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VOL.. XV. THE (IEORGIA JKPWOMN. IS PUBLISHED evert tiiursdat morning BY WILLIAM CLINE, At Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an nnm, or Two Dollars paid in advance. ADVERTISEMENTS are inserted at OXL DOLLAR nor square,(or the first insertion, and FIFTY GE.\TS per square, for caeh insertion tiiernalter. A reasonable ileduouoii will ne made to those who advertise by the year. All rdvertisements not otherwise ordered, will he continued till fortml. fCjr” ‘.’ALF.S OF LANDS hy Administrators, Kxe ..tors or Guardians are required hj law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the (orenoon and three in the ottrrnoon, at the Court-House, in the county m which the land is situated. Notice of these sale, wuist he given in a public gazette FORTY DAYS previous to the dav of sale. S Qf.FS OF NEGROES must he made at pub lie Miction on the first Tuesday of the month, he tween the usual hours of sale, at the place ol pub he sales in the county where the letters Tesla mi ntary, of Administration or Guardianship ma have been panted; tirst giving FORTY FAY notice tl.eivofin one of the public gazettes of tli Slat., iT-.i at the court house who c such salearsi tv, t-. he id. riortcc lor the sale of Personal Property must bs given in like manner FORTY DAYS previous l .1 I no day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate uunt he published FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will he mndeto the Court Ordinary for leave to sell land must be pub isfied for TWO MOXTHS , Notice fur leave to sell negroes must he published TWO .MON TfIS before any order ab to'utc shall he made thereon by the Court. CITATIONS for Letters of Administration must be published thirty dais; for Dismission, from Administration, monthly six months; so Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for:he Foreclosure of Mortgage must br pnliiishod MONTHLY FOR FOUR MONTHS, tor pub , lishng lost papers, for the full space of three months; for compelling titles from Executors, a Jiirinisirators, whose a bond lias been given by : t he deceased, for the space of three months. From the Washington Globe of August 4th. Tlioris en a Faded I3oin. 37 M. JEEMS SNOOKS. !n looking o-.ver my trunk one da 1 ‘it onto an old hoka imrgit'y {hurts curr. Intc n;y l.ert & tf.as io the old buka l sei— Fore dride up thing wat made u laid &. rinkle up like an ole made What made you h.zc you sweet perphumc VVitoli u iu'l f) . it tus mi Uil ut >;iij ;; A iss* what apcssc n in yu b ze Tu awl hn sea u with thareise Butt rtn nsi ov aw! sliced the line seek L*m wisdiiin rtem ut c-iptcK T|ytr< |phorrr.s so p'tinre and plump to see Lyke ded renz Icrrs will drved up be Tl an jsl oalders wiith they iho tu awl VVil then he kivcicd with a fhorl Thnre icund hair arms so very whyte Wil then bee hid cleen out ov site Sc varyusjother ov these man killers Wi! bee consecled by phyne mantillors There is Fomelhmt|r ry grotesque in the annex ed “Invitation to Mont Jlianc,” hy a Yankee traveller in Italy: “How do du Mount Bane? I vow I’m glad to meet >r : ; A tliUnd’iin “list o’miie* I’ve come to greet vs’ I’m f*oiJi Aimr'ca, wheic we’ve got * fountain, Niagara it’s caned,-where- you might me. Your nnghty phiz ; then yon could shirt and share In old Kentuck—in oar Mammoth Cave : Or take ojsnctsa when you’re in want of rest, On our big prairies in the far “Far West Or, when you’re dry, might cool your heated liver, By sipping up the Mississippi River ; And after drinking ut the mighty .fountain, Could make a pillow of tbe.Rocky Mountain. As for companions, should you wish for any, Why, we’ve the Kaitskilfnnd the Alleghany ; You may accept them with impunity. They both stand high in our cnninim’ity. Give us a call. You’d almost step from hence, Our folks ull long to see Your Eminence. Como over, Blanc ! don’t make the least ado, Bring Madame Jura with you, and the little gla irr too!” Fromjhe WashingtonjUnion. Secret Societies. Secret societies afe of two kinds—char itable and companionable, and political and revolutionary. The former arc illus trated by Masonry and Odd-Fellowship, and the latter by Jacobinism in France, and other like societies in Turkey and oth er places in Europe, and by Know Notli ingisra in the United States. The one class professes to administer charity, and protect and preserve the persons and mor als of its members, and the other seeks to overthrow the institutions of the country, and adopt others of their own creation.— Notwithstanding the eminent names en rolled in its ranks, a single act of violence committed in western New York, some twenty-five years since, essentially destroy ed there, and in Vermont, Pennsylvania, and in some other States, the good stand ing and influence of Masonry. Without regard to party predilections or religious associations, the outrage upon Morgan aroused a fierce and indomitable feeling against Masonry. Anti-Masonic papers were started, and condidates were nomi nated. Anti-Masonry triumphed in large sections of country by the votes of both great political parties. But the circle of its influence was limited, and the princi ples of this new “one-idea party” were too intolcrcnt and unforgiving to permit it to enlarge. The national republ can party (now whig) in New York, under the guidance of Seward, Weed, and oth ers, sought and secured the aid of this new combination to elevate the enemies of democracy to power. By a little le gerdemain these two parties were induced, separately at first, and afterwards in com bination, to nominate the same candidates for all offices. Seward and his compan ions rode into position and power upon Anti-Masonry and Whiggevy combined.