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[Fiom the Chronicle & Sentinel ] Female Ednetioi.|-® Georgia. Mk. Editor :—The recent (convention oi Teachers and the prospect of another in Novem her, have made the public interested in the suh- , iect of schools: and I have made some memo randa of subjects on which to make some re marks. I am not a teacher, hut circumstances have turned my attention to the subject, and a prolonged stay ill various parts of Georgia have given me opportunities for observing the results of our present system for female education, which verv few persons have had. The Hrst item is text hooks. The constant changes of books which so drain the purges of parents, reallv make one fancy that Yankee teachers must l>e in league with Yankee publishers. Ihe elementary books now used are especially un fitted for use. A really good compeud of his trv is a thing yet o he seen. If uniformity could he secured, so l.i ge editions would he required that the books could he furnished very cheaply; hut even were a gonde> ition prepared he competent aiithmity it might he, impracti cable to bring i in*> gen. ral use. except in few’ schools undr r State control. ‘1 he Legislature might possibly pa>s a law prohibiting the col lecting of school bills in such schools, unless these hooks were used. In saying a set of text hooks ought to he prepared by Southeineis, I would not be supposed to sanctum the notion of those, who are so intensely and i idiculmi>i\ Southern as some were, who prepared a South ern speaker which did not even admit speeches I v nv hut Southern men, and a very poor a! fair it was too. ihe second item is female colleges. There has, probably, been no subject on which more j humhun has been utteied for the last 20 years ! than female education. In Georgia it has, in an especial manner, been our pet humbug ; one which hut to name was to open the purse strings of all liberal people. Now, win n a people have a pet humbug, woe be to that luckless in dividual who attempts to open their eves. In Georgia we often heai the boast that this is the first State in which colleges for women were . ever established. Vain glory, even where the boast is true, is rather ridiculous, and leads to a habit of meditating on one’s own merits, which is ceitainlv not favorable to seeing or correcting faults. The first objection to them is to Board ing Schools altogeti er. If education only re ferred to what one learned of hooks, it might he admitted that it could he obtained at a large boarding school, perhaps, as well as elsewhere. But it refers to character, manners, tastes, iVe., and for all these ihe/jrc. ariovs system of large j boarding schools is exceedingly had training.— 1 can speak with expe. ienee on this subject, for I was partly educated at one inyseif, and a very : excellent one, the Barhainville (S. C.,) School, ; kept by Dr. Marks* The training of character can be very little influenced by teachers in these schools; but is almost entirely influenced by the association of other girls,and this association I is, in such schools, the result of accident. As j for manners, no hoarding school, either North or South, can train them p.operly, for good j manners are the result of a fine character as a foundation, educated into a proper expression of itself in manner, by association with well bred people. The self possession, which is the j chief characteristic of fine manners, is based j upon a proper appreciation of one’s self and others. A proper appreciation of one’s self de ; pends on hating a character which entitles us to respect, and a proper appreciation of others, j on good fueling, improved by that deference j well bred society compels us to pav each other Gills educ. ted at home in a family which has j well bred visitors aie improved by that associa- j tion, but in a boarding school, of course, li>r • girls to go into society would evidently lead to so many evils that it could not be desirable. A good many of those who go North, come home with a sort of confidence, the result of the con* | ciousness they have been to Mrs. so and so’s | fashionable school, and so are supposed to be ‘ accomplished; but this, though it ceitninly is better than the maurais honfe, with which they would otherwise be afflicted, only produces a sort of pert forwardness, rather than lady like ease and self possession. Where girls do‘come home with really fine manners, they would have had them had they remained at home, foi some people are constitutionally well bred.