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w ith its sands, and foetid sulphurous springs trickl ’d down its ravines, we did not des pair : awe-struck, but not terrified; fearing the worst, yet hoping for the best, we pre pared to spend a dreary night upon the dreariest waste we ha 1 ever seen.” The gale, however, abated su.l lenly— the heavy billows sunk hastily to rest— and rose-colored clouds succeeded the black heralds of the storm in the evening sky.— It caused the patty some solicitude, lest they should fail to find, in the moonless darkness of the night, the appointed place of rendezvous—especially as the sheikh they had taken on board as a guide, was bewildered by fear. They saw flashes of light and heard reports of guns and voices on the shore, which at first only discon certed them, as they proceeded from oppo site directions —being interchanged between the land party and their scouts, who had been separated. At length, however, they reached Ain el Feshka, or the Fountain of the Stride. Landing, from necessity, a mile below it, they beached the boats, and leaving them in the care of some Aiabs, repaired to the general camp, beside a foetid marsh and a brackish spring—-‘the dark, fretted mountains behind—the sea, like a huge cauldron, before, its surface shroud ed in a lead-colored mistd’ Thus, in the n.idst of gloom and discomfort, did our wanderers pass their first night upon the borders of the Sea of Death. At this point, Lieut. Lynch dismissed his Arabs and the camel-drivers. The Sherif was, however, to continue with the party. 4n:l Akil un lertook to proceed to the east ern shore of the Sea, to apprize the tribes there of the approach of the party, and make arrangements for a supply of provi sions. ThiS plan was a most gratifying one to the Commander, as it removed from his mind many apprehensions of difficulty. From this engagement, Akil soon after wards sought release ; but our author de clined to grant it, and although he had but the word o? the Arab to depend upon, lie felt no doubt of his honor. The event justified his confidence—and it is a hcauti ful illustration of the value which even the untutored Bedawin places upon his word. Akil had refused to append his otol io U o for money anvnnctil when the contract was made; but his word was given and that could not be broken. The next day the party spent in sound ing the Sea in direct and diagonal lines to the opposite or Arabian shore. The dis tance across was found to be seven nauti cal miles, which are nearly equal to eight statute miles. The greatest depth on the direct line of casts —which were made at every half-mile—was 116 fathoms; while the diagonal sounlings exhibited an ave rage depth all across of 170 fathoms, or over 1000 feet. The lead brought up blue intid, with sand and salt crystals, some of them exact cubes. At the deepest cast. crystals only were brought up. The diag onal line reached a deep black chasm in the Arabian mountains, where a sweet, hot spring was discovered flowing into the 3ea. The soundings were attended with se vere toil and exposure, and when the boats returned, the officers and men were slid with saline coatings. Some ragged and forlorn-looking Amhs of the Rashftvidah tribe, were engaged as guides along the western coa-t of the Sea. Our author says, that “ the habiliments of Falstaff’s ragged recruits would have been court costume, compared to tile attire of these attenuated wretches.” . At Ain Jidy, (the Engaddi of the Scrip tures,) or Fountain of the Kid, the party remained some days, awaiting the return of Dr. Anderson and the Sherif, who had been sent from Ain el Feshka to Jeru-a lem for provisions. In coasting from their first encampment to the Ain Turaber, they discovered only barren wastes, dreary and utterly desolate. The only signs of vege tation were occasional ghurrah trees, tam arisk hushes, and patches of cane and grass. All else, “brown incinerated hills, masses of conglomerate, banksot sand and dust, impalpable as n >hes, and innumerable boulders, bleached by long exposure to the sun.” At that fountain they saw the pis tachia, or terebinth of Scripture —a large shrub only, which in the plains becomes a tree. Ain Jidy was fixed upon as the head quarters or depot of the party, during their stay upon the Sea. Here they were to leave their tents, and everything they could dispense with, so as to encumber their boats as little as possible. On Easter Sun day, Dr. Anderson and the Sherif arrived with the long-looked-for provisions. 