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Newspaper Page Text204 LITERARY. WILLIAM W. MANN, Editor. SATURDAY, NOV. 19, 1859. The Southern Field and Fireside 18 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. TEEMS—I2.OO a year, invariably in advance. All Postmasters are authorized agents. TRAVELING AGENT. John L. Stockton, of this city, is General Traveling Agent for the Field asd Fireside, and the Constitu tionalist. — E ACE NUMBERS. Persons subscribing to the Field and Fireside can be supplied with all the back numbers. TERMS TO NEWS-DEALERS. This paper is mailed to news-dealers at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per one hundred copies. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. For each insertion of ten lines or less, one dollar; and or over ten lines, at the rate of ten cents jier line. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. We do not send receipts by mail for subscriptions re mitted. The receipt of The Southern Field and Fireside, after the money is remitted, will be e\ 1- dence to each subscriber that his money has been re ceived and his name duly entered on the mail book. —■ Oar Semi-Annual Index. jgp In a few days, we shall issue, gratuitous ly, for the benefit of subscribers to Tiie South ern Field and Fireside, the first Semi-Annual Index, or Table of Contents, for this paper. The Index is very full, and has been prepared with much care. The sheet will contain valua ble supplementary matter in the Literary, Ag ricultural, Horticultural and Commercial De partments ; and our advertising friends will find in it all their announcements, which are in course of regular publication,, repeated in full. We would Lave them observe, also, that all ad vertisements in the Field and Fireside, during the first six months, are duly registed in the In dex. As we propose giving to this Supplement, con taining tho Index, a circulation* far beyond that of the actual subscription list of the Field and Fireside, our business men and others will do well to improve this opportunity of invoking public attention. All cards and advertisements sent in for the Field and Fireside up to the day of putting the Index to press, will lie insert ed in the sheet, gratuitously. Advertisements intended for insertion will be received till the 26tli instant. •It should be borne In mind that the Field and Fire side has a circulation larger than any paper in Georgia, and, probably, than any In the Southern States. M 111 » NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Messrs. Tuos. Richards & Son, booksellers of this city, have placed on our,table the fol lowing new Books, which, with almost every thing else in the literary line that could be de sired, may be found upon inquiry at their store; The Virginians of the Last Century, by W. M. Thackeray, author of “The Newcomes,” Ac., with illustrations by the author, 8 vo., paper $1.15, muslin $2.00. Fisher's River, (North Carolina.) Scenes and Characters. By “Skitt,” “who was raised thar.” Handsomely illustrated by John Mc-Le nan. The Prairie Traveler —a hand-book for over land expeditions, with maps, illustrations and itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific. By Randolph B. Marcy, Captain U. S. Army. Published by au thority of the War Department. We have received also from Mr. Wm. C. Bar ber, 219 Broad street, a copy of Violet Davenant, or the Blood-marked Hand. A Romance. By Bayle St. John Esq., author of “Maritemo,” “ Purple Tints of Paris,” Ac. The author has been kind enough to place up on our table a small volume of 191 pages, en titled ; The Lodge Lillian and other Poems. By Ed ward Young, of Lexington, Georgia. See ad vertisement of this prettily gotten up book of Poems on our eighth page. We have not had time to peruse, even hastily, these poems, but the author is a Georgian, and a practical me chanic, as he tells us in his preface, and it would gratify us extremely to find the poems referred to by good judges as creditable to the author himself and to our State. We have also received the following pam phlets : Address before the Sigonrney and Nightingale Societies of Griffin Female College, in this State, by Rev. Charles Wallace Howard. Lecture before the Senior Class of 1858-9 in . Emory College, Ga, by Gustavus J. Orr, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Address before the Easonian Society of Marshall College, Geo., by Col. L. T. Doyal. Address before the Literary Societies of Ogle thorpe University, Ga., by J. S. Hook, Hon. Mem. Thalian Society. The Wants of the South —a Poem pronounced before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of the Uni versity of Alabama, by W. W. Lord, A. M. * The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. — This able scientific periodical has nearly reached the close of volume XV. It is published in Au gusta, Ga., edited by Henry F. Campbell, A. M., M. D., Professor of Special