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Maswrr.as the printing etlioe llio ouniiury Aiuericaii, uaca t( IL Msaeer store. luuburyjeb. 84. trMTg MAST HIS4JWN PATENT ., AGENT. UNN Co, puWtshcra ef the KCIENTI - FIC AMERICAN," have ftrvsurcd us wtth UsmpUlel containing the Intent Laws sf tit ted Htotcs, logedlier with all Uie forma neceawi. or applyuig for a Patciit, information tu regard line caveats, with remarks on its usss. etc., a .. fi,,eOUiredt Uie Pateut Otlice, and y other mforniatioii that is necessary to instruct 191 r.nta aillllfl. Of IS COpicS for One dOl ient by mU to airy partofUte Cnised Utes. jdress Ml.. C( W, s ork. arch 10, 1849. nOcYTlDltfC. IE iulwriberwitl continue to raceis and ae. commodate a lew tNn..r,t or P"e..t .pins, at her residence in Bunbury. Fhe lo i is in a handsome and pleasant part or the -.w.-mlin., aline view of the Buaquchan- orthumberland and the eeenerv adjaecrit.-. ,raon from the cty. wno wi . -I-- -lonths in the country dunug tlie summer tea. rah 10. !!! SELECT POETRY. THE OLD PRINTER. I ae him al hi chop, With his aiivioii.-, clu-erlcss face Worn and bruwn ; Anil lhn type, unconninfr click, An ihey lii wiihiu hi tick, Seems of lile n old clock ihe lick, Running down. Years, years awny hnvo flown, And the printer lung I've known, lioy untl iiiuii ; f Time was when 8lep elale DiKlinuiieil his gait, And his form was tall and straight, We now scan. You could see him erery day, As he pused iilong the way To his toil: He labored might and main, A living scant to fain, And .some interest small attain In I lie suit. And hope was hijih at first, And the gulden chest he nursed, Till he iound That hope was but a glare In u cold and liosty air, And the promise, pictured fair, If. 1 1 run ground. He iifl'er was rcckon'd bad, lint I've seen him smile right glad At "leaded11 woes, While a corresponding frown Would spread his leatures round Where virtue's piaise did sound, If Uvere '-close." Long years he's labored on, The morning hues are gone From his eky ; For others are hi hours, For others are his powers, And his days like passing showers, Flitling by. You can see him, night by niyht, By the lamp's dull, dreary light, Standing there, With cobweb curtains spread In festoons o'er his head, That sooty showers shed In his hair. CtlC llcntviloquist. THE t EXTlllI.OQt IS T AD TIIK CATS. j BY SPASM. A ventriloquist traveling, put up over niht at a country hotel, and frettinf; into a room with a fidgety old fellow, he be thought that he'd get up a little fun, by treating the old gent to a cat serenade. Valentine, the ventriloquist, on having his bed pointed out to him, darted between the sheets in a space of a minute; for as Jonas Dearie facetiously observed, he had hut to shake himself and evervthins came off. He therefore turned the thins seriously over in his mind, while Mr. Beaple was quietly undressing, beinsj anxious lor that gentleman to extinsrtiish the light before he commenct-d operation 'Now lor a beautiful night's rest,' ob served Mr. Jonas Beagle to himself, as he put out the light Vith a tranquil mind, and turned in with a degree of comfort. Mew-mew !" cried Valentine softly, throwing his voice under the bed of Mr. Beagle. Hish! confound the cat!' cried Bea gle 'We must have you out at all events, my lady.' And Mr. Beagle It once slip ped out of bed, and havins opened the door cried 'hish' again emphatically, and threw his breeches towards the spot, as an additional inducement for the cat to .tand not on the order of her doing,' when Mr. Valentine repeated the cry, and made it appear to proceed from the stairs. Mr. Beagle thanked Heaven she was gone, closed the door, and very carefully groped his way into bed. Mew: mew! mewr cried Valentine, just as Mr. Beagle had again comfortably composed himself. What? are you still here, madame f in quired that gentleman, in a highly sarcas tic tone, 'I thought yon had been turned out, madame. ' Do you hear this witch of a cat V he continued, addressing Mr. Valen tine but Valentine replied with a deep, heavy snore, and began to mew again with additional emphasis. 'Well. J don't have a treat every day, it is true, but if this isn't one, why I'm out of my reckomng, that's all,' observed Mr. Jo nas Beagle, slipping again out of bed. 