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MY FATHER.
by henry r. jackson.
As die the embers on the hearth,
And o'er the floor the shodows faH,
And creeps the chirping cricket forth. '
And ticks the death-watch in the wall,
I sea a form in yonder chair
That grows beneath the waning light:
Titers are the wan. sad features-there
The pallid brow and locks of white.
My Father! when thej laid thee down.
And heaped the "clay upon thy breast,
And left thee sleeping all alone
Cpon thy narrow couch of rest,
I know not why I coald not Weep,
The soothing drops refased to roll,
And oh: that grief is wild and deep,
Which settles tearless on the soul.
But when I saw thy vacant chair,
Tbine idle hat upon the wall,
Thy book—the pencilled passage where
_ Thine eye bad rested last of all—
The tree beneath whose friendly shade
Thy trembling feet had Wandered forth,
The very prints those feet had made
When last they feebly trod the earth.
And thought, while countless ages fled.
Thy vacant seat would vacant stand—
Unworn thy hat—thy book unread—
ESawed thy footsteps from the sand;
And widowed in the cheerless world,
Tito heart that gave its love to thee:
Torn like the vino whose tendril!# curled
More closely round the falling tree.
©hi Father! then for her and thee.
Gushed madly forth the seorch'iftg tears:
■And oft, and long, and bitterly
Those<teara>have gushed in later years;
For as the world grows cold around.
And chings take on their real hue,
'TIS sad to le trn that love is found
Alone a bore the stars with you.
Cholera, or Something as Bad.—The Spring-
field (Illinois) Journal, of May 19th, says:
"On Wednesday last. Wm. rfaileydied in Old
Town (lower part of Springfield) of a disease
resembling cholera. This death was soon fol-
lowed by six others within a few rods circuit—
most of them in Glenn's Old tavern.
On examination. that place was found in the
most filthy condition, inhabited, it is said, by
some ten families, comprising forty persons.
Drunkenness aud filth were the presiding genius
of the place.
We have heard of but one new case since Sat-
urday. A man who had been drunk for several
days was taken with the disease on that day.
The corporation have been doing what they
can Iw burning tar and scattering linae to cleanse
this fountain of pollution and death, 'lire peo-
ple of the house have left.
We have but little apprehension of the disease
spreading."
> THE POWER OF PATIENCE. .
byt. s. arthur.
J have a Very excellent friend who married
«om£ ten years ago, and-now has heribwn cares
and trobles in a duuiesiic establishment. consis-
ting of her husband and herself, five children,
and two servants. 'Like a large majority of
those similarly situated. Mrs. Martinet bods
her natural stock of patience altogether inade-
quate to the demand therefor : and that there is
an extensive demand, will be at once inferred
when I mention that four of her five children
are boys.
! do not think Mrs. Martinet's family gov-
ernment by any means perfect, though she has
certainly very much improved it. and get-* on
with far more cuts fort tu herself and all arouud
than she did For the improvement at which
1 have hinted. I take some credit to myself,
though I.am by no means certain, that, were 1
situated as my friend is, I shoal 1 govern my
family as well as she governs hers. 1 am aware
that a maiden lady, like myself, young or old it
matters not to tell tba reader which, can look
down from the (fuiet regions where she lives,
and see how easy it would be for the wifo and
aether to reduce all to order in her turbulent
household. But 1 am at the same time con-
scious of the difficulties that beset the wife and
mother in the incessant, exhausting, and health
destroying nature of her duties, and how her
mind, from these causes, must naturally lose
its clear-seeing qualities when most they are
needed, and its calm and even temper wheit its
exercise is of most consequence. Too littlo 1-
I have seen a wife and mother thus situated,
betrayed into a hasty expression or lose her
self-command so far as to spgak with fretful
impatience to a child, who rather needed to be
soothed by a calmly spoken word; and I have
seen her even-minded husbafhd, who knew not
what it was to feel a pain, or to suffer from nerj
vous prostration, reprove that wife with a look
that called ihe tears to her eyes. J-he was
wrong, but he was wiong in a greater degree.