— These skilful tacticians used Anti-Masonry with success; but where is the Anti-Ma sonic party now ? Not one of all who were elevated by her influence is now wil ling to own her fellowship or write her epitaph. Masonry flourishes in all parts of the Union, and anti-Masonry is forgot ten It originated in an abhorrence of wrong and hostility to secret societies, though established for charitable and mor al purposes; it received the embraces of unscrupulous politicians, and sunk to an early aud obscure grave If the country was aroused by one act ,of cruelty by a secret, charitable, and moral institution, what may be expected in relation to those of a political associa tion whose avowed objects are to operate upon the government of the country, to control the legislation, laws, and business, to proscribe aud punish freedom of opin ion in religion, and to annihilate that tol eration in thought and liberty of action which lays at the foundation of our insti tutions ? A secret political society in THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN. Turkey is responsible for its slaughtered thousands. France lias been deluged in blood by secret politicai associations. — American blood has'bccn shed by those ! existing here for no cause but’differences j of opinion and the accident of birth-pla®s, while our private schools have been the theatre of proscription and intolerance. Even helpless females have been thrust from their employment, and the charge of children they loved, merely because they chose to worship their God, in a free country, according to the dictates of their consciences. These are but a few of the consequences of the secret political socie ties in this country called Know Noth ings. Are these tilings worthy of a great and free people ? 31 r: Jefferson said, er ror might safely be tolerated where reason was left free to combat it. Reason is an American weapon, and harms nothing but error. Wc appealed to ‘reason when we published the Declaration of Indepen dence. Wc appealed to it in adopting our constitution and in making our laws, and we appeal to It when we seek modifica tions of either. It is the light we use when wc construe them. Wc appeal to it in our business, and in all the worthy transactions of life. Secrecy, in relation to public affairs, is only sought by those whose motives and acts will not stand the test of public scrutiny. Is there any good cause why an American freeman, discus sing our public affairs, should seek obscu rity and closed doors, and conceal his opinions and acts ? Is ono who does so really free and independent ? Is lie not, in fact, a slave to wily leaders, the prison er of error, and the dupe of fanaticism ? A freeman enforces his views by using such arguments as he thinks sustains them, and challenges those who differ with him, to answer if they can. Those whose mo tives or acts he arraigns have an opportu nity for self-defence, if not of reerim'na tion. When truth combats error, individ- uals are protected and tho public welfare is safe. All arc sentinels, all hear the watchword, and all rally to sustain jus tice and freedom. But who is safe when tho accusation, trial, and conviction are all secret ? Ought the destinies of free America to be entrusted to those who conceal their motives and actions, and who dare not submit either to the calm consul eration"of the judgment of their neigh bors, or the criticisms of the public ? Who knows what false charges are made in these secret gatherings—what false tes timony is given—what unsound arguments are urged, or unjust and indefensible judgments are rendered ? Neither per sons, character or couutry arc.’safe where these societies are tolerated. An angel from heaven might not be safe in the hands of such a tribunal. If these socie ties receive a popular condemnation, as they surely will in time, in proportion to the enormities of their offences, compared to that inflicted upon the Masons for an offence deplored by all, it will’be a severe reproach to charge a man with member ship. It will be a stigma which all will wish to wipe off. Freedom and secret ty ranny cannot live together. Lot us warn those who are. unwittingly drawn into these secret cabels, to remember the fate of Anti-Masonry. None now so poor as to do her reverence, and none so affection ate in their remembrances as to place a stone at her grave. The same political party that flattered and cajoled Anti-Ma sonry, by calling down anathemas upon all secret societies, is now warming Know Nothings into existence. The inconsisten cy of its position—first denouncing, and now applauding, secret societies—is no barrier to its action. To a very great ex tent the same men who denounced Mason ry, and fought Masons with a demon’s fierceness, are now the*leadcrs in these new secret gatherings. The whig party once profited by the fall of a great char itable society, while it now endeavors to rise by applauding