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MONROE
MHi DIVERSITY.
1839.
1 eighty®® o inter tbin present or**ni/atir>D,
j 4 ha Mdojtdthe inrreas
in • i-onli'!- • * *nfl nuppori of an intelligent public. Its
natrons are* of that class whose opinions on education
miKlit to command the highest respect. This Institution
i IVK (iKNEKAL DEPARTMENTS!
I A COIdLKfIE DEPARTMENT, which embraces
* so r yearn’ course of study, including all the branches
o( aelmc ne< eary to make Young Ladies thorough
BPAI M ‘ NT. in which pa
* are properly i repared for College, and a good basis
■ i.’ A MI'HIC DKPAItTMKNT, with tried teachers,
non the Plano Forte, Gui
.:l.l V; lin, Mute, Ste AdTl&ced
u lie ii desired. I r..t
11 V a N ‘Vk',*AM tNT Al. DEPARTMENT, In which
‘ ’ are ta i • ‘ Pain'-'ng in Giland Water Colors. Gre
- 1” xjptin/ oneuUi I'ainting, Penciling, Monotbro
■n a 1 1,, ” v’ 11 Frr. t :.nd Fi -were Crape Work,
, % v Prpei F .iwcrs Hosin Fruit, Ac.
1 . MtBETIO DEPABTMBnT. hi whtefc puda
Practical Princij If - < i ir.
’ \ TiV Two hours on every Tuesday, Tnurs
will be devoted to tbis Departmei t.
I udnyed will not in the least iut<rf**re
4 ‘.V"". ia , ‘Si pertinent.
~ |,. * , ilege in Georgia giving attention to
• . • 1 ‘ins Education.
I i<i of ItiKiruc. * rp thorough scholars and
< *. • n hern tin “* e °* v*bom and with
11 V B N KVOIJBNT INSTITUTION
- * . , M„ihtrs of KGuUters of the Gospel of
, “ -i, v* \ V ITUOUI CHANGE
;,|V, , s ’ . ri .ov.r t wortV Indigent orphans
and • Minister*- wo* boarded from
ei.t Icrs than the usual ra*®B
- . an . . r <> taught Kconomy. is
A lewelrj is not w rn. A mLJU’* dressing
a\ ai f*.i not cost more than from #3O *o #SO
- OF TRUSTEES.
\ OIK D. D , Griffin, PriVt.
V LV \NUt> LANDRUM, Macon.
I . ELI /AH .1. I'ANNAb, Louisville.
U . vj r WII KKS. Forsyth
ji ‘ NAT* S PKEI'LES, Porgyth.
M. ii J< UNT. CROWDKR. Mon-oe county.
1 jaS - ii NO HARD. I omytb.
,’i t'i ” vYLO: up, Colejrtiichee.
.ajN F PONDliit, Esq, Forsyth.
~ u>|; j. C,\K 1, Esq., Ma on county.
• ,r SANFORD Esq., Forsyth, Secretary
JO'F T STEPHENS, Forsyth.
g;‘.*> A <’ Ad AN ISS, Esq., Treasurer.
FACULTY.
H v. WM. C. WILKES, A M., President
I*. tt if 1 \:4 BURY, A. M.
U. Old WiLBUUN, aM.
Pnii’wM FiHHER, A. M.
Mis. MARY A WILKES.
Mi, LATE AS RUBY
M. MARY A AND
Mi. JULIA A .STANFORD,
M i o ; ().\ IE A. OH A PPELL.
Mi i CARRIE B. L \ND.
, ul . , 4 fiom BP> to jj* N) per year , Music, 150; Board
- Ill,* r mouth exclusive of lights and washing.
; spring Term willb- gin on the 17th JANUARY.
: . f -.rther information, a.Vlress any member of the
i n,, rl U WILLI AM O. WILKES, Pres’t.
RICHARD T. ABBURY, Sec’y.
1 ursytli, Ga., Jau Ist, 1859. janfi
ll\K IHHIII BELOW TIIE
JIM IIWICS’ BANK.
I N my -lock of Goods, bought of the Executor of the
I . •, Q;• v. them area great many artu Ufl
wli■ h ur- out of tbi* lino of busiueia which 1 cxrry on,
..1 .t, ‘."v Ii td not intend to keep in future. Amongthe
1 ,>((;’,•vr.. V\ i'“i'-i-Kl* WKI.I, AND FORCE
.\.OKN MILLS, STRAW GUTTERS,
M \MIKK FORKS, CARI’KNTERS'TOOLS,
’ ‘fuosm UT SAWS BRADS, C. S.
HUI, K ;vu<l plastering trow
F.I.S DRAWING KNIVES,
files. RASPS, A-c
•ill i>tr.ou< “ Ling to buy any ol'the above men*
* --nt •’ ariicii'.s l * sell them cheaper than ANY
. ;*ui UIU l 1i ■ Augusta, and for l esa than wan
i aid , ‘v them in New York.
* i , . t o ,u store a very tine and full stock ot
~ .* a v..,,/; n Hardware. Tin Ware ; Cook, Parlor and
\\ s . i-u- n and Hy draut Pumps, with Block
T n i a ‘ aud Galvanise 4 Iron Pipes and a general as
soriment o: • \ ry article in the House Furci-hing line,
• * hall be r gularly receiving addttieneto it.
U v m >nls and the public are respectfully invited to
lv ;.’ n , a ! -j * ativy themselves that iam selliiigr
~,' ": ' vbtf'Ti-.4wrW * t * 1 *’ .J- BUCKMASTKR
llltOesA CURED!
’K ii'. kr ißncdpri fi se to core Dropsy of ove;y
I “■ .. ripti .1- lie can in- sum persowOly five mi!v
, . h ''„ • Fniou Point,or addressed by letter to lloiou
“, n-ur.vusiy.lla The in dlcine can hr sent
am'where l V rai road, with dirert’oas for giving it; or 1
, , ‘ i (v ‘,-so'ially, it reqnesteil. and paid for u y
in.-. T-.- I wli ’ boy ii-g oes nfflii ti-d with Dropsy, or
7-hem ~,>, owner may pre er. Hem t me Ten
ti V.v ‘ i* >i 1 will -rtid medicine enough for one month,
MLLES G. BROOME.
4 n,. . to certify that my father had a negro man al
1 ‘ ! > •'! li * vmi lfcl3* he had been treatvd by
at'vvral l n i. .o', s without any o'tre. when he applied
• V G Proonie for bis remedy. Wk'lch cured him. lie
la still living and in eotni htahh.
if. Champion,
Tin i • t > certify that 1 h-ul a negro w Miuaa t'adly at-
\tod with Dri ;-y for a considerable time. bh. was
a tended bv several physician*; they failed to tnaks) .
ci re 1 hear) of G J Broome, aud put her under h:s
ir .At ‘.'ll and m'-ess than a year she was thoroughly
ci red oi l>rc;K-y. Jamks Day aNT
PenileUL Ga mhti wtf
LOOK HERE.
Fat huts. Planters and Keepers of
HORSES.
K ec J your Horses iu Good Condition..’
iicixuvsirs
SEiiM VEGETAELE fiiiRSE FfIWDEI
•\ , rortSx.’ MU ‘3 r virtue* of tfui celebrated GKR
*. -v ij,)v sV HIWDKS, ar attested by tbonseeds
L* composed of Vegetable R*ot
a lie *1": .\n,i i h\gb\ v recommended for the cure and
. h ! ialltfcccdk weito wh'ch'twtaelßsl —the
f.. 1 ic i* an Di*i em P 6r * Hidebound, Drew si
u-i.L i>Vf Appelite, Yellow Water,
Km sue from hard exercise or work, Inflammation of tbs
Kx*. 1> w lin . Wasting of Klei *>- **• „ c"™* * “
gitos ha wen.’ - revest* horse* C'® becommc Miff or
f.'Uuiiexe 4 tmrlfin and cools the v'>ood, and improves
the sen era', cou Ut;.-n. The const*,'*'/ de
maud tot tlri-ce’.ehreied “ HORSE Mk DICINi. is one
of those v jßwiatakeable pre of* of iu wortA *“<'**•• ot
Ki te-tv ua. Loss of AppeMte, DrowsinK cs . *****ue.
DUteroper, Inflammation of*.he Eyes. It inF ww
etmdniou of the SKin . impart a tine glossy ro** °*
llAir it is a universal Condition Powder. Farm**" 9
Plante, should not be without this valuable Powdui
For sale v holesale and retail, b y
FISHER 4 HFaINITSH.
Columbia, S. C.,
FLU MB & LEI TNER,
tv aoU 1 , and Keiail Dniggn-ta, Augusta, Ga.
tnr*'-wiy
HANTS!B. IKS!LANDS: LANDS !
1 l.ktttJA quantity of thebea, Planting and r'arm
c< : VNDS .n s>-them Geor<i* and elsewhere, in
Tracts of 2301< 2,930 acres to suit purtfcaaew Also
lea fifteen ‘.rage- of select TeM !■*“*-'■ with cle*>
tir’es. is now: tiering *t very low rates at t.ieti eGeorgia
land Office, la August*. , ,
B ; : ‘he Augusta. Savannah. Athe.fi. and the
Oh*riest,'a and tt am berg suspend. d Beaks, wit* be t*-
hen ia payment a: ear va ue Negroes will be tak.rn au
o, and the highest cash prices allowed.
Per-on- des.rous off ruling settlements, or making
*fe investment*. will dad it to !he.r interest to can at
t -;r Office. Warren Range. Augusta, Ga
JAMES M. DAVISON.
1 .Mil Agent and Beal Kstate Broker
octlT-dlwA wtf
•4 cj'i-'i. to
IS UKI BODY who likes good Horses, good Cattle
, T -,„ vi Sheep, should take the AMERICAN
■jf ‘ T JOURNAL pnbl.shed monthly at 140 Fnltcn
SV h\'** York, at l per year. Specimen copies
gratis—sen ** sod get one. febAwtf
v'ffe * •*
FOB SALE,
- A tCtti'S 1 ‘the LAND, lying each side of the
J ,)U Georgia Rat ‘road, ■wo miles aboee Beraelia :
130 ac-as of which are i. ‘ caltivaUon. the remainder well
timbered. 1 here is on ihe placea good Dwelling and
outbuildings and a sp'.ent. >d Weil of water. I have also
Cattle Horses Mules. Hot* nd Plantation Tools, which
I will sell wdhth.rl.ee .’ yikRRY.
iau2-wtf Barzidia, Columbia county. Ga.
FOH SAi'sE,
-AO ACRKSofIASD On the Idmd is a fine
I O new House, litteben. .hmoke House, and other
oKth” -fi situated 200 yards from Maxey s Depot, on
the Georgia Railroad, C'glelhorpe connty— a goed let*
t on for mereban di.lng, PoaseMion rven
Enquire on lh- pretrues. A bPERR 1 .
febti-wt
525 RGIA t ARD.
cwt ’ AthtM
°jpy- A then* Banner please copy a“ d s *^f b v“^ Ul “
Chronicle &
jfPmil OF HO>. JEKE. CLEMEN,
or MEMPHIS
Delivered befort tkr Oppotitio SUu* Conrent'O*,
at Natkvhe, Ttnn , March *29, 1809.
Mi. Clemec* aaid : I had Lot intended to in*.ke
any reniftrk: upon the public questions now agitat
ing the country, un’.il after the report of the Com
mittee on Re*>lutions, of which lain a member
But the time is not at al material, and Ido not feel
at liberty to refuse tbe call which hae been eo gene
rally made. From wbat I know of tbe centimentfi
of the committee I doab! not t.fce resolutions will be
such as every patriotic citizen can indorse, and I
have no ide* that they will stand in need of any of
my advocacy to make them acceptab.e tc the Con
vention. There is enough of other matter to occu
py more time than you would be willing to accord
to me.
The Democratic Convention which recently aii
aemb.ed in this hail, have accomplished a feat of
horsemanship, which, so far as my knowledge ex
tends, is without precedent; they have demonstra
ted the fact th'it it is possible to ride cn both sides
of a sapling at the aaui'; time. They resolve that
gold and silver is the only constitutional currency,
and yet add that in view of the circumstances sur
rounding them they will tolerate back issues, ar.d
legalize the circulation of paper rags. At another
time, and in another place, I shall have occasion to
inquire wbat kind of public morality that is whicn
justifies a Legislator who has taken an oath to eap
port the Constitution in tolerating what he believes
to be a plain infraction of its provisions for the
sake of expediency. To day I choose to look at
that resolution in another light. It was intended by
its framers to produce a double result. The first,
which 1 consider a very unnecessary precaution,
was to heal the divisions in their own ranks, and
make a platform upon which “Hards'’ and “Softs ’
could stand with equal comfort. I say that I be
lieve tbis to have be n unnecessary, because I
have never yet known a difference of principle to
influence, to any great extent, Democratic votes on
election day Ti e otherobject wa to force us to con
duct this canvass with reference t*> National rather
than State issues. From the result of tne ‘.wo
or three elections, they believe that if they can
only keep State issues out of the canvass, their sue
cesa is certain, aud they have therefore attempted
to frame their resolution upon the currency ques
tion in such a manner that it may mean just what
each local speaker chooses to ascribe to it
Os course 1 do not inte* and to permit this shallow
| artifice to pr.HS unexpostd. In the progress of the
canves? it will be necessary for all of us to exhibit it
in its true colors , but on tbis occasion, I desire to
apprise them ibat we do not shrink from the Maine
they them-elves have tendered. I take up the
gauntlet they have thrown down. I enler the list
f hev have selected, and accept the combat upon
their own terms. It h true, and they may possibly
remind you of thn lac!, tha* i am a citizen <4 lesr
than fourmom tbs standing. Nevertheless, I feel,
and 1 have gratifying evidences that you do also,
that lam neither a arranger nor an intruder here.
