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Tlio Spartan circulates largely over this and * adjoining districts, ond oilers an admirable medium ( to our friends to resell customers. Job work of all kinds promptly executed. Blanks, Law and Kquily, continually on hand or t priutcd to order. CAROLINA SPARTAN ; Mr. Dallas in England. Mr. Dallas, our minister in England, by invitation, was present at a Into anniversary j of the Royal Humane Society of London, ^ and in reply to a toast, dotailod the follow ing interesting incident: Mr. Dallas roso to retuin thanks for the toast and the sentiments which accompanied ' it, which, he said, were reciprocated through- ' out his land. It would be a source of > great calamity if two nations such as Great ] Britain and the United States of America should over again come into collision. It was to bo hoped that iu the decreoa of ' Providence there was nothing of that sort 1 for the future. There was something, how- \ ever, appertaining closely to himself thai f he had to communicate. That to which their honorable chairman had referred wa more of a public, national, political, and ( certainly highly interesting character. But ho wished to say a few words on the subject ( of their own association, and to tell them a little passage of simple, unaffected family , history, which might not he altogether uninteresting to those who were thus ossein bled that night. [Ilear, hear. | Well, then, he was placed under an obligation to the t Royal Humane Society about eighteen years ( before be was born. [Cheers and laughter. | Ho poreeived in the paper which had ~ just been placed before him that there had g been 15,900 eases of rescue froin death by drowning otleeted through the agency of ' that noble institution, or at the rate of two hundred per annum. [Cheers.] There was probably not a single individual connected with the society who could be old enough f to recollect the incident to which he was j about to refer; for, if any body could rccol h*ct i>, it would be the venerable gentleman opposite him, and bo was sure that even bis . age would fall a few days short, lie wished ( to speak to them of llio first man whom ; their association rescued trout donlu. It was near (lie yean* 1771 and 1775, just after the Humane Society had been instituted. A young man of excellent cduca- < lion, of large properly, about seventeen j years of age, was walking with his servant on the banks of the Thames; lie came to its j brink, and the weather being unusually ( warm, lie soon ventured to doll his clothes and to plunge into tlio river, lie was a gallant and excellent swimmer, lie struck j out boldly and lustily for the centre of the , stream, but before lie got there lie was ^ seized with a violent cramp, ami, with one ( shiick, he sunk iuuneJiutoly. 1 Lis servant, ( distracted, ran towards some neighboring ^ building. At that very time, and for die first time, the implements of the Koyal ilu- s mane Society?the grappling irons, the drags, the boats?were accessible. These were put into immediate requisition, and, J tho alarm having been given, the young ; man was taken from the water. Accord- ) iiitr to the usaire of the time, lie was rolled upon tho bridge and rescued, resuscitated, and restored by the agency of that institution. [Cheers. J That was in 177-1 or 1775. lie was then seventeen years of ago. Fivo years after that young man was rescued he married, in the county of J>e von, and in tho course of a few yen is lie went in search of his patrimonial estates in Jamaica, and found that they had been dissipated by a stoward, into w hose bands they bad been intrusted. He went with his wife to the United States, where lie arrived in 1793, just at the close of tho Revolutionary war. That young man, thus rescued from a watery grave, applied himself at onco to the study of the law. Ho rose in the profession. Ho became himself i at onco the associate of Washington, of Jefferson, of Madison. ilo became himself one of the most conspicuous counsel of the United Slates of America, an admirable, if not in that country an unequalled writer, and a distinguished politician, lie at length filled tho office of Secretary of the Treasury. | Hear, hear.| That young man, that counsel, that author, who had been rescued by tho Koyal Humane Society, who became the head of a numerous family, whoso descendants wore now well known throughout tho United Slates of America; that young man, ho might say without any feeling of vanity, that young man was his own father. [Tromondoua cheering. | lie c died some thirty years ago; and during his life, ho referred to tlio lloyal Humane Socioty as otic founded on the noblest priuci- { pies, and which was carried out with an enorgy propoitioned to its excellence, j, [Cheers.