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VOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY MOUSING BY WILLAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an* nan, or Two Dollars paid in advance. A DVFRTfSK.YI FNTS r inserted at O.Vfc DOLLAR prr!H|Mnrp, (or lire first insertion, and J-IFTY CE~\TS per snjnnro, for encli insertion thereafter. A reasonable deducion tvill he made to those who advertise !>v the year. All advertisements not otherwise orderetf, wit he continued till forbid. IO I ’S.WJ'IS CF I.AXDS by Administrators, Evcn’ors nr (Stmdianp are reonirrd bx law to lie lieid on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours o’ ten in the forenoon and three in the r-tiornoon, at Inc Court-House, in the county tn which the land is situated, .Notice of th'-se sale, must be iven in a pub.be gazette FORTY DA FS p r ‘”'lou to t tie'day of sale. 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O f.nary for leave to sell land must he pub lish cd for TITO MOXTIIS, Nit ice for leave to sell neorces must he 1 puWished Ttro MOXTRS hcli.re any order ah sohitc sl>a!l ho made thereon by t!ie ('nnrt, CfTA TIO.YS for Letters of A'lniini.-(ration, must he published thirty pays; for Dismission from Ae-ninisfration, monthly six moeths; for Dismission from Guardianship, forty Day , I! ides ior the Foreclosure of Mort"iie must he mihha’ied monthly for four months, for estab lishing lost papers, tor the full space of three Months: forcompelling titles from Executor- 1 nr Administrators, w here a hood has been given bv he diseased, the lull space of thrsf. months. From the Knickerbocker Magazine. STRAY LEAVES* From the Port-Folio of a Georgia Lawyer (in Washington City.) I remember very well once coming from one of the halls of Congress after having listened attentively to” a dehate which commenced on the “Annexation of Cuba,” and ended on “Progress.” The last speaker, a Senator from Ken tucky, had entered into a discursive lec ture on the various kinds of progress go ing on upon the face of the earth, a”nd some ot his statements had made a lasting impression upon me. Mis oft-repeated query, “11 hat is progress?” haunted my ears, and followed me to my hotel; and as F entered my chamber in the evening twilight, I flung myself in an arm chair before the bright fire, and repeated aloud : “W hat is progress ?” And then I went ofl” into a deep reve rie. All my early life flashed hack up on my mental vision; the beautiful scenes of my young childhood; the tender cares of my gentle mother-one “whose womb never bare me, and whose breasts never gave me suck,” and yet whose fostering love rescued me from an untimely graved and strewed the sweetest blossoms of affection and happiness across my path; of my noble-hearted father, with his plowing genius and unconquerable humor; of my dear brother, whose death flung such a pall upon my life; of the little rose-buds that sprung up beside tne, and ” h:ch the angel Deal!) broke from the parent stern ere they had unfolded, leav ing that stem a withered and a drooping plant. “A nd are all these passed away?” I said, “and is this progress?” These gray hairs gathering upon my brow; this sadness settling upon my heart; this weaiiness intruding itself upon my limbs; is this progress ? If it be, I want none of it. 1 would rather be the dull weed that rots on Lethe s shore. Oh for m v happy boyhood again ! Oh for a draught of the fountain of eternal youth ! “ Vou may have it if you will!” an swered a soft sweet voice beside tne. 1 looked up in amazement, for I had scarcely known that i had spoken aloud. 1 felt ashamed of my absence of mind, for I ought to have remembered that there was no privacy in Washington life, and no security from impertinent, intru sions except by bolted doors, “Pardon me,” continued my visitor, “but 1 have unintentionally overheard your soliloquy; and I repeat, you may have it if you will. It is at my command, but listen to me first, and then decide; lor know, that the draught once quailed, its effect cannot be recalled, and the youth you long after will be yours forev er. j ime itself will grow old: genera tion after generation wilt spring up around you, mature, wither and pass away; but the bloom of eternal youth will be upon oti, and though you long for the rest ol n„ iHenlly as the lover for ihe af ttclion of ins .distress, it will not, cannot come to you. Wiii you have it upon the.->e terms ?” He stood quietly before me awaiting my answer, tie was a young man, ap parently nut over twenty-five years old, with a fine manly countenance, in the bloom ot health and vigor, but with a shade of sorrow upon his brow. u And who are you,” asked I, ‘ : that offers so generously, so rich a boon? You had better retain it,” I added, in credulously, ‘‘that you may preserve your own youth and manliness.” “Alas!” he said, “I need it not for any such purpose. I have already tasted iU waters, and 1 can never put aside its ell jets until the end of all things is at hand. More than two centuries have already passed over my head, and 1 long i <r tny rest of the grave; but ah! its *>"atiuws come not to me. As wave alter wave ot human ocean have rolled up will) its beauty and its majesty, with its tide of human sympathy and mortal affec tion, 1 have sought to linger upon its summit, but it has glided from beneath me and passed away, leaving me to re peal the same effort with each succeed jng wave, and with the same vain result 1 have no one that 1 care for; even when my heart clings to some fljeling object, it is lorn quickly from its hold, leaving that heart to weep tears of blood; the sweet consciousness of having someone These “Leaves” resemble Ju.