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TI1K BLIXO IIOY.
BY DR. HAWKS.
(The following beautiful lines, from the pen
r the Rev. Dr. Hawks, Lave been handed us
for publication. They will .find numerous
admirers among the discriminating readers of
JUS HOMK JOCRSAL.
It was a bleeeod summer day,
. - The flowers. bloomed the air was mild.
The little birds poured forth their lay,
And everything in nature smiled.
Iu pleasant thought I wandered on,
Beneath the deep wood's' ample Bhadc,
'Till suddenly I came upon
Two children who had thither strayed.
Just at an aged birch-tree's foot
A little boy and girl reclined,
His hand in hers she kindly put,
And then I saw the boy was blind.
The children knew not I was near,
A tree concealed me from their view,
15ut all they said I well could hear,
And I could see all they might do.
Icar Mary," said the poor blind boy,
"That little bird sings very long;
y, do you see him in his joy,
And is he pretty as his song I
"Yes, Edward, yes," replied the maid,
"I eee the bird, on yonder tree."
The poor boy sighed, and gently said,
"Sister, I wish that I could ace !
"The flowers, you say, are very fair,
And bright green leaves are on the trees,
And pretty birds are singing there
How beautiful for one who sees 1
"Yet I the fragrant flowers can smell,
And can feel the green leaf's shade,
And I can hear the notes that swell
From these dear birds that God has made.
"So, sister, God to me is kind,
Though sight, alas! He has not given;
But tell me, are there any blind
Among the children up in heaven?"
"No, dearest Edward, there all see
But why ask me a thing so odd?"
"Oh, Mary, He's to good to me,
I thought I'd like to look at God!"
Ere long, disease his hand had laid
On that dear boy, so meek and mild ;
His widowed mother wept and prayed,
That God would spare her sightless child.
lie felt her warm tears on his face.
And said, "O, never weep for me,
I'm going to a bright bright place,
Where Mary says God shall see.
"And you'll be there, dear Mary, too;
But, mother, when you get up there.
Tell Edward, mother, that 'tis you
You know I never saw you here!"
He spoke no more, but sweetly smiled
Until the final blow was given
When God took up the poor blind child,
And opened first his eyes in heaven !
Our Xew York; Correspondence
New York, August 3, 1851.
EDITOR OF THE MOUNTAIN SENTINEL :
The racket shin Devonshire arrived here from
1 Portsmouth on Saturday forenoon with a large
I number of passengers, among whom were forty-
Mven officers and men of the Hungarian arny
l iili their wives and children. Some of, them
erc noblemen and civil officevs of high rank
j All but three of them have bc.fen in London for
some tune past; and the others have recently
jcome from Constantinople. Three of the offi
1 Jers ith the wife of one of them, passed yes-
terday afternoon at my house. They felt san
guine that Kossuth will soon be at liberty to
n i j- mis or some other country.
Hie ladies of the party appear to be spirit-bro-Tt
ffiwe, vm those of the highest
"uik, assured me that they are willing to occupy
uiemselves in any way, even in manual labor,
o earn a competency. .
Most of these warriors aroyourig men of from
gnteen to twenty-three years of age. One of
"?we youthful patriot has fought in eighteen
A . , batUes. hB been several times
1 ,&UhouU te is not yct twenty years of
W Vs reEuar lady-killer; he had not
ea on shore six hours before he mad an evi-
l'nnV?pr,CSsion oa the hcart of a JOwg lady of
i Jom'h. Perhaps fortunately for him,
Cobftn.. : ?- tOHirPi. oi ner property. The
for a Brim T Vl sevep of these gentlemen
t he asS?. 40 be formed t Pieced to
Jennv f lbc Creole revolutionists.
m sail foiii 8lC1 troupe,, and will, it is
tooftk fh. BYerpul abut the middle of this
spaSs'Sr if iD, wilh telegraphic
ctbaSar-CharIeston' New Orleans, and
the , rw t lUS' containing various versions
'Won of C Iasurrection- The Cuban Dccla
ew'yallo p- eac haa bcen rushed in
it hichlv tkF Ptj Paners. some of which praise
Ie doJimenl6 Ca"S U "a firm and
Here outhr u 13 insurrection were a
fcy a iari. 0Pultt indignation, caused
Spanish rL arbltrar7 and unpopular act of the
Maltha Vrninent, I-should be inclined to
8'n the r?r 'Shtly ; but there is no ditigui
ipatcd f iTat .the Cubans wish to be eman
W4 hundr paniah control, and that thousands
uJiecuj of thousand of persons in the
United States arc ready to assist them in anv
way and every way, in their efforts to secure
independence.
