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miscellaneous. (pO& TBK IHOEI’EXDKNT I‘RfcsS.J tn the Press of last Saturday—two Greeks ago, I found the following ex* tfafct Frttttt some of your exchanges, %hich I think is not strictly in* accor dance with facts: - “Our Sentinels. —The" United states is represented at Madrid by u renchman, at Genoa by an Italian, the Hague by a German, at Naples by a Scotchman, and by an Irishman at Lisbon. Ilebbe—-Russo-German —-rep- resents tls somewhere abroad —we for get where?’ The United States is represented at the Court of Sardenia by John M. Daniel as Charge d’A Hairs. He is a native of Virginia, and formerly ‘ one •of the Editors of the Richmond Ex (wither; In the Dominions of the Netherlands} the United States is rep fesented by Augustus Belmdtit as Charge d’Affairs; He is a native of Germany and his adopted State New York. In the Portuguese dominions at Lisbon, the United States is repre sented by Charles B. Haddock as Charge d'A flairs, a native of New Hampshire. In the Two Sicilies, Naples its capital, the United States is represented by Robert Dale Owen, charge d’Affairs, and a native of Great Britain, adopted ‘State Indiana. At Madrid by P. Soule, a native of France, adopted State Louisiana. In the Austrian dominions, Vienna its eapital, the United States is represen ted by Henry Jackson, as resident minister; a native of the State of Georgia. At the Court of St, James the U. States is represented by James Buchanan, a native of Pennsylvania; and at the Court of St. Cloud, by Mr. Mason of Virginia. The United States, also, is represen ted at Stockholm, Sweden ; St, Peters burgh, Russia ; Berlin, Prussia; Con stantinople, Turkey ; and at Berne, Switzerland, by native born Ameri cans. Mr. DeLeon, Consul-General of the United States in Egypt, is a native of South Carolina. Our Consul-Gen eral at Tunis, and our Commissioner a*. China are both native born Amer icans. Our Minister to Mexico, our Envoy at Central America, including the whole of our representation in the South American States, are native bom Americans. "We have only three adopted citi zens representing the United States abroad at places of any importance. All our other “Diplomats” are native Americans. But the question mdy be asked *ean’t we send all native born Americans to represent the United States abroad ? We answer ves. But if it is Constitutional to send abroad able adopted citizens to serve the gov ernment and people, and being, also, in accordance with the usage establish ed by the Founders of the Republic, why fbrbid it now ? Are present pol iticians uisef , or more honetst, than the Statesmen and Founders of the Repub lic? Let every one who can read an swer the question to himself. It is true we have able native born citizens to represent us at every foreign court upon the globe. But those able and honest ones, do not al ways apply for such places. They prefer staying at home. Among many other reasons, is this, that the government don’t pay sufficiently its employee abroad to support themselves in decency.— The Department of State is often perplexed about the applicants for the foreign service in consequence of their ignorance of the language of the people in whose dominions they are going to reside as well as of the French, which is the Court language of the world. Ilcnec the reason why we find an adopted citizen here and there appointed to an important office; and wc deem it exceed ingly convenient as well ns a privilege to our government, to have it in its power to procure the ser vices of its honest, able and adopted citizens lor its service, whenever it can’t procure those of its native born. This prrcticc has been followed by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon free, Gen. Jackson, Polk, Gen. Taylor, as well as by Gen. Pierce. | »But it is reserved for the new polit ical luminaries of our (lay, who con sider themselves wiser than their Fath ers ; who have taken counsel in secret to overthrow the wise policy adopted by past Administrations—-and to dim the light of the present—and by se cret oaths as well as by threats of pains and penalties against all recusant fol lowers in case .of disobedience to or »knr» from their Superiors, are endeav oring to'enlighten the people of these United States. From the inmost re eesaca of their Lodges, and by secret orders in council, they hope to change the genius of ottr Republican govern ment, alter the Constitution of the U, States, erect an alter of conscience, cf religion and proscription, convenient only for sainted politicians ; and finally upon-the ruins of the Republic which had cost some of the best blood of the Re volution, create