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VOLUME- VIII.
3E1BI1G, THURSDAY, 'APRIL '2, 1852.
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Vsd iove cood poetry ; that which describes
events and transactions naturally, and speaks to
the heart, wo call jurexrU. The lo:!c..ing
-cm from the pen of Louisville's young voctess,
w our mind, ranks with the productions of those
who have gained an unpcrishablc fame lor
j.oetry containing l- heart-toucliiug. truths,
less naturalness, lej beauty.
from trr-di' .Vyii:.:Kr M-:rch.
TIIH SESKIlTliM.
1V XliS
I.UUE ui'll-il:
V.'Lv d'nlst thuii leave mo thus ? Had memory
n'J chain to bind thee to me, lone and wreck-d
la spirit :ts 1 am '. Was there no spell
tjf power in my deep, yearning Love to stir
Tlitf sleeping fountain of thy si ui aiii keep
Mv huace trembling there ': Is there no charm
la" strong and high devotion such as mine
To win thee to my side once more ? Must I
Pe cast forever oil' br Iri-htcr fcrms
Aul ":iyer smiles ? Alas '. 1 love thee still.
LovoCwUl not, cannot perish in my heart
'Tv.iil linger there forever. en nov
luour own dear, sweet sunset time, the Lour
Of passion's uuforgotten tryst, I hush
The raging rumult of my soul, i.ud still
TLc fierce strife in my lonely breast, where pride
Is fiercely struggling for control. Each hue
Of purple, gold and crimson that Cits o'er;
The western sky recalls some by-g..i:c joy'
That we have shared together, &ml my s-.u!
Is love's and memory's.
As hera I sit
lu oncVincssT the thought ernes o'er my heurt
How side by side in moO!::ight eves, while soft
The rose-winged hours Were fitting by, we stood
lieside the clear and gentlc-murniUjiug fount
O'erhuug with wild and blooming vines, and felt
The spirit of a holy love bedew
Our hearts' own budding bloss-.nis. There I drank
The wild, o'eriuasteriug tide of elo-uenee
That flowed 1'roui thy u'orwrought and burning
soul.
There th.'.u Jdst twine a wreath of swecte?t
flowers
To shine amid my dark brown locks, and new
Betides me lies a bud, the little bud
Thou gav'st me in the glad, bright summertime,
Telling me 'twas the emblem !' a licpo
That soon would burst to glorious life within
Our spirit's garden. The poov fragile bud
Is now. all pale and withered, and the houe
Is faded in my lonely breast, an J cast
l.rever forth from thine.
They tell me, ton,
My brow and cheek are very p.ale Alas 1
There is no more a spirit-fire within
To light it with the olden glow. Life's dreams
And visions all have died within my soul,
And I am ead and lone and desolate ;
And yet at times, when I behold thej near,
A something like the dear old feeling stirs
Within my breast, and wakens from the tomb
Of withered memories one t ale rose,
To bloom a moment there, and cast uroua J
Its sweet and gentle fragrance, but anon
It Tanishca away, as if it were
A mockery, the spectre of a liowcr ;
1 quell my struggling sighs and wear a smile ;
Hut, ah ! that smile more eloquent than sighs
Tells of tt broken heart.
'Tia said that thou
Dost ever shine the gayest mid the gay,
That loudest rings thy laugh in festive halls,
That in the dances, . with lips all wreathed ia
smiles,
Thou whisperest love's delicious flatteries ;
And if iny name is spoken, a light sneer
Is all thy comment. Vet, proud man, I know
Beneath thy hollow mask of recklessness
Thy conscious heart still beats as true to me
A in the happy eves long past. Ah! once,
la night's still hour, when I -went forth to weep
Beneath our favorite tree, w hose giant arms
Seemed stretched out to protect the lonely girl,
I marked a figure stealing thence away,
And my poor heart beat quick ; for oh ! I saw,
Respite the cloeelj-ruuilied cloak, 'twas thou,
1 hen, then I knew that thou in secrecy
llul'st sought the spot, like me, to muse and
rer blighted memories. Thou art, like me, ,
la heart a mourner. In thj solitude,
heu mortal eyes behold thee not, wild sigh3
'oiivulse thy bosom, aud thy hot tears fall
Ae burning rain. Oh ! 'twas thy Laud that
dealt
The blow to both our hearts. I well could bear
own fierce sufferings, but thus to foel J
iat thou, in all thy manhood's glorious strength I
ysi near a deep and voiceless agony,
Lies on thy spirit with the dull, cold weight
Of death. I see them in my tortured dreams,
And even with a smile upon thy lip,
but a keen arrow quivering deep within
Thy throbbing, bleeding Iicart. Go, thou rnay'et
wed
Another ; but beside the altar dark
J1 J' mournful form will Etaud, and when thou
see'et
r )i ii rca.11 of orange bloesoms on fu.-r brow,
uVn' w 8ecm a fiory scorpion coiled
'"iWly around thine own.
