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EVENING HOUR.
>'ow, thrust my thimble in its ease.
\nd store the spools away.
\nd lav the muslm rolls in place—
aM v task is done to-day :
For, like the workman's evening hell.
A sound hath met my ears.
The gate-clink by the street doth tell
I'apa hath eome, my dears.
Bear off the toy-liox from the floor—
For yonder chair make room ;
And up, and our. unhar the door,
And breathe his welcome home:
For ’tis the twilight hour of joy,
When home's host pleasure's rally.
And 1 w ill clasp my darling hoy.
While papa romps with Allie.
There, take the hat and gloves, and Bring
. The slippers warm and soft,
W hile hounds the babe, with laugh and spring.
In those loved arms aloft;
And let each nook some comfort yield.
Each heart with love he warm.
For him, whose firm, strong hands sHall shield
The household gods from harm.
<>ur love shall light the gathering gloom :
For, o'er all earthly hope.
We cherish first tin- joys of home—
A glad, rejoicing group:
And through the twilight hour of joy
Wo turn from toil to dally,
With thy young dreams of life, mv ho\.
And gaily fondle Allie.
*. .
A MOTHER’S LOVE.
p. v miEi jo itn sos.
Oh, there is etill within this world
A brilliant, fadeless light,
Which, like a star, sliinetli through Howls
Os sorrow’s darkest night—
Which hovers round her pathway here,
Where’er we may rove ;
tt is the light reflected from
A mother’s holy love.
There is a hoon—a bleared been—
Unto us mortals given,
Which gives us here a foretaste of
The happiness of heaven ;
And when the storms of sorrow rise,
And clouds grow dark above,
ft lingers round ns to the last:
That noon—a mother’s love.
Tis true that oft our footsteps roam
Through pleasure’s flow’ry maze,
And we forget the tics of home,
In sin’s deceitful ways;
Vet there’s a charm to lure us back,
Like some poor weary dove—
That charm, so pnre and beautiful,
Is a mother’s holy love.
•C-
From the London Athen.’ Uin.
Wellington ami Bonaparte.
FROM SAMVEL ROOERS’ REfOLLECTIOXS.
Samuel Rogers lias provided for us in
these notes a very singular pleasure. The
great people of the past come before us
in the flesh—made visible by a touch, a
spell. lie calls up the dead by a magic
like that of the eye and voice ol'en actual
narrator—for his record is of conversa
tions, and has all the scatter and fire, and
informal, vivid portraiture of real talk,
where a trait, an anecdote, an interrup
tion of voice yields a character more dis
tinct and impressive than a more elabo
rate historical presentation—just as a ray
of the sun often catches the (ruth of a face
with a brilliancy beyond the studied skill
of the Royal Academical!.
We must not keep the reader at the
door Avhile a fedst is being served within.
In a month like this, bright with the rage
of battle, we turn with eager hand to tiie
chapters labeled “Duke of Wellington,”
catching as we do on every’ page the name
of Bonaparte, and noting that the words
are those of the Duke himself. From
these the reader will thank us to serve
him without stint. We first of all pick out
the Duke’s opinion of the mighty antago
nist whom lie met only once—and then so
crushed that he had no need to meet him
a second time. Wellington himself is
speaking of Napoleon :
“Bonaparte, in my opinion, committed
one of his greatest errors when lie med
dled with Spain; for the animosity of the
people was unconquerable, and it was al
most impossible to get us out of that cor
ner. I have often said it would be his
ruip, though 1 might uot live to see it. A
conqueror, like a cannon ball, must go
on. if lie rebounds, his career is over.
[Bonaparte was certainly as clever a man
as ever lived, but lie appears to me to
have wanted sense on many occasions.]
At one time I expected him there [in
Spain] in person, and him by himself I
should have regarded at least as an acces
sion of d(),000 men.”
Then, again, at Waterloo. Those who
sneer at the bands of young men now
singing Riflemen, form ! should note and
digest the few words we have ventured to
mark in italics:
“When Bonaparte left Elba for France
1 was at Vienna, and received the news
from Lord Burghersh, our Minister at i
Florence. The instant it came I commu
nicated it to every member of the Con
gress, and all laughed, the Emperor of
Russia most of all. ‘What was in your
letter to his Majesty this morning,’ said
. bis physician, ‘for when he broke the
seal he clapped his hands and burst out a
laughing ?’ Various were the conjectures ;
as to whither lie was gone ; but none !
would hear of France. All were sure
that in France he would bo massacred by i
the people when lie appeared there. I
remember Talleyrand’s words so well:— ;
‘Porn* la France—non!’ Bonaparte Inc- ;
versaw, though during the battle [Water- ‘
loo] we were once, 1 understand, within i
a quarter of a mile of each other. 1 re
gret it much, for lie was a most extraor
dinary man. To me he seems to have
been at his acme at the peace of Tilsit,
and gradually to have declined afterwards.
■ r * At V* aterloo he had the finest
army he ever commanded: and everything
up to the onset must have turned out as
he wished. Indeed, he could not have
expected to beat the Prussians, as he did
at Ligny, in four hours. But two such
armies as those at Waterloo have seldom
-met, if l may judge from what they did
on that day. It was a battle of giants ! a
battle of giants ! Many of my troops j
were new*; but the new jight well, though
theg maneuver ill; better,perhaps, than many
who have fought and bled. As to the way
in which some of our ensigns and lieuten- ;
ants braved danger—the boys just from
school—it exceeds all belief. They ran
as at cricket.”
Here is an anecdote of Waterloo told by
the Duke: *
“De Lancy was with me and speaking
to me when he was struck. We were on
a point of land that overlooked the plain, ;
and I had just been warned off by some
soldiers ; (but as I saw well from it, and
as two divisions were engaging below, 1
had said ‘nevermind,’) when a ball came j
leaping along cn ricochet as it is called,
and striking him on the back sent him
many yards over the head of his horse. I
He fell on bis face, and bounded upward
and fell again. All the staff dismounted
and ran to him, and when I came up he
said, ‘pray tell them to leave me, and let
me die in peace.’ I had him conveyed
into the rear, and two days afterwards,
when on my return from Brussels, I saw
him in a barn, he spoke with such strength :
that 1 said, (for I had reported him among
the killed,) ‘why, I>e Lancy, you will
have the advantage of Sirvondy in Castle j
Raekrcnt—you will know what your
friends said of you after you were dead.’
•I hope I shall,’ he replied. Poor fellow :
we had kuowu each other ever since we
were boys; but I had no time to be sorry.
I went on with the army and never saw
him again.i’
From the Prince de Talleyrand Mr.
Rogers learned a fact or tw r o about the
Emperor, which we may as well throw in
here:
“That dispatch which Bonaparte pub
lished on his retreat from Moscow ; was
it written by himself ? By himself, cev
tainly. Which is the best portrait of
him? That which represents him at Mal
maison. It is done by Isabey. The bust
I gave Alexander Baring, done by Canova,
is excellent. It stands too low at present.
Did he shave himself? Always: though
he was long about it, shaving a little and
then conversing, if anybody was with
him. ‘A king by birth,’ said he. smiling,
‘is shaved by another. He who makes
himself roi shaves himself.
