All this is a gross perversion of the intent of
leaving the appointing power in the hands of the
Executive. The extensive patronage now vested
in the Chief Magistrate constitutes a terrible en
gine for self aggrandisement, and in thu hands of
an unprincipled, designing President, niight be
used to accomplish almost any object he chose,
whether of a personal or political character; and
at. the rate at which, for now several years, this
diversion of the appointing power from its legiti
mate purpose has increased, at the demand of the
people and by the consent of the Executive, it is
impossible not to feel an apprehension that the
time is not far distant when such a crisis may un
expectedly come upon the republic.
N. T. Commercial.
A Good Joke.—A ct)rrespondent of the Lam-
bertvillo (N. J.) Beacon says, that a short time
since, while staying at the borough of E , l*e
overheard the following, which he thinks too good
to be lost:
A number of politicians, all of whom were
seeking offices under the Government, were seated
on the tavern porch, talking, when an old toper,
named Jake 1) , a person who is very
loquacious when “corned,” hut exactly opposite
when sober, said, that if the company had no
objection, he would tell them a story. They told
him to “Sre away," whereupon he spoke as
follows:
“A certain king—don’t recollect his name—
h:»d a philsopher upon whose judgment he always
become for i depended. Now, it so happened that, one day,
! the king took it into his head to go hunting, and,
! after suinuiODinc his nobles, and making all the
American citizens, so marred in them are the j necessary preparatirns, he summoned the phi oso-
proud, stern features of a bianly republicanism. : pher, and asked him if it would rain. V'
They will dance attendance, day after day, upon ' philosopher told him it would not, and he and his
the bestower of patronage, and upon every one nobles departed. hile journo}ing along, thejf
who is supposed to have influence with anybody met a countryman mounted upon a jackass; bo
that has influence with the bestower of that pa- ' advised them to return, ‘for,’ .said he, ‘it certainly
tronage. There is no limit to their subserviency , will rain ’ They smiled contemptuously upon
to every one who is supposed to have, directly or him, and passed on. Kjfore they had gone many
indirectly, the ear of the yre.sident, or to share miles, however, they had reason to regret not
• having taken the rustic’s advice, as a heavy shower
coming up they were drenched to the skin. When
they had returned to the palacc, the king repri
manded the philosopher severely for telling him
it would be clear wlien it was not. ‘I met a
countryman,’ said he, ‘and he knows a great deal
more than you, for be told me it would rain,
whereas, you told me it would not. The king
then gave him his walking papers, and sent for
who soon made his appearance.
ow you knew it would
said the rustic, my jack
ass told me. ‘And how, pray, did he tell
THE MANIA OF THE DAY.
What is it? Whoever reads the correspond
ence from Washington which inundates ihe news
papers will divine at once that it is office seeking,
a worship of Government patronage and him who
has it to bestow. We are a great people, it is
true, but some of us have small ways and pursue
little and unworthy ends, being moreover “pleas
ed with a rattle, tickled with a straw.” There
are hundreds, and probably thousands, in Wash
ington, in New York, and in other large cities,
who would just now be elevated into supremest
happiness by a smile and a word of friendly re
cognition from the gentleman recently inaugurat
ed President of these United States If the news-
papcjr correspondents are to be believed, the
avenue of the capital swarms with office secker.s,
“from early morn to dewy eve” the ante-rooms
of the Whit« House are filled with palpitating
suppliants for places, and the time of the Presi
dent and his Cabinet is fully occupied, he with
hearing, and they with considering, the pleadings
and intercessions of rival candiaates for sonic
good thing in the President’s gift, bome must
be disappointed anyhow, for the place-soekcrs are
to the places on an average, we presume, at least
ten to one; in some instances three or four times
that; and who shall tell the cost of a place even
to him that succeeds in obtaining it?
()ne of the most unpleasant phases of this pre
vailing mania is the gross adulation and flattery
into which it leads many of its victims. In their
gree i of office they seem to lose all sense of per
sonal independence and dignity, and
the time the veriest ana most cringing of man-
worshippers. You would never take them for
his contidence. We do not mean to say that this
i.s true of all office seekers; but it is true of far
too many—of, in fact, the great majority. And
the evil is deepening and widening, until our
newspapers arc made to teem with a ridiculous
flunkeyism—for this word alone is sufficiently
expressive—that would disgust the readers of
even European Court Journals.