|e Charlton’s writings so much that we are inclined u believe they arc Irom Ins pen. —[Em. Rkpcb. ®I)C #eorgfft Htfttv&onian. who will mourn my fate when I die, is not for tne. ] have no hope, and even the excitement of fear is denied to me. Oh cursed hour when 1 quaffed the wa ters of that life-giving fountain ! when I put an end to all human sympathy, and left myself an isolated wretch, with this mockery of perpetual bloom upon my cheek, and this reality of perpetual sor row upon my heart !” “But who are you, and how did you obtain it ? and how is it that while you huve been unable to give it to those you loved, you now offer it to a mere strati ger ?” “Listen to me, and I will tell you. 1 was born . But there, is the sound of your supper-gong; I will tell youl.eie after.” I here was the sound of the gong, sure enough, but where was the man? 1 looked about in vain for him, hut either he had vanished quickly, or he was hut the creature of my dreams. Quien sabe? It he were born of that deep reverie, his paternity must lie traced either to that Kentucky Senator, or to the soft and wooing influences of that luxui ions chair, and that cheerful fire. Again I say Qttien sabe ? But tie was gone, and he came no more, although half-doubtingiy, half laugliingly. I waited for him in the dim twilight. And again a deep reverie came upon me, but this time it was the sober, second thought: of practical reason. “And Ibis is ‘progress,’ ” I said; “to walk humbly and cheerfully in the path of God’s providence; to scatter the bless ings which Me puts within our hands to the poor and wounded Me has placed around us; to drop the tear upon the blossom Me plucks from our bosom—the tear of sorrow for our deep affliction the tear of hope and joy for the blessed assurance that it is transplanted to a lovelier bovver, where it will continue to unfold in an eternal sunshine; to scan the map of life which Me has spiead before us, and to leach to our fellow mortals the many brilliant lessons we may* learn, if we will; to continue to develope our faculties and our usefulness, with our eyes continually 7 fixed upon a brighter land; and then, when time steals from u> our energies and our wisdom, to let oui soul’s progress still lie upward, until death releases it from its fleshly taberna cle, leaving it to soar to that realm where only the fountain of perpetual youth bub bles up, arid where the ‘spiritual body’ shall continue to ‘progress’ through the endless cycles of eternity, gathering new strength and new beauty on its onward march. Perhaps there is no part of the earth where more ludicrous scenes take place than in Washington. 1 lie gathering to gether of people from al! parts of the world, the varied interest, and the num berless claimants, all help to (mm gro tesque incidents, which, if they could be skillfully combined by a master-hand, would create a soul under the ribs of death. Haying neither the time nor the ability, I will only mention one. There is iu the Senate a gentleman of distin guished talent, of fine personal appear ance and of inimitable wit. Onone win dy morning he was wending his way through a by-street when a gust blew off his hat. It had scarcely touched the ground before a huge New Foundlanu dog pounced upon it, and ran away b ar ing it as a trophy. Jbe Senator, unwil- Itng to part so summarily with his new beaver, pursued the felon, and the scene became highly exciting to the people of the metropolis, who, delighted with any J incident that could give amusement, were thrown into perfect ecstacies of i<.y at seemg the race between the dog and the Senator, the one plunging al his utmost speed with the hat between his teeth, and the other, his long hair stream in- i„ 1 te wind, and his stentorian voice makin thea.r discordant with a multitude Jf fierce entreaties and impressive threats, pursuing with frantic, strides the caitiff quadruped. Finding that his biped an tagonist was gaining upon him, the thief fled into an open door, and in too went Ins parsuer. The dog dashed up a fli-ht of stairs, and up dashed the Senator”— i he dog fleJ into a chamber, and there, 100, ran the avenger; and there they both encountered a beautiful girl who was just toftitig herself at her morning toilette, and who was scarcely in a condition to teceive so unexpected a visit. “What do you want, you wretch?” said the lady, with flashing eye and in dignant scowi, to the Senator. Aly hat !” answered the somewhat affiighted, but still determined intruder; “my hat, which your rascally do<>- has stolen from me !” “J believe that dog is Satan ! ’ mutter ed the lady; and then fiercely added to the dog: “give him his hat, Sir!” which the quadruped instantly obeyed. “And ~pw, be off with you, you pack of fiends!” [to the d->g and to the Senator;) and rushing at tn*>.n they both lied down stairs in congenial terror, forgetting in their present panic their fortnei difference.