1 heir approach upon the defiles of the mountain precipice that frowned upon the camp, was detected three hours before they had suc ceeded in descending the wild crags, into the chasm where the camp was established. This camp Lieut. Lynch named “Camp Washington.” The next day the exploration of the Sea wns resumed with vigor. Parties in both boats went out to sound, and to observe the opposite” coast. The greatest depth in dicated by the lead was 1128 feet. The nights were oppressively sultry, and the air surcharged with sulphurous odors.— The drift-wood on the shores was so im pregnated with salt, that attempts to make signal fires were signal failures! The most interesting object which pre sented itself to our adventurers in the South ern portion of the Dead Sea. was the pillar of salt at Usdum, a description of which we quote: “ Wc found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. ft slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization. A prop, or buttress, connects it with the mountain behind, and the whole is covered with debris of a light •tone color. Its peculiar shape is doubt less attributable to the action of the winter rains. The Arabs had told us in vague terms that there was to be found a pillar somewhere upon the shores of the Sea— I but their statements in all other respects had proved so unsatisfactory, that we could . place no reliance upon them.” Our author cannot, in this connection, forbear from quoting in a note, the testi mony of Josephus, Iraencens and Clement, as to the identity of this pillar with that into which Lot's wife was turned, when, in spite of divine warning, she “looked back” towards Sodom. We are, perhaps, authorized to infer from this, that he thinks it possible, if not probable, that this may | be indeed the visible manifestation of God's displeasure at the disobedience of Lot’s wife. Without committing ourself upon this point, we may suggest that the enor , mous dimensions of the pillar of Sodom (Usdum) are no argument against this sup position; for there is probably little doubt, that whatever was its original nucleus, its present size is the result of long-continued accretions, by deposites from the saline at mosphere of the region. The following description of the scene i presented at the Southern extremity of the Sea, will afford the reader an idea of the gloom and dreamless of the region : “It was indeed a scene of unmitigated desolation. On one side, rugged and worn, was the salt mountain of Usdum, with its conspicuous pillar, which reminded us at least of the catastrophe of the plain; on the other were the lofty and barren cliffs of Moab, in one of the caves of which the fu gitive Lot found shelter. To the south 1 H j was an extensive flat, intersected by slug ! jrish drains, with the high hills of Edom i semi-girdling the salt plain where the Is raelites repeatedly overthrew their enemies; and to the north was the calm and motion | less sea, curtained with a purple mist, while many fathoms deep in the slimy mud beneath it, lay embedded the ruins of the ill-fated cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. The glare of light was blinding to the eye,%nd the atmosphere difficult of respi ration. No bird fanned with its wing the attenuated air through which the sun pour ed his scorching rays upon the mysterious element uu whicti wc floated, anil which, alone, of all the works of its Maker, con tains no living thing within it.” The heat of the day was intolerable— and the scarcity of sweet water occasioned the party extreme annoyance and suffer ing. It was, indeed, a terrible fate, to have verified in ’heir daily experience, the truth of the couplet— “Water, water, everywhere— But not a drop to drink !” Their excursions upon the Sea were often rendered perilous by high winds, which dashed the salt waves into their faces, and half-swamped their boats. They expe rienced, also, frequent siroccos—the hot breath of which swept over them “ more like the blast of a furnace than living air ” From the scathing, blistering hurricane, no place afforded complete shelter, and to those exposed to the burning blast, it was indeed a terrible experience. Metal but tons and the frames of spectacles became insufferably hot. The atmosphere glared with the fiery breath of the tempest, and death seemed, for the tune, as if it would bring welcome relief to the poor victims. Desolate and appalling as was the face of nature around them, every day presented new features—variations of the terrible and the strange. Every change of the wind produced new atmospheric effects, and every turn of the coast revealed new aspects of wonder. The desert was not, however, without its oasis, as will appear from the following description of a bath which refreshed out weary travellers in the wilderness of En gaddi: “ In the evening, we walked up the ra vine to bathe. It was a toilsome walk over the rough debris brought down by the winter rains. A short distance up, we were suiprised to see evidences of former habitations in the