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68 LITERARY. WILLIAJI W. MANN, Editor. The Southern Field and Flrewlde IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. TEEMS—S2.OO a year, invariably in advance. All Postmasters are authorized agents. SATURDAY JULY 28,1559. TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. We have received during the week: Saturday Night—by Mrs. C. 11. Branch. The Beautiful Princess of Cofachlqol—by I- Virginia French. The Sisters of Charity—by Laura Lincoln. The Evils of aspiring to be a Poetess —by S. C. S. Check Mated—a Charade—by E. W. M. Stray Leaves from the Diary of a Country Lady by M. M., of Walnut drove. Letters from my Log Cabin—No*, in. and iv. The Katydid’s Song—by M. M., of Walnut Grove. The Unknown Beauty—by D. A. B. The Temple and Tomb—by same. •■The Moon is shining bright, Love,’* —by S. L. If. Mother! Home'.! and Heaven 11!—bv Bern ado. Thoughts—by C. H. S. The difference of Love—by Hall. Gold—by E—a The last named contribution has been reail, and is respectfully declined It, with the private note which accompanied it, has been destroyed; the note unread. as was requested. m 111 OUR PRIZES. Another /Vise Poem is offered to our readers in the present number of the Field and Fireside. The fortu nate competitor for poetic honor isazaln, and we are i>lad to say it, a lady. It is to Miss Annie R. Blount, of our own State and city, that the prize “for the best |>oem over sixty lines" has been awarded. Her prize poem entitled’ 'Under the Lamp Light will be found on the preced ing page. We give below, a note from the gentlemen who were selected as judges, for the award of the Literary Prizes, announcing to the pro|»rietor the decisions arrived at. Os the four literary prizes contended for, three have been taken by ladies. And they do not wear uneontested honors. All the prizes were spiritedly disputed by wri ters of the other sex : Augusta, Ga., July 15th, 1559. James Gardner, Esq.— Dear Sir: We, Mn compli ance with yonr request, have examined the various arti cles Intended to compete for the prizes offered by you, as proprietor of the Southern Field and Fireeide. Among them were many which elicited our highest com mendation ; and it was only after long deliberation that yonr committee made the followlnz decision: We aw ard the prize for the best Novelette to “Aliene, or The Recovered Treasurefor the best Poem, over sixty lines, to “Under the Lamp-Light;” for the best Poem under Sixty lines, to the Dream of Locust Dell and, for the best Essay, to the article entitled, “Prefaces," Trusting that our judgment may receive the approval of your readers, we are, rcspectftilly, yours, James 1,. Rossigxol, Geo. T. Barnes. FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. Paris, 30th June, 1859. A new battle, a new victory for the Allies, a now French Marshal, and another of the defen sive rivers crossed—such is the brief table of contents of this week’s chapter of military his tory. The battle of Solferino was fought throughout the long day of June 24th, by not far from tour hundred thousand troops, pretty equally divided as to numbers between the Allies and the Aus trians. Besides that, the “ lay of the ground ” was more favorable to the enemy; they had the double advantage of knowing its every hillock and hollow, and the possible military worth of each, as accurately as any of your readers know the shape and surface of his plantation. They have practically studied this ground, on the ground, in yearly niameuvers, till their Generals were as familiar with it as the French Generals with the camp at Chalons; and they have theo retically studied it in their military schools. To the natural advantages of the positions it offered, they added artificial strengthening.— They were commanded by their best Generals, under the eyo of their sovereign. They had more than ordinary motives to strive for victory; a shaken military reputation to re-establish; the shame of defeats and retreats to wipe out; strouger, perhaps, than these, a desire to avenge themselves on the Allies for the insulting re joicings with which the emancipated Lombards had been for a month past following their re treating steps; of graver force still, a recogni tion of the immense importance of a victory, in its political bearings upon Germany. And so they fought bravely and fiercely, from early morning on through the intense heat of an Italian day— then fled, hopelessly beaten, under cover of a raging evening tempest, back across the Mincio, whence they had come but twenty-four hours previous, in such a different mood and pace. Napoleon, who had been in the thick of the fight—one of his cent gardes and two horses of his immediate attendants being killed by his side — who had shown himself that day as brave and able a field Captain, as he has from the outset of the campaign shown himself able in tlie most