VOL. XXVI._STAUXTOX, (JAQ WEV)XY.SV>AY, OCTOBER VI, \84S. NO. XLV1II.
STAUNTON SPECTATOR.
BY L Sc J. A- WADDELL
T E It M S.
HO* The “SPECTATOR”»» publishtdomfra Hbtite,
at Two Dollars a year, if paid in advance, Or Iwo
Dollars and Fifty Cents if delayed tfryond the expira
tion of the year. No subscription drill be disconltnuea,
but at the option of the Editors, unlit allarttarages are
^Ocj- All communications to the Editors by mcilmust
be post-paid, or they will not be attended to.
fcf* ADVERTISEMENTS of thirteen lints (It
less,) inserted three times for otit dollar, and twenty
five cents for each subsequent continuance. ljxrser ad
vertisements in the same proportion, illiberaldiscount
made Co advertisers by the year.
NEW GOODS
AT THE OLD STAND OF GREEN & ‘CO.
—
IFF HE subscriber respectfully announces to his
M, friends and the public, that he is now receiv
ing and opening his Fall and Winter supply of
GOODS, selected with great care in the Northern
‘Cities, to which he invites a particularexamination,
feeling assured that he can please in style, quality
•and price. His stock embraces in part the follow
ing articles, viz:
FOR GEfirTLEMBK.
?Super. Blue, Black, Brown, Gray, and Drab Beaver
and Pilot Cloths ; Black, Brown, Cinnamon, Drab and
t* Olive French and Eng. Cassimeros ; Superior Blue,
Black and Fancy French Cloths and Cassiuicrcs;
Black Satin, Fancy Black, Brown and Drab Silk and
‘Cashmere Vestings; Black and Fancy Cravats. Black
-and Colored Kid and Heaver Gloves ; Superior Silk,
tMcriuo and Lamb’s Wool Wrappers and Drawers,
•&c., &c., &c.
FOR LADIES.
^Superior Black Grode Rhine, Chameleon Checked and
Figured Silks anil Satins; Superior Maroon, Drab,
Green, Brown and other colored Merinoes; Printed
Cashmeres and Mouselaines of superior style and
quality ; Black, Brown, Maroon and Drab Australian
Cloths and Alpaccas ; Extra Super French Capes,
from $3 to $12 each ; Extra Super French Collars,
from 12 1-2 cts to $3 ; Embroidered and Plain Mode
and other Shawls; French Cloaking Cloths and Fan
cy Figured Flannels for Sacks ; Handsome Scarfs and
Neck-ties, in great variety ; Fancy Colored Velvets
and Satins, for Bonnets; Genuine Thread, Mecklin,
and Black Silk Laces, (beautiful variety ;) Black
Silk Mitts, 50 cents to $1 50, also Kid and Beaver
Gloves, (lined;) A very large assortment of Bonnet
and Mantua Kibbous, &c , &C.
FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.
'Black and Brown Cottou and Linen Sheetings, Mar
seilles Quilts, Spreads, Blankets, Flannels, Linseys,
Tickings, Furniture Dimity, White Goods, Fringes,
Calicoes, Carpeting, Rugs, Mats, &c., &e., with many
other articles unnecessary to enumerate.
Do not forget so call at Green & Co’s. Old
'Stand, where you will always find the cheapest
and prettiest goods.
N. B.—Always on hand a large 'Stock of Hard
ware, Groceries, Hals, Caps, Boots and Shoes.
T. N. GREEN.
Successor to Green & Co.
Staunton, Oct. 3, 1849.
HAT AND CAP STOKE.
F1MIE subscriber respectfully informs
his friends and the public gener
ally, that he has just received, at the
old stands, on Alain Street, a large
stock of the finest MOLESKIN ANl)
SILK 1 i ATS, of the latest style and
of the. best finish. He has also received a stock of
fine Furs, which ho will manufacture into Hats,
to suit those who arc disposed to patronize “homo
industry,” and to make his Work acceptable he will
state that lie lias just received from New York, a
handsome set of new BLOCKS of the latest Fash
ion for 1849.
—ALSO—
A fine assortment of CLOTH, SILK,
'GL~QZE1J CAPS, for sale cheap for cash, or on
■tiie usual credit to punctual customers.
WILLIAM RUFF.
Staunton, Oct, 3, 1849.—3t.
AT WHIT 1C A C«*S.
A'l^’E adopt this medium to apprize our customers
* F that we are now receiving, and will conlin
lue to receive for the ensuing two weeks, our stock
of SEASONABLE GOODS, which (or extent,
■variety and cheapness has never been surpassed iti
this market. Their stock of Goods, amounting to
nearly 100 Packages, will bo found worthy the
attention of all buyers, many of which were bought
:wt AUCTION, and will be sold at pi ices which
'Will be deemed very loro, even in this markot.
Staunton, Oct. 3, 1849.
43Sg35®Mgfl3KB)g«
THE Co'partnership of Grkf.n &. Co., is by
mutual consent this day dissolved. T. N.
Green will continue business at the Old Stand,
and is authorized to trsc tho name of the concern in
'the liquidation of its business.
TIIOS. N. GREEN,
.1. C. GREENLEASE.
