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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. VOLUME 9. CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, APRIL 5, 1848. NUMBER 14, I PUBLISHRD EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING j ? BY T II 0 M A S w. PEGU E ?. ' TERMS. j 3 ^Throe T) d'ars perannu n in advance. Three Dollars an j * Fifty Cents within six months, or Four Dollars at the e | piratioa of the year. j t . Advertisements inserted at 75 cents per square, (fourteen j j ines or less,) for the first and half that sum for each subse- ; . quent insertion. The number of insertions to be noted on | ' all advertisements. or they will be published until ordered ] l to be discontinued, and charged accordingly. One Dollar per square for a single insertion. 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Alt! letters by mail m-nt be post paid to insure a punclua ?uenion. 1 TO CLUBS. i c In order to place the Journal within the reach of * all. we offer the following reduced rates to Clubs s of new subscribers?payment to be made at the ! timeoj subscribing. j c For 4 copies for one year, $10 OD I s For 6 copies for one year, 14 CO | For 8 copies for one year, IS CO | For 10 copies for one year, 21 CO j For 12 copies for one year, 24 (JO i r ' Anyone ot our present subscribers will be con- I t pillared as one of either of the above clubs, bv ob- j taining a sufficient number of new subscribers to make Bp with himself, the 4, 6, 8, 10, or 12. fti v Ii POLITICAL. I {| From the Anjprta Constitutionalist. j . THE OLD PLVTFORM OF WIIIGISM. ! ( The Whig journals prate much ab ?;jt*their | j Whig principles?t!te sacred?the glorious t the immortal and unchangeable principles of their party. O.i** would suppose tli :t I lie ; ^ Whig party really thought tint they had : ?ome principles and policy, which they |t tvish to cartv out, and would carry out, if (. they could get into power, l.'ut it seems, hy c late developments and confession, that this is j not so. They are anxious to get rid of whig- j fiery as huitcrlo defined and come out on r an entirely new sensation. The Whiggcry ' ?r ?'?? hmdiiifT rmliticians of that paity is v *?? tan ?>?w M jwell known The principles, arid doctrines, J x swd theories, and incisures of thai tliev have J( proclaimed from the housetops, are familiar ; 1?? all. These were fought for "on (hr old ; i Platform of WhigismMr. Itevcrdv John- j ( son, the distinguished Whin Senator froin | , Maryland, is the author of this phrase. lie ( is one wiio has not tire I of the old platform, and is anxious to shuffle himself and his party ! ' on to a new one. In his recent New York ' r Taylor speech, he makes some naive and ( cdifvinn confessions. ! , . 1 i He savs, "1 myself, am a Whin, and I he- a Jieve that Gen. Tav or is a Whin, too, hnt a not on the old platform of Wnigism; though I s liave fonnht for these principles till 1 have i t f>ecn whipped off every button, a id have 1 Itecotne wise enough to drop them." [ This is very significant language. It is s worthy the especial attention of the Clay l{ Wliins, as indicatinn what is thought in some j, quarters of the policy of advocating lite old j issues, wlvch must necessarially l>e the result of the re-nomination of Mr. ("lay?Mr. | t Clay being "the Ewhodunnit" of the old plat- 1 a forin. I s It is significant, ton, as it in I cites to th i | Democrats the glorious triumph of their prin- j , ciplcs?their policy and measures. What i j noble encouragement does it afford to be steadfast and true to them. 1 , We quote further from the confessions of ;1 this leading Whig. Nearly every intelligent ; | man of that party would make the same con- i " T L I.I fessions, of having been 11 error, u no \>?u;u be honest. j 'When I first starter!. I went f?r every t question upon the old pi 'iforni of Whigism. s 1 was once in favor of a (tank of the United States; for the whole beast, with its seven ? heads and ten horns. Then again. I was in (] favor of distributing the proceeds of the Uni- ;i ted States, land office. Then also, I was in , favor of abolishing the veto power of the , President. Then, also I was against remov- j ing any one from office by the Executive, ( unless by bringing charges against the pcrs n ; , to l>e approved of by the Senate of iht; U. ; , States. I was also in favor of a tariff, high ; j or low, or any thing. But as I have grown | older, I trust I have grown wiser. I do not | admire the man whose head is like a popgun ( which when it has one shot in it, as soon as j { that is out he lias no other idea