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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1857.
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SABBATH DAY THOUGHTS—No. 1.
TEE BEGGAR AND THE CHRISTIAN.
, ,BY DAYID.PAtn, BROTyif.
■ *Twas high communion! and within tho gato
Of a proud tomplo, dedioato to God,
A beggar-stood—a wrotchod, way-worn man;
Aged and siok, ragged and wo-bogone,
Scathad by the storms of more than eighty years,
Ahd atretohing forth his palsiod, shrivelled hand,
to the solemn throng
.Bound for the altar of the living God,
■■Foricharitable alma, There! there ho stood,
> Itrthe mute eloquence of pining want,
.Appealing to & brother Christian’s love/
■Within tno portals of God’B holy house.
Aud still he stood, and hundreds passed him by
Gorgeously olad, and though devoutly bont, '
Flaunting in silks and'dccked with nodding plumes,
BodiszenM out with flowers and rioh array
■ That might have put all quarters of the globe
In contribution and rich rivalry!
Not oxb in that bright throng—alas! not oxe,
•Piously bent.in aaorificeto God,
And meek commemoration or tho, blood
Shod by'Almighty and Redeeming Grace,
Bestowed a tear, a thought, a passing glance,
On this poor, feeble, houseless, squalid wretch.
•No liberal hand, moved by a feeling heart, -
.Administered relief! All seemed to shrink
From this sud’remnant of mortality,
And oft, I feared, in the anxiety of warm devotion,
That some proud pbarisOe/ipTanbied virtue,
i Might trample down this humble publican,
In eager haste to his master’s bidding. ,
Who that beholds a teaching Sb'enedike this
On the Lord's day—a day of sacrifice —
Of Christian hope— of Cknstian penitence —
But scorns his nature ? Twenty thousand prayers,
Empty and formal, selfish and Constrained,
Could not remove the blur on Christian .virtue,
Thus-publlcly—thus wantonly displayed,
In the Lord’s house, the refage of HU flock,
Against the very law that they profess—
Against the example of Redeeming Love,'
The sacred bulwark of the Christian’s faith.
Why do you break the bread and dVlnk’iho wino,
'ln memory of the Cross and Calvary,
And yot withold a miserable mito
In your unbounded and superfluous wealth, ;
From Lazarus—your kind, your kin, your brother?
For suoh, at least, is your meek Saviour’s'orood,
. As will bp found in the dcoreeg of God,
Insbribod upon His book of final judgment
By a Redeemer’s hand, and in his blood!
Your offerings and your sacrifice are vain,
1 Vain all your faith, unsanotlfied by forms,
Whilo thus vou trample o’er an outoast brother,
And look with apathy on wrotchednoss
Enough to melt a heathen into tears.
How many of these Saints that join’d tho table,
Drank of tho symbol wine, and broke tho bread
' In doar remembrance of tho Saviour’s body,
Did it unworthily?
Several incorrect statements having appeared ]
in relation to the Great Eastern (now lying like
a red whale in Mr'. Scott Russel’s yard, at Mill
wall, and so frightening people that thoy cut
across the river and take refhge, by scores, in
the houses of Messrs. Heart and Quartermaine,
who administer white-bait and iced punch with
the most humane promptitude), Mr. Punch
has been requested to publish the following
information touching the arrangements on
board the vessel s
Captain Harrison, the captain who has been
selected in contravention of all rules observed
in the public service, the proprietors of the
ship having engaged him for the vulgar reason
that he was notoriously the best captain on the
best line of steamers in the world, will merely
attend to the comparatively unimportant duty
of taking core of the vessel. But, as there are
to be six hundred first-class passengers, other
captains will be appointed.to administer to the
domestic wants of the.floating colony. There
will be a dining captain, with great carving
powers, and a miraculous flow of after-dinner
oratory; and thero will bo a flirtation captain,
whose business it will bo to render the brief
voyage still briefer to the ladies. The former
.has been a Free Mason, who has eaten fcis way
into all the honors of the craft, and'who will
hold lodges m the maintop, where the prox
imity of the fire from the chimneys will jbo.
highly convenient lor heating the gridirons.
The latter has been still more carefully selected,
and is a gontleman wfiom his wife is about to
divorce, under the hew law, for the incompati
bility of his red hair with her notions of ele
gance, and who, under the same law, will bo
incapable of marrying again. Ho will, there
fore, have been a family man, which makes
him respectable, while, at the same time, his
attentions can mean nothing.
The.spiritual welfare of the ten thousanl in
habitants of the vessel will be duly cared for.
A very handsome church is being built on the
afterdeck, and four chapels, for Methodists,
Catholics, Baptists and Independent!, are being
erected forward. A pretty rectory house and
garden will be placed near tho wheel, but it is
thought well that the voluntary qfstera should
provide for tho dissenting teachers, though,
in case of soa-sickncss during the services, tho
==== —— = ——— = —— : sea-beadles are ordered to attend everywhere
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*«Wa,x E of *aglxo M ax PARIS,
•,. - y * * Eastern undertaking to be tho godfathers to
I went with my Yankee companion last night to any addition made to tbs population during the
the Grand Opora; and at the risk of being enor- * e , a stfrersmitb g*>cs out expressly to
' u raVthe nmv bo
guile tho lazy twenty-four hours. They admit tho had gratis, on applfcshon to the boatswain.
.. spectators to a French theatre ia .files of two be- The captain will acMS father to any young (or
* tween high railings, and under the grim and beard- other) lady who m*y succeed, by dint of moon
ed authority of the polioe, which prevents crowd- and Lord B*on, persuading a gentlc
ingand disorder; and whoever wishes to go in, man to pay ler expenses for the rest of her life,
not having a seat provided, “ makes tail,’ os they j Officer iB now growing whis
hr 1 rsai^dbii^
hour, and soil outthoirplaoesat an advance tothe and demani atentions, on application from
‘ most tardy, so that you haVe always this resort to any nlamma Cottages for the honeymoon
obtain a good enough seat. *-In approaching tho are being fIW up, larboard side, by Messrs,
house persons will oaor you tiokets with great im- Jackson an Graham, and will have private
portunity in the streets. With one of these which, teleeroDhß> the kitchen, nightingales, and
by cheapening a-little, I got at double price,'l Life
P ’wSf la Pievfvoila,h programme), Wcaihtfenuittiug, races will take place at
These are two phrases—meaning only the analysis stated pe J^ s > a &d tho Great Eastern Derby
and bill of the play, at two sous—whioh you will will bo in thn voyage. Once round
hear croaked with the most obstreperous disoord the ves? being a third of a mile, the heats
through the houso, in the intervals of tho nor- .sily arranged. A moveable Grand
formaniie. to bring out Monsieur Aubor and Scribe, gtand pcing constructed by Messrs. Edgiug
and the Donnas. It lsprobably f ea ' ton. /o stabling in the vessel will afford ac-
SOD tho ow s aro permitted to nag infte njghj. to cojlini ation for any number of horses, and
ltobo-'t lo Diable,”-*«•« Fanalise df la one ohe longhoata 'itself a large steamer)
pi eU ' ■ can b-ngaged for trial gallops, and he sur
y There was tho representation of grave yard and roun-1 with awning and ordered to cruise at
resurrection; .and the ghosts, at least two hun- som 4stance, in order to insure privacy,
drod, flocked oat of the ground inwhite frocks and qy Betting act not applying to tlio high
silk stockings, and they squeaked and gibhmcd office where the odds will be given
' ‘ peS^etThe 0 f—fr S“Z Per “ n -ofthopLer.
balletaoftheircountry,certainly,inamannervery Ob amusements Will be provided, and an
creditable .to tho other world. And while these Af ican a “ e y and a skittle ground being
' waltzed and quad rilled, another sot were enter- gj.ted on the poop, and a square boiler being
' taining themselves witVolegant and fashionable fld up as a Casino, into which boiling water
amusements; some were turning sumof seta upon a' y not be turned without such notice as may
new grave ;'othorß ploying at whiafc “P o®* 0 ®* practicable. A theatre is in course of croc-1
n, and an Ehglish dramatic author will be!
screech and skulked Into their graves; there was pi down m-the iiokl, with a safety lamp, to
a flutter through the house, tho music announcing rnslate any French piece that may be tlu own
somegreat event, and at length auddsta burst of iwn to him. , . . . ‘ i'
acotiueations, Mademoiselle jCagUumetooir upon qi w 0 eminent Jew costumiers have connected
'. aliehted''tKero'from some other sphere. ‘ aT0 J supply dresses, and when not engaged in
I oapeotedm bo littlo pleased with this lady pheatrical pursuits, will be happy to till up their
had board praises of her acoomplis’h- Afant evenings in being converted, onmoder-1
disappointed. Her exceedingite terms, by any passenger who may be going i
-mi? ?, r «Hh i 5
movements, pauses anfr Wtndes tn thSrwiVesf oahn S " io * hls hemghted brethren. (Extra
Attiosimplicity, chastity anAurt an ; t j- She has !l,ar B e for waning of tracts), A club room
a power over the feelings wbionyoti wui btt unwil- 8 also being arranged, and candidates for the *
, lingto concedo to her art. She VHI make yourireat Eastern Club had better send in their
heart beat with joy: she will weepbyimes. Trade, moustacheß, political opin’*ons,
traffo* 0 fristling, a short pipe, the habit of asking
Seat ih that which lf c . Btions ’ Pu^ism ’ or a P U S Dolse > will
still you will wish her a statute that aho may stand l ? e * ,
still always; or if she moves you will wish hor a stands will be placed at tno most con
wavo of tho sea that sho may do nothing but that Vent parts of the ship, and tables of fare and
“move still, still so, and own no other function.” Winces affixed. Incivility or overcharge
Tomosho appeared last night to have filled up tho offender to the cat, but the
illusion of tho play—to have shuffled flw will bo conducted in tho back vard of
off this gross and qlumsy humanity, and to belonc t», * , 11 , coaauciea m 1110 Da ® ol
to some more airy and spiritual world. . g I* I y[ lcre the loudest-throated fellow
But my companion, who is a professor, and a without being'beard by the public,
little ecolesmetical, and bred in that most undane- ".'liairs and perambulatorß will also be in
ing country, New England, was scandalised at the Jl ai g> and omnibuses will convey the hum
whole performance. Ho is of the old school, and various parts of the vessel.
