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About Richards' weekly gazette. (Athens, Ga.) 1849-1850 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1849)
superb horses, of a light cream color. The driver upon his box, and the footman behind, are both dressed in gaudy livery. Let us look within : a man dressed in cost ly apparel sits there : his age may be about fifty : upon his features there are marks of great decision, and beneath a bland exte rior there lurks something to be dreaded, yet not defined. He puts forth his head, his lips open, and “faster” is breathed st , n!y forth. Scarcely is it heard, before the reverberating report of a gun strikes the car. The driver drops lifeless from his perch. Two strong men seize the two foremost horses, and hold them firmly in their places. The footman is jerked to the ground and pinioned, whilst a grufl voice bids him of the interior to come forth. I’anic-stricken, he complies. With uplift ed hands, he implores mercy, but is un heeded. His arms are tied behind him, and he is tol l not to move. The banditti— for such they art—tie the poor footman to a tree ; ten paces are measured—a pistol is levelled —a report is heard, and the fellow is dead. A ball has passed through his brain. “Come, ’tis your time, now,” quickly follows. “Mercy, I beseech you. I have never harmed thee; why deprive me of life? I have money ; 1 will satisfy your utmost demands; only spare my life “ Silence!” and the butt of a pistol struck him on the mouth to enforce the command. I!e is tied to a tree, and again is the weapon levelled. Click!— it hai missed lire. With an oath, it is prepared again. “Mercy, mercy!” the wretch cries. At this instant, the report of another gun is heard. He with the pistol falls dead. Three horsemen are seen rapidly approaching, when another shot sends a second bandit to his account: the others take to flight. The wretch, who has lost every trace of firmness, is saved. Being loosed, he faces his deliverer; they both start. “Am I saved by you, whom I have in jured so much ?” says he, falling upon his knees. “By you, who, before all others, can wish righteously for my death, as a punishment for wrongs against you ? Oh, sir, forgive me ! Asa token of repent ance, I swear to dedicate my whole life mid means in making amends for the past.” [To bo continued.] V ill [s LL LlJ* Hi A til ¥ •^%yrtw J©r ITALIAN AND AMERICAN WOMEN. “ Female delicacy in Italy is looked upon us a pure crystal, which the faintest breath of the world may contaminate. It is a sweet, tender llower, equally dreading the scorching meridian ray and the blast of the northern gale. The Italians believe in a virginity of the soul, without which, per sonal chastity lias hardly any value in their eyes. To secure this moral inno cence —and this may he a grievous error in a civilized age—they know no better means than an almost entire absence from, and ignorance of, the world. “ The independence of the Yankee girl begins at the earliest stage of boarding school life —with the choice of her books, of her dancing-master, of her congregation, of her minister. She makes no mystery of her predilection for her teacher, because he is ‘a spruce, good-looking fellow;’ for her preacher, because he has ‘such very white hands.’ She subscribes to cotillion parties, shines off at fancy fairs, tasks the purse gallantry of her admirers at flower auctions. She walks home late at night from her routs, arm-in-arm with her favorite part ner, by moonlight, on the shady side of the road. She steams off up the Hudson, down the Ohio, ami comes hack none the worse for the exercise and excitement. Not the slightest shade of uneasiness, at home, on account of her protracted absence She introduces a ‘travelling friend’ to the old lady, who sits down to make tea for him ; finally, she coolly informs her parents that she lias been ‘ popped at,’ and that ‘ her mind is made up,’ unless, indeed, she pre fers the fuss and edat of a runaway match. “ft is but justice to say, however, that this unbounded latitude is seldom, if ever, attendeJ with mischievous results. Thanks, perhaps, to natural coldness of tempera ment, to premature experience, or to the pop ularity of marriage in those wide-spreading settlements, the American young lady is seldom at a loss for a well-intentioned suit or. She very early acquires the calcula ting habits of the country. She is her own Duenna and Chaperon. She learns to val ue her admirers according to their worth. Her fancy and heart are always under the control of reason. Romance is all very well in books, but marriage is a matter of prose. A faux pas is seldom