I 6 NUMBER CXXX. A MKT FOB MENTAL DYSPEPTICS, AND A CTJBB JOB BY-POCHONDKIA, HY-POCRI8Y, OB AMT COMPLAINT OF A IIY ORDKtt. BY OUR SKIIIKS EDITOU. ALMASAC AND DIARY. fJBOBT MBTHE-ILLOGICAL OBSKRVATlONg FOB TUB WEAK. July. SI outlay S3. News received from Santa Ann confirming his death and life up 10 tlie latent dales. Having a wooden log, it in already conceited tbat be has one foot lu the grave. Tuesday, 83. Alderman MoMiillln arrived to the dignity of ru "lmpeuchment." lie, on the strength of this, expects to be nominated and elected to Congress, to represent the First District. "Wednesday, 2 l.-A great rise experienced In thermometers. The only Instance of a rise of any article, In tills Season of goue ral business depression. Thursday, 85. Great rush to the watering places. The boats to Smith's Island con tinue to run crowded, notwithstanding the "bars" that are formed on this cele brated bathing ground. "JFrlday, BO. The Indian campaign under Gen. BUermau is being pushed forward with great vigor. Two entire tribes have agreed not to llgut him this summer. Saturday, 7. Sehies Column Day. The Lditor receives mi Invitation to spend the season at League Island, where ha can divest bimselt, as the iron-clads do, of all fcuperfluo us rigging. FROM OUR SALT LAKE CORRES PONDENT. Salt Lake City. Mr. Series Editor: I have now spent a week with the Latter-Day Saints, admired their green shades, their beautiful streams and waterfalls, their human cocooneries, and the innumerable evidences of prosperity which appear on every hand, in-doors and out. Their markets are filled with the choicest vegetables, and their houses with "cabbage Leads," but no "dead beets" are allowed within the boundaries of the Prophet; indeed, no arrangement that is not likely to bring a prophet to the Church is tolerated. Stores, where all kind3 of dry goods can be bought, from a tilter to a baby's hood, are abundant, and abundantly patronized. The bee-hive is found in Brig ham's house, and on many business signs, as evidence to Gentiles that all the hum about the sweetness of their lives turns out a cell. c'All must work, and give one-tenth of their pro ducts to the great Projdiet, which, to many of them, is the only profit they see of their labor. Said a newly arrived Hibernian convert to me, "They now take the tenth, and, be jabers, after a while they'll be taking the twentieth;" whioh my informant thought wa3 more than he could stand. Indnstry is encouraged in every possible Way. Besides a growing family, whioh every Jljrraon is expected to have both in wives and children, a number of old spinsters, and others unsealed, that are on the lookout for thrifty male Saints, take it into their heads that they TOBTBAITS OF THE SEALED. will be "sealed" as spiritual wives to the provident Mormon in question, seeing that they generally have so little flesh on their tiones that their adaptedness for spiritual wives is acknowledged by every one; and as onr prosperous Saint has to contribute some thing towards the support of these grafted branches on his genealogical tree, he has need of all the industry his circumstances can command. Salt Lake City is In what is called the Great Basin of the West. There is more soft soap used in this "basin" than ia any wash-tub of Christendom; and more lye is used in making the soap. The Great Salt Lake, which lies within twelve miles of the city, is the most briny body for a fresh-water lake in the world, Everybody that goes into it is iu a pickle to understand its saline qualities. Mr. Artemus Ward, a celebrated traveller in those parts, . and who has given the most reliable accounts of this wonderful people, tells of how the natives, when their cattle are otherwise use less, drive them into this lake, letting them Btand there for a half an hour, when they are turned into "corned beef," and are then cut up for the New York market: so strongly Is the lake impregnated with JIAK1HO CORNED-BEEP IK SALT LAKE. h What I have seen there my eelf ia a corroboration of this statement. Going out on a fishing excursion with one Of the Saints and a half-a-dozen of his saint esses, we caught, in less than three hours, over Vorrola of salt mackerel most of thein Nn la tnanvofthom with their heads and Uila off, each as w Bold iu your city for THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAFII PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, "prime family kits." I am told it ia though, nothing of to find along the shores at low water soused pig's feot and snouts, such as you have in your restaurants, that have dropped off swine rooting on Its shores. It was this lake that gave the idea originally to Brigham Young of the doctrine of plurality of wives. In his early youth he was travelling in these parts, and was captured by an Indian Chief, one of those our Government is now trying to capture, and this Chief told Brigham that he must either be tomahawked or marry his daughter. Brigham concluded on the latter, though he thought the bargain hard. Arriving