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‘I be Yanker.
Tin: I EV. . R. FOMEROY ON THE CHARACTER OF THE
YANKEE.
Avery facetious and interesting lecture war
and livered on Tuesday evening, in the Taberna
cle, Iy R ev. D. R. Pomeroy, of Boston; sub
jeet, “The Y ankee.” He said that, in orifer to
come on the subject of his lec
ture, it would fie necessary to call their atten
tion to a few historical facts. ‘J hose who dwell
in houses and know sciences and literature art
usually called civilized, and those who dwell ii
tents are called savage. Ihe Assyrians, Chal
deans, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Roman. 1
had their frequent wars ofplunder and conquest
and whenever they came in contact with th<
northern tribes they have given us memorials of
the people they have conquered. lt"*has been
satisfactorily ascertained that three races hail
passed trom Asia into Enrope. The first of
these waves of emigration were the Celts cn
Cimmeri, who passed across the continent t.ll
thev reached the British isles. The second
wave of emigration was that of the Scythian 01
Gothic race, some six or eight centuries -before
the Christian era. The Celts vanished before
them from the page of history, except those
who had been in the west of the continent
The Scotch, YVeldi, and Irish were the descen
dants of these Celts. There is also more or less
of the Scythian element in France, Italy, and
Spain. The third wave of emigration into
Europe was the Sclavonic. But our present
purpose was with the second race, the Scythian.
‘Plie lecturer triced their course through the
various countries in Europe. In the second cen
turv there were three tribes oflhe Scythian race
in Jutland, who were called Anglo or Teutons,
from whom have sprung the Westphalians.
English, and Americans. Three hundred of
them landed in Thanet, in the river Thames, in
the year 439, after the Romans had vacated Bi i
tain. On the island they met a party of Celts,
when a scheme of intervention was made be
tween them —they invited more of their country
men. and afterwards erected the little kingdom
of Kent. In two centuries more they extermi
nated the Celts, and reduced them to bondage,
with the exception of the Welsh and Scotch.
Tne Saxon Heptarchy lasted till the eleventh
century, when the Norman element became
predominant after the Hastings. These
Anglo Saxon and Norman worthies were bold,
hardy, indomitable, fierce, cruel and ferocious;
they were kindred in blood with Goths and Visi
g >th., Vandals and Ostrogoths, who had bat
ti ivd down the blood-cemented walls of old
Rome. There is no evidence, however, that
they were savages, like the American Indians.
They had arts. They manufactured armor. In
the third or fourth centuiies of our era they ap
peared in the page of history *as pirates, and a
mo e cruel, bloody, and relentless horde never
disgraced humanity. They were the fillibus
ters of those dim ages. The terror of their
name is hardly conceivable by us in these times
of peace. The conquest of England led them
to abandon their piratical habits; and then, in
t'ie middle of the eleventh century, came the
Norman element; and finally, in the sixteenth
century, came the Protestant Reformation, all
of which had a great effect in civilizing them.
