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VOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN I* PUBUSHED EVERT THURSDAY MORNING BY WILLAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Gents per an num, or Two Dollars paid in advance. A.)VEirnShi\IKNTS in.- in ported at 0-VIS I'QLLAR per square, lor llie lirst insertion, end FIFTY CE.XTS per square, lor cadi insertion tljoroalicr. N A roapotiii'ilft d'-duciiou will fie made to those wlw advertise by the year. AJ! advertisements nut otherwise ;-!.lired, wit continued till furtiid. OF LjjfDS by Administrator?, Kxittitors or Guardians are required by law to be held on llie lust Tuesday in the month, between f!io hours o’ ten in ihe forenoon and three in the af'ern.Kin, t the Cmrl-House, in the county in vi;ii-h the land is situated. Notice of these sale, in i-I he given in a public gazette FORTY DJIYS :<> tiie, da y of sale. - v ILFS OF S'EGHOES must be made at pub lic auction on the first Tuesday of the month, be tween ;!u* usual hours of sale, at the place of pub lic s.lea n the counlv where the letters Testa in-n'.ii. •, of Administr-lion or'Guardianship may ve been “ranted; first giving FORTY DJIYS ic.tiee til -reofin one of Ihe public gazettes of this State, and at the court house who e such sale# arc t* ;-e t. M. Notice fr the si!e of Personal Property must i>- giv -.'l in like manner FORTY D*9YS previous to the duv of safe. iNelii c it Debtors and Creditors of an estate ‘.e published FORTY DJIYS. Xo.ic that Hjiolitatio.n will lie made to the Court •*f 0 hll.fv fir REAVE TO SEl.i. LAND llllldt be pilll lisiie.!f.r TWO MOST US, .Notice tor i.f.avk to sell negroes must be pnbii-died TWO MO.YTIiS before any order ab solute shill he made (hereon by the Court, CITmS'TIO.YS for Letters of Administration, must he published tiiirtv dats; |>r Dismission Iron Aeuiiiiislrntion, monthly six moeths; for Dismissi'.n Irom Guardianship, Forty day , Pules tor ihe Pored..sure of Mortgage must he pii!!.s led monthly for four months, for estilb- I.sinii” lost papers, ior the full space of three month.?; for compelling titles from Kxeeiilnrs nr A. ! m:oit.iiti,rs, v.herr a bond has been given by be discared, the foil space id three months. From ‘'.e VVasl.inatnn Union. An Interesting Reminiscence. We i.ave much pleasure in laying be fore our readers the following hitherto unpublished account, by an eye-witness and participator of the great naval com bat between the Bon Homme Richard, utider the cotnmnnd of the renowned Paul Jones, and the Serapis. It will be read with interest. Pariictilms of the engagement l>*ht**n the Han Homme Richard and the SWpM, furnished by First Lieutenant Richard Dul*, of the Bon Homme Richard. Oo llie 23d of September, 1779, being below, I was roused by an unusual noise <-n deck. This induced me to go upon deck, when ! found the men were sway ing up the royal yaids preparatory for making sail fur a large fleet under our !ee. 1 asked the coasting pilot what fleet it was. tie answered: “the Baltic fl.et, under convoy of the Serapis of 44 guns, and the Countess of Scarborough, of 2‘J guns.” A general chase then com menced of the Bun Homme Richard, the V am) the Altiance, iiifc then in sight after,a Ijp&jSHS'BujnflKtl.e s-ju idron of nearly Hts. tml which ship, as usual, the private signals of the HJftJ.ue. At this time our fleet PRoedgrfrflye northward, with a light ugh Head being about distant. At 7P.M. it was the Baltic fleet perceived weie in chase, from the signal Bhc Serapis for the merchantmen to slWn m shore. At the same time the Strop:-; and Countess Scarborough tacked siiip and stood oil the inten tion of thawing off ouraHkttion from the convoy. VI hen these separated from u.e con vow about two miles, they tacked, and stood in shore after e merchantmen. At about 8, being within hail, the Serapis demanded: “\\ hat ship ithat r” He was answer ed, “1 can’t hear what you say.” Imme diately alter, the Serapis hailed again : “• liat siiip is that i Answer immedi ately, or 1 shall be under the necessity of filing into you.” Al this moment I received older* from Commodore Jones to commence the action with a broadside, which, indeed, appeared simultaneous on board both ships. Our position being to ‘windward of the Serapis, we passed a head of her, and the Serapis coming up on our larheard quarter, the action com menced abreast of each other. The Se rapis soon passed ahead of the Bon Homme Richard; and when he thought he .had gained a distance sufficient to go down athwart the lore-foot to rake us, found he had not enough distance, and that the Bon Homme Richard would be bboard him. put his helm a-lee, which brought the two ships on a line, and the lion liomme Richard having head-way, ran her bows into the stern of the Sera I is. vVe had remained in this situation hut a lew minutes when ive w'ere again hail ed by the Serapis, ‘ has your shipstruck?” To which Capt. Jones answered, “I hive not yel begun to fight.” As we were un nble to bring a single gun to bear upon the Scrap:*, our top sails were backed, while those of the Serapis were filled, the ships separated. The Serapis wore short round on her heel, and her jib-boom ran into the mizzets rigging of the Bon ilomme Richard. In this siluatiou