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JOURNAL & MESSENGER.
Ji. T. CHAPMAN Ar S- ROSE, Editors.
Cavaignac. —A Sketch.
We extract the following from “Ike Marvel’s” Paris
tetter, oi the 21st ult., to the N. York Courier and En
quirer. The sketch is graphic and highly interesting.
Cavaignac. —And who, now, is this Chief, on whom
seems to hang, atthis juncture, the glory and the des
tiny of France ?
Three mouths back, and Cavaignac was a ne w name,
appearing only at intervals, between the leads oi the
press, and under some Algerian accounts, it was no 1
of enough importance, that one should ask, on your
side of the water—svho is this Cavaignac 1 Now, on
the contrary, you cannot pass a print shop, but you
shall see him in the dress of his Generalship, or in Ins
African cap, or on his horse, or at the lribune; and
no plasterer’s shop is complete without a copy of him,
in statuette and in statute—in day and in putty, lie
had won no such name as Arago, for star-gazing, or
Lamartine, tor making ‘pilgrimages,’ yet now their
time, politically, is past, and Cavaignac has the rule
Me was anew man aiifi Quick grown ; tike the Repuo
lie iiself, his poll ical birth was sudden, peitect, ,Vii
nervan. People read the name, once—twice reflect
ed, hesitated, then boldly asked their neighbors, who
th* new man could be, who held th -s suddenly, the
place of trie Philosopher and Poet! He is, then, a
s ddeir—born in Pans, :n 1802, an 1 now having the
effective age of 46. His father wasan old Convention
el, and not reputed one of the most moderate ot his
time. His brother, Godefroy Cavaignac, better known
than the lather, and up to the date of the late Revolu
tion, better known than the General, wasan advocate
of some eminence, who rendered himself obnoxious to
the late Government by earnest advocacy of Republi
can principles.
Eugene, the Geneial, and subject of ray present
sketch, was educated at the Polytechnic School, and
in IS3O was simple officer, in the garrison of Arras,
where he was among the lirst to declare for the Char
ter and Citizen King. His own notions, added to a
sort of family taint, bred for him little favor in the feel
ings of the late dynasty, and it was not till some years
after, that he was shown the tavor of an active com
mand in Algeria. His successes were not brilliant,
but decided. He gradually worked his way np to the
rank ot Camp Marshal and Commandant of Division.
In 1839, he published a well-written brochure, on the
Regency of Algiers. At the date of the February Re
volution, he was nominated, by the Provisional Gov
ernment, Governor of Algiers. He commenced his
rule firmly but temperately, rep r essing all insurrec
tionary action, and even meeting the enthusiasm ot
those most earnest to change existing laws, by a roup
de main, with this united appeal and reproach: “That
energy which, grounding its action on mere popular
opinion, would throw off established duties, l consider
a detestable energy, and shall repress it with nli the
means in my power.” It the spoliators ot the Tuile
ries, and the shoemaking modellers of the Paris Police
had been met in the beginning with such strong and
temperate rebuke, instead of encouragement and pro
mise, the Republic might now be un fait accompli ,
and no June mourners going about the streets. Rut
our affair is, now, Cavaignac. He was elected by the
same, and by a Southern department to the Assembly
On the 29th ofFebruury, he was named General of
Division. Another decree, ol the 20th of March, made
him Minister of War, Still, however, he chose to re
main at Algiers. A decree of the *2oth of April called
him peremptorily to Paris, to fulfill his duties as a
member of the National Assembly. He bid his Afri
can subjects adieu, and came, arriving some five days
alterthe attempted revolt of the loth of May. He im
mediately entered upon his dutiesas Secretary at War,
and as member ot the Assembly. His African reputa
tion, the confidence of the army, his well known re
publican predilections, as well as his position at the
head of the War Department, conspired to make him
the choice of the Assembly, in the unfortunate affairs
of June. His course since that time has made a large
part of that current and eventful history, ot which these
letters have luniished you familiar transcripts—serving
(as I fain would hope) as scattered loop-holes in that
great wall of distance which divides us, through which
your western and curious eyes may have stolen glan
ces—not altogether unsatisfactory—upon the men and
actions of this stormy period.
As for the appearance of Cavaignac, it is as brusque,
and soldier-like, as his character. He is tall, with
bronzed face, short, crisp hair, heavy mustache, stern,
almost morose expression, firm, regular walk, and
manner smacking more of the camp than the saloon
To see him, you would reckon him a man who would
flinch from no peril, fear no enemy, and forget o friend
—a man who carried about with him a fixed determin
ation, as abiding as ihe rules ol his camp, and as un
alterable as his eourage. You would single him out
to confront danger composedly, and feel a conviction
that he would not turn trifles into a serious peril
There is not in his countenance any strong expression
of defiance, or of distrust; and yet there is a great deal
in it which would make an open enemy miter, and
which a secret enemy would be alraul to confront. He
hasafirm, honest, unpretending look—a look as if lie
would not be easily controlled—less easily duped ; and
frightened—not at all.
Cromwell may come into your mind ; but Cavaignac
is not a Cromwell, any more than a S.txoti is a French
man. Cromwell was stout ot limb; Cavaignac is not.
Cromwell had a leathern face— coatse, heavy, and
smelling of his brew vats: Cavaignac’s is fine, though
bronzed like a Moor’s, and his eye is not hiit under any
shaggy brow. Their characters, too, are different.—
That shady eye, and leathern litc-ol Cromwell, was
Quickened with a soul, fined with a great
(tinned it may have been, with personal ambition,
and” made loul, doubtless, by fanaticism)—but yet a
very strong purpose—the restoration and redemption of
a nation from tyranny. No such leading purpose kin
dles the soul ot Cavaignac—even it it were capable ol j
such a strong blaze. Like a good soldier, be has un
sheathed at his country’s order; and like a
good General, he reta ns it, till the counter order may
come Cromwell was lit up by a strange enthusiasm,
which he called a holy zeal; Cavaignac knows no en
thus’nstn. Cromwell's mind was capacious; Cavaig
nac’s is not. In short, Cromwell was mad -in n bigger
moj’4—body, soul, ambiton, purpose, ev ryi.,uig.
The speeches of Cavaignac ate good types ot the
man. llismanner is earnest, but rot abtupt—meas
ured, but not monotonous. Cromwell addressed itis
parliament as he w ould have addressed his army—in j
full confidence, in tone of command, as if legislation ;
were a- familiar to.him as the folds ol his butt jerkin
Cavahmac speaks firmly, but modestly, as it the tri
bune were anew place, and legislation yet an untimsli
edstudy. His speeches are not eloquent, but sound ;
never brilliant, hut always convincing. They are prac
tical, and always to the point. They are, eminently,
common sei se and soldier like speeches. There is none
of in them, or of Cromwell’s crazy
fervor He does not argue, but states truths. When
the truth is stated, his speech is done. He is one ol
the stoutest Republicans, and yet not a warm Republi
can There is no warmth in his character. By edu
cation and inheritance he is a Republican, as well as
by National ascription. He would no more be false to
one than the other. Having settled in his.mind the ex
cellence ofa Republic, and minor questions vanish.—
What ts best, must be maintained ; if no by opinion,
vet by the sword. His policy is the policy of a camp.
The elements of his statesmanship, ami its aims, are
expressible in two words—Discipline—Subordination.
A government of opinion, he does not understand ; n
mere soldier can. lthefailshe will not be cast down,
or scheming. He will resume his place in the am y,
conscious ot having done what he counted his duty,
and ready to do it still. He is as honest as lie is firm.
