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-* * VOLUME if CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 15,1853. NUMBER ", PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMASJT. WARREN. ~~ T E ?I S . (Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed tlirco months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will bo inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) seventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a half ceuts for each subsequent insertion. Single in?nor smi!in>: semi-monthly,month fcniuus. miw , lv and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. ?jgr fhe number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will he published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. $ S'flfftrb Coif. From the Olive Branch. MIILY GREY. " Oh! ever let the aged be As sacred angels unto thee." "11a, ha, ha," cried gay hell Grosvenor, -'see yonder country gawky; as I live lie is beckoning the coachman; now if he gets iu there'll be fun, I do so love to plague these green ones: why Willy, how you open your great blue eyes; you ain't frightened, are you ? look at her, Annie; ha, ha, just look at her." "But you are not in earnest, Bell," said Milly, j * 1 1 "fAII VLVkllld j timidly shrinking duck in uei scot, not be so impolite, so?" s "Our politeness is reserved for the city, dear," broke in Annie; "we consider such fellows as that, nobodies; and if they don't want to be laughed at, why they must take an outside place with the coachman, that's all." "Then you won't catch me sitting 011 the same seat with you," exclaimed Milly with a look of alarm, springing away from her cousins, and ensconsing herself op]>osite. "So much the better," cried Bell, with a merry laugh, "we can have a good time with both of you?hush! here lie comes, oh! Annie, what a fright." The young man unbuttoned the coach door himself, for the horses were going up hill, and spriugiug up the steps rather awkwardly, on accoudt of a large portmanteau lie held, seated himself on the seat near Milly. Bell and ^lnnie . exchanged looks and bit their lips. Milly hugged the back of the coach, blushing crimson with shame for her cousins, and thecountrv greeney, who wore a very much soiled coat, , a shockiug cap, over which a light, thin linnd * ? ?1 iin,tii- hwdiin. kerchief was tnrown, mm liWIVIiVU Uiiuvi . looked up at them demurely. Once when lie could not but notice that the object of their mirth was himself, he suddenly put his hand to his throat, as if to untie his uncouth cap string ?i. e., the"ends of the handkerchief-?but pausing, he seemed to change his mind, and let them alone. "Won't you have my viniagreete, Milly dear?'* said Bell, with an arch smile, aud a side glance at the stranger. "You do look pale," chimed in Annie, tossing back her thick curis, and restraining herself no longer she burst into a rude laugh,*for the poor girl's cheeks were distrcssingl) flushed. "Take my fan, coz," exclaimed Bell, proffering it: "t he air in this coach isTcally overpowering." and she- placed her delicate pocket handkerchief to her face. ^ "I thank you," said Milly, with as much dignity as she could assume, while her lips trembled, "I do not need it." "She certainly is fainted, Annie," said Bell, in a low tone, "come Milly, you had better sit between us where we can support you; you hav'ut quite room enough on that side." The thoughtless girl started, for a blazing black eye flashed upon her; it was only for a second though, that quick, piercing glance, with the fire of tiftv outraged dignities concentrated within it. "If you please, cousin Bell," said Milly, with more spirit than they dreamed she possessed, "don't annoy me any more; I am belter pleased with my seat than your rudeness;" and the pretty lip trembled again, and the pretty face looked as if it was going to crv. The young man turned quickly; the hard expression that had gathered about his niouth, melted into something akin to a pleased smile, while the two rebuked cousins were very angry, as one might have seen. There was no more comment until the coach stopped again, this time to take up a fat old lady with a well worn bonnet, loaded down with innumerable bandboxes and bundles, most of wbicb she insisted upon carrying into the coach with her. Here was plenty of material for the merriment of the thoughtless sisters. Bell declared that the bandl>oxes must have once contained okl Mrs. Noah's best bonnet, and Annie persisted that if so, that identical bonnet was before them. No sooner was the coach door opened than out sprang the stranger, and taking bundles and sundry things from the old lady, deposited them carefully iu the inside; all