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tion of the edict of Nantes.. Tlie descendant 3
of the more fortunate victims of that wicked act,
residing in your neighboring State of South
Carolina, should"they read it—even they will be
freshly horrified with the fearful persecutions
which their ancestors and their ancestors’ fellow
believers suffered in consequence of it. The
persecution of simple, honest, inoffensive Chris
tians and faithful subjects* pressed on by this
king, gone mad with indulgence of bis pampered
will and with selfish, superstitious anxiety for
his own miserable soul’s salvation, was more
bloody, more direful, more numerous in human
sacrifices than any persecution under the heath
en Roman emperors. In the course of it, the
grande monarque and his agents gave lessons in
wholesale and complicate cruelty, which Robes
pierre and Carrier and the worst of their col
leagues never more than rarely so much as re
peated in the following century. The perusal
of this volume, to which the events it records
and the manner in which it presents them lend
more than the interest of romance, will, it is to
be hoped, help to root out the exaggerated no
tion, still so deeply seated both in French and
foreign minds, of Louis Fourteenth's greatness.
Take away his Olympian wig, his high-lieeled
shoes, his Turveydrop “deportment” take
away furthermore his Molieres and Racines and
Lafontaines and Bossuets and Fenelons, his
Colberts and Louvois, who did make of his
reign one qf the most glorious epochs of French
history, and there remains a rather uudersized,
ignorant, conceited, weak, eminently unmanly,
superstitious, cruel man.
Since Louis XIY. no monarch has so tricked
the world into a false estimate of his capacity
as Nicholas, late Czar of Russia. The prestige
of the man and of the enormous power of his
State has fortunately been broken in upon by
the Crimean war. The fact is that Nicholas,
despite his six feet and odd inches in his stock
ings, and his calculated politeness to American
travellers, (no one is so thoroughly dazzled and
delighted with the glitter of a crown as your
American democrat,) was rather an inferior
man. He" had the qualities of a military mar
tinet. He was not an enlightened statesman,
not even a skilful politician. He was timidly,
blindly opposed to any reform that consisted
with the elevation of human dignity. The ad
vance of civilization, except on the grossly ma
terial side, he ignored, and persistently refused
to see the absolute and necessary relations be
tween material and moral progress. He fancied
that he could continue Poter-the-Great his poli
cy with Peter-the-Great his political machinery,
incapable of comprehending that Peter the
Great would have used in the nineteenth cen
tury the moans offered by the civilization of the
nineteenth century, and applied its material
means to his political purposes. He has left to
his wiser and better iutentioned, but got suf
ficiently strong-willed successor, Alexander, a
task of reform in the execution of which it is
hard to tell whether the necessity or the diffi
culty be the greatest. Thanks to the Emperor
Nicholas, than whom there was never a more
obstinately systematic political doctrinaire, the
government of Russia has changed from an au
tocracy to a bureaucracy. The Czar himaejf is,
in spite of himself, in the hands of this bureau
cracy. It is next to impossible for him to bfeak
through this environment of corrupt officials
“Sind treat directly any important question at. the
day. The corruption in the adrainistratioLTsur
passes anything Aver known in Turkey or dnwfi
ica. Falsehood, bribery, corruption, pecqBBBI
—peculation, corruption, bribery, falseSHP--
such is the Alpha and Omega and the whnr In
tervening alphabet of the Russian administra
tion. Some investigations, partially carried
through by extraordinary effort, into the com
missariat during the Crimean war, have fur
nished proved eases of peculation, that the most
fertile imagination ceuld not exaggerate. *
La Verite sur Kussie is the title of a volume
lately published here, written by Prince Pierre
Dolgoroukow. The Prince is a voluntary exile.
He has evidently come abroad for the sake of
freely telling the truth about home. This is
but one of several books he purposes sending
out to the world. He takes pains, in' reference
to them, to inform all whom it may concern,
that his lISS. and documentary proofs are in
England. Some representations were made by
the Russian Embassy here to prevent the pub
lication of the present volume. They were un
successful. The Prince is a true patriot. He
has left his country truly for his country’s good,
that he may tell the civilized European world
in the French language, the Truth about Russia,
aiming thus to bring European public opinion
to bear upon the case. To write in liberty ho
must write in exile. The book bears marks of
personal irritation and of so much prejudice as
is apt to go with strong feeling. That in the
main it does not exaggerate the crying, alarm
ing evils and defects and consequent threaten
ing dangers, of the actual administration and
political and social condition of his country, is
evident not more from various concurrent exter
nal testimonies, than from the extreme modera
tion of the remedies which he proposes for said
evils, defects and dangers. They consist for
the most part of reforms which in all other
civilized countries already exist in the shape of
statute law or axiomatic custom. The work
is deeply interesting for its facts and reasoning,
and very entertaining by virtue of its curious
anecdotes and spirited style.
