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U3HHE -KfdDJHlTrfflL; (CAMOJLJiryilAM For the Carolinian. QUACKERY. Mr Editor: There is scarcely any cir cumstance in life more provoking than to be broke m upon when engaged in pondering a merit and ct a serious nature, by some atu her, on a emigrants tour and soldiers, men, Correspondence of the Commercial. abkwwim . j children, an.d beasts., Crowded and filthy J I commence this epistle on the morning j jj she reacnei St. Louis, without fever on r x -:t 10 Wo are on the Ohio Kiver, hrfi f ctVnil rpmni ;- .i. ;rrlp. :n a man is deeply -j . f e,ow Blannerhassett's Island. At j pitied, two or three genteel looking per n anair 01 real mo- , M..,e.;ii. nn the Mononsahela Kiver , Uiunii9viivf w I ; 3wtv w uuui j 9 iv viail.T 44 muv w ll" . 1 cow. 1111 Lilt . r . .1 of inspection. ' She had .sensation, and it will be long before the women terrible events of this eruption are tor- gotten. ... pid fellow, and interrupted with his insipid 1 sailing on a miiing suujcti. ucu an im- fie ipTiiichC c(tiiiaiiiun have we all found the speech of Mr Stanly, relative to the south cm excitement. When the most general alarm prevails everywhere, and the union of this confed- senger8 cracy threatened with dissolution, he, mal-j saioon, which a propoa steps forth, ami insieati 01 en deavoring to quiet our fears, and pour oil upon the troubled waters, gives us a long tedious paper on demagogueism; asserting that the threatening aspect of affairs was brought on by democratic leaders. IIo, ye men of the south! will ye not come and riake of this refined spirit, this quint- of steamboats which . 1 - m me Kinu western waters. I he pe- na 11 Mm St essence wmcn is pronereu 10 you oy iir Stanly, who thinks it more his duty than his interest to acquaint the public that his Titillatrtry Elixir is a sovereign remedy fur the present epidemical distemper' at the south? It is safe, cheap, and pleasant in its operation, and never tails to give im mediate ease in the most violent paroxysms of southern rights. Nay, the doctor may with trutli affirm that it never fails that most of his patients have found his medi cine so extremely agreeable, that they wish for a continuation of the disorder merely to have the pleasure of using it; for to persons unaffected, it is totally in sipid. 1 presume it is with northern fan atics or disunionists that this great. Klixir is gulpetl down with surh agreeablenessj for this great quack preparation does not appear to be adapted to the southern coun try. I must confess that this Elixir prov ed a nauseous dose to mej so much so, that I was unable to take the second dose which he said was refined, purified, clari fied, and deprived of all those impurities that were attached to the first. For this reason he prepared a second Elixir (his written speech) after a deal of labor, ana lyzing and metamorphosing the different properties of the first by fire, ackls, cruci bles, retorts, &c , removing from the com position those parts or ingredients which acted as a nauseant in a southern climate. But 1 must say that this last preparation, the synthesis of the former, after all his labor, is not palatable; it arises prwbably from my southern acclimation. Yet 1 cannot see how Mr S'.anly brought himself to the view, that all the movements made by the people were excited through the intrepidity and sagacity of democratic demagogues. I am sorry that such a man should represent the Old North State in our national halls, when it is now well known by every candid man, whig or de mocrat, that both parties have laid aside party distinctions, and are rallying under the southern banner to battle for their rights. But he overlooks this, and says it is all caused by the democrats. Wonder ful, truly. But pray where did this phil osopher get his information 1 . He even goes so far as to disregard the rules of etiquette, and tauntingly udraids Mr Milliard, calling him one of the one hundred dollar fellows.'' What a profound discovery! What admirable sentiments! Are not these the means to destroy the harmony and concord which should exist in the southern community ? This peace advocate may in vain exnect to turn our ir IICP fin W " . culiaritv of their construction is simply this : The boilers and all the works are below, on the deck you enter first. Be hind them is the place for the steerage On the second deck is the extends nearly the whole lemrch of the boat. On each side of the saloon is a ran ire of state-rooms, each of which is about six feet square and six and a half or seven feet high, and contains two berths. There is a door from the saloon into the state-room, and another from the state-room out on the guard. This is very pleasant. You can be as retired as you wish, and have all your baggage under lock and key. As you approach Pittsburg the manu factories multiply, and you occasionally see fine residences on very handsome sites. I reached