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U subscriber re moe ta other places, without in forming the publisher, and the paperissent totheforoi sr direction, thevaro held responsible. - 5, The courts here decided that refaeinf to take a aewepuper or periodical from the office, or removing and leaving tt ancaUed Tor, is prima Tacts evidence Of laten tioaal fraud." - How to stop i pfcb. First see that Tea have paid j for it ap to the tint yoa wish it to stop; notify the posi x master efyoer desire, and ask him to notify the pabKeher ader his frank, (.as he is authorized tu do J of Jon wish to diseontinae. , ,,.,,.'. Bnshuas v Directors. . ., SO.S OP TEMPEBAXCE. Fort Stevenson Division. No. 432 Sta ted meeting, every Taesday evening at the Division Rooraia the old .Northern Exchange. -5 CADETS OP TEMPEPAJfCE. . Port Stevenson Section, No, 102 meet every Thursday evening in the Hall of the Sons of Tfra peranc. -.; ; ; , ' . . - ; I. O. O..F. :.-,.. . -. CrOZhan I.Otis', No. TT, rneeia atihe Odd Fellows .Hall, in Morehouse's baUding, every Saturdsy evening. -. ROBERTS. HUBBARD & CO, : .I.''" strrcTOKns of " Copper, Tin and Sneet-Iroa Ware, ; ; Stores, Wool, Hides, ShecFpelt9, Rags, . old Copper, Old Stoves, &e, &c Also, .""ALL SORTS OF GENUINE YANKEE NOTIONS. '.. .,- Pease's Iti-iok. Black, Xo. 1. Fremont, Sandusky Co. Ohio. 32 , 1S19. - c. n. hc ctjm,ocii, " ' ' - DEALER IN ' - ' s DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, DTESTUFFS, U- BOOKS." STATIONARY, Ac. ' ' iV ' :FR EMONT, OHIO. , UAtl'H P. Ul'CKLA9f, ATTORNEY and Counsellor at law and Solicitor in Chancery, wilt attend to professional business in Sanduskv and Adjoining counti"". ' O Orncs Second story of Tyler's Block.' " JOIIX L. CBEEA'E, ' TTORNET AT LAW and Pronecutine Attorney 1 J for Sandusky county, Ohio, will attend to all pro fessioaa) huninees entrusted to his care, with promptuees sod fidelHy. . . . . ' . JET Orrics at the Court Honse. : . CHESTER EDGERTON, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, , - , ' ASD SOLICITOR IH CMAKCERY. . 6 ' Offics At the Vourt House. , ' Fremont. Sandusky Co. O. " "No 1. " ' - - 15. J. BARTLETT, . I ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW -. '"W H S U O SI, SAKBCsir, CO., o., ' . WILL, give his undivided attention to professional bcsiaessMi Sandusky and the adjoining couutiea. fr- Fremont, Feb; 27,'49. - - "- : . 1 - pierre beaugrand, physician ' axd surgeon; RESPECTFULLY tenders his professional services to the citizens of Fremont, and vicinity. - OrrteK One dooracsth of McCuIloch'a Drugstore. v LA Q. R.AWSCN, ; pinrsiciAX and scrgeox, FREMONT, SANDUSKY CO, O. . May 26. I&U9. , - " ' U ' ' PORTAGE COUNTY - Sfataal Fire Insnrance foeipaay. Jt. I. Z? VCrtlsJi.VO, igent. FREMONT, 6ANDCSKT CO., OHIO, ' DELL fc SHEETS, " FREMONT, SANDUSKY COUNTY, OHIO. OFFICE Second Story of Knapp'a Building. July 7. 1849. 21 - Pot-Offiee Honrs. . t V I iHE. regular Post-Office hours, unlil farther notice, ' I i will be as follows: ' ' From? to 12 A. M. and from t to 8 P. M. " ' , Suudayafrom 8 to 9 A. M. and from 4 to 5 P. M. --fr W.M. STARK, P. M. NEW ARRANGE ME NT. DUS. SHEETS & BELL, "TTAVING entered into a partnershipin the Drug Store 11 owned by Dr. Sheets, in Tvler'a Building, where they now offer a full assortment of ' Drugs, Medicines,Dye Stuflfe, Oils, Paints, and a creat variety of fancy articles, such as cologne, hair oil, indelible ink, pen-Knivea, combs, brushes of all kinds, with a full assortment of . r " . PATENT MEDICINES, for every disease thnt iiffl els mankind; which wa offer at verv low psioes forCush, Beeswax Ginseng", Sassafras Bars: from the root and Paper Rues. Low Prices, and Ready Pay in something, -is onr motto forever. ' SHEETS & BELL. Fremont, July 14, 1849. 21 New Grocery, EXT DOOR SOrTH OF PEASE'S TVS AXD - STOVE ESTABLISHMENT. rHE SUBSCRIBERS have opened New Gro cr.nr in looser Sandusky, at which will be found Sugar, brown & white, Coffeee, ' Tea, Satrrataa, i -i r .- - White Fish, ? Mackerel, , " HnmbarK Cheese, ' Cod-fish, ' Spice, . , Pe.iper, . Ginger, , - Notmegs, " " Nuts, different kinds, Raisons,' " Tobaccos, chewing and smeKing;, and many ether articles. Also choice liqaors. Wine and Brandies, of different brands, aid bv competent judges to be equal to sny heretofore brought to tha place; also, southern Ohio Whiskey, of a ' eueerior qoalitY, which will be sold as cheap aa Monro wille cons juica. Alan. Alcohol of the highent proof, sold .' cheaper than at any other establishment in town. New eider just received and for sale. Wa invite onr friends and tha people generally to give a a call, and trv onr. goods. SHRENK& SHRENK. Fremont, October 13th, 1849. ' . 