a Doge for a Prcsi dent, erect a tribunal of Forty to reg ulate the consciences of the citizen, and a secret council of Ten, to compel all to bow tlld knee before this Aristocratic Baal. But in haste, A Subscriber. Circumstantial Evidence* There is no axiom more triitJ than that “ murder will out.” Some vestige is constantly left in the hurry and con fusion attending an act of violence. Nay, the very means taken for con cealment often lead to detection. It is justly remarked by Starlcic, that the eonsideiation of the nature of circum stantial evidence, and of the princi ples on which it is founded, merits the most proiound attention. Scientific as sistance has been eminently useful in saving the innocent and detecting the guiltv. In some remarkable trials for murder, many offenders have been de tected by the observations of medical men, who have traced the facts by slight and unexpected circumstances. Many cases mentioned in Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, to which we are indebted for most interesting in formation, well illustrate this state ment. He mentions that Sir Astley Cooper was called to see one Mr. Blight, of Debford, who had been mor tally wounded by a pistol shot, in the year 1807, he inferred, from an ex amination, of a left-handed man. The only left handed man near the premi ses at the time, was a Mr. Patch, a particular friend cf the deceased, who was not in the least suspected. The man was afterwards tried and convict ed of the crime, and he made a full confession of his guilt before execu tion. Yet medical evidence is found to be not always borne out by the fact. A man was stabbed by another in the face. A knife, with the blade entire, was brought forward as evi dence against the prisoner at trial, the surgeon having declared that the wound must have been produced by this knife; the wounded person recovered, and a year afterwards a fistula formed in the face, and the broken point of the real weapon was discharged from the sinus; the wound could not therefore have been produced by the knife brought forward against the prisoner at the tri al. Georgians. This is the attractive title of a book just issued from the press by D. Apple ton & Cos., New York. The title page, however, limits the scope of the work to Sketches of some of the first set tlers of Upper Georgia , of the Chero kees, and the Author , who is no less a personage than George R. Gilmer, Ex-Governor of Georgia. The intro duction gives the following account of the book. “The Author is an old man, who has passed his sixty-fourth year. Continued ill health rendered him unable for along while to under go labor, or bear much jostling from others. He has endeavored to pass quietly on, by getting into an untrod den track. Scribbling, when tired of reading, he found to be u pleasant re lief from the tedium of unoccupied time. He wrote until he disliked to lose his labor. He publishes his scribblings with the hope that others may think that he did right ill not throwing them away.' 5 In this opinion we heartily concur. His “sketches” are unrivaled except by the Georgia,Scenes. Indeed they are rough stones from the same quary in which Longstreet labored with so much success and from which he retired to the regret of all lovers of inimitable humor. But we gladly accept Gil more’s biographies for Longstreet’s Scenes. They were written in the simplest Anglo-Saxon, and betray as good and unsophisticated a heart as ever beat in a human bosom. He scorns all disguises; stoops to no con cealments ; what he thinks he says, and in homespun English too; his book is the gossip of a grand father around a Christmas fire when sur rounded by his grand children, and warmed to loquacity by a Christmas goblet. The reader often laughs at the simplicity of Primitive Georgians, and sometimes weeps at their unshrink ing courage and unswerving fidelity to truth, duty and their country, but never tires of the hoDcst, good, truth ful old man who tells their history. Part Ist is devoted to the first set tlers on Broad River, and contains most interesting sketches of the pro genitors of the Gilmers, the Grattans, the Lewises, the Strothers, the Math ewses, the Meriwethers, the Bibbs, the Johnsons, the Crawfords, the Barnetts, the llarvies, the Andrews, the Talia ferros, the McGehees, and others with whom they intermarried. Justice is also done to Nancy Hart. Part 2d is devoted to the early set tlers in Wilkes county, but more par ticularly to Elijah and John Clark, Duncan G. Campbell, John M. Dooly, Austin Dabney, Felix Gilbert, Nicho las Long and their families. Part 3d is devoted to himself and is a very complete history of Georgia du ring his terms of ofliee as Governor. This part of the work is a valuable ad dition to the literature of the State.