Talleyrand, on another occasion, says:
“He (Bonaparte) was with the army of
England at Boulogne, when he beard of
Mack’s being at l lm. ‘lf it had been
mine to place him, 1 should have placed
him there.’ In an instant the army was
in full march, and he in Paris. I attend
ed him to Strasbourg, and was alone with
him in the house of the Prefect—in one of
the chambers there—when he fell and
foamed at the moufh. ‘Eermez la porte !’
he cried, and from that moment lay as
& dead on the floor. Berthier came to* the
■ door ; ‘on no peut pas entrer.’ In about
w half an hour he recovered; but what
would have been my situation if he had
died ? Before daybreak he was in his
carriage, and in less than sixty hours the
Austrian army had capitulated.
Mr. Rogers adds a note to this conver
sation :
“The story of Napoleon’s illness at
Strasbougii 1 repeated to Lucien, who lis
tened to it with great sangfroid. ‘Have
you ever heard it before?’ ‘Never; it is
an infirmity to which many great men
have been subject—Ctesar among others.
My brother was once before attacked in
the same way, but then, (he said with a
smile) he was defeated, 1 believe.’ 8. R.”
The meeting of Wellington and Blucher
on the field of Waterloo, when the shock
of battle had ceased, and the hack and
carnage begun, has been often described
and painted. Here is the Duke’s account,
which differs very much from the pictoral
representations of the scene:
“When all was over Blucher and I met
a: La Maison Rouge; it was midnight
when he came, and, riding up, he threw
his arms round me, and kissad nie on
both cheeks as 1 -at in the saddle. I was
then in pursuit, and, as his troops were
fresh I halted mine, and left the business
to him. [ln the day I was for some time
encumbered with the Corps Diplomatique.
They would not leave me; say what I
would.] We supped afterwards together
between night and morning, in a spacious
tent erected in the valley for that pur
pose. I'ozzo di Borgo was there among
others, and, at my request, he sent off a
messenger with the news to Ghent, where
Louis the Eighteenth breakfasted every
morning in a bow window to the street,
and where every morning the citizens as
sembled under it to gaze on him. When
the messenger (a Russian) entered the
room with the news the King embraced
him, and all embraced him, and one an
other, all over the house. An emissary
of Rothschild was in the street, and no
sooner did be sec these demonstrations
than lie took wing for London. Not a
syllable escaped from his lips at Bruges,
at Ostend,. or at Margate, nor till Roths
child had taken his measures on the Stock
Exchange was the intelligence communi
cated to Lord Liverpool.”
From the lips ot Lord Ilardinge Mr.
Rogers set down a good story of the pre
vious tight, in which the Prussians had
been so terribly cut up.
“Before the battle of Ligny [said Lord
Ilardinge,] iu which I lost my arm about
noon, Blueher, thinking that the French
were gathering more and more against
him, requested that I should go and so
licit the Luke for assistance. I set out,
but I had not proceeded far for the pur
pose, when I saw a party of horse coming
towards me, and observing that they had
short tails, I knew at once that they were
English, and soon distinguished the Luke,
lie was on his way to the Prussian head
quarters, thinking that they might want
some assistance, and ho instantly gave
directions for a supply of cavalry. ‘How
ere they forming V he inquired. ‘ln a
column, not in line,’ I replied. ‘The
Prussian soldiers, says Blueher, will not
stand in line.’ ‘Then the artillery will
1 play upon them and they will be beaten
damnably.’ So they were. At the last
Waterloo dinner, when rry health was
drunk as usual, and as usmil I rose to
return thanks, l stated briefly this occur
rence, and the Luke, when I alluded to
it, cried ‘hear, hear.’ ”
■ There is another anecdote of Waterloo
which we must cite :
‘•Two days before the battle of Water
loo the Luke came in to Lady Morning
ton’s room, at Brussels, saying: ‘Napo
leon has invaded Belgium, order horses
and wait at Antwerp for further instruc
tions.’ When they were there (at Ant
werp) Alava entered their room, waving
a bloody handkerchief, and informed her
that a victory was gained, and that they
must return forthwith to Brussels. She
and her daughter had not. been there (q.
Brussels) half an hour when the Luke
arrived, and walking up and down the
apartment iu a state of the greatest agita
tion, he bust into tears, and uttered these
memorable words: ‘The next greatest
misfortune to losing a battle is to gain
such a victory ns this.’ [Note by Samuel
Rogers.”
To go back to the Luke’s talk on the
war in Spain. On some of the causes of
his own great success in that country, lie
spoke very freely. The first was his
stern protection of property. This re
spect won for him the good will of high
and low. We give from his own conver
sation some striking instances of the help
he got, and of its very great value to him
as commander-in-chief of an advancing
and victorious army :
“Everywhere I received intelligence !
from the peasants and the priests. The j
French learnt nothing. At Vittoria they !
were hourly expecting Clausel with rein- j
forcements, and 1 was taking my mens- !
ures accordingly, when Alava brought j
me an inn keeper, who said, ‘Makeyour
self easy, sir, he is now quietly lodged
for the night in my house, six leagues
off.’ So saying he returned to attend
upon him, and I lost no time Gordon
(afterwards killed at Waterloo) passed j
the night in an Qsteria with some French j
officers, and no sooner were they asleep
than a Spanish child in the room made
gestures to Gordon, drawing the edge of
his hand across his throat. ‘And why
so ?’ said Gordon in the morning when
they were gone. ‘Because I knew you
to be an Englishman by your sword and
your spurs.’ ‘Lont drink of that well,
said a Spanish woman to an Englsh sol
dier. ‘it, is poisoned?’ ‘Some French
rnen are there,’ she replied, ‘and more
than you can count. Whenever a French
man come and looked into it, she sent
him iu headlong.”
At anther time, the Luke said :
“War in spain is much less of an evil
than in other eounries- There is no
property to destroy. Enter a house, the
walls are bare; there is no furniture.
wished to see an army, and I gave direc
tions that be should be conducted through
ours. When he returned, he said, ‘I
have seen nothing—nothing hut here and
there little clusters of men in confusion ;
some cooking, washing, and some seep
ing., Then you have seen an army, I
sawl.”
When Soult came down from Dresden to
arrest as Napoleon believed he would, the
victorious march of the Eglish into France
the Duke was eager to each a glimpse of
this famous Marshal. He gratified his
curiosity in a manner which, as events
turned cut, must have been extremely
unpleasant for his new antagonist:
“There was a spy in the habit of going
from camp to camp. We call him Don
Uran dela Rosa; and he dined with us
and the French alternately. ‘Who is he
and what is he ?’ said Alava when he saw
him at table ‘A Spaniard, an Andalusi
an,’ thDy said. ‘NoSpaniard,’said Alava:
he may be Cagliostro, or anybody else, but
no Spaniard.’ He was forever talking as
Frenchmen always are, and always at my
elbow, lie had just left the French, and
he said to when I was recounoiteriDg,
Do you wish to see Marshal Soult V Cer
tainly. ‘There he is then.’ I looked
through my and saw him distinct
ly—so distinctly as to know him instant
ly when I met him afterwards in Paris,
as 1 did several times, though never to
excliage ten words with him. He was
sitting on his horse,and writing a dis
patch on his hat, while an aid-de-camp
waited by him, to whom when he had
done, he delivered it pointing with much
earnestness in one dirction again and a
gain. *l see enough,’ 1 gave the glass to
another, saying to him, ‘Observe which
way that gentleman goes.’ He galloped
off as directed, and 1 knew at'once, as I
thought whre the attack was to be made.