beard of, or, if ever, ail worldly advantages have been duly weighed, and even that apparent im prudence is the result of the most consum mate policy. Nowhere are most absurdly disproportionate matches more universally the order of the day. Nowhere is Mam mon more invariably the torch-bearer of Hymen, than amongst these very damsels whose choice is so utterly free from parent al control. “ Before she leaves school, a Yankee girl —God bless her! —has a thorough know ledge of the world. Else, what were the good of the million of novels she feasts upon ? Her look is proud and daring; her step firm and secure. Modesty she scorns as want of sincerity and frankness; deli cacy she spurns as a lack of proper spirit and independence. With the exception of a few luckless words, excluded from the English dictionary by an over-nice notion of prudery—for a list of them, vide Sam Slick —there is hardly a subject of conver sation she would dream of rebuking or dis countenancing. “By this early training is she fitted for every depaitment of public life; ready to enter the lists as an orator, an agitator, a journalist. The wide world is the stage she acts on. The drudgery of house-keep ing devolves on the mercenary landlady of a Broadway boarding-house. Man fags himself into a dyspepsia at his counter; woman reads, flirts, and gives herself airs in all the luxuries of a hired drawing-room- So much for Eve's share of the common lot of mortals. “In presence of her betrothed or hus band, she launches forth in the most tran scendent expressions of admiration of the eagle eyes or bushy whiskers of her out landish visitor; no matter if she he over heard by the very object of her enthusiastic rhapsodies. Her husband bargained for her hand and person ; but her fancy is free as the air she breathes. Secure inhertan gible virtue, she courts temptation for the sake of its bracing effects. She is a co quette upon principle, arid indulges in wan i ton, but unmeaning flirtations, merely to test the endurance of the man of her choice. With this view, she draws the period of her betrothment to a prodigious length —that being the zenith of a social ascendancy, with which maternal duties may, in spite of herself, interfere in after life.” “A woman in Italy has an oyster-like ; fondness for home : she is the worst trav eller on earth. She may not, perhaps, point to her Brussels carpets, as the best of her jewels, nor boast of firc-sidc virtues; , but she looks with amazement at the i crowds of home-loving daughters of Al bion, at the swarms of Tomkins, Pump kins, and Popkins, with caravans of nurses and children, hurrying from town to town, like tribes of gipsies, with the parish bea dle ut their heels. She shrugs her shoul j ders at the restless curiosity which drives | so many lender, timid beings, to brave all i the hardships of endless, objectless jour | neys, and never dreams, without shudder ing, of visiting lands which appear, even | to their natives, such a cheerless, ineligible I sojourn! “An Italian wife certainly prefers her terrace or balcony to the chimney-corner; a moonlight walk, or even an opeia-box, to a rubber at whist; hut she is rooted to her house and country ; too indolent, 100 strongly attached to her climate, her hab its, and connexions, to long fur the excite ment of change. ‘Oiput-on ctre mien j, qu’nnscin du m tauiillo!’ j Her meekness and amiability enable her to | live at peace with her mother and sisters- i in-law. She toes not break up her hus band’s establishment because his house happens to be 1 too near llolhorn,’ or ‘on the wrong side of Oxford street.’ She finds it unnecessary to dismiss her domestics at the end of every fortnight. As long as she loves and is beloved, she extends her af fections to her husband’s family, to his home-grown servants, to every animated or inaniinated being in his patriarchal house hold. Her dread of separation is para mount over all considerations of her hus band’s interests or her children’s prefer ment. She is a creature of impulse ; all remonstrances of reason break against the stormy tide of her love. “A woman in Italy is seldom a forward character. ‘Corinne’ is a French creation. An authoress in Italy, or an actress, is a being apart. Female authorship in that country is a kind of anomaly—a sort of moral hermaphroditism. Woman there is trained to shrink from the open airand the public ga/.e : she is no rider; never in at the death at a fox-hunt; no hand at a whip, if her life depended upon it; she never kept a stall at a fancy fair; never took the lead at a debating club ; she nev er addresses a stranger, except, perhaps, behind a inask