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From the a mtliern Recorder.
It is known to onr renders that our accom
plished fellow citizen, Mr. \Y ilde, has been
for some years in Italy, in pursuit no doubt of
bis own literary advancement, as well its lor
other objects. Georgia bast always felt proud
of the genius of her accomplished son, and she
looks forward with no ordinary solicitude lor
the fruits of his long sojourn m the land of
glorious recollections. \\ e are not among
the least ardent of these admirers, nor of these
expectants. Mr. YVtlde cannot, if he would,
prevent us from the lull enj >yuiei)t ol our ad
miration, and we trust he wd not, though he
mav disappoint us in our hopes by refusing us
:t participation ol his thoughts ol Italy, past
and preset.i.
We have been wishing to express our pleas
ure upon the re.urn to ibis Slate ol our gilled
leilow-citzen, and one has come most nppor
tun< ly to our aid in this hell ill; the very one
who of all others ws could have wished to
o.ini,; to our assistance; one whose genius
and taste entitle Iter to the name of a sister of
the gentle art, n >t uinvorti.y of the author ol
the most beautiful lyric in the language.
WELCOME HOME!
ADDRESSED TO THE HON RICHARD HENRY WILDE.
••O’er b oter waves to speed her rapid course,
“ The li ‘ht baik of his genius litis die sails.”
Dante, Can. 1.
With joyous smiles anti words sincere,
We gladly welcome thee
Back to thine own, to dwell again
Amid the brave, the free—
B irk to thy ri- h blue S uthern skies,
Btight as Italian hues,
Where liberty with lavish gifts
Our daily pathway strews.
Not with the shout of many tongues,
As when the warrior comes,
Nor Hying banners waving high,
Nor sound of rolling drums; —
But the rich incense of the heart
We offer at thy shrine ;
We set thy name amid the stars
That must forever shine.
We watch thee with admiring eyes—
To such as thee’t is given
To place around onr nat ve land
A halo bright as heaven.
Then speed thee onward, shower around
The treasures thou hast brought
From the temple of the mighty dead ;
Bright gems of classic thought.
Speak ! and throughout our western land
An echo may respond,
And slumbering genius start to life,
Touch’d by thy magic wand.
Go sweep thy lyre; its melting tones,
Along our happy shore.
May wake as thrilling answering strains
As e’er Italia bore.
Our hearts are with the. Son of Song,
Our sympathies are thine ;
Peace to thy hearth, joys cluster round,
Watch’d by a power divine!
The King’s Speech. —The story that is
coiner the rounds about the newspaper boys
havin>i sold an Inaugural a hit ess of Jefferson
as lhaT receiiilvdelivered by Harrison, reminds
ns of a good joke, which, like good wine, has
lost nothing by age.
It used to be the custom in London, to
print the King’s speech on a letter sheet, upon
which was endorsed “King s speech. Cer
tain printers, to be up to competition, just be
fore the opening of Parliament, procured a
lar.re quantity of letter paper, printed the usu
al endorsement, and laid it by, ready tor the
speech to he clapped on the inside.
For some reason his Majesty on that occa
sion oave no speech at all. Here was a waste
of bath hot pressed ! But, to save themselves,
the publishers-caused the sheets to be folded
in the usual way, with the usual label, ready
t. meet the eves of purchasers. A hoy was
despatched into the streets to sell. No soon
er did be rush along, bellowing ‘King s Speech,
than all the passers-by stopped and bought
the precious document. So eager were they
to read it, that not a soul thought ol unfolding
it but hurried off home, or to a cotiee room,
that he might peruse it at leisure.
\t last some person, who had just bought
of lhe running bov, thought he observed a
sly twinkle in his eye; and, not having heard
of any sneech from she throne, opened tne
paper (o’ see what war in it. A blank met
his view! a blank like that to winch Dr.
Franklin likened every infant mind. Hal
ll)a i |, i —<i.o ; look, there is not any thing
in this paper f -loft there /’’replied the noy,
increasing the rapidity t h.s movement,
“well —the king did’nt say anything. —JN.
Signal. ___
AldermvnT—A moving sepulchre in which
are deposited, dead lurkies, chickens, pigs,
and turtle fat,
From the Athens Bachelor.
A CHAPTER ON BUSTLES.
Bustles!— what are bustles? Ay, reader,
lair reader, you may well ask that question.
But some ol you al least know ihe meaning
of the word, and the use of the article it desig
nales, sufficiently well, though thank heaven!
there are many thousands off my countrymen
who are as yet ignorant of both, and indeed
to whom such knowledge would be quite use
less. Would that I were in equally innocent
ignorance! Not, reader, that lam of the fe
male sex, and use the articles in question, hut
my knowledge ol its mysterious uses, and tlie
imaterials of which it is composed, lias been
llie ruin of me. I will have iuser bed on my
lomb, “ Here lies a man who was killed by a
bustle!”
But before I detail the circumstances of my
unhappy late, it will perhaps be proper to give
a description of the article itseil which has
been the cause ol my undoing. Well, then,
a bustle is an article used by ladies to
lake i rum llteir form the character of the Ve
nus of the Greeks, at.d impart to il that of the
Venus of the Hottentots! Thai ladies-should
have a taste so singular may appear incredi
ble ; !mt there is no accounting lor tastes, ard
I know to my cost that the fact is indisputa
ble. I made the discovery a few years since,
and up to that time I had always home Ihe
character of a sedate and promising young
man—one likely to get on Lo the wot Id by my
exertions, and therefore sure to he helped by |
my friends. I was even, I flatter myself, a
favorite with the fair sex too; and justly, for
I was their most ardent admirer; and there
was one most lovely creature among them,
whom I had fondly hoped to have made mv
own. But, alas! how vain and visionary are
our hopes of human happiness: such hopes
with me have fled forever!