I'm dying now ;
Life's sands are falling fast ; tnc silver cord
Is loosed and broken, and the golden bowl
Is shattered at the fount, ily sun has set,
And dismal clouds hang o'er me, but afar
I see the glorious realm of Paradise,
And by its cooling fountains, and beneath
Its hoiy shades of palm, my soul will wash
Away its earthly stains, and learn to dream
Of heavenly joys. Farewell despite th- cold
Desertion, 1 will leave my angel home,
Each gentle eve, at our own hour of tryst,
To iio:d my vigils o'er thy pilgrimage,
And with my spirit's-piniun I will fan
Thy aching brow, ad by a holy spell.
That 1 may leuru in Heaven, will charm away
All evil thoughts and passions from thy breast,
And calm the raging tumult of thy soil!.
Tie uapau Kxpetlltlon.
Our government says the .New York lltrahl,
has organized a formidable naval expedition to
Japan. Throe first class steamers, three sloops,
and one brig of war, with a store ship, are to
const! tuLe the warlike squadron of Commodore
l'erry, in this singular, curious, if nt illegal
enterprise. The fact that such an expedition
was projected, was first announced some time
ago. The provocations and object cY this war
like movement have since been senil-oliicially
communicated to the world.
Japan is a populous, independent oriental so-mi-buibrous
iiutiou, made up of an immense
cluster of volcanic island., Hanking the coast of
China. The entire population of the empire is
estimated at from forty to tifty millions. JuJdo,
the capital, in the islan i Niphon, is said to bo
one of the mo.-t magnitlccnt and populous cities
of the glvbe. The products of the island are va
ried aud extensive, and the people are skilled in
a variety of useful manufactures. The empire
olTera an inviting market to the commerce of Lu
rcpe and the United States; but it remains t-j
this di.y a sealed bock to all ' outside barbarian.-."
except the Dutch, who, by treaty stijtiia
tions, enjoy certain delusive, but limited, privi
leges of trale. The Chinese, a branch of the
same race as the Japanese, not being classified
among the "outside:-?," have a more enlarged
privilege of trafiio . but, substantially, the empire
is locked up against the ships of all civilized na
tions. The tags of England and the United
States are especially under the most rigorous
exclusion ; and shipwrecked English or Ameri
can sailors among the Japanese islands, are sub
jected to tortures, compared with which the suf
ferings of Captain Riley, on the coast of Africa,
are but the details of a-holiday excursion among
the natives. "Within the last two years, the sai
lors of one or several American vessels Lave suf
fered from the treachery and barbarity of the
Japanese. Uut while some died from their cru
el treatment, others escaped to tell the story.
Subseqi.-rutly, if we aro not mistaken, an Amer
ican vessel of war, the sloop 1'relie, enterc 1 the
sacred waters of Jeddo, anchored orf the city,
u: i demanded the surrender of certain American
sailors, still supposed to.be in the custody of the
local authorities. After considerable chalfering
and a threat of bombardment, one or two men,
wo believe, were recovered ; but such was the
jealousy of the authorities, thaf neither the oili
cers ncr any of the crew were permitted to land;
and it was only by threats of opening on the
town, that water and provisions were supplied
to the vessel by the natives themselves.
Those unsatisfied outrages upon American
seamen are set down as the casus If-lli for this
expedition. The object of the s-pisdron is open
ly declared to be war the invasion of Jeddo,
no!--ns r&iVn., and the exploration of the islands,
with amove to their commercial advantages.
