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r . * I " - v / P. ' / ' ' * - * THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL. -> - 1 - - ... - - _ ' - /VOLUME XV. CAMDEN,-SOUTH-CAROLINA, TOESDAY .MORNING, MAY' 2, 1854. NUMBER 18: PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WARREN. 1 TERMS. * Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollar^and Fifty Cents if payment bo delayed three-months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen linos or less,) Bo venty-flve cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each su5sequent insertion. Single insertions. one dollar per square; semi-mopthly, monthly* and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. * % jTWl'ae number or insertions aesirea mast dc notea on the fiargln of all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. B&lkraqjra. Buried Alive. . An English sailor, named Jackson spent two years among the natives of the Fejee Islands, in the South Sea. From the narrative of his adventures, we quote one passage', describing a burial alive. A young Fejee man was ailing; he had lost his aDnetite. and fearing to be re proached by the Fejee* beauties for being a skeleton?shame being an unendurable emotion resolved to be buried?alive, JacksQn tried to dissuade him from the sacrifice in vain, and the scene now to be described followed. "By this, time all his relations had collected round the door. His father had a kind ol wooden spade to dig the grave with, his mother had a new suit of tapa, his (sister some vermillion and a whale's tooth, as an introduction to the great god of Rage-Rage. He arose, took up his bed and walked, not for life but for death, his father, mother and sister following after with several other distant relations, whom I accompanied, m^noticed that they seemed to follow something in the same way that they follow a corpse in Europe to the grave, (that is, as far as relationship and acquaintance are concerned,) but instead of lamenting, they were, if not rejoicii%, acting and chatting in a very unconcerned way. At last, we reached a place where several graves could be seen, and a spot was soon selected by the man who was to be buried. The old man, his father,"began digging his grave, while his mother assisted her son in putting on a new tapa, and the girl (his ?? "? knL?Mflawn? wnrmillirtn anH J3IOICJ / ?>U9 UCOIIJCailU^ HUM TV > %u WIIUIIMWU U..M lampblacl^. so as to send him decent into the invisible world, he (the victim) delivering messages that were to he told by his sister to people then absent. His father then announced to him and the rest that the grave was completed and asked him, in rather a surely tone, if he was not ready at this time. The mother then nosed him, and likewise the sister. He said, before I die, I should like a drink of water. His father mhde a surely remark, and said, as he ran to fetch it in a leaf doubled up, 'You have been a considerable trouble during your life, and it appears you are going to trouble us at your death.' The father returnee! with the water'which the son drank off,,and then looked up into a tree covered with tough vines saying he should prefer being strangled with a vine to being smothered in the grave. His father became excessively angry, and spread the mat at the bottom of the grave, told the son to die faka tamaqua,' (like a man) when he stepped into the grave, which was not more than four feet deep, and lay down on his back, with the whale's tooth in his hands, which were clasped across his belly. The spare sides of the mat was lapped over him, as to prevent the earth from getting to his body, and then about a foot of earth was shovelled irwupon him as quickly as possible* His father stamped it immediately baIJ/I Aolta/1 nil in ft Innrl 'Sh tiko, satiko,' (You are stopping there, you are stopping there,) meaning 'good bye, good-bye.' The eon answered with a very audible grunt, and then about two feet more earth were shovelled in and stamped as before by the loving father, and ''Sa tiko' called out again, which was answered by another grunt, but much fainter. The grave was then completely filled up, when for curiosity's sake, I said myself Sa tiko,' but no answer was given, although I fancied or really (fid see the earth crackel a little on the top m the grave. The father and mother then turned back to back on the middle of the grave, and having dropped some kind ofjeaves from therr hands, walked away in opposite directions to a running stream of-water hard by,* where they and all the rest washed themselves, and made me wash myself * and then tve returned to the town, where there was a feast prepared. As soon as the feast was over (it then being dark,) began the dance and uproar.which are always carried on