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VOL. XY.
K If CM JEFFEMLIi
I* rUM.ISHCD KTERY TH tJ tl A T MORNING
BY WILLIAM CLIfrF,
Z.t Tve Pollpr* asd Fifty Cents per an
nnm, or Two Dollars paid in advance.
ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted at OVfc
f'Ol.l .4/? per <sf|n re, for Ihe firsi insertion, anil
FIFTY CL'.Y TS per square, for eaeh imerlion
Herrafier.
Ari Mo-, .• (WTOeium wilft t>e mfc fa those
wfvi ahe •hv flu* year.
All r e nul otherwise ordered, will
I ecorr ol lilMorl.irl.
rr ~ • .•.7f.CS OF /..F\T)S hv Adndnistra'ors,
!'*-i ,f.r> r G iaiii.:ii< are itquirffl Id law to he j
held i-n i!;e fir<i Tue.-ila v in the monili, between i
i *• iionfs o'fen in 1 ! e l.iH-n >on mid three in tin !
after iivt, ■! the C>u r t-I Imise, in the coimly in j
•• tii.-li fir-'and is ■‘if'inted. Notice of flu se sid<* |
i <;<l ■•!• i! in a public ‘'.i/'lle FORTY DA IS
I • -••••.-•iij • | *,'• |V of'•.’ll'.
<5 7/ ./’ AY.' '! /’ OI S moat lie mafieai p.ih
l.i: :o.• o.i ti::'first Tin.'-dav lilie inoiiih, be-
‘he ■mi i’ Ip •ns ol' .nU:. at lire place of pub
sales |.i rh. enuufy V.lieri: the letters Testa
• -'.ir . o \ > ii.isr fin:; or Guardianship not *
me. - ii si giving FORTY DAY y
i'i.’I 1 .■■>• o’ .jipj iifthe public gazet'es of til® i
*c ,i* .... !ni ta cl h’ Sc wire c such sa'esrsi j
i t'.rtlie s|t ( of P rsonal Properly mu*! ]
.. i, if nia ncr 1 OIiTY DAYS previous i
, of ssii . . j
‘ i; • to iloliinrs an! Creditors el an estate
1*..*,, t. P". hs> ! P'l/tTV DAYS.
i v - vial : onheat on will i>e mmie lo'he ffoorl ;
O **-*■■ * he’ I.e.AVE Tli SKLI. i.AN’P 11111*1 I'C pllll- ,
* ‘tor 7 nv ; o.vT/fS, i
’ ■ ie !..*■ i.f.ivk m “K'l. Nrr.pors must he,
...• 7’ii’ 1 if t • VTfj S hiTore any order ah- j
■ . ><> .„a ‘c liierenn hv the Court.
Cf ■". ?/V') \ tir la ri'r< ci Adn i'iistration,
.11.’ ,’ T| isli l THIRTY PAYS; for l>'Slllission
i r is* 111 on mon mi r six months; lor
I’ S . .1 frr- :| (Toardianship. roRI T OaT .
*! ••-’in i-'oreelosuif-of Morf*?a;e must he
vi iVi- 1 mcvthi.t tor rocn months, estal>-
. * ‘ ,<r papers. I"’ the full space ol three
tost" lor rorn.ie'iinu lilies lioni Eieniforo'a
. s ‘ • ‘'s.*rt . ea hoiirt Imsbeen given k>y i
‘e -vt i fi;il ■ .ie.* o 1 thrve month*. j
Tl.•> City of \'AV York Asleep. J
Ir ?:■ ruinous to see the circulation of a’
irr r.t c u v commerce in the morning—the 1
ir re.. I ci‘\ tiiui had roarer! itself to sleep.
Trtio there wn.3 a. feeble pulse all night:
the ears beat to and fro; but after all there
had 1 con a quiet hour. About half a mil
lion of t'ne people had been lying on a
dead level for four or live hours; some on
pillows of down and some on curbstones;
some beneath silken counterpanes, and
some b: catli the great blue quilt of hea-
Ten. Queer figures they make in the
wind's eye, to le sure—four hundred thou-
sand folks, more or less, lying in tiers or
n rmvs, five or six miles long, lying three or
wour deep, in the cellar, that is the primi
tive formation, then first floor, second,
third and so on up lo the garret Three
hundred thousand people snoring —what
a concert! Two hundred thousand peo
ple dreaming. Two hundred thousand
people in red flight caps, one hundred
thousand white, and here and there one
trimmed with lacc. Fifty thousand curls
twisted up in papers, giving their owners
nn appearence of having made a pillow of
cigar lighters. Twenty thousand curls
iu.fuMhg over the backs ofehalfs, or tossed
*a tables. Il ow gently time touches such j
people; they never grow gray at all! Ten
thousand people weeping, and now and
then one dying;-dying in his sleep; dying
in a dream. And then the getting up is
ridiculous enddgh; though going to bed—
should wc say “retire” in these refined
times’—is a solemn piece of business,
whether people think of it or not. Hut
the getting up, the waking up, is fnuny
enough for a farce; its process is a species
of gradualism. Here’s dhe who has slept
“like a top” for nine solid hours, and uow
he begins to wake; first its a half lurch,
and a long breath, and a yawn, then an
arm is thrust out, then a foot—the muscles
are waking up. Next the rattle c'f the
early wagons strikes his ear; hearing is
coming too Then his tongue moves un
easily, taste is returning. Last his eyes
open, one after the other; then half close,
then open again, and the man’s awake,
awake all over, awake for all days. There’s
another, sound asleep last minute; and
this he shakes himself like a huge New
foundland, spr *igs up “percussion,” and
the thing is done; the fellow hasn’t a sleep
y hair about him Snowy quilts that
have just risen and fallen with the soft
bosom beneath begin to grow uneasy.—
The wcL’t ueepers are waking, so we’ll
draw the curtains, and leave them to their
toilet. Bundles of rags in dark, damp
cr-nors toss and tumble; there’s something
‘dive underneath. Out it comes-more
rags. Misery makes no toilet, and there
arc no curtains to draw.— N. Y. Tribune.
