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long table, eating boiled eggs, hot bis-, cuit, broiled steak, chipped beef, corn muffins, and drinking coffee. For my self I felt timid, and shrunk back^behind ( grandmothei. I was unused to strangers, and the sight of so many intimidated me. But I soon espied Cousin Fred, sit ting near the head of the Ia hie, with an empty chair on each side of him. He was eating, I had almost, said voracious ly, anti was apparently perfectly at ease. 1 He looked up, as e entered the room, and beckoned for nw> to come and sit beside him. I went and felt much re lieved when I was safely in my seat, and had perceived by a glance down the hoard, that I was not an object of univer sal observation, as I had foolishly imag ined. Indeed every one seemed too bus v about breakfast to notice the entrance j or exit of anew comer. The pretty girl, Fanny Bates, however sat nearly oppo site to me, and nodded a good Matured recognition when I first took my seat. But there was a middle aged, dark look- ‘ ing personage sitting on one side of her, : w ho seemed bent upon monopolizing her attention. lie helped her to everything upon the table and kept talking about , an excursion which it seemed had been proposed to some neighboring ruins.— Cousin Fred did not seem to notice them i at all, and yet I wondered how he could help it, the girl was so very beautiful, j Her morning toilet, it seemed to me, j Itad heightened her loveliness. She i wore over her thick white dress, a erim- j son velvet jacket, or tight-saeque, but toned in front with small gold buttons j A bit of rich lace ran around her swan-like j throat, over which the golden curls floated j •-very time she turned her head to address . the dark looking man at her side. I felt I certain that cousin Fred must have heard j with his ears what she said if he would not look at her with his eyes. What made you so late f” he asked turning to me. lam almost through , breakfast. I have been saving these j seats for you and Miss Church. Where is she ? Why hasn’t she come to bieak - fast? Isn’t she ready I” “ Site does not feel well enough to come down,’ I said. 44 She was sick last night and fainted quite away.” lie laid down Ids knife and fork, has- j tily, when I said this, and looked in mv j face with a troubled, inquiring glance. “ Sick!'* he repeated, Fainted away ! j Why she must have been taken very siul- j denly 1 I wondered last night, why none of you were visible at the supper table. - Was she really very sick I” “She fainted, and papa called in a doctor,” I said. “He gave her some medicine which helped to restore her, and she feels better this morning. But she is not able to come down.” “ What doctor pray J” said lie aston ished. “ Why didn't I know something about all this? Where did he find a physician, Claude V\ “ That is him sitting next to that gen- 1 man in black, and the young lady on this side is his daughter, M iss Fanny i Bates.” “ I wondered what in the deuce the 1 girl was bowing to you for,” he said. — “ Do yon know her f* * Yes. She and her mother, Mrs. Bates, both came in to assist us when Miss Church fainted, and they were verv kind indeed. The young lady offered to sit up with her last night, if it was necessary for any one to do so. and she has beeu in our room several times to see her and ask if she could be of anv further service. 44 Ah ! she has ?’ said h>', now evident ly interested in the girl for tho first time. He turned and looked at her, keenly yet furtively. “ What did you say lier name was ?” 44 Fanny Bates—doctor Bates’ daugh- i ter. They are very wealthy, so the man tiiat showed us our rooms yesterday af ternoon said.” 41 All!” he said again quizzically.— “ Are they good enough to associate with the Alstons, Claude ? We are a proud old family you know, and must look out for fit companions. In such a place as this, it won't do to let friendships spring up Hill grown.” “ Will you never be through remind ing me of that silly speech Cousin Fred ?” I asked. 44 1 am sorry that I ever made it.” 44 It was not silly,” he replied. “It was so worldly wise that I marveled where you could have picked it up at the time. You will find it acted out here every day and every hour. I will bet you a dol lar, that that old fellow beside the young lady, who has for the last hour been load ing her plate with everything under the skies —everything on this table I mean, is a widower, with as many as seven children, and lias heard or knows that Miss Bates is an heiress. The gilt is pretty, but it isn’t beauty that has cap tivated that old fellow. lie is after the dimes.” 44 How do you know that 1” I asked, wonderinglv. “ Miss Bates is handsome enough to have anybody fall in love with her.” \ esslvt) isbzixlsonie, hut wlieii ft mail reaches that widower s np[ti ho is not of ten smitten with mere beauty or accom plishments—he goes in, as von ]j J I Claude, on the back terrace, ibin-rl I more substantial. For houses nnd lands nnd glittering, yellow gold. At his age, lie has learned the value of these things, and looks at them more than lie does at beauty.” 