The lecturer then came down to the Mayflower
emigration of the Pilgrims to the Plymouth
rock. They must contemplate the institu
tions—civil, social, political and religious—which
they founded, and then they will understand
how the people of New England are what they
are. What is a genuine Y ankee ?—that is the
question. He used the term Yankee as deno
tinjr the natives of New England and all
theii descendants. He would observe, in the
first place, that a true son of New England is a
very close observer. When lie travels he sees
every thing within the range of his vision, and,
walking up Broad way for the first time, he will
be seen carefully scanning the names on the
signboards and on the doors. He is verv in
quisitive, too—there is always a question at the
end ot his tongue just to minister to his curiosi
ty ;in a railroad car he is quite annoyed, from
the fact that he can neither see nor hear to the
best advantage; on the steamboat, too, he will
tax his übiquity to the utmost prying into eve
rything; find him where you will, lie is a true,
well defined interrogation point. All the world
may laugli at him, but still he is no fool, and he
will ask questions. Socrates was condemned
to drink the poison cup because he had examiti
ed everything ii heaven and earth; and if this he
a capital offence, alas for the Yankee! He is,
however, capable of becoming a very gentle
manly person, though no conceivable art could
make him a Frenchman or a dandy. None but
a Y'ankee could give such a definition to the
word “dandy” as that which may be found in
Webster's durtionary. A Y ankee may have a
carriage and a servant, but if you see that
servant in livery, then you mav be sure he is not
a Y ankee. (Applause.) This love ot plainness,
simplicity, directness, has shorn our courts ot
justice of all their ridiculous ceremonies. And
even a Governor, if he should put on airs, would
find on the next general caucus that his friends
on the whole, were rather in favor of the princi
ple of rotation. In religion, too, he likes his j
minister to speak in plain intelligible Saxon. In j
4 ess, equipage, m timers, speech, and religion, j
he is a decidedly plain, blunt, outspoken, umeie
moniousindividual. In philosophy, the Yankee
belongs to the utilitarian school—not that ol
Jeremy Benthain. This philosophy he nas not
derived from books or universities—it was boi n
with him, and*is an integral part of his nature.
There is lodged with the Y ankee race ?t very
considerable amount ol strong, plain, everyday
good sense. A son of New England has no
special reverence lor what is ancient merel y be
cause of its antiquity, though it must be admit
ted he is often taken by anew theory or pri i
ciple liecause it is new. Idle theories or dreamy
tjieculations are quite a drt g in the market, and
tuey cannot help saying “YVnat is the use?” li
is true, no doubt, that New England is in tin
habit of coutiibutiug money, and men and wo
men, to some foolidi idea; but then it is only
what • le has to spare, and she j reserves the real
goiu tor works of real value. The ltcturei
commented upon the disci iminating qualities ol
the Yankee intellect; and for this sharp meta
physical acumen they weie indebted to the pul
pit, the school house, and the open Bible. This
characteristic has been acquired by the great
honor accorded to skill iu figures; aud there
are undoubtedly at this moment hundreds of
boys and gills stiiving to work out a difficult
problem in the rule of three, or square root,
who will hereafter be heard of in some grand
railroad or other scheme in China rr Africa. A
true Yankee has a strong sense of justice, which
makes him keenly alive to the injuries himself
or others ma y suffer. If you touch him wrong
fully he will make heaven and earth noisy with
his clamors. This feature is Anglo Saxon, and
Norman, and Scythian, too. Akin to this ele
ment in the New England character in his love j
of liberty. Our ancestors never bowed their ;
necks to the yoke of bondage. They knew’
liow to subjuga e and rob, aud make merchan
dise of other men, but they never were slaves
themselves. What would have been the con
i dition of Ireland for the last hundred years ii
she had onl y contained three millions ol Yankees?
He strongly suspected Ireland would not now
he as she is. This love of liberty enters large
ly into the elements of the New’ England enar
acter. A true sou of New England lias a clus-
ter of qualities which passes under the name
of enterprise. There is a well known Yankee
word, which is very significant of his enterpris
ing qualities, and that word is “gumption.” ;
When you see a young man, the morning when ,
he is of age. starting into the world, with all his |
goods, real and personal, tied iu a bandana, and
not having the slightest doubt of his success,
you may depend he is a Yankee. Who are
the principal teachersand professors of schools ?
—and when a President is wanted for any ol
the Western colleges, whom do thev send for (
A Yankee. Subtract the Yankee from the
commerce and manufactures of the United
States, and what have you left? Give a Yan
kee, trained in the common school, a few’ acres
of granite rock, and he will not only make a
living, but grow’ rich anil become a munificent
founder of colleges and institutions. From
ihe restless, roving Scy tliiau propensity of the
Yankees, one might think they cared little for
their country, or for the graves of their fathers;
and yet, strange as it may appear, they love
their New’ England home. Her rocks and val
leys, her streams and snows and piercing winds,
are all verv dear to them. They love to recall
the little babbling brooks, and the mountain for
est, and though impelled by a restless enterprise
to the farthest bounds of the green earth, there
is not one of them who does not Slope to lie
down in death in some quiet nook of their own
Now England. A villainous Yankee is one of
the most villainous ruffians in the world—pro b
ably the worst men in the city, a? well as some
of the best, are of New England origin. He
might refer to other traits of the Yankee, but
he knew that among their other qualities they
were by no means remarkable for tbeir.patience
under a long discourse. The lecturer then
concluded.