5^ n . 0 n- ntn j tionBof th / at “g. o .. a ”<; doasnotnp- to the allow of the electric light
scan tinea* of the indy’s wardrobe. 1 I was bora )„,?,v %lloon wili ascend once a week with
farther south and could bettor boar it. an y quarter to which the wind may
The art of dressing has beon carried often by tho ~e , o, ig* Further particulars will be pub
ladies to a blaraeablo excess of quantity; so much h*m e <l , m time to time until the launch
fco, that a groat wit said in his day, a woman was
, “ the least part of herself.” Tnglioni’s gins, it is
true, do not lie on this side of tho Category; she
produced last evening nothing but heraeff—Made
moiselle Taglioni in tho abstraot. Ovid would not
have complained of hor. Jfor lower limbs wore a
light silk, imitating nature with undistlnguisbable
nicety, an£ her bosom a thin game which just re
lieved the eye, as you hard seep a fine fleecy cloud
hang upon the dazzling sun. Butthoroisnogentle
man out of Now England who would not have
grieved .to see her spoilt by villanous mantua
makers. Sho did not, moreover, exceed what the
courtesy of nations has permitted, and what is ne
oea&ry to the proper exhibition of her art.
■They call this French opera, the '‘Academic
Kopate de Mu.nque," also the " Fravcais.” in*
contradistinction with tho » Italien;” finally the
(fraud Opera, this latter name becousoithas
a greater quantity of tliumlor and lightning, of
pasteboard seas, of paper snow storms,and dragons,
that spit flro; also a gorgeousnessqfwardrobo and
scenery not equalled upon any theatre of Europo.
It is cortain its "corps dc ballet ” can outdance
all tho world pul; together. *, ■
■ ’Marey'.'-how deficient we are in oiir country In
.these elegant .accomplishments,' 'ln many things
wo aro still in onr infancy, in dancing wo aro not
- y&tborn. We*‘havo, it is true, our “balances, 1 '
and chasses, and lari'to-bacir. and our women
do throw o groat doal of soul into, their littlo feet
, —as on a “ birth-night, ’’ oir,ait “Eighth of Ja
nnary ” : or the’ IJJto; —bnt the Owhd Opera, the
Opera Francois, the Academic Royalo do Musique!
Aki mafoiy e'est la line autre affaire!,, Ton have
road, and so has everybody, of tho “dancing
Oreeke,” of KChespis, Bo described by Herodotus,
wbousodto danco on hie head;'his feet all tho
while dandling,in-the air; of the “Oiidltanian
. girls,” so sung by the plnaoreon; ofHylas, who
danced,before Augustus; or tho “dancing Der-
Ylsbea, wbodancoa ourShabers; ‘
of the .pautomimic dances, doscribod by Raynal,
and tho Turkish Almas, by the f ‘ sweot alary Mon
taguejl’and finally every one has hoard of the
“Ag 6 of Voltaire, the King of Prussia, andVes
tris”—rwell, all this is outdanoiid by Taglioni and
tfie,Grand Opera. - f
Ibis opera has scats for two thousand spectators,
" besides an immense saloon (tvro hundred feet by
fifty) where a groat number of fashicnables, to re
iiove their eara from tho noise of the singing, pro
menade themselves magnificently during tho whole
evening, under tho light of brilliant lustres, and
where the walls, walnscotted with mirrors, multi
ply their numbers and ehnrms to infinity. I m&v
.as well oontinue danoing through the test of this
Vainly you hope to inorit Heaven’s blessing
By trampling on its oreaturo3 or its iuws.
Jho holiest sucrifice, tho richest inconse,
Is that which issues from a contrite hoart,
In doublo duty, both to Earth and Heaven.
Paith without works is dead; and prayer itself, *
Though you should kneel Away the altar stone,
Is poor assurance of celestial hopo,
Uiuoasthou “lov’st tuy neighbor as thyself.’
page.
Dancing, you know, is a characteristic amuse*
ment of the French, and you may suppose they
' bare accommodations to gratify their tosto to Us
fuliestextont.- Theta elegant rotundas for dancing
in nearly all the public gardens, as at M Trivoli,”
‘lWaxhatd’Eto, and the “Chaumioro do Mont
3 > a^tasse. ,, Besides thero are “Guinguottes" at
every Bftrriereand in tho" Village Fotcs," which
endure the wholo Summer; danomg is 1 theoLiof
amusement; and public balUyo'omsnro distributed
• through every quarter of-Paris, suited, to every
one’s rank and fortune. The best society of Paris
-go to the balls of Banelah’, Autcuil ond St. Cloud.
The theatres, too, are converted into -ball-rooms,
especially for the masquerades, from the beginning
to the ond pf the Carnival.
- I hired a cabriolet and driver the other night,
• and went with, a lady from Now Orleans, to see
the most famous of the “ Guiuguettes.” Here all
■' the little world seemed to me completely and rea
sonably happy ; behaving With all the decency
add dancing pdth almost the grace'of high life!
We visited naif a dozen, paying only ton sous at
each for admission. I must not tell you it was
Sunday night; it is so difficult to keep Sunday all
alone, and withontauy ono to help you; the clergy
And & great deal of trouble to keep it themselves
here, there is so little encouragement.. On Sunday
only these places' are seen to ndyimtage. lam
very fur from approving of dancing bn this day, if
one can help it.' put-I huyeuodouht that in a city
like Paris; the dancers are more .taken from the
tavern and gin shops than from the.ciiurohcs. I
do not approve, icithor, of the absolute denuncia
tion this elegant amusement incurs front any of
our religious classes in Amorisa. If human virtues
are put tip at too high, a price no ono will bid for
. them.-' ‘Not a Word u said against danclltg in tho
Old orNoir Tcstnmoiit, and & great deal in favpr.
.Miriam danend, you know howprettily; and DaVld
, danced “ before the Lord with all bia might;” to
be sure tho manner of his dancing was mot quit? so
1 commendable, according to the' fashion of our
' climates.'lf you will accept classical authority I
‘ will give .you pedantry yardessits la te.tr.. The
. to dancing a celestial origin, .and
ihoy admitted it oven amongstthe accomnlmbmehts
/and <?f selr divinities. 1 The .Groces
are represented almost always, in.the nthtade of
s}£ Apollo, (he most of (he
gods, and the god of'wisdom too, Is callod by s*in
dar tho u dancer.” Indeed, I could show you, if
I ploasod, that Jupiter himself sometimes took
part in a cotillion, and on onb occasion, danced a
gavofc. 1 . ;
Ioould«howyou, too,thatEmminondas, amongst
his rare qualities, is praised by Cornohus Ncpos
for his skill in dancing; and that Thcraiatoolcs, in
an evoning party at Athens, passed for a clown for
refusing to take a sharo in il dance. But it is so
foppish to quoto Greek and to bo talking to
women about tho anojonts. Don tsay that dancing
j 8 n o t a natural inclination, or I will sot all tho
a&ragoa on you of tho Kooky Mountains; and I
don’t know how many of tho dumb animals—espo
eially the boars, who, even on tho South-sea
Islands, whore they could not have any relations
with the Academic Royalo deMusique, always ex
press their extreme joy, Captain Cook says, by
this aeroeable agitation of limbs. And if you
won’t polievo all this, I will take you to see a
Negro holiday on the Mississippi. Now this is
enough about dancing; it is vory late and I must
danoe off to bed.
Punch on the Mammoth Steamship Great
teilcourse with the. Chinese.
First aijjg. the nations of Modern Europe to
open conurciai relations with the Chinese were
tho Portuh&Q f who dispatched a ship to Canton
in the earlgcrt of the sixteenth century, theirs
being tbe Vst European flag seen at Canton.
They soon *er established a factory at Ninjgpo,
and by tho 1560 had many trading ports and
settlements <>ng tho coast. Undor their protoc*
.tion, Chrlstiijty was introduced among the Chi
nose, and mdffith much encouragement,.until a
scries of disttofol measures drew upon them the
indignation othe people, who rose upon them at
Ningpj, and, i|a reported, destroyed upwards of
elovon thousa\ Chinese Christians and oight
hundred Portujese, and burned thirty-five ships.
After this they fe re greatly restricted }n their
trade. The r>tuguese, says the Providence
ave *nt live embassies to tho Emperor
of China, tho fir. being in 1517, a second about
years after* third in 1607, and a fourth in
17W, which was to first one that roaohed Pekin.
Nope of theso nro successful. Presents woro
given and receive* but no commercial advanta
ges wero gamed. year 1753 {mother was
sent, which reachd Pokm». It was conducted and
ended liko its prdeocssors; -*JI of them exhibit
ing in a greater ir less degree, the spectacle of
humiliating subnission of indepeDin n t nations,
through tht(r enroyi, to a court which w>k plea*
sure in arrogating and exalting itself on ink hom
age it received, nud studiously avoiding all rtfor
onento the real bisDcasof the embassy; that it
might neither give nor deny anything
Tho Spaniards ppetod a trade with China after
they haa taken Manilaund *tho PhilHptdnes, in
1543.,, They sent an embassy to Pekin in 1580, but
tho Chinese protendedpot tt> understand their ob
ject, and sent tho party back to
they wero iwprFsoiutd, - The .commerce botwoob
Manilla and'China hat vinoe been carried on
chiefly by (he ChineseJuho have emigrated in
large numbers to ■the Phttlippiueß. The heavy
taxes imposed upon tbeia bj, and the harsh treat
ment they havo over receivod from the Spaniards,
first led the Chinese government to retaliate on
thorn, and establish' the systeri of espionage and
restriction, which they bfterwirds extendod to all
foreigners.
Tho Butch first visited Mscaojn 1622, and were
driven off. They then established thomsclvos on
tho Pescadores; but a few years after, so greatly
wore (he Chinese annoyed by the Dutoh, that thoy
sent an army against them, and forced them to
retire to Formosa. They extended thoir settle
ments on this island, established Christianity, and
erooted many churches and schools, but subse
quently suspended their operations in this direc
tion for fear of offendlog; the Japanese, whoso
, trade they wished to secure.
In 1645 tho Butch sent an embassy to Pekin,
but as a mercantile speculation It availed nothing.
Their presents were received, and othors! given in
roturn. Tho envoys prostrated themselves before
the omperor, and did everything in the way of hu
miliation required of them. For all this the Dutoh
obtained permission to send an embassy once iu
eight years, and with it four ships to trade. Two
years later the Chinese attacked tho Butch fort
and seitletrients at Formosa with a large fleot and
twenvy-fivo thousand men, and compelled tho gar
rison to surrender,'with a loss of sixteen hundred
men. In 1664 the Butch' sent another embassy
to Pekin, which wag subjected to great, humilia
tions, but gained no commercial advantages. No
farther attempt'to obtain commercial advantages
was made until 1704, when only a fresh harvest of
insults and annoyances was reaped by the Butch
envoys,.who,itis said, were "brought to tho capi
taliike mulefttotors, and treated when there like
befiganr.”
