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ated. Notices of these sales must be given in a public
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<n in liko manner forty days previous to the day of
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Ordinary for leave to sell Laud, must be published for
FOUR MONTHS.
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hr four months, before any order absolute shall be
made thereon by the Court.
Citations for Letters of Administration, must he
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tration, montUf six months—for dismission from
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BELOEN A CO’S
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL HAT AND CAP
EMPORIUM.
4 The undersigned having purchased from A>.
F. K. Wright his entire interest, in tbe^Lfir
HAT 4- CAP ESTABLISHMENT
on Mulberry street, beg leave to announce to the pub
lic that they are now receiving, direct from their own
Manufactory, a large and well selected stock of
IIATS AND CAPS.
Consisting in
ing in part of men’a and boy'a
Fashionable Black and Drab Beaver Hats
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do Nutria do
do Silk do
do Brusli do
do Cassimer do
do plain Russia do
do Angola do
Robert A. Allen,
Factor and Commission Merchant,
No. It2, Bay Sired, Savannah, Ga,
i Will attend strictly to the storage and sale
f if Cotton, Corn, Flour, and other Produce, and
swill make liberid cash advances on goods con
signed to his House.
References—Mr. James it. Nisbet, 1
E. B. Weed, (
J. H. R. Washington, f Macon -
Graves, Wood & Co. J
Dye A Robertson, Augusta.
Branon 6c Young, Marietta.
Dr. George F. Pierce, Sparta.
July 27**—ly
Dyson, Cooper & Roberts.
Will continue the Warehouse andCommis
Lion Business the ensuing season, at their
* Fire-Proof Warehouse.
Thankful to our friends for their former patronage,
wc respectfully ask a continuance of tbo same, with
the assurance that our beat efforts will be given to
promote their interests.
Liberal ad vane os will be made on cotton in Store,
at customary rate*.
Thomas Dyson, Jos. W. Cooper, 6c Wm. Roberts.
Macon, April 4, 1848. 33—ly
iTIviIicnl Copartnership.
< J2 Drs. McGOLDRICK A aUINTARD.baving
Yjf farmed a copartnership for the Practice of Medi-
1R cine and Surgery, respectfully offer their services
to persons wishing either Medical or Surgical atten-
tm ia either branch of their profession. They are
provided with all manner of instruments and are pre
pared to perform all operations in Surgery and pledge
themselves to show the most unremitting attention to
their patients. it McGOLDRICK,
C. T. aUlNTARD.
Macon, January 1, 1818.
jan 4 80—tf
Da. W. B. Rivers.] [Dr. H. J. Royai.l.
ltlVERS A: ROYALL,
Surgeon Dentists—Savannah, Ga.
Office North East comer of St. Julian
atree*. and Market Square.
»jpt 7 50—ly
Broad Brim Black and Drab Beaver do
do do do Brush do
do do do plain Ruasia do
do do do Cassimer do
Men’s Pearl Sporting Hats
do Ashland do
do Tampico do
do Knickerbocker do
do Black Glazed do
large assortment of Men's and Boy's Black and
B WOOL HA TS, of overy description.
i'a and Boy'a prem. Otter Caps a splendid article
do fine Fur Caps, new style
da fine Nutria do
do Muskrat do
do fine Cloth do evety variety of pat's,
do Navy do with covers „
do oil silk do
do Glazed do
Infanta Fancy do
Together with every other description of Hats and
Caps now. extant
Possessing facilities for obtaining their supplies, c-
qualled by no other establishment in this section of
Georgia, and surpassed by none in the State, and de
voting their exclusive attentiou to the Hat business,
the subscribers are prepared to sell every article in
their line at the lowest prices, and to warrant giving
satisfaction to their customers. Purchasers are re
spectfully invited to call and examine their stock and
prices. BELDEN A CO.
Store in Mulberry it. sign of the Mammoth Hat.
aug 31 «
Ali
Drab
Men'
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Sprins: Style of Straw Goods.
BELDEN 6t CO. have now on hand direct
from New York, S dozen extra fine Panama
Hata, fancy trimmed ; 2 do Infant’s donnep Top
Pedlar Hals. do. do.; 1 do do Rice Pearl do.
1 doz Infant's Pearl Jockey Caps
1 do do Coburg Straw do do
1 do do Triangle do do
1 do do Victoria do do
1 do do Pearl Feither Trimmed Hata
4 do Boy’a Leghorn Hats
4 do Men’s Drab Beaver Hats, a superior article
Also an extensive assortment of Straw Hats, which
will be aold low for cash, at the old stand of G. A. Kim
berly, on Mulberry street,
feb 29 £8
Copartnership Notice.
ALBERT MIX having associated
with him in this city, Mr. Erastcs’
Kirtland, will continue the business at his old
stand, under the firm and style of MIX k KIRT-
LAND. They will at all times keep on hand, a full
supply of the best and most fashionable stock of goods
in their line. The former patrons of the late firm of
Whiting 6c Mix, together with purchasers and the
public generally, arc respectfully invited to call and
examine their stock. Our SHOES and BOOTS arc
fresh, of the best materials and workmanship, and we
pledge ourselves that nothing shall be wanting on
our part, to please all those who may favor ua with
their patronage. MIX k KIRTLAND.
Macon, 31st May, 1647.
N. B.—Mil. E. Kirtland ia duly authorised to re
ceive and receipt for all monies due the late firm of
Whiting k Mix, daring my absence from the State.
jane I 36 ALBERT MIX.
Rail Road House,
pa Opposite Central Kail Hoad Depot, East
. iiij Macon, by S. M. LANIER, late of the Floyd
e, Ma ~
[.House, Macon, Ga.
24—ly
Peter J. Williams
t HAS taken the WASHINTON HALL, and
requests a continuance of public patronage.
L ■ Macon, Dec.'8,1846. 11—tf
Piano Fortes.
The subscriber respectfully informs
the citizens of Georgia, that he lias the
I 3 it J J Agency for the sale of PIANOS from a
manufactory it New York—the article offered, is of
the best workmanship and materials, and the latest
style very superior at low prices. Persons wishing to
pnn-haae, can see one of these instruments at the sub
scriber's residence.
feb 1 JAMES VAN VALKENBURGH-
IVasliinaton Hall Stables.
H The undersigned have taken the Stablei
formerly kept by A. C. Morehouse, and of
fer Carriages. Iluggies, Sulkies. Saddle
:c. for hire. They have also carefnl and com
petent Grooms, and will keep single Horses or Droves
by the day. week or month, on the moat reasonable
terms. MASON & DIBBLE.
april4 33—ly
To the Public.
The subscribers will run a daily
I line of Coaches and Hacks to connect
--- -- -- Jtwith the Care both ways from For
syth to Indian Springs, commencing from the first of
June or sooner ifnecessary. ~\V. C. JONES,
„ . HUGH KNOX.
P. S. The subscriber ia (till carrying on the Lively
Stable business in Forsyth in all its different brandies,
and ia prepared to do any kind of tinaincss that may
offer itself in that line. W. C. JONES-
Forsyth. Ga., Jan. 24th. 1848. 23—tf
IV. T. A A. II. Colquitt,
ATTORNIES AT LA IK—MACON, GA.
