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jIa" s rest, t > :.E''iW.TE;W OaiLosEANS: d Q MgDAY )OtlRNtINfG, APRIL 21, 1810. : DTOUxA I. amE. 0 e the inbjeetor eqaeauly alltded t but hittie su Itin-of great importan.e, a oats onme though d nuot onto ent, esteetm, is tatuonue withwhich we have a puefcurdethehe ryi-thle erditfO Itt Olrea t ur Ina conrl a o n; whle nthie nelaperis, : trhag,n e ethe orosdt eaiotic Iresent f all geadoie-we. o It wiot pd treaer, chronicler, frieidbl, ainlti a ent "kin, and judge; rewarding c f-thug iiitl-ed; eoncoougiraging progress, ond ulea aigey tofth andtegl of that progres , itn .ih~ef-crow.tof any ,in the royal con r That it is without reproach, no one pr .ehst There oare bad men, who subvert it to e th weslipurposes;; ambitious men, who direct . it-to m.~erphiticalt or pecuniary objects; intane wltow duocet it towidis what is impracticable, ip4 nattealle, as well as to what is undesirable. Dot the rule, by the verdict of that great jury whibth coidpriss our whole country and all, of ouar "ointrymen aye, evi n by the world at large-has bee'endorsed; so that now it is honorable, as well as responusble, and as inluential as it is powerful.; The 'very men who tralofrm it from its trueintehts, and wtench it into wrongpay the homage vice must ever render virtue, in so:hoit g. If -an individual tmade a grand discovery in mechanics, inph.Frooen is n uyotibet department of learning, what is. hi irs it. step but to secure the herculean agency of the pres m foa grand deed has bten accomplished, or a highilthought evolved-if progre htoas been.made ianrey department soever, froer bsatuse phalosophy toe patent rat-tram-the orld knlowe that ths discovterisneter coatentwith his laurels, unteos tf iare mplaced upon his hrow by the press. It u grand houman democracy, a iemerss to the su., o; but Mlinerva, with all er glo rie,tos the g;ue' great stayand solace to the Wht ean llimtble field f' labor is opened to it; nitof tab ho nw .- z.l; tihonemiuct ability,,honesty anse gie l aOm , adversity, against opposition, tl edrue wih ud doeo1itr mgah on towards the mark of i lig; like alde. ight,panoplied all -eeworshsgt nopo werimayprevent. There 10 tler ing inthe or those by whom it is served visiakid weary in'tolel ever lastig work, tow hich thaist of Stpehos bas hu tprgogue, and admbration. rhereIsnr&i than weakened nerves, wearied brain and edonpletting of all the physical agencies; for a thousand lions, x rd dogs and hyenas lie in his path, wrtching the bouneiman as he marches-ready at all timoes to besmear his golden standard, though they inay not tfe his trenchiant falchion. There is the iesndiing wrbistle aith the world, in all the mental and iateriintshapes in wlich it can be presented, and withthose slmhapes subdivided into personal anau tagonistic, one. Friends must be. defended to the death, though their. thnks are more than they will repay for the labor. Foes must be fought, who will -ome tothe encounter, armed with every weapon, to win their cause; and when the terrible combat is ended, does the hero-uighter lie down to repose and restc? nelwlabors and other contests are waiting his taxed powers,. He torns only to meet a fiesh foe, on as bitter.sield as the former, who must be hurled '.own by his arm-becnise tie, good, easy world, knows that he can do it, and gives no quarter if he yields once where he hitconquqered hoouand times. . ,more is demended the more is dlon. A piece of unseasonable new,--an erroneo chronicling of one man's given name, or of :one hbaie's hBest time-an inference which, for vwant of exact knowledge con cerning all the premises, happens ,to be wrong-is visited withreproachandeevere censure. The impos sibility of perfection below itforgotten,andthe Editor is expected to comprehend all the virtues, all the graces, all the heroism and all the goodness of the world. A thousand merciless censors sit around with jagged sticksB, to torture him for the slightest failure. So onward-ever toiting, learning, striving and seeking to improve himself and others, the Editor goes; crowded hord by importunities always--some timesslipping,butleapingumanfullyto thefrontagain, and uoarching resolutely, flag and sword in handinto -the coffin. And as the clods rattle over him, the world says-"Another Editor's dead-a decent fel low-wonder who'll take his place!" Wonderaway! Who can fill the vacant seat? Not you-nor you -nor yon-unkind, encharitable, ungenerous, on whom-his life has been bestowed. For the true Edi tor is Aopt the thing of a day, but one who has been taught liy time, by thonght, by bitter pain and expe rience; and the crucible through whibh esuch go isso severe,;that many perish in it where one lives-to .ie. Sro.Eooom Sponlo GoooD.-P. A. fIleroard, No. 118 Canal attest; is now openinglh0 1,0ge anod oogofloooottock of dry goods for too e sprig trgde, hlich shouldboa eoamhol d by ll country merc0ant and th1osewho prefer purochsinjg fron thf .impooter. Wo, nLeed nott syof thesto ck Oay thing it1.. thou tlhatoolol odert l the noveltie of the times in every depoyot me00 of the trade; ll eostblished folobri and 1hatover forms of o10th hooooover ben ouseoflly or fooklolnobly cnceived. The sUpply of planters' good., embracing all that is Iertulsite for negoo clothiong, paticularly, deoerves attention, and olllis, poololoy ropoy purchaser,. SPRINGi AND SuooooEoCoooooo.-Leigohton -& Bo" ,'oraor of St. Charles and Call stretls, havl roeontly ro it frel h asoortment of sumomoe. clothing, coomprooheding th looylo, n,, vrlitielsk 0own0b the bu00 llo s all of 4i -1 rohloo* oil of tlhe noostO fabrioo. G lemoo olho ar p y shouldnot 000 to salt nad esamhlu their supply, 0 confdoot that btter o goods or moro ri0 uo0,o00 priooio Caohoo found foo the city. B[rTEop STONESo-.. H. Cootero Co., cOrnO f of Pin a0i0 aod Toleoooioulo 0000ets, have it large spply,1 of In. towo010g elus, stotoftlo 0f foamlioes an counltng rooms, th, value >00 WloBohboooo5o * tow> Oooooo.-D; P. Scanlon & Co., Noo. 12 nod .14 dOgrtfs 0tr000, are00 0000 silig, at reduced picel, iheir Stock ofgapoig o,11o0,.nrooandoi, 1argeo, l0ce0, millineryoond Sreoph I fosoodrjgpodo, Thoe tock i ooey laogo, the prioce aro .ooy l0ow,osd tioiooos wo 0000 to ,1, 00 o a o hould do o o At l oo o . Boys' M0D 0(111L00000t'13 CLOTHING..-Lewis W. ,Ioyoos &klo., No. 00 Canaol 00000t,000t to Coiop, havoooooontly ,receied it full supply of fohhions,1o, eloegoot and d,,roblo sloololos for the woar of men; youth l y c4hildroe. The plrceo attachoed to ilium are as low a1amt ob flob~ In th0 c010y, mld the .garments will r01 omme0nd th0ms00 , o1 to evLo ono for eleogooe, Ceo0000y 004 dortoltlly. Woit fer too h the OdbfoO,0001 LuOz Coonwnoa, FLOOn OiL O-Towno ,'7, CARu. d .00oTonoo-J. D. D n&ero~ Co0o. 26 Cn4kres am _, (:on tomhons n st tttws, hoav lnooo recetved noblt! te to eirOtonk, thl0hr 0 derapt lto complctaa aaoul , be delired in olooo .j p onect The sppolieaaog nC a lit i l otoiooor nil cloths at a ,lace curtains, are Wlatgoand uclu itso etrl eeyhngta 0ombo needed or named undoo those departmenl, that M0000 t n . is lefttobe oised. Ahllwho are p*tpaootoog should b to .nll unpontiotnobtfoo going olionober. CLoTnoNn.-Demarest n n& ling, No. 57 Common street, to order to loseo toOir busines, are snlllog off their pros Sonnt sob at dod onder prioo cost. AtIIo oooooooo0ill h0 l) on thoe n0h pros., purohonno. should t 00 l enly. NObanEno Lo FuRNonrtioin.