In an unlucky hour I was at a hall, sealed
at it little distance from my fair one, my eyes
watching tier every air and look, my ears
I catching every sound of her sweet voice—
wl ni I heard tier complain to a friend, in
tones of the softest whispering music, that she
was oppressed with ti e heat of the place.—
’ My dear,’ tier liiend replied, ‘ it must be the
I effect of your hustle! W hat do you stuff it
j with?’ * Hair—horse hair,’ was the reply. —
I ‘Hair! mercy on us!’ says tier friend, ‘ it is no
’ wonder you are oppressed—that’s a hot mate
rial truly. Why, you should do as I do—you
do not see me fainting; and the reason is, that
I stuff my hustle with hay—new hay!”
I heard no more, lor the Indies apprehend
ingfrom my eyes that I was a listener, changed
the topic, of conversation, though indeed it
was not necessary, Ibrat the time I had not
the slightest notion of what they meant. —
Time, however, passed on most favoiably to
my wishes— another month, and I should have
called.my Elizabeth my own. She was on a
visit to my sister, and I had every opportuni
ty to make myself agreeable. We sang to
gether, we also talked together,and we danced
together. All this would have been very well, j
but unfortunately, we also walked together.
It was on the last lime we ever did so, that
the circumstance occurred which I have now
to relate, and which gave the first death blow
to my hopes of happiness. We were crossing
the street, her dear arm linked in mine, when
vve i In need to meet a female friend ; ami
vvishii g to have a little chat with her without
incommoding the passengers, we got to the
edge of the troilier, near which at the lime
there was standing an old while horse totally
blind, harnessed to a ci.leehe. He was a quiet
looking animal, and none could suppose by
his physiognomy that he had any savage pro
pensity in his nature. But imagine my aston
ishment and horror, when I suddenly heard
my charmer give it scream that pierced me
to the very heart!—and when i petceived that
this atrocious old blind brute, having slowly
and slyly swayed his head round, caught the
—lt vv shall I describe it— caught my Eliza
beth—really l can’t say how—but he caught
her: and before I could extricate her from Iris
jaws, he made a reef in her garments such ns
lady never before suffered. * * *
As rapidly as I could, of course, I got my fair
one into a caleche, and hurried home, the
truth of the ball room tete-a-tete gradually
opening in my mind its to the true cause of
the disaster —it was that the blind horse, hun
gry brute, had been attracted by the smell of
my Elizabeth’s bustle, made of hay—new
hay!
Elizabeth was never the same to me after
wards—site took the most invincible dislike to
walk with me, or rather to he seen in the
streets with me. Bui mailers were not yet
come to the worst, and I had iudu ged in hopes
that she would yet he mine. I had, however,
taken a deep aversion to hustles, and even
determined to wage war upon them to the
best of my ability. In this spirit, a few days
after, I determined to wreak my vengeance
on mv sister’s hustle, lor 1 found by tins time
that she too was emulous of being a Hotten
tot beaut;. Accordingly having to accon -
pany Iter and my intended wife to a hall, I
stole into my sister’s room in the course ol the
even ng before site went into it to drei-s, and
pounced upon her hated bustle, which lay on
her toilet table. 1 inflicted a cut on it with
my pen-knife, and returned. But what a mis
take did 1 make! Alas it was not my sist-r’s
bustle, but my Elizabeth’s! However we went
to the ball, and for a time all went smoothly
on. I look my Elizabeih as a partner in the
dance; but imagine my horror when I per
ceived her gradually becoming thinner and
thinner, losing her en bon pomt as she danced;
and worse than that, every movement which
she described in the ligure—ihe ladies chain,
the chassj —was accurately marked, recorded,
on the chalked floor with bran! Oh dear
reader, pity me; was ever man so unfortu
nate? This sealed my doom; she would
never speak to me or even look at me after
wards.
But this was not all. My character with
the sex—ay, with both sexes—was also de- ;
siroved. f, who had been heretofore, as J said,
considered an example of prudence and dis
cretion for a young man, was now set down
as a thoughtless, devil may-care wag, never
to do well; the men treated me coldly, and
the women turned their backs upon me; and
so thus in reality they made me what they had
supposed 1 was. I; was indeed no wonder,:
for l could never after see a lady with a hus
tle, but 1 feel an irresistible inclination to laugh
ter, and this too even on occasions when I
should have kept a grave countenance. If 1
met a couple of country or other f riends in the
street, and inquired after ifieir family—the*
cause, perhaps, of the mourning in which they ;
were attired, 1 to their astonishment would
take to laughing, and if there was a horse
near us, give ihe lady a push away to another
situation. And if then I was asked the mean
ing of this ill-timed mirth, and singular
movement, what could 1 sav? Why, some
times I made the matter worse bv replying,
‘Dear madam it is only to save your bustle
from the horse ’
Stung at last by my misfortunes and the j
hopelessness of my situation, I became utterly j
reckless, and only thought of carrying out my
revenue on the bustles in every way in my j
power"; and this I must say with some pride
i 1 did lor a wh le with good eflect. I got a
number of the haled articles manufactured
for myself—but not, reader, to wear, as you
THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
shall hear. Oh! no; hut whenever I received
an invittaion to a party —which indeed had
, latterly been seldom sent me—l took one of
. these articles in my pocket, ar.d watching a
r favorable opportunity when all were engaged
- in (be mazv figure of the dance, let it secretly
! fall amongst them. The result may be ima
i gioed—ay, reader, imag ne it, for I cannot de
-1 scribe it with effect. First, Ihe halfsuppres
sed but simultaneous scream of all the ladies,
I as it was held up for a claimant; next equally
- simultaneous movement of the ladies’ hands,
t all quickly disengaged from those of their part
■ ners,and not raised up in wonder, but carried
i down to their—bustle! Never was move
ment in the dance executed with such pre
cision; I cannot say it was graceful, yet I
i should he irnthorralized as the inventor of an
’ attitude so expressive of sentiment, and of
I I feeling.