at Salt Lake, he persuaded his copperhead Princess to take a bath, while he would dig some roots to eat. When he returned he found her on the banks of the lake, crystallized to the spot with rock salt, so that she could not move. Brigham was so rejoiced to get rid of her that ho vowed, as soon as he got out of sight, leaving her stand ing there like a pillar of salt, that if he ever got married again his idea of a wife should be Lot'B. Ho one who has seen him since, in his bee-hive, will doubt that ho has kept his vow to the letter, for indeed of wives, it can be said, he has Lots. As it has been before remarked by Mr. Ward, most of the girls in this Terri tory marry Young. This great Basin, or Wash-tub as it is now, was once regarded as a vast desert. The Mormons accepted it as their home; here they thought they would have room to raise their progeny, with none to molest. When they ar rived here not a tree shaded this vast desert, but soon olive branches came up around their tables; and where the buffalo and the bear once found a congenial home, modern travellers tell us is now overrun with little dears, and in the cool of the evening "dears talking" is the favorite occupation of the natives. But the religion of the Mormons is the most marvellous problem of the age. While the many religions of the Old World are denying the right of marriage to their priests, this reli gion teaches that the more they are married the religiouser they are. Consequently, the Prophet himself is probably the most married person in the world. His wives, sealed and nnsealed, make a respectable village, and i has more than once happened that a gay and dashing Mormon has eloped of a night with a whole Young Ladies' Seminary, so completely closing np the teacher's eye that she had not a pupil left in the morning. Brigham Young being the shepherd of thi3 flock, is, of course, entitled to the fleece, and while he shears the old sheep he pulls the wool over the eyes of the ewes. His wives who are named to him in the flesh are do- PORTRAITS OF THE UNSEALED. scribed as of the flesh, fleshy, of whom he has about forty; twice that number he has sealed to him to become his spiritual wives in the spirit-land, and are generally of the bone, bony. These latter, having failed to gain a union in the flesh, content themselves with one in the spirit. The original wife of Brig ham (No. 1) does not live in the hive, but has a cottage of her own, where she sits a relic of the past, while the last new wife, I am told, raises "Hail Columbia" around the ears of the Prophet, and at times becomes so boisterous and unruly that Brigham has to consider her a kind of a "Cruiser," and has to ask the assistance of the wife-tamers of the Church to bring her to. mi 1 II BKIQIIAM'S YOUNG A5D YOUNO BRIG HAMS. On Sunday I attended Mormon service in the Tabernacle. There were over twelve hundred women present. The preacher cautioned the fair ones against Gentile unions, and said if there were any unmarried ones in the audience they might send their names, age, residence, and photographs to him, and he would make a selection and hand the documents over to the elders to do the same, until there should be no show for any trading Gentlile among them With other religious words did he comfort them; after which they were all dismissed to allow them time to get home and dressed for the theatre, which also has two services on Sunday. If you think of coming out here this sum mer, you need not bring your family with you, as there are always a number of them at the depot. N. B Pay no attention to the "runners," but select for yourself, as the runners are often unprincipled, and put a family on you not suited to your circumstances. Yours, pluially, Solomon Snuoo. KEEP COOLIES. The West India agriculturists are intro ducing Coolie labor on their plantations. We would ask, How much hotter do our farmers want it before they will have Coolie labor on their faints? ;We think anything that smacks of coolness should be encouraged at this time, if ever. A. -r Db THACKERAY'S LECTURES ON THE GEORGES. GEORGE THE FOURTH. Conclusion. The bravery of the Brunswicks, tbat all the family must have it, that George possessed It, are points which all English writers have agreed to admit; and jet I cannot see how George IV should have been endowed with this quality. Swaddled xn feather beds all his life, lazy, obese, perpetually eating anddrinklnir, his edu cation was quite unlike that ol his tough old Erogenitors. Ills grandsons had conlronted ardshipi and war, and ridden up and fired their pistols undaunted into the face of death. His father had conquered luxury and overcome indolence. Here was one who never resisted any temptation; never had a desire but he coddled and pampered it; if ever he bad any nerve, frittered it away among cooks, and tailors, and barbers, and furniture-monger?, and opera-dancers. What muscle would not grow flaccid in such a life a lite that was never strung up to any action an endless Capua without any