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LOTTERIES AND LITERATURE IN HAVANA.
One of the plagues of Havana is the “Real
Loteria de la Is!a Cuba," the Royal Lottery.
The traffic in lottery tickets exceeds belief.
Hundreds of thousand dollars pass into the
hands of the government from this source every
month. To-day one of these lotteries was drawn,
and lam sure, so far as “enthusiasm’’ is con
cerned, it far exceeded the war with the Moors.
A file of soldiers was stationed with fixed bayo
nets to keep off the crowd whilst the drawing
was in progress. It is managed in this way:
30,000 billets Oi bones, marked from 1 to 30,000,
are placed in an immense wheel, which is turned
by three or four men—out of this wheel a num
ber is drawn; then from a smaller!wheel contain,
ing the “premiums.” rising from S4OO to SIOO,-
000, a prize is drawn, and set opposite the num
ber. There were about three hundred prizes
drawn to day, amounting in all to $350,000.
To raise thi3 amount, the government sells, 30,-
000 tickets at sl6 each, amounting to $480,000.
so that, in case all the tickets are sold, and all
the prizes drawn, the Queen has made $130,000
by the operation. The buyer of a ticket has a
chance in one hundred of drawing a prize, and
vet the patrons of the lottery are to be found in
every class, and frequently large sums are invest
ed. I hear of some sea-faring men who have
bought hundreds of dollars worth of tickets. Go
where you will in Havana, you find the pedler of
tickets. He buys them from the government at
sl6 per whole ticket, and sells them at sl7. I
had not been on shore ten minutes before I was
besieged by an old man who wanted to sell me
a fortune for four dollars and a quarter. In vain
I told him that 1 did nofwant them. “Corapra,
Senor,’ compra,” “buy, sir, buy,” and he followed
sotoxuv vxs&» juto vxassxus.
me up the street to the corner, where I was ta
ken in charge by another, and soon they closed
in upon me, old men and young meu, some with
one eye, or one arm, appealing to charity, and
others striving to make me believe it was a cer
tain road to wealth. I escaped from them,
however, and they give mo up as a “hard custom- ,
er.” Several evenings afterwards, I was taking ;
a cup of cbffee in the Case beneath the Tacon :
Theatre when I was again assailed. Two wo- j
men, very slovenly in appearance, each having j
a child in her arms, borrowed, perhaps, for the
occasion, walked up to my table and besought
me to buy their tickets for the “love of God and
charity.” I appeared not to notice them until
they commenced such a hideous din around me
that I was glad to get rid of them and the tickets
too, at the price of a few dimes. These lotteries
are drawn every twenty days, and must prove
an immense income to the Government,,as the
tickets, I am informed, arc all generally sold be
fore the day of drawing.
In a previous letter I promised to state some
facts bearing upon the literature of the Island.
Every one who is acquainted with the condition
of things here, knows that the policy of the Gov
ernment is to keep the Creoles to a certain ex
tent in darkness. With what success this policy is
pursued, an American has many opportunies to
judge. I have seen but three newspapers, the
JDiario, Gaceta and Prcnsa. published daily at sl2
per annum, and they are about as poor papers, as
one would wish to see. As a specimen, let ae
give you the contents of the Diario de la Marina
of March 11th. The first column on the first
page commences with “a ultima horns,” or as
we would express it, “the latest nows.” Under
this head, by an arrival at New York be it re
membered, for they get nothing here direct, not
even from old Spain, are “Notices of the Peninsu
la,,’ scraps of news from Madrid, nearly every
thing about O'Donnell and the Moors, of course.
Next comes “General Correspondence” from
Madrid, in which O’Donnell figures again in al
most every paragraph. Article No. 3is the one I
gave you in my last letter, about the “Grand
Parade." The editor prefaces the Captain Gene
ral’s address by stating that it would be impos
sible to describe “the most brilliant military
feast of yesterday afternoon." Next we have a
“Popular Subscription towards the preparation
of a Testimony of Honor for his Excelloncy
Senor General-in-Chief of tho Spanish army in
Africa, Duke de Tetuau"—General O’Donnell
again. The highest amount allowed to be given
is one dollar, the lowest twelve and a half cents.