(Times mrtr Sentinel.
COLUMBUS, GEOKGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1853.
’I he Death of Mrs. Fillmore,
“VVliat shadows we are, anif what shadows wc
pursue !”
The dreadful calamities which have followed swift
upon the heels of success in the lives of our public men,
teach, and were intended no doubt, by a kind Providence,
to teach, the American people the vanity of a 1 earthly
pursuits. llakkison and Taylor, hardy veterans, who
had marched unscathed through storms of balls in the
front of battle to the glittering pinnacle of earthly grandeur,
sunk into the cold grave ass h>ii as the laurel wreath
was placed upon tin ir brows. The applause of adnii ing
millions had not died upon the ear of Polk, before he
was stunned by the hollow voice of death, before whose
pestilential breath his green honors were nipped as by
an untimely frost. The swift winged lightning had
hardly nnnounc dto Pjekce his election to the Presi
dency—aye, even among the congratulations of his
frit-lids on his success, and when his h art beat high
with exultation, his dariing boy, his “Absalom,” was torn
from his embrace, and his hearth and heart made deso
late, by a blow as unexpected as it was crushing. And
1.- st of all, the glim monster has snatched from Fill
more’s fond embrace the lovely form of her whose
smihs to him were light and life, and left him crushed
and beggared to plod his lonely way through a dark
and gloomy future, to the tomb, even aitnd the loud
notes of preparation to do him honor throughout this
broad land What to him now is fame! The voice ot praise
as well as of censure falls heavy and unm ailing upon the
ear of grief. The hallucination of life is disp iltd —
its honors are withered leaves—its wealth, the toys of
childhood —its hopes, delusions -its bright sunshine a
glittering mockery—there is nothing real i ut death—
it h>oms up before him—a horrid monster whose bale
ful shadow datkens the whole horizon of 1 fe—he sees
it in the glittering lightning—he hears it in the rolling
thunder —and every passing breeze whispers death
death ! in whose dread presence the mightiest exclaim
with Wolsev—
“Thi* is the state of ma” ; T o day he p* its forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears hi-* blushing honors th ek upon him ;
The third day. comes a fro t. a killing fro t ;
A d—when he thinks, good ea-y man, full uiely,
His greatness is a opening—nips his root ,
And then he falls as I do—
-1 h ive ventu ed.
Like little wanton boy-th it swim on bladders,
Thi-> many summers in a sea of glo y ;
But far beyond my depth ; tnv high bhwvn pride
At length broke under me ; and now ha- left me,
Weary, and old with j-ei vice, to the mercy,
Os a rude st earn, that mu t for ever hide me.
Vain pompeand glory ot this wo Id, I hate ye.”
Gen. P. J. emmes has been unanimously elected
captain of the Columbus Guards, to fill the vacancy oc
casioned by the resignation ofCapt. JmiN Forsyth.
Election at New Orleans.
At the late charter election in New Orleans, for six
Aldermen, and 26 Assistant Aldermen, there were but
two whig assistant aldermen leeted.
Salary of Judges.
The Legislature of La. has fixed the salaries of
the Judg*s of the Supreme Court at $4500. —
This is an example of liberality which we commend t<>
<*ur next Legislature. The saiary f>r a Judge of the
Supreme Court ought to be high m >ugh to command
th best legal talent in the State. Our pr* sent rates
cannot tempt a first rate lawyer from his practice, if
he is a p. or man—poor salaries will insure a succession
of poor Judges, and pour Judges give ample guarantee
of incorrect decisions.