I am now a banished man from refined so
citv, no lady will appear where that odious
Mr. Bustle, as the call me, might possibly be.
I have nothing left me, therefore, but to live
i out my solitary life, and vent my execration
1 of bustles in the only place now left me—the
colums of the Bachelor.
VICE AND MISERY.
He who looks on y to the surface of society,
j sees hut little to induce him to believe that
; man is born to evil. He who searches the
! lowest stratum only, finds nothing but wretch
’ edness and vice. The truth lies between.—
And he who would judge of man as he is, and
of men’s characters and experience as they
are, must examine closely and personally, not
by classes, and by inference, but individually,
and by sample.
Mr. Cost, who took the census of the city of
; Cincinnati, has published, among other inter
; esting statements, some account of the situa
j tion and character of those whom he saw, and
j the following is an extract:
Few people are aware of the ups and downs
,in society beyond the present moment. We
J see one man rise by some fortunate conjunc
j litre of events, to honor, power, or fortune,
whose descendants, perhaps, whose children,
may be steeped in poverty or infamy to the
very lips. But the same generation in tills
case, rarely witnesses the ascent and descent
of the ladder; it is only by inquiry,or recorded
history, that we are called to contrast the
affluence or dignity of the past, with the desti
tution or insignificance of the present.
In the course of my census travels, I found
an old lady—the widow of a distinguished pro
fessor in one of our eastern cities—in such
abject poverty, that a broad board stretched
across an old barrel was all the table she pos
sessed ; the chairs were in keeping with the
table, being sawed billets of wood. I discov
ered a mart, who had been proprietor in a large
| foundry, on the river Carron, in Scotland, re
duced to the condition of a day laborer at iron
works bore. I found a descendant of a dis
tinguished Governor in one of the eastern
States, and cousin of a late Governor of New
Jersey, making their subsistence at washing
by the day. What impressive rebukes to pride !
may be found in such lessons ! In all these J
cases, the individuals appeared to bear their
reverses of fortune with a suitable and becom
ing spirit, and some of them with such dignity
and philosophy as commanded not only my
sympathy, but my respect.
But I found deeper grades of wretchness
than these. “ The spirit of a mam shall sus
tain his infirmity,” but degradation and infamy,
who can bear * Yes, some are so far sunk as
to glory in their shame. The daughter of a
respectable clergyman in , and a niece
of a member of Congress from New York, is
a prostitute in this city, whom no remonstrance
can rouse, nor recollection shame. The grand
son of a general officer of the revolution, a
distinguished son of Pennsylvania, is now a
vagabond in our city; and now, and not for the
first time, on the chain-gang, apparently one of
the most hopeless of the lost. I assisted to
lift out of the gutter, in which he lay drunk, a
man whom I knew years before in Pittsburgh,
worth even in those days, when man’s wealth
was counted by only tens of thousands, as
much in real estate and warehouse as fifty
thousand dollars. I found, in another case, a
man of my own age—l had left him in Phila
delphia twenty-five years ago, a youth of the
highest promise, the pride of his parents, and
the delight and favorite of female society ; he
was so disfigured by intemperance, that not a
vistige by which I could recall him to memory,
remained, and nothing but certain tones of his
once musical voice, and the narration of early
events, which a stranger could not have known,
did at last induce me to believe him any thing
but an imposter, lie was so completely ru
ined, that it was impossible for me to render
him any service. He lias since gone down
the river to Texas—
“ Texas, 1 tie needy outcast's home.”
Such is human life.
Let it be remarked, that what Cincinnati
presents by tern, Philadelphia possesses by
thousands. And he wiio should descend into
the depth of wretchedness, poverty, and vice,
(each alternately the cause and the effect)
might present a scene of fearful, painful inter
est to the philanthropist. Let us be under
stood, that in nine times out of ten, all this
misery is the consequence of an uneducated
will. —U. S. Gazette.
The Territories. —The fine sentiment of
11 proscription proscribed,” is finding full play
in the Territories. In lowa and Florida the
axe has been at work chopping off Democrat
ic heads ; and if the Governor of Wisconsin
is spared, it is only because his popularity is
dreaded. The design is to fill all three” of
the Territories with Federalists, in order to
convert the people before they become States.