| Ho had heard of tho merits of the society from others, and had thought that that little piece of family history might N not ho unplcasig to thorn. | Loud cheers. | ; L Ho hopod it might tend to encourage their . noblo exertions, and to promote the usefuliioss of so admirable nn association. [Choors. | ' '* I Point-Blank CoMl'umenth. Spanish t robbers are rory polite. An Englishman , was once accostod on a lonely road by a , ruffian. "Sir," said he, "you liavo my coat | on; may I trouble you for it?" Tho Lng- ?; iisbrrtan drew a pistol and told tho fellow | ho was mistaken, "Sir," said tho robber, I perceive that I am. Will you do me tho honor to communicate your name, that I may remember it in inv prayors)" | s Warren Statue Inauguration. Many Southern papers are waxing wrot over the sharp ami ungentlemanly con menU of Northern Abolition papers on tl speech nud bearing of Senator Mason, < Virginia, who was invited to the recent ii niguration of tho Warren Statue at llosioi 1'ho followingextracl from tho paper edib L?y the blasphemous Garrison will alio ihat Everett, Winlhrop, and all engaged i the celebration, aro much more bitterl denounced at home. Surely Senator M ion may draw comfort from this, as Jacl ion oneo mollified the wrath of tho Itussin minister: Tho party papers of thocountr luring tho General's first term, look occ lion to abuse tho Emperor Nicholas 1110 oundlv. l>uron Slnckolberg (then repr leiiling Russia?a Hull' specimen of h hen rudo countrymen)?repaired to nil a lienco with tho I'r- ident, and indulge oud complaint of the outrageous abui Msstowed upon his august master. M lear sir, said Jackson, taking up sever papers and indicating numerous arlicl ionuncialory of himself and ndmiuistrntio hey do not abuse your emperor halfasbn is tlicy do their own President?and yet bavo 110 power to stop them! Tho ca ivas plainly hopeless, and tho good-uatur*. embassador, seeing tho fbreo of the illustr ion, quietly shrugged his shoulders, an vent away laughing. J Jul to the extra rotn Gnrrisou : "And who were tho prominent actors i his 'patriotic' farce? First?Edward E sretl, the man ready to buckle on his knaj aek and shoulder his muskot to shoot dow he slaves of the South, whenever tin. diall venture to imitate tho example < iVarreu! Next?Robert C. Winlhrop, eoi ervalisni run to seed, a moral coward o nstinct, false to tho catiso of lilisrty in h iwii day. Next?fitly introduced by Wii .nrop, senator Mason, ot \ liginta, tn: nonster of iniquity, tlio author of the Fi ;itive Slave Bill, whose contempt for Ma achusetts is equalled onlv hy his regatd ft Javo y, and whoso speech was very prt >erly eharacterizod by Southern insolcnc iov. Gardner, the mention ?^f whose nan s sufficient. tienrgo hunt, (as the authi )f the ode sung on the occasion,) the dirt tatideror to the slave oligarchy, who. Ion igo, made himself endttrahly infamous I lis readiness lu 'crush out' all freedom t |?eoch and of tire pros on the subject , lavery in the ??! i Hit State. It i nee, ess to recapitulate the entire list of pc ormeis. What livpociisy comparable I his?" Return of (lie Kemnanl. There was a grim propriety in ma! in ^ow York the point at which to debut lie sick and wounded '"lillibusteis" rcsciu it San Juan by the I'nited States Goven neat, put on hoard the sloop of war (Jyai liore, and then transferred to the Waba-1 Let us see. We have hud, during tl brtuight past, a series of set orations froi Jen. Walker and Gen. IJenuingscn Ml heir "Manifest bostiny" compatriots, as vith a special view to rob their recent op ations in Central America of their moi enulsivo featuies. in order to nrenaro tl way for futuro proceedings of tlio sail loscription, if nut in Nicaragua, then i ionic other inviting quarter, as soon as ci uinstances will bo likely to make the e KTiinout pay. Now, theso speoeh-iuakiii rontlemen aio the upper crust flllibuslet he men who eat the complimentary dii ier?, go to the theatres, play the lion at pu ic meetings in the l'ark, and appropria 0 themselves by far the largest per coning #f the "glories" of war, if such a war as tin which has just boon put an end to in Cei ral America can bo said to have an 'glory" at all. Vo who desiro to gaso oil the other si. >t this "glory," however, go and vi-.it ll inforlunato beings whom the Wabash I' lay will transfer to your hospitals. Star 1 moment by the beds of tho seventy t lighty sick and wounded, who grew i-io mil got their wounds in (den. Walker glorious service, aud you will bo apt to ol a u a far truer and a much more vivid coi :eption of what "glory" is than you cu ivur Lope to imbibe from all the eloquei .pooches that over were made over sparl ing champagne, under blazing chandelier >r on some platform, in the midst of a gid<! nultitudo and "tremendous applause," i hs streots of New Oilcans, or in front < ho City Hall hero. New-York city, it is iJlo to deny, wi ho backbone of Walker's liliibustcr uper ions, from tirst to last. Now < Orleans an ho Western cities contributed occasional! ?ut it was New York which furnished hit vith tho bono and sinew, llio narrow an nuscle. This city, indeed, at ono lira van his geueral recruiting shop. It w; igbl and proper, ibeu, that tbo "Wabus bould come hero with his hick and wounl :d. it is just the anticipated and predict! oturna for a very bad investment. T1 >ast expeiionces and present hUtlerings iieso misguided men will have a coolic irt'ect upon any city "enthusiasm" that ins >e wauled for tillibujtor purposes for tc roars at least to come. Men without ley aid arras, and eyes; men emaciated ti vant of wholesome food, or skeletons f< ho want of food of any kind, wasted wil uvors and an intiuilude of other ills im lent to the hard soil of life they have lat y been leading, will be a poweful corre ive, for a long while to come, of all ll iuo spun manifest destiny speeches that a unking, or may hereafter he made, in ll lame of "Liberty," by General this or (J onel that, or the lion. Mr. Somebody eh >o that, after all, some little of moral got. nay come out of all this physical sull'orin | Arcio }'ui k Kxprem. Haiu? Timka?Silling on a cold giin tone and leading the I'lfeidoul's incssag From llic Marion (Alabama) American. j( Posey's History of the Palmetto Regiment. NO. II. It will bo roineiuborcd that hostilities be o twoon tbo United States and Mexico comof mencod about the first of May, 1846. The j. first hostile act was tbo ambuscade and capturo on llio 24lit of April of Captain Thorn ' ton's company of dragoons, while on a re !