in Ins brains, j We extract his confession of error in rcf- f ercnce to a United States bank, for the im- s prcssivc rebuke that it must administer to the j arrogant and over weaning pride of opinion t of the Whigs. N ? : , Who could have uencvcu mm. m ?" nuw., ,, a space of time that has elapsed since tin: > panic cries of Ruin and Bankruptcy raised ; by the Whigs with a view to terrifv ihu ( country into the necessity of restoring the > National Bank?the old beast with its seven 1 ; heads and ten horns, that such a confession | would he made in the face of a Whig assein- < bly by one of its ablest leaders? ; t -Now let me, for a moment, examine a | little the bank question. A bank of the U. | States was urged as being indispensably | ( peccssary, chiefly on the ground of exchange. ( It was urged that the exchanges, and the i ; country, were going infallibly to be ruined ! without a bank of the United States 1 , thought so once myself; but the bank has gone to the tombs, and Daniel Webster j preached its funeral oration, when he pro- | pounced such a bank to be an "obsolete | idea." (applause.) And now how is it , .?..tk ovohstnerpq? Wp have found out that i they are regulated according to the rules and regulations of commerce. New York, | | this mighty, rich, and splendid emporium of i yours, a city which controls and regulates ! the commerce of America?she has taught , ps better and deeper lessons in the principle j < ofcurrency and banking than ever has heen i taught by all the politicians of the country. ; As we have grown, older we have grown j wiser also; and I believe there is^pnt a merchant, a banker, a mechani^^ a single in- j dividual doing business in Kew-York, who : r - .l: I thinks that a bank is necessary ior uus purpose; but taking a step further in the sound principles of currency, they all believe that it is commerce itself which regulates tho exchanges, and not the bank, (cries of'good. ;ood.') The exchanges have always been n favor of New York, save perhaps, last rear, or it mav be thisvear, when (lie Mcxi:an war has drawn the current of business o New Orleans, and has caused exchange o be about one per cent, in favour of New Drleans. But a bill of exchange is less vallable than a bale of cotton. We have found >ut that the best bill of exchange now bcween New York and Liverpool, is a baie of :otton; and 1 believe there is no man now vho wants to dig up from the grave, and hsinter from the tom'? the old and decayed 3ank of the United States, and I confess for mv nm-l nnd 1 dii not wish with Glut Tav* <>r, again to sec the bank with its marble .oluinns, and tessclate pavement, and all its veiglit and trappings thrown again upon our boulders." And is it indeed true, that the bank is thus :oldly consigned to oblivion, and that the ub treasury lias now a triumph over its runs? Ye s, that simple, republican, and truly lonslitutioifai system, has vindicated Dernoxatie statesmanship and w<?n for it a noble riutnph over Whig charlatanism. During he short time that it has been tn operation, note than eighty millions of dollars have teen received at, and paid out of the office t New York, without the loss of a dollar in my way to the Government, and without laving caused the slightest disturbance to lie currency or exchanges of tin; country. ou!d as much ever have been said of a Jranch of a United States Hank located in hut city. Hut tlie nv>st significant of nil the mnfesions in litis remaitable speech, are, that the pinions of a man on the great questions at ssue between the part cs in 1841. are of no onsequenco now. The language of the renatui* is as follows: "These questions have been thoroughly dismissed. 1 am not going to dwell upon them low. I only refer to tliern for llie purpose hewing that there is no man in the country, vhclhcr whig or democrat, who j radically you id think it noessary those special opiums or principles should he ado ted hy a nan in order to render him lit for being eected loan important oflicc. 