One of these hangers on around the President
ha. recently given an illustration of the unman- the countryman, who soon i
ing tendency of this worship of the man who has ‘Tell me’ said the king; ‘ho
patronage at his disposal. The writer in question rain.’ ‘I did’nt know,’ sai
seems in fact to have been almost demented with
AN EXPENSIVE DINNER
Among the choicest pictures in the choicc col
lection of Mr. Douglas, which was sold under the
hammer last week, were two landscapes by Wil
liam Shayer, an English artist of distinction, chron
icled on the catalogue as “No. 73, The Sipim Inn,
I.sleof Wighl,” and “No. 74, 77/e Crown Inn, l.sle
of Wight.” They were a very attractive pair of
pictures, quiet in their tone, free and broad in
their style, true to the nature of that charming
little episode of English scenery, the Isle of
Wight, and most faithful in their presentation of
the two old inns with their quaint appourtenan-
ces. The cognoscenti might well predict that at
least 8300 or S350 would be required to carry
them off even from the auction room. The sale
took place according to advertisement and hand
bill, and the auctioneer had no reason to complain
of want of appreci.ition or spirit on the part of
the bidders. The pictures all sold well and rap
idly. When the two Inns were put up, “one
with the privilege of the other,” somebody led off
at once with a bid of two hundred and fifty-dol
lars. Tliis was followed up by three hundred,
three hundred and fifty, and four hundred in
quick succession. Then came four hundred and
fifty, and from that point the auctioneer ran along
on the variations of four fifty-five—sixty—sixty-
five—seventy, etc., up to five hundred, where
there was a pause, but only, as it soon appeared,
for the competitors to rally for a further struggle,
liy this time the po.sitiojis of the whole company
were clearly defined: two highly-excited bidders,
a hundred highly-excited s})£Ctators, and a very
cool and complaisant auctioneer not at all excited.
The bidding recommenced: “Going at five hun
dred and fifty—sixty—seventy—eighty—ninety
—shall I have six hundred?” and tlie six hun
dred was bid amidst great applause. “Six hun
dred and twenty-five (sensation)—six hundred and
fifty (great enthusiasm)—six hundred and seven-
ty-five frori the opposition (intense excitement)—
finally, after repeated “goings,” “fair warnings,”
and “third and lust calls,” seven hundred is bid,
and the picture is knocked down to one of our
well known Park Place merchants, who gives in
his name with a decidedly triumphant emphasis.
Mr. Leeds stopped to draw breath after this long
chase, and in the interval the successful bidder
made a speech explanatory of what seemed a very
foolish purchase at 8700 of a picture which really
was not worth any such money. He had been
on the Isle of Wight, he had dined at the Crown
Inn, and htj was willing to p^y the price, not so
much for the twenty-live by thirty inches of can
vass, as for the a.ssociations inclosed within the
frame. At the Swan Inn he had not dined, anl
that picture he did not want. So somebody else,
perhaps the rival candidate for the “Crown,” got
it at S5a0. So much for dining at the Crown
Inn. We used to regard the Trois Frerem and
his good fortune in being present at .Mr. Buchan- you?’ the king asked, in great astonishment. ‘By
an’s first levee, for he gravely assures his readers pricking up his ears, your Majesty.' The king
that “with his companion on his arm he nscewM now .sent the countryman away, and, procuring
(he »teps of the Palace (?) amid the rolling of the jackass of him, he p’aced him (the jackass) | as rather expensive localities for that sort
wheels! the prancing of horses I! the cracking of in the office the philosophc’* had filled. And of entertainment, but only think of a dinner the
here, observed Jake, looking very wise, “here is
where the king made a great mistake.”
“How so?” inquired his auditors.
“Why, ever since that time,” said Jake, with
a grin on his phiz, ^^everj/Jackdss wants an oj^ice!”
whips I!! and the yells of coachmen claiming pre
cedence and places ! I!! ” Innumerable queries
were put, he tells us, such as “Where is he?"
“Where is Mr. Buchanan?” The idol that he
sought to worship was at length reached, and the
worshipper’s ecstacy began. “When he grasped
my hand, I was as proud as the Emperor. My
mere memory of which is worth S700.
Harper’* WWkly.
Fine Furniture. — it is said that in his lecture
Affection of the Elephant.—The Columbus
Fact, of a recent date, relates the following in
teresting story of affection recently exhibited in
an elephant belonging to Herr Driesbacb’s men-
cmotions^endered me silent.” “He united the lusiness,” Dr. Magoon relates agerie, for his keeper: “The menagerie on coming
peculiar loveable qualities of bonhommie to the
case and polish of the refined courtier.” The
Presidents niece, he describes as “the Republican
princess,” who presides over “the palatial resi
dence of her attached uncle,” and thus sums up
her attractions—“gentleness of demeanor, shrink
ing susceptibility of soul, modest diffidence, art
lessness of action and guilelessness of heart, asso
ciated with personal charms.”
