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*" i i * J ‘* fnrinnmngiiMi' -^■ T - a “TTiTVini iiiVmbimi ■iinii«iiii— a—— 1111^^ .1. A. Tt IIXKii. i:i)!Toi;.| VOLUME 1. v roiNritY iio.ii ' uu< a home in ;ti ■ i'.nintiv wi.io. And asi ,it hv tiu* tanner's 1 1 lir.'sM », Where the tiro barns bright. On :i t'n»lv night. Where t!ie jest mid the song. niul langh are tree, oh! the fanner's horn- is the home tor me. Oh! give me a homo in the country will >, When liie earth I'lUllos ottt as a Idasldllg hride. When her buds atii flowers, in the inig’.il spring hours. Her bridal song ringing litgn rtvsii-Uuvt.il trees, AIU melodv Heats Oil tile |**i t iiinsl bl\V/.e: la vniun.r, a s at in til siiady nook. And close by the sid - vt a c miiug brook. Where tlie violet grow*. Or tile pale swamp rose. Fs aiiug mid sn-k. 'neatli the suit's scorching beam. Dips her petals in the ending stream. Oh! give tne a homo in the country wide, lu ti. • golden days of the fanner's pride, When tlie burns are tilled r'rum the held lie's tilled. And he f.-e!s that bis yearly task is done, Smiling at winter, he lieekotis him oil, PiSCfllllllftHlS. r*'lt TIIK INK I I XMm 1-UKSS. [bo MM UN iti'A i l!l)'j Mu. Editor;—V- vmi have huh ti to siiositilt ti;il 1 * \o!tr charges against Fetll.l! • (’• II !'•_<• a, ;iiV iill TCIICC is, t lint you mad ■t h m vehou! just lvt'isotis or (I t • co.i : ! ration. Ami ttllow me to remark tut* “ ■> e.n rcisc ol chnstain i -iniy i.a.s El it mo.-tly on mv part —Tine • y-M virtually accused ltt • <'i i11•:ii-_r til i) an “ri 1 . ” l iie aigiimonts of “your obedient S' i vattt are threadbare and common place. Ido not deem them worthy of notice! especially since ho lias yielded the whole ground by saying that the College at. Macon was erected with a g 'dpurpos '. All others in the State were instituted with the same noble intentions; tire conducted upon the sum'* general plan, and are contrelied hymen, whose desire to do good is equally as ardent as tliosj connected with the Macon College. While I re gard that Institution as a blessing to the oourdry, and esteem its officers as men of eminent abilities, I can but believe that your correspondent al lowed liissectaritm prejudices to get the better of bissirguntent, in his “ excep tion of the College at Macon.'' With ail bis “ practical good sense and wisdom;' 1 hazard the assertion, that ho would lie one of the last men to educate his daughter upon the plan you suggest— he has no plan of hi* own, it seems. Believing that our Female Colleges are established upon too firm a basis to be shaken by such unreasonable find unjust accusations as have been made against them, and which still re main unproved, an 4 that they will continue to elevate the standard of Female education, I deem it unneces sary to say any thing more in their defence. A TKACH KR. n:<)M I'OU-Son's AIiVEJITJSKIt. Napoleon and Talejrand. The grave has closed its impassable grates npoii these extraordinary men, so cntinlv different in their characters, and vet each exercising, in his own way, great influence in the world.-—-In ‘‘The bandeau’s History’’ they are In-ought together on an aeeasion calculated to ex hibit their respective principles and feel ings. O.i the return oQßonaparfo the Oencral of.the R-pubiic, from his bril liant victories in May, be was received with ail the honor that the enthusiasm of the people and the era! i tilde of the di rectory could shower upon him. Af ter giving an account of these proceed ings, the historian goes on. “The c riebration of the anniversary of the «1.-ath of Louis 10th approach--d—the di rectory discussed tin) question, whether Bonaparte should take a part in it.— They feared that the ceremony wou and i be unpopular if he were not there, and that if he was, he would be mon\ an object of attention than tin* directory. They decided that policy required the presence of the Gen. ral, and Talley rand was charged with the negotiation. Bonaparte observed to him, that he held no public functions; that he had personally, nothing to do with this fete; that without pretending to dismiss* $ CClcrl;ln journal:—Drtiotrti to literature, politics, anil General |§istcll;utj). whether the judgement upon Louis was useful or injurious to mankind, it was an unhappy occurrence ; that, we celebrate nation;.l fetes for victories, but weep over the victims that remain on the held of battle. Talleyrand re plied that this celebration was just, In - : cans "it was j olitie; that it was politic, | for that every country, and fill lepub iios, have celebrated ns a triumph the fa!! of a' solute pbW TANARUS, and the murder of try ants: that in this way Athens had e lefrated the death of Pisistrat s, and Home tiiat ol tlie l) *cemvirs; that, I)‘sid s. it was the law oft he country, and th a’efore every one owed it sub mission and obedience: that finally, t!