The cntcTptfc-e may, therefore, be fairly pro
nounced a sort of experimental ftivatr explor
ing expedition, on a scale equivalent to an ac
tual declaration of war. The success of the Eng
lish invasion of China, upon the opium question,
may have suggested the practicability of this
Japanese experiment. The most lawless, and
even the most atrocious, outrages upon inoffen
sive nations, have very often resulted Jo th pos
itive ber.eUt of the injured people themselves,
and the world at large. The history of mankind
is full of such examples. The wars of the Ro
mans, the Crusades of the dark ages, the numer
ous Ji!ilustering expeditions of Great Britain, of
Spain, and of France, to say nothing of the re
annexation of Texas the most magnificent stroke
of sound policy of modern times, although not
exactly according to the lex scrij'ta, or the dip
lomatic code, in all respects one and all, may
"be justified by their practical results. The
written law has been, is, and must be, subservi
ent to policy, which ia the supremo law of na
tions. Upon this broad fundamental doctrine, the
United States naval expedition sets out for the
invasion of Japan. "It is designed to effect a
landing at Jeddo, the capitol of the cmpirc, at
all hazards." Thus reads our report from Vv'ash
ingtoa. And Commodore Terry is to "leave no
efforts untried to open commercial intercourse
with that long-scaled peop le." The objects of
the expedition go beyond the point of redress for
outrages upon American seamen. The Japanese
are to be compelled to trade with the " ontside
barbarians" of the United States, and their coud.
try is to be explored by force of arms.
This is a curious, singular, and remarkable
project for the pacific acministration of Mr.
Fillmore. It stands out in direct contrast with
.the doctrine of r.on-iutcrvcntion, face to face
it is intervention the most palpable. The only
shado of difference between it and the late foray
of Lopoz upon Cuba, i3, that the one is a p ublic
and the other was a private affair. The object
of both was the same to open to & benighted
people the benefits of moro intimate, social, pol
itical and commercial relations with the civilized
world. And we ezpect good results from this
expedition. It is doubtless strong enough to
break down tho barriers which have so long
sealed up the Japanese from the rest of mankind.
And it is high time that thoir colootiwl uoti jua
of exclusion, and contempt cf " outside barbari
ans," were reformed by the wholesome argu
ments of forty-two pounders. The nations of
the world are a family, and neither tho Chinese
nor the Japanese can longer be permitted to re
fuse to trade with their outside neighbors. . They
must come to their mill, or take the consequen
ces. Tho traHie, with an empire of fifty millions
of industrious people is a matter that admits of
no trilling. The good effects of the opium war
in China justify the highest expectations of this
exbloring and xperimcntal expedition of Mr.
Fillmore and his Cabinet. They have, bvrif:Je,
certain provocations to redress. Good. And
they Lav j concluded to make clean work of it by
entering Japan, by ezploring the island, and by
opening them to the benefit of tho cotton trade
and Christianity to alio which we say, Amen 1
There appears to us, however, to bo one little
di.teulty in the way. This oxpodhu is tanta
mount to a declaration cf war. It involves the
necessity of war. It goes to make war. Con
gress, as wo understand it, is the war making
power; and we are not aware that Congress has.;
ever been informed of the intentions of the ad-"
ministration in this business. And when we
recollect the outcry raised by Mr Webster, Mr.
Corwin, and the universal whig party, against
the unconstitutionality of the Mexican war, aa
op ened by Mr. l'olk, this Japanese squadron
docs certidnly look very curious, liiit it is etill
more remarkable that the cabinet should go to
tho aoitipodos for a little war capital, when it
might be had, of a moro substantial quality,
with John Bull and his lawless agents in Nicar
agua and Central America. Mr. James Green,
II. B. M. Consul at San Juun, still cotloeting Lis
tolls thore as the agent cf the Mosquito King,
under British protection, and in open oontempt
of tho Clayton srw- a i r -t rMty. - llre--w
have had outrages ami insults sufficient for the
active employment of the homo squadron, while
it has remained idle ; aud here, in the expulsion
of intermeddling Briiioh emissaries from Cvutral
America, has been offered the most inviting field
for popularity, while Mr. Webster and his asso
ciates have timidly, negociated into paltry ex
plnnatiou?, meaning anything or nothing. And
yet, to pick up a little military gb'ry, they fit
up uu expedition for Japan, of the results of
which there is no probability of hearing anything
till after the Presidential election so that, if
the empire of Japan is explored, subjugated and
annexed to the Union, it will all be ammunition
wasted. Tho election will be over before we can
hear the news.
