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The Sculptor’s Love.
by crack greenwood,
The Sculptor paused before his finWied work-
A wondrous statue of divinesl mould.
I ike Cytherea’s were the rounded hums,
♦jt hands, in whose soft fullt.ess M.l arid deep.
Like sleeping Loves, the chiseled dimples lay,
The hair's rich fall, the l»P * exquisite carve,—
But most like Juno’s were the brow of pride,
And lofty bearing of the matchlef* Lead.
While over all, a mystic holiness,
Like Dian’s purest smile, around her hung,
And hushed the idle gazer, like the air
Which haunts at night the temples of the god..
As. stood the sculptor, with still, »ohled arim,
And viewed this shape of rarest loveliness
No flush of triumph crimsoned o er his brow ,
Nor grew his dark eye luminous with joy.
'WI-crushed with grief, worn with intense de-
Sircs, . a
And wasting with a mad consuming flame,
He wildlyjgazed— wrought.
The robe’s loose folds, which lay upon Ins breast,
Tumultuous rose and fell, like ocean-waves
Upheaved by storms beneath; and on his brow
in beaded drops, the dew ot anguish lay.
And thus he flung himself upon the earth,
And poured in prayer his wild and burning words:
“Great Jove, to thy high throne a mortal s prayer
In all the might of anguish struggles up
Thou see'st this statue, chi-eled by my hand—
Thou hast beheld as day by day, it grew
To more ihan earthly beauty till u stood
The wonder of the glorious world of art.
The sculp lor wrought nut blindly , o, tt h i e came
Blest visions tohissoul,of lorrns divine;
Os w hite-armed Juno, in lira hour of love.
When fondling close the Cuckoo tempest-dulled;
Ehe all unconscious, in that form did press
The mighty sire of the eternal gods
To her soli bosom; —Aphrodite lair,
At first she tr.od the glad, enamoured earth.
With small, white feet, spray-dripping from the
sea, , .
Os c res led Dian.when her nightly Kiss
Pressed down the eye-lids ol Lndymiou—
Her silvery presence making ail the air
Os dewy Laimas tremulous with love.
“And now, (deem not thy suppliant impious,
Our being’s source, ihuu t a liter ot all File.,)
A wild o er-mastering passion tires my soul,
/ madly love the work my hand hath wrought.
Intoxicate, 1 gaze through all the day,
And mocking visions haunt my couch at night;
iMy heart is faint and sick with longing vain,
A passionate thirst is parching up my life.
“1 call upon her and she answers not!
The fond love-names I breathe into her ear
Are met with niad’niiig silence- when 1 clasp
Those slender fingers in my fevered hand,
Their coldness dulls me like the touch of death
And when my heart’s wild healings shake my
frame,
And breast with love’s sweet agony,
No faintest throb that marble bosom stirs !
“Oh, 1 would have an eye to gaze in mine !
An ear to listen for my coming step —
A voice of love, with tones like joy’s own bells,
To ring thdr silver changes on mine ear !
A yielding hand, to thrill within mine own,
Arid lips of melting sweetness, full and warm '
Would change this deathless stone to mortal (les.i,
And barter immortality for love!
“if voice of earth, in w ildest prayer, may reach
To godhood, throned amid the purple clouds,
To animate this cold and pulseless stone,
Grant thou one breath of that immortal air.
Which feedeth human life from age to age,
And floats round high Olympus.—Hear, oh Jove.
“And so this form may shrine a soul of light,
Whose starry radiance shall unseal these eyes,
Send down the sky’s blue deeps, • h sire divine,
One faintest gleam of that benignant smile
Which glows upon the faces of the gods,
And lights all Heaven—Hear mighty Jove .
, He stayed his prayer, and on his statue gazed.
Behold, a gentle heaving stirred its breast ?
O’er all the form a flush of rose-hght passed—
Along the limbs the azure arteries throbbed—
A golden lustre settled on the head,
And gleamed amid the meshes of the hair;
The rounded cheek grew vivid w ilh a blush—
Ambrosial breathings cleft the curved lips
And softly through the arched nostril stole;—
The fringed lids quivered and uprose, ami eyes
Like vio;ets wet with dew drank in the light.
Moveless she stood, until her wandering glance
Upon the rapt face of the sculptor fell;
Bewildered and abashed, it sank beneath
The burning gaze of his adoring eyes.