, Eugiiah vessels first visited Macao in 1637, but
owing to the intrigues of the Portuguese, they
failed to accomplish , anything. Another effort to
open trade in 1664 was defeated in a like manner.
The English succeeded, hovf&Yert some years after
in establishing tradingjpoats at Atnoy, and in 1684
gained a footing at Canton. Their trAdo was,
during many years that followed) attended with
groat difficulties, restrictions and extortions on
the part of the Chinese, who treated nil foreign
nations in,tpe most arrogant any annoying man
ner. The rmo on whioh the Chinese proceeded in*
its dealings with foreigners has boon thus trans
lated 1 by Promare: '‘The barbarians are like
beasts, and ndt to be ruled on the same principle
as citizen?. ! ‘ "Were any ono to attempt controling
them by'the. great maxims cf reason*, it would
tend,to nothing but confusion.,' The anoiont Kings
understood this; therefore to rule barbarians by
misrule is the true and best way of ruling them."
Othor embassies, were subsequently dispatched
to Pekin by the English, one of which cost nearly
»0, but nothing of importance was effected.
, as is well known, the two nations came
to »» ope# ruj)tufe ( a#i JSnglaml #Mh»
•E v P Eifi LAPEL PHI A, Sft T U/R BAY, AUG U ST 1 , 185 7 .
result ox the, opening of the five port? to
foreign eomnleroe.
It is to bo lihjioil that tho present attempt to
obtain tho esWbliijbmOOt of more liberal oonuner :
oial privileges from China, in which the prinoipal
conmxorciai nations aro engaged, will result in
plaoing intercourse with that nation on a footing
much nearer tho comity of civilised nations than
it now is. 4
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winds up with Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska,
Utah, New Mexico, and the Indian territory.
Every place with which any historical associa
tion is connected is thus included and de
scribed. Natural curiosities, and whatever
may Interest the lovers of art and science aro
gracelhUy glanced at—sometimes the descrip
tion is minute—generally graphic. Skeleton
tours are sketched, so that tho traveller is
spared the trouble of framing them for himself,
and can regulate their extent by his means and
time.
To show the comparative space devoted to
each subject, we may state that the description
of Pennsylvania occupies seventeen pages,
equal to thirty-four in an ordinary volume.
Philadelphia is described at some length, with
views of the State House and tho Fairwount
Water Works. There are also views of
Valley Forge, Pittsburgh, the Juniata, and the
Susquehanna, witli a plan of Philadelphia, and
twp State maps with the railway routes.
Tho greater pait of this book has been writ
ten by Mr. Richards, from personal observa
tion. He acknowledges his obligations to
Messrs. Ayres, T. D. Lowther, and W. P.
Smith, for the accounts of California, St. Au
gustine, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
and has judiciously availed himself of tho la
bors of previous tourists. A strong relish for
the beauties of nature is evident throughout
the hook, and, with all temptations to run
into that enthusiastic mode of expression
called high-fahitin’, Mr. Richards has suc
ceeded, for the most part, in preserving a
graceful flow of language, very pleasant to the
reader. One of the most delightftil passages
in tlie hook is an account of tho author’s visit
to the residence of Simms, the ominent Southern
romancist and poet. The besetting weakness
of a New Yorker is to speak of “ Georoe P.
Morris —the poet,” and Mr. Richards yields
to it! Punch, it may be recollected, used to
glorify (in a different manner) “tho poet
Bunn.” This is a matter of opinion, how
ever, and Mr. Richards may think Morris
superior to Anacreon, if he pleases. One,
and only one instance, of. had. taste wahayo
noted in this book. Describing a breakfast at
ti.s Virginia Springs, Mr. Richards says:—
“From the above articles you may make a
breakfast good enough for a king—if such an
anin}al must live better than others of his
species.” It strikes us that king or peasant
is not more nor less of an “ animal” tlian tho
author himself.
This Hand-book, view it as you pleaso, is an
astonishing production. One mind has framed
it, throughout, thereby giving it a degree of
unity rarely to be found in what may bo called
composite productions. We have already
fouud it useftil, in our 6wn not very wide range
of travel, and certainly it will be the best two
dollars’ worth that a tourist can carry witli him.
LITTLE DOBRIT.
We have received from our neighbor, T. B.
Peterson, his two-volumo illustrated re-print
of“ Little Dorrit.” It contains forty engrav
ings, and has tho advantage of combining clear
type, good paper, ncufc binding, and low price.
Scarcely equal, as a whole, to some of Dic
kens’s earlier works, still, thisis such as none
but himself could havewritten. The action is
rather melo-dramatic at times, but his charac
ters are original, natural, and well-developed.
Mr. Peterson has several editions, at all
prices and in all sizes, of this and every other
work by tho same author.
MAGAZINE DAY.
The principle of antagonism between this
country and England is curiously illustrated
by the fact that while our Magazine literature
shows every appearance of vitality, it has
fallen into comparative decadence in England.
Blackwood's Magazine continues the oven
tenor ofits way—living chiefly on its former
reputation, and occasionally proving, by a
particularly brilliant article, that some of the
old spirit was remaining. Since the conclu
sion of« My Novel,” it has principally lived
upon serial stories, by various hands, —such as
Hailey’s “Lady Lee’s Widowhood,” Mrs.
Ouphant’s “ Zaidee” and “ The Athelings,”
and so on. It has now commenced another
novel by Bulwer, which will probably con
tinue a piece de resistance for the next two
years.
The Dublin University Magazine, little
known in this country, comes next to Black
wood, across the water. Despite its Tory po
litics, it lias great merits, and has been especi
ally strong on Irish literature, poetry, bi
ography, and antiquities. Through this me
dium, also, several of tho popular Actions of
Cnani.Es Levee (“ Harry Lorrequer”) havo
been presented to the public.
In London, at present, tliore are only two
readable magazines-^- Household Words, nomi •
nally conducted by Dickens, who does little
Wore than receive the pro Ats, and the Na
tional edited by two play-writer.-,
Jno. Saunders and Wkrtlani> Marston. Both
are issued weekly, and both are low priced. A
f»e-simile edition of Household Words is pub
lished in Now York, (by Miller & Curtis,)
and a,-pears sooner than nn ordinary reprint,
in constqucnco of early proof-sheets being
transmitted from London. Tho popular story,
“ The Dead Secret,” by Wilkie Collins,
which lias rim through a score of papers in
this country, appeared in this work.
Tho New Monthly Magazine, which was
something while edited by Campbell, the
poet, some thirty years ago, and subsequently
was conducted by Bulweu, S. Carter Hall,
(tho original of Pecksniff, in “ Martin Chuz
zlewlt,”) Thomas Hood, Theodore Hook,
and Haebison Ainsworth, lias now become
the property of tho last named author, and
would bo tlie dullest of all vegetating periodi
■cals, were it not that Ainsworth’s Magazine
equals it. Mr. Ainsworth is grout on the
“ annexation ”of Mugnzincs. no conducted
Bentley’s Miscellany, after it had boon aban
doned by Dickens, the original editor, and
purchased the copyright a few years ago. His
threo magazines arc tile dullest of the dull.
Fraser’s Magazine, which was once the most
devil-may-care, rollicking, scholastic, libellous,
personal, Tory, and eccontric of periodicals,
when Dr. Maihnn and his merry men wrote for
it, is now dull and decent. It is jolid, re
spectable and slow. Mr. Kinoslet’s early
prose works appeared in it, and gave it re
newed popularity for a time.
Rather out of the route of ordinary maga
zinism (if wo may coin a word) is the immor
tal Gentleman's, founded more than a century
ago by EdwAbd Cave, and the receptacle of
Dr. Samuel Johnson's earliest compositions.
It is devoted to antiquities, biography, and
literature.
Such, excluding the quarterly reviews, are
the leading periodicals of pur English neigh
bors. Household Worth and Blackwood’s Ma
gazine are reprinted here, (the latter by Leo
nard, Scott & Co., of Now York;) but tlie /
pream of all tho periodicals—weekly, monthly
and quarterly—appears, week aftor week, in a
Boston journal, book-size, low-priced, neatly
printed, and well editod, entitled Littell’s Liv
ing
tYe have few periodicals proportionably
with the greater nupiber of readers in tills
country. Thoy are almost exclusively pub
lished in Philadelphia and New York, though
there arc magazines at Cincinnati and Chicago,
the Metropolitan in’ Baltimore, and the South
ern Literary Messenger in Richmond,’Virginia.
Fire} among New VoA pwgagine? in point
of ago is tho Knickerbocker, which has nearly
completed its twenty-fifth year, by fur the
greater part of that life-time under the editor
ship of Lewis Gaylord Clark, an undoubted
humorist, whoso “ Editor’s Table” Is stamped
with a -peculiar and pleasant, individuality.
Nearly every author of repute in the country
has contributed to “ Old Knick,” which is
exclusively made up of original articles.
By far the greatest circulation ever obtained
by any periodical, in any country, is that ac
quired by Harper's Magazine. The actual
issue is stated to be 170,000 copies—a trifle
less than the circulation of the Weekly Tri
bune, and considerably less than what wo in
tend shall be tho ultimate circulation of our
own Weekly Press. It was established some
years ago, nnd the original ilea was to make
it up principally by “ pickings and stealings”
from foreign periodicals. Very soon, the con
ductors got out of this, and at present, by fur
the greater portion of Hamr is not only
wholly original, but of excellent quality. It
has several illustrated articles in each number.
A series of this description nns lately been
re-published in a splendid octaro, as “ Virginia
Illustrated,” by a very able aristand agreeable
writer, and its miscellaneous contents aro ge
nerally entertaining and instructive.
Putnam's Magazine, comirenced in 1853,
has bad ebbs and flows of succjss. Originally,
it was illustrated, but, after a time, this was
changed. Several pleasant Hoks have been
made out of articles which Hist appeared in
Putnam —among them, “ The Potiphar Pa
pers,” which would bo admirable if the reader,
in skimming over them, wasrkt reminded of a
certain pre-existant Tiiaokebay, the fact being
that Mr. Curtis is quite cloverenough to have
been wholly original. Tho has
lately passed into now hands, (Mr. Curtis
himself being now one of its publishers,) and
has improved very greatly by the transition.