campaign an nauiing, ana flowers, and feastings, and flattery, and folly r When George III was pressed by tho Catholic ouestionand the India bill, he said he would retire to HaDOver rather than jield upon either point; and he would nave done what he said. But. before vleldlng. he was determined to cent his ministers and Parliament; and he did, and he beat them. The time came wheu George IV was Dressed too upon the Catholic claims; the cautious Peel had slipped over to that side; the grim old Wellington bad Joined it; and reel tells us, in his Memoirs, what was the conduct of the King. He at first refused to submit; whereupon Peel and the Duke ollered their resignations, which their gracious master acce pted. He did these two gentlemen the honor, Peel says, to kiss them both when they went away. (Fancy old Arthur's grim countenance and eagle bean as the monarch kisses it.) When tney were gone he sent alter them, surrendered, and wrote to them a letter, begging them to remain in otlice, and allowing them to have their own way. Then bis majesty had a meeting with i-ldon, which is related at curious length in the latter's Memoirs. He told Eldon what was not true about the interview with the new Catholic converts: utterly misled the old ex-chancellor; cried, whimpered, tell on his neck, and kissed him too. We kDOW old Eldon s own tears were pumped very freely. Did these two fountains gush together? I can't lancy a behavior more unmanly, imbecile, pitiable. This is a defender of the faith! This a chief in the crisis of a great nation! This an inheritor of the courage of the Georges! Many of my hearers no doubt have journeyed to the pretty old town of Brunswick in company with that most worthy, prudent, and polite gen tleman, the Earl of Malmesbury, and fetched away Princess Caroline tor her longing husband, the Prince of Wales. Old Queen Charlotte would have had her eldest son marry a niece ot her own, that famous Louisa of Mrelitz, afterwards Qneen of Prussia, and who shared with Maria Antoinette In the last age the sad pre-eminence of beauty and misfortune. But George III had a niece at Brunswick: she was a richer princess than her serene highness of Strelitz in fine, the Princess Caroline was selected to marry the beir to the English throne. We lollow my Lord Malmesbury in quest of her ; we are introduced to her Illustrious father and royal mother; we witness the balls and fetes ot the old court; we are presented to the princess herself, with her lair hair, her blue eyes, and her impertinent shoulders a lively, bouncine, romping princess, who takes the advice of her courtly English mentor most generously and kindly. We can be present at her very toilet, if we like, regarding which, and for very good reasons, the British courtier im plores her to be particular. What a strange court I What a queer privacy of morals and manners do we loon into I Shall we regard it as preachers and moralists, and cry Woe against the open vice and selfishness and corruption, or look at it as we do at the king in the panto mime, with his pantomime wite nnd pantomime courtiers, whose big heads ho knocks together, whom he pokes with his pantomime sceptre, whom he orders to prison under the guard of hlB pantomime beef-eaters as he sits down to dine on his pantomime pudding ? It is grave, it is sad, it is a theme most curious for moral and political speculation; it is monstrous, gro tesque, laughable, with its prodigious littleness, etiquettes, ccremoniuls, sham moralities; it is as serious as a sermon, aud as absurd and out rageous as Punch's puppet-show. Malmesbury tells us of the private life of the duke, Princess Caroline's father, who was to die, like his warlike son, in arms against the French; presents us to his courtiers, his favo rites; his duchess, George Ill's sister, a grim old princess, who took the British envoy a-tide, and told him wicked old stories of wicked old dead people and times; who came to England afterwards when her nephew was regent, aud lived in a shabby furnished lodging, old and dingy and descried and grotesque, but some how royal. And we go with htm to the duke to demand the princess' hand in form, and we hear the Brunswick guus tire their adicux of salute, as H. R. U. the Princess ol Wales departs in the frost and snow ; and we visit the domains ot the Prince Bishop of Osnaburg the Duke ot YoiK of our early time; and we dodge about lrom the French Revolutionists, whoso ragged legions are pouring over Holland and Germany, and gaily trampling down the Old World to the tune of Cairo.; and we take ship ping at Slade, and we land at Greenwich, where the princess' ladies aadthe prince's ladies are in waiting to receive her royal highness ? What a history follows ! Arrived in London, the bridegroom hastened eagerly to receive his bride. When she was first presented to him, Lord Malmesbury says she verv properly at tempted to kneel. "He raised "her gracefully enough, embraced her, and, turning round to me, said: 'Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glasj