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Tetter'from Lord John on the 3!adiai ‘ rase We see no pruspectofa release of the Madiai. Our own country, Prussia, and England have all interfered in their behalf, but without effect.— England has hitherto confined herself to the non official solicitations of Lord Palmerston, Lord Malmsbury, and Bulwer, the last ot whom is the British Minister at Florence. Lord j John Russell, on his accession to the post ot j Secretary of State, sent to Sir Henry the follow- , ing dispatch, which has just been published, and which the London Times justly enough de nominates a striking paper. It ;s now nearly two months old,and for all practical purposes seems to have been a briUumfulmen : Lord John Russell to Sir Henry Bulwer. Foreign-Office, January 18,1853. Sir According to the last accounts received from you the Grand Duke of Tuscany still hesi- J tateson the subject of the Madiai. But this is a matter on which hesitation im plies capital punishment. It is the same thing in effect to condemn a man to die by fire like Savonarola, or to put him to death by the slow torture of an unhealthy prison. It seems to be imagined, indeed, by some Governments on the Continent, that it they avoid the spectacle of an execution on the scat fold they will escape the odium to themselves, and the sympathy for their victims, which at tends upon the punishment of death for offences of a political or religious character. But this is ail error. It is now well N under stood that the wasting of the body, the sinking of the spirits, the weakening of the mind, are but additions to the capital punishment which long and close confinement too often involves. If, therefore, as has been lately reported, one of the Madiai were to die in prison, the Grand Duke must expect that throughout Europe he will be considered as having put a human being to death for being a Protestant It will be said, no doubt, that the offence of Francesco Madiai was not that of being a Pro estant, but that of endeavoring to seduce others from the Roman Catholic faith; that the Tus- ! can Government had the most merciful inten- ! tions, and meant to have shortened the period of imprisonment allotted by law to his offence ; that such offences cannot be permitted to pass unpunished. All this, however, will avail very little.— Throughout the civilized world, this example of religious persecution will excite abhorrence. — j Nor will it be the least of the reproaches addres sed to the Government of the Grand Duke that the name of Leopold of Tuscany has been thus j desecrated, and the example of a benevolent Sovereign thus departed from. The peaceful, mild and ingenuous character of the Tuscan people makes this severity the less necessary and the more odious. As this is a matter affecting a Tuscan subject it may be said that Her Majesty’s Government have no right to interfere. If this means that interference by force of arms would not be justifiable, I confess at once that nothing but the most extreme case would justify such inter ference. But if it be meant that Her Majesty has not the right to point out to a friendly Sovereign the arguments which have prevailed in the most civilised nations against the use of the civil sword to punish religions opiuions, I entirely deny the truth of such an allegation. You are, therefore, instructed in the most se rious tone to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, j and to lay before him all the considerations sta ted in this dispatch. You will do it in the most friendly tone, and take care to assure the Government to which you are accredited that j tone are more sincere in their wishes for the in dependence and happiness of Tuscany than the Queen of Great Britain. I am, &c., J. RUSSELL. The Pantograph. Surprising Invention. —Among the won derful discoveries orinventionsending in “graph,” the Pantograph seems destined to tain? no se cond part. It is a cutting and carving machine, which works with a&iazing celerity, great pre cision and finish, & is applicable to innumerable purposes of ornament and use. This remark- i able invention has been patented by Mr. Searby. Acting on the principle of the slide rest, or j floating bed. and directed by the Pantograph, the machine is moved with facility and exact- ! ness in all the directions of the cube, under a fixed tool or tools that it is capable of producing in cutting, carving, or engraving, a sac-simile of almost anything presented to its operation. The enumeration of all the purposes to which this strange piece of mechanism is applicable, would exhaust imagination. The hardest substances offer no impediment to its powers, In stone 0.1 marble, in ivory or wood, in pearl or metal, it can turn out copies of any shape you please, and by a principle of easy adjustment, on a scale as much larger or smaller than the original as may be desired. It will engrave seals to any pattern ; turn out an exact copy of the Medi cean Venus, or the Greek Slave ; furnish blocks to the calico printer, the floor cloth manufactur er, the paper stainer and the letter-press printer ; j execute monumental tablets and architectural ornaments ; form saw handles ; cut names and I sign boards ; or do anything else which requires ! any sort of shape or impression to be given to the hardest materials, performing that which I appears the most difficult or delicate feat with as much dispatch, exactness, and finish as the easiest and least pretending. The utility of the machine may be inferred from its applicability in the single department i of saw handles. The saw handle manufacture ! of Sheffield alone employs four hundred hands, who make on an average, fifteen handles each a day, or 36,000 a week which, at one penny per handle, would return £7BOO per annum.— Now, one of the company’s machines, managed by a man and a boy, will produce 300 handles a day from one cutter ; but as each machine may have three cutters or more, it is obvious that the entire trade might be supplied with a tew machines. It remains only to mention, that the machine is cheap, and may be wrought with ease by any description of power, from hand to steam, —English Paper. The N, Y: Tribune says that more than seventy-five per cent, of ail the crime in that is chargeable to intemperance. , To Prevent Pitting by the Small Pox. Ladies, here is a recipe which is worth a fortune to you, if you ever happen to be so un fortunate as we have been ; for a pretty face, provided there is a good heart with it, is always | a fortune fora lady, and it gives me real pain, whenever I seesueh a one all scarred and bloch ed with the marks of small pox. lou can pre : vent it for two shillings. My face was covered with the deepest and biggest kind ot pustules, and would now he a ghastly sight but lor the ; care of one of the blessed ones of your sex, I who applied the remedy, and saved what little beauty there was as good as new. j Get from the apothecary, a little vial ot stuff called “liquid cuticle,” and as soon as the pus | tules are fully formed, apply a little ot the li quid with a little brush or feather, to each one. As fast a3 they get ripe, remove the scab and wipe away the matter clean and apply the li quid again. If any of them fill the second time, you must remove the covering and repeat the process. It will smart like tun tor a mo ment, hut my word for it, when you recover, you shall not find a mark upon that pretty tace j of yours to prove you ever had the disease. J am told the article is made ot gun cotton, dissolved in chloroform. It forms an artificial skin over a wound, just as good as the real one It is a valuable remedy, and I expect the Ladies. | Department of The Plow, will become immen sely popular for making it public. I think the j manufactures of the article ought to send the edi j tor a sufficient supply to give every lady sub i scriber a bottle, for this gratuitous puff". Be Vaccinated, —Ifyou have been, be so again, for it will protect you for a long time, but must be renewed. I protected me (or forty-eight years, and as ladies never reach that age, they will be safe if vaccinated. Solon Robin sox. itimm mtb Smtal. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1833. Mad* Bostwick’s Concert on Monday Night. A large and fashionable audience was in attendance, and every person present was much entertained by the performances. Our most sanguine expectations were more than realized. Mad. Bostwick’s voice is rich, melodious, of great compass and sweetness, and thor oughly cultivated. Her assistants are accomplished musicians. Mr. Thjlow is a clever Pianist, Mr. Siede an excellent Flutist, and Mr. Apfy a splendid Violinist. Little Miss Oliver astonished every body by the grac*, accuracy and brilliancy of her performances. We hope Mad. Bostwick will favor ns with another concert. Western News. We have New Orleans dates to the 25th inst., and Mobile to the 26th inst. Complete quiet has been restored west of the Sierra Madre, except the state of Tamaulipas where Governor Prieto has been deposed and Villa Sana made constitu tional Governor by the State Legislature. Gov. Prieto, however, holds on to his authority and has declared the action of the Legislature null and void. Three companies of Rangers have been discharged recently on the Rio Grande, and it is said that many of i them have joined Carvajal, and that this scoundrel will again invade the Mexican territory. An arrangement had been made between the au thorities of Vera Cruz and the General Government, by which the former recognized the Presidency of Gen. Lombardini. Over two hundred of the leading man of Louisiana, including Grimes, Micou, Bradford and other distin guished lawyers (whig and democratic) have recom mended Judge Slidell for Chief Justice ot the State. Washington Rumors. George M. Dallas (ex-Vice Puesident) it is said, will be made District Attorney of Philadelphia. The postts very lucrative. Seth Barton, it is said, is likely, to get