The over-tried wife needed her husband's sus-
taining patience, and gently spoken counsel,
not his cold reproof.
Husbands, as far as my observation gives me
the ability to judge, have far less consideration
for, and patience with their wives, than they
are entitled to receive. If any should know
best the wive s trials, sufferings, and incessant
exhausting duties, it is the husband, and he,
of all others, should be the last to censure, if,
from very prostration of body avid mind, she be
sometimes betrayed into hasty words, that gen-
erally do more harm among children and do-
mestics than total silence in regard to what is
wrong. But this is a disgression.
One day I called to see Mrs. Martinet, and
found her in a very disturbed state of mind.
'I am almost worried to death, Kate!'' she
flftjd, anon aftey I camp in. . . ..
"You look Unhappy," I returned. "What has
happened ?"
"What is always happening," she replied.
"Scarcely a day passes over my head that my
patience is not tried to the utmost. I must^let
every body in the house do just as he or she
likes, or else there is a disturbance. I am not
allowed to speak out my own mind, without
someone's being offended."
! "It is a great trial, as well as responsibility
to have the charge of a family," I remarked.
"Indeed, and you may well say that, no one
knows what it is but she who has the trial.
The greatest trouble is with your domestics.
As a class, they are, with few exceptions, dirty,
careless and impudent. I sometimes think it
gives them pleasure to interfere with your
bous^sold arrangements, and throw all into dis-
order: This seems especially to be the spirit
of my present, cook. My husband is particular
about having his meals at the hour, and is nev-
er pleased when irregularities occur, although
be does not often say anything; this I told Han-
nab, when 8he first came, and have scolded her
about being behind band a dozen times since;
and yet we do not have a meal at the hour of-
tenerthan two or three times a week.
"This morning Mf . Martinet asked me if I
wouldn't be" particular in seeitig that dinner
was on the table exactly at two o'clock. As
soon as b« was gone, f went down into the
kitchen and said,' Do.for mercy's sake. Hannah,
have dinner ready at thp hour to-day. Mr.
Marinet particularly desires it.' Hannah aiade
no answer. It is one of her disagreeable hab-
its when you speak to her. -Did you hear ir,e V
I asked, quite out of patience with her. The
creature looked up at me with an impudent
face and said, pertly, *l'm not deaf.' -Then
why didn't you answer me when I.spoke? It's
a very ugly habit that you have of not replying
when any one addresses you. How is it to be
known that you hear what is said '!' The spirit
in which Hannah met my request to have din-
ner ready in time, satisfied me that she would
so manage as to throw it off beyond the regular
hour. 1 left the kitchen feeling, as you may
well suppose, exceedingly worried." •
Just then the door of the room in which w4
were sitting was thrown open with a bang, abff
in bounded Harry, Mrs. Martinet's eldest boy—
a wild young scape-grace of a fellow—and
whooped out some complaint against his sister.
His mother, startled and annoyed by the rude
interruption ordered him to leave the room in-
stantly. But Harry stood hia ground without
moving an eyelash. ' •
"Do you bear !"' And Mrs. Martinet stamped
with her foot to give stronger emphasis to her
words.
t:Lizzy snatched my top-cord out of my hand,
and won't give it to me."
'. Go out of this room !*'
"Shan't Lizzie give me my top-card V' •
"Go out, I tell you !"
want my top-cord."
"Go out !"
My poor friends face was red, and her voice
was trembling with passion.
With each renewed order for the child to leave
the roojp, she stomped with her foot upon the
floor. Harry, ifttead of going out as he was
directed to do, kept advancing nearer and nea-
rer, as he repeated his complaint, until ho
came close up to where we were sitting.
"Didn't I tell you to go out!" exclaimed his
mother losing all patience.
As she spoke, she arose hastily, and seizing
him by the arm, dragged, rather than led him
from the room.
"1 never, saw such a child!" she said, re-
turning after closing the door upon Harry.
"Nothing does but force. You might talk to
him all day without moving him an inch when
ho gets in one of these moods."
