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u 9 a stout, hearty plate of soup, William !’ said 8 ’ -rimson-faced man, with nn ahdominable periphery like j.giohc. As he gave this order for his second plate of * lie shoved into the waiter’s hand, open to receive the J * o f gentleman who had as yet secured nothing, his own l' 1 'I all( j bftde him make haste. Ignorant of ‘dinner etiquett,’ Fanny Kemble styles it, a dozen of those around us had at e commenced on the solids; which of course made the ° nC t work like beavers to finish their soup ; and some of these | ,1,0 end of the table, who, having but just received the >,l liquid, were still sipping after their luckier Inends ,i jo favored head of the table had concluded, were nonished of the necessity of making haste, by the removal U s their plates by the impatient waiters. Waiters are sys -0 lic People should be more simultaneous in eating soup, i pul te man swallows his, scalding hot, that he may keep ‘ with his more fortunate neighbor. ‘Here! here ! you rascal, bring back my soup! bawled a man with a thin vinegar aspect* His plate had suffered °H efion. The Waiter feigned not to hear. The wrinkles on X ‘pungent face visibly sharpened. That look would have •■d on entire dairy. In a voice thin and as sharp as his futures he exclaimedt ‘Here! here! you unmannerly Irish ,cape-goat! (ah! you hear at last, do you?) bring back my mi ! u * the ruiea ’ sir_r; 1 can,t d ° sir * r! But here's a beautiful arrangement!’ replied the Irishman, passing a bill ot fare. . •■,,/> . , 4 ])__,) vou and your rules, and your bill of fare, in a mess! I want my soup, yuu Irish blackguaid! • Can’t do it, Sir-r; the rules must be obsarved. Can t give ve anv more soup, Sir-r; the mates is on Sir-r; them must be - ni ' t . them’s*the rule Sir-r; and the waiter ran to answer to n call further up the table. ...... . Thc cJiscomfitted man swore as terribly as it he had formed one of the celebrated army in Flanders. ‘Pretty hotel, 1V Excellent regulations! Polite servants! Must eat .. ~Vt, must I ? I’ll see ’em hanged first! Here, you chow (jer-head, bring back my • Green peas,gen’lmeu —green peas! 1 squeaked a bean-pole waiter, with a ness like a sausage, and little twinkling eyes. \ dozen hands grabbed convulsively at the dish. Green peas were a great rarity; a fact sufficiently evinced by the compla int air of the servant, as he announced them. A dish of ~r av y and a bottle of catsup were upset in the scuffle, much l 0 the annoyance of the sour man, in whose lap a greater p al tof the first sought a depot. ‘ Vou have got your soup, 1 iind, ShT said-a wag, opposite, at which every body laughed, and one individual, at an untimely moment, when his mouth was full of Scotch ale, whereby a great gurgling and splutter in” ensued, ending by a general spirt upon the 4 fixms ’ of all who were near linn ; a most impart nl division, for all received a portion. As soon as he could muke himself heard above the discord, the person to whom the w ag’s remark had been addressed, answered, with much asperity, ‘That’s Irish wit, Is’pose; I hate Irish!’ . iVus. waiter!’ ‘waiter, peas!’ ‘Pens! pens! pens!’ ex claimed a bundl ed voices in a breath. Reasonable souls!— They look to be all helped at once! ‘Puss those peas?’ raid a score of impatient voices to the gentleman with the crimson face, who in the scuflie had suc ceeded in securing the dish to himself. ‘Hu, ha! he spluttered, complacently, with his mouth half full of Gaboon, ‘ 1 huv’nt eat any of these ’ere for a long while P 4 They lock very fine!’ said the next but one adjoining, in a maimer that implied a strong desire to ascertain whether they d:d not taste respectably. Very, vary” replied the fat man, ns he scooped nine {eutlis of all there were in the dish on his own plate. Sun dry eyes glanced pitchforks at him. They were evidently Astonished. They should not have been. The gentleman came from a western pork growing district. Ho fattened his own swine. 1 I’m special fond of peas! ’ said he, half in en thusiasm at bis own appetite, and half as a short of an apology*. 4 ,Split me, if I shouldn’t think so! ” exclaimed the wag. •Well, it's nothing strange !’ snapped out Vinegar, taking the part of the obese, and chuckling at the discomfiture ot the others. - 4 Some people will ent, until, being unable to help them- Kilves, we shall bo compelled to help them out of their seat! ’ exclaimed one of the disappointed, giving the fat man a look that whs not to bo misconstrued. I looked about me for some peas but saw none. As I was scrutinizing, iny eyes encountered the rueful and bewildered free of a modest young man, with an empty plate. In all probabil.ty, he had never dined before in a hotel; at least the diffident maimer with which he received the inattention paid to his modest requests, seemed to say as much. A con stunt fear, too, lest he should not behave quite, like the rast, ;ip jieared tohaunt him; and the longer lie was neglected, the more he appeared embarrassed. Poor fellow! He had not yet received a mouthful to eat. What a bore is modesty l brass is emphatically, au accomplishment. The young man looked very ridiculously for the jack of it; and 1 pitied him. ‘Waiter!” said I, winking pecuiary to an Adonis with squint eyes, and a mouth like a codiish. Ho sprang to my fide. The Wink liad touched his feelings. 