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Congress.
The U. S. Senate, on Thursday, 5th inst., took
up the President's message, which was received
on Tuesday, in compliance with a resolution of the
23d ult., requesting information in regard to the
fisheries on the coasts of the British possessions
in North America?transmitting a report from
the Acting Secretary of State, and the documents
by which it was accompanied.
Mr. Hamlin of Maine, resumed and continued
his speech on the subject. lie explained the
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importance in me ...
ries, and was in favor of protecting them, and
re-iterated his opinion that the interpretation
put upon the treaty by the American government
was right, and should be sustained at all hazards
inasmuch as the conduct of England in this matter
could never be submitted to without dishonor
and disgrace.
The further consideration of the subject was
then postponed for a week.
The Senate next resumed the discussion on the
bill making appropriations for the current and
contingent expenses of the Indian Department,
for fultilling treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes for the year ending June 30, 1So3.
The House of Representatives took up again
the bill from the Committee on the Judiciary to
regulate fees and costs to be allowed clerks, marshals,
and attorneys of the Circuit and District
Courts of the United States and for other purposes.
The Hon. James X. McLanahan, of Pennsylvania,
then explained its provisions, and stated
that the subject was one of great importance,
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and demanded trie earnest aiteuwuu vi
Pending, however, the discussion the morning
hour expired, and on motion the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the state of tlie
Union, and resumed the consideration of theBill
making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic
expenses of Government for the year ending
the 30th of June, 1853, and for other purposes.
An amendment was adopted appropriating :
$18000 for the salary and outfit of the Commissioner
to China.
In the Senate, on Friday, the 0th instant, Mr.
Felch, of Michigan, reported adversely upon the
land distribution bill and the homestead bill to !
cede the public lands to the States in which they
lie.
Mr. Seward, of New York, submitted a resolution,
which was agreed to, calling for information
as to whether the Sovereign of the Sand-j
wich Islands has not proposed to transfer the
sovereignty of those Islands to the United States. !
Mr. Houston of Texas submitted a resolution ;
to appoint a select committee of five to inquire
into any fraud bribery, or abuses that may have J
occurred in the prosecutions of claims, Ac., be
fore Congress or the Departments, which w.is
agreed to, and Messrs. Houston, Borland, Brooke,
Merriweather and Underwood were appointed as
tho rnmmittee.
The Indian Appropriation bill was then taken
up, and the Senate adjourned.
The House of Representatives was again engaged
during the morning hum l.? tha oon-?Jo.
ration of the bill to regulate the fees and costs j
to be allowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys of
the Circuit and District Courts of the United
States.
The House then went into Committee of the
whole on the State of the Union, and resumed
the consideration of the general appropriation
bill. ^
The Government of England will shortly be j
placed in a more anomalous position than any
in which it has yet been exhibited. The Derby
ministry will have had a short lease of power.
So soon as Parliament assembles the Tory rule
ceases. Who will be their successors?what
shape a new ministry will assume?whether
Whig or semi-Radical?is the question. Conservative
it cannot be. It is by semi-Radical influences
the Derby ministry has been overthrown.
The party that is to govern must he recruited
measurably from the ranks of the Free Trade I
leaders, whatever of the element of Whigism j
may enter into the combination. Whether Lord j
T PulmopcfAn hoc t V? l^rc- i
UUIJU lWii.N>Cl Ul XJVi \X X 'llllJ^iovvu Mtw ^ |
miership, it will be impossible in the new minis-1
terial organization to exclude Mr. Cobdeii or!
some of his party. The signs of a new combination
have been already apparent. Whatever
changes take place in the character of the ministry
that supersedes its predecessor, ihe fact is
still broad and palpable, that the tendency is
more and more to Democracy in England.
This change which the people of the Continent
could not effect violently, the people of
England are bringing about gradually. We do
not think that for some years yet annual Parliaments
and universal suffrage are to be among
the victories of radicalism. But an extension of
the suffrage much beyond its present limits, if
not triennial Parliaments, are in nearer perspective
than many imagine. The march of public
opinion is in that direction, most unequivocally.
A wider constituency and a reformed Parliament,
letting in more and more of the Democratic,
spirit, are steps that mustconduct finally to universal
suffrage and a shorter duration of the
House of Commons.