Reorganization of the Union Party—Position
of Got. Cobb. ,
A few disaffected Democrats who have forfeited their ;
position with their own party by a renunciation of some (
of its fundamental principles and a long continued and
bitter denunciation of its prominent loaders at the South,
ami the unprincipled of the old whig p rtv who play
the card that wins, no matter whether it is taken from
the baud or sleeve, have been attempting to galvanise
into life the effete body of the Union Party in Georgia
The Journal $ Messenger vtry truly and forcibly ie-
J marks in this Connection that “there are as yet, in the as
: pects of State and national politics, no issue upon which
such a party can be fornnd, and no nicessny for its
formation. The name of Union, prejudice against the
Southern Rigiita Democracy, and the dtad issues of ISSO.
are the basis upon which it is proposed to reconstruct a
j Union Party. Wc will have nothing to do with such
a skinless, bloodless and lifeless organization.” * *
“We do not believe that such a re-organization can be
accomplished. Th” letter of Mr. Hull (in illation to
Gov. Cobb’s position) confirms our previously formed
opinion that the Union Democracy did not desire it,
and a large portion of the whig party, we know, never
have ceased to repent the first organization of the
Union Party. Where are the elements to give strength
to the resuscitated corpse of the Union Party?”
We take it that the*e hot shot will utterly demolish
the tottering walls of the “Union Hotel.” and that it its
coots are again re-opened by HoLsey and Sani-ord, its
customers will be invited to feast on empty di.-hes, imd
that, unless they beat a swift retreat, they will be bur
ied beneath its tottering walls.
Governor Cobb was the Atlas upon whose broad
shoulders the Union organization rested. We barn
from Mr. Hull s letter, an extract from which we pub
li-.li below, that *he has withdrawn from the odious
task and “now stands prepared to sustain the great
Democratic patty to which he has always belonged,
and to tight as a private in the ranks, for the imp risiia
ble principles of Jefferson, Jackson and Polk, and
which he hopes and believes will derive additional
strength and lustre from the administration of Franklin
Pierce.”
Mr. Hull says—
“But my object in writing : s not to discuss these mat
ters, but to disabuse your mind, and thoseot your readers,
as u> flit* pos ton ol Gov. Cobb in that matter. Your
aiticle gi'is me the opportunity of do.ng Gov. Cobb what
Ins magnanimity prevented his doing or h msclf. I write
without h.B knowledge, and possibly what he would not
p rtrsit if lie knew it. Bui it is due to truth and justice
that nis pos tiou should be known. The writer of this
professes to be as well iitb rnitd as any othir n an. as to
the opinions, sentiments and views of Gov. Cobb, and 1
affirm that which 1 know, when 1 say that the ticket
wh eh was put up alter ihe Atlanta m etitig was brought
out against his wishes and advice, and against his ear
nest ejurts to prevent ii.
“i know that he wrote urgent letters to Judge James
Jackson, at Carnesville, win re General Wi.ff.rd was du
riug Cos irt, press.ng upon hnn to see General Wofford,
and endeavor by every argument to induce him to decline
running on that ticket, and aicipt the place on the regu
lar ticket, which fie was then adv.sed would be tendered
to him. fck> far from his ‘sympathy and secret efforts,”
being for tl e “Tugalo Ticket,” he disapproved of the
movement from fiist to last, and his friends knew it.
“It is true that Gov. Cobb was in favor at Atlanta of a
different course from the one pursued. From the day
when the Unon elevtornlYtckct was nominated at Mil
k dgcvilie, he had labored to br.ngabouta compromise of
tile ticket on terms which would secure cordiality and
harmony all the friends of Pierce and K ng.
“The Atlanta meeting was called at Sns suggestion, and
for the purpose of promoting that object. Before a.-setn
bhd it badge onto obvious that our proposals ot eom
prom se would ii/t be responded to. Gov. Cobb proposed
in that ease to nominate a tiekit composed of those gen
tlemen of the other ticket, who had eviucid a willingness
to arrange the matter,and to fill up the other places with
<he names of Union Democrats, and call on the whole
D jntocraey of the State to rv-buke by their votes Lire spirit
of proscr ption and persecution wh eh had been manifested
by some of our Southern Rights brethern. This was his
wh. le course in the matter. The Atlanta meeting deci
ded and ffcrently, and in their decision Gov. Cobb acquies
ced, and gave, as I said before, no encouargement w hat
ever to those who did not.