But honestv never can, and never did, dra w out so
many French ritats ns brilliancy. Lamartine was
honest, but honesty without firmness, ruined him
The gamine of Baris—the 112,600 votes for Louis Na
poleon have no appreciation of mere honesty. They
never had. It is doubtful if they know the meaning oi
the term. „ . T . r . ... ,
People compare Cavaignac to Napoleon of the iMh
Brumaire. The comparison is as unjust to Napoleon
as it is to Cavaignac. Cavaignac is honest, Napoleon
was not; Nopoleon was great, Cavaignac was not
great Napoleon made such brilliant tbelts ot power as
to dazzle all France into acquiescence. Cavaignac has
taken such orderly and quiet possession, that there is
no glory to excite a shout; and. where there is no shout
ing in France, there is sure to be dissatisfaction. Na
poleon, with ail his selfishness, could walk the length
ol Pori’s, alter the 18th Brumaire, unmolested and ap
plauded. Cavaignac, with all his honesty, could not
take the range ot the Boulevards to-day w ithout immi
nent risk of being poignarded.
Whether he maintains effectively hts position, wih
depend much upon the characterot his advisers. With
good counsellors, he would make a firm and wise exe
cutor With bad counsellots, hi* very firmness would
render his reign more intolerable. At present, he is by
no means gaining ground ; not enough of eclat attach
rohis name, nor enough ambition to his character,
to satisfy the noisy brawlers lor the gloire de France.
The moderates, too, fear his retrenchments ol old lib
erties, and look with jealous eye upon the military dis
cipline which he would graft upon civil usages. They
tolerate him only as a needed grievance. He is the
head, and the lde of that system, by which Paris is
now held in subjection. Without intention, and by the
mere pursuance of military law, he has grown a mon
arch. By him stands the siege ; by the siege stands
the camp ; and by the camp stands Paris, it must be
a sharp and heavy shock that w ill overturn him ;—and
the same shock will overturn Paris. Meantime, fiini
in his own honesty, strong in the attachments ot the
army, stern in his principles, he waits tranquilly the
event.- He courts no noisy popularity—he indulgts no
personal vanity—he wins no fete- bought applause ; but
immured in his dim hotel, guardedly hts soldiers, at
tended by his old companions of the campaign, among
the plans of his present service, and the maps oi north
ern Italy—with his bronzed face darkened by theshud-
OWB of coining trouble, not less than by the heavy tas
sel of his Africcap—he waits the verdict of the strange,
and stormy nation, of which he is at once the menial
and the master.
The Desid-Letter Office.
The story of Adele Barron, published in a recent
number of the Knickerbocker, which turns upon some
missing letters, has brought to mind an incident relat
ed by Frank Granger as having occurred when he was
at the head of the post-office department. A letter was
one day received troin a postmaster of a town in New-
Jersey, enclosing a letter very old and dingy ,atid cov
ered with fly specks in every part, except where a tape
had passed over it indicating that it had been for a
long time placed in the paper or card-rack of some bar
room or shop. The superscription, if there had ever
been any had entirely laded awnv. The post-master
wrote that he had found it in his letter-box, and had
tried in vain to discover who had deposited it there, in
orcier that it might receive a proper direction, as it ap
parently contained money. As it had not “been adver
tised, ii was not, in strictness, a dead letter : but he sent
it to the depa tment in order \ieu they might dispose ot
it. The Postmaeter-Genertl took the responsibility ol
opening **> at' l * louna that it was dated at Philadelphia,
in the year 1821, (twenty years before,) and enclosed a
twentv-dollar bill of the United States Bank. It was
addressed by a man to his wife, at a small village not
f,jr from the post-office where me letter was found, in
forming bet that he (the writer) should start for home in
two or three days ; but that, as his brother was about to
leave tor home, he took advantage of the opportunity to
send her by him the enclosed sum of money w herewith
to make preparations for an approaching wedding.
The Postmaster-General caused a letter to be writ
ten to the address ol the writer, informing him of the
circumstances. In the course of a week a reply was
received from a female, who stated that the writer ol
the letter washer father, and the one to whom it was
addressed was her mother, both of whom were (.end,
that twenty years before, on the eve ot her own wed
ding, she remembered that her lather and uncle had
quarreled, the (ormer having been led. from some sus
picious circumstances to discredit the latter’s assertion
that he had lost a letter containing money entrusted to
his care,and to insinuate that he had appropriated the
amount to his own use. The consequence was that all
intercourse between the families had from thnt time
been suspended, and that she should immediately write
to her uncle and cousins, who,were still living at a dis
tance, to beg that her intercourse and friendship so long
interrupted might be resumed ; the discovery of this let
ter having satisfied her of what she long suspected, that
her father was wrong and relieved her mind from a
weight of painful anxiety.
Whether any farther clue to the manner in which the
letter hail arrived at the office at so late n period was
ever ascertained is not known ; the probability is that
the letter had been picked up a’ or near some country
tavern on the road, was placed with the variety of busi
ness cards and miscellaneous papers which usually fill
the tapes over the mantel-piece ol such a place, and there
it had remained from year to year, perhaps concealed
from notice by other papers and letters until, by a
change of landlord,or an improvement of the house,
the landlord had dtspo od o( it by depositing it in the
nearest post-office. —Hume Jour.
MACON, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 8, 1848.
A Word about Business.
Now, that the campaign is over, we beg to call the
attention of our friends to matters of business. We
have been at a heavy expense we have toiled arduous
ly and unceasingly to make the Journal If Messenger
worthy the patronage of the public, and have been
more than gratified at the responses of our friends.—
Our subscription list has been nearly trebled, and our
advertizing and job patronage lias correspondingly in
creased. Thus far we have said hut little about money ,
having contented ourselves merely with enough to pay
the current expenses of the establishment. Our ac
counts however,are rapidly accumulating, and we feel
that it is now quite time that we should recieve some
substantial return for our labours. All of our patrons
who are in arrears therefore, will please either remit or
hold themselves in readiness to respond whenever call
ed upon. The subscriptions to the paper are all due in
advance ; all job work is payable on delivery, and all
advertizing on demand. It is our determination to col*
ieet-in ail our dues ns soon as possible, in order that we
may commence business strictly on the cash principle,
by which we will benefit our patrons more than our
selves.
Our friends therefore will please take notice according
ly. VV e have no doubt they will respond promptly and
in a manner worthy of themselves and their cause.
Arrival of the Cherokee.
Tiii3 magnificent Steamship arrived at Savannah
early on Saturday morning last in the unprecedented
short run ot Fifty-seven hours from New-York. She
had oil board one hundred and three passengers all
whom spoke in the highest terms of both the sailing
qualities of the vessel and her superior accommoda
tions. Had it not been for an accident upon the Cen
tral Road, the passengers for this city, and points be
yond, would have gained two full days upon the land
route. As it was, they gained one day. Advantages
such as these cannot fail to attract the attention and ap
proval of the travelling public. Our neighbours of
Savannah, seem to have been truly fortunate in their
great enterprise. They have at least shown one thing
viz: that it is perfectly practicable to run a line ot
steamers between New-York and Savannah in the
same time required to run to Charleston. This will of
course give the traveller fiont Georgia, Alabama and
Florida from one to two days advantage. This how
ever, is but the beginning of the end. When this line
of steamers is completed, the entire through travel be
tween New-Orleans, Mobile, 1 exas, and in fact, the
whole ol the Gull region will necessarily be turned over
the Central and South Western route.
Auction A Commission Business.
We take pleasure in calling the attention of our!
friends to the advertisement of Messrs. Gavan & Ma- i
gerty, who have ns-ociated themselves in business, and
may be found at the well known stand, formerly occu- !
pied by John P. Gavan, &l Cos. They are gentlemen of
industry and business habits, and we feel confident will
fully answer the expectations of those who patronize i
them.
The Cholera in New-York.