'I don't like much to handle you, my lady, but if I do, I'd of course give you physic!' and he 'hished' again with consummate vio lence, and continued to 'lush!' until al entine scratched the bed-post sharply, a feat which inspired Mr. Beagle with tile conviction that the disturber of his peace was in the act of decamping; then he threw the pillow very energetically to wards the door, which he closed and re turned to his bed iu triumph. The mo ment, however, he had comlortably tucked himself up again, he missed the pillow he had converted into an instrument oi ven geance, and as that was an article without which he could not even nope to go to sleep, he had of course, to turn out again and fetch it. -How many more time. I wonder," tie observed to himself- "shall I have to get out of this blessed bed to-night 1 Exercise ia certainly a comfort, md very conductive to health : but such exercise as this why, where have you got!" he added, address ing the pillow, which, for all the sweeping actinni of hi feet, he wat for some time unable to find "Oh. here vou are, ir, ate vou?" and he nicked tip the object of hia search and gave "it several aevece blows, when, having reinstated himsell between the shee'ts, he exclaimed in a subdued t6ne, "well, let, try it again." , Now Mr. Jonas Beagle wai a man who prided himself especially upon the rven- Li. tmner. Hit boast wai lhat nothing could r nini J,'" He did, however, feel when he violently smote the pillow, that the little ebullition partook somewhat of the nature of passion, and just commenced reproaching himself for having indulged in that tbulition, when Valentine cried "meyow ! pit ! ineyow!" "Hallow!" exclaimed Mr. Jonas Heagle, 'here again 1" 'Mew !" cried Valentine in a somewhat higher key. "What, another come to contribute to the harmony of the evening?" "Meyow ! meyow !" cried Valentine, in a key still higher. "Well, how many more of you?" en quired Mr. Beagle. "You will "be able lo get up a second concert, by and by ;" and Valentine began tu spit and swear with great felicity. "Swear away, you beauties," cried Mr. Beagle as he listened to this volley of feel ing oathes; "I only wish I was not so much afraid of you for your sakes. At it again ! Well, this is a blessing. Don't you hear those- cats?" ie cried anxious, not to have all the fun himself; but Valentine continued snoring very loudly. "Well, tlih is particularly pleasant," he continued, as he sat up in bed. "Don't you hear? What a comfort it is to be able to sleep soundly !" which remarkable ob servation was doubtless provoked by the no less remarkable fact that the spitting and swearing became more and more desperate. "What's to be done? Aly breeches are right in the midst of them all. I can't get out. now ; they'd tear the very flesh off" my legs and that fellow there sleeps like "a top. Halloo! Do you mean to say that you don't hear these cats, how they are go ing it?" Valentine certainly meant to say no such thing, for the whole time that he was not meyowing and spitting, ho was diligently occupied in snoring, which has a very good effect, and serves to fill up the intervals exceedingly well. At length the patience of Mr. Jonas Beagle began to evaporate for the hostile animals continued to battle, apparently with great desperation. He therefore threw a pillow with great violence into the bed of his companion, and shouted so loudly, that Valentine feeling it would be perfect nonsense for him to pretend to sleep anv longer, began to vawn verv naturally, and cried "who's there?" "'lis I!" shouted Jonas Beagle, "more ke two and twenty. I've turned out a dozen myself. There's a swarm, a whole colony of them here, and I know no more about striking a light than a fool." "Uh, never mind," said Valentine, 'Set's goto sleep, they'll be quiet by and by." "It's all very fine to cry let's go to bleep. who's todo it ?"' cried Beagle, emphnticnllv. Blast the cats? I wish there warn't a cat under Heaven I do, with all my soul. They're such a spiteful vermin too, when they flapped to be put out, and one ol them is in a passion, I know from her spit ting, confound her! I wish from the bot tom of my heart it was the last spit in her." "V bo's there? what's the matter ?" cried Valentine at length, in the coolest manner imaginable, although his exertions made him sweat like a tinker. "For Heaven's sake, my dear voting friend," said Mr. Beagle, "do assist me in in turning out these cats." "Cats! where are they ?" "Hish!" cried Valentine. "Oh, that's of no use whatever, I have tried the hissing business myself. All the hissing in the world won't do. They must be beaten out ; you're afraid of thetn, are ou !" "Afraid of a (ew cats?" exclaimed Val entine with an assumption of some consid erable magnanimity, "where are they ?" "under my bed," replied Beagle. "That's a brave fellow. Break their necks!" and Valentine leaping out of bed, and after striking at the imaginary animals very fu riously With Hie bolster, he hissed with vio lence and scratched across the grain on the boards in humble imitation of those domes tic creatures scampering out of a room, when he rushed to the door and proceeded to make a very forlorn mewing die gradu ally away at the bottom of the stairs. 