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JOURNAL & MESSENGER.
JI.UeS T. NISBET AND 9IMRI ROSE,
EDITORS.
A NORTHERN SPRING.
bt ours it Wendell holmes.
Winter ia ]>ost; the heart of nature warms
Beneath the wrecks of unresisted storms; .
D'. tbtful at first, su®pec®ed more than ®.:en,
T te sonthorn slopes are fringed w itu tender preen ;
On sheltered bans®, beneath the dripping eaves,
Spring's earlie -* nurselings spread their glowing leave®,
Bright wt:h the hues from w ider pictures won,
White, azure, golden—drift, or sky, or sun—
The . uo.vdrop, hearing otrtier patient breast
The frozen trophy tom from winter’s crest;
The violet gazing on the arch of blue
Till her own iris wears its deepened hue;
The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould,
Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.
Swelled r.iih new Lit*. the darkening elm on high
Brims her thick l uds against the spotted ®ky;
On all her boughs the stately chestnut cleaves
Tho gusnrav shrau l that wraps her embryo leaves;
The housefly, stealing front his narrow grave,
Drugged with the opiate that November gave,
Be:., • with faint Wings against the sunny pane,
Or crawls, tensciofi®, o'er its lucid plain ;
1 rom shaded chink- of ticheu-cru-tei walls.
In languid curves, the gliding serpent crawls;
The bi g’s green harper, thawing from his sleep,
Twangs a hoarse note and trie? a shortened leap;
Ou floating roils, that face the softening noons
The still shy turtles range their dark platoon®,
Or tailing, aimies®, o’er the mellowing fields.
Trail through the grass their tessellated sh.elds.
At last young April, ever frail aud fair,
Wooed by her playmate with the golden hair,
Chased to the margin of receding tlor-ds,
O’er the soft meadows starred with opening finds,
In tears arid blushe® *igfa3 herself away,
And hides her cheek beneath the flowers of May.
Then the proud tulip lights her beacon blaze.
Her clustering cm is the hyacinth displays ;
O’er her sail blade., the crested fleur-ae-fi®,
I. ke blue-eyed Pallas, towers erect and free;
Wtit yellow flames the lengthened sunshine glows,
And lava lays bare the j as .inn-breathing rose;
Queen of the fake, along the reedy verge
1 ne rival lily hasten* to emerge,
He* snowy shoulders glistering as she trips,
Till morn is saltan of iter ported lij ®.
Then bursts the song frctu every le.tfv glade,
The yielding s-iasoa’a bridal serenade ;
Thee fli h the s returning cummer calls
Through tiie deep arches of her forest halis;
The bluebird breathing from his azure plumes
The fragrance borrowed where the myrtle blooms;
Tbe tiii ash, poor wanderer, drooping meekly down,
CUi in Lit remnant of aninmoaJ brown;
The oriole, drifting like a flake of fire
Bjr.t like the whirlwind from a blazing spire;
Tne robin, jerking his spasmodic throat, *
Repeats, staccato, his peremptory note;
The crack-brained bobltnk courts his crazy mate.
Poised on a bulrush tipsy with hts weight;
Nav, in his cage the lone caust v sings.
Feels the soft air, and sp.eada his idle w ings.
Why dream I here within these caging walls.
Deaf to her voice wh:li. blooming Nature calls ;
Peering and gazing wmh insatiate looks
Through blinding lenses, or in weary books?
Otf, gloomy spectres of the shrivelled past!
Fly with the leaves that titled the struma blast!
Ye imps ot Science, whose relemiess chains
Lock the warm tides within these iiriug veins.
Close your dim cavern, while its captive strays
Dizzied aud giddy iu the rnorniug’s blaze!
—i 1 —!
From tbe N Y J.-urnal </ Commerce .
The Crystal Palace.
Four hundred men are constantly employed on this
stupenious structure, which now attracts a large ahare
of pubiic alien.ion, aid the work is progressing rapidlv.
i n,s week, the uuruber of worknaeu is still to lie fur
ther inc. eased. We learn from Mr. J. E. Dtttaold,
Superintending Engineer, that there is no doubt but
that all of the mam portion oi the budding will be
com pie •by me first oi June. With the exception of
the dome ihe iron work of tins t>ort:o;i is now vrrv
near completion, and the Crystal I'ulace begins to de
ve op, in its stately proportions, the design originally ,
> ceived by its piojecicr. The interior presents ;
lat . rinfh cf pil ars, rods, ropes aud timbers, with men !
thickly scattered, and making the air resound with the :
<l.t ’e.-, clang and creak.eg of their implements. Curi- I
o is i si'ors are exclud ‘d by a woo iea iuciosure, with i
g k'e-cee. eis, but the vicinity is daily visited bv increas- ,
>ng numbers. The summit of the IA ervior is the ‘
£> > : e look-out place. On Thursday last, it is csti- I
in tc i, not l;ss than ~ . persons visited thp Reservoir ,
to .J the asetves of the prospect there aiibiced. A
h. , r < number of strangers ate already auroc.ed to the
c. ■ the p weuce cf .h i palace
fie cadre budding is ready to be rcofed, excepting i
the me; the glazing ot’ ihe first story is nearlv finished, !
and tna! of the second has been commenced; the roof \
cf on.- section bus been put ou, and the floor of the j
secon 1 s r >rv bus been hud a- tar as the rooting cx- ;
teals. Ibe and; me, which is IC-. feet in diameter, will i
be s".pp >rt-J by .•* true coi.irons. Immediately over I
these is placed ar. iron tiussiug. made to sustain a
moviive cast iron bed-plate, ou which rest the 2 ribs \
of ±s dot’.*. The truss.ng and bed-plate are ena
bling adjusted, and bu: a ft * days, perhaps a week,
wih oe rtqrdred to put the dome iu place, after these
a e arranged. This done, the mam floor, w.il be speedily 1
i-d down, the arrangement of goods commence, anti
the . sped of things be ma’criali/ eh.t :ged. The sides
cf t..e dome wdi d.splay or escutcheons; in colored >
g.as epre-.eu.ing ~e L nited S a.es coat of aims, and
the -i of otuer na.ioas.
fr.* t'Xr-.inxbers aud roof boards are tbe only parts
the: will be oi wood, and In render loss font fire im- ;
1 0>- Lie, there are sixteen hydrants an the lower floor
aud ihe same number above. The quantity of iron !
used iu tie c s rue ion of the whole building will be
nearty ~i > tons. Theca,., iron girueis, or beams, !
supp. rting the hear timbers, have each been tested for
the sappy, of to tons, but are capable of supporting :
So tons wi bout bre.ikiug. The greatest we gbt that j
can be put or. any ore of them, is seven tou®. The
l ds are’ at together with small eretkee. to i
fact:.: ate s-.v(.*t;iir!g. Taeic will be four ®p:*cious en
trance* jo the building, each hai ii:g two flight of iron
s..,irs, l *d.rg loathe gailents The stairs are already !
in their place. The galleries, which are 54 feet wide, !
con .r..i tJ, S", :iai e iet-t. rr abc i: one acre and a half; j
and the gw-uc a fleer i, ;,<> square leet, or about two
a’.roj and a ball—m iking a total area of 173,050 square .
fee', or ucariy fiarr acres.
Ibe exireiae length of tbe structure, or of each of’
th.e arched .av.j j, ionr ng .bctrausver-eectioas of the
ctoss, is *65 ket; it> heigut from the ground to tbe
crown cf the arch, is 67 fleet, or to the crown of tbe I
dome 1 i fee*, and to the crown of ihe lantern sur- t
rauuattrg ibe Uorne 14j feet. Ventilation is rmplv ,
for in every tar’- On each floor there are j
372 cz.-t iron ven.'.la or*, arranged to -admit or exclude
air, as may be d.iired, besides vemiiators near the root j
e- every side.
The glass u*od is made to ap;ear as if ground, bv a
peiulrer proce.-*®, to subdue the light, ft is covered
with a viireuus enameling, which is applied in the •
form of a paste, and made to adhere o the glass when i
iu a fused state. This obviates :be use of a cloth Cover
i;> r, such as was.used ou the London I’aijce.
The cju-'ii uctiou of lire New York Falace reflects
honor on .Mr. Detmold, who devised and executed the
plans oa which it is bu;h. In point of symmetry, it is
considered aa Barp -.-'.lrg its Lor. L a progeoitor. As
the variiois undai ao- t in numerable parts were made
iu a half aozen d.fl’ere-it S;ates, employing eight dilier
ent foundries, it is uo eisy matter insure accuracy in
their construction, so that all shall exactly fill tbe place
f. r which they were designed. Notwithstanding this
ditßcultv. comparatively litiio de'entfon has Vwen ex
perienced frcai thu source. The Faisce will cost about
i’- v*v.
