The Southern tribune. (Macon, Ga.) 1850-1851, February 23, 1850, Image 1

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THE lllil l>f published ercry SATURDAY Morning, In the Tiro-Story Wooden Building, at the Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, IS THE CIT V OK MACOX, GA. By wu. It. IIAItItISON. T E It M S : for tha Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. if not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. will be inserted at the usual rites —and when the number of insertions de sired is not specified, they will be continued un til forbid and charged accordingly, jj* Advertisers by the Year will be contracted with upon the most favorable terms. JXSales of Land by Administrators,Executors or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours i>f ten o’clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be given in a public gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. XJ*3ales of Negroes by Administators, Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on the first Tuesday in the month, between the legal hoursof sale,before the Court House of the county where the LettersTestainentary.or Administration or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv ing notice thereof for Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. Hj-Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditorsoi an es tate must be published for Forty Days. (XyNotice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazette in the ■We for Four Months, before any order absolute ain be given by the Court. Xj’Citatious for Letters of Administration on a» Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must oe published Thirty Days for Letters of Dismis mon from the administration ofan Estate,monthly f ur Sit Months— for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. 'Tj'Rulcs for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must be published monthly for Four Months — fur establishing lost Papers, for the full space of Three Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond hasbeen given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attention at the .SOL THE /f JV Tit IB UA t. • Mice, and strictcare will he taken that all legal Advertisements arc published according to Law. X7*AII Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must bo post-paii>, to in sure attention. 4 3 o l t t t r «i l. From the Washington Union, 12/A mat. The Necessity of Action. Every clay shows more and more the importance of settling, as soon as possible, the vaii us subjects which are connected with die territorial, slavery, aad boundary questions. The voice of New Mexico continues to speak with additional em phasis, in the following extracts from the tit. Louis Union of the 29th nit. and yet, iiotwithstading these developements of the unsettled condition of New Mexico, this sagacious cabinet is insisting upon the pol icy of denying any officicut organization to that Territory, until she acquires popu lation sufficient to entitle her to admission as a State, with all the excitement, and all lint danger, which this agitating subject is calculated to produce : Indian muudkrs —Apathy of ourgotern mc.it.— it is painful to preceive the aplhy manifested by our government in regard to the well-being of our countrymen iti New Mexico. For mouths past, every ar tivul from that quarter has brought us in telligence of some new Indian outrage; yet the powers that he take no steps to redress the evil by the punishment of the daring marauders. The inefficiency of the military commuudant, and the inade quacy of the force there, have time and again been represented to our govern ment, and all without effect. \\ hile the jurisdiction of the United States over that territory is undergoing discussion, its in habitants are being ruthlessly murdered, without one well-directed effort being made to extend protection to its citizens.— Better would it be to acknowladgc the claim of Texas at once, than thus to assert a right to a country which we have not "ill or means to shield from wanton an un provoked aggiessioti. If Col. Washing ton and the force under his command are unable to punish the savage that now hang around Santa Fe and the neighboring cettlements, it is no reason that 1 exas ri fles would prove equally incompetent. The heartless murders by the Eutavvs of the most amiadle lady, Mrs. \\ hile, "’ilieh is anounced in another part of to day’s paper, should stir np the fiends of I‘Uinanity every portion of the Union, until such expressions of sentiments are made to our Execu'ive as will call forth the proper remedy. It is almost useless to s etid regular force against Indians. They cannot be brought to act, in the great ma i r'Oty of cases, with sufficient promptitude. } Ike Indians will elude them, and disperse | Cl > their secret haunts, again to assemble ■‘s soon as a blow had failed, and the j troops had returned to their quarters. — Not so. howevr, with the Texan rangers, "> the hunters of our own frontier. Ac quainted with Indian life, they will follow 'be savage to the fastnesses of his own ra pines or mountains, hunt him out, and, arm to arm, exact from hitn the penalty °f his depredations. It would seem, too, from the