and warming an un scrupulous political one into life. Its members will find as anti-Masons did, that its touch is more fatal than the shade of the Bohon Upas. Whiggcry will use them and cast them off when they can no longer subserve their purposes, as they have eve ry ism that has sprung up. An American who is a man, a freeman, who is not afraid of daylight, nor facts, nor arguments, will never surrender Ins liberty of speech and action at the bidding of others, nor be made their tool to destroy reputation, to punish freedom of action, thought and religion, nor seek to change our systems by secret or even “shady” conduct; but like the righteous, he will be bold as a lion, and act and talk open and free, like a man who believes lie is entirely in the right. Know Nothhisisai lit Pennsylva nia. The political canvass has fairly opened in Pennsylvania, and it gives us much pleasure to add that some of the most distinguished members of the democratic party of that State—men who seldom take an active part in the primary meetings of the people, are doing good, faithful and efficient service in behalf of those princi ples which haue exalted the nation to its present proud and protecting position.— So fur from avoiding or evading the issue raised by tills new fledged Order of Know Nothings, it is met with the reliability of conscious strength, and with an alacrity of spirit which is but the presage of an easy victory. The tone of the democratic press of Pennsylvania, at this j uncture, is firm, united, healthy, hopeful and patriotic in an eminont degree On this subject the Pcnnsyluaniau holds the following cheering language : “Qf all the numerous democratic meet ings held in different portions of this aud other States, whose proceedings come un der our notice, scarcely one fails to de nounce in the most emphatic terms the new secret political society known as Know Nothings. Nearly all the demo cratic papers take the same course. It is evident that this organization will encoun ter the untiring opposition of our party. It is a duty which all good citizens owe to the country, to oppose such treasonable and unholy combinations, which arc preg nant with danger to, and at variance with, the spirit and genius of our liberal institu tions. If all the members of a proscribed sect, and all men born on a foreign soil, arc, in defiance of our laws, to be robbed GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, SETPEMBER 7. 1854. of their poiitical rights, by a secret oath bound conspiracy, it is impossible to tell who will be the next victims, nor to what extent the provisions of our laws may be overthrown.”— Washington Union, Tlie Amazons of Africa. BY A. A. FOOTE, U. S. K. “In Dahomey, a considerable portion of the national troops consist of armed and disciplined females. They are known as being loyal women, strictly and watchful ly kept from any communication with men, and seem to have been trained through discipline and the force of cooperation, to tlm accomplishment of enterprises from which the tumultuous warriors af a native army would shrink. A late English au thor (Duncan) says, “I have seen them, all well armed, and generally fine, strong, healthy women, and doubtless capable of enduring great fatigue. They seem to use the long Danish musket with as much case as one of our grenadiers does his fire lock, but not, of course, with the same quickness, as they arc not trained to any particular exercise; but, on receiving the word, make an attack like a pack of hounds, with great swiftness. Os course, they would be useless against disciplined troops, if at all approaching to tho same numbers. Still, their appearance is more military than the generality of men, and if undertaking a campaign, I should prefer the female to the male soldiers of this country. n * The same author thus describes a field review of these Amazons, which he wit nessed: “I was conducted to a large space of open ground where fourteen days had been occupied in erecting three immense prickly piles of green bush. These three clumps of piles, of a sort of strong brier or thorn, armed with the most dangerous prickles, were placed in line, occupying about four hundred yards, leaving only a narrow passage between them, sufficient merely to distinguish each clump appoint ed to each regiment. These piles were about seventy feet wide and eight feet high. Upon examining them, I could not persuade myself that any human beiug, without boots or shoes, would, under any eirofcnstances, attempt to pass over so dangerous a collection of the most effi ciently armed plants ! had ever seen. “The Amazons wear a blue striped cot ton surtout, manufactured by the natives, and a pair of trousers falling just below the knee. The cartridge box is girded around the loins. “The drums and trumpets soon an nounced the approach of three or four thousand Amazons. The Dahomey sol diers ( female) made their appearance at about two hundred yards from or in front of, the first pile, where they halted with shouldered arms. In a few seconds the word for attack was given, and a rush was made toward the pile beyond concep tion, and in less than one minute the whole body had passed over this immense pile, and taken the supposed town. Each of the other piles were passed with the same rapidity, at intervals of twenty