It is not every office seeker, however, we are
the following story: Newark, Ohio, the keeper fell in a tit from
A young man went from New York city to the i his horse. The whole menagerie immediately
West, where he commenced business on his own j came to a halt, and some members of the company
account, and married. His friends in the city I went forward to pick up the man, but the ele-
were interested in his welfare, and when a pbant would not allow any person to approach the
merchant was about to journey to the place where . senseless form of his keeper. Taking him up
the young man had located, he was requested to visit I with his trunk, softly, he would place him on his
the emigrant, and ascertain how he lived, what j horse, but finding that the man was sensele.«>s, he
sort of a wife he had chosen, bis prospects, &c.— j laid him down on the ground and kept watch over
Accordingly the New Yorker ascertained the resi- j him. Many members of the menagerie tried to
happy to say, that stoops to such fulsome adula- dence of his young friend and called upon him | soothe the faithful elephant, who had now becomo
tion. The majority of them are too earnest after iuite early in the morning. He found him in a
the spoils to waste time in compliment. But
what a life they must lead at Washington, and
how anxiety must prey upon them at home.
There are the preparatory steps to be taken.
Letters to be obtained from this gentleman. En
dorsements of political parity from that. The
small, neat cottage, and just taking his breakfast.
The introduction of the New Yorker to his wife
wa.s quite off-hand and unceremonious, and he
was requested to be seated and partake of the
furious at the supposed death of his master, but
to no purpose, and there the man lay, watched by
the sagacious animal. After lying in this con
dition for some time, a physician who had been
sent for, arrived, and yet the elephant would allow
morning aieal. The young wife had prepared ; no one to approach. At length, the keeper be
the steak, biscuit and coffee with her own hands, ; came so far con.s'iou.s as to command the elephant
approval of the Congressional delegation to be and for a table had used her kneading board, over] to let the phyjician come near, and the elephant
“IN FAVOR OF THE HOG.?”
Eds. Mail: Nnowing your “solemn” fondness
for the ludicrous, I have sent you tlie following
story, which was retailed to me from the lips of
an eye-witness:
In the good old county of C , State of
moiuent, and the
keeper was properly cared for—the elephant all
the time expressing tho utmost anxiety for the
sick man.”
which a napkin was spread, and the “board” placed j was docile and obedient in a
on her lap. The New Yorker declined a seat at
table, and took his leave. On making his report
to his New York friends as to how he found his
young friend living, he described the .style as
“magnificent!”—and for the explanation of the
superlative said, that were he the owner of that
young man’s furniture, he would not take ten
obtained, or some long list of names as an equiv
alent, and as an offset to that approval bestowed
elsewhere. What is the quid pro tiuo for each
of these disinteresied recommendations? Then
there is the personal application, the protracted
presence at Washington, the discovery that other
applicants for the same office have obtained a
prior interview with the President, and are satis
fied with the impression they suppose they have thousand dollars for the legs of his table,
made; and the further discovery that yet others
are to come fortified with formidable papers.
There may be offices thyiX, pecuniar Hi/, are worth
all this labor of body and anxiety of mind. But
in sober truth they are few indeed, and it may
well be doubted whether any man, not under the
influence of the prevailing mania, would consider
any amount of income they may bring for the
short time they can be held, a sufficient compen
sation for all the cost of obtaining them. In the
Alabama, there lived one John Smith, who, un
like the remainder of his small family, was pe-
. . r • “ culiarly afflicted with a want of discrimination
great majority of ca.ses, however, even the pecu- between his own things and those of other per-
niary advantage is but very trifling, rarely sons, or who, rather, was ignorant of the laws re-
amounting to more, or as much, as could be se- lating to “meum et tuum.” Now once on a time
cured with equal determination and less actual the said John Smith, while laboring under a se-
, , . , ~ . ^ere attack of the above mentioned” disea.se, and
1 he truth is that office seeking and office bold- being further impelled by the vociferations of
ing are fast becoming an institution with us. Wc an empty stomach, went under the cover of night
do not think the fact is to our credit or our ad- and feloniously took and carried away from his
vantage as a people. It has become a matter of neighbor’s pen, a shoat valued at one dollar and
course that with eve^’ change in the incumbency fifty cents, with tho intention of appropriatin»
of the Presidential office, shall come a change in the same to his own use. But, unfortunately*^
the incumbency of every office under the federal Jolinny was (Jctected, and in due course of tim?
government. Patronage is no longer to be used j was carried before Judge P , for trial. The
merely as a means toward an end, to enable the | witnesses were introduced, and the fact of the
Chief Magistrate to carry out the policy of the theft was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt
party that placed him in power, to secure the pre- The Jury retired, to make up their verdict, to an
ponderance of certain political principles in the adjacent grove of trees, and were not out long be-
administration of the government, which is its , fore they returned, with a verdict of “cuilty of hog
legitimate use and was originally its design. Re- stealin’ in fust degree.”
movals from and appointments to office are no | The Judge told them that their verdict was
longer dependent upon a change of political par- . proper except, that they had omitted to assess
ties and principles, but must be made when there ; the value of the property stolen, and that there
IS no such change, the new President being of was no dcgrco to hog stealing, and to retire again
precisely the same political faith as his predeces- —^ -i ? i- . .
sor. They are no longer left to the volition of
the l^resident, to his own deliberate convictions
and brini
_ in their verdict in “proper form.”
