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EDITED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
W . B . lIiKRISON .
CITY r R 1 X 1 L /■•
Alisa Spring ia Coming.
BY THEO. A. COULD.
Miss Spring is coining
Again ! again !
With her cheering smiles of mirth ,
With her wanning snn,
And her genial rain
With flowers to strew
In the garden and plain :
And her warbiing birds,
Whose joyous strain
Shall gladden the grateful earth.
Mr Winter is going,
Hurra ! hurra !
What a hateful old fellow is he ?
There’ll be many dry eyes
When he sees his last day.
Why, lie has’nt a friend
That would like him to stay !
Ha! ha! we’ll be glad
When he totjers away—
Good riddance, old Winter ! say we.
Miss Spring is coining,
And well we know
She’s a bright and laughing thing !
And her balmy breath
Will melt the snow ;
And the ice-bound stream
In her glance will flow ;
And the birds will sing,
And the bright flowers grow :
Then a welcome to beautiful Spring !
from Godcy's Lady's Hook fur May.
UTERATI HE AND THE FINE ARTS.
BY IION. JOEL R. POINSETT.
'tine importance of cultivating and using
our utmost efforts to improve the literature
of our country, must bo apparent to all. It
is the vehicle of science, and upon its char
acter the dignity and reputation of a na
tion depend. It exercises a controlling
influence on the public liberties. The pat
riotic ci.izen who would either in the fo
rum or through the press, warn his fellow
citizens of impending danger, or enlight
en them on their interests—who would
dissipate ignorance, correct error, or re
form abuse—must borrow the tones and
wield the energies of literature. Our free
dom reposes on the guarantee of our po
litical institutions; and who can wrest
them from our posterity, with a competent
literature to inculcate and vindicate its
doctrines and principles, and to proclaim
its rights!
Literature and the fine arts go hand in
hand. Ihe flourishing condition of the
first is a sure prelude to the advancement
of the latter ; and their united influence
adds, in a high degree, to the enjoyment
of human existence. Their progress has
everywhere kept pace with that of the
moral and social condition of mankind,
and their history marks, with unerring
truth, the rise and fall of nations. In
tracing that history, it is gratifying to per
ceive that, while literature and the arts
contribute so largely to improve and refine
mankind, they have flourished most in
those countries where free institutions
prevailed, and where liberty loved to
dwell. In other countries, a taste for lit
erature and the fine arts is confined to a
favored few; the aiistocracy of birth, of
wealth, or of talent; and there, such a dis
tinction is natural, and may he sufficient,
because these classes alone govern those
countries. Here, the people reign; all
power is centred in them ; and if wo would
have them not only maintain their ascen
dency, hut use their power discreetly, no
expense or pains should he spared to in
spire them with a love of literature, and
a taste for the fine arts. To effect this,
the effort must he made here. It must ori
ginate at the seat of government, and
spread from this place over the populous
plains and fertile valleys of the land.
Gould a greater curse fall upon the coun
try than that the sons of the intelligent,
and enlightened, and virtuous men, who
achieved our independence and secured
our freedom, should become less intelli
gent, less enlightened, and less virtuous
than their sires l That these valleys and
plains, instead of teeming with a race
burning with the love of freedom, and ever
ready and able to vindicate their rights,
should he filled by a people supine and
ignorant, the fitting tools of demagogues
and tyrants 1
In a free country, literature may and
will flourish by the well-directed efforts of
individuals ; hut the arts require the pro
tecting hand of government. They owe
their origin, their progress, and present
condition to that source, and to religious
enthusiasm. Their first object was to
personify the god-like forms of heathen
idolatry, and to band down to jrosterity
the images of heroes to whom a nation
owed its gratitude. They subsequently
became the means of recording the mira
cles of the true faith, and of spreading
the history of the Christian church over
the world. In our favored land, they
would commemorate the heroic deeds of
our forefathers, their achievements and sa
crifices in the cause of independence,
their deep devotion to the freedom of their
country. To a certain extent this has been
effected by the liberality of governmet;
statues have been erected, paintings exe
cuted, and medals struck by order of Con
gress. Copies of such pictures, statues,
and medals, should be spread far and wide
over the land, that they may penetrate in
to every hamlet, and inspire the people
universally with gratitude and emulation.