I be Charleston Mercury of Saturday last, alluding
to the ‘l elegraphic Report of the previous day in regard
to the outbreak of the Cholera in New York, says :
“ Not having received any confirmation yesterday o*
the rumored appearance of the Cholera in New York’
as announced by the telegraphic despatch in our last
paper, we were induced to believe the report unfounded,
in this opinion we are glad to he sustaiced by a des
patch from New Yotk directed to his Honor the May- j
or, who, with praiseworthy promptitude, had made in !
quit ies upon the subject through the telegraph. The
answer received last evening from MayorHavemeyer
states that there wr.s no information whatever at his of
fice of the existence of the Cholera in that city. ”
Vermont Senator.
r i he \ erment Legislature have re-elected Hon. Wil
liam C. I'pham Senator of the United States for six
yet.rs trom the 4th of March next. An attempt was
made to unite the Cassmen and Free-soilers upon a
third man, but it failed.
Death of Ex-Governor McNutt.
The corpse of Ex- Governor McNutt, of Mississip
pi, says the Memphis Enquirer of the 21th morning,
arrived in this city last night, we presume on its pas
sage to his residence at Jackson, Mis. We are in
formed that lie died on Sunday night, at Cockrum’s
Cross Roads, aft-r a short sickness of an inflammatory
character. The deceased gentleman has occupied a
considerable space in the public attention fora number
of years ns a leading politician of the Democratic party,
and at the time of his death was the candidate of that
party for Presidential Elector for the State r.t large,
and had been actively engaged in the canvass.
Negotiations for the Cession of Cuba to the
United States.
A correspond! tit of the New York Herald, whose
letter is dated Madrid, September 19th, says negotia
thms have recently been opened on the part of the U.
States, with the Spanish Ministry, (or the cession of
the island of Cuba to the United States, on the pay
ment of a considerable sum of money. He says the
fact is only known, as yet, among the diplomatic corps
How lie got possesion of it the p ibiic are not informed-
Thirty first Congress.
Sixty-seven members of the Thirty-first Congress
have been already elected as follows :
New Congress. Old Congress.
ATaylor. Csss. Whig. Dan.
Illinois 16 16
Missouri 5 5
Arkansas 1 1
lowa 11 2
Vermont 2 2
Maine 2 5 16
Pennsylvania 15 f J 17 7
Ohio 10 11 11 10
Florida 1 1
S. Carolina 2 5 7
Total thus far 04 43 33 41
In Vermont there are two vacancies whi li will prob
ably be filled as they were in the last Congress by two
Democrats. Messrs. Holmes and Orr of the South
Carolina Delegation are both understood to be Taylor
men. Mr. Holmes prior to the election was an avow
ed Taylor-ite. Col. Orr relused to pledge himself to Gen.
Cass and was opposed mainly on that ground. It is
highly ptobable that the majority in favor of Gen. Tay
lor in the next Congress will be considerably larger than
that of the Whig Party in that body at the present
time.
Sowing.
Some witty chap, who “ knows the ropes,” shrewd
■y says that bowing is a science by itself, and must be
ittended toby those who would, by turning and twist
ing themselves, keep in the sunshine of fashion. Bow
very reverently to a million of dollars, most respectfully
to a hundred thousand, courteously to fifty thousand,
civilly to ten thousand, and never know poveity by
sight
ftinsi Laser nYcmi aSiai'iips?*
And another decline .a Cotton.
By Telegraph we are placed in possession of th“
News of the arrival of the Steamship Iliberni i at Bos
ton. She reached the wharf at lb; oclock on the 3rd
inst. and brings news seven days later than appeared
in our last. The summary of intelligence below is
copied from the Charleston papers.
Great Britiuu.
o'Biien has not yet been executed. Ctrl Claren lon
declared in ‘ is replv to the Dublin memoralists, that
full weight will be given to the Jury’s recommendation
of mercy in his behalf. O’Brien's counsel are still en
gaged in the effort to take out a writ ot error. O’Do
noghue has been convicted but has been recommen
ded to the mercy ol the Government. Meagher’s trial
has not been concluded. The Irish Catholic Clergy
have united iij an effort to prevail upon the British
Government to aid in tranquikz.ing the country, and a s
*he best means of accomplishing this des,table result
to itdvanee funds (or the construction oi public works, so
that the destitute poor may be furnished with employ
ment. The harvest in Ireland lias fallen far short of
an average. The potato crop in Scotland is most abun
dant. No scarcity of food is anticipated,as there are
heavy importations of B reads tuffs from the Conti
nent The L holera is increasing throughout England
and it is very malignant at Edinburgh. 1 here were
only thir:y additional cases at New Haven. In Lon
don the .alarm was somewhat abating. In Glasgow
and Manchester trade was dull, and sales were limi
ted.
Germany.
Affair have reached a crisis at Vienna. Jellalich j
the Ban of Croatia, at fiist advanced with bis troops
towards the Capital, but then retired towards Neus
tadt. The Emperor's troops still retain their position
in the vicinity of the city. Prince Witidsgratz is ad
vancing from Prague to take command ol the Imperial
army, which amounts to one hundred thousand men.
The Diet,or Provisional Government of this city,can
muster as many. They have sent their ultimatum to
the Emperor’s General, refusing to disarm the Nation
al Guatds, unless the Imperial army retires. It i s
thought that a bombardment of the city will not beat
tempted, but that means will be taken tocut offal! their
supplies ol provisions, and the inhabitants starved into
submission. The Emperor is in Moravia collecting
additional forces, and the Emperor of Russia, has in
timated his purpose of supporting him with troops
front Poland should it be necessary. The Hungarian
battalions in Italy, of which the Austrian tinny is al
most exclusively composed, insist u on returning to
their homes, and the position of Radetzky is deemed
extremely perilous. While he is film paralysed, the
Italians are about to take the field under Gen. Durand,
with well grounded hopes of driving off the invaders.
France.
Gen. Cavaignac still remains at the head of the Gov
ernment. He has adopted a most conciliatory course
towards the Moderates. Decanx, the Prefect of’ Paris,
has resigned his situation, assigning as a reason, Ins dis
approval of Cavaignac’s policy, as Anti-Republican
Ledru Rollin and his friends still continue to give ban
quets, at which violent speeches are delivered, exciting
alarm, and causing depressions in the public funds.—
Cavaignne’sspeedy downfall is confidently predicted.
The affairs of Rpain still continue in a distracted
condition. Portugal is tranquil.
Liverpool Markets.
COTTON. —All descriptions ol Cotton had under
gone a decline ol one-eighth of a penny, and quite dif
ficult to effect sales at tiiat rate. The quotations were
—Orleans, fair to good fair If to 41 ; Mobile and bow
ed Georgia to 44. The sales of the week aim tin
ted to 35,000 hales, and the market closed quietly, but
wi'h a downward tendency.
In Manchester, Glasgow and London, trade was
dull, which as a natural consequence would throw a
gloom over the opening transactions of the succeeding
week. Breadstuffs were firmer at Liverpool and Lon*
don,on account of the non-arrival of supplies, bu
from the immense quantities on their way,no advance
in price was anticipated. Provisions are quiet, but pri
ces are firm: The Money Mtuket is heavy : Consols
814 a 6H.
fitilis and Belles of Tammany Unit.
The latest slice of “Nevv-\ oik in Alices,” served up
in tii*? Tribune, smacks ol the “Balls and Belies of
Tammany Ilall.” We u. „ utj portion
which may be discussed with a relish, even amid the
turmoil of political excitement:
The balls at this establishment may be taken ns the
perfected type ofa class ot amusements entirely char,
acteristic of New York,and lobe met with nowhere
else. Il is usual for poor people to entertain a certain
degree of envy for the amusements and dissipations o*
the rich ; but we are sure that no ray of that bad feel
ing ever found its way into the spacious dancing-saloon
of Tammany Hall. There, all who enter come to give
and receive pleasure ; and the idea that there can be a
more superb room for dancing, or a more sumptuous
entertainment, never enters any body’s head.