Yet we go for tho expedition, and have faith
that it will turn out successful, advantageous and
satisfactory. Tho navy wants employment be
tween idleness and active pcrvice it costs but lit
tle additional expense. If the lives and proper
ty of our sailors shall be hereafter secured ajnoDg
tho Japanese, it will pay ; but if Commodore
Terry shall also succeed in a scientific explora
tion of tlio.se islands, and in a treaty of social
and commercial reciprocity with his Serene High
ness tho Emperor, even if it shall require the
bombardment of his capital and the destruction
of all the war junks he can muster, then our
gallant Commodore will deserve a gold medal of
the largest size. The jreHjc of our anas on the
land and on the sea, will be Illustrated in the ut
termost parts of the earth the area of our com
merce will be extended, and the insulated pagan
of Japan will be taught a lesson which will re
dound to the glory of civilization and the spretd
of a little beiigerent Christianity. Nothing like
steamships and long forty-twos for a commercial
treaty or tho conversion of the heathen.
. I'rliiccLucituHurat.
There are yery many in our country who re
member Triucc Lucien Murat, the sporting, good
natured soul, who formerly dwelt at one corusr
of the late Joseph Bonaparte's estate, at Borden
town New Jersey, living no one. hardly knew
how wild and reckless to-day flush with mon
ey, to-morrow not a shot in tho locker.
"Well, the same jovial I'rince has given a prac
tical illustration of the truthfulness of Shaks
pcare's saying, that " there's a tido in the affairs
of men, which if taken at tho flood, leads on to
fortune." Tho election of Louis Napoleon was
the flood tide with him for he and his family
are cow at the head of the heap in Franco, rich,
courted, living ia grand, royal, superb style.
lie has risen fromLis obscurity at Bordontown
where he so often enjoyed his puuch and wine
with boon companions, or startled the wood-cock
along the low banks of the Delaware and been
summoned to the height of whatever fame the
French President has to lend Lini. lie wears
the velvet uniform of a Senator his finances
are said to flourish and his offspixing aro gree
ted with every promise cf having a position and
making a nobc in the world, as the following
notice taken from a Tarisian paper will show :
" The baptism of the infant of Prince and
Princess Murat took place at the Elysee. The
infant was held at tho baiitismal font by the
Prince President and tho TrLacess Mattiildo."
Succ-csa to our friend the Prince. May he live
long to enjoy Lid new-born wealth, jaud honors.
Jit. JJolLj Mirror.
Thrininji lucident or Ocean Life.
Oar noble ship lay at anchor in the Bay of
Tan-jr, a fortified town in the extreme north
west Of Africa. The day had been" extremely
mild, with a gentle breeze sweeping to the north
ward ai'd westward, but along toward the close
cf the afternoon, the sea breeze died away, and
one of those sultry, even-like atmospheric
breathings, came from the great 6un-burntSalia-ra.
Half an Lour beforo sundown, the captain
gave the cheering order to tho boatswain to
call the hands to go in swimming, and in less
than five minutes, the forms of our tars were
seen leaping from the arms of tho lower yards.
One cf the studding sails had been lowered
into the water, with its corners suspended from
the main yard arm and the swinging boom, and
into these the swimmers made their way. A
mong those who seemed to be enjoying the
sp,'ort most heartily, were two boys Tim Wal
lace and Fred FairLaidis the letter of wLgiu,
was the son of our old gunner and, in a laugh
ing mood, thoy startei out from a Etudilug soil
on a raco.
There was a loud ringing shout of on their
lip3 as they put off, aud they darted thro' the wa
ter Like fishes. The surface of the sea wan as
smooth as glass, though its bosom rose in long
heavy avells that set in from tba Atlantic.
The vessel was moored with a long sweep
from both cables, and the buoy of the starboard
quarter, where it rose and fell with the Ltzy
swells like a drunken man.
