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EDITED ASD PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY HARRISON A MfERM, CITY PR l JYT ER S . From the Yankee Blade. LAMENTING. BY PARK BEKJAMIX. They're gone—all gonfi ! tlic early friends, With whom I used to be Sailing and sporting on the waves Ofyouth's unruffled sea ; The winds-of Time and Chance have driven Our little fleet apart, And nearer comes the final storm, And farther we depart. And over some the waters rolf— Alas the angry gale Has torn the loftiest pennant down. And rent the strongest sail; And not a wreck remains to tell The billow where we flew, When every breeze was fresh and fair And every sky was blue. It is the error of the young To think the world in bloom, When clouds are floating on to wrap The sun itself with gloom ; To dream of safety, peace and joy When ruin hovers near, And the star of love is sinking down In the gloomy wave of fear. Not now, as in those happy days, Wh en friends were all around, And every spot Affection knew, Was consecrated ground. Does my heart leap up to hear the voice That fondly speaks and sings, Or thrill at footstops that are soft As the flight of airy wings. For the grave has cast its shadow O’er the beautiful and bright, And the music of Life's dewy morn Is silent in the night— In the night of care nnd sorrow, Where Memory finds no ray From thosunny fount, that gushed and gleamed In Youth’s rejoicing day. ■ ■ m.i L.,1 I. ll g I I.TI ' - - . From tlic New York Sp 'n it of the Times. A HO T DOSE. Dcor Spirit —You remember Jack O’- Flaherty, the man who said “you wouldn’t take hitn for an Irishman to hear him spa/ce.” Well, this same Jack has afforded us such a fund of amusement to several choice spirits on L wharf', in this goodly em porium (Boston) that your humble servin’ Bob, deems it expedient to chronicle a few of the richest jokes wherein Jack has been the sufferer. Jack was passionately fond of smoking, and was always in the habit of asking an individual whom he saw enjoying the weed, “ifhe had any more of the same sort left?” On one occasion in answer to this question he received a reply of “cer tainly, Jack, there’s one on the desk that you're welcome to.” Jack seized the de licious twist, (a huge regalia, which had been heavily charged with powder, for his special benefit) “A light, if you please,” said he to the donor; “don’t bother me,” was the reply, “there’s a man who will accommodate you,” pointing to a full blown Emeralder, who stood on the pier with both arms leaning comfortably over a huge post, and enjoying the rays of the sun and a short black pipe at the same time. Jaok s epped briskly over, and the Emeralder acceded to his request with a nod, and without removing the pipe from his mouth, Jack inserted the end of his se gar into the bowl of the pipe, (bringing the noses of the two smokers in contact) and began to draw vigorously to ensure the desired result; scarce had he commenced, ere an explosion took place, which sent the pipe in one direction andthesegar in another, filling the olfactory organs and eyes of the two worthies with any quanti ty of gunpowder, smoke and fragments of tobacco. When the smoke blew aside, we beheld Jack and the accommodating Hibernian engaged in a regular set-too, each thinking the other the aggressor. The roars of laughter, however, uudeceiv ed Jack, who stepped over with a bloody nose and savage demeanor to where we were standing ; his eloquence was soon hushed however, by an individual known as “the Doctor,” from the fact of his keep ing some “stuff” in the back part of his store, which he sometimes served out on “particu'ar occasions,” to his “particular friends,” in “small doses.” “Step in here with me, Jack,” said the Doctor with a mysterious wink, “step in hero and make it up with a glass of bran dy.” Jack nothing loth accep’ed the in vitation and followed the doctor ; arrived at the p'ace of deposit, the doctor poured out a half tumbler full of the ruby liquid, and under pretence of adding a “little su gar” he silly slipped nearly half a hams ul of cayenne pepper f. om a box near by in the tumbler. “Drink quick, Jack, be fore the others come back here,” said the Doctor,stirring the fiery mixture and hand ing to Jack, who quaffed it off without ta king breath ; scarce had he taken his lips from the tumbler, ere his countenance be gan to undergo the most ludicrous contor tions. “ Wather, for the sake o’ mercy, wather !” gasped he, his mouth raw, with the burning draught. Just at this mo ment one of the Doctor’s friends happen ing accidentally to walk near the two, and seeing the bottle from which the liquid had been poured standing on a barrel in front of Jack, he exclaimed with an anxious look, “Why Doctor, you didn’t let the man drink from that bottle !” “Yes I did,” was the reply. “Then you are a dead man !” said the other turning to Jack, “for I prepared that bottle of poison to kill bed bugs with.” Jack turned ghastly pale, be gasped for j breath, “Oh rourther ! I'm dead T run for a doctor ! O, I’ll be dead afote you come back ! Holy mother of Moses, why