Bang! went the door open, and,
"I want my top-cord!" followed in " louder
and more passionate tones than before.
'•Isn't it beyond.alf endurance!" cried my
friend, springing up and rushing across the
room.
The passionate child, who had been spoiled
by injudicious management, got a sound whip-
ping and was shut up in a room by himself.
After performing this rather unpleasant task,
Mrs Martinet returned to the parlor, flushed,
excited, and trembling in every nerve.
"I expect that boy will kill me yet," she
said, as she sunk panting into a ohair. "It is
surprising how stubborn ami self-willed he
grows. I don't know how to account for it.
He never has his own waj-—I never yield an
inch to him when he gets in these terrible hu-
mors. <5h dear! I feel sometimes like giving up
in despair."
I did not make a reply, for I could not
say any tbffcg that would not have been a re-
proof of hcrimpatient temper. After my friend
had grown calmer, she renewed her narrative
about the dinner.
•;As I was saying, when that boy interrup-
ted us. I left the kitchen very much worried,
and felt* worried all the morning. Several
times 1 went down to see how things were com-
ing on. but it w.v> plain that Hannah did not
mean to have dinner at the hour. Wrhen it
was time to put the meat on toToast, the fire
was all drown in the range. Half an hour was
lost iu renewing it. Ae I expected, whenSny
husband came home for his dinner, at the reg-
ular time, the table was not even sot.
'•Bless me!" he said, 'isn't dinner ready? I
told you that I wished it at the hour, particu-
larly. I have a business engagement at hal-
past two, tliat must be met. It is too bad! I
am out of all patience with these irregularities.
I can't wait of course."
"And saying this, Mr. Martinet turned upon
his heel and left the house. As you may sup-
pose, I did not feel very comfortable, nor in a
very good humor with Hannah. When sho
made her appearance to net the table which
was not for a quarter, of an hour. I gave her
about as good a setting down. 1 reckon, as she
lowanee, I am satisfied, is made for the mother, 1 «ver bad in he^lit'e. Of course I was paid back
who. with a shattered nervoOs system, and suf- j 'n imftudence which I could not stand and
fering, too often from physical prostration, is therefore gave her notice to quit. If ever a
«ver in the midst of her little family of rebUess j woman was tried beyond endurance, [ am. My
spirits, and compelled to administer tb<-ir j very life is becoming a burden to me. The
JtbOQ8and wants to gui le, guard, prefer., ' - worst part of it is, there is no prospect of a
, rn, tand rest ran, f heir evil passions. w!i „f change for the better. Tilings, instead of grow-
all fyjii>4S. repose aud Hu'ei, of body and ,..ind j ifg better, grow worse." «■
for a brief season, would be thi gnat/o .t j '-It is not so bad as that, I hope," I could not
could ask. | |iejp remarking. "Have you never thought of
a remedy for the evils of which you complain ?"
"A remedy, Kate! What remedy is there !'
"If not a remedy, there is, I am sure, a pal
liative." I returned, feeling doubtful of the ef-
fect of what I had it in my mind tg express
j)Jrs. Martinet looked at me curiously.
"What is the remedy or palliative of which
you speak ? Name it for goodness sake ! Like
a drowning man I will clutch it if it be bnt a
straw."
"The remedy is Patience.''' My voice slight-
ly faltered as 1 spoke.
Instantly ths color deepened on the face of
Martinet. But our close intimacy, and her
knowledge of the fact that I was really a friend
prevented her from being offened
"Patience!" she said, after she had a little
recovered herself. "Patince is no remedy.
To endure is not to cure."
''In that perhaps, you are mistaken," I re-
turned. "The effect of patience is to cure
domestic evils. A calm exterior,' and
a gentle, yet firm voice, will in nine cases in
ten, cffect more than the most passionate
outbreak of indignant feelings; I have seen
it tried over and over again, and I am sure of
the effect." , ~
"I should like to have seefn the eiffect of a
gentle voice upon my Harry just now."
