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So were Riciunn Poksok « ranch re nowned for Greek,” as Btbon said; William Pitt, who was Prime Minister of England at tho ago of livo-and-twenty, and died in har ness, heart-broken at tho victory of Austerlitz; William WiLanitronCE, tho champion of lm manity; Makt W olston’kouatt, author of tho Rights of Woman, who filially married William Godwin, tho novelist, and whoso only dangliter became second wife to Paaor Bvsscue Suellf.y, tho poet. In that samo year died two pcoplo of note,’ Handel, tho great musician, and William Collins. The Germans aro justly proud.of Scmilleu. Ho was dramatist, novelist, and historian, as well as lyric poet. Ilis ballads, by common consent, are confessed by all to havo infused a new olement into Ills national literature. Con temporary with Wielano, lleiuieu, and Gon the, assuredly ho was inferior „tq none of thorn. His poetry has an case, natu ralness, and forco which no other German possessed, or exhibited, up to his time, — which, since Ills death, now more than half a century ago, none lias approached. As a lyristhe is without an equal. Ills Minor Poems, as they aro called, show the man’s whole mind. What Jean Paul said of Heuuek may bo ap plied to Schiller, —that ho was less a Poet than n Poem,, and, therefore, all his poetry should ho studied as illustrations of the Human himselr. Tho merely Eng lish reader, who knows ScnriLEtt only through translations, will probably ngreo with us that ho resembles, as a lyrist, a compound of Byron and liuiixs. You read his ballads and shorter poems, nnd drink in an intorcst in tho man ns well ns in tho writing. Tho porsonal interest, awakened by tho poetry of Byron, makes a great part of his attraction, and we linger over Burns, because, in truth, his pootry was a transcript of his inner life. His loves and hates, sorrows and angers, hopes nnd feiirs, re grets nnd joys, aro all expressed in his writings. Schiller has been fortunate in his biogra phers. He is a favorite subject for Gorman writers. In England his life has been written by two eminont, but very different men, Carlyle and Bulwer. Wo scarcely know which is best. « Tho Life of Friedrich Schiller, compre hending an examination of his Works,” origin ally appeared, piecemeal, in tlio London Maga zine in 1828-4, and was Tiiomas Carlyle’s first contribution of any moment to English literature. It is the most thoroughly English ot all his writings; for, at that time, ho had not fallen so much in love with his own gonius as to imagine that a new mode of expression should bo invented to express its thoughts and feelings, in other words, lie had not thon invented tho Carlylean dialect, with its con tortions of composition—its eccentricities of utterance—its involutions of structure—that dialect, a sort of Germanized English, to which there Bhouhl ho a glossary, in every book in which it is used. ' Carlyle’s Schiller is one of tho most inte resting of modern biographies. 'Carlyle Jthew liis author’s works thoroughly-ond aftlreciated them feelingly. The work was evidently writ ten con amort, and lias snatches of beautiful composition in it such as can scarcely- be matched dn any otLur -[iron.- in Bolwer’s biography of Schiller is prefixed to ids translations of (t The Poems and Bal lads of Schiller,” which originally appeared in Blackwood’s Magazine, and were collected and published separately in 1844. This Life of Scliillar is full of interest, nnd lias only the fault of being written a little too ambitiously. Bflwer’s translations in this volume (Bebn itAnn Tai-ciinitz'h Leipzig edition, so compact, neat, and cheap, is tho best) are very spirited. In soino separate Instances bettor translations have been made; thus, Clarence Manoan’s version of tho Lay of tho Bell, though a little too much of a paraphrase, perhaps, is more spirited, and conveys a better idea of the poem ; but, taken altogether, Bolwer’s trans lations of Schiller’s poems, chiefly lyrical, aro tho best in tho English language. Friedrich Schiller, who died at Wlcmar in 1805, in tho forty-sixth year of his life, was a Suabinn hj’ birth. 110 c.anio from Jlarbach, a small town in Wiirtcmborg, on tlio banks ot tho Nocker. 110 camo of gentle blood, and ids mother was an intellectual woman, a lover of pootry and romance, who delighted to re late to her children, this hoy and his three sisters, little stories from the Book of Books. ller son was a thoughtful and pious boy, whose chief liopo was that ho might live to servo ot tho altar, as a clcrgymau. 