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[Fiom the Chronicle &■ Sentinel ] Female i;<lnerttioi.B- Georgia. Mk. Editor :—Tfifi recent Convention ol Teachers and the prospect of another in Novem | her, have made the public interest* and in the s?ul>- iect of schools: and I have made some memo- I randn of subjects on which to make some re marks. lam not a teacher, hut circumstances have turned mv attention to the subject, and a prolonged stay in various parts of Georgia have given me opportunities for observing the results 0 f our present system for female education, which very few persons have had. The Hist item is text hooks. The constant changes of books winch so drain the purges of parents, reallv make one fancy that Yankee teachers must lie in league w ith \ ankee publishers, ihe elementary hooks now used are especially un fitted for use. A really good compend of Iris t**rv is a tiling \et o he seen. If uniformity could he secured, so la ge editions would he required that the books cnild he furnished very cheaply; hut even were a goode> itioii prepared bv competent authority it might he, impracti cable to bring i irr> gen ml use. except in lew schools und r State control. The Legislature might possibly pass a law prohibiting the col- ; lectirg of school bills in such schools, unless i these hooks were used. In saying a set of text hooks ought to he prepared by Souther nets, I would not be supposed f< sanction the notion of those, who ate so intensely arid iidiculoud\ j Southern ns some were, who prepared a South ern speaker w hich did n>t even admit speeches I v anv hut Southern men, and a very poor al fair it was too. Jhe second item is female colleges. There has, probably, been no subject on which more humbug 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 str itrgs of all liberal people. Now', when a people have a pet humbug, woe be to that luckhss in dividual who attempts to open their eyes. In Georgia we often heat the boast that this is the first State in which colleges for women were • ever established. Vain glory, even where the boast is tme, is rather ridiculous, and leads to a habit of meditating on one’s own merits, which is ceitainly not favorable to seeing or correcting faults. The first objection to them is to Board ing Schools altogetl er. If education only re ferred to what one learned of hooks, it might be admitted that it could he obtained at a large boarding school, perhaps, as well as elsewhere. But it refers to character, manners, tastes, eVc., and for all these the ariovs system of large boarding schools is exceedingly bad training.— 1 can speak with expe*ietice on this subject, for I was partly educated at one myself, and a very i excellent one, the Barhamville (S. C.,) School, ! kept by Dr. Marks* The training of character can be very little influenced by teachers in these schools; hut is almost entirely influenced by! the association nfothergirls,and this association I is, in such schools, the result of accident. As I for manners, no hoarding school, either Noith or South, can train them p;perly-, for good manners are the result of a fine character as a foundation, educated into a proper expression of itself in manner, by association with well I bred people. ‘Hie sell* possession, which is the chief characteristic of tine manners, is based upon a proper appreciation of one’s self and others. A proper appreciation of one’s self de pends on ha\ing a character which entitles us to respect, and a proper appreciation of others, on good fueling, improved by that deference well bred society compels us to pav each other Gills edue. ted at home in a family which has well hied visitors ate improved by that associa tion, hut in a hoarding school, of course, fr girls to go into, society would evidently lead to so many evils that it could not he desirable. A good many of those w'ho g* North, come home w ith 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 he accomplished; hut this, though it ceitninly is : better than the maurais honte , with which they would otherwise he afflicted, only produces a sort of pert forwardness, rather than lady like ease and self possession. Where gills do come home with really fine manners, they would have had them had they remained at home, sot some pt'Of le are constitutionally w ell bred.— The only thing which can b,i said in favor o! 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 of 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, seam and gusset and gusset and hand,’’ like Hood’s Shirt woman, that they have no time for anything else. Not that 1 would he sup posed to slight stitehen, fur to be a fine needle- j woman is certainly a feminine and graceful accomph>hment, (1 do not refer to the working of worsted enormities, or the making of purses and slippers to fine to be used, or any other ! such time, ryes and health-wasting ahomina- ! tions; hut life has other duties not ii consistent w iih needles and houce-keeping. The truth is, i the state of things which make these large boarding schools desirable, is by no means to be gloried in. Since, however, we must have I them, they should have as little or'the grea rious element as possible, and j n no C ase should the number be greater than should he sufficient to sustain teachers of English, .Music and French; and a large number of giils never ought to board together. There is more specu lation in these things than people imamne.