W ILL practice in Bibb and all the adjacent conn
ties. All business entrusted to their care will
meet with prompt attention.
rp'Office over the Store of Messrs. C. Campbell
& Co.
fob 25 87—tf
Robtrrt S. JLanier,
- _ wni
>, Monroe,
AU business intrusted to hia ciro w uFmeet with
prompt attention.
Refers to Messre. Scott, Carhart A co.; Mgj. James
Dean. Samuel J. Ray, George M. Logan and John J.
Bennett, Esqrs.
Macon, January. 1848. feb 1 84—tf
Sax'l R. Blake,] [Thomas P. Smith.
BLAKE A SMITH,
ATTORNIES AT LA W.—MACON, Ga.
^l\7"TLL attend to all professional business entrust-
Y 7 cd to their care, in Bibb and the surrounding
counties.
Macon, Sept. 13. 1847. ly
, Cuylcr W. Voimg,
A TTORNEY AT LAW—Ofiico next to the Tel
f*. egraph newspaper. Cherry-street. He having
restored to Mscon. will promptly attend to all law
pasincis entrusted to him, in Bibb and the surround-
>ng counties. feb SC 28—tf
. diaries J. William*),
A TTORNEY AT LAW.—Columbus Georgia,
j*-Practices in tho several coantics of the Chat-
“jjoocbee Circuit. All business entrusted to his care,
*“• be strictly and promptly attended to.
nov9 7
Thomas C. llluckett,
ATTORNEY A TLA W— Honi, FlotpCo., Ga.
PRACTICES in all the countici of tho Cherokee
r~ in Dio Supreme Courts at Mscon, ticca-
R,'Milledgeville and Cassville, and in the United
AH k* 9* rcu R Courts nt Milledgeville nud Savannah.
*T basincsa entrusted to his earn will meet with
Pn'Opt attention.
WOOD * BRADLEV,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
ram* cabinet furniture
AND
CHAIRS.
VATOULD most respectfully inform the citizens of
T r Macon, and public generally, that having avail
ed themselves of the services of some of the very best
Workmen, and having a supply of the best materials,
are prepared to make to order any article in their line.
In addition to our present stock, such as Dining, Tea,
Centre, Side, Work, Toilet, Quartette and Sofa Tables;
Bureaus ; Sideboards; Sofas and Wardrobes; Sofas ;
Divans; Ottomans; Tcttetetes ; Foot stools; Secreta
ry* ; Desks and Book Cases; Ladies' Work Boxes
and Portable Desks ; Piano Stools ; Looking Glasses
and Glass Plates of all sizes ; Gilt, Mahogany and
Walnut Frames of all sises for Pictures and Portraits;
Cane seat Settees and Counter Stools; Mahogany and
Walnut Chairs, Plash and Hair Cloth Scats; a great
variety of curled Maple and Walnut Cane seats and
other kinds ; Hocking Chair* of patters too numerous
'* ‘ ■, Walnut, curled and plain Ma-
cbeaper than ever;
and rare patterns;
Feathers, Feather Beds; Mattresses of curled Hair,
Cotton and Moss.
We have many articles not heretofore introduced
in this market.
To Manufacturers—Foraale, Furniture Varniah.
Mahogany and Walnut Plank, Mahogany Veniere and
Bdd Posts. ....
N. B. Furniture repaired neatly and with dispatch.
Old Sofas and Chairs re-seated or covered with Hair
Cloth or Cane.
Macon, Nov. 1, 1847.
iy The Journal A Messenger, Albany Conner, At
lanta Luminary, Marietta Helicon, and Mountain Ea
gle, will please copy,
uov 2
6—tf
New Millinery and Fancy Goods.
MRS. CAREY begs leave to call the atten
tion of tho Ladies to her new stock ofMillinery
and Fancy Goods, just received, and in doing so,
would assure them that her present stock is superior
both in style and quality, to any heretofore kept.
-Silk, velvet, satin and plnsh hats of tbo latest style,
French flowers and bridal wreaths, very hsnd-
some, also, a beautiful new style of Feathers, Flo
rence, Pear], Coburg, Devon, Rutland and Cicihan
braids, misses and childred’s straw and Tuscan flats,
Pamela, and Coburg braid Ac., a beautiful assortment
of silks, plain and satin stripes, plaid and plain sntins.
gimps, and fringes Ac., an elegant selections of ribbon
velvet, for neck ribbons, spool twist, steel heeds and
clasps'thread lace, embroidered capes, lace and mus
lin caps, elegant French worked capes, collars and
chemiscts. ,
Macon, Oct 19,1847. 1—ti
Just Received.
in addition to former stock, a fall snpnly of
Drugt, Medicines,Chemicals, Due Stnffs.Pants
Oil, Vanishes, Iramp Oil, Glass I Pane. <fre.
Together with many nrticles usually kept in Drug
Stores. Our stock is large and well selected, and will
be sold as low as at any point South.
WM. G. A S. LITTLE
N. B A large lot of Letter and Cap Paper, of an ox
cellent quality, will be sold at annsuilly low pnccs to
close the lot. Also, a good article of Shaving Creams,
per dozen or retail. W. G. A S. L.
march 7
dee 17
17—ly
A Cars!.
lirlLLlAM H. MAYNOR, General Land Agent
v for New Alabama. Ofllco at Salem, Russell
*°®«y, Alabama.
**« 18—tf
re,.. New Sailallcry Store.
I' 1 - - uuderjiencd have n large and general stock of
■j-a Baddies, llam.-M, Bridles, Trunks, Carriage
, . " fSoddlerv Hardware—together with every
*r* / ^k'l* 0 u, °«lly aept in their line. Thrir facilities
“ c ‘ l [hat they can sell loieer Ilian any other cstab-
* ton . *own. Purchasers are invited to give them
u before purchasing elsewhere.
MORRIS A WESTCOTT.
Dppoiite A. J. Whito A Co.. Cotton Avenue.
-5L? ii—tf
Invaluable Family Companion
S IX Lectures on Causes, Prevention and Cure of
Consumption, Asthma, Diseases of the Heart,
and nil Female Diseases. 234 pages. 28 Engravings.
Paper 50 cents; Round 75 cents. Mail to any part
—postage 91 cents.
Shoulder Braces and Chest Expanders, S2. Mail
to any part. 50 centa postage. Inhaling Tubes, Sil
ver, 83, by Mail, letter postage. Abdominal Sop-
porters, perfect, 88 to 810, for all Ruptures. Falling
of the Bowels and Womb, and Weak Back and Chest;
sent by Express everywhere. For Braces or Sup
porters, or Rupture Supporters, give height from
head to foot, and circumference of person next the
surface, just above the hips- If Ruptore, mention
which side. Agents wanted for the sale of tho above
poods. Address Dr. S. S. FITCH, *07 Broadway
New York, post paid.
march 28 32—ly
Garden Seeds.