— Ihe crowd in the street received them with three hearty cheers, and the honored representative of a noble State went home with his rescued chapeau in his hand, (to guard against a repetition of the direful occurrence,) hut with a more humble and subdued spirit than had ever before throbbed within his bosom. 1 have learned a lesson,” he said when lie had reached home*and wiped his brow: “two, | may say. One is to hold on my hat of a windy day, the oi her, and more important, is never, under any circumstances, to rush into a room: where a lady is dressing; for of all the fierce volcanoes that nature ever produced the most terrific is an angry woman ! NVhv, (added he with an impressive gesture, and a slightly subdued expletive,) there was lightning enough in that girl’s eyes to have tarnished the material for a do zen tropical storms, and enough left over tor a brilliant aurora-borealis !” 13ut the story lacks the mingled tone ot lun and ot terror which the hero gives it, and which is so provocative of mirth, that one ot the must distinguished and lamented statesmen of the land, whenever he heard it, or it casj>e hack to his reco GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1853. lection, would give way to uncontrollable laughter, even when the heavy hand of disease had grasped his form —a grasp that was never relaxed until the victim slept in death ! Washington City , Dec. 28, 1532 fFiO'n tlic Baltimore Sun. J Lecture of Dr. Kane on the Arc ic Regions and his New Expedition. The great Lecture Hall of the Mary land Institute was densely crowded on Thursday evening liy an intelligent audi ence of ladies and gentlemen, attracted by the announcement oT a lecture by the intrepid and scientific adventurer, Dr. E. K. Kane, on “ The Physical Aspects of the Arctic Regions, in connection with, the search after Sir John Franklin, and the.. Discovery of an Open Volar Sex.” The attendance, at the lowest estimate, was fully three thousand persons, and notwithstanding the learnecf speaker lays no claim to the title of but merely yields to the calls upon him as a matter of necessity, in order to express publicly his sympathy for the lost navigators, and to explain the grounds for his belief In their possible existence, and of the existence of an open sea at the North Pole, the closest attention and in tercut was,.inanifested throughout the de livery of his argumentative discourse, which reflects high credit upon lxku as a geo grapher and man of letters. Doctor Kane opened liis lecture with a brief sketch of the progress of geographi cal science. He remarked that there were, at this day, great areas awaiting the ex ploration of civilized men. He instanced the region of the Arctic search. After calling the attention of the audi ence to the discovered features of this re gion and to the deductions from the grand generalizations of physical geography as to its area and configuration, he dwelt more at length upon the arguments in fa vor of the existence of a Polynya or icelcss sea, shut in by an annulus of circum-polar ice. He presented a lucid analysis of the laws of current-action as obtained from the results of the Coast Survey and the Ger man Hydrographcrs. These arguments were illustrated by diagrams suspended a bove the platform, and led to most inter esting and satisfactory inferences as to the mildness of the weather and the fluidity of the region about the pole. In this con nection the lecturer refered to the migra tion of animal life to the North —a migra- tion observed at the utmost limits of north ern travel attained by man. The flight of birds, of the ducks, auks and petrels—the i novement northward of the mammalia of 1 he sea, the tnsky walrus, the polar bear, ind the reindeer travelling in herds, “a f irest of moving antlers.” He alluded to I lieutenant Maury, as an early and elo q tent advocate of the existence of the P olynya, a gentleman who possessed that rt re union of powers of generalization with tfc 3 technical labors of official routine. Dr. Kane said that, more than a year ago, he came before the Institute as a siti ter on behalf of the crews of Sir John Fr mklin. That since then practical sym pathy and liberality had not been idle, and tlia t lie now appeared before them on tho eve of a second departure for the Arc tic i ?a. That engrossed as lie was with the i cares of organizing this second expe ditio i, nothing coaid have induced him to acctq t tiie invitation of the Maryland In stitute, but i': : s anxiety to state before his fellow -members of that body, how much was due to their ; ‘ssociation, and more es pecially f to two of r.hs members. The nice relatione he said, which should subsist between an ok ccr of the Navy and his chieif, forbade hi n tv"'allude to one of those ge. ntlemcn in t rthcr terms than those of siinpl 3 personal e ;ratitu ‘le—of the other he could speak with more freedom. Mr. George Peabody bad contributed ten thou sand doll irs in ait 1 of the expedition—a ■ gentleman whose ? unostentatious liberality was too well knov m to require a notice at his hands. Dr. F