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This oration, at the request of a number of members of Congress and citizens, was lately repeated at Washington, and we take the following summary of its salient points from the National Intelligencer: Mr. Kvorett made a brief but liuppy re fa reuce to tho place ami the presence in which he then stood?at tho national metropolis, a spot selected and laid out by the illustrious subject of his discourse, ami where were assembled the Executive, Judicial. and Legislative departments of the , o | 1 t Government. In such a region, iu sight of Mount Vernon, hallowed by the associations of the groat man whose life and character were the theme of tho evening, he could not but feel diffident and sensibly impressed with tho magnitude and the difficulty of the task he had undertaken. Mr. Everett then alluded to the many tributes which bad from time to litue been paid to tho memory of Washington. On his decease, in December, 1799, on the recommendation of Cougress eulogies wcro delivered on the 22d of February next fol lowing by a great number of the most distinguished speakers ami writers. Some of these performances had passed into the literature of the country and were familiar to all. On other occasions the life and character of Washington had I wen frequently discussed. The more obvious and appropriate topics of a diacoutse on this great theme?a narrative of his life and a discusaion of his principles and policy?had lawn exhausted in the performances alluded to. Mr. Everett would not attempt to say over in other words what had alrea ly been said *o well by bis distinguished predecessors, but would endeavor to take a sotnawliat different view of the subject, and wou'd of f?T soiuc leflections upon the lelation of Washington, not merely to the United States, but to the age in which lie lived, and then attempt to indicate the true nature and moral foundation of his greatness. Mr. Everett renin*ked that tho pro-enl occasion was one of more than ordinary in iciest. It was the completion of a contuiy since Washington, in I7o0, enter d upon me great events <u in* me. 111?? seven year.-*' war had iiol then been declared in Isurop.*, I at hostilities !i:i?l been curried on for two years upon the inland frontiers of the Ihitish colonies in America. Wa-liingtoil had already greatly distinguished himse f. In the morning of his days he had lieon tried, and, like the refiner's gold, lie came out of the fire untarnished, lie v.as preserved by a manifest l'rovidenco at I (ruddock's defeat, and, young its ho was, had become t'ie subject of love and anticipation. lie was then twenty four years ( old, a model of manly vigor, grace, and beauty. Neatly twenty years afterwards, hi 1775, ho appeared before the country as commander-in-chief of the Ameiican armies, A*, this period of his life Washington is represented as having been deeply impressed with tho responsibilities resting upon him, and conscious of tho great destiny before him. There is an authentic tradition that afterward* the ' Father of his Country" never smiled. It would not he too much to say that more was owing to tire goodness, sagacity, and great abilities of Washington that our country was made free than to any other man. Heaven forbid that the claims of other great men at that critical period should be depreciated. Heaven forbid that injustice should be done to those who aided in promoting the welfare of the nation. Hut this might he said, that Washington was the beacon light which guided the nation through the stormy seas of tho Revolution. Hue ptaisc should be awarded to all those who contributed to his success in this wonderful career?tho llenrys, Adainsos, Hancock, Jefferson, Hamilton, and others -but, above all, to Washington, who was bom and cradled almost in arms. Washington as first President of the United Slate;, in 1780, was unanimously chosen in the hearts of ithe people, in advance uot merely of the constitutional forms of election, but the ;pour machinery of caucuses and conventions, by which, in later times, it lias been found convenient to relieve the pcojde from the tronblo of choosing their rulers. The relation of Washington to the country at theso three periods was briefly alluded to .....i i? ,i.? ...i ' .41 n< i innniuu iiiiiuu IV IIIU Hill?: vviJUl] UIO great man stepped forward ami took the oath from Chancellor Livingston to support tho Constitution and Laws of his country. Oh! that his voice might now speak to tiro North and nay, "Oh give up," and to the fiouth, "Keep not hack!" Oh that that voice might now ho heard from Ileaven, in words of reconciliation, to hind the North ami tlio South hy one indissoluble bond of Constitutional Union, and make it, as it once was, one in the hearts of the people! Mr, Everett quoted a remark of Lord 1 trough am, that Washington was "the greatest man of our own or any age;" a Id* ing that if the first part of this remark was true the last must ho equally so, inasmuch as the period dating from tiro commencement of the last century was unquestionably tho richost in great events, great names, and tho general progress of intelligence in tho world. To illustrate this romark, and show that Washington was not, liko Alfred lii * or (Jharlemague, a bright light shilling in j l a dark age, hut the principal ornament of 1 an age in almost every