Staunton, Sept. 1, 1819.
1S)9 3ESASttl3Eo
6R0CER, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MER
CHANT,
HCOTTSVILLE, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA.
WILL give strict personal attention to Receiv
ing and Forwarding Goods, Merchandize and
Produce, and to the sales of Produce generally con
signed to his care.
A large stock of Groceries, of every description,
always on hand.
Scottsville, Dec. 27, 1848.—ly.
james~hTskinner,
.m? a
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
PRACTISES in the Superior and Inferior Courts
of Augusta, the Superior Courts of Rocking
bam, Rockbridge, and Albemarle, and in the U. S.
District Court for Western Virginia.
OFFICE, next door to the Court House, in the
Brick Row.
May 2, 1849.
HEX!) &USOX 1BELL7
ATTORNEY AT LAWS
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
PRACTISES in the various Courts of Augusta,
Rockbridge, Hath and Highland. Prompt at
tention will bo given to all business entrusted to
bis care.
Office in the white building opposite the Court
House, next door to John N. Mcndrcn—where he
may always bo found during business lours, except
when professionally absent.
May 2, 1849.—tf.
ZZ- THOMAS ALBERTSON,
ATTORN BY AT LAW,
WAYNESBORO’, VA.,
PRACTICES in the Courts of Augusta, Albe
marle and^Nelson. Office in the room lately
occupied by Col. George Baylor, where he may
be found at all times, unless when absent on pro
fessional business.
Nov. 29, 1848.
i,H, ROBERTSON,
JlUorne/j aV
STAUNTON, VA.
PRACTICES in theSaperiorand Inferior Court*
of Augusta.and in the Superior Courts of Rock
bridge, Rockingham and Albemarle.
frtgy'* Office in the old white building West of
the Court House, two doors above tbe “Vindica
t'jr” office. [Jan. 31, 1849.
EDUCATION.
—e>€t)9e*~
MRS. LEROY P. DANGEIIFIELD purpo
ses opening near the Warm Springs, Bath
County, Vn., a School for the Education of young
Ladies. All the ‘usual English Branches will he
taught, together with French, and Music on the
Guitar. Particular attention will be giv.’ti to the
domestic instruction of young Ladies. Tonus for
board, and tuition in the English Branches, will be
$100 per session of ten months—-payable, $50 in ad
vance, the balance at the end of the session. This
includes nil expenses excepting Books and Station
ary, which parents and guardians aro expected to
furnish. For French and Music, an extra charge
of$!0cach, will be made. The School will be
! under the immediate supervision of Mrs. D. and
young Ladies Will bo treated as members of her own
family.
The location is healthy and accessible, being mid
way between the Warm and Hot Springs—'Daily
Stages passing the door during the Summer season
and Tri-weekly in the Winter—so that parents or
guardians may see their children or wards, in case
of sickness, without delay. The School will com
mence about the 10th of September and continue
until the *lOtli of July, making July and August
the vacation months. She begs leave to make the
following references-^
Rev. T. T. Casti.f.man, Staunton.
Col. A. S. GnAY, Harrisonburg.
Gen. S. II. LeWIs, Port Republic.
Mr. G. G. Buti.br, Principal of the
Rappahannock Academy.
Dr. Arch. P. Strother, Bath Court-house.
August 15, 1849.-=—tG
SPECIAL M)TIC E.
ri'IHE PRF.SBYTERIAL HIGH SCHOOL
will open its next Session on Wednesday the
5th day of September, by order of Presbytery, not
at Shemeriah but at liroirnsburg, its permanent
location. s
Convenient buildings are furnished for the "tem
porary accommodation of the School, until perma
nent buildings can be erected through the liberality
of the people there, and for which arrangements are
already made.
The School is now permanently located in one
of the most pleasant, healthful, religious and moral
communities in the Valley of Virginia.
Boarding can be had in respectable and excellent
families in the village and country around, at from
$5 to $7 a month : Tuition as heretofore.
Address the PrincipalntBrownsburg, Rockbridge
County, Virginia.
WM. W. TRIMBLE, Principal.
September 5, 1849.—tf.
UnWevslty of •Mav'sUvwA
Family ol’ Physic.
SESSION OP 1849—’50.
THE LECTURES will commence on Monday, 29lli
October, and Continue until the 15th ol" March en- !
suing.
Surgery—Nathan R. Smith, M. I>.
Chemistry and Pharmacy—William E. Aiken, M. !
L>.. L. L. L).
Therapeutics, Materia Medicaand Hygiene—Samuel 1
Chew, M. 1).
Anatomy and Physiology—Joseph Uoey, M. D.
Theory and Practice of Medicine—William Power,
M. I>.
Midwifery end Diseases of Women mul Children —
Richard It. Thomas, M. I).
Lecturer on Pathology and Demonstrator of Anatomy
! —Georisb TV. Mii.tknbkhgek.
I Instruction of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery '
every day at the Baltimore Infirmary, opposite the 1
| Medical College. The rooms for practical anatomy
( will be opened October 1st, under the charge of the de
| monstrator. Fees for the entire course $90. Com
1 fortable hoard may be obtained in the vicinity of the
Medical College, for $2 50 to $3 50 per week.
