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A TARS OF THE SIOXTEVIDEAN WAR.
'What insolence !' These words were uttered by a
lovely woman whose flushed check, flashing eye, and
knitted brow spoke even more than the words of indig-
nation which filled her heart.
She was tho young wife of Commodore Coe, the
- commander of the small navy of Montevideo. The
lady was Spanish by birth, an well as in feeling ; and
the cause of her anger was the sight of a ship which
had been standing off and on before the har-
bor, using every signal of insult and defiance
to induce the vessel of Coe to come out and
light him. This the latter could not do, for
two reasons. The first was illness which
confined him to his cot ; the second, that he
had not one-third of a crew; not even men e-
nough to work his battery.
At the moment when she uttered the words
which commenced this sketch, Brown, the
commander of the Buenos Ayrean ship, had
hoisted a flag at his gaff, whereon was em-
broidered, in largp legible letters, the inscrip-
tion : "Coe, the Coward I" This was.
more than this noble, fiery wife could stand ;
for she knew her husband's truth and valor-
After gazing one instant at the flag, she rais-
ed her jeweled hand; taking therefrom a dia-
mond of great value, she said to the officers
and men who stood around her on the deck,
"I will give this diamond to qny man who
will bring me yonder flag.
For a moment there was no response. The
men looked at their officers, officers glanced
at each olher; but volunteers for a service so
desperate seemed scarce.
'What ! is there not one of all of you who
will dare the trial 1 Is my husband's ship
indeed manned with cowards 7 exclaimed
manned
the lady, while her beautifuHip curled with
scorn and her flashing-eye gleamed with the
fire of contempt.
A young officer, an Englishman, who had
been lately appointed, stepped forward, and
modestly said, "I was only waiting for my
seniors to speak, senora. Had any of them
volunteered, I should have begged to accom-
pany him. As it is, I pledge myself to bring
you yonder flag before the sun rises again, or
to die ! But I ask not your jewel as a prize
for my success ; one tress of your glossy hair
shall be my reward."
"You shall have both, brave iad !" replied
the lady ; and her cold look of scorn changed
into a sweet smile, as she asked his name.
"It is Frank Bennett, senora," replied the
young man, and he blushed beneath the ear-
nest gaze she bent on him.
He was slim but well formed ; looked very 1
young, but in his dark blue eye and compress-
ed lips, an oberver could read one whose
manhood was not made by years alone.
The sun was setting beneath a bank of
slowly-rising clouds, which threatened dark-
ness and a storm.
The moment that his services were accept-'
ed, young Bennett turned to the crew, and as
he glanced among them, said, "I want six
men to man the whale boat which hangs at
the after-davits."
Struck by his gallantry, nearly one half
the crew started forward. Now that they had
a leader, volunteers were plenty. Bennett
glanced his eye over them, and in a few mo-
ments chose six of them by name, men whom
he knew to be both daring and firm. They
were Americans.
"Go sharpen your cutlasses," said he : "I
shall not have a pistol or musket in the boat.
If we fight, it must be steel to steel and breast
to breast, for we succeed or die."
The men answered only with a look". They
were of that class whose motto is "deeds, not
words." They hurried below to obey his
orders, while others proceeded by his direc-
tions, to muffle the oars of the boat, and to put
sails, water, &c, in it.
Haifa hour later the sky was covered with
clouds, and darkness had set in. Bennett had
been careful to take the compass course of
the enemy's ship when the last light of the
dying day gave opportunity, and by this alone
be hoped to find her. At this time the lady
was on the deck, standing by the binnacle
light, regarding the preparations of the little
party who were about to shove off.
At the moment whea thu boats, crew were
all ready to start, their young leader came aft
to the side ofthe senora, and taking from his
neck a miniature, he handed it and a letter to
her, saying, "If I am not on board at sunrise,
lady, please send that miniature to tne direc-
tion inscribed upon the letter."
The lady looked at the picture. It was
the likeness of a j'oung and beautiful girl. A
tear filled the senora 's ey.
"You iit-od not go," sa.d she. '"No : jou
0vc prciiance ar? beloved. Your life is?
precious. 1 vnl not expjss it. Ths i "
"ftjy only aistei, whom 1 almost udozc,"' in-
terrupted the youth ; but ohk who would
scorn me if I played ihe coward, or dishon-
ored my name. Send thai likeness to her ii
I fall. Farewell till to morrow or iorevcr.'
The jady was about to answer, and again
to entreat him to stay ; but ere she could
speak he was over the oulwarks, and the
boat was gone.