respect the nlobt j r distinguished, a rapid survey was taken by ! e tho speaker of what may bo called the age : f of Washington, commencing with theeigh- ! f teenth century. The entrance of Russia ' n into tho European system; the foundation ! n of tho Hiilish Kinpiro in the East; the | 1 commencement of tho great Australian ' t system; the colonization and civilization of i Africa; the downfall of feudalism; tho es- ! * tablishment of tho liberty of speech and , r the press; the development of journalism; i 1 J tho growth of manufactures; tho applica- j t j lions of tho steam-engine; tho progress of : 1 science and of the moral enterprise of tho i 1 age were alluded to in this connexion. Of a all the great names connected with these ' i ! events, although many sliono with bright- ? ! ness, each in its peculiar sphere, Washing- 1 1 ! ingtou, by general admission, on the whole, ! I ; outshone them all. This position was fur- r ther illustrated bv a comparison of Wash- t i ington individually with I ho three persouB t who in this period' have received tho desig- j I nation of "great," viz: Peter the (iroat of < Russia, Frederick the Second of Prussia, > | and Napoleon. Tho speaker observed, how- ! i ever, that, though Washington was great in ' p an age of great men, his greatness was not / i borrowed nor refleccd. hut original. In com- ! t mou with his distinguished associates, he de- c j rived hut little aid in the formation of his p j character ami t lie grandeur of hiscourse from j e tho preceding century. In this respect his po- , '1 hilion was widely different from that of ilie 1 n men of (his age, who are so amply furnish- t <vJ w ith ex mples and illustiatious of every t kind from the revolutionary and constitu- ii tional period. There was no Washington ii in the seventeenth century on tho model of p whom the Washington of the eighteenth ii could form himself. "There was nono in Ii ; America, there was none in Europe; there ii ; was none in the modern world, there wa? i li none in the ancient. I cn?t my eye (said t fr. Everett) along tho far stretching gal- | p | lories of history; I behold with admiration o j the statues of the groat and good with It : which they are adorned ? Hampden, Al , fred, Onto, Epauiiuoudas?hut 1 see no t< ; other Washington." j c j Mr Everett then passed to the impury in j T i what the true greatness c?f Washington a i onnutlt ...I o.l... !... I? t i or <?<v* IHIKIIUVU lll.li IIU ll'lliltl ll ?111 ( V fieult t<> furnidi an answer to the. question i I; which fully satisfied his own coucc|>tions. v After all the usual points of a great charac- 1 j< ler were enumerated there was still some j thing in Washington that escaped analysis, ' as there was an indesctibablc clianti in bis ! portraits by Stuart, imparling an interest j to litem, but which it was nut easy to rcfur j l<? it* precise source. There could, howev ^ er, he no doubt that the <:<set\ci and strength of Washington's character lay in j j two tilings; Jirsl, in his possession, in a I due proportion, each in the golden mean, i of all the powers and ?|Ualilics required for the useful and iionotablo discharge of the duties of life; mvoh'I. in the pmo morality which lay at the foundation. In reference ' ^ I 11 the first point the speaker maintained j that the absence <>( d iv.zling traits ivhicli j i stiiko the imagination, so t'.ir from uceiling * an apology, was in icalitv one ?.f the chief excellencies of the character of Washington. Tlioy are in reality defects, and would im- j pair the beauty of a w< 11 balanced charac- 1 *.er. Such a character also includes the soher hi d not very popular qualities?such ^ as prudence, justice, common sense, which, although by far the most useful qualities in a public man, neither win applause nor , J. strike the imagination. They place their possessor, however, in harmony wiih the j great powers which govern the universe, material and moral; which, the higher we '. i rise in the scale of being, arc the more .. . . ... ' I characterized by quiet equilibrium and silent energy. Hut the pure morality of Washington's character was the most important mature, i and Mr. Everett declared it to bo his deci- . I ded conviction ''that it was an impoitant ,( part of tho design of 1'rovidencc, in raising . I np Washington to be the leader of the 0 Revolutionary struggle, and afterwards tho f first President of the United Slates, tu sot ^ before the people of America, in the morn- , iug of their national existence, a living cx f ?in?j'ii2 jTiuti; wi;?t iiriiiifs limy UG l)CM | conducted, ju>t wars most successfully fotight, Ami governments most aldy and honorably Administered by men of sound moral principle; to teach to gifted and asI pi ring individuals, and the parties they lead, that, though a hundred crooked r> paths may conduct to temporary success, | the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a puro and lasting fame and the blessings of prosperity. The speaker then glanced at the course I of Washington in a moral jroitu ?.f view, beginning with his naturo as "a good boy" by a mother worthy to l?o named with the noblest matrons of "Rome and Israel," on ' ? through llio various stages of his career, nnd a>ked whether the judgment of man kind was so depraved that they would withhold their admiration from such a man nrui bestow it on men like Alexander, C:r- j ?ar, and Marlborough, whose characters anil I J conduct were briefly passed in review. In v litis connexion Mr. Kvorelt described Men- n liciut thistle, the splendid palaco erected to t perpetuato the fame of Marlborough, coin- |, pared with Mount Vernon, tho modest i, home of Washington, and contrasted tho \ opposito feelings which they awaken in c the mind of the obsorver. He raised the J question whether the judgment of mankind t could withhold their admiration frmn c Washington, ami bestow it tipon Alexan- t der, thesnr, and Marlborough, lie believed |; lliat God bad inado the former to stand a alone among mankind?possessing all the }, lovely traits of character, the love of the l people mounted into veneration, and rove- v ronce melted again into love. ), In drawing his address to a close Mr. Kverett quoted tiio language of Hamilton t in his general orders communicating the f, tidings of Washington's decease to the p army in 1799, that "die voice of praise a would iu vain endeavor to exalt a natae , v inrivalled in tho lists of true glory;" a le spoke of tho privilege enjoyed by An ica, in the first generation of iicr nalioi ixistence, of being permitted, in exekar or the blight examples she hud inherit roin oilier countries and ages, to give b? i name by acknowledgment brighter th ill. lie quoted the remark of Charles Jan tox, that a "character of virtuos so linpp eiupercd by one another, and so who lnuiloyeil by any vices as Washingtoi vas liardly to be found in history." ! eferrod also to the account given by ? ving, in 1707, of the veneration in xvhi ho name of Washington was held in El and, notwithstanding his leading agen n depriving her of a great colonial cmpi ,nd also to the honors paid to his mettle n Paris by order of Napoleon in 18( ilieu a |M>tupous ceremonial was had lie Invalid.** and a eulogy pronounced 'ontnlies. Ho remarked on tho dilVert csult that might have been expected he revolutions of tho last generation lie Spanish and Portuguese possessions his continent, in Spain, Italy, (ircece, a ierinauy, hud they been led by men li iVashiuglon. Finally, Mr. Everett observed that it w eculiarly incumbent on thu citizens tmerica, as depositaries of WashingU o obey his counsels, especially as conta d in his Farewell Address. The most i lortaut of his exortations was that whi njoined the preservation of the Uni< .'his was the thought and care which 1 icarcst t? his heart; and it depends his whether the United States shall irokeu up into a group of independi nilitary governments, wasting each oil ii perpetual border wars, or remain agre 'Owerful, and prosperous confederate 1 lublic. If ever his parting counsels on tl lead should be forgotten, <?<i that day nay truly be said that Washington li ived in vain. Such a calamity, howev ho sneaker exclaimed, should m>v/?r erutilted to lake place while the mcinc f the glorious days ami deeds of the Iiet ution remained. This synopsis?though embracing eve i?pic discussed by Mr. Kverett?lacks t harm which attended the spoken wor 'he felicity of illustration, and tin ele<r:i ml graceful elocution, too, are wanting nable those who did not hear this mast y petformunce to appreciate how great ins. It was an oration worthy of tho si ?ct. <%ifTe?^eiulrncc of the Journal of Commerce RUINS OF POMPEII. X a cuts, Oct. 23, 1 S.r>5. After spending the greater portion wo days in tho Iloyal Museum at Naples* mining the innumerable objects deposit hero from the ruined cities ot Hcrcul-tnoi nd l'ompeii, 1 became of course very at ous to see the cities themselves. A few is determined to give an entire day to t isit. Though the cars of a new ruilru lould have dropped lis at tho very gate 'unipeii, we preferred to go by the < oute; and taking an excellent carrin Irawu by two spirited horses we left Nap ,t mi early hour, am' found ourselves w epnid for our choice. The day wasperf? he road magnificent, the sir pure a lalmy, and the whole scenery around tts lie Mediterranean, the cultivated guide lie unique and curious towns and Mot Vesuvius ever in view ? constituting a ri uid beautiful pictuie which can never (faced from my memory. The dis'.m roiu Naples to l'ompeii is twelve mil I'lio route is not far from the sea, passi hrough the towns of Resina, I'ortici, T e delGreeo, ami Torre dcll'Annunzia t is indeed almost one continuous cily, 1 irsl town being connected with Naples, a ill, excepting the las', running into ea iher, and being in fact if r.ot in name >ait of Naples itself. '1 hey contain, too copulation not far from one hundred tlio aid, Mud nowhere perhaps can one obti i more correct and vivid idea of life in > >les than in this great thoroughfare. . lasses and occupations pass in review 1 ore you. Among others which rise ag; cefore mens I sit down to write, I in million the beggars, blind, maimed, i ormed, filthy and almost naked, runni >y the side of our carriage and iinporti ug us in stich tones of earnest sorrow tl vo could not resist their demands?load aits drawn slowly along by a large wb >x yoked by tbe side of a small donkey in open two wheeled wagon with lif'ocii wenty passengers, men, women and cl Iren, standing, sitting, laughing, halloai md driving on with the speed of Jc tiiuself?the neat "t'aleche," gotten villi brass and drawn by a horse covei irofusely with trappings of brass, and go d by a diiver whoso brazen faced imp unity