And then, there ran through all her trembling
frame
A strange, sweet thrill of blissful consciousness, —
Life’s wildest joy, in one delicious tide,
Loured through the channels ot her new-born
heart, , ,
Ami love's firstsigh rose quivering from her breast.
She turned upon her pedestal, and smiled
And toward the kneeling youth bent tenderly,
lie rose, sprang forward with a passionate cry,
And joyously outstretched his thrilling arms !
And 10, the form he sculptured frdm the stone,
Instinct with life, and radiant with soul,
A breathing shape of beauty, soft and warm,
Os mortal womanhood, all smiles and tears.
In love's sweet trance, upon his bosom lay.
Disease of Ladies iu Paris,
A husband who had the cruelty to ex
tend his base economy to his wife’s ward
robe, lately called on a witty physician
of Paris lo consult him as to the increas
ing melancholy and depression of the
voting partner of his soul, I lie doctor
took the case in hand, and made one or
two visits -to the lady. At a subsequem
call of the husband’s to enquire the re
sult of the medical observation, the as
tounding intelligence was communicated
to the anxious questioner that his wife was
mou/ling. The husband at first laughed.
“Birds shed their feathers, 1 k-aow, rny
dear doctor; but ladies —come, come,
w hat is my wife’s disorder, for feathers h
venture lo say she has none I” Ihe doc
tor made no reply, but sat down and
wrote out a prescription, which he hand
ed to the gentleman, aod taking his ac
.customed fee, bowed him out. On reach
ing home, the hasbacd banded the un
read recipe very indifferently to his wife,
requesting her to send for the medicine.
She opened it with melancholy listless
yiess and read as follows :
Prescription for Madame i?. de &
£ decoction of fifteen yards of velvet:—
friction of *the shoulders \vitb new cache
mire shawls:-—a tisane of several new
bonnets;—the whole mixed up with a
vigorous stir -of visits and an infusion ot
pocket money to suit the taste of the pa
tient.
iVo/a hene. —The improvement in the
health of the lady will be perceptible from
the first shedding of the feathers of her
present plumage.
Cultivation of Colton—ln fhdi& and the i
United States.
An interesting discussion took place in tlie ,
British House of Commons, May Bib, rcla- ;
tive to the prospects of a supply of cotton lor I
the manufacturers of England m future years.
Mr. Bright, in moving for a Select Comm.t
tee to inquire into the progress of lue cu.li
vation of cotton in India, said,
What potatoes were lor the population of
Ireland, coiton was for the population of the
manufacturing districts ot Eancashiie and
Yorkshire,so that if vve could suppose a time
when the supply of the raw material of the
cotton manufactures should tail, the evils
which were now desolating Ireland would be
precisely those which would fall upon Lan
ca->liire and fcorne parts ol Yorkshire. He
then brought under the consideration of the
1 louse a lew* circumstances relative to the
rise and progress of the coiton trade, from
the year 1760 down to the year 1844, to
show that lie did not overrate the importance
of the cotton manufactures of England. He
calculated that at the present moment 320,-
000 persons were employed in the cotton
mills of the united kingdom, and, as the cal
culation in lire trade was, that a capital of
£ 100 sterling was required lor the employ
ment of every hand engaged in the cotton
manufacture, there must be a capital of £32,-
000.000 now invested in the cotton mills and
cotton liaie. In 1844, the Value of our ex
ports to foreign countries, in cotton, am mut
ed lo £25-,800,000, which was one-half of
our whole exports in every other corn mod <-
iv, 16 years ago an eminent statesman hid
calculated that 1,400,000 persons were de
pendent fur their livelihood on various
branches of industry connected y al ‘
c t(ir> ..mu manufacture; and
bright) believed that he should not be
under the mark in estimating the number
now at 2,000)000. The necessity, therefore,
of finding a supply of the raw material ot
cotton was a matter of national and perma
nent interest. present was a year in
winch we w itnessed some ofTfie effects aris
ing from a short supply of the raw material.
The priced coiton had risen in consequence,
75 per cent, and the result was that a num
ber of mills in Lancashire hud been compelled
to stop altogether, whilst some vvere working
only two or three days in tne week. Ail
this was owing to tlie failure of the Ameri
can crop, and itie distress which it had occa
sioned m Lancashire was grcaler than any
known since coiton had first come into that
' country. It therefore became important to
! consider what was the chance and what the
i sources of a belter supply in future. There
was a lime when our supply ol coiton came
neither from the linked Slates nor from
British India. In 1786 our supply came from
the W est Indies, from Smyrna, from Turkey,
and troin other places in the Mediterranean.
