Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1849 : Weekly), 1853-06-28

              if $0 j VOLUME XLIII. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1853. NUMBER 44. lUcckljj )io State Journal IB PUBL1SUBO AT COLUSltUB ITBItl TUEHDAT MOIUHKO, I SCOTT BA8C0K, ncuu loiunag, 101 in rsssi fruirt raruiroi ox nsl. TERMS Inrariably t'n idmi .-In Colatnhas , 92 00 a Ttr rBiau,l Qui dub. of four md upwards, tl..6: or Maud op wmnln, $1 (X. TIIR UAII.T JnnilNAI, Is furnished lo eltv lubHriben u MOO. Mid liy uiuil at &f IHI s year. TUB 11U-WKMUY JOUKNaL la (9.00 year. SMTES OFADrnRTISlKoTx THE WEEKLY JOURNAL -a i Mi to'Bo So la to 8 o I a So lo 8 ".aquars, 60 761 001 261 762 2&8 604 W0 00 6 60 8 00 BaquarM, 76 1 26 1 76 3 26 8 604 006 006 008 0012. 16. BiquvN, II 00 1 76 2 268 60 4 60 6 00 8 608 00 11. 117. tfl (quirM, I tqnar, Vi eoluiuu, I floluiua, 1 26 2 268 604 006 006 008 0010. 14. J'.!8. ohaniiMBblff month It, 820a year; weekly ... ehiinttMihlti qtiarttrty. , , ,,, eliMiiifPAhb tjui.rtrly cbU(tbl tju'-""' 10 Unas of this sited tp Is rwkotMKl s square. AdTertlMtoenM Otxlrml oa the Instd ftrluolTrly, doubt tlu abort miss. AU IwM notions ohargwJ double, uid miwurwl as it solid. IHiscdlanrt. THE IAbI MOM t NTS OF E. L." A degree of mystery bus hung around tha death of tliii In mooted poetess. In the year 1838. an our reader! nre aware, IV.isa Land on wm married to Cunt. Maclean, Ihe Governor of Cape Coast Cattle. Sue bad scarcely been two months ill Africa, when the woi found dead in Iter room, Willi a bottle or prussic acid at her aids. Thii mysterious and tronic circum stance it fully explained in tho following eztnici from a roviow in an r-ngiisn paper oi a lute wort by Oapt Oni ick a hi nk upou bis residence in Southern Africa: "Few passages in (he personal history of modern lit-eramre have been more d incused ilinu the vuriout cir cutnstaucee connected with the sudden death of thi popular favorite, and, at iho published informal inn on the tuhji'ct before tho public is neither am.le in auioiini nor uiiiiiipeaciiiinie ID cuaracter, we avail our selves of such lipids as Mr. Cruickehank may Mlord us. Hit menus of knowledge were, in any cine, first rate. Ho speaks of himself ' hi line who bad the buppiue-a of suuing a good deal of tliii accomplished lady upon the coast, who enjojed tiud keenly folt the faiciimtionr of h'-r tocieiy, who oi.ly ten lion re before her deatt, had tit and listened with a rapt attention lo her brilliant sallies of wit mid feeling wbu was prone nt at the invoiiigntioiii consequent upon her sudden death, whise eyes werj the Inst to rest upon ihose rlid fea-lures so recently beaming with all ihe animating glow ot a flue intelligence, and who, with a sorrowful heart, saw hur consigned to her narrow resting place. I will endeavor to place iu its truo light u, siturt account of her loo briol jnuru in Africa.' WIimi Mrs. Mntlean arrived at 0.ipa Ooait, there was no European lady then at the settlement, and her h us bund wus in very bad healih. Mr. Cruicknlank was also ill. Anitivi tution to viiit the GUVi rnor and his wife, fouod him in bed, and it was some days before be could venture oui to the Ca'tle. I sent m my name by the servant, and immediately after, Mrs. Maclean came to the hall and welootnrd nie. I was hurried away to his bed room, Mrs. Maclean laying, as she tripped throngh tho Jong gull-fry, "you are a privileged pertou, Mr. Oruinkshank, for I can ansure you. it is not every one that is admitted hure." I took a seat b the s do of his bed, upon which Mrs. Miclt-an snt down, nrrauging tbe clothes about her husband in the most affectionate manner, and receiving ample compensation for her at tent io ii i by a very swiot and xpreasive smile of thankfulness. Wo thus ml and chatted together for some hours, Mm. Maclean laughingly recounting her experience of roughing it iu Africa, and conimerniiu, with t'.'ie greatest good humor ai-d delight, upon what struck uer at the odilitiui in aucb a atato of socitHy. Shu Eointod to a temporary bed, which had ber-u made fur eron theilaor, and said Mr. Maclean's sutlVriugs had been so great for somo nights, that the little sleep which she h id got had been taken there. I declined to occupy an apartment in ihe Oaitlo, but promised in call daily, during my aHy in Cape Ootat. to pass a few hours with them.' We pus over tbe daily record of social intercoune. Mr Criiickhnnk wat about to re, (urn to England for his health j Mrs. Maclean was em-ployed in writing aketcl.es of Scott's heroioea for the ' Book of Beauty und us she sometimes found it difli cult to fit her tbuuelits on n particular subject, 'she seemed to have ornp alarm that ihe climate was allect-ing her.' Mr. Cruickahank writes : " As the day drew near for my departure, the occupied hwrself more and more in writing to her friends in England. It had been arranged thut tho vessel shuuld sail on tho forenoon of the 16th of October, and I agreed to dine and spend tbe evening of the l3ih with the governor and bis lady. It wus in every re-tght to be ri-membered. At eleven ! I rose to leave. It was a fine clear niuht, and tbe trolled into the gidlery, where we walked for half an hour. Mr. Macban joined us for a few minutes, but not liking the night air, in his weak state, he returned lo tho parlor. She was much struck with the beauty of tbe heavens in tboao latitudes at niht, and said it was when looking at the moon and the stars thai her thoughts oftenest iever:od to home She pleaded herself with thinking that the eyes of some beloved friend mii-bt ho turned in the same direction, and that she had thus established a nmlum of communication fur all that her bt-arl winded to ox pren. )o.t you must uot,' she said, 'think me a fuuliib, moonstruck lady. I sometimes think of these ihiiitfi oftener than 1 should, and your departure fir Rnglatid has called up a world of delightful associa rons. xou win tell Mr J, however, that lam uot tired vet. Ho told me I should return bv the vei sal ill at brought me out; but knew be would be mistaken.' Wo joined the governor in the parlor. I bade ihem Bond nialit. tiromiHiDL' to call in ihe morn- ing to bid them adieu. I n ivt-r saw her in life again." At breakfast, next day, Mr. Cruickihank was alarmed by a summons 'You are wanted at the Castle, Ar Mad-tan is dead,' said tho niessenr. Hurrying to tbe Oastle, he found that it wat not Mr., but Mt$, Ma-clean whom he had left tho previous night so well who was no more, 'Never,' he sayi, 'shall I forgo I Ihe horror sfricknt expression uf lr. MuoltWs conn ten'ince. ' Wo entered the room, where all that was morial of pour ' L. E. L.' was stretched upon the bed. Dr. Oubhold rose up from a close examination of htr face, and told us all was over; she wns beyond recovery. My In-art would not believe it. It seemed impoailMe that she, from whom I hail parted not many hour ago, so full of lile and energy, could bo so sud denly struck down. 1 seled her hand and gnied upon her lace, Tbe expression was calm and meauutgless. Her eyes were upon, lixed, and protruding.' An in-quad wat immediately hold. 'All that could be elici led, upon the strictest investigation, was limply thist It appeared that she had risen and left her husband' bed room about seven o'clock iu ihe morning, and pro ceedi-d lo her own dressing-room, which was up a short flight of stairs, and entered by a separate door from Ibat lendiug lo the bed room. Before proceeding to dress, she bad occupied herself an hour and a half in writing letters. She then called her servant, Mrs. Bailey , and tent her to a store room to fetch some po matum. Mra. Bailey was absent only a few minutes. When she returned, sho found didkuliy in opening the dour, on account of a weight which appeared to be pressing against it. This she discovered to he the body uf her mistress. tjh pushed it aside, ami found that she was to melon. She immediately called Mr. Maclean. Dr. Uobbold was sent for) but from ihe hrst moment of Ihe discovery of the body in the fl or, mere unu not appeared any symptom ot lite. Airs. Bailey further asserted that she found a small phial in the band of the deceased, which she removed and placed upon the toilet-table. Mra. M urban had appeared well when she sent her to fetch I lie unnintuiii. Sfie had observed m her uo appearance of unbaouiness. Mr. Macloan staled that his wile had left him about soven u'olock in the morning, and tint he had never men her aaio in life. When he wat railed lo her lressing-room, he found her dead upoo the n mr. Af ler tome lime, be olm rved a sml nbial unou the toilst-lable, nod asked Mri Bailey where it h id onme mm. one uuu mm that she bad luitnd it In Mrs Maclean's hand. Tbli phial had contained Scheole'i preparation of pni'sie ocia. nis wtie uau neeti in tho haoit oi using tor severe ntt or spasms, in wnicn mi was suii ut. She Imd mndo use of itnncn nu the pa.sai(e from Eng land, to his knowledge. He was gr'-atiy avert to her having such a dangerous medicine, and wih.