From the advancement of the fine arts,
we may promise ourselves great improve
ments in the architecture of our private
and public buildings; in the foimer, a bet
ter adaptation of the arrangements to the
comforts and conveniences of life ; in the
latter, more suitable forms and arrange
ments for the purposes of business. We
are led away by the imposing appearance
of massive colonnades and splendid por
ticoes, and apply them equally to temples
and to buildings intended altogether for
the transaction of public business. 1 his
is a mistake which the more chastened
taste will correct.
A collection of models and paintings at
Washington could not fail to he highly
useful. It would aid the cultivation ol
the art of design, which cannot he too
strongly recommended. It multiplies the
resources and enjoyments of the profes
sional man, and is an essential accomplish
ment to the architect, the machinist, the
artisan, and the mechanic. It ought to he
taught in our common schools; and every
mechanic should he able to sketch with
accuracy his own plans, and to copy those
of others, so as to he able to profit by eve
ry improvement that comes under his ob
servation.
The science of music, although not so
maifestly useful, exercises great influence
over the moral and social condition of so
ciety. It is taught in the common schools
of Germany, and there music constitutes
the chief amusement of the people. In
stead of hearing in their streets the indis
tinct roaring of senseless rhymes, out of
time and tune, the Germans may he seen
assembled in groups, after the labers of
the day, singing, in parts, the delightful
music of their inspired composers, elevat
ing their voices in grateful adoration of
their Maker, or chanting some of the
spirited patriotic songs for which the fath
erland of the Teutonic raco is so clebra
ted. Whoever lias witnessed this con
trast ; whoever has been startled with the
discordant sounds of the one, and enrap
tured with the exquisite harmony of the
other, will understand the advantages that
are likely to accrue to the cause of temper
ance, of morality, and of religion, by culti
vating the science of music, and making
it apart of the education of the people.
Advatages of Religion. —The annex
ed beautiful fines are taken from Sir
llumphery Davy’s Salmouia :
“ 1 envy no quality of the mind or in
tellect in others—he it genius, power, wit,
or fancy ; hut if I could choose what would
he most delightful, and I should prefer a
firm religious belief to every other blessing;
for it makes fife a discipline of goodness ;
creates new hopes when all earthly van
ish ; and casts over the decay, the destruc
tion of existence, the most gorgeous of all
lights. It awakens life even in death, and
from corruption and decay calls up beau
ty and divinity; makes an instrument of
torture and shame the ladder of ascent to
Paradise ; and far above all combinations
of earthly hopes, calls up the most delight
ful visions of palms and amaranths, the
gardens of the blest, the security of ever
lasting joys, where the sensualist and the
skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihila
tion and despair.' 1
Chivalry. — In the year 13G9, John the
Second, Duke de Boutbon, instituted an
order of chivalry. One ol the statutes ot
it is curious, ami shows the high opinion
he entertained of the influence of the fe
male sex upon the virtue and happiness
of mankind. According to this statute, the
knights were obliged to pay due respect to
all ladies, both married and unmarried,
and never to suffer anything derogatory to
their reputation to be said in their pres
ence ; “for,” adds the statute, “those who
speak ill of women have very little honor,
and (to their disgrace he it mentioned) say
of that sex—which cannot revenge itself—
what they would not dare to say of a man .
for, from women—after God—arises a
great part ofthe honor that there is in the
world.”
Locomotive. —The Mexican family
that was sojourning at the Broadway Ho
tel last week, says our friend George, left
on Sunday in the cars for Sandusky city.
While at the Hotel, a little love affair
sprang up between the daughter—a beau
tiful girl—of Mr. Bocanegra and a Mr.
Eckly, a young gentleman who resides in
the city of New York. On hoard of the
cars he made a proposal, which was ac
cep’ed, and anxious to have the nuptial
knot tied, he induced the urbane Mr. Do
herty,the conductor,to make the twain one
flesh.
The party alighted, the minister was
called in, and the happy couple were uni
ted in the bonds of wedlock. Congratu
lations were passed, the hell of the loco
motive rang, the party once more took
their seats, and were whizzed away at the
rate of twenty miles an hour. This is
what might be called almost a marriage by
railroad; —Cincinnati Times.