did I taste the dirty brandy ! O, the pison bums the inside of me ! For the love of heaven, fetch a doctor ! I’m dyin*. Lord have mercy on my soul!” and like exclam ations did Jack pour forth with astonishing rapidity. “What’s to be done for the poor man!” said the Doctor, “I’ll run and get him a dose of Tincture Hokeepokee,” "'said his friend; “it is the only thing that will save his life and away he went and shortly returned with the Tincture Hokeepokee, as he called it, which was nothing more than a rochelle powder. Almost every one knows, or ought to know, that a ro chelle powder is put up in two papers, one blue and one white, and in taking it, the contents of the blue paper are dissolved in about a gill of pure water in one tum bler, and that of the white paper in ano ther ; the two are then poured together when a lively effervescence takes place making a foaming and sparkling drink. Well, the two tumblers were arranged, the rochelle powder dissolved in them,and Jack was told to drink the first one, and then the other immediately after it; he followed these directions implicitly, and the result was that thetwodoses met mid way in his throat; the effervescence took place and for a moment-or two he was a perfect living fountain ; he literally foam ed at the month. The bystanders could keep silent no longer, but gave vent to their feelings in a laugh, long, loud and hearty. Jack start ed off from his persecutors without his hat, his iiands clasped over his abdominal re gions and his hair streaming in the wind. The next day, one of Jack’s friends see ing him, inquired respecting the occur rence. “O, bad luck to the scamp, the Doctor,” said Jack, “he gave me such red hot brandy it set my insides afire, and when I drank the cowld wather it boiled over!” Begin Right. —Arc you just stepping on the threshold of life l Secure a good mo:al character. This is the basis of suc cess and true greatness. Without vittue you cannot be respected ; without integ rity you can never rise to distinction and honor. You are poor, perhaps. No mat ter ; poverty is oftener a blessing than a curse. Look at the young man who is heir to half a million. What is his stand ing ? Os what use is lie to the world ? You must make yourself. The richest man in Maine was born of poor parents, and earned by hard work the first dollar he ever earned. The wealthiest man in Massachusetts was born in North Yar mouth, a small town in Maine, of parents who were in humble circumstances. By indu.-try and economy he has become im mensely rich. The wealthiest man in N. Y r ork, and the richest man in America, was also a poor boy. The road to wealth is open before you young man. Start right and you will succeed. But remem ber wealth is not everything* in life—it is not man’s chief good. A virtuous charac ter is better than riches. Expect not suc cess where firm integrity is wanted Shape your course by true wisdom, and let c >r rect principle govern your action. In this way only, you will gain the confidence and respect of mankind. Y’ou know many a wealthy man perhaps, who is despised by his fellow citizens. Why is it so ! On account of his niggardly disposition—his lack of upright dea ings and right princi ple. He makes himself obnoxious to his neighbors, by his mean behaviour and gro velling character. You had better live in povcity than imitate such a person. Rich es, with a destitution of moral principle, would be only a curse to you. There is nothing like making a good beginning as you start in life. The foun dation must be firm, then all will be safe. Have an eye about you that nothing shall seduce your virtue, no matter how strong the inducements held out for your coun tenance. If you see that principle is in volved, do not for a right hand persist in wrong doing. Present gain, at the sacri fice of virtue, will be future loss and mise ry. Tens of thousands have ruined them selves by such a course. Be extremely careful to begin right and do your fluty carefully, and you will most assuredly suc ceed.—John Neal. Dr. Franklin’s Toast. —Long after Washington’s victories over the French and English, had made his name familiar to all Europe, Dr. Franklin had chanced to dine with the English and French Am bassadors, when as nearly as we can re collect the words, the following toasts were drunk : By the English Ambassador : “Ln gland —The Sun whose bright beams enlighten and fructify the remotest corners of the Earth.” The French Ambassador, glowing with national pride, but too polite to dispute the previous toast, drank : ‘ France —The Moon, whose mild, stea dy and cheering rays are the delight of all Nations; consoling them in darkness and making their dreariness beautiful.” Dr. Franklin then aroso and with his usual dignified simplicity, said : “ George Washington—The Joshua, who commanded the Sun and Noon to stand still, and they obeyed him.” Industry. — If industry is no more than habit, it is at least an exellent one. If you ask me which is the real hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall ans wer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egot ism? No; I shall say indolence. Who con quers indolence, will conquer all the rest - ’ Indeed all good principles must stagnate without mental activity. Y’ankef. Boaiuu.no. —What do you charge for board ? asked a tall Green Mountain boy as be walked up to the bar of a #econd rate hotel in New York.