Born upon the frontier of the State, I have from
early manhood been familiar with Tennefnee poli
tics, and more or lees intimately assoc.ated with
Tenn< s?ee politicians. Even wtre it otherwise;
even if I w&: a stranger, with not one remembered
face about me, the only inquiry I should deem i?
to make, at a lime iike the present, would
be, h IhiH an assemblage of American citizens !
And when an affirmative answer was received, i
should claim the light to say, as a citizen equally
inteie-Jted with themselves, that every ol gov
ermnental misrule is a reflection upon the intelli
geuee of those who submit to it. That every in
stance of violated pledges on the part of our rulers,
which it> permitted to pass unremarked, is a crime
against patriotism—and that every detected cor
ruption which is not promptly followed by a signal
cnastiriement, is a foul blot upon the memory of a
glorious ancestry, who transmitted to us an inheri
tance of self-government with the impliediinjunction
tt* preserve it purt aud undefiled. When these
truths were admitted—l should claim the further
right, to say to them, Gentlemen, within the last
four years a mournful an l degrading chapter ha?
been written in the history of this Republic, which
it is our duty not to hide or excuse, but to amend
aud redeem
II affords mono p.easur© to go over the incidents
recorded in that chapter. It oblivion could bring
be.'-k the public virtue which has been frightened
away, no hard in America would be more ready
than mine to throw a pad over the loathsome story,
and inscribe upon it : Ij;L no one who loves his
country seek to learn what is hidden beneath.
But unfortunately silence is a-eharity which is no
more appreciated by the public than the private
criminal. Nay, worst* ; for in the former case it is
sure to be taken as an evidence of approbation,
while in tbe latter the offender only imagines Wia
sins are unknown. For public criminals, therefore,
there is no repentance until after punishment; aud
to insure that pumsinneut, it. is necessary that you,
aud I, and those who leei as we do, should go out
am* eg the people, aud rtad page after page from
the public records, however we may teel our
cheeks burn during the performance of the revolt-
ing task.
For my present purpose it is not necessary
to go behind the Convention which a*?dem
bletf iu tne city ot Cincinnati iu the month of
June, 1850. 1 is true that there is much beyond
Lnat Convention which the patriot caunot recall
without shame, or the reformer, who seeks to
re-establish better times, pass unnoticed. But al!
ibe sins of: he mis named Democracy cannot be
catalogued in a single speech, and as 1 am compell
ed *o make a sj action, I shall b'*ftiu with that mem
orable Convent ion.
Upon coming together it exhibited a mass of dis
cordant aud conliioting materials, such os was
never witnessed before in this country, and auch
as 1 trust never will he witnessed again. There
were Benton a a anti Benton delegates from the
State of Missouri. There were Van Buren dele
gates, and Dickinson delegates from tbe State of
New York. There were delegates professing friend
ship for Douglas and yet iutriguing for B* ebon an.
There were delegates irstrucUd to vote for Fierce
who weie all the while intriguing for Douglas.—
There were men ready to subscribe to any kind of
platform provided their candidate was put upon it,
ami there were others ready to sacrifice the choice
of the people they represented, if they could obtain
a platform to suit themseliree. Iu one thing only
was there an approach to unauimity. Seven in
every ten had gone there iu the hope, and with the
expectation of political preferment Seven in every
ten were working for their own interests, “first,
last, and all the time.” The public honor and tbe
national greatnees were minor considerations,
though 1 will do them the justice to say, that in
trading off’ the Republic no one of them underval
ued his own importance, aud all of them demanded
a higher price than Judas received for betraying his
master.
As might have been expected from such material,
pceuos of intrigue, of bargain and barter began
even before the Convention met. The friends cf
each candidate established a kind of public restau
rant, aud the nomination ot a President was effected
by means that a candidate for County Judge would
have been ashamed to employ. Upon the public
acts of that candidate 1 shall have occasion to com
ment with some degree of freedom ; but I wish first
,o call attention to tbe platform upon which lie was
elected, and which in his letter of acceptance, ht*
fully indorset!. I have it not before me, uor is it
needful that I should. It is fresh in my memory, as
lam confident it is in yours. It began w ith a re
affirmation oi the resolutions of former Democratic
Conventions; opposed Jo a tariff; opposed to inter
nal improvements by the General Government; j
opposed to the distribution of the proceeds of the I
iales of the public lauds ; opposed to everything, iu j
short, except—what do you think ? economy in the i
public expenditures Yts, Mr President, that was
the one single affirmative principle they avowed.
They were opposed to everything, and in favor of
noth lug but economy. There the older and the
beads ofth© party proposed to atop. But
progressive America, manifest destiny and over
whelming necessity men demanded something more.
To conciliate them it was necessary that there
should be an addenda. According? w® reso
lution in relation to Kausas and Squatter Sovereign
ty, so reniaikably clear aud explicit that its framers
have never been able to interpret it to the present
day. Then there w r as a plank labelled *'Free Seas;
another declaring the Golf of Mexico an American
Lake. Another iu reference to our foreign policy,
which was equivalent to a general declaration of
war against all mankind; and tacked on to the tail
of all of these, was a res lution in favor of a Rail
road to the Pacific, but so tacked on as to enable
a Tennessee Seuator, not long since, to deny, with
some show of reason, that it constituted any part of
the olatform.
Without deciding how far the resolutions of hatt
Convention were ju*t, or necessary or proper, 1 un
dertake to maintain that whethef they were jjood,
bad or indifferent, the Democratic*
proved false to every ore. Let me be distinctly
uu<WStood Ido not charpe the Democracy with
penarai infidelity to their pleopes —1 do Lot assert
that they Lava broken this, or that particular prom
ee. but* 1 aeeert ti.*t they have been fake to all—-
that there is not one solitary principle, new or eld,
euactuated iu that platform whioh hzi been truly
and faithfully adhered to. .
!a other ana fetter tirncH. if it could he estaonA*
ed that a party had vi lated a single material pledge,
i> was gone--Li defeat Inevitable. N* w
the question is not whatp.lednw rjje Democratio par
ty has brofcao, but v hut one it ha/ ie<.v-i?med. I- w
impmiibl that a frae pt- ‘pie caa pem;r tiicawc vc?
tiiusi to be i lied witu. lh> >ou wn/reuie p
of what 1 assert is to be fc-aud ? I aticwer m every
Democratic journal iu the laud. Dive m. the Lin
cinnati pUltora, And the fiise of me Nehville
I niou. and I ask for uo o.tter docament to e* ablish
the iai'l that the pathway o’ ibe Democracy la
strewr. with broken promises, ana bo* a single tru.n
oan be gathered along the dree y way
They told you that they were opposed to a pro
tective tAriiV—they went further, and told you that
it was the duty of the Gov ernment gradually to
abolish all duties and establish and rool taxation in
stead. Yet at the very next election Governor
Fucker was nominated, and elected Governor of
Pennsylvania because of his high tariff principles,
and his open repudiation of that plank in the Cin
cinnati piatform. In his last annual message Mr
Buchanan abjured he principle of free trade, aud
these who have indorsed bis administration must
s.'iftte tis guil’. an i are equally responsible for bis
sha'Oeiul violation of plighted faith.
1 have hoie a .osotation adopted by the Demo
cratic party Qt Tennessee, at their recent Conven
tion in this"city, it is in the following words :
ii-'SD.'r- J. That we have an abiding confidence
in the ability and patriotism of the President of toe
Caiteu gi*tee, md that we approve generally of
the ideas sonfaiusd in his messages and the arts
of his adrnnistialien. W e therefore renew our
pledges to his support, and our faith iu his adhe-
rence to the principles of the party.
If this resolution could Ue submitted to a court of
iustice, the decision would be that notwithstanding
the general terms employed, it is a broad and tuil
indorsement of the Administration ot James Bu
chanan. They make no exception, and the legal
presumption is that they were aware of none Any
other construction would make it no indorsement
at all, because one man would say he intended to
except the tariff, another that he intended to except
internal improvements, and still another the Pacific
Railroad, and so on till every part bad disappeared.
In law and in eqaitv. it would be held an unquali
fied indorsement, “and so I shall treat it. It the
Question had been submitted to Mr. Nicholson,
while he was Chancellor. I am very sure he is too
good a lawyer to have heeitatec as to his decistou.
We have then the Tennessee Democracy indorsing
the tariff policy of James Buchanan, in oppoaiLou
to that of the Cincinnati Convention. Ncr are they
smgol&r in that regard. Mr. Big.er of Pennsylva
nia, and Mr. Thompson, of lew Jersey, with all
the leaser orbs revolving round them, have no-?/
advocated higher duties than were ever contended
for by any Whig of Tenneseee, whi.e they have re
mained in fun fellowship, and acted no undistin
guiebed part of the Democratic caucuses and con
claves, for which the last Congress was so remar
kable. Can you aak ior more overwhelmmg pro<-.
that so far as “free trade is concerned, the people
have been deluded and deoeived. Instead of tne
lower duties, they have persistently urged toe
adoption cf higher, aud in order to cieate a neces
sity for them, they have systematically squandered
the public money until they have reduced the G
venuneut to bankruptcy, and thereby furnish
ed the Washington Union, the acknowledged or
gan of the party, an occasion for a lengthy editorial
ui prove that ‘The Tariff is the Union.”
The resolution against Internal Improvements
has had an equally brier existence, or rather it
never bad an existence at all. It was dead before
its birth, and came still born into the woild. Con
gress was in session whsn it was adopted, and be
!pr tbeh adjournment they passed some eight or
i nine ‘the number \f> immaterial Internal Improve
ment bills, and then went home .o prove to their
constituents that the Cincinnati platform, which
j they had jus*: Violated so glaringly, was the embodi
j ment of wisdom and honesty. Not one Democrat
I from the Northwest vote<l against these bills. There
j were very few “nays” from the Southwest. The
j Northern and miedie States famished a fairproper
j lion of Democratic “yeas,” and a few afraggiere
were picked from the South by an appropriation
for Cape Fear river, whose national importance
maybe estimated whe;l tell you that it affords
about as much water ae Duck river at Columbia.
Two planks are thus disposed of. 1 take them as
they occur to me. without reference to the order in
which they are >-t dowr, in the piat'orm. The next
to which I shall direct attention is the resolution
against the distribution of the proceeds of the sales
of the public lands. I? is true that no bill in those
words nas been passed, but there is such a thing as
whipping the devil around tke stump. There are
more ways than one of arriving at & given end, and
a principle may be murdered under a different
name. If the Constitution forbids Congress to dis- I
tribute tbe money arising bom the aaieo of land,
unqaes ionablv it follows that it f-rbidsthem to
distribute the land itself.
If there is any and fference it is in favor of the
money grants, since in that case the Government
at least i eceives back the expenses of survey and
sale, while in the land grants the costs already in
carred are wholly lost. Locking at the question in
thi a light, what respect have th i Democracy paid
to this piauk of their platform 7
I pass over the numerous grants of swamp lane’s
—ol *anda tor Internal Improvements—of lands for
schools, railroads and other purposes; portly be
co*o=e many of these were made prior to the time
within which I propose to confine myself, and part
ly because lam not unaware that some of them
are defended upon the flimsy pretext that the Gov
ernment receives a t/uid pro quo in the enhanced
value of its remaining lands. I choose to touch no
thing to-day which admits ot dispute, and therefore
I come down o the last eeseionof Congress, when
an attempt was made to distribute from seven to
ten millions of acres of public lands among the
{Stated lor the nominal purpose of establishing Agri
cultural Colleges. Here was a gift without an
equivalent—a distribution of land in direct viola
tion on he Cincinnati platform, and that distribu
tion was sanctioned by both branches of the De-
Kcn.ember tha lam not arguing to prove that
tti A_. <•;;! ural College bid was wrong in itself.—
I can scarcely say that I hp.ve a well settled opin
ion upon the subject. I hiii trying the democracy
b> their own principles, not by ours I, going on
ic a very plain way to demonstrate that they have
proved false tq all their pledges—and this brings
me to the subject of economy in public expendi
tures ; a. abject upon which volumes might be
spoken ana yet have il unexhausted- The furni
ture, of what in courtly language is denominated
the “ Retiring Room” of the House of Representa
tives, might alone furnish a theme for an bout’s dis
course. Jcet think cf the Representative from my
own district—tbe Dray Boy of Memphis, as his
.ricnds love to cal! hi:n—-washing his delicate hands
at a stand which cost sixty-eight dollars of the peo
ple’s in coy—combing ■ - hair before a mirror
aud indu'giDg the luxury of a <igar upon a $95
louuge
But these are dcla i: into which 1 have no time
to enter. I shall leave it to Mr. Avery’s antagonist,
whoever he may be. to give him an opportunity to
explain the cons.ereucy of these luxuri >us indulgen
ces with the claims set up for him as the wo king
man’s candidate. I must deal with aggregate. In
Mr. Buchanan wrote his celebrated Wheatland
letter, in which he alleged tha* Mr. Fillmore had
run up the expenditures of the Government to $50,-
000,000, and dwelt wrh holy horror upon the waste
ful extravagance of that pure minded and upright
patriot. I take it lor granted that no Democrat
tan object to Mr. Buchanan's own standard of
economy. According to that $50,000,000 was an
inexcUHabe outlay of the public money, and the
Cincinnati Convention undoubtedly to in
dorse his portion, both by the nomination they
gave him, and resoluii u which accompanied it.
