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UTiJoiinected with the above establishment a lar^e and extensive LIVERY STAliLE, where strangers can at all times be ccoinmoda tsd with conveyances to any partofthccountry Miy. 1351. DENTISTRY. TEETH FILLED WITH OOT.D -other foil t«-eth inserted on plate 'UlrYTT.., pivot, in the best style and on easonable terms. May, 1-51. CHARLES A. ROBBINS. Galil & Silver Lever Watches. (1YLINDE1land Verge Escapement Watches g.iard.fob and rest chains, for sale here C. A, ROBBINS. May 1851. Lead, Venetian Red,Lytharge, Chrom rreene and Yellaur for sale at PATTERSONS. May 28,1851. 2l)c Iowa 1IV.1. BY J. A WHITIEK. Dry the tears for holy Eva, With the Messed angels lcavi Of the form so soft and fair (Jive to earth the tender care. ANNUM. her For the golden locks of Eva Let the sunny sonth lund give Flowery pillow of repose,— Omnge-blooxn and budding rose In the better home of Eva Let the shining ones receive Her, With the welcome-voiced psalm, Harp of gold and waving pal ml All is light and peace with Ev*j There the darkness cometh n*vcf Tears nre wiped, and, fetters faDt And the Lord is all in all. MoltTOAUKS, U" A i! are rtl.si) prepared to do all kiuds of printing in colors. iO*All orders by mail accompanied bythe Care and pain and weariness y 'I'l-*i*UiW'11 iMtt BMM H» MtOhP*"*3 Dxt.118. LAUKI.S, AC. Weep no nmre fur happy Eva. Wrong and sin no more shall grieve her: (Jentle Eva, loving Eva, Child confessor true believer. Listener at the Master's knee, "Suffer such to come to we." O, for faitli like thine, sWeet Eva, Lisxlitningall the solemn river. And the blessings ol'I he poor Walling to the heavenly shore! Tile Zrbl BT RK VAUVU. It was a wretched, rainy night and as I was about through the muddy and narrow streets, and under the black, overhanging ga bles of Plymouth, I fancied that all whom I met gliding about ill cloaks, were worthy old Round-heads, making ready forthe Mayflower. I felt that there was koniething half kindred in our purpose for I was threading the slip pery streets, in search of some craft to take me over to the Island of Jersey, out of the clutch es of a Tyrant more ruthless than Charles and Laud together. So I went sp'aihing »dong, around sharp corners, and through ill-lighted ways, with my feelings so wrought up by crowding fan cies and the strangeness of the scene—the dis tuut lamps glimmering on the pavement—the rain drop pattering on me from the quaint old blackened balconies—that once or twice, I caught myself turning round at sound of an approaching foot fall to see if a posse of King Charles's men were not upon my track but they were not, and I found my way quietly enough clown to thu George and Dragon.—Just such a bit of a carousing inn it was, as would have rejoiced the heart of Roger Wildraku with a heaping tankard of t-ack. But though the merry old days of Wildrakes are gone, the days of sack drinkers are not. The twofold virtue is still recognized at the inn of George and Dragon. The tap room was full. They were sitting on wooden benches around a bla zing fire iu the grate—the half of them with pi]iMHid .iT«7 us «{|4wa^ritk^h mug of ale. For my own part, I like to see now and then such residuary customs of the Past and in an old lumbering town like Plymouth, it freshens and makes an agreeable coincidence, and puts the quickest possible edge uppn a man's ap petite for seeing and living over again the limes that are gone. And if there are folks so stupidly sober as to question my habit in the thing, I shall enter no such plea as non pec cat um est for in many a little inn along the Tweed have I drained a good tankard of home brewed, and fvlt myself—not a whit the worse for it. The landlord came out from behind the bar, where ho stood between two rows of flittering tankards, and went down with me upon the Quay, in search of a skipper friend of his own who was going the morrow to Jersey. It was a little black, one mat-ted vis-i-tl we found rocking just under the lee of the pier, mid we had shouted a half dozen times before a stumpy figure put its head out of the fore* castle, and told as the Zebra would sail at morning tide next day. 1 promised to send my luggage to the Drag on, and the Dragon said it would be all right. I splashed home again, siul dreamed all night of doublets, and stripped hose, and Round heads, and baskets hij^s, and Old Noll, and Pym, and Plpinouth Reck—and now and then like a gleam of light breaking through the dreams, came a pleasant vision of sweet Alicc Lee. The tide came in, and the tide went out, and the. »tin got up to its highest still the Zebra lay