110 read a great deal—preferring history and biography. Ho lovod Nature, too, ami read her evor-opon, ever-changing book with earnest avidity.' Latin and even somo Greek did young Schiller learn, while yet a boy, from a cler gyman at Lurch, named Piiilid Moser, whose name and virtues Schiller afterwards immor talized in “ Tlio Bobbers.” At the age ofnitte, ho was removed to tlio public school ofLud wlgshurg, where lie made no small progress in learning. Here, too, a thoughtful boy who loved to retire* from lil3 schoolmates’ noisy society, lie commenced writing verses, and oven inediintcd upon tlio plot of a tragedy. Still, up to the ago of fourtocn, ho continued to liopo that ho might becoino a clergyman. BILL HEADS, LABELS. COMPANIES. Tho Grand-Duko of Wurtcmbcrg ofthat day had formed a National Academy, which his successors still maintain at Stuttgnrd. It was intended chiefly, but not exclusively, for thosowho were intended for tho Military I’ro lesslon. SouiMiKit’s fattier, a Major in tho Dultc’s army, was offered, as a favor, tho pri vilege of having Ids only son educated at this Academy. This was considered equivalent to tho lad’s abandonment of tho Church. Tho Duke, who would liavo his wuy, insisted on this pupil joining ills Academy, hut promised to leave him tree to choose his profession. So, Friedbich Sciiu.r.En entered as a law-student, with daily subjection to a corporal’s drill. lie was allowed to study medicine, instead of law, - but still kept up tho military drill. But tho lad rend a great deal—among others Wtf r..ixn's translation of Suakspkabe. Between the age of sixteen and seventeen, alter making a dash into dramatic writing, SCHIU.EB wrote a low poems, imitated from Ki.opstooK, (a very had model,) of which the editor of tho Suabian Magazine thought so w ell that lie printed them. Just then, Goetbk,' exnctly ten years older than .Schiller, had orison above the horizon. There was need and place for another, a truer, a moro earnest bird. While still at the Military Academy, Scuu.LGU had composed a drama which lie called <> Tho Kobbors.” Ho kept it by lam until lie was wholly removed from scholastic discipline. Towards tho end of 1780, just when Schiller had completodhis twenty-first year, the Duke gavo him a commission as Surgeon in ono of ids regiments. Noxt year, allor vainly searching for a bookseller who would relieve Mm of tho responsibility, Schil ler published “ Tho Robbers,” at his own expense, ut Mnnheliu. Wholly at variance with tho established eouventunlities of tho ago and country, “The Bobbers” excited unusual interest not only in Germany, hut also in Franco and England. It pleased tho bulk of its readors, but displeased many—among others tho Grand Duko of Wiirtemberg, who sent for Schiller, and sharply desired him to eschew poetry, to stick to medicine, or, If ho did write, submit Ills productions to hiimelf l Others said that Schiller had injured tho causd of morality by his play. Immediately after” Tho Robbers” appeared many small poems by Soiiilleu. They had but ft brief; magazine life, except a very few, which ho preserved in tho collected edition of his works, softening their extravagance, and compressing their diffuseness. In 1782, “ Tho Robbers/” remodelled for stage representation, was acted at the theatre in Manhcim with great success, under the superintendence of a young nobleman, tho Freiherr von Dalbeiuj, who presided over that place of amusement. Schiller. Molo away From Stuttganl to witness tho first performance of his play, at Manheim, which is situated in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and, being dis covered, was placed under arrest for a week. He repeated tho offence, and was led to ex pect a much, moro sovero punishment. To avoid this harsh treatment, and heartily tired of military service and Ducal tyranny, he fled from Stuttganl, and made his way to Man lieim, with an empty purse in Ins pocket, and a dark future boforo him. ' Schiller took with him to Manlieim a new tragedy—his “ Fiesco.” 110 read it at tho theatre to tho actors, who received it coldly. But tlio manager took tho manuscript home, read it that night, told Schiller that it was a finer play than “ The Robbers,” and prepared to produce it. This he did, hut the author, who was penniless, had much care, and even penury, to battle with for a long time. Pro vidence, however, raised him friends, who gave him a home, and ho devoted his now abundant leisuro to composition. Following «Flesco” camo tho tragedies of “Louiso MUler,” (afterwards lhmops under tho name of “ Cabal and Love,”) and “ Don Car los,” his great historical play, the noblest of all hia dramatic works. Finally, his fears of per secution by tlio Duko of "Wurtcmberg ended by the