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Bui towardsthe lilHe i,r I ,iliei ‘' l tf.’ tv girl, who usee! to study l>v ?,ca J j ,tmid.iight,WillisCawthornecouK i not r?d of a cerinia rq.ah.on ol Which sruntsa however, i„ recoiling hack fmjn the fa r w*- ion of the previous day, to the de ceitful school girl who had been de scribed .0 him US practising upon every one around her, by a 1 i ‘ctuipm <4 coaxing and complete sv-i* 111 f ffutcrv which seldom failed lo win for her the end desired. .. 1 sa |d I would call,” repeated Willis to himself, “and l should like to see how she looks nt home ; there can be no harm in calling to know how she is, after her fright. Mv sister’s school acquaintance with j,or, whold afford me some plea for that. Perhaps Lillie would like to call, too. But no; that woi Id nev er do. It is just possible Lillie may be prejudiced —may she not even he mistaken, altogether? I Vvi-b ihat were possible. I wish I cqulo believe those lips had never smiled an artful smile. And yet, what a brow she has —ns clear, and pure, and white, as a snow-drift. 1 saw it distinctly, too, when the wind blew her tresses back. Let me see what do the phrenologists sav? Ah ! the organ which indicates con cealment lies not there. I could make no observation upon that. jshe mav be all vanity, self-love, and trickery, for anything l know, vet.” As Willis Cawthorne communed in this manner with himself it is rather remarkable that his step, without any deviation, were pursu ing, at considerable speed, the way to the residence of Mrs. More; and even while pronouncing upon Ella’s character, as being a com pound of those qualities, he most detested, his hand was upon the knocker of her mother's door; and his foot was actually passing over the threshold, before he had effectu ally checked hts hard thoughts to wards the uneonsc.ous ‘offended against his tasles and principles. °Before ushering the voung gen tlemen into Mrs. More’s drawing room, however, we must spend a few words upon bis personal ap pearance. We have already des cribed him as being slight in figure, with fair hair and complexion—in nil respects the opposite of his sis ter. Indeed, it seemed as if nature had played one of her fantastic tricks with both—giving to the female from the dark and powerful charac teristics of the stronger sex, and to the brother a delicacy of feature, and general outline of figure, which indicated, far less strength of pur pose and decision o( character, titan he really possessed. Add to these characteristics, an unconquerable tendency to blush up to the very brow, and all over the cheeks and temples, and we have the re presentation of one who hated the very idea of his own appearance, and, therefore, very wisely forgot that he bad a face or a person at all, whenever it was possible to do so. Notwithstanding these feminine peculiarities, however, Willis Caw thorne was both gentlemanly and agreeable looking ; and, if his per son was insignificant, he possessed a manliness of soul beyond the com mon order of his fellow beings. He was very sensible, 100, and a scholar, and had acquired a fund of general information, which would have been a recommendation in any cir cle of society. His reading was ex tensive, and so varied as to supply, in some degree, the want of ac qaintance with the world, as that acqurontance is usually formed Here, it is true, he would have been pronounced defective, by many who pique themselves upon a know ledge’. of the world, acquired only in certain circles; for Willis Caw thorne was religious, not only by habit and education, but by the free choice of n noble and indepen dent mind. His favourite studies, bis choicest occupatians, liis dearest hopes, were strictly religious ; and so far from being ashamed of this, it was his highest ambition that they should be so. He had been educated by his father for the church, and it was with this prospect before him, that be was now pursuinghisstudies; only that a slight interruption in his pursuits had lately been occasioned by certain symptoms of indisposi tion supposed to have been induced by too close application. It was, consequently, under medical ad vice, that he now indulged in the re laxation of a comparatively idle and unoccupied life ; though no one who watched his movements through the day, would have consi dered him unoccupied, nor would they have been more likely to ima ginehiman invalid. It was a great flaw in Willis Cawthorne’s other wise rightly constituted character, that he would not be at the trouble of taking care of himself, A little recklessness on his part, however, afforded