The following auecdote is told by the
Ci.lecgo Journal of Gov. Reynolds, whom
tney cn 11 the “Old Ranger” in Illinois,
when for the fir t time in his life he visited
the s aboard as a representative to Con
pro s from the back settlements:
“Li] ?on reaching Baltimore the G overner
rose carl/ in ♦ lie morning a.id paid a visit
to the rhipping- at the docks when the tide
wv- f ill, and again at noon, when it was
at ebb; aud i.ot satisfied with the sudden
change that hid taken place, again in the
( ve.ni:,;. when the tide was in. Heretofore
luj m-’ rr oived to keep everything to hira-
Rol!, and ge in pursuit of knowledge under
I'd’ioukU sou his own hook; but now his
astnuisVumt broke over its bounds. As
i. > returned to the hotel tiic old Ringer
re masked that this was the euriousest
country he had ever seen in his life two
frtsiuUs in out day, and nary drop of
rain .”
ira. Japanese Present. —We learn from
the Sen't&JfcL. that Lieut. £ontee,
who lras/ust returned from
the Japanese expedition, has presented to
the President, from Commodore Perry, an
assortment of Japanese articles, such as
silks, pipes, &c. The)’ were a portion of
the presente sent ou board, after the inter
view at Gori Hammer, and the delivery
of the letter of the President of the Uuited
; States to the commissioner deputed to
meet the commodore, while specimens of
American manufactures were given in re
turn.
An elderly lady writes to a friend: A
widower with ten children has proposed
, and I accepted- This is about the num
ber I should have been an titled to if I had
fc&u married at the proper time, instead
noneutiiy. Sen-
Nation'll Horse Exhibition.
The following is An extract of what was
done on the last day of the great horse
1 fair, held at Springfie'd, Massachusetts,
in October last. It was a great exhibition
in the horse line:
“At eight o’clock a salute of cannon
annomiecAthftt tiie grounds gs thd|ocietv
were opened, and the people immediately
began to congregate. At 9 o’clock, when
the bell rang for the exercises of the day
I to commence, there were more people on
i the ground than at the same time on any
j previous dav Fully one half of the pro
-1 pic upon the seat*—which will accommo
| date from 4,000 to s,oo9— were Lilies,
1 who, during the whole exhibition, have
I continued to manifest the deepest interest
f in all the proceedings.
I “The first thing was the grand entret
tnnd procession of all the horses. It is
i impossible to give an idea of the niagnifi
i cer.ee of tLis scone. There were at this
j time not less than tn thousand people on
i the ground, and the cm voting, prancing,
| wheeling, neighing, dancing of the five
i hundred gallant steeds all at once in the
! ring, and all mirrored in the moving beams
|of a bright October sun, formed a scene
! worthy the pen of a Wavcrley. ’lhe cel
! ebrnted description of “the field of the
j cloth of gold,” would be as appropriate to
■ the present occasion as it was to the scene
lit so vividly pictures. The procession was
led off by the celebrated horses Cassius M.
Clay and John Anderson. After them
came the whole number of gallant steeds:
‘.V 1 —
\\ till fi.ovine tail and thin” mane —
A OiotHantl t!i.- wild, lii (ref,
Like vi'HTxj Utfd fid low oVr-llie sty.”
“Evcryihing about the horses was wor
thy of study. To the lover of the horse,
|as an animal—and I confess myself to that
i weakness —the dilated nostril, the eye of
i lire, tlie quick moving ear, the arched
I neck ‘clothed with thunder,’ the flanks all
i flecked with foam from the champing bit,
the mottled skin, the fiery action of the
proud animals, gave the true idea of the
nobility of the horse. But again, there
were other features worthy of attention. —
The horses were few of them liarnesse 1
properly, but they were mostly ‘attached’
to the slightest, frailest, skeleton buggies
and gigs, by almost literally twine harness.
I The rigging of the horses was not the least
interesting study, if we except the pride
and pleasure displayed by the owners.—
After passing around the ring twice the
procession broke up, and the ceremonies
continued by the exhibition of ponies, of
which there were about thirty.
Jenny Lind.
A correspondent of the Home Journal,
who has been visiting Jenny Lind, gives
an agreeable picture of the great vocalist
at home. VYc extract a bit here and there:
“As she sat with her embroidery ever in
her lap, and seemed to count the stitches
that she took, I more than once asked my
self, ‘Can it M Jenny Lind?’ In cortrcr
sation she was cheerful, but rather prefer
red to listen than to talk; and she was a
good listener—for there is quite as much
art in listening well, as in conversing well.