assurance that ho would bo undisturbed. Scrm,XER accepted tho small-salaried situation of poet to tho theatre at Manlieim, then tho first in Germany, and horo lie arrived in July, 1780. “The Conspiracy of Fiesco” was flrst performed early in 1781, and was followed, a few weeks later, by «Cabal and Love,” which waa yet more successful. He had now a country, as well as fame, and was regarded as the, most rising poet of Germany. From that time ho emphatically was a man of let ters and that alone. In .4785 Sciiili.br visited Leipzig and Ber lin, where ho was well received. Tho Duke of Saxc-Wcimar, struck with admiration at tho first acts of “ Don Carlos,published in the Rhmeschc TAa/ta, edited by Soiuller, sent him the honorary title of Counsellor. At Dresden he completed “ Don Carlos,” which was published in 178 G, and Instantly ad vanced him to the foremost rank among mo dem dramatists. During this tour, Schiller wrote, his singular romanco the “Geistcr heir,” and his “Philosophical Letters,” and collected materials for a « History of tlio Re volt of the Netherlands under Philip II.” Schillsr. visited Weimar in 1787, then the Athens of Germany, where, though ho did not meet Goethe, (Bolwkr says absent in Italy, whieh Oarltle denies,) ho became ac quainted and familiar with Herder, the Nes tor of German letters, and Wieland, In this vicinity and companionship Scm&ißit wrote a great deal—partly lyrical poems, while his great labor was on the “ History of the Revolt of the Netherlands.” Goethe returned, too, and the poets became friends, though they did not take kindly to each otherat onco. In 1780, at the ago of thirty, Schiller was appointed Historical Professor in the University of Jena —ihoright man in the right place. Attracted by hla fame, 400 students crowded to the lec ture-room, and listened to him with such hushed attention that, feeble though hia voico was, it tilled tho nail. In the next year, the title of Hoftath, (Aulic Councillor,) conferred upon him by tho Court of Mcinergen, exalted was thought by her high-born mothor, to Aft-equality with Charlotte yok Lkngs . courted for three years, and their marriage, which was very happy, took place in February, 1790. But his literary labors were too much for Ms health. Besides having to prepare his lec tures, ho was completing his <* History of the Thirty Years’ War,” and was also engaged in various literary enterprises, which have more or less lmd great influence on tho literature of Germany. “Die Horen” and“ Der Musen- Almanach,” to which the most eminent men in Germany contributed, belong to this cate gory. no also produced the “ Xenicn,” a col lection of epigrams, and wrote his « Ballads,” the beauty of which is so largely admitted. Report spread,over Germany that Schili.f.r was dead. Griof was deeply expressed, fol lowed hy joy’when the ill nows proved false. But consumption had already planted her ar row within his breast. He was advised to sus pend the labor of lecturing—the labor from which came most of his income. Just then, a Prince of Denmark, and a friend of his who loved letters and did not personally know him, begged Schiller to accept from them, for three years, an annual gift of a thousand dol lars. They invited him to Dunmnrk, and, ac cepting their generosity, he lamented that tho state of his health prevented his'visiting them as they desired. Soon aftor, in 1703, he returned to his nativo Wiirtembcrg. No longer an obscure oxile, but a poet-hero, with future laurels yet to win. Ho again was in tho bosom of his home; young in years, but broken with thought and illness. In 1701, ho returned to Jena, at w hich time the “Horen” was commenced and conducted by himself, with Herder, Goethe, and others, as assistants. So passed on the years. In 1797-98, appeared tho Ballads, written at the suggestion of William von Humboldt. In 1799 appeared that beautiful tragedy of “’Wallenstein,” in two parts, which English Coleridge so well translated. From that time Schiller was confessedly tho National Poet of Germany. The same year in which “"Wallenstein” was published Sciiiller removed to Weimar, where the Grand Duke, a true author-patron, liberally pensioned him. Just then, his pen was also yielding him a fair income. In worldly matters he was easy. To some men Poverty is a spur—so to Sciiillku was Genius. Then came Ids play qf “ Mary Stuart” and “The Lay of the Bell, ,J —the first the weak est of his later dramas, the other the greatest of his lyrics. This was in 1800. In the next your ho .composed greater part of « The Maid of Orleans,” and when he wont to see it played at Leipzig, tho audience, recognising him, shouted «Es