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for sale, with certificate# of their great utility,
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persona, m he find it for (hair mtaamg tphe
stow their patronage.
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DEFERRED ITEMS.
Ten of the Jacksnn Electoral candidates ia Virginia
m waled by the Atakaodria Gaaeiie, i« have avowed
•heir ialeatiea to vote for Mr. Vaa Boren, in defiance
of their iastraodoae. . ,
The Scercwqref the Treasury and ths Secretary of
War weep on a visit t*W. Point a few days eiaee.
Grtml Fir* mt AVwfcuir, if. C\—Thu last Raleigh
Rryifttr, vMlif Iht hfidot pwtMcrt|rtt 1m falWw~
iagpaiafWI iatvBigesceWe stop the press to aa
noooee that oar city hae beoo yiahed by another dis
tressing calamity. At oaa 0‘docfc yesterday morning
a fire broke oat at the store of Mr. Richard Smith,
which destroyed every building ia that square, front
ing Fayetteville street, with the exception of the bank
of Newborn, which was preserveu with great dificel
ty. Nearly all the housea were occupied as stores.—
Moat of the dry goods except tines in the store of Mr.
Richard Smith, were saved; bet a large portion of
the groceries were dcatroyed. The boobs end the re
cords of tbe office of the County Register wvre consu
med.”
LSfty BpVowwad kw daughters Augusts Ada Noel
Byron, are living ia retirement at Brighten, Eng.—
The latter, Lord Byron's only child, is now 17, and is
said to be aecotnpti*hed Cad beautiful.
WmsMngto* Irving.—Tbe St. Louis Times men
I (ions the arrival of Mr. Irving ia that city, oa his way
to the Upper Mississippi.
The Norwich (Vju) Enquirer, e Jackson paper, is
discontinued. Tins is staled to bo tbe tliird Jackson
! papsr which has become extinct in that state within
the last nine months.
A letter from New-Orteans, 14th ult. states that the
yellow lever was prevalent and several strangers sick.
There is said to bo trouble in regard to the election
of a Senator in Congress by the Legislature of Ten
nessee, Which may prevent a choice daring tbe pres
ent session. Mr. Grundy is n candidate; bat Gene
ral Jackson is urfUerstood to will the elceiioa of Mnj.
Eaton. * *
Murders.—We have heard of ao less than four mnr
ders ou Saturday; two, however, appeared doubtful.
The first was that of a yoeng man by the same of Buy
lie, who was attacked by another young man, named
Sera pore, at the Exchange on Saturday morning,
with a cowhide nod spring knife, with which ke in
flicted a large wound ill the lower part of the abdo
men, catting the intestines. Baylie fingered nmil
Sunday morning, when he expired.—A negro man,
belonging to Mr John Kieltardeon, Conti street, killed
in cold blood and with little or no provocation, his fel
low-servant, Washington,"h valuable mulatto slave, al
so the property of Mr. R. With a large butcher knife,
which catered the nock nod came out at the shoul
der. Ho expired instantaneously. Tbe murderer is
ia prison.—A. (Mean* Argue.
The Charlottevi lie Advocate mentions that Mr.
John Randolph’s health is now better than it has been
for many years, aud that there is little doubt that he
will be t candidate far Congress next Spring.
Great Wrt at Aew-Fomndland.—We learn freib the
papers, that a most destroeliv* fire broke out at Har
bor Grace on the 19th ult. wffich destroyed the Church
and deprived 97 families comprising upwards of 600
i udividuats of their home*. The loss of property is es
timated at 60,0001. on which there was but little inso
The Cholera.—A reverend gentleman in Oran, was
lately wanting in putting the body of a patient who di
ed vl cholera into the Coffin, whoa a liquid Mbiiance
^vss qtctei ^bom iho stomaehaf the deceased, part el I
which having Mien upon the reverend geuiletnai«*>
Mger, burned it as intensely ae if the strongest vitriol
had hoen poured on it. He ires obliged to bandage
the finger. O* iaqairy, weAMra that there had been
no medicines whatever administered to him do ring
hie idaom.i Galway Free Prett.
The two great parties'in Charleitoa, 8. C. by com
mittees, of which One. HayacaadCel. Drayton were
chairmen, have agreed that no raeert shall bn had by
yither le bribery, iatoaieotioc, riot, er the prScnricg
«f illegal cater in Marc elections, and that all im
proper and unfair pmelice* shall bn discouraged.