The idea ol three new Democratic States fiils
Federalism with terror, and not a moment has
been lost in taking measures to prevent that
occurrence. Already the Democratic officers
are nearly all decapitated, and Federalists put
m their places, and in a little while the change
will be complete. Never was a more wanton,
wicked, barefaced, shameless proscription than
is goi ig on in these Territories, nor for a ba
ser object. The real object is to Federalize
them ; and the only chance lor Democracy is
in their immediate admission as States into
the Union. lowa, Wisconsin, and Florida,
I west of the Suwannee have the requisite pop
ulation now ; and, as the Indian war is draw
ing to a close, Florida east of the Suwannee
will promptly fill up, and be ready for admis
sion. All should apply lor admission at the
I extra session ; it is the only chance for the
I Democratic inhabitants of these proscribed
Territories. They should all be admitted to
gether —all be in the same bib—Florida com
ing in as a single State now, with a clause in
the law for a secoi and State east of the Suwan
nee, as soon as it attained a certain amount of
population—say forty or fifty thousand. This
would keep all even, and make the slave States
and non-slave States proceed as heretofore,
, pari passu, and, besides, would make the Ab
| oiilionists in Congress and in the Cabinet,
. show their hands.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1841.
A Foreign Call. —The Churchman states
that the lit. Rev. Bishop Doane has been in
vited to preacli the consecration sermon at
the opening of the Rev. Dr. Hook’s church,
in Leeds, Eng., and that he will sail hence
for that purpose in July.
THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND Tda SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.
Anecdote of Mr, Webster.— We copy
(lie following Ifom Cftnbe’s Notes on North
America—the volumes we noticed on Friday
last:
“The talent of tit New Englanders in
bargain-making is proverbial in America, and
the inhabitants of the little barren island of
Nantucket, if we were to judge from the fol
lowing anecdote, would seem to carry off'the
palm from all others in this accomplishment.
One ol the party at table, alluding to an il
lustration of this characteristic of the Nan
tucket population, which, according to Sam
Slick, had occurred in the professional prac
tice of Mr. Webster, asked him whether it
was true. He said it was essentially correct,
and proceeded to state the real incidents, as
follows: A Nantucket client had asked him
to go to that island to plead a cause for him.
Mr. Webster, after mentioning the distance,
the loss of time, and the interruption to ins
other practice, said that he could not go un
less he received a lee of a thousand dollars.—
The client objected to paying so large a sum
for pleading one cause. Mr. Webster replied
that the fatigue and loss of lime in travelling
to Nantucket, and remaining there probably
during the whole circuit, amounted to as great
a sacrifice on h s part as if he pleaded in eve
ry cause on the roll. “Wti, then,” said tiie
client, ‘come, and I will pay you the thousand
dollars; but you shall he at my disposal for
ihe whole siitiugs, and l shall lei you out il I
can.’ Mr. Webster went, and was sub-let hv
his client, who drew the fees to relieve bis
mvn loss. Judge Story, v, bo was present,
remarked (bat be had often heard the anec
dote mentioned, but never before heard it au
thenticated. He added, ‘the current edition
proceeds to tell that your client let you out for
eleven hundred dollars, saved his own poeket
entirely, and regained ten per cent, on his
speculation. Mr. Webster stated, with great
good humor, that as his client hid not repor
ted the amount of the sub-fees which he drew,
he could not tell whether this addition was
correct or not. Sam Slick’s report of tins oc
currence is riot entirely accurate.”
Anecdote of Napoleon. —The Emperor,
on arriving al Brienne, made several inquiries
after old Mother Margaret: sucli was the
appellation given to a good wife who occupied
a cottage in the midst of a forest, to which
the pupils ol the military school had, in days
of yore, made frequent excursions. Napoleon
had not forgotten the name, and lie learned
with no less pleasure than surprise, that the
good old dame was still in existence. Contin
uing his morning ride, lie struck into the for
est, galloped to the well known spot, and
having dismounted, unceremoniously entered
the cottage. Age had somewhat impaired
die old woman’s sight, and the Emperor’s
person was much changed. Good morning,
Mother Margaret,” said Napoleon, saluting
his hostess ; “it seems you have no curiosity
to see the Emperor ?” “Yes, but I have : 1
should like of all things to see him, and I in
tend to take that basket ol'fiesh eggs to Mad
ame de Brienne, that I may be invited to re
main at Die chateau, and so catch a glimpse
ofthe Emperor. All! I sha’l not see him so
well to-day as formerly, when he used to ac
company Ins comrades to o and Mother Mar
garet’s and call lor a bowl of new milk. To
be sure, he was not Emperor then, hut no mat
ter; the rest marched before him. He al
ways made them pay me for my milk, eggs,
brown bread, and broken crockery, and com
menced paying his own share of die reckon
ing.” “Then replied Napoleon, with.a smile,
“you have not forgotten Bonaparte?” For
gotten him! Do you think one could forget
such a steady, serious, melancholy like, young
gentlemen, so considerate 100 lor the poor?--
1 am a weak old woman, but 1 always fore
told that the lad would turn out well.” “Why
yes; he lias made his way.” At the com
mencement of this short dial gue, the Empe
ror had turned his back to the door, and con
sequently to the light; the narrow entrance
thus blocked up, the interior of the collage
was left in darkness. By degrees, however,
he approached the .old woman, and the
light again penetrated irom without. r l lie
Emperor, upon this, rubbing his hands
together, assuming tlie tone and manners ot
his early youth— ‘ Come Mother Margaret,”
said he, “bestir yourself—some milk and fresh
eggs; I am half dead with hunger.’ Mar
garet stared at her visiter, and seemed as
though endeavoring to recall her buried recol
lections. “Ha! La !” said the Emperor,
laughing; “how positive you were just now
that you bad not forgotten Bonaparte! vve are
old acquaintances, dame!” Meanwhile, old
Margaret had fallen at the Emperor’s feet.