1 knew it would. A waiter's heart is open to a wink, when words are useless. ‘Get me some peas, and fresh salmon, on a clean plate.’ Ihj fellow's eyes concentrated into their deepest squint, as he looked inquiringly, first iuto my face, and then at the space between my thumb and fore-huger. Apparently not seeing what he had expected, his sprigbly, lieiptuJ manner died away very suddenly, and his answer, as he stared me chanically up tlie table was unqualifiedly brief ‘Guess there ain't any here ; don't see any.* I pointed to my thumb and fore-finger. A quarter dollar filled the space so lately vacant. ‘ yon see any now / ’ i’he mouth opened wide, and assumed an amiable grin, and or 1 eyes an extra squint, and for half a ipmute glanced scru tiaiziiigly around the la )le. 1 1 tlnnk I does! ’ said he. His sight was completely re stored. ‘1 thought you would,’said 1. dropping the coin into his Jil, y P'dm. What wonders the ‘root of all evil’ can uc ‘cniplisk. It makes the best vegetable pills in the world, and uiiiy be used with equally astonishing success iu nil climates, lie le, you squint eyed rascal! ’ roared out Vinegar, who the last ten miuutes had been unceasingly cursing every , v l '^ in hiring, *1 saw you take tnut bribe! Bring l a( - ° r I’ll expose you. Pretty joke! Have to pay li i 11.I l . luv bitant charge for dinner, and then pay, beside, a Huthorn-jawed waiters for helping you to h! n ; nn , | SU T UUt treatment, and those who will, are Til nr hi; .a V VU , n 1 ® taud lt - Hi make them change fheir tone. I„i; ; h tlle lan( U°rd. Hi blow his hotel to the devil. I’ll, vonr rJ I “ ave ,r, y 5 0U P ! Here you laughing Hyena, with T 1 d l r °* d r ,s ’ brin S my soup ! ’ u-iik m * 11 tested servant brought me the pens and salmon, ith great alacrity and looked as if he would like to have the r er a B ,m repeated ’ but 1 had no farther use for him, and Hn j 1 , C 0 f u P on his enthusiasm. He was a philosepher | t W *uT . leHd stude °t of human nature. He'undei stood cold look, as readily as he had done the wink, and, to mt!V Weßtern P llrase > quickly ‘ absquatulated.’ Helping . elf to a portion of the viands which 1 had been so fortu obtain, I passed the remainder to my modest neigh lle appeared very grateful, bnt was two much embar- to thank me. Having helped himself to salmon, bo proceeding leisurely, (lest he should seem indecorous,) . • n,IP s °me poas, when the dish was unceremoniously ; v pd. and carried to the obese, who had bribed the waiter mod 1 s j? ! . din 2 1° execute the manoeuvre. . Whereupon my di , friend looked very blank, and Vinegar took occaston to “ arcaßti cally upon the expense of feeding pigs in the ’ ln “’lnch the fat man, unsophisticated, and seeing no allusion, coincided with fervor. He had swine to sell, and crying up the expense of fattening them, would tend to in crease their value in the market. And here ensued a confab between the wag and the obese, in which the latter was made the unwitting butt of a thousand and one small shafts, touch ing his professional and personal affinities. ‘ Clear the tables P sang out the authoritative voice of one decked in a short white apron, who brundised, in a masterly manner, a huge carving knife and fork. This was no les9 “a personage than the head waiter or ‘butler,’ as lie directed his fellow-servants to style him. He knew the responsibility of his situation, and filled it with great dignity. His own talents had raised him, step by step, from the comparatively low office of a knife-scourer and cook’s errand boy, to the high stand which, knife in hand, he now occupied. His histoiy is an ex cellent illustration of the old maxim, that ‘talent, like water, will find its level.’ I could dwell upon the hopes and aspira rations of the lowly knife-scourer: his surcharged bosom over flowing in the lonely watches of the night, as he plied his rag and‘rotten stone ; ; his longings for the birth of porter; the attainment of his wish; his enthusiasm upon his first debut with Day-atid-Martin ; his still craving ambition ; in short his whole rise and progress, and final attainment to that pinnacle of usefulness, the situatien of head-waiter. My modest neighbor, supposing that the last-named order was intended as nn insinuation that the guests had ate enough rose and walked elf. Opon reaching the door, and turning round, he seemed to perceive his mistake, and that the order was but for the clearance of the meats, to make room for the pastry*; but, ashamed to expose his ignorance of ‘etiquette,’ by returning to the table, he left the room, hoping, I doubt not from the bottom of liis soul, that those he had left behind him would ascribe his withdrawal to surfeit rather than igno rance. He plobably adjourned to a neighboring eating house, to eppease his tantalized appetite. ‘ What pudding is this, waiter?’ said a gentleman opposite. ‘lt's a pud-ding, Sir-r,’ was the satisfactory reply. ‘We know it is a pudding, but what kind of a pudding is it? Find out what pudding it is.’ ‘That’s aisily done !’ said he, os with the*utmost sang froid he perforated the crust of the doubtful dish with lus dirty thumb. ‘Sure gintlemon, it’s a rice ! ‘ You ignorant apel—don’t you know better than that? — Aou ought to be linched !’ . ‘He would be, if he was in our parts 1’ said the tat gentle man, swallowing a glass of champuigne, which he had taken uninvited, from my bottle. ‘Look here, cabbage-head !* said vinegar, tweaking the of fender’s ear; ‘bring me my soup!’ I left the table, it was my last hotel dinner. m CITY ITEMS* The German band will give a concert at the Armory Hall, This Evening, commencing at half after 8 o’clock. The steamboat General Clinch and the steam ship Cherokee unfortunately came into collision on Saturday evening last, a little below the wrecks. The Clinch had hei mast taken out by the bow sprit of the Cherokee and one of her guards cut in nearly to the hull, while the cut-water ol the Cherokee was forced off by the shock. We are pleased to learn that thc damage was notserieus. [Savanna h Rcpublica n . On Saturday last, between the hours of twelve and one o’clock, we were visited by a dry squall of considerable se verity. For some time slates, shingles, and other objects less formidable, might be seen living through the air. Several trees were up-rooted. During the squall the Br. ship Jane London, lying at the wharf on Hutchinson’s Island, parted her fasts and drifted across the river against the ship James & Albert, breaking her bowsprit and doing other injury, and then swung around against the steamer J. Stone, doing her considarable damage. The Br. barque Bona Dea and brig Henry Marshall both broke from their moorings, but were brought up by the anchors without damage.- — Ibid. Melancholly. —On Saturday afternoon, at about G P. M., James Poince was accidentally killed on board the steamer Chatham, by a rifle discharged by another person, who was examining the weapon without being aware that it was loaded. — Ibid . Murder. —A whiteinan named Thomas Morri son, a. watchman in Charleston, was murdered on Saturday night, by two negro men, and his body, with a weight attached to it thrown into the bay. The Death of Gen. Gaines. —It is with much regret that we announce the death of Gen. Gaines, on Wednesday last, in New Orleans, of Cholera. Ho goes down to the grave at a ripe old a"e, having served his country long and faith fully, yet we wish he could have fallen in some other way than by the loathsome disease which is now stealing over the land. This makes the third officer of distinction who has died since the conclusion of the war with Mexico, and the second who has been smitten down by cholera. Kear ney, Worth and Gaines, three brave spirits, have all gone down. We do not know the age of Gen. Games, but suppose he was the oldest officer in the Army. He was certainly older than the Con stitution of his country, or even than this Repub lic of twenty-two millions, which he had stood bv in infancy and was ready to defend in its manhood. Peace to his ashes. An Incendiary Convicted. —We learn from the Charleston, papers, that Sutcliffe, who has been undergoing a trial for several days under the charge of arson, has been convicted. We have not yet heard of the sentence, but trust it will be such as to deter all such characters from the perpetration of a similar crime. Death of IVliss Edgeworth. The literary world and a host of juvenile readers will learn with sorrow, that the celebrated Maria Edge worth, the once popular novelist is dead. She died after a few hours illness, Monday, May, SI, at Edgeworthtown, in the County of Longford, Ireland. She in her 83d year. PROGRESS OF THE CHOLERA. New York, June 6, 12 o’clock M. —New cases reported since yesterday, 39, deaths 11. June 6. new cases and 10 deaths. June 7.—26 new cases and 12 deaths. June S. —40 new cases and 10 deaths. Brooklyn., June 5.—4 new cases and 2 deaths. June G.—Several new cases and 2 deaths. June 7. —1 new case, no deaths. New Brunswick, Lewis Bergen, a German died with it yesterday, June 4. Newark, N. J. — The Advertiser of the 4th inst. says: “Only 4 cases have been brought to our knowledge since Saturday, 2 were fatal.” Richmond, Va.—But one case reported on tho 4th inst. which proved fatal. Nashville, Tenn.