"Forgive me for saying," 1 answered to
this "that .in my opinion, if you had met his
passionate outbreak at the wrong he had suf-
fered in the loss of his top-cord, in a different
manner from what you did, that the effect
would have been of a like different cha-
racter."
"My friend's face colord jpore deeply,
and her lips trembled. But she nad good sense,
and this kepthec from being offended at what
I said. I wenlfon—
"There is no virtue more necessary in the
management of a household than patience.
It accomplishes almost every thing. Y.et it
is a hard virtue to practice, and I am by no
means sure that if 1 were in your place I
would practice it any better than yon do. But
it is of such vital importance to the order,
comfort, and well being of a family to be able
patiently and calmly to meet every disturbing
and disorderly circumstance, that is worth a
struggle to attain the state of mind requisite
to do so. To meet passion with passion does
no good, but harm. The mind, when disturb-
ed from any cause, is disturbed more deeply
when it meets an opposing mind in a similar
state. This is as true of children as of grown
persons aud pherhaps more so, for their rea-
son is not matured, and therefore, there is
nothing to balance their minds. It is also
more true of those who have not learned, from
reason, to control themselves, as is the case
with too large a portion of our domestics;
who need to be treated with almost as much
forbearance and' consideration as children."
These remarks produced a, visible effect upon
Mrs. Martinet.. She became silent and re-
flective, and continued so, to a great extent,
during the half hour that I remained.
Nearly two weeks elapsed before I called
upon my friend again. 1 found her, happily,
in a calmer state of|mind than upon my previ-
ous visit. We were in the midst of a pleasant
conversation, half an hour after Iliad come in
when one of the children, a boy between seven
and eight years old, came into the room and
made some complant against his brother. The
little fellow was excited, and' broke in upon
our quiet chit chat with a rude jar that I felt
quite jjensibly. 1 1 expected, of course, to hear
him OKiored from the room instantly. That
had been my friend's usual proceeding when
these interruptions occurred; at least it had
been so when 1 happened to be a visitor. But
instead of this, she said in low, mild, soothing
voice.
"Well never mind, Willy. You stay in
the parlor with us, where Harry can't trouble
you."
This was just the proposition, above all
others, to please the child. His face bright-
ened, and he came and nestled up closely to
his mother, who was sitting on a corner of
the sofa. Drawing an arm around him, she
went on with the rearmks, she happened to
be'making when the interruption of his en-
trance occurred. No very long time had
elapsed before tho parlor door flew open, and
Harry entered, asking, as he did so, in a loud
voice, for Willy.
"Willy is here. What do you want with
him?" said the mother, in a quiet, but firm
tone.
"I want him to come and play."
"You were not kind to Willy, and he
doesn't wish to play with you."
"Confs Willy and play, and 1 will be kind,'
said Harry.
"Will youl«t me be master sometimes?"
asked the llittle fellow, raising himself up
from where he had remained seated beside his
mother.
"Yes, you shall be master sometimes."
"Then I'll play," and Willy sprung from
the sofa and bounded from the room, as hap-
py as he could be.
The mother smiled, and looking into my
faoe as soon as we were alone, said —
"You see, Kate, that I am trying your re
inedy, patienoo."
"With most happy results, I arm glad to
see."
"With better results than 1 could have
believed, certainly. Gcntlene-?, consider-
ation, and firmness, I fiud do a great deal
and their exercise leaves my mind in a good
state. There is a power in patience that 1
did not believe it possessed. 1 can do more
by a mild spoken word, than by the most
emphatic command uttered in a passion.
This is the experience of a few weeks. But,
lias! Kate to be able to exercise patience—
bow hard a thing that is! It requires con-
. jtant watchfulness and a constant effort.
Every hour 1 find myself betrayed into the
i jtterance of some hasty word, and feel its
powcrlessness compared to those most gently
spoken."
"Do you get on with your domestics any
better th|n you did?"
"Oh, yes? Far better."
"I suppose you have sent Hannah away
eiome time ago?"
"No. I have her yet."
"Indeed!"
"Yes, and she does very well."
"Does Bhe get your meals
tiine?"