<l counoisauce a few miles from Matamoros w This was followed immediately by an at in tempt to capture Corpus Cbristi and cut oil |y Taylor's supplies and communication with borne. To aveit so groat a danger, Tayloi 1 marched with almost bis entire force to the * relief of Corpus Cbristi. Tbo Mexicans in opened immediately a bombardment upon y Foit llrown opposite Matamoros, and an army of several thousand crossed the liic Cratide to intorcupt Taylor. lie oticouu tcred them on llio 8th of May at Palo Alto o- and by a brilliant victory drove them bofort is him. They rallied tlio next day for a more u. despcrato resistance, and on the blh of May j lie again encountered them at llosaca lit A La Palma, where they sustained anothoi 50 disastrous defeat, and lied in confusion ami y terror back to their own territory. Mala ;,j moros was surrendered without further re sistanco. Hut before the chcoiing news of thes< lis victories came, there was a period of tin most painful anxiety. The first hostile I news that came, was the ambuscade o 5o Thornton and the attack upon Corpus Cbristi. It was feared that Taylor's mea grc force would be overwhelmed by uutn 11" hers, and destroyed. Prompt to meet tin 'd emergency, a small forco was raised irt ? ct few liours in New Orleans and Mobile which was sent to Corpus Cbr isti. I well remember the glow of national ^ pride, and the military furor, which wen roused to enthusiasm by the tocsin of war Upon a thousand rostra was rung and to n 1. ? v verbcrated tlie thrilling and electric cry, -j. "that the foot of a foreign invader hail polluted American territory, and that Aineri can blood had been shed upon American soil." Then indeed was Amcrimnism in IS . tense, and then was Joretynism under popu ^ lar indignation. I hit times have changed ( since then, and wo have changed will them. r There was n simultaneous tu-h to arms a gatheiing of host.-: j. o c 0 "Willi m?u1? in arms, and eag< r for the fray." 10 On the 11 ill of May tho President com Jt munieated to Congress theoilicial announce v luent of the capture ol 'J'liorti ton's com pa ny, and on the ldtli Congiess passed tin. iy preamble rccoguising the existence of .* if stale of war, autliori/.ed the President to ,f call into service liftv thousand volunteers J olid Vo.rd him ample pecilliiait CKiilh ti r. conduct the war on an imposing scale. (ion. (iaines, then the senior officer in the W oletn dcpaitniont, called foi sev? n regiments fiom the Cull Stales for iuimedi ate scivice. Twice the number prompt I) |(T oifore I themselves, but his i .11 was disap k proved bv the President, an 1 most of tin ,| volunteers were discliaige.l. i, Taylor's hi my was sale, and it was nol u. yet decided upon what plan or foi what oh I, jects the war should be conducted. Thougl: ,e hostilities had commenced, and two gi?ai tll battles had been fought, there was no ofli cial knowledge that Mexico had decl.iied ... ..... . :i jJ ???% . 1 ivouitiKV) IIUI Wlil Q. uiul il might bo that iho Mexican genera re had acteiJ oil his own authority in opening l0 hostilities. Mr. Calhoun in the U. S. .Sen ltJ ato urged tliis distinction, and strenuously ]? opposed, under existing circumstances, ; r. declaration of war. j. There weic also two opinions as to tin ,,r proper plan upon which it should ho con" ducted. There were two causes of the war First, was the long deferred claim which the United Stales had as a creditor agaiusl q Mexico. This, however, was too trilling tc ,0 justify war. Second, and paramount was the annexation of Texas. Upon this Mexice founded two complaints. The tir?t was : !y general objection to .uo annexation of I'exa: at all, and liie second was, that even waiving j0 that objection, tho proper boundary of I'exa1C was the Neuees, not Kio (irando, and thai p. the occupation of the western side of tin Kj Nonces was an invasion of Mexican terrilo jr ry, and in itself an act of w ar against Mcxi k *> Mr. Calhoun urged the one plan and Mi Cass chietly tho other. Tho main cause o u. war being the annexation of Texas and tin. in boundary dispute, Mr. Calhoun urged thai lt the proper plan of tho war was defensive 1^. That wo should rest with having driven tin s oneuiy into their own torritoiy, and that . |y strong chain of garrisons should he c-tai? ,n lishcd oil tho troniior line, to keep the Mexi ol" cans on their own side, and attack then: I only when they should cross tho line ls Further than this, as a means of enforcing a tho creditor claim against Mexico, hoadvi-. ?j ed a blockade of all their ports, by whicl v j their coramerce might either ho cut oil', oi its taritf appropriated to the United Statej This plan would have compassed the on 0| ! ly real object of the war: the proservalioi l3 of our territorial boundary. 