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' Agenls for the Telegraph.
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f E. H. Dodo, Lick P. O., Fanmri county,
z U. JMatthiesex, Paris. rt aV"-
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J. Tous ev, Cincinnati, Walker co.
? ' J. W. Copes. Columbia. Brazoria co.
XHE IMPORTANCE OF CONVERSA-
TION. Daniel Webster said, in the course of a
late speech, at Dedhain, Massachusetts, be-
fore the Norfolk County Agiicultuial Socie-
ty, that "Every man obtained a great pait
of whatever knowledge he might posoess, b'
covers ition aud communication with otlvrb.
Books migst do sometbinir in this respect, but
nothing in compui-on.w:th free communica-
tion. If "we should deduct from the aggie-
jprte of each man's knowledge, whitever he
had learned by communication and- convei-
sation with his fellow man, vciy liuta would
lis left, aud that little not worth mu:li at b "t.
it W4S iutercouriie with each other that mad--man
sharp, and active, and enterprising.
POWER OF WORDS.
.Who can tell the power for good or evil of
but one sentence, falling on a feilow-crea-ture's
ear ; or estimate the mighty sciis of
emotion's,. Pr-poses, and actions of which 0112
arlicuHte breath may be the spring'?" 'A
word Vpoken In season, "how good is it I" In
another bouse than the poet's all word asc
wihg-jd, and imagination can still track their
flight. Evil or idle wprds may seem, as My
am utt.ji-ed, light aud trivial things; vtt, if
lielif, they ai e like the filaments of the thrtti.-
lasm each feathery tuft floating on the
agljtest bt'eeze, bears with it the germ of a
noxious w-jed. Good, Jdnd, tiue, holy w. nis,
2ropped in couyersation, inajf be little
tlioughtj of, too but tbey.are,Tike seed1: of
Ilo.ver or fruitfuftttee, falling bythp wayside
borne byoaio birdafar, haply thereafter to
fnnqe with bsauty some, heretofore barren
jnoaptaiiisifLi, or-'iuake some nook, of the
mpantam i
wiluurusss tb rfcio
rfejqice
jhvrlh brilisk- iva-
ENGLISH TS. AMERICAN! GIRLS.
The Enlislugirl spenuaiuorctbanone half
of b.2r wakinsr hours in physieb-amuseTiients.
which tend 0 developc and Invigorate and.
Tipen the hodily "powers. She ridesTwaJkSj
lrives, rows upon the water", runsjauce4;,
plays, sings, -jumps the rope, thioWs'tbebaH,
imrls the quoit, draws the bow, keeps up
th3,shuttlecok and-all this withdafchang
it forever pressed oa -her. mind that she i&
thereby wasting her time. She docs this
every day, until it becomes a hahit which she
will follow up through .life. Her, frame, as a
natural consequence, Ts. lifger, Tier museular
system better developed, her nervous system
"iu bettor subordination, her strength more
cajloway-and-thtr -rrhoiatone of her mind
Jiealthier. She may not know as, much ijt the
age of seventeen as does the American girl;
as a general thing she does not ; but the
growth of her intellect has been stimulated
Jby no hot-house culture, and though maturi-
ty comes later, it will proportionally last lon-
ger. Eight hours each day of mental appli-
cation, for girls between ten and nineteen
years, or ten" hoars eich day, as is sometimes
required at school, with two hours for meals,
one for leligious duties, the rcmaindei for
physical exercises, are enough to break down
she strongest constitution. Englis "paper.
NEWSPAPERS. ,
The New York Evangelist, to which tlie
Presbyterian has lately been joined, gives
some significant illustrations of the difficulties
of "newspaper publishing. It says: "It is ea-
sier to "build castles in the air than on granite
foundations. It i'much easier to start a new
papcr'thnn to sustain It through yeai-s of
ttbankles,s" toil and efFort,-uieetiug its ever fe-
muvring necessities aud expenditures, till it
lhas grown up to sufficient strength to stand
-jalonc. At the end of the first yjjar, after ill
the economy used, and the unrequited edito-
rial labor of its many friends and conespon-
dents, the New York" Presbyterian falls near-
ly four thousand dollars short of meeting its
current expenses. Its actural income could
not much exceed $3,00Q or 3,500, which
is some b7,000 less than," ther expenses of
tne icw S.OTK. mvangensc ior me yearena.ng
April 1st, J 850! which were over $20,000,
charging nothing for our own labors, and noth-
ing for the interest on the capital invested A
very erroneous impression prevails in many
mindsiu regard to thecostund income of rfli-
gious papers. The publio taste and wants do-
u,iui-jctjbmti mgitaaKorai3i.''M n hit
mand, -and it will ndtVbc satisfied without,
papers of a high order. As thestandacd is
constantly rising, it costs .much more to ur-
liish such a paper now 'than, it-did seven
years ago."-'
JaT
, SI AM AjMAN !" "V.