\ * iu!la *:i * * ofth ' (t *.i -r;il of Ita ly was such, that he ought to appear at this ceremonv, and that his absence would hurt the interest of pubi : e affairs. Alter much conversation. Bonaparte refused to lake a conspicuous part in the celebration, but consented to go | with the institute as a member of that j body. Here we haw, in one sentence, the whole moral and political creed of Tal leyrand-- “It is just because it is poli tic.” Acting on this principle or rule of*conduct, this stone heart and politician and hypocrite lent or sold his extraordi nary talents, regardless ofthe restraints l of integrity, sham-’ or consistence, to what ever and whomsoever happened to.be the dominant power of France, whether revolution try, republican, im ]'k rial or royal. Let Imu hold the reins, and be eared not whether they wore recking with blood, >r studded with diamonds. lie was r adv to served or abandon and l> crav. as his won 1 -rful sag.ie.it v p weeiv and ssticees or defeat apj)r< laehing. —»,*. KItOM ill!. UCMPUItKy's FORKIGX TOUR. Lord Brougham. If there was any man in England whom I wished to see and hear n ore than any other, it was IL-nry Brough am. I had heard so much of his nervous anticks and anomalous physi ognomy, that I expected to be rathei amused by his personal appearance.— You may \vo!i suppose, therefore, that as l waited with the expectant thou sand in Exeter Ilall, for his arrival, to take the chair, at one of the great an niversaries. mvcuriositv was wrought up to the Slightest pitch. When at length he came in. and advanced to the front of the platform, amid the en thusiastic greeting of the vast assem bly. 1 confess \ was much disappoint ed. lie wore a plain frock-coat, and there was nothing in his dress or ad' di’i'ss, to distinguish him from any well-bred private gentleman. Lord Brougham is not nine , if any, below the middling staini\ —rather spare than corpulent—carrying none of the common marks of high living in his face; and if he ever wore that angular, huddled, and spasmodic visage, whkdi has been ascribed to him, he must have left it with the Lord Chancellor’s wig in the Westminster wardrobe. 1 was near him on this and other occa sions, for hours together, and cannot be mistaken. He is not handsome, but neither is he an ill-looking man. His teatures arc very strong, but no 1 grotesque. He appears to be rather under lifty years of age, than over.— llis forehead is broadly furrowed, bis eyes are small a id restless, and deeply shaded in their retirement, under 1 arching and.shaggy brows. It is nose i rf i rather short and blunt, than aquliu'..- ! There is a slight nervous twitching j about the muscles of his face, even in its repose ; and when, lie is highly ex* j cited in debate, it becomes extremely j active. Jlis voice has neither very great power nor compass; and yet, he speaks with so much distinctness and deliber ation, that all can hear hint in the largest assemblies. Ordinarily when he coin men ees, if you did not know who he was, you would not, be particu larly struck, either with what lie says, or with his manner of saving it. Be fore helms proceeded far, however, you perceive that the tun rgies of a mighty mind arc waking into action. His sentences, as they fail, one 4fter anoth er from his lips, are as perspicuous as well turned, and as much condensed as it he had writen them off for the Kdimlurgh Quarterly, in his closet.— The whole vocabulary seems to be en tirely at his command ; and it is .ex tremely interesting to follow him, step by step, as he culls from the mexliaust- I ible store-house the very words which EATOjS’TQN, GA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 185 L j most exactly and forcwilv express ms I meaning. \\ hen Lord Brougham is thorough ly roust'd, (and 1 happened to hear him on one such occasion,) his mind seems more like an intensely heated and de vouring luruace, than any thing else to which 1 can com pa e it. Th 1 flaslu s are so excessively bright, that, they al most blind you; and wo be, even to Nebuchadnezzar's mighty men, if they venture too near to the mouth of it. — I believe it is conceded on all hand's, that noman equals him,'in the bitterness ot his scorn, or the burning and over whelming power of his invectives.