but one, which she seemed very choice about; but just as she had performed the laborious feat of stepping just within the door, down rolled the paper with a crash, something was destroyed, and Bell and Annie, enjoying her real distress at the accident, burst iuto another impertinent laugh. The old lady could not avoid looking towards them, and as her eye was a little awry and her crooked, she presented a sight appear 0|?tVW?vrw 7 4 ^ ing to them so ludicrous, that they hid their faces, almost convulsed with mirth. "Are these your sisters ?" she asked mildly, turning to the gentleman. "I hope not, madam," he answered in low and measured tones, "my sisters resj>cct age, to them grey hairs are too sacred for trilling;" he did not wince in the least under the angry glances of the mortified girls, now completely silenced; but Milly had thrown her thick veil down, and was weeping all to hcrselt. "I am going to the house of Dr. James; do vou know him sir ?" asked the old lady after a few moments of silence. "I should, madam, for he is rny father," said the stranger with a smile. The flushed cheeks of Bell grew instantly pale ?her eyes met those of her companion, on w hose face a similar reaction had also taken place. "My son, Professor L , lectures in Taunton to-night, and as I have seldom the pleasure of listening to him, he is so often and so far \ s away, I thought I would make an effort to visit j your father?I am glad he is your father, young man, you do liitn honor;" she continued with a gratified look, "you have his eyes and his forehead?I should know them"?the stranger had lifted his cap, drawn off his handkerchief, and was wiping the moisture from a magnificent brow, above which the jet black curls hung thickly?"I shall have the pleasure also of meeting my son at your house, and acquainting him with your politeness towards a strange old woman, who was the subject of some not very flattering remarks." She* did not glance this time towards the young ladies, if she had she would have pitied tliein ; they sat cowering down completely crest fallen. It was indeed a pretty kettle of fish they had prepared for themselves.? They, too. were going for the express purpose of hearing Professor L?; , one of the most brilliant lecturers of the present day, and who had i almost been bewitched by the sparkling beauty of Pell Grosvetior when a guest at her father's in the city: so much so that he had been heard to declare lie knew not another woman who appeared to possess so many desirable qualities for a wife. And strangely enough tlicy were going to the very house of the man they had so grossly insulted, for they never could hare dreamed the gawky to be theonly son of theirm^ther's friend, the rich and influential Dr. James. They knew indeed that he had been for some time expected home from his tW* in Europe, but his travel stained attire, and his silence had completely deceived them. Alflnnlimn Millr reovereda little from her trouble; the envious veil was thrown back, the two pouting lips restored to their equanimity, the glad merry eye9, all the brighter for the little wash of the tears, rested or rather danced over the beautiful prospect of fields, and trees, and rose lined paths, she, innocent heart, had nothing to reproach herself with, and "gladly would her cousius have exchanged places with her. * They sat very silent, trembling and almost fainting, till the stage drew up near the broad entrance to the doctor's grounds; they were still undecided, when the coachman said, "the young ladies are to stop here I believe and unstrapped the trunk from the huge tongue. Ilenry James after a moment's embarrassment, stepped back to the door, and with a bright smile at Alilly, said, as if nothing unpleasant had transpired, "will you allow me to assist you out, young ladies ?" How daintily he took Milly's little hand, and how tenderly he conducted her to the ground ; but as the others descended there was a chilling reserve in his manner and a * painful confusion in theirs, that told how indelible would be the recollection of that unfortunate meeting. Dell Grosvcnor and her sister returned tlfe ? next day; thev could not endure to meet Professor, L in presence of liis mother, but they had learned a lesson which they will probably treasure for life?not to judge by external^? and to treat old age, oven in rags, with a "Vcverencc as holy as though it moved about in golden slippers. ' / * * * * * / * * "But Iain a jyort ion less orphan, lien ry." ^*1 tut S^otrivrc tTTerlanfe Mttly (ireyfTiat sat orr tlic back scat of the old stage, and nobly resisted the influence of wealth and fashion, when those rude, proud girls would have laughed down the unconth