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MORNING NEWS.
»T JOHN ffl. COOPER.
W. T. THOMPSON. EDITOR
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[From the Charleston Mercury.]
The following beautiful Iptter from Mr, Cal
houn, was one of the last bo ever wrote. It
ts eminently characteristic, in substance and
manner, of his intercourse with young men.
The letter was communicated to the Washing
ton Union by the gentleman to wbom'it was
addressed, doubtless with tho feeling thut its
kindly and wise advice, rendered moru im
pressive by tho circumstances under which it
was imparted, was rightfully the common pro
perty of the whole class, on the formation of
whose manly character will soon depend tho
destinies of their country:
State and National Law School, Balstoiv
Spa. Saratoga Oo., N. Y., April 19, 1850.
To the Editors of the Union:
l have spent much time within the past two
years in Washington, where I became intimate
ly ncqu&intdtl with the late Hon. John C. Cul-
houn, who had been a familiar friend of my
lather. He permitted me the honor of a fre
quent correspondence with him. Tho following
letter I received from him just befort? his death.
It is, probably, tho last long letter he ever
wrote. As every thing concerning turn has, by
his demise, become doubly interesting to tho
public, I send you this cop* for publication, if
you think best. It is a specimen of the kind
and simple familiarity of his intercourse with
the young, men of his acquaintance, not one of
whom but would have died to seive him. His
departure has left a painful, heart-rending va
cancy in my affections.
M"st respectfully, yours. A. J. I?.
Washington, Feb. 28.1850.
Mt Dear B : Yours of the 19iti instant
was duly received. I am happy to learn thut
vou are so delighted with the plan of tho in
stitution, ntul the peculiar advantages itafTords
for rapid improvement, not only in the acquisi
tion of legal knowledge, but in a familiarity
with the practice and the important matter of
extempore speaking. I regard this latter ns
one of the most essential features of the insti
tution. Could 1. have enjoyed, in my prepara
tory course, us you do, the opportunity of‘•drill
ing every day” in this great art, and the trial
and argument ot causes, “under constant and
competent instruction,” I have no doubt I
should have been, in all tho practical requis
ites of success, ten years in advance of what I
was when I entered the profession. 1 well re
member, when connected with the Law School
at Litchfield, Connecticut, tho need we all felt
ltecent Notions of]Divorce.
A prominent case of matrimonial disaffection
and alienation, and atiompt to sunder tho mar
riage bonds, has forced this subject recently
upon the attention of all newspaper readers.
Perhaps it should be regardod as a lamentable
thing, that such is tho prying curiosity and scan
dal-loving propensity of the jiublic, and such,it
may be added, the disposition of the press to
gratify that cqrlosity, that alj the secrets of the
parlor and tho dressing-room must be blnzoned
forth when any difficulty occurs between man
and wife. This is on all acci mnts to he regrett-
/sd. Its tendency cannot be otherwise than de
moralizing. It forces impure ami degru mg
thoughts upon minds that ate not prone to in
dulge thorn ; and the manner in which thoy are
often adverted to by newspaper writers is so
light and trifling, as to make even damning sin
seen, a very trivial matter. All this is pre-erm-
ently bad. But it is much worse when the grea
principles of moral duty and responsibility, and
theprimo foundations of religious ttuth aic set a-
side, and remedies for social evils are sought on
the ground of expediency. It will *oso
who doubt or disbelieve the binding obligation of
our religion,ami the paramount authority of Us
author, to uttompt to cure tho evils of society
in tho best way they can. They may talk of fe
male indiscretion and unfaithfulness, short ot
tho plain fact of actual transgression of mar
riage vows, being sufficient cause of divorce;
and npply to human legislators to sever tho
bonds which God has joined together. And
if this world is to be the termination of innn s
course, and the tribunal of public opinion the
only one to which ho is to unswer, all may ap
pear v ery well. .