— The only tiling which can b, said in favor ol the gregarious system, is that it is a substitute for something better, when, as in many cases, that something better can not be obtained The daughters ol planters living in the country, sometimes, cannot have the benefit of a good day school, and all mothers are not calculated to be an advantage to their daughters in train ing character and manners. Most of our wo men are so devoted to “stitch, stitch, stitch, j seam and gusset and gusset and hand,’’ like ! Hood’s Shit t woman, that they have no time j for anything else. Not that I would he sup posed to slight stitchen, for to be a fine needle- j woman is certainly a feminine and graceful accomplishment, (1 do not refer to the working ; of worsted enormities, or the making of purses and slippers to fine to he used, or any other! such time, tyes and health-wasting nhomina- | tions; hut file has other duties not it consistent with needles and houce-keeping. The truth is, the state of things which make these large boarding schools desirable, is hv no means to l>e gloried in. Since, however, we must have them, they should have as little of the grega rious element as possible, and in no case should the number be greater than should he sufficient to sustain teachers of English, Musk* and French; and a large number of gbls never ought to board together. There is more specu lation in these things than people imagine.— Men who own p-o petty in stagnating liule vil lages are very willing to have female colleges and while contributing to the wants of us be nighted females, improve the value of their pro perty. As for the name College we (Georgians take •uch exuberant pride in applying to female schools, unless the things which we call colle ges are something better than the things wide aie called by the good old fashioned name or board,, g schools, I must think the magnii cence of the term only a little ludicrous. 1 haw known i many of the j upil, and I think the standard of 8.A.. -li “ b “l“ *“ attr *ge w ith that of BrhamviU and otherachools. few ofthe“col- lege” girls, however, seem imbued w ith those ; literary tastes, which Dr. Marks excited in his j pu| i!s. The only difference that I can see r, j that the colleges are called so, are chartered, ; and i believe, to some extent, endowed; the classes into which the giiL ae divided, are call ed Senior, Junior, &c., the teachers are called trie “Faculty,” and tire examinations are called Commencements, at and they give Diplomas. A testimonial of having goi e through with the j prescribed course of studies is, doubtless, a very good tiling, especially in tire case of a young la- dy who expects to teach ; and, perhaps 1 might j he inclined to attach more importance to tfem had I found the ownership of one, always indi cative of scholarship. My chief objection to the college system, however, lies in the Com- j mencements. Can you, Mr. Editor, give me one single reason, good or had, which shall justify j the public reading of compositions hv young | gills. To write a good English style should he part of the education of every lady, because all may be called upon to write tetters, but this can be attained without this public reading, and if it ! could not, every well wisher to the young ladies of Georgia would say in the name of common ;-ense, give it up. I don’t know whether it is in tended to train our young ladies into the ora tors of YV linen’s Rights Contentions, but the plan seems admirably designed to efltvt that ob ject. it anything cruel he needed to convince parents that such exhibitions are utterly incon sistent w ith all our ideas of female delicacy and ; retirement, surely the epithet “female brass foundries,’’ applied to them by some wit or oth er, should setrle the matter. The true state ment of the case is, that they are designed as an animal way of bringing the school before the public, getting into the papers and adverti sing it. Surely parents can see that. ‘I bis evil, however, will soon work its own cure, for I see the editors who have been remarkably long suffering, are getting tired of such advertise ments, which pay nothing and bore their read ers. W ere you, Mr. Editor, ever so unfortunate as to attend one of these Commencements? — Were uni tver so unmercifully bored ? If so, \ou w ill excuse me lor getting a iittle excited upon the subject. Os course, it is not to be ex pected every young lady could write an article in which pe< pie generally could be interested, and therefore the more shame to those who com pel the poo? things to “embody ami unbosom, that which is nut within them, and wreak want * f thought upon expression,’’ if I may be per mitted to make a parody. These productions remind me of w hat 1 once heard said of some similar effusions, “that they had all the merrit w’liicir proceeds from want of fault, and all the