"She is punctual to the minute "
ideally she must have chauged for the bet-
ter! And is this, too, the result of patience
and forbearance on your part.-"
'V suppose so. What you said in rcta 1
it, the more satisfied was I that yon were
right. But it was one thing to see the use of
patience, and another thing to exercise it.
To be patient amid the turbulent, ill-tempers,
and disobedience of children, and the irregu-
larities, carelessness and neglect of domestics,
seem a thing impossible. 1 wish in this state
of doubt as to my ability to cxercise the
virtue so much needed in my household,
when Hannnh came to the door of the room
where I was sitting in no happy mood, and
notified me of some want in the kitchen in an
exceedingly provoking ways I was about re-
plying sharply and angrily; but tuldenly
checking myself, said in a quiet, mild way,
"Very well, Hannah. 1 will see that it is
supplied."
"The girl stood for some moments looking
at me with an expression of surprise on her
face and then walked away. This was a vic-
tory over myself, and I frit, also, over her.
Not half an hour elapsed, before, on passing
near the kitchen, she said to me, in a very
respectful manner:
"I forgot to tell you this morning, that the
tea.was all out. Bnt 1 can rnn round to the
store and get some in a few minutes."
"Do so if you please Hannah," I returned,
without evincing the slightest feeling of an-
noyance at her neglect; '^nd try, if you can,
to have tea ready precisely at six o'clock.'
"I will have it ready, ma'am,' she replied.
And it was ready. . ,
"Had I not exercised patience and self-
control, the interview would have been some-
thing after this fashion: About ten minutes
before tea time, Hannah would have come to
me aud said, with provoking coolnt^s— •
"The tea's all out.'
"To which I would have replied sharp-
ly—
"Why in the name of goodness, did not
you say so this morning? You knew that
you had used the last drawing! I declare
you are the most provoking creature I ever
knew. You'll have to go to the storfe and
gertome.' .
"I'm notTH^to be seen in the street,' she
would iu all probability have replied.
"And then I, losing all patience, wbuld
have soundly scolded her, and.gained nothing
but a sick head-ache, perhaps, for my pains.
Tea, in all probability, would have been
served about eight o'clock. You see the
difference."
"And a very material one it is."
"Isn't it? As you well said, there is a
power- in patience undreamed of by those who
seek not its exercise. Next morning, when
I had any occasion to speak to Hannah, I did
so with much mildness; and if I had tccasion
to find fault, requested a change rather than
enuiiciated a reproof; The girl changed as
if by magic. She became respectful in her
manner toward me, and evinced a constant
anxiety to do every thing as I wished to have
it done. Not onca since have we had a meal
as much as ten minutes later than the ap-
pointed time."
1 could not but express the happiness 1
felt at the change, and urged my excellent
friend to persevere. This*she has done, and
the^ whole aspect of things in her family
has changed.
There are times, however, when from ill
health, or a return of old states, she recedes
again to fretfulness; but the reaction upon
her is so immediate and perceptible, that, she
is driven in self-defence to patience and for-
arauce, the result of which is order and
quiet in her family just in the degree that
patience and forbearance ire exercised.
ready
cause, you kuo^ it is especially the lady's pro-
vince here. An English woman with no taste
for gardening, would be as great a marvel as
an angel without wings. And now, were these
fresh looking girls, who have so thoroughly
entered into these rustic enjoyments, mere
country lasses and dairy maids? By no means.
They will converse with you in three or four
languages; are thoroughly well grounded in
modern literature; sketch from nature with
the ease of professional artists, and will sit
down to the piano-forte and give you an old
ballad or the very finest Germaq or Italian
music, as your taste may dictate. And yet
many of my young country-women of their age,
whose education—wholly intended for the
drawing-room—is far below what I here des-
cribed, would have half fainted with terror,
and half blushed with false delicacy, twenty
times in the course of the morning, with the
discussions of the farm-yard, meadow and
stables, which properly belong to a wholesale
country life, and are not in the slightest de-
gree at variance with real'delicacy and refine-
ment. I very well| know thatj^ejre are many .
sensibly educated young women atTiome, who
have the same breadth of cultivation, and the
same variety of resources, that make the En-
glish women such truly agreeable companions;
but alas' I also know that there a^e many
whose beau ideal is bounded by a circle that
contains the latest fashionable dance for the
feet, the latest fashionable novel for the head,
and the latest fashionable fancy work for tho
fingeYs.