They were thus pledged to a reduction below
$50,000,000, and they have redeemed the pledge
by increasing the expenditures to $80,000,000, ac
cording to their own showing, to $100,000,000,
according to the Wa diington States, wlmse Demo
cratic orthodoxy has heretofore been ques
tioned. In two short years they have accom
plished such wonders i:i the way cf economy that
the Government i:i bankrupt, and the Postoffice
Department, that great medium of communica
ti .r between thy business man and bis customer;
between the father, mother, the brother, tbe sis
ter the husband ad the w r ife—that department
which comes home to the business of every man,
and the bosoms of every woman and child in the
land —that department around which cluster eo
many hopes and affections as well ae so many com
mercial interests—that department is ao crippled
by absolute poverty as to be compelled to disoon
tiuue some of it# important lines, and impose em
barraasing reetricticns upon all of them. This is
economy with a wngeance! This is Democratic
tulfilmeu: of Democia'.ic pledges! O, how widely
the grea f Bard of England was mistaken, wben he
told us there was nothing in a name! If these enor
mities had been perpetrated under any other name
than that of I> mocracy, there is no calculating the
extent ami violence of tlie storm which would now
be raging from one end of the Union to the other.
I Lave now disposed of the old and famdjar planks
cf the Democratic platform; aud l a3k you if I
have not kept my promise ? If I have not demon
strafed that each and every one of,them has been
violated by tbe party now sailingunder Democratic
colors? Perhaps you think that a harder task is
before me l P • cape you think that, although, faith
less to tbe old love, they have at least manifested a
two years* constancy to tbe new ? Perhaps you
think that, the ardent love of Southern institutions,
and the wide aud boundless patriotism which dic
tated the additional resolutions, still survives ; aud
while all around has crumbled at the touch of party
interest, this alone still exhibits the granite’s firm
ness and the marble’s purity ? Plain truth requires
me to dispel the delusion. The love of the National
Democra y for ,Southern institutions very much
resembles that of Cleopatra for Mark Antony. His
power wva necessary to sustain her tottering throne
aud her endearments were therefore lavished upon
him; but when that power was 3truck down by tho
arms of Augustus, the faithless fair one promptly
decided upon transferring her c arms to the con
queror. The South was necessary to the National
Democracy, and therefore they adopted a resolution
at Cincinnati under which tho chivalry went to work
and converted the territory of Kansas into a State
with a slavery Constitution. But when the elec
tion was over, and that Constitution wa3 submitted
to Congress, they found, to their surprise, that it had
a Northern as well as a .Southern construction.
The Legislatures of Alabama aud Texas became
indignant, and reported to the old expedient of
threatening to dissolve the Union. Sundry public
meetings in Georgia, Mi3-iaspp: and Virginia follow
ed their example; but the Northern construction
prevailed, ueverthelees, and then what do you think
the Southern Democracy did ? They renewed their
oath of allegiance to the National party, and swore
that the South herself ought to have kicked Leeomp
ton out of Congress. They first resolved to dissolve
the Union, if Lscoinpton was rejected, and when it
was rejected, thev turned to us with an unblushing
countenance, and said, “Our Northern allies have
done right. The fact : e, we ought to have kicked it
out ourselves.’’
You may remember, Mr. President, the reply of
Yvalter do Montreal to the Italian noble, who ex
hibited his crest, on which was inscribed the motto,
“Faithful to death.' 5
“I did not think, I 'replied the Knight of St. .John,
“that thou oould’st be faithful to anything, bu! well
l know that if could be to nothing unless it were to
Death, or to the Devil!”
1 trust my Southern Dsmocratic friends will not
be angry when I say that although a decided
Union man, I was not much disturbed by their
threats of disunion ; for well 1 know that they could
be faithful to nothing, politically except the Party
or (he President.
But I am wasting time unnecessarily upon this
point; for whether the Northern or the Southern
construction be accepted, it has been equally viola
ted. 1 1 the Northern construction is right, then the
Southern Democracy have violated it, and if the
Southern construction is right, then the Northern
Democracy have vio’a’ed it. In either case
the point I make, that they have been unfaith
ful to their pledges is maintained, and I pass on to
the bold announcement that it was the right, and
the duty of the Government, to make the Gulf of
Mezioo an American lake; and that the Democrat
ic party e.pecied this much at the hands o! the next
administration. Who could have believed that, with
this resolution before him, Mr. Buchanan would
permit one American vessel after another to be
boarded aud searched by Brilish croizers in those
same waters; and who would have credited the
degrading fact, that the great Democratic party
would set down contented under this insult to oar
national flag, an.! this outrage upon eur sailors’
rights, upon receiving a kind of vague intimation
from the British Minister that he was rather sorry
for what had occurred ! Mr. Buchanan says that
he ban u. manned and obtained an ‘ijtolozy. Well
if he did, it aid'nm pm. s. stop to the wrong, for an
American vessel was b nrded aite. (not time in the
Gu ;, and another in the hatbor of San Juan. ,nd
the captain of an American manof-war (whose
name I have forgotten, and never wish to remember)
resented the indignity by telling the British Captain
ti.t he n.ust not doit astain. Perhaps Mr. Buchan
stflia, g,t another apology; but the Democracy
must pard. n vc ..... rumindin ; them that “this is
not the entertainment to iv....... we were invited.”
They promised to make that gnlt an Ameiioa.! if/e.
I British ships were to ;'. ugh those wVero only Lv
1 uffsiant-e. It w.. not apologies tor insults to our
national dag which we were led to expect, but the
i complete dominion of the a ea.
Never before did a political party talk so boldiy
Never did a political patty insert so strong a reso
lution in their p!s. f orm of principles, and never did
any party so quail and cower at the bare thought
of rousxg,tbe aoger of the British lion. It this were
cowardice I conic pity and forgive it. If the nerves
were too treat to cany out the promptings of the
heart the infirmity would demand oar commiseration.
Bat the Democratic party have no such excuse
There is not one in a haEdred among them woo,
with sn adequate motive before him, would not
rush upon a loaded battery without the quivering
of a lip, or !he whitening of a cheek. It is not En
gland they .ear, but the lose of power and office at
Home. It ie a miserable truckling to party expe
diency They are in power. A war might prove
unpopular, and rather than encounter this risk they
; .-übmit to indignities which I am sure most make
| their cheeks burn as hotly as youis or mine. Let
I it be our basines to free them from suca restraints,
l Let as go out among the people, and holding up the
mg Tst of prom : : ea they have broken for the sake
I of office, secnrge them, by an overwhelming defeat,
I ulto a loftier patriotism.
I Mr. President, the ta. k X had unpused upon my
seif U becoming wearisome, it is too easy to be
exciting. A few words in relation to the I acme
Railroad, and I shall return o another theme. Un
like their other promisee, which they possibly u:eai!t
to keep, this one was made to be orowen The
small depredators upon the Treasury never miend
ed that a biil should pa a s which abstracted so inuc
of the public money, ana diminished so much the
chances of their own stealage. It was inserted m
the platform with reluctance, and only inserted be
cause it was feared the votee of California and
Missouri might otherwise be lost. Every specula
tor who had a scheme to rob the treasury of from
one hundred to one hundred thousand dollars, was
directly interested in hiking the bill These gentry
had learned from experience that it is much'easier
to filch from a full coffer than an empty one. They
understand wed enough that goveramenta, like in
dividuals. grow more watchful of their accounts
when their pockets Are empty.
Hence the difficulties and delays which we have
witnessed during the last two sessions of Congress.
Hence the squabbles about Northern, Middle and
Southern routes. The defeat of Senator Uwin s
proposition was a foregone conclusion. It never
had the least chaDce of success, and never will have
tiil the money-changers are driven from the Tem
ple. and a higher standard of public morality es
tablished at the National CapitoL The shameless
violation of this pledge was *0 apparent—eo unde
niable, that Andrew Johnson was compelled to re
sort to the desperate expedient of denying that it
constituted auy part c-t the platform. To this count
in the indictment they plead guilty. It would be
therefore superfluous to waste time in adducing
further proof, that here as eisewhere the Democracy
have falsified their pledges.
Now. sir, if there is anything left of the Cinein
nau platform, I can afford to let it stand. There
certsunly is not enough to support the weight of a
bov of ten years of age. and if in the general wreck
any devoted Democrat can find a single plank to
bear him up amid the waves of popular inoignaJcn
that war around him, it would be inhumanity to
snatch from him that last support.
1 Having said so much of the platform, it wiu be
expected of me to say something of the candidate
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1859.
who was electedupon it. I shall accord to him the
?ame charity I have extended to his party gene
rally, and confine my remaiks to the same period.
Previous to bis election I had occasion to speak of
him in terms such a p. I thought he deserved. I shall
not repeat the language now. He has dene enough
iicce that time to make public honor a matter of
doubt, and the continuance of republican freedom
a question of difficult eolu'ion. In his letter of
acceptance he eaia that the Cincinnati platform was
broad enough, and explicit enough, and he should
therefore- make no additional pledges, ana write
no letters for publication during the canvass. Yet
he did write a letter to a gentleman in California,
calculated and intended to effect the election in that
State, which, with characteristic cunning, he so
timed that it was impossible for it to return to be
come generally known on this side of the Rocky
Mountains prior to the election. His friends may
esy that this is a small matter, but bad taith is
never a small matter, and nothing is more certain
than that tne man who has deceived you ©nee will
do it again if an opportunity offers.
Nor are other instances wanting which even the
Democracy will admit to be of sufficient impor
tance to justify public comment. He sent Robert
J. Walker to Kansas, as Governor of the Territory,
with express instructions to have the whole Consti
tution submitted to a vote of the people. In fol
lowing the exact line of hia instructions, Governor
Walker incurred the odium of the whole South,
which Mr. Buchanan no sooner perceived than he
ignored his own instructions—adopted the action of
the Convention—urged Congress to ratify it, and
left Roberr J. Walker and Frederick P. Stanton to
bear the odium of having deserted and betrayed the
eection to which both were indebted for all the
honor they had ever worn. I will not ask if this
was manly, for no one ever suspected him of man
liness. I will not aek if this was just, for a sense of
justice ia not among tbe number pf virtues for
which he has been distinguished. But I ask to what
lower depth of infamy a Chief Magistrate could de
scend than that of permitting his subordinates to be
crushed by popular indignation for no other sin
than that of obeying hi3 instructions too well.
There is another which comes more directly
home to the people of Tennessee. Wben in his
warfare upon Douglas the President determined to
remove all the office-holders who favored his elec
tion, Gov. Brown refused to become a party to such
an attack upon the rights of a State. Mr. Buchan
an made the removals himself, but kept his own
agency in the matter a secret, and Gov. Brown
carried with him to hia grave, not merely the re
proach of having been a party to a petty perse
cution, but the grave suspicion of having made an
unconstitutional attack upon the sovereignty of
Illinois.
These are grave charges, but serious as they are,
they sink into utter insignificance when compared
with the giant strides which the President has ta
ken towards converting this Republic into a coneo
iidated despotism. Duplicity may only prove in
dividual meanuess, and inflict individual wrong. It
may therefore be sometimes permitted to pass un
punished without detriment to the public intei sis.
But an attack upon the sovereign rights of a State
—the exertion of the whole power and influence of
tne Government to convert n Senator into a pliant
tool of Executive power, is another matter and
calls for more decided condemnation. Mr. Doug
las placed upon the Kansas bill precisely the same
construction which Mr. Buchanan had all along
maintained, and which he had instructed Robert J.
Walker to enforce. But when the Lecompton
Constitution came before Congress Mr. Buchanan
h id changed his opinion, and he demanded that the
Illinois benator should do likewise. Looking to hi3
own constituents rather than to the Executive, Mr.
Douglas refused obedience to the mandate. To
have ostracised him from the party uDder such cir
cumstances, would not, unfortunately, have been
without precedent, and however much we might
have lamented the injustice of the act, no one would
have pretended that it amounted to a national
wrong. Mr. Buchanan was not content with this
customary mode of punishing a refractory mem be*.
He followed him into Illinois. He undertook to
dictate to the people w*ho they should elect. He
38.1 and to ihom, in effect, you must send to Washing*
ton an Ex* cutive tool—he may be nominally the
representative of your sovereignty, but he mupt be
in reality my slave.
