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W'J.. II. OllKOON fiTTY OT S V. V T V. f Tl V i? o tccn v.. o CAlins. ultt;l'l.Ai:s. lAMl'llMT.wol:lv,
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' I mill other kill, a. (lull,. In m.li.1. .in vluir li.il nil.
'Iryta'j to Please Uverytiody.
Hints tu kditoiis.
One render cries, jour strain's loo grave,
Too inudi morality you have,
Too much uboiit religion ;
Give me tiio wilch anil wiiarJ tides,
Of slip-shod gliosis nilli flue uuj scales,
Aud fcuiheis like a pgruit.
I lave t'i re.id, another cries,
Tho niouslrous fusli oiiuble lies
In oilier word, lliuto novels,
C'oiupoaeJ of king, mid pried, end lord,
Of bolder wars, unci gothic horde
That med to live in hovels.
No, no, ctirt one, we've had cnoo(jli
Of Midi confounded love lick etuir,
Tooruze die fuir eical on;
G'.vt liitunio recent foiiin neni,
Of RiiwiIuii, Tn: k, llie I'ulie, or Jiv,
Or any oilier nation.
The innii of dull eclmluilic lore
Would I ke to tee a little more
Of liii.t-r.jte n ruii of La:iu
The grocer fuin would leurn the prue
Of tea and tugut, fruit un l lice ;
The dr.ipor, silk and tuliu,
Another cr'e, I waul mure fun,
A witty anecdote or pun,
A rilu or a riddle ;
Some wish for pjrli.uiieiit.ir) newt,
And Kinie, pirhow, of uinor view,
Would I utlie.' hear it fi Idle.
The crilie, loo, of cl.ishic flail,
Mint dip in Kail ln' pundi'r-iiidl
Andacrjwt ng.iiiKt the piper;
Of till Iho liliiury foole,
Drrd in our cullrgea ami schools,
Ho cu:a the greatest eiiper.
Another cries, I want to ee
A jumbled up Vjrely,
Variety ill all ihiiiH
A nmcrllum oii liodge podge print,
Co.iipomd (I "ill) give the hint)
Of multifarious ismull thing.
I w.mt some m irrtugo nc.vs, favs miss;
It eoiittilutes my h'ghest b!i.s
To hear of wedding plenty ;
For in a time of genelul rain
Xuuc sulhrr from u droughl, 'lit plain,
At ieai-t not one ill twenty.
I mil to hear of death", says one,
Of people lotully undone
Ily lo.-si, fne or lever j
Anoilier unawerx full us nice,
I'd radie,' have ihe full und rite
Of ruceoon skins and braver.
Some signify u scerct wiidi
For now und Ihen n fuvorilo diali
Of p'lliticn lo nut them ;
Bur hero no rest ill pei feel ease,
For elionl I they sweur the moon wun cheese,
We never flionld eoi.futo llicin.
Or grave or hiinioi ous, n ihl or tame,
Lofty or loiv, 'lis all the fame,
Too haughty or too humble ;
So, b; other idiio:i), pursue
The path thut ceeiiw the best lo you,
And let Ihe grumbler grumble.
EJl-lujm.lnj.Jj j si
Seulblo Avllele.
Thu New Voik Minor ilefnum its posi
lion in lliu neselit itiiiivn.Ns us lullon n;
; I . . t ... -i ...
ii isiiiih iii our rvtiiipis iiiui Miu .Mirror
bIiuuKI tJi-liiio i t niiiiiiii mi im u r st ioi i
ot tiio I ii'suli iicy. e lunc tv.-uti J
vvitieliiol, imiiivil, jli-ri viul, und ill liln r.i
tuil cnltrilv on tli ulji'ct; tui'J luivu di ti
itii in vuiu inr r isk.most. I Iih ren-niis
lliui have IriJ to this c inclusM), we Ijrii flv
sl.iic:
"In the fust place, hp. like llm M.l
lii idiurauti'i' itml liis L-nrcrr. VV'u l'k'
liim fur " h it hi' is iiinl lor wlmt m has
lone; iiml iiri- willing lo lakii lite record
of the p.tsl ns fl ouiiraiiiy lor t I'uiiuv.