and Comparative An atomy in the Medical College of Georgia, and Robert Campbell, A. M., M. D., Demonstrator in the Medical College of Georgia. The Little Pilgrim—& charming monthly for boys and girls. Edited by Grace Greenwood. Published in Philadelphia, (illustrated) at 50 cts. per annum. We notice among our exchanges a new daily paper, a small but handsome sheet, The Evening Express, of Savannah ; edited by Mr. Ambrose Spencer, and published by Mr. J. Holbrook Es- TILL. vacs soimKß&tf in TO CORRESPONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS. We have to acknowledge this week, the re ception of Remember the Alamo! By Idle Wild. Isabel; by the same. Thoughts upon the Sea Shore; by Hall Excelsiorl in some ofitsjiopular acceptations. The Voice of .Sorrow; by Willa May. The Lord’s Prayer, in verse, by a Typo. This contribution we feel constrained to decline, be lieving that it is best reverently to leave this solemn form of Christian worship untouched, to be learned in the very words in which it has been delivered to us in the New Testament. It could hardly be rendered in simpler or plainer language or in words more suitable and easily remembered. The Politician's Wife: by Laura Lincoln. “ Much more agreeable to all parties”—a tale of Augusta, Ga., by Prof. Wm. 11. Peck, will be provided with a place in our columns. Astronomy; a series of short articles on Pop ular Astronomy, by Lamkin, will also soon be published. — OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. Paris, Oct. 27, 1859. The treaty lately signed at Zurich, if the ver sion of it given by the English papers is nearly correct as it is supposed to be, leaves the Italian Question where it was. It gives cause for no new blame nor praise, so far as Napoleon is con cerned. He agrees with Austria now, as he did at Villafrauca, that it were well that the Princes get back to their Ducal seats, but he stipulates that they shall not get there by force. If this is sadly short of the famous programme, according to which the Austrians were to be driven out of all Italy, it yet secures to the Ital ians of the centre a large chance of obtaining national independence. This, perhaps, is as well as though more had been done for thorn ; is, perhaps, as much as could be given to them; for complete salvation cannot bo given to na tions more than to individuals —they must work it out. Will they work it out this time 7 I must con fess to less hope that events are preparing an affirmative answer to this question, than I was entertaining ten days ago, though I by no means despair of a favorable issue from their present critical position. Their great danger is not from Austrian or Neapolitan hostility; not from doubtful French friendship, nor from the doubt ful decisions of the future Congress; it is a present internal danger. It is time that the ad miration excited by the brilliant victories of the allies, and the better admiration excited by the conductor the provisional assemblies immediate ly after the war, should subside, and that we look calmly at another order of facts. In spite of the almost suspicious unanimity of those assemblies in voting for annexation ; in spite of the truly able stato papers in which the chiefs of the provisional governments have plead their cause before Europe against tho fal len dynasties ; in spite of the quietness with which the people effected, or went through, a political revolution, there is grave reason for doubting whether the cause of annexation is strong in the popular mind. That a majority of the nobility and enlightened classes are favora ble to it, socma to have been proved—though, it must not bo forgotten, that between being fa vorable and being in grim devoted earnest, there is a wide difference ; as between accepting in a moment of sympathetic enthusiasm, or in a mo ment of timidity, inspired by the appearance of a popular enthusiasm, and being heartily favora ble, there is another wide difference. You still vividly remember when in France, Orleanists, Napoleonists, legitimists, and even ultra-montane Romanists, with Louis Yeuillot at their head, gave their “ adhesion ”to the republic. Reason ing a priori, it is hardly probable that courtiers, high, civil and military officials under the late Duke of Tuscany and their connexions, should all have undergone a change of heart, and have been sincerely converted to the service of Yic tor Emmanuel; it seems as little probable to any one familiar with Italian history, that all Tuscany should be so desirous of becoming Pied montese. I think there are Georgians who would recalcitrate, if the proposition could be urged with sound political reason of an annexa tion to Yermont. But in the actual case, the Tuscans, to judge from their past, might have even stronger, I do not say sounder, objections to becoming Sardinians, than Georgians could have, in that absurd, hypothetical case, to be coming Yermonters. Then there is in Tuscany, as in every Catholic country, a Romanist or cler ical party, that is in its very nature opposed to any revolution in a liberal sense, and must look with especial disfavor upon a revolution that tends to bring the church and ecclesiastical pos sessions under the modernized legislation of Piedmont. Such a party does not lose its influ ence, though timidity, prudence or jesuitical pol icy may for the time dissuade from open mani festations ; it never abdicates, it never dies.