30 MY FRIEND, do Ton went pood Goods, snd cheep Goods, call on PETTIBONE and examine his ' new stock just opened at hi old stand opposite Deal's. RUBBER OVER-SHOES. A spleurid stock at PtTTtaonx's. s ALT, Sol LsaUiar, tc, dfce-, pleuiv and cheap at - . ., . -t . , rTTtso-s, nn VOLUME I. From tha Daily Sandnskian. - Escapo of Qjneen Mary from Ioclsleven. If CHARLES O. ' Now give sir give way row for God aud lha Queen. . . Sir Walter Scott. The balls are alt silent, and gloom is shrouding, . Both tower and turret in darkneea now. The silvery moon-beams gleam on the bright waters. And mirror in silver the mountain's dark brow. Aud tha voicea that chanted in gladness to cheer me. And strove my lone bosom with pleasure to nil Are gone, and no muaia ia waiting to greet me. Save (lie murinsriag streamlet umi (His :rju toe lull. The darkness grows deeper, and in the deep silence Of midnight I Wait for the signal from far That telle me friends are awaiting to greet me Thev have sworn not to fail me in peace or in war. O why do they linger when I am ao lonely, " And pining to breathe the Tree air or the glen f I feel like an eagle that's eighiug in prison. I o soar to its own mountain eyrie again. Hark! hark, they are coming, I hear them.I hear them Jov. iov, for the captive from prison they'll free; And soon far away from Lochleven they'll bear me. No mors in my kingdom a captive to be. The chaina that have boaad ma will quicxly ba broken, And the pride ol the uouglaea no Humbled ere long. And Murray, the traitor, ahall wail the sad moment, That caused htm to wish to do Scotland's queen wrong. Haste, haste thee, O! hasten, for day is dawning. And tha star of the morning is shining now. The gray mists of morning are wreathing the hill-tops; They are climbing majestic the Cheviot's brow. . And the waves of Lochlvven are dancing in gladness, As fairy lipped breexes sweep over them still; And they murinrr their songs to the night winds so lonely I hat glide along switily e'er valley and mil. We are free! close the gates of the eastle behind ns, And throw their huge keys to the depths of the inKe Push oft fur the shore for your lives speed in silence. Lest the foes of vonr monarch our bark overt ike. Hark! the warder is heard on the battlements calling His minions to arm ere our boats reach the shore- But 'tis vain to light up their beacon fires wildly. JTor ocotJand'a queen pines in their prison no more. Once more on the shore of Lochleven Cm standing. Surrounded with kinsmen all glittering with steel; And my own nobis pillrey is standing beside me. Slill truelo her mistress, thro' woe and through weal. And now o'er the heather all dew-decked I'm bounding, On! on, ere the su.ilight shall gleam on our pith; For toes are behind us the highlands before us, ' To shield us from Murray and Douglast' fierce wrath. ill t s c e i I a n e o n 0 Ohio Conference of the Methodist Epis copal C'liurch. At the recent Conference held at Dayton, the presiding officer, Bishop Waugh, alluding to the mortality by cholera in the vicinity, said: . 'Some of your fathers, whose presence was hail ed with delight, and whose counsels were so salu tary at your annual assemblages, are gone. Tne interest they took in your deliberations, from time to time, and their deep devotion to every thing vi tal to the interests of the Church and the world, you have been permitted to see ; but they have been called from the scenes of their labors and anx ieties and are promoted to higher honors than the Church militant can give. Several ofyouryoung er brethren have also been called away from your midst. We may drop a tear of regret over their early departure from the scene of their toils and we could have hoped for their longer stay on the walls of Zion, in zeal ami fidelity to publish the glad ti dings of peace and salvation to their fellow men ; but God who sees not as man sees, in the exercise of a providence too-wise to err and too good to be unkind, has taken them to the society of the blest in heaven. One thouglrt is suggestive of consola tion to us all they died at the post of duty they fell where they were battling in the field of the Lord, among the hosts of ImmanueL Cherish for their bereaved and stricken families a Christian and ministerial sympathy. The year of 1849 will long be remembered as a year of great affliction in the great valley of the west. The angel of Death has swept over its vast area, and thousands upon thousands have fallen as his victims. Our sister churches have also suf fered in common with us; and we humbly trust our afflictions together will produce a chastened, reli gious influence upon all our hearts. Of those min isters who remained at their postsbut few have fallen, compared with the multitudes in other pro fessions. There is one aspect which occasions joy and rejoicing in all our hearts, and that is, that all our ministerial brethren did stand at their posts in the hour of deadliest conflict, attending the sick and the dying, and the obsequies of the dead min istering consolation to the departing spirit and heal ing the broken heart These are men of the right stamp, and duly impressed with a sense of their high and holy vocation. Hebrew Legend. 