-i. M. Montgonory will -00at n1 o'nloca, to-day, o t thendw'lling No. 6i7O Gooooo, lat otnoksoo street, tne cntion contenoo of the hoono, rooniniug a ver nonag amnoutno F forutonho. Tlhetermsoarccah. NEW STAlPNO G inaSSn,-MCoooo. D. Felt& Stetson, At' otntnnoty Mall, NO. 00 Cnmot strnnt, hnv n s aoln or too =tnL'ontrit Sihohino COn nomty'n 00at0nt 00000p000 pr,, wohich, Iioaer onnlnlatton, we have no hnoitatontt ei Or0000000000tO erior n nll nthonn. They nre ronl orthy the attention of nonnhy htt boonanfor sub nhl.onnatile, tbeiog 01000ys OtodY for ooo, 000t iandtompant. As thl Iloktnd dtanpingn pads orn comoblinod, Otho ctottbp!og i efected olwth gonat rapidity. Orders are nooinoo for them by Feltboottetson, 00 Coonp otret. COPPEr, Too, SHEETlaTnR AoND BDnSS lofION'C Onon.-'Olonnns. Ueo-ter, Van oentothooonn& Co., 35 Frott 000 60 Fu'ltnnstrenooo, ore notenaonly noalgned i to thne noenfet o re of copper, tin,Oiotntjion ,and toos. Thoey hnve, alon, onstantly for sale nagren t vanriet- of ontoileo alrood ly aofenotoodn wichl nrn hodisptnonile for d aniy u00 oo 00000 andtotooltnlats in hotels - ffiestnnd privnnte rennntdn. Tltoynp, nlob, so0000,00000 to th atty for SelOnmonl' st0000 Onorantnd ti noa fire oooono. To Tnn~Araosnn.-Thnoo who are proposing tih pnonsuren oto summer jourlnoy-to tlttnilvoo, t0oul0d onoetu thot Ii. W. ieynoldibnkCo., Nio. 007 Conal oreet, ha na large suppl00 fo trveling truno , valises, capet-agsn ndd oothr artinit00, ioo dinpennole to tnn risn .The prilceswillbefounod o edo rnoyoneooo GnRFTLnso'8 FoRNnISIntIS Gonon.---. N. Moody, - ornof Canai street and Etehanoe lat'oo hlo, i Ills 00r00 at0iOOnrf gntiomen'asfurol'ninshiboodis, ooey v'arie0y of 0M0000er oftna0if Ifshionable and tell-tBt olgirts mato nshtirt Onoson, Wllnttionotllnat ooch prictO s 0 mut satisy o van y out. l00 00 . ;t phtonn ownardrdobes iron trt tonnotr e should eti4tot sllu hm .ibontntowontlnokbo:nhs 0a0t. Citiens and strangen anre inforned that pnpiio coo lbegan;in Oatto ot , doly or envoe000,0, 0 Dlbeioo Coonoerolal .Clinte, lhi6~&na l stretL Oenoononohip, Rook-koopiuEog, b lal,. = Fnobt,,.Omlt Bt, GOnttno, AdOthmetic, Algebra, 000000000, 5 o0l tOo, lYtnoesltO0Yy et0,, are 0 aught b ohmV Frootootono. THE cITIZENS' BANK OF LOUISIANA. Y, The extraordinary success followingthe reorganiza tion of the Citizens' Bank, the unparalleled pinnacle ol of fame, the remarkable extentto which its operations have reached-the great advance in the value of its c stock, the steady increase of its already vast business, I have attracted a large share of the attention of the moneyed men of the country. To explain the true position of the Bank, the time and the causes of its being reorganized, which appear, from enqui ies frequently made of us, not to be fully under stood, and how it has attained its great and prepon derating influence in the financial history of our city, are the reasons for the following remarks. It must be premised that the inception of the bank dates as far back as twenty-three years; that the I original charter was granted in April, 1833, under the state administration of Gov. A. B. Roman, with at of twelve millions of dollars, which capital was to be raised by the novel process of loans on bonds to be issued by the bank; that the amount to IN be subscribed by stockholddrs to raise the capital was 1 $14,400,000 on 14,000 shares of stock to secure the capital of $12,000,000 ; thattllhe subsriptions were to be guaranteed, secured and pledged for by mortgages r on real estate. On the faith of these subscriptions, pledges and mortgages, the bank was authorized to 0 issue its bonds payable in fourteen, twenty-three, t thirty-two, forty-one and fifty years. A tolerably long time to trust an incorporated association of individuals, though some of the best and most pro ductiveproperty in the State, as well as some of the I most evalueless.and unproductive, was secured to 1 cover the capital. The oitizens of New Orleans were entitled to sub scribe for $5,400,000, andthe county for 6,000,000. It will be remembered with what avidity the stock was taken. Every, owner and proprietor of a vacant lot, whether dry or under water; proprietors of old and tenantless buildings, with some good proprietors, imagined that the millennium was really approach ing. The bankwasalso autiorized to advance money to build houses, and particularly to prescribe the materials of which the roofs should be composed. It wasauthorized to take stockin the Lake Borgne Navi gation and Canal Company-to build a railroad from the tMississippi river t tthe Gentilly road, and other privileges, enough to bankrdptany bank in the world, were granted. It was intended to be a real Credit de Mobillier. The bonds of the bank on which-the capital was to be raised were iluly engraved, and were about as beautifuil an -specimens of artistic skill as were ever issued from, an engraver's hand. To look at them was considered equivaleit to having the cash fior them, and it was surmised that all the bank had to do, was to ask and receive. Agents were dispatched to the chief financial markets of Europe to sell these bonds; but on thie first tender they were rejected, from the fact that the faith of the State was not pledged or identified witli them, as was the case with the bonds of the Union Bank and Consolidated Association. Here was a dilemma for which the stock holders were not prnpared, rendering inoperative all movements towards organization. After several attempts to obtain the faith of the State or the State's endorsement on the bonds, the Legislature, in 1831, three years afterwards, granted the security of the State, and finally, in the summer and fall of 183l , a sufficient amount of bonds was disposed of to enable the bank to go into operation, though many modifica tions and amendmerits were made in the new act all going to show the impolicy and impracticability of establishing a sound banking system on mortgages of real estate. The bank was also authorized and compelled to establish in difibrent parts of the State seven branches or offices of discomut and deposit. This was sufficient to harrass and cramp any bank, as experience had alroady proved by other banks of the city. To review the movements and the monetary condi tion of the country, from 1837 to 18.i3, is not our pur pose, nor have we room. Suffice it to say the Citi zens' Bank went into liquidation in 1843, causing great disappointment to its stocklhoiders, and entail ing on the community a share of tIle manifold evils and difficulties arising from the overtrading, over banking,in the years 1835, '3( and '37, brought about in part by the mischievous and dangerous policy of tlie eposit bank system adopted in 1831t by the Gen eral Government. Under the acts of the L.egislature of 1842 and 1804, m the bank went into the hands of commissioners of I1 liquidation, was blotted from the rolls of financial "Jr credit, and entirely forgotten except by those who ,e had become stockholders by subscribing and mort- ce gagiug their property. During the interval from 1843 to ia 1850 the best stockholders were changing from those of st strictly good personal responsibility to those of a weak cr kind-the wise and chary evincing at all times a i disposition to get rid of their stock by disposal, ti transferring even at a loss. The interest on the bonds p was not punctually paid, and the indications were n that many stockholders would be hopelessly and irre- f trievably ruined, without the StaRtebeing any better A provided to redeem its obligations granted to the a bantk when they became due. Seven years ago--say July, 1840--the condition of 8 the bank was indeed desponding, its liabilities being t $7,066,454, and its assets $6,4135,46, showing a deti cit of over $G00,000. At this period it was conceived the bank ihad not forfeited its charter and privileges. Suggestions were made that it could be revived; many of its t stockholders contending that the constitutional obli- I gations could not interfere, because the charter of the bank