A g'eot quin-hy of goods designed for rx.iibitioD,
hive already arrived from abroad, a.-idaic stored in the
U. S. tKirulvd trerahouan, Over 4, 1 h Onpriications from
exhibitors have irecn received fi-.ni tfi onntry clone,
while those from Europe number about s.ooO. of which
7 V are from England, aOO from Get many, and *• > from
France. We lesi u that so restricted art the limit*
available for evbibitonicompared with tbe demand, that
it has been iletermiced to construct o'her buildings
without :ue Paloca otaans of relief The boilers
with which to drive i a machinery, are six in number,
and forty feet is lengib, placed in a building distinct
from the P i!-ice. T..e iaiter will be inclosed wim a
aui able railing.
z ■“ 0 e-rvotary . La. ns T’lxX'P'. A m’isbroom
city ha* sprung up in ’he neighborhood of the palace,
comprising about a dozen hotels of various descriptions
eaten penny •hows, a great number of temporary* wood
en struct urea intended for reirr-huient mJooos stores,
driak.ng—hops, Ac., besides dwellings intended for
boarding-house*. For such as an eligible situated, the
mr.,t extravagant rents are readily r.’bniDed One
sin ill w.vodcn structure, 20 by “0 f-et, for -<I,G ->
per annum; bat the occnpanf receives more than this
amount by leaning out his rtcnp and the protection of
hi.” owning for apt !<* and *od* stands.
The most conspicuous object, .••'ids from the Palace,
is the Lulling Observatory,’’ so railed item the name of j
it* projector. If. will be 7.S fes;t diameter at the base, !
and-jt feet in tietghf, bnilt of timber, bolted in the
strongei;* manner. The Grand Jar/ have pronounced .
it i etretlv secure At the iii->ance.-> of about 100,200 j
and ’ feet from tbe Hs-e will be landings, wifb look- i
out t ’acc-s to which passengers will be elevated by a 1
steam At tbo highest will be placed a telescope of
great power, and which, we ate informed, will be the
largest in the conarry, with a Iti inch glass, or
one Lad larger In diameter than the Cambridge Teles
erv ?. Tlii glass is being manufactured in £un>pc, and
until that ia complc'cd, a tea inch glass wjll be used.
The tnefru “.eat will cost about >VL.OoO. At the lower
landings the vision wiil be a.ded by achromatic teles*
con.. , with four isch openings. The view commanded
will be very extensive. From the second landing the
aacer.t will be by carat sofa spiral stairway. Mr. Bar
nura issiot cntuecred with this entetprise/as Las been
rep-;, -led. The Observatory a ill oust about 75,*X*.
•'**ll° this may be mentioned a machine wi.h long
revr viog arms, to lhe ends of which are attached large
vroo.tt 1 bores. It is proposed to whirl people arou.id
in t . *e taxes, elevating them eighty feet from tbe
ground. Terms, “one shilling for three turns, or aix
pec: -• for one ”
I).*, e by is a CTcdsr railroad, inclosed in a wooden
bud'ing. and covered with canvass. People wili here
be turned around till satisfied. At a short distance, i
Con or*d Thompson’s large circis. nearly completed;
also <nieor two panoramic exhibitions, s large ice house
Ac , cite American flag is seen displayed from most of
these etruc urec. A golden harvest is anticipated.
!• TANARUS“ It >* ror uncommon for Spanish ladies to pos
!i'’ a hundred fans. Thev collect and board them, as
■■G-f -an collects pipes, as a geologist aunts after ape-
A New Enterprise.
Tbe Parisians are not goingto allow John Bull to eo
! joy all the honors of the World’s Fair to hin.self, bat
are about to put tip a maguificent building to eclipse
even tbe Crystal Palace. We find the following ac
count of the pi ejected enterprise in a late Paris paper:
Tar F bench Palace ot Jvdistkv.—The ei-ection
i cf this grand building is being carried on with great
! energy *u the Ciiaw.h- h yeers. The trenches whicu are
I to receive the foundations are nearly ail opened. The
following is the projecL-d style and formation of the
| building:
It will contain one immense hall, 192 metree long and
4$ wide, and will be surrouded by a double gallery of
two stories St metre* in breadth. Ihe roof will bo
support* by very slender columns, so that the entire
uiii;ifcu<e area in all 2'4 vutra in length by 105: in
width, will be presented to the spectator in one &-tip
a’(fit.
f he height of the structure will be So metres.
will be four grand en ranc-es in the fron.s, and four
others in the angles of the building The exterior
walls will bs cut of stone, pierced with arcades to the
number of three hundred and sixty, and tln-i wall will
be flanked with six ornamental pa\ iliious. The princi
pal front of the structure will face the avenue of the
Champs Ely seas, and will present a sui face ol one
thousand three hundred metres. The pavtl’ions, or ex
terior tent®, will be occupied by the committees for
various purposes, and also reserved as reception and
refreshment saloons.
The pavillicit, which will face the national panorama
of Colonel Lrmglois, will be occupied by the board of
Control, and will contain two grand staircases leading
to the galleries on the first -dory. This pavillion will
cover * superficies of five hundred and seventeen metres.
At the end of the galleries forming the sides of the
great hall, there will be lour angular pavilions, s. vmg
as accessory entrances, each containing dressing rooms,
Ac., and two winding staircases will lead from them to
the galleries.
The principal front on the Champs Elysec® will be
composed of a suit of arcades, divided in the centre by
an immense stone arch way, elaborately sculptured, the
tympan being adorned with attributes relating to art
and industry .
la the any! sos the pediment will be placed two
groups of reuip: ore, rcpre-.-ntiiig the fine arts, agricul
• ture, industry, and commerce.
The ro:d space in the great arch will be filled by ele
gantly designed monumental structure®. Tula arch
will be subdivided into three pans, two passages being
for foot jaissengers, and the third tor carriages.
Over tbe front, in letters of immenss. size, will be
carved the woids, “ I\i!aiet de VLmi tetrie,” and on the
pillars aud columns on the exterior of ihe structure
will be engraved the names of men celebrated in art
and mechanics, and pedestals will be placed in suitable
places designed to receive the busts of the distinguished
Frenchmen.
It is computed that the balls, pavilions or lent®, and
galleries, will contaiu 20,d00 visiters at one time, all j
being able to embrace in one view the whole Ulterior, |
in consequence of the happy distribution cf the columns ‘
and colonnades, aud the excellent plan that will be !
adopted to give iight to etert part of the building. Iu
ihe centre of the roof there will be a large gla.® dome, j
similar to that which surmounts the Crystal PaLee in :
London.
Interesting io Ttateliers.
Department or Ptath, )
Washington. April, If'so. j
Citizens of the United State® vi®iting foreign conn- i
tries, are liable to serioue ii,cotiventence, it unprovided !
: with authentic proof of their national character. The j
best security again-i this is a passport from tbe Depart- !
inent of Stale, certifying the bearer to be a citizen of
the United State®: which r.a®®potts ere issued grati®, !
upon application, by proof of citizenship.
This proof need be transmitted but once. On all :
subsequent occasions, a simple reference to it, and to
the period when it was presented, will be sufficient. j
When the applicant is a native citizen of tbe United
j States, he must transmit an affidavit of this fact,
j stating his age and place of birth, signed by him, and
i sworn to by him-eif and one other citizen of the U.
j States named therein, to whom he is personally known,
land to the best of whose knowledge and belief the
| declaration made bv him is true. This affidavit must
: be attested by a Notary Public, under his signature and
j seal of otiice. When there is no Notary in the place,
j the affidavit may be made before a Justice of the Peace,
! or other otiicer authorized to administer oaths.
If the applicant be a naturalized citizen, his eertifi
: cate of naturalization must be transmitted for inspec
: ti* n. It will be returned with the passport.
The application °hould be accompanied with a des
i criptiou of the person, stating the following particulars, j
! viz: Age, Tern, Stature, feet. inches,
I ‘ English measure ) Forehead, Eves,
; Nose, Mouth, Chin, ‘ Hair,
Complexion, Face,
When the applicant is to be accompanied bv his wife,
! children, or servant®, or by females under his protec
• tioo, it will be sufficient to state the name and ages of
; such persons and their relationship to the applicant. j
Persons who leave the country, expecting to obtain j
f passports, whilst abroad, from the Diplomatic or Con- !
j su'ur agents of the United Staiv®, are liable to disap- !
j pointment; inasmuch as it is the duty of those ageuts i
| io observe the utmost caution in grauting documents :
| to the nature cf a certificate of citizenship, to those j
I persons only who are certainly known to be entitled to >
| them; and it is sometimes difficult, if not impraciica- 1
| ble, to procure proof of the foot in a foreign country.
Certificates of ti'L.eti'hip or passports issuing from !
the Btate Authorities, or from the Judicial or the Mu
nicipal Functionaries of oar country, are not recognised
bv the officers of foreign Governments; and if ihe
Diplomatic nod Consular agents of the United State®,
sre called upon to certify to the authenticity of such
document, they cannot do this, for want of that official
information in regard to those authorities aud functiona
ries and to their respective ®iguatu:es aud seals of
o.iice, which is mdApeniatly necessary iu the case of
every such certificate.