the ships were made fast together with a hawser, the bowspiit of the Serapis to the mizzen mast of the Bin Homme Richard, and the action recommenced from the starboard side of the two ships. With a view of separating the ships, the Serapis let go her anchor, which manoeu vre brought her and the stern of the Bon Homme Richard to the wind, white the ships lay closely pressed against each other. A novelty in naval combats was now presented to many witnesses, but to few admirers. The rammers were run into the re spective ships to enable the men to load after the lower ports of the Serapis had been blown away to make room for run ning out their guns, and in this situation the ships remained until between 10 and II o’clock, p in. when the engagement terminated by the surrender of the Sera pis. ‘• # From the commencement to the ter mination of the action there was not a man on board the Bon Homme Richard ignorant of the superiority of the Serapis, ■ ■ both in weight of metal and the qualities of the crews. The crew’ of that ship was picked seamen, and the ship itself had been hut a .few months off the stocks; whereas, the crew of tho Bon Homme Richard, consisted of part American, English, andTErench, and a part Maltese, Portuguese, and Malays. These latter by their want of naval skill and knowledge of the English language, served to depress rather than elevate a just hope of success in a couihat under such circumstances. Neither the consideration of the relative force of the ships, the fact of the blowing up of the gun deck, above them, by the bursting of two of the eighteen-pounders, nor the alarm that the ship was sinking, could depress the ardor or change the de termination of the brave Captain Jones, his officers and men. Neither the re peated broadsides of the Alliance, given with the view of sinking or disabling the Bon Homme Richard, the frequent neces sity of suspending the combat to extin guish the flames, which were several times within a few inches of the magazine, nor the liberation by the master-at arms of nearly five hundred prisoners, could weaken or change the purpose of ihe A ineiican commander. At the moment of the liberation of the. prisoners, one of them, a commander of a twenty-gun ship taken a few days be fore, passed through the ports on hoard the Serapis, and informed Captain Pear son that if he would hold out a little while longer, the ship alongside would either strike or sink, and that all the prisoners had been released to save their lives. The combat was accordingly con tinued with renewed ardor by.the Sera pis. The fire from the tops of the Bon Homme Richard was conducted with so much skill and effect as to destroy ulti mately ever}’man who appeared on the quarter-deck of the Serapis, and induced her commander to order the survivors to go below. Nor even under the shelter of the decks were they more secure. The powder-monkeys of the Serapis finding no officer to receive’the eighteen pound cartridges brought from the mag azine, threw them on the main-deck and went for more. Theae cartridges being scattered along desk, and numbers of them broken, it so happened that some of the hand grenades thrown from the main yard of the Bon Homme Richard, which was ‘directly over the main hatch of the Seiapis, fell upon this powder, and produced a most awful explosion. The. effect wastremen rnendous; more than twenty of the enemy were blown to pieces, and many stood with only the collars of their shirts upon their bodies. In less than an hour afterward the flag of England; which had been nailed to the mast of the Serapis, was struck by Captain Pearson’s oicu hand , as none of his people would venture aloft on this duty—and this, too, when more than 1,500 persons were witnessing the con flict and the humiliating termination of it, from Scarborough and Flamborough head. Upon finding that the flag of the Serapis had been struck, I went to Cap tain Jones, and asked whether I might board the Serapis? to which he consent ed; and jumping upon the gun-wale, seized the main-brace pennant, and swung myself upon her quarter deck. Mid shipman May rant followed with a party of men, and was immediately run through the thigh with a hoarding pike by some of the enemy in the waist, who were not informed of the surrender of their siiip. I found Captain Pearson standing on the leeward si<’e of the quartet deck, and addressing myself to him, said, “Sir I have orders to send you on hoard the ship alongside.” The first lieutenant of the Serapis coming up at this moment, inquired of Captain Pearson whether the ship alongside had struck to him ? To which I replied, “No sir, the contrary; he has struck to us ” The lieutenant re newing his inquiry, “have you struck, sir?” was answered, “Ves, l have ” The lieutenant replied, “I have nothing more to say,” and was about to return below, when 1 informed him that he must accompany Captain Pearson on board the ship alongside. He said, “if you will permit me to go below, 1 will silence the firing of the (ower-Jeck guns.” This request was refused, and with Captain Pearson he w T as passed over to the deck of the Bon Homme Richard. Orders be ing sent below’ to cease firing, the en gagement terminated after a most obsti uate contest of three hours and