‘That is my weakest point,’ was to my
self, and 1 prepared according: of such
use, as 1 had always mintained, are
glasses. lie (Soult) looked much lustier
than now, and just as his son now does.
I beat him thoroughly the next day or the
next day after, and drove him back into
France.”
The opponent for whom the Duke of
Wei ingtou had the greatest respect, was
Massena. “When Masseua was opposed
to mo, and in the field, 1 never slept com
fortably, he said to Rogers. This is
the highest form of compliment. Massena
said to Wellington, in the same spirit—
•“l owe these gray hairs to you.” This
was at a dinner party in Paris. The
sayings are characteristic of the coun
tries and the two soldiers.
Os personal anecdote concerning Wel
. lington there is not much preserved by
Mr, Rogers. The Duke was not fond of
telling stories himself—for he was not a
hero in his own opinion, what ever he
might be in that of his valet de chambre.
We string together the few little traits
which deserve attention ;
“In Spain, and also in France, I used
continually logo alone and reconnoitre al
most up to their piquets. See a single
horsrnan in hi> cloak, they disregarded
me as some subaltern. No French Gen
eral, said Soult, would have gone with
out a guard of at least a thousand men.”
And then both guard and general
would have been seen and driven. A
gain ;
“The elastic woven corslet would an
swer well over the cuirass. It saved me,
I think, at Orthez, where I was hit on
the hip. I was never struck but on that
occasion, and then I was not wounded.
I was on horseback again the same day. ;
In Spain I have shaved myself over-night,
and usually slept five or six hours; some
times, indeed, only three or four, and
sometimes only two. In India I never
undressed ; it is not the custom there ;
and for many years in the Peninsula I
undreessed very seldom ; never for the first \
four years.”
The italics are ours : as are those al-o
in the following passage ;
“1 speared seven or eight wild boars i
in a forest in I’icardo—an Eastern prac
tice. The largest struck the sole of my
boot with his tusk, when I thrust my
lance into his spine, and was turning my
horse off at the iustaut, as I alwvs did.
The rest of the party set up a shout, and
i 1 believe it gave me more pleasure, this ac
hievment, than any thing I ever did in my
life. Lord Hill killed one on foot, but ,
the difficult thing was to kill one on horse
back. Who ever threw the first lance
into a boar claimed it as his.”
An anecdote at the Tuileries has some
thing of a personal interest:
“I have often dined with the King of the
Netherlands. The Northern Kings admit
subjects and strangers to dine with them.
The Bourbons never did, I believe at
Paris, except in my instance. At Ghent
perhaps the etiquette was departed
from; but I believe 1 ain the only person
who has dined with Louis XVIII, at
Paris. I have dined often with him. He
sat at six, and when dinner was an
nounced, was wheeled in from the room
in which he had received me. The ta
ble was large, and he sat between the’
two ladies, the Duchessee of Beni and
Angoulerae. I sat between Monsieur
and tlie Duke of d’Angoulemc. They
were waited upon by gentlemen—l, by
: a servant—and of course, best served. ;
The dinner was exquisite. We sat down
at six, and rose at seven : and then all
sat and talked with the king till eight, a
avoiding all political subjects. The king
ate freely, but mixed water with his wine
which was champagne. The king will j
not go out in the carriage bnt, on gaeat ;
occasions. They have contrived a ma- j
chine to lift him into it by ; but his in
dolence of his fear of the caricaturists,
or both, keep him at home, lie is fond
of mots, and full of esprit, rather than
sensible; and did not at first consent to
to read the speeches prepared for him by
his ministers, preferring to speak d’abun - ,
dance. ”
The Duke has no very high opinion of j
those who wrote on his warlike operations,
and of this he made no secret. The se
vere verdict on (Scott would not have
been annyting to the romancer had he
heard it:
“Scott's Life of Napoleon is of no value.
The tolerable part of it is what relates to
his retreat from Moscow. I have thought
much on that subject, and lmve made ma
ny inquires concerning it. I gave him
my papers. He has used some, not all.” j
Os Southey the great materials, and
means well; but he is too much influenc
ed by anything that makes for him, even j
by an assertion in a newspaper. I do j
not think much of Southey. The Subal
tern is excellent, particularly in the A- !
merican expedition to New Orleans, lie
describes all he sees.”
The Duke, as we know from these con- :
versations and from other sources, occa
sionally contemplated writing commenta
ries on his campaigns iu the manner of
Ctesar and Sir Francis Vere. Os Caesar j
he was a careful student “Had Caesar’s j
Commnentaries with me in India” he says,
“and learnt much from them—fortiying
my camp every night as he did. I pass
ed over the rivers as he did, by means :
of baskets and boats of basket work: only
I think I impoved upon him, construct- i
ing them into bridges, and always forti
fying them and leaving them guarded’ j
to return by them if necessary. In anoth
er place, referring to this longing to be
come his own historian, the Duke says :
I should like much to tell the truth ; but
if I did I should be torn to peices, here
or abroad. I have, indeed, no time to
write, much as I might wish to do so ; :
and I am still (December, 1827) too much
in the world to do it.”
An American Army for Mexico.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury gives the following
intelligence concerning the rumored pro
ject of an American army for Mexico:
I have good reason to believe that it is
real, and not a cover for furtive opera
tions against Cuba. The plan is perfect
ly practicable, and money is the only
needed thing to carry it through. Jua
rez; like all the Mexican Presidents, de
jure or de facto, is “hard up,” and caunot
furnish the means to equip and transport
to Vera Cruz the army which his friends
are trying to raise for him here. Gen.
Degollado, his able Minister of War, is
probably in New Orleans at this date, in
pursuit of pecuniary aid. Large induce
ments will be offered to capitalists, and,
as Juarez is believed to be an honest man,
far-seeing financiers may be tempted to
help him. It is plain that a force of 8000
Americans (the number talked of) will put
his government on a firm footing, and will
restore peace and order to Mexico. A
few years of quiet, under an efficient and
economical administration, will enable her
to pay off the loan. The principal ope
rator for Juarez at this point is the gal
lant Captain .T. 11. Hubbard Ward, late
Commissary General of the State. He
recently received a colonel’s commission
from the Liberal Government, and is now
booking officers and men for his regiment
(500 strong.) The applications to enlist,
both rank and file, are more abundant
than the demand. The chief command
wiR be given to a brave Tennessean, now
of this city, who took a gallant part in
the American war with Mexico. The
topic is very suggestive, but I will not in
vade your editorial province by discussing
the probable consequences of the move
ment.
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The Bonaparte Family—lllness of
Prince Jerome.
A letter from Paris to the London Star
says :
The slight indisposition which has at
tacked Prince Jerome has been the cause
of the greatest uneasiness at the Tuiliries.
Though not yet sufficiently recovered, so
fearful has he been of exciting alarm,
that he has still maintained his place at
the Council board. The engagement of
his favorite grand son Bonaparte Patter
son, and the exposure of his regiment at
the battle of Solferino, is said to have
given him a shock which at his advanced
age is always disquieting. The arrival
of a second grand son from Baltimore has
given people much to talk about as re
gards the probability of some fixed posi
tion being offered to the members of that
branch of the Bonaparte family. Mean
while the pointed manner in which young
Patterson Bonaparte’s name is kept in
the back ground although acknowledged
as being amongst the most distinguished
on the great day of the batte, has led
many people to imagine that, from meas
ures of prudence, it is thought advisable
to re-establish the name of Frince Je
rome’s son with the army, before holding
up, as it were, a rival to their admira
tion. The situation is felt to be a most
difficult one for Prince Napoleon. IVheth
er justly or unjustly, there exists a pre
judice against him amongst the French
troops which will require some action d’ec
lat to efface entirely. This action and eclat
is expected to take place beneath the
walls of Mantua.