either * at natural or violent deaths. All classes then give themselves up to excess, especially tit unnatural deaths of this sort, and create all manner of uproar, by means of large bamboos, trumpet shells, &c., which contributed to the general noise which is "considered requisite to drive the spirit away, and deter him from desiring to dwell br even .hover about his late residence." ^ Icebergs in tbe Atlannc. . From an interesting article on Icebergs in the Atlantic,?encountered now by almost every vessel going across the Atlantic, we -quote from the Philadelphia Ledger: Every ship from Europe brings accounts of - an unusual quantity of icebergs in the Atlantic. It is probable that the north-westerly winds, which have prevailed in this latitude to such an extraordinary degree this winter, have raged also in the Arctic circle; have set the ice fields in motion earlier than common ; and have filled the Atlantic with drifting bergs and packs. The origin of these ice-mountains was long a subject of controversy. By some persons the berg was thought to be the result of months of freezing in the opeq,sea. By others, it was more correctly attributed to a land origin.? Dr. Kane, the historian of the late American expedition, has proved, conclusively, by ob servation on the spot, that the iceberg has a similar origin with the glacier, being deposited on the sides and in the valleys of Arctic mountains, and afterwards pushed forward exactly as glaciers are, down the slope and along the gorge. As these valleys eventually open to the sea, the field of ice is finally protruded iht,o the water, where a part of it -breaks off, at last by its own weight, and is floated away.? The early navigators, seeing these enormous masses, called them in their native tongue, " bergs," or mountains, and by that naraeAey >te have been known ever since. ^ ,r0 Not unfrequently, large masses of rock, of which are frozen up in the glacier on land, are I d< borne off with the iceberg. As the berg melts, pc they drop away, and sink to the bottom of the e> seas. Geoldglats tell us that the large boulders C which are often found in the interior of this es continent, hundreds of miles away from primi- ly tive formations of a similar character, were in thus transported at some Tar distant period, when mosi of America was still a vast ocean, to In melting, the bergs often assume the most p< ' fantastic shapes.. Some look like floating fu towns, with towers, pinnacles and forts. Some' bear the shape of gigantic castles. Some re- pi call the fairy description of the Arabian Nights, re The temperature of the water being lower se than that of the atmosphere they melt at the sh bottom faster "-than at the^top, and finally turn tli over, convulsing the'deep for an immense cir- se ImnOMllinnr cKlne tkof mfl V honJ G(J fcic 0.UUUU, U..U a...^ .....w L..-J .?r pen to bo near. " The play-of light on these bergs is, at times indescribably beautiful. At other times, how- " ever, the ice-mountains move surrounded with . fog, the'offspring of their own evaporation; "? and on such occasions, wo to the mariner who s is?not warned in time of the damp mist he sees 1 settling-down aroilud. After traversing our eastern coasts, and assisting to makepur springs 01 later than those on the Pacific side, the bergs m are melted down by the gulfv stream, or borne ai off in greatly reduced bulks to the coast of ar Ireland, where they disappear forever. ' ^ g? The True Way to Rise in the Would.? ^ It is only by plodding, active habits of indus- ^ try that we can hope to win our way through jg life. The rjiee may be arduous, but it is one or which will repay the competitor. Barcow just- ^1 ly s*ys, u A noble^heart will disdain to subsist m like a drone upon honey gathered by bthers' f0 lafiors, like a vermin, to filch its food out of the w; public granary ; or like a shark to prey upon cj, the lesser fry ; but ratlier outdo his private j obligations to other men's care and toil by considerable service and beneficence to the pub: gtl lie; for there is no calling of any sort, from the sceptre to the spade, the management whereof, with any good success, any credit, rQ any satisfaction, dmh not demand much work f of the heacf| or ot the hands or' of both."