rocks. Roughly-hewn caverns and natural excavations we had frequently observed, but none before evin cing so much art. Some of the apertures were arched and cased with sills of lime stone resembling an inferior kind of mar ble. We were at a loss how to obtain an entrance, for they were cut in the perpen dicular face of the rock, and the lowest more than fifty feet from the bed of the ravine. We stopped to plan some mode of gaining an entrance to one of them; hut the sound of the running stream, and the cool shadow of the gorge, were too in viting; and advancing through tamarisk, oleander, and cane, we caine upon the very Egeria of fountains. Far in among the cane, embowered, embedded, hidden deep in the shadow of the purple rocks and the soft green gloom of luxuriant vegetation, lapsing with a gentle murmur from basin ‘to basin, over the rocks, under the rocks, | by the rocks, and clasping the rocks with ! its crystal arms, was this little fountain wonder. The thorny nubk and the pliant osher were on the bank above ; yet lower, ! the oleander and the tamarisk ; while upon . its brink, the lofty cane, bent by the weight j of its fringe-like tassels, formed bowers ! over the stream fit forthe haunts of Naiads. Diana herself could not have desired a I more secluded bath than each of us took 1 in a separate basin.” The gravity of the water of the Dead Sea was tested by various experiments. A horse and a donkey swam without turning over, and a muscular man floated breast high on the waves. Our travellers gathered some of the blos soms, as also of the green and ripe fruit of the osher, and brought them home in care ful preservation. This fruit is beautiful to ; the eye, hut bitter to the taste. When ripe, it is filled with fibre that is easily re jdueed to dust—so that it answers the de scription of the “apple of Sodom.” Our limits will not allow ns to review, ! in detail, the examination of the Arabian aosiaiasi 9 t/iiE&w iiti a shore of the Sea. Near the Soulhern ex tremity, the Sea is very narrow, in conse quence of a large peninsula, stretching out from the Eastern coast. This peninsula has some resemblance to a foot—though our author suggests the more fanciful out line of a spread wing. Lieut. Lynch nam ed its Northern and Southern extremities, re-qiertivcly, Point Cosligan and Point Mo lyneaux, in memory of the two adventnreis of those names, to whose fate we have al ready alluded. The neck of land is seven miles long at its greatest, and three miles at its least, extent. It stretches into the Sea within about two miles of the Western coast. Eastward of the Peninsula lies Kerak, an Arab town to which the party paid a visit. Their route lay up the Wady Ke rak. which is described as “the most (uffi ’ cult path, with ihe grandest scenery they had ever beheld.” After long-continued toiling up wild ravines and over almost in ; accessible calcareous cliffs, they reached, at an elevation of 3000 feet above the Dead ! Sea, a walled town, into which they enter i ed “ by an arch cut through the solid rock, | thirty feet high and twelve wide.” This passage was eighty feet long, and they emerged from it into the town, composed \ of rude stone huts, built without mortar.— 1 “ They are from seven to eight feet high ; j the ground floors about six feet below, and | the flat-terraced mud roofs mostly about two feet above the streets; but in many places i there were short cuts from street to street, across the roofs of the houses.” Kerak is a Christian town; full three-fourths of its inhabitants are Christian, but whether “ they are some of the lost tribes subse- ■ quently converted to Christianity, or the descendants of Christians who, in the fast nesses of the mountains, escaped the Mo hammedan alternative of the Koran or the sword—or a small Christian remnant of the Crusades” —does not satisfactorily ap pear. Be their origin what it may, they gave our travellers a Christian welcome— and, indeed, had sent to them upon the shores of the Sea, a deputation, to invite them to Kerak. Lieut. Lynch’s account of this people is very interesting. Abd’ Allah, the Christian sheikh, is described as “mild even to meekness,” and a fine por trait of him adorns the work. A manifes to, signed by Abd’ Allah and Yhkob, his brother, and dated, Kerak, Jam&d Aw&h, 1264, was sent to our author, to be made known to American Christians. It sets forth that the Christians of Kerak are building a church—that they are few and weak—their land unproductive, and visit ed by the locusts for seven years—and their church delayed in its completion for want of funds—as they are Christians sur rounded by Muslims. It is to be hoped that an appeal so mod est and so earnest, will reach the hearts of American Christians, and secure to the Beni Khallas sufficient