the place of District Attorney at New Orleans. Mr, Reed, a son-in-law of Gen. Duff Green, received , his dismissal on the 12th. Mr. James Hamilton, of Columbus, Ga., Again. The very able and interesting letter of this talented j young gentleman, which we copied some weeks ago j from the New Haven Register , and in which was ex- j posed the rottenness of Yale College < n the subject \ of slavery, has been published in the leading papers of j the South, and has attracted very universal notice and 1 commendation. We expected some verdant young Southern gentle- ; man would be cajoled into the defense of “Alma mater,” and have been constantly on the qui vive since the appearance of Mr. Hamilton’s letter in an ticipation of the fire of the enemy. It has at last taken ! place and the match was applied by a Mississippian, ] whose modesty or timidity has induced him to conceal his name. Qnerc : Is he a protege of Gov. Foote ? j ‘’The voiee is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the j hands of Esau.” The sentiments are th<f sentiments of Foots, but the modesty which declines the pa ternity of the bantling belongs to a worthier man—per haps only a younger one. The reply would be unwor thy of notice, coming as it does from an anonymous correspondent who exhibits neither talent nor tact in ! his production ; but as we may fairly assume that the grounds of defense are those which the learned hacuity of Yale have assumed, it may deserve a passing notice. The first point made in defense of Yale is that “the Faculties of New England colleges are almost without exception made up of New England clergy !” The second is that ‘‘New England has youth of her own to educate at this Institution.” The third is that “we knew before we left the South ■ that we were coming to a Northern Institution an ’ Institution which, if it does not oppose slavery, certainly cannot approve of it. Our well read patents *ne\v i this.” The facts stated by Mr. Hamilton are not denied.— Yale is therefore a fount of Abolitionism. He: Pio fessors will oppose the extension of slavery e\er to a dissolution of the Uniou, and have habitually of ;ate made it a practice to denounce slavery and the institu tions of the South. This is the great tact which we desire to hold up to the view of the Southern people. Let them remember it and profit by it. But what of the defense of this recreant son ot the South ? “ The Faculties of the New England Colleges are almost without exception made up of New England j clergy And why are clergymen excused for their abolitionism ? Is it not written in Ephesians, chap. 0, verse s—“ Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters, according to the flesh, with fear and tienabling, j in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ? And sha i , these hoary hypocrites be indulged in perverting the wor : of God, and denying its truth, that they may gain profit J by their false teachings ? God forbid ! M hat then is , the meaning of this excuse for the abolitionism of Vale. > Would the recreant “Southron'’ assert that the llolv j Scriptures condemu Slavery ? “New England has youth of her own to educate at ‘ ; this institution .” And why, pray, should New England youth be ! taught different principles from Southern youth . The : Bible sanctions slavery, and the constitution protects it. The gi eatest and best divines and statesmen ot New 1 England have so taught. The names of Stuart and Webster are quite as weighty authority on divine and political questions as any on the catalogue ot V ale Col- lege. What does this excuse mean, unless it be intend ed to convey the idea that truth and right are to be discarded by Presidents and Professors, in their work ; of instruction, for what is popular and profitable l j tl We knexc before, we left the South that we icere coming to a Northern Institution" —that may be true, j but we will not believe that you knew you were going ! to an abolition conventicle where doctrines were i taught which are alike destructive to the South and the , Union. It is very true that “Northern” and “Aboli- j tion” have become almost synonymous, but there were “a few names even in Sardis which had not defiied | their, garments” and the honored name ot Vale was j always regarded as first and foremost in this little gal { axy. But the glory has departed from Israel and Ichabod is written upon her door posts. And who is this Mississippian who boldly defends the abominable practices of Yale ? Where was he born ? What is his name ? He writes as coldly and eautious ! ly as if he had spent the better portion of his life at the North Pole; or had had the genial currents ot liie frozen by the winter of age. No young Mississippian ever wrote such a production. No doubt some boot lick, whose prospects for Collegiate honors rest rather upon , his toadyism than his talents, has consented to adopt i the frozen bantling of one of the Professors of Yale, as i his own brain-child, and has thus do ably forfeited