What lirst strikes yo i upon entering the ball-room is
the variety of costume. No one style predominates—
every one seeming to have consulted her own individ
ual, independent taste, with but faint reference to those
infallible guides to tip-top gentility, the magazine fash
ion-plates. Crimson Velvet bodies and green barege
skirts ; long sleeves, short sleeves, an I no sleeves, the
balloon, the sack, the long dress, th e short dress, the
high and the low ; and all intermingled like a fancy
ball fallen into a doze and confounding its costumes in
a sort of wild dream-mixture. The only uniformity
you see is in every woman having a pair ol blooming
checks and sparkling eyes, all glowing and bduring
with happiness. The conversation and manners nr •
free,and yet perfectly respectful and polite. The male
portion of the assembly are apt to be somewhat of the
roughest ; and the bar-room is tilled with drinkers,and
smokers, and tobacco-ehewers, equally ready for an ar
gument, a smasher, or a fight. B it up stairseverytlting
is entirely changed ; and, as a general thing, affairs are
conducted ill the most exemplary manner.
Some of our readers may perhaps suppose that the
dances at Tammany Hall are a little antiquated and
lack the fascinating freshness which imparts so agree
able an atmosphere to tli ■ soirees and • i tales of ‘Above
Bleecher.’ But this is not the case. Since the inven
tion of the Magnetic Telegraph, and the Revolution of
February, Tammany Hall is as near Baris as Union
Square; and no new dance can make half a dozen
gyrations in our aristocratic drnwing-ro mis before it is
caught up and repeated in a style somewhat exaggerat
ed but tar more exhilarating, on the bounding boards
of Tammany Hall. It is true that the good old-fash
ioned cotillion, and even the jig and break-down, are
not entirely abandoned ; but there is no lack of ambi
tious couples, gorgeous in brilliant vest and flying rib
bon-streamers of many colors, stand ng ready on shore
eager to take advantage of the first opening between
the undulations ol the crowded floor, and plunge off
like a pair of adventurous bathers into all sorts of
gyroflexions, polka-ish or otherwise. Gradually,couple
by couple, the many tire and glide off reeling to their
B e ats or to seek refreshment in the restaurant ; but an
ambitious couple—the “Most” and “Lize” of the even
ing—still keep it up with unflagging fervor, seeming to
increase their momentum at every whirl. The com
pany now gather ronnd and begin to be excited. The
plot thickens and the game is made up. It i • muscle j
and sinew against horse-hair and catgut. For a lew
minutes the race is as even as that of two steamers on
the Hudson ; but soon the elbow-power of the princi
pal ft Idler begins to relax—his tones come forth more
and more feeble, and his torhire 1 instrument gives a
piercing an. 1 uneurtlffy scream every time it comes to
“the turn of the tune.” Meanwhile upon the floor the
fun grows “fast and furi ms”—the spectators npplau I,
the dancers redouble their exertions, their faces glowing
like glass-blowers’, or like lovers caught kissing. At
last the despairing ii Idler claps his left thumb a id fore
finger to the nut of his E string—snap ! pop ! it is gone
—the lance is finished, and he saves his reputation.
But n me dancing part of the business is characteris
tic, the manner of supping and servi )g refreshments is
no less so. Instead of the clumsy, inconvenient and
altogether vexatious method usually employed, o 1
crowding everything on a long table and driving the
company down all at once to take a sta.lee and a cold
cut here and there of something they don’t like, while
every one sees his favorite dish disappearing down
some body else’a throat —at Tammany Hall yon select
the time most agreeable to yourself or your partner, slip
quietly with your lady down stairs, take a comfortable
seat at a li'tle table in the Restaurant, and order what
ever you like, from a shilling stew and brandy without,
to a canvas-back and champiigne. Here there are
none to crowd you from your places, squeeze you to
calf’s jelly, nor overhear everything you choose to say ;
and fora nice, quiet, comfortable bit of love-making— i
a thing which ol all others we admire—there cannot
be a more fitting place nor a more favorable opportuni
ty than while taking your supper at a Tammany Hal
ha!!. |
13j Uiidlllghd. CVt’iy. OU/ i)US had saj’j'v 1 Uiiu l.: iifldy
to renew the serious business of the night, and dancing
is resumed with fourfold spirit,an 1 kept up without in
termi- -ion until four o’clock, \vh ‘ t the p irty breaks up
and th ■ grand rash for cl aks, !*oJ< m iirriages takes
place. Tne doi.cite bum mbits alien laig tins dainty j
operation is by no means the least interesting and ex
citing part of the performances. Many a tender squeeze
of the hand, and even innocent kiss, is exchanged be
tween the owners of fluttering hearts, in the dim pass
ages leading to the dressing rooms ; and many the
pouting denial and unexpected rebuff also encounter
ed here. At length the last pair oi “fantastic toes,’’
with their pretty owner nn l her beau, having disappear
within the last cab, which whirls grumbling and creak
ng with the cold up Chatham street—the blood red
meteors on the balcony suddenly go out in darkness —
l he Boots seize the occasion to lock the frontdoor —the
bar-keeper crawls yawning up stairs to bed—and Tam
many Ilall, lately so gay and brilliant, is as dark and
solitary as ifit had just got news of a Whig victory.
GEORGI A ELECTION RETURNS.
For the convenience of our friends who may desire
to compare the Presidential vote with tiiat of the sever
al counties in the State at the recent Congressional
election we publish below the official returns as publish*
<■ iint ie Federal Uni t.i of last week. What the re
sult may be a lew days will determine. In the mean
line our hopes are tn it all has gone right and tiiat
Gen. Taylor has not only carried the State bat t. e
Union by a handsome majority.
I'IRST DISTRICT.
1848. 1849.
WHIP. DEM. Wait*. DEM.
Taylor. Cass. i%.ing. Jackson.
Appling, .... .... 131 13J
Bryan, .... .. 67 49
Bubocli, .... .... 15 341
Camden, .. .... 61 165
Chatham, .... .... 6i2 576
Effingham, .... .. i56 I*6
Emanuel, .. .... 54 ,53
Glynn, .... .. lot 21
Laurens, .... .. 452 23
Liberty, .... .... 171 1-13
Lowndes, .... .... 419 363
Mclntosh, .... .. 71 94
Montgomery, .... .. 169 29
Teitair, .... .... 135 107
Tattnall, .... .. 3)6 54
Tnomas, .... .... 435 274
Ware, 90 98
Wayne, .. .. 47 39
SECOND DISTRICT.
Taylor. Cass. Calhoun. Wellborn.
Baker, .... ... 291 551
Decatur, .... ... 430 346
D <uly, .... ... 284 417
Early, .... ... 193 460
Houston. .... ... 6i6 638
Irwin, .. ... 6*) 276
Lee, .... -... 310 151
Macon, ... ... 35 J 261
Marion, ... ... 436 430
Muscogee, ... ... lift 846
Pulaski, ... ... 234 376
Randolph, ... ... 627 652
Stewart, ... ... 873 653
Rainier, C, ... 639 535
.... .... 6538 6625
THIRD DISTRICT.
Taylor. Cass. Omen. Carey.
Bibb, ... ... 599 692
Crawford, ... ... 36 1 396
lianas, ... ... 759 368
Monroe, ... ... 721 598
Pike, ... ... 677 753
Talbot, ... ... 765 707
Upson, ... ... ou3 423
Twiggs, ...’ ... 269 328
.... .... 4754 4260
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Taylor. Cass. Williamson, Haralson.