— ‘What do you ask a week for boaiding and lodging?’ ‘ Five dollars.’ ‘Five dollars! that’s too much; hut 1 spose you allow for the times I’m absent from dinner and supper/ Certainly—thirty seven and a half cents each.’ Here the conversation ended, and the Yankee took up his quarters for two weeks. During this time, he lodged and breakfasted at the hotel, but did not take either dinner or supper, saying his busi ness detained him in another portion of the town. At the expiration of the two weeks, be again walked up to the bar and said : “Spose we settle that account —I am going in a few minutes.” The landlord handed him his hill—“ Two week’s board at $5-slo.”—“Here stranger,” said the Y’ankee, “this bill is wrong you’ve made a mistake ; you’ve not deducted the times I was absent from dinner and supper—l 4 days, 2 meals per day—2B meals at 37j cents each—slo,so. If you’ve not got the 50 cents change that’s due me. Til take a drink and the balance in segars.” A Gem. —The sunlight that follows a shipwreck is not less beautiful, though it shines upon the remains of a broken bark ; what is saved is so much more precious than that which has been lost. The do mestic circle is always too small to allow of rupture ; it is always too precious to make excusable any neglect to prevent or heal disturbance. There are enough to minister by hints and reports to domestic unkindness ; and unfortunately the best, under such circumstances, are much prone to mistake, and thus misrepresent motives; and trifles, which with no direct object, are magnified into mountains of uninten tional oflence. It is the samein social life. Let us guard against it. Delicate regula tions are like costly cutlery—dampness corrodes, and rust, though removed, leaves a spob Stoop a Little. —The following story, related by Dr. Franklin, in a letter to Dr. Mather, has been often told, and is well worth telling again : “The last time I saw your father,” says Dr. F., “was in 1724. In taking my leave he showed me a short way out of the house through a narrow passage,which was cross ed by a beam overhead. We were still talking as I withdrew, he accompanying me behind, and I turning towards him, he said hastily, “Stoop, stoop /” I did not understand him until I felt my head hit a gainst the beam. He was a man who nev er missed an occasion of giving advice, and upon this, he said to me, “Y’ou are young and have the world before you ; stoop a little as you go through it, and you will avoid many hard thumps !” This ad vice, thus beat into my head, has frequent ly been ofuse to me; and 1 often think of it when l see pride mortified, and misfor tunes brought upon a people by carryintr their heads too high. How to Spoil a Child. —Above all mistakes, is that of supposing that the bet ter nature ot a child is to be drawn out and raised into strength, which we should de sire to see in the man,by making him pass through a cold and cheerless youth. A sys tem of petty restraints, of privations, of severe looks, and incessant chiding, only results iu depraving the feelings, and per verting the reason of a young person. He is under such circumstances, entirely out of harmony with nature. He is like a flower, which requires light and warmth, placed in a cellar where it can never ac quire its proper proportions, color,or vigor. It is quite impossible that a child so trea ted can ever attain the proper character istic of a well constituted manor woman. Hard Times. —Boys have an unfair! time of it in this world. They get the drumsticks of the turkey for dinner, and have to wait for the hot cakes at breakfast till every body else is supplied ; they are snubbed when they are in spirits and told not to make such a racket ; they are sent oft’to bed just in the sweet edge of evening when it is so nice to sit by the fire and tell s’ories ; in a thousand ways they are put upon and robbed of their natural rights. Beauty of Colors. —Nothing in Na ture is more beautiful than her colors ; ev ery flower in compounded of different shades ; almost every mountain is clothed with herbs, different from the one opposite to it; and every field has its peculiar hue. Color is to scenery, what entablature is to architecture, and harmony to language. Colors are indeed so fascinating, that in the East there has long prevailed a me thod of signifying the passions, which is called the love language of colors. This rhetoric was introduced into Spain by tire Arabians. \ T ellow expressed doubt black, sorrow ; green, hope; purple; con stancy ; blue, jealousy; white, content; and red, the greatest possible satisfaction. In regard to mourning, it may not be irrel avant to remark, that though most Euro peans mourn in black, the ancient Spar tans, Romans and Chinese, mourned in white; the Egyptians, in yellow ; the E thiopians, in brown ; the