countryman. From that moment I loved you; and still more when I perceive^ your delicate attentions to my father's .aged friend. Believe me, Milly, no true man.would trust his happiness with one who would insult grey hairs, there is little heart in such an one, however faultless the exterior, and I confess I have such extreme reverence for the ag?d, that a loathing impossible for tne to express came over me when I witnessed the behaviour of yourcousfns; they may be wealthy, highly educated, fascinating, but I would no mere wed one of them than I would play with a rattlesnake. There! God bless you Milly?look up, love, and let me tell you that in my-eves you are worth millions? nay, more than all the world." Bell and Annie Grosvenor arc both wedded, but neither of them has a Professor L or a Dr. James for a husband. They are, however, very gay and fashionable, if that is any compcn nation : but .Milly, sweet 31 illy, lives 111 a Deauii ful villa in a country town, as happy and devoted a wife and mother as can be found in the wide, wide world. As.Good as if it.wrrk ASsop.?The "Nantucket Inlander" says the following story was lately told by a reformed inebriate, as an apology for much of the folly of drunkards: A mouse, ranging about a brewery, happening to fall into a vat of beer, was in imminent danger of drowning, and applied to a cat to help him out. "It is a foolish request, for as soon as I get ycu out I shall eat you." The mouse piteously replied, "That fate would he better than to be drowned in beer." The cat lifted him out, but the fume of the beer caused puss to sneeze, and the mouse took refuge in his hole. The cat 6allcd upon the mouse to come out? "You. sir. did vou not promise that I should eat you?" "Ah!" replied the mouse, "but you know I was in liquor at the time!" 'Will you take this woman to be your wedcd wife?' asked an Illinois magistrate of the masculine of a couple who stood up before him. Well, squire you must be a tarnal green hand to ax me such a question as that ar.? Do you think that I'd he such a tarnal fool as to quit the bar hunt and take the gal from the quilting frolic, if I was'ntconscriptuously sartain and dctarmincd to have her? Drive on with your business and don't ask foolish questions. One of our neighbors, not long since, who has rather a pungent wife, said to her one eve ning as he passed out of the door.? ' My dear 1 am going to spend the evening with my friend Mr. , 1 shall return at ten but, if I should not, you need not wait for me." 4 Oh,' said the wife,' I shan't; I shall come for you.' Our neighbor returned at ten, as any prudent husband would have done. Faco to face the truth coincs out. Jlliscfllnncflits. A Portrait. I saw her in the beauty and pride of life, the centre of attraction, bearing about her the *oft11 ess and peculiar mildness so characteristic of woman's lovely nature. Iler form was a perfect model for the artist; her movements were graceful, and every thing in dress, manner, and language indicated a well stored and cultivated mind. She was the jewel?the idol of her mother; her solace in hours of despondency and her stay in affliction. She had been instructed by the wisdom ofhor father, who loved and cherished his only child, and the gilded vanities of the world had been unmarked and its emptiness exposed, in order to prepare her for the stern duties of Jjfe. Hut who can fathom the workings of the human heart and understand its strange contradictions? She permitted herself to be fed away by the dazzling visions of the world, and forgot the solid lessons of truth so tenderly imparted.? With bounding steps and brilliant hopes she swept gaily on in the path of pleasure. Happiness, the most beautiful object that attracts the young in the outset of life, wore to her a most invitiug smile and she promised hcfself the fullness of its enjoyment. Her eye and mind swept the distant future, and it was clothed with the most fascinating colors. The brightest imaginings of bliss were hers, and no thoughts of coming gloom cast their shadows over her mind. Fascinated and charmed by the scenes thus spread out before her, and led on by tlie4ueartless tempter, she gave herself up to the "bewildering phantom, .and through the mazy dance of pleasures she eagerly sought for happiness and fancied herself luxuriating in full possession of the jeweled treasure. Oh! cruel disappointment; it was the base less fabric of visionary hours ! It vanished into airy nothing. The blow came suddenly, and she felt it deeply, keenly. "We cannot speak of the anguish, the pain intense, that pierced her unsuspecting heart. Closely closeted in the chambers of the soul, the sad story now lies concealed, and we dare not, we