— We have not, however, had time to investigate its claims to history. Old Georgians will find much in the book to interest and amuse them; some will be gratified, and others cha grined at its exposition of the sayings and doings of their ancestors. It is an original book and well worth pe rusal. Only a small edition has been published. The price is $3. [Times <h Sentinel. “ What are you writing such a big hand for; Pat?” “ Why, you see, my grandmother’s dafe, and I’m writing a loud lether to her !” “ Ma, that nice young than,. Mr. Brown, is fond of kissing.” “ Mind your seams Julia, who toi a yoi||?suck nonsense ?” “ I had it from hn 6wn lips, Ma.” * English Press on the President’s Message. The London Times thus speaks of the message with which President Ptefbc greeted the two houses of Con gress on their recent assemblage:— “Upon the whole, this message, which is considered tame at Washing ton, has, at least, the merit of being inoflcnsive abroad. It is not very cor rect in its language, or very states manlike in its views. It leaves the more difficult questions of the policy of the United States unsolved ; but it furnishes fresh evidence of the pros perity of the country, and nothing is more creditable to the institutions of the United States than the fact, that the affairs of the commonwealth do not suffer materially even in the hands of those who have small claims to po litical foresight or ability.” The London Chronicle is dissatisfied at the neutrality of President in rela tion to the existing war between Rus sia and the allies. Its editor re marks “We do not look for formal expres sions of sympathy in documents such as that on which we are at present commenting; but we must confess that our estimate of • the American character will be materially lowered if there be not, before long, some satis factory repudiation of the Russianising tone adopted by a portion of the press, and therefore, it may be supposed, by a portion of the public. Fraterniza tion between democracy and absolu tism is unnatural and discreditable; and in this instance we may venture to conjecture that it will be but short lived.” To which the New York Sun re plies : “This is rich from a government fraternizing with Louis Napoleon and Francis Joseph of Austria.” New Year’s Courtises in Wash ington.—The National Intelligencer says: Never since the world began did a brighter or finer day shed its light upon the human family than that which marked the opening of the year for the good people of Washington and “the strangers within their gates.”— Every body seemed to enjoy it, for even to the invalid it brought pure air and hopes of renovated health ; and old and young of both sexes went the rounds on visits of cordial greetings and warm congratulation and there were many re-unions of friends long separated,* if not estranged. At twelve o’clock the President’s Mansion was thrown open to visitors generally, (the Diplomatic Corps hav ing previously paid their respects to the Chief Magistrate and his family,), and for two hours the multitude of persons who were introduced and ex changed salutations was immense.— The President welcomed them all with his accustomed urbanity, and men of all shades of opinion left the mansion favorably impressed with his courte ous bearing. The several Heads of departments received the visits of many thousands, and entertained them most kindly.— Thr President of the Senate, the Hon. Jesse D. Bright, and Mr. Speaker Boyd, of the Hmise of Representa tives, threw open their hospitable sa loons ; as did also the Mayor of the city aud other prominent citizens.— Altogether the opening of IBtio Is an era to be remembered as a fair speci men of the best of everything which a favored and a prosperous people could desire. The way to get husbands. — We commend the following to all la dies who are in haste to get married. It is the best recipe for single blessed ness that we have seen : A gentleman of the bar in a neigh boring county, in easy circumstances and pretty good practice, had render ed himself somewhat remarkable by his attempts in the way of matrimo nial speculation. A maiden rather ad vanced in years, resided some miles distant in the neighborhood, hearing of this lawyer’s speculating propensity, that his character was unexceptiona ble, and his situation in life tolerably good, resolved upon making him her husband. She hit upon the following expedient: She pretended suddenly to be taken very ill, and sent for the man of law to prepare her will. He attended for that purpose. By her will she devised .