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the republic, !« PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY OVER J- 1>- WINN’S BRICK STORE. COTTON AVENUE, MACON, GA. AT $3,00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. RATES OF ADVERTISING, Kc. . Oiic square, of 100 words, or less, in small type, 71 ceuts lor the first insertion, and 50 cents tor each suhseqweut insertion. All advertisements containing more than 100 and ess than 200 words, will be charged as two squares. To yearly advertisers, a liberal deduction will be made. Stales of Land, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the | first Tuesday in the mouth, between the hours oi l lea in the forenoon, and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the pro perty is situated. Notice of these must he given in a "public gazette, hilt/ days previous to the day i of sale. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary lor leave to sell land, must be publish ed four mouths. Sales of Negroes must be made at public auc tion, on the first Tuesday of the month, lietween ,he legal hours of sale, at the place of public sales. 1 the county where the letters testamentary, ol administration of guardianship, shall have been granted, sixty days notice being previously given m one of the pubHc gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. Notice for leave to sell Negroes must he pub lished for four months before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. All business of this nature will receive prompt attention at the office of THE REPUBLIC. BUSINESS cards. JOB PBISTIHG SZ33ISif32S JUS STEIES With Neatness and Dispatch. BROWN Vt SHOCK LEV, IT»“SS Atr MACON, GA. Jnn 1, 1815. _ ,2 -ly FLOTU HOUSE. BY B. S. NE W COM B. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19,1844. l-|l | WHITING & MIX, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN BOOTS A Yl> SHOES, Near the Washington Hall, Second street. Macon, Georgia. Ost. 48> 1844. Nf J. [..JUNKS & CO. CEO Til INO STOKE. West side Mulberry Street, next door bcloic the liig Hat. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19,184-1. I _, l MS BET & WINGFIELD, attorney*at law. Office on Mulberry Street, over Kimberly's llal Store. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19,1811. l*u DOCTORS J. M. & H. K. GREEN, Corner of Mulberry and Third Streets. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19, 1844. 1-ts FREEMAN At ROBERTS, Saddle, Harness, and It hip, MANUFACTORY. Dealers in all kinds of Leather, Saddlery Harness and Carriage 'll tannings, On Cotton Avenue and Second Street, Macon, Ga. October 25, 1844. 8-1 ; JOSEPH N. SEYMOUR, DEALER IS DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARD WARE, tfcc. Prick Store, Cherry Street. Ralston s Range, first door belotr 'Russell & Kimberley s. Micon, Georgia. Oct. 19,1844. l-'f GEORGE M. LOGAN, DEALER IS _ , FANCY AND STAFI.U DRY GOODS, Hard-Ware, Crockery, Glass-H are. See. &c. Corner of Second and Cherry streets. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19, 1944. I). & \V. GUNN, DEALERS IN staple and r y goods, Groceries, ttardicare, Crockery, Sec. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19, 1344. I-it SAMUEL J. RAY & CO. DEALERS IS FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS, Ready Made Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Kc. Second street, a lew doors from the Washington Hotel. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 18,1341. I jf REDDING & WHITEHEAD, DEALERS IS FANCY AND STAPLE DRY' GOODS, Groceries, Hard Ware, Cutlery, Hats, Shoes, Crockery, &c. &c. Corner of Cotton Avenue and Cherry streets. Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19, 1844. l-tl ~ B. •F. ROSS, dealer in DRY' GOODS AND GROCERIES. Macon-, Georgia. Oct. 19, 1844. 1-tt J. M. BOA RDM AN, DEALER IS LAW, MEDICAL, MISCELLANEOUS ami School Books; Blank Books and Stationery of all kinds ; Priming Paper, &c. &.e. Sign of sh» Isirge Riblc, tiro doors above Shot tcclt's corner, west side of Mulberry Street. Macon, Georgia. Octets, 1844. t-tj B. R. WARNER, AUCTION AND COMMISSION MER CHANT. Dealer in every description of Merchandise. ‘ The Public’s Servant,” and subject to receiving consignments at all times, by the consigaecs pav ing 5 per cent, commissions for service) rendered Macon, Georgia. Oct. 19, 1844. l-tl L. J . CROSS, Has for Sale DRY GOODS if GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, CAPS, AND HATS, .ft John D. ICinn's Old Store. Macon, Oct. 25, 1844. S-ts •firs* ifuson's Hotel, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. MRS. HIBOM, jftSft r |A.