gives the foot passenger no rest ic consents to ride?little groups of wow ilting in pairs by the open dome of lh I welling*, and most atiectionatolv and iduously engaged in a minute inspecti >f each other's heads, and finally the eve vhero present soldier, aimed to the tee nd with his fum and stately tread imps ng a sense of personal safety, ns well wing a symbol of that unflinching pov illicit holds in complete subjection t nasses around you. Those objects, add o the ordinary spectacles always seen urge and crowded cities, rendered our n o l*oiiipoii one of extraordinary inter* Ve passed also the immense barrai rected by Najioloon during the reign Jtirut, and we thought as wo saw them tl hero were more soldiers employed in t no city than can be found in active dt liroiighoul the whole extent of our o and of twenty five millions of people, short time we reacloHl the Jioynl Pah t l'ortici described in a previous Ictt 'easing ilirectly through its spacious c<? te hurried to Torre del <?reco. This to ias been moro than unco completely < troyed by the eruptions of Vesuvius. I lie present inhabitants seem to bo witlx #ar, though their streets n>a paved vv ava, uud the walls of many of their hou ro made of lavu, and the smoke of \'c ius is over rising before then). And n nd wo arc ifPtlio open fields, leaving Torro del ! I no- Greco behind us, on every side wo see 1 ? mil what Vesuvius has done in former nges. I I igo The green fields are in many places dark- j i ed cned with long ridges of lava which rolled t ick down its burning torrents into the sen, the : nn currents here and there cooling and stop- ! s ies ping in their course, sad memorials of past , \ ily 1 desolation. As wo approach Torro del ' 1 11 y I'Anuunziata, our road turns gradually I : i'b, to the left, bringing into view nno'her side I i !Ic of Vesuvius, revealing new fissures, out of; s dr. which the smoke is escaping, and the i icli smooth cone of the mountain is now seen j I ig- to be jagged and ridged with the ravages | c icy of the floods of fire that havo so often ! j re; belched forth from the crater at the top. t iry On our left, and between us and Vesuvius, c )0, and nestled at its very base, and at some I > in points extending up its slope, are clusters r by of villas in peaceful seclusion from the | I lit world and apparently unconscious of dan- j i to ger, aud before us is a vast plain stretching j t in | on for several miles and sprinkled over j < on j with pleasant houses surrounded by a lux- : I nd | uriant vegetation. In the midst of gardens < ke ! and olive orchards and vineyards and fig ?. I trees our carriago suddenly stops befoio a i ras small guard house by the road side, and s of wc are at Pompeii! Originally thecity stood t in, on an elevated piece of ground of a triau- c in- gular form, the sea washing it on two sides, .* m- and rcndeMng the harbor olio of the most 1 ch desirable in this vicinity. Now the sea is \ in. distant at least a mile, the whole entcrven- i ay ing space being a fruitful plain?the lor- I * on rents of lava and mud from N'esuvius having t ho > filled up the entire bay, and by the culti- i' nit i tivation of two thousand years converted it i icr into or.o of the most quiet and lovely rural ? at, scenes in the world. Wo were taken en- r le tirely by surprise when told to alight and 1 lis j enter Pompeii; and still greater was our . it | astonishment when, following our guide, c ad we found ourselves in less than two min- r er, utes standing beforo its old walls. The ' t l>c { usual approach to the city is by the street c try of Tombs and the gate of Llerculnneuin. , j ;o- Put for so.no unexplained reason we had l ' coma down to the vicinity of the '"Gate of! c ry 1 the Sea," and as we soon learned were np- c he 1 proaching t!ic most important Temples of ds. ' Pompeii. We stopped before the wall and t mt tried to imagine the scenes of those four I i to | eventful days that turned this beautiful , | er- home of the living into one great tomb for ? it the dead. It was mid day, we are told, i ib when the people received the first warning, j * on the 2 4th of August, A. lb 79. Many ! < , descriptions in sober history and in romance : I : have been given of the overthrow of Her- ? culaneum and I'oinpcii?but bow far do ; t all fall below the sad and dreadful reality! i The facts are stated perhaps more simply ? and intelligibly by our scientific country- t " i man l*rof. Si'.linian than try any other 1 writer 1 have seen. He says "a darkness | "" that might be felt shrouded in the prolX" fouudest gloom the mill day sun, and ashes OI " . feel like snow upon the mountain, the "j plain, the Hay of Bai.n and of Naples, and ,l< ' far iuto the surrounding country. Haiti ! ^ !' from the condensed steam of the eruption '1 i deluged the whole dUliict* torrents of fluid 1 'p' mud, formed by the nalics and water, I j swept over every obsti notion and filled to l L' overflowing every depression of tbe sur ct' face." "It is not unlikely tliat the inunda ( " lion was accompanied by torrents of carboiiic acids and other noxious gases, so ' n"' abundantly exhaled in more modern ernp- ^ n'|l lions of Vesuvius, by which tho refugees ^ 1 . from danger were so suddenly asphyxiated as to remain unmoved iu the positions ' uc ; where they were found." "Torrents of mud must have passed through the streets of, II" i. i t . r I ? 