44 You are a queer mortal, Cousin Fred,” I said. 44 Queer when you try to be.” “I have studied flic ways of tho world little Cous—that’s how I came to know them so well, but you are scarcely eat ing a mouthful of breakfast. If we sit here much longer, that weazen faced fellow, yonder, who seems to be overseer general here, will tell us that he is obfeey ed to have oar seats for somebody else. I advise you to make haste with your toast a-r-U coffee. Tlie fellow is looking this way now, and. graindmother is through.” I swallowed the remnant of my bus cuit, and Fred afterwards accompanied me to the bottom of the stains. As I wits turning to ascend, he stopped me. “Tell Miss Church,” he said, “ that I j had the side-saddle brought in the wag gon, and if she feels well enough to ride, 1 shall be happy to accompany her. There are some very inteiesting ruins I learn, not far from here. Parties are going out daily, to look at them. When she feels able we will ride over, for it is an old fort, and I should like to make a sketch of it. It may be of future service to me.” I promised to deliver the message, and mounted the stairs. As I was going through the dark and narrow passage, 1 met Miss Bates coining out of her room, dressed in a riding hat and habit. She bowed her plumed head to me again. 44 I am gtiing to ride,” she said. 44 How ■ is the sick ladv Miss Church this morn ing? I hope she rested well.” * 4 Very well ! ’ I said, “she feels much better, almost well.*’ 44 1 am happy to hear i*,” she said, get ting her long skirt in her hand and ar ranging her whip, and then she glided ! down. 1 went to the invalid, and delivered my message from Cousin Fred, and then went to the window to see the eques ; trians. for I knew that the ruins lay some where i:i that direction. It was not long I before Miss Bates rode forth, accompan ied bv the middle aged gent Inman in black. She was seated on a milk white , steed, aid she rode as gi.-ti fully as a j queen. : Miss Church got up, and walked to the I window, alio, to see them. As they I came just opposite to us Miss Bates look ed up and, seeing the teacher, bowed | with glad surprise. There was some j filing in the expression of i,er beautiful ; upturned face, flushed and excited in the glad morning sunshine, which made the | governess start, blush and afterwards | tremble, as if struck with sudden af | frigid. j 44 Ellen,” said iny grandmother coming , in at that moment, “bow imprudent you are! You are not £sted and strong e nougli yet, to walk any distance. See! you are trembling like an aspen leaf. 1 am reafi\ nfiaid you are going to faint again. Sit down. I have made Mary bring yon up some breakfast but likoev jerything else here it is in miserable or j der. The biscuits ;re not half done, and the coffee is smoked; the butter too is as white as !ar<h What people want to : keep such an ordinary establishment for 1 can't make out. Mr. Alston hardly slept a wink last night, and he vows , that nothing but your health cauld per isuade him to stay here an hour. But * Frederick don’t mind trifles. He looks jas free an 1 easy as a Frenchman. But j Claude, child, you must not sit at a pub • lie table, ami gossip for all the world as ; though you were at home. You and j Frederick made me quite uneasy this j morning, t could not hear w hat you said (you talked in so low a tone, but those | who sat nearer might have heard, I am | sure, if they had taken the trouble of lis- I telling.” i “They were all too busy eating hot muffins, grandmother,” 1 said. 44 Xo j body cared what we were saying, l am | certain.” j 44 Well ! 1 hope they didn’t hear child, J especially if it was anything imprudent. People in such places as these can't be | too particular about what they say, and ; who they talk before. But, Miss Church, j you are hardly eating a mouthful. Let | me butter this hot batter-cake for you. ! Doctor-what is-liis-name ? the gentle man we called in last evening—Doctor Bates, inquired very particularly after you this morning, and so did his wife. Fine, clever people, I take them to be. — I wish I could find out wheie they are from. But we shall find out I dare say ; all about them before we leave here, that |is if Mr. Alston doesn’t get too much ! Vexed to remain long.” Ro saving, mv grandmother smoothed i down her Mack silk apron with her hands and went, soon afterwards toiler room. [to UK CONVINCED.] Death of Col. Francis K. Huger. The Charleston papers of Feb 15, announce the death of Col. Francis K. Huger, in the ! eighty-second year of his age. Col. Huger was the son of Col. benjamin Huger, of the revolution, who was killed before the lines of Charleston, and was the pupil of the cele brated Dr. John Hunter, and fellow student of Dr. Pliysick of Philadelphia. When a young man and fully inspired with the ar dor of American republicanism, he joined Dr Ei ■ie Bolhnan of Philadelphia, in his at tempt to liberate LaFnyctte from the duu ! geons of Olmtitz ; an enterprise which led to i the long incarceration of the young patriots i The first landing of the Marquis De LaFay ette on American soil was on the plantation of the father of Col. F. K. Huger in 1777. The attempt of the young Huger and Bo’.l man to rescue La Fayette was therefore, a noble recogniton of hereditary and paternal hospitality On his liberation and return to his native land, he was appointed a Captain jin the United States Army of 1798. He re ; signed and retired soon afterwards; but on tlit* breaking out of the war of 1812, was re- I called again from his