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EDITOR'S DEPARTMENT. I WmTcTRICHARDS, EDITOR. SUfjcns, ©cotata: —__t> ■ Saturday Morning, Way 26, is 19. CENTRALI A. [ This name has been given to the vast ba ■sin watered by the Colorado, and lying be itween the Salt Lake, on the North, and the ■Gila River, on the South. This country ■ias never been fully explored, either by the Spaniards or the Americans. It embra ces a territory nearly ns large a5 the origin - ‘Jil thirteen States. It has been represented 9ks consisting of vast sandy deserts, but the iioagre accounts we have of it arc too con tradictory to be relied on. That it is en tirely barren and unproductive, is not at all probable. jg This region is alluded to by Major Emo ry and other explorers, but only in a casual Mi l unsatisfactory manner. Without giv ing any credit to the thousand undone mar velous stories, told by hunters and trappers, of the mineral riches of this country, we still have strong reasons to believe that this 1 is. after all, the El Dorado of the Spanish ■onquerors of Mexico. The author of “ The Grid Mines of the Gila” bus given us a chain of evidence bearing upon this point, ■thick seems nearly conclusive. Among other testimony cited, is that of a lady, who Bcsided, for a long time, both in Texas and ! In Mexico, and who made good use of the I Opportunities she enjoyed of investigating Bliis curious subject. She says : ■ “Leaving super titions and traditions out oftlio Bccount, these facts remain di tinet and uud lii- Bblo : I “There is im extensive country in the lap of this continent, and now pertaining to our story, which his hitherto b ifil <1 every attempt at ex ploration. I “Toe Gila at the south, the Fait Lake on the north, a id the Sierra Nevad i at the west are it- Bul .vorks ; an 1 nil the rep irts from either of these Broximntc boundaries, ns well as tho ; e of the Kibes o i th” ea-t towards the Rio Bravo del ■orte, concur as to the existence of a fine coun try, with large edifices, an agricultural popula tion, ranch gold, and a system of rigorous cxclu ijon of strangers, together with a sufficient oa- Ineity of self-pr itcction to m lintain them. The Havaho and Apache Indians, who romi between T’ vas and the eastern margin of this’ mysterious i;d anconqttered region,’ say that on a tributaiy es the Gila—whither they have o'len uialeforays, ■;o:igh generally with discouraging results—the |i cks are seamed with veins of pure gold, and that fh’ sands on another tributary, the Prieto, are yellow with its shining grains; and tli s story 1.-i- beoa so far corroborated within ttie last two ye irs that I'nited States officers, whose military dut'es carried them nearly to the range of the ly 1 !Cs are planning and direc ting expeditions to •kok the golden treasure. * * Official notices of the value of these mines, ! and of the ira; orslbility of working th m on zc- OO’ nt of the ferocious opposition of the Indians, ar to be found in the archives of Mexico and Cn latceas. In the missionary records of the ; JT incise li order of monks in the formercity, the i absolute failure es the numerous efforts to pro e- in tills direction, 4 or even to be admitted to Wn'er the country,’ was attributed to the fear of ■he natives of being en laved anil set to labor in ■li” gold mires, as had happened to ill natives Os ihe other provinces of the kingdom of Monte- , ■win.” ■ So certain were the'earlier Spanish set- | Hers of Mexico, of the existence of gold inines on the Gila, that numerous parties •cere dispatched to search for them; hut nlie persevering hostility of the Indians ren- • ered every attempt to explore their coun- Iry unavailing. I The climate of this great central plateau j ■mist, from its situation, be temperate and I ■omial. Granting that it contains no trea gnurcs of gold and precious stones, it is still m most interesting region. The inhabitants . Spire believed to be considerably advanced in ■civilization, to live in good, substantial and to cultivate the soil. All ac ■munts represent them as worshippers of ■lire, and as an exceedingly warlike race. ■The Nabijos and Moqui tribes are supposed ; ■te reside in this unexplored and uncon- j land. They are said to be a light- j and blue-eyed race, with