It was not till the year 1702 that the first im
portation of cotton came into lids country
from the United Stales. Shortly afterwards
a small importation also came from British
India, lie showed that since that period the
importation came the United Slates had in
creased 6UO per cent., whilst that from Brit
ish India had not increased more than 50 per
cent. The cotton from British India had not,
i he repeated, increased much during that time
in quantity, and he was sorry to add, that it
had not improved in quality. He had now
said sufficient to show that the circumstances
attending the growth ol coiton in British In
dia were not satisfactory, and that they justi
fied an inquiry whether the cultivation of
cotton there could not he improved. He
wished, therefore, to inquire whether India
could grow cotton sufficient for our supply ?
and, if she could, what were the causes
which had hitherto prevented that growth ?
There was every reason to believe that, in
India, a larger quantity of cotton was pro
duced than in any oilier portion of the globe.
There was every variety ol soil and climate
for its production; and yet the supply of cot
ton was not so great as there was reason to
anticipate. Li 1836 the Court of Directors
of the Lust India Company published a
correspondence which they had with the Gov
enor of Bombay, and other persons on ibis
very subject; and in that correspondence all
Lite averments which he had in tde on this
subject are sanctioned by the opinions of the
directors themselves. They stated that In
dian cotton might be produced in quantity
and quality quite sufficient lor the general
purposes of the British manufacturer; and
they added, that capital and skill were the
only things wanting to raise the indigenous
crop of the country, from which all other
crops hau been supplied, to a standard equal
to the best cotton of the West. The East
India Company lias since undertaken to raise
that crop, but had failed. They bad land fit
for the cultivation of coiton—-they had a pop
ulation upon it docile and intelligent—they
had labor cheaper than in the United Stales,
and every thing among the cultivators ne
cessary for the improvement of the crop, ex
cept sk.il and capital. The East India Com
pany had expended £IOO,OOO in their at
tempts to improve the coiton of India; but
they had failed, and he wanted to know how
and why they had failed, and to ascertain by
the examination of witnesses, the causes
which had prevented the increase of the
growth of cotton in their dominions. If any
steps which were available to promote that
growth It id been left unemployed, it would be
the duty both of the East India Company and
of the British Government to employ them at
once; fur it any accident were to destroy the
cotton crop in the United iSiates, its results
would be awful to England. A treat coming
too early or too late, too much wet or too
much dry weather, an invisible worm, might
produce the most disastrous results on the
cotton crop in America, and on the manufac
turing population in England. Besides, we
might be at war with America. Moreover,
the whole of the American cotton crop was
the produce of slave labor. ’The system of
slavery must come to an end in America,
1 either peacefully or violently; and, whenever
it did come to an end, its results in this coun
try would be violently (eit it) the loss of the
cotton crop. He jcould dilate further upon
this topic; but he abstained, as he understood
that it was not the intention of Government
lo .oppose his motion.
Sir J. Ilobhouse thought that Mr. Bright
over-estimated the effects of an inquiry into
tiiis subject, before tire committee, if he sup
posed that by any encouragement the East
India Gorapany could ever make the people
of India producers of cotton equal lo those
of the United Slates. He was convinced
i that we never could have such a production
of cotton in India as would make this coun
try safe. Indeed, vve had been so much im
porters of cotton manufactures into India
that we had destroyed the cotton manufac
tures of Dacca, and were absolutely clothing
the people of India with the produce ot Brit
ish looms; and that was one of the reasons
why the grow th of cotton had fallen off in
Hindustan Since the ye<ir 1780 every ef
fort had been made by the Last India Cora
! pany to improve ihe cultivation of cotton in
India*, but it was not till the year 1828 that
the first effort was made to introduce into
| that country the cultivation of foreign cotton,
! and that Lord Ellenborough, then President
of the Boardof Control, obtained the forma
tion of some farms for the growth of Ameri
can cotton in Bombay. In 1839 Lord Auck
land drew up a minute, calling the attention
of the Court of Directors to the best mode of
cultivating Indian collonjand inconsequence
the Court of Directors sent Capt. Baylis to
Carolina to get American planters to teach
the Hindoos the best mode of planting. Capt.
