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BY HON. MRS. NORTON.
A sailor left his native land,
A simple gift he gave ;
A sea-shell, gather'd by his hand,
From out the rippling wave ;
Oh, love, by this remember me !
Far inland thou must dwell,
But thou shalt hear the sounding sea,
In the murmur of the shell.
Ah, woe is me ! with ta ! ter'd sail
The ship is wildly tost!
A drowning cry is on the gale,
They sink—and all are lost!
While haopv yet, untouched by fear,
Repeating his farewell,
Poor Mary smites, and loves to hear
The murmur of the shell.
The tidings wrecked her simple brain;
And smiling now she goes,
A mad girl—reckless of her pain—
Unconscious of her woes;
But when they ring the village chimes,
That toll'd the lover’s knell,
She sighs and says she hears at times
Death-music in the shell!
Incidents of the Battles of New Orleans-
WUffVe take the following interesting incidents
of the above battles from the last New Orleans
Courier. It corrects a prevalent error about
the breast work of Cotton bags. We have no
doubt that the version given the matter by the
brave Major Davezac, who but recently died
in New York, is entirely correct. He was one
of Gen. Jackson’s aids in those memorable
battles, and must have been well informed of
what was going on:
“Mexican Gulf Rail Road—lncidents or
the Battle op New Orleans. —We have of
ten heard it remarked there were many gray
headed people living within ten miles of the
Falls of Niagara, who had never been to wit
ness the sublime rush of its waters. There
are many persons living in the First Munici
. pality,'the old quarter of New Orleans, to
I whom the city above Canal street is a terra
incognita. These things seem astonishing, yet
we venture to say that there are in Lafayette
and in New Orleans, fifty thousand citizens
who have never visited the plains of Chalmette,
on which were Lught the memorable battles
of the 23d December, 1814, and the Bth Jan.
1815. Yet the theatre of these terrible con
flicts may be reached by the Mexican Gulf
Railway in half an hour !
“There are two incidents of the evenrs of
1814 that have been much commenced on, v.z:
the watch word of the British on the morning
of the Bth, ‘Beauty and Booty'," and the reput
ed breast work ot ‘cot:on bales,’ from behind
which the riflemen of Jackson poured such a
destructive fire. The British writers have
made many efforts to prove that no such watch
word was given, but it has been satisfactorily
established that these were inducements held
out to inspire the soldiery, and which doubt
less urged them to those desperate assaults,
persevered in with intrepidity little short of
madness, until nearly every field officer, and
almost half the army, had fallen before the
American fire. Dreadful, indeed, would have
been the fate of New Orleans, had the enemy,
stimulated with the idea of ‘beauty and boo
ty/ and infuriated by resistance, succeeded in
forcing the lines of Gen. Jackson.
“The English writers have endeavored to
account for the signal and unexpected defeat
of their numerous, well appointed and ably
commanded army, by asserting that Jackson
was securely entrenched behind cotton bales—
and the statement has become current and
accredited even in this country. We remem
ber to have heard the late Major Davezac, an
aid of Gen. Jackson, explain this error. He
said it was not true that our army was shel
tered by cotton bales. The commanding Gen
eral had taken the precaution to prevent any
boat from floating down, and thus falling into
the enemy’s hands—being determined, if they
crossed the river, they should do it in their
own boats. On the 29th December, a flatboat
was seen drifting down the river, having evi
dently broken from its moorings. Cotton, at
that time, was a mere drug, hardly command
ing a price that warranted its transhipment
and storage —and such as arrived at the city
usually remained for some days in the boats.
On board this floating boat were twenty-nine
bales. Gen. Jackson ordered it to be towed
ashore, to prevent it, from drifting to the camp
of the enemy. The bales were rolled on shore
within our lines, but some thirty yards from
the bastion, and in the rear of the position oc
cupied by our troops during the battle. And
there they remained, and were seen by the
six hundred British prisoners taken in the re
doubt on the left of the American line—who,
as some consolation for their defeat, trumped
up the story of our figting behind a breast
work of cotton bales.
“The fact is our ramparts were of Louisiana
earth; not so formidable in itself, but because
behind them there was something more Bolid
and impregnable—the indomitable breasts of
freemen, fighting for their families and hearth
stones, and animated by one of the greatest
men the world has ever known! This was
the wall against which the pride of Britain
rolled, like the maddened billows against a
rock planted in the ocean, calmly repulsing
the rage of the infuriated flood.
