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[WRITTEN TOR THE TIMES t SENTINEL.]
A Scrap from Aunt Patty’s Scrap Bag.
THE RED VELVET BODDICE.
By Caroline Lee llentx.
“What is that, Aunt Patty ?”
“A little scrap of red silk velvet, child. I can
hardly tell you what tender feelings come over
me as I look upon it. It brings up before me, a
little fairy like looking figure, not much larger
than you are now, only a speck or so taller.—
How well I remember the time, when I first
seen her, dressed out in this velvet boddice, witli
a white muslin skirt flouncing below it, so easy.”
“Tell me all about it, Aunt Patty,” said Es
telle, with her eager, earnest look of curiosity,
which ever proved irresistible. “I never saw
any one, that had such a store house of pleasant
memories as you have. It seems to me, that
you know the history of every body that you
ever met with, the heart history, and that is so
much better than the mere outside story, you
know. What made every body tell you every
thing that they thought and felt, Aunt Patty ?
Were they not afraid you might tell it again ?
Oh! I know tlie reason. You are so good and
unselfish, so different from other people, it is a
comfort to talk to you, just as l do myself.—
There are a thousand little things, that I don’t
like to speak about, even to my own mother,
that lam not afraid to tell you. You look as if
it was a favor to yourself, to be allowed to lis
ten to us.”
“And so it is, darling. Just imagine, what I
would be, if I interested myself only in my own
concerns, a poor, lone, childless creature, like
me. Now, by going out of myself, as it were,
and entering into other people’s hearts, I can
appropriate to myself their beauty, and worth
and property, and be as happy for the time, as
they are themselves.”
“Tell me how you do it, Aunt Patty.”
“I don’t do anything, child. I only feel; bless
ed bo God, for the gift of a feeling heart. A
great mind is a glorious gift too. At least I
think it must be, but if I can’t have but one, I
would rather possess the first a great deal, for
we don’t love people so much for their minds as
their hearts. We admire them, to be sure, and
look up, and wonder, but my poor neck can’t
stretch its chords much by upward looking, and I
suppose that is the reason I like the easiest feel
ing best.”
“But I would like to have both, Aunt Patty. I
would like to have a great and noble mind, so
great and noble that the whole world should
hear of it and almost feel afraid of my name, it
would be so very famous, and then, I would like
to have so kind and tender a heart, that everv
body would love me too much to fear me,
and forget I was great, because I was so good.”
Estelle spoke with energy, and mind and
heart seemed indeed struggling for mastery in her
childish, but intelligent face.
“And what else, my darling, would you like ?
Would you stop short there ? isn’t there some
thing wanting to put a kind of crown on all
this?”
“Oh! yes, Aunt Patty. I would like to have
a spirit pure and holy, filled to running over
with the love of God, caring for nothing so
much as to please Him and oblige Him. And
then, you know, 1 could use my great mind to
glorify Him, and my good heart to make my fel
low creatures happy. There is no harm in such
kind of ambition, is there, Aunt Patty ?”
Aunt Patty laid her palsied hand in silence
blessing on the head of her blooming favorites.
She tried very hard to swallow down her feel
ings, before she found voice to speak.
“When you was a little thing, Estelle, I fear
ed you wouldn’t live to grow up, because you
were smarter than other children, and then
I used to have strange dreams about you, that
I thought were warnings. Now, I begin to think
the Lord will spare you to be a burning arnica
shining light to other generations. But stop,
little one. Don’t pull that scrap of velvet to
pieces. There is’nt much of it any way, but it
is big enough to remind me of the precious little
soul, whose body was encased in the crimson
boddice.”
Estelle leaned on her right elbow, in her usual
listening attitude, and her eyes said as plainly
as tongue could speak it. “Well, lam ready to
hear it.”
“It isn’t much of a story, child. lam afraid
you will not like what 1 have to sav, half as well
as the one about the purplo satin or the pea
green taffeta, but I love this little scrap the best
of all, because I loved the wearer best. You re
member how your father went to the south, the
spring before he died, and how your sister Em
ma went there for her health, for she was mighty
poorly before she married Mr. Selwyn. Well,
you know your Aunt Woodville married a rich
southern gentleman, and lives on a great south
ern plantation, and has ever so many negroes.—
You have heard Emma talk about them a hundred
times. Before you was old enough to remem
ber, Mrs. Woodville came on to the north, to see
your mother, my niece Emma that was—and
brought with her a young lady by the name of
Nora Sliiiland. When we heard that she was
coming, we felt a little uneasy, fearing she would
not enjoy herself, as they have so many to wait
on them at the south, and live so differently.—
We thought our simple ways wouldn’t suit her
and really wished your Aunt was coming by
herself.