—The Union of the 2Gth ult. says: “Since 4 o’clock yesterday there has been 2 deaths.” Buffalo, June I.—The board reports a case of Cholera from Cincinnati, taken from a steamboat this day. St. Louis, June 5.—75 deaths from Cholera duringlbe week ending on the 4th inst. Boston, June s.—Another case lias occurred in our city, which has proved fatal. *~STABBEO The Forsyth Bee learns by letter, that Mr. Weston, the Agent of the SableMelodists, was stabbed a few days since by a boy in Marietta, who was interrupting the performance by making a noise outside, which lie attempted to suppress. It was thought that Mr. Weston would not sur vive, the dirk having entered his stomach. It seems that even boys carry dirks in Marietta. It is bad enough for men to use such weapons; but when we see a boy with one, the best advice we can give him, is to go to work with it and build a gallows ; for in nine cases out of ten it will have to be done by someone, if not by him. Father Mathew. —His life was insured sev eral years since for several thousand pounds, as security for the expenses of his temperance movement. He received notice from the com pany, that in going to America he would have to pay a fine of $1,450 for the increased risk. Mr. W. Rathbone, of Liverpool, sent the good friar the sum of $2,400, saying that the friends ol’tem perance should be responsible for the debts which its apostle had contracted. The scene at Cork upon Father Mathew’s de parting for America, on Saturday, was most exci ting. On the previous day the vicinity of liis house was thronged by thousands. On Saturday morning crowds of people assembled. There was great wailing and lamentation among the lower classes at-the father’s leaving them. He sailed for New Y'ork on the 21st ult., in the packet ship Ashburton. “Atlanta Intelligencer.’ —Col. Hanleiter has sold his interest in the Atlanta Miscellany to a company of gentlemen, and.the title of the paper has been changed as above. Dr. Baker, formerly Editor of the Christian Index, will have the Edi torial charge of the new paper. Honor to the American Flag.— The Ameri can frigrte Southampton, Capt. Lawrence, saluted the town of Portsmouth, England, on the 15th of May, hoisting the British ensign at the fore. The compliment was acknowledged by hoisting the American flag on all the public places, and mosi of the ships and vessels in the port, and the Mayor returned the salute from the platform hauling down the British union, and, during the salute, hoisting the American flag on the ancient Debtor’s Castle, immediately in the rear of the platform. THE WAY TO^KbEP~Up Tn INTEREST IN LODGE MEETINGS. The experiment has been tried in several Lodges in this vicinitjq with complete sucess, to keep an interest in the weekly meetings, when the usual business of the order was unimportant, and readily disposed of. It is this : to introduce sui table subjects for discussion, something after the manner of Lyceum und Debating Societies. In these discussions, almost every member will have something to say, and thus confidence will be inspired, native talent elicted, and intellectual and moral worth be secured. We believe that the association of Odd-Fellowship may and will be instrumental in promoting an elevation ol character superior to any other institution extant. The order is still in its infancy, and has not yet developed one half of its resourses in aid of hu manitarian principles or enlightened progress. One of the means to attain this great object, and certainly one of the most feasible to extend the limits of the Order, is an introduction to all the Lodges of social discussions after the manner allu ded to. We think it would be well, after having disposed of all necessary business, to dofl the peculiar characteristics of Odd-Fellowship, and extend general invitations to tHe neighborhood- ol the Lodges to attend and listen to the debates therein conducted. This course would have a tendency to disipate many ot the foolish preju dices which exist against Odd-Fellowship, and to attract the respectful regards of many worthy young men, who might thereby be induced to be come members and ornaments to our glorious in stitution. The subject to which we have thus briefly alluded, is one of importance; and we trust it will be duly considered by the brothers, land our suggestions be received, as they’ ate j honestly iutended, “ for the good of the order.” NEW MOTIVE POWER. The London Mining Journal contains a com* munication from Adolph Count De Wersdinsfci, in which lie describes anew motive power sot the propulsion of carriages on rail, and common roads, without engines, steam, air, magnetism or auirnal power. The subject of the patent has the advantage of possessing greater expansive power than steam, and being at the same time more controlable and requiring less machinery* It is of the nature of gun