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BY JAMES GARDNER.
President Pierce’s First Ride in Madeira.
A corespondent of the Sew Hampshire Patriot,
■and a companion At voyajt of Mr. and Mrs. Fraxk
us Pikhcb, on board of the U. S. steamer Pawhat
tan, to Madeira, concludes a letter from Funchal
with the following particulars of the voyage, and
the landing of the distinguished passengers:
“ft will be gratifying to the numerous friends of
vfcs Pierce—for indeed I hare ret to learn who is
f o t_to learn that she bore th. voyage with sur
prising fortitude; and thoogk prostrated for some
'davsbv a rough, sea, rallied again, and reached
Mi/ieira in as good health as when she left the
TTuitedStates. For a conwlerable part of the pas
skge she walked the deck daily, and with so farm
elastic* step as to arrpnse as well as to grati
fy those who know her exceeding delicacy and
*railtv. She seemed to enjoy the ocean scenery
and the movements ofhhe ship, and the drill and
muster of the men; and when on the Sabbath
morning she woke ay, breathing the balmy air of
Madeira the church bells softly pealing upon her
ears and the proud mountains and most picturesque
sceuerv bursting upon her eyes, tier spinta.instant,
h and A. next day she established herself
in her new home-and a most charming one U is.
Devoutly is it to be hoped that a lady ot so many
of the highest and best qualities of the head and
heart, and of whom a human voice never spoke but
411 praise, and even that pained her, receive
all that benefit from this admirable climate which
her friends aaticipate. Should her bailth he un
proved by a winter residence here, Gen. Pierce
proposes visiting Spain and Italy in the summer,
and may indeed protract his travels on the conti
nent beyond the year.
“ 1 need not say that the presence of Gen. Pierce
added much to the interest of the passage. Leav
ing the President at Washington, and taking with
him only his own manhood, he won all hearts by
his courtesies and attentions, mingling freely with
the officers os an equal, and visiting the sick an
regularly as the physician. When he left, the
highest military honor was shown him. • The
vards were all manned, the marines drawn up un
der arms, and the men stationed at the immense
guns, while the band, in their red jackets, were
ready to strike up the music. Arm in arm, the
General and Mrs. Pierce walked to the gangway,
where Capt. Pearson’s boat awaited them, when
Gen. Pierce suddenly stopped, turned about and
uncovered, and addressed both officer s and men in
one of the neatest, most pertinent, and eloquent
speeches, which, as the officers confessed, they
ever heard. Capt. Pearson briefly and sensibly re
plied in behalf of himself and his fellow officers,
and when the fairly under way, the guns
roared such a thunder storm as I never heard—
terrible even without thunderbolts and bullets.
The reverberations from the mountains, the peaks,
and the immense gorges, were admirable, rolling
about, and upwards and backwards, and inter
mingling, till it could not be told whence they
started. The whole mountain seemed to shake.
Reaching the shore, a carriage awaited them ;
laugh not, reader, nor accuse me of dealing in
the poetic, when I describe it —a thing (most evi
dently it was not asper-it,) like the top of an old
stage’ let down upon an equally old wood-sled, and
drawn by a yoke of oxen! Such are the only car
riages in Funchal, and in one of them the late
President of the United States and his fair and
honorable lady entered, nothing doubting, and
were conducted to their palatial home. Such is
life! Such is riding!”
St. Valentine’s Day.
Sunday, the 14th of February, is what used to
be known when we were a boy as Valentine’s day.
This would have been considered unfortunate tliir
tvVears ago among the young people, as they could
not hare iheir quiltings, candy pul bags, Ac., un
* less Saturday or Monday wa subiS^ed.
Er?;', forget “* f
we were enough % be aH*wed *ll in
vitation, nor the happy feelings we experienced on
J the reception of our first Valentine from Jenny
Me a little Irish girl just entered her teens.
* It was as all of them used to be, folded in the shape
of a fan with serrated edges and divers hearts of
vai#ns sizes cat with elegant precision. Within
l its hallowed folds was written divers verses which
I to us had considerable C'upidritj about them, snch
as,
** Rose, are red and violets Mne,
Sugar’s Nweet, and so are you.
The world la wide, the sea Is deep,
So In your beloved arms, ire.
As some of our readers may be anxious to know
something of the origin of St. Valentine's day and
how it came to be set apart for choosing mates for
life, we append from tlic Boston Poet alt that seems
to be known of the subject:
Mr. Douce, whose attainments include more
erudition concerning the origin and progress of
English customs than any other antiquarian pos
sesses, must be referred to upon this occasion. lie
observes in his “ illustrations of Shakspeare,” con
cerning St. Valentine’s day, that “it was the prac
tice in ancient Koine, during a great part of this
month, February, to celebrate the Lupercalia,
which were feasts in honor of Pan and Juno,
whence the latter deity was named Fetiruata, Feb
i- rulis, and Februlla. On this occasion, amidst a
A 1 variety of ceremonies, the names of young women
* ■ were put into a box, from which they were drawn
bv the men as chance directed. The pastors of the
’ -early Christian church, who by every possible
' r ' -means endeuvored to eradicate the vtstigea of
pagan superstitions, and chiefly by some communi
cations of tbeir forms, substituted, in the present
jSK- ’.justance, the names of particular saints instead of
'V those of the women, and as the festival of the Lu
percaliu had commenced about the middle of Feb
ruary, they appear to have chosen St. Valentine’s
day for celebrating the new feast, because it oc
, curred nearlv at the same time. This is, in part,
the (minion of a learned and rational compiler of
the " lives of the Saints,” the Rev. Alban Kntler.