Pittsburg at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. As you know, this is a lively, growing place. The city is built on a plain, at the junction of the Mon ongahelaand Alleghany rivers. You can see from the distance that you are ap proaching a city, but when you arrive you find it enveloped in dense clouds of smoke and coal dust. 1 thought that the descrip tions of others had given me some respec table idea of the place, but I found that all my imaginings had fallen far below the reality. Multiply all the smokes from all the chimneys you have seen, by fifty six; then all the smoke which has issued from your pipe since the battle of Chippewa; get a siene put up in the skylight of your ofhre, joined by machinery and kept tilled with broken coal, and arnid the fumes, togs and descending dust, your fancy may approximate the outer limit of what the clearest parts of Pittsburg look like. Every thing in Pittsburg is dirty. A pair of white hands I should think calculated to make a profound sensation in the city. I suspect that the inhabitants, the male portion at least, put on a clean shirt occa sionally as a compliment to decency, but it is only going- through the dumb motions, to satisfy conscience. It did me good to coo thu KnrKarc uri"lr Vir&t- ttiov flinr out all the coal deposites from the pores of the skin ; then, instantly for no time must be lost, they slap on ihe lather, rub it in with an unction, reap down the beard, and sponge you, and rub you and let you go If so be that you have brought a clean collar, wrapped carefully in a paper and hid away in your hat, and will put that on with dispatch, you may feel once more like a decent man until you go to the door. Pittsburg looks more like an English town than any other place in our country. The sturdy men, the coal dust, the din, the factories, the hardware, give it this appearance. All the surrounding hills are full of bituminous coal, which gives its factories great advantages over those elsewhere. Its location is said to give it the advantage of 50,000 miles of naviga tion. At the Declaration of Independence it had about thirty houses, and now there are 40,000 inhabitants ; and Alleghany City, ".vhich lies across the Alleghany little children, who had rnmo nn 111 the ci. 1 : lect, is one stage nun us. 00c llctu UCCU la&eif , it- She wanted to get home as soon as possi ble. She seemed to be a widow, a woman of fortitude and refinement. We passed them yesterday. Let no man, fur econo my's sake, risk, his health, lose his time, and imprison himself for days,' with such a motley rabble of itinerant filth. ,'X.' From the Scientific American. NAVIGATING THE ATMOSPHERE. The first complete work upon this sub thoughts from what we all feel to be the i River, and is connected with Pittsburg by truest national importance. 1 he alarm is universal, and can only be calmed by Con- gress granting to the south those privileges winch are granted her by the constitution. .MONOS. across and I lirul.roc hum Ofl Hlfi inh-ihionc the Mononsahela lies the of Birmingham RULES FOU RAILWAY TRAVEL LERS. Never attempt to get out of a railway carriage while it is movinir. Never attempt to get in a railway car riage when it is in motion, no matter how slow the motion may seem to be. Never sit in any unusual place or pos ture. Never get out on the vvrong side of a railway carriage. Never pass from one side of the railway to the other, except when it is iudispensf bly necessary to do so, and then not with out the utmost precaution. Express trains arc attended with more danger than ordinary trains. Those who desire security, should use them only when great speed is required. Special trains, excursion trains and all o th er exceptional trains or railways are to he avoided, being more unsafe than the 01 u'niarv and regular trains if the train in which you travel meet with an accident, by which it is stopped at a pin t of the line, or at a time where such stoppage is not regular, it is more advisa ble to quit the carriage than to stay in it. Beware of yielding to the sudden inpulse to spring from the carriage to recover your hat which has blown oft", or a parcel drop ped. When you start on your journey, select, if you can, a carriage at or as near as pos sible to the centre of the train. Do not attempt to hand any article into a train in motion. When you can choose your time, travel by day rather than by night ; and if not urgently pressed, do not travel in fo-gy weather. oe- f rherc is one reform that we should like to see adopted on all our r.i..,,.,. ,1... , , 1 , mis, mat is Jo have a board hung vertically in the in side at the end of each carriage, w ith the ; names of all the slopping places painted on -it in rotation, and all these covered with a slide which would open, and show the the name of each place before arriving t it ,rhc conductor calls out the name. of e each stopping place as he arrives, at it, but it the