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A GUiCI’LTL it A L. From the American Farmer. GUANO. PRONOUNCED EV THE PERUVIANS HUAXO. The slowness of ihe sale of he few cargoes of Guano which have yet been imported into the United States, is to be attributed to —what ? It cannot be to the want of all evidence short of personal ex perience, of its wonderful efficacy; be cause if any credit is to be put in the united testimony, of a great number of witnesses, in England ; no doubt can be entertained of the efficiency of this ma nure, and the great increase of every species of crop to which it has been ap plied in that country ; and it has been ap plied to all sorts of crops and under every variety of circumstance —Some perhaps will say, it may answer in the inoister climate of England, but will not probably, in the more arid one of the United States —Well,T>but liow is it in Peru, where the climate is still dryer than ours, Guano is their universal dependance ?—No; it can not be for want of evidence of its adapta tion either to our crops, our soil, or our climate; tor here, in our country, as tar as expet iments have been made, and re i'!;s made known, the action of Guano ... oi.eu as striking as in other countries ~c , nay many of these experiments aye . \; üblished —The hesitation to nn.ke ; ; * universal use of this extraor n... substance must arise then from, either want of means to buy—or from the great difficulty that is always (bund, in diffusing generally, a knowledge of the existence and virtues of anew article, like this; or it may arise from that natur al hesitation, which is salutary when no; carried 100 far, which farmers are prone to entertain, about being the first to lay out the little money they have, on new! things; hut is the reluctance either ration al or praiseworthy, where the evidence of the usefulness of the thing recommen ded, seems in all human calculation, to be so undeniable, and where a small trial at least, say of two or three hundred pounds, may be made, on one acre ol land, at a hazard, if there he any hazard, of losing only two or three dollars?— Some of the most thoughtful, discreet, well judging men that we know of, after the best op portunities of judging, both on volumes of printed evidence in England, and on re peated experiments lure, believe and maintain, that Guano, Ixmgnt at $3 a hun dred, and applied to land at the tale of 300 pounds to the acre, is cheaper than barn yard manure, were that given to the farmer, if he had to haul it a few miles. In his discourse, delivered by Mr. Skinner at Wilmington, he gives the fol lowing comparative estimate as furnished by Mr. Pleasants, an extensive horticul turist, of the soundest character and judg ment, residing within 2 or 3 miles of i’e tersbutg, Virginia: Manure —Cost of 30 wagon loads at 25c. £7,30 Hauling the same 10 days, at $1 50 per day, tor team and driver, 15,00 out spreading on L acre, with horse and cart, 3,00 —£25,50 Bones —3o bushels bone dust at 55c. 10,50 Expense of hauling and application, 1,50 —Sl£,oo Guano —3oo lbs. at $3 per hundred, Expense of spreading, 1,00 —$10,00 In all localities where manure is higher than the price stated in the preceding es timate (and in how lew is it nuti*) and the distance to be hauled greater; the contrast will be so much the greater. More recently, to wit, laic in January, (last month) Mr. S. received from the same respectable authority, a letter from which the following is an extract: “ I have been to-day to observe the progress of a guano “experiment on wheat—The guano was applied soon al ter the wheat began to cot ye through the ground, at various rates from 100 to 300 pounds to the acre. The effect is most striking. Though the whole field is good, -yet the guanoed part is Jully three times better, and the dirference is greater every week.” It would betray a degree of obstinacy, little less to be censured and inr less iriiab! than overweening credulity, not knit that Guano lias generally, on y.., . crops which immediately succeed ; . <u, a most salutary and fertil _c ... y —but it is quite reasonable to qu;re, with apprehensive caution, wheth er and how long, its action will endure? There lias not been sufficient time yet in England to settle this question definitive ly, much less lias there been in this coun «y* The following article copied from an English paper may be deemed worthy of .the space it will occupy. W e cannot close these hasty remarks without exhorting all cultivators of Tobacco, to purchase a small quantity, if it be only enough to apply to iheir plant beds, by which it is confidently believed from ex periments last year in Maryland, that it will prove a complete protection against the j fly, and a good supply ol plants may be thus invariably insured, and a few hun dredweight to try on tobacco in field, on corn and other crops, putting it, in all cases of planted crops, around the root of the plants. We should not have ventured to devote so much space to a subject which some may think somewhat hacknied, if the season were not so near at hand lor the trials which, if it be nmiv to save time, ought every where, ter be made, with guano on spring crops. To.all those who are not familiar with the subject, it may be well briefly to advise them, that alter very numerous experi ments in England, the Peruvian Guano continues to maintain its superioiity in the public estimation, over-the African, as in dicated by tne difference in price—the African l<eing quoted at last accounts at £5 to £5 ss. and the Peruvian at .