At the dinner table, she appeared to good
advantage, and presided with grace and
dignity, at no time more so than when
she offered for a toast, ‘America!’ And
as she replaced her glass upon the table,
said: ‘I wonder if 1 shall ever see that
happy country again!’ She spoke of the
Americans with ranch feeling, and of the
American ladies whom she had met, as
among her dearest friends. Their beauty
she extolled, and mentioned one young
lady of New York:city, who crossed the
ocean in a steamship with her, as being
particularly beautiful and amiable. But
she thought that the young married ladies
confined themselves too closely to the nur
serv, and did not take sufficient exercise
in the open air; that they were too exact
ing towards their husbands, and that the
latter were too indulgent!
Dinner over, the postboy brought in
some letters, one of which, directed to
‘Miss Jenny Lin'd;* and which bore the
stamps of half the post offices in the Uni
ted States and Europe, she opened, and
after reading, handed it to her husband,
reqttestmgdiini*4<M7iswer it? He took it,
and, laughing, read a love sick epistle
from a chap in Texas, enclosing an offer
of heart, hand and fortune!”
American Fashion
One of the New York papers gives the
following condensed description of a
fashionable New York party:
“Soirees have their established pro
gramme, and all our readers will rpcog
nize it instanter Printed cards two weeks
in advance for large parties, written notes
for medium, and verbal invites for small,
at intervals of from one to live days’ no
tice; carriage at eight o’clock; front room
second story for gentlemen —back room
for ladies (that the latter have not to pass
the former, which will be kept open, and
will smell of brandy and cigars;) ladies
fuming over piuensaions and tight slip
pers—gentlemen agonizing with a stiff
hair brush and intractable gloves; meet
ing at head of stairs, and entering room
together; no bowing to most intimate
friends until hostess is approached and
devotions paid; chairs and comfort for
wall flowers, dancing and small tdk for
light heels; old tops in the basement, at
cards; matrons under the windows, com
paring daughters; gabble, gabble, hop,
hop, music arrH lemonade for three hot*rt;
slight order of fried oysters, and tuning for
promenade; grand march of victims in
party colored costumes, like the actors in
a Spanish auto-da, ft ; rush of gentlemen
for plates aud forts; screams of ladies
about dresses; oysters, salad, and sand
wiches, followed by champaign, ice cream,
and jelley; smashing of plates, and sub
dued swearing of waiters; destruction of
white kids; alarming volley of small talk;
iucipient dispepsia, relieved by adjourn
ment to dancing rooms for exercise; con
fusion ala, champagne] old tops high; mat
rons low with fright; belles and beaux
getting ou famously; host yawns; carri
ages driving up;*shawls and overshoes;
empty rooms; smell of stale food: two bun*
dred nodding uight caps.— Firds.
I The way to advance another’s virtue,
I * es ollow it- ’
GRIFFIN, (CA.) THURSDAY .HORNING, JANUARY 19, 1854.
A Georgia Lady.
Georgia is the empire State of the
South in internal improvements, manufac
tures, and goa-headativencss generally,
and her daughters can beat the world in
beauty and intelligence. The famous
beauty of their namesakes of Asia does
, not surpass them. One of Georgia
. Ih(U<£ has been on a Eurbpe, and
received great favor at the nands of Queen
Victoria. The Homt Journal sxys:
“The most successful instance of trans
planting that we ever knew of was that of
a State Idle successfully removed from
Georgia and blooming with undiminished
luxuriance and vigor—the State belle of
Alabama. “Ihe Mobile newspapers, just
now, are welcoming back, with all the po
etry and eloquence of the most glowing
editorials, the accompTshcd Mrs. Levert
—(once the famous Cctavia Walton, of
Augusta) wh>, with other exotics that
took their leav-s for the sum t er, is bloom
ing once mere on her adopted so 1. The
mark of partiality which Queen Victoria
showed this ladyj and her easy walk thro’
the penetralia of the different courts of
Europe, have so countersigned and con
firme 1 her exceeding popularity at the
South, that the journals quite make a gen
eral topic of her. TANARUS! us run a few senten
ces of a half column that we cut from one
of them: —
“Our accomplished Mrs Levert lias rc
terned from her tonr in Europe, greatly
improved in appearance and more in love
with the world, and what is good within
it, than cvjr. Her tour has been a tri
umphal progress, not in the pageant and
glitter that accompany only titled great
ness, but-,iu the homage bv all so /reefy
paid to tiie halo of gentleness and true
charity that begirts her. * * *
In the regal court of England, her genu
ine goodness proved a patent of nobility,
and made her the equal of the greatest!
while even the peasantry and labourers of
Frame and Italy—the gareon of Paris,
the gondolier of Venice, and the boatman
of Como, charmed by her converse in their
native tongues, felt all their service but a
labor of love Gentle kindness alone was
the spell that thus opencl alike the gates
of palaces, and the hearts of all to her. It
irradiated her wherever she went; and all,
everything she met brightened and smded
at her approach On the peaks of the
Alps, or in the city drawing room, on the
glaciers of Mount Blanc, or the canals ot
Venice, she found or made warm friends,
ihe belle of mere beauty bears many a
heartache so.- each petty conquest, but
not such is the triumph that has attended
the virtues of the heart and the accom
plishments of the mind, in the case of Mrs
Levert. She has looked on every object
—animate or inanimate —with bright and
hopeful eyes, undimmed by doubt or cloud
within. To her, and such as her, the
world is no dreary void, no dark repul
sive globe, bnt a polished mirror that
shows nothing but what is bright and
lo.yeablo.wlieu they look on it ” _
When we add, to this, that Lady Eid
dine W ortlcy addressed glowing poetry
;o Mrs. Levert, and Miss Bremer writes
most enthusiastically in her praise, we
muse say she is an exception to the spirit
of the age—to that hedge-clipping, Pro
crustes bed-imizing hatred of pre-emi
nence, which, among other things, seems
to have put a stop to remarkable women.
