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VOLUME'14. ~ CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1853. NUMBER 40.' I PUBLISHED WEEKLY 1JY THOMAS J. WARREN. t i: it m s. Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Filly Coats if payment be delayed three months, and Throe 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,) ??,r t.ho first, and thirtv-seven and a SUVCUbV'-UVV VWIiVO ?v< v half ceuts tor each subsequent insertion. Single insertions. one dollar per square; semi-monthly, monthly a id qu irterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. 23^~fhe number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. ^lisfflltmrons. For the Camden Journal. Physical and Moral Training of the Rising Generation. "When we look around upon the rising generation, the thought often comes up: What will be their moral and physical condition, and what their ability to discharge the duties which will devolve upon them ? For the faithful performance of any duty, a proper preparatory course is deemed necessary. Let us see what preparation the young of the present day are undergoing: and, to'begin with th a females?they being the most important? 'what is the physical training to which they are subject, designed to give them a sound mind in a sound &c<?y, and thus fit them for the discharge of maternal relations?' Arc their bodies suitably clad, with garments so made as not to impede the natural motions of the body, but to allow free and full ihuscular development? Are they permitted and encouraged to take free exercise in the open air, without which the body cannot attain to its natural growth, nor the mind any listing vigor! Alas! for poor suffering humani ty, this course w hich nature dictates is not pursued ; but on the contrary, the natural motions t>f the body are restrained ; the limbs and mus clesof respiration are not allowed lull play ; tlie helpless prisoners are for the most | art confined within doors; and when suffered to go out to take a short walk, it is under the charge of some staid personage to watch their motions and tell them it is unlady like to run and jump about; thus compelling them to move as so many machines, an 1 with little more manifestation of vitality. Thus for the most part are females managed in cities, towns, and at boarding schools. This is considered refinement ! It is refinement with a vengeance ; for truly it refines away the energy of ffiind and body?both are enfeebled?and child-bearing finishes the work that this unna tural course had begun. The constitution becomes broken, the nerves shattered?their days are passed in mental and bodily suffering, and a premature death often completes the pictureWhen will parents and guardians awake from this stupid lethargy in regard to -so important a matter? When will common sense c;iu.se thein to cease from a course that sacrifices their off spring to such folly and blindness? When will they adopt as rational a course in raising chil dren as they do in raising stock f We are writing nothing new? these things have been said again and again ; but it is needful that they be often pressed upon the public attention, in the hope that impressions may be made which shall some day result in a decided improvement. "And how is it with the boys ? They have in some respects the advantage over their feeble sisters?they can run, and romp, and play until they get in their teens, when they put on the gentleman, wear neck-cloths, a fashionable hat, gloves and a walking stick?chew, smoke, drink, and so progress rapidly in all the vices of their seniors; their constitutions soon become diseased and enfeebled, and they have little ambition or ability, beyond animal indulgences. Our remarks so far applj' chiefly to cities and towns, but in what we may say as to moral training, our remarks will have a more universal application. The Almighty has made it an universal rule, bearing upon man as a physical, intellectual and moral being, that happiness consists with duty in all these relations; and that every departure therefrom is followed by its evil consequences, which act as a punishment designed to awaken us to reflection and examination so that we may amend our ways. The Lord by Moses commanded his people to teach his laws unto their children, and that not occasionally, but frequently so that often during the day his precepts would be instilled into their young minds, and