WILLIAM E. A. AIKEN,
Dean of the Faculty.
"September 19, 1319.—5t.
To Physicians, Druggists ami
C ountry Merchants.
DR. J. N. Keeler And Hro. rtioat respectfully solicit
attention to their fresh stock of English, French,
(ierman and -American Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
| Paints, Oils, Dye Stull's, Glassware, Perfumery, Patent
! Medicines, &c. Having opened a new Store No. *294
Market St. with a full supply of Fresh Drugs and Med
icines, we respectfully solicit Country dealers to exam
ine our stock before purchasing elsewhere, promising one
and all who may feet disposed to c'xtcnd to ns their pa
tronage, to sell them genuine Drugs and Medicines, on
ns liberal terms ns any other house in the City, and to
'faithfully execute all orders entrusted tons promptly and
with drspalch.
One of the proprietors being a regular physician af- j
j fords ample guarantee of the genuine quality of all arti- i
| clcs sold at their establishment.
We especially invite druggists and country merchants, ;
who nmy wish t<> become agents for Dr. Keeler's Cele
; braled Family Medicines, (standard and popular reme- i
dies,) to forward their address.
Soliciting the patronage of dealers, we respectfully
remain,
J. N. KEEI.ER & HRO., Wholesale Druggists,
No. 294 Maikct street, Philadelphia.
September 19, 1549.—ly.
STfflW gg(g)lE)go
fPHE subscribers are now receiving their supply
j of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, com
| prising a general assortment of Dry Goods, Gro
j eeries, Qucensware, Glassware, Hoots, Shoes, Caps, j
fyc., $*c. Also a small lot of Rrady-Madk Ci.oth- j
ixo of good quality. All of which have been pnr
! chased under the most favorable circumstances and
! will be sold at smali profits. Purchasers arc rc
! quested to call and examine for themselves.
MOSBY & TAYLOR.
Staunton, Oct. 3, 1849.—tf.
wm. w. « u m;v,
Surgeon if enlist,
YM/'OULD respectfully inform the citizens of:
” ” Staunton and vicinity that he has again re- '
turned to the place and has taken a room at Me- j
Citing’s Hotel, where he may be found. Business
entrusted to his care and skill shall be done in the
best manner possible.
QCr Ladies waited on at their respective rcsi- j
dences if preferred.
Staunton, Sept. 5, 18-19.—if.
S)v*. IVoberl \\. Ho\wy\8M\
flAVING located on Christian’s Creek, at the
* * residence of bis brother, tenders his profession
al services to the neighborhood and the public gen
erally. Ho may be found at home at all hours ex
cept when professionally engaged.
September 19, 1849.—1(r.n.
.I01l> LEWIS COCHRAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WILL attend the Superior and Inferior Contis
of Albemarle, Augusta, Nelson and Louisa. !
mr Orncit in Charlottrsvii.i.r.
September 5, 1849.—tf.
JYOTICE,
•
I YR. FISHER, has removed his residence to
the House one door above Morris & Goode’s
| Store, Main Street.
t Dry- His Office is over theStoTeof Wren &, Fish
! cr
Staunton, May 9, 1849.
* .9
POETRY.
InSBICAK ARISTOCRACY.
Of all the notable things on earth.
The queerest ouo is pride of birth
Among our “fierce democracic !”
A bridge across a hundred years,
Without a prop to save from sneers,
Not even a couple of rotten peers—
A thing for laughter, fleers, and jeers,
Is American aristocracy !
English and Irish, French and Spanish,
Germans, Italians, Dutch, and Danish,
Crossing their veins until they vanish
In one conglomeration.
No subtle tinge of blood, indeed,
No heraldry Harvey will ever succeed
Inlinding the circulation.
Depend upon it, my snobbfch friend,
Your family thread you cau’t ascend,
Without good reason to apprehend
You may‘find it waxed at the other end
By sonic plebian vocation !
Or, worse than that, your boasted lito
May end in a loop of stronger twine
That plagued some worthy relation.
TOR THE SPECTATOR.
TO ITI1SS —
Stay, princess ofbeaiily—bright beam of the sun—
And vouchsafe to tell me how thou mayst be won :
Canst thou a true heart, that adores thee, despise
And turn a deaf ear to its throbbings and sighs ?
’Tis delightful to gaze on the form that we love ;
0 ! it seems like a foretaste of pleasures above !
No pearls of the Ciccan nor gems ol the skies
Transcend the soft glow of thy dark beaming eyes :
A glance frdm their orbits sinks deep in my soul,
So full of emotion, as wildlythcy roll.
Bright seraph ! I pray thee, still let me adore;
On charms such as thine, I could gaze evermore !
1 cannot hut love thee—forgive me, I pray;
I*ct not thy kind sympathies turn me away
In despair from thy presence—thy friend I’ll be ever,
Although ruthless Fortune my love ties dissever,
Gentle lady !—oh, can I forget tlicc ?—no, never !
SHELBURNE
- _„
MISCELLANY.
MISS fkebehicka IIUE?1EK.