The Soule Duels.
Uy the last foreign arrival we get the’
following particulars in reference to the
two duels near Madrid, in which Mr. Soule,
American Minister to Spain, and Mr.
Soule, jr. his son, were engaged. The
following version is current at Paris: —
A duel has taken place between the
Marquis de Turgot, the French Ambassa
dor, and Mr. Soule, the American Minis
ter at Madrid, in which Lord Uowden act
ed as second to the Marquis de Turgot.
It appears that another duel had previ
ously taken place between the Duke of
Alba and Mr. Soule, jr. son of the Minis
ter, arising out of the quarrel to which 1
alluded some time ago,’ ahd which took
place at the French Ambassador’s ball
It will be remembered that the Dakc of
Alba was overheard by Mr. Soule speak
ing disparagingly of the dress of Mititamf’
Soule, whom he compared to Mary of Bur
gundy.
At the time the Duke of Alba declined
the cartel sent to him by’ Mr. Soule, on
the ground that the quarrel was a political
one; but since then he seems to have re
considered the matter. The parties fought
with small swords. The affair lasted three
quarters of an hour. At length Mr
Soule fell; when the Duke, with the point
of his sword to his breast, forced his oppo
nent to retract. It appears that the du
el betwetn the Marquis de Turgot and
Mr. Soufs, sen. originated in the same
affair, so that the Duke of Alba, by one
joke about an American lady’s style of
dress, has contrived to get up two duels.
The Madrid correspondc >t of the Lon
don Morning Chronicle, writing under
date of Dec. 15, gives the following ver
sion of the affair:
A duel took place yesterday, at 4 ?. M.
near the Pardo, between the Duke of Al
ba and Mr. Soule, jr, son of the United
States envoy at this Court. The seconds
of the Duke were General de la Concha
and the Count of Punonrostro; and those
of Mr. Soule were Col. Milaus del Bosch
aud Mr. Perry, Secretary to the American
legation. The parties fought with swords
but fortunately without either being
wounded, (as far as I can learn,) and it
ended in the seconds’ drawing up a minute
of the proceedings as having been con
ducted in a manner satisfactory to the
honor and reputation of both parties. It
was also agreed, I am told, that the let
ters which ‘'have passed between them
should be mutually withdrawn.
A letter from Madrid, dated t)ee. 11,
has the following:
I regret to have to inform yon that the
affair to which I slightly alluded yester
day has terminated in a
in spite of the efforts of the 4
parties to bring about y
raugeiuent; aud it - •• ‘J
that Lord Howdcn’*^‘ , ,
them have been ur£
pals are M. de TuM
dor, and Mr. Sotd® * V
at 1 hm Court,
were Lord Howden, and G nvV l ‘Tilt r,
French commissioner on luc b- evid-ivy
question. Mr. Soule was attend 1 by
Gen. Valdez and Senor 1). A. d< (? i.:u-.-
do. The duel took place this moi.rig,
with pistols, at twenty paees, tiic par baa
1 meeting at Clmmnrtin bJ ague ir n a da
drid, at half dcW, fi"*t
took place withont On ’trie ?e
cond fire, M de Turgot, was shot throng’*
the leg, near the knee. 113 was immediate
ly removed home in his carriage, and bore
the injury very well. Tim log is now a
good deal swollen; but as it appears thir
the knee cap was not touched, and m
principal artery wounded, it is trusted that
his state is not one of danger. Mr. Soule
was not wounded.
Olilc Viiita;e.
We give the following from the Cinein
| nati Columbian, of the 22d, contributed
j by Mr. R. Buchanan, a practical vine-grow
er:
Within a circle of twenty miles around
Cincinnati, about 1200 ac”es are planted
with the vine, some 800 acres of which
were in bearing this year, and produced
on an arcrage 400 gallons to the acre, an
agregate of 320,000 gallons of wine So nr
of the best vineyards yielded 600 to 80 t
gallons to the acre, but others, in localities
where the ‘rot’ prevailed, did not average
over 150 gallons per acre. !he season
was considered very favorable, and the
crop unusually large.
The new wine sells at $1 to $! 10 for
the best, 75c. to 90 cents for second qual
ity, and 40 to 50 cents per gallon for in
ferior Tiie average yield for a series of
years may safely iat 26(0 to
250 gallons to the acre, from the vineyard
in this vicinity.
YivETAitn ciri.T'Ji'.E. r eiTiox *vn s il.
A warm hill side, a rid ?e, or any undu
lating surface, is preferred to a fl it one, a
dry ealearious loam, rather than rich soil
Good under-drainage is essential.
Tl tnting, &c. — •he ground is trenched j
with the spade two feet deep, or worked ;
deeply with a subsoil plough. Cost of j
spading, SSO to $l5O per acre; of p!-etch
ing, much less.