his sister so many oppor tunities of exhibiting both her kind ness and her anger, that upon the whole, she was better pleased, than if he had spared her the exetcise of these feelings, by bestowing more attention on himself. On being ushered into the pres ence of Mrs. More, Willis Caw thorne found that lady very agrea bly occupied in an earnest conver sation with Miss Mason and her attendant young lady; the latter personage, however, seemed to fill n hind of neutral place, half-wav lietweeti her patroness and Ella, who rose on the entrance of the gentleman, smiling, and looking not a little pleased to renew her agreeable acquaintance of the pre vious day. Miss Mason glanced towards the stranger, set him down for nobody, drew her young companion closer to her side, and resumed the thread of her very interesting conversa tion with the lady of the house.— This arrangement, by no means disagreeable to Ella and her visitor, left them at liberty to pursue a sep arate train of conversation uninter rupted except bv a few common place observations from Mrs. Mote, which she was in the habit of throwing out in every direction to wards her guests, who might other wise, she imagined, feel themselves not sufficiently brought under her notice. Whatever Willis Cawthorne might have thought of the beauty of the laughing girl who stood be litre him on the hill side, reclaim ing her wild tresses from the winds, he found her not less beautiful un der the calm and serious expression which Iter features wore on this oc casion. Her dress of deep mourn ing formed a striking contrast to a complexion rich and glowing like hers, but it could not subdue nor obscure die brilliant color of her cheek, which harmonised so well with the sunny tints of her flowing and luxuriant hair. “She is no deceiver,” said Willis to himself, as be looked into net clear soft eves. “ l would venture my life upon her sincerity.” And so he might have done at that moment with perfect safety.— Ella was under no temptation to act upon double motives then ; calm, thoughtful, and deeply effec ted by the melancholy events of the previous day—perhaps still more affected by the train of feel ings they had awakened in her own mind, she was just in the mood to turn with peculiar satisfaction from the ordinary gossip of her mother's visitors, to something more like conversation than she ever heard from her. Recurring, as was very natural, to the accident of the boat, Ella and her visitor, as was equally natural, rose and went towards the window to look upon the scene of the catastrophe. It was quite natu ral, too, that they shou.d remain there opposite each other, one on either side of the bow-window which commanded a view of the whole bay. There were many things to talk of, and to tell, in con nection w ith the loss of the widow’s son, and Willis Cawthorne uncon sciously fell into a minute and cir cumstantial account or his inter view with the distracted mother on the cliffi of nis leading her back to her solitary cottage, and of many expressions and touches of feeling which he had subsequently recalled, and which he himself felt so deeply as to find peculiar pleasure in de scribing to one who could sympa thise while she listened. That Ella could sympathise there was no doubt, for more than once her large eyes filled with tears, which, however, she not only en deavored to restrain, but actually turned away to hide. “ She is no deceiver,” said Willis again, with more certainty than he fore. “ She is true —real—clear, as a star at midnight.” And sud denly he forgot his story in the pic ture he was gazing upon. Ella saw this—fell it. Site be came a little, a very little, less natu ral than before, while her whole manner assumed a slight tendency to affection. The story was now entirely for gotten, and a pause ensued which it was necessary to break in one way or another. “ I was not aware,” said Willis, “in mv chase after a bonnet yesterday, that 1 was pursu ing an acquaintance not entirely new to me.” “ How so?” asked Ella. “ I was not aware,” he continued, “ that the Miss More whose lost property I had yesterday the honor of restoring, was my sister's com panion at school.” “Is that possible !” said Ella.