just off the pier and every time I met the Captain, who was a dapper little Islander, he would half embrace me in a perfect transport of excuses. I think I must have borne it meekly, or his confidence in my forbearance woulu not have remained so unshaken for he had repeated this muna'ver 1 know not (how many times, before we were fairly ready to set off. I had even taken a steak iu the baft* parlor of the Dragon, and gone up the heights above the town, to see through the glass, the waves over the top of Eddystono, nine miles down the bay and the sun had gone down at the first clink of the windless, and the light was blazing on the end of the Breakwater, when we rounded it, and dropped down into the Sound. There is nothing in a run aeross the English Channel, ipso facto, either curious, or worth the telling. But there I w as a sad wreck of an iu valid, with two sovereigns in my pocket a doctor's prescription, and a pill-box—with only so much dinner in my stomach, as Iliad picked up on ten minutes' notice in the back room of the Dragon—in a little forty-ton vessel cutter rigged—with a half blood Captain,wh'o had sprung a brandy bottle in his birth, before we were quite of Mt. F.dgecome—bound two or three hundred les away, to a dot of an Island, so set around with barefaced rocks,that to make it the best of weather, is like sailing between Scylla and Charybdii,amid the howl ing of Sea-green dogs. For company, were forty fat sheep—a butch er—a Plymouth pilgrim,"who was a shoemaker and had a wife and nine children—a stonecut ter with his bride,going to try his new-knit fortunes in the Islands of the sea. Phillippe was Captain, but stayed most of his tirue be low, wrapped in a cloak Ben, the mate, had but one hand, but he raauaged the tiller very fpukeMiad en gib h. built the tire, emtied the lops, and did thu cooking. Besides "myself, there was not another sout on board, except a •mall dog, who, before we had been out eight aid twenty hours, bccame disgusted with ap pearances on deck, and went below, where he lay coiled up iu the cornel' of the hold. In the cabin were four berthsjThillippe had one, the butcher another, thu stAie cutler and Wife (they took turns—so did we all before we to Jersey) another, and myself the fourth A stove and table tilled up the middle. A light wind hardly kept the sail fu'l down the Sound At ten it was«alm, and the canvas flapped the mast. At twelve we were dashing ahead merrily, and sheets of foam flew from the bow, all over the vessel I Wfung 4 dreairfji^. kkranft* it wwia* mo* I bat U dipper. I come to write it down—about being in a tub of malt liquor and I had sunk so low, that it was ju.st gurgling in my cars, when I woke up: I was as wet as if it had been no dream. The berth w as soaking wet,and had soaked through throe coats, and wet me to the skin, I stag gered on deck—it was no drier there. The wiud had hauled ahead, and the waves came driving at us, and licked us over like hungry dogs. I can uot describe the action of the lit tle craft as she tossed and plunged, and then leaped down into a dark trough of tl.0 howl ing waves. It was dreadful—I c-iuld not bear it. 1 tried to take some of the water from me and crawled below and took one of the doctor's pills, and turned my head to the wa'l. My thoughts were quick and active forthe pelt hi gs of the wet, and a buthalf-admitted sense of danger made me wakeful as the morn ing but my thoughts took one inevitable di rection I could have pleadtdina period as long as the longest in ouo of Fcuclou's sermons and by a half more eloquent, for a single half hour of quiet. Oh, ye pleasant romancers about the gay life upon the sea,—whose romances spend themselves in dreams and ill longings, 1 wish you could have had the birth of this poor soul for an hour, that night in the Ze' ra If a man's thoughts are not lively enough to run away from his distress, at such a time, there would be no hope for him—he would go down in soriow to the grave. Now, my thoughts were frolicking through the green al leys of England, and cottages sweet as love ever fancied,—when I was restored to present conciousness, by the efforts mads to breathe an infernal smoke, that filled the whole cabin of the Zebra. Pierre had cou:e in, in his dreadnought, and was building a fire in the stove. Presently "he put over a pot of coffee and when it had boil ed, he genour*ly offered it around at the births iu a tin dipper. I was not sure—but that I had seen the same dipper passed, in a hurried maimer troin the birth of the stone-cutter's wife to the door of the giingwify, in the first glim mering of the morning, —No, thank