? Milton, who during an active life in the most j troublesome times, was unceasing in the cultivation of his understanding, thus describes his ^ own habits: " Those morning haunts are where ^ they should be, at home, not sleeping or con- pj. cocting the surfeits ot an irregular least, nut * up and stirring in winter, often ere tlie sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first arouses, or not much tardb?, to read good authors, or -jlv cause them to be read till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear ifi and not lumpish obedience of the mind to the cause of religion and our country's liberty." . ' Any man who does not profit by such poble 111 examples is an enemy to the public weal. Reading and Thinking.?This is emphati- ^ cally the age of reading. But it is one of cc thinking also! Our grandfathers had fewer books, still fewer newspapers, and no system of popular lecturing, yet what they acquired V(? they had time mentally to digest, and so be- re came sounder men. When Bacon said read- ^ ing made the correct man, but conversation ^ only a ready one, he meant the reading of a more thoroughtige than this. What*conversation was then, common reading is now.? Men read light and easy books instead of talk- ^ ing with their gossips and gain very little if ^ any more improvement. n? The true end of books, or even of good to newspapers, is not merely to gratify curiosity, r0 but to supply facts and.principles, which' may t,r be laid away in the mind, to be drawn upon w subsequently, as the exigencies of life demand, te He who reads without digesting, even if he Jn learns how to think, never has a stock of ideas n< on hand to think abo'ut. He is like the Israel- se ites in Egypt, when they had no straw to make aj bricks. But a careless' reader is f\lso a bad Jn thinker." The mind of a thoughtTul reader is su like the bolting apparatus of a mill, separating s< the bian from the flour, coincident with the act m of reading. The hanty reader neglects this or duty. Men forget what they have read almost cj as soon as the book or paper i& laid down.? They never, or rarely, exercise their judgment. tr Thev don't think.?Philadelphia Ledqer. vt v / # in A Gem.?WJ10 wrote thex.following beaufi* d, ful epitaph' upon an infant ? It speaks to the a(; heart: .* 0| Beneath this stone, in sweet repose, it Is laid a mother's dearest pride; (X A flbwer that sdfrce had waked to life ul And light and beauty, ere it died. in God in His wisdom has recalled C< ,The precious boon Jife love had given: P1 And though the casket moulders here, 13 The gem is sparkling now in heaven, c< ' Ti ? - ? or A Rolijng Stonb Ctatherbth no Moss.? "v Wellhwhat of that? Who wants to be a mossy old stone, away in some damp corner of a . pasture, where sunshine, and fresh air never !* come, for the cows to rub themselves tfgainst, in for snails and bugs to crawl over and for toads tn am,at under nmnnf. the noisonoiis weeds ? -w - o ? ? tfl It is far better to be a smooth and polished Cl stone, rolling along in the brawling stream of human life, wearing off the rough corners, ej bringing out the firm crystalline structure of aJ the granite, or the delicate veins of the agate, tc or tile chaldony. It is this perpetual chafing and rubbing in ti the whirling current that shows what sort of w grit a man is made of, and what use he is good ts for. The sandstone and soapstone are soon c? ground down to<sand and mud, but the firm st rook is selected for the towerihg fortress, and ft i the diamond is cut and polished for the mob- pi r arch's crown. oi v' ' %*:$;&' * . I From the New York Daily Times. England, India, and the United States.' * . From the earliest ages, the most ejcaggerad and erroneous ideas tape prevailed in Ed?, ipe and her Colonies, concerhin'g-jthe wealth 'India, and the extentTof her influence on the jstinifs of tho civilized world. But tn?ver, irhaps, have those ideas been more forcibly ^pressed than by the eloquent Senator from alifornia, during the course of that very interting add instructive speech,.which he recentdelivqred in the Senate of the United States, support of the Pacific Railroad. This honorable gentleman' did not hesitate ass?rt, on that occasion, that the wealth, the >wer, and the greatness of England had arisen om her, Eastern Empire. "There she stands now," says he, "in all the enitude of her power, ruling directly or indictly, in theiJast, one hundred and twentyven millions of people. The wealth >vhich e has poured in upon the British Isles from e East, is beyond estimate. It has made the at of her power a City of Palaces, and adom1 its inhabitants with a profusion of wealth id luxury, to whiqli there is no parallel in the story of the world. Il has covered the ocean ith fleets, consolidated jho national power so at, while she defied the continent of Europe arms, it has given that strength by which e has hitherto been able, to keepjinbroken e chain that binds her numerous colonies, >tted around th6 great circle of the earth, and ? which the sun never sets. It has given her eans by which representatives of her strength e placed upon every sea, to assert her power id defend her interests." We have seldom seen an extjpet'so^hort as at, heavily freighted with error and exagiration. Senator