-HesvpLjBy, id his "One Progi estiva Punci-
ple,?bastuis passage Itoucliirfg thVconscious-
pcss.of menfaL woLth -and, influence :
.
"Even the proud Roman bad no idea of
personal woith. fl am a Roman -citizen,1 lie
exclaimed, and In thaD lay his dLrmty. Iql-
d the -piouH rank of Roman citiz-m, hi
could confront kings without being abashed ;
but in ilo0 he was a slave. Under the
shadow of the Palatine Hill, he walked silent
and fearful. There he never" ulferetTf 1 1 am
a ma?i.J lie wa& a Homan, deiivjnir his
greatness from the city in which he dwelt;
still, he was not a man. borne up with the
consciousness of his individual greatness his
pcihonal value. Christ was the nist who
ever.utteredthistiKi:jrhe-Uiasses4iad al-
ways beraumecsea as mere instruments
made for the handiwoik of kings and chief-
tains; but Chiist, as he stooped over the hith-
erto despised multitude,- and whi.-pered'in
their astonish d eais, ; Ye arc meji,' startled
into life a spirit that no conjuiiug lias tlnce
been able to la'."
THE REfGiSTXG BEfcLE OF PARIS. 4
An elopement, recently, has made some noises
in Paiis. To undePstanTHt wo inust4rEtrnceV
a liltla the history of'the parties-" "-8t
A very dihtinguished Oriental stiliolarl who
consecrated jouth and u consldopibltj moiety
of his middle age To travel 'sind- study (sacri-
ficing the perishable meantiinpstutles- of his
hc.utb reciprocitiel'to the caase of Mjicnce)
brought home to Erance, a fewdars ago. a
young Greek girl of elcvea or twelve years of
age. bhe was an Alabaman, and posse&scu alt
the joyous temperament of that climate of
smiles.
This child was his own, though not the ery
casy and simple tenure of paternity. Authen-
tic documents establish do the fact that the er-
udite scholar had not allowed himself-amid his
severe studies, the relaxation that could have
led to this particular re&ult. But, one day at
Constantinople, passing through the bazaar
where female blares arc sold, he saw. amid a
certain heid of -women and childien. the face of
one whii-h inspired in his bosom a feeling of
tender pity. A benevolent design followed
immediately upon it to lescue this little slave
from the destiny which hung oer her, and
give her the more cu lightened one of a Europ-
ean education
The hargin was opened. The slave-merchant
showed the points of the little beauty, and ex-
tolled her tsicc, blood, and certainty of matu-
ring brilliantly Mie could be had, bf.d and
soul, hi short, for nothing less than two bun-
dled sequins, .'ibout 00.) The Oriental-schobii-
was well off lie had the equiwilent,
for a commodity of th.t aluc in a men corner
'ir his. pocket. A few days after, he emb irktd
for France with his new and 1m ely acquisi-
tion At Paris, the young Zoe was placed ?in one
of thoie institutions, at once heaenly and I
woriui'. w here, in nun s cap ami stomacuer,
the aristocratic pupil is fitted, in hallo.ved oc-
clusion, for a d:i7..ling launch upon the tempta-
tions of the best society It was expcn&.io, but
commc ilfaut. Doubtless the intention of the
bcneiolent scholar was to secuie the highest
cultnation with the least wear and tear ofin-
n.iLcnce and he would have been w 01 thy of a
good place in Heaven for the same, if he had
been wholly disinterested -n"hd withe ut ulti-
mate purpose or design But & had picked
up,"iirhi rending, that a good aetior. deserves
a lewaid : and JreTiad vdted himself au agency
in casing out Uie designs of Proide"nce lowaid
this Asiatic shne. for whom a Euiopean hus-
band, was manifestly ordained. -He would mar-
ry bcit - : -
Realizing all the promise of hen lovely cbild-
n'ood, and 3proiiting woundcrfully byall the
cttre anuLespenselaiishedupdhTicr,' the young
Albauetc passed sis years 1n, tho- Convent, of l
,bt. , and, at the end or that time. Was an
irccomplishedvpansian, and Jittlc or-no nUstake.
Her talents aldne equaleajiefr rcmarkabtebeau-'ty-
During-the iMme -period, the jndustnous"
t?cholarKad equallTprogrcssed, having' attained
the object of lfi ambitibn, a distinguished naxno
in science, undtmmeahs to. liveuxuriously.