Gardeuiug and Fioricu’ture iu the Enri- *
ions of Paris.
One of the most striking sights to a stranger iu Paris
is the immense traffic in Bowers of all sort®. Let us
look a moment into titi meeting of one of the Societies
of Gardeners, of which fbere is a large number. —
There are two principal one® .and v>e will visit shat which i
holds its meetings in the Rut Taracne*. Mo*t cf the
persons present are scientific Gardeners, sensewh t ;
rough ann rude io tbeir manners perhaps, but thev ‘
bring with them a lively zeal for information ia reward
to new plants, to new inodes of culture, new gaideu
ing implements and processes, and engage with cc little
inreres-t in the discussion of new theories, and in the
distribution of tbeir prizes. This Society, u is ttue, j
falls far short of the point of importance to which it j
, might attain, particularly as it possesses no expert men- |
ital garden, still it has proved of great advantage io
French llnrti* uliure, and the frequent warm, and at i
J time®, almost angry debates upon the value of sorr.e
j new flower, the advantage of some particular method
; in raising this, that, or the other vegetable, or upon the
i best method of trimming fruit trees, makes one feel
| that he is ia the midst of au assembly of earnest and
j energetic men. These subjects have a higher import
ance than that which arises from the mere emulation
; between the various gardeners.
i Ihe constantly increasing beauty and cheapness of
flowers in the Parisian markets, ba given birth to ®o
great a passion for them on tbe part of the public, that
the city has been forced to add new flower markets to
| the ancient one upon the island, and these are no lon*
i per sufficient for trade. The annual vaiue of the flow
j ers sold in these markets, is above 8,000,000 francs,
I and the preparation of bouquets has become so much
I of an art that something cf a trade ia them has sprung
j up with London.
| No one. who saw Paris some years since, can cow
visit it without being struck by the great improvement
! and increase in the culture of flowers; but to those
i who arc interested iu gardening ia general, the im
j provemeut in the cultivation of vegetables is still mote
! remarkable. This is also mainly attributable to tbe
I Societies of Gardeners, for any attempt to cultivate a
’ new species of lettuce, or cabbage, leads to
| eadle.s debates aud reports upon their productiveness,
’ their external appearance, tbeir flavor, the time ueccx
■ sarv to ripen them, and the means of increasing their
| size with, ut depreciating them in other respects. A
i hundred such experiments tail, but one which is suc
i cessful rewards the gardener for all his pains, and tbe
! result is that a hectare rather over two acres) of gar
! den land near Paris rents annually fir over 3,000 francs,
aud produces a value to the gardener of come 10,000
franc®, although the land is naturally an unfrightful
mass of limestone, and can only be made and kept
fertile by immeuse quantities of manure and continual
labor.
Tbe case ia similar with the cultivation of fruits.—
These are bardlv finer io any spot on earth’s surface,
j although tbe sot! is naturally fat only for pears; and
I Montreuil alone—a village some Bor 10 miles front the
city—sends over a million of peaches to the market—
peaches equal to those produced anywhere in Europe,
uor.h of the Pyreuee* and Alps. The careful study of
: the best scientific methods and principles in planting,
; graftirg, trimming, and training the trees against wall*
j aud Yspaliere, has aloue rendered this productiveness
j of this kind of fruit possible.
On the opposite side of the city lies the village of
Foiittnay nux Boses, which obtained its name long i
siuce from the fact that all its bounds and limits were I
plauted with rows of rose-bushes, the blossoms of i
which were used in tbe Manufacture of rose-water j
Now, it would be difficult to find a single rose-bush in ’
the village; and the entire surface of the ground is i
covered wit* strawberries, which, during eight months i
of the year, are Iran spot ted by wagon-loads iu small ‘
baskets by night to Paris. Scores of these wagons S
may be sec-a any morning in summer waiting at the j
Bar rie d'Lnfer for the city gates to open. The annual j
value of these strawberries is more than a million of
francs, and the sire, Savor and productiveness of this j
fruit, within ten years, through indefatigable etfort, and ;
the adoption of new modes of culture, have increased i
to an astonishing degree.
A Fool’s Decision.—A poor beggar in Paris, being
very hungry, stayed so long in a cook’s shop who was
dishing up of meat that his stomach was satisfied with
only tee smell thereof. The choleric, covetous cook
demanded of him to pay for his breakfast, The poor
mau denied it, and it was referred to the decision of the
next man that should puss by, who chanced to be a
most notorious idiot. He determined that the poor
man’s money should be put betwixt empty diher,, and
the cook recompensed by its jingling, as be# as satis
fied with only the smell of the cook’s meat— i'uiitr.
Anecsote or SntßiDAN.—The celebrated Sheridan
was one day much annoyed by a feilow-membar of the
House of Commons, who kept crying out every lew
minutes, “Hear! hear!” During the debate he took
occasion to describe a political contemporary lixat wish
ed to play rogue, but bad only sense enough to act fool.
“ Where,” exclaimed he, with great emphasis, “where
shall we find a more foolish knave or a more knavish
fool that be?” “Hear, hear,” was shouted by the
troublesome member. Sheridan turned round, and,
thanking him for the prompt reply, sat down amid a
general roar of laughter.
The New Congress Library.
Agreeably to the appropriation made by Congress,
amounting to about seventy-live thousand dollars, the
Library’ of Congress has been reconstructed, with seve
ral striking additions and improvements, andwill shortly
be opened to the public. The design was made tor the
new Library bv Thomas U. Walter, t®q., and is such
as to increase bis high reputation as an architect.
The contract for tne execution of the plan was award
ed to Messrs. Jones, Beebe & Cos, of New Yotk, and
the work has been prosecuted with the intent to com
plete it as soon as possible. Several delays have oc
curred, but nevertheless no public work ha® been con
structed with greater dispatch and skill, according to
the general estimr’e. The hall will in fact be an im
mense iron room, but in appearance it will resemble
finely-cut marble, or wood beautifully carved and pol
ished, while lightness and compactness will give to tbe
sped aior pleasure and admiration. This beautiful pub
lic work will doubtless be the chief scene of atiraetion
for visitors next winter, as by that time the large num
ber of rare, eostly. and valuable books, purchased in
Euro]>e by order of Congress, will have been placed in
this National Depository.
The Library, when completed, will embrace the en
tire western projection ot the present Capitol. The
main room, which is the part of the design now being
finished, is 91 feet long, 84 feet wide, and 38 feet high.
It occupies the centre of the western projection, and
connects at each end with a room of corresponding
height, 29 feet 6 inches wide, and 70 feet long These
rooms are fitted up with iron cases and iron ceilings,
similar to those of tbs main library. Thev are also roof
ed with cooper laid on iron rafters, and lighted by or
namental skylights. The connection between ‘he cen
tre and the end rooms is made bv openings of 10 feet, in
width by 28 Get 6 inches in height, crowned by ellipti
cal arche-. There are also two addition)! apartments,
each 38 feet 8 inches by 35 feoi, one of which is now
temporarily occupied by the library ; thus forming a
suite of five rooms, embracing an extent of 802 feet.—
These smaller apartments will be appropriated to the
u:-o of Senators and members of the House of Repre
sentatives as private reading rooms.
The entile plan cannot, however, be carried out until
accommodations are pro ided in the new wings for the
officers of Congress, and the committees now occupy
ing the north and south rooms of the western projec
tion.— Washington Lfeus.
Fro* the British Provinces.— lmportant Mote *-y
the Veto Brunswick Colonial Axtociation. —The St. John
N B.) News of the 20th inst., contains a “Declaration
of Principles,” by the “New Brunswick Colonial Asso
ciation,” in which they say:
“That the recent commercial poliev of British legis
lators has been so destructive to Colonial interest ®, that
it ha* become necessary for the colonists themselves to
nke prompt and decided measures for the restoration
! of their trade, and for the preservation of their right -
; and properties; and in the opinion of this committee,
the constitutional and most en'ectnal mode of action will
| b“ the electing of such men to the General Assembly
of the people, as can correctly appreciate the present
I important crisis in our affairs; and who have arrived
at the conclusion, that the time has come for the Gene
: ral Assembly of the Province to address the Sovereign
with an explicit, declaration, that unless relief be ob
tained, separation from tbe Empire, and the Indepen
donee of the North American Colonies, will be desirable
and inevitable.”
The address recommends that the members selected
as representative® to tho General Assembly be pledged
to promote an address making known to the Queen,
iltf.t for the restoration of the prosperity of the colony,
for the removal of the causes of the present growing
feeling* of discontent, and to ensure a satisfactory con
tinuance of their connection with the mother country,
the adoption of the following measures i® required:
Ist. The unlimited control of our internal affair®.
2d. Reciprocity w ith the United State® in trade, and
in privileges of navigation and registry—or, the power
conceded to us of negotiating our own commercial trea
ties with that country.
The address considers other measures as necessarv
to rite prosperity of the colony; ®ueh as vote by ballot,
a.t eiec’ite legislative council, retrenchment: encour
. agcmc-nt by Government of public work.® of general
j utility.