Gwin* doubtless supposes at if England did not possess India, London, e seat of her power, would be another Laceeinon, whose coin would be. of iron, and the ily luxury of whoso inhabitants would be the ack broth in which the Spartan palate so uch delighted. lie fancies that, were it not r India, England would not cover the ocean ith her fleets?could not keep unbroken that ia!n which binds together her numerous coloes?could not maintain, on every sea and in ery zone, those proud representatives of her rength that protect in all lands the person and e property of her citizens, nor send forth ose magnificent armaments that astonish Eupe and confound tyrants. He imagines, in ctr that England, without India, would bo ither rich, nor powerful, nor great; thatEngnd, if bereft of India, would quickly become 2ak, paralyzed, and impotent. Such is the gh estimate that the Senator from California s formed concerning the value of that Emre that England has acquired in the East. IJ..4 !<?? ou/M.V>/1 U?/l Kn /l A m maf/tt U ] Xt* fi. JDUl Wllclb glUUUU linu 11C/| twuiiiiwiviui v/? Uncial, for the formation of that estimate?? snator Gwin is ?> statesman, and must be rare that no nation can cover the ocean with r fleets, or maintain her authority over disnt <uk! scattered colonies,or protect the lives- < d rights of her citizens in remote and bar-, irous countries, or fit oitf mighty armament? humble the pride of tho oppressor, without iving at command an abundant and ever flowg revenue. It is the possession of this all>wcrful instrument that has enabled England do great things. But does the honorable intleman really suppose that she has drawn c greater portion of that revenue, or even any insiderable portion of it, from her Indian emre? If he does, no supposition can be more roneous. India is indeed a fine country?a try fine country for aristocratic adventurers to pair their fortunes in, but to the State, she is been oftener a source of burden than of incfit. A glance at the statistical tallies pubhed annually, by order of the British'House ' Commons, will convince any unprejudiced irson that India has never been a liberal.and gular contributor to the Imperial treasury ; at she has been more frequently under the .nAeelfu Unirt/v f% ilnkfnr tluui in n nncififtJI iV/COOJUJ VI U UWI/IUI mu 11 ?* |/>'V. v.w.. become a creditor to Britain; and that oven cky, mountainous Scotland, und poor, prosate Ireland, have furnished the government ith a larger amount of revenue for the mainnance ot its fleets and armies, than that imense and much extolled country. The averse income of the British Government may be t down at about ?50,000,000 sterling annuly; tho average revenue yearly derived from idia, at about one-twentieth of that enormous im! Yet India is the country, according to j rnator Gwin, that has enabled England to ake those extraordinary displays of power, i every sea and in every clime, that have ex ted the wonder and admiration of other lauds! But though India has ever been a poor con; ibutor to the Imperial Treasury, perhaps the due cf her exports, and the greatness of her,. iports, may have given an impetus tQ the'lnlstrial energies of the British people that has Ided materially to the prosperity and power The empire, and made ample atonement to for her financial and monetary deficiencies, he-commerce of acounfry so vast and so popons as India, must always be of considerable iportance. In proportion to its extent, its mtinuance must ever have a favorable effect 1 the prosperity of the country with which it chiefly carried on, while its interruption or issation must, in an equal degree, prove injuous to the interests of her inhabitants. The >mmerce of India is undoubtedly of impor,nce to England ; but in comparison to that# f a country of which wo shall presently speak, io nrtf- nf mimh voltio nr Ar>n<??dnration.- "Its lo aiv/v vi muvii fuiwv w. nports into England, save to a very small <&x!nt, are not articles of "prime necessity."? s exports from thence do not entitle India to ike her stand in the first rank of Britain's istomers. The populace of the Three itingams are not depending on her commerce for ther food or employment Its discontiuuice or interruption would not shut up the faciries of their great cities, or raise rebellion in leir streets, or induce governmental and na onal bankruptcy. Hence it appears that hile India is the El Doradp of civil and mili. try adventurers, while wealth and raagnifijnce are everywhere associated with her name, ie is nevertheless not ot mucii consideration nancially* nor of paramount importance comlercially, to England. India is not the heart f the British Empire, the life-blood of Britain V ; V is not there; and though, the commerce of India were lost to England, though the Einpireuf India were lost,to England, though India were o gunk in the ocean, England would still survive; I the spirit'and the energies of her own people v frofiid still uphold her; her prosperity, her pow- d er and her greatness would still be unimpaired.