Willi hi iu!iiic.il pi inoijilcn, us iinliciileil
liy Ilia vou-s uml sit'i cln s in tin' United
Stales Senate, ttiid us si't liirtli in his rrcfiil
leiter of acci'i'tunce, we IniVu no fault lo
find. And wu have private, reasons far
belie-v i ii u, ihut, in thu event of his eleclinn,
lie will prove as ood and prompl a l'ic.-d
dent us tint. Juckon.
"Hut, oilier iiii'l sti'oiior ciitisiilcralions
than ihosc liiive delenninpil the eleelion we
luivo iiitide. After lioliiing ilif. hattli- of
the Soit'h for twelve loii years, ilefendiny
US pulitical rights, tlnmr-Mic insiitiiliniis, uriintrrrupti-il lim
social cliurncter iinu intiiiiirrs on nil occn
aions, recent OLCiinencrs Imvn cOnvinui d
us th.-it the timo litis come fur the North,
nftho fire Suite turn tiliini, who ha
uhvo I th" hj! of his country upon the
top of Anieiicti, as io tho riiiiL' Slur of the
UepiiMic. i liu Horn und man have tome
iny. tln-r, its they ninny do cmiie, in liu
riolil lininof it nation's neril.
"It I not our purpose lo proiihesy we
linvo not even niade an iiriilinii'licalculcu
hilion nf the chimees of this complicated
I taitipai'Mi. 1 lie ii ileal ton with ns la nut
one id' policy, hut of principle; not of
I'ollllCS PVrli, lint ol pll'lloll'lll. In llll'
event of l- renmiii i l-clioti, the very ti i-
umpli would niirorst n c.mrsn of IliatjiiH.
niiiiit y towanl the .South. The Kei.iiUicnn
Cuhinet ami I'oivisu Mi.ioiis hotild fairly
reprenoin every n'CMoti ol t lie Lnioii.
And it in the clioni; iistiiiincn that mcli n
Sjeneruiis nnd purely iiiilinnul policy would
be adopted, more than all other Considers-
lions, thut has decided the alcp wu have
Ink. ii.
"A'aiiiht the oilier ctiudidntm in tin
eld Fillmore uml lliiehiiunn the .Mirror
hus nothing to say. They are tiond men,
hoth. Unl the platforms oil ' which they
are nmunli'il ; the alliiiiices und usoclu
'ions tin y have fniiued ; and the measures
to which they are committed, are not hro.-nl
'iiinc'li. Iree ciiouli, "rami eiioiiirli lo nc
ceinniodiito the uoorrnivp, iiidepeliileiit,
and co ahi'inl spirit of Young Amen'cu,
Did l7iii;yiin may lift its spi cludes, shake
Ms ofcer vruij locks, ami warn ns against
vieldiiii; to u Kiiddeil Inn I'ienne that is
sweeping over ihe North. Hutco o as
the hrei iti. blows III the right tlireelioli, it is
belter to t'u wtk it than iignhut it ; and
ttillmiil throwing overboard a siii"le con-
srrvnlivr principle hitherto advocated by
the Mirror, wn can j:o into the fiohi for
FKKHONr and )avton ; for the Union of
the Siui.'s and thu coiistitiitioiiul rijihls of
iiutli the North mil South, us conscientious.
I .
ty as ever eril-aib is tniilh il nr Jeriisiileni.
In (lines like these, to be neutral is to ben
cowanl.
The Sclavonic nod American Uncos.
History is full of stiii tliliir CJllllil-ts.
When ihe Ciirlhiioeiiiaiis ruled three hun
dred cities ami covered the Mediterranean
with their coinmeice. ilu y looked whhcoii-
teinet on the horde of refuirces. who were
I'oiindiii u ci v on the banks of ihe Tiber :
not iiiino;iniii that i here was Iho germ of a
penpn who would not only sweep t.'urllin'o
limn the lute of the ear'lt. but rule the
. While I'hili
ii e-inul sli iiiii vi r.-al papal and iiiine-
wasarilciitly stri
wiirli
vin
rial power, und Louis llie XIV. Was cher-
l-liiiij; hi- ainhilioiis proju-ts, amid llie flit
terin' splendor of Versailles, there were
eioitii; up in obscurity mid iiiiuoliccd, in
the iitanl nintliea-l ol l'.urope. and on
ihe fai oT shores of the Atlantic, llie (lot
humble institutions of two people, whose
rapnl progress since has hecn the marvel
of mankind. When in 14":i Mahomet II.