VV ~r**ANTRD the growth of 1847, from thecel-
kr,cvj^' ,rnto, l Wethersfield Seed Garden, and nrein-
•TH f. D ? nc "rough* to rlus mark.-t. Just received
IJ *zlc at the Drug Store of
T . 8HOTWEJ.L A GILBERT,
sgg”' Jan Y 11th. 1848.
kegi prime Leaf Lard, for sale hv
nov 19 J, T. LUMPKIN-
Sliotwell A Gilbert,
T>Y recent arrivals from New York, have received
JL> full nnd complete assortment of Drags, Medicines
Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Dye Staffs. Ac. Ac., all of
which are now offered to the public von- low, for cash.
ted Ague . — —
effect n cure. Also his Compound Cathartic Tills, an
invaluable family Medicine.
)i«-v-n August31. 1847. 49
(From BlackscoodCt Edinburgh Magazine.)
The Kuskinti Empire.”
( Concluded.)
The life of the Russiau emperor was a cloudy
oue. The external splendour of royalty unturully
captivate* the eye, but the realities of the diadem
are often melancholy. It would be scarcely pos
sible to conceive a loftier preparative for liuman
happiness than that which surrounds the throne of
the Russia*. Alexander married early. A prin
cess of Baden was chosen for him, by the irresis
tible will of Catherine, at a period when be himself
was incapable of lorming any choice. He was
married at sixteen, bis wife being one year young
er. llcueverhadason, but be bad two daughters,
who died. Aud the distractions oi the campaign
of Moscow, which must have been n source of
anxiety to any man in Russia, wero naturally felt
by tho emperor in proportion totheimmenso stake
which he bad in the safety of the country.
For some years after the fell of Napoleon, Alex
ander was deeply engaged in a variety of anxious
negotiations in Germauy, aud subsequently, be was
still more deeply agitated by the failing constitution
of tho empress. The physicians bad declared that
her case wus hopeless if she remained in Russia,
and advised her return to her native air. But she,
in the spirit of romance, replied, that the wife of
the Emperor of Russia must not die bnt within
bis dominions. The Crimea was then proposed,
as the most genial climate. But the emperor deci
ded on Taganrog, a small town on the sea of Azof,
but at tbo tremendons distance of nearly fifteen
hundred miles from St. Petersburg. *
The present empress has been wiser, for, aband-
oning the romance, she spent her winter in Naples,
where she seems to have recovered her health.—
The climate of Taganrog, though so far to the south,
is unfavourable, aud in winter it is exposed to the
terrible winds which sweep across the desert, un
obstructed from the pole. But Alexander deter
mined to attend to her health there himself, and
preceded her by some days to make preparations,
A strange aud singularly depressing ceremony pre
ceded bis departure. For some years he had been
liable to melancholy impressions on the subject of
religion. The Greek church, which differs little
from the Romish, except in refusing allegiauce to
the bishop of Rome, abounds in formalities, some
stately and some severe. Alexander, educated
nnder the Swiss, who could not have taught him
more of Christianity than was known by a French
philotophe, and having only the dangerous morals
of the Russian court *'or his practical guide, suffered
himself, when in Paris, to listen to the mystical
absurdities of the well-known Madame de Krude-
ner, and from that time became a mystic. He had
the distorted dreams aud the heavy reveries, and
talked the unintelligible theories which the Ger
mans talk by tiie fumes of their meerschaums, aud
propagate by the vapours of their swamps. He h
his activity of mind; and if he had lived a few
years louger, he would probably have finished his
career in a cell, aud died, like Charles V., an idiot,
in the “odour of sanctity.”
The preparation for bis journey had the colour
ing of that superstition which ulready began to
cloud his mind.
It was bis custom, in his journeys from St.
Petersburg, to start from the eathedral of “Our
Lady of Kasau.” But on this occasion, he gav.
notice to the Greek bishop, that he should require
him to chaut a service at four o’clock in the morn
ing, at the mousasteiy of St. AlexauJer Newski,
in the full assembly of ecclesiastics, at which he
would be present.
On this occasion everything took an ominous
shape, iu the opiuion oftlie people. They said that
the service chanted was tks service for the dead,
■ bough the official report stated that it was the Te
Drum. The monastery of St. Alexander Newski
is surrounded by tho chief cemetery of St. Peters
burg, where various members of the reigning
filthily, who had uot wore the crown, were inter
red, and arnoug them the two infant daughters of
the emperor. The popular report was, that the
ecclesiastics wore mounting rubes; hut this is con
tradicted, whether truly or not, by the official re
port; which states that they wore vestures of crim
son worked with gold.
Just at dawu the emperor came alone in his
ealeebe, not even atteuded by a servant. The
outer gates were then carefully reclused.the mass
was said, the old prelate gave him a crucifix to ac
company him on his journey, the priests once more
chanted their aulheiu, they then conducted him to
the gate, uud the ceremouial closed.
But the more curious feature of tlie scene was
to follow.
Seraphim, the old prelate,, invited the emperor
to his cell, where, when they were alone, lie said,
“I kuow your Msjesty feels a particular interest
iu the sehimnik.” (These are monks who live in
the interior of the convents iu the deepest solitade.
following strictly all the austerities prescribed in
their order, and aro venerated ns saints.) “We
for some time have had a Sehimnik witbiu the
walls of the Holy Lavra. Would it he the pleasure
of your majesty that he should he summoned/”—
“Be it so,” was the reply, aud a venerable man,
with au emaciated face and figure, entered. Al
exander received his blessiug, and the rnuuk asked
him tu visit hia cell. Black ciuth covered the floor,
the walls were painted black, a colossal crucifix
occupied a considerable portion of the cell.—
Benches painted black were ranged around, and
the only light wus given by the glimmer of a lamp,
which burned night aud day before the pictures
ofsaiuts! Wbeu the emperor entered, the monk
prostrated himself before tile crucifix, and said,
“Let us pray.” The three then knelt aud engag
ed ia silent prayer. The emperor whispered to
the bishop, “Is this bis only cell! where is his
bedt" The answer was, “He sleeps upon this
floor, stretched before the crucifix.” “No, sire,”
said the mouk, “I have the same bed with every
other mau; approach, and yon shall see.” He then
led the emperor into a small recess, screened off
from the cell, where placed upon a table, was a
black coffin, half open, containing a shroud, aud
surronnded by tapers. “Here is my bed,” said
the monk, “a lied common to man; there, sire, we
health, nud not to treat it as lie ‘'would have done
when he was tiveuty years old-” On the next day
his illaess bad assumed a determined character,
aud was declared to be dangerous, and a typhus.
Unfortunately, at this period, an officer of rank
arrived with details of one of those conspiracies
which had been notoriously on foot for some time.