But. surely no one who lias the least faith in
Christian truth, should, in word or thought, thus
trifle wtih Divine authority. For such an one
the law is plain, and not all the profane tamper
ing of human courts and legislators wilt alter oi
annul a word or lotter of il.—“ It hath been
said, whoever shall put away his wife let him
give her a writing of divorcement: but I sny
unto you,” &c. Doubtless an adherence to this
rule, will sometimes cause inconvenience, and
very often cross men’s inclinations. Sin al
ways produces misery, and the Divine law is
constructed upon the principle that when men
bring it upon themselves, by their own trans
gressions, thoy must, to a certain extent, endure
it. No human law, even, provides a remedy
for the pain and inconvenience oi transgression.
It is contra legem naturie—it thing impossible.
To avoid these inconveniences, inen must,
be careful informing their matrimonial connex
ions. they must see thut virtue is guarded, not
merely by conventional tides of propriety,^but
by the law of an enlightened conscience. I hey
must avoid those associations, however they
may be upheld by fashionable society, which
lay traps and snares in the tray of virtue. It
is with a very had grace, and with very little
claim to public sympathy, that a husband, after
surrounding his wife with corrupting associa
tions. appeals to a legislature for a redress of
female indiscretion.
The sum of the whole is—Marriage, rightly
considered is a holy thing;—not merely a ci-
il contract, but a divine institution; which
Wednesday Morning, May 1» 1850.
LARGEST CIItCULATION!
ry The I)ail4 Moimno News has now a circa.
Union larger than that of BOTH THF. OI IH.R DAI
LIES TOGETHER., and consequently is the best
advertising medium. We state this tact in justice
to ourselves and lor the benefit of the advertising
public.
pSp’ See first page for our rates of advertising.
Advertisements should be handed in at an
early hour, to insure their appearance in the paper ol
tho next morning.
EF* This, being May Day, and in or
der to give tho persons employed in our estab
lishment, an opportunity to participate in the
festivities of the occasion, no paper will be is
sued from thin office on Thursday.
ISoiithei'ii Literary Gazette.
Wo have received the first number of the^
new volume of tljjis paper, published in Charles
ton, by Messrs. Richards & Walker, and
edited by William C. Richards, and D. IL
Jacques. In point of typography, the GazSttc
certainly has no' superior among the weaklies
of the country, nnd if tho number beforo us is
The’Rochester Stirits. — The northern
papers have for the lust six months teemed
witli wonderful accounts of the Rochester
Knocking*,As they are culled,and which are said
to be produced hy bonaf.de Wo have
seen long nnd circumstantial accounts iheso
Rochester doings, all vouched for and certified
by respectable witneses, enough to fill 1 a large
a fair specimen of what it is to be, we do not volume, but have regarded the whole affair;
hesitate to say tfhat its editors have nothing to 1 suc ], a shallow cheat ns to he unworthy of the
fear from a comparison of its literary merits notice of the press out of the intected district
with those of the popular family journals of The New York Tribune has, however, gj ven
the Northern cities. Tho present number is the authority of its name to the matter, si nc e
embellished with a very excellent likeness of which wo perceive that the spirits are begin.
Hon. Jos. Henry Lumpkin, of this State, ning to extend the field of their operations, and
of some advantage in speaking. These con-I man has no power, and of course no right to dis-
stant exercises in which you are required to en
gage before so large a numbe.v of your fcllow-
siudents, if for nothing else than the self-confi
dence which they must, gradually inspire, will,
in the end, prove exceedingly valmible. I shall
never forget tho painful, tho indescribable em
barrassment under which I labored in the de.
livery of my “maiden speech” before a Court,
an embarrassment wnich it required years of
practice to overcome.
Improve, then, my Dear B , the rare
privilege* which the institution affords you. Be
systematic and punctual injthe performance of all
jjfo&ii duties; and remember that the profession
you hove chosen imposes, as a condition prece
dent to success, the necessity for constar.t und
arduous labor. Ill it there is no disguising of
solve, except in the one case specified by the
Divine Law. In the case to which ullusion has
been made, so far as the evidence has been
made public—and there have been, certainly,
details sufficiently humiliating—this one evi
dent ground of divorce has not been made out.
Newark Advertiser.