The vineyard is planted in April, with ,
cuttings, (cost S2O 50 per 1.00 ) or with,
roots one year old, (cost $25 per 1,000,) i
usually three feet apart by six feet in the:
rows; 2,420 vines to the acre
Culture. — The first year after planting,!
in March, the vine is cut down to a single ,
eye, or bud, the second year to two, and
a stake six or seven feet long, driven down
by each vine; the third year a small crop
may be expected, and the fourth year a’
good one. The ground is kept clean with j
the iron plough, or cultivator, the vines j
tied up close to the stakes, and superfluous ’
shoots removed After the fourth year,!
the bow and spur system is adopted.
The vine bears no fruit on the wood of)
the preceding year’s grotarth; two shoots :
are always trained for bearing the ensuing j
year. One Os these i. amt do vn in the I
spring to six or ten joints, and bent in the j
form of a bow, and fastened to the si ikes
I with a willow tie. This is to bear the
fruit The other is cut back to two joints,
! as a spur, to produce bearing woo l tor tiie
next year, and also a few bunches ot
grapes. Summer pruning ad hoeing re-j
quires prompt and judicious attention. A |
bushel of grapes in bunches will weigh!
about forty-live pounds, and the average |
yield of juice is three and one-half gallons j
to the bushel. j
The whole cost of a vineyard, up to the
fourth year, will range from S2OO to s3so j
per acre
‘1 he Catawba is our great wine grape 1
Scarcely any other variety is now planted j
here. It is a native of North Carolina, j
was introduced into notice by Maj Adlum, i
at Washington City, and by Mr. Long-1
worth, in tide west, thirty-three years ago.
Os this grape we make two kinds of wine, !
the sparkling and the still, or dry wine j
The first resembles Champagne, and to!
make it, requires very deep, well arched j
stone cellars, large casks of 1,000 to 5,00 J .
gallons—the supervision of an experienced
wine cooper from Europe—and a large j
outlay of capital. The effervescence irr j
this vine is caused by arresting the second J
fermentation, and sweetafriag- .tf'ith sj£up;
or rock candy. It takes a year to ripen, ‘
and the usual breakage is about ten per j
ceut. The price-is ST2 per dozen.
The still wines are generally the pure
juice of the grape, without any admixture. •
Ihe bottling requires but little art, and :
the wine will keep sound in any good com-:
mon cellar. The cost is $5 to $3 per do-.
ecu, as to quality j
— _ i
To drive away Rats.— A friend has;
just informed us of a j>lan he adapted to
get rid of rats. His premises swarmed j
with them. He took a small fisc hook, j
attached to a fine wire, and suspended onj
it a piece of cheese, letting it hang about |
a foot from the groan 1. Oie of tils rats j
Raped at it and was hooked, and set up !
such a horrible s jueal, noise, and rit le |
that all the rest forsook him and tied.- j
Not a rat remained on the premises. A
few days afterwards ms neighbor declared
that he was visited with a plague worse
than those of Egypt—that the rats would
surely eat him up, house and all. Our
friend enjoyed the joke but kept shady.
This was not ph laut iropic of him, so, for
the benefit of his neighbor, w o, we hope,
takfes oiir paper, a id the rest of mankind,
we “disclose the disclosure,” without en
joining secrecy or charging the ! !’ u\
Rural N. Y-rktr
A Hint. — he most beautiful flowers
are those which are double, such as double
pinks, double roses and dop >le dahlias.
What an argument is th4igai.ist the chil
ling deformity of single bedsteads! “Go
marry,” is written, ou every tiling beauti
ful that the o£e rests upon—beginning with
the bird of paradise, aud leaving off with
apple blossotns. v
/
Good-; Advice.— Rise early, bathe I
ear-wparingly, drink
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r sV!c ve otju *f it*■'* World.
! Nic* first A rncrican magnetic tcle'rrnpb
?h,c—t.kc h:votttiou of Professor Morse
wns ‘•stabiisim i in 1344, .between Wnsh
h ; f o i city tmd BsUimorc —some thirty
or ‘(t ies in extent. One wire
was put up, and tj,ic useful ness raid rul to
,nf the mvcatioi-. were bi t once pryticaily
establwh-<l. I’r!vat® Ims since ‘
eni i’ie l this line to \ew York, ntid it is
notv the most perfect a:id reliable line of:
telegraph in the country, or in the world. I
The company have two s qic’Ate and ills- j
tract lines fro n New Yo-k *o Washington i
citv, one with five wir >3 fro 11 Xe.v York j
to Fhiladclphia, end four wi-cs from Pail - j
adclphin to Baltimore and Washington, !
and the other with two wires the entire 1
distance from New York to Washington!
city. Tn nine years, the brief period since I
its invention, there has been 17,500 miles ‘
of telegraph put up, and in working order, |
under the Morse patent alone. This j
amount is about two thirds of the total
number of miles of telegraph in operation
in the States.