Slavery Eigiity Years Ago.— Eighty
years ago, slavery existed in Massachu
setts ; and was there practiced, by some,
as cruel as now on the worst sugar planta
tions of Louisiana. Mrs. Child, in her
history of Woman, says : “ A wealthy lady
residing in Gloucester, Mass., was in the
habit of giving away the infants of her fe.
male slaves a few days after they were
born, as people are accostomed to dispose
of a littler of kittens. One of her neigh
bors begged an infant, which in those days
of comparative simplicity, she nourished
with her own milk, and reared among her
own children, This woman had an earnest
desire for a brocade gown, and her hus
band not feeling able to purchase one, she
sent her little nursling to Virginia and sold
her, when about seven years old.” Yet
the people of Massachusetts, like the En
glish have less charity for slaveholders than
perhaps any other citizens of the United
States. Such is human nature.
M A C O G A_.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL2B, 1849.
POSTSCRIPT. —The steamship Cam
bria lias arrived bringing Liverpool dates to tile
!4tli inst. Cotton had declined from Jd. to a jd.
during the week previous to her sailing.
This news will no doubt cheek the upward
tendency of prices in the seaports, which have
advanced about a half cent, during the past week.
Tiie Heron Family.—lt will he seen by re
ference to the advertisement in anothercolumn,
that these popular performers give their last ex
hibition this evening at the City Council Room.
Those who attend will no doubt be pleased with
the entertainment presented.
Godey’s Lady's Book.— The May number
contains several elegant plates—one of them,
“In the sulks," is inimitable, both for happy
desigii and truthful representation. The read
ing matter is peculiarly interesting.
Drowned. —A man named John N. Gamble,
a drover from Polk county, Tenn., was found
drowned in the river just below this city on Sun
day last, lie came here about a month previous
with 19 horses and about 8,000 lbs. bacon, and
having disposed of a portion of the same, com
menced a career ofdissipation,which soon put an
end to his earthly career. He has a farm in Ten
nessee and was worth several thousand dollars —
and is said to have been quite steady previous to
his arrival here. II is friends may be gratified to
learn that every effort was used by the proper
authorities here to unveil the mystery attached
to his demise, hut without being able to explain
it. An Inquest was held over the body and the
following Verdict rendered, viz ; “ That the
said John N. Gamble, ofthe State ofTonnessee,
came to his death by drowning;—and vve have
our misgivings as to the nature or the cause.”
Small Pox. —The Jeffersonian denies that
this disease has appeared at Griflin, and states
that Dr. Thompson, of Atlanta, writes that hi s
three negroes are all convalescent, as well as
himself, and he considers all the Atlanta patients
now out of danger; with no new cases.
The Cassville Standard gives the following
statement at the Iron Works, for the week end
ing the 24th inst., viz : New cases, 2 ; Sick, 15;
Deaths, none. All the cases heretofore reported
are now recovered or convalescent except the
fifteen now reported sick. Two new cases are
repotted at Cartersville —negroes belonging to
Mr. Pitts, who waited on Dr. Multbie. No ap
pearance of the disease at any other place in the
county.
We take this opportunity to state that there has
been no case of this disease in Macon, within the
last three years, at least.
Qj’Wc have had a fine rain throughout this
part of the State during the past week, which
has somewhat revived the feelings ofour farmers!
although they are all of the opinion that they
cannot make an average crop of eithor corn or
cotton.
Ellf.n Croft. —The yellow girl belonging in
this city, who recently obtained such notoriety
by dressing in gentlemen’s clothes and taking her
husband with her as a servant, and traveled by
the railroads and steamboats to Philadelphia,
died last week in Massachusetts.
More Cotton Burnt. —About 112 bales of
cotton were burnt in Charleston the 23d inst.
which was principally insured.
On Saturday last a car and 25 or 30 bales of
cotton were burnt on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad.
(O’ Gen. Wm. Trousdale has been nomina
ted by the Democratic Convention at Nashville,
as their candidate for Governor of Tennessee.
Singular Petrifaction. —An article in Hunt’s
Merchant’s Magazine, descriptive of Detroit,
makes mention of a most remarkable fossil, to
he seen in that city. The building erected for
the use of the Bank of Michigan, now in use of
the government of the United States, is con
structed, in part, of a species of shell limestone,
brought from the island in Lake Erie, and pol
ished for the purpose. One of the surfaces pre
sents a section of petrified human face and skull.
In preparing the stone by the chisel, the petrifi
cation wasdivided from front to rear, vertically,
so that it show’s a profile of the face, a transverse
section of the cranium, with petrified folds of
the brain itself. The block from which this cu
riosity was obtained is of large size.
Rice Field Irrigator. —The Charleston, S.