plan was adopted which we Droiiose. he would just have to draw the slide after leaving oue place to show the name of the next stopping place. This would allow passengers to prepare for their departure, would save calling out, and would afford quiet security to passengers of not mis taking tUir stopping places. Scien. Arrnr. laree manufacturing borough of Binning It is quite an imposing sight to stand at the Monongahela House and look down the river at the immense number of smoke pipes rising from the steamboats ranged in a row along the river ; and at night the fires in the forges and factories of Birmin gham present a very Plutonian appearance. The Monongahela House is one of the most magnificent hotels I have ever seen. The Court House is a fine building. I visited also the Roman Catholic Cathedral, which is shortly to be taken down in grad ing the street. It is very plain when com pared with the Cathedral in Baltimore, but is large and strking in appearance, and must have cost a considerable amount originally. I have seen no wharves about these parts. In large towns, as Pittsburg and Wheeling, they have levees. These are slopes from the front range of stores down to the water, paved with large round stones. This is because of the varying level of the river. Sometimes the boats come near the houses ; at other times they are some distance down At small places they have wharf-boats, which are moored to the shore and rise and fall with water. They are constructed like canal boats. Th rough these the passengers and the freight pass. They have little stores on them generally. If you or your friends ever come this way, to go down the Ohio river, let me give you a little advice for your comfort. As you near Pittsburg you will find the Agents of many boats offering to carry you to Cincinnati, Louisville, or St- Louis. Be careful. I saw much imposition yes terday. Having been so fortunate myself as to secure a most delightful boat. I am philanthropic enough to desire to put you in possession of my knowledge. There is a line of packet steamboats running re gularly between Pittsburg and Cincinnati. lake one of those boats. One leaves Pittsburg every fav. Unless made aware of it in advance,the traveller will find, to his disappointment, that there is a very great difference between the hour of starting and the time of leaving. There was a boat at Pittsburg, whose Agent came aboard, as we were coining down the rivor, and at afternoon. rtllllll nil nK I PI : ,i;.i nn 1 o nuwaiu. one r " "7 ,,r?ve UI' ext day, and she had been leaving, positively. for three 5 She had freight piled Jp even on the hurl ncane : deck. All this was to beeHvered at various points. Her charge was $1, g2 below the price of the regular line. Next before she left, I went through boat was .. ' V jUa,i,v,y lo ieave iiu as soon as we Bagatelle. The call of a Convention in Ohio to frame a new constitution for that State, has aroused the Buck-eye wo men to an effort to secure for themselves equal rights with men in making and ad ministering the laws by which they are to be governed. A Convention, composed of four or five hundred of the sex, was re cently had at Salem, Columbiana county. Men took no part whatever in the proceed ings, but attended in great numbers as spectators. I he whole subject ofjwoman s position, political, social, and intellectual, was pretty thoroughly canvassed, and that, too, says a letter in the N- Y. Tribune, with an ability which would have done no discredit to elevated & enlightened minds of the other sex. Raleigh llegister. morning, From the Scientific American. LATE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS. On the 6th day of last February, (1850) old Vesuvius, after many internal inutter ings, which lasted about two weeks, began to send up sheets of lurid flame, and on the 7th the lava mad? its appearance, runn ing down the mountains on the side of Torre Annuuziata. The lava at a white heat bent its way in the direction of Pom peii, and during the night the scene was grand and terrible. On the nights of the 8th and 9th, the roaring and bellowing of the crater was appalling to the citizens of Naples. On the night of the 9th, about four hundred of the natives and foreigners (Americans, English, &c) left ina special train for the place mentioned above, and then with guides to Bosco Reale to view the advancing lava. The government had previously sent forward strong bodies of troops, to preserve order and protect property. The sight that met the eye at that place was sublime. The lava present ed a front of a mile and a half, and kept advancing slowly, devouring every thing in its way. From the villages and cottages the peasantry were flying from the devour ing element, and women and children rent.,the air with shrieks to San Gennoro, their patron saint- It was in vain the lava drove them from their homes penni less. Above Bosco Reale, the lavafabout 9 o'clock P. M.J