Turks, iu violet; while Kings and Cardinals indicate their grief in purple. The Potency of Words. —On words, on quibbles, if you please to call distinc tions so, rests the axis of the intellectual world. A winged word has struck ineradi cably in a million hearts, and envenomed every hour throughout their hard pulsa tion. On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. On a winged word hath human wisdom been willing to cast the immortal soul, and to leave it depen dent for all its future happiness. America as it is and will be. —A re cent number of the Journal des Debats, at the close of a long article on the late Presidential election in this country, gives he views of the writer in the following complimentary manner: “ For the rest, never did a President come into power under happier auspices. North America enjoys a degree of pros perity lrigher than she has possessed since the year IS3G, which was followed by a disastrous reaction. Capital is abundant in the United States. Europe, alarmed by revolutions, is sending there a part of her own. Agriculture is extending and becoming more perfect. Manufactures of all kinds are advancing with giant steps. The probability of high prices of food in England during the winter, determines the embarkation of a great deal of grain and flour at advantageous prices. Rail road enterprises are multiplying, and a railroad is beginning to be seriously talk ed of 1600 miles in length,which will unite the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, and which, with the communica tions already existing, will permit, one to traverse from one part of the American continent to the other, at its greatest breadth. Happy country, flourishing Re public !” Another projected Railroad to the Pacific. —A new project for a railroad to the Pacific has been brought before Con gress iu the shape of a memorial from William Bayard & Cos., of New Y’ork, who propose to construct a railroad from St. Louis to California, via the Rio Grande and the Gila rivers. The memorialists ask for a survey of the route by United States Engineers, and the grant of a strip of land of twenty-five miles on each side of the road; they covenanting on their part to deposit in the treasury $5,000,000 in Government security, as a guaranty for the work, which they are to complete within eight years. They propose to sell the land in small proportions to actual settlers, at Government prices; to build the road of heavy iron ; to carry army and naval stores free, and troops and sailors at one-fourth the regular fare, which they propose shall not exceed one-half the rates now charged on the Panama mail steam ers. New Line op American Steamers.— J. Brown, E. K. Collins, E. Riggs and W. S. Wetmore have announced their in tention to apply to the Legislature of New Y’ork. at the present session, fir an act to incorporate themselves and others under the name of the “ United States Mail Steamers Company, New Y’ork and Liverpool Line,” with a capital of $2,000,- 000, for the purpose of running a line of steamers between New York and Liver pool. t3P*A Philadelphia paper mentions the case es a young lady who has been brought up in the family of a benevolent friend, until site lias reached the age of sixteen, wi hout any knowledge as to who her pa rents were : ‘ She feels herself alone in the world, and daily, as years ripen and strengthen her mind, the one idea of knowing the author of her being takes deeper and deeper hold of her faculties, so that now her solicitude on the subject is at times painfully affecting to witness.’ This brings again to mind Carlyle’s ad mirable description of the emotions of a foundling; ‘ Ever in my loneliness have 1 turned full of longing to that unknown father, who perhaps far from me, perhaps near, either way invisible, might have ta ken me to his paternal bosom, there to lie screened from many a wo. Thou beloved father ! dost thou still, shut out from me only by the penetrable curtains of earthly space, wend to and fro among the crowds of the living ? Or art thou hidden by those far thicker curtains of the everlasting Night, or rather of the everlasting Day, through which my mortal eye and out stretched arms need not strive to reach ! Alas, I know riot, and in vain vex myself to know ! More than once, heart-deluded, have I taken thee for this and the other noble-looking stranger, and approached him wistfully, with infinite regard ; but he. too, repelled me—he, too, was not thou!’ The Sense of Duty. —There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is om nipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say, the darkness shall cover us—in the darkness, as in the light, our obliga tions are yet with us. We cannot escape their power, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us at its close; and iri that scene of incon ceivable sjleninity which lies yet further onward, we shall still find ourselves sur rounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us wherever it has been violated, and to console us so far as God may have giv en us grace to perform it.