lebe Friedrich Schiller’* (Long livo Friedrich Schiller), and whon he quitted the house, it was through a crowd collected to honor him, every bend bared, and fathers lifting up children to see tho pride of Germany, shouting out << Diesel' ist ea”— That is ho. At Weimar and Berlin, the same play was acted with brilliant- success. Associated now with Goethe in tho manage ment of the Wiemnr Theatre, new dramatic flights were meditated by Schiller, lu 1802, without any solicitation, tho Emperor of Aus tria sent him a patent of nobility. But now tho last scene was not distant, lie wroto “William Tellclosing, as ho had begun, with liberty for his theme. Ho wrote bulbuls occasionally. Returning home from the theatre at Wei mar, on the 20th April, 1805, Schiller was attacked with serious illness. lie lingered for a few days, latterly greatly weakened, On tho 9th of May ho expired calmly as sinks an in fant to its soft repose, lie was buried on the night of May 11, 1805. As tho bier was low ered, the wind suddenly scattered tho clouds which had gloomed the sky. The moon broke forth, and Us light streamed upon tho coffin. When all was over, the sky was suddenly obscured again. So, aged littlo more than forty-five, did Friedrich Schiller die—tho greatest poet, not excepting Goetiii:, over produced by Germany. So, therefore, will Germans all over the world unite on to-morrow—a cen tury since Ids birth—to honor his genius and do homage to his name. May the Heavens shine serenely upon such celebrations, wher ever they tnko place; and may tho memory of Uub good man and great poet long remain gtecn in the hearts of all who lovo the might of Genips. To Texas and Bnck.—No. O. [Corr«spoadono« of Th* Preis.l Woopville, Texas, Oct. IS, 1959. Mv Dear Press: One of our follow-passengers to the stage, whom we piokod up ou tho road after leaving Choooyvillo, was a candidate for the office of constablo of that ward of the parish of Rapides. Tho ward, whioh corresponds to a township with u*, was the size of an ordinary county, and our passenger was one of seven candidates for the lm* portant office in which ho was anxious to serve tlio publio. How many more candidates would ap pear in the field before tho election, ho ooold not tell, but had no doubt tho number would be con siderably increased. There was a fair prospect of an animated contest for an office worth four hun dred dollars per annum; which might he increased, as he suggested, by perquisites. He was an amu sing character, and willing to lend a ready hand and strong arm in any emergency. His aid was of great service when we were delayed by the acci dent to the wheel, and he assisted with great alacrity in sotting fire to the fallen tree, to burn it out of the road. Bis comments on th© people were freely offered, and not generally in their favor; one man in particular ho mentioned as being so lasy that for four oonseoutive days his shadow re fused to follow him. We left our frieodatNoals burg about two o’clock; he was on his way to at tend & b&rboouo, which was to come off in & day or. two, to bo succeeded on tho following day by a camp meeting, at both which bo no doubt intend ed to improve his opportunities for securing votes. Nealsburg is a now town, and tho stores had a very - business-like, thriving look. We noticed Jules H&uel’s name on some boxes of perfumery. It was four o’clock before we reached Huddleston’*,' somo fifteen miles from the Sabine, and stopped for dinner, wfcieh we found not over>inviting in itself, and rondered still loss appetizing by supdry odors, somo wafted through tbo open door of the dining room from some beef drying in tho yard, and oth ers ascending through the crevices of the floor from a pigpen and chicken roost under the house. We had been delayed, not only by the accident to the wheels, but by sundry stops, while our travelling . blacksmith attended to shoeing the horses at the stations along the road. It was late when we left Huddleston’s, and wo did not reach the bonk of the Sabine till nine o’clock Tuesday night. All tho passongors had to get out and walk down the steep bank while the stage drovo down on to the flat boat whioh, by a rope ferry, took us across the river, and wo found ourselves upon tho soil of Texas. Tho moon was shining brightly, and we could see that the river was a muddy stream running be* tween high, steep banks, which, In high water, it overflowed and spread for somo distance over the bottom lands. The water was low at the time we orossed, and the ferriago but a short distance.' At midnight we stopped at Burkeviile for supper, but we bad been dolayed so long, and were so much behind time, that