Towarls this buoy the two lads made their
way, Fred Fairbanks Viking the lead, but when
they were in about twenty or thirty fathoms of
tho buoy, Tim shot ahead and promisod to win
tho race. The old gunner watched the progress
of Lis 8fn with a vast degree of pride, and as
ho saw him drop behind, Le leaped upon the
poop, and wad juit upon tho point of urging
Lim on by a shout, when a cry reached Lis ear
timt xaad Lin f?.tart s - i! Le Lad been struck
by a cauncn balL
A shark a (shark ! came from the cat-tain of
the forecastle, and, at the pound of theee teni
bto words the men who were in the water leap-od
and plunged towards the ship.
Bight abeam, at a distance of three or four
cables length, a sharp wake was seen in tho
water, where the back of the monster was visi
ble. His course was for the bvys.
For tjmomeiit the gunner stood Lko one btreft
of sense, but on tho next Le shouted at the top
of his voice for the boys to turn, but tho little
fellows heard him not stoutly the swimmers
strove for the goal, allunoonscious of the bloody
do ith spirit that hovered so near them. Their
merry laugh still rang over the water, and at
length they both touched tho buoys together.
Oh, what drops of agony started from the
brow of our gunuer. A boat Lad put off, but
Fairbanks know that it could not reach the boys
in season, and every moment lie exjected to see
the monster sink from sight, then he knew that
all hope would be gone. .At thia moment & cry
reached the sLip that went through every heart
like a stream of tre the boys Lad discovered
their enemy.
That cry started old Fairbanks to his scnecs,
and quicker than thought ho sprang to the quarter-deck.
The guna were all loaded and shot
ted fore and aft, and none knew their temper
better than he. With steady hand tuade strong
by a sudden Lope, the old gunner seized a prim
ing wire, and pricked the cartridge of one of the
quarter guns ; Le took from Lis pocket a percus
sion wafer and set in its place, and set back the
liaitimt r of the patent lock. With a giant
strength the oil man swayed the brooch of the
heavy gun to its bearing and then seizing the
string of tho lock, ho stood back and watched
for the next swell that would bring the shark in
range. He Lad aimed tho piece some distance
ahead of his mark, but yet & little mcnicnt would
settle Lis Lopes and fears.
Every breath was Lushed, and every heart in
that old ship beat painfully. The boat was yet
some distance from the boys, while the horrid
sea monster was fearfully near. Suddenly the
air awoke by the roar of the heavy gun, and as
the old man knew Lis shot was gone, Le sank
back upon the combing of tho LatcL and covered
Lis face with his hands, as if afraid to see the
result of his own efforts, for if Le Lad failed he
knew that Lis boy was lost
For a moment after the report of the gun had
died awy upion the air, there was a dead silence
but a3 tho denso smoke arose from the surface
of the water, there was, at first, a low murmur
breaking from the lips of the ruon that mur
mur grew louder and stronger, until it swelled
to a joyous, deafening shout. The old gunner
sprang to his feet end gazed off on tho water,
and the first thing that met his view was the
huge carcass e.f tho shark Coating with his white
belly up, a mangled, lifeless mass.
In a fewntomects the bor.t reached the during
swimmers, and half dead with fright they were
brought on board. The old man clasped his
boy in Lis arms, and then, overcoiuo by the
powerful excitement, Le leaned upon the gun
for sujiport.
I have seen men in all phases of excitement
and cui-pense ; but never have I ween three hu
man beings nmre overcome by tLiilling emotions
than that on binrtling mouit-it, when they first
knew the effect of our gunner's shot
'J
UiTTiJti. Back. A friend cf ours tells a good
story, to the circumstance of which ho was a
witness. Happening in at a celebrated gun
smith's of this city, a short time since, Le found
present a number of persons, some of whom
were exhibiting their p resumed faruiliority with
the use of the jun. by tha severity of their jokss
upon the bad shooting of one of the number, a
tali, thin Yankee, in whose courpaiiy they had
evidently been a day or two previously enjoying
the sport of shooting. The Yankoo stood the
jokes of his companions very well, by explana
tion and retort, until, at length, tLe gunsmith
joined in with the others, w ith some remark at
Lis expense. This seemed for a time to fcidoh
Liiu off, and Le Lad no iaor to say, until a gen
tleman entered the placo uud inquired of the
gunsmith if Le kept puwder for sala ?
(Juttnikh. "Yes, "-jlr ; Low lauuh do you
want V
Strartjrr. "Is it good of the best quality ?"