1 ompeii, since d:y HsJ?c? and ejections of j ?r* , lapiili and pumice unaided by water could | la' never have found their way into the inteu rior of closed amphora*, nor made perfect \ moulds of the human f>>riti, nor left a level 11 ' water lino upon the inner walls of close ' ! 11 arched passages. Tho shower of matoiials j ' 'l which buried '.lie city was mainly composed of small pieces of white pumice and round- j cd lapilla of various colors, interspersed kii w't'1 somo largo projected masses of rock,! . j bombs such as Vesuvius has often thrown '.e out in later times. These by their fall | u" bri'ke through the roofs, and at the place where they stiuck depressed the Mosaic " pavement into a concave form, as I saw in ' several ??f the houses; and darker colored 111 | sand appears t<> have alternated with the ,H pumice, and oftcu forms a thick and dis' tinct layer upon it." "The loose materials llt fell as snow falls in our climate when driven !>y the wind, being thicker in the an gles than in the centres of the houses, and " rising in curves corresponding to tlio clo!'? vation and depression of the sutfaeo." 11 it i,o Such are the facts which a careful seicn . | rod 11'ie examination has established. That id- greater majority of the inhabitants of . ?r. I'ompeii escaped in safety, there i> no , (ill donht. That many hundreds if not thous- , 1 ands mot with a sudden and awful death is , oir equally evident, from the numerous ?kelo tons fouml in the streets and dwellings of , on I'ompeii, and in its vicinity. It is well . rv. known that the elder J'liny, who was in | !h, command of the Woman lleet at Miseiuim, | ir(. was ?ne of the victims at Stabia, -oino five , as miles from I'ompeii, and from the letters of , kt.r his nephew, Pliny the younger, describing j |),i the escape of iiiinself and mother from iin ( 0(| pending ruin, wo have most fearful evidence 1 in that the whole siirronnilin.r eoimin- ?v ? jj0 scene of horror unparalleled. lie himself j st. ! Wi,s al Misennm, a port in tint immediate | ks neighborhood, ami li s description, which I of | found at Pompeii translated into French, rat ref'Ts proh-ibly to the second or third day s |,;s of the eruption. Ho say-, "Tin ugh u was l ,1V morning, tint light was exceedingly faint I rt-li and languid, and though wo stood upon | In open ground, yet as the buildings all j tc,? around us tottered, and there was no re- l or< maining there without danger, we resolved I llrj to <piil the town. "ho peoplo followed us j ,Tn in the utmost consternation, and pressed lo- great crowds around us on our way out. i {t,l At a safe distance from the houses, we I ml | stood in the midst of a most dangerous and I ill, 1 dreadful scene. < hir carriages wore so i St,s driven backwards and forwards, though on I #u. a level ground, that wc could not keep 1 ow , tiicin steady, oven by turpportiiig them with < argc stones. The sea seemed to roll Lack J pen itself ?nd to be driven from its brink? i ?y the convulsive motion of the earth. It I u s certain at least that the shore was con-1 iideral?ly eulargcd, and that sovernl sea | iniinals were left upon it. On the other j tj vide, a black and dreadful cloud, burst j o -vith a fiery serpentine vaixrr, resembling Q lashes of lightning, but much larger. The Q ishes now began to fall on us, though in i jv 10 great quantities. 1 turned my head j f, ind observed behind us a thick smoke, 1 (j which come rolling after us like a torrent. : y [ proposed, while wo had light, to turn out J ^ >f the hitih road, lest my mother should be j,tressed to dealli in tho dark by tlio crowd (J bat followed us. We had scarce stepped j jj >ut of the path when darkness overspread is, not like that of a cloudy night, but of i room shut up and tho lights all extinct. j( Nothing was heard but tho shrieks of wo- 1 neu, the screams of children, and the cries ' >f men, soine calling for their children,' rthcrs for their parents, others for thoir l tj lusbatids, and only distinguishing each jj ithcr by their voices; one lamenting his (j >wn fate, another that of his family; somo .j wishing to die from the very fear of dying; | oiue lifting their hands to tho gods; but j he greater part imagining that the last nnd ilcrr.nl night was coino w hich was to de- jr troy tho gods and tho world together. At (j engtli a glimmering light appeared, which ve imagined to be rather the forerunner of i ^ in approaching burst of flame, as in fact it , vas, than the return of day. However, jj ho fire fell at a distance from us. Then jr rgain we were immersed in thick dark ress, ami a heavy shower of ashes rained ipon us which wo were obliged ctory now J|; md then to shake off, otherwise wo should I rave been crushed and buried in the heap. | \.t last this dreadful darkness was dissipat- . id by degrees, like a cloud of smoke; the j cal day appeared, and even the sun retimed, though very faintly, as when an c, elipse is coining on. Every object which j ^ iresented itself to our eyes, which were ex- ! u reinely weakened, seemed changed, being M overed over witli white ashes as with a leep snow." | Such is a part of the description which 1 j. he younger l'liny wrote to Tacitus, that it! jf night l?o recorded in his "Anna!