ye—said I—too ungraciously, for after all, thought I, it is only suspicion— corroborated, I must say, by the fact that the stone-cutter himself FC»upulou-ly abstained. The captain, however, djank a full dipper of it and if he did not relish it so much as brandy it was no fait of the dipper, which was as good a dipper, mechanically speaking, as one could wish for. But the stone cutter's wife was not the only one who proved uuseaworthy for there were noises from the berth of the butcher be'ow me that sounded like anything else more than the turning out of cuffe. By and by there was a slight scufle on deck the captain was at the foot of the gangway .and Pierro at the top:—they pas-ed down the drenched cobbler, and set him up in the lee corner he poor devil had not strength to say anything. Next they handed down his wife, and set her up to windward as a sort of bol ster, to keep the old fellow from tumbling agr.mstthe stove, at each lurch of the vessel Next, they passed down one of the cobbler's boyt—then one of Ihe cobbler's girls. I grew un easy but said nothing—I doubt if I could have said anything. They kept oil passing them "down—first a boy then a girl—then a girl, and then a boy anil I had counted nine. They filled the floor like a mat, homespun—I tried to smile at the joke, but I could not. Through all this, the cobbler had not said a word—nor one of the children—nor the butcher—nor the stone-cut ters wiie—nor I but I thought how it would be for there was no room now to pass about the dipper indeed I doubt if one of them crald have carried a steady hand. Presently there was a low cry. —Ma, Ma, tell Johnny—— —Poor dear how can he help It—said Ma and the cobbler's wife made a despcra ef fort to clear a spot beside her —how could she hope it, wedged in as they were? The cobbler tried to recoil, but said not a word, though his mouth was full of bitterness —pour soul!—so was his lap. Now it happened just then, that my London beaver, which was upon a beam under the sky light, lurched over and fell among them. 1 would have got down to pick it up, if it had been worth ten guineas. So it went bobbing among them, striking one in the teeth, and another in the eyes, and once burying Johnny to the shoulders. There was a suffocating cry from under it, and by a single pinch of the thumb and finger, the cobbler's wife made a cocked hat of it .still, flattened and shapeless,it went driving round, nor stopped till Pierre picked it up, and jammed it into his locker. I grew tired of all this. I do not like to confess to sea sickness,but there was a feeling knew liow-but have a faint recollection DEVOTED TO POLITICS, SCIENCH, ARTS, uftRATORE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IOWA CITY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1853. was down —junta n6? iucubat ittra—black night brooded on th«. Wuiers ihey ver) half line came u» ine, as 1 hugging the low bul wark®, and gasping between the gnsst. O ttrque, qutirttrque irati, you school boy, who scan Virgil to the my Scotch cap dry, and put it on for a night cap, arid turned iu. I hud uot slept two hours before I coalmen* beats of the master's rod, though it be oa your hare backs, rather than the ihumps and da.-liings of a January gale upon the writhing rarras of that little rtoating Zebra—more headlong in its gallop i W.^M. No better sky openeijtfn, us next morning Again the vilo siuoko^tiiu I tin-cabin again Pierre made the coffee^ i .J a.,ain passed the jJtceji i a0 since the dinner in tin' patlor ef the Dragon. 1 begged a bit of biscuit, :nuiu h.d it and slug gard forward to thu walti cask. The butcher too, had crawled on dw ,but he said nothing to me (ho knew myf^erth was over him) and I said nothing to Kin. By noon a little sun fliowed itself. A Lou don packet was beating duwn Chauuel. It scarccd seemed to mind the sea that was tos sing us aboot, as if we Wore not worth a reck oning. I would have gWeu my too sovereigns and my hat, and all I bid, to have been on board of her. The cobbler's boys crsvled on deck. Pierre made a little broth, and begged some, and ate it in A pint bowl that I had not seen before.— Before dark, we hud made the Islands of Sark but night came on black again, and in the morning, hungry and faint, I crawled again upon the deck, to seor-uolhiug but a great gray waste ol waters* dashing and lashing around us. The sheep was a'most dead and so Was I.