“A single incident of the conflict, which
will be remembered by all the survivors of that
memorable day, will serve to show the height
of this rampart of earth, which British writers
have magnified and transformed into a stu
pendous barricade of co ton bales. When the
gallant Packenham fell within three hundred
yards of it, his char ter, of high race and blood,
young and full of mettle, became frightened,
and dashed directly towards the American
lin* s f and at a single bound cleared the ditch
and bastion, and became a captive. He was
bought, yet quivering in his fright, and pre
set! ted as spoila eptima to the Commander-ii_-
Chief,
<4mthe four Generals in the British army
‘"anthe Stb» two were killed on the field » and
one was sent to the fleet severely wounded.
Gen. Lambert escaped, but be had not been
under fire that day. Gen. Kenn, when carried
off the field desperately wounded, left his
sword, and it was picked up by one of the
Tennesseans, who were searching for muskets,
and brought to Gen. Jackson. When the
wounded General recovered his senses, his
first thought was of his weapon. He dis
patched a note to Gen. Jackson by a young
Louisianan, then a prisoner in the British fleet,
requesting that search might be made for his
sword, saying that it was the treasured gift of
a friend who died in battle, and backing the
appeal by a reference to the high and chival
rous feeling which he well knew animated the
American warrior. Nor did he appeal in vain.
‘Go,’ said the hero to Mr. Livingston,one of his
aids—‘Deliver this sword to the British Gen.
God forbid that I should withhold the gift ot
a soldier fiom one so deserving of it.’
“The scene of these interesting reminiscen
ces is, we repeat, within half an hour’s ride ot
this city, on the Mexican Gulf Railroad.”
Natural History of the Sabbath-
The following just view of the Sabbath, in
its adaptation to the condition and wants ot
man, are from the North British Review—a
periodical which stands pre-eminent among
works of the kind —and we command them to
the careful consideration of every one who
would regard the laws of this mental and
physical organization.
Aside from the natural period alloted to us
for rest, growing out of the succession of day
and night, man, as well as animals of inferior
kinds, evidently requires seasons of longer
duration for the rest and renovation of his
mental and bodily powers.
Whatever may be his power of endurance,
he is incapable of sustaining continued action
of any considerable duration without becom
ing fatigued and exhausted. This is what
every one knows from experience; and hence
may see the necessity of some stated period
for relaxation from toil, and for the recovery of
his enfeebled energies. The Sabbath supplies
this want: and in its adaptation to our condi
tion, as clearly shown by experience, it is
reasonable to conclude that the Creator of man
is “Lord also of the Sabbath.”
The Creator has given us a natural restor
ative-sleep; and amoral restorative—Sabbath
keeping; and it is ruin to dispense with either.
Under the pressure of high excitement, indi
viduals have passed weeks together with little
sleep or none; but when the process is long
continued, the over driven powers rebel, and
fever, delirium and death come on; nor can
the natural amount be systematically curtail
ed, without corresponding mischief, jhe
Sabbath does not arrive like sleep. The day
of rest does not steal over us like the hour of
slumber. It does not entrance us almost
whether we will or not; but addressing us as
intelligent beings, our Creator assures us that
we need it, and bids us notice its return, and
court ita renovation. And if going in the face
of the Creator’s kindness, we force ourselves
to work all days alike, it is not long till we
pay the forfeit.
The metal worker—the man of business or
the man of letters —finds his ideas becoming
torpid and slow; the equipoise of faculties is
upset, grows mody, fitful, and with his mental
elasticity broken, should any disaster occur,
he subsides into habitual melancholy, or in
self-destruction speeds bis guilty exit from a
gloomy world. And the manual worker —the
artisan, the engineer—toiling on from day to
day, and week to week, the bright intuition
gets blunted; and forgetiul of their cunning,
his fingers no longer perform the feats of
twinkling agility, nor by a plastic and tuneful
touch, mould dead matter, or wield mechanic
> power; but mingling his life’s blood in his
i daily drudgery, his locks are prematurely gray,
his genial humours sour, and slaving it till he
has become a morose of reckless man, for an
extra effort or any blink of balmy feeling, he
must stand indebted to opium or alcohol.
Glorious Uncertainties op the Law.—
The most litigious fellow I ever knew, was a
Welchman, named Bones. He had got poa
; session, by some means or other, of a bit of
waste ground behind a public house, in Hog
wash street. Adjoining this land was a yard,
i belonging to the parish of St. Jeremiah,
* which the Parish Trustees were fencing in
with a wall. Bones alleged that one corner
' of their wall was advanced about ten inches
on his ground, and as they declined to move
’ it back, he kicked down the brickwork before
, the mortar was dry. The T rustees, having
’ satisfied tnemselves that they were not only
within their own boundary, but that they left
i Bones some feet of the parish land to boot,
> built up the wall again. Bones kicked it
down again. The Trustees put it up a third
time, under the protection of a policeman.