From the London Chronicle.
The Atlantic Telegraph.
U will, we are sure, give pleasure to
every person who desire- to see the con
summation of this great work by the
original movers in it, to know that it has
at last been taken up by men whose
mature judgment and great public re
sponsibility must infallibly load it to
success.
We are authentically informed that
Mr. Robert Stephenson, C. E. M. I’.. Pro
fessor Wheatstone, F. R. S., and Pro
fessor Thomson, L. L. 1)., iu connection
with Mr. C. Varley, (the managing elec
trician of the Electric Telegraph Com
pany, of Lothbury, and now the consult
ing electrician to the Atlantic Telegraph
Company,) have agreed to form a Com
mittee to advise with the directors and
to decile for them with the aid of such
other scientific men as the Board may
think proper to call in, as to all the de
tails of the next cable, and as to the form
of its external covering, internal conduc
tor, and extent of insulation. When
those details are determined on, and the
cable most suited for Atlantic depths shall
have been settled by means of the valua
ble data placed at the Board's disposal
from the achieves of the Company, exper
iments as to submission will take place,
and any points not exactly cleared up at
the present moment will be most carefully
decided by appeals to actual experiment.
The great point upon which hung all
the heaviest weight of indecision as to
the possibility of this enterprise has been
decided favorably. The cable has been
laid, messages have passed day by day
for a month between England and Amer
ica. Regiments have been retained in
Halifax and Montreal after orders had
been sent for their return to England—
the Europa’s collision was announced to
anxious men and women anticipating her
arrival —the news of China’s submission
was heard in New York within ninn hours
after England had received it. These are
now facts—which in August, 1857, would
have been dissipated as wild scientific
dreams.
Every hour after the demonstration of
such knowledge, which is wasted by the
absence of its enjoyment in a practical
form, is, in the present concentrated state
of our system of existence, a robbery of
so much knowledge, so much human in
tercourse, and so much chance of perma
nent peace and commercial grandeur from
the two great branches of the Anglo
Saxon confraternity.
This waste, however, would not seem
likely to occur after the fact announced
by the Atlantic Telegraph Company,
which we are glad to notice as a great
feature in its develo2)ment —we mean the
offer which they appear to have received
from contractors, not only to make and
lay the cable, but to work it after it has
been laid ad a risk to themselves, which
a year ago would have been thought a
mad undertaking, but which we are now
informed is likely to meet with severe
competition.
An Opinion against Kail Koa<ls.
The following letter, says the Charles
ton Courier, has no doubt appeared more
than once in our columns, but it will now
be new to many readers, and should be
occasionally re-published (along with Lr.
Lardner’s opinion against ccean steam
ships) as an argument against absolute
reliance on any opinion, however author
itative, in matters of discovery and pro
gress in science, arts and mechanics.
The letter was written by It. R. Living
ston, a brotlier-in law of Robert Fulton:
Albany, March 11, 1811.
Dear Sir: —l did not, till yesterday,
receive yours of the 25th February,
where it has loitered on the road I am at
a loss to say. I had before read of your
very ingenious proposition as to the rail
way communication. 1 fear, however,
on mature reflection, that they will be
liable to serious objections, and ultimate
ly more expensive than a canal. They
must be double, so as to prevent the dan
ger of two such heavy bodies meeting.
The walls on which they are placed must
be at least four feet below the surface
and three feet above, and must be clamp
ed witli iron, and even then would hard
ly sustain so heavy a weight as you
propose moving at the rate of four miles
an hour, on wheels. As to wood, it
would not last a week. They must be
covered with iron, and that, too, very
thick and strong. The means of stop
ping these heavy carrages, without great
shock, and of preventing them from run
ning upon each other—for there would
be many running on the road at once—
would be very difficult. In the cases of
accidental stops, or tlie necessary stops
to take wood, water, &c., many accidents
would happen. The carriage of con
densing water would be very troublesome.
Upon the whole, I fear the expense
would be much greater than that of ca
nals, without being so expeditious.
R. R. LIVINGSTON.
Everett oil Clioatc.
Edward Everett delivered a chaste and
beautiful tribute to the memory of his
lamented friend on Friday, at Faneuil
Hall. The Traveler says that when he
introduced the following forcible and ele
gant figurre, the audience could no lon
ger restrain the expression of their ap
preciation, and burst forth into contin
ued applause, which ceased and was re
newed a second time.
Speaking of Choate’s eulogy on Daniel
Webster at Dartmouth College, Mr. Ev
erett remarked:
“ But he does not deal exclusively in
those ponderous sentences. There is
nothing of the artificial Johnsonian bal
ance in his style. It is as often marked
by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous
amplitude. He is somefiums satisfied,
in concise epigrammatic clause, to skir
mish with his light troops and drive in
the enemy’s outposts. It is only on fit
ting occaaions, when great principles are
to be vindicated and solemn truths told;
when some moral or political Waterloo
or Solferino is to be fought, that he puts
on the entire panoply of his gorgeous
rhetoric. It is then that his majestic
sentences swell to the dimensions of his
thought, that you hear afar off the aw
ful roar of his rifled ordnance, and when
he has stormed the heights and broken
the centre, and turned the staggering
wings of bis adversary, that he sounds
his imperial clarion aloDg the whoie line
of battle, and moves forward with all his
hosts in the overwhelming charge.”
The OHio Black Law Unconstitu
tional.
The Court of Common Pleas for Cuy
ahoga county, through Judge Foote, this
morning delivered an important decision.
At the last election, Freeman 11. Morris,
Tailor of this city, and having about one
fourth negro blood in his veins, present
ed himself at the First Ward voting place,
and was barred from voting on account
of his negro blood. Action was brought
against the Judges of election, Sanborn,
Christian, and Garrot, for illegally re
jecting his vote. They pleaded in de
fence the recent action of the Legislature
respecting the vote of every person hav
ing any negro blood in his veins. The
case was made up and submitted to the
Court. This morning Judge Foote de
clared for the plaintiff', declaring the
“Black Law” to be unconstitutional.—
The Court held that, under the old Con
stitution of Ohio, all persons having more
than half white blood were declared to
be legally white. The new Constitution
merely mentioned “ white persons,” with
out defining what constituted a white
person: consequently, the definition of
a white person contained in the old Con
stitution remained in force, and any law
declaring a person having more than half
white blood to be a negro, must of ne
cessity be unconstitutional. —Cleveland
Herald.
Fort Valley anil Brunswick lload.
We learn from the Hawkinsville Times
that the corps of Engineers engaged in
the survey of the rail road from Fort
Valley to the initial point, reached that
place on Saturday, the 20d instant, with
the first line, and on Wednesday last they
arrived again, having run another line
north of the first. The Engineers inform
the editor of the Times that the approach
es to Hawkinsville from Fort Valley are
very favorable.
ARRIVAL
of Tu sTkamkh
Jo l R_o PA.
