Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

———,■nrcwrvn’xN.w 4,_1_1.1.:/..11LJ1- -/i—r--rr-_- .i *' w "" . i-rnnin, » iw 'imssiii m'r.-wrrtsi miiihii rr-r.i i iri:—zr -jr-.i.— —:.-.-r.Trm—.—i —— ■>.- iiniimmynryia Weekly iW ikpublic BY JAMES GARDNER, JR AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 26. The Yale College Affair. In justice to Yale College and its Faculty, and also to those of the Southern students there, who indorse the views of a " Soutbenwr" (a member ol the Junior Class from Mississippi,) we pub lish his reply to Mr. Hamilton. There is a large allowance ot liberality in the sentiments ot this young Mississippian, in reference to Northern opinions on slavery, and their modes of expres sing them. If all Southern students in Northern Colleges viewed the matter as philosophically, there would lie few angry collisions in these institu tions growing out of this vexed question. But we cannot give credit Jk* Northern students and Professors for quite as much philosophy and for bearance, and we are inclined to believe their anti-slavery prejudices would not be the less noisy or intrusive by reason of the resigned spirit with which Southern students listened to them. The state of things prevailing at dale has made the same impressions on other Southern men that it has on Mr. Hamilton, albeit some of the facts put forth by him are controverted. In proof of this, we quote the following edito rial from the Macon Journal Y Afissrngrr : j Apqi.iTioMrsM in Falk Caswas.—We hav# known. u*m rrar oi. i pers. n <t experience, that \ < »ii»_.l<«e f ege nas oeeti for ms..y years the hot j * tied Abolitionism, and that influences were ex- ; ’ cried npon its Students w hich tended to create i among them a public sentiment hostile to the South, and to its institution of domestic slavery. Th-re are not among the followers of Garrison, j Fred. Doughs- ar.d Harriet Beechor Stowe, fan atics upon the subject of slavery more unreason- , able, more ignorant, more uncompromising, and more i.'.- .. g than that class of Northern Stu- dents in Yale College, who. on account of their natural dullness, and consequent dogmatism, aie destined, by their parents, /br /Ac prp/essfon of | JI. '. i.. 7. r.s young men are educated at the South 1..r Civil Engineers, 1 .ysicians and Lawyeis. Their Academic career is a novitiate for the priest-crafr. which over-rides an I controls a large portion ol "tiie strong-minded women men of New England, and dosing, drcwti’i-g, a d purring through it. their ; whole de;-.iitm-.it towards Southern students, is a practical and systematic assertion of their superiority. To the sneers of these men, and . to their str.ctures upon t ie South, are Southern I youths in Yale College continually exposed. A College course in England, or on the conti- ; nent. is q ; te as cheap and as profitable as at Yale or Cambridge. Brown University, in Rhixle Islaiid.-w.'s injured many years ago by the published opinions of its President upon the ■ subject of slavery. Did he ever utter anything I half so objectionable as that which is attributed to President Wollsey and to Professor Thatch- ; er in the extiacts from the letter o Mr. Ham ilton. for writing which, he has been refused a diploma from Yale. We are gla 1 to know that there is piety and philant:.'.-phy at the North, and among the stu dents o: Yale, which is enlightened, and w Inch is without anv of the cant ol religion, and that there are always Northern men an ocg its stu- i dents, who are tine illustrations ot everything ; noble and generous. But public opinion in j Connecticut, in New Haven, in the Faculty ol ■ \ i e • i among i"s students, is opposed to the ' South and to her institution of slavery, and the i liberal patronage wb.cn Georgia Las given her, s >uld he trai sferred to our own or to European Montgomery and West Point Railroad. j We ate pleased to learn by a letter from the , resident, Chalets T. Fuulaud, that the recent . damage- by t. ■> freshet to the Montgomery and West PoiiA Railroad, have been repaired—and \ tnat both the day ar.d night Passenger Trains j are now running as usual. The staging between this and the LaGrange : Railroad is reduced to 13 miles. The Boston Daily’ Advertiser, states that a gentleman, whose name is withheld, has dona ted to the Boston Athenaeum a large number of books, unequalled in value by any previous gift of books to the library since its foundation. The works thus presented are all of a most costly and splendid character, and include several which 1 are not to be found any iu olher public library in A twin* » sat in PO I 4- ; volumes of the works of Piranesi, a very ' fixia copy‘of Champollion’s great work on Egyp tian Antiquities, under the auspices of the French Government, in lour folio volumes, I Perking’s splendid volume on the Pyramids of i Gizeh. and a copy of Gould’s Birds of Europe, a i work which rivals in beauty and expense Au- ; dubon'o Birds of America. More Raia—Railroad Collision—Loss of Life. The Columbus Times of the 19th inst., says: j On Thursday night last the windows of Heaven I were opened, and a great flood of rain fell in this | section. The flume of the Eagle Factory was I washed away and a portion of the wall of the ■ canal lately rebuilt was thrown down by the violence of the waters. - But the most melancholy accident occurred on the Railroad which it has been our duty to record since our connection witn the press. The cars left the depot at 3 o’clock yesterday morn ing, and had hardly gone 10 miles before the trestle work across a ravine gave way, and pre- | cipitated them into the depths below, ar.d des troyed the lives of two esteemed citizens, and se- j verely injured another. The engine passed over 1 the trestle work safely, but the weight of the I tender crushed through it and dragged theengine and car after it, causing the collision between ; them which was so fatal. ‘■The engineer. .Mr. Charles D. Schoonmaker, I and a fireman named Newton Gillmore, were killed instantly. Mr. Benjamin Gray, another fireman, had his leg and arm broken, and great j apprehensions were at one time felt as to his I recovery, but I. is physician assured us yesterday ; morning that he was out of all danger. “ We are informed that Mr. Schoonmaker was i a very careful engineer, and that on the morn ing in question be used the greatest precaution ! to prevent the possibility of accidents; and j that when the accident did occur, there was no j cause for fear. The cars had passed over much : worse looking places with safety. No blame i therefore will be attached to him. It was one | of those unforeseen providences which human I foresight could not guard against. “ There were passengers in the cars: but none oftheniwere dangerously injured. The seats in the passenger cars were torn up and the car otherwise damaged. All communication with Savannah is now interupted, but we hope it will be opened by our next issue/’ ft is expected, says the New York Journal of Commerce, that Franconi’s great hippodrome will go into operation on the first of May next —the first thing of toe kind that has been intro duced into the United States. Two hundred and fifty horses will be daily employed, and there will be about an equal number of artists and em ployees The steamship Washington, to leave Southampton the 30th inst., will bring seventy persons connected with the hippodrome, among whom are Franconi, and Mons, and Mad. Che renie. who are distinguished in their line of busi ness. at London and Paris, The celebrated “ Car of Roses.” or “ Bacchus,” will also soon arrive by the ship Sea Duck, from Havre. Thirteen artists are on board the packet ship Northumberland, with ostriches and ele phants, and are daily expected to arrive at this port. The hippodrome is located on the Sth Av enue, New York, at its junction with Broadway, on the west side of Madison Square, and be tween 23d and 21th streets. The ground has for many years been occupied by the American Institute, at the time of the annual Fair, for the cattle show ; and the Madison Cottage, (one of the old land marks) is being demolished, to clear the ground. The Hippodrome is in the form of a large amphitheatre, 350 by 200 feet, and will seat from 12,000 to 13,000 persons. The sur rounding wall and the seats are nearly comple ted. The interior will be laid out, in the centre as a garden, in four sections, with fountains, flowers and shrubbery, and be covered by a dec orated tent. The buildings are said to'be more complete, capacious, and better arranged, than any of the kind yet constructed. The style of entertainment will be entirely new in this country— quite a different thing from the circus. The Roman car will figure conspic uously with races by fernale charioteers, steeple chases, “ flat races,” by female jockeys , ostriches rode at the rate of twenty miles an hour: Arabs in the desert, chased by Gonaves ; ostriches hunt ted by Bedouins, stag hunts, &c., &c. The Hippodrome and Crystal Palace will be rival attractions. Singular Cask of Fike.