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II n THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE IS PUBMSHT.D EVERT TUESDAY AKD FRIDAY A t th e Tm»eHE B uildings , comer of Nassau and Spruce streets, op- potite the C itr Hall. - „ PnceJSpcraiaium . Two copies for $5. Tenfor«20. THJE NEW-YOHJK. WEEKEY TRIBUNE 1 b pul)li«1ied onco a weelr. Price $2 per aonnuj. Eight copies for ♦lO. ; ^ e n t j copies for $20 1# puhlished every TH E NEW -YO RK DAIEY TRIBUNE jiuing, Sunday excepted. Price $5 per THE NEW-YOBK TRIBUNE EOR EUROPE published on the departure of each Mail Steamer for Liverpoc PriCT S c e n ts per cojiy, or S3 per year, to any p a rt of G reat Britaii ' THE NEW-YORK. TRIBUNE gfYiSwme;' ^ p ’The follotving melodious and touching poem is fro m the pen of the late lamented W il l i s G a y l o r d C lark , and was written hy him for an early number of T h e K n ickerbo c k e r M a g a z irie : A SONG OF MAY. T h e Spring’s scentedbuds all around me are swelling— There are songs in the stream, there is health in the gale; A sense of delight in each bosom is dwelling. As float the p ure day-beams o’er mountain and v ale; The desolate reign o f Old W inter is broken— The verdure is fresh upon eveiy t r e e ; f Nature’s revival the charm, and a token Ipirit of Beauty J to thee. Of Of love, oh thou Spi The sun And H e fills V H e n H e u 1 is b right; isuie, Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom! The spells of the spring-time arouse it no m o re; The song inthe wild-wood—the sheen of theblossom- The fresh-welling fountain—their magic is o’e r ! When I list to the streams—when I look on the flowers They tell of the Past, That I c y o i . y n i ............ N O . 8 2 7 . NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, 'APRIL 29, 1853. THREE DOLLARS A YEAR. wide-spreading earth—^from the limitless There have vanished an eloquent glory and gleam; omy veil’d mind no more, isthe influence given, Which coloreth life wi\ Which coloreth life with the hues of a dream; The bloom-purpied landscape its loveliness keepeth- I deem that alight, as of old, gilds the wave; B u t the eye of my spirit in heaviness sleepeth. Or sees but my youth, and the visions it gave. Yet it is not that age on my years hath descended— ’Tis not that its snow-wreaths encircle my brow; But the newness and sweetness of Being are ended— I feel not their Jove kindling witchery now! [ing— The shadows of Death o’er my path have been sweep- There are those who have loved me, debarred from the day; _ [sleeping, The ^ e e n im-f is bright, where in peace they And on wings c f remembrance my soul is away. I t is shut to the glow of this present existence— I t hears, from the Past, a funereal strain; And i t eagerly turns to the high-seeming distance, Where the lost blooms of earth will be gamert again; [nourish; Where no mildew the soft, damask-rose cheek sha W here Grief h ears no longer th( And if Delii O’er the lost and the lovely my spirit is weeping. For my hemt’s fondest raptures are buried with The exquisite sadness of these lines is as nat-oral as their melody is beautiful. They will remind the reader of the kindred feeling expressed hy B yron , in the tribute which he pays to the young and gallant H oward , who fell at the b»ttle of Waterloo: \ And •when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, That living waves where thou didst cease to live. And saw around me_ the wide fields revive W ith fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth, her work o f gladness to contrive, W ith all h e r rechles* hirds upon the wing, I turned from aU she brought to aU she could not bring.” Messrs. S tringer & T ownsend are about to issue a new edition lapodiana,^ essays of which The Norik American Review justly observes: “ Gfhey are -?vTitten in a free and flowing style, now in the sunshine and now in the shade, but always frith an under-current of deep feeling, in which there are no impurities. All Mr. C lark ’ s friends (and few had more or warmer ones) have welcomed the volume as a mirror of f his quaintaess, his humor, his pathos, gentle, h«m his mind; of his quaintaess, his humor, his pathos, his and most generous heart. easy, careless manner, and, above all, of his gentle, humane NEW P UBLICATIONS. R evne dee Heox mondes. In the last number of this journal, M. Ampdre con- tinnes his American ’‘Promenade,” having returned from Cincinnati to New-York by the Erie Railroad. W e translate a few of his rapid sketches of men and things in this City: BRYANT. “ Mr. Bryant is the Democratic