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t-4- (I 4 w IS 1. ' I ft -1 - . From git National Democrat. 1776 AND 1853. This is a fast age- We live aijocoraotive epeed. A ecntory of life crowded into rear The last seventy years almost equal, B rapid development of the race,, any- prenous thousand years of the world's history. A die- tmgu.shed VuntrV. to revolution, when surveying our country "-J. ture, Hen attempted to be choked to death by 4liA mil hand of British monarchy, said, in ef fect, "never since the time of Noah hath a peo ple been placed in our position. The future is in our hands, and we hare to begin the business of a world anew." Nobly hath our country fdlnllcd this saying of the prophetic writer of the revolution. Let 1776 and 1853 to face for a moment, and the world will be struck dumb by the miracle of contrast.wmch they present. Or, to bring the matter home more palpably, suppose Washington risen from his grave for a little while, and throned oo the highest peak of the Alleghaniesy surveying as with a supernatural scope of -vision, thk laxd, from ocean to ocean, from northern snows to the gem of the Antilles. What a contrast to the days of 1776 would meet the gaze of the great man ! In 1776 the United States consis ted of thirteen colonies, pent up between the the' Atlantic with a population of barely three millions, struggling for life itself against the nioet powenui. ne musi oruwu mon archy of the age.;, In 1853 the United States hoT.to f thlrtv-one treat renublics, cemented :- :;.cT.-!1a union, with a population oi 1U iAHASOW ,1 twenty-five millions; her vast territory fronts alike towards the rising and tho setting sun the Atlantis and the Pacific are her eastern-and wast boundaries, and as to northern and untkorn Wmndaxies. thev are not settled jet by no means finished ; Destiny will take are of them. Washington risen from his woo, anu surveying the land from its topmost height, need not let his vision be checked by either Niagara vii. i th finlf of Mexico : there is a great deal of United. States yet to come, beyond gulf and cataract Niagara Falls will yet sing the hymn of a republican continent. Call up r rank lin, and let him contrast the industrial resour ces' of 76 with '53.. We can imagine the state of wonder which would light up his beany, good humored face. In his day tfne John Fitch, amid the unextinguishable laughter of a crowd of merchants and other respectable people assem bled on a Philadelphia wharf, tried the experi ment of propelling a bt by the force of steam. In his day also Oliver Evans, another madman of the Fitch stamp, amid the pity or on tempt of all men of common sense, tried to propel a wagon, on the Lancaster 'pike, (near Philadel- Ehia.) by the force of, steam succeeded too at was set down as a mere theorist and dream er by all practical men. Well, Doctor, look over the land now 1 The continent is net werk - ed with iron ways. The scream of the locomo ''tive js heard everywhere it is never silent, from the cataract to the gulf; and the Uudson, the Ohio," the Mississippi, and the ocean in the east, and the ocean in the west send up night . and day, the smoke of the steamboat to.hearen the very steamboat. Doctor, which John Fitch, in imperfect form, tried one day on the Dela ware river, and in miniature upon the . New IOrK &.01CO. rum me aiwnwu. w ""j San Trancisco, Doctor, the steam engine dumb' matter fired into stong, terrible life, at the com mand of science never rests, not an hour, nay, not for a moment, ont of the twenty-four. ThrongB the still night you hear its mighty breathings ; its fires rise through the darkness from ocean to ocean ; its iron tramp is never still upon iron ways ; and upon river and sea its hoarse anthem never dies. But, as if this was not enough, for this hurrying age, here comes the Ericsson, gliding up New York bay with its new motor, destined to dethrone steam even as steam annihilated the stagecoaches, lumbering wagons, and snail-like moving hand labor of '76. Supposing that Franklin has learned nothing since his transit to another sphere, (and if the rapping utterances which the mountebank su pernaturalists pnt in Franklin's mouth, be true, he has sadly gone back in every respect,) let us imagine him risen from the grave, and con fronted with the Nineteenth Century Ericsson. How the great doctor would open his eyes as he found himself on board the Ericsson, glid ing down the bay of New York, and with the inventor of the new motor by bis side, explain ing in plain terms the features of his invention! Put Franklin and Ericsson side by side, and two centuries look wonder-struck on each oth er's face. Not the expansion of territory alone, nor the increase of population, nor yet the mi raculous advance of all industrial interests, nor even vet the wondrous life given by science to dumb machinery, would excite the surprise of Washington and Franklin, could they come back into our world. The ereatest wonder of all wmild he the creat nroETess which the peopl r - . the masses have made since the era of the crossinz of the Delaware. Then the masses wore a distinctive dress, which set them apart from the wealthy class and wrote serfdom on their very .externals ; they were ridden down by odious laws, gather ed from the charnel-house oi the I ast, such as imprisonment for debt, and other fragments of the legal JHoiocn ot tne rea ana di-ck ages ; now the masses are men, and not serfs or ma chines, and they have risen into full manhood, with the fragments of many an infernal law trampled firmly under foot. Now the masses know no such word as "Go back 1" in their up ward march ; their Future is in the care of a benign Destiny and all-paternal God. It is good thought, and full of consolation for every lover of his kind, that despite all the clouds that have lowered upon our country through the lost seventy years despite the thousand obstacles which have from time to time blocked the rati way of the people yet still "the world does move ?" and the Destiny of the country and the people cannot go back, but must inevitably march onwaru. lhe next Beventy years will tell the story. Ex-Presidsxt Filmiorx. ThcBuffalo Adver tiser of the 9th has the annexed article, which it is duo to Mr. Fillmore, as well as to his nu merous fellow-citizens in the Southern States who have been disappointed of a high gratifi cation by the late domestic affliction, to place in our columns : Mr. FiLUfoac has been somewhat indisposed for several days past, and has therefore been Unable to reply to any of the numerous letters of sympathy and condolence which he has re ceived from valued friends 6ince his sad return to the home he loved so well, now made desolate hy ava ratalle dispensation Of the All wise Disposer of human affairs. We have reason to know that he is deeply sensible of the kind in tercet exhibited in his overwhelming affliction and that he fully appreciates, the disinterested manifestations of respect and esteem that have greeted him from almost every point which he was expected to visit on his contemplated South era and Western tour. For two or three weeks past he has been in the daily receipt of comma mentions from gentlemen along the line of his intended route, breathing the warmest senti menU of regret that he was constrained to fore go his purpose of traversing that section of th country, and expressing in becoming and deli cate language the most profound sorrow at the heavy calamity with which he has been afflicted: We are sure that the generous friends who have been preventod from receiving him with those demonstrations of respect and attachment which his patriotic character and eminent public ser vces have so richly earned, will accept this ex nldktion of the circnmstanoeanndrwh!