had never been taken away by the Legislature. I Great opposition was brought forward to prevent I any revival, and the friends and stockholders of the bank were equally strenuous in sustaining their views and strengthening their intentions to re-organ- 1 ize. tBut still it was deemed the part of prudence and wisdom that the approval of the representatives of the people in the Legislature should be secured be fore the project shoedd be carried out. So strong were the appeals, so powerful the arguments educed in be- t half ao the country stockholders that the measure re I ceivrdthelegislative sanction,after being warmly and strongly urged by the managers of the bank ; and in 1852,theact for re-organization passed botl Houses of the Legislature, but met with the veto of the Ex ecutive, and wasreturncedto the Senatre,wenll it altcer wards passed both hIouses and became a hlbv, much to the gratification of the proprietors of tie bank. And, to make the act of the Legislature more bind ing, an express clause was inserted in the Consti tution of the State, adopted in 1852, granting plenary powers to the Legislature to pass such lawns as nmight be deemed eapedienf for the relief of the Citizens' Bank. From that date the batik may be considered as be ing introduced to the financial and commnercial world a new bank with a cash capital of one million and a a half of dollas; $500,000, or one-third, was to be sub , ,:ribed, and made up by the mortgage department or 0 Istoiholders of the old bank, and one million of dol -lats ba cash subscriptions firom the public: and enter - ed n r t has, thus thr, proved a most successfhl s care~er.. At th tint owever, of recciving snblscriptionl for t the 10,000. har\tlhe proceedings, or rather success of the undertakin~\were regarded with great doubt ; and it was weekls bet the public could be prevailed on to come forward autli.Lbscribe for the stock. The ntecedents onud prejudieo gainst the old nortgage bank were strong, and Iad ttte overcome. But thie entire stock was finally tak.uyld the bank com menced business in February, 1S.i,9 Tog o into full details of its unemxulpled success, is . pulr po1se1 the object of these remarks being to gi.t orme stock holders of the old bank, residiug in thb\,iotty, a brief expose of its history, and to relieve thelxiety felt regarding tie paymelnt of the bonds of tlyci,te~ and the ultimate profits. Froml thvelucrative Itsines. which follows tlb course of the bank, there is not a shadow of doubt but that the 0nOsets of the old bank. with the profits of the third interest in the new bank, will be realized in time to redeem the bonds now out; and. after tie final liquidation of all old liabilities, there will,in all proba bility, be a great trptous for division, of whlich tihe proprietors of the old stock will receive their pro rata share; so our country frieinds foears are entirely groundless. Besides, the old stock has been so1d at a premium of 71 per cent., and,fr f further information! to those who do not understand tile relative poitions of old and new stock, we have to state that the char ter of the bank has thirty years to run, and its reserve or surplus fund will, at.that time, unless it is divided and appropriated, reach five millions of dollars after paying yearly dividends of 10 per cent. per annum- calculating the surplus profits to accrue at the rate of $170,000 per annum, which is about the ratio of the last sin mouthlls-tlough, perhaps, every year's businesmnaynot be s prouitable as the present. Yet it must be considcred that the reserve faud will beo yearly accumulating from thie ordinary profits of banking. The mortgage department, at the present time, stands as follows foapal of the bank beig dir e for tile bonds oIf th Sm tet .......................... . . . ..........t..l , m roportion of apital tonew tock ........ ........... pproent nouplos . ......................... 11,557 50i,O11,840 -. . 1..0 Real rstte ( ........................... 3 343 0 G1 0 I.o ns on mo rt ..........n........... . o o. t I oana liso ban.n s on cp rtll ............. o5 ......15,030 Thus, it will be seen that there are actual profits now on hand. The directors of thoe bank disonunt or loan flom time to time; and thelm is not the re motest probability- bit that the profits willbe ample to redeem the bonds as they mature, or perhaps they maybe purchased before their maturity. It is not drawing upon the imagination to assert that there will he an enormous surplus to be divided between proprietors about theo yem 1 o80 and 1S86. Whether those who entertain doubts of its division will be present to receive a proportion, is a qlestion not to be at this time. We avail ourselves of the occasion to express the opinion, that it is a violation of all true banking to establish banlds on mortgages, or borroaing capital to loan ot to still more needy borrowers. Although the Union Bank of I:ouisiana did sac cessfolly meet and pay the bonds issued for its and return to its stockhiolders a handsome profit, yet there were the Citizens' Batk and Con solidated Association to overbalance any benefit the country may have derived from their cotem porary; and, moreover, in all the hiltory of real estate banking, we believe thie old Union Bank was solitary and alone in syccessful termination. It will lie the greatest curse which could be inflicted on ore State, should mortgage banksi ever receive hereafter any countenance from the lpeople. P For tile Dulnle-Sheet Cre.cent.] Post-feortent Cogitatlnons. OY OE OF TILE " SMITIIS.: The first ten years of my post-mortem existence having just expired, I am permitted oncemore to gaze on mundane ahfairs ere I re-enter the sphere which separates me from mortals. What a change has taken place since I left the earth ! Let me visit the churchyard! Ten years ago, it contained but a few graves scattered here and there ; now, it is covered with my old and dehr friends of former gladsome years ! Let me read : "To the Memory of Jeremiah Hicks.' My oldest and best friend! Poor Jer'y! Well do I remember when.we left school, our hearts beating with the anticipation of a brilliant future, you clasped me by the hand, and wished me long life and prosperity; how little did you then think that our mortal being wouldlie in the same churchyard, so soon ! Here is another beautiful monument to a "fair and lovely one"-- arian Mllore ! tiy tfirt boyish love! aspoure and chaste as the marble which now covers her fair clay ! Dear companion of my youth fill joys and cares!-sleep on!-- kindred spirit watches o'er thee! - can go no farther; every stone bears direful intelligence of the transitory existence of all things mortal, and my spirit finds nought but sorrow here. What dirty little grave-stone is that--peeping from yonder bed of noxious weeds ? It foooks as though the idle schoolboys had becn using it for practical les sons in sculpture. The grave, no doubt, of some poor neglected mortal with whom fricnds were few : TO TI 31E)IMORY O! JOHN Q. SMITH, ESQUIRE, Who departed this transitory (ltage piece broen off) Mareh ith, 1d4¢. Requiescatnl in pan(tches). Mly own grave ! What can have happened? las n she whom I so loved on carth given tup her mortal 1i being? It must be so, for if she still lived, the grave si of poor Smith would not be thnus neglected. I will risit my former home, and there, no doubt, will learn fo the canuse! at This mnst be the house--I cannot be mistaken. n The old elm tree, planted by my father's hand, waves sii its majestic head as in daysof yore; the little duck dt pond, where I've united inl the boyish sports of my w darling child; and even the little wren-box on tie tl wall, placed there with my own hands--all are here. fi But the doorplate, it does not read "Smith"--btiit Jenkins? What Jenkins ? Oh! 1 see, my wife is c dead, and Jenlins has bought the property! I will enter, and learn fulrther. They have a new hall p lamp--and my beautiful painting of Thomas Jelfer- 1 is replaced by one of General Harrison. I will t go into the dining hall. There is a bright lire burn ing on the hearth, and a breaklfast table with one- - chairs and a high one! a Heark! some one enters; as I'm at living (dead) man, it is nty wife, as fresh and blooming as when 1 first pressed her to my bosom ans my life's companion! there's ly old arm-chair seated before the lire, my slippers warming! Dear Angel! she still continues the custom inl remembrance of her beloved Smith. But the six chairs ?