B. returned with fen planters, three of them
were sent to Bombay, three to Madras, and j
Capt. Baylis with the remainder went to Ben- j
gal. The success of the project was not uni
form. It failed in the north-western provin
ces owing to two or three consecutive dry
seasons, w hich discouraged the ryots; but in
Bundlecund and the South Mahratta coun
try the success had been complete. He
j mentioned this to show that Mr. Bright was
I not correct in saying that the experiment in
| India had failed. In the last year the num
tier of acres cultivated with American cotton
m India had greatly increased. The increase
in the price of the cotton so produced had
kepi pace with that of the N. Orleans co -
ton. With respect to its quality, he must
admit that the natives of India failed in pack
ing and cleaning if, because they were not
acquainted w ith the mode of packing adopted
in the U. States, amt wo<e rut in possession
rxiouunery tor it. The diminution in
the importation of cotton to this country was
last year 23 per cent.; but the diminution in j
the importation to China only readied half |
that amount. The reason of that diminution j
was, that the merchants of India had spent I
their money in importing opium into China,
just as Ibe merchants of Lancashire had
spent their money in railway speculations,
and had therefore less to expend on the im
portation of cotton. Besides, latterly, freight I
that had been taken up for bretuLtuffs, to he I
sent to it is country, which was another
cause of the diminulioiyof the importation of 1
Indian cotton this year. He believed that j
.Mr. Bright had overrated ihe power of the i
Indian Government to do anything with re- |
gard to this plant. The Court of Directors !
had hitherto given it fair play, and were pro- 1
pared to do so still. They had already Spent
jCIOO.OOU in these experiments, and had not
yet discontinued them. They were encourag
ing the formation of roads and canals in those
districts where the cotton cultivation flour
ished most; that was the best and mosl le
gitimate method of improving the cultivation
, of cotton. In conclusion, he observed that
lie did not anticipate any very great results
from the investigations of mis committee; j
but Mr. Bright should have every facility
w hich the Government could afford in con
ducting his inquiries.
[From the N. O. Picayune.]
Letter from Santa Anna,
The Mobile Herald and Tribune gives
I us the following translation of an interest
ing letter from Santa Anna. It is taken
f rom the Re.pubJica.no of the 16th ult. In
a file of that paper received by us from
early in May down to the 19th, the num
ber of the 16th alone was missing, or else
mislaid by us. It happens fortunately
far us that the Herald supplies the missing
number. The letter of Santa Anna will
attract very general attention.
II EADftCARTERS ARMY OK OPERATIONS , )
Pn-’tts, May ’3, 1847. \
Excellent Sir —Tne commandant of the
flying revenue guard of lohaccool Orizaba
the Col. D. Juan N.Caraveo, whom I left
with his command near the National Road,
between Perote and Nopalucan, to ob
serve the movement cl the enemy and to
harrass him wßen the opportunity might
oiler, has remitted to me the .accom
panying documents, which were taken
fiovn tne enemy’s mail which left Jalapa
I for Col. Worth’s camp.
1 Among them you will find the Gen.
| Scott’s proclamation to the Mexican nation
which from its s vie appears to have been
i Written originally in Spanish and not
translated from the English.
This proclamation of Scon’s is written
with the most refined hypocri-y and with
the most infamous perfidy. It is the
greatest insult yet offered to the .Mexican
peoole, whom it has attempted to lull («
quien se pretende adormecer ) to make it
j the vie im of the ambition of that nation
j which is the enerfiy of cur race, when, in
[ another place, it feels no embarrassment
i in proclaiming by the press and inofficial
j documents, that it carries on against us a
war of conquest and that this war must
1 he made at the cost of the blood and
| treasure of this unfortunate country.
Your Excellency will note in one of the
i accompanying intercepted letters, that
! Scott, tlie inspector general of the United
I States army, considers the above procla
mation well adapted to aid the views of
j the invaders.
You will observe that this letter bar- :
monizes with others which have been |
lately published in this capital, and which
with reason have been regarded by all
well disposed Mexicans as more preju
dical for the venom ( ponzona ) which they :
conceal than the loss of a buttle.
But in the midst of the malevolence i
( encono ) which Gen. Scolt shows he has j
against rnc, he does me too much honor J
when he says, that they hid been deceived
i as to my real intentions , and that on ac
| count of this mistake his Government per .
milted ins to pass to my country. Indeed,
most excellent sir, the United States did
deceive when they dreamed that I was
capable of betraying my country. Be
fore this should happen, I would prefer to
be consumed by fire and my* ashes should
be scattered that not a single atom be
left.