'You teach,r said the Emperor Trajan to a fa mous Rabbi, 'that your God is every where, and boast that he resides among your nation. I should like to see him.' . God's presence is indeed every where, 'the Rab bi replied, 'but he cannot be seen, for no mortal eye can behold his splendor.' The Emperor had the obstinacy of power, and persisted in his demand. 'Well, answered the Rab bi, suppose we begin by endeavoring to gaze at one of his ambassadors? Trajan assented, and the Rabbi, leading him in to the open air, for it was the noon of the day, bade him raise his eyes to the sun, shining down upon the world in its meridean glory. The Emperor made the attempt, but relinquished it. I cannot, he said, 'the light dazzles me.' - 'If then,' rejoined the triumphant Rabbi, 'thou art unable to endnre the light of one of his crea tures, how canst thou expect to behold the un clouded glory of the Creator V KO NiEht but hath its Morn. There are times of deepest sorrow, When the heart feels lone and sad; Times when memory's spells of magic Have in gloom the spirit clad. Would'st thou have a wand all potent To illumine life's darkest night? 'Tie the thought that e'er in nature Darkest hours precede tha night. When the world, cold, dark, and selfish. Frowns upon the feeble flame, L'ghted from the torch of genius. Worth hs kindled round thy name, When the fondest hnpes are blighted. And thv dearest prospects lade. Think, Oil! lone one, scorned and slighted, Sunshine aver follows shade. rir II J FREMONT, NOVEMBER 3, 1849. From the Boston Herald. A THE HEIR OF X.IXX. f ST W. . SNELUNO. There is as beautiful a Scotch ballad by this ti tie as I ever saw in my life ; but it made a very stron? impression upon me. As the ballad is not to be found I will endeavor to tell the story in plain prose. The Laird of Linn, in Galway, was one of the richest landed proprietors in Scotland, Besides the lands and dwellings he had flocks and herds, and a good store of gold., . Moreover, he was a man of frugal and parsimonious disposition, so that the men of Galway avoided his company, and the whole country side cried shame on him. Nevertheless, his riches grew and increased to a mighty sum, and there was no telling what heaps of treasure he had snugly concealed. The Laird of Linn did not marry till late in life, and his wife died within a year after his marriage. She left him one child,-a son. who was the joy and plague of his existence. Though naturally of a no ble and generous temper, he was wild, reckless and extravagant Seeing and hearing his father ridi culed every day for his miserly temper and habits, he resolved at all events not to' be like him, and spent all he could lay his hands on among low, and dissolute companions, in drinking and riotous living. bo true it is that one extreme often produces the other. It was in vain that his father remonstra ted with him ; he only grew worse as he grew older. At last the Laird of Linn lay on his death bed. Ho had out-lived all his near relations, and he had no friends, so that he was obliged to leave all his substance to his son ; and, beside, next to his gold, he loved his prodigal heir. Previous to his death he called the heir of Linn to his bed-side, and thus spoke: , - "Aly son, when my lips are cold m death and my tung silent in the grave, I know how it will be with you. I ou wiu spend all the substance ot your an cestors, and all the gold x got together,- in disipa tion and extravagance. Nevertheless, I do not wish my son to live a beggar. Therefore give heed t" my only dying command, and if you disregard it twty a father's dying curse cling to you. You know the upper chamber of my house in Kipletrin- gan. It Is now locked up, and I have thrown the key into the sea. When you have lost both gold and land, when you have not a friend who will lend you a bawbee, and when you are actually suffer ing for a crust to appease your hunger, break the door open and you will find a certain relief, but if you open the door before that time, I say again may a father's curse cling to you." With these words the old man fell back and ex pired. The heir of Linn did not grieve long for his pa rent He soon after threw open his house to all corners; His forests