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jfflTlhsi 'N |\A ^ lA "1 ft^) ^4 TIPI^^tA-i??1 "fit? P r r M i sj t,1 w r n Fr i h u IP Hi * 1?K: r fpfcill .. ' } 4/ ^ "V1 A^V #-* "%> N> .?,!>' r|[F^ "'^' (^J 4> DEVOTED TO MTERATURB, THE ARTS, SCIEHCE, AGRICULTURE, HEWS, POLITICS, &C., &G. TERMS?TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM,] "Let it bo Instilled into tho Hearts of your Children that the Liberty of tho Press is tho Palladium of all your Rights."? Junius. [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY W. A. 1EE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, EMBAY M01LNING, JUNE 17, 1859. VOLUME VII.?NO 7. LIMES SURGESTED UPON SEEING AN INPANT'S PICTURE Around its head tlit-re gleam*, A halo pure and bright, \ Its dazzling brilliancy seems. Not earth ; but llenvou'i li^ht. \ Like opening bud it shows, Beauties about to expand, \Vith heavenly radiance glowi ?Jutt from it* maker's hand. .v i J a:ii i:? :t A sweeu UNU UIIIIU IIKC nil. 13, Light# up the lovely countenance, I its innocence is shown ere while lu loveliness doth enhance. Clustering curls oling so close, Shed rouml the hitlf-hM heud, tike little leaves, an opening rose Hides the sweets o'er sprend. The dimpled check so smooth nnd r.oft, Invites the long drtuVii kis?, We cAntiot quench our thirst too oft, At this sweet fount of bliss. ( GBKE.nwoou, S. C. I Ftoux the Olive Branch. i ODE VILLAGE BELLE. i DV B. PI! ELI'S. Lillien is our village belle. Merry as the fountains. In tho valley where site dwells, Criullcd iu tlio mountains. i ( Lillieu's breast is free from guile: Parents kiinl liavo tauglil her What she owes t'> God and tlielll? bne, their only aaugtiier. j ' Lillian lool:s tlic lady burn. In lier riibtic beauty, Tripping o'er tlie dewy lawn, Smiling in her duty. Lillien lift* a happy heart, | Full of joy and gladness; j 1 And her sunny fuee imparts j < Light to those in sadness. j ] 'With some sweet remembered lay, Taught her in her childhood, j < Liliicn carols time away, * : \ Joyous as the wild bird - I , Gold and power attract in vain ; I 1 Feelings pure and holy | I Bind her with a mystic chain, [ i To the poor and lowly. ! j T !?l! 1 1 1 1.1 . 1_? Ajiliien IUVW I?*:I UUIUWIC jut, } Wliefe Aurora's blushes Kiss at first the mountain's top, { j Where the cascade rushes? Whero the deer is roaming free, 1 Through his l?'?ify dwelling? ; 1 "Where the wild hirds minstrelsy ! . On the hreezo is owidliug. Highland Makv.?This sweet young \ gill, who has been made immortal by the J | poet's song, around whose fair brow lie has j c thrown the bright aureole of love, consecrat- j I incr h<?r fr?r nil lime an tlift vprv Mndmmn <>f i . Love's first devotion in the hearts of men, . was but the bumble dairy maid of Colonel . Montgomery. But what queen will live as , long in history ; what beauty will dwell as , warmly in the memory of men, or in the , envy of woman, as she who inspires tliose lines of sad devotion, that will bo sting in ; tears as long as human hearts can feel, and i ljduraij iuii^uco tnu ulivi uiv tviiuti ouiiuhd i of bnrifd love: I ' 0 pale, pale now, those rosy lips, | I oft liae kic3c<l cue foiidh I Ami closed for aye the dpnrkling glai.co, ' That dwelt on ine m? kindly ! , And Dioulii'ring now in tilent dual, Th? heart that lo'ed inn dearly ! 1 Butrfjit) within iny bofom"# core. Shall live 1113" Highland Mary !" ^ A Conscientious Widow.?A poor < peasant/on his death-bed made hit will. He I called liis wife to him, and told Iter of its provisions. 'I have left,' he said, 4u>y horse < to my parents: sell it, and hand over to th<Jm the money you receive. I leave to you my dog; take care of him, and he will serve you faithfully .* Tli$ wife promised to .obqy,; and io due time set out to the neighbotipg - market, with the horse and 1 the dog.' 'flow much do you want for yodt horse r inquired a farmer. 'I cannot i iell the horse alone, but you may have both 1 A reasonable rate. Give me ten pound* < left1 the dog, and five shillings for tlie horse.' < The /a riper laughed, but as tlie terin9 were ioW^IW- willingly aecepted them. Then I 4lie worthy woman gave to her husband's I f>arenl?jli? ftve shillings received for the t foop^^aod^pt. ^ho ten pounds for herself. I liot-mnrirtier <1hv, an honest 1 <rtd iarfft was plowing bis own field, when Suddenly he beheld a godlike figuro, slowly ? 'f-'.