beloved retirement and j appointed to office, and soon received the command of the regiment of artilery attach ed to the Southern Division. Col. Huger, ■ served his native State iu both branches of ilte Legislature, and was always ready to serve her in any capacity, civil or military. On Newr Year’s day, ns a New York down town merchant entered his house, ho was met by his wife who threw around liis neck a gold chain. •< There, hubby,” exclaimed uis wile, i. is a New Your'sgift for you !” j••Oh ! yes, rejoined the husband, with great coolness, I paid the bill for it about an j 1,0,,r n ° ” “ You did,” exclaimed tho lady, with equal indifference, ■ why, I told the jeweller to let it go on tho July bill.” Mercenary cur! Suppose ho did pay for it ? who else should settle his wife's bills t A •- hubby,” who could not bettor appreci ate the affection that prompted the act, who couldjrerncmbor the price a New Year's pres ent from his wife, should be banished to Utah, and be compelled to turn Mormon. Arrest of Governor Gardner.—Gov ernor Gardner, was arrested at Boston on Friday on the charge of violating tho city ordinances, in having the side-walks if) front of hiadiry goods store blocked up with boxes and bales of gooihk lie will probably pay | the penalty. ii i rimLTA^rrrwoFFoi^ THOMAS A. BURKE, jUDIIOKb. I GASSY UA A), a I-:< >. THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 1. 1855. I Candidate for Governor. j The Eatouton Independent Press hoists j the name of Hon. John E. Ward ns a can • didate for Governor. Mr VV. was speaker i of the last House of Representatives, and j Mayor of Savannah during the epidemic. Copper in Cass. We are pleased to learn that Mess Haire, i Patton & Cos., who hate been for some time j pastsinkiug n shaft on Capt Fulton's land. ■ about four miles from this place, discovered, ; one day last week, a rich vein of the blue | oxide of Copper. This is a very valuable i combination, being 70 parts Copper, and, if ■ appearances are not deceptive, will yield a i rich return for the labor bestowed on the | work so far. The Mess. Clardy are also testing for ’ Copper on the farm of C. P. Waldrup, Esq. : about three utiles from our town, with the most battering prospects of success. Accident. j One of the coaches used to convey passen : gers over the Etowah river, was upset two or three days since, with a full load. Sev eral persous were seriously injured, we learn, though fortunately no lives were lost. The driver, it is said, was under the influence ot i B.lly Patterson. i- - Weather. The present has been an unusually dry and cold winter. Monday and Tuesday were swingers. Just think of waking up in the j morning and finding the ice half an inch | thick, in your bed room, where a large fire had been kept until midnight. This has ’< been our experience within the present week. Early rising, under such circumstances, is next c'oor to martyrdom. New Music. Our friend, 11. Braumuller, of Atlanta, has sent us several pieces of new aud beau tiful music. The Old Dominion Polka, by Henry Bellman, is a spirited production, while the Song —a .Mother's Welcome, words by 11. M. Garland, Jr and music by J. S. Engclbrccht, is a.; pretty a thing as we've ; heard in many a day. Persons in want ot uew Music, Pianos, or other Musical uier . chandise, will find it to their interest to J order from Mr. B. ns he has a good stock, ! and will sell on good terms. Just try him. Contemptible. j . New Minister to Spain. — Mr. Breck ! enriilge, of Kentucky, having declined to ! * link his fortunes’ in any way with tlie present adininistratrntion, Hon. Augustus | Cajs.ar Dodge, of lowa, has been appointed Minister to Spain in his stead.” We clip the above from the Greenbrier Va■) Era, Such wilful niisrepresedtalion ’ ought not. to pass unnoticed. The editor of | the Era knows quite as well as we do, that Mr. Breekenridge declined the appointment tendered him by the President, because of sickness in his family. It would be more manly to tell the truth about aucli matters, friend Wheler. Acquisition of Cuba. I We regret that the able speech of our rep resentative, Hon. E. W. Chastain, on this subject, delivered in the House on the 17th j ult., reached us r.t too late a day for in.er ; tion in our paper of this week. He takes i bold ground in favor of the honorable ncqiii | sition of the Island, and contends, in npposi | tion to Mr. Boyce, of S. C., that it would i not injuriously affect the sugar planters of j Louisiana, but would ultimately result in ; their benefit, ns well as that of the entire j Union. He shows that the government of i Cuba, in placing duties up<n in j oils, has | always discriminated largely in favor of 1 England and against the United States, and that their policy towards us in all other re . spects has been uncourteoua and illiberal in the extreme. If Mr. Soule returns and re ports that Spain refuses to make reparation i for the many wrongs inflicted on us, Mr. C. ’ is for sending at once . a sufficient naval j force to the Island of Cuba, blockade her ! ports, take possession of her territory in the | uame of justice, and hold on to it in the 1 name of freedom.” j Items of Georgia News. On the night of the 17th ult., the jail at Ccdartown was destroyed by fire. It is sup posed to have beeu the work of an incendia ry. The