JtMhWrtd.—The Cholera continnca to prevail with
grant severity fit Richmond. Up to Friday last, the
deaths had ineMwwd to thirty-live a day, in a popula
tion of 13,000. The Richmond Whig supposes that
the number af cases par day at that time did not fall
short of 100.
A Napier Pima, af 1000 gaiaeaa valee, left London
on the first of Aogast for Constantinople, purchased
far the use af tbu Saltan.
The private fartane af the Daephiecaa af Fra ace,
whs fata auwry King Laepsld, ic cpwardacf 00,0001.
Lems Philipm te giaa Par 20,000 asm, par annum, as
uiat ner yearly income win ue w,wa».
I Sag*akf af Dirdt.—A writer ia the Geaesee Far
alar, aiahe* a mate meat, which, if comet, is a eari
oae iaswees of tha instiactire sagacity of birds. Ua
ha* bees for some yaaiaia tha habit of keeping hoes,
aad always ohaarvtd, daring a certain season af tha.
year, that the king bird would be easy busy among
, tbeae industrious insects. To satisfy kimeelf as to the
caese, bo killed e eumber of the birds, aad #q na»
| i nation faaad their gjssards tiled with twee af tha
dtama tribe, the others baiog left eaotelested.
Tha aafortaam* Blase priaaasraat Haaoda not INd
a* the awst hawaaaiea* tarate togadiar. M» D. Pay
raaaat baa, lately, ahaast am billed himislffrowtheso
ciaty af his cuWasgart, ♦* thraagh good aad Mil re
peat." Priace Peiigaac, oa tBl contrary, thaagh pea
siee, i* eat aaaMisMp, aad always prttnMetKatcoor
teoua aad equable deawauor, which never deserted
him amidst hi* away aad heavy misfortune*. If. da
Rennet id* amuses biamrlf with the gate, aad chest,—
Peyros net’s principal kill-turn is hie pan.—Fori* Car
Obituary.—'TbaaoJbrtaeateCalvia Edsoa is aa lea
gera Ummg Skataiaa. Dr. J. Bowlder, of the Asser
ieaa Mnaesw, has recsirod informs tiss of bit death,
at hie residuaco ia- Randolph, Vo Tha mysterious
canon of hiaeaaaeeivo rwaaiatioa, ha* it is said, baea
The dimes of whieb ho died, wus
or Tap# Worm. Tbs won* is
said ta hav* boos Her 14 fop t ia losgtb. ft this base
the spay afrits seat awe* appetite aft be deceased
; Wmdiiqffm Jr*fcgy>-W* leant iasa a St. (me
* *•» WtMrrip, had arrirad at that city, aa
hi* way t* tb* Upper, Mississippi, whither he is (rise
1° 6»iKariaa bmmalf wish ladiaa lift,.* is-ppoaad,
for thopatyasp of ibiqinmg sadism for his pea. I
if. Y. Dai!)'Ada. )
<•' • *• ip .‘HWp*1’ in-irwirT'
for m Mtnum
OW f«K CRARACTMK OF THE ERESERT ROE.
The present age is characterized By an lin
cohmion degree of effeminacy and corruption.
It eao boast of few raed who stand superemi
uent in moral gnetseih; few irtio would be
ndIRng to sacrifice their repose for the best
good of their fedow beiags; fe*r who are
proof against the aHusetnents of riches, and
who hare no part noriot in- the degeneracy
•f the times. Thesp seems to ho more
outward ohow in alt tha walks of private life,
and in all the depart jjnirrts of political, moral
and religious scienccSthao sound practical
utility. The pure aodftinadultcnited feelings
of the heart have giilh place to a cold and
eandess formality. Associations among the
mass of mankind are wmed not so much fur
the promotion of tbsteeneral welfare, as to
further the interests Wfome artful and in
triguing demagogue; one makes use of all his
influence to supplant another ; opposition
uniung muse wuto ajre oouna to lire togeincr
in fraternal harmony, is constantly springing
up, producing collisions, hatred and jealous
ies ; matrimonial connexions are made, not]
With a design of securing (Hit happiness of the
parties, but to augment their wealth, and fos
ter a spirit of pride and ostentation ; moral
and intellectual superiority are not cherished,
esteemed and rewarded with half the atten
tion that is bestowed upon a purse-proud aris
tocracy. Petty distinctions ex ist In every lit
tle village, where the vainest and most shal
low set themselves above the modest and most
intelligent; and social circles convene, not
for the purpose nf exalting character and im
proving the mind, hut foPdissipation among
the nu-n, and for frivolous amhsement, scan
dal and detraction among the women. Even
our literary devotees do not labor to add dig
nity to moral chaiactcr.and excite the mind to
virtuous and noble undertakings, but to ftl)
the soul with mawkish sentimentalism, and
to store the imagination With images of vo
luptuous and demoralizing iodulgencics. Dis
guise it as you may, I repeat it honestly, and
fearlessly, that the present fo an age of ror
ruption and imbecility. iVtth all its vaunted
improvements in the arts, and its gigantic
strides iu the paths of knowledge, it is an age
of coldness, seif-aggrandisement, luxury, dis
sipation and intrigue.