--my aniuily was never large! Ahit! she has some of her kinsfilk on a visit. Poor creature! sihe always was blessed with a multitude of dear (?) but poor relatives. List! I hear narrty voices in the hall as of children Now will I enjoy that greatest of earthly felicities, of communing, though in silence, with the hap of those most dear. They enter, and are ling ing to a man wtith a hrge nmontalche-Jenldiis, the baker, who enriched himself by selling three-quarter loaves for a llound '! e calls Mr. Smith " imy love," and she him--" my dear!" Oht! that I could make myself alpparent-this is insupportable ! Now he puts on my slippers ; seats ihilmself in i chair and now he's kissiag miy wife ! I'1 liten to their con versation. " My dear,' said Mrs. Jenkins, (for so I shall now call her) " Benny is sadly in want of a new hat,'" at same time putting a large specimen of babdydom oni the head. " Go to pa and ask him pretty, fbr a new hat, my cherub."' " Pa, won't you bay me a new hati'?' " To be sure I nill," said the haker, as he clasped the cherub in his arms, " but tell pa what you was doing all day yesterday " Well, I was up in tie the garret, looking at all tile pretty things ma's got up there. She's got some pictures, she has, and I like pictnres. But there is an old man up there with red whiskers---nurse said 1,e was a boo mant, and I punched his eye out, I did- he's an ugly man !: " Oilt! the darling!" exclaimed MPrs. Jelins, Ls the cherulab underwen t a second lprocesvof hugging, " that is the lameinted Smith's portrait. llow singular it is i tat children have sulch an aversion for eccentric people--and IM. Smith was rai ei'ccentric. By the way, this is the tenutl anniversary of hi deathl, and I have not seen his grave since the day I let thile churchl people have the fille minumellnt I built over him, for their dear, deceased pastor. It was a good work, and I knew that poor Smith wovnh sleep as well inllise grave without it, ileside, he was such a splendid preacher of economy when living, that I had fears of his haunting me for my extlavagauce. HIls grave must need attention now though." " Yes," replied the balker. " it is completely dis guired now, I passed through tie churchyard this mnorniilg, and it is a horrible picture. Weeds are growing all over it, and as for lr. Snlith's " trans-itor existence," nothing is left but the t·ransitorly, and his rquitscal iln 'pace hia, been rendered by the idle schooll-oys rIquit scat in lpathes.-' " Well,it itis good enough, anyhow'." I then listened to a long dihcertation on tilhe "' pe cuiiar odldities" of poor Smith--" his odiousi childroll," and disgraceful cognemen," until I wiched that the Smith 's lad never existed-- anished all curiosity l;r t 'nbhary visits, and have lresolved on re-entering lily i i'.Sper hlabitation, and never agail run after the i aa14,s of mortality. hIf yoaitill now visit the village of B--, you e ill r see a neaLt nlstone asanlpin tie place of the old. ti wihich, not t aitahding " Smithli pecuialiritis," wvas Splaned there lb e of e lis imnmntediate deneedant.. HEAD~s AND I ~I11~ -3L. 1). L. Jolllston, \o. ;9, lFnod'; child.-" cnin, lt nt,^ 811\n!1i othecr -1}le~ o; ' bend ce.:e knotenn I ncktl~n n kdc~ d tivtiic1 :o the time:.~ ThC xtt, n u-i~ of the counltry Irdc i it. ý tlcný,lý. car:lc l tht-l". titsnd WINK.S ANTD T.i9Trors. -Plele11 T~lhrylor, \o. 1i PIoy'ti .tn or, ý+ýhithee he hnKI~rcm+ýed from hi,)i i tnr t II tlll Lime Lill l <cr·lenl a nepliPig ,ýf l:[tntCl d~s Bey; ,lnnll t~thcr chnmpngne., « inc>. IiyllorTI, cordilij C '.., ns Cau "* foO:d i:t :L~e city. Coma olJ ivernc, tý! :he ciut+:t o of 1;?v, wi he ctprci nitydo tr to th.,. \c,. ýc+ s pnl ct,. Ile crriL" .1. .ale n."t0:1ncr ,+!' WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. W [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] I WAsulNGTon, April 20th, 1856. t1' The House has, at last, gotten through with the er Deficiency bill. on Friday, the finishing touches were d given to it, and it was sent back to tile Senate. There are yet some few items about which the two Houses dilfer-but these differences may be easily reconciled by a committee of conference. It involves appropria tions to the amount of upwards of four millions of p dollars. The Senate, on Friday, was entertained with a long c, and very able speech from Senator Weller of Calilbr- l, nia, in advocacy of the construction of a railroad to c the Pacific. He maintained not only the constitu tional power of Congress to construct the road, but , made an able argument in favor of its expediency. e He did not advocate any particular route, but sug gested a main trunk with collateral branches. He asserted that such a road would, without doubt, yield an annual dividend of thirteen per cent. upon the in vestment; and that, estimating the number of passen gers at sixty thousand a year each way, there would be an annual saving of time and money of eleven mil- t lions of dollars. He enlarged upon the great mineral wealth of California, the extent and value of our Pa cioc possessions, and the necessity of such a road for purposes of commerce, as well as for the safety and general welthre of the Union. The bill, authorizing the construction of the road, has already been reported from the committee, and is now in process of maturity before the Senate. After the conclusion of iMr. Weller's speech, fMr. Seward obtained the floor, and the further consideration of the subject was postponed to the 29th inst. I could not help thinking, while iMr. Weller was delivering his speech, what an egregious humbug modern democracy is. Itistrue I ohave often thought so before, and with good reason: but it struckl mee with peculiar force whie while he was making his profound and convincing argument in favor of the constitu tional power of Congress to build this Pacific road. There has not been a National Democratic Conven tion, for the last thirty years, that has not bitterly denied this power. There hasnot beena State Demo cratic Convention, within the same period, in any of the Southern Atlantic States, that has not done the same thing. And yet. this party, in the tree of their repeated declarations, appropriates, nnoally,'millions of dollars, either in money or land, to do that very thing that they are forbiddern to do by every platform t have ever made! They will tell you that Democratic principles are eternal and immutable-that they are tile same in Maine as in Louisiana, in Virginia as in California Notwithstanding which, it is notorious that the De mocracy of Virginia and Carolina are opposed to all schemes of internal improvement by the General Gov etrmeot, while the entire Democracy of the Westand the Northwest are as firmly in favor of them. It is equally as notouious that Virginia is opposed to dis tribution of the public lands, while the West appro priates millions of acres every year. In the South, the Xebraska bill is advocated by the Democracy on account-of its recognition of the right of popular sovereignty