Halifax, .July 26, — The steamship Eu
ropa arrived to-day, and her news w>s
sent oft’ by horse express to Sackville. —
She brings Liverpool advices to .Saturday,
July 16th.
Liverpool Cotton Market. The sales of
cotton during the commercial week, were
107,000 bale-. The market advanced 5
to jjd. Middling Orleans cotton closed at
7 5-l Gd.
Havre Cotton Market. —Orleans Tre.% t>r~
dinaire closed at 112 francs.
London Money Market. —Consols closed
at 95J to 90-j. The bank of England had
reduced its rates of discount to 2.1 per
cent.
Fair Orleans SLpt. MiUdl'g Orleans... 7 516d.
“ Mobile ~%<i. “ Mobiles 4 d.
Uplands 7 ] ..d. “ Uplands 73 sd.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool was
688,900 bales, of which 608,000 were
American.
State of Trade.
were favorable. All qualities of goods
were advancing. Yarns had advanced .11.
but the high prices checked business.
SECOND DISPATCH.
At Liverpool, Breadstuff's were declin
ing, and there was but little enquiry.
Provisions were very dull, and Pork re
ported heavy and declining.
The ships Saxonia, Kangaroo, Ocean
Queen and the Persia had arrived out.
The news of peace was fully confirmed,
but no particulars had transpired beyond
the fact that the Princes of Tuscany and
Modena had returned to their States.
The result ta the treaty is generally
mistrusted in England.
The Emperor Napoleon was on his way
to France.
The Sardinian ministry had resigned,
and Count Arese had been charged to form
anew cabinet.
Artilttloiial by (be Kurnjia.
Napoleon expected to reach Paris on
the 18th inst., when further details would
be afforded. Iu his address to the sol
diers, he says that peace was concluded
because the contest was about to assume
proportions, which were uo longer in
keeping with the interest which France
had in the war.
The Emperor of Austria was on his
way to Vienna. lie says, in his order of
the day, that he yielded on account of
his unfavorable political position ; and
because his natural allies did not. come to
his assistance as he expected they would.
Count Favour is reported to have re
signed on account of the terms on which
the peace was obtained, ring unsatisfac
tory to him.
Letters from Paris note much discon
tent concerning the terms of the peace,
and that Austrian influence is still suf
fered to remain in Italy.
The Paris Siecle calls for the expulsion
of the petty Italian princes, who are only
confederates of the Emperor of Austria.
Napoleon declines making an official
entree into Paris, until he makes it at the
head of his army.
Austrian correspondence officially an
nounces the conditions of peace.
Thus, France arid Austria will support
the Italian confederation : Lombardy, as
far as the line of the Mincio, is to be giv
en up by Austria ; while Mantua, Peschie
ra, and Ihe whole oT Verona, remain as
Austrian possessions.
The Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don Times says that three applications
were made by Napoleon, to Austria, be
fore the latter consented to the armistice.
The same correspondent says that the
Pope was burnt in effigy at Milan ; and
that unfriendly feelings existed between
Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel. The
latter had issued a proclamation to the
people of Lombardy, announcing annex
ation of that State to Sardinia, lie made
a triumphant entry into Milan on the
13th inst.
It was rumored that Napoleon and the
Empress Eugenie would shortly visit Vi
enna.
It was rumored that Garibaldi was
about to issue a proclamation. It. was
doubtful whether he would lay down his
arms.
It was reported that the Pope had ad
dressed an autograph letter to Louis Na
poleon, announcing his determination to
demand the armed intervention of the
Catholic powei'3.
In the English llouso of Commons the
bill abolishing Church rates passed at its
second reading by a vote of two hundred
and sixty-three to one hundred and
ninety-three.- In the House of Lords the
peace was discussed. Attention was
called to the formidable French fleet at
Cherboug and Brest, together with the
gunboats for landing Hoops.
Latest dispatches from Paris, on Fri
day, report that great agitation prevailed
in Milan; that the Italian population
was indiguant at the Emperor for his
failure to fulfill his promises.
The statement of the Bank of France,
for July, fully shows a decrease in cash
of over eleven million francs.
Liverpool Colton Market —Speculators
took during the week 19,000 bales, and
exporters 1:2,000. The sales on Friday
were 10,000 bales—B,ooo of which were
taken by speculators and exporters. The
market closed quigt.
The Paris Bourse closed at US.GO.
The interview between Napcleon and
the Austrian Emperor lasted nearly a
whole day.
Napoleon, in his proclamation to his
; soldiers, says: The principle aim of the
war has been attained, and Italy will, for
the first time, become a nation. Yenetia,
; it is true, remains Austrian, but it will,
nevertheless, be an Italian confederation,
The union of Lombardy with Piedmont
: creates for us a powerful ally, who will
| owe us its independence
The Italian Governments which re
mained inactive, or which have been
I called back into their possessions, will
comprehend the necessiti’ of a salutary
reform, and a general amnesty which will
obliterate all traces of civil disorder.—
Italy henceforth misstresses her own des
tinies, and will only have herself to ac
cuse, should she not progress regularly
! in order and freedom
Later from Havana.
New York, July 27.—The steamship
Empire City arrived to-day, bringing
: Havana dates to the 23d inst.
Important postal arrangements have
been concluded between Spain and the
United States, which tends greatly to fa
cilitate the punctual transmission of ad
vices. Sugar light and prices steady.
The city of Havana was generally re
ported healthy.
A Case of Souainbuiism.
A little girl, aged about seven years,
daughter of B. A. Garlinger, Esq., of
Hagerstown, Md., one night last week
arose from her bed while asleep, and
walked out of a window which had been
left open in her bedroom in the second
story of Mr. G.'s dwelling. The Herald
says:
She was precipitated a distance of
twenty feet upon very hard ground below,
and when found by her parents, who
were awakened by the noise of her fall,
she was in a recumbent posture, resting
upon her hands and feet, in a state of
utter unconsciousness. She was taken
up, and Dr. John C. Dorsey sent for.
After several hours of medical treatment
she revived, and, strange to relate, she
had escaped without breaking a bone or
sustaining any other injury, save a few
bruises and severe shocks of her nervous
system.
Arrival of the Moses Taylor.
New York, July 27.—The steamship
Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall, has ar
rived. She brings late news from Cali
fornia, mails and passengers, and $2,-
100,000 in treasure.
A large number of golden images bad
recently been found on the'lsthmus: and
several thousand dollars worth had been
sent to Panama.
Condition of V. Stewart.
Nkw York, July 20/ —Y. Stewart, who
was shot by Kobert C. McDonald, of Mo
bile, on Saturday last, is still lingering
in a precarious condition. McDonald
has been confined to the Tombs, and ex
hibits symptonfs of approaching delirium
tremens.
Letter from the Hon. Dan'l E. Sickles.
To the Editor of the Xev Vork Herald:
New Yoke, July 19.—Through the
course of sad events, which during the
last few months have brought so much
aftliction upon my family, 1 have been
silent. No amount of misrepresentation
affecting myself only could induce me now
to open my lips: nor could 1 deem it
worm while under any circumstance to
notice what ha - been or can lie said in
journals never regarded as the sources or
the exponents of public opini ;n, for in these
it is too often obvious that only unworthy
motives prompt the most vindictive as
saults upon the private life of citizens 1
bolding public stations. But the editorial
■ comments in the Herald of yesterday, al
though censorious, (of which I do not
complain, whilst 1 rea l them with regret,) ,
differ so widely in tone and temper from
the mass of nonsense and calumny which
has lately been written concerning a re
cent event in ray do nestic relations, that
I cannot allow a mistake, into which you
have been led by inaccurate information,
to pass without such a correction as will
relieve others fronr any share of the re
proaches which it is the pleasure ct the
multitude at this moment to heap upon
me and mine.
