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advance, Tv
luronx, onlv a queen for a day.—
tl.ev thought th. V had nothin.; to
,-mv. Certainlv. if they had fore-
iver of this woman. who had all the linn
man, or ratherol a woman who revenges
would have allowed tier to approach the
nd if it had been necessary, they would
•d a placie for her among the queens of
some noble
.Tlailantr dr Psmpadonr.
CHAPTER II.
tm THEATM AT COCItT.—VOI.TAIItZ.—JEA.V-.IACQt.’ES.
—Tt!,'. FAI.I.Or THE .1 r.SPITS.- -rl.TITS SOLTF.RS—THE
rAitc-ACX-CEttrs.
Madame de Pompadour noon perceived that a ltinc of all the Benedictine convents, to convert the gar-
like T.ouis XV., who hud to interest l.ira neither dens of those vast soliladea ioto public places, shaded
i.reams of ambition, t or an elevated taste for the fine j with trees, spread with crass, and adorned wjth atn-
nrti and literature ' ~ r f "*■ ' 1 V '
Madame de Pompadour was l>ern witl
instit.i ts; the moat severe of bur libellers have never
denied her taste for tin- tine nits. She desired totnake
of Louis XV an artist king: she always tried todraw
him out of ilia apathv by noble interests. Ilut Louis
XV. did not understand, like Louis XIV^ how er.-nt
monuments often mnkc the glory of kings. Will U
not be interesting to recall here the ideas that the
Marchioness de Pompadour had for the embellishment
She wished to make a single convent,out
if not, tales such as
were told to the saltan of the Arabian Nights, at least
» variety of tableau:’ rirmds. She commenced by
1 taking an actress of herself. The king was a spec-
t itor wearied with life: she knew that it was neces-
t iry to chance her character often, and the spirit of
I list character, in ort'.er to succeed in amusing the
1 ing. Twenty times a day she changed her dress, her
i ntioementa, her manners, pasting from gaiety tomel-
l „ holy, accompanying a sally of wit with a tender
■ xpre»inn ; as sweet, a songster ns a airon, and ns
light as a bird, she contrived a thousand graceful
i hil.i like delights, ller beauty, the brilliancy of
which was marvelinns, was a great aid tn her in all
l.erchangeaof character. She dreiaed with exquisite
tirt. Among the twenty different eosttum-s that alte
'V as the first toeoncoive. the negl'geaa la Pompadour,
nre tin- most frequently alladcd to ; dresses in the
Jorm of a Turkish vest, which show with perfect grace
idithe linea of the female bust. She frequently pass-
id l whole morning over her toilet, in company with
Louis XV., who gave her advice in order to prolong
this faity occupation. Notwithstanding, the king got
tired of having only ono nctreaa Ju vain she dia-
(.raised herself ns a farmer'* wife, a* a peasant girl, as
u ahephardess, in order to take him by surprise, or ra
ther to let herself be taken by aurprme. in the turns
of the park at Versailles.* The king at first foond the
jdny delightful, but by degrees ho discovered that It
was always the aamo woman under a thousand dif
ferent disguise*.
It would have been necessary lor Madame ile Tom
padonr, to gave metnmorphized herself entirely Ob-
porting that the king wns wearied with the comedy
she herself had been acting for hia benefit, she had a
theatre built in the Cabiuec of Medals, and chose the
i,dors she thought worthy of playing with her in this
theatre, which was to have for audience only the king
tmd aorno well-beloved curriers. The Duke de la Val
uers was cltnaen manager; an abbe was selected for
prompter. Here are the names of the actors: the
Daka d'Orleant. the Duke d'Ayen, Count de Maille-
■ Mils, the Hake de Cotgny, the Marquis d'Kntraigues,
The Durhe.s do Ilrancas, the Countess d’Kstrade, Ma
dame d'Angoviiliers. I quote the following extract
from the laws : •• For admission as a member, proof
must be given that it is not the first time that the ap
plicant has acted, in order to prevent any inexp.i
rionecd persun from entering the company. The ac
tresses anal) alone have the privilege of choosing the
pieces to he played by the company.—The half hour
grace for the rehoarsal shall only he allowed to the
actresses, if they arrive later than this, they shall be
fined, the fine to be fixed by themselves." The the
atre opened with Marriage Made and Broken, by Du-
frany. When we think of (hemarriages of.Madame
de Pompadour and D'Etioles, the play seems quite ap
propriate. At the beginning comedy was played, but
finally nothing but oporns and ballets. In the song
and the dance, as in the play of the paaaiona. Madame
de Pompadour waa the only actress of real talent.—
She was ndmirable in simple peasant-girls, especially
in the pait of Colette, in the Drrindr ViUagt. There
was nothing so difficult as to get admission to this
theatre of duchesses ? the kiug alone disposed of the
rights of admission: he proved himself more rigorous
in regard to this theatre than hia court: thus it was
by no means a small favor for Voltaire, who fur n long
lime had aspired to the joye of Versailles, to he al
lowed to SCO the 1.'Enfant Pmdigne acted at the
court theatre. Voltaire, like all men, had the weak
ness of wishing to govern the state; intoxicated with
liia literary sun-ess, he dreamed only of political hon
ors. He hoped to become embassador or minister,
through the tavor of Madame de Pompadour ; with a
little more tact, lie wight have been made an embus
sador, a minister, or cvro a cardinal; bnt at tho mo
ment when he thought be had reached the aim of his
desires, he made a fall
lines
dso step in writing these famous
Ol the even, poetry.
These lines, it is well known, gave rise to a remon
strance on the part of the queen and her daughters;
all was lost fur Voltaire in spite of the good 'will of
Madame de Pompadour, who, moreover, seeing that
the cause was a bad one, took good care not to com-
vwiroiss her favor, by any imprudent attempts in he-
ntlf of Voltaire. \ oltairc never pardoned the mar
chioness for her lukewarmness; as vengeance is the
delights of king and poets, Voltaire after iunumora
hie madrigals and Batteries, wrote as follows, without
tho least reserve, in his famous poem:—
And sach, too, was that fortunate griiettn.
In whom both art and nature’s gifts combine,
Formed in the harem, on the stage to shine.
Her royal bearing in her gait is shown,
With majesty she arms her roguish eyes;
Her voice assumes a more tliau regal tone,
Above her rank her haoglity spirit flies.
Notwithstanding, he always remained her friend;
tkas at the time wuon the marchioness was no longer
beloved by the king, nor respected by hie courtiers.
Msrmontel recorda tho following conversation as hav
ing taken place at Ferney. •• She is no longer loved,
she is unhappy.” said Marmoutel. •• Then," Voltaire
exclaimed, " let iter come here, and act tragedy with
oa; 1 will write partafur her, and the partaof aquern.
She ia beautiful; she must know the play of the pas-
ainna."— “She alto knows,” replied ’Marmoutel.
** So much the better, that is jnst what we want.”—
"Since it suits you let it he ao; if the theatre at
Versailles is closed to her, I will tell her that yourais
wide open to receive her.”
Darios and Rossaau were more severe toward her.
Huelns believing himself to he a great historian,
without temper or ton morh indulgence, judged her
with severity. In his lear of being thought a courtier,
lie became unjust. Msdanin do Pompadour had at
tempted to nttncli Rostcau to her, hut the proud re
publican of Geneva, wrote her a letter? which put an
end In all negotiation. Notwithstanding, she always
lield him in high eateem. Ono day when the wife of
the Mumbai de Mirepoix advised her nut to trouble
herself ab-.ut that owl, alia leptied, ** lie is indeed au
owl. bat an owl of Minerva."
.Madame de Pompadour, who wished to strengthen
her regal position, determined to be queen of France,
as UitiiXV. wns king ol France, ly the grace of God.
Yh : l’rioce de tSoubise. who was one of licrcourtiers,
took upon himself to procure her a Jcauitof favorable
dbpastries who Would consent to confess her and to
absolve her from nil her sins committed at court. Fa
ther de .'ary, hail in good company, preserved the
manners of a frank gentleman. He knew how to be
of bis age, and laughed at the severities of hia order.