TELEGRAPHED XO THE JffEW ORLEANS PICAYUNE
arrival at new york of '
THE NORTH AMERICA AND EMPIRE CITY
from california.
Important prom Hayti.
, New York, June 2—Ad vices from Jacm el,
May 18th, annoudce that the Emperor had
one week allowed him to sign a treaty, which,
if refused by him, Porte-au-Prince would be
blockaded.
From. Buenos Ayres.—Late advices from
Buenos Ayres. report that a large number of
provinces ha4 refused to accept the resigna-
tion of Rosacp '* I
furth^r^flfhk Washington.
The Pacifiqiirrived out in nine days and
nineteen' bour^^^^^ ; - ,
L3-& Decline in flour.
I o^t on Saturday after-
The Humboldt reached
Consols 97T\j
The Asiaar
noon, 17th ult.
Cowes the 18th.-
The Great Exhibition progresses favorably.
The receipts, including season tickets, are
$15,000 per day. t
The overland mail reached London the
19th. India was tranqil.
Constantinople letters announces the aon-
clusion of the amnesty question. Kossuth
and five others are excluded.
Much attention is excited in Paris, by the
determination of the Legitimists to proposc(r)
Louis Napoleon.
Two fatal accidents had occurred in Lon-
on, by which several- lives were lost.
ENGLISH WOMEN IN THE COUN-
TRY.
In a late number of tho Horticulturist is a
letter, written by Downing, the American
landscape gardener, who is visiting a country
house of a distinguished family in England.
We make the following extract:
There are other guests in the house—Sir
Charles M , Lady P, some Irish
ladies without titles, (but so rich in natural
gifts as to make one feel the poverty of mere
rank,) and a charming family of grown up
daughters. It would be difficult, perhaps,
to have a better opportunity to judge of the
life of the educated middle class of this coun-
try, than in such homes as this. And what
impressions do such examples make upon my
mind, you will ask? I will tell you, (not with-
out rememberiug how many fair young readers
you have at home.) There young English^
woman is less conspicuously accomplished than*
our young woman of the same position in
America. There is, perhaps, a little less ^ of
that jene scais quoi—that nameless grace which
captivates at first sight—than with us but a
better and more solid education, more disci-
plined minds and above all more common
sense. In the whole art of conversation, in-
cluding all the important topics of the day,
with so much of politics as makes a woman
really a companion for an intelligent man in
his serious thoughts, in history , language and
practical knowledge of the duties of social and
domestic life, the English flfomen have. 1 im-
agine, few superiors.
But what* perhaps would strike oft<5 of our
young womou most, in English society, would
j be the thorough cultivation and refinement t'uat
I exist here, along with the absence of all false
! delicacy. The fonduess of English women,
(even in the highest tank,) for out of door
lite, horses, dogs, fine cattle, animals of all
kinds—for their grounds, and in short every-
thing that belongs to their homes— their real,
unaffected knowledge of and pleasuraan these
things, and the unreserved way in-which they
talk about them, would startle gome of my
young friends at home, who are educated in
the fashonable boarding-school of Madauie
, to consider all such things "vulgar,"
and "unladylike." I accompanied the youn-
ger of the family hero this morning, in an
exploration of the mysteries of the place. J<io
sooner did wo make our appearanco out of
doors, than we were saluted by dogs of all
degrees, and each had the honor of an intt r-
view and persoua! reception, which seemed to
be productive of pleasure on both sides. Th en
some of the horses were brought out of ^vhe!
stable—and a parley took place between th em
and their fair mistresses; some favorite c< >ws
were to be petted and looked after, and tl ieir
points were descanted on with knowledge and
discrimination; and there was the basse cowr
with its various population, all discussed aud
wifh such
LATE FROM CALIFORNIA,
iown with sueti lively, unaff cted intei est,
to ha vinar patience, at your last visit, struck ! (but 1 soon saw my fair coinpauion was1 born
me fo reibly, and caused me to feel humbl -d 1 to love pigs and chickens.
and st Ut-condemued. The more I thought of 1 J have said nothing about the garden, bo-
Mining and other Business Improving.