He vv.-ts decorated SwiUi orders, ma'deHon
-jcm.J-of various Aca"3rimies "of Sciericsr and-.
wasvin other c-iuiilar respecis, prepared to frivol
nimscii ioa wne as a cutuias .was completed
, J"ii -r '1. it -ij -. . - , r i
Alas 1 thai there is one disbj-of happiness a
husband that woman prefers underdone ! .
"The spGcfatpjwllbserve."J(Tqrit fsuaoira-
matic affair we aire recording,) that tbcrefbvas
certain reasonableness in the good scholar's ex-
pectations. Two hundred sequins " down ;"
six years of patience and expensive education,
pergonal carefand correspondence, other ma-
trimonial opportunities foregone, deligcnt cul-
ture of his condition in life meantime all this,
added to the name, house, carriage support for
life, and connubial devotion which he proposed
to give herconstituted altogether what tho
Latins denominated a (jut J pro cjuo. Many as
young a girl marries an older man for less ! But,
unfortunately, all his honors and distinctions
had left his inexorablo birth-day just as far
behind as usual, and there was (gap awful,
over which Love builds no bridge expect a
Bridge of Sighs) forty years difference in their
cruel ages.
The moment arived. The Lady Abbess -of
the Convent gave up her charge, an,d she was
informed of her ' happy lot.' She received the
news with downcast eyes and suffused com-
plexion, as a younj; 'lady well brought; up is
bound fo do," and her reply was such as grati-Jfc
inspire. Tho- eiia'moured scholar was'fat'tho
plcntitudQofibisbHs,4and decided (obliginglyjfor
both) tha,ilTelconumniation of their respective
blessedness shouliTtSke place at a certain early
date.
As the world is constituted, tho happy man
could not take home with him, of course, the
unmarried lady he had bough t, educated, and
engaged to espouse- He was compelled, strange
to siy, to entrust her to one ot Her own sex, in
wlitibC company she would see many men ra-
tlfSr "than retain lief under his own charge,
where -die would safely be confined Sto one, and
that one her bespoken pioprietor. It is truly
a contradictory state of civilization in which wo
pride ourselves !
Things standing thus the Orientalist receiv-
ed a commission from "the Government to go up-
on a scientific errand tf immediate conse-
quence, and he fclt-imperatiycly called upon to
go. The absence ftom Paris was to bo but for
six weeks, a little less than the time of betroth-
al. Making all Sure by leaving his measdro
for wedding garments with the tailor and hab-
erdasher, he committed his fair flancco to his
intimate friend, the Countess .who was
just departing to entertain a fashionable compa-
ny of friends at her Chateau on tho banks of
the Loire, and started on bis mission with most
of his thoughts sticking fast to his painful A-
dieu. The remainder of the story is of the ordinary
succession of events.
HOUSTON, -FRIDAY,
The Last Half Century: There has been no
.period since the commencement of the world,
fin which so many important discoveries, tending
to the benefit of mankind, were made, as in the
hut half century. Some of the most wonderous
results of human intellect hate been witnessed
inthoMKrfn.o,.., Snmnnf !, MUn.f
.nnnPntnpipninarnhAm, Wnr,l l
is remiikablehowthemindof the -world has
run into scientific investigation, and what a
chievements it has effected in that short period
Before the ypar 1800, there -was not a sjngle
steamboat in cribtence. and the application of
bteam to machinery was unknown. Fulto-a
launched the rirst steamboat 1807. Now. there
farej;hreo thousand steamboats traversing the
waters or America ana tiie nme taveu in tr.iv-
nl 1 fir 11 1 1 i-f crT nrt I t .-t iinn I- 'I'll rv itnc i(
lUl 1DI,UUI1 VUflUitUlf l- UU1IU XJiC lltuio Ul
very country in the world,jieatly.ire tra vers -
3 by steamhoiti'. " In 1800 there was not a
single railroad in the world. In the United
States alone thcie arc 8707 miles of railroad
costing 285,000,000 to build : and about 22,
I 000 miles of lv.ilroad in England and America.
The locomotive will now tiavel in a many houis
a distance which, iu 1800, required as many
d.ijys to accomplish. In 1800. it took weeks to
convey intelligence between Philadelphia and
New Orleans ; now it can bo accomplished in
minutes, through the electric telegraph, which
oply had its beginning in 1843. Voltaism was
disuovorrcd in March. 1800. The electro mag-
net in 1821. Elcetrotyping diseoveied only, a
few years ago. Hoe's printing pre33, cap iblc of
printing 10,000 copies an hour, is a very recent
diseovery, but of a most impoi t&nt character.