'I'lio erediloi 1, claim might liavo been postponed, or a j. j forced by cohimorcial reprisal*, or abandon s<| ud. In going lo war about a money claim 1 governments should exercise the discretion 0f of an individual contemplating a lawsuit ig and not involve themselves in a disastrous ,y j controversy, oven upon the judost uih !U clearest rigid. Thus would Mexico hav< j, i been treated with the mercy duo to a weal jr and helpless government, and tit wily beet i forced, lilvo a trelted child, into obedience, i 'litis was tho masterly plan of Mr. t'.d .j. ' houn. It is a national calamity that i e. I was rejected. The cause of its rejociiot c. was that it was too passive to satisfy tli< )c. demands of an excited and tillibusloriii: to l??*?|?lo, whose Voice, like the Roman Sena 10 tor, was "still for war." The popular voie 0. was clamorous for an aggressive, vindictive ,e and brilliant invasion, which should ii? H] stop short ot "tlie halls of tho Montezuma*.' j, j Tho latter was popular, the former w.i | statesman ly. Between such alternatives, . democratic administration, courting popula d favor, and seeking it's own perpetuation c. Could llol "long ilebatu." The Comet My. nt Writing inoro than a quarter of a cenlury ago, Mrs. Somerville said: "Ono hun !'? dred and forty comets have appeared witliin '. tho earth's orbit during the last century that have not again been Be<in. It 1,000 yonrs a.'" bo allowed as tlie average period of oach, , "it may bo computed, by tho theory of re probabilities, that tho whole number that ^r' ' rango within tho earth's orbit must bo 001 J 1,400; but, Uranus being twenty times roc moio distant, there may be not loss tlian . ' 11,200,000 comets that come wilhiu the c." known extent of our system." This would , make a rather extensive family; and if the ( members of it were tlic malignant bodies 1 ihoy have often boon considered, notonly the 1 earth, but every thing else would Ihj in con- 0 ' slant danger of being "iuu into" by one of ?.n lliem, when llio ctlect would by the rercr:>c " of agreeable. ]>ut ibis is not all. Accord- n." ; ing to Arago, if wo adopt llio hypothesis of " ' an equal distribution of coiueU in all the regions of our system, and being aware .ru that the number of them, whose perihelion 1 distance is less than the indiua of the orbit of Mercury, amounts to .'<7, the solar system within tho orbit of Neptune would bo fur rowed by 17,658,424 of theso hairy stars. "" ilo, however, will not subscribe to tho cab ; dilations by which those figures are arrived at, butagiecs with the \ i^w taken by Lambort, according to which hypothesis "the (,,? ' sphere whoso centio wouht coincide with ' tho sun, and which would have its surfaco ao at the distanco of Neptune, would contain only from 300,000 to 350,000 comets." u Kvon this number is quite largo enough to f? 1 frighten all those excellent souls who will l<: have it that every created thing is intended ra to ailed man in some way or other?a . belief begotten by ign ranee or egotism. The "pampered goose" which hissed its be- '. ' lief that man was mad - to bo its minister was not a more ridiculous animal than the 1 uiau who (Links that all I Lie wonder* of creation, things thai tho mind faints over " when it attempt to grasn them, were called "' 1 into being for tho especial benefit of huinanity, which is only \ diooisui inoro or 1,1 less refined. co ' Comets belong to a. ancient celestial !'" 1 family. TIio earliest w .ich is hinted at in 'H' history is supposed to have appeared in the > year before Christ 4>0, id theieforc, ac- c,) coidiug to superstition ^liUst have had something to do with tho i'ersiau invasion of It recce, for thai was ' o year of Tlicr- lt< mopvlic and Salami*, fn Arago's cata- co logue of calculated come the lirsl mention- 1,1 cd is that which ap|>< red L?. C. ldC, or i just before (he opoiui . of the CraccHiue j111 > troubles in Koine, win were the coin 1,1 , inducement of that ng revolutionary movement ll si com- n?. t'lu republic into an empiic. The thirteenth appeared A. D. i 1000, the year of the battle of Hastings, 111 perhaps the mo. t important of all modern 1,1 battles. Tho thiity-nintli showed itself in ' 1GI8, tho y<ar when the Thirty Years* War began, a war in which immcasntable evils j wore inllicte I oil liumattity. Kleven of t"" ll?< -o calculated col licit-, Iroin tl|o folly- "" I second t<? the fifty second, both inclusive, 1 appeared in the twenty-eight years that co i preceded the Knglidi revolution; and one t came in sight immediate!) after that event. 'l Ik'twecii the pas-age of tho stamp act and i tho beginning of the war of the Ann rican 1j . revolution c'giit comets appeared; and the ,l I same number appeared in thosi\ years that "'J r preceded the meeting of the French Mates oL -j (Jencral in 178G, to which meeting is a-s Cu signed the commencement of what we spo 1 i | cilically call tho l rcueh revolution. I>e- V1' tween the opening days of 17'JO and the first of Match, 1817, calculated cornets almost swarine I, tweiitv eight of their mini . bor, fiom 10.; to ldo, belli inclusive, then !rt i | coming w 11hm the sight of observer?; ami I those twenty -ix yeai> wore so crowded with > events > f iho lir.