‘ I never shall forget the first time I saw Nora.
We were all watching for your Aunt, for she
had written to ns the day she expected to arrive,
and we kept looking and looking till the sun
wa3 nearly down. At length a carriage stop
ped at tl> door, and your Aunt Woodville, a
fine, tall, handsome lady, got out first, and then
came a little bit of a creature with a drab color
ed travelling dress, fitting her as nice as wax.
and a neat straw bonnet, trimmed with blue lus
tring ribooii, and a sweet, pleasant, smiling
ccMintenaiiee, that seemed to ask every body
to love her, and promised to love every body in
leturn. &ne didn tlook one bit proud or grand,
aud she hadn ,t been in the house five minutes be
fore we all ielt as if we had known her all our
li>es. It was in the beginning.of summer* and
nij niece Emma .always did have the prettiest
roses and pinks in her garden I ever did see anv
where, and Nora ran about among the flowers
with Edmund, who was a little boy then, and
Emma, who, though weak and sieklv, was h
pert and sprightly child. She took “to Nora
mightily, and used to string pinks and wind
them round a sprig of camomile, and make nose
gays for her every day. Nora always said they
were beautiful, though I knew the flowers she
had at home were ten thousand tjmes prettier
than any of ours. She used to call me Aunt
Patty, just as you do, and would spend hour af
ter hour, in looking over my scraps and making
me tell her about this one and that one, making
believe as if she never could get tired, but 1
knew all the time she did it more to please me
than herself.
At first the ladies were shy of calling to see
her, thinking she might put on airs and think
herself above them, but after a while, they
couldn’t come often enough or the gentlemen
either. Without seeming to take a bit of pains,
she could entertain just as many as there hap
pened to be, and though she was mighty fond of
talking herself, she always let every one else
have a chance. You never saw anyone so well
pleased with everything as she seemed to be,
and many’s the time I’ve heard her say, clap
ping her hands in a kind of earnest way she had,
aii her own:
“Ob! I would so like to live at the North.
Everything is so nice and comfortable, here.
The grass is so green and the water’s so pure,
and the air is so fresh, and makes one feel so
lively.”
“Nothing would please us more than to have
you compliment our young gentlemen so much,
as to let someone of them induce you to re
main,” said your mother, smiling on her.
“Oh!” says Mrs. Woodville, shaking her head,
“Nora is the hardest child to please you ever
did see. There ain’t a young man at the South
that can make her like his name better than her
own, though many a one lias tried it. I should
be very glad if Mr. Elmwood could have better
luck.”~
Now, Mr. Elmwood was a gentleman, who
was mighty intimate with your father, and al
ways visited at our house oftener than any
where else. He was a lawyer, and knew all
the sciences by heart, and when he walked the
street he seemed to be in a brown study. He
wasn’t a young man, but some how or other
no one thought of calling him an old bachelor.
I suppose it was because be was so different
from most all the other men, who wanted to
pass themselves off for young beaus. I never
saw him so pleased with any one as he was with
Nora. You would have thought, to hear them
talk, that she knew as much about the sciences
and the arts as he did, though she did not make
any parade of her learning. Then, again, when
she talked with the children, she seemed as much
a child as the simplest of them.
“Nora, my dear,” says Mrs. Woodville, late
one day, “what do you think of Mr Elmwood ?
How does he compare with your Southern gen
tlemen ?”
“Oh! 1 like him exceedingly,” says she, her
face smiling all over, it looked so bright, “and 1
don’t think he would suffer by comparison with
anybody. He is so intelligent, agreeable, and
seems to have such a generous and noble heart.”
“Do you think you would be willing to mar
ry him, Nora?” says Mrs. Woodville, with a
knowing look.
“I wish you would not want to turn every
friend into a lover,” says Nora, blushing. “We
are the best friends in the world, and mean to
stay so, if you will only let us. I don’t believe
he thinks of it any more than I do. I should be
so sorry if he heard any such remark.”