The aggregate number of main and j
branch lines in the United States is stated 1
at about one hundred. There are com-j
pleted and in operation 27 .90 ) miles, and
! 0,00 ) more are in progress of construe
rion. The route selected for telegraphic 1
communication to the Pacific by the com- ;
mittee on Post Office and Post Roads, j
as appointed by Congress in the session of 1
1857, commences at the city of Natchez, j
Mississippi, and extends through Texas,
crosses at the head of the Gulf of Oalifor- |
nia to San Diego, and then passes along |
the coast to Monterey and San Frincis- j
4*o. The entirqKirstfcnceda mites. ,
F'he extent of- telegraphic lines comple
ted and in operation, throughout the world
at the commencement of the present year,
is estimated at 40,909 miles. Os this
amount there were 4,0 >0 miles in Great
Britain and 27,000 in America. Russia
has commenced a system of telegraphs be
tween St. Petersburg, Moscow, Cracow,
! and the port- of the Baltic and Black seas,
! and about 4,000 miles are shortly to be
; constructed in India! A line of telegraph
L mow in operation between Vera Cruz
: and the ‘ ity of Mexico, with stations at
1 ail tiie intermediate cities and towns A
j line is contemplated to extend from the
I city of Mexico to .vcapulco, on the Pacific,
i a distance of 3)) miles There are now
1 hi the course of construction on the Island
‘of Cuba telegraphic lines to the extent of
, 1,20 J miles. Scientific Amriean.
Tl*e Library ©l’ Css;res=.
, Wc notice that restoration of this
j important library is rapidly progressing.
I It will We remembered tint, at the time of
i the destruction of the main portions of
i ihe library by lire, about twenty thousand
| volumes, deposited in adjoining and sepa
i rate rooms, were saved This portion of
! the library included tlfe “chapters on’law,
i numbering from eight to ten thousand vol
-1 nines, >h\ Jefferson’s valuable collection
! of works on American history an;l politics,”
! fcc , &o. To tills collection, as a nucleus
; for the new library, as many more volumes
| have now ban added, making at present j
i & library of forty thousand volumes. Ma
nny v> orks of great value have been secured.
I among which moy be mentioned the larger
| works of Humboidt, Champoilton, Hose II i
i ni, &0., &c.; Lord Kingsborough’s Mexi
| can Antiquities; the British Parliamentary
j History of Debates, complete, from the
i vea* of our Tjorci 1069 to 1853; the Jour
j mils of the Ucu.se of Lords and Commons,
| from 1509 to 1853; and the Parliamcnta
jry (loci uients, from 1814 up to live pre
{ sent time; the last named woru alone imm
j baring i,509 volumes. Also, a complete
! copy of the London Gazette, from 1665
jup to this date; a complete file of the
i London Times, from its commencement;
‘the Boston Sentinel, from 1789 to 1829;
j the Aurora, from 1792 to 1822; many
I rare an l valuable wonts on natural histo
: ry, American history, &e. Sic.
j Two special, appropriations were .wide
! by Congress to supply the burnt portions
; of the library; one of $10,090, ami auoth
:cr of $75,000; and we learn that only a
! bout one half of tae amount has been ex
j pen led’ on these new purchases. Orders,
i however, have been sent out which will
; nearly coasuuftTthe balance of thes? ap
prouriatiohs.
j The statement which was made a while
I since, that the recent additions to this li
brary cost four dollars per volume, it will
S be perceived, therefore, was quite wide of
the mark. The average cost of the new
ipurchases, as we learn from the Libra
rian, is only one dollar and ninety five
! coals per volume, which, considering the
’ number of rare and expensive works which
have been secured, ‘ and the superior and
! durable style m which the entire library is
j boaal, cannot be considered a high ex-
I penditure.
{ The books which have been ordered will
more than fill the new room. They are
! expected to be received in the course of a
i few mouths, wneu it is believed the Libra
j ry of congress will be fully restored, both
as to numbers and value. A catalogue of
tue library is in process of construction- on
the Smithsonian plan, which is designed
to be completed in the course of a year.—
Wash. Glob*
In a narrative of T avels on t'.ie Ama
zon and llio Negro, jjst published, Mr
W allace describes an extraordinary tr e’,
called the m Ik tree,'which was one of t%e
erst wouiers lie w near Para The
fruit is oAiHe. and full of a rich and very
j'jicj bat “stfUngesVDf all is the ve
geiabiU xitflk* waioh exudes in abundance
when tiie bar- is cnt. It has about the
consistence of thick cream, and, but for a
very slight peculiar” taste, could scarcely
be distinguished from the genuine, product
of the cow. ML Leavens ordered a man
to tap some logs that had lain nearly a
mouth in the yard. lib cut several notch
es in the bark with an axe, and in a min
ute the rich sap was running out in great
quantities. It was collected in a basin,
diluted in water, strained, aud broughf up
at tea time and at breakfast next morning.
The peculiar ti.vor of the milk seemed
father"to improve the quality of the tea,
and gave it as gdid a color us rich cream,
J/n coffee it is equally as good.” Tne'milk,
J is also used for glue, and it is said to be
‘as durable as that made use of tyj carpen
ter*.’
Va .2iViJlc isiJ I hHltaitoogu R:*il
Ilon<’.
The Chattanoogv G >xi le of the 3d Inst
says: We learn that the Bridge across
| the Tennessee liver, will he so nearly com
pleted that the cars will run through from
Nashville to this city .sonic t'nre * Ip* week
. Tuis v-fil lfe st now, era in the biht(#y ox In
terned Improvements in this State. The
i completion of this gigantic ontet-prize,‘will
i give anew impulse to the progress of the
‘virions improvements connected either
I directly or indirectly with it, and create a
I new spirit of effort throughout the whole
; tate. Various works are now projected
I that only need some encouragement from
; the proper source to push them ahead.—
; Tennessee possesses, in abundance, the
| material for making a populous, and weal
j thy State, Her resources must be devel
! oped by railroads and manufactures. Her
j citizens are industrious and enterprizirig.
