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About The Georgia Jeffersonian. (Griffin, Ga.) 18??-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1854)
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 1U 11)0 jjf.’ ■ ’V-'V.*’ *” , ■-£ i:n* •>. jjj ‘V.BfcL- >mi 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.
