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?CWrc*ponde?>eti <if tliwftew York llcrulJ.] -. i W amusqto^, Oct. 20,1855. ^ Jfore Cuban Development*?A StartUna Chapter Expected?A Spanish Official Letter of Sale of the Island ?Terms Offered to General Pieroe *>:' ?Secretary hfarcy's Ansicer?%lts Effeci?2/Co Papers Concealcdfrom the Peoples W - - > Cuba is up again. A fresh chapter I in her history, after more than a years concealmcut, is about to become public property. The particulars it gives will be more than interesting, .tho word startling might bo hero applied with every . propriety. Betoro tho I meeting of the last Congress, Presi- j dont Piorco could have rendered the | qnostion of Cuban annexation no longer a doubtful one: tlio niaans for setuing it were, indirect!^ within his reach, and tlirpugh the government of Spain came the proposal of settlement* The suppressed chanter addresses W self to "His Excellency, Franklin Pierce, President of tho United States." Before opening our history, a few wordsMmtroductory suggest themselves. The revolution that brought in power the present government of II. 0. M. Isabella, was for months forseen by the Quoen mother, Christiani, and various means were suggested to ward it off.? Money could alone do it. The Spanish treasury was exhausted, and the critical condition of tho country would not allow a public loan to be asked for. Time was pressing, and the Minister fur Foreign Affairs, the principal adviser of Christina, was called into counsel. Twenty millions of dollars was the sum required; with it th^Tevolution could be brought up, and tho government, as then administered, continued in power. The United States had a full treasury, and circumstances would justify an application being made to it for that amount. * The subject in this condition was presented to Queen Isabella, as a mnttiki* rtl* I'.iM.. nwyl 1 end,, and with an additional loss to Spain of one hundred millions of dol- < lars. This reasoning must have had t its influence in determining the Span i ich government in its offer for the sale 1 of Cuba, and that it should wish to , make a good bargain with the United 1 States was both proper and right, and ' could not with propriety justify these- * vero and undiplomatic answer of Secretary Marc}*. A prndent policy would have kept , the offer an oi?en one, for the action of { Congress, and Mr. I'iorco would doubt less have found eupi>ort in that body, , had he closed with the terms offered hv Spain. The paymant of the twen?ty-fiv? millions was the only real obstacle then in the way of tfie United SfintM purchasing Cuba, but an ingenous and honest ndimuistration would have overcome that difficulty without ft-nch trouble. C.mgfi!fla -would hare Totcxl the sum, i%t all probability, with vr. .w, .u, ?..IM .i.Arc?vu.? mji url?iuval. It was thought best to keep the resolution of the govcrifmeyt from tl?o knowledge of out* Minister ; and a special agent was selected as nearer of despatches to Washington, with a copy of _ ?the letter to the President, enclosed with instructions to the Spanish Minister. The letter proposed to the Uni'ted States a settlement of the Cuban ( -question on the last and final conditions made by President Polk, whicli were more favorable to Spain than ~anv that had since been presented, by :an amount exceeding fifty millions of dollars. A condition in the terms proposed bv Mr. Polk was the payment of twenty-five millions of doll rs on the { conclusion of the contract, and the 1 transfer of the island to the United I State . 1 The Spanish letter was passed into f the hands of Secretary Ma rev, and , through him an answer was returned | to the Spanish Minister, purporting to have been the President's decision to the offer made by Spain. The answerstatcd that the conditions of Spain, ' as put forth in the letter to the United States President, could not be enter- v tained, and that the terms were inpos- 1 session on which tho United States was s then prepared to treat. It was plain- t ly intimated that the Pierce admintra tion understood the question of Cuba and the interest of the country snffi- ? ciently well not to require foreign ad- * vice or suggestions, an unnecessary ' Siece of severity on the part of Mr. '1 [arcv, and which, it appears, the c Spanish government properly appreci- i ftted, by avoiding as far as convenient c the subject of Cuba, when consequent-! fl 1V fA liDI* nah'/?a liif ahi? minicfoi* i I have reason to believe that the ? particulars of this important corres- c pondence were kept secret from Mr. " Soule. Tho twenty-five- millions of!1 money, in connection with tho autici- d pated revolution, was not the only ar- li gument for pressing the sale of Cuba t at that moment. Many of the first v atatesmen of Europe favored the imme- ? diate sale and transfer of the Island to ^ the United StaU s as an act of true policy, for circumstances thon justified a * belief tliat Cuba was shortly to become the property of the filibusters, then or- L gamzing their co nfortable forces throughout the United States, and that J1 once m their possession, all hope of re- 1 covering the Island would be at an J ' 7 SET"- ? ' .l/ 1 ' j. . ~ ' jgjt ' V.