Agaii\ they retired, with pen ink and paper, but
, . . rather nonplussed with regard to “form.” They
and judgment, but are exacted from him as a j pondtrcl long and deeply over what he meant by
boon due to his personal supporters, and as r.art yhrni.’’ At last, old W. Jim Turner, who had
personal supporters, and as part
of the bond ratified by his accession to office.
The people have learned to assume that political
attachment and political service are to be reward
ed directly by the dispensation of public patron
age, as though the appointing power was placed
in the President’s hands for no higher and no
other purpose than to be dispensed in return for
political support.
e cannot look upon the almost universal pre
valence of this scntinunt, and its practical recog
nition in high places, with anything like com
placency. On the contrary we view it with no
little concern and foreboding of evil. We are
well assured that it was not the intention of the
framers of the constitution that the* appointing
power should be thus used, but that it should be
exercised by the President with moderation for
administrative reasons and ends only, and in ac
cordance with the dictates of his own judgment
or in concurrence of the Senate. It was never
contemplated that a general removal of the offi
cers of the Government should be demanded from
every incoming President, or that individual poli
tical leaders, or even Congre.ssional delegations,
should be the President’s advisers in the selec
tion of oflSce holders when offices were vacant.
been Justice of the Peace in Georgia with a bright
countenancc and sly wink, as much as to say
“Look at me boys—I understand a thing or two,”
wrote tlie verdict and returned to the Court
Hou.se. One after another they filed in, old Jim
in the lead, and took their seats. Ohl Jim handed
«he verdict to the clerk, with anxious pomposity,
and sat down. Judge of the laughter when the
clerk read the following:
We, thejeury pusilanimoushj, find the defcn-
dent ijiUy in the sum of 1 dollar a | in favor of the
hoy.
Of course no one but G. D. Prentice, of the Lou
isville Journal, is responsible for the following:
The editor of an Alabama paper advises that
we and another individual whom he names, “meet
upon the field of honor and fight with squirt
guns. If we must use a squirt in such an affair,
we shall beg the use of the Alabama editor for
the occasion.
\oung wife—“O, I am so glad you like birds;
what kind do you most admire?
^^sband—“Well, I think a good turkey
with plenty of dressing, is about as nice as any.”
Diipntimj with Satan.—An old and excellent
writer gives the followiag advice: “If you would
not to be foiled by temptation, do not enter into
a dispute with Satan. When Eve began to argue
the case with the serpent it was too hard for her;
the devil by his logic, di.>iputod her out of Para
dise. Satan can mince .sin, make it small, and
varni-h it over, and make it look like virtue.
Satan is too subtile a sophister to hold an argu
ment with him. Dispute not, but fight. If you
enter into any parley with Satan, you give him
half the victory.” The reason is obvious for we
cannot parley with Satan without giving up prin
ciple, and whenever we allow ourselves to debate
the question, whether we will do wrong, it is al
most certain we shall yield. Principle being
abandoned, there is little el.se to guide, but evil
passions, which strongly prompt to sin.
Thoughts from Channing.—It is a privilege to
have lived in an ago so stirring, so pregnant, so
eventful. It is an age never to be forgotten. Its
voice of warning and encouragement is never to
die. Its impression on history is indelible.
Amidst its events, the American revolution, the
first distinct, solemn asssertion of the rights of
men, and the French revolution; that volcanic
force which shook the earth to its centre, are
never to pass from men’s minds. Over this age
the night will indeed gather more and more as
time rolls away; but in that night two forms will
appear—Washington and Napoleon—the one a
lurid meteor, the other a benign, serene, and un-
decaying star.
Church Goinj.—New Y’’ork city, with a popu
lation of 020,000, has church room for only
197,000 persons, leaving 43*2,000 without any
church accommodations, did they wish for them.
Brooklyn, with a population of 208,000, has sit
tings for only 71,000 leaving 137,000 unprovided
for; and thirteen of the principal cities of this
country with an aggregate population of 1,948,-
574, have church sittings only for 652,436, hav
ing a deficiency of 1,290,138. The city of Lon
don, too, with a population of 2,688,000, has
church room for only 800,000, leaving 1,888,000
persons without an opportunity to join in public
worship. These statistics are startling truths,
which at first sight, seem to be absurd exaggera
tions, but a moment’s thought will establish their
correctness.
An aspirant for the office of constable in Rich
mond, told the voters how he went to war in 1812
and fought for his country’s liberties; and after
he sat down a competitor got up and made the
following eloquent speech: “Fellow citizens! I
war not in the war of 1812, but my father ??ar!”
“Sam, why don’t you talk to your massa, and
tell him to lay up his treasure in heaven?”
“What’s de use of hia laying up his treasure
dare whare he neber see um agin?”
Female Novelists.—Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tague says, “Every young lady who has reaJ two
novels can write a third.” To cast a glance at
the Book Notices in our papers, one would swear
that what “ev«ry young I*dy” can do, she has done.