in carnivalher politics are limited to wearing tri-color ribbons and refusing an Austrian’s hand as a partner in waltzing : she is a dunce, and makes no mystery of it; a coward, and glories in it —at least, she keeps her accomplishments for her domestic circle, her moral courage for those rare instances in which affection calls forth the latent energies of her belter nature. — Italy, Past and Present. g&g&jgnf uyg®* _ IRON HOUSES. We had the pleasure yesterday of exam ining the new stores lately put up by Mr. Edgar H. Lang, on the corner of Washing ton and Murray streets. These stores are built of cast iron, and are constructed in a manner to secure the greatest strength with the least material. The inode of construct ing buildings of iron is tho subject of a [lat ent granted to Mr. James Bogardus, who superinlened the construction of these stores. They are five stories high, and each twenty by fifty-six feet, and were commenced on the 25th of Febuary last, and constructed in the brief jieriod of about two months They are the only building* of the kind in the world, excepting that in Centre street which now stands unfinish ed. Mr. Bogardus has sjicnt many years in travelling through Europe for the purpose of studying and jierfecting his plans, and they certainly combine more excellences than any other in the city. These build ings will sustain a greater weight, and are put uji with less inconveniences than brick buildings, being cast and fitted so that each piece may be put up as last as it is brought on the ground. They may be taken down, IB 00El A EHD 0 9 WSiEEit ©B33V Tt § * removed, and put up again in a short time, like any other casting. In their mode of” construction nearly three feet of room is gained over buildings jiut up with brick. They admit more light, for the iron col umns will sustain the weight that would require a wide brick wall in ordinary build ings. They combine beauty with strength, for the panels can be filled with figures to : any extent. In the construction each story is support ed by rows of fluted pilasters, the cornices between which are compactly bolted. The ; walls are, in fact, one compact mass, and capablcof sustaining inconceivable weight. The iion used weighs about 150 tons. The columns on the first story were cast at the 1 West Point Foundary ; those on the sec- 1 ond and fourth at Burdon’s in Brooklyn, i and the third and fifth at the Novelty : Works. The cornice, facias, and orna ments are the work of William L. Miller, I No. 40 Eldridge street. The mason work was done by A. k J. White, and the car- ‘ pentcr work by Samual Martin. The en tire cost of the five-story is about $20,000 1 N. Y. Evening Post. NEW MACHINE FOR CARVING. Mr. W. B. Gleason, of Boston, Mass, has invented a machine for carving ornamen tal work such as the legs of jiiano fortes, tables &c. ft can also carve statues and cornice work, in fact it can carve any kind of ornamental work, and any figure. A jiattern is used from which to carve dupli cates, one, two or more ; or it can produce the reverse surface of the pattern, such as an elevated part for the depression on the pattern, or vice versa, —a sac simile of the jiattern. The pattern does not revolve, but is moved by an intermittant rotary motion, while a tracer upon a sliding frame, like that of a lathe, traces a horizontal section of the pattern and guides the carving tools, one or more, to carve a sac simile on the rough blocks of a horizontal section of the pattern One pattern will answer to carve a numberof blocks aloncc. The inventor has taken measures to secure a patent, and we hope to present an engraving of the ma chine to our readers at some future period. CHINESE METHOD OF COLORING HAIR. M. Stanislaus Julien, the learned orien talist, has communicated to the French In stitute the Chinese method of coloring hair. It is said that the Chinese have suc | ceeded in reaching and transforming, by | means of medicine and a jieculiar diet, the | liquid which colors the jiilous system, and i giving to white or red hair a black tint, i which maintains itself during the continu ed growth. The coloring is produced by means of certain substances mixed with the food and drink. These substances are not hurtful to the body, having for bases and elements ferruginous principles which are recommended by physicians, and al ways successfully employed. M. Delay, who has written a treatise on this subject and prepared a formula of the means to be employed, says: It is astonishing that the jdiysiologists who have exjierimented and succeeded in coloring the bones of living animals, red, by making them eat and digest madder, have