It has gone back to illustration, also, and bids
fair to be attractive in this liie, os well as in
the literary. Chit-chat abait books and
authors, at home and abroad, is an agreeable
feature in this work.
The United States conducted by
Seda Smith, who is re-publishing Major Jaqk
Downing’s Letters, illustrated and annotated,
lias greatly improved of late, ard is enriched
with numerous illustrations—a few of which,
however, have done yeomauta service in other
works. Tho National , Hunt's Merchants'
Magazine, and Mrs. Stephens'-Monthly may
also he favorably mentioned as veil-conducted
periodicals.
In Philadelphia the oldest of the magazines
is Godey's Lady's Book, now ii its 55th half
yearly volume—neatly printel, handsomely
illustrated, graced with song tnd story, and
largely devoted to the edification of the fe
male world, by the fullest and latest details
(With engravings) of foreign and domestic
fashions. It lias much that is useful as well
as entertaining, and enjoys a grjat circulation.
It is edited by Mrs. Uaie and Ir. Godey.
Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine, yet
in its teens, contains more litemture and less
fashion than tho Lady's Book. It is rich in
romantic fiction, and is plentifully studded
with poetical pieces. It octasionally has
translations from the French. It is edited by
Mr. Charles J. Peterson and Mrs. Stephens.
After many vicissitudes, Grahem's Magazine
has sprung into renewed youth (like Milton’s
eagle), under the skilful editorship of Mr.
Charles J. Leland, a scholar who is not a
mure bookworm, a traveller who has used life
opportunities wisely. He contributes largely
to tho Magazine, and tho traces of a graceful
mind aro evident upon its pages. There are
engravings on steel and wood, and a glimpse
at the fashions, —but, better than those, just
criricism, playful gossip, and n clear under
current of philosophy run through tho work.
The Lady's Home Magazine , edited by T.
S. Arthur and Virginia F. Townsend, has a
multitude of readers, wo dare say. It has
variety, as well as ability, und is conducted
with tact and talent. Like its neighbors, it
has colored fashion-plates, besides engravings
on stool and wood. (And here we must say,
parenthetically, that for the most part, the
wood-cuts in the Philadelphia are not nearly
so good, in execution and working, as those
in the New York periodicals, and impressions
from used-up steel-plates might be dispensed
with.)
To this may be added that Boston, at last,
is going to have a periodical of its own. . The
Wise Men of the East intend to call it tho
Northern Magazine (to mark its sectional cha
racter ?) It is to contain a certain amount of
“ copy” taken from foreign publications, nnd
it will be issued by Phillips, Sampson & Co.
Boston certainly ought to havo a Magazine of
her own, and we shall welcome tho interesting
infant.
Here concluding this rapid summary, we
must very briefly notice the Magazines of tho
month into which we enter this day.
THE KNICKERBOCKER.
A well-engraved portrait of Donald G. Mitchell
(“Ik Marvel,”) from tho Knickerbocker Gallery,
graces tho new numbor of this father of tho Amo
rioan Magazines. There is a continuation of tho
very attractive papers, by F. S. Cowens, called
“A Month with tho Blue 1 Noses;” a furthor por
tion, with two illustrations, of Henry J. Brent’s
terost, by a new contributor, called “Tho Cotton
Jenny,” with a variety of miscellaneous matter,
worth perusal. But Mr attraction in the periodi
cal, which all Its rivals havo endeavored to imi
tate, is that agreeable melange, the “Editor’s
Table.” This month it concludes with a graphio
account of the oponing of tho Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad from Cincinnati to St. Louis, written by
Mr. 8. Hueston, publisher of tho Mngizino.
HARPER’S MAGAZINE.
The artist-author who assumes the name of
Porto-Crayon, opens with an illustrated article on
North Carolina, giving a lively account, with
sketches of scenery anu the processes of working
in tho gold mines in that rich district. Another
Interesting paper is upon “Wheat and its Associa
tions,” by T. B. Thorpo, who exhausts the subject.
Some of tho landscape illustrations, by Dopier, are
charming views. Mr. Abbott's “States-Genoral”
wo pass by ns a thrieo-told tale. Different and
better is a lively skotch, with amusing wood-cuts,
of “A Jaunt in Java.” A Chapter is
good—though Popo’s couplet on Lady Montaguo,
however “truculent and mordaoious,” Issoarcoly
decent. Thoro is the intensity of actual lifo in
the story of “Alix Thuriot Thorne;” thoro is
an nnaobromsm also: the heroine speaks as having
been married “soven long gray years ago,” and,
before that marriage, of having “listened to the
ripple of Gottschalk’B renal Angora.” Now, as
Gottschalk did not return from Europo earlier than
1853, it is cloar that, if “soven long gray years”
really did elapse since then, wo must now be in
tho year 1800. In the Editor’s Table is a thought
ful comment upou Heroism; the foreign gossip of
tho Easy Chair is entertaining; and the Drawer
has several anecdotes not published before. Many
of our readers, no doubt, havo hoaxd a popular
tunc, and some may huve danced to- it. Here is
Col. T. B. Thorpe’s account of the
ORIGIN OP “POP GOES TUB WXABEL.”
Hardy as wheat is, it it subject to many diseases, nnd
also suffers from insects. The weevil is quite familiar.
Its young is supposed to be deposited in the ears of
wheat, which they loave about August end go into the
ground, where it is probable tbeyremalu during the
winter in the pupa state, and become tiles the next
season, whon the wheat is in bloom. “Pop goes tho
weasel” Is an expression on every one’s tongue, yet few
understand the origin oi the saying. By giving its his
tory, wo may also learn something of the habits of tho
weevil. According to tradltjjn,” a famous
Methodist preacher, by tho name of Graven, was once
preaching in the heart of Virginia, whui ha spoko ns
follows: “Here are present & great irsipr profcHsors of
religion, who are slock, fat and good looting, yet some
thing is the matter vflth you. Low ;ou have neon
wheat which was plump, rouqd, md pod-looking to
tho eye, but when you weighed it you fmnd that it was
only forty-five or perhaps forty-ejght pounds to the
bushel, when it should ho, If a prirao article, sixty or
slxty-threp pouuds. Take a kernel of this wheat bo
tween your thumb and finger, hold It up to the light
and squeeze it, aud ‘pop goes the weevil.* Now, you
good-looking professors of religion, yoi are plump nnd
round, but jou only weigh forty-fivoor forty-six pounds
to the bushel. What is tho mattirf Ah, when yon
are taken between the thumb of the Jaw aud the fore
finger of the gospel; ‘Pop goes your ”
PUTNAM’S MONTHLY.
Illustrated articles coramonee thbtfagazino also.
Thero is a pictorial paper on LakeGoorgo; a hotel
sketch, in which a “detective” is dtvorly brought
in; Sohamyl andhisHarom,and arniher. Wo havo
an idea that Mr. Grabbed Night VithMemnon is
not original, and we know that it i& not good. A
Torch-Hunt in Tenpcsaee, an Irfrh Highwayman,
Two Incidents of Travel, and Thd Last Poet, are ex
ceedingly good. But tho very host part of tho num
ber is ontitled Editorial Notes, containing reviews
of books, an immqnso fund of literary news and ohit
chat, and views also of tho forld of daily life,
passing before the wrltor's eye. This is the beat
number of Putnam yet published.
GRAHAM S MAGAZINE.
Under the able editorship of Mr. Chaiij.hs Lk
land, the literary character of tins Magazine bus
greatly improved. Wo can scarcely say as muoli
tor tho majority of tho wood cuts, wMoh are so
indifferently printed that the do.’ioaoy of tho finer
lines is destroyed. Wo alludfcio tho illustrations
of two well written articles, ttoso ofi Madumo do
Muintcnon and Joiephino of FAnce. By the way,
tho writor goems to liavo a social dislike to tho
Widdw Scarron, who, with nil her faults, was not
quite so black us he pnintshor- Thero aresovornl
interesting stories hero, aud a lively nccount (by
Mr. Reed) of tho Election for Par
liament iu Eugland. Well iufitfiiud as Mr. Reed
evidently iu, though ho soroewUU undor-oatiiuates
the ooat, it is atrango that ho ihould have mndo
Free Trade tho paramount qiwtion of 1847, Sir
Robort Peel having granted itiomo time boforo.
Two pleasant, gossippy papors h«o are oditoriul—
"Our Curiosities" aud "Ktsy falk." llore are
collected and preserved, like fowls strung on gold
thread, a variety of notobilia wtrthy of preserva
tion. Among them in a Germanized and
illustrated ballad, sotting prthtke story of "Dor
Freifiohutz.” This is amV ant quaint libretto,
very profitable to laugh ortr.
GODEY’S LADY’S BOOh,.
Groat would bo thodismiy, injonnand country
—but particularly in the rural districts, whero the
varieties and fluctuations >f ferial© fashions are
moro read of than seen—il by‘any chance, the
Lady's Jiooi wore to ha mspaaled, oven for a
month. For, to the world of wameu, it is a veri
tablo guide and friend, towing them what is
worn, and how to make uproar it;, giving them
heaps of valuable domoaD receipts; touching
them several of tho usefuUm well’as tho orna
inontal arta; and adding, b orown all, a fair va
riety of poetry and story-Aliug. The Lessons on
Drawing, aud tiro ohaper on the Birds of tho
Poets, are tho bo3t papon It tho present number.
Without giving distinoivs natiues of Peterson's
Ladies' National Magisim and Arthur's Lady *«
Jlome Magazine, we n»y briofly say, at present,
that the current numbo* are, at least, abovo par.
Thoy do not go so largqV into the subjects of dross
and fashion as The h&y'* Booh dooa. Their li
terature, original andsolocted, is a decided im
provement on what -to bo the staple of suoh
works only a few yea's ago.
The Panorama o’ Life and Literature, (pub
lished by E I.ITTF.*., of Burton,) i» u monthly ot
noariy ono himil«l and fifty pages double
column, Bvo., contining tit, best articles ™ nil
subjects in tho lcuing toreijn periodicals. In the
August number, ,o crack paper s that on the
Atlnntlo Ocean, fom tho lust Edinburgh Review,
tun} has p«QiiliM.nterest nov, whoa tho great ex-
periment of uniting two hemispheres by that elec
tric chain of thought, tho submarine telegraph, U
about being made.
Tho Now York ropublicatiou of Household
Words, covoring all tho numbers issued in Juno,
is a duplioato of the London issue, at about half
the London price.
NEWS OF LITERATURE k ART.