tho people at the stage* house had been in bed some hours by the time we arrived, and the unpromising aspect of the cold sapper set out after they had been rousod from their slumbers, brought us'to the conelusion that an expenditure of “four-bits,” or fifty cents, for tho privilege of partaking of the meal, would be a most unprofitable investment. Tho road, daring tho night, was quite tolerable, and wo managed to got a reasonable amount of sleep. At seven Wed nesday morning, we reached Jasper, the county town of Jasper county, and stopped for breakfast. This woa the first place of any site we taw in Texas, and we were rather favorably impressed with' it* appearance. Tho court-house, a two-story frame building, oc cupied tho centre of the publio square, around tho four sides of which wore tho principal stores and the three hotelsof the town. Tho houses' generally were neat looking, and more comfortable in ap pearance than those we had seen on the route from Oheneyville. They were built of frame, clap boarded or battened. Two or throe saw-mills in the immediate vicinity supplied an abundance of lumber from tho pine timber which grows in -largo quantities in the neighborhood. There was to be a meeting of a Hard Shell Baptist Association is the town that day,and the people were beginning to come in from the country even at that early hour. As we woroloaving the town we met many parties on foot and on horseback, and a few in wagons, going in to attend the association. Most of.the travel through this country is upon tho saddlo, and both inen and women are accustomed to ride, and ride, well. Mules are quite frequently used under the saddle. After leaving Jasper, the character of the timber ohanged, and we saw but little pine.' The jwoods were mostly oak, beech, magnolia, and cypress, with some hickory and dog-wood. The magnolia grows here sometimes \ hundred feet high, and In the spring and summer, when in flower, must be a most beautiful object with its white flower! eon*' trusting with the rich, dark, glossy green: of its large leaves, and sending forU a delicious perfume. Tho streams of water aro puro and clear, and the country generally seemed well-watered. Where the land had been cleared, large cotton-fields—the plants vigorous and giving promise of an abundant orop, part of which had already been picked—gave evidence of the riohness and fertility of the soil. Now and then, a small patch of sugar-cane was to be seen; but only to provide a supply of sugar for home consumption, tho juice being expressed iu a mill operated by horse-power. Tho country is but thinly settled, and tbero are large tracts of unoc cupied land which will yet, before many years, be cleared and made productive. Shortly beforo noon wo reached tho bottom lands of tho Neohcs river, a tributary of the Sabine. Thcso bottom lands extend for some two or . three miles book from the high bank of tho stream, and aro oovered with a heavy growth of oak and cy press, and a dense, almost impenetrable under growth of cane-brakes and vines. The stains on tho trunks of the trees showed that the water had boen up as high, at times, as eight or ten feet above tho ground; but the river was now confined within very narrow limits, and tbeloYelof the stream was some thirty foot below the top of the banks. At noon wo crossed the Neches on a flat by a rope fer ry, and asoending tho high bank on tho opposite side found ourselves at Town Bluff. The ferry, tho steep bluff-bank of the stream, and one or two houses wako up the plaoo. At one of these houses wo stopped for dinner, and considered ourselves luxuriously provided for, whon they gare us sugar in our coffee, and n few fresh eggs as extras to the ordinary substantial of the meal. Milk or eresm wo could not think of finding. Our road after dinner lay tn rougn & heavily tiro bored’country, with a dense rank undergrowth. Oak, hickory, gam, haokborry, magnolia, and water-oak, with perhaps an occasional pino, and in moist swampy places cedars, wore tho principal trees. Tho few plantations which we passed show ed large fields of cotton and corn in flourishing con dition. But little poor land was to bo seen. At half-past four yesterday afternoon, wo reached this place, and, though anxious to pres 3 forward on our journey, bavo boon compelled to lay over here until this evening, owing to its being the regular ■* rest-day” on tho lino. The “ rest-day” is not for tho benefit of tho passengers, but of tho horsos and stages, and drivers, the line being but a tri weekly one; and instead of making the “ rest days” coiuo in at the places of departure and arri val, they aro interspersed at