It vsculd seem, however, that it was utterly impos
sible to extirpate altogether any ceremony to
whioh the common people had been much accus
tomed; a fact which it were easy to prove in trac
ing the origin of various other popular supersti
tions. And accordingly the outline of the an
cient ceremonies was preserved, but modified by
gome adoption to the Christian system. It is reason
able to suppose that the above practice of choos
' ing mates would gradually become reciprocal in
the sexes ; and that all persons so chosen would be
called Valentines, from the day on which the cere
_ mony took place.”
f? Origin or Odo-Fkllows.—lt has been supposed
hy raanv tb*t the origin of the society of Odd-
Fellows’—or t atherthe organization of ass xsiation—
was of a comparatively modern date. They will
be somewhat surprised, however, says the Cinciu
natii Times, to learn that its origin dates as far
back as the time of Nero, and was established by
the Roman soldiers in tbeyear 55. At that time they
? were called “ Fellow-Citijens.” The present name
S was given them by Titus Caesar, twenty-four years
£ / afterwards; and they were so called from the gin
giitar character of their meeting, and from their
knowing each other by night or day by means of
t mvsticaT signs and language. At the same time
he presented them with a dispensation, engraved
on a plate of gold, bearing different emblems of
K mortality. In the fifth eentury, the Order was es
tablished in the Spanish dominion, and in Portu
gal in the sixth century. It did foot reach France
and England until the eleventh century. It was
then established in the latter century by John lie
Heviie, who, assisted by five knights from France,
. formed a Grand Lodge in London. This ancient
f r..-fraternity has now its lodges it eveiw quarter of
a the globe, and, by its nselulneSl and benevolent
ap character, commands the respect and countenance
ofalllwho are acquainted with its nature and
purposes. Those upon whose information reliance
may be placed, give credit to Baltimore for first
i- iDtfoduciDg Odd-Fellowship into the United
States, and to Grand Sire Thomas V> ildey, still
' 1 living among us, belongs the honor.
■Bfer ■ ■ ■ #
£. Boston, Feb. 9.—The Pemberton Mills at Law-
L rence—six mill powers, the land and buildings,
j> with wheels, shafting, gearing, Ac., together with
S'-, ten boarding houses and four tenements for over
fc seers—was sold at auction yesterday to Mr. David
I ?sgvips, for three hundred and twenty-five t housand
Hpf dollars. There was a large attendance of capttal-
Itt jgtg interested in manufacturing, and the sale was
Ur, considered, nder the circumstances, as a very
good one.
The Jews of Moror.eo.
The Revue Oontemporaine conUins a second pa
per by M. Cotte on the social state of Morocco,
from which we condense the following harrowing
picture of the condition of the Israelites in that
unhappy country. The Jews are considered by
the Mussulmen of Morocco in the light of unclean
animals and of enemies of God, and if they do not
exterminate them it is only because they are use
ful, and because true believers have a right to turn
everything to account. Indeed, were the Jewish
population suddenly removed from the country,
such an event would be a public calamity of incal
culable magnitude; for it is the Jews alone who
can mend a lock, and bnild a house, make gold
and silver trinkets, coin money, decorate a room,
or weave silk, all such handicrafts being regarded
by the Mussulman with supreme contempt. Even
the Sultan himself i* obliged to have recourse to
them for the collection of taxes or negotiations
with Christians. Slaves in appearance, the Jews
possess in reality all that power which superior
talent and cunning can confer. Every night the
Jews are shut up m a particular quarter enclosed
with a wall, and it is only after sunrise they are
allowed to enter the Mussulman town, where they
have their shops. The Jewish quarter is called
“Mellah,” which means a place of damnation.
Tangier alone has none, because that town is al
ready 44 defiled” by the presence of Christian con
suls. The Jew is obliged to wear black clothes,
that color being the emblem of misfortune and
malediction. It he passes before a mosque, a
zaouia or chapel, or if he meet a holy man, a mar
about, or a sheriff, he must take off his shoes and
carry them in his hand until he has passed them.
They are not allowed to cross a Mussulman ceme
tery, and their women are publicly flogged on the
slightest pretence by a Mussulman woman, special
ly designed for this function, and who is called the
ahrifa.
If a Mussulman strike a Jew, the latter is not
permitted to defend himself otherwise than by
flight or stratagem. Mussulman children not more
than eight or ten years old may some‘imes be seen
beating and throwing stones at vigorous young
Jews twice their size and age; they bite them, box
their ears, scratch them ; and yet ’the unfortunate
Israelites, with agony depicted on their faces, dare
not retaliate, and limit all their defense to endea
vors to escape from their tormentors. When the
Sultan passes through a town the Jews of the
place are obliged to offer him rich and magnificent
presents. Yet, with all this burden of servitude
upon them, they never abjure their faith ; but this
constancy, certainly commendable in itself, is
coupled with the grossest ignorance and supersti
tion. The creed they are tauglrt is this—that God
has dispersed them for a time, and that they must
bend under his wrath until all the nations of the
globe have passed over them ; cut that the day
will conve when they shall all be assembled in the
land of tneir fathers, and be as powerful as before.
•Meanwhile, all that the other nations possess they
have been unjustly deprived of, and they therefore
have a right to get possession of it again by any
stratagem they can devise. They hate the Chris
tians quite as much as the Mussulmen, although
the little protection they enjoy at Tangier is due
to the Christian consuls. When a Christian en
ters the house of a protected Jew, he is received
with every mark of hospitality; but no sooner U
his back turned, than the glass out of which he
has drunk is broken into pieces, and everything
he has touched is subjected to a rigorous purifica
tion, performed with many complicated ceremo
nies. A Jewish servant will not eat the meat she
has cooked for a Christian, although bought at a
Jewish butcher’s, because it has been cooked in
Christian vessels.
Astonishing Performance before He£ Majesty.