—The Boston Atlas says, the following fact may be useful, not only in guarding against a similar occurrence, but in suggesting one among many causes of tire, which are, undoubtedly, often wrongly attributed to incendiarism. A few days since, a gentleman in the vicinity of Boston observed that the tassel to the shade of his chamber window was badly burned, and in a manlier which gave no indica tion of the cause. He failed in his enquiries, and no person in the house could give him any information. A morning or two after, the do mestic who was attending to the room, ran down in haste, exclaiming that the chamber window was on fire. An examination explained j the mystery. In front of the window, which | looked easterly, stood a shaving glass affixed to a moveable stand. A magnifying glass on the back reflected the rays of the sun. bringing them to a focus on the window ; and whenever j they struck on wood they burned into it, char- I ring the frame in many places. A piece of pa : per placed against the window was set on fire, I and, indeed, the heat was so intense that it in ! stantly burned whatever it touched. When j first discovered the frame of the window was I blazing. i Had the fire extended, it is not probable that ; the origin of it would have been discovered, and : it would have been placed among those incom- I pr->*r„»iLJw enuscs which rnn flnJ nuother «otn i tiou than wilful micuief. ' The Lars Trouble at Honduras.—By the i : brig Helen Jane, from Truxillo, Honduras, Feb. 1 27th, which arrived at New Y'ork on Saturday i ; morning, we have the following account of the i ' trouble on the Mosquito Coast : t About four months since the commandant at Truxillo dispatched troops to Limas, on Romain River, to put a stop to the cutting of mahogany c by the English, they refusing to pay the duty ( enacted by Hondurat, on the ground that the , place belonged to the Mosquito King, which ' Honduras always denied. I The English cutters were driven oft'—the d English flag hauled down, and the Honduras e troops permanently stationed there. The mis sion ot the British steamer “Devastation,” at Truxillo, was to demand the immediate with drawal of the troops frm Limas, with the inti- a mation that if the demand was not complied ” w.th by 12 o’clock, the English commander j a would proceed to remove them by force. He |f; also stated that a claim for damages to English ’ f t subjects, in consequence of their having been driven oft, would be made. He likewise de manded that English subjects should not hearaf- a ter be iuterferred with. The commandant of Truxillo complied with the demand under pro- 11 test, and the troops at Limas were removed— t ( The people ol Honduras, claim Limas as indis- ; putably a part of Honduras, and deny the right of the English to cut the valuable mahogany I a without paying the usual duty. H The Panama Echo learns from Captain Thom- j w as. who arrived in the Nueva Granda, that the j day before the steamer sailed an express arrived. | overland, from the American exploring expedi- i dition on the Amazon, that the explorers had i reached a point on the liver, in nearly a direct i line, some three hundred miles distant, but, by ! the circuitous route which the express was com- \ n pelled to take, was about three hundred and j 0 seventy-five miles distent. There they had ! found a magnificent and most productive coun- : try, with resources beyond previous conception. P Cotton sheeting stood at 30 cents per yard: cos- I fee and indigo at 2 cents, and all other products ! ; at proportionate prices—cutlery, especially, be- j ( i ing very high. The imports are fully equal in ! j i their rates to the exports. I It seems by the statements of Captain H. and ’ j others, that the Yankee steamer will secure the ; I ■ bonus of SIO,OOO offered by the government for \ c i the first steam vessel navigating the waters of i j the Amazon into Bolivia, and also the entry of 1 her entire cargo duty free. — | The shock of an earthquake was felt at Water- | I town, N. Y., early on the morning of the 12th I 1 inst. A considerable number of citizens, who a . were awake at the time, describe the vibrations, a : which were very distinct. The shock occurred e at about 10 minutes past 2 o'clock. The first 1 I part ol the shock was severe, so nvuch so that persons were aroused from sound sleep. Stoves s ; and crockery rattled. After these ceased, the c ■ rumbling sound continued at least a minute and t a half, ending with a number of slight shocks and j vibrations, and gradually ceasing. The contin- , j uation or duration of the whole shock and vibra- j j tions was about two or two and a half minutes, t I The hoiizon was covered with light, unbroken r | clouds. Thermometer stood at 28, four degrees y below freezing point. Very calm and no wind J stirring at the time. v French Fleet Ordef.f.d to Nicaragua.— c It is stated that Louis Napoleon is about to send 0 a naval force to San Juan de Nicaragua to demand - from the municipal authorities there satisfaction | n for fines levied by them upon French subjects for a their refusal to comply with some of the demands j e of the authorities of that place The French government, before deciding upon this course, j c made a demand upon the British government, i t but that government replied that it had no re- ! ( | ponsibility in the case, for by the treaty with ' y the United States it had relinquished all author- | j I ity and dominion there. | } A merchant, interested in the timber trade i “ ' and who has a house in Oswego, informs the , * \ New York Herald that the importation of Cana- ; 1 I dian timber into the New York market was ; ! much larger than was generally supposed, and ’ I was every year on the increase. The heaviest i f | supplies are entered at Oswego, and during ca- I ! nal navigation, reach the city by the canal and : ' jt! e river. Large quantities of it are sold in bond : ' j for export for Australia and the British West In- ; I dies, while it comes pretty strongly in compcti- | , ! tion with Eastern lumber for shipment to Cali- i ( fornia, and for domestic use. The capital invest- > ed in the trade is already very large, and under : t j a reciprocity treaty of commerce it would be- ! < , come very great. ' A Great Line now Filled Out.—The Leg- I idature ofVirginia has, says the Knoxville Reg- I ister, incorporated a company to construct a road , i from Lynchburg to the District of Columbia, by ( I means of which there will be a continuous and j ( ' direct line of railway from Washington City 1 ( i through Virginia, to the Tennessee line. The ' ( j company will, we have been assured, complete j ! the road by the time the Virginia and Tennes- I | see and the East Tennessee and Virginia roads > I are finished, and then Washington City will be | 1 but a day’s journey from Knoxville, and the j ; great cities of the north but a few hours more i distant. ; j Cadet Appointment for Georgia.—We are j ‘ informed that Thomas J. Berry, son of A. J. ( 1 Berry, Esq., of Newnan, has received from Mr. 1 . Fillmore, the appointment of Cadet at West | Point, from the 4th Congressional District of , Georgia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the | death of young Latham. Young Berry is now j in Franklin College, but will repair immediate | ly to West Point, where, we are induced to i hope, he rnay receive the highest honors of that i excellent institution. ! The number of persons actually enagaged in j digging gold in California does not exceed 100,- i 000. During the month of January just passed, I the export of gold from California amounted to $4,570,013, which gives a monthly yield of $43.76 to each man engaged in mining. The Lemon Slavic Case.—ln the House of | Delegates of Virginia, on Thursday, the report! of the special committee on the Lemon slave [ case was taken up and read, closing with a re- j commendation of the following resolution, which j was unanimously adopted, viz : Rewlved, By the General Assembly, that the Attorney General of this State be and is hereby j directed to prosecute, before the Supreme Court of New York, together with such other counsel as the executive may think proper to associate with him, the appeal which has been taken from the recent decision of a Judge in that State, by which Jonathan Lemon, a citizen of Vir ginia, was deprived of his slaves. The total value of the foreign exports from Baltimore, for the week ending on Thursday, , was $175,492. The exports of breadstuff* for the week comprises 12,607 barrels of flour, 2,095 barrels of corn meal, and 1,200 bushels of coin. ' The returns of the General Post Office, Eng land, for the year 1852, give additional proof of the efficacy of the system in eve ry respect. In 1839 the number of letters was 76,000,000 ; in 1840, first year of the new system, 169,000,000 ;in 1845, the number reached 271,- > 500,000 ; in 1830 it wa5347,000,000 : and in 1852 it had increased to 379, "00, 000. The New York Express commends an appara tus recently invented by Professor Kidder, of that city, which controlls the flow of gas at the point of its most economical combustion, and checks the waste caused by the pressure from the Gas Works equal to thirty per eent, beyond the amount required by the consumer, thus sa ving the consumer annually like per centage. The apparatus is self regulating and acts equally on one or one thousand burners. It is in use at the Express office, where its operation has been equal to the anticipations of its inventor, and equally satisfactory and economical to the edi tors. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has passed a bill to allow land and building associations, in corporated by the State, to purchase and hold land in fee simple, either in their corporate ca pacity or by trustee, and to sell the same, or any part thereof, to their stockholders or others, in fee simple. No association, however, is to hold more than fifty acres of land. The Clay Monument project in St. Louis, Mo., is in quite a flourishing state. Some twen ty or thirty lots have been tendered as donations for a site, and the President of the association subscribes SSOOO towards the monument, while another gentleman offers to subscribe $350 an nually for the next five years. The Swaxtjij JJaj’ untie an.