here read a portion ot a letter from y .r. Peabody, in which he, with characterif tic modesty, expressed himself as “prom lto follow in the footsteps of Henry Grinne 11.” (This was received by the large an? lienee with deafening ap plause ) The point of t leparturc of the new expe dition in search of Sir John Franklin would be Smith’s Soua l, a point recommended by many advatr I ‘ages which the lecturer enumerated, an l was two hundred and twenty miles fa? ther north than the start ing point of Sir Edward Belcher. The party wt mid consist of some thirty men, a couple c 1 f launches, sledges, dogs and gutta-pnrcl ia boats. The provisions would be comp< >sed mainly of pemmican, a concentrated ii miinal food, the preparation of which the le* t ?turcr described, packed in cases impregua hie to the assaults of the polar bear. Leaving the United States iu the brig furnished by At *. Grinnell, the Advance, at the ealiest perio lof navigation, they would enter the icc of Melville Bay, force their way to the ext ‘erne navigable point, and there secure th i 3 vessel for the winter.— They would th< n press forward with sledge and launch. 1 ‘lie sledge (large drawings of which were shown to the audience) would constitut 3 a most important feature of the lecturer’! plan of search. Each of these, construct 3il principally of hickory, and with great \ cave, would carry the blan kets, furs and a measured allowance of food for six met i. A light tent of India rubber-cloth wo aid be added for use when ever the main dt ‘pendeuce of the nightly halt, the suow-l ouse of the Esquimaux, might uot be des ! rablc. The lecturer pi etured .an Arctic sledg ing party on the i uarcb. The gnarled and bristling expanse o 1 ice, st veaked with the water leads, black stream. \ from which arises that strange , mist , “the frost smoke.” Six men harnessed t 5 each si adge, moving with steady gate—it 1 front, s< ?me twenty paces, compass in hat lf *> their leader. A ridge of ice stops tliel l ’ way, r ‘sing some twenty feet in air, the sledge is unladen, and piece by piece its fre. tght is car. ‘ied over. A stream of water cross, e. ? their p *th, the gutta-percha boats are bro, ight inti * requi sition, and the water passed • The party halt for the night—their t lay’s journey, long in hours, has brought fc, lein some ’ t° n miles on their way—ten miles in astrai ?ht line—a good day’s perform mce for an Arctic sledging party. The snow hou w is built, or the tent is pitched—upon the snow is spread a covering, water-proof, on that a wolfs skin—Pemflfcean soup makes the chief dish for the supper. Pipes are lit, each man, covered to the hips by a blanket bag, draws a second wolfskin over him, and seeks in sleep the rest which is ito support him on the morrow. The greatest sledge journey on record was that of his friend Mr. Kennedy, late commander of the “Prince Albert,” who accomplished nearly l,4oP:nilcs—most of it in mid-winter, his only food Pemmican —his only shelter the snow house. Mr. Kennedy was now a volunteer to serve upon the expedition. The line of travel which the lecturer hoped to pursue, was one due north beyond the limits of record travel—-a line of trav el rendered most valuable l|y the light to be thrown upon many of the undetermined points of the distribution of heat upon the surface of our planet—upon the great questions of the amount and direction of the earth’s magnetic forces—upon the great mystery of northern migratory life. He noticed the interest shown by Profess or Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, by Professor Bachc, of the coast survey, and by the Secretary of the Navy, him self a votary ofsciepec in.the organization of a scientific (Wps in coqjs*ction with the expedition. V” - The question, Dr. Kane concluded, whether the party of Sir John Franklin be dead or alive, was not to be considered in connection with the obligations of a se cond search—the duty of attempting to solve the mystery of their fate rests with us. The gallant speaker was often interrupt ed by loud* applause as he proceeded, and the conclusion of his lecture was followed by long continued marks of approbation. [From the New York Tribnno.J Talk with One of the Chinese. Dr. Gihon, who has in his charge the Chinese troupe of jugglers, &c. to the number of fifteen persons, male and female, called with Assam, (one of the most in telligent of the Celestials,) —at this office yesterday, to invite us to a Chinese rehear sal at the Broadway theatre. Assam speaks English, having been a Canton tea dealer, and, in that capacity having had the advantage of considerable intercourse with English and American merchants.— He knows but little, however, of the inte rior of the country, and was totally igno rant of the late revolutionary movements against the reigning imperial dynasty.— lie is, however, pretty well informed con cerning the Chinese in California. He es timates the number now in that country at no less than fifty thousand. These are al most entirely men, having left their female attachments at home, to await their return to the “Central Flowery Kingdom.” And a few hundred dollars being a fortune to a frugal Chinaman at home, h?