On Wednesday morning, the 13th, at Windsor, Mr
J. 8. Rarey, from the United States of America,
had the honor of exhibiting before her Majesty,
the Prince and the Royal Family and
mute, iiatbe riduir-hou.se, Ml miraculous newer
- mtrer fHPrnorse. , TwYeral animals were ‘dectSl as
at&jeets of his experiments, lie commenced with
a wild colt, eighteen months old, belonging to
the Prince Consort, which was brought from Shaw
Farm, and which had never been handled except
by halter, and had been chosen by Colonel the Hon
orable A. N. Hood for the occasion. After being
alone with the animal for about an hour and a half;
the royal party entered, and found Mr. Rarey sit
ting on its back, without holding the rein, the
horse standing perfectly quiet. Mr. Rarey then
made a few remarks in regard to his great experi
ence in the treatment of this noble animal; a arum
was afterwards bunded to Mr. Rarey, which he
beat with fury whilst sitting on the liorse’s back,
without the colt exhibiting any signs of fear. The
royal party afterwards withdrew for a few min
utes, and on their return found the animal lying
down, and Mr. Rarey knocking its hind legs
together, one of which’ he put against his face.
Afterwards a restive horse, selected from Mr.
Anderson’s stables, in London, which Mr. Rarey
said he had before handled, was placed at one end
of the riding house alone. Mr. Karev went to the
other end, and at his commnnd the horse walked
quietly up to him. He then made the horse lie
down in tne presence of the Queen, when Mr. Rarey
crawled between bis hind legs, and over him in
various ways. Mr. Rarey then rolled the horse on
his back. The horse was afterwards placed in va
rious positions, in which it stood without holding,
and without a bridle. A third horse, selected by
Mr. Meyers, the riding master, as a very nervous
animal,' was then brought in, and in a few minutes
afterwards it was made by Mr. Rarey to do al!
which had been done by the other horses. At the
conclusion of this exhibition of Mr. Rarey’s won
derful power over the horse, his Roval Highness
the Prince Consort, expressed to Mr. Rarey his
gratification and thanks. The secret has been en
trusted to Major-General Richard Airey, in confi
dence, who has pronounced that there is nothing
in the treatment but what any horseman would
approve of. The seeret will be made known when
a sufficient number of subscribers has been ob
tained. —Liverpool Times, Jan. 23.
Edmund Burke’s Idea of a Perfect Wife.— She
is handsome, but it is not a beauty arising from the
features, from complexion, or from shape. She
has all three in a high degree, but it is not by these
that she touches the heart—it is all that sweetness
of temper, benevolence, innocence, and sensibility
which a face can express, that forms her beauty.
She has a face that just arouses your attention at
first sight; it grows upon you every moment, and
you wonder it did not more than raise attention at
first. Her eyes have a mild light, but they awe
when she pleases, they commantf, like a good man
out of office, not by authority, but by virtue. Her
stature is not tall, she is not made to be the ad
miration of every one, but the happiness of one.
She has the firmness that does not exclude delica
cy-all the softness that does not implv weakness.
Her voice is soft, low music, not formed to rule in
public assemblies, but to charm those who can
distinguish a company from a crowd; it has its
advantage, you must coine close to hear it. lo
describe her body, describe her mind -one is the
transcript of the other. Her nndjfttanding is not
shown in the variety of matter it exerts itself
upon but the goodness of the choice she makes.
Her politeness flows rather from a natural dispo
sition to oblige, than any rules on that object, and
therefore never fails to strike those who under
stand good breeding, and those who do not.
Dox’t xick him.—Hon. Henry Wilson, Senator
from Massachusetts, according to present appear
ances, will not be returned to the Senate. Wilson
appreciates this state of things; hence be has com
menced blustering and bullying in Congress, in or
der, it is understood, to get kicked or cuffed—
Sumnerized—and by that secure a re-election after
the manner of his broken-headed colleague. The
anti-Wilsonites of Massachusetts therefore appeal
to fire-eaters, in fact to all mankind, not to strike,
beat, kick, maltreat, or in any wav molest the
aforesaid champion of freedom, for, if they do, he
will be re-elected to the United States Senate in
spite of thunder, and that would be doing them a
great despite. They don’t want the Sumner
dodge played over again. The only thing that can
save Wilson, Banks, A Co., from defeat in Massa
chusetts next year, will be a row of that kind, aDd
nothing would gratify them more than to see it
take place. It would be a god-send to them.
v Troy Daily Budget.
Hoops.—Simpson says the ladies do not set
their capsforthe gentlemen any more; they spread
their hoops.
A.TJGRJSTA, GA„ FEBRUARY 17, 1858.
From the Baltimore Sun, If eh. 10. f
Thirty-Filth Congress—First Session* J
Washington, Feb. 9.— Senate.—' Various peti-j
tions and memorials were presented, including*
one from lowa, praying a reimbursement ot the j
expenses of the Indian war at Spirit Lake, and
that the volunteers in that war receive a grant of
public lands.
Mr. Douglas, from the committee on foreign re
lations, reported a resolution granting authority
to the President to settle all the difficulties with
Paraguay. Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Douglas moved to take up his Kansas rat
olution, calling for returns of the elections held in
that Territory, Ac. *
Messrs. Mason and Green opposed it, and the
motion was lost—yeas 23, nays 30. The yeas wer
as follows: Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Cameron
Chandler, Collam<»r, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas,
Durkee, Fessender, Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamlin,
Harlan, Kin*, Seward, Simmons, Stuart, Sumner,
Trumbull, Wade and Wilson.
The absentees were Messrs. Bates, Bayard, Clark,
Johnson of Arkansas, Reid, Thompson of Ken
tucky, Thomson of New Jersey, and Wright.
Mr. Dixon made a speech on the subject of Kan-
HM and the slavery anestion generally.
Mr. Foot opposed the increase of the army, and
was even in favor of having its present strength re
duced, in consideration of the present bankrupt
state of the treasury, and for other reasons.
Mr. Pugh said he was in favor of reducing both
the army and navy.
Mr. Benjamin had not yet been able to see any
necessity for an increase of the army, though he
had looked into all the documents.