The Prince de Souhise went to him He was at first
somew hat reserved t " Reflect that there ia but a
step from the confessional of tho marchioness to the
confessional of the king." De Sacy could net resist
the attraction of this dangerous poi tion. He went to
aee the marchioness, fc’he received him in the most
amiable manner in the world :
ai a enofoeaor. a man who w
ccreur general of the miaaloui
of the Jesuits at the Court had opposed her ; the queen
the dauphin, Father Grilfet, the Cardinal de Luvues,
tho Bishop nl Verdun, Modsieur de Nicolai; all had
taes. The Archbirliop ot Paris gave Louis XV. (©un
derstand. w ho, iu spite of all, was always religious,
that in order to secure a g-od place in heaven, nc
must not disturb the quarters of the Benedictines here
below. Madame de Pompadour wtahed to adorn tno
galleria* ol the Lonvre, aud to place there paintings
of all the different aelmola. Louis XV, who. was ava
nriuus, was afraid of being compelled, in eider toear
rv oat aoeb a regal eiiterprioe. to have recourse to his
lirivate property: besides, tome artists, who were
then celebrated, opposed it with all their might,.under
the pretext that there would be no money left to par
t-base their pictures. Madame de Pompadour enter-
mined the idea of rebuilding the nit; the plan of this
project which was presented to the king, hid been
traced under the eyes of the marchioness. The de
sign was to build magnificent houses, and ornament
the first stones with balconies, which would serve to
cover the footpath; but. at in order to have earned
out this plan, it would ltnve been necessary to have
suppressed sixteen of tho churches of tbs rite, the
kina, in couieqnence of the opposition of the chapter
of Notre Dame and the clergy, did not give his assent,
and the cite remained as now, with its hiding-places
lor robbers and prostitutes. Madame de Pompadour
proposed the erection of another Hotel-Dico, repre-
senting to the king, that it was a melancholy thing in
a kingdom like that of France, to see two sick per
sons in one ped. But Madame de Pompadour was at
that tinio the only advocate forthe poor in Versailles.
To this prayer, the king answered: “ Have we not e
hunting-hex at Choiiy 1 I have consented to baud
Bellevue for our pleasures, and I have rebuilt St. onl-
pice for the love of Gild. ' The Ring Louis X\ . only
believed in himself, his mistress, and God. Madame
de Pompadour wns, however, successful In her project
for a military school. It was by force or constant Iv
repeating tn the king that lie must distinguish lus
reign by a monoment. Madame de Pompadour suc
ceeded also in founding the manufactory at Sevres.?
Fiusliy, Madame do Pompadour suggested the idea of
rebuilding the Madeleine, which waa the only church
where site liked to worship God.
The little suppcn of Versailles succeeded snmtn
times in cheering Louis XV., who carried bis eunui
with him everywhere, to the hunt, to the theatre, to
the gardens of tlie palace. Alter sapper, he occasion
ally i.o’algcd in some sallies of wit, that were by
turns delicate anil gross. One evening, after some ono
had sung a plaintive song about the misfortunes of
Adam, our first parent, the king improvised a couplet
worthy of the best songs of Uolle:—
TO ADAM.
” One wife thon hadst with thee,
But that one she was thine;
Here many wives I see,
But see not her that's niine.”
You see Louis XV. had also liis days of poetry.—
Auacroon could not have done better.
By the by, what was the qneen doing during these
little suppers, these joyous thcntricnl amusements,
vur the heart of Loi
mi XV. waa rate
i ns governing at V t
* XV
sullies
iverFrance, while
The Truest Brfoviti for Us. ^ Ir ’ Badger.
Of late, the fond-mental doclrii.es of our Gov- ! This gentleman s case :s still it nub,bus. Mr.
ve passed a thorough review by the Fillmore has nominated him to fill the seat upon
ally and on all balida, we believ
MACON, G A
TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Si.
frV-SFl: FIRST AMI 1'ol'KTII
paues.
tho Supreme Bench, left vacant by tho death ot ■
Justice .Mr Kinley, hot though his name was sent j
in to the Senate months ago, it has not come not ;
again from that day to this. The Alabama Journal j
thinks that the Senate have acted very much I
holding this matter so Ion
TKA.KCKAP.UIC ISTELI.1GEXCK.
Iriiter from Europe.
Baltimore, Feb. 17 —The Briii-h Sleam Ship
Alps Capt. Wickham, ha* arrived at New York
from Liverpool, whirl) port ahe left on the 2d inst.
The Britisn Mail Steam Ship America arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday, lhe30'h alt.
The Livcrroot. Mabkicts —The demand for
Colton of thu departure of the Xiapara on tho 2flth
ult.. nud the sales amounted to 25,000 bales.-—
All qnnntilies hud slightly advanced, the lower
grades roost. Fair Orleans was quoted at G£l.;
.Midd'ing Orleans at C.l ; Fair Uplands 6jd.; and
Middling Uplands at 5jd.
Messrs. Wright & Grady quote a continued up
ward tendency in Colton, mid state there ia ittcrea*
ed confidence evinced by nil classes of operators. |
The common qualities have advanced, they say n
full eighth of a j.euny. The sale* since Fridny,
the C8lh oil., they give as 27.000 hales, against
12.000 imports during '.be same period. Goods
and Yarns have advaured in Manchester, which
they think witl check extensive operations.
Trade in the manufacturing Districts has slight
ly improved.
England.—Viscount Melbourne is dead.
Fraxce.—Tho Emperor ia mnrried, ond has
pardoned three thousand puli-irol offenders. The
Asinlic Cholera ha« broken out in Paris.
eminent h
press gene
has been fully conceded that the course of events
| of lata years, has nut tended lowaid* a progres
site and a constitutional republicanism. Indeed,
wheu WO look back through the last 5(1 or 60
; years of our history, nolbiug arrests attention so ; am
) much as the niter falsification or the prediction. We think so too, but for u very ditierent reason
; made by our more cautious and patriotic stole.- Iu our opinion, cne day ought to have bee., enough
I m en, in regard to the future working of our polit- to have setlled the question, and to have settled
cal system. In llioso days it was common for Mr. Badger at the same lime. It is certaiuiv a
those men to declare their decided opposition to very unusual and unwarrantable proceeding
our now form of Government, because they said 1 wander out of the Circuit to fill tho vacaucy
; the State* would by a regular accrelia, gain pow- we do not believe the Bar of the Smith w«
Central Government.— destitute of talent that Mr. Fillmore must needs
IVKWH ITKJIM.
The caloric ship Ericsson cleared at New ^ ork for
Norfolk on Monday.
Gov. Reid, of North Carolina, has appointed the
Hon. Jamei C. Dobbin, U. S. Senator from that Stare,
in place of Mr. Maugom, whose term of service ex*
pires on the 4th of Marcli next.
Gen. l’icrce left Boston on Mnndav afternoon. He
The Pretended liniipl,;-,
The papers nro full of gosiipp n „
upon the claim of Eleazar Williams w ;
lends to bo the son of Loui3 XVI.
doubtless many facts sbtragly corrobc-
the pretension thus set up, but as the
d> nasty ha3 long ago received its
bauds of the Fteneh people,
DO B=:
7*ie/a,
. . will b# 0 r7
in abeyance, was expected at Xew York on Tuesday night or ves- yii l ue to Mr. Williams to be acknowledge 1-
j terday morning. legitimate heir to the throne. Lerir 5! :
A destructive freshet occurred in the Piscataquis : worth very little iu Paris, now a-davi '
Maine, on Thursday night last, hy which bridges t hink Mr. W. acted unwisely i n de*^*
, and
Bt BO
□ b-
er hi the expense of the
Iih» all this b*?en reversed ! What a lesson truvcl into North Curolina to hnd a geuilrman
does it teach of the fallibility of human judg competent to direct their deliberations. There j and confessed to the murder. Over §2
were carried away, stores and dwelling houses
merged, nnd much other damage done.