of btaudy.' "1 said, 'fcir, had you not better have a glass of vater ?' "Upon which, much out of humor, he said, with an oath, 'o; I will go to tho queen.' " What could be expected from a weddiDg which bad such a beginning from such a bride groom and such a bride t I am not goiag to cairy you through the scaudal of tbat story, or loliow the poor princess through all her vagaries; her balls and her daneos, her travels to Jerusalem and Naples, he jigs, and her junketings, and her tears, as I read her trial in history, 1 voto she Is not guilty. I don't say it is an impartial verdict; but as one reads her 6tory, the heart bleeds lor the kiudlv, generous, outraged creature. It wrong there be, let it lie at his door who wickedly thrust her from it. Spite of her follies, tho great, hearty peoplo of England loved and protected aud pitied bur. 'God bless you I we will bring your husband back to you," said a mechanic one day, as she told Lady Charlotte Bury, with tears streaming down her cheeks. They could not bring that husband back; they could not cleanse that selfish heart. Was hers the only one he had wounded ? Steeped in selfishness, Impotent for faithiul attachment and manly, enduring love, had it not survived remorse was it not accus tomed to desertion ? Malmesbory gives us the beginning of the marriage story: how the prince reeled into chapel to be married; how he hiccoughed out his vows of fidelity you know how he kept them; how he pursued the woman whom he had married; to what a state he broiurht ber; with what blows ho struck her; with what malignity he pursued her; what his treatment ot his daughter, and what his own lite. He the first gentleman of Europe I There Is no stronger satire on the proud English society of that day tuaa that they admired George. No; thank God, we can tell of better gentle men; and while our eyes turn away, shocked, from this monstrous Image of pride, vanity, weakness, they may see iu that England over which the last George pretended to reign, some who merit indeed the title of gentlemen sooie who nialce our hearts beat when we hear their Barnes, and wboce memory we fondly salute ben that of yonder Imperial manikin is tum bled into oblivion. I will take men of mv own profession of letters. I will take Walter Scott, who loved the king, and who was his sword and buckler, and championed him like that brave Highlander in his own story, who flehts ruuuu im imvi-u cmei. vvnat a good gentle man! What a friendly soul, what a generous " auiiauie me was that ot tho noble Sir Waller I 1 will take another man of let tew, whose life I admire even more an English worthy, doing his duty for fifty noble yoars of labor, day by day storing up learning, dav by S?rIn.B f "CHnt waKU' mo8t charitable out of his small means, hi-dcni. ..i.M.. i ,i, .. ,""''"? yoi'umr praise or prince's ft 7; w? Kober Sonthey. We have left his old political landmarks miles and miles behind; we protest against bis dogmatism: nay, we begin to forget it and his politics; out I hope his hie will not be forgotten, for it Is snb linie in its simplicity, Its energy, its honor, its afiection. In the combat between Time aud Tnalaba, I suspect the lormer destroyed has conquered. Kehama's curse frightens very few readers now; but Bouthey's private letters are worth piles of epics, and are sure to last among us as loEg as kind hearts like to sympathize Willi uuuue93 uu puijiy, nun love BQd upright life. '-It your feelings are like mine," he writes to his wife. "1 will not go to Lishon with. out you, or I will stay at home, and not part from jou. For, though not unhappy when away, still without you l am not happy. For your sake, as well as my own aud little Edith's, I will not consent to any separation: thi f rowth of a year's love between her aud me, if t please God she should live, is a thing too de- ngDUUl men, ana too vaiuuuie in us conse quences, to be given up lor any light inconve nience on your part and mine. On these things e will talk at leisure; only, dear, dear Edith, tee must not part i" This was a poor literary gentleman. The First Gentleman in Europe had a wife and daughter too. Did he love them so ? Was he faithiul to them ? Did he sacrifice ease for them, or show them the 6acred examples ot reltsion and honor ? Heaven gave the Great English Prodi gal no such good fortune. Peel proposed to make a baronet of Southey; and to this advance ment the king agreed. The poet nobly rejected the offered promotion. "I have," he wrote, "a pension of 200 a year, conferred upon me by the good offices of my old lriend O. Wynn, and 1 nave the laureate ship. The salary ot the latter was immediately appropriated, as far as it went, to a life insu rance for 3000, which, with an earlier Insu rance, is the sole provision I have made for my family. All beyond must be derived from my own industry. Writing for a livelihood, a liveli hood is all that I have gained; for, having also something better in view, and never, ihcrctore, having courted popularity, nor