took complete possession of a wood, and the trees fell in columns like the ranks of soldiers before a wither ing artillery. Some large trees offered their ponderous trunks to breast the hissing stream, but the resistance' whs but mo mentary, for the fiery fluid first consumed the lower parts, then they would explode and leap into the air, to be consumed to ashes on their descent. The large trees gave out hundreds of jets of steam from different places; and those trees which contained a great quantity of sap, were those which generally exploded, while those which were dry at their trunks, soon consumed there, then they bowed their heads and lay down in dignity on their fiery beds, At about 5 o'clock on the morning of the tenth, the eruption was at its height. The sky was clear, cold and starry, affording a contrast to the red rolling mountain. The roarings of the mountain were like the broadsides of a three-decker, and the ground beneath the feet of visitors trembled and groaned in awful convulsions. There was a strong stone farm house situated a short distance from the village j when the lava came to it a stout resistance was offered, audit commenced to rise like water in the lock of a canal, pouring in through tho window and destroying it in a short time. The proprietor of it, together with his servants, instead of laboring to save as many of their effects as possible, yelled and tore their hair, preferring to howl to San Grennaro. The lava next attacked a small church of Franciscan friars, embosomed in the wood. The edifice was solid, and seemed to breast bravely the stream, but as con scious of its irresistible power, the lava dashed to the attack,- despite the chants of the frairs and their heartfelt sorrow. The frairs and parishioners were filled w ith grief to see the sacrilegious lava in sinuate itself into the crypt and under mining its base j when it soon tottered and fell into the burning sea, the bells shriek ing a doleful dirge as the belfry toppled! into tne sulphurous surges. Sometimes green flames would shoot athwart the advancing stream, then they would be come deep blue, playing fearfully and grand, as the lurid sea of Dante's In fernio. " The crater threw up some huge and hissing rocks, one of which, several tons in weight, struck a brave but rash Polish officer, fracturing his' thigh, and he being at a distance from any other person, bled to death. One of the most afflicting accidents was the death of Charles Carrol Bayard, U. S. Navy, and belonging to the squadron at Naples. With thatdaring peculiar to young Americans, he approach ed too near the crater, and received a mass of calcareous matteron the shoulder, which stripped the flesh to the bone down to the elbow. There was no fracture, but so long a time elapsed before he received proper medical treatment, that all the skill exerted to save his, life afterwards proved unavailing. He "was only twenty two years of age, amiable, handsome, and a general favorite. He" held the position of the Commodore's naval aid-de-camp, and only a few nights before he was at a ball the gayest of the gay, his fine manly form making him the observed of all ob servers.'' Many accidents occurred, but the two mentioned created the greatest I T t now on. our taoie, oyjonn Wise, a veteran leronaut, ot Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Hitherto we have had scraps" of information from Encyclopaedias and Magazines, relating to. the art, but here we have a Bookjon; the subject, writ ten by one who has niademany aerial-voy-ages,- anil vflio relateslH3"ow;n. ad ventures-. It cmbracesFarfirll -history of the sobject, commencing with the' ancient artificial flying pigeon of Archylus, the". Greek, and ending with the most recent experiments. The subject of navigating thejairhas occupied the attention of many eminent men in almost every age of the world's history, but it was not until a recent per iod that any success was promised to an art which warmed the imagination of Bacon, aiid engaged the attention of the sober Bishop of Chester In there lived at ancient Avignon, in France, two brothers, young men, named Stephen and Joseph IVlontgolfier, who, being of an inge nious turn of mind, conceiveil the project of sending up small balloons inflated with rarified air, and by many experiments they discovered that as they enlarged their bal loons, their ascending power became great er, and from this went on increasing their size, until they constructed one of a capa city of 23,000. cubic feet, and with it they sent up some animals in a basket. The voyage was successful', ami this induced them to construct orle of gigantic dimen sions, viz : 74 feet high and 48 in diameter.