will not lift the veil and- expose it to the light of day. To the hour of her death will she remember the revulsion of feeling, and the deep, sombre hue that settled down upon all her fairy sceues. Ah, human nature, how fickle thou art! To what silly changes ait thou subject; how deceitful and deceiving! She who treads on their air, and builds glittering castles high up in the fleecy clouds, and paints them with the reflected lustre of happiness, and then lays the flattering unction to her heart that fortune's silver)- smiles are permanent, will fall back to earth again, a miserable, crhshed, and forsaken being. Yet flic one of whom we write did not learn a lesson of wisdom from the storm cloud that brcke upon her. The tumultuous throbbings of her afflicted spirit were stayed by the hand of time ; the deep lines of sorrow traced upon the tablet of her heart are now obliterated by the dustings and gathered rubbish of time; and again is she placing confidence in the promises and enchanting prospects of time. We saw h^r infrWoNTnings since, surrounded by thc-liglwh hearted and gay; her countenance was lit up by thc animated fire of hope that burped within ; her conversation wrts buoyant and sparkling; she had much to say, and she said it evenly, lluCI,A c*;il lrv/ilritirr linnn lliA mirrored LIIIM. UIJU nm oiiu iwmitp M|/W. sea of life, and dazzled with tlic glittering objects that flitted like meteors before her. We could not make her believe they were deceptive?that such loveliness would ever wither and die; she seemed to think thev were all fair, beautiful, and lasting as beautiful, but the rough hand of experience will have to tear off their borrowed plumage and exjwse their worthlessness and emptiness before she will discover ilicir vanity and spurn the deception. We could, if it were necessary and proper, lift the veil and speak in clever terms, but suflice it to say. that the moral standing out on the page of every day life is this, that true happiness is not to be found in the gilded bowers of earth ; it springs not from position or wealth; is not found in fame, or the honors of this world ; but is to be found only in a wellbalanced mind, stayed upon the principles of truth, and that truth eternal.?Southern Organ. Genealogical Sermon. I had, at one time, for a co-curate a very impulsive and rather democratic man. Our rector was an aristocrat. On Sunday he had delivered himself of a sermon in which he incidentally justified family pride, and spoke in a manner that must have been offensive to any poor person of any intelligence or independence; and, as we were leaving the church, my brother curate exclaimed, with unaffected indignation, "Well, that crowns 's toadying discourses. Such flunkeyism is intolerable. But I'll administer or* ontnlAto navt Qiin/lnv can if T /Inn'l T.iLr;? Herod's worms, our rector's pride is eating hiiu lip." I did not attempt to dissuade him. Our rector treated both of us with a condescension that was anything but flattering; and lie thought more of being a "gentleman" (upon which he was always indirectly vaunting himself) than of being a Christian, forgetting what Coleridge said, that there was no real gentleman without lie was a Christian. Xext Sunday morning my brother curate carried out his threat, lie told me nothing about how he proposed to manage or mould his course; so judge my surprise when, mounting lh? pulpit, he gave out his text, the 3(1 chaptei of Luke, part of the 23d, and the whole of the 21th, 25th, 20th, 27th, 28th.' 20th, 30th, 31st, 32d, 33d, 34th, 35th, 3Gth, 37th and 38th verses; "in which (lie continued) will be found the following words;" and then, to the marvel of the whole congregation, who turned towards the pulpit wit.ii eyes and mouth open, he read right through the sixteen verses, beginning with "Joseph, which was the son of Ilcli," and ending with, "which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Setli, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of Cod." Every one is familiar with the peculiar and strange effect ujxm the oar of the repetition of the words, "which was the son," when even occurring in the reading-desk ; but in the pulpit, as a prefix to a sermon in the shape of a text, they sounded oddly. The rector looked at me as if for an explanation, and I did not knowwhere to look; while the principal persons of the parish manifestly came to the conclusion that my brother curate urns gone mad. I Jut, if he' were, be soon showed them there was method in his madness; for he ingeniously evolved out of these sixteen verses a discourse that might have served as an essay on the Republican legend of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity." The