complex- j of the most delicate fairness, and to in woollen clothes of their own munu I An expedition, planned by Mr. Charles j ■W. Webber, author of “ The Gold Mines ofj ■the Gila,” is advertised to take its depar- I from Corpus about the first of June, ! the exploration of this terra incognita, Wand the darkness which now shrouds it will ■ ■doubtless, in a measure at least, be speedily i ■pliapeUed. Nothing can long resist the tide rtof Anglo-Saxon civilization, which is now onward toward the shores of thePa rific. *. EPITAPHS. I Os all the Curiosities of Literature, the ■ most curious, perhaps, arc those found a- Hmong Epitaphs and Monumental Inscrip- Htions. A man would hardly go to the grave- Wyard to find food for mirth, yet so mingled ■ are the incongruous and the ludicrous, with Hthe pathetic and the solemn, that one is ■■quite as often moved to laughter as to tears, ■ by its monuments and memorials. Let ns look at a few of these sepulchral ■ vagaries. The first that we copy is from a in .Brighton, England : “Here I lays, Killed bye chaise.” ■ The following was proposed for Francis ■ Grose, a celebrated Antiquary and Humor ■ st, of the eighteenth century : “ Here lies Francis Grose : On Thursday, May 12, 1791, Death put an end to His views and jnospcctsT ■ John Johnson, Provost of Dundee, was I much beloved by his townsmen. To show I their reverence for his memory, they offered I ” reward for the best poetical inscription for his tomb stone. Two only were offered. The first ran thus: “ Here lies John Johnson, Prevost of Dundee; Here lies him, here lies In. ’ This was thought unsurpassable, but when the Town Clerk opened and read the second, the prize was unanimously awarded to that. It was as follows : ‘‘ Here lies John’ Johnson, Prevost of Dundee ; UaUdujittf Hallelujee!” Here is an Epitaph on a Grocer, whose name was Garrard : “ Garret some call’d him, but that was too bye; llii name is Garrard, w ho now hero doth lye ; We. pe not for him, since he is gone before To lieaven, where Grocers there are many more ’’ The following is from a burial-ground in Providence, R. I.: “ Her soul grow so fast within, It burst the outward shell of sin, And so was hatched a cherubim.” In St. Mary’s church-yard, Whittlesea, in the Isle of Ely, England, says a writer in the American Cabinet,• is the following strange and ridiculous inscription : Here lie tho bodies of Elizabeth Addison, Her son, And old Roger to come.” A traveller adds: “I visited AVhittlesea, nearly twenty years after this stone was set up, and old Roger was still living!” Here is another. It is quaint, but pithy. It is found on the tomb-stone of tlic Earl of Devon, who died A. D. 1419 : “ Oli! oh ! who lies here 1 ’Tis I, the Earl of Devonshire, With Kate, my wile, to lir e full dero; We lyved together fyfty-five yore: That wee spent, we had ; That wee gave, wee have ; That weu left, wee 10-te. ” We will close this chapter with the fol lowing beautiful Epitaph on an Infant: “ Rest soft thy dust:—wait the Almighty's will: Ri-e lvv h (lie just :—and be an Angel still.” THE PRIZE ARTICLES. We complete, in this number, the publica tion of tlic prize articles, and we feel assu red that our readers will pronounce them to be of a high order of inerij. Already has the press rendered a flattering verdict; aud so highly gratified are we with the results of our first prize offers, that we have re solved speedily to institute another series. As all the subscribers, received since the beginning of Volume 11, request the back numbers, we take this occasion to say that we are prepared to furnish two or three hundred additional subscribers with them. We are also printing, in book form, a band some edition of the prize articles, which will be ready in June. Price, 25 cents.’ (Dav ©ossip (Column. Dramatic Decitations. The monotony of our village life was agreeably relieved for two or three eve niugs recently, by u visit from Mr. and Mrs. Conner, who gave a series of Recitations at tlic Town Hall. Mrs. Conner—formerly Miss Charlotte Barnes—is well known, both as an authoress and actress—and a volume of her plays is about passing to a second edition. Mr. Conner is a fine elocutionist, and many of liis recitations are exceedingly effective. He excels also in light comedy, and is admirably sustained by Mrs. Conner. Several fine scenes from Sheridan Knowles and some spirited Vaudevilles, afforded the audience much amusement. Portions of Macbeth and other plays of the great mas ter, were given by Mr. and Mrs. Conner, with much spirit and judgment. Such oc casional glimpses’ of the art-world as those afforded to our citizens by these artists, are pleasant and refreshing. The Difference. The first number of our new series, ad dressed to a subscriber in a neighboring village, was returned to us with the follow ing “marginal reading “ Oh, pshaw ! too light!” A few months ago, we received from the same individual a half-witty, half stupid article, which was proffered for pub lication in the Gazette, and accompanied with a letter couched in the most ccrnpli mentary language conceivable. Tiie “ “t-ti cle” went into the “ Balaam box,” and since that, the author's opinion of our Journal has been slightly modified, it seems ! “A change c.irne o'er the spirit of Ms dream,” and what before was “ excellent and just the thing,” became —alas! alas!—“too light!” <* Don't send it, do.” Among other returned papers, (for we are not without our share of these favors!) we received one endorsed as above, and feel somewhat at a loss how to interpret it. It comes, moreover, from one who has been spoken of for Governor of Georgia, and is in ! his own hand-writing. It is a very common 1 thing for uneducated persons in the South ! to say, “ Do, don't go, now“ Do, don’t ! do that“l’ve done done it:” and similar 1 phrases ; but, “ Don’t send it, do !” is deci dedly more unique and equivocal than these. What do you mean,Col. ? Do, or don’t ? Unavailable Capital. Our stories of the late Doctor Maxcey are pronounced “ capital” by the ‘newspapers. We think it very likely they are, but it is to others and not to us—for they have been the rounds of the press from Maim to Lou isiana, and not a bit of credit could we get for them. One of them, christened “ A College Lark,” appears in the Aurora Bo realis, credited True Sun.” It is not true, son ! The turkey-scrape was copied into the Boston Daily Bee, apparently as an editorial, and we have since met with it, a score of times, credited to the Bee ; so that we have been reminded of the song we learned in infancy: “ How doth the Tittle busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening Bower.” We suggest, however, anew reading of tins familiar stanza: llow doth the little Boston Bee Approve his neighbors’ wit. And, gathering honey where he may, Forget to credit it! id in lit® ©Haiis a £ljc Religious tDorliJ. The Georgia Baptist Convention.— The session of this body was protracted un til nearly noon of Tuesday, when it ad journed to meet, next year, at Marietta. We have not space to chronicle the proceed ings of the Convention, which varied little from the usual routine of Committee Re i ports. The attendance was respectable, and the appearance of the delegates indica tive of much intelligence. The Education Sermon, delivered on Sunday morning, by Mr. Brautly, will, we understand, be pub lished. The Convention adopted u report, recommending the sale of the Christian In dex, at present its property and its organ. It would thrive under judicious private management, from all the reports, we are led to believe that Education and Missiona ry feeling are on the advance among the Baptists of Georgia. The Convention passed resolutions of thanks to the Geo. R. R. Cos., and to the citizens of Athens, for courteous accommo dations, which we should publish but for want of space. ©itr (Contemporaries. Godey’3 Lady’s Book. The June number is full of beauty and in terest. Four steel plates, a host of fine wood-cuts, a fashion-plate and music, in the way of embellishment, and a great variety of attractive articles. Mrs. Neal concludes her admirable sketches, “ The Gossips of Rivertown, or Lessons of Charitythan which more natural pictures of life, in all the alternations of light and shade, have seldom been drawn. These papers have run through a volume, and are richly worth its subscription price. “ The Editor’s Co py” is a very clever hit at the practice of borrowing, so common in some communities. Godey’s