Tho Lifo and Remains of Douglas Jerrold
is announced in London, by his son, W.
Blanchard Jerrold, who succeeds him in the
editorship of Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.
Tho last new novel, by G. P- R. James,
(commencing, as usual, with two horsemen,)
is "Leouoro D’Orco,” and gives ns a good
sketch of diaries VIIL, of France, with
glimpses of Chevalier Bayard and C®sar Bor
gia. It lias been republished by Harpers, of
New York, who have also brought out Georgo
Sorrow’s “ Romany Rye,” (ft strange book,
but well written,) and announce “The Athe
lings,” by Mrs. Oliphant, the wife of an artist
in London, Scottish by blood and birth, niul
very pretty and petite.
Alexander Smith’s new book wilt be called
“City Poems.” He has lately married a
bonny Scottish lassie, and is provided for with
,£3OO a year, for life, as Secretary to the Uni
versity of Edinburgh.
Tennyson has completed a further portion,
complete in itself, of liis great poem on tho
Morte D'drthur. It is not sufficient for a
volume, so he intends keeping it until ho has
written something elso. A richly illustrated
edition of Tennyson has just appeared, and
Campbell’s “Gertrude of Wyoming” is to be
produced with like adornments.
Dr. Pusey announces a polemical work on
tho Real Presence; Mr. Maguire, editor of an
Irish paper, (tho Cork Examiner ,) announces
a volume on Rome; and Sir James Alexander
promises “Passages in the Life of a Soldier.”
Tho North British Review, lately suspended,
is to re-appear this day (August 1) under new
management.
Blackwood's Magazine devotes over 1G pages
to Lieut. A. W. Habersham's recently pub
lished book, « My Last Cruise; or, Where We
Went and What we Saw.” After lamenting
that modern books of voyages do not appear to
possess that richness, raciness and variety
which were so characteristic in the narratives of
tho oarly navigators, the reviewer exclaims, to
all such book-writers, “ Now here is an Ame
rican—stand forth, Lieut. Habersham, of the
United States Navy!—who may servo as a
pattern to moat of you.” It describes him as
“ a thorough sailor, bold, active and energetic,
with a certain spice of tho dare-devil in his
composition, which renders him excellent com
pany;” especially lauds him for being free from
humbug, and says « he describes well, because
ho does not strain after effect, but keeps ri
gidly to what is before him; and his humor,
though racy, is free from the slightest touch of
coarseness.”
To this opinion of the venerable Christopher
North, we (of The Press) have to add that
the present desire for information about China
and Japan, cannot be better satisfied than by a
careful perusal of Lieut. Habersham’s account
of his explorations of both countries. Lieut.
Habersham is now stationed in the Navy Yard,
in this city.
A new Life of Thomas Jefferson is being
prepared by Dr. Henry S. Randall, of New
York, formerly Secretary of State. It will fill
two large Bvo volumes. Mr. Randall lias ac
cumulated a vast quantity of materiel, much
in Jefferson’s own handwriting, and including
private memoranda covering fifty years. He
also has hundreds of Jefferson’s letters, in
cluding his family correspondence written to
his two daughters, from their childhood down
to the death of the youngest, Mrs. Eppes.
Besides this, he has copious reminiscences of
Jefferson from various competent persons.
Mason & Brothers, of New York, announce,
in blue and gold, “Fresh Leaves” by Fanny
Fern; “Tho Life and Times of Aaron Burr,”
by James Parton, the said Fanny’s husband;
“Tho Jubilee,” a new collection of Church
Music,” by W. B. Bradbury; and a reprint of
Victor Schcelchcr’s “Life of Handel,”
Wiley & Halstcd, of New York, announce
“Nothing to Do,” illustrated, as a reply to
“Nothing to Wear.” This is intended to cut
at good-for-nothing young gentlemen.
The next regular New York trade sale, under
the direction of the Publishers’ Association,
will commence on Tuesday, September Bth.
Childs & Peterson, of Philadelphia, aro pro
paring tho Explorations of Col. Fremont, to
bo illustrated in the beautifhl stylo of Kane’s
Arctic Narrative.
Bayard Taylor was last heard of from Lon
don, having returned from his tour in Norway.
His next journey will be into tho region of
matrimony, when he revisits home.
J. S. Rcdfleld, of New York, announces a
superbly illustrated edition of Poe’s Poems;
Chapman’s American Drawing Book, complete
in one volume; a new romance by W. Gil
more Simms; two new works by Dr. Trench,
Dean of Westminster; Poetical Remains of
W. M. Praed, edited, with a memoir, by tho
Rev. John Moultrie and Derwent Coleridge;
Neele’s Romance of English History; The
Poets and Poetry of Scotland and Ireland, the
'KifS^ot^^S^iligto^^VnMf^n^troificrton^ty
M. Guizot; and Parley’s Outline Illustrations
of “Rip Van Winkle,” and the “Legend of
Sleepy Follow.”
The Irish News, (Mr. Meagher’s paper,) an
nounces as about to appear in Cork, a new
magazine, to be called tho Irish Literary Ga
zette. It is to appear at four cents a number,
and its main features will be Irish stories by
Irish writers, reviews of Irish literature,
sketches of Irish scenery, essays, &c.
There are now published in Ireland tho
Dublin Review, originally commenced under
tho auspices of O’Connell, and now mainly
supported by and supporting Cardinal Wise
man; tho Irish Quarterly Review, which has
latterly been enlarged, and is doing well; the
Dublin University Magazine, able in its literary
and decidedly Tory in its political articles;
and tho Irish Metropolitan Magazine , com
menced in March, as a liberal organ, and con
taining occasional papers of value and inte
rest.
The Irish American has commenced tho
publication of Irish poetry, in the original
type, with translations. This type was cast
expressly for this purpose, and is the only
Irish font in this country. It has a handsome
appearance, and looks like a cross between
Greek and German.
The Appletons, of New York, are now pre
paring for publication tho following library
works; Lowes’ Biographical History of Phi
losophy, 1 vol., 8vo.; Buckle’s History of
Civilization in England, 2 vols.; The Encyclo
pedia of American Eloquence, by Frank
Mooro, 2 vols., 8vo.; Benton’s Abridgment of
the Congressional Debates, vol. 4 to 15, In
largo 8vo.; The Life and Public Services of
Judge Iredell, 2 vols., 8vo.; Leisure Labors,
by the Hon. Joseph B. Cobb, of Miss.; Tho
New American Encyclopedia, 15 vols., large
8vo.; Household Poetry, by C. A. Dana, Esq.,
(a most beautiful work); Appleton’s Railroad
Library, No. 1; Punch’s Pocket Book, illus
trated, and beautifully printed; Burton’s Cy
clopaedia of Wit and Humor, with six hundred
neat and spirited engravings, 1 large vol.; A
new library edition of Scott’s Poetical Works,
1 vol.; A now library edition of Burn’s Poeti
cal Works, 1 vol.; A new library edition of
Milton’s Pootical Works, 1 vol.; Alice Neal’s
new Juvenile—“A Place for Everything nnd
Everything in its Place,” 1 neat vol., illus
trated.
Among tho Appleton’s works preparing for
the Christmas holidays arc, World-Noted
Women, edited by lira. Cowden Clark, with
seventeen steel plate engravings; Pen and
Poncil, by Mrs. Balmanno, with exquisite
engravings; a new Christmas Annual, with
fine steel engravings; Bryant's Poems, illus
trated by tho most eminent English artists;
Campbell’s Gertrude of Wyoming; Bloom
field's Farmer’s Boy, and Bums’ Poems, tl
luutmU'd by Birkefc Foster and others; The
Shakspeare Gallery of iVi en
graved; Tennyson’s Poems, illustrated by the
best English artists; The Republican Court
in tho days of Washington, a new edition, en
larged and improved, and with additional por
traits; Reynard tho Fox, with a motrical
English translation, and exquisite engravings;
Tim Dresden Gallery, the Munich Gallery,
find the Berlin Gallery, each in one handsome
volume, 4to, with sixty engravings.
The widow of Ilugh Miller, whoso unceasing
labors in tho cause of science overthrew a strong
mind and shattered a herculean frame, receives
a pension from Government of £7O peraimum.
Rctsch, whose marvellous illustrations of the
German poets threatened at one time to call
forth copyists and caricaturist* enough to over
run art with exaggerated outline, is dead, lie
had reached tho ago of 77.
Tho Chateau de la Sourer du Loiret, where
Bolingbroke resided during his disgrace, and
where Voltaire read to thereat statesman the
manuscript of his “ Hcuriale," is now for sale.
The Empress of tho French has bought M.
Geromo’s picture of the “Duel after the Ball,”
lately on viow at tho French Exhibition at
Pall-mall, for 16,000 f.
Gen. Anthony Wayie, the noble Pennsyl
vanian of the Revolution, at the storming of
Stony Point, was struct in the head by a mus
ket ball, and fell to the ground, but rising to
his knee, he cried, bclhving that he was mor
tally wounded, “ Carry me forward and let me
die in the fort!” He was borne within the
fortification by his men; but he was destined
to live, and served his country many years
longer. Ho hold a command in tho army
until tho close of the struggle, when the Legis
lature of Georgia presented him with a valu
able farm, and he retired to private life. Ho
was a member of tho Pennsylvania Convention
which ratified tho Constitution of the United
States in 1787. In 1792 he was placed in
command of tho army with the Indians, and
gained a brilliant victory at the battle of tho
Miamis, August 20, 1794. He died while en
gaged in active military duty at Paresque Isle,
and was burled on the shores of Lake Erie.
The Paris Pay* says that the Imaum of
Muscat and of Zanzibar, who recontly Ruccoodftt his
father, has remonstrated against tho English hav
ing taken possession of tho island of Penni, R the
entrance of tho Red Sea. It is woll known that
the property of this island has been long el&imcd
both by the Imaum and by the Shah of Porsia, and
that these two sovereigns had, In a csrt&in
ntr, divided the awniwtl pwsmswb.
COMMUNICA TIONS.
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FREE MASONRY.
The institutions of a eouutrv arc eminently
worthy of consideration, as denoting or influencing
the prevailing characteristics of the people. In a
country like ours, one can scarcely comprehend the
character of tho people without understanding its
which, independent of tho govern
ment and its avowed objects, are established by
popular will. If these institutions nro native, they
fho peculiar tendency of the mind
oi the locality in which they originate. If they
®xptic, they oan be introduced only hy a favor
able disposition of general sentiment. If they abide,
it is because they have found or created a gene
ral state of feeling consistent with tho principles
on which they are established.