— There was not a qiiandurant on board, if there had been a sun to light it. The captain kuew no more of nuvigutiou than the butcher yet, there we were, tearing away at a deuce of a pace—I'liiUippe in theriging, and the one handed man at the h*lu—llcaven only knew where. So we had run in till near iiooii.when we decided—and the butcher and I came iuto consultation—to put the vessel iibout. All was ready for the new move, when Phillippe cried, land. As I had 110 more faith in the fellow's eyes, than I had iu his tonscknce, I doubted still. Soon, however, there a blue lift in the horizon. Au hour,and ve made Guernsey and rounded it then we male the highlands of St John's and of Oro«nrz iml saw the tall bel fry of St. Owen and sh#l mining the troubled waves, within two oa^s length of the fearful Curbierc uud passed I.f Muye, and ran under mid frightfully nr Noirmont tewer 'St. Aubiiis the shade of St lirele La Fret and dashc away through VI %W between the iers.* —I will Mtw fo to se» again in a vessel of forty tons —I will never sail again with such a half-blooded blade oft captain —I willl never sail again with a cebbler who has a wife and nine children—I will never again sail with a butcher who does not know a coffee-cup from a wash bowl but, the cruise of the Zebra be ing at as end, I can only say uuder favor of Heavan, I never will make such another. of St. Jlil A Bit of Romance. About six yeas ago, a Dr. having become involved iu debt, left his home and wife in another State for Texas, for the pur pose of imporving his fortunes in n place where he would be free from the demands of clamorous creditors. Ic the course of time he went with the army to Mexico, and finally wended his way to California. After residing there some time, he met a young man from the place of his former residence, who, however, he did not know, and inquired of him if he knew his wife, whom he described, without, however, telling him of tie relation he bore to her. The young man replied that Mrs. was his sister, and the lu4 he heard of her she was in St. Louis. After accumulating a competece, Dr. II left lor St. Louis, for the purpose of seeking his wife, who had long since given him up as dead. In St. Louis he learned that she had left that place some time previously, and was believed to be in New Albany. He came hither, and upon inquiry learned that she was earning a livelihood by sewing. He learned that she also be lieved her brother to bedud, not having heard from him for many years Dr. H—went to the house where he under-tood his wife was living, but found she had ieit there a few days before. He iuquired about tier general conduct and demeanor, and found 'hat it had always bee:: uiicxci'ptioiiahl«.*4i^*puki but liltle of her husband, but told every one that she con sidered him dead. The lady of whom Lr. 11 was making inijuiries discovered that he was the long lost husband, and offered to ae company him to the house where his wife was sewing. Upon arriving there he said to her, "Mrs. II here is a gentleman who saw your brother in California." She appeared as tonished, looked at the visiter, but apparently 'did not recognize liiin. lie brushed buck his hair, and said quickly, "Eliza don't you know nie'r"—Mrs. II iiuim diately swooned aw.iy, and fell on the floor. Iu the same moment a husband and brother, both supposed to bo dead, was restored to her. Dr. U as we have said, has returned with a competence, and the supposed widow, o «f threo or four of the cobler a children sqoa'ling jan after me, as if they had been trodd en on. I put an arm round the bulwarks,—begged Pier rc to lay a tarpaulin over me, for it was rain- *It *eem" it is presumed, will longer »ew for a livelihood at my heart (it may have been the stomach The°above statement, w« are assured, is as I'm no anatomist) wh.ch played the very strictly correct. Here is a scene in real life dickens with me. I got upon deck-I never clual in ..trangeness to any to which romance ever gave birth-New Albany (Ind.) Ledger, that lord ing iu torrents, snd looked out upon the sea. England, has been 'msking a jnddy' Now arid then a wave would rise close be- Dcnm"n. o( well with his stump Tom was the only sailor scud, half blinding me with spray. A gull 1y remind his lordship of the sensible old max abroad, aud had it not beep for him, 1 believe i now and 1 should never have lived to tell the story of seemed struggling to get to land. The clouds Isted, signifies, don't put too much confidence the voyage. Pierre wore long dreadnought thickened gradually into darkness, for the sun in the "nigger literature" of the day. former chief himself by making a certificate of the gen- side the vessel, and a gust tear off its whole 'u® of "Uncle Tom." His lordship knows beaded top,and bring it—a long sheet of water about as much of his "colored brodders" —crackling