thus they would grow up in a knowledge of then duty, and be fitted fur their stations as the older generation passed away. IIow little of this training do we see in the world, even among professing christians ? It appears that parents, as if by common consent, permit children to have their own way. Where arc the fathers or mothers that are properly teaching the little immortals given them in time, to be their companions in eternity! Alas! alas!?to give the giils a> many fashionable accomplishments as may be, and see them well married, as the phrase is? this is about the sum total ot their cart fur them, For the sons, the concern is to place then^Jn j situation where they can live free from Mua labor?this is about the chief anxiety for them As to that discipline which imposes wliolcsottu restraints, an] duties?which inculcates subjec tion and resj?ect to all in authority?these and like duties enjoined by God upon parents, al seem by common consent to he abandoned.? Tiiis is almost universally the case, and shocking it is to contemplate?and in a christian ago, so called?to see God practically forgotten and hi laws contemned. The future?the future will show the awfu consequences of this sad neglect of duly to chil [jlren, to society, to country, and to God; but must close those desultory remarks, which won ! designed to introduce an extract from a Medica | work on the Theon?and Practice of Medicine by Dr. E. E. .Marny, tlic good sense ot wmei ! will commend itself to the reader, page 139: "The first and most essential condition for tin enjoyment of perfect health, consists in a svm metrical and well developed organization. Ir looking around Upon the world, how few do w< behold that can boast of unexceptionable physi c d conformations ??how few who have notsoim imperfection which might have been avoided b\ an early and proper attention to physical culture! But how shall this bodily perfection be attained We reply, by tin; universal establishment of fret public gymnasiums, where those athletic exercises cau be pursued which shall systematically de velope and strengthen every pnrt of the body We repeat, let there be established athletic sports, games, &c., suitable for all ages and conditions where the man of mature years may ocrup) .agreeably an occasional leisure hour with physi caTaud mental benefit; where the growing youth can correct all incipient bodily defects, and acquire that development and expansion in ever) part, which will enable all of the organs to ael in a free and healthy manner. Let us abolish "infant schools" for the education of infant intellects, and establish in their place infant gym nnsiums for the culture of their infant bodies Lot u3 see no more intellectual "infant prodi gies," with their pale, sicklv faces, and their feeble and half-developed forms, but show us in their stead physical prodigies with their rosy checks, their plump, linn, and weil grown nius cles. and with their elasticity and buoyancy re minding us constantly of perfect health. Show us your children of six, eight, or ten years of age wild, bouncinir. and oveidowinnr with anima spirits, rather than your fine, well mannered, deli cate, sickly, hot house and band-box specimens ''All physiologists agree as to the vast importance to the young, of a great amount of ex ercise?free, spontaneous, and unrestrained. 1 is a prir.c pie of their natures, absolutely cssei: tiai to their well being, and we must not purmi the artificial customs or restraints of society t< prevent it. "Our remarks apply with more-force to citic: than to the country; for in the former everything is forced and unnatural. Children are born int< hot-housis, and reared in dwellings heated will Lehigh coal, to the temperature of 75 or 80 de grees Fahrenheit. Here do these unfortunate pass the best part of their existence., encompass ed by every thing which is unnatural aud artifi cial, and inhaling an atmosphere deprived of i portion of its oxygen, and impregnated with car bonic and other noxious gasses, until, while ye young lti years, they arrive at the condition o old age, satiated with the displays and lttxuric ??f life, and reduced to a miserable state of phy sical inefficiency. "It has been well remarked by physioiog'sts that it' the large cities were not constantly sup plied with healthy recruits from the country the1 would soon become desert wastes. This reinarj is. bevond Question, true; and