Raising her with unaffected kindness —“Hive
you nothing lo give me, Mother Margaret,”
said he ; “1 am hungry —as hungry as a stu
dent.” The poor woman, beside herself with
joy, hastily laid before her guest some fresh
cogs and new milk. His repast finished, Na
poleon forced Ins purse into the hands of his
hostess, at the sa*"e time observing, ‘ You re
collect, Margaret, I used to make everyone
pay his reckoning. Adieu ! I shall not forget
you : and as he again mounted his horse and
rode away, the old Dame, weeping with ex
cess ol’deiigbt, and stiaining her eyes to catch
a last look, could only recompense him with
her prayers.
Honey, a cure for the Gravel. —The fol
lowing which appeared originally in the Liver
pool (Eng.) Courier, may prove serviceable to
some of our readers:
“About twenty-seven years ago, says a cor
respondent, I was much afflicted with the gra
vel, and twice m serious danger lrom small
stone, lodging in the passage. I met with a
gentleman who had been in my situation, and
bad got rid of this sad disorder by sweetening
his tea with half honey and half sugar. 1
adopted this remedy, and found it effectual.
After being fully clear of my disease about ten
years, I declined taking honey, and in about
three months I had a violent tit ot my old com
plaint; I then renewed the practice of taking
honey in my tea, and am now more than three
score and ten, and have not for the last seven
teen years, had the smallest symptoms of the
gravel. 1 have recommended my prescription
to many of my acquaintance, and have never
known it to fad.”
Interesting Surgical Operation. — Ihe
operation for the partial restoration ol the nose
was perlormed by Dr. March, on Saturday
week, in the operating theatre of the Medical
College In Albany. The patient had suffered
a length of time from a species ol malignant
ulceration of the nose resembling the disease
termed noli me tangert, and firsf occasioned
by a slight injury. He had tried every oilier
means to ariest its progress in vain. The
disease had eaten away a considerable part
of the nose, and threatened to produce still!
more serious consequences, With a view ol
remedying the deformity by restoring the lost
part, and also of stopping the ravages of the
and sease, all thediseasedportion was cutaway,
and the vacancy filled up by bringing a healthy
portion from the forehead above. Dr. M.
performed a similar operation with great suc
cess about a year since. The Evening Jour
nal says that union has already taken place
to a considerable extent, and there is every
prospect of complete relief to the unfortunate
patient.
Spanish women. —The Spanish women are
very interesting. What we associate with
the idea of a female beauty, is not perhaps very
common in this country. There are seldom
those seraphic countenances which strike you
dumb or blind, but faces in abundance which
will never pass without commanding admira
tion. Their charms consist in their sensibili
ty. Each incident, every person, every word,
touches the fancy cf a Spanish lady, and her
expressive features are constantly confuting
the creed of the Moslemin—but there is no
thing quick, harsh, or forced about her. She
is extremely unaffected and not at all French.
Her eyes gleam rather than sparkle—she
speaks with vivacity, hut in sweet tones ; and
there is in all her carriage, particularly when
she walks, a certain dignified grace which
never deserts her, and which is very remarka
ble.
The general female dress in Spain is of
black silk, called a basquini, and a black silk
shawl, with Which they usually envelop their
heads, called a mantilla. As they walk along
in this costume in an evening, with their soft,
dark eyes dangerously conspicuous, you wil
lingly believe in their universal charms. They
are remarkable for the beauty of their hair.—
Ot this they are very proud, and indeed its
luxuriance is only equalled by the attention
which they lavish on its culture. I have seen
a young girl of fourteen whose hair reached
her feet, and was as glossy as the curl of a
countessa. All day long even the lowest or
der are brushing, curling, and arranging it.—
A Irmt woman has her hair dressed with as
much care as the dutchess of Ossuna. In the
summer they do not wear their mantilla over
their heads, but show their combs, which are
of very great size. The fashion of these
combs varies constantly. Every two or three
months you may observe anew form. It is the
part of the costume of which a Spanish woman
is most proud.
The moment anew comb appears, even a
servant girl will-run to the melter’s with her
old one, and thus with the cost of a dollar or
two, appear the next holday in the newest
style. These combs are worn at the back of
the head. They are of tortois-shell, and with
the very fashionable they are white. I sat
next a lady of high destinction at a bull-fight
at Seville. She was the daughter-in-law of
the captain-general of the province, and the
most beautiful Spaniard I ever saw. Her
comb was white, and she wore a mantilla of
blonde, without doubt it was extremely valu
able, for it was very dirty. The effect, how
ever, was charming. Her hair was glossy
black, her-eyes like an antelope’s, and ail her
features deliciously soft. She was further
adorned, which is rare in Spain, with a rosy
cheek, for in Spain our heroines are rather
sallow ; but they counteract this slight defect
by never appearing until twilight, which calls
them from their bowers, fresh, though languid,
from the late siesta.
The oidy fault of the Spanish beauty is, that
she too soon indulges in the magnificence of
enbonpoint. There are, however, many ex
ceptions. At seventeen a Spanish beauty is
poetical. Tall, lilhe,- and clear, and graceful
as a jannet, who can withstand the summer
lightning of her soft and languid glance! As
she advances, if she does not loose her shape,
she resembles Juno rather than Venus. Ma
jestic she ever is, and if her feet be less twink
ling than in her first bolero, look on her hand
and you’ll forgive them all.