important offices of modern generalship—as stra tegist and administrator —rested that night in the chamber where Francis Joseph slept, or watched, the night before. Next morning, the Empress Regent was wak ened at St. Cloud to read his first brief report of the great battle and victory; by eight o’clock it was uttered to us commoners, in yet briefer phrase by the roaring mouths of cannons. The first sound of that sort coining from the Esplanade of the Inzalides, forces itself directly in the ears of Frenchmen, pricked up in these days with constant expectation of new glory, into words as clear as speech can make them. An hour later, the Imperial telegram was printed in the Moniteur, and a poster placarded at all eornors. As you will be likely to publish a translation of it, and other despatches sent from Cavriana, I need not quote it here. But note a little the rhetoric of it; written almost before the smoke had cleared l ‘he battle field of Solferino—each sentence snort, compact with its weighty facts of war, and death, and triumph—still smelling of the powder, it reads like a discharge of artillery. By nine o’clock, then, all the town had learned the great news. Then began, and went on through the day, such a hanging out of banners as I had not yet seen in Paris—not merly “on the outer walls,” of public edifices, and theatres, and cases and tradesmen’s shops, and modest ap partments au ciuquieme, but on omnibuses, on the heads of the horses; nay, on the heads of men, at least on the head of one enthusiastic patriot who paraded the Champs Elysees witli a little tri-color stuck in his hat. At night, there was an illumination. Os late years there have been several others as brilliant or more so, without counting the annual display on the loth of August, but none so spontaneous as that of Saturday. You who have seen so many of those officially recommended illuminations, woqld have SATURDAY K 80VXKS&32 JUTO YX&SBXINE. been impressed with the difference; it was I the difference between people and police, a ! difference which no one can expiain better than yourself, to such of your readers as are iu a I blissful American ignorance of how great it I mav be. A stranger to Paris and to tlit> nature of Parisians, who bad spent the twelve hours from last Saturday noon to midnight on the Boule vards —and the gay beauty and festivity of the scene would have tempted hint to prolonged ; contemplation—might well have supposed that the national rejoicing was profound, complete, and unqualified. The spectator of a brilliant scene at the Grand Opera never thinks of the damp cavernous cellars, three stories down under the stage. They are very dismal places, nia dame! So are the side scenes just behind the gorgeous processions and the sweet singers and graceful dancers. And so, underlying all this street gaiety, there was great sadness. Sepaiated from the illuminated streets and the exulting throng, by only the thickness of the walls, were darkened' chambers—darkened with mourning, where only tlie low moan of women—Rachel mourning for her children —made sad echo to the hurrah of victory. And the first outward flush and manifestation of triumph being passed, thoughtful men aic beginning gloomily to cal culate its cost, and anxiously strain their vision to jienetrate below this brilliant noisy present into the deep dark future. It is. as you know, very difficult to fairly get at the state of public opinion and feeling here, where its public expression, through the press, or through tlie mouth, is free only in one direction. Ido not doubt, however, that the body of the nation, what we call public senti ment, on the whole, sustains tlie Emperor. So far as popularity, in our sense of the word, can be predicated of any French ruler, I am sure that lie has grown in popularity by tlie war.— As to this last victory', while there has been a marked revulsion from the extravagant rejoicing of Saturday—which, for a moment, turned to an almost equally extravagant fear and despond ency, suggested by the meagemess of all details furnished by government, for two or three days following, it remains and is recognized as being a very great victory —great to tlie popular eye, which does not look beyond the battle field; and great to the mind's eye of speculative men, who look upon the army as opening the path by victory, through the thicket of “complications" in which Europe is entangled. Its first result is already the passage of the Min cio. Will its next be to alarm Germany into an active co-operation with Austria, lest the con querors come farther, and she fare worse? or to quell the somewhat swaggering warlike spir it of the lesser German States ? These are the pressing questions of the moment. For tlie mo ment, at least, I should answer the first, nega tively. Prussia lias no desire to enlarge the limits of tlie war. The Regent does not consid er liis Rhenish boundary endangered. He mo bilizes his army to meet possible contingencies —to in part meet the demand; and, just by that, to maintain a certain control over the war party in his own and the other States of tlie Confeder acy, of which he aim 3to be the leader; to have an imposing force to rest his mediation on when the time comes to offer it to the belligerents.