This declaration of principle was drawn up ns long
| ago as June, 1?50, and was on the eve of the last gene-
J ral election for members of the Assembly, brought into
j the canvass, and those who subscribed to its sentiments
I were elected, and those opposed were defeated. The
[ Association now declare that those who were elected
i have not lived up to it, and at a meeting last week final
ilv adopted the declaration as their creed for future ttc-
I ticn
From, ihe Philadelphia A* rth American.
Liberia.
We give below portions of a letter from Mr. Gerard
i Ralston, of London, to his friend, Mr. Elliot Crcsson, of
| This city, enclosing an interesting communication from
t’re-ident Roberts to the former. The whole of this
correspondence w ill be read w ith pleasure bv the friends
jof Aft ican Colonization, and the facts aud views pre-
J -ented by the writers will be fouad highly instructive
j by all classes of readers:
No. 21 Token House Yard, <
London, March, 16, 1853. 1
I send you on the other side a very interesting letter
from President Roberts, by which you will see thatßel-
Igium h.t? now acknowledged the independence of I.ibe
i ria. This makes three royal Governments (Belgium,
Great Britain and Prussia) and two imperial ones, ( Bra
zil and France, i altogether live, which acknowledge Li
iteria; while onr Republio refuses to recognize this sis
ter (or ra'her daughter, because the Liberians are our
own countrymen) Republic, I.ihxna. This is very uo
; fortunate. This must alienate Liberia from the mother
| country, particularly when England is doing the impne
■ iFle to court and please Liberia, and is extending her
; commercial relations and business transactions in every’
possible manner.
The President and the lady Presidentess, being treat
i ed here with the utmost possible respect and constdera
i tinu, were sent home in one of her Majesty’s stsam
i frigates, and landed safely at Monrovia, having enjoyed
the best possible accommodations, and the most kind
1 and courteous treatment, (all free of expense) from the
captain and officers of this ship of war. There are reg
ular i-tcamers that go ouce a month from Plymouth to
Monrovia, and thete are other steamers on tiie Cane of
! Good Hope that call at Monrovia once a month to leave
j me chanatze and passengers; so that you may say there
! >.rc two half-monthly or fortnightly steamers going reg- •
; u’r 1 b.tween tbs country tn 1 Liberia.
T iese frequent and rapief (ot.lv twenty-two or twen-
Ity-tLrer days) conveyances are a wonderful increase of
comn erce and business relation, and if continued a lew’
ye*rs longer, without any competition from the United
! State*, three will be a complete monopoly cf the trade
land influence over the people of Liberia. What our
i Government should do immediately is to recognize the
I independence of Liberia iu the most gracious manner
possible; to establish a Ji,ie of monthly steamers be
i tween Norfolk and Monrovia; und for Virginia to make
; her annual subscription towards transportirg emigrants
Ito Liberia so available as that it would be efficient
| for the purpose it was intended for. These three tnea
; .tore® would immediately restore the lost ground we
! have sustained on the c ast of Africa, and would be of
i incalculable utility in promoting the colonization phui,
I ®n.l increasing our trade with Africa. Pray teil me want
:ia the prospect of the new Administration of Geutfui
’ Pierce being favorable to colonization ?
Government Horse, I
Monrovia, January 2i, 1858. I
j Jfy Penr Sir :—I have the honor to acknowledge the
I receipt of your interesting favor of the first of Drlem
: her last, and am greatly obliged to you for the infolma
■ tion it contains respecting the visit of (’aptain Lylch,
United States Navy, to this coast, for the purposA of
j reconnoisauce, Ac., preparatory to a more minute w
spection and survey of the country at some not ve\
distant period. I agree with you that this movetneitV
!oii the port of the United States Government seems tin
, indicate .-omething good for Liberia. Depend upon it, ‘
i sir, the time has now come when the United Slates, as
a Government, must do something for Liberia, itit be
expected that their citizens will avail themselves of the
! immense trade whioh is rapidly springing up in this
, part of Africa. There cau be no question that the Brit
ish fully understand and appreciate the importance of
ithis grert outlet for British manufactures; and be as
; sured her Majesty’* Government wiil spare no pains to
; increase British interests in this quarter. Indeed, they
jure now laying thafoundation of u trade between I.ibe
i t ia and England, that will, in a tew year®, astonish tbe
| most sanguine.
j Already the new line of African steamers is begin
i ting to teil well; the first two steamer* have brought
, considerable freight for this place and Grand Bassa ; all
| landed here, of course; and l understand pretty large
j orders will be forwarded by the present mail for British
; merchandize; and is it not \ cry clear that when oom
•. mercial intercourse shall have once been established be
lt ween Ifiberiau aud English merchants, it will be e.\-
ice°dingly difficult to divert them into other channels?
’ On my arrival I found that public matters here had not
undergone any material change; some peouniarev pm
j biirrassments existed, and the chiefs of tbe neighbor
j hood of Little and Grand Cape Mount had involved
i thuotelves in a war, and had given the Government
j here some trouble. I hope, however, shortly that all
’ these will be overcome. With respect to Cnpi. Lynch,
: I would remark that I am making arrangements to af_
ford him every facility iu carrying out the objects of his*
Imi sinn. I look for him almost daily. He came from
1 Teneriffe to the Cumbria in the last steamer forerun
rer, where he met the United States ship John Adam,
j bound to this place, via Sierra Leout, and joined Ler to
! make the remainder of the passage,
j I see that General Pierce ha,® been elected by an ovor
-1 whelming majority. Will he carry out the views of the
j present Administration in regard to Liberia ? Emigre
| don is increasing rapidly, and the General Government
must, in some way, come to the aid of tbe nociety—
Three-expeditions, with about 400 immigrants, have*ar
rived here during the present month, and we are daily
expecting two others; one from New Orleans and the
j other from Savannah. The resources of the society are
too limited to meet the application.® now being made for
! passages to Liberia ; and I notice that the amount they
nopea to get from McDonough's estate is lost to them.
But the cause of colonization is gaining favor in all
parts ot the Union, and I doubt not will, in some way
be sustained. I yestsrday received an official commu
nication from his Excelieucy Sylvain Vande Wyer, an
nouncing the recognition of the independence of Libe
ria by the Beigtau Government. Mrs. Roberts begs
you will accept her thanks for the Lind rated London
zVttt* you were good enough to send her, aud sends you
many kind regards. Yours, trulv,
J. J. ROBERTS.
A Paint for Brick Houses.— A correspondent of the
Ohi) Farmer has used a cheap and very durable paint
for the interior of brick dwelling*, which has already
stood several years, and is now quite as fresh as wbeii
first applied. It consist* simply of luue wash, with
sulphate of zinc as a fixing ingredient. Any requisite
shade is given by adding the colors used by house pain
ters. A clear rich cream color may be obtained by ap-
f dying vellow ochre to the common new brick; a live
icr shade will be added by a little Venetian red. Burnt
•ieuna ntav likewise be used. This paint is far cheaper
than oil paint, aud cost* but littl* more than common
whitewash.
MACON, GEORGIA :
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 185S
Arrivtsl of the Baltic.
THREE DAYS LATEF. FROM EUROPE.
New- York, April SO, I‘. M.—The steamship Baltic
has arrived, with Liverpool dates to the 20th havingon
board 92 passengers. Brown A Shipleys’* Circular of
the evening of the 16th, says that the steamer’s news
had a depressing elfect on the Cotton market. Ordin
ary and middling qualities had declined 1-16 to %d.'>
the lower qualities had declined most. Fair Orleans
and Uplands remained unchanged ; a moderate business
dorng at previous rates. Sales of the last three days 17>
(io(i bales, of which speculators took 2,500 and expor
ter® 1500 bales’ The market closed dull at the follow
ing quotations:
Fair Orleans, C)’^d.
Middling do 5.1?-16d.
Fair Uplands, o)^d.
Middling do., 5A(d.
At Manchester trade had fallen off, but prices were
not lower.
Liverpool, Wednesday.—Cotton is freely offered at
the decline. Sales to-day 6,000 bales. All the circulars
quote the decline of neatly an eighth on the middling
qualities.
Consols are quoted at 100 X a 100^.
The Rice market is quiet and prices are ur.chan
ged.
Havre Market. — Havre, April 18 —Fales of Cotton
to day, Bjo bales. The Asia's news had no etiect on
prices. Market quiet.
Political News er tee Baltic. — Among the pas*
sengers by the Baltic are ex-Governor Crawford, of
Georgia, aud Dudley Mann.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s statement propo
ses a general reduction of duties. Opinon is divided on
the subject. It i® believed it will overthrow the Minis
try.
The Kossu-b affair is unexplained. He is apparently
gu ill less.
Hale, the owner of tbe rocket factory, threatens to
prosecute the government. The munitions found have
been seized and deposited at tbe Woolwich assenal.
Mrs. Stowe was enthusiastically received.
Tiie remains of Napoleon the first are to be removed
from the Invt,]ides to St. Dennis, on the Ist of May.