- With this balloon a brave and cool Frenchman, named M. Pilatre de Rozier. volunteered to make a voyage two or three hundred feet high, the balloon being se cured by long cords, to the earth. He made several ascents,- and on the 2 1st May, 1783, he, along with the Marquis d'Ar landes, made the first free ascent into the aerial regions, rising to the height of 3,000" feet, and made a successful excursion over Paris, and finally landed a few miles from where they started. This 'formed an epoch in the history of aerial navigation, and the fame of the M on fgo! fiefs soon spread over Europe and reached America. Although hydrogen gas was discovered long before the Montgolfiers made their balloon, and its utility to the purposes of aerial navigation had been previously sug gested, yet it was never really applied for that purpose, except for experiment in the lecture room ; but no sooner was the suc cess of the Mongolfier ballon spead abroad, than the virtues of hydrogen became ap parent, and it was firmly believed by many at that time, that balloons would soon be as common as crows. Napoleon frighten ed many an English matron, when he threatened to cross the channel with his Boulogne army in balloons. But his "pa per walls," never ventured to battle Old England's "wooden walls nor does it appear that we are any nearer to a sys- tern ot aerial navigation at the present day, than they were then. It is the opin ion of Mr Wise, however that ballooning is about half a century ahead of the age, and if the spirit of mechanical progress keeps pace with the onward march of in tellect, he says, "our children will travel to any part of the globe without the incon venience of smoke, sparks and sea sickness, and at the rate of one hundred miles per hour." It would indeed be a glorious thing if we could career through the regions above at such a rate, but . our dreams are far more moderate than those of friend Wise: We would be content with ten miles an hour, only let us have the wings, an indepen dent pair. Then, when like Jeremiah of old, we were troubled in mind and sighed for the wings of a dove to fly away and begone, ' to a lodge in some vast wilder ness," all that we would have to do, would be to mount anil be oft', "over mountain and sea." Such things would be very pleasant -everybody would be rejoiced if such things could be done, and many strong arguments may be used respecting the probability of such things being yet accomplished, but not, in our opinion, safely, conveniently nor economically, bv any "aerial vessel'' that we have ever vet seen, the opinion of aeronauts to the con trary notwithstanding. The "revoloidalspindle," of Robjohn, which was in the course of construction at lloboken, and w hich was to be propelled with two small steam ehgines, some time this summer, has been sadly damaged by the late tornado. If this be'the means of preventing the balloon from enjoying her aerial flight by steam, we will regret it exceedingly. Mr W ise has made a creat number of successful aerial voyages, and his book is one of the most valuable ever published and is of great service to science as a historical and scientific work on the con struction of balloons, and the manner of navigating them. There is one prominent and useful fact brought to light, viz : that ballooning is a conservator of health, aerial navigation cured Mr Wise ot disease of the lungs and chronic dyspepsia, and he is confident that it would be of great bene fit to invalids. California Dinnek. A number of Californians in New York gave a splendid dinner to several of their friends. Sena tor Gwin and the t wo California represen tatives were present, together with ex-Governor Marcy, John Van Buren, T. But ler King. Rev. VValter Colton, and some 150 others, among whom were a number ot ladies. - .-, Count M. de Bodisco, Russian minister, was among the passengers in the Cambria! returned to the United States. The same steamer brought back Mr Bul lock, the absconding cashier of the Savan nah (Georgia) Railroad Bank. He is in the custody of an ottcer. J-Washington Union t --'-z ; .f- -9r:. From the August Sentinel. PREPARING COTTON FOR MARKET. . . The subjoined suggestions of the Savan nah Chamber of Commerce in regard to the preparation of Cotton for market, should be carefully treasured up and adopt ed by every man who produces a single bale of cotton: It is a remarkable fact that many plant ersin endeavoring to save ten or fifteen cents in the cost of bagging and rope for a single bale of Cotton, lose frequently from one to five dollars. They buy cheap, thin, light. bagging, because it is .tvycT or three cents-cheaper per yard -than a good;, substantial, heavy article; and a mean ar ticle of rope, because it is sold a cent cheap er per pound, than a good strong heavy rope, and they put four ropes instead f fiveor six to the bale of Cotton; all of which save only a few cents in the sacking of each bale; and by thus putting up their Cotton in poor bagging and rope, it com'es to mar ket in bad order and tney lose irom a quar ter to one cent per pound in the sale of it, which is a loss of from one to five dollars per bale. This might be probably termed "a