fell beneath the axe. His chimneys were always smoking, a hundred men sat daily at his board, and he bought him horses and hounds, and lent money without counting it to his dissolute companions; he feasted, drank and gambled ; as if -he could not get rid of his substance in all these ways, he took no care of his affairs, but gave up the guidance of them to a bailiff or stew ard, named John of Scales, who was a knave and a notorious usurer. John cheated his master in various ways, and put more than half his rents in to his own pocket At last what the Heir of Linn's father had fore seen came to pass. His money was all gone, and he had no means of keeping up his excesses ex cept by selling his lands; but no one was rich enough to buy them except John of the Scales, and every one knew how he came by his money. The young Laird was desperately in want of cash to pay his gaming debts, and, was moreover, heated with wine, when the unjust steward offered to buy his estate. It was a hard case, but after much discussion he agreed upon the bargain. "Give me your gold, good John of Scales, and my lands shall be yours forever," said the heir of Linn. Then John counted down the good red gold, and a hard bargain his master had of it For every pound that John agreed, the land was worth three. The "last money went like the first and the Heir of Linn was a beggar. He first went to the house that had once been his own but now belonged to John of Scales, to seek some relief. He looked in to the window of the great banque'ting hall, but there was no feasting going on in it The tire was out and the . dinner table taken away, and all was desolate and dismal. "Here's sorry cheer," said the Heir of Linn. John would not give Tiim a penny, but told him to go to the friends he had spent so much money upon foolishly. He did so, but it did no good. Some pretended not to know him, and no one would lend him a farthing, or even offer him a dinner, so he wandered about forlorn and hungry for two d tys ; for work he could not and to beg was asham ed. At last in his extreme misery, he bethought himself of his father's dying words. "1 have not sold the house in Kippletringan yet" said he, '"for no one would buy it I will go and break open the upper chamber. My father said I would find relief their, and perhaps he meant treasure. If it should prove so I will be a wiser man than I was, and not waste it on knaves." To the house then he went and broke the chamber door open. He found relief, indeed. There was nothing in the room except a high steol, and directly over it a halter dangling from a hook in the ceiling. He looked up and read these words : "Ah graceless wretch and wanton fool; You are ruined forever. This is the only relief for those who have wasted their patrimony as you have done. Behold, then put the halter round your neck, and jnmp from the stool and save your family the dis grace as a beggar." "Very excellent counsel," said the Heir of Linn, "and as I . must either hang or starve, I think I'll take my father's advice and hang. It is the short er death of the two." So he mounted, fastened the halter round his neck, and kicked the stool from under him. - But the Heir of Linn was not to die so. The board into which the hook was driven gave way with his weight, and he fell on the floor with a show er of gold coin rattling about his ears. - I will not say that he felt no pain in the neck the next day, but at that moment he certainly felt none. Joy rushed into his heart like a torrent at seeing him self rescued from death and beggary. The space between the ceiling and the roof contained an enor mous treasury. On the uperside of the board from w hich he thought to suspend himself, was fastened a letter addressed to him. He hastily tore it open and read as follows: V W. F M A 1V1L i JL ' "My dear son, I know your character, and no ex postulation or advice can wean you from the des perate course you are pursuing. Nothing but mis ery sharper than death can work the cure on you. If therefore, your misfortunes should be so greiv ous that yoa prefer death to their endurance, you will not rashly encounter them again. You have made the trial, take my gold, redeem your land and become abetter man."