—Mr. C>’rjiish has become connected with’ this old and Ttghly ' respectable paper as Assistant Editor. Mr. C has been employed for several years in the Com mercial Department of the New York Express, and has been for some time employed as a com mercial correspondent of the Republican. On Monday last the weekly line of steamers, of the U. S. Mail Steamship Co. commenced. On that day the Illinois was to have taken her departure from New-Y r ork, and will be followed by the Crescent City on the 28th. The days of departure will be the Sth, 13th, 20th and 25th of each month. The editor of the Brooklyn, N. Y. Advertiser had the pleasure of seeing a few day’s since a gold medal, weighing about a pound, and costing about SI,BOO, which is to be presented to the family of the late Mr. Webster. A number of far similes, in bronze, are to be struck off. A bill has been reported in the Virginia Sen ate to tax male free colored persons $5 and fe males $1 per year, to raise a fund to send them to Africa. The bill chartering the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Rail Road Company, passed the House of Delegates of Virginia on Wednesday, with a State subscription of three-fifths of one million two hundred thousand dollars, to be ex pended east of the Shenandoah river. This bill having previously passed the Senate is now a law. Contrracts, it is said, have lately been conclu ded by Capt. Thos. Wright, with the Govern ments of Central America, for the establishment of steamers to carry their mails to and from Panama, commencing at the port of Iztapan, in Guatemala, and touching at all the intermediate ports of Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Cos ta Rica. We have been politely favored for publication (says the Charles'on Standard,) with the follow ing telegraphic despatch dated Montgomery, March 21,1853. “ Let it be known that our road is so far com pleted, that we open communication to-day, be- | tween Montgomery and Wess Point, with our j day train, and shall be enabled by Thursday, to ■ put on our night train again. Chas. F. Pollard, President. i I Sale of Daniel Webster’s Property.—The ' household furniture of the late Hon. Daniel ! Webster was disposed of on Tuesday by auction, and brought very high prices. There was great anxiety among those present to purchase, and everything was readily sold. Many of the re lics were bought in at over double their value. Among other things 4u ordinary-li.vkjr.g rani - seat chair was knocked down for sls, an old common-looking clock brought $39, and other things in proportion. A Generous Offer. —It is said that Gen Abner Curtis, a great shoe manufacturer of East Abington, Mass , has issued proposals to some twenty or thirty J’oung men in his manufactu ring warehouse, that if they will, the current year, be prudent, economical, and faithful in their i duties—show’ a balance sheet of savings, indi- I vidually, of one hundred and fifty dollars, and I consummate marriage on or before the first day of January next ensuing, then he will add, as a New Year’s present, a house lot upon his do main, and one hundred dollars for the purpose of assisting in the erection of a cottage house, sev erally, to his corps of assistants aforesaid. We see it stated that the most lucrative of our consulships is that at Panama, which is rated at between thirty-five and one hundred thousand dollars per annum. Havana is next,then Liver pool, and afterwards in order comes Buenos Ayres, Matanzas, Havre, Alexandria, and Hong j Kong, or Canton. The commercial agency at St. Thomas, Danish West India Islands, is said to be w’orth from six to ten thousand dollars a | [ year. Bellville Factory. We are informed that this Factory is now in ] i full operation. ! The damage by the recent flood in the creek ; | was to the dam onl}', amounting to about S6OO ! : The buildings were uninjured. i A correspondent of the Savannah Cornier, j writing from Troupville, Lowndes county, Ga., ! | confidently predicts that Southern and South- | ; western Georgia and Florida will, in less than j ten years, send two hundred thousand bales of | ■ cotton over one or the other, or both of the pro- j i jected roads, to the Atlantic. New York Crystal Palace.—The New York Journal of Commerce states that in con sequence of the unfavorable state of the weath er during the past month, and a temporary delay j occasioned by a want of building, materials, the | Crystal Pilace will not, probably, be ready for I the reception of articles before the firstof June j next. We have been informed (says the Chaleston ! Courier, of the 24th inst) that the baggage car of I the passenger train which left this city yesterday j morning, when within three miles of Columbia I took fire, and that nearly all the luggage con ' tained therein was destroyed. The passengers i ultimately succeded in extinguishing the fire Governor Manning, we understand, barely saved a trunk oonfainiug valuable State papers. [FOR THE CONSTITUTIONALIST & REPUBLIC.) To James Hamilton. Praise to thee, Hamilton, Fidelity’s son, Praise which your high noble spirit hath won, A spirit to spurn the priestcraft of schools— That woull bias right minds and make them its tools. Ilonorsyou have lost, for the love of the Truth, And principle leavens the soul of your youth ; But honors you have won, and your fame is begun By your wrongs to bo written on the face of the sun. I j Yes, th"e genius of Yale is perverted at last, ! The die of her destiny is fearfully cast, ' Centennial glories now pale on her brow, ! Iler science is darkened by bigotry now. j Right, right are your words, and rightfully spoken; j For the links of this Union nro yet to bo broken, When learning all hoary with the labors of ages, Gives fiction approval by tho dogmas of sages. Oh shame that “National Yale'' should depart, From wisdom that templed her name in tho heart: But memory now shall return to the spot, And sadly brood over her history's blot. Shades of the mighty dead, no more may ye wait, Midst tho groves of your Yale dishonored ol late, A!mu-Muter reveres not tho scroll of your names : Como inspire the South with your patriot flumes. Lot enterprise, fired by our wrongs at the North, String her sinews again, her treasures pour forth, And Southern hearts burn with a holier zeal, And Southern hands build for their glory and weal. Return to your land, thou patriot son ' And gird on tho armor of mind, Hamilton, And place thy bravo breast in tho van »f your State, That, sooner or later must fight for its fide. Yalensis. IfyriuK, llu., March 11. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1853. To the Editors of the Nciv Haven Palladium. Yale College, Feb. 21th, 1853. Otir little college world has been somewhat agitated fra few days past by the appearance in the Register of an article on the “Abolition feeling” of the North—purporting to emanate from the pen of a Southern Yalensian. The re marks from the same source—in the Register of the 23<l instant, were certainly not inappli cable, or inappropriate to the present state ot Northern feeling and policy towards their Southern brethren. That there does not exist at the North a mistaken view of Southern lite— that Mrs. Stowe’s popular work has contribu ted to this error. and has widened to a fright ful extent the breach between the two extremi ties of this Union—no one of sense and reflec tion can have failed to observe. Nor can any one deny that she has more firmly rivetted the hand-cuffs of “ Uncle Tom.” She has, indeed, effected in this country and throughout the civi lized world, tl e spread of a romantic sentiment ot freedom. She has created in the minds ot mil lions, visions of many little Evas, acting out, in Utopia, the part of that philanthropic and love ly child ot fiction. Yet do the children of Ham with their “soft and dark black eyes” dot the cotton fields of the South, and will continue to do so, until God. in his own good time sees fit to dispose of them otherwise. But it is not to speak of Abolition fanatics and Abolition books that I have thus presumed to address you. In the Register of the 24th instant there ap pears an article to which we wish to call your attention. . It is not our intention to speak o! the politi cal portion of that article, for in its general ten or we agree with its author, but there is some tbiug local in a part of that article which ; lerMh every iioieehenier 'in rt Eorthcrn Institu tion. The following reasons have induced us to re ply to the remarks w ith reference to the politi cal feeling of Yale College: Ist. The appearance of the article iu public print entitles it. or at least exposes it, to a reply, and we are not endorsers of the views referred to. 2ndly. If that article reaches Southern pa rents—as it is avowedly intended to do—unless answered it may be justly construed into an unanimous Southern acquiescence in the com plaints therein made. 3rdly. We do not regard the object of the article as justified by the facts enumerated to support it. It is not our business to defend the Faculty of Y’ale College from the influence of any publication to their detriment. It is pre sumed that the dignity of the Faculty, their known and reputed wisdom, the very’ places they occupy, are sufficient responses to any ob jections, collegiate, moral, or political, which the alumni and