not thought of seeking in the same way to color red and white hair black. The hair and the beard belong to vegetable life, and are disposed to the same phenom ena. In fact, after a sufficient quantity of terruginous salts has been introduced into the body, the circulation takes them up; the blood loaded with these substances de jiositcs them in the follicles of the hair, which in turn, pours them into the oil, sat urated with iron, becomes black, and the whole hair with it. M. linker at present bishop in China, of fers, according to the testimony of the Ab be Voisin, one of the directors oi foreign missions, a living proof of this internal coloring of the hair and heard. It is by this method that the Chinese, correcting the vagaries of nature, have been able to claim the title from Ihe highest antiquity of the black-haired nation. HUNTING IN LONDON AND NEW YORK. A LondoN correspondent of the Boston Post thus presents a comparative view of printing in New York and London : The art of printing advances far more in America than here. Liverpool, nearly as large as New York, has no printing done by steam. In London, but one or two printers of books, print by steam, and very rarely print more than twelve pages of a duodecimo book at a time. From an ex tensive acquaintance with the manner and speed of book printing in New York and London, I wili vouch for the fact that, of all the books printed in the two cities, our printers print three copies to the London ers’ ono in the same time. First class pub lications are gnnerally better “got up” in England than America. But, got up equal ly as well, the New Yorkers will print two copies to their one. Not one book in four in London is stereotyped. In New York three out of four. In London one publish er lately boasted that he actually published a book in three days from the time he re ceived it. That is quoted as an extraordi nary operation that was actually accom plished, once. In New York, the Harpers have issued many a book in from twenty four to thirty hours after its receipt. Hut l will not multiply examples to show the greater amount of enterprise or inventive genius in America. A Discovery.— The Knoxville, (Tenn.) Register, notices the discovery of anew es culent in Cambell county, in the moun tainous regions of that State, which very much resembles the yam of the tropics. Some specimens had been shown to the ed itor by Mr. Halestier, American Counsel, ’ lately returned from Singapore, which measured from six to eighteen inches in length, and weighed from two to ten pounds each. The editor says—“ Boiled and baked they furnish an excellent sub stitute foi bread or potatoes, and must form a great resource to the future settlers of that large and fine jiortion of our State, now withouta jiopulation and but little known.” Charcoal for Bosks. —Dress your rose bushes witir pulverized charcoal —it gives vigor to tlia plant and richness of hue to the flower. The Hydrangea.— lt is said, we know not how truly, that this fine flower, which is usually of a pink color, may he made to come out a beautiful rich blue, by mere ly filling the pot or box with swamp or bog earth. Soluble Glass. —What is called solu ble glass is now beginning to come into use as a covering for wood and for other practical purposes. Some of our clever artisans may like to experiment upon it.— It is composed of fifteen equal jiarts jiow dcred quartz, ten of pota-h, and one of charcoal. These are melted together, worked in cold water, and then boiled with five jiarts of water, in which it entirely j dissolves. It is then apjdied to wood i work, or any other required substance.— | As it cools it gelatinizes, and dries up in !to a transparent colorless glass, on any | surface to which it has been ajiplied. It ’ renders wood nearly incombustible. “J 1 jJ S yjYiiWzltc - fk HAPPY OLD FARMER. Said a venerable ol 1 farmer of eighty years to a relation on a visit to him :—‘ I have lived on this farm more than half a century. I have no desire to change my residence, I have no wish to he tiny richer than I now am. I have worshipped the God of my fathers with the same peojile more than forty years. During that period 1 have scarcely ever been absent from the sanctuary on the Sabbath, and I have nev er lost more than one communion season. I have never been confined to a bed of sick ness for a single day. The blessings of God have been richly spread around me, and I have made up my mind long ago, that, if I vvished to be happier, I must have more religion than I have at present.’ SMOKING POTATOES FOR THE ROT. I have been informed by a gentleman of my acquaintance, that he had stopped his jiotatoes from rolling by smoking them. After the potatoes were dug and placed in the cellar (an out door cellar) he built a smoke and continued it eight or ten days, when the affected jiart dried up, and the rest of the potatoes remained sound and good through the winter. The remedy was discovered by placing fire in an unfinished cellar, to prevent the vegetables from free zing—immediately after which it was found that the potatoes had stopjied rotting. He says he has tried the experiment for two or three years past, and has never known it to fail of arresting the disease immedi ately.—Coi r. Albany Cultivator. President Taylor’s Views on Agri culture.—We are glad to jrerceivc the prominent notice which agriculture receives at the hands of President Taylor, in his re cent inaugural. “It shall be my study to recommend such constitutional measures to Congress as may be necessary and prop er to secure encouragement and protection to the great interests of agriculture, com merce, and manufactures; to improve our rivers and harbors; to provide for the sjieedy extinguishing of the public debt; to enforce a strict accountability on the part of all officers of the government, and the utmost economy in all jiablic expendi tures.” These are the sentiments of an en lightened, comprehensive patriot, notone of our modern, progressive, imitation states men, whose intellects, interests, and efforts begin and end with gulling a narrow-mind ed constituency with a show of jratriotism, which, rightly named, is the most arrant demagogueism, intended for their own sel fish purposes at the expense of the best in terests of the whole Union. If the princi ples of President Taylor are followed out by Congress, it will not be long ere we have an intelligent National Hoard of Ag riculture, such as was recommended by the immortal Washington,thebenefitsof which will eventually be felt from Maine to Cal ifornia.—Am. Agriculturists. Locust Groves. —lt is known that the Locust Tree makes the best post timber which can be raised. The American Far mer says : “ Locust groves may be easily grown on knobs of hills or the poorest soil, and in five years will yield per acre annu ally from $5 to $lO worth of post timber, produce more grass than it would without trees, and cveFy year improve the “oil. On Long Island locust groves have grown up in thirty-eight years to be worth S3OO per acre. We have been urging our farmers, and especially those occupying plain lands, to cultivate the locust, but as yet but few have done it.” Dinner Time. — “ Sally, what time does your folks dine !” “ Soon as you goes a way—that’s missus’ orders.” ‘ll D lit lb &If If BISS- For Richards’ Weekly Gazelle. I PLAIN TRUTHS PLAINLY TOLD. From the Macon [Ga.] Journal, I ex tract the following article : “ Northern Publications. —We have re ceived a communication from a Mr. J. D. ltcagnn, of Athens, in which ho states that lie lias procured about 1000 subscribers to U ‘right's Paper and Casket, published in Philadelphia—that lie has forwarded the money, and can show receipts for the same —that he has frequently written to the Ed itors, complaining that scarcely any of the subscribers receive their papers, and re ceived no answer or exjJnnation. “ That Wright is a rascal, we have no doubt; but lie is no better than scores of the other Northern publishers, who are en j deavoring to procure a circulation for tlieir cheap literature at the South. It is a com mon trick with these men, to send a few i copies of their Magazines, or papers, to ! Southern Editors, and request notices. The j moment a notice is obtained and a few sub i - embers arc secured, tho exchange is dis : continued, and the Editor is left to whistle : for liis jiay. We have long since refused to ! take any notice of the Lady's Books, The \ Caskets, The Posts, The Couriers, The Ga | zettes, and the w hole race of kindred publi ! cations, and have advised our friends not to i subscribe for or countenance them.” j Now, of the truth or falsity of Mr. J. ! D. Ileagan’s statement, I have not a word to say. 1 will state a fact, however, which may throw some light upon the motive of Mr. lE’s statement, lie has just issued an attempted imitation of Wright's Paper in this place, for which he charges 50 cents a-year, while Wright’s isbut 25. His (Rca i gan’s) professes to be devoted to “ Truth , Education, Home Economy, Social Plea sures, Family Instruction, Civil Utility. Science and Art, Education of Women (!!!) and Human Improvement ” —objects and | words akin (if not the same) to those avowed by Wright. Though Mr. Reagan | calls his paper “the Model Magazine of | the 19th