minutes. When a person is killed in battle, the skin is taken from the head, and kept as a trophy of valor. I counted seven hundred scalps pass in this maimer. The captain of each corps (female,) in passing, again present ed themselves before his Majesty, and re ceived the King’s approval of their con duct. T!ie Rlilleniuni. ‘‘Know vc not the signs of the times?” We have heard a great deal said lately of the signs of the times, and many are crying ‘To here and lo there,” but wc think “the end is not yet,” by a pretty considerable yarn. There is a large a raount of moral amendment to be accom plished before even “the good time com ing” shall arrive, and whoever does the work, if he docs it by means, will have io operate quick, to do it within the present century Our poor opinion is, that the world is yet in its infancy in moralstature, and will have to grow a great while in goodness and virtue before the lion will lie down with the lamb and not get up and cat him. Where is the old man that will say that the world is improved in goodness since he was a boy, and how many will tell you the reverse? VVe know, that a3 the shades of age pass over us, things acquire a more sombre hue. Wc wiil make allowance for all that; but still there is nothing like the simple, honest, virtuous habits amongst the people now that there were forty years ago. Nothing like them. We do not believe that this “lo here and lo there” is going to make any of the chilJrou of Adam a whit bet ter. They are all to become “like little children” or they “never can sec the king dom of Heaven,” and striving to get a peep over the battlements of time into a coming futurity, is too much in the charac ter of a peeping Tom of Coventry to do us much good. We merely seek to grati fy our curiosity, and not to become better men and better women by it. As to the progress of society, at least in Yankee dom, let the following article speak, which we extract from a Lowell f Massachusetts j paper, surrounded, as it is, by 15,000 of the fair sex, which ought to make society better, if any thing can: The Rich and the Poor. That great feature of European society which presents one part of its members on the height of power and happiness while the other lies at the lowest depth of weakness and misery, is beginning to be perceptible in the older settled portions of the United Statos. Every peculiarity in European cities which has excited our commiseration, is getting to be discarna ble among us, not to any very aggrava ted extent, lo be Mire, but to some extent nevertheless. Wo may be reluctant to admit this; we may boast of general hap piness and prosperity as we please; and shut our eyes upon the widening breach between wealth and poverty, morality and immorality, if we choose. Open them we must, eventually; and open them when we will, the most disagreeable peculiarities of European cities will be found waxing more prominent every day. The New York Times has a paragraph on this theme, worthy of notice: “Our crime, as we have shown again and agian, is already far greater in pro portion to our numbers than theirs. Prostitution is fully equal in all its grades. We have it in palaces as gorgeous as theirs, and in hovels as foul as Europe ever contained. The growing avarice of employers, and the increasing necessities of the employed, have made “strikes” here as common as there; and the results in either are the same. Our mechanics and laborers have found it necessary to form Protective Associations, such as have existed for many years in Europe; and the position of the employer and the employed here and there is approaching to similarity with greater rapidity than we care to acknowledge. Poverty is al so rapidly increasing, and assuming ma ity of its Transatlantic features. Society here regards it much in the same way that nis there viewed. It is true that there are those who strive to help the poor along, but they are not sufficiently nume rous. Poverty the most abject increases, notwithstanding their philanthropic ef forts; and the inclination to treat it, in its remedies, as in tho same category with crime, is also gaining ground. Though not entered as such, in the conditions un der which men have united in society, it is more surely punished than any violas tion of the written compact. Brand “Poverty” upon a human brow, and is uot its boarer shunned? Point him out ns poor, and who will tender him a friendly greeting? Report his wife destitute, and who will look kmdly when she ap proaches? Let his children cry for bread, and who will pronounce aught else than “Paupers,” as they pass? Say heconnot pay his rent, and who but the Sheriff will seek his door?” Tire fact is, that ail the vices of civil j ization are rapidly increasing in our midst, and at an equal, if not greater, ratio with its virtues. Looking at the subject ab stractly, indeed, nothing strikes the curi ous student of history, as he traces the growth of man from age to age, from people to people, more forcibly than the fact that precisely in proportion and de gree, as he has exchanged barbarism for civilization, he has also brought the cul ture of his improved condition into the record of his vices and his crimes. Re finement, taste and art, says one, have gilded the goblets of sin; poetry has wo ven round the polluted altars of