aid to finish their church. The Muslim Arabs of the Kerakeyah, whose encampment Is Just wlitioui the walls of Kerak, are a wild set of savages, of whom the Christian Arabs purchase se curity by annual tribute. Our travellers had reason to apprehend hostilities from these wild sons of the desert, and but fora loft)’ bearing and decided tone, they would probably have met with annoyance. About half-way tip the Arabian coast, the Wady Mojeb flows into the Sea, through a remarkable chasm, about a hun dred feet wide. Its walls are almost per pendicular, and being composed of brown, yellow and red sand-stone, intermingled, and worn by torrents into forms resembling grotesque sculptures, they present a most extraordinary appearance. The river al most covers the base of the chasm, which runs in a direct line nearly 500 feet, when it makes a curve to the S. E. A pistol shot in the chasm produced long and cu rious reverberations. The Wady Mojeb is the river Arnon of the Old Testament, on the border of which, lfelak, King of Moab, came out to meet Balaam. It is described as a beautiful stream, fringed with tama risk, and other shrubbery, from the chasm to the Sea. The next important locality upon the Arabian shore, is the Zerka Main, the out let of the Hot Springs of Cailirohoe. These hot springs supply a stream twelve feet wide and nearly one foot deep, which rushes southwardly into the Sea with great velocity. The temperature of the water was94°. It flows, like the Arnon, through a deep chasm, wider than that of the Mo jeb. Its waters are slightly sulphurous.— The current of this hot river was so vio lent that our author could scarcely stand in water only two feet deep. He describes the contrast of a bath in the “salt, salt sea,” and then in the soft, tepid waters of the Callerohoe. From the Zerka. the expedition crossed the Sea to thecampat Ain Tur&beh, which had been left in the care of the excellent Sherif. The heat of the day succeeding the return to camp, is described as exces sive—the mercury rising to 106“ at 8.30 A. M. That night they experienced a ter rible sirocco, which biew down their tents and broke their only remaining syphon ba rometer. The time devoted by Lieut. Lynch to his interesting researches, was twenty-two days—during which interval, all the party were employed indefatigably in various la bors connected with the expedition. In that period, they “carefully sounded the Sea, determined its geographical position, took the exact topography of its shores, ascertained the temperature, depth, width and velocity of its tributaries, collected specimens of every kind, and noted the winds, currents, changes of the weather, and all atmospheric phenomena.” We have already occupied so much space in our notice of this very agreeable book, that we shall pass over that portion of it which describes the jnurneyings of the party from the Dead Sea to Malta, where they rejoined the ship “Supply.”— It is by no means an uninteresting part of the narrative, however—embracing a visit to Jerusalem and its hallowed vicinity—to i Jaffa, Nazareth, and Damascus—scenes among which our author's enthusiasm was kindled to ardor. The closing scenes of the expedition ; were deeply saddeaed by the death of Mr. Dale. This melancholy event occurred at Bhaindun, a mountain village twelve miles , from Beirut. Asa token of affectionate regard for the memory of his as-ociate and friend, and of sympathy for his bereaved family, our author generously devotes to ‘he latter the profits of his work—a fact ; which alone should command for it a wide circulation. In concluding this somewhat discursive notice of Lieut. Lynch’s book, we mav re peat our expressions of high gralificstion ! with the admirable conduct of the Expedi tion, and with the manner in which its important results have been made public For despatch, energy and economy, ‘he Dead Sea adventure may well be quotedas a model. The gallant Coiunander exhib- I its. in every stage of its progress, an en thusiasm kindled not only at the altar of ambition, but at the more sacred shrine of religious devotion. The readervery readi- I ly imbibes the spirit of the writer, and par takes of the st which he felt in the scenes of his adventure. To the biblical student, the work cannot fail to be of great service—conveying, as it does, so much in formation on Scripture places and occur rences, and adding, if possible, additional j evidence of the truth of the Old Testament : narratives. The work is written in a graphic, but, ! perhaps, somewhat florid style. Its ver | biage might have been avoided by a care j fill revision, which would probably have been made, but for the impatience of the i author and his publishers to gratify the public eagerness to see an authentic ac count of the