GasJiglitwas uuknowninlSOO now every city
and town, of any pretence, are lighted with it.
arid we have the announcement of a still grater
discovery, by which ligh't, heat, and moti ve
p-jwer. may be all produced from water, with
scarcely any cost. Daguerre communicated to
the world his beautiful invention in 1839. Gun
cotton""andcholroform arc discoveries but of a
few years old. Astronomy has added a num-
ber of new planets'to the solarsystem. Agri-
cultural chemistry has enlarged the domain of
knowledge in that inlportant branch of scientific
research, and mechanics have increased the fa-
cilities for production, and the means of ac-
complishing an amount of labor which far tran-
scends the ability of united manual effort to ac-
complish. The triumphs achieved in this last
branch of discovery and invention, aie enough
to mark the last half century as that which has
most contributed to augment personal comforts,
enlarge the enjoyments, and add to the blessings
of man. What will the next half century ac-
complish 1 We may look for still greater dis
coveries : for the intellect of man is awake, ex-
ploring every mine of knowledge, and search-
ing for useful information in every department
of art and industry.
THE SfEGE OF DANTZIC.
When Marshal Lefcbvre, in lo07. invested
Danlzic, iho celebrated engineer, Bousmaid,
put it in a condition to sustain a regular seige.
General Kulkreauthv over whom Bousmurd
exercised much influence, had tinder his com -1
11 md a garrison of twelve :housand Pi us-iaiis
did ill ree Ruasian battalions. For the attai.k
Marsha! Lefebvie led on a mixed multitude of
crench, Poles and German, 10 Ihe numbes o
Mteen thousand. He .ilway- showed his
soldiers an example ot modesty and cm.? ige;
, the Marshal of the Ettijiiie never forgotih.it
he had lioeii from the lanks, but was aiwavs
liircinnsl in mounting a breach or leading on a
forlorn hope.
Two months, however, passed on, and Daut-
zic continued impiegnable. It was not cer-
tainly an unreasonably lung time to spend in
reducing so stiong a place, )ct Napoleon be-
came impatient. He who had astonished the
Funivei&e with the rapidity of his invasions
; and conquests, and who had recently reduced
the kingdom oi lJc -.. 1 1" obedience in seven
weeks, hdd some right to complain of Lefeb-
vre's tardiness. From his camp at Fmken-
1 stein he surveyed ll.o whole of Eufope,
.moved Turkey, threatened Russia, looked al!
'England with impotent displeasure, concluded
treaties with Germany, sent forth his com-
'nvinds, and raised soldiers wherever aid
wneiiever.he wuica, :1:1a amid' an mis ue
could notf without manliest impatience, think
jofthe siejie of Dantzii.
MVhatVLefeoyte about? What ishe do-
ing I don't understand, his djillying'
Such were the Emperorls ahyupt exciama.
lions. Whenever adispalchfrorn the-Mar-shal
arrived, coiilainihgan account of the lo-
caLdifficuhies of thesicge, Napolean would
give a rapid glauce of his, eagle eye, and then
thriving it down contemptuously would say,
rjSlufl! deuce takethe Ahation and his fine
destructive style!" "-
"Denon," saidthe. Emperor one day, ad-
dressing'bis favorite artist, I must know how
matters are progressing at Uantzic. Go thith-
er immediately, present yourself to the Mar-
shal and bring me back a drawing of the
place, I depend on you. Go!"
In a quarter of jwhour after tho delivery
of this imperial mandate, Denon was on the
road to Dantzic with his pensils and poi'folio.
He was now upwards of sixty years oldj and
had sojourned with Lraiis XV. and Louis XVI.
at,Versailles, with Fredrick the Great at Pots-
dants, with Catherine II. at St. Petersbuig,
and with Voltaire at Forney. Since the me-
morable Egyptian expedition, he had followed
the footsteps of Napoleon. At Bylau a ball
struck a piece of ordinance close to the Em-
peror aud killed three men. Denon, who had
learned in the soil the Phariohs to draw from
nature in the midst of the stormiest batile,
without thinking of danger or carmg.fpp-risk,
just then approached calmly, with his sketch-
ing materials in his hand;
1 wasjust thinking of you," said the Em-
peror; "but you must retire, Denon too
much peril here for your head, and qir iriticli
smoke for your eyes." Napoleon forgot no
thing; the artist's perfect coolness at Bylau
was present lo his mind when he sent him to
bring back a military plan to Dantzic.
"Arrived at tho outposts of the Beaeiging
army, Denon asked an audience of the Mar-
shal, and lold him his errand. Lefebvre, who
knew little, and cared less, about the charac-
ter and talents of his visitor, did not give him
credit for his good fuith, but believed he come
with some sinister design. Ho measured the
artist leisurely wilh an unfriendly eye, and
then with a tone of iiony said, "Ah, ah, so
monsieur wants to see JJanizic? He wants
to inspect the stato of the siege for himself?
