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THE OLD TV115PIKK.
we hear bo more of the clanging hoof,
Vn.l the stage rattling by ;
For Ihe steamfking rules the travelled world,
And the old fikea left to die.
The grass creeps o'er the flinty path,
And the stealthy daises steal
Where once the stage-turf e, day by day,
Lifted his iron heel.
Voiaore the weary stager dread
' The toil of the coming morn ;
No more the bustling landlord runs
U the sound of the echoing horn ;
Fur the dust lies still upon the road,
And bright eyed children play
Where once the clattering hoof wheel
Kattled along the way.
No more we hear the cracking whip,
" Or the strong wheels' rumbling sound ;
AnJ ah '. the water drives us on,
VuJ en irou horse is found !
Ike roach stands rusting in the yard,
UiJ the horse has sought the plough :
Ve have spanned the world with an iron rail,
And the steam-king rules us now 1
Tie old turnpike is a pike no more,
. am m k'
It
it
J
il
Wide open stands tne gate ,
We Lave wade us a road fur our horse to stride,
WLicL- we ride at a Hying rate,
We Lave filled the valleys and levelled the hills.
And tunnelled the mountain side :
AnJ round the rough crag's dizzy verge,
Fearlessly now wc ride I
Oa on on with a haughty front I
A puff, a shriek, and a bound ;
While the tardy echoes wake too lfcte,
To babble back the sound ;
An 1 the old pike road is left alocc,
AnJ the stagers seek the plough :
VU have circled the earth with an iron rail,
And the steam-king rules usnow !
COMMOJJOUK STOCKTON.
A Figiiti.su Candidate. Mr. "Wise, in a
speech in the late Democratic Convention in
Virginia, made the following reference to one
cf their Presidential candidates j
"There was a young man in the navy, a pet
of Decatur's the most gallant soul that ever
lived who actually etormed Gibralter. A
Toice 'The Gibralter of Whiggery ?' No, the
Gibralter at the mouth of the Mediterranean.
The young man referred to, a midshipman in
the navy, went ashore at Gibralter one day. It
r as at the time when Eritieh officers were in the
habit of insulting Americans wherever they
coulj be found. Wh'lc this young man was in
Gibralter, two British officers commenced tradu
cing the American character, and he immedi
acy laid down the gauntlet, with the under-
riuJing that the laws of the garrison were not
'.: be enforced. They met upon the outworks
'f tie fort, and the young man 'plugged' Lis
Agonist. The companion of the British of5
w immediately advanced toarrest the niidship
as a prisoner. Incensed nt the violation
f the promise eo solemnly made, he caught the
cerin his arms, and giving hira a close hug,
'Irew Lim?elf over the parapet, and thus lock-
1. they rolled over and over to the bottom, in
l.ita eiiVrt Le broke his leg. A sergeant at
' v:iel to the fort pursue-1 the midshipman on
i.rsityick, but on coming up to Lim, the mil
O can threw him dr, and taking possession tf
i h.r;?, c.u le Lis csope to the boat. After--ri5
Le TeM cu b.ar 1 tl.e British fag ship.
civ.cr.r i tbe vI ole licet. He nut three
:h iZ.ctr, oi.eafUT anothcrer, and the re-
s.-t
I i aTc been correctly iiuernied, a
i ti l l?, that if any Eritish officer
? u.crc after f ,:ht a duel, he woul 1 be caidi
tvl t.,e nr',ve. TLii yoking man was Kubcrt
-.Lt' n. The iroaiic cf the boy Las Lem
r' Ha the man. Vou all kn w what Lc
-a Ck..fns:a, where he carne 1 Lis sailers on
n ' !e tltm j-crfona military duty,
-. '.v it as sai 1 in the Florida war that
c ou. coinprehciid but one military Com--y.t,
&r.l tiat as ipt lalians.'"
ai !.t(,U Kaie. Bayard Taylor, writing
jlf, u!:1' in l'nr 1-gyrt says: '-Those
:.. cf the African race, ho j.oint to llgypt
4l ro.';f tf Lat tl at race has accomplished,
r., akeu. The only Negro features
"rreMsned ia Egyptian sculpture are those of
'ts cai tives taken in tlie Jlthiopian wars
" we i'haroahs. The temples and pyramids
-gaout Nubia, as far as the Dar-Fur and
L.'Tf5Uj1C' a-'1 Lear tue hieroglyphs of these
Uircls, and there ia no evidence in all the
of the Nile that the Negro race ever at
1 1 a 1?lie'" degree of civilization than is at
.vkt exhibited in Congo and Ashantce. I men-
ruce i ' 0t frm Rny feec? hostile to that
t t ', ut simply to controvert on opinion vcrv
l actt in some parts of the United States."