Gunsmith. "Certainly, Sir ; I kn none but
the very beet. How much will "
Yankee Breaking in and addressing himself
to the customer with tmphaais. "I'm, Sir .' ti
mutt tkt eery btt peouJcr, I daw him weigkiu'
some on it eout jest now, tud uroppiu' Lin cigar
into it, Le set it afiro 2 and I veow tLo wholo
bateh was nearly half burnt up afore wo could
git it oout 1"
The customer left, the Yankee sloped, tho
company di.-ser:-d, the jrunmidi wad vexed,
and our friend laughed. 2ubi LeJjer.
In th oouree of the recent speech by Earl
Iorby, Le said :
I chould be inclined to say it is a duty incum
bent ajon Ler Majesty's government not to neg
lect tboc4 preparations which, in my judgment,
our pred.-oessord wisely adopted fr placing this
Country in a position, by the internal organiza
tion of its domestic force, to I free from all
possibility of foreign invasion. (Hear, Lear.)
My lords, I believe, and I give due credit fer it
to the noble lords op posite I believe our naval
force was never in a more effective position than
at present. (Hear, Lear.) I belie e that for
all purposes for which its services should be re
quired whether to guard our shores from inva
sion or our distant p'ossessions from violence, or
to p rotect that almo.-t boundlesd extent of com
merce that crosses every sea and fills every port
through the wild world the state of our navy
was never more efficient than it is at the moment
I Lave tLo Lonor to address you. (Cheers.)
The regular army I believe also to be in a state
of perfect efficiency, so far as its numbers are
Concerned for, with tLe extent and variety of
Le duty it has to perform, there is no army on
which, in times, even of peace, so heavy a load
of military servieo devolves. (Hear, Lear.)
But efficient as the army is well as those who
constitute it are qualified to discharge the du
ties of their profession if called upon in the ser
vice of their country that army, and I am hap
py at being aide to say so, is numerically in a
condition which renders it impossible that it can
afford the slightest ground for jealously to any
foreign X'ower. (Hear, hear.)
TUe Xtiliev and his Uncle.
The St. Louis Tims, considers that whatever
be the faults of Louis Napoleon, those persons
are frightened who believe that Lis only ability
consists in striving to follow in the footsteps of
his illustrious predecessor, and eays this view
of the case hardly does the dictator justice.
The recent coup TtUt at Paris, st,ye that pa
per, was certainly a far bolder movement thau
that of the 'jth of November, '99, when Gener
al Bonaparte enacted the part of Cromwell,
and drove a hostile Legislature, the Assembly
of Five nundred, at the bayonet's point from
the couueil chamber of St. Cloud ; and it requi
red far greater ability to carry it to a snccessfuj
issue. If this act of '51 tres suggested by that
of 99, the former, it will be admitted, far ex
ceeds the latter in its extent, and may equal it
in results. Thus, also, if the constitution re
cently put forth by the nephew it a close imita
tion of that of tho year VIII. of the French
Republic, put forth by the uncle, the former
certainly claims for its author far greater pow
ers than did the latter. The nephew claims
command of the army and navy tho power t
declare war to make peacc to create treaties
to appoint to all offices to pardon offenders,
and to decree martial law net one of which ab
soleta prerogative was assumed Jiy the uncle,
except in un exceedingly modified form. It will
hardly do, therefore, whatever our estimate of
the comparative abilities of the uncle and neph
ew, to say that the latter is but the servile imi
tator of tho former, and that his only claim to
consideration is the fact of the asstixaodrelation-shijv.
The Metropolitan Hotel.
I This immense establishment, savs the No
i ork Courier, which is rapidly progressing to
completion, is becoming quite atopic of convei
sation in the up-ton circles of our city Strang
ers who visit the city are sUrtlcd at iU ma-juif-cent
proportions, aud the eleg-tat style of itd ex
terior decorations. As we have hal the privi
lege to examine the interior, and to gikin much
information both from observation and from tho
statements of the prop rietors, we will detail the
main points for our readers.
The cost of the decorations of the Dining Hall
alone will be two thousand dollars. To givo tLe
reader an idea of the magnitude of the establish
ment, we may state that it is six stories high, and
contains over five hundred rooms : that of th--
over one hundred are suites of rooms, (each suite
emoraemg parlor, bed-room, dressing-room, &c.,)
each room being supplied with iras. n,l l.nt
cold water. The building contains on, vulc cf
e.eganuy painted halls and passages, and more
than jh-emiUsot pipes, to convey the gas, hct
and cold water, and steam (to warm the building)
to every part of the establishment.