Referring to the forgivness which my
sence of duty and my feelings impelled
me to extend to an erring and repentant
wife, you observed, in the course of your
temperate and dignified article, that, “It
is said, however, that the last, phase ot the
affair was brought about through the ad
vice of his lawyers.” This is entisely
erroneous. 1 did not exchange a word
with one of my counsel upon the subject,
nor with any one else. My reconciliation
with my wife was my own act, done with
out consultation with auv relative, con
nection, friend or adviser. Whatever
blame, if any belongs to the step, should j
fall alone upon me. 1 am prepared to
defend what I have done before the only j
tribunals I recognize as having the slight
est claim to jurisdiction over the subject, j
my own conscience and the bar of Heaven, j
1 am not aware of any statute, or code of
morals, which makes it infamous to for- !
give a woman ; nor is it usu;vl to make our j
domestic life a subject of consultation with j
| friends, no matter how near and dear to j
us. And I cannot allow even all the
world combined to dictate to me the re
pudiation of my wife when I think it right
to forgive her, and restore her to my con
-1 fidence and protection.
If I ever failed to comprehend the utter- ;
ly desolate position of an offending though j
j penitent woman—the hopeless future,
| with all its dark possibilities of danger, to
which she is doomed when proscribed as
• an outcast—lean now see plainly enough,
1 in the almost universal howl of denuncia
tion with which she is followed to my
| threshold themisery andpsrels from which
l have rescued the mother of my child.
’ And although it is very sad for me to in
j cur the blame of friends and the reproach
es of many wise and good people, I shall
strive to prove to all who feel any interest
ii) ine, that if I am the first man who has
ventured to say to the world an erring
wife and mother may be forgiven and re- {
; deemed, that in spite of all the obstacles
in my path the good results of this exarn
: pie shall entitle it to the imitation of the 1
; generous and the commendation of the
just.
! There are many who think that an act
of duty can only be comprehended in the
heart of a husband and a father, is to be
fatal to my professional, political, and so- 4
cial standing. If this be so, then so be it.
Political station, professional success, so
cial recognition, are not the only prizes of
! ambition : and I have seen enough of the ;
! world in which I have moved, and read j
enough of the lives of others to teach me, j
that, if one be patient and resolute, it is j
the man himself who indicates the place he
will occupy ; and so long as I do nothing
worse than to re-unite my family under
the roof where they may find shelter from
’ contumely and persecution, I do not fear
the noisy and Sleeting voice of popular
claun r. The multitude accept their first
impressions from a few T ANARUS; but in the end
men think for themselves, and if 1 know
the human heart —and sometimes 1 think
that in a career of mingled sunshine and
storm I have sounded nearly all its depths
—then I may reassure those who look !
with reluctant forebodirfgs upon mvfuture i
to be of good cheer, for I will not cease to
vindicate a just claim to the respect of j
my fellows ; while to those motly groups, i
here and there, who lookuponmy misfor
tunes only as weapons to be employed for
my distinction, to those Isay, once for all,
if a man make good use of his enemies
they will be as serviceable to him as his
friends.
In conclusion, let me ask only one fa
vor of those who, from whatever motive,
may deem it necessary or agreeable to
comment in public or private upon this
sad history: aud that is, to aim all their
arrows at my breast, and for the sake of
my innocent child to spare heret youth
ful mother, while she seeks in sorrow and
contrition the mercy and the pardon of
Ilim to whom, sooner or later, we must
: all appeal.
Very respectfully, your most obedient
! servant, DANIEL E. SICKLES.
A .Contrast.
A few mouths ago, the plains of Pied
mont and Lombardy, the most beautiful
and fertile portion of Europe, were rich in
the glories of spring, and rejoicing in the
promise of a plenteous harvest. The in
offensive peasantry were cheerfully pur
suing their honest labor and cheering
themselves with the prospect of a fruit
ful season, whilst their humble cottages
were the abodes of peace and purity.
Health and happiness brightened every
face; no harm was done by man to his
fellow ; even the poor, dumb beasts, per
formed securely and faithfully their part
in the useful toil of the day, and enjoyed
undisturbed the sleep of night.
A scene of more exquisite repose than
a Piedmont landscape, at sunset, as it
has been described by travelers, sung by
poets, and sketched by artists, i f would
be difficult to find on this troubled earth.
One might w r ell exclaim, upon looking
upon such a scene, as it appears to us in
pictures and in graphic descriptions, “If
there’s peace to be found in the world, it
is here!’’ But what a fearful change!
The sudden tornado that lashes a placid
sea into commotion, and strews the shores
with shipwreck; the volcano that pours
its tide of lava upon the plain, and buries
cities beneath a river of fire, does not ‘
work as terrible and as sad a destruction.
If, instead of Zouaves and Turcos from
Africa, w could imagine all the beasts
of prey of that continent let loose during
the night in enormuos droves upon the
cottages and Hocks of Piedmont and
Lombardy, they could not stain with
blood as many thresholds ; they could
not. pile the plains with as many victims ;
they could not leave such incurable lac
erations in human hearts, as the more
sanguinary and destructive human brutes
whose diabolical warfare has converted
that Paradise into a Pandemonium.
Harvests trampled down, women dis
honored, towns given to the flames, boys
of sixteen made food for powder and bay
onet, hospitals overrun with wounded
and dying, a hundred thousand men
hors du combat, in a month, the corpses of
the unburied dead, ghastly and hideous
with putreficatiou, lying side by side with
slain animals, and together breeding a
fearful pestilence ! Such are the scenes
which are now presented in a country
which, only last spring, was the most
serene and lovely spot of the earth,
smiling in content and security, and
brilliant with hope and happiness*—Rich
mond Dispatch.
Bushnell, the last of the rescuers, left
town to-day, in a cloud of ( darkies, dust,
and damaged divinities, with a band of
music in front, and a file of rag, tag and
bob-tail in rear. He goes to Oberlin,
where an ovation awaits him. Artillery
Company A, Captain Williams, left this
morning at daylight, with their brass
baby waker, as an a cant courier of his
coming. His triumphal entry will be
made amid the roar of artillery, the blaze
of beauty,
“.from snowy white to sooty,”
and the shouts and huzzas of a multitude
which no man can number: all for the
glory of rescuing a nigger, and a nigger,
too, that from his depraved habits, had
become a pauper charge upon the people
of Oberlin. Great country. Cleveland
Pfoindcalcr.
A Polish Prince os I'linrlage.
The Paris go.-sip of the London Jour
nal contains the following story, which,
unlike most of the stc>iies of Paris. is lit
to be told :
“A certain \ onng Irish beauty, eugug
ed to a young Etiglisbui ;n. went to the
French •;) nut on > visa to her aunt
about five motiih- ago: with her went
her .lover and her -i i r. and a gay |
season was tijo\ed by ail paries. As for
the 1-ride elect, she ioiimi a certain l'olish
Pci ee who treqni nted her aunt s salon, i
so agreeable that she actually told her
affianced hridgrooni: and, what was I
astonishing, tire bridegroom qui'e v
gi-eed, and thought so too. Some weeks
passed on thus, the Polish Ptince be
came more and more delightful, the bride
trroom more and more willing to own it,
until one fine day, upon some hint thrown
out by the Polish Prince, the heroine
informed her English lover that she did 1
not think their marriage a desirable thing.