TWO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
A It It IV Ali OF THE EL DOUADO.
Trtmtudous Flood in California.
New York, April 12. The steamship El Do
rado, from Chagres, arrived at Ler wharf at G
o'clock this evening, bringing 21G passengers
and $800,000 in gold dust, on freight.
She brings news from San Francisco to the
15th of March.
A terrible liood had occurred in California, by
which Sacremento, 'Marysville and Nevada had
sustained great loss.
The El Dorada. sailed from Chagres, on the
3d iust., and Aspinwall city on the same day.
The steamship Sierra Nevada was at Aspinwall
city, to sail soon.
The steamship United States arrived nt As
pinwall at 11 A. M., on Sunday, the 2'Jthult.
The passenger trains now run on the Panama
railroad as far as Buena Vista. The road is ex
pected to be opened to Hula on the ISth April,
leaving only 12 miles of river navigation, and
passengers leaving Gorgona for Panama reach
there the same day. The fare upon the road is
3. The road is described as in excellent order,
and as promising the greatest convenience in
the transit 'of goods and pnssengers.
The mails of the steamer California were
twenty hours behind the specie and passengers,
and the El Dorado was detained that length of
time awaiting their arrival. She after all cam0
away without them, as the Mail Agents refused
to put them on board, stating that his orders
were to send them via Havana. They will pro
bably be forwarded in the Georgia.
The news from the Isthmus is not of striking
importance or interest. Things seem to be go
ing forward there very quietly, and with more
regularity.
The steamship Ohio was loked for hourly when
the E. D., c-iled.
The steamship California, from San Francis
co, had arrived at Panama, and the steamers
Constitution and Tennessee were daily expec
ted. The El Dorado saw on the 11th in st., DO miles
south cf Cape Hattcras, the steamer Empire Ci
ty, from New York, for Havana and New Or
leans. The El Dorado received and discharged her
passengers and freight direct from the ship to
the wharf.
All the mail steamers now load at Aspinwall,
and Chagres is being fast depopulated. Many
houses have already been removed from Chagres
to Aspinwall, and the latter place presents quite
a busy aud business-like appearance.
The steamer Northern left Panama on the 20th
of March for San Francisco, taking out a large
number of passengers at 12-3 each, being 30
less than the usual rate, and a still further re
duction in the rates of passage was anticipated.
The North America's passengers at Acapulco
are represented as in a most destitute condition
many there depending for their subsistance on
the gifts of passing strangers. Most of the
ladies among the passengers had been taken on
board the steamer Panama, and sailing vessels,
it was said, would be sent from San Francisco
for the remainder.
The steamer New Orleans left San Francisco
on the 15th of March for San Juan del Sud.
The most important item of intelligence by
this arrival is the great freshet in the interior
of California, caused by the late heavy rains.
The loss of property, however, is not so pre..t
a3 it was on a similar occasion last year. Sac
ramento was overflowed in consequence of an
immense crevasse in the lcvce, as was al.jo Ma
rysville, but in the former city comparatively
little damage was done, for the reason that the
inhabitants were prepared, to a certain extent,
for the inundation, and as the waters rose and
gained upon them, they removed their property
to more elevated positions. They, therefore
suffered more inconvenience than actual Ios.
In Marysville, on the other hand, the loss of
property was much larger, and is estimated at
1 50, X). The greater loss was sustained by
the f..rmcr on the low land, and the owners of
bridges leading to the mines. The crops are
n- t so much injured as it was feared they would
be.
Yuba city escaped all damage by the flood.