Under these circumstances Cuba must soon be
independent of Spain; and however much you,
or I, or others, may attempt to frown down in
tervention in her behalf, by American citizens,
I am willing to stake my reputation for fore
sight, upon the opinion I now express which
is, that Cuba will soon have two Senators in
Washington. She may be beaten in this attempt;
but that matters not. Natural causes w ill force
her into the Union before many years.
Beside, those Americans who arc opposed to
the annexation of Cuba are merely negative iu
their opposition ; while those in favor of it, are
positive and active in their efforts to bring it
about. I endeavor to be non-committal, you
see ; and 1 thiuk I generally succeed pretty well,
although, in looking over what I have written,
1 sec that my statement of what I consider to
be the facts of the case, Vould be thought, by
politicians, indicative of my favoring the Cuban
movement. The pleasure of an intimate asso
ciation for some months with Martin Van Buren
may have had the effect of making me somewhat
guarded in my expressions.
Durii.g the commencement at Hamilton Col
lege a few days since, on the conclusion of an
address by Mr. G. 1. It. James, the eminent
Historian and Novelist, an individual (I believe
it was Hon. J. A. Spencer,) called on the Band
to strike up "Rule Britannia," as a compliment,
I presume, to Mr. James. Whereupon, one
W. E. Robinson, a gaseous Hibernian genius,
who is occasionally permitted to perpetrate
bombastic expressions in the Tribune, under the
signature ' of "Richelieu," for some reason or
other that I cannot conceive, except it be that
he is its bore no newspaper establishment is
complete, you know, without its tolerated con
tributor, or" Lore mounts the high horse, ex
presses his hatred of Britannia, and fumes and
frets in the Tribune at such "treason to the
State." Now, although I can well understand
that Mr. Richelieu Robinson must have experi
enced unplcasaut sensations, or finding that his
oration to prove America not to bo Anglo-Saxon,
but Celtic, did not "take," and that Mr. James'
discourse was received with incomparably more
lavor; still, l do protest against the injustice of
arraigning Mr. James as a perjurer, because,
forsooth, it is stated that he has, in Milesian
dialect, "declared his intintions," and that,
therefore, for him to feel any gratification at
the sound of an English national air is nothing
short of the rankest treason, and the basest
perjury.
New converts arc always the most fanatical,
and superlatively, sickening in their protesta
tions of devotions ; and, as Mr. Richelieu is only
a half-fledged citizen of our country, it must be
to his new-born zeal for our honor, that we must
attribute his lack of charity and justice; for I
cannot imagine by what rule of equity or com
mon (Anglo-Saxon) sense Mr. James can be held
responsible for the acts of others, whose only
crime, it appears to me, was a rather ardent
admiration of Mr. James' genius, and a perhaps
indiscreet mode of evincing it.
Now, our wisest statesmen do not imagine,
like Mr. Richelieu Robinson, that any being
worthy of the dignity of American citizenship,
can be, by any possibility, so void of lovo of
country, as to be able to excoriate, in a moment
its every trace from his breast, neither are they
inclined to place any reliance on the loyalty of
such men, if, indeed, another beside Mr. Riche
lieu Robinson can be found ; so they have wisely
prescribed five years, as the probationary term
which an alien shall pass before entering on the
rights and duties of citizenship ; in. order that
his sympathies and attachments may be gradu
ally weaned, not immediately and violently
wrenched from "Home and Fatherland." If.
then, Mr. James really did feel gratified, it,
would be no very heinous offence, as he is Only
in the first year of his pupilage.