o and in thie North, it is advocated by the same party, because it is "a proposition in fivor of freedom," and under its operation " not another slave State will be added to the Union, though we should acquire the th whole Qf Mexico!" Still, Democratic principles are eternal and immutable! Tihus, they are not even agreed as to pt'rincipe!c-to say nothing of measures. The Virginia reading of the Consitttito denies the prover of Congress to build a Pacific railroad. The Western reading asserts it. Senators Butler and hunter have both made elab orate speeches against the constitutionality of the Pacific railroad--and Senators Weller tand Douglasi have, with equal confidence, aqfirmed it. Yet, all of them are patent Democrats, and their respective ad vocates march to the polls, side by side, and vote as together as if they had never disagreed on a single point in their lives. It may be asked, whiy proclaim one thing in a plat form at Baltimore, and practice another in Congressa at Washington ? Tile answer would puzzle any one not fiamiliar with the frauds, deceptions and hypocri of modern Democracy. But it is done simply to and delude the people. We.tcrn Democra.ts cot hesithte to adopt any kind of ilatfibrmu tiot the East may propose, whllc they know tihat the plat form will be utterly disrega.rded a week ifterwardi, at Wahlington. As lnug au they get thclsulbtauce ,wilat they for tlhe shaidow? .As long as they can get millions of acres of lald and dollars of tmoney, every year, for internal improvemenlt and other pulrposes, what objection have they to pacifying the East with enunciation of a barren principle ? Observe the Ibeauty of the operation. The East gets the platforme --thle West tie money. IBoth parties are satisited, and drown all objections with enthusiastic shouts of " Demrocracy forever! " i'"Vie la DImocratie !" Both Houses of Congress adljorned over froln Fi- it day to Maonday. On Saturday a large number of tile members, together with the lresident add his Prlivate 1 Secretary, went down to Annlapolis to vcisit the new war frigate, Mernrimae. I underitand that thy were all murch pleted with her appearance, and pa-sed the day very agreeably in wilting her a glorious career, in Icopious libations of Ileidsick, Otard, Lager-beer and Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. By the arrival of the Aflica at New York on yes terday, we have Cbur days' later Inews frlom Europe. The signine of the treaty of peace and the close of tile war in the East, will be a serious disappointment to our imbecile Administration. The only hope of Mr. i Marcy was that tile entanglements of Euapropean pol- I tics would so absorb the attention of (reat Britain a to prevent any interference by her with the issue of alliitrs in Central America. That hope is now destroy ed. Mr. Marcy's policy for the future, will be to pro crastinateand po t off any conflict of purpose between us and Great Britain, until after tile inauSgratiin of the next President. If tli can escape fromn his preselt position, without being in any manner involved inl the dreadtil allilirs of war, Mr. IMarcy will be a halppy and a grateful man. It matters little to him how much tile honlor or the iaiterets of tie nation may be com promised. These are regarded as of but secondary importance, as long as an illustrious I'renlicr is al lowed qluietly and peaceably to enjsoy the spoils of olice. Incolnparable Marcy! There is nothing more sickelilng or disgu-ting, at the present time in WaStlington, than to witness the various and complicated intrigues and iipe-layings, now going on here, relative to the Democratic candi date for tile Preuidency. The city is full of politinal intriguants--each engaged in an: ealbrt to advance the fortunes of hias iparticular fivorite. Ilots and schemes wouald do credit tu a IMachiavelli or all Ianatius Loyola, are hatceled nightly and daily from tile teeming brains of political adventurers ; and tie Presidential stockli lmarket writnses till tile linctuations of Wall street or tihe Iloare. One day you will hear that Bucihanan is certain of thile nolinatisn-the next, that Pierce has everything lixed--and the next, that Ilhitr has it in hic hreeches pollcket. Every convention that liha tile appointmentc of delegates tI the Ciincinlati Conrecn tiol, is attended by enissaries from this city, seeking to control its action by lldse reipr.elntations if pillic entiment. Politie-s have degenerated into a snisera bi s-craible fosr tile splils of otice, and lilly Ianlli is ridicaled who is -usperl.cted of holding his political alfinities by reason iof any devotion to principles or to triotism. For this state of affairs, we are indebted to the Democrati c ldty. Fros it, cryt inception, that party has anusally lowered the standard of lpolit ical morality. If Edmund lurkse, even in conservative Enguland, had to exclaisin in the hitilcerncs of his heart, that Sthe days of ehivalr. are gone ," how mi ch would lihe have satllred to lhave witnesicd the demouralization1 of ipolities ill this country ! TIle masirs of tie people do not knlow ho. they are bought and sold, like stock in the shambles. here ill the political exchange of IW-ashington. If they did, I have that confidence in their intelligence and platriotismn, that I am certain they would contemptuously reject and dioregai'd tile deimnds of their leaders and restore thile reigns of governillent to me of honlesty of pullrpose and purily io intention. Until the people ri-e ill their miajesty, and drive off the whole p-ack of place hunter, and spoil-men, this state of alahis will continue, and will aunnally grow worse. l'r'eidenlt will continae to le made by politicians and not by the people. tit the rotely is still inl the hands of the people. The beht thing that the bDemocratic party of the Sooth can do, in te present crisis of publie altfhirs, is to make no nomination, but go tip like nlel and vote ibtr Millard Fillnore. It is unnecessciy to di\ ide and diatract thie South at this time. All that the South asks is. a man who will respect the Constitution and I the laws. Suih a man Millard Fillnore is, inltus el ill cute. The te/nlocrcy of tile South now have a chance to 2luathll the i' arofe-ions -c y their acts. shall see wlEother they will continue to submit to the tyranny of party leaders-or whether they will consider their obligations to their cotmtry superior to obligations to their party. Unless popular gov blie a delusion, the issue cannot be a matter of ESSEX. LETTER FROM TIE COUNRTRY. L ONELY VALt, April, 150. h Dear Crescent : I can scarce hope a few lines h from the pen of a countrie lassie will be honored ti with your approval, but happening to see a " Cres of the 14th ult., I was attracted to read the letters from " Crescenlta" and "Claire'" within its columns. i Matrimonry, the burden of those letters, is the in- i spiring theme of my own. I cannot deduce from t experience, prospective like " Crescenta," or concli sire like "Claire," for I amasojuolurr in the dreamy c:rqctrncy of Lonely Vale ; lot " I have wandered in dreams," and the former's denunciations mingled with her ideas of dear " tHalfs" perfection, and the r latter 's equally mystifying inference from a fairy a vision compared with her own treble felicity, have t my preconceived opinions somcwat awry. What do they mean? That every one who weds is to be miserable save themselves, and that all love favors have been bestowed upon them? Perhaps I may as well tell you at once, dear Crcs cent. that I am " in favor of Union." Not that I would be immodest in proclaiming an opinion your city girls would firrnt before acknowledging, but be cause I am as honest in speakiing my mind as I am in sharing the opinion of ninety-nine