„i* soon ena bled, from his good qualities of industry, temperance, and economy, to return and establish himself as an aristocrat among his late fellow-plebeians for the rest of his life. There are, it is said, however, some three hundred Celestial women of the town in San Francisco, of the most aban doned and shameless dissoluteness; and these syrens being generally handsome, and possessed of delicate, yet finely round ed figures, seldom fail in fathering from the returning miners a rich harvest e s gold. Between these frail daughters of the orient and gambling soloons, many a poor fellow is wheedled out of the savings of years of hard labor in the diggings, and, after a few days or weeks is thrown as a loafer upon the town, or driven back, pen niless, to the mountains, if lie docs not perish on the way. The late hostility a gainst the Chinese working in the mines has subsided. It grew out of an arrange ment between certain English speculators in Canton, and their gangs of Coolies, hired at certain rates to work in the dig gings considerably below the usual rates of wages for the Caiuortila laisrar. This caiioC of offence having been removed, the Chinese are permitted to come and go, or remain , without let or hindrance; and they seldom give occasion for trouble, from their peaceable, tractable, and sober habits. The white rats of San Francisco -are a Chinese importation,, and they swarm through the city. No place in the world is, perhaps, blest with a greater number and variety of rats. First, there is the gray wharf rat, originally from Norway, but now common the world over; then there arc the black and blue rats peculiar to California; and last, though not least, the white Chinese rat. This abundance and variety of rats, no doubt, contributes to make San Francisco so very attractive to the Chinese. But it is due” to them to’ say, that with plenty of fish and rice, or even of roast beef and plum pudding, they are generally disposed to leave the mono poly of sugar cured rats to the Mandarins. This troupe of Chinese appear to have discovered very few things in the .United States superior to what is to be found in China, excepting the California gold mines, our steamships and railroads, and labor saving machinery in general, in which they arc very deficient. This deficiency, how ever, reducing all sorts of manufactures to the tedious processes of labor by hand, is, however, the secret of the multiplication of the Chinese nation to throe hundred millions of people. As an evidence of what they can do in the way of architecture, wo are informed that Parrott’s building in San Francisco, of one hundred feet front, seventy or eigh ty feet deep, and four stories high, all of solid granite, was put up in Canton, block by block, by Chinese workmen; and the blocks being all numbered, the building was then taken down, put aboard ship, brought across the Pacific, say ten thou sand miles, and re-erectcd in San Francis co by the same hands. Taking our troupe of jugglers as an av erage sample of the Chinese, they are evi dently, as compared with any of the Euro pean stocks, an inferior race of people.— They are a small boned, feeble bodied race, the men being slender for their height, and dark as Choctaw Indians, with awk ward high cheek bones, angular eyes, ltfrgo ears, set high upon their heads, and fiat noses —the whole facial conformation be ing far inferior in dignity and strength of character to that of the North American Indian. The Chinese women, on the oth er hand, are of a much lighter complexion —their features arc softer and finer, with a very striking expression of amiability and gentleness; while their limbs are deli cate, and their forms round, graceful and well developed. The tricks of this troupe in tho arts of legerdemain, are oriental, and some of them arc exceedingly well dotie. After the circuit of the principal cities of the United States, they propose to visit Europe. The double-jointed dwarf is their greatest curiosity, and next to him, we regard their peculiar articles of dress, and the richness and high finish of some of their silken Chinese robes. But the glance at these people in the lump is certainly cal culated to dispel the delusive idea of the elevation of China to onr standard of civili zation, short of a thousand years to come. From llie Dalton Times. “Light from tho Spirit World.” We have been favored with many mani festations and much information from the “ Spiritual World” by reading the “Light from the Spirit World?,” a papei which we have received from St. Louis, Mo. devoted “to the dissemination of light on spiritual intercourse.” We are in the same dilemma with the Editor of the Griffin Jeffersonian. If there is any truth in these “spiritual manifestations,” they are too deep, or we are too shallow, to un derstand them, notwithstanding there are men of the highest order of talent who have become convinced that the “manifestations” made through the “me diums” actually come from the spirit land. —Yet, with all this, we are an unbelie ver, and it will require some very severe “rappings” to mall us ioto belief God has given us the Bible, by which we are to he governed. In it we are told that this world shall finally be destroyed by fire. But when? Not even the angels