The heads of the conspiracy iu St. Petersburg
were.Seigius, Priuce Trouhetskoi; Eugene, Prince
I Obalenskoi, and Conrad Ryleicff. The first was
highly connected and highly employed, colonel
the Etat Major, and military governor of Kief. The
secoud was a lieutenant in the imperial guard.poor,
but a man of talent aud ambition. Iu Russia all
Histidiugs ought to have been concealed; bat I the sons ofa prince are princes, which often leaves
sovereigns must hear everything, aud the tidings their rental hare. 'The third was simply a noble,
were communicated to the emperor. Ho was iu- educated in the corps of cadets, hut who had left
dignant aud agitated. The empress exhibited the tho army, and had taken the secretaryship of the
most unwearied kindness; but all efforts were now American company. He was a man of lettera.had
hopeless. On the 1st of December he sank and I written some popular poems, aud was an enthusi-
died. astic republican. Connected with those were
Tho blow was felt by tho whole empire; during some general officers aud colonels, whose revolu-
the long journey of four months, from Taganrog to I tionary spirit might chiefly he traced to their ex-
St. Petersburg, where the body was interred in pulsion Irom- employment military disgrace,
tlio church of St. Peter and St. Paul, tho people disappointed ambition. The Russian campai_
crowded from every part of the adjoining country in Frauce, and the residence of the army of occu
to follow the fuueral; aud troops, chiefs, nobles, patiun, under the command of the great Engli
and the multitude, gave this melancholy ceremo- I general, had naturally given the Russian troops
trial all the usual pomp of imperial funeral rites, insight into principles of national government,
and more than tho usual sincerity of national sor- I which they could not have acquired within tho
row. Russian frontier. The pretext of the conspirators
Europe had been ao often started by the assas- was a constitutional government, which the talk-
sination of Russian sovereigns, that the death of ers of St. Petersburg seemed to regard as the iuev-
Alexander was attributed to conspiracy. Ivan, itable pouring of sudden prosperity of all kinds in-
Peter HI., and Paul I., had notoriously died by to the empire. The old illusion of all the advo-
violence. It ia perfectly true, that the life of Al- cates of change is, that everything depends on gov-
exauder was threatened, aud that hia death by the eminent, and that government can do everything
typhus alone saved him from at least attempted There cannot be a greater folly, or a more glaring
assassination. It was subsequently ascertained fiction.- Government can do nothing more tbau
that his murder had been resolved on; aud one of prevent the existence of obstacles to public wealth,
the conspirators, a furious nud savugc mau, rnshed It caunot give wealth, it caunot create commerce,
into their meeting, exclaiming at the delay which I it cannot fertilize the soil, it cannot put in action
had suffered Alexander to die n natural death, and any of those great instruments by which a nation
thus deprived him of the enjoyment of sheding the rises superior to its contemporaries. Those means
imperial blood. must he iu the people themselves, they cannot be
The origin of those conspiracies is still among I the work of cabinets; governments can do no more
the problems of history. Nothing conld be less I than give them their free course, protect them from
obnoxious than the personal couduct and charuc- false legislation, aud leave the rest to Providence,
ter of Alexander. His reigu exhibited none of The Russian conspirators called themselvespu-
the banishments or the bloodshed offoriner reigns, triots, nud professed to desire a bloodless revolu-
Ile was of a gentle disposition; his habits were tion. But to overthrow a government at the head
manly; and he had shared the glory of the Russian of five hundred thousand men, must he a sanguin-
victories. The assassinations of the former sover- I ary effort; and there can be uo doubt that the es-
eigns hod assignable motives, though the act must tablishmeut of a revolutionary government in Rus-
be always incapable of justification. They had sia would have beeu the signal fora universal war.
perished hv intrigues of the palace; but the death On .the 24 th and 25th of December, the conspi
of Alexander was the object of a crowd of con- j rators met in St. Petersburg, and as Nicholas was
spirators widely scattered, scarcely commuuica- to be proclaimed on the next day, they determiu-
ting with each other, and united only by the frenzy ed to lead the battalions to which they respective-
of revolution. ly belonged, into tho great square, seize on the
Iu the imperfection of the documents hitherto emperor, and establish a provisional government,
published, we should be strongly iuclinedto refer They were then to raise a national guard, establish
the principle of this revolutionary movemeut to two legislative chambers, and proclaim liberty to
Poland. The unhappy country had been the Russia. The question next arose, what was to be
national sin of Russia: aud though Moscow had done with tho members of the imperial family af-
already paid a severe price of its atonement, from ter victory. It was answered significantly, that
Poland came that restless revenge, which seemed “circumstances must decide.” At this anxious mo-
resolved, if it conld uot shake Russia, at least to meat one of the members told them that iuforma-
embitter the Russian supremacy. tion had been given to the emperor. “Comrades,"
The death of Alexander had disappointed the said he, “you will find that we are betrayed, the
chief couspirators. But tho conspiracy continued, court are in possession of mneb information; hut
aud the choice of his successor revived all its de- they do not know our entire plaus, and onr strength
termination. is quite sufficient.” A voice exclaimed, “the
The house of Romanoff had received the diadem scabbards are broken, we can uo louget hide our
by a species of election. Michael Romanoff, a de- sabres.”
sceudantof the House of Ruric only by the female I Reports of various kinds now came crowding on
liiie, had been chosen by all the heads of the na- them. An officerarrived to say that, in one of the
tiou. The law of primogeniture was declared.— armies, one hundred thousand men were ready to
But Peter the Great, disgusted by the vices or the join them. A member of the Senate came to tell
imbecility of hisson Alexis, had changed the law I them that the council of the empire was to meet
of succession, aud enacted, that the sovereign at seven o'clock the next morning, to take the oath
should have the choice of his successor, not even to the emperor. The time for action was now fix-
limiting that choice to the royal line. Nothing is ed, The officers of the guard were directed to
so fatal to the peace of a country as an unsettled join their regiments, mid persuade them to refuse
succession; aud this rash and prejudiced change the oath. Then all kiuds of desperate measures
produced all the confusiuus of Russian history from were proposed. It was suggested that they
1722 to 1797, when tbe Emperor Paul restored should force open the spirit shupis and taverns, in
the rights of primogeniture, in the male line, iu order to make the soldiery and populace drunk,
failure of which alone was the crown to devolve then begiu a general pillage, carry off banners
ou the female line. In which case, the throne was from the churches, and rush upon the winter pal-
to devolve on the priucesa next iu relation to tile ace. This, the most mischievous of all the meas-
deceased emperor; and, iu case of her dying child- ures, was also the most feasible, for the number of
less, the other princesses were to follow iu the unemployed peasants and idlers of all kiuds was
order of relationship. Alexander, iu 1807, confirm- computed at seventy thousand aud upwards, and
ed the act of Paul, and strengthened it by an ad- I from their poverty uud profligacy together, there
ditional act iu 1820; stating, that the issue of uiur-I could be little doubt that, between drunkenness
riages, authorized by the reiguing emperor, aud nud the prospect of pillage, they would be ready
those who should themselves contract marriages, for any atrocity. “Wheu the Russians break their
authorized by the reiguiog emperor, should alone chains,” says Schiller, “it will not be before the
possess the right of succession. freeman, but before the slave, that the community
Alexander had left three brothers—the Grand- must tremble.”