^ But there is a country on this sido of the At- e lantic which, though not politically connected c with England, or in any way subject to her, is a yet as really indispensable to her wealth, her s power, and Irer.greatness, as inaia is lmagin v ed to be, notwithstanding that Senator Gwin d omitted all notice of that country's importance o in rhts respect, even his own native land. - 'J The United States of'America are the real ii India of England?not the India of the aristoc- g racy, but of the people and of the. empire.? d Who can over-estimate the importance of the s commerce of tfte United States to England? t! Who can pver.estimate the injuries that any a cessatiou of that commerce would inflict on ii her interests ? The commerce of the United v States gives England food for her people,"and uhiterinl to employ them. The commerce of 5 the United States relieves England annually f of her surplus population, and a great part of t her surplus manufactures. The commerce of t the United States enables her mechanics to. d earn good wages?her capitalists to make I princely lortunes?her citizens in general, to i pay those enormous taxes that Support the a power and the greatness of the State. With t a social system so artificial and complex as is t hers, what would bo the condition of England t without the commerce of the United States? a Without the cotton of the South, how could 1; she employ the population of her groat towns? v Without the corn of the North'add West, how n could she feed them? Without an outlet and a a place of refuge for her destitute and starving 2 workers, what would become of them ? And g with the operatives of her great cities unem- d ployed, with food up to famine prices, with her h capitalists fleeing from her shores, and want c and suffering and riot and rebellion .in her n liofonnrmAiic rnunnhp o >T Ut-I V UUUIU UC UCI WUUI UiVUU v I her stately navies, her military power? t! Without the agricultural products of the ii United States, England, nuder present circumstances, could have neither prosperity, nor peace at home, nor revenue to maintain those p fleets and armies that uphold her authority a p broad. The loss of the commerce of India r would prove for a while injurious to her inter- p ests?the loss of the Empire of India would r give pain to the national pride, and prove a a sore loss to the younger members of aristocra- d tic houses; but in the estimation of the Brit- v ish peoplo and the British Government, ttaeone a and the other would be as nothing in com par- a ison to the loss of the commerce of the United p, States. c ' -h. y Wreck of the Ship Powhatan. . I l>e loss of the ship Pow/tatan, of Baltimore, a with all on board, some 400 souls, at Absecom t Beach, has created a painful sensation in New a york, for which port the ill-fated vessel sailed c from Havre. During Wednesday afternoon, 1, the newspaper offices in tfiat city were thronged t with distressed and anxious persons, who had^ ( or supposed they-had friends or relatives on t board, and every report from the scene of the f disaster was seized upon wun me greatest a avidity. As not a soul on board, however, es: t capcil a watery grave, the intelligence received t was extremely meagre, and hut added to the terrible anxiety of the anxious enquirers.? The Philadelphia Ledger has a letter dated c Long Beach House, April 17, which says: ? I write to inform you of the total loss of the ( ship Powhatan. She came ashore on Sunday 1 morning about 1 o'clock, during ono^of the j most violent storms ever experienced on the l coast. She was laden with emigrants, I'should f think about 200, and out of the whole number t of passengers and crew there was not a soul 1 saved. It was impossible to save any one on t account of the weather. { The vessel has gone to pieces so much that ^ it is almost impossible to tell whore sh'e struck, j which was about 7 miles north of Egg Harbor p Light. We have picked up 33 bodies t-o-day, c and sjyice the storm has abated, we have plenty I of help from the mainland to assist in the search s for bodies. h A despatch received in Philadelphia, on Wed- c nesday evening, from Absecoin, says: c The number of dead bodies that have floated g ashore is now increased to 68, consisting of r nen, women and children. Included in this r number are many found upon Brigantine Beach, t which is divided from the maiii land by a cban- s nel about a quarter. of*u mile in width. The s greatest excitement prevails at Absecomb, and v the