-t magnitude that they , stand without rivals in interest. Nations ' ?i aiul dynasties weiu continually tumbling ' i j t!"\vn. In lb 6 ;u. 1 1 b()7 were twocomets, ' I and in those years occurred the battles of [ .Iciia, Ky lau, and biiedland, and the I'caco j** > vf 1'ilsit. In 1 s11 weie two cornels, and t 1 one in lb 12, and t th<>-o years belong the f,4" II Russian expedition. Ttiera were two in | . 1 IS1when Napoleon's l -rccs were driven f t I C out ol tierinauy and Spain. I'hero was ^ oho in April, lblf>, and Waterloo occurred . hi the le.lowing June. 1 he last comet in \ I , Arag > s catalogue i . No. If7, which ap* I , i peaicd in September, I85.1,and winch may ^ L be selected by p. pie u>>l t|uilc so bright as . itself its tho heral i of the Russian war. ; | lire uncalcu! He 1 ciucls hate lro.juciiti ly appealed at : when great things, or what email men hoe lull to b< such, were going u" keio be. w. W o-say nothing ol the 4>l i comet of 10-0, w hich is supposed to have . made its lit i r.l, ni appearance some six ' und-lhirlv > itlui: , a but speak only ol 4 more recent eXailaU ?i; . in 1 151 a comet i eclipsed th*' in., n, according t"one account; i but according to another account, though . there was a comet, that body had nothing "j to do with the o ij o, which occurred ni | i the .same time. lite \car before Con-tail i tinople h.wl been taken by llie l inks, and, 1,1 says 1'iaii. i, ' mo p. isoils seeing tbo dark uess *?I iho i clip , at.J perceiving the coiii, ?. t, in th. lorm ol a h.iig swurd, asceudiiig i Item ill- West, advancing tow.ud the east, , appioaching the liu n, '.nought that tile > conn i, in the i tin < f a long swoid, pre 1 saged, tegaid h.. 1 being I" tho ubscuialion ol the In . ... .1 l! < .i. t .ii llili.iliil.ilils In V ol llio \\ I .'I Would i.'tllf U> .1 IIIU.Ul.tl aglet! "I t iiioul lo iii.iicli a^aiti-l llio I ink-, ai.il tli.il thov wouUl vj tin tli \iotuiy; l-.it tin: links, c< nit their I'.nl, laki' into consideration the ? t slalo ol alluir>, f. 11 jut i ii > in.ill IV- ir, .ml lu i 1 Oil lore, i mi.i s, ii,. a, .n ^ a iiioii t-.M I iio I ' .'> I lo J protect>. :* ol tlio I tirks Was llio ?jiiai loUolite in ^ nature ol tlii- i iiri->ii.ms ol llio W est, who to would not li.tvo I icon porstiadod I*? lorr<*o I j lln.li favonto ilivoiaion of cutting oiiO .mo ??l luci -. throats it tli \\ liolo laiuiiy ul comcu ' in I li.'nl liovo in -i^lil at oiico. **i In I lot) a]i|.,.'aretl llnil ooiih l which How a| > boain llio iiaiiio of IIalloy, which was last ol i bOOIl iii la;io, Mill Will comic jia.iiii )|| 1 '.i 1 i, p: i' winii \ oil, i, i.K r, u lib- > vou aio in?w very 1 tli , \ ollli .w ill not bo 11 oilblotl lillli. il about it at I I Ii I j l'oil i i W.to C<illoi III' , a I. J it; t ail | I one lime extended over GO d>*g., or two 10I0 signs of tlio zodiac, ll certainly 'hloued men more than any oilier cornel il is mentioned. The Christians associa I it with the idea of Tnrkiah conquest, d the infallible i'opo himself confirmed lir fears, and made tbciu a part of the igion of the lime, by ordering public lyers, in which both the Turks and the net were "pitched into." Ho- also diled lhat ihe church bells should ho rung nooon, in order to remind people lo ro 0 these prayer.-, which was the origin ol 1 practice that still endures; so that when 3 noon bells shall ling to Way tlio reader II ho pleased to rocollcct I'opo CalixtUB, j Turks, and the comet of 1150. Wc n't know what effect all these doings had the comet, but the Turks didn't value sin a tush, for they went on, conquering d to conquer, and in a few years we find sin at Oliaulo, in Italy, while the galley* d light troops were moro than once seer mi the Campanile of St. Marks, in mice. There was a brilliant coinot in 1500, licit was called Sionor A* tone l>v tin iliaus, but is know n as the comet of f?t<l Iftt, as it was supposed to hare caused th? >riu in which Bartholomew Diaz was lost, az w as tlio, discoverer of the Cape ol >od Hope, several years before it was ublod by I >a tiama. In 1500, w hen ibral sailed from Lisbon to (lie Kasf, 1 )i:i2 eouipanied him, and was lost in a storm that the c >mct had b> hear ihe discredit his death. Vet it would have been easy show that the comet w as a henevoh nl raid, for il was in that voyage that Cab I accidentally discovered Brazil, which cut would have made America known It 0 world less than eighty years aftor the ath of Columbus's first voyage, had Co mints never been born. The comet of 1505 was supposed to have p*aged the death of Philip I, son in law 1 orditiatid and Isabella. That of I5lt is connected with the death of Ferdinand uiself. Charles V, 1'hilip's son, is said tc ,vo been alarmed at t lie appearance of tin milt <?f i n r?n I ii.!??? ! 