duke Constantine, boru in 1779; the Grand-duke It must be acknowledged that some were not
Nichulas, boru iu 1797; and the Grand-dukc equally ferocious. But when a military revolt has
Michael, born iu 1798: two of bis surviving sisters once begun, who shall limit it to works of wisdom
had been married, oue to the Grand-duke of Saxe moderation or security? If the revolt had succeed
Weimar, aud the other to the Kiug of Holland.— ed, St. Petersburg must have been asccue of mas-
Thus, according to the law of Russia, Constantine sac re.
was the next heir to the throne. | We shrink from all details on this painful sub
ject. The conspirators remained in deliberation
prestige ot the reign ot Nicholas, receives I all night. As the morning dawned, they weut to
very full explanation Irom this author. The the barracks of their regiments, and told the sol-
Grand-duke Cuustuutine bad the countenance of diers that Constantine whs really their emperor,
a Caluiuckand the muuuers of a Calmuck. But that he was marching to the capital at the head of
those were the couuteuance and manners of his ihe army from Polaud, and that to take the oath to
father Paul. The other suns resembled their moth- Nicholas would consequently be treason. In sev
er, the l’riueess of Wirtewberg, a woman of strik- eral instances they succeeded, and collected a
mg appearance oud of commanding mind. Con- I considerable body ol troops in tho Great Izaak
stautiue was violent, passionate, aud insulting; and square. But there they seem to have lost their
in his viceroyalty of Poland rendered himself un- seuses. An insurrection which stands still, is an
popular iu the extreme. The result was, that Al- insurrection ruined. They were rapidly snrround-
exauder dreaded to leave him as successor to the ed by the garrison. Terms were ofl'erad, which
throne. Constantine, wheu scarcely beyond hoy they neither accepted nor refused. The gallant
hood, had been married to one of the princesses I Milarodowitch, the hero of the Russian pursuit of
of Saxe Cobourg, uot yet fifteen. They soon quar- the French, advancing to parley with them, was
relied, aud at the cud of four years finally separat- brutally shot. Wheu all hope ufsubmission was at
ed. In two years after, proposals were made to an end, when the day was declining, aud alarm
her to return. But she recollected too deeply was excited for the condition of the capital duriug
the vexatious of the past, and refused to leave I the night, artillery was brought to bear upon them;
Germany. Constantiue now became enamoured I and, after some firing on both sides, the mutineers
of the daughter of a Polish count, aud proposed to dispersed. The police were then let loose, and
marry her. The Greek Church is stern on the sub- numerous arrests were made.
ject of divorce, but its sternness can give way on I In five months after, a high court was constitut-
due occasion. The consent of the emperor ex- ed for the trial of the leaders. A hundred and
tiuguisbed all its scruples, and Constantine divorc- twenty-one were- named in the act of accusation,
ajoz and Ciudad in ihe face of the two armies of I national justice, will rescue her reputation from
Massena and Soult advancing ou him from the au act of such atrocity. Bnt Asia Minor, on tho
South aud North, and each equal to his own force; first crash of war, would be open to tbe squadrons
while he thus snatched away the prize iu the ac- | of the Scythian. Tbit policy was interrupted in
tunl presence of each, and left the two French gen- ; the reign of Alexander ouly by the French war.—
ends tho mortification of having marched three , When tbe providential time was come for the de
hundred miles a piece, only to be lookers on? ! etruction of Napoleon, his rage of conquest acted
What more brilliaut conception than his march of \ tho part for him which the false prophets were ac-
four hundred miles, without a stop, from Portugal cuslomed to act for the kings of Judah nnd Israel.
It urged him headlong to his ruin, and all his dis
tinguishing qualities were turned to his overthrow.
His ardor in the field became precipitancy ; his
his priuccss, and married tho Polish girl; yet I many of them belonging to the first families, and
i, which precludes her in the highest rauks of civil aud militaiy employ-
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shall all rest in our last long sleep.
The emperor gazed upon the coffin, and the
monk gaveliimnn exhortation on the crimes of the
people, which, be said, bad been restrained by the
peslileuce, and the war of 1812, hut when those
two plagues had passed by, had grown worse than
ever.
Bnt we must abridge this pions pantomine,
which seems evidently to have been got up for the
occasion, and which would have been enough to
dispirit any one who had left his bed at four in the
morning iu the chill or a Russian September.
Tbo emperor at length left the convent, evi
dently dejected aud depressed by this sort of thea
trical anticipation of death and burial, aad drove
off with his eyes filled with tears.
Ou his journey lie was unattended. He took
with him but two aides-de-camp, aud his physician.
Sir James Wylie, a clever Scotsman, who had
beeu thirty years iu tho imperial service. The
journey wus rapid, aud without accident, but his
mind was still lull of omens. A cornet had appear
ed. ' It presages misfortune," said the emperor;
hut the will ot Heaven be done.”
The chauge of air was beneficial to tlie empress,
who reached Taganrog after a journey of three
weeks;and tbe emperor remained with her, pay
ing her great attention and constantly accompany
ing her iu her rides aud drives. The season haj>-
peued to be mild, and Alexander proposed to visit
tbe Crimea, at the suggestion of Count Worouzoff,
governor of the priuce. This excursion, with all
itsagreeabilitie*. was evidently a trying ouo to a
frame already shaken, uud a mind harassed by its
own feelings. He rode a considerable part of the
journey, visited Sebastopol, inspected fortifications
iu all quarters, received officers, dined with gov
ernors, visited places wliero endemics made their
haunt; ute the delicious, but dangerous fruits of the
country; received Muftis and Tartnr princes; iu
short did everything that he ought not to have
dune, and finally found himselfill.
Ho remarked to Sir James Wylie, that his
stomach whs disordered, mid that he had had hat
little sleep for severs! nights. The physician re-
commended immediate medicine, hut Alexander
was obstinate. “I have no confidence,” said he,
iu potions; my life is in the hands of Heaven;
othiug can stand against its will.” But the ill
ness continued, and tho emperor began to grow
lethargic, nnd slept much iu his carriage. With a
rashness which seems to bo tbo prevalent misfor-
tuuo of sovereigns, lie still_ persisted in defyiug
disease, aud suffered himself to bo driven every
where, visiting all the remarkable poiuts of the
Crimea, yet growing day by day more incapable
of feeling an interest in anything. Ho was at
length shivering under
hurried hack to the cm
•cr of his household, what was tbe state of his brothers; hut it had nearly proved fatal to Russia,
lealth —“Well enou-li,” wns the answer, “except [ it unsettled the national feelings, it perplexed tlie
that 1 have got a touch oftlie fever of the Crimea.” army, and it gave sudden hopes to the couspira-
that left-handed marriage,
from inheriting titles or estates. But the emperor I meut. But the sentence was the reverse of'san-
shortly after conferred ou her the title of Princess guiuary. Only five were put to death in St. Pe-
ofLowictz. from an estate which he gave her, and tersburg. the remainder wero chiefly sent to Si-
both which were cupable of desceudiug to her beria. But Siberia is now by uo means the place
family. I of horrors which it once was. Itisnow tolerably
It was subsequently ascertained that, at this peopled.it has been partially civilized; the soil is
period, Alexander had proposed to Coustautiue fertile; towns have sprung up; and, though the win-
the resignation of iiis right to tlie throue; either ns ter is severe, the climate is healthy. Many of the
the price of bis cousent to the divorce, or from the families of the exiles were suffered to accompauy
common conviction of both, that tbe succession them; and probably, on the whole, the exchange
would only bring evil on Constantino and the cm- I was not a calamitous one, from the anxieties of
pire. That Alexander was perfectly disinterested, Russian life, the pressure of narrow circumstances
is only cousouant tu bis manly nature, and that in Europe, and the common disappointments to
Couatautine had come to a wise decision, is equal- which all the competitors for distinction, or even
ly probable. He knew bis own failings, the haste for a livelihood, are exposed in the crowded add
of bis temper, his unpopularity, and tho offence struggling population of the west, to she undisturb-
wbich he was in the habit of giving to all classes, ed existence and sufficient provision, which were
He probably, also, had u sufficient dread of tbe fate to be found in the east of this almost boundless
of his father, whom, as he resembled in everything empire.