! Her soil is rich in Agricultural and Mineral
wealth —possessing a mild and salubrious
climate and occupying a central position
I in the Union —giving us many advantages
j for our roads which will not alone depend
! upon the products of our own State for
support, but will make them the highways
to market for the rich produce of our sis
ter States, which must be great induce
| mentis for pushing forward our euterprlzes
i without delay.
TSe Devil ami the Count; a. Ger 1
man Novel in Miniature
A certain count, who in order to raise
the wind, had made a lciguc with the Old
Gentle mm. violated his engagernc'iti and
was suddenly waited .upon by bis dk*boli>
; cal creditor, who, with a grin on liisi face,
cried out to his victim: “Come, we must
be off immediately!’’ The count appeared
most terrified. In a timid tone of expos
tulation, lie said: “Our agreement was
for forty years; only twenty have elapsed;
must I “go?” “Yes,” replied Satan, in a
determined but dogged tone. “Grant me
but a year?” “No!” “A day?” “No?”
“Then,” said the count, “You see this
candle; it is but an incli long. Whilst it
is burning, here >s another bottle, and a
capital cigar to regale you. ill you not.
spare me until this candle is burnt out?”
“Yes,” answered the internal guest.—
“Very well,” said the count, bio ving out
the candle and thrusting it into his pocket,
snug enough.” So saying, he
by another door. The
ia Idt&k got up, his whole frame
tre m
latiug wHu of wrath
lie seemed witißPfecidedly sneaking, and
van” shed with a clap of thunder!
Good.—The following is from the New
Orleans True Delta: “Mrs Mary White,
last Tuesday night, became extremely tight,
and engaged in a fight, punched the head
Os her lover hyd-'prriW-* TJfa neigh
bors all around, were disturbed by the
so i id, and could not thiuk of sleeping,
wlrile they hcr4'hiin weepings until th
policy came and the turbulent dame was
taken to jail, on not giving bail. Poor
Mrs. White was locked up lor the night.
She acknowledged the corn of taking a
horn, asked his honor to take pity on her,
and she solemnly swore she Would do sa no
more The Recorder heard her tale, and
told her not to fail, to go immediately home,
and in all time to come, to leave off drink
ing rum, and conduct herself good, as all
women should ”
Tiie Cedars of Lebanon have diminished
from a forest to a sacred grove, guarded
by a priest and protected by a supersti
tion. The prophecy of Isaiah has long
since been fulfilled, and, “Lebanon is turn
ed into a fruitful field,” the rest of his
foi'est are so few that a child may write
them The cedars of Lebanon scarcely
occupy a space equal to two acres of.
ground! But Lebanon is a fruitful field;
the mulberry tree yields its luscious fruit,
and its more useful leaves, with graceful
luxuriance; and in its valleys the harvests
wave spontaneously in autumn. —New
Quarterly llcvUtt.
Slang Talk.
The use of what is called slang phrases
has become disgracefully common. Kvery
where we hear them,. .Children as well us
adults, women as well as men, interlard
their conversation with these vulgarities.
Formerly, such phrases were confined to
the streets. The“b’hoys” who ran with
the machine enjoyed an almost undivided
monopoly of them Cut having crept into
the theatre, and been started in low come
dy as wit, these phrases gradually found
their way into the parlor, and began to
pollute the mouths of children and females.
Yet that the last, especially, should ever
have taken up these slang phrases would
appear incredible, if the fact was not be
fore us. Surely, there is neither elegance,
wit, nor perspicuity, in such expressions
as “no von don’t,” “well I won’t,” “I ra
ther guess not,” “look here, stranger,” and
scores of other slang phrases which are
now hoard every where Hvcn in mouths
of men such phrases arc far from being
commendable. It would be am advance
of refinement, if they were to be banished
entirely. Oaths, which were always pro
fane, have, within the lu.st generation,
come to be considered vulgar. Such
should be the verdict on slang phrases.—
Ex-fiance.
Sasaoitv of a Horse. —When the fine
Sorrel horse, Santa Anna, fell yesterday, in
the racdfowingto the soft plane in tPfe
course, the noble animal turned to his
fallen rider, and actually tried to helf
him. A looker on says the horse seemed
to be trying to put the rider upon his
b ack again, and evinced a genuine sym
pathy for his injured companion, which
was in ptrange contrast with some humans
on the ground, jaho did not seem to care
for anything but their bets.— Washington
Star. ‘ - ■
WoHAN’sfticmr*.— On Friday evening,
last week, ihe ladies of Norih Andover,
Miss.,- asserted theit rights by giving a
magnificent party, to wnich some forty
gentlemen were magnificent
entertainment was provided , the whole
expense of the affair, including even stab
ling of the horses, being borne by the
[jt.iiKA. i..
A Young Lady BttraPtl tU:lL‘alh.
Tie editor of the Mai Anthony, at
Greenfield, Ohio, gives the , aitieipai* of
h letrilile tragedy in lit it p ! arp on Satur
day evening, resulting in the death of Miss
Sarah Hector, a talented and highly le
. *pp<'iiii.ie young lady, wh tha* been en
rigydin teaching a select school. She
had been hoarding for some lime at the
Buckeye lio'eL It seems she was sub
ject to severe, attacks of headache, for
which she was in the habit of u.-sing chlo
roform. Upon the fatal evening, she i<
supposed to have taken an over quantity,
and sitting before tbepirb>r fire under it*
effects, she fell forward, the sleeves and
(M S m ofher dress insian<lr catching the
h!az\ T e fall aroused her, and she
sere allied for help. A you \g man belong
ing to the house, flew to her nss.stance,
led her into the hall, and ran for water.