complex ion of our New Mexican intelligence, that uohopo need be entertained of amicable j delations being established by means of the I u lian agency in that quarter. The Eu- I u "s and Apaches, emboldened by the I pusillanimity ofour government, have even j v en over the farce of “talking” about I "ace. Treaty after treaty liavo they vi ■ l! >‘ted with impunity; and now, finding I , ut there is no penalty attendant on these I ■' aches faith, they no longer condescend I M eti promise peace. Their course is THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. rational enough, according to the premises! and theii late horrid aggressions need not at all he wondered at. It is to be hoped that the late atrocities may lead to proper action. A latge force would nc.t required to punish these rovers of the plains, but a picked force would be necessary. We have plenty of good men on our border who have the will and ability, and want but the authority to teach the rascals such a lesson as would be handed down to their latest posterity. We lay before our readers the follow ing accounts from Texas, for which we are indebted to a member of Congress.— Can it escape the vision of the most ordin ary observer that danger hovers over us from that quarter, and that the question ought to be settled as soon as possible 1 — Let us settle this whole delicate and era brrasaing controversy, whether we regard the territorial, slavery, or boundary ques tions, at once and forever, in all its phases. No man can venture to predict what a few days may bring foith: the South is rousing and taking decided measureafora Southern Convention ! Important from Texas.— We learn from a gentleman direct from Texas, that a commissioner has been appointed by the authority of the State to organize the coun ty of Santa Fe, and enforce the civil juris diction of that State. The Legislature, now in session, has voted men and money, to be placed at the disposition of the governor to enforce the jurisdiction of Texas, if its authorities meet with any opposition. It seems that Texas is greatly excited on this subject. It appears that the present administra tion, true to its principle of non-action, some time since gave orders that the au thorities of Texas should not be opposed or aided by the military, in their efforts to enforce the jurisdiction of that State Such being the case, it is easy to see that there will speedily be a conflict between the people of Sauta Fe and the authorities of l’exas, but which it requires no prophe cy to foresee will result in the complete establishment of the authority of Texas in San!a Fe. A letter from San Antonia, to a gentle man in this- city, says : The legislature is warlike in the ex treme, and a commissioner will startshort ly for Santa Fe, to organize (lie counties there, backed by some four >r fne hun dred rangers. There is ceitain to be a row wiih the people if Santa Fe ; but those of El Paso and its vicinity a: e anx ious to come under our laws. Gb vet Seal of California.— The Seal of the State of California is three inches in diameter. There is a constellation of thirty-one stars —the thirty-one States, California included. In the center is a figure of Minerva, and at her feet a griz zly bear eating twigs of the vine. One the right is a miner, surrounded with mining impliments, and on the other side ships under sail are seen. In the background are the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada. The motto is the Greek word Eureka — “l have found it”—regarding which there may be some difference of opinion as res pects the taste of taking that, vvotd. Jt is thought in general that Latin is learned enough for a: 1 State purposes, and some are so obstinately wedded to the vernacu 1. r, that they think plain English better than anything else. The word eureka icfers, we suppose, to the gold mines, and to the wealth that is to be extracted from them, respecting which there will be no disappointment, vve hope; but the Californiuus ought at the start,to endeavor to place their national prosperity upon a more enduring basis than upon mining pursuits ; and this, be ing Americans, they will do. They know that a country may be rich in mines and yet poor in almost every other respect. There is Mexico at their very door, which is a poor country under many aspects, not withstanding the thousands of millions that have been taken from her mines.— Bolivia (Upper Peru) is a poor country, and yet there is to be found the famous Potosi—which was an argentiferous moun tain, at the base of which stands the city of the same name, once containing one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants ; now reduced to less than twenty thousand. But California has resources that Bolivia has not, never had, and never can have.