iniquity garlands of verse and song, whose inspi ration seems almost caught of heaven; the wisest intellects, and the most god like of human make, have stooped to lay a gift, or brought an offering perfumed by their genius, for the shrine of bacchanalian pleasure; voluptuous Rome and licentious Pompeii are existing monuments of civil ized vice; no traveller among benighted heathens reveals any story of natural tin, any picture of uncurbed propensity which will begin to compare in extent, with that which the exhumed walls of the long bu ried city bring back to life. No South Pacific Islands have manifested the natu ral depravity of human nature half so forcibly as the intellectual Greeks. The nation which gave birth to Demosthenes, which will live in the memory of mar. until Art itself is no more, also leaves a sensual record which almost startles the reader. Their successors have equalled them neither in one respect nor in the other. But when tl e world sees, as ere long it will see, another Athens, is it also to behold Athenian vice? We trust no! in extent, but to a certain degree, judging from all past experience, it must be so. — Christianity will have shed its cheerful lioht not in vain, but Christianity does not change human natuc. Men will have passions then as now; temptation will be more delicately tempting; pleasure and indulgence will be wrapped in a man tle so fine that it will almost seem of fairy make; even high handed crime will have found instruments which will leave no revolting murks, no botches, in their works to the outward eye. The Spanish Revolution. Our anticipation (says the Savannah Georgian) already expressed, that the for mation of the Espartero Ministry was not tho end of the Spanish revolution, is con firmed by the latest intelligence from Eu rope. There is venj much in the latest accounts from Madrid to remind the stu dent of history of the early days of the first French revolution. Wc await the sequel with not a little interest. Wc give below extracts from several letters received from London, showing the anxiety which is felt in the British Me tropolis in regard to Spanish affairs. London, Aug. 11. —The Madrid Intel ligencer presents a rather serious feature. All the desires of the government to fa cilitate the escape of the Queea mother have been frustrated by tho vigilance of tho people, and deputations from various sections of the city have put forth a de mand that she shall be detained for trial before the (Jortos. The council of ministers have felt compelled to agree to it. She will consequently henceforth be a close prisoner; and great anxiety will prevail as to her probable fate, lest any events should occur meanwhile to inflame the re action of the populace and cause sentence to be pronounced on her life. If she should ultimately'be condemned only to safe detention in a fortress, very few persons will be disposed to regard the matter with distress. In relation to the gcneral proceedings of tho Espartero cab inct it is affirmed that a want of unanimity has already manifested itself, the more conservative portion wishing to act under the restricted constitution of 1845, while the liberals, in accordance with theory of the people during tho recent struggle, in sist upon that of 1837. It is believed’ however, that the former will And them selves compelled to give w r ay. From other letters of the same date, we extract what follows. They are written from London. As to Spain, the revolution continues in full blast, and all power proceeds from the people Espartero saw himself forced to acknowledge the revolutionary juntas all over the kingdom, and when Queen Chris tina made preparations for leaving the country, he was unable to guarantee her safety. She remains hidden in the palace, while the infuriated masses insist upon her disgorging the ill-gotten plunder by which she has enriched the Duke of Rian zare3, lute Mr. Munoz, and all his family. No sympathy exists in England for her, as it has been officially acknowledged by the English cabinet that she has openly favor ed the slave trade, and has received a con siderable profit from the importation of slaves into Cuba. Espartero is too old above seventy—and too much wanting in active energy to be able to control the Spanish in such an excited period as the present. He failed eleven years back just by his want of energy, and was out-gen eraled by Narvaez, O’Donnell, Serrano, and other tools of Qaeen Christina. Now most of his opponents have placed them selves under his command, but still nobody believes in the stability of his ministry, nor docs any one expect Queen Isabella to keep her throne. She has already once determined to abdicate in favor of tho in nocent Princes of Asturias, and the fo reign diplomatists were summoned to the place in order to be present at the solemn transaction; but, if we are to believe the Timts’ correspondent, it was Mr. Soule who stepped in, and persuaded her not to do such a desperate act, which could not be retraced when things became smooth er. Says another correspondent: Some days ago the Charivari published a caricature exhibiting the Spanish people engaged in battle and the two Sabres— Espartero and O’Donnell, embracing each other over their heads. The Charivari mistook for the end of the revolution, what is only its