— The intelligent chiefs of a more advanced libe ral movement than annexation to royal Pied mont comes to, have nearly all agreed to lay aside their preferences and co-operate with the moderator to that end ; but their number is small, nor is it in human nature that they should not have lost something of their zeal in sacrific ing a part of their wishes. Os those exaltes re publicans who temporarily joined the revolution under the lead of tho vice-royal dictators, their alliance is almost as dangerous as their hostili ty, and even now seriously complicates the dif ficult task of the dictators, by threatening to change to hostility. Revolutionary excess is as greatly to be feared as reaction, for which it would at once give excuse, aud furnish nume rous recruits from among the conservatives in clining to reform. And now to consider the base on which alone any great revolution can rest—for revolution must have its resting place, its fixed point d'ap pui ; otherwise, though it may rise to wonder ful heights, and dash on in erratic course with wonderful speed, it makes little progress or ad vances in the wrong direction, and finally depos its those who are attached to it, with ruined for tunes in a condition worse than that from which it was to raise them: To consider, then, the base, the subsoil, in which alone the Liberty Tree can so firmly root itself as to resist the storms of faction, and not be trodden down by armies —elaborating and assimilating by a marvelous chemistry the various and seemingly discordant elements of nourishment and so, rising heaven ward and stretching out broad branches under which the nation sits without fear or molesta tion, —to consider, then, the people, the great mass of artisans, farmers and laborers in Tus cany or in'any other of the States of Central Italy: What have they done ? what are they doing to support the energy of the dictators and of the small body of active, energetic, rational liberals, the annexationists ? lam afraid that the following words, which I translate from a i liberal French writer, who set them down as unwillingly as I cite them, furnish an answer too j near to truth : “ There is no real revolution, no immutable determination, no sentiments vigor ously expressed, no marked repugnance to the j dispossessed dynasties, either in Tuscany or the ; Duchy of Parina; on the surface, great agita tiou against what existed before the war; at bottom, great indifference ; in the upper classes, great aspirations toward Italian Unity, toward annexation to Piedmont which is looked upon as a step toward that unity; in the heart of the masses, if not a desire.to recover their princes, at least a will resigned to their restoration. Such is, or at least appears to be, the truth. ’ The fact is, that the masses have had no po litical education, and the actual provisional dic tatorial governments are giving them no politi cal education. In this fact, lies the explanation of the world-wide difference between a European i revolution, and our glorious American revolution, i A difference, which the similarity of name, and our ready antipathy to royal rule, constantly lead us to overlook. Not only were leaders like Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams, Marion and Putnam, robust politicians before they were rebels, but every revolutionist who applauded or followed them, starting from plough or anvil, or study or counter, or plantation, had been a voter. Os financial embarrassments, of tho lack of energetic backing on the part of the Sardinian government itself, I will not speak. I have al ready dwelt, it may be, too long on an unpleas ant theme. And it is not to be forgotten, that if I do not complete the dark side of the picture, there is also a really bright and hopeful side to it, that I do not touch in this letter. I forget whether I have spoken of the great conspiracy that was recently discovered, and its leaders arrested, when on the point of attempting an open revolution in Turkey. It included among its members, civil, military and religious digna taries, and a very numerous rank and file of a lower order, but”none of the mere Constantino politan mob. The purpose of its leaders seems to have been the laudable and hopeless one of effecting a real reform in the wofully weak and corrupt administration of the Turkish govern ment. Even a written constitution whose provis ions are inspired by tho principles of modern Eu