Magazine is too handsome and too cheap, to make borrowing it at all justifia ble. The Westminster Review, American Reprint. New York: Leonard Scott & Cos. This able work, for the present quarter, contains several striking papers—among which we notice, particularly, “ The French Revolution of 1848,” and “ The English Spelling Reform.” In the former, which is a defence of the French Republican Govern ment, the writer recommends the election of the French President by the representa tives of the people, and utters the following thoughtful and suggestive language : “ The example of (he United States is a strong argument for this opinio::. If the President were elected hv Congress, he would generally be the leader, and acknowledged the ablest man of bis lariy; elected by the people, he is how always either an unknown mediocrity, or a man whoso reputation h is been acquired in some other field than that of politics.” The author of the essay on the “ Spelling Reform” is somewhat of a Phonetique, and looks forward to the day, (what a far stretcliing vision he must have, if he gets a glimpse of it!) when the fU letic JV qz will bb as familiarly read by the masses as the London Times, or the JVew York Sun. The English language is quite enough of a “ mystery” at present, without being made more so by the outlandish types of Phonog raphy, ( /■Qnogrn/e.) The London Lancet. The May number of this splendid medical work has been reprinted with great prompt ness, and comes to us full of valuable es says, reviews and reports. It is repub lished by Stringer & Townsend, N. V., at $5 a year. £l)e ©lb ID or lb. England. The arrival of the Canada places us in possession of Liverpool dates to the 4th, inclusive. She made a ten days’ passage —a fact which reminds us of the wonderful change effected by steam in our intercourse with Europe. Time and space seem almost annihilated. An advance in the price of Cotton has taken place. We note few other alterations in the features of tlie British markets, and little of interest either in her civil or political affairs. The Clergy Relief Bill, giving non-conformist ministers equal privileges with tho e of the National Church, will, we hope, prevail in Parliament. The repeal of the Navigation Laws appears provable—and, if accomplish ed, tlie dependant measures before the Par- I liament, the bill for emancipating the Jews j and the Rate in Aid bill, will also prevail, i France. The rupture between Presi ; dent Louis Napoleon and his cousin, M. Na j polcon Bonaparte, is the chief topic of in l tercst. The latter denounces the President in no measured terms, and parties were rap | idly forming in anticipation of the approach i ing Elections. These Elections, which were 1 to take place on the 13th inet., may have re sulted in re-action of the most violent kind; and we should not be surprised if the days ! of the French Republic were ajready num i bered. Socialism and its sister forms, which are but flimsy disguises for the vilest lufi delity, are tlie obstacles to the national ele. vatiou of France. Germany. The mediation of England affords indications of peace between Germa ny and Prussia. Austria. The intervention of Russia a gainst the Hungarians is announced with out much excitement, though the force fur nished to Austria is stated at 150,000. The Hungarian arms are every where victorious, and the greatest consternation prevails at Vienna. India. The Punjaub War is finished— for the present! Italy. The arrival of the F ronch troops at Civita Vecchia, excited a great sensation at Rome. Their subsequent entry into the imperial city, and tlie flight of the Republi can Government are reported 1 The Tuscan troops had entered Leghorn. The spirit of Revolution is everywhere dominant! Cos Correspondents. A. L. T.—We omitted to thank you for your acceptable favors. A. P. G. —Your poem will appear. W. D. C. —We are compelled to let your letter lie over until next week. Bayard. —We have put your verses into the hands of the printer. Ixez. —Welcome—thrice welcome ! IVe thought you had forgotten us. ©ar Book (CubU. [Publishers a: dAuthovs who desire have their to Books noticed in this Gazette, are requested to send copies to the Edito through Stringer & Towfiscud, New-York, or Cony St Hart, Phil The Sea Lions, or The Lost Sealers. By J. Fcnnimoro Cooper, author of “ The Spy,” &c. In 2 vols. New York: Stinger St Townsend. 