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enquired where-a-bouts the chancellor might be found ? N o t far off,"’ said the sportsman; and, just as he spoke, a covey of partridges got up at which he fired, but without success. The stranger left him, crossed another field or two, and witnessed from a little distance the dis charge of several shots as unproductive as the first. “You don't seem to make much at that,’ paid he, coming back. “I wish you could tell me whereto meet with Lord Eldon.” “Why, then,” said the other, “I am Lord Eldon.” . The clergyman fell a stammering and apol ogising, till the chancellor asked him rather shortly, “whence he came, how he got to Encombe, and what he wanted there'?” The poor clergyman said he had come from Lan cashire to the Bull and Mouth in London; and finding the chancellor had left town, and having no money to spare, he had walked from London to Encombe; and that he was Mr. , the curate of a small parish, which he mentioned, and of which the incumbent was just dead, and that he was come to soli cit the vacant benefice. “I never give answer to applicants coming hither,” said the chancellor, “or 1 should never have a moment to myself; and I can only express my regret that you should have taken the trouble of coming so far to no pur pose.” The Suitor said, — “If so, he had no alternative but to go back to the Bull and Mouth, where he expected to find a friend who would give him a cast back into Lancashire,” and, with a heavy heart took leave. When he arrived at the Bull and Mouth, a letter, in an unknown hand, was waiting for him. lie opened the cover with the anxious curiosity of a man to whom epistolary com munications are rare; and had the joy of find ing it in a good-humored note from the chan cellor, giving him the preferment. “ But now,” added Lord Eldon, with a wag gish smile, “ see the ingratitude of mankind. It was not long before a large present of game reached me, with a letter from my new-made rector, purporting that he had sent it me be cause, from what he had seen of my shooting, he supposed I must be badly off for game ! Think of histurning upon mein this way after the kindness 1 had done him, and wounding me in my very tenderest point!”— Campbell's Lives of the Lord Chancellor. A VIEW ON ALABAMA RIVER. If you take a stroll, along the shaded banks of the Alabama river, on a soft, sunny morn ing in Spring, (a Southern Spring begins in February, but April will yield you some de lightful (lays.) when the wooing blandness of the air disposes you to serene meditation and love of Nature, you will have some hours of enjoyment that any inhabitant of the city might envy you. As you inhale the fresh air, loaded with the perfume of young, green leaves, and the fragrance of prairie-flowers, and look around on the varied landscape, you will feel that an hour, of communion with Nature’s beauty, is worth more than can be estimated. . A chief element, in these pleasurable emo tions, is, the delicious mildness of the weath er. Here, are no harsh or cutting gales, to sweep by, and bring a wintry frown over the summer scene. A balmy softness per vades the w hole atmosphere: a quiet, dreamy languor insensibly falls upon you, soothing all tumultuous sensations, till you feel that there is tranquil happiness in the very air and blessed sunshine. Ascend now, by a winding path, to the summit of that lofty bluff, which commands a wide and beautiful range of scenery. On the right, the dingy blue waters of the river wind their sluggish course, between high and rug ged banks. Huge crags of limestone, green with damp moss, project, here and there, over shadowed by the lofty sycamore and wide spreading oak, while clusters of mountain-lau rel intervene, their rich blossoms contrasting beautifully, with the deep green of the sur rounding foliage. A wide forest-scene, undu lating like the sea, and varied by the play of light and shade over the tree tops, .stretches beyond; indented, here and there, with plan tations and prairies. The prairies are not, as in the West, clothed with tall, waving grass, for the grass, here, is short and comparative ly scanty; but they are absolutely covered with bright yellow flowers. They are not extensive, and have the appearance of so many lovely flower-gardens, scattered amidst a wilderness of woods. On your left, and parallel to each other, two wide and fertile valleys slope, gradually, in the distance. These are cultivated, and beautifully diversified with copse, and field, and habitation. Large plantations stretch out 3:D b xl is la ii aifBIBA& ¥8 A 3 Sif 1 7IE ♦ as far as the eye can reach. The meadow land is not watered by branches; but, here and there, you may trace a moist spot, covered with green ooze, that has been formed by the rains. The negro huts are built in regular files, (streets on a small scale;) and, neatly whitewashed, with the smoke curling above them, they offer the appearance of a miniature village. Thq long furrows of ihe corn and cotton fields, fringed with the young and ten der plant, the green sweeps of forest, beyond, and the pine-ridge, distinctly marked against the horizon by its peculiar blue, —form an im posing picture ; while the white smoke, curl ing gracefully upwards from the scattered farm houses, the laborers, busy in the fields, the ploughman’s whoop, the shrill whistle, and the distant laugh, serve to give life and cheerfulness to the scene. To crown all, the morning mist has risen in the glowing sun shine, and hangs, like a transparent and silv ery veil, over the soft landscape, showering tenfold beauty on what it strives to hide. [Mrs. ElleVs Country