C. Evening News says that Mr. Win. Lobby of
that place has constructed a steam engine mov
ing on wheels, the purpose of which is to render
the cultivation of rice independent of the rise
and fall of the tides. By means of a wheel with
buckets attached, water is brought from the riv
er to a point of discharge three feet frsm the lev*
el whence it is received. The engine in full ac
tion is of eight horse power, and the quantity of
water which it can deliver when so worked may
be estimated from the result of an experiment.
With the application of less than half the full
power, it discharged fifteen hundred gallons a
minute. The quantity of water, and the eleva
tion at which it can he delivered, is in propor
tion to the size of the wheel and the motive
power.
This invention promises to be of great value
to rice planters and we commend it to their at
tention.
O’ We notice the announcement in the New
York papers, that the Hon. Thos. Butler King
takes passage for Chagres in the steamer Falcon
about to sail for that port. We have heard that
Mr. King’s trip is of an official character, proba
bly’ to acquire for our government accurate
knowledge of the condition and necessities of
that distant portion of our country.
A Woman’s Fury. —The Portland Argus re
lates how Mrs. Jeremiah Sweet, stung to mad
ness, broke the furniture,window glass and bot
tles of 11. G. Cole, who she supposed sold her
husband intoxicating drink. After completin'*
the job, she got into her chaise and drove off’.
She had repeatedly requested retailers not to
let her husband have the poison
I.EARMVG A TIIADE.
It is no part ofour duty to give advice to indi
viduals, (which is at best a thankless office,) ex
cepting on general principles, perhaps, or on af
fairs connected with the public good. Still we
have often been reminded of the destitute condi
tion of young men, who, probably leaving a com
fortable home in the country, are attracted by
the enterprise and novelties of the city, and ven
ture here in the hopes of making their fortunes ;
and who soon find themselves very unhappily
situated. As such occurrences are common in
cities, it is probably too late to apply the remedy.
Instances have been known of very poor young
men being thrown upon their own resources in
large cities, and by dint of perseverance and
good conduct, rising to fortune and eminence,
but we must remember that these are rare oc
currences and are by no means sure guides.
Good luck, or rather its companions, industry and
perseverance, mingles itself with the destiny of
inan—and instances of great fortunes in large
cities, acquired from humble means, are not nu
merous. Competition is always a formidable
barrier, and the prospect is generally discour
aging. Still there is a remedy. Most of the
young men in our cities, seeking a fortune, have
not learnt a trade.
Here is the fatal error : vve too often place the
mechanic arts in a second rate position, instead
of their occupying the front rank. A young
man who has learnt a trade has a capital which
he cannot lose. Money may be lost in specula
tion—may be squandered in dissipation—hut
with health, industry and temperance, a trade,
which cannot be lost, can always supply a com
fortable subsistence.
No greater error can be committed by parents
than underrating the benefits and blessings of
labor. A mechanic ofgood character and intel
ligence, ought always to occupy a respectable
position in society. The storekeeper may be
burnt out—the merchant made bankrupt by a
disastrous voyage—the lawyer be without a suit
—the author without employment—ail these,
and many other occupations depending on con
tingencies, afford no security against want; —hut
the man who has learned a trade and has the in
dustry to pursue it with diligence, need not fear
the approach of poverty or want. And should
the country ever be invaded by a foreign foe, it
is on bis stalwart arm and determined heart, that
bis fellow citizens must rely for support. In the
best days of Greece and Rome, such were the
characters and class of men relied upon I'or the
defence of the country —and when weakness,
corruption and effeminacy crept in and poisoned
their councils, the country fell to rise no more.
We have been led to these remarks by noticing
the large number of boys who arc growing up in
our midst, having no means of support, without
learning any trade, by which they may hereafter
support themselves and become respectable and
useful members of society. Are not many of
them, although scarcely in their teens, already
in the highway to ruin ? And yet their parents
too often neglect or refuse to bind them out to
learn some respectable trade—preferring it
would seem, to let them “ loaf” about the streets
—lounge on the banks of the river trying to
catch cat-fish or suckers—or what is still worse,
form habits of dissipation and vice. Why this
aversion to' learn a tiade ? Is it because the
honest, industrious mechanic is not respected in
the community in which he lives ? Not so—
luaugrc that sickly self-respect entertained by
some, who consider labor degrading, whilst to
appropriate to their use their neighbor’searnings
without rendering an equivalent—or to betray
trusts, would be considered right and “ smart”
by them. Away with such a code of morals.