in Heaven know. Yet the “spirits,” through there “mediums,” are informing mankind that the day is near at hanJ, yea “that the earth is already on fire.” The voice of I’hos. Jefferson is heard from the spirit land, and a long communication from his spirit is published in the “Light of the World,” declaring in the most emphatic terms the reality of the “rappings.” It seems ftom his communication that he has turned abolitionist, and great is his la mentation, because he, while on earth, opposed this doctrine. Humbuggery! we can’t believe it, and it strikes us very forcibly that these rappings tnav yet turn out to be a mere ruse, put on foot by these abolitionists to delude the ignorant and unsuspecting into the belief that their damnable “higher-law’’ doctrines are sanctioned in Heaven. —lt is true that the manner of making these raps is veiled in mystery, and this is one great reason why people believe that “spirits have something to do with it.” It fails, how ever, to convince us. —We look upon it as an invention concocted to carry out some deep laid scheme. Could some of those who have been buried a century 7 ago, be brought to life and carried to the city of New York, and there shown, without explanation, the many inventions of man since their day, what w 7 ould be their con sternation? What would they think of our steam vessels, our rail roads, balloons, or Ericsson’s Caloric Ship? Were they iu Boston and could see an hundred bells commence ringing, by tne aid of Electri city, how would :!:*y account for it. — Set Ben. Franklin down in the press de partment of tiie “Daily Sun ” office, and we’ll wager our “goose quill” he could not tell where he was! We can point you back to a time, even in your own recollection, when the idea of conveying intelligence from Philadelphia *to New York was looked upon as a humbug —an impossibility 7 . And now it can be carried thousands of miles in a minute. Now we do nol mean to prove by these inven tions that the “spiritual telegraph” is not a humbug, but on the contrary that the spiritual pari of it is the greatest humbug that waSmver invented, and that these laps are made by means of some invention of which a majority of man kind as yet are ignorant, and that it has lor its object the carrying out the doc trine of Abolitionism, or some other of the “isms” of those “higher law” fanat ics, vvho have, in all human efforts, failed to convince the intelligent of the truth ol their doctrines. Abolitionism and UniversaliMn are both favored by the spirits who have spoken in the “Light from the Spirit World.” The spirit of an Editor has also made some remarks, but so many of them are in the habit of puffing and lying for pay, that we consider it unnecessary to notice them, and consider them an intrusion upon th<? public, for we have no doubt he bored them enough before he “shuffled off his mortal coil.” We have no doubt that these spirits will he a great help to Uni versa! ism.— Hear the spirit of Dr. Emmons, a preach er of the doctrine of eternal punishment. In speaking of his sermons he says: “Would that those sermons were buried in oblivion ! They are a curse to the world, a dishonor to him who coul I be - or utter such sentiments —a libel on the character of a just and holy God.” Oh, ye preachers of eternal punishment, “do not grope in darkness longer.”— Throw aside your Bible, and quit preach ing the doctrine of eternal punishment, for it is false, or at least this spirit says so. Four fifths of the Christian world are ignorant, or have misinterpreted the Holy Bible, or this spirit is no spirit at all, and knows nothing of the other world. Now which way will you take it? We adhere to the latter opinion and believe it is no spirit at all. One word mote and we close this spi litual article. We do not believe in the first place that a spirit has the power of conversing with those or. earth, i’ e also believe that if they had the power to do so, that power came from God alone, and that if God gave them power to give light from the spirit world he would also have given them the power to have effect ed their object without the aid of a news paper, at a subscription pi ice of “one dol lar and twenty five cents per annum, and advertisements “inserted at usual price.” I The Sugar Manufacture. The following interesting account of the first attempt to make sugar in Lou isiana, *s from the Iteport of the United ! States Bofetit Office, for 1847: I The sugar-oone in Louisiana was in troduced at an earlv day from the West Indies, and cultivated lc> a small extent at I erre atix B.t iff, and in the neighborhood ot New’ Orleans. Nobody at firsi ima gined that sugar could he made of it. ‘I he juice was boiled into syrup which sold at extravagant prices. In 1799 Mr. Bore, residing a few milps above New Orleans, a man reputed.fur his daring and his en ergy, formed'the desperate resolve of making sugar. ..He increased his cultiva tion, put up the .necessary buildings and machinery, and procured a sugar maker from the West Indies. The day appoint ed for the experiment was come, and the operation was under way. The inhabi tants ot New Orleans and the coast had assembled there in great numbers; but they remained outside of the