'Give way cheerily, men! a long strong and steady
pull' said he, in a low tone, as he left the ship's side;
and ho soon felt by the trembling of tho frail boat, that
his directions were obeyed. Out right into the offing
he pulled, regardless of the rising" clouds, keeping his
eye fixed steadily upon h's compass, until ho knew, if
the vessel had remained hove-.i as she was at sun-set,
that ho must be very near her. But he looked hi vain
to see aiight whichjmight guide him to her. Admir-
al Brown was too old a fox to bo showing his position
by lights.
At this moment, when he was completely at a loss
which way to steer, the dark clouds which had been
gathering over him burst with a long vived flash of
lightening and a peal of deafening thunder; he.hecdrd
not the rising storm. The flash of lightning had
shown him the vessel, not one cable's length
from him.
'Steady, boys! steady! he whispered,
when the thunder ceased; I shall pull direct-
ly under the stearn, and get on the deck by
the carved work and netting on her quar-
ter.' The men rowed slowly and silently on,
and as he had marked well her position, the
younn- officer in a moment found himself un-
der the vessel's stern. At this instant ano-
ther flash of lightning illuminated the sky and
water; the flag had been hoisted, he saw that
it was not there! It had been hauled down.
Ri nrjiispd. lhonorht for a moment what
.7 " . i .. ? -U A
UUU1U UC uuuc, ttuu men lunucu ma icawu-
tion. 'I will go on hoard alone, men,' said
he, keep, the boat where she is. If the flag
is where I think it is, in the admiral's cabin,
I will have it. If I am not back in five min-
utes, and you hear an alarm, shove off, send
back to our ship, and tell them that Frank
Bennett died like a man. You must be cau-
tious; reaf foresail, for the stoim will be
down upon us in less than" ten minutes-'
All of this was whispered to the men, whose
heads were bent forward to hear the ordets
which they dared nodisobcymuch as they,
wished toshare their leadei's peril.
Springing lightly from the boat, Frank
caught the quarter-netting with his hands,
and noislessly ascended to the old bulwarks,
He could hear the regular tramp of the offi-
cers of the deck, who having already had
everything teefed down below, had nothing
to do but to pace the deck; but it was so dark
that he could not see him.
A secoud more and the brave boy was
down an tho deck and at the cabin door which
stood slightly ajar. He peeped in through
the narrow crack, and saw the red-faced old
admiral seated at his round table, with two
of his officers by his side engaged over the
contents of a square bottle, which looked very
like that usually found to contain schnaps.
A glance at the settee just to the left of this
table showed the object of the enterprise.
The flag for which he had periled his life lay
there, where it had been carelessly thrown
after it was.haulled down.
The young officer did not pause long 'to
consider what to do, but quietly walked into
the cabin? and taking offhis cap, bowed very
politely to the officers; and as he stepped toward-the
flag, said, in a calm and couiteous
manner to the admiral, 4I have come to bor-
row this banner, sir, to wear to morrow, if you
please !'
'Who the devil are you? What does this mean?'
cried Brown, as he and his officers sprang to their
feet.
"lam Midshipman Bennett, sir, oftheMontevidean
lmceephed Frank, who had now seized the flag,
and I mean to carry this flag to Commodore Coe.'
As he said this, he bounded to the cabin dore, fol-
lowed closely by a bullet from Browns's pistol, which
grazed his ear, and ere the alarm became general, he
stood upon tnetafirail of the vessel.
Look out for me below,' he shouted, and flung
himself iuto the sea, without a moment's hesitation
His boat's crew recognized his voice, ho was caught
n a moment and dragged into theboat, while a volley
of pistol balls was sent down at random by those who
toi- ahove.
Nffh'e'Stormihad new broken, and in the wind began
to come in wiui nerce uiiujuiui gusts, up ioresau :
be quick, lads! up foresail, and let her slide!' cried
the young hero, as soon as he could draw breath after
his ducking.
The crew did so, and the next moment tho little
boat was flying in towards the harbor before the blast,
like a glad sea brid winging its way to its young one's
nest.
The tnemy opened a harmless random fire of grape
6hot in their direction, but it only served to tell the
anxious watchers on board of Coe's vessel that some-
thing had occurred. The latter therefore, at once
showed the lights, and enabled Frank to make a
strait course for her.
It was .half an hour after the first gun was
fired by Brown, that the boat of the young
adventurer rounded too alongside of his own
craft.
'Have you captured the flag?' cried the sen-
ora, as Bennett bounded over the side.
The only answer she received was the ban-
ner, wet as it was from the water, and cut in
two pieces by the ball which had been fired
at its captor.
The lights of the vessel gleemed not half
so bright as did that lady's eye when she
caught the noble youth to her arms and kissed
him again and again.
The following extacts from a letter written by Mr
Grayson, dated Los Angelos, California, will be read
with interest by his numerous friends in this neigh-
borhood.. Austin Democrat.
Los Angelos, Cala., Jaunary 14th, 1849.