11 .it.ii i **_i-1111?i11 anarchs appear to have been ns forebod Ljly wailed on by comets as tho Maclvor: 310 by tli0 llodach Glas. in 1658 ; met made tbo passage of tho perihelion the lOtli August, just six weeks before miles'death. Some w titers have ntlribu J diaries' abdication to his dread of r iiK't, but we find no proof of llio story'i iili. Tho cotucts that led lo that deed jro gout, weak knees, a weaker stomach d that form of illness which some wil is called a complaint of llio chest?i Mil of money. The iiupeii d hog set nj s trough at \ lisle, and in that tine pel : stuffed nun swilled at bU?;h a rale iu ade it altogether unnecessary tor even tin oat malignant of comets to concern itsel ->iit tho length of hi* days. Many other "coincidences" of this kind glit be mentioned, >o that when we ro llect how superstitious and egotistical on once were, it is not strange that cum > should liavo been supposed lo have soiin nnotion with mundane affairs. Vet a lit thought ahoiihl be sutlicieiit to show that :oinel can hardly make its apimarunct tlioiit something of importance happen g at the same time on earth, and gener y something of a wicked or a melancholy lure, which i-> to ho passed to the coin s account. Men, indeed, liavo treated iriots as they have treated Satan, making cm the cause of evils with which lhe\ uhi have had i.o connexion, and which ,ve proceeded fiom that dark abyss, the Lilian heart ? a far more terrible thing a:i any comet that has ever appealed mi the days of < to the day* ot Lull N.ij" h on. Kussoll, the traveller, writing from Cain November, 18-5, said llio Kgypliun? Int- ll.-il it... ...Muullv vi.il.l". I. it.. use of the violent earth.pinkos which wa. ,vo felt here uu iho 21->luf August, Hill] it it also *'M rcises its malignant iiiilueiict cr the horses ami asses \? 1 >it*)i alio fioii t iling. The t'ulli is that they die of luin r, tlio forage f ailing in cousequence ol i' imperfect inundation of the Nile." < ?n ! > |m ago Aiago ii tn ok-: "If indi.-cro ills neru not tan bidden here, I should casi convince the leader th at in the matter ol mels all the Kgypilaus aio not upon tin nks of the Nile. I shall .-a), then, ottlv l' ii, when yon aro present nl one of tlnrsa illinnt reunions, where aro gatheied to liter llia'so whom it is usual to call tin i i.il notahiliti'>; listen for a single install the long ali? ur-e of which the ftilun met furnishes tho text, and then deeiale i J can congratulate ourselves upon ilia' pre tided liilliisioii ol intolli^enco which si any optimists low to point out as tin itiiaclerisiic feature of our age. As re llda myseit, I have l"lig silire abaiidoiiet ese illusions. Indct the brilliant ami su rtieitil varnish with which tliepurelv lite ry studies ail oili Colleges laililosl invaritl V invest ail classes ol -oClelv', a\o gellClal litnl let lis l?e brief a coinple e igue lieu of those beau 111 ul phenomena, of tin s ami laavs of nalute, which are our beleguard against prcjiialiee." Caiisti enigh; bill aalio shall sav thai these ob.sei iliolt. tile not well loiindudf I /ll'Sti'll I Vll I't .'/i /*. I - I lie following singular l.ict i* iii:,?ide , lliu I'.irii c*?irc>p Mi lviil uf tin- Jonni. lAuiiuicice. "Looking jllsl 11?.?k* 111 .1 111 ol joilll >l?n iiipaiiic*, 1 was Miners iiii.i ilio lilU-: lli etieial l.'oiiipany ol" I'.iclili ni or I'oiinlc il Win*; . I-. ?i iii.iII v sanctioned l?\ ilio i'li tl ol I'olu'o. ll is >l.iI? I in liiu > Iv.nini ell I lli.il no g'.ij>o juice r :il< >liol ol; l>ul lliu ii" ;ro<iioni.. .itu not jpeciliei lie capital ol lliu company i-> l\vo luillio franc*; llio sliaiesarc twenty thousand i I 111 be i; ilio product is ?< < 1 < 1 al from four I ^lit ei.nIs tin* "pi.ill, and li?- ilio l isle, lit ipoarum e, and 'all ili? ln^ienic .jnaliti* lliu good ami n i.in,il wines.' l liu Coll ui\ lias Ue?'11 i, nlo mi ceo**! u I; ilio div aids lia\o been -i\ per ronl., h* sides :i It.pialc i* ,eiv?. I lie wiin an .subjccle i clieiuie.il .uial\sii by autlioiil}.' Loiter to Eli Tliajcr. IIkad Waters TA?roui Navkjatiow. Ynzoo Swamp, Mississippi, Jtinu 15, Is kji tlos. Eu Invvkit?Dear Sir: Having citcJ 1 scon h uotico lo tlic effect that you were jnore; forming n society with the avowed object i|iou< of coloni/.ing and renovating the worn-out tagio lands lying on llio tide waters of Eastern foots ! Virginia; now, sir, the object of this corn vailin iiiuuicatiou is to invito you and your Van co! ' hoe colonists to the more fertile lands lying "and I . ou the Yazoo river, a description of which dress may not ho unnecessary. The Yazoo river Holla is a veiy small, narrow, muddy stream, of su|i j, great length, and with as many bends, Esau 1 crooks, winds and twists, as are in a Vankoo conscience, winding its way through jis one of tiie most fertile and productive re jt|.' M ! gions of country in the world. Upon die ] either side of the liver lie immense bodies ,01110 of uncleared lands, thickly set with a dense '|'0 forest, in w hich you Iind trees of every des- niusl 1 cription and of gigantic pro|K>rliou. Uu- many 1 demcalh this growth you will find tjie tall, Cu, r ink, blue cane, growing as thick as the a pro 1 sins of a Yankee preacher. Intermingled |v ow r with this you will iitid the vino and bam e'ncc. boo. So you see that in the summer 04> i], ? months, when the forest is in thick foliage, have 1 there night holJs her regal sway, and 1111 cotise bridled nature reigns supremo. m ' The spontaneous productions are such as cossil lo conduce to the comfort and happiness of whon ; every Yankee. Among the most choice witbr are alligators, turtles, bulfalo gnats, mosqtii f?