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*” From the New York Journal of Commerce.
Paris, April 19, 1849,
\Ve have the first number of M. de Lamartine’s
“ book journal” —the Counsellor of the People.
i t is handsomely printed in octavo. It com
mences with his first exhortation to the people;
nest are his narrative and peculiar views of the
Revolution of February 1848, which are worthy
fall attention, but not to be trusted in general.
Re seems to me rather unjust to Louis Phillippe,
xvliom he has long personally disliked. The se
cond part of the number consists of a copious and
serviceable political almanac, embracing each
nionth since November last. On the whole, from
the specimens of the Counsellor , we may augur
favorably* The fecundity of the author is won*
and rful; his curiosa felicitas, or French eloquence
ol style, rarely fails him ; he attracts and dazzles,
Rhen he does not satisfy your literary or ethical
judgment. Lamartine may be said, in your Amer
ican phrase, to be getting up all his steam, for the
purpose of recruiting his finances; his works of
every description, old and new, are putin requi
sition* In his first exhortation, he tells the French
nation: “You are absolutely sovereign and self
governed now, with your universal suffrage ; but
you are novices in sovereignty ; you are like a
child brought up for the throne, that may have a
tutor acorruptor or a sage, a Dubois or a Fene
lon ; according as the infant-King listens to one
or other of the masters, the infant will become a
Nero or a Germanicus, the disgrace of the sover
eignty of the people, or the delight of human
kind.” The poet might have cited such tutors as
himself with his History of the Girondists, and
his equal complaisance to all sorts of demagogues
and visionaries, such as Bathes Cabet, Ledru-
Rollin, Lamennais and Proudhon. He flattered
and cajoled all the revolutionary parties and
posts, and finally brought himself into universal
discredit. He continues thus : — “ Government is
merely the mould or form of the people. It is in
vain to change the mould, if you do not change
the clay. The people must be improved; such
the people, such the government — of this let us
be assured. When a people complain of their
government, we may infer that they do not de
serve any other. What is our present situation ?
On one band are two or three execrable anarchies;
on the other, three or four feeble monarchial par
ties or systems. If France does not persist in
founding a moderate, civilized, and rational Re
public, the only government that can last, site
will be torn in pieces and utterly ruined.”
At the end of his leading article yesterday, Gi
rardin, editor of La Presse , exclaims: “ Poor
France, forever the sport and victim of incapaci
ty —always tossed or bandied between intrigue
and insurrection, insurrection and intrigue.”
M. de Lamartine has realty consented to sit for
his portrait, to Mr. Powell, who is employed here
by our government in painting the discovery of
the sources of the Mississippi by de Soto. The
portrait is to be presented to the Historical Society
of New York. To judge from the reputation of
the artist, the performance will be satisfactory in
every respect.
Letters from Rome, published in the Paris Re
rue Archcologique, from an eminent French artist,
a regular contributor to that interesting journal,
express fears for the vast, inestimable collection
of the fine arts in the Eternal City —as, I trust,
it may vet be called. The museums and libra
ries of the Yatician and St. J. de Laterau and
others, are in clanger of being sold by the revo
lutionary Vandals, in order to replenish their ex
chequer. The rich collections belonging to the
religious congregations are in greater peril still.
All property, real or personal, held in mortmain,
has been appropriated bv the State, and put into
the custody of government functionaries. The
libraries, numismatic treasures, and museums, so
rich, precious, scientific, of the Roman college,
Minerva, St. Augustin, Chiesanova, have been
thus secured. Even the private collections, Bor
g lose, Donati, &c., are threatened. Such dis
mantling of Rome—this pouncing upon her
most valuable possessions and strongest attrac
tions—might seem to warrant an armed interven
tion—at least of the savants, literati, artists, vir
tuosi and dilettanti of all Chrisendom —a grand
bathetic expedition. The Pope, the cathedrals,
, e c ® re monies, the museums, are integral with
whole world cherished —
let m religion 3 antiquarian curiosity,
or^ eur anc }% artist-passion or zeal-travel-hope,
lv ci r n I lrna ?\ nat -i°n. No new creation, mere
the in • P olitica b could restore the charms,
all tenet the illusions, which pilgrims of
dantlv enjove(] C ° U i trieS sought and abun ’
nces, hovvever P; ?v ling t 0 P r . eSCnt a PP? ar ‘
the snniLf- r ’^ lus IX, will be reinstated before
govern i?? SCan bc accomplished. The French
rescue, with’ 1* J ° U “, 1 . 11 see > is hastening to the
men. tun ex P of thirteen thousand
trian auc 16 * e P e under French and Aus
enomrh J )ice L s ’ guarantee institutions quite liberal
A g ~ or . the dominions of the Holy See.