arbitrary points on tho route, to the greut delay nod hindrance of tho mails ami passengers, but greatly to tho benefit of hotel-keepers, who take advantage of the necessi ties of stage-passengers to make exorbitant charges for poor accommodation, when if a traveller were on horseback or in his own’eonveyanoe, ho would not bo charged more than half tho sum for the very sarno amount of board and lodging. • Woodvillo is tho oounty-town of Tyler county, and has a population of about four hundred. The court-houso stands iu tho middle of the public square, and the hotel, tho stores, and tho lawyers’ oifiocs face tho square u)x>n the four sides. There isnochutch in tho town. The publio square is simply an open, rectangular space, with equal sides, in tho centre of the town, without a single tree to relievo its barrenness. There is but little or nothing to interest a stranger, and bad it not boeu for our lottors to write, and tho social dispo sition of tho people rendering it easy to form ac quaintances and get into conversation, wo should havo found tho time hang heavy on our haads. We managed to pick up some littlo information about tho way lands hare boen laid off in Texas. Under the old Mexican Government, before Texas doolared horsolf independent, grants were made of land in leagues and labors, (accent on the last syllable.) Tho unit of measure was a vara, equal to 33) inches. A square vara equalled 86-100 of a square yard. A labor comprised a million square rara.iy equal to 177 30-100 aores ; and ft league was equal to 4.423 4-10 acres, or twonty-five million square rams. Very frequently grants were made of a league and labor of land,” or twenty-six million square varas , equal to 4,005 54-100 acres. Tho*o old Mexioan measures aro still to be met with iu the land titles of tho Kopablio and State of Texas, though, after Toxas declared herself in dependent, and down to the present time, grants and sales of publio lands have been made by the section of 640 acres, nud half and quarter sections. As 4 water was n matter of the greatest consequence, it was provided that any location of land made upon n stream should ouly havo a front on the water of one-half the usual length of tho side of a square, the tract oxtending back, of ooursc, a proportionately greater dUtaaco to make the quantity of land the sarao ; the shape of the traot was a p&rolleUogram instead of a square. Surveyors wore not very easy to ho had in tho days of tho earlior settlements, and no little confusion arose from the interference of one trnot with another. They say, that not unfro , qucntly a man who had a grant of a league, in lo- TWO GENTS. cating it on some stream would mount hit horse ** tho water’s edge, light a cigarette, and gallop hack as near at rightnngles with the stream as he oonld guess ’at, white be smoked up fair cigarettes, end oaD that distance a loagne, guessing at his frontage on the stream. Or a man who bad a square mile to l>eate and lay off, would select a convenient start ing p<>uit, station a friend* there with a horn, ride off till be judged he had gone about aftnUc, tern at right angles by guess work and ride another es timated mile, tnako a second turn at right angles as near as could be, rido as far as he thought would make another mile, and finally turn and ride in the direction from which he heftrd the sound of the born blown by the friend he had stationed at the starting point. A slake was driven down, or a tree biased, at each turning point, to mark the corners. The conflicts of title, however, are now pretty generally quieted, in the more thickly settled parts of the Stato, and much profitable litigation (profita ble to the legal fraternity) has ceased to occnpy the time of the courts. O.T. T. 1 PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. fcS* 4 M. Jutllen has been released from his pe cuniary embarrassments in Paris. He attributes M* ruin to the “ scorpions of the legal pro fession in London, and to certain mnsio specula -lors who have fattened on hi! former success. During the twenty years' that JnUlen reigned monarch of the famed popular concerts, he acknowledges to hare received the enormous sum of £200,000 in England and America. He has lately refused offers to return.to London to preside over entertainments of a similar character, andda noto jwiiiy engaged in writing “His Life and ’Tfm«s among the English’” Hequisition for* (Jerrit Smith.