We peed scarcely say that in a country where
Thuggism could exist for any considerable time,
there must have existed or been created a state of
feeling quite at variance with what is usually de
nominated Christian civilization
Where the “holy Vheme” was fully operative,
there musthavO been feltand deplored ail übseneo
of general scourity, and a failure of the great ob
jects of a political government. Tho resorts of a
peoplo in.time of any difficulty, more frequently
denote their ability* to appreciate an extensive
evil than their ability to devise a remedy. The
existence and operatidn of the attempt at a remedy,
nevertheless, will sometimes open the eyes of the
public to tho naturo of the evil, by tho very bad
eharactcr of th&Temcely proposed; thon both tho
remedy and tho evil-find t correction.
But social evils suggest often appropriate re
medies, and tho necessities of man frequently lead
him to adopt measures, remedial or preventive,
which exist with the circumstances they are in
tended to effect, and sometimes, by the excellence
of their character, survive the disease which they
have cured. This can bo hopel for only when the
remedy is founded on tho true principles of popular
liberty, and has the power of operating beyond
any mere local inconvenienco. Religion, whether
that specially of the New, or that which has its
laws alono in the Old Testament, is an institution
which it is not now our intention to discuss, as that
U of divine origin, and our business is with human
institutions, for human and humane purposes,
No institution of that character, even in tni3 coun
try, is of an older date than Free Masonry. None
has had so deep-soated, so intense and so wide an
operution; and as it has existed so long, and effected
so much, as, indeed, antagonism to tne institution
has been made an element of political organization
of even a national character, we feel that a few
lines devoted to the subject of “Free Masonry”
would not bo OUt of place at the commencement of
a paper which, though politioal in its character, b*
intended to disouss whatever is of general interest,
and to be at least the exponent, if not the author,
of sentiments that affect the feolings and interest
of every citizen. And the conductors of a news
paper In these days must be able to say, and to
prove the truth of the sayings by his works:
“Nihil a me huuianum alienum puto.”
We do not purpose to present a history of Free
Masonry; that would require volumes, even if the
well-established traditions were only noticed; but
in socking tho origin of an order whoso existence,
is for centuries marked by no public demonstration,
■ and of whose proceedings there could bo no record,
ono would soon bo lost iu clouds of speculation.
The history of tho order in this country is already
in print; and though much might bo added, and
some statements corrected, yet tne space which we
aro allowed i'ero would admit of neither an ab
stract of the record nor a notice of the minor errors.
When masons first came to this country it is im
possible to tell. When they were organized into
a generally reoognised body it is more easy to de
termine, us wo know that early in tho last century
grand lodges existed. The difficulty of travelling,
tho want of tho means of communication, tho pe
culiar character of the various classes of people in
this countrv, render it easy, because it was per
sonally as well as socially beneficial, to dissemi
nate Free Masonry; and hence, with little of pro
clamation, members of tho order were found iu all
classes, from the mo3t exalted in social life end
social refinement, to tho half clad and wholly un
civilized savngG of the forest,
i The progress of population, tho extent of now
settlement*, and the consequent multiplication of
intercourse augmented tho number of free maeonß,
. while generally it may be said all those circum
stances tended to diminish the necessity for tho
pfc j sioal bestowments of tho order.
Previous to tho elose of tho first quarter of the
present century Freo Masonry seemod to bo in a
most nourishing condition, though a retrospect en
ables us now to seo that its prosperity was bused
rather on the number of its members than on the
. operation of Us principles; and tho affair which
led to tho absenco of Air. Morgan, and tho scenes
whioh resulted thorofrom, Bhowed how insinjore
i were tho professions of many of the order, and how
> weak wore their attachments, when a littlo profit
or a little sooial distinction in politioalconsequeno*
attraoted them away.
Tho terrible convulsion of that period ebook
masonry to its foundation; we say to, not at or in
its foundations. Thousands who had joined the
order wore as ignorant of its character as vero
tho uninitiated, und many of them beoamo truly
alarmod and fled; and here and there a Judas w»s
i seen making his forty pieces of money by betrayol.
It is true that the betrayal was in as bad filth
to those who ©neouruged and rewarded the trea
chery as it was to tho Dotrayed. Butall servodto
augment excitement; and one result was thitimst
of tho lodges in this State gave up their obarters;
some disgracefully loft charter and furniture to rhe
rabble, while othors ■="re kept togothor by tho de
voted power of two * threo momoera who assem
bled to mourn over the desolation of their bclored
order, and to keop alive ou their altar the linger
ing spark of masonic feeling and vitality which
, told of other fires. At that time, such was
tho zeal of opponents, and such and so much worse
was tho confirmatory sontimont of some nasons,
and many who pretended to be friends, that any,
human institute, save masonry, mus&ftavefallen; j
and nothing but the inherent spirit of true bene-1
volenoo, amL a, holy resolution ip the' feV that
. iUa. t>rdcr and rtafqtfd tmr I
constitutional rights could havo kept FreoMasory
from annihilation. A part of that persecution ad
suffering came from tho plethoric condition of te
lodges—the rash, sudden admission of mombet
Two or threo seemod bv their exertions to mail
tain what two or three hundred would havo eitht
willingly destroyed or havo carelessly or indiffe
rontly left to destruction. SVo allude tothatcir
i oumstanco to show bow in this country, perhaps li
other countries, minority parties in politics art
ready to augment their number by the adoption ot
factions, and to identify with their own principles
tho heresies of the excommunicated—heresies
which, without regard to the advantage from the
number of thoso who profess them, they would re
pudiate with scorn ns contaminating and odious.
It is true in all political schism, that a littlo
success is necessary to tho destruction of its orga
nization; and tho triumphs of thoso who opposed
Free Masonry and persecuted Freo Masons, threw
upon them the rcsi>onsibilitics of office, whioh they
hud sought; and us the cares and temptation of
office wore above their ability to sustain or resist,
they fell. Public loss and public disgrace, conse
quent upon tbeir triumphs, were forgotten in the
benefits resulting from tholr defeat.
riinoo that time Free Masonry has been recover
ing whut aho lost, and adding to all former pros
perity. Under admirable administration, it is re
markably successful in this State, while through
out tho whole countiyitis flourishing and doing
good. Whut is to be feared at the prosent time, is
what ciyiscd the extent of the evil thirty years
ago—too groat accession to numbers, and 100 littlo
atteutiou to discipline and instruction.
Though rnanv of the oiroumstances that called
for tho establishment of Free Masonry have ceased,
and sooial life is almost every whoro different, yot
Free Masonry having been founded on the great
want of the human heart, and supplied with means
to gratify that heart, will survive all circum
stances that belong to life, becauso it is adapted to
all circumstances in which human beings can bo
' pluood; and its charities, if not required, as once
they wore, in a physical form, ure just as operative,
just as characteristic, just as useful in tne moral
exhibition and influence. It is sometimes as good
to make possessions useful, by supplying means
and motives for enjoyment, as it is to furnish the
eleemosynary aid towards physical comfort: And
the smilo of recognition in tho midst of savage
men and strange scenes, is as gratifying as tue
obelus that solicitation extorts from the opulent.
While social affection exists, and is worth culti
vating. Free Masonry is likely to flourish; and we
hold it as an e> idenco of the extent of that affec
tion, that lodges are founded and uro operative in
almost every seetion of our country, especially in
our own Stato And while wo wish to show tho
success which comes from tho cureful exercise of
authority und the administration of tho great
moral interests of tho cruft, wo wish happiness und
render honor to thoso who are entrusted with the
great work of directing an institution that has
trom the remotest poriods oxercised beneficial in
fluence on all who haio boon admitted to its se
cret* and enjoyments.
We havo spoken of masonry as an institution of
our country. It is, of courso, an institution of al
most all couutries; but here in this country it has
been remurkable for success, and whiloinull coun
tries it is doing its work of good, it if perhaps iu
this country rnoro extensively operative, in conse
queupo of the general equality or citizens, realizing
on*; of tho happy ideas of Masonry, and thus as
sisting in its establishment and perpetuation.
It uiuy, at somo iuture time, be worth while,
after seeing and comparing tho iuflaence of our
W’ido-spread domain upon tho habits of the people,
uud tne value which exposure in border regions
gives to Free Masonry, to inquire what is the effect
of the semi-solitary and tho half nomodio life of
our border country upon thq character of our
people, how far it influence* the spirit of indepen
dence that characterizes our people, and how far
a self dopcndonco which is strengthened ami ex
ercised and sometimes begotten by the isolated
condition of the bordereitizun, influences his moral
sense, and particularly how it affects his views of
religious dependence; what effect it has to teach him
to respect laws in projsirtion to their beneficial in
fluence on his immediate interest, and how it ge
nerates in him an impatience of all authority iu
religious creeds.
Tno subject selected, connected with that which
is tho theme of theso remarks, as regarded in rela
tion to general morals and religious dependence,
is worthy consideration.
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LEIIIGII COUNTV
There is an old saying floating up and down the
world, to tho effect that “ Nature ever pack* her
choicest jewels in the smallest possible space " and
it is one whioh is very truo when appliod to thnt
portion of the State which is known (whero it i<
known at nil) as “Little Lehigh.” Littlo sho cer
tainly is, so little, indeed, that she is regularly
neglected in the apportionment bills, and always
forgotten in the distribution of offices by the State
and National Administrations.
'Whether this arises from the modesty of her
citizens, or their want of merit, T will not stop to
inquire, hut it is certainly true that inevery thing
wind ought to make a people happy at home and
respected abroad, she stands in tho very front rank
of inlaid counties.
The eldest daughter of old Northampton, she
has well nigh outgrown her mother, and stands
byhersido to-day equal in everything that i<*
worth iegarding, except perhaps politioul prefer
ment.
In politics tho same—in majorities her rival—
she is in this particular woll worthy her *• mater
nal ancestor, while in general intelligence, in
dustry, wealth and beauty she is second to none
in tho State
Look a; ker Boil—every luilo of it is loaded with
the richest agricultural products. Her farmers
aroniasteraof tho art. and their organized asso
ciation oneafthe best in the Commonwealth.
Look atlwr soil—rich to tho centre with every
varioty of nineral, from zino to iron, with slate,
fire-clay ana porcelain in abundanoo, from which
tho kilns nnl furnaces which groan and smoke
along the Leligh, from Mauch Chunk to the De
laware, deriv) the supplies by which they live.