At Nevada the flood proved very serious, and
cause-1 great damage to property. Two. quartz
mills, the theatre, and Empire Hotel wcrec car
ried away, many ether houses swept down, and
c n-'i ierable damage sustained by the rncr
tLants. The bridges at Coloma and Salmon Falls were
carried away, and it was feared that every
bridge on the South and Middle Fork, and on
the American rivers have shared the same fate.
The cbuntry between Sacremento and the
mines is utterly impassable.
The rivers continue to yield well, the drought
being at an end, and the golches and ravines in
the interior filled with water.
The miners are busily engaged in working the
earth, which they have dug, and from which they
could not extract gold for the want of rain.
They are said to be in the best of spirits, and
their returns thus far are very flattering.
It is confidently expected by intelligent per
sons who have given attention to the subject,
EBENSBBRG, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 18-52.
j that the yield of gold this season will exceed
that of any former year, a much greater num
ber of persons being at work, and a larger quan
tity of earth having been dug than was ever
known before.
Crime continues to increase. Several addition
al murders have been committed by the Indians
in the interior, some of whom Lave been arres
ted, tried, and convicted, according to the Lynch
codes of procedure.
The Evening I'icayune has been sold under d
deed cf assignment.
The amount of duties paid during the months
of January aDd February, on goods imported
into San Francisco in American and foreign ves
sels, was -V2S5,fc01.
The U. S. sloop of war St Mary's had left
San Francisco for the purjose of taking home
the wrecked Japanese, who were rescued about
a year since.
There are two bills of considerable importance
before the Legislature one of which provides
for submitting to the people, at the next election
whether or not a convention shall be held for
amending the Constitution. It is opposed by the
Free Soilers, on the ground that the real object
of the movement is to make a division of the
State, so that slavery may be introduced into
the Southern part. It was passed by the House
on the 2d ult., and is now before the Senate.
The other bill was to enforce a contract made
beyond the State for the performance t f labor
within the limits thereof. Should this bill pass
contracts will be made immediately with laborer,
in China, and a fresh impetus will be givea to
the developement of the mineral resources of
the State, and the improvement of the city, the
growth of which is much retarded by the pre
sent high price of labor.
The weatli at the last accounts was as delight
ful as could be expected.
Expeditions were being formed for the gold
mines on Queen Charlotte's Island. Three ves
sels would leave soon well armed, to resist any
attack from the inhospital Indians who inhabit
the Island.
The San Joaquin llquLlicnn says that the
miners were never so well employed as at pre
sent.
Some of them were making from twenty
to fifty dollars per day
The balance in the California Treasury ou the
8th of March, was $58,0C5, of which 35,000
belonged to the interest fund.
Several lives are reported to have been lost
by the Lite freshet.
The American schooner Clarendon, Capt. Bur
gess, from New York for San Juan, was wreck
ed off llancader Reef 200 miles from Chagres.
No lives lost.
LOUS KAPOLEOX.
A Paris correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce, writing under date of the 20th ult., says:
"It was reported that the President was to be
named Emperor to-day, being the anniversary of
the event alluded to above. Put this Las turn
ed to be an error. There is no doubt that he
will take that title, at the suggestion of the
Senate and Legislative corps, when they meet
sanctioned by the army end the nation, which
will be appealed to, for without the voice of the
nation he will not stir a step ; for on the base cf
universal suffrage he alone can ilud stability.
He will them be carried ia triumph by the army
to the Tui lories, and installed as Emperor ia the
fashion of ! 1 imperial Home.
The ceremony of crowning will proMbly be
dispensed with. He will the a of curse marry,
ia order to consolidate his dynasty , otherwise
the whole fabric tf the Empire would cmi'.bie
down again ; and an Empress is already report
ed to be selected, although it is not known c:i
whom the cLoit-f is fi.ilcn. That is a profound
secret ; but arranged it i?, and one of these
days a steamer will take the news to America of
Republican France being once more raised to
the dignity of an Umpire. Contir.eiu-1 nati- i:s,
it is said, will not be sorry for tLis tran.-iti n,
as the name of a Kepublic is e li us t them,
and France i? the only country ia Europe that
bears that name, and which is the least adapted
for a Republican Government.
MarrltiRt oftlie Monarch of Slum.
The reigning monarch of Siam, who is in Lis
-JStb year, at the pressing solicitation cf Lis
council and of the Leads cf the nobility, has en
tered into the marriage state, with the view of
continuing the succession, in the royal line.