This distinguished Swedish writer, being now
in America, anything in relation to her will he read
with more than ordinary interest. The following '
sketch of her, by Mary Howitt, is from Godey’s ;
Lady’s Book fur October :
Of herself, Fredericks Bremer says : ‘If it should
so happen that, as regards inn, any one should wish j
lo cast a kind glance behind the curtain which con- i
ceals a somewhat uneventful life, lie may discover j
that i was born on the banks of the Aura, a river j
which flows through Abo, and that several of the
venerable and learned men of the University were
even my godfathers. At the age of three, I was
removed, with my family, from my native country ■
ot 1' inland. Ol this part of my life I have only re
tained one single memory. This memory isa word,
a mighty name, which, in tho depths of Paganism,
was pronounced by the Finnish people with fear
end love ; and is still so pronounced in these days,
although perfected by Christianity. 1 still fancy i
that 1 often hear Ills word spoken aloud over the
trembling earth by the thunder of Thor, or by the
gentle winds which bring to it refreshment and con
solation. That word isdumala ; the Finnish name
for God, both in Pagan and Christian times.
“If any one kindly follows me from Finland into
Sweden', where my father purchased an estate after
he had sold his property in Finland, I would not
trouble the inward elementary chaos, and the out
ward, uninteresting, and commonplace picture of a
family, which every autumn removed, in their cov
ered carriage, from their estate in the country to
their house in tho capital, and every spring trun
dled hack again from their house in the capital to
their country seat; nor how thero wero young
daughters in tho family who played on the piano,
sang ballads, road novels, drew in black chalk, and
looked forward, with longing glances, to the future,
when they hoped to see and do wonderful tilings.
With humility, I must confess, I always regarded
myself as a heroine.”
Casting a glance into the family circle, it would
be seen that they collected, in the evening, in the
great drawing-room of their country house, and read
aloud ; that the works of the German poets were
road, especially Schiller, whose Don Carlos trade
a profound impression upon the youthful mind of
one of the daughters in particular.
A deeper glance into her soul, will show that a
heavy reality of sorrow was spreading, by degrees,
a dark cloud over the splendor of her youthful
dreams. Like early cvrning, it came over the path
of tho young pilgrim of life ; and earnestly, but in
vain, she endeavored to escape it. Tho air was
dimmed as by a heavy fall of snow, darkness in
creased, and it became, night. And in the depth |
of that endless winter night, she heard lamenting
voices from the east, and from the west; from plant
and animal; from dying nature and despairing hu
manity; and she saw life, with all its beauty, its 1
love, its throbbing heart, buried alive beneath a
chill covering of ice. Heaven seemed dark and void;
there seemed lo her no eyes, even as there was no
heart. All was dead, or rather, all was dying—
excepting pain.
There is a significant picture, at the commence
ment of every mythology. In the beginning, there
is a bright and warm, and divine principle, which
allies itself to darkness ; ami from this union of light
and darkness—of fires and tears-—proceeds a God.
I believe that something similar to this takes place
in every human being who is horn to a deeper life ;
and something similar took place in her who writes
these lines.
Looking at her a few years later, it will he seen
that a great change lias taken place in her. Her
eyes have long been filled with unspeakable joy;
she is like one who has risen from the grave to a
new life. What has caused this change? Have
her splendid youthful dreams been accomplished?_
(s she a heroine? Has she become victorious in
beauty, or in renown? No; nothing of this kind.
Tim illusions of youth are past—-the season of youth
is over. And yet she is again young; for there is
freedom in the depth of the soul, and “let there he
light” has been 8|H»kcn above its dark chaos; and
the light has penetrated tho darkness, and illumina
ted the night, whilst, with Iter eye fise.l upon that
light, she has exclaimed with the tears of joy,
“Death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy
victory ?”
Many a grave since then has been opened to re
ceive those whom she tenderly loved; many a pang
has been felt since then ; hut the heart tl r,,bs joy
fully, and the d.irk night is over. Yes, it is over;
hut not the fruit which it has borne ; for there are
1
certain flowers whieh first unfold in tho darkness ;
ro it is also in tho midnight hours of groat suffering;
tho human soul opens itself to the light of eternal
stars.
“U it be desired Hi hear anything of my writings,
it may lx: said that they began in the eighth year
of nty age,when I apostrophised the moon in French
verses,and that during tho greater part of my youth
1 continued to wiite in the rame sublime strain. I
wrote under tho impulse of restless youthful feel
ings. I wrote iu order to write. Afterwards I
seized the pen under the influence of another mo
tive, and wrote—that which I had read.
“At the present timo when I stand on the verge
of the autumn ol my life, I still see tlie same objects
whieh surrounded mo in the early days of my spring,
and 1 air. bo happy as still to possess, out of many
dear ones, a beloved mother and sister. The moun
tains which surround our dwelling, and upon whieh
Gustavos Adolphus assembled bis troops, before he
went as drliverft^^icrmany, appear to me not less
beat u fit I than the^^^ajn the day's of my child
hood ; they have increased in mlerest, for I am now
belter acquainted with their grasses and their flow
ers.”
r (redericka Bremer’s works are: Tho Neighbors;
I he Home; 1 he 11. Family; Strife and Peace; !