1849. We have read Mr. Cooper's “ new novel” with a well sustained interest, and arc dis posed to rank it among the very best of his excellent Sea Talcs. It opens a field of ad venture fresh and exciting, aud treats of a subject hitherto scaled to the lovers of ro mance. It is not our intention to present an analysis of the book, as its low price aud convenient form will conduce to its general perusal. We shall confine our remarks, therefore, to the general character of the work, premising simply that it is a narra tive of the adventures of two scaling crews, i each connected with a schooner called the ( “ Sea Lion,” and the two vessels nearly identical in their size and outfit —one fitted ] out at Oyster Pond, on Long Island, and j the other at Martha's Vineyard. The ob ject of the Oyster Pond expedition was to pursue the scaling buginess on an island in the Antarctic Seas, and also to discover a treasure said to be buried by pirates on one of the West India Keys. The owner was a sanctimonious, but money-loving “ Deacon Pratt,” who had managed to worm out from : an old mariner named Dagget, put ashore at Oyster Pond, the secrets of the wonder ful sealing island, and the buried treasure j on the Key. Hints and rumors of these discoveries had reached Martha's Vineyard, where the Dag gets were numerous ; and some of them, hearing of the Oyster Pond Expedition, fit ted out a similar one, which, by a series of strange coincidences, shared the fortunes of the former, and lienee the name of tlie book, “ Tli.’ Sea Lions.” The interest of the story consists in the narrative of the separate and united adven tures of the two crews upon the Islands in the Antarctic, tlie precise locality of which is concealed by the novelist. The graphic powers of Mr. Cooper are displayed to.the finest advantage in the process of seal catching, and taking the sea-elephant, and more especially in involving the vessels in extreme peril among the icebergs and ice floes of those stormy Southern Seas, and then devising means for their escape By what mishaps, it needs not to say, but so it was, that the two crews were compelled to winter upon the rocky island, where they had been “sealing;” and, were we not al ready familiar witli tlie winter horrors of such extreme latitudes, through the narra tives of early and modern navigators, we should condemn Mr. Cooper's book as a tis sue of the wildest improbabilities. Terri ble, indeed, are the pictures he draws of the perils and fatal issue of that winter amid tlic Antarctic ice—fatal to nearly every in dividual of the crew of the Sea Lion of the Vineyard. Mr. Cooper's descriptions of the icebergs are among the finest in the book. Want of space prevents us from copying at any length, but we cannot forbear quoting tlie following inler passage.. “Not a voice was hoard in either vessel; scarcely a breath was drawn ! A heavy, groan ing bu :d, had been instantly succeeded by such a plunge into the water, a* might be imagined to succeed the f ,11 of a fr agment from am.l her planet. Then all the bergs n-ar by began to rock as if agitated by an earthquake. This part of the pieturo was both grand and frightful. Many of those masses rose above the sea more than two hundred feet perpendicularly, and showed wall-like surfaces of half a league in length. At the point where the schooners hn p pened to be just at that moment, the ice-islands were not so large, but quite as high, and cause- I quently wore more easily agitated. While the whole panorama was bowing and rocking, pinna- j cles, arches, wails and all, seeming about to tot- . ter from their bases, llierc came a wave sweeping down the passage (hat lifted them high in the air, some fifty-fe t at least, and bore lliein along like pieces of cork, fully a hundred yards. Oth er waves succeeded, though of less height and force; when, gradually, the water regained its former and mire natural movement, ;uid sub sided,” The hero of the story, Captain Gardner, of the Sea Lion of Oyster Pond, is as noble a character as Cooper has ever delineated ; and Mary Pratt, the niece of the money loving