A double murder was recently committed on board
a flat boat iu the Mississippi river, two men having
charge of the boat being found with their skulls hor-
ribly crushed, and a large sum of money missing. A :
man named Simmons has been arrested at Louisville .
princely fortune, which he says wo
imnj 4,
inrnt. Precisely the reverse of all this have wo
witnessed, from tho dny of John Adams’ sedition
law to the lust grand scheme or Pacific railroad-
iug. As Jackson likened the working of tho ays*
tem to the working of the 6crew, we have seen
at every turn that the Federal Government has
made a new acquisition of power without losing
any previously acquired. We may abut our eyes to
tho dreodful truth, and bo manfully indifferent to
are many Whigs in Alabama and Louisiana
a -e every whit as competent as Mr. Badger, and i
win, moreover, do not make the intense Federal
ist notions of old John Adams, their political
guide-book. We agree with the Journal, that
there are certain cilices which should bo kept
unsullied from the degrading touch of party poli
tics. If tho Journal will apply the maxim to the
present case, it can find, among the lawyers of
such trifles, as a salutary spirit in our national ; Alabama, a Democrat in every way fitted to
counsels, coutenl if this railroad is built—or that | adorn the office—a man too, who surely suffers
canal dug out—or the prico of our great staple
about right. Nevertheless, that day is hurrying
ou, that will prove to us that without Ibis salutary
spirit of equity and moderation, oor magnificent
schemos will, after all, do little tor us. But, proc-
ticslly, what is to be done to uirest this centraliz
ing of all power mid dignity, nnd honor that be-
Au.TRiA.-The speech of Napoleon, annonneing i long to the American name at Washington City!
his marriage, caused great seusa.ien iu Vienua. i That’s the question. The present conjuncture is
auspicious toward* a healthy reaction iu the pub-
Ntill Inter from Km ope. j lio reeling, where at least, we must go with our
Baltimore. Feb. 17.—The British Mail Steam j grand remedies when we think evils iu the State
Sbi|> America, Capt. Lang has arrived ut Halifax, are medicable. If wo are right in our convictions
N- S., from Liverpool, which port *he left no the | in regard to the scat of this evil tendency on tho
5th tust. : part of our people to look at the States through the
The IJ. S. Mail Steam Ship Pacific. Cant. Nvc, • glass iuveried, while they seek to magnify the
arrived at Liverpool on the morning of tits bit * General Government—wo can, if we will, do much
j n ,t_ ' in a fow years to redeem ocr lost grouuds. We
The Livcrfool Markitj.—The demand for i propose to check this evil by stopping short that . ... .
Collon has been good, aud prices have advanced an , wholesale nbiorptiou of the talent of tbe,couutry by ! ^ aI1 Francisco, ami authorizing tile leasing for three
eighth or a penny since the departure of the Amg-I boll. House, of Congress. We hove seen the time years of soitabe buildings there for Assay office.
ara, on the 29tb ult. The sales during the week in those grand days—"(be days of the Virginia
nothing in comparison with the Hon. Mr. Badger.
We moan John A. Campbell, of Mobile—a gen
tleman who has measured swords with the ablest
Jurists of the Nation, and who, moreover, has no
reason to remember the contest with mortifica
tion. Wo are glad that the Senate have post
poned this matter of the nomination. We hope, j
also, that it will not be taken up again, until Gen.
Pierce has offered to the consideration of tha
Senate, tho itatno of some competent and worthy
man, resident in the South-Western Circuit.
300 of the mo
ney wns found in his possession.
Mr. Fuller, of Washington, who was recently shot
by Capt. Schaumburg, is in sucli improved condition
that the chances now are in favor of his final re
covery.
Baron Lionel Rothschild, of London, has received a
special invitation to attend the wedding of Louis Na
poleon.
Australia is in debt to England for shipments to
that country in the sum of £3.000,000.
by the Prince de Juitiville. After all, jj ''
difficult to believe that the leaders of t' u ., p •'
Revolution would have tuken the trouble:
the Dauphin to America. When they de.. ■ ^
get rid of an individual, they bad a
surer method—the
little
-dust.
There were 337 deaths in the city of New York | Prim:
. 1 u, <*er qj
rollout,e. the basket, ‘
Wo give several eiir ac !, ’
the Northern papers.
Have we ft Bourbon nmonjf, (
“ Hia uffublo manner, impressing us at o--
bi« pootl nature, aud his eye, so readilv :
a look of gentle cheerfulness, are in bsnaoo." !
the work which he is called 'o fulfil. ] ( ' T ■
cuts that persuasion rather than anlboritr'
mentis of drawing his Indian listener* niibi j
Christian Church. He is an apostle of the ^
rive style. This firs’, impression, let it he
Blond, does not
spririj
iificehleri b
hs tst-
from the possibility 4,,
Congress.
In tho Senate, after the presentation of memori
als the deficiency bill was taken up, and all the
amendments reported by the Committee on Fi
nance were adopted. Amuug them were appro
priations for tho improvement of squares iu Wash
ington, $25 000 additional for a custom house in
have comprised G5.000, of which speculators have
taken 7000, and oxporters 7000. leaving 51.000
bales to the trade. The quotations areas follows
—Fair Orleans ti.j !; Middling Orleans 5}d.
Consols were quoted at £>3j.
(-citern! Picrce’a .'fforriurnts.
Baltimore, Feb. 18.—Geuerul Pierce is staying
these everlasting festivals of gallantry f The queen ! j„ Philadelphia, arid will not reach Washington
was proving God, and believiiie that God at ways pro- . u
reeled France. Madame de Pompadour, it is well 1 belore M inday.
known, was one of her ladies of honor; hut the lady j New Orleans, Feb. 17.—8000 bales of Cotton
1 S*| -»"M - n-rO,r. 300li.r.Mnf prime Rico
ing in the park ot Versailles with his mistress, nnd as j changed hands at $4 25 per 100 lbs. Whiskey
they had nothing else to talk about, they passed a
most glowing eologimn upon tlie virtues of the ex
cellent Marie Lecziusha. •• H..1.1 mrrlimnou " said
was quoted at from 21 to 2l£ crutsper gallon.
Hold, marchioness." said
I^inia XV., •• carry her, in ray behalf, these flowers
that yon bavo plucked for me." Madame de Pompa-
doardid not wait to be urged: it was the first time
she had ever done anything for tho qneen. After ha
ving bowed and presented the boqnet, she waa about
retiring ; hut the queen asked her to stay, anil be
sought her to sing for her adding that srehad heard , ||pen „ G(H | tcud lho B it tho won-
wonders of her voice. The marchioness felt offended, j .... . . , ,, .
and excused heraelf, by saving that she coaid not | «ler 1* already more than nine day * old, mid
yield to such a request The queen no longer re- j m ,„ t nilvv he rej-cted by the Parographist. The
rc-et*. -< Me. m-w->. win.
JVetTO of tl«o tVrrl:.
Our exchanges were never more barren of in
teresting news than at the present time. The
Episcopalian clergyman, who ia ambitions to
cbnnge his surplice for the royal robes of Frauce,
in Armida : A/ last / hare him in mg poserr !
Madame de Pompadour, born in the ranks of the
people, and seating neroell at her esse upon the throne
of Blanche of Castile: Madame de Pompadour, pro
tecting philosophers and banishing the Jesuits, treat
ing great noblemen with the same freedom a* artists,
was one of the thousand cautcaof the French revo
lution- Madame Doharrv only imitated her prede
cesior. when ahe called a noble dnke an ape. Tlie
saying is well known; "Announce Madame Jiubarry's
apt." Thu* spoke a great lord belonging to the court
of Loois XV. It wonld be curious to enrich the great
book of heraldry with all the nicknames given as ti
tles of nobility by the mistress of Louis XV. to the
courtiers of Versailles More than one flue name
that France boasted of with pride lost its brilliancy in
that atmosphere of eoartiera and courtesans. " Not
only.” said Madame do Pompadour, to the Abbe de
Bernis. “have I all the nobility at my feet, bnt my
little dog even is woaried with homage." Madame
de PompaJour reigned so imperiously, that ono day at
Versailles, at the end ot dinner, an old man appronen-
ed the king, and besought him quitoaloud to nave the
goodness to recommend him to Madame de Pompa
dour. Every one smiled but the marchioness.