But the attack on Mr. James. sa--lgc, coarse,
ungcntlemanly, and ridiculo7ag fta ;t j
food for serious reflection. For if it once gocg
forth, that an alien, on becoming a citizen of
our country, is bou;aa to extirpate a3 noxious
weeds in the garden of his soul, all pride in the
heroic dees. or his forefathers, and in the glo
ries wJ'.ir;a are revealed in the pages of the his
tory Of the land of his birth, together with all
sympathy in its future destiny, or else be bran
ded as a perjurer and traitor, we shall deter
many an honest, noble-hearted man from joining
our ranks, and shall have to depend for recruits
upon the mere serfs of Europe a faction-riven
race, whose country is galled by a foreign yoke,
riveted on its neck by the arts and treachery of
native demagogues a race whose history is so
stained by the crimson flood of intestine vio
lence, that it docs not furnish one instance of
united effort to raise their distracted country to
the dignity of a nation. Yours truly,
FITZROY.
A Blitz Trick.
While Blitz was in Norristownj says the re
porter of the Herald, he made a purchase of ap
ples in one of the confectionary establishments,
and in tho presence of the lady in attendance,
quietly cut an apple in two, and out tumbled a
gold ring. He inquired whero such apples
grew, and cutting open another one, out came
another ring. . The lady manifested very great
surprise, and in view of his good luck so far,
Blitz offered to purchase her whole stock. This
she declined, telling him that there were no
more for sale. After he left, tho lady in antici
pation of a golden harvest, commenced cutting
up her apples, and after demolishing about a
dozen without finding what she was in search
of, Ehe gave it up as a bad job.
Consistency. :.
The Whigs seem determined never to do any
thing to bring discredit on their character for
consistency. At their recent State Convention
they nominated, as their candidate for Presi
dent of the United States, one of the HEROES
OF THE MEXICAN WAR; and at the same
time nominated for Canal Commissioner of this
State, a man who, in Congress, voted against
furnishing the soldiers of that army WITH THE
NECESSARIES TO KEEP THEM FROM
STARVING .In mtyaivr.
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSIIU EMPIRE CITY.
$1,700,000 In Gold Dust.
New Yohk, Aug. G, 1851.
The steamship Empire City arrived at her
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.bringing tho-OUiforni a mails toVuTy let, two
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nee us ia,ier man previous accounts.- - -
The California mail for Phila.le.lr.hia trill ho,
received there to-nis-ht.
The Empire City has on freight $1,400,000
in gold dust and S300.000 in the hands nf pas
sengers. The number of passengers is four
uuuuicu.
Aaron Saumn, of Philadelphia, died in Sau
Francisco on the 15th of June.
The Gheat Fire of Jlxe 22J TTia Rnn
Francisco Herald says that the fire commenced
at 11 o'clock on tho 22d of June, in a frame
house, on the north side of Pacific street, about
twenty yarus irom l'owell street. It was un
doubtedly the work of an incendiary.
Down Pacific street sped tho fiery storm,
stopmns not for a second : but
fore the now fast rising winds to Washington
street.
In the meantime, while tlm o-rtprni;
it was spreading north and east; at about 12
o'clock the flames had comnlpto
Washington street on the Plaza. Despite every
effort, it crossed over to the house at the north
west comer of tho Plaza: cnnmmixl thn
abode occupied by Burgoyne and others, to-
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Kciui-r wiiu. some nail uozen others between
that and Bunont street. It
south, by untiring industry, at the County
T-. :i I" 1 , T . - -. r . .
uuuuiug, occupies ny justice Aicuowan ana
numerous others. It was making fearful head
way towards Montgomery 6treet. --
lhe "JLlta talionua" newspaper office with
stood the flames for a while, hut it tnn fwn he-
fore the fiery blast that swept around it.
The new Jenuv Lind Theatre, on tho Snnn
was consumed. All the houses on both sides of
Washington street, between Keampv nn.l ATnnt-
gomery streets, except the Verandah, the El
AJomuu, una uurgoyne s new banking house,
shared the same late. The small frame on
Montgomery street, on the site of Delmonico's,
took fire, and the block on the "opposite side of j
the street was in imminent danger for a long
time, but by the tremendous exertions of the
citizens, it was saved. At this point the fire
was stopped, but it extended still further down
to Washington street, as far as Jones' Alley,
consuming Cobb & Co.'s Auction House, on tho
east side of that alley
Towards .the .north, everything went down
before the flames at Broadway was stopped.
Sansom street seemed doomed, but it, too, es
caped, the fire stopping at its eastern limit,
about half a square from the street.