— For persevering in such a policy, he lias, on one side, the exhortations —on the other, the warn ings of both England and Russia. But there are circumstances which may force him from his neutrality. It is from calculation on these cir cumstances, us much as characteristic obstinacy, that Austria is as firm as are the Allies in refus ing any compromise that tho neutral powers could offer. Louis Napoleon is bound by liis very distinct declaration—to which the French nation and army, and his own pride, and, in a sort, the world's opinion and expectation, hold him—to sweep Italy clean of Austrians, from the Alps to the Adriatic. But Austria, with her national faculty for being beaten, raised to the second power, and square rooted in the na tional, hereditary, and cultivated obstinacy of her young Emperor, will resist again in the open field, and then in her fortresses. She will be driven from the field, and from the fortresses— and then? Why, then, she can make stand just on the edge of lier lost Italian provinces, just within the limits of her German frontier. The Italian question, of course, cannot be settled witli her in that position; nor, of course, can the al lies cross that frontier without fighting as well on the Rhine. This is among the possibilities. Arrange ments for it, and other possibilities of a general war, are being vigorously pushed here. There has appeared iu the public prints a statement, followed by no “ warning,” or other punishment, such as generally promptly falls on utterers of “ false news ” in the Paris press, that the Minis ter of War is having a sort of census taken throughout France of the number of men former ly in the army, who are fit to serve again. We have the same public authority for believing that he is maturing a plan for the raising within two months of an army of 450,000 men. If what an excited Frenchman told me this morn ing, on wliat lie considered “reliable author ity,” be nearly true, it tends to explain and confirm the story of a great new levy, which already begins to excite alarm in families where there are sons and brothers. His state ment is, that there are not to-day more than 150,000 troops in France. I doubt. But it is cer ain that to the already immense army in Italy, reinforcements are constantly marching and sailing from France. The word “sailing” reminds me to promise yourreaders, “in an early number,” tlie announce ment of the taking of Venice from the hands of its oppressors. Ah, if Manin could have lived till now! You have heard already how, the other day, a false rumor of the near approach of the victorious allied forces awakened tlie old feeliug of 1849 in her people, and how, for giving expression to it, they were maltreated, and lour or five of them killed by tlie Austrian soldiers. Fourteen of the most respectable citizens were seized and sent away to an Austrian prison, as a “measure of safety,” by the Austrian gover nor. Greatly worse than this, were the shocking brutalities—the stabbing, shooting, and worse— done on children, and oK men, and women, at the taking of Perugia, out of the hands of the revolutionary provisional government back into the bosom of Holy Church government, by the Swiss Pontifical troops. Citizens of a free Re public letting out tlieir bodies for biro to do tlie dirty work of one of the worst of despotisms, are logically worse than the Croats. The great er the height one falls from, the deeper one sinks. It is a pity that the “ sons of Tell” should sell themselves, indifferently, to the first modern Gossler that bids for them. At the battle of Magenta they were found in the foreign regi ment of the French army, and in the Austrian service, killing each other. The last perform ance of these mercenaries at Perugia is raising a bitter feeling against their country throughout the peninsula. The Pope looked at it with a benevolent eye, on the contrary, and rewarded the Dugald Dalgetty who commanded their at tack upon his “children,” with the raised grade of Brigadier General. It is comforting to au Ameri- can to read in the account of the horrors at Perugia printed in a Genoese journal, that one poor woman escaping from her house, when all the other inmates were killed, “ found refuge with an American family, which was defended by its American flag.’’ To return to France: I was speaking of the graud show and spectacle on Saturday. There are other, cpiieter scenes, connected, too, with the great military drama, better worth seeing, for they make one better to see. There is the old woman who sits in the little temporary stall at the corner of Rue Royale and the Pl/ice de la Concorde, and sells what she can of indigestible cakes and other cheapest sorts of refreshments to the la borers near by. She was picking old linen into lint, as I passed there yesterday. She may have a son in the army, I thought. Coming in rather early, to dine at Madame Busques famous little Creinerie, (she has a store of Georgia names in her -golden book” of customers —a certain Edi tor's I wot of, among them,) I found that worthy person making up her third pile of lint, to follow the other two, to the Mairie of the arrondissement. Good woman! she has no children, but with true womanly sympathy, looks on all the suffering sons of France as her brethren. Coming up the street, after dinner, I passed two girls—of course, girls—playing very gravely at making lint out of a scrap of calico. They were the barest chits of things—boys of the same size would have been playing at soldiers —killing, not curing. Besides offerings of money made to the Empress' committee for receiving contributions for the benefit of the wounded and the families of the killed, cigars and smoking tobacco, the welcomest of all gifts to wounded or well sol diers, wine and other good things—two gentle men in the South of France have <?ach put their chateaux at the disposition of the Prefect of their department, to be used as residences for the wounded and convalescent of the army of Italy. To show again, the interest with which the movements of the army are followed, I cannot give in brief a better illustrative proof than this furnished me yesterday by the publisher of one of the numberless maps of Italy. It was pub lished April 30th: between that date, and yester day, he had sold, he told me, 140,000 copies. The reports of all sorts from Germany, to-day. arc regarded, with reason, as favorable, we can not say to peace, but to a preservation of Prus sia's neutrality, and to a possible softening of Austrian obstinacy. I have neither space nor time to particularize. — ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. It is announced that the Directors of the Atlan tic Telegraph Company have obtained the cor dial co-operation of Mr. Robert Stephenson, Pro fessor Wheatstone, and Professor Thomson, who, with Mr. "Farley, the consulting Electrician of the Company, and other scientific individuals, will form a Committee to investigate and advise as to the best arrangement of the form, specific gravity, and electrical construction of the next cable. From the London Daily Xews. Sir : A number of malicious statements hav ing been put in circulation with the object of in juring this undertaking by creating an impres sion that the Atlantic Cable, when successfuly laid in August last, was incapable of transmit ting messages between Ireland and Newfound land, I should feel greatly obliged if you will do mo the favor to record in your journal my sol emn assurance that the following is a correct and truthful statement of the number of messages, words, and letters, that passed through the conducting wire of the Atlantic Cable from shore to shore between the 10th of August and the Ist of September inclusive, in 1858. That there were not a great many more, is owing simply to the fact that the largest portion of even that interval was consumed in the necessary arrangements tor adjusting and regu lating the novel apparatus by which the signals were transmitted, . The messages actually recorded, omitting con versations by telegraph between the clerks at the respective termini, were as follows: From Valentin to Newfoundland, 1)7 messages containing 1,102 words, containing 6.476 letters. From Newfoundland to Yalentia, 269 messages, containing 2,840 words, containing 13,743 letters. Total, 366 messages, 3,942 words, 20,219 letters. Among these were the messages announcing the safety of the Europa’s passengers after her collision with the Arabia, and two messages for her Majesty’s war office to Halifax and Mon treal, respectively, by which latter a large sum was saved to the revenue of this country. I am, Ac., George Saward, Secretary. Atlantic Telegraph Company, 22 Old Broad street, London, July 5. - NEW BOOKS. From the book-list of the X. Y. Saturday Press, for the week ending 10th duly, 1859. Anna Clayton; or, The'lnquirer after Truth By the Rev. Francis M. Dimmick. Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blaklston. The Flounced Robe, and What it Cost. By Harriet B. McKeever. author of “Sunshine,'' etc. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. Italy and the War of 1859. With biographical notices of Sovereigns, Statesmen, anil Military Commanders; Description and Statistics of the Country: Causes of the War, etc. By Julie de Marguerittes, author of “The Ins and Outs of Paris." New York : Harper and Brothers. The Life of General Garibaldi, Roman Soldier, Sailor. Patriot, and Hero. Written by Himself. Translated from his Private Manuscripts, and published with his consent, by his Friend and Admirer, Theodore Dwight author of “A Tour in Italy.” “The Roman itepublic of 1849." Embellished with a fine steel portrait from a daguerreotype likeness. New York :A. 8. Barnes and Burr. AValtcr Thornley : or, A Peep at the Past. By the au thor of “Allen Prescott" and “Alfda.” New York: Harper and Brothers. The Legend of St Christopher, and other Poems.. By Sarah Warner Brooks. Providence: George 11. Whit nev. Zethar, the Celestial Visitant A Poem, Boston: J. E. Tilton A Co. Aguecheek. Essays and Letters. Boston: Shepard. Clark and Brown. The Mieroscoplst's Companion: a popular manual of practical Microscopy. Designed for those engaged ia Microscopic investigation, schools* seminaries, colleges, etc., and comprising selections from the best writers on the Microscope, relative to its use, mode of man agement preservation of objects, etc. To which is add ed a glossary of the principal terms used in Microsco pic science. By John King, M. D.; illustrated w ith one hundred and fourteen cuts; |1 50. Rickey, Mallory A Co. The Philosophy of Sentential Language: or, Language an exact science, elucidated by rules based on the princi ples of Mental Philosophy : designed to present the science and art of communicating knowledge clearly and correctly in writing and speaking. By 1). 11. Crntten den, A. M., author of the -Series of Systematic Arith metics,” etc. New York : C. Shephard A Co. A Glossary of Supposed Americanisms ; collected by Alfred L. Elwyn, M. D. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott A Co. Roman Orthoepy: a idea for the restoration of the true system of Latin pronunciation. By John F. Richardson, Professor of the Latin language and literature in the Uni versity of Rochester. New York : Sheldon & Co. Tent and Harem ; Notes of an Oriental life, by Caro line Paine. New York : D. Appleton & Co. The Homan Question ; by E. About Translated from the French. New York : D. Appleton A Co. Popular Talcs from the Norse ; by George Webbe Da sent. D. C. L. New York : I). Appleton A Co. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princes ses connected with the Regal succession of Great Britain; by Agnes Strickland. VoL VIII., completing the work. —— “A little nonsense now and then, Is relished by the wisest men.” PERSONAL. The Henry Clay Monument at Lexington is now more than one hundred feet high, and nearly ready for the capital, on which is to stand the statue of the statesman. Ex-President Tierce and wife have arrived in Paris, and were to have left for London on the 28th ult. Mrs. fierce's health appears quite restored, and the General looks ten years young er than while burdened with the cares of office. M. and Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) gave a concert in England a short time since, for the benefit of the Nightingale Fund, which realized some two thousand pounds. Lately, there was a meeting at tlie Mansion House, at which the Lord Mayor presided, the object of which was to present them with a copy in mar ble of Durham's bust of the Queen, as a mark of the regard and admiration of those interested in the undertaking. M. Otto Goldschmidt acknow ledged the present in feeling and impressive terms, and said he and his wife would receive the bust in their new home as one of its penates, and that tlie gift would be preserved by their children and their children's children. The Yankee comedian, Mr. Joseph Jefferson, is about to make his appearance in London in Mr. Tom Taylor's “ American Cousin.” The Duke of Wellington said to Rogers: “ The elastic woven corselet would answer well over the cuirass. It saved me, I think, at Ortliez, where I was hit on the hip. I was never struck but on that occasion, and there I was not wounded; I was on horseback the same day. “In Spain, I shaved myself over night, and usually slept five or six hours; sometimes, in deed, only three or four, and sometimes only two. In India I never undressed; it is not the custom there; and for many years in the Pe ninsula I undressed very seldom ; never for the first four years.” The Duke did not think much of Southey, and of Napier he says: “He has great materials, and means well; but lie is too much influenced by anything that makes for him, even by asser tion in a newspaper." Tlie Duke set no value on Scott's Life of Napoleon: “ The only tolera ble part of it is wliat relates to liis retreat from Moscow.” Mr. Fox and the great Duke entertained very different opinions about “ Ciesar’s Commenta ries ;” tlie former affirms that “ there is a want of thought about themthe latter speaks far otherwise: “Had ‘C:esar’s Commentaries’ with me in In dia, and I learnt much from them, fortifying my camp every night, as lie did. I passed over tlie rivers as he did, by means of baskets, and boats of