— Men who own p-opeity in stagnating little* 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 which ate called by the good old fashioned name or hoarding schools, 1 must think the maguii cenc. j of the term only a little ludicrous. I haw known ! many of the pupils, and 1 think the standard of ji nomrs up about on an average with that of BarhamviUe and other schools. Few of the “col lege” girls, however, seem imbued w ith those literary tastes, which Dr. Marks excited in his j puj i!s. The only difference that I can see i?, that tire colleges are called so, are chartered, and i believe, to some extent, endowed; the ; classes into which the giil-, a*e divided, are call ed Senior, Junior, &c., the teachers are called | ttie “Faculty,” and the examinations are called Commencements, aid they give Diplomas. A j ■ testimonial of having goi e through with the prescribed course of studies is, doubtless, a very ; i good tiling, especially in the case ot a young la- ; dy who expects to teach ; and, perhaps 1 might he inclined to attach more importance to them had i found the ow nership of one, always indi cative of schohirship. My chief objection to ; the college system, however, lies in the Com mencements. Can you, Mr. Editor, give me one single reason, good or bad, which shall justify • the public reading of compositions hv young | girls. 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 he attained without this public reading, and ii it j could not, every well wisher to the young ladies of Georgia would say in ‘he name of common sense, give it up. I don’t know whether it is in tended to train our young ladies into the ora tors of W men’s Rights Con,’entions, but the plan seems admirably designed to effect that ob ject. Il anything ct nel be needed to convince parents that such exhibitions are utterly incon sistent with all our ideas of female delicacy and retirement, surely the epithet “female brass foundiies,’’ applied to them by some wit or oth er, should settle the matter. The true state ment of the case is, that they are designed as ! an annual way of bringing the school before ! the public, getting into the papers and adverti sing it. Surely parents can see that. This 1 evil, however, will soon work its own cure, for 1 see the editors who have been remarkably long j suffering, are getting tired of such advertise ments, which pay nothing and bore their read i ers. W ere you, Mr. Editor, ever so unfortunate ! as to attend one of these Commencements? — Were you tver so unmercifully bored? If so, 1 you will excuse me forgetting a little excited upon the subject. Os course, it is not to be ex ! pected every young lady could wiite an article in which pe< pie generally could he interested, and therefore the more shame to those who com pel tiie poo* things to “embody ami unbosom, that which is not within them, and wreak want f thought upon expression,’’ if 1 may be per mitted to make a parody. These productions remind me of w'hat l once heard said of some j similar effusions, “that they had ail the merrit which 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 be neces 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 he sure n stop when you have got through ;” and I don’t know but the same rule would put an end to the ! annual addresses made at Commencements, and l and *re say the respectable gentlemen, w hose time and talents are called into requisition, would he glad to be freed in future from such demands. Not that 1 w-ould accuse them of having nothing to say, for 1 dare say they have many valuable ideas to offer upon many sub- j jects, and that U the very reason they should net ; t>e expected to waste time and talents on a sub : ject w hich lias been s> vvofully used up, that lie who could find anything new to say on it would : tie a genius indeed. The truth is, we Americans have such a singular idea of enj tyment that we i seem to imagine if we have somebody to make | a speech for us, w e have provided the most de j liglitiul entertainment ofw hieh mortal man could ; conceive. Query, if female education is an ex hausted subject now', what w ill it be a hundred i .tears hence, if this speechifying continues? In some newspaper this summer, l saw a list of the ! proposed commencement addresses, with a note from some editoiial pen characterising the I whole as a rich literary treat. If that editor was not talking for the gullible constituency of Buncombe, which I suppose he was, the worst I wish him is to he confined to such literary treats tor the rest of his life. I have been quite amusrd with the teports given by the selected official character, of the exercises and state of 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 exhau-ted, the contest for suprema cy gets moie ludicrous every year. 1 expect they will have to resort to the devices of the pa tent medicine veiuh r- before long, in order to be read, and I suggest for the benefit of all those 1 have heard, comp Lin of the thing, that they be put in the same column w ith the patent me dicines, for the convenience of skipping. I have been quite amused with the distress of poor Bishop Andrew, as to where the sixteen hundred young ladies, now educating in female colleges, (1 am not sure of the number, but only fear understating it,l 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 pm r b.