-ii *. ... ? mi. ? _1 i_ _ MpptOWBOing mm. me man Biariea imcn. Solomon,' said. the phantom, in a confidmgf-TOio?. ir-'What art thou doing bere, old tipanXrV?''art Solomon,' was the WpJyi'bow-- canst thou ask me ? When I was ? voutb t&oli didst send me to the ant; I few its method of living, and it taught ' itidustrions, and gather the superfluous for * stormy day. What I then learnt, I still continue to do.'?Thou hast studi#4 iby Reason but half,' replied the pirUv fgo 6PC*-more to the ant, and learn ffioto it'Hljlo &ow to find reat and qniet in ?M>t#r,'?f thy yeara, and how to enjoy that wbfeb thou hast hoarded up.' r fj ,^j t ^ 'a(Wett isfctaiatrt appears in a western ?a hire# taftiTtoftmad John, with his nose ^ /id4 turtle*;* of oordrfroy ftt^ta mueh ^ WOffc/ TAKING A PHrMJJ MINISTER AT HIS WORD. ' A laughable storv was circulated ?lnrii:cr | the administration of the eocond Dtiko of) Newcastle, l'rime Minister in the reign of George III. This nobleman, with many good poiuts, and described hy a popular contemporary poet as almost eaten up hv his seal for tlie House of Ilanover, was remarkable for being profuse of his promises on all occasions, and valued himself particularly on being able to anticipate the words and the wants of the various persons who attend hi- lovees, before they uttered a syllable. This weakness sometimes led him j into ridiculous mistakes and absurd eml>ar- i rassmen's. At the election for a certain borough in Cornwall, where the ministerial ami opr>-ition interests were almost equally poised, :i sin?jl? vote was of the highest importance; this object I he Duke, bv rerfain well-applied arguments, by the force of urgent perseverance and personal application at. length attained, and (lie gentleman recommended by the treasury gained his election : In the warmth of gratitude for a signal : triumph, and in a quarter where the min- \ 11 1 St'ttci'il dt'liiiit iiinl disappointment, iiis jfrar?i ponied forth ??:- | knowlodgetnenta and promise?, without [ casing, on the fortunate possessor of tin- ( i-asiinj; vote; railed iiitn liis best and deart*sl friend ; protested that lie should consid- | er himself as forever indebted to hitn that! lie could never do enough fur him ; that he j would sfiw him bv night and hv (lav. Tlie Cornish, voter in the main an honest j rel!ow, "as things went," and already sufli- i iently paid, hut fur Mirh a torrcut of ac- J knowledgenients, thanked the Duke for hi- ; kindness, and told him, "Lli.it tlie supervisor | :?f ex< i.-e w?s old and i:.(irm, and if lie ivould have the goodness to recommend his ! on-in law to the the commissioner. in ea<?* j jf the old man's death, he should think ! litusclfaud family hound to render govern- I nent every :is.sislan(-u i:i his power on r.ny uluro ovca-iun." "Mv dear fiiend," exclaimed his graft-, j 'your relation shall have it the moment il j is vacant." "But how shall T get to pee my lord ? for ! in London, I understand' it is a wry difil.-ult ! hing to g<-t to you great f >lks, though von : ? ... ) ?.?i ,i._ ! '?I ?" Mltu (lliu IU U-j III Ui?; otltit i v." ' The instant the mnn flics," replied the j premier (used to, and prepared for the five- j Ioiih of a contested election.) ''the moment lie dies, set tint post haste for London ; drive ; lirectlv to mv house; l?v night or bv day, ! deeping or waking, dead or alive ?tlmtnler j it the door; I will leave word with mv pot- i Icr to show yon up stairs directly, and tin* ! situation shall bo disposed of .according to i our wishes, without fail. Tlie parties separated ; the duke drove to i i friend's in the neighborhood, where he was ! nsiting, without a thought of seeing hi.- ! lew acquaintances till that day seven years : ! ;>ut the memory of the Cornish elector.no' j jeing loaded with such a varierly of object?, j .vas'yet more retentive. The supervisor died j i few months afterwards, and the ministerial partisan, relying oil the word of a peer, was conveyed to London by the mail, and ascended the steps of a largo house, now iivided into thfee' in Lincoln's Inn Fields, at [lie corner of Great Queen street. '1 he reader should he informed that nre- i wisely ai tin* moment wh?n the expectations jf a considerable party of a borough in Cornwall were roused hv the ocnth of a MJpervi>or, uo less a person than the Icing of Spain was hourly expected to depart; an event in which all Europe, and particular]}' Great Britain, was concerned. The Duke of Newcastle, on the very night that tlio proprietor of the decisive i-ote was nt his ilpor had sat