Railroads in New York.—Tho annual report
of the Railroad Commissioners has been received.
We gather the following interesting statistics
from its copious details:—That the dividends paid
on the complctod roads throughout the State
average 4 to 8 per cent, on the aggregate capital
st«K*k; that the double track laid is nearly equal
to one fourth of the whole length of the roads,
and the sidings to one eighth; that the total num
ber of locomotive engines is 735, of passenger and
baggage cars 900, freight cars 7,500, and persons
employed 18,012; that of the whole number of
per.sona killed eight 4>er cent, were passengers,
thirty-one per cent, employees, and sixty-one per
cent, neither passengers nor employees; anl that
four-fifths of tho passengers killed and one-third
of those injured suffered in couse(jueuce of thoir
own imprudence. A comparison of the safety of
Railroad traveling on the roads of this State and
those of Great Britain, during the last four years,
shows that the was a greater number of passen
gers killed and a less number injured upon our
roads, in proportion to the number carried, than
upon those in Great Britain.
The Missouri Railroads.—Tho railroad bill
lately passed by the legislatur** of .Missouri
provides for granting additional State aid to rail
roads, as follows: To the Pacific road, 8^,000,000;
Southwest Branch, 81,500,000; North Missouri,
81,000,000; Iron Mountain, 8000,000; Platte
(Country, 8700,000; Cairo and Fulton, 8400,000.
Total 85,200,000. The State reserves in all cases
a first lien on the roads to secure the payment of
bonds. The entire State aid to be given to all
the roads when it shall be absorbed and all the
roads built, will not be far from 825,000,000.
Fine Cotton.—The editors of the New York
Courier and Enquirer have been shown a sample
of sea Island cotton, taken from a bale sold in
Charleston South Carolina, at 81 35 per pound,
probably the highest price paid in twenty years.
The factors who sold this bale are confident that
it is the finest bale of cotton that has ever crossed
the Atlantic. The planter (of Edisto, South
Carolina,) took the medal in the London Exhibi
tion of 1851, and the prize bale, though it spun
yarn up to No. 900, is believed to be inferior to
this. This bale was picked out by the lady of
the planter with her own hand'?, and it is a mar
vel she perfection to which she has brought the
staple. It is to go to Havre.
The (^ueen of Enyland Goin>j to Law with
the Prince of Ua/«*s.—A friertdly suit is about to
be instituted in England, before a referee, to set
tle a dispute which has arisen as to the disposal of
the revenues of the fisheries on the coast of Corn
wall, from which coast the Prince of Wales has,
as such, for centuries, received a large income.
A London paper says: “Some idea of the difficul
ties which will attend the solution of this knotty
point may be formed from the fact that the docu
ments, which are to be investigated, extend as far
back as 300 years before the birth of Christ.”
The decision of the referee, (Sir John Patterson,)
it has been agreed, shall be final.
J Rich Case.—Memphis, Tenn., is decidedly
a great place in its way. A few days since a case
was ponding in the Common Law (^ourt of that
city in which a Mr. and Mrs. Helbing had sued
Philip R. Bohlen, for breach of marriage contract
in failing to marry .>Irs. Helbing when she was
Miss Agnes Handworker, and the jury has given
the injured parties 81,250 damagesi The idea of
Helbing suing Bohlen because he did not marry
his wife, is certainly the richest thing of this fast
age!
Historical Evidences of the. Authenticiiy of the
Bible Record.—The Paris correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce thus alludes to the dis
coveries made by Sir Henry Rawlinson in Assy
ria, confirmatory of the Bible Rejord:
“Among the recent public lectures in London,
you may be struck with that of Sir Henry Raw
linson, on late Oriental discoveries in relation to
the Bible. It occupied nearly an hour and a
half. Sir Henry expatiated on some of the most
important results of his di.scoveries in Assyria,
constituting a verification of scripture history; he
illustrated his topic by numerous drawings and
models taken from the sculptures now in the
British Mu.seum. He could induce, by abun
dant coincidence, the authenticity of Holy Writ.
The earliest period to which the inscriptions ho
had found referred, was about two thou.sand years
before Christ. The whole country of Assyria
had been excavated in the course of his re
searches; a multitude of inscriptions had been de
ciphered, and in many instances they confirmed,
in the minutest details, the pages of scripture, and
explained passages which had hitherto been ob
scure. The instances which he cited teem with
instruction d force; the interpretation or deri
vation of names in particular. The earliest con
nection of the Chaldees and Indians and the Baby
lonian mythology; the ethnology *and geography
of the Assyrians, the historical records, are all
illustrated: in every case, there is an entire
agreement with the Bible. The lecturer in
ferred from his studies that the Book of Job be
longed to a time about .seven hundred years be
fore Christ. In the inscriptions there is a
period of nearly a thousand years, without the
mention of Judea, but during that period there
was no inducement for intercourse between the
Assyrians and the Jews. The visit of the Qaeen
of Sheba to Solomon was verified. So, the wars
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPK
New York, April 4.