Happy will it be for us, if amid all this sur
rofinding depravity, our republic stands un
shaken. If our patriots and statesmen have
disinterestedness and honesty enough to main
tain the constitution inviolable, we are safe;
but if once ambition, cunning and intrigue
eain the asrendanrv. w-e are lost forever : the
general welfare ef oar common country will
be sacrificed to the personal aggrandizement
of some ambitious Ctesar. Let all political
honesty be banished from our land ; let im
morality’ and imreljgion prevail, an# we have
no security' for a moment—our fall is certain,
our rulo inevitable, 2.
Expense of Lhinq it Italy—One lodges
like a prince in Florence, and pays like a beg
gar. For the information of artists and schol
ars desirous to come abroad, to whom exact
knowledge on the subject is most important,
I wiil give you the inventory and cost of my
whereabout.
I at this moment in a window of what
was formerly the archbishop’s palace—a no
ble old edifice, with a vast staircase and re
sounding arches, and a hall in which you
might put a dozen of the brick houses of our
country. My chamber is as large as a hall
room, on the second story, looking out upon
th#gardcn belonging to the house, which ex
tends to the eastern wall of the city. Beyond
this lies one of the sweetest views in the
World—the ascending amphitheatre of hills,
in whose lap lies Florence, with the tall ene
mies of Fiesoti in thu centre, crowned with
nioPABierj in hukb mui»n |><t»Bru bib
weeks, while gathering scenery for his Para
dise. I can almost count the panes of glass io 1
the Windows of the bard** room; and, be
tween the fine old building aod my eye, on
the slope of the hill, thirty or forty splendid
villas, half buried in trees, (Madame Catala
n's among them,) piled one above another on
the steep ascent, with their Columns and por
ticoes, as if they were mock temples in a vast
terraced garden. I do not tbiok there is a
window in Italy that commaods more points
of beauty. Cqle, the American landscape
painter, who occupied the room before* me,
took a sketch from it. For Dejgbtwrs the Ne
apolitan ambassador lives on the same floor,
the two Greeooughs io the ground rooms be
low, and the palace of one of the wealthiest
nobles of Floreoceoverlook*the garden, with
a front of eighty-five windows, from which
you am at liberty to select aoy two or throe,
and imagiue the most celebrated beauty of
T^jscnny behind the crimson curtains—the
daughter of this same noble bearing that re
putation. She was pointed out to me at the
opera a night or two since, and I have seen aa
famous women with less pretensions.
For the interior, my furniture ie not quite
upon |be same scabs, but 1 base a dean snow
white bed. a. calico-covered sola, chairs and
tables enough, and pictures thrne .deep from
(be wall U> the floor.
For all this, aod the liberty, of the episcopal
garden. I pay thrtt dollart a menth l \ dol
lar mem » cr- la, and mr
vice, aada thirty-five
mends MJ _ »W# visile a
day—item* not bill- Then
forth*
ctrtlhttt IfrrlthBt of cof- J
foe and toast is brought me for six cents; and,
without wine, one may dine heartily at u fash
ionable restaurant for ftvelew cent*, a«d with
wine, quite magtilfeentfy for twenty-flee.—
Exclusive or post^|g and pleasure*, this is all
that one is called upon to spend in Florence.
Three hundred dollars* year would fairly and
largely cover the expenses of a man living at
this rata ; and a man who would oot be wil
ling to live half as well for the sake of bis art,
does not deserve to see Italy. I have stated
these unsentimental particulars, because it is
« hind of information, I believe much want
ed. I should have come to Italy years ago. if
I had known a* much, and I am sure there
are young men to bur own country , dreaming
of this paradise Of art, in half despair, who
" ill thank me for it, and tabu* up at once “the
pilgrim's sandal-shoon and scolfop*thelb”
H'Ulit’s Letter* from Emrope.