— Wtbstcr. Saying of a Dying Man. —The late Professor Caldwell, of Dickinson College, a short time before his death, addressed his wife as follows : “ You will not, I am sure, lie down upon your bed and weep when I am gone. You will not mourn for me when God lias been so good to me. And when you visit the spot where I lie, do not choose a sad and mournful time ; do not go in the shade of the evening, or in the dark night. These are no times to visit the grave of a Christian ; but go in the morning, in the bright sunshine, and when the birds arc singing.” j Crying and Groaning —A French snr geon lately published a long dissertation on the beneficial influence of groaning and crying on the nervous system. He con tends that groauing and crying are th e two grand operations by which Nature allays anguish,and that he has uniformly observ ed that those patients who give way to their natural feeling more speedily' recover from accidents and operations than those patients who erroneously suppose that it is unworthy a man to betray such symp toms of cowardice as either to groan or cry. He is always pleased by the crying and violent roaring of a patient during the time he is undergoing a severe surgical operation, because be is satisfied that he will thereby so sootii his nervous system as to prevent fever, and insure a favorable termination. He relates a case of a man who by crying and bawling reduced bis pulse from 120 to GO in the course of two hours. That some patients often have a great satisfaction in groaning, and that hysterical patients often experience great relief from crying, are facts which no per sons will deny. As to restless, hypochon driacal subjects, or those who are never happy but when they are under some course of medical dietetic treatment, the French surgeon assures them that they cannot do better than groan all night and cry all day. Prosperity and Adversity. —If you listen even to David’s harp you shall bear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distasters ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.We see, in needle works and emborideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,than to haveadarkand melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefoure.of the pleasures of the heait by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best dis cover virtue.— Lord Bacon. “Pyf. dons, with Tobacco.”—A wri ter in the Boston Recorder cordially and justly congratulates the authorof the above decision, on behalf, first, of personal clean liness ; second, the joy of his wife ; third, his pew in the church ; fourth, his purse ; and fifth, bis children. 1 make you wel come, he says, to all the quietness of mind, calmness of nerves, cleanliness of person, household purity, femenine smiles, which thorough purgation from tobacco carries in its train. The expense running the Cunard line of steamers across the Atlantic, is five del lars a mile, making the trip to co t over thirty thousand dollars. Mr. H. O’Reilly, the enterprising pro jector of the Western lines of telegraph has sent in a memorial to Congress, pro posing to establish a line of telegraph to the Pacific Ocean, to be completed in eigh teen months shou'd the desired encourage ment be given. Mr. and Mrs. Randall, the celebrated Scotch giant and giantess, have tecently had a son born to them, at their residence, near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, whose weight at three days old, was twenty-two pounds! For Croup or Quinsy. —For a sudden attack of quinsy or croup, bathe the neck with bear’s grease, and pom it down the throat. A linen rag soaked in sweet oil, but ter or lard, sprinkled with yellow Scotch snuff, is said to have performed wonderful cures in cases of croup : it should be placed where the distress is greatest. Goose grease, or any kind of oily grease is as good as bear’s oil. Equal parts of camphor, spirits of wine and hartshorn, well mixed, and rubbed up on the throat, is said to be good for the croup. Severe cases of croup have been cured by the liberal application of cold water to the neck and breast, then rubbing with a coarse cloth, till a glow is produced. OCT’Masses of golden rocks are said to have been found in the California moun tains* One man found a lump weighing 250 lbs. The American fleet in the Pacific are orderd to rendezvous at San Francisco to protect the treasures. Railroad from Atl »nta to La orange.—We learn that the scheme for the construction of a Railroad from Atlan ta to LaGrange, in this State, has been placed beyond contingency. The amount of funds requisite to build the road from LaGrange to Newman, in Coweta county, has been raised ; and it is said that, for its completion from the latter place to Atlan ta. the G. R. R. C ompany are pledged.— Ihe construction of this road cannot but prove of considerable advantage to the in habitants of this section of the State, inas much as it will establish a connexion, much more direct than now exists, with one of the most important and populous portions of the country.— Ringgold Re publican. Time.