fault that proceeds from want of merit.” To : put a total end to them, it would only he neces- I sary to apply the first part of Dr. Witherspoon’s advice to young theological students, “never he gin until you have something to say, and be sure I ti stop when you have got through and I don’t | know but the same rule would put an end to the j annual addresses made at Commencements, and : l and re say the respectable gentlemen, whose I time and talents are called into requisition, j would he glad to he freed in future from such ! demands. Not that I would accuse them of having nothing to say, for 1 dare say they have many valuable ideas to offer upon many sub jects, and that i> the *ery reason they should net ! ne expected to wa&te time and talents on a sub ject which has been so wofully used up, that he who could find anything new to say on it would , a genius indeed. The truth is. we Americans have such a singular idea of enjoyment that we seem to imagine if we have somebody to make ! a pee eh for us, we have provided the most de- I liglitfui entertainment ofw hich mortal man could ; conceive. Query, if female education is an ex hausted subject now', what will it he a hundred years hence, if this speechifying continues? In some newspaper this summer, l saw a list of the I proposed commencement addresses, with a note from some editoiial pen characterising the whole as a rich literary treat. If that editor was not talking for the gullible constituency of : Buncombe, which I suppose lie was, the worst ! I wish him is to he confined to such literary treats for the rest ol his life. 1 have been quite ninustd with the reports given by the selected official character, of the exercises and state of j the schools; each one wishes to give the idea that the school hd writesfor is the best of all, and as hyperbole and inflammatory language have al ready been exhausted, the contest forsuprema- ; ey gets moie ludicrous every year. I expect they w ill have to resort to the devices of the pa tent medicine veiuh r- before long, in order to he read, and I suggest for the benefit of all those j I have heard, complain of the thing, that they ; i he put in the same column with the patent tne dicihes, for the convenience of skipping. I have been quite amused with the distress ; of poor Bishop Andrew, as to where the sixteen I hundred young ladies, now educating in female colleges, (1 am not sure of the number, but only j fear understating it,) were to find husbands, since there were only three hundred young men educating in the various male colleges. Dear compassionate old gentleman, I am happy in beii g able to relieve his mind, and at the same time poi r brim into the hearts of the unhappy young i e i who must be distressed at the idea of beii g o erwhelmed with the company of six teen I undred 1 >lne stockings; but the truth is, [ doubt if a hundred of them ever read a book through ater leaving school, unless it he a no vel. Thi; bringing them before the public and talking a’ out the children of G o gia will, I am ; afraid. o lv t * id to n ake them alarmingly p>e cocioi s If the edi or of Harper’s Magazine! ’ were to send some conn • limner here, I am cer ; tain he would find good food for the comic pages ot that Magazine. He would be ceitaiu to i have some of the brass-buttoned likene s *s of young Shanghais at Marietta talking to tin i • ma’s about the wav “we military men” do One more remuk, and ! will leave the subject, ll j public delivery of their sentiments be concluded ■ advisable in the education of young ladies. I propose we send North and get Miss Lucy Stone : to be professor of oratory, as she is more used . | to tfiat sort of thing, than anv other ladv I have j ;li Mdof 3 ’'j 1 have a plan to offer, to which T wish all j those wl o have money to spare for the endow ’ mei t of literary institutions, would devote their -pate ilo.l ir3. We often bear complaints that Nortlu.ru teachers are so constantly employed in Southern schools ; but the reason there is no supply to meet the demand for Southern teach ers, is, that facilities for education at the South I not being as good as at the North, only those who were too rich to resort to teaching could become sufficiently prepared. YVhat 1 would ; suggest (with beoming diffidence, tor pernaps someone may he able to give a better plan) L, that people contribute money for the endow ment of a Normal school (not a “college’ 1 hope,) for the education of Female teachers. In every community there may he torod some ; indigent girls, “ho, if they had the opportunities would make most excellent teachers. Let every j on* who contributes a certain snrn have the ; right of presentation to a