- " The Heir of Linn did not leave the rpoi without putting up a prayer to Heaven for .the soul of a parent whose admirable wisdom ha l discovered the means of raising him from beggary and des pair to affluence, and of weaning him from the fol lies and vices which had so disgraced his charac ter. To evince his gratitude, he resolved to amend his life from that day forward, and become all a father's heart could wish.1 But he first thought he would make one more trial of the false friends 1 on whom he had wasted his time, his substance and his character. He therefore kept his newly discovered wealth as a great secret, until he beard that John of Scales was to give a great entertainment and that all the lords and ladies of Galway were to be there. When the Heir of Linn entered his father's hall it was crowded with richly dressed gentry, but he was in beggar s rags. He appealed to the charity of the company, saying he was starving. To one he said. "You have dined at my table a thous and times will you deny me the crumbs that fall from your own ?" i To another, "I gave you a fair steed and trappings ;" to a third, "I lent you a thoa-- sand pounds and never asked you to repay me, and so on to all the rest of the company. But in stead of remembering his favors, they reviled him and called him a spendthrift beggar, and all man ner of vile names. Some said it was a shame that such a wretched object should be suffered to come among them; and one to whom more than all the rest his purse had been open, called on the servant to thrust mm out ot doors. But one man took his part- It was master Rich ard Lackland, a poor younger son of a wealthy gen tleman. He stood up and said, "I never ate at the board of the Heir of Linn, I never rode his hors es or shared his purse, or received favor of him to the value of a farthing. . But what then ? He was a' worthy gentleman when he had the means. I have twelve gold nobles, and that is all I possess in the world, and there are six of them at the ser vice of the man whose hand was never shut to the poor. And, as I am a gentleman, no man shall lay a finger on him while I wear a sword." A glad man was the Heir of Linn to find one man worthy to be his friend. He took the six no bles and advanced towards John of Scales, who was standing at the end of the hall attired in gorgeous appareL "You at least" said the Heir of Linn, "ought to relieve my nesessities, for you have grown rich up on my ruin, and I gave you a good bargain of my lands." Then John of Scales began to revile him, and to declare he had given him much more for the lands than they were worth ; for he did not like to be re minded of his extortion before so goodly a compa ny. ' "Nay," said he to the Heir of Linn, "if you will but return me half of what I paid for your father's estate, you shall have it back again." "Perhaps I will find friends who will lend me the sum," said the Heir of Linn. "Therefore, give me a promise under your hand and seal, and I will see what can be done." - John of Scales knew that few people of the coun try had so much money, even if it were a common thing to lend money to a beggar, and he had just seen what reliance was to be placed on friends in such a case. He had not the least idea that the Heir of Linn would ever be the owner of the hun dredth part of the sum. He therefore called for pen, ink and paper, and sat down before the compa ny and wrote the promise, and right scoffingly gave it to his former master. Then the Heir of Linn strode to the window and opened it, and took a bugle from a tattered gaber dine and blew it till the joists and rafters shook with the din. Presently a fair troop of servants rode up, well armed and mounted, leading a mule with them laden with treasure. They dismouted . and brought the bags of gold into the hall. "My father's land is ny own again," cried the Heir of Linn, joyously ; and before the company had recovered from their astonishment, he had counted down to John of Scales just the sum he had agreed to take. Then turning to his servants, he said : "Scourge me this viper out of the house of Linn with dog whips," and it was immediately done. The company crowded around him to congratu late him on receiving his patrimony, and excusing their own neglect and ingratitude. But he said to them : "Catiffs, slaves, dogs, begone ! Polute the floor of my house no longer. If you enter my grounds again, I will have my servants loose the hounds up on you." To master Lackland he said : "Come to my arms, come to my heart my brother! Live in my home and share with the heir of Linn in all things." And the Heir of Linn became another man and an ornament to his country and a blessing to his tenants. Inflamable Gas a Ccriosiy. There are HHmerous issues of inflamable gas on the farm of Mr. Michael Faulkner, in Brecksyille, in this county. About an acre of the bottom lands of the Chippewa give forth the gas the soil being exceedingly porous, and filled with cracks, from which the gas escapes. Place a common tin horn I over one of these cracks, apply a match to the top, and a brilliant flame of yellowish appearance breaks forth, which will burn steadily for weeks.' The propritor made an excavation