— “ I beg your pardon, but your name escaped me. It is ?” “Cawthorne,” said Willis, and a deep burning crimson immediate ly spread itself over the face of his companion, as she exclaimed, “ are you then the brother of Lillie Caw thorne ?” “ I am,” he replied, “and better acquainted with Miss More than she imagined yesterday.” Ella shook her head. “If your knowledge of me comes from that quarter,” she said—and then she paused again. “ My sister is best, understood by those who have lived with her from childhood,” observed Willis. “ For myself, I have learned to halve her measurements of people and things and generally find, by stopping half-way in her descriptions, that I am very near the truth.” “ Then you believe me,” said Ella, “to be hall-wicked, half-de ceitful, half-mean. Is that what you wish me to suppose ?” Ella looked very earnest and sin cere when she said this; but es pecially when site added—“lndeed —indeed lam not so bad as that. I was completely persecuted at school. 1 never had fair play. I was younger and less experienced than your sister. I had never been at school before. 1 had no one to lake my part ; and thev absolutely compelled rne to act as I did.” “My sister,” said Willis, “is rather severe, sometimes ; but she has an excellent heart.” “ She was always severe to me,’’ said Ella, “and her heart I never could reach. I would sometimes have given the world to throw my arms around her neck, and entreat her to pity me, if she could not love me.” The many painful recollections which this conversation called back to her mind, were too much for Ella. The always-distressing task of self-vindication overcame her. Her tears, she felt, were coming thick and fast. She turned away, as if looking towards the sea, and Willis could only see that exquisite contour of her head and neck, which left her small delicate ear and a portion of her cheek just visible amongst her {lowing hair. Willis thought her more beautiful than, even in imagination, he had ever conceived of anything before.— Wretch ! ” said he to himself, “why did I come here to make her weep ?” But Ella possessed a presence of mind and a power of self-mastery which he would not have given her credit for ; and, wiping away her tears, she soon turned round to wards the company, and com menced a conversation a: the same time less personal, and less painful to her own feelings. Ella’s remarks were now direc ted to the place of her present residence, to the company at C thing she could think of, that was commonplace and familiar to both. But it would not do; her thoughts flew back again every moment lo those miserable school days, and they went forward also to the false and injurious impression which she feared that Miss Cawthorne’s pre judices would make upon every mind against her. There was something too in the genuine kind ness of manner, and the clear open countenance of the young man be fore her, which made her peculiar ly anxious to vindicate her conduct from his censure, and to establish herself in his good opinion ; and therefore, endeavouring to com mand herself better than before, she again ventured upon the painful subject, by saying, with one of her sweetest smiles, “ Was there any thing so very shocking then, after all, in my unfortunate habits of studying my lessons by lamplight, at night?” Willis Cawthorne smiled too, while he replied, “ Not certainly in that, or we should have to condemn many of the wisest, and some of the best, of our fellow-beings ; but .” and he paused, for he did not like to speak the unpleasant truth, “But what?” said Ella, with great earnestness. “ But,” he added, “ under the plea of doing something else— in connexion with a bribe too ” “Alt!” said Ella, interrupting him, “you have indeed heard hard things of tne; and if these are all you have heard, I wonder, you should come here to-day.” “ They are all 1 have said Willis Cavvih orne; “but they are net all I have though.” “What have you thought, then? ’ asked Ella. “ 1 have thought,” replied her companion, “that perhaps Miss More did not yet quite know herself But lam really too impertinent; I will not say more.” “ No, no, you are notsaid Ella. “ Do, pray, go on.” “ Well, then,” resumed the gen tleman, “ I have thought that per haps Miss More may have never had a friend to point them out. 1 have thought too, in my wisdom— for I seem most unaccountably to be assuming the character of a sage— that she would be both happier and more noble-—nay, if possible, she would be more lovely, if she would act with more single-mindedness, and be more true to her own ex cellent heart.” Ella thanked her companion, blushed deeply, looked very serious tor a moment, and the different visi tors then took their leave. [Continued next week. Mr. Perot, of St. Etienne, has ar ranged an electrical ciock, which, at small expense, and by means of communicating wires, will indicate the same movement upon a myriad ot clock laces. In this manner one clock will serve a whole citv, and the inhabitants take Time into their houses