\KES this method of informing her friends and the public generally, that she will continue to keep a Hotel in this place, a few door* below tlie .Monroe Roil Road and Banking ‘‘"use, just across the street from wliere she Ibr ttterly kept. Her charges will correspond wtth the of the times. The house will he fitted U P in a superior style. She will take the hors: mi !"* 2 0'h dsy of December, wlien every thing will ** in complete order. AMELIA HT7SON. Griffin, Dec. 9, 1841. JO t!m THUS KUDUS LIC. S. 31. STRONG, Editor. TOLL'NE 1. MISCELLANY. FIIEDKRIKA BREMER. 1 have seen Fraulein Frederika Bre mer at Arsta. It is her country seat, three Swedish mtles from Stockholm, and where she generally passes the greatest part of the year, with her mother and youngest sister, who had spent last winter at Nizza; but Frederika did not leave home; for she does not like travelling, and its conse quence disquiet, and upsetting of the usu al routine of every day life. For seven months, seven Swedish winter months, she was quite alone at Arsta, without see ing a creature besides the tnaid who wai ted on her. I could not believe that any one had courage to bear so lonely a life if she bad not told me so herself. I am delighted to make her acquain tance, for I really know no authoress, and one naturally feels curious to meet with ones fellow in the world. Her name with us is in every mouth, her books in all hands, and if we speak of Sweden, we immediately think of Frederika Bremer. How then could I fail to he pleased at ma king her acquaintance ! Iliad pictured her to myself lrom her hooks, as sedate and quiet yet with a dash of the humorist in her composition, and so she is in reali ty, and very, very pleasing. How that delights tne! I know not why* people have such a prejudice against authores ses, that they generally associate the idea of one with something ridiculous and queer It might have been so formerly, hut it is not the case now. In former days author- esses were not quite so numerous, and might therefore have been haunted by the dread of being watched and stared at. Whoever has this dread, whether author or no', must become truely ridiculous, from his nervous efforts lo turn the eye of the world from himself; and we see men and women, every day of our lives, in this distressing situation, though undistinguish ed by any superior qualities. I have just remembered that 1 do know another au thoress, the Frau Caroline Fielder, in Vi enna. It would he difficult for the most evil-disposed person to find anything in these two woman besides this—that they are much more agreeable than many of those who do not understand how to write. • Arsta has also its little historical mo ment to look back upon. Gustavus Adol phus mustered and manoeuvred the army with which lie went to Liefiand as King, on the great mean, or meadow land; and he lived with his wife and daughter in the wooden house which even now stands near the present residence beneath magni ficent trees. The house is of stone, square built, and stately, with lofty roomy cham bers; it was built during the thirty years war. The surrounding country is very triste—or at least it appeared so to me, because it was a gloomy day, and threa tening rain. The trees looked dark and drear, the plain grey; in the distance was i the murky sea. They invited me to take a walk, but 1 who am so glad to be in the open air, who love walking, I could not summon resolution to go out. There was nothing without to entice me forth, and within it was homcish ! I can understand that one (eels chained to one’s home here. I begged Fraulein Frederika to show me her room; it is simple—as a cell. It seemed most comfortless to me, for it is a corner room, with a window on two sides and therefore a cross light and nocurtains Three square tables stand in it, quite co vered with books, papers and writing ma terials; and the room itself is furnished | with blue, severe, stiff-looking meubles— I mean that sort which invites you tout bonnenunt to sit bolt upright on chair and sofa, but not to lie and lounge on them, as lam so fond of doing. Can put up with anything on a journey—one chair and table will satisfy me then; and I ne ver miss the want of elegance and com fort; but when I have to live, the furniture must be comfortable, soft and warm, with ; out too much wood and sharp uneasy cor ners. Some paintings hung upon the walls. ‘That is a geniuine little Teniers, hut I am certain it will not please you,’ said she smiling, as she pointed to a little picture of a boorstopping his pipe. I replied with a candid, ‘No.’ That little difference of taste wasofnoconsequence;it is unbearable when people cat)not assert their own opin ions freely to each other. If pleased with one another, it is a charm the more that we learn to see through our friend things which never stuck us before, or at least to learn that others have a taste for, and can understand things which arc as a scaled book to us. She has lately had Eckermanu’s work on Goethe, and is much pleased with it. I recollected that when I read it some few years ago, Goethe pleased me uncommon ly in it. He was represented as such a benevolent, well-wishing old gentleman, who it,other respects vanished behind the great author; but Eckerman played a pain ful part in it to me, he was not like a man but more like Goethe’s poodle. If Goe the said ‘Up!’ he stood up. Did Goethe say ‘Bring,’ lie brought as commanded. It was against my nature. I think that even with the most benevolent and rever ed of men, we ought to keep a little self confidence, our own will and opinion; in short, preserve our own peculiarities in tact. I would not like to be any man’s human poodle, neither would I wish to have one or see one. She thinks that Ec kermann lias done his part in placing Go ethe’s picture so clearly and faithfully bc- fore us; and that he himself is of no impor- TRO rATRIA ET I.EGIBUS. MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1845. tanee; and she is right. She does not wish to travel, she thinks that one may easily become unsettled or blinded and confused by it; and what can one do with all the strangers one meets? Get acquainted with them. This is the charm of travelling, I think. We look at the mountains, the sea, the stones, the paintings, human be ing, the soil, so long and so keenly that they cannot withstand the inquiring gaze, which is not one of curiosity, but of sym pathy —and they tell us their histories. I wished to convert her, and pursuade her into taking a journey o Italy; we would travel together—but sle would not. Yet she takes a lively interest in all that I have said and written abou foreign countries, although it seemed to tie as if site did so more on my account tlan on that of the countries, at which 1 aq, of course, much pleased. She conqueril the difficulty of speaking in a language n which she is not accustomed to think, b‘ expressing her self partly in German, ©illy in French, and she said all she wisled simply, natu rally, and concisely. Sh has fine, thought ful eyes, and a clear, flm, I might say, solid brow, under winel the well-marked eyebrows move when she speaks, and which is very becomin:to her, parlicular lv when a thought is forking itself into words in her mind. ler figure is petite and brisk, and she wa dressed in black silk. Two large boo-cases, filled with hooks in Swedish, Finch, English, and German, stood in he ante-chamber. I even thought there wee Italian works a mongst them. Gertan is taught after Swedish in the schols. Goethe and Schiller have never Ken translated into Swedish, and yet eerybody lias read them. This is an iimense advantage which our books hav in Sweden over Swedish books with i. Translalioas are always colourless litligraphs of paintings and oftentimes they at pitiful daubs. She draws portraits chaningly with Indian ink, in profile and in anature, and has an interesting album ftlll by herself with such heads, to whic she joined mine. Since I have known ‘Vaulein Frederika Bremer, and have stn her in her own land and house, surrindcd by her every day occnpations, I ca understand the still life of her books bettt than I did before. The sensible, sedte appearance of Fraulein Frederika lemer seemed to me to be so inseparablyjonnected with her land whose true dighter she is, and with Iter books who are her children, that I cannot say with of the three gave me the clearer iosio into the others. All that she delights describing, the coun trv-houses, the gnens by the sea, the mode of travellitiflbe little light two wheeled and one-hse carriages, in which only two persons in sit—all ol it is seen on Swedish grotdsand soil; under a Swedish sky. It the reality, and such as I see here, I nflrally conclude, there fore. that she hasJst as narrowly obser ved and compreUded the character of the nation, and tt the internal domestic life which she pnts so well is really a beautifulpeculidy and a high superiori ty in the mannqofber fatherland. SYRIA AMITHE HOLY LAND. Eastern Buriprovnds. —There is some thing exceedily touching in the little artless contrioces by