The entire cost of the building, independent
of the furniture, &c, will Le about half a million
of dollars the plate-glass alone, for the win
dows costing $35,000. TLo furniture, which is
to to cf the richest and most unique pattern, it
is estimated, will cost 150,000. The silver
ware has been ordered of Stebbins 4 Co., at tha
expense cf li,GC0. Fiv$ hundred and fifty
mirrors Lavo been ordered at a cost cf ;15,000
one hundred and twenty of wLich are impor
ted from Belgium. Two cf the largest of these
ara intended for each end f the great Dining
Hall; and they cover within a fraction r.f r....
hundrtJ quurteet tack being the largest ever
impcrtox into the United States! Each of tho
Dicing Hall windows is surmounted with orna
mentoJ c&X'Woc., within which ia presented the
t uui oj n:n cf every principal nati tL
tarth:
A. Dream RcalUed.
Sometime during the past summer, a stran
ger stopped at on cf the watering place on tho
mountain south of Waynesboro' Pa. Alter Lis
arrival there Le wl taken aick, and for ssveral
days was apparently deranged. OnLi. recovery
Le informed tLe proprietor oftLeLou-e that du
ring his illness Le Lai dreamed for three tighi
m succession that Le Lad discovered, at acci"
tain distance in the mountains under a rock, an
earthen crock, containing a large amount of ail
vcr. At this the worthy lord expressed Lis sur
prise, and spoke cfit as a mysterious dream.
Afterward, however, tLey were walking to
gether in that direction, when the dream wa
again adverted to iy the stranger, and the pro
prietor at once proposed an examination, to sat
isfy their curiosity. The rock was soon found,
aul after carefully brushing the leaves away,
it wad moved, and to their utter amazement,
theac sat a crock full of silver. They took it
out and conveyed it secretly to the houso, and
on e lamination it was found to contain $100,
(all in half dollars,) which was dividod equally
between them. The day after this discovery,
the stranger wa3 about to tako Lis leave of the
mountain, and complained to his friend, the pro
prietor of the springs, of the incouveniance of
carrying silver, when an exchange was proposed
and made, the stranger receiving bankable pa
per for Lis silver. It was not loiig after Lis de
parture, however, till the proprietor Lad mada
another discovery Lis four hundred dolhtrs in
silver were counterfeit, and Le had thus been
ingeiiiou.Iy swindled out of two hundred dollars.
FAi-tixE is GtiiiiAxy. The accounts from Vi
enna describe the sufferings from famine to bo
excessive in arioua parts of Germauy.
Troubles and bad governmeut sewu to have
deprived humble men of all heart or energy.
They have left their fields uncultivated for miles
lest the rude hands of some hateful ikoldiery
should seize or destroy the fruite of their labor.
The consequence of this is something vary Lko a
famine in many parts of Europe. TLo aocownts
from Poland are most disheartening. Lu the
Carpathians people are literally starving. There
is no bread at all. The inhabitants arc suid to
live on a soup of some kind, which they call
"reitkamuka," a compound of fat and milk ;
or they cook a sort of thick oaten pap, some
thing in appearance like the Italian polenta.
this they call "kulasha," and cat it ia the place
of bread, and as in all times of great want
crime and dissipation of all kinddtomo to swell
the list of horrors, it is not surprising to learn
that something very like anarchy ia raging in
the district most affected by the famine.
Leap Year.
This is leap year ! So, gentlemen, b.ok out !
The following is extracted fi i ma
printed in 1000, entitled, "Courtship, Love, and
.-iiiinmonie : "Albeit n is now become a part
of the common lawe, in regard to foreign rela
tions of life, that as often as every bissextile
year doth return, the ladyes have the sole privi
lege, during the time it eontinucth, of makin-
love unto the men, which they doe by cither
words cr lookes, as unto them it seemcth pro
per ; and moreover, no man will be entitled to
to the benefits cf clergy who dothe refuse to ac
cept tho offers of a ladyc, or who dothe iu any
wise treat her proposal with sUeht cr ccntume'-ly."