century,” and “the intended Me ! dium of A Great National. Moral and | Christianizf.d Literature!!” it is, never ! theless, clumsily “modelled” after Wright’s j Pajier. But enough. ! If Wright is a “rascal,” he is in pretty i good company. [Vide the Gazette, Vol. 1, I No. 00 ] I Ido not wish to quarrel with the Jour i nal on the score of its patriotism, although their article brings forcibly to my mind the i remark made by the great Dr. Johnson, j about patriotism being “the last refuge,” i etc. 1 shall hail as heartily as any one ; else, the “good time a-coming,” when the j South will be patriotic in something more ■ than mere words. I commend the jiatriot- I ism of supporting our own literary under ! takings; but I am disgusted to hear people ! preach such doctrines, when l know that ! there is nothing but hollow words in ail \ they say or do. The Journal, and some J of its compeers and endorsers, never no tice any “home productions.” It does all j its copying from Northern papers. Is this consistency? The literary works at the South need to be noticed by the weekly press—articles copied from our Magazines : serve the same purpose to them, in a cer i tain degree, as advertisements. Let the South patronize her own period j icals, when they are as good as can be got iat the North. But I cannot commend the ’ bigotry of that course which would lead us to cease to send abroad for any periodi cal works. No one but a politician, rea i soning with his elbows, could. Let us be true to ourselves; but in doing so, we need not hate our neighbors, or throw mud upon their windows. 1 understand the principal Editor of the Journal was a Northern man, criginally. If so, the more shame upon him! Let him read his article while stand ing face to face before a mirror, that he may see if he can blush! In conclusion, I will give the Journal a motto wortli putting at their editorial head, and worth observing, too. This is it": “ Patriotism, with consistency : the South first,, the Union forever.” A PUBLISHER. a&iLu© u © ® s * ■ —±~=?~ . ryrxii-U:.:- i SUNDAY READINGS, FOR JULY 29. MAN’S BLACKEST CRIME, j “ Jesus answered them, Many good works have 1 showed you from my Father; for which of them works do ye stone me V' —John x. 32. We have noticed in these words, God’s greatest mercy. Let us now consider Man's blackest crime. For the good works our Lord performed, the Jews took up stones to stone him. Can we conceive of any thing more awful, and which so much tends to show that degraded state into which human nature has sunk ? For these good works they ought to have admired, loved, and received him ; but how dillcrent was the conduct they evinced! Notice here The depravity of man. The Jews fur nished a dreadful exhibition of it. But it vs not confined to them; how many arethere, who, as it were, stone the Saviour again, crucify him afresh, and put him loan open shame! He is stoned in his religion, in his cause, in his people. An injury done to them he considers asdone to himself, Titus he said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? ” What good things religion engages j to do for man ! It would reclaim him in ‘ Ins wandering from God, restore him to the Divine favor and image, open to him the only source of happiness, dignify and en noble his sjiirit, elevate him beyond the trifling things of time, and prepare him for a glorious immorality ; these arc good works, and for these it is stoned. The forbearance of God. Here is a won derful instance of it. Why were they not immediately struck dead, by an act of his signal vengeance ? To give a display of his amazing jiatience. and prove to us ihe fact of a judgement to come. Persecutors oftentimes go long unpunished, not because the Almighty cannot inflict it on them, hu! to give them lime to repent, and show us that he is not willing that any should per ish. Account the long-suffering of God salvation. The mildness of the Saviour. He asked, “ For which of these works do ye stone me ? ” How well was it said of him. “ full of grace and truth” ! If he taught with authority, that authority was temjier ed with kindness; it was not the power of the hammer, breaking the rock in pieces, but that of the spring melting the rigor of winter, changing the severity of the frost, and drawing out all into life and loveliness. Let us go forth to him without the camp, bearing his reproach. iLA BRITISH INDIA. j Near the close of the seventeenth centu i ry, English ships occasionally skirted the coast of Ilindostan, anxious to exchange a roll of flannel or a paltry pack of cutlery for a case of muslins or a bag of spices. A i surgeon from one of these