Nelson. — l remember one evening, it was
in the first dog watch, I was taking my trick
at the wheel, and his lordship was standing in
the weather gangway, looking out as usual to
the windward, and holding out his hand and
grasping as though to feel the wind, which
was very light at the time. He called out to
the quarter master, “you’re off the wind, my
man—luff!” The old quartermaster who
was rather deaf, did not rightly hear what was
said, but lie looked aloft and seeing that tiie
ship was close to the wind, lie made answer,
•‘she’s close at it rny lord.” “I say she is not
close at it,” returned his lordship ; “luffi luff”
So I gave her a spoke or two at the wheel,
although the fore topgallant sail was lifting- at
the time, and the quarter master called out
again, “she is losed to the wind my lord.” “ 1
say she is not,” replied the admiral, rather
angry, “then 1 suppose you mean to say I am
a liar, do you ?” “ Yes, my lord,” answered
the quarter master as innocently as possible.
“ D’ye hear that Hardy,” said his lordship,
coming aft and addressing himself to tiie cap
tain who had just come out of the cabin;
“ this old rascal calls me a liar.” “Indeed!”
said Captain Hardy, and he called the quarter
master to him who seemed to be unaware of
having committed any fault, and inquired of
him what he had said. “Why, sir” said he,
“ I thought his lordship said to me, “then I
suppose you mean to say she won’t lay any
higher ; and l answered, “ yes my lord,” be
cause she would not.” His lordship gave a
hearty laugh, turned on his heel and walked
away. —The Old Sailor.
Steam Frigate Mississippi. —We find in
the Philadelphia Gazette a description of the
national Steam Frigate now building at the
Navy Yard in that city. Her dimensions are :
length 218 feet, breadth 40 feet, depth 23 1-2
feet, mean immersion 181-2 feet, and her ton
nage about 2,000 tons. The cylinders of her
engines are each 75 inches diameter and 7
lest stroke. Her paddle wheels 30 feet diam
eter. She will have 4 copper boilers# with
stowage for 800 tons of coal. The paddle
wheels will be the divided split paddles gener
ally used in American vessels. The boilers
are tested to a pressure of 30 lbs. per sjuare
inch above the atmosphere, and intended to be
worked to a pressure not exceeding 15 lbs.—
The vessel will be rigged and fitted as a frig
ate, and armed with 10 guns—two 10 inch
long guns, and eight 42 pounders.
The following story, though almost incred
ible, is found in the English papers.
There is still living, at Stirling, a blind old
beggar known to all the country round by the
name of Blind Alick, who possessas a memory
of almost incredible strength. It was observ
ed with astonishment, that when he was a man,
and obliged by the death of his parents,- to gain
a livelihood by begging through the streets of
his native town of Stirling, he knew the whole
of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments,
by heart! from which you may repeat any
passage, and he will tell you the chapter and
verse, and lie will repeat to you the passage
word for woid. Not long since a gentleman,
to puzzle him, read, with a slight verbal alter
ation, a verse of the Bible. Alick hesitated
a moment, and then told where it was to be
found, but said it had not been correctly deliv
ered. he then gave it as it stood in the book,
correcting ‘he slight error that had been pur
posely introduced. The gentleman then asked
him for the 90th chapter of Number*. Alick
was again puzzled for a moment, but then said
hastily, “You are fooling me, sir! there is no
such verse. That chapter has only eighty
nine verses.” Several other experiments of
the sort were tried upon him, with the success.
He has often been questioned the day after
any particular sermon or speech; and his ex
; aminers have invariably found that, had their
j patience allowed, Blind” Alick would have giv
l oil them the sermon or speech over again.
Oglethorpe University. —lt a fiords us
great pleasure to learn, that not withstanding
the unpirallel and difficulties of the times, the
country i a notify doing its dutv in coming tip
to the aiii of this admirable institution. The
Rev. Professor Tnlmadge, during a recent
visit to South Carolina of a few weeks, has,
we understand, succeeded in obtaining sub
scriptions to the amount of nearly four thou
sand dollars. ’ The Rev. Mr. Chamberlain,
in another direction, during the past two or
three months, has likewise obtained in a simi
lar way upwards of three thousand dollars.
This speaks most honorably Ibr the country
and for the institution, and gives ample assu
rance that the embarrassments which have
for some time hung over it, will soon be at an
end. The almost unexampled success of this
new and rising nursery of sound learning and
high morality, in connection with its most fa
vorable position fir health, and easy access
from all prominent quarters, united with the
honest and indefatigable efforts of its able
faculty, to promote 1 lie highest interests of its
students, nffird an earnest not to be mistaken,
of what it is destined to become-r-nn honor
and a blessing to our country and our people.
—Southern Recorder.
The Wilmington (Del.)' Whaling Compa
ny’s ship Ceres, Capt. Avres. came to anchor
opposite the Christiana, on Friday last, about
noon, on her return from the Pacific Ocean,
with 1930 barrels oosperm oil. We are told
that several runaways have settled among the
natives on the Western Islands, the women
being the principal attraction. It is said that
the inhabitants are n fine race, being well
firmed, about five and a half feet high, and
otherwise well proportioned. The women lor
beauty are not surpassed by any others in that
part of the world. Their activity on land or
in the water is said to he quite remarkable.