commencement. The struggle has already commenced between O’Doanoll and Espartero, and not only between them, bat also between the mili tary chiefs and the people. It has been of little avail to the government to have appointed the torreador Bueheca as su perintendent of the slaughter houses, to have nominated a committee for the re ward of the barricade combatants, and finally to have appointed two Frenchmen, Pujol and Delrnas, as historiographers of the revolution. O’Donnell wants the Cor tes to be elected according to tho law of 1845, Espartero according to the consti tution oflS3t, and the people by univer sal suffrage. The people refuse to lay down their arms before the publication of a government programme, the programme of Manzanares no longer satisfying their views The people demand tho annul ment of the Concordat of 1552, confisca tion of the estates of the counter revolu tionists, an expose of the finances, cancel ling of all contracts for railways and other swindling contracts for public works, and lastly the judgment of Christiana by a special Court. Two attempts at fight on the part of the latter have been foiled by the armed resistance of the people. The following “bill of indictment” ap pears in one of the popular organs of .Ma drid: From the Malri I Tribune, Aug. 4 Doaa Maria Christina de Bourbon is debtor to the State, twenty-four millions, which she received unlawfully as Reina Gobernadora, from 1534 to 1840, having married a second time shortly after the death of her first husband; twelve millions which were paid to her on Her return from France for the three years which she pass ed out of the country; and thirty-four millions, the difference between the money of Spain and America, for ten years that she has drawn her pension on the treasury of Cuba; making a total of seventy one millions of reals. With the sweat of the people the lliaasares family raised their palace of the Calle de las Rojas; founded estates at Tarancon; acquired the coal mines of Langrco; made its own a great part of the Gijon railroad; took many shares in the colonization of the Ebro, took a great number in the company of La Espana Industrial (a joint stock manu facturing company) entered with Senor Salamaca in the participation of various lines of railroad; and established at Ha vana engines, aud other speculations. Fire in tlie 3lomitains and Valleys The dry and hot summer is producing its effect upon the forests of the country, particularly in the Northern and North Western States. Near Albany, N. Y says one of our exchanges, several very extensive fires are raging, and the atmos phere of the city is rendered hazy with the smoke. But the greatest conflagra tion is on the Green Mountains, near Al lington and Sunderland, Vermont, which, in the course of five or six days, has tra velled in a direct line over six miles, spread ing with fearful rapidity, aud presenting at night a sublime spectacle. Looking up from the valley, the eye can survey at a single glance more than two miles of lurid flame, aud as the fire leaps from tree to tree, sweeping upward aud onward, noth ing can be more magnificent. At the last accounts, several large and valuable saw mills were threatened, and the fire travels so fast that nothing but a great storm can stop its progress. The Telegraph reports that a terrible fire is raging in Maine. A letter dated Cleaveland, Ohio, of the 21th ult. states as follows: A frightful fire is now raging in the woods at Cuyahoga Falls, Franklin, Ran dolph, llauena, Robertson, North Geld, and parts of Summit and Portage coun ties, Ohio Even the soil is burning, to the depth of one and a half feet. As tire flames are driven forward by the wind, trees, both green and dry, are ignited in an instant, and almost as quickly consumed. Several barus in the vicinity of the woods, stowed with hay and grain, have been destroyed. Apprehensions are entertained for the safety of the town of Hudson. There has been no rain in this section since the 29th of July, and all vegetation has suffered greatly from the drought. Every attempt has been made to arrest the progress of the flames, but without success. Water cannot be brought to bear upon the fire in sufficient quantities to do any good v L ast evening this city was envelope! in smoke from the bU ninj^forest. The woods near Painesville, for a mile in length, are all on fire. A letter from Geneva, of the 21st, says that the water of Seneca lake is about two feet below its ordinary level. Farmers, in many instances, who reside within two or three miles of the lake, are compelled to drive their cattle to it for water. From the S'. Lawrence (N. Y.) Ropublican August 22d. The drought still continues, and the un usually smoky appearance of the atmos phere indicates the prevalence of fires a bout us. Indeed, from almost every point we hear of hard contests with fires; at Northrup’s, Canton Tillage, Lisbon, and all along the line of the Ogdcnsbnrg. rail road. We go not into details. Everybo dy knows what havoc results from fires in a dry time—how the woods, fields and fences suffer, and how the farmer is at times compelled to call upon all the people of his neighborhood to help stay its rava ges. The worst disasters in this category, we infer from what we have seen and heard, arc now enacting. The earth needs