written tor the mere sake of gain, it has not been possible for me to lay by anything. Last year, tor the first time in my life, I was provided with a year's expenditure beforehand. This exposition may show bow unbecoming and unwise it would be to accept the rank which, so greatly to my honor, jou have solicited lor me." How noble his poverty is, compared to the wealth ot his master ! His acceptance even of a pension wasmaae me ooject ot his opponent's satire; but think of the merit and modesty of this state pensioner, and that other enormous drawer of public money, who receives 100.000 a year, and comes to Parliament with a request ioi iubu,uuu more i Another true knight of those days was Cuth- bert Collingwood; and I think, since heaven made gentlemen, there is no record of a better one than that. Of brighter deeds, 1 grant you, we may read performed by others; but where of a nobler, kinder, more beautiful life of duty, of a gentler, truer heart ? Beyond dazzle of success and blaze of genius, I lancy shining a hundred and a hundred times higher the sublime purity oi couingwoou s, gentie giory. ms neroism stirs British hearts when we recall it. His love and goodness and piety make one thrill with happy emotion. As one reads of him and his great comrade golne into the victory with which their names are immortally connected, how the old English word comes up, and that old Eng lish lceling of what I should like to call Chris tian honor f What gentlemen they were, what great hearts they had I "We can, my dear Coll." writes Nelson to him, "have no little jea lousies; we have only one great oblectin view that of meeting the enemy, and getting a glo rious peace lor our country." At Trafalgar, when the Royal Sovereign was pressing alone into the midst of the combined fleets, Lord Nel son said to Captain Blackwood, "See how that noble lellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into action! How I envy him!" The very same throb and impulse of heroic generosity was beatiDg in Colllngwood's honest bosom. As he led into the tight he said, "What would Nelson give to be here !" After the action of the 1st of June he writes, "We cruised for a few days, like disappointed people looking for what they could not find, vntU the morning of little Harah's birthday, be tween eight and nine o'clock, when the French fleet, of twenty-five stnl of tho line, was disco veicd to windward. We chased them, and they bore down within about five miles of us. The niaht v. as spent in watching and preparation lor the succeeding day; and many a blessing did I send forth to my Sarah, lest I should never bless her more. At dawn we made our approach on the enemy, then drew up, dressed our ranks, and it was about eight wheu the admiral made the sienal for each ship to engage her opponent, and bring her to close action; and then down we went under a cloud of sail, and la a manner that would have animated the coldest heart, and struck terror into the most Intrepid puemy. The ship we were to engsge was two ahead of the French admiral, so we had to go through his fire and that of two ships next to him, aud received all their broadsides two or three times before we fired a arun. It was then near ten o'clock. I observed to the admiral that about that time our wives were going to church, but tbat I thought the peal we should ring about the Frenchmen's ears would outdo their parish bells." There are no words to tell what the heart feels in reading the simple phrases of such a hero. Here is victory nnd courage, but love 6ublimer and superior. Here is a Christian sol dier spending the night beiore battle iu watch ing and preparing lor the succeeding day, think ing of his dearest home, and sending many blessings forth to his Bantu., "lest be should never bless her more." Who would not say Amen to his supplication? It was a benediction to his country the prayer ol that intrepid, loving heart. We lave spoken of a good soldier and good men ot letters as specimens ot Euglish gentle men of the age lust past; may we not also many of my elder henrers, I am sure, have read and fondly remember his delightful story speak ot a eood divine, aud mention Reginald Heber as oue ot the best of English gentlemen? Toe charming poet, the happy possessor of all sorts of gifts and accomplishments, birth, wit, lame, high character, competence he was the beloved parish priest in his own home of Hoderel, "counselling bis people in their troubles, ad vising them in their difllculties, comforting them iu distress, kneeling often at their sick beds at the hazard ot his own lite; exhorting, encour aging where there was need; where there was strife the peacemaker; where there was (rant the free giver." When the Indian bishopric was offered to him he refused Ht first; but after communing with bimselt (aud committing his case to the quar ter whither such pious men are wont to carry their doubts) he wiihdrew his refusal, and pre pared himself for his mission and to leave his beloved parish. "Little children, love