inhabitants are unremitting in their efforts j, to ascertain the extent of the catastrophe, and c to give the ill-fated bodies an appropriate burial. E ' 'Another despatch' frora^he^ame place says: t "A'portion of the bedding has been u washed ahsore. It has cut or stamped upon t it?' Packet ship?Spofford? Liverpool?bound \ to dock, 187?, Kast River.'" This, it is fear- j ed, came from another wreck, as there is a ves- *] sel belonging to New York of that name. ' ^ A despatch, date'd Philadelphia, the 2(Jlh f Inst., says: s " So far 120 dead bodies have been washed c ashore on Absecomb Beach. It is not y^t known to what vessel they belonged." The Poio/iatan, which wastcpmmanded by c Capt. Myers, was owned in Baltimore, built in j that city In 1837, 598 tons register, valued at has 4UU or 5UU passengers on Doara,v ana is \ anchored at Jhe New York Quarantine. s Charleston Courier. t The Wheat Crop.?The Rockville (Md.) i Journal says the growing wheat in that county c presents a most beautiful appearance. The prospect of a large crop is very flattering, not- t withstanding the go-back it received duringthe r unfavorable weather of February and March, c \ about $18,GUI), and la prooaoiy insured, iter ^ cargo, principally, French and German goods, ? and of considerable value, is probably largely K insured in New York. She sailed from Havre J about the 1st of March, with 411 passengers. ^ The packet ships Constitution, Manhatan, ] John Black, and American Congress, fears for t the safety of which were entertained, the N. Y. Times says are all safe, as is also the ship U.x.M UIAU ?inn An/mfa/1 ttrponlra/) Sllia ? ffThv Treaty with Mexico. -s Upon receiving intelligence of the rejectirfh" f this treaty byCtJae Senate, the Richmond inquirer indulged in the following reflections, idiich seem Iol.us> to be characterized by wisom and patriotism: "The rejection of the Gadsden treaty, what* ver be its defects of detail, is a calamity to the ountry. Nubody who comprehends the scope nd effect of the treaty Will dispute this proportion, unless it be some restless filibuster vho, impatient of tbe.slow progress of natural ecay, would i^jticipate ttro inevitable destiny f Mpvif-n li? .and fiirftible annexation. -j r l he Gadsdeu treaty accommodated the matters [i dispute between the United States and tbe overntnent of Moxico, and fixed tbe relations if the two countries on a stable basis of friendhip and good neighborhood. The defeat of he treaty again rouses tho antipathy of race nd nationality, provokes a collision of hostile aterests and conflicting claims, and rendere%a var will) Mexico imminent, if not inevitable. "The dispute between the governments of iexicoand tho United States in regard to tho desilla valley was suspended by (he uegotiaion which preceded the Q.idsden treaty; and ho miscarriage of every attempt to adjust the ifficulty necessarily revives and aggravates it. Sach government will, of course, hasten to pro._J ,i ?ii-_ ,.ff ...:n eci us rignis, anu ions a couisiun ui iuice wm lmost inevitably occur.' We cannot believe hat Mr. Pierce will be so regardless of the incrests of the country as quietly to surrender he iVIesilla valley to the possession of a hostile rtny. The territory is ours justly and legaly; American citizens have settled upon it vith the sunction of the government, and they iust be protected against the violence of itn dvcrsary claimant. It is true- that by the 1st article of the treaty of Guadalqpe Hidal;o provision is made for the arbitration ortn| ispute between the respective parties of the loundary commission; but this does not prelude the right of eack government to take measures for the protection of the rights of its itizens. Under these circumstances, the most rivial incident may at any moment involve us 1% O ?? ?! S1M + I-I MAVI/IA " . II <1 ?l UI TT IVI1 iUUAIUVi . . , The Passover.?The feast of Unl?aved {read, one of the principal* rites of the He. irews, has been commemorated in our c'ty d~uing the present week. This feast, says the Jaltimore Sun, has been observed by the Isaelites since the days of Egyptian bondage, nd wasjastituted to commemorate the proviential escape of jthe Hebrews fiom Egypt, /hen God smote the first born of that people iid passed over the bouses of the Isralitcs and narked the lintels and door posts with the ilood of the Paschal Lamb. It wae originally elebrated on the first full moo.n of the Jewish ear, from tho 14th to the 21st of the month fisan, answering to the latter days of Mareh nd the first days of April. Before the.capivity of the Israelites it was called Abib and .fterwards Nisan.