some twelve feet deep at one of the gas opening and flung in burn ing hay. Quite an explosion followed, the hay was scattered in the air, and a blaze issued sev eral feet high. It continued to burn until the ground caved in and smothered the flames. The ground from which the gas escapes never freezes, and nothing will grow upon it although the soil is rich. The location is 14 miles from Cleveland, and has attracted many visitors to see earth burn. The existence of the gas has been known .there for a dozen years or more, and the quantity escaping which is large, seems to be increasing rather than otherwise. Cannot Nature's gasometer be appropriated by man to some useful purpose? . Cleveland Herald. U. V 0 NUMBER 34. HAVE I PAID THE PRIJfTEB: When the cold storm howls ronnd the door, And you, by light of taper. Sit closely by the evening fire, Enjoying the last paper Just think of him whooe work thus helps To wear away the Winter, ' And put this query o voorself , "Have I paid the Pr'interT" '.: -'' - 'From the East and West from North and Sonth From lands beyond the water, . . He weekly brings you "lots of news," .. .' From every nook and quarter. - . No slave on earth toils more than he, ' " Throuch Summer's heat and Winter , .- How can you for a moment, then, I Negleet to pay the Printer? Your other bills yoo promptly pay. Wherever you do go, sir The butcher for his meat is paid, " For "sundries is the grocers ' - The tailor and the shoemaker, " The hatter and the vinter. All get their pay theu wht skolict To SETTLK WITH THI PrIKTIS? " . Splendid description from Bayard Tay lor's IiCtters of the Isthmus. . There is nothing in the world comparable to these forests. No description that I have ever read conveys an idea of . the splendid overplus of vegetable lite within the tropics, lhe river, broad, and with a swift current of the sweetest water I ever drank, winds between the walls of foilage that rise from its very surface. All the gorgeous growths of an eternal summer are so mingled in one impenetrable mass that the eye is bewildered. From the rank jungle of canes and gigantic lilies, and the thicket of strange shrubs that line the wat er, rise the trunks of the Mungo the ceiba, cocoa, sycamore, and the superb palm. Plaintains take root in the banks, hiding the soil with their leaves, shaken and spit into immense plumes by the wind and rain. I he zapote, with its truit the size of a man's head, the ground tree and other vegeta ble wonders, attract the eye on all sides. Blossoms of crimson, purple and yellow, of a form and magnitude unknown in the North, ' are mingled with the leaves, and nocks of paroquets and bril liant butterflis circle through the air like blossoms blown away. Sometimes a spike of scarlet flow ers is thrust forth like the tongue of a serpent, from the heartof unfolding leaves, and sometimes the creepers and parasites drop trails and steamers of fragrance from boughs that shoot half way a cross the rivers. Every turn of stream only disclos es another and more magiticent vista or leaf, bough and blosom. All outline of it is lost under this de luge of vegetation. No trace of the soil is to be seen ; lowland and highland are the same ; a moun tain is but a higher swell of the mass of verdure. As on the ocean you have a sense rather than a perception of beFUty. The sharp clear lines of our scenery at home are here wanting. W hat shape the land would be cleared you cannot tell. You gaze upon the scene' before you with a never-sated delight till your brain aches with the sensation, and you close your eyes; overwhelmed with the thought that the wonders have been from the be ginning that year after year takes away no leaf or blossom that is not replaced, but the sublime mystery of growth and decay is renewed forever. - L tribune. The Desert of Sahara. North of the mountains of the moon in Abyssinia, lies the great Desert of Sahara, stretching 800 miles in width to its Southern margin, and 1000 in length between the Atlantic and the Red Sea. It is a hideous,barren waste prolonged eastward in to the Atlantic for miles, in the forms of sandbanks, interrupted to the west only by a few oasis and the valley of the .Nile. This desert is alternately schorched by beat and pinched by cold. The wind blows from the east nine months in the year, and at the equinoxes it rushes in a hurricane, driving the sand in clouds before, pruducing the darkness or night at mid day, and overwhelming caravans otmen and animals in common destruction. Then the sand is heaped up in waves ever varying with the biast ; even the at mosphere isof sand. The desolation of this dreary waste, boundless to the eye as the ocean is terrific and sublime the dry