The princess chosen is the adopted daughter of
the late king, and is in her eighteenth year.
She rejoices in the high, and, to European ears
singular sounding names, Chanta Somonass
V.'adduanawaddi. The nuptials were celebra
ted with grear splendor on the 2d of January,
when her name was changed to Phraong Chow
Somanat Wathanawaei, and she was elevated to
the rank of queen consort, or tarthaparicharik,
which being interpreted means "a favorite wife,
taking care of the royal feet." The event is
duly chronicled, and the particular ceremonies
used on the occasion are narrated, by the king's
direction, in the shape of a royal proclamation
printed in English at the royal press, under the
direction of Prince Amarity, one of the sons of
the late king.
fcgWhat ought to be done to-day, do it, fo
to-morrow it may rain.
1'itltltnlofa Sttitmboat Trip.
The St. Louis eorrespoulent .f the Cincinna
ti Atlas, narrates the fallowing incident, which
occurred on the boat ia vhkh Le embarked from
Louis vill'j :
"Alter I had got onboard the boat, a few mo
ments before we started; my attention was at
tracted tcwardi a croup cf friends with whom 1
bceume Tcsy much interested. It was a family
partly wit.S a J -ughtcr and a sister who was a
bride au l .."as leaving the home and friends of
her cLlhTiWj.-ifr cTt Lc? lot with the tnc she
loved, and seek another home in the far far
'Vest. She appeared to be an only daughter
at least there were no sisters there and the
parting of the child was one cf the most affec
ting scenes I ever witnessed. They sat for nn
hour side by side ia silence the Leari was too
full to speak waiting for the boat to start, and
appearing anxious to rera;tia together as long as
possible. At length the last signal was given;
they then rose, und with a look of grief, that I
will never forget as long as I breathe, they re
garded each other for a moment, and then en-
for a while trembling in their parting angnish,
as if in fear lest to suader that embrace would
tear every heart string l-.-oso. But at last, sum
moning strength they bad-j each other the sa l
farewell, in a tone and manner beyond the pow
er of words to describe, such as t A 1 all the
depili of a daughter's love and such as subdued
the whole company who saw it into Fa In ess and
tears. The father tlncn came and pave Lis par
ting blessing and bid his sal farewell, and then
took the mother, and they moved sa lly away.
When they got to the cabin door, she turned
to take the last, lorg, lingering look, that the
heart loves to and will take when parting with
some dearly loved object, though we feel that in
doing so, the tide of grief, und woe, and anguish,
will pour with a tenfold force around the soul.
TLor eye 5 me t, and if they should never meet
on earth airiki, that lingering l:k will be rem
embered till both hearts
till and cold
death, and till they r.eet aaln ia Iloaven.-
The brothers, two of them, remained on board!
to take their parting at the foot of the Palis.
The oldest one (almost a mar.) tried to part
again with manly dignity, but the fast embrace
was too much ; he quivered for awhile like an
aspen leaf, and then bade farewell in tears.
The youngest a small boy gave loose to Lbs
anguish and sobbed as if his very heart would
burst; and after kissing Lor again and again,
Lclcft her is though Lc had left the sweetest
and dearest friend on earth us though he Lad
met with Lis first sa l great loss; ami I doubt
not, but that amid all the storms of life, that
parting hoar will be remembered forever.
After they had got on shore, they stood on a
point, and waved their last adieu till they were j
lost sight of in the distance. Then, no doubt, -i !
full sense of her loss coming heme with all its J
power to that young fill's heart, and feeling j
that she was alone in the world with the one
she loved who stood by her with Lis arm around j
her she Lid her face in Lis bosom and gave j
way to all the agony of Ler grief. Then I tho"t
what will not woman do when she loves with all
her heart. Ami whit a treasure that man
could crdl his own, when he held that young
girl is Lis arms an 1 knew that she suffered all
that anguish iVr Ler 1 -. e of L::n ; f.n l then I
thought what a '!.- , he.-.rt his must le if
he-could abuse that b-ve, and betray that trrt
m 1 confidence. Ye
Lae r.:ut be 1.
if Le
would n t sacrifice every s-.l:l -'
earth t !-...!. c her
hO L:.i
.! of le Arctic leht.