New York, June 3.—The North^ Ameri-
ca has arrived at New York, with dates from
San Francisco to the 1st of May. She
brings 200 passengers and eight hundred
thousand dollars in gold.
The steamers Oregon, Union and Republic
have arrived at Panama, with two millions!
in gold. The Falcon had not reached Pana-t
ma.
The prospects of miners were improving icu
California, and rich harvests were being reap •
ed. ,
The muncipal elections in San Francisco]
had resulted favorably to the Whigs.
•Snows continue on the mountains, and.
many were frozen to death.
The U. S. Commissioners were makingi
good progress in forming treaties with the
Indians.
The Legislature adjourned on the 30thi
April. Lynch \aw still continues.
Business prospects were encouraging; good,
arriving freely. • '
T^io rainy season had set in on the Isth
VdUS.
The Empire City has also arrived at New
York, with 350 passengers, and nearly two
millions in gold dust.
Cotton.—The frost accounts taken out by
x the Asia had no ejfect on tho Liverpool cot-
tou market, which closed dull at unchanged
prices.
New York markets are unchanged.
ARRIVAL OF THE WASHINGTON.
by the people's (o'rielly] line.)
Baltimore, May 30.—M. de Sartiges, th
new French Minister, was presented to Presi
dent Fillmore yesterday. , Complimentar.
speeoh.es were dilivered on each side.
The Methodist Church Case.—The gres
Methodist Church case in New York has com
to an end. It is supposed that the decisio
of the judges will be in favor of the claimants.
' \
TbY THE people's (o'RIELLY LINE.]
\ More of the Asia's News.
New Yok, June 4.—The steamship As:
made her passage in ten days and sixtei
hours. Americau stocks were firm. Mat
chester market unsettled. 1 he political new i
generally unimportant.
Portugal— The accounts from Lisbon ai :
ttipt the Queen has issued a decree annullin
the former dismissal of Saldanha. The Count
de Thomar has been dismissed from tie Ebb- •
bassy to Madrid. " ^ >
France.—It is generally believedthat a rerifr-
ion of the French constitution will take place
Both Legitimists and Democrats show a dh- %
position t6 compromise, which will probably
lead to removal {Query.—Renewal] of the
President's power.
Spain.—The elections, at Madrid have re-
sulted favorably to die Government.
Austria.—There bas been a disastrious
flood at Vienna.
Shipping.—New Orleans vessels: At Liver-
pool, Empire, Maine, Blamorel. Virgins,
Is-aac Newton, Cresent, Excelsior, William,
Pierre, Clarrissa Currier, Kennebec Warbler,
and H. B. Boody. At Havre, Minaesota,
Nimrod and Adams. At Gibraltar, Jeddem.
At Genoa, Carolina. - At Bordeaux, Gorges.
At THWJ!B"T5rioni. -
Off Dover, Magdalena, from New Orleans.
Pif tsburg, June 4, p. m.—Scant five feet
in the river and falling.
Louisville, June 4, v. m.—Sales this week
of North Alabama and Mississippi cotton, I,-
100 bales, at 8c., common 7c. Provisions doll.
Mess Pork nominal at $14 on time. The
river has commenced falling. Five feet four
inches on the falls. Arrived to-nigbt( the
Alex. Scott. Departed, the Belle Key and
Lexington.
There has been a great freshet in the Wa-
bash. The river was six miles wide at Vincen-
nes
Flour is dull at $3 50 from the wharf for
superfine. Bacon dull. Bagging and rope tol-
erably brisk—merchantable article 11 1-2a 12,
and 5 3-4 a 6, on time; superior brands 121-4 a
12 1-2, and 9 l-4c. Whiskey declining: raw
sold to-day 19 1-4 a 19 l-2c. Tobacco very
dull, and drooping.