building, at a respectable distance from the sugar maker, whom they looked upon as a sort of magician. The first strike came, and he said nothing; this they thought fatal, but still they remained fixed to the spot. The second strike was oui; the sugar maker carefully stirred the first, and then advancing towards the assembled crowd, ibid them with all the gravity of his craft, “Gentlemen, it grains,”—“it grains” was repeated by all. They all rushed in to see the wonder; and when convinced of the fact, scattered in all directions, greet ing everybody they met, with “itgrains!” And liom the Balize to the Dubuque, from the Wabash to the Yellow Stone, the great, the ali-ahsoi hing news of the colony was, that the juice of the cane had grained, in lower Louisiana. It did grain; it has continued to grain; it grained the last season at the rate of 215,000,000 pounds, and if no unto* ward action of the Government prevents it, in ten years it will gr..in to the extent of more than double the quantity. Lola Montez and her Maid. The New Orleans 2 Vue Della , of Wednesday, says that on the previous day Lula iVJuntez had a quarrel with her maid, who demanded payment for her *vork and dismissal from service, and urged the demand with so much democratic da ring, that the Countess grew furious, and forgetting the aristocratic distinctions of rank, “pitched into her,“ vulgarly so speaking, and gave her what a comical Irishman, said to have been named Paddy, once gave a drum. The maid then proceeded to the Re corder’s office and obtained a warrant for Lola’s arrest, which two officers of the city police attempted to execute at her residence. The Ztonseuse, however, refused to submit to the law, and threw herself on her dignity, and declared that she was a Countess. The officer declared that Coun’.esses did not pass cunent in this country. Then drawing a dagger, the fair Lola declared that she would defend her own liberty and honor. Matters had now arrived at a pretty pass. The flashing eye of tiie heroine of Bavaria was as fearful and brilliant as the bright blade which she held in her dexter hand, and the two officers quailed before her. At length when one of them engaged the attention of the heroine in front, and with a bravery which did honor to his Moslem badge, parried her passes, the other, by a counter movement, made an attack from the rear, and seized the Countess by the arms. Now came the tug of war. The Countess lost her dirk, hut her teeth were left, and she used them on the hands and persons of her opponents with an energy which proved their soundness. While this stdVm was goins on within,! \ the friends of the Countess gathered , around her dwelling, and appeared to be sadly grieved at the turn which things had taken. Some of them at length got . “ O j into the room, and the C.'ountess, by a move, fur a moment obtained her liberty, ‘ at their request. She then stepped up to the sideboard, ‘ seized a small vial labeled poison, svval- 1 lowed its contents, and then, with a tri- ‘ umphant voice, exclaimed : “JYour I shall be free from all further indignity •/” It ’ followed of course, that the Countess fainted, came to, smoked two segars, fainted again, and the officers, though doubting the reality of the poison, were fain to leave their fair arrestee, under a promise by her friends, that in due time she would appear before the Recorder. The True Delta concludes its state ment by saying that the matter has been compromised between the mistress and her maid, and that the poison has luckily turned out most harmless. The Merchant’s Clerk and the Plowboy. The young man who leaves the iarm-field for the merchant’s desk, or the lawyer’s or doctor’s office, think ing to dignify or ennoble his toil, makes a sad mistake. He passes, by that step, from independence to vassalage. lie barters a natural for an artificial pursuit, and he must be the slave of the caprice of customers and the chicane of trade, either to support himself or to acquire fortune. The more artificial a man’s pursuit, the more debasing is it morally and physically. To test it, contrast the merchant’s clerk with the ploughboy.— l'he former may have the most exterior polish, but the latter, under his rough outside, possesses the truer stamina.— He is the freer, franker, happiar, nobler man. Would that young men might judge of the dignity of labor by its use fulness and manliness, rather than by the sup erficial glosses it wears. Therefore we never see a man’s nobility in his kid gloves and toilet adornments, but in that sinewy arm, whose outlines, btowned by tbe sun, betoken a hardy, honest toiler, u nder whose farmer’s ot mechanic’s ves t a kindliest heart may beat.— Hunt's Mag azine. T“The man who has no music in his soul” was last week seen listing to a saw fier while at work. The man seetne.l hlighly deliahted. Ihe Rino of Essex.”