Tho editor closes the list of contributing Dons
with, the announcement that SISBO, have been
subscribed in his office. Official and commer
cial notices fill up tho remainder of this page.
The first article on the second page is an edi
torial about the blockade of Vera Cruz, and
Mexican relations with Spain. Next wo have
an editorial about the patriotism manifested all
over the Island, in helping to increase the fund
for the war against the Moors. Tho same old
theme. An artielo laudatory of tho Captain
Genoral is nett in order, ho having recently
made some municipal regulation to the editor’s
liking. A short article on tho cultivation of cane
is succeeded by another about the commercial
treaty between France and England. A para
graph or two of unimportant items close up this
head. The news of the Island follows, and
Correspondence of the Island, together with an
article entitled the Love of Country. A few
' ■newspaper waifs fill up the remainder of tho
paper. Now, in all this, there ts much more
matter than in most of our daily papers —of this
there can be no question; but the difficulty, to
be seen fully, must be scon in the paper itself.
There is a constraint in the manner of writing—
a hollowness in tho expressions of patriotism—-a
want, in a word, of liberty to think and write as
ho feels, which is characterestie of everything I
have seen in the shape of an original artielo.
Prohibited from discussing any of those subjects
about which men are most deeply interested, it
is not to be jvondorod at that these people are
without literature. I have thoroughly searched
about a dozen book-stores, all I have been ablo to
find, and nowhere have I seen a book of any size
bearing the Havana imprint. I picked up a little
pamphlet of twenty-six pages, entitled “Espa
noles a Marruecos,” written in verse, and
aspiring to be a “dramatico patriotic” in one act,
“all about the Moors.” For this pamphlet I paid
fifty cents, about two cents a page, and this is a
fair specimen of the prices of books. Barcelona
and Madrid are the principal publishing points
from which their libraries are recruited, and of
course no political heresy can escape the watch
ful guardians of old Spain. Books, like almost
everything else, are unreasonably high. For a
plain copy of Don Quixote, in two volumes,
they asked mo eight dollars and fifty cents; could
be botight in the States for three dollars. A
small work on the Concha administration in
Cuba-cost me three dollars; the Directory of
Havana, three dollars and fifty cents, etc. I noti
ced some translations of the Waverly Novels,
the works of Alexander Dumas in Spanish, and
many other French works; Bancroft’s History
of the United States, etc—[Veu> Orleans Chris
tian Advocate.
From a volume of poems, just published by
Mason and Brothers—the production of Dr.
William H. Holcombe, of Virginia—we copy
tho following touching verses, entitled, “ Uncle
Jerry;”—
Why, Jerry! what means all this sadness andiear?
Here's your bitters, man! why do you ery ?
Who told you I'd sell yon? the trader that's here?
By zounds, sir 1 he told you a lie!
When I sell the gold ring from my dead mother’s hand,
Or the sword which my grandfather bore,
When at Guilford his troopers made such a bold stand,
I will sell you—and not before! •
Why, don't you remember my face as a boy's,
When often I sat on your knee.
Whilst you sang, in your rugged, monotonous voice,
Your foolish old ballads to me ?
I wept at your sad ones, and laughed at your gay,
And made you repeat them all o’er:
Ah ! a hen I forget my life's happiest day,
I will sell you—and not before 1
You made mo the boat which I launched on the tide
And my traps for the birds in the snow;
You led my bay pony, and taught me to ride,
And half the good things which 1 know.
You wept like a child when they sent me to school,
To be absent for six months or more ;
When you are a villain, or I am a fool,
I will sell you—and not before 1
If poverty's cup I am sentenced to drain,
1 will part with you—last of them all;
Yonr kindness. Old Jerry! would double my pain,
And your sorrows embitter my fall.
If fate or misfortune should cause us to part;
There's a God will unite ns once more ;
So drink my good health and console your old heart,
' And love me and serve, as before.
—■ -m*.
DECLINE OF FEMALE CONVERSATION.