Mr. Hamlin opposed the bill. He would not
vote a single dollar to send troops into Kansas or
Utah.
Wr. Wilson obtained the floor, and the Senate
adjourned.
House. —A resolution was adopted authorising
the committee appointed to investigate the ac
counts and official conduct of the late doorkeeper
to extend their inquiry to any charges affecting the
official conduct of the present doorkeeper.
Mr. J. Glancy Jones, from the committee on
ways and means, reported a bill to enable the
President to fulfil the treaty stipulations with Den
mark for the abolition of the sound dues.
Mr. Goode, from the committee on the District
of Columbia, reported a bill to reimburse the cor
poration of Georgetown for advances made for the
completion of the Little Falls bridge; which was
committed to the committee of the whole on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Stephens, from committeejon territo
ries, reported a bill appropriating SBO,OOO to au
thorise the President, in connection with the State
of Texas, to run the bounthws line between the
boundaries of the United and that State.
It was passed. W
Mr. Haskin offered aVresolutiorf, which was
adopted, providing for the appointment of a spe
cial committee to investigate all the facts and cir
cumstances connected with the sale and purchase
of a tract of land at Willett’s or Wilkinson’s Point,
New York, for government fortifications, last year,
with power to send for persons and papers.
The remainder of the day was occupied with the
reception of bills and resolutions from various
members. Adjourn«^f
Appointments by the President. —By and with
the advice and consent of th&Senat*.— George Vail,
of New Jersey, consul or the United States at
Glasgow.
John S. Daney, of North Carolina, consul of the
United States at Dundee.
Alex. Henderson, of Pennsylvania, consul of the
United States at Londonderry.
H. Rives Pollard, of the Territory of Kansas,
consul of the United States at Bangkok, in Siam.
Brooke B. Williams, of the District of Columbia,
consul of the United States at A
Ferdinand L. ‘Wmiento, of Pewwylvaifla, «»•
tmroT the CJefttd States at Venice.
John D. Dkimatari, of Georgia, consol of the
United States at Athens.
Stokes L. Roberts, of Pennsylvania, consul of
the United States at Trinidad de Cuba.
John B. Costa, of Texas, consul of the United
States at Nice.
Joseph Walsh, of Louisiana, consul of the United
States at Monterey.— Washington Union.
A Start in the World. —Many a parent works
hard and lives sparingly all his life, for the pur
pose of laying up enough to give his children 41 a
start in the world.” This kind of worldly wisdom
is great fully, especially where it leads to the neg
lect of their mentul education and their moral
training. Nay, it is often followed by the most
ruinous results. Setting a young man afloat with
money which he never aided in earning, is like
tying bladders under the arms of one who has
never learned to swim. Ten chances to one he
will lose his bladders and sink to the bottom. The
true policy is to teach him to swim, and then be
will not need the bladders. The parent who gives
his child a good education, who traius him to in
dustrious habits and bases his principles firmly
upon the great laws of truth and duty, leaves him
an inheritance more valuable than the wealth of
the Indies. This sort Os “start” ensures a suc
cessful career. Other kinds of “start” make u /ast
young men who not only soon “stick fast” hy
the way, but become utterly worthless to them
selves and others. —Spartanburg Repress.
Tiie Financial Value of India. —ln dispensing
its revenue of £‘27,000,000 we provide employment
fov a large number of our countrymen, and thus
add to the general wealth of the nation. No fewer
than ten thousand British officers, of the higher
grade, are to be numbered in the civil and milita
ry service of the government, whose incomes
range from £2OO to *25,000 a year. All these are
well-born and educated men of the middle classes,
who find an honorable provision out of the re
sources of India. The total sum they draw year
ly cannot be less than £#,000,000 or £7,000,000
sterling. We have not included the European
common soldiers, of whom there were thirty thou
sand before the mutiny, and there will be in future
at least seventy or eighty thousand. All these are
maintained out of the Indian treasury, at a cost
which must hereafter exceed £3,000,000. Again,
there are the pensions granted to retired officers,
officers’ widow’s and children, ia the two services,
which are cootributed by India and expended in
England. In round numbers, w r e shall not be far
wrong if we estimate the direct worth of India to
Englishmen of all classes at not less than £lO,-
000,000. This is a magnificent subsidy for one
country to pay another, and though we cannot
agree w ith M. de Valbezen that but for this re
source England would not have survived the trials
of 1793 and IS4S, we must allow that it is an im
portant item of the account between India and
England.— Westminster Review.
Small Notes. —We cannot join in the hue and
cry now being raised by some presses and individ
uals against bank bills of a less denomination than
five dollars, because we do not see any objection
to such currency, but, on the contrary, we look
upon it as a great convenience to the public. The
gold dollar is too small for practical utility, and
the quarter eagle is so near the size of a silver
quarter as often to be taken for it, as the gold dol
lar is for a five cent piece. Besides this, what are
we printers to do for suitable money to have en
closed for a year’s subscription to newspapers, if
there are no bills less than five dollars in circula
tion? Such a restriction would be fatal to a busi
ness whose chief income consists of two dollar
bills. Now we object to any change in this respect.'
The principle is the same whether the banks issue
small or large bills, and for the greatest v- ave
nience of the greatest number, the smaller denomi
nations will always have the preference, other
things being equal. At least, we shall be satisfied
if we can only get enough of them for the daily
transactions of life. Our debtors need not, there
fore, fear to send us small bills on solvent banks.
We will continue to take all that may be offered,
at their par value. —Georgia Citizen .
Parson Green, of Hempstead, L. 1. is the most
venerable clergyman in the United States, being
now ninety-niue years old. When in his seven
teenth year he was a soldier in the revolutionary
army, was engaged in many of the important
skirmishes of the war, and was one of the hollow
souare of soldiers inside of which the Declaration
or Independence was read on the fourth of July,
1778.— Exohangt.