which the people of the East etiavor to lighten the gloom of the grave, »d to connect it with all that is most kuiitul and life-like in na- turc. Theylant on it myrtles, roses, and other "fcrant shrubs, and deck it day hv day \n fresh culled flowers; they hang over"it.ges of singing birds, which are fed rndng and evening with reli gious carelhey make receptacles for water in tbombstone, that the fowls of the air malrink thence, and thus some thing liviiHcknowledge the charity of him whoteps below; and they take care to ler a square opening in the side of the m>nry, that the narrow house mav not utterly shut up from the light and the eath of heaven. The women who areß most regular frequenters of the buri,{round, often carry their food with the the tombstone is their table; they lea& place for the dead to sit with them, sing the best morsels before it; and thf*lk with him as if he was living by thei*<le. The train Atmosphere. — The reader, accused only to the denser air of Eu rope. (Scarcely form a just idea of the elheri>ubt!cty and transparency of the Syriainosphere. It is this which gives to th>r°spcct from the mountains an amplle and distinctness unparalleled iri otheitnds. When Moses went up to Pisg he gazed over the whole inherit ance his people from north to south, and the utmost sea. This he might havAne without having had a miracu lousower of vision imparted to him; and might any man at this day, if he att?*l sufficient elevation. Four ob sei* might command the whole of gyl and from the tops of Casires, Lc ba, and Tabor, let nothing of a certain m itude escape them within that vast hc>n. Standing on the top of the Sun njhe spectator has on one side the in dite expanse of the desert, stretching gs towards the Persian gulf: on the (tsitc side, the sea, melting afar into (firmament, suggests to his mind the iof infinite space; hardly can he at i distingush lietween sea and sky at ir line of junction, but is tempted to cy that the solid earth floats in an im- »ise double ocean. It is not till he looks more narrowly and sees the little white sails specking the blue expanse of the waters, that he can get the better of the illusion. Landwards he discerns every sinuosity and indenta tion of the coast, every cape, promontory, and creek; every mountain mass, with its rocks, woods, torrents, hill-sides, villa ges, and town—-an interminable extent, and all as distinctly traced as though he were looking on a huge map or a model stretched before him on a level floor. Fabulous origin of the Anzeyrys, a Moun tain Tribe. —The Anzeyrys pretend that they derive their name from Nassair, a prophet who preached the holy religion of Ali-Ebn-Abou-Thaleb. The account they give of the infusion of the Deity into the [ person of this latter is curious enough. The God who created the universe,' they say, after having completed his, work took delight in flying through the ! loftiest region of the air lo contemplate 1 his magnificent performance. He had equipped himself with splendid glistening wings, made of the azure feathers of the jay; hut one day he soared so high that j the winds carried away his feathers.— j The winds did not recognise their Maker, ! but, obeying the laws he had himself giv- ! en them, they whirled him away and de stroyed him in their fierce contention.— j But his spirit returned in the person of Ali-Ebn-Abou-Thaleb, from whom de-j scended the twelve imams, ‘emanations! of the breath of God,’ whose holy prophet ! was Nassair. Jerusalem—the Desolate. — The road be comes more rocky, the scene more wild and cheerless, and no object presents it self to arrest the traveller’s attention, or to beguile for a moment his impatience for the first sight of the Holy City. At length it opens upon him at the issue of a defile. The view of it from this ap proach is sudden and near, and for that reason, perhaps, more impressive than if the mind had been prepared for it by a more distant vision. The first involunta ry exclamation that hursts forth, is that which prophecy has said shall be in the mouth of ‘all that pass.’ ‘ls this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, I the joy of the whole earth?’ It is impos- j sihle that art}’ delineation can be more just, or any image more vivid than is con- \ tained in these few words: ‘How doth the city sit solitary I The sight carried j across a tract of grey, desolate, and bar ren rock, and the ruins of the Moslem 1 burial ground, with crumbling tombs on every hand, rests upon a bare dead wall, above which little is seen but the grace less domes of houses, and the tops and minarets of a few mosques, and the wild hills in the distance beyond Jordan, at I the foot of which lies the Dead Sea.