BiiLDi.NGS Bikaei). The principal buildings
that were burnt arc the elegant new Presbyte
rian Church of the Rev. Mr. Williams, on Stock
ton street ; the large brick building at the cor
ner of Jackson and Dupont streets, occupied on
the second floor as the armory of the First OVl
fornia Guards; the Adobe on the Plaza the
Alia California Office; the Jenny Lind ThptrA
City Hall; City Hospital, and the Mne new four
story brick building of Mesas, Maskwald and
Caspar, ui Jackson street, n.ar Kearney.
Thn1D,SGf S-17?DI15T Burnt Bisteict.
Those saved wit uu tLo burnt district were the
UEdll'-ES. the Custom House, Ve
randah, El Dodo, California Exchange, all the
ureproo. n.ouscson Montgomery street, between
astiirigton and Clay; Bolton, Barry & Co.'s
udings on Merchant street ; Kclsey, Smith
& Risley's, and Biddleman's, on Merchant
street.
The Union Saloon and the houses opposite,
to the astonishment of every body, escaped.
It was expected at one time that the Post Of
fice would go, and a general movement of papers
and valuables was made ; fortunately, the fire
stopped at the County Building.
Incidents op the Fire. The City Hall, tow
ering four stories high, and built of combustible
materials, burnt like a fiery volcano. The sight
presented, a3 the flames obtained possession
and shot high into tho air, was grand beyond
description.
All tho officers of the courts and of the city
government, succeeded in saving their records.
The City Hospital soon after took fire, and
here the scenes of distress, as the unfortunate
inmates, some ninety in number, were brought
out, was harrowing. Many who were burnt in
the former fire, and by tho explosion of the
steamer New World, were still under treatment.
By the untiring exertions of Dr. Chapin, Mr.
John Cotter and a number of the benevolent
persons, they were all removed without any se
rious accident. As soon as tho fire broke out,
Burgoyne & Co. removed all the.ir books, papers,
and deposites to their now bnnking house, cor
ner of Montgomery and, Washington streets.
None of the other bankers were burnt out. ;
The Alta California wa3 the only newspaper
that suffered.
Lives Lost. Since the above was written,
wo have heard the names of two persons who
were burnt to death Mr. Bach, of the firm of
Bach, Barnett & Co., and a Mr. Lyon.
A man was shot dead by an officer in Bush
street, for plundering the property placed there
by the sufferers in the fire.
The number of buildings destroyed is not less
than five hundred, and the loss is estimated at
three millions of dollars.' Avast amount of
lumber and building materials were destroyed.
The greater portion of the burnt district was
occupied by dwelling houses, and but few heavy
stocks of goods and merchandise were burned.
The persons burnt out were generally of the
poorer class. ;
The fire was undoubtedly the work of incen
diaries, and several arrests have been made, but
tho persons under arrest have not been proved
to be tho parties actually guilty. . ; ; :
The excitement created since the fire," says
tho California Courier, against the numerous
desperadoes living among us, has resulted in a
determination on tho part of our citizens to pre
vent the landing here of more persons from the
English penal colonics, unless they produce tes
timonials of character. The Vigilance Commit
tee, and their doings generally, have been sus
tained by tho community.
MiscELLANEors Camforitia Items. A horri
ble murder had been perpetrated at Sonsra.
Some persons whn- Mr tv .... , .
the Sonora Herald, went to the room of one of
the editors Dr. L. C. Green, dragged him from
his bed and shot him through the head! ThS
also killed two other persons connected with the
office, aivd killed or wounded three or four others
who went to their assistance.
A row Lad occurred among the miners, near
Carson diggings, in which two Americans and
tb-e t?vr.r Mexicans were killd.
. Colonel Barbour's division of the Indian Com
mission was at a stand still, for want of funds
Dr. ozencraft was progressing at his own ex-
Two men, named Watkins and Brier, had
been found guilty of burglary and sentenced,
one to ten years' and the other to five years'
imprisonment. J
A party of nine men, under Captain Fitz Pat
rick, had been cut off at Rogue River, and all
murdered.
During th night of the great fire, Lewis Pol
lock, was calied from his bed, and upon making
his appearance, was shot dead by a man named
Samuel Gallaler.
The citizens f Marysvillc have formed a vigi
lance committee for the protection of life and
property.
Quite a large company of Mormons, from
Salt Lake Valley, had arrived at the Los Angc
los Valley. "
The account from the mines and placers are
very encouraging. , .-
The prospect of good crops throughout the
country are alio encouraging.