deacon, is a heroine, of whom any author might be proud. These two are one in affection, but reli gious principle separates them, in this wise : Captain Gardner is sceptically inclined; and particularly does he deny the divinity of Christ, which, to Mary's pure and orthodox mind, seems a heresy—little short of hea thenish. In the long and perilous winter at Sealer's Land, the mind of Captain Gard ner was deeply impressed with the power and Providence of God, and his scepticism was at first shaken, then subdued, nnd with it passed away liis disbelief in the doctrine of Christ's divinity. A vein of theology, nnd, indeed, of practical Christianity, thus runs through tl.® whole book, and cannot fail to heighten its interest to the orthodox reader. Mr. Cooper is fond of mixing up the prac- j ticnl with the ideal, and we discover in his fictions frequent direct and pointed blows at errors and defects in the social, political, j moral and religious organizations, which prevail among the American people. Iu this way, many valuable lessons may be conveyed in a form more palatable, perhaps, than in that of strictly polemical essays — and this we humbly conceive to be one of tlie legitimate and noble uses of the novel. Wemight convict Mr. Cooper of occasion al negligence of style, if such were our pur pose.* He frequently speaks of the last instead of tlie latter of two subjects, and, in more than one case, disposes his adverbs with too little regard to elegance. These, however venial, are faults which Mr. Coop er ought not, as one of the first among American authors, to sanction by use. In conclusion, may he live long to enjoy the laurels his works have justly won for him. Les Confidences. Confidential Disclosures, or Memoirs of my Youth. Ry A. De Lamartine. Translated from the French by Engeno Plunk ett. New York: rf*Appleton & Cos. We have read these Memoirs with much interest, but with an ever present feeling of regret that the author should have felt compelled to publish the work. Even hia I prefatory letter, which, perhaps, ought to ] be satisfactory, as an excuse for its publica ; lion, fails to remove entirely this regretful feeling. We are better pleased with the work be fore us than with Raphael. It possesses more freshness and naturalness. It is a bona fide Life History, yet Lamartine has thrown around it all the charm of a poeti cal fiction. It abounds in passages of un surpassed beauty. We have marked sever al of them for future insertion, in another part of our paper. *. A Maw Made of Money. By Douglas Jer rold. Philadelphia: Carey & Hurt. This, judging from the perusal ol a few of the opening chapters, is one of the best of Douglas Jerrold’s inimitable stori s.— The character of Mr. Jericho, the man made of money, who is the hero of the story, is ‘ most graphically sketched. Tho illustra tions, of which are four or five, are capital. Wo hazard nothing in recommend iug the work to our readers. *. (Shneral Intelligent?. Death of Major Gen. Worth. —The JC£u> Orleans Picayune of Tuesday says : “ With inexpressible pain we are called upon to announce the death of Major Gen. Worth. The news, so sudden and appalling, reached town last night by the Portland. General W. died on the 7th inst., in Texas, of chole ra. Great Fire at St. Louis.— A terrible fire at St. Louis has nearly devastated that flourishing city. It broke out on Friday, the 18th instant, and, before it was extin guished, consumed twenty steamboats, with their cargoes, besides barges, and laid in ruins all that portion of the city extending along the Levee for nearly a mile. The principal business houses, banks and offices, are destroyed, and the lose is estimated at five millions of dollars. In addition to this dreadful calamity, the cholera is making terrible ravages among the crowds of emi grants, and also among the citizens. Things at N. Orleans. —Several cro vasses in the Banks of the Mississippi have occurred, inundating large portions of the city, and creating great alarm, as the efforts to stop them have been fruitless. The chol era is also increasing in the city Cholera in New York. —The appear ance of cholera in New York is reported in the Baltimore Sun. Several deaths had oc curred. • Cooledge, the Murderer. —This noto rious individual committed suicide in the Penitentiary at Augusta, Maine, by taking prussic acid. Sinking of the Empire.