'Thank Heaven! they are all gone at last," cried Beagle, "we shall be able to get a little rest now I suppose," and after min utely surveying every corner in the room in which it was possible for one of them lo have lingered, he bade Valentine good night. Valentine assisted Beagle to remake his bed ; and when they had accomplished this important business with the bkill and dex terity of two thorough-bred chamber-maids, the light was again extinguished, and Mr. Ueagle very naturally made up his mind to have six hours uninterrupted sleep. He had however, scarcely closed his eyes, when the mewing was renewed, and as he had not the slightest disposition to listen to sounds so familiar to his ear, he started up and exclaimed, "I wish I may die if they are out now. Here's one of thetn left," added he, addressing Valentine; but Val entine having taken a deep inspiration, an swered only by respiring with a prolonged mipirl'inap anil nd. "He's off again!" continued Beagle. "I never heard of one sleeping so sound. Hollo, my good fellow, ho! t ast as a lour year only!' Won't you be quiet, you witch t Are you determined not lo let me hav a wink of sleet) to-night ! She must be in the cupboard ; I must have overlook d her; and I don.1 yet ee how 1 could. Jh ! Veen the thing up, my dear ! Don't let me rest .rt and he fumbled about for his box, aod hanag taken a neany pmcn ot snuff, began to turn the thing seriously in hii mind, and to make a second person of himself, by way of having, under circum stances, a companion with whom he could advise, and if necessary, remonstrate. What it to be done now " Inquired he nf Ihe second rjerson thui established. What', to b the next step, Jonei! It's of no u to go to sleep ; we may just i well try to get a kick at the moon nor j miist we aa in disturb Hush you ; Junes, Jones, kt ep your t inper. Don't let a contemptible cat put you out" -and Mr. Beagle took another pinch of snuff, from which he apparently derived a great de gree of consolation: Ah! at it again!" he continued. "I wish I had the wring ing of your neck, off, madam ! You want to put me in a passion ; but you won't, you can't do it! therefore, don't "lay the flatter ing unction to your soul ! Well, Jones, how are we to act ? shall we bit here all night, or take up our bed and walk, Jones, eh ?" Jones was so much struck with the ex pediency of the latter course, that he ap parently urged its immediate adoption, for Mr. Beagle in the first place, half dressed himself in bed, and in the next threw the counterpane, a blanket and a sheet over his shoulder; when, tucking a pillow, and a bolster under his arm, he said, "we'll leave you and your conscience, madam ; good night," and left the room, with a view of seeking repose elsewhere. . REFORMATIO X OF WM. WIRT. The distinguished William Wirt, within six or eight months after his ti.-st marriage, became addicted to intemperance, the effect of which operated strongly on the mind ami health of his wife, and in a few months morn shu was numbered with tlm dead. Her death led him to leave the country w here ho resided, and he moved to Richmond, where ho soon rose to distinction. But hi habits hung about him, and occasionally he was found with jnlly and frolicksorno spirits in bacchanalian revelry. His true friends ex postulated with him, to convince him oT the injury he was doing him. But he still per sisted. His practice began to fall off, and many looked on hitn as on the sure road lo ruin. Ho was advised to get married with a view of correcting his habits. This he con sented to do, if Ihe right person offered. He accordingly paid lus addresses to a Miss Gamble. After sctno months' attention, he asked her hand in marriage; she replied 'Mr. Witt, 1 have been well awaro of your intentions for some time back, and should have given you to understand that your visits and attentions were not acceptable, had I not reciprocated the affection which you evinced for me. But I cannot yield my nent until you m:ike me a plodsn never to t.ipte, touch or handle, any intovieatiinr drink. " This re p!y to Mr. W'i.t was as unexpected as it was novel. His reply was, llmt he regarded the proposition as a bur to ail further ronsidera lion of