£lO to £lO 10s. per ton. With this item in the way of information lor what it may be worth, and leaving the farmer to choose between them, we submit the following. The Permanency of Guano as a Manure. —This is a subject of great importance at present, when the importation of this manure is going on to a large extent, and when the propriety of using it, and ex tending its use, must be occupying the at tention of farmers in all parts of die coun try. Many of the best practical agricul turists in ibis neighbourhood, have long been satisfied of the permanent advan tage of guano to the land. At the High land Society’s competition at Glasgow, !in October, for seed wheat, Mr. Lome Campbell, of Roseueath, who gained the £lO prive lor while wheat, exhibited five 1 varieties from his farm, the average weight 'of which was 65£ lbs, per bushel. The i Chevalier wheat, weighing 05 lbs. was after turnips raised upon guano and al though sown as lute as 23d December, was the heaviest crop on the farm. At a recent meeting of the lthin Farmer’s Club, and other agriculturists, held at Drumore, when Mr. M’Culloch, of Auchness, factor to Colonel McDowall, ot Logan, occupi ed the chair, the same subject was dis cussed by those present. The chairman Mr. M’Culloch, said, —In 1842 I applied to turnips on three different plotsofground, j which were all contiguous, to tire first j guano, at the rate of lour cwt. per acre— j to the second, bone manure, at die rate of 30 bushels —and, to the third, good farm-I yard manure, at about 20 tons per acre., The crop grown upon guano brairded first, and was singled lour days sooner than the ■ other, and continued throughout the whole season, to have a more luxuriant appear ance ; and when weighed, weie about one sixth heavier than those grown upon bones, and about one filth heavier than those upon dung. And the oat crop upon the guano was superior id quality, and the quantity of grain and straw was greater than upon either ot the other two plots, and now 1 can distinguish no difference betwixt the grasses in quantity and qual- iiy- So fur as I could judge from the forego-! ing, added Mr. M’C., guano, as a perma nent manure, lias-exceeded my most san liuiue expectations. Following upon the matter as a sow-oat, having manured the green crop with guano, Mr. M’C. said he found his outs alter a guano green-crop, decidedly superior to the sow-out of other manuring. The oats alter bone manure were lightest. His pasture, after guano green cropping, was an equally good and , thick sole ot grass to any other. Mr. A/’Bridge, Bakeer, having had oc- j eas ion to make similar trials and experi ments with Mr. M’Culloch, corroborated his views. Mr. Anderson, Drumore, stated that ho had grown potatoes with guano, at the rale of 4 cwt. per acre, which yielded him as good a crop as pota toes put in with filly tart loads of sea weed, and twenty cart loads of good tiirm yard manure. His wheat crop was as . good after guano manuring as al'tei ordin ary manuring ; his sow-out was also as good, the pasture affording an equally good sole of grass with guano, as the or dinary manure did. lie had also tried nitrate of soda, soot, gypsum, and guano, ,as a top dressing tor grass, and, on the whole, he thought guano the best, and equally cheap. Mr. M’Culloch had tried guano also as a top dressing for pasture | land ; the effect was rapid and great. Both these gentlemen recommended the practice of iorcing on a portion of the hay land with guano early in the spring, as a great benefit to horses and cattle, fbrfeed ( ing in the house, after the turnip has be come scarce and tibry. A small patch < and a small quantity ofguauo, will suffice to raise very early a quantity ot good grass; and the second crop, or alter cut, will he as heavy and productive as ever, while the permanent pasture will be greatly benefit ted. — Caledonian Mercury. • Copied from llie Sheffield & Rotherham (Eng.) Independent of December Jlst, 1844. Since the above was in type, our eye has rested upon the following item, in the Liverpool Mail of 7th Dec. last: “ The Right lion. Lord Mbyston, who has tested the efficacy of Guano, on his extensive farm atPengvvern, both as a fer tilizer, and for purposes