M. Gu ,eraa n num^er of the old constituents of
the Le lZ °i • tel ‘ V P ro P°sed his candidateship for
Kifterl gls i Uve Asse mbly. M. Guizot, however
Wist ei j UC i Ue ’ ca P a hle as an orator and diplo-
Cot W St ’ not P ro Per forfeited, the
rents ma j or Ry of his former adhe
&isol!. orshi PP e . rs > in his political judgment.
lo us to the bourgeoisie as well as to the
masses. If he take a the Assembly, such
a man cannot be inactive nor secondary. As he
contributed to the overthrow of the Orleans mon
archy, so would he be to the final defeat of the
monarchical cause. His chief colleague in the
ex-cabinet, .Dutchatel, Minister of the Interior,
knowing himself to be haled and distrusted, has
sagaciously declined an offer of support for the
Assembly. Able new men have appeared in the
Assembly, but there seems little or no disposition
to turn them to account. The principal dynastic
politicians of the seventeen years are in the fore
grouud ; their antecedents , or preceding lives, sub
ject them to constant and overwhelming retorts.
Odillon Barrot, the present chief of the Council
of Ministers, cannot deliver a speech on any main
topic of domestic or foreign policy, without be
ing exposed to quotations from old hairangues,
which exhibit him in utter contradiction with him
self as the ci-devant head of an opposition party.
Ledru Rollin mercilessly and skilfully wields the
old rhetorican against the minister of the day.
A performer like Thiers, cannot be regarded as
effete or obsolete ; he has a fund of intellectual
authority, an efficiency of talents, spirit, knowl
edge, stamina of every kind, which may not be
dispensed with in French public affairs. Louis
Napoleon and his immediate and early connec
tions, with various reasons for repugnance to
Theirs, and to any kind of association with him,
have seen that terms must be kept—even alliance
or countenance sought..
A large number, perhaps a majority, of the
National Assembly, have no confidence in the
ministry, and little in the President, with refer
ence to the Republic and the constitution. The
very earnest and determined republicans believe
them to be bent on a monarchical change. Their
opinions, affections, habits, final interests, are on
the side of monarchy ; yet it is difficult to ascribe
to them any design. The future is too indistinct
and uncertain ; all moderate individuals and the
substantial classes are sensible of a common vital
danger and cause. The result and cast of the
approaching trial of universal suffrage must be
awaited for tenable ground.
The official Moniteur has given the compara
tive revenues of the first trimestres or quarters of
the present and two preceding years. On the
whole, the difference with 1547 is not considera
ble ; a good prospect of export and import and
of industrial resuscitation is opened by the figures.
Since the reduction of the salt tax, the consump
tion has nearly doubled ; this shows to what pri
vation the tax subjected the poor. Enormous
bugets are enormous, manifold evil. The postal
reform has induced a large amouut of correspon
dence ; but it does not raise the expectation of
fiscal indemnity. Tobacco yields a hundred
thousand francs more this year than in 1847 ; and
four hundred and nineteen thousand less than last
year. Is this owing to the revolutionary excite
ment —the temporary improvidence of the mil
lions in 1848, and of the disturbed orders, who
preferred indulgence and stimulus to the common
comforts and so called necessaries ?