else, he might also resemble in his death. His Among tbe anecdotical parts of these volumes,
present position fulfilled all the wishes of a roan is a slight accouut of the appearance of the Duke
who loved power without responsibility, nnd en- of Wellington as ambassador to Russia, in the be-
joyed occupation without rciiuquisbiug bis ease, ginning of the new reign. Count NesrelroJe, oil
Tho transaction was complete, and Alexander the accession or the Czar, had sent a circular to
was tranquillized for the fate of Russia. the European courts, stating his wishes for amica-
W hen tlie intelligence of the emperor’s death ble relations with them all. But England dread-
reached St. I'etersburg, Nicholas atteuded the ed to see a collision with Turkey, aud Canning se-
meetiug of the Senate, to take the oath of allegi- I lectcd the Duke as the most important authority
auce to Constautiue. But they determined that on the part of England. Tho Duke touk with him
their first act should be tho reading of a packet, Lord Fitzroy Somerset os his secretaiy. Ou bis
which had been placed in their hands by Alexan- arrival nt Berlin, he was treated with great distinc-
der, with orders to be opeued immediately on liis tion by Frederic William. Gueisenau, at the head
decease. The president broke the seal, and found of the I’russian geueral officers, paid him a visit iu
documents dated in 1822 and 1823, from Constau- | his hotel; aud he was feted in all directions. Gen-
to Vittoria; where he crushed the French army,
captured one hundred and fifty pieces of cannon,
and sent the French King and all his courtiers Hy
ing over the Pyrenees? What, again, more brilliant
conception, than his storming the I’yreuees, and
being tlie first of tho European generals to enter
France? nnd. finally, his massacre of the French
army, with Soult, Ney, and Napoleon at theirhead,
on the crowning day- of Waterloo?
But all this was mere “pugnacity and tenacity,"
aud sulkiness and stupidity, bccauso it was nut
done with a theatrical programme] and with the
airofanopera-dancer. Yet.M. Lacretelle’ssketch,
invidious as he intends it to be, gives, involuntarily
the very highest rank of generalship to its object.
For, what higher qualithacan a general have, than
trusting nothing to chance, being superior to en
thusiasm—which, iu ihe French vocabulary .means
extravagance and giddiness—and acting by deep
and effective combinations, which, as every man
knows, are the most profound problems and the
most brilliant triumphs of military genius? Let it
bo. remembered, too, that iu tho seven years' war
of the Peninsula, Wellington never had twentyfive
thousand English bayonets in tho field; that the
Spanish armies wero almost wholly disorganized,
aud that the Portuguese wero raw troops; while
tho French had nearly two hundred thousand men
constantly recruited and supplied from France:—
Yet, that Wellington never was beaten, that be
met either six or seven of the French field-marshals
and beat them all; aud that at Waterloo, with a
motley army of recruits, of whom but thirty thou
sand were English—and those new troops—and
ten thousand German, he beat Napoleon at the
head of seveuty-two thousand Frenchmen, all vet
erans; trampled his army in the field, (routed him
to Paris, took every fortress on the road, captured
Paris, destroyed his dynasty, dissolved the rem
nant of the French army on tho Loire; and sent Na
poleon himself to expiate his guilt and finisn his
career, under an English guard,iu St. Helena.
We need not envy the Frenchman his ta3te for
“enthusiasm," his scorn of "science,” bis disdain
of “profound combinations,” and his passion for
winning battles by the magic of a village conjuror.
M. Sehnitzler disnpproi es even ofthephysioguo
my of the Duke. “His nose was too aquiline, and
stood out too prominently on his sunburnt counte
nance, mid his features, all strongly marked, were
not devoid of an air of pretension.” He objects
to his appearing “without a splendid military cos
tume. to improve his appearance!" And yet, all
this foolery is the wisdom of foreigners. No man,
however renowned, must forget “the imposing."
Hannibal, or Alexander the Great, would have
been nothing in their eyes, except in tho uniform
of the “Legion of Honor.” His walking, aud walk
ing without attendants, through the streets, was a
horror, rendered worse and worse by his "wearing
a black frock-coat and round hat.” Even when
he appeared iu. uniform on state occasions, “he
was equally lucklessfor the costume of a Rus
sian field-marshal, which had been given to him by
Alexander, did not fit him, and was too large for
his thiuuess. On the whole, the Duke failed, as
we nre told, to “gain any remarkable success iu
the Russian salons.” The countesses conld make
nothing of him; tho princesses smiled on him
without his returning the smile; the courtiers told
him bon mots without much effect; and the politi
cian 8 wero of opinion that a Duke so taciturn had
no tongue.
Still the emperor's attentions to him continued
and, ou the day of distributing medals to the army,
he gave .Wellington the regiment of Smolensk,
formed by Peter the Great, nnd of high reputation
iu tlie service.
Bnt he succeeded in his chief object; which
eferred to Greece ; aud which ultimately, in giv
ing independence ton nation, the classic honors of
whose forefathers covered the shame of their de
scendants,—and by a succession of diplomotic
blunders, has turned a Turkish province an Euro
pean pensioner, enfeebling Turkey Without bone-
lilting Europe, and merely making a new source
of contention between Frauce, Russia, and Eng'
land.
The career of Nicholas has been peaceable ; and
the empire has been undisturbed hut by the guilty
Circassian war, which yet seems to be carried on
rather as a field of exercise for the Russian armies,
than for purposes of conquest.
But all nations now require something to occupy
the public mind ; and au impression appears to be
rising iu Russia, that the residence of the sovereigi
should be transferred to Moscow. Nothing could
be more likely to produce a national convulsion,
and operate a total change on the European policy
of Russia, and the relations of the northern courts.
Yet it is by no means improbable, that the singu
lar nvidity of the Russian court to make Poland not
merely a dependency, blit an integral part of the
empire, by the suppression of its very name, the
change of its language, and tho transfer of large
portions of its people to other lauds, may have for
especial purpose the greater security of Russia
the West, while she fixes her wholo interest on
vigorous progress in tlie South.