From the Liverpool Times.
J«H|Bpotes of Mademoiselle Rachel.
jK&ram correspondent of the Manchester i
transmits the following gossip : 1
lyMSSjjd of public event is the death of Rachel.
[Wfor many months it was thought impossi- ,
recover, still the fatal issue of her
not looked for at the moment when it
Mid thirty-six hours previously to her death,
SjHpljimtten to Prince Napoleon, to beg of him ,
cross of the Legion of Honor for her
pnjjHpttib D r - Bergonnet, whom, in her letter, she ■
saveur , and who she really did then, on
her demise, imagine had succeeded in
ifliper. She leaves a fortune of one million
thousand francs (forty-eight thousand
of our money). Six hundred thou
sajjpEjgatieg are to be divided amongst her sons, of
belter, there are three or four, and the
reapPtaFg six hundred thousand are parceled out
befwgpsher family and different small legacies,
her thirty-eighth year.
eldest son, a boy about fourteen,
whdwmtber is Count Walewaki, is being educated
atCwlwßfeand knew nothing of his mother’s death.
mine was requested to see the Minister
of Foreign Affairs on this subject, and inquire
frcF ; him if he did not think it fitting that the boy
sbdQpl* present at the funeral, which takes place
to-tttflrov; but Count Walewski said he did not
deep itpy any means necessarv, and that it would
child a sad and disagreeable lm
pfnHfe Most people imagine that the real fact
is, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs does not
chooty»tlla& the crowd at Rachel’s funeral should
say, * There, that young lad, who is chief mourner,
and Rachel's son, is the son also of M. Walewski,
■ the Jirst minister of the empire.’ Besides this,
many would have added, 4 Ten or twelve years
■ back, that boy’s father persecuted Rachel, the ac
tress,: to become his wife; and what was then term
- ed her good sense, and her friends who surround
’ ed and besought her not to think of such a thing,
• aloneprevented the marriage.’ All this might not
. be particularly flattering to M. Walewski just now;
sothejQqug Alexander Napoleon Viscount Wa
i lewskt (for he is perfectly acknowledged) is left
.in school at Geneva, and kept from the public
. eye.’*-
“ Majsy papers are literally full of Rachel only,
t and anecdotes and biographical notices cram their
. columns. U would take volumes to relate them
, all, buAsotoe few are interesting. All prove super
, abundantly the existence of the frightfully avari
; cious «fesp4£itfoa with which the illustrious trago
dienneM*'often been taxed, and the mean and in
. tenwtHHfjlrish propensities for which the whole of
. the FefKjbmily were so remarkable. One anec
j dote to illustrate this, which shows that,
; with Rachel, sordidness got the better of a certain
' desireio 44 show off,” wliich was nevertheless very
strong to her. HShe had a9ked to dinner some tis
? teen grtpLjlieople, such as the Due de Nouillesand
. others* ffe,meet MM. Pousard, Angier, and some of
. their drama tic colleagues. The dinner cost twelve
, hundred francs, but she was to furnish the dessert*
Accordingly, iu the morning of the day fixed, she
drove with a friend to Ch# vet’s, and ordered a very
handsome dessert. When this was done, Chevet
pointed to her a colossal pine-apple, sent direct
from the Antilles, saying 4 tnere is what you should
have in the middle.’ The price was asked, seventy
francs, &ad Rachel exclaimed that she could not
think of such a thing, still she longed for the
pine, and at last said to Chevet, 4 Could you not
let me have it for a few hours ?’ Chevet smiled,
and at last consented, as it was for Mademoiselle
Rachel. The dinner was eaten, and at dessert the
guests grew gay, until at last the Due de San Teo
aore, observing*!) iis neighbor that no one had
yet though* of the splendid pine-apple in the mid
dle of teisle, stretched forth his arm, and
plunged knife into the heart of the golden
fruitt -4k jfr 'iMral that it ttxnfied every
<>t»e Irom Rachel’s Mps, and she
r
the person next io him, 4 Do you think Rachel has
under her Ifeft breast a pine-apple instead of a
heart? The incident ran all over Paris in twenty
four bour% and the • pine apple of seventy francs’
was the standing joke of every salon for a fort
night.
44 With all this avarice, however, Rachel was
not behind hand in generosity when her own tribe
was concerned. She would grumble for a whole
evening if she lost thirty sous at cards among her
brothers au<f sisters; but if any of these asked for
a ebuple of hundred pounds in any emergency, she
was always ready to lend them. This, however,
only related to her own immediate family, and to
a small knot of Jew intimates; for all the rest of
the world she was avarice itself, and went no fur
ther than promises of assistance, of which coin she
'was singularly lavish. She used, at every instant,
to promise gifts of all kinds, jewels, pictures, Ac.;
but she never really gave anything.
44 On all sides, these two days, have appeared
publicatioߣi>f her letters, but few r are worth re
peating. Hera and there you will find a spark of
e*prit; butjt is mostly couched in vulgar words.
Tne more one sees what she really was, the less
one can understand whence came, upon the stage,
her peculiar and incomparable quality—dignity.
She has node, in thought, expression, or charac
ter; yet as M. Mole said, on or t*.T ’.e age, she is.
in mere manner and bearing, 44 a born princes?.’
Rachel was a curious enigma, and, such as she
was, the French stage will, probably, never fill up
the place she leaves vacant/’
Malle. Rachel had a narrow escape of being buried
alive. Eleved hours after the telegrapic dispatch
reached Paris of her death she was still breath
ing. The operator who came to embalm, first felt
the carotid urtery, and was startled to find pulsa
tion; the truth was known at once, and she only
died in the evening.
The Omrt Journal says the recognition by
: Prince Napoleon of one of'the children of the late
Mad’lle. Rachel, has caused an immense sensation.