in every hundred. We all have a long libfe in expectancy before is. In youth, life is frll of freshness and beauty; the prom ises of opening years are fair. In youth we seek pleasure. I nmay be but a weary chase after a butter fly, whose gandy, eauty lures us on while it sills here and there from the nectarine ilowers, as poising itself on gauzy wings it leads tus in its wake. There are passions every day sweeping over the heart, of pride, ambition, envy; passions which are consuming, or perchance like feverish pleasures; pas sions, which either brighten or destroy the life of him who harbors them. Every life has also its cares. Care is a boisterous sea upon which all must launch, and where ail must STime comes with his*repellant handtl nd d marks the brow, once smooth and fair, in lines of age; withers the cheek, dims the eye, Ile leads his victim down to thle banks of a dark and dreary river, sullen in its own cold depths, and bids hlm enter, where his strug gles only cease as he is rescued by anglds on the other shore. But what haIs arssaicimony to do with all this? IMici , at lenast in my orpinionl; for there is one ele rment, the necessary accompaniment to the wedded state, which hormouizes all things-Love. And all love is beautiful, whether it be the love of nature, love of maniind, or that single love which is pure, natural, elevating; which is born of the hearts wealth, and is capable of ennobling and enriching all who are adorned with its presence. Love unites pleasure and utility, love cools tile heat of paiion, tempers the fiery imagination ; love lightens care, makes toil easy ; love sees inl the linger marks of time only cause to lead gently the aged through the downward s path ; and love stands by the brink of the dark river and cheers thle departing with words of hope. This is the love of our parents for one another, our ore Ibr themn, theirs the usI. How tr the dlme-tic fireside of comfort and confidence, of sunny ftcos and of sunnier hearts, transcends in its fullneta of life, the lone, still retreat, of an old bachelor or an old maid. Old bachelors' "clubs,' and wines and cigars, will lever fill up the uneasy rwot in the heart, will never senooth the wrinkled brow, or lead gently to another life; will never stand by his death-bed in lirms of love, and rwaft him over the stream with breathings of peace. Old nmaidt scandal and cnunf, will never yield therm inany memolries to cheer their gloomy hours; never lend them to another life in sweat patience. Everything in natnre seemns to teach that in single lite we outlive pleasure; pa-sions, of an ennobling altlre give place to sordid and selti-hr onet; care rlshared wvrilnkle thie brow and lowv thIe ftvormr prena trely ; rnd age is a ilrtlhen that few care to assist ilt ightenhig. Fes"tu say. Lovilg in a habhit, and when people learn to break themr-elves ft the habit of livingl they will also learnr to dispense with loving ; and I am inclined to look pon matrimony as tile flowery chain whose lirik avre terrned of all tIhe lovely and holy attributes of hlrlmre nature. When I see my glad-faced uncles and aunts, my contented loking friends who are living runlertbonds, in contradistinction to the wizen-faced old bachelors, viuegar-faced old maids who pull the hair of. and little children, because they have none, can you blame me if my castles are plrolder, alnd if' I ant "in favor of union." There may Ie poison in the cupl nvc trimonial which is not visible through the sparkling wirne to eyes rn initiated; bu1t as your city-lbred girlb are so world-wise, I hope they will benevolently bestow a word in sea son! upon yo~rs and theirs, opel to instruction anld advice. KATEr INcGLEIa. .Tel- 0UcTIII O BtELLE .--The fine and fleet cil~ltlcl" SiillloTcrl· ih is for rah:, in tltcy ii 1 i ,lor , at ..b, ... C O' eT" Ill. r" I 0101 1-0f),h li fl 01 Ho'Cr o Cllll : IIrti-;I, lHO:i. of 1,111,' iiriy. r, h l:on T: t ,. tll iJo n t;. SL. i u , 1! all n ellnT < n.!l .l l ll ,, ,i I( .lliIcIK r. SPIETINý 0, >VITINaND OIL CLOI10.s--A. IlL I rn, ,o-l- .. fe . I, t bfy 1, Of f I ,hf,0 .t . ch 1ffp. ".'h, i, . lnllrlhd~iha rO ell or ffyr yIhy, -oi f,,l- j - FueinTle .C- e recommt end h tho- e who re aion t io., colinell.r Ch,trl N o n Iii o. -lllllolli. : , iO, le ' tiler ·· lpl i- f" " -1ip l],tlble p1 rlr': anll 1 I I l, oth C ith v, com-t pr]-hl g all the atrtle, . -I I-1. l "i V,'. l. ; lc: IICr rI'I I.III ['ff0l tu ulot ilnprnult tOI teo I,1" .,oto fll Ol lllioflr o l CIn ad io, 1tl E OF E1K IIIupply o0 lElLk-, 'eT.-10 : c-l "lWirin·i I .t hih llflfot " o. *l~ Tal-d il fIpc. .lfO ne 1.r 0.1ri-I, Told lchilr I .0 Co.t vy n-f oll d ., No. t l, rtier Foun1TSe.-le recH.P.ondley oo who are aloet INS:t, .1I1uOIErlIEr ETC.-.C C. hT1 ln"! d, coT cai or oos . B. Chu hi tel, an ir of Dprice-r a ,"ooylc ,to y fn-l be fo-i,'ryd. Th ur ticv lau, r'a b Je l:or nt: llyllat nui lct : cly le :on ' by SenlslaR A'D OICS .ND WLATEIRG Cool.-v.-Ilendr So oo (;alo , N. n (l Sonotl o na. 'n 'nirlTor Sý C of r ,-,h" r. , rr ,;, i ,,hi ret anll dt:Hil:- iThal ~i.i of. l yff fcfl." fl, Stý, a lnle t o'f ,tI'r r, ol li ;l. icf i, I)Jttalch r I nib· olllll.(lll ' ii 11lt etjn to [h. sthe r ldeo etn roit" ic', I;--l ,. 1-,pl, 5ro ll.r;r,.--A. V. 7ochllrln & alal, N o. ;;,; (h'vikr is It'lr.T d ,I do ,dil 1vok, anu l h . r ,,:rl it h,.-" and ,IallDi Ondl i fOanls t in the tity. c ll , . cu I :.I who ac patt. RECENT PUBLICATIONS, It SKETCIES onv AiDEV:iNToCI IN MAEIRA, Portugal and the Andalusias of Spain. Bfy the author of c D)aniel Webhster and his Cotemporinaes. New York: '0 Harper & Brothers. Concerning the latter and more interesting portion of his work, the author of the book whose title we have placed above had to follow, as he himself ac- I knowledges, like a gleaner where great harvesting it had been done; where Irving, Prescott and Ticknor 0 trod, leaving very little to be gathered of a sta- 1 titiical character. The story is a well-woven one e concerning the life and character of the people, the a scenery of the countries and all other such matters 0 of general interest as would strike an observant and v intelligent traveler. It- is exceedingly agreeable and instructive, and shounld be read by all who can obtain t the worb. iuri-sroI.oGY AND CALIsTIIENCes, For Sehools and iFamiilies. By Catherine E. Beecher. New York : t Harper & Brothers. Miss IBeecherl, who has earned the appellation of a masculine woman from some critics, lius turned her to the philosophy of physiology and writ a book which, although it contains nothing novel, contains much that many do not know although they ought to. The information is greatly needed by those to whom i iis addressed, and if it were perused and practiced there can be no doubt that the women of oeer co!lntry would be tir more healthy and long lived than they now are. We are indebted to J. B. Steel, No. 0 Camp street, for copies of tihe two last named works. Tin: C'rouc. Letters addressed by a Juriot to a youna lkiinsman, proposinog to join the Churchl of Imonne. Bly E. II. Derby. Bostein: Jlohi P. Jeoett " The Catholic," a work of nearly three blmonired pages, is a compilation of all the accusations that have ever been brought against the Catholic Church, reciting its faults, its errors, its imperfections, and coinparing them with its pretensions. It is a prose lyting and bitter theological work, of which fewer are to be prayed for, rather than more. The writer is evidently an old school Presbyterian, and very unwilling that any but those of his own persuasion should see the streets that are paved with gold, in habit the houses not nmade by hands, and hear the celestial music around the great white throne. Did t it ever strike the disciples of him whose mission was peace on earth an d ood will to all men, that they I ure not altogether following his divine example in i their bliekerings and contentions? Lazarus passed in without a creed : may not others do so likewise ? The book is well printed, and presents a neat typo graphical appearance. Wr e are indebted to T. L. White, 105 Canredl street, -fir a copy. COyriErtIOt; 0oi, TlEo BoIND It.rteT.