under-graduates ol the College mav adduce. We have no accusations of ingratitude or im propriety to urge against the gentleman’s views —for as to the former, he knows better whether he should be grateful to this institution, or not and as to the latter, we are not competent to instruct a person so well informed. But, I too, sir, am a Southerner, and have a right to ex press my views on this same subject. If State lines and degrees ol latitude make the kind o! men, 1 am geographically more Southern than the gentleman himself. Indeed my poor sense of duty and propriety has urged me, too, to make publie the state ofthings existing at Yale Col lege. I am one ot those wn/brZnnirle Southerners— yet connected with the institution, —yet draw ing from her wells of wisdom, I hope, a daily por tion. If I acquiesce in the gentleman’s views, I present to my Southern friends and to my’ as sociates at the North a singular instance of con sistency and manliness. We publicly acquiesce in the condemnation of the political views of the i institution, and yet are not ashamed to be seen ■ still clinging to the advantages which it affords I j Great independence 1 great chivalry this I The j gentleman has the advantage of some of us in | having taken out an honorable dismission from ; these obnoxious influences ; and I think he has I shown himself honorable and consistent in sol doing, considering the views which he adopts, j But if there are any who endorse his views and > still enjoy the advantages of the institution, I must say they exhibit a singular instance of ] moral heroism, in enduring for the sake of the \ College what they deem political oppression. We will now notice a few of the facts which I the gentleman has arrayed before us to prove j what Yale College has never claimed, viz : strict nationality. He seems surprised “that reports from several of the more prominent Colleges and Universities ot New England, have been published, purporting to give expression upon the Fugitive Slave Law, and are invariably op posed to it.” The gentleman certainly knows that the faculties of New England Colleges are almost without exception made up of New England Clergy—that the clergv give tone to tk- popular views.—moral, and to a srreat extent political, in Nev.’ England. 1/ it worthy of complaint, therefore, because New England has looked for a decision with regard to this law, also, to her clergy and best informed men ? They may be wrong in mooting a point settled by the Constitution and Supreme Court of the United States; but if they are advocates of a “ higher law,” we have but one redress, and that is beyond any provisions in the Constitu tion. The gentleman must remember, too, that New England has youth of her own to educate at this institution. Their political views are as important as ours. From whom does New England expect the views of her sons to be moulded if not trom the educated men of New England? This, then, is not and does not pro fess to be strictly a national institution. The idea of her nationality has arisen from the na tionality of her reputation, rather than any’ na tionality of design. It is no more her interest than her generosity, that has opened her doors to Southern students. It is to her courtesy that we have heard there fore so little anti-sbavery sentiment, rather than to an acquiescence in our views, that we are indebted. It is to her courtesy only, that we may look for equal respect in How do we know but the wisdom and consciences, (er roneous, perhaps, in our view,) ot her governors have impelled them to express themselves now more freely’ upon the subject of slave,y? They may feel such obligations to New England youth, as to call for such free expression. All these views are obnoxious to us. But what is the remedy? Must we. a little pilgrim band of Southerners in search of knowledge, expect the courtesy of Yale College to muzzle the expres sion of opinion, upon questions upon which they have as much right to be earnest and fanatical as ourselves. The whole matter lies here. VV e knew before we left the South that we were coming to a Northern institution, an institution, which, if it does not oppose slavery, certainly cannot approve ol it. Our well-read parents knew this. Now in the conrse of our educa tion here, we have exercises in “ dispute-wri ting.” Who selects the subjects? We do. — Suppose a sectional question chosen, as is fre quently the case, and nearly always with our approbation. Well, we read before a Professor or the President. It is his duty to decide; we have forced him to decide upon a sectional ques tion. He must give his arguments, he is a free man. Have we all so suddenly forgotton whew we are mooting such a question'? If we are not too sensitive to debate a sectional question with Northern men, ought we to be too sensitive to hear a Northern decision ? Does courtesy re tard the expression of pro-slavery sentiments in our Southern States'? If Yale College was in South Carolina, and Northerners were there represented, would a decision upon a sectional question be withheld on these grounds? I think not. The gentleman lias also been hasty in the sentence pronounced upon the President and Law Professor, who, he says, selected as a question for the prize debate in the society of “ Brothers in Unity”—‘ Ought not the Fugitive Slave Law be obeyed? The questions were chosen from the whole number of questions de bated for the last two terms—the one referred to was political, and therefore more interesting, in addition to the field for originality which it offered. Abstract questions seem to have been avoided in all the selections made. Certainly, no one is in earnest who would accuse a man of age and sense of carrying attachment to a po litical dogma so ridiculously far as to force its discussion upon a few Juniors; and if he did, *he result must have sadly disappointed him, for three out of the eighteen disputants supported the negative. Surely, here is a most law-disobeying faetjon I I may even add—that at least two of the three who supported the negative, did so, avow edly with the purpose of striking the judges with their oddity if they could not with their ar guments. Yale College, then, in our view, is not a na tional institution ; its views are restricted ; court esy can be the only barrier to a public and in discriminate avowal of these views. # 1 h R Southerner naturally inquires in what attitude does Yale College stand to the South ? We con ceive this to b** her position. Here is one ot the first institutions of learning in the land—her faculty are northern men—northern in education and principle—they have political views ot their own—the country knows them or can know them, if they apply for such knowledge. South erners, if you come here you come wittingly ; human nature is the same here as elsewhere; il you come here and draw forth our political views, you shall have them ; il not, we will not intrude them upon you; it you are influenced (and we hope you will be) and shaken in VOUI Southern doctrines, you are thus affected with your eyes open. Ifyoudon t like our doctrines, you can get an honorable dismission from our teachings; we are not dependent on you, we must have our inalienable rights of free thought and free speech, even if we have to sacrifice your small patronage. These things are so. This is a Northern in stitution, arid Southern parents, sensible rnen, send their sons here as pupils in the Academic department, not as politicians. Our very pres ence in New England is u prima facie'” evidence that we are not afraid of anti-slavery arguments and influences, or have consented to run such a risk for the sake of education. I will notice briefly tho dissolution of Calli ope, or the Southern Society, in consequence of which dissolution “ we have been thrown out to fight 01li■ h:IV in Weekly broils, or submissively listi'n to the most hostile denunciations ag.iiust the institutions under which we were born.” ’ society, n lue tact ol the business, sir, is, the society had e no reason lor existence. All our sectional feel- - ing was in form rather than in reality. Like all r objectless fabrics should do, she has finally done honor to herself by frankly and in a Southern l' manner, acknowledging that she could not stand. r In fact, sections ' flourished more within than t without the hall; there was once the “ accursed - Mississippi faction” ami that, "Missouri faction” tfc. “Our mutual friendship,” sir, was too often ■ ol a peculiar kind, so much so that reminiscen- ■ ces of the fate of Calliope always suggested to • my mind the fate of the Kilkenny cats. Since her dissolution, a majority ofj the Southerners, ■ have, I understan ;one to the other two socie , ties. Ol course th y will hear opposite views there advocated, afld so does the American at I Oxford or Cambridge hear republican institu tions abused, and monarchy landed to the skies. Should this restrain American 'rom graduating in England if they choose, or place English uni versities under obligations to be courteous to the dissenters’ Does the man who knows that he > is in the right, banish himself or commit suicide i because he meets with differences of opinion ? ■ This world is composed of the opposition, and I i for one, would just as leave meet one phase of it here, as elsewhere. Let us meet every oppo nent ou his own ground—breathing his own at mosphere,and wielding his own weapon. A few sneers (which few of us have noticed) can not long affect us, against right, the Supreme Court and the Constitution. Before I leave the subject o'. Calliope, I must say to the confidence geni n.sity of the Faculty, provision was m ils. Ain the erection ol ti-e new nans, and that too, when there w«s no prospect ot our raising a sum of money, which could justly en title us to such provision. The failure to exist in a corporate capacity until the completion of of the halls is our crime, not theirs Finally, sir, even should we admit that the gentleman’s views were sound, and substantia ted by proof, what is there so terrible after all in this anti-slavery sentiment in Yale College’ We must judge of an evil by its effects. Now if this anti-slavery sentiment continues to send forth men so Southern, honorable and talented as Mr. Calhoun and the gentleman himself, it is the best school in the country for the education ol secessionists’ sons. For my part, I am decidedly more pro-slavery in my sentiments now, than when I entered Yale College. I have seen the poverty and wretchedness of free negroes at the North. 