Would to God the Me*Leas? would open
their eyes to discover the poison in the
golden chalice that the perfidious Scott
proffers to them, and that the reply to liis
proclamation may be one shout of uuLver
al indignation against the invaders of our
soil. Let a war be made against these
without period, that when we may no lon
ger be able, because Providence may
have decreed the subjugation of this un
fortunate country, there may remain to
our children or grandchildren, when the
wrath of the Omnipotent shall have pass
ed, the noble work of revenging the out-
. ii. ii n mrnu n■ i i~i ■ i ■ irrm - "' — _ * ~
rage committed by the Republic of the
United States on Mexico.
God and Liberty!
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
To his Excellency the Minister or War
and Marine.
AUGUSTA. GEU..
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE It, 1847.
Washington aud his Generals,
We have received from Mr. C. E. Gren
ville, who has the work for sale, the second
volume of this popular work of Hedley. r l his
volume is embellished with portraits of Ma
jor Generals Lafayette, Greene, Moultrie, !
Lincoln, Lee, Sullivan, Brig. Gen. Marion,
and Paul Jones.
It is needless for us to say anything in
praise of this work —as a descriptive writer,
Mr. lledley lias no superior, and all who have
perused the first volume will welcome the
second.
Georgia Flour,
We were yesterday presented with one of the
best samples of Georgia Flour we have yet seen.
It was from the mills of Alessrs. Phillips & Hear
ing, Newton county. Not only is I lie quality ol
this Flour superior, but the condition in which it
was put up is very creditable fur a new estab
j lishmertt. The barrels were well made, with ten
! flat oak hoops, and poplar heading, and although
| not quite as neat as the Northern made barrels,
! they are equally as good for shipment. The lot
received was a small one, and S7J offered fur
it as short as put on the market, hut the agents,
Messrs. Baker, Wilcox & Co., refused to sell it
at less than $8 per bl>!., which they will no duubt
i obtain.
We wish Messrs. Phillips & Hearing every
success in their new line, and if they will pay a
j little more attention to neatness of package, their
brand us Flour will always bring the highest mar
ket price. As it is, they have set an example to
i Georgia millers, which if followed, vv il 1 suon pul
Georgia Flour on an equal footing with any made
1 in this country, and for the South American and
West India markets it will be sought after, as it
stands the climate of those countries much hi t:er
than Northern Flour.
General Taylor—A Democrat.
The friends of General Taylor, who pro
j fess to be acquainted with his political opin
ions, and who insist that he is a Democrat,
I do not rest the assertion on the ground sim
ply that he vias the political as well as per
sonal friend of General Jackson, and there
fore voted for him. They rest the assertion
bn the ground that lie is opposed to thejrrin
ciple of protective tariffs—that he is opposed
to a national bank—that ho is in favor of
equal rights and privileges to all classes—in
favor of a separation of the government from
banks—in faVor of the principles of free trade,
ai.d in favor of a strict construction of the
constitution. What more could a Democrat
desire? Are not 11 res-e democratic principles?
Aye—and State Rights principles to boot.
We would like to know if there is a . iff Je
whig in Georgia or any where else who holds
them. We should be pleased to hear that
there are a few such in Georgia. For if
there are, they will find it necessary to vote
with the democrats if they wish to maintain
: those principles.
From Julnjia.
The New Orleans Della, of the sth inst.
says:—“From a conversation had with a
gentleman direct from Jalapa, we yesterday
| learned that the report there was, that Gen.
Scott would not remain any length of time at
Fuebla, but posh on with all possible speed
for the City of Mexico.”
The Baltimore papers announce with expres-
I sions of deep regret, the death of Major James O
! Law, their distinguished ami much beloved fel
low-citizen. He died of a violent attack of ty
-1 pboid fever, communicated it is believed, from the
disease commonly called ship-fever, while engag
ed, as a member of the Hibernian Society, in ad
ministering to the relief of emigrants recently
landed upon our shores.
Crops.
The Butler (Pa.) Democrat states that the re
j cent rains have greatly revived the crops of grain
i in that vicinity.
! The Columbia (Pa.) Spy also speaks favorably
of the appearance of the grain crop in that region.