The inexorable Bones, in spite of the awful
presence of this functionary, not only kicked
down the wall again, but kicked the brick
layers into the bargain. This was too much,
and Bones was marched off to Guildhall, for
assailing the bricklayers. The magistrate
rather poohpoohed the complaint, but bound
over Bones to keep the peace. The causa belli ,
the wall, was re-edified a fourth time; but
when the Trustees re-visited the place next
morning, it was again in ruins !
While they were in consultation upon this
last insult, they were politely waited upon by
an Attorney’s Clerk, who served tbem all
with “ writs” in an action of trespass, at the
suit of Bones, for encroaching on his land.
Thus war was declare 1 about a dirty piece of
land, lilterally not so big as a door step, and
the fee-simple of which would not sell for a
shilling. The Trustees, however, thought
they ought not to give up the rights of the
parish to the obstinacy of a perverse fellow,
like Bones, and resolved to indict Bones for
assaulting the workmen. Accordingly, the
action and indictment went on together. The
action was tri* d first, and as the evidence
clearly showed the Trustees had kept within
their own boundary, they got the verdict.
Bones moved for a new trial; that failed.
The Truatees now thought they would let the
matter rest, as it had cost the parish about one
hundred and fifty pounds, and they supposed
that Bones had enough of it. But they had
mistaken their man. He brought a writ of
error in the action, which carried the cause
into the Exchequer Court, and tied it up near
ly two years, and in the meantime he forced
them, nolens ns, to try the indictment.
When the trial came on, the Judge said, that
as the whole question had been decided in
the action, there was no occasion for any fur
ther proceeding, and therefore the defendant
had better be acquitted, and so make an
end of it. Accordingly, Bones was acquitted;
and the very next thing Bones did, was to
sue the Trustees in a new action, for mali
ciously instituting the indictment against him,
without reasonable cause!
The action went on to trial, and it bein®
proved that one of the Trustees had been
overheard to say that they would punish him,
this was taken as evidence of malice, and
Bones got a verdict of forty shillings dam
ages, besides all the costs. Elated with his
victory, Bones pushed on his old action in the
Exchequer Chamber to a hearing, but the
Court affirmed the julgment against him,
without hearing the Trustees’ counsel. The
Trustees were now sick of the very name of
Bones, which had become a sort of bugbear,
so that if a friend met a Trustee in the street,
he would be greeted with an inquiry of the
health,of his friend, Mr. Bones. They would
then have gladly let the whole matter drop
into oblivion, but Jupiter and Bones had de
termined otherwise; for the indomitable Bones
brought a writ of error in the House of Lordß,
on the judgment of the Exchequer Chamber.
The unhappy Trustees had caught a Tartar,
and follow him into the House of Lords they
must. Accordingly, after another year or
two’s delay, the case came on in the Lords.
Their Lordships pronounced it the mosttrum
pery writ of error they had ever seen, and
again affirmed the judgment, with costs, and
found that they had spent not less than five
hundred pounds in defending their claim to
a bit of ground that was not of the value of
an old shoe. But, then, Bones was condemn
ed to pay the cost. True; so they issued an
Execution against Bones ; caught him, after
some trouble, and locked him up in j ail. The
next week, Bones petitioned the Insolvent
Court, got out of prison, and on examination
of schedule, his effects appeared to be £0 Os
Od. !
Bones had, in fact, been fighting the Trus
tees on credit fer the last three years, for his
own attorney was put down as a creditor to a
large amount, which was the only satisfaction
the Trustees obtained for pursuing his sche
dule. They were now obliged to have re
course to the Parish funds to pty their own
law expenses, and were consoling themselves
with the reflection that these did not come
out of their own pockets, when they received
the usual notification that a bill in Chancery
had been filed against them, at Mr. Bones’s
suit, to overhaul their accounts with the Par
ish, and prevent misapplication of the Parish
money to the payment of their law costs !
This was the climax.
And being myself a disciple of Coke. I
heard nothing further of it, being unwilling
as well, perhaps as unqualified, to follow the
case into the labyrinthic vaults Oi the Court of
Chancery. The catastrophe if this were a
table, could hardly be mended, so the true
story may end here.