vessels was call ed to attend upon the daughter of the reign ing Prince, and succeeded in curing her of j a dangerous disease. Being asked what I reward he would have for his services, he refused to receive any gift for himself, but j solicited commercial privileges for his coun trymen. They were granted : and English | trading factories were established at Ma dras and Calcutta. These purely trading 1 posts became the germs of a jiowcr which, j shooting out its gigantic branches, ultimate i ly spread over the largest and most fertile J jiortion of the peninsular of Ilindostan. ’ Robert Clive, a clerk in the Madras facto | tory, laid the foundation of the British em -1 jiire in India. Warren Hastings, a clerk in the Calcutta factory, erected upon this foun dation a towering superstructure, whose blighting shadow now covers a million square miles of territory, inspiring awe in the breasts of a hundred millions of peojde. The dominion of Britain over this immense area and population is justifiable, neither bv the mode in which it was obtained, nor the manner in which it has been exercised, j Obtained by force, fraud and cunning, it | has been exercised in a spirit of avarice j which might tingle the cheek of Shylock j with shame, and of opjiression which gives verity to the fabulous ta'es of Oriental des potisms in the olden time. The whole of Anglo-India is ruled pri | marily by the Government of Great Britain, ! but a large portion of it is governed practi- I cally by the English East India Company. These sovereigns in Leadenhall street exe j cute their mandates through a small body ! of Directors, who acknowledge a slight al legiance to a Board of Control in Downing I street. They derive their authority from j the Charter of the British Crown, and rule India by jiermission of the British peojde. The fundamental principal of their govern ment is to make India subservient to their i pecuniary interests, regardless of its own. Proceeding on the plan of realizing as large : a profit as possible, on the cajiital invested, they have taxed the land to theutmostlim j its of its cajiacity to pay, making every | successive province as it fell into their hands a pretext and a field for higher ex actions, and boasting that they have raised the amount of revenue beyond what native rulers were able to obtain. They have monojiolized every branch of trade that could he made productive, employing in the prosecution the smallest number of labor ers, at the lowest rale of wages. The in structions of the Company to their Indian | agents have invariably been to make as large remittances as possible. This done, | little concern has been felt as to the means employed by the thousand or twelve hun- J dred Englishmen sent thither to enrich their employers and amass private fortunes by I plundering the country. The periodical | invasion of these hordes of needy adventu j rers has been like the march of the locusts 1 of Egypt—before them lay beauty and fer tility-; behind them was barrenness and desolation. For the Coinjiany- to listen to the complaints of the natives, was a sickly sentiment, unbecoming a great mercantile . association ; to demand inquiry, was an imjiertiuence; to redress grievances, no part of the obligations imposed by the char ter. The Hon. F. J. Shore, who was fif teen years in India, part of the time as a judge of one of the higher courts, says : “The British Indian Government has been practically one of the most extortionate and oppressive that ever existed in India; one under which injustice has been and may be committed, both by the authorities and by individuals, (provided the latter be rich,) to an almost unlimited extent, and under which redress for injuries is almost unat tainable.” All unprejudiced authorities a gree that the Anglo-Indian rule has been worse than that of either of its predeces sors, the Hindoos and Mahometans.—Na tional Era. A writer from California thus de scribes the habits of a young lady in that country : “She rides wild horses, throw's the lasso adroitly, and never misses her aim with the ride. She carries a hunting knife in her girdle, and understands the anatomy of ei ther stag or huflalo; knows nothing about corsets, and furbelows, caps or flounces never wears bonnets, and speaks no En glish.” THE BIRDS, The New Haven Courier relates th e lowing interesting incident, which occur a few years ago in one of the village, Connecticut: — “A young lady, confined to the house protracted indisposition, was in thehalv feeding a sjiarrow, which had a nesti> tree near the door, with crumbs of bi c The little creature had a warm heart m her homely dress, ami