V "^UhbSMOM • V •*,*- , •
From the Aim- York Mirror.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EtrilOPE,
Florence.—It Is among the pleasantest
tilings in the very pleasant world, to find
ones self for the first time itffc Very famous
city. We sallied from the hotel this morn
ing an'hour after our arrival, and stopped
at the first corner to debate where we
should go. I could eot help smiling at the
magnificence of the alternatives. •' To the
gallery of course,” said t\ ** to sec the Ve
mis rio ftahln f!rn#o •*
said olie, “ to see tlid tombs of Michael An
gelo, and Alfieri, and Macliiavplli/* */ To
the Palazzo Pitti,” said another. u the
Grand Duke’s, palace, and the choicest
collection of pictures in the world/* The
embarrassment alone was quite a sensation.
The Venus curried the day. We cross
ed the Pizza del Granducca, and inquired
for the gallery. A fine court tiras shown
us, opening out from the Same square, a
round the three sides of which stood a fine
uniform structure, with a , colonade, the
lower story occupied by shops and crowd
ed with people. We mounted a broad
staircase, and requested of the soldier at
the door, tb be directed to the presence of
the Venus'without delay. Passing through
one oflhe long wings of the gallery, with
out even a glance at the Statues, pictures,
and bronzes thatlined the walls, we arriv
ed at the door of a cabinet, and putting a*
side the large crimson curtain at the# en
trance, stood before the enchantress. I
must defer a description of her. We Spent
an hour there, but, except that her divine
beauty filled and satisfied my eye* at noth
ing else ever did, arnd that the staftte Is as
unlike a thing to the Casts one seek of it as
one thing could well he unlike anbther, I
made no criticism. There is an afttaos
phere of fume and circumstantial interest
about the Venus* which bewilders the fan
cy almost as much as her loveliness does
the eye. She lias been gazed upon- and
admired by troops of'■pilgrims, each of
whom it were worth halt a life to have met
at her pedeftnt. The painters, the poets,
the talent nod beauty that have come there
i from every country mnder the sun, and the
1 tingle feeling of love and admiration that
she has breathed alike into ail, consecrate
her mere presence as a place far reverie
und speculation* Childe Harold has beet
here, I (bought, and Shelly, and Words<
worth, nod Moore; and, further removed
from our sympathies, but interesting sliJI,
the poets and sculptors of another age,
Michael Angelo and Alfieri, the men ol
genius of aU nations and time*j and to
stand in the same spot, and to experience
the same feoling with them is an imagina
tive pleasure, it is true, but as truly a deep
and real one. Exceeding, as the Venus
does beyond^ll competition, every imago
of loveliness painted or sculptured that one
has ever before seen, the fancy leaves the
eye gazing upon it, and busies itself irre
sistibly with its pregnant atmosphere oi
recollections. At bast I found it so, And
I must go there again and again beforei I
cun look at the marble separately, and with
a merely admiring attention*
Three or four days have stolon away, t
scarce know bow. I have seen but one
or two things, yet have felt so unequal to
the description, that but for rtiy promise I
should never write « lino about them.—
Realty, to ait down f ud gaze into one of
Titian’s faces for an hour, and than go a
way and dream of putting' into language its
color and expression, seems to the little
short of superla live madness. I only won
der at the divhie faculty of sigfrt, The
draught of pleasure seems to me immortal,
and the eye the only Ganymede that can
carry the cup steadily ia the mind. Ho,w
shall I begin to give yop an idea of the
Foroarina I Wbat can I tall you of the
St. John ie the desert, that can afford you
a glimpse even of Raphael** inspired cre
ations.