-d tu throw It overboard She entreaied bun not to do so, us sne must die without it. mere bad oorn no qtiar el or unkindnrss between him and his wile. Dr. Uobbold, who bad been requested to make a poit-nor m examination, aid not consider it at all necessary io lo so, as he felt persuaded she had died bv nrussie acid. He wm lend lo (hit conclusion from the iippear ance of the eyes of the deceased j and he believed he could detrct the smell of the prus io add nhotit her person. My own evidence proved t lint I bad purled tram Mr. and Mrs, Macletin at a very late hour ou ihe ovening before, and they appeared (hen on the h ippi- -si terms who racn oilier. I here wat found upon her writing desk a letter not vet Md.it, which the Imd writ leu ibat morning, tho Ink of which wat scarcely at tlin llin nt tin HiaiMiv.ira r.f h.. .I-..1. Tl.I ler was read at ihe Inquest. Il was for Mrs. Foitan, Vn whom aha had winhod me to cull. It was wtiitcu a cheerful spliit, and gave im ftulicatiuu of unhappl- less, iu nie postscript me imi words sheever wiote -she rocomiueiidi'd too to the kind attentions of her rfend. Willi tbo evidence hufuru them, it wui impos lible for the jury to culvriaiu !or one insiant the idea hattneotiiuriunatelaily bad willutly destroyed h r ioii, wo mo oilier uauii.cotiBiiiering tun evidence re-. pec ting tbe phial, her habit of makltm use id this dan. berous medicine, and tha decided nnininn nt t,m A,m. or, nsi arr ucaiu was nausea oy it, it seemed equally lear that they must attribute bar death to this i belt Ttrdiot, Ihtrefore, waft, that she died from tn overdose of Scheele's preparation of prussic acid taken inadvertently. Mr. Cruickshauk concurred in this ver diet at tbe time, but since bit arrival iu England, be baa found reason to " doubt ol its correctness." He now entertains the opinion, ibat death wat caused by " some sudden affection of the heart." We refrain from any comment on either facts or opinions, and will content ourselves whb adding a picture of the last scene of all from the narrative of bit eye-witness: " In those warm latitudes interment follows death with a haste which often cruelly shocks the feelings. Mrs. Machan was buried the same evening, within the Dree i not. of th castle. Mr. Topp read the funeral service, and the whole of the residents assisted at the solemn cere mo ny. The grave was lined with wallsof brickand mor- iar, with an arch over tbe cutbn. Soon after the conclusion of tbo service, one of those heavy showers, only known in the tropical climates, suddenly came on. All departed for iheir houses. I remained to see ibe arch completed. Tbe bricklayers were obliged to get a covering to protect them and their work from the rain. Nibt had come on before tbe paving stones weronll put down over the grave, and ihe workmen finished their businens by torch-light, flow sadly yet does (but night of gloom return to my remembrance 1 How sud were then my thoughts, us wrapped up in my clonk I tlond beside the pravo of ' L. B. L.,' under that pitiless torrent of rain ! I fancied what would be tbe thoughts of thousands in England, if they could see and know the meaning of that flickering light, of those busy workmen, and of that silent watcher ! I thought of yesterday, when, at the same lime, I was taking my sent beside her at dinner, and now, oh, how very very sad ihe change V (Translated for the Nations) Intelligencer. A 1DBKISH THEATRE. If some Sundny yon take at the Tophans stain, near the Mosque of tho Suban Matimoud, u caique with two pair of ours, and Buy Kadikeui, the boat man will laud you in some twenty-five or thirtv minutes oooosite the finlden Horn, on a pretty shore on ih- Asiatic side, imeu who caies ana nouses painted in gay colors. Follow a narrow street, whose bouses over! mnir and ! make angles and strange retreats upon this public oignwny. As tho village Is almost nltngther Arme nian, tho open doon aud raised windows exhibit a great many chnrrning lemale faces, wiih large black eyes and regular features an agreeable aiht to llie uruiiKer nreu oi itio perpetual masked ball ol Constat uinNt- , iiicu y'u puss aiung a wnll winch secures without cuncealiug pendant vines and vigorous fig trees, and you reach a beautiful little gulf, which fronts PrinctV Island. Ptrhapi you will henruuder iho fine trees which shade the scarp of the bank the maiing nf ihe tatbouka, tbe grating of iberobeb, nud the whining of the flute, accompanied by natal voices ; but don't atop, they are merely cale singers; descend and remount this narrow path cut out in the clitl, whoso foot is hnthed by the transparent sea, and you will reach the Modn-B rnntou uble-land. Arabs and I'alikns, saddle horse held by m-groe and sail, wafer and forbet sellers, temporary tlmps tilled with musk and watermelons aud grapes, form a joyous throng outside an enclosure formed of gn-an cloths, to dii-posed as to intercept tho view, which reminds us ol the booths erected by fair mountebanks in tho Champs Eh sees on public festivals. This banging begins from the corner of a wooden housu, ami is fasti-ned to a Urge tree inclined towatds the ten; ihe other tides, being on the edge of tbe per-peiidicular declivity of the cliff, do not need a partition to binder inquisitive glauces from ihoso who would enjoy the performances grat s. The ticket ofiice is k pt by a sexagenarian dwarf, of a very hideous and very fantastic appearance, who also performs the office of placer. Ho made us use end a ricketty staircase to the second story of iho house, whose windows served as the "dress circle," installed us upon cushions, and then returned again to his post, first taking care to place noar us a pipe and a cup of coffee, the indispen sable accessories of all Turkish pleasures. The view from Iheso windows-boxes" wm really original and picturesque; the place where Ibe Tutkisb buffoons were to uppear was a sort ol traperium, bordered on iwo sides by tho male p Ttton or the audience, and on the other by iho ttraglio, a shed covered with planks and protected by an open-work screen, which extended half way up the front. The seroalio is the oortion re. served to women; for in Tut key tbe two sexes are ai wnyn separated, atid a husband would regard it at a piece of gross indecency to seat himself near his wives. All the audience, some wiih tbe red fez, nud buttoned Nizam frock -coal, others iu the old uaiioual costume, wore Bnuaitini! on Smyrna camels, or thin mntirfa spread nn tbe ground, crunching au-arcuudy, or nib- nuiig ino roso colored pulp ul watermelons, or inhaling the smoke of the chibouck, or making tho water bubble in th cry icsutroir of the INarguilbet. Tbe women chirped and chat lend behind the lotiice-work like birds in a cage, anil from our window we cnuid aeo (beir white y a marks and their sky-blue, mallow-rose, pea green, and oihor gny-coiorej leredges. A dazzling sun gilded the empty pluce the actors were about lo occupy, aud tho sea spaikli d through the olives and tamarinds) whilst (be musicians, placed in the sliudo at the foot of the house, made their instruments hum and shiver as if lo prelude the commence ment of ihe perlonnaiices. It was charming. A strange tumult, composed ordiscoidantnnd savage sounds, suggeBiiveof a symphony of a, savaut composer, greeted ibe appearance of Ihe performers. This orchestra was composed of two guitars scraped with a quill, a rebec plived a double-bass, two pairs of ket. ! ue-urums, nuu a uuie-ciarionet, wnich a blind old man, ! bent double aud mummified with age, blew with might and main. The play commenced. I Two knmmalt, or Asiatic porters, came forward bear-1 iug a microscopic barrel suspended to the car which ' is used in Constantinople to snstain the henvy Wrights which a single man unaided could not move. These hmumals were dres.tr d in a loose grey greatcoat, with borders of red. vellow and blue cloth lace-wnrkc ; mitt' ed panlaloons, narrow from ihe knees, and bordered wiih hi ark ornaments; a tall bat of undressed fur, which I compare to nothing but a straiuing bag : omul them was ihin, dried up, nervous, with a keen phyt l"gnomy ; the other thick, robust, with tbe form of an elephant or of a maitodon. Doth teemed to make enormous efforts to support litis barrel, as large as one's fist; i hey to'tered, opened their legs, supported them-selves tit If Ibey were crushed beneath ihe burden. What did ibat mysterious barrel contain t Raki, a sort of whir brandy, which ihe hnmmtils were carrying for a Frank merchant of Pt-ra, who was about o-iahlishtnt! n drinking room. The Fru..k, dressed in a Uobert Mncairo style, in an old frock coat uf black lutestring, threadbare and sleek at the elbows, bis b-ga buried in dirly, large pantaloons, without waistcoat and cravat, and huving no linen, tiniest a Tut kith silk shirt might (r ihe nonce usurp ihatnaii.a, refused to piy ihe agreed price for tbe transportation of the barrel ol raki. This refusal forms ihe leading incident on which the plot turns, aud becomes tbo source of an interminable series ot kicks and blows. The Ihtn bainmal persist! widi mulish obstinacy to demand bis due; be becomes ihe evil genius of the drinking mom J he complains to the chief of the ham mala, a pro esque fellow with a red beard, In a turban ot musk-m lon-like ridges, and of as varied colors as a Piomhicro ice, with a red doliman a la B"jaitt, wield lug a padded cano he goes and wakes up iho police and the cadi, who appear followed by half a d zrti bumpkins, dressed in exiravagaut costumes, their turbans likecnko-moulds, with ptodigiotia lolds, as in tbe time of the janissaries, and ornamented with feathers, swan's winps, broom aigrettes nothing was wanting but the lighted candles of ihe bourgtoit ftentukmm Ptncest wm served on the merchant, and the explanation was resolved on in a general row, where all ihe turbans fall from tho owners' heads. The fall of tut bans i a sura comical Art in Turkish pieces. In reality, nothing is tnire lougbiibla than to see uncovered those shaved, bluish pates, upon