M. Avigdor, head of the Jewish consistory at
Nice, has written a letter to M. Alphonse Karr’s
1 journal, the Terre Promise , declaring that the de
ceased in her liurt moments had the consolation of
the Jewish religion, and that when she was visited
about two months back by some meinbers of the
Jewish Benevolent Society of Nice, she expressed
her firm determination to* die in the religion of her
fathers.
Mademoiselle Rachel was buried with great cere
mony on Monduy morning. Her remains arrived
in Paris on Saturday evening, under the care of
her brother and sister, M. Raphael and Mademoi
selle Sarah Felix. The interment took place in
the Jewish cemetery at Pere-la-Chaise. Speeches
were pronounced over the grave by M. Maquet, of
the Theatre Franoais, M. Bataille, of the Opera
Comique, and M. Jules Janin, the celebrated critic.
Mademoiselle Rachel was interred, pursuant to her
own wish, by the side of her sister Rebecca, who
died some yeartr before.
Spirit Rapping in Paris. —All Paris society is
running wild after a certain Baron de Gul’den
stubbe and his lister, who are said to be equal, if
they do not surpass, Mr. Hume in the influence they
possess over the spirits of the air, and in the facili
ty, frequency, and marvelousness of their commu
nications with them. It seems that “Red Gaunt
let” reveals to tfeem, by means of direct writings,
a host of startling events; propbechies, Acand,
m short, the mind is more than overturned m that ,
direction in Paris. Among other miracle-workers
is a Moldavian prince, whose magnetic powers are ,
such that he haaonly to present a flower to any
one to subjeot them instantly to bis influence.
Liverpool Times.
Sale of the Fashion.— The sale of this steamer (
came off yesterday, as advertised. We were not
E resent, but we judge the bidding could not have i
een very spirited, from the fact of her being \
bought by Mr. Humphries for two hundred dollars, i
Our attention has been called to an error in our ’
remarks yesterday morning, in which we assumed j
that the Fashion had been declared forfeited. This
was not the case, nor can we believe that any i
court would have made such a decree. She was <
sold on application of Mr. Humphries, who was ’
desirous of thus cutting short a vexations suit. »
Mobile Mercury, Feb. !
Fi*:e in Edenton, N. C.— A destructive fire oc- 1
cunvd in Edemon, N. C., on the 2nd instant, cau«- I
ing a loss of about f.»rty thousand dollars, on which I
there was an insurance of nine or ten thousand 1
dollars. Two hoflses were blown up m order to i
arrest the progress of the flames.
WUmmyion Journal.
Persecution of Christians in Madagascar.
The last mail brings tidings of another fearful
persecution of the Christians in Madagascar.
Thirteen persons had been put to death; between p
fifty and sixty had been subjected to the tangena, ft
or poison water, under which eight had died; a
nearly sixty were bound m chains, of whom two
had died; while a number more had been reduced a
to slavery. The severity of the persecution ren- a
dering communication from the suffers exceeding- e
ly perilous, fewparticulars have as yet been re- v
ceived. The French and other foreign traders
have not been molested in their commercial pur
suits on the coast.— Liverpool Times. p
p
The Fashion Again. —We have succeeded in
annoying, at least ourselves, by our mistakes p
about the sale of this vessel. She was not sold to t<
prevent litigation, but as perishable property liable s
to waste, while a law suit is pending. As it is the
prerogative and duty of a Judge under such cir- ti
cumstances, she was ordered to be sold for the a
benefit of the future successful party. The law I
suit may nevertheless proceed to its legitimate
termination unless discontinued by the prosecu- a
tor. The principles involved may yet be discussed
and adjudicated in the Court. The pecuniary m- fc
terest involved is the two hundred dollars the ves- t
sel sold for.— Mobile Mercury , Feb. 10. f
g
Defrauding Uncle Sam. —ln accordance with
the recent instructions from Washington, the post- s
masters throughout the country are looking up t
the frauds which are every day committed to avoid e
lawful postage. The extent of these frauds will be
best understood by our enumerating the contents t
of twenty-eight papers opened by Col. Rogers, post
master of Charlestown, within three days: eleven t
were written upon, three contained dress patterns,
three three skeins silk each, three contained letters, *
two had pieces of black silk, one contained a land- t
scape drawing, one a letter and a three dollar bank
bill, one a child’s apron, one a roll of ribbon, one a <
lady’s worked collar, one a china baby. The
amount of postage paid for these twenty-eight pa-
pers was but twenty-eight cents, while the amount
which should have’been paid is seven dollars and {
seventeen cents.— Boston Herald. , >
i
The Affray im Congress. — A letter writer says: s
“Lamar, also, I am informed, administered “a ]
doubler,” to his friend from North Carolina in the
melee, not distinguishing him from a Black Re- \
publican. Harris, of Illnois, and the other anti-
Lecompton Democrats, stood by unmoved spccta- 1
tors of the scene. General Quitman hovered on
the outskirta, looking out. as he said, for the brav- s
est of the foe, that, if all the forces should be en- \
gaged in a hand to hand fight, he might do his de - B
voirs in the case of Lecompton. Sam Smith, of 4 *
Tenn., illustrated bis position by an anecdote of a
militia major who went to see an Indian war-dance
on one occasion: 44 While the Indians beat the tom
tom and marched solemnly round the circle, I was a
spec-ta-tor; when they warmed up and become ex
cited, I was a par-ti-c(-pa-tor; but when they com
menced to quarel and draw their knives, I was a
tra-vel-leer.
44 Alice,” said one girl to another, “I am so
glad I have no beaux, now.”
“Why. Liz?”
“Cause I can eat as many onions as I please.”
Richmond, Feb. 10. —A bill has been reported in
the House requiring the banks of this State to re
sume on the Ist of April. ,
A portion of the ola cotton factory at Manches
ter was burned this afternoon. Loss ten thousand
dollars, which is fully insured here.