building had been completed but a short time at an expense of 3.500. j Dr. Gilbert Tennent, ot Marietta, died on | .Saturday morning last, after a brief but i most paiutul illness. He leaves a large fam ily, who but a few moottis ago, folio-wed , their mother to the grave. Fire—The Macon Telegraph says: On j Saturday night, about li 1 2 o'clock, a fire ! broke out on the premises of Henry G. Itoss, : Esq., aud the dwelling and out houses were completely consumed. Owiug to the active exertions of the firemen, the flames did no further damage. Negro Stealing understand that a man giving his name as Vickner, but whose real name is Poole, was arrested in this city yesterday and lodged iu the calaboose, for negro stealing, l'oolo had stopped at one of the hotels, registering his assumed name, but luckily a former keeper of the Alabama penitentiary was stopping at the same house and recognized Poole, at ouce, as one of his old boarders. He had with him when arres ted, a negro man and woman, and is stqpos ed to have other stolen nagroes. secreted Lu tho vicinity.— -Jit, bit. lU/t inti. 1 j jKnow-Nothingism opposed to the 1 So if ft. We gave last week an extract from the speech of the Hon. Sain. Smith, of Tennessee, on the Naturalization laws and Know-Notli ingisiu. Our object was to shew Southern men that they were affiliating with the vilest 1 abolitionists and freesoilers, when they acted with this new party. We are American cit- ‘ izens, and have as much love for our country as any of our fellows, but nothing shall in duce us to hold our peace when au insiJious foe, under the guise of friendship, is seeking ; to sap the very foundations of our institu- ‘ ; tior.s. ami wlicu our own people are, as we j honestly believe, ignorantly aiding and a betting them. Every day, we are confirmed j in the belief that Kuow-Nothiugism is Abo- ; litiouisin iu disguise, aud we warn the Southern people to have nothing to do with , it. The extracts from the speeches of Mess. ! Burlingame, of the U. S. House of Represen- 1 tatives, and Wilsou of the Senate, given last | week, will doubtless open the eyes of many, \ ; who have been ignorant of the kind of com- ! ) pany they have been keeping. Both of these 1 j men are members of this new order, and ’ were elected by it to represent Massnchu j i setts iu the Congress of the United States. I i The former gentleman expressed himself in | : favor of higher law judges , an anti-slavery j j Constitution, an anti-slavery Bible , and \an anti-slavery God! — and the latter en- I dorsed every sentence his friend had utter fd! Southern Know-Nothings, with such men you are called upon to act— for candi i dates nominated by such men you are bound | to vote, or be branded as traitors. | But let us look a little further into their ■ actings and doings. Iu New York, they j | have, in every instance, returned either j i Whigs or Abolitionists to Congress, besides I electing the notorious So'f‘ v rd. j u Reunsyl | vaiAa, the old Keystone Siiite, whose De- j : moeracy has ever been true to the South, | ; they have not only sacrificed Democrats, but j j have stricken down -11 Whigs who were even | | suspected of Boutl t * ri > proclivities In Ohio j • they have coalesced openly with abolitioi - ! j ism and freeaoilism. In Michigan they have j j elected three out of the four members to [ | Congress, and the Legislatuie, in which they ! i have a majority, has instructed its Senators; | aud recommended its Representatives in Con gress to introduce and vote for a bill to ; prohibit the introduction of slavery into i Kansas or Nebraska, or any other terr itory i of the United States, and .. to use their best | exertions to procure the immediate repeal ot j I the act ot 1850. known as the Fugitive Slave j j Law ” In Indiana, four of the seven Demo- j i orats up for re-election have been defeated i i and abolitionists sent in their stead. I Says Mr. Smith in his speech before quo- ! : ted: .. In all of the elections which have tak- • en place in the North, the Know Notlrugsi have wielded their power and influence in j favor of the fusionists or abolitionists. I have - not seen a resolution, pagsed at any of their conventions or by any of the legislatures ofj which the}’ have control, that national men can sanction. Nor have I been able to find that they have elected a single man to whom the people of the South can give their confidenc *. ‘lhe antecedents of the men ; they have eiected, so far as I am informed, i go to show that all of them are the uncom promising enemies of the South. In the next Congress we shall see the scats now oc cupied by num of reputation and character ; filled by preachers, who have long since j ceased t’ wotship the Most High and to preach Jesns and him crucified, and have ■ substituted in their stead the most abject ot • God's created intelligences, the negro ! or by politicians of one idea opposition to the j South ; or, as their mob orators elegantly term it, opposition to the slave power.’ Aud yet, strange to say, Southern men are : found to rejoice at victories achieved by this I party in the North uvur the firm, consistent j advocates of States’ rights. They wilfully ‘ I shut their eyes to the fact that the only men i i elected from the North who are willing to’ concede the just constitutional rights of the! South are anti- Know Nothing democrats,! and attempt to mislead the people there by referring to the fact that William 11. Sew- j ard is opposed by a portion of the Know ! Nothings iu Lis State.” On the same day that this speech was de- j livered, Mr. Seward was re-elected by Know ; Nothing votes. : ( ° Theso facts ought to be sufficient to ccn- ‘ vinoe Southern men of the abolition tendency j ’ of this new order, but we have such a mass I | of evidence at our hand that we shall intro ! duce one or two more witnesses. At a recent j ; Kuow Nothing meeting, held in Norfolk,! ■ Connecticut, tne following resolutions were passed : “ Resolved, That in the present chaotic! condition of parties in Connecticut, the ouly i | star above the horizon ts the love of human ; | liberty and the abhorrence of slavery, and ; that it is the duty of anti-slavery men to rally around the republican party, as an or ganization which invites the united action of the people on tho otic transcending ques tion of slave dominion which now divides the Union. * Whereas Roman Catholicism aud slave- I ry being alike founded and supported on the i basis of ignorance and tyranny, and being, therefore, natural allies iu every warfare | against libevty and enlightenment; therefore 1 bo it “ Penaloed. That there ean exist no real ; hostility to Roman Catholicism which does 1 not embrace slavery, its natural co- worker in opposition to freedom and republican in ! stitutions ” I j And at a meeting of the Stato Council of | Know Nothings, held at Schenectady, New : York, the following was among the resolu tions, pussed unanimously : * Resolved, That slavery, like Papacy, is a moral, social and political evil—at vari ance with tho spirit of our republican insti tutions, und repugnant to the principles of freemen ; that it is our duty to resist its ex tension, and that wo cannot as Americans consent to tho admission, into the Union ot any new State whose constitution recognises human bouungo.’* At a caucus, held by the tnombors of this now party, on the 18th of Jannary, to con sult a, upon the question of United States Senator,” such remarks as we give below wore made: Mr. Prince, of Essex, h spoke strongly in favor of Geuoral Wilson’s election, and de precated any yielding to the South upon the question.’* [ Mr. Williams, born in Virginia, nuiaei by and had slaveholding relatives, was formerly a pro lavcry amt, but the fugi tive slave bill and the Nebraska Mil fend wrought an alteration in him. *. What we i want in the South is *o raise up the poor white man there, nnd not to play in the hands of the slaveholders ” Mr. Warren, of Suffolk. <c agreed with General Wi>sea on slavery ;if we pul up an ; anti Nebraska man General Wilson will j withdraw ; if not, he will remain in the field nnd get all the votes lie can.” Jonathan Pieice, the head of the Milr of. Know Nothings, spoke next. .. It had been said that this free soil movement would eat j us up; I doubt it , J'or we are all free suit- j ers.” J Q A. Griflin, of Charlestown. *• There was as much need of the American party he- j fore last year as during that year. If it had not been for the passage of that inla- 1 tnous Nebraska bill, nnd the utter mean ‘ ness of Pierce’s national } administration, ’ne 1 revolution would rot have speedily taken place, though *t might have come in time. — He wanted a man right on this question one now worthy to! I stand by the side of Charles Sumner ’’ Senator Pillisliury, of Hampden, said ‘ i* No man from his section could have come Here if he had been only an American. It 1 was because the parly was anti-slavery, ns ! well as American, that it has got the major ity.” Mr Griffin wanted ** a man worthy to) stand by the-side of Charles Sumner.” Hen ry Wilson, the notorious abolitionist and higher law man, was selected. His con lrere, Mr. Burlingame, at this same meeting • | made a speech, which <i was received with - epplause.” We gave an extract from it last week. Here is another : I ‘.ln speaking for freedom he shou’d not 1-e choice in the se'ection of terms by which to ! characterize slavery. Slavery had betrayed j us, and the time had come for an outraged people to express their sentiments in lan guage not to be misunderstood. . Mr. B ascribed the origin of slartry to Pope Martain V , who issued a bull sanction t ing African slavery. It was also sanctioned by several of his successors. It was brought ! I to this country under the cross aud in the | j garb of humanity t but it was never sane- 1 tinned here by positive law.” ! A correspondent of the Raleigh (JV. (’.) j | Standard, writing from New York, gives) j the result of his personal observation and j experience The editors of the Standard i know the writer, and pronounce him .* a gett j tleman of character, and a man of truth.