It is my will that Stephens A. Douglas shall be
debated, and if you look for Executive favors see
to it that 1 am obeyed Such tvaa tne plain meaning
of his conduct, aud such would have been his lan
guage if he h?ddared to utter it. When Louis XIV
gave vent to the haughty exclamation, “I am the
State,” he uttered no more detestable sentiment,
and if this usurpation is permitted to pass unpunish
ed—if the party who eustaiu and indorae the Presi
dent who hoe been guilty of it, are still retained in
power, all history is false if other usurpations do not
follow in ita footsteps, until we are reduced to a
state of servitude to which the despotism of Louis
XIV would be comparative freedom. Already
kindred outrages have grown familiar to the Execu
tive mind, and excite no indignation in the besoms
of his followers. His extraordinary demand that
Congresi should confer upon him the war raakmg
power, and give him the absolute control of the
army and navy, must be included in the list of Ten
nessee indorsements. Not satisfied with even these
dictatorial powers, be makes a further demand tor
$30,000,000, ostensibly for the purpose of purchas
ing Cuba, but the sum ia so inadequate to the ob
ject contemplated that it requires extraordinary
credulity to believe that the Administration really
intended to usa it for territorial acquisition. In my
honest opinion the intention was to use it as a cor
ruption fund to secure the nomination aud election
of John Slidell as President of these United States.
There is nothing in the past history of either James
Buchanan or John Slidell to place them above sus
picion. Give them $30,000,000 to be used in buy
ing Spanish officials, and unless some such miracle
occurs as that of the leopard changing his spots, a
part of the sum will be employed in buying the
Charleston Convention, and the remainder in pur
chasing the vote necessary to insure the election of
its nominee.
InThis view of the case Mr. Slidell’s proposition
is his improvement upon the manner of selling the
Roman people by thePretorian cohorts. They re
quired the purchaser to pay the stipulated price
irom his own resources. Mr. Slidell takes the
money of the people to corrupttheir representatives,
and buys up their liberties with the means they
have themselves supplied. A little reflectnn upon
the circumstances, and upon the characters of the
two actors, leave no loom to doubt that the $30,-
000,000 was needed for domestic and not for
foreign corruption. Mr. Slidell is notoriously a
gambler in politics as in everything else, and Mr.
Buchanan ha3 given unmistakable evidence of his
readiness to resort to any means, however low, or
how vile, to accomplish hia ends. From the day ot
hia entrance into the White House he has been a
busy intermeddler with every State election.—
Eleven hundred useless workmen were sent to the
Navy Yard at New York to secure the election of
Daniel E. Sicklee. A smaller number, but suffi
cient for the purpose, were sent to the Navy Yard
at Philadelphia, to secure the election of Thomas B.
Florence. Who do these men represent ? Not the
people, for they were beaten by the people. They
represent the President alone, and who doubts that
they will be ready at ail times to obey the mandates
of the power to which they are indebted for seats in
the National Legislature ?
These things have not been done iu a ooruer.—
Tho circumstances are so well known, and the proof
is SD clear, as to huve wrung from a Democratic
senator the following reluctant admissions :
“ Your appropriations for have come
to the building of houses lor officers and making of
flower-puts and all that kind of thing, at a cost of
$1,009,000; and it will be no lees as long as you
will pay it, but will go up to $1,000,000, if you do
not stop it. There are $2,000,000 that you have no
need for at. all. You have 8,000 sailors to man your
navy. You have not increased them of late years,
and you have 8,000 men in your navy yards to help
them—civilians. You have carried their number
up from 3,000 to 8,000. You have eighty navy-yards.
England has over 550 ehips, and she has two navy
yards. You have eight conveniently located all
about the country, and it is a cause of reproach to
good Democrats, tor the enemy say we keep people
here to cheat them tn elections , and as God is my
judge , l am afraid there is something in it. 1 ’
And now, what are we to think of a party who,
with these facts before them, assembled in Conven
tion here in the city of Nashville, and indorsed the
administration of James Buchanan ? Can you
doubt that when we go out among the people with
that indorsement iu our hands, the honest masses
will turn with indignant anger from the leaders who
have lost eight of independent patriotism in their
eager pursuit of office, and forgotten that they had
a country, in their iuteuse admiration of a party ]
If I may be allowed to borrow the emphatic lan
guage of Mr. Toombs, as God is my judge, no mat
ter what may appear to be their present strength, I
believe that we can beat them, aud that we will beat
them if we try.
I remember to have read a description of two
opposing hosts which applies not inaptly to the pre
sent condition of things in our own State. A vene
rable priest in addressing a warrior whose fame
had been widely blown through Southern Europe—
‘•See you that mighty host, led on by one
AU kingly iu his mem. with air, and words,
And habit of command ; followed by troops
Biliiaut a:: ! flittering, with golden arms, and steeds
Beatirg the eager -.round ?
Now see that sea .ty troop upon a hill!
Piain in their armor, homely in their guise,
Firm though not boastful, stern, though calm, they
stand.
The old man’s iistner, who had learned on many
a bloody field to estimate correctly the qualities of
a genuine soldier, iistantly exclaimed—
"And they shall win the day—such are the mon
Ttat conquer.”
That troop upon a kill is ours. Honor and pa
triotism is the armor we wear—plain truth the only
weapon it is necessary to wield. No light charge
can shake such aa array, and if we are trie to our
selves, the loud vauntings of anticipated victory in
which our enemies are already indulging, will be
charged to moans of anguish when the battle is
over. To you, gentlemen, of the Eastern and Mid
die Divisions, it is proper that I should offer the
assurance that although not so fully represented
here as could be desired, there will yet oe, in our
cart of the field, no faltering—uo failing off from
the high dut ; n> to which we are called. From the
banks of the mighty Mississippi to the Eastern line
of the Western Division, there is a stern, calm, all
pervading resolution never to lay down our arms
until the hosts of corruption and dieunion are driv
en from the land. We do not promise you a victo
ry, because that would be in imitation of the boast
ful spirit of our adversities. Bat we promise you
that whatever can be done to win it, shall be done
by men who have Dever learned to despair, and
cannot be taught how to surreider.
Mr. President, this is an auspicious day. It is
ne which is already marked with a white stone in
the kalentk ot me oepubli? °n this day twelve
years ago the City of Vera Cruz surreauered to the
American arms, aid Ihe banner of the stars and
strip? was thrown to the breeze from the castle of
Sin Juan d’Clloa. Upon that glorious anniversary,
ve have met together to concert measures for res
cuing the land wq ioge from the sway of a party
who nave blighted its prosperity, anti converted its
national capitol into a sanctuary tor corruption.—
There can be but one higher incentive to patriotic
exertion, and that also we have The sainted fathers
of the Revolution are looking down upon ns now.
From the arched-vault of heaven they implore us,
their children, to save the Government they died
to establish, from the selfish demagogues who are
IcfnAng a deadly poison into all its branches. If
we are men—if we are patriot*, we will answer to
that caff If we are freemen and deserv, to be free,
a war cry wiii go oat from this Hail which, as it rofis
and swells among the hills and valleys of the State,
shall'nerve the arm oi the weakest to strike one
good blow in his country’s cause.
The Tcscakoras.—The Tnsearoras were once
the mest numerous tribe of Indians within the limits
of North Carolina, and occupied an extensive terri
tory in the eastern and middle portions of the State.
A little more than a hundred years ago, they num
bered twelve hundred warriors. There were three
separate villages belonging to this tribe in what is
now called Chatham county. The Hickory Moun
tain village was situated in a region remarkable for
the fertility of the soli, and its variadand attractive
natural scenery, as well as an abundance of wild
game of the moet desirable kinds. Another famous
camp ground was held half a mile south of the cele
brated Mount Vernon Springs. The third village
was midway between the other two, and was loca
ted upon the left bank of Rocky river, a email
stream of fifty yards width, flowing through the
county from northwest to southeast, and emptying
its waters into Deep River. To this Indian town
belonged “the last of the Tnsearoras. ’’ Here in the
time of the revolution, Gen. Greene's army encamp
ed. while in pursuit of the British after the battle of
Guilford. — N. C. University Magazine.
The Blind Bay.
“Dear Mary,” said the poor blind boy,
‘That little bird *inps very long;
Say, can yon see him in his joy,
•And is’ he pretty as his song r”
“Yes Edward, yea” replied the maid,
* I see the bird on yonder tree
The poar boy sighed, and gentle said—
“ Sister, I wish that I conld see!”
“The flowers yon say are very fair,
And bright treen leaves are on the trees;
ADd pretty birds are singing there—
How bezutifulfor one who sees ! n
“Yet, I the fragrant flowers can smell,
And I caxrfeel the green leaf’s shade ;
And I can hear the notes that swell.
From the dear birds that God has made.
“So, sister, God to me is kind ;
Tho’ sight alas ! He has not given:
But tell me—are there any blind
Among the children up in Heaven ?
“No, dearest Edward, they all see ;
But, why ask me a thing so odd t”
“Oh, Mary, He's so good to me,
I thought I’d like to look at God.”
E'er long disease her hand had laid,
On that dear boy so meek and mild,
His widowed mother knelt ad prayed,
That God woald spare her sightless child.
He felt her warm tears oa his face,
And said, “ Oh ! never weep for me.
I’m going to a bright, bright pli ce,
Where Mary says, I Go. shall see.”
“ And you’ll come there, dear Mary, too—
But. mother when yon get np there,
Tell Edward, mother, it is you—
You know I never saw you here.”
He spoke no more but sweetly smiled,
Until the final blow was given,
When God took np the poor blind boy,
And opened first his eyes in Heaven
Shame.
This is emphatically the age of cheap finery. We
are all running awav after appearances. Instead
of striving to obtain the beet, m are content with
the nearest cheap imitation of it. We have aban
doned realities, aud are grasping after their shad
ows. We say, what is the use of paying a great
price for a sterling article, when we can get some
thing that looks just like it for a iittle one ? S<i we
take the sham and reject-the genuine, and then pat
ourselves on the back for our shrewdness and
economy. We have got the glitter, who cares for
the geld? The old proverb ia musty and bebina
the age. We have run eo far ahead of its fogy.sm
in our fast way of doing things, aa to have discov
ered that it ia the glitter which makes the value of
the metal, and not the eolidity and purity of the
gold within. We have become wise as serpents,
according to the improved theory of wisdom—get
ting the moat for our money, rather than the beet;
and it is to be feared we are not always quite as
harmless as doves in our way of getting it, for our
wisdom savors a iittle of the quality of that which
was brought to bear Hpon our mother Eve. There
is a terr>bie twang of deception about it.
We build houses with fine brown stone frents
made of brick, and covered with painted and sand
ed plaster, marked off into chain blocks, we enter
them through oaken or walnut and. orsmade of grain
ed pine, and pass through vestibules floored with
marble mossaic made of baked clay, and ait down
on veneered sofao before scagliola marble chimney
pieces and mantelß made of enameled iron. Over
such mantels we place mirrors in gilt frames, en
riehed with elaborate carving made of composition
pressed in moulds and stuck on with glue. In one
recess we hang hundred dollar water color draw
ings, that is to say, printed imitations which cost
five—and in another, handsome book cases with
mahogany faces and pine bodies, filling the lower
ehelves with bboks and the upper with richly bound
blocks of wood, of assorted sizes.
Just now, pictures are fashionable; so we go to
auction and buy “valuable oil paintings,” which are
made at short notice, by tbe quautily, and “ care
fully,” selected and sola at, prices varying from ten
to twenty-five dollars, “ including an elegant guilt
frame.” We have them sent home without any
compunctious visitings of conscience about tbe
3malluess of the price; for that is the artist’s busi
ness, not ours; and we call in our friends to admire
them, (preserving a discreet silence aa to their cost,)
which they do with such ardor, that we begin to feel
h iittle uncertain whether they are not poking fun
at us.
The next time we get into an omnibus the uncer
tainty is removed—for as we glance at the email
gallery of art ranged above the windows, we expe
rience a slight feeling of surprise, of not the most
agreeable kind, of recognizing the hand of the ar
tist, {or ono of tho same school,) who executed the
remarkable specimens which decorate our walls.—
We find that our bargains have introduced to ue
an extensive circle of the very indifferent acquain
tances of their own class, which we feel indisposed
to cultivate, and we begin to suspect that, if any
body has been cheated, it is not the painter.
We Beat ter marble statues made of painted iron
along oar garden walks. Wo drink our coffee on
great occasions out of imitation Sevres china cups,
filled from silver coffee pots, flanked by silver
cream jugs and sliver bowls, all made of plated Al
bata silting in dinning rooms covered with cheap
carpets of Brussels pattern, and lined with rich oak
paneling made by the paper hanger. We wear
sham cravats on our necks, buttoned surreptitious
ly under spurious front ties, around false collars
made of white paper; and on ■ur feet self com
pressing Congress gaiters, with rows of delusive
buttons in front, to convey the idea that they are
fastened in the legitimate way. We display mas
sive seal rings and fob chains, and carry ponderous
looking pencils, which are marvelous for the space
the small quantity of gold in their hollow bulk is
made to fill.
Our daughters wear expensive point lace adorn
ments, (we do not know their names, nor do we
know much aboutSpoint lace, except that it is some
sort of net work of fabulous cost,) made of some
more economical material, and wash in some way
which iB a great secret, so as to give them the
yollowish tint supposed to mark the genuine arti
cle. They wear Canton crape shawls which John
Chinaman never saw, and Cashmere shawls manu
factured at Paisley, and India silks that never pass
ed the Equator, and furs that would astonish the
animals whose names they bear, if they could see
them. When they (the daughters, that is ) are
married, we give grands weddings, displaying ta
bles fiiled with extravagantly expensive bridal gifts
sets of gold and silver spoons, forks, fruit knives;
tea services, neck bracelets, &c.—touching
tributes of affection from dear friends who are on
our visiting list, and have been invited to the cere
mony ; aud which, after the parade is over, are
carefully packed up, and—quietly returned to the
jeweller from whom we hired them. [This sham is
going a little out of fashion since some indiscreet
person exposed it.] But they still wear Bbam flow
ers in their costly bonnets—that is, in the little
straw or velvet caps they used to covers their back
hair when in tiie street—and sham braids of hair on
their heads inlfront of the aforesaid bonnets.