(h fhsii letters remain unanswered, and regard the event, so deplorable in itself and so distressing to Mr. Fillmore, when considered in connexion with bis indisposition, as a sufficient excuse for what might otherwise be deemed ungrateful ne elect. And if he finds himself unable nereafter to res- . . .i i . - m - t pona io meir letters in a more formal manner. they will ascribe his silence to the incidents -i , , . . ., . - ouTe namea, ana not to ine want oi a proper euro ui wdh is uue to uieir sinnpfsSi Why is an old coat like aa iron kettle ? cause it represents hard ware. Be- " .i' .- . A LEAF TROM THE PAST. A friend bag placed in our . htnctsvone of the most interesting relics of the revolutionary era, in the shape of the "Proceedings of the Safety Committee for the town of Wilmington, N. C In 1774 1775 and 1776 Printed from the Ori ginal record.?, t v 1 bese Keeorui acem to take us back at once r ta primitive time. of our liberty, and to . if . .ik and the place before ns the events, movements and the character of the men of that period, with a life like treshness which we are unable to discover upon the page, of ordinary -historical narrative. They throw great light upon the simplicity, directness, determination and disinterestedness of American patriotism in that age. ' Among other curious matters, we find that horse-racing. Billiard Tables, Ball and Dan. cing at Public Houses, occupied a portion of the attention of the committee. Having admon ished sundry offenders that the Continental Con gress, then recently assembled at Philadelphia, had agreed among other things, for themselves "and their constituents, to " discountenance and discourage every species of extravagance and dissipation, especially all horse-racing and all kinds of gaming, cook fighting, exhibitions of shows and plays, and other expensive diver sions and entertainments," the Committee re mark : As a friend to your country, we have no doubt but-you will readily relinquish an amusement that, however laudable in other res pects, is certainly attended with considerable exnense. and even destruction to many indivi duals ; and may very justly be condemned at a time when frugality should be one of our lead ing virtues. " We shall only add that nothing will so ef fectually tend to convince" the British Parlia ment that we are in earnest in our opposition ( tS their measures, as a voluntary relinquish ment of our favorite amusements. Those who will take the trouble of making observations on mankind, must soon be convinced that the peo nle. who abandon their pleasures for the public good, are not to be biased by any other consid eration. Many will cheerfully give up part of their property to secure the remainder. He only is the determined palriot who willingly sacrifices his pleasures on the altar of freedom." The above shows the earnestness ot tne men who, worked out our liberty. Truly, it was a thorough business, not only of glory, but of self-denial, which the men of the Revolution practiced. . What a sublime spectacle of a peo ple not Only offering their best blood in the field, but each and every man surrendering at noma his own customary enjoyments for the public welfare I Can their descendants be sufficiently grateful to such men, or hold their memory in too high estimation ! We have room at present but for another ex tract, which exhibits the commnnity of feeling, the noble disinterestedness which actuated these revolutionary worthies. Observe the lofty and overwhelming response of these North Carolina Whigs to the arts of Ureat i5ntain. whose arms and cunning they alike defied : This Committee having taken into consider ation an act of the British Parliament for res training the trade of the Coloneis of New Jer sey, Pennsylvania, the counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex on the Delaware, Maryland, .Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland and the British Indies, which is to take place this day; it is " Resolved, unanimously, I bat the exception of this colony, and some others, out of the said act, is a base and mean artifice, to seduce them into a desertion of the common cause of America. " Resolved, that we will not accept of the ad vantages insidiously thrown out by the said act, but will adhere strictly to such plans as have been, and shall be, entered into by the honora ble continental congress ; so as to keep up a perfect unanimity with our sister colonies." We confess that the exhibition of qualities ike these, and they were shared with the Whigs of North Carolina by their brethren throughout the Union, is calculated to raise their character even higher in the appreciation of posterity than their feats of arms. The frugality and self-denial which they exercised, the disinteres ted love they bore each other, and their manly ndependence, are more to be admired thma their courage, brilliantly as it illuminated the battle fields of our revolutionary history. We cannot lay aside this entertaining volume, without also transcribing the following extract from the minutes, which has just caught our eye, and shows that the newspapers of that pe riod were not altogether of the mammoth order : Mr. Adam Boyd, having applied for encour agement to his newspaper (some time ago laid aside,) it was resolved, that the committee, so far as their influence extended, would support him on the following terms: " That he, Mr. Boyd, should weekly continue newspaper denominated the Cape Fear Mer cury, ot 1 inches wide, 1 inches long, 3 col umns on a page, and of the small pica or long primer letter, and in return receive his pay ments at the following periods, viz : ten shil- ings at the delivery of the first number, ten shillings at the expiration of a year, and to be paid ten shillings at the end of every succeed ing six months thereafter." Rich. Mail. MEN AND THINGS IN AUSTRALIA. At some of the diggins, the Government re gulations with regard to license fees have giv en rise to serious opposition. The fee, at pre sent imposed, is thirty