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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.]
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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