I am at length safely iu tho Pacific just six months
on the trip. Our inarch was an
exceedingly severe one; however, it is now all over.
Nothing is Talked of here but gold. Tho mines are
the all-engrossing topic. It (the gold) is found in im-
mense quantities, in a large region of country, and I
am desirous of getting our share before startiug home,
in fact, I think I can make a large fortune here, iu a
short time. The goId,stones are too large to tell out
of this country. At all events, men without a cent,
are making thousands in a few weeks.
Tins is a lovely coast country. Immense moun-
tains covered with snow and ice, and fine valleys with
all tho fruts of the tropics, all in sight.
B. S. GRAYSON.
Romance in real life. A few days since a young
man arrived here from ono of the eastern cities, in
search. of his father, whom he had never seen, tho
father having left the place of his nativity, in Eng-
land, before ho was born. For years tho young man
had been endeavoring to discover the whereabouts of
his4)areut, without success, and at last by onoof tlioso
startling incidents which give a character of romance
to truth"itiielf, he found his pareut, under circtimotau-ct-s
u- painful as they were pveuhur. In wulking
ti.nn.gh oaf of the pnuc p.il streets of onr nmtropolis,
h :n-l a jr.'iitiem m from the taui" c ty in wli.rh he
r-- 'ud. nid who w.xs :.winai.ne1 w '!i nw i.itoiy, ami
who tlu :i-r-tj-! h-ii. ' W '.'. J I l)f I
liavis d o"rii w t ' o.ir fUi'r . ai'.i j,;- ul-
f i to tHairt liiui in look u over a c-j ' " L. res
Ci'li F-' .n" h'j was struck by the -- 'uh nuc
w'i ch hf hore to the portrait of Houcyiinui. tin bargo
robber- The younc "'a laughed at the idea, and re-
garded it almost as an impossibility that his f.itli'-r
snoiild be an nitnatoof the .State's Prison; but finally
a copy of tho book was purchased. Tin youth was
himself struck with the roeinblauco '.e boro to the
portrait of ihe convict, and was induced to read the
bioTaphv accompanying it, when incideuts and lo-
cates recurred to Ins memory, which impressed hsm
with tlio painful conviction that he had at last discov-
ered his father, in a couvicted ft Ion. Tho agony of
the oung man may be conceived; he resolved to vi-
sit Sing Sing and obtain an interview with Ilonoyman
ho did so, and when brought iutd each others pre-
sence, the resemblance between them wasjstill more
HOUSTON, THURSDAY,
strikingly apparent. Houoyman trembling with agi-
itation as lm admitted that when ho left England
in company with tho female who passed here as his
wife, tlw female to whom he was actually married
was enceinte, and that he heard that she had given
birth to a son, if alive, would be of tho same ago as
tho young man who stood weeping and agitated before
him. There can scarcely be a doubt as to his inden-
tity, but as his mother is some where in the western
p irt of this State, measures have been taken to solve
the mystery which now surrounds tho matter. New
York Star.
IHFThe Massassoit House, at Wal than, Mass., was,
wilh its contents, consumed by fire on Saturday, the
7th inst. The buildiug cost 30,000, and was prin-
cipally owned by the Concord Bank.
The Last of a Regiment. President Bonaparte
has granted a pension to a widow with five children,
whose case is an interesting one. She is tho widow
of the only man in the Fusileer regiment who wots
not killed in the retreat from Moscow. Ono day Cnpt
Jumontier came to announce to Napoleon the arrival
of Marshall Ney and his corps. Napoleon ordered
him to rejoin his regiment. An hour or two after-
wards, Napoleon perceived 'apt. Jumontier standing
with u soldier, whose singular dress attracted tho Em-
kpcfCrshbiice ; his, head-was covered with a sort of
Cossack bonnet, and of his uniform, a torn vest, which
scarcely covered hi shoulders. Tho Captain and the-
soldierwere maiching steadily on. Napoleon called
to him in a noto of impatience and ill humor.
'Sire, I have not bat an instant in obeying your
orders.'
'What do you say? You don't understand me ?
'Sire, I am with my regiment.'
Your regiment !'
'Yes, sire: the regiment of Fusileers ofthe Imperi-
al Guard.'
'But where is it theu?'
Then a hoarse voice cried
Present, my Emperor !'
The vcicowasthat ofthe soldier near Jumontier;
and the widow succored by Louis Napoleon, is tho
widow of this soldier.
A delicate child, pale and prematurely wise, was
complaining on a hot morning that the poor dew-drops
had been too hastily snatched away, and not allowed
to glitter on tho flowers like other and happier dew-
drops, that live the whole night through, and sparkle
in tho moonlight and through the morning onwards to
noon-day : "The sun," said tho child, "has chased
away with his heat or swallowed them in his wrath."