— : He has friends in the South whom he desires 1 j to protect against the insidious approaches j | of this secret organization ; and he loves the j j Union of the States, and would do all n man | may do to warn his Southern friends against | efforts now on foot, which, if successful, must j end in its disruption.” Here is au extract from his letter : tt I found the burden of tho speeches made ! in the general meetings of the order was ha ! trod of the Catholic name aud faith organ 1 zed opposition to all foreigners, and implicit obe dience on the part of every member to the ! edicts of those who ruled the order; whilst i in the private meetings of the leaders, it was a wrangle for office aud a continual fight for the spoils. * * j j Depend upon it. my dear sir. it will be a sor- ! : ry day for the South when she abandons ! j herself to the arms of Know Nuthingism. The order at the North is composed of men j ■ who are seceders from all parties—blind :,d vocates of all kinds of isms—men of no fix ; ed principles, office-seekers and suckers The freesoil platform and ihe doctrine of | the abolitionist is the only creed here which the i, have in common ; and the institution s I I us the South have no dtad/ii r foes than the i Enow Nothings of the A'orth.” ’ We might fill our paper with extracts g.v j in? to shew the dangerous character of this new organization, but we must stop for want of room. We sincerely trust and believe j that its race at the South is already run. | We cannot think that Southern men will have aught to do with a party so diametri- j | cally opposed to their nearest and dearest j j interests. We have opposed it from the ; first, because we felt sure that it was Aboli- j tion ism in anew guise—a wolf in sheep's i clothing. Were we right or wrong r Let 4 i the facts in the case answer. l Our Book Table. 1 Bruno, or Lessons of Fidelity, Patience and Self-denial, taught by a dog. By Jacob Abbott. New York : Harper & Brothers. Willie and the Mortgage, showing how I much may be accomplished by a boy.— j , Same author and publishers. . The Strait Gate, or the Rule of cxclu- j sion from Heaven. Same author and l publishers. We have given above the names of the first three of a series of very attractive Juveniles I now issuing, in monthly numbers, from the ; ! press of the Harpers, under the name of Hat per's Story Books. Mr. Abbott, who is charged with their production, is known ns the author of some of the most beautiful children's books in the language. His Hoi- 1 10, Jonas and Lucy books are far superior to any which preceded them, while his Fran coni a stories are, we think, among the nxxst ‘ delightful Juveniles ever written The books of this series are intended to combine in- i struction with amusement. *• to impart knowledge, to develope the thinking and rea- 1 soiling powers, to teach a correct aml dis criminating use of language, to present models of good conduct for imitation, and bad examples to be shunned, to enforce and explain the highest principles of moral duty, | and above all to awaken and cherish n spirit! of humble and unobtrusive, but heartfelt j piety.” The first of the scries is intended to teach ! that true happiness can result nlouo from a diligent and faithful performance of duty— that the true motto is •• duty first, and pleas- I uro afterwards.” Wo are not sure that dogs ever got to be quite as smart as Bruuo, but the leesous taught by the nrrrativo of his life ns here presented are so full of instruc tion that we are not disposed to bo oritioal. Willie, the horo of number two, suoccoeds iu efteoting groat good by earnestly silting his heart on making himself useful. He reforms a drunken father, frees him from debt, and finally succeeds in banishing a great ourse from his nativo village. Number three is founded on a parable of the New Testament, describing the conditions of salvation as act forth ia the Gospel. A number of simple ! but striking narratives are prettefed to il- j lustra<t?e the truth thus suggested', ‘flieso in a style very different from that | u9iHlly adopted by those Who seek ft) i hri! t!he stories of the Bifile- fnl and! impressive language off tike M-Soo&sf books” is retained ns fir superior to the modern embellishments of nrrifler-*Vrhetoric, nor does he <t permit the j.uice and frag?,race j I of the Scriptural diction to evaporate in n ! ; vague cloud- of technical terms, but uses the j i rich vitality of the materials to animate the ! * I . scenes and incidents of every-day life, which 1 lie aims to ennoble and purify.” J j We are really pleased with these little ; ; volumes. The style in which they are writ- j ten, the beautiful paper and print, and the j : elegant illustrations, will all tend to make | them the most popular juveniles cf the day. ’ | They are supplied iu monthly numbers at i 25 cents each, or $3 a-year. The Ways or Life, showing the right way and the wring way; contrasting the high way and the low way; the true way and the false way ; the upward way aud the downward way ; the way of honor and the way of dishonor By Bev G. S. Weaver. N\ w York : Fowler & Wells. The very comprehensive title page of this little book, which we have copied entire, will j probably give our renders ns good an idea !of its character as an extended notice. It is ) full of sound philosophy and genuine wis i dom, is characterized by a strong and vig orous style, and an evidently honest desire ! on the part of the author to do good. We sincerely trust that the wcik may have its | thousands of readers. The world will be none the worse for it. Gooey’s Lai v’s Book.