Important Suit.—A suit involving the sum
of $100,000, or thereabouts, occupied the
Fourth Disrrict Court—Judge Strawbridge—
Friday and Saturday. It was a jury case, and
the parties to it were A. W. Gordon, for the
uso of Jumes Dundiw, et al (trustees of the U.
States Bunk) vs. James Irwin. Tho mo'-its
of the case seemed to be briefly these: The
late Judge Hitchcock, of Alabama, the broth
er-in-law of Mr. Irwin, was at the time |of his
An ArresT.-A man by the nnrac of Freder
ick Mii.ler, who has resided here for several
months, but who left the city under rather sus
picious circumstances shortly after the late fire,
was arrested on the Central Railroad about 20
miles from Savannah, ami brought to town
charged with having been concerned in setting
fire to tho building on Wednesday morning
last. Having been lodged in jail, he was
brought before Justices Russf.li,, Hart, and
Eden, yesterday morning, for examination.
No evidence being adduced sufficient to author
ize his committal, he was discharged from cus
tody on paying costs.
I5P It will be seen by the list of passengers
in the steamer General Clinch, that Miss
Fredericka Bremer, the popular Swcedish
novelist, passed through our city on Monday
night. She made no stay, but left ill the cars
yesterday morning. Wo did not learn her
destination.
Tho uuthor of The Neighbors would have
found many warm admirers of her works in
Savannah, and n hospitable welcome among us
hud she deigned to abide with us a few days.
The Oglethorpe Fire Company, will leave
our city, for Charleston, this evening in tho
Northern boat. At 6 o’clock this afternoon they
will be escorted to the wharf, by the Washing
ton Fire Company. On Friday, the 3d of May
the annual parade and inspection of the Fire
department of Charleston, will take place
at 2 o’clock I’. M. of that day, after which
ihere will be a great firemen’s procession in
which the delegation from this city will partici
pate.
The PRESENT.-We staled yesterday that the
Republican Blues intended to present to a vet
eran member of that corpse, a silver vase and
waiter. We learn to-day that tho member
is our respected fellow citizen F. M. Stone,
Esq. and that the vase is a truly beauti
ful piece of workmanship. It will be present
ed in the course of the day, in Monument
Square.
We had
one’s capacities or demetils. The physician’s decease, in'the autumn of 1839,indebted to the
art is concealed, and by flippant technicalities, United States Bank in the sum of about a mil-
«P0
duce the belief that he is what he is not. Iho
clergyman has time, a choice of subjects, and
a world of other men’s thoughts, to aid him in
his preparations for the pulpit. But the lavv-
y er. whether in the office or before a court nnd
pity, can assume nothing which he does not
possess. His legal opinions nre soon to be tes
ted by the severest ordeal, and his pretensions
as an advocate must be real, or they will avail
him nothing. And I would also have you re
member, that you will be boset with constant
temptations to swerve from the standard
of higli moral integrity. The very obli
gations of tho lawyer to dofend his client,
right or wrong, tend to fumiliurize him
with error, and to blunt his natural ab
horrenceof depravity: nnd by obligations, I
mean such only ns would loud him to seek the
great ends of justice. Beycnd this, even
though it should result in your own aggran
dizement, I .vould not have you put forth a sin
gle exertion. In the defence of one whom you
believe to be guilty, proceed no further than is
necessary to elicit the truth by an even balance
of testimony. I am aware it will often be diffi
cult, in this respect, to draw a precise lino be
tween the duties you will owe to your client,
and those due to yourself and community. But
a cultivated and refined moral sense, the basis
of all that is grand and beautiful in human char
acter, and which 1 trust, above all things else,
you will seek to incorporate into your own—
will generally lie a safe and accurate guide.
But I must close. This may he the lust of
my comrnucations to you. I feel myself sink
ing under the wasting power of decease. My
end is probably near—perhaps very near. Be
fore I reach it, 1 have but one sorious wish to
gratify ; it is to see my country quieted under
some arrangement—alas ! I know not what—
that will be satisfactory to alt and safo to the
South.
The advertisement you sent mo stales that a
catalogue of your school will bo sent to any,
by a request directed to your president, J. W.
Fowler, Esq. l’lease have ono sent to my ad
dress, for a friend.