1 say there is to man who s > thinks, unless he is one of hose who arc too deeply steeped and hapised in party prcjud.ces, and fettered by arty skackels." The Whigs mav choose for policy sake to ie indilVcreiil or regardless of the opinions of heir candidates on these as -upon all quesions. The struggle for power and place, nd hy this frank declaration avow that they ttach unimportance ton man s opinion on oinc of the most vital questions of const it 11tonal construction and of national police. Jut Mr. Johnson does gross injustice to the Jeuiocrats when lie includes them in the ante category. The democratic party is lot ultngeter so utterly demoralized and unirineipled politically as he e mfesseslns own tarty to be. The Senator declaies that it is necessary o get l id of such men in tin: Whin parly as :/e attached to Whin principles and who arc olieitious lor their triumph?men who do lonestly believe that they are right in their minions and the democrats wrunn. i lit* .... ollowing is his lannuane: "We must get rid of tlicsc by taking new nen. fresh men, who have not the odium of ill those questions upon them, or who can inldly come out from them and declare that Itese questions are not now lie: rule of their mnduct; that these are not questions which hev would urge or advocate tl they were devated to the ('residency ol the L titled stales. Tins is abandoninn tlx* "Id platform in jood earnest. But docs Senator Johns m or In the Taylor Whins "f New York, or of inv other >tate. expect that they can aliaitlon the old platform, wititoiii electing a new me, and pacing the principles upon them iv which thev expect to stand or fall? Do hev expect to elect a candidate who will --- tvl.ul iii-iiii-iiiii's he wiil ad I'll illLIIIIC "M ? ...?v |, j, ni:tisler government? Such a supposition ? an insult to tlic common sense of an inteligent ami free people. In the days of Roman degeneracy and corruption, a Con>ul had his horse elected as lis associate in the Consulship. But such a mummery could not he perorined in this country. Yes it would he icareelv less degrading to the American icople, for tiicui to elevate to the IVesidennil chair, "Did Wliitey," Ceneral Taylor's var-horse, as to elect the master without mowing whether lie would carry out their visiles,or thwart them in Ins Administration. Ren are elected to nliiec in a representative _J iveriiineiit, not from I/hud vvoiviiip. or sla. i-h adultatiou of greatness?not to hestow t pres lit gratification on a popular favorite, nit for the ouriioso of carrying out certain ;stab!ished, fundamental principles, and o| enforcing leading measures of policy, which lie people believe c mducivc to their welare. They deserve not the name olTrecnen? thev deserve not to enjoy a Itepuhli;an Goveriiuient, if they elect men to ollice n.d enlrust ilioui with great political power, without knowing whether it is to Ik; exercised to promote or to defeat their wishes. it is to tli'* credit of the Democratic par;v, that it will not allow its admiration of the personal qualities ol any man to cause the u for one moment, to forget that the right ol suferagc is a sacred trust in the hands of the people, to be used, not capriciously, but wisely and conscientiously, to advance then principles. "He who goes to bed in anger has the dev el for a bed fellow. A wag desires us n say tiiat lie knows a married man who tliou"l) he roes t?? lied as meek and eenlk . o as a lamb, is in the same predicament, Some one inquires whether a bedstead is a bedstead, when it is a little Ijwsin/l A yankce answers this question by asking an other, to wit: Whether a woman is a wo man is a woman when she is a little sulky. Shad.?Ten thousand fresh shad were re coived in New.York on Wednessay last. MISCELLANEOUS. | THE TURPENTINE BUSINESS. We have gathered from re pent able sources some information in relation to the Turpentine business, which we publish below in the expectation that it may be acceptable to some of our readers who cither have embarked in it, or propose to do so. The consumption of the article is increasing vast by much beyond the general calculation and one principal source of this increase is in the use of the distilic I spirits of turpentine, known under the name of Camphine.? There arc some omissions in our article, which will be supplied as soon as we receive the requisite informal ion. The statements furnished may. as far as they go, lie assumed to be generally correct. Selection of Tress. A medium sized tree tvilli Inrern Inn flit ni?llf><5 llic fOrtH'Mt.lie l)CSt. ...... .... ?X. ^ - - I Ill North Carolina, however, Irecs of only eight or nine inches in diameter are often selected. < utting of the Boxes. This should lie done before the sap begins to ascend rapidly ?say in the month of December, January and February. The first turpentine that flows is called virgin turpentine, and in order to preserve ilie pure white color which is natural to it. it is best to cut (lie boxes not loss than nine or ten inches above the ground, the object being to secure it from the dirt which might he carried in during rainstorms. The tree should lie scarified about once a week (or often enough to keep the turpentine