The Asia, from Liverpool on the afternoon of
the 21st ultimo, arrived here this forenoon.
The English papers are almost entirely ti!l,.,l
with electioneering matters. Parliament will i,r„
bably be dissolved on Monday next.
The third meeting of the Neufchatel conft reiuv
will be held immediately, favorable instruction,
having been received from Prussia.
Au.stria, it is reported, is on the point of break
ing off diplomatic relations with Sardinia, uud
that the Sardinian Chambers have voted a lurr.
sum for fortifications.
The Mexican Envoy had arrived at Madrid
The treaty abolishing the Danish Sound due^
was signed on the 14th. The Asia brings the
text of the treaty.
The British are having a difficulty with Japan
Two ships of war have occupied the port of \.
gasaki.
China.—Private letters received in Paris statp
that the baker and three acconsplicos had hw>n
convicted of an attempt to poison the Briii>,l
charge at Hong-Kong, and shot. It is sai.l that
a great portion of Canton, both within and with-
out the walls, has been destroyed.
The Paris correspondent of tho London D^iiy
News assorts positively that negotiations are pro
grossing between France and England IW thu
sending of a French army of 20,000 men to (’hina
London, Saturday noou.
It was itnnounced in Parliament this mornincr
that it \h the Queen’s intention to iiunifdiatolv
dissolve Parliament, in order to ascertain in the
most constitutional manner the sen.se of the peo
ple in the pre.sent state of public affairs.
The Markets.—Cotton closed quiet, but steady
and generally unchanged. Sale.^ of the week
between Sennecherib and Hezekiah. There i A^^en by specu^^^^
were four distinct captivities of the Jews,
inscriptions referred to the time of Nebuchad
nezzar; others throw light on the existence
actions of Belshazzar, who was joint King with
his father Minus, and who shut him.self up in
Nineveh.
Some ' -1,"»00 by exporters. Orleans fair, •
ichad- ' 7 13-lOd.; Uplands fair, 7iil ; Pp!
;e and middling, 7 9-lt)d. Stock on hand,
000 bales, of which 275,000 was American
Breadstuffs were dull, and all qualities were
considerably lower.
Rosin was firm at 5s. a 5s. 3d. Spirits Tur-
Manufacture of Firearms.—The machinery ! pentine was dull at 41 cents. Rice was firm and
now employed by the Federal Government for generally unchanged
the manufacture of firearms is complete. A mus
ket can be turned out every eight minutes of
the working day from the raw material. The
The weather has been
crops.
very favorable for the
machinery is of the most perfect description, and
does the work with unerring accuracy. It is said
From the [Leui'fmoorth) Kansu.i Herald of March 21.
Within the last week near one thousand eiui-
that in no department of the mechanic arts has I grants have landed at this place from off steam
boats, and the cry is still they come. They
bring with them their families, and implenieut.s
of industry; and altogether look like good and
permanent citizens, who have come to bettor their
condition, and improve the country.
Ql’indaro, Kansas, .March 23.
Nearly every steamer from your city arrives
the inventive mind been exerted with more as
tonishing or elaborate results. To produce a
musket entire two hundred and ninety-four ma
chines and nearly five hundred distinct mechani
cal processes are involved. The iron from which
the barrels are made costs two hundred dollars
per ton. This is cut up from bars into pieccs of
ten pounds weight and fourteen inches in length, ' here loaded down with passengers—people who
which, after being drawn out to forty inches un- intend settlir^g in this territory
der a nearly white heat, is curved and welded on ^
st«el rods. Each barrel is then bored out and
reduced in weight from ten pounds to four and a ;
I half, after which it is polished with emery on re-
I volving wheels. The quality of the workmanship '
I which is displayed in the making of these barrels
; is thought not to be exceeded by any in the world. (
Gen. J H.
the St. Mary.
Lane arrived here yesterday, ou
Sad Warninj to “Fa.st” Youny Men.—John
Miller, aged 28 years, died at Indianapolis on
Friday night. The Journal gives a brief history
of his sad case:
He was born in Dayton, Ohio—was left an or
phan with a large estate, and to his own guidance
—became a “fast young man,” and rapidly spent
a fortune which was counted by tens of thousands.
He kept a circle of dashing young fellows about
him, until his money was gone, who then de
serted and left him. He sought Indianapolis for
a home, and there, in some menial capacity, lived
for a time, and died in a strange garret, friend
less and alone!
Appointment.—A. I. Harrison, son of the Hon-
John Scott Harrison, and a grandson of the late
Gen. Harrison, has been appointed second lieuten
ant of the 6th regiment United States infantry.
The appointment was one of President Pierce’s last
I Pecxdiar Mode of Resuscitation.—An eminent official acts.