ropean civilation, was to be imposed by them on the Sultan. The movement, though it failed, was so formidable as to seriously alarm the Tur kish government, and to provoke a formal warn ing to reform, addressed to the Sultan by the united representatives of the European Powers at his court. The affair, which has aroused the attention of all Europe, has excited peculiar in terest among the "French, who are fond of re garding themselves in the light of special guides, counselors and friends to the Turks, and are con stantly assuring each other, fancying that they are thereby assuring the rest of the world of the truth of the proposition, that they perform these amiable functions in the fulfillment of their pe culiar French mission, as civilizers of tho world. The amusing part of their pretence, in this respect is, that they never can dwell upon it in talk or print, more than five minutes, or ten lines, with out a betraying fling at England's greedy, grasp ing, selfish policy;—as though corroding jealousy were par excellence a disinterested and civilizing passion. If one is to believe them, the bloody ambition of Louis XIY, and the first Napoleon, to say nothing of Napoleon 111, is the mere ar dor of philanthropy. The marshals of the Em pire were a sort of apostles, the Zouaves are de voted missionaries, the Turcos evangelists in dis guise. What is more remarkable than the pa tent absurdity of these pretensions, is the almost universal French persuasion that they are not absurd The Spanish expedition against Morocco, which, it was thought a week ago, was set asside by the friendly intervention of Eng land, and is now decided upon; and the purpose of effectively patronizing the project of a canal across the Isthmus of Suez, which the Emperor is reported to have expressed to M. Lesseps, last Sunday, give universal satisfaction here; because, as nineteen out of twenty French men will tell you, the war is led by civilization against barbarism, and the canal across the Isthmus will be an immense benefit to the world. Prolong the conversation ten minutes, and your interlocutors will show a great intellectual “ muz ziness” as to the nature of the war, and the cost or commercial value of the canal, but a very pos itive, if not clear conviction that England is hos tile to the prosecution of either. In spite, however, of the traditional enmity between the two nations, (and I do not mean to say that the vain boasting jealousy of the Jean Crapaud is a particle less or less ridiculous than the half bullying, half timorous jealousy of John Bull,) and the constant augmentation of naval strength by both parties, I cannot see that the probabilities of an open war between them are increasing. I think, on the contrary, that with every year of peace, they are dimin ishing. Do not fear a repetition of my old views on this point. I only approach it to mention the newspaper skirmishing that has been going on rather briskly for the past two weeks, between journalists, either side of the channel. We are sure to have every few months a like discharge of paper bullets. This time, the known or sup posed positions held by Napoleon and the Eng lish ministry,respecting the Italian Question, i.e., the Congress, the Spanish expedition and the Suez Canal, are the objects of attack and defence. Lejeu ne vaut pas la chandelle; as we say in English, the game is not worth the powder. Without pretending to prophetic vision, I ven ture to say that, whether the English Ministry' preserve or change its present combination, England will be represented in the Congress; that the Spanish Expedition will co-opefate with the French in a brief campaign, and that the Suez Canal will finally bo approved by the Sul tan. Lord John Russell distinctly said at Aber deen, the other day, that England would take no part in a Congress where the doctrine of popular sovereignty was not recognized as a base of discussion. Lord John Russell is as able to walk around his own words as any other statesman. The Spanish Expedition will be limited to a chastisement of the pirates of the Riff, and the obtaining of a pecuniary apology from the Emperor of Morocco, who, poor man, has as little control over those vagabond filli busters as but comparisons are odious; it will not attempt to take Tangier or any other territory on the south side of tho Straits of Gib raltar. The Spanish Ministry, encouraged doubtless to the war by the Cabinet of the Tuil eries, but fairly driven to it by the popular cry, is too well aware of the immense breadth of the foundations of the Rock of Gibraltar,(they stretch out and underlie Cuba!) not to have given the British Ministry satisfactory assurance on that head. The Sultan has been induced by English influence to put a stop, for the present, to the preparatory works on tho Suez Canal. Their resumption will be the subject of negotiations, in which Russia and France, urged by their own palpable political