The lover, with wonderful alacrity,
agreed with her, and the engagement
being broken off, be at once offered him
self to the sister of his former fiance, who
readily accepted him. Everything was
now going on smoothly, only the Polish
Prince did not propose as promptly as
h was expected to do: however, the
young Irish girl was strong in hope that,
at the approaching marriage of her sis
ter her lover, the lagged man would
•say the necessary word. The wedding
soon took place, and the fair girl as
bridesmaid, leaned on the arm of the
Prince, who officiated as groomsman
Corning out of the church, Hie Polish
Prince sighed heavily, and turning his j
eves upon tbo bridegroom, exclaimed, as
he pressed the bridesmaid hand, locked
at (hat moment with his own, “ Toor
fellow, how l pity him!” “Why so?”
said the lovely bridesmaid, half offended.
“ Why, for marrying. How can a mau
be such an ass ? I, for one, would never
marry, if Venus herself with fifty thou
sand ducats in each pocket were offered
me.” A heavy mass fell upon his arm—
the bridesmaid had fainted, and he car
ried her back to the sacristy, wondering
what on earth had taken posession of her
just at the last moment, and grinning
horribly at the idea of this tardy remem
brance of the obligation to that conven
tional sensibility which bridesmaids are
compelled to exhibt.”
-O-
Melancholy Accident lit Red Clay.
As we go to press, we learn from a let
ter from Mr. W. 11. Huff, that a melan
choly and fatal accident occured at Red
Clay, ten miles above this place, on the
E. Tennessee and Georgia Rail Road, on
the evening of the 10th, as follows: —
When the down train from Knoxville ar
rived, Mrs. Harrison, wife of Dr. James
F. Harrison, of Bondon, Tenn., with her
two daughters, got of the train for the
purpose of spending some weeks with her
sister, Mrs. J. A Haskins, living near
the village. Capt Ilobt. Austin, of Ste
venson, Ala., and a brother in-law of Mrs.
ll.’s, learning that she was at the depot,
immediately drove thither in a buggy for
the purpose of conveying her to the resi
dence of Mr. Haskins. They had procee
ded about two hundred yards, when the
horse became frightened at a loud clap of
thunder, ran away, and dashed them
against a fence, dreadfully mangling the
head and face of Mrs. 11., killing her in
stantly, Capt. A. was taken to the house
of Mr. \V. IL Hull', where, after the most
intense suffering, he expired at six o'clock
of the same evening. The first intima
tion the husband and friends of Mrs. H.
received of her melancholy death, was
the return of her dead body to London,
which was sent up on the night of the
same .day she left her home so full of
life, and joyous in the anticipation of
meeting two loved sisters, whom she had
not seen for years. Truly hath it been
said, “In the midst of life we are in
death.” —Dalton ( (la. ) Times.
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The Price of a Ktss.
A correspondent of the Memphis Ava
lanche, writing from Hardeman county,
furnishes the following answer to the
question propounded, we believe, in the
columns of the Nashville Union:
I noticed (I believe) in the Avalanche’
some time ago, you reported a ease that
was before one of your courts for an at
tempt, on the part of one of the Sons of
Judas, to kiss one of Eve’s fair represen-
and for this little freak of ro
mance the Judge charged him ten dollars.
l r ou ask, if an attempt to kiss is worth
ten dollars, what is a real kiss worth ?
A case has just been decided in the Cir
cuit Court at Purdy, that w’ill solve your
question. Mr. A. kissed Mrs. C. on the
cheek ; Air. A. pleaded guilty, and Judge
Walker charged the unfortunate “Judas’’
fifty dollars for it.
If a kis3 on the cheek is worth fifty
dollars, what is a kiss from the rosy lips
of some fair lass worth ? Who can tell ?
Ah, yes ! there’s the rub. Can no dear,
sweet, pretty, sugar-lipped lassie answer
the question.
Looking tip.
Mr. Astor, it is said, when once fording
the Susquehanna on horseback, found
himself becoming so dizzy as to be about
to lose bis seat. Suddenly he received a
blow on his chin from a trapper, who
was his companion, with the words,
“Look up.” He did look up, and re
covered his balance. It was looking on
the turbulc-nt waters that imperiled his
life; the blow he received and the look
ing up saved it.
It. is so often with ourselves under God’s
discipline. A sudden shock comes to our
own persons or death descends on one of
our friends. At the moment, witli our
eyes fixed on self, or some object of earth
ly idolatry, we may be nigh ruin. Then
God’s providence comes and disfigures
the idol, or forcibly withdraws our eyes
from the path in which we were seeking
destruction. In earthly relations, we
would see in such interpositions the pres
ence, not only of a wise, but loving
friend Shall we not, when we consider
the relations of the soul, seem the same
thing in God’s chastening providences ?
♦-
Col. CocJiran Withdraws.
We are in receipt by this morning’s
mail, of a letter from Col. Cochran,.from
which we make the following extract. It
will be seen that circumstances, beyond
bis control, constrain him to retire from
the Canvass for the House of Represen
tatives.— Eufaula Spirit of the South, 2(>th.
Red Sulphur. Springs, July 8, ’oft.
I am having my long neglected face
treated. Exposure to the sun would de
feat the cure, ilenee. if I were in Bar
bour county, 1 could not engage in the
canvass for the Legislature. Moreover,
the health of my wife makes it impossible
for me to come home at once. For these
reasons I beg to be permitted to withdraw
my name as a candidate. Yours truly,
J. COCHRAN.
E. C. Bullock, Esq.
The Forrest Case.
New York, July 10.—The ca.-e of Ca
therine N. Forest vs. Edwin Forest, the
Judge this morning decided the mo
tion argued last week, to change the re
feree and to grant alimony and counsel
fees for plaiatilF should be granted—the
reference to proceed before the present ,
referee, if he will consent to hear it. and
the defendant’s attorney consents to va
cate the order of adjournment; other
wise the order will be to vacate the or
der of reference, and refer the matter to |
another suitable person. The defendant
to pay alimony at the rate of §2OO per
month, and $1,500 towards counsel fees
and expenses of reference.
♦
iV>gro Insurrection in Venezuela,
An arrival at Philadelphia brings im
portant news from Yenezuela. The ne
groes of the vil ages of in the vicinity of j
Puerto Cabello have risen and committed
horrible outrages, requiring the employ
ment of troops to put them down and re
store order. Several columns of troops
are in pursuit of the insurgents, but they |
fly to the woods us soon as they ap
proach, and resume their ravages when
they disappear. The rising is not a po
litical movement. It is simpiy a question
cf blacks and whites. The leader of the
insurgents is Antonio Ruiz, a native of
St. Domingo, undr the assumed name of
Thornes Faison.
Our Propeller.
The new steamer Florida, now building
at Green Point, on East River, (at or
near the city of New Yoi k) iu the yard
ot Elisha W. Whitlock, E-q , under the
tuperinUndanoe of Capt. O <t. Nelson,
long the popular commander of the
steamship America, and for a short tiro .
ofthe Matagorda, i* now rapidly tin
grossing. We understand that -he will
be launched on or about the 15th in-t
and will be completed about tiie 10th or
October next.