I physician of London gives instructions for the '
. resuscitation of drowned persons, which, though :
I we believe they have in some cases proved effec-1
j tual, are quite at variance with the methods com- j
; monly resorted to. He says: “There is one great |
impediment ;o the restoration of the function of
! respiration, which is the falling back of the tongue
Saic-Mill Burnt.—Gen. Trollinger’s saw-inill
at Carey, in this County, eight miles west of this
city on the Central Road, was consumed by fire
on Wednesday night. Loss about 81,200.
Ral. Standard.
Death of an Old Servant.—A colored
across the top of the glattis, or entrance into the ; Q^med John, the property of Mrs. Martha lies-
windpipe. In order t^ remove this the patient ‘ ‘ ‘
is to be placed upon his face and breast, and the
body is to be turned on to the side, and then re
turned slowly to its proper position. This mo
tion, the effect of which is to cause a considerible
amount of air in the lungs to be expelled and
reinspired, is to be kept up until breathing is
restored or all hopes of resuscitation from this
source are abandoned.”
Something Rare.—We learn from the Louisi
ana papers that at the close of the session of the
Legislature of that State a motion was made to
allow Mr. J. A. Warner, Secretary of the Senate,
8500, extra compensation, when that gentleman
immediately arose and requested the mover to
withdraw it; said that he accepted the office with
a knowledge of the salary, and wanted no morel
Another Rare - Case.”—Gov. King of New
York, returned to the President of the Hudson
River railroad a free pass which that gentleman
had sent him, with a polite note, saying that his
official position would not permit him to use it.
A Weijhty Delegation.—The State of Maine
can, undoubtedly, boast of having in this city at
this time more men of weiqht than any other
State in the Union. The following is the true
weight of the following named gentlemen from
the Pine Tree State, now here. Let no one ac
cuse them of being a set of “lean, lank office
seekers:” Major N. Bodfish, 250; Col. F. T.
Lalley, 245; L. Jones, 250; Albert Smith, 250;
Ex-Gov. Hubbard, 240; Hon. N. Littlefield, 235;
Mr. Patten, 230; Mr. Davis, 230; Hon. S. Jor
dan, 220; E. Rose, 220; Wm. Bennett, 215;
Hon. V. D. Parris, 212; Robert Burns, 210; Hon.
G. P. Sewall, 210; Hon. J. D. McCrate, 210;
Mr. I'oung, 212; Hon. J. Babson, 200; Hon. W.
B. S. Moore, 200; Hon. Benj. Wiggins, 200;
Hon. N. Clifford, 255—aggregate weight, 4,494
lbs Average weight of twenty persons, 224*
lbs.— ^S/ashitigton Star.
The Washington correspondent of the Exeter
News Letter says that Gen. Pierce has had the
good sense to avoid extravagance in the Presi
dential mansion during his term of office, and the
consequence is he retires with one-half his four
years’ salary in his pocket—a sufficient sum to
make him comfortable for many a “wet day,”
and protect him from the disagreeable necessity
of depending upon the “uncertainties of the law”
for his daily bread.
Death seems to attach itself in .some form—
near or remote—to the White House. Gen.
Jackson entered it a new widower. Harrison
and Taylor themselves died. Tyler was a re
cent widower. Polk left the house to die. Fill-
more, to bury his wife and daughter. Pierce
had his only son torn from him. And dow Bu
chanan mourns a beloved nephew. So closely does
affliction cleave to greatness—so broadly does it
throw its shadow over high position.
If potatoes are shriveled, as in the spring and
early summer they are apt to be, lay them in cold
water a while before cooking, avoiding unnecessa
ry cutting or breaking of the skin. This will re
store much of their plumpness. The water in
whic#they are to be cooked should contain a little
salt, should be boiling when first put in, and kept
S3 till done, when they should be taken directly up.
“John,” said a doting parent to her rather ii-
satiable boy, “can you eat that pudding with im
punity?” “I don’t know,” replied young hope
ful, “but I guess I can with a spoon.” %
ter, of Granville county, died ou the 8th inst., at
the advanced age of 114 years. He came to this
State during the Revolutionary war, as a servant
of Col. Woodward.
About thirty years ago he became the property
of James Hester, in whose family he continued
and by whom he was kindly treated until his
death.
IFjVfojcs and Wills.—The New York Mirror, a
Pension Office. It appears from the records journal devoted to the ladies’ interest, speaking
of this office, that, to satisfy all the bounty land i of the poor widow, whose “dear departed” makes
warrants issued under the various laws since their ! Jt a condition in his “last will and testament”
pa.ssage up to the 31st March last, it will require ! that if she marries again it must be at the sacri-
I 58,324,222 acres of the public lands. Of the of all the worldly goods she inherits, pronoun-
I above amount upwards of 50,000,000 acres of ggg jt ^ species of conjugal cruelty extending be-
I land have been allowed under acts approved on or j yond the grave, which, although it may not be
subsequent to the 11th tebruary, 1847. ! punished by law cannot be too severely reproba-
I* • /I • ~ ' T.L • I ted by public opinion. There is, says the Mirror,
nuham irt and 1 homas Corwin.—It is said i . 1..1 l 1 • \t v
that Tom Corwin, as he is familiarly called, was
once trying a case in which he was opposed to
the late Mr. Wirt, when tho latter tried a some
what povel mode of discrediting the evidence of
Mr. Corwin’s chief witness, on whose accuracy
and discrimination everything turned, by show
ing that he was a person of astonishing credulity.