— We intended to j write a notice of the March Dumber to this ; . i work, Int here is one from the Rome Con- i rier, so much to our notion that we copy it ; This welcome and j uctual v sitmt has ret.eh- 1 ed us. In it we still recognize the masterly spirit of its editor. Os all others Godey j seems eminently calculated to cater of the j tastes of the lovers ol art and of good read- I ing. To the attainment of this end he spares neither time, pains, or money. This period ical should find a subscriber in every young ) lady of the country Price of subscription for one year, only three dollurs. Correspondence of the C.issville ,Standard. From Washington. Washington City, Feb. 22. Both Houses of Congress are busily en gaged and working on long time to get j through by the 3d of March. The bill to 1 give three years credit on the duties of Rail j Hoad Iron, lias been before tin* Senate fora , day or two past. Its fate is uncertain, but j I sincerely hope it may finally pass. The House is engaged in fixing up the ap propriation bil's so that the wheels of gov- i eminent may not stop. The item giving one j hundred thousand dollars for erecting a j j new cast iron dome to the capitol, passed i to-day. The bill giving alternate sections j i of land to the Mobile and Ohio, and the Mo j oile and Girard Hail load, met its death in the House this morning. The Bounty Land, the Pacific Rail road. ; and the increase of the army bills, will all ; he defeated, and will be resurrected into! ! life by the next Know Nothing aud abolition j j House of Representatives. A great many j i fossil remains will be dog up by that body, t i! I air nut great’y mistakeu. The President vetoed t.he French Spoila- ) tion bill — as lie lind n right, to do, and as j , lie ought to have done, with his impressions . of the character of the claims. The Bank Barons, the claim agents, the Pawubroki rs, j the treasury seekers, and all that class ol j [ gentry, mostly Whigs, make a great hue ! and cry, and say that Gen’l Pierce lias ru hied hituself, but. the people will reply that j ; lie is their friend who prevents this horde ot swindlers from gutting the Treasury and taking the money of the people to fill their seedy pockets. Geu'l Pierce deserves the thanks of all holiest men for the firmness and courage > with which he has met aud conquered this j army of locusts. The next Presidential election is begin ning to be talked of somewhat. In this j connexion, I heard a very distinguished Democrat, and one of great national iuflu- | euee, sav to-day at a large dinner table, that Buchanan for President and Cobb lor j Vice Preside!t, was the only ticket that! | could carry he Democracy through in tri umph For my own part I should prefer | Gov. Cobb for the first place, and if the elec- I tion were to come on before the present House of Representatives, he would be the’ first choice of a large majority of the Demo cratic members. \\ hat say you to it : Cobb for President, and Bright of Indiana, or j some other Western man, for Vice, would be a strong team—don't you think ? It is understood here that the French Mission, if it should become vacant, will be j offered to Gov McDonald, of Georgia. 1 hope so, for he would make a first rate Min- ‘ | ister. ami Louis Napoleon would have to walk a >, bee line,” or our Me wouul make | him take the Spauish step.'* j Yours truly, DELTA. ! Correspondence of the Cassvillv Standard. Letter from New York. NO. s>. Dissolution of’ the British .Ministry and Establishment of a ,Vr One — Pahnt r sten Premier—Arrival of the Baltic — : JWithing from the Seat off t’at — Domts- : j tic Intelligence. ___ Nkw Youk, Feb. 22. 1860, 11 o'clock A. M. In my last letter I informed you, that the ! British Cabinet was dissolved, and up to the sailing of the Asia, none had been established 111 its stead. 1 will briefly allude to the cause l of its dissolution. A reference to my letters , will show your readers that the people in j England were dissatisfied with the course the Ministry had pursued in reference to the I war —that it was *. a gigantic mistake” on I their part ; that those at the hoad of the Gov ernment were not the meu for tho occasion, and that something ought to be done—aud must be done in the premises. In obedience to this p opuler feeling. Mr. Roebuck moved in tho house of Commons, on 26th ult., < that a committee be appointed to inquire into tho condition of the British Army be fore Sebastopol nnd into tho conduct of tho Government in regard to them.” This was plainly enough a vote of censure on the con duct of tho Government, which called for an explanation from Lord Johu Russel, as Min-! | lt,fttler of *l'e House of Commons i stend the position of himself‘“L i his’colleagues, he gave in his resignation"’ j ( wl,ich 511 itwlf W;t *it ***>wled„ lne^ | tlu,t censure suited,) ayfl adm ittei| ; tlint wadtlct of the Government **,l not staid- art ijwesniga tion— and that p nt I merston was fie s.tly man fit f or t p e ei ‘ geaeic-a-of rfi-e ??esiitt occasion. A herd J’ ; ft'etnbled n*d? *a*ed the cauldron was about 1 to flow over ; bat the vote Was not yet taken aud the motion was adjourned to M 0 nJ 20th, when 305 ayes to 118 nays carried it! nnd the next day the Earl of Aberdeen j 1,,,’. ed iiis resignation and iht of all hi h fl) | leagues in the hands of the Quern, who. it s said, wrote Lord John Bussell a very slurp letter blowing him up sky high, as the di s . tarhet*’ and maker of all the mischief. gi, t sent for the Earl of Derby, anti instructed? him to form anew Cabinet; but he fa led t-> do so. In the