There are 6ome problems which still perplex
them for many an age; and amuug those are, the
good or evil predominant in the Crusades, the use
of a Popeiu Italy (where he obviously offers, and
must always offer, the strongest obstacle to the
union oftlie Italian States into a national govern
ment,) the tree character of Peter the Great, and
the true policy of placing the capital of Russia in
the extremity of the empire.
It appears to be now at least approaching to a
public question,—Whether Peter showed more of
good sense, or of savage determination, in building
a magnificent city in a swamp, where man had nev
er before built anything but a fisherman’s hut;
and in condemning his posterity forever to live in
the most repulsive climate of Europe ? Some pa
ges in these volumes are given to the inquiiy into
the wisdom of deserting an ancient, natural, and
superb seat of empire iu the South, for a now, un
natural, aud_ decaying seat of sovereignty in the
----- - nfimjt
sagacity became a tierce self-dependence ; the old
tactics which hud led him to strike the first blow
at the capitals of Europe, urged him into the heart
of the wilderuess; his diplomatic confidence there
exposed him to be baffled by the plain sense of
Russia, and his daring reliance on bis fortune
stripped him ofan army and a throne.
But, wheu Russia had recovered from this in
vasion, her first elforts were pointed in tho old di
rection. She recommenced the Turkish war,
seized Moldavia aud Wallacbia, crossed the Balkan
threatened Constantinople, and, with tlie city of
Constautiue in her grasp, retired ouly on tho re-
monstrauces of the European powers.
M. Sehnitzler imagines that the direction of Rus
sian conquest will be towards Germany, nnd con
templates the all-swallowing gluttony which is to
absorb all the states from the Vistula to the Rhino.
We wholly differ from those views. Tho condi
tion of Europe must be tctally changed before the
policy of Russia will attempt to muko vassals of
these iron tribes. It would have too many battle*
to fight, and too little to gain by them. To at
tempt the absorption of any one leading German
power would produce a universal war. Boland is
still a thorue iu its side; and it would take a cen
tury to convert its intense hostility into cordial
obedience. Prussia and Austria are the political
“Pillars of Hercules” which no invader can pass;
and if Germany can but secure herself from the
restlessand insatiable ambition of Frauce, sheneed
never shrink from the terrors of a Tartar war.
If war should inflame tho Continent again, the
Russiau trumpets will bo heard, not on the Elbe,
but ou tbe shores of tho Propontis Asia Minor
and Syria will be a lovelier and a more lucrative
prey: which probably Egypt will be '.he prize
which will draw to the waters of the Mediterranean
the maritime force of tho world.
Outlie whole, the volumes of this Franco-Ger-
mau are intelligent, and may be studied with ad
vantage by all who desire to comprehend tho
actual condition of an empire, which extends from
the Baltic to tlie Sea of Kamschntka. which con
tains seven millions of square miles, nearly sixty
millions of souls, is capable of containing ten times
the number, and which is evidently intended to
exercise a most important influence on tho globe.
O’Cosnell’s Tact id Ciioss-Examinatio.v.—He
was once examining a witness, whose inebriety*!
tbe time to which the evidence referred, it was es
sential to his client's case to prove. He quickly
discovered the man’s character. He was a fellow
who may be described as ‘ half foolish with rogu
ery.”
“Well, Darby, you told the truth to this gentle
man J”
“Yes, your honor, Cornscller O’Connell."
“How do you know my name 1”—“Ah 1 sure ev
ery one knows our own palhriot.”
“Well, you are a good-humored, honest fellow:
now, tell me, Darby, did you take a drop of any
tliiug that day ?”•—“Why, your honor, I took my
share of a pint of spirits."
“Your share of it? now by virtue of your oath,
was not your share of it—all but the pewter?"—
“Why, >ben, dear knows, that* true for you, sir.”
Tho court was convulsed by both question and an
swer. It soon came out, step by step, that the
man was drunk, and was uot, therefore a compe
tent witness. Thus O’Council won his case for
his client.
Here is another instance of his ready tact and
infinite resource in the defence of liis clients. Iu a
trial at Cork for murder, the principal witness
swore strongly against the prisoaar. He partic
ularly swore that a lint found near the place of the
murder belonged to the prisoner, whose name was
James.
By virtue of yoiirontli, art) yon sore that this is
thesame hat?”- ‘Yes.’’
Did you examiue it carefully before yon swore
in your information that it was the prisoner’s ?'*—**I
did.”
“Now. let nie sec,"said O’Ccnnell, ns he took up
the hat, and began to examiue it carefully in the
inside. He then spelled uloud the name of James
slowly, thus—“J—n—m-—e— . Now, do you
mean those words were in the hat when you fond
it.”—“I do.”
"Didyon see them there ?”•—"I did.”
“And this is the same lint ?"—“It is.”
“Now, my lord,’ said O’Connell, holding up the
hat to the bench, “there isan tnd oftlie case ;thero
is no name whatever iuscfibbd in the hat" The
result was ail instant atqnittal.—Form's Life and
Times of O’ Connell
From the Palmetto State Banner.
A Heavy Job ron fUE Summer.—If Mr. Clay
is run as the W hig candidate for ihe Presidency,we
may set it down as a fair calculation, based upon
bis operations thus for, that lie will have to kiss at
least five hundred thousand pair* of lips before the
first of October next. That all of theso will bo
‘rosy, luscious nnd pouting," tho most extravagant
gallantry would hardly pretend. Ijow ninnr
wrinkled, puckered, and skinny specimens be wifi
have to submit to, we cannot pretend to say ; but
as our experience has led us to believe that young
ladies of a certain age. (over 35,) and toothless old
women, of ages “whereof the memory of mau run
neth not to the contrary," are much more lavish of
their favors in this particular than the young ones.
\Ye predict for Mr. Clay rather a dry and uninter
esting campaign. RiVsing is an amusement to
.'hich few will object, provided they have the
choice of the subject, but the indiscriminate prac
tice of it, we would think, is by no means so palata
ble as some might imagine, particularly in tbe sum
mer time;
vicinage of the Arctic circle ; of retarding the pro-i t, . - • , r—.—
gress of civilization by the ihsuperabletlifficulties I prominent member of the opposition
of a climate, where the sea ia frozen up for six l’ art - v ' 1 and !l P artIcular fricnd of O- Barrot, who al-
months in the year, and the rivers and laud are fro- | thoagh nt present tinder a cloud, will he think*
Lafayette.—A Paris correspondent ofthe New
York Courier says:
_ “Tlie other day I had a very interesting inter-
•iew with Al. Lafayette, tlie son of ihe old general.