shillings sterling per month, to be paid in advance, and at the begin ning of each month. This fee is charged upon plot or "claim of eight feet square, which is the most allowed to any one digger. Where there is a party of four found, the 'claim ' al lowed is eight feet by sixteen. A license gran ted in the middle of any one month say the 20 Ji of December only holds good to the be ginning ot the ensuing month say the 1st, or at the furthest, the tnh of January. The num ber of licenses granted in the month of Novem ber last, was 05,000, and it is computed that there are at present olose upon 200,000 persons empioyea at tne aiggins. Mechanics, particu lariy carpenters ana blacksmiths, obtain em ployment readily at wages varying from eigh teen shillings to the one pound per day. La borers upon tne uovernment worts are receiv ing somo OS., and more 10. per day. For clerks, ate, tnere is no aeroana. lo parties who in tend coming to this colony, I would say "be prepared to rough it, and to expect nothing ei- iner on tne pari oi me autnorities or on that ot the inhabitants, but selfishness and distrust. Bring as little with you in the shape of cloth ing, fcc., as you possibly can, and trust for sue cess to your own stern exertions, and for pro tection, to your revolvers." Lolt a Kevoivers were selling here some time ago at twenty and twenty-five pounds each ; they bring at present twelve pounds. The accommodation for immi grants is miserable in the extreme. There are now living in tents outside the City upwards of o,vw persons; ana lor the privilege of pitching their own tents on a vacant lot, of no immedi ate use to Government, these persons are oblig ed to pay a rent of five shillings a week. Per sons who have not cot any tent, and who are unable to pay the exorbitant charges at the ho tels, may put up at one of the Government lodging-bouses, where for the charge of five shillings a week, they may obtain sleeping accommoda tion in a sDea containing irom six to a dozen beds in each room. Letter from Melbourne Jan. 3d. Tribune. int. uRsuLiKz vojtvxnt. it is saia that Mas sachusetts would long since have indemnified the owners of this convent, which was set on fire by a mob, and destroyed, some years azo. FT TT -M . .mm but for the fact that trad they have done so by a special law, many past cases of a similar nature would nave been brought up. The legal difficultv. however, has at last been got over, after patient a? a j investigation, oj a aecision mat tois ease is an exception to all others. A bill has, therefore, been passed to a second reading in one branch ot tne legislature, to lnaemmfy the owners. Ibis, however, has been already followed by the House granting leave to report a bill for the benefit of Win. Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist, who was mobbed in Boston in 1834 or 1835. When is a horse not a horse? When he is turned into a field. From the Mobile Tribune.- ANECDOTE pF QUEEN ELIZABETH Elisabeth was all her life remarkable'for her love of children, and her natural fondness, aay Miss Strickland, was doubtless greatly increas ed by the artless traits of generous feeling and sympathy, which she experienced n her time of trouble, from her infant partisans in the Tow er. How jealons a watch was kept on her and them, may be gathered from the following pas sage in one of Renaud'a letters to the emperor Charles V : " It is assorted that Courtenay has sent his regards to the lady Elisabeth by a child of fivtf years Id, who is in the Tower, the son of One of the soldiers there." - This passage au thenticates the prettv .incident related in the lifo of Elizabeth, in Fox's Appendix, where we are told, that at the hour she was accustomed to walk in tho garden in the Tower, there usu ally repaired unto her a littlj boy about four years old, the child of one of the people in the Tower, in whose pretty prattling she took g4 Sleasure. He was accustomed to .bring her owers, and to receive at her hands such things as commonly plcaso children, which bred & great suspicion in the Chancellor that by this child letters were exchanged between the prin cess Elizabeth and Courtenay. Among the incidents of Elizabeth's imprisonment, a mysterious tale is told of an attempt made by one Basset, a creature of Gardener, against her life, during the temporary absence of Sir Henry Bedingfield. Once a dangerous fire broke out in that quarter of the palace where she was confined, which was kindled, apparently not by accident, between the ceiling of the room unaer her chamber, by which her lifo would have been greatly endangered, had it not been providen tially discovered before she retired to rest. Tho lofty spirit of Elizabeth, though unsubdued, was saddened by the perils and trials to which she was daily exposed, and in the bitterness of her heart she once expressed a wish to change fortunes with the milk-maid whom she saw sing ing merrily over her pail, while milking the cows in Woodstock Park, lor she said, " that milkmaid's lot was better than hers, and her life merrier." It was doubtless while in this melancholy frame of mind that the follow ing touching lines were composed by the royal captive, which have been preserved by Hentz ner, with the interesting tradition that she wrote them on the shutter with a piece of charcoal, no doubt at a period when she was entirely de prived of pen and ink: "Oh, Fortune! bow thy ratlen, warning state, JIath fraught witti cares my troubled wit. Witnea thia present prison, whether fat Could bear Bie and the joys I quit. Thou eatu'dt the guilty to be loosed From bands wherein are innorenU enclosed, Causing the guiltless to be strait referred. And freelDg those that death had well deserved. But by her enry ran be nothing wrought, Bo God send to my font all they hare brought Ctuoth Kliiabeth, prinoner." Needlework, iffwhich, like her ac complished stepmother, Queen Katharine Parr, and many other illustrious ladies, Elizabeth greatly excelled, was one of the resources with which she whiled away the weary hours of her imprisonment at Woodstock, as we learn both by the existing devices wrought by her hand, in gold thread on the cover of the volume, and also from tho following verses, by Taylor, in his poem in praise of the needle : " When this gre&S Queen, whose memory shall not By any term of time be overcast, for wbwn the world and all therein shall rot, Yet shall ber gtoriniu fiune fbreTar last, Wben sb a maid had many troubles past. From jail to jail br Maries angry spleen. And Woodstock, and the Tower iu prison last, And after all was England's peerless Queen. Tet howsoever sorrow came or went, She made the needle her companion still, ' I And in that exercise ber time she spent. As many living yet do know her skill, Thus she was still a captive, or else crowned ' A needle-woman royal and renowned." The fate of Elizabeth was long a subject of discussion at the