House nt J.o?ds, the Ist in.st, we expected, the Earl of A'lie’/.k-jn uml ii,- Duke of Newcastle made long jps which they endeavored to define their vrsi tions; but with poor effect. The Earl t,? Deri y replied and n ad<- one of L e hist spec, L’ es— lore.b’e, clear, and to the joint. Hu admitted that the Duke of Newcastle hub , done much to relieve the distress of the ar j try in the Crimea ; but appeared to doubt | that the Goveinmeht had done oil or done what they did at the projnr time. ]Je , showed up the tardiness and old fogy ism of Aberdeen to perfection, and finished with these words, which wele received with cheers }” •* Whatever Government may be entrusted with her Majesty's confidence to carry on lhe affairs of the great war and great political qtu-s in which ibis country is now involved, that man is undeserving of t the character of a patriot or an honest n am who dots no *o the utmost xunl ol his pow er give the Government of the Queen for these objects a disinterested, and, i.s tar as he can, n conscientious, support.” It will be recollected that Derby was Premier troin March to December, IK-2 S.nce writing the above ‘he Baltic has ar rived and brings u news that Palmerston is Premier. Borne little hesitancy was mam tested on the part of our good queen,” Lr it appears she was obliged to accept him as a dernier resort : having successively given the Earl of 1 e 1-y Mai qu of Lautlsdov nr> Lord John Russell and the Earl of Claren don an o] portunity to try tluir hands in form ug anew Cabinet, but when they fail ed, Palmerston wi.s ..sent for,” and had no difficulty in pi es. tiling the billowing: Fiist Lord of the Treasuty. Lord Palmers ton, Lcrtl High Chancellor. Lord Cianworth, Chancellor of Ihe Exchequer lit. liuu W. E. Gladstone, Lord Pi es and nt <f the Council Earl Gr.mvilie, Lord Privy Seal, Duke of Argyle. Secretaries > f State.—Home: lit. Hu. S. ; Herbert, Foreign : Earl of Clarendon, Uolo ! uies -. Sr GergeGrey, War: Lord P.inmme Fitst Lord ot the Admiral v. Sir James Gra ham, Pres’t of the B'd of C ntrol. Sir Cl 8 i Wood, Chief Coiiiinis’r of Works. &c., Sir W. j .Molesworth, Postmaster General, ltt. ll<*. ■ Vis'd Canning, Without office, Matq. of ; L.-ttisdowne. 1R ELAND. Lord Lieutenant, Earl St. Germans, Li i t . High Chancellor, Bight Hon. M Bi mix . M s ! ter of the Rolls, Right Hon T. B Smith, i Queen Y.clotia has issued a Proc-bunath n ! against British subjects at home or abio-,. i 1 Hiding the enemy, especially against supply ing him with arms, ammunition, stores, 1 bhips and steam li aeliii e y. Freni tin Danhbt —1 ,s aid Omar Pad.a h-is withdrawn h s tes gnation. Fu I ajolo gy was made to him by the Tuik sh Govern ment. Ismael Pacha and the army of Ben melia are placed under his otde-is Accounts respecting the movements of he Russians me contradictory. On the one hand, it is said, that they coutinue to ravage th Do tmisti a under the very eyes of the Austrians ;on the other that Gem Corouiui has received orders to prevent the incursions- of the Bu - shins. The Paris .Moniteur copies from a Con stantinople pa jer a letter giving an acciut.t of an action fought on the Danube, lut the : but the account requires confirmation. It states that a (no date) Russian cotjs having attempted to cross the river, into the Dol rudseha, was rtqulsed with guat hs?, astir a conflict ot several hours, By thenar guard of Yayn Pacha, and that the latter had al ready crossed the Danube at Tultseha aud Ismael. From the Seat of War. —Nothing of im portance had occurred iu the Crimea. A rencontre had taken place m tie Danube, between the Russians and Turks in which the Turks were successful. The Vienna Pence Conference hail not yet opened. Diplomacy had made a pause until the result of the British Ahuisarial crisis should be known. In the mean time both the Aliied Powers and Russia continued then preparation for Carrying on the war but there were still hopes that negotiations might lead to I*olloo. Accounts from Warsaw, under date (f the : bill, state that (he Russian forces in Poland f were concentrated. The troojs ou the Gal j iciaa froutier had been ordend to retreat into the iuterior. Changes in fhc french .Ministry also. — Mr. Magne is ajpointed Min'riei of Finance.- aud Mr. lUmber, Minister of Agiiculturuy Commerce, nud Public Works, ia pUee Mr. Magne. Th.'re are rumors current that the Empe ror will him e f take command of the army to operate on the Rhine, and that M de Mor | ny will act as Lieutenant of the Em piss irv the Emperor’s abaeuce; further, that Gem. Caarobert is to be recalled and will he suc ceeded by Gen. Polissier. These tales, prob ably, merit no belief. The Austrian general Crcunuwille lias had’ personal consultations with the Emperor Napoleon, in refereuee to the military dis positions of Austria aud France* Prineo Napoleon has arrived in Paris;, most of the public officers paid their respects t-A him with all appearance of cordiality. .Veto York City. —The weather is exceed ingly fine and clear here. The health of our city is good, although our death list shows an iuorease of 66 deaths over those of lust week ; the whole number is 660. I will now close, and bid you good-bye for a week. Yours, BENSON. The Iter. Dr. Chapin's congregation, in New York, propose to raise their pastor's sug ary from £ISOO to SSOOO.