which a lock of hair sticks nut like ibe end of au old vine or a pumpkin. The Frsnk promised to pay the hammal out of bis future profits, whereupon peace is momentarily re established. The salo of raki Is not prosperous) the Frank aud hia servant are ihe best customer! of the drinking rooms. Tbe rooms want additional attractions therefore mmlciana aud dancers are engaged. The dtnunei are boys dingoised as women, for Turkish decency does not allow women to appear In pub lie. The persecuting hammal embraces i ho danmir and disarranges everything i a shower of blows Irom a stout slick runs him i ff, and he hikes refuge on a tree, so that ihe dances can be continued notwithstanding his presence- These dnn$t$ti, or rather these dancers, deserve a particular description. One of these, by the delicacy of bis features, ihe whiteness of his neck, hia blond hair arringedin curls, hia blue hmdkerchief pin ed in ihe Greek sh le, nn the ton of his head, hia modest air, and his slender waisl, made a complete illusion ami he reauy seamed lo be a pretty young woman. His costume was too exceedingly elegant. It was mmpoM'd of a green cbah vest, adorned with soutaches ol a shirt of gauze silk, of two tunics of red dih violet silk frinied with vellow. nlarod over each other, and fastenrd around the waist with a belt of red silk, i he two others dillnred from their partner unlv in the head-dress, which consisted of a red fox, around which Inritc plaits of false hair wrre rolled. This trio exeruted, with bendiugsand leg tw tsiincs which would excun me chaste susceptibility nl o.ir police, a sort uf rotnaic of quito an original character, which seemed Iu give great pleasure to the audience. lo ttm dancers tticcoodeil some Albanians in black vest coats and black guiieri, bo h deooraied with red binding in puckered fustarellet, making at the same time terrible contortions, a war d.mce of their country. Their shaved lumplrs, their white begins crowned with a sniull round pieco looking like a pie-crust, their enormous mustaches, their haggard eyes, save them a wild aud truculent expression, (res AerrtfyNs as Rabelais would say. I would not for the world sully their reputHiioii, but I must sy they looked like Connum-in pie sonuudiels. 1 he Frank's drinking rooms thus became a favorite house, whose fume reached even so far as the ears of tbe Shah of Persia, who had just readied ihe illy wiih all his suite. The Persians play, In Turkish drainaih; art, Ibe ssme part Englishmen do in French vaudevilles. Their emphatic accent, iheir biiarre ooainme. are parodied with an inexhaustible verse. The Shah bends under Ihe weight of a lofty turban in the mitre form, and surrounded with a shawl of innumerable folds, Ha wear a yellow robe, with caahmsre palm leaves, belted with a second shawl which goes twenty timet around his exhausted body, and holds in his hand an iron fork, which serves him as a support for bis ej. uow wneu ue seats aim sell upon hia uarpet. The Shah has his face destroyed by debauchery and opium, and is excessively like Btix iu the scene ot tbe slave market iu tbe ballet of tbe Diabh Ammteux. Behind tbe Shah are six good for nothing wretches, witb a bead dress ot black sheepikiu caps, and a mace banging by their aides in the Persian manner. Tho Shah hikes his place and Ibe dances commence. He ft so well pleased be gives tbe Frank five hundred nurses, whit in nt lntt nuru iu pay 100 DimrOBI. This farce, whose pantomime alone T could follow, beinir ignorant of Turkish, must hnvn l)Hn rv mm ical, if one might judge from the roars of laughter of "unionce. i ne actors played their parts with a greal deal of firo and variely of intonation. The Euro pean accent of the Frank, and iho Persian accent of the BhBh even, 1 could distinguish. The performance over, ibe women mounted again inlo their tolikat, protected by enuuch, who thrdu aside the throng; the men put iheir beautiful barb horses in a gallop, and I returned quietly to my caique, slill laughing to myself at those grotesque figures, which, for extravagant fantasy, recalled the droll dreamt of Alconbas Nasies. Il Secretario is writing a series of sketches of "Great Conversationists," which aresparkling, readable productions. Under the bead of " W arrest Da vu of Souih Carolina, he gives an amusing skeloh of the jokes Davis used to play off upon old Thiitiw Bur oiss of Rhode Island. We have laughed heartily at the recital, and propose to give our friends tbe benefit of tbe same exercise. Find a cool place, reader, and then imagine the "phoolinkt " of TattTxn under the circumstances: " No one at all familiar with Congressional chronicle t-nu ud uuacquaiu.ea wnn me name ol t nstern Bur gest. tew were more formidable not even Timothy ..v. iiuiiseii, ma .error aou ine scourgo ol in-umphant Jeffersotiianism in the annals of onrtv ven geatice end personal iuvective. There was, iu all bis time, when siniilo combats botween tim advert h,.t. oi reaeraiisrn and Uemocracy (since confounded to geiher) were yet frequent, no tougher hand at tbe art of public reproach, no ruder champion of accuse still, though defeated, dangerous for the abiliiies, the char tier anu mo courago ot ibose that upheld it. John niuuojpu, seiuutn worsted at tne weapon of imp or. lion (almost tho only arm be wielded) had been igtio miuiuusly laid low, by one of bis tremendous back handed blows, etiouth (like that famous lick in ro mance) to have cloven in twain a pair of giutits. Nev er, murpi wueu mauieu oy a Bcemiug-lemimne hand, that uf bis ex-tister in-law, Mrs. Nriucv R ttuMoh Mor ris, bad a more direful castiaiiun lighted upou his icuu aim Bexiess carcass, i need hardly recall bow again, about Davis's time, Tr is tern, iu bis old age, at lacked by your own shallow strippling, Camberling, hud lorn limb from limb that puny assailaut arid delivered him over to universal derision. Well, that veteran stone-breaker attracted, of necessity. Warren's admiration. But the Demosthenes of parliamentary objurgation had, with all bis vigor aud ubundancn ot anomalies, aud Davi.'a inveterate waggery found de- ugui luougn ne loveti me lierce old federalist in drawing the in out. For this purposebeing far too knowing to bring dowu a ihresbiug upon himself, by any dir ct attack bo resorted to all sorts of amusiug stratagems. The pttftrvidum indium Ihe exhuber-aut mind is aotlv iu lis earlier etlorls. to sivn intn dm fault of hyper-rhetorical style; as rich soils, until in.ru en oy culture, breed more woods than corn. Thus Wirt's youthful compositions (see his Brituk Spy, and bis Life of Patrick Henry.) were lull of iho dtlcin vitia ofdictiou; while nothiug could be manlier, of a more inornate and vigorous elegance than the manner to which be finally attained i thus William Pinckuey was long hyperbolical; Everett, Channiug, aud eveu Web star, llurid. Whoknows but Bancroft mav cease. nm day or oilier, to besot There was never a great actor who did not begin by mouthing It much, as Forrest will do to the end of bis life to be a poet, one must have begun by being insane, to grow an orator, one must let out with being bombastic. Indulge your ae nius, then, ye young rahpsudisi! To scale the minimis oi eloquence, ye must pvs over ihe heights ot rant. True, a vast majority will stop at these, like roaring Allenof Ohio, or fool hero Houston, aud think ilium selves atop; but no matter; thut's the road but not the place. It yon can ever get beyond the ridiculous, you II reach the sublime; they live next door to rach other, at John Tyler and Harry Clay did, in Washing ion. In truth, nut only is Rant tho great highway to Actluff, to Poesy, and lo Oratory, but to Oivil Libertv and to National Grandeur. Wu are making our wav to the one, we are confirming tbe other, by tbodomou-tado. Our Freedom is a systom of raving, our Foreign Policy of riimfusiiau. And, as in the oilier matters, s m these: if we ever get over ihe ranting, wo shall reai h the Freedom and the Greatness, Well, like others, Tristoni Burgess bad, in Ins youth, given In to such fustian harangues as make the deli In of Fourth of July celebrations. There was, io par lie ular, a flaming Address of his, which soared lo ihe very empyrean of rapturous eloquence, aud was like John Quincy Adams's ' Lectures on Rhetoric," an admirable example and compend of all tbe fault in that Art. Of course, it mot the tasio of a duy whiib was enraptured with the extravagances of Currn, and even ibe lurgtd trashiness of his poor imitator, Phillips, accordingly, it bad a conspicuous place in "Columbian Orators," "American Speakers," and such like school selections, here, to teach the young idea of eloquonce its bright est gems are strung together. In some such obsolete repository of ill taste, where, iieihaos. tbe divine dii- courses of Milton't infernal council chamber were jura uiea wuu tne rigmarole or school boys, ihe mmhiev oils Warren recollected Trtstem's high-flown strain nay, it may be (hat bo had once declaimed it himself to an admiring audience. Ai any rate, the rascal had it by heart. So be would, in Sfme interregnum of de hale, go around to Mr. Burge-s's seat, aud planting himself in a be fit ling attitude, begin "Guided b) reason, man has traversed the illimitahlefloldsof space; has soared in the eccentric track of the flaming o moi. and divid to the dark recesses of the deep; has scaled the snowy summits of Otiiraboraxo, plunged through ihe mine far into the entrails of the eaito, aud pursued nature into tbe mysterious laboratory of bur