A Toughing Incident. —l went one night
to see a comedy. The chief actor was a fa
vorite, and the theatre, a small provincial one
was very crowded. The curtain drew up,
and amidst a burst of applause, the hero of
the picture made his appearance. He had
hardly uttered twenty words when it struck
me that something strange was the matter
with him. The play was a boisterous come
dy of the old school, and iequired consider
able spirit and vivacity in the actors to sus
tain it properly, but in this man there was
none; he walked and talked like a person in a
dream; his best points he passed over with
out appearing to perceive them; and altogeth
er he appeared quite unfit for the part. His
smile was ghastly, hia laugh hollow and un
natural; and frequently he would stop sud
denly in his speech and let his eye wander
vacantly over the audience. Even when, in
his character of a silly husband he had to
suffer himself to be kicked about the stage by
the young rake of the comedy, and afterwards
to behold that careless individual making love
to his wife, and eating his supper, while he
was shut up in a closet from whence he could
not emerge, his contortions of ludicerous
wrath which had never before failed to call
down plenty of applause, were now such dis
mal attempts to portray the passion, that his
ses were audible in various parts of the thea
tre.
The audience were fairly out of temper;
and several inquisitive individuals were gpar
ticular in their enquiries as to the extent of
potations he had indulged in that evening.
A storm of sibilation and abuse now fell
round the ears of the devoted astor; and
not content with verbal insult, orange-peel
and apples flew upon the stage. He stop
ped and turned to the shouting crowd. I
never saw such misery in a human counten
ance, His face was worn and haggard, and
a large tear rolled down his painted cheeks.
I saw his lips quivering with inward agony
—I saw his bosom heave with convulsions
of suppressed emotion, and his whole mien
betokened such depth of anguish and dis
tress, that the most ruthless heart must have
throbbed with pity. The audience was mov
ed; and by degrees the clamor of invective
. subdued into a solemn silence, while he stood
near the footlights, a picture of dejection.—
When all was calm, he spoke, and in a voice
broken by sobs that seemed to rend his bo
som, proceeded to offer his little explana
tion.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” said he, “though
in my acting to night, I am conscious of
meriting your displeasure, in one thing you
do me wrong. lam not intoxicated. Emo
tien alone, and that of the most painful kind,
has caused me to fulfil my allotted part so
badly my wife died a few hours ago, and
I left her side to fulfil my unavoidable en
gagement here. If I have not pleased you.
I implore you to forgive. I loved her, griev
ed for her, and if misery and anguish can
excuse a fault 1 bear my apology —here!”
He placed his hand upon his heart and
stopped, and a burst of tears relieved his
momentary paroxysm of grief. The audi
ence were thoroughly affected, and an hon
est buist of sympathy made the walls trem
ble. Women wept loudly, and strong men
silently; and during the remainder of the
evening his performance was scarcely audi
ble, through the storm of applause by which
the crowd sought to soothe the poor fellow’s
wounded feelings. There was something
very melanoboly in the thought of that
wretched man’s coming from the bed of
death to don gay attire, and utter studied
witicisms for the amusement of a crowd. —
Not one of them dreamed of the anguish
that lay festering under the painted cheek
and the ate ge smile. And in the great the
atre of life how many are there aronud us
like that poor actor, smiling gaily at the
multitude while at home lies some mystery
of sorrow whose shadow is ever present with
them in busy places, and in solitude revels
upon their hearts like a ghost among the
tombs?
Curious Facts. —ln England the average
poor rates for ten years past has amounted to
$30,000,000.
In Ireland $7,500,000 a year are expended
to feed a starving population.
In 1825 the immigration from the British
Isles was 26,000 persons, in 1849 the number
was 300,000.
In 30 years, crime in Great Britain and
Ireland has increased 500 per cent, while popu
lation has increased only 30 per cent.
In 1822 there were 27,182 jail commitments
in England, Scotland, and Ireland ; in 1850
there were 74,162.
13 per cent, of the population of Scotland
are paupers.
In Ireland, it appeers from a report to gov
ernment, made in July, 1847, that 3,020,712
persons subsisted on public alms, about 40
per cent, of the population. The nominal
rental in Ireland is $65,000,000. The sum
expended for the relief of the poor, $6,370,-
595, one-ninth of the rental—There were
250,000 persons in poor houses, and 45,000
in jail.
in Glasgow, one-fourth of the burials are at
the public expense.
In London there are 20,000 journeymen tai
lors, of whom 14,000 earn a miserable exis
tence by working 14 hours a day, including
nnr» ay * ere arG a^Bo * n the same city 32,-
000 sewing women, who on an average, make
only 4£d, or 9 cents a day, by working 15
hours not quite |of a cent per hour.
