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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. +. 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. —. —-♦ 5 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. - 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. Ln Tli'flm a n moil