We scan the performers at the opera through
lorgnettes, hired at twenty five cents a night, with
a deposit for their safe return, as nonchalantly as if
they belonged to us. We ride about in carriages
hired by the year, coachman with velvet hatband,
big buckle and a large caped coat included, all got
up in the most elaborate style. We build churches
with stone fronts and brick sides, decorated on the
outside with carved stone brackets and cornices,
made of painted wood or clay, and on the inside
with wall paper panels and painted receseee, and
pilasters and mouldings, half of whose shadows al
ways fall tho wrong way by daylight, and by gas
light become “confusion worse confounded.” We
stick all manner of plaster gitncrackery over the
walls and ceiling. We paint a deep alcove behind
the pulpit, and then neutralize the effect by putting
a sofa against the wall where it is painted, so that
when the preacher sits down he has the contradic
tory appearance of resting his head against a wall,
which is supposed to be ten feet in his rear, and
maintaining all the while kis upright position. It
confuses our ideas of proportion and perspective
dreadfully. We also found ou’ notions ot architec
tural proportion, once treated with the most unwar
rantable contempt, by an organ front in anew
church, which was intended to be something be
yond the reach of criticism. This organ was so de
signed e.s to require a column al each (lank, sup
porting an entablature across the lop of the front
pipes. To effect this, the building had taken two
Corinthian oolumns, such as were placed under the
galleries, and as they were too long by several feet,
had cawed off the shafts to the requisite length,
leaving them as broad and squatty as Egyptian
columns, and then put them in their places, spoiling
by their abominable mutilation and deformity the
whole design, which, properly carried out, would
have been good enough.
Well, when we have built a church, we take
our comfortable seats iu it as an axpress train, with
tbe man; gement of which, we have nothing to do,
all booked aud ticketed, and leaving the responsi
bility of our arrival in Heaven to the pastor, whom
we regard ae a sort of engine driver, and to tbe
elders who take the place of conductors, and whose
business it is to put us through safely, with as little
jarring or disturbance of our nap as possible, to the
last s’ation on the hither bank of tiie final river;
and though we have been warned that each man
must c oes this river alone, as best he can, we nod
on cozily and comfortably, trusting that some way
will be provided somehow or other for ferrying us
over, or that tbe psstor (tbat is, the engine driver)
will 6ee to it, aud at any rate there is no use in
bothering about it until we get somewhere near tho
station.
Then we are charitable—very We give money
to every lazy or drunkei. rascal, or woman with a
lot of hired children, that stops us in the street, and
dismiss them v.ith a great deal of good advice about
going to work, &c.—only we don't show them w here
or how to go—because our hearts are bo easily
touched by ‘.he appearance of misery that we can’t,
we really Can't resist; that is, it is a great deal easier
to help people to homilies and three cept pieces, than
follow them to their homes and see into the truth
of their story, and put them in a way to help them
selves. We show the most laudable alacrity in as
sisting all benevolent enterprises, and get ourselves
called to preside at meetings held to organize them,
with the greatest enthusiasm. We rise with over
flowing hearts to make a few unpremeditated re
marks, got by note the day before; bead subscrip
tions with liberal sums, which are not to be called
for, jn order to induce somebody else to subscribe
a similar ium, which is to be called for, and furnish
the reporters of morning papers with a copy of our
speech, together with the proceedings of the meet
ing and the names of the officers.
We turn up our eyes with edify ing conscientious
ness at the idea es shaving ten per cent, from a
promissory note, and turn them down again com
placently and prick up our ears at the offer of a
ground rent or mortgage at the same discount; be
cause, “you see, that is a different thing ; it is a—
it is—that is, you know—there is a difference —
when yor take real estate security, you—a-a-a —it
is—so, you see—a a—” to be eure ; not a doubt of
it; nothing could be clearer.
Then we write elaborate art criticisms, profuse/
illustrated by the aid of a Glossary) with learned
technicalities—ouch as breadth, tone, warmth,
ehiaro-scuro.perspective, lights, touch, foreground,
middle distance, atmospheric effects, intersectea
with a great deal of cact about handling, style, exe
cution, composition, idealism, lovely bits of dis
tance, Ac., of the meaning of which we have as ac
curate'perception as school boys, with imperfectly
developed mathematical organs, have of wbfit the
dreaded Pons Asinorum is all about when they have
got through saying it “off the book.’’
We get up a reputation as litterateurs, { we hate
using foreign words in English writing, but no oth
er word expresses the idea so well,) based, with re
gard to books, upon the advioe of Dean Swift—
wasn't it ?—to a friend, with regard to the members
of the English Peerage—“leam their names and
then pray of their acquaintance and we descant
upon their merits, and. discourse dreary platitudes
upon their want of plot, their lack or originality,
their inartistic denoument, or, on the other hand, of
their “independent noble tone, ’ their free, untralm
meied expression of thought, their “entrancing pic
turee of tne beautiful, ’’ the “truthful delineration cf
this writer's style,” (we copy this last, verbatim,
from a newspaper criticism ; what u a “truthful
delineation a style ?) with a gravity and profun
dity that almost delude ourselves into the idea that
we’ are talking sense.
We have a great many other shams among us;
grave, thoughtful men, who never say anything
because they never have anything to say; their
gravity and thoughtfulness being cf the owlieet
kind, requiring no brains, bat only a discreet silence,
backed by a solemn countenance to give them
effect, —dignified men, whose dignity consists in
looking pompous and pronouncing longtailed words,
with a sonorous wobble of voice, calculated to pro
duce a feeling of respectful awe in their hearers —
celebrated writers, whose names nobody ever saw
or heard, until they were placarded in big letters
on all the blank walls, and announced with a flourish
in the flash newspapers, (which themselves should
take a high rank in the list of shams, only we can’t
stop to deal with them now,) for which they get up
blood and thunder stories by the yard, mixing six
teenth century grandiosity and our own dear nine
teenth century’s Jakeyisms in the same speaker’s
mouth, in the funniest manner conceivable.
There is a best, besides, which we have neither
time nor space even to enumerate. Altogether,
when we think how little of anything genuine we
see nr hear—of how few things we can say “this is
itself and isn’t something else”—of how we are con
stantly trying to throw dust iato our neighbor’s eyes
concious all the while that they aretrying tbe same
thing with ns, the wonder is that we can ever look
each other in the face without laughing.
Parhelia, or Mock Nuns. —The Boston Travel
ler states that about half-past four o'clock in the
afternoon of Saturday, the 2d instant, whilst the
Sun was shining rather faintly tbrough cirrus clouds,
a luminous circle was suddenly formed at the dis
tance from it of about fifteen degrees and quite
complete around it, although the prismatic colors
were brighter in some par sos the circle than in
others; but where brightest they appeared as bril
liant as in the finest rainbow Moreover, on the
north and on the south sides of the circle, at the alti
tude of the suu, a well defined mock sun was seen,
and on the upper part of the arch, a third, less per
fect, but all strongly tinged with the colors of the
spectrum
This phenomenon (which continued visible abcut
fifteen minutes, until the sun became wholly over
cast) is not very uncommon in some parte cf the
earth, but is seldom seen here. The Newburyport
Herald has a scientific account of the display,
which we copy :
Meteorological. —Halos, presenting such com
plicated phenomena as to render it rather a difficult
task to describe them, were observed on Saturday
afternoon between three and four o’clock, but as
they have their interest in a meteorological point of
view, we shall attempc to depict this, Ihe most beau
tiful we have ever witnessed.
A haze had come in from tbe southwest, which
was first observed just above the horizon about I
P. M. When it had covtred about one-half the
western sky, two fine parheila were noticed just
beyond the points of intersection between a circle
around the sun, some 20 degrees distant, and the
horizontal circle parsing through the sun. At abou
double the distance of the circle nearest the sun
was a portion (to the northwest) of another larger
circle, piesentiug the colors of the rainbow, the red
being nearest the sun. From both parheila (red on
the interior and blue on the exterior) proceed curves
of another very laige white circle, in which, at about
75 or 811 degrees distant, was a bright inock san.
On the part of the inner circle above the sun was
a short arc of another bright circle tangent to the
former, aud above this, nearer the zenith, another
arc of a briliiautly colored circle, convex toward tbe
sun and short diameter exhibiting the red color
nearest the sun ; presenting, as we have stated, a
complicated series of circles and arcs of an ex
tremely interesting character, aud which can be
explained on the supposition of the reflection of the
sun’s rays irom crystals cf ice of different forms in
the upper regions of tbe atmosphere.
The baiometer stood at 30 6 inches at 2 o'clock,
and the dry and wet bulb thermometers at 18° 2
tenths and 37° 7 tenths ; force of vapor (186 inches
of mercury, and relative moisture 26, indicating
that the haze was about twenty-seven hundred
yards above us, aud tbe temperature at that poiut
about 21° of F’ahrenheit.
A Fiehb in HuMaN Shape.— Last Saturday, we
learn from the Wabash Intelligencer, a man named
Wm. Joy was convicted of burning his own child
to death, aud sentenced to eighteen years’ confine
ment in the Penitentiary The principal witness
against him was his little daughter Nancy, whose
story to the jury is thus given by the Intelligencer.
We should premise that, the offence was committed
in the fall of 18G7, bat concealed by the family
through tear of the father, till his arrest for another
offence lately, gave them an opportunity to tell it
withiout fear:
Her little biother John, a child about four months
old, was quite unwell, and had been so for some
days, and was consequently fretful and bad cried
considerably during the night, and disturbed her
father Early in the morning her father called to
her and told her to get up and make a fire. She
did so—made the fire principally of brush, because
there was no other wood prepared.
Alter the tire began to burn, the child continued
to cry and fret, her father became enraged, and
snatching the child from its mother’s arms, tore
every particle of clothing off it, and then took it by
one arm and one leg, aud held it over the fire, uulil
it was burned iu several places to a blister. He
then struck the little sufferer two blows with bis
hand, leaving upon its body the marks of is fingers,
and then threw it into the cradle or bod His wife
and daughter struggled to get the child awav from
him, but were ur.ab e to do so, and when Mrs. Joy
found that he was going to burn the child to death,
she ran out of the house to prevoqtseeing tho eight,
and to get out of huaiiag oi the child’s screams.
Joy took down his gun, and pointing it at her,
compelled her to come in. He then left the house,
and did not return, as we understand, for a day or
two. Four days after this terrible scene the little
suffering child died, and was buried. None but
Joy and his wife and two young daughters knew
anything of the cause of its death. The neighbor
ing women who came ir. and assisted to lay out the
child, found it so mortified and decayed that they
could not wash it, or even takeoff the clothing
upon it. Joy told hie wife aud daughters that if
they ever said a word about it he would kill them,
aud tkey believed bim, and so kept the horrible
secret.
Fish Culture.—A remarkable account has been
lately given by Dr. Cloquet, to tbe Paris Soeiete
d’Acclimation, of the results ot an attempt to keep
salmon in fresk-water ponds having no communica
tion with the sea. The experiment was made at
St. Cucufa, near St. Cloud, where M. Ccste has suc
cessfully carried on piscatorial operations on a very
extensive scale. The pond chosen for the experi
ment iu question is oi small extent, ana is supplied
by a small stream of fresh water, sufficient to form
a cascade. Three years ago (he pond was entirely
emptied and cleaned out. In April and May, 185S,
several thousand salmon, only two months old,
were placed in the pond with trout, and, notwith
standing the veracious nature of the latter fish, the
salmon have prospered so well that a few weeks
ago, in the presence ol the Emperor, who takes
great interest in the artificial production of fish, no
less than 200 kilogrammes weight of salmon was
caught by one haul of a net. This result is very
surprising, but M Coate states that he was far
more astonished to find that the female salmon
were full of eggs. He adds that he saw several
eggs so highly developed that they were on the point
of being emitted. These reaulte, which bear the
stamp of high authenticity, prove that salmon may
be produced and reared iu fresh water ponds, un
der similar circumstances to those by which trout
are now so successfully multiplied iu various waters
around Baris.
“ Fast Newspapers.” —We have before us the
last number of Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, one
of the “ civilizers of the age,” and we congratu
late the proprietor upon the termination of an
other remarkable achievement in the,way of ‘ wood
cuts” and sensation paragraphs.” In that illumina
ted pictorial we find what purports to be the view
of the court-room in this city, during the trial of
Hon. Daniel E. Sickles. The judge, the jury, the
prisoner, the counsel, the officers of the court, the
witness, and the spectators are all there in bold re
lief -, but were it not for the foot notes we would
be unaole to distinguish any one of the parties de
picted. The engraving, for all we know io the con
trary, may have embellished that paper upon any
other occasion of equal interest and importance to
the public. It seems to us as if the proprietor kept
an assortment of these things on hand, ready for
any emergency ; for news of a railroad disister, a
steamboat explosion, a wreck, or a tire is scarcely
received by telegraph before we are treated to a
sketch of the terrible occurrence with the dead and
the dying and the wounded prominently in view, as
taken by bis artist, despatched to the scene, with
all the celerity that marked the flight of the Genii of
the Arabian tales. It was only the other day that
the papers contained a horrible account of a man
being devoured by rattlesnekc-s. Cut comes the
“ reformer and civilizer” with a representation of
those rattlesnakos actually making a meal of that
unfortunate individual.