situation in this school, | the presentee however, before accepted, subject , to a rigorous examination as to capacity ; tor j not every woman, Mr. Editor, has the raw ma terial out of which to make a teacher and such \ an institution being des’gned mainly for public ] benefit and only incidentally as a elmrity. j ; should exc’ude all who do not present a pros pect by capacity and diligence, of being useful to the public. The intellectual training in such an institution could be as thorough as that at ! West Point is well known to be, and for a sim ilar reason it would be independent oi public patronage for support. Testimonials should be granted to those who qualify themselves for teachers. After leaving school, unless the} 1 | taught a certain number of years, they should be considered indebted to the institution for the expenses of education. (For some of the three hundred educated young men might take a I fancy to marry some of these teachers—certain- ; ly none but educated men would, tor they would verify Bishop Andrew’s fear of knowing too much for any others) In all their schools they should be bound to receive a number of poor children grar’s. Such teachers as such an | institution would produce, w'ould he in demand j i notonlvin Georgia, hut all over the South; and if got up without any pretentious nonsense to ; make it ridiculous, the school would he a legiti- \ mate boast of our people. The imitation ot our j plan, by people in other States, w’ould prove the j usefulness of it, far better than vain glorious j laudations bv every 7 speech-maker, who wishes ; ! to gain popularity by talking for Buncombe.— i I did wish to say something as to what women should he taught, but I have already been more ; lengthy than I wished, Betsy Trot wood. I IBmes mttJ BtxdmtL COLUM B US, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING. NOV. 5, 1853. ii Female Education in Georgia.” We like to see a free, candid and reasonable expres : sion of opinion Hpon every subject worthy an opinion, j It do b one good in this age of‘‘humbug” and finical | sensitiveness about “public favor” or disfavor. The • article we give from the Chronicle Sentinel speaks ! jst to our liking. ! We all know that there is a perfect mania in our ! State on the subject of Female Education. It is one of | our “weaknesses.” Let us not be understood sis wish i ing to detract from the very commendable desire now so common, to improve the Female mind—we but re : fer to the manner in which this is so popularly soughs to be attained The whole system, with some very rare exceptions, at present goes upon stilts. A teacher |is no longer to be called such, but, a Professor. We have no more schools and seminaries now-a-days. they have all become Colleges, or at the very least. Collegi ette Institutes. No longer does a neat unpretending “circular,” announce that Mr. and Mrs. or Madame so and-so, would be pleased to take a few scho’ars, offer ing the associations of the family and the care of the eame with other unobtrusive and delicate expositions of ! minutiae, for the purpose of convincing parents of the j fitness and propriety of placing daughters under their charge—when in order to afford them an eauca i tion. circumstances compell them to be sent from home. | But now flaiming, pretentious-—green, yellow and pink “catalogues’’ are distributed through every public | place, announcing a “Collegiate course,” expatiating largely upon the “extensive accommodations”—thereby meaning in most instances - narrow, ill-ventila and dor mitories, each for half a dozen occupants, more or less, i An aunual “commencement,” of course. , when modest j : mien and gentle worth, with (we will not say what : sort of) must make a display ! “To stretch the gaping eyes of idiot wonder,” and j i more wv m ght truthtuily add, but have already written I at great length probably, than wo ought in the presence of one so accomplished as Aunt (?) Betsy Trotwood. | : Whether she be such a strict, plain,eccentric,noble hearted | personage as David Copperfield’s “Aunt Betsy,” or ‘ some thoughtful, yet cheerful, candid spirit, who loves j to tel! the truth for truth’s sake, the interest she mam- j fests for the improvement of her sex will commend her I views to the kind and grateful consideration of all, 1 particularly, as we are informed she is a native Geor- j gian, and tells so pleasantly and readily w hat she thinks, j Strawberries in spite ol Frost. On entering our sanctum this morning, we were very agreeably surprised to fi id a most elegant and luscious collection ot strawberries. The fruit so ripe and deli cious— tne leaves so green, and blossoms peeping out here and there, made us forget for a time that it was November. They came of course, from the gardens of Charles A. Paabody, who has now had for ten months such specimens of his skill and aucoeis in this cul ture. The varieties s*nt us. was the “Hovey Seed ling'*’ and “Early Scarlet.’’ To the skeptical, we will state, that they were taken from their beds and sent in with roots and vines while the dew was y.-t upon ihem. j Superior Court of M uscosf.k Countv.— We are au nonsed, Jnd requested by Judge Iverson, to Bav ! the Superior Court of this county will be adjourned | over to the 4th Monday in this month. Jurors and ! ther parties interested will act accordingly. November 4th, 1853. OCr Attention is called to the several advertisements | in lo da - vs P a P er of Messrs. Wvnee * Edwards.— i T'^ le,r °f b *ots and Shoes is large and gotten up in ; ell gam style; and they can not fail to suit any person whunsy favor them with a call. _ Ev C .lltctor Bronson has been nominated for the Lotted Suites Senate, to succeed Mr. Seward, whose term expires in 1855, by the Democratic Convention of Orange county, New York. I 33“ The Whigs have made themselves so ridiculous about the Democratic vote in this County and District, that while we feel a contempt for their charges, we are disposed to touch them now and then for their reuk -1 ss presumption. The Federal Union thus applies its i caustic stick. A poor compliment tor the Whigs. —A correspon dent of the Republican who subscribes liimselt Obsenc, insinuates that the Demo rats ol Muscogee county bought many Whig votts with the money of broken banks. \\ hig principles must hang very loose upon men, w. en thev can be bought so dog cheap as O server insinuates ; He says some of the Conservatives proposed to make , up a purse to buy votes, hut the plan was abandoned. W e suppose they found out that Democrate were not in the market. The Superior Court for Fairfield county, Connecticut, lart week granted a divorce to a Mrs. Baldwin, now l seventeen years of age—only fifteen when she married . The ground of her petition was intolerable cruelty. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Greenville, Ala., October 28th, 1853. \ j In company with the President and several of the | Directors of the Girard Railroad, I have attended meet ! ings on the line of the road ir. Pike, Lowndes and But ! let- counties. These meetings have been generally well | attended and characterized by the most gratifying evi ! donees of zeal and interest in the success of this great en j terprize. At Farriorsville, Pike uo., the friends of the ; Road gave a fine barbecue, at which several hundred per | sons were present, including a fair proportion of the ladies ; of ihe surrounding country. This was the first of the se i ries of appointments, the President and Directors are now filling, and was an earnest of the deep interest felt in the completion of the Girard Road along tue entire line. Many of the most prominent citizens of the coun ty were present and participated in the proceedings, and not only by their presence encouraged the work, but gave the most substantial proof of their confidence j in it as a profitable investment by subscribing liberally ; for the stock. At a meeting held in Lowndes every man present who was not already a stock holder, except I two subscribed for stock-—one of these will subscribe | and that liberally ; the other is only prevented by bad I luck, as he termed it. The meeting at this place to-day j was small in consequence of the inclemency of the i weather, but what was lacking in numbers was made up jin zeal on the part of those who were present. Several ! of these appointments were upon the line of Mor.tgome | ry county, and were attended by citizens of that county 5 who manifested equal interest with the rest in the early ; completion of the road. In fict. Messrs. Editors, the people are fully alive to ! the importance of this great work, and see clearly its 1 bearing upon the interests and prosperity of their res ! pective counties. They manifest the most perfect read iness to aid, as far as they are able, its completion, and are fully sensible of the many advantages they will en j y when the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic shall be united by means of the Girard Railroad. To an out sider the prospect seems good tor the entire Road to be put under contract in a short time—“a consummation i most devoutly wished for.” , Chunntnugoek. j _ —- [From the Charleston Mercury.] Mr. Guthrie and his Enemies. Those unacquainted with the past history of, the Hon, James Guthrie, Secretary of the Trea- j sury, as most of our readers are ; seeing the low | and vulgar abuse of him, in the New