Wirt—Have you read Robinson Crusoe?
Witness—Yes.
Wirt—Do you believe it all?
Witness—W'ell, yes. Squire; I don’t know but
what I do.
The same answer was returned as to Gulliver’s
Travels, and several other works of fiction, Cor
win all the while fidgeting and getting hot. Pre-
eently Mr. Wirt, considering the man entirely
flattened out, resigned him with a bland smile.
Mr. Corwin said he had only one question to
ask, and put it—
Mr. Corwin—Have you read Wirt’s Life of
Patrick Henry?
Witness—Yes.
Corwin—Do you believe it ail?
Witness—Why, no. Squire; I can’t go that.
TIME.
Morn calleth fondly to a fair boy straying
’Mid golden meadows, rich with clover dew;
She calls—but he still thinks of nought save playing.
And 80 she smiles and waves him an adieut
While he, still merry with the flowery store,
Deems not that morn, sweet morn, returns no more.
Noon cometh—but the boy to manhood growing.
Heeds not the time—he sees but one sweet form,
One young fair face from bower of jasmin flowing,
.\nd all his loving heart with bliss is warm.
So Noon, unnoticed, seeks the western shore.
And man forgets that Noon returns no more.
Night tappeth gently at a casement gleaming
With the thin firelight flickering faint and low;
By which a gray-haired man is ssdly dreaming
Of pleasures gone as all life’s pleasures go.
Night ialls him to her, and he leaves his door.
Silent and dark—and he returns no more.
a young, healthy, handsome widow in New York
city, who has an income of 815,000 year, and who
wants to marry a man who has not the slightest
objection to the union. But her late husband,
whose jealousy, it seems, did not end with his
life, left a wicked will giving all^hia property to
a collateral relative, if his ,widow should wed a
second husband. The Mirror understands the
victim of this outrage has offered 810,000 a year
out of her income of 815,000 to have the cruel
condition cancelled, but the party to whom the
property would revert is inexorable.
^4 Noble Deed.—Yesterday afternoon, as the train
on the Evansville and Crawfordsville railroad was
starting and had got under con.siderable headway,
a child was discovered on the track only a short
distance ahead of the locomotive. The engineer
immediately gave the signal and reversed his en
gine. The fireman, Mr. Charles Miller, seeing
that the train could not be stopped in tiYiie,
sprang through the lookout or window of the en
gine, ran along until he came to the forward end,
jumped off and snatched the child from the track,
just in time to save it from being crushed, as the
i locomotive was within five feet of him when he
j saved the child.— Terre Haute (/nrf.) Express.
j A lady walked off a steamboat at Norwich last
j Friday night into deep water, where she remained
i for half an hour buoyed up by her balloon-like
! hoops, and was finally extricated.
I The last thing heard of John Smith was his
I elopement from Lansingburg (N. Y.) with Mar-
i garet Pollock. John left a wife and five small
! children, and Margaret deserted an infirm and
helpless husband.
I At the last Court ball, the jewels of the Em-
j press Eugenie were e.stimated at tour millions of
francs, (8800,000,) and the flounces of Alencons
I lace, which covered the lilac satin robe of Her
! Majesty, cost six hundred thousand, (8120,000)—
the dress and jewels thus amounting to almost a
million of dollars.
MY VriFE AND I.
As through the land at eve we went.
And plucked the ripened ears,
We fell out, my wife and I,
0, we fell out, I know not why.
And kissed again with tears.
For when we came where lies the child
We lost in other years.
There, above the little grave,
0, there, above the little grave.
We kissed again with tears.
t
Misfortune and misconduct weie born twins.
Our faults are oft the parent of our woes, and he
who most declaims at the world’s frown, has gen
erally done bis best to earn it.
To give brilliancy to the eyes, shut them early
at night, and open them early in the morning;
let the mind be constantly intent on the acquisi
tion of human knowledge, or the exercise of be
nevolent feelings. This will scarcely ever fail to
impart to the eyes an intelligent and amiable ex
pression.
m. u r 1- 1 J >» i The following atrocity was committed by an old
Ihe man whose feelings were “worked up, t t , xvt- • u •
h., ordered » fresh BUpply. • ’ ■“ W.sootsm who .» an ed.tol.~"Wh,
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from
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article
of attei
It
again.st
is a bridegroom more expensive than the bride!
The man who burst into tears has been put. Because the bride is always given away, while
together again. j the bridegroom is usually sold.’*