>rde toes, and other delicacies sufficiently inn- and 1 ting to tickle the most fastidious appetite of dint the most dainty Yankee. On the culliva doti < led lands grow to perfection siring beans, suppl 1 onions and "pumpkins;'' the latter grow to if ' a fabulous sizo, 0110 being sufficiently large jis 1 to house Eli Thayer and his colonists the ment lirst winter, and feed them some. You mean need not fear I ho attacks of the mosquitoes, ganci as it is well known that die blood of the die u Yankees on tho coast, from the rivor St. gest, ' Johns to Capo Cod, has become so thin crino and poor, from sever,o cold, hunger and dial I ' ague and fever, that the mosquito would u, starve to death in tho vain endeavor lo perm 1 draw nourishment from the blood of the 8uch Yankee; while 011 the other hand, the Yan- ,>ovei * ? ?? - - i .-s- v nvv m v/uiu VU lllO O" llJ.ll.ir lit, 111 VIC li and live fur ever. were Now, tliin portion of l^o Yazoo Swamp crjn0 is not adapted to either white folks, nig- rejoic gors or mules, and we presume it would jump therefore he a fine country to grow string j^Q j beans, onions, "pumpkins" and Yankee*. iruo 1 Should you conclude to come, yon must hous< accedo to the following propositions: iloun L 1. You must loave your kind of morals Gf a , 1 in the land of steady habits, as wo do not for ^ 1 tolerate Kallochisrn here. 2. You must not color and trim the djf.pl, * leaves of tho pumpkin \ines and sell them , ' for baling ro|>e. orjjn 3. you must not defraud, cheat, swindle wkat or corrupt our niggers. |v On your entrance into the Stale, you and ijjjg. . all your Yaukeo colonists must take an oath show 1 to support tho Constitution of tho United ?or c States, as we do not tolerate treason here. wjf0 In using the term Yankee, in this com- |ler <] muuication, we mean to apply it to that rjc|,ii species of tho human race who fo.-4er in their 0f jj, : heart-. I ing, hypocrisy, deceit and treason, t],0 J the liritish loving Yankee, ami not tho lawabiding national men at the North. Your ,, r S\1 obedient servant, \ \'f.OO Swami-ku. I AVw ) 'oi k Do j Hook. y I _ L m in h Uom an Itt'llulsu.?A foreign correspon- agait dent of llie Charleston Courier furnishes the P'e,ia i e . own following description ot a llomau ampin. preo< , theatre, in tine preservation, still standing Ui] tc I at Nismes, in the south of France. We do Ther not remember having e?cu seen a descripc .. aded . tion of it: > . scoui "In no city aicsuch well preserved relies .... ., - , IVW u| that great nation whose armies overrun Sl?nt Kurope, and whose power and wealth dis ^ut played il*ulf in thee iisiruclion of alructuics wlios as I.uUiug us llteir I.tine. What do you wjlo think, of my emotions upon enleiing and uren 1 utouiiling to liio l??p of au immense aiiiphi vokii I , theatre, or "Jrnftii," a* it is celled, built ot j stone in the lime of Aiiloiiios l'ius, 133 succt ( years after the birth of our Saviour, and Joaf, seventeen hundred years ago.' lUack with iml , year*, but still Standing, as when trial the (ruo , Kou.ua ioij'.eii crowded under its arches? wofu . the Kinjicror and his guards sat in the sent Wc|j piovided loi him, and the wild beasts were ^,|0 ^ let into the arena below us to furnish njtoft :l|K| fur Ihr i. 1 his iiuiuorisu structure, |luni t truill in lito shape of an ellipse, 390 feet fuUU( s across, ^ i 30 yaids) and Go high, with two j I tangos ot poUiCos and seals for 12.UOU spec j lalors, was alt made of massive blocks ol j stone for the mere pleasure of ihe I toman*. i ^ j( | I iie lower liei ot seals was oveupied by the j L'atricians, next the cavaliers, then the com- j 1 ^ I nioii people, and lastly the slaves. 1 saw ^ the notches ill the stone which uiaiked ('' ' iheui out, and where sat the people who oc- ^ , L cupieJ France before the French. I also ^ *j noticed the arched opening through which I j' , bounded the l.ioii oi the Tiger upon tlio , j ( , , (ila liaior in ihe arena before me?1 Could swell , imagine lire thousand eyes and the annuac ted countenance* ol the multitude, a* they J ' loigot thein-clve* in the cveiteuient ami rc.illl\ ol the scene, diieeled towards the ~ spot 1 rehire me. It was open to the j*shv, ami lh< Imle* around the h?p were visible, in which were fastened ibo stalls to ' support the immense lent that protected Y".| - .-.jk . .us i.out tin. sua ;iii.i H. iUicr. I his " ainj>hilheu(io xx a* ( uili ufior the model of 4 ' ?>f llio I'oli-euui in Koine, xx illi v\liicli 1 x* i?I ' toiiijiiiK- il 1 li ;>o. Ii shows Us wlial ^ I xxeallh :?? { ewnsulcrulioii hud ovcii (ho j ^ L' I'i.o mi v.s ol the overgrown lCn?|>i'o of ^ J lioino, xvlieii mi. Ii a ImiU11nif. usiuiiiu^ Mi . iv . iii. (ho enormous am.>uiil *1 lime ainl I alror lo ion ' st rtl.l i(, OIllV M.T vc.l (>? iiuiiiatei lo (ho , ' "l ii i *> " n* " aniuscnicM or i.ijiiicool lis oecu|>anf?. I 11H, ii ! m turn | "Ililloa, ihoio! xxhal's your huriy; xxlieio arc vou .;oiu;f" "Goiiij;! t*ni running for mi olVu'0." " What office!" " Mux squire's oiticc; riaru it, I hi sued." ? A xxug |>ro|?a?os l?