Our city is sointr un acain vfmr ocf t.
hundred buildings were erected during the past
tv sn..
A FOBTXIGHT TV rAT.lFfinvf i Tha a-rntn-m
caused by the villainous
does among us has resulted in a determination,
on the part of our citizens, in tvtptiiii no f-w
j - v . -J .... no
possible the lan Jin cr of nersnns fmm tlm nonii
colonics, unless they produce testimony of cood ,
luointux, xuuouier ueicrminauon is, to send
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OUt Of -the COUntrv as in .anv- no nnssHiln nf 1.n
abandoned gang who infest our city. '
Much discussion has resulted in consequence
of the formation of the Vigilance Committee and
their subsequent acts, but fliev have crpnAmllir
been sustained by the community. To thinkin"
and disinterested men, the cry that they are op
posed to law and order sounds rltlioulnna fVf.Tii
the fact that wo have had no order because no
law was administered until th rnmmittpn trna
formed, and had '-forepd anm a innu!nnnicii -,f 1
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uicir uuues upon uie ucunquents.
In the City of Sonora, a worthy citizen, Capt.
Snow, having been brutally murdered, and two
of the as?assins having been taken in a few days
afterwards, they were tried and hung by the
populace, and buried in the grave which they
had dug for their victi;-r , ..
A marauding party of twelve men, command
ed by a Captain Irving, were all killed by the
Indians tf the Cohuila tribe, near Los Augelos.
There is a prospect that Mr. Iloatling's pro
position , for supplying the city with water will
soori b& commenced.
A party which left Trinidad to explore the
Sparta country, had arrived at Trinidad.
Seyeral days during the past week were hot
ter than experienced for a long time. The heat
has bcen extremely severe in the interior.
Tho citizens of Marysville have found it neces
sary, as have our own, to form a Vigilance
Committee for the protection of lives and pro
perty. Accounts from the mines and placers are very
encouraging, especially in the rotten quartz dig
gings. The prospect through the country for good
crops is excellent, and a vast amount of vegeta
bles will undoubtedly be produced.
There has been a quartz mining Convention
held in Mariposa county, at which some very
important resolutions were adopted.
CnixAMEN Coming. The San Francisco Tost
says, a vessel arrived from China a few days
since "with 223 of the Long Queues and Flaun
ting Breeches gentlemen, from the Land of the
Celestials. The number of shoemakers among
them is two hundred and twenty-one, also one
lawyer, and one doctor. All their names except
four commence with A.
Small l'otatocs.
. It3 a custom with builders and mechanics to
rais-3 nag after the erection of a new house, or
the JGainting of an old one. In pursuance of
this custom the painters now -engaged in paint
ing tho Capitol raised a flag on tho dome ; and
ono of the journeymen, as a matter of amuse
ment, painted upon it "BIGLER." This so
insulted the high dignitaries of Federalism, that
the Secretary of tho Commonwealth forthwith
ordered the flag to bo taken down, and the poor
jour to be discharged. . Tho master painter be
ing a true and faithful Whig took down the flag,
"but it required a consultation to determine
whether the jour should bo discharged, lest
funds might bo needed from a Democratic House
next winter. Investigator.
Common Men.
Common men till our soil and manufacture
the useful, necessary and ornamental articles of
husbandry, machinery, convenience, dress and
luxury. Common men pay our taxes, and bear
the burthens of the government which protects
the fop, the dandy and all uncommon men in
their legal and just rights, equally with the
most useful citizen. Common men perform our
labor they make our canals and railroads,
they manufacture our lumber. Common men
are laborers, farmers, mechanics, raftsmen ;
men who are with the people, the people, and
know the vants of the people men who have in
common with the masses of the people a com
mon interest to promote. Such as the men se
lected by the Democratic party as candidates
for tho suffrages of the yeomanry of ' this Com
monwealth and yct, these men are sneered at
by the aristocracy as "common men." les,
fellow-citizens, the Governor's organ denounces
Col. Bigler and Gen. Clover as "nothing but
common men." Intestigalcr.
Beautiful Sentiment.