— Globe. Kef.ping Animal.s. Do Farmers ever reflect that all food and attention consumed by animals, without corresponding im provement, is so much money thrown a way ? Everyday in the life of a brute should be a day of progression towards maturity, either of working capacityorthe shambles. Curtail your stock,sell or even give them away, till you have reduced the number within your ability to full feeding. A prime milking cow, amply fed, housed and cleanly kept, will produce as much milk through the season(winter and sum mer) as four or a half a dozen, miserable brutes half fed; yet the last will con sumc two or three times the amount of food and attention appropriated by the other. first electric telegraph was woman’s heart. Ever since the day of Adam, she has extended her influence from pole to pole. Every time a man laughs he adds to the duration of his life. MACON, (GA..) SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1850. From the Washington City Globe. FRANCE. President Bonaparte has established at Paris a newspaper called The Napoleon, which is understood to be, par excellence, the Presidential organ. He has not only es'ablished it, but lie is likewise one of the editors, and writes articles occasionally, good, bad, or indifferent. Some say (and it is not unlikely, we think) that the Napo Icon is intended to advocate, openly orsub rosa, the restoration of the Empire, which would place Napoleon the Second on the throne, of course. An editorial, from the pen probably of bis Excellency himself, says that the French nation has to choose between the virtue of Washington and the gloty of Napoleon, and that the republic ans of France will know how to decide. Now this, if said in America, would he susceptible of but one cons!ruction— whether we should take the virtue of one great man or the gloty of another. We should be nearly unanimous for the man of virtue and his system. But the case is different in France. There the nation goes for glory, to which almost everything is regarded as secondary, when it is view ed under the aspect of national property. This word glory is there talismanic; the child lisps it in infancy; the schoolboy’s first, most lasting impressions, are connec ed with the glory of the Great Nation ; the soldier charges his enemy in the name of glory, and the Statesman’s guiding star is ever the national glory. This was the secret of Napoleon’s vast popularity ; he gave the French glory until they were al most surfeited with it; and the time at last came, that fighting, chivalrous, and heroic people sighed for poacc. J lie first signs they gave of having had enough of blood, and victory, and glory, was when Napo leon made war upon Spain in 1803, which was never a popular war in France, and which led, without doubt, to the Emperor’s ovetlirow, by using up two hundred thou sand of his best troops, and by creating doubts of liis invincibility, which no Frenchman had before doubted. When from 20,000 to 25 000 French veterans laid down their arms at Baylen to a force composed of Spanish militia, the astonish ment and consternation was greater in France than had been produced by any previous disaster. 'The loss of the* fleet at the Nile and at Trafalgar were great calamities; but they were not so entirely unlooked-for and confounding as tlie sur render of a whole French army to an ene my not only net feared hut dispised. Suppose Louis Napoleon should be lucky or unlucky enough to encircle bis broVVS witli tlir ivr»pc.viol lUatluill «ir> Icon Second, how long will he continue to wear it ? In our opinion, hut a very brief period. With four or live pretty strong parties against him, and witli no claim or title except that he is the nephew of his uncle, (and many doubt that even,) it will require nothing less that, a miracle to keep the throne from slipping from under him. All these patties, the adherents of Henry the Fifth, of the Count of Paris, the Re publicans, the Red Republicans, the So cialists of all shades, will agree in one thing, and one only, which will be to, dis mount the Emperor; and tliat done, each party will work for itself, as in some games all the players play against the man who is ahead, until the game is equalized, and the.i each one plays for himself. European Notions of the United States. — An Italian correspondent of the New York Gorier aud Enquirer, makes the following just remarks: “The great mass of the people on the continent are either totally ignorant of our national existence, or have the vaguest idea of our geographical position, our his tory, our character, and our form of gov ernment. The Parisian matron who in quired on my mention of Washington, if ‘he was that horrid English physician who poisoned Napoleon V —the Athenian who congratulated me that our'King was plenty rich, since lie has got so much gold it) Cali fornia’— the Neapolitan who was satisfied ‘America is the finest kingdom in Europe,’ and wished tnc to take him there afoot— and the Custodian, at Pompeii, who could expound antiquities most admirably, but had never even so much as heard of Ameri ca— afford fair illustrations of the intelli gence generally possessed on the continent of Europe respecting our country. In truth, how should it be otherwise? Near ly half of the people are unable to read, and a large propotion of the remainder ate both too poor to obtain books, and too un cultivated to care for information. The aducated class entertain the most inade quate and perverted. ideas concerning us. They know indeed that we are a Repub lic, hut they have no proper conception of either the theory or the practical operations of our government: they understand that we have liberty, but they are ignorant of the moral strength which controls it, and of the great constitutional and legal bar ries which hedge it in.” Keep voir Srables Clean.