and spattering over me. I would i America as the latter knowot his lordship, duck my gray wool cap under th tarpaulian, W® dare say both might profit by a better ac but no sooner out, than—whist came another quaintance. By the bye, we would respectful- then would battle with the wind, but —'ne crede colon,' whicli.ralher free'y trans- Becoming A Medium. The fnscinatingspiritual rappingsis without a doubt gaining strength among us, andf'some very ludicrous incidents often grow wit of it at items, as well as more serious and deplo rable ones. A few nights since, within this woek, a young male friend of ours, who, from a stiecr- irS than the wildest that courses the plains of Timbuctoo There was no sleep th.it night. I did not go back to the cabin I gaveihu mate half-a-crowri for his bed which was just within the gangway. True, the clothes smel^d bad, but the cabin smelted indefinitely TUvre was fed. "Anybody there?" "No," was the answer. "It must have been a spirit," himself. "I must be a medium. [aloud "If there is a spirit in tho room it will signify the same by sitying 'aye'—no, that's uot what I mean. If there is a spirit iu the room will it please to rap three times?" A Returned California!!. Mr. A. Tinkham, one of our old citizens, reached this place ou Saturday last on his re turn from California. Few of his intimate friends could recognize in him the erred form, the keen blnck eye, the energetic man as he was when he left here some iwo yers ago.— Sickness has made him a mere shadow, and hothing short of an unconquerable desire to return to his family once more iu life could have sustained him on his passage homo. Mr. Albert Sawtell, former'y of this place, started for home in thu same steamer but when near Havana he died aud his body found a water grave. In vain his young wife will look for his return, and in years to come she will hardly realize that all that is mortal of him lies buried in the "deep, deep sea." Young man you who are about to start for California, go and see and converse with Mr. Tinkham—look upon bis emaciated and wasted form. And you, young married man, go and look upon the young widow uud or phan whose home is made desolate. Can gold pay for this? Stay in Wisconsin, your beputiful home— tin sun don't shine upon a better laud—and if you cannot make money as fast., you are certain of it in the end besides, there is health, which is the greatest of blessings, and a home with all its endearments clustering around it. —Kenosha Democrat. Lr My pretty little dears, nm are no more fit for matrimony than a pulJet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. The truth is my dear girls, you want, generally f-pea king, more liberty and less fashionable restraints more kitchen and less parlor more leg excr ci'e and less sofa more making puddings and less piano more frankness arid less mock-mod esty more breakfast and less bustle. I like* buxom, bright eyed, rosy cheeked, full breast ed, bouncing lass, who can darn stockings make her own frocks, mend trowsers,command a regiment of pots end kettles, milk the rows, tkuorter. become a devout beliver, re- to re®', "f or having his nervous system partiidly destroyed with the information through the spirit of his grandfather, that he would become a powerful medium. He was is his first comfortable snooze, when a click ing noise in the direction of the door, awoke him. lie listened inteutly the noise was still going on—very like the raps of the spirit ou the table indeed! "Who's thcreV ho said to I'll try Three very distinct raps were given in the direction of the bureau. "Is it the spirit of my sister?' No answer. •Is it the spirit of my mother?' Threo taps. •Are you happy?' Nine taps. •Do you want anything?' A succession of very loud rsp*. •Will you give me a communication if I get upT' No answer. "Shall I hear from you to morrow?' Rap* very loud again, this time in the di rection of the door. He waited long for an answer to the last questian, but none came.— The spirit had gone and after thinking on the extraordinary visit lie liirned over and fell asleep. On getting up iu the morning he found that the spirit of his mother had carried off his watch aid purse, his pants down into the hall, and his great coat off altogether.