The effect ol a government like that of England
reposing on a wider democratic basis must
be to change its character organically. It must
lose its presentoligarchicalelement. The House
of Peers must become an assemblv with nnmi
nal privilege*?men who sit in conclave with titles
and ribbons, without real power. As hereditary
legislator their patents of nobility will enable
them to occupy a conspicuous place in a royal
ceremonial. Such must be the destiny of an
oligarchy whose authority, within thoirown sj?h<-re
of legislation, in conflict with the power of the
People's House, will be inevitably subverted.
The House of Commons will absorb all the powers
of legislation and become paramount. This
will be followed by popular disrespect for hereditary
rank. How far reverence for royalty will
then consist with the los6 of prestige by the m>bility
of England, is a question whose solution
wo may leave to history.
Charleston. Evening yews.
The new Planet discovered by Mr. Hind, of
f Bishop's Observatory, London, on the 24th of
June last, was also observed at the Washington
National Observatory on the night of the- 29th,
by Mr. J. Fergison. Th? planet is stated t<> be
of the 9-10 magnitude, and Lieut. Maury makes
it the 18th :r. the family of Asteroids kno*rn *o
" eris+ between Hcr3 snd Jupiter.
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From the Lancaster Ledger.
Rail Road Electing.
A meeting was held at the Court house on the
I first Monday in August, pursuant to a resolution
i passed on sale day in July,
j Hon. Wm. Reed bring called to the Chair,
j the Preamble and Resolutions of last meeting
! were read.
Cnpt. Gaston submitted the following Re
I port from a meeting of the citizens of Chester
I District:
Rich Hill, Chester Dist., )
July 30, 1S32. f
At a meeting of citizens of Chester District,
! favorable to the construction of a Rail R<>ad from
Chester to Lancaster, lielil this day at Rich llill,
} Dr. B. Gaston was called to the Chair, and Col.
I L. A Beckliatn appointed to act as Secretary,
j The object of the meeting being stated to be
j tlie appointment of delegates to th* adjourned
meeting to be held at Lancaster on Monday the
' 3d August next, on motion a committee of three
I was appoint,d to nominate suitable persons to
| attend said meeting. Upon the report of this
' committee twenty >ix gentlemen were appointed,
of whom the following attended the meeting:
| Tilman Ingram Daniel G. Stinson. .Tas. A. II.
Gaston, W. A. White,.!. 13. Magill, Henry Moffatt,
and Jesse Clifton Jr.
A committee of twenty-one, consisting of the
following gentlem"ti, Dixon Barnes, Col. Iluey,
Capt. MeKenna, Daii'l W. Brown, Joseph Clinniiigham,
Robert Mellwain, W. A. Moore, Jas.
1'. Crockett, W. E. Johnson,S. 1?. Emmons, J.
' Adams, John Williams, were appointed to prei
pare business for the meeting. The following
lesolntions were presented by them, which, after
some debate, were unamiutisly adopted :
Renalred., That we do most en most lv desire,
,n"-1 ti?!otilv niitirnve. of the eonstrilCtion
of a Kail R<>;kI from Lancaster Court House to
connect, either witli the Charlotte and South
Carolina Kail Road at Clicstorviile, Ridgeway, or
some other suitable point on said Road: and we
hereby promise and agree that we will lib-rally
subscribe to each one or all of the routes lending
to the several points herein designated; and
whichever route may he selected after the charter
has been obtained and the sto.-k subscribed,
wo, the citizens of Lancaster District, will cordially
unite in support of it
Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed
by the Chairman of this meeting to memorialize
the next L -gMatun- upon this *ubj"Ct, and
to solicit material aid from the S; ,ta in the building
of said Road.
Rrsolred. That notice be imm-diatelv published
in the Lancaster Ledger, for three months,
that an application will be made to the next
Legislature for a Charter said Road.
Rrsolred, That the members of the next Legislature
from Lancaster District are earnestly
requested to ask from the next fb-neral Assent
bly, a liberal subscription towards the construction
of this Roa?l; and the various candidates who
j are now competing for a seat in the next Legis|
lature, ar-- likewise re pi -t'-d to bring this itnpori
tuut v.! h^f.iiv the people for lln-ir consideration.
| In accordance with the second resolution, the
I following g'-ntleinan were appointed by the Chairman,
viz: John Williams, M. P. Ciawford, M.
