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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-