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Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel. BY WILLIAM S. JONES. WEEKLY Cjjrraicle mtfrj&rtmdL TBE ir'iiftLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. I. Fublbhe* every ftclneWiy AT TWO DOLLIES PER AHUM IS ADVANCE. TO CLCBS or INDIVIDUALS sending us Tea Dollar., SIX copie. of the Paper w,U be lent (or one ye*r, thu. fur nishing the Paper at the rate of SIX (.'OPIUM FOR TEX DOLLARS, or a free copy to all who may procure ua fit* subscriber*, and forward u. the money. CHRONICLE St SENTINEL DAILY AXD TRI-WEEKLY, Are alw> pubUahed at tfaia office, and mailed to aubacrlben at the Mowing ratee, namely: Daily Pirns, if aent by mail, $7 per annum. Tal-WaeiLT Paras, 4 “ “ TERMS OF ADTERTISISO. I> Wisilv.—Seventy-fire cente per *qu*rs (10 Unae or leea) far the first insertion, [and fifty cente for each subse quent inacrtion. 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 ! J. L. McDaniel. | Jab. McOonkkt. | W. & Murray McDAHEL & IifOXIET, FIOVISIOX DEALERS AND GENERAL COM MIFSU'N MERCHANTS, 45 light street, Baltimore, have at afl tlaiee on hand a frill assortment of BACON and PROVISION* at Joweet market rates. (sB-wly Miles W. Liwb. J Reset C. War*. LEWIS Ft WARE. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, —Office, White Plains, Greene county, Georgia. ju'-’S IMHJBTANT TO MHX OWNERS AND BfANU FACTURERS. CMmUM Improvement (it Barter Wheels. THE SUBSCRIBERS are sole agents for making and vending the beet Water Wheel in the world, known as Vaodewaters Water Wheel We challenge the World to produce its equal. It has but recently been Introduced to the puuUe, and found to be far in advance of all other wheels, both in power and economy in water, every drop be ing effective, and none wafted. This Wheel is not In the least affected b> back water. Aa we prefer them being placed below tail wajer in every instance, consequently we get every Inch of head; they being entirely of cast Iron, tumple of construction, are not liable to get out of order, and are more durable than guy wheel now in use. We have recently put one in operation for George Schley, Esq., at his Belvdle cotton factory, t« whom we would give reference. See certificate annexed. AU orders tor Wheels or Territorial Rights. wGI meet with attention by addrewing the subscribers* JAGGF.It, TREADWELL t PERRY. Or to their Agent, J. J. Kims, Auguit^* b4UJr ‘ N * W ' [CE*TiriCATt.] and tt worked to perfasUon. Its simplicity, durability and uniformity of speed, are recommendations alone • but Lw. all, lie highest encomium la the small quantity ‘of takes as compared with other wheel*. I have kL. one of Reutwr. Rich's Centre Vent Wfc*fe, and a half diameter, and eleven inch bucket n* discham openings measuring 40U lichee. I displaced .h.. In one of yours ofsix teet diameter, with diacharrTotia ingt meaeuringSTU Inches, and your wheel run £ amount of machinery that the Rich Wheel bed driven and ahere wae a difference in favor of joun of eight inches in the depth of water In the tail race. I feel no a—s—»j~i in recommending your wheel to ail mamgacturert and mill owners, Storing *l. th. groom.. ws^- Jng you success u> the introduction of so valuable an tm I remal*. rpry raspeotfuUyrouri.ie. jnbSS-wly GEORGE SCHLEY. = r-r-s_ 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.