Lieut. Hunter respectfully declines to receive
the sword and epaulette which some friends in
New York were about to present him. lie does
not feel that he should receive them while under
the censure of a court martial.
Customhouse Keceipts.
j The amount of moneys recived by the Cus
tomhouse in New Orleans last year during
the month of May was .$159,957 28. The
amount received during the same month of
the present year was $236,126 41. This
j shows an excess of $76,169 13 over the sum
| received during the same period last year.
High Prices.
The incrcsed value of the products of the
country this year is estimated at $300,000,-
000.
~
One of the most convincing proofs of the
ruin brought upon the whole country, is the
fact that Mr. Abbot Lawrence, one of the
principal manufacturers in Massachusetts, is
engaged in building a town of factories that
will rival Lowell. This gentleman was one
of the keenest and loudest prophets of ruin
and destruction as inevitable results of the
reform of the restrictive tariff of 1842. He
himself is so far ruined by that reform, that
he invests his vast capital in new manufac
turing establishments. This is the same per
son who wrote to one of his friends that the
American manufacturers have the advantage
over those of Europe in every respect, ex
cepting the wages of their laborers—“but in
this matter we hope soon to be on a level
with our English rivals.” This is one of the
chaps who talk about the pauper labor ot
Europe. ,
U. s. Brig Porpoise.
This vessel arrived at New Orleans on The '
4th instant,.from a cruise of two and a half
yeaxa in the Gulf, accompanied hy a prize
schooner, captured by the gun boat Bonita,
in charge of Passed Midshipman 1 hompson.
A communication in the New Orleans 1 i*
cayune says—“l'he Porpoise is sent uere tor
repairs, after a cruise of nearly two and a
half years in the Gulf, during which time |
she has not, until within the last month and
a half, been permitted to lie in any port for a
single week. The only rest she has had
was at Lamina, Yucatan, to which place she
O'
was sent about the middle of April and re
mained »Lore until Cum. Perry arrived and
hoisted the American flag, on the 17th o!
May. During the past winter, while block
ading Vera Cruz and Tampico, she has been
! in seventeen northers, some of them of the
‘•tallest kind;” the last of which came very
near sending her down among her finny pro
totypes. At the time it commenced wo were
blockading to the northward of the castle of
■ San Juan de Ulua, while the attack was be
ing made on the city of Vera Cruz by our
army, and were blown off on the evening of
the 25th of March, Next day about noon the
brig was struck by two heavy seas, in quick
succession, the first causing her to stand still, i
and the second sweeping her decks and
throwing heron her beam ends, at the same j
time staving in her weather hammock net
ting and all the boats, &c., stowed amidships,
forcing them into the waist, then under wa- ■
ter. She remained in that situation about
•*, I ,
fifteen or twenty minutes, wnen, through
threat exertions on the part of her officers j
.
and men, the boats, sails, &c., with nearly
all the lee battery, were thrown overboard,
when she fully righted with two feet water
on her docks; no one, however, felt secure
i until evening, when the wind grew lighter
; and the sea commenced going down. To
i me, never having been placed in precisely the
1 same situation, it was surprising to see the
coolness and energy (with a sudden and hor
rible death staring thorn in the face) exhibit
ed hy both officers and men, from the com
-1 manding officer to the smallest boy on board.
I Not a word was spoken of danger until it was
: past, when all acknowledged it.
1 ‘-The Porpoise lias been one of the most
effective and useful vessels in the squadron,
and lias sailed a greater number of miles than
any other vessel attached to it. IShe has,
however, been much injured by such continu- j
ed hard work and hard weather, and now 1
comes to this city to be repaired and copper
ed. It is understood that her officers, in con
sideration of their laborious and faithful ser
vice during the cruise, are to have leave of
absence to visit their humeSj and that the
crew will be discharged and paid off”
Cane in Rapides.
The Alexandria Democrat savs, that in the
parish of Rapides there will be about six 1
thousand hogsheads of sugar made this sea- i
son. The editor is perfectly rejoiced at the i
extraordinary success which has attended
sugar planting in the “new sugar parish,” as |
I he terms Rhodes. “Passing,” he says,
! “through a winter of great severity, our rat
i toons are waving with apparent joy in the
; delicious summer breeze, and our seed cane
c moot be surpassed. We will lake the crop
of John Compton, Esq., as a sample of our
cane, with the remark that if a field superior
to it can be found in the State, the happy 1
: owner can take the best beaver hat on sale i
| in the “wide world.” Mr. C. will grind three
; hundred and fifty arpents of cane, and we
hazard nothing in saying, that he will “roll
| out” five hundred hogsheads of excellent
j sugar. Other planters—Calhoun, the broth
| ers Flint, Carey, Baillio, Wells, Tanner, Mrs.