Soon afterwards came rain and a rainbow; whereupon
his father pointed upwards "See," said he, "there
stand thy dew-drops gloriously reset a glittering
jewellery in tho heavens; and the clownish foou
tramples on them no more. By this, my ehild, thoin
art taught that what withers upon earth blooms again
in heaven. Thus the father spoke, and knew not
that he spoke prefiguring words ; for soon after the
delicate child, with the morning brightness of his early
wisdom, was exhaled, like a dew-drop, into heaven.
Jean Paul.
DEATH OF MAJ. GENERAL WORTH.
A distinguished victim has fallen by the
dreadful scourge whichjj has lately so dessola-
ted our population. On the 7th inst., at one
o'clock, p. ii., Major General VoRTn breath-
ed his last, at his residence in this place, sur-
rounded by his sorrowing family and friends.
The immediate cause ofthe death of the la-
mented General was Cholera, the fatal effects
of which disease he began to feel at about
six o'clock on the evening ofthe 6th instant.
Undoubted evidence of his complaint had by
this lime developed themselves, and from this
linur-hn gradually declined. Towards rpjd;
night the General became aware ot his ex
treme danger, and said to his surgeon, Dr.
Wright ofthe Army, that he knew nothing but
the mercy of God could save him. As the.
brave soldier prepares his mind and energies
for the battle, so did now this gallant man pre-
pare fordeath. Finn and unmoved he look-
ed the dread conquerer of humanity in the face
and so maintained his calm front till all was
over. Gradually sinking under the power of
the disease he quietly passed away, literally
without a struggle or groan.
We shall not attempt to speak of the sen-
sations that have been; and will be caused
by this great bereavement ; nor shall we re-
fer to that sacred grief which now over-
whelms his devoted family. The death of
such a man is a national calamity, and lo
Texas, an irreparable loss. To us he was
particularly dear. Writing upon the scene of
his death, and the earth yet fresh which cov-
ers his rem-tins, the feelings are too much
wrought upon lo speak calmly or dipassion-
ately. At three o'clock on the afternoon ofthe 8th
inst., after the preliminary rites of the Epis-
copal Church had taken place, the body was
conveyed to the camp of his own regiment,
the 8th Infantry, and by that battalion was
escorted to the grave. The spot selected, is
upon a knoll near where the head waters of
the San Antonio springs forth.
Texas now holds in her bosom, him who
led her suns to victory up the heights and
through tue avenues of Monterey.
Western Texian.
Warning to Smokers. A singular case of
asphyxia is related in one ofthe French jour-
nals. A youth by the name of Lemoine, paid
v. visit to. an uncle, who is a farm laborer in
the neighborhood of Havre. This man occu-
pied a small and ill-ventilated apartment. The
nephew, at eight o'clock in the evening, went
to bed in the room. Soon after, the uncle and
two companions entered the room, aud all fell
to smokirg. Tho youth was asleep. At mid-
night the visitors withdrew, and the uncle
went to bed. Laying his hand upon his neph-
ew, he found him unnaturally cold, and en-
deavored to wake him, but without effect.
nelpwas called; some faint indications of
life appeared, and a physician directed opera
uons lor the recovery ot the patient. All pro-
ved vain; the next day he expired. A post
mortem examination was made, and the phy-
sician pronounced that he had died ofcones-
lion ofthe brain, caused by the respiration of
tobacco smoke during sleep.
The Cow and the Pig. By a law of Mas-
sachusetts, one cow and one pig are exempt
ii uin attachment, and various attempts have
litfen made b ci editors to get that cow and
pg wh'Mi no other property was to be found.
Vw iJaie G.ui'lte gives uti account o'fone
i lns' a'tt'iiipU. which pruvc that if ihe
i. IjIct hi- !!.-, ce- open, ihe law is saltier a
iiliic .It "i.e. to evade.
A-:) editor in a townin ihit viciuilvhad of-
renctst a longing eye into a pig pen of ono of
iii debtors, whete was a line f.it "pig" just
eadv' for operation oft hat butcher. Ue held
in execution, which the hog would ju about
satisfy, but the law forbade him to take thu
onU j ig. In this dilemma he went to the
lebi r, and wilh pretended commiseration for
his poveity offered him one of a litter of fine
pigs, with which his own pen had been 10-
plenished. The debtor, with much gratitude,
accepted tho generous offer. The squaker
MAY 24, 1849.
was turned with the fat grunter, and the cred-
itor after admiring the contrast, started in
pursuit of an officer to attack one of the two
swine which the debtor now had. But the
debtor was not asleep, and quickly jerking his
thumb after the retreating Graball, he hastened
to his house, and obtained the well whetted
knife, pulled over old grunter quietly as he
could, and drew out his life blood. When
the joyous creditor retured with the sheriff,
the well dressed hog was converted into porJc
and as "provision for the family," was also
exempt from attachment! The creditor turn-
edj away with a tear in his eye, reckoning
the loss of his nice little pig at the end of his
previous debt.