poet, and the poet of New-Yoi-k, as Mr. Longfellow is the Whig poet, and the poet o£ Boston. Each of them has his enthusiastic parti sans, w h o a r e som e tim e s u n ju s t tow a rd th e r iv a l o f th e ir favorite. I shall endeavor to avoid these prepossessions, a n d to rem a in im p a r tial. L ik e L o n g fellow , B r y a n t is an English poet, born iii America. I should say that, in regard to po e tic form , Lf>ngfellow is th e m o r e E u r o p e a n , a n d Bryant the more English. The first has received the im p r i n t o f a ll th e literatu r e s of E u r o p e , an d esnecially o f th e German literature. The other is more exclusively under the influence of English literature. He has not that kind of originality which gives his rival a familiarity with the most different classes of poetry. Mr. Bryant, although he and two poetic tendencies—the Whig, a professor and a man of the world, preserving in the bosom of a quiet life the serenity which breathes in his verses—^the Democrat, an honorable and decided public man, mingling in action, in strife—^the one more European, more complete—the other more American, more concentrated; the one original in the diversity of his inspirations, the other powerful by the intensity of a small number of sentiments, thrown into a mould not so new, but in fact, perhaps, more individual; the first cosmopolite in some degree like a German, the second national like an Englishman: both Americans at heart and in popularity.” WASHINGTON IRVING, “ 1 3^0 visited Washington Irving. * * » Lik< fellow he is half American, half cosmopolite. Like 1 represente that alliance -yvith Europe which is the most pre- is easy and polisaed. Already of a have been told, he still appears yoi animation of his excmgion among theprairi( , ___his style, an advanced age, as I and spoke ' THE BOW:i those who have become rieh remove to the west,’ ‘ But i) they get reduced again V ‘ Then they return to tlie east.’ ’ AufOBIOGRAPHT OP AN ENGLISH SOLDIER IN THE UNI TED STATES ARMY. 12mo., pp.288. Stringer t Townsend. If this old soldier uses the sword as well as he does the pen, h e ought to he hi the direct line of military promotion. H e is a “ canny Scotchman,” who left his loom and his home in Paisley, some eighty ears since, and arrived in New-York in the summer of 1845. Not finding any employment to his mind, and having seen service in the British army,he was tempted by the pros pect of fair pay and good treatment to enlist in the United States Service. His first experience was at the rendezvous on Governor’s Island, to which he was taken the evening after his enlistment. His description of one day o f soldier’s life does not present a very flatter ing picture of that vocation. We , , . racks, tliey naturally felt indignant at the unjust degradation to which they were subjected, in being compelled every moiiiiiig to act as a scavenging commission for the perma nent company. Tlie refusal to obey orders, caused by this foolish regulation, was the means of many of the recruits being confined in the guard-house while I was on the island. At .six o’clock we were assembled and formed into squads for drill; we were then drilled until seven, when we were dismissed. hie coffee, totally innocent of the useless extravagance of milk, instead of which we were permitted to season our sumptuous fare with vinegar at discretion, a large hla-di bottle fud of that condiment being placed at each end of breakfiist, the sergeant in charge of the recraits took me and the two others who came over on the previous evening to the clothing store, where each received the fol lowing articles of clothing : A forage cap, leather stock, jacket and frousers of coarse blue cloth, two cotton shirts, two pairs of socks, one pair of half boots, a blanket, a great coat, aknapsqck, and a haversack. Having brushed our clothes, cleaned the metal buttons of our jackets, and pol ished our boots, at 10 o’clock, wo again fcdl into the ranks for inspection and drill. After a minute inspection by the officer who had us in charge, to .see that we were smart and clean in our appearance, we were formed into a number of separate squads for drill -, those who had joined earliest, .and consequently were the most forward with their drill, being placed in the first squad, and so on in succession. The other two recruits, Murphy and Finnegan and myself, were turned pointed to drill them. The\ proper combination of iutein- o ought to be Ins p.atient instructors, is tempted to desert aged *— ------- . — * C7 - who ought to be Ins p.atient