it is oulv neces sary to look into any of our large tmvns and be hold the numerous worn-out and impotent wreck of the wealthy families who have been inhabi tants for two <ir three generations, to be con vinced of the fact."' T. Prosperity and Virtue.?It is unfortunati for mankind that those situations which favo pleasure are too generally adverse to virtue. Vir ttie requires internal goiernnieiit and discipline prosperity relaxes the mind and intlames tin passioi s. Virtue is supported by a regard t* what is future, prosperity attaches us wholly t< what is present. The characteristics of virtu* are modesty and humility; the most cotumoi attendants of prosperity are pride and prc-sump lion. One should think that prosperity woulc prove the strongest incitement to remember am ! to honor the (rod who bestows it; yet such is tin ' per\erscness of human nature, that it proves tnucl oftcner the motive to impiety. The changes o the world call the attention of men to an invisi ble power. But a train of events proceeding ac cording to their wish, leads them to nothing be yond what they see. The Supreme Giver i concealed from view by his own gifts. This in stance^of success they ascribe to a fortunate oc currencct f worldly causes?that acquisition t< their own skill and industry?unmindful of bin u-tin from the hooiiiniinr nrranwd that, series o causes, and who placed tlieni in circumstance ; where their industry could operate with success From forgetting God they too often proceed b despise him. All that is light or giddy in thei minds is set in motion by the gale of prosperity ! Arrogance and self-sufficiency arc lifted up, am 1 their state is considered as secured l?v their owi i strength.?Dr. Blair. j Goon Temper is Gold.?If people general! I knew what an advantage to them it was to b ; cheerful there would be fewer sour faces in th j world, and infinitely less ill temper. A mni novel gains anything by exhibiting his annoyane in his face, much less by bursting into a passioi I As it is neither manly nor wise to yield like ; child pettishly to every cross, so it is alike fool i>b and ab-urd to allow feelings of anger to dc ; prive us of self-control. There never was a mai | in any controversy who lost his temper that di< 1 not come near losing his cause in consequence I If ever a person plays the game of his enemies i I is when lie is in a passion. Acquaintances shut j men of proverbially ill temper; friends dru away from them ; even wives and children grad ually learn to fear them more than to love.? Thousands of men owe their want of success i ' - i i ,.r ?iw.:.. iiii3 IO licgiceiiii^ uit? wntiwi %ji LIIVII tL-ui]'C' | Nor have they the excuse that it is an infirmit ' ; which cannot be restrained; for Washingtor I though naturally of a most passionate disposi ? tiou, disciplined himself until he passed for . I person utterly impas-ive. No man who neglect I his temper can he happy any more than he ca make those happy around. (Jood temper is goh is health, is everything. Bad temper is a curs to the possessor and to society. r A Deed of Hfoblc Daring. The fullowing deed of noble daring is corded as one of the events attendant on t j late destruction by fire of the Imperial Th< ! tie at Moscow: 1 I From the suddenness of this melancholy ( - i currence, and from the number ot employe j permanently living with their families in t House, many lives were lost. Threeskeleto were found in the ashes. Just at the co 1 rriencement of the fire, three workmen w , had been engaged in the upper stories, fiudi i no means to descend by the staircase, so rap was the progress of the flames, jumped out the windows to the lower roof, which being ' iron, soon became so intensely hot, that t\ of the ur^wrtunate beings, threw themselves 1 the groutd, and were killed by the fall. T 3 third, with more presence of mind, made 1 way over the protruding broad cornices, a ; there remained some minutes, till the greet } element, not content with the number of j i victims, made its appearance close by hi " | The poor man cried luudly for help. Lndd< ! i were proeuied, but they did not reach t heiirht at which he stood, lie saw it, a " j racing his arms to heaven, he made a sign ' | the cross, and began to approach the edge t | the precipice before him. in an instant mo ' , he would have become a corpse.?Thousan i of people stood all around gazing with horr at the immense pile, upon which this poor m 1 remained helpless and hopeless. Silence li that of the grave reigned among the multitiu His fate seemed inevitable.?Suddenly w heard a voice, "Stay a moment, my good f 1 low ! Pray to God, and I'll endeavor to sa you !" All e)es were turned to the spot fn whence those sentences were uttered A gro of three men were observed, common pcasan two of them holding by the arms and sho ders a third, who was struggling ha'd to bre from the ho d of his friends. ' Let me go, ii lads,' sai l he, ' my Irart is burning within m I cannot bear the sight of a Christian soul th perishing!' And with a powerful effort, ' ?