**T? s' - t' ' I . d L----TOJJMHI1" ! 1111 fig* out unnecessary delay. Cuba, however, was not to become the propdfty of the United States, unices she came in ; ' under tho conditions offered by Prebi deut Pierce?an evettt which, from ap- \ pe.'imuccs, is a long why off. It will remain lor tue new Gvpgrees to rentier ! more intolligible our recent doings f with Spain, and many of the govorn-1 monts of Europe, by an expose of the facts which the Pierce administration have dishonestly labored to keep from the attention of the public. SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE Friday Morning, Nov. 2 1855. agents. E. W. CARS, X. W. cor. of Walnut and Tliird-st Philadelphia, is our authorized Agent W. W. WALKER, Columbia, S. C. A. M. PEOEN, Fftirview P. O., Greenville Dist WM. C. BAILEY) Pleasant Grove, GreenvilleCAPT. R. Q. ANDERSON, Codnr Falls, Greenville. A MEXICAN MAMMOTH WHEAT. A 8amtue of the above truly rare and beautiful wheat lias been shown us by "Mr. Jons W. Ghauy of this |>laco, who, together with Messrs. Gowkr & David, hus a few bags of it on hand. It was raised by Thomas T. Patton, of Buncombe county, N. C., and claims many advantages over nny wheat that we have seen or heard of. This wheat ig not only large and clear with a snper^bun dance of fodder, but it is very prolific.? Three years ago Mr. Pattost procured ono quart, from "vliicli ho produced forty. Last season lie raised forty bushels to the acre. A field of common lanil produced on an average twenty bushels to the acre. The proper time for sowing this wheat is from thfe first ti!l the last of November. If sown earlier thefiost is upt to injure it in tho spring. It is highly recommended by Gen. Waddy Thompson, who saw much of it growing whilst in Mexico. Any one desiring to purchase can do so by calling at tho stores of Messrs. Grady & Gooni.KTr, and Messrs. Gower ?k David. See ndvi rtisement. JOHN B. QOUGH,' THE TEMPERANCE LECTURER. The following extract is taken by pero4N?>n, from the letter of a lady friend, now in Connecticut. This celebrated temperance eeturer has but. recently returned from Eng and where he has been lecturing with great j kucceas, and is now delivering tho first of a 1 now series of lectures in this country. The j etfer is dated "Nr.w IIaven, Oct. 10th 1855. , .?* * * i |,ear(j John B. Gouoh deiver a temperance address to tho "Young 1 den's Christain Association." The building J vas crowded to its ulinost capacity sor e two tours ere tho lecture commenced. I had ( upposcd that-Temperance was an exhausted ( home; did not think I should hear one oi ig- f nal thought or sentiment, but I never listen- * c sd to such a continued strain of eloquence t md originality of wondrous conception in i , vliic-.lt the evil of intemperance was depicted, i 1 pi i'.- * ? ? * * ' i no auuicnce ?ni spell oouinl, enchained for * ?no hour nnd a half. I would have given him 1 ny undivided attention for the night without | uicc manifesting any weariness. He deline- s ited the death bed scene of a drunken clergyman, who was hurled from a distinguishd position in England by the bottle. Fokkbt g night have equalled but not excelled him. c le said whilst in England the Oxford stu- v leuts annoyed him during his meeting, by i lissing out questions from various parts of 1 ho halls. One cried out our Saviour drank ! | rine, why cannot we do so!" Ho replied, 11 Yes, you can, if you will mako the wine it roin water; as he did," and many others c qually as prompt but I cannot write them." ^ ett performed last night to a | r lelighted audience. He exhibits this after- I loon at 1-2 past 2,' and concludes with a J lerformanco to-night a ? ? -40??