penny wise and pound foolish" system of economy, and what is remarkable, it is always practiced by those whose love of money is greatest and most pinching, and that too when a moment's reflection would show them that in selling their Cotton they almost invariably get back the entire amount, and sometimes . more than good bagging and rope cost, which is rarely or never the case with a poor, light article. We hope every planter who reads this article will think of these things when he goes to purchase his bagging and rope, ami exercise a little wise economy and sound discretion, as a matter of self-interest and as the means of putting a few dollars more in his pocket for his crop of Cotton. As to the size of the hag, and the pack ing it edgewise instead of endwise, they are both good suggestions and should not be neglected, nor should bales of that size exceed on an average 450 to 500 pounds, each. This does not impair the staple or appearance of the Cotton, .and the bales are much more desirable and easily handled. IAIPORTANT llKntlr - I---- auuth., atir. nP..:.i.. ,?l .i uji,iiir . 1 question. Jr. k- mH - - 'c case Wer, ICO- veh;io crt, " -"loi in me nrrunm: ..7 ..r"wl iriumnn nr . policy. Th ."SE!" Pric'P'e whether TamDiro ' 01 our troon tn..: .1 was a foreign port5 wUh Mexi the tariff acl ofl WeTtd ' then imported into the Unit J?!! irom were subject to ilnt-.o- "iaica l,iere considered as entitled to ZZ. .VWer.e ( V being imported from adom,..;, t' tr.ec.!i " I If CRUISE OF THE SHIP-OF-THE-LINE OHIO. The United States ship of-the line Ohio, whose arrival at Boston we announced yesterday, left San Francisco on the f 5th of September last. On her hoitye ward -bound voyage, and visited the Sandwich Islands for the second time during the cruise, where she spent sixteen dajys, she then passed on through the Society Islands and Paumotu Grourp, and arrived at Valparaiso on Christmas day Leaving Valparaiso January 4th, 1850. she arrived at Rio Ja neiro February 19th,' and sailed from there again on the 28th for Boston. No ship of the line crt our Navy has ever performed a longer or a more varied anil arduous cruise than the Ohio. She was put in commission,- and her officers and crew joined her the first week in Decem ber, 1846. She was first ordered to the Gulf of Mexico, and a portion of her offi cers and crew weie onshore at the Navy Battery during the siege and capture of Vera Cruz. Three hundred and fifty of her crew, with a due proportion ofolhcers, were absent from their ship a fortnight upon the expedition to and capture of Tupan, by Commodore Perry. After the capture of all the principal Mexican seaports in the Gulf, tne Ohio left that station, and after stopping a few days at Havana the only American line-of-bat-tle ship ever in that port arrived at New York on the 4th of June, 1847. Difficul ties with Brazil occurring at this time, ami all diplomatic intercourse suspended be tween that country and the United States, the Ohio was ordered immediately to pre pare to sail for the scene of these new troubles. Leaving New York on the 26th of June with the Hon. David Tod on board, the new United States -Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brazil, she arrived at her destination on the 7th of August After remaining on the Brazil station for four months, and friendly rela tions having again been restored between that country and the United States, the Ohi o, in obedience to orders, proceeded on around Cape Horn for the seat of war in the Pacific Ocean, West Coast of Mexico, j and Coast of California. Portions of her officers and crew were stationed on shore, while holding 'possession of the seaports upon the coast of those counties, until peace was proclaimed there in June, 1848 From this time until the date of her de parture for home she was employed Upon the coasts of Lower and Upper California, West Coast of Mexico, and the 'Sandw ich Islands She arrived at Upper California soon after the discovery of the gold mines, and the most irksome and trying service performed by the officers and crew on the whole cruise was upon that coast, during several months of the first year of the gold mania. The Ohio now returns to Boston, after having been in commission forty-one months, and having sailed during her ab sence sixty-three thousand miles. Jioston Journal. Bank or Cape Feau The annual meeting of the stockholders in the Bank of Cape Fear was held at the Banking House in Wilmington, on Monday the 6th inst. Dr. F. J. Hill appeared as the representa tive of that part of the stock owned by the State. No change was made in the Board of Directors; A. J. DeRosset, Sr., John booster, P. K. Dickinson, John D.Jones, Samuel Black, Edward B. Dudley, F. J. Hill, John Walker, Thos. H. Wright, W. C. Betteucourt, and Win. A. Wright, be ing re elected members of the Board. Chronicle. It is stated that Mr Robert Walsh, jr., late secretary of legation in Mexico, and son