> - I- 1 _,1 'PI... nroKii tuuse ituu uai icu iwiwaiu. a no ucn j crowd gave way as he ran to the burning buii ing, pulling from himself, and at the sni time throwing away his shuol (sheep ski ' and his hat. In an instant he was at the fi of the ladder; here he took off his boots, tached a rope round his waist, and seizing oven-fork which happened to lay clo*c by, began to ascend the ladder, which did r reach at the utmost to two-thirds of the lieu ' at which stood the victim. Having attain the upper foot-step, the generous man to s hold of the rain-gutter. Apparently, it w > not a very safe means of ascent, as it bent a 3 rattled under bis weight.?But the man w 1 resolved ; lie made the sign of the cross, a began to cliinb up. A cloud of suffbeuti s smoke whirled around him; the flames w< fist approaching; burning timber, red-hotshei of rootling iron were falling down fiom evi x side; but what to him was all this? Iiis he was burning within his breast; he could i \ hear the sight of a Christian soul thus peri * i"grs It was a fmsty day; the rain-gutter was c< as ice; his warm, sw eaty palms and fingi stick and freeze to the iron tube, he tears the , off, leaving bloody marks at every hold, a ascends higher and higher, till he puts his ft on a projecting cornice. From hence, by mei of the oven fork, he handed the rope to I poor man above h in. "Tie it fast to the ho which suppmts the gutter. That's right. Now descend ! And he held the other end the rope, and preceding the man still, suppo ing him down the gutter, placed liirn on the li der. The man was saved. During all this time the inulli.udc stu e breathless; but when they saw them both < r of danger all hats were taken off, and a sign - j the cross at every breast testified a gene 1-1 1 I 1 1 I . I : | inaiiKSgivmg, ; im a jouu snout, approved i e act of generosi y. Every one pressed forwii 3 to see tliu hero uf this little scene. The li j who approached him, an officer in the nrn j gave him twenty-five roubles silver. The i j ample was followed; noblemen, merchan peasants, took out their purses; some ga 1 golden some silver coin; some threw into .1 hat a few copper copeeks; all gave what th e could. "Clod bless you, noble friend !" \i l ! heard from every side, f 1 The name of thisgenerous man is Bazil M j rin, a native of the {Government of Tarosh . i Being a roofer by irade, he for many yet i- | lived in St. Petersburg, pursuing bis voeatio s i but afterwards engaged himself as a boiler-n -! Iter at the Government foundry of liolpino. j Last year he took leave of absence and visit j 1 his native village. Having spiht a few monl l ! with his friends, he was returning to St. Pete f ; burg by way of Moscow, to avail himself of t s j railways, lie came to the ancient capital t ;.1 day before the fire; and, not having caught t o' train, was obliged to remain till the next d; r As this was bis first arrival in Moscow, he to '. | the opportunity of seeing the Kremlin, the A .1 ; fortre.-s, and to visit its venerable cathciw ii j There, from some passers-by, he heard ufl ! fire, and hastened to the spot, where he jfl J bly distinguished himself. y i At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of tlu^H c day he took his seat in a rail way cnrriag^H e ! the 13th of the same month he reached it tersburg, and again enlisted himselfin tlu^B e ' ber of workmen at Kolpino. In two ) ... .1 iK.... ict lit' \va? suuiiiiuucii tu luc uiucc a oral policemaster of liic capital, wher^HH I- told that the emperor desired to see !