Most affectionately, vours,
JOHN C. CALHOUN.
A Novel Pugilist.—The proprietor of the
Star Place, Mr. J. Bowen, has got a tommon
brook trout which evinces extraordinary pug
ilistic powers. He has become so domes tica-
ted that he can bo handled freely, but he will
not allow any other fish in the fountain where
he is kept. Several fish of different kinds,
including the trout, have been put into the foun
tain, when he immediately attacks them and
never loaves them until they are dead, when lie
coolly »v4ipis off" into one corner of the fountain
where he remains perfectly quiet until another
fish is entered to dispute the sup^gacy.
Frank, the bar tender, offers a wag<j*7$f five
dollars that he will kill any fish d$aple his
weight. We expect tahear soon that&ur spor
ting gent* will get up a regular fish light.-—
Syracuse Star. «,■ bi
llon of dollars. For this they held mortgages
on his property. In the spring of 1840, the
hank sent, out an agent to Mobile,with iheview
of having the matter in some manner arrang
ed. Mr. Irwin, assuming to speak for
and in behalf of Mrs. Hitchcock, his sister,
the widow and universal assignee of the late
Judge Hitchcock, met the agent of the Bank ;
and uftcr considerable diplomacy on both
sides, the agent of the hank agreed to pay Mr.
Irwin, in post, notes of the bank, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. The considera
tion lor which this money was paid forms the
animus in the case. The representatives of
the lmnk contend, and adduce proof to sustain
the allegation, that it was given to get amica
ble possession of the property on which they
held mortgage, and for full satisfaction of all
otherclnims on it. Irwin meets this by three
different allegations :
Firstly, ho stntos thut the $150,000 were
paid him to sutisfy certain confidential creditors
of the estate of Jugde Hitchcock, one of whom
he was himself for some $46,000. Secondly,
that it. was given him ns the agent of Mrs.
Hitchcock, tho sole devisee, on condition of
her making over to the bank an immediate and
amicable assignment of nil the property on
which it held mortgage; and thirdly, though
this point was not strongly urged, that it was
given him for having assigned to the bank six
stores in Mobile, of tho estate of Judge Hitch
cock, on which, as on his other property they
held a mortage
It appeared in evidence that, on receiving
the $150,000, in post notes, Irwin came to this
city, had them discounted in the City Bank,
and, w ith a portion of tho proceeds, paid a
large debt of his own to that institution.
The nominal party to the present suit, A. W
Gordon, had, in 1836, sold a track of land to a
certain company, of which Judge Hitchcock
was a prominent member. He took their in
dividual notes for the amount of their respec
tive shares; and it is those passed to him by
Hitchcock, hut never paid, that form the basis
of the present suit. They amount to some
$80,000, with interest at 8 per cent, per annum,
since 1340—making about $100,000. Tho
point on which the plantitFs counsel relied,
was, that Irwin, by using the $150,000 or any
portion of it, for his own use to the prejudice
of the creditors, made him ail executor, in his
own wrong, and, ns such, accountable to the
other creditors for the amount due them re
spectively by the estate. .
The court sustained the point, and the juiy
found for the plaintiff the amount it claimed.
N. O. Delta.
A Banner for the Riflemen.
an opportunity yesterday, of examining the
beautiful banner which is to be presented, this
morning, to tiie Phoenix Riflemen. It is a most
exquisite piece of embroidery, wrought with
twisted silk, in which the brightest colors are
harmoniously blended and combined with gold,
in such a manner as to produce the most beau
tiful effect.
We have not space at present to describe the
design, which is at once unique, beautiful, and
appropriate. The embroidery is the work of
Miss Kerwick, assisted by her neice, Miss
Ellen Kerwick.
The presentation of the banner to the Corps,
will take place this morning, at half past 11
o’clock, at the residence of Cupt. Jonathan
6lms tead, who was, we believe, the first
Captain and founder of tho Corps.
The
und contains, besides much entertaining and
useful matter, the first chupter of an original
tale, by W. Gilmore Simms.
The Gazette is printed with fair new type,
on u superior quality of paper, und is furnished
to subscribers at $2 per annum, in advance.