Noble and Witty Reply.— ln 1561, Philip
I, sent the young Constable de Castile to
Rome, to congratulate Sextus the Fifth o
his advancement. The Pope immediately said 1
—“ Are there so few men in Spain that your
king sends me one without a beard ?” “ Sir,”
said the fierce Spaniard, “ if his Majesty pos
sessed the least idea that you imagined merit
lay in the beard, he would have deputed a
goat to you, not a gentleman.”
THE CONSTiTUnONALISr.
3tttjguota, #eorgtc*
SUNDAY MORNING) APRIL 27-
Southern Rights Meeting.
The members of the Southern Rights
Party of Richmond County, are request
ed to meet at the CITY HALL, in the
city of Augusta , on TUESDAY, 6th of
MAY, at 4 o’clock, P. M., to appoint
Delegates to the Convention to nominate a
Candidate for Governor at the ensuing
election .
Northern Friends and Enemies-
The election of Sumner, the violent Aboli
tionist, to the United States Senate, from Mas
sachusetts, is a new light on the disputed
question of the devotion of that State to the
Union, and law and order, and other trum
pery watchwords of the Compromise party.
The Massachusetts Legislature have been
fighting this Senatorial question since Janua
ry. The number of ballots has been great,
and the amount of intrigueing, lying, brib
ing, cursing and sputtering, incredible. All
this, for a long time, left the difficulty just,
where it found it. Mr. Sumner could not be*
elected. The fugitive Crafts was apprehend
ed, and escaped, but no decisive effect was*
produced on the state of parties. The other
fugitive—we have forgot his name—was res -
cued out of the Court House, to the great in -
dignation of Mr. Fillmore and otners, but
still neither Sumner nor any body else could
be elected Senator. But, finally, a fugitive
slave is restored to his owner, (at a cost of
five times his value ;) the dignity of the lav;
is vindicated in Boston; it is triumphantly
proved to the satisfaction of all Compromisers,
that the great body of the people of Massa
chusetts are sound on the subject of the Con
stitutional obligations,—and, 10, at the very
next trial after this event, Massachusetts elect s
an unmittigated Abolitionist to the United
States Senate. This is the echo which she
sends back in answer to the extravagant eulo
gies and rejoicings of the Administration
press, North and South.
It is not indeed the first indication, but it
is the most significant. The indignity offered
to Mr. Webster was a hint from Boston mere
ly; this is the voice of the whole State. We
have, then, Massachusetts declaring herself in
the most solemn form, against the execution
of the Fugitive Law, and eleting to the high
est office in her gift, a man notorious for in
stigating the mob to oppose its execution by
violence. This is the State for which the
President and his Secretaries, and his organs
have kept up a stream of specious promises,—
pledging themselves that its feeling was loyal,
and a little time would prove that all the dis
turbances were the work of a few demagogues
at the head of a few fools.
Now, the reason why the triumph of lav/
has been followed by such consequences, is
worth considering. There is but one conclu
sion—that the people of Massachusetts are,
with very few exceptions, Abolitionists, —prac-
tical, determined, and bitter Abolitionists.
The fact is indeed abundantly proven by all
their declarations of opinion,—but on no oth
er ground could we account for this result,
that the execution of the fugitive law has sud
denly raised the violent anti-slavery party to
supremacy. The “triumph of law” has mere
ly preceded the triumph of Sumner. It has
brought the matter to a test, and this is the
result. Charleston Mercury .
The Southern Literary Messenger-
The reception of the April number reminds
us that we have too long passed over this wel
come visitor without a notice appropriate! to
its merits. We adopt the following language
I of the Huntsville Democrat , as expressing our
own views of the olaims of this periodical to
Southern support:
“ The Southern Literary Messenger. —John
R. Thompson, Editor and Proprietor.—This
excellent monthly visits us as in days of yore,
and we greet it as an old familiar friend. Wo
do not hesitate to say, that there is no peri
odical in the Union more deserving of en
couragement. There is none within our
knowlege, which furnishes so great a variety
of matter with so little literary trifling non
sense. Instead of catering to a corrupt taste
for foolish love ditties and novelettes disgust -
ing for their indecency or sickly sentimental
ity, or administering soporifics' in the form of
long essays replete with philosophic inanities
and dullness, the articles, prose and poetical,
bear testimony to the Editor’s talents, good
taste and discriminating judgment. All the
articles, we believe, are original, and are cal
culated to elevate the standard of Southern
literature and create a correct public taste.