- - ? North against the South. The Philadelphia North American ofThurs- J lay says : On'last Saturday afternoon, some ( Undents, hailing respectively from the North ind the South, got into a wrangle in the ricinity o? Jefferson College, and one of them ' was considerably maltreated. From this! rre\v a division between the student* from lie Northern and Southern Mictions of the ?untry. < Y esterday at 1 P. M., * crowd collected in * he vicinity of the College. (Jefferson Col- ? ege.) and obstructed the footway. Sergeant i Vvilhelm, of tho fcaglith Ward ordered tlie I jrowd to make way for the pedestrians, j < They refused, and began using the most 1 ibttaive language. Officers Humam and 1 Manreuvero were assaulted, but the police- J men succeeded in Arresting John L. Branch, William" Williams and Jamea S. Turner. < life two first named were held to bail to 1 answer Uie charge of resisting the officers, " and Tamer was held to beep the peace. Apprehensions of a riot,.in the afternoon, | wero entertained, and a largo police force ? was detailed to peraerro the pence. But i or.e rfolntion of the law occurred. ' | wSi .J ^ *2 LU1JJLJ L-LJ . PI II' '."I'. Acnes or Americans.?Tbe New York Ejtprt #, in describing the recent great American demonstration in that oity, in the Park, where SO,000 honest men and true assembled, says there werp "Acres of Americans." ? Tlie Boston Bci skys there were about a* many in that city on Thursday evening last. The poople are with us?They are in the wagon. Vft ?.rr,n - a ' nost cases, if (Iiey recorored. commixed sui idc, for no human heart, unless elevated by 'hristian training, could after undergoing so ruel an infliction, ever have more thnn two eelirigs, that is death to those suffered front, >rto himself. Accordingly, during our stay here, many sprang over the dills, many buicd tluv.nscb?i alive in the guwv*, and many lid themselves in the caves to starve to leath, their dead bo-lies floating all around n numbers. In one instance, two, cmbold?d by pity shown them hy a shipmaster, hid hemselves on board hit vessel, one of whoin urvives, and is now iu this country. I Was Ojfcit Yoc.vo.?It is an excellent hing for all who are engaged in giving intruetion to the yonng people, frequently to all to mind what they wore thennelvcs when onng. This practice is one of the most ikely Co impart patience ami forbearance, and o correct unreasonable expectations. At one >eriod of my life, when instructing two or hree young people to write, I found them, as 1 11ought, unusually stupid. I Iiuppeno about his time to look over the contents of 411 old opy-book, written by^ne w]?en I was a boy. The thick up-strokes, the crooked down troke*, the nwkward joining of the letters, ind the blots in the book, made me comlietciy ashamed of myself, and t could, at bat moment, have burned the book in the ire. The worse* however, I thought of my* >e!f the better I thought of my backward .cholars ; f was cured of my unreasonable ex vectalions, and became in future doubly pA ient and forlnariug. In teaching youtii, renember that you once were young, and in, eproving their youthful errors, endeavor to :afl to mind your own.* A Large Invoice. A house in this city received Inst week nghteen thousand sacks of peanuts, worth ibout $35,000. No danger of the dmnia Inclining whifo this crop continue# so prolif c ! Put the the use of this fruit is not con lined solely to an accompaniment to melodramas and pantomim es. They are rich in Essential oil which is expressed in large Quantities and used in the South both lor illuminating and lubricating purnoM. Fhe Israelites who eschew lard use is for culinary purposes, and fritters and things tit that ilk fried in it are extremely delicate and well flavored. Possibly there arc many who suppose the peannt to be theproduotion of a tree; we Mice thought tlds to he the case; but the het is that they are root*, and are an under-1 ground crop precisely like pot.-jlows They . v wvvn i< viw ASUUIUIBHUII^inOUgll llio complete triumph of the American party in the Union at large."ir.ny be detayod for a short season by the' number and magnitude of the liea published and spoken against us by the Northern AboHtionistsjuid their allies of the Southern Democracy, we I will know no such word of surrender. Tho American people are in for the war upon that forcignism which demoralizes American society aud subjects the^Americanj working classes to so many primtions, and they will persevere from yoar to year until, once more, "Tho Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er tho land of the free and the homo of the VaTo." A New Slave Trade. It appears from a Parliamentary paper, presented to tho Hon*) of Lords, entitled ''Correspondence upon tho subject of Emigration from China," that a new slavo trade is growiug up in the world, and, it must be