John C.Whittier, the Quaker Poet, in writing
aDout insu Emigrants among us, says;
" For myself, I confess I feel a sympathy for
the Irishman. I see him as the representative
of a generous, warm-hearted, and cruelly op
pressed people. That he loves his native land
that hi? patriotism is divided that he cannot
forget the claims of lug mother island that his
religion, with all its abuses, is dear to him
does not decrease my estimation of him. A
stranger in a strange land, he is to me an ob
ject of interest. The poorest and the rudest
has a romance in his history. Amidst all his
apparent gaiety of heart and national drollery
and wit, the poor emigrant has ead thoughts of
the oulU mother of him,' sitting lonelv in her
solitary cabin by the bog side recollections of
a father's blessing and a sister's farewell that
sister loved so devotedly and hauntin st him
a grave mound in a distant church yard, far be
yond the 'wide wathers,' has an eternal green
ness in his memory ; for there, perhaps, lies 'a
uarint child,' or a 4 sweet crather who once
loved him' the New World is forgotten for the
moment; blue Killarney and the Liffy sparkle
before him Glendalough stretches beneath him
its dark, still mirror he sees the same evening
sunshine rest upon and hallow alike with na
ture's blessings the ruins of the Seven Churches
of Ireland's apostolic age, the broken mound of
the Druids, and the round towers of the Phoeni
cian sun worshippers, beautiful and mournful
recollections of home awaken within him and
the rough and seemingly careless and lieht-
hearted laborer melts into tears. It is no light I
thing to abandon one's own country and house
hold gods. Touchingly beautiful was the in
junction of the prophet of the Hebrews Ye
shall not oppress the stranger, for ye know
the heart of the stranger, seeing that ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt."
Jolui Strolim and tlie Mexican
Soldiers. .
The Mexican heroes are beginnning to speak
their sentiments in regard to John Strohm, the
Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner, who
voted against the supplies to our gallant army
whilst it was nobly maintaining our national
honor in Mexico. Among the toasts given at
the celebration of the 4th of July in BlocmfielJ,
Terry county, was the following:
Joseph Fry, (a volunteer.) The volunteers
of Terry county when we were fighting the
battles of our country and carrying our flag tri
umphantly through, John Strohm was voting to
starve us in the enemy's land, and we will now
vote him into oblivion.
This is in the right spirit. No soldier, no
real friend to the soldier, can aid in the support
of a man who was so lost to every sense of pa
triotism as to vote against even furnishing a
crust of bread to these gallant spirits, who were
fighting their country's battles on a foreign soiL
The nomination was an insult to every patriotic
Tennsylvanian, and the result of the election in
October will 6how that the insult has been pro
perly rebuked. Investigator.
Virginia
The South-Side Democrat tells the following
anecdote of the late Gov. James Baedocr:
Gov. Barbour was a candidate to represent
his county in tho State Legislature, and was
opposed by an illiterate man named Davis. The
Governor, in his speech on the hustings said:
Fellow-Citizens, I had the honor to represent
my county for several years in the Assembly of
Virginia ; I was for some years Governor of this
ancient and venerable Commonwealth; I, was
for a considerable time a representative of this
district in the Congress of the United States;
I bad, fellow-citizens, at a subsequent period,
the honor to hold a seat in the most august
legislative body in the world the Senate of the
United States; at another period I had the
place of Secretary of the War Department in
the administration of John Quincy Adams, and
was afterwards Minister Plenipotentiary and
Ambassador Extraordinary near the Court of
St. James; and now, fellow-citizens, you may
picture to yourselves the humiliation that I feel
at finding myself hero to-dajr engaged in a
damned little pittiful county contest with Tom
Davis.
Independence
A Western editor lately offered his hat as a
prize for tho best essay on independence. The
following obtained the prize :
"Natural Independence is easier imagined
than described: personal Independence consists
emphatically in being situated in a clean shirt,
drawers, socks, and a nicely blacked pair of
boots, with at least a dollar and a half, and a
clean cambric in your pocket all on Sunday
morning, with your wife on one arm, and your
baby on the other, taking your own course
towards your own church, to sit under tho
ministry of your own preacher, in tho blissful
expectation of doing your own snoozing, in
your own pew, wherein no one dare venturo to
nudge you with his elbow, or ticklo your nose
with a straw."
2? An editor oht in Towa, says they don't
brag of the size of their babies, but they are a
most uncommon tuie crop.
' - : A Kew Feature.