—Cleanli ness in the stables and yards is as essential to the health, and comfort and thrift of your stock as to yourselves, children and servants. Standing in cold muddy yards, and lying down in the filth of stables, es pecially during severe weather, is adirect loss of food and condition. If dry and warm in cold weather, annimals will thrive better on one half their accustomed food, than with all, without these conditions. The Perjured llusbaud. BY JOK MILLER. CHAPTER I.— The Introduction. “Dear me, Arabella, did you hear that Augustus Snooks was introduced to Julia Suggers, last evening, at Mr. Fitzpaddle’s party ]" “La me, you don’t say !’, “Emily Pumpkin was tebing me : she says that old Smashpipes, whom you know is us blind as a bat, intended to iutioduce Julius Numbskull and mistook Augustus for Julius, and introduced him to the hand some Julia as his friend Numbskull.— “Happy to have the honor of your ac quaintance, Miss,” said Augustus ; ‘my friend Smashpipes has made a mistake, however my name is Snooks.” Indeed! what will Angeline Simpkins think when she hears it ] ’ “1 guess she won’t like it—very singu lar introduction, wasn’t it 1” CII \PTER If.— The Courtship. “Alas I lh« course of true love never did run smooth.” The roseate tint of the setting sun was gilding the golden hair of the beauteous Julia Sniggers, with its last faint beam, and the head of the beauty shone like a show bottle in a pharmaceutist’s window, with a light behind it. Upon the floor at her feet, kneeled the young Augustus;! madness was in his heart and fury in his | eye. May l hope, dearest ? enquired he, : in the agony of his passion. 'The beau teous cheeks of the lovely Julia grew white as her pocket handkerchief, as she tried to hide the intensity of her feelings. “Nay Augustus, spare a virgin’s young affections, she faintly murmured—‘some other lime.” “Alas is it so I” said Augus tus, “I never had a dear gazelle but, no ! Moore is an enthusiast’ said Snooks, calm ly rising and resolutely buttoning up his coat. "Julia let us take a walk and have some ice cream ” CHAPTER lll —The Declaration. “By those bright eyes, like the rose, my love ■ my life! I love thee !” “Shall it be vanilla or lemon ?,’ ‘Vanilla, if you please,’ gently answered the fascinating Julia. “Bring two vanillas,” said Augustus to the waiter. The ices were brought, and the spoons were soon put into requisition to convey the cold comfort to their mouths. “Cold, cold is my lot, soliloquized Au gustus, “I feed on ice and relish the shiv ery luxurty. Alas ! it was not so ere I knew the idol of my affections !” Then siai> ;r, s hysterically, he enauired. with intensity, “Julia will you be mine 1 CHAPTER IV.— The Acceptance. “She is mine—the word is spoken.” Startled by the terrible demonstration of passion, the fair Julia swooned. “Alas!’ said Augustus, “she is dead ! Ho! burnt feathers and salvolatile !” shouted he, deli riously, “to the rescue ! to the rescue !” but the call was unnecessary ; slowly the beauteous Julia opened her bright and humid eyes and smiled ; “Oh Augustus, how you frightened me ! 1 think you will be able to come it.” CHAPTER V.— The Marriage. “Bright eys looked love to eys which had spoken again.’’ The saloon was crowded, and the guests were happy. The Rev. Bishop Smith performed the cerimony, “Wilt thou,” enquiried he of the fair Julia, ‘take this man to be thy wedded husband]’ The eys of the maiden acquired a brighter brilliancy, as she answered —“I won t do anything else !” CHAPTER Vl. The Vow. “Tis deeply sworn, we will see anon.” Months rolled on, and Augustusand Ju lia were happy-economy and neatness pre sided over all their domestic at rangment, “1 think,” said Julia one evening, at their pleasant meal, “I think I should like some cat-fish for breakfast; will you get up ear ly in the morning and purchase some I” •• Dearest, l will,” answered the husband. “ Nay,” replied the fair wife, “you are such a vile deceiver I can hardly believe you” “ Hear me swear,’, said Augustus — “by yonder moon, I swear that you shall have* a dozen cat-fish for breakfast to-mor row; let the oath be registered,its gone up.’ CHAPTER VII.— The Perjury. “Take then) , I implore thee, lake them , Blithely the young wife rose on the mor row, to a breakfast she deemed would he happy. Augustus came, in his right hand he held a string of fish ; but were they cat-fish ? Stand aghast ye heavens, when you hear it—they were perch ! Julia caught one glance —her delicate system could not stand the shock. “Perch ! 'she wildly cried and sank lifeless upon the ground. CHAPTER VIII.— The Denouement. “Man'sinhumanity to ••oinon makes count less thousands mourn.” Sadly they bore her to her long home ; flowers were strewed over her grave, and the faces of all her acquaintances wore a lugubrious aspect. But there was one whom that sad sight struck down to the earth—it was the prejured Augustus.