Oalluchat, J. II. Withcrspoon, and P. T. Hami
lilt iltil.
| On motion of John Stewart, E-p, the meeting
t lion adjourned.
| \VM. I IKED, Chairman,
M. P .Crawford, / 0 .
T o r Secretaries.
J. C. Secuest, )
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Ton.vcco and Pickles in Amsterdam.?A lelj
terfrom Amsterdam, in the Ponton Transcript,
says:
The consumption of lohaeco here is enormous.
What King James would haw done had he been
King of Holland is past imagining. Old and
I young are alike addicted to the hahit. I have
seen a knot of children pulling away as gravely
as if they had been 1 orn with pipes in their
mouths, and elderly citizens march along the
streets sending fourth volumes of smoke like so
many peripat?*ii< stove nipt s. Some of the Amsterdam
dandies, the fast young men of the place,
if the term is not an anomaly, seem to effect the
cigar?hut lor the most part the merchaum,
with its pipe as long as a walking stick, is the favorite
vehicle for burning the weed. Many
I smoke during their meals. Sipping tobacco
smoke as nth- r people sip win?, and as it i> not
considered indecorous to smoke where < thers
are eating, I was regal-d while at the breakfast I
table this morning in the principal hotel in the :
- i ? i.~ r...I
! citv with sotnc very CIIOIC i 'lVinn mihw iium i
twogetlenien opposite me. They breakfasted
I upon I trend and lnitter, tobacco. eggs ntnl coflce
'?nnd I do not doubt that a pipe often furnishes
the lower classes a light and wholesome meal.
Some of the Dutch delicacies mv certainly j
very extraordinary. PeopI> cat pickles a- t'e* '
| French eat peppermints. All about the streets
; may be seen little stands upon which are tempt|
ingly displayed pickled cucumbers, beets, onions
| and other vegetables, soaking in vinegar, and
cut up into little tit bits for the refreshmont of
I the passer by, who,for a stiver, can set his teeth
on edge most admirably. Dbiiinutive ecK sal:
ted and steeped in vinegar, Ibrm an article of
j traffic for divers old ladies at the street corners.
I I do not know that children cry for them, but
| probably the youthful Mynheer yearns |br pickj
led eel as a young Yankee longs fur a stick ofoanI
dv. A stranger might wonder at seeing such
j gastronomic enormities hawked ahull* tie-streets
: like lozenges, till lie heard the unspeakable dissonance
of the, language; when be would perceive
that a people who speak such a jargon need
some such diet as soiirkiout and pickled eels to
j keep their vocol organs in proper tone.
Xew VocAnt la it v.? .1/nlarirolrJizinr/. (f>l tidying
or uttering a vain thing.) and Inrorui/rstibulutinft,
(troubled with an uiiea?ine-s of mind.)
new words, indicative of the condition of mind |
of persons wlio live in n state of constant and
purposeless excitement.
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United States Mint Opkhations.?During
the month of July there wore coined :it the Phil
adelph mint 400.838 pieces of cold, amounting
in value to ?5,000.030; 082.400 pieces of silver,
amounting to ?37.872; and 4(5(1,509 cents?making
a total of 1.840 838 pieces, amounting in
ir. value to ?5,042.567,
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TUESDAY EVENING AUGUST 10, 1852.
THO. J. WARREN) Editor.
CSpThe lines of It. B. C. will appear oa . riday.
Acknowledgments.
Wo arc under renewed obligations to the Hon. A.
P. Butler, for his attention in forwarding us Public
Documents, Ac.
The Hon. J. L. Orr and Hon. D. Merriwethcr wil^
also accept our thanks for their favors.
Roads, Bridges, &c.
We have been handed tor publication the following
extract from a letter received in this place from White's
Store, X. C\, dated July 31, 1852:
"I would just state there would be a great deal more
trade from this portion of X. C. to your place if there
was a good Bridge at Mrs. Blakeney's, on Lynches
Creek, that Bridge being considered unsafe. I believe
it is a Bridge that is built by Kershaw and Chesterfield
together; it has ever been considered unsafe."
Attention to our highways, bridges, ferries. Ac., is
absolutely indispensable to the public good. Money is
paid in the form of taxes for these purposes, labor is
required for the same, and why is there such grounds
of complaint? We hope those charged with the management
and control of these important matters, will
look well to the interest of the community, which involves
so seriously life and property.
Popular Elections.