— “ His tone is that of prou 1 superiority and command, and its general charac ter may be described by the single word, terrible. It is terrible in its irony, terrible in its invective, and terrible in its history and predictions." V, ryfew, when his indignant spirit is seen to be on fire, have the temerity to meet him, with such weapons as they can draw from the same armory, and of those few, there is not one, probably, but that secretly repents of his chival ry, before the onset is over. In his premeditated attacks, yon seethe little eddy, which at first only raises the leaves and dust, but which widens and gathers strength every moment, as it advances, till at length, it becomes a perfect tornado, and wrings off the sturdiest oaks in its progress. This, 1 admit, is not one of the most amiable traits of character which a great man can possess ; but then it ought to be remembered, as some apology for him, that hardly any man vvasevor so much goaded and eluded by a powerful and relentless press, as Lord Brougham lias been, within the last six years.— As the great champion of reform, both in and out of Parlimeut, he has made himself exceedingly obnoxious to the high Tory party, particularly in the upper House. Many of Lord Brougham's friend regret his elevation to the peerage, be cause it has withdrawn him forever from the Hons; of Commons, the fin est field in the world for the exercise of his powers; and it is believed, from hints of his own, that he regrets it, as much as any body. I heard him sav myself, at the meeting, for the protection of religious liberty, that lie could not serve the people with half the efficien cy now, as he .had once been able to do in the popular branch of’the legislature. In the Lords, lie is sure, on all great questions of reform, to encounter a uead majority, and to be voted down in the end, however triumphant lie may be in the argument. But even there, bis power is felt and dreaded, more than that of any other member He is the last man in the world, to be brow-beaten and silenced any where. As an example of the style iu which he sometimes comes out upon their lord ships, l will give a short extract from one of his speeches, at the last session, on the Municipal ilefonn Bdi. Tiny were determined to put him down, by calling loudly for the qnestio 1, and by other boisterous interruptions m the midst of his inswor to a pretty severe attack, from Lord Lyndhuret.. “ One or two of you cry question when .1 attempt to meet the attack, from a total ignorance of my nature, and of my habits oflife- from a foolish and ridiculous and absurd notion ,that by crying question', you can put me <1 jwii. Vv liy, I have stood lip against half the If use ot Commons, when they cried question! for three quarters of an hour, and they could not put me down. Cotidiiue yladios contcmpsi; non tuos pertimescam. I know what it is to stand against three hundred men, preteudi ng to be representatives of the people, who have attempted to drown the voice of one man, who was their real friend, and representative, and they did not succeed ; and do you think teat one of you ! —can put me down ?’’ I. hardly need io add, that they were obliged to give it up ands t him finish his speech at. his leisure. Ltm-x SriT AgainstTin-;Ti:inrxk. —Mr. Baker, the Know-Nothing cun ditate for Mayor of New York, feeling deeply aggrieved at softie articles which appeared in the Tribune, impugn ing liis character and motives, has brought, suit against, that journal for lib I, laving damages at 8‘20,000.5r- The impression prevails that he will be enfitlei.l to a verdict. The Tribune tried to sneak out, but Mr. Baker is inexorable and uncompromising. ■ ifiTiioi T rt;.nt, r.ii’(iit ou .ipfih tio.V’- Extracis from a Speech 0/ Daniel S. Dickinson, ch.du'ireel in A. Y. Cl!;/, on the 1.-g A an'., 1851. TIIK SOFT SHELL PA!,TV. “But then there is the third politi cal party —the softs, or the administra tion party. And I will not stop to dis cuss 1 lie merits of the administration now, for 1 have not time to meddl * with small matters. (Laughter.) The idmiuistration party of this State, dike decaying substances generally, have sought some mode of preservation., and finding no other means availing they have taken refuge in alcohol—(laugh ter)— knowing that to be one, of the best preservatives— the best for pre serving decaying substances. They seem to be according to all accounts, in better spirits than they were.