was balterini; dow n the walls of Constanti
nople and build ng up Otiotnnn power in
Ltirope on llie ruins ol the Uin,.; Kmpue,
llnssi i w us a stn.ill feeble state, haviti" a
population of six millions of people, nnd
a territory of some two hundred thousand
siiia-o miles; inn he times as hiii.'e a the
irea ol iln.'Slu'eol New link. I he bat
tle of I'ultow a in 1 700, which struck a
I . t I I . . I I .. c . .
m i ii i mow n i ine ascendency owftlcn in j
the Ninth, was the critical point in ihe his
tory of Uiivii.'i, and from thai day herprojr.
less has scarcely A liauillel auionir nations.
Instead of two hundred thousand souitre
miles of torriloiy, ami six niillioiis of peo
ple, her Kmpeior rules over nearly seven
millions ol siinnre miles, mure lliaii one.
ieltlh of nil the hind of the earth, and sev-
n'y inillioiis of obedient siilijeeis. Unlike I
me iioiiiiuiiiii ot li'iiam, le r terrttorv is
iiieciunp.iei, unbroken whole, from the 11 d-
lie Sea ,'iuniss liunipu and Aia to the
ores of the Pacific, and from the Arctic
Ocean to the Caspian and Mluck Seas.
Blie possesses, therefore, in her coulinil-
ily of territory, nun of the chief eleinenls
ol strenotli. 1 1 . i' means of internal com
munication are equal lo those rf anv part
of ihe jrlobc. Her rivers flowing into th"
A'cltc Ocean, the Sea ol Japan, and the
Caspian and lllack S. as. are navigable for
a greater distance than any of the earth,
xueptiii!; thoe of America. Tho rivers
of the Cas'iinn and lilack Seiis, uml also
l hose of the White Sea and the Caspian,
are united bv canals, thus forming three
of waier coiiimimica-
lion ncross the enlire. length of l'"uropean
litssiii. There is a coiiilih to net work of
f rivers and canals, ihtoU"li w hich flows
livuied nn addrcii. In this he suid Ihat
ha felt deeply llie tlifllculties and renponsl.
bi lilies which ihe ollico involves. The
State was menaced by dangers from wiih
otitatttl fmin within, nod (here wus need of
sleepless vigilance nnd untirinj; energy to
preservfl thu gorernnienl from thefneinicp
who threaten it. In order, therefore, to
aduiinistcr properly llie nfTairs of the Re
public, he required all the assistance he
could derive from the patriotism of its citi
zen, mid tho skill, courage, nnd self re
straint of its soldiers. He hoped that day
would close Iho revolutionary epoch of
N icu ragun, nnd that ihe struggles of thirty.
five ycurs had taught the people that lib
erty wus not to be obtained nmid the petty
feuds of contending chieftains, nnd that
prosperity did not result from a constant
state of civil broils nnd iuiestiiio commo
tions. Urging tho nssisiance of all good
citizens in the maintenance of order, lie pro.
ceeded ;
"Not only is internal order required for
uie nnvHiiceineni ol matenul Weallh and
prosperity, b'll also for tho proper defence
of ihe Republic from the externa! enemies
which threaten its repose. The other four
Stales of Central America, without renson
and without justice, have undertaken loin
leifcro tu llie domestic affairs of Nicamirun
Conscious of iheir own weakness, and fenr-
lul lest llie prosperity of Nicaragua should
detract Horn llieir wealth, these neighbor
nig fttates nre enviously endeavoring to in
terrupt our progress by force of arms. The
imbecile rulers of these Slates, loo, feeling
that I hey luivo lulled to peiform their du
ties to the people they undertake to govern
oicau iesi mcir impoverished countrymen
may filially fly for refuge toihnsewho have
redeemed JNicaragua Irom anarchy and ru
in. Moved by such ijinoblo sentiment.
these miserable relics of n once powerful
aristocracy nro striving to inipedo llie
march of events in litis Itopublic Uut
the impotence of their chVl is b. i'innitiL'
lo bu made manifest to themselves and lo
the world ; and lliey are now nppearing as
blind instruments in ihe hand of all-wise
Providence, which, out of the bad passions
and unworthy motives of men, educes
good and improvement.