— Scarcely a sign of vegetation can he tra ced, with the exception of the leaden green of a few ragged olives; and the city, placed on the brow of the hill, as if an object for observation, looks as if a portion of it had fallen down the steep, and presents one of the most gloomy and melancholy spectacles that imagination can conceive. The ait of the Damascene Blade. —A sci mitar, to he perfect, ought to be broad in the blade, and its length, from hilt to point, should he exactly equal to the distance from the tip of the ear to the fist, and vou stand upright, with your arm by your side. If the steel gives a clear crystal line sound when you twitch the point with your nail, you may be satisfied of the good temper of the weapon. Such is the keenness of edge of which the best blades are susceptible, that it is a com mon amusement with the Turks to cut through down pillow or silk handkerchiefs, as they are thrown at them. Weapons are as frequent a subject of conversation among the men, as jewels and fashions are among the women of the Levant.— The Turks have a peculiar knackof bring ing the discourse to bear upon a topic so gratifying to their vanity. You will often see them unsheath their scimitars in the middle of a repast, and hand them across the table to each other. Their mode of presenting the weapon to the scrutiny of an amateur is exceedingly graceful.— Twirling the hilt round in their hands, so as to bring the blade tinder their arm, they present the hilt to him with a bow and gesture of the hand, signifying the entire sacrifice of their person. Jews in (he Holy City. —ln the western exterior of the area of the great mosque, there is a spot approached only by a nar row, crooked lane, which then terminates at the wall in a very small open space. The lower part of the wail is here com posed of stones evidently older than the rest, being much larger, measuring nine or ten feet long; it is unquestionably a remnant of the old temple. This is the nearest point in which the Jews are allow ed to approach that revered site, and for tunately for them, it is sheltered from ob servation by the narrowness of the lane and the dead walls around. Here, bowed in the dust, they may at least weep un disturbed over the fallen glory of their race, ard bedew with tears the soil which so many of their forefathers once mois tened with their blood. Were I asked what was the object of the greatest inter est that I had seen, and the spectacle that made the deepest impression upon me, during my sojourn in other lands, I would say that it was a Jew mourning over the stones of Jerusalem. Oh ! weep for those that wept by Babel’s stream. Whose shrines are desolate, whose land's a dream ; 'Veep for The harp of Judah’s broken shell: H. C. CROSBY, Proprietor. NUMBER 17. Mourn—where their God hath dwelt the godless dwell. Every Friday in the year, travellers may see all the Jews in Jerusalem cloth ed in their best raiment,wandering through the narrow streets of their quarter, and under the hallowed wall, with the sacred volume in their hands, singing, in the lan guage in which they weie written the Songs of Solomon and the Psalms of Da vid. White bearded old men and smooth checked boys lean over the same book; and the Jewish maidens, in theii long white robes,'stand with their faces against the wall, praying through cracks and cre vices. The tradition which leads them ; to pray through this wall is, that during the building of the temple a cloud rested over it so as to prevent an entrance, and Solomon stood at the door and prayed that the cloud might he removed, and f>romised that the temple should always >e open to men of every nation desirous of offering up their prayers; whereupon the Lord removed the cloud, and promis ed that the prayers of all people offered | up in that place should find acceptance in his sight; and now as the Moslem lords ! it over the place where the temple stood, 1 and the Jews are not permitted to enter, 1 they endeavor to insinuate their prayers I through the crevices in the wall, that thus they may rise from the interior to the Throne of Grace. The tradition is char acteristic, and serves to illustrate the de voted constancy with which the Israelites adhere to the externals of their faith. THE MOUNTAIN WAVE. The next morning, when I rose,ai about seven o’clock, the mate and the captain called loudly to me to come on deck, and behold what I had so recklessly express ed a wish to see during the squalls of the previous days. ‘Now, doctor, if you want to see waves mountain high, come on deck and look! See if these are the thing.’ I had several times in the course of the week, expressed my astonishment at the inflated descriptions so often given of the waves in a storm at sea—being satisfied, from my own extensive observations du ring the pretty stiff' blows of these two or three days, that the term ‘mountain’ or ‘mountains,’ applied to a wave, could never be considered as any thing hut a gross exaggeration, justified only by the fears and excitable imagination of the ob server ; but the sight which met my as tonished eyes, when 1 thrust my head above the companion-way that morning, was so appalling that I most tremblingly adopted the condemned hyperbole, ass ully expressive of my own ideas at the mo ment. My first astonishment was caused by the very limited field of view present ed to my eye by the black and roaring sea. Just in proportion as the waves had risen with the increasing gale, had the scene become circumscribed; and now on all sides the vision was bounded by the I near summits of vast rolling ridge, which no slighter term than ‘mountains,’ could describe, as they appeared to me. The only impression of distance which I could derive from the scene was the breadth of one great, dark valley—gloomy as ‘the valley of the shadow' of death’—which was ever before us, as if we were contin ually descending into its fearful depth, and never rising while the lateral view of this deep rift in the ocean was cut off by the irregular projection of vast salient masses of water that left no vision. A glance behind us gave a somewhat differ ent impression, in no tespect more agree able, however. A huge billow seemed perpetually rising in a threatening attitude in our rear, cresting and ‘combing’ as it ; drew nigh,almost overhanging the taffrail, ! and often throwing a deluge on our deck, j making the little brig tremble and stagger 1 under the load and the shock. It was | now very dangerous to stand on the deck, I as one of these seas might easily wash a ! man overboard; and 1 did not venture beyond the breastwork of the companion way. Above us hung a dense mass of black cloud, covering the whole sky with an unbroken pall of darkness which I never saw equalled in the daytime, and which only broke for a few moments at noon. Around us on every side was the blue-black ocean, variegated only by the | snow white crests oT the combing waves ; while at intervals with new bursts of the i storm, torrents of rain fell on us with | overwhelming force. The sounds of the | tempest were not less appalling than the I sights it presented. The whole ocean set up one ceaseless, howling roar, high and wild—to which the wind, rushing through the tense wet rigging of our vessel, play ed a solemn and awful bass accompani ment, converting the huge cords into gi gantic harp-strings, of strangely mournful and dismal tone, varying in note and loud ness as wc flew with arrowy speed down the watery way, or struggled more sknvlv for a moment against the towering mass of waters around, ere we were lifted and pushed on again by the rolling mountain I behind us. —[ Wandering* on the Seas and : Shores of Africa. There is a sleeping violinist performing in the Mechanics’ New Hall, Providence, who plays in a state ofsomnatnbulism, and knows nothing of music when awake. Bennetsays that the immoralities of the age arc such that he would not be sur prised to find some morning before he ris es, that a shower of fire and brimstone has desceneed from heaven and burned up ll*e whole earth ! . . THE CRAN'D CEREMONY OF THE INVESTITURE OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH. On Thursday last the Queen held an in vestiture of the Most Hooctirable Military Order of die Bath, in Windsor Castle, lor the purpose of con sering the dignity of Ci vil Knight Grand Cross on Sir Arthur Aston and the Earl of Ellenborc&gh. At halt past two o’clock, .the Knights assembled in the Guard Chamber, and were there robed in the splendid mantles and colors of the Order, in which they Af ter wards proceeded to St. George’s fiall. The Chapter was held in the reception room. Her Majesty and Prince Albert having entered the apartment, preceded by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward, the ceremony commenced. The Knights Grand Crosses present were: —His Royal Highness Prince Al bert, First and Principal Grand Cross, and Acting Grand Master of the Order; his Royal Highness the Duke oi Cam bridge, his Grace the Duke of Wellington