£IO,OOO in bank stock to bo divided among her three cousins, some thousands in bonds and notes to a niece, and a vast landed estate to a favorite nephew. The will being finished she gave her lawyer a very liberal fee, and enjoined secrecy upon him for some pretended purpose, thus Erecluding him from an inquiry into er real circumstances. Need I men tion the result? In a fortnight the lady thought proper to be again re stored to health. The lawyer called to congratulate her on her restoration— begged permission to visit her, which was politely given. After a short courtship, the desired offer was made. The bargain was concluded and rat i fied by the priest. The lawyer’s whole estate by his wife’ consists of an annuity of sixty-five dollars. [English Paper. Against Secret Societies. —Dan- iel Webster not many years ago, ex pressed himself thus: All secret associations, the members of which take upon themselves extra ordinary obligations, and are bound together by secret oaths, are naturally sources of jealousy aud just alarm to others, are especially unfavorable to harmony and mutual confidence among men living together under popular in stitutions, and are dangerous to the general cause of civil liberty and good government, Mr. Everett, when Governor of Massachusetts, said in his inaugural address, in 1836: Up All secret associations, particularly such as resort to the aid of secret oaths, are peculiarly at war with the genius of Republican Government, Washington Correspondence. Washington, Dec. 18th, L 854. The proceedings of Congress during the past Week have not been entirely devoid of novelty and cxeitement. — The speech of Alex. 11. Stephens of Georgia} excited no little attention, and among the spectators sitting around him on the floor of the House, there were many Senators; among whom I noticed particularly Gen’l. Cass, Mason of Virginia, Butler of S. C., re-elected a few da\'s since, Stewart of Michigan,? Chase of Ohio, and Sum ner of Massachusetts. Ft was a pow erful effort and fully sustains the dis tinguished reputation he has acquired in Congress. Mr. Mace of Indiana, to whose remarks on the previous day it was intended as a reply, literal ly quailed beneath the ponderous blows as they fell in crushing power upon his head. The personnel of Mr. Stephens has been so frequently pain ted for the “mind’s eye” of your read ers, by pencils of artistic finish and harmonious coloring that I dare not enter upon the task. It is enough to say his voice is of a scope and power, the frail casket in Which his mighty mind is held, would never indicate. [Correspondent Baton Rouge (La.) Adv. Conclusive Evidence. —A Pro testant journal in America lately spoke of the old lady who triumphantly pointed out the “Epistle to the Ro mans,” and asked where one could be found to the Protestants ! The Cdtholic Mirtot happily retorts by telling us of a negro Baptist at the South, who said to his Methodist mas ter. “You’ve read the Bible, J s’pose. “Yes.” “Well you’ve read in it of one John the Baptist hasn’t you ? ” “Yes.” “Well, you never saw nothing about John the Methodist, did you ? “No.” “Well, den you see, dere’s Baptists in the Bible but there aint' fc no Metho dists. So the Bible’s on my side.” ———-m A saucy boy in the street is an un erring index of ill breeding at home. Parents will please make a note, for this garment will fit not a “few.” Dow a Siege is Carried On. The first object is to establish a body of men in a protected position within a certain distance of the place to be at tacked, or, in technical language, to “open the trenches.” The trench as its name implies, is an excavation, forming a kind of sunken road in a direction parallel with that of the en emy’s fortifications,- and of such di mensions that troops and guns can move along it at pleasure. The earth taken from this roadis thrown up on the side towards the town, so that a bank or parapet is raised for the fur ther protection of the troops in the trench. At the most favorable points of this covered road, batteries are con structed, which open upon the works of the place, and when sufficient ad vantage has been obtained through their fire, a second trench, parallel to the first, and connected with it by a diagonal cut, is opened at a shorter dis tance from the town, and armed with fresh batteries, which go to work as before. This process is again and again re peated, and the “approaches,” as they are termed, are pushed forward by successive “parallels,” until they are carried up to the very walls of the place, which by that time have been “ breached,” or battered down at this point by the besieger’s guns. Then comes the period of the “assauit.” The troops advance in strong columns, from