The Schoolfellow .—We are also indebted to
Messrs. Richards & Walker, for the Janu
ary, February, March, and April numbers of
this handsome little magazine. The School
fellow is well printed and copiously embellished,
and its contents are, in the main, well adapted
to the capacity and tastes of the class for
whom it is intended. We would, however,
suggest to the editor tho propriety of more
thoroughly localising the work. By this we do
not mean to seetionalise it. But wo mean to
give it a home interest. Let its writers often-
er discuss Southern themes, describe Southern
scenes, Southern life, and relato incidents in
Southern history, lr. a word, let t em labor to
interest their readers in home matters, and to
instruct and interest their minds on home sub
jects. The Northern States have several Mag.
azincs of this kind, which are doing well, and
exerting no small amount of influence on the
youthful minds of'that section. These maga
zines are, however, not adapted to tho wants
arid tastes of the children of the South. The
Family, which is the world of tho child, is
different at tho North from what it is at the
South—the domestic relations of the household
are not the same, nor are tho recreation* and
amusements of Southern children and Northern
children alike. There should then, bo an adap
tation of matter in the work, which is designed
to amuse and instruct the Southern child, simi
lar to that which characterizes the periodi
cals of the North. We want a rudimcntal
literature adapted to our latitude, our scenery (
our soil, our climate, our political and domes
tic institutions. A transplanted literature of
any kind is always of a sickly growth, but a
transplanted juvenile literature is too tender a
thing to take vigorous root in any soil.
We do not wish to be understood as intima
ting an objection of this kind to the Schoolfel
low', which we do not regard as an exotic.
But with a lively hopo for its usefulness and
success, we have thrown out these hint3 for the
consideration of the Editor.
The Schoolfellow is published in a handsome
pamphlet form, each number containing thirty-
knocWings are now becoming as common in N ew
York as “pinching*" and “prickings” were in
Salem in tho good old days of Puritan Witch
craft--
In view of the popularity which the thing | tas
acquired, wo have determined to give our tea-
ders a chapter on the subject, in order that
they may he posted in this new development of
the spiritual world. #
• That “there are more things in Heaven arid
earth, than are dreamptof in our philosophy,"
we do not pretend to deny, but we think < mr
readers will agree with us that to receive as
truth such a rigmarole of flat absurdity as the
narrative published to-day, would require a de
gree of credulity, such as does not often fall tir
tho lot of man. If there bo any truth i n the
statement it certainly argues n shameful de
generacy in ghosts, who in former times would
have been ashamed to cut such ridiculous, un
meaning pranks. But there are thousands in
the northern states, who religiously believe in
these revelations from tho spirit world, and
who maintain that a new era is about to dawn
on our world in which the interenuse of phys- 1
ical and spiritual humanity will be perfected,
and when we shall hold communion with the
inhabitants of the world of spirits, as familiarly
as we now do with each other.
We expect ere long to hoar of a new order
spriuging up ut the north, with Gueely, per
haps,at its head, which will totally eclipse Mil-
lerism, Mormonism, and all other isms that the
world has yet seen. Tho new denomination
will probably be called the Spiritual Socialiits
Union, and will receive revelations directly from
the spirit world, through the medium of knocks,
instead of resorting to the expedient of having
them engraved on copper plates,as did the Mor-
man Patriarch Joe Smith. The confounding
absurdity and shallow simplicity of thedevelope-
ments thus far, would seem to favor such a plan.
The Rochester spirits and those in Connecticut,
have steadily maintained that a day is coming
when they will be permitted to reveal them
selves to all men. This is doubtless significant
of a new scheme for humbugg.ng the credu
lous and for the formation of a new denomi
nation of fanatics.
Baptist College.—The Baptist denomi
nation in South Carolina are taking measure*
for the establishment and endowment of a Col
lege to bo under their direction, and a founda
tion has been already made by pledges on the
two pages of letter press, at the low price of par( . ofsevera ] persons to the amount of sever-
$1 per»annum.