most recondite operations." I imagine how ihe Inflammable Tristetn, now grown (he most impatient man alive of all balderdash, would chafe at (his resiiscitaiiun of his own flummery. He would, of course, fat1 1 into a passion, inch as compelled his tormentors to take to flight ; but il was only tu return to the charge nnd renew tbe test ins. in some oih er form. For instance, he would, in order lo have double victims, pitch upon some greenhorn represent- auto oi oouiuorn or tvesiern prejudice against llul geat, dilute to him on the ungonerousness of such local or party amipathies, enlarge upon the real merits ol the formidable Rhode Islander, and thai lead on bis man to request au introduction in that remarkable personage. At they went along for lhat purpose, Or, vis would sny lo his protege, By ihe bye. it will be as well for yon lo lay hold, at once, on Mr. Burgess' good will, by letting it seem lhat you have studied and admired his discourses. Now, there is one of them, a youthful performance, which is his particular pride, and very justly so; for it is a splendid piece of phi I in sopbical eloquence, hardly rxceedrd by any in Lord Bacon. It heginst "Guided by reason, man has trav arsed the illimitable fields of space," The neophyte would, of course, gratefully accept tbe insidious s uggestions, and when, presently he had been presented to a very lofty looking old gentleman, of snow white hair, Welllngtonian nose, and a port and countenance so imposing and antique, that yon might almost have fancied him a Ho man Decatur modernized, he would hail en by the preliminary common places of converse lion, io order to carry all Ihe outworks of Mr. Bur-gesB's affections, by Ihe roup di main which his friend Warrrn (famous for having (he pick-lock to all hearts) had taught him; io, at the first pause of talk, (Davis having meantime slipped away), he would explain to Mr. B. lhat he had been led to desire an intriHlocton to him by along familiarity and a profound admira'ion of hia productions. At this, iho lofty head was, ol course, nent tn modest acknowledgment, aud (he severity of tha classic features was relaxed into suavity. Tha unwilling accomplice, to press the advantage he bad gained, would then proceed " There is one admi rable discourae of yours, sir, which has always given me a particular delight uy us pniiosnpmoai el. quence, hardly exceeded by any thing by Lord Bacon himself; I mean lhat magnificent address which begins, "Guided by reason, man has traversed the illimitable field of space," I need nut say how, at this, Mr. Burgess's countenance fell; how, fir an instant, he glared upon uit admirer; out presently perceiving that twin had heen Imposed upon, knew at once from what hand ihe blow of mischief had come, and broke forth, to his votary's astonishment, into execrations upon Warren uavis. Miss Leslie, is wa perceive from her "Behaviour Book," has a cordial hatred of lhat detestable ihitig the rocking chair. She says, and truly, "that the dii tj and ungraceful prariiouof rocking iu a rocking-chair, Is now discontinued hy all genteel people, except when entirely alone. A lady should never be teen to rock in a chair, and tha rocking of a gentleman looks silly. Rockiug it only fit for a nurse pulling a baby to sleep. When children get into a large rocking chair, they usually rook it over backward and fall out. These chairs are now seldom teen In a parlour. Handsome, stuffed easy chairs, that are moved on casters, are subiliiuted. and of these half adiion of various forma are not considered too many." We lh ink it time that the Democracy of Ibe county, srao amrt no offet$ thtmwttt , nut who love lite party that bat accomplished so much good for ilia country, nod who therefore feel an interest in a pure organist Hon, should take matters into their own hands, Cm. hat a lonely gathering would that be composed only uf those Hamilton Looofocne, " who desire no offices lUemselves." Cesfoed Hmitd. ' Hollot mister, have you got any grain to tell t" "No. Why do you ask I" " Because I see you have wry iu. From tbe Athenaeum. MADAME PFEIFFER. Tbe last communication from this most singular of uavcii-ra, wuicu we iaiu Detore our readers, gave an bvwuui. oi uer journey in itorneo. Bhe suusquently went to Java, and theoce to Sumatra, and she de.ct ibe her travel in a letter addressed to Mr. Peiermauu which be has furnished lo our columns. At the date of her letter (Surabaya, December 12, 1852) Madame Pleiffer had again returned to Java, whence she iuten ded to depart the same day fur ibe Molucca Islands, with the uhimate onject of reaching New Guinea, and exploring the ioierior of that country, which hat never been visited by au European. Her letter is as follows:"I really do believe that I stand under the especial protection at Providence much more thanoiher tiuvel-ert, aud but for lhat circumstance I might have been murdered dozens of times. It toerus almost as if 1 were directing all my energies towurdt being killed and jet I am still alive. No sooner had 1 escaped from among the cutthroats in Born no. ihm I w. i already prepiring for an expedition among people ua fond of killing as ihey ; and who, although tboy do it afier a ditlereut fusbiou, are yot very ex f pert io sending .ii.rroii uuiuga iuu mat worm oi which Schiller says 'Hat any one ever returned from the tomb wnho message 1mm the other world ?' Nor, tu bo sure, i uuvd oroutiul, allv mautTA Ir.im 1 1 u , n . !., I look without fear on my chances of going thither, and itlllo care who l her it mav happen a few years all my hazardous undertakings. 1 smile when 1 think of the many who, knowing me only from my travels fancy lhat my character, manners, even my figure and motions, ere more like those of a man thnn or ...... nuouci n iBicr, io i il ib rear fBma: i.m inun ULrr,i. How idlsely do they judge mo I Yet you, who know me, know that in every day life I am plainer, qui-ler. aud more reserved lhait ihousauds of my sen who never carried their noses beyond the horizon of their native town. Many have confessed in my presunoe lhat they expected to fiud me an imposing figure, six feet high, wiih a bold gait, and a dagger and pistols in my bell, and that they were much surpmed to see the opposite of all this. But enough ol this- I want to tell you something about my last ttip lo the cannibals in ouuiuira. Xou must know, however, Unit this oxpe ditioii was not iu the list of my intended travels but 'he German merchants at Batavia having kindly pro vuiou mi, B i rf,e pusiug ou a steamer ready to leave for lhat islaud, 1 availoJ myself of tho opportunity. first went to Padutig, ihe principal settlement ol mr vaicu ta Sumatra- i ae governor, Mr. Van Swie-ten, received mo very politely) but I stayed only a lew days, and then set out ou horseback for ibe iuiertor. V!y first h.dt was at Fort do Kock, fifty paal (suty miles) from Padauff Here I took tin niv rr. iili. arm u. iho hum. of Liruteimrtt Colom.1 Van der Hurl, who .rtl.trd Die in drnwine un mv irni'Mlinu hint. n....... uuwi, me uiiK-ruut nation, ululiu tuo road, and uhvd me Mtera ol iutroducliuli to a.vurul Ontuli foi.cii..,,. arii-a lurtlier down in the coutilry, toward, the frontier uf tint iiidrpeii'J.nt Hmackt. He knew tho iutonurdi. ute tract wall) having cominandrd au ei.tdiliuii Bg-lnit those wild tribe, about ten y. at. praviou.ly, whan he peaetrated a. far aa giliutl-mg. X imemitd tu K .till further, aud to viiit, if poiiiule, Ibe groat lake. Ayor Tou. Ihelaat place nliero I found European, wa.Pa-'.tie-tJiditmiuanir. two hundred mal from P.... nu Kockf and the only obalacle which I had tu overcome on my journey thither wa.. hone. ,o .by, ,0 little bro on, nuu an ouaunate, inai tne people wure obllgt-d to lilt a foot, or pinch the We, of uiy .teed belore lie wuuiu aiiow me to mount mm Uijch on Iheir way, however, they went along fait euuilph, bramble, and Rtonea huiiiB uoob.laclo. lo them. TIim n,,n..t.u i. i,.ii of tiger., rhinuceroie. aud elenh.nti; but 1 did not need in in ii.ucu, a. long a. tbe aim wa. above ihe uurizon, ana cantered along lor Lour. ioffMihril..,.ui. denae foreata and aavauoa, covered with alana nln kind of grata growing from three to aii leet high. I wa. then quite alone, aa my groom remained long behind uie. Tbua 1 rapidly rode through Ihe diitncta of uiiiio ana ureal mai.uellliig and Ankula, in which lie, I'adang-Siditnpiiang. At thai place I alnyed two daya wiih Mr. Hainmera. who not a ituido for in.. t out-.. me letter, of iutroriuotiuii, written in Ibe Uaiack Ian Kiiage, to several rajah., and one lor the Queen of Ayer Tan. Having laken leave of the laat Euroneann in iln'anart ofSumaiia, I continued riding for twenty paal more, when, owing to the primitive character ot the country, horses became useless, aud was compelled to proceed on loot. During the first three davs mv Innm,. u.