“Well,” says I, “Miss Nora. I never heard a
young lady talk so sensibly about gentlemen
before. I don’t see why they can’t he friends as
well as lovers, and stay so, too. If all the girls
would set as much store by themselves and not be
in such a hurry to get married, the young men
wouldn’t be half so vain and foolish. They
think they have only to pick and choose, and
you can’t make them believe anybody is an old
maid from choice, to save their lives.” \
“l shall make them know so, one of these
days,” says Nora, laughing, “for I never will
marry unless I love with my whole heart and
soul, and mind and strength. And I fear the
man lives not, who can draw forth my latent en
ergies of passion. lam so happy as 1 am,” con
tinued she, all in a glow of earnestness, “so
happy at home, my own dear home, I have not
one wish to leave it, till I am called to that bet
ter home, where love eternal reigns.”
She looked up as she said this, and I saw a
tear sparkling in her clear blue eye. It made us
all feel solemn, and nobody said anything more
to her about Mr. Elmwood. He came as usual,
at night, and she talked to him just as easy as
ever. Now, some girls are so silly, if they have
been teased about a gentleman, they can’t be
in his company afterwards without blushing
and simpering, and acting awkward. But No
ra had the best sense of any young lady I ever
saw ; and Mr. Elmwood thought so, too. He
never seemed to caro for ladies before, any more
than if he was the man in the moon. Though
as he was thought to have an independent prop
erty, and was sensible and not bad looking, he
might have had a good chance to get married if
he had wanted to.
“Now, darling, I see you are thinking about
the red velvet boddice. Never mind; I’m com
ing to it presently, in my roundabout way.”
[to be continued ]
The anniversary of the birthday of Franklin
was celebrated by the Printers’Union at Buffalo,
in a splendid and elaborate manner. Among
the toasts was the following:
“ The Magician of the Mind. — At whose will
the lightning forsook the heavens to become the
messenger of man.”
Mr. Levien of the Buffalo Commercial offered
also the following sentiment:
“ Printers’ Wives.- —May they always have
plenty of small caps for the heads of their little
original articles .”
The bold-faced scamp, to drink such a toast!
Business and Religion. —A layman in Pro
vidence, who occasionally exhorted at evening
meetings, thus explained his belief in the exis
tence ot a Deity: “Brethren, lam just as con
fident that there is a Supreme Being, as i am
that there is flour in Alexandria; and that I
know for. : certain, as I yesterday received from
there-a lot of three hundred barrels of fresh su
perfine, which l will *ell as low as any other
person in,town,”
The Coal Fields of North Carolina.—
Professor Emmons has made an interesting re
port on the value of the coal regions of’ Deep
River, in North Carolina. ’Phis coal, he states,
is of a quality to give it the highest character in
the market, and the coal field is known to ex
tend thirty miles, in the direction of outcrop,
and to be workable for a breadth of three miles.
H )t Him* Sentinel
CHU'MIiUS. GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1853.
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Senator Badger and the Vacant Judgeship.
The presses in the interest of the Administration, af
fect to feel much indignation at the refusal of a Demo
cratic Senate to confirm the nomination, by the Execu
tive, of Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, to the vacancy
on the Bench of the Supreme Court of the United
States.
We say “affect to feel much indignation,” because we
can hardly believe that any unprejudiced mind can sur
rey the facts, and fail to be astonished that sueli a nom
ination was ever made.
Mr. Badger does not reside within five hundred miles
of the sphere of his duties, which will necessarily cause
great neglect of duty, and subject the community to
great inconvenience.
lie is not read in the civil law which he will be call
ed on to administer in Louisiana.
But the chief and fatal objection to the appointment
of Mr. Badger to the Supreme Bench, is, in the lan
guage of the Union, an objection on principle—an ob
jection which should suffice to determine the action of
every democrat, at least. Asa politician, Mr, Badger
is distinguished for his extreme federal notions, which
lend him always so to interpret the constitution as tode
rogate from the rights of the States and to augment the
powers of the general gov.rmnen’, Timothy Pickering
himself was not a more thorough and incorrigible fed
eralist than Mr. George E. Badger, Now, is it possi
ble that any striet-construetion State-rights republican
democrat can consent that a consolidationist should be
intrusted with the power o‘ - determining the construction
of the constitution of this government ?
