collector
may cither execute liis own process or may deliver
the same to a constable, to be executed by him.
8. The return of a constable of “no property”
must be entered in writing and cannot be proved
by parole. 4. A debt due to the State is included
in the provisions of the Insolvent Laws of Georgia,
so a tax execution cannot be levied upon those nr
ricles exempt by law from levy and sale.—E. R.
Brown and B. Hill for Plontiff: McCoy for De
fendant.
Hoskins vs. The State. —From Baker. 1. Whore
an indictment charges, in different counts, offences
of tlie same character, the State will not be forced
to select on whieh to place the defendant on trial.
2. After a criminal cause is elosod, it is not com
petent for the court to open it for the purpose of
admitting other evidence. But the Solicitor Gene
ral may withdraw an announcement of “closed”
immcdiatcl v after making it and before any evi
dence is offered by tho Defendant, or other steps
taken in the cause. 8. It is not easy to determine
exactly how far a Judge may interfere in suggest
ing to the Solicitor General how to oonduct a pros
ecution. It is, perhaps, bettor to forbear altogeth
er from any such interference. 4. On an indiet
mout for forgery, it is competent to prove the pass
ing of the forged instrument to sustain the allega
tion of the fraudulent intent. 5. An indictment
under tlie 10th soction of the 7th Division of the
Penal Code, need not aver that the instrument ie
not provided for in the former sections of that
division.—R. 11. Clarke for Plaintiff; Solicitor
General Lyon for Defendant.
Strange vs. Bell.— From Marion. 1. Where
commissioners were appointed under un act of the
Legislature to assess the depreciation of real estate
iu the town of Tazowoll, by reason of tlie removal
of tlie county site, and to issue certificates therefor
to tlie owners, which certificates were to be evi
dences of debt against tho County Treasury. Held,
that where two persons claimed to bo tho owners
before the Commissioners, the granting of a certifi
cate to one of them does not exclude the other
from contesting the title in the Superior Court. 2.
Under tho Constitution of Georgia, the Superior
Courts only, have jurisdiction over questions os
to the title to real estate between conflicting claim
ants. 3. Tlie County Treasurer, though himself
be stopped from contesting the eortifloate, muy silo
a bill to compel the conflicting claimants to inter
plead.—llill <Sp Worrell for Plaintiff; W. Williams
for Defendant.
Administrators et al vs. Mizell.— From Talbot.
1. Whe.ro property is loaned till ealled for, tho ex
ercise of acts of ownership over tlie property, doos
not constitute a conversion. 2, But the assertion
of an adverse claim, and the announcement ofthe
determination to hold “in spite of the Bailor” is
sufficient of conversion.—llill & Wor
rell for Plaintiff: L. B. Smith for Defendant.
Leonard vs. Boynton.— From Talbot. 1. The
person hiring a negro for a year, is responsible for
the hire for the whole year : although the negro
may die before its expiration—Worrell for Pl’ff.;
B. Ilill for Deft,
Rebi>ass vs. Young.— From Marion. 1. If the
Court in Its charge refers to tlie testimony of a
, particular witness, and in repeating it, materially
varies in it, or omits a material portion o( it, it is
calculated to mislead the J nry and is good ground
for a new trial. 2. Where a negro Is loaned by a
father to a child until called for, and afterwards
the luther oalls for nnd recovers the possession of
the negro, and at a still later date, the negro is
. again found in tlie possession ofthe child, without
any explanation as to the possession i it is a ques
, tion forth* Jury to determine froui all the other
evidence whether this latter possession was under
a loan or a gift. And it is error in the Court to
charge the Jury that the law in sncli a case pre
sumes a loan, and thereby restrict them from the
consideration of the other evidence.—Worrell and
B. Hill for Vi’ft, iE. R. Brown for Deft.
Jones vs. Scogo ins.— From Talbot. 1. When
a Pl’ff. in electment relies upon a prior possession,
tho Defendant, if a mere tresspasser, cannot set np
a paramount outstanding title as ip $ third person,
2. But if the Defendant is the tenant of the true
owner, he may sat up th? title of his landlord.—
Womul for Puff,: L. B. Smith for Deft.