FT. Il'if.c, in i ue "f Lis admirable 1-cMrv? up-
a the Grinnell expedition tells the f-.llowl:: ? :
The lecturer drew a vivi 1 picture of the m::r-YC'b-us
jt.'eaery and the wild lif-J of the polar
regi ns the strange n i.-e of the trvahirg . f
the iee now like the whining cf r. puppy, then
like the calls of distress, and then again like the
buomir r cannon. The ic, g- neral'v :ib jut five
.-t thick, and mueh resend !in
-bis.
before .vus lev.-b, is now piled ia ridges, a-, i as
the masses are forced upon each other, every
variety of noise increases. Now, low and plain
tive : now, shrieking wildly, gradually rising t"
a climax of fearful intensity, under which all
languages cee.se, and then dying away into the
Softest cadence noises fo marked and often
times so irregular, that they were regarded and
called the pulses of the ice, and from these voi
ces f the ice they were generally capable of
juJging of its movements. Entering Eafiin's
Bay, and stretched upon the ice in their buffalo
robes, an ofacer calls upon them to hasten up.
The ice voices Lave been renewed with fearful
intensity, aud the air is filed with sLrieks and
howls. The ice is ia great commotion. On
comes the crest. The crushed ice, piled high
by the meeting of the flows, gradually nearsthe
brig all feel the trembling motion the vessel
trembles from the force of the continued shock.
On it came, now only six yards from the vessel
no word is uttered now three yards now
six feet. All wait with trembling lips, when
suddenly the noiso and motion cease. They
wait for the movement to be renewed, and no re
newal came, and five months afterwards that
mense ridge was still there, and the vessel also
there a monument cf God's protecting care and
nan's weakcuesc."
Attain' Fait.
Mr. Vt Lite, the temperance, lecturer, during his
visit to Mobile, last spring, toll the fallowing an
ecb.te in one of Lis addresses, to illustrate the
influence of a La 1 example ia the formation of
habits ruinous in their ci'ect:
Adam and Mary Lis wife, who lived in one of
the old States, were very pood members of the
church, good sort of folks any way, and Mary
thought a great deal of the minister, and the
minister thought a good detd of a glass of good
toddy. . .
Whenever the minister called to make Mary a
visit, which was pretty often, the contrived to
have him & glass of toddy made, and the minis
ter never refused the toddy. After a while Adam
got to following the example of the minister to
such an extent that Le became a drunkard
drank up every thing ho had and all he could
get. Mary and he became very poor in conse
quence of his following the minister's example
so closely, but the good minister continued his
visits, and poor Mary continued still to give the
glass of toddy. One day Le calk-1 in and told
Mary that Le was g ing away for a week should
return ou Friday and handed her a book con
taining the catechism, and till her when Le re
turned Le should expect she would be able to
answer some of the questions. Mr-ry sail yes,
and laid the book away very carefully. But
Mary, like a good many other churc-h members,
thought no more cf lior book until the very Fri
day that the goud minister was to return.
"What, shall I do," says she, "the minister
is to be here to-duy, und I Lave not looked In
the book Le gave rue. llovr can I answer the
questions V
"lean tell you," sail Adan, "give me a
quarter and let me go over to Smith's and get
some good rum, and you can answer Lis ques
tions with todJy."
Mury took the advic gave Adam the quar
ter and a jug. and off lie started. After getting
Lis jug fille d iiul on Lis way buck, Adam conclu
ded to taste the rum. One taste brought on an
other, until he stumble 1 over a j.ile of rocks and
Lr.Le the jug, lost all the ruin. Eat Adam man
age'! to stagger home.
A3 eocn as he got ia the bouse, Mary inquired
anxiously for the bottle of rum. Where is the
bottle of rum, Adam V Poor Aiam managed
to stammer out " that Le had stumbled over a
pile of rocks and broke the bottle and kst the
rum?'' Mary was in a fix Adam drunk the
minister coming the rum gone and the ques
tions unlearned : "Euthcrc comes the minis
ter! It wouldn't do f . r the man of God to see
Adam drunk," so she, fcr want cf abetter place
to hide him, sent him under the bed. Py the
time he was fairly under, in carae the minister.