The President’s Daughter ; Nina ; The Diary ; In
Delecarlia; 'Brothers and Sisters; The Midnight
Sun ; together with smaller tales, and a considera
ble number of tracts and papers, published at vari
ous times, in die Swedish journals. All these
works I have, with the assistance of my husband,
translated.
Mrs. Butler.—Tho N. Y. Express sax's, Mrs.
Fanny Kemble Butler was at tho Fair at Syracuse
in full feather, galloping through tho throng ofbor
ses, carriages, and footmen in the streets, Tis if it
were an every day pastime. She had the glow of
exultation on her face, which proved that "the act
of sweeping through tho multitude, was rather a
pleasant sort of a thing for a bright autumn day.—
The following description of this lady is taken from
a letter written to the Cleveland Democrat, from j
North Adams, and hits off her ladyship fairly :
I was very much disappointed in the personel ef
Mrs. B. She is mascaline, very, in mind and body. '
Her figure is not either majestic, or commanding, i
or elegant. Her form is not comely—her face any- |
thing but beautiful; yet in her reading she Would
make it radiate with the beauty of life-like expres- 1
sion. Her person is short and massive; she has
nothing of the light and graceful in her form. You
can read in her face that she was horn to command, j
never to obey. She is a woman of great talents,—
ol correct principles—of great energy—of strong
passions and feelings, and lilies the mighty caturuct, !
and the. live thunder, bitter Hum she dots the iciiul
ing rivulet, or the evening zephyr, or I am misiak- :
en in that eye, and in the expression of that mouth.
She must hate a tame man. She would rather play
with lions than with lambs, and would rather ride a i
wild horse of the prairies than the gentle palfrey of [
a timid girl. There is no horse, 1 am told, too spir- :
ited liir Mrs. B. to rule or drive. She admires spir- J
it iu any living thing, and I guess, most of all, '
men.
Mrs. B. has purchased an estate in Lenox, and j
will probably build ber a home in that town, where j
she has a large circle of devoted friends. So much ’
has been said ol Mrs. Butler—so much has her name '
been before the public, that I shall offer no apology j
for thus writing mv imprersions of her. 1 have :7ui 1
trespassed up,.i, the sanctity of private life. She !
is a remarkable woman—better fitted to delineate I
every variety of human character, upon the stage,!
than to make happy the domestic home. In this I !
may be mistaken. She does not look, to me, as if
for domestic life, she was “made of every creature’s
best.”
Beautifdl^Pass.vsk.—Lord Morpiieth, in one
ot his addresses to the electors of the West Hiding j
of Yorkshire, uttered tho following beautiful pas
sage •
“ Reference has been frequently made to the reigns
ol our former leinnle Sovereigns, and indeed every
Englishman must fondly look back to the wisdom of
Elizabeth and the victories of Anne. But, iu shap
ing the desired career of their fair and young suc
cessors, we do not wish that her name should rise
above the wrecks of the armada ; we do not seek to
emblazon her throne with tiie trophies of such fields
as Blenheim,or the yet more transcendent Waterloo.
Let her have glories, but such as are not drained •
from the treasury or dimmed with the blood of her '
people. Let hers be the glories of peace, of industry,!
of commerce, and of genius ; of justice made more 1
accessible ; of education made more universal; of
virtue more honored ; of religion more beloved ; of j
holding forth the earliest gospel light to the unawa- j
kened nations ; the glories that arise from gratitude i
for benefits conferred ; and the blessing of a loyal i
and chivalrous, because a con anted and admiring
people.
i Romances.—It is possible (says Tissol) that of!
all the causes which have injured the health of wo- !
man, tho principal has been the prodigious multi- '
plication of romances. From the cradle to the most !
advanced age, they read them with an eagerness I
which keeps them almost without sleep. A yon no- !
girl, instead of running about and playing, reads"
and perpetually reads, and at twenty becomes full j
of vapors, instead of being qualified for the duties '
! of a good wife or nurse. These causes, which in
lluonce tho physical, equally influence tho mural ;
\ man. I have known persons of both sexes, whose i
j constitutions would have been robust, weakened '■
gradually by the too strong impressions of impas- '
i sinned writings. The most tender romances hinder 1
marriages instead of promoting them. A woman, '
I while hcT heatt is warmed by tho langout of love! ■
; does not seek a husband—a hero must"lay his lau
I rels at her feet. The fire of love docs not warm her
heart, it only influences her imagination.
A Freak of Fashion.—''Tho New York Home
Journal says: "Economy is tho fashion as well as
the necessity of Paris at the present time, and ci
gars, (he best of which could only he had for live
cents a piece, have been tacitly and practically vot
ed too dear a luxury. It is the mode to smoke a pipe—
; not the Costly oriental pipe, with the perfumed to
; bn coo of the levant, to which even tho most delicate
lady could make no objection, but tho common clay
pipe, of which the expense, with its tobacco, is little
| or nothing but of which the odor has hitherto or on
thought unendurable. It is ‘knowing,’ ‘stylish,’
‘eomine tlfaut,f to plead want of means as an ex
■ cusn for any thing, in the present stagnation of
I things in I arift; and though the Government, a
! formed at tho decrease of revenue from the discon
i tinnance of cigars, has lowered the duty, and ena
| bled the venders to afford a live cent Havana for
lour cents, the pipe continues to increase in popular
|,,7jf -
Horrible.—Between the 18th June and the
■ 26th •September of the present year, three thousand
! five hundred and twenty dogs were slain within the
: limits of New York, at an expense to the Gorpora
! lion of seventeen hundred sixty dollars for the mere
killing alone. Of this sum 11. Boggs, the notorious
! Dug Killer, received two hundred and fifty dollars,
i VYe learn that this delicate stomached individual
. has amassed some three or four thousand dollars by
I the practice of his “profession”—a fact at which we
: do riot know that we are disposed to grumble, as
we think that if anything should be well paid for it
j is dog-killing.—*V V. Tribune.