Campbell, ... ... 23J 562
Carroll, ... ... 317 791
Coweta, ... ... 725 631
Fayette, ... ... 419 660
Heard, ... ... 380 474
Henry, ... ... 859 792
Meriwether, ... ... 570 776
Newton, ... ... 893 494
Troup, ... ... y 18 319
.... .... 53il 5532
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Taylor. Cass. Calhoun. Ilackett,
Cass, ... ... 663 1213
Chattooga, ... ... 286 333
CheroK.ee, .. ... iui syj
Cobb, .. ... 637 1008
Dade, .. .. 59 2U3
DeKaib, .. ... 754 948
Floyd, .. ... 559 C 54
Forsyth, ... ... 464 653
Gwinnett, ... ... 585 551
Murray, ... .. 445 748
Paulding, .. ... 289 312
Walker, ... ... 584 756
Gilmer, .. ... 175 596
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Taylor. Cass. Harris. Cobb
Clarke, ... ... 532 450
Elbert, ... .. 803 123
Franklin, ... ... 261 849
Hill, ... ... 437 659
Habersham, ... ... 266 681
Lumpkin, ... ... 418 824
Jackson, ... ... 493 GSO
Madison, ... ... 284 295
Rabun, ... ... 39 200
Union, .. ... 300 525
Walton, ... ... 431 635
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Taylor. Cass. Stephens. Day.
Baldwin, ... ... 282 238
Butts, ... ... 241 348
Green, ... .. 629 1)3
Jasper, ... ... 385 408
Morgan, ... ... 392 239
Oglethorpe, .. . ‘ ... 526 151
Putnam, ... ... 363 289
Wilkinson, ... ... 390 412
Jones, ... ... 372 389
Taliaferro, ... .. 436 32
1 4019 2602
EIUIIIII DISTRICT.
Taylor. l ass. Tonm'ot. Lawson.
Bmke, ... ... 456 321
Columbia, ... ... 405 196
Hancock, ... ... 403 216 I
Jefferson, ... .. 495 91
Lincoln, ... ... * 206 133;
Richmond, ... ... 586 461 !
Setivim, ... ... 190 203
Warren, ... ... 531 305
Washington, ... ... 525 408
Wilkes, .... ... 435 214
Cotton Trade to China.
From late statistics embodied in an article in the
National Intelligencer, it appears that a very large
amount of the exports from England to China, is made
up of Cotton. There is a gentleman yet living, in his
Bdtn year, who shipped the first cotton from ChurleHon
to Liverpool— three bags —winch he helped to pack by
hand, and with the seed. Ttia consignees in Liverpool
discouraged any lui tiier shipment, as they did not know
ho v to seperate it from the seeds. This same gentle
man his in his possession a bed quilt in a good state o*
preservation, made from this parcel of cotton by his re
vered mother. The seeds were picked out by her fin
gers.
Tne producers of this staple should put themselves
in that situation which will best enable them to profit by
their product. Tney can make our exports of it equal
to oar whole import front China, and they ought to do
it. All Asia has been obliged to take, even the poor
article,from British India, and they would, ol course,
prefer a better article, and as they will long be behind
the age in the use of machinery, they would prefer
yarns to cotton. These would occupy less space on
shipboard and he increased in value,even in our own
country, more than fifty per cent.; hut the value may
be yet further increased if made into cloth, and fit for
immediate use; and with such ad lition to its value,
there woul l b.* a further reduction of bulk and an ad
itionul saving in expense ol shipping, with an increased
demand and quicker sale.
Tii? writer in the Intelligencer says :
The many improvements in spinning machinery, coin -
pared with its application in the early manufacture ol
cotton—perhaps now costing less than one-halfthe price
then paid for machinery, and nuking abetter tabrick,
•an ! much more in the same length of time ; the South
ern States being nearer to this trade than the manufac
turers of the Northern States of the Union, with a cli
mate better ada ted to making better goods, a saving o’
fa -I. and in house rent and clothing water power running
waste (not paid for by the inch,) having the raw materi
al so convenient, ai 1 mi requiring transportation to
tlie seaboard, the expense of storage insurance and
freight, (all ut the expense of the producer.,)
These are soma ol the advantages possessed, by the
South specially for the business. North and South Car
olina, Georgia Alabama, Arkansas and Texas have
most of these advantages of this power and location’
and might!? | off in making giude for markets. Fut
short tune <Viii elapse before their joint pro-Juet win
aid in swelling tiie amount of our shipment to China*
and lii? revenue from the returns would add materially
! to the Treasury of the nation, an 1 to the profits of en
-1 terprising merchants,agriculturists,&c.
But a few years have elapsed since tin article of Cast
India manufacture was imported called hum-hums- —a
species of c >tton goods twenty-seven inches wide,
bleached, and made of the poor India cotton, which
then sold at about twenty-five cents per yard. Then
there were lew bui Id >ghsli prints ; the lowest, at whole
sale, in Charleston, by direct importation were sold at
f rty-four cents per yard. The first prints made in our
country were a course article dyed blue, with small
1 white spots, made at Taunton, in Massachusetts, which
sold at twelve-an J-a-half cents in northern markets.
Id very thing has changed since then, and the spirit o
the age requirts lor success in this business, as in al
others, the developement of every possible species of in
genui y, the practice of the greatest economy, and the
most inJomnitable enterprise.— N. Y. Express
The Cotton Cron in Tennessee.
We take tiie following from the Memphis Enquirer,
of the Bth inst.:
“During a visit to the country, we sought every oppor
tunity t> intorin ourselves ol the actuil state of the
[ cotton crop now in process of saving. YV e saw many
| fields personally, mid did not fail to inquire of lliose
! who had enjoyed better opportunities of arriving at tiie
truth of the matter. So far as our own observation ex
tended, we arrived at the conclusion that the crop would
he very short. This belief is I’outi led upon an untrain
e I judgment, but w : could plainly perceive a great de
ficiency of bolls, and a backwardness of opening, which
are always indicative of a short yield. Be this as it
may, the opinion is confirmed by many of the most re
liable planters, with whom we conversed. They say
that the crop will be short at least one-third in th c
Western district of Tennessee and some of the North
ern .Mississippi counties, and we think they are correct.
Some even say that hall an average is as much as may
be expected. Should a killing frost not occur before
November, the prospect will improve, but even then the
yield will he greatly below a fair average. These re
maiks are made that the true state of the crop may be
known, and not from any disposition to engage in“crop
croaking,” as it is termed. We have no interest per
souallyjin the mailer, and we hate croaking ol all kinds.
To let the whole truth be known, can injure no inter
est in the country. We are not “posted up” sufficient
ly to give an opinion of the general crop of the Union.’’
Pennsylvania Election.
OFFICIAL VOTE FOB GOVERNOR, 1818,
Johnston. Longstreth.
Counties. whig. DEM.