heated air is like a red va por, the setting sun seems to be a volcanic hre, and at times the burning wind of the desert is the blast of death. There are many salt lake6 to the north. and even the springs are brine ; thick incrustations of dazzling salt cover the ground, and the particles carried alolt by whirlwinds.tlash in the sun like dia monds. Sand is not the only character of the desert; tracks of gravel and low bare rocks occur at times not less barren or dreary. On these interminable sand and rocks, no animal, no insect, breaks the dread silence, not a tree nor a shrub is to be seen in this land whithout a shadow. In the glare of noon the air quivers with the heat reflected from the red sand, and at night t is chilled in a clear sky sparkling under a host of ttars. Strangely but beutifully contrasted with ths'se scorched 6olitudes is the narrow valley of the Jv.le, threading the de sert for 1000 miles in emerald green ; with its blue waters foaming in rapids among wild rocus or quiet Iy spreading in a calm stream amidst fields of corn and august monuments of past ages. Immcasity of tbe Universe Baron Jach, an eminent astronomer, computes that there may be a thousand millions of stars in the heavens. It we suppose each star to be a sun, and attended by ten planets, (leaving comets out of the calculation,), we have ten thousand millions of globes like the earth, within wht are consider ed the bounds of the known universe. As there are suns to give light throughout all these systems, we may inter that there are eyes also to behold it, and beings whose nature in this one important particu lar, is analogous to our own. To form an idea of the infinitely srr.all proportion which our earth bears to this vast aggregate of systems, let us suppose 6, 000 blades of grass to grow upon a square yard, from which we find by calculation, that a meadow one mile long by two-thirds of a mile in breadth, will contain 10.C0O millions of blades of grass. Let us then imagine such a meadow stretches out for a mile before us; and the proportion which a sin gle blade of grass bears to the whole herbage on its surface, wilf express the relntiou which our earth bears to the known universe I But even this is exclusive, probably, of millions of suns, 'bosomed' in the unknown depths of space; and placed forever beyond our ken, or the light of which may not have naa time m travel nowa to us since the period of their creation. Progress of Enmaolty It is not many years since any enforcement by tha presses in England of the duties which the titled and wealthy elasses of society owe to the poor and ignorant would have been looked upon as almost treasonable to the spirit of British institutions, and tending to sow far and wide the seeds of democra cy and disorder. - In England, and indeed in most countries of the old world, the masses of society were subject not only to deprivation of the privile ges and powers conferred upon rank, but were look ed upon as almost a different order of beings, be tween whom and the nobility there was not a sin gle link of sympathy or of interest A great change of feeling has since occurred, producing in France those social fermentations which have ended in bloodshed and crime, without affecting much meli oration of the condition of the poor, but making' a gradual and healthful progress in England, like seed falling into good ground. - The following ex tract from that violent tory periodical, Blackwood's Magazine, is highly significant of the progress of the cause of humanity in Great Britain, and may be read with ' advantage on this side of the water: Wash. Republic. These are not the times when truth is to be with held because it is disagreeable. There is a moral ity connected with wealth, its uses "and abuses, not enough taught, certainly not enough understood. The rich man who will not learn that there is a du ty inseparable from his riches, is no better fitted for the times that are coming down on us, tnan the poor man who has not learned that patience is a du ty peculiarly imposed on him, and that the ruin of others, and the general panic which his violence may create, will inevitably add to the hardships ana privations he has to endure.' If society demands of the poor man that he endure the privations of his lot, rather than desperately bring down ruin up on all, himself included, surely society must also de mand of the rich man that he make the best use possible of his wealth, so that his weaker brothers be not driven to madness and despair. ' It demands of him that he exert himself manfully for that safe ty of the whole in which he has so much more evi dent an intei est For, be it known, prescribe what ever remedy you