*." It it u ilcasant to know that he returned with his j jr nollier to Miscnum; but how much like the ' jreat "burning day" coming upon the 1 vhole world is the scene which be witness () 'd! and bow terrible the destruction which | _t lotted out from the sight and the memory I ^ ?f man for almost eighteen hundred years ^ his beautiful and luxuiious home of thous- ; j( XUiU' , . Id Hut I must not trespass on the patience [( >f my readers, and will reserve for another 1 ? elter what I saw within the walls of Pom- f. n-ii it-cll*. N. cj How tiik Syrians ihu;ai;i> tub War a v\ n what sort or Folks they send to it. c< ?Few soldiers have been eulislpd in Syria " ind Palestine, ami w hen the French agents | 61 itleinpled to gain the influence aud ac'ive :o-operation of tlie Catholic Patriarch in ; ' 'uisiug a large force for the army out of j lis flock 011 Mount Lebanon, their efforts " vere utterly unsuccessful. There are to be icon, occasionally, regiments enlisted in r! lie country around and beyond Damascus, w rrinci,sally of the lighting, robbing, and ^ lomadic races, and also A'urJs and others , 11 roin the region of .Mosul and the Tigris, a ho are commanded by French and Knglisb h rllicers, being contingents for the French a md Knglish armies. Mounted on strong o uid fl> et lioiscs, armed with sivord and p islols, (I have never observed the spear, ti >ut poorly adapted to modern waifaro, d lowever effective in guerilla coutests) cloth- n id in the loose dress of the Last, with hand- :erchiefs l?ouud around their heads by (! lieces of ropes, while the corners sport in A .he wind, they look almost like infernal*, tl jeforo whose approach the bravest hearts c night quail. They are well formed, being e argely endowed with bono and inu*cle, c! .bough seldom thick, and never corpulent, f I'liuy arc culled lluchi liezouks, or men tl without a /< ?/</, i. e., a leader, as mo-t palpa ri aly every one has hi? attic, whether tilled or e ?inpiy. Indeed, thoy seem to l?o destitute b if all manly reasoning powers, while their q lew ideas and thoughts are contiued to war w uid plunder. Leaving their home, if homes a iuch creatures can have, on the Euphrates tl uid the Tigris, they travel all the long way by land to ibis port, where steamers wait their arrival to take them to the p L'rititca. Without English and French o raining and ollieering, I must believe them ft is worthless in modern warfare as llio ru- g lest savages of the American wilderness. ' For baring their bosoms to Hu->ian bullets o uid bayonets they receive the magnificent 81 mm of three <loll<trs per month, they fur- 1< ii Ling more >vci their own horses, but re- v< ii.-iving contpensaliou if the horses are kill- 1 id or injured. tl I'lttriotism i> an idea which has not vet w ntered the Eastern mind, and indeed the j >' ivord is unknown and utterly unmeaning, o It cannot be easily discovered that the |k>o- <1 ale take any interest in the war: so i?rno- u .... I .1. ?. 1.1 '1 ? ' .XIV .XIX uv^iiiuc i arc lHCJ', lUKUUO AIIKC lO oniprehend their interest* and theirtight*, " ind the measures to ho pursued to secure * hem. The Moslem submits to a fatality 1 ?e cannot control, while the Christian sects, >i is blind as the Moslems, dream, for there 1 s no reasoning here, that any change 11 nusi be for the better. C lithii yotH Tomatoes.?It is just as c icnsible to jrrowr peas without bushing h hem as it is tomatoes. You may grow both in a slovenly sort of way, if you have , li plenty of room on the ground; but you can / jr.nv either twice as well upon something c ;o support them, and tomatoes are decided- li V better grown up in the air than near the & ijrouxd, under the shadoof a mass of vines, e l'lio best sup|K>rt for a tomato vino is a e diort bush sot-firmly in the ground. 1 ho t branches havo room to spread among the ii liinhs and support tho fruit. The plan is t much bettor than tying to slnkos and fi trimming, according to our experience. Wo a bare tried both ways.? Agricultural Ex j a hang*. ' ' I Imperial Baby-Clothes. laid c The desire to see tlio baby clothes made 0*hlb p for tlie expected child has grown to a never lania. The police hnvo found it nccessa- rnl,or y to prevent the carriages passing through djesig1 10 Hue Vivieune lest an accident should 8 8' ccur; and the ladies provided with tickets f admission are obliged, as at tho outside f theatres on extraordinary occasions, to "E >rrn queue. There are two lines of ladies ! onstri ?nged along each side of Madaine Felicie's equal oor, extending to both ends of the Kuo j no pi ivieune. The Congress of the Plenipo- ' do n ntiarics have sunk to uolhing. Madaine consti elicic and her beautiful work eclipse Buol, who >rlofl", and even my Lord Clarendon. The 1 educs vo points yield to point iTAlencon. As ] dies, i uriosity must be excited about a matter mime hich in I'aris is deemed of uusurpassing mind nportance, we are happy to have the sup- expen ort of GalignuniV descriptive pen. oughl The Princess Malhiide, on Saturday, visi J then ;d the layette prepared by M'lle Kelicie, of! out ci le Uue Vivienne, for tho Imperial Infant. | others luring the whole of that day and yestcr- | lion t ny, an uninterrupted stream of persons of > Lei ie tirst distinction in Paris visited these cite ii lijocts. Tho following is a very imperfect , to m< inscription of tho articles exhibited: | terba! The first thing that strikes the spectator cal nr i entering M'lle Felicie's ware looms, is j much ie exquisito beauty