Weli, 'us really a pretty drama; HI secuie
him a seat in the stage box !"
So saying, he called a sergeant, one of the
bravest, and withal one of the dullest fellows
in the army, and said, "Firbach, you will
lead this gentleman to tho spot from whence
he will yet the bist view of Dantzic ; you un-
derhand 1 on the . , ia p .pjiusiu- die bastion
of Bischof-dieiir. '
'Yes, MaiMial, lephed the gron .r,
moving on.
FEBRUARY 2!, 1851
"I thank you, Marshal," said Denon as ha
p epaied to follow his guide.
"Thank me for nciihmg," muttered Lefeb-
vr. between his teeth. "So," thought he,
''the Emperor distrusts me, and sends a spy
... ,r ,..... i a ........ ii,. ..i;..,..., I'll i.
l" "V "'"F ; '""-J pl.Cl..a.l, V II uc
! bound! He thought 10 deceive me with Ms
I)1:ins and .drawing,, as if, indeed, Bonaparte
weie a child, that wanted pictures to amuse
him I .1 fancy HI give ray gentleman, Mon-
sieui Denon, as he calls himself, quite enough
of his liade. HI teach him -how to stand
fin! I'd give a day's pay for ihe pleasure of
seeing hnn run away houi the bullets!"
Meantime Denon and his guide walked
rapidly ouwaid.'. Theyscrfm crossed the line,
j and came withintijrngepf '.he cannon on I he
forts, which at that momenl wore, keeping up
a most animated intcicliange of civilities-with
the Fionch ballet ie. Bails and bullets
whirled about the hernia of the artiit and
the grenadier, and the sod on which they trod
was deeply fiirrowed by projiictibv, of various
kinds. Precisely at the spot where the mis-
siles were llyir. thick.'st, Firbach paused,
andioid Denon thatthey weie now arrived at
the 'tfyiiu indicated Jiyjlm Marshal.- Without
making any remark, lhe.arfisiAstepped inlo a
hid low dag by jhe passage Hof a bomb, and
whole raised edge formed a sorlTot" desk; he
then calmly opened'his pw (folio, look out his
jJenejliund began to sketch. .
His brave gOide looked at him with astonish-
ment. 'A pleasant place," said he "to stand
in and admit e ti.e landscape !" Then seeing
that D.jnon wa- pursuing his employment
very Jeismjy, "Comrade," said he, "will
you lemaiii heie long?" v
'Why do you ask.'"
'tWhy why? Just because 'tis too hot
here to be quite agreeable."
"JJo you think. so Then don't let me de-
tain you. Yrfu can telurn to the camp, and
'When I shall have finished, I shall easily find
my way hack.;'
"Adieu, Ihcn, monsieur; an rcvoir!" So
sa)ing ihe gienadiei walked off, nothing loth,
tu icjniii his cu:np i:t w nose dinner was jusl
sol vcd.
Marshal Lefebvre. meantime had much bu-
siness to transact. Al the end of two hours he
suddenly recollected Fit bach and Denon.
"Whai!" exclaimed he, "not vet returned?
It wou'd icaliy annov me to have one of my
brave fellows meet death by the side of a I
)'-
"Firbach, at all events is in a aigh state of
preset valion, saul an aid de-camp : "I saw
him just now relreshing himself at the can-
teen. '
"Then the other must have ftlien? Well,
well, the joke wascctaitily i.ithei loo ptacti-
cal. I should have preferred his taking back
his repot t to Bonaparte. But it can't be
helped; a spy, afic rail, is no great loss!"
"SacrcV cried the aid-de-camp, who was
looking through a spy-gla-: here's the very
man walking quietlv towaids us, as if the bul-
lets were so many bonbons!"
'Is it possible that the fellow can have stood
ever since between the batteries ? Where's Fir-
batch i Call him to me "
Tho grenadier csme. and 1 elated exactly
what had passed. J.ist as he had finished,
Denon arrived. It was 'pleasant to sec
the warm-hearted Marshal run to meet the art-
ist, grasp both his hands, and exclaim, 4No,
you are not a spy. but a really brave, honest
follow. I mistook you, Monsieur Denon. and
hope you will forgive me. Take sketches 'un-
der a shower of shot and shell : 'tis ten times a
greater feat than heading a charge sword in
hand. The Emperor has commissioned you to
take hack an exact description of the place ! al-
ready you have seen one side of it forgive me
that it was the roughest now f will show you
the others myself. We will not leave a bastion
orvredoubt unvisited: and I hope you will grant
me your friendship in return for the esteem
with which your valor has inspired inc."1 Le-
febre kept bi3vvoid:he conducted Denon to
the" best points of iew. and could not sufficient-
ly admire the arti3t'S'skefcches and steadiness
of hand. Denon returned to Finkenstein ; and
in a few dayeafterwaids on the 24th of May.