- was accordingly taken to the palace. n perjal Majesty received Marrin in his sH| J was pleased to say to him when he entercfl ' thank you for a good action. Embrat^H t and relate how you did it." In sitnpl^^H a j Marrin told his story; mid when hc^^H p the Emperor dismissed him, saying, - may go; hut in case of need come to - time." Soon afterwards Marrin was i n with a medal and a sum of 150 roubl>^^H y The Cure for all the ills and wrongs, i, the sorrows, and the crimes of humnnit^^H i- in that one \yord, Love. It is the divi^^H a ' ty that everywhere produces and rcstor^H| s ! To each and every otto of us it gives t^^H 11 ; of working miracles if we will.?Mrs. , I ?fl e II iniug* were 10 oe uone iwice, uu ITe ,'ging and Imposture. re* ' The uthcr day a fine, tall hearty, good '1C j 'ng young woman came into our office, ) ;a" | little girl five or six years old, and preset) j with a paper setting forth that her liusban ,t% been shipwrecked, murdered and sold as a !CS or perhaps had encountered other calain ',c ten times worse, and had to flee his count l,s The woman was well dressed, and looked til- f'/wt-i Mi* ami Itannv nntl Hfi fl - yeiuci cwui.w..??.v .... ( |V, ',0 little girl, her child. She had a hook with i 'Jn register of names of persons who had con ted to her imposture and beggary. We pre ?f ly declined to read her paper, or look ovt ?' names of those who had been her foolish d vo She seemed amazed at our hard-heartcc to but before leaving our office she saw very < ',e ly that we understood her perfectly and thi 113 had caught a Tartar. We told her it i shame and a disgrace for a woman to leav Jy home and her country, and wander ibou ,ts foreign land begging, when she was youn m* hearty, and strong, and able to work anc :rs port herself handsomely ; we had hundred he thousands of poor women in America, were a thousand times more the objec charity than herself; that she had health strength, and youth, with only one child, < re? they were unable to leave their abodes of ry and want, from disease, or age, or si or and had many helpless chilJren ; that in lln countiy no one who had health and sir j*e should think of begging. She replied sli le* not know how to sew. We told her she as soon learn, and that there were many h u'* ways of support herself, other than by se VH She could go into service, and wash, and ,m up beds, and fix the house, and do out l,P work, for she was strong enough to do at ts5 bor ! About this stage of our lecture, she 1 to think it tune to leave so heathenish a j and jumped up and ran out of the office, sh ny the dust off her feet as she quit the thresh e> We strongly suspected that her husband, \ us captivity and death was most feelingl he forth in her papers was near at hand, and ise ing to hear her success. Id It fs really high time that a stop shoul put to this species of foreign imposition, would suppose that a want of success \ l0t put a stop to it; but they are successful and a great deal! There is no species of in 'j111 lion in the .world too gross to meet wil conragement. Sonre give through folh some give in order noi to appear hard-Ik ' : There arc others who give through fear of i evil being done them or their property by Uv vagrants. One would naturally supposi a sturdy young foreigner, able to work, ling through the country hegging, would little likely to meet witli success as any mediennt in the world. Hut not so. "? dreds and thousands ot them acctimuiai le sidcrable sums of money, and with whiel L'ts return to their own native hills.? Oree ^ Patriot. u(}t Kebp Co:*i..?We remember once pj *thvough the iparket, and coming to a stall . i a huckster officiated in selling chickens, j '' a quiet Quaker lady was turning away u irs purchasing, after pricing and inspect!n< !l" articles on sale. Some involuntary intirr 11 by the Quakeress had notified the hu< 'ot that the lady doubted the sweetness u l.I,s chickens, which arroused the wrath of the ie er ir> a very nnequivical way, and she ?v forth a volley of coarse abuse after the Qi ~ ess, who was now examining some artic 0 an adjoining stand. Our Quaker frienc Tt* nothing,and remained perfectly cool, whi angry woman's voice rose higher and h . till she seemed nearly exhausted. At las 0 letting all her strength into a final, terrifi jUj: burst, she exclaimed " Confound you, i don't speak riUsplit." The Quakeress d 1,1 speak, however, even to prevent the threa l(T catastrophe, but finishing her purchase, q ir moved on, leaving her abuser the picti mortified vexation. It would have been luxury, had the Quakeress given but a w cx" reply to her triade. But she did not, ai ' punishment was dreadful. l,js We have often called tliis