o {'permanent im provement, has ordered a ship load of this valuable manure to be consigned to him at the Forvd.” The Great Britain Steamer. —The Lon don Sun, alluding to this new steamer, “says that with the working of her “Ar chimidean screw” she can run, it seems, from eleven to twelve knots an hour, not stretching a single yard of her canvass “Her mighty fabric is said to be uninflu enced by the vibration of the steam cn gines which work that colossal propelling power, and the passengers in her spacious cabins can scarcely detect the momentum of her speed. In less than seventeen tra versings of her deck from stem to stern, the astonished voyager will have placed one mile; and between two and three of our old 36 gun frigates would present no more than her own single stowage of 3590 tons.” Rail Road Cars for Germany. — Messrs. Eaton, Gilbert & Cos. of Troy, are now fin ishing a splendid railway car, capable oU i carrying 50 passengers, for the kingdom I of Wurtemburg. The order was receiv ed early in the winter from F. L. Brauns, Esq., Consul General of Wurtemburg, (resident at Baltimore) who, after exam ining the work of several manufacturers, gave the preference to Messrs. Eaton, Gilbert & Cos. The Richmond papers of a late date, says that James River was frozen over, i being the thud occurrence of the kind, : since 1757. POLITICAL. VIRGINIA. LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION. The Legislative Convention re-assem bled last evening in the Capitol. Mr. Thompson, of Kanawha, from the Com mittee of Kevisal, presented the following teport and resolutions, which, on being slightly amended, and on questions seve rally put, were agreed to: The Select Committee, to which was j referred the report of the Committee on Resolutions, with instructions to revise and condense the same, have the honor to ' present the following: Ist. Resolved, That this convention do declare, as their solemn opinion, that the Federal Government, as created by the Constitution of the United States, is not the final judge of the extent ol the powers delegated to itself; but that the Consti tution being “a league or compact made by the individual States as one parly, and all the States of another party,” the seve ral States of the Union, each for itself, are the sole judges of its infractions, and they have the right “to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining with in their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." 2d. Resolved, That it is not only the right, but the imperative duty, of the Stale Legislatures, to instruct their Sena tors in Congress on all subjects, whether they involve important questions of expo- 1 diency, or of constitutional power. And that it is more especially their duty to make known their wishes upon all ques tions involving the admission of new par ties to the confederation. This right car ries with it, the correlative duty of obe-j dience on the part of the Senators so in structed —or the obligation forthwith to surrender the trust confided to them. It is alike the duty of the Senators in Con gress, to carry out the ascertained will of the Legislatures of the States represented by them, whether the same be expressed in the firm of instructions or otherwise. 3d. Resolved, that the admission of Tex as as one of the States of this Union, is demanded by the agricultural, commer cial, and manufacturing interests of the whole country, that it is necessary to ef fect a more perfect union, insure domes tic tranquility, and afford protection against foreign invasion; that a majority of the people in a majority of the States [and most emphatically in the State of Virginia.] have expressed t heir decision in its favor; and that the joint resolution passed, on motion of Mr. Milton Brown, in the House of Representatives, on the 25tti day o 1 ’ January, 1545, presents a constitutional and proper mode of carrying into effect this important and necessary i measure. j 4th. Resolved, That this convention, rc jgarding with the highest approbation the j resolution of Mr. Brown, approved and j sustained, after full consultation and de bate, by the great mass of the Demo cratic part}’ in Congress, and adopted by (a majority in the House of Representa tives— as the most speedy and practica ble manner of accomplishing this end— 'have witnessed with regret, disapproba tion and apprehension, the introduction ' by Thomas 11. Benton, a Senator from Missouri, into the Senate of the United I States, of a bill, the inevitable effect ol which must lie to delay, embarrass, and (greatly peril the admission ol Texas in to the Union; a movement on the part of j the Senator referred to which should re ceive no countenance from any true friend of this great measure. sth. Resolved, That the question ought to he adjusted as soon as practicable; that delay only breeds clanger; that it give time