Rates of Postage collected at the several
post offices in the United States, as esta-
blished, by the Post Office Department.
In the United States, for all distances over
300 miles, ten cents the half ounce, and five
cents for a less distance. Newspapers to be
prepaid one and a half tents out ofthe Stale,
where post offices are situated.
On letters' to England or'any of Its "posses-
ions to be forwarded by the regular English
packet steamers, the postage is twenty-four
cents paid or unpaid, at the option of the sen-
der ; to the Continent the postage is five cents
the half ounce, (which is the United States
inland postage, as per arrangement of treaty
with Great Britain :) on letters to Canada,
the United States inland poslage often cents
the half ounce must in all cases be prepaid,
otherwise the letters arc not forwarded from
the several post offices.
On letters to England and the Continent
by American steamers, the postage of twenty-
one cents the halfounce, lo be prepaid in ev-
ery instance. Newspapers two cents each,
to be prepaid. Pamphlets one cent an ounce,
and each fractional ounce thus over one ounce
two cents, &c, &c.
On letters to Chagres, the United States
postage is twenty cents ; to Panama thirty
cents, (both to be prepaid ;) to California and
American possessions on the Pacific, forty
cents, to be paid or not at the optfon of the
sender.
On postage to be collected on British let-
ters. where a letter exceeds an ounce, but
does not exceed two ounces, it will be char-
ged with four rates of single postage, ihus
ninety-six cents ; when it exceeds two ounces,
but does not exceed three ounces, it will be
rated with six charges of single poslage, thus
81,24, and so on, there being a single pos-
tage for the first halfounce, and two addition-
al charges for each succeeding ounce or frac-
tion of an ounce. Instructions of Postmas-
ters. On letters fo the British West India Isl-
and, (by the British steamers via Mobile,) the
inland United Slates postage is only required
to be paid.
"Money," we are told by the New York
papers, is tight again in Wall street," "Mon-
ey" ought positively to be ashamed of itself.
"Dui iiiontsytb'blwitja'a "luui bun tjfrtiuigra
those who get much of it naturally feel their
elevation. Phil. Times.
"Unceasing toil'
things. We have
itself.
is said to
known it to
conquer all
conquer life
"I'll lake the cents ofthe meeting," as the
man said when he passed around the hat."
An Uncalled for Amen. A correspondent
ofthe Methodist Protestant relates the follow-
ing story, which is too good to be lost :
A very sensitive preacher, in a certain vil-
lage not more than a hundred miles from Bal-
timore, was discoursing with great warmlh on
the uncertainty of human life. Togive grea-
ter effect to his remarks after assuring his
hearers that they might die rjefore an hour
had elapsed, he said, "And I, your speaker,
maybe dead before another morning dawns."
"Amen!" was the audible response of a
pious and much loved brother in the congre-
gation. The preacher was evidently discon-
certed for a moment. He thought the broth-
er had misunderstood his meaning. Pausing
a while he repeated the declaration with still
greater emphasis "Before another hour
your speaker may be in eternity."
"Amen ! 1" shouted the brother before him.
It was too much for the sensitive men ;
and stammering out a few additional remarks,
he sat down before he had finished his dis-
course.
"Brother
-," said the preacher next
day, to his kind-hearted friend ofthe amen
corner, "what did you mean by saying amen
to my remarks last night? Do you wish I
was dead ?
"Not at all," said the good brother. I
thought if you should die, you would go straight
to glory, and I meant amen to that.
The last "Crotcliel." Some philanthro-
pic journals recommended that Chloroform be
administered to murderers just before execu-
tion, to save ihem the pain incident to hang-
ing. Wo trust these papers will also res-
pectively suggest to that interesting class of
criminals the propriety of giving chloroform
to their victims just before they kill them.
The comfort ofthe murdered ought not to be
wholly overlooked when that ofthe assassin
is so humanely cared for. Rochester Amer-
ican. We will Marry. A couple of young la-
dies had buried their f ither, who xvas an old
humorist, and had an aversion to matrimony,
that he would not allow them to marry, how-
ever advantageous might be the offers. "He.
is dead at last, and now we will marry."
"Well," said the youngest, "I am for a tich
husband, and Mr. C. shall be my man."
"Hold bister," said the other, "don't let us be
to i ha-sty in the choice of our husband?; let us
nun i :hoc w Imm the powers above has de
lined u ; li.ronr mairiages aie registeied in
heaven's book." "I am sorry for that," re
plied the youngest, "for 1 am afraid father wili
tear out the leaf!"
The dead coming to Life. A correspon
dent ofthu Tribune writes from Konwlsville.