little inciill mind, and have sometimes wondered tin ,;IS pie v ho wish to he revenged on thos abuse them do not take the Quakers inetl ,r. meeting abuse with silenco. Noisy vit ,fl* lion delights in nothing so much as in hi ,rs' its echo from the abused party. Y? ,,. yourself down to his level by replying )a_ same strain, and thus save him the sham mortification which he would certainly U(j left to reflect, that the wrath and wt lls words had all been, on.his side. If you v rs- gain a victory and mortify your abuser, lent and keep cooI^-^A^^^joow. he. h(SHHHBHn |^^KRSn^BKHTC^B?3 From the Raleigh "Spirit of the Age." -look- The World's Temperance Convei villi a lion, ted us This Convention commenced its session id liar) New York on the Cthinst., and lasted four day slave It was quite numerously attended, embraeir nities delegates from nearly all tlio Slates in the U ry.? ion, and also from British America, as well; alto- England and Scotland of the old world. Ash id the been the case in all Conventions held in tl ilong large Northern Cities of late years, whether of tribu- political, religious or social character, so at th impt- Convention, some confusion and riotous procec< !r the ings were had in the outset of its session ; bi upes. we are gratified to state that the discordant el Iness, mcnts attempted to be introduced were protnp clear- ly disowned and thrust out, and the moving di it she organizers refused seats in the Convention. The vas a had met to propose measures for the advanc e her ment of the great Temperance reform, and the i in n i were determined not to be deterred or swerve g and ! from this noble end. The fact that Hora> 1 sup- Grecly denounces the proceedings, is aufticiei s and to every right-thinking inind, that all is right, who We are indebted for the following facts to tl: ts of New York Times, which every reader of tl , and Age will peruse with pleasure: whilst "The Convention had scarcely met before tl rnise scheme of the disorganizes was made apparen lame, One of the tribe, Mr. Clarke, of Rochester, offe this ecl a resolution inviting everybody who shoul e?gth j choose, "without respect to age, sex, color, < ie did condition," to take part in its proceedings. Th could ! wjts promptly and distinctly voted down. " nnocf I \\T ? ,U^,l ...... tU* fXr., ?i uiiiuu men puauvu nci naj iv tu?yiavivn wing, and renewed the question by making a persons make j^e upon it. The clamors of the Abolitionist -door Socialists, Radicals, women in pantaloons, an iy la- others, who constituted her backers, rendered jegan absolutely necessary that she should be "crow< place, ded off the platform" and "gagged," if the bus aking ncss for which the Convention met was to I lhold. transacted. And after two days had been coi vhose sumed in this unseemly but necessary work, In y set determination not to "stay gagged," rendcre wait- equally imperative the,-thorough completion i the job. And considering its difficulty, as we Id be as i? necessity, we consider this about the be One , three days' work performed by any Conventic vould i'1 our City for some time past, make ! "^?r>s there the shadow of an excuse for tli lposi- violent intrusion upon the Convention. The th en- i Amazons and their backers had just held a Ten and perance Convention of their own, expressly h raited cause they knew'that this Convention was ,n< some designed for them, and that they had no bu? such ness to niedJlo with it. 3 that "When it was found that the Temperance fe strol- ture of the Convention could not be made be as j give place to the Woman's Rights crusade, i other attempt was made to supersede it by the Ah Hun- 1 lit ion and infidel element. Wendell l'hillir e con- j one of the groat champions of rampant radicf i they ism in Boston, was imported hither to aid in tl nville work :?a sham society was created, he was fc I in ally chosen its delegate, and armed with slia | credentials, he claimed a seat in the Conventio issing The thimble-rigging operation was speedily d where tected, and, in spite of his false pretences, M 11st as Phillips was respectfully, but rather uncereur ithout niously, ejected. Thus collapsed the second pa ? the of the grand experiment. iHtlon j ?A third remained. Dr. J. MeCune Smith, kster worthy and respectable pastor of a Colon I t'ie Church in this City, claimed admission as a del i deal- | gj,te?for the purpose c mfessedly of introducir rolled ' au African element into its deliberations. 