soon learned tol her patron, became exceedingly tame. ( would hop about the table while the fan were at meals. This was repeated w|> ever the door was open, till at last hern was induced to aecomjiany her, and h would pick up the scraps which their | entertainer, as she lay lijion the sofa, si tered near her on ihe carpet. In the one of them flew against the window i tried to get in, but the lady was too fei to expose herself to the air, and so co not admit her little visitor to a farewell lerview. Next spring they both cami gain, as docile as ever. In the coursi a few weeks, as the lady lay ujioii asi upon a Sunday morning, being too um to go to church, the house perfectly and the door open, she heard a great t lering and chirping on the steps. LooU about for the cause, she espied her ti sparrow entering the apartment, folios by several of her progeny, and the jiaiti of her toils bringing up the rear. Tlin remained with her half an hour perfe( fearless and at home, till having satis their apjietites with the morsels whichsg stiewn for them, and expressed their gations with sweet wild music, they reii to the shrubbery.” THE LADIES OF LIMA, Far superior to the men, physically i intellectually, are the women of Lima.! ture has endowed them with many of choicest gifts. In figure they are usua slender and rather tall, and they are esp ially rcmakablc for small elegantly son feet. Their fair faces from which theglo ing breath of the tropics banishes every ii of bloom, are animated by large tin eyes. Their features are pleasing, nose being well formed, though, in ga al, not small, the mouth invariably aJj ’ ed with two rows of brilliant white la (the women of Lima clean their teethi era! times a day with the root called i de dientes—literally root for the teeth, which they keeji a piece constantly ini) pockets.) and their long black hair, ranged in plaits, falls gracefully overth bosoms and shoulders. Add to all *Jm I captivating grace of manner and depi : ment, joined to an exceeding degree off tk-ness and amiability, and it will bet milted that the Limana is a noble specie of female loveliness and beauty. m>nsanr jrxa&an&r-sx-xur £ £ 355-Mill jjm German Patriotism. —The follonj i placard, affixed to the walls of Frauti ! shows the state of feeling in that city: “All the women and all the yn girls of VVurtenburg announce to theG man soldiers that they have sworn nti to marry one of them whose hand I been stained with fraternal blood, i other German women arc invited tofu# this example.” Death of Charles Albert.—! Courier des Etats Unis announces that! ex-King of Sardinia died in Portugal the 9th of June. The latest English net jiajier.s did not contain the intelligence,! stated that he was seriously ill. He l seized, soon after his arrival in Portuj with a disease, not considered at first alarming, but from which he did not red er. Hungary.— The New York Journal Commerce says :—“We mentioned all days since that Mr. L. R. Breisach had) titioned the United States Government recognize the Republic of Hungary, byl appointment of a diplomatic agent then Mr. Breisach has received an answer his application, and, as it seems, asatisi tory one.” Romance.—A beautiful German hem and a young Polish artist, were married the New York Mayor’s office, the oil day, having left their friends and relatn who forbade their union, and crossedl Atlantic to a free land, for the purpose enjoying life together. Cincinnati. —It is said that there 2500 houses for rent in Cincinnati, tenants having (led from the cholera, is estimated that the city has lost 1300 inhabitants from this cause, and* or live times that number by the rava| of the cholera. Important Remedy. —A German pel asserts that prussic acid only causes s pension of life at first, and that one < takes it can he restored to animation by l acetate of potash and salt dissolved in’ ter, on his head and spine. Rabbits h been thus recovered. Gen. Taylor’s Gold Medal. —Theg medal ordered by Congress as a co ®l men! to Gen. Taylor, for his military chievements at Buena Vista, was se* Washington on the fith, in care of A'* & Co.’s Express. We learn that the 1 is S3OOO. It was jirejrared al the Min’ Philadelphia. Shipwreck.— A letter to the Sentinel, dated Rio Janerio, April ‘ 3 l There is a report that the ship h l0 ‘“ from New York to California, was k- 4 the River Platte and 200 lives lost. American Flour Mills in hii,! , Valparaiso letter to the Philadelphia J ing Bulletin, says there are 13 mills in li conducted by American milled- ‘ grain sells for $1.25 per two and 3 bushels. A bachelor says that he always In at the marriage head for newsofthe