cotton, and is used by clipping any kind of vegetable fibre for eleven oV fifteen minutes into nitric acid, strengthened by an admixture of an equal quantity of sulphuric acid, then well washed with pure water, and dried about two hours. By this process the vegeatablo fibres become highly explosive. The gasses en volved consits chiefly of carbonic acid and car bonic oxide, both permanently elastic, so that passing through cold air or water, they do not collapse, but will follow up the piston to the ut most limit of its work. In using this material neither fire nor water is required, and it creates neither smoke nor any offensive effluvia, and with the exception of a slight moisture or vapor, it leaves no residium behind. Among these gass es there is none that will corrode melals. ELECTRICITY. A Huge Electricecal Machine . —At the United States Rope Walk, Charlestown, Mass., which by the way is said to be the largest and best es tablishment of the kind in the United Stales, there is in operation a huge electrical machine, which by the motion of the other machinery, is constantly throwing off’ its sparks and shocks.— The principal part of this great electrical ma chine, consists of an immense leather driving band, which conveys power from the engine to different parts of the building. The frictiou of this long hell over the pullies produces eleeetricitv with great rapidity, and it may at all times bo collected from the band by any of the ordinary means. The fingers being presented to the belt acouiinuous stream of sparks passes to the body with the usual prickling sensations, the ends of the fingers glowing as if with fire. If an indi vidual is isolated by standing upon glass and pre sents a key or any other metalic substance to the belt, he instantly becomes charged with electrici ty, communicating and receiving shocks by touch with another by-stander. Any number cf Ley den jars can quickly be charged by means of this bolt and a shock produced which would kill an ox. As the belt runs in the upper story or garret of the building, it is seldom noticed by vis itors, although it is one of the greatest curiosities. Good Humor. —Good humor is the clear, blue sky of the soul, on which every star of talent will shine more clearly, and the sun of genius’ en counter no vapors in his passage. It is the most exquisite beauty of a fine face—a redeeming grace in a homely one. It is like the green in the landscape —harmonizing with every color, mel lowing the glories of the bright, and softening the hue of the dark ; or, like a liute in a full concert of instruments, a sound not at first discovered by the ear, yet filling up the breaks in the concord with its soft melodv. Considering the vastness of the accumulations of literature and the impossibility of mastering them, it is not wonderful that the idea should sonetimes have suggested itself that it might be possible in a series of brief publications to distil as it where the quintessence of books, and con dense folios into pamphlets. ‘Were all books thus reduced,’ says Addison, ‘ many a bulky au thor would make his appearanee in a penny pa per. There would scarce be such a thing in na ture as a folio; the works of an. age would bo contained on a few shelves; not to mention mil lions of volumes that would be utterly annihila ted.’ One such attempt we remember being made with considerable pretensions; but it was as futile as every such attempt must be. With out going the length of Montaigne, who says that ‘every abridgment of a book is a foolish abridg ment/ it may be truly said, not only that the hu man mind cannot profitably digest intellectual food in such a condensed shape; but that every work really worth reading bears upon it the im press of the mind that gave it birth, and ceases o attract and to impress when reduced to a sylla bus; its faults and its excellences alike vanish in the process. It is of much more importance, however, if authors who cannot be thus mutilated desire to live that they should study brevity. Our voluminous forefathers of the seventeenth cen tury seem never to have attempted condensation ; but to have committed all they thought to writing, and for the most part in all the redundance of the forms first suggested. They acted as though we, their posterity, should have nothing to do hut to sit down and read what they had written. They were much mistaken ; and the consequence is that their folios for the most part remain un read altogether. There is a great difference between the power of mving good advice and the ability to act upon it. ° Theoretical wisdom is, perhaps, rarely as sociated with practical wisdom; and we otten find that men of no talent whatever contrive to passthrough life with credit and propriety, under the guidance of a kind of instinct. These are the persons who seem to stumble by mere good lack upon the philosopher's stone.