1807, Dantzio capitulated Gen. Kalkreauth
obtained the samo conditions that fourteen
years befoic, be had himself granted to , the
garrison of MayenOe. Lefebvre had him conduc-
ted with all hopor to the outposts of the Prus-
sian army ; andthe ancient comrade of the
rreat Frederick expressed his gratitude in an af-
fcetionateletter to the Marshal. The conquer-
or rcceivedjfor a recompense the title of the
Duke of Dantzic, so it is evident that thereport
of his proceedings, brought by Denonv was by
no mean s calculated to lowefhiin in the
estimation ff Napoleon Lefehireidiedat Paris
in 1820 and Denon, whose work on Egypt has
gained him ntf imperishable fame, expired at
'th"e same place, at an advanced age, in 1825.
Singular Discovert of Stolen Jewelry at
Polisvtlle. We leant from the Mineis!. Jour-
nai, at Potsville, that on Thursday last, while
some children were at play upon the hill-side,
near Fishbauch, half a mile, from Pottsville,
one of the number discovered a small string
fastened to a bush; his,curiosity being awaken-
ed, the string was seized, and after pulling at
it, he found that it became detached from
some object beneath the snow. Upon an ex-
amination of the string, several gold rings
were found upon it, and a slight search en-
abled them to descover an old stocking or
drawer-leg, with several hundred dollars,
worth of unfinished gold rings, pencils
chains, &c. In ihe vicinity another string
was found, fastened in the same manner, but
leading off in a different diiectinn, to the end
of which there was also a larye amount of
jewelry, also unfinished. The Potsville Jour-
nal thinks these ai tides came from some
large manufacturing house in Philadelphia 01
N. York, and tho spoil was hidden beneath
the snow by the party committing the theft,
and the spot designated by the small sli ings. so
as to enable them to regain their spoils at a
future day. Peihaps the robbery of Mr.
Bard's store, in Arch stieel on Friday night,'
January 10, may have something to do with
this discoveiy.
Philadelphia Ledger.
National Education is England.
The London correspondent of tho N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser, in his letter of the
81 h November, says: -
The friends of progress have been much
giatified during the past few days by the
lact of Mr. Cobden having pledged himself to
devote his energies to piumotc the great ques-
tion of national and unsectariau education.
It was in this cause that he first begun his
public cat eer in 1835 and unlike some of the
less practical movements m which he has
j lately engaged, it is one in which ho is sure
YOL. XYL
Jam u vn m rm
to succeed. A body has been formed, called
the national public school association. Sub-
scriptions will be readily gained for it, and
one subscriber has-already put his namo down
for 500.
The steamer Washington arrived at this
port on Sunday morning; with tho largest
freight, we believe, that has ever been brought
to this place by ono boat consisting of 2033
ban els., - " "
Washington Ranger.
'TELEGRIPHBD TO .THE NEW 0RLEAIVS PICAYUXE.
fBV THE SOUTIIEttN LINE. ,,,
Cotton at New York.
Baltimore, Feb. 3. At New York,' to-day,
cotton is uncertain: awaiting the Canada's ad-
. vices. 7' , ,-Jb ,7r'v
TriE Atlantic
The rumor of the steamship Atlantic having
been seen by the captain of the. ship Tarquin
proves tb be unfounded.
Wreck of the America.
The steamer America, of Philadelphia, which
was bought bya company at Mobile, founder-
ed on the"29th ult., while on her way to that
port. She was abandoned by the crew and
passengers, who were subsequently picked
up. ' " ' ""
COXGRKS3IOXAL.
Both'Houses adjourned to-day to attend the
funeral of hon. David S. Kaufman, Representa-
tive lrom Texas.
The Canada's News.
New York, Feb. 3. News by the Canada to
the 18th ult:, one week later than previous ad-
vices states that cotton had declined from 1-8
to 14 of a penny.
The saies of the week prior to tho departure
of the steamer, amounted to 22,000 bales,
More of tke Canada's News.
B vltimore. Feb. 4. The steamer America
arrived at Liverpool on the 12th ult.
Foreign Markets.
Cotton had declined 1-8 to 1-4. Fair Orleans
8: Mobile G 7-8; middling 7 3-8 to 7 9-16. Tho
sales of the -week amounted to 33,000 bales -Breadstuffs
were dull. Flour declined 6d. to Is.'
Corn declined 6d. Provisions were unchan!
god.