“Is it nskt and why he and and not publicly announce that dis
npprobation ? It would h ive bten pol cy in him to do so,
hut the noble and generous heart of licwi ll Cobb shrunk
from striking a blow that would wound his triends, even
though he thought them in the wrong. The! jut. of mum s
advocating the movement included many who were his
bi st and nearest friends. They had stood by him through
s onn and sunshine, and though his sense of du’y preven
ted his aiding them, he was not the man to hit up his
hand against them. He has pat ently home all the vitu
peration and obloquy wh'ch has been In aped upon him
on that account, and still bears it.
“The time has come—now when then the election is
over—now when the new Administration is fully formed,
and the suspicion of seeking Cabinet offices can n > lon
ger be arous -d in the minds of the most uncharitable; that
his friends owe it to him to make his true position known
Gov. C“bb now stands prepared to su tiin the great De
mocratic party to whi hhe has always belonged, and to
fg it as a private in the ranks, for the imperishable prin
ciples of JefF rs >n, Jackson, and Polk, aud wh eh he
hopes and bel eves will derive additional stredgtli and
lustre from the Administration of Franklin Pierce.
Rospec.fully. WM. 11. HULL.
Later from Mexico.
By the schooner Ed ward Bernard, the Picayune re
ceived full files of papers from Vera Cruz to the 19th.
and from the city of Mexico to the 15th inst.
With the exception of Vera Cruz, there seems to he
little feeling produced in Mexico by the publication of
Senor Escobar’s report of his interview with Santa An
na. Several of tile papers published extracts from ii
after having had it some dajs, but without editorial re
mark* of any kind
In an article on the government of Gen. Lombaid’ni.
the Siglo of the 15th instant has the following : • in
fact, as yet no one can tell the final result of the revolu
tion. Every things depends on the course of the Gov
\ emu ent of Santa Anna, and until tins is known wc
cannot kQw if domtstic peace will be consolidated, or
if : tiarchy will be prolonged until the country is
e ‘iisumed.”
Some d : fficulty having occurred in the formation of
a Cabinet, Gen. Lombardini determined to carry on the
Gov< rnment through the clerks of the department*
during the short interval that would intervene until the
return of Santa Anna.
Gen. Urag i had been appointed Minister to Spain
ft was said the Government had given him the Cross
of Angostura.
It was announced that Senor Robles had resigned
the command of his division.
Gov. To >te, of Mis:i sippi, has signified his intention to
’ a’ tend the Sou.hern Cutmnerci. 1 Convention. which i> to
b * held at Me nplsison the fi st Monday in June. He
! also appo'nted over two 1 u idred de eg lies to represent
| the State in that 1 ody.
Charles Lever, the Iri>h author. is:t present iu
Florence, It is stated that there is scare ly a capita; < f
Europe where he has not been, and where he •on i ot
owe a bill 1 He is a little < ver fifty ye; rs of jge, aLd
tile shrewdest 1 Jeremy DiL'l. ” o tie ; ge.
N. P. Willts, it s said is a disapi o ated r pplicail for
the poA of Sesretary ofLtgjt.ou at P-iis-
M. C<iUSßidu rc*, prefect of the police of Par:* for s.-rera 1
mouth®, in the beginning of the French revolution of 18 >8
arrived at New York in the steamer Africa. lie wua
elected representative of Paris by 247,000 votes, and x
‘led in August JI B4B. The French citizens were to give’
him a dinner last Saturday.
Dr. 11. Stone, an artist of Washington, has nearly com
pleted a marble bust of Chief Justice Tney, for presen
tation by the members of the bar.
General Ilaskell declines being the whig candidate tor
Tjrovernor of Tennessee.