Rambles. £l)c lUorkirtg Man. THE TELEGRPAH. BY A WORKING MAN. lie who created heaven and earth, And gave the rolling thunder birth, Who holds the ocean in his hand, Whose waves are stayed at his command, Who made the gorgeous sun to gild The humblest cot that man can build, Who strewed the earth with lovely flowers, And gave to man gigantic powers, Hath kindly unto Morse revealed What heretofore has been concealed, lie doth the rapid lightning tame — A Telegraph he calls its name — And with a single vivid flash, A dot —a space —a line —a dash — Can send around the earth the news. Or stop it just as he may chose, What a mysterious mighty power ! No noise is heard —no cloud doth lower, And yet the lightning wings its way, And tells whate’er we have to say. MANUFACTURES IN THE SOUTH. The question has been with a great num ber of planters in the South, “ whether shall the cotton field be carried to the factory or the factory to the cotton field.” The June number of the Western Journal contains a long and ably written article to prove the ne cessity and utility of the Southern and South western States becoming manufacturing as well as agricultural. Southern States, espec ially Georgia, manufacture their own coarse cotton goods, and they are of superior quality and there can be no doubt that at no distant day the cotton manufacture will be engrossed by the cotton growing States. In manufac turing upon the plantation, the whole car riage of the material is at least saved and this is not a little. The question is therefore set tled that the loom should come to the cotton, for Georgia has now 32 factories and more in the course of construction. We lately con versed with a gentleman from Florida, who informed us that there was a factory near Pensacola that turned out most splendid coarse goods —what are called negro goods— which can suffice for southern clothing for at least nine months in the year. Maryland has long been a manufacturing State. Old Vir ginia is now grasping the spinning jenny and power loom and so is South Carolina, and not a bit of chivalry sacrificed, but rather stimulated. We trust, however, that with the progress of manufactures in the South, the cold-hearted greed of gain will not banish the ancient pride of noble hospitality. 1 i PROFITS OF FARMING. A correspondent of the Boston Cultivator , states the success of a man who left a lucra tive business in the city of Philadelphia, for farming to make profit. After two years tri al, he was asked if he did not find the profits small, compared with those of his trade. He answered, “quite the contrary; I have alrea dy realized far more than I dared to anticipate, and I am at the end of two years richer than I ever could have become by 25 years of suc cessful trade. It is true, I had more dollars and cents in trade than I have now, but that is dross compared with the blessings of body, and peace of mind, which gold and silver could never purchase. I eat, drink and sleep with an appetite; yawn at bedtime, and nev er in the morning; am up before the sun, and yet the day is never too long; and more than all, I have no acceptances to take up. Mon ey ! why what use have I for it ? I raise my own food in the richest profusion, and my own clothing—my estate is annually increas ing in value—then what is the use of money? I can't eat or drink it, if it were cut into mince meat.” JJljUosopl)}) for tl)c people. TO PAINT THE SLIDERS OF MAGIC LANTERNS. Provide a small muller and a piece of thick ground glass five or six inches square to grind the colors on, also a small pallet knife and a few bottles to put the colors in. For a red color get a little scarlet lake, and for blue a little Prussian blue. For green use purified verdigris ground with a quarter of its bulk of gamboge, and for brown use burnt umber, and for black, burnt sienna black. These are the only colors that are truly transparent and fit lor painting sliders. Having all these col ors ready, grind them in the balsam of fir mix ed with half its bulk of turpentine; mastic varnish will do very well, but the balsam is the most beautiful. To paint the glass black round the painting, dissolve asphaltum in tur pentine and mix with lampblack. When the colors are all ground they must be putin sep arate bottles and sealed, and when they are to be used, a little bit is taken out at once on a piece of glass, just as much as is needed at once, as it quickly dries. If the color is too thick it must be diluted with turpentine. To paint the sliders, the subject must be de signed on paper and the paper put under the glass and the glass painted above it according to the design on the paper underneath. [Scientific American. PHILOSOPHICAL FACTS. The change of properties which takes place when chemical attraction acts, is not confined to metals, but is a general result in every case where different bodies are brought into this state of combination or chemical union. Fre quently we find that the properties of each body are totally changed; and that substances from being energetic and violent in their na ture, become inert and harmless, and vice versa. For instance that useful and agreeable substance, culinary salt, which is not only harmless hut wholsome, and absolutely neces sary to the well being of man, is composed of two formidable ingredients, either of which taken into the stomach proves fatal to life ; one of these is a metal, and the other an air— the former is called sodium, the later chlorine. When presented to each other, the violence of their nature is manifested by their immedi ately bursting out into flame, and instantly they are both deprived of their virulence. — Can anything be more striking than the change of properties in this case; and who could have supposed that culinary salt is com posed of a metal united to an air ? ATMOSPHERIC CHURN. The St. Louis papers allude to anew and singular churn, lately patented, and now ex hibiting in that city. Blitter is made by it out of fresh milk, and without the use of wa ter. The principie consists in the introduc tion, by means of exceedingly simple machine ry. of the atmospheric air into the body of milk. The air, by its own action, produces the separation of the milk from the butter.