We have before us the January, February and
March Nos. and find in them an occasional
political or philosophical essay, interesting
sketches of great men, histories. incidents, re
views, domestic and foreign correspondence,
tales, poetry and notices of new works. Its
graver prose articles are dignified,philosophical
and instruct’ve, its lighter ones always chaste,
generally well conceived and highly enter
taining, while many a gem of thought and
feeling sparkles in the streams, which flo*
musically from the hieghts of Parnassus. The
Messenger is the only Southern work of the
kind; and therefore, independently of its in -
trinsic merits, eminently deserves a liberal.
Southern patronage. Let husbands and fath -
ers, who imagine they will have no time to
read it procure it for their wives, sons and
daughters. It will shed light and happiness
on theiir households. It has now entered i- sj
3 7th y ear, which is certainly evidence of the
public appreciation of its merits. It is pub -
lished at Richmond, Va. in monthly numbers
averaging sixty-four pages each, at $5 inva -
riably in advance.”
Sad Affair. We learn (says the Madison
Visitor of the 26th inst,) that two lads, one
five and the other seven years of age, whose
parents are connected with the factory neaif
Milledgevitle, fell into a dispute a few day*,
ago, when ihe younger drew a knife, and in
flicted wounds which resulted in the death
of the elder.
Jailßurnt. We learn from the Talladega*
(Ala) Reporter, that the county Jail of Tal
ladega, was burned on the 10th inst. Vari
ous suspicions as to the burning, seem to be
afloat, it being certainly the work of an incen
diary.
A Fight with Indians. —The Western Tex
ian, of the 27th ultimo, gives an account of a
battle between Lieutenant Dodge of the sth
Infantry, and fifteen dragoons from Fort Lin
coin, with a party of Indians,eight in number,
who had been committing many depredations
around Castroville. The Lieutenant and his
men followed their trail a long distance, came
on them on the San Saba river, killed two of
them, and captured all their horses, ten in
number.
The Style in New Mexico,— The Santa Fe
New Mexican,of the 22d of February,contains
the following notice:
Mr. D. V. Whiting will resume his Spanish
School on Monday evening next, at 7 o’clock,
P. M.
The scholars are particularly required to
bring a “stick of wood,” in order to heat the
room in a “jimplicute” style.
Lord Brougham has deferred his intended
visit to the United States for the present. He
had previously announced from his place in
the House of Lords his intention to come
among us in the Spring.
Mr. Thackaray, the author, will leave Eu
rope for America during the month of August,
to deliver lectures on the comic writers of
England. He has not received an offer from
Mr. Barnum.
The Early Cotton Culture.— The Green
ville (S. C.) Patriot of late date, relates
the following interesting facts :
“ Many years ago, the senior-editor of this
paper was informed by his venerable and
hereditary friend, Samuel Meverick, Esq., of
Pendleton, that when a boy, as clerk in the
house of his uncle, Mr. Wm. Turbin, of
Charleston, he assisted in packing the first
bag of Cotton ever sent to Liverpool from the
United States. Mr. Maverick is still living,
and we now export some two millions ol bags
of Cotton every year. The Cotton packed
by Mr. Maverick was put up in the seed.
This was long before Whitney’s invention of
the Cotton Gin. The consignees of this lone
bag of Cotton informed tne house of Wads
worth & Turbin, that he could not sell it, that
it was valueless, and adv.sad them to send no
morg. How little this fauhiul factor saw into
futurity!,
“If any one had said to him that in less
than 70 years, and during the lifetime of the
boy who had packed that very bale of cotton,
millions and millions of bags would be annu
ally sent across the Atlantic for sale in Eng
land and France, he would have pronounced
.him a madman or a fool. But it has been
done, has become the great means
by which civilization is to spread over the
earth. The cheapness of Cotton fabrics has
taught the savage to clothe himself and exer
cise industry, in obtaining the means of pur
chasing this comfort and evidence of civiliza
tion. Millions of human beings are employ
ed in the cultivation o; Cotton—hundreds of
thousands in its manufacture—and the whole
world are clothed in it. This, too, happened
in the life-time of a man still living !”
A Remarkaele Story.— The Presbyterian,
a religious paper, published somewhere at the
North, tells the following extraordinary story:
“ A young man in the township of Warsaw
Genesee county, N. Y ; , was engaged in cut
ting wood ; and in felling a tree it became en
tangled in the branches of other trees. While
endeavoring to disentangle the tree and bring
it to the ground, it suddenly fell, and splitting
at the butt, he was caught by the foot, and
thus suspended with his head downward In
this condition he cried for help, until his voice
was gone and his strength well nigh exhaust
ed. His axe had fallen, and he could barely
touch the end of the helve witii his finger.—
He labored to reach it, but it was all in vain.