Spanish Ministry tunned.
The English and French Ambassadors have arrived
at Constantinople. Tbe former assured the merchants
of that place of the continuance of peace.
The Spanish Cortes have dissolved.
It is averred that Concha has made some exposure of
the Cuban slave trade.
The Government of Holland has protested against
the establishment cf aeaiholic hierarchy’, and with- !
drawn its Minister from Rome.
Burning of a Steamer-Loss of Life.—New York, j
May I.—The a (earner Ocean IU ice was hurt at 2 o’clock ;
Saturday morning on Lake Ontario. Out of 50 persons !
on board only twentyriwo were saved. The steamer be
longed to tbe Ogdensburg Railroad Company and was
fully’ insured.
Appointments.
* Washington, April 29.—-Hubbard, of Maine, Las been
appointed Consul to Rio, aud Diilaye, of New York;
Charge to Brussels.
Baltimore May I.—On Monday, Governor Seymour,
of Connecticut, will be appointed Minister to Russia,
Col. Gadsden, of South-Carolina, Minister to Mexico,
and General John A, Dix, Minister to France.
Local Items.
City Hall.—The Building Committee of the City
Council, have advertised that they will receive propo
sals ft t constructing this building uutil the 31st in.T.
The plan and specifications for the work may be seen
at the Counting Room of Mr. E. J Johnson, ou Mul
berry .-street.
Passenger Depot. —To-day, the several Railroads
which connect in this city, will start their Passenger
Trains from sixth Street, where, until some further ar
rangement is made, they’ will receive and deliver their
passengers. A temporary building for tbeir accommo
dation, has been erected near the Freight Depot of the
Macon and Western Railroad Company. Bv reference
to the correspondence of a Committee of Council and
the President of the South-Western Railroad, which
will be found iu the proceedings of Council, it will be ;
®een that the permanent site for a general Passenger
Depot, is no: yet determined upon.
Sunday School CssJcbration. —Ou Saturday, ttr® ‘
annual celebration of tfte Sunday Schools of the city
took place. The different Schools from this place, East
Macon and Vineville, assembled at the Male Academy. ‘
aud together they marched through the principal street,
of the city to the Episcopal Church. There were be
tween four and five hundred children in procession, and
they made a very interesting and imposing display, with
the many’ banners and distinctive colors of the different i
schools to which they belouged. At the Church an ap” :
propriate Address was delivered by tbe Rev. Mr. Suite
of the Episcopal Church; speeches were declaimed by j
a representative from each of the schools in procession?
and they then adjourned, each school to its own room j
where refreshment s were prepared for them. Altoget h.
er, it was a gala day for the small folk, though the sight
of such a mass of responsibilities congregated together,
was enough to make children of a larger growth trem
ble with apprehension.
Fire.—On last Saturday afternoon, the Dwelliug
House of Janie.. M. Green, upon the hill, was entirely
destroyed by fire. By great exertions the furniture
and the out-houses upon the lot were saved. Waun- j
dersiond that the building was insured for §2,soo—suf- ]
fieient to cover its loss. But the loss iu a thousand I
small articles of family use, which are destroyed or lost (
or injured, in a hasty removal, will be considerable.
Fi.oyp Rifles. —This corps, Captain Ross, paraded ,
on Monday last, with ranks unusually full, in celebra- >
ticn of it* twelfth anniversary. After exhibiting their
thorough di'cipline through our streets, they marched f
to Camp Oglethorpe, where a prize shooting took place- \
the prize, which was a beautiful gold Medal, was won
by private C. Johnson. We are glad to remark tho
full rauks, both of the Volunteers and of the Rifles* ,
•f.on their last parades, a® evidence of the increased .
of the members of both companies in their
\mcc-s aud efficiency.
a communication from Mr. Everett, whilst j
Secretary of State, to Mr. Ingersoll, our minister to
England, written in December la®i, a copy of which
was transmitted to the Senate ou the 28th of February,
on tbe subject of the fisheries and reciprocal trade with
iho Canada®, has recently been made public. We shall
publish it, that all those who are interested in these
questions, the settlement of which will form an imper
tantpartof the mission of Mr. Buchanan, our newly
appointed minister to England, may understand their
prerent ptsition. Mr. Everett besides begins to be
lecogntsed a® the leader of ihe Whig party ol New
England, and is entitled to the highest rewards which
the Whig pany of the Union may have it in their
power to bestow; and anything connected with hi®
brilliant administration of the Department of State is
a matter of interest. If there wn® nothing else in this
communication, the defence of Mr. Webster against
the attack of Lord Maimsbury, in the English Rarlia
ment, which it contains, would commend it to all who
cherish the memory of our greatest Foreign Secretary
Mr*. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who visits
England to fraternize with the enemies of Ler country,
and with the slanderer* of her Southern brethren, to
attend the May meetings of Exeter Hall, and to make
money out of the philanthropic spasm in favor of the
negto which has recently seized upon the British people,
arrived at Liverpool on the 10th ult., aud proceeded tho
next day to Gla-cow. There is more pauperism and
want, and consequently mot e misery in that single city,
than in any two slave States in this Uuion. May she
be instructed by this fact.
The New York Herald notice® the arrival in that city
on the 25th iust. of Ueneral Twiggs, General Jessup,
and Surgeon-General Lau ®on, m route for V> ashington,
on their return from an exploring expedition in search
of a site for a Military Hospital. General Scott, it will
be remembered, traversed several of the Western States
during the last fall, upon the same errand, but was not
successful in finding what he sought. The last party,
however, who have gone out upon this mission, it U
understood, will report in favor of the location of the
proposed Hospital at Harrodsburg Springs, in Ken
tucky, near the ceu're of the State, and about twenty
eight miles from the city of Lexington.
Santa Anna arrived at the city of Mexico on the
17th ult. Iu the evening the city was illuminated, and
the inhabitabts testified in many ways, their joy at bin
return.
23P Martin Van Buren wa to hav* sailed from New
York, Saturday last, in the steanjer for Liverpool.
The Senator and the President.
At ihe time of the advent of the Harrison adminis
tration into power, Franklin Fierce represented the
State of New Hampshire iu the Senate of the United
States. The Mexican war was not then dreamed ot
the Democratic Brigadier-Generals which it produced,
were then undistinguished from the mass ol their fel
lojv-men, and innocent of an aspiration for the repuia
tafion of heroes, and the social, affable Senator from
New Hampshire, hardly contemplated the possibility
of hi- being called upon to assume ihe honor , tlie bur
thens aud the responsibilities of ihe President of the
United Stales. The administration, following the ex
ample of the two Democratic administrations which
preceded it, made some removals from office among the
Democrats, who, for twelve years, bad monopolized the
patronage of the Government, and immediately a howl
of rage and a cry of shame against the Whig adminis
tration which had acted upon well recognised Demo
cratic precedent, went up from the Democracy, and the
whole laud was filled with their lamentations and re
proaches. The subject was discussed in the Senate, and
Mr. Pierce took occasion to express his unqualified dis
approbation of the policy first begun by Jackson, of pro
scribing office-holders for the political opinions they
entertained, aud laid down in the following extracts, a
rule of action in removals from office which every one
will heartily subscribe to, except those who recognise
political parties merely as means of securing the public
plunder to their respective followers.
“ There is but one sensible, practical rule upon this
subject. If the discretion of the office-holders will not
observe it, let them fee! the effects of it. It is this:
When a public officer • the duties of his o dice for
political pur posts, prostitutes it for political ends, or in
any way abuses the trust confided to him, to promote
the object of a party, le should le removed; and so far
as I know, my party yield to that principle their cordial
But when vou transcend this, you assail the
public: officer in the free and unembarrassed exercise of
inalienable rights, secured to him by the Constitution,
as a roan and a citizen.”
“We stood (when Gen Jackson was President) be
fore the nation and the world on the naked, unqualified
ground that we preferred our friends to our opponents!
That to confer place was our privilege, which we chose
to exercise. I ought not to say see chose sir, for I will
sav what those friends best acquainted with me know,
ih'at there was nothing in the administration of General
Jackson which Iso xtnfforwly failed to j ‘\f>/ as the
removal of one worty officer to give place to another.”
General Pierce then took occasion to condemn the
policy of the administration of General Jackson in re
mora.s from office, and we are obliged to believe that it
was a strong conviction of its folly and injustice, which
caused lma openly and boldly to place himself in oppo
sition upon this subject, to that model administration of
the Democracy.
But General Pierce is President of ihe United States,
and imitates General Jackson only in that feature of his
policy, which he as a Senator, so strongly condemned.