to Great Britain to carry on her in trigues against annexation, and obtain a sinister influence in Texas: that defeat will fan the flame ol' agitation in our country, and kindle anew war in the ! spirit of the controversy, that, whilst no ; party can gain by procrastination, it is the duty which all parlies owe to the j country to decide t ins question at once. Otli. Resolved, That, should the meas ure of annexation fail at the present ses sion of Congress; should it tail,either from gross mismanagement, from any sinister motives, or from any other cause whatso | ever, should it be nailed to the table of the Senate, or rejected by a vote of that body, we will not despair of the Re public; hut that we hereby pledge our selves to each other, and to every man in the South, and in the Union, who is I a friend to the cause, and to our friends in Texas, never to abandon the fortunes of the “lone star;” and that the moment of its defeat, should it occur during the session of the present Congress, shall be the signal of anew rally—that we will forthwith raise the consecrated banner, and battle under it, until we succeed.- We call on the people of Virginia to stand by us, and to show how superior is the en ergy of the freemen of the South to the fanaticism of the Abolitionists of the North. 7th. Resolved. That this convention has seen with much gratification the votes of eight Southern Whigs in the House of Re presentatives for the admission of Texas —thus proving their patriotism, their de votion to the Union, and manifesting a superiority to the dictation of party, and the behests of faction. Sth. Resolved, That John Tyler, and the administration of which he is the head, deserve and receive from us, our sincere acknowledgements for their unremitted pflbrts to procure the annexation ofTexas. 9th. Resolved, That the conduct of the Whig party in the House of Delegates of Virginia, refusing the official expression of opinion by the Legislature of Virginia in relation to the acquisition ofTexas, has ; been dictated by a covert design to defeat the measure, and by a desire to screen the Virginia Senators in Congress from a just responsibility to the known will of. their constituents. 10th. Resolved, That, in the adoption by a Whig majority, of a resolution sent from the Senate to the House of Delegates, in these words, “ Resolved by the General As sembly of Virginia,, That the annexation ofTexas to the United States should be effected with no further delay than may be necessary for the accomplishment of that object by the constituted authorities of the two countries;” and by the expression of their opinion that a decided majority of the people of Virginia are in favor of the immediate annexation of Texas; and that the terms and guaranties contained in the resolution of Milton Brown are just and 1 proper; and thereafter refusing to giveto that resoluiion or opinion tiie official sanc tion of the Legislature, they have shown their desire to avoid a direct issue befoie the people, and proven their disregard of tiie sacred right of instruction. While we look with sorrow on the spectacle pre sented by the Whigs of the Virginia Le gislature, we can but hope that our Sena tors in Congress will regard the instruc tions virtually adopted, although officially re fused. J 1 th. Resolved, That the principles of the Democratic party, and the decision of the people in the election of the present Congress and in the Presidential election of 1844, have declared that the tariff" of 1542 ought to be reduced to a revenue standard. 12th. Resolved, That it is the duty of tiie Democratic members in Congress, and of all Southern members, to use every ex ertion to procure the said reduction, and! obtain the admission of Texas into this Union; both of which measures the South j has a right to require, as due to its own protection and to the preservation of tiie Union. 10th. Resolved, That the removal of John Rutherford from the Executive Coun cil, the duties of which office he hail so faithfully discharged—and the shallow pretext under which it was attempted to be glossed over, are discreditable to tim 1 great party, by whose delegates it was ac complished. 14th. Resolved, That it is tiie dutv ol every Republican to enter on the Spring 1 campaign with zeal and alacrity—that it behooves the Republican party to bring out tiieir ablest men as candidates for the! Stale and National Legislatures; and that, having made such selections, thev should support them, regardless ol all personal af fections or considerations; and that in the opinion of this convention, no Republican, who loves Lis principles and his country, will allow himself to be used as an instru ment of destruction to the party, or injury to its candidates. Mr. Leaked Goochland, from the Com mittee on Organization, reported resolu tions providing a plan of organization, and !a Stale Contra I Committee, which were agreed to, and then the Convention ad, journed till Saturday next, at 4 o’clock. P. M. From Utc Ilicliiuoiut Enquinir. HENRY CLAY’S HOLD STAND LOR TEXAS. “They constitute, in my opinion, a sacred inker itance of prosperity, which we ought to preserve; unimpaired.”