Allegheny 8,856 6,164
Adams 2.331 1,806
Armstrong 2,094 2,133
Berks 4,207 8,411
Heaver 2,764 2,383
Bucks 5,034 5,245
Bedford 2,613 2,730
Biair 2,293 1,427
Butler 3,410 2,308
Bradford 2,241 3,748
Cambria 1,151 1,421
| Carbon 763 996
Chester 5,895. 5,140
Centre 1,619 2,544
Cumberland 2,989 3,069
Columbia 1.980 3,157
Crawford 2,580 2,849
Clarion 1,255 2,238
Clinton 808 1,004
Clearfield 630 1,113
Dauphin 3,249 2,269
Delaware 1,975 1,500
Elk 145 293
Erie 3,500 2,087
Fayette 2,776 3,290
Franklin 3,758 2,988
Greene 1,354 2,362
Huntingdon 2.289 1,871
Indiana 2,371 1,568
Juniata 1,103 1,201
Jefferson 788 992
Lebanon 2,637 1 800
Lancaster 9,727 5,514
Lehigh 2,550 2,996
Lycoming 1,850 2,298
Luzerne 2,967 3,785
Monroe 425 1,769
Mercer 3,643 3 109
Mifflin 1,443 1,591
Montgomery 4,635 5,218
McKean 376 429
Northampton 2,551 3,476
Northumberland 1,546 2,124
i 1.339 O.OG-I
Philadelphia city 8,963 4,972
Philadelphia county 16,998 16,028
Pike 1-26 612
Potter 278 627
Schuylkill 4,264 3,538
Somerset 2,755 1,103
Sullivan 182 360
Susquehanna 1,597 2,416
Tit-go 1,219 2,077
Umon 2,887 1j686
Venango 988 1,532
Westmoreland., 2,856 4,955
Washington 4,065 3,949
Warren 947 1,145
‘Jayne 855 1,455 1
Wyoming 780 918 1
York 4,162 4,315
T , Total 169,527 168,227
Johnston s (winy) majority 300
1 ( >te for Governor, 1844.
Shank, (democrat) 160 959
Markle (whig) .V. ]56,562 I
l
Democratic majority 4,397 j
_ „ Vote for President, 1814.
Lla y 161,203 j
Polk’s majority 6,332
“Old Whitey” has a Rival.
The Batavia Advocate says, that among the objects
of interest to the vast crowds in attendance at the late
Genesee County Fair, was the beautiful horse “ Black
Warrior, ” belonging to Capt. H. W. Merrill, of the 2d
Regiment U. S. Dragoons,—a spirited charger, that
had borne his gallant master through the entire Florida
and Mexican wars. He was raised in Tennessee, and i
was taken to Florida for the cava lrv service ; where he j
was selected by Captain Merrill from a large number,
of which he is believed to be the only survivor. He
has never been in harness, but is perfectly broke un- :
der the saddle, knowing his duty like a soldier. He is
now about sixteen years old, and although he has per
lorined long marches, chased buffalo on the Western
prairies, swam rivers,encountered the seas, and partic
ipated in eight general battles, yet he has never been
sick or lame for a day, and there is not a wind-gall or
blemish about him, except his scars from wounds re
ceived in battle—one from an escopette ball, and the
o'her from a piece of shell. He is a noble, fine blood
ed horse, and moves with all the grace and ease of a
belle in the bal-room. Though young as a colt in ap- |
pearance, the Captain intends to give him his time with
a pension.
Wholesale Extermination.
Ii was stated recently by the Rev. Mr. Chiuiguy, in
a public meeting at Montreal, that he had a list of sis-
I teen families, once among the wealthiest of Montreal,
who have all been destroyed by intemperance. Their
I aggregate fortunes a lew years ago amounted to $300,-
|000! Now they have disappeared entirely, root and
’ branch, solely through the influence of intoxicating Il
linois He had another list of lourfeen families, ot va
rious occupations, whose aggregate fortune amounted
to $1 ,“200,000, who have also disappeared from the same
cause: and another list of 517 families, who resided
in fourteen parishes, and all were once comparatively
. wealthy, but arc all now destroyed by liquor, except
remnants scattered through the States and elsewhere.
It is thus that intoxicating liquors destroy the human
r ace.— Temp. Ailv.
Minos of Cinnabar in Upper California.
Rev. C. S. Lyman communicates to the last num
ber of Silliman’s Journal a letter dated l’ueblo de San
Jose, in March last, wherein an account is given of a
Cinnabar Mine, (the Mine of New Almaden) situated
a few miles from the coast, about midway between San
Frnucisco and Monterey, and in one of the ridges of the
Sierra Azul Mountain. The mouth of the mine is a lew
yards down from the summit of the highest hill that has
yet been found to contain quicksilver, and is l“2t)t) feet
above the neighboring plain, and not much more above
the ocean. This hill extends longitudinally in a north
westerly direction, decreasing in height; and in various
parts of it for several miles, traces of the ore have been
found, and some openings have been made which prom-
S'to be valuable. This range of’hills consist ol a varie
ty of rocks. The prevailing one is a greenish talcose,
which seems to embrace the fed ot ore, at the New Al
maden mine both above and below. The ore is inter
spersed through a yellow ochrou3 mxtriy, which forms
t bed 1“2 feet in thickness, dripping northwesterly at an
ingle of about 45°. The richest ore is at present found
in the upper part of the bed, the poorer ores being taken
from th? lower portion.
This mine, known to the aborigines Irom time im
memorial as a “ cave ot rc 1 earth,” Irani which ihe>
obtained paint for their l o lies, was iirat uwoveifd to
contain q iiekilver about lour years since, daring ex
periments nude hv jome Mexicans to smelt tne ore for
the purpose of obtaining gold, which they suppo- and it
to contain. [Several attempts since to work the min;
fi ive proved iutile, until recently!. Mr. Forties,of the
firm of Barron, Forbes Sc Cos., invttig tiie present
charge of th? entire operations, wished todevi-e some
way of extracting the metal without mixing lime with
the ore, in ihe roasting,” but was unsuccessful. At
length a kind of lime, which occurs iu the immeJiite
vicinity, was burned, anJ mingled with this, the ores
yield a vastly larger percentage of metal. In the last
three weeks (says Mr II.) about 10,00 J pounds of me
tal have been extracted with thesamS apparatus, being
a yield of over fifty percent. Between 15.00 land 20,000
pounds have been extracted in abaat t .vo months, on
ly six miners havia been employed in digging the ore.
anJ the han Is of the establishment, ail told, miners, fur
nace-men, wood-choppers, etc , etc., numbering only a
sere. The mine isprobibly yielding a net profit ol
$103,099 a y \ar, even wit * its pres ;nt crn.l • app iratas.
With suitable turn ices n:i lira i ey in lersor retorts,the
mine would easily yield $1,0)3,0dd ar.l up.varJ. The
other mines opened in the vicinity have not yet been
sufficiently develop;d to decide upon their character
Ore has been lo in I in fifteen or l venty other places
within a few miles around, aid within a few days in
hills tint Jj not seem to belong to tin* same range with
that which contains the mine already described. Some
ores of silver have ai -1 been recently discovered in this
region—but whether silver mines worth the working
will lie found, is at least problematical. There are traces
of Coal in the country,but nothing ofvalue liasyer bee 1
discovered. Gold has been found occuring in small
masses in the sands of new m 11-races anl elsewnere,
and is sai Ito promise well. Taess gol 1 mine specula -
lion3, however, arc very apt to disappoint tiie sanguine
expectations of their vast extent and wealth.
The I’ostmaster General! oa Sunday Mails.
In reply to a letter from Rev. Mr. Lloyd of Phelps,
N. Y., the Hon. Cave Johnson, Postmaster General,)
returned the following answer, which we copy from
the N. Y. Observer :
“ I should be gratified to see the transportation of the
mails,as well as every other species of labir rest on
the Sabbath. But the Postmaster General is the agent
of the public. Isis his duly to make and carry out, so
far as in his power, such mail arrangements as the
wishes and interests of the public require. The Depart
ment does not set on foot of its own will any sabbath
mails, irrespective of demands and necessities of the
community ; and where it is obliged to require such
service in compliance with such necessities and de
mands, it is done, so far as my personal preferences
are involved, with a feeling of regrei. ‘Phis regret, j
however, cannot be indulged in,so fiir as to set aside
the known wishes and interests of the public.