Dai.ton and its Prospects.—We are
gratified to leurn, says tho Dalton Times of
Thursday, that tho Dalton City Company has
been organized under the very liberal charier
al thousand dollars. It is proposed that every
Association in the State shall aid in the enter
prise.
Death ok Joseph Dubignon, Esq.
friends of this gentleman, in this city, were
yesterday surprised to hear of his death,
which took place on Saturday last, ul his resi
dence at Jckyl Island. Glynn county. Mr. D.
had an*extensive circle ol acquaintances and
friends in our city, who will mourn liisuutimely
death. He was a member of the last legisia-
c of this State, from Glynn county, and was
highly esteemed for his talents nnd many amia
ble traits of character.
From Panama.
The Panama Star of the 6th inst., estimates
_ . . that they were then 3000 Americans at that
granted by the legislature, and that the com- place, being more than at any one lime before,
pany have given an earnest of what they pro- | Steamer tickets are not in so much deman
One Fact is worth a Thousand Arguments.
—Father Mathew’s Disciples in Ireland By
a letter received in town this week, from the
Rev. M. Quinlavan, of Ennis, wo lenrn tho
important fact, that during the recent ravages
of Cholera in that district, where the deaths in
n few weeks amounted to one thousand twp
hundred and sixty, not one member of the tem
perance society fell a victim.—N. O. Della.
Melancholy Accident.--A young lad, by
the name of Robert M’Gouldrick, who lias for
some time been engaged in tho Telegraph
Office in Augusta, was drowned on Sunday
morning last, by going beyond liis depth, while
bathing in the River. lie was citlior unable
to swim, or was seized with a sudden cratnp.
From Brownsville.—We have received from
Brownsville, papers of the 18th inst. 1 lie In
dians continue to commit great depredations in
tho vicinity of Laredo. One person writes
from that place, under date ol the 4th inst., as
follows:
Tho Indians havo got this country—they
took the San Antonio mail on tho last trip, nnd
bat few of tho letters were recovered. We are
nctuully confined to the limits of the town.
A man was killed at Roma on the 4th inst.
and two others are missing, supposed to have
been killed. The Corpus Christ.i mail was ta
ken on the 4th, 16 miles from Laredo, the rider
being allowed to depart almost in a stale of nu
dity, having stripped him to his pantaloons and
shirt. Lieut. Hudson, with 18 men, went in
pursuit of the party who took tho San Antonio
mail, and came up with them on the Neuces
river, and captured their camp, horses, &.c.
On his return from tho Nueces, when near the
Twentv-Four Mile Water Hole, he fell in with
the party who took the Corpus Christi mail,
numbering about 16 savages, and an engage-
mentensued, in which Lieut. Hudson received
three wounds from arrows—ono in his right
side,3ne under hisdeft arm, and another in his
thigh. In this skirmish one soldier was killed,
a sergeant desperately, and three men severely
wounded. Fourlioises worn nlso lost. Tho
extent of the loss by the Indians is not stated,
but it is said mme were found on llie.-field of ac
tion. I.t. Hudson is hardly expected to sur
vive.—IV. O. Pic.
pose to do, by subscribing twenty thousand
dollars as part of the capital of a company
to establish a Cotton Factory. It is to be
hoped this movement will be sustnined by tho
citizens of Dalton und tho neighborhood, as
we learn that other parties will furnish the ma
chinery if wo put up the buildings and furnish
tho steam engines.
The Tunnel.—Wo have been informed
says the Ringold Republican of Saturday, that
the Tunnel will certainly ho completed, nnd
ready for use, some time during tho month of
June, or the first of July, as we stated a short
lime since. Wo are nlso told, that one or two
weeks’ work will complete the arching, when
the ground will bo put in a proper condition for
the laying down of thetruck. The restof the
road is in splendid order. The passenger and
freight trains continue to make tlioir daily trips
to and from Chattanooga. The business on
the road, for the last two months, has been ve-
before, and sailing vessels fill up rapidly.