a half. Upon receiving Captain Pearson on board the Bon Ilomme Richard, Captain Jones gave orders to cut loos the lash ings, and directed me to fullow him with the Serapis. Perceiving the Borj Homme Richard leaving the Serapis, I sent one of the quartermasters to ascertain whether the Wheel ropes were cot away, supposing something extraordinary must tie the matter, as the ship would not p'ay off, although the head-sails were aback, and no after sail; the quartermaster returning, reported that the wheel ropes were all well, and the helm hard a port. Excited liy this extraordinary circum stance, 1 jumped off” th’e binnacle where l had been silling, and lading upon the deck, found to my astonishment, I had the use of only one of my legs—a splinter of one of the guns had struck and badly wounded my leg without my feeling the injury until this moment. 1 was replaced upon the binnacle, whoo the sailing mas ter of the Serapis corning up to me ob served that from rny orders he judged I must be ignorant of the ship being al ut clior. Noticing the seconu lieutenant of the Bon Hoitime Richard, 1 directed him to go below and cut away the cable and follow the Bon Homme Richard with the Serapis. I was then carried on board the Bon Homme Richard to have my wound dressed. Vice President King, it is state.l, ex pects to return to Washington by the Ist of April. Senator Clemens has received a loiter from the commander of the steamer Fulton, at Havana, staling that the health of Air. King was much im proved. He takes exercise on foot daily GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 3,- 1853. From the Belfast News Letter. MAID SALLY AND HER SWEET HEARTS. “W ell, you see, I don’t know as I could call them sweethearts; for excepting John Rawson, who was shut up in a madhouse the next week, I never had what you may call a downright offer of marriage but once. But I had once; so I may say I had a sweetheart. ‘• I was beginning to be nfeard yipngh, for one likes to be axed; that’s and I remember, after I had rambd forty, and afore Jeremiah Dixon had spoken, I began to think John Raw son had perhaps not been so very mad, and that I’d done ill to slight his offer, as a madman’s, if it was to be the only one I was ever to have; I don’t mean as I’d have had him, but I thought, if it was to come o’er again, I’d speak respectful of him to folks, anti say it were only his way to go about on allfours, but that lie was a sensible man in most things. However, I’d had my laugh, and so had others, at my crazy lover, and it was too late now to set hiui.up as a Solomon. However, I tho’t it woufiMwt fto bad thing to be tried again; I but I Tittle thought the trial would come] when it did. < “Tou see, Saturday night is a leisure’ night in counting-houses and such like places, while it’s the busiest of all for ser vants. Well it was a Saturday night, and I’d my baize apron on, and the tails of my bed-gown pinned together behind, down on my knees, pipeclaying the kitchen, when a knock came to the back door. “ ‘Come ini’ says I; but it knocked a gain, as if it were too stately to open the door for itself; I got up rather cross, and opened the door; and there stood Jer ry Dixon, Mr. Holt’s head clerk; only he was not head clerk then. So I stood, stop ping up the door, fancying lie wanted to speak to master; but he “kind of pushed past me, and telling me summut about the weather (as if I could not see it for my self, ) he took a chair, and sat down by the oven. “ ‘Cool and easy!’ thought I; meaning his-self, not his place, which I knew must be pretty hot. ‘'Well! it seemed no use standing wait ing for my gentleman to go, not that he had much to say cither; but he kept twirl ing his hat round and round, and smooth ing the nap ou’t with the back of his hand. So ut last I squatted down to my work, and thinks I, I shall be on ’my knees all ready if he puts up a prayer, for I knew he had only lately turned to master’s way of thinking; I’d been caught once or twice unawares, so this time I thought I’d be up to it, and I moved a dry duster wherever I went, to kneel upon in case he began when I were in a wet place. By-and-by I thought, if the man would pray it would be a blessing, for it would prevent his send ing his eyes after me wherever I went. ‘‘First, I tried always to be cleaning at his back; but when he wheeled around, so as always to face me, I thought I’d try a different game. “So, says I, ‘Master Dixon, I ax your pardon, but I must pipeclay .under your chair. Will you please to move?’ “Well, he moved; and by-and-by I was at him again with the same words; and at him after that agaiu and again, till he were always moving about wi’ his chair behind him, like a snail as carries its house on its back. And the great gaupus never seed that I were pipeclaying the same places twice over. At last I got despe rate cross, he were so in my way; so I made two big crosses on the tail of his brown coat; for you see, wherever he went, up or down, he drew out the tails of his coat from uuder him, and stuck them through the bars of the chair; and flesh and blood could not resist pipeclaying them for him; and a pretty brushing he’d have, I reckon, to get it off again. “Well! at length he clears his throat uueommon loud; so I spreads my duster, and shuts my eyes all ready; but when nought coined of it, I opened my eyes a little bit to see what he was about. My word! if there he wasn’t down on his knees right facing me, staring as hard as he could. Well! I thought it would be hard work to stand that, if he made a long ado; so I shut my eyes again, and tried to think serious, as became what I fancied were coining; but, forgive me! but I thought why couldn’t the fellow go in and pray wi’ Master Thurstan, as he had always a calm spirit ready for prayer, instead o’ me, who had my dresser to scour, let alone an a pron to iron. “At last he says, says he, ‘Sally! will you oblige me with your hand?” “So I thought it were, maybe, the fash ion to pray hand in hand; and I’ll not de ny but I wished I’d washed it better after black-leading the kitchen fire. I thought I’d better tell him it were not so clean as I could wish, so says I, ‘Master Dixon, you shall have it, and welcome, if I may just go and wash ’em first.’ “But, says he, ‘My dear Sally, dirty or clean it’s all the same to me, seeing I’m only speaking in a figurative way. What I’m asking on my bended knees is, that you’d please to be so kind as to be my wedded wife; week after next will suit me, if it’s agreeable to you!’ “My word! I were up on my feet in an instant! It were odd now, weren’t it? I never thought of taking the fellow, and getting married; for all, I’ll not deny, I had been thinking it would be agreeable to be axed. But all at once I couldn’t abide the chap. ‘Sir,’ says I, trying to look shame-faced as become the occasion, but for all that, feeling a twittering round my mouth that I were afraid might end in a laugh—‘Master Dixon, I’m obleegcd to you for the.compliment, and thank ye all the same, but I think I’d prefer a single life.’ “He looked mighty taken aback; but in a minute’ he cleared np, and w r as as sweet as ever. “He still kept on his knees, and I wish ed he’d take himself up; but, I reckon, he thought it would give force to his word: says lie, ‘Think again, nry dear Sally.*- I’ve a four-roomed house, and furniture conformable; and a year. You may never have such a chance again.’ “Yltero were truth enough in that, but it is not pretty in the man to say it; and it put me up a bit. ‘As for that, neither you nor I can tell, Master Dixon. You’re not the first chap as I have had down on i his afore me, axing m* to marry him j (you see I were thinking of John Rawson, only I thought there were no need -to say jhe were on all-fours —it were trqth that ! he were on his knees, yoh know,) and may be you will not be the last, Anyhow, I’ve no wish to change my condition just now.” Tha Lepers of Jerusalem. In my rambles about ( >a;qsalcn, says a correspondent of the National Intelligen cer, J passed, on several occasions, through the quarters of the lepers. Apart from the interest attached to this unfortunate class of beings, (arising from {he frequent allusion made to them in Scripture,) there is much in their appearance and mode of lifo to attract attention and enlist the sympathy of the stranger. Dirt arid dis ease go revoltingly together here; guant famine stalks through the streets; a con stant moan of suffering swells upon the dead air; and sin broods daikly over the ruin it has wrought in that gloomy and ..ill-fated spot. Wasted forms sit in the .doorways; faces covered with white scales, fancl sightless eyes are turned upwards; [skeleton arms, distorted and feeted with [the ravages of leprosj', are outstretched from the foul moving mass; and a low howl ■is heard, the stricken for alms—“ Alms, oh stranger, for the love of God ! alms to feed the inexorable destroyer ! alms to prolong ( this dreary and hopeless misery!” Look upon it, stranger, you who walk forth in all your pride and strength, and breathe the fresh air of Heaven—you have never known what it is to be shunned- by your fellow-man as a thing unclean and accurs ed—you who believe yourself blest with all the blessings that God has given upon earth—look upon it, and learn that there is a misery above all that you have con ceived in your gloomiest hour—a misery that can still be endured. Learn that even the leper, with death gnawing at his vitals, and unceasing tortures in his blood, cast out from the society of his fellow-men, for bidden to touch in friendship or affection, the hand of the untainted, still struggles for life, and deems each hour precious that keeps him from the grave! The quarter of the leper is a sad and impressive place. By the laws of the land, which have existed from Scriptural times,, they are isolated from all actual contact with their fellow-men; but thdre seems no prohibition to their going out beyond the walls of Jerusalem, and begging by the roadside. Near the gate of Zion, on the way to Bethlehem, I saw many of them sitting on the rocks, their hideous faces un covered, thrusting forth hands for aims. Their huts arc rudely construct ed of earth and stones, seldom with more than one apartment, and this so filthy and loathsome that it seems unlit to be occu pied by swine. Here they live and propa gate, whole families together, without dis tinction of sex; and their dreadful malady is prepetuated from generation to genera tion, and the groans