The New York Tribune says it has been suggested
that a World’s Temperance Convention be held in that
city at seme during the approaching World's Fair—say
in August next.
Democratic Convention in Georgia.
The following suggesti ns f.um the Federal
Union meets with our approval :
It has been tlm ‘stnbli-hed usage of the party to
leave w ith its Evecutve Committee the duty of
calling its Cos ivent ous. But, during the two years
l> st, new issues have broken into ’he auci*nt par
y organizations and temporarily disarr; nged their
stem and government. Tin- Executive C>m*
inittee >h it was apnui.ited 1 st year by tt e Conven
tion, lo Id in this city tor the purpose of tom in i ing
an Electoral T.cket, is in some doubt as to the fur*
t h *-* r exercise of the power delegated to it by that
C invention. If such be true, in that event ihe duty
devolves up >n the pres-, to bting the matter before
d.e Party for co sideration. Be ieving that there
will be no official call for this Convention, and i on
tident th it tae public mind is ready jo tie quest'un
we l.eii le veto m guest, 1 hat It e CAu-ie* tion im et
in his city on the 2 and Wednesday in June next •
We select this ’hue as being tnost favorable to every
section of the Stale, but are perficly v. i. ing to
un te with the sent im-nt of the party in this resp* ct.
We hope our cotemporar sos the piesswill speak
< ut,anl gi\e ns tl.e.r views and si ggeslions in the
premises
In making a call for a Convrntir nos the Par’y,
we hoce the doing will be thrown open t >all sin
*■* ie friends f the present Adm nistration, who are
disposed io act wiih it in go and la tl in the support
of a Democrat.e Candida e for Governor.
New Applicant for the New York Coilectorship.
Washington, March 24.
Wilson G. Hunt was to-day proposed to the
President for the coilectorship of New York
The struggle now lies between i.i.n a.id Au
gustus Schell —sure.
NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS— APPLI
CANTS FOR OFFICE——WORK IN THE CENSUS
OFFICE, ETC.
Washington, March 24, 1853.
The President to day nominated John Sli
dell, of-Louisiana, as Minister to Central
America; Joseph Laire, as Collector at Pensa
cola, and Mr. Humphries, of ‘Tennessee, as
Judge of that Stale.
The Satiate confirmed Mr. Moneyponny, of
Ohio, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and
Judge Mason, of lowa, as Commissioner of
Patents. A considerable number of postmas
ters, registers and receivers of office were also
confirmed.
We hear of several removals of clerks in the
and iffi mm > fe-4e partme nisr - • - ——
Major Edward Cantwell, of Wilmington, is a
prominent candidate for District Attorney of
North Carolina. ‘There is but one other candi
date, Gen. Mcßae, the former incumbent.
It is now said Col. Gorman will not be nomi
nated to the Land office this season.
‘The five examiners appointed to investigate
the affairs of the Census office have reported
work enough yet to employ fifty clerks until
the next session of Congress, at least.
‘The Pre.-ident’s last public levee, this evening,
is thronged, and is a brilliant affair.
I From the N. Y. Tribune.]
The Vacant Jal^eship—The Spanish Embassy
—New York Appointments.
Washington, March 22.