—Detroit Advertiser. Theology of the Mormons. The Mormons believe in this authenticity of the Old Testament, aud in the divine charac ter, mission, and revo'atioii of Jesus Christ. But they further believe that similar revela tions of the Divine will were made to Joseph Smithimd are now being made, as circiimstiin ces require, to Brigham Young, and the other patriarchs of thechurch. The Mormons believe in Polytheism as well as Polygamy. Tim two #o hunil iVi-liHlid. The ouo creates and proves the necessity of the oilier. According to the original ideas of their theology, they are themselves ail gods, aud the progenitors of gods, terying in power, intelligence and dig nity, who have humiliated themselves for a while, by appearing upon earth and assuming a human form. One of their great duties in this, their humiliated character, is to profligate their species aud people, of not only this but a'so worlds unnumbered aud uncreated, with their dccceiidanls—gods like themselveg— Hence the great necessity and reasons for the adoption of the system of the plurality of wives, for the more speedy accompli-diincnt of this, the great object of their being After death they will ascend to henven resume their original godship, and there live in a Mate of perpetual beatific enjoyment, surrounded by their numerous wives and prosperity. Iu their belief, there is no such place ns a separate and distinct hell. Hell consists simply iu the deprivation of those who are unworthy for tl e joys and pleasures of Heaven. faliforui lYew*. The Northern Light has arrived. She brings 1G0 passsngers, and connected at San Joan with tho steamer lndvpeudence.which left San Francisco on the 15th. ARRrVAL OF UNCLE SAM. The steamship Uncle Sam, from Aspiuwall February 3d, has nrrived bringing 350 passen gers and $45,000 in the hands of passengers. The Uncle Sam left Kingston ou the 7th Among the passengers is Hun. Thomas Van Bureu, senator from California. The sicauter Cortes lost twenty-sevM ,f«8 srngers on her trip to Sau Francisco. The S. S. Lett'is, from San Juan arrived on the 3d, httving'lost eleven passengers and the steamer Panama nr.'iveil on the 14th, with only four lives lost. A collision tuok place: between the steamer CamuncHt M|L^Ut'«kY«yMiie Wfiyr irowcuijite' VWrtflf. *MT MlnW anil enf1 child M%. Haker and an unKiuiuu ni:in,* lio had came up on the S. S Lewis, Well' lost. Mrs. Winter was on her way to joiu her husband at Marys villo. Dates from Oregon ate to 3d of January.— Tho weather was'very severe, with a large quantity of snow. Jl!any overland emigrant* had arrived in a destitute coudiliuu. The snow is reported ten feet deep on the Calapoo ga mount sins. Tho ciliiens of Northern Oregon met iu conveiuion and adopted a memorial to Con gress for the erection a new territory called Columbia. So great has Ifcen tho scarcity of provisions in the mining districts, that in some places flour has been sold at$l 50 per pound. ARRIVAL OF THE OHIO. The Ohio has arrived with the mail* and $1,750,000 in specie. Business at San Francisco had been fair flour was less firm and selling at f32. The importations by Thomas W. Scars, "Hope mills," superfinesold at $.'12. Corn meal $'J50 Rio coffee 15(« 18c. Butter 3lpll. Hauis li0(gilc. Keg lard 31c. Pork,prime )25('?31c cleai $35. There was a speculative movement in provisions,with large sules on private terms- There is a proposition on foot to run a steam er to the head of navigation of the Co'orado liver, within four hundred miles of Great Suit Lake ci'y, aud to which point the Mormons will undertake to build a railroad from their capital. Sixty men arrived at Shiuta on the 8th uf January from Treks, inure or less frozen they reported the snow four to fivu feet deep at 'I rinity the wholeof that region of country is sufferiug from waut. There had been no flour at Trek a for forty days. SKNATK WASHINOTUN, February 15, t, x. An amendment to giv« $.'1110,000 iu Califor nia, from the fund contracted as dutie* iu that Slajlt), prior to admission. wn« Mr. Borland's sClK-iiduienl, that Ihe money for the capital extem-iou, iu future, beexpeu ded by the commissioner of public buildiugs, instead of architects, was udoplcd. Nr. Borland madu a speech denouncing the frauds, which, ho said, had been predicted by hiui a year siuce. HOUSE. The bill from the Senate, relative fo the coin age of half and quarter dollars, dimes and half dimes, was taken up, and advocated, by Mr. Slielton. Mr. Brooks moved to lay the bill on the ta ble, negutived 54 to 101). The Houeyesterday did nothing butdebate in regard to the causes which have delayed the business of the session. Mr. Venablu contended that the delay was cauBt iu consequi uoe of the multiplicity of rules,aud advocated their^repeal. Others said the delay was .owing to the rules not being strictly observed. Mr. Stevens said the fault was in the char actor of members when legislators and states men should lie sent instead of demagogues, the difficulty would be