Could he but get that, he could extricate him
self. But alas! it was beyond his reach.—
What was he to do ? He had cried for help
until he could no longer speak. He was in
the woods, three-quarters of a mile from any
human being, lhe weather was extremely
cold, and he was hanging with his head down
ward, suffering extreme p .in, not only in the
foot which was caught in the cleft of the tree,
but also in the head, caused by his unnatural
position and ti.e great exertion he had put
forth to be heard. Death now seemed inevi
table, unless he could be immediately extri
eated. There was no alternative. Summon
ing all his courage, therefore, he came to the
determination to make the attempt to cut off
his leg; and should he succeed in doing this,
there was but a faint hope that he would
thereby save his life, for there was no surgeon
at hand to take up the arteries—no kind friend
near to bind up the mangled limb. It seem
ed more than probable, therefore, that he
would bleed to death. But what will a man
not do to save his life ? He had in his pocket
an old dull knife. With this, he cut off the
legs of his boot and stocking, and then un
jointed his own ankles.
T his being done, he crawled to his dinner
basket, and binding up the stump with a nap
kin which had covered his dinner, he started
upon hands and knees through the snow for
home. When he arrived within a few rods of
his house, he was discovered by some friends,
who hastened to his relief. His strength was
now exhausted. Help had come and he faint
ed. He was borne to the house and resusci
tated. Now comes the curious facts : and I
will here say that the gentleman who related
the facts to me was present and went for the
surgeon. ‘Go,’said the wounded man, ‘go
immediately to the woods and cut out my
foot, for it is suffering most excruciating pain/
They did so, and brought the foot to the
house. He then said it was cold, and wished
it put into warm water. This request was also
granted. It was not in the room in which the
unfortunate man lay, yet as soon as the foot
touched the water he cried out, saying, ‘ It
burns me ; the water is too hot!’ Upon put
ting the hand into the water it was found
even so. The water was then made cooler,
and he was satisfied. I will also add that a
surgeon was obtained from Batavia, a distance
of fifteen or eighteen miles; and the limb again
amputated ; the man recovered and became a
preacher of the gospel in the Baptist Church.”
Sponge Trade of Key West. —The sponge
trade is creating quite a sensation in our
midst. A large number of our citizens are
engaged in procuring it, and are reaping a
handsome reward for their labor. The sponge
is cured and brought into market, and sold to
our. merchants for New York consumption,
where they are manufacturing a beautiful ar
ticle of cloth from it. The discovery was
only made some six months ago that it was
valuable for such a purpose, and now the ar
ticle commands, in this market, from ten to
twelve cents per pound, and a first-rate ar
ticle, well cured and attended to, will bring
even more. There is always a demand for it,
and it would not surprise us to see it, at no
distant day, one of the principal commodities
of our section.— Key West Gazette .
(From the New York Herald, 2 3d inst.)
Further per Steamer Asia
The British mail steamship Asia Capt.
Judkins, arrived at her wharf at quarter be
fore eleven o’clock this morning, after a pas
sage of ten days and ninteen hours. She left
Liverpool on Saturday, the 12th inst., at a
quarter before five o'clock in the afternoon.
The news is three days later than our pre
vious advices.
There is nothing very important from Eng
land. The Russell ministry continued to be
sustained in Parliament. The last vote on
the Assessed Taxes act gave them a majority
of thirteen.
Advices from Geneva state that the Gov
ernment of that Canton has refused ’o expel
from its territory the 17 French refugees, as
ordered by the federal government.
We learn that the Spanish Cortes was dis
solved by the Queen on the 7th instant; a de
cree has also appeared in the Madrid Gazette,
giving the portfolio of the Home Department
to M. Beltrande Lis, in addition te his own
of Foreign Affairs. M. Arteta, Minister for
Home Affairs, has been transferred to the de
partment of Public Works.
The market for American State Stocks in
London, on the 10th inst., was unaltered.
By Telegraph from London to Liverpool.
France.
Paris, Friday Morning, April 11.
The Moniteur publishes the following list
of the new ministry :
M. Baroche ....Foreign Affairs.
M. Roucher ..Justice.
M. Fould Finance.
M. Leon Foucher Interior.
M. Boffet ....Commerce.
M. Chasseloup L’Aubat..Marine.
General Raudoer...... . .War.
M. Magne Public Works.
At the commencement of the Assembly—
M. Leon Fouchier, Minister of the Interior,
read the ministerial programme, which is very
short.
M. St. Beuve moved that the Assembly
should adopt an order of the day. Motive in
the following terms.