An English writer declares the fact, that the
women of our day do not “converse” —and then
attributes it to the multiplicity of studies and
the evening confinement to books and school
companions. He says:
“It should be as much a matter of duty and
of science to insist.on out-door exercise, and in
door social recreation, as upon any of the regu
lar exercises of the school room. School studies
should'be confined absolutely to school hours.
To allow them to encroach upon the later
hours of the day, and upon the graceful house
hold duties and recreations, which either are, or
ought to be provided for every girl at home; in
other words, to subordinate the home training
to school training, or to intermit the former in
favor of this latter, ii a most palpable and ruin
ous mistake. It is bad even in an intellectual
point of view.' To say uothing of other disad
vantages, it deprives girls of the best opportuni
ties they can ever have of learning that most
feminine, most beautiful, most useful of all ac
complishments, the noble art of conversation.
For conversatron is an art as well as gift. It is
learned best by familiar intercourse botween
young and old in the leisure unreserve of the
evening social circle. But when young girls are
banished from this circle by the pressure of
school tasks, talking only with their school mates
till they come out into society, and monopolised
entirely by young persons of their own age, they
easily learn to mistake chatter for conversation,
and small talk becomes for life their only medium
of exchange.—Hence with all the intellectual
training of the day, there never was a greater
dearth of intellectual conversation.
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ABSINTHE DRINKING IN FRANCE.
In consequence of the death of Grassot, the
comic actor, from the effects of absinthe, com
ing soon on that of Alfred de Musset from abuse
of the same insidious beverage, the committee
of the Academic de Medecin has just ordered
researches to be made upon the various results
of absinthe-drinking, which has, of late years,
assumed an importance unequalled by the gin
drinking of England, or_the schnapps of Hol
land. The consequences of this habit are prov
ed upon examination to have become fearful all
over France and Algerian The most remarka
ble of these, and ono which may be considered
unique, is the frequency ol hallucination, gener
ally of tho most horrible kind, fancied guilt of
murder and crime of every kind, which renders
the poor victim liable to suicide, oven when in
apparent possession of every security and bless
ing-
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CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
m Wo heard a very eminent lawyer de
clare, not long ago, that he would not care to
live another day, if there were no people
in the world younger tjum himself. The eonti
ment at first startled a rime who wore within tho
sound of the speakerVwbiee, but how full is it
of good sense, how it recoguises the les
sons that children teaCwns, and the gladness
they diffuse around thwu I How morose and
melancholy should we nCt become as wo grow
in years, without that freshness which is almost
insensibly imparted to us by association with
tho little folks and sympathy with their little
joys and sorrows. Well said tho great philo
sophical poet of England—“ Heaven lies about
us in our infancy," mid if infancy wore stricken
out of beiug, we should toon see all the celestial
light depart which the humblest
as well as tho proudest homos.
ENIGMA XCIII.
I am composed of twenty-four letters:
My 9, 22,19, 20,1, H, 10 and 11, is a spot much liked at
Christmas.
17. 0, 6 and 12 below?* directly to the foregoing.
9,24,8,20,11 and 7, is something else belonging
to it.
18,19, 2,8, 4 and 5, Is what the farmers do not like.
28,14. 8,10, 10, 6 and 21, is the name of a large class
of fools.
12, 20,14, 4, 5,11 and 19, Is an important article of
commerce.
2,4, 5, 2,8,1 and 6, is a valuable part of a country
residence.
17, 7,10, 0,15,16,12,10, 8,11,1 and 21, is a spirit of
benevolence.
My whole 16 a familiar acquaintance with all the young
readers of The Field and Fireside. T.
ENIGMA XCIV.
I am composed of nineteen letters:
My 14, 2, 3 and 4—a kind of fruit.
7, C, 9—an article.
12, 18,8,17—an important part of an army.
I, 9,B—the name of a vast body of water.
10, 16, 17, 18—what we all should be before wc
speuk.
19, 3, 4,8, B—<i girl's name.
15,16—a Latin word used in reading for “that”
7, 4. 16. 15, B—is a great virtue.
8,10,13, 3—ono of the grand divisions of the earth.
5, 8,10,19 —a countv in Georgia.
11, 12.16, 19, 2 a domestic vessel in use among the
ancients.
My whole is an Important Scriptural injunction.
Mask J.
ENIGMA XCV.
I am composed of twenty-one letters.
My 8,4, 5,2, 9, 7—an ancient city.
17,21,8,13,11,15—an0ther city of the same country.
6, 18.12,16, 15,14, I—ono of the British isles.