reader has probably anticipated me in the use he made of his long text. "Here (said he) we have a genealogical tree, not traced by the flattery of sycophants, nor the uncertainty of heralds, but by the unerring Evangelist, whose inspiration enabled him to mount from branch to branch?a genealogy beginning with God, and ending, so far as my text goes, with a poor Galilean carpenter. Here is a lesson and a rebuke for the pride of descent. The poorest carpenter, in the poorest village of England, can retrace his lineage through the same unbroken succession ; and the proudest peer can do no more, unless the latter, in his presumption, should be disposed to ignore his uivino origin.? But it would be no use; by whatever different branclws, they arrive at the same root; the noble and the peasant, if both had the power of going back over their ancestry, would both meet at the 38th verse of the 3d chapcr of Luke, 'Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Setli, which was the son of Adam, which was the son Of CrQ# "Lfefe (he continued, looking at the rector's and the squire's pews)?here we all meet on equal terms. Disown them as we like in other degrees, here we arc brought face to face with, and can no longer refuse to acknowledge our poor relations." Then, looking to some forms on which a group of alms-house people sat, he added: "Here, too, my poor friends, you and your 'superiors' meet in the presence of your common parent, the great God of heaven and earth, in whose eye* the factitious distinctions of the world are naught. Cold-shoulder you as they like through life, they cannot ignore their relationships when they come to this: they can no longer speak of you, spurn you, as though you were /Uxtnn/l r\C rtlott Tim /lorrinnf/.r onrl tliA IV.....TV VI UIUWVH V.IUJ. ...IV VB,r?lv .... king are one; and how little importance St. Luke, who was no sycophantic genealogist, attaches even to the regal office, may be seen frofri the manner in which he passes through the 31st verse, whore no pause is made to mark tin; proud title of David, which was merely the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, and so on." In conclusion he urged the poor man to live up to his great origin, and not disentitle himself to that'grcat share in the inheritance of which his heavenly Father had laid up for his children who truly serve him. They need not care for the proud man disowning them now ; th ?-thing to be feared was God disowning them on the last day. The rich he enjoined to feel for the poor as for brothers, if they would not offend that great Being who lias a father's interest for all. I thought therector would never forgive my co-curate; but the only notice he took of the eccentric discourse was to cens? - for ever after preaching to the "humbler orders," of the differ cnco they owed their "superiors." It was before so bad that a neighboring clergyman said to me, "If your rector had to put on an eleventh commandment, it would run thus: "Thou slialt not neglect to tako off thy bat to myself and the squire/1 ^ Southern Bacon. The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Gazette alludes f'.ll/??"c i r\ t Vir? f\rnntinn ) lnrrro AQfnMich* (13 IlJIIUn 3 IW IIIW I'JVVVIVII VI II nti^v Vw?Mwa>v? ment in that citv, for the purpose of curing bacon, etc.: "Circulating about town the other day, we took occasion to visit the large rmoke house of Messrs. C. R. Greenville At Co. Mr. G., the active partner has taken great pains and spared no expense to fit up a house every way safe and convenient. Immediately adjoining it is a large ante-room, with a thick floor for receiving bacon and preparing for handling.? A door leads from it into the smoke house.? Deep vaults are sunk in the ground and walled up with brick. At one end of the vaults are steps to go downjwith wood?at the other is the fire, which is covered over with grates, forming a net work that makes it impossible for a spark to get through. Green hickory wood alone is used. An additional security against fire doing damage is found in keeping a large cistern full of water convenient for immediate use, and Dr. G. informed us that he also had a small fire engine, intended for his warehouse yard, ready for use if fire was to break out in any of his extensivo buildings. They expect to cure between four and five hundred thousand pounds, of bacon this season; having already upward of 400,000 in store and engaged. This seems like doing business in the right way." We trust this enterprise will be crowned with complete success, and that it will be the forerunner of similar establishments all over the Southern country. There is no more need for *' '??