- lm into the hearts of the unhappy young i- e ■ who must be at t'ae idea ot beii g o erwhelmed with the company oi six teen 1 uiidied blue stockings; but the truth is, l doubt if a hundred of them ever read a book through a ter leaving school, unless it he a no- j ve). Tl i; bringing them before the public and talking a’ out th j children of Gi o gia will, I am a : raiti. o lv t * -id to n ake them alarmingly pe j cocioi s If the edi or of Harper’s Magazine were to send some comi • limner here, I am cer ! tain he would find good food for the comic pages ot that Magazine. He would be ceitaiu to ; have some of the brass-buttoned likene s *s of j young Shanghais at Marietta talking to thii* | ilia’s about the wav “we military men” do One ! more remnk, and I will leave the subject. If | public delivery of their sentiments be concluded advisable in the education of young ladies, I prorose we send North and get Miss Lucy Stone to be professor of oratory, as she is more used j T othat sort of thing, than anv other ladv I have b id of. I have a plan to offer, to which I wish all ttiose ve- o have money to spare for the endow meet of literary institutions, would devote their j •pate do.l irs. Me often hear complaints that) Northern teachers are so constantly employed! in Southern schools; but the reason theie is no supply to meet the demand for Southern teat ti ers, is, that facilities for education at the South not being as good as at the North, qnly those who were too rich to resort to teaching could become sufficiently prepared. What l \v uld suggest (with beoming diffidence, tor perhaps sene one may he able to give a better plan) L, that people contribute money for the endovv ment of a Normal school (not a “college’ 1 | hope,) for the education of Female teachers. In every community there may he found some indigent girls, ” ho, if they had the opportunities would make most excellent teachers. Let every on* who contributes a certain snm have the ! right of presentation to a situation in this school, : the presentee however, before accepted, subject j 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 I an institution being designed 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 nselul to the public. The intellectual training it? suc.h an institution could be as thorough as that at ; West Point is well known to be, and for a sim* ; Uar icason it would be independent ot public patronage for support. Testimonials should be granted to those who qualify themselves for j I teachers. After leaving school, unless they ; i taught a certain number of years, they should j he considered indebted to the institution lor the j expenses of education. (For some of the three ; hundred educated young men might take a ; j fanev to marry some of these teachers—-certain- ; ly none but educated men would, tor they ; would verify Bishop Andrew’s fear of knowing | I too much for any others ) In all their schools i they should be bound to receive a number of poor children grar’s. Such teachers as such an | institution would produce, w-ould be in demand ! not on! vin Georgia, hut all over the South; and if got up without an} f pretentious nonsense to make it ridiculous, the school would he a legiti mate boast of our people. The imitation ot our plan, by people in other States, would prove the usefulness of it, far better than vain glorious laudations by every speech-maker, who wishes ■ to gain popularity by talking for Buncombe.— ! I did wish to say something as to what women should he taught, but I have already been more j lengthy than I wished, Betsy Tkotwood. (Times <mi> Bmiintl I ! COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. _ SATURDAY EVENING. NOV. 5, 1853. | __ _____ _ 44 Female Ed neat ion in Georgia.” We like to see a free, candid and reasonable expres ! ion of opinion upon every subject worthy an opinion. ! It dots one good in this age of “humbug” and finical | sensitiveness about “pubiio favor” or disfavor. The 1 article we give from the Chronicle if Sentinel speaks ! jst to our liking. ! We ail 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 as wish ! 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 sought 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 ail become Colleges, or at the very least. Collegi ate 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 scholars, offer ing the associations of the family and the care of the same with other unobtrusive and delicate expositions of 1 minutiae, for the purpose of convincing parents of the | fitness and propriety of placing daughters under their charge—when in order to afford tiiern an educa i tion. circumatances compell them to be sent from home. But now Haiming, pretentious-—green, yellow and pink i “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 oceuuants, more or less i An amnia! “commencement,” of course , when modest j mien and gentle worth, with (we will not say what ! • sort of) must make a display | “lo stretch the gaping eyes of idiot wonder,” and , more we m ght truthfully add, but have already written at great length probably, than wo ought in the presence of one so accomplished as Aunt (?) Betsy Trot wood. j i Whether shebesueh a strict, plain,eccentric,noble hearted ! personage as David Copperfield’s “Aunt Betsy,” or j some thoughtful, yet cheerful, candid spirit, who loves j to tell the truth for truth’s sake, the interest she mani- j tests for the improvement of her sex will commend her I views to the kind and grateful consideration of ail, ! particularly, as we are informed she is a native Geor- j gian, and tells so pleasantly and readily w hat she thinks. ) Strawberries in spite oi Frost. On entering our sanctum this morning, we were very agreeably surprised to fi;?d a most elegant and luscious collection ot strawberries. The fruit so ripe and deli cious—the ieave3 so green, and blossoms peeping- oat 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 auooeas in this cul ture. The varieties sant us, was the “Hovt-y 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 j them. i— _ Superior Court of Muscogee Countv. —We are j an horised, ind requested by Judge Iverson, to say, th a the Superior Court of this county will be adjourned over to the 4th Monday in this month. Jurors and other parties interested will act accordingly. November , 4th, 1853. Attention is called to the several advertisements in to days paper, of Messrs. Wynee & Edwards.