A ItEAL MIOST-NEEK.
Tho ghost-seer was a young candidate for orders,
eighteen years of age, of the name of Billing. He
was known to have very excitable nerves, had al
ready experienced sensorial illusions, and was par
ticularly sensitive to tho presence of human remains,
which made him tremble anil shudder in all his
limbs. Pfeffel being blind, was accustomed to take
tho arm of this young mail, and they walked thus
together in Pfeffel’s garden, near Colmar. At one
spot in the garden, Pfeffel remarked that his com
panion’s arm gave a sudden start, as if he had re
ceived an electric shock. Being asked what was
the matter, Billing replied, “Nothing.’’ But on go
ing over the same spot again, the same effect recur
red. The young man being pressed to explain the
cause of hisdisiurbancc, avowed that it arose from
a peculiar sensation which he always experienced
when in tho vicinity of human remains; that it was
his impression a human hotly must bo interred there;
but it Pfeffel would return with him at night, he
should bo able to speak with gieater confidence.—
Accordingly they went together to the garden when
it was dark; and as they approached tho s|»ot, Bil
ling observed a faint light over it. At ten paces
from it he stopped, and would go nofailhcr; for ho
saw hovering over it, or self supported in llm air,
its feet only a few inches from the ground, a lumin
ous female figure, nearly five feet high, with the
right arm folded on her breast, the left hanging by
her side. When Pfeffel himself stepped forward
and placed himself about where the figure appeared
to be. Billing said it was now on his right hand, now
on his left, now behind, now before him. 'When
Pleffel cut the air with his stick, it seemed as if it
went through and divided a light flame, which then
united again. The visit, repeated tho next night,
with some of Pfeffel’s relatives, gave the same re
sult. They did not see anything. Pfeffel then,
unknow n to the gliost-seer, had the ground dug up;
when there was found at some depth, beneath a lay
er of quicklime, a human body in progress of decom
position. The remains were removed and the earth
carefully replaced. Three days afterwards, Billing,
from whom this whole proceeding had l>cen kept
concealed, was again led to the spot by Pfeffel. lie
walked over it now without experiencing any unu
sual impression whatever. The explanation of this
mysterious phenomena has been but recently arriv
ed at. The discoveries of Von lleichenbach, of
which I gave a sketch in tho first letter, announce
the principle on which it depends. Among these
discoveries is tho fact that the ad force makes itself
visible as a dim light or waving Hants to highly
sensitive subjects. Such persons in the dark see
flames issuing from the poles of magnets and crys- !
tals. Von Reichentwch eventually discovered that
the onl force is distributed universally, although in
varying quantities. But among tho causes which
excite its evolution, one of the most aelive is chem
ical decomposition. Then happening to remember
Pfeffel’s ghost story, it occurred to Von Reichen
bach that what Billing had se?n was possibly ad
light. To test the soundness of this conjecture,
Miss Reichel, a very sensitive subject, was taken
at night to an extensive burying-ground noar Vien
na, where interments take place daily, and where
are many thousand graves. The result did not dis
appoint Von Reichenbach’s expectations. Whith
ersoever Miss R. turned her eyes, sho saw masses
of Hatne. This appearance manifested itself most
about recent graves. About very old ones it was
not visible. IShe described the appearance as re
sembling less bright flame than fiery vapor, some
thing between fog and Hatne. In several instances
the light extending four feet in height above the
ground. W hen Miss Reichel placed Iter hand on
it, it seemed to her involved in a cloud of fire.—
VVI ten sho stood in it.it came up to her throat. She
expressed no alarm, being accustomed to the appear
ance. The mystery has tints been entirely solved.
For it is evident that the spectral character of the
luminous apparition in the two instances which 1
have narrated had been supplied by thesedrs them
selves. So the superstition has vanished ; but, as
usual, it veiled a truth.—.Mayoon Popular Super
stitions.
Howto Acquire Wealth ano a Wife at
once.—“A scheme hns heen projected,” says a
Barcelona paper, “by a poor but talented young
man here, anxious to form a matrimonial alliance
with a lady likewise without fortune, which has for
its aim the assurance of a competence to the con
tracting parties. For this purpose the would bc
bridegroom proposes making a raffle of himself, and
with this view has issued five thousand ticket at a
dollar each. The female who shall draw the prize,
no matter what her position may be. will be entitled
to full information respecting the physical and mor
al qualities of the gentleman, who, on his side will
also he afforded the same advantages. IfUith agree
to conclude the projected alliance, they will possess
a capital of five thousand dollars to support tfie char
ges incident to marrimony ; but should either object,
the money is to he equally divided between them,
each being thus furnished with a dowery, to enable
• hem to make a choice in which chance shall take
no part. The plan is an ingenious one, though its
accomplishment is beset with difficulties. To what
a pitch has calculation and speculation reached ?”