— The machinery is very simple and the princi ple undeniable, and the operation of churning can hardly be said to be labor at all. By this machine, an ordinary churning, it is said, can be made by a child of four years of age, and that too without waiting for the cream to rise or the milk to sour. Butter is made in fif teen minutes from fresh milk, and the cost of the churn is not more than that of an ordinary one. It is an Illinois invention and has cer tainly the priority of the Irish Bishop's notic ed a short time since in our coin ms. It is we believe constructed on the principle of the bellows, and the inventor is making his for tune out of it. We have seen butter made by the common rotary paddle churn in fifteen minutes, but never from fresh milk. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. The length of the Smithsonian Institute is four hundred and fifty feet. Its breadth at towers is one hundred and fifty feet : its geneial breadth fifty-four feet. The East ern wing will first be finished and put in ord er for the occupation of the secretary and for the immediate purpose of the board. When finished it will indeed be a very unique and beautiful edifice, worthy of the dignithy of antiquity, and of the enlightened liberality of its founder. If there be no simplicity in the architecture, it is to be hoped that valu abel quality wall be studied in all the practical arrangements of the establishment. We hear that Prof. Henry has fully resigned his office in Princeton College, and is now entirely de voted to the w'ork. -foreign Correspondence. For the Southem'Literary Gazette. LONDON LETTERS. —No. 7. London, June 30, 1848. My dear R.: In this age of great events it requires something extraordinary to excite the public mind to any considerable degree of interest. That something luis transpired to accomplish this, you would not doubt if you had been in this great Babel the three past days. In the club and coffee houses, in the parks and in the streets you might have seen eager groups discussing with animated looks and tones the startling, nay the thrill ing intelligence which has reached us of an insurrection in Paris, an insurrection so aw ful in its character and in its consequences that men stand aghast, and wonder if this be indeed the nineteenth century, and Europe the most enlightened quarter of the globe! This insurrection in its fearful details of death and terror, of desperate bravery and savage cruelty, of ruthless passions and wild frenzy, eclipses any intestine outbreak in the annals of history. It stands alone and un paralleled, a fearful and unmistakeable mon ument of anarchy. How shall I begin my narrative, so vast is its extent, so aggravated its details ! The city of Paris, from the 22dto the 26th instant was a scene of the wildest confusion, battle and slaughter. During this period a conflict was sustained between perhaps 50,- 000 insurgents, and the forces of the govern ment numbering in all 300,000. On Thurs day night, yesterday week, the first barricades were raised by the mob, and on the next day the conflict commenced between the rebels and the National Guards. I ought perhaps to have stated that a deputation of workmen called on M. Marie for a redress of grievan ces, and by some misconception considered themselves insulted by him in calling them slaves. This it is said was the spark that set fire to a mighty magazine of conspiracy and revolt, signalized in fts explosion by the most revolting atrocity of which the mind can conceive. By Friday night the insurgents had pos sessed themselves of a very considerable portion of the city on both sides the Seine, their medium of communication being the bridge of St. Michel. They held the church of St. Gervais, and Notre Dame, and extend ed over very important parts of Paris, but f will not weary your readers with details of their position. It was not until Saturday that the carnage really commenced. Early in the day the National Assembly declared the city in a state of seige. Lamartine had on the previous day rode through the streets with a staff of officers to quell if possible the riot, but in vain. Gen. Cavaignac assumed the executivepporerw r er and commanded the troops. All day the conflict was raging, and especially on the south side of the river. Eye witnesses describe the scene as one of unmingled horror. The roar of artillery', the sharp rattling of musquetry, the savage shouts of an infuriated mob, the screams of women and children and the tolling of bells oppress ed the air with doleful sounds. Night only increased the universal h#rk>r. Thousands of troops poured in from tyfiHbus regions and desperate charges by horse and foot, to dislodge the their positions, which, however, ently impregnable. rebels raised the Mb;'” and a round it with ’too clearly the^^rfde 1 a mong Guar& i ll Os PWSWitch&tie'tt 1 WeUbf the' 7 irfVgents He wak Annan of dh*i#£tfrHi ed ability—the translator of the WWelly NovG¥/° < ”V)'rl Sunday the terrible carnage continued especially within the Foubourg St. Antoine, to 85