1 have compared them with their more fortunate brethren at the South. I have seen the cheap and humbug philanthrophy of Abolitionism try ing to find a decent hiding place. In fine, I have learned that every man who is opposed to slavery, is not necessarily opposed to the South. I do not think, sir, that the state of political feeling in Yale College called for the remarks published in the Register. Even ifthereis such feeling, and that dangerous, or to say the least, unpleasant, our redress seems to lie in a home ward cWieeiion. The author of the article in question, is one whose opinions I respect, both an account of the general soundness of his views and his “ Seniority,” and is the last man who would intentionally hurt the feelings of any one, or so farg-eneraZi'xe his view’s as to include those who cannot endorse them. The country gen erally, knows the standing of this College, and knows the tenets of its Professors, and if they wished to school their children in politics, they would probably keep them at home. But we must confess it will require many an unfavora be “ dispute decision,” and many a lecture on ti e “ origin of rights and the duties of States,” ere the annual pilgrimage of Southern students ■ to this modern Athens of Science and Literature i shall be staid. A Southerner. (From the Washington Union.] I Official—Appointments by the President—By and ! with the advice and consent of tho Senate. j Joseph Lane, of Indiana, to be governor of! I the Territory of Oregon, in place ot John P. j Gaines, removed. Isaac I. Stevens, of Massachusetts, to be gov- ! ernorof the Territory of Washington. I George L. Currey. of Oregon, to be secretary I of the Territory of Oregon, in place of Edward j Hamilton, removed. j <L W. Nesmith, of Oregon, to be marshal of the Territory ot Oregon, in place of Joseph L. Meek, whose commission has expired. Fernando J. Moreno, to be marshall of the United States for the southern district of Florida, in place of Walter C. Maloney, resigned. Jesse B. Clemens, to be marshal of the Uni ted States for the middle district of Tennessee, in place of William M. Brown, removed. Robert J. Chester, to be marshal of the Uni ted States for the western district ofTennessee, ! Witto’Sterney of the 1 Uni ted States for the district of Massachusetts, in place o! George Lunt, resigned. Thomas Evans, to be attorney of the United States.for the district of South Carolina, in place of J. L. Tettigru, resigned. Thomas Hayne, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Illinois, in place of Ar chibald Williams, removed. George E. Hand, to be attorney of the United States tor the district of Michigan, in place of Samuel Barstow, removed. Benjamin F. Harding, of Oregon, to be attor ney of the United States for the district of Ore gon, in place of Amory Holbrook, removed. Henry M. Bishop, to be assistant treasurer ot the United States at Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, in place of Franklin Haven, re signed. Sidney Webster, of New Hampshire, to be secretary to the President to sign patents for lands. Robert B. Campbell, of Texas, to be commis sioner for running the boundary line betw’een the United States and the republic of Mexico, under the fifth article of the treaty with that republic concluded on the 2d February, 1848, in place of John R. Bartlett, removed. Theodore S. Fay. of New York, to be minis ter resident of the United States in Switzerland. John Randolph Clay, of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentia ry of the United States to the republic of Peru Samuel D. Heap, to be consul of the United States for the city and kingdom of Tunis, in j place of Joseph 11. Nicholson, removed. [The above list of appointments, intended for insertion in yesterday’s Union, were by acci dent omitted.] COLLECTORS OF THE CUSTOMS. Nathaniel M. Towle, district of Saco, Maine, vice Joseph T. Nye, whose commission has ex pired. S. B. Phinney, district of Barnstable, Massa chusetts, vice Ebenezer Bacon, removed. Win. F. Colcock, district ot Charleston South Carolina, vice Wm. J. Grayson, removed. Stephen Powers, district of Brazos de Santia go, Texas, vice John S. Rhea, whose commis sion will expire March 19, 1853. Oliver S. Whitherby, district of San Diego, 1 California, vice Wm. C. Ferrel, removed. Isaac B. Wall, district of Monterey, Califor nia, vice Wm. H. Russell, resigned. Burglary.—On Monday night last, some person or persons, availing themselves of the I darkness and the heavy rain, broke into the ; branch bank of Savannah, in this city, with the intentjto finger its funds. They entered by prying open the front door, with chisels and a piece of railroad bar-iron,and succeeded in gaining admit tance into the Office. But their attempts to force the safes were ineffectual, and after disarranging and scattering the papers of the Bank, they left with eight dollars, which they found in one of the drawers, as a compensation for their trouble. The Hard-ware Store of Messrs. Bray, Car hart & Co., was also entered on the same night, the door being forced in a similar way, and as is presumed, by the same parties, but with no bet ter sn«-“s«. as they only succeded in getting some two dollars from the drawer, they were evident ly after money alone, as no goods are missing at Messrs. Bray & Co.’s Store.— Macon Journal 23d. An extraordinary outrage was perpetrated at Chambersburg, Clark county, Mo., not long since. While the quarterly meeting of the Methodist Church was in session at that place, and when the congregation had been dismissed after morning service, a man calling himself Dr. Trabue, walked into the chinch, and seized the Rev. C. H. Kelly roughly by the shoulder, say ing, “you’re my prisoner—cross your hands'.” The Rev. Mr. Dennis then interfered, and asked Irabuewhat he meant by such conduct in the house of God ? At this Trabue ordered his as sistants to “ tie this man,” (meaning Kelly,| and cried out, “I’m the Marshal of the State of Mis souri at the same time presenting one of Colt’s revolvers with the trigger sprung, he threatened to shoot any one who should raise a hand to in terfere. Kelly’s friends gave way upon this declaration, and to all attempts to obtain information of the ground of such proceedings, he appealed to his revolver, saying that the prisoner was a base ras cal, irr. posing himself upon the community. Af ter Kelly’s hands were tied, and his legs chained, Trabue said, “This man has stolen a horse, and I’ll take him to justice.” He was taken out of the house, notwithstanding the remonstrances of Mr. Dennis and his friends, placed upon a ■ horse, and secured by a chain being passed under I the horse, and fastened on each toot with a hea vy padlock. Mr. Kelly was taken to the lowa Penitentia ry, and presented to the keeper, who at once de . dared that he was not the man sought for—one , Charles 11. Kelly who had escaped from the pen itentiary, anil that he bore no resemblance to , him. He was of course discharged. Maryland Coal Trade.—We learn from the Cumberland Telegraph that the coal trade upon > the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for the week ending the 12th instant, has been greater than at any time previous—34 boats having departed ’ with 3,724 5-20 tons of coal. During the same 1 week, there were transported over the Mt. Sav age Railroad 4,683 tons, and over tho road of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, 3,846 tons of coal, making the transportation for the week 8,529 tons and since the Ist of January last, 53,- > 303 tons. Arrival of the Canada. Halifax, March 18. The Canada brings 95 passengers. The steam er City of Glasgow sailed on the 2d inst. The steamer Atlantic arrived out on the morning of the 2d. England.—Lord Palmerston stated in Parlia ment that no application had been made for the expulsion of foreign refugees from England, and had such application been made, it would have been firmly refused. Lord Dudley Stuart called the attention of Par liament to Turkish affairs. Lord John Russell replied that Government had thought it necessa ry to have a frank explanation with Austria, and at the same time express the views of England regarding Turkish independence. He had no doubt the difficulty would bn adjusted by nego tiation. At the same time he thought the refu gees were bound in honor not to bring the coun try into trouble by their imprudence. Mazzini publishes a letter, taking the respon sibility of the London Committee’s manifesto and address to the Hungarians in Italy. The let ter was written by Kossuth, at Mazzini’s request, during Kossuth’s sojourn at Kutayah, and was never afterwards retracted. The Duchess of Sutherland has placed Stafford House at the disposal of Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe, the authoress of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in which to give her receptions. Government has refused to charter the London, Liverpool, and American Steamship Company. A ship has arrived from Melbourne, with near ly $1,000,000 in gold. Many shipwrecks occurred on the coast, in the hurricane of the 26th ult. France. —The Pope’s anival at Paris was expected daily. Ibe J:.mpeivr nny- ii.ct, ii. o <.nnrinl manufac tories will be worthily reprcwmled a; the r.ew York Exhibition. An unsuccessful attempt had been made to fire the Toulon Arsenal. Austria.