Expedition. && iwn§ii©ig§o SABBATH SONNET. BY WILLIAM C. RICHARDS. How sweet the landscape smiles this vernal morn Os holy rest! The early sunlight stealing O’er the sweet spring flowers—their eyes un sealing— The leafing forest, and the springing corn, Bathing with fresh beauty—emblems the dawn Os Heaven’s great Orb, the £un ot Righteous ness, Which rose upon the world of man to bless His sons, who, by its quickening power new born. Though inly dead in sin and guilt should live, As withered (lowers in spring new life receive! Oh ! may the beams of that bright Sun be shed Where’er the gloom of Sin and Death is spread, Till all our race beneath its rays shall bloom Iu beauty perfected beyond the tomb, SUNDAY READINGS, FOR SEPT. 23. THE CHARACTER OF THE LAW. “ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.”—l Tim. i. 8. Here are two lopies worthy our close at tention; one of which we shall consider in this, and the other in the next exercise. Here is A truth affirmed. “The law is good.” It is so In its author. It is framed by Him who is essentially good in his character, perfec tions, and works. Nothing of a contrary nature could emanate from Him who is the ! source of all perfection, and the fountain of all goodness. There is an authority I stamped upon it by the Almighty himself. In its matter. The things it contains are of no common interest or tlivial inpor | tance. They are subjects involving our well-being here, and our happiness here after It is a just remark, that however disputants may marshal one part of Divine truth against another, the glorious doc ’ tines of Christianity, like stones in a ( compact edifice, are firmly united together —men may disagree in sentiment, but they cannot destroy the unity of the truth. In its use. It excites and quickens us ‘in duty against our inward corruptions: makes a discovery of the deceitfulness and depravity of the human heart. “By the law is the knowledge of sin.” It drives us out of our own pretended righteousness, to rest on Christ’s atoning sacrifice. “The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.” This is its end: to lead us to look to Jesus and believe on him, that we may be saved, as the Isrealites, stung with the serpent, looked on the brazen ser- I pent erected by Moses, and were healed. How great are our privileges, having both the law and the Gospel! The one to show us our malady, the other to point us to the remedy; the one to alarm, the other to comfort; the one to probe the wound, the other to apply the healing balm. “ The law discovers guilt and sin, And shows how vile our h arts have been ; Only the Gospel c m express Forgiving love and cleansing gneo'” BBlflßlßAft. pfßjjaa A.n American Sailor among the Sav ages. The Washington corresponded, of the Atlas , under date of the 24th, says: “The case of an American sailor, on board a California bound vessel, detained among the savages in the Straits of Magel | lan, has attracted considerable public atten tion. lam happy to be able to stale that U. S. sloop-of-wai ‘Vandalia,’ Captain Gardner, has been ordered by the Hon. Sec retary of the Navy, to stop in those waters and recover the lost man. To accomplish this benevolent object, and to secure our peacable commerce against similar aggres j sions, it is probable the Vandalia will chas tise the Indians pretty severely. Proof Positive. “ How,” said a judge in Missouri to a witness on the stand, “how do you know the plaintiff was intoxicated on the evening referred to ?” “ Because I saw him a few minutes after | the muss trying to pull of! his trowsers j with a bootjack !’’ Humorist. —The Duke of Montague was j a great humorist. Among other otiginal j inodes in which he contrived to minister to ltis own amusement, he had a defective looking glass suspended in his drawing room, so that all the nohie guests who chanced to dine at Montague House, were induced, on passing the treacherous mirror, J to adjust their wigs awry. In that dayatull , dressed wig was as essential as a full i dressed coat; and his grace's dinner table commonly presented an assemblage ot no ble lords with their perukes dragged down into the right eye, each wondering at his | neighbor’s disorderly appearance, and con gratulating himself that in settling his own | wig in the drawing-room, he had escaped j from the absurdity disfiguring the rest of the company. Horn's Last. —On a recent rainy day | this wag was heard to exclaim— | “Well, my umbrella is a regular Cath j olic.” 11 How so ?” inquired a friend, j “ Because it always keep lent.” A Linguist. “ I say, Bob, you have been to Canton, hav’nt you V’ “ Yes.” “ Well, can you speak China ?” “Y-e-s, a little; that is, I speak broken china.” Sam Slice’s Last. Judge Halliburton, the witty author of Sam Slick, was holding a court the