But tho p miard of Damieus was nearly her rum ;
the king, frightened 011 accoant of his disorderly life,
duriag the few hours that he tlwuglit himself on the
bed of death, was about renouncing the marchioness,
the pomps, and the vanities of the world She suc
ceeded its blinding the king, and resumed her empire.
She made knowu to him, wlience came the blow of
the poinard. Damiens was armed by the Jesuits, but
the weapon waa forged by tlie English. The Eng
lish were fearful of an alliance between France and
Austria; they wished to ruin France, wliirh bad
given them greater offence than over; they were in
dread of being ruined bv her. They encouraged the
fierce qnarrcl between the Jansenista and Molinists,
between the clergy nud par’iament, between the par-
tv of Madame de Pompadour—the friend of Maria-
Theresa and the philosophers—and the party of the
Dauphin—tlie enemy of Msria-Theresa and the phil
osophers—a superstitious prince witliout cultivation
which sho drives four-in-band—the grace with
which *be handles alike tho pistol and the fan—
are also topics which have been well nigh ex
hausted. Men bavo ceased to wouder at the
manifestation of n heart, on the part of Lonis Na.
polroo, and are henceforth willing to adroit that
the blind boy-god can God hi* way into the Toil-
teries na easily as he cau into tho vine-clad cotta
ges of the Provinces—
•• Fair trews man’s imperial race etwnare.
And Ueautj draws us br attack hair.”
The great powers of Europe are organizing arf3
developing all their resonreea. aa if in anticipa
tion of a general continental emeulr. The Czar
hat moved jltrgs massea of soldieta to the Rus
sian frontier—the Austrian Government it busy in
the formation of military depots—the King of Prus
sia has borrowed twenty million rix dollars from
the Rothschilds; and Spaiu, Caving again found
capitalists credulous enough to advance largo
sums, is tromolnusly striving to keep pace with
the tiroes. Tho dock-yard* of France and Eng
laud nro full of workmen, and every thing indi
cate* that the mimic warfare of gala days must
•non be succeeded by combats of a sterner char
acter. The storm is is evidently brewiug. Where
or when it i* to break, uo man can venture to pre
dict.
Mexico is still in her old condition of national
vagrancy—Revolutions and counter Revolutions
nre tho order of the d»y. Uruaga hsa defeated the
, , Federal troops, aud It is supposed that he has al-
or strength of mind. Tito English, nndert.Kik, when j . ^ j <m .„ n Capital. This is a
the buttle should rage, and the minds ot tlie people , J * *
should be excited, to find an assassin’s arm among the j iriumpb of the Liberalists. and will probably con
1 iuit anpoiticd pro-
Until then, the party
l*«ipt‘d to i rive her from the throne as u profane wretch
"Wall, once declared worthy of the protection of God,
l>y a Jesuit, »o distinguished ai He Sacy, did she not
MOOluOCliOoii .tjvitdabJr, And sunn*u Iiai .<<Acred / She
put into pUy nil her Bcductioun ngaiust her confessor,
rno never brought to bear moreginee, skill, and bena-
ty. The Una would have boen justiiied iu becoming
jsdooa. Father de 8scy, who allowed himself to be
Vaptivatcd by the charming coquetry of a woman
■who was more haughty than a real queen, went sev
en or eight timec to Apeak to her about confession,
without
rsthcrthe
glivinr Jove 1 As the good cifv
]:ow else to amuse itself at that time, it amused it
self with this confession. Songs were composed
nhout the colift *.tor and his penitent. Pioru entered
evening the cafe Prooope, ssyingthst he had some
news from Versailles: " VVslI Um ntrdiiouew
iu dti to coufcssionnl '*N« j Madame de Pompailour
could not come to an nndcratmidim; with Father de
Stcy nlxuit the kind of coulessionn*.'* The noxt mor
ning, there was groat excitement nmoug tlie Jesuits;
they summoned before their council of Ten, the pro
currui general of missions. Hr waa obliged himself
to confess. He was ordered, as a penance for his ab
solution, to refuse his counsels to the marchioness,
*' sml to excuse himself the best was he could, fur ha*
■vine so long n time amused her.”
Father <!<• >ac\ prei
tfic Fonjnadour for the
Jesuits with which to strike losia XV n for with the
dauphin once on the throne, the Jesuits and the En*
glish would resume all their power. This, at least,
was Madame de Pompadour’s version, which the his
torian has uot been able to dispute.
Madame de Maiutenau had less difficulty in emu
•ing Louis XIV.. old aud superstitiously religious,
than Madame de Pompadour had in interesting Louis
XV n who waa still young, hut wearied with all kinds
of joys, even those of a future paridise. At the time
when the marchioness ased to disguise hersedf as a
iu the world ; she was proud to have I peasant-girl, or a gardener’s wife, she had limit n very
* ‘ J J 1 romantic hermitage in the park of Versailles, on the
borders of a forest on the road to St. Germain; ob
served from the exterior, it was a retreat, fitted in
every respect for an anchorite; hut as soon ns the
threshold was crossed, it was a little mansion worthy
of a;i old roue of the Regency, Vanloo. Boucher, De
Ia Tour, had been there to reproduce upon the walls
nnd ceilings all the charming images of the pagan art.
There was an unheard of luxury of nsiads and hum-
adryadcs. Venus,Hebe, Dianathe huntress, the three
Graces, with their hair only for costume, abounded
there innumerable. Tlie garden was a masterpiece of
sedoctive attractiveness ; it was rather a wood than
a garden, a wood peopled with statues, formed of ver
dant and odorous arcades, of charming groves, of
dark, shaded rrtreats. In tlie middle of the garden,
t>£ to confess her as yet. Was it not ‘ there was a farm, a real farm in all its details, with
e preludo to a profsnnlove, than a prelude to ! cows, goats, and sheep. Tlie marchioness presided
ve ? As the good city of Paris did not know j daily over the buiJdimrof this hermitaue. ** Where
are yon going?” said Louis XV. toiler, seeing her go
oat ao often.— M Sire, I am building a hermitage for
my old age... Yon know that I ora somewhat deyo-
tioual; I shall cml my life in solitude.’'—** Yea, like
all those who have loved greatly, or rather who have
been greatly loved.”
Toward tue end of spring, when tho woods hnd be
come preen, and the trues weie in blossom, when the
enatneiled grass carpeted tho paths. Madame de Pom
padour hepped Louis XV. to como and breakfast at
her hermitage.
The kiog went in the company of a single valet de
chambre. Surprise followed upon surprise. At first,
before entering, at the sight ot a roof covered with
thatch, ho thought be was going to breakfast like au
I himself before Madame anchorite; he seriously feared that tho marchioness
ls*i time. Here is word for ! had taken a fancy fur retirement He cutered the
word what Iu* sait! : " Tl:
you desire can not be gni
at court, apart from ■
i a hi
lotion, madame. that ‘ conrt-yard : he wont straight to the door of the her-
d to you; \our residenco | tnitage. At that moment, a young neasmit-girlcame
hand ; tlie public rumors, 1 out to meet him ; as she was fresh looking, delicate,
y on by the king prevent ! and pretty, lie began to find tho hermitage to his
“ r ™' ~ priest in- ; taste. She begged him to follow her to lhejanc,^>as*
ur b
relative to the favors grant
you from approaching the holy tubl
ateudof absolvingyou, would only i»”o:n-ui.r*- n dor.hh* a'u.c throw/ii i:.o.p.i.tigh crovt-A. l)i.l hfiis X\
damnation, yours aud his own : while tho public, ac- not think of stopping on tho way with her who was
customod to judge the conduct ni great /Topic will* his guide ?
severity, wt*uhi fuidirm it wn.*. ut app,V i .1, s.n
madame, you have thus tola me. to perform the dutie
«»f n ftw.d ( Kristian; hut the first duty ot n Christian, ma hiug a thousand courtesies, presented him with a
1 1 1,1 * ,r ‘ lcr lo obtaia absolution, D f fresh milk. At the sight of this charming
milmatd, wearing a littlu cap. ooouettishly arranged
When lie approached the farm, another peasant
! girl, more delicate still, came oat of n stable, and.
urn; to deserve it, the preliminary step, nn»t before*
unite > nursed! l<» Mt n»;.-ur ‘'i'twic*. nr at leant to
abandon the court, nml to edify your neighbors, by a
betf»-r example, who declare themselves scandalized
hy your separation from your husband.**
Madame «lc* I mnpndour listened’ to these words
with the calmness ol a statue. Bat as soon at Father
de h*ac\ had finished the last woru, she burst forth iui*
penously -~
“Father, you are a fool, a rogue, a real Jesuit; do
you understand 7 You have played with the emhar-
raumcitt in which you supposed I was involved. You
wish, J know very well, you and the re$t of of you,
to see me removed from the king ; hut I am as pow-
erfui, da \ .iu think mo weak and failing; and in spite
of all the' Jesuits iu the world. 1 will remain at Court,
while they themselves shad not only be driven from
the com;, but the kingdom also.”