13 taker- j application was refused. And having thus e les at | hausted the patience of the disorganizes, rep< 1 said led all their attempts to convert the meeting iu le the j something else than a Temperance conventio ieher, and succeeded in obtaining control of their o\\ it col- organization, the Convention proceeded to di c out- inf wluit the Tribune stvles the "incidental i rv"v ? j - f you of the business?namely: adopting measures id not! advance the cause of Temperance." itened uietly "Our Dear Little Baby."?At a mason ure ol y.,rj ;n this city is a headstone, with the i such worth:?"Our dear little baby and the rnii ord in ! ^le Uj)OII which affection has cut the sentern id the jsas Slua|l ami as pure as an infant. Surel here is perfection in an epitaph. The age of ent to d) iog child is nothing, and need not be recor it peo- ed ; and what is there in a name when the hea e who yearns for the form. This little stone has 1 lod of mark for curiosity, and cold history wou upera- frown on it; but a parent?any parent ent< i.-uing iug a graveyard where the baby rests, and th iu let small marble may stand, would carefully avo in the treading on the little grave, and yet would stai c and there conjuring up the once bright eyes of th feel if baby fixed on a mother's love, and its ar athful opening for a father's fondness; and then, ah dshto the dinting of those eyes, and the drooping be si- those arms; the silence, and what more sa ^^|^a dead child ; and the father and mother t this cry of nature?"Our do Y e to the EJ UIIUI1I WU il ?that face whi which comes nouldered in t :act mechanic illy beheld, b ruther its r?ti ance, its essen character, a ual powers, t litter from t inter or a scu! se?Our readi xtensively mat articles, such i I ways cars, \v< hern, we suspc J 1_- - a* a IL>\v that a living animal can ue maue 01 i kterial, though such seems to be the fact, ^or two ago, while passing up Chat In ^^opposite the Hall of Records, our atu H^Rarrestcd by a large white muslin b; ^^wwhich were the words: "Wonder of t Wm a living Mexican India rubber horse wi Mair, mane or tail." We are unable to s Rlier this is an infringement of Day's pate Gbably those who have seen the animal < 11 ?Express Messenger. Cm-ions Fact?.* 9 a.'! A' Lo11doli letter in the National IuteJIigixlcer contains' sdiiid very terrfafkable fhets njn specting the pbpulaliot) of Great liri'.ain, wliieli 8< we condense thus: H ,g " The returns of the pdjiulation of Great' fl Britain, according to the census of 1850; have ;is at length been published, in part, fn two very 9H [IS thick lolio volumes/ The labor df collecting1C this information was immense; G20 superiua tendent registrars, 2,190 registrars, and 80,- fl ;s G10 enume ators were en>ployed -Jo England j. and Wales, and in Scotland 1,010 superintend Jt; dents, and 7,873 enumerators. Jailors, mas-' f^R e. ters of workhouses, custom houses, naval and' ^B t. military officers,* clergymen, school-masters, jH s. and officers of public institutions, all assist IB in supplying this information. By this large" jB e_ array of workers the whole of the population-L=B| ,y returns of Great Britain were collected in*one 1(j day, so that the mere expense of procuring the B cc returns was comparatively small. The remaiuder of the Lime, from that day to the be- jB ginning of the present mouth, was occupied i|B ,e w ith arranging the returns for the press, and - "^B le in printing them. Seven millions of form*' were printed, and the weight of all the papers- - jB sent from the central office exceeded fifty two' jB t tons. The most striking and important in*- 4 ' ' formation which it contains is the certain fact B ij of the continual increase of the people sinee' .B )r 1801, whence the practice of taking a decimal' B g census commenced. Prior to that'time the B ^ numoer or people was conjectural, or ascern" tained by the luysest and nust vague calcula I tion. At the close of the eighteenth century,* -9 it was supposed that the population doubled1 I J in.one hundred and sixty years. Earlier rb-' 9 jt cords, however, very conclusively show fhi'fc 9 i the population took the whole of the fifteenth, 9 * sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or three 9 j'e hundred years, to double itself. Of the prcK*' giess of population previous to the fifteenth- 9 r>r century, nothing satisfactory is known. The j best writers upon the subject have concluded' 49 that, at the time of the couq&est, the popiila-* 9 ii tion of England and Wales did hot exeeedl m 3t 2,000,000, ' of wliom," says Sharan Turner,* B ' " nearly three fourths were in a slate of slhvb* 9 rv, and nothing could have broken their bohdr 9 j3 but such e.cuts as the Norman conquest' arid 9 ^ the civil wars which it excited and fostered.'