and pay by the month, as we pay for gas and water. Small Pox continues to prevail in various parts of North Carolina. Ihe towns of Wilmington and Charlotte appear to be the princi -1 pal places affected. German 1101-Bcds . —Take white cotton*’ cloth ol a close texture, stretch and nail it on frames of any size you wish ; lake 2 oz. of lime water, 4 oz. of linseed oil, 1 oz. white of eggs, 2 oz. of yolk of eggs, mix the lime and oil with very gen tle heat, beat the eggs well separate ly, and mix the former —spread this mixture with a point brush over the cotton, allowing each coat to dry before applying another; until they become water proof. The follow ing are the advantages these shades possess over the glass ones ; Ist. The cost being hardly one fou t th. 2d. Repairs are easily and cheap ly made. 3d. The light. They do not re quire watering : no matter how in tense the heat of the sun, the plants are never struck down or burnt, la ded or checked in growth, neither do they grow up long; sick and weakly as they do under glass, and still there is an abundance of light. 4ih. The heat arising entirely from below, is more equable and temperate which is a great object. The vapor rising from the manure and earth is condensed by the cool air passing the surface ol the shade,and hangs in drops upon the inside and therefore the plant do not require as frequent watering.— If the frames or stretchers are made large, thev should be intersected with cross-bars about a loot square to support the cloth. These articles are just the thing for bringing for ward flower seeds in season for transplanting. — Plough , Boom and Anvil. The Invalid Abroad. —!l is a sad thing to feel that we must die away from our own home. Tell not the invalid, who is yearning after his distant country, that the atmos phere around him is soft, that the gales are filled with balm, and that the flowers are springing from the green earth ; he knows, that the soft est air to his heart, would be the air which hangs over his native land; that, more grateful than all the gales of the south, would breathe low whispers of anxious affection ; that the very icicles, clinging to his own caves, and snow, beating against his own eyes than the bloom and verdure which only remind him how far he is from that one spot, which is dearer to him than all the world beside. He may, indeed, find estimable friends, who will do all in their power to promote his comfort, and assuage his pains ; but they cannot supply the place of the long known and long loved; they cannot read, as in a book, the mute language of his face ; they have not lgarned to wait upon his habits, and anticipate his wants, and he has not learned to communi cate, withou hesitation, all his wish es, impressions and thoughts to them. He feels that he is a stranger; and a more desolate feeling than that could not visit his soul. How much is expressed by that form of oriental benediction.—“ May you die among your kindred !”—Green wood. Liability of Newspaper Subscribers. The liability of subscribers to news papers and periodicals is not, any many cases, duly considered. A case has recently been decided, which will awaken attention on the subject. Mr. Jasper Harding, of Philadelphia,not long since recover ed a large sum (about $l2O we be lieve) for a subscription to the Penn sylvania Inquirer, of a man residing in Rhode Island. The circumstan ces were ihese : The suberiber took the paper for some time, and then sent to the publisher a notice of dis continuance, without forward ; ng the money for payment. The publish er took no notice of this, nor of sev eral subsequent notices of refusal to take the papers from the post of fice. The result was, that notwith standing the Uliode Islander did not receive the papers for several years, yet he was forced to pay Mr. Harding the whole amount up to the period claimed by the bill.— Farmer and Mechanic. Leather Cloth. —A new article of boots and shoes has just come up in England. It is called the Pannas- Curium, or leather cloth, and was invented by a person named Hall. The material is cotton, but has the mass and general appearance of leather, and receives a polish from ordinary blacking and in the same way. It is used only for the up per, the sole being leather, It is said to be as durable as leather, never cracks or splits, and possesses the advantage of not drawing the foot. A New Watch. —A geat improve ment in the manufacture of watches has just been made in Geneva, bv which keys are rendered unnecessa ry. By simply turning a screw in the handle, the watch is wound up, and another movement regulates the hands. The Key of the Bastile, presen ted by Lafayette to Washington, yet hangs in the hall at Mount Ver non. Since 1815, there have been at least forty millions of Bibles prin ted by the several Bible Societies throughout the world. Boiling Potatoes.