their covered road, rush through the breach, and take the town. The best chances for the defence consist in difficulties of the ground, which may either be so rocky as to prevent the execution of the approaches, or, as is often the case in Flanders, so exposed to inundations at the command of the garrison that the trenches may at any time be put under water, and the be seigers swamped at their posts. If the garrison too, is very strong it may make successful sorties, fill up the trenches opened by the enemy, spike their guns, and greatly delay the ap proach of the batteries to the walls of the town. In the absence, however, of any such impediments to the work, it is perfectly understood at the present day that every place, however strongly fortified, must ultimately fall. A “Little Cloud.” Lloyd’s Weekly paper—one of the oldest of the English publications, and associated essentially with the com mercial interests of Great Britain— gives expression to sentiments re specting this country which, we imag ine, are those of a large portion of the enlightened classes for which it speaks. We make the following selection from une of its articles, as germane to the times. It says: “The little cloud is growing. Day by day we see the two great Anglo Saxon States stand further apart; and causes of complaint are being multi plied —we grieve to say it—-on this side of the Atlantic with the great re public. Is this the fruit of our Aus trian and French alliance ? American hatred and distrust of Austria are as fierce as a passion ; and whenever we conclude a defective alliance which shall give us anew friend at Vienna, we must reckon on finding anew enemy at Washington. This is in the course of things. Our Austrian leanings all along has turned from us the hearts of our cousins. But now we are to suffer for the quarrels of the French Emperor. Three or four weeks ago, official papers began to abuse the Amer*’ icans. Within the last few days Mr. Soule, an American ambassador in Paris, is about to demand his passports and withdraw ; and rumor designates the winter duty of the Baltic fleet as a cruise across the Atlantic! Where are we drifting? Jonathan, like John, is high and mettlesome. If the fleet go out, blood will be shed, and in a cause not ours —the blood of men who speak our language and obey out laws, the blood of brothers. Are the sto ries false? Or are our ministers gone mad? Have they not enough upon their hands? We tell them, England will tell them, that the first wish of all hearts is peace, friendliness, concord in our own family—that no alliance, however splendid can be welcome to us that involves the aiieiition of the United States.” Tobacco and its Effects. “We are told that in 1840, 1,500,- 000 persons, one-tenth of the entire population of the United States, were engaged in raising and manufacturing Tobacco, ttnd at the present time, not less than 2,000,000 are thus employed. The tobacco crop of the United States in 1850 was very nearly 200,000,000 pounds. And if we take into account the waste of laud and labor in raising it; the expenses attending its manu facture and traffic, with the loss of time occupied in smoking and chewing it, arid the consequent idleness and indo lence it begets, $40,000,000 would be a low estimate of the present annual loss to the nation; a sum sufficient to provide every district of our country with a free school, eVefy hamlet With a free church, and every pauper With a free home; “ The consumption of segars alone in the city of New York, in 1851, was computed at SIO,OOO a day ; While the whole c|ty paid but $8,500 a day for bread; this would be $3,650,000 a year for segars alone. The grand Erie Ca nal, three hundred and sixty-four miles long, the longest in the world, with its eighteen aquaducts and eighty-four locks, was made in six years, and cost but little over $7,000,000. The segar bill of New York city would have paid the whole in two years. If a line of Atlantic steamers, the pride of the ocean, were all sunk, how soon would the segar bill of that one city rebuild the whole! It is a very mod erate segar smoker who spends only six cents a day ; and yet it amounts to s2l 90 a year; a sum which would be called an enormous tax, if laid on a young man for the purposes of gov ernment, or the support of religious institutions. The same trifling sum, if put to annual interest, would, in thirty years, amount to $8,500 30 ; and who does not wish that segars were banished from the world, when he thinks in how many hundred ways this sum might have done good, if laid out ill educating and elevating his chil dren. “ If the tobacco consumption of the United States goes on in future increas ing