--A tiomnetle Story. By W. Gilmore Sioume-Itedfield: New York. One other of Sihm's Stories, the best commendation of which is that the author duubts its accuracy, truth and value. The story, though well told, is not ab jectless; but intCrweave, all along, a thread of gold- a thread of what is practical and useful. It is a volume worth reading, which some of Simms' writing, by 1o means are ; and unfolds anld records a valuable leaf in our great life vo,'lute. It preaches philosophy of a practical nature and will do good, as well as give interct to all who read it. Could we say more: exceptv to add that its typlorapical applearance is as crcditable as it, literary merits ? Ir. MIorgan has our thanks tir a copy. Tue WV.it IN 'I --A.--.- lough Tripi to thle Border, a:no rt new hole and a .o trangc peopile. liy F. I)uuolasi lrarwertn. New York: l)elrby Jack So far as Mr. Brewerton ' book treats of Kansas, agriculturally and ocenically, it is very valuable. So Ctr as it pjitches into politics, it is usclerss, and rather worse, being the one-ided revelations of a rather one sided writer. The history of Shannon and his blood less battles are treated il a somewhat mclodrama tic rolrer. It evidently has an inferior or sub-plot, which is unadulterated abol]ititonism and Stharp's rile:s. 'I-te autthor has a aworthy opinion, however, of those who have migrated frorn below Mason & IDixon, artd warine those who errigratie from a more polar dli mIate, thant they may find lions in their path. should they endleavor to carry iGarrionil-m to its ultina turlc. larring its plitircal proclivitics, thie work is welt worthy of peru-eal, aned we ret.orn o'r thanksl to ,Mr . organ for lthe s ,py wtith whirlh le hau favore u. ,Iaotnd''lraot'kMorionlehll 'ye\lierIetcty Ncat York: l etby 0& Jatk. ,n!l, sweet Alicea ('alrey, twho saltg : The story is hcautifhlly Iplannod tnl executed as i only the true atortist can xcsite auch things. It tleats of what is commnon alod apparent, but gilds all with that golden glory nlwhich -ecmm as a ray of morning's ea-iert untlhine. It is a book of the hfeelings, and lieling tihroughoutt. It is womtanly in its conception and details ; creditable to the aauthorees and will be highly aigreeable to the reader. There are mainy more pretentious writers than 'swet'A lice r C y ," but fwri ede-erving, few.morre plac-ing and in liher own way, eltw more instructive. l-r. [organ has our thankrl s fio a copy. LrumtoaY n It uI t oit-s .uraMErIc'. tN tWoia. With llls-tratiors by Darly. Philadelphia : T . B. Pe N tsoo Ofilre 000' ovettet'cao:.. lBy lien. Ii. ii. irecklenrid ge. With Elitstrationo. NEw PLt o KIotto'tf BIOOK. By StotI (I hi. Whart t.) With lhlstration. FI .to Fo::axn'S DEgnlE ST.LtoElt. With TIllustra CtIAcO tL tKETIet. Life ,eoes in i Metool',ii. By Jooeph . Neal. With O'ieinol Deogns. ttotit eTI> i" teo[ . i'TY [.nLe.. tIyr thie liem. B 1ii. ire.'oidee. Witith Oiginatl Besigns tby Darl'ev. Wint " t lenf I:lint i xn. By Capt. Si tment obogg. With ollustratilons by arley. Tie o tsix vlflee wlo i t riles we have given ahove are, severally and cl.lectivelyn, more ilthan worth it pe rtsal. as, tl this r. tinet spjcrtitg world otlgolt to t]ow. Tio heA ent eno immense motnolnt of indelin ale and nondescrit t t llltlllt l worked withe l reaatiotie krillc into a bodily hpe and sostnttte. Rich atot oleasinustlu, oth in conceptionl and execution, triey are Scalcullated to do a great nision of aUSenentl antild edify everoy readter. The pages are repilete with fun tand a wild solto of htmnor, that, ir lack of other S Iphraseology, we Ameriotcanie into rolliing. SAotve lnitey e i betautifully printeld and ilils i tratetd, so that we Ootcan i lmagin te tdelight obin t[t Outlaw and i hold eomradet woold have hIt it N.ttinam wotodo while tperuingo them. Thos who toi<h ti tread by the light of thIeir cigars on ti e vooandah during wtotll' weotloer; onl tle Ileew-ld vo yacht in a t amh eveninf; in the shade of tle woleel-ho toe of a steonoeo tot a long voyage, Io etlsewhere ntot veriy roitelly, but t i.h ulch lea-ure, shoultd iteotte teopite. iWe are indeboteod to .rc. Norntooto, under the St. Charles ooutel, otod No. 1it ('tattp otreel, lbit collies Toe iolooX I ott t. By t utlielno ( tajani b.-tono: John P. Jc'oott & Co After toe enreeul ociticismt ofbi tie priesc coleomlling this workl over almoost all of the itnioln, we fel it nlldnee al)ry t do tloree tll tlll a getlleral rel arkt toM ting its merits. Iit is an Italiat llitieal oandi oistorical tleatie, noot very ralefuliy eopitileid, utj ipregant with tmntty lhets aod sitatelileltseof tluth l)tel, Io oand interest, lowitg the troltblesto lwhicht thle Romane replnlioans were comntiled to totW tlhemselves, lthe ends ft o lr which rley oitruggleid, and te tbravery which they dihttl yedtinotheoearyingout ofitheirellbrts. It is Slntured thrlughooiot woitlh a kindi of ultra reputllica ism, hiolh, in lranceeo, ges ,y the ntme of Red iopubltc t i r-l'edl of intolerable evilsn , glrintdiig for yearoland ato t l eoaloied, from necessity. Every page howo'scme imprO~ nlt of mslbring and spitit, and tevery paragraph is a nle eto of ithe eiib lot tt have been not de io wrett libeely from oppreiot. Tihere is internal as wo! ao external evideoce that the his tory is mainly i corre t.o l We are indobted to Noretan, under tite St. Charlet ti-el, and No. lI1 Cao street, Br a copny. ITARetes' orony iOOKS, No. iS. Thle Museum. Like aol of its predecessors, a beaotibtl, in.tructive and hanlolnely ilplltratede little voittlme, for the ttes of youtti sold at the low price lo two boit-. Ito isrie in th le recital of wonders whose greattl pridcole tand use Ithat they are all true. Inltiitely preferible to the stories of Cinderella and other fticy monstrosities wtith whooh chitdhood is to largely inoculated. - otrl it.TIm Isneir. For F oebruary. A magnitieent nmltter. Iieh in the teeital of the gloriotS old story how France sttlod hy Seotlalnd in Sthe oays of her need; i n totttit schools at presento ; oit nObte old ben J, tn, with tis ne.. ent Se-: : En ish ud Iioh to.enery; on Hio tels; and on Italian character aril prospects. It comes to us from Morgan, near tile Post-Oilice, and one should have a copy. and '48. The hlodgen Revolutionary History and Literature of Ireland. By John Savage. New York : Iledfield. The public will better understand the character and drift of the work whose title prefaces this notice, we say it is a biography and history of the men who figured in the Irish revolutionary movements of 1798 and 1048-men, most of whom were brave, tal and patriotic, but wanting either in a proper of their countrymen, a jL.t judgment (lreat Britain, or a fit estimate of the proper time cohen their enterprise should tie undertaken. Wolf Tone and Henry Grattan; the Wexford Campaign; United Irishmen; Baron Plunaket, O'Connell and Mitchell, with many others in the same raihs, are holdly outlined and ably sketched; with more praise than we should award them, but, probably, no more than we should use even ill writing of lour ownl ctoan1 trymenr. It is a strange, sad story all throu-gh, with a surrtowful moral ; inot preaching anlythiug very grand for British philanthrlopy or the court of Exeter Iall; speaking mournfully too of a race tihat has ac complished much in other lands, yet but little at home. Mr. iMorgan, Exchange