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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.