of the aged ami the -dying are zuiugled with tW'-fUgdc- of the young that are brought forth branded for a life of misery. Strange and mourn ful thoughts arise, iu the contemplation of the sad condition and probable destiny of these ill-fated beings. Among so many, there must be some in whose breasts the power of true love is imp] anted-love for wo man in the purest sense, for offspring, for all the endearments of domestic life widen the untainted are capable of feeling, yet doomed never to exercise the affections without perpetuating the curse. Some, too, in whom there arc hidden powers of the mind, unknown save to themselves; ambition, that corrodes with unavailing aspirations; a thirst for action that burns within unceasingly, yet never to be as suaged; and the ruling passions tint are . implanted in man for great and noble pur poses, never, never to give one moment’s pleasure unmixed with tlie-perpetual gloom of that qurse which dwells hr their blood. As I plodded my way for the last time through this den of sickening sights, a vis ion of human misery was impressed upon my mind that time cannot efface. I pass ed when the ray of the sun was cold and the light was dim; and there came out from the reeking hovels leprous men, gaunt with famine, a;jyd they b.ueid-JJAeir hideous bodies, and howled like beasts; and wo men held out their loathsome and accurs ed papers, and tore away the rags that covered them, and pointing to the” shape less mass, shrieked for alms. All was sin and disease and sorrow wherever I went; and as I passed on unable to relieve a thousandth part of the misery, moans of despair and howling curses followed me, and lepers crawled back into tbeir hovels to rot in the filth and die when God willed. WOMAN’S MISSION. BY ALICE GREEN. How important is the mission of wo man, and yet how few appear to under stand or feel the responsibility of the po sition she occupies. Jt appears to be the genera! opinion that if a lady has re ceived a fashionable education, and can figure well in the parlor, and equally well in tire kitchen, if occasion requires, that is all that is necessary —and if to this a moderate share of beau'y is added, it is enough to constitute her a paragon.— Now all this is necessary and proper; uui is there not something more for tier to do? Were vve placed here merely to occupy space, to “while away the hours” or assist in “driving dull care away,” to captivate the mind, or charm the senses? Is this the extent of our mission in this sin-fallen world? “Shall we say, because we may never enroll our among the great and illustrious ones of earth that “ours is a limited sphere of action?” True, we may none of us be a Luther, a Wesley, or a Whitfield, a Washington, a Boliver, or a Kossuth, a Newton, a Frank lit), a Fulton; it is not in our province to occupy the Presidential Chair, nor spealt in Congressional halls; but is not ours a more glorious mission?—one which angels might.look down an l smile up in? It is ours to educate our future statesmen ours to guide the youthful mind in the ways of wisdom and true piety, to instill a love of good, and hatred of evil, into those minds from which the futureluws ,of our nation are to emanate. As the fi’ st rudiments of children’s education over devolves on woman, lot us- remember that what is learned in- yout!) is seldom if I over, forgotten—that “as the twin is bent | the tree is inclined ’’ We are to a certain extent exerlbg n ---influence which will be felt by this, and the world, long after we have passed away, and our names are forgotten; \c! our influence which we now exert vi’i still be felt, either for good’ or evil, In tensity alone can reveal IWKv much weal or woe has been disseminated through the world by woman's influence in re gard to the proper or improper, education of youth. Let us not think then, that ours is a limited sphere of action, though we may not win laurels or worldly hon ors; though we may never reach the’ temple of fame, nor revel on the summit of the cloud-capped bill of science; yet we may \yiu brighter laurels than these Me should not. seek for worldly aggran dizement, is a holier mission, ‘iTert is uuch for us to do—let us nut be idle in this great “field of action,” but “let us work for some good, he it ever so lowly; labor, all labor, is noble and holy.” Let us, with “hearts entwined, aspire to raise our being higher.” If thefre is not enough for us to do in the home circles, let us go forth into the world—minister to the sick and suffering, comfort the bereaved, cheer the sad, encourage the desponding, relieve suffering humanity wherever we find it—for this is a part of our mission Nor is this all : we m?.y assist in car rying the light of eternal ljje to those that are in heathen darkness; let us be “armed by faith, and winged by prayer,” and there is no undertaking too great for us—and though there he much of bitter ness mingled in our cup of life, and we meet with many discouragements and disappointments, let us “cast our bread upon the waters,” assured it will return to us “after many days.” Let us do what our hands fin3 to do, with our might, and we shall gather for ourselves the laurel of peace, and receive a crown of immortality.