Would any democrat assist in making a person of
Mr, Badger’s political principles President for four
years? Then, why make him Judge of the Supreme
Court for life , and thus arm him with the power to
carry into effect his centralizing, federal doctrines ?
Can any man, of genuine devotion to the State
rights principles of the democratic party, consent to see
the bitter antagonist of his political faith interpreting
the constitution in accordance with the creed which Mr.
Badger professes ? In other words, shall we submit
the constitution to the mere}’ of one whom we regard as
its deadly enemy ? Should any amiable disposition to
ratify the appointment of the Executive, or any appre
hension of the imputation of factiousness, persuade a
democrat to desert his principles, or rather to surrender
them to the enemy ?
Southern School Books.
Mr. B. F. Griffin, of Macon, Geo., has published a
series of school Books, which we take ggcat pleasure in
commending to the notice of the southern public. They
are : Tho Apalachian Primer ; Apalachian Reader, No.
1. 2. and 3.; Griffin’s United States • and Southern
Orator.
We are not sufficiently familiar with elementary
works to venture to pronounce authoritatively upon tho
relative merits of these publications. Wo think howev
er that they are adapted to the purpose for which they
are designed. We have looked over the “Southern
Orator,” with some care. The selections are from the
speeches of many of the favorite orators and divines of
the South. Calhoun, Clay, McDowell, Berrien, Rhett,
Colqi.iit, Toombs, Hammond, Stephens, Legare, Nisbet,
Hilliard, Yancey, Seddon, Bell, Graham, and othvrs
among politicians ; and Thornwell, Pierce, Wightman.
Means, Bascom, Whiteford Smith, among divines, are
in the list, from whose speeches selections are made.
We regret to find that Hayne, McDuffie, Forsyth,and
Soule ; Fuller, Olin, Capers and others equally distin
guished, have been overlooked or excluded by the
compiler. Among the poets the cherished names of
Wilde, Lamar, Charlton, Jackson, Sims, Meek, Gil
more, and Key adorn the pages of the “Orator.”
While we regret the absence of many cheerished
name3 from the Southern Orator, we arc proud of the
array which is presented. The circulation of the book
among our children, will give them confidence in south
ern genius, and excite a taste for southern productions.
We do not however approve of the plan of the work.
We would not exclude from our school books the choic
est productions of genius for the sake of giving the pub
lic effusions of second rate men. If it is error in north
ern compilers to substitute the productions of northern
men in place of southern ; it surely is not right in us to
feed entirely on southern pasturage. Shakspeare, Mil
ton, Homer and Virgil, Dante and Ariosto, have said
and sung some things which neither northern nor south
ern genius has equalled. Nor would we fling aside the
massive English of Burke, for the wordy speeches of
third rate southern politicians. The Southern Orator
nevertheless is a good book, and we thank the publish
er for this addition to southern literature. So little is
contributed by southern enterprise to the world of let
ters that we would hail a much less valuable eontribu ion
than this with pleasure.
Plagiarism-
In looking over Dodge’s Literary Museum, we find
a piece of poetry originally written for the Southern
Sentinel , by one of our fair correspondents, of Syra
cuse, New York, and published by us in the issue of
Friday, August f th, 1852, headed “Riding in a Stag.*,”
re-published in that journal and creditod to the Home
Journal.
In the Southern Cultivator, for June, 1852, there
is an article headed, “Orig nos Fruits and Flowers,”
published under the editorial head as original matter,
which we ourselves prepared from our own notes, made
many years before, while reading Gibbon’s Declinb and
Fall, and published in the Southern Sentinel of March
12, 18 2.
In this connection we take pleasure in copying and
endorsing the following article, which we find also in
the June No. of the Southern Cultivator, 1852:
Copying without Credit. — It always affords us :
great pleasure to see our articles copied by the newg- >
paper press, and widely disseminated over the country j !
but that pleasure is sometimes slightly diminished by
noticing our original communications and editorials
copied without a word of credit or acknowledgment.
A few of our exchanges are carrying this joke a little
too far, and we hope this mild remonstrance will induce
them to “render unto Caesar,” &e. &c
-
Utility of Art. —ln Switzerland, it has been resolved
to take daguerreotype portraits for all the mendicants
and vagabond*.