Wc are no factionist, vet. there are some things in
OUT dlillO UOVlTllIIlt'Ill Wim-u wu anumu uav i\j ovw
changed. For instance the present mode of electing
Electors for President and Vice President, subjects the
State to unnecessary expense, and inconvenience Every
four ye rs an extra session of the Legislature must
be held for this especial purpose, or the vote of the
State is lost. This of course subjects us to a heavy
expense, and there is no necessity for it.
The Legislature must either alter the time of its sitting.
call an extra session, lose the vote of the State,
or give the election to the people, where of right it belongs.
It may be urged in behalf ot the present mode,
that all these difficulties may he removed by altering
the time of the meeting of the Legislature. This would
subject us to inconveniences also, and reasons may be
shown whv this change should not be made. Wq do
not however, upon the plea of inconvenience to the
State, or from pecuniary considerations, urge a change;
these are oulv collateral reasons, and do not involve
in themselves any importance, or touch the principle.
V"e are in favor of committing to the hands of the people
the management of this business, from motives of a
higher character than that of mere expediency, believing
as we do that free suffrage is consonant with
i rA* IM>.,rfi? on/1 flirt
tlic true ami genuine pi iin-i|>n.-.-> ,.i h./uu, ,, ,,,v
groundwork and very basis upon wliieli all republican
institutions must rest.
Let the people be educated! Call it by whatever you
may; it is one of our texts, and one too, which we
shall ever take pleasure in urging upon the minds of
our readers. Call it a hobby?be it so. it is a good
one. The people should read, think, and act lor themselves.
IIow deplorable, and humiliating is tin- ignorance
of the masses upon the most common and simple
matters of our government The people seem contented
to leave the decision of all these matters in the
hands of others, who think and act without direct reference,
in too many eases, to the good of those whom
they represent. "A liberal and enlightened public
opinion, whoso approbation is the result of mature
wisdom, and whose just condemnation is tempered with
generosity." This is the idea?a just sentiment, which
can only result from the people being educated. We
attribute much of the want of general intelligence
among the people, to the fact that nearly all the important
elections are taken from them, and given to
the Legislature. It maybe urged that, by giving these
elections to tho people, we open the door for demagogucism
much wider?that intluences will la?a Imitted
more injurious in their elTeets upon society. We think
not; a word in reply will suffice tor this objection ?
Those who arc disposed, may now act the part of demagogues
to a much greater extent?they can deceive the
people much moro effectually than tlicy could under
the plan we propose.
If if. is urged, that already too many elections are in
the hands of the people, we ask where can this power
moro properly rest? To deny it. is to stiike at once, a
blow at the very foundation of all democratic principle,
to say that tho people arc not capable of deciding
for themselves. Who then can decide? If swell be
the case, why let the people say who shall be their
Clerks, SheritTs, Tax Collectors 4c? Let others more
competent, be delegated with all authority to do all
their thinking and acting for them. Let the people
become as pliant clay in the bands ol skilllul pott rs,
."..nlil mill f-iJiinn ili.un mOup tlioir men no
tions?mere figures, by which the sagacious political
arithmetician may make his calculations. The people,
il left to the bent of their own inclinations, will be disposed
to do right.
The masses of the people of our State, are wofully
deficient in knowledge pertaining to our State affairs.
They have never relied upon themselves, but have ta
ken too much for orthodox, because leading men have
taught thcin so. We know ol no reason why South
Carolina should adhere with such remarkable pertinacity
to certain aristocratic notions peculiar to herself
which makes it almost a distinct and isolated State
from others, which have the same community of interests,
and arc identified by common ties of eoiisatignimity
and destiny. We ask, what peculiar benefit have
wc derived from our singular course? Are we in advance
of our compeers in intelligence, happiness or
wealth ?
Until within a few years, we have been far behind
others in every class of enterprise. It is possible that
we may yelfeel a conscious pride in being Carolinians,
. .1 I, Iukki M:mv of
VCl UICIV- 13 (Mtavaa V. ..w J ^ ..
our systems need remodeling, and a general modification
might take place, which would result, we doubt
not, in good. To make ourselves distinctly intelligible,
we are in favor of giving the election ol'lJovernor
and the electors of President and V ice President to
the people.