the subject, and left her. Her course t'nvard him was the same ns ever his, re sentment and neglect. In the course of a few weeks ho went again, nml again solici ted her hand. But her reply was, her mind was made tip. He became indignant, and regarded the terms she proposed as insulting to bis honor and vowed it should bo tlio last meeting they should ever have. He took to drinking worse and worse, and seemed to run headlong to ruin. One day, while lying iu the outskirts of the city, near a litHe gro cery or giog-shop, dead drunk, a young lady whom it is not necessary to name, was pass ing that way to her home, not far off, and be held him wilh his face upturned to the rays of the scorching sun. Shu took her handker chief, with her own name marked upon it and placed it over his face. After he had remained in that way some hour?, he wt'S awakened, and his thirst being so great, he went into the little grocery or grog-shop to get a drink, when h discovered the hand kerchief, at which he looked, and the name lhat was on it. After pausing a few minutes he exclaimed "Grpat God ! who has left this with mo 1 Who placed this on my face!" No ono knew. He dropped Ihe class exclaiming, "Enough! Enough!" I Iu retired instantly from the store, forgetting his thirst, but not the debauch, ihe handker chief or the lady, vowing, if God gave him strength, never to touch, taste, or handle in toxicating drink?. To meet Miss G. again was the hardest effort of his life. If he met her in her car riage, or on foot, he would dodge round the ho nearest corner. She at last addressed him a note under her own hand, inviting him to her house, which he finally gathered ouruca enough to accept, lie lota ner II he still bore affection for him, he would grce lo her own terms : Her reply was: My conditions are now what tr-.ey ever have been." "Then," said the disenthralled Wirt. "I accept them." They were soon married ; and from that lay he kept his word, and his affair bright ued, while honors and glories gathered thick unon his brow. His name has been enrolled high in the temple, ot tame, while his deeds i his patriotism and renown, live after him wilh imperishable lustre. How many noble minds might the young ladies save, if they would follow the example cf Ihe heroine linarted Miss G.. the friend of humanity, of her country, nnd the relation of La Fayette. The following is said lo be a correct ti mate Of the number of slaves in the follow ii2 countries : UtiiteJ Stales, ' 3,03fi,000 Brazil, ,C50,000; Spanish Colonies, 904,000 Dutch Colonies, 85,000 ; South American Re publics, 140,000; African Settlements, 30, 000. Total, 7,500,000. It ia rumored that ihe Pope doe not mean to resume his residence 'at Rome, but at Bo- lona. This city has water communication with Venice, is surrounded by a wall, and ha twelve gate. The population number 70,068. In 1798 Napoleon captured the city and drove away the papal authorities; now. hi nephew restores them LAST ILLNESS OF MR. POLK. The Nashville L'nion of July S8th, contains communication giving many intereating particular in regard to the last hours of the late ex-President. The writer ava : "In his close and intimate conversations with the 'officiating minister,' the only parti- cular anxiety that he manifested ro live, was that he might, in health and in the exercise f all his physical and mental functions, make an open atid plain profession of his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. As Ihis could not be done, he resolved lo go forward humbly, rely ing upon Ihe mercy of our Lord and Saviour esu Christ, and after several days private meditation ami prayer, and full and uttreser ved conversation with his pious wife, he de termined to avail himself of the counsel and special prayers of the ministers of the pospel and with them to invoke the grace of Christ. He accordingly sent for three of the ministers f the city his old acquaintances and per- onal friends, and lo two of them, one being ab sent, he unreservedly opened his mind ; and lally, after mature deliberation and much reparation, he was admitted into the church f his choice by baptism and received the oly Eucharist. Before he was admitted to the sacraments, he made a full and utireser- ed profession of faith in Christ. A short time previous to baptism, he cal led his brother. MaiorWm. H.Polk, to his bed-side, and in ihe presence of the ministers said: 1;My brother you are my only sur- ving brother, and I now wish to state to you hat is the puipose of my heart. For more than twenty years I have entertained tlio tie- rmination