— (Laughter.) Not because their spirits bear the Custom House brand (contin ued laughter) for I believe they have taken the brand off the casks and put it uj on the candidates. (Uproarious laughter.) And their candidate for Governor—the present Governor of this State—has placed himself upon this being-hole issue alone. Ilis decla ration on the subject is equal to that of his illustrious predecessor, Jack Cade, who declared that in his reign the three hooped pots should have ten hoops, and dial he would make it felony to drink small beer. (Laughter.) The present Gov. n >r is the champion of ihat in terest. Well. It those who want <o know what kind of a champion he was, go and ask the brewers, and tie distillers, aril the liquor dealers of AI bany, and they will tell you truly that tit the time he was called upon to veto or to sign Myron 11. Clark’s li quor law bill, there never was a brew ing of beer in Albany that underwent so much fermentation as the Governor underwent before lie signed the veto (Laughter.) That veto was prepared, ready tor his hand; and it was a long time before he was prevailed upon to sign it. Vet now becomes forward as great a champion—of what? why of the liquor interest of the State. He seeks to gain a victory bv that interest —i party victory; a victory for the softs, or ad ministration party (laugh tel” :• a v etery which would have to be es timated by the gallon, and measured by the quart. (1 ir< a‘ laughter.) 1 have already stated that, the democrat ic party placed itself on no such issue : and 1 repeat what T have said, that such an issue is disgraceful to the State of New Vork, or to any party which places itself upon it. And this I sav— knowing what I say, and in whose hearing J say it —of the liquor dealers themselves. And l will have them to agree with me in a moment, if they only listen to me. The democrat ic party is adequate to the reformation of all abuses in the government. Ii is adequate to the protection of every class, and every interest, and every citizen. And no one interest and no one c'a s is entitled to an exclusive pro tection,'' THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. ‘•The democratic party seems to be overthrown. We ail know the cause of that. We are held responsible by the people lbr a great error in our ru lers —not our rulers ; but. our servants, (applause) and the people have brought us to judgment. The democracy, of the national government has been held to be a failure—the people have pass ed judgment upon it, and they will not consider that tnev have had satisfaction by execution until it is overthrown in every State in the Union. But it is no time when the ship of State is over thrown by the storm to abandon her. u hen she is prospering upon the voy age —when her pennant flutters joyous ly in the breeze—when her every sail is set, and all promises well, the faith ful of her crew may well relax their en ergies. But when the tempest over whelms them—when many of the crew become mutinous—it is then that those who wish well, stand by her. Then let no one abandon the ship of State, because all is peril, (applause,) let them stand by, and declare with the brave Captain Luce, “the ship’s fate is mine.” (Loud cheering.) Who would not rather be one of that hapless crew of the Arctic, to go down endeavoring to save her, rather than one of that coward gang that fled with the means that should be used to pres rvc the lives of others? Who would not rath er be one of those who went down than of those who took the lifeboat, which was intended for the safety of women and children, and cowardly He'd? (Applause.) It is a time now for every democrat to stand by his principles—to stand frankly and faith fully by them. Our duty is plain: — Reject all isihS —all particular and ex clusive interests, all cliques, and all fusions which may operate against the great body of the democratic party.— “But we may be overthrown.” Sup pose we are ; that is not the end of all things; bit if it be, better to be overthrown in a glorious cause than fly like base cowards. (Applause.) — We may be dispersed by hostile foes, or deceived by false friends ; but we will rally apgfV.r day to the charge, and “wo to 1 kg Vidor that, tramples ns down.” (Loud .applause.) The dem ocratic party is simply disorganized ; it is neither asleep, nor gone a jour ney —it lias a power within itself to- rally with a greater force than it ever Inis exhibited. The democratic party has fallen to pieces : because, after its great and signal v ictory of 1852, it had no other foe to exterminate; its heel 1 was on the neck of abolition fanaticism; like Alexander of old, it