—l havo ascer tained to-day that a rigid scrutiny is being institu ted to ascertain tha extent of 'Gerrit Smith’s com plicity in the Harper’s Ferty insurrection, prepara tory to the issue of a requisition for his surrender to the judicial authorities of this State, for triaX upon a charge of conspiracy. All the testimony hearing upon his connection with this insurrection, as accessory before the foot, is being carefully com piled, and the probability is that the matter will be laid before the grand jury of Jefferson county at an early dsy. Suelr, at least, is my informal tion, derived from authority which', fully Justifies mo in communicating this information. It is in timated, moreover, that the question of his surren der. In obedience to the requisition of the Governor of Virginia, will be made the issue for a,continu ance or disruption of the Union. It is conoedtd here by every prominent man with whom I have conversed upon’this subject; that such an issue is inevitable; and the universal publio sentiment of this region, so far as I can aaeeriain, favors the presentation of Smith’s surrender, upqn the requi sition of the Governor, as the ultimatum of Union. The crisis is near at hand, and it is for the North to say whether the Union shall be preserved or not.— Correspondence of the New York Herald. . Mn. Ward’s Pilgrimage to* Chiva - .—The Paris correspondent of the New York'Tiwrej says: ■ “ Charivari is having its own fun over Die American minister in China. Ifehas published en gravings three days in snooesrion, which are the laugh of the town. The first one represents Mr. Ward on his way overland to Peking. In this en graving one sees only a large rough box mounted on an uncouth wagon, drawn and surrounded by a groat mob of hooting, howling Chinese. Standing alone are two mandarins, or chief .'men, looking on. The landscape lb qomposed ol barren hills and plains. The reader need not be told? that the American envoy is shot up in the box, with out the power of taking observations of the in teresting country through which 'he ir passing. The second engraving represents the arrival on the great square of Peking. The caval cade is stopped, a board or two has been knocked from the side of the box. and a long, lank, clean-shaved individual, in a black dress-coat and with a bandage on bis eyes, is seen bursting forth, much as a young chick bursts from its shell. Two mandarins receive in their anus the falling and blind ambassador. The next engraving Bhows him in tho palace before the throne of tho mighty brother of the Sun and the Moon, deliver ing hU rpeeoh. Jonathan stands as straight up in the middle ot the floor as the monument on Bun ker HIU. He (s still in solemn black, and a close fitting bandage over his eyes shuts oat the view of the celestial world around him.' A doxen of man darins are prostrated at his foot in a circle, and, in this position, the tableau reminds one of a foun tain with a very tall central jet surrounded at its base with a dozon low* curvilinear ones. While the blind envoy is sawing darkness with his arms, hi! mightiness on tho throne is Indulging In the ln ; tejesting pantomime, so beloved by juveniles, of plating the 4 Ton 'can’t conic It” movement, with his hands upon bis nose. This Is Charivari I '* idea of Mr. Ward's pilgrimage to Peking.” KEKouuAtipx or James Buchanan.— I The re nominstion of Jamer.Bpohanatt at -'Charleston 'is again being advocated by some of,the tioo journals. The Hew York Herald, Ms personal organ, which bas been proclaiming also dally for the last two years, that in no event would‘ fee be a candidate for rc-eleotion, contained the following article yesterday: ‘‘WaAT IS TO B 2 DOSE AT CHARLESTON?—We notice that there Is a general movement among the journals all over the country, since the recent de monstration iu Virginia, in favor of the renbmina tionof Mr. Buohaaan, whether he will accept the responsibility of the canvass or not. It is thought that such a movement would unite the conservative element in politics. North and South, East and West, and give the coup dt grate to the crasy fana tics who are endeavoring to undermine the Union of the States by their false teachings and treason able examples. In any event the action of the Convention at Charleston assumes, on account of recent events, a new and grave importance, and the result of its deliberations will do looked for with the utmost anxiety.