Much to the disappointment of the Southern
Union Savers, the Supreme Court vacant seat
has fallen to the lot of the other wing of the
party. John A. Campbell, Esq , of Mobile, who
carries off that piize, was about the most ultra
Secessionist in all the Southern States during
the late struggle in that quarter over the Com
promise questions. I may truthfully add, that
though comparatively unknown north of the
Potomac, (for he has never been in either
branch of Congress,) lie is about the ablest man
connected with the ultra State Rights organiza
tion anywhere. That is, lie is chock full of
talent, genius, industry and energy, to say
nothing of his proverbial shrewdness as a poli
tician, yet he is sadly deficient in ballast, lie
Utils woefully to carry lha ii proportion to his
sail. Mr. C. is about 45 years of age, not oldet,
and was born in Georgia, whence lie emigra
ted to Mobile on enteiing manho id. For the
last ten years lie has been, deservedly, at the
tiead of the Alabama bar. During the Nash
ville Convention times lie contributed to the
Southern Rights Press the ablest, bitterest, and
j most violent articles against the Union {perse,
i if I am not much mistaken,) which grew’ out of
that never-to be forgotten controversy. If ft am
not greatly mistaken, Mr. Campbell was not an
ippheant for the position, being urged on the
Prtsident in all probability chiefly by Col. Jef
ferson Davis His appointment vvi 1 take capi
tally in his Judicial District, wherein be is ex
ceedingly popular, and as a ju ist and a3 a man
he commands the respect and co ifidence of
every one, notwithstanding the ultii.ism ofhislate ;
secessionist sentiments. Gen. Downs, of Lou- I
isiana, desired the place, in ease he could not
command the Mission to Spain. The appoint
netH of Campbell to it satisfies me that D. will
(btain his first choice, as he is about the only
leading Union party Democrat in all the ex
treme South, who deseives and really enjoys
the entire confidence of the President. I have
no idea that Senator Souie entertains the
slightest notion of going ; b oad ; nor can 1 con
ceive that he would be sent to Spain under any j
pressure in his favor, however enthusiastic the
President may be in his admiration for certain
peculiar traits in his (Soule s) public character
He is decidedl y too much of a genius for the
Administration’s purposes at the Spanish Court
where our Representatives for the ensuing foui
vears may expect to have a far more exciting
time than will be encountered by either of hL
colleagues at other European capitals. W
want no dashing diplomatist in that quarter
no man of peculiarly brilliant points-.huP
steady, safe going, long headed, patient anil
plodding man —one who carefully looks* after
small matters appertaining to his duties, and
will, therefore, busy himself in noting, collab
ing and keeping alive the little items of* the ac
cruing account against Spain, which, in time
may be useful as the basis of, or justification for*
events to occur, which are sooner or later t>
end in our acquisition of Cuba, according to th*
calculations of the “manifest destiny” men
; Downs, of all the statesmen of the South jj
i this man, to a notch* and I am persuaded that
his peculiarities w ill ere long cause him to | Jt .
dispatched thither.
“Mother,” asked a little girl, while listening
to the reading of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “why
don’t the book mention Topsy’s last name ’
1 have tried to hear it whenever it spoke of her
but it has not once spoke it.”
“Why, she had no other name, chib’.*’
“Yes she had, mother, and 1 know it.”
“What was it ?”
“Why, Turvy— I Topsy Turvy.’*
“You had better go to bed, my dear,” said
the mother. “You are as bad as your old
grandmother, for she can’t say poik without
beans, for the life of her.”
THREE .DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF T ** E STEAJ,E *
NIAGARA.
ADVANCE IN CUT N.
i
New York, March 31.
The Briti h mail steamship N trrmdnt
H lifax on Wednesday, btinging Liverpool <• es to
Saturday the 19th inst., three days Lter than the
Franklin ai New Y T ork.
Liverpool Cotton Market*
The accounts by the Nirgara statehat prices in
Liverpool hod advanced under ihe inffuei ieot de
Arc icV advices from this de. Fair and Mii'd ing
quali ies are 1 -16 > id. higher. The sales of tl.c
week comprise i8 2uo bales, of which rxp rters
took 7.510 bales. On Friday the Bth the nrrket
opened rc ive, but ti vvwids ihe clo*e the dtinand
fall off. The sales that and .y, hcw tvtr, bitwt-* n 7
and FOX) bales.
r \ he quotations are as t< 11< w® ; Fail Orlerrn
Middling 5|.; Fair Mobile 6.; Ma rling .
Treads!utfare firm; Wheat has declined ore
|k nny, and F our haa also experienced a dicliie
worn three to six pence.
The AiCtic anivedai Liverpo< 1 at midnight tn
the 17th and the A {son the 18ih.
France.
France continues quiet. It is very very unrer.
tun whether the Tope will come to Paiin to clown
Louis Napoleon.