York Her ald, and other kindred papers; must necessarily ; j feel some curiosity to know something of his antecedents, and the cause ol this onslaught up on him. Mr. Guthrie, is a stalwart Kentuckian, with! a remarkable striking appearance, flis man ners are plain and unostentatious. The expres sion of his countenance, at tiist sight, is rather j forbidding, which soon disappears, upon ae j j quaintance, however, and gives place to confi- | j deuce. His high qualities of head and heart, placed him in the lead ot his profession, in his native j •State, and his probity ol character, secured the ! | confidence of his people to such a degree, that j I he was always elected to the political positions ; !he sought, although a firm and unflinching I States Rights Democrat, and living in a Wlim S district. ‘ i His whole history, his pure morals, and his j stiict integrity, indicated him as a proper man to administer the Treasury Department; and so | k 5 -r as he has gone, he has iully come up to the i highest expectations of the public, j i*- to he expected, that the man who | undertook to correct the misrule of the Trea- ! j ? ur v v Department, under the late Whig Admin istration, and biingit back to its legitimaie ac- j i t,on 5 enforcing strictly the accountability of j those. connected with it; and diiving off those ! w * io yampyres, were sucking from it; would ‘ escape without denunciation. Ml Guthrie’s first act of reform was to turn j the forfeitures of twenty per cent upon under I valued goods from the purses of the Collectors, j into the vaults af the Treasury, where it pro- j peiiy belonged, thus correcting an abuse which I hau grown into practice, and saving hundreds ol thousands oi dollars to the 1 roasury. Ibe practice of giving the forfeitures to the Collectors, which was clearly not contemplated by the law, gave the Collectors of New York and ban franclsco, and oilier ports where the j importations were large, better salaries than the | President ot trie United States receives. In this connection, the manner in which the C ollectors ail over the country discharge their duties, earne under his scrutinizing eve, and | loose screw's were tightened, and many abuses were corrected. 1 he contracts tor public buildings pertaining | to tbe . yeasurv Department, were looked into remodeled, and put in proper trim, and the re sponsibility ot the contractors most earefuilv examined. lu order to systematise this branch of public i Usille ss, he made a requisition upon the becre ar’ °. . ar * or a Ui\il Engineer, w hose actual j * u P rvi ®n will prevent any misapplication of ; tunas, or improper discharge of duty on the part o contractors. Many sinecures were abolish | ed, and this branch o business put upon a safe j a,ld economical footing, ! A “ r : , Gu l‘”? e \ “ ext “•e““re was the with , ai o .* ly lunds ol the Government from the possesion of Bankers and Brokers where uey na been lying as a standing deposit, re- . suiting m vast pecuniary profits to the holders. 1 I lie agency of Bankers and Brokers had been used to redeem the stocks of Goverment. which had fallen due, and also for the purpose of buy ing up those not doe, which the condition of the Treasury justified. Mr. Simeon Draper was one of these agents, and by the timely settlement, and the withdraw | al of the deposits from him, much has been sav i ed for the country. Under Mr. Guthiie’s administration, he per ; nicious practice of allowing saiaieid officers of the Government to draw their salaries, and ex tra compensation for duty perfoimed by them, has been discontinued. By this practice, which had grown to he a universal one, large sums of public money were paid to officers ot the army, acting in a civil capacity in California, and much more was paid to civil officers engaged in running over the country upon errands altogether unnecessary to the public business. I have grouped together a few of the reforms | introduced into the administration of the I'rea sury Department by the Secretary of the Trea* 1 sury, for the information of your readers, and for the purpose of pointing public attention to the latent cases which have given rise to the furious assaults that have been hurled upon the Secretary by the disappointed plunderers oi the j public treasury. It was not to be expected that the thwart ed would leave the rescued game, without making a desperate attempt to regain it.