-.. exceedingly toilsome. Forests which would be quiie impenetrable, had not rhinoceroses made narrow tracks across tl.t-m ... ll Hirti.,n., enured country as tar as tbe eye could reach ( and where the ground was Iree from trees, the along alang grew so high that Ihe tops collapsed over my brail as I worked my way through them. Sometimes wo climbed over sleep rocky bills, and then, suddenly came down again into large sloughs aud swamps, where I left my shoes behind me, aud on crawln.g out found, b side mire and dirt, my legs covered with little leeches with which all these pools arecrowded. The wounds Inflicted by the cutting alang-alang were exceedingly painful; and in the woods thorns were so pleutihd that numbers would stick fastio my legs and feel, which I left there till resting lime, when some gond-nsiured Datack would draw them out wi'h the aid of a knifo which was anything bat wellpuiuted. Two of these neoole saved my lite while water using a dtop river, the ispiu uuirnm oi which rarrieu me on. u uny passed without rain, and I had no dry clothes to change with. Ooe uigbt we passed in a forest under lofty irees, aud there, 1 was in fear ufsnakHaand liners. Mv cuurh was Ihe naked cool ground; and moru than onco was I obliged lo lie d wn without having eaten anvihiio? but some dry rice Parboiled in water wit lino t hhv n.i. diiion of butter. On the night of utir bivuuac iu the wood, they cooked tho rice alter a fashion nnitn mtur to me. They first laid the grains on some lare leaves, which, after being rolUd up. with ihe rice inside in ihe sbipe of a sausage, were nut inlo hollow nieceB ..f fresh bamboo cut for the purposo. A little Witer hav ing been poured do wu each piece, they placed them over burning embers, where ibey remained lill ihey be- Ku m uuiii in inir mm. then ihey wore taken nil, and Ihe contents columned. It was n considerable time before ihe plpri catiaht fire, owing lo Ihe green and juicy stale of the bum boo. Towards the cloie of the third day, wo reached the first ra or village, of the Bit arks. was sorry I u find the people hesitate to receive me; hut it tnunately happened that Rniah Hali Bonar, who hadonre beni tbe guest of Mr. Hammers at Padutig Sidiinptiang, ard for whom I had a letter, was then on a visit ni ihenfa; and no sooner had I delivered my credential inlo In nanus, man no took my part warmly, ami even promised to accompany me to Ayer Tau, whii b was about seventy paal distant. Tbe villagers now ercommmla led me with a opnon small hut opened on nil side and presented me with a fowl and some rice. Ou the billowing day we reach, d Ihe ira of the Hali B-iiiar, in whose home 1 remained till ihe third dav. A buffalo calf was killed to do honor lo tbe stranger. ud 1 was obliged to he present at the slangh'e'ing. vbirli took place wiih Ihe accomoammi-nt of niiutc and dancing, Tbe flowing blood having been careful lv collected, they cut tbo carcass into many pieces, and presented mo witb the liver, plsced on a plate, as the most delicious part of the animal. Upon this day they performed a strange ceremony, very lidlo lo ny taste, but Well intended after all. since it was calcuU. led in propitiato one of iheir ovil Bpiriis. These are llio only superior beings whom they worship, became they fear them while the good ones remain unnoticed, ihey not being bent on doing misrhief, there ii no or-casmn to conciliate them. In tins instance ihe evil spirits weremade propitious with water and ricocakes. Two young men opened the dances; and after ihey had amused the public for awhile wih their antics, ibe eldest one seized a huffalo hrn filled wnb water, and, without ceasing to lake nan in the dance, raised it several times above his hemi with a mien as if he were hesrecning ibe heavenly powers to bless the con ten's. Suddenly he poured a po-ti m ot the water out against me, another attains! ihe musicians, and the rest against he people. He then did tbe same with a quantity ol ilea and some small rice cakes, of which he pr it tiled me one on a plaie. Shortly afterwards, ihey exhibit d iheir skill in a si rtol dance in which Ihey generally celebrate public executions, but on this occasion it was perlormed in my honor. A " saraug, representing a man, having been tied to a pole which stood for a tree, they danced around it to the measure of their musto. Alter awhile, one ot the performers, leaping from (he rl"g, pierced Ibe figure ot ihe lettered man with his Bttrias. or cutlass, and was followed b a second and a third, ti I the whole set had plunged iheir swords in ihe b"dy of the supposed victim. Ho who deals the first blow enjoys some privilege in eating the dead body. The victim being considered lo be dead, ihey maue ihe pantonune oi cuiung nu ins neao ; tnn ihey placed the brad of Hie buffalo calf on tho top of the figure, and continued their wild gyrations round the i body. From lime lo lime a perlormsr leaving the ring, slexed the betid, and sucked the b'ood which dropped from ihe severed nick, while others, throwing ihemselves over a mat on which the head had been lying, greedily licked ihe gore wnh which It was cov ered. There was nothiug wild or passionatu in their looks, but (hey appeared lo be in excellent humor, as f they amused themselves vastly. Wbeunver a real criminal or prisoner Is put to drain In this manner, Ihe Knjah receive! the noio, ears, and under part of tbe feet, as Iho moat delicious parts i next to which tha cheeks, tbe palm of the hand, and tbe liver are most esteemed. Tbe day after this festival I started for new scenes. Since 1815, when Ihe Ba tacks killed and devoured two miss Itui i ties, Ihe appearance of Europeans amnio! those people nau uecome a rare pnenomeuon. Hence the news oi my visit spread through the country hk wildfire. On approaching a ' I found the whole male popuiition armed with spears, swotda and pa I rangs, assembled at Ihe entrance, and myself soon sot round id by a crowd looking savago and horrible be- !'ond til description The men were lall and strong, nit friehi fully ugly, with tremendous mouths, and the upper Jaws not ouly much projecting, but In many eases furnished witb teeth protruding like tusks. Home had their hair long, others short, when it would stand off tha head like brUtleii and they hid covered their heads aithar with dirty cotton cloth, or with neat straw cap. re.embliog auuare baiketa; many, however, bay. ins oniy a colored rag or a attaw ribbon tied around ueui. ineir eara were all perforated tbe bole h ing large enough to admit one or two cigara, which ".y aepi mere a. In a caae. llley were decently dreaacd a tarmg covering tbe lower part of ihe body and llio lega a. far down aa Ihe catvea, and another (laTOTur) ihe miner n.rt. Hntili.ir cries were horrible I and they made Ihe moat frightful .-..u,.u luuit-Biuig inai iney would Dot allow me piuceeu alien H. n i 111! t ie Imnil n I in thrn.i ... make me think of my own, or gnawing the fleah of Iheir arm., aa a hint that they would eat me I had, .oncer, aeeo loo mimv un.i .r an.... ... i... I. ........ ed, and aoun succeeded by smoothing their temper by gentle words, bmI a quiet, coiifidiim conduct. Mv laugonce made them lainhi thev .,lT,.i-e,l ., Iianda wi h me, ami ere lung I sat aiming lliem, pro. tecled by the moat aacred Inwa of hoapiialiiy. A ti ille is ai.fli. leni t enrage .avn,; people, and a trifle will irienosngalll. I Ilia I lllwaia keptill view. ve came io ine niai'lit leot v., . ..r a I .."..tr, u.. larueii ami m'lHl ieU I o lli I h.H ... ill Sumatra. Il appeara In be filleen paal long by five wide, and is ettoiiliin.iasi'fl hv hioh hill. D...,.in .1.. cnaracier in iwo parallel mountain chain, in proportion as they approach the eou-t,nid traveraing Soma The Pori'lliL'iou seems In hm rntii.l.riiKU !.,.ll.. from iho great number of nta$ with which ihe country s dottud. They are ail fortified f beiug surrounded in their turn by a ring of bamboo trees and low hedges, water-diiches lorming the exterior defence. The bam boos growing from forty to fifty feet high, each urolies in iho midst of a beautiful grove. The noble river Patang Toru, and several smaller ones, w.ler Ihi. wal ley, which produces much rice and ubi. or sweat noin. loea. while herd, of buffaloea and black oowa are eve ry wnere vi.inie netwosn Ihe cultlvnud fields. Ills, indeed, a valley of abundance. But the people ore horriblv dlrtv. and the nonr wn. ncu are truaieu uae Slave, ana Den.ta nt nnrriwii. .unu leu you moreanout mem oy and by. I am sorry imorm you, mat aner so many hardships and don-ers. I did not visit the lake Aver-Tau. althonih I ii'o-on paai. irom it, ana migui nave seen it. wa ler had I but ascended tha intermedin! riden nf hill. But no one would accompany me, there being a feud v.nDCU mrm sua uie people ot Ayer-lau. I nad penelriled about a dozen of paal f irther inland Ihi oiner B'inipcana. What saved me. were my .ex and my confidence Both Ihe Bataika and ihe Dyak. told me that I must he a superhuman being, or I would not have ventured to come among them without assistance aud protection. Tho whole extent of my travel, through Sumatra was even hundred ami twemy pool nn horseback, and one hundred and forty-.ii ou I ot. After my return to Pa-dang, I suff'-red from fever; hntmygood constitution having carried me through it, I hupo to be able to Bi.oou an account ot an my luiure expeditions. A TBI? TO TEXA8, riKEVULi, La , May 13, 1 853. Dl Pic Having not long ainco taken a long tramp to that beautiful aud most interesting ennnlrv western Texas, il may not be uninteresting to. your uuul,uu- icaoera io oe iniormea oi tne great reaour ce. of that vuat and noble country. Having darted from Slirevepurt, I traveled we.t through Harrison, Bn.h, Cherokee and Smith counties, and found them in t ditK-ring materially from north Louisiaua, nntil I came into Ai derson lying on the east side of Trinity river. Though those counties were not rich, they contained on au average fine uplands, very productive for all iho staple commodities of a southern climate, .ot-tied and settling by a very induslriou. and enterprl-ling population. After cros.iug Trinity 1 diicovered a considerable cbnuge in Ihe soil. Paaslng through Freealone county, entering Limeatnne. lvin. nn tl.. Noriaette river, I found occasionally large bodira of oue laruiiiig laiioa, out DBuiy watered wllbrolten lime-alone water. I found Ihe whole couulry, from Trinity river even to the Hrazoa, interspersed witb occasional prairies, some rich, and some quite poor, a ftue range for slock of all kinds, and deer in abundance, not unfn qnenlly forty or fifty seen at a lime. On tho Brazos I lound the soil of a superior qualitv, I think equal if not superior, to Ihe boasted lands of Red river, though badly watered, beiug badly tinctured with va riou. minerals, which make, it unplea.aot to tbe la.te, and from all appearances unhealthy. After passing the Brazos at the talis, you enter, after a few miles of travel, into a beautilul nrairie called Rrvnnt nmiri. thirty-two miles across, and better watered than any ( no o i ever snw east oi urazos river, and tuo mosl of it very rich, and having several creeks rnnnin. aeen.