Orleans county, New York, March 20, as
follows :
"A young woman of this place, named
Spencer, was taken slightly ill a few openings
since. She went to bed, and in the morning
was found insensible and supposed to be
VOL. XIV.
dead. Her funeral look place yesterday in
the presence of a large number ofthe neigh-
bors. Shortly after thj conclusion of the fu-
neral sermon, and before the coffin had been
moved for the purpose of carrying it to the
grave, it was discovered that life was not ex-
tinct. She was once more placed on the bed,
and the work of recuscitatiou commenced.
It is, however, still doubtful whether she will
recover or not.
Telegraphed to the N. O. Commercial Bul-
letin, Baltimore, May 5, 1849.
Affairs abroad are in a very disturbed state,
yet they are redeemed by some bright spots.
In France, the President ofthe Council stated
to the National Assembly, that the Austrian
victories over the Piedmontese would be felt
throughout Central Italy that the crisis was
imminent in the Roman States that France
owed it to French residents in Italy, and to
her position and influence, to occupy tempo,
rarily that peninsula. O'Dilloh Barrot then
read the project of a law, granting an order
'o Government for one million two hundred
housand francs for the support ofthe army in
aly, for three months. This passed by a
- lajority of one hundred and twelve. France
as determined to secure a free and liberal
ivernmentat home. A change of Ministry
as probable. Cholera was largely increa-
ing in Paris. Many opulent inhabitants had
illen victims to it.
Stocks. Closing rates for 5 per cents,
.vere 88 15.
Germany was still in great commotion.
Jhc assumption ofthe Imperial crown by the
ving of Prussia was only favored by the smal-
jr States the larger ones were opposed to
he measure. France and Austria were both
n opposition to Prussia. The Cologne Ga-
zette declares that Prussia had made the de-
claration, that she would not be deterred by
Austrian opposition from assisting in the for-
mation of a united confederate State, with the
concurrence ofthe German Princes. In her
relations to Austria she was assuming a war-
like attitude. Public opinion in Prussia was
too strong on this subject to be disregarded.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Genoa fell after nine days canonading.
There was a general rising in Tuscany in-fa-vor
of the Grand Duke. The late dictator
was prisoner. Venice was besieged both by
land and sea by the Austrians, and must sur-
render. The struggle in Sicily had com-
menced with dreadful ferocity. A desperate
battle took place on Good Friday, between
ThlTlN'eapoittans, aiueu uy tue owiss nuups,
and Calabrians. The battle lasted all night,
and the Calabrians were defeated with great
loss. The city (what city 1) was afterwards
sacked and plundered. This defeat has cau-
sed Syracuse to surrender without resistance.
The Austrians had been repulsed by the Hun-
garians, and the whole army was retreating
upon Perth. Redetzky's army was march-
ing on Hungary. Windisgratz is marching
tothe aid ofthe Austrians.
"Lookout when the Bob breaks!" The
following is an old Joke, but is so appropri-
ate to the present quandary of certain office
holders and office expectants, xve think it will
bear reviewing ; and moreox'er the incident
related is believed to furnish the etymology
ofthe phrase above quoted :
Two darkies in the xvest went out to hunt
possums, and by accident found a large cave
with quite a small entrance. Peeping in,
they discovered three young bear whelps in
the interior. "Look heah, Sam," said one,
"while I goes in dar, and gets the young bars,
you jes watch de hole heah, and not let the
ole bar come in." While the adventurer
xvas engaged inside, Sam got asleep in the
sun, and being axvakened by a growl, on open-
ing his eyes he saxv the old bear just scour-
in her way into the entrance of the cave.
Quick as a wink, he sprang and caught her
by the tail, holding on like a dog upon a sow's
ear. "Hello dare, Sam;" says the darky be-
low, "what in lightnin dark de hole dar "
Lor bless you. Jumbo, save yourself, honey:
for if dis bob bredk, you'll find out xvhat dark
de hole."
From tho New Orleans Delta.
BOB OWENS;
OK, THE MAN TN DEBT.
Yesterday morning the Recorderpieaved adeep sigh
bit the shaggy end off the nail of tho forefinger on his
ri'ht hand? and as if struck by a sudden though, call-
ed out Bob Owens.'" Instantly a tall bony man, in -a
threadbare suit of rusty black, arose, and resting the
edge of a sharp chin on what had once been a green
velvot stock, he thrust both hands in his.breeches pock-
eta, and answered, "present."
"Owens 'ou wero takeii up last night for roving
absut the streets."
"No, sir," said Owens, "you're mistaken : I was
not roving, but raving about the streets."
"Have j'ou any home any place of residence V
"Yes, I have a home in town and a residence in the
country ; but a friend of mino hires out ray country
house iu the summer, and I make it a point never to
live in my house in town in the winter."