"In our relations with ;he more powerful
nations of llie world, 1 hope they may be
led to perceive that, ullhoiigh Nicaragua
may be compatativcly weak, she is vel
jealous of her honor, nnd determined to
ui.'iiiilain Ihe dignity ot her independent
KOi'creiiMitv.
''The principles which shall guide nio in
the administration both of the foreign and
domestic otFairs of the Government are
few and simple. To allow the inmost lib
erty of speech and action compatible with
order nnd good government, shall bo llie
leading idea of my political conduct.
Therefore, the greatest por.sible freedom
of trade will be established, wiih the view
of innking Nicaragua what nature intend
ed her to be the highway of commerce
between i wo oceans. And with this free,
dom of trade will come the arts ol a civ
ilizution which grows an. I increases by the
wants anil necessities itsell creates.
In conclusion, he said that to promote
education end encouragn tho practices of.
religion, should bo wiih his government
objects of primary importance. This ad
dress is on tho whole very high. toned and
dignified ; but his reference lo the oilier
Central American Slates appears to argue
but too plainly iho contemplation of fur
t her conquests so snon os ho may secure
firmly his p resent possessions.
fncluring iiitcrcsis, her people being dvo.
ted chit fly lo the pleanurcs of life, or the ex
ciieinenUnf w ar, tho was compelled to im
port almost every nniclo of use or orna
ment which she rrquired. Having nolbinjr
to exchange for these foreign fabrics, ex
cpl her gold nnd silver, and the luxury of
her people increasing in iho ratio that the
products of her transatlantic mines d.
creased, she wn compelled finnlly lo re
sort lo forced legislation, in order to keep
Ihe precious metals within her own tcrrito
ries. An export duly of from five to fif.
Iccn per cent, was laid on all exportation
of specie, and this additional burthen
broko the bucks of her pnoplo. Smug
tiling was resorted to, and tho government
found itself daily growing weaker am
poorer, in spile of the Alcarula tax, whilst
the people hourly plunged into greater ex
cesses of extravagance nnd i fi'eminacv
The world sees the consequences, nnd
Ihe nineteenth century pnvs with lis shame
for Ihe sickly splendor of the sixteenth.
It is, therefore, evident to the shallowest
mind, lhat mere mineral wealth cannot
long sustain n nation in a position of pow
er or opulence If there be no correspond
ing commercial and agricultural interests lo
keep the specie at home, it will go abroad
to seel; after luxuries, and when Ihe bid
a nee of trade is once fixed against a coun
try no human power can long postpone
the catastrophe.
It was a knowledge of this great princi.
pie in political economy, and n full appre
ciation of its importance, thai gave lo the
American System of Clay its grrnt popu
larily nnd its triumphant vindication, in
ihe enrltcr days of the Republic. Had not
New England been enabled to build up
her commercial mid inanufuuiuring inter.
esls, so as to compete successfully wiih
other countries, our country, instead of he
ing rich ahd powerful, wou'd at this day
be n second-rate power, and a more depend
ency of hnglnnd and France.
America owes more lo the memory of
Henry Clay, than she does lo that of
Jackson or Jefl'erson. In arms. Jackon
was pre eminent, in po'ilics Jeflerson, but
in wise and beneficent statesmanship, Clay
surpassed ull his contemporaries. The
plcndoi of his eloquence could not subdue
the perspicuity of his mind, but wisdom
and enthusiasm for the first lime in the an
nals of our history met nnd embraced each
other. Let no man sny our country owes
no debt of gratitude lo Henry Clay because
tho protective principle is no longer neces
sary to foster our commerce and manufac
tures. Ho buill ihcm up, and left them
just ns they wore able to walk alone. Ho
nursed them into si length, nnd their merid
ian glory will bo bis best monument.