Some of the Paris journals mention the pres
ence of Dr. Davis, of South Carolina, and his
brother, in Paris, and their project tendered to
the government, of improving and extending the
culture of tobacco in Algeria. They have passed
some years in Turkey in the same pursuit; but
their success was not great, by reason of obsta
cles and dispositions beyond their control. Hon
orable and enterprising Americans such as these,
engage my good will and sympathy; yet I am
so old fashioned as not to regret deeply the failure
of what might subtract from the profits of an
American staple, or affect an American monopoly.
The culture. :s already gainful in Algeria.
The official return of the Belgian railroads,
for last month—March —amounts to nearly a mil
lion of francs, collected on goods and passengers.
Belgian industry does admirably; good sense and
very liberal institutions keep the country quiet and
prosperous ; the government and nation under
stand and value each other. The capital, Brus
sels, thrives exceedingly ; a multitude of stran
gers, with money, have sought security there, and
the thousands of the old resident British have
received a large accession. The monarchs and
counsels of Holland and Belgium have, it seems,
a friendly intelligence ; the quondam heart-burn
ings and feuds yield to palpable common exigen
cies of political and social order and lucrative
trade. France has lost with Belgium, in every
respect. • . • .
There is a curious anomaly in the situation and
transactions of the Bank of France. In the last
weeklv report, the return of the amount of spe
cie, mother bank and branches, is upwards of three
hnndred and twenty-five million francs, of notes
to bearer, not a hundred millions moie. La.
Presse makes these comments: “ This week the
metallie fund has experienced a strong inroad ;
it has diminished in Paris and the departments
about seven millions. On the other hand, the
note circulation has decreased still further, from
447 millions, it has fallen to 422. The circum
stances are from the same cause. The Bank hus
bands its notes as a miser his gold. lor all pay
ments under eight thousand francs she obliges
the bearers of mandids (orders) to take specie.--
We have thus theodd spectacle of a Bank which
is exempted by law from paying in specie, an
which every day wrangles with its cie 0
take ecus, or hard cash, that they do not wish to
have. The notes which the caused
to be decreed a legal tender , in order to thrust them
on the creditor it now w ill not give. It now throw’s
at the head of the public the specie which a year
ago was asked of it on all sides; and the public
now complain of the obligation to receive coin !
This anomaly is proof that the suspension de
creed on the Ist March, 1848, should expire. The
Bank does not act from surprise ; it labors to com
ply with the decree of the Provisional Govern
ment, which, while the obligation of paying in
coin was removed, limited the issue of notes to
the sum of four hundred and fifty millions. Last
week the maximum was nearly reached. It was
necessary to recede. This state of things can
not last. The National Assembly must replace
them on their old and regular looting. The new
Republic of Venice has issued more than three
millions of francs paper money.
Anecdote of Old Dartmouth. —lri the class of
which Daniel Webster was a member, there was
an individual noted for his waggery. One day
the professor of logic, who, by the way, was not
the most nite and discriminating in his distinc
tions, was endeavoring to substantiate “that
a thing remains the same notwithstanding a sub
stitution in some of its parts.”
Our wag, who had been exercising the Yankee
art of whittling, at length held up his jack-knife
inquiring : “ Supposing I should lose the blade of
my knife, and should get another one made and
inserted in its place, would it be the same knife it
was before ?”
“ To be sure ! ” replied the professor.
“ Well, then,” the wag continued, “ suppose I
should then lose the handle and get another, would
that be the same knife still ? ”
“ Os course ! ” the professor again replied.
“ But if somebody should find the old blade
and the old handle, what knife would that be?”
We have never learned the professor’s reply.
Anniversary Oration.
The FIRST ANNIVERSARY of Father Matthew Di
vision, No. 34, Sons of Temperance, will be celebrated on
Saturday, May 26th, when an address will be delivered by
Dr. Osborne A. Cochrane, a member of the Order.
Ample provision has been made for the accommodation of
any number who may favor us with their presence, and the
members of the Order throughout the State are invited to bo
present.
THOMAS A. BURKE, ) Committee
R. L. MOSS, V of
S. A. CARLTON, ) Arrangements.
Athens, Ga., May 12th, 1849.