the j confidence of the South. In this point of view several innuendoes and assertions otherwise unworthy of notice demand a rebuke at our hands. The Professor, shall we call him —says, “we have no accusations of ingratitude or impropriety to urge against the gentleman’s views.” Gratitude? Does the cold academician know noth ing of gratitude to home, kindred, country, that he thus talks about gratitude to Alma mater ? Are her claims higher than heaven’s, country’s, truth’s ? Gratitude for what ? He paid you for your instruction ; you deceived him by your open false professions of loyalty to the Bi ble and the Constitution; you allured him into your lecture room and in the seclusion of that quiet retreat, attempted to make him a traitor to his home and kin dred by imparting to him your infamous and deceitful fanaticism, He has exposed your hypocrisy —'-hinc ilia laerymw. The learned Professor again says —“we are not de pendent on you ; we must have our inalienable lights of free thought and free speech, even if we have to sacri fice your small patronage,” Certainly, my dear sir, but let your “free thought and free speech” be honest thought and honest speech; let the South know that Yale is an abolition seminary, and we make no complaint. It is this deception that Mr. Hamilton has exposed, and for which we thank him. It is somewhat singular that this most, prominent part of his letter is not so much as alludecPto by “A Southerner.” “‘HeUstrains at a gate and swallows a saw mill.” He laboriously at tempts to explain why Yale is abolition, but entirely forgets even to apologize for the hypocrisy of seeming to be otherwise. Again “A Southerner” says, “our very presence in New England, is “prima facie' 1 ' 1 evi dence that we are not afraid of anti-slavery arguments and influences.” The fourteen and sixteen year old boys of Yale must be remarkably precocious young sters! Not afraid of anti-slavery arguments. The taunt is worthy of a Professor who has betrayed the trust reposed in him by confiding Southern parents, and is conscious of his own derelietion of duty and unable to ex cuse or apologize for it. What opinion of a youth of sixteen is so well grounded that it cannot be undermined by the larger experience of venerable Professors whose every word is received with the deference due to varied j learning and exalted position ? We now leave this subject, with the fervent hope that Yale has forfeited the confidence of the South ; | and that in future our young men will be educated in our own colleges. - - ; Native Poetry. We do not often trouble our readers with the rich poetical gems of native growth, which it may surprise them to learn are furnished in bacchanal profusion from the teeming minds of American Genius. But the fol- j lowing are too good to be lost. “Lieut. W. D- G.” is j evidently an original hardy native breed, and only re- ( quires judicious cropping and culture to make an entire ly new variety of the genus Poet. We cheerfully do | our part by this rubbing to develope this native produe- I tion, and hope our efforts in this direction will be duly j appreciated and seconded by our readers. Here are j the “lines.” Disappointment ot Man. BY LIEUT. W. D. 0. Dear woman like the butterfly, Looks best before she is caught; For then the tinsel of her wings, Is changed as quick as thought. Ah! the squalling of a baby, And the scolding of wife ; Must be the witching music, Os all my future life. Your flattery is delicious quite. But then ’tis spread so thick : It chokes me ere I get a bit, And makes my soul sick. Man’s Folly. BY LIEUT. W. D. G. ’Twill take a wiser chap than you, To trap the girl you're after ; For at your nonsense when alcne, She puffs her sides with laughter. j You’ve ridiculed time and again, The very girl you’ll marry ; But if you are a prudent man, She’ll make you happy, very. You think it very nice indeed, To have a gay flirtation : But oh! beware, it often bring, An old bachelor’s chilly station. Sheridan Knowles. —This distinguished dramatist recently left the stage and became a Baptist clergyman. { ,m === ‘ Homicide. Tharnick L. Newberry was shot by Lewis Jar- JSEtU** TheUn ; oo k e^ ; „ | .h : left breast and produced instant deat.i. - • has surrendered himself to the authont.es. The culty orignated in too free a use of liquor- Deaths on the Rail Road. I We learn that two Irishmen— names not ascertain ed—were killed on Friday evening last by the falling in I of an embankment on the South Western Branch Road below Butler. They were hands engaged on the Road. Later from Washington. Washington, March 25. TheU. S. Senate adjourned for want of a quo- rum. It is reported that President Pierce has requested Mr. Whittelsey to withdraw his resignation as comp troller of the Treasury. Iron Fcundery Destroyed. —The IronFoundery of, Romstead &, Cos., at Dorchester, Mass., has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at SSO - 000. j Death of Dr. Duncan. —D*\ Duncan, ex-member of