Congressional—Our Foreign Population.
Mr. Soule’s great speech on the Cuban question has j
excited much enthusiasm, and some of his hot shot must ;
have penetrated the hull of the Administration s ship, .
as the hands on board are very busy at the pumps. In- ,
able to meet him in fair debate, the Republic has de
scendcd so low as to east imputation upon him on ae- :
count of his foreign birth. After ridiculing the style,
idiom, accent and manner of this distinguished orator
and profound statesman, the Republic uses the follow
ing sneering language in reference to his foreign birth :
“We submit that it is not modest lor an importation from ;
Paris, for a gentleman wafted to our shores by the same
wind which brings us Stewart's silks and Alexandre s
gloves, to assail an American Administration for an allodg
ed want of American spirit. It does not become an exotic j
Democrat to appeal to ‘ Southern Senators,’ with the in* |
sinuation that a Whig Administration is indifferent to |
Southern right- 5 , or insidiously hostile to Southern institu* j
tions. It does not become any such gentleman to insult
men and patriots like those who fill the places of our
Government, with ihe implication that Spain can now
‘trample’ with impunity ‘on American rights and privileges
—individual or national,’ and the averment that all this will
be changed when an administration shall e*arie in which
was the ‘creation and choice’ ot Nashville Secessionists and
Buffalo Freesoilers.”
“It is not modest for an importation from Paris ,”
“it docs not become an Exotic Democrat!” If he had
been an importation from Ireland, or from Germany,
would it have been less modest I In the late canvass,
General Scott “loved to hear that rich brogue j” and
the Republic pretended to hear the sound with no un
pleasant reminiscences. Why, then, is it now nau
seated ? *
Such sneers are contrary to the principles of our con
stitution and the spirit of our institutions, which place
the adopted citizen upon a level with the native born.
If a man is born in a stable, is lie therefore a horse 7
Was not Arnold, the traitor, native born ? Shall such
as he be allowed privileges which are denied to LaFay
kt ru, “a foreign importation,” or Gallatin, an “ Exotic
Democrat,” and their countrymen ? Shame upon the
Americanism of an American, who attaches importance
to the place of a man’s birth ! It is the spirit of at is
toeracy, which finds merit in the blood, no matter how
long or low the descent.
The closing paragraph of the following extract will,
perhaps, explain the reason of this indecent diatribe.
It is taken from the Union :
“The speech delivered by Mr. Sonic in the Senate, on
yesterday, was perhaps the greatest of his oratorical efforts.
Profound research, a comprehensive and thorough mastery
of his subject, originality of view, brilliancy ot diction, fire
and energy of declamation—all the qualities of the states
man and the graces of die orator—characterized this eloquent
speech. Tout passage in which the crator vindicated the
memory of the unfortunate followers of Crittenden from the
reproach of being impelled by a thirst of plunder, was a
noble instance of touching pathos. Equally striking was
his scathing denunciation ot the conduct of the administra
tion in that deplorable juncture.”
Senatorial Vacancies.
Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina will each
have a vacancy in the Senate of the United States on the
4th March next. This has resulted from the failure of
their respective Legislatures to hold elections for these
prospective vacancies. The very interesting question
arises—can the Governors of States fill vacancies occur
ring under such circumstances ? Gov. Foote, of Missis
sippi, very strenuously, and even ably advocates the affir
mative, and will, it is said, exercise the power in the ap
pointment of Mr. Kinyon, The constitution provides that
“if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise , during
the recess of the Legislature of any State, the executive
thereof may make temporary appointments, until the
next meeting of the Legislature, winch shall
such vacancies.”
The power to fill a vacancy in the Senate, no matter
how it occurs, is therefore clearly vested in the Gover
nor. It is very important that the south should be ful
ly represented in the Senate at all times, but more es
pecially at the beginning of anew administration. And
when the power is so clearly vested in the Governor, as
in this case it would seem to us to bu a criminal neglect of
duty for him to refuse to exercise it.