— On Thursday, the 17th inst., at 8 P. M., this magnificent steamboat was run into by a schooner, op posite Newburgh, and received so much damage, that she began immediately to sink, and had settled to her promenade deck before her passengers were rescued by the Rip Van Winkle and the Hudson She sunk so rap idly, that a number of passengers were sub merged in her cabins, from which it was with difficulty that anv made their pjaiar* : It is stated that twenty bodies have been recovered from the wreck, and there are doubtless many more to be found in the cab ins, when the boat is raised. Later ikom Chacbes.— The steamer Crescent City, from Chagres, April 30, ar rived Saturday morning. Nothing had been heard of the steamer California, expected at Panama, when the Crescent City left Cha gres. There were 2500 Californians at Pa nama, 1300 of whom were provided witli conveyance to San Francisco, and other ves- j sels were daily arriving. The first officer of the Crescent City was killed by a cannon, when leaving Chagres. The Crescent City reports that dates from San Francisco, re ceived on the Isthmus, were only to the 13th ; January. There had been no arrivals at j Panama from Valparaiso, or Callao, since ! the last report. The rainy season had not commenced. The Cresoent City brings £25,- j 000 in specie from Havana. Father Matthew. — This groat apostle of Temperance is probably on his way to this country. Hast Marble Dead. —This celebrated comedian died of cholera, at Louisville, on the 15tli inst. The New York Riot. —The fullest and most graphic account, yet given, is con tained in the present number of our “ Flit Correspondence.” i; ii ii <J ill li it D Jj 1 ♦ j THE SHAKSPEARE CALENDAR. Trepared for Richards’ Weekly Gazette. May 20th—The Spaniards fruitlessly besieged Gibralter. 1727 “You may as well go about to tarn the sun to iee by fanning In his face with ape i cock’s feath er.” [King Henry V, Act iv, Scene 1. May 21st—Hippocrates, “ the father of medicine,” died B. C. 36L j “By medicine, life may be prolonged; yet Death Will scire the Doctor, too.” { Cymbeline, Act v, Se ‘i.e 5 May 22d—The Battle of Prague, 1757. The imminent death of t wenty thousand men, That, for a tanta-y and triek of fame, , Go to theij graves like bods.” [Hamlet, Aet ir, Scene 3. May 23d-—Captain Ross sailed in the steamer Victory, to continue his search af ter the North-West Passage, 1823. “ The stirring passage of the day.” [Comedy of Errors, Act iii, Scene 1. May 24th—Victoria was born, 1819. “ She had all the royal makings of a Queen!” [Henry VIII, Act iv, Scene I. May 25th —King John surrendered his crown to the Pope’s Legate, 1213. “ Thus have I yielded up into your hand The eirclo of my glory-” [King John, Act v, Scene 1. May 2tith—Prince Loam Napoleon Bona parte escaped from the fortress of Ham, , 1846. “ Therefore, to horse; And let us not he da : nty of Icure-tiking, But shift away.*’ [9l-a'beth, Act ii, Scene 3. 1 aitaaiEaaiSßa. i In Elbert Cos., Ga., on the 10th iust., JamesT. : Gardner and Sarah C. Gilbs. 1 In Augusta, on the 17th, Aaron Rcfi’ ai.d Fe | beeva L. Campfield. , In Cass Cos., on (lie 10th Col. E. M. Fie'.d. and i Cornelia M. Harrison. V” ■ IIA- ■- N. : * 11 1 _ ■ • ‘ 111 . 1 _T— XI > I j In ('bui l jston,on Saturday the 19th inst , John j : Robinson, Esq., the oldes* of the mercaitile fra ! t-unity in that city, being in the 74th year of his ! I age. In Middleboro*, Mass , E., daughter of .T. W. I*. 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The course of Instruction will consist in the | ordinary and higher branches of English educa tion, together with French, for which no extra charge ij made, and which will he employed as the g neral medium of conversation. Music and drawing will also he taught, and a [ competent master engaged for t aching Latin 1 aiul .\la,i hm it in* May 6, 1848. l-4t NEW BOOKS~ RECEIVED at the “ University Bookstore i May 18th, 1849. Li} p u d’s Memoirs of a Preacher ; Reach’s Clement Lorimer; Old licks the (luiue ; Averil's Kit Carson ; Longfellow’s Kavanagh; Ilowjtt. 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