New York, Feb. 10.—The United States sloop
of war St. Louis arrived here last nightfrom Porto
Praya after an absence of months,
the African stated*' The CnmtK»rt»pd ?
fmppTY *Vre at Porto
in ten days for Rio.
St. Louis, Feb. 9.—A Kansas letter to the St.
Louis Democrat (Black Republican) says the legis
lature has passed a bill providing for the forma
tion of a new Constitution;" that the Delaware
Crossing and other election returns have been
found buried beneath a woodpile at Gen. Calhoun’s
office in Lecompton, by Sheriff" Walker, who was
dispatched thitner to scach for them; and that a
board of commissioners has been appointed to in
vestigate the frauds. Writs have been issued for
the arrest of McLane and Sherwood, who are
said to have fled.
Albany, Feb. B. — A man named Gurney and his
sister-in-law were arrested here on Saturday,
charged with Counterfeiting United States coin.
In their possession were found a quantity ol coun
terfeits, consisting of twenty shilling, dollar, half
dollar and twenty-five cent pieces, in a finished
and unfinished state.
St. Louis. Feb. 8. —The Westport correspondent
of the BepwJican says that difficulties had again
broken out at Fort Scott in Kansas, and that & re
quisition had been made on the Government for
troops.
New’ York, Feb. B. —The steamer Atlantic will
not sail on Saturday, nor will any other steamer
of the Collins line leave for Europe until a settle
ment is made of past dues from the government,
which now exceed one hundred thousand dollars,
and more encouragement is offered for the contin
uance of the same.
New’ York, Feb. 10.—The sloop of war St.
Louis, late of the African squadron, arrived here
from Porto Praya last evening. She left the Cum
berland and Vincennes at that port.
Washington, Feb. 10.—The caucus of Democrat*
ic members to concert measures relative to affairs
in Kansas, w hich was announced for to-night, has
been postponed in consequence of the absence of
several members from the city.
Washington, Eeb. 10.—Senate—Mr. Douglas
made several efforts to introduce his Kansas reso
lutions.
The army bill was discussed by Messrs. Mason
and Crittenden in favor, and Mr. Houston in oppo
sition. No action was taken.
The House was engaged all day on the bill to
amend the act providing for the security of lives
and sufety of passengers on steam vessels. There
was no final action on the subject.
New Orleans, Feb. 10, P. M.—The steamer
Tennessee has come up. On the morning of the
21st Gen. Comonfort was abandoned by his troops.
He left the City of Mexico when the Pronunciados
entered the Palace and named a Corsejo de Nobles
as a government.
The notables elected Zuloaga as the provisional
President of Puebla; Tolaco and other points
within a radius of the city, acknowledged the
Government, which has been organised, and nom
inated its Ministers; they, however, up to the 7th
had not a single post, and were depending on the
clergy for support.
Juarez as President of the Supreme Court is
the President of the Republic under the Constitu
tion, and has called a Congress together at Gnara
jurato, the great point of union for the liberals
while General Parodi, De Clado, Artenia and De
Gallado, are preparing to unite and march against
the Citv of Mexico.
La Slare holds Orizaba.
The Castle of Perote is in the hands of the lib
erals.
Don Juan Alvarez is said to have his forces un
der arms in the State of Guarree.
BALimoßEjFebrnary 9.—The venerable Bishop
Waugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church died
in this city this morning, after a painful illness, of
erysipelas.
Nbw-Haven, m. 9, —A sad affair occured here
at 63*g o clock this evening. William Miles, foreman
of Hose Company No. 2, whose carriage-house is
in the rear of Yale College, was shot by a student
whose name is not publicly known. TTie student, i
in a moment after was badly hurt by a fireman..
Two or three students and as many firemen were
then engaged in the fight, and the clothes of one ;
of the latter were badhr cut by a knife, but no j
wounds were made. Three shots were fired, all l
of which are supposed to have lodged in the left c
side of Miles. His recovery is very doubtful, c
Miles is about twenty years old. 11l feeling be i
tween the parties has existed for some days, and t
has been manifested by such signs as shooting \
by the students, aod throwing of water by the (
firemen. There is* much excitement about the i
matter, and a row is threatened. i
New York, Feb. 12.—The Atlantic’s mails will
go out by the Edinburgh, to-morrow. <
VOL. 37-NO. 8.
from the Baltimore Sun.
Thirty-fifth Congress—First Session.
Washington, Feb. 11.— Senate. —Mr. SewarcT
presented the memorial of citizens of Albany, of
fering to raise a regiment of leers for the
army in Utah.
Mr. Mason presented a joint resolution confering
authority upon the President to make appropriate
arrangements for the reception of the distinguish
ed naval officer now on his way from Turkey on a
visit to the United States.
Mr. Biggs objected.
Mr. Evans reported a resolution making an ap
propriation for printing the opinion of the Su
preme Court in the Dred Scott case.
Mr. Doolittle offered an amendment, that in
passing the resolution the Senate does not mean
to endorse the doctrines of the Dred Scott deci
sion, and called the yeas and nays.
The question being put, it was decided affirma
tively—yeas 19. Broderick voted nay. The ab
sentees were Messrs. Bates. Bell, Clark, Crittenden,
Douglas, Johnson, Reid, Stuart and Thompson.
A discursive debate took place on the resolution
as amended.
Mr. Cameron, though compelled to vote for the
bill, because the work had been done aaf should
be paid for, protested against the paying
for the copyright of documents belonging to the
government.
Mr. Slidell, in reply to Mr. Doolittle's remarks
scouted the idea that because they were paying for
the printing of work done, they were therefore
endorsing the Dred Scott decision.
After further debate, the resolution was agreed
to—yeas 22, nays 12.
On motion of Mr. Wilson, it was resolved that
the Secretary of War be required to intorm the
Senate what officers of the army belonging to the
regiments now in active service are absent from
the service, and the cause for their absence.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of the army bill.