up, anxiou-lv ?xpectin?r dispatches from Madrid. Wcmi m! by oQh-ial business and agitated spirits, lie retired to rest, having previously given par.ieular instructions to his porter not to go | o bfd, as lie expected every minute a nv*s- j jeiiger with a?lvices of the greatest impor- | tnnce, and desired he might be shown np stairs the moment of hi$ arrival I. His grace was sound asleep, for wiih a thousand singularities and absurdities, of which the rascals about him did not forget to take advantage, hi# worst enemit-s could not deny him the merit of good design, the best solace, in a solitary hour ; the porter, settled for the night in ins chair, had hardly commenced 8 sonorous nap, when tho vigor ous arm or the t'omisli voter roused liiin effectually from'fit* dumber*. To his first question, '*Is the duke at home!" the porter replied, uYe*? and in l>eJ but he left me particular orders that coino when you will, you are to go up to him directly." "God for ev?r hlws him ! a worthy and honest gentleman," said our applicant for the vacant post to himself, as he smiled with approbation at a prime minister's so accurately keeping hia1- promise; "liow thoughtful his grace is! I knew he wouldn't deceive me; let me-hear no more> of lords and'jfafces not kjwjrtng their words; I belkv? verily, they ?r? as houett, *nd mean sis well, as other folks '"'I I can't always r.av f 110 sam" of I hose who arc about llic.'m." licpeatinir these wonls as he ascended j i!i<> flairs, the burjjess of was ushered I into lho duke's bedchamber. "Is he dead ?" exclaimed his prace, rub- | bing his eyes, and scarcely awaked from j dreaming of the King of Spaiu ; "is he : dead r "Yes, mv lord replied the CHger expectant delighted to find that the election promise, all its circumstances, was bo fresh in the minister'* memory. "When did he'die ?" "The dav before yesterday, exactly a! half-past one o'clock, afler being confined I three weeks to his bed, and taking a power J of doctor's stufi", and 1 hope your grace will j be as good as your word, and lot my son- I in-law succeed hiin." This duke. hv this time perfectly nwak-; j was t?!a<riTi'rtii] at the iiitj?o-.il>ility of rec.eiv- ; iiiff inli-li^'ni'C from M mi I rid in so sliort a j lime, niul he was perplexed at the ahsurd ; i'.y ot a kind's messenger applying for hi* son iri-!;iw to succeed the King of Spain. ' "Is (In.- the man drunk or mad ? W here j aiv your despatches eXehiimed liis glare, ' hastily draw 5nu t!i<? curtain, when instead ??f J a rova! courier, hw eager rvc. recognised at i the hed-side the we!! known countenance of j his friend in Cornwall, making low hows with lr?t in hand, atid hoping "loy lord j would not forget the gracious promise he i was so good as to make in favor of his son | I..... ... it... i j !??-? ??? 'II IIW VI'.VI IWII ? I'AUI I at so ut>lim<'!y a disttirlKinee, ami dis.'ip ! itietit of news from Spain, ho fruwned ' fur a few moments; Imt c!ut<nin soon "ive | \v;iv to mirlii at so singular ami ridiculous a ! combination of opposite rircumstaiwes, ami I yielding to the irritation, ho bank on tin- ! l?ed in a violent fit laughter on recovering | lioiu which lie dismissed 11is visitor, will: j the assurance that liis son-in-law should j certainly have tiio deceased supervisor's j place. ! THE SINGING STUDENT BOY. Many yeais ago a student l?ov was seen I ami heard in the streets of an ancient town | . ii ..... .. . i :. t.. .1.. 1 ! lit; it >iUUl, | Mil. 111 V UIOM'II | l.ov, l>iit his lace was pale, and his eyes j were sad ami tearful. 11 i-^ voice was most j uni-ical, I lie filings lie Pai.g were in ! beautiful wor.ls and ah.>ut sacred thing*. i Every time lie fini>hed a soiiu, lie stepped j to a house ami gave a gentle tap. When j it was ?.pencil, lie said in gentle tones; 'l'!ea?e give a poor hludeiit boy a morsel ! ol bread.' lJcgone with thee! thou lwggar'n child,'* ! was llic rough ri-]?Jv (lint met i>is ear as the , |>i??ir ehi'.d shrank from the steps. Tlius driven IVom <loor to door, he sang ! hi* sweet songs utitii I.is body was weary j ami lii.i heart sail. Srarrely aible to stand, j he at last turned his steps homeward. Strik j ing his noble forehead with his hand, he j said : 'I must go liome to my father's house j and be contevt to live by l)io sweat of my blow. ]'rovidetico has no loftier destiny for me. I have troJden out its paths by aiming hiyher.' ? ? m Just at that moment, Ursula Colt a, a blirirlil'l'%1 ivifi* wild (mil li..ur.l liw ci.nif. J-, " I ~ "w.'jj- J and seen him driven from a neighbor's door, fell her heart yearn with pity towards the helpless boy. Site opened lier door, beckoned to the voting singer, smiled sweetly upon liitn, and in tones that sounded like heavenly melodies to his ears Paid : Come in, poor boy, and refresh thyself at my table!' Happy little singer? IIow he enjoyed that delicious meal. And when the good lame and her husband told him to make their house bin home, his heart melted. With eyes half blinded with tears, he look-, ed in the face of his friends and said : 'I shall now pursue mv it uriies without being obliged to beg my bread from grwlging hands. I shall have you sir for a father. and you sweet Ursula for a mother. My heart will mire more learn to love. I shall by happier that I ran express." After that day the singing boy studied hard and well. Years afterwards the world heard of him, for it was he who ntteied his voiPe Hnrainst popery and beeatne the chief of that Reformation which gave an open Uible to the world. Ilia name was Martin Luther. A Bbautifui. Gikl?beautiful in youth nuil health ami purity?who wakes from sleep, at touch of morning light, as the flowers do, with a cheerful face ; whose first tones, lik?* those of the birds, are the most musical of the day from whose brow every trace of yesterday's wear and last night's care is swept away, even as the face of nature is renewed and brightened hy the summer dew?such a girl is worth the winning. ' ^ K!) for art ides !' said th?? poet, grasping his hair, 'I don't know what othein may think,' said Dr. Spooner, 'b'ut my suflplclon is, that you Jjaw? owed for too tnapy of your ideas already !' The doctor o#D.b?jjyuiual. L?t bop??tf J|^Q^r.pr?doauMAt BMBLaWMWaBfcMMWOCTMBrCTXLJMUIilJBlWillllliWllWlll I ?WM TKfi PK93PECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN. j Ijvt us coiisidci bv I lie liglii ot I:iM)>ry the preparations which are now being made: l?y ] -e and Aiwlria for the conduct of i tin- present war. The campaign wliiclt he- I gan hy the entry of French troops into j Piedmont, mid l>v the passagy of the Tieino j hy the Austrians, is on a scale which very j fur exceeds any former struggle is these count tie*. In the long wars of the first ! Napuleon tt may be olxeivcd tliat the ] armies continually increased in number, j ""in;, it in 9iiiut tut: j;?'inu3 ui tin- ruinmatider ami the prowess of the individual j soldier ?1 '1 lie brilliant campaigns j of Napoleon's youth were ma-le at tlio hem I j of :i few thousand men. Murengo itself was gained by 28,000, but the wars of 1805 ' actively employed about 150.000 French, | while in the campaign of Wagram, Mos- j cow, and Leip*?ie we have incomparably i larger armies bioii^ht into the field-on both j sides. Now, the war of 1859 begins on tile collossal scale of the later Empire, and the armies employed may attain dimensions siueli ;?s no single Stale lias hitherto been capable of producing,fI'lesuinipg the strug <_'le to be confined to FraiTJfT^ind Austria, and to the field of Northern Italy, we shall j have the spectacle of combat inclosed li.-t? | sueli as -lie world has never before witnes- ! sed. If both the antagonists light well and j il... will I....... in!..i*aktl. 1 iinf to the miiit:n v critie as <nievous to the / i j?lii!;iutliit>|.ist. I3olIi France and Austria j will in- silm: to march almost all 11.<- ir enor motis t<>1 <-es to the seat of war. Germany will, while tl-e wars i> confined to Ilalv, be 1y the ally of Austria to guarantee her from any attack in the rear from Russia* J lmt not sullicieutly to disturb Franco by ; any demonstration on the Uhine. It mav ! ? said that, lor some time to come at least the iulltii'iici* of Germany will bav? t!n? ef. !'<-ct of leaving both sides tree to n?e all their strength against each oilier. That thev i ' t I will os?s it there is no doubt. Tile seat of I war adjoins territory of each, railways and j steamers transport their tro>?|)s easily, and | most of tiie K'ler marches which enfeebled i ami tliminUliol Htmies in I lie ilays of Napo* j leon will he avoi?J?-<l. Eii-innotis inarses of j miiih-'I men men can ho taken in tl><; conn- i tiv thcv art; to fi^Iit in as comfortably as if; they wi-ri'. merely making a elrmgi* of qtiar- | lets. With this facility of transport, ami tlii* power of using llie whole of their great ! s!am!ing anuic, we mu.?t expect to see two j ho*Is ijathfcieil togalher on llio plains ufj Italy Mich as no two sinjjle States ever vet j opposed to each other. The numbers we j do not pretend c*veii to guess at. Tin* j Fivnch are pushing troops over tlio Alp*. I ami loading their slrp* of war willi soldiers j for (jeiion. The supply of food will In- the j oiily limit lo ihe number wlii-.