*?OtnlAo /larvon/1 unnn flic me siavenuiuuj^ utai^o iu uvjyvuu w^v*? ?MV Western States almost exclusively for supplies of pork bacon, etc., than there is for three wheels to dray. Every cotton and sugargrowing State could raise a sufficiency of meat corn, etc., for themselves and to spare, without any extra trouble, or without diminishing, to any material extent, the yield of the much prided staples. And suppose the yield was somewhat diminished, an enhanced price for what wps raised would be very likely to follow more than making up for the deficiency of amount, while the planters would save the immense sums annually paid the Ohio, Indiana, and other States, for indispensable plantation necessaries. Thus, it will be seen, they would save in three ways: 1st, in the enhanced price of their staple; 2d, in raising articles of prime necessity, such as pork, upon their own planta tions, (which establishments like the above could readily cure,) and which would involve but the expenditure of a trifling amount in comparison to the sums now paid for those necessaries; 3d, in the diversification of labor ?so much needed in all of the sluveholding, commonwealths?which would follow. [iV. 0' Bulletin. A Nkw Liquor Law i.\ Florida.?Though .. i i 1:1?:/i? ? tllC legislature ui riuiiuo iuucu iu tuun u Maine liquor law. it lias done the next thing to it. According to a bill just passed, all licenses hereafter to retail spirituous liquors are to pay a tax of 8200; and persons offending are to be fined 8?*>00 on conviction. This tax, it is thought, will operate to prohibit licenses to a lasge extent, if not altogether. ?fitfral Items. Australia.?The advices from Australu continue to be of the most encouraging charac ter. The produce of the gold fields become* more and more extraordinary every day. The yield of-those in Victoria to September 24th was at least 2,898,G15 ounces, equal to JEIO145,152. The total number of diggers \va; upwards of 80,000; the average earnings pei man an ounce per wecHr. The rate of pro duction in September last was equal to ?21840.000 a year. The wool season at AdelaiJe was at its height when the Australian left that port, (4tl October,) and shearing was proceeding rapidly wages were very high; the wool was in bettei condition than usual. The prospects of the harvest were extremely favorable; nearly *90000 acres were under cultivation, two-tliird: of which were bearing wheat, barley and oats At Melbourne (Victoria,) the wool shearing had also commenced; the wages paid were dou ble those of former times. It was feared then would he a difficulty in bringing the wool ti ti.o rm-inrr fo i h?> bi.<?h rates of carri I il.S 0 a I AgeIt is gratifying to learn that despatches twisre sent by the Adelaide steamer, to the authori ties in New South Wales and Victoria, author izing the Legislative Councils in both thost Colonies to form themselves each into a Par liumcnt of an upper and a lower house?the Crown having determined to concede to therr the management of their own afiairs, including the entire receipts from the public lands, so at to assimilate their condition to that of Canada The transportation of convicts to those coloni es is also to cease in?a short time. The lfew Empress of France. Wo are indebted to an esteemed 'friend, u lic was formerly resident in Spain, for the following sketch, which seems to explain the family origir ^ the new Empress of France very satisfactorily* ller history is 110 less romantic tuau unit owm Empress Josephine: ''By to-day's advices froru~E*i6pe we are tolc that the Emperor Napoleon III. lias espoused 1 Spanish lady, .'whose grandfather was Britisl consul at Malaga, and whose mother was an Irish lady by the name of Fitzpatrick;' also, that this now Empress was in her own right, Countesi Tcba, although, bearing the name of Mad'lh Montego. Thus much by-telegraph. Now the plain English of all this is, no doubt, as follows "A worthy Scotchman, by the name of W'jl liain Kirkpatrick, was for some time the Ameri can consul at Malaga, and, failing in business was succeeded by George G. Barrel as Unitec States consul at Malaga. This was I think, un der President Monroe's administration. "Mr. Kirkpatrick's eldest daughter, Maria, 01 'Mariquita,'" as she was familiarly called anc known by all Americans there, was a very fine dashing lady, and married the Count de Teba a younger brother the celebrated Palafoix who behaved so gallantly at the siege of Zara gosa, and who in reply to a demand of surren dor, declared he would continue the defence 'War to the .kuife/...