of Mr Robert. Walsh, our consul at Paris, has been appointed by Mr Clayton translator of foreign languages, to supplv the vacancy occasioned by the. resignation of Mr Greenhow. -Washington Union. on the commerce of MexT," ?' aws of war, for the purpose of thro the burden of the war upon her ; 1! her ports in our possession were consideied nnrt nfk. IT:..i o 10 Ot ua ,wC 1.' unci! olates tl the contribution K..e ;.. .i ... ut ...... lUMnijcu were m properly exacted. The contributions , levied amounted to nearly five million, dollars, ami th !..;.., t 1 . u"l U(, gUUUj import! , r" me unueu Mat amounted to about a million and,..? more. The decision of the Supreme Con- r otiasciucu mat itie Don. nnil n ipoa Sr. .... . . r"U in uur possession uunnc war, bv force of arms. ro r 6 9 IMI N k. n country, and that the goods imported ,o them into the United States were liahi ' duty, and has also vindicated the conn. policy of the last administration in lavis. the tyar contributions on the enemy's coii merce in the manner it did. The opinions the court was delivered by Chief Justice Taney, and was unanimous. We sh,i hereafter present it at length to our readers, Mr Attorney General Johnson ar the case on the part of government, Mr Websterand Mr McCall, of PhilaiU phia, on the part of the claimants. Vm. union. ington 'BARKING, UP A TREK." Under this caption, some cold-bloody joker perpetrates in the New York Sumlat Dispatch, the following most excruciate string of poems. To one who has utiv i' gard or affection for his mother tongue, it is deeply painful to see the 1anguae'o M uton and w ordsworth thus tortured and dislocated by ''word catchers, who live nn yiiaoies- e useu lo think Horn the : .. r i. i i . . . lMt "ii(.L- oi such uaroarians, out. we doubt w nether lie is longer entitled to the "bail pre-eminence.' In his most remorseless' moments, he was never guilty of such series of atiocities as the following Oakes Wood was a "hickory man," And a poplar man was he, A spruce old man, and a Jeto nipper. Till he pined for Elma Tuek. -v A sigh-press be, of uncommon si.s, And sicker autre Je'grev; Said hr, "I have no wiff o' my own.- And so I turn to yew. My old oak trunk is burly and biy, And "my heart wrttWn is slout, It's "root of all evil" I'll leave to yotf When the On us leaves me out. I will fir you out,- and bojk you in. If you would us fief, dear ma'am,- I will be your balm of Giratf, If yof. wilt accept my palm." "You are my elder " said Elma Tree, You are full of pith and core, I do admire you tor yur trunk, 1 huicy 1 love a door. I like your phy simahogany, You have such specked tuter eyes! Such reddish cheeks, and turnup nosf, And a skull-cap skull, likewise. A dandy-lion I would not have, 1 like a man that's sage, A mouth that's rye, like yours my dear . Which is said i improve by age. Your cane is sweet, and you were bread To be my staff of life,' So bring your cot on from the south And 1 will be your wife. 4 4 Singular Occurrence. The steamer Osprev, which arrived on Tuesday last from Philadelphia, while on her passage, struck against something which 'gite the vessel such a shock as to induce Captain Dickinson to suppose that he had touched upon a shoal or large log. Upon examina tion, nothing could be discovered, but the speed of the boat was materially lessened. - i . , T . aooui six hours subsequently tjapt. Dick inson, upon getting over the bow of the Steamer, for the purpose of securing a Dol phin, discovered an object hanging to the cutwater. This he soon made out to he a huge Turtle, which took all the hand, in cluding passengers, to haul on board. The animal, it is supposed, must have been sleeping on the water, and was nearly cut through by the shock, though it was still alive when it was taken on board. Tie head was cut of!" as a trophy, and filled s good sized bucket, and the carcase, which must have weighed eight or nine hundred pounds, was thrown overboard. Charles ton Mercury. - f Disadvantages of Civilizatiov. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet He is supported on crutches, but loses so much support of muscle. He has got a fine Geneva watch, but he has lost the skill to tell the hour bv the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The sol stice he does not observe; the equinox lie knows as little; and the bright calender of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his li braries overload his wit; the insurance of fice increases the number of accident-, and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost, by refinement, some energy; by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms; some vigor of wild virtue. For everv stoic, was a stoic; but in Christen dom", where is the Christian? H. erson. L. 03- The Wilmington Chronicle publishes a list of 25 steam engines, with a combination of 653 horse power.
The North Carolinian (Wilson, N.C.)
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