pire, and flung the people P back fern the an of I Countenance, and he treated my friend, Mr. M. of
Ivanl.T ueorgia, and myself with great kindness and cour-
Of course, no one doubts that the Russian cm- I , Ho coav <; rsed « very freely upon the
pire is of vast extent and substantial power ; but «' ld the causes which led to it and spoke
its chief power is in its central provinces, mid iii at tongthof the Iffobabie result. Ido not feci
iu faculty of expansion into tho south. Its north- I warranted to commit to paper all that he said upon
ern provinces defy improvement, and can be sus- 1118 * atter P° int » f sa >’ l * 1Mt he expressed
tained only by the toil of government. ' S reHt "opes front the intlhgeuce and g<»od tcnce of
The probable view ofthe case is, that Peter was j 11C * recc “ P®°P* e -
deluded by his passion for naval supremacy. He , ^ „ ,,
had seen tho fleets ofU'estern Europe trained in ! Do « School.— A gentleman named Winfield,
their boisterous but ever-onen seas ; and he de- ■ j ^ York, has opened a school for the
term hied to have a fleet in a sea which, through- I ® dacat ! on of Uo .S s - lhe following is an extract
out the winter, is a sheet of ice, aud where t°be ["'"■■■ llisa “ vert| e c m e nt: ..
ships are imbedded as if they were on dry ground, i , dlfii ? ent branches of tuition arc these—he
He had then no Black Sea for bis field of exercise ! W,U Iear " th f™ to go <m errands as correctas ahoy
uud no Sebastopol for his dockyard. He touched’ 1 ye T- 8 ° d ’ “') d d,9t,,1 8 uls!l persons of color
upon no sea but the Baltic ; and, under the infatu- . , ° m W , °'^ 8: ho , W H? , " ,htm '° waltz ,,nd
pi • .. i _ i . . : flRnrP! anri ttip pml nf tnr» nnnrtar u-ill
tine, resigning the right of succession, and from eral officers were scut from St. Petersburg to meet j ation of being a naval power, he’ threw tho Rns- [ danc ®i. a p. d at the end of the quarter there will bo
Alexander accepting the resignation. Constan- him on the Russian frontier. The emperor ap-: siun government as far as he could towards the 811 exhibition. The dogs will tel! tho number of
tine's letter stated thus; “Conscious that I do not pointed a mansion for him, beside the palace of j North Pole. j persons in the room, and distinguish the number of
possess tbe genius, the talents, or the strength, ne- j the Hermitage, paid him all the honors of a Rus- : Moscow should have remained the Russian capi-
cessaiy to ht mo for the dignity of sovereigo, to 1 sian field-marshal (he was then the only oue in the
which my birth would givo mo a right, I entreat service,) placed him on a footing with the princes
your imperial majesty to trausfer that right to him of the imperial family, aud was frequently iu his
to whom ilbeloDgs. after me; uud thus assure for-, society. Tho people wero boundless iu their
ever the stability of tbe empire. _ marks of respect.
“As to myself, I sh ill add, by this renunciation, | _ But the Duke is evidently not a favorite with the
a new guarantee and anew force to the engage-
vlii
ment which I spontaneously aud solemnly con
trasted on the occasion of my divorce from my
first wife. All the circumstances in which I fiud
a cantary earlier, have probably been iu posses
Frenchman—and we do uot milch wonder at th
feeling iu a Frencbmoii, poor as it is. Without I liou of Aafe Minor, and have fixed a Viceroy in the
giving any opiuion of his own, lie inserts a little ] city of tho Sultans. •
sneerfromthe work ofLacretelleon the “Consul-: The policy of Catherine II. cvidentlv took this
himself strengthen _my determination to adhere to j nte and the Empire.” On this authority. Welling- direction ; she made no northern conquests; she
this resolution,' which will jprovo to empire and to | ton is “a general of excellent understanding, | withdrew her armies on the first opportunity from
a- ; the Prussian wai, in whic h Russia had been in-
tal. With au admirable climate, at once keen
enough to keep the human frame in its vigor, aud
with tiie warm summer of the south, to supply all
the vegetable products of Europe pits position ! .“VS? 0 " 0, L*? ,0r ? , , .
commanding the finest provinces of Western Asia, oa ' * “ !0 teac “ er out > and a l 30 I d;, J ac cards as well
Russia would have been mistress of the Black Sea i aa an - man ‘
hats orcaps there is iu the room, and will tell whe
ther the ladies have bonnets or hoods, nnd the
number of ladies from gentlemen. He has a dog
he calls the Wild Man of the Woods, that will tell
the nnmuer of colored persons in the room, and
the whole world tho sincerity of ray sentiments.” phlegmatic and tenacious, proceeding not by enthu
Another of those documents appointed Nicholas siasm, but by order, discipline nud,tow combinations,
as the heir to the throue. Tbetsenato now^declar- trustiug but littlo to chance, nnd employing about
ed that Nicholas was emperor. But ho refused | him all the popular aud vindictive passions, from
the title, until be had the acknowledgment from w hich he himself is exempt.” By all which, M.
Constantine himself, that he had resigned. The Lacretelle means, that the Duke is a dull dog.
suspense continued three week*. At length the j without a particle of geuius; simply a plodding,
formal rcnuuciatioon of Coustuntiue was received, I positive man, who, by mere toil and time, gained
Nicholas was emperor, nml the day was appointed his objects, whicli any Dutchman could have gaiu-
to receive the oath or allegiauce of tho great fuuc- j ed ns well, and which any Frenchman would have
a UJ miYiaiy-. », D — „. . tionarics ofthe army and of the people. The em- j scorned to gain. With this French folly we have
r intermittent fever, aud he ! peror dated his accession from the day of the death | not sufficient time, nor have we safiicieit respect
lipress. On being asked bv j of Alexander, December the 1st, 1825. for the natioual/ai/ing, to argue,
om be bad left a* tjto man*- I The interregnum was honorable to both the But the true view of Wellington’s character as a
, *' - " soldier would be, brilliancy of conception. What |
more brilliant conception than liis firat great bat*
tie, Assaye, whicli fiuished tho Indiun war? What
more brilliant conception than his capture of Bad-
which 1’olund
CitF’ Several ladies of Washington’s tim“ are r.till
living. The widow of Dr. Hush, now in her nine
tieth year, resides at Philadelphia. She is tho
mother of Richard Rush, Charge d’affaires in
France. The widow of Lewis Morris lives in tlie
neighborhood of New-York; Mrs. Madison at Wash
ington: Mrs. Bradford, widow- of the first Attor-
ney General of the United States lives at Burlin'-,
ton, N. J.; Mrs. Hamilton, daughter of the bravo
Gen. Schuyler, and the widow of the celebrated
h jlo force of her empire was thrown* into south- colleague of U ashington and Marshal], was seen a
eru war. le " days since walking in Broadway. These five
This policy is still partially maintained, xto wmowaof dlinstriqus men of the American revnlu-
war of the Caucasus, an unfortunate nud uniustifli ; r ' v " ca ‘ ti, . t 1 tlIn « the ornament of the saloon
able war, now exhibits the ouly hostilities on i . i, , tPre - ent of th ® United States; audit
which Russia expends any portion of her power. lv • d De a cunous spectacle to see them together
The success of that war would evidently put the j a * wn *
eastern, as well as the northern shore of tho Black I ry Tt .
voived by tlie blunders of her foolish husband ;
and though she engaged iu that desperate act by
partitioned—an act which, I
though perfidious,
ally pacific—the
Tlie prince entreatened him to t ike care of liis I tors against \
i throne.