-h ean thu-* j lie brought into the field* The I~r?-i?c-h j probably have their information about (In* An?tiian annv, as the Court of Vienna has its own about French proceedings. But j Hmdi-luncn are allowed to know little abunl i the matter. There is. however, no doubt ! I lint tlio Power which sent it quarter of a | million 'of ition to Sebastopol within eight- i teen months will l>e able to send that number into Northern Italy. Considering tha the whole of Italy, with 27,000,000 people, may shortly be in insurrection, anil that Sardinia has some. 80,000 troops of her own already, it may lie reckoned without exaggeration that n.ore than 300.000 men may in the next two month* be put in line to drive th'j Austrian* frotn their carefully chosen and now famous positions in Loinbardv. On the other hand, Austria can, and will, no doubt, bring an equal force into the field. She docs not want men, for . the empire contains 03.000.000 souls, with out counting tl>o Italian Provinces. If the j Finance.^! inisler can find the money to j keep 300.000 men, on foot in Italy General Oyulai will fiud work for tliem all. Tliey will not be men to fight with the spirit and death of Frenchmen, but tlicv will be fine steady troops superior in phy siquc to their enemies; tliey will have all that science has achieved in the way of perfect weapons of destruction, and tliey will be commanded hy officers who know that the eyes of Europe are upon them, and that the)' must fi^ht now for the very existence of their ?'inp?r<>. Veiiv intellectual woman we find, by observation, aro seldom beautiful. The formation of the features, and particularly their forehead, is more or less masculine. Miss Landon was rather pretty and femi nine in the faon, but Miss Sedgcwiek, Miss Pardoe, Mi** Leslie, and the celebrated ate An na Maria and Jane Porter, the contrary. One of the Mis* Porter* had a forehead an high as that of an intellectual man. I never kpew a ve?_v talented man who Was admired for his personal beauty. Pope was waa.awful ugly. Dr. Johnson wna no better, and Mirabeau wan the nplieat man in all Franc#, and yet he was the greatest favorite with 1I10 ladies. "Women mure frequently prirflf men for aterling qualities of rhenftind, than men do women. Dr. Johnaon cho?e a woman for a wife who had scarcely an idea above an oy?ter. lie thonglit her t^e Jov0* lleet creator in eiinteooa, if me judge by tba in?arfrfrw foab, ' LF/iAL WITTICISM. A celebrated lawyer in Missouri, being one* opposed If) Mr. S , hitft iiieoibur r ?.f Congress, lie K-tnarkcil as follows to fte ! I jury, upon a di>agre<-ment between them : j t "Here, my brother S and I differ. j t Now this is very natural. Men seldom vc<- ! m tilings in the same light; And they may j n disagree in opinion upon tlio supplest j 1 pr iricijisi's ui ui?5 law, niiu iiiai verv iioiiesiiv; ? / while, ;it the same time, neither can see any t earthly reason whv ihey should. And e this is merely heeauno they look at different a sides of tho subject, and do not view it in all it* hearing. Suppose, for illustration, j a man should onine in here, and boldly as- i sert that inv brother S 's head (here j he laid his hand verv familiarly upon the large ehm-kluiiead of his opponent) is a j squash! I, on the other hand should maintain, and perhaps with equal coi.Edi'iiee, that in ahead. Now, here would a d'.tt'erenee?undoubtedly an honest dilli-ieiuc? t of opinion. We might argue about it till doomsday and never agree. You often see men arguing ;upon subjects as jempty and trifling as this? lint a thiid ( Person eominir in and lookinir at the L iii'i'k :i?nl shoulders thai support it, ^ vvoiiM sav :il once that 1 li:i<1 reason oil uiv m?Ie ; for if it whs not :i l.ead, it at lc-r?>! i occupied the place ofuiic, and S'OjJ where a head ought to In:." All this was uttered in th? gravest atl i mo^t Solemn iu:itia< r v imaginable, and the effect was irresistibly ( ludicrous. n And this rem:il ls us of a similar i >, ' hit*' once made tipon llio eloquent Eli>ha Williams of Columbia county on tin- ( lluii.