— ls your pota toes are ‘watery,’ put into the water, before boiling, a small piece of lime. This will render them perfectly dry and mealy. This is an easy and a cheap method of re medying a very common evil, and one, at this season very extensively complained of. The lime should be fresh, and for a common sized fa nil y, say of six, the piece should not exceed the size oi an English walnut. Fugitive Returned. —The Frede ricksburg, Va., Herald chronicles the fact that a female slave who absconded from her master in Mary land, and went to New York, had voluntarily returned home. It ap pears that on reaching New Aork, she was taken charge ot by an aboli tionist, who sent her, with oilier fu gitives, to Canada. There she be came dissatisfied and went back. Religions Education. —“ James, recite vour scripture lesson.” “John the Bablist was forty days and nights in the wilderness, cloth ed in camomile’s hair, with a leath er gridiron round his neck, and his meat was locos and wild onions. ’ “ That’s a good little bov, you can take your seat.” Confidence may not be recipro cal, but kindness should be. FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, E. J. PURSE, CITY PRINTER. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. Savannah, Feb. ‘27, 1851. Council met. Present —his Honor R. Wayne, Mayor ; Aldermen Posey, Turner, Cohen, Mallery, Screven,Griffin, Walker and Purse. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The Information and Fine Dockets were read and confirmed. Reports Read and Adopted. The Finance Committee, to whom was referred a Resolution instructing them to inquire into the propriety of re funding the amounts paid into the City Treasury during the years 1849 and ’SO, under the Income Tax Ordinance, so culled, beg leave to report —That said tax from the time it was first imposed until the year 1849, was regularly and volun tarily paid by all citizens liable to the same ; that in 1849 the tax was resisted, and legal proceedings instituted to test its validity, and the same was declared unvalid under the then charter of the City. Similar proceedings were again instituted in 1850; and the Court, al though it ailinitted the right of the City to impose the tax under the amended charter, yet it freed the litigants from the payment of the tax, upon the ground that no new Ordinance had been passed by virtue of the amended charter. Under these circumstances, your Committee re commend that the City Treasurer repay said tax to all those who paid the same during the years 1849 and 1859. {SOLOMON COIIEN, Chairman. The Finance Committee, to whom was referred the Petition of John Low, praying remission of a tax on his slave Charlotte, because she is above the age when taxes are required, and also for re payment of the excess of badge money, charged on the presumption of his being a non-resident, beg leave to report —That said tax should be re-funded; but your Committee cannot regard Mr. Low as a resident of this city. 11 is payment of the City Poll Tax, and his declining to plead to the jurisdiction when sued in this city, are voluntary acts, and cannot give him a residence if he does not reside here.— The legal inferancc that he does reside here is rebutted by the facts of the case. Your Committee therefore must regard Mr. I jow as a non-resident, and recom mend that In 1 be required to pay the badge money of non-residents. SOLOMON COHEN, Chairman. The Finance Committee, to whom was referred the Petition of William 13. Gauldiug, Esq., praying payment of his bill as Solicitor General, for prosecution in the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer, for the City of Savannah, beg leave to report —That the law organ izing the Court, does not make the City liable for any of the expenses of the Court, except the salary of the Judge ; and your Committee are not prepared to report favorably to the prayer of the Pe titioner at this time. To place this whole matter on a different footing hereafter, your Committee recommend the passage of the annexed Resolutions and Ordi nance. SOLOMON COIIEN, Chairman. Resolved, That the Clerk of the City Court, at the next meeting of Council, present a return of all criminal cases which have been tried or settled since his election. And also, a return of all moneys received by him for Jury lines and for fines and costs in criminal cases, whether the same have been tried or set tled—and how said monies have been disposed of. Resolved, That the City Sheriff make a return at the next meeting of Council, of all monies received by hint since his election, for Jury fines, and for fines and costs iu criminal cases, whether tried oi settled, and how the same has been dis posed ; also a list of all executions issued for Jury fines, and for fines and costs in criminal cases, now in his hands unsat isfied. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Petition of the City Con stables, praying an increase of their sal aries, have instructed the Chairman to re port favorably on said Petition, and to recommend the passing of an Ordinance to increase the pay ot each City Consta ble to the sum of three hundred dollars per annum. SOLOMON COIIEN, Chairman. The Finance Committee respectfully report —That at the request ot the May or, they have had several conferences, with an intelligent Committee of Mer chants, who may be regarded as fully representing the interests ot that body ot our fellow-citizens, and your Committee trusts that from those conferences have resulted the happy effects of calming the public mind on the subject t>l taxation. The Mayor and Aldermen are but a por tion of the community, representing its various classes, and can have no interests distinct from those of the fellow-citizens; nor can they by any possibility desire to oppress or lmrrass any class ot the com munity. Your Committee therefore cheer fully acquiesce in the wishes ot the Mer chants, and recommend the repeal of what has been regarded as an obnoxious tax on Merchants and Professional men. It is but proper to add that the Finance Committee more than six months ago in vited a conference, and we have now the happy results of our own proposition— namely, an Ordinance which your Com mittee is assured will be acceptable. SOLOMON COHEN, Chairman. Ordinances. “An Ordinance for laying off into Lots certain parts of the tract of land known as the Springfield Plantation, purchased by virtue of an ordinance passed June 10, 1850, and for disposing of the same,” was read the first time. “An Ordinance for levying certain taxes, repealing the Tax Ordinance pass ed February 13, 1851,” was read the first time. “ An Ordinance to increase the pay of the City Constables,” was read the first time. “An Ordinance to regulate the pay ment of the fees and costs of the Clerk and Sheriff, and of the Solicitor Gener al, in criminal cases tried and settled in the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer for the City of Savannah,” was read the first time. “An Ordinance to authorize any per son to make a half lot fee simple; and also to permit joint lessees of a lotto di vide the same into two parts and to re ceive titles for the same”—was read the first and second times, and passed under the title thereof. Pet if ions. The petition of Joseph Bancroft, Trustee for Mrs. C. Taylor, for remission of double taxes for 1846, 1847 and 1848, on the Scarborough House—was read and rejected. Resolutions Read and Adopted. By Alderman Purse, seconded by Al derman Walker— Resolved, That the Street and Lane Committee be authorized to contract for a Sewer in the Lane North of Brcugh ton-street, between Whitaker and Bull streets. By Alderman Purse, seconded by Al derman Turner— Resolved, That the Street and Lane Committee be authorized to have en closed the Squares in Monterey, Chatham and Lafayette Wards. By Alderman Purse, seconded by Al derman Mallery— Resolved, That the City Marshal be directed to notify tin* owners of property in W est Broad-street, to have removed within thirty days from the date of the notification, the buildings and other ob structions in the way of extending and widening said street, from Rail-Road street to the Southern Boundary of the City. By Alderman Turner, seconded by Alderman Posey— Resolved, That the City Marshal ad vertise and offer for sale Lots Nos. 46 and 47, Crawford Ward, By Alderman Turner, seconded by Al man Mallery— Resolved, That the Mayor be author ized to represent the Stock owned by the City in the Central Rail-Road 6c Bank ing Company at the meeting of Stock holders, to be held on Wednesday next. By Alderman Walker, seconded by Alderman Griffin^— Resolved, That the Committee on Pumps be authorized to have wells sunk in Robertville, provided Mr. Roberts ex ecutes a deed to the City of the streets therein ; also to have wells sunk in Mon terey, Chatham and Lafayette A\ ards. Bv Alderman Screven, seconded by Alderman Walker— Resolved , That the City Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to