Fngtaad.
L >rd John Russell has announced to Parliament
th-ii tlie Sirdin'an Goveimmnt hd asked the li
ter vention ot England agalmt- 1 e sequestr. tr n*f
the pr perty ot S rcinian sul jcts by th* Goverr*
memos Austria, in consequence ofwhi< li the British
m nisler has written strong letters ot leiouistri>i.ce
to Vienna.
Lord John also stated that the Mexican govern
ment had reduced the dutv on printed calitoes.
Tuscany.—The Medici family have been ULeia*
te4-and-ordered to lea-Ve Tuscany.
Cotton MaVket*
The cotton market was firm a Lor.don, and prices
had advanced an eighth <fa penny.
The money market r* maimd uncharged, Con
sols fluctuating from a quarter below t*. an tit.l.ih
above pat.
Havre Cotton Market.
At H.v re on the iSth prices advanced, under the
influence of the A etu’s aec* unts, the sales of le
day r<>a* hing i.Q.,0 sale®. Tres Urdiniaie is quihd
*t 924.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUTCTE.
ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN.
COTTON UNCHANGED.
New Vej x March 2X
The American steamship Frank! i. has ariivtd
fr* in Havre, which poit she |-ft on ihe ICth, aid
hr ngs Liveipool dat* s to Tuesday the 15 h inst,
t >ree days later than pievious acc* unts.
Liverpool Cottin M/Xxet.—ln t e Lverpnol
Uoitun Mai kef there was a moderate d< inai.cl ui
Saturday the 12 h. and Mo day the 14h..\rda
h ter demand on Tuesday the 15th. T"e sales of
Cotton ‘o-the three days reached 171 (0 lalts, of
which r .ooo* ales w ere taken n rj t until n iid
so- exp ri. Thei e was no change in he quotations
and pr e* rein in una tere I. B ’ends ufls generally
had r* covered fr* m last week’s depressioi .
The English Funds, Railway and Foi* S>r< ks
wer- firm, 7he tmmy tiiiku w;s a tiifie
easier.
Th® Golden Gate Burnt at F*a*
New Y* rk. March 2\
Ad. have reached ht-re from Antigua to the
6ti inst. A had arrived at that port with sev
* not the crew of the Golden Gate, which had
been burnt at sea.
? Ew r Y oi X Cotton Market.—-Nothirg done in
Cuiiuu io-day. Waiting tlearner’s advi.es.
Fatal Sai'road Accident.
Baltimore, March 29.
An accident occurred to day on toe B Htimore
!) nd () io Ri.ilroad, by wh-ch two ears were prtcip
t *tt and down a bunk a dis ance of overt ne hundred
feet, turning two summers ts. The cars ton tinned
forty person®, eignt of whom are ascertained to huve
b*er kill ;d, among them AureesSale, of South
Ca o ni. Some dozen persons aie more or lets
ii ju.cd.
Farther Kews by the Franklin.
New Yoi k. March 3X
D fcour.to by ti e Bank of are made at
j 2£. American Stock have sligbt'y nqrovtd-
At Manchester t s coarse dcsciipn ns of i< < **s
hjnesii.'htlv declin’ and, but the s ate of trade c< ft
i l ies healthy. In the wo. L*n trde v.a>
a tive, at a s iglit impiuve.iit nt in pii.es.
Revulitl n lit India—A new r* v< Juti< n has
i>i< en out m India. Avu, King of Luirm.h, has
b en dt posed by bis Brothi r.
Death ‘F Haynau.— Marshal Havnau
ilie 1 Id. in .i.
lat?r frcm Havana—Mr. Kirg.
New Y rjc, March 30.
Lite from Havana has tetri Motiv
ed at tl is c y. Mr. Kmg ptc*f o?es ’o sad fir ftJ •
oe on ihe Ist f April, lie er.tertj.in* r.o lo pe
f roco\eiy, a td is anxious to retain to his own
-ouutry, tha bj may not die in a io e g i land.
Appointments.
\Va3hikchox. M re’i 33.
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