council-board of her royal sister, after her removal to the sequestered -bowers of Woodstock. The base Paget had dared to assert " that there would be no peace for England till her head were smitten from her shoulders." The Queen doubting her sincerity, caused her to be questioned as to her belief in transubstantiation, on which Eli sabeth, being pressed to declare her opinion as to the real presence of the Saviour in the sa crament of the Lord's supper, replied in the following extempore lines : H ChrL-t was the Word that spake It, He took the bread and brake it, And what his word did make it, That I believe, and take it." It was impossible for either Catholic or Pro testant to impugn the orthodoxy of this sublim- est mystery of the Christian faith. It silen ced the roost subtle of her foes, at least they forbore to harrass her with questions on theolo gical subjects. Dr. Story, however, in one of his fierce denunciations against heretics, de clarcd "that it was of little avail destroying the branches, as long as the root of all here sies, meaning Elizabeth, wero suffered to re main." Escape trom a Con vent. The Argus of yes terday publishes a statement of the escape of a young lady from a Convent in Georgetown, where she bad been immured, after having been transferred from the building on Park street in this city, where a number of nuns reside. The statement is as follows: About a year since, a young, handsome, and accomplishecLnun, Sister R , was trans ferred from the Park street Convent of our city, to the cloisters of a nunnery in Georgetown, District of Columbia. She was followed hither by a young lady of this city, who being educa ted with the recluse previous to taking the veil, had formed for her so ardent a friendship, that distance, danger, nor grated nunnery doorways, could deter her from regularly visiting iter af fectionate veil-enshrouded friend. These visits to the Georgetown nunnery con tinued on the part of the young lady from Bal timore, until she learned that the companion of her school girl days, like a caged bird, pined a gain for the warm, genial, sunshine, and an in tercourse with the world of pleasure, grief, care, delight and busy life. One day, during a late visit, the fair recluse, through her grated bars, expressed a wish of more than ordinary fervency to leave the dark and dismal cells of her convent; and her sympathizing friend, with alacrity, agreed to take all measures which might be required for her escape. The next day a carriage and horses were in attendance in the neighborhood, and the fair deliverer a gain sought an interview with the recluse, who had her scanty stock of wearing apparel and other little effects, all packed up in readiness for her flight, A key which had been previous ly prepared, upon trial, fortunately fitted the lock of the grated door which had so long sep arated from society the young recluse, and the latter, under the guidance of the fair, but cour ageous friend, reached the carriage, the driver of which, after receiving his precious charge, quickly lashed his horses, and the dark sombre walls of the Convent were soon left many miles behind. But a short period sufficed to convey the es caped Nun to a safe asylum, where she now re mains preparatory to again resuming in the open world her former sphere in society, use fulness, duty and responsibility. This event has occasioned no little excitement and conver sation recently among certain circles in our ci ty, and the fair heroine who planned and effect ed the escape of her cloistered friendjreceives, with all due and becoming humility, the un bounded eulogiums of those who deny that Ilappy is the lonely vestal's lot The world forgettingby the world forgot It is presumed that the young lady's experi ence of a year of convent life has completely cured her of the romantic design of abandon ing the bright world which a kind Providence in his wisdom has so graciously given those formed in his own image, and jeeking in its stead the dark portals of an entailment of a darker age. Baltimore Clipper, d Sad Casualtt. An old fellow was lately o vertaken by a "train of thought" The concus sion was so great as to knock him into the mid dle of next year. Similar accidents have been known to throw one into the middle of the next ag. - GREAT BULL AND BEAR TIGHT.. CAUToayu aoaww ArtAKArAs,. j Pursuant to publio1 notice, came off at .Gret na, opposite the Fourth District,, on the 30th nlL. the Innir lAr.Md fio-ht between. the famous Grizzly Bear, General Jackson, (victor in fifty battles) and the Attakapaa Boll, Santa Anna. Long before the published - hour, the quiet streets of the rural Gretna werafilledr with crowds of anxious denizens, flocking to the-arena, and before the fight commenced, such a crowd had collecfed as Gretna hadOt seen nor will be likely to see agiin.' - ; " The arena for the sport was a cage twenty feet square, built upon the ground, and con structed of heavy timbers and iron Aars. A round it were seats, circularly . placed and in tended to accommodate many thousands. A bout four or five thousand persons assembled, covering the seats as with a cloud, and crowd ing down around the cage, were within reach of the bars. , - - The bull selected to sustain the honor and verify the pluck of Attakapas on this trying oc casion, was a black animal from the Opelousas, lithe and sinewy as a four year ola courser and with eyes like banning coals. His horns bore the appearance of having been filled at the tips, and wanted that keen" and slashing appearance so common with others of his kith and kin; otherwise it would have been "all day" with Bruin at the first pass and no mis take. The bear was an animal of note, and called General Jackson, from the fact of his licking up every thing that came in his way, and ta king "the responsibility" on aU occasions. He was a wicked looking beast, very lean and un- amiable in aspect, with hair all standing the wrong way. He had fought some fifty bulls, (60 they said) always coming out victorious, but that either oe of the fifty had been an At takapas bull, the bill of tho performances did not say. Had he tackled Attakapas first, it is likely his fifty battles would have remained un fouglit. At half-past four o'clock t'ae performances commenced. The bull was first seen standing in the cage alone with head erect, and looking a very mon arch in his captivity. At an appointed signal, a cage containing the bear was placed along side the arena, and an opening being made. Bruin stalked into the battle ground not, however, without sundry stirriugs up with a ten foot pole, he being experienced in such matters and backward in raising a row. Once on the battle-field, both animals stood, like wary champions eyeing each other, the Bear cowering low, with head upturned and fangs exposed, while Attakapas stood wonder ing, with his eye dilated, lashing his 6ides with his