Well, do you reside iu any place iu particular?"
"No, sir, I resido everywhere in general, aud that is
tho reason why I was trying to locate myself for the
night, when I was found raving about the streots by an
amiable gentleman with a very bad cold and a short
club."
"What do you mean by raving?"
"Itavo, sir, means mad ; raven means a dove-like
bird, of negrocolor, that is always particularly hungry;
and raving, when applied to humanity means with a
strong uppitite. uo money in his pocket, aud a paradise
of a restaurant, glowing with angelic pieces of cold
baked pork, seraphic sirloins of roast beef, directly
under his nose."
Explain yourself, for surely a mau who 6peaks as
well as jou do cannot be in want of food."
"You're right, sir; I am uot in want of food; on the
contrary, food is in want of me. Yes, I repeat it, there
are thousands of famihliiug gloveworms that are m
eager expectation of enjoying a banquet at my decease,
but, sir, they'll be disappointed, for I have eaten no-
thing but pickled onions aud dusty crackers for a week
pasi. I appeal to you, your Homer, if pickled onions
and dusty crackers are calulated, as a general diet,
to fill a man's muscles with strength or his ribs with
fat?"
"You talke very strangely and yet rationally ; tell
mo, how it waa you became so poor ?"
' NO. 21.--WHOLE NO. 700
as
"Your Honor, I commenced business in life with
a great many large wights on a very small scale, and
the consequence was, the beam of prosperity went up,
and that of misfortune came down. I graduated as
an M. D., when I hadn't even as much as & home-
opathic does of medical knowledge in my whole brain.
1 never had but one patient, and she was a widow
of avery dropsical habit. I tapped and tagped berj
but the more I tapped, the more that woman swelled?
until one day her watery-spirit hurst its fleshy prison, '
and, for aught I know, plunged into an ocean of J
bliss. Finding that I had no luck as a dropsy doctor,.
I dropped that part ofthe profession, and took to pull-
ing teeth. That, sir, was glorioura for a whilo and
I'll venture that none of my patients, even at this
time, know whose teath they have got in their months.
But, sir, 'a change came o'er the spirit of my dream,'
holy horror I bade denial operations avannt,
and when mineral teeth were invented, with a
for Lhad been brought up in the vegetablo Bchool of
medicine, and the Thompsonian system, we all know,
is opposed to minerals."
"A very praiseworthy conclusion ; but what fruit .
did your prolific genius bear after you had dropped
dentistry?" J e
"Sir, to tell the truth, I went no further lu the
sciences, but devoted my entire attention to the art
of borrowing."
"The art ofborrowing What ia that?"
'Xt is that delicate tact, sir, gained only by ex-
perience and observation, by which men who fail ret
ting along esily in tb woHcLjnanagft to -live, off their
iciiwno. -iiicjauxo'euuiu men .wuaiBsa. )uu lurnni
loan of a V with such a charming erace," that it is I'm
possible for yoato reluse them; but I, sir, I commenc-
ed gradually."
"How was that, Mr. Owens?
"I, sir, commenced on tho fifty cent principle, and"
since then, to my shame ba it said, I have, descended
to that minute coin, a five cent pfece. "Well, r, to
make a long story short, which, I taka it means to
change the subject, I soon had a hornet's nest about
my ears. I forgot men's names, and only knew them-
by the amount I owed.tb.em. For the Instance; short,
fat men and "half dollars were always synonymous in
my mind ; there are but two tall men, with long legs,
of all my acquaintance, to whoml do not owe two. -dimes.
Tho barkeepers have know me, and'
whenever J ask for liquor, theyalways helcL
the decanter by the neck, as if they were going to
strangle it, until I have pulled out my money. I wont,
down in ca3to at the 'dime houses," my bony elbows
looked through the sleeves of my last coat, and I was
forced to patronize picayune groggeries on the Levee.
At all political meetings I was in my glory, and for a
timo was particularly attentive to the interests of the
poorer classes of the community but this, like the
liquor, didn't go down long. At last I found myself
without either board, lodging, clothing, or credit- All
of the principal streets I have blocked up' that is to
say, I owe so many small debts in them, that I am
ashamed to walk ia their vicinity. For the last five
days I have managed to pick up a scanty subsistence
by mingling with the crowds that cluster around the
11 o'clock lunches at the baerrooms on 'theJLevee !
There is always a huge pewter plate of smoking roast
pork on the centre of the counter, and en each side
innumerable dishes of all sorts of eatables; but at the
extreme ends of the counter you are always sure to
find pickled onions and dusty crackera. On these two
last-mentioned dishes I have managed to livo for the
last five days, and if your Honor refuses to send me to
the work house, I'll be d d if I don't exhibit myself in
public as the original, resurrected Calvin Edson."