basket-work; only I think I improved upon him. constructing them into bridges, and always fortifying, and leaving them guarded, to return by them, if necessary.” The celebrated Miss Dix is now visiting tlie prisons of Illinois. She is making a general tour through the South hml West. John G. Saxe, Governor of Vermont, inposse, has a new volume of poems in the press of Tick nor & Fields, entitled “ The Money King, and other Poems.” W. 11. Russell, Esq., (the “special corres pondent” of the Times in the Crimea and India,) has started for Switzerland to enjoy a holiday after his labors. It is said that he is engaged in compiling a volume on liis Eastern adventures, for which Messrs. Routledge have agreed to give twelve hundred pounds sterling. Rumor also states that the proprietors of tlie Times have set tled upon him an annuity of two hundred pounds sterling, for life, as an acknowledgement of the zeal and ability with which he discharged his duties, both during the Russian war and the Indian rebellion; sueli pension to be quite irre spective of all future service to be rendered to the Times. Mr. George Wilkins Kendall is a candi date for Governor of Texas. M'lle. Piccolomini is announced to appear at Drury lane, in the “Traviata,” supported by several of the most efficient members of Mr. E. T. Smith’s corps. The return of the popular prima donn ato England is hailed with conside rable satisfaction by her numerous admirers. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean have received a most tempting offer for a tour in tlie United States; to commence in the ensuing autumn. The sum named for one year is fifty thousand dollars. Henry Herz lias returned to Paris, after a most successful tour in Russia and Poland. At Warsaw, lie gave two concerts. Boston, July 14.— A private dispatch from Halifax states that Hon. Rufus Choate died there on Tuesday afternoon. No particulars given. Mr. Choat sailed a month since for Europe, to regain his health, but did not proceed farther than Halifax, where he has since remained quite feeble, but not so prostrate as to alarm his friends. Mr. Choate’s life was insured for $25,000, as follows; SIO,OOO in the New England Mutual Company, and $5,000 each in Massachusetts, Charter Oak, and Connecticut offices. The eminent artist, Mr. Cephas G. Thomp son, has returned to this country, after seven years’soj ourn in old Rome. He arrived with his wife and children in the Vanderbilt, July third. His ideal pictures painted abroad are spoken of in the most flattering manner by the first judges in Europe. Dunning (afterward Lord Ashburton,) was “stating the law” to a jury at Guildhall, when Lord Mansfield interrupted him by saying, “If that be law, I’ll go home and burn my books.” “My Lord,” replied Dunning, “you had better go home and read them.” When a young man, I went to Edinburgh, carrying letters of introduction (from Dr. Kip pis, Dr. Price, and others,) to Adam Smith, Rob ertson, and others. When I first saw Smith he was at breakfast, eating strawberries , and lie descanted on the superior flavor of those grown in Scotland. I found him very kind and com municative. He was (what Robertson was not.) a man who had seen a great deal of the world. Once, in tlie course of conversation, I happened to remark of some writer, that “ lie was rather superficial— a Voltaire.” “Sir,” cried Smith, striking the table with his hand, “ there has been but one Voltaire!” A marble shaft recently erected over the re mains of Aaron Burr, in the graveyard in Princeton, N. J., has been mutilated and brok en by some persons unknown. The shaft was erected by stealth, no one knowing who put it there. The report that Commander Maury was to be removed from the Washington Observatory and sent upon some active service, is contra dicted. Mr. Buchanan is said to have remarked upon a recent occasion that “Maury is in no danger of being removed from the Observatory, where be Ims rendered so much valuable ser vice.” FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY. To an impertinent fellow, whom Jerrold avoided, and who attempted to intrude liimself by saying a bright thing, Jerrold said, sharply turning upon the intruder, ‘‘You're like lead, sir, bright only when you’re cut." “You always lose your temper in my com pany,” said an individual of doubtful reputation to a person near him. “True, sir, and I shouldn’t wonder if I lose everything about me.” A waggish candidate, coming in the course of his canvass to a tailor’s shop—“ What we look for here,” said he, ‘are measures, not men.” Several lady-editors arc to attend the Edi . torial Convention which is to come off shortly at Milwaukie. A young lady lately appeared in male attire in Baltimore; and one of the editors say? her disguiso was so perfect that she might have passed for a man, “had shea little more modes ty.” The Queen of Bavaria has requested the la dies attached to her person to abjure “crinoline,” and sundry other French fashions. Keep good Company.