Without coming to a conclusion on the bill, the
Senate adjourned till Monday.
HorsE.—The Speaker announced the following
gentlemen as the committee created under the
resolution of Mr. Harris, of Illinois, to which was
referred the Kansas message and Lecorapton Con
stitution, with instructions to investigate the al
leged election frauds in said Territory: Messrs.
Harris oflllinois, Stephens, Morrill, Letcner, W ade,
Quitman, Winslow, feennett of New York, White,
Walbridge, Anderson, Stephenson, Adrian, Buf
fington, and Russell.
The following gentlemen were announced as the
select committee to examine into the facts connect
ed with the purchase and sale of a tract of land at
Wilkinson’s Point, for fortification purposes:
i Messrs. Haskins, Hopkins, Wood, Florence, and
Hall of Massachusetts.
The House then resumed the consideration of the
bill amendatory of the act for the preservation of
the lives of passengers on steamboats.
After some debate the bill was committed to
the committee of the whole on the state of the
Union.
Mr. Stanton, from the select committee in rela
tion to the disbursement of money by Lawrence,
Stone & Co., to influence the passage of the tariff
act of 1857. made a report, embodying the answer
of J. W. Walcott to a question which had been
propounded to him, to the effect that he had used
no money to influence the action or procure the
vote of any member of Congress for that measure;
nor had he any knowledge that money was so used.
Further than this he refuses to answer.
The committee say they have evidence to show
that fifty-eight thousand dollars of the eighty-seven
thousand dollars, was put into Mr. Walcott’s hands,
and they deem it material to know from him
whether he admits the receipt of any such sum,
and how it was expended. The wttpess bavin*
• refused to answer die nttlttlatL fffr
his ww'ranttoKie srVgeafat-at-arms for the arrest
of Mr. Walcott, and have firm before thfe bar of the
House forthwith to answer for contempt.
Mr. Stanton remarked that Mr. Walcott said
that he did not secure the money to influence the
action of Congress, but peremptorily refused to
say that he received it for any purpose. The ques-
tiou was whether the money was put into the
hands of Mr. Walcott to influence the action of
Congress. The committee believe that an answer
to this question is essential to a proper investiga
tion, and they want to know from whom and for
what purpose he received it. If the committee
cannot compel answers, the committee had better
be disbanded.
The House, after some debate, passed the reso
lution, and then adjourned.
Lite in Texas.
Geo. W. Kendall, one of the proprietors of the
New Orleans Picayune, owns large estates in Tea
as. Writing to a friend in Boston, he describes
his mode of life as follows:
You may, perhaps, wish to learn the mode and
manner of my life hereaways; let me enlighten
you. Three <*avs in each week I ordinarily puss at
my rancho here, three CT four miles from New
Braunfels, with my family; two day 3 I spend at
the Estancia, a place of mine, thirty miles West,
and where my flocks of sheep are pastured ; a73rd
the other two I am on the road backwards and
forwards, my conveyance an old Jersey wagon,
with two trusty horses. There is one gap of eight
miles on the road without a house, ana another of
, twelve; yet the way is not loansome. I never pass
i over it without seeing an abundance of deer, tur
■ kies, ducks, partridges, and the like; I carry along
side of me a double-barrel gun, a Sharpe’s rifle,
„ and one of Colt’s revolvers, and some kind of
, game is sure to grace my wagon both going and
coming.
\ My sheep now number some three thousand,
and finer flocks you never set eyes upon; in May
I hope to be abte to count upwards of four thous
-1 and, as my lambs come in April. I have, besides,
a fine gang of brood mares, besides some forty
cows, and like the elder Mr. Xorval, “to feed my
1 flock and increase my store” is now “my constant
care.” Did I not once tell you that I had much
rather see my lambs skipping upon the hills and
playing in the valleys than to witness the pirouettes
| and entrechats of the best corps de ballet that
ever existed ? If I did not say as much to you it
is nevertheless true.
I have seen a good deal in my day, Jim—the
world, the elephant, Ac., but never saw anything
which afforded so much real enjoyment as my
flocks when doing well. And since I have been
here on the spot in person, now nearly two years,
I have had extraordinary good luck; I have not
lost two per cent, of my sheep per annum, and
when I tell you that twenty per cent, is the average
loss tho world over, you may well imagine that
my success is remarkable. T never sell a ewe or
anything which produces; I have pasturage for
twenty-thousand sheep and any numoer of horses
and cattle; and to see all this space covered is now
what lam working for. I don't bother my mind
a moment about Kansas, or Brigham Young, or
politics of any kind—don't care who is President
—fear God and hate the Indians—am indifferent
about Walker and the devil—try to keep my feet
warm and head cool—and smoke my pipe in peace
with all mankind.
Here, notwithstanding we occasionally have a
cold and blustering norther, our climate is deli
cious; I am now writing, on this Ist January, A.
D., 1858, sitting in my shirt sleeves, doors and
windows wide open, no fire, and robins and other
summer birds singing in the green live oaks of my
yard. Think of that, all muffled up as you are,
and weep. And then here among the mountains
we have no fevers, no chills, no consumptions, no
sickness of any kind. There’s balm in Texas.
Prosperity op Greece.— A report presented to
the King by the Minister of Finance, on the situa
tion of Greece, declares that the number of olive
trees bad tripled, and the production of silk had
sextupled, since the proclamation of independence.
The Greek navy had also become nine times
stronger. The document is drawn up with much
ability, and the assertions are well supported by
detailed statistics. The object of the report is to
defend the Greeks against the common but very
unjust reproach that they have been unable to turn
their independence to good account. So far from
this being the fact, it may be said that Greece m
one of the most progressive countries in the world
It ought never to be forgotten how poor she had
been rendered by Mahomedan oppression, and by
the ravages of the seven years' war of
dence, ,