Sale or Slaves.?The following prices wero given
for slaves sold at Lynchburg, Va.. on Saturday: Richard,
wife and child, sold for $1,210; Sady, a small
girl, $453 ; Tom, small hoy, $280; Matilda, a mulatto
girl about 20 years old, $806. Total $2,710. Uue
other small boy sold lor $375.
Alabama against a State Convention.?Sufficient
returns have now been received to indicate that t.,e
people of Alabama have voted largely against u Convention
being hold to revise tho Constitution ot that
State.
bb?mm ? ?i ? mam mm?bwc? ?i
Nominations for Congress.?Hon. Joshua R. Giddings
has been re-nominated for Congress by county
free .soil meetings in Lake and Ashtabula, Ohio. Col.
"Win. A. Richardson has been re nominated for Congress
in the fifth district of Illinois
A great mortality aming cattle prevails in theneigh- j
borhoodof Memphis, Tenn. Some of the farmers have
lost nearly all their stocks.
For the Camden Journal
A CHARADE.
A poet who, our passions sways,
By his moving, melting lays.
A warrior renowned and bold,
Whose deeds have been sung by poet.-, of old.
A king whose young days were spent,
In the wild woods, 'neath a rude shepherd's tent.
A tyrant whose hands wore stained,
With the blood of the innocent whom ho had slain.
A philosopher who for his doctrines mild,
Was cruelly treated, and rudely reviled.
My whole a poet whose soul-stirring strain,
The prince and the peasant alike entertain.
K if.
Answer to be given in the next paper. *
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From Vie Lancaster Ledger.
Prolific Grain.
Mu. Editoii : In my crop of Wheat in 1850,
I my Overseer, of my plantation in York District,
| discovered, as he thought, a new kind of Wheat.
j < )n boil in shown a head of it, 1 told turn it was
I Da tie y ; how it came there we are at a loss to
say. He takes this bunch, yielding about 400
plains, and drills in niy wheat ground which he
manured witli Cotton seed. About one third
j of it did not yield in proportion to the balance,
I bring planted in rather wet ground?this crop
I was a In tie short of three pocks, last fall the
same was sowed in thin fresh land, some in the
d;i!l, the balance broad cast, which has yielded
thirty bushels and a half well cleaned Barley.?
This crop exceeds vourtinc beets, turnips, or corn.
T. K. CURETON.
P. S. I have no desire that the Committee
who are inspecting the Crops of the neighborhood
should iook at mine. I will make my own
Bread and Mi-at. I lyive no objection to giving
j thorn and vourself. dinners of fine Main, Mutton
| of the tine Bakowdl stock, and of fowl of the
j large Shanghai breed. T. K. C.
i Waxhaw Crook, August 2, 1852.
Cotton Statement.?There have been receivj
od in Charleston during the past week 3,269
bales, (corresponding week last year 1,552.) Exported
in the same time to foreign ports 4,877
bales; coastwise 1,01)7 bales; making the total
' exports of the week 6.484 bales; and leaving oil
hand a stock of 11.382 hales, inclusive of 11,bales
on sbiitbonrd not cleared, against a
~ J ^ w
. slock of 20.070 bales same time last year.
Tile total receipts since our last report amount
t<? 10.17.3 bales, (against 5,385 bales same week
last year;) making a grand total since the 1st
September to date of 3,001,088 bales, against
| 2,310,788 bales the same time last year, and 2,:
047,310 bales the year previous.
The total exports to foreign ports amount to
2.415,071 bales, showing an increase of 470,758
l b iles from those of last year to the same time.
I The shipments to Northern ports show an in;
crease of 285.337 bales. The stock on hand at
all the ports is 45,101 bales less than those of
last year at the same period.
A New Threshing Machine.?Mr. Palmer
-<f North Carolina, has invented a new threshing
machine, which is now on exhibition in New
Y -k The editor of the Express, who witnessed
rial of it recently, says;
' It thr shed out with perfect cleanness every
k reel. <o far as we could see, of every grain put
into it. from the tiny timothy seed to the Long
Idand wheat, and we are perfectly convinced
that it i- the host machine of the kind we have
1 ev-r .- en. We are assured that with lour men
to li ed a No. 1. double machine, it can take one
hundred eart h ad- of wheat in the morning, lvin
; in tlie sheaf pass it through the thresher,
i separate every kernel from the straw winnow,
clean, and put into hags 1.500 bushels before sun
Spontaneous Pkodcck of Wheat.- We have
b?en furnished with the following statement by
Mr. Wyatt Lipscomb, a highly respectable citi7.ni
of this I (istriet, under whose personal observation
the subjoined facts occurred : In 1840,
a pared of ground, ah nit six Acres, was sowed
in wheat which was destroyed by rust and was
no; ri ap'-d. In 1850, the ground was not cul-1
tivated. In 1851, the ground was cultivated in
corn, and a harvest of that gram was reaped.