From Ui.a day the fail of the Jesuits was decided.
Tlie holy lathers thought that tlie marchioness wns
a t*’ u *' >rr ”*' f ’ He'J kn-orn liia! •!):# dt»£iu** hrr*rll tu a
neck a littL
>U
21.1 lor t
non.rot ilia
tl#c*-»*etl i
All
hundretj
• Iran
i by:
teaks
He ho
l*o, to uiitiivnw* you. With
jtsimng bn animal inroiu** of
labor aupi>hr* me ) early Wllh
<U|‘ Ml« Utgn !
L*e huinmnl sml I-*rtx lnn«. ;
aboat Use ssiue amount; i ha
psul; I Jo m» t> .1 »n)> !!. .IUiou,li 1 l-ril’y it'l'i inr ra tlu'jit
‘ uoutrmir u> o react.i ap;>*araitcs, qul ug» or mar sac aheu>-i
. # l | | tnaod*
J. J. ROMBAr.
her black hair, and dressed in a white hoddice
flj’jrJ blue petticoat, the king blushed with delight. Be
fore taking the milk-basin in his hands, he looked at
iier a secoud time from head to foot. Site cast down
her eyes timidly, with that air of innocence that gives
such a charm* to young girls of fifteen Her arms
were of the brightness of a lily. iSiie had upon her
, which had fallen and lost it-
of roses, which seemed to
bloom from her bosom. But that which especially as
tonished the king was a pair of pretty hare feer, wor-
, thy of innrhle nnd the sculptor, ID a pairof the most
rustic-looking wooden shoes.
By a coquetry that was almost artless, the pretty
milkmaid placed one of her feet upon the outside of
one of the wooden shoes. The kiog recognised the
marchioness, and coofotsed to her ‘that for the first
time in hia life ho had felt the desire to kiss n pretty
foot. Madame de Pompadour returned with her lover
to the hermitage, and this was the origin of tho fa
mous Pare r.ux Cerfs.
When Madame do Pompadour had exhausted all ;
her metnmorphoaea. she peopled the P .rr nux Certs
with milkmaids, with shepherdesses, with abb ’sses,
wlm continued the part played by herself with so
much genius nnd grace. She wished to reign not
nay day <Upriv# m« of my su*n*tli, X hat
“ faro, A of. if, 170.”
; ZilurytigtiT^^uttty a tvaiv tuunier-
f«it ol U»e Japaai*orcv:siu. In FranceiOO.WX) !itn« wt-r» snuu al
jy pai t lor German and Chinese porcelain. A short tun«* s t ho
I svubJia/in)**n! ot the insMulaoturu at ***vres, lon-i^nsr* bought an-
I aosilr |a Fraaes a miUioo’i worth of poroelam.
tiuue forty-eight hours. A apecial messenger haa
been dispatcbeJ to bring Santa Anna upon thn
atnge, bo being cntiaidoreti the only man capable
of taking care, either of himself or the Govern
ment. Iu our owu country, little is nccuiriug
out.iile lho usual routine. The echo of Soule's
speech has died away, and the Rotunda ia now
resonant only with (be mourns and murmur* of
Patriots wanting place. The committee appoint
ed to investigate tbo reported frauds in tbe matter
ol tbe Capitol Extcusiim, have discovered cor
ruption or (be grossest and most flagitious charac
ter. At least ui>e-b»)l' of the appropriation lias
been rquandered—which is n mild way of eayiug
that tbe contractors have stolen an immense sum
of public money. The stupendous scheme of
building a Railroad to the Pacific, still nllracts its
full tharo ol attention. Our opinion of this scheme,
can be very briefly expressed. The nmouut of
unemployed capital iu this country is unusually
great. II ibis mighty enterprise were likely to
verify tbe predictions of its friends, or (to use a
commou phrase) if it were likely to pay, is it uot
beyond a doubt that private companies would at
once begin tbo work T If it ia not likely to pay,
why should the Guvrrnmeut bu called upon to
build the road 1 Wo pause lor a reply. Bills aro
belore Congress fur the urgauizatiuu of two u»w
Tetritorie* in tbo North-weal—one of them to be
carved out of our extensive Oregon possession*.—
Tbo Legislature of Texas have set apart tbe an
nual iuterrst upon one million of dollars, tn lie
nddeil tn the School Fund ol tbo State. Tbe
Maine Liquor Law has been adopted by the Le
gislature of Michigan. Tbe Saranac has arrived
at 1‘eusaeola from Rio Janeiro. Tboyeijow fever
rages at Rio witli unusual malignity; among tin-
victims waa Lieut. Haywood of tbo Snranac. Tbe
Post-Master at Mobile ia said to be a defaulter to
tbo tune of twenty thousand dollars. The Adver
tiser requests n suspension of public opinion.
The Politic would probably prefer a auspeusiots
of tbe Post Master. Tbe Gulden Gate reached
Panama on the 2S>b ult., with $1.9110,000 in gold
dust, and 500 pas-eu<;ers.
We bare ol Jate seen various conjectures a* to
the origin of the phrase made socelebratcd by Mr.
Calb oun iu reference tn our Oregon dispute with
Great Britain. Some or our coteinpornries have
attributed the words to Burke—some Iu Sir Jas.
McIntosh, others insist that Mr. Calhouu is enti*
tied to their paternity, while some again, trace
back so far as the Prophet Isuish—they are, how
ever, we believe, all wrong, lor the very words
were used by John Randolph of Boanoke. iu an
address to the minority that acted with him in Con
gress in opposition to J. Q. Adams’ administration.
Here are thn words—bn it advising his friends to
throw the whole responsibility ol active legislation
on the friends of Mr. A. Wo ought ssid lie, to ob
serve that practice which is hardest uf til, especial
ly for a young physician—wo ought to throw ia
uo m.dicineat all—to abstain— lo.obsarve a wise
■ nd masterly inactivity. j
aud K*ntucky Resolutions,” when the voice of a
single State was enough to make recreaut mem
bers of Congress tremble iu tbeir seats, though
owing no immediate allegiance to that State.—
What must then hnvo been tbe strength of that
mural Httd intellectual power when a Washing
ton was found urging a Patrick Henry to take tbe
field ut Home, iu behalf of the National Admin
istration. We can, at this day of Stnte degrada.
tion, hardly believe that there ever was such a
day in our History. It ia historic—not actual—
that we ever saw tho day when it waa not an im
pertinence to review tho action of the Federal
Government and read it a lesson. Will the day
ever recur when a remonstrance on the part of a |
State, will be listened to as once it would have j
been f Never, we think, while oor Legislatures '
are composed of the materials that of late years
hare cuustituted them,
here, a fact, that (in tbia Slate, for instance,) nine- j
tenths of our Legislation is effected, we cannot I
say perfected, by lobby membership. Let any
son uf Georgia compare tha intellectual grade uf
tho men who twenty years ago shaped our legis
lation, with the almost irresponsible character of
a more recent representation, and he may easily
see bow it has become, if uot a reproach, at least,
a most equivocal houor. What wonder, then,
that a State becomes disparaged—what wunder
that sho finds herself outmanaged by thuso inter
ested in advantages over her, when the prime
talent is deeply sequestered in a lazy and uudoli-
ful retirement, ur chafes itself to death in eager
striving* after the ouly honors now-a-days re
garded as worth having—national hunors. To
preside even over a great State—a sovereign
State—is a post of inferior consideration iu the
eyes of most aspirants after fame. This feeling is
rapidly destroying the high intellectual standard
of tho States, aud especially tbe Southern States.