While he \r is absent, she rushed scenn
i.ng into ihe hack yard, her entire person
being invelophl in dimes —By this timft
the whole oeg'ib > h od was aroused, and
the pottions of her burning clothes wes
tern from her. She was carried iri a faint
ing condi ion to her room, a'.d dives'ed
of the remnant <-i her apparel, to which
portions of the skin and flesh adhered.
Upon examination she was found to ha
terribly burned, with the exception ofher
face. Oiled cotton Was applied, hut she
suT.*re l unutterable anguish until towards
in id.light, when she became very ea-y,
rerunning ip this state until ab.iut seven
o’clock on Sunday morning, when she ex
pire!. The dec.'ased wis a young lady
of.g md scholarship and tine intellect.
Had f! >u’- jfcecn applet! to
stead us oiled cotton, she woufd have.suf
fered comparatively little ptin, and, per
haps her ii.e might have been saved.
Colonel Renton's Ifi.st.or/.
DEATH OF MR i.‘.'\v.':d::s.
I h i-.l !)ut a slight arquUnbrnre with
M;-. Li vt.des. He resigned his nlare on
account of declining; health, soon after f
came into Coni'ess; but all that I saw of
hm confirmed theexpres ion of the e- ait
ed sbar icter which (he public voice had.
ascribed to him. Virtue, midedy, be
nevolence, patriotism, were the quilitie*
of his heart; a sound judgment, a mild
and persuasive elocution, were the attri
butes of his mind; bis manners gentle, na
tural, cordial, and inexpressibly ongaginir
lie was one of the galaxy, as it was well
called, of the brilliant young men which
South Carolina sent to the House of Rep
resentatives at the beginning of the war
of 131.2 Calhoun, Cheves, Lowndes—
and was soon the brightest star, in that
constellatoa. He was one of those
members, rare in all assemblies, who,
when he spoke, had a cluster nrouud him,
not of friends, but of the House—mem
bers quitting their distant seats and ga
lhe*ig.up close about him, and showing,
by their attention, that each one would
feel it a personal loss to have rr.issed a
word that be said, li was the attention
of affectionate confidence. He imparted
to othets the harmony of his own fee.’ings
and was the m xlerafor, <fs well as the lead
er of the House, and , was followed by
its sentiment in all casts in which inex
orable paity-feeling, or some powerful
interest, did not rule the action of the
members; and even then he was cour
teously and deferentially treated. It was
so the only time I ever heard him speak
—session of ISdO-’ill —and on the infl ttn
mable subject of the admission of the
State of Miss >uri, 9 question on which
the infl tmed passions left no room for
the influence of reason and in which the
members voted by the geographic line.
Mr. Lowndes was of the Democratic
school, ami strongly indicated f>r an ear
lv elevation to the Presidency—indicated
by the public will and judgement; and by
any machinery of inoiviumd or party
management —from the touch of conta
mination. He was nnrnma'e 1 by the
Legislature of his native State for ‘.fee
election of 1524, but died before the event
came round. It was he who expressed
that sentiment, so just and beautiful in
itself, and so becoming of him, because in
him it was true, that the Presidency
was an office neither to be sought nor de
clin'd.” ID* died at the age of forty two:
and his death at that early age, and in
the i upending circumstances of the coun
try, was felt by those who knew him, as
a public and national calamity. Ido not
write biographies, but note the death
and character if sotnef eminent deceased
contemporaries, whose fame belongs to
the couo'rv, ami goes to makeup its own
title to the respect of the world.
VViiAT a Countrt. —The number of
square miles in the U. States isest'matel
at 2,891 253, and the population at 23,-
191,186. The most thickly settled
State is Massachusetts, where the inhabi
tants average 137 to the square mile, an i
die most thinly settled, is Oregon, which
only average 25. If tr.e entire country
was only as thickly populated as Massa
chusetts, it would numUrr 393,087,961!
And yet the old Bay State is not so thick
ly settled, oily containing about 1,000,-
090 people. Won’t it be a great c<>Ut.-
try, when it gets well settled, fenced in
au \ boarded over.
“Cato, what do you suppose is the rea
son that the sun goes tojwards the South
in the winter?” “Well, I don’t kuow mas
sa, unless .he no stand de clemency of de
Norf, and so am obliged to go to de Sous,
where he speriences warmer longitude,”
was the philosophic reply.
I**aoD'r. —Twin ever thus from chiMbo- d’s hou ,
T nit clvllin” fitle has on in.; fell
The i hlw iys con a . s..ikina’ Fhowcr,
W i* nl Imu’i oi no urabtrcll/
A village doctor went out to visit a
patient in a neighboring hamlet, and
took with him his gun, that he might wing
any game he ene.oun teflon crossing the
fidlds. A peasant the
whither he was ‘’pT’
see ” was the ausjrad “tV hAt
then,” said the peasant “do you really
fear to mi** him.,.jft the ordifiary way,
that you tToar'gun with ytsy
No. 3.