—The Emperor bad not recov ered from his wound, which is more serious than was at first expected. The assassin had been executed. The worst feeling is felt at Vienna towards England A mob had broken in the windows of the British Ambassador’s house, and the citi zens refuse all intercourse with Englishmen, be cause England shelters Mazzini and Kossuth. There is an unusual commotion in Hungary, and many arrests have been made. More ar rests have also been made at Milan Ail the church bells are mute and guarded so that they may uot be touched. Poland. —The Austrian Loyds says that in consequence of the unsettled state of affairs Russia is taking great precautions to prevent an outbreak in Poland. Turkey.—The Constitutional states that the mission sent by Russia to Constantinople is to demand 9,000.000 ruples due Russia for her in tervention in 1810, and to insist upon a settle ment of the holy sepulchre affair. The Montenegro war is ended. It is reported that the Porte makes demands of Austria, and it is not true that Turkey throws herself on the protection of France and England. It is generally believed that Austria had moder ated her demands It is understood that a Diplomatic Congress will assemble at Paris in May, to adjust the dif ficulty between Austria and Turkey. The French Ambassador has obtained the Porte’s promise of indemnity to the French loan holders. India and China.—The India mail had ar rived at London with Shanghai dates to the 2d of January. Silks had largely advanced, and teas had also advanced in price. The accounts of the insurrection in China are meagre and unsatisfactory. Vessels were wanted and imports were dull. The Bombay dates are to the 18th of January. Hides were advancing and were scarce. Rice was depressed. Wheat met with a fair con sumptivedemand at 1 a 2d. decline. Flour was dull ats a9d decline. Dates from Calcutta are to January 19th. The export market was unchanged. Large ship ments of rice and cotton had been made to Eng land. Cape of Good Hope.—Advices from Cape town, of January 24th, confirm the previous re port of a battle in which 500 Kaffirs and 40 Eng lishmen were killed. Australia. —Dates from Melbourne to De cember 6th. had been received. The receipts of gold were falling off. Provisions were declining. The Markets. Liverpool, March s.— Cotton has been dull all the week, but the demand of the last two days has been better, and priceshave nearly regained last week’s point. Lower grades are l-16d. a id. lower. Other qualities unchanged. Sales to-day of 5,000 bales, the market closing tamely. SECOND despatch. England.—The screw steamship City of Mnnehestc-r. <y ih<- City of Glasgow,) sailed from Liverpool on the 2d for Philadelphia. Lord Derby has presented a petition from Canada, signed by’ the Canadian Presbyterians, against disposing of the Clergy reserves, and one from himself against the proposed spoliations. The adjourned debate on the Maynooth Cath olic College was resumed, and confined to Scho field’s amendments to extend the enquiry to all ecclesiastical grants. After a long discussion the amendment was rejected. The Queen held a levee on the 2d. Mr. In gersoll attended, and presented Wm. 11. Pres cott as Secretary of Legation. Rev. John Jackson, of St. James’ Church, London, has been appointed Bishop of Lincoln. Dr. Overing, the African traveller, died in September. It is reported that Government has refused to grant a charter to the London, Liverpool and American Steamship Company. Eight members of Parliament have been un seated for bribery. France.—Le Presse, Le Assemble and Le Mode, three Paris papers, have received warn ings. A letter from Macao says that the French Charge has protested against the persecution of Christians there. Austria.—Rumors, which are carefully con tradicted, say that a mob had assailed the British Ambassador at Vienna, and attacked the Embas sy. The truth seems to be that they had broke his windows. Spain.—Gen. Rodil is dead, and was buried with the usual honors. Narvaez has appealed to his peers againt the harshness. Germany.—The customs conferences be tween the governments of the South Germanic were closed on the 22d ult., at Vienna. Saxony and Hesse, with all the minor gov ernments, have signified their adhesion to the treaty just concluded between Austria and Prus sia, and will assent to the renewal ol Zolverein with Hanover included. The Duke of Oldenburg, father of the Queen of Greece, died suddenly on the 29th ult. He is succeeded by his son Peter. A new company has been established for ! steamers from Hamburg to Valparaiso. Geroniers was put on trial on the 24th ult., for i treason, at Manheim, for his introduction to the I History ol the Nineteenth Century. He was i found guilty and his sentence deferred. Switzerland.—lt is stated that the agents ! of an American company have proposed to the ! government of Ticino to convey to America the natives of that Canton who were expelled from Lombardy. Radetzky has somewhat diminished the rigors blockade. Loss of Life on the Railroad—On Sunday morning, as the down mail train came within four miles of Gordon, in turning a sharp curve, the engineer discovered an object on the road, about twenty yards ahead of the engine. He immediately reversed the engine, and endeavor ed to stop her progress, but without effect, and when within a few yards of the object, it was ascertained to be a negro man, who slightly raised himself, when the engine passed over his body, cutting it in two. As soon as the engine could be stopped, those on board repaired to the spot, and found the man dying. From the ne groes in the vicinity of the accident, it was as certained that the negro killed had been in a state of intoxication, and had probably fallen I asleep on the track.— Sav. News, 22d inst. The “ Great Bore” at the Hoosac Moun tain.—The Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature to whom was referred the petition of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, asking for a loan of $2,000,000 to aid them in tunneling the Hoosac Mountain, arrived here this morning from Troy, where they tarried over last night. The Committee, consisting of seventeen members of the Senate and House, left Boston on Tuesday morning last, and arrived at the Mountain in the town of Florida, on Wednesday, where they had opportunity ot wit nessing the great boring machine operate upon the solid rock. The weather was cold, and the machinery was quite frosty, but notwithstand ing, the mammoth instrument was put in mo tion, and in the space of fifteen minutes bored lour and one-eighth inches. Tho circle is twenty four feet in diameter, and will admit a double track. The machine was several times tested and with like success. It has bored at the rate of twenty-four inches per hour. We learn from a gentleman who was present when the machine worked that it gave the greatest satisfaction in its operations. Every person seemed to bo agreeably surprised. Scien tific gentlemen who were present consider it clearly demonstrated that the mountain can be easily tunneled. The only question remaining is a matter of dollars and cents. Accident of the Tallahassee Stage.—The following is an extract from a private letter, da ted near Tallahassee, 18th March, 1853. “ 1 learn to-day that a serious accident happen ed to the stage and two passengers, yesterday near Tallahassee. The horses became alarmed, ran oft’, broke the stage, injured both passengers, broke the arm of the driver, killed one of the horses and crippled another badly It was pro vidential that the only life Irtst was that of tho poor animal. We planters are closely engaged putting our crops in the ground—much corn up, and some I cotton.” VOL. 32-NEW SERIES- -VOL- 8.- NO 8 jißisfellanfous. Returning the U Jinplnn- nt. Before railroads were constructed through the State ol New York, affording facilities for travel, the Erie canal was a great thoroughfare, and the “packet boats” and the “line of boats” made a fine business in the transportation of passengers. The time we speak of was previous to the acces sion of the present queen of England to the throne, and, when “God save the King” was the tune amongt the subjects of “majesty.” Well, here we have got “Erie canal, railroads, queen of England, and God save the king.” very curiously mixed: but, kind reader, just hold on to your patience, and we will try to get the kinks out. so you will see the necessity of such a confusion ; please to recollect, out of chaos was formed the world, and out of this bit of confu sion, you may get something to “pshaw” over nothing else. At the time we speak of, the fieople in Cana da were fully as loyal as any of the subjects of the British crown ever were, or at least some of them were, and that answers the purpose of our story. Now, we were then acquainted with a certain Snyder, who v. as master of a neat packet boat that plied between Utica and Schnectady ; he was a gentleman, was Captain Snyder—a real gentleman, with the additional advantage of possessing a large share of the blood of “brother Jonathan” in his veins. so happened, one winter, that Captain Snyder had business at some place in Canada, and it is possible that Kingston may have been the place, but of that there is no particular need of certainty. Our friend, Captain Snyder, had not been long in tee pinv, u- r„..