Spiritual Rappings and Electric Currents.
ilfr. Editor —My object in this communication is not
to apologise for the one, or to attempt an explanation of
the principles of the other, >f the subjects above men
tioned ; but simply to state a fact, somewhat connected,
at least in common acception, with both. I was one of
a party of six gentlemen who last night tried the experi- j
inent of ‘'making the table move.” The modus ope- i
randi was this : We sat round a common mahogany
cent re table, say about three feet six inches square,
each oao putting his right hand fiat upon the table, and
his left hand flat on the back of bis left nr.ghbor's
hand. We sat in that position fifty-eight minutes, !
when the table began to move round from right to left I
slowly but very perceptibly at first, afterwards with so |
: much force that two of us, at opposite corners of the j
table, pressing against it, could not ste>p it. Three of j
us were unbelievers, when we commenced, as were ;
three ladies and one gentleman who were present, wit
nessing the experiment, until such perfect success, j
when every one in the room was perfectly satisfied. * j
\ will simply add that the same table was acted upon ]
j some mouths ago, by two of the same party, with .eight i
j ot! e in twenty two minutes, and lam perfectly con- j
! vinced that wefe tfie table an unvarnished one, the ae- ■
, tion could be produced with ton persons in fifteen inin- I
j ut *• l you don't believe \t, try it yourself.— Sat.
: Courier.
j
Martial Mfusio.
j The Infant Drummer will soon be here, and enliven |
ju* with his spirit stirring drum. He hqg epef muted the!
j East, and will undoubtedly tal;e ua by storm. W? !
j promise the little fellow a oordial welcome to oqr city,
Tan following card will be read with interest,
CARD.
Having witnessed the astonishing performances of
Master Benson A. English, the Infant Drummer, wo
take greit pleasure in tearing our testimony to the high
j tributes of appreciation wliich have every where been
awarded to him. 110 may justly be regarded as tlic eighth
! wonder of the world.
Howell Cobb, Gov. Ilev. Joshua Kowlea. j
A, C. Barnett, Sec. of State. Rev. C. It. Jewett.
\V. 11. Mitchell, State Treas. Capt. \V. S. Rockwell. j
K. S. Chandler, Compt. Dr. G. \V. Forte.
P. M. Compton, Survey. Gen. W. W. Paine, Seo. Gov.
Arthur Ileod, Seo. Gov. Wm. Steele, Sec. Gov.
Wylie 11. Pope, Messenger.
The Rome Tri-Week'y Advocate.
We have received the first number of this paper. It
is edited with ability by D. Hastings Mason, anl de- j
serves, and will, we doubt not, receive the liberal pat
ronage of the people of Cherokee Georgia.
South-Western Railroad. — Receipts of Cotton by i
this road in January, 8, >ls bales, of which 7,591 were j
forwardod direct to Sav nnah, and 1.024 delivered in-
M ieon. Total reoe : ptß by this road, this season, 29,103
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Gove nor or Alabama. |§
Hon. Geo. W. Stone, ih m whom a letter mm .
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; ly lives, ha* withdrawn his name from the list 0 f
I petitors for Governor. He suggests that the I
1 eratic party assemble in convention on the first To, I
1 .lay in Juno, and select a candidate. In a letter to * I
: Advertiser & Gazette, lie uses the following gtril j
\ language in reference to the position of the south, *l. .! I
wc endorse and commend to the consideration ofY, 1
readers.
“The election of 1852 has cheeked tho Nort), ft . I
freebooters in their campaign of p.llage and plunder ,
Let not the shouts of victory lull us to false seourin I
Let us keep our armor on, until we force these (l; j. I
| inies to our lives, and peace, and prosperity, to n-linqui s v I
| their insulting assumptions, and concede to us in f Uctul
| well as in theory, Constitutional equality. Let us
the power of tho ballot-box, and all the intellectual
inoral, social, and commercial power wc possess, until
Northern legislation against our prosperity is swept from
the statute books, and in its stead are enacted wholesenu
! provisions for the security of our property.” 4
Telegraph between Europe and America —The idp*
of connecting Great Britain and the United States bv I
telegraph is revived in London on a grand scale. T| (e I
| proposition is to extend the line from Scotland by w iy I
of the Orkney, Shetland and Ferue islands to Iceland
and thence to Greenland ; thence across Davis’ Strait*
to Labrador and Quebec. The entire length of the lin
will be 2500 miles ; and the submarine portions of it
from 1400 to 1600. From the Shetland islands it i,
proposed to carry a branch to Bergen, in Norway, eon
netting it there with a line to Christiana, Stockholm
Gottenburg, and Copenhagen ; from Stockholm a lin*
may easily cross the Gulf of Bothnia to St. Petersburg,
The whole expense of this great international work i
estimated considerably below £500,000.