one ancther, and forgive oue another," were the last sacred words he said to hi weeping people. He parted with tbctu, knowing perhaps bo should see them no more. Like those other good men of whom we have jost spoken, love and duty were his life's aim. Happy he, happy they who were so gloriously lalihlul to botal He writes to his wife those charming hues on his journey: MIf thou, my love, wert by my side, my babies by lnv knee, How gladly would our plnnance glide o'er Uuuga's nil m lo sea I "I miss thee at the dawning grey, when, on our deck tecllued. In careless eusu my limbs I lay, and woo the cooler wind. "I miss thee, when by Gunga's stream my twl- llght steps I uuidt), But mwt beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee by uty aide. JULY 27, JL8C7. "I spread my books, my t.euoil try.tua lingering noon i" oneer, w liutmiHs thy hind, approving eye, thy uient attentive tar. "Dut when of morn andjeve the star beliol lM ine I feel though Thou art distnnt far, thy prayers asueiiu lor iub. "Then on ! then onl where duty leads my course be onward still, . .,h,,lllk O'er broad lllndostan's sultry meads, o er bleak Almorah's niu. "That course nor Delhi's kingly gates, nor wild Malwah detain, . For sweet the bliwj us both awaits by yonder western main. "Thy towers, Bombay, glonm bright, they bay, across the dark blue so; Bnt ne'er were hearts so blithe and gay as there shall meet luiaeer' Is It not Collingwood and Sarah, and Southey and Edith? His affection is part of his life. What were life without iw minoui, iovo i can lonr n n irpntlrmsn. Unvt tnimhinff is a remark Heber makes in his "Travels through India," that on inquiring of the natives at a town wnien oi me governors ot India stood highest in tne opinion ot me people, hi. ininifi that, thoueh Lord Welleslev and War ren Hastings were honored as the two greatest men who had ever ruled this psrt of the world, the people spoke with chief affection of Judge CleavelHnd. who bad died, aged twentv-nlne. iu 1784. The people have built a monument over him, and still hold a religious feast in his me mory. Bo docs his own country still tend with a heart's regard the memory of the gentle Heber. And Cleaveland died in 1784, and Is still loved by the heathen, is he? Why, that year 1784, was remarkable iu the life ot our friend, tae First Gentleman of Europe. Do you not know tbat he was twenty one in that year, and opened Carlton House with a fraud ball to the nobility and gentry, and doubtless wore tbat lovely pink coat which we have described ? I was eager to read about the ball, and looked to the old maga zines Jor information. The entertainment took place on the 10th of February. In the European a. r i i .Mm . . . . Aivyczuitui juarcn, no, i came sira:gai upon It "The alterations at Carlton House beiLg fin ished, we lay before our readers a description of tne state departments as tney appeared on the 10th instant, when H. R, II. gave a grand ball to the principal nobility and gentry. The entrance to the state-room fills the mind with an inexpressible idea of greatness and splendor. "Ihe state chair Is of a gold frame, coverpd with crimson damask; on each corner of the feet is a lion's head, expressive of fortitude and strength; the feet of the chair have serpents twining rouud them, to denote wisdom. Facing the throne appears the helmet of Minerva: and over the windows, glory is represented by a Saint George witn a supem gioria. "But the saloon may be styled the chef dVucre, and in every ornament discovers great inven Hon. It is hung with a figured lemnu satin The window curtains, sofas, and chairs are of the same color. The celline is ornamented with emblematical paintiugs, representing the Graces and Mutes, together with Jupiter. Mercury. Apollo, and Paris. Two ormort chaudeliers are placed here. It is imi oss'ble by expression to do Iustice to the extraordinary workmanship. a9 well as design, of the ornaments. They each consist of a palm, branching out in nve direc tionslor the reception of light?. A beautiful figure of a rural nymph is represented entwining the stems ot the tree with wreaths ot flowers. In the centre of the room is a rich chandelier, To fee this apartment dans son plus heau jour, it should be viewed in the glass over the chim ney-piece. The range of apartments from the saloon to the ball-room, when the doors are open, lormed one of the grandest spectacles that ever was Deneia." In the Gentleman's Magazine for the very same month and year March, 1781 is an ac count ot another festival, In which another great gentleman ot bngtish extraction is represented as taking a principal share: "According to order. H. E, the Commander- in-chief was admitted to a public audience of congress; anu, Deiug seated, the president, after a paupp, informed him that the United Ktates assembled were ready to receive his com munications. Whereupon he arose and spoke as ioiiows: "'Mr. President The great events on which my resign atioD depend having at length taken place. I present myself beiore