Tho process is a most obvious one. For no man
whose integrity is uot impregnable, but will palli
ate, il uot openly defend the conduct of public
men in high places, or justify the measures of a
great party when tbe highest honors they crave
tor themselves aro in the bestowal of this man or
that party. Alas, fur the Southern States ! How
surely do we know, that such lures as those first
weaned from us the hearts and minds of our ablest
men. Georgia is a great State—we will nut cull
her hy a name that wo have never liked—the
"Empire Elate of the South aud yet, at this
buur. there is aggregated within her border* a
more varied and richer profusion ol hlessiugs than
has fallen to the lut of any other commonwealth
iu tbia Republic. Aud wbat exerliuna of a public
character are making to educo from this vast
store-house a result prop cttoccd to ourmeans I
Railroad* nro uot every thing- -a fidgety vagrant
circulation of our people is uot the highest object
iu tbe scope of a statesman’s lucubraiious. Happy
homes all over this broad land, aud within our limits
filled with pleuly, are to be the pride and hope of
our Stale—if indeed we are really to have a prido
and hope. From our heart we are devoted to the
glory of our country, but in an especial mauner.
to the glory of our owu native Georgia. We
would deem it a cheap sacrifice, if the object
cuuld in any manner be advanced by it, to see
thestrifeand zeal of parties in this State fur na
tional honors, diverted from their aim and turned
wholly upon higher and nobler objects—nearer
home. Our State has lo this day, done literally
nothing for Agriculture. Wo nro wreug, she has
quieted, solicitation on this great and vital subject,
by a parsimonious dole, that has brought discour
agement, if nut contempt on euligbteued enter
prise iu this direction—and it would seem, by al
most aiming at caricature and travesty upon
Agricultural research. Wo will venture the as
sertion to day, in despite of sneers, that Georgia
it inure truly—vitally interested, in a thorough
geological aud analytical reconoissauce of the soils
of our fields, aud iu tho introduction of a cheap,
portable fertilizer, than sho will bo in tbe next
tweuty years discussion, of who is to be Presi
dent. Wego iu for dragging out from their places
of retirement, our able men—for pnttiog them in
tho harness—then for getting the honest work
out of them—that they yet owo their native aoil.
Then let il lie understood, that after onr first-rate
inco, our true valuable men, havo appropriated
all the places and honors of the State—tbe oma-
mental good for nothings, that are rather a bur
then than a blessing, may go to Washington and
print tbeir silly speeches, and lor the injury and
wrong that this will do them, find solaco iu tbeir
eight dollars per diem. But in the name of all
patriotism, we do ask, that things maybe changed
a littlo for tbe belter, that public sentimeut al the
South, will decree, that because a man proves
clever he should not for this reason, be too good
to serve the State that nurtured him aud made a
xuuu of him.
till the Miutis completed.
Mr. Gwin moved an amendment appropriating
$300.000 lo be paid to California out of the fuud
collected in that State as dntieaun imports, previ
ous to her admission, hy the military authorities.
After considerable debate on the amendment,
without taking the question, the bill was post
poned.
Mr. Underwood presented the credential* of the
Hon. J. B. Thompson, Senator elect from Ken
tucky for six yeors from the 4lb of March next.
Tho Senate then proceeded to consider tbe joint
resolution of Mr. Cass, affirming tbo Monroe doc
trine, and applying it to the possession of Cuba.
Mr. Douglass addressed the Senate at length.—
He went into an examination of tbe Clayton and
Bulwer treaty, the Oregon treaty, the Mexican
treaty of peace, and the history generally of Eu
ropean colonization on this continent. Ho was op-
t ot late year* i 1 . , . | The mechanics at Baltimore continue their strnte,
It is, wo solemnly be- i P p,>rl to on 7 ec aratu,n on 1 113 EU d'’ c ° a j an( | marched through the streets on Monday last, 4,-
treaty with any European nation, but wns in favor 1
last week, being 56 less than during tbe previous
week; 47 died of consumption, 22 of scarlet fever,
and 22 of inflamation of she lungs.
Mr. Corcoran, tlie wealthy banker of Washington,
has given the Metropolitan Mechanics Institute uf
that city $15,000 for a building nnd 810,000 for a li
brary, on the condition that Congress will incorpo
rate it.
Capt. Hardy, of the brig Timothy Crosby, arrived at
New York from Portnu Prince, reports that from June
to January 28, nine enptains, eleven mates, and forty
seamen, belonging to American vessels, had died by
fever at Port au Prince. During the 14 days previous
to the T. C. leaving, the mortality had decreased.
Two naval officers, named Nelson nnd Pollock, have
been arrested by order of the Secretary of tlie Navy
alii those bumble ,
tnenls. A closer scrutiny is no lees favonuN
If we are less profoundly struck than hit parti-*"
with his resemblance to tbe Bourbons; if
not discover in him that most charscteriRic!--
of the race, the Bourbon nose, we must ,7*
theleis, confcHS that the brow and lower- 7
ol the fuce offer striking analn-ies with ce---!
physiognomies of the family. Tims Mr. \\v
instantly reminded ug of Louis XVI![ t wLn.'’ 1
tores nre strongly impressed upon our ci er _
The sight nf the respectable missionary ctrn 1
does not carry entire conviction, but it j| Terj ,'
from forbidding it.
“ It only remains to ndd that Mr. Williamsb<
an air of perfectly good faith; and that whil■, !
conversation with him and deliberate Semins
his person hnve not w holly converted u*.
impelled to pursue the enquiry ol which he ii^
_ object further ; lor undertirath IhisouitWe.o -
at Washington, on suspicion of being about to fight a : which candor and bonhomie nee so strongW 1
. . | printed, we cannot realize that a dun* or 13;-
I poster is concealed.’’
The Senate in exective session have confirmed tlie i , .
_ _ . t The New lork Times on ths same in' .
appointment of Prior Nance, as asnrveyorof thecus- |
toms at Knoxville, Tennessee, and Anthony Carpen- j ,a J' s •
ter as surveyor of the customs at Burlington, Iowa.
ent of the National Era, report says, is to marry a
wealthy American in Rome.
A Bangor paper states that an ordinance has bocn
introduced into the councils of that city, “for daguer.
reotyping and hanging up all past, preuont and future
Mayers, in tho Aldermen's room.
A memorial has been addressed to the Legislature
of New York, for chartering a Seaman’s B ank of Sa
vings.
The Custom house receipts last week at New York
were S780.000, or an average of $130,000 per day—
equivalent to forty millions of dollars per annum.
On Thursday last, at an adjourned meeting of the
Overseers of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass, the
election by the Corporation of James Walker, D. D.,
tube President of the University, was concurred iu.
The mechanics at Baltimore continue their strike,
of leaving the United States to net as tbe ctcudi
stances of each case would require; and was op
posed to lho resolution as applying in term to
Cuba. It was unnecessary, ho thought to make
any declaration in regard to Cuba. Tho United
States, he said, would alluw no European nation
to take Cuba. He would annex tho Island if it
became free and independent; would purchase j(
Spaiu would sell, but would forcibly prevent its
transference by Spsio to any European notion.—
He looked upon the resolution as looking over the
past violation of tlie Monroe doctrine, and ntteriug
terrible threat* for tho future. He wns for dealing
with tho case before the Senate—the violation of
that doctrine and the Clayton treaty by tboeoloni-
zation of tbe islands in tha Bay of Honduras, and
practically asserting and maintaining that doc
trine, by forcing, at all hazzards, Great Britain to
abandon that colony.
Gen. Cass replied contending that this resolu
tion applied as well to the past as the futnre vio
lations of tho treaty. Mr. Underwood defended
Mr. Cloyton. Mr. Houston obtained the floor,
nnd tho sehject was postponed until Saturday.—
Tho Senate then adjourned.