-mi. He was "powerful'' before a . jury ; a:nl one day in tlio circuit court of ,, that ilk, lie had made a most profound ( impression, asiue upon llio jury and upon i |, the "court." llis legal opponent was a ! | uieic pettilojjgcr, bill "smart ami lie said : | "Gentlemen of the jury, and your honor*. .. I should despair of the triumph of my client ? ill this case, after llie eloquent up vain ol , tlie learned counsel, but for tho fact that common I ?\v is common sense. No man |, could like better tile piece which the learned ! n gentleman lias spoken, than what I like ,, that piece, lie spoke it good. I've lieeied T him give it three times afore ; once at |, Schodack, in a burghuy case; once at < Kiak, on a suspicion o'steelin*; once to |' l'oiighkeepsie, oil a murder case; and the |; iic-\t time at Kakiak, about a man who was . ratched a counterfeiting. Wail lit* ulicuys :i spoke it good ; but Luis time, lie's re ally p beat himself. 13nt what does it all amount (. to, gctillcHlcn of tlie jury ? Thai's tlie ones- ;t lion; ami \.m can answer it as well a* 1 u kin, ami butler lew!" And so they did, M and quickly by a verdict in favor of petti I H forger's client. ^ ll TIIL KEMBLE EYE. Tho?c only when on tlie stage with Mrs. c bullions, or whilst playing a part with her, r* could have any idea of the power of her " i-ve. In lady Macbeth it really seemed to '' possess all ttie awful maje.-ly of a queen in 11 the days of unscrupulous deeds, when "ruin ^ leaped from the gl nice of the fearful." I( l*' made tlie persons on whom il was levelled^ " idiuost blink and drop tbeir own eyes. She V east such a look upon me once, when a lad ^ thai I have never forgotten it. The Keinble '* eye was indeed peculiar. John had "an ve like. Mars, to threaten and command." 1* 11 is glance when he looked "in angry parle," l' was dreadful. Then, indeed, could ho turn to hia;adversary "an ej'e of death."?Who ol that beheld it can ever forget his look of counlcnauce when King John, upbraids Hubert with Arthur's death? The glance V( of Charles, the chivalous Cuarlcs, was'eqnal- " ly rtno in ihe pails he played. The bright, jujuus, (lashing, gallant, elating eye?the 11 glance which, when suited to the voice, Kent ^ a thrill through every heart, as he spoke I1' the glorious words of Fauleonbi idge, cannot ever he surpassed, or perhaps equalled on tli?i stage. His conception and represent a- KC tiun of Fauleotibridire, was, indeed, the most w 11 pel feet performance, in my opinion, ever seen. In every look, gesture, movement? w even in the minutest derails?it was altogether su.>h an identification that it always 1,1 heemcd to me a realily. I can imagine no other Fanleonbridffo to have lived. It whs **a . . tl ono of thoFO rare iustaiices in which we could say, this is, indeed, tho man Sliak speare drew. Perhaps one of the- finest 11 stage effects ever witnessed was (lie sudden ,,j Round of llio approach of John's army, and the beautiful march, when Chatillon announ- Q tea the coming ot the Eugli?h power ? "Thi? interaction of their churlish drums CuU off more circumstances; they are at hand sc The filtsing-in of the English forces, in Cha- w lillon's description of them, and the gallant 01 look and bearing of eaoh man, at I reinein- < ' ber it in the days of John K?mbte, was in- T deed a dramatic treat. And then suoh a ai description is the preceding ?[>eech of an b invading army. What a.glowing, glorious n picture has Sliakspeare dtnwn of warlike h England of the Normal period. Nothing d in En-gMab ' o?m surpass it. >'Every word iee?D?ipu?trike tfianrjayjoto the ?r?ncb 4$ j thep stand txdft&P * * PAUL ilOPHHY. ] On Wednesday evening the presentation if the splendid chess board and men and to ^iiul Murphy bv the N?w York chess club, ook place lit ihc chapel of the university in hat city before a very large crowd which sscinbled on the occasion to witness the lovel and interesting ceremony. John Van iiiicn, in delivering to the invincible American champion nt" tItis> noblest of games, !iij beautiful testimonial of regard of his ounti vnn-ii addressed biiu iu unappropti,!e and elegant ?<pfccc!i. Mr. Morphv responded in teuns ro hap >y hkiI becoming that wo cannot resist the risen ion of what he said. kfit. Murphy's reply to Mr. Van Bcrhx. Mr. President, Ladies and gentlemen : [\velvo mon'.hj have elapsed since bidding ulieu to my Western home. I sought beotid the blue waters the foreign skies of nother hemisphere, and again have I r?urned to the land of mv birth an 1 nffecion. Another year has glided by, and iin.