confessed, under British auspices. The revelation is frightful. A memorial from certain shipmasters lately returned from the Chinca Islands, details the cruelties practiced on the Chinese laborers employed in the export of guano, undei the authority of persons responsiblo to tho Government of Peru.? Those unfortuuate men are represented to bo carried from China to the Chincns for tho most part, if not exclusively, on board of British vessels. No sooner are they landed from lluMhips'ihnn they sco tall African negroes placed over them as boatswains, armed with a lash of four plaits of cowhide, iaid up in tho form of what seamen call "round ?eunet," live'fect in length, an inch and a half in diameter, tapering to a point. Dllririfr tho frllftn.uvno f..- ~?v ..jj ...V IV.VMWUO, tvi IfcJjUliU UUCIIU^, (or such as the overseers please to term such,) this instrument was not much used ; but as, a bout 4 o'clock in the afternoon, many of the weakest had not performed t,hoir ta?k work, the bontfWain freely used* to stnl t those behind to bring the day's supervision to a close. The slightest resistance was punished by a flogging littio short of murder, as on many melancholy occasions we. have witnessed, being, nearer than wo desired. Tlie first six to twelvo cots stilled the most agonizing cries that rang through the lleet?cries we heard day by day, but only then knew the full amount of suffering that called them forth. There was no tying up, the nearest Chinaman being compelleil, by a cut of the lash, to lay hold of an arm or leg, and stretch the miserable sufferer on his stomach on the guano. TheWcrc weight alone of tlio Iadi inado their bodies shake; blackening the llesb at every blow, besides cutting like a sabre; and when a convulsive movement took |tlaec, a subordinate placed bis boot on the boulder to keep the (piivering body down. Two dozen made them breathless, and vhen released, after thirty-nine lashes, they leemed slowly to stagger over, reeled, and ell, and were carried off to the hospital; in #? V . ^ ,* *1 . are qpudeotcd hy very tough capillary fibre*, so that ,ou grasping y?e tops the wholo roots corns uptogether. The nuts are then gathered \>y the oegro children and the tope rejected. Thev are raised extensively io Georgia And South Carolina, and also in Africa. \V6 have ridden through fields of peanuts, , or groundnuts, as thev are there called, in Georgia, when they were full blossom, and the ground waa entirely buried beneath a thick blanket ofbri?bty?llow flowers. With i a burning sun pouring on this picture, nod not a tree visible, nor a patch of shade, the uninitiated can gain an idea of the beauties of traveling in the Palmetto State. The African peanuts, however, are the best Any one so disposed can take a raisin box, till it witMfb mixture of soil and sand, and grow a quart or two of the rtlts. Only be sure those you plant are not roasted, for of course those won't sprout.?Neto York Courier. Religions Test Tho American party in some sections have stricken from tho platform of principles of the party the religious Test?that Roman Catholics shall not bo admitted as mombers, or be voted for by the American Party. As far as North Carolina is concerned, wo hope this test will be retained.*' Our revolutionary sires adopted such a test and they seem to have known inoro about the danger of Roman Catholics than we do. They knew of the proscription that drove tho "Pilgrim Fathers'* to.I'lvinfinth Rwlc oi.J i! _> _?- -r -_a j ?... MMM kllV MCGM/OIIUlililO v" tho llugenots to South Carolina, nnd in it any wonder that they should have their Constitution so framed as to exclude them from office in this State. We agree with Mr. Woslcy, that inasmuch as Catholics are not bound to "hold faith with hcrertica" they should not be received in any community, as citizens. | Somo of our onponents say that this religious test is in violation of tho Constitution of tho United States. Wo givo tho clause referred to below : The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United Slates and the several States shall be bound by oath or affirmntion, to support this Constitution. But no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to a*y office or public trust under the United States. What does this clause mean ? Certainly . that Congress shall not pass hii) law requiring any religious test as a qualification to any office or public tru-t in the United 1 States, not that any individual if ho thinks ' proper, shall not make the religious opinion of an individual an objection to his holding . office, and a good