— H. Clay’s Speech in 18-JO. Yes, Louisiana unimpaired—unshorn of Texas, was once the motto of “Harry of the West.” It is now the motto of every impartial American patriot. But it is not most curious ? No Orator was ever more decided, even enthusias tic, lor the possession of Texas—and now when she wants to come back to our arms, and resume her place in the Ame rican Union, the friends of Mr. Clay, tiie Whigs (we mean his Whigs,) are tiie first to resist every attempt to recover and ro , annex her. Yes, they are first to defeat tlie measure, when it is provided by trea ty —declaring that “ leather is the only: thing lor fortification”—that the annexa tion can only be accomplished by Con gress, and that they can only admit her as a Stale into tin; Union. And now, af ter they (the W liigs principally) had de feated the treaty, and tiie annexation is to be accomplished by Congress, in a joint resolution of tiie most proper and liberal character, most of them oppose tlie reso lution, and throw us back upon tiie treaty power again and lose Texas, altogether. Thanks toGreely’s “ Life and speeches of Henry Clay,” which again lie so con veniently at our elbow, we will bring the Whig idol into Court, and lie shall ’estily to the extent and value of ’llexas. He shall hear witness for ns, when he was in his best and palmiest days—belore a restless ambition had fixed its too eager grasp upon his feelings—before he was driven by the advance of his years to desperate means to snatch the glittering prize—be fore he had employed all his devices to ac complish the object—and before he was willing to sacrifice Texas to his abouliug ambition. Yes, let Mr. Clay bear wit ness to what are the true boundaries of Texas, what is her true value—and what are the error and the misconduct of those blind statesmen, who would now deprive us of this “sacred inheritance of postcri-, ty, which we ought to preserve unimpair ed.” The following are some eloquent and stirring extracts from the celebrated I speech, which Mr. Clay delivered in the House of Representatives, on April 3d, on the Spanish (or Florida) Treaty. They were delivered in support of the two : following resolutions, which he submitted to the House : “ Resolved, That the Constitution of the : United States vests in Congress the power to dispose of the territory belonging to them, and that no treaty, purporting to | alienate any portion thereof, is valid with out the concurrence of Congress. “ Resolved , That the equivalent propos- I cd to be given by Spain to the United States in the treaty concluded between them, on the 22d of February, 1819, for that part of Louisiana lying west of the Sabine, was inadequate; and that it would be inex pedient to make a transfer thereof to any foreign power, or to renew the aforesaid treaty.” Extract ft om Mr. Clay's Speech. “ The second resolution comprehends three propositions ; the first of which is, that the equivalent granted by Spain to the United States for the province of Texas is inadequate. To determinate this, it is necessary to estimate the value of what we gave and of what we received. This involves an inquiry into our claim to Tex as. It is not my purpose to enter at large into this subject. I presume the specta cle will not be presented of questioning, in this branch of the Government, our title to Texas, which lias been constantly maintained, by the executive for more | than fifteen years past, under three several administrations. lam at the same time ready and prepared to make out our title, : if any one in the House i§ fearless enough Ito controvert it. I will for the present, briefly state, that the man who is most familiar with the transactions of this Gov ernment, who largely participated in the formation of our constitution, and all that has been done under it, who, besides the eminent services that he has rendered his country, principally contributed to the acquisition of Louisiana, who must he supposed, from his various opportunities, best to know its limits, declared, fifteen years ago, that our title to the Rio del Norte was as well founded as it was to the Island of New Orleans. “Here Mr. C. read nn extract from a memoir presented in ISOS, by Mr. Mon roe and .Mr. l’inckney, to Air. Ccvallos, proving that the boundary of Louisiana extended eastward to the Perdido, and westward to the Rio del Norte, in which they say—‘The facts and principles which justify this conclusion, are so satisfactory to their government as to convince it, that the United States have not a belter right to tiie Island of New Orleans, under the cession referred to, than they have to the whole district of territory thus describ ed.’ “ That title to the Perdido on the one side, and the Rio del Norte on the other, rest on the same principle—the piiority of discovery and ofoecuption by France. Spain had first discovered and made an establishment at Pensacola; France at Dauphine island, in the bay of Mobile. The intermediate space was unoccupied ; and the principle observed among Euro pean nations having contiguous settle ments, living that the unoccupied space between them should lie equally divided, was applied to it, and tlie lVrdido thus i became the common boundary. So, W est of the Mississippi, La Salic, acting under France, in 16520 r ’3, first discovered that river. In 1G35, he made an establish ment on the bay of St. Bernard, West of the Colorado, emptying into it. The nearest Spanish settlement was Panueo, and the Rio del Norte, about the mi 1- way line, became the common boun- dary. “All the accounts concur in represent ing Texas to be extremely valuable, [is ; ; superficial extent is three or four times greater than that ofFlorid '. Tlicclimate is delicious ; the soil tortile ; the margin of the rivers abounding in live oak; and , the country admitting of easy settlement. It possesses, moreover, it Lam not misin ormed, one of the finest ports of the Gull of Mexico. The productions of which ii 'is capable, me suited to our wants. The unfortunate captive of St. Helena w ished (for ships, commetcc and colonies. We have them all; if we do not wantonly : throw them away. The colonies of other 1 countries arc separated from them by vast seas, requiring great expense to protect them, and are held subject to a constant risk of their being lorn liom their giasp. Our colonies, on the cotilr ry, are unit ed to and form a part of our continent ; and the same Mississippi, from whose rich deposite the best of them (Louisiana) has been formed, will transport on her bosom the brave, the patiiotic men lion In r tri butary streams, to defend arid preserve i the next most valuable, the province ofj Texas.” * * * “ The first proposition contained in the second resolution is thus, I think, fully sustained. The next is, that it is inexpe dient to cede Texas to any foreign power. They constitute, in mv opinion, a sacred inheritance of posterity, which we ought to preserve unimpaired. 1 wish it was, if it is not, a fundamental and inviolable law of the laud, that they should be inaliena ble to any foreign power. It is quite evi dent that it is in tho order of Providence; that it is an inevitable result of the prin ciple of population, tkit the whole of this continent, including Texas, is to lie peo j pled in process of time. The question j is, by whose race shall it he peopled ? Jn our hands, it will lie peopled by freemen and the sons of freemen, carrying with them our language, our laws, and our liberties ; establishing cn the prairies of Texas temples dedicated to the simple and devout modes of worship of God in cident to our religion, and temples dedi cated to that freedom which we adore next to Him. In the bauds of others it may ' become the habitation of despotism anil of slaves, subject to the dominion of the Inquisition and of superstition. I know that there are honest and enlightened men j who fear that our confederacy is already ! too large, and that there is danger of dis ruption, arising out of want of reciprocal adherence between its several parts. I hope and believe that the principle of re presentation, and the formation of States, will preserve us a united people. But if Texas, being peopled by us, and grappling with us, should, at some distant day, I break offj she will carry along with her a noble crew, consisting of our children’s children. The difference between those who maybe disinclined to its annexation j to our confederacy, and me, is, that their system begins where mine may, possibly in some distant future day, terminate; and theirs begins with a foreign race, j aliens to every thing we hold dear, and mine ends with a race partaking of all our qualities.” And now, when Texas would conic back to us with her valuable and s mile soil, her delicious climate, her I,arbors and her productions her sacred temples nn !J her independent people-*., wlle ’ n Z would come back of her own free acco I with as full a right to contract alliance, as we or as any independent nation can possess—when she would brin<* back ns her “ noble crew, consisting ol OU r children, and our children’s children’’ wc arc to be churlishly told by this same Mr. Clay, and by his now deluded fol lowers, “No you shall not have it She is not worth having. And a 3 for VO u Southrons, you shall not have it, although the abolitionists would triumph over you and the Federalists, who tried to scare’ : you about Louisiana, are now trying to intimidate you. by idle threats of dissolu tion, from acquiring Texas.’’ People of Virginia —Read these past re cords. Read the signs of the present! tunes. Look to the future, and then act like men, like freemen, and like patriots, j Stand up like the sons of the “ unterrificii Old Dominion,” and all, all will y e t he well, in despite of the fanatic abolitionist and the Whigs. From the J'hiluddphia T^,U fr RUINS OF ANCIENT NINEV EH* An interesting account of the research es and excavations now in progress, un der the superintendance of ffie French consul, among the ruins of Mosul, or the mounds ot ancient Nineveh, is given in a letter from ltev. M. Laurie, dated August 9, IS4I, published in the Missionary Her lor February. The mound ofKhorsabad, at present in process of excavation, stands m one corner of an enclosed area about one mile square, the walls of which are similar to those near Mosul. Thev are mere elongated tumuli, with remains of low era at various distances, and original ly faced externally with large square stones. The lop ot the mound is flat and between six and seven hundred paces in circumference. Eleven rooms have been excavated, the largest of which is one hundred led in length, by thirty in width: The walls are very thick, and are formed ol two surfaces ol stone interlaid with masses of earth. Each block stone it ten fid high, and one loot thick. They vary in breadth. On their surface are figures executed in has relief. Some oc cupy the whole height of the wall; others are in double rows, with a broad inscrip tion between. M. Lawrie writes— “ The sculptures represent a variety of objects, lit one place is a royal feast, with chairs and tables in European style. In another they prosecute a siege; and while some use the battering ram, or advance under the testudo, others lire the galea* while the devoted defenders fall, trans pierced, from the walls, in one instance a row ot figures in front of the fortress, are impaled by the breast. In another, dead bodies and headless trunks are seen float ing down the river that flows in front of the beleagued fortress. The names of most of these castles are inscribed upon them. Elsewhere, captives loaded with chains approach the conqueror on bended knee; and the executioner, standing by a pile of heads, wails, with uplifted sword, th* nod that is to decide the tale of each one as he passes by. One room is entirely occu pied with a royal hunt. Tlit. king’s char iot is driven through the fortress; birds perch on the trees; deer run beneath them, iiu I the tiuiid hares ily at their approach.- .Slaughtered game bears testimony to the success ot the hunters, some of Whom are seen carrying it in their hands. The most n markable sculptures, how ever, are those at the gales. These are guarded on each side by a five-footed monster, of gigantic proportions. To the body of a bull, fifteen feet high and eiglt leen in length, is attached an immense hu man head. The side of the hull is con cealed by wings, which spring train his shoulder; and i lie fifth foot was made by the artist, that two might appear in front as well as in the side view. But what is still more strange, tiro huge monster is ’ sculptured on a single stone, four feet in thickness. How they managed to trans port it; or set it up on the mound, is a question no one as yet has presumed to an swer. Fifteen of these monsters, more or less perfect, have been found already. In connection with these generally stands the figure of a man with a birds head, like the image of Osiris in Egypt- There is a great variety of dress ami armor in the several groups. In some ca ses a large umbrella is borne over the king. Some dresses claim a remote antiquity, while resemblances to a more modern style may be traced in others. But these are things better understood from ff' e painting than description. As to feature-', i among other diversities, there is one Ueai | that is decidedly African. lb® sculp tures are admirably executed. Ihe mus cles are distinctly and correctly delinea ted, and every countenance wears an ex pression corresponding to the situation o the individual. .... The result of these researches will ne published bv the French Government. The resident consul, M. Bolta, has cop ied the inscriptions, and M. Houdin, artist engaged on the work, has tnai e great number of very accurate and spir ed drawings. DUEL ON THE TAPIS! A hostile meeting between two g men of high standing from v ’ Ga. is expected to take place on Monday next, on the Alabama side ot t >® hoochee river, near this city* . vn belligerents has already arrive , . with bis (fiend, and the other is in the neighborhood. V*o Ui “ l ' <- our that an. effort is making by som citizens, to reconcile the l ,url,< p'’ ; apprehend, from the nature andl long tinuance of the difficulty be " « ufflo t it will be without MKceM* tl()rl ffis says they are to light at the yO . %v jff doubtless be a bloody one •