— Their lot of Boots and Shoes is large and goiten up in I eh g.int style ; and they can not fail to suit any person | wh i may favor them with a call, EvC'lUctor Bronson has been nominated for the United States Senate, to succeed Mr. Seward, whose term expires in 1855, by the Democratic Convention of Orange coanty, New York, JjT The Whigs have made themselves so ridiculous about the Democratic vote in this County and District, th:it while we feel a contempt for their charges, we are disposed to touch them now and then for their reck- j 1 ss presumption. The Federal Union thus applies its caustic stick. A poor compliment for the Whigs. —A correspon dent of the Republican who subscribes himself Observer insinuates that the Demo rats of.Muscocree counts bought many Whiff votis with the money of broken banks. I \\ hig principles must hang very loose upon men, vv. en tlu v call be bought so dog cheap as O -stiver insinuates He says some of the Conservatives proposed to make jup a purse to buy votes, but the plan was abandoned. e suppose they found out that Democrate were not in the j market. The Superior Court for Fairfield county, Connecticut, lart week granted a divorce to a Mrs. Baldwin, now 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. ) i 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 in Pike, Lowinks and But ler counties. These meetings have been generally well attended and characterized by the most gratifying evi dences of zeal and interest in the success of this great en terprise. At Farriorsville, Pike 00., the friends of the Road gave a tine barbecue, at which severai hundred per sons were present, including a fair proportion of the ladies : of ihe surrounding country. This was the first ot the se | ries of appointments, the President and Directors are | now filling, and was an earnest of the deep interest felt I in the completion of the Girard Road along tne entire | line. Many of the most prominent citizens of the coun* Ity were present and participated in the proceedings, ! and not only by their presence encouraged the work, j 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 j man present who was not already a stock holder, except j ; 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 i was small in consequence of the inclemency of the ■ i weather, but what was lacking in numbers was made up j jin zeal on the part of those who were present. Several j i of these appointments were upon the line of Mor.tgome- ! j ry county, and were attended by citizens of that county j j manifested equal interest with the rest in the early ! completion of the road. ! In f'set. Messrs. Editors, the people are fully alive to j the importance of this great work, and sea clearly its : bearing upon the interests and prosperity of their res i peetive counties. They manifest the most perfect read i iness to aid, as far as they are able, its completion, and j j are folly sensible of the many advantages they will en j j y when the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic shall be j : united by means of the Girard Railroad. To an out ■ eider the prospect seems good for the entire Road to be | put under contract in a short time—“a consummation ; most devoutly wished for.” CHL'NNTNUGOEtt. ; j ■ “ “ ■ “ ■ ~"~! r (From the Charleston Mercury.] Mr. Gtithrie and his Enemies. Those unacquainted with the past history of the Hon, James Guthrie, Secretary of the Trea 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 | feel some curiosity to know something of his antecedents, and the cause of this onslaught up ! on him. Mr. Guthrie, is a stalwart Kentuckian, with a remarkable striking appearance. His man ners are plain and unostentatious. The expres sion of his countenance, at fiist sight, is rather firbidding, which soon disappears, upon ae quaiutauee, however, and gives place to confi j deuce. His high qualities of head and heart, placed : him in the lead of his profession, in his native j •State, and his probity of character, secured the j i confidence ot his people to such a degree, that , I was always elected to the political positions j ! sought, although a firm and unflinching | States Rights Democrat, and living in a Whiir i j district. * j His whole history, his pure morals, and his • | strict integrity, indicated him as a proper man to administer the Treasury Department; and so j I h’-r as he has gone, he has iully come up to the ■ ; highest expectations of the public. it was not to be expected, that the man who undertook to correct the misrule of the Trea sury Department, under the late Whig Admin istration, and biingit back to its legiiima;e ac tion; enforcing strictly the accountability of those .connected with it; and diiving off those who like yampyres, were sucking from it; would escape without denunciation. Mr. Guthrie’s first act ol reform was to turn 1 the forfeitures of twenty per cent uoou under valued goods from the purses of the Collectors, I hue the vaults at the treasury, where it pro- • peiiv belonged, thus correcting an abuse which I hau grown into practice, and saving hundreds : ot thousands oi dollars to th© 1 ‘roasury# i The practice of giving the forfeitures to the | Collectors, which wa3 clearly not contemplated I by the law, gave the Collectors of New York ana fean F rane’lsco, and other ports where the importations were large, better salaries than