17. 21, 8,6, 9—one of the Powers of Europe.
7, 8,18,1, 6,9, 6, B—an island in the Mediterranean
9,8, 2i, 16,19,17—an Italian city.
10.11,9, B—a volcanic mountain.
8, 21, 21, 20,14, 6, 9,10, 7—mountains in Italy.
My whole, if true, would be a sad reflection.
Prss Posky.
Hayncville, Ga. •
puzzle;
My whole no sort of value claims,
For nothing worth it plainly names—
Divide me—my first half shall be
The synonym of poverty:
My second half will yet be less—
If still this puzzle's hard to guess,
Cut off my tail, and any eye
My real value iray descry—
An instrument that's in the hand
Os every housewife in tho land.
Quelqi; 'ch.
CHARADE.
Reverse my first, and to the same
Add “e,” and it will rhyme with “claim";
My second be, and to the heart,
You then will happiness impart.
You'll And my whole a well-known race,
Tho’ changed by circumstance and place;
It and my first are quite the same,
Tho' differing in use and name.
Decatur county. H. A. Carr.
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, ETC., OF LAST WEEK.
Enigma XCI: Little children, love one another.
Enigma XCII: Tartar.
ANSWERS RECEIVED.
J. F. S., Charleston, 8. C., to Enigmas 91 and 92.
Bettiu Guay. Augusta, the same.
ARTICLES RECEIVED.
Enigma from Bettie Gray.
Pubs Posey.
J. H. T. (Declined for non-observance ’
of rule.)
Alphabetical CoNrsDßun.—Why is the letter B
like a big fire ?
Because it makes oil boil.
Home Lise. —ls home life is well ordered, the
children having, according to age, work-time,
play-time, books, games, and household sympa
thies, they will love home, and find pleasure
there.
Give the little ones slates and pencils, and en
courage their attempts to make pictures.
Drawing will amuse them when noisy plays
have lost their zeal, or are unseasonable; and
the art will be useful to them in afterlife.
Have them read to each other stories and par
graphs of your selection, and save tho funny
things, and the pleasant ones you see in papers
and books read to them at your leisure. You
can not imagine how it will bind them to you.
But choose well for them; for the impressions
made upon their minds now will last when tho
hills crumble. Have them sing together, and
sing with them, teaching songs and hymns. Let
them sing all day like birds —at all proper
times. —Have them mutually interested in the
same things, amusements, and occupations; hav
ing specified times for each, so that their habits
will bo orderly. Let them work together in the
garden—boys and girls both need out of door
work ; while the parents’ eyes direct and sym
pathize, and the loud voices blend in the loving
accord.
A Beautiful Picture. —A mother teaching
her child to pray, is an object at once the most
sublime and tender that the imagination can
conceive. Elevated above earthy things, she
seems like one of those guardian angels, the com
panions of our earthy pilgrimage, through whose
ministration we are incited to good and restrain
ed from evil. The image of thq mother becomes
associated in his mind with the invocation she
taught him to his “Father who is in heaven.”
When the seductions of the world assail his
youthful mind, that well remembered prayer to
his ‘‘Father who is in heaven,” will strengthen
him to resist evil. When in riper years he min
gles with mankind and encounters fraud under
the mask of honesty; when he sees confiding
goodness betrayed, generosity ridiculed as weak
ness, unbridled hatred, and the coolness of inter
ested friendship, he may indeed be tempted to
despise his fellow-men; but ho will remember
liis “Father who is in heaven.”
Should he, on tho contrary, abandon himself
to tho world and allow the seed of self-love to
spring up and flourish in his heart, he will, not
withstanding sometimes bear a warning voice in
the depths co his soul, severely tender as those
maternal lips which instructed him of his “Fath
er who is iiuhenven.” But when the trials of
life are over, and he may? be extended on the
bed of death, with no other consolation but the
peace of an approving conscience, he will recall
the scenes of his infancy, the imago ofhis moth
er, and with tranquil confidence will resign his
soul to Him who died that wo might live—the
Redeemer of the world.