of tho various articles | menti isplayed to view. Three rooms, one of consti icni of great size, are thrown open, and cheer rerything exhibited in them forms part of ahdir ie layette. At the first glance, one would days < nagine that tho only color to bo seen was whicl bite; but afterwards the eye perceives ery ai wit tho ribbons and satin, used for trim- Ph ling several of tho articles, are blue. Put the j ? blue is the color appropriated to male rcadii lildren, as rose or pink is to those of the form iq.ositu sex, tho idea would occur to the Their tokor-on that everything had been prepar- ratinj 1 exclusively for a Prince. Such, how- ing < rer, is not the fact, for as the Imperial ill- I sense; lit has been vuue ait hlanr. IiIum i. n??.l /?..li? i i such a caso indiscriminately for cither ! er?? ix. < ha* g As some of our readers arc not pcihap9 that t ware of what voue au blancexactly means, inquii may be as well to state that sometimes consti i Fiance a mother consecrates her child new < efore its birth to llio Virgin, placing the donee ifant under hor especial protection; and, give 1 ? a sign of her having done so, clothing his ac ic child in white only (with rare orna- tion, i icnts of bine sometimes) and keeping it in opme ich attire for a certain number of)cars? inenti jsec, live or seven, aud on some occasions Of > the period of the child's first cornmun- on &c ?n. It is in accordance with this custom of the int some of the articles of the Imperial who, ifjc'tr have been ornamented with blue, life b< ithout any reference to the sex of the in- study int. In the largo room at M'llc. Feli- direct ieV all the tables along the side*, as well was r ? nti exceedingly broad ono down the and < mire, nro Completely covered with the them ?ost beautiful articles of lace, embroidery, ent w Ik, satin, and cambric that perhaps were scicm rer collected together for any ou? child, churc lie number of dresses alone appeared so tory < jutilless that we took the libeity of inquir- who 1 ig llie number, and were informed twelve tion ozen. All are embroidered with such their ire perfection as to renlly merit to rank as cntiot oiks of art, and the vnst quantity of print chiell "Alenr-m with which they arc trimmed I)n iu>t be of immense value. * follov Along the tables nrc also to be seen \ tates aby's caps, hats, and head dresses, in such cular buudnnce as to excite one's wonder; and j* hot f ihc-^, also, twelve dozen have been pre- impa ared?all beautiful by embroidered and all a imined with the most costly laco. Twelve llrier, ozen appears to have been the magical of tin uiuber in the oiJer giveu, as everything n? ,n ? st<v kings, glove*, shoes, hoots, gaiters, "?g n meh e\<jui>ite gaiters!) chemises, sheets, ; exere cc., drc., were all to the same extent. All : 'Mac ic sheets were marked with the Imperial ment rowii and cipher, and trimmed with Yah in tli nciennea Lace. Of course the richer arti- j until les were not ordereil in such profusion, as, . ?f Sh >r instance, the long mantles, of which ol lerc were a dozen for State occasions, most ed a iclily embroidered and trimmed, while oth- t voun is wv*ie in satin, in silk, or in cashmere, 1 Sbak ut all of the greatc.-t beauty. The ron. will*, also, some in blue satin and sumo in ! Other liitc, v*ere on a inoie limited scale, l?ut for ei II a> rich as human ingenuity could make most Item. . bodil At the end of the room stands the cradle mind ?not that which the City of l'aris is pre futuri aring for the Iinpoiial Infant, hut still one f great beauty. A lofty fitche at the head, Tn ruled of a vino branch of gilt, bronze, 1x0 ! ontly bends over the part in which tlie i corro 1 fant is to sleep. From the jCeeAe, curtains 4"^ f Mechlin laco lined with blue silk are sever uspenUed at oach side, the whole being feet i toped uj> with gold cord*, terminating; lows iih toisade* to match ot tiie same metal. j tags >ne cotwre pieilt is of whito satin, ami nno- j l?|lg lier of blue, ami the uh >le is covered ovor I room ith Alcncou lace, with the initials N. E. I t the centre, the whole producing an effect boari f the rarest elegance. Opposite the era woro lo, on the centre table, stands the robe tie j on tli tijitrmr all of jyoinl J Alrncon, with man- tlio I le and head dress to match. Near it is a were tuff of ermine, with a mantle of w hite trenc atin lined with ermine. On iho tahle lay [ a ten ho child's coral for the period of teething, I hurie it this instance made of amber, Iho ball for freely lie rattle being hollowed from the solid up. ins*. This little plaything alone cost cotEri OOf. Near i'. was placed an anther neck I up* see, with a small gold medallion in the very entre, on which the Archbishop of Paris amor ad given his benediction. wouli Three corbel I if.i de beiptemc lay near, all brouj ncd with blue satin, and covered with ! '"T llencon lace, and beariug the Imperial girl, ipher and arms. To go on would be to c!ose< il a column, and yet not a word has been swcel aid of the contents of the other rooms, fore 1 qually w orthy of being examined. We of lh< anuot, however, help slaling that the aricles prepared for the nurse (twelve dozen A 11 number) are also of extraordinary beau tbe C v and richness, us may be judged from the J ty,"? tot that her aprons are embroidered with j !y." s much care as the articles for 1U.0 child, j the ] nd like