-e mote do find myself surrounded hy the liends whose good widics and approbation heeled my wandering course. I thank liein?I most sincerely thank them fur the nore than eordial welcome. whhdi has irree! J my reiuni to t!yj Empifu cily. \Wi!4 nav they say that tiiey have made t!;<rii ity (hi: verdant sp-.t iti my sandy path ? lie green mid everdilooininj; oasis ol iep.??<* iheiv, lilce the way-worn traveler, I forgot lie fat'^ueaitd exposure of the journey, and *:itluT renewed life and energy for its comilel'oi). Not satMied, however, with showriiij* iniituiicrab'.c attentions upon ine, tln-v !iis ni^iit cap tiie climax of their favors l?v resenting lite, in conjunction with u laigumber number of the citizens of New Yoifc. his beautiful piece of wokmnnship as a so >erb testimonial of their regard mid svtnpahy. IIow thankfully received? how dear i" puzeu?mere wonia cannot. portray. I iiali proudly take it to inv Southern home, ml preserve it sis a precious memento of iiv friends in New Yoik. I fear, Indies and gentlemen, thai iMigtliv comments upon the game of chess night prove uninlere.-ting to a large portion f the highly intellectual audience before tue. )fuiv European tour I will only say lliat ii ias been pleasant in almost eveiy rcspeet. )f the adversaries encountered in thepeaceu! jotl>ts of the checkered field, I retail) :i ivelv and sigreeable reeolleetiun. I found hem gallant, chivalrous and* gentlemanly, s well became true v.vtaiies of the kinglv as!ime. A word now on the game itself, 'hess never lias been ami never can l? light l?ut a recreation. It should not be nlulged in to the detriment of other am! lore serious avocations?should not nb[>rb the mi ml or engross the thoughts o' liose who worship at its shrine; hut should c kept in tlie background and are restrainil within its proper province. A mere aine, a relaxation from the severer pursuits t' lite, it is deserving of high commendation, t is not only the most delightful and tvienfic, but the most moral of amusements. Fniika other games in which lucre is the lid and aim of contestants, it recommends self to the wise, by the fact that its mimic attics are fought for no prize, but honor. ; is eminently and emphatically the phi sopher's game. Let the chess-board su L*rsede the card table, and a great im rovement wili be visible in the morals of ie community. [Great applause.] lint, dies and gentlemen, I need not expatiate n the fields so ably traversed by the eloueut gentleman who has just addressed :>u. i Hi.-ink you from niy heart lor the ry flattering manner ia which von have i*en pleased to receive his too compiimeniry remarks, and*for tlio numerous attenons recieved at.yoiir hands. I shall leave ew York with melancholy sorrow, fur i irt from friends than whom no truer can j found. Let them rest assured that nlonp ilh the memory of tlio chess-board I poss8 the memory of tho heart. A"d, now, ill) a renewal of my sincere thanks fur 10 splendid token of your regard with hieh you have presented ino to night, and 10 assurance that I shall cherish in unfiid ig memory the remembrance of my sojourn t?re, I bid you, ladies and gentleman, n rewell, which 1 fondly hope wiil not prove ie last. A Good One.?When O.S. Fowler?so io story runs?first commenced tho exaini nlion of humps, some of the students in ie New York University were disposed to uiz him. A peculiar-shaped squash was >und in the college yard, and a piaster cast iken of one end of it, it quite closely re mbled tho cast of a human skull. This as take to Fowler's rooms, and he wasgiv!\ to understand that the original was osely connected with a literary institution, lie phrenologist took the cast in his hand nd examined it with somo care, when a right thought struck him. 4,You need ot think, young men, to catch me! enus e to the students; "do you think that 1 on't know the head of Horace Gr'eely." A chinanjan pent fiito a dry goods store, fjd beard that consistency was fc Jewel* od Be wasted s epedSmes, MIOTOIII ?um?J i :.iuuui .uwii.xron^mB?I BAXvOl? HUMBOLDT. j The ileiald, tjt M i;,' lit' thus notices tho j death of I?.in hi Humboldt;?"Out. of (bo ! gieato>t men ofthi; or of any oilier age, lins paid the debt to nature which all must yield Hi last. The telegraphic intelligence from Euroe announce* the death of the illustrious Alexander Von Uumboldt, known also a* Duron Humboldt. To the | last he retained tho brightness and vigor of j liis intellect, and the