- During the feast which :ontinues for eight days, unleavened bread ony is used. This was the principal festival of Iig Jews, and was typical of the death, of Christ for the salvation of the world. Though he ceremonies are now somewhat different rom the orginal feast, in the main they are tlje ame and are regarded with great respect by hose professing the Jewish faith throughout he world.?Savannah Courier. Malting and Distillation*.?There were lonsu ned for these purposes in the United States, in the year ending June 1,1850, 2,144,; )00 bushels of rye, 3,780,000 bushels of barey, and 11,000,000 bushels'of Indian corn; in ill 16,924,000 bushels of food, nutritious for >oth man and beast. And there \yere manuactured the same year 6,000,000 gallons of inoxicatingjiquorn, ale and distilled spirits. New* fork alone produced 645,000 barrels^of ale? riorn than anv other State, and one-third >fthe whole quantity made in the Union. No ralid objection can be made to the distillation ind sale of spirits for medical and mechanical lurposes. But so far as these liquors are pro luced and sold as a beverage, so far the whole msiness is unnecessary, injurious, and indefenible. Every bushel of these provisions could lave been put to some wholesome use. No onscrentious man should sell his crops to be :hanged? into poison. Whoever carries his [rains or corn, his cider or apples to a distillev or brewery, as the case may be, indeed get eady money and good prices for his produce, iflt he should reflect that he is thus feeding a troam that spreads poverty, crime, misery, diease, and death, wherever it flows. Those vho are now engaged in malting, distilling, ind selling intoxicating drinks are not, as a lass, conscientious men; like an unjust judge, leither fear God nor regard man; and worse han he, cannot be wtaried out by the "contin-, lal coming" of remonstrances and appeals, to hem to ab^idon .tb^ir business. They pay ittle heed to all the other rcsuita ofctbeir einiloyment, so long as it brftigs them mOney>^ftie only way to rid ourselves of the evils vhich they inflict, is, by the enactment and aithful application of a prohibitory law. Why hould you not give your vote to help us acomplish the work ? ? < King Otho, of Greece; is abundantly scolded iud threatened by the London press. It is nore than hinted that his realm may be restor id?like the Crimea to the Ottoman Porte.? PU?? IWn.n'nnr PtlF/ ninlo thlS lflnfflMtm * LIIV lUUItllllg VUM. iiiViv w?ww ? ?? . 'By adhering strictly to the implied contract inder whioh his dynasty was established, tho% Cing of Greece may survive the present conrulsion in the?ast On those terms only will Sngland and France tolerate the existing sysem." . _ _ _ - * Tor Whrat Chop.?From several of ouF lountry exchanges we notice that the spring vheat has been much injured by the late frosts^ ind in some cases the fear is expressed that lie injury will to ^serious extent reduce the field. A correspondent of ours in Lexington, > mder date of April 24, informs us that some >f his early wheat is frosted, but to no considerable extent; and he expresses the /belief that ho late wheat will do well if. it escapes the ust. Everything considered, he thinks the :rop has fared well thus far.?Carolinian. ( "Tub Gbbek Cnuacff.^The fuojkmental dtfference between the Greek and Roifian Catholic churches consists in the rejeo^pn bf the spiritual supremacy oMSt. Peter oa:the part of the former, and the denial of any visible representative of Christ upon the cartb^ In the view it takes of the Holy Ghost it is al& at variance not only with the Roman Cathtpio but pith the Protestant churches. ' This variation consists in the idea that the Holy Spirit proceeds. from tire Son alone and not frot^tbe rather ' and Son. It'recognizes seven sacraments, au- thorizes.the offering pf prayer U> the saints and the Virgin, enqourage^ the* use of pictures, but forbids images. It holds in reverehqe the relics'and tombs of holy then? and enjoins strict fasting and the giving of alms?looking upon them as wo/.ks of intrinsic /nerit. Iti, rejects ^ auricular confession, and holds that modified form of the Roman doctrine of the Eucharist which is denominated consubstantiAion. It administers baptism by immersion, and many 51,, of the church services'consist almost entirely V of ceremonial observances. The intrinsic doc- . ^ trines of the two churches do uot differ materially, and the causa of their separation was . doubtless more owing to the rival pretftiisippi of the two imperial cities, Rome an Constant!nople, than to any 6erioua disagreement in relation to doctrines or ordinances.; , jV. Y. Sunday Timei. : ? ' . fP . nn.,Ant, I??mn k SAmaliArlo ^ J. ABlfi USkn JLJJk A'H/l r A^AllVAi?