Congress to sur render Into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from ine rcivice oi my country. " 'HaDDV In the confirmation of our indenen. deDce and sovereignty, I resign the appointment i acceptea witn aimaence; which, however, was superseded by a confidence In the recti tude of our cause, the support of the supreme power of the nation, and the patronage of neaven. I close this last act or my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and iDOfe wuo nave tne superintendence or them to His holv leenintr. Having finished inn wnrlr assigucd me, I retire from the great theatre of action; and, bidding an atlectionate farewell to this august body, uuder whose orders I have so long acted, I here Oder my commission aud take my leave ot the employments of my public life.' "To which the President replied: " 'Sfr Having defended tips standard of liberty in the New World, having taught a lesson use ful to those who inflict and those who feci on pression, jcu retire with the blessings of vour ieijow-riiiieus; inuugu me giory oi your vir tues will not terminate with your military coin mond. but will descend to the remotest age.'" Which is the most splendid spectacle ever witnessed tho opening least of Pitnce George in London, or the resignation of Washington ? Which is the nobler character for after ages to admire yon fribble dancing in lace aud soau gles, or yonder hero who sheathes his sword alter a life ot spotless honor, u purity uure proached, a courage indomitable, and a coh summate victory? Which of these is tue true gentleman ? What is it to bo a gentleman ? Is it to have lofty aims, to lead a buru life, to keep your honor virgin; to have the tsteeoi of your leliow-cllizens and the love ot vour tire' side; to bear good lortune meekly ; to sutler evil with constancy ; and through evil or good to maintain truth always? Show me the happy man whose life exhibits these qualities, and him we will salute as gentleman, whatever bis rauk may be; show me the prince who possesses them, and be may be sure of our love and loyalty. The heart of Britain btill beats kindly for George 111; not because he was wire and just, but because he was pure ia lite, honest In intent, and because, according to his lltrhts, he wor shipped heaven. I think we acknowledge in the inheritrix of his sceptre a wiser ruler, and a life as honorable and pure; and I am sure the future painter ot our manners will pay a willing allegiance to that good lile, and be loyal to the memory of that unsullied virtue. ENGINEER OFFICE HARBOIt DEFENSES, No. 65 BKCOND Street, Third Story, B.-VL-'AlMOKKMd. Sealed Proposals, in duplicate will he received at this ofllce until 12 Ivf. of FRIDAY, the th day of AUGUST. 1867, for the Timber and Fra ming required for the construction of three (3) C'rJt b lu the Susquehanna river, below Jlavre-de-Grace, Aid. Proposals must be separate for Timber and Framing, and in duplicate or each Proposals lor "Timber" will embrace all the timber, scantllnpr, and piles required. Proposuls for "Framing" will embrace driving the piles, framing and putting together la pla-e the Umber or (.ribs, including all bolting, spi king, and bracing required to coinpielu the structures. For paitlcnlnrs as to payments, time of be ginning, aud completion or work, etc., apply ut tbla Oitice, where plans and specification can be ufceu. ttoulractors furiauihlag"Tlmber" araexpeoted to hold it wtiliout expense to the United states until required for use by the engineer lu charge of the work. No bids will be considered except suoh as are made sfter forma to be obtained froia this Office by letter or personal application. Bids will be opened at 12 m P. M. on 1" RIDA , the Uth day of August, 1S7. 1" presence of auoU bidders as may desire to be prewent. , The right 1 reserved to rejwl H or any of the bids for uuy cause deemed suilloient by the nu designed. WJU IAM p CRAIOHILL, Itvt I.t -Col.. Major of Kiltflueers, 7 27 8t Poet Office Box M, Baltimore, Md. , GOVERNMENT SALES. u.n.,..,vi'Ai hAl.r. or" THR MIl,i .UY hniln nu at ltruxof Hiiil.hiL;n, Texas - otnoft tniti nMrierniBsier Fifth Military District. Ntw u i8iih, juiv . lsirf. n rtuien rroi osals will be received at tills oftlM until 12 M. .August 10, l,st,7, for the purchase of all tne rttM.lltlp and lul.rPHl. nf lla IT.. I.. . Klntre in and to the Uuited State Mllitari KaiJroadliom Braieos . fcantiaao to Whli. liHiiche, J exfiF. " The sale will luclnde the entiro track anri sidings, bulfdlLgs, water slatlonn, tnrn-tahliiiL bridges, etc.. t he railroad materials. th nnr..iiS pertaining to the road, together with tho rollini stock, cars, machinery, and other equipment: as follows: s V'A miles KBliroad Track. 2 Tavrn-Tables. 25,000 pounds ltailroad Chairs. ' &.0 trri Ties. 9,6(10 pounds Railroad Iron. ' 4 Railroad Frogs and Swlteh Stands. 1 Locomotive and Tender (named "West. em"). 8 Flat Cars. 2 Hand Cars. 2 Push Cars. MO pon n o s Ca r Sprf ngs. 2 Crow Feet. 4 Hpike Mauls. 1 Track Guage. 1 Fire Tonirs. 