The St. Louis Republican states that some
time in December last, the Kanzas or Caw
Indians, hearing that an encampment of the
Pawnees were on a buffalo hunt, at some dis
tance from the remainder of their tribe, gave
up their own anticipated hunt and organized
themselves into a war party, with their prin
cipal chief at their head. They entered the
Pawnee country and laid in ambush near tl e
encampment until they saw the Pawnee war
riors, numbering but seventeen, - depart for
their hunting grounds. The Kanzas warri
ors, sixty five in all, then commenced a mur
derous fire upon the defenceless women and
children, which continued until they supposed
all within the encampment bad been killed.—
On entering the scene of carnage, they toma
hawked and scalped more than seventy of
their victims—they found twelve (six women
and as many children) unhurt, whom they
decided to retain as prisoners. One of the
women, however, determined not to be taken
alive, and suddenly springing at the nearest
warrior, she seized him with the grasp of a
tigress, by llie throat, and bore him to the
eauli. It was only when her arms were sev
ered from her body that she relinquished her
grasp —she was then despatched, and her
scalp added another bloody trophy to those
yet reeking at their belts.
We are gratified to learn that the Kanzas
Indians are living in constant dread of being
attacked bv the Pawnees. It is highly prob
able that belore summer we shall hear of dire
punishment having been inflicted upon these
wretches by that fierce and warlike tribe.
110 ge's steam fire engine. —There was
a public and completely successful exhibition
of this truly splendid and powerful machine,
in the presence of the Members of the Com
mon Council, on Saturday, in New York
At precisely four o’clock, drawn by two
horses, she appeared in front of the City Hall,
with steam, ready for immediate action. The
appearance of the machine is that of loco
motive engine—‘length 13 feet 6 inches. The
hind wheels project 3 feet, leaving the length
of frame 10 feet 6 inches ; of this, the “water
apparatus” occupies 2 feet, and is exceedingly
neat and simple in its arrangement. To each
engine (the steam cylinders being 9 inches
diameter and 14 inch stroke) is attache 1 a
brass pump 8 1-2 inches diameter, 14 inch
sti'oke, double action, which, with 85 revolu
tions per minute of the engines, gives 246,758
cubic inches, or 890 gallons, equivalent to
8,900 pounds of water, discharged per minute.
The first exhibition was through a pipe 1
1-2 inches in diameter, and at an angle of 45
degrees was thrown above the eagle on the
stall’ nearly 20 feet—a perpendicular height
of 120 feet—which was acknowledged by the
clapping of hands and loud cheers of those
present. The second trial,.with 13-4 inch
pipe, was equally successful, and marked with
the same approbation. The third trial, and
which was to test the power and capacity of
the maclime, was through 1 15-16 inch pipe,
and 70 feet perpendicular height, a cross hav
ing been placed to mark the exact height.—
This was accomplished with ease# ths water
being thrown 10 feet above “die cross,” and
the engines working “two-thirds of their pow
er.” The vast superiority of the machine was
now apparent, as the water, being thrown op
the roof of the Hal), poured in torrents over
the gutters, and convinced all present that no
fire could live with such a tremendous body of
water thrown upon it. The fourth trial was
the supplying of four ordinary engines. The
water from three butts was returned to the
cistern# the fourth being thrown into an en
gine# (the suction hose having started from the
supply box of the machine by bending short to
get into the narrow mouth of the cistern,) and
was not as complete as would otherwise have
been, while a.l were convinced of the great
utility of this addilon to the fire apparatus of
of our city, and of her ability to supply lour
engines on ordinary occasions. The results
are completely and triumphantly successful.
The New York Manufacturing Company,
at Sacco, are engaged in an extensive busi
ness. The capital of the company is one mil
lion of dollars. We learn from the Sacco
Herald that they hive in operation throe mills,
one of which is 210 feet in Jong? b, 46 in width,
and five stories in height, including the base
ment attic. The other two are 185 feet in
length and the same width and height as the
first mentioned—containing in the whole 17,-
600 spindles and 570 looms.
The number of females employed du
ring the last year was on an aver
age - 800
The number of males 200
Yards of cloth made per week 102*200
Bales of cotton used kjjj
Tons Anthracite Coal, per year# 900
Cords of wood, per year, “ 300
Tons potato starch per year ;■>()
or more than 1200 lbs. per week.
Gallons oil per week. jqo
The usual amount of the pay roll for wages
is 83/000 per week* or about” 8150,000 per
year. The cost of cotton per year at the
present prices is $250,000. The boards used
in making boxes for packing the goods a
mount to more than 1000 feet per day.
The various articles of dye stufis,” make a
large item. The quantity of copperas used
the last six months, was niore than 1400 lbs.
per week, and the cost of indigo was 83000
per month for the last year. The amount of
freight received or shipped is equal to 100
tons per week.
VOL. i. no. to.
becn|w Inun the Globe the following cor
respondence between Me-srs. Webster and
Culhbert. It will be seen that the Honorable
P emier adopts the Harrison plan ol referring
to his speeches:
Mr. Cuthbert to Mr. Webster.
March 6th, IS4I.
Sir—Your friends have declared that you
would promptly reply to the inquiry I am now
proposing to you, and have invited to its be
ing made. I ask von, then, respectfully,
whether in your opinion “Congress has any
authority under the Constitution ol the United
Stales to prohibit the transfer or sale of slaves
from one Slate to another?” As your nomi
nation to the Cabinet has been decided upon
by the Senate, there can be no indelicacy in
making the inquiry.
Vour obedient servant,
A. CIJTIIBF.RT.
Hon. Danie? Webster.