San Francisco True Culifornian,
if . r t . i . .... I . . .
utaianco irom .m w lorx, mo way iiio line ot the screws luru in her own axis, or in a
runs, of 1,700 mile. It ( not improbable "I"" of four hundred fti t. She is to be
that European new. will soon be furnished '"?"n,eJ " ''!' lwc"-v Kun"' ol ll,e ,,mic,t
, ' . o . cabbie and ihe longrst range.
by steamers .topping nt S. Johns. T, dock Uenhihit 0ll(crfu floalin
Th. P.ein. .,e .... ,. batiery is now lying is very mysteriously
W- l..v- .... ... K'M'M . Owing lo the extreme length of
, ' ' ' ..-.. .. ...... tMe vf,rt.i rockH lat0 b,.Pn excavated, and
I.- t ... " . a a I '
me uemocraiie convention, asseinUlcU at one of I lie street of Iloboken has been tun
Cincinnati, recommended lo Congress lo I neled to admit one end of the monster.
do what it conm'tutionally could for tlic u ,n Hobort L. Stevens died he left
.. ' ....l..l.. .....!. ! l. Vl'..ll,. .I. s;. ....
I'acilic Road. Ve have now lonuiice alw ! , , . V. . V V
I f , ,i , ,. n. f, . I'ltendutit of her construction, lo complete
v ihe vessel in accordance with his originul
assrmbl.'d at Philadelphia, lias cmlursed in conception. She has cost the government
strong language the construction of that '"us far, over half a million ot dollars, all
road. It may be laken, therefore, ns an r wUku hH bctn l"'w' ",,J lalelr
1.11,.,i r,, ,i . ,i ii- .. . , worn uas ocen ciuricu on oui oi ine private
assured fuel, that the publiu sen.tment of ru,uU of Mr. Steu.n '
ihe notion is in favor of the I'acillo Rail- This vessel, or two orll.reolike Iier,
roau, ami nun congress is nol only author- will guard New lork from any forco that
ized, but required to lake some Positive uiuy be brought against the place Shot's
stepson this subject. Whet shall they be ? P"1'? i'"Pfviou lo shot i.nd shell, from
It stems lo bo pretty well settled lhat a ,, , , , ... ,1MJ ' , ,r
e i i . .i. i i i , I . i . . . . . . .
(i.noi ui ioiiu. on mo oho iiiino, ami an nu- each thoroughly tested by cannon shot be.
vunce pay of mileage for Ihe transportation fore being fustened to the framo of the vos.
of mnils nnd trcops, are the only proper 'lvt maoldnery is all below the water
meihods of accomplishing nnyihing eflect- ? '"" 0 , ' ' .
mil. W c cannot see why tins plan should bual- of ........j,.,.. vi. U'ith two
i i ... . i . i . . . .. . . .. . . . .
noi oe uuopieu, or wny u snout j not nc- or three such vessels, Xew.lork would In
coinjilish Iheolject. Suppose that there deed bu impregnable.
arc two roads actually made one by the
XaUomvt Weallh.
The chief sources of wealth, the world
over, are principally tt.ree: Commercial,
mineral, und agricultural. The nation
which possesses all ih tee in greatest abun
dance, anil nt llie same time in proper equi
liljiium, will become the most powerful.
It is not sufficient that an empire can
boast of the richest mines of gold nnd sil
ver, lo iu il power and permanency.
Tho precious meials may dar. zle for a while,
but they also corrupt w hilst they shine.
If there bn no corresponding commercial
preponderance, or agricultural excellence,
gold and silver canhol save such a country
fi out premature ruin. Spain of the six
teenth century furnishes a melancholy il
lustration of this great axiom in political
economy. Her political supremacy was
...:.i. :. . .l . . . n: . . I . . . i , ,
hum i is sopo.ioi iioiooeis, intelligence, 1 iiii internal commerce ontv collated in v,i
weallh and power, lo laku a aland, firm tie bv that of America. Her svtem of
nnd fixed as its granilo hills, against the railways is jiiitantic, hikI bevotid question
threatening, bullying, brow. beating, skull- her whole surface will, befoie the lapse of
breaking spirit ol ihu fcowli, a spirit that la auutier of a ceitlurv, be entirely inter-
1 rumples upon compromises; violates the twined with n web ot iron roads.
sacreu irerumn or niiriiumeniurv ae iate:l nrnirn imcress ins not heen ess rnnn
and murders tho settlers upon our coinuioii than or inferior to Russia. Tim America I !"r,lps 'ho shortest lived of any In the
soil for sinijily opposing, by voice and vote, of die R-volulion was a narrow section of I whole annals of history. During a few
ine tastenuig ot slavery tijion a lieu and tins coiiliueii', thnfly ot forest land, lying
iiryiu lerri'orj. I along the Atlantic Oc mi, cmnprising sumo
-U is nol necessary to assure the readers 00.0(10 souaro inil-s, inhabit, d by -carcely
of the Jlirror that we have no sympathy 3,0(111,000 of inhabitants, mid dolled here
Willi polnical A holt lion ists the lireeleys, snd there with a few small towns. Nmv
miles.