Io lho Houso of Representatives, a resolution
was ndopted to meet at II o’clock Tbo rest of
the sitting was occupied iu tho discussion of a bill
relative to tlie settlement of the swamp land* in
certain States, which had been granted to and im
proved by Individuals subsequent to their being
granted to the States by the General Government,
the object nf tho hill being tn comfirm the title of
those individuals ; lull the bill was laid on the ta
ble by a vote of 116 to 50, and during tho pendan
cy of a motion to reconsider the vole, the House
adjourned.
Mr. F., a distinguished Italian portrait pasta
. ,, , . ., . tn - 1 *eeiding in New York, enjoyed for nnDTvrsrj ‘.|
Eighteen prisoners escaped from tho jail in Detroit, patrona?e „f the Bourbon family. Ho i, »,
1 Friday night, or early Saturday morning. j known to have painted the portraits of lenc-
Grnce Greenwood, tho abolition foreign correspond- j bers of tbe family, and it may be premised tlj
he is as well qualified as any living msn. lor-Nl
tinunce upon their personal traits. With bisv . I
whose preparation to form a judgment ; 5 ; . I
less than his owu, ho called upon Mr. Wiiii iB ,l
fnwdavsngo, and both were so powerfully;'.I
fected by the family resemblance, as to expvzI
without the slightest reserve, the opitt on thi: ;ii
missionary is unquestionably a shout of tbe E:;. I
bon stock. I
• In all respects, therefore, the case ol Dtu,'. ; |
Williams partakes of probability iu &pn: I
seldom vouchsafed to such pretenders. Keg I
were historic doubts so nearly indubitable. All
the Dauphin wns not guillotined, but san-:-:|
off to America: that his existence here wit foot; I
to several of the prominent roynliits of Ftiw I
and that the republican Genet admitted Ike fal
that the identity of Williams with the lost Bo:>■
bon haa been auhstantiated.by a varietyoferil
ordinary facts, visits and other coincidence,; (-1
propositions strengthened by so greet tbodjtil
circumstantial proof, that the most tbuoiusb n |
dulity is staggered. Thn publication of thtti.l
denre must necessarily produco a lenutiot I
broad. It will form the staple of di(cQuioit|
the Londou papers. The l’rioce de Join?illetI|
be appealed to to affirm or deny bis sbsre in;h|
business. Will be respond? Probably not. il
the story be true, neither the Bourbon
the Orleans family have any justification bcfc*l
the world, for the cruelty of suppreMia; :|
troth, always well ktiuwu to them, for mnre
holf a century, in order to enjoy the bbcriuxil
of the legilimato bat exiled King.’’
The Philadelphia Sun tbiuks this knotty po' I
“Have we a Bourbon 1” will eoou be settled, t.|
and saya:
“ This question will he decided now, for M il
Field writes to the New York Times tbit til
cousin, Mr George Clinton Genet, son of tbef.'I
raer French Minister to this country, has trv.l
his father stnte that the Dnuphiu fLottis XL I
hud a remarkable birth mark upon his p-r*:*, it I
that th a maik was known to Madsa)!) Cut;! I
(Genet’s sister,) and one other lady In in I
Queen. What Unit mark was, the infroaiit>tlt|
not know, but thinks it could be ascertiicd-
Tbe authority for the assertion of its existe:c;<C
good, aud now, does any remarkable naturalertt
exist upon Mr. Williums’ person? If any
and its identity could be found with one tie
taiued to have belonged to the Dauphin, thefi
would go further to prove that the St. ErgitMiJ
siunary ia the representative of the Boarboo fira
ly, than any thing which has yet been advucri
support of the theory."
The New York Post on tha same sobjrct.ir'
“Mr. LeRoy de Chaumont is the nams
person who, it is staled in the Bourbon art : |
Putnam’s Monthly, was ptobably coucetwftj
bringing the Duuphln to this country. E- ;:
writer in the Waterton (N. Y.) Jefftrtonma.d*
loth, asserts that the conjecture is wiibuoiDl
Cnbiuet Officers.
The following Cabinet has been kiudly provf
ded lor Mr. Pierce, by lleunet of tho Now York
Herald:
Caleb Cushing, nf Mass., Secretary of State.
A. C. Flagg, of N. Y.. Secretary of the Trea’y
Robt. F. Stockton,of N.J. Secretary of tbo Navy.
Jefferson Davis, ol Miss., Secretary of War.
James C. Dobbin, of N. C. Secretary of the Interior
R. M’Clellaud, uf M’cb., Postmaster General.
J antes Campbell, of Pa., Attorney General.
The State Roao.—Tho Atlanta Intelligencer
of tbe lOtb instant, says: “ Immense quantities of
produce have been coming dowu the State Road
lor a number uf weeks past. During the lost three
weeks the nmouut of corn transported over the
Road has averaged three thousand bushels per
day. Duriug tho same lime the daily average or
cottou transported over the Road has been 600
bales perday. Other articles of Western produco
havo boen constantly arriving In abundance.
PcBiionlo Hire. Cral(.
Tbe Senate on the 1st iusL, passed a bill grant
ing a pension lo Mrs. Elizabeth Craig, the accom
plished lady of tbe late Col. Craig, who was re
cently killed iu California. The secoud section of
tbe bill provides as follows:
“That the Secretary oT the Interior be authori
zed aud required to place tbe name of Mrs. Eliza
~ ’ idow of the lal<
The Cotton Crop.
It will be recollected that a certain firm in New
York last fall, advertised for estimates of Cotton
crop. Each person sending an estimate waa re
quired to enclose a five dollar bill. Thu whole
purse was to he the property of the individual
wheae estimate comes nearest the actual result ou
the first of September next. A New York con
temporary says:
“The written opinions of 209 parties, scattered
all over the United States, were ou the 1st inst..
opened and recurded; between the lowest there
was found to bu a range of 1,500.000 hales, while
tha average on the whole was 3,119,000.”
TheDemorracr ofjfew Tlampskire.
The democracy of New Hampshire, iu General
Pieice’aowu district, who lately nominated Geo.
A. Morrison for Congress, in convention adopted
the following resolutions, from which it will be
seen that the resolutions recently uttered by Gen.
Cass, of the United Slates, reaffirming the Mourue
doctrine, have been fully endorsed :
Resolved, That Geu. Franklin Pierce, tbe Presi
dent elect, hy his patriotism and long and acliro
devotion to tbe welfare of his country—by his wit-
dum in peace, aud gallantry in war, as well as by
the long list of social virtues hy which bis life has
been adorned—bus gained a place in the great
heart of the nation, where the foul breath of ca
lumny aud detraction will never again dare to
assail him.
Resolved, That tho timid and vascillatiug prrii-
000 in number.
It is said there is a serious talk in New York of
Retting u j another Crystal Palace, to compete with
the one already under way, to be located on Staten
Island. Tbe movement is backed by influence and
capital, aud very possibly it may succeed It is pro
posed to build it of wood, and havo it adapted for a
permanent summer house, alter the exhibition has
closed.
The developments of the investigation in relation to
frauds on tbe Govcrnmeht in the expenditures for tbe
improvement of the Capitol, has led to the fact that of
the $600,000 appropriated to the extension of the Cap
itol, about one-half has been embezzled by the agents
employed in the execution of tbe work.
Mr. Hubard, the artist, having obtained permission
of the Virginia Legislature, is engaged in taking a
cast of Xndaon’s celebrated statue of Washington,
now in the Capitol at Richmond. This statue, it is sta
ted, was modelled, after due consultation with Frank
lin and Jefferson, in tho actual costume which tiic
great mau wore, and from casts taken of his head by
the artist himself, then considered one of the greatest
of living sculptors Washington, Jefferson and others
regarded it as an excellent likeness, better even than
Stuart’s picture, and any other picture which has been
made.