— Historical readers (says the Philadelphia Bulletin) are familiar w'ith the story respecting the ring which Queen Elizabeth gave to her favorite Essex, promising that she would i interpose for him, even in his utmost need, il he should send back that ring as a token. The tale goes that when he !e!l under her displeasure, and was sen tenciod to the block, he dispatched the nog to her Majesty by the Countess Not tingham, hut mat the messenger, instead of delivering the token, treacherously withheld it; the consequence of which was that Essex was executed, and that Elizabeth, a year after, learning the per fidy of which he and she had been victims, pined away and died in less than a month’s time. This romantic legend has lon been regarded as a fiction, and given over to novelists as their proper prey— Bu. a work lately published in‘•’London Lives and Lellera of the Derereaux, Cai sos Essex,” contains documents that renuer the truth of the tradition probable W say the least. |„ foe,, , be Lon j o „’ Athenaeum, which is hyjno means a cred ulous journal, declares its full belief in the story, and asserts that the identical ring, a plain gold one, w'ith a ‘portraits of Elizabeth, is still in existence. Truth certainly is often stranger than fiction, and the incident, besides, is eminently of the Queen. Perhaps historical writers have heen too skeptical, for these last hundred years, in reitetino everything which, like this tale, had an air of romance.” Ignorance cf female modes of speech often leads to great misunders*andW A lady who says, “! would not make a tright of myself,” means, generally, that she neglects nothing, however minute, to make herself attractive. With another, “to be decent,” means to have a mass of beautiful lace, and a little fortune in diamonds. Politicians make fools of themselves pettifoggers make fools of others, and pretty gnls make fools of both. ‘ Mrs. Partington asks, very indignantly, if the bills before Congress are not coun - terfeit, why should there he such difficul ty in passing them ? An American now travelling in Eu rope, says that “Dutch babies are the most phlegmatic, contented, independent looking creatures on the face of the globe. They never cry. In order to test this, t pinched several of tlmn as I passed in the crowd. One of them slightly yawned; the others merely gazed placid ly me, hut made no sign.” i he London hints that another interesting event, in all human probabil ity, will tike place in April next, in the royal household. A hotel b to be built at Cape May wriich will have thirteen hundred apart ments, and is designed to accommodate two thousand five hundred guests. Two of the parlors will be each two hundred feet long and eighty in width. The di nmg room will be four hundred feet Ion”- y fifty-Iwe wide, and will accommodate, two thousand persons. hive years ago, this day,” say’s a” writer in hrazer’s Magazine, “Louis Na poieon Bonaparte was three years in ar rear of rent in the parish of'St. James. He could not pay his tailor’s or his up holster’s, or his wine merchant’s bill, or meet ona half of his engagements in the city or at the West end.” Ihe rats are said to be leaving Texa in disgust. They are reported “o have taken up their line of march westward, and to attack indiscriminately everything of a vegetable nature in their way/ The ferryman at the Sequin, crossing of the Guadaloupe river, killed fifteen hundred of them in one day. Breaking Ground. —The last Atlanta Republican say’s —“We would not wish to be thought officious, but we are a citi zen ot Georgia, and have a right to speak, it the people of the sth District w ish to oe well represented in the next Congress they ought to send Judge Underwood and if the people of the State wish ta have the right person for Governor, the ought to iuu Judge Trippe.” A Ship Load of Wives. —An immense emigrant ship, called the Caroline Chis holm, Is about to sail from Southampton, for Australia, with nine hundred young women, of good character, as emigrants. Mrs. Chisholm, who hits taken great in terest in the emigration movement, is to accompany them. The expectation is, that all these “gentle creatures” will be eagerly sought for in marriage by indus trious and hardy miners, farmers, and shopkeepers. Effects of Cold in* High Latitudes. —lt was necessary to be very carefut with oat drinking caps. Tin never suit ed, for it always adhered to tbe lips, and took a portion of the skin with it. A dog attempting to lick a little fat from an iron shovel, stuck fast to it, and dragged it by means of his- tongue, until by a sud den effort he got clear, leaving several inches of the skin and adjacent tissue on the cold metal. One of the seamen en deavoring to change the size of the eye of tbe splice in his tuck-rope, put the marling-spike, after the true sailor fash ion, into his mouth; the result was that he lost a great portion of the skin of his lip and tongue.— Dr. Sutherland's Journal of a voyage to Baffin's Bay. When Tom and Jack first entered the place where ideas are “taught to shoot;” the teacher calling them up, according to custom, said to the former: “Well my fine lad, what is your name ?” “Tom,” promptly answered the juve nile. “Tom,”said the teacher—“that doesn’t sound well. Remember always to spealc the full name. You should have said Tliom-as. Now my son (turning to the other boy, whose expectant face sudden ly lighted up with tbe satisfaction of a new-comprehended idea,'} now then will you tell me what your name is?” ■ “Jack-as /” replied the lad very r natu rally, and in a tone of confident decision. No. 8.