— Literary Miscellany. My3t lies of G-omuling. Green, the celebrated lecturer on the arts and mysteries of gambling, is now at Annapolis, illuminating the members of the Maryland Legislature on those topics. An account of one of liis'leetures says that he commenced by exhibiting about twenty different packs of cards in common use, including those having white backs, and pointed out the various marks upon the backs of each, by which the professed gambler could tell them as readily as by the face. The manufacture of cards, he observed, was exclusively in the hands of gamblers and their agents. Mr. Green next remarked that the pub lic generally had no adequate conception of the degree of skill which was attainable by persons who made gambling their bu siness, and that if lie could only succeed in fully acquainting the public mind upon this subject ho had no fears shat any individu al, welt iuibrfaed in the riiattcr, would be so simple minded, as to attempt an encoun ter with the professed gainjoler. This great degree of skill on the part of the professed gamblers was the result of some amount of science, strong powers of memory ac quired by the cultivation, and and aston ishing sleight of hand obtained by constant practice, all aided by the marked cards in general use, by which they were read as easily as if played with the face upwards. To convince gentlemen of the utter fol ly of attempting to play cards with pro fessed gamblers, however amusing might be their private games with each other, lie would show them how completely he could control the cards of the entire pack. The game of whist was called for, the cards shuffled by those around him, when he im mediately dealt himself.aud Ills partner all the important cards in the pack. lie then explained to them,that, knowing every card by the back, lie could deal the second, i third, or even the fourth card from the top ! as well as the first, and this he did again ! with a rapidity that defied the closest sern- { tiny to detect it, and with as much appa rent ease as if he was dealing from the top of the pack. “High, low, jack and the game,” was next called for, the cards thoroughly shuf fied. He immediately dealt himself the ace, deuce and ten of clubs, and turned the jack, and gave his opponent the king, queen and tray, beneath the score of watchful eyes around the table, none of which could detect the cheat, or account for the result, until cxplamcd by Mr. G. “Euchre” was next called for, the cards shuffled, &c. Mr. G. dealt himself the ace, king, jack of clubs, jack of spades and ten of hearts, and turned the queen of clubs for trumps; discarding the ten, he assured himself all the tricks. This he accomplish ed by making several changes in the rela tive position of the cards, which is done, and could only be done by thoroughbred gamblers. “Bragg” was next introduced- the cards shuffled anti cut; a partner selected, to whom Mr. G. said lie would give a large hand. He dealt him “two ballets and a brugger,” and the third man the same hand in size—thus showing that the gambler could, in his knowledge of cards; deal just such cards as lie chose to deal. “Bluff” was next calld for, and Mr. G. showed conclusively that he could deal the cards from the top, bottom, or middle of the pack, with so much dexterity as de fied detection. Tne “Faro bank” was next called for. This Mr. G. said, might bo considered the national game, and was supposed by the public to be the most equal and fair game played with cards. But his exposition of the many modes of cheating by marked cards, (a peculiar shuffle,)*—the “gaff” afe played on the finger to push out two, (which cheat, he said, is played a great deal by Baltimore gamblers,) “strippers” or cut cards, and the manner in which cards could be shuffled and put up to lose, all was startling information to all present, some of whom candidly confessed that they had lost their thousands at this game but declared they would never play again, and would advocate the passage of a law to punish those who ha and been instrumen tal in robbing them, and to pr ohibit the continuance of gambling houses. A great variety of tricks with cards was next presented, showing the extraor dinary sleight of hand and powers of memo ry “that could be attained by those who make gambling their study, and exhibiting i ° ° Mk. the utter folly of the attempt to play cards .with gamblers, who can rob their victims -qit their will to any extent. Mr. Green’s ‘.audience left the room much wiser than when they entered. • A Drunkard. ■jf Look at that grey-headed man, of three score and upwards, silting by the w<y snie. lie was once an elder of the kirk and a pious man he was, if ever piety adorned the temples—‘the lyart buffets, wearing thin and hare’—of a Scottish j peasent. What eye beheld the many hun- j dred steps that one by one, with imper ceptible gradation,led him down—down down to the lowest depths of shams, - suffering, and ruin?—For aUany years before it was bruited about tlfat Gabriel Mason was addicted to driuk, his wife used to sit weeping in the spence when Iter sons and daughters were out at their work in the fields, and the iufatuated man, fierce in the excitement of raw ar dent spirits, kept causelessly raging and storming through every nook of that once so peaceful tenement, which for many happy years had never been disturbed by the luud voice of anger or reproach.