as it has for twenty years past, have we not reason to fear that the nation of native, seemingly inventive, enterprising, efficient Yankees, flying all over the world, will be actually smoked down to a nation as phlegmat ic and stationary as the smoking Dutch men of Holland? “In the United States, intelligent physicians have estimated that 20,000 die every year from the use of tobacco, and in 'Germany, where the streets, as the houses, are literally be-fogged with tobacco smoke, the physicians have calculated that of all the deaths that occur between the ages of eight een and thirty-five, one-half originate in the waste of the constitution by smoking! Tobacco exhausts and de ranges the nervous powers, and pro duces a long train of nervous diseases to which the stomach is liable: and especially those forms that go under the name of dyspepsia, with their kin dred train of evils. It also exerts a disastrous influence upon the mind, and frequently produces an enfeebling of the memory, a confusion of ideas, ir ritability of temper, want of energy, and unsteadiness of purpose, melan choly, and sometimes insanity. These are the ultimate effects of the use of tobacco, and though one may not per ceive them in his own case, we are as sured that the tendency of the drug is always towards disease. “ All writers agree that the only remedy for the ruinous effects of to bacco is *to touch not, taste not, han dle not.’ Dr. Thaw says, charlatans may go about, as indeed they have done, pretending to have some secret remedy by which ihe tobacco appe tite may be permanently destroyed. But all sueh pretence is from the fa ther of lies. If, through reason, con science, and religion, a man cannot break off this habit, his casd is forever a hopeloss one. A season of sickness is an excellent one in which to com mence to reform : because, under these circumstances, nature, true to herself takes away all longing for the accurs ed drug. True, no one should wait for such an opportunity; but when it does occur let it be improved. The slaves of tobacco, who have undergone a course of hydrophatic treatment, tell us that the healthful stimulation af forded by t.he water process enables them far more easily to rid themselves of this pernicious habit.” Gen. Davis’ Camels.— The Secreta ry of War renews the recommenda tion which he made in his report of last year for an appropriation by Con gress to test the -value of camels and dromedaries in transporting military supplies on our Southwestern and Western frontier. It is known that in those regions .which our troops are obliged to defend from the incursions of the Indiaus, there n*e table-lands and extensive deserts, where large tracts must be traversed which afford no water and but little scanty her bage. When springs are at'length reached, they are often so blackish that horses and mules refuse the wa ter. The camel, from the great weight he can carry, the longer time he can go without drinking, his power of subsis ting on coarser food than the horse, and his willingness to drink blackish water, is admirably adapted for that region of country, unless the climate should prove an obstacle to his intro duction. On the Eastern Continent he lives and works in almost every lati tude and climate, and is extensive ly used for the purposes for Which it is now proposed to employ; him, by the British in the East Indies anu the French in Algiers. Experience has proved that horses and mules are ina dequate for the transportration of mili tary supplies in a country of the charac ter of our Western frontier ; and the experiment recommended by the Sec retary of War seems so reasonable and so likely to succeed, that we hope Con gress will not fail to make the neces sary appropriation. —Buffalo Advertiser. FROM THE SOUTHERN BANNER. Salutatory to the Public. The inimitable Theodore Hook rep resents, in one of his works, a lawyer who, changing from the Bar to the pulpit, was greatly embarrassed in his new vocation. But he took courage in his sermon from the fact—“ there was nobody on the other side.” With us the case is different. We enter a new arena of letters, where are many gladiators who wield the sharp blade of Toledo of science, or the keen Da mascus of politics. Yet, though un tried as Glaucus, we shall endeavor to stand on the broad basis of American Democracy, as exemplified by Jeffer son and Jackson. The first inaugural message, in 1801, of the author of the Declaration of Independence, stands as a guide and landmark m our State and federal re lations, wherein tve can safely Walk: “Moribus antiquis stat Roma ' Our government is double —Con- gress for national —State for domestic affairs. The latitudinarian