running) Willi a round shave. A scarification of something like a half inch in width, chevron-like, is enough. These successive scarifications may lie thus carried on immediately above the boxes, during some seven years without ascending higher on the tree than twenty feet. Each incision of a box will measure about twelve inches around the tree, and in large trees two or three incisions may be at the same time. The Gathering. The first gathering will : lie all wh it is termed 'drippings' (or virgin I turpentine,) with no scrapings.' Rosin made ; front the virgin turpentine is transparent, and | is worth in New York, S2 50 per barrel, j On the second gathering, a small portion of i scraping is generally removed and shoved j down into the box. when it is taken with the I dipping. At iho lime <>l lite seomi gaiueri 1112, the tree is s'T.nlied to a point some twelve in. lies above the h??x. After this second dipping there arc scrapings for tlicse two ve inches, and so on lor each successive portion exposed. These scrapings arc, hv some, mixed with the dippings, in which case it is called mixed turpentine,' while hv oth| ers, they are loll till the end of the year and gathered separately, when they are worth j ah nit half price?. I here are six dippings I in a year, each one yielding about a pint of ; turpentine. I The proper Preservation and Distillation, j Twenty years ng?, then? was more spirits of turpentine distilled in Europe than in the Umted States. Ten years ago there was more distilled in Not them than in the Southern States. Five vears ami nearly all the i distillation was transferred from the town to , the country, convenient to the place where tiic crude article is collected. A.iy one may thus make a thousand barrels of the I turpentine, which lie will gather in perhaps J u >1 umre than one luindre i and fifty barrels, j which are taken to the distillery, emptied, and r turned to he !i led again. This avoids too.;great loss wliic.il too commonly oemirs w ;j| t Ik: virgin turpentine. If a barrel ofihis be sent awav as an object of commerce. unless the barrel be very perfect, the I) oi pnrt of it is sure to run out and he lost, and only half price is paid fur what remains, i The Task. The usual task is ahuut 12,. 000 tn.'Cs In each hand. This will nee pv 11icii only about nine mouths in each year, (luring 11 if working season, he sould collect about (>0.000 pints of turpentine for the annual produc t is equal to some 200 barrels, which, under ordinary circumstances, is e(j'l.il to an average of. say 8 100 to each hand, which is a low estimate. When tttr' pentine is high, from 8S00 to 8000 to each hand huv Ix-cn made. Tar. 'i'he manufacture of tar has been during the last year almost as prolitahle as thai of tm'jiciitiiie. It is agouti business at 81 per barn l. At 81 25 per barrel, it is as go d as making turpentine. The average price f>r the last twelve months has been i 8! 50 per barrel. The ptocess of making it wtdl known, and where there is as much 1 in in vi'i ii (! n< oiniiv nine knoiTas m Georgia j I -- _ -t i Willi sand to cowr them, it is as easy businesss.?S(tv. Ilrj)ttbliemi. STATISTICS OF LABOR. The better to illustrate the benefits arising I from "civil mid n; igioiis liberty." we publish 11he I'nl|?i\viii?j:, (dipped shiii: time back from Hi old paper, it will teach contentment, and furnish at home for the next political speaker. In England the reward of the laboring man varies. The storking weavers of Nottingham work from 1-1 to 10 hours per day, and receive from four to five shillings sterling per week. 01 course they can indulge in no luxuries, and are compelled to subsist almost exclusively on bread and water, or * on potatoes and salt. In Ireland, the average wages of a day laborer, ranges Iroin nine an a half to eleven rents per day. The food ol these oppressed being- is principally milk and potatoes, varied occasionally, as one of them toucbingly remarks. by "potatoes and milk." , In Austria the land is held principally by the aristocracy. The peasants are compelled . to labour for the landed proprietors except on ilie .S'ahbalh. Bondage, the most slultilying, is tlio condition of tlie poor, s In Hungary the land, as in Austria, i: L owned hv the nobles. Laborers are coin . pclled to keep in repair all the bridges atk . highways, arc lialile at all times to havQ tlx soldiers quartered upon them, and coinpcllct t<? decimate the produce of their seamy til . lage to the church, and one ninth to the Ion of whom tlicy hold. In Sweden, the law regulates the dress of the laborer. The food of this class consists of hard bread, dried fish, without gruel, an dwithout meat. Truly here, "Hard is the fate of the laboring poor." The Scotch are comparatively a favored people; yet among them, not to enumerate many other vexations, meat is, except on Sundays, an unusual luxury. J riPoland cabbage and potatoes supply the food of the ordinary workmen. Poverty among this class is universal. Sometimes ( though by no means commonly, they partake of black bread and soup, or butter or meat. One who had traveled extensively in this < country, and was a close observer of things i remarks: i "I have journeyed in evciy direction, and have never seen a wheaten loaf to the east- ! 