interests, and backed to a cer tain effective degree by the interests of all the world, except England, will carry the day. And this brings us back to that moribund Turkey; the “ sick man,” as the late Czar of Russia sa'id. Yes, very sick; the phlebotomy of the Crimean war, the presence in consultation of the great European Powers, keep him alive, but have done nothing toward curing the chronic malady. The great conspiracy referred to above is but a new symptom of weakness. Here is another, not new; so old, indeed, that some of us fancied it, at least, was long ago cured; the revelation of it now carries back the mind into a dark past—to an age we thought was past, that has long since passed from Western Europe, but still clings, foul, decrepit, tottering, | on its Eastern brink, nourished on young, inno -1 cent blood. It is hardly three weeks since the Sultana, Murine, daughter of his Imperial Highness, wife ! of Mahmoud Pacha, was delivered of a male | child; and, despite the tears and prayers of the young mother, despite the tears and protests of the father, despite the reformatory and civilizing results Os the Crimean war, was torn from her arms by an officer, in performance of his proper functions, and strangled! Strangled, as a few years ago was strangled the son of the Sultan’s sister, wife of the Minister of Marine—stran gled, as any male child of any other daughter of the Sultan will be strangled to-morrow, if it come into tho world that day. And this hor*or is committed to-day, with the knowledgo of Ministers who have resided at the courts of Western Europe, of a Sultan who wears on his breast the cross of the Legion of Honor, of the ambassadors of the, great protecting European Powers! ■ - w Our best thanks are due to a kind friend of Savannah, who has sent us a ripe, finely grown, and very finely flavored banana, pro duced in the open air in her garden, in that city. We were not before aware that this tropical fruit could bo roared to such perfection in our climate. -»•■»- - NEW BOOKS. [We publish, often, under this head, a lint of new publications, carefully selected from all our exchanges. The list embraces all works, Foreign as well as Domes tic, which we think may be valuable, or to which cir cumstances may give general or special interest, wheth er Literary or Scientific, History or Fiction, Prose or Poetry, Religious, Moral or Political. The notice simply gives the title of the book, name of the author, place of publication, and name of Publisher.] The Physiology of Common Life. By George Henry Lewes. New York ; D. Appleton & Co. The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is ; With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and several Cures of it. In three Partitions, with their several Sec tions, Members, and Sub-seetions, philosophically, med ically, and historically opened and cut up. By I)emoc ritus, Jr. With a satirical Preface, conducing to the fol lowing discourse. A new edition, corrected und enrich ed by translations of the numerous classical extracts. — By Democritus, Minor. Boston : William Veazie. Camp's Philosophical Letters to the Million. Dedi cated to Father Dayman. No. 4. Third Independence; On the Bights Conferred on Me by Neighbor's Prom ised Word. By F. F. F. Camp. ’New York: F. A Brady. Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, by Ed ward Everett. Boston : Little, Brown & Co. Fiji and the Fijians. By Thomas Williams, and Jas. Calvert, late Missionaries In Fiji. Edited by George Stringer Kowe. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1859. The Romance of History, as exhibited in the Lives of Celebrated Women pf all ages and countries; compris ing remarkable examples or female courage, disinterest edness, and self-sacrifice. By Henry C. Watson. Phila delphia : J. S. Cotton A Co. , New Exegesis of Shakspeare. Interpretation of Ms Principal Characters and Plays on the Principle of Races. Edinburg: Adam & Charles Black. ~ A select Glossary of English Words formerly used iu senses different from the present. By Richard Chenevlx Trench, D. D. Charleston: Russell & Jones, 251 King Street. Poems of Owen Meredith, (Edward Bulwer Lytton.) Charleston: same. Poetical Works of Win. Motherwell, (new edition.) Charleston: same. The Avenger, by De Quincy. Charleston: same. Anna Clayton. Jr The Inquirer alter Truth. By Rev. Francis Marion Dimmick. Charleston: same. Memoirs of the Life of Sir William Jones, by Lord Teignmouth, with a portrait. London: for sale in Charles ton: same. Men of the Olden Time, by Rev. C. A Smith. Charles ton: same. Royal Naval Biography, or Memoirs of the Services of all the Flag Officers, Superannuated Bear Admirals, Retired Captains. Post Captains, and Commanders, whose names appear on the Admiralty of Sea-Captains, for the present year, (1823) or who have since been pro moted. Illustrated by a series of historical and explana tory notes, containing accounts