construc tion of that clause of the Constitution which gives the power to provide for “ the general welfare ,” will be met wliereever Congress interferes in the reserved rights and prerogatives ot the States. We believe —in opposition to the learned Hamiltonian teachings —in the great fundamental principle of the ca pability of the people for self-govern ment. We have faith in that which elevates, and in the elevation of the masses, “in the political equality and supremacy of the people.” We shall give our earnest support to the present National Administration , which has maintained the honor of the country abroad, and faithfully carried out the laws and Constitution at home ; an ad ministration which has the Conserva tism, which holds fast to that which is good, and yet is boldly marked by the Progression which keeps pace with the grand, onward movements of the age. Pretending to no infallibility of opin ion, or the mode of expressing it, we shall try as far as in us lietli, to pre serve the strictest decorum to friend and opponent, and never knowingly forget the -elegant courtesies of life; for in the changing microcosm of our present being, we have seen the friend of yesterday pass coldly by to-day, and lie who once opposed, now stand by us as a brother. In the republic of science, literature and belles letters, in the cultivation of the beautiful, we shall adopt the motto of the Merchant’s Fire Company of Mobile : “ Optimum facere Volumus ,” [we are willing to do our best,] to keep our readers up with the progressive nineteenth century; blit wherein we fall short, let charity remember that the young lark in its first attempt to fly, when near the ground, makes not those bold, brilliant, baeutiful notes which the old experienced one does as at mid-day she circles high in the heavens. We own to a solidarity of Democrat ic feeling; not bounded by State lines, not fettered by the limits even of this vast republic, but wherever the mind of man asserts its freedom and inde pendence, wherever liberty dwells, there it exists and fraternizes. We admire the sublime sentiment of Maz zini, who thus spoke at Milan in July, 1848, on the death of the brothers Bandiera, who died for their free prin ciples : “God and the People—God at the summit of the social edifice; the peo ple, the universality of our brethren, at the base. God, the Father and Ed ucator ; the people, the progressive in terpreter of his law.” A. A. Franklin Hill. The Russian Troops and their Habits* It is said that the Russian troops had been liberally supplied with liquor previous to the attack of the 6th. Their continued and loud shouting, and the impetuosity of their attack, render it probable that they were un der the influence of some artificial stimulus of the sort. In the canteens, also, of many of the killed on the field, was found a mixture of raki and water. The men who have fallen into our hands, though, are generally of short statures, with chests, and well developed muscular legs. Their clothing is well mad© and warm ; and though course in texture, an amply sufficient protection against the weath er. . s - The voluminous folds of their great coats, the sleeves of which are doubled back nearly as far as the elbows, while the skirts descend to the ankle —throw the “skimping” ordnance great coats issued to our troops ecm pletely iu the shade, as regards com fort and warmth. To prevent the length of the coat inconveniencing the wearer when walking, the skirt all around is made by a very simple con trivance to loop up above the knees. So, also, the coat can be worn loose like a cloak, or drawn in at the waist Ibe men carry with them mittens of thick black cloth, the forefingers being together in one, the thumb in another division of the glove.— English Paper. \ Phenes says it seems paradoxical, but it is nevertheless true, that the la test intelligence always consists of the earnest news. A bare pasture enriches not the soil, nor animal nor increases the ■ [FROM THE TIMES AND SENTUfH ] A Paper without any Subscribe ; The WooDsAVYEK.