There have been 152 deaths by cholera here,
contracted on the river. Warren, clerk of the
Fanny Smith, is one of the victims.
New York, June 4.—The Connecticut Leg-
islature has balloted twice for U. S. Senator
without effecting an election. Seymour, Dem,
had 105; Baldwin, Wrhig and Free Soil,. 69
These last figures are doubtful.} The election
has been postponed for one week.
New Yore, June 4.—Baring's circular quotes
Ceylon coffee 1 a 2s. cheaper. Sugars 9d. a Is.
lower. Tobacco dull; but with no cbange in
prices.
New York, June 5.—Fabre 4* Co., cotton
brokers, have failed for about $300,000.
Freights are .declining.
In the case of the 6lave Shadrach, to-day, at
[ton, judge Sprague charged the jury with
great ability in support of the fugitive slave
law.
Baker, Dem., has been chosen Speaker of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives*
A dozen buildings have been burned at Ban-
gor, Me.
Advices have been received from Rio Janeiro
to the 30th (qu. March.) The fever was very
bad among the shipping,
Accounts have been received at New Bedford
of the murder of Capt. Luce and crew, of the
whale ship Buoy, of Rhode Island, by the sava-
ges of the Caroline Islands. ^
[ay the Morse new Orleans ano ohio liheJ
St. Louis, June 3, p. m.—Heavy rains this,
morning and indications of more.
Market dull and unchanged. Tobacco,- lugs*
$2 to 3 20, $3 40 to 4 50, leaf $4 10 to 6 50.—
Hemp $70 to 79. Flour, superfine country, $3
40 to 3 80. Wheat 75 to 82c. Corn mixed,
32c., fellow 37c. Oats 30 to 33c. Provisions-
dull. Bacon, hams, 8 l-4e., shoulders 6 3-4e.
River here still 4rising rapidly. It has rise
16 inchcs in twenty-four hours, and is now 12'
feet below the great flood of 1844.
The Missouri rising rapidly. DespatoBo*
from the. Upper Missouri say there were heavy
rains yesterday. The bottoms below St. Joseph
are already under water, and the Missouri was-
never known so high at this season. Weather
cool aiftl pleasant.
N-vthville. June 3, p. m.—Weather clear
and pleasant. Hard rain Sunday—^Considerable
hail fell in the vicinity of this oity.
Market remains inanimate. Demand for cot-
ton good, but holders have withdrawn stock—
unwilling to sell at preent ratea. Tobacco un-
changed.
Yicksburg, June 3, p. Missouri passed
down. 2 1-2 P. M.; Natches No. 2 passed down,.
5 1-2 P. M.; St James passed down, 5 1-2 P. M.
Weather warm and dry. lliver rising.
[by the southern (morse) line ]
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ASIA.
DECLINE IX COTTOW.
New York. June 4.—The Cunard steamship
I Asia has arrived form Liverpool with dates to
the 24th ult. She brings news of a decline of
1-4 in cotton; fair Orleans 61-2, The sales o f
| the week amounted to 41,000 bales.
Flour and corn had declined 6d. Provisions
were active; pork scarce; baoon easier, sugar
easier : molasses in fair demand. Trade at Man
| Chester was dull.
French Affairs.—The Legitimists in France
have avowed an intention to restore the Mon-
archy.
Germany.—The Dresden Conference has dis-
solved without effecting anything.
THE ASIA'S sews,
[Although the following despatch velates to
the same news as that contained in the above,
we give our readers the benefit of it beoause it
j differs slightly.]
New York, June 4.—The Aria has arrived.
Cotton at Liverpool has declined 1-4 to 3-8.
The sales of the week amount to 44,000 bales.
| Fair Mobile 6, Orleans 6 1-2,
New York, June 3.—Flour is low; common
I $4 00. Corn has declined; mixed 56 to 58c.
| Pork and lard lower. Freights 3-16.
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