^ ^ "The Palafoix family 'embraced numerous ti ties, and was singularly brave and noble. "This husband of Maria Kiikpatrick (Count d< Teba) was a gallant soldier, and so cut up b} ' klc llANA WlfK, wuunus H"? LU uc UIU1UIC IV/ ujvuhv Uio uv>uu ...v.. out aid, and wlieu in the saddle looked more as if lie was hooked on than seated there. "The new Empress of the French is no doubl the daughter of this Countess Teba, 'Marquitr Kirkpntriek,' who was the daughter of William Kirkpatrick, late United States Consul at Mala ga?not British Consul?not Fitzpatrick?anc not Irish. "The British Consul at Malaga was Williair Laird, another eld Scotch gentleman, and he was followed by Mr. Marks, an Englishman. "If the new Empress of France was Countess Teba, as stated, then her mother is dead, as alsc is her father, and she took the title of her moth er. The name Montego, under which she pass ed in Paris, is perhaps one of the family name* or titles of the Palafoix family."?N. Y. Com, Advertiser. Steam and Caloric. " thy arm, unconqucred steam !'r The recent discovery of Capt. Ericsson i: undoubtedly one ofthemost importantand valu able of modern times. Our readers are al aware of the success which has so fully atten ded the trial trip of his Caloric vessel, whicl moves without sails or steam; without any signs ~r .w/vfii/o nmver exceot in the revolution of its wheels. Twelve miles an hour was the speed accomplished with ease by this noble ship?th< usual time of fair sailing steamers. Taking in to consideration the fact they were mere ly experimental trips, the triumph may be look ed upon as a complete and gratifying. A ship 200 in length, and 40 feet in breadth, capabh of carrying over two thousand tons, moving, majestically on with nosails and with no puff: of steam, a mighty breathing engine, as spee dy as the steamer and far more safe;^it seem: to us that the glory of Fulton must be some what eclipsed by the star of Ericsson. Th( "Breathing Ship" must take the place of th< steam ship, so far at least as respects safely and cheapness. Further improvements may give, the new discovery, a superiority in res pect to speed. As yet, however, steam will best suit those who are fond of/<zx/tnnd danger ous travelling. This new motive power is now a "fixed fact. Few believed that the experiments of the inven tor would end in anything feasible; and ti those few all the more credit is due. They en ablcd the Inventor to proceed with his experi ments and to succeed, in his enterprise. T< them, as* well as to Capt. Ericsson, Is grea credit due for the discovery. This newly invented ship is moved by tin air. Not by the means of sails, however. Th< air is headed, expands, and operates upon th< I machinery. The supply of luel required is ox cectliugly small and only one fireman employ ed whoso duty it is to supply coal. Seven toni of coal are consumed per day, while in th< steamship sixty tons at least are required fo consumption. The engine also costs less. Ii all these respects, the Ericsson ship is superio to the steamship. High honor to the Inven lt>r. Viipu Ul IVOOUll IO uou?v vtAJVu -wur the New World will have the honor of his bril: liant discovery.? Geo. Guzetle* From Hunt's Merchants Magazine. i Tbe Opinui Trade. ! "We published in the numbers of the Mer- M > chants Magazine and Commercial Review for . ? July and August, 1850, two papers under the ti- ^ 5 tie of "The Opium Trade: as carried bu between 18$ r India and China, including a Sketch of its llis" tor)', Extent, Effects, <fcc.," which were prepared > expressly for our Journal by Dr. Nathan Allen, o Massachusetts. Opium is, as is well known, J a contraband article among the Chinese, and the 1 I trade is prohibited under severe penalties. It is, .gji i i however, carried on bv the East Iudia Compauyr r under the direct suction of the English (loveru} raent; and is forced upon the miserable aud en- . > slaved population. It is estimated that/otfir ; f ! hundred thousand human beings in the Celestial Empire are swept off annually by this pernyaous ' > poison, the consideration for which are somyjnil- 9 lions of dollars to the East India Company. t. The Bombay Telegraph reviews the articles ua ? the Merchants' Magazine, and fully concurs iojL the view of our correspondent, Dr. Alien. The^ljfi reviewer says 5 As an article of Commerce, opiutn stands out without a parallel. From the skillful manage- - \ meat and cultivation of about 10(^000 acres-of ' land, the East India Company produce an arli- i; tie which, sold at a profit of several hundred per i ' cent, yields to them a net revenue of nearly three \ ' millions sterling. We do not here include the \ 1 Malwa opium?a seventh of the whole revenue J of the country, raised from an extent of more than a million of square miles. From the transport of this drng by a few vessels uamed opium clippers, a few mercantile houses