Overton, Archinard, Carlin, and many more
—wiii come up to this mark, or near it, if
calculations founded on the present appear
ances of the crops have any weight.”
The Macon Telegraph of the Blh instant, !
says—“We regret to learn that the depar- !
! ture of Captain Scott’s company has been de
layed in consequence of the severe indispo
sition of the Captain, and his only officer,
Lieut. White. The company have been in
i camp for some days, and are a well drilled
and fine body of men. The ranks are not
yet filled, and a few more recruits are want
ed. As soon as the officers have recovered,
and vve are happy to say they are convales
cent, the company will be pul en route for i
Mexico.”
Commerce in Eggs.
We copy from Skinner’s Monthly Journal
of Agriculture, a periodical conducted with
singular ability, and of great value to the in
telligent farmer, the following statement in
regard to the egg trade of France :
j In the whole cycle of commercial statistics,
1 we have not lately met with anything more
i remarkable than the account we find in the
! “Journal d’Agriculture Pratique et de Jard -
i nage,” on the Egg Trade of France. The
editor says that it appears by official returns
that in 1815, the number of eggs exported was
not more than to the amount of 1,700,000
francs. In 1816, 8,800,000 francs; in 1822,
55,000,000; in 1824, to 99,500,000! The
trade was then arrested, and experienced a
refrogade movement. The exportation fell
to 55,000.000 in 1830, but in 1834, it rose
again to 76,800,000, and in 1844, it mounted
up to 88,200,000. This mass of eggs weigh
ed, at the rate of sixteen to a kilogramme,
6 213,000 kilogrammes; upon which I he trea
sury realised 114,000 francs (about §25,000)
export duty on eggs! England takes almost
ihe whole of the eggs exported from France,
Os the 88,000,000 above-mentioned, 82,500,-
000 have crossed the Channel. According
to the official estimates, the consumption of
eggs in Paris is 138 for each individual,
which is very nearly 20,000,000 a year.—
We may double this estimate for the rest of
France, without exaggeration; for, in the
country, eggs and milk are alime te to be
found on every table. We eal, instead of
eggs and milk, vast quantities of solid fat
meat —Americans having, as was expressive
ly paid by the Abbe Cornea, *’bacon-stomachs!'*
The consumption, then, of eggs, in all
France, may be safely pot down at 9.300,-
000,000. If we add to this total that of the
eggs exported, and one-hundredth in addition
of these two numbers, for the eggs reserved
for reproduction, we will find that France has
produced nine billions and a half ; and valu
ing each egg at the rate of a teuih ot a cent,
we have the enormous sum of 465,000,000
francs, or nearly §100,000,000. Though this
estimate may overrun the production in some
of ttie Departments, it is nevertheless certain
that the value which represents the annual
production of eggs, is to be counted by mil
lions of francs, and to most people must be
a matter of surprise.
f Frvm the IV. O. Delta, sth inat. j
Spanish Views of the Mexican War.
The people of this country seem to be af
fected with a morbid appetite for everything ,
that is said of them abroad. The violent
abuse of the London papers, the learned ig
norance of the French journalists, and now,
and then the profound speculations ui some
modern Anacharsis,who'has derived his opin
ions of men and things American frouj a two
week’s experiment of our railroads and steam
boats—are all looked for with anxiety, and
devoured with eagerness. With such a dis
position on the part of the great body of read
ers, we cannot hut suppose that the following
speculations of El Ileraldo, of Madrid, of the
26th of April, will be interesting. They are
the ideas of an intelligent Spainiard, upon
Ihe probable fate of an off-shoot of his once
powerful and still proud race. The editor
takes for gospel tlie English and Mexican
accounts of the battle of Buena Vista.
“The latest news from Mexico announ
ces a triumph of the arms of the republic
which would be gratifying to us as Span
iards, as united to the people of that coun
try bv so many lies and so many traditions
in common, if we thought it could decide,
in favor of Mexico the present desperam
struggle between the Spanish and Anglo-
Saxon races. But unfortunately it is not so.