obviated. Fuller is worse, and his recovery doubtful. BOSTON, February 15. General Pierce arrived last night, the recep tion was private—he had a long interview this morning with Judge Calling,Col. Green,of the Post, afterwards proceeded to the Revere House to pay his respects. The Mayor had a private meeting. General Piercn having declined to meet the city government in abody. BALTIMOUL, February 15. Lieutenant Pollock, uf the navy and a naval officer named !Ne!son, were held to bail at Washington, charged with being about to tight a duel. The engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad resumed their positions on Saturday and the accumulated trains moved offyester day. Some large machine shops have uot yet acceded to the terms. Nfcw roqp, February II, f, m. The steam Ericson s.iib-d to day, sits went six miles an hour against an ebb tide. KTThe inside form of the Trenton True American WHS knocked into pi on Friday last The accident is thus described by "The Re P'rler:—' We have employed in the press room of this establishment, a German—a man of stalwart frame and of fierce aspect Among his other duties, he carries the f..rms from the press to Ihe compositors Yester day morning, while engaged in lifting the forms he awkwardly, "pi'd" or spilt,or knock ed into a cocked bat, the entire inside of Iho paper, and in an instant advertisements, editorials, selections, lay in an undistinguish able mass apon the flour! Our Dutch friend turned pale—very pa'e—as pale as the fat cook did when the audacious Oliver Twist heard of since." *|IU 4 -111 ar»* 'WTT'TirV: [$2D0 PER AflTNUMjg VOL." Ilii-KO. 3lfe From the Paris Journal d«s DibattUlf The Japan rxi*ftftttou» in» 'jb Fti'itcli iotm of View. Now that tho American expedition sent against, Japan is writing its way arrostf tho Atlantic, in this direction, let us cast a rapid gbinci at-the singulaf and difficult relations which theJapanse hold with the commerce of Europe, or rlither with that of Uollaatl for .no other power thaw this last hn* been per mitted by.the governntrnt of JAldo to tradu with Japan*. As early «_• ltfJT, the U, States of America sent an embassy to Japan to negy tiste for the opening uf relations with Ameri can commerce but. this movement completely failed. Teu years later, a second niissiou with the sua** object, had the yam* result. The Dutcti, on their part, iu 18-14, like\vi«o sought to obtain a modification of those restrictions, which even to them were hedged iu with dif- tious condition*, and oIKii-d in return Com I'.irat i\ .''\ l\u a.|» ,nit.i: cs. Wil'iam, King of Holland, on that occasion, wrote to tho -Ja panese Emperor that it nppenred to him th At Japanese commerce could not long teuiaitt Uf influenced by the movements. The Em|i«rof, iu thanking the King of the Low Countries-jer his advice, assured him I lint ills law* of tta Empire of Jupaii being immutable, nothing could or wou'd bo changed from the urder^ «f things that hud prevailed from all time past. At length the astounding discoveries #f treasure stirred up thu Western World, and begou to react energetically oil thu destUnNi of the countries laved by the Chinese seits-r Thu commercial activity which, siuce the discovery of the Go'd of Caliloruia had sprung up in Auiericu, hud much incrcaqed the IMIIU ber of ve-sels trading in the Pacific and pas sing near tho shores of upan, This circum stance determined the American government to renew to these semi-burburiuns the pro* posals they had made fifteen aud ten voarv previously So, in April, 1651, embracing thy opportunity uf sending home souio shipwreofcr ctl sailors, Ihey sent to Japan a small expedi tion, charged to press for the couclusiou of A tienty which should permit American ships t? establish depots for coul, and refilling yards at various stulions within the Japanese terri. tory 1 he reply of the Emperor is still wait ed for, and thu government of thu United Stutes to liik*tcu the i«iiic i|{ affair, has seal Commodore 1'erry to Japan,- with a squadron whit1 s hull be able ',o demand the conccssious formerly besoiighl—concessions which iu the opion of thu government of the American Union, should be mudecomiuou to the trade of the World. From Annelt du Commerce Etierieur we take the following respecting the Dutch trade with Japsn. The commerce that Holland has with Japan is now, what it was at the beginning of the seventeenth century, during thu high and palmy days of the luich K««t India Company. Siuce that it has much decreased iu value, and at present scarcely exceeds annually the worth of tlireo millions of francos. Two ships despatched every year