— We all complain that our time is short, yet we know not how to employ that which we have ; our lives are vvasied in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or .in doing nothing that we should do. We complain that our days arc few, and we act as though there would be no end to them. lr7*The best remedy for passion is si lence ; it you say nothing, you will have nothing to unsay. [Telegraphed for the Charleston] Courier j In the Senate, yesterday, the of the New Y’ork Assembly in to slavery and the slave trade in the Dis. trict of Columbia, were presented by Mr Dix. The motion to print was warmly debated for four hours, in the course of which Mr. Butler is stated to have made a most eloquent speech. The motion to print was agreed to by a vote of 45 to 6. Mr. Foote submitted an amendment to the California State Bill, and also one in reference to the survey. In the House, Mr. Hilliard moved for a suspension of the rules to allow him to in troduce his Territorial bill, which motion was rejected. Mr. Flournoy asked leave to introduce a bill retroceding the Dis trict of Columbia—leave refused. The bill compensating D. D. Henry for servi ces in Mexico has passed. The Civil and Diplomatic bill was further amended. A petition from the citizens of the District of Columbia to abolish the slave trade therein was presented. The Southern meeting took place last night. It was believed that Mr. Berrien’s substitute for Mr. Calhoun’s report would probably be adopted .—Charles on Courier of the 23 d inst. THE TELEGRAPH COMPANY. We find in the Charleston Courier the following Circular, addressed by Mr. Ha ley, the original contractor for the erec tion of the line, to the stockholders of the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company, proposing to lease the line : Charleston, (S. C.) Jan. 13. Dear Sir: —Having been mainly in strumental in obtaining the subscriptions to the Stock of the “ Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company,” and having enlisted many personal friends and valued acquaintances in the enterprise, I feel it incumbent upon myself to use every effort in my power to make the stock profitable to the owners and serviceable to the pub lic, and to offer some plan for the benefit and satisfaction of both. Notwithstanding the dissatisfaction re cently manifested, and the fears which have been expressed in regard to the value of the investment, 1 have not changed my opinion in regard to the ultimate profita bleness of the Line. I have also unabated confidence in the officers and operators 1 believe them to be faithful and able men. Experience, however, lias demonstrated, that no public company, managed by pub lic officers, can observe the same economy, or compete with private enterprise and in dividual efforts, when men’s wits are sharpened by a sense of private interest. I his is particularly the case iti a Company like ours, where so much personal at’en tion is daily required over so long a line. I o satisfy my friends the Stockholders that I haue not deceived them, and that 1 am serious in the belief above expressed, I now propose to lease the wlio’e line from \\ ashington to New Orleans for a term of from three to five years, and will pay for the same given per cent, on the wholea m unt of capital invested in the line. The piayments to be made quarterly, in cash. ll this proposition is accepted, and I should undertake the work, I shall have associated with me a few energetic, en terprising business men, whose great aim and object it will be to make the line all that was ever promised for it, viz: profita ble to the owners and a great convenience to the public. At the same time, though individual attention and exertions, we hope to realize a fair compensation for ourselves. The line of course to be re turned in good condition to the owners, at the expiration of the lease. The lessees binding themselves to use the line only for legitimute purposes, and to keep it entire ly flee from all monopolies or commercial combinations, intended to restrict its use fulness to particular parties. Such Stockholders as agree to this pro position, will please sign the annexed con sent and return the paper to me as scon as convenient, at Charleston, S. C. Yours, &c. J. J. HALEY. Climate of the Gold Region. —The gold region of California (according to Col. Fremont) is in the Sacramento river and its tributaries. The clima’e of the coun try has no winter in the valley, but the rainy season and the dry. The rainy sea son begins in November and continues to the middle of February or the beginning of March ; the rest of the year is without rain, but the streams from the Sierra Y’e* vada afford all the facilities for irrigation in the heats of July and August. The whole valley abounds in wild cattle, wild horses, elks, deer, antelopes, grizzly bears, partridges, water fowl, salmon, bcc. All the products of the States from apples to oranges, from potatoes to sugar cane, may be produced iu the valley of the San Joa quin and Sacramento. Such is the California on the Pacific, one of the richest, most picturesque and beautiful regions for i's extent, uj>on the face of the earth.