Temptation.—How beautiful, in the L.rd’t
Prayer, is the invocation of “Lead iis not intotetnpt
ation.” How much it expresses, and what a vol
time of thought it opens. “Lead ns not into temp
tation.” The Will may be strong hut the heart is
weak, and in an evil hour the tempted falls before
the tempter. Temptation is a little rill which form
at first drop by drop—hut follow its course, and it
swells until it becomes a mountain torrent which
sweeps all before it. “Lead us not into temptation”
—flee from it as from a pestilence. Avoid it—for
honor, happiness, all, all will be drawn into its vor
tex, and becomes a wreck upon the shores of time,
j “Lead us not into temptation.
, Lawyers in California.—Cnpt. Tobin,on his
I way to California, is writing letters for the Delta.
1 From one dated 'Tobago, we extract the following:
j Of nearly two thousand passsengers now between
j Chagrcs and Panama, there are about six hundred
j lawyers, and of them four hundred go out with the
| expectation of being returned to Congress, or the
Legislature, at least; seventeen are electioneering
tor the gubernatorial chair, and twenty one embryo
senators are already calculating the savings to be
made on the mileage allowed by Uncle Sam from
San Francisco to Washington, and back.—“Blessed
i are those who expect nothing, for they shall not be
disappointed.”
Imagination.—-The Irish woman who a few
days ago, in Boston, got from the coroner a pciceof
the rope with which a man hung himself, for the
purpose, as she said, of curing the King’s evil, tied
it around her body lor the space of three days. On
Thursday the rope was returned by the woman’s
husband, who slated his wify had entirely recover
j cd and that the troublesome humor had disappeared.
The Coquette.--1.ongftllow thus pointedly
j describes a coquette :
A young lady of more beauty than seme—more ac
complishments than learning—more charms of per
1 sons than graces of mind ; more admirers than Ir.ends
j —more fools than wise men for attendants.
Tuv. s with a Small Population.— I he town
! of Amity, Ohio, hasonly seven inhabitants, and fonr
I of them were dow n with cholera.
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Traveller’s Marvels.—African travellers
have spoken of a trilie of negroes who possess that
ornamental appendage so much admired by Lord
Monboddo—a tail; out their statements have never,
1 believe, received implicit credence. It appears,
however, that a race of men with tails really exist
in the interior of Africa, (n a recent sittingof the
Academic dee Sciences, M. du C'ouret related, that
in 1812 he found in the services of a friend at Mecca,
one of these wretches, the lowest assuredly of man
kind. The creature had an exterior prolongation .
of the vertebral column, to tho extent of 3 or 4 inch
es. He stated that he belonged to the tribe ofGhi
lar.es, whose territory is situated far beyond tho
Sennar, who are thirty or forty thousand in num
ber, worship the sun, moon, the serpent, and the
sources of a great river, (supposed to be the Nile,)
to which last they immolate victims. They eat
plants, roots, fruits, and raw ilcsh.and like it bleed
ing; arc very partial to human flesh, and eat the
bodies, yf all ages and both sexes, whom they may
slay in battle! They, however, prefer the flesh of
women and children as more succulent. They rare
ly exceed five feet in height, are ill-proportioned,
with long, thin bodies, long-arms, longer and flatter
hands and feet than tho rest of human kind, have
I the lower jaw largo and long, the forehead narrow
ami excessively retreating, the ears long and de
formed, the eyes small, black, brilliant, the teeth
strong ami sharp, the hair woolly, but not abundant.
Tho man examined by M.du Courethad been so long
in slavery as to have forgotten his native language ;
but ho stated that, notwithstanding he had dune all
in his power to subdue the savage appetite, lie was
twice a week seized with a rage for raw llesh, w hich
his master satisfied by giving him an enormous lump
of mutton and that if this were not done, he felt ‘.hat
ho could not refmin from slaying and eating a wo
man or child. M. du Uourel says, that tho natural
disposition of this animal was good, that his fidelity
to his master was striking, and that ho was not
without intelligence ; but in the slave markets oftho
east, where tho race is not unknown, they are con
sidered every thing that is detestable.—Paris Cor
respondent of the Literary Gazette.
Georgia, as we presume from the Telegraphic
indications, has followed the suit of Tennessee and
other slaveholding States, and gone over pro tem.
to Lncofocotsm. The way in which this lias bee.a
dono is clear. Gen. Taylor’s Administration has
been stigmatized as “Abolition ;” as “belonging to
the North ;” as “having in it Collamer, tho Aboli
tionist, who circulates abolition documents through
tho Post Office ;” as “ruled by Ewing and Clay
ton, ir.cn hostile to slavery,” &.c. In short, many a
Southerner is made to believe that tho Abolitionists
have really got jmsscssion of Rough and Ready,
and that emancipation by force is to be attempted
in a month or two. Hence the result in some of
tho slaveholding States of late.