- 1., .A7..Jlb ....u.Mi.l. .futUel. Alter cross ing Ihe prairie you arrive at Llttlo rlvor, a Considerable stream, affording a great quantity of Ihe bottom land, well timbered a ith cotton wood aud other valuable limber. Beroud Little river vou enter into a beautiful aud rich prairie country, occasionally paaaiog fiuo slreama or the p iresl water running over a rock bollum covered with white pehblea, and a. clear aa a crystal, fino lange, plenty of game, and heallhy. Until you come iu ihe city ol Ausiiu. all of Ihi. exten- aive country isspjrsely pupulated, the emigrants having Milled in neighborhoods immediately on the stream., which furnish them water, timber and fuel for all ue-oeaaary purposes, where their .look of cattle, boraea, mules, sheep nnd goats luxuriate on the rich and inexhaustible pasturage afforded by ihoae vast prairie.. After passing Austin, a beautiful and flourishing town nn tho Colorado river, you travel i'iiith to the Sun Marco, river, ihe most desirable oounlry I .aw iu all my travel,. The richest lands 1 .aw lie belweeu ihe Han Marco, aud iho Blanco, being fmmedintely al tho foot of the mountainous liver bottom of the finest quality, well limbered, level, and above all overflow Irom the sireains. Tbe San Marco, river affords the mm Abundant water power for machinery lhat has ever heen discovered in the western country, and is certainly id slim-d, at no distant day, lo supply exten aive nnunlnciures, for I am sure there is water power suffhii nt lo uinuulaciure all Hie ooiton matle in Texa. Immediately nn Ihe west side of Ibe 8m Marcos Ihe town of Iho snmo name is lucaled l il i. Ibe oounly site of Hays county. The estate of Gen. Edward Burle son has a saw ami a grist mill noar the town thai .up-plies the town with bread, and a greal deal of lumber lor building purposes. On the Sia e route beyond Sin Mstrns to San Anlonin you travel thronah a thickly seliled and mosl beautilul country, aetllrd by a ro-sperinble, intelligent and enterprising population; traveling about twemy miles, in a direction to San An teuio, you approach ihe beautiful town of Brannfela a very flourishing German colony, on the Guadalupe river, affording also fine water power for mills and oti.er purposes, some of which tboy have in operation. inaktng.ru I am informed, very fin. flower. Tha whole nl tin. country, from Brain, a. Iar west aa 1 traveled, I was informed, p, educe Ihe finest of wheat. From what I saw 1 believe il lobe a. fill a oorn and cotton umwlng cnuuiry as there i. in Iho world, and it is also llionihi lo lie fine for suinr. I was lnl"ormd th.i young Burleson cultivated, la.t year, a few acre, nf cnrie inai matureo irom eight lo twelve feet long, equal In llio beal sugar reginn in Louisiana. Ten mile, below Kratlulela in the town of Seguin, a must beautiful aud flourishing town un Ihe Guadalupe river, aetllrd hy a Very intelligent sod enlerpiising population ll alreatly coniaina.TJeiidr. Ihe cnunly aile of Guadalupe county, two flue seminaries of learning, both male and lemni", ano uiusi Bay tnai, 10 my travel. Ibnaigh ma ny of the Siaies of thia Union, I hav never Men en groat an rflorl u.id for th education of cbildren as in Texas. Travel which way you will in lb settled por lion of Teisa yon will ocoasionally pas. an institution uf learning, established by private enterprise, and a cun.i'lerehle .ellletnrnt around each, formm. nnm.r. mis llttlo vtllsgea. Upon th whole, il wear to judge -, -.id .u.n.a nuiii in. ui.i ana ure.ent. wa Bra ... believo ihal Texas, from ber enterprise now every day iieveioping use i, is ac. lined 10 be oue ol tbo greatest oi.t. in in. uiiiiio. When we consider lhat Tela. ha. arisen to her nrea- out prospective arealnrsa without an. of Ihe ennven. ieucesol her si.trr 8'slrs.not hating a good navigable atream within her boundary, wear nt loas to imagine what aho would be if she hid a well organised system rBiinwnn leaning iu ana centering at some good market. Taking a view of all these .ulijeols, and knowing, as I do, the vast resources of the euv of New Orleans, I have heen astonished lhat tbo people uf lhat city ahould bava been an indifferent 00 that euhjeat 0- long for while Ihey ire building railroads to secure lie trade of Mii.issmni. Tennessee ami Oliin or Ken joeky, agaiusl all ihe competiiiun lhat already exists io those region., Ihey might, by putting forth a little more effort, in tho ouurae of three year., secure lo the clly of New Orleans three-fourths nf Ibe Itada of thai vast territory, containing aa much priKluclive soil as any five other States of the Uuinn, which is nn small item ; when, if no effort be made, In a few years ihe uitierent raitroia companies already chartered aud oommeuced operations will, hv Ihe aid of Nonhern companies, oxleiitl these road, so Iar In the luterior as tu divide so thoroughly the great Iraile of Tex.., that It will not greally build up any particular place. If New Orleau. would put Inrlh .11 hr eneraie. and mn a road Immediately to Aualin and San Antonio, Ihe moil practicable route, lliey would by that meana ae-oure lo 111 cily of New Orleana all tbo trade north ol that road, fur branches would b. oon.lructed leading to the Upper Red Uiver country, and thereby aecure n iho city of New Orleau. all tho trade of Middle, Northern, and a gieal portion of Ihe trade of Western Texaa. Furthermore, while the autborillea of Ihe Uni ted Slatea nnd Uougrea. are oarillng about Ihe great route to the Tacilio, the city ol New Orleans would by these iceans have established the route which Is nl ready known to be iho only cheap and convenient route ibat a rood can be built. I formed an intimate acquaintance with a portlou of ihe boundary survey on their return home, and learned that it is iheir con cluni n that no other route thai has been explored which would be as accessible fora road as that by the way i f Ausiiu and 8m Antonio, as a southern route lo the Pacific. Then think nf New Orleans being a depot for the trade, we might say, for the world, lor ihe Imagination can't conceive ol ihe business of sucb a road. I just drop these hints tor ine consideration oi other pens, knowing that such a project Is tenibla, aud oarries with it evidences to oonvmco any parson of tha position taken. Tbe people of Texas want that road, and prefer it lo any other, and nu doubt would aid liberally in Btnok. Now, Mr Editor, it seems that is one of Ihe measures you should keep before the people. As a friei d i your valuable paper, I should like to see Ihe matter "illy discussed, and not only discussed, but oarried ooj! which it surely will be, if the people of Now Orleans are not biiud II ia tbe old adage, there i. on one ao blind a. Ihoae lhat will not aeo; Galveaion and Houalou are starling Iheir railroad to Austin and Ibe northern partnf Texas. Tainria. In llanola and Lavaca are slatting their road lo San Antonio 1 but from their limited means, Ihey are destined to be slow in com- eiiuor ni mem. Notwithstandtrg there I. In lexas a great deal of S'nte pride, yet if New Orleons would make an effort immediately to run a road lo AUSttn (ami bV WnV nf Nntl Amnion ivilh ll.a iot-nlinn of exlendio. it In Inma nnir.t i.n th. Din n... .n..,l. of El Paso, is impracticable, self interest would Influence the people of Ihree-fourtbs of Texas to aid New urieans all that lies in their power. Provided Ihey would run the road much lower down (ban has been heretofore contemplated, It ia reasonable to suppose that no ronto that could be built orossine a ronte leading to your city, would possibly draw off trade from New Orleaua to carry il to any market ibat could possibly exist within Iho limit, of Tela.. There would oon be other roada conatrucled from tho northern pari, of Texaa, leading to the main trunk and annn transmit Ihree-fuurth. of ihe produce of Texas to New Orleans. Besides, the immetias travel nnd mitt rut ion to Texas Would all on that rniitn fw th. Hiffimihi... aou uangera attending Ihe present means of travel ootermany from em'graiins-. The ffrenter oortion ol Texat Would. In a few veara be Bnltleri on hv Induatrt ous and productive citizens, who would aid by their extensive trade and travel more to build up and sus- ,BI" .l,BW uneana man any oi her series ol roads can possibly do. Tha business of such road would fn crease largely annually for generations, and in my bumble ooinion wnnlH nm nn. ,.f .,. ..i..i n. jecta of tbe ago. pE0(, COMMENCEMENT OF THE SHIP CANAL. To our judgment, no work has been com menced this season