On the 5th instant, a joint resolution was unani
mously adopted by tlie New Hampshire Senate, and
sent down to the House of Representatives for con-
cnrrence, to the effect that the provisions of tbe State
Constitution commonly called tho " Religious Test,”
which makes the profession of a certain religious
faitli an essential qualification for certain offices, are
uujnst, anti-republican, contrary to the spirit of the
present a-e, and discreditable to the State and peo- ^
pie, and that noefforts will be spared to abrogate such J I fuel foundation It is uvciVed that be tt-verb - -
a principle. ! at Rossia, never owned lands in St. Li*it
...... . . . - j county, uever mingled ill- political aflYrs* 2
A freight tram travelling at the rate of twenty-four , .-»• . - . , ,-r -
„ , , ... , least, never cast a vole iu bis life, in short, --
miles the hoar, requites on a level 516 2-8 yards to j t(K)k „ oy par , parIy HUt , era ,,, this coon’-T
come to a atop, aud 79J seconds of time. A passen- 1 . y|- 0 father of Mr. LeRoy de Cbsamc"
ger train at tho rate of 45 miles the hour cannot be ; gentleman triluded to, was the warm frieuJ :
brought up in less than 779 yards, but takes rather less ; American colonies, in the time ol the Revo.,
time, only 60.8 seconds. Two trains, therefore, ap- i He gave up bin cttolle at I’assy, near Paris, -
pro aching each other at a speed of 24 miles the hour. ! American ministers and it was thereby
r ... . 1 . , , I ranklm resided the whole tune, ornt-rrtj
w.ll experience a collision, if the breaks are not | , ba£ he ^presented our government ioFr*l«-
brought to bear when they are about 1100 yards, or „ Mr L e R oy |Uted out the frigate coir "
nearly two-tbirds of a mile asunder. by Paul Jones, at his own expense; bo **
At Bone, in Africa, a very precious discovery of ployed to assist in the negotiations with *
thirty Iloiuan statues, in a very fine state of preserva
tion, was made on the 20th ult-, in a brick cella r t
which was broken open by a man who was digging a
well. These statues are of white marble, and a few ] about tbe year 1808 or 1809—some fifteen
of colored marble with white marble heads. They be* subsequent to tbe decree of tho coovenfwa
long to the artistical ep#ch of Augustus. ! i*biog the supposed Bourbon from
~ . . r .t. j r ir « , - 1 After comtneooiug setl'ements iu LeRay
On hearing of the death of Mr. Greenongh, the • be returned lo Fra P , 1C0t wh ere ho remained:
American artists in Rome held a meeting—Titos. : penC o of 1815, w hen ho re crossed tbe A
Crawford, Esq., at whoso residence it was held,in the ! and look up his residence at LeRaysvil e
|NUjCU it' uiaru its tiic tir^uiintiuuB
Ambassador at Paris. His son, the Jam?*
do Chaumont supposed to he the Bourbon•
to manage the alliiirs of ihe alleged b pir '
French throne, did not come to the U I
chair; Mr. Chapman, vice-president, aud Mr. Free
man, secretaiy—when resolutions of respect to the de
ceased were adopted, aud appropriate speeches made
by Lewis Cass, Jr., the American Chare ; Mr. Craw
ford and Mr. VVm. U. Story.
It is said that subscriptions to the Brunswick and
Florida Railroad Company amount to £630,000—of
which $340,000 have been paid in. The subscriptions
in New York and Boston amount to $l,250,000--of
which 10 per cent, have been paid in.
Robert Burncs, the Ayrshire poet and ploughman,
who died neglected and unfriended, is likely in his
descendants to mingle with the aristocracy of Britain
we see, by our late English files. Major Bums—or
Colonel—at present holding a high situation in India,
haa his patent of nobility made out, and will shortly
bo gazetted as Baron Ellisland, the name of Burns’
farm.
Mr. Fuller, of Washington, who was recently shot
by Capt. Schaumburg, is In such improved condition
that the chances now are in favor of his final recovery, j
Gen. Blake has returned to Washington from Flor- j
ida. It is understood that he anticipates no serioas
difficulties with the Iudians. .
Rev. Eleazear Williams, the supposed Bourbon, j
delivered a sermon on Sunday morning, at Rev. Dr. 1
Hawks’ Church, in New York. There being a uni
versal curiosity to see him, ever since the publication I
of the Putnam article, there was, of course, not a sin- j
gle pew empty.
miles from Watertown. lie lived there 5
twenty years, when he returned to Frails
died."
The New York Mirror :
11 Let the Rev. Mr. Williams slick
ans, and put no trust in Princes, especial
Prince de Joinville.”
Declaration of the Vote for l*rc«jd fUt 11 f
Vice-President#
This ceremonial took place on Wedoesa*L
8th instant, iu pursuance of law, in 1^6
the House of Uepresonlalives, an weh u
fbe Union. At about half past 12
members ofthe Senate.preceded by tlieiri i
8enalor Atchison, proceeded totbe H°use^
resetitatives, and were organized ioj|J ,nt *
with the House : the President of tbe b ^
siding, supported by the Speaker of uj . yl
the Hon Linn Boyd. The certificates on--
toral votes of the several States were * • _ ,
from the desk of the Clerk by Seostor
tbe Chairman of the Committee of ..
appointed on the part of the Senate to • ,
currently with the similar Committee eD
of the Houso. After tbe rasdifiX °‘ wri
the States bad been concluded, lb® rc8U u
nuuuced by lho Pre&ideut of the Seoat 1 '
dared that— fJs . a
The whole number of electoral vo* t M
Ihe offices of President nnd Vice Preside j
United Stutes for :Le term of four 5 ea n r P ^
fourth of March next, appeared to> b° “* 1
That of this number, Franklin 1 *5 rc .
limn R. King hnd received for the office-.-
belli Craig,
L*-wH Orals, of the United States army, who was
killed in Oalifornin about the 1st day of June, 1852,
ou lho peusion roll, «t the rale of one half tbe pity
her husband was receiving at the time of his death ;
this allowance to commence from tbe 1st duy of
June. 1852, and to continue to her duriug her wid
owhood ; and should she marry again, or die while
her daughter, now living, shall be a minor, the
•ame allowance shall be made to aaid daughter
duriug her minority."
Lieutenant Col. ! C Y tlie present national administration iu regard
to our foreign relations is unbecoming the power
of our government aud the spirit of people; aud
while upon the great highway of natious we pro
claim the respect due to that flag which was never
unfurled for injustice nor humbled iti disgrace, we
also cordially endorse tlie resolutions recently in
troduced into tho Senate, by Gen. Cass, reaffirm,
ing the prerogative of the L T uited States to exer
cise a controlling influence upon the affi&ira of the
American comment.
gencer on Saturday last, and handed in thirty- doll
in gold, which he stated had been delivered by a per.
son in the confessional to be sent to that office.
Tho caloric ship Ericsson sailed from New York on
Tuesday. Her commander has received orders to
make a short cruise, the more thoroughly to test her
eggines, the sea qualities of the ship, Ac.—leaving it
discretionary with him whether to proceed at once to
Norfolk or so to prolong his cruise as to reach that
port a week hence. Besides the persons immediate
ly interested, Capt- Sands, U. S. N., is ou board. On
her arrival, she will bo inspected by the Secretary of
the Navy. The Journal of Commerce states that five
of the E ricsson engines are now building in that city,
and that applications for about four hundred havo beea
received, bat as they cannot be baiit now, it is inten
ded to have stereotype plates made, from which any
number of copies can b# taken*
of
if. 2it
.i rhat for lho same offices. WiuB* ^
al lnti'lli. william U. Graham had received, re^t
A Reverend gentleman ofthe Catkolic Church call- I < ^‘ ! ll. t ,,“ , ,“e^Winfield
’ ed at ti e office ol the Washington Nati
42
l R-?
j And that Franklin Pierce and r
were therefore duly elected Pres- ’’ s! .
President of the United Stoles lor te“’' _ { .
and alter the fourth oi March next- 9C j
then returned to the Senate c ' a,I> ifcr
House adjourned. Duing th 0 f r0 ®' „ = #!;
ol tlie House was filled with *P eC “ "
lleries were thronged with a t , t .-
in,ess the
tbe i_
ray of ladies assembled to '
Come !-A mechanic
Satan has _ _
said to have succeeded iu making ®
It is probably one of the most ' u
lions ever uffered to the public. | ac ru
lo.sal statue, the feet of which ,^ u od
wheels ou a railroad, and be |° . 0 f
over the course, tbe smoke pumu 0 >e j
tril* in a manner to give the apP 9S
as pictured iu Revelation,
mmuHi
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