rain—man, beast, bird and fish are pant ing for rain. The late crops and fall feed will be deficient in consequence. Every thing is dry, dry, dry—and if this article is not dry—the same cannot be said of its writer. From the Porllan i State of Maine, Aug. 24. The fire that for several days past has been burning in the swamp, in the wes tern part of the city, driven by the wind yesterday afternoon, extended itself fear fully toward Bracket street, threatening destruction to the many wooden buildings in that neighborhood. About 3 o’clock the engines were called out, at which time the fire was in the immediate vicinity of many buildings, and it seemed impossible to prevent their conflagration. The time ly arrival of the engines, however, and the promptness with which they were set to work, soon changed the aspect of af fairs, and all alarm from immediate danger soon subsided, though the fire still raged with vigor. Great numbers of people on foot and in carriages were in the streets and over looking the fire, and many buildings were cleared of their contents. The smoke was suffocating and the heat oppressive to the firemen, especially to the hosemcn and pipemen, who attacked the enemy in his strongholds. From the Albany Express, August 2}. Two or three patches of the “bush” between this city and Schenectady were on fire yesterday, and spreading. The largest area in which fires were seen, seemed to be some three or four miles , square. Generally we noticed these con-’ flagrations were confined to the stunted growth of the fenceless plains, and the damage was not so great as the danger of their spreading into more valuable dis tricts. A few rods of railway fence have been burnt, and very much of the grass and weeds along the line of the track.— West of Schenectady, as far as Fonda, we saw no fires; but we learn that west of that point they were quite frequent. We saw thousands of acres of the bed of the Mohawk lying “high and dry,” and in some places the farmers were cutting up the corn, which looked small and yellow. It looked sick. It is usually cut the last of September or the first of October. From ilia Amy Journo!, August 21. We leaVn, this morning, that the wind changed last evening, driving the fire to which we referred yesterday, to the east, and away from the line of railroad. It appeared, also, to have been checked in its rapid progress; but it is not expected that it will suspend its destructive march until the rain shall descend upon it. We learn, further, that there is a very destructive fire raging in the woods in th*e vicinity of Swanton, near Lake Cham plain and the Canada line. It had, up to yesterday, ran along either side of the Vermont Central Railroad track a dis tance of more than two miles. Hundreds of trees had burned down, falling across the track, not only obstructing the move? ment of the cars, but burning the cross ties, and entirely destroying the track.— Passengers have to be carried eight or ten miles around the fire. Several thousand cords of wood, belonging to the railroad company, have been already destroyed, and the fire was still spreading. Serious apprehensions were felt for the safety of Swanton village. We are informed that two extensive fires have been raging in the woods west of the Falls for several days, and that 1 yesterday at ten o’clock, a fierce blaze from each was visible from the Observa tory; one within half a mile, and the oth er about three quarters of a mile distant. At noon fears were entertained that the Observatory and boarding house near the Falls would be destroyed. Teams and men have been sent for to remove the fur niture, and assist in subduing the flames. When our informant left, the wind wa3 strong in the direction of the buildings. From the New York Leader. Bonnets. We are a great student of bonnets.— Circumstances have led us to observe them, in fact, we hire our rooms of a fashionable milliner. This gives us a great advantage. W e divide the human race into two classes, viz: those who wear bonnets, and those who don’t. The bonnet wearers are our weakness. The wearing of bon nets is the great fact of their lives. We like them the better for it. It shows they have heads. A woman without a bonnet is like a cat without a tail; she don’t know what to do with herself. — When a ship wishes to go ahead, she puts a bonnet on her jib. A woman does the same. The bonnet is the capsheaf of her glory; moreover it covers a multitude of sins, i'o judge of female character, Fowler feels a woman’s head; lie’s an animal. We look at her bonnet; we are a philosopher. There’s always a whole row of bou nets iu Mrs. F.’s show room. They are mounted on sticks. The room locks as if it had been planted with beanpoles, and each pole had blossomed into a bon net. Some of the poles, though, look like Broadway belles, “in undress.” — l'hero are all sorts of bonnets, from the modeot straw trimmed with white, to the ,rich satin, surpassing the rainbow, the bonnet of the sky. There are all shapes, too, from the jaunty chaise top, thrown back to show the whole features, to the projecting coal hod, exhibiting the face through a long perspective. There are the louch me not, the Kiss me if you dare, the Kiss me if you can, the Kiss me if you please, etc. etc It is our favorite speculation, as we gaze into these empty bonnets, to