of all the Naval Actions unu other important events, from 1760 to the present time. By John Marshall, Lieutenant (London) 12 volumes, ($18) for sale in Charleston: same. -»■ i BEAEDS—HOW TO BE WOBN. Presuming its propriety settled, how should the beard be worn, becomes the next question. By all means, in our view, as nature dictates— with not a corner marred. But upon that point we allow Town Talk to speak: “ Almost universal as ‘ hairy faces’ have be come, there is not one man in twenty who shapes and dresses his beard to the best ad vantage. The slightest line or shading, as we all know, materially affects the expression of a countenance. With very trifling differences in the dressing of the natural mask of hair around a man’s mouth, the whole character of his per sonal appearance is changed. It is wonderful indeed, that for so obvious and universal a want as the wearing of the beard, artists have never yet given us a manual of first principles, illus trated with drawings. It is a book that would be eagerly bought up and studied. With daily study of the beards of our friends and acquaint ances, the becoming and the unbecoming, we have of course learned hero and there an inci dental lesson on the subject; and this, in the lack of more artistic authority, we propose now to jot down. “ Where the beauty of a face consists mainly in the formation of the jaw-bono and chin, a man loses by growing his beard over this por tion. Better wear only the moustache. “ There is now and then a man whose severi ty or sharpness of eye is redeemed by a good natured mouth—the animal character of the per son being kindlier than the intellectual—and a covering of the lips, in such a case, is, of course, a mistaken hiding of nature’s apology, and need less detriment to the expression. Better only wear the whiskers. “ -A. small or receding chin, and a feeble jaw, may be entirely concealed by a full beard, and with great advantage to the general physiogno my. So may the opposite defect of too coarse a jaw-bone or too long a chin. “ Too straight an upper lip can be improved by the curve of a well trimmed moustache. So can an upper lip that is too long from the noso downward, or one that is disfigured by the loss of some of the upper teeth. Washington, in the prime suffered from the latter affliction, and (artistically speaking) his face, as represen ted to posterity, wou'd have been relieved of its only weakness if he had concealed the collaps ing upper lip by a military moustache. “A face which is naturally too grave can be made to look more cheerful by turning up the corners of the moustache—as one which is too trivial and inexpressive can be made thoughtful by the careful sloping of the moustache with strong lines downward. NEW BOOKS. “ The wearing of the whole beard gives, of course, a more animal look, which is no disad vantage if the eyes are large and the forehead intellectual enough to balance it. But where the eyes are small or sensual, and the forehead low, the general expression is better for the smooth chin, which, to the common eye, seems always less animal. “What is commonly called an ‘imperial’ (a tuft on the middle of the chin,) is apt to look like a mere blotch on the face, or to give it an air of pettiness or coxcombry. The wearing of the ■beard long or short, forked or peaked, are phys iognomical advisabilities upon which a man' of judgment will take the advice of an artist as well as of an intimate friend or two; but having once decided upon the most becoming model, he should stick to it. Alteration in the shape of so prominent a portion of the physiognomy gives an impression of unreliableuess and vanity. “Middle-aged men are apt to be sensitive with the incipient turning grey of the beard; but they are often mistaken as to its effect. Black hair, which turns earliest, is not only pictur esquely embellished by a sprinkling of gray, but exceedingly intellcctualized and made sympa thetically expressive. The greatest possible blunder is to dye such a beard. There is one complexion, however, of which the grizzling is so hideous, that total shaving, dying, or any oth er escape, is preferable to ‘ leaving it to nature.’ We mean the reddish blonde, of which the first blanching gives the appearance of a dirty mat. It was meant to be described, perhaps, by the two lines in Hudibras: “ The npper part thereof was whey, The nether orange mixed with gray.' 1 “ A white beard is so exceedingly distinguish ed, that every man whose hair prematurely turns should be glad to wear it; while for an old man's face it is so softening avail, so win ning an embellishment, that it is wonderful how such an advantage could ever be thrown away. That old age should be always long bearded, to be properly vailed and venerable, is the feeling, we are sure, of every lover of nature as well as of every cultivated and deferential heart.” —— THE CAMEL IN THE UNITED STATES. The newly imported