The Assembly persisted in its order of the
day of the 18th January, wnich is in the
terms following —
The Assembly declares its want of confi
dence in the ministry, and passes to the order
of the day.
The order of the day, pure and simple,
having been demanded, a division took place
when there appeared for the order of the day,
pure and simple 377, again it 275. Majority
for the ministry 102.
The Morning Post gives the members as fol
lows: For the nation, 327, against 275. Ma
jority in favor of the ministry 52.
The Daily News also reported the majority
as 32.
The new ministry is aleeady thieatened with
opposition by the journals of the monarchist
party.
Paris Bourse—Fives, 93f. 25; Threes, 52f.
55.
Prussia.— Berlin, April 9. —The Times let
ters contain no news respecting the progress
of the German question.
Austria. —Vienna, April 7. —The Austrian
governmentjhas imposed an income tax on the
Lombardo-Venetian provinces.
Markets.
Liverpool Cotton Market, April 9.—The
market has been very quiet again to-day, and
closes rather heavily. Prices as compared
with Friday's rates, for the current qu lities
of American and Surats, are Is 8d per ib. low
er, other sorts arc the same. The sales arc
estimated at 4,000 bales, and include about
3,000 American; 200 Pernam and Maran, 7|d
to
to 10d; 400 Surats. 4|d to s^d.
April 10. —The market still continues heavy
and prices are without change, the one-eighth
of a penny per lb. lost since Friday last has
not been regained. The sales amount to about
5,000 bales, and include 4,000 American; 250
Pernam, and Mtran. 7|d to B£dlso Babia, 7|d
to
B|d 500 Surats, 4£d to s£d.
April 11.—The market has been rather
quiet to-day and prices are steady at yester
day’s quotations; the sales amount to about
5,000 bales.
Arrival o i the Isabel—Later from Ha
vana and Key West.
The steam ship Isabel, Capt, Rollins, arriv
ed here yesterday from Havana, bringing ac
counts to the 22d inst.
Out usual files of Havana papers, and the
favors of our Havana and Key West Cor
respondents, came to hand, and will be found
below.
The steamer Georgia arrived at Havana on
the 17th inst., and sailed for Chagres on the
19th-
The Falcon sailed for New-Orleans on the
18th, at 10 A. M.
The U. S. sloop of war Albany arrived on
the 11th inst., and sailed on the 19th, at 6 A.
M., for Pensacola.
The French steam frigate and many Amer
ican vessels were in the port of Havana when
the Isabel sailed.
A great deal of excitement exists on accouut
of the expected invasion which was report
ed would take place on the 19ch. Up to the
time of the Isabel’s sailing,no news had reach
ed Havana that a landing had been effected.
Despatches from New- Orleans are said to have
reached the Captain General that the expedi
tion had salied, consequently the soldiers
slept on their arms; horses were kept saddled,
and the entire army and navy were in a mo
ment’s warning ready for the tight. One
steamer is kept steam upon at all hours,so it is
said by some of the personal friends of his
Excellency.
A Spaniard was to bp “garoted,” on the
mornining of the 23d, having been betrayed
by one of the Spanish Pilots as a spy, o: Gen
eral Lopez. It seems this man had offered
twelve Doubloons to the pilot, it he would
join the expedition, and act as pilot for them.
He received the money, and then informed
the Captain General, who immediately had
the Spaniard arrested, tried, and condemned
to die on the 23d.
A gentleman from the Island, and one who
has been travelling much of late, informs us
that all over the Is and the most anxious de
sire is manifested for the invasion o: the Isl.
and by the Americans, and probably the peo
ple were never so ardent and eager to r» Beßtt
masse and join the invaders as at the *■.resent
moment.
We give these rumors as they r each ua<
The position of affairs in Cuba ; j8 doubtless
critical, and whether actual dem onstration are
in progress or not is a question which remains
undecided. Every preparation has been made
by the authorities to meet the expected out
break.— Charleston Courier , 26 inst.
and Supposed Murder. —The
Troy Whig relates that a Mr. Samuel Neal
went to Albany, on Tuesday last, to draw cer
tain pension moneys due him, which having
done, he started homeward, passing over the
Rail-Road Bridge at Troy, wit i the intent of
taking the cars. While waiting at the depot
he fell into conversation with an individual,*
and subsequently left with him, on his wav
home. Late in the afternoon he was found
in a dying state, a short distance below the
Troy Depot, from the effects of poison. The
pension money he had received was mis,ing,
but the sum of $595, which he had in another
pocket, wes not taken. The implicated per
son is in custody, though his name is with
held for the present.