Bpb Owens Iqpked determined,, and fearing that he -would
put his threat into execution, the Recorder sent
him down for sixty days. '
ENGLISH ITEMS.
A neat pocket reprint of "Emerson's Essays, which
Thomas Carlyle edited some eight years ago," has
appeared in Slater's Shilling Series.
When "the government messenger carried the des-
patch to Sir Charles Napier, announcing his appoint-
ment to the command of the army in India, he was
surprised to be received at the door by a female ser-
yqsjqywafluaqrfi.gfl,
rneau otule VanilsVi aTGwei-
He told the messenger that he was at dinner, and. had
no other room to ask him in.
Lieut- Col. Tyler, of the British army, is dead.
He was in this country during the revolutionary war,
and in tho actions at Brooklyn, Monmouth Court
House, and at the storming of Fort Montgomery.
Mrs. Trollope has written a novel called the "Lotte-
ry of Marriage."
The late governor of Gibralter, Sir Robert Wilson,
has returned to England.
James Donglass is the new Governor of Vancou-
ver's Island.
The London Antheneum criticises Mr. Herman
Melville's new work rather severely.
Lord Camoys has invented a syphon to draw off
milk from beneath the surface of the cream.
Col. Bird, of the East India service, has committed
suicide at the age of 55 years. He had been separated
from his wife, and was in depressed spirits in conse-
quence. The new locomotives in use on the Great Southern
and Western Railway, are now enclosed in and upon
the same frames with the tenders.
The great ceiling of St. George's Hall, Liverpool,
is just finished. Its span is seventy-five feet. The
arch is turned, with hollow tOes which weighs six hun-
dred tons, one thousand four hundred tons less than .
if it had been constructed of solid brick.
An attempt is making in England to open an ex-.
tensive commerce with Japan. .'
The English county jails are alarmingly over-
crowded with prisoners, so much so as to excite pub-
lic remarks.
The opera of Ernani holds its ground in London.
Pontoon bridges, made of India rubber, an Ameri-
can invention, and such as were sent to Mexico dur-
ing tho war, but were not used, have been exhibited
at Chatham, by Mr. Moulton, in the presenco ot the
Duke of Wellington and a large number of British of-
ficers. They had been previously tried in 1847, and
were iu use in Africa by the British forces thero. The
East India Company has ordered a large number for-
the use of Sir Charles Napier, and his battles may
hereafter be won through the aid of a Yankee con-
trivance and a little India rubber. ''
FRENCH ITEMS.
M. Labcnlayo has been appointed professor of gen-
eral history, vacant in the College of France by tho
resignation of M. Lerminier.
The Journal des Bebats has contradicted a report
which prevailed that M. Guizot had returned to Pa-
ris. iI. Guizot is still in London, and does not intend
to return to France foe two months.
Tho woman Leblacc, who was tried fay court mar-
tial in Paris, forhaving taken an active partin aid of
the insurgents of June and for having mutillated the "
dead bodies of several garde mobiles, -was sentenced
to hard labor for ten years.
M. de Bassano, the son of Napoleon's former min-
ister, has been appointed charge d'afiairs at Frank-
fort M. Sampayo, a nephew of General Cubieres, has
beeu named principal secretary to the French embas- -sy
at Stuttsrard.
Charles Albert, ex-King of Sardinia, has arrived in
Paris.
Louis Napoleon has been paying a visit to the Mar- -chionessof
Londondery, at the Hotel Meuria, out of .
gratitude to that lady for her efforts to obtain his re-
lease when a prisoner at Ham.
A subterraneau map of Paris has been made on 45
sheets of large paper.
Geiuiant. It will be remembered that the "latest
intelligence," telegraphed from London, by the last
steamer, was that the King of Prussia had accepted
the imperial crown offered to him by the Frankfort
Assembly. The intelligence now is that ho has re-
fused to accept.
General Intelligence. A signal victory has
been gained by the Hungarian forces over the Austri-
ans, the latter losing 1300 men, 24 piece3 of cannon,
and 40 wagons'.
On the 7th inst. Lord Palmerston received notice of
the blockade of Palermo by the Neapolitan Govern-
ment, nnrf nn tho 31st of TMareh the blockade of Ve
nice by Austria was formally announced. A dispatch
of the 3d inst, publishes the strict Wockade of the Ger-
man ports of Caramin, Sevenmunde, Wolgast, Gnefs-
walde, Stralseind and Rostock, by Denmark.
Money Mauket.--The intelligence ofthe blockade
of the German ports and of Palermo and Venice, has
produced much fluctuation in consols during tho week,
but the market closed firmly on Friday evening- at
92J ; exchequer bills 47s. 50s. premium. Tho gene-
ral operations ofthe past week have been feeble, tho
revival of continental disturbances interrupting every
branch of trade.
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