that is so important, or which promises such vast results to the people ot the Union as that of ihe ship canal around the falls of St. Mary, at what it called the " Saut." The mineral resources of the Lake Superior region are unbounded, but the sreai difficulty io reaching that country has been such as to discourage a general and thorough eff.rt to develop ine wealth in iron and copper. The grantor laud by tbe last Congress, for this work, was one of its best deeds. The work has beeu let. at a fair or ice. to a very enterprising and responsible e- mpany, and will be pushed abend with alt ihe vigor that skill and money can command. Tho Lake Superior Journal publishes ihe following notice of the commencement of Ibis great work. We particularly admire ibe generos-ity of the agent towards the Indians. We have a vivid recollection of those bark wigwams and tbe grounds about them, and think Mr. Hinbt paid all they were worth, even if be bad used thorn himself. The atrip of land between tbe canal and Iho Falls will present a more busy aspect than it did last year. The primitive days of " Saut Sie. Marie " are now past, and it has entered upon an important careen About iu o clock ot Monday morning last, tbo steam-, boat Albany made her appearance, aud came up the1 river with all her colors Hying, and as she n fared the dock the piles of wheel barrows and crowds of men, lo be seen at ber docks, made it evident that at last our hopes were to be real. led in tbe arrival of a strong force of canal workmen. i Mr. Harvey, the contractors' Agent. Cant. Canfield and 0o. Glenu were passengers, accompaaied by ; about 100 men. We learn Ibat a great crowd asaem j bled on the docks at Detroit to witness their departure, ! and the scene was enlivened by llio appearauce of a , unnu ui music. The citiiena of Detroit could well afford to mnk some demonstrations of satisfaction, as no work of bs cost and sire was ever nudertaken which will add to the growth and prosperity of tho City of the Straits, like tbe Saut Ste. Marie Canal. Tbe first disturbance uf the sod was made in the presence of Capt. Canfield, Col. Glenn, Charles W. Chappel and Charles T. Harvey, Esq.. and numerous other gentlemen who chanced to be on tbe ground; aud the first wheel barrow of earth was carried out by Ihe latter gentleman, who, with others, gave utterance to several nppronmtr aertipients on tbe occasion iu the preseuce ol tne mauv wut kuien wuu ... ui iia many wuiti vred and equipped for their great labor, and who seemed, to a man, to be inspired wuu the proper spirit, aud followed the first blow with an earnestness that gave good promise of iis rapid progress. From tbe way in which business has been done by contractors for the last two weeks, we infer that ihey do not iutend to have the work carried on after the ex ample of tho New Yorkers, in their Erie Canal enlargement, but to push it witb all possible despatch. Their General Agent, Mr. Cbas T. Harvey, came on to De ! troit on Tuesday, May 31st, at which date not a man was nired mere, or any preparation made. He was fortunate enough, however, tu secure tbe service! of Mr. Chappel as superintendent of excavation work, aud with his assistance 100 men, suitable tools and C revisions were sont forward on Saturday, arriving ere ai above stated, on Monday last. In lessthau forty-eight boors, the whole furoo were in quarters furnished by the company; a large comfortable shanty, 100 feet by S3, capable of accommodating 100 men, is located at ibe head of the Portage, between ihe Canal and River, and Mr. Harvey provides for some 25 mechanics, &0 , at bis own house, until a suitable boarding house can be built for them. The agent occupies the Indian Agency oniidiugs aud grounds which he is renovating, so as lo make it a comfortable residence. it having been for a long time sadly out of repair. The spacious grounds around il adorned with fine old elms, wiih the beautiful view ot ihe river aud sur rounding country will, with a moderate outlay in need ful and tasteful repairs iuside ami outside, render it a delightful summer residence. Messrs. Corning, Fair banks, Brooks and others, are expected lo pay us a vi-.it daring the present summer. We ibfnk lhat they will find ihe Saut an attractive summer retreat, where they can coin amusement aud health nearly aa readily as they do wealth and influence. The steamer London has just arrived to-day (Salur ! day) loaded mostly with goods for he canal, in charge I of Mr. fi- 0. Hungerford. She bad about 40 000 feel : if assorted lumb-r, cattle, carls, dto., &o., and some i twenty five men for lha canal, about half of whom ara carpenters. Mr Fowlei limber dock was covered with plank as discharged from the boat, and learns have commenced hauling ont goods and luicber. Wa mav expect to see a whole village built on Monday, or at least aa far as tbe lumber will go, as the spot for ihe company's store bouse, barns, shanties, dec, is selected, and would have been commenced before, had the Londsn arrived on Wednrsday as expected. Tbe agent informs ui that his greatest inconvenience has been caused by the non-arrival ol a large lot or wheel barrows from Buffalo, and also a pply of shovels, picks and crowbars from Albany, which he fears bsve gone in some other direction, is over two weeks have passed since they were ord red and shipped. The Indiana living on their res. rvaiiou which ihe Government has taken from ilieiu for oanal purposes without compensating them, were looking at Ibe an crnaobment of the diggers with a Jealous eye, and tar dily preparing In vacate. Mr. Harvey raiher surprised ihem bv calling them ogether and paying them from $10 to ."0 each for heir log bouses aud bark wigami, provided they would remove tn twenty (cur hours, and afterward gave them iheir tenements if ihey would move them away, ine wigwams disappeared tn a tew hours and the log houses foil wed suit. A decided change came over tbe vissgea of iho Indians, who cheerfully removed In other quarters. Though no legal claim held against the contractors for damsgei to ihe lodlsos, yet we do not believe tney win regret having shown a liberal spirit lo a class habitually fiaeoed, without re gard to iheir rights, and for a sum hardly araounilug tu two hundred dollara. Plack! oivb Piaci, mt Mastxrs!" A friend. upon whose veraoity we have every reason to relv, In forms Diogenes, thai for the sic hundred and odd plac in tbe ciiy of New York, now io h. disposed l by the ExTCU.ivi no le an leoen tkovatd hundred and twenty three applicants have presented their claims! Just think ot III Upwards of eleven thousand ptfrioi'i, who rallied for Pierce and the Conetitntum at the ballot-box laat November, doomed inevitably doomed to the most bitter and humiliating dissppolutmeut! Can ihe eiimiuiBiration stand ut will democracy survive the blow f To app'y was bad enough hut to be re fused obi death, where Is thy sling oh I Whiggery. where is thy defeat! Now, Diogenes has entered upon a modest calculation of Ihe influence the seat's are supposeu ui exercise on political parties. He places the result of his labors, formed on the lowest Sv.rag. nf probabili,,, befur. Ih. ,.., portion of th. public-, mere fraction, a. he feel, convinced of the whole. Il is ..id that dissppoinled lev. turn, to the most deadly and mail rnant hatet if to. then msv the spirit of Liberty look down in mercy on ilia United Stales, Number of government planet now vacant, or to ba made vacant, in tbe cily of New York, 618; number of Damocratio applicants for said vacancies, 1 1 .7J3 1 number of friends and lelativas to said appll cants (nllowing tVit to each) who will share to a greater or less extent, in the iutuiiutiion and lost of iheir fondly cherished hopes, 117,9:101 number of ihe "in fluontial persons" whi hive endorsed aud recommended said applicants, and who will naturally be di-gusUd lo find theirprerrfrtrrlerted, (allowing forty endorsers to each claimant) ti 8.0. Total of those. aggrieved by the present ptriuion of Uncle Sam's sugar candies, A07.873. To ihe foregoing figures add the number of Whigs ejeiiied ibe number of relatives and friends positively injured, or tiill further estranged irom uemocraov hy ihe process ol tne guillotine sdd the whole together, and you will form a correct estimate of tha ktud of influence wielded " in fanor of a corrupt government," by tha dispensers of ibe treas ury luavea and fishes. "Whig papers please to oopy." A Y0OIHFDL CUV IE 3. We call attention to the I act that Cincinnati li to furnish to the scientific world one of ibe most accomplished naturalists of tbe day. Wa have fur some time past been much Interested in a young man, a native of ibis city, named W. H B. Thomas. There is nothiug prepossessing in his appearance, on tbe contrary, excepitog a guid eye, be carries an external which might tempt ouo jurt, to iudiit Dame Nature for libel. Meetiog him perhaps among the brilliant throng on Fourth street, wiih an outre gait, a verdant physiognomy, in a partial eclipse from au incipient beard, a slouched hat drawn close over bis forehead, the pockets of his seedy coat distended by a score of botanical preparations, fossil ferns, end geological specimens, (he sombre hue of bis linen advertising ibe deaih of his washerwoman he would moat likely be taken for a country lad from the ho"P pule region, who had ventured a trip on tbe canal in search of ibe terra incognita ' town." Wo first kuew Thomas as a newspaper carrier, fn 1848; his unusual knowledge of