The prejudice against honest labor, in our opin
ion, is in opposition to the established laws of
the universe—as all animate thinks under the
sun seem to have certain duties to perform and
stations to fill. Those who think themselves
so much superior to the industrious mechanic
—the honest laborer—would do we!! to reflect
for a moment, upon their entire dependance up
on this class of their fellows, for the ordinary
comforts of life—for food, raiment and a shelter
to shield them from the storm. But forsooth,
some have money—ergo, they must be respected.
Well, the mere possession of money, in our view,
confers neither honor nor disgrace upon its pos
sessor—that depends upon the means used to ob
tain it and the manner of its disbursement. If
gained by honest industry, and properly dis
pensed, it may bring the former—but if only used
to pamper the pride of its owner, it will create a
moral pestilence that will certainly bring in its
train the latter. Wealtli has too often been em
ployed as a certain means of success in society,
while arrogance and pride, with all their gilded
retinue, are retained as auxiliaries to effect the
cherished object. This we think wrong both in
principle and motive. And while willing to ac
cord to wealth and station their proper and le
gitimate places of importance, in the sphere of
social and public life, and the prosperity of the
institutions of our country, we feel that true
greatness consists in a higher and more ennobling
principle than mere wealth, affluence or wordly
display ean impart—and we turn with disgust
from the servile disposition that despises virtue
and intelligence, because clothed in the humble
garb of a mechanic, and worships at the shrine
of sordid wealth and self-aggrandized ignorance,
embellished witli the costly trappings of tinselled
vanity.
Wc are not among those who would recognize
distinct and separate classes in society, further
than superiority in virtue and intelligence would
dictate —and as a legitimate consequence, are
deeply impressed with every new developement
in our country’s history ofthe true dignity of an
intelligent and high-minded people. Wc re
joice in the greatest good of the greatest number.
Let virtue and intelligence, united with the im
provement of the mind, and scientific knowl
edge, prevail throughout our wide borders, and
the lime will speedily and surely come, when
practical men will become the rulers of the
land.
In conclusion wc would advise all the lads
in the country to learn some trade, and if they
are compelled to follow- it hereafter it will not be
hut thensome if not, its possession will do them
no harm.
The Central Railroad. —The Savannah
Republican ofthe 2Gtli inst. says ; “The day be
fore yesterday wc had the pleasure of taking a
ride over the first ten miles of this Road, and by
consequence of passing over and examining the
four miles of the new bridge ra,l w hich has been
laid down. The movement on this part of the
Road is as delightfully steady ar.d easy as on any
other Road in the L’nited States. The cross tics
are very wide, and not more than 4 feet apart
from centre to centre—some of them not so much,
while the rail has a continuous surface ofcontact
on a yelding stringer which has a hearing of 12
inches width on the ties. The work now going
forward in laying down new rails amounts to a
complete rceision of the whole line, or in othe r
words it is almost an absolute re-construction.
Then it is completed, the reliability of the Cen
tral Road for any service will be equal to that of
ar.y similar work in this country.
In about a week, we learn that another wor
king party will begin relaying the iron at the 70
mile station, and proceed on towards the 80—as
cending the grade of Parymore’s Hill. Other
parties will be organised as the season’s business
slackens. Our readers are already aware that
one hundred miles of new iron have been order
ed. We hone to see parties enough organised
under efficient engineers, to lay it down as fast as
possible after it arrives, whatever he the expense.
This, we apprehend, will be sound economy,
both with reference to the future demands on
the road, and because all the labor expended on
the first hundred miles merely to keep the old
track in condition, will so soon be superseded by
the new and permanent process of recontruction,
in laying down the new rails.
Gen. Worth’s Expedition. —Wc learn from
the Delta that Gen. Worth was in New Orleans
on the6lh,and expected to start for San Antonio
as soon as his family arrived. At San Antonio
the General’s column, consisting of a full equip
ped corps of one thousand men, will he organ
ized. The Delta says :
Gen. Worth will carry a long tram of wagons,
and will proceed to El Rasa, thence to the River
Gila, where lie will establish a strong post; thence
the jorney to the “ gold diggings’* will be found
quite easy and practicable. Emigrants desiring
to avail themselves ofthe protection of General
Worth's column, and to securn a safe and cer
tain overland journey to California, should pro
ceed with their wagons, stores and equipments
to San Antonio, Texas, and fall in the rear of
Gen. Worth’s column. The General will leave
San Antonio about the Ist of May, and will be
fully provided with the necessary means of open
ing a good road as far the Gila, where the pio
neer will find that most difficulties of the road
have been overcome. The rout ofGen. Worth’s
column will he tliro’a new, interesting, and heal
thy country. A continual variety of scenery,
strange aboriginal tribes, rare botanical and min
eral specimens, curious vestiges of antiquity,
with all the excitements and pleasures of of
the most adventurous expeditions of modern
times, will render Gen. Worth’s march one of
thrilling and romantic interest.