Accounts from the manufacturing districts
represent a moderate busincsss. and the money '
market steady. Consols 90 3-8. Gold and
silver were unchanged. American stocks had
declined to 5 premium for 58's.
The Havre cotton market is quiet.
E:ohnd.
The political news of England is unimpor-
tant. Shipwreck.
The ship Franconia, of Baltimore, was wreck
cd and totally lost off Holyhead. The captains-
mate and twelve of the crew perished. Tho
cargo was lost.
France.
Louis Napoleon is gaining the mastery over
Changarnier and the Assembly. France is
slightly agitated, but nothing serious is appre-
hended. The Duchies.
The Holstcinors have unconditionally surren-
dered to Denmafk.
GEItSMKr.
The olT German Diet ia about to be restored.
Spain.
The Spanish Cabinet has again resigned.
Rome.
Agitations continue m the papal States.
The Atlantic.
A revenue schooner cruising off Halifax, Has
just returned from Sable fsland, but brings no
tidings of the Atlantic.
New York Market's.
Baltimore, Tuesday, Jefi.4. At New York
to-day cotton was depressed, and no sales were
made. Flour and grain were unchanged.
One thousand barrels of mess pork were sold at
12 1-8. Lard 8 1-2.
Co.GRESSIOAL. . -
In the SanatCifi petition'from Alabama in fa-
vor of the acquisition of Cuba, -was presented by
Mr. Borland.
Thebill to regulate appraisements of foreign
merchandise passed the House. The San Fran
cisco and JNevv lork Branch Almt Dills were
CIO
aiscusseu.januaestroyca Dyoojectiomroieamenu-
ments. It is considered certain that they will
not pass.
Foreign Ship News.
New York, Feb. 5. -The William and Eliza-
beth arrived at Liverpool on the 15th ; the Pat-
rick Henry, Living Age, Land and Talleyrand,
at Havre the 10th; the Orozimbo at Genoa the
7th, and thesJohn Spear at Trieste the 5th all
from New Orleans.
The ship Brunswick, from New Orleans, put
into Plymouth on the 13th, having- lost two
men overboard and experiencedVery bad weath-
er New York M rkets.
Baltimore, Fe6.5-At New York, to-day, cot-
ton declined l-2c. per pound, s Sales 300 bales.
Flour has declined l-16c.
Arrival of the Canada.
Tho Cunard steamer Canada has arrived at
Roston. The captain reports that he encoun-
tered immense fields of ice and terriblo
gales.
From South Amhricv.
At Rio Janeiro, on the 23d of Dccombor, war
botween Br.uil and Buenos Aryes was consid-
ered less probable
CONORESlOVAI-
In tho Senate, to-day, a bill was reported in favor
of referring national difficulties to arbitration before
having resort to vvnr.
Tho bill rclaliug to California land claims was en-
grossed. In the Houso,the bills for establishing mints otNew
York and San Francisco were laid upon the table.
Ohio Senator.
Tho convention of the two Houses of tho Legisla-
ture of Ohio have adjourned, unable to elect a Sena-
tor in Congress to fill Air. Ewing's seat, which oxpirea
on the 4th of March.
Foreign Markets.
New York, Feb. 6. Letters hv Jfe- -..
NO. 8.--WHOLE NO. 79$
vorj Giscouragmgly or Uie cotton market. On boibb
sales there was a decline of i. -
At fluvre, cotton was three francs lower, with a
stock of GO.OOt) baits.
Yaras and other goods at Manchester had declined.
It gives us pleasure to state that the busi-
ness of our young and growing cityis contin.
umg to increase. Our streets, and public
houses-, arethrouged from mornings until night,
with purchasers from theJihterior. On yes-
terday the streets were again completely bar-
racaded with wagons, and the cry is atill
they come."
- W e hope our merchants wiib-bonefit them-
selves, the public, and also the Ranger, by
sending a list of the articles they are contin-
ually receiving per steamboats, fur publication,
as theift are hundreds now anxiously waiting
to hear of the a'rriyal of the necessanr sun-
j)!ies. "Modesty''-U -sai'd to be 'th'e mark of"
genius. We shall not gainsay it. But how-
ever ingenious or ingenuous it may shrink
from the public gaze, a man who undertakes
tp live by trade or manufactures may starve
by it. Many have starved, or at least been
sorely pinched by it. Many a man has
bought a large slock of goods, anil hired a fine
store, and then wondered why bis business
did not piosper. It Is owing to this. People
now get their information br reading news.
paper. Whoever keeps himself most before
the public, in the newspapers, gets the moat
busiuess, doubtless his money the oftenest,
&c. Jticojinot be otherwise. The few who
kuow'ihis are fortunate. Yon should spend
as much in advertising as rent. Washing-
ion Ranger.