Viscount Strangford, Sir Edward Paget, Sir George Murray, Sir George Cockburn Sir Edward Codringlon, and the Earl of Clarendon. The officers of the Order present were: ; Algeron Greville, Esq. Bath Kingot Arms and Albert William Woods, Esq. Gentle j man Usher of the Order. The procession ! entered the presence of the Sovereign I headed by the Gentleman Usher of the Order, followed by the Knights in the or der of their senitorily, Bath King of Arms followed the Junior Knights. The Queen, who wore the mantle, col lar, and star of the Bath, was seated at the head of the table, having Prince Albert on her right, and the Duke of Cambridge |on herlelt, the Knights Grand Cross be ing seated on each side of the table. Sir Arthur Aston was then conducted from St. George’s Hall, between the two Junior Knights present, the Earl of Clar endon and Sir George Cockburn, prece dent by the Gentleman Usher of the Or der and Bath King of Arms, bearing the insignia, of the order on a crimson velvet cushion. Sir Arthur was ushered to the right hand of the Sovereign, and kneeling the sword ol state was delivered by the Lord Chamberlain lo the Senior Knight Grand Cross, who presented it to Her Majesty. The Queen then conferred with it the honour of Knighthood on the new Knight Grand Cross; who on rising had the honor to kiss the Sovereign’s hand. The riband and badge, presented bv Bath King of Arms, were received bv Prince Albert, and handed to the Sover eign, who placed the same over the right shoulder of Sir Arthur, and also presented to him the star of a Civil Knight Grand Cross of the order. The new Knight then withdrew. The Earl of Ellenhorough was introdu ced between the Earl k of Clarendon and Sii George Cockburn, preceded by the of ficers of the Order, and had the honor of Knighthood conferred upon him with the sword of state by his Sovereign. The no ble Earl was then invested by the Queen, with the riband and badge of the Order of the Bath, and also received from her Majesty the star of a civil Knight Grand Cross, llis Lordship then had the honor to kiss her Majesty’s loot and retired from the toyal presence. 1 he Knights Grand Crosses were cal led over, and with the officers of the Or der retired from the presence of the Sov ereign with the usual reverences. The Queen gave a grand dinner in the evening to which all the Knights Grand Crosses of the Ordei of the Bath present at the ceremony were invited. The ban quet was served in the Waterloo Chamber The state service of Gold plates were used on this occasion. Down the whole length of the middle of the table were a succession of beautiful specimens of orna mental gold plate. Opposite to her Ma jesty, in the centre of the table, was pla ced a candelabrum, flanked at a little dis tance by two large scent jars, of the time |of Queen Anne, in gold, and of the most curious workmanship. Further still were the beautiful candelabra, designed bv Flaxman, the subject ‘the Garden cf the Hesperides,’ and at each extremity of the table were the Venus trepails, designed by Baily. The interstices in this line of magnificent objects were fitted with eper gues of most elegant design, filled with artificial flowers. Down each of these which formed the centre of tlte table was placed a row of gold candelabra, bearing a profusion of wax lights, and beyond these, towards the edges of the table, were placed the gold dishes of various descrip tions, in which the viands ofthe banquit were served. Around the room Were a succession of side tables, on which were displayed shields, salvers, and other arti cles of massive character in gold plate. The apartment was also illuminated by the five brilliant crystal chandeliers. The London packet which left New York on the 20th inst., took out .£40,060 in gold, and the Havre packet, which left at the same time, $60,000 in silver. A London paper says that a plate of glass has been placed in the warehouse of Mr. Saunders in Regent street, which con tains upwards of 95 square feet, its di mentions being 12 feet 9 inches by 7 feet 7 inches; and its quality is so brilliant as to be generally understood lobe the finest glass itt the world. Black Tongue.— -This dreadful diseas* is raging with fearful violence in Gibson county Indiana. A great number ,es deaths have occurred, and some cases have proved fatal in four or five day? from the first attack. The National Intelligencer is quoting Col. Benton’s speeches in answer to the arguments of the Globe in favor ol an nexation. Is the Intelligencer coming over to Benton, or Benton going over to the Intelligencer.