O’ Gen. Caleb Cusiiino and Robert Ran
toul Jr. of Massachusetts, it is said, propose to
emigrate to the Territory of Minesota, there to
engage in the iron business in connection with
a company already formed. It is not improbable
that the tide of emigration will in a very few
years warrant her admission as a State into the
Union.
N. Carolina Gold.— The Editor of the Wil
mington Journal, while referring to some of the
California gold stories, states that three months
since he saw four pieces of native Carolina gold,
weighing together over four pounds. The lar
gest piece was fully twenty-four ounces avoirdu
pois, and the smallest twelve ounces. These
pieces were found on the surface, in Richmond
county, North Carolina, all within less than half
a mile of each other, and within a mile of Pee
Dee River. They were deposited in the Branch
Mint at Charlotte, precisely as found by the Hon.
Edmund Deberry, of Richmond county.
Divorces in Kentucky. —ln the Frankfort
(Ky.) Commonwealth, of the 27th ult., we find a
full and accurate report of one of the most im
portant decisions ever made by the Kentucky
Court of Appeals. It declares divorces granted
by act ot ihe Legislature to he unconstitutional
and void, so far as rights of property are con
cerned ; and that a wife so divorced, without
her consent, is, upon the death of her husband,
entitled to a dower in his lands and slaves, and
to a distributable portion of his personal estate, as
fully as if no such act of divorce had been passed.
The Louisville Courier says;—“ As to the
effect of such a divorce upon their relations of
the parties, aside from the rights of property, no
thing is decided. The question did not arise in
the case, and the opinion does, by no means, go
the length (as some have supposed) of declaring
subsequent marriages of persons so divorced to
be illegal and void.”
The Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad.—
The Cincinnatians voted recently upon toe ques
tions. Shall the city raise a loan of one milion of
dollars to invest in the construction of the Cin
cinnati and St. Louis railroad ? The whole num
ber of yeas is 4,190, and of nays 1,237, making
the majority in favor of the loan 2,953. This
million is to he expended in building the load
from Cincinnati as far West as the money will
allow, appropriating at the same time a certain
sum fertile purchase of cars, locomotives, &c.
At a large meeting lately held in St. Louis a
resolution was adopted authorizing the city to
suberibe half a million towards constructing this
road.
Arkansas Election. —The Vicksburg Senti
nel says that Roan, Dom., is elected Governor
by a small majority. But little interest was felt
and only 7,000 or 8,000 votes polled.
[CP Hon. Henry Clay is to deliver the ad
dress at the great Agricultural and Horticultural
fair to be held at Cincinnati next fall.
ILr Twenty-five acres of land opposite Cin
cinnati, on the Kentucky side, sold for SIOOO
per acre, last week.
Washing Clothes. —A Washington (Penn )
paper says : “ We published to-day, for the bene
fit of the ladies, the greatest recipe for washing
clothes ever yet published. By this process one
hand can do as much as three on the old method
and do it much better. Be sure to keep this
recipe. If you file our paper, mark sound the
recipe with a pen and ink; if not cut this recipe
out, and paste it up in your wash house :
Recipe. —Take good home-made soft soap,
4 lbs.; borax, refined, 4 ounces ; common salt, 3
ounces ; water, 7 pints. Boil slowly to cake
soap, separate the top from the sediment for the
cake soap. The botloinorlhe the sediment will
do for the common washing about a kitchen.
Process. —l. Wet the clothes thoroughly. 2-
Rub the grease and dirty spots with some of the
soap. 3. Boil the clothes in strong soap suds of
the above soap for thirty minutes. 4. Rinse the
clothes three times well in clean water.