See herbroid and pleusant waters —her gushing
silver springs, her clear cold trout streams, and
her counties* peasant della and quiet cooks lying
between the lofty hills, that plena tha clouds, not
mere barren cliffs—but clothed with verdure to
their summits.
Pass through the heart of the land, and mark
her numerous thriving villages, her well-kept
farms, with hams that are an hundred feet in
length, (and fall at that.) Note the absence of
ovory thing like poverty or want—tho oheorful,
earnest industry of her people—tho honest and
contented faces that aro met with every where—
her well-ordered roads —her numerous and' well
built bridges that span every stream and rivulet
within her borders, and you will agree with me in
all that I have said.
Would you eoe one of the most thriving towns
intheStato? Visit Allentown, (her soatof ju 3 .
tiee.) which has been for some time past running
up from one to three hundred houses per annum,
and has nono untenanted —with its lofty location,
free from all malaria—its broad avenues lined
with well-built, capacious houses—with its two
academios and twenty public schools, training up
the young, aud its eight newspaper establish
ments, carrying to every home instruction for the
old—watered in evory part from one of the clear
est, coldest springs that ever gushed from rock or
hill, and lighted with gas (the result of private
enterprise) equal to thel>est.
Would you Know how iron can be made when
attempted in the right place? Go to the Allentown
works—to Catasaqua —to Hogncndagra and the
Lehigh furnace, where from ten to fifteen hundred
tons of metal cun be made per week, and where
one-sixth of all that the country makes is pro
duced.
Would you see bow human ingenuity and skill
can t ran sftjnn one of the roughest of our native
rocks into g nc3 t articles of luxury? Visit
Statington.whenco hundreds of thousands of school
and roofing slates are sent every year, and the
costliest marbles of the world are so closely ijni
tated as to defy dotection, and where every thing
that is made of stune for ornament or use, is pro
duced in a style of unsurpassable elegance and
beauty from an article so rough, and uncomely as
slate.
Would vou see tho most remarkable viaduct
that is to be found in the land? Visit the Low
throup iron bridge on the Catasaqua Railroad, a
combination of cast and wrought iron, whioh the.
engineer has pQisod ninetyTlefefc in the air, on
slendet iron columns, reachm ,-jjpm hill to bill,
a distance of over eleven iumdira feet,.making
the longest, most ttrial, hovel and beautiful iron
structure iu America; or that humbler but still re
markable viaduct connecting the lower and upper
wards of Allentown, with its nineteen lofty and
substantial arches, nearly a thousand feet in
length —the longest stone bridge in the State.
Or if you prefer to look on nature's wonders, go to
the famous u Prospect Rock,” where bigb above
the rest of the world can “ hear the thunder
talk and see tho lightnings flash from cloud w
.cloud,” when tho storm-spirit is abroad; or when
the air is clear your eyes can wander at will over
hundreds of miles of land cultivated and lovely
as tho sun ever shone on.
These sights and scenes are all in Lehigh, and
within three hours ride of Philadelphia, unknown
to her pleasure-seeking citizens, who annually
wander off into other States in search of the “ pic*
turesque and beautiful.”
This should not, must not, will not be the case
much longer. The railroads that are stretching
their iron arms over all the land will introduce
our metropolitan pleasure-seekers to our own beau
ties, and when that time does come round, they
will find a full share of it in little Lehigh. W.
\TEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
Tho Emperor and Empress of the French
are about paying a private visit to Queen Victoria,
at hor marine residence, in the Isle of Wight. It
is denied that they meant to visit the Art Exhibi
tion in Manchester. No wonder, for that city b a
hundred times more smoky than Pittsburgh, and
almost as dirty as New York. In September,
Queen Victoria would pay a return visit to Fon
tainblcau. Yet, two months ago, Lord Palmerston
stated in the House of Commons thav the Queen
had “no pleasure” in receiving Napoleon and
Eugenie on a former occasion, that her doing so
was a distasteful act of duty, and that she disliked
tho expense.
Tho Prince of Wales, travelling incognito,
has visited the battle-field of Waterloo, and then
proceeded on his journey to Germany.
Tho first act of the nev Parliament, which
has just taken effect, was the granting an annuity
of B,OQOf. a year to the Princess Royal, to com
mence on her approaching marriage. The sum of
70,000/. was also voted tc her out of the publio
money, as an outfit.
It is believed in Beilin, that January 18 of
next year has boon definitely fixed on for the nup
tials of tho Princess Royal cf England and Prince
Frederick William. Originally the Prince's own
birth-day, Octobor 18 *f this yoar, was selected
il»r the event, probably by the Prince himself, and
subsequently the Princess’s birth-day, November
21, that being the day cn which she will complete
her seventeenth year. The reason for this further
postponement of the carriage is said to he the
impossibility of completing the palace now being
prepared for the reception of the Princess before
the beginning of next year.
According to a letter from the Hague, the
Queen-Mother of Holand is shortly to proceed to
London, a marriage being projected between the
Prince of Orange and the Princess Alice of Eng
land.
The future wife of the King of Portugal is
the Princess Elizabeth Amelia Eugenia, Duchess
of Bavaria, born on tho 24th of December, 1837.
Sho is the daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph.
Tho King of Portugal will thus become the bro
ther-in-law of the Emperor of Austria, who mar
ried the eldest daughter of the Duke.
It has beon announced to the Senate at
Madrid tbit the Queen of Spain is enciente. No
one has openly asked—Who is the pspa?
A Parliamentary return has just been pub
lished, giving the names, owners, date of build,
port,- length, breadth, tonnage, and horse-power
of every steam-vessel registered in the United
‘ Kingdom up to the Ist cf-J»tiuary last. The total
numhor is 1,669, and the total tonnage, exclusive
of engine-room, is 383.598.
An Exhibition of Manufactures is now open
in Warsaw. It occupies seven saloons in the Go
vernment Palace, and proves that manufactures in
Poland are in an advanced slate.
Another Circassian victory is reported, and
1000 Russians are said to have been killed.
% A letter from Hong Kong states that Sir
ohn Bowring and M. Be Bourcoulon, the French
linister, were to leave Singapore at the beginning
f the summer, to meet Lord Elgin and Baron G ros.
o important operations wore to be undertaken
ifore the arrival of the Ambassadors of the two
g>at Powers. At the latest date, Lord Elgin had
aivod at Singapore.
Vdvices from Naples state that there has
ju&bccn discovered in the island of Ischia a large
mb of rock-salt, which maybe worked at a very
dififc cost, and bo made a considerable article of
expiation.
L Pays ci ntradicts the statement respect
ing n insurrectional movement having taken
plaedn Sicily.
Lehrs from Boulogne say that the Pope
had bin very badly received in that town, in con
sequent of certain liberties requested by the
popular not having been granted. The Papal
proccssn was received with groans and hisses.
At Ravina, tho municipal authorities presented
an addrs which was the opposite to satisfactory.
All Ifnbardy is in consternation about the
eilkworulisease, which is -destroying the richest
and mostlentihil crop in that province. There
are many>roprietors who will not get silk enough
to pay ha the cost of cultivation.
There wo been fanatical outrages at Tunis,
in whioh. Jew has been slaughtered for blas
pheming hhommeduoism.
The RU'ian Minister of War has authorized
the of the Commissariat to proceed to
Paris, at thr own expense, in order to study the
French lanfag e , and the organization of the mili
tary admiiur&*\ons of France. Several of them
have just themselves of the permission.
The editor of the Movimento y cf
Genoa, has b>n condemned to a fortnight’s im
prisonment a* a fine of SUOL, for an insulting
artiolo on Naifoon 111.
A hundredclectric clocks are about to be
established in ‘russets. The municipal authori
ties have acuuaitod the inhabitants of some of the
streets that tnc Ires will run along the top of their
houses, and callipon them to allow the workmen
to make the nectrary arrangements.
The colossal unnon, ordered by the English
Go\ eminent, durag the Eastern war, of M. Mou
tigny, of Brussels has been despatched from that
capital to Woeltfch, whero it will shortly be
tried. It is louduuat the breech, and is of gigan
tic dimensions.
The aufeWitittf of the Province of Lower
Austria have refusod periaisiion to establish matri
monial ngenoies at Vienna.
A letter from Chamouni, quoted by GaUig~
Haiti'* Messenger* says that on the morning of
Juno 28, a young Frenchman, whose name is not
given, set out to asconi Mont Blanc, and in the
aftonoon of the 29th, succeeded in reaching the
summitof the mountain ', he afterwards defended
in safety. Both the nsetpt and descent were diffi
cult, owing to tho uuanthf of snow on the moun
tain, and to the blowing of a high wind. This
ascent is tho first evermadein the month of June;
the earliest on record hitherto having been tho
Bth July.
Between 1540 and 1856, a period of 316
years, 317 divorce acts a vinculo matrimonii were
passed in Scotland. Darin; the last decennium.
99 decrees of divorce had betn granted at the suit
of husbands, and 75 at the Sait of wives, making
a total of 174
Tho estates of James SaAlier, the Irish de
faulter. have been sold in the Incumbered Estates
Court, at tho suit of the officialmanagcr for wind
ing up tho affairs of the Tipp«rary Bank. The
sale wna most successful, and is t striking proof of
the surprising increase within a ew brief years of
the value of land in Ireland. Tie gross total was
2(1,600/. on a nominal rental of something over
1,200/. a year The immense estates of JohuSad
lier are not to be put up for aale intil November
next. They are valued at betwom 250,000/. and
300,000/
The British Association for ‘ho Advance
ment of Soionco will hold their mxt meeting at
l)uidin. commencing on August 26, ,nder the Pre
sidency of tho llev. 11. Lloyd, D. D
The authorities along tho French frontiers
have received strict instructions not to admit in
future any foreigner into Francewso cannot prove
that he lias pecuniary means at bis disposal, and
that ho is certain of obtaining wort.
The Customs duties in Livctpool for the
year 1856-57, were 3,837.679/. 12s. being an in
crease on those of the previous yeai of 159.570/.
A Parliamentary return, just printed, shows
that tho quantity of cheese imported into the Uni
ted Kingdom in 1856 was 349,010 o*t. from differ
ent parts of Europe; 66,000 cut. from the United
Statos. and 90 cwt. from the British colonios—
making a total of 406,000 cwt.
The failures in Melboune, Australia, for
four years, Teach 2.827.000/. The composition paid
averaged 6jd. in the pound.
Some idea of the enormois amount of cor
respondence carried on betwetn Eugland and her
Intfian empire, may be gathered from tho fact that
the Indian mail from London last consisted of 133
boxes, each box weighing on an avorage nearly 28
pounds.