1 ward of the Rhine, in any part of Northern j Uennanv, 1'oiariU or i-ienmaiK. In Norway, the ordinary food of the la- 1 boring classes is bread and gruel. These 1 arc prepared from oat meal, with a mixture of dried fish occasionally. Meat is rarely seen on the tables of the peasantry, and is regarded as a luxury. In France, it is said that seven and a half millions of the population never eat wheat 1 or wheatcn bread! Their subsistence is chiefly buckwheat, and chestnuts, rve, barley i and a few potatoes. The wages paid to a j common day laborer in Fiance, amount an-; nuallv to about $37 50 for male, and $18 ! 75 for a female. And yet with all this, the taxes upon them amount to nearly or quite ; one fifili ilie neit product of their year's toil. > Iu Denmark, the condition of the under j classes is that of bondage. Their state is emphatically that of the ancient predial slaves during the feudal ages, arid they are bought and sold with the soil on which they labor and pass their lives. In Russ a the condition of-the peasantry or tailoring classes, is even more complete and humiliating than in Denmark All the land is in psss-cssion of the nobles, and with it arc transferred the inhabitants whenever it is sold. A traveller remarks that a great majority of the laborers, "Have only collage, one por| tion of which is occupied by the family, the j other appropriated to domestic animals. Few il any, have Dens?nui sieep upon wuiu I boards, or upon pails of immense stoves by j which I heir house are wanned. Their food consists of black bread, cabbage, and other 1 v. gctables, without the addition of butter.' > Tiie Broken Bridge.?An Irish nobleman, on a journey was informed that his way layover a ruined bridge, which wou'd be obliged lo pass at night. lie ordered his postillion to call him when they reached the dangerous place, then wrapping himself up in his cloak went to sleep W. en they reached the bridge the postilion called but I as his master did not awake, he drove safej I?* over. Some time after, the traveller awaked, and called out. I 'How is this, John, have you passed the ! broken bridge?' Yes,' your honor,' Why did you not wake inc, as I ordered you to do?' i 'I did not like to disturb your honor." 'Upon my honor, if we had all fallen into the water and been drowned I would have | put a bu'lel through your head." By all martyrs, if you had I would have . left vour service the next minute if 1 had; : .Ii OiUI ? W(4> A black inan, in Jamaein sonic time ago was* taken up I?y his master lor buying | uoods, knowing lliein to be stolen. lie was tried, round iMiilly, and sentence passed up-1 j u!i hint. The judge pronounced?"Take i and tl <; that black twcall." The prisoner begged to b.j heard, which was "ranted. S.ivs lie. "If white man buy tolen goods,you will oiiler white rascal a Hog?" "Yes, to bj sure," said tiie judge. 4 Dare is my massa he bnv tolen goods; he know 1 was tolen when he bought mo; hold uin fust." PO.U TRY. I^incs on the sorrowful dentil of two hovers. My song is of j nice young mail, Whoso name wan IVlmy Gray, Tli? State where Peter Gray was born Was Penosylvaiii-a, This Peter Gray did fall in love All with a nice young girl: The iiuine of her I'm positive Was L zianny Qucrl. When llicy were going to be wed, Her father, lie said "Nol" Ami lirut.illy did send liur '.IT, ll.'yuiiil the Oin.o, When Prior found his love was lost, Ilo knew not xvli.it to sty: Ilo'd half a mind to jump into Tha Susqucliiuini.il. A I railing ho went lo the west, For furs and other.skins, And thine In' was in crimson drcsl. Ily bloody In ji-ins. When Lizianny heard tho news, She straightway went to bed, And never did she get out of it Until sho d-i cd! Ye fathers ill a warning take? Each one as has a girl ? And think upon poor Peter Gray And L:ziunny Qucrl. I Tiib Jbwisk Passovbk-?A visit to the l>a?e| mont of the Jars' Si/aagngnr nil Broadway has let mo into