reason not to vote for him. We desire to see no legislation on the subject, but wo do wish to see every man adopt it as tho rule of his future action, not to vote for any man who hold tho tenets of the Roman Catholic faith. If Roman Catholics wish to ho received as friends, bona fide, of this country let thcin ronounco nil adhesion to the Pope of Rome. Until they do this, 1 for ono, wo slmll never voto for a Roman Catholic, no matter what may he his position in society.? Charlolta Whig. Mount Vernon Association. J The Ladies of Virginia seem to ho deter- 1 mined to raise a sufficient fund to purchase < Mount Vernon for the State. In this they 1 are to bo supported by ladies in other portions t of the country. Philadelphia has made n ] movement, and in the South the scheme is ( urged with all the elootionee which woman / knows so well how to employ. The chivalry of Virgi m has been aroused ' in behalf of the object. The Henrico I.ight 4 Dragroons assemble*! nt the Agricultural Fair s Grounds on Friday last to have an oration and tournament. John II Gilmer, Bsq., was 6 the orator, and is said to have acquitted him- t self handsomely. The knights, seventeen in * number, had a"tiltf' at a ring, and display- ( ed fine horsemanship; and the practical re- t suit of tho entertainment was the raising of J seven hundred dollars for the Mount Vernon 2 .Association. I Though Mrs. Washington at one time con- t sen ted to the request of Congress to have the remains of her venerated husband removed i to tho capitol, it is now well understood thai they nro not to bo disturbed. Hence * the anxiety of Virginians to socuro Nfount ' Vernon to the State, and to givo to the tomb of Washington the care appropriate to the < sacrea spot. They appear to bear in rospectfd rcmeiQbrancc the concluding sentiment t of Mr. Satnl. I.ivermore, the President of the I Senate, when addressing the President of the Uuitcd States in 1799 : "Let his countrymen oonsecerato the mem- ' ory of the heroic general, the patriotic states < man, and tlio virtuous ?a?re ; let them teach I tlu'ir children, never to forgot that the fruit* 1 of his labors and his example aro their in- \ inheritance." I The monument at Richmond is acquiring , u form And ftr.Uh quite creditable to the , State and to the arenitoots omplnyed in it* construction. , PADDY's Experiment ron REDCCINO a Kinp..?An Irish weaver, just imported from < the Emerald Isle, took to his employer in i Kiinarn ck (Sco 1 nd ) ia'o'y t n ?t clotb i he hath woven since his arnvAl. Upon examination his employer detected j two holes in the piece, within htlf an inch of each other, and told hiui ho must pay a fine of a shilling for each hole. MAn' plate yer honor," said Paddy, "aise 1 it the number uv holes, or be the six# uv them, that ye put the fine on ?" < "Uy the number of hole#, to be surei "And it big hole And a small hole U lite < same price ? -itr^ MYea, a shilling for every hofe, big or lit* tie." "Then give me a houltl ur the piece," re* plied Paddy. - <&M ' It was handed to him, wbeft with his fin- ' vers be deliberately tore the twosinitfl holes into bt)?w triumphantly exclaiming,? "i*, the pipor o' an' that'll save me OneRhttlingrany h<m? i The good-uaturCt! employer laughed 1 Iteartily at thjf odcl experiment, and forgave < iKwr VarMv tbeflne. | % ^ * Got ftoodor, tho AintoxmmSk ni OongrtM. ^ *" . Two delegates b?<re bteft elected to Con?one, Whitfield, i^.tk? frfrfiffjiy party, and tbe other, Reader,'by the free-roll *onatters of the Territory. Both will goto Wash- i ingtoo, but aa only ene delegate > Jlowed from a Temtbry, either Whitfield or Reeder must be rejected. Now, we understand that he administration intend to etnnd by Whitfield ; but we venture the fettpction il<?i unless Geo. Jeff. Daris kcepe a close watch upon Mr. Pierce, be will be carried over to Reoder through the influence of the Kitchen Cabinet and uis inherent proclivities for free soil. The issue between Whitfield and liecdcr may be said to involve die whole is sue between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery parties in Kansas; and the decision of the House in this case willjmostprobably determine the manifest destiny of the Territory, one way or the other. We should not, therefore, be surprised if the election of Speaker, upon this very lest, were to keep the Hotne disorganised for days and weeks, inflaming a state of sectional bitterness bordering upon dissolution and revolution. The House is the judge of the election of its own members and delegates; but still, the position of the administration