other day, and in the commence ment ot the proceedings it became neces saty to empanel a jury. One worthy burgh er, upon being called requested of the court to excuse him on account of the itch, at the same time holding out his hands to the Judge, and displaying the visible evidence his cutaneous affliction. The Judge, after closely inspecting the hands of thejuror, directed the clerk as follows: “ The court decrees that the juror’s ex cuse is a valid one, and therefore directs that he bes c-r-a-t-c-h-e-d off.” A tremendous roar of laughter signified the unanimous verdict or the audience that his honor was guilty of a pun. Settling the Question. A dispute having arisen at a village inn as to the num ber of the late Lord Byron’s children—one party, maintained that a daughter was his only offspring, while another was as posi tive that he had a son also. The landlord was appealed to, who, after a moment’s re llection, replieJ— Why, of course, he had a son ; was there not bis child (Chihle) Harold 1 Thorough Draught. Anew patent stove for the convenience of travellers has just been invented. It is placed under the feet, and a mustard plaster upon the head draws the heat through the whole sys tem. New and Excellent. At the Wil liaroston College they have adopted the plan of taking daguerreotype liken sses of each graduating class. The frames re main the propety of the College, and are to be preserved from year to year. To be read twice. People of mean capacities always despise and ridicule more what is above the reach of their own in tellect, than that which is below its stand ard. Derivation of Boudoir. The word boudoir is from bonder , to pout; in the same manne as parlior (parlor,) is from parler, to speak or converse. Do some of our finical young ladies, who are bent on having boudoirs, know the purpose for which they are intended J Gold from Violets. Mr. R. Hunt, at the Royal Institution, London, states thata friend of his had succeeded in obtaining a minute, though weighable, portion of gold from a quantity of the petals of the blue violet. Lady Franklin has purchased one fourth of the Hull whaling ship, Abram, and paid the additional risk of insurance, with a view to her exploring Jones’ Sound and Smith’s Sounding, in search for John. She has also offered a reward of £SOO in case of success. Pride of Ancestry. The “proud duke ” of Somerset, as he was called, used to say that he pitied Adam, because he had no ancestors. A Strong Team. The N. Y. Tribune has six quill-propellers in its editorial team —Greeley, llipley, Dana, Taylor, Cleve land, and Snow. No wonder it goes ahead. A Female Merchant. The Princess of Orange owns eleven steamers, with which she trades to different ports in Eu rope. going occasionally with her own ventures as supercargo. A hit. Father Mills astonished the boys at Toringford, one Sabbath as he was given an account of his journey to his con gation. Said he, ‘I went up into Vermont, and found many excellent farms, and was surprised to see so much fine fruit. So I said to the good people, how do you man age to keep your fruit! Don’t the boys steal it ? I lose nearly all mine that way.’ • What! ’ they exclaimed, 1 boys steal fauit ? We never heard of such a thing. Pray, where do you live?’ ‘And T was oblged to tell them,’ said the old man, hanging his heal, ‘ that I lived in Torringford, in the state of Connecticut.’ “ Horse-power.” The power of a horse is understood to be that which will elevate a weight of thirty-three thousand pounds, the hight of one foot in a minute of time, ! equal to about ninety pounds at the rate of j four miles an hour. American Skill appreciated. It is stated tliat the Russian Government has j tendered the post of Chief Engineer, on the great Railroad between Moscow and St. Petersburg to Maj. S. S. Brown of the New York and Erie Railroad. tkg- “Is that a f that I C B 4 me? Come let me clutch it.” iptDiEiriav* For Richards’ Weekly Gazette. BIRTH-DAY MUSINGS. BY CHARLES LUFTON. In boyhood, my fancy, how oft did it weave • Fair garlands of knowledge to bind on my brow; But oh ! did not fancy most sally deceive, For where are the garlands, oh where are they now 1 Thro’ the vista es years my eye caught the gleam Ot a glory, which was to encircle my name ; But oh, was it not the false flash of a dream— For where is the trump that has sounded my fame 1 Pweet visions sf fortune, how oft did they rise, And before mo the smiles of the goddess unfold; But oh, was that rmile not a frown in disguise, For where are the coders contain. g my gold 1 Mv thoughts as they mused on the precepts divine Which glow on the pages, by Heaven inspired, Dwelt long on the virtues that were to be mine, But where are the grac s my spirit desired 1 Gone, gone is my boyhood, and w ith it has flown Each charming delusion that smiled in my way ; The flowers, which in spring, were so lavish ly blown, In summer, lie wasted in mournful decay. July 3d, 1849. For Richards’ Weekly Gazette. CANZONET. Lowly, lowly sigh The winter wind* their wail, O’er the blooms whose ashes lie Upon the frozen vale: Sadly, sadly sighs The heart o’er many a scene, Where cherished hope now biigted lies On the moments that have been. Slowly falls the rain, Yea. ceaselessly and slowly, On leaves that may nor live again, Now blighted lying lowly ; Slowly fall our tears Through Sorrow’s starless night, On the withered joys of other years, No longer fredi .and bright. 