Whaley vs. The State.— From Baker. 1. After
the Triors have retired with a Juror it would be
irregular for the Court to send out written Instruc
tions to the Triors as to the questions they shall
ask the Juror. 2. Confessions madebv the prison
er under a threat, should not be admitted In evi
dence. It is competent, however, for the Court to
enquire into the nature of flip threat used, and il
it be such as cqqlff not have oreated fear iu the
mind qf ftyo prisoner, tlie confeßftions are admis
sible. 8. A confession by the prisoner that “he
had been previously guilty of similar offences, hut
that he was now prosecuted for the first time ;*» j,
ndmissable. 4. A bribe offered by the prisoner foi
the purpose of effecting ap escape, is admissiible
in outlie trial for tho olfcnce for which
tie tyas arrested. 5, The communications made bv
i W’ocjJ are inadmissible in all cases—but it is com
peteut ibi* a wituess to state tliat he was induced to
change his position, when attempting te detect a
supposed criminal, from the inlbrmation he had
received from Negroes, «, Where a Pocket-book
is taken fropi the custody of the prisoner, the me
teffranffa‘.herein are admissible in evidence against
him, without proof that they are in hi# Jiand-writ
mg.—Morgan for Pl’ff; Sol, Gem Lvon and Clark
tor jJer fc.
Whaley vs. the State.— From Baker, 1. Under
the act of 1846, the officer arresting a defendant
charged with an offence not capital—has no right
to seize tlie property of the Defendant for the
purpose of paying the costs, without a written war
rant, or instructions to that effect from the Magis
trate issuing the warrant.—Morgan for Pl’ff. t Sol.
Gen. Lyon for Deft.
How the Lands Go.— Wo referred the other
day, briefly, to an amendment, proposed in the
Senate by Mr. Underwood of Kentucky, to the bill
now before that body, granting lands to lowa in
aid of certain railroads in tliat State, the object of
the amendment being to grant lands for a similar
object and for purpose# of education to the old
States in which no, part of the public domain is
sit„aied. and which have heretofore been dented a
share m the bounties bestowed by Congress so lib
erally on the their youthful sisters. We find the
speech in whieh Mr, Underwood advocated his
amendment reported at length in the Washington
Globe, of Wednesday. It is an elaborate and in
structive document, exhibiting pretty clearly the
workings of the new system by which., the land
wealth of the republic, the coinmcm property of
tho States, is squandered with wasteful extrava
gance upon a few favored members of the confed
eracy, wnile other#, with at least equal claims and
not inferior right, arc left to admire the injustice
wrurti refuses them the boon of equitable partici
pation.
We liave, at the present moment, neither time or
spaoo to attempt an analysis of Mr. Underwood’s
speech, nor to follow the line of argument which he
pursues, but a perusal of il suggests the use of
some of his facts uhd figures, from which an idea
may be "ftaveyod, in few words, of the vast scale
cm which Congress deals ont its favors from the
treasury of the public land, and the rapid style in
winch it is getting rid of this property which it
holds—or, according to former theories, used to
hold—as the trustee of the States.
Th* grant of land made by the last Congress to
Illinois in aid of her Central Railroad, extended to
two millions and a half of acres. Considering the
grand way jn which wc are apt to talk of such
thftyfs, this does not, at the first blush, »cem so
very large a gratuity. A little cyphering, however,
will correct all misconception on the subject, Two
millions and a half of acres are equal to nearly four
thousand (precisely 3,908; square miles, which
would make a very respectable principality, and
almost a small kingdom, in some part# of Europe.
The area of the State of Delaware is but 2 100
square miles; that of Rhode Island only 1’225
square miles. The territory granted hy Uongreg,
therefore, to Illinois to make her railroad is within
a small fraction, twice as great as the entire area of
Dckware. and it is more than three time* a great as
that of Rhode .stand. Who would not build rail
and^dgdjp° ngreeßis * BtfSniWtiygenerous
Bat Congres* has proved itself capable of still
n,? UiS er *Mty- Tlie swamp and over-
Ivrt? ranted 10 Louisiana, aqoordiug to the
report of the government agent sent to that State
to agree about its selection, amounts to between
six and seven million* of acres. If wc take it a
mean of 0,400,000 acres, we have her* a little farm
or exactly ten thousand square miles; whieh wants
but ope thousand sonar* miles of being as large as
the kingdom ftf Holland, and three thousand of be
to that of Belgium, These are swamp
and overflowed lands, to be sure: but they are afl
capable of drainage, and our legislators have
studied Mr. Carey’s new theory of land philosophy
to little purpoee not to know that they are the rich
est lands in the oountrv, if not in the world, and
that they will hereafter, if properly cared for,
inake Louisiana a more opal ont State than Califor
nia with all her places and mountains of auriferous
quartz,
Aooording to Mr. Underwood’* figure*, there
hav been already granted to tire States—of oonrse
the new State—for educational and public improve
ment purposes, 19,674,448 acres of the public
lands. This is equivalent to 80,987 square miles.