Misnomer! Why will all theatrical newspaper quo
ters—nay even theatrical bill-writers or stage managers,
who should know better, invariab'y call the hero of
Sliakspeare’s “Much Ado,” by the name of Benedict,
when the bard himself has him designated, Benedick j
DICK. Dick! * Jj,
Such inexcusable errors have, from habit, almost driv
en truth out of the field. So frequently do ignorant
people print, “a looker on, here, in Venice,” that few
believe it should be, “Vienna!” A thousand bets have
been won and lost on—
“ The man that hath no music in himself.”
which none but the true reader, will believe correct,
and we have been “set right” by a supposed authority,
in this city for citing, as he deemed erroneously,
“Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew- him, Horatio.”
Register .
JjTln Massachusetts a petition to the legislature for
the repeal of the liquor law has received a large num
ber of signatures. Among the signatures is Abbott
Lawrence, who requests its repeal on the ground of its
inconsistency with tho rights of American citizens.
O’Rev. A. A. Livermore, of the Unitarian Church
in Cincinnati, has received a call to become pastor of th
Unitarian Church, in San Francisco, California, with
the terms of ono thousand dollars -for passage ot, and
five thousand dollars salary p.r annum, in the place of
Rer. Joseph Harrington, lately deceased.
’Bishop Ives’ Conversion to'llo.mams.m.—Tho
Universe says a general subject ot conversation at
Rome is the recent conversion to the Catholic faith
of Dr. Ives, the Angl can Bishop of C irolinn, in the
U. States. Dr. Ives had for a long time embraced
Pnseyitc opinions, and felt strong sympathies for the
Catholic relig on, which had subjected him to much
remonstrance. Since he has been at R me he Ims
put himself in relation with Mousignur Gill, tho
Catholic Bishop of Virginia, U- S., and addressed
himself to Monsignor Talbot, the private camcrme
of the Pop*, in order to make his solemn i.ijtra
! tion and ••tibliely profess Catholicism. This cert
j inony took place on the 20 h of December, ibe
| pop.*, in person, administering the sacrament to :he
! convert. Dr. Ives, in abandoning the Episcopal
Church of the United States, has given up a very
advantageous position. His wife at*first warmly
opposed his intention, but it is said that she now
j begins to defend him aga nst the attacks of the Pro
! testani ministers who accompanied tho bishop
| Rome.
Further by the Africa—Franca.
f Mr. Rives ilie American Minister, has jrte scar*
; ted his credentials to Louis Napoleon.
The French Government Ins contracted for tb
| building of Jif y three large steamers.
It is reported that a territorial misurulersfsniJ
j ing exists between France and Austral. The
1 Frencii funds are very unsettled.
Kossuth.—Kossuth, it is reported, is preparing-”
! to return to America.
I
| K. YVaterma i, of Am Herd un, has fa led.
! Peabody’s Lectures.—The Mobile Advertiser
| of the 2Gih ult, says ; YVe are pleased to le.irn that
|itis i contemplation among the horticulturists
of our city, to endeavor to induce Mr Peabody to
deliver one or more lectures, upon the leautifui
I and invaluable branches of culture, to which he
his devoted so much successful attention, and
which, like the lamented Downing in q kindred de
partment, he his linked with p\vr| name and
reputation.
Bihop O’Connor, the Catholic prelate of Pitts*,
burg, has addressed a long letter to Go\. Big!er ¥
complaining mat the present free-srhool systeuu
is not acceptlble iq the Catholic population.
Tiie Turpentine Business.— The
(N. C.) Observer, states that the population of tiuitti
county has increased about i,OOO since the first.of’
the present month—about 3uo wh tes and 700 slave*
having arrived there from other parts of the State
to engage in the turpentine business.
The enlightened citizen who ate his dinner with
the fork ot a river, has gone to New Hampshire Ur
spin a mountain top.
The New Postage Envelopeswill 1 not be rc*dy’
before the first of April. **• \