After silling a few moments, Le asked Mry if
she thoui ht she cou! 1 ausw er tho question :
"How'dil Adam fall:"
Mary turned her Leai, first one way, then an
other, finally he stammered out.
" 7 c-i-T ,rji:e r-';j."'
It was now the minister's turn to lock blank,
but he ventured r.iu-thcr question :
" Where 11 1 be Lido himself afur Lid full?"
" L'h r t J, ..'"
"TLcre, A lam, you msy come cut, Le kn-wa
:.li about it."
li he g-.--l iini-t'r retired not etea wuitLr.g
California 11 in i k n I ion.
f the rec-ei.t 1- ttcrs tV iuC-11:
.mi a g'.ve
th..t C- til:
w L'.cli
:re calcu'ted
t . d..t..; in the arl.r of tlu -e Lo L .k ur
i":.',!l,
.h tl.ey Lue only t.
reach t J kk up a f rtui e. TLtre are, t
,ii..- v.l. i dodO' 'lire corUeru! le weal:!
i- crener: liy th - e ho Live tie cp:Ul to start
v, :i w !:-u they reach there, and wLkh they ca
Invest ::: s me of the many tr.tvrj rises LkL
i r-t i.--es-.rily j rt-suit them stive a a new
c ut.try. The great of those who emigrate
howeer, ! re po r yoa.ig men, having nothing
lut their ia! -i r t work up.u, s that every tc
cjpatkn, ia v.hL-b merelalr is required, is
cvtrV.--ike I. The E -siva Traveller publishes
an ace. unt, recently received, v. hich gives the
experience f thousuuds. Some three mouths
since, a large company of mechanics, number"
ing some twenty-five person?, left Eeston for
Cailft rnia, to try their luck ia the land of gold.
1'y the last mail letters Lave been received frcm
nearly all tf the company, had they all concur
in saying, that San Francisco and the other large
cities in that section of the country are throng
ed with persons cf every trade, unable to pro
cure work of any kind. One man writes that
he is fully satisfied with what he has already
seen, and would, if he had the means, gladly
retura home. One of the party, a most excel
lent machinist, went on to take a situation,
where ho was to receive something like 5-10 per
month. V. hen he arrived, he found that the
firm for whom he was to work had failed, and
at last accourts he had been unable to obtain
work. With these facts before them, those who
are nnking preparations to emigrate and their
number appears to be unusually large should
weigh well the prospect before they start, and
have a certain and definite object ia view when
they reach there. Those who go, trusting to
chHiiee for a favorable turn in their fortunes,
will be likdy to meet with sad disr.ppoint-
iaer.t.
NUMBER 27.
From HaTAUk.
Py the arrival yesterday of the brig P. uule,
from HTaua, we have receded our files of pa
pers, the Diarii 7a Marina and the Qaccim (y.
fieicl to the 24th ult.
Strakosch and Purodi were in HTan giwln
concerts. The papers speak Tery highly of
them.
Twv remarkable instaucesof longevity are no
ticed by the Dia-io. On the 15th ult., Jcs
Francisco P.origuei, & negro, died in Hvca,
112 years, and a few days fiarwrd gritf
named Isabel CLtrita, aged 103 yra. On this
the Diario makes sorne sage refection:
"Whea they came inty the world nothimr wk
said about steamships, railroads or electric tele
graphs; no w wc are whirled alcr.g t the rstc o
twenty-Mvo leagues in three hours, md in fl
seconds transmit our thoughts 2,000 mileo.'-
Exactly so.
A letter from Yo-guay itatea that a most terri
fic hailstorm occurred iu that part of the coun
try on the &th ult. The crops of & kinds, Licii
before were extremely Courhd.lLg, were entirely
destroyed, and the fields j related the
ancr, to use the word.- of the writer, "like ih&t
of the Sierra-do M-incay ia Aragon, ia tL
month of January," One of th toL wu
found to weigh six occct-s, thrae drLma nil
five fntiua. Muny others w.iLe J four a 1 Ct
ounces, und the generality t;o w - unci La
Weight.