A Basd or Gypsies, says an Eastern contera'-'
porary, lately landed at New York, among the
immigrants brought from Europe by an emigrant
ship. They are now encamped, with their cov
ered wagons, in the neighborhood of Hoboken,
and report themselves from ' the vicinity of
Durham and New Castle, England. The women
ana children are said to possess the peculiar
physical, features of their strange race, havinir
slender figuresand an abundance of black hair.
The-men pursue the business of. tinkers, and
the females cook their meals by-fires made in
the open air. It is probable that we are in
debted for .this importation, of humanity to the
increased facilities for immigration afforded by
steam navigation ; and should this small necleua
of a new race of people which we have acquired
in these Gypsy immigrants be enlarged by ac
cessions hereafter, it may be reserved to the
United States to solve the problem whether it is
possible, under any form of social and political
institutions, to amalgamate with other races a
strange' order of cosmopolites, who have, imme
xnorially, bcen nomadic in habit, and intolerant
of any admixture with a different people.
Dcalli of M. aguerre.
The death of the celebrated discoverer of the'
daguerreotype took place at Brie, a village near
Faria recently. He distinguished himself early
as a scene painter, by the happiness of his ef
fect in light and shade. The chapel of Glen-
thorn, at the Ambigu, the Rising of the Sun in
les Mexicains, were saluted by the audienco
with enthusiastic applause. His inventive ge
nius then erected the Diorama. Every one re
members the series of enormous pictures of ca-
thedals,. of Alpine scenery, - producing almost
the effect of illusion upon the spectator, and di
versified by magical changes of light, which M.
Daguerre exhibited in the Regent's Tark, Lon
don. Later, he succeeded in immortalizing his
name, by fixing the images of the camera ob
scura, and realizing, in an instant, effects which
leave at an immeasurable distance the most
elaborately-finished engraving. , .
The Wheat Crop oflS51,
The reports from the various grain-growing
parts of the Union, indicate that the wheat crops
of the present year will be the heaviest ever
taken from the earth in the Western States. In
Ohio, the crop is a very large and fine one. In
New York, Indiana, Michigan; and Wisconsin,
the yield is also very large, and the wheat of
the very best quality. In Michigan, particular,
ly, the yield exceeds anything ever known, even
in Michigan. In the northern and western parts
of the State, and also in the southern tier of
counties, the wheat crop is said to reach from
one-quarter to one-third higher than at any pre
vious season. It is the same with every other
species of grain except corn.
Singular.
' The town of Athens, Illinois, has been de
prived of several of its most valuable citizens,
we quote from the Cincinnati Inquirer, by
strange disease, unknown to the physicians.
A
merchant had received a box of goods from
Europe, which he opened in the presence of fivo
persons. Every one of these persons took sick
and died. The disease soon spread amon?
those who attended upon them, and among
others. In one family six persons died. A
complete panic ensued; and we arc told that
more-than one half the people are absent from"
the town.
Free Flag or Cuba.
The great banner of free Cuba, which floated
over the procession of Cuban sympathisers in
New York, and from other points," is a red tri
angular piece, with a white star in the centre.
next the staff, from which extend alternate blue
and white stripes, three of each.
A wicked wag once courted a buxomf
housemaid, and when he should have been pre
pared to marry her, decamped to parts unknown.
"Well, Ann," said her mistress, "you've lost
your lover, havn't you ?" "O, no indeed, marm,
he'll come back, for I have his promise to marry
me, and in writing, too!" "Indeed, let me see
it, won't you!'! So out from between the leaves
of her Bible, Ann produced a sort of promissory
note, reading as follows:
"I promise to marry Ann J , ninety days
after date, value received. J. B
Snooks wonders where all the pillow ca
ses go to. He says he never asked a girl what
she was making, when she was engaged in white
sewing, without having for an answer, " A pil
low easel"
JCgJ Tim W'ait, the drollest man living, being
told one day that he looked rather the worse for
wear, replied "The fact is I havn't slept a
wink for three nights last night, to-night and
to-morrow night J"
tS Why is Governor Johnston like Santa
Anna ? Because he is stcmmnq it.
Why is Governor Johnston like a piece of iron
in the hands of a blacksmith? Because he is
hound to be beaten. ;
Jgj Few envy the mtrit cf othen ta.it har
any of their own.
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