of uniting with the Church of God, and of consecrating myself to his scr- ice, but this I have strangely and by a course of folly neglected, but lam now re ived to consummate my purpose, and have, therefore, requested my reverend friend, Mr. McFerrin, to administer to me the sacra ments of the Church: and this I do after much thought and mature deliberation, and proceed wilh self-distrust, but firmly relying on the mercy of our Lord Jesns Christ, who, I hope-mwho I believe has pardoned all my itis ami cleansed me from all my infirmi ties." Ho added somo oilier words which he writer doe not so distinctly remembei. Soon after he received the sacraments of Ihe hurch, he expressed peculiar w.ritifaction in hat he had done attributed all to the grace ' God. This occurred eight days before his leath. Alter his baptism he was apparently bel- er, and his friends had strong hopes of his recovery, lie talked trecly, several times, bout his future prospects, and professed the most unwavering faith in Ihe Saviour, and thanked God most devoutly for the peace of mind he enjoyed. With a friend who atched by his bed side almost continually uring his sickness, he had several couversa- ions, and said to him distinctly, referring to hat had been done for him "I am ready for dissolution." A few hours before he died, his wife said to him, "We will meet in eternity.1' "Yes," ss:i he, "a happy eter- ity.'' These are almost the last words he uttered in reference to his future hopes. He soon after began rapidly to sink, and without struggle he fell asleep, as awary man would resign himself to slumber after the toils of a summer day. THE DEAD OF 1S4. Ex-President Polk, Mrs. Madison, Madame Cavaignae, Madame Recamier, Major General Gaines. Major General Worth, Colonel Durfcan, Lady Bleseington, Juhu Wilson, the vocalist, Signor De Begnis, the vocalist, Daniel Marble, the comedian, Hermanus Bleeker, John L. Lawrence, Major General Kearney, Ex-King Charles Albert, of Sardinia, James Keyburn, Marshal Bugeaud, Madame Marrast, King William, of Holland, Ibrahim Pasha, of Egypt, Shah of Persia, Maria Edgeworth, the novelist, Theodore Lyman, of Boston, David B. Ogden, Daniel Duncan, M, C, of Ohio, Hon. Cornelius Warren of New York, Hon. John I. Morgan, of New York City, Major Whistler, of Russian Railroads, Marquis D'Aligie, the French millionaire, Gen. Belknap, railroad contractor, Col. Johnson, the Napoleon of the Am Turf, Gen. Sir Hector Maclean, K. C. B , Dr. Carnrichael, Prof, of College of P., Dublin, Rt. Rev. Dr. Crolley, R. C Primate of Ire land, Lieut. Gen. Sir Benjamin D'uban, t Gen. Sir E. Paget, Duke of St. Albans, Rt. Hon. Sir R. Knalchbul), Robert Vernon, Brevet-Major Gato. Ges'. Hersesa, ex-Preaident of Peru, who ia now tiavelling through the United State is, wo are informed, followed by two uotori ous hotel thieves, wilh a view to plouder him, should an opportunity offer. His Ex cellenry carries wilh him a considerable quantity of valuable jewels, and shorld ihece rascals succeed in their designs, a rich boot; will be theirs. LITERARY MATTERS tit ENGLAND. Would you like to know what is going un here In the literary world t Much more than you know, or ever willy or in fact ever wih to on that tide of the pond. Since Macaulay's history, that made the public run mad with excitement, no one book has appeared lhat has created such a dir. T. B. Macaulay has printed his name on the scroll of fame ; but it will take "a wiser than" he to mako Ihe World believe that William Poun was an im postor, or Dr. Johnson a mere literary hack. The Morning Herald very pertinently a "what are we lo think of the justice of a man who, writing a professional criticism on the genius and works of Dr. Johnson, left out all mention of his dictionary t We do net re member that the word 'dictionary' occurs in the whole essay. Yet we presume we should not incur Mr. MaCaulay's censure, if we ven ture lo pronounce Dr. Johnson's dictionary one of the most marvellous productions of human learning, ability and industry. Had Mr. Macaulay given tho world a criticism of this great work, he would have done moro service than by writing ptofaue sneers at Johnson for celebrating the redemption of mankind with sugarless lea and butturless buns," Then how unfeelingly offensive docs he speak of Johnson's poverty. Tho "Herald" J adds ,:Mr. Macaulay himself, had been pampered and carressed by the great, beyond all precedent; he has gained every advan tage and honor to which even his great abili ties could lay claim. To reproach any man for his poverty, where it has not been incur red by his own folly or sin, is wicked; but for a man in Mr. Macaulay's position to iIwhII without ono apparent particle of com passion, on the poverty of a literary man, is doubly disgraceful. We trust that a blush has sometimes come into Mr. Macaulay's check for having described Johnson as Ihe last survivor of the genuine race of Grub street hacks! We should bo sorry to believe Mr. Macaulay insensible to shame." The above re'.