In 1S52, volunteer wheat was discovered, which
was snuppo-cd to be clicot, but w is suffered to
grow tip and mature. It turned out, however,
t.? hi-excellent wheat, and the crop was reaped,
producing# 1 -1-4 bu-h'-K from six Acres of ground.!
Tl.b was ind- ed an extraordinary circumstance
i;i agricultural experience. ? Carolina Spartan.
Ruuciors Liukkty ix Sweeden.?A struggle
: against the iron intolerance of Swedish Lutheranism
would appeal to have begun among the clergv
themselves. Two petitions, originating with
.. 1 ' ii.ct^' Q/iniutr in Sstiiolrliikltn li'ii'o Kooit Oil
' dressed to the Kiiy, which expressed the truth j
mi tli'* great subject of religious liberty and the
violation of it by the Sweedish laws. The petitions
declare that liberty of conscience is no less
a civil than a religious right; that the present
legisla ion is niotistrous, so late as 1840 a person
being lined nearly ?6 and additional 5s for Sab1
bath-breaking, for reading some Bible extracts
and tin' Lord's Prayer to a few people on a Sun-!
dav; that the holy sacraments are degraded into '
civil tests, people taking the Lord's Supper only
to lie able to marry, or buy or sell, while the sac;
rann-nt of baptism is often administered by force
i to the infants of dissenting parents that the bunj
i-hment of Sweedish subjects believing contrary
I to the State Church merely makes the multitude
| hypocrites while it covers the Sweedish name
j with infamy abroad, that Sweeden is the only
I Protestant country where such occasion for re!
Ibrin, it must be a rigid type ol conservatism
that will not wish success to this movement.
u\'kveb WvAiiv TV \YPi I .rirovn '' TKn
Oentreville (Md.) Times sap, that Matthew
(Jraves, of that county, on Tuesday last walked
twenty-eight miles for the purpose, of procuring
, a marriage license to marry his fifth wife. He
is seventy years of age.
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TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
Baltimore, August 8.?In eighteen counties
of North-Carolina tlie Hon. DavidS. Iiied, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, gains G50
TL- T\7L! I ? -a ' l* . t
voces. jltit: nigs nave a nei gam or niree in
the House of Commons. The Senate, however,
will probably be Democratic.
Ualtimoue, Aug. 8.?Hon Robert Rantoul, a
Representative from Massachusetts, died at
Washington this morning, after three days illness.
Ilis body passed through this city this afternoon
on its way to Boston.
We learn from St. Louis that Benton, Phelps
and Lamb, (Democrats,) and Oliver, and Miller,
(Whigs,) are elected to Congress.
Mr. Webster arrived in New York to-day, on
his way to Washington.
New York, August 8.
The steamship Pacific has arrived with Liverpool
dates to the 28th ult.
The sales of Cotton for the three days preceding
amounted to 44,000 bales, of which 12,000
were to speculators, and 5000 for Export. The
quotations have advanced an eighth.
Changes in the British Ministry were talked
of. The elections for Members of Parliament
were nearly over, and the Ministerial majority ,
was about 24. [We presume to obtain so favorable
a showing for Ministers, the moderate
Conservatives are classed as their friends.]
There was great rioting at the Limerick election
in Ireland. The mob assailed the military,
who tired on them, killing eight, and wounding
many others.
From Paris we have rumors of a coup d'etat
on the 15th of August. The approaching marriage
of the President to the Princess of Baden,
_ *i l 1 Li. . P T* %
ana gnwa-uaugnier 01 ruigene ueaunaruais is
talked of.
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Some of the Rrcii Ancients.?We suppose
there are people in all parts of the United States
that think they are pretty well oft'?even rich.
We know a few unfortunate individuals that labor
under this hallucination, and that with a
mixture of pit} and contempt upon their fellow
worms of the dust, whom they think have less
of the "dust" than themselves. But heaven
help these poor witlings, they have not the slightest
conception of what wealth is. They rich,
forsooth! They are beggars comparatively. Many
a rich man's upper servants live in better style.