Tims far his administration has been signalized by noth,
ing except its industry in removals, as it has been appa
rently engaged about nothing else. The .Senate was
retained in Washington City, and remained in extra
session for a longer period than ever before in the his
tory cf the Government, when no urgent crisis in our
domestic or foreign affairs demanded energetic action,
and when no action was proposed to it bv the Presi
dent, and no business was laid before it but the con.
firmat ion of Democrats in offices, from w hich Whigs
had been removed. Removals of Whig office-holders ■
This was the business—the all-engrossing, all-absorbing
business of the President of the United .- .ties, the
heads of the Departments, a quorum of Democratic
Senators and the crowd of Democratic politicians, who
have taken possession of Washington City since the
Inauguration. It has been done thoroughly and sys
tematically. Cabinet councils, caucuses of State dele-
gations and extra sessions 0/ the Senate, have added a
I certain dignity to the dirty work. The guillotine has
1 been inaugurated, and the policy systematically pursu*
red, of cementing the Democracy with the blood which
has flowed from it. Tho unterrified, t the Free Soil aud
Secession wings) have had a good time of it. The sole
isolated principle of Democracy upon which they agree,
“to tho victors belong the spoils,” has been as-erted
with great unanimity aud empbasis by them in Wash.
■ mgton City for the last two months. The only draw
; back they have had, has been the dignified silence and
j composure of the decapitated Whigs. They will'not
! struggle or howl, but die calmly and decently. Demo
jcralic blood is not stirred by any resistance. They are
I obliged to do their work in cold blood, and they begin
jto feel that it is both dull aud disreputable. We must
j not be understood as objecting to the proscription of
I Whig officials. But why is it, that as a part of the his
tory of the times, we must record ihe fact of their gene
ral proscription, when the President has declared hint
self opposed to the policy? Why is it? Is Franklin
Pierce with Franklin Pierce's views and opinions, lost
in President Pierce ? We fear it is so, and we have con
, irasted his individual opinions with his actions as Pres
| ident, to show how little are the opinions of a man worth,
who, nominated and elected President, not for anv emi.
nent qualities or public services, but to subserve the
1 ends of party, is obliged to obey, instead of his convic
tions or inclinations, the behesis of party
L3T” The following proclamation of Governor I.nne,
of New Mexico, formally annexing a portion of the ter
ritory of the Mexican State Chihuahua, to this Union,
is the best and most recent development of the prin
ciples and policy of the “manifest destiny” party of
j this country. There is in it, and in the action of tha
Governor under it, a cool impudence and a forgetful
juess of right, of propriety, of the laws of nations, and
of the faith of treaties, which ought to recommend him
1 to George Saunder3 as the fastest man of the times, and
make hmi at once the representa.ive man of Yeung j
. America. Meoilltt, tho town nn.t is cmmfcU j
west cf the Rio Grande, above El Paso, and embraces
j territory about equal in extent to that of the State of
Connecticut. It was supposed to be embraced within
| the limits of the Union, and was consequently settled
i principally by Americans, who will doubtless sustain
iits forcible annexation to this country. Since the
: Boundary Commission, appointed under the treaty of
iGuadalmipe Hidalgo, has determined that it belongs to
Meftqo, the Mexican authorities, fortified by the de
| cision V the Boundary Commission, have taken pos
; session ot it, and have been enjoying it peaceably until
the Governor of New Mexico issued his ukase, annexing
it to this fikiion, and calling upon the military officer
of the Unitkd States to take possession of it. That
officer verjl properly refused—the Governor of the
Mexican Stlie of Chihuahua protested agaiust the
seizure; representations of its injustice have been made
to Judge Colkling by the Mexican authorities, and he
has forward®! to Washington a detailed account of the
position of affairs between Chihuahua and New Mexico.
Governor I.anc 13 au appointee of Mr. Fillmore, but
has departed from the policy and the teachings of the
Conservative Chief of the last Administration to court
the favor of the powers that be, by a little amateur
filibustering, We trust that he has mistaken the
policy of the present Administration, and that his at
tempt as the Governor of a territory of this Union, to
change a boundary settled by a Commission appointed
under a solemn treaty, against the decision of which
neither the United States or Mexico has appealed, will
be followed by his prompt dismissal from the office he
I abuses. lie has certainly mistaken the temper of tte
public mind. We do not. want more Mexican territory
as yet. Our digestiou of territory is not equal to our
appetite. We have swallowed several large slices quite
recently, and we are as dull and sluggish as an aunacou
da, who has dined upon a small flock of goats.
Gov. Lane will probably find that Cuba is a more
inviting morsel than the valley of Mecilla, and that his
original coup d'dat has only procured him an unenvi
able notoriety.
Proclamation*
Whereas a jwrtion of territory on the west side of
the Rio Grande del Norte, thirty-four miles wide by
one hundred and seventy-eight long, be the same more
or less, is now claimed by the United States ot America
and b\ the Mexican Republic, respectively, under the
provisions of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
■>. From the tear 18*24, and anterior thereto, until the
year 1851, this portion ol territory was acknowledged
to be whhin the limits of New Mexico; but in the
year I>sl the State of Chihuahua assumed jurisdiction
over the same, without producing any authority for
this act from the Republic of Mexico, and without
having obtained the consent of the United States or
the Territory of New Mexico; and in defiance of the
remonstrances of a large portion of the inhabitants of
ihe disputed territory, who then numbered two thous
and souls.
8. During the discussion of the boundary question,
under the treaty of peace, the Commissioner of Mexico
proposed to abandon a part of this disputed territory,
bv dividing it between the two Republics. And
daring the year 1852 the United States virtually assert
ed a right of sovereignty over all the territory in dis
pute.
4. The claim of Chihuahua to this disputed territory
is believed to be based upon the unwarrantable as
sumption that the Board of Commissioners had agreed
upon u boundary line between Chihuahua end New
Mexico, and that their agreement in the premises was
binding both upon the United States and the Mexican
Republic, and therefore final; whereas a valid agree
ment had not been made, and has not yet been made,
by add board; and, moreover, the action of the board
has been virtually repudiated and nullified by the U.
States.
5. i, acb of the high contracting parties to the treaty
of Guadalupe, e-r re neMelta'- 0. tacitly reserved the
right to accept or reject the decisions of the Board of
Boundary Commissioners; and if the Board had as
signed tlie city of Chihuahua and the country north of
it to the United Stater, or rite city ot Santa Fe and the
country south of it to the Mexican Republic, the action
of the Board would certainly riot have been regarded
as final
6. Ever since the territory in que-fion was thus forci
hly and illegally annexed to the State of Chihuahua,
ihat State has signally failed to protect the inhabitants
of the territory m tle-ir rights of person, of property,
and of conscience, and moreover has not made a rea
sonable defence against border Indian depredations,
and thereby prevented reclamationssgaiu-t the United
States for the property taken by the Indians.
7. The present revolutionary condition of the Mexi
can Republic precludes the hope of adequate protec
tion being afforded by that Republic to the inhabitants
in this disputed territory for the time being; and a
large portion of the inhabitants now claim the protec
tion of ihe United States, and solicit the re-annexation
of their territory to New Mexico, from which It was
illegally wrested by ihe State of Chihuahua :
Now, therefore, as the United Siatei have been
wrongfully deprived of the portion of territory in ques
tion, even should the Mexican Republic have a rightful
claim to it, which is denied; and so by the law of
nations the United States is justly entitled to exercise
jurisdiction over the same, and protect the inhabitants
thereof in ail their rights until the claim of the Mexi
can Republic shall be formally recognised by the U.
States; and as the probable time of settlement of the
boundary tjuestion is indefinitely postponed, and the
interests of die United States and the rights of the in
habitants of the territory’ are inadequately protected, I,
William Carr Lane, Governor of the Territory of New
Mexico, (upon my own official responsibility, and with
out orders from the Cabinet at Washington,) do hereby,
in behalf cf the United States, retake possession of the
disputed territory, to be held provisionally by the U.
States, until the question of boundary shall be deter
mined between the United States and the Mexican Re
public. And Ido hereby require ail civil and military
officers of the United States, and of the Territory of
New Mexico, whom it may concern, to execute the laws
of the United States, and of the Territory of New
Mexico, ia and over the Territory aforesaid, which is
provisionally attached to, and made a part of the county
of Donna Ynna, in the Territory of New Mexico.
Ar.d to the end that ihevfcmay be no misunderstand
ing on the part of the citizens of New Mexico as to the
boundary line between the Territory of New Mexico
and the State of Chihuahua, the true and well-known
boundary between this State and Territory, as estab
lished by a decree of the Mexican Congres-’of July 27,
iazd, and as delineated upon Disturneli’s treaty map,
is hereby provisionally established; which boundary
line has sis initial point in the main channel of the Rio
Grande, above the dam of the Acequia Madre, (across
the Rio Grande,) and below Frontera, eight miles, more
or less, north of the town El Paso. The said line to
run from the Rio Gila, according to the provisions of
the treaty aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name,
and cause the Executive seal of the Territory of New
Mexico to bo affixed, at the town of Dona Anna, the
13th day of March, A. D. 1553, and in the seventy-.sev
enth year of the independence of the United States.
By the Governor: WM. CARR LANE.
John Geiner, Secretary.
By Miguel A. Otcrs, Private Secretary.