-fiarks, from the Morning Herald would rather bring the great essayist under Napoleon's speech respecting William Pitt. Fox was a favorite of the emperor, who spoke thus of the two eminent English statemun. 'In Fox the heart warms the genius ; but in Pitt, tho genius withers tho heart!" In this world aV heads and hearts it is better, and far more amiable, to warm as well as shine, like tho coal, rather than shine only, like the diamond. What a cheerless lot would that man's be, though he united the genius of a Cicero a Napoleon nnd a Shakspeake, if he had none of those qualities that would make im beloved, flat her would I be ihe "mute nglorious Milton," or '-Cromwell, guiltless f his country's blood." It may net be gene rally known in America, that Macaulay is a isappointed politican. He sat in parlirment iil not a borough would elect him. There is now not a constituency "from Landsend to ohn O'Groaths," that he could represent, were he ever so much a mind lo. Corresf. Boston Post. Premackc Burials. The Now York Mil ror has the following : "A poor man, residing in the upper part of the city, left home at the usual hour, some lays since, to perform his daily labor; and on returning in ihe afternoon, found that his wife had been seized with cholera during the forenoon, and conveyed lo Ihe hospital in Thirteenth st. He immediately went there, and as he entered the place, six coffins were carried out, to be conveyed to Potter, Field. The poor fellow proceeded lo the room and nquired for his wife, when he was informed thai she Was dead, and that one of the cetfins he had passed Contained her body, but which of thorn Ihey could not tell, as no marks are placed upon them to distinguish one from the other. The man, in an agon v of trief, started n pursuit of the Conveyance, and accompanied it to Plotter, Field, when he pleaded so hard to be permitted to look once mote upon the face cf his wife, that permission was given, and Iho coffin were opened. When ihe body of ihe woman wai evvposed, he seized it frantically in his arms and pressed it fondly to hia bosom. For a moment he fancied he felt the beating of her heart, and, seizing her wrist, he exclaimed, "My God, she live!" At that moment the woman opened her eyes and recognised her husband ; she was convey ed home, and is now quite recovered." The Premature burial story put forth by the New York Mirror, of a man' wife being hurried off from ihe Cholera Hospital, with a half dozen others, boxed up for dead, and hi arriving just in time to have the coffin opened and find her alive, is positively con tradicted by the physician of the hospital. There has been sufficient of the horrible con nected wilh ihe epidemio without any ro- mancing on ihe subject. An Emfeob's ftoic'Kfi at Victor. A Berlin correspondent of the London News ays,' when Nicholas heard of the success of the Russians over ihe Hungarian, and ihe occupation of Debreezin by Ceodajeff, ha commenced dancing about hi room in hi thirt. It i "aid that he continued for three whole) hours to exhibit in .this extravagant way the joy with which the news of so quick a triumph had inspired him. The Annual Session of the Grand Lodge, 1. O. of O. F.( of New Jersey met al Trenton on Thursday last. Among the proceeding we notice that it was determined to tax each member ot tho subordinate Lodge through, out the State ten cents, fe liquidate the debt of thoGrsnd Lodgs THE TRIALS OF THE CRAFT. The composing room of a printing office is no p!ce of peculiar aptitude for composing one's-self this warm weather. Ths Boston Transcript says: "We know of no industrial mechanics whose trials art greater than those of the printer, particularly , when the mercury is a high as it has boenfar the past three or four days. Thecempositor it obliged to commence his work early in the morning with the mercury at 75 degrees, which by noon is 95 degree. The perspiration flow, and he works on ; the same or a greater a mount of matter is to be got up, as on a cooler day; the advertisements flow in and must ap pear, and the marriage list must be full and complete, to please the ladies. His lingers are sweaty, the