-*-=T'hi3 : ' I title ot anew paper just start* * 1 Crawford, Ala., devoted to “fun l 1 news in general, and advertising I particular.” The Woodsaibyer* * I don t know his name, opens with ? j following very witty remarks: ' | “Our terms are one dollar inevitably in advance. NoTne n S expect to be favored with a week! view Os our cheerful chiz, with o £ first making a deposite of the needy with the cashier. We speak thus in- I dependently because we feel (as o ur name implies) eminently independent We didn’t expect to get many subscri bers, when we first thought of this un dertaking, for we knew the people of this county well—that thev were hard-hearted and stiff-necked genera tion, much given to the worship strange gods; and that they would rather send ten dollars of their money anv time, to swell the hoards of V an-- kee humbuggers, than give one dim* to a poor printer at their door, who' strives and struggles and starves, ’ sole ly for their benefit. No, no; en to tamed no such utopian expectations We were in possession of the mate*- rials for publishing a paper, and we determined to establish a publication l on such a basis that it would b ; able' to get along without any subscribers. This we believe is the only footing on which a newspaper can stand firmly in this county; it must be as independent of subscribers as a duck is of an unn brella.” AY ell said T Voodsawyer. At the* next meeting of the craft we will move' a vote of thanks aad a gold medal-for for that paragraph. You have reach ed t.ie hidden secret of newspaper success at the South. Every paper". South of Mason & Dixon’s line, except: the religious press, is either able like the Woodsawyer, “to get along uithout' any subscribers ,” or is compelled, like the Russel Register , after a brief but animated existence. Credit subscri-- bers are valuable as an inducement to advertisers to patronize the press, but for nothing else ; and are tolerated be cause publishers can afford to give away , as you propose to do, a good portion of their sheets and still pay expenses. We have some experience in this way. In 1852 we sent the Soil of the South to all our subscri bers for 1851. They were all highly respectable farmers, all in easy circum stances, and yet as many as 20 at one Post office failed to pay the subscri p-- tion price of sl. The amounts were too small to collect and we lost in one 3 r ear not less than one thousand dollais. Next year we adopted the cash system and have adhered to it strictly. The Soil of the South has consequently reached its sth volume and bids fair to survive to a green old age. We thank you hear til}’, Mr. Wood sawyer, for the wholesome truths you have enunciated and the good exam ple you have set. Washington Gossip. The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce writes: The few Senators here are consul ting upon two or three important mat ters which are to come up next week. Mr. Sumner has proposed a resolution on the subject of a mediation in tho present strife abroad. The Senators generally are iu favor of a resolution, advising the President to offer the me diation of the United States to each of the belligerent powers. It is now undetermined whether they shall be adopted in open or in se cret session. It is apprehended that, in open session, a discussion might dwell upon the merits of the war, and the promulgation of conflicting views of Senators on this subject would not be promotive of amicable adjustment of the controversy. “S,” the N. Y. Times correspondent says: The discussions of Col. Kinney's Central American Colonization project, in confidential circles, has brought out the knowledge of the fact that the Government of Nicaragua has long been and still is desirous of ceding the entire territory of that republic to the United States in order to secure good government and the various ad vantages, political and commercial, flowing therefrom. Unless lam misinformed, the prof fer of cession has been made to the President as directly as the circum stances of the case would permit.— There is nothing surprising in this, although there is much that is novel- The internal disorders which have dis tracted Nicaragua lately"—the en croachments of Great Britain, under cover of its privileges at the Balize, and under its assumed Mosquito Pro tectorate—its border difficulties with' Costa Rica, and the defiance of its au thority by tho inhabitants of Grey town—have all, doubtless contributed to create the feelings of disquiet andi. fear of falling into anarchy or decay,, which has prompted the proposed* cession of territory and sovereignty. Life of Greely. —lt is stated in the Life of Horace Greely", that Legget once discharged him from a compositor’s situation on thc'Evening Post for his slovenly appearance. Greely’s first employment in New York was ob tained from W. T. Porter of the Spir it, iviio was then foreman of West’s printing office. In 1833 Greely star ted the Morning Post, the first pen ny paper in the world; it lived six teen days and begat the New York Sun. Yenetain remedy for hydrophbia is vinegar. It is said that a pint, taken ev ery morning, noon, and night, will cure it entirely. The Washington Star undersands that necessity for his labors has vir tually ceased, the Superintendent of the Census, Mr. Deßow, has resigned that office. 9