long and bushy tail, and pawing up the earth in very wrath. The Bear seemed little inclined to begin the attack, and the Bull, standing a moment, made steps first backward and then forward, as if measuring his antagonist and meditating where to plant a blow. Bruin wouldn't come to the scratch no way it could be fixed, 'till one of the keepers, with an inn rod, tickled his ribs and made him move. Seeing this, Attakapas took it as a hostile demonstration, and gathering his strength, dashed savagely at the enemy, catch ing him on the points of his horns and doubling him up like a sack of bran against the bars. Bruin "sung out" at this and made a dash for his opponent's nose. Missing this, the Bull turned out to the "about face," and the Bear caught him by the ham inflicting a ghastly wound. But Attakapas with a kick shook him off, and renewing the attack went at him again, headlong and with a rush. This time he was not so fortunate, for the bear caught him above the eye burying his fangs in the tough hide and holding him as in a vice. It was now the Bull's turn to "sing out," and he did it, bel lowing forth with a voice more hideous than that of all the Bulks of Bashan. Some minutes stood matters thus, and the cries of the Bull,' mingled with the hoarse growls of the Bear, made hideous music, fit on ly for a dance vjf devils. Then came a pause, (the Bear having relinquished his hold) and for a few minutes it was doubtful whether the fun was not up. But the magic wand of the keep er (the ten foot pole) again stirred up Bruin, ana at it they went, and with a rush! Bruin now tried to fasten on the Bull's back, and drove his tusks in mm in several places, ma king the red blood flow like wine from the vats of Luna. But Attakapas was pluck to the back bone, and catching Bruin on the tip of his boms, shuffled him up right merrily, making the fur fly like feathers in a gale of wind. Bru in cried "nuff" (in Bear language) but the Bull followed up his advantage, anu making one fu rious plunge full at tho figure head of the ene my, stuck a horn into his e-e, burying it there and dashing the tender organ into darkness and atom?. Blood followed the blow, and poor Bruin, blinded, bleeding and in mortal agony, turned with a howl to leave, but Atta kapas caught him in the retreat and rolled him over like a ball. Over and over again this rol ling over was enacted, and finally, after more than an hour, Bruin curled himself upon his back, bruised, bloody, and dead beat. The thing was up with California, and Attakapas was declared the victor amidst the applause of the multitude that made the heavens ring. It was a most savage exhibition, and wc chronicle it as we would a murder or other la m on table facts. May we never see such ano ther. Xew Orleans Crescent. Uncle Tom's Cabix and the New York Al dermen. Two causes have lately contributed more to sink the American name in Europe than all that were in operation before Uncle Tom's Cabin and the mis-goverment of the city of New York ; tho one a highly wrought romance, with, perhaps, enough of truth in it to give color to its impressions ; the other a stubborn fact so bad that the truth leaves imagination quite be hind. Mrs. Stowo has done more than any one else to make the United States hated by the common people of Europe. The New York Al dermen have aroused the suspicions of thought ful men who were favorably inclined towards our free institutions. The most ludicrouslv -false stories touching slavery are circulated in confirmation of Lncle lom s fascinating narra tive ; but nobody has yot had the audacity to at tempt an exaggeration of the municipal enor mities of New York. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a god-send to the Governments of Europe, which had begun to feelembarrassmentatthcincreasinginimigration of their subjects to America, and at the com munication which they maintained with their friends at home. The ignorant peasantry of Europe are treated to representations of negroes led by large rings in their noses as specimens of the condition of the working clasess of this country ; and it will be more difficult to get those ideas out of their heads than it would be to remove impressions founded on established facts. Of course Mrs. Stowe had no such idea in writing the book, which has attained so un exampled a popularity. The Aldermen of New York, we may be sure, have no desire for the popular notoriety which they have achieved. They are quite too modest to court publicity. They do most of their busi ness "by sUaUh," and although they cannt be said to "blush," they begin to tremble to "find it fame." Prov. Jour. IS?" One of the Washington correspondents of the N. Y. Herald says that Cushing is the only man in the cabinet who can talk anything besides English. At the diplomatic dinner giv en by M. de Bodisco on Wednesday, the Attor ney General charmed and surprised the distin guished party by his captivating and versatile accomplishments. "Like a veritable polyglot, he conversed in French with M. Le Compte de Sartiges, in Spanish with Don Calderon de la Barca, and in Dutch with Baron Testa, spoke German with Baron Von.. Gevolt, Portuguese with De Figaniere, and the most unexceptiona ble Tuscan with the representative of the Two Sicilies. Alas ! the Secretary of State made a sorry figure in tolerable English only. But some people think he can "walk Spanish" an accomplishment every body has not cultivated, and which it is said Caleb knows how to teach. - -'ACAT-STORTj -The Cotton Plant relatea a capital cat story. the incidents of. which are teiAtoVjiava occur red between two of the most angularmeTCUTial, dignified Judges f the Circuit CourtDistnct wherein the respectable town of Van 'Buren, Ark., iasituated ':; "f1 I came down witfr the Judge of the ' 4th who was to argue a case at Van Buren court. He was a testy old fogy ; nervdu and" impetaous.-We all pnt np at tho "Freeman's,' Haft and. Trave ler's Home," as a small signboard in front of a rather obscure house announced. After; the fatigues of the day we all retired early? three in , the room, myself and the two Judges. , . ; , . After a long legal conversation in the dark, each voice arising from its respective corner, a f-adual stillness came over the house and room, was suddenly started, by hearing the discor dant and disagreeable howl of a cat just under my bed.