camels, for the use of the army in Texas, seem to have subsided from nov elties into regular pack-horses. Speaking of their superiority over mules, Mr. Beale, who has charge of them, in a report to the Government, says: “ I have lately tried effectually the compara tive value of mules and camels as pack animals. The experiment leaves the palm with the camels. Both trains receiving the order to start at the same time in the morning, the camels invariably arrive at camp, a distance of twenty-live miles, an hour, and sometimes an hour and twenty minutes ahead of the mule train—the mules carrying a burden of two hundred pounds, the camels packed with four hundred, besides a rider, armed with his rifle, revolver, and ammu nition, and his bedding laid over the pack to sit on. “ The young are great pets in camp, but very mischievous—poking their noses into every bag, pot and pan about the camp fires. Their great aim in life at present seems to be to ape the manners and habits of their sires—kneeling down and growling and complaining precisely as the old ones do when the train is packed. We have entirely discontinued the cumbersome oriental apparatus used as a saddle, and have in itk place one of light, useful and simple construc tion.” The Boston Courier concludes an interesting and discriminating article on the introduction of camels into this country, with the following re marks : The time has come for attempting, oh an ample scale, the breeding and general introduc tion of camels into this country. This should be done by the government directly, or under the immediate direction of those public officers who have been successful in the treatment and employment of the camel, even beyond the most sanguine anticipations. So long as railroads across the vast plains and deserts, and mountain regions which lie between us and the Pacific, are for various reasons impossible, the camel will be found an efficient substitute for that mode of transportation; and it is believed that a good portion of the vast sums now expended for army transportation to the distant posts and more dis tant points where our scattered army is called to operate, might lie saved by the employment of this patient, powerful, docile, and incompara bly useful animal. It seems to be generally admitted that the ex periment of acclimating the camel, and putting it to profitable use in this country, has been, or at any rate promises to be very successful.— “The cost of importation,” says the Courier, “ has been much less than was originally esti mated ; the animals are found much more trac table, and are more easily applied to the various kinds of labor for which they are wanted, than was anticipated; the acclimation of the camels is effected without hazard to their life or strength; and no serious obstacle, so far, is found to their introduction and use for many important purpo ses.” It is now proposed to make an additional importation. Two importations havo already been made, and the whole number at present in the country is about sixty. They were all brought from the Mediterranean. The attention of government is now directed to Mongolia, where the animals exist in great numbers and are re markably hardy, and are subject to almost as great of temperature as they will be liable to here. They can be brought easily through the North Pacific ocean to California. ——— The Capture op Schamyl—Russian Ac count. —The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Nord gives the following details respecting the capture of this famous Circassian chief, the correctness of which he vouches for. After de scribing the plan of attack which had been ar ranged by Prince Bariatinski, the account pro ceeds : The fight was one of the most desperate character, but the Murides, placed between two fires, saw that resistance or flight was equally impossible. Out of 400 men who formed the garrison of Gounib, 47 only remained alive. — Schamyl shut himself up in one of the habita tions which were cut in the rock. The plateau was covered with corpses. We lost one hun dred men. When Prince Bariatinski arrived on this plateau, he stopped the firing, and address ing Schamyl, summoned him to surrender. Tho Imaura, appearing at an aperture which had been made in the rock, asked on what condition he was required to yield. “ Leave your retreat unconditionally,” replied the Commander in Chief He who had been our bitterest enemy for so many years then came forth. “ Are y©u Schamyl ?” asked the Prince. “Yes,” replied the. Imaum. “Then your life is spared, and you will retain your wives and property. But I shall send you to St. Petersburg to-morrow, and your fate must finally depend on the will of the Emperor, my august master.” Schamyl bent his head without uttering a word. The General then said, “I waited for you a long time at Tiflis. I hoped you would come of yourself and make your sub mission, but you forced me to come here in search