and its partisans in reference to Reeder is of some moment. Can tho Cabinet organ, or anybody, for the benefit of Mr. Buchanan in Pennsylvania, or for the advantage of Mr. Wise in Virginia, give us any light upon tlris subject ? Is Mr. Pierce for Whit Held or for Reeder f Who w?vs Whitfield f We say he is for Reeder, and that Reeder* removal as Governor was all moonshine.? New York Herald. Calhoun's Works* The fifth and sixth volumes of Calhoun's works have at length appeared, ami we take especial pleasure in directing public attention to llicm. Volume fifth contains "all the report* of general and permanent interest, made by Mr. Calhoun during his Congressional career, and wbilo Secretary of War." Volume sixth, "such papers as may, in the main, bo ranked under the head of Political Essays." We have no hesitation in saying that these volumes will add much to the reputation of our great statesman, and strengthen the foundation on which his fiune rcatSr I'liey will be perused with no ordinary interest by the niauy uumifcr* of Mr. Calhoun *' *nd although many of tho papers have appeared before, it is gratifying to find them jollected hi a becoming and durable form. tu. lie. i 1 a uv ma itnu nui K cm mis great mnti arc, indeed, the most valuable he could have loft to um, ivho held him In such high esteem. May the youth of Carolina especially study thcin faithfully to the end, that they may Ix) led to emulate the virtues of Culhoun, ind to adopt those elevated principles, per- i lonnl and political, which illustrate his career, and inveal his nuine with enduring glory! We see by the advertisement these vol iimoti are at Mr. Bryan's.? Carolinian. Kinney's Government Kecogniskd )y tbk United Stated?An official ! ettor acknowledingg the authority of rJoloncl Kinney's government, on bolalf of the United Stats, was addressed o Colonel Kinney, it seeins, very short- * y alter his election as Governor ot jreytown, by Mr. Vason, United stats Vicc-Commercial Agent at that jort. The Commercial Agent, in concluding his letter, takes it upon him to ay: "For my own individual part, I have ecu this movement in favor of agovernncnt and the establishment of law vith great satisfaction, and am confiIcnt that it will bo productive of great ijood to this place; and I cannot refrain rotn congratulating you, and the citiums through you, thht this has been Drought about with so much harmony ind unanimity. Should you go on as fou have began, I believe that Mr. Everett's prediction, inado in the same ipeech to whieb 1 liave above alluded, hat 'San Juan in time will be a great American city, inhabited by Atneri ;ans cnieny,' will yet tie fulfilled." The report that Kinney had resigned ;ho office of Governor is said to bo un mo. ^ ?'?? f '? Conscience.?Gonsoiencc is the inborn mediator in evory man. It is Gbd's vicegerent upon earth, and is therefore regarded by many as the highest and the last. Conscience is a man's most proper essence completely transfigured-?the celestial aboriginal man. It is not that, or this, it commands in general propositions, it consists not of single virtues. There is but one virtue?the pare earnest will which in moments of decision resolves and chooses immediately. In living and peculiar indivisibility it inhabits and animates the delicate symbol oftho human body, and avails to call thespir ituol members into truest activity. Do you mean to challenge the jurr?" said a'lawyer^to his Irish client m Cal iforuia. 44 Yes, be the holy brogues of St. Patrick," replied Larry *i? they don't acquit me, I mane to challenge overy spal pane uv' ?irrt I wants ye give em a nint oil it, too." A yonth asked his father's sanction to his project of marriage. The old gentleman, requesting his son to pray with hip, prayed, that if the matct* was aginst the will of the Lord, He wonla throw obstacles in their Way and make it ^im))OMib^ Tlio ^cm^in B " s: "MEirair nw*'T,n llfcfW?rtewhid*? 1 save hira labor, such as may fill a plaee in ed np." lie is a lam fellow. Hw detestation of a long badly written manuscript, Wmch may have a grain of interest ita blots and scratches, and which, therefore, he feels it his duty to read, lias never been expressed in words,and never can be. lie is an irascible person, rather. lie likes to receive s letter from-a- remote place; telling him that his paper is the best In ll?, world He i. ? riicfj ni??. He likes (that is the young editor,) to go into a handsome apartment Titthi house of 'one of the first families,' and tee a lovely woman sitting on a magnificent sofa, under a resplendent astral lamp,' so deeply absorbed in the perusal of the last number that she does not notice his eritorahce for five minutes. How he blushes. Forms a high opinion of her moral, social artd intellectual worth* lie likes, when two hundred miles from home, to see a backwoodsman Bitting on a stump in front of his log cabin on a fine Sunday morning, lost in the colums of his fncomaparablo sheet?aay for example, the Enterprise! This gives him an idea of the universality of his genius. lie likes all those exchangee which have tho discrimination to copy anything from his colnmi.s, particularly if file article is proceeded by hoi. ?