are also rcaliziug magnificent profits, I i m. .1 , ni i.i i m * rlfUL wnnc 1'ie v^imiese ujeiuneivus, w^wu voimr > iners of the drug, part^kky^Sra of six million -J r pounds sterling pjffiamtm. | Thc_ uiobf'astoUndir,g fact of the opium trade . ue<^ j^Ft'o he specified, viz:, that christian sen? sibilitics have not yet been adequately roused in relation to its ii iquities and horrors. | That a professedly Christian government t should by its sole authority, and on its sofc re, sponsibilisy, produco a drug which is not only i contraband, but essentially detrimental to the j best interest of huinauity; that it should anuu5 ally receive into its treasury scores of rupees, >, . which,' if they cannot, save by a too licentious fig, ure, be terimd "thfc price of blood," yet are-de- ~ : monstrably the price of the physfed waste, the ; . social wretchedness and moral destruction bf the . Chinese, aud yet that no sustained remonstrances 3 from the press secular or spiritual, nor from so- A |' cietv, should issue forth against the uqpghteouf ( . system, is surely an astonishing fact in il# his- jvi tory of our Christian ethics. r An American, accustomed to receive from o? ' . I impassioned aiguments against his own nation, V'i on account of slavery, might well be pardoned. y ' were he to say to us, with somewhat-of intern- .T\ ' perate feeling, "Physician heal thyself," and to f~Z ! expose with bitterness the awful inconsistency of f .. Britain's vehement denunciation of Ameri??n / . slavery, wliile, by most deadly measures, furthering Chinese demoralization. / The Reww, in referring -to the hnvooofittjL. 1 man life, closes as follows: ; AY hat unparalleled destruction! The immO] lations of an Indian Juggernauth dwindle into . insignificance before it! AVe again repeat, not^5 ing but slavery is worthy to be compared for ita horrors with this monstrous system of iniquity. t As we write, we are amazed at the enormtty pf t its unprincipledness, and the large extent of is , j destructiveness. Its very enorminv seeins in . some measure to protect it. AATere it a mipor I evil, it seems as though one might grapple with it. As it is, it is beyond the compass of our i grasp. No words are adequate to expose ita . evil, no fires of iudignant feeling are fierce enouglrv to blast it. . The enormous wealth it brings into our coffers j is its only justification, the cheers of vice-enslaved . wretches its only welcome; the curses of all that ^ . is moral and virtuous in an empire of three imn. dred and sixty millions, attend its introduction; the prayers of enlightened Christians deprecate its course; the indignation of all righteous minds is its only "Goa speed " It takes with it fire and sword, slaughter and death; it leaves behind it bankrupt fortunes, idiotized minds, broken hearts and ruined souls.? i Foe to all the interests of humanity, hostile to J the scanty virtues of earth, and warring against the everflowi ng benevolence of heaven; "may we ' soon have to rejoice over its abolition. ' Bloody Battle in Mexico:?Late accounJ*~-w^ ? fiom Mexico, state that the attack, made by i Gen. Minion on Guadalajara througj^vCry apir- 4 ' ited, was without other resul^ Uian the effu- J sion on both sides of %^reat deal of blood.? Fifty pieces of artillery played from each army during the space of two hours. " ' This wasjpllowed by a sortie from, the city ' by Gen. Blfincarte. Une ot tne columns oimi' non, seut to.arrest its progress, was completely 5 defeated, with a loss of 300 killed, and woun" ded. i 5 A second sortie from the city following half of Minion's troop* to San Pedro and attackiug 4 ! the other half at Hospicio, defeated both corpa 1 entirely. The survivors dispersed. Savannah Xews. IIahd Times?Tariff of 1846.?Speaking of the new manufacturing town of Lewiston, (Me.,) the Boston Journal says: , "Several large mills are in successful operation, and others are in progress. The Lewis- ' *! ton YVatec Power Company have thus far } been remarkably successful, and the prospects are exceedingly brilliant. A dividend of forty percent, in stock ofthe Bates Mills was de' dared in 1852, and the position ofthe compa^ ny warrants the expectation of large profits from the growth and prosperity of the manu- -< 2 facturing business.*' ; There is a flourishing branch of the Reform ed Dutch Church at the Cape of Good Hope. ' - There is one Synod, composed of thirty-five or , nhurohns. This bodv holds an annual 9 lliwi u ^ ^ ^ - ? 3 meoting, in which its business is transacted in 1 r perfect decorum mid amity. The last Synod J i) numbered sixty-six ministers and elders," and r claims to be the oldest and most numerous re- a . ligioos body in South Africa. 1 jjmI