But while this Locofoco game is played South,
the Hunkers, Barnburners, and Abolitionists aro
uniting in one party in Now York to beat the Whigs.
Wo hear here : “General Taylor is a large slave
holder,” “The Wilmot proviso principle is never
sure with him,” “It is a Southern Administration,”
Sec. The Hunkers look on and laugh, and coa
lesce, Snd any thing and every thing is to bo done
to whip the VVhigs.
“Meanwhile the Whig hour of triumph, though
not yet conic, will come. Their coalitions cannot
hold together. Their misrepresentations will bo
found out. Their sectional elements will dissolve
into their original nothingness. The party of the
Union, and of the to/iole Union—that is, the Whig
party—will rise triumphant overall. It must bo
borne in mind that in the earlier period of General
•Jackson’s administration, he who was so triumphant
at its close was very feebly sustained at its advent.
General Taylor’s popularity is and will be after
this fashion.—-Veto York Express.
Strange Calculation—Tons ok Meat a no
Drink used ui> r.v one Man.—Some geuious lias
perpetrated the following calculation :
“1 have been married 32 years, during which
time I have received from the hands of my wife three
cups of coffee each day, two in the morning and one
in the night, making about 35,040 cups of a half
pint each, nearly 7 0 barrel® of thirty gallons erich,
weighing 17,520 lbs,, or nearly nine tons w'ciglit.
Yet from that period 1 have scarcely varied in
weight myself from 1 GO lbs. It will therefore bo
seen that I have drank, in coflee alone, 218 times
! my own weight. I am not much of an eater, yet I
presume 1 have consumed about eighteen ounces a
| day, which makes 5,806 lbs., or ten oxen. Offlour
I have consumed in 32 years, about 50 barrels. For
20 years of thic. time, I drank two wine glasses of
brandy each day, making 000 quarts. The ports
wine, Maderia, whiskey punch, &e.. I am notable
to count, but they are not large. When wo take
into account all the vegetables in addition, such as
potatoes, peas, asparagus, strawberries, cherries;
pears, peaches, raisins, &.C., tho amount consumed
by an individual is most enormous. Now my body
has been renewed more than four times in 32years;
and taking it for granted that the water of which I
have drank more, ads merely as a dclutant, yet ta
ken together, i concluded that 1 have consumed in
32 years, about the weight of 1,100 men of 160 lb.
each.
Another Thresher.—We witnessed, on Mon
[ day last, the operation of a Threshing Machine of
! Mr. MeKeevcr’s invention and construction, on tho
land of A. Hunter, Esq., in charge of Mr. (J. W.
Spots. Tho performance was very satisfactory, as
! well as surprising. The machine seemed capable
, of cleaning tip and l> igging about 260 bushels a day.
Its work on the farm of J. (J. R. Taylor, Esq., was
very successful.
The machine is hut little larger than an old fash
ioned wheat fan. It requires 6 horsesand 9 men to
work it.— /'Vcc Press.
The City of the Mormons, and its vicinity, near
Salt Lake, have twenty thousand inhabitants. The
city is situated south of the Salt Lake, in a valley
twenty miles wide, surrounded on three sides by tail
ranges of mountains, capped with snow; on tho
fourth side is the lake. This city is laid off in half
mile squares, without timber, except on the side of
the mountains. So writes It. S. Lewis, Esq., for
i merly of Glasgow, Missouri, who reached theMor
: mon city in July last, on his way to Clifoinia.
| The opposition journals are continually alarming
! us with ttieir war notes. They fancy that General
I Taylor’s Administration has brought the country in
to difficulties with three of the most powerful na
j lions of Europe—France, England and Spain. But
; these difficulties exist only in their imaginations ;
' and they thus remind us of the waggish old Dutch
1 man who bawled out lustily, “fire! tire!’’ “Where?
where?” was the excited enquiry. “In mein pipe,”
■ coolly replied Hans.—.Xorfolli Herald.
A Paris correspondent of the Glasgow Daily
Mail says—“ The Venitiati people, alter all their
sufferings, raised one million of I'ranc3 in one day
for the emigrating patriots. The names of Venice
and Rome, in 1819, will ratso to glory besido thn
post of infamy on which "will be written France
j and Austria of 1819.”
The I,ast Fashion.—Tho fashion has been in
(reduced into New York of wearing gentlemen’s
j shirt bosoms of fine linen cambric, laid in broad
' plaits, and ornamented with tlirco rows of rich
French embroidery. It is somewhat expensive,
! each bosom costing from ten to twelve dollars.
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| Romantic Revenue.—In Kentucky, a plough
man became enamoured of a milk maid on a neigh
lioring farm. His addresses were rejected ; and the
disappointed swain, full of melancholy and revenge,
procured a rope—went to l! c farm, and— tied all the
rotes' tails together t
Napoleon's Tomb, at 8t. Helena, i advertised in
1 the“Hclcni Gametic” for sale. W by fhu I „) .>»
Major Noah, the Nines on the field of V> uu-rbm
were sold to make manure of, and why not iho tomb
of the chief whose ambition strewed them thero ?
In Chicago there is a drinking establishment fof
every sixty of the inhabitants! Who wonders *t
the mortality there last summer ?