Place, near the Post-Ohlice, Ilhas our thalnks for a copy. ATr IIoam aun A .no.; or, Things and ri Thlolghlts in America and EIlurole. y Margaret Fdller s- Seuli. Edited by her brother, Acthir B. Fuller, Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co. Alluding to this work some days since, we ex pressed an opinion concerning Margaret Fuller, not necessary now to ire repeated, but which is well sus tained and armply suplported by the internal evidence of the book. She has recorded and left fir the pc rural of those coming after her, many mementos of a strong, actual, thoughtful life; of a woman's exist ence spent profitably to herself and others, reasona bly and, withal, happily-although ilhase to whom is given this severe self-arMlysi and clear study are hardly ever joyous. Some of her opinions are erode, some unsound, and there is much super-metaphysical discourse that had better have been wholly omitted. They are tihe blurs, however, and foils of nmirh ell written matter, much soand philanthrophy and good logic. If all women wonld pay themselves the com pliment of this intellectual adorning, it wou(ld Ie bet ter fir the world as well a:s for tlleselves. We are iudebted to the publishers, thirough J. C. lIor-gan, for a copy. LET..TER FROM CRESCENTA. Diatr C rescent : liaving been iusy all the week, I have had but little time and very few items for our weekly gossip. low I hope our pleasure in this gossip is mutaltl, for it has grown so upon ime that, I fear me, I shall never be willing to give it lip. The cool, refreshling showers that have e:nivened the city generally, germming the trees oind elaruh; with diamond drops, has r'ontriluited the tile vation of amy spirits ; and tullowiig thleexample o'f oming -um mer--who, provident matron, is already drnning her sunny garb-I have been layig ing th endle- little artiles of ar lady's wardrobe, and Illy et are s-One whlit wearied by my constant strolling. Ilow T pity tile toiling dry-grod clerks, just now, with their end len showing of new and pretty goods to Ineer-to-be sati-fied laldies. I wonder who gives rlheln absolotion for all the little white fibs they tell i regard to their unequaled goodsl'i For who ever yet saw thie man who haid anything to sell, that would own iits eluial could ire t.iund. I was astoni-hed to see ihe nlrinber of stringers who now tlirlon our streets, and at thle long line of rtfam ers at our levees ; and yet more so at the nu:ilner of those winged birds of pasiage that go down o ithe deep seas. A f.orest iof deadened timber alon,, cuild I'llrnlit a compnarion l;e the lonlg, long rows of na-ts that now line our wharveS. Surely, the nlaln,,redic tions as to the decline of New Orleans we -ear, hive been ottered by those who have never visitol ur tity of m:ighty commerce, ir, ate bt, have .aid it a ly-ing> vi-it. They hlve never strolled along ito lengthy wharves and seen the busy turmoil upo,, tie:n. They have pa e wit- i cnoi el eyes--if they haI- pas.ed at all--al ng our croi dvd street, where tile -ide walksr r netely taken ap with ixe-, bales and han tl, thie onat detriment of ladies' dresr-ci -e-io-ii ly, I.lade,:in New Orl:ean have aine halfr d'zcn t!hings oif w'!hich tl rnplain. Crowd, of plcrm.'n WE s ) ca:i tllhr eniv gelntd!eenrnolllect upon cornerl and citi the li.ht,-t ri.gard a- to whethler th,.ir l'eiarkLs are ,,vrheard by the siubjects of them. The .. s 'll tiny is;,:ive , atl ,nummlent;, mute tacile t.itn ele ant, made. (entlemen sayladies shoiuld not wear veil, and yet a lady -ill lie stared c ot of conot'enandco and kept in a constant bhu-h, did she walk: witlt out some sort of covering from thie anen,.aie to Then again, there are loose stonej in the pia ue:I t, which after a shower will fly up, if touched,- ,l triing water and nmud upon the neat dre>.-s in whi,:h ladies have robed themseleves for their walk-in mlany: in tailce, where tile material is not wae-halle in its na ture, entirely ruining them. And I have een go ahn nun, seatedl in a store Ilear one of thre- man tn:res, iburlst into a roar of laughter at an oecaurre.: e of this I atl'e--as thollugh there was somethilnlg very funny in the sight of a neat dre:s spoiled anand lady di.crtafit ed. Iemarkabnily well-raised gentlemen, iniderr-n, thiey msllt be ! Again, there is a nuisance of which yi,,o lave conm plained-a-nd that is, the street crossings ater tihe i w Iateres !lhave crossied thei n over. Now. to mie. dust is at any time pireferable to mudl, and nothing disfig ltre a !ady's aplpearance nmore than draglTled skirts; ;,r were Ia young nanll, in the heyday of rolnante, I |could not amllire -Venus herself, did I sc her with a soi:ed drews. And now-a-day, iadiessweepthe - treets willith their mot co.tly garmentcl. (Olnlli]:I ( icet's too, make a point of selecting out the deepest mud ill the vihole siheet, when tey lalt their vehiices to let a lady ult; thus compelling them to jump, at ri-a k of a lrll, or to step) over shoe top ill ud--either of whichr, ladies undoubtedly fild remarkably pleasant. But I will cease, Crescent, lest you deein me ill tlhe t vein of complaning this morning, (which I am not, being of a redarkably paincid disposition.) and wils cle by requesting of you tile fvor to tell our fri friend, SLaura rankllin,that Ihnen 1 end out " bridal avors," Sshe, mos-t asiuredly, will not be forgotten. I now bid - idioaldu. CIrESC'ENTA, I olni ncoiu noinranok TuE Ir,.ESSED : .RnI-Thiis city and the sornnund ing coullntry, on both sides of the river, has ieen blew.ed with copious and genial rains, in the last tw) days. The dusty and parched carth, which has so long been thirsting lbr reviving draughits, has charged its reennt garb, and, as iI byn agic, the lanud -ira. covercr with a mantle of emerald. [Vicksburg Whig, 24-th inst. Poon FE.I.Ow.--An unfortunate yollth, who ocea saionally Iray liik addres.ses toi a lady iup town, crier outt ill this ittnile'r: " When weary I are I snrike-mny cigar, .Ailnl whell the smoke rises It into my cyrcne,i 1i1 I1: 0f lily tlre ove, And oh, how I sighses ' NONE LIVETirr FOR IItstiml.i--l~od lha writlin .i tihe Ilowers that sweeten the air-oil te breeze that Irock thie Ilowers lln the stcen-- llon th livltlroi that ri.'retes the spring of me se lichat il his headiF ili tile delset-utllll itsn dieep chllllerr lS--I i Clvery ipencilld suell that sleeps ill the aernl:is of thce tcetp, tno Ics tlai1 c ur toe mighty tll which Wii ail'isei ind cheer, millions of -reaitiri wlhich live in its light- upon :ll his iorks lie his wmrittll: m None lineth tor Ilisel.lif" [Literary.lournal. Johan P. ttmlre iralte pcrih at in th'elrd sntid " wuuel nlet give r cent to a minister without ,veit tics." This is undoubtedly true, for, as tile rlohtort I'o-t well :aii, all lie wants of a mlilistr ie hi i, toli ties. And siclce this is tie policy of ouri opirp-erun, wec Ihore har friiicls will adopt it shilarr pilan u in, egive tthi iwre suporili et of ta rini.ter Whoi iarrie s tnllitics into his puldit tf a 'or roldd !elerii to Iowr, watch a mein ian mtrelrn he tulles to i gtellanl;ll of weaolth. A nalrr'owl.rlinlldit solll c)an no mellrc stald oupriglht ille hepreseh.ce If a illioney-bag thl hie caln throw a sonerset overi the An old maid was once asked to Crbscribe for a news Ss'ri Shie answered : "-No, I always mnake my oest A waoil earing r so hrearii t ant n ha d gin ui im ilAn nevy swcping, erplressed his omUlrrire, s ihe thi!ougt the business soot-ed hinm. Te happinesa or thnrian rine ii is worii dres no~t consist of oui irilng devoid of passio.s, but ill our Inaifing to command them. The ran tjuiry of Wasshington, I). C., has adjournedi, it in said, witihout funding a billtagainst Bir. Pr-It f.r assauitingti ih Gr_.I.-iy.