Excluding Maine, the five remaining New England
States embraco, together, a territory of only 81,275
square miles; being but 688 miles larger than
the aggregate of the lands granted to the new
Statos.
Item*.
Wood, in Cincinnati, on the 28d inst., was up to
the reasons le infliction of twelve dollars a oordt
A most pleasant state of affairs, truly, with those
who have wood to sell, (says tho Commercial of
that city,) but not remarkably so with those who
are compelled to buy.
Kossuth Notes. —Ccrtifloates for money receiv
ed fbr the Hungarian fund havo been engraved at
New York. They are fbr suras of sl, $5, 110,
SSO, SIOO, and bear the portrait of Kossuth.
Religious Tolerance. —Tho Sultan of Turkey
was recently present, in Constantinople, at a mar
riage celebrated noeording to Roman Catholic rites.
His majesty, however, stood up the whole time,
saying that he ought not to hoar the name of tho
Almighty God called upon in any other position,
The number of deaths in New Jersey in 1851,
was 4,285. Consumption carried of 712, and dys
entery 844.
“A Shining Character.”— ‘Mv olmracter,’ said
an alderman who had cleared himself from a charge
of jobbery, ‘my character, sir, is like my boots—
all the brighter for blacking.”
The Maine Liquor Law was rejected in the Rhode
Island House of Representatives, by a vote of ayes,
81—nays, 87.
Elder Orson Hyde’s paper in lowa defends the
Mormon system of a plurality of wivos. The Mor
mon law allows it, and the Elder deems it no sin.
Mr. John Peck, a planter of Weakly county,
Tenn., was recently murdered by two of liis slaves,
who have since made a confession.
The New Yore Crtstai. Palace.— The N. York
Commercial understands that their Common Coun
cil have granted to Mr. Riddle and his associates
tho use of Reservoir Square, about 400 feed square,
for the erection of a Crystal Palace, in which to
make thoir contemplated exhibition of tho Indus
try of nil Notions. They have also appropriated
funds for flogging the Bquaro, nttd to sustain a
complete constabulary force during the [period of
the exhibition. The lease runs for five years, at
the annual rent of one dollar a year.
A remarkable railroad acoident occurred on the
Indianapolis and Lafeyetto rood recently. Two
hand cars were racing, with several men on each;
tho forward car, in passing a point where a oommou
road crossod the track, was thrown off tho rails,
and the other came upon it with its frill force, kill
ing three men and injuring several others.
The New ork Courier «ft Enquirer of Jnunary
29, says:—“They had capital skating at Augusta,
Georgia, on the 28d, and the snow was over an inch
and ahalf deep.” Wo acknowledge the skating,
but our contemporary Ims “slipped up’’ on the
snow, none of which, to speak of, lias been noticed
here the present winter.
Rev. Dr. Wheden, a Professor in tho Michigan
University, lias been dismissed from his chair, “for
preaching a higher law sermon.”
Sotno thoughts always And us young and keep
us so, Suoh a thought is the love of the universal
and eternal beauty.
A new stove has been invented for tho comfort
of travellers. It is put under the feet and a mus
tard plaster applied to the head, which draws the
heat through the system.
The recent snow storm at New Orleans—a novel
feature in her sunny life—seems to have excited
the most cunons sensation. The newspapers are
filled with flowing verse, and commeuts, both mcr-
ry ond solemn, upon tho “first snow." Among
tho Incidents of the day the Picayune reoords as a
fixed fiiot the rush made by a small Creole negro into
his master’s rooms at an early hour of the morning
followed by tho cxolamation: “ Oh, Monsieur t
regardez dene ; la eour eetpleine de eucre bland"
“Oh, sir, look, the yard is full of white sugar ?"
Tho St. Louis lntclligencor says the severe weath
erhas killed all the peach troos in that vicinity.
Tasso’s Wisn.— Tasso being told that he had an
opportunity of taking advantage of a very bitter
enemy—“l wish not to plunder him,” said ho,
but there arc things I wish to take from him ; not
his honor, hia wealth, liis life, but his ill will.