Congress, from Ohio, died at Cincinnati, in conse quence of injuries received by being run over bv a wagon. Political News from Europe. —There had been a j great many executions at Pesth and Manfred. The sequestration of property was being follow ed up on an extensive scale in Lombardy ; the re fugees had sought the protection of the. Piedmon | tese government which had protested to the court I of Vienna. The Queens of England, France, Spain. Portugal and Greece, were reported enciente . The Pope will positively go to Paris, to crown the Emperor, on the first of May. The King of Naples was so severely wounded by an assassin, that it was necessary ‘o amputate his leg. A Generous Offer . —It is said that Gen. Abner Curtis, a great shoe manufacturer of East- Abing ton, Mass, has been issued proposals to some twenty or thirty young men in his manufactu ring warehouse, that if they will, the current year, ho prudent, economical, and faithful in their duties —show a balance sheet ol savings, individually, of one hundred and fifty dollars, and consummate marriage on or before the first | day of January next ensuing, then he will add, ’ as a New Year’s present, a house lot upon his domain, and one hundred dollars for the pur pose of assisting in the erection of a cottage house, severally, to his corps of said. The United States and Havana Mails. —The Captain-General of Cuba has given notice to the American Consul at Havana, of an order which he lias received from the Spanish gov ernment, stating that no transmission will be given throughout the island, in the mails to any | American newspapers unless they he secured with a single string or band, so as to admit of their he^ag-examined by'&e authorities, if nec essary, without tearing the said band or cover; and should any letter or letters be found within the papers, the same will be taken out, properly directed, and the full postage charged from the place from whence said letter or letters shall come. All kinds of printed matter will bein ’ eluded under the head of newspapers. The order it is stated, went into effect on the first of March. i Judge of the Supreme Court, —The ap i pointment of John A. Campbell esq. of Mobile to the vacant seat on the Bench of the Supreme ! Court of the United States, is one that deserves the warmest approval of all true Republicans.— ! Mr. Campbell is personally a man of the high est worth, and professionally we do not believe there is in the whole country one of more pro found and enlarged learning, or one whose fine balance and impartiality of mind, better fits him for the high duties of a Judge. Mr. Camp bell has long stood eminent among the State Rights leaders of the South, and as one of her ablest and most faithful defenders in all those questions that have involved her interests and safe tv. — Charleston Mere ury . The “Great Bore” at the Hoosac Moun tain. —The Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature to whom was referred the petition of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, asking fora loan of $2,000 to aid them in tun neling the Hoosac Mountain, arrived here this morning from Troy, where they tarried over last night. The Committee,-consisting of seven teen members of the Senate and House, left Boston on Tuesday morning last, and arrived at the Mountain in the town of Florida, on Wednesday, where they had opportunity of wit nessing the great boring machine operate upon the solid rock. The weather was cold, and the machinery was quite frosty, but notwithstanding, the mammoth instrument was put in motion, and in the space of fifteen minutes bored four and one-eighth inches. The circle is twenty four feet in diameter, and will admit a double track. The machine was several times tested j and with like success. It has bored at the rate of twenty-four inches per hour. i Mr.E verett delivered a speech in the Senate on i Monday week, showing that Central Amer | ican affairs are in the way of amicable settle i ment, and that England abandons the Musquito j protectorate. Mr. Deßow, Superintendent of the Census, discharged one hundred of the Clerks on Tues day. Washington, Feb. 19. It appears to be generally understood, this evening, that Mr. Buchanan is certainly decided j upon for England, Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, for France, and Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, for Spain. Asbarv Dickins was elected Secretary of the i Senate, McNair, Sergeant-at-Arms, j (in the place of Robert Beale,) and Isaac Hoi- j laud. Assistant Door-keeper. I Capt. Sutter (the early settler in California, has leased his farm, and it is stated that he i n . tends to return to Switzerland with his family. The difficulty existing between the Editor ot the Richmond Whig, Alexander Moseley, Esq. and James Barbour, Esq., the Delegate from Culpepper, Va., has been honorably A Monument to the Signers op the De< . laration of Independence. —The Legisla ture of New Jersey last week unanimously passed