— His eyes were seldom turned on his un happy wife except with a sullen scowl or a fiety wrath; but when they did look on her with kindness, there was also a self-upbraiding in their expression; on account of his cruelty; and at the sight of such transitory tenderness her heart would overflow with forgiving affection, and her eyes with tears. But neither domestic sin nor domestic sorrow will con* ceal from the eyes and ears of men; and at last Garbriel Mason's name was a bye word in tbe mouth of the scoffer. One Sabbath he entered the kirk in a stale of miserable abandonment, and from that day he was no longer an elder. To re gain his character seemed to him in his desperation, beyond the power of man, and against the dtcree of God. So he delivered himself up, like a slave, to that one appetite; and in a few years his whole household had gone to destruction. His wife was a matron almost in the prime ot file when she died; hut, as she kept wearing away to the other world, her face told that she felt her years had been too many in this. Her eldest son, unable in pride and shame, to lift up his eyes at kirk or market, went away to the city, and enlisted into a regiment about to embark on foreign service —His two sif ters went to take farewell of him, but never returned; one, it is said, having died of a fever in the infirmary just as she had been made a pauper: and the other— for the sight of sin and sorrow, and shame and suffering, is ruinous to the soul gave herself up in her beauty, an easy prey to a destroyer, and doubtless has run her course of agonies, and is now at peace. Ihe rest of the family diopped down, ‘.'lie ky o.io, out of into Li— ferior situations in far-off places: but there was a curse it was thought, hanging over the family, and of none of them did a favorable report ever come to their na tive parish; while lie, the infatuated sin ner, whose vice seemed to have worked ail the woe, remained in the chains of tiis tyranieu! passion, nor seemed e-Vgr, for more than the short term of a day, to cease hugging them to his breast.— Chris topher JSorih ill h's Spurring Jacket. Science—\ V ea v t i i —M ona l s .—Q ue e n Victoria stated, in her late message, that a plan would be submitted to Parliament for the promotion of practical science The science of France brings tribute to the nation from nearly all civilized coun tries. The whole world takes lessens on practical .chemistry from tbe Fiencli. — They have nearly a hundred farm schools and colleges, where chemistry, geology, botany, zoology, and other practical sci ences are taught, in their special applica tion to agriculture and the useful arts. — Russia has seven agricultural schools, and a college furnished with forty college buildings, and three thousand acres of iand, accommodating several thousand students. Belgium has a hundred—agri culture is the most fashionable science in Europe, as it may vv ell he, combining as it does nearly all other sciences. Practical science is now a leading object of national and state policy in our Ameri can Union. Agricultural bureaus are established by a great portion of the states. Professors of agriculture are pro vided for some of our colleges; and geolo gy, chemistry, and mechanism, in their special relation to agriculture and the useful arts are taught in many common schools in different parts of the country. Sao. Republican. Advice to Counsel. —There is a well known custom prevailing in our Criminal Courts of assigning counsel to such priso ners as have no one to defend them. On one occasion, the court finding a man ac cused of theft, and without counsel, said to a lawyer, who was present, “Mr. , please to withdraw with the prisoner, con fer with him aud then give him such coun sel as may be best for his interest.” The lawyer and his client then withdrew, and in fifteen or twenty minutes the lawyer re turned into court. “Where is the prison er?” asked the court, -lie is gone, -oar honor,” said the legal ‘limb.’ “Your honor told me to give him the best advice for his interest, and as he said he was guilty, I thought the best counsel I could offer him was to “cut and run/’ which he took at once.” Mr. Micou, a lawyer of eminence in New Orleans, has now been nominated by Mr- Fillmore, to fill the vacant judge ship on the Supreme Bunch. The nom ination of Mr. Badger, ot North Carolina, was postponed by Senate tilt fourth of March next, which amounted to a re jection. There arc at present thirty churches in San Francisco. This is about one to each thousand inhabitants, and which, judging from other cities, is perhaps about a fair average. Methodists have four; the Episcop4BPns, Presbyterians and Baptists, two each; the Congrega 'ionalists, Roman Catholics, .Swedcnhor pans and Welsh, one each. xaakit? Courtemp G.t out, you or sty puppy; let me alone or 1!1 toil your mu! ? ’ cjucu c<uiv- -to her lover Jake -who set about ten feet from her, pulling dirt from the chimney. I arn.t touchin on you Sul,'reSjgflß - •Jake. • ~ “Well, perhaps you don't mean fir—do y*?” “No, I don’t.” , “Ctouao you’re too tarnal scarrv, you Jong logged, lantern jawed, slab-sided, I pgQ!