> publish a liex* j>a|?ei , w ( ? Ikj tailed (ho ('omit, Willi id original' ' hde every xvoch. - ' l?'u What Punch Says. inoljsk Viewed as a Depopulating jehui".?Among the causes which u? to account for the decreasing rale of ise of the French population, it it flit that the spread of the crinoline cooit is proving mo>l injurious in its ef upon lite census. The mode now preig is one of such extravagance thai it uliuually demanding fresh sacrifices, adies have to chooso between a fine and a family, for no iucoinu but a -ehiIds' can provide for both. The re lor the most part, its we leniu by the liner, that? i'liere ynu would ?co with English habilf a dozen healthy boys and girls walkith their parents, you see instead, iu iuis dc Boulogne, a fine lady in a handopen c image." lake a broad view of tbe subject, wo look at the wide pollicoals and the "widths" of silk which are consumed roring them; and we shall see at oitco of that the declining ceusus has greeted its decrease to this crinoline influOf course, the wider grow tbo diesse longor grow the bills which ladies to pay for them, and the narrower in luotico become their means of living, ucli swelling when they are out noatcs their pinching somewhat closely at home; and whatever can bo done >ul is given up at once as not to beaf- ? d. Children are not in the fashion, uay therefore l>e disjK*nscd with; so as the petticoat expauds the populaJwindles, and a love of a new dress ants that of a family, the census fail to bring tbe nation to inse-s, it is obvious that the Govcrnwill have to interfere, and advise tbo s to check this force ruarch of exlravawhich is proving n dead march to on-rising generation. NVo would sugwero wo consulted, that a censor of line should forthwith be appointed, and the shops of all the milliners should idor his iospeclion, so that no dress be itted ofextravagant circumference, or of a richness of material as might iru J.L _ t :i_ t. u J?t-.i 1BII n liUUIIJ. ik \ru UJU, UUUUU0U, i conduce to the prosperity of P&ri* cradles brought in fashion, and were line kicked out of it; nnd we should :e to hear that coral bells and baby ers were becoming there a merchani 11 more demand than airjupons. All friends of France would rather see a jful of children than of petticoats and cos, nnd at present only in the mansion 0 milionairo would there be room enough oth. has been said that the French' wouien ay universally tlio best of taste in dreaeuid are, by nature, gifted with extraary aptitude for learning and avoiding is unbecoming to therq. But certainpresent they evince b'ut little proof of We cannot lliiuk if in good taste to more love for finery thau a family; an wo regard it as becoming in a to so far forget bor uature, and distort [lilies, as to ruin her husband by the ess of her dresses, and iu the blindness olatry to even lotcrifice her children to uggernaut of fashion. peaking.?"Trust uot to the promise oiutuon swearer," says Francis Quarles, is Enchirdion, "for ho that dare sin isl his God for neither profit nor ure, will trespass against thee for his advantage, lie that dare break the >pts of hU father, will easily be persuad violate the promise unto his brother." 0 is good common se??o iu this advice, it would be well if it were generally 1 on. There are, no doubt, many great id rets who never swear, nnd perhaps a men ot otherwise good conduct who ilimes transgress the commandment of the "common swearer," the man ie every other word is an oath, and cannot peifoPm the most trivial or disgraceful act without profanely in- ig the name of the Suproiuo lhjing, little good can be said. He may be ^-ful in business, shrewd in worldly ng, and courageous iu facing danger; iu the qualities that make up the gentleman and the Christian, he is lly deficient. Take the man who is read in good literature, who is agreeao those in whose society ho is thrown, whose name is but another word for i ... i i 1 . :11 L i iiiiu pruuuv, ttnu iiv >?111 uuvur in) il one who * IT nfwivk* li s lic.'irt witti uorJs, AiiU t.illa to turning like a very ?liab." nhnppily lou many of our young men k it a mark of good breeding and social ily to interUrd their discourse with i and curse*, wishing to appear, says a nt old wtiler, that they arc on familiar s with the Killer of the Universe, if are not with the aristocracy of the I low inbtaketi an idea (his is, inay en by llie dislike men of really good ding evince to llie society of these iriug pretenders. Our risiug generawith the human failing of learning which is had before that which is J, .t?e sadly tainted with the vice of proswearing. lie who doubts the fact has (o pa?s a group of boys at play in the t to be conv:lice I. Nor is tli3 practice iiiod to the children of the jaror and aded; the well dressed sons of the "bet. lasses" ato very apt to bo those who ti thu loudest and the most (lertinacimis \re the parents of such boy* not awaro "haul,s?veaiing" is frequently a pion.? untie flagrant vices and ciimes? Wa I lIliNMl MUlllClOd t?> llll.s VIVO wown Innjd atlvico of "holy O?orgo Herbert:" > noi In.- M.unc, wlio in nit- ?hy mouth, in ?anij Is llirv nulling, iiinl li:illi no ? irusv. iii><I vviiui |i!imi a pKurnm1, ji.ifKr |;.ii(' (In- i'lh'ii|) kHiiirir iliinwgli Ins I'liniiiiiin slti'o, I At- Ins tntil i u ii lor iinuglit." Wasn't ili.it n wa-lo of powder?" saij Irishman la a KtfiiltK'kiiin, who had brought a COimi to the ground with Ills , from a large 11?*w*. "Why ol*' naked Hnnlcr. "Snro tlie fall would * kill I."