The Sickles trial began on Monday. If we are
to credit the reporters of our own and other papers
lees “ fast” than Leslie’s, the empaneling of the
jury has not yet been concluded; and yet Leslie
came to us yesterday embellished with anticipative
portraits of the twelve jurors, and still more won
derful to relate, with a witness on the stand under
going a fearful cross examination at the hands of
the learned counsel. Truly, we live in a fast age,
and Leslie does not unbeseem it.— Washington
Union, 6 lh insi.
Return of a Missing Man—Singular Inci
dent. —The Portsmouth (Ohio/ Tribune of the sth
inst says The steamer St. Louis, bound down
from Wheeling to St. Louis, touched at our wharf
early this morning, and among her passengers for
this place was the real Robert H. McAuley, who
has been absent foom his home for nearly five years
in the gold diggings of California. Our readers will
remember that some time ago, a man calling him
self Robert H. McAuley and representing himself
to be the husband of Mrs. McAuley came to this
county quite ill with the consumntion Even friends
of the family and some of Mr. McAuley's relations
and intimate associates were inducod to believe
that this man wa3 the person he purported to be.—
His wife, however, stoutly denied his assertions of
his identity, and for it received the censures of re
latives and friends. This morning, Mr McAuley,
in company with a relative, started for his house
which is several miles distant from the city. His
wife and child were on their way to town at tne
same time, and as key were about passing one
another, the mother immediately reoognized the
returning husband. Words are inadequate to ex
press the joy and surprise of the long parted ones,
so happily and providentially met.
A curious story of conjugal affection is told by
an Illinois paper: “Five years ago a carpenter
moved from Bucyrus, Ohio, to Missouri, where he
ssld a pair of horses to a stock buyer, receiving all
his pay in bills on a Kentucky bank. When he at
tempted to pass them they were found to be coun
terfeit, and the carpenter was arrested ; the horse
dealer swore he paid him in Indiana bills and the
man was sentenced to the Penitentiary. His wife,
wishing to obtain a pardon, followed the horse
dealer for two and a half yearß, seeking evidence
that he, not her husband, was the counterfeiter ; at
length her efforts were rewarded. At Newton, N.
J., recently, he was taken sick; the wife told her
story to the physician, who dosed his patient heavi
ly, and then told him he was about t<Jdie. The sick
man was frightened, sent for a m nister. and con
fessed that he was connected with a gang of coun
terfeiters, and had paid the bad bills to the carpen
ter. Furnished with proofs of this confession, the
wife returned to Missouri, secured the release of
her husband, and the couple are now residing in
Knoxville, 111.”
Annie Laurie.” —Mr. Chambers says the ver
ses of this song, which are in a style wonderfully
tender and chaste fer their age, were written by Mr.
Douglas, of Finland, upon Annie, one of the four
daughters of Sir Robert Laurie, first Baronet of
Maxwelton, by his second wife, who was the daugh
ter of Riddle of Minto. As Sir Robert was created
a baronet in the year 1785, it is probable that the
verses were commenced about the end of the 17 th
or the beginning of the 18th century. It is painiul
to record that, notwithstanding the ardent and chi
valrous affection displayed by Mr. Douglas in his
poem, he did not obtain the heroine for a wife; she
was married to Mr. Ferguson, of Craigdarroch.
Demoralizing Influence of Politics. —One
of the great objections to becoming a politician is
the det'oralization connected with the position.
The politician has more temptations placed in his
way than any other citizen. To be popular with
the “boys” he must drink at ward meetings, and
take side in favor of shoulderhitters and rowdyism.
He must attend conventions, target shoots, dog
fights and chicken disputes,he must act as stake
holder to a horse race, and so decide the last heat as
will add to his popularity with those who have bet
the most money. The politician commences life by
tippling, and too often finishes up his career by hav
ing the worst of habits fastened upon him for the
remainder of his life. More men are ruined by
politics in this country than by gambling. They
keep bad honrs, bad company, neglect their fami
lies, and go to the bad generally. For this reason,
no man but a man invincible to the temptations ot
strong drink should ever think of becoming a politi
cian ; all others are sure to fall before this devasta
ting power, and sooner or later will come to an
unhappy end. — Knickerbocker.
A Weetern paper, after noticing a melancholy in
stance of intoxication—a man trying to cross a
street like a bull-frog—says: “We left him rumi
nating upon the principle of horizontal propulsion,
[ with ‘corn-juice’ as a motor.”
I Late and Important from Mexico.
The steamship Quaker City, from the Isthmus of
j Tehuantepec, arrived at New Orleans on F’riday
j last, with late and important news. Tho Picayune
contains the following full and interesting report of
the purser of the Quaker Ciiy, of the recent events
at Vera Cruz ; Mitamon's appearance before the
city, his retreat, Mr. MeLaue s arrival, and other
important incidents :
The mail steamer Quaker City touched at Vera
Cruz April 1 to land Mr. McLane, the U. S. Minis
ter to Mexico, and brings from thence the following
important news :
On the 16th ultimo, Gen. Hiiamon appeared be
fore Vera Cruz with an advanced guard of three
hundred men, apparently tor the purpose of recou
noitering the defences of the city; the main body
of the army being encamped at Medeline about
nine miles distant. Considerable alarm wa3 felt in
the city among the citizens. The women ar.d
children were at once transferred to the shipping
and the foreign consulates, the American Coneul
giving protect!:m to one hundred and fifty persons.
President Juarez aud hia officers, however, awaited
coming events with calmness aud confidence.
It immediately became evident to the “Little
General” that Vera Cruz was in a much better
condition for defence than he for an attack ; his
army having been very muoh weakened by deser
tion and demoralized by the want of pay and pro
visions, while, on the other hand, the Liberal forces
were gi ring daily evidence of devotion to their
cause, aud intention to delend their city frompillage
and their wives from dishonor. An experienced
eye witness informed us that he never saw troops
more animated, submitting, without a murmer, to
almost an entire absence of provisions, and sleeping
in the open plaza, under arms without tents, and
almost without clothing.
It is reported that Gen. Miramon had confidently
expected that his appearance would cause the imme
diate surrender of the city. Disappointed in this, he
despatched an expedition against Alvarado of 1200
men, under Col. Casanova —the entire cavalry of hib
army. Its coming, however, was anticipated, aud
the garrison fully prepared. Two gunboats also,
which had t een sent around from Vera Cruz, open
ed upon the advance guard with sixty-oights, which
so alarmed the colonel, that he and his forces turned
and fled most ingiorioueiy.
Here coded the long talked of expedition against
Vera Cruz. Ou the27t* ult. this little General,
who seems to have dwindled away mentally to a
standard more nearly equal to his physical propor
tions, broke up his camp at Medeline, and with his
forces much weakened and in a state of in übordi
nation, retreated towards Mexico for the purpose,
as he says, of “chastising the rebels near the capi
tal.” In the mean while Gens. Ampudia aud Tra
coni, of the Libera! forces, are said to have forti
fied themselves in his rear, and competent judges
confidently express tho opinion that he will never
reach Mexico. On the contrary, they expect that
the next mail from tho capital will bring the intelli
gence of its surrender, aa by the last news Gen.
Degollado had advanced to Taeubaya with 4,000
men, and the city was otherwise nearly surrounded
by the Liberal forces.
Gen. Miramon iu this campaign seems to have
been completely outgeneraled, as there is no deubt
but he was deliberately led into his present deliver
ance by the superior strategy of his opponents.—
At any rate, his “prestige” is gone, and the hopes
of the Church party have fled once more to the
gloomy recesses of their old aud dilapidated cathe
drals.
April Ist was a day of general rejoicing in Vera
Cruz. Tiie troops were relieved from duty. An
official invitation was published for families to re
turn to their home3, and the gates were once more
tiirowu open and barricades thrown down. The
market w as again supplied ar.d all hands were hav
ing a “good time generally.” At this opportune
moment Mr .McLane landed at Vera Cruz, under
a salute from a Mexicau battery and also from tha
U. S. razee Savannah, ot Sacrificios, but more par
ticularly greeted by the enthusiasm of the citizens,
who came out iu great numbeis to receive him on
the mole.
Daring the siege and when provisions of any
kind had become very scarce, Mr. LaSere, Presi
dent of the Louisiana Tehuantepec Company, at
that time in the city, despatched the company’s
steamer Jasper, at his own cost, to Alvarado’to
bring down a very timely supply, which service
the Progreso says, has much endeared him to the
“Vera Cinzanos.”
While Gen. Miramon was at Medelin a depute
tion irom the English and French naval forces wait
ed upon him to know if the property belonging to
citizens of their respective countries was to be pro
tected incase of bombardment and capture. The
reply is said to have been very unsatisfactory and
would have been even rude, except for the presence
during the interview of Gen. Kobies, who seems to
have been copstanily called upon to act the gentle
man for the above adorable youth.
Capt. Jarvis, ot the Savannah, acted throughout
with great discretion and prudence, giving to his
countrymen all the protection and aaaietar.ee they
needed, and at the same time abstaining from any
1 entangling alliances” with foreign powers.
The Spanish mail steamer Mexico, from Havana,
brought quite a large number of passengers, who
had fully expected to find Vera Cruz in possesjion
of Miramon; they were, of course, disappointed,
and returned without landing.
The shipping had anchored again under the castle
during the excitement. It was ordered to Sacrili
eios as the authorities had determined to take to the
fort m the event of the capture of the city, and thus
continue the war to the “bitter end.”
From Cuba,
The steamer Isabel, from Havana April 10th,
touched at Savannah on Tuesday. We extract the
following items from the correspondence cf the
Republican .-
Havana, April 10,1850. —We were thrown into
a state of excitement in the afternoon of 9th nit., by
a telegraphic despatch whieh got into general circu
lation, to the effect that a large number of sugar
estates in the vicinities of Matanzaa aud Cardenas,
and an immense quantity of sugar had been de
stroyed by fire. Like the story of the “three black
crows,” the number of the estates, and the quanti
ty of sugar stated to have been destroyed increased
as the report passed from person to person, until at
last they both reached an almost fabulous number
and quantity. I have taken every pains to get at
the truth of the matter, and have pleasure in saying
that I learn from Matanzas and Cardenas that the
cane fields are only on about fourteen estates and
only about Bor 10,000 boxes of Bugar have been
destroyed—some fifteen negroes lost their lives, and
a considerable quantity of live stock was destroyed.
The fire commenced about 10 A. M. of 28th ult.,
on an estate called “Kamona” the property of Don
Antonio de la Torriente. It is believed to have
been a ease of combustion occasioned by the sun’s
rays upon the fields, parched up by a long continu
ed drought, and a south wind having blown for a
long period. With tho excitable natures of the in
habitants of this Island, to exaggerate greatly ap
pears but natural, and even as yet I believe the
strict truth, as to tbe extent of damage sustained, is
not known in this city.
I notice a paragraph, dated Augusta, Ga., March
22d, in the New York papers of the 23rd, which
jives a rumor that the bark E. A. Rawlins “had j
anded 600 Africans on the coast ot F’lorida,” &c. j
The Rawlins cleared from this port on 26th Fell. >
last, in ballast for Mantua in this Island, and it is I
quite impossible that in less than a month, she can ’
have made a voyage to aud from the coast of Afri- j
ca.
I noticed a paragraph in the Cincinnati Dai'y
Enquirer, to the effect that two gentlemen from the
United Stated had recently erected a marble monu
ment to the memory of the chivalrie Crittenden
and his brave associates in the field of the burial
massacre.
I have within ten days paid two separate visits
to that locality, but not finding anything in the shape
of a monument thtlre ; in fact, I doubt if one was
erected. If it were, it has been destroyed, for cerlcs
none exists there at this time, as far as the moat
careful search I could make enabled me to dis
cover
Mr.Fortune in Chinn.
Further information from Mr. Fortune, m China.
The Propagating Garden in Washington.
A few weeks ago we announced that advices had
been received from Mr. Robert Fortune by tne
Commissioner of Patents of the shipment, in De
cember last, of several cases of seeds and plants
from China; among which were those of the Tea
shrub, Camphor tree, and of the Yang-mae. We
have again the satisfaction to state that the Patent
Office is in receipt of despathes from Mr. Fortune
by the overland mail, dated at Shanghai, January
22d, in which he informs the Commissioner that he
had made a further shipment, as follows:
3 glazed cases containing tea plants, with tea seeds
sown in soil.
1 do containing yang-mea. trees, with tea
seeds sown in soil.
X do containing yang-mea, with seeds of
Salisburia adianlifotia sown in soil.
1 do containing plants of hemp palm, with
tea seeds howh in soil.
1 do containing plantsofningpo, lemon,
kum-qaat wth tea seeds sown in soil.
i do containing camphor trees At cuttings
of rucllia, with tea seeds sown In soil.
1 do containing plauts of soap bean tree,
tea seeds sown in soil.