1 Railroad Depot Building, 1 Foreman's uuarters. 1 T Wharf. 1")7 roundR American Packing. 65 pounds Jute Packing. 20 feet Knbber Hose. 1 iHiuglas Pump 2 Water Casks. I Feed Pipe. 1 Cistern. 2 Otlico Desks. 1 Cooking Stove 1 Stove. 4 Claw Bars. 2 Shackle Bars. 1 lantern. ' 2 Signal Lanterns. 2 Grindstones. 2 Padlocks. 1 Turning Lathe. 8 Spades. 45 Shovels. 8 seta Carpenters' Tools, 2 Water Buckets. 2 Jackscrews and Levers. 8 Anvils. 7 P-ellows. 2 Pinch Bars. 1 Cold Chisel. 2 Blacksmiths' Ilammers 8 Sledge Hammers. 15 Hammer Handles. 2 Spike Punches. 1 set Blacksmiths' Tools. 6 Blacksmiths' Tongs. 2 Vises. ' 1 Cross-cut Saw. 173 Pick Axes. 24 Pick Axe Handles. 4 Square Brasses. 2 Stuffing Boxes. 1 Brass Faucet. I Hose Nozzle. The sale will not include the title to the land, Which does not belong to the United Stales. This road is about ten miles in length, and extends from Brazos Santiago to White's Kanche, on the Kio Grande. From this point connection is made by steamer with Broirna vilie and Matamoras. The route is the shortest and best for the im mense tralllc between the Gulf of Mexlocand the interior of Southern Texas and -Northern Mexico, and the communication by rail stone ran readily be extended to Brownsville. The road already completed saves thirty rrllea of diflicult and tortuous navigation. The ad is five feet gauge, good ties, X rail, and full spiked. The property may be Inspected on applca tlon to Captain C. H. Hoy t, A. Q. M., Brorns vllle, Texas, and any Information desired nay be obtained lrom that officer, or from the dllce of the Chief Quartermaster, Fifth MilltaryDia trlct. New Orleans, La. A condition of the sale will be that tans portation shall be furnished for all Governcent troops and supplies whenever required, at ntee not to exceed those paid by the United Sates toother railroad companies iu the Fifth Mili tary District. The terms of payment accepted will be nose considered the most favorable to the Go em inent. Ten per cent, cash, in Government fund, to be paid on acceptance of proposal. The Government reserves the right torfect any or all proposals. , Proposals should ho indorsed "Proposab'for " the purchase of Brazos Santiago and KioOrsnde Kaliroad," aud addressed "Brev. Lieut. -Co. A, J. AlcGonnlgle, A. Q, M. U. 8. Army, tloe Chief Quartermaster, Filth Military Disuot, New Orleans, La." A. J. McGONNIQLE. ' isrev. Lleut.-Col. and A. Q,. M. U. 8. Army 7 17 18t in chari i charge of oire. JAKOE SALE OF PUBLIC PROPBTY ofpick of Akmy Clothing and EQTjiPArt, .No. V9 Bkoaoway,:Nkw Yokk, July 17.1SI. f "Will be sold at Public Auction at the JUest of Army Clothing and Equipage, No. 4(K) WASH INGTON Street, New York city, on TUErflAY, the 6th day of August next, commenciniot 11 o'clock A. M., lobe continued from day telay, the following articles of Army CTotuintauif Equirmge: 16,000 Uniform Coats. 34.000 Uniiorm Jackets. 7,775 Veteran lies. Corps Jackets. lfl.OOO Knit Drawers. LI8.U00 Knit Shim. 40.000 Great Coats (Footmen's). I 80,000 Great Coats ( 11 orsemeuNs). i 80.M00 Rubber Blankets. 10,000 Rubber Pone has. . 1M0.000 IJiimI Hnlr Vola 100,000 Uulined Sack Coata. 1 100,000 Forage Caps. b!),000 pairs Bootees, M. S. 8,900 pairs Boots, M. b. . 15,000 Bro).'auH. I lHO.OOO Leather Neck Stocks. ' 4;,000 Hat, Feathers. 100,000 Knapsacks (Regulation). 11,000 Mann a Patent Knapsacks. 50,000 Haveisack8(ReKUlatlon). . 7,500 Haversacks (Enamelled). ' 21, 000 pairs Trowsers, Horsemen's. i 15,000 palisTrowsers, Footmen's. i 2.H07 pairs Leggings. j 4.'I4 Hussar Jackets. j 1,000 Straw Hats. 2,173 Dark Bluo Trowserg. 2,161 Buckles for Trowsers. i 64 yards Dark Blue Cloth. i 410 yards Blue Flannel. 1,:W2 yards Green Merluo. 120 yards Black Wiguus, i 7 yards Bmck Alpaca. 443 yards Brown Hollands. j Also, a quantity of various artiolcs of lregu lar Clothing and Equipage. Samples of a I can 1ia ill. thn rlAnnt wirhln tan f lermh-uiBU 111 uoverument funds: ten -.... ....... . . . 1 1. .. .... , it'u u uuw u uuu uiDtumuuo utuure tne goo taken from the dupot, which must be v nve uiiys auer ine saie, unuer lorroiture O ohnKB mid thA ten nprr.ent. flpnnttttn1 - uvi. xuBjor-uenerai jj. it. viNTOir 1 -u mil aiui. ir.-inutiier uen'l U. ti PROPOSALS. piiOPOSAL S F OR W O 'o D U1.POT QUARTlCKMASTBE'8 OFFICE! Washington, D. C, July ia i'rr r . . .... . . - , ... luviigu UUU Will ha nv. eclved at this onloe until July i.ff'S'S; o'clock noon, for the purchase of about ill nn. i ment Woodyard, at Alexandria Va Uwern" mt. vii v niaV.u" Prvege t the 1C00 cords bidVwlll Sot beTutnained0,', aQ derslgned. "UUIOUi! uu- Kifliim will ut.citA iiw.i. m otUM addrpa:.,Tr.,f0.'" LH" PaP!e ld post the acceptance of their bid """ 7 i '1 01 an?or andl!fH."" the right tl reject tlouable. "y considered objeo- Payment In Government funds ia mnnirAri Lrevetrlg,GWr;ij;V0Vorma aui, i hah .ku if nvMfttrrtw.-t TT ILLIaM B. GRANT. L WW MISSION MKHC'HANT ' &li'!!,a?Wmr'a''ltt' Charcoal, WO,' lt'Ji?t,.tii- " Ch'Mxli, Ooooa, aud iiroml as pur-
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