imagine who is to occupy them. So when wa see a fine lady descend from her carriage, and euter the tempting rooms, we take pleasure in wondering whidh of the flaring bean poles will first attract her attention. We have not had time, yet, to classify our observations; but, as soon as we have done this, we intend to publish a work on bonnetology, which we flatter ourselves, will throw phrenology completely into tne shade. We shall prove, in this work, that the bonnet is the organ of the mind. vVe shall show that every female faculty from philoprogenitiveness to philoprovo cativeness (a faculty of our own discover ry) is represented, not by a hump, but by a bow. IV e shall show, also, in our analogicaljehapter, that a woman, like a horse, is to be managed by “the ribbons,” and that the old proverb “straws show the way of thexvind,” had original refer ence to straw bonnets. We shall also establish a Bonuetian School of High Art, and demonstrate that, although bon nets are above the heaJs of the people, they may be made intelligible to the low est emprehension. p oz B;:es. —Many suppose that the beo culls bonev from the nectar of flowers, aed simp'y carries it to his cell in the hive. This is not correct. The nectar he collects from the flower is a portion of f his food or drink; the honey Ire deposits in his cel! is a secreiion from his mellific or honey secreting glands (analogous to the milk secreting glands of the cow and other animals.} If bees were the mere collectors and transporters of honey 7 from flowers to the honey comb, then we should have the comb filled with molasses when ever the bees fed at a molasses hogshead. Ihe honey hag in the bee performs the same functions as the cow’s bag or udder merely 7 receives the honey from the se creting glands, and retains it until a pro per opportunity arrives for its being posited in its appropriate store house, the honey comb. Another error is, that the bee collects pollen from the flowers while in search of honey. Quite the contrary is the fact. When in search of nectar, or honey, as it is improperly called, the bee does not collect pokers. He goes in search of 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 nec tar; when there is nectar, there is no pol ler. fit for use in the flower. It is gener ally supposed, also, that the bee con structs the wax from which his comb is made from vegetable substances. This is likewise an error. The wax is a secre tion from his body, as the honey is; and it makes its appearance in small” scales or flakes, under the rings (rs the belly, and is taken thence by other bees, rendered’ plastic by mixture in the bet’s mouth, and laid on the walls of the cell, with the tongue, very much in the way a plasterer uses his trowel. “Let us put uo temptation in the path of the young,” as the frog said when he popped Ms head under water on seeing a boy pick up a stone. John Randolph once said he “expected to live to see the time when slaves in Vir ginia would advertise for runaway masters, as it took all the corn to feed the hogs/ all the hogs to feed the negroes, and there was nothing left for the planters.” A Girl received the following written character from a person who meant to compliment her very highly: This is to certify that Isabel Weir served with us the last half year, and found her in every respect, Credible and free of Nothing that was any way rong. A CoMiiAXDsa Jolly. —The Kingston papers are falsely charging Capt. Hollins with being drunk during that little affair at Grey town. But we have decided infor mation that the commander of 11. B. M. schooner Bermuda, was “Jolly” before and after the bombardment. Very Flatterixg.—A lady with her husband on the beach, enquired of him the difference between exportation and transportation. “Why, my dear,” replied he, “if you were on board yonder vessel, you would be exported, and I should be transported.” A gentleman meeting one of his friend* who was insolvent, expressed great concern for his embarrassment. “You are mista ken, my dear sir,” was the reply, “’tis not I, ’tis my creditors who are embarrass ed.” Ax other Political chief point of discussion, at present, be tween the two wings of the democratic party is, whether the egg thrown at Pres ident Pierce was “Hard’’ or “Soft ” Asassr ov Cxrc. Hollins Captain Hollins, of the ship Cyane, was arrested in New York, Friday, at the instance of those who suffered by losing property at the bombardment of Greytown, and held to bail for farther investigation in the sum of $20,000. I’he affair has caused great excitement. A man with enormous feet was meas ured for a pair of boots, and inquired of the man when he would have them finish ed? “By Wednesday, if it does notrain,” was the reply. “If it doe3 not raiu!— What has rain to do with the boots?”— “ Why, do you suppose I could build a pair of boots for your feet in the house?” The Latest “Kxow Nothingism.”— We have heard of a zealous “Know No thing” acquaintance of ours who, in Ids ardor to establish his sincerity and consis tency beyoud all posibility of doubt, 1 as ordered his better half to get rid ot the family Bible, as it was written by foreign ers who had not a particle oif gci i incf American patriotism in their compos! This is, in our opinion, a most move of the new party. — V. O. ‘fif , Della. No. 36.