years after the discovery of America in
1492, it continued only about half a centu
ry on thn sea, until the time of Elizabeth,
and a century on land, till the lime of Lou
is XIV. After these dates Spain rapidly
the Giddingses, and tho Van Hurens o the we have thrco millions of square
.orm, wnn nave 0, en ri-i ng u,0 nigg.-r inore than twenly-lne millions of people, decline ! lo a second, nnd then a third rate
Howry tor lutein years, se( hing otlice while ami our ciiu-s have increased in number.
"shrieking fur fieedom." Uut, however s,ze. and snl. ndor. until lln v lival llie can-
mischievous an l detestable the sentiments itols of the nljr w0rl I. The territory of
promulgated by ihese sectional tlemagegiies the Republic is three limes n lari'e as llie
may be, lliey have never lesorted lo but- whole of Uiitain, France. Spain. Poitii"iil.
lets and bludgeons to carry llieir points, or I'russia, Austiia, Ijennvuk, Heloiuin, and
lo silence their opponent. I hey have Holland, combined, equals in ex'eut that of
even made a virtue of ikci-s-iiv bv sub- ihe Roman Emoire. when Aul'iisIiis Ca-sar
prescribed in bis last te tamrni it bound
aries. Baltimore Republican.
mining to the operation of the Fugitive
Slave Law, (the bitterest pill ever swal
lowed by the North for the benefit of the.
South,) and even llie repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise wouIJ have been qtiielly
acquiesced in. had "fair i.lav and iioizoiil'-
... I - rr c
pow er, which she still remains. Why was
it ilia! with all the gold and silver of the J ing the next year.
two Americas at her command, she could
not retain the trident and the sword I
One thing is certain in political economy,
Kubinarlae Telegraph,
The Steamship Propoiitis sailed from
London on the 2d of June, with the sub-
marinn electric cable, lo bo laid down to
cross the Oulf of Si. Lawrence, and con
nect Newfoundland with Cape Brelon.
The New Yoik Journal of Commerce,
mentioning I his says I
Besides this, another similar cable will
be extended from Prince Edward's to New
Hrunswick, snd it is expected they will both
belaid by the last of llie present month
Fne English Government have sent the
war steamer Argus to be present when the
wire is put down, and render any needed
assistance. A number of persons vailed
from Hostoti, in the Niagntn, to wimess the
execution of this interesting portion of the
woik,and will he met by other pail if leav
ing England with the vame object. The
manufacturers of the wire, in London, as
sume all ribk in connection with this por
tion of the enterprise, it being Agreed thut
they shrill receive a certain amount in pay
ment when the wire is laid down and guar
antccd. Tho company have for some time
past had 600 men constantly employed on
the lire ucross Newfoundland, where n
parallel road is built, nnd houses nre erect
ed at every ten milts, for iho occupation
of the operators and laborers. All this
work is only preliminary to the formidable
enterprie of linking the old world to the
new by electric telegraph. Experiments
are constantly making, with a view to as
certain the best description of cable adapt
ed to this purpose, and it is confidently ex
pected that the work will be completed dur-
middle or l'lalto route, and one by El Puso;
the cost of both will not reach what many
people imagined some years sinco that one
road will cost. The Texas road, allowing
for all contingencies, will not cost over
870,000,000; and the other is now, we
believe, reduced to ubout 8100,000,000.
If economy could bo evinced, we havo no
louht both may bo mado for thai. But,
granting there is not economy, we believe
tico hundred millions w 111 cover both branch
es. Suppose ihe Government were indi
rectty to furnish liu IT of that, viz: 8100,.
000,000, where should be tho difficulty ?
Suppose they give $(100 per mile for fifteen
years, for transportation of ihe mails, nnd
give this only when each section of fifty
miles uro made, lhat is, when fifty miles
ore made, and their mails nnd freights bo-
gin to bo transported, then they pay in ad
vance for fifteen years use of that SO miles.
Thia is 8-130,000, or 89,000 permilo.