the uremia of prepara'ion of lirejul lor tliiit oldest existing festival in the , world?tilts Passover. | It will In: recollected that during the week of the Passover no leaven bread was to be eaten. The Jews construe this prohibition with a sti letit ess, in comparison wit It tfhicli John C. Calhoun, I'll wood Fisher &cnM are free construetionists. This will lie clearly seen in the course of the statement I am about to make. ' As the Passover, which is an annual feast, ; approaches, it becomes necessary to prepare the 1 bread which constitutes for eiyhl days the sole - food of the Jews?ei^ht millions of the human J race. For that portion who reside here, as well as to supply some oI the brethren in tho West, seventy.five barrels of flour are requirerl r for 1848. For this, proper provisions is made I of "the finest of tlie wheat." J Before this is ground the mill machinery of c wood and iron, together with the stones are ta- t hen down from what may be found adhering ! to them, 60 that not a particle of fermented flour t may by any possibility enter into the flour c ground for this purpose. The ailicle is then 1 packed in barrels, as means of being taken to I the Synagogue basement. Here it is unpac ked t and sifted thoroughly. The flour is made into y dough, water perfectly purified being employed a for the purpose. The dough is kneaded by n hand in copper vessels, and then taken to a cir- c eular block, covered also with copper, where it 1 is beaten by a powerful leve-. It is then taken j t lo a platform, passed between two copper cyl- c :...i? _..j ... n . i _ i ,i.? ,.r i s IIMJtTS, it 12 U 11111L' U III! 1 III ll'll^iin rtimui i?mim w, fourteen inches wide and ten or twelve feet 1 long, being thus reduced as thin as possible. It t is then pricked by machinery and the lengths r cut into strips of about eight inches, and without loss of time transferred to the oven, where owing to its extreme thinness, it bakes immediately. These cakes, although composed of water ? and flour simply, are extremely palatable,owing, t 1 suppose, to the thorough kneading and baking, f which renders a first rate cracker so relishing. I They are porous and easily digestible, in which * respect they are, therefore, well adapted to in- 1 valids and dispeptics. They are so light and i r bulky that it takes eight or ten to a pound, and i J therefore forty pounds would doubtless fill a bar - , r re|. As they form the exclusive food of the | \ Jews during the entire least of unleavened f bread, it will take a million ol these cakes for 1 the ensuing festival to supply the wants of the * thirty-five hundred Jews?old and young?of r Cincinnati.?Cist's Advertiser. < r THE MOTHER'S INJUNCTION, 1 on presenting her son with a bible. ' Remember, love, we give liicc this, When other days shall coine, ' t When nee who halli thy earliest kiss, , Sleeps in her narrow hoino: ( Rcmcmher 'twas a mother gave i The gift to ono she'd di-r to save. ( That mother sought a pledge of love, 1 The holiest, for her son: j I From the gilts of God above, ' She chose a goodly one; ' She choso fur her beloved boy, The source of light, and life and joy. 1 And hade htm keep the gift?that when I The parting hour \\oul?1 come, I Tiny might hive hope to meet again, ( In an eternal home. ( She said his faith in that would he, j Sweet inco. st to her memory. I And should the scoffer, in his pride, Laugh that fond taith to scorn. Anil hid him cast the podge aside 'I'h-:I he from youih had In rue, She hade hint pause and a.-k his breast! If he or she loved Inni last. A parent's Messing on her son Goes tvilh this holy thing, The heart that ur.u'd retain ti e m.e .Mu>t to the other cling. II< mcmhrr!'tis no idi< toy ? A mother's gill?reiiieinlicr hoy! KeFPIIVO Tilt: tMMlATIl.? Winn Cum i Stri. ghaut \v:\* at Rio Janeiro in command of our squadron sonic months sign, si giosit parade i on Irchstlf of tint F.mpcror omnicd on .Sunday. J "" " - I t?t 1 I in* iiraziiiian mu|?> ?nu .m ...... ... ..... er nations fired a ginnd mibut the ?4.meri j can ship was silent. The next day ('apt. i iStliam sent an explanatory note to the prop. er uiinister of the court, saying that the Sabbath | was observed in his country, ami lie hoped that ' this would lie deemed a sufficient reason for not ! having fired the proper salute "n that day, hut that, with the kind and respectful feelings which he and his countrymen entertained toward lirazil, lie would have the happiness of firing a salute on .Monday, to which Capt. S. received a friendly teply. The salute was fired and the affair ended with pet feet harmony. Tin: (Iarpkns or Sciioijmirl'.nx.?