11. For Richards’ Weekly Guzetie. TO . Could I reveal the secret joy Thy pre-e ce ever with it brings. The memories so strangely waked Os long forgotten things— The love, the hope, the fear, the grief, Which with that voice come back to me— Thou wouldst forgive th” impassioned gaze So often turned on thee ; Forgive in’ that a former bliss Hath sometimes nerved me, Isabel, To lo >k the passion from my eyes I would but dare not tell. It was indeed, that early love But foretaste of this second one, — The soil light of the morning star Before the morning sun. The same dark beauty in her eye— The same proud calm upon her brow— The samj deep-meaning, quiet smile Thou bendest on me now.— She m ght have been—she was no more Than what a prescient hope could make, A dear presentiment of thee I loved her for thy sake ! Aolaus. A VERY NICE BOILED INDIAN PUDDING. Three pints of sifteJ Indian meal. Half a pound of beef-suet, minced as fine as possible. A quart of milk. Half a pint of West India molasses. Six eggs. Three or four sticks of cinnamon, broken small. A grated nutmeg. Having cleared ihe suet from the skin and strings, chop ilas fine as possible, and mix it with the Indian meal. Boil the cinnamon in the milk till it is highly fla voured. Then strain the milk (boiling hot) into the pan of Indian meal and suet, and add the molasses. Stir the mixture very hard. Cover it and set it away in a cool place. Beat the eggs till quite light, and add them, gradually, to the mixture as soon as it is quite cold. Then grate the nutmeg. Dip a thick square cloth into boiling water, shake it out, dredge it with flour, and then spread it open in a deep pan, and pour in the mixture. Leaving one-third of the space vacant, allowing for the pudding to swell, tie the cloth very se curely, and guard against water getting in to it, plug up the little crack at the tying place by plasteirng on a bit of dough made of flour and water. Put the pudding into a large pot of boiling water, having an old plate in at the bottom, and boil it six hours or more, turning it often, and re plenishing the pot, when necessary, with boiling water from a kettle. If you dine early, the pudding should be mixed before breakfast. Serve it hot. . Eat it with wine sauce, with butter and molasses or with a sauce of butter, sugar, lemon juice and nutmeg, beaten together to a cream. What is left of the pudding, may next day he tied in a cloth, and boil ed over again for an hour. TYRANNICAL EXACTIONS ON THE CUBANS. By the following, from La Verdad, the Spanish paper in New York, it appears that the Cubans really deserve as much sympathy as the Hungarians. No govern ment scarce ever made more tyrannical ex actions. We copy some of them : Little less than a fourth part more than that which is wrung from the number of 600,000 free inhabitants, suffices to sus tain all the expenses of the government of these United Slates, in which are counted more than twenty millions of inhabitants, and which, with little more than half the number of soldiers that we support in Cu ba, have more than enough for the protec tion and garrison of their boundaries and forts. Flour and many other articles of first necessity for the sustenance of the indus trial and poorer classes, are charged with a duty varying from 50 to 260 per cent, of the first price of the article, such as rice, salt fish, Indian meal, live pigs to be slaughtered, &c. Salt fish, on which wc find a charge of 33 per cent, only in the tariff, when imported in foreign vessels pays 66 per cent, and the same thing hap pens with other articles enumerated ,and numerous others of the first necessity. Our farmers have to pay 2$ per cent, on sugar and 10 per cent., on their other har vests, when gathered, the same as all en gaged in raising live stock, for all their cattle, exclusive of the charges arising from exportation. Every inhabitant is compelled to ask for a license and pay for the same, even in case he wants to go the distance of a sin gle mile from the place of his residence. He cannot remove his residence from one house into another, without giving no tice previously of