had “nothing more to conquer.” But its old foe has risen up again. Who would not be the first and foremost in that great ef fort—in that, great battle of liberty ? To preserve the constitution again si the encroachments of fanaticism —to conserve national virtue—to preserve every interest, in our State policy, and not only those domestic questions which wo. have, but every other ques tion, including all the social virtues— charity, goodness, temperance, truth— and preserving every interest, and cor recting every abuse—that is the mis sion of the democratic party —nothing else. (Applause.) Its candidates have been nominated, not as mere politicians, bur as the representatives of those great principles. They are placed there, not as tlie representatives of an “ism” that commenced in tlie last session of the Legislature and is to end in the next, hut they are placed there as the repre sentatives of a principle which is des tined to live forever, and which com mends itself to ('very man. woman and child in chrbt ndom. These princi ples, my democraticMeThuv-oiiiz ns, we ire all called upon to uphold and sus ain. We belh ve that this good, of which J have spoken, is to he acquired by the sustaining of such principles.— It is not the def at of Chirk or the suc cess bt Green C. Bronson nor the drink ing of liquor, or its prohibition, that arc the considerations pressing upon us at this juncture.'' BRONSON. “ L-t us see for a moment who are those candidates. Greene C. Bronson, the advocate, the exponent, the uphol der. It is Greene C. Bronson that stands forth with his associates, as the advo cate n( the great principles to which .1 have adverted ; it is Myron 11. Clark who stands forward as the champion of his party —tile advocate of ;dl the isms of the day—and Horatio Sev inour stands in fore die democracy or die State upon the liquor issue alone. Now I call upon all honest men— upon all men of sound morality— to say what, principles we shall uphold, what principles we shall inculale. — If, having made your election, you choose to uphold temperance, do so, but do not attempt to uphold fanaticism with it; rather let iis take a middf ground—not an extrem.. —to preserve and regulate, but not to destroy. It you will support abolitionism, Maine Liquor law-ism, "Woman's Rights-hsm, and every other ism of the day, then go and support Myron 11. Clark, and you will have them all comprehended in one dragnet. If you desire to place yourself upon the liquor question alone, arid have everything gauged, like a cask, when you undertake to make a stump speech ; and if you want to have everything regulated by the liquor question, well, then vote for Horatio Seymore. But I trust, there will be no such issue. I think that the interests of the country, the inter ests of the community, and the inter ests of the liquor dealers even, are op posed to the presentation of any such issue. The liquor dealer un doubtedly has his rights, but he hits no more right to protection than the representatives of other interests. It may be said that the liquor interest should be supported exclusively, “ be cause it is assailed.” Let them assail; their storm will howl for awhile;- they must have some object-of attack : blit after awhile they will let it alone.— But all is within the control of good men, if they will only come together and act efficiently. Now mv fellow (l mocrats, I invoke y> ti to act togeth er upon this question. It, will be dis graceful to see this,'the first, State in the Union, go off—on what ? On the question of liquor ! It might do very well for Neal Dow to raise that ques tion : but for the first State in the Union to stand on that- issue, is asking too much. Abandon the idea—turn it, one side and turn back to the great po litical issues of the day, and let them .absorb your attention and considera tion. (Applause.) Now that I have given you my vk ws upon this ques tion, 1 ref urn my thanks for the atten tion you have shown me on this occa sion, and in showingyou my high con sideration of your attention I now bid you good evening. (Immense eheer ing.); StnocxaH. —The List, line ever set by M. Charlton, a Pittsburg printer, whose death occurred recently, was this— “And even at last the solemn hour shall come!” Having done this. In? staggered from hisca.se, under a sud In attack of di sease, and in a ft w days died and was buried. The solemn liour had come. An experiment,has,lately been .suc cessfully made in France, of employ ing swallows- for carrying h.iters, as pigeons were* used some years since. John .Mitchell's Citzcn closes si no tice of tlie article in the London Tina s predicting that the time may come when the European powers will regard and treat the United States as a “pub lic nuisance thus Long ago Kossuth seriously warn ed America that matters would come to this, if the crowned heads of Eu rope can succeed in quashing and cush ioning this war in Europe,- (once so promising and full of hope,) and so keeping the .Republicans down—for that-is the sole aim, and policy, and prayer of the Western Powers—then comes Aimriea’s turn. In that ease it would turn out, and he cleat ly prov ed, that the “ policy of non-interven tion” was the surest way to involve Inis continent at last in along and grie vous war. Not that this would be a very seri ous evil to America. Steam can urge ships eastward as well as in the course of the sun. There are, at least, a hun dred millions of people in Europe who would hail-the American flag appear ing among them as the Romans hail ed the twin demi-gods at the Lake Keg ■ Piiis. Three ocean steamships once m Irish waters carrying one thousand men each, would be more than enough to wrest Ireland from England—that is to say, to dismember and destroy the British Empire root and branch. Candidly , we do Jin reni/y pray that the “ Western Powers'' may find a sol emn verdict against America—that she is a public nuisance, —and proceed to ex ecution accordingly. The world would then, indeed, see a good time. From the Southern Recorder. A Task For Philosophers. Chem ists, and OTHERS. —On the land of Air. Joseph Smith of this county, there is a large rock, of considerable 1 and breadth,' hat ex! nels across the spring branch, and had 11 the ap pearance of a solid rock. On tlie 2Utli *iit. about 1 o'clock, th re was a noise heard resembling tin- running ofhorses. and in a short time a report was heard, ind afterwards two more report-, and on examination th-.: rock was found to in- burated in several directions to a considerable extent, and even where it went under ground, the earth rent. — Several large pieces were thrown to a considerable distance. Many persons have been to see it, and ev< ry ex.unr nation has been made that thev could to see it tie re could be, any discov tv of sulphur, and nothing of the kind can be detected. A negro woman that was at the spring states, that during the time of the explosion t here was a kind of mist or smoke above the rock in the air. The reports were heard at some distance. If any body boubts the truth of this, they will please call and see. AVM. MOSELEY. Henry Cos. Sept. 6, 1838. Gen. Cass and the Richmond Enquirer.— We woo greatly aston ished at the attack of the above named paper made upon that veteran and des ervedly popular doinocrat-Geii. Cass — for some remark of his in opposition to slavery. llow hard and how very un grateful is it for Southern men to abuse those Northern patriots who have sacrificed themselves as it were, in maintaining the Constitutional rights of the South. We assert boldly that there is ho man in the American Union whose personal exertion has done so much to check die wild fanati cism of abolitionism as Gen. Cass ; and vet we find men of standing among us who either through deplorable igno rance or base ingratitude, abuse this great man, to whom we owe so much.- ilow can the South expect Northern men to resist the abolition prejudices at home, w en our own people join in their a bps.; ? Nothing but an approv ing conscience prompts them to sustain the rights of the South. Condemned at home for acting against the popu lar impulse, and upbraided by the ve ry people who receive the benefit of his honesty and firmness, Gen. Cass has done more than all others to put down the Wilmot-Proviso, and estab lish in it.; stead the true liepulican doc trine of Non-Intervention. Wc all kiiow this to be true, yet men in the South find it in their hearts to abuse him, simply because he does not be lieve slavery is right and proper. If such a course is persisted in, we can not expect Northern support much longer, for nature is the same in great men that it is in less ones—continue to abuse them, and they will, sooner or later, act with those whose power gives f hem a seat in our national councils, forgetful of what they now think to be their duty. Cbinmon sense, sound pol icy and gratitude should dm el, a dd 'Herent yours. l —CWn 'He Standard. Items, $2,00 a year NUMBER 31. 