The New Charge to Guatemala. —The ap.
pointment of Mr. E. G. Squire, of Ohio, to the
ChargeslTip at Guatemala, will be peculiarly
gratifying, not only to his own friends, but to the
country at large.—Mr. Squire’s researches among
the aboriginal remains of the northwest, his
thorough acquaintance with the occult history of
the New World, and Ins energy of character,
render his appointment to Guatemala a very ap
propriate one. He is a worthy successor to
Stephens, and will no doubt render an ample
equivalent of important information for the tust
conferred upon him. Mr. Squire, although a
native of Albany, New York, is a citizen of
Ohio, and was formerly editor of the Cliilicothe
Gazette. The first publication of the Smithso
nian Institute was Mr. Squire's work on the
Valley of the Mississippi Mr. Squire, having
had great experience as an engineer, will render
his services peculiarly valuable in the event of a
canal or railroad being constructed across the
Isthmus.
O’ The Scientific American gives some val
uable information in regard to the charging of
fire-arms. It says that balls which fit accurate
ly the bore of a piece, hare the greatest effect,
as they do not come out so readily but give time
for the greater quantify of powder to ignite.
When the powder is rammed violently down,
its effect is no greater, hut somewhat less than
when barely pressed down with the ball upon it.
Gunpowder around a ball diminishes its effect,
as it expands in all directions, and when it is
upon the top of a ball, it must in some measure
act counter to its progress.
By taking a hall and putting a little power un
der and considerable before it, its effects may be
almost nullified, and yet there will be consider
able noise when the gun is discharged-
Bloody Insurrection.— lntelligeDce has been
received at the North, which confirms the pre
vious reports of an insurrection at Pernambuco,
on the 4th of February. Over seven hundred
persons had been killed. It had extended, the
captain of the Br. ship Avon says, to Rio Janei
ro and Bahia. The object of this extensive and
sanguinary revolt was two fold ; first, the free
dom of the slaves, and secondly, the formation
of a democratic constitution throughout all pan*
of the Brazilian empire.
N apoleon and his Son.— lt is said that the
1 resident of the French Republic is about to
demand, or has already done so, the body of the
Due de Reiehstadt, for the purpose of laying i t
by the side, of Napoleon, his [father, in the
Church of the lnvalidcs. The Monument of
Napoleon is rapidly progressing, and the princi
pal block ofstone has already been bronght from
Finland and landed in Paris. It is of the rose
granite, measuring 18 feet long, 9 broad, and 3
high, and it wili be laid over the tomb.
Kissing for Charity.* —At a donation party
hold in a town down East lately, same of the
kissable Indies present, actually allowed their
sweet lips to be tasted at the rate of fifty cents a
kiss—tliis being considered a suitable price for
the privilege. One gentleman, it is said, took
five dollars worth.
Gold. — Ihe New York Herald says that it has
been estimated by most excellent authority, that
up to the 10th of December, about three mil
lions of gold had been exported from San Fran
cisco, of which about one million, (when that
on tlie the way which left previous to that time
shall reach us,) will have arrived in this coun
lrJ- This left at that time, one millions more
ready for shipment, which makes an aggregate
of four millions produced. At no time (accord
ing to the latest and best authority,) were there
more than fifteen hundred men employed in the
mines or among the placers. It is true there
were between three and four thousand men in
the country, but only about the number named
digging gold. It is well known that the digging
did not commence until about June, and the a
mount produced, say four millions of dollars
was the result of the labor of an average of sis.
teen hundred men for six months. This is about
as fair a calculation as can he made, and upon
this basis it will be easy to estimate how mueh
thirty or forty thousand men can produce during
the digging season of 1849. By the time the
season fairly opens in California most of those
who have already left this country will be on
the spot, ready for operations, and if the supply
of precious metals is inexhaustible, as reported,
the production will exceed the calculation of
the most sanguine.
The Secret of Joy. —The gense of duty is as
necessary a stimulent to health and enjoyment,
as is salt to give flavour to our daily food.
Without it the world become unteresting and
tasteless—objects there are none to arouse—pur
pose there is none to attain. The person dc
pried of the means of happiness, or condemned
to the endurance of pain, suffers, and suffers
much; but Hope lingers at the botto.m of the
cup. Life retains its enchantments—the Hes
perian gardens still glow in the west. But woe
to that wretched one who, like the gorgeous
Eastern king, sated with wisdom, magnificence,
and pleasure, has tasted of everything that the
world can give, and arrived at the dire conclusion
that all is vanity.