instructors, is tempted to dei the service, when, with proper treatment, he might hi been made a good and efficient soldier. At l l j o’cBick, the squads were dismi.ssed, and the greater part of the recruits who possessed money, or had credit at the sutlers store, went over to it to buy crackers and cheese, pies, and other eatables, and to drink cidei-, uger, and root beer, all of which articles, with tohaco, and iveral other necessaries, were sold there at the slight ad- ance of 100 per cent. lipon the price at wliich similar com- lodities could he purchased in New-York. Tlie sutler’s store is a shop kept in every garrison, and is somewhat similar to a canteen in the British service, only the sutlers stores are prohibited from selling spirits. Re cruits, on arriving at the Island, were allowed credit in the sutler’s store to the amount of S3, which sum, or the amount taken by the recruit, was remitted by the Captain of his Company on the first p.ay-day after he joined his regiment, lliose recruits who had e-xhausted their credit at the store, either went to their tents, or lay stretched on the grass, under the fine shady trees that ornamented the parade ground, reading, dozing, or smoking, and chatting, accord- nig to their various inclinations A t 12 o’clock the dinner call beat, a fifer and drummer playing the regulation tune, “ 0 the Roast Beef of Old England.” We again fell into the ranks, buttoned up as at breakfast roll-call, and having answered our names were marched to the cook-house to dinner. This meal con sisted of six ounces of bread, a slice of salt pork, and a basin of bean soup. Tliis compound was very salt, and very fat, and contained a quantity of half-boiled beans. I have seen some sti-ange and rather iminviting dishes, both before and since, but never anything so utterly unpalatable as the bean-soup of Governor’s Island. A few of the more verdant of the Recruits occasionally swallowed a portion of it, under the false impression that it was a species of military soup, which might possess some hidden nutritious virtues, though so singularly u n in v it in g in taste and a p pearance. For this venial error, however, they were pretty sure to suffer a moderate degree of penance, until led by experience to see their mistake. The old and more e.xperieneed hands, usually preferred to wash down their dry victuals with a drink of water, so that the quantity of Spai-tan b r o th , a n d salt p o r k , daily left o n the d in n e r table of the recruits, was quite enormous, a fact easily cited to refu te a n y com p laint o f an insufficient d ietary . volatile nd sedate portion of the recruits strolled along the 'alks that intersect the island, or sat in small parties versing in Irontof their tents, the younger and more volat among them engaged in a variety of pastimes and amu^. ments. Football, leaping, wi-estling, footracing, leap-frog, throwing the stone, or dancing when music could he pro cured, were a few of the more prominent of . the diversions commonly resorted to. Later in the evening, after having ■—swered ournames at retreat, which was beat precisely iset, groups assembled round the tent doors, to smok< carouse, on bad whisky a t a doHar a bottle. The re marks o f the w riter on the causes of intemperanee in advance of nine’ hundred per cent, upon what it cok Bairancas, on the other side of the hay. Having once d covered a sly grog-shop, the intelligence soon spreads, and in a very short period intoxication in every progressive stage, and producing every variety of effect, is the order of tjie day, and sobriety only the remarkable exception. In these saturnalia of course a few fights occasionally take place, and individuals of pugnacious propensities iteually find “ am p le roo m and v e rg e enough ” fo r their exercise, an excellent field here offering for the display of what is fanci fully t enned the st ience. m They . ioeedingly irty, having been occupied up to the day of*ur arrival by a party of negroes, who were employed in making re pairs on the fort and garrison. There was not a particle of furniture of any description in this room; the floor, which wasi composed of bricks, was covered with mud and wood ashes, as the negi-oes had kept a fire burning^on the floor comer of this miserable den, and having, on a SG lund Hie garrison, procured a few hoards, on thesi spread our blankets, and thus prepared our hod for the night; the absence of a mattress was not of great import ance, as we had been accustomed to dispense with that needless luxury while on hoard ship. In the