** BENNETT PCBLISIIBB BUCHANAN’S COMPLIJIEXTART OPINION 07 THE RANK AND FILE 07 THE DHHO* CRACV, THAT THEY “ALWATS.GO WQE&B THE OFFICES AnE GIVEN.” [From the New York Herald.] “During a conversation with the Sage of Wheat land in London, one day, with reference to tfee bad management of Mr. Pierco in relation to the New York appointments, Mr. Buchanan said, ‘ Mr. Piorco, I fear, bna fallen into the same « r ror that Mr. Polk did. The New York Democracy are very troublesome patriots. The only way to treat them is to ascertain which faction is the strongest, the most popular, and the mo3t talented. This done, tbo next step is to give the whole of the offices to this faction, and none to the other. The conse quence will be that the faction which has all the offices will be your true, constant, devoted friends, while that which has none will be your most bitter nod unrelenting enemies. But in less than three mouths you will find that the rank and file, ich* always go where the ojfiees are given, will turn in to the successful party, and the leaders of the ad vene faction will be left without any troops.’ ” Toe Backer of John Brown.— Dr. Samuel G. Howo, of Boston, is a peculiar and very remark able man. Wo first knew him nearly forty’years ago, as a Btudent in Brown University, at Provl donce, Rhode Island. We presume that traditions of his oareer as & student are still preserved and related to the University. Ho was quick, and bright and talented, but probably the wildest and most inveteratoly mischievous young man ever ooonected with the institution. There was scarcely any kind of mischief whiofe he did not habitually practise. If any potty prank or even gross out rage was perpetrated within the college precincts hr in the vicinity, the gcnoral sentiment uniformly and at once settled upon him ns its author. He was, to uso a rather low word, full of all manner of “deviltry.” He was continually summoned before the faoulty and publicly admonished and fined and rusticated, and suspended, and the constant ex pectation of all was that ho‘would bo expelled. Still ho remained throughout his four years and graduated—wo think in the class of 1822—though without honor. Wo tifepose that nobody who knew Samuel G. Howe, or knew of him in college, bad the slightest expeotation that he would ever come to good. We remember to have heard, with a feeling of utter surprise, a few months after he graduated, that be was studying with the utmost industry in the office of Dr. Ingalls, a distinguished physician and sur geon of Boston, with every prospect of becoming able and distinguished in the profession bo had chosen, ne remained with Dr. Ingalls, we be lieve, until he was admitted to practice; and all who knew him regarded him then ascertain to win professional distinction. He carried into tbe pur- Milts of science the same spirit and energy that in his previous years he had manifested iu vexing and annoying and injuring all around him. But Dr. Howe was at that timo too impulsive, he hhd in his soul too much of the spirit of wild and reckless and desperate adventure, to be able to settle calmly down in the practice of a peaceable profession in New England, when itirring,events, that could touuh tbo heart of a bold and generous man, wero taking plaoe in any port of the world. The Greek revolution had at that time broken out, and tbe Greeks, rousing themselves from their old and hereditary slumber, were striking manfully for independence. The odds against them wero torriblo, and their cause seemed desperate, bat those wero exaotly the oircumstances to kindle the ardor and enlist tbo action of Dr. Howe. With whatever means ho could command In men and' money ho hastened to Greeoo, and so bore him self throughout all her war that his name is yet mentionou and blessed by her sons as that of one of her noblest and best and most dovoted bonefactors. He encountered evory peril, and did more than any othor man to prevent and re lieve the sufferings of the Grecian soldiers and people. Dr. Howe’s career since his return from Greece to the United States is probably better known to thousands of others throughout the country than it Is to us. For many years he hss been the Super- intendent of the Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, and unquestionably he has mado that insti tution the admiration of tne public and the mode! of all Blihilar Institutions throughout our land. He has dovoted to It all the powers of a fine intellect and a great and most enthusiastic heart. lie bas ac complished for the blind what was never accom plished before, and what, but for him, might not perhaps havo been accomplished rot halt a centu ry to come. And ho has not confined hu exertions to that noble enterprise alone. In all the great and numerous public benefactions of Massachusetts ho has borne an important and leading part.; He has been one of the first men looked to, and one of the chief men relied on, whenever any great thing was to be undertaken for ths relief 4f any class of THE press. < nn*coii«, » t? B *”**-: t _ r '. "‘#11! fin Cctim, “ *> JJJ aw lOmiMmit MS <» tibtm