Nomination’ in Tem.ve3tek. —The Whig State Con
vention, assembled at Nashville, has nominated unani
mously, ihe Hon. Gustavus A. Henry as their candidate
for Governor.
From ihe resolutions adopted by the Convention we
clip the following:
Jirsoi-cd, That the Whig party of Tennessee most
heartily approve of the domestic and forfotm policy of
the national administration of Millard Fillmore, and
point to them with pride, as the practical exponents of
the principles and policy of th> conservative Whig party
of ine Union—and that the people of the South owe to
Millard Fillmore a debt of gratitude, for his patriotic
support of the Constitution, and the maintenance of
the laws cf the Union, which, they tear, they may
uever be able to repay.
I'-if Mr. Slidell has been elected by the Legislature
of Louisiana to tl, United States Senate, to fill the
vacancy occasion*-'! bv the resignation of Mr. Soule.
This would se.-m to confirm the charge of a contract
between Soule u ! Slidell, by which it was agreed that
if Soule wen; u, Slidell should replace him in
the Senate, and, 1 u-oquence of which, the latter
gentleman rt-fu - le mission which was tendered him
to Central Am* Mr. Soule disclaims any such un
derstanding. it v:i- that may be, the change in the
representation of Louisiana in the Senate has been a
vast improvemc i .
- r- Thornes Kerne, claimed by the British Govern
ment as a fugitive from justice, who has been for many
months in the custod r of the British Consul at New
York, was, on the 26th ult., discharged by Judge Xel.
son upon the ground that the claim of the British Gov
ernment was not made in accordance with the law of
nations; aud thus this long litigated case, which has
attracted so much attention, is at length concluded.
Judgeship Oeittulgee Circuit.
Upon this subject, we find the following communica
tion in the last Family Visitor, published at Madison.—
We do not know who will be candidates for the Judge
ship among the Union men and Whigs of the District,
but we do know the gentleman who is so favorably spo
ken ot in connection with that office, by the correspon
dent of the Visitor, and we do know if elected, he would
prove a worthy successor of the able Judges who have
illustrated ihe annals of the old Ocmulgee Circuit.
Penfield, Ga., April 23, 1353.
j Mr. Visitor :—Some weeks since, you published our
! communication relative to the approaching Judicial
Election for the Ccmulgee Circuit. We then expressed
our opinion, and we now repeat it, that of the many ex
cellent lawyers competent to fill the office, Cel. Augustus
Reese, cf Madison, is the people’s choice, ns well as that
of the tor, for the next Judge-hip of this district. In
every county, interested in this election, he is well
known as a sound lawyer—vea, a leer ed one with
whose professional attainments, are combined that pm
deoce, patience, caution and equanimity, without which,
no n;an should sit upon the hen My first letter
was intended to call forth a reply from him to the ques
tion—“lf elect-d, so ill yen accept the office ?’ No answer
has he given, and we therefore hope that you will ap
proach him upon the subject, and iu your next issue,
give us hi3 reply.
I ours, respecuuuy,
GREENE.
To which the Visitor replies:
As requested by our correspondent, we have called up
on Reere, and distinctly propunded the question contain
ed in the above letter. He will neither seek or decLn
the Judgeship. He considers the office, under any cue
cumstances, honorable to the incumbent, and doubly so
when conferred by the people. If elected, he will a:-
a. vt, and to the best of his ability, faithfully discharge
his judicial duties. His friends may, therefore, adopt
such measures, as they may think proper, to invest
their favorite with the ermine.
Congressional Nomination. —The Whigs of the
Nashville (Tenn.,) District, have nominated Gen. F. K.
Zollicoffer, Editor of the Nashville Banner as their can
didate for Cougress.
Gen. Z. having accepted the nomination, has retired
from the Editorial Chair of the Banner, and is succeed
ed by A. A. Hall, Esq., so lonjf and favorably connected
with the press of Tennessee.
A New Slave State. —lon of the Baltimore Sun,
savs: The territoiy of Washington, so fertile and salu
brious, and so inviting to agricultural enterprise, is
opened, by the liberality of Congress, for the reception
01 Southern immigrants with their slaves. A-gonsidc
rable number of citizens of Missouri and Kentucky, and
probably Virginia, will avail themselves of the boon
and of the opportunity thus unexpectedly afforded for
the introduction of another great slave State into the
Union.
Mr. Chase, Mr Hale, and Mr. Sumner were so whol
lv engrossed by their admiration of the works and
triumphs of Mrs. Stowe, that they suffered the bill es
tablishing the magnificent territory of Washington to
be passed without the usual recognition of the ordinance
of 171)8 —or the Wilinot proviso.
Georgia B vptist Convention. —This very large and
influential body of Christians have just held their an
nual Convention in this city. About two hundred Min
isters were in attendance, and the proceedings of the
Convention were entirely harmonious and full of inter
est. Very instructive and able discourses have been
delivered in our various churches, large numbers of our
citizens attending the deliberations of the Convention.
During the session a strong resoludou was adopted
against intemperance.
On Saturday an adjournment took place, in order to
afford Rev. It! K. Guriev, of Washington City, an op
portunity, to make an address in behalf of African Col
onization.
A considerable iutorest appeared to be excited on the
subject of Liberia and Colonization.
The meeting in behalf of the publications of the Con
vention was largely attended, and several impressive
speeches made ou the occasion.
The mission to Central Africa (from an exploration
ol which country the Rev. J T. Bowen has recently
retir ned, i attracted earnest attention and awakened a
profound interest. Mr. Bowen, we learn, is a native of
this county, and having visited Yaribba, a region some
two hundred miles in the interior of Africa, north of
Lagos ar.d a little west of the Ni^;r—a region high, sa
lubrious, fruitful and beautiful, where there is a large
population, with some knowledge of agriculture and the
arts, believing in one God and with many good moral
rules of conduct, quite hospitable, inhabiting large cit
ies of from ten to fifty thousand souls, leady and anxious
to welcome to their homes christain teachers—he is
soon to return to that country with several Missionary
breturen, who, with him, are dedicating their lives to
the cause of religion in Africa. We understand that
Mr. Bowen's statements awukened a good deal of inte
rest in regard to Africa. He fullv confirms the facts
set forth in Mr. Gurley’s report on Liberia. —Atlanta In-
Ulligtncer.
Delegate from the Waluexsia.n Stnod.—Tbs c N.
Y. Journal <f Commerce states that the W’aldensian
Synod have re-olved to send their Moderator, Rev. J.
P*. Revei, to visit the American Churches during Anni
versary Week in New York. He is expected to speak
in company of Gavazzi, at the meeting of the American
and Foreign Christain Union, on the ICth May. The
\f and rntor was in embark from Liverpool to Ntw York
ob the 18th AprfL
— -~-r,:rrr7"-*wwa
(lavazzi on the “ Isms.’*
•’ Edratttfro.n Ga-acd's last Sunday Eieni.,,, r.„
in Italian, ot the Broadway *’
Do not take me for a temperance orator- that
be a mistake. ,Laifgh.) 1 mean or.lv T’] and
notmtend n, preach against temperance in Amerfo*
Total abstinence has (he approbation ot a largeameum
of people and some legislature,; and Paul foils
to take wine ts my brother should be scandalized TfoJ
now I speak to the Italians, and 1 do not disro-wora r
wmes an a liquors J must preach the whole Goscri
and not as some do, only those portions which i ?,! ’
them. Christ says that it i* not what enters into The
mouth that defiles a man, but that which cometh out
ol the mouth. Atso, the first miracle he performed
was turning water into wine, ar.d not wim into ,v-T“
- laughter, and it was really good wine. Paul m
reeled wine to be taken as a means to kee-i out rs
doctor'.; hands. How, then, could I preach the g'JI!
and prohibit wine!
We arc on the eve ot a great convulsion; the Pro's*,
tants are asleep; they do not see that Temcerance ; s *
Jesuitical movement. J. do not make mi , assertion
because its founder was a Camuchin Monk, but Tn a
count of its ceremonies. The nature cf A* %€’&■?.
Jisaiftat— binding by oa.fi its votaries to total n bs* J n
er.ee, to propagandize and prosvletise. Jesus
instituted it. Gregorv VII. obliged Pries -, to
vows ot celibacy and poverty, and to observe f,.-,.
vigils Ac. If Arcfabi- he;, Hughes fie taunted vffib fffi
absurdities, he can point to the Temperance *nc ; e-V ‘,<•
the Protestants, who car, make no reply. This insTi,
turn will bring England and America'to embrace'foe
other Papa! fasts of abstinence.
But some zealous Protestants may sav, then you p-a.
tect the drunkard, toe masses being disposed to afiuT
tiie Cite of nine. I reply that I do not protect the
drunkard. I have heard Paul quoted where he sav*
that adulterers, thieves, avaricious, drunkards, forn 4
tors, Ac., cannot enter into Heaven. Then ’to avoid
adultery, which is the infraction of the marriage vow
-bail we prohibit matrimony; to prevent Tie -Tj
shall we not allow anything to exist for thieves’ ‘4
steal; to prevent avarice shall we prohibit t-roner-v
and commerce; to prevent fornication shall we prevent
men and women from living? Yet the temreranca
peopfo would destroy wire to prevent drunkenness.