“ When the stated means of conveyance on mail !
routes are kept in operation upon the Sabbath, whether
he mails be sent or not, general inconvenience and j
much individual loss and injury would inevitably result
unless the mails be despatched by them. In such ca- j
sesit is unquestionably the duty of the Depnitmentto
forward mails on Sunday. When the proprietors are
disposed to withdraw these means of conveyance
on that day, and there is no likelihood ot others being
substituted, so as to give facilities to a lew to the dis
advantage and in;ury of the many, l will take pleasure
in acceedmg to the arrangement; so liir as the mails are
concerned, as has lately been done upon the line of
railroad between Albany and Buffalo, following the
example set by the New-York and Boston and the Bos
ton and Albany lines.
“ The means of communication are never withdrawn
by the proprietors,but upon the best evidence that the
public or a large majority of it, are willing to dispense
with them. And although my own feelings under the
influence of the consideration-alluded to in your let
ter, are gratified by the suppression of the Sabbath
mails,my official action in sanctioning it, is founded
solely upon the conviction that their withdrawal is in
such cases warranted by the general consent of the
public.”
Wine in Australia.
Th ere is now every reason to believe that Western
j Australia will one day become a great wine country.
Its vineyards are becoming more numerous and exten
sive every year, and the wine produced in them is o*
a quality to lead us to believe that when the art of pre
paring it is better understood, it will be found of very
superior quality. It will, however, be anew kind ifi
wine, and threfore, before it will be prized in Europe,
prejudices in lavorof older wines have to be overcome,
feoil and climate combined give to different wines their
peculiai flavor. ‘I he vines which in Madeira pioduce
the wine of that name when brought to another coun
try, even in a corresponding latitude and planted in
soil that chemically approaches as closely as possible to
that which they have left, will produce a wine mate
rially different from that called Madeira. So with the
vines of Xeres and Oporto, or Constantia. Different)
countries produce wines peculiar to themselves; and
the wines of Western Australia will be found to be en
tirely sui generi. All that 1 have tasted though
made fr<>m the poorest ol grapes, the common sweet
water, have one peculiarity. A good draught, instead
of affecting the head or flushing the face causes a mos t
delightful glow to pervade tne stomach, laborers in har
vest prefer the home-made colonial wine to any other
beverage. Every farm settler is now adding a vine- !
yard to bis estate.— Scientific American.
To obtain fresh blown Flowers iu Winter
any day one chooses.
Choose some of the most perfect buds of the flowers !
you would preserve, such as are latest in blowing end
ready to open, cut them off with a pair of scissors, j
leaving to each, if possible, a piece of the stem about
three inches long ; cover the end of the stem immedi
ately with sealing wax: and when tie buds are a little
s-hrunk and wrinkled wrap each of them up separately j
in a piece ot paper, perfectly clean and dry, and lock j
them up in a dry box or drawer ; and they will keep
without corrupting. In winter, or at any other time
when you would have the flowers blow, take the buds
over night and cut off the end of the stem sealed with
wax and put the buds into water, where a little min
or salt has been diffused and the next day you will have
the pleasure of seeing the buds open and expand
themselves and the flowers display their most lively
colors and breathe their agreeable odors.
Scientific American.
Over Teaching in Public Schools.
A writer in the Medical and Surgical Journal
complains that the children in all the public schools in
Boston are over worked; that not only is too great an
amount of labor required of them, but the studies are
too complex and 100 protracted. Children are likewise
sent to school at too early an age, and are kept confined
*oo long each day. Mr. George Combes, the Scotch
philosopher, used to say the whole course of fem de
education is radically bad. Girlhood, in Boston, in
stead of being an epoch of freedom, is made up of an
uninterrupted senes of lessons, either irom books or
the piano. “.Misses and young ladies are, therefore
pale, feeble, slender, and sickly creatures, positively
cheated out of the birthright of good health, the choic
est of all temporal blessings. They are unfitted, by a
perverse plan of education, for the demands of a vari
able climate and the incidents and circumstances of the
social relations. They are all mind without a body to
sustain it. The sweeping mortality of the fairest dow
ers in this unnaturally cultivated garden of intellect,
throughout New England, is due to th.s mistaken and
unfortunate plan of education. ”
The evils so well described by Mr. Combe, are by no
means confined to Boston or New England. In
the States, theusuuds of parents may be found who
strive to effect a precocious intellectual development in
their children. They are required to study, and are ex _
pected to comprehend, brandies of literature and of
science, far above their years. Girls are below the
fashion of the times, if they make more than two
•jumps between the craJle and the arms of their hus
bands.—Chronicle f>“ Sentinel.
Marriage.
The stags in the Greek Epigram whose knees were
clogged with frozen snow upon the mountains, came
down to the brooks ot the valleys, hoping to thaw
their joints with the waters of the stream ; but there th
frost overtook them, and bound them tast in ice, till the
young herdsmen took them in their strong r snare. lj
is the unhappy chance of many men ; finding many
inconveniences upon the mountains ot single like, they
descend into the valley of marriage to refresh their
troubles; and there they enter into fetters, and arc
bound to sorrow by the cords of man’s or ‘woman's:
peevishness. ******
They that enter into the state of marriage cast a die ’
of the greatest contingency, and yet of the greatest
interest in the world next to the final throw for eternity.
Li!e or death, felicity or a lasting sorrow are in the
power of marriage. A woman indeed ventures most j
.or she hath no sanctuary to retire to from an evil hu—
band ; sue m ist dw, :j „p*i h* r , I
eggs which !u-r own tally or , i; -‘ *aj b ,. 1
and site is mre un I- r , t> h..,, 7 y *’>
warrant of prerogative. . , I
to GoJ as sub ects d> to u-r, ,n ’"'u fl
s.* has no app *1,11,1 t; 1? CIU ,. S nj 1
though the man can run f,-.j ilp!J . ■
when he sits muon” his n„ ~• ‘.
... • “ , J
dejection that is m h:s Ikj.vj.q 3 l ( 1 I
lioys, an I the p:\lfers, an j ;:i .
this mail when he is carried t. r ■ .1
and died a poor wretched pers , n e '’ 1,; ‘.* .■
Tiie Bridgeport Debt; .. B’
It is now ascertained t.iat H a ‘, *’ >a * B
who is charged with hiving dehaijj i B
Bank,” (ml who was mi srr . <t ,j B
week) undoubtedly made his ’< ■ JR
Europe. Rumor says ih it q.. Uj .‘ . B
this juvenile disciple of ttwaru- B
a.so that lie exu.uaaged in A ., B
parture, about $19,003 in i it . L'.iis o ju’ ,l j ‘ 1 .H
had been employed, for goij. q * . ... 14
intense excitement in our sister ei*y ■ ! R
are i.i circulation. The officers . n * ‘ ;
bly soon gve the exact facts ; ( , u ,l
Serious Accident. I
O.i Friday evening last, a ■
from Bibb county, Ga., was n'i , J-.J
his wife and a small child, alon * J^ r J . <3i:a F*B
ha, when the hoi sea came in contact"T
became frightened and defied th- e r7 .
hold them. They Jashel arou -Jii. >u ‘ J ‘ r I B
street at a terrible rate of speed
brought up against a pile v I
.... ‘ , u ne, *f Lj r.* l'B
sin. iue snocK overturned fl*- r , r . u ■
Tr up, in endeavoring to stive ii.er 1 . I
violence upon his left arm, breatin*, “ I
wrist. He also received 9everrd se,-;.- ■ J I
lady and child tortunately esca* e J, I
Editor’s Looking Fp, I
Tliere were no less than O'*: r>p : , I
for Congress during the late canvass in P I
and all save one were elected, in V v 1
were on yesterday five Editors in the tie and to- 0 -'* I
high station. We pretend not to sny w ;,.,v I
temporaries are fortunate or unfortunate,h* I
know, that it th<*y are men of mind and amb i I
have been reared in ihe very school bestea’ ! I
make them useful men to their constituents I
nn nts to the councils of their country. I
Unman Life Estimated by Pu;> a; :.. |
An ingenious author asserts that the Fn-jS • I
j life may be estimated by the number of ,' Uv ‘ 1 I
I has strength to perform. Thus, allowingsey,- I
I tor the common age ot man, and sixty pubes inV I
i ute for a temperate person, the number o: I
I his whole life would amount to 2,207520ijj0■ I
intemperance he forces his biood into a morempu
lion, so as to give seventy-five pulses in a minute
| number of pulses would be completed m
consequently his life would be reducedfboneen
Franklin’s R stiuj Pi ace .