1 do containing grass-cloth plants, with
seeds sown in soiL
By a late report of the Commissioner of Patents,
we are informed that, “ in order to secure the safe
propagation of the tea plants, preparatory to theii
removal to the sites where the experiments are ul -
timately to be made, a portion of the public grounds
in the city of Washington has been set apart,
thoroughly anderdrained with tiles, and a propaga
ting house erected thereon for the germination of
the seeds. In constructing this building we are
gratified to learn that special regard has been paid
toils position with reference to the sun, size, pro
portions, admission of light, and economy of-heat.
During the last three months a temperature of from
55 to 86 deg. has been maintained in this house
without the aid of fire, simply by decompositien of
the stalks of Chinese sugar cane and stable manure.
The atmosphere resulting from this mode of heat
ing, with the co operation of moisture and light,
has been found eminently beneficial to plants, as
has been fully tested from various Beed3 and cut
tings, tropical and others, which are rapidly grow
ing in a healthy state.—Nat. Intel
A Family Puzzle. —The family of Mrs. Lucinda
Burr, of North Wilbraham, according to the Palmer
Journal, consists of one father, three mothers, two
grandmothers, one great grandmother, two widows,
three children, one husband, one wile, two daugh
ters, one grand-daughter, one son, one grandson,
one gTeat grandson, one mother in-law and one son
in law ; yet the family number but five persons who
all live under the same roof.
Arrest of a Monster. —Marshall Potter was
arrested on Saturday, at St. Stephen, N. 8., by offi
cer Bena, of Lee. He is charged with causing the
death of his mother, two brothers and nephew, on
Thursday morning last, at uee, and robbing the
house of one hundred and,fifty dollais. He was the
only one that escaped when the bouse was burned.
He was fully dressed, and his two brothers, who
slept in the same room, were burned, as were also
his mother and nephew. He left immediatsly after
the fire, changed his clothes at Carroll, and suc
ceeded in reaching New Brunswick before he was
arrested. His clothes were bloody, and the money
earned by his two brothers during the winter w&3
seen in his possession.
Not Ready for Nlllification. —Politicians
may denounce the fugitive slave law as one which
ought to he resisted, but few of them are willing to
set the example of disregarding the enactment. In
Massachusetts recently, the Legislature voted down
the “personal liberty ’ bill, which was to relieve
any fugitive from detention under the DnitedStates
laws. The New York Republican Legislature also
appears averse to passing asimilar bill. The Com
mittee to whom it was referred in the Senate report
ed against it with but one dissenting voice. Me3<;>B.
Diven and Zs’oxon, two able Republican lawyen.
pronounced t clearly unconstitutional, and express
ed surprise that it had been introduced.
The sprightly —and we must say it—pretty widow
editress of the Ashland Kentuckian, in reply to a
correspondent who asks her if she wears hoops, ex
claims :
“Hoops, indeed! why, tea don't wear any thing
else t”
The italics are her own. We suppose she tells
the naked truth.
If a genuine Yankee were to meet death on the
pale horse, he would banter him to swap horses.
The individual whe tried to clear his conscience
with an egg is now endeavoring to raise his spirits
with yeast. If he fails in this it is bis deliberate in
tention to blow out his brains with the bellows.
VOL. LXXIII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXIII. NO. 16.
E VH O PE A N INTELLIGENCE.
BY THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.
The eleam-hip City of Baltimore which left Liver
pool cn the morning of Wednesday, March 30th
arrived at New York on Tuesday.
The Congress on Italian Affairs.—lt was
confidently asserted that the congress would be held
in the Grand Duchy of Baden and inoet probably in
the town of Baden.
APsris tele raphic dispatch says:—“Aftersev
eral proposes, it appears that Baden l.as been fixed
upon for the coming Congre63, and that it will meet
about tho first cf May. P will he atteuded by tics
Cabinet Miristere—Malmsbury r nresenling'Env
land; Walewski, France; Go. sohakoff, Russia-
Buol, Austria; and Schleinit, Prussia The Italian
stales will also be indirectly represented at the Con
gress. M. Azeglio, Sardinian'Miniater to Euglaud,
has arrived here to meet Count Cavour. It is not
impossible that they may complicate the negotia
tions, and their visit to this capital ie not viewed
with pleasure by the votariee of peace.”
The Paris Presse says that facts justify the asser
tion that it is the mission of Lord Cowley to Vienna
which has rendered the Congreve possible.
The English government is said to have given ita
consent to the admission of Sardinia to the Con
gress.
According to some authorities, the Congress will
meet between the 15th and ‘2oth of April.
It is said that Loi and Cowley will assist the Earl
cf Malmesbury, and that Mr. Drouya del Buys
will act as second Commissioner to Count Wa
lewßk>.
Tbe Vienna correspondent of tho London Times
says that although Austria has promised to attend
tha Congress, she ia not inclined to think that peace
will be maintained, and consequenly continues her
arrangements.
Ls Nord says that Count Cavout’s note to the
five powers, claiming the admission ot Piedmont
to the Congress, points out that in associating them
selves with the policy of Piedmont they would as
sure at once the triumph of uationality and of or
der in Italy. By excluding Piedmont they would
abandon the fate of Italy to revolutionary influ
ences.
The latest reports were that while Piedmont will
have a seat in the Congress she will not have &
vote, aud that, on the same; ‘Editions, other Italian
States will be heard.
Great Britain.— ln the House of Lords, on the
23th ultimo, tha Earl of Clarend put a question
to the Foreign Secretary with reference to the mis
sion of Lord Cowley to Vienna, and the results
which were likely to flow from it. Ho observed
that at present the public knew nothing in reality
of the nature of his mission. Ho gathered Irom the
newspapers that Lord Cowley had been entrusted
with no powers to negotiate, but was requested to
ascertain what were the differences bet ween France
aud Austria, and to endeavor to bring them to a
conclusion. If that were eo, ho thought that the
instructions whieh had been given to Lord Cowley
v.-ere most judicious. The friendly character of
the noble lord's mission seemed to have been fully
appreciated by Austria, and he was believed to
have brought back most complete aud satisfactory
assurances. Austria had professed h r willingness
to withdraw her army from Italy at the same time
as the French army was withdrawn; she declared
she had never intended td invade Piedmont, and
she expressed her readiness to engage not to do so ,
and Austria would make concessions to European
feeling, considering that from her present condition,
the strength of her army, and ihe support which
she called from Germany, she might do so without
the slightest reflection upon her honor or courage.
He hoped the country might feel assured that the
peace of Europe would not be disturbed.
The Earl of Malmesbury said that before Lord
Cowley went to Vienna, he had the full consent of
the French (Joverument to undertake the mission,
and ho was to be made aware of tiie.r views on the
Italian question. The noble Lord (Clarendon) had
been rightly informed as to the nature of Lord Cow
ley’s instructions, aud his lordship had been re
ceived with the utmost frankness and cordiality by
the Austrian government. Since Lord Cowley’s
useful mission to Vienna, a Congress hud been as
sented to by the live great powers, but the dentils
to be considered, and the composition ol the Con
gress. had not yet been decided upon, although he
had no doubt that it soon would be. Her Majesty’s
government were desirous that the Italian slates
should have an opportunity of expressing their
opinion in come way or other at the Congress, and
the object Tvas to recommend to the Italian people
what they believed w-ould be for tneir own benefit
and for tbe safety of Europe. Although no actual
disarmament had” taken place, belli Austria and
Piedmont had fortrally declared that they would
not attack one another, aud that they would abstain
from hostilities; therefore unless some untoward
aud improbable event should occur, we might hope
that peace would not be broken, and that the Con
gress, which would meet at the end of next month,
would have the result which all Europe desired.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Owen Stanley
said tbat in consequence of the explicit statement
ot the Attorney-General for Ireland, that govern
ment would consider the rejection of the second
reading of the reform bill as equivalent to a vote of
censure, he should withdraw the resolution to that
effect, of which he had given notice.
Mr. Cowper asked whether it was intended to
incur tbe expense of a third mail to America in ad
dition to the two mail services for which a sum of
£176,000 was included in the packet estimation,
before a vote for this purpose could be submitted
in committee of supply.
Mr. Disraeli said that the contract was before the
Admiralty, but it was not yet completed. It was
not necessary to take an additional vote for the
purpose.
The debate on the reform bill was resumed, the
Srincipal speakers against it being Mr. Edwin
amen, Monkton Milnes, and Sir James Graham,
while those in its favor were Lord Elchs, Lord A.
Vane Tempest, aud Sir John Pakingtou. The lat
ter objected to the conciliatory tone assumed by
Lord Palmerston and declared that government
would hold itself staked on the issue of the debate.
Ou Tuesday tho 291 h the proceedings in the House
ot Lords were unimportant, and in the House of
Commons the debate upon the reform bill was con
tinued.
Mr. Gladstone was the principal speaker of the
evening, and he took ground against Lord John
Russell's resolution.
The debate was adjourned till Thursday the 31st,
when, at the suggestion of Mr. Disraeli, a vote
would be taken.
The London journals were speculating on tho
course Ministers would pursue in the event of the
passage of Lord John Russell’s amendment. The
■iberal journals took it for granted that they would
resign and were allotting offices to their anticipated
successors. According to tiie Morning Star, Lord
John Russell will muke up a Cabinet, independent
ly of Lord Palmerston and those who acted with
him while in office.
A deputation had waited upon Sir John Paking
ton at the Admiralty, on the subject of the Hondu
ras Intei-oceanic Railway. It was stated that a
substantial contractor had offered to construct the
railway for £2,500,060, and, pending its construc
tion, to put through a sufficient road for the car
riage of the-maiis within twelve mouths from the
present time. The great advantages of the route
were largely dwelt upon. -
A telegraphic despatch received ac Liverpool at
the last moment, and dated March 30, reports that
the well known Marquiß ol Waterford was killed
the evening before, while hunting.
Destructive Fire in Manchester— Loss of
Life— The extensive premises known aa Bury
iane Mill immediately adjoining the London and
North Western station at Bnry-lane, am! situate
about two miles from Leigti, have been to a great
extent destroyed by a conflagration, which oroke
out at 11.15 on Friday night. They were the pro
perty of Messrs. F. and It. Gill, manufacturers of
aatteens, stays, tapes, &c., as well as dyers. The
fire had its origin in the warehouse, where were
stored 2,000 pieces of manufactured goods of an ex
pansive character. From what it arose ia at pres
ent a mystery. The property destroyed has been
variously estimated at £50,000 to £100,000; but
the largest estimate is supposed to be nearest to
accuracy. Messrs. Gil! are insured to a high
amount.
The catastrophe reached its climax about five
o’clock in the morning, when three men were killed
instantly by the falling of a wali, aud a fourth re
ceived such injuries that he lies in a hopeless state.
The wall was the outer one of the warehouse, and
its fall was expected, but the police were unable to
keep the ground clear in front of it.
France. —As announced iu the last news given
by the Canada, Count Cavour arrived at Paris on
the morning of the 26th, and had an interview with
the Emperor at noon the same day. He was also
present at a private dinner given by the Emperor
at the Tuilleries on Monday the 28tb. He was re
ported to be much pleased with his visit, and it was
expected that he would leave Paris for London on
the day the City of Baltimore sailed.
It was asserted that the conferences respecting
the Danubian Principalities would reassemble iu
Paris iu tbe course of the then current week. Two
sittings only were reported to be held, all the pow
ers having agreed to recognize the doable election
of Couza.
The announcement of the Congress in the affairs
of Italy bad not produced any improvement in the
general trade of France.
It had been arranged by the War Department
that all the material lately prepared, such a. artil
lery, projectiles, clothing and tents should be des
patched to Lyons and Marseilles, where stores had
been prepared for them.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News as
serts that armaments were going on in France
without relaxation.
The Paris Patrie states that government had de
cided upon adding a fourth batallion to each hun
dred infantry regiments of the line. The new ba
tallions arc to be formed out of the lid and fith
companies ot the already existing batalions
The Pari3 Bourse on Saturday, the 26tb, was
duil and drooping, the Rentes declining to 68f. 70.
On Monday, the 28th, the depression was still
greater, owing to disquieting rumors, and the quo
tations declined to 68f. ‘25. On the 29th the Bourse
opened at. a further decline of more I ban a quarter,
but a slight improvement subsequently took place
and the 5 per cents closed at 68f. 10 for money, and
6Sf. 5 for account.
Count Cavour was expected to leave Paris for
Turin direct on the 30th.
The Viceroy of Egypt had rejected the written
application of M. de Lesseps for permission to
commence the work of the Suez canal, and M.
Lieantbeg, the engineer in chief, had tendered his
resignation.
Sardinia. —Turin letters state that the projected
Congress had proved a grievous shock to the war
party. Orders for preparing certain large build
ings for the reception of troops, had been counter
manded.
The following despatch from Count Cavour to
the Sardinian Ambassador at London, dated March
17th, is published. It is in reply to a question
which the Britieh government had asked, viz :
whether Sardinia would follow the example of
Austria and declare in a formal manner that she
ha3 no intention cf attacking her powerful neigh -
bor:
M.' Marquis,—Sir James Hudson, in a note da
ted the 14th of this month, a copy of which you
will find enclosed, has asked me, in the named his
government, if Sardinia would be disposed to fol
low the example of Austria, and to declare in a
formr! manner (as Count Buol, on his part, declared
Austria's intention not to attack the Piedmo.it, in
his despatch t<f Count Apponyi of the 25;h Janu
ary) that Sardinia had no intention of attacking her
powerful neighbor.
