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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."