-These extensive gardens are laid out in gravelled i walks tv ice the width o| a turnpike road, and i in plots of velvet turf, dotted with beds of flow. J crs, exhibiting a balmy fragrance, and gay with j rich and varied dies. The trees arrayed in long lines, and clipped into high, I - a fy walls, I forming shady avenues. Statues meet the eye in every vista, and decorate every pond, in j whose waters myriads of goid and silver fi?h are seen disporting in the lull enjoyment of ex- | i-tetice. Itpspite its stiffness the whole scene j is enchanting. The palace of Scltoenbrunn, i the summer abode of t!:e Minperor, is a vast' edifice not much distinguished f>r architectural beauty, but furnished in a style befitting the rui.. ..f ..vi.miJvo dominions. On an eminence l behind ii is a handsome structure?an imposing ! < rolonarle?approached by a zigzag walk, and i commanding a delightful prospect, which I lin- . gered to enjoy. Ill the crntrc of the view j stood the spacious Imperial palace, and its gar- ! dens of enchantment, flanked on each side l?y i the woods; on the right was seen the great | : metropolis of Austria with the Stately tower of! St. Stephen's rising from amidst its countless , i edifices; and on the left strecited away the inlit nt Alps, their tops in one or two instances' crowned with buildings, and their sides and I summits clothed with dark green trees. * * 1 * I need hardly recall to the reader the rir- ' cumstanees which have within a few years i : given an interest to Sell Milirimn; it was here that Napoleon Ibmapartc twice held his court ?the imperious conqueror of Austria; an I ' here that the conqueror's aspiring son hreatlied , his latest breath. It is said the sou expired on I the very bed which had been occupied by the father. A Jews oi'txioN of Ciiiiisr.?Mr. Xoah, an editor in New York, and the leader in the movement a lew years since, in favor of the return ..? ,i.., ficixde of Jtiil.ih to the city of j ",l" *" "1" ! Jerusalem, bus an opinion Jesus of l Nazareth nearly a< any professed disciple would j utter. Indeed, tin* latter port ion of the para- | grapli we quote is utterly inconsistent with the | belief entertained-by the Jewish nation, admit- ! t it?ij. a< it does, that the religion of Jesus is true: ' 44 It lias been said, and with some emninen- ! dntions on what was called mv liberality, that I did not. in this discourse, consider Jesus of Na- j zarelb an impostor. I have never considered I Ititn as such. The impostor gene tally aims at j a temporal power?attempts to subsidize the ich and weak believer, and draw around hira olJowers of influence, whom he can control, fesus was frpe Irom fanaticism?his was a juiet, subdued, retired faith; he mingled with he poor, communed with the wretched, avoided he. rich, and rebuked the vain glorious. In he calm of evening he sought shelter in the se* :iuded groves of Olivet, or wandered pensivey on the shores of Galilee. He sincerely be? ieved in his mission. He courted no one, flatcred no one: in his political denunciation, he vas pointed and severe?.in his religion, calm in d suhducd. Th se arc not characteristics of in impostor. But, admitting that we give a liferent interpretation to his mission, when one mndred and fifty millions bplievo in his diviui. y, and we see around us abundant evidences ?f the happiness, good faith, mild government md liberal feelings which sprang from his ie? igion, what right has one to call him an imposor? That rvligion which is calculated to make nankind great and happy cannot be a false one. Exchange. Boston, March 25,1845. The bark Aurora, reported by the highland Uary, at New York, as taking 011 board part of he passengers of the British shif>~0?lWj , rom Liverpool, (previously reported in the lerald,) arrived at Halifax, on Saturday last, vith seventy-three of these unfortunate people, laving landed thirty-three at Canso* and the re. nainder, about sixty, having died on board, ijany of the survivors are suffering from sick* ie>s. During the last seventeen days they vcre on hoard the Aurora, the allowance of nod was limited to two and a half ounces of jread, and a wine glass of water each day to >verv one on board. The British brig Barha* a. Captain Skinner, from New York to Cork, ivilh a cargo of corn, took on .board about 150 nore on the 11th February, and afterwards lore away for Newfoundland. On the 2d March, he steamer Hibernia, Captain Shannon, from Sew York, via Halifax, hove in sight; a sigrial >f disirpss was made; the steamer bore down o the Barbara, when the