Appreciating the motives which have inspired
such a course on the part of the Cabinet of St.
Jame’a, we do not hesitate t answer him with the
moat perfect frankness, as we have done a few
days since, when ha asked us to draw up a memo
randum, clear and precise, of the complaints of
Italy against Austria, and to intricate the means of
applying a remedy. ’ * . * * *
Accordingly, as Her Britannic Majesty’s govern
ment has acknowledge the abnormal state of Italy,
and promised to Sardinia that England wquid en
deavor to find a remedy for the evils complained of,
the Sardinian government, availing itself of such
promises, and reserving its liberty of action iu case
Austria should abstain for the future from commit
ting aggressive acts, Sardinia ta ready to give her
assurance that it is not her intention to attack Aus
tria. And she agrees on this subject to make a de
claration the same as that contained in the despatch
of Count Buol, which in reality, is nothing but a
long and bitter accusation against S&rdiania and
the politics of the Cabinet over which I have
the honor to preside.
The contrast presented by Piedmont with the
provinces under the dominion of Austria, is too
striking not to produce a profound irritation in Aus
tria. Thq example of Piedmont proving, contrary
to the assertion of Count Buol, that the Italians are
susceptible of a liberal and progressive regime ,
makes the military system of Austria more hateful
to the people of the Italian Peninsula. The corpo
ral punishments, the ever augmenting taxation, the
fatal financial measures, aud toe abandonment to
the clergy of the rights of the state, make the con’
trast more obvious.
We acknowledge, therefore, that the liberty of
Pi tlmont if a danger and a menace for Austria.
According to Austria, there are only two things to
do—destroy the liberal institutions of Italy, or keep
up her dominion over all Italy, to prevent contagion
from eor ending over the other states of the Peninsu
la which have not enough strength at their disposal
for suppressing the voice of the people. It is the
second alternative which Austria has embraced,
waiting the later arrival, and indirect action, the
realization of the first indicated means.
Austria, up to the present moment, has succeed
ed by secret treaties with Parma, Modena, and
Tuseauy, and by the indefinite occ pationof Ro
u.u.gna (which it not now about to cease, acccord
irg to the declarations of Vienna and Rome,) and
by the considerable fortifications she has so cen
s . ru led, in making herself mistress of Central Italy
and thus binding Piedmont with a circle of iron.
It is against such a state of things, which is not
i U tilled by the treaties of Vienna, that Sardinia
has not ceased to protest for many years, oalting for
the intervention and support of the great Powers
who signed the treaties of 1815.
Such a state of things has for a long time ccnsti
tid ed a threatening danger to Piedmont, aggrava
ted ot late by extraordinary armaments and other
aggressive acts on the part of Austria whioh have
torced the government of the King to adopt de
fensive measures and call the contingents under
a- ms.
It is proposed that this state of things should
cease, that Austrian dominion in Italy should enter
within the limits formally stipulated by treaties ;
that Austria should disarm, aud that Sardinia, whilst
deploring the unhappy fate of the population on the
otiier side of the Ticino, should confine her efforts,
as England has often recommended her to do, to
ward a paoifio propaganda, calculated more aud
more to enlighten public opinion in Europe on the
I'aliau question and to prepare the elemente for a
future solution.
But, so long as our neighbors group round them
aud against us all the State of Italy, which border
ua us, and whilst they can lreely march their troops
on th.s banks of the Po aud up to the’Apennines, so
i. ng as they can hold Piacenza (transformed into a
fortress of the first order,) continually threatening
cur frontier, it will bo impossible for us to remain
defer eciess in the face of the provoking aud armed
attitude of Austria.
I request you, M. le Marquis, to read and give a
copy ot this despatch to Lord Malmesbury, aud I
avail myself, &c. (Signed) CivoUß.)
Austria. —lt is computed that by the end of
March Austria would have in Lombardy 70 batal
lions of infantry; aud with artillery, cavalry and
engineers the army in Italy would be about 220,01)0
strong.
Thu London Daily News is informed that the
Conditions on whioh Austria has assented to a Con
gress are of a most insufficient character.
Letters from Piacenza announce that between
the 23 .1 and doth of March, 1200 Austrians, with 50
cannons, 150 barrels of rosin and a great quantity
of Congreve rockets, arrived there. The church
was converted into a Hour magazine.
Warlike preparations were going actively for
ward in other parts of Italy.
A rumor was in circulation in Paris ou the 28th
(but it had not been confirmed) that a collision had
taken place in Lombardy between an Austrian de
tachment afid some recruits who wished to escape
the service. It is said that one mau was killed and
several wounded in the melee.
Gekmant.— lt is officially announced that the
Federa< Assembly has v oted supplies for arming
the Federal fortiesses with the necessary artulery.
Prince Frederick, at Wurtemberg, s avid to l avo
been appointed commander iu chief of the Btb fede
ral corpse d'armet.
India and China —The mails from Calcutta of
February 25, and Hong Kong February 15th, had
arrived a. Alexandria on the 21st of March.
There is nothing of political importance from
India.
Lo. and Elgin had left Cagton and tva prepai ing eu
expedition for the exploration of the Peri river.
Admiral Seymour was about to return to Eng
land.
The government telegraphic despatch from India
states that tranquility continued to prevail through
out Oude, aud the disarming of the provinoe pro
gressed rapidiy. Up to the 12th February, 278
oannou and 875,(100 arms of all kinds had been col
lected, while i- tl forts had been eutiroly leveled.
The Begum and the >iena were still in Napaui.
The reuela in Central ludia, under Tantia Topee,
were reported to be making for Portabghur.
A Good Anecdote.
The following amusing sketch of the manner in
which au irascible Pres dent ot old Cambridge was
once mollified by a mug of ilip, is from the peu of
“Jack Robinson,” the Boston correspondent of the
New York Times:
Apropos of Porter, whose name I have just taken
iu vain : I heard a good College story, the other
day, which I may us well set down here. Porter is
an institution in Cambridge. He is a persou of
varied accomplishments, and keeps “a house of
call.” None like him to brow beßhop or mingle a
shandy gaff. But his chef d’teuvre. is flip. It is re
ported among the students that Ganymede, when
dying—because it’s all nonsense about Ganymede
betug immortal i he left Jupiter's service, married
Hebe, set up an inn with his saviugs, and died at a
good old age—it is reported that Gauymede left
Porter the recipe for making both nectar aud am
brosia, whieb recipe he surreptitiously oopied from
Juno’s receipt book, aud Porter, improving on the
idea, conceived the happy thought of mingling both
divine materials, aud producing au ineffable beve
rage—something which should combine the ele
ments of the supernal meat and the supernal drink
—a harmc-ny ot solid and fluid, to which oaoh ele
ment should contribute its celestial flavors. Ho
carried out the idea He mingled the ambrosia
and tha nectar, end all Olympus turned pale with
envy, for the result was flip.
With such a olassio origin it waß not to be won
dered at that under graduates, who are notorious
for their love of mythological matters, should find
themselves attracted to Porter’s, and there refresh
their reminiscences of Oylmpus with draughts of
the diviue beverage. In fact, such was their devo
tion to this branch of classical study, and so inspired
did they frequently get —inspired even to the Py
thonie pitch of being unintelligible in their speech
—that the matter attracted the attention of the Pre
sident of the College—a venerable gentleman of the
period, whose name I have forgotten. Heartless
and ignorant persons, entirely misconceiving the
spirit in which the under graduates visited Porter's,
reported to this worthy person that the students
were in the habit of getting drunk every night on
flip. It must be seen to.
The President puts on his most authoritative wig
aud sternest countenance, and sallies out to blow
up the classical Porter, for leading his students
astray. First of all he thinks, in order to be able
to speak more decisively, that he will taste this
noxious beverage with his own lips. Then there
can be no mistake. With much dignity he entann
Porter’s. He is greeted with respect, lie interro
gates Porter: “Sir, many of the under-grafiaateFi
come here, I understand?” “A few,” modestly
replies the landlord. “They come here frequently,
Mr Porter?” “They drop in nowand then, Sir.”
“And they drink a beverage called Flip, Sir ?”
“Sometimes, Sir.” “They drink a great deal of it,
Mr. Porter 7” “VVoil, Sir, they do take considera
ble ” “They get drunk on it, Mr Porter ?” Tte
discreet Porter remained silent. “Make me a a—
flip,” at length says the venerable President, still
frowning and indignant. Porter, whose sang froid
has nsverfor a moment forsaken him, deploys all the
resources of his art.
Presently a superhuman flip, with an aromatic
foam, which Venn might have risen from, cream
ing over the edge of the gobiot, is the result of his
efforts. Ho hands it respectfully, and with some
anxiety, to the President, on whose face judicial
thunderclouds have been gathering. Tne Presi
dent tastes it gloomily. Ho pauses. Another sip.
The thunder clouds have not yet flashed forth any
lightnings. Porter, resigned, awaits the outburst.
The President gazes wonderiagly at his tumbler.
A general emollient expression seems to glide over
his face, and smooth the frowing brows. The lips
relax, and a smile seems about to dawn. He lifts
the the glass once mere to his lips, heaves a sigh,
and puts it down. It is empty! “Mr Porter.” he
says, “the students get drunk on this, Sir 7 P rter
sees that the storm is passed, and boldly answers in
the affirmativa. “Sir,” says the venerable man’
walking gravely away, “Sir, I don’t wonder at it!’,
Things id VVoNhlngiao.
Washington, April 11.—While the President’s
organ ere gives assurance that our relations with
England in Central America are advancing towards
satisfactory solution, aud that the Mesquite pro
tectorate and Bay Islands are to be abandoned as
a part of the programme, it is very well known
that Mr. Buchanan himself expresses dissatisfaction
with the condnet of Sir Gore Ousley, and Lord
Napier has stated that he ie unable to reconcile it
with the uuderstanuing between the two govern
ments If good faith was intended, then the nego
tiation in Nicaragua should have begun by the re.
liniuishmvnt of the protectorate. In postponing it.
Sir Gore Ousley has not only exposed his whole ac
tion to dutruet, but strong suspicions have been
excited against Piesident Martinez, who permitted
that vital point for Nicaragua to be suspended.,
while England gained all she desired In & treaty cf
commerce without a single preliminary concession .
The Administration regards itself protected, what
ever may be the diplomacy of Sir Gore, by the de
clarations of Lord Malmsbury, which are said to bo
on official record It wau agreed on both sides,
that the action of the Senate upon the Dalias-Clar
rendon treaty should be the basis of a settlement of
this con roversy between tho two Governments.
That is to say, that the protectorate shall be reiin
quisbed, a territory set off for the Indians, and an
annuity provided for them. In addition, the Bay
Islands were to be cetided to Honduras, without
the anti-slavery restriction which Lord Palireraton
bad imposed and which Lord Malmesbury does not
regard as essential. This was the general arrange
ment, and if not carried out by Sir Gore Ousley,
must become the cause of new complications. At
all events, the correspondence must sooner or later
find its way before the publie, and the subject be
discussed in all its relations.
The recent statement, that the disputed qaestion
in regard to the right of search had been settled by
the interv ntion of ihe French Government, is not
true, in the sense given to the public, and, strictly
speaking, not true at all. There has been much anxi
ety since the events in the Gulf last summer, to estab
lish some common and recognized principle, which
would prevent the recurrence of such cause of irri
tation. The great difficulty in reaching a satisfac
tory adjustment of this delicate matter, has pro
ceeded from the mode of verifying the nationality
of a vessel, suspec ed of abusiDg the flag, it ie>
very weil know n that the flag of the United States
has been shamefully prostitu ed to the slave trade,
aud sometimes under the most outrageous circum
stances, as was lecently witnessed iu the case of
the “Wanderer.” France and England entered
into a temporary arrangement some time ago, that
in the ease of a suspected ship a boat may be Bent
along side, and may ask for papers, but not board
the veesel, unless invited. Recently a more enlarged
plan has been prepared, which France, however de
clined to adopt, without concurrence of the United
States. Our Government has reaffirmed the prin
ciple asserted in Gen. Cass’ letter to Lord Napier a
year ago, and ea and if this construction was accep
ted, we were ready to enter into the-agreement.
No answer has yet been received.— Cor. of the
Balt. Amer.
A Widower Jilted.— There can be n'o union
between youth and age, January and Mqy, as the
California Spirit of the Times illustrates by a story
ot a pretty young girl and a eueceptihla widower of
forty-eight, to whom, after a short courtship, she
became engaged. Previous to ike, marriage, the
gentleman was compelled to take a journey to (the
Atlantic States, and for fear of accident, settled the
sum ot $12,001) upon his future bride before start
ing During his abstance a tender correspondence
was kept up, wd his business completed, he has
tened back with all the speed of an impatient
widowor to find, alas ! his finance nicely settled as
the wife of his son. Like a sensiule man he took a
pinch of bauff, kissed the bride, and resigned him
self to histate.
The Tooth of a Mastadon. —A monster tooth
has been picked up on a farm in Spotsylvania,
some five miles from town, which weighed over
three pounds! it was over three ‘ inches cross
wise, in the jaw, and some four or five inches
from front to back, though as a portion of it was
broken off it may have been halt’ as large agqrn
that way It had five large prongs indicatirq its
roots. Tne tooth was partially petrifie<i. The
monster that bore ” m ust have belonged to the
F- kiUYo fretienctssburg (Fft.,) Herald.