them trimmed with Alencon lace. I said i lie taste with which the whole display is I of yo ?ut i* not the smsljeai chars# of tft'm ition, which of its kind has pethapa been equalled. It adds to the adraii excited to learn that the whole waa ?ed, embroidered, and made up in liort space of two months aud a half# Early Menial Activity. xperience," says Dr. Spurzman, "demotes that of any number of children of intellectual power, those who receive uiicular care in childhood, and who ot lenrn to read and write until the itution begins to be consolidated, but enjoy the benefit of a good physical ition, very soon surpass, in their stutliose who commence earlier and read rous books when very young. The ought never to be cultivated at the isc of the body'# and physical education L to precede that of the intellect, and proceed simultaneously with it with* ultivating one faculty to the neglect of ?; for health is tho base, and instruche ornament of oducntion." t parents then check, rather than axn their children, this early disposition >ntal activity; or rather let them counlance it by a due proportion of physi* id gymnastic exercises; for it is not so the intensity as the continuity of the ?l action, which is jujurious to the itutiou. Let them not cause the age of fulness to bo spent in the midst of tears 1 slavery; let them not change the'aunuy of childhood into a melancholy gloom, i can at best only be a source of mistid bitter recollection in maturer years, ysical exercises and the cultivation of >crceptive faculties should, with the ig of moral and instructive books, the principal occupations of children, expanding frame requires the InVigor stimulus of fresh air; their awaken- * jrgans seek for external objects of ; their dawning intellect incessantly for the action of their observant powThis is the great law of nature. She ven to the child that restless activity, >uoyancy of animal spirit, that pryinf sitivene?s which makes him delight in ant motion and in tho observation of ibjects. If these intentions of Provii bo not frustrated; if he bo allowed to liniMlf 11 n In llm ~|- W ? .'|#viut? Wllll^V V% rc, he will acquire a healthy constiluand a physical and perceptive dcvelnt which are the beat preparation for id labor. the men who have conferred benefit (ciely, and have been the admiration ) world, the greater number are those from vaiioua causes, have in early ecn kept from school or from serious . They have by energetic and well led efforts, at a period when the brain eady for the task, acquired knowledge displayed abilities which have raised to the highest eminence in the differalks in life, in literature, the arts and :es, in the army, the senate, the h, and even on the throne. The L'mk >f the most distinguished among thoso have received an early classical edusufficiently proves that it is not to scholastic instruction, but to selfedui after the period of school, that they y owed their superiority. ivid, the sublime author of the Psalms, red in his early occupations the dicof nature; he had in bis youth mus* power to tear asunJer the month of i, to resist the grasp of a be.ar, and to rt to a pebble velocity sufficient to slay nL Napoleon, when in the school of infc, was noted in the quarterly reports it institution as enjoying good health; enlion was ever made of his possessnv mental stijieriority; but in physicali.ses he was always foremost. Sir Newton, according to his own state, w as inattentive, and ranked very low ic school, which he had not enterad after the age of twelve. The mother eridan long regarded him as the dullr her children. Adnru Clark was call"grievous dunce" by his teacher; andg I.iebig a "booby' by bis employer.speare, Molicre, Gibbon* Niebuhr, Byllurapliry Davv, Porson, and- many s were in like manner undistinguished srly application to stndy, and for the part indulged in those uiioleaomw y exercises and that of freedom which contributed so much to theif e excellence.?Marcel. ik Cemetery at Havana.?UicvotTScenes.?Kxtract from the Havausr spondence of the Southern Advocate? V hen I ente*ed the grounds I obserred al negroee digging trenches, about tw<r leep, and Oh, horror! to see these feh* digging up the bones of human bescaltering them in every direction, the hair and grave-clothes strewed all I?the 8ight was revolting. I had >een there long when I saw four mert ng a corpse on a slight frame. They stnoking and chatting as lively as if lelr way to a wedding party. It waa o<ly of a young woman; her clothes rent, and she was pitched into the h without ceremony?no one to she 1 r over her grave. The dead are not d in cotlins; quick lime is applied r to prevent the body from being takes Some men make it a business to hirti is and clothing for funeral occasion*. I saw six men biing the body of large man. Home difficulties atom ig the 'undertakers/ which I thought il end in a ?ght. A third corpse was 1st and deposited in a shallow pit. ho last interment was that of a little Her beautiful black eyes were no| J; there was a heavenly smile on her t innocent face?*h? !? '! "*,L ? _ iv?r I7HI tu urn* jeeoniing contaminated by the poison u oM serpent." lady made a complaint to Frederick Iroat, King of 1'ruuia. "Your Majee* aid aha, "my buaband trcnU me bad"That is none of iiit business, replied King. "Hut he speaks ijl of you," iho lady. "That,* he replied, "ie som ur busiucss,"