the • President ot tne United .States receives, j Iti this connection, the manner in which the i Collectors all over the country discharge their j j* uties > came under his scrutinizing eve. and ; loose screws were tightened, and man Jr abuses were corrected. liie contracts tor public buildings pertaining | to ie Treasury Department, were looked into lernodeled, and put in proper trim, and the re | sponsibility of the contractors most carefully examined. - y lu order to systematise this branch of public business, he made a requisition upon the Secre ar’ °. . ar bra Civil Engineer, whose actual I ® u l^ rvia,on will prevent any misapplication of ; tuiida, or improper discharge of duty on the part o contractors. Many sinecures were abolish eJ, and this branch o business put upon a safe and economical footing, Mr next measure was the with iaua. of the tunds ol the Government from the posstsiion of Bankers and Brokers where hey na been lying as a standing deposit, re- ! suiting m vast pecuniary profits to the holders. ! Ihe 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 due, which the condition of the Treasury justified. Mr. Simeon Draper was one ot these agents, and by the timely settlement, and the withdraw ; al of the deposits from him, much has been sav > ed for the country. Under Mr. Guthrie’s administration, die per i nicious practice of allowing salaieid officers of the Government to draw their salaries, and ex tracompensation for duty perfolined 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* I sury, for the information of your readers, anil j 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 ol the I 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.— i Finding this impossible, they, like a drove of I hungry wolves, when the wounded deer is I almost within their clutches, is snatched from I them by some skillful hunter, set up a howl jof 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 j conceded, or rather taken for granted, that the Administration has interfered in the New York quarrels, and Mr Guthrie’s letter to Bronson is seized upon as a prooi ot the fact.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 affecied by it, and hence the letter of the Secretary was writ ten to Mr. Bronson. Any one who will take the trouble to read carefully Mr. Guthrie’s letter to the Collector of New York will see that, so far from it being proscriptive, it actually pro scribed proscription. It simply admonished the Collector that lie was not to appoint men from 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, ; at 4to carry them through he misconceived and misrepresented the Secretary’s letter, ; n 1 made i it the pretext of doing directly what he had been i doing indirectly— that is, opposing the Admin | istration. ! It is well known that Mr. Bronson, and those I who were acting with him,\vereopen!ysuport : ing Brady and Cooiev, who had declared war upon the President and the policy of his admin ; istration, long before the letter o! the Secretary was written In the vain hope of extricating themselves, from their inconsistencies, they tiied 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 the Cabinet, and the tie | cessity of its dissolution. It evidently was their intention to come to an open rapture with the Administration, and every subterfuge was re- I 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 rai ed against the Secretary of the Treasury, whost?’ t mortal offence was the reforms he had brought 1 about in his Department, and not his letter to Bronson. I have often heard our own Great Statesman say that the man who undertook to reform the abuses of this Government, would have the en tire pack of disappointed place-seeker3 and plunderers of the Treasury at his heels, and that he was afraid that there was not virtue enough in the country to save him from destruction. It remains to be seen whether this Administration, | which I believe has honestly set out with this in ! tention, will be sustained by the people, j In my last communication I classed the See- I refcary o? State, Mr. Marey, with other Northern i politicians, ns having been opposed to the ex ; tension ot slavery in the territories; this, I learn ; from a iriend, is not the ease, 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 Y ankee Blade, can describe emotions of joy, anger, fear, doubt or hope ; hut ‘■ there are very few who can give anything iike | an adequate description of the exquisite, heaven i l v and thrilling joy of warm, affectionate kissing. We copy below three of the best attempts that we have ever seen. The first is by a young lady during her first year of courtship : “Let thy arm twine Around me like a zone of love, And thy fond tip, so soft, To mine be passionately pressed, Ah it has been so soft.” The next is by a lady after her engagement. It will readily be seen that her powers of des cription are far in advance of the one’s quoted above: “Sweetest love. rlaee tny dear arm beneath my drooping head, Ana let me lowly nest'e on thy hea;t; a* 6,5 urn -h° ?e 3C, ul-lit orbs on me and press My parting lips to ta-t the eestaev imparted by eaeh long and lingening kiss.” But the best thing we have seen is the follow 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,” be should he choked off. Hear him: “My eoul leaped up beneath thy timid kiss, What then to me were g oans. Or pain or death 1 Earth was a round of bliss, l seamed to walk on thrones.” The lion. Robert M. 5k Lane, U. Commission ‘rto v hica, is i. Washington, a tendi,’ gat the State De partment, where he receiving his instructions conoec ted with the duties of his mission.