- MuiMvwvi j has said tlrajt a Parisian grisctte, with a little tulle and ribbon, will conqoer.the world, while , an^nglisb woman; with all her shawls, damasks " * and diamonds, looks only like an animated clothes-horse. There is some exaggeration in this statement, tfit more wit, 'and still moro truth. The wonieu of France unquestionably ' hhve a better taste iu dress than those of Great " Britain or even America.. In both,our mother , country, and this there is too much of what may be called " snobbism" ro female attire.? The ladjes of Anglo-Sapmndom seem to fancy that the more they spend on dress, the prettier they look. Accordingly one sees little wbmen covered all over with lace,-or buried in the mid* die of stiff brocade, or almost lost to sight under a puffing velvet cloak, with capes that extend on either side* like gfguntio wings. 0"r> one beholds tall women, it such is the fashion, - - .... I . r r tricked out irr tight sleeves, ana stripea siiks, the costliness of the material being regarded,. ; by the wearer, as sufficient compensation for the incongruity of the style. s 1 A French servant girl even has better lasle. She knows it is not so much tbe richness of the material, as the way if .is made up,, and the manlier in which it is worn, that.gives the ' desired air of elegance. A neat fit, a graceful bearing, and a proper harmony between the " complexion and the oolors, has more to do with heightening female attraction than-even American ladies seem particularly to Qpmprebemf. Many a wife looks prettier, if she would but know it. in h9r neat morning frock of calic<? than in (he incongruous pile of finery which v she dignifies with the title of full dress. Many an unmarried female fiistrwiw the hert-of bee.* J. future husband, in some simple, unpretending ? attire, which, if consulted about, she would .pronounce too cheap except for ordinary.wear, but which, by its accidental suitability to her figure, faoe and carriage, idealises her youth and beauty wonderfully. If. the sc? would study taste in dress more, and care less fpr mere expense, they would have uo reason to if. Af nrpspnf thfl**fixtravair.inee of " American females, in theii*attire, is proverbial. We wish we could say as much of their elegance in the same line. . Tne Whitb Vail.?A beautiful hut strange costom prevails among the Japanese, by which the bride recejves a disguised sermon as a pre- ', sent from her friends. In our land the bride frequently receives presents of jewelry, and tffess, but in Japan her friends give Iter, on her wedding day, a long white vail. This vail is large enough to cover her from bead to foot.? .> After the.ceremony is oveTj she carefully lays aside that vail among the things not to bo.dis- ' turbed. That wedding vail is at her death to be her shroud. What woflld our females think 'v / of having their shroud around them to partake! / in the dancing and other foolish revelries of a ; marriage'in this land of pulprfs and Sabbaths? j The Hartford Times says, Samuel Colt has ?received an order from the British GoveramentC to furnish their Baltic fleet with 5,0110 of his?' Navy Pistols, as soc.h as possible; and be;is notified that the entire fleet is to be Tarnished with them.- The armory in Hartfqjrd will" be required to do a good portion of/bis work, and probably the European "ordertfTor Col'ts Pistols will be immense. The Ejiropean war will cause a steady stream of g<d$ to flow into Colt's pockets. .Probably thjsreis no other manufacturer of any dcscrfptio^in the world jT who is making money as rapfijfy as this gen- / ' tlcinan. The Sultan is prepared to purchase as of his arms as can be furnished. THB^oKRoa^cTRiNE.-JThe UuitedfiUUes Charge ^'AnareSAo the'HepB^ig^of Ecuador, the Honorable Philo White, in presentig lii? credentials to that Government, accomoahied them by a note embracing a long dissertation setting forth the foreign policy of the United States as being iu opposite to the further progress of European acquisition on this conti- _ nent. In replying to this, the Ecuador MinistcT of foreign relations, Senor Maroos Espinel echoes its sentiments, and remarks: "The solemn declarations made by bis Excellency President Monroe, thirty years since and which has become a settled principle with the Cabinet at Washington, has grown to be an anxiom in all South America, and especially so in the Republic of Ecuador." ThkNebba&ka Bill.?The Washington Staa expresses the belief that immediately after the Deficiency Bill shall have been. disposed of, the Nebraska qnestion will be formally taken up, by a decided majority vote, and that the discussion upon it will not continue root* than a month thereafter; thirty hour speeches having already been made upon it This is, . ? perhaps, twice as many as are considered nec* ' essary for the proper elucidation of any great question 1>efore the English House of Com* mqns. . v ' * v ^ ...... ; ?& * ^-v. ./ - ' * ' .. ** v'' f. . 'V '