Now, nt the same lime, lliey give !i0 sec-
lions nf land per mile, or 1,500 sections, or
000,000 ncres, W'hich is 113,1100 acres per
mile; which ngniu, at fl 25 per acre, is
lo.Diiu per nine, uoin grants nre equal Jim Lmpkiior op tkanck and tub
lo n lililo more than half the supposed cost Americans. The Washington correspon-
l the road ; and on the basis of this, there dent of llie l'hiladi Iphia North American
can doubtless be found sufficient capital lo writes that for reasons which are best known
accomplish the object. Railroad Record, to iho Emporor, but which must beassum-
,., ed to ho good, the fueling of the Govern.
... . ioU,.t,,.-iuo namniore me(U of Fl,lluo rect,m, u.it)Vej t0 bode
Patriot, in speuk.ngof the question of the ojJ ,,, llIltl.iendly. has underuone a sud
au.nisston o that Male says : One of the d d f y , T,
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A Novel Iuka I'afkii from Mummies.
Mr. Deck, of New York, comes out wiili
the startling statement that henceforth all
paper may bu derived from the mummy
catacombs of Egypt. The doctor lins ex
plored llie enlire valley of the Nile, and
has become so accustomed to speak the
Arabic thut he lias almost forgotten hit
mother tongue. Ho estimates that the
mummy pits ol the iNilooontain about ouu
millions of embalmed Egyptians, who, lie
says, will, with their linen and papyroiii
cerements, furnish excellent material for
first class paper. He does not explain the
rationulo of his theory, but as iho adipose
and muscular nuiiter of these, bodies have
all been transformed into fibre, it is possible,
us ho says, that it can bo converted into
pulp with ihe sumo facility ns vrgetublo
matter. Let this idea be put into practi
cal eHcct,aud il may even happen thut one
of the Ptolemies, or Cleopatra, or Nebucli
nezcr himself, may yet furnish material
upon w hich to print a daily newspaper.
They would thus certainly bo useful iu death
ns well ns in life.
Capt. Berryman, who is shortly to sail
on a surveying expedition in one of llie U.
S. Government steamers, and by whom the
l.ro. Walker. President of Mcaraina.
Accordni"; loiho correspondence of tho
NewOil'-aus Picayune, Walker received
thai specie is the actual representative of survey of the proposed route of the trans
wealth, and that country is ihe richest nnd j Atlantic cable was made, ascertained thai
most powerful which tun command the j the ground was liighly favorable for (he ex
largest sums, in cases of emergency, j ecution of the project. One fact not a lit
Spain stood in this position until about tie remarkable is, that no rock was any
tha middlo of the sixteenth century, whsn , where found in deep water, the entire bol-
ing" been secured to the settlers in Kansas. H. 000 out of 21,00 vo'es that were polled, j she first bcj;ao lo feel ihe drain upon hen torn examined being covered by a dpep lay-
"A the representative of Northern feel-I The fact of his bavins been elected wn1 purse and the consequert decline of her ' or of minute tropical shells, such as mh'ht
ing aroused by a series of uiiwon ed out. form!Iv proclaimed nn the 10'h of July, lerval interests. Now il most not be for- afford effectual protection to the wire.
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. I . a , . n . . . . in uir aur-cis u. ur.innuii. Humes, ine leeoir "iieii inni up in iuis lime npauiao ariua . tuo co.i.ijuuv mifipjite ine receipt Ol a
an.l countenni.cr.-l by ihe Pierce adinnin- , , , , ' ' . I . , , . '
tration, Jon C. Fremont has been select- vn" r n,IVM '0I,1 cheer of anil commerce kept equal pace with each considerable revenue immediately on the
ed as a candidate for the Presidency. In theso'diery. Ou the 1 'ith die inaugural other, and flourished side by side. But j line to St. Johns, (connecting with the Noa
t grc.tt cmert ey of tie nation theres ereinoa:es were p-rforaied, when be de- 'Laving Oo great ;'iu':u;aj tai oanti- 6tii lint at pert HH, Cp Breton,) a
most difficult problems which Congress will
linvo shortly lo solve will bo tho admission
of Utah into tho Union, with a peoplo whose
religious tenets have been perverted by n
gross imposture, nnd whose social customs
nt wurnlike with decency nnd propriety.