New York & Savannah Line Steamships
To leave WEDNESDAY, May 23d.
The new and splendid Steamship
TENNESSEE, tolling, master,
WILL leave Savannah as above. Passage to
New York $25. No berth secured until paid for. The
ship and owners will not be accountable for any article sent on
board, unless bills of lading are obtained for the same. Bills
of lading signed by the Clerk on board.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
PADELFORD & FAY.
The ships of this lino carry a clear white light at masthead,
green on starboard side and red larboard.
Z3T N o Freight received after 9 o’clock on the day of sailing.
No colored persons will be allowed to go on board for
any purpose. may 17
1!I. A. Cohen.
(Late of the firm of S. Solomons S; Cos.)
COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANT,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Agent for steam packets H. L. Cook and Ivanhoe.
may 10
SITUATION WANTED, by a middle aged
kj man, a moderate salary will be taken, and references given,
by application at this office. apr 26
~ CLOTH irv CL
PIERSON & HEIDT offer for sale, Clothing,
Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices. No. 10,
Whitaker-street. apr 26
Breakfast House—Central Kail Hoad.
THE public are respectfully informed that the
subscriber furnishes BREAKFAST at the Twenty Mile
Station, Central Rail Road, Iroin Savannah.
apr 26 * HUGH CASSIDY.
Summer Retreat on the Salts.
A T MONTG OMER Y,
TWELVE MILES FROM SAVANNAH.
Abonaud respectfully informs his friends
t and the public generally, that from the 21st inst., he will
be prepared to accommodate guests, to whom he promises
good attendance on accommodating terms, having good and’
intelligent servants. Persons may be accommodated for board
per week, mouth or day, at the following rates, viz:
Board and Lodging, per week,
Do. do. per day . 150
Horses well fed and attended to for 50 cents per day.
N. B. During the season there is an abundance of Fruit
on the place; and the table will also be provided with all kinds
of fish that the river will afford. a P r
Portraits and miniatures.
ITR. VOIGT, whe is for the present located at
VL the West end of the Academy, entrance opposite the
Presbyterian Church, respectfully requests those who propose
to avail themselves of his services, to engage their pictures
qoon as conveniently practicable, as his stay in Savannah is
limited. P r 19
Fashion for Springy 1849.
n
TVOBLE LION, (Gibbon’s Buildings,) Hatter,
Successor to Ives, Horsey & Co—The following varieties
may be found at the above named Hat Store : Fine Black and
Drab Beavers, White, Otter, and Pearl Brush, No. 1 and 2,
Moleskin, Drab and Black Brush. Also, Plantation Hatsl
Leghorns, Rutland and Palm Leaf, Men’s and Boys’ and
Children’s Coburg, and Infants’ China Pearl Hats, & c ., Ac,
For sale wholesale and retail at New York Prices,
mar 29
Lamp Oil.
JUST Received per ship Hartford, a lot of su
perior Sperm Oil, which is warranted pure. For sale
very cheap at store, 111 Bay street.
apl 12 GEO. H. BROCK.
Foreign Fruits.
R DE MARTIN, Corner Whitaker and Bay
.•Streets, has made arrangemets to be constantly supplied
with choice WEST INDIA FRUITS and VEGETABLES,
selected expressly for his trade, to which he invites the atten
tion of the public. Orders from the country respectfully so
licited and supplied upon the lowest terms. Also, constantly
on hand a complete assortment of select Groceries, Teas,
Wines, Segars, Syrups, English Sauces and Pickels, Pre
serves, Ac., which would bo to the interest of purchasers to
inspect previous to supplying their demands. ap 12
A 0 7
THE undersigned having re-opened, with an
entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and
FANCY ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Broughton
street, (formerly Walker’s Marble Yard,) is now ready to
furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SODA
WATER, made in his own peculiar way, sent to any part of
the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state
of perfection.
Prescriptions put up with care and despatch.
The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully,
respectfully solicits a share of their patronage.
apr 26 “ THOS. RYERSON.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, GLAZING, &C.