—lntercourse with per sons of decided virtue and excelence is of great importance to the formation of a good character. The force of example is powerful; we are crea tures of imitation, and by a necessary influence, our habits and tempers are very much formed on the model of those with w r hom we familiarly associate. ' Much smoking kills live men, and cures dead swine. Why are ladies like bells ? Because you can never find out their metal until you have given them a ring. If dull weather affects you, marry a warm hearted girl, and make a sunshine for yourself. Bachelors will find this far superior to either billiards or Burgundy. “So, you would not take me to bo twenty?” said a young lady to her partner, while dancing the polka, a few weeks ago; “ w r hat would you take me for?” “ For better, or for worse," re plied he. The butchers of New Orleans pay to the city twenty-five thousand dollars in market fees ever}’ year. Zouaves.—The latest edition (just published) of Webster’s quarto dictionary gi ves it the fol lowing definition: “ Tlie name of an active and hardy body of soldiers in the French service, originally Arabs, but now Frenchmen, who wear the Arab dress.” It is “ derived from the Ara bic word Zouaoua, a confederacy of the Arabic tribes who live on the mountains back of Al giers.” Read few r books well. We forget names and dates, and reproach our memory. They are of little consequence. We feel our limbs enlarge and strengthen, yet cannot tell the dinner or the fish that caused the alteration. Our minds im prove, though we cannot name the author, and have forgotten the particulars. Those who apply themselves too much to lit tle things, commonly become incapable of great ones. Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is from want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas, it can, at best, be but the means of attaining it. “ Why is it,” asked a Frenchman of a Switzer, “ that you Swiss always fight for money, while we French only fight for honor ?” “ I suppose,” said the Switzer, “ that both fight for what they most lack." Why is the letter W like a dying Christian’s death ? Because it is the end of sorrow. Wiiy is the letter U the gayest of the alpha bet? Because it is always in fun. It was observed of a celebrated physician that he never said in company, “ I drink your health,” but, “ my service to you, sir." It is announced, for the benefit of those per sons who did not get a sight of the comet, that it will again appear before the public, for a few nights, in the autumn of A. D. 2147. Ax Indian tomahawk was recently found in the centre of a sound log. tw* and a half feet in diameter, in the neighborhood of Caledonia, Canada. Cooly, or Cooyl, or Kuli is a Hindostan word, and means day-laborer. The Europeans in China have adopted it to designate Chinese day laborers. The term is therefore applied to the day-laborers both of India and China. Sepoys, (Hindoo, sepahai), means a native of India employed in the military service of an European power. Charles W. Allen, of New Haven, has a coin taken from the ruins of Nineveh, which cannot be less than from two thousand three hundred to three thousand five hundred years old. With what heroic philosophy men bear the misfortunes of others 1 In Love there are two sorts of constancy; one arises from our continually finding in its object new qualities to love and admire; the other from our making constancy a point of honor. It is weakness to indulge either when reasonable hope of reciprocity has ceased ; but the former is the more respectable, being unselfish. The latter is only vanity deceiving others, and al most one’s self, in a pleasant disguise. None but the contemptible fear contempt. A few days since a barber offered a reward of ten dollars for the best receipt for “ instantly re moving superfluous hair.” Among the answers was one forwarded by 9 gentleman who speaks from experience. We give it—“ Undertake to kiss a spunky woman agaiust her will.” Wiiat is that which, supposing its greatest breadth to be four inches, length nine inches, and depth three inches, contains a solid foot? A shoe. “Dear me!” said Mrs. Fartington, “what monsters these cotton-planters must be. lam told some of them have as many as a hundred hands.” Mrs. Partington says that Louis Napoleon has succeeded beyond her most sanguinary ex pectorations. “ What church do you attend, Mrs. Parting ton ?” “ Oh, any paradox church, where the gospel is dispensed with.” The expenses of the Utah army for the year ending June Ist, are estimated at between seven and nine millions of dollars. Sewing machines are run by steam in Bridge port, Conn., at the rate of one thousand stitches per minute I We are so used to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we become disguised even to ourselves.