The Florida is intended to run between
| New Orleans and this place, being built
’ exclusively for that trade. The stock is
principally owned by the enterprising
! merchants of our city, an 1 persons who
are friendly to our interest, from here
!lo Columbus, Ga We subjoin the fol
j lowing account of her dimensions given
in a letter from Capt. George Buckmati,
1 at New York, to S. J. Whiteside, Esq.,
j both esteemed citizens of our place.
The letter is dated New York, June
j 18th, 1859, and says speaking of the
steamer: “She is now all planked up,
\ and her main deck is laid. She will be
• one of the ‘dayext little ’ steamers you ever
-aw, of a beautiful model, and one him
■ died and seventy-five feet long; thirty
feet beam; nine feet depth of hole; sev
|en feet between decks. Her boiler and
■ machinery is all in the lower hole, and
; is so placed that when all on board, with
| fifty tons of coal, she will draw five feet
| ten inches, and be one foot by the stern :
when full laden she will draw ten feet.
1 Her boiler is twenty-one feet long, ten
I feet in hight and depth, witlq two furna
’ ees, and ten direct and eighteen return
j flues. The engine i- Baird’s, the same
j that is used in ail the English propellers,
j that come to this country, and also the
j same that aroused in some?of Cromwell's
I steamers. Such as arc- now being used
{in all new propellers. It is thirty six
inches in diameter, with forty-two inches
stroke, and will easily make sixty revolu
tions per rniftute. The propeller is ten
feet five inches in diameter. The*super
iutending engineer says that she will run
eleven mites an hour, and if pushed will
go thirteen. She will curry one thous
and barrels in the lower hole, besides sev
enty tous of coal, and I think three thous
and barrels between decks. She is as
strong as wood and irou can make her :
and lias five kelsons fourteen inches
square. Her floor timbers are thirteen
inches deep, bilge streaks are eight inch
es, and the deck beams ten inches. Every
beam is kneed and has ten bolts iu each.
She is copper fastened and bolted. Her
planks (all of Oak) commence ac the keel
seven incites, and decrease up to the
plank shear to four inches. Take her
altogether she is a superior steamer, and
Capt. Nelson is a very economical man,
and has made a first rate contract, both
as regards model anti durability.”
In the above we have the dimensions©!’
the new steamer, Florida, and her esti
mate carrying capacity, by one whom the
citizens of this place will admit to be a
judge in nautical affairs. And we pre
dict that under the management of her
experienced and popular commander that
the “Florida” will bring freight from
New Orleans with unprecedented quick
ness and dispatch. This is a desideratum
which has been desired, and when this
steamer commences her trips, the stock
holders, merchants of our city, will aid
to run her regular whether it pays or
not, remembering the motto “nothing
risked, nothing gained.” Shall we proph
esy that she will make money ? Yes we
do. Apalaeliieola Advertise \
Lincoln County Taxes.
The Tax Collector of Lincoln sends a
digest of taxable property in that county
to the Augusta Constitutionalist, from
which we make tiie following extracts:
Pods ;;t52
Professions if,
Daguerrean Artists i
Children between 8 and 18 years 411
Number of acres third quality land 165.50.3
” “ Pine ** .... 4,824
“ of slaves 3,748
Aggregate value of land. $875,1C2
“ “ of town property 8,160
“ “ of sluves 2,813,077
Amount of money and solvent debts of
all kinds 407,454
Amount of merchandise 20,175
Value of household and kitchen furni
ture over S3OO 5,G00
’ Aggregate value of other property, Ac.,
not before enumerated 248,057
Aggregate value of whole property $4,388,035
You will see that, the average value of
the slaves is seven hundred and fifty-five
dollars and twenty-five cents; and as the
! largest portion of the taxes in many
j couuties of the State is received from
j slaves, I would ask, would it not be fair
that this species of property should be
I equitably valued in all the counties?
For instance : suppose one county
should make the average value of slaves
to be eight hundred and fifty dollars, and
another adjacent county should make it
six hundred, is there any justice or equal
ity in this mode of assessing property ?
I would ask the readers of your paper,
and the people of Georgia, in‘general,
cannot our Legislature, at its next ses
sion, devise some other mode of assessing
properly, that, will make it more rational,
and also more equitable ? 1 think this
might be done by an net of the Legisla
ture, that would fix a certain or definite
value on all healthy slaves of certain ages.
Destructive Fire In Jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 21
j Ed. Republican. —Our city has been vis
| ted by another destructive conflagration.
On Tuesday morning last, about i o’clock,
our citizens were aroused from their
slumbers by the cry of “fire! fire*’! It
was found to proceed from a small shed
i between the kite ien wml stable, in the
j rear of tbedwelling-house, formerly owned
j by Dr. Holland, but at present, occupied
j by Dr. Holmes Steele. The flames soon
l communicated with the residence of Mr.
; Grothe, which was soon destroyed by the
! devouring element. From thence the
j flames soon spread both to the west and
| north, and the custom House, the Buffig
| ton House ( Hotel,) the private residence
| of Cant. Paul B. Canovo, the law office of
j Messrs. Sanderson & Forward, the dwel
j ling house of Col. J. I’. Sanderson, a
: building owned by Col. Buffington, known
as the “ California House,” the Huffing
| ton House Livery Stable, and some other
small buildings adjoining, were all con
sumed. The total loss is estimated at
$20,000, on \\hich there was an insurance
of §5,400: $5,000 on the Buffington Ho
tel, and S4OO on the residence of Mr.
Grothe—both in the Southern Mutual,
Athens. Ila.
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M. Bio tidin'* Last Walk across
Niagara.
On Thursday last M. Blondiu walked
his rope at Niagara lor the last time in
presence of an immense multitude of peo
ple. About two hundred Buffalonians
were present, besides some ten or fifteeu
thousand persons from other place*.
Blondiu walked the rope from the Ameri
can to the Canada shore backwards and,
when near the centre of the river, waited
until the steamer Maid of tlie Mist came
beneath, bringing Travis, the great
shooter, Blondin held his hat at arm's
length, and Travis, standing on the
steamer, fired a pistol-ball through it.
The hat was then lowered to the boat,
that the marksman might see what he
had done. Travis was satisfied, and"re
turned the hat to Blondin, who went on
hi* way. Returning from the Canada
side, Blondin pushed a wheelbarrow
across. The wheel had a grooved rim to
fit the rope, and the handle- of the vehi
cle were suspended by a cord around his
neck. He carried his balancing po e
with him while pushing the barrow.—
This was the last walk at Niagara.
The Washington Constitution says:—
We are requested to state that an official
communication from the Bremen Govern
ment, (received since the publication ot
the notice, in the t onstitutiou ot the
in*t.) states that the recent reduction at
postage at 15 cents between the Lmted
States ami Frankfort-on-the Main, Baxe-
Coburg-Gotba, and other Germau States,
under the direction of Thurn and a axis
Postoffice, applies only to the correspon
dence forwarded via Bremen, and not to
the correspondence sent via Hamburg, as
originally reported.
Postmasters, will, therefore be caretut
to collect the reduced rate of 15 cents to
the German States referred to only when
the letter is to be forwarded via Bremen.
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