THE subscriber having taken the store No. 121, Brough
ton street, has re-commenced in the above business, and
will be happy to receive orders for work. He will also keep
or sale all kinds of mixed paints, window glass, putty, £oil,
turpentine, Ac.
March 22, ’49. 3m. JOHN OLIVER.
SPRIiIG GOODST
THE Subscriber has just received, by late arri
vals from New York and Philadelphia, a handsome assort
ment of every kind of BOOTS AND SHOES, for gentlemen,
ladies, youths, misses and children, all of which he offers for
sale on reasonable terms. SAM. A. WOOD,
March 21. 105 A 106 Bryau-st.
HOUSE I'tJlUlSHli’tt} STORE.
HOLLINS & BULKLEY, No. 108 Bryan-st.,
\J would respectfully invite the attention of purchasers to
their large and varied assortment of Crockery, Glass Waie,
and House Furnishing Goods, consisting in part of Flowing
Blue, Mnlberry, and W. G. Dinner setts; China and W. G.
Tea setts; Mugs Vases, Ornaments, Glass Lamps, Straw
berry Wines, Ashburton Goblets, Solar Chimneys and Shades,
Julep Tubes, and a general assortment of Glass Ware. Stone
Butter Pots, Pickle Jars, Churns, Jugs, Ac.
LAMPS AND TIN WARE.
Burning Fluid Lamps, Miniature Solar Lamps, Hall Lan
terns, Bronze Candlesticks, Nursery Lamps for Invalids, Tea
Waiters, a fine assortment, Slop Pails, Foot Tubs, Coffee Big
gins, Oyster Stew and Venison Dishes, Dish and Plate covers,
Cake Boxes, Ac.
FAMILY HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Ivory Table Cutlery with Knives only, Buck Horn and com
mon Cutlery, Razors and Pocket Knives, Coffee Mills, Sauce
and Stew Pans, Soup Digesters, Ovens, Pots, Skillets, Spiders,
Gridirons, Wafer and Waffle Irons, Furnaces. Brass Shovel
and Tongs,'Andirons, Stair Rods, Whips, Quilling Scissors,
Paste Jaggers, Ice Breakers, Cork Screws, Mouse Traps, Ac.
WILLOW AND WOOD WARE.
Buckets, Tubs, Wash Boards, Sieves, Piggins, Churns, Beef
Steak Pounders, Lemon Squeezers, Wood Spoons, Butter
Prints, Cake Beaters, Butter Pats, Rolling Pins, Towel Roll
ers, Faucets, Bird Cages, also Market Baskets, Waggons,
Ilobly Horses, Travelling and Work Baskets, Dusting and
Scrub Brushes, Sweeping Brooms, and other brushes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Straw Satchels, Knife Baskets, Paper Lamp Shades and
Frames, Thermometers, Spool stands, Swifts for windingsilk, Ico
Cream Churns, Knife Cleaners, Nut Picks and Crackers t
Gravy Strainers, Toy Hoes, and rakes, Apple Corers and
Peelers, Buckwheat Cake Griddles, of Soap Stone, Table
Mats, also Door Mats of different qualities, together with a
great variety of goods not enumerated. Also Camphine and
Burning Fluid of the best quality.
Housekeepers, Planters, and others, are invited to call as
their prices are as low aselsewhere.
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
or all kiud, executed at thin Office, with ncatneu and
despatch*
HAVING lately put our Office in complete order
and made large additions to it, we have now the most ex
tensive Job Printing Office in the City and are prepared to
execute all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING,
with neatness and despatch, and on the most accomodating
terms. Office 102 Bryan-street, entrance on Bay Lane.
Savannah, March 22d, 1849. EDWARD J. PLTRSE.
A FRIEND OF THE FAM ILL
A WEEKLY SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY. BY
EDWARD J. PURSE.
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at the rate of 50 cents for a square of nine lines or less, tor
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Business cards insetted for a year at Five Dollars.
rF* A liberal discount will be made Masters who
will do us the favor to act as Agents.
All communications to be addressed (post-paid) to
E. J. PURSE, Savannah, Ga.