Tun Tribune is the name of a small oc
tagonal cabinet in the gallery, devoted to
tbe master-pieces of the collection! There
are five statues, of which one is the Venus
de Medicii: and a dozen or twenty pic
tures, of which I have only seen as yet
Titian’s Two Venuaos, and Raphael’s St;
John and Fornarina. People walk through
the other parts of the gallery, and pause
here aad there a moment be*** n point
ing or a statue; but oh the Tribune they
sit down, and yon may wait h*ftcb before a
chair is vacated, or often bdfor* the occu
pant shows a sin *(W*. Eyery body
seems entranced there. They get before
a picture, and bury then eye* U> k, as Jffit
bad turned them to stone. After the Ve
dm, the Fornarina strikes me meet feaei
bly, and I have stood and gaaed at rOilt
"9 limbs were numb with motionless pos
ture. There is no affectation insHbis. . I
aaw an English girl yesterday gaxtng at the
St.John. She was a flighty, coquettish
looking creature, and I had felt that the
spirit of the place was profaned by the fray m
she sailed into the room. She sat down,
’with Ijaff a glance at the Venus, and began
to look at the picture. It is a glorious
thing, to be sure, A youth of apparently 17
with a leopard-skin about his loins, in the
very ptitik of maturing manliness and
beauty. Wme expression of the face is all *
human, but wrought to the very liraiaof
celestial enthusiasm. The wonderful rieh
aesa of the coloring, the exquisite ripe fM
ness of the limbs, the passionate devotion ,*
of the kindling features combine to make-it
the faultless ideal of ifperfect human befog
in youth. I had quite forgotten '1'
trader for an liddri Qu4eaMifi „
lure had absorbed all my attention,
entrance of some one ^distur bed me,
11 looked arouad f sought a glance
coquette, sitting tilth her hands aw
ly clasped over her guide-book, hi
.open, and the lower jaw hW ~ j
. with a ludicrous expression of
and astonished admiration, f
dently unaware of evewthinj
except the form befurw her, ^
absorbed and sincere wondereir
witnessed. — Willi*. V*?*
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The Journal of Commerce publishes*
several letters from Buenos Ayres, the
last of which is date*! Aug. 4th, written by
the Rev. William Torrey, ah American,
who is the pastor of a little cttbrch and the
teacher of a school at Buenos Ayres; It
soems this gentleman had married a Pro
testant to it Catholic, for .which both ha
and the husband, together with the wit
nesses to tho ceremony, were seised and
| imprisoned,and the bride, with heir mother,
pat under arrest In the house of a relative.
When Mr. Torrey went to Buenos Ayres,
in 1827, there were three Protestant min
isters ia the country, by an of whom the .
existing toleration was understood to in
clude ibe rjght to merry protestant for
eigners to native females with the consent
of the parents. That consent was given
in the present case. Mr. Tbrrey and the
other persons apprehended werf taheri be
fore (he Ecclesiastical Court where they
were examine^ on oath and privately, wltb
j out any information being given of thena
ture of the charge against them* After
wards the Notary of the sentence, which
was a fine of $1000 each for himself and
Lofane the husband, $500 for each of the
witnesses, and a month’s imprisonment in
the Honse of Correction for the mother
end daughter,' to be employed in devotion
al exercises. Mr. Torrey was about to
claim the protection of our minister, Mr.
Baylies, who had expressed himself ready
l to interfere whenever the case should aa
imit of interposition.-—N. Y. Eve. Pott.
, THE SCARE-CROW.
To those of Our cif teens who have not
will be interesting, As furnishing an exam
ple of his effective and happy mod* of treat
ing the subject. .!
Mr. F. observed, that one argument urg
ed by the op posers of the temperance re
form, against all exertions to suppress the
sale and use of spirituous Honors, was—that
that legislative enactment nAd covered the '
Whole group d—that the lads against retail
ing and drunkenness were sufficiently rig*,
and if suitably enforced they would *uper;
cede the necessity of temperance associa
tioni^-the authorities were bound Jo oxe
cute the taws, and if they refused or neg
lected their Airy, the remedy lay with if*
friends of temperance ; they could dis
place them, and put better mein ip their
Stead. But, said he in substance, **|ook
in vain to tap constituted authorities to do
this work, or even to render us efficient as
sistance. They bear the same relation to
the violation of the law, as A tcart-croio
does to the bird which destroys the form
er!* com. You may dress up a figure "to
resemble A man—give him all the habili
ments—put a hat on his head, and a wood
en gun in hi* baud, and place him in youlr
corn-field, and what is tpe consequence 1—
* or a time, tlm birds will not dare to Mr
proach bias. HU belligerent attitude—lor
your scare-crow is always placed in e fierce
positioe-t-his long gun, end general hostile
appearance frighten them ; after a while,
howdver, tile birds become familiar with
the figure, and enter a remote corner of
the field. No notice is taken of their in
trusion, and they presently set about the
work of destruction. The figure ipmaina
passive, and they come into its immediate
vicinity. Very aeon, all sense of fear i$
gone, anti thW biHs collect about him, and
some perch on his shoulder, add evah on
Ms wOodeh'gob, and yet they remain un
molested—-the least movement would over
turn the scare-crow. . 4
JW so it is with thorn appointed te es-t
ecute the Ians—they date hftj&f ^
for fear of jarring themselves Ml
Religioa gives to
and to eternity Ml tin glory; |
it existence is n mere riddle.