—- Finding this impossible, they, like a drove ot hungry wolves, when the wounded deer is I almost within their clutches, is snatched from ! them by some skillful hunter, set. up a howl iof disappointment, and sullenly leave the ground. This course of policy is the head and front of the Secretary’s offending, and is the real cause of the denunciations which have been heaped upon him, and for which his letter to Bronson ; has been made the pretext. It appears to be * conceded, or rather taken for granted, that the ! Administration has interfered in the New Y ork I quarrels, and Mr Guthrie’s letter to Bronson is ■ seized upon as a proof of thefact.T his is in no respect true. The Administration seeing the | difficulty between the two wings of the party in New York—was inevitable, determined that the policy of the President in regard to appoint ments to office, should not be affected by it, I and hence the letter of the Secretary was writ ; ten to Mr. Bronson. Any one who will take i the trouble to read carefully Mr. Guthrie’s letter i to the Collector of New York will see that, so j far from it being proscriptive, it actually pro- I scribed proscription. It simply admonished the ■ Collector that he was not to appoint men from i his own wing of the party exclusively, but from the other also; in other words, the Secretary ■ informed Mr, Bronson that the division was not regarded by the Administration at all as disquali tying either wing, and that it must be so con sidered by him. But Mr. Bronson had his own ends in view, ai 4 to carry them through lie misconceived and misrepresented the Secretary’s letter, ; n ! made it the pretext of doing directly what he had been doing indirectly—that is, opposing the Admin istration. It is well known that Mr. Bronson, and those who were acting with him, were openly suport ing Brady and Cooley, who bad declared war upon the President and the policy of his admin istration, long before the letter ot the Secretary was written In the vain hope of extricating themselves, from their inconsistencies, they died to separate the President from his Cabinet, and put all kinds of reports before the country, through their mouth piece, the New York Her ald, of dissensions in tire Cabinet, and the ne cessity of its dissolution. It evidentl y was their intention to come to an open rapture with the Administration, and every subterfuge was re sorted to to lead off public attention from their inconsistencies, and from the true cause of their discontent, and hence the hue and cry they rul ed against the Secretary of the Treasury, whogy lt mortal offence was the reforms he had brought 1 about in his Department, and not his letter to Bronson. 1 have often heard our own Great Statesman say that the man who undertook to reform (he ; abuses of this Government, would have the en j tire pack of disappointed place-seekeis and | plunderers of the Treasury at his heels, and that j he was afraid that there was not virtue enough iin the country to save him from destruction. It j remains lo he seen whether this Administration, J which 1 believe has honestly set out with this in tention. will be sustained by the people. ! my last communication I classed the Sec retary o? State, Mr. Marcy, with other Northern politicians, as having been opposed to the ex tension of slavery in the territories; this, 1 learn trom a iriend, is not the case, and that his record is'clean from this blot, and I therefore note the fact and make the correction. PALMETTO. ! Luxurious Kissing Described. —Almost any writer, says the \ankee Blade, can describe emotions of joy, anger, fear, doubt or hope ; but there are very few who can give anything like an adequate description of the exquisile, heaven ly and thrilling joy of warm, affectionate kissing. We cony below three of the best attempts that w’e have ever seen. The first is by a young ladv during her first year of courtship: “Let thy arm twine Around me like a zone of love, And thy fond iip, so soft, To mine be passionately pressed, As it has been so soft.” The next is by a lady atter her engagement. It will readily be seen that her powers of des cription are far in advance of the one’s quoted “Sweetest love. riace thy dear arm beneath my drooping head, And let me lowly nest'e on thy heait; 7a en urn those soul-lit orbs on me and press My parting lips to ta-t the eestacy Imparted by each long and lingening kiss.” But the best thing we have seen is the folfow by Alexander Smith. We think, however, than when a man so freely indulges in oscula-’ tory nectar as to imagine he is Walking on thrones,” he should be choked off. Hear him: “>ly eoul leaped up beneath thy timid kiss. What then to me were g oaos, Or pai lor death 1 Earth was a round of bliss, 1 seamed. lo walk on thrones.” iW” The lion. Robert M. McLane. U. £>. Commission* r to v hirsa, is i . Washington, a tendi: g at t it State De partment, where he is receiving his instructions connec ted with the duties of hi mission.