-' 9 n_ In 1801 Great Britain, which had then been I c. peopled at least twenty centuries, contained a 1 ,it population o! 10,917,483 persons ; in 1851:the 9 .j. population is ascertained to have been 21l,124,- 9 9G7?being nearly double of what it was" in 9 1801; therefore, during the fifty intervening m * } ears the increase alone was very nearly as 9 much as the aggregate population which: fiad 9 in accumulated in twenty centuries. Thus" the 1 ?~ population has done that during the last-fifty 1 years which the eleven centuries betweeri1 the 9 landing of Julius Cajsar and William the Cftn- 9 ie queror, had scarcely accomplished! At1 the J r* same, time it might easily be shown, that the - 9 I" nr ?i,? nnfrii had inniwaeiul' C\ctnr n* than its population. The 21,121,967 peojjle in fe" Great Britain are very unequallydispersed.- In England and Wales they are at an average .1 u* distance usunder of 108 yards. In Lohdon 3 rt they are within 14 yards of each other. In . East London there are 185,751 persons to a square mile; in the district of Bellinghani, Northumberland, there are only 18 to a square e" mile, or in London the population of a square 'S mile is more than ten thousand tiiues greater 13 than that of Bellingham. In the towns the. x" people are 5-2 persons tu a square acre, in the ' country there are 5 8 acres to each person. 10 Placing three persons in every square yard, j n> the whole population might be placed in 1,470 n acres. In Great Britain there'are 815 towns '9^ containing 10,566,288 persons,-and 10;403,179 4 s dell in what, for the sake of- distinction, is t0 always called the country." f Ex Senator Dickinson.?Ron. D.S. Dick1 8 inson, of New York, has published a letter in se reply to .the charge made in the Washington ir" Union, that he advocated the Wilmot proviso cc in the Senate, in 1847. He asserts that on no y> occasion whatever has he advocated'any tiling favoring free soil doctrines. , j 11 Sailing of Missionaries?Rev'd. Wm. Gle , mens and wife, of Wheeling, Va., and the Rev. E. T. Williams and family, sailed- from Nevv!r" York last Saturday fer tile Island of Carisco, Pj about 200 miles frohy the mouth' of the river of Niger, and near the" Heart' of the great Congo. ' They go out as missionaries of the O. S. Pres* bvterian Church, and'desire the establishment of an American colony . of "* ~ d Filling Up.?The New-Orleans True Del,el t:i of Thursday says: The streets slid houses of ar the city appear to ho rapidly filling up, yet no strangers are making their appearance among us. Those who had sought refuge in the neighboring towns, and in the Luke Shore Watering Places, are returning to their homes as a meas?' ure of safety; for at present the fever is worse beyond the limits of the city than within its rc borders. oil Thousands, too, had been for weeks prostrate ted by the fever, are now getting about again, he and thus do we account for the increasing num:al bers who daily make they appearance on our ut sidewalks and public thoroughfares. It is to Ji- be hoped that soon the last vestiges of the yclee low plague will be rooted out so that strangers ml may again feel safe in visiting us, and so that he the lile-pulse of business may throb on without he impediment. The Printers' Strike in Pittsburg has resulted in a partial substitution of females as comers positors in several of the newspaper offices of iU. that city. The giils, it is said, have shown a as great readiness to avail themselves of this new i,r. demand for tlioir services, and the applications ?l for employment have already exceeded the pla|ie ces to be llUed. The Pittsburg Despatch had A more than forty candidates for situations in iu inl composing room. in The Governor of Virginia, it is said, is about .lie to semi to the Crystal Palace the' banner of his th- State. It is made of broad stripes of white lav and mazarine blue satin, with rich silver fringe nt, and elegant light blue drapery, which is held :an up by the bead of a handsome silver eagle at the top of the staff.