the bill having for its object the erection of a monument, in Philadelphia, to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. The bill was signed the same day by the Governor. Mrs. Partington is said to have anxiously asked if Uncle Tom is a better man than Enoch, of Bibnlcal memory. She grounds her reasons for making this inquiry upon the fact that she heard that Uncle Tom has been translated seven times, while Enoch was translated but once. The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer learns from the best authority that Jenny Lind is not com ing to America, and that she is not unhappy j u her domestic relations. What can possess these rumor-makers to tell such flagrant falsehoods! — Sar. Journal. Surveyor of California. —The Baltimore I Sun of the 19th inst., says: “Among the con j firmatious, yesterday, was that of Col. Jack Haves, as Surveyor General of California. The salaray of the office is four thousand five hum dred dollars,Nvith an ample allowance for con tingent expenses and clerk hire. Experiments have been lately made at Berlin with cannon having rifle bores, and loaded at the breach with a conical missile, which is hol low, and contains powder. These experiments are said to have been very successful. With 1 I*2 pound of powder a missile was thrown more than 6,000 feet. The Alianthus Tree. —Congress has sol emnly proscribed this tree in an especial act To the item in the Civil and Diplomatic bill, providing for setting out the public grounds in Washington with trees, is annexed this condition “That no more alianthus trees shall be purchas ed or planted in the public grounds.” Congressional Convention. —We are in formed that at a Democratic meeting in New nan, the Democratic party of the fourth Con gressional district, were requested to meet in Newnan, on the first Thursday in June next, by delegates in Convention to nominate a candi date for Congress for the District.— Marietta Advocate. Caloric Engine for the Navy.— Captain Ericsson has made a contract with the Navy Department to construct for the Government a model caloric engine of sixty horse power—such an engine as Capt. E. proposes to apply to a screw frigate. This engine, the New Fork Tribune says, is to be made forthwith and sent to Washington to be put up in the navy yard Jbeforethe next meeting q(/Cong^ss. Negro that aviegro man belonging to Mr. Barefield, of Wilkinson coun ; ty, was killed on the C. R. R. above Gordon on | Sunday. He was lying across the track and | was not discovered by the Engineer before the Engine was upon him. The negro was drunk, ; and was not in the employ of the company. From what we have learned, no blame is attri butable to the Engineer.— Central Georgian. Daring Robbery.- —The Jewelry Store oi ! Daniel Roth, on Whitehall street, was broken ! open on Saturday night last, and Jewelry to the i amount of SIOOO stolen. The robbers entered | the establishment by r forcing open the front door. On the same night Wm. Kay's Bookstore was entered and a number of books and otheP articles stolen.— Atlanta Intelligencer. W e see it stated that the most lucrative of our consulship is that at Panama, which is rated at between thirty-five and one hundred thousand dollars per annum. Havana is next, then Liverpool, and afterwards in older come Buenos Ayres, Matanzas, Havre, Alexandria and Hong Kong, or Canton. The commercial agency at St. Thomas, Danish West India Islands, is said to be worth from six to ten thousand dollars a year. The Senate have continued the appointment of the Hon John A. Campbell, of Mobile, to I be Judge of the Supreme Court, and Dudley ! Mann, to be Assistant Secretary of State. High Duty.— Every barrel of flour used in Cuba is imported from Spain, the duty upon American flour being nine dollars a barrel. Collector of the Port.— We understand that a dispatch was received from Washington city yesterday, announcing the appointment of John Boston, Esq., as Collector for the port of Savannah.— Sav. Paper. Mr. E verett made his speech on Monday; in which he stated that the affairs of Central America were in the way of amicable adjust ment, Great Britain having abandoned the Mus quito Protectorate. A cask of California wine is now on its way as a present to President Pierce. It comes from the hacienda of Don Louis Vignes, of Los An geW ! In the Milwaukie Legislature, some half | dozen Maine Liquor laws were presented lately, one ot them signeu by two hundred Norwegians. Ihe number ot persons actually engaged in in California does not exceed 100,- j 000. During the month of January just passed, I the export of gold from California amounted i to 84,576,013, which gives a monthly yield of 845,76 to each man engaged in mining. ) Lhe new Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. j Guthrie, has published an official notice to the | effect that proposals for the erection of a branc h I mint in California will be received until the first !of April ensuing. The cost is limited to $300.- 000