* commendatory observations.Hut He abhors an exchange which copies with out credit. He has a good mind to censo exchanging with such a fellow. But magnanimity forbids. Ho likes excessively to see an article of his in the London Timet, credited 10 an American paper. Why couldn't they pnt tho credit propor ly T is what he would like to know. He likes to see himself copied into John O'G root's journal, Oregoninn, or the Melbourne Argue. Ho is making himself fe-l nt the antipodes! His voice has gone forth to tho ends of the earth. Uo likes to l>? the first to ftniiowacs- aurthing. liut?. If in his eaperMss to d<> so, he has made a man dead who is only sick, nud is iguoniiIiiously corrected by a rival, and obliged himself to acknowledge tire error, be 'don't like k. lie likes?Oh Acer Ire likes it ! to get out the best number he ever issued, lie has this happen very frequently.*He dislikes? Oh how he dwUke* a l>'PfVgrnphtcid error in the best phrase of tho best sentence of the best article iu the paper.?. Typographical errors generally occur in that very place. No Minister of the Qospel at Portsmouth. There is not, at this titae, in the city f Porthsmoutli. Vs., a single minister of tho gospel, of any denomination whatever.? The Rev. Messrs. Wheelwright, of the Methodist, and Winglield,oftbe Episcopal Church, left at an early stage of the epidemic, from prudential and necessary considerations.? The Rev. Mr. Taylor, of the High street Presbyterian Church, was -obliged to ? leave on account of his uflheted wife, who has since died. The Rev, Thomas llume, Baptist, after considerable activity among the sufforcrs, and having himself been sick, was compelled to leave. The Rev. Messrs. Eskridge. Chaplain United States Navy, Cbisholin, of the St Joint's Episcopal Church, and Handy, of tho First Presbyterian Church, all remained visiting the sick and dying until they. could work no. longer. The two former, after a laborious and active service, were c?t off by the impartial scourge. Mr. Handy is still living, alter having boen oxtrMMly HI of the fever. His whole family, consisting of seven members, were also prostrated by the fever, and yet all have been strangely preserved. IT? 1* nnuf --t. 5.- ' _ _v. vj !<) nunso ui |)DJI1* ciana and friends absent for the beuefit of hit health. The Rev. Mr. Dehin, Catholic, after n faithful discharge of duty, ha* also fallen a victim to the destroyer. Thus Portsmouth is, at this time, wlioly without the preached gospdlf There is no one there to break the bread of life. No hiHn has been more active during'th? late epidemic in Portsmouth, than Mr. Samuel T. Hartt, Naval Constructor at that station. In all tba affairs of the town lie ha* been amongst the foremost; whilst from the first he lias unweariedly waited upon the sick and the dying. ? Frequently ha* he deposited the dead in their collins, when no other person could be found to perform this sad duty.?North America* and United Stake Gazette. ill * Vagabond Politicians.?As certain fishes are said to thrfte best in muddy water, so certain vagabond nolitloians live by excitement. They induenoe the passions of reckless individuals, and glory when they have induced them to commit some excess ?for it affords them a theme for lying and the lowest and most scurrilous abuse of their opponents. The foreign organ of this city stands pre-eminent in this line; and, if the nmt *Winn in #f??? ?! >? ?-? *a ...?> viii ?uuwu im? tin Willi' out disturbance^ it will hot be lor the want 1 of exertion on the part Of that fnetiounand unprincipled print to produce riot, wery 1 day it contains account* of attacks said to j have been made by American* upon foreign- ! ere, or endeavor* to hold up the police a* de- j serving cbaAtieement at the hand* of rofljaas. In feet the f hole tenor of its nrtiol.ee, edito- j rial and local, i# to produce invorate hosteli- ' ty against An^iicane^ aiMj to excite foreigndefending thenisclvc/^AookfthCt b? attack*