“ Such was Ins worth, ha loss was such
\V e cannot love too well, or grieve too much.”
Chri: • Charcb-yard, Phikdeij
ot the | imosopher Frank.ni, Un filtering
from Arch sreet, attention wui uiuvowa. iy oe d irt ’
to h,B Humble tomb by a well tiwlJeu pattiwhicn -
from the gate to the marble slab wtuch beats ihe siid
inscription, which wilfat once strike the behoiJeru.
wonder, viz: “ Benjamin and Uetwrah Fraukuu.
VV nil wonder, I say, because wear; accustomed a
see the stones covering the tenements ol meat men a
scribed witli eulogiums ; but uieoue weareiiowfea 7
ing has nothing tmi the oids above quoted, mid ut
year in whic i it was placed there.
And lii s is the grave ol a man who might once have
been seen, a runaway boy, in tbestreets ol fliiiadeipma I
Seeking employment as a printer; and again, as edia
and piopneloi ol tbe United Ota Its Gazette, tong sour,
conduc ed by Mr. Chandler. Once trying experiment
i with a simple pupier kite ; agji.. astouisaiug uie
j wuh the discoveries made through iu insiiaiuen'.adty.
Once in England as a deceived journeyman printrrii
gaui as Ministeriioiii an indepeiident Kepubk-,Uu.t .51
j u*s worksiiop, as a laboring mechanic ; again in iw am
, ol Legislation,advocating the cause ol trccdom, ain e:-
! ging an op.pressed people 10 riw and drive in-.- bridsah
j on nom our lore.-ts. Yes, he w s one o. those wnuap
j ed away tiieir lives, fortunes and honors, u necttsai;,
’ for the welfare 01 tUen lellow-Ciliztiis. but a., tus
j could not save tnui from the hand ol death. Thougatlie
i’hilosopher and the State.-niaii must hr as low as at
less favored, yet Uie ciicuuistaiices counecird winner
I lives 01 those whose motto was* 4 ms sun ltd petit
! pos-ess charms wmcli all cun appreciate and a., tovtio
cherish. VVe read bis name on the marble siab-peo
| der over his virtues, and mourn tuaioss.as oUuetr
friend. \\ e stand around his grave, and ttunkiiuwiii
ny have gazed with reverence upon idai stone, andmtt
eyes become fixed upton it as thougn 11 possesecuaua
[ dealing charin. \V'e look back on Ins ide aua deeds,
j and when we remember that a nation wept na
Frank in died, we cannot retrain from dropping
over tns last abode.
No towering monument rears its head abort he
clouds where Uie first beams of the rising sun wil . *
ins name ; but mat name is inscribed 111 characteis jU
easily to be erased,on every liberty loving heart,aid*
Jong as i’iiiiosophy continues to be a science, ben-va
lence a virtue,ana iib ity trie watch-word ol Uie Am
can jieopie,wui his memory be cherished, and his lu
be honored. —Baptist Bee.
The Mpatii'h Difficulty Adjusted.
The difficulty between Mr. Saunders, our .Mm.--’
j at Spain, and the Spanish Government, arising on:*
| the arrest of his servant, has bee it settled. An
I ate apology was made by the Minister, and the req•
ed exemptions granted ; in audition to whicti the *T
lending officials were dismissed. The or Cubts
which the European Times supposes to he in *h*.g ‘
from this trifling occurrence, is therefore sat e'.—iid.:..
more Sun.
The duty of tae Christian.
“ I think that every Christian citizen is under unc
tion to vote in every case where a public o:scer n : 1
chos.-n. The happiness and virtue of the <• • < •
no leas than the security of me propetty *ky..ugrt- : ‘i
oil thi; character ol the magistracy. If lam injur-.'a a
person or property by a wicked public officer, 1 ■ :
right to complain ofiny fellow-citizens w i < gave a
authority over me, or who, when it was in theirp“ •
did not prevent his election. A Christian :u h;
try, aboveallothers, has a duty to perforin intats;..*. •
and he disobeys the commandment in the text nar -
notperlom it.— President Wuyland.
Weary of Life
A valuable lesson. — In a letter to Genera: Mu:
ted Trenton Falls, August 14, Mr. P. -V VViifo ‘■ ■ ‘
the following curious anecdote : ,
“ Atnongour fellow passengers up the Mo!.?.*’
had, in iwoadjoimng seats,a very impressive con *-”
an insane youth, on his way to an asylum.and th.’••• .
that has achieved the greatest triumph | nit ilect
time, Morse of the electric telegraph, on an errand 1
nected with the conveyance ot thought by j.
In the course of a brief argument on the ,!
some provision for putting an end to a defeate* ‘
hopeless existence, Mr. Moisesaid that, te Fo -
under ill health and discouragement, be would gy
have availed hansel! of any divine authorization 1 •
minuting a life of which the possessor was weary
sermon that lay in this chance remark—foe 11 ‘
priceless discovery to the world, and the lost
and fortune to himself, which would have foiiweu j
thus prematurely 9?d-choseu —is va uable ‘ ie
think, to justify the invasion of the saewdnw W’
conversation which 1 commit by thus giving j y
May someone, a weary ot the world, read it to n t
it.” —Home Journal.
Human Nature.
The Boston Post says the following ane f^’ a!
the “Knickerbocker “ is high'y illustrative of t*
lit a certain town in New Hampshire. a ent
habitant thereof, required tor his comfortsb. J
at leasts pint of “ white-faced New Log )(De .
He had become reduced in his pockets,!s> • |0 rO .
came necessary for him, like the Israeli it- re y
cure somehow a double portin’ on un j') u lJir ij, ol
Sabbath, that he might quietly rTI J°-y 11 , - u ; U rda>
which he wan a constant attendant, l -> ol fve
h- had been very unfortunate; for tne- • j|js-spir
iting began to fall and yet he hau not gay fal -.at
itual” manna for the day of rest. A i into
moment requested inm to throw 901,06 , et en ” J
shed ; and alter die small job yy *_
gave him a few cents. He saw that ilinl ” Isn t
looked s.td and uosatished and he ya and t h!l ,
that enough tor the work . ‘ . ’ gjndy
pint with that money ; and can l J™” ■ 1 but then,
that ? ” Why, I sujijiose 1 ecmld, ■ >ui
(looking up with a most discount . - y, ci | otf . by a
‘ squire hew would it be kupt i . ; ‘ t .j r
very clever correspondent’ wnmhy a ,niH>-’ty i: ’
wiich we will venture to relate a , ull M r
though it must needs suffer •>'<*> attached
G —, who had by degrees become 99 j 4 0 C i>
n 3 cups that he could not coin.ortaoiy - a’
without his “nip” ot brandy, and {* hy . n . u ;„ Jr.k
ious to avoid the suspicion ot bet* - x r%c .i.-e ,
er, was 111 the habit daily ol lie baJ “ s '“
the bar-keeper and those wilhtn b - * ti ,c;
up all the sterreoiyped reast.ns.sueo„ vc
a “ kind ol sinking,”” not let “.g c;li . e d lot / -
One Saturday, at the usual ’ ’ lire im"y “
brandy and water, saying, •• >0 ei‘
am going to Imte salt M” - t , wu£ ht.
was better tiian none, he prownwy