Up to 13th March, Mr. Cuthbert Lad re
ceived no answer to this communication. He
then addressed to Mr. Webster a note, of
which no copy was taken, but which must
have been nearly in the following words:
Mr. Cuthbert’s compliments to Mr. Web
ster. Mr C. has received no answer to the
written communication which he addressed to
Mr. VV. on the Gilt inst. Mr. C. supposes
this communication may have miscarried, and
he now directs the hearer of this to know that
it is placed in Mr. Webster’s hands.
March 15, IS4I.
Mr. Webster to Mr, Cuthbert.
Mr. Webster received Mr. Culbert’s com
munication of the inst.
Desirous of treating Mr. Cuthbert with the
respect due to bis public character and sta
tion, Mr. Webster thinks, nevertheless, that
Mr. Cuthbert will himself, upon reflection, see
that, under present circumstances, Mr. Web
ster could not enter into correspondence with
him upon the subject to which his contmuni
tiou refers.
Mr. Cuthbert is referred to Mr. Webster’s
speech at Richmond, in October, IS-40, a copy
of which is herewith transmitted ;to tlie cor
respondence between Joint Bolton of Georgia
and himself,’ dated lG:h and 17th May, 1533,
published in the newspapers of the day, and
which will be found in Nile’s Register of 29th
June, 1833; and also bis speech in reply tor
Mr. Haynes of the 21st January, 1830.
Marcli 15, 1841.
Mr. Cuthbert to Mr. Webster.
March 29,1841.
Sir—Yours of the 15th did not reach me
until several days after its date. I have suf
fered it to lie some days by me, and my reflec
tions still suggest no sufficient reason why the
plain question proposed to you in mine of the
6th, should not be answered.
On the 22d February, in open Senate, Mr.-
Rives, in the character of your political friend
and zealous eulogist and defender, voluntarily
declared that lie entertained no doubt that if
f should address to von a written communi
cation, proposing the inquiry Conveyed in my
note of the Gth inst. you would return to that
inquiry a prompt and Satisfactory answer?
and he plainly prompted me to that course.
On the Ist March, in open Senate, Mr. Rives
demanded of me whether I had made the in
quiry, and in the form which he had suggest
ed, and again stimulated me to do so. On
both occasions, I pledged myself to address to
you such a letter of inquiry as lie suggested,
1 have redeemed my pledge, addressing you
in such respectful terms as your public station
and character made proper. You decline to
answer, and our correspondence here ends.
I’lie world must determine on your motives in
refusing to answer.
Your obedient servant,
A. CUTHBERT.
Hon. Darnel Webster.
A Reminiscence of the War. —Rear Ad
miral Carden, in one of his published letters
to the English people, urging measures to en
courage enlistment in the Navy, relates the
following incident of his own history:
“In the year 1813, Sir John Eeresford, in
the Poictier seventy-four, captured an Amer
ican corvette, whose boatswain was ar. Eng
lishman, and previously Sir John’s coxswain,
and who had deserted to the Americans. This
man was put in irons, and left at Bermuda for
trial by a court martial. I was at this time a
prisoner, on parole* in the United States of
America, and leave to visit New York from
New London, but on rny road, at New Haven,
was arrested and brought back, and on my
remonstrating at such conduct, the marshal of
that American district, a Mr. Forsdyke, said to
me, ‘Sir, our Government has been informed
a British seamen* naturalized here, captured
in one of our c >rvettes, as her boatswain, by a
British ship of war, lias been placed in irons,
and is to be tried by the court martial, and
our Government expect will be hung, iam
therefore directed to inform you that as soon
as they hear of the said seaman being execu
ted, you, sir, as the senior British officer, pri
soner of the United States, will be executed
a! this place and in this suspense I remained
until informal ion arrived of the said British
seaman’s release and pardon for rebellion in
arms.”
Interesting Ancient Relic. —ln the year
1834, a white oak tree was cut down in the
town of Lyons, Wayne County, New York,
two miles west of the village* measuring 4 1-2
feet in diameter. In the body of the tree a
bout 3 1-2 feet frofn the ground, was found a
large and deep cutting by an axe, severing’the
the heart of the tree, and exhibiting with per
fect distinctness, the marks of the axe at the’
present time; The whole cavity thus created
bv the original cutting, was found to he incas
ed by 490 years growth of the wood, i. e. that
it was concealed beneath 490 layers of the
timber, which had grown over it subsequent
to the cutting. Consequently the original cut
ting must have been in the year 1374, or 118
years before the discovery of America by Co
lumbus. The cutting was at least six inches
deep.—Geneva Courier.
F\v the burning of the steamboat Creole on
fit- Mississippi, it is supposed that between
30 and 30 persons lost their lives. The
Charleston Patriot says—“ There were two
great deficiencies in this boat; first, chain til
ler cables, that would have enabled the pilot
to hold the boat to her couise, and run her
ashore; and second, a lew life-preservers,
which would have ensured the escape of those
who threw themselves into the river.”
The trial of George W. Lore, for the mur
der of Henry Blake, (mentioned in our paper
ol the 16th mst,) was commenced on Thurr
day last at Clayton and occupied the balance
ot the week. We understand the trial was a
very laborious and fatiguing one, and managed
with great ability and ingenuity on both sides-
The testimony and argument of the counsel
were submitted to the jury about three o’clock
P. M. on Saturday, and after receiving tho
charge of his Honor Judge Booth, they retired
and returned a few minutes before 12 P. M.
without being able to agree upon a verdict
consequently the whole matter will have to be
examined into again at the next Circuit Court
for inis county, in September next.
The Judge admitted the prisoner to bail in
la bond of 810,000, which was procured on
| -Monday last, and he is now at liberty. Shield-