How TO MAKE A PRETTY DRESS l'Oll A LITTLE
girl. —Mako the child a mull muslin white
frock, or rather petticoat, for there should be no
tucks or flounces, let tho skirt be quite plain,
except at the bottom, on which yon can place a
piece of embroidery—about three inches wide
looks well; but in this you can be guided a little
by circumstances. If you can afford it, and wish
something very handsome, put wide work, but
narrow will do—no more work is required;
make a simple, high, full body,"and a small, plain,
long bishop’s sleeve. Then make a small, short,
silk dress, with no sleeves and a small square
body; tho back aud tho front of the square silk
body should be kept together by a small piece
of silk reaching across the top armhole;
the silk skirt should be quite plain and short,
and when put on only reach to the embroidery,
or hardly so low. Tho same style of thing can
bo mado in any material for ordinary wear. As
little girls will certainly wear long tight jackets
this summer, composed of any and every kind
of material, those to match the dress will be
much used for out-of-door wear. Three and
four narrow flounces arc what most of the little
dress skirts for girls are trimmed with: narrow
black velvet for blue, pink, or almost any color
of dress is pretty. Some of the small checked
dresses arc trimmed with plain mu9lin-de-laine,
put on in diamonds or points, with a narrow
velvet at the edge to make alljicat. The pleat
ed trimming, if not too heavy, is prefty.
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PERSONAL.
ritEFAKF.D EXPRESSLY FOB THE SOUTHERN FIELD ZVD FIRESIDE-
Prince Napoleon, accompanied by Emile
Girardin, is making a tour through Italy.
Henry Cleveland, Esq., of this city, has been
appointed Aid-de-Camp, with tho rank of Col
onel, by his Excellency, Governor Brown.
Hon. Peter Y. Daniel, Associate Justice of
the Supremo Court of tho United States, died at
Richmond, Va., on Thursday last.
Gen. Santa Anna, Ex-President of Mexico,
with his family and suite are at present in New
York.
Mrs. Gore, the novelist, who for some time
past has been afflicted with blindness, has just
undergone an operation, which, it is hoped, will
eventually restore her to sight.
Miss Macueady, tho eldest daughter of the
great actor by his first wife, will, it is said,
shortly make her appearance on the metropoli
tan boards aifca tragedienne.
Cardinal Wiseman is expected to pay a visit
to the Queen of Spain in the month of June.
The distinguished churchman has received an
invitation from her most Catholic Majesty.
Col. Ottoway Bird died at Baltimore last
week. The Legislature of Virginia, his native
state, some years ago presented him with a
sword valued at two thousand dollars, for gal
lant services at the battle of Lundy’s Lane, aud
in other battles during the last war with Eng
land.
Miss Evans. —An English paper says the
Messrs. Blackwood give ‘George Elliot’ (Miss
Evans) for her new work, “The Mill on the
Floss ” two thousand pounds down—one thous
and for tho second edition, and one thousand
when the work reaches the fourth, with an ex
tra bonus on its reproduction in a popular
form.
Wm. Preston, U. S. Minister to Spain, who
has for some time since been busily engaged at
the State Department consulting with Secretary
Cass and otherwise obtaining information con
cerning questions in issue between Spain and
this, country, will probably embark for Madrid
from New York, about the middle of July
next.
Padre Marchi, the Jesuit Father, whose name
is popular all over the world among antiquarians,
has just died at Rome, where he was curator of
the Kirche Museum, and where he had lived an
active busy life among the antiquities it contains,
without stirring a single mile beyond its walls
in search of any other company, for a great part
of a long and laborious life. -It is to Father
Marchi that the world owes the restoration of*
subterranean Rome; and, giving unto Csesar
the things which are Cicsar’s, restored to Etrus
can art what had hitherto been considered as be
longing to the Greeks.
Prince de Joutville was among the passen
gers by the Europa on her last trip from Liver
pool. He arrived in New York -on Monday,
evening, and started for Washington Saturday
morning. The Post says:
He is the third son of Louis Phillippe, was
born atNouilly in 1818, and received the baptis
mal names of Francois-Ferdinand-Rhillippe-Lou
is- Murie-D'Orleans. At an early age he enter
ed the French navy, and particularly distinguish
ed himself at the taking of St. Juan d'Hlloa. In
1841 ho took charge of the expedition commis
sioned to bring from St. Helena to Paris the
remains of Napoleon 1., commanding the frigate
Bell Pottle. In 1843 he married a Brazilian
princess. In 1848 with the rest of the Orleans
family, he sought refuge in England, where he
has since resided.
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FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY.
CASSrtTLLT SELECTED Euß TH E BOCTIIEES FIELD ASD FIRESIDE.