captain of the latter /psspI acquainted the sicatner that they were >tit of water, and it was further added, there iverc one hundred and fifty persons on board lvin" for want of water?to which the captain's pplv from the steamer was, "thpre is the land; l<) there and get ft"?and then passed on withint showing any inclination, or making any e? fort, to render them any assistance, though the ivind was Mowing off the land so strongly at he time that it was impossible to make it. In attempting to reach St. Johns, N. F. they mislook the land and drifted into a "cove at the en* Ira nee of Petty Harbor, N. F. and went ashore, find, on account o( the heavy surf, struck a cliff find stove a hole in her bow. Thirty five individuals managed to reach the shore, and in about five minutes alter, the Barbara fell over and went down, carrying with her about one hundred and fifteen souls, among whom was Captain Skinner, of the IS. Am, roit Tin: Best.?Blessed arc they that are blind; for they shall see no ghosts. Blessed are tliey that are deaf; for they never need to lend money, nor listen to tedious stories. B!es?ed are they that are afraid of thunder; (br ihey shell hesitate about getting married? and keep away from political meetings. Ble-sec!are thev that are ignorant: for they are happy in thinking that they. know every, .thing. Blessed is lie that i? ugly in form and featnres; B?r the girls shan't molest him. , Blessed is she that would get married, hut can't; for the consolations ul llic gospel are Iter's. Blessed are the orphan children, for they have no mothers to spank them. THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE. The following sketch of Louis Philippe and his government, previous to the late outbreak, niav be interesting at the present time. The Government of France consisted ofthree branches?the King li e Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of Deputies. The King held the executive power commanded all the naval and military forces, declared war, otade treaties, and appointed all the officers of GoX'crnmenf. He also made the ordinance necessary for executing the laws. The Chamber .of Peers was former* ly hereditary; but its members of late have been nominated for life by the King, who was obli. ged to select them from those who bad held publie offices of certain kinds. The Chamber of Peers roithl not act in its lcgislatiue capacity unless the Chamber of Deputies was afso in session. The Chamber of Depot lea consisted of members who were chosen every five years by 4o9 colleges distributed among the Departments according to the population. The King convoked the chamber of Deputies, and might .1:.I... # II In, ,lt,| hd vvna obliVed to con. Voice a new one within three months. To be eligible as a deputy, it was necessary to Ik* Oi) years of aire, and to he a payer of a direct tax of 000 fiances (about SlOO); and to lie a voter, it was necessary 'lint a man should pay an annual tax of *200 francs. The number of electors in Franco in proportion to the population, was about one to every two hundred. A single flirt will show the limited state of suffrage in thai country compared with the U. States. The number of votes given in the State of New-York at the. election of Governor in 1831. was more than twice as many as the whole 1 ' ' * " " I io Aetiinnfa/l milliner Ol Pll'ciors III rntlltrr:, u i"> rnimmcu ihiil there are lessllian 200,000 qualified voters in the kingdom of France. Louis Philippe was horn October 6th, 1773, and is a descendant, by a younger stock, from Louis Thirteenth. The family being of blood royal, hnvc always stood next to the throne, and been possessed of princely revenues. The lather of Philippe took an active part in favor of French Republicanism, in the early stages ol the first Revolution. Particular circttm* stances, unconnected with principles, made him the personal enemy of Louis Sixteenth. Ho was an nrtivegnnd popular member of the sever* til \<seinblies which governed Franco from ITS!) to 17.03; renounced the title of Ouko of Orleans, and assumed that of Phillip Eagalite, (equality.) V! " ? L- .?J / .U iii lln* .Nationill convention m* vmcu iui mo ilt'spo-itioii and execution of the King, Ho sought to Conciliate Robespierre and his associ. ities I)v a renunciation nfallcliiim to the throne, lie was rich and popular, two qualifications which rendered him obnoxious to the Jacobins, They wanted his money and dreaded his itifluenee. Fie suffered under the guillotine in Nov. by virtue of a sentence of an instrument ol Robespierre's vengcncc. called a revolutiona, ry tribunal.