types are sticky, and will fall into the stick wrong end uppermost he dashes the perspiration from hi brow, and fctirjf! a line. His patience is still unexhaus ted, and he works on, till the last paragraph is in type, hoping for cooler weather for the morrow. The pressman is not much better off. The form is wet and gimmy, and will not take the ink ; the rollers are as soft ha jelly; the composition leaves the core and spreads the liquid mass over the type. Re remedies all this as best he can, and starts again, when some little screw gets loose and falls into the machinery, and his press is broken all to swash. He shifts his form to anothor press, and works on ; the reader has his paper as usual, and little Ihinks of the toil and vexation passed through to produce) ,:Barnct Let the Giuls Alome.' Tho following letter has been addressed to the American consul al Panama, by the Superior Chief of San Bias: River Diablo, San Bias, May 20, 1849. Sis : This is to inform you thai the Chief of San Bias, wishes that no steamers visit hi country lo ask for land, to make a rosd or for any other purposes. The Chiefs of San Bias claim as their land from Coolavery lo the Gulpli of Darien. God gave us this land and no foreigners can live amongst us, for if any live here they will trouble our women and we stnill be jealous of them, and soon there would be disturbance and bloodshed ; for God made all nations their own women and not to trouble ours. We are glad to see all trading ships as friends, and we will buy heir goods with our produce. Any friendly vessel can trade with us, ct not make any of us traitors. Your nation have their road to cro?s t'.:e Isthmus at Chugres, and must not make a road through our country. We want no steamers to visit our Country, nnless in war.t of wood or water; so do not destroy this letter, and please send a copy to your country, and send to us an answer to the River Diablo. I remain your friend, Superior Chief, Jamfs CoLoarAS. Making the Most or a Trace. A Cali fornia correspondent of the New York Com mercial Advertiser relates some singular anecdotes, told by those who were at the mines last year illustrative of their manner of dealing with the Indian .' 'Seeing how eagerly the pale faeea were engaged in digging the yellow stuff, Ihe In dians applied themselves with all diligence to the task, and with great success, as they could belter undergo the exposure and fatigue But in selling their gold their ignorance of its valun was shamefully taken advantage of: the white man put a dollar in one scsle and the gold in the other; the weight of dollar was a 'dollar' worth of gold,' and even whee the poor Indian began to know Ihe value of his gold ho could no: comprehend its value in rode, the gold in exchange for goods being fifteen dollars an ounce, but for cash six or seven. The peer fellow would sell for cash and then turn rcund and buy whatever he required at the exorbitant cash price demand ed, w hich appeared to him lest than its value in gold for iubtauce, one hundred and fifty dollars for a blanket. But these rogueries are now ended, as the Indian bought a good stock of'experience during that summer, and has learned to place a higher value on his gold dust." Steam Navigation. The Oriental and West India Steam Packet Company owe. forty steamers, which hsve cost, upon the average, 250,000 each aggregateosttJ0, 000.000. They employ 2,000 sailora, and have sixty foreign establishments connected with tho service. Their expenses are tl0,t. 000,000 a year, of w hich only 82,509,000 ia covered by their receipts from government for carrying ihe mails. Ten thousand per ton t in Southampton are more or lees coo nected with and dependent opoa this corns A Cafefu. "Am Viru.n During tho height of the fire on Monday morning s) woman was seen sitting near a fence, out of danger, surrounded by a few articles ot furniture, and two ftt pigs. She appeared perfectly unconcerned in regard to the pro gress of the fire; and was absorbed ia scratching the backs of her pigs with hoop-pool! They were evidently highljr gratified with this affectionate attention of their mistress, for they paid no heed to the bustle around therm When asked by neighbor what had become of her little chiU. i l .I,., .k- L.J-k I aren, sne repii "r uiu rcca inr for an hour or two, but tne Dad no they could take care of themselves,; she fee-It it to be her duty to wtteh part ol tho family which hadn't telligence. It ii gratifying y . the whole family-mother porker were united anv iC r , w
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