The Turkish officer* tvho have been in
Liego for some time past studying the manufac
ture of arms have, it is said, received orders to quit
Belgium, in consequence of the diplomatic diffi*
culty that has taken place between that country
and tho Sublime Porte.
Races have been held at the “ Sweet Waters
of Europe,” near Constantinople. Mr. Stamp!, Jr-?
won the first prize, and the horse ho rode was
English. The second prist w»9 adjudged to ft bum
belonging to Lord SnUTFonn j>z RBDctiyrs; it
wa3 ridden by a groom of his Lordship*?. 1
Tho Port of Sebastopol Is now almost en
tirely abandoned, as it is less advantageous for
commerce than that of Kamiosch, and is only
frequented by a very few fishermen, who sell their
cargoes to persons who hawk fish about tha interior.
According to accounts received from Persia,
the export ol silver has been forbidden iu that
kingdom.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia are
travelling in Germany. They preserved their in
cognito in Hamburgh, Hanover, and Gottengen,
and would meet the Dowager Empress at Kissen
gen. The Emperor is travelling under the incog
vito of Count Vos Babodixskx, and is accompa
nied by a suite of more than two hundred persons,
including the servants The Grand Dakt-M'CBiEL,
wqo accompanies the Emperor, is the youngest
son of the late Emperor Nicholas. He is now on
a matrimonial excursion, being engaged to a risier
of the Grand Duke of Baden. Their nuptials will
take place at Carlsruhe in the course of the ensu
ing month. Ihc Grand Duke Constaxtixe under
takes the supreme conduct of Stale anairs in tho
absence of th® Emperor. It j a itated that he trill,
in the course of the summer, make a trip to the
Caucasus. nod on that occasion inspect the flotilla
in the Caspian Sea.
It appears from the vague accounts from
Delhi, that the insurgents have sacked the Delhi
Bank, and obtained .£150,000 in specie. The Delhi
Bank is a respectable joint-stock establishment,
which was founded about fourteen years ago with
a paid up capital of £lBO,OOO. It has agencies in
London. Calcutta, Bombay. Madras, and Cawn
pore. Its manager was Mr. George Beresford,
(who was saved), and the deputy-manager and
accountant were also Earope&ns. It is assamed
that whatever specie loss the bank may have sus
tained, will he regarded as a claim upon the Go
vernment.
Prince Gortschakoff, Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Russia, is shortly expected in the Ans
trian capital. His visit is attributed to a com
mencement of more friendly relations between the
Court* of St. Petersburg and Vienna, the feat act
of which would be a treaty of commerce.
George Strphenson, the Father oi Railroad*.
Though mainly an engineer, he was also a
daring thinker on many scientific questions;
and there was scarcely a subject of specula
tion, or a department of recondite science, on
which he had not employed his faculties in
such a way as to have formed large and ori
ginal views. At Drayton the conversation
often turned upon such topics, and Mr. Ste
phenson freely joined in it. On one occasion,
an animated discussion took place between
himself and Dr. Buckland on one of his favor
ite theories as to the formation of coal. But
tho result was, that Dr. Buckland, a much
greater master of tongue-fence than Stephen
son, completely silenced him. Next morning
before breakfast, when he wm. walking in the
grounds deeply pondering, Sir William Fol
lett came np and asked him what he was
thinking about 1 “ Why, Sir William, I am
thinking over that argument I had with Buck
land last night. I blow lam right, and that
if I had only the-command of words which ho
lias, I'd have beaten him.” “Let me know
all about it,” said Sir William, « and I’ll see
what I can do for you.” The two sat down
in an arbor, where the astute lawyer imub.
himself thoroughly acquainted with the points
of the case; entering into it with all the zeal
of an advocate about to plead the dearest in
terests of his client. After he had mastered
the subject, Sir William rose np, rubbing his
hands with glee, and said, “Now I am ready
for him.” Sir Robert Peel was made ac
quainted with the plot, and adroitly introduced
the subject of the controversy after dinner.
The result was, that in the argument which
followed, the man of science was overcome by
the man of law; and Sir Wn.m« Follxtt
had at all points the mastery over Dr. BrcK
land. “What do you soy, Mr Stephenson?”
asked Sir Robert, laughing. “Why,” said
ho, “ 1 will only sav this, that of all the powers
above aud under the earth, there seems to me
to be no power so gveat as the gift of gab.”
One day, at dinner, during the same visit, a
scientific lady asked him the question, “ Mr.
Stephenson, what do yon consider the most
powerful force in nature 1” “ O!” said he, in
a gallant spirit, “I will soon answer that ques
•ion: it is the eye of a woman for the man
who loves her; for if a woman look with affec
tion on a young man; and he should go to the
uttermost ends of the earth, the recoilectioD
of that look will bring him hack: there is no
other force in nature that could do that.” One
Sunday, when the party had just returned from
church, they were standing together on the
terrace near the hall, and observed in the dis
tance a railway train dashing along, throwing
behind it a long line of whits steam. “ Now,
Buckland,” said Mr. Stephenson, “ I have a
poser for yon. Can you tell me what is tho
power that is driving that train ?” “ Well,”
said the other, “ I suppose it is one of your
big engines.” “ Bnt what drives the engine?”
“O, very likely a canny Newcastle driver.”
“ What do you say to the light of the sun?”
“ How can that be ?” asked the doctor. “It
is nothing else,” said the engineer; “it is
light bottled np in the earth for tens of thou
sands of years,—light, absorbed by plants and
vegetables, being neoessary for the condensa
tion of carbon during the process of their
growth, if it be not carbon in anotter form,-
and now, after being buried in the earth f
long ages in fields of coal, that latent light'
again brought forth and liberated, made to
work, as in that locomotive, for great human
purposes.” The idea was certainly a most
striking and original one; like a flash of light
it illuminated in an instant an entire field of
science.— Life of Geo. Stephenson.
SONG OF THE HOOPS.
Sailing down the crowded street;-'
Scraping every one they meet, *
With a rushing whirlwind sound, •
Muffled belles around abound.
Hoop! hoop! hoop f
What a vast, expansive swoop!
Hoops of whalebone, short and crisp,
Hoops of wire, thin as a wisp;
Hoops of brass,’thirteen yards long.
Hoops of steel, confirm'd and strong;
Hoops of rubber, soft and slick.
Hoops of roping, bungling thick ;
Hoops of lampwiok, cord, and leather.
Hoops that languish in wet weather;
Hoops that spread out silken skirts,
Hanging off frovt^ silly fiirts.
Sweeping off the public lands,
Turning over apple-stands;
Felling children to the ground.
As they flaunt and whirl around.
Hoop! hoop! hoop!
What a vast expansive swoop!
Jolly hoops, that wriggle round,
Sober hoops, that sway profound;
Springy hoops, that shake and wag.
Broken hoops, that droop and drag;
Monster hoops, all overgrown,
Junior hoops, of smaller bone;
Hoops that ravish lovers eyes,
Hoops that rend their breasts with size;
Hoops that ebook their feeble legs,
Like a crowd of giant kegs.
What gallant ships! what swelling sails!
How they Tesist opposing gales!
With what a full, relentless waft.
They overwhelm each smaller craft 1
Hoop! hoop! hoop!
What a vast, expansive swoop!
Harpers Magazine
THE.3CUMfbO-flrst discovered gold in Cal
ifornia; has become a poor man and homeless.
The papers announce the sale of Hock Farm,
the home of Gen. Sutter, on Feather river,
under the Sheriff’s hammer. This was the
last of the magnificent domain, which, at one
time, was the property of General Sutter, in
California. His generous unsuspecting nature
was not sufficient to cope with the shrewdness
of lawyers and speculators, when his lands
became of value; and so they have all been
wrested from him, much of them, by what, in
the parlance of trade, would be called “legit
imate transactions;” much by bare-faced
fraud, says the Alta newspaper.
Ex-Presidext Yaw Burex.—The now very
aged, but yet scarcely venerable Van Buren,
was at Mr.’ Marcy’s funeral, with his old bright,
healthy look, and smiling as ewaifernot solemn
even in the presence of solemnity
seems impossibleforhis ever happy face. He
docs not show over sixty, and his hair is no
whiter than it has been for twenty-five years.
He walked in vigor from the capital after the
ceremonies were over, to take the cars at the
river for his home in Kinderhook. To-day he
looks younger even ex-Presidem Pierce,
with whom, side by side, hcentered the assem
bly chamber.— New York'Express.
Impertinent is stated that
President Buchanan is greatly annoyed by tho
receipt of innumerable letters addre>sed him,
soliciting money on all sorts of pretexts in
sums from $2O to $3,000. He lately KvL ived
a letter from a young man in Virginia, with
the modest request for the sum of $9OO, stating
that he was very poor, and greatly in love w ith
a young lady to whom he was engaged, and
who he was bound to marry, but that he could
not do so without the assistance of a loan of
$9OO, and he appealed to the President, as the
father of the republic, to assist him in his
distress! Many letters of the same ridiculous
character are received, exciting the mirth of
the President, but which of course, receive no
notice.
Mormon Newspapers.—The Mormons, be
side their papers published in Utah, have
“ The Mormon.” published in the city of New
York, “ The Western Standard,” San Fran
cisco, California, « The Millenhl Star,” Liv
erpool, England, «Zi( q’s Trumpet,” Wales,
“The Scandinavian Star,” Copenhagen, Den
mark, “Zion's Watchman,” Australia, and
“The Truthteller,” Geneva, Switzerland.—
They have missionaries in France, Germany,
Italy, Norway, Sweden, Gibraltar, Cape of
Good Hope, East Indies and China, lu the
towns of Erie and Veteran, in Chemung
county, New York, they hare a regular church,
with an elder or minister, who claims a mirac
ulous power of healing the sick by imposition
of hand*, casting out devils, &c., &c.
Pbevention op Hydrophobia.—A Saxon
ranger, now 82 years old, and not willing to take
tb« secret to his grave, publishes the following re
medy for the bite of mad dogs, which he success
fully applied to man and beast daring 25 years:
The wound most immediately be washed out with
warm vinegar or lukewarm water', and wiped dry;
after which pour a few drops of mineral muriauo
acid into the wound, mineral acid dissolving tha
poisonous foAm,and so preventing the sad effect.
Where no muriatic acid can be had, the wound in
the meantime mast be washed out with a strong
solution of saltwater, and the acid pwaitd
mUjr.