>-toed r gandi-kueed owl you ! you uam’i; got a tarnal bit of sense: git along home with you.'” •'Now, feaj, i love you. and can’t hip it; ..and et you don’t let me stay and court you, my daddy will suoyourn for that cow lie sold lnm t’other day. Bv jingo he said he’d do it.” “Well, look here Jake—if you want to court me, you’d better do it as a white man does that thing—not set off there as if you thort I was pizen.” “llow on arth is that Sal?” \V ny, slide right up here, and hug and kiss me, as if you had some of that “bone and sinner of a man about you. I)o you suppose a woman’s only made to look at you fool you! No, they’re made - for practical results, as Kossuth savs-—to hu <r and kiss, and the like.” ° “Well,” said Jake, drawing a Ion” breath “if I must I must; for I do love you, Sal.” • And so Jake commenced sliding up to her like a maple pole going to battle raying las arm goptly upon Sal’s shoulder we thought we heard Sal say : That s the way to do it, old boss— taat s acting as a white man orter.” “Oh, Jerusalem and pancakes !” exclaim ed Jake, this is better than any apple saas ever marm made. Crack-e-e ! buck wheat cakes and slap jacks and ’lasses, ain’t no whar long side you, Sal ! Oh’ how I love you !”&■• Here tneir lips came together, and the icpoit which followed was like puffin” a horse shoe out of the mire. Honey Bees. —The Albany Cultivator has an interesting article on honey bees, from the pen of a distinguished professor, from which we quote the following para graph : “Many— nearly everybody—suppose that the bee culls honey from the nectar of the flowers, and simply carries it to its cell in the hive. This is not correct. The nectar it collects from the flower is a por tion ot its food or drink; the honey it de posits in its cell is a secretion from its mel lilic or honey secreting-glands, analogous to the milk secreting glands of the cow and other animals. It they were the mere collectors and transporters of honey from the flowers to the honey comb, then we would have the comb frequently filled with molasses whenever the bees have fed at the molasses hogshead. TLy La&ay .w*. in the bee performs the same functions as the cow’s bag or udder, merely receiving the honey from the secretion glands, and retaining it until a proper opportunity presents for its being deposited in its ap propriate storehouse, the honey comb.— Another error is, that the bee collects pol len from the flowers accidental!v, while it is in search of honey. Quite the contrary is the fact. The bee while in search of nectar or honey, as it is improperly called, does not collect poUch. It goes in search ot pollen specially, and also for nectar.— When the pollen of the flower is ripe, and fit for the use of the bee, there is no nectar; when there is nectar, there is no pollen lit for its use in the flower. It is generally supposed, also, that the bee collects the wax from which it con | streets its comb, from some vegetable sftb j stance, I iua is also an error. The wax ■ is a secretion from its body, as the honey i is: and it makes its appearance in small scales or flukes, under the rings of the bel ly, and it is taken thence by other bees, rendered plastic by mixture with the saliva of the bees’ mouths, and laid on the walk; oi the cell with the to.ngud, very much in the way a plasterer uses his trowel.” Eloquent and Touching Extract from Col. Denton.—The following elo quent passage occurs in Col. Benton’s late speech at St. Louis: “I have gone through a contest to which I had no heart, and into which I was forced by a combination against life and honor, and from which I gladly es cape. What is a seat in Congress to me? 1 have sal thirty years in the highest branch of Congress—have made a name to which 1 can expect to add nothing —and I should only be anxious to save what has been gained. I have domestic affec tions, sorely lacerated in these latter times; a wife whom 1 never neglect ed, and who needs now more than ever—children, from me by the wide and conti nents. others by the slender bounds which separate time from eternity. I touch the age which the Psalmist assigns for the limit of manly life; and must be less indeed if 1 do not think of sottffching the fleeting and shadowy pursuits life, of all which I have seen the vanity. What is my occupation ? Ask the un dertaker, that good Mr. Lynch whose fact), piesenl on so many mournful occasions, has become pleasent to me. He knows what occupies my thoughts and cares— gathering the bones of the dead—a mother —a sister —-two sons—a grandchild planting the cypress over assembled graves, and making the spot where I and those who are dear to me are soon to be laid: all on the sun-set side of the Father of Floods, the towering city of St. Louis on the one rolling stream of the Missouri on anti where a ceme tery ot large is to be the fu lure metropolis of unnumbered genrations. These are my thoughts an'! cares, and the undertaker knows them ” “How many rods make a furlong ed a father of his son, a fast urchin,-as he came home one night from the town school. “Well 1 don’t know,” was the reply of the young hopeful,“but I guess you’d think one rod made an acker , if )ou got such a tann'ng as I did from old ! vinegar-face this afternoon.’*’ No. 9.