Mr. Croesus, who flourished before our time, and
whom the reader has doubtless heard of, used to
say that a citizen who had not a fortune sufficient
to support an army, or a legion did not dc- A
serve the title of rich man, and he is good authority.
His property alone was worth the snug little
sum ot ?9,500,000. Then he possessed slaves, ^
furniture, horses, cattle and cash to an equal t
amount, making the comfortable sum of ?17.000.000.
Mr. Croesus was a rich man, but many of
the old gentlemen that kicked the bucket centuries
ago were richer than he. There was
Seneca, t he philosopher, that uttered and wrote
some tolerable good things considering the age.
in which he lived, was worth ?l7,500,000! Many
modern authors would doubtless have been glad
to have been remembered in the old fellow's
will. And so they were all of them, lie has i
left them an invaluable legacy if they would but
accept it: and this it is: whenever yo i have
written a book lay it aside for nine years at the
.:? a.H >
, ciuud ui iiiiiL time) pci ii careiuuy; ana
then if your judgement approve publish it but
not before."
Julius Caesar, like Watkins Macaw her, Ksq^wns
so continually incurring pecuniary liabilities
that he found it difficult to discharge. lie set a
high value upon friendship, having purchased
that of Lucius Pa I us for ?1,500,000, and that of i
! Curio for ?2.500.000. lie was a terrible spendthrift.
Before lie succeeded in obtaining any office
lie had amassed debts to the amount of ?14975,000.
But office-huMors had good pickings
in those days, as well as in our own: and as soon
i as Julius got his hand into the Public Treasury,
his debts began to diminish. He soon became
rich. lie gave Servilln, the mother of Brutus, a
pearl of the value of ?200,000. He would doubt- v
less have been guilty of a great many other extravagancies,
had not "the well beloved Brutus"
given him that cruel stab under the fifth r'b.?
On the day of the assassination, Caesar's friend,
Marc Anthony, owed ?1,500,000, which was paid
thirty days afterward. This same Anthony subsequently
swallowed a pearl dissolved in vinegar
(which Cleopatra administered to him,) worth
?400,000. Ho also squandered ?735,000.000 * 1
of the public treasure. He would have been a I
splendid fellow to have held a fiscal agency u?- 1
der our Federal Government, J
Tdx-ri is at his death left Si 18,125.000, which a
Caligula spent in less than twelve months, lie J
lived at the rate of ?350,000 a day; one sup:>er J
cost him ?400,000.
Esopus, the comedian even transcended Caligula
in extravagance, having given ?400,000
for one single dish. He had one son, Clodiits,
who wa? a chip <>f the old block. Among other
costly feats, Clodius swallowed a pearl (a la An- V
thony) valued at ?5,000. fl
Appius another Roman millionaire, squander fl
ed in debauchery some ?2.5000,000; after which 3
finding himself accidently sober one day he in- ^3
vestigated his pecuniary affairs, and finding that
he had only half a million dollars left, he poison^ J^3
ed himself because he considered that sum insuf- ^K3
ficient f?r his maintenance.
A Mr. Ileliogabalas, who lived in those times
1 ..fit. _ TT TV v ...
ana was one 01 me upper ion, use<l occasionally
to got up nice suppers that cost ?100,000 each.
Another gentleman, Lucallns,seldom sat down^H|
to a repa?t that cost less than ?100,000. His pritable
eclipsed the "ladies' ordinaries" of twenty H
of the best bote's in the world. The fish from his
ponds wore sold for ?165,000.?JIT. J'. Jfitsirial*
World.
Melancholy Casualty.?The Literary Vado H
Mcctnn, published at Buena Vista Georgia, saysv H
an interesting child about three years old, ot
Mr. Benajah Peacock, residing some four or five 'Hi
miles from that town was so severely stung by H|
bees one day week before last that it died the fl|
next morning. It appears that tfle parents of
me cmiu were not ai tne nouse at the time, ana
the child had gone near where a swanu of bees
hail settled, ami perhaps irritated thnn when -^D
they flew it upon and before it could be rescued,^
- had been so severely slung, as to cause its death.
"0, dear,'' said a fashionable girl, when she H9
first beheld a cucumber. 4,I always thought such^^H
things grew in slices."