American sendee, by the bye, soldiers always lie on the boards when on board ship; in the British service, where the health and comfort of a soldier are objects of study and solicitude, a different custom prevails; a clean blanket and matti'ess being issued to the soldier on his going on board, and taken into store when heleavesthe vessel. However, mycomvad( speedily’liad recourse’to, as a cure for all those discomfoi and annoyances from which there seemed no other mode ( escape. Such, at all events, was the practice of most ofoii. men on this evening; and such seemed to he the course de cided on by a party of honest fellows belonging to the com-, pany, who, on their way out, stopped to ask Nutt and mo to go along with them. As neither of us were teetotalei-s and as we felt rather fatigued with our day’s work, carrying a t 20 c e n ts a gallon, a n d coxdd be ob tained on th e opposite side of the bay, at Barrancas, where these negroes bouglit it, at 50 cents a gallon. They reta ile d it at a dollar a bottle, or iS5 a gallon, clearing the very moderate profit of 900 per cent, on their business, but tliey incurred the risk of a se vere flogging if detected selling liquor to soldiers. One of oite party having gone up to tlie window of one of the huts in which these black fellows lived, speedily rctunfadwith four bottles of whisky. AYith these, having adjourned to a convenientdistance to permit our indulging mlrcediscourse, without any risk of hciiig disturbed, wc sat down on the sand, and passing the hottlo round, wo drank in succession without the useless accompaniment of glasses. The following description of the scenery and natural history of Florida wonld do no discredit to the most practiced ivriter: Tlie luuninocks of Florida .are a peculiar feature of the countiw. The uncleared lands, consisting of what is called pine haiTcns, are ivholly composed of largo pine trees open to air and light, and between which there thrives a hixuriaut undergrowth of palmettocs, and a gi-_eat variety of richly scented and gorgeously-colored flowering shrubs. A savan nah of tall strong grass, five or six feet in length, which oc curs here and there, and an occasional swamp, are the only relieving featuve.s, besides the hummocks, Avhich diversify the dreaiy monotony of these interminable pine barrens, covering nearly Hie whole surface of the Stjite, of which th ere is, comparatively speaking, hut a small poi-tion under cultivation. At intervals of a few miles, dense forest tliick- ets, containing magnificent ti'ces of every description com mon in Florida, except the pine, occur in traveling through these pine barrens. Oak, liquid amber, liielmry, chestnut, cotton-wood and magnolia, are among the varieties found iiii the hummocks, which vary in size from about one mile to two or tluree in circumference. The bottoms of many parts of them are usually swampy, and there is a thick uuder- girowth of thorny shrubs and vines, which makes it exceed- niiglv difficidt to penetrate into their dark recesses. During the ‘Florida war, the constant places of refuge for the lu- diiaiis were the hummocks, and woe to the soldiers who fol lowed them too rashly: Uncle Sam’s troops being no match for the red men in those ii.atural and almost im pregnable fortresses. Wounded doer frequently _ fly to them for shelter, and when one of them succeeds in reach ing the skirts of a hummock, after having been wounded at some distance, without the assistance of a good dog, th e r e is sm a ll chan c e o f disco v e r ing its dying p lace. I baive sometimes been seduced into their dark and sombre shades, in follow ing a flo c k o f tu r k e y s w h ich h a d tiilren slielter in the hranclies of some of the gigantic trees: on smell occasions I h a v e generaU y b e e n com peU e d to em e rge from their treacherous recesses ivitli torn clothes, face and b a n d s scratched , a n d b e m ired u p to th e m iddle w ith th e mud of the swamp. In going through these hummocks, one sees the fiillen U-imks of large decayed trees lying scat tered on the ground in all directions; these are very invit ing to step on, when one imagines he is in danger of s’mk- iiiig up to the armpits in a swamp liole. Beware, however, I would say to'the ine.xperienced and incautious stranger, how you tread on these fallen trunks; try them with your foot gently, and see if they are soimd; many of them are rotten and hollow, and some of them contain dry lodging for a numerous and thriving colony of moccasins or rattle snakes, a single puncture from the venomous tooth of one of which