- I heard the Judge of the "4th" start. "Gracious a cat," exclaimed he. .There was another cry from the other end of the room. - "Another one," said the othor awakened Judge. Then there was a general "shew shew shewing," and a scampering over the floor. I detested cats. I felt the perspiration on my brow. There was another "mew." In the dimness of tho room I could just perceive the "Judge of the 4th's" full figure arise stealthily from his bed. At the same instant, I conld clearly perceive the form of tho other Judge pass between myself and the window pillow hand. ("The Judge of the 4th" had alio seized his bolster.) I saw at once that the two Judges were si multaneously acting upon the same idea, that was, imitating a cat, and getting the animals within reach to deal a furious blow upon poor Toby. "Mew I" said "the Judge of the 4th." "Mew !" answered the other. Then there was a tremendous mewing and howling of the real cats and the imitators. It was pitch dark. I heard the cats trip out of the door, and it turned out to be so, and the Judges were left alone. "Mew ! mew ! mew !" By this time they were evidently approaching each other each under the impression that he would wreak his vengance on the disturbers of our rest. Below I distinctly heard the tramp of feet. It was the host who aroused by the noise above was hastening to the scene. In the meanwhile the two irascible old gen tlemen, with night caps on heads, and each brandishing a pillow, were approaching near er. "Mew ! mew !" There was a blow another and ajjother min gled with excited exclamations. At this crisis the host burst into the room with lights. The real cause of all this mischief had fled, and in" their stead, upon hands and knees, in the middle of the room, were exposed the wrathful Judges. I will spare the readers further particulars. The scene is easier imagined than described. The Future or Mexico. This is an inter esting subject to consider, notwithstanding it is difficult for the most acute vision to penetrate the dark clouds that hang so unpromisingly athwart the future destiny of that unhappy country "rent with civil fsuds and drenched with fraternal blood." Some week or so since we gave an account of an invitation which had been extended to . Santa Anna to return to Mexico and assume the reins of government, together with the (Circumstances attendant there on. He promised to return some time during the month of March. Our telegraphic dis patches from Mobile, day before yesterday, gave as an item of news, brought to that port from Havana, by the Black Warrior, that San ta Anna had passed through the latter place, on the 28th ult, en rvule for Mexico. lie is, probably, in his native country ero this ; and we should not be surprised if the next intelli gence from the Mexican capital should an nounce his formal instalment, once more, in tho "Palace of the Montczumas." The career of this man has been chequered and eventful, in the highest degree. We may all dispute his honesty, yet one thing is very evident he is the ablest man in the country, and the only one who understands his country men thoroughly enough to govern them, lie may be unprincipled, as his enemies allege, yet, under his government there was less corrup tion and villainy than under any of his succes sors. He may be the incarnation of selfishness, yet Mexico prospered under his administration more than she had under that of any other President. These things are true. Jt Santa Anna, as well as the Father of Evil, tiave his dues ! And ocrhaps he may do better in his old age ! Who knows ? It will require all the. genius and tact of San ta Anna to bring order out of chaos to reduce the discordant elements to subordination. But, we shall not be surprised if he succeeds. The task is a hard one the difficulties in his way seem as though it would be impossible to over come them, yet he is a man of infinite tact, en ergy and resolution, and may triumph. The greatest difficulty in the way is the want of mo ney. Money he must have to sustain himself, and money he will have, if we arc not much mistaken in the man. The treasury is empty, and it would be hard to raise a dollar on the credit of the nation. How then, will he get it? By compelling'a forced loan (plunder would be about as good a term !) from the church, whose property is immense, and whosefevenues are said to far exceed even those of the nation 1 He has always looked with a covetous eye upon tho church property, the knowledge of which fact has contributed, not inconsiderably, to his ex pulsion from Mexico on more than one occa sion. The attempt may lead to convulsions, and, in the present condition of the country, it would take the shrewdest sort of a Yankee to "guess" the result. We shall not attempt it. The distracted state of Mexico has attracted attention elsewhere, and become a theme of speculation in countries across the ocean. The Paris Conslilulionnel, of a recent date, has giv en birth to a new idea. It proposes that Mexi co return to her allegiance to Spain, and the condition of a monarchy 1 The following is the language of the ConslUutionnel:-. "A republic is not suited to the Mexicans. This has been sufficiently proved by thirty years of trouble. The Spanish sovereigns had elevated the prosperity and greatness of thn colonies ; independence and the republic have launchod them into a state of dissolution and ruin, of which the cause is evident. Sinoe ex hausted Mexico has no more than the choioe of a master, we would prefer to see her return, on certain conditions, into the arms of the Spanish monarchy, rather than to see her pass under the dependence of the government at Washing ton. But if that is too great an effort of reason for the Mexican people, let them at least have the wisdom to return to the monarchical system, and let them demand from the race of their an cient monnrchs some prince whose ancestors have been conneoted with the old administra tion of the country. ' A foreign monarchy could not be installed in Mexico except by the aid of foreign powers. We are completely ignorant what would be the dispositions of the various governments in that respect, but itnppears to us beyond doubt that England, for example, repents to-day of the at titudo taken by her when the Spanish Colonies revolted and liberated themselves. She has since perceived the fault wbioh she then com mitted. Of this we need no farther proof than the entirely opposite conduct which she follows in the matter of Cuba, and her honest efforts to preserve that possession to the erown of Spain." This may all be mere editorial gossip," but when taken in connection with the' recent dis cussion of the Monroe doctrine - jn ' the United States Senate, it is not wholly devoid of inter est. Such a movement would at once lead ' to difficulty to war; The American people will allow of the planting of no more monarchies on this side of tne water. Of this, the depotisms of Europe may rest assured. We do. not propose to interfere with their territorial arrangements '-neither Irill ire thermit any interference with pxtri." '.The idea of interference or colonization on this fide o the ocean by uiy foreign power, beyond fcreseirt jurisdiction, isVMn the language of a Iiigh functionary, "utterly' inadmissible.": T ;-2---:' Iwi f N. V. Bulletin. How much more of true, genuine happi ness there would be in the world, if the lesson, imparted in the, following .sentence was more generally; heeded. Alasjvwben it is too lata, when the' cares and coldness of the world come withering to our hearts, and we learn how hard it is to find, true sympathy, then it is, and too often then only, that we realize the blessings we have- slightedthe opportunities we "have was ted : : ' Wf. ' : ,?. 