The Eelgiia Consul in Havana, I. Edmcn 1
Metrt, Las been decorated Yj the Eiug ; Belgi
um with the cross of Leopold, ia reward fcr the
benefit-LeLconferre I on tic c;mnH-rcc t
his country.
Under the head of "Mrs. Bloomer in Mdri J,"
the Diaxio quotes from a Madrid paper, whic'a
says; "The paaulettes of the .Scre. Lict
ti'd now Lave Leon used only for aether protec
tion, Lave been introduce 1 into thbll room
They are male ia the shape of elegit pente
loons a li Turn, fastened at the ankle nith del
icate clasps of silver- The fashion u inUaiei
to protect the person against the indiscretion t f
tho waltr and polk-.. They do not lack ree.
In harmony with these pantaloons a tuUiu j,
(this Asiastic name has been given to thu)ero
the bootee s, or buskins of white satlu, laced with
two cords down to the extremity cf the foot.
As masculine tendencies are increased MJ pre
pagated, the waistcoat has come into more gen
eral use, s that it is now of indispens&bio nco
esrity. The young girls Lave accusu-med them
selves to it vith such fecihty that should tLa
fashions change they would be inconsolable fr
its loss. The vaistuc.-.t is WcPa a dUcr-tUn.
either made k:-hur, Lilf button 1. entirely but-ton-.-1,
or entirely uubutuao 1. The cpea wwit
coat is ever urAlrl.r;c almost exactly similar
to a mom's shirt, cieet t thit it f rais two .a:j:
points at the throat."
"Whvn," a.ks tho ';-. , 'vhjU we U hs
tj Loud & l e d item with the w. rls 'Mr.. IUjj
raer ia Havam "A. . 7V., AinliiU.
Th Faturf of Crt Britain.
The New Yrk Times recultes thus: -It
us c- r.cciT? the general c, n-jirwy t be trium
jbar.t; the s Tcrei ty cf the re- le to Le M-t-e
1 whtre the m.ii Jen queen tits a v. TL true
House of Pee'- is na hrst-. 1 t t-e the C. m
ran. Sinecures are mor.lyLi-t rie-J : the
u:.t .ry sy.-!.-:r. swter- away Church j rf. rm vt
n.-e ' urt
I ..u::.-irv. with tS. lf ...? -. ..
t I.:? fuA 1 ut ef it, ! cutr-jy cf Lut.:tiij
iluous wr::T ' i: The t e-.rd- 1? .. ...
away tit ,s, i lislmei.ts t-eriaiotif. tsri
ip.rnr, ui.J ret lace thm nith tie fubt(iiice vf
p' ju.tr power. J Id t ticks are set t l-ev.al
the " tyx : rl ourvlup like the French nick-
f :r t r iri i.-, i: the mertrj ob-uritr it
look; a bo. k of pcst-d, U I Heraldry. Crowts
re ceuvertel ir.to etiu ; and the sc-rtre t uti
food IV r th paupers cf the Tuwer Hfcialwti.
Ireland i regeiit rated, tuid the outr!w i f rer-
ulativn st-jyevl by lit.nl legislation. In bhort.
the people if l.ugland, di.-peniiiir with the im
ported an i worn cut st- ck of Hanover, agree to
rule themselves with their own Eritish Mood
and sinews ; an I receive no kings from &l rod,
save fugitives from foreign revolution. As first
President ef the Republic, which Lord Derby
advocates, and events predict the "United Ko
public of Great P.ritain and IrelamL" we ven
ture to nominate lliehard Cobden. Pirhape
William SmltL O'Erien would serve for Vice-
rresident."
?-A law has passed both Houses of the
Louisiana Legislature, which cives the exclusive
power to Police Judges and to the Mayors and
Ahkrman of cities, to make such laws end retr
ulations for the sale of intoxicating liquors 3
they may deem advisable, and to grant or with
hold licenses from drinking houses or ekopa, as
a majority of the citizens and voters of eny war 1
parish," town and city may determine by ballet.
This act takes effect from the date ef its pas
sage.
Notwithstanding the immense power Le
wields, and the high situation he is raised to,
Louis Napoleon has been heard to say that he
would prefer being a private gentleman in Eng
land, with 20,0' 00 year, to that ..f ruler over
France; Lis taste aud Lilits beisg so decidedly
En'iIi. ,
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