We see that after prolonged disasters, after
infinite de eats, operating in a com t y the
lb nness of whose population mikes war
most difficult, tiie Mexicans found it neces
sary to unite the flower to their army, in
number fourfold superior to that of the An
glo-Americans, to achieve a triumph exceed
ingly d nihiful, attended with losses which
rendered any new operations impossible.
•• This victory, it is true, has somewhat
reanimated the spirit of the country, so far at
least as a nation, whose people are not homo
geneous, are susceptible of being reanimated;
but in exchange for this advantage, it has
deeply wounded tL6pride of the Anglo-Ain- *
ncans, and if they determine to employ all
their resourcess, the conquest of Mexico is
inevitable.
“Let ft be considered that the Mexican
1 troops obliged to make a herculean effort to
gUliera lew t opines from one of the divi
sions of the enemy—that inis effort is almost
a defeat, as it lias left them exhausted—and
that there yet remain in the country three
or four divisions of the enemy, against which
nothing can be opposed—and it must lie con
fessed that tins victory of Santa Anna will
only serve to precipitate tlie feeble nationali
ty of Mexico, down the declivity which leads
to the precipice,
i “For ourselves, we believe that. .Mexico is
J already virtually blotted out of the list of in
i dependent nations. What can by expected of
a nation, distracted by revolutions and con
tests for ephemeral power, when tlie enemy
i is at its gates, and that no common enemy,
I but one which aims at nothing less than the
destruction of its nationality? What can we
expect of a nation, where the clergy—’he
richest Catholic clergy in the wor'd—refuse
the smallest sacrifice in favor of (lie country,
and prefer the precarious possession of word
ly goods to the salvation of toe land ?
“The army without resources, even with
out food—the ricketly politicians of the capi
j tal conspiring to overthrow the established
| order ot things—ihe clergy occupied in se
creting their valuables, and in exciting the
fanatical opposition of the people against the
sale of their property, without considering
whether the Anglo-Americans will not ap
propriate it with less ceremony—the only
fortification of the coast threatened by a form
idable squadron—a great part of the country
| occupied by an army highly-disciplined, com
posed of men whose energy is proverbial,and
abundantly supplied with every kind of mu
nitions: what can result from all this? We
look upon the consequence as inevitable.—
Enthusiasm will be re-awaken d in the Uni
ted States. An irresistible torrent ot voinn
| teers will inundate Mexico. And it will net
i be long before the Eagle of the Union wifi
light in triumph upon the ancient capital of
Montezuma,
“We, as Spaniards, cannot but lament this
result. The last remnants of the mign ficont
work of Hernan Cories are abmt to disap
pear, and one of the most brilliant pages in
our history will he bound, so to speak, in the
volume of the stranger. Sorrowful effects')!
revolutions ! of demagognical tendencies pre
maturely engrafted on a nation without
stamina to support the effects of unholy am
bition ! Thirty years of independence have
not sufficed to make the Mexicans a nation,
notwithstanding they have held in their hands
the richest elements that Providence ever
placed within reach of the human family.—
And why? Because they have strayed from
the proper path; because they desired to form
a republic with the materials fit only for i
monarchy; because they converted, by a sim
ple decree, the ignorant and oppres.-ed In
dians, the dregs of the population, ignorant
um.l then even of the language of their lords,
into free citizens, possessing all the rights '
which a free nation could give. We now be
hold, though too late, tt e unavoidable es.!»
which this error drew after it.
“And now, is it not permitted to ask what
the nations of Europe think of the indefint®
extension which the American Union is ac
quiring, and which it carries forward with**
much safety as rapidity, sometimes by arm*i
sometimes by money, sometimes by emigra
tion, without ever appearing to consider o> e
merality of the means which it employ:?
Will they permit if to absorb, successively,
the whole continet of America, and so form
a nation by the side of which the most powe f '
ful slates of Europe would appear as ridicu
lous piguiie;-? Will they consent that it sit* 1
cun>oltdate its rich conquests, and make the lll
the base of operations from which to invad®
in succession the states of Central America,
where are to be found some of the most mag
nificent harbors in the world? Will they p
mit it, without obstruction, to reach tb®
Isthmus of Panama—its golden dream—
thus yield to it one of the principal keys 10
the commerce of the globe?
“Time alone can answer IheiS question 3.