pay the (_ ity Marshal for work done on the Springfield Plantation, under the direc, tion ol the Dry Culture Committee, By Alderman Screven seconded by Alderman Cohen— Resolve,/, That the Dp- Culture (W mittee be authorized to lease such por tions of the Springfield property as will not be lor sale during the present year, f ommunieation. Read a communication from the Board ol Health, requesting an appropria -1,011 ° *SO for the use of the Board and snugesttug “to Council the importance ol preserving unimpaired the statistics „f mortality, by requiring registry of burials permits from the Clerk of Council, or some other adequate means” of the’in terments at Buenaventure. On motion of Alderman Griffin, tbo request was granted and the suggestion referred to the Committeeon Health ami Cemetery. Read a Communication from A. () Segur, Keeper of the Pest House, rela tive to a well and fencing round the building. On motion, said Communication was referred to the Committee on Health and Cemetery, with power to act. Miscellaneous. His Honor the Mayor reported that he had sold 500 shares Gas Stock at par as directed by resolution passed at the meeting of Council, and paid the pro ceeds to the Citv Treasurer; Alderman Screven, Chairman of the Committee on Dry Dulture, reported that he had re ceived 8600 from Willi am B. Giles A Cos., for an embankment on the Canal leading from the Springfield Plantation to the river, and deposited the same with the City Treasurer to the credit of the Springfield property. Amount of accounts passed, $1,628 92 Council adjourned. EDWARD G. WILSON, Clerk of Council. THE FRIEA'D OF THE FHIII.V. SAY ANN AH, MA KCII ], lm . OUR NEW VOLUME. With this number closes the second year of The Friend, and there can be no more fitting time to remind delinquents, that we will be very happy to receive the amount due us. We have made heavy outlays for the new volume and trust that our subscribers will take an interest in extending our circulation. We renew our proposition to clubs and take the occasion to say that old subscribers, out of the city, are by no means excluded from these terms. Three Copies for Five Dollars, Seven Copies for Ten Dollars, Twelve Copies for Fifteen Dollars, Twenty Copies for Twenty Dollars, and an extra copy in each case to the getter up of the club. £dP"T!ie Europa's accounts came thro’ by Telegraph yesterday, and report a de cline in Cotton of £d. to sd. Ball of the Irish Jasper Greens on Monday Night, was a very pleasant party, and did credit to the taste and management of the Committee. FT* Mr. Dempster, the Ballad Singer, will give Concerts at the Armory Hall on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Eve nings, next week. He is uu fait. GAS ! Not Paine’s Gas, nor Fluid Gas, but Dr. Stark's defiogistigated exhilarating Gas, met with a brilliant reception on Tuesday Evening. The Armory Hall was crowded, but the Doctor had been decoyed by a party of gentlemen and had imbibed too much Champagne Gas for the fun of the audience. Wednesday evening however, at the Theatre, Richard was himself again. The Doctor gives another entertainment at the Theatre this evening. FRUITS. Our thanks are due and we hereby ten der them to Mr. J. DeMartin for the tine bunch of Bananas sent to our office last evening. He has also a fine supply ot Oranges and other W est India fruits and Okra and Tomatoes, which is very acceptable in the impoverished state of our vegetable market. W e noticed when in his store, a day or two since, a lot of Preserv es, put up by a lady in Kk> r, ‘ da. W r e have not partaken of anj u* them but Mr. DeMartin says they are a fine article. We commend them to all who favor home products. ITjF* By request of the ladies, whose mandate is our law, we give place to the following article: SEAMAN’S FRIEND SOCIETY At the Annual meeting of the Female Seaman’s Friend Society, Dec. PM 1850, the following ladies’ were elected for the ensuing year : Mrs. Preston, Ist Directress. Mr* Williams, 2d do. Mrs. MurchisoNi do. Mrs. Allen, Treasurer, Mrs. lb 1 ’ roughs, Secretary. Mrs. Hutchison, Mrs* Doct. W ayne, Mrs. Guerard, Mrs. Pad* 1 ford, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. W illis, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. l’h'l brick, Mrs. Fay, Mrs. Barnard, Miss W hitehead, Miss George, The Annual Report of the worthy Su perintendent, Captain Parkei, at or the most gratifying evidence ot 1 u ■“ • * nf the establishment creasing prosperity or tin under his charge. Eleven hundred Se men have been accommodate < the past year as boarders and !*? _’ the greater part of whom have been