A petclant old lady having refused a suitor
to her niece, he expostulated with her, and re
quested her plainly to divulge her reasons: “ I
see the villain in your face," said she. “That
is a personal reflection, madam,” answered the
lover.
The total number of Jews in the world is es
timated at 4,500,000. The Jewish population of
Europe is about 3,000,000. viz: 70,000 in France,
35,000 in England, 50,000 in Italy, 300,000 in
Turkey, 250,000 in Hungary and Transylvania,
350,000 in Germany, Ac.; in the Russian Em
pire there are above 1,700,000. Theso statistics
are given in the last year’s book of the St. Pe
tersburg Academy of Sciences, but many well
informed person* consider them far from accu
rate, and that the number of Jews in the Rus
sian empire is over two millions.
There have been endless disputes about the
distinction between pride and vanity. One fact
is sufficient to show the vastness of the differ
ence. Many men are almost pleased to be called
proud. You cau call no man vain without in
sulting him. Another surely sufficient distinc
tion is, that the former is one of the principal
guardians of women, and that the latter is one
of their most frequent betrayers.
A celebrated barrister, n friend with whom
Jerrold loved to jest, entered a certain club room
where .Jerrold and some of his friends were en
joying a cigar. The barrister was in an excel
lent state, and exclaimed: “I have just met a
scoundrelly barrister." “What a coincidence!”
interrupted Jerrold.
Sweden is one of the rare countries in which
tho revenue every year exceeds the expenses,
and it is now seeking a loan of 25,000,000 rix
dollars to complete the capital necessary for the
construction of a vast net-work of railways.
The preacher of the word, says Leighton, be
lie ever so powerful, can cast this seed only into
the ear, his hand reaches no farther: and the
hearer, by his attention, may convey it into his
head ; but it is the Supreme Father aud Teacher
above, that carries it into the licqrt, the only
soil wherein it proves lively ami fruitful,
The total number of members of Parliament
unseated for bribery and treating, from the Par
liament beginning 1847—18, to the Parliament
beginning 1857, was 57 ; of whom 11 were un
seated for treating, 21 for bribery, and 25 for
bribery and treating combined.
Nature seldom lavishes many of tier gifts
upon one subject; the peacock has no voice:
the beautiful Camellia Japouica has no odor ;
and belles, generally speaking, have no great
share of intellect.
The number of letters in the alphabet of dil
ferent languages is as follows : Euglsh, 2(1;
French, 25 ; Gefman, 26; Spanish, 24; Dutch,
26; Greek, 24; Latin, 25 ; Slavonic, 27 ; Ara
bic, 28 ; Persian, 31; Turkish, 33 ; Georgian.
36 ; Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, and Samaritan,
each, 22; Coptic, 32; Sanscrit, 50; Bengalese,
21; Burmese, 19.
The title of hypocrite is easily earned, and
readily applied very often where it is little de
served ; irresolution receives it, and so even
may sheer amiability, where a man pursues n
double course of action—one to please himself,
and another not opeuly to violate the feelings of
those who are dear to him.
According to official returns in Rome, there
aro 850 Roman Catholic Bishops in the world,
exclusive of 90 apostolic vicarships aud several
prepetures.
The influence of woman, either for good or
evil, on the heart and mind of man, is omnipo
tent. Vain are the struggles to resist it. In
misfortune it tempers the energies; in prosperi
ty, adds grace to them.
An awkward man, attempting to carve a
goose, dropped it on the floor. “There, now I"
exclaimed his wife, “wo have lost our dinner!’
“Oh, no, my dear,” answered he, "it's safe —
I’ve got my foot upon it I”
Rice paper is not made from common rice, as
is often supposed. It is manufactured from the
| pith of the plant of tho bread fruit genua,
I brought frdhi the western parts of Chiua, chief
ly to Canton, where the manufacture of this
paper, and printing designs upon it, give em
ployment to several thousand persons.
Don’t judge of moral character by the face.
Tho frog is more innocent than many an animal
that has a much handsomer physiognomy.
A new thermometer has been invented by M.
Victor Beaumont, which is said to bo far supe
rior to the mercurial thermometer. It consists
of a strip of steel and one of brass soldered to
gether, and bent in the form of the segment of
a circle. Brass is affected twice as much as
steel by the temperature, and hence, by gradu
ating the movement at the qnd of the compound
strip, the variations of temperature are recorded.
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