From the San Antonfo Leager.
MORE INDIAN NEWS!
Two . Engagements between Capt. Tord'a '
Rangers and the Indians.
We are indebted to the Hon. HamBee
for Ihe following intelligence of thedoiugs of
the peace-making and peace-loving fudlans
on our frontier. It -will be seen lhat Wm.
Barton, a man kuowu by every Texian al-
most in the Stale as one of Texas' most gal-
lant sons has been killed by these more lhan
savages. Five of tho gallant Rangers were
wounded seriously and one slightly. The
repetition of scenes like those recounted by
Mr. Bee, have heretofore been treated wilh
cold neglect by ihe General Government, nor
do we expect that the present account of loss
of life and property will secure to our frontier
citizens thai which their exposed situation so
imperatively requires.
We have ever believed that Gen. Brooke
was desirous to afford ample protection lo our
citiz-ns. and that it was the criminal neglect ,
of the Genera! Government in failing to pro-
vide this Department with ibis description of
force necessary to chasti&e the Indians for
their repeated depredations, thai was causing
so much suffering on our borders. We leel
satisfied lhat as soon as grass rises active
measures will be taken to punish the Indians
lbr iheir many acts of barbarism during ihe
l.. 'lL ..... -I -., .
iai i wu jrars. J ins is not saiu vvup a view
to calm the excited feelings of our frontier
citizens, bul from a knowledge that what wo
say is true.
Gen. Brooke, from wh at we are able to
learn, has no faith in treaties, but has expres-
sed himself to the effect, that nothing less than
the most active measures would have any in-
fluence in restoring harmony to our long suf-
fering frontiers. ,
Larado, Texas, Jan. 28, 1831.
Mk. Walkeii
Dear Sir: After being entirely exempted
from Indian depredations since the campaign
of Co!. Hardee last summer, we are now an-
noyed by ihem again. It was about two days
since a small party were seen within six.
miles of this place, they- killed one citizen,
and carried off some stock. We soon heard
of two being killed in the lower country. On
Saturday last the gallant and experienced
Lieut. Andy Walker of Ford's Rangers, ha"d
an engagement wftb a party of fifteen, about
half way between the Nueses and the Rio
Grandest the LaGata, (in this county,) he
kilted two jhat he got, while tvvp escaped,
doubtless morlally wounded. He retook 75
mules,and horses, stolen from the lower rau-
cho3 on this river, and a young Mexican
about 18 years old, who had been wiihthem-
two days the dense thicket of chapparal en-
abled the Indians by abandoning their horses
to escape afoot, where pursuit was impossi
ble. .Lieut. Walker had lust arrived in town.
I J
I n nd
ruuoiui mu laugiatuiaiions or. uis
and the thanks of the Mexicans for
t fr:entl
the recovery of their property, when we were
startled by an express from Lieut. Edward
Burleson, stating that he had an engagement
with the Indians on this side of the Nueces,
and required an ambulance to bring in his
wounded. This was yesterday, the 27th, at
3 o'colck; assistance was immediately sent
out, and this morning, we learn, that he had
had a desperute engagement with 15 Iudians
had killed three of them, and suffered the
following loss:
W. B. Barton, killed.
'Lieut. E. Burleson, wounded, not dangerous."
J. Speucer, seriously.
W. Lackey, dangerously.
A. Shorn, seriously.
J. Kerr, dangerously. ,
J. Wilkigson, seriously.
The wounded have arrived, but I have not
yet heard from the surgeon tha prospects, bat
it is believed, that the friends of the wounded
men need not feel much uneasiness.
The service, and especially the State, has ex-
perienced a great loss in W. B. Barton: he bad
been Tendering good servico since the action o
Monterey, where he was badly wounded, and
was as estimable a citizen as he was a gallant t
soldier.
Now let us sum up : three citizens killed,
property to the amount of thousands of dollars
drove off. two distinct engagements with the
Indians, one going out of the country, and tHo
other coming in. -one of our best citizens, and
seven gallant young men wounded. Does this
look like peace ! 1 predicted that the treaty of
Fort Martin Scott" with a few chiefs, who
spoke but for their own bands, would be the
cause of sorrow to us who live on thi3 re-
mote frontier and the result has proved it.
The captive who was retaken by Lieut. Walker,
states that the Indians told him that they were
at peace with the white.
Poor Barton was killed in carrying out ono
of the articles of that cursed treaty. He was
one of the escort of the Comanche prisoner who
was taken by Capt. Ford last summer, and ta-
ken to Bexar to be delivered up to his tribe.
Have not the frienda-pf the lamented JJarfa '
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