„.i LinnselC attracted in the cirectfon of a military band, v. 1.0 u discoursing some excellent music. He had not long been listening to the music, before the band struck up the tone favorite to British ears, “God save the King.” Everybody were “hats oft’” on the instant, except Captain Snyder, who thought the air not suitable for ears easily fros ted. An English officer in uniform, noticing that our Yankee friend kept his head covered, ap proached him with characteristic English cour tesy, and slapping him on h's cheek, not very I lightly, with the flat of his sword, asked “ D you, don’t you know enough to take off your hat when you hear God save the King played ?” Os course, as Captain Snyder was “ in the boat,” and must either “ fish or cut bait,” ,he very calmly removed bis hat, and uttered an apology for his rudeness in keeping bis hat on, on such an occasion. He eyed the gentlemanly and loyal officer in a manner, that gave assur ance that he would know him if he met him af terwards. ******* A couple of years later, Captain Snyder had a fine load of passengers, as he started one morn ing from Utica, and to add to the interest, a fine band of music was to accompany them through the trip. Captain Snyder recognized amongst the passengers, the same English officer who ba I administered such a courteous admonition to him on hearing ‘‘God save the King.” The boat was soon under way, and was sweeping gracefully under a tight tow-rope, “down the valley of Mohawk, along the raging canawl.” The music was called out, and the tunes were rattled out in capital style, veiy much to the gratification of the English gentle man, who. at length, made bold to request the band toplay “ God save the King.” The tune was plaved, and reverently admired by the En glish officer, uncovered. He thanked the gentle men of the band, and replaced the beaver, when the tune was concluded. Now was Captain Snyder’s time to return the compliment, and he called lor “ Yankee Doodle.” .the first strain of which was played in a lively manner, when Captain Snyder stepped up to the English gentleman, and giving him an aston ishing blow on the cheek, roared out— “ D you. don’t you know enough to take off your hat when you hear Yankee Doodle play ed ?” Mr. officer was very highly incensed, and in a very stormy mariner, demanded an explana tion for the abuse he had received. Said Captain Snyder:—“Do you recollect striking me on the face and saying, ‘ D you, don’t you know enough to take off your hat when,you hear God save the King played?” The recollection struck him more forci bly than the blow he had just received, and he replied : “Captain Snyder'l acknowledge my self to have been justly treated, and, at the same time, I insist that I have a right to apologize in this matter, and sincerely beg your pardon,” and turning to the spectators, added— " Gentlemen, it is my treat. — Yankee Blade. I From the Boston Post.] XUaU JLiro inßosJcp. 'LITEItAKY BREAKFAST Ol’ A FAMILY OF omSIICT MOVING IX A SELECT CIRCLE, RESIDING IN A SELECT SQUARE. Clever Daughter—’Decidedly I esteem Mr. Thackeray the fort esprit of his time: strongly resembling Bussy’ de Rabutin, but with a more introspective cast. He reminds one constantly of the subtle companion of Faust ; no moral ob liloquity without its palliative ; no human weakness without a claim to a tender extenua tion. We learn to love the vice, but hate the sinner—l would say’, hate the sinner and love the vice—vice-verse. Sentimental Daughter— l’m sure I wish I had been born in Queen Anne’s day, when all the gentlemen were so enthusiastic, and wore red cloaks and green stockings. They seem to I have had such a ceaseloss flow of spirits— Perl Son— Well, they didn’t have anything I ' else. i , Gruff Papa— A pack of d—d scamps as ever | . scaped hanging. If I’d had any idea of such ; characters being raked up at a lecture in Boston, ( no son or daughter of mine should have set foot , in the hall, “ifthey grew up ever'so ignorant.” , Clever Girl— But, dear papa, genius is ever ec- , centric; cannot be cabin’d, cribb’d, confined to ordinary limits. Their “noble range” will burst out, and like the Pythian priestess, they i . are borne away by the afflatus of the tripod.— , Byron had his faults, but— ; , Silly Mamma to Gruff Papa— l’m sure, rn;,' , love, Mr. Thackeray has made a decidedly fa- j vorable impression on our most fashionable peo- j pie; which could not have happened if these au- j thors really were to blame in their behavior. If : it was the fashion to be “ gay,” and to be carried ' about in chairs, it was not their fault, butthat! of their rulers. If they could have heard that I Phi Beta oration, where Robert Burns was des- I cribed rolling in a gutter, and Byron and Gurty ! and Voltaire were so exposed to the reprobation j ofall virtuous minds, they would have felt j that “ ignorance and stupidity arc the great safe- 1 guards of society”—that talented people, with- I out principle, cannot be invited into our houses, j They invariably hang about the supper-room I and disgrace themselves, till the waiters lose all | patience. Pert Son.— All men go for is the grub, and | who cares for the niggers ? Gruff Papa.— Girls, if I catch one of you bring- j ing home any such riff raff as these fellows fora I son-in-law, I’ll kick him out over the Tremont ! Road, and in again over the Mill Dam. And il I writers can’t be lectured about without more j drink than ink coming to light, more swords | than quills, and more swearing than poetry, j why—it’s time to let ’em drop. Fossil Grandmother, (timidly)—Mr. Thack eray ought to be spoken to—dispassionately. French Fashions.—Among the novelties de scribed by the millinery correspondents of the press, we note one that we think must be quite taking ; a straight fur pelerine, called a Zephyr, or Sevigne. A fur Zephyr I Forty inches long, and eight wide, tapering oft’ in two tails, like a fork. Then comes the joyeux avenement cloak ; velvet, straight in front, and rounded behind, and covered entirely with three rows of guipure lace, ten inches deep. The second row forms a kind of a sleeve, the armhole opening under it, the lace thus falling over the hand; the two rows of the lace end, one at the shoulders, the other extending down the side to the edge of the man lie; a row of guipure galloon, sprinkled with jet, heads the lace. I Gentlemen in Paris, says the chronicle we have been drawing on, do not any more wear stiff, high cravats. The most fashionable are not more than an inch and a half wide; some of the very young gentlemen turn down the shirt col lar over the cravat, thus leaving the throat ex posed. In most cases, when a white cravat is worn, the shirt collar does not appear; although the wrist-band of the shirt is sufficiently wide to fall over the hand. The toilette of the new Empress is described in glowing terms, by the fashion-mongers, as superb, and as being particularly “ well adapted to the style of her extraordinary beauty.” She created quite a buzz of admiration, it seems, one evening, on entering the royal box at the Opera, thus attired : “ Her robe was of ruby-colored velvet, con trasting with the dazzling whiteness of her skin; the corsage low and decoiated with diamonds ol great brilliancy ; a riviere of diamonds encircled her throat. Iter light auburn hair was drawn off the lorehead ala Medicis tastefull}’ arranged with flowers, bows of ribbons and diamonds.” A First Class Hotel.—A Northern gentle man travelling in our State, iu writing to ns from Augusta, says of the United States Hotel of that city : “Mr. Spear is making thorough re pairs in this Hotel, and putting it in complete condition. The rooms are fitted up with en tirely new furniture of good style and quality. The tables are also supplied with new furni ture throughout, and with an abundance to grati fy the palate, and make the inner man comforta ble. The establishment is already in high favor with the citizens of this place. Many leading merchants and others are now regular borders, and its rapid growth in the estimation of the travelling public, far exceeds the highest expec tations of its gentlemanly proprietor.”— Sav. Morning Bars, 22d. Dkmaraua.—Late advices state that a ship had arrived at Georgetown with two hundred and sixty-two Chinese coolies. Forty-three others died on board during the. voyage, said to have been caused by smoking opium previous to embarking. Beware of KidApfers.