will, political, moral or religious, that it is by securing a certain indispensable amount of well-being to the multitude of mankind that the only security can be found for the social fabric, for life, and property, and civilisation." "If men are al lowed to sink into a wretchedness that savors of de spair, it is in vain that you show them the ruins of the nation, and themselves involved in those ruins. What interest have they any longer in the preser vation of your boasted state of civilization ? What to them how soon it all be in ruin ? " You have lost all hold on them as reasonable beings. "As well preach to the winds as to men" thoroughly discon tented. . Those, therefore, to whom wealth or sta tion, or intelligence, has given powers of any kind, must do their utmost to prevent large masses of mankind from sinking into this condition.'" i If they will not le8rn this duty from the christian teaching of their church, they must learn it from the stera exposition of the economist and the politician. . The Tatican. !r C-;; c' The Vatican, which crowns one of the seven IU1 of Rome, is an assemblage or group of .Wildings, covering a space of 1,200 feet iu length, and 1,000 feet in breadth. It is built upon ; the very spot which was occupied by the gardens of Nero. Jt owes its origin to the bishops of Rome, who erect ed an humble residence on its site, in tbe early part of the sixth century. Pope Eugenius III, re built it on a magnificent scale, about the year 1150. A few years afterwards, Innocent II gave it up H a lodging to Peter II., King of Arragon. t In 1305, Clement V., at the instigation of the King of France, removed the papal see front Rome to Avignon, when the Vatican remained in a condi tion of obscurty and neglect for more thon seven ty years. But soon after the return of the ponti fical court to Rome, an event which had been so earnestly prayed for by the poet Petrarch, which finally took place in 1376, the Vatican was put into a state of repair, again enlarged, and it was thenceforward considered as the regular palace and residence of the popes, whey one after the other, added fresh buildings to it, and gradually enriched it with antiquities, statues, pictures and books, until it became the richest repository in the world. ' .. " - Its library was "commenced fourteen hundred years aga It contains 40,000 manuscripts, among which are some by Pliny, St. Thomas, St Charles, Borromeo, and many Hebrew, Syriac,- Arabian and Armenian Bibles.' The whole of the immense buil dings, composing the Vatican are filled" with stat ues, found beneath the ruins of ancient Rome ; with paintings by the great masters, and with cu rious medals and antipuesof almost every descrip tion. When it is known: that there has been ex humed more than 70,000 statues from the mined temples and palaces of Rome, the reader can forra some idea of the riches of the Vatican. - Fashionable Manners. - There is a set of people whom 1 cannot bear the pinks of fashionable propriety whose every word is precise, and whose every movement is un exceptionable ; but who, though versed in All the categories of polite behavior, have not a particle of soul or of cordiality about them. We allow that their manners may be abundantly corrrecfc,. There may be elegance ia every gesture, and gracefulness in every position, not a smile out of place and not a step that would not bear the measurement of th severest scrutiny. ; This is all very fine ; but what I want is the heart and gayety of social intercourse the franknes that spreads ease and animation around it the eye that speaks affability to all that chases timidity from every bosom, and tells every man in the company to be oohfident aud happy. This is what I conceive to be the virtue of the text, and not the siekeneng formality of those who walk by rule and would reduce the whole human life to a wirebound system of misery and constraint Dr. Chalmers. o Scoab. It is estimated that the exports of sugar from Cuba, for 1850, if nothing occurs to injure the crop between this and the early part of December, will be equal to 1.600,000 boxes, worth at present rates, (molasses included) about 130,000,000. The largest crop ever exported hitherto, was in 1847, amounting to bear 1,300,000 boxes;, since which date, the cultivation has been increased, and tbe present season has been uncommonly good. . . r (N. O. Bulletin. The World The world is seldom what it seems To man who dimly sees , Rsatiti's seem as dreams. And dreams Realities. Trie Christian's years, tho stow their flight, When he is called away. -: . " Ai Hat the watches of a night, . . Atd death the dawn of day -. O Mr. Calhoaa contradicts the report that battle wtthdrar from tha U. 8. 9ests.