cheerful buoyancy of I his spiiits. He has seen two ages?tho | last part of the eighteenth , and more than 1 tho iirst halt of ilio nineteenth century; | and he has witnessed the greatest discoveries 1 and changes that Irive taken place in tho i history of the woild for many hundred yenra. j Dun. in tlie same year with Napoleon, lio ; knew tlio Gnat Fiederick ; hid youth was j coeval wish the North American contest for j !:bei!y ; lie admire* eat Washington ; j the drama of the French revolution, llutt j cmivuhed the world, he saw pass befuio } him, with it9 martial fbats and its giants ; j and the Gertnnn empire of a thousand years I tumble into rui::s beneath the strokes ot'tho j mighty Coi>ican, while the philosopher i wandered ov._r tis<: tnhledandd of tho AnI lies. His full luiiini was Fredeiiek II<-:iry ! Alexander Baiv.i Von Humboldt, and lie 1 was bom at ]>-.r!m, September 14, 1769. 11*2 died, therefore, in his ninetieth year. I'erhaps there is not in the annals of Wanj kind tiie name of another man who has 15v; ed to the same ?<:;e and produced such ?n ainom.t of intellect ual woik, and that, tor", j of the highest order. He bad a sound j body as well as a sound mind, and the tor i i mi zono appcarcii lu uavo as mile injurious | effect upon him :.s the froZi-n regions of I lie j north. II<? had n gigantic intellect, from j which nothing in nature or in science np| pearcd to be hid. lie could grasp all subj j. ots, and lie appeared lo know everything, j 'What a man !' exclaimed tiio great poet ! (Ji.e.;lie, the Shakspeate of Germany, after j iceeiveing a visit from the philosopher; 'I j know of no man to compute him to ; he resembles a spring of ever-gushing sweet waters; lie knows everything, ?md knowa thoroughly what ho does know.' But it was in natural history that ho mo=t distinj <?ui>l.ed himseif, and his 'Cosmos' is his J imperishable monument, which will endure [ is long as thvi earth which it describes, j Cosmos is a Gre<-k word, and means 'ilia world'; yet, perhaps, his grand woik on. \ America, over which h? travelled for five wars, is that which will keep iiis memory forever gr*e? in the minds of I In; inhabitants of the New World. The following letter, which is the last published production of Humboldt, and only two months old, (dated Berlin, March 15, 1S?.">I>.) presents n uriens example of t!ie troubles of cekbri | 'v. Ii was sent to the Gazette of Voss;? ! 'Laboring under extreme depression of-spiriis, the result of a coricspondence which daily increases, nr.-] which makes a yearly average of from sixteen hundred to two ilioits:ii?.J letter* and pamphle's on things entirely foreign to me?manuscripts on which mv advice is demanded, schemes of emigration and colonizalion, invoices of models, machinery and objects of nafural history, inquiries on balloons, demands of autographs, oiler to nurse or amuse me?I once.more publicly iavite all those who de<iie my wcllfare to try and persuade the people of the two continents not to be so l>u<v about me, and not to take my house for the otftce of a directory, in order that, with the decay of my physical and intellectual strength, I may enjoy fome leisure and have time to woik. Let not this appeal, to which only resort with reluctance, bo interpreted with malevolence. ALEXANDER VOX HUM BOLT. 'I'llb llnionr uf i'hLiciiy.?A friend vIto has been engaged on tho United Stnt?*a Survey, relates to us the following incidents : "It has been well said that nil ideas of human happiness are comparative. Soma tears ago a countryman visited our en* -ampment, and made many inquiries as to the purpose and execution of the work J and, among other questions, inquired bow we employed our time in tho winter, when <>ut-of door surveying was impossible}? We told hiin that during tho wintef were engaged in office-work in Washington City, in constructing maps of our sum-, mer's surveys. " y?u evor se0 President ?' asked our iinSrrogator. '"Oh, yes,' replied wo' 'frequently; bo rides out on horseback nearly every day, '(it was during Mr.Van Buron'a administration. "At this announcement the 'countryman seemed lost in thought, and lapsed into profound silence, which lie broke, after an interval of some minutes, the exclamation*"Wa'al nnow, I a'poso that chap hat lii.-Uon pio for dinner every day of bia life r* ; <| , g, - Logic.?No cat has two tniU. Granted. V Then, a cat h** one tail mors than no cat. True. Well, then, np h?re pwagtbat* | oat has tbrea tails!