5 -"fSi. S "How sweet is social affection! When the world is -dark without, then we have light with in. We forget the" world, with all its animosi ties, while blest with social kindness. That man cannot be UQhappy who has hearts that vibrate in sympathy with his own;.who is cheer ed by the smile of tenderness and the voice of affection. Let the world ' be dark and cold ; let the indifference or hate of men gather about him in the place of business ;-but wben ha en ters the ark of his cherished circle, he forgets all then, and the cloud passes from the brow, and the sorrow from his heart. The warm sym pathies of bis wife and children dispel every shadow, and he feels a thrill of joy in his bo som, which words are inadequate to express. He who, on the other hand, is a stranger to the joys of social kindness, cannot be said to even have begun to live." FEDDY AND THE ROBIN. Air Bonaparte's Grave. On a lone leafless tree one bright sunny morning, A robbin was singing a wild joyous lay, When Feddy slipp'd up, without any warning, With malice prepense to make him his prey ; See Feddy 1 look at him ! ah, see how he's grin ning, He's hungry, he's heated he has hunted all day Away thou poor robin ! cease, ase that wild singing And fly e'er too late, forever away ! On murder intent, Fed has miss'd his huge wea pon, And darkly he scowls on tho poor little bird, And deadly he aims oh! where do you reckon Poor robin will be when that loud gun is heard? 'Tis over! 'tis past! like smoke amidst battle, The smoke of Fed's gun rises high on the air, And wild as the shot through the leafless limbs rattle, Swells the poor robin's shriek of pain and des pair. Bruised, bleeding and breathless, his tiny heart breaking. The poor little minstrel lies gasping for breath, He sleeps his last sleep ! he will know no awak ing, Forhis pulses arehush'd in thestillnessof death! The8pringmay return the soft breath of flowers May flourish wild fragrance o'er many a plain But robin is gone 1 and the bright woodland bowers Can ne'er wake his spirit to music again. Ah! hard was the fate of that poor little songster, His life was so gentle, so gleeful and gay ; What demon of darkness what fell, fiendish monster, Urg'd thee, savage Feddy ! to take it away? Was thy murd'rous heart moved by no melting emotion. While his soft sylvan minstrelsy swellM on thine ear? Ah ! me thinks that the wild reckless waves of the ocean, Might be lull'd into peace if such music were there 1 Yet Feddy unmov'd by its magical numbers, Relentlessly speeded death's messengers on, And red is the grave where the hapless bird slumbers, Beneath the lone tree, where the murder was done ! And they say at that spot, when the night winds are sighing, The sound of a gun may be heard thro' the air, And the wild, piercing cry of a wounded bird dying, Is borne on the breeze like a shriek of despair! " Jonnt Dotls." Spring; & Summer Goods, 1853. f JTtHE subscriber takes great pleasure in an fl nouncing to his friends, and the public gen erally, that recent arrivals have placed him in pos session of a large and varied assortment of For eign and Domestic Staple Dry Goods ; also Hard ware, Cutlery, Queens-ware, Glass-ware, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, and Groceries, which he. offers for sale on reasonable terms. Having been care fully selected, and purchased by himself on the 1 most favorable terms, he is persuaded he cannot be undersold by fair competition. He respectful ly solicits a call from purchasers. The following consists of a portion only of his stock FOR GENTLEMEN. Cloth Cassimeres and- Vestings of nearly all shades, and prices; a complete assortment of Sum mer Goods for Boys. FOR THE LADIES. v Black Gro de Rhine Silks, " " " " Nap, " " " " Soi, Brocade, and other fancy silks, Fancy, and Plain Silk Tissues, " " " Bareges, " " Shallys, Plain Black Shallys, and other mourning Goods, Fancy Barege De Laines, " Organdi Muslins, . v " French Lawns, and Jaconettes, Solid Color Lawns, and Jaconettes, " Brilliantes, ' French, and English Ginghams, " French, English, and Domestic Prints ii great variety, Jaconette, Cambric, Nanseok, Book, and Mull Muslins, . Bishop Lace, Dotted and Plain Swiss Muslins, French Work Capes, Chemizettes and Collars, French Work Lawn, and Muslin Undersleevss, Linen Cambric Hkfs, a complete assortment, Black Lace Mantillas, Black Lace' Shawls and Scarfs, Black Lace Veils, ' Black Crape and Mourning Veils, Mourning Collars and Undersleeves, Alexander's Fancy Black and Whte Kid Gloves, " " . Silk ; A large assortment of Parasols and Umbrella. JAS. McKIMMON. Raleigh, March 25, 1852. ,t 2 t Standard copy. "A Good Time Coming" , YES, even so I, when my friends and easterners will have the pleasure of examining and pur chasing, iftKey choose; some of the prettiest styles of COATS, PANTS AND VESTS, and Gents Furnishing Goods, ever exhibited in this City. We have decidedly the largest and best se lected stock of Clothing in the State of North Car olina, all of which was made up umder tjie super vision of the proprietor. It is unnecessary for us to say that our Goods are the best Cut, and best Made, for all of our customers acknowledge that fact, from purchasing and wearing clothing bought of us for the past five years that we have-been located in this City.. - ; " We have just received sixty dozen at, ' Harding' Patent Yoke seam shirts"- the only style of shirt that will fit well 40 doxr boyS' shirts and also 60 do, three ply standing Cellars a" splendid article. - - . .' V ; E L. HARDING, . Importer of GlovesHosleryi &c.rFayetteville si. March 22, 1853. i , -25, XXTA WTKT). TWO or thre good men" to drive wagons, on th Greenville and Raleigh-Plank Road, for whom a liberal price will be paid. - - - '. '-Address the subscriber at Wilson, - Edgeaombe County, a tt . . r. ..WB-OIYERSv , Wilson, April 1st, J853, v " ;,: ,; 28, . UiUsboro Keoorder one month: and charge t&is office. HOliLOWAY'S PIT.T.R i vubb 01 a aisoruered. v Liver and Bad Di Jijes- j oon..,vv.