— Wildly he rushed forth, and sought con solation in the bowl— it teas not there— and goaded to frenzy, one day he walked calm ly down to the Navy Yard, and enlisted in the marines. He didn’t do anything else. Cotton in Africa —A treaty has just been signed by which the Danish settle ments on the African gold-coast have been ceded to England, and the latter power is now debating the feasibility of raising a | supply of cotton there. It is now produ- j ced there by the natives for Dahomey the culture of cotton from Americau seed was attempted under the auspices of the late African traveler, John Duncan, in July j last. He was furnished with the seed by the British Chamber of Comerce. Let ters recently published in the Manchester Guardian give the following account of the experiment: Mr. Duncan had been appointed British Consul at Whydah, the principal port of j Dahomey. The king, being apprised of | his intentions, placed the whole popula- ! lion of what is called English Town entire- 1 !y at his disposal. Mr. Duncan engaged j 60 laborers at the rate of four strings of cowries, or f'urpence sterling, per day each, and planted several acre 6 of laud with American seed ; reserving however, a quantity for presentation to the king, and a further quantity to be planted at the commencement of the rains ; not then know-; ing what might be the best season for the J purpose. Having planted several acres Mr. Duncan went to Abomey, and was well received. It appears ftom Mr. Dun can’s letters that the cotton now grown there in considerable quantities is of very good quality. Indeed, a small sample en closed in one of his letters is quite equal, it not superior to fair Orleans, having equal length and strength of staple, while in fineness and color it seems, as far as can be judged from the very small quantity, decidedly superior. Os this cotton Mr. Duncan says that he had forwarded a cask by a vessel which brought this first letter; but hitherto, it lias not reached its destina tion. Cotton seems to be by no means ’ scarce in the neighborhood of Whydah; for when it became known to the nutives that Mr. Duncan was desirous of purchas ing some, he was quite overwhelmed with the quantities that were brought to him on all sides ; and he could have purchased to a considerable extent if his means had al lowed him. In addition to the common cotton grown on the coast, Mr. Duncati found at Abomey a variety of the cotton paint, the produce of which was of very superior quality—he says quite equal to the best sample with which from his des cription, was no doubt Sea Island. Os this plant—which he describes as being about 14 feet high with large branching head—be had procured a quantity of seed, and intended to plant it with the remain- Av.vfi.;. Aui.it\,uu moo, at. tuecommence ment of the rains. The Watch. —A watch is one of the most complicated nnd delicate mechanical products of art, and requires, for its pres ervation in the best order, much more care and nicety than many watch owners gen erally observe. The following directions (given by Mr. Mott,) for the use and keep ing of watches are instructive to the un practised in this particular. As all metals alter their dimensions by heat and cold, aud particularly the tender springs of watches, so as sensibly to affect their rates of going, they must necessarily stand in need of regulation. A watch at tached to, or detached from, the body, va ries its rales perceptibility, and as we are constrained to regulate under the latter circumstance, it may bo proper for the wearer to regulate after us, to suit the change of temperature. To set the hands to time, no attempt should be made to turn them with the fin gers. for this practice is very apt to loosen the hour hand on the socket and will often cause the watch apparently to stop, and suddeidy to vary much when it does not; therefore to move the hands, put the key upon the square in the centre of the dial plate, and turn them either forward or backward ; the former is to be preferred if the hands turn stifly. Set the watch by some good house clock, (or a genuine Chronometer Regulator) and compare it with those and no others, once a week, regularly, and according to the variations, move the regulating point as before directed, by which means a near agreement and a uniform rate may bo ob tained. By neglecting this, or an equiva lent rule, a good watch may come to be reputed indifferent. If very great exactness is required, then reference must be had the celestial stan dard, the revolution of the fixed stars, sun and moon. Carefully avoid opening the watches to expose the wotks unnecessarily as by that means small particles of dust, sand, or the like, frequently get in, which will either cause the watches to stop or go badly. A watch should be cleaned every twelve or at the extent, eighteen months, or the works wear out, and require to be re newed at a heavy expense. 'fhe same with clocks as above stated with watches, hut they require cleaning every two tears; and for regulation, screwing the pendulum up, makes them go faster, and the return-screw slower, for true time. [ jP’Tbe two most precious things on this side of tho grave, are reputation and life—yet tho most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the mean est weapon of the other. For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there arc huudered* who heartily hate us for our suscesses. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, Will be executed in the most approved *isle and on the best terms, at the Office of the SCTT'THEB.IT TRIBtWE, -BY WM. B. HARRISON. NUMBER 7. From the .Veto Orleans Crescent. S> uopaU of Prof. Forshey’a Lecture. I’rofessor Forshev commenced with the sublime sentence, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” He alluded to the lectures of Mr. Milchel, and spoke of the fitness of a course on Geology immediately following that on As tronomy. Ho said that the Geologist, like the Astronomer, bad cause to be giate ful for the triumphant demonstration, pres ented by Kirkwood, the American School master, of the law which governs the axil lary motion of the planets, because it lends a more powerful aid to the nebular hypo thesis than all the reasoning hitherto known, and because that hypothesis is almost iu dispensible to the explanation of geologi cal phenomena. lie then glanced at the nebulous theory, os fully explained by Mr. Mitchel. Ho said, when the earth was separated from the central mass, it wne in a liquid state, and occupied the 6paco half way between Venus on one side, and Mats on the other. When it had shrunk to a diameter of 250,000 miles it had thrown off the moon, just as it had been thrown off from the sun. It staggered belief that the earth had ever occupied such space : but a cubic foot cf water, at boiling heat, expands 1800 times i’s bulk ; and the application of heat which should melt the earth into a gaseous form, would expand its diameter so as to en croach on the orbits of Venus and Mars. There is strong reason for believeing that the interior of the earth is still in a liquid state from central heat. This was inferred : Ist. From the smoke and steam observ ed to attend earthquakes. 2J. The lava thrown out by volcanoes, in all latitudes and climates. 3d. The increase of temperature down wards, in all shafts sunk into the earth’s surface. 4th. The evidence of fusion observed in the older rucks. If there boa cental heat.it must he di minishing ; for the sphere at the crust, and the space around, are much cooler. If it cools, it must contract and the earth grow smaller. If there be central heat, now diminishing, the earth must have been once ! much greater —must have been always cooling—and hence, must once have been in the fluid state, and occupied a much lar ger sphere. Then he concludes that the area of the earth’s sphere once extended to that of the other planets. They too must have had their central heat, and once met the nebulous earth. They must also have composed a single sphere extensive l as the solar system. That great solar mass, too, must have been firrgvor conJr?«»t;-.*r j and must nave once blended with the neighboring solar systems, and these with the next, until the hypothesis involves the universe in its range. He then passed to the stratification of rocks, and referred to the horizontal lay ers on the Ohio ; to the vertical ones on the Hudson,and tiio diamond shaped mass es in tlie granite-quarries of Baltimore and Washington, The relative position of the different rocks was so well known, that it was easy to predict the neighbor hood of one rock by the presence of anoth er. The character of a geological bed, like the character of a man, is to be judged by the company it keeps. He went into the theory of springs aud artesian wells ; but it is impossible to give a satisfactory sketch of this without illustrations. In the explanation of the different strata, he used a beautiful diagram of the earth’s surface, with its different strata—in some places lying in regular order—in others, broken and rent in pieces in others, travers ed by veins of basalt, trap and porphyry. Tue Power of Steam. —A pint of wa ter,evaporated by two ounces of coal,swells into two hundred and sixteen gallons of steam, with a mechanical force sufficient to raise a weight of thirty-seven tons a foot high. By allowing it to expand, by virtue of its elasticity, a further mechanical force may be attained, at least equal in amount to tho former. Five pints of water, evaporated by a pound of coke in a locomotive engine, will exert a mechanical powersufficient to draw two tons weight on a railroad a distance of one mile in two minutes. Four horses in a stage-coach, on a common road, will draw tho same weight the same distance in eight minutes. Four tons of coke, worth 25 dollars, will evaporate water enough to carry, on a railway, a train of coaches weighing about eighty tons, and transporting two hundred and forty passengers, with their baggage, ftom Liverpool to Birmingham and back again, total distance 190 miles, in four hours and a quarter each way. To trans port the same number of passengers daily, by stage coaches, on a common road,be tween the same places, would require twenty coaches, and an establishment of three thousand eight hundred horses, with which the journey, in each direction, would be performed in about twelve hours. — Dr. Lardncr's Lectures. iCT'The idler is a dangerous member of society. He becomes a prey to his own passions, and scourges others with his rices. There is a luxury in the uninterrupted enjoyement of sorrow, but is when tho tear can steal along the cheek unseen, and the pride of stoicism a!l men possess yie’dsto the genuine call of humanity.