botany, geology and zoologv, was iben tbe remark of all. Soon after this be obtained emulovment as au assistant teacher in one of our schools at asalary barely sufficient to buy meal and coal for bis iged mother. We met bim again in oe spring oi ibm, at the utncinnaii meeting or tne American Association for the Advancement of Science, Iu ibe proceedings of this body he look an interest that surprised all whose observation was drawn bv bil eager listening aod large collections of minerals, iilnnta aod fossils. Here he attracted ihe attention ot Professor Beard and Professor Henry, of ihe Smithsonian Institute. We afterwards met him on Mound street, in this city, in the shop of Mr. McKinley, another humble bat enthusiastic decotee of science, of whom the world will yet take note, who had jist finished with bis own bauds and rudu tools, a powerful telescope that Thomas was criticising. For some months past we had seldom met with our ecoenlrio friend, but we encountered him laie last evening at the Little Miami Railroad depota huge black book, labelled 'Notes on .Fossil Infuoria,"uoder one arm, a shirt and pair of socks under the other. He hod just arrived from Washington, and had tn his pocket his commission at naturalist to ihe K-ine Arclio Exploring Expedition, which tails from New York next week. He had applied to Professor Heory for an opportunity to work in the United States Coast Survey, and that gentleman hid procured bis appoint ment to the honorable post in ihe polar expedition, where be ill have the rarest npponunity lo pursue his favorite studies and o place his name among those of distinguished scientific discoverers Mr. T. leaves this evening for New York, where he oins bis ship. We heartily wish bim what he -ml. nently (lesi-rvf-s the highest success Cnrfanai Cms mttcial. Hay 20.A. "Worcester Massachusetts. John Coon, one of Ibe editors of the Clntland Herald, it tojoorning at Worcester. His letter contains some new things that will be of interest to our readers. That cation picker will create a sensatioo IMl works well: The trip from 0 level aud to ibis citv. whi'-h ( fiwf. four miles west ot Boston, has been briiuaht within ihn compass of twenty-tour hours. The dndance Is eight hundred miles making the average speed h rty three miles per hour. This will do. for ihe present. Worcester is appropriately styled " Tho Heart or the Commonwealth." lis position, cbaracierand influence warrant the appellation. It bit a population of 20 000 and is one of the handsomest cities in the United States. The principal street runs along the base ( a range of hills which are beautifully improved wiih chaste. le. gant and expensive residences. The private residence! of Worcester, for beauty, costliness and number exceed those of soy otberclty of about the smie popu ioiiuu. i iicy uispmy an mo improvements and varieties of modern archiieciure, and are tastefully adorned with cultivated gardens. Worcester is a city of mechanics. The beautiful residences just referred to. are the homes, chiiflv. of me chanics. Probably no place so fully illustrates the d en due live energies of mechanical labor as Worcester. Mechanics are important owners ol Bank aod Railroad Stocks, Mechanics, take the lead and give lone and character to all ibe liberal public enterprises for which Worcester is distinguished Even Elihu Burritt.ihe learned blacksmith, is one of ihe results of the Worcester industrial system. Mr. Ethan Allen, of the firm of Allen & Tburher, pistol makers, has just built a residence at an expense of 175 001). It is trolv suialv edifice. The same gentleman has already commenced tne wora preparatory to the construction of a Hotel, which will be built ua aauaie ol magoibceuce unsurpassed.i no mannfacturloR establishments of Worcester ara worked nearly altogether by neam power, ibere being no available water current. Nearly all the extensive concerns are the proprietors of ibeir own ei'abliih- mems; nui noi utitrequenUy extensive machine shops are constructed and fitted up wiib powerful steam an-it lues and gearing, and the whole leased to any number of individuals for various kinds of works. Each tenant pays, in addition to ten cents n, r mniM r.t shop rent, for alt the power employed iu his business. Tbe power ia measured by horse-power, and itiete la a curiously contrived power ntter, fur ihe measurement of tbe power consumed by each tenant. It works with the convenience and accuracy of a gusotneter. Worcester is ihe leading Workshop nf all New England. Not all Ihe manulactirrers of Ynnk-e land are made here, but nearly all tbe Hianufao'uriog machinery. Here ara made " the toolt" that made ihe Yarkea notions from a mammoth locomotive to a hook and-eye. There is always some labor saving novelty attracting attention here. Just now tbere ,re two inven tions brought lorwird which Seem destlaed to work important changes in slave labor and in the cit ,f olo thing One ii a Cotton Picker, and the o ber a Sewing Machine, The firmer 1b a machine having an internal organism moved by a clock spring. lis external form 19 iu i oi an acute augien inangie won io equal sin nearly four tent long, the third side being about one toot. An endless rhsin is made lo pass over the acuta angle, the chain being so made as tosetxe. at that point, subsiance of the nature of cotton, and convey it to lha other end of the machine, where it is dropped Into a bag. The machine is bung by a strap over ibe shoul der, and it ta made lo do the work of ten men it lha field. Tho sewing machine Is in Instrument of great efficiency and greal ixteihgmee. It ia a new and improved machine, very simple in Its structure and vary rapid In It! work. It ii calculaied to do all sorts of works, as well as harness making as tha stnehing of purple and fine lioen. It will take nine hundred stitch cs per minute. THINGS AT HI AO AHA 7 ALU. Tho following account of the present doings-at the Falls, wo find in the New York Tttbunei The building nf the Great Western Railroad from Detroit across Canada, aud Ihe Railroad from Rochester, have now given a start to everything at the Falls, and ihe place must henoeforth rapidly advance fn numbers of people and in industrial production. Tha present suspension bridge being strong enough only to carry over ordinary carriages, new one is lo be built for ihe use of tho trains. This bridge is lo be 95 feet in width, having a gla railroad track, wiih a footpath on each side. It will hang directly over the present una, 90 feet higher tn Ibe a r, V hen It is completed lha frontier line will be abolished ro far as tbe railroads ara concerned, and passengers may be landed opposite Detroit from the oars in which ibey tske tholr seats at Albany, having orosied tha furious Niagara upon wires, 330 fset above its bed. Another great work now going on In that vicinity, fa the cutting of a railroad track from Just below lha Falls to Lewlston. In the gorge of ibe rier itself. For the greater pa-tof tbe way il is out In ibe hard lime stone, and when It is completed, tha cars will roll along to their destination, with the precipitous roots, rising on one hand, and tha whirling, foaming abyss nf the river, at the foot of a second precipice, on tbe oth er. Tha entire descent tn be accomplished ii ihrea hundred and t waive feet, giving a grade of about eighty feet to the mile, Tha shanties and laborera line tha bank, and lha constant clink of drills, the sound nf blaring, and tba crash of exploded rocks as ihey fall ibrough tha treea of the gorge and plunge into the depths below, dally invade ibe majesty nf nature with the advance of a power to which even Niagara and Its precipices mosl became subservient, lha power of industry. In a few "Z Z " J lm " p V l,,co lB ?TtlS"la months tha shriek of Ihe locomotive will resound la np and down Its side. Another admirable enterprlte now executing, fa a hydraulio canal and basin, intended to furnish water power at some distance below lha village, and a mile, perhsps, from tha oatnract itself There will ba do limit to the power whirh can he furnished In this manner, and a treat manufacturing centre must grow up there, sufficiently remote from the Falls to leave their sublimity unaffected by mills and other works of mere prosaic utility a consideration of great weight In many minds. We are sorry to say that Goat Island ts not aa well XU"Z'Z. ' 'V k,? ZllXL Jul. t ' i .? Tr i'"" , " 'h ?J? , .JF t, . 1 J" . "d ?f " neglected. There are no gaid paths; bsneaih tha majestic trees a tangled undergrowth, or decaying Hunks arrest the Bteps uf the wanderer; and nowhere is mere a oeo oi nowers or any other evidence lhat tha band of man oherishes Ihe spot and loves lo heighten and adoru ill beauiy. Tha visitors who resori lo tl must pay aoonsuersbie income lo tu proprietors for tho privilege of crossing the bridge, and wa submit ibat Iho latter ought to beautify il it It deserves. Ls.t week an Iowa editor " jost to try his read era,' published a chapter from lha Songs of Solomon. Tha uext day one of bis patrons addn ssed a complimentary letter, concluding as follows i ' Devilish good. Who wmte it, noi Rob Him arson, did hV Iowa, we should think from Ibis, offers a fine field for plowing up of our missionary friends. We bnpa they will attend lo It, Our neighbor of ihe Democrat says ihe Whig party can't work well without a head. That Is mora Ihin weoan say of the Democratic party. The sort of work they can do oan ba done just as wall without a head al with one.lrffffiUi Journal, N