The steamships Isthmus, Gold Hunter and Sa
rah Sands were to sail for San Francisco in a
few days, carrying off a largo number ol per
sons. ,
An American hospital will soon he opened
Panama, under tho charge of Drs. Jenkins
and Weljman. .. o
The Star says it is the intention of the U • ■
Government to station a vessel of war in
nama Bay. _
A fine hotel is soon to be opened at Drue •
Orr the afternoon of the 2d inst., a very rc
spectable looking man was found lying at «-
side of the mad in an insensible 8 f s [ e :“ 0l _
one nnd a half miles from Major Gill's ® n '
mit or Half-Way House, wh 8 re he wascarrir",
and shortly afterward* died. ,
Physicians who attended him state tna
was powerfully narcotized, nnd as no ro°'
was found upon his person, the presumpt' 0 "
strong, that he was murdered.
•ry heavy, large cargoes of freight being daily ney d eman ded us a deposite by his ago
BT It is said that Barnum h«s '
the hands of tho agent in New York of B“ r ' ^
Brothers & Co., for the purpose of being*™
forward by the steamer, the large sum
of W
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transported to and from the above mentioned
place.
Sale of Autographs.—At a recent sale of
autographs in London, which occupied two days
Johnson’s famous letter to Macpherson (the
translator of Ossian) was bought for £12 12s;
Johnson’s letter to Garrick about Hogarth’s
with Jenny Lind. The lust foreign j ourl
have this paragraph : . o| -
Jenny Lind gave a concert on the
March 17th, at the Court Theatre,-Beil
which her charituble disposition " .
manifested, the whole of the pioceei
devoted to the relief of the p oor ‘, _ a ln |gv-
Johnson s letter to unrncK uncut iiogartn s I V., . r „,„ .L.mselvea m
epitaph was bought for £8 8s.; A letter from ?he public did not confine the ^ of
Goldsmith to Garrick, with thedraft of Garrick’s isbingon Mdilo. Lin ,. fl oWCrfl ,
1 faction, such us bravos, recalls, j ....
hut on this occasion
answer on the back, sold for £6 12s.[fid., and
another letter from Goldsmith to Garrick for
£6; a beautiful letter from Gray to Dodsle;y
about his poems, reulized, £5 2s. fid,; Burns’s
letter to Lord Buchan, with his verses on
crowning the bust of Thomson, brought £6
10s; Lord Chatham’s letter and verses to Gar
rick, beginning—
Leavfe, Garrick, the rich landscape proudly
gn y—sold for £6 18s; a letter from Cooper to
the Rev. John Newton, was thought to have sold
at a low figure when knocked down at £5 5s;
a letter from Gurrick to Mrs. Pritchard, with
verse*to be spoken on her farewell night,
realized £4; a lettorfrom Sternetohis publish
er, Becket, sold for £4 2s ; a letter from Jore
i bravos, recalls, „ i t( ,|jsn
„ ul ..w^asion they adopted t , u „
method of manifesting their delight,'
to tiie present time, is little known in . ’
by letting fly alarge number of win 1 6 [(rl ,
from all parts of tho house. After t !( , r0 -
the members of the orchestra execu an( i
nude under the windows of the fair a g.
some of the young men of the town g
torch light procession in her henor. . ^
Human Life and Pulsation.7"^J a the
that the human life can be .pf 1 ’?'%owing 7ff
pulsations a man performs. I n > | sC5
years for the common age of man, a
in a minute for the common me® ^ wo iil rl
the number ot pulses in his w rt.^s-ner-
cr, uecltet, soia tor * V.%’ ” * . ‘ . the number ot pulses in ms
my Taylor to Evelyn, f a painfully intu amoun j. 2,207.520,000. But if> y
r«.. n White to the editor of . /. . t... inm a morc> a P .U
estlng letter from Kirke White to the editor of I ho h i» blood into a moro »P llir
the Monthly Review, £5; and a collection "fj lion, so ns to give 75 pulses in * ; n B*>
same niimborof pulses may be
...„ Monthly , _ . . , .
early versos by Thomson, author of the “Seas
ons,” £3 10s.
A parasol has been manufactured, rc*
sembling flowers in shape, hearing the name of
Floriforni.
his existence 14 years*
(hr
years, ieducing
An incombustible P“l ie1 '
[•cl"'?
i has been invented m Get many-