't . papers of Saturday were tilled with updoes of sermons on political subjects to be preached yesterday in different sections of the city in view of the elec tion to be held to-morrow. The ‘■Church Journal,” (Episcopalian) com menting upon this extraordinary fea ture of the times, pertinently enquires : u \\ hat is the reason of all this?— Has the old fashioned Gospel—which we have been accustomed to believe was the EcurloAavj Gospel—been at length exhausted and worn thread bare? Is no text fresh enough now for preachers and people except it be taken from the Gospel according to ihe Daily papers ? Is it that the minis ters arc tired of the old topics of grace and salvation, and no longer believe that “Gospel” of which they pretend to be the “preachers?” The point we not’ wish to make, however, is that in the country, where, as we had fondly hoped Church and State—Religion and Politics—were thoroughly and forever divided, popular preachers are rapidly rising to be the leaders of political par ties, and pulpits are found to be—as in times of old—the best recruiting drums to boat up voters for political I partisans. And a correspond ing change lias taken place in politics too, as well as in religion—both of them rising and falling upon one Democratic pivot— vox popnli, As the pulpit, therefore, lias grown political the stump has wax ed pious ; and if “Nebraska” rings out lustily from the meeting house it is on ly m sonorous unison with the “high er law,” resounding from the Halls of Congress. The New York Tribune says that Russia can still concentrate an army of three hundred thousand men at a given point, and adds : “And there are people who believe that Nicholas will sue for peace if Se bastopol be taken! Why Russia has not played one-third of her trumps yet, and the momentary loss of Sebastopol and of the fleet is hardly felt at all by the giant to whom Sebastopol and the. fleet were but a plaything. Russia knows full well that her deceisive ac tion does not he along the shores or in reach of debarking troops; but on the contrary, on the broad interior of the Continent, where massive armies can be brought to act concentrated on one spot, without frittering away their for* cos in a fruitless coast defence against vancsccnt enemies. Russia may lose the Crimea, the Caucasus, Finland, St. Petersburg and all such appendages ; but-as long as her body, with Moscow Ibr its In‘art-, and fortified Poland for its sword-arm, is untouched, she need not give in an iota. Anecdotes of Diogenes.—Alex ander, passing through Corinth on one occasion, had the curiosity to see Di ogenes, who happeued to be there at the time. He found him basking in die sun in the grove Craneum, where he was cementing his tub. “I am,” said he to him, “the great king Alexander.” “And I,” replied the philosopher, “am the dog Diogenes.” “Are you not afraid of me ?” con tinued Alexander. ~ “Are you good, or bod ?” returned Diogenes. ‘T am good,” rejoined Alexander. “And who would be afraid of one who is good ?” replied Diogones. As Diogenes was one day going to Eginn, he was. taken by pirates who hr ught him to Crete, and exposed him to sale, lie did not appear to be the least disconcerted, nor did he feel the least uneasiness on account of his misfortune. Seeing one Xeniades, cor pulent and well dressed, “1 must be sold to that person,” said he, “for 1 perceive lie needs a mas* ur. Come, child,” said he to Neui* ades, as ho was coming up to purchase him, “come, child, buy a man.” Being asked what he could do, he said lie had the talent of commanding men. “Crier,” said lie, “ call out in the market, if any one wants a master, let him come here and purchase one.” The man who was selling him de sired him -not to sit. p “What matters it,” said Diogenes, “people buy fishes in any posture ; and it is very surprising, that though one will not buy even a pot without ringing it to know whether it be good metal, he will buy a man upon simply seeing him.” When the price was fixed, he said to Xeniades, “Though I be at present your slave, you must prepare'to obey my will; for whether I serve you as physician or steward, it matters not whether I be a slave or a freeman, mv will must be done.” | . Xeniades charged him with the in struction of his children, a task which Diogenes performed with great, fidelity A Virginian has beaten the \ ankees at their own weapons. John J. of Hollow, Fred ricksburg, A a.,'has invent ed a machine which will husk and shell corn at one operation. The ear with the husk is thrown ill its mouth, and in tile twinkling of an eye the horu falls at one point, tliaeh'nn cob coming out at the other end. Its? (Capacity is about four hundred barrels per day.