fr.im Bntavia to the little Island of Dccimu, lying off the entrance to thu port of Nangasnki, suffice to transact the business of the mpaiiy, which purchases the monopoly of the trade tor the sum of sixty thousand trances per uuauin. The government trade, as well as that 'of private parties, is very complicated the Dutch factory ut Deciina, however, this last is under less restraint than the former, although it ifl' subject to a tax of thirty-five per cent, front which government speculations arc exempt This difference ari-es from the nature of tho articles imported. Whilst the government s*nus to Decinin only its colonial producls.aud tlio-e of English and Indiun manufacture, jj^i-' vate merchants deal iu articles of luxury, of which the stt'e offers much larger profit^.— The prii -iple articles of importation are 1st. Of raw materials, provisions nnd liatufju products—benzoin, Prussian blur, atnber,' csjepul oil, red coral, qniniiie, chocolate, palm oil, salts, gulls, liqucrus, alUioi^is, olive oil/ opium, suffron, Venice tn^pfefUiAe, edible bird's nests. 2d. In manufactures—-Morocco and Persiam leathers, Incus, paper hangings, engravings and lithographs, tiles, false jewel lery, hollow ware and tiu ware, firearms, cutlery, glaseware, surgical and optical instru ments, dto. The articles of export, on govern ment account, consists nlinosl exclusively of refined copper (10,000 to 12,000 picu'.s 125 lbs each, aud of camphor. asked him for 'more'diluted gruel. He gazed tin niselves on Japan, France continues to rc for a moment at the 'Wreck of matter aud the main alien (rtrangere) toefforts which have for crash of icurd*,' and with n single exclamation their end the certain extension in the Indian of 'Ok, mine Uot!' leaped over Ihe ruin, dashed seas of the influence of her two most powerful down stairs into the street, aud has uot been rivals in commerce and industry. O"An editor lately attacked Ml Cfdiftnge for churgfng a dollar for the insertion of a mar- feed the pigs, chop wood, and shoot a duck, as riBge in his columns, and declared he ifould perished in tin? flames. About 12 o'clock, tho well as tho Duchcss of Marlborough, or the 'insert all such notices for a kiss of the bride/ United Slates llotel block was discovered teBw Queen of Spain arid be a lady withall in s A few days afterwards, a buxom shining,gaily on fire, aDd with a number of adjoining baild drawing room. But as lor your pining, mop- dressed "colored lady" ca led at his sanctum, ings was consumed. Nine horses were burned ing, wasp waisted, putly faced, music murder- and unfolding a copy of the paper, informed ing, novel devouring daughters of fashion and the astonished editor that as her marriage had idleness, with your consumption soled shoes taken place that morning, she wished the silk stockings und calico shifts, you won't do customary notice, aud came to iu ad for the future wives and mothers of England.— I vancc." We are not informed whether the Mr$ EUit' lecture* addrctted to yeuny tadict. editor presented hi* bill. Fiats 1 The private trade ex| oris are chiefly silk btulfs, lacquered furniture porclnim, para sols, und other objects tbst fetch a high pries iu Europe, It is easy to prediot the answer which Will' be obtained by a demonstration that rests Mt' eight armed vessels «f war—that is to ssy, oft# line of balt'e ship, three steam frigates, and four corvettes—a completely cuuipped squad ron, and carrying not less than Sl'J guns, In like manner as China Wound up by opening her trudu before the English cannon, fo must •Japan cave in before ihe irrcsutable arguments thu American.? will employ. Americu's con duel, it is trje, has a'xiut it an energy which at fiist glance appears slightly brutal but less so, ou the whole, tliau is ihe barbarous usagm of these Orientals, who persist iu interdic ting wandering ucssels from access to their shoics, aud coulinuo to hold back the progress of European civilization from those vustfefUle, and populous countries. Viewed iu this light, we cannot but applaud this commercial crusade undertaken by the United Slates. But that must not hinder us from remarking, with sen timents of regret, thut if England hns already set her foot on China, on Cochin Cliiua, and ouSiuiu if the Americans are thus forcing CHICAGO.—On the ni^ht of the 16th h*t., at 6 o'clock, fire broke out in a stable" ou the east side of State st. and several houses at this time. Loss, not stated—iusurane? on IT. 8. Hotel aud stables, $5,000 ., u O'The Bostonians are sendiug 'Mi 4 VMSit of supplies for the relief of the starving inlMM''' tants of Madcria. The relief is needed.