-:v- Copy of a Letter from Mr.' R. W. Kirkut, Chemut 7 PrescoUjStJ, Liverpool,-dated 6A Junt, 1851 ' To Professor Hollow at : Sir : Your Pills and Ointment have stood tht highest on our sale list of Proprietary Medicinsi for.some years. A customer, to whom I can refer for'any enquiries, desires me to let you know th particulars of her case. She had been troubled for years with a disordered liver, and bad digi tion. On the last occasion, however, the virulenet of the attack was so alarming, and the inflamma tion set in so severely, that doubts -were enter tained of her not being able to bear up under it fortunately she Was induced to try your PiUg uj she informs me that after the first, and each' suc ceeding dose, she had great relief. She continued to take them, and although she used only three boxes,, she is now in the enjoyment of perfeet health. T oeuld have sent you many more casei but the above, from the severity of the attack, and the speedy cure, I think, speaks much in favor of your astonishing Pills. (Signed) R. w. KIRKUS. An Extraordinary Case of Rheumatic 'l ever, tn Van Dieman's Land. Copy a Letter inserted in the Hobart Tovcn Couri er of the 1st March, 1851, by Major J. Walch Margaret McConnigan, 19 years of age, reiidinr at New Town, had been suffering from a violeat Rheumatic Fever for upwards of two months which had entirely deprived her of the use of her limbs. During this period she was under the care of the most eminent medical men in Hobart Town and by them her case was considered hopelese. A friend prevailed upon her to try Holloway's cel ebrated Pills, which she consented to do, and is an incredibly short space'of time they effected a perfect cure. Cure of a Pain and Tightness in the Chest and Stomach of a Person 84 years of age. From Messrs. There $ Son, Proprietors of the Lynn Advertiser ;tcho can vouch for the following itaUmmt. , , -Aug. 2d, 1851. To Professor Hollowat Sir I desire to bear testimony to the good ef fects of Hollo way's Pills. For some yean I guf fered severely from a pain and tightness in the stomach, which was also accompanied by a short ness of breath,' that prevented me from walking x bout I am 84 years of age, and notwithstandinx my advanced state of life, these Pills have so re lieved me, that I am desirous that ethers should be made acquainted with their virtues. I am now rendered by their meansr comparatively active and can take exercise without inconvenience or pais, which I could not do before. ' (Signed) HENRY COE, North st , Lynn, Norfolk. These Celebrated PHI are Wonderfully Effica cious in the following C'rnipiaints : Ague, Asthma, Bilious Complaints, Blotches om the Ikin, Bowel Complaints, Colics, Constipation of the Bowels, Consumption, Debility, Dropsy; Dysentery, Erysipelas, Female Irregularities, Fe vers of aH kinds, Fits, Gout, Headache, Indiges tion, Inflammation, jaundice, Liver Complaint, Secondary Symptoms, Lumbago, Piles, Rheuma tism, Retention of Urine, Scrofula or King's Evil, Sore Throats. Stone and Gravel, Tic Douloureux, T amors. Ulcers, Venereal Affections, Worms of all kinds, Weakness from whatever cause, &c, &c. Sold at the establishment of Professor Hollo wat, 244. Strand, (near Temple . Bar,) Londoa , and by" all respectable Druggists and dealers ia Medicines throughout the British Empire, and by those of the United. States, in pots and boxes, at $7$ cents, 87 cents, and $1 50 each, wholesale, by the principal Drug - houses in the Union, and by Messrs. A. B. & D. SANDS, New York; Mr. J. HORSEY, 84 Maiden Lane. New York, And by Messrs. S. B. & J. A. EVANS, Wilming ton ; and by P-F. PESCUD, Raleigh. There is a considerable saving by takisg the larger sizes. N. B. Directions for the guidance of patients in every disorder are iffixed to each box. - March. 11, 1853. it STATE OF TENNESSEE, In Chakcmt a Dkbsdkx, November Term, 1852. Bill for Division of Land. John A. Gardner, Complainant v George D. Bai kerville, JohnW. Baskerville, DilhaP. Baskerrille, Roberta P. Baskerville, George D. Baekerville, Lucy C. Baskerville, Isabella H. Baskerville, James L. Duke, Mary R. Duke, Albert C. Jones and Mary Ann Jones, Defendants. . On motion ofcomplainant's Solicitor, it is order ed by the Court, the Hon- Calvin Jones, Chancel lor, &c presiding ; And it appearing to the sat isfaction of the Court that all of the defendants are non residents of the State of Tepncssee ; and that the Defendants, Roberta P George D. Lucy C. and Isabella H. Baskerville, and Mary R. Duke and Mary Ann Jones, are minors, under the age of 21 years; that publication be made as to tke non-resident Defendants, in the "Raleigh Regii ter," in the County of Wake, and State of Nortk Carolina, for three weeks successively, at lent thirty days before the 4th Monday in May next, notifying them to appear in our Chancery Court at Dresden, on the. 4th Monday in May 18 j3, or within the three first days of said Term, and de mur,' answer or plead to said suitbrthe same will be taken as to them "pro confesso" and set for hear ing accordingly . A . true copy from the Records of the Court. ; . ,W. F. HAMPTON, C. k M. March 8th, 1853. w3w-21 ..... , Notice. NEW GOODS I NEW GOODS!! J J. BIGGS & CO.. take pleasure in announc m ing to their frbads and the public in gener al, that they are now reviving their Spring and Summer goods, consisting of a fine lot of French and English Cloths, Cassimeres and vestings of the latest jstyle. A beautiful lot of of white silk and Satin vestings, and Cravats for Balls and Farties. White Linen Drilling and Navy Duck, for Summer Pants. All kinds' of Ready made Clothing, both of their own and of Northern Manufacture, very fine and cheap. Also, Youths and Boys Clothing, and dress ing gowns. ' Fine Moleskin and Beaver, black and Drab Hats of the very best manufacture. The latest style dress Shirts of the most approv ed cut. " Gauze Silk and Merino) undershirts and Drawers for Spring and Summer. Gloves, Collars, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Cravats and Stacks, in great varieties. Their stock will be constantly supplied, with the latest arrivals. The very finest assortment of Tailor's trimmings on hand. AU orders thankfully received and promptly ex ecuted. All garments made to order warranted to fit.' ? -- Call at No. 10, ' " Fayetteville St. Raleigh, N. C. April 8, 1853. w4w-30 ..v. ., $10 Re-ward. LEFT on the 20th of March, ALFRED, a copper-colored boy, 18 or 19 years old, well grown, 5 feet, 6 or eight inches high, talks on the end of bis tongue, had on a wool hat, badly worn, and yarn clothings He carried off a cloth cap, blue cloth coat, and a blanket. ALFRED has relations in Raleigh, and also at William Turner's in Johnston Co The subscriber's Post Office is at Raleigh. , . - i - CASWELL POWELL. Wake Co., March 22, 1853.'- . 25 tf i EERJWV HJJTTON, COMMISSION; and Forwarding Merchant, V: 9 Roanoke Square, Norfolk, Va. liberal advances 01 consignments of Produce. Merchandise received and forwarded with despatck Norfolk, Va.; Pec. 7, 1852. . . 100-ly State Day Changed. IN obedience to the Order of Wake Coun ty Court, made at its last session, notice is hereby siren to Suitors and Witnesses, that the State Docket will hereafter be taken up onThnrsday. Witnesses and Suitors on the CiviPDocket will attend on Tuesday those on the State Docket on Thurday. rTy JAMES T. MARRIOTT, Clerk v' Of Waks County Ceurt. April 1, 185S. 28 wtC - .
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