Are we lo recognize a commoiiweulih of
polygamists i Are tho followers of Joe
Smith, tho nrch hypocrite nnd blasphe
mous defumer of sacred things, lo be allow
ed lo be represented in Ihe national coun
cils, or shall Utah be repudiated, un inde
pendent Republic be Buffered to inaugurate
itself in the heart of ihe Rocky Mountains
Theso are llie questions which Congress
will soon have to decide. A Christian peo
ple shrinks from the recognition of this li
centious Commonwealth, but Congress pos
sesses no power to prohibit any form of
worship, however gross or sensual j nnd
though it nay claim the right to deny loa
territory, disgraced by its excesses, admis
sion into tho Union as a State, there yet
remains the equally serious point to be de
cided, as to whether its people shall be al
lowed to establish on lauds the property of
the United States an independent form of
government.
Steam Iro.n Floating Battery. Tho
late Robert L. Stevrna was employed for
some years before his death, in the construc
tion of an immense- iron flouting buttery for
the defence of New York. Several months
ago, the Secretary of the Navy sent an in
telligent naval officer to inspect the battery,
and report progress. liis report, now on
file at the Naval Department, is an inter
esting document at this time, when gun
boats and all sons of defensive and offijtisive
modes of warfare aro being developed.
Tho Washington correspondent of tho N.
Y. Herald writes I
This vessel, mys'eriously docked nnd
hid fiom public view, has already been four,
lecn years under way, mid of course con
siderable progress lias been niadn in her
construction, and, she could bu finished, if
necessary , in one year. She is four hun
dred feet lonjr, and thirty or fortr in
breadth. She is built entirely of wrought
iron (dates, and rich plate seven inches in
thickness ; thea are attached lo her iron
frame woik. She will have eight attain en
gines, snd istobe propelled by two screw
paddles, on each side of tier sterii post.
In smooth water the w ill run, il is expect
ed, from twenty tu twenty-five mile an
hour ; and a she is intended solely for liar,
bor defences, she will Lave amooih water
to run in at all timr. She can, by ber
double propnlsip p9we', ojr Tevr;ng one
are no
longer any intimations thrown out tlmt
strength will bo measured, or resistunce of
fered to our supposed policy of territorial
extension. On the contrary, tho senti
ment is quite conciliatory, and the dispo
sition one of overture, rather than fornialt-
J-
IJifi erk.ncb of Opinion. It is fino re
mark of Rousseau's, ihal the besi of us dif
fer from others in fuwoi particulars than we
agree with them in. The dillbrcnco of n
tall and short man is only a few inches,
whereas they are both several feet high.
So a wise or learned man knows many
thing of which the vulgar are ignorant J
but I here is a still greater number of things
the knowledge of which lliey share in com
mon with them. llazlill.
A ''ItKFRESiiiNfl I'laci:." Now and
then n "specimen" of llie bygone raco of
river boatmen, who have mostly set
tled down to farming, will luru up on
the western steamboats j and on such oc
casions their propensiiy to "rough fun
will beak out afresh. Some years since
one of them look passage down for Now
Orleans, and for several days Le seemed
quite desponding for want of excitement.
,t last, the boat put into Napoleon, in ihe
Stale of Arkansas, for supplies. Just at
the moment there was a general light, ex
tending all along in front of the town,
which, at that lime, consisted of a single
grocery. Ihe unhappy passenger, h.lgct
ing about, jerking his feet up and down, as
if they were touching upon hot biicks, in
quired of a i pec tutor :
"Stranger, is '.hi ere a free figl.l ?"
' Wal, I reckon it ar'," was llie prompt
reply. ''If you want to go in, you need nt
stand on any ceremony."
Tho passenger went in, anJ oon came
out again, appearing to be reasonably sat.
isfied. Groping bis way on board, Ins hatr
half torn out, Lis coat in titers, one eye
closed up, ate! several of his teeth knocksd
into hi'J throat, he sat down on a hen-coop
and toliioqui.ed :
"So this Is Ne-po le on, is it f It a jeest
the most refreshing place I ve seen in
many a day I"
tJfAkuniier lha Great, seeing Dingenaa l
ivg ateniivtly at a large collection of humaa
bones, p ltd one upon another, atked thaphiloao
phar what he waa looking for. "I arp searching."
aid Diogeuae, "for th bone of your faUW. hot
I etonrt distinguish them from tb-y bis !,''
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