his intention, to the an thorities, under the penalty of a heavy fine. He is hot permitted to lodge in his house for a single night, any person, either na j tive or foreigner, be the same his friend or a member of his family, without giving the same information, also under the pen alty of a like punishment. He may not have in his house any com pany or amusement of any sort, if he does not solicit, obtain and pay for a license (5,50) or lie must submit to be mulcted for an infraction of the regulations. lie pays 6 to 0j per cent, of the value of any slave, or any property, in town or country, that he may sell, besidesall other charges of notaries, of registration, of stamped paper, &c. There isstamped paper, the useof which si enforced Dy the Government, and sold by it at the price of $8 every sheet, and it is necessary on a solemn oath to prove one’s poverty, in order to be admitted to the use of cheaper paper, a sheet of which costs six cents. Some months ago an order was received by the Captain General of the Island, pro hibiting parents from sending their child ren to the United States, for purposes of education; and such parents are now driven to the expedient of proving ill health or feigning it for their children,in or der to oltain passports for them. In the whole Island of Cuba a most brutal spirit of despotism is strikingly prevalent, in all officials of the Government Iron, the Captain General ('own to the most abject of his hirelings, without even ex cepting municipal and other local author ities. In Matanzas, Cardenas Guines, Madru ga and other places, the most revolting scenes of torture, gallows, butcheries and infernal machinations w’ere enacted in the year 1845, different Regidores, and other members of ihe corporation of Matanzas were severely chastised for having pres sumed to present a respectful remonstrance to the Royal I’retorial Audiencia at Ha vana, complaining of the Government of ficials, &c. Another article contains the following. The editor is recording events which have transpired since 1827 : “ More than a million of African sava ges imported into the Island of Cuba, in surrection of slaves, and tortures, gibbets, and slaughter to punish and subdue them; new fetters added to those which oppress ed Cuba, arbitrary and cruel imprison ments, atrocious, unrelenting persecutions banishments, sentences of deat:’, execu tions, all, all that there is most contrary and repugnant to humanity. GEORGIA SCENES. , A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser , | writing from Marietta, Georgia, gives the j following agreeable gossip : Among the practitioners at the Marietta | bar, is an old fedow by the name of Galt, lan eccentric genius, and as celebrated in : his way as the “Governorof Hottentot’’ or | “Old Brandywine” in Mobile. He had a ; cause yesterday, having been engaged to J defend an unfortunate individual in suit for slander, who had called the plaintif a rogue, j who thereupon brought a suit. Galt de fended his client in his usual peculiar style. “ May the Court please and Gentlemen of the Jury,” said he, planting his right leg in a dramatic attitude, and performinga system of gymnastics with his “ Palo-Alto,” “ when I was a young man, cuttin round ; among the gals, I often chucked the pretty ! creturs under the chin, and called ’em rogues: but, Gentlemen of the Jury, I didn’t mean to charge ‘em witn stealin, or to call ’em thieves. I only meant that they young men’s hearts—and do you think that they sued me for slander? No, gen tlemen of the jury, they didn’t!” Os course the “gentlemen of the jury” were convinced. During Court week, the piazza of our hotel has been a great point of attraction for the “sovereigns.” The ladies’parlor, which opens into the piazza, possesses a mong other articles of furniture, a piano. Some of our lady visitors, who assemble in the parlor after dinner, occasionally rattle offa song or two, to “trip the light fantas | tic” finger over the keys, to the infinite de | light of the crowd outside. I Yesterday one of “the people” who had j been imbibing a little something sweet, at a I “confectionary” not far off, sailed in, and I after hearing “Dan Tucker” and “Susan | ah” with great relish, threw down a half ! dollar to the young lady at the piano: “ Here's ha-half a dol-dollar for that nr article,” hiccupped the “sovereign.” “I’ m going to bring B-Betsy and the old woman i down to-to-morrow —and I’ll put down five dol-dollars, and get you to pl-pl-play it out, and he staggered off. To-day, sure enough, he came back a gain. sober as a deacon, with a clean shirt, and Betsy on one arm, and the old woman on the other, to hear his five dollars worth of music. I'm sole manager of this concerns* the cobbler sa ; 4 when engaged upon apa f of boots.