Death or a Relative or Arnold.— The lust sur
. viving relative in Norwich, Conn., of Arnold, tho
traitor, died at the New Haven almshouse on the
; 10th inst., aged fid. Sho was a cousin of Benedict,
and the last of kis kindred in that vicinity.
. Accounts from the copper mining region, of
i Lake Superior, oonflnn the fears that great distress
| would be felt in consequeuoo of tho early dosing
| of navigation. Many mines have been aban*
doned for want of fbod. Marquetto was sup
-1 plied, afier having been six weeks out of flour, &0.,
’ and actually suffering from famine.
. Even Punch can join the Times in flattering the
; Unted States, the ridicule of which has afforded so
much sport *o that paper. It says :
r America,.—A. spirited lad who beat his big bro
. therforbuUyinghim, but who will ioin him as
• partner in business when they both liocome men.
I Spell murder backwards, and you have its oause.
. Spell red-rum in the same manner, and you seo its
> offsets,
f ,
5 There were seven steamboat disasters on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers during the past four
* weeks,
t
, Mrs. Forrest’s Fctute Movements.— The di
r v ? rco ® n ’. t °f Forrest vs. Forrest has perhaps excit
j ed sufficient pnblio curiosity concerning the par
-1 tics, to make it interesting to know something of
r the movements of either of them. Tho Tribune,
. premising that it speaks by authority, informs its
, readers that Mrs. Forrest intends to earn her live
i lihood ss an actress, for which profession she has
1 long felt a desire, it being her wish to rely upon
l her own exertions for support, and to devote the
. alimony awarded to her out of Mr. Forrest’s estate
; to charitable purposes. The last clause of this de
claration of intentions, certainly evinces a remark
able spirit of benevolence.— Pa. Enquirer.
How many human hearts, like the ArctioPole,
have an open sea around the centra, but only reach -
able through an almost impassable desert of lee.
The wife of Mr. Bunce, living near C’hurchville,
Hartford county, Md., was lately delivered of three
children at one birth. She is tho mother of seven
teen children.
Punch—a good authority—says that Bamum is
in active treaty for the purchase of tho celebrated
“ House that Jack built! ”
The next N. Y. State Agricultural Fair is to be
held at Utica in September, 1855.
A Winter Sketch. —The editor of theLeonard
town, Md., Beucon, paints the following sketch
through a crack in his office door, on Thursday eve
ning week : “The village all a sheet of glistening
ice—but one person in the street, and ho on skates
—icicles as long as a man’s arm, doponding from
the bouse eaves—and a strong promise of snow
in the clouds about sunset.”
A Handsome Legal Fee.— The Express learns'
that the Government of the Netherlands, have
agreed to pay Mr. Seeley the sum of ten thyueand
doUare, for his professional services in tho case of
the recovery of the Jewels of the Princess of
Orange; and they have already paid the same
amount to other parties who were engaged In ar
resting the robber and sending him back to Hol
land. Mr. Seely is an American.
To MAKE a SHORT Winter.—Give a note in the
falh payable in the spring. You will find' that
spring will be here as soon as you arc ready for it.
It is stated that the new arrangement, by which it
is proposed to shorten the time now required for
the transmission of the mail between New York
and N. Orleans ;—2B hours going and 40 return
ing,—will be put in operation on the Ist of March
next.
There aro 979 governmental officers at Washing
ton, of which 242 are filled by citizens of Virginia,
108 by those of the District, 80 by New York, 28
by Massachusetts, 77 by Maryland, 19 by Connec
ticut, 18 by Vermont, 17 by New Hampshire, and
91 by Pennsylvania. Every State is represented
save California.
Wm. Yerosr, Esqr., has been elected by the
people to fill the vacancy of Chief Justice Sbaexet
on the Supreme Court bench of Mississippi. Mr.
Y. is stud by all parties to be one of the ablest
lawyers in the State.
The first time the Duke of Wellington visited
Dover after the completion of the sub-marine tele
graph between England and Franco, he was salu
ted by the discharge of a thirty-two pound gun,
fired by a spark communicated by the magnetio
battery at Calais.
Indians. —The last census shows that the entire
number of Indians inhabiting all parts of our
country, is 418,000. Os this number 30,000 is the
estimated number of those inhabiting the unex
plored territories : 24,100 are the Indians of Texas:
>2,1-00 belong to the tribes living in New Mexico :
82,281 are in California: 22,788 are in Oregon ;
11,600 in Utah. Many or the New Mexican In
dians are civilized, and have fixed habitations and
towaa.