— We have reason to believe that there are now, and for some time past have been, in the city several evil disposed individuals, whose object it is to kidnap as many of the negro population as possible. As yet, however, their efforts have met, we are gratified to lea’n, with but little success—the only case which we have heard of is that of a negro boy of about 13 years of age, who disappeared some time in September last, and no traces of his. whereabouts have since been discovered. But, although this is the only instance of their success, that has come to our knolwedge, yet we learn that many attempts have been made and failed. On Saturday last, we understood, a mulatto boy, aged about 17, was stopped by a well dressed white man, in Calhoun-strcet near St. Philip street, who offered to take him, if he would go on board his vessel, “to a country where he would be free” (to starve) “and well treated” (with drudgery and contempt). The boy, how ever, knew better than to quit a home with which he was well satisfied, for parts unknown ; whereupon the white man attempted to drag him by the collar, but the boy threatening to call for assistance —released him. On Tuesday evening a white woman stopped, in King-street, a negro girl about 6 years of age, and endeavored, by promises, to induce her to accompany her into the country. Young as she was, however, the girl was not to be tempted, and the woman endeavored to drag her towards her wagon ; but the girl made good use of her lungs, and brought, by her screams a gentleman to her assistance, who compelled the woman, by threats of taking her to the guard house, to re lease the girl. We regret the gentleman did not, as if was. take the woman to the guard house, ar.d have her punished according to law. The Police, however, we learn are on the look out, and some of the parties engaged in this ne doubtless, be detected.— Charleston Courier, 241 n .a-t. Increase of Insanity. —The superintendent of the lunatic asvlum at Utica, New York, says that insanity is fearfully on the increase in this State. We learn that from Monday, the 21st ult., until Friday the 25th ult, (five days,) sev enteen new patients were admitted into this in stitution—the greatest number ever before ad mitted in so brief a space of time. There is no ! doubt but this increase is owing, in a great j measure,to the unhealthy state of excitement caused by the “spiritual” humbugs of the day. This mental disturbance reaches people of all classes ; for in all classes there are to be found those unfortunate beings in whom the nervous predominatesover and tyranically rules the tem peraments, and renders them susceptible to the peculiar and fascinating influences of such mar vellous demonstrations as, it is alleged, are pro duced by “spiritual mediums,” and people more highly charged with electro-magnetism than | common sense.— Albany Register. ! A Thwe Test or Affection.—A middle aged single man was dangerously ill at St. Omar. He threatened to disinherit any nephew or niece that persisted in attending on him—of course, they could not disobey these very strict injunc tions of a dying man ; but, Josephine would not deseit the perverse sufferer—he might disinherit her if he liked. He died ; and it was then dis covered that he had proved disinterested, and he left her all his property—valued at eighty thou sand frances. The use or Bad Debts.—An editor in Ar kansas was lately shot in an affray. Luckily the ball came against a bundle of unpaid aceounts in his pocket. Even gunpowder could not get through unpaid newspaper bills, and the editor saved his life by the delinquency of his subscri bers. Surely it is an ill-wind that blows nobo dy any good.— Exchange. Singular Circumstance.—Two or three weeks ago, a respectable married woman, resid ing in the eastern end of this county, gave birth to twin children, which addition increased the little responsibilities of the household to nine.— Some five or six nights after the event, the hus band, who occupied a bed in the same room, was awakened by her, when she complained bitterly of her hard lot in having such a large household to care for. The busband soothed her as well as he could, and then fell asleep. In about an hour he awoke, and found that his wife had left her bed. Immediate search was made in and around the house, but the woman was not to be found. The alarmed man, fearing that in her weak condition, she must perish before she could go far, summoned his neighbors to aid in searching for her. The party soon dis covered foot- piints in the snow, and they follow ed the track to a creek, where she had crossed and re-crossed the stream three times, in water to the depth of three feet. From there they tracked her along the creek, through fields and woods, for a distance of nearly three miles, and at length found her sitting in a fence corner, with a piece of rope and a nail in her hand.— When intervogated to ’net motives for leavvng her home, she declared it waS her intention to commit suicide. It was then suggested that she was laboring under aberration of mind, which she undoubtedly was, but this she stoutly de nied. The strange part of this occurrence is, that the woman, after walking barefooted, and with nothing on her but thin cotton night clothes, a distance of three oijfour miles, through snow, slush and cold water, and that, too, only six days after giving birth to two children, is now as well as ever she was in her life. This may appear strange, especially to medical men, nevertheless it is true.— Hollidaysburg (Pa.) Standard. A Cure and Preventative or the Potato Rot.—Mr. H. Penoyer, of Union county, 111., gives the following as a certain cure and pre ventive of the potato rot, as well as being pro ductive of an increase, and an improvement in the quantity of the crop: “ Take ene peck of fine salt and mix it thor oughly with half a bushel of Nova Scotia Plaster or Gypsum, (the plaster is the best) and imme diately after hoeing the potatoes-the second time, or just as the young potatoe begins to set, sprin kle on the main vines, next to the ground a ta ble spoon full of the above mixture to each hill, and be sure to get it on the main vines, as it is found that the rot proceeds from a sting of an in sect in the vine, and the mixture coming in con tact with the vine, kills the effect of it, before it reaches the potato.” New York City Expenses.—The method of auditing and sifting the accounts of city expen ditures, by a comptroller, enables the people of New York to see directly how their money is spent. The New York Times gives a variety of items, extracted from the comptroller’s report, which, although but a small part of the detail of city expenses, presents a frightful array of ex travagant, useless, and we should say illegal ex penditure of the public money. Among the items of the latter class are the following : Celebration of Washington’s Birth Day, j 51.335 ; cakes for Mayor’s office, Jan. 1,186 ; i celebration of 4th of July, 4,195 ; Dinner to’ Gen. Paez, 50 ; expenses of Committee to Wash i ington in relation to Mint, 1,150 ; funeral of ! Henry Clay, 15,841 ; reception of Kossuth, 11,- ! 252; do. do. officers of Dutch Frigate, 1,840; do. ! do. T. F. Meagher, 2,125 ; Refreshments for i Philadelphia Firemen, ;duneral expenses of ' D. Webster, 6,447; refreshments for Comrnis- I sioners of Excise, 11,355 ; Gloves on several j occasions, for members of Common Council, I 241 ; Books for Members, 832 ; sundries for j members, 1,955. Total, $58,114. And there are other lesser amounts for simi lar purposes. A Monkey Pickpocket.—One of the mon keys at Barnum’s Museum in New York, adroit ly absrracted a gentleman’s pocket-book last Tuesday while looking at the animals, and was detected very comfortably seated in the midst, of a close examination of the money contained in the prize. He had actually taken every bank note but one, and that one the keeper asserted the monkey had restored to the pocket-book, because it was on the Delaware Bridge Compa ny—an exploded institution. Virginia Coal Lands —lt is said that a con tract is about being entered into between Aspin wall and other rich capitalists of New York, who own large quantities of coal land in Hampshire county, Va., and the Manassas Gap Railroad Company, for the transportation of six hundred thousand tons of coal annually, over the road from Strasburg to Alexandria. Mr. Aspinwall and his associates propose building, on their own account, a railroad, which will cost about two millions of dollars, from Strasburg to their coal fields Gems. Time for Reflection. —When the multitude applaud you. seriously ask what evil you have done; when they censure you. what good. Illustrations.—God’s children are like stars, that shine brightest in the darkest night; like gold, that is brighter for the furnace ; like in cense, that becomes fragiant by burning ; like the camomile plant, that grows fastest when trampled on. , . ~ Temptations.—Satan’s fiercest temptations ■ are usually directed against the most gracious hearts ; he is too crafty a private to attack an empty vessel. . ~ Tur. devil’s property.— Ihe sinner is the levil’s mill, always grinding ; and Satan is care y ever to keep the hopper full. Pkofanknkss. —Most sinners seem to serve the devil for pay ; but profane swearers are a sort of volunteers, who get nothing for their pains. The THINGS THAT MAKE DEATH TERRIBLE. When Garrick with great self-gratulation show ed Johnson his fine house, gardens and paint ings, expecting some flattering compliment, the only reply was, “Ab, David, David, these are the things that make death terrible.” Tut; difference.—Wisdom prepare* for the worst, but folly leaves the worst lor the day when it comes. , , . A HxrocmTK.—A hypocrite neither is whan he seems, nor seems what he is. He is hated I )y • the world for seeming a Christian, and by you for not being one. On earth he is the P lc * :u J’ e ot a saint, but in eternity the paint shall all be washed ofl*, and he shall appear at the Judgment in his own colors and deformity.— New England Puritan,