All the texts of Paid are not so rigidly adhered to
for the Apostle wrote more strong remarks respecting
women which are no! paid great attention to. I would
not speak against the women, but they certainly are
to be seen here m the .present day in ‘situations very
difterent from the position marked out bv the Apostle
w e have even Curates—a Reverend Antoinette Well ’
they wiii take good care of their flock. (Laughter.)
ihe best way is to moralize the people to orocur*
temperance ard moderation. This may seem a Ion?
rr.ed to travel, but it is a sure way. How many drunk
ards do you suppose have joined the Temperance Bo
eieties—perhaps a million vou may sav—or 100 0 0?
Nu ? Not a hundred. Barely a dvzen drunkards. * The
rest are all those who do not like wine, and they make
no great sacrifice in drinking water. 1 ascertained that
in England, i I do not speak of America, because 1 ant
best acquainted with England,) the number of drinking
shops is increased since the commencement of ;fie Tem
perance movement
I cannot, in Italy, preach a fiction of the j
find that wine docs good to man, Christ made a miracle
in its favor. I cannot preach against it. lam an inde
pendent man, and am not paid by anv Protestant to
preach any practice which I disapprove. If I r 0
working for dollars I would have staid in England and
should not have come to America. J
Inhalation in Consumption.— The followin’- card
appears in the National Intelligencer, addressed to the
editors of that pajier.
Influenced by a sense of the dutv I owe to mankind
I would respectfully request the insertion in vourvalaa
bie paper of the following statement ot m\ sister’s
ilmessand her recovery irom consumption. During
iu<? iji! ol ISSI, she was violently* ailectcd with cold
followed bt a disagreeable cough, which continued
.some months, being increased by each additional cold.
In Januarv, leu2, a severe paiu commenced ia the led
-ide and region of the heart, accompanied wiih a violent
cough, night and day. Such was the severity of the
cough and the distress arising from a suffocating sensT
fion oo lying down, that she was competed to sleep
bolstered up in bed. There was great difficult v in
breathing, thick yellow matter was coughed up from
the lungs, occasionally mixed with blood, mid towards
latter part ot February nearly half a pint a dav.—
Iter strength was wasted; there was great oppression
ot the chest, with a rattling sound iu breathing. Her
i.ice was flushed with hf*ciic fover, and the c', os burned
“Lh a peculiar brilliancy. I nder such circumstances,
we could not doubt that her lungs were very much af
fected, and we hid no hope of her recovery. Such
was her state at the close of February, with the symp
toms increasing in violence, w hen she commenced in
haling “ medicated v apors ” under the direction of Dr.
Hunter and Dr. Wellesley, his assistant. We had not
long to wart for evidences of improvement. The cough
soon became less severe, the matter was raised from the
lungs in large quantities w ithout much effort, the op
pression in breathing went ofl, hectic fever disappeared,
her rest became comfortable, and her appetite aud
strength returned. Iu a month she was out of danger,
and m two perfectly restored to health. A year has
since elapsed, and she continues free from ail traces ox
disease.
This happy result, we feel, was due entirely to the
use of the inhalation; and under this conviction feel it
to be our duty to proclaim it to the world, and this I
deem will be a sufficient excuse for asking for this lat
ter a place in your w idely circulated paper.
Your obedient servant,
Frederick Andrews,
Dunbartou-st., Georgetown,
Georgetown, D. C., April 25, 1853.
A Second William Tell.— About a month ago, aa
we learn from the Counter des Etats Unis, a case was
brought before the correctional police of Spiros, a city of
Badeu, which is certainly without a parallel in the an
nals of justice. A weaver of Spires, who had been
much ex offi'd as a marksman, untenook, bv a despe
rate experiment to establish h;s reputation bevond ms
piUe. To this end, he loaded his pistol and repaired to
his garden, accompanied by his son, a lad about 12
years old. He ordered the child to stand at tii’reeu pa
ces from him, with a potato upon his head. The boy
obeyed, without making any resistance; and the sassier,
preserving the utmost coolness, fired his pistoi and
dislodged the potato, the ball piercing it through the
very centre. The weaver’s neighbors, to whom the
tact was related, refused to biieve it, and would offiiy
be convinced by a repetition of the fool-hardy exploit,
it was oqw uight; but the intrepid marksman insisted
upon an itnnuffis-e repetition Instead of the potato,
he placed upon his boy’s head a lighted lantern, at
vr - l ' ca discharged his pistol wiih the same success
a.-, be tore. The fume ot axis extraordinary ex doit cox
ing to the ears of the police, they deemed it their du:v
to at rest this second William Fell, and cut a check to
tins wt.d amb. ion by the agency of the law. The Jus
tice, the case was brought, not
among the weaver’s neighbors, and having usee; tained
by a careful investigation of the circumstances, that the
second time, the pi-tol ball had slightly grazed the
boy’s cap, condemned the marksman to eight dsv’s im
prisonment.
CoprEß and Diamonds in North Carolina.—We
are info.imed by Prof. U. C. Shepard, who has just re
turned from a fortnight’s exploration in the counties of
Mecklenburg, Union, Cabarrus and Rowaa, lha; the
prospdct of an abundant supply of copper ore is afford
ed by the indications presented in the mines of thoza
counties. The great metalliferous region known as Goid
Hill in Rowan, aud which next to the famous Dome’s
mine in this State, is Ihe most productive deposit of the
precious metal in the United States—is perhaps the
most promising repository for copper thus tar brought
to ligtit. Other places may hereafter prove equally nch
but the gold veins at Gold Hill, being already wotkei
to a depth ot nearly 350 feet, afford the most favorable
opportunity in the country forjudging of the character
ot that s;)t tor copper—a metal which rarely shows it
self in much richness at the top of the ground. Already
from the depths referred to, tons of merchantable copper
ore ate daily raised ; and the indications are such as to
lead the Professor to predict, that Gold Hill will very
speedily acquire a character for copper as distinguished
as that which it has long since established for gold.
The Professor while in Charlotte, was presented w-ith
a diamond, bv Dr. Leventborpe, a late graduate of our
Medical College. Thai gentleman had iutely discover
ed it on his estate at Pioneer Mills; and this is the sec
ond specimen of this precious gem fouud within the
year in the county. Hitherto, no special search has
been made for the diamond, these specimens having
been discovered in a manner purely accidental.
The Bourse. —Every transatlantic steamer, when
Paris matters are touched, has something to sav of tbe
Bourse. What is the Bourse ? It is plainly what cor-
responds to our Exchange—the gathering point of the
money men of the city ; and the street (rue) on which
it is situated is something like State sireel
The Bourse is one ot the beautiful structures in the
great metropolis. It is 212 hv feet, and is surroun
ded by a lunge of sixiv-six Corinthian columns. Al
though commenced iu March, 1808, it was not comple
ted until Tsc'', on account ot the vicissitudes of interve
ning time. Over the entrance is inscribed, “ Bourn tt
Trwunal de Commerce?’ The roof is composed entirely
of iron and copper, and during business hours at this
seat of Mammon for the French Empire tjie national
flag floats over the edifice. Portions of the interior
are beautifully dccoraieil bv figuies emblematic of com
merce, abundance, Ac., with paintings of several ol the
eiiies ot France. Ladies were formerly admitted to the
Bourse, but as it was found to encourage a passion in
the gentler sex lor gambling in stocks, they are not
now allowed to enter during hours of business. Totai
cost of the Bourse 8,11 j,OOO francs. There are stirring
times within its walls and upon its pavemeurs during
the hours allotted for public operations. —Baton Bn.
The Girard Will Case. — ln the United States
Circuit Court, at Philadelphia, on the 20th u!t.,
Grier refused a motion for anew trial in the case ol tus
heirs of the Girard estate vs. ihe city of Philadelph' 3 ;
in which case ihe jury had given a verdict for the plain
tiffs. This decision'gives to the heirs eleven tracts of
coal land in Schuylkill county, valued at one million
dollars. The question involved was whether, under the
laws of Pennsylvania, a will devising all the real v sTa ’®
of the testator*conveys to the devisee lands purchased
by the testator after the will is execute- The Court
has decided that it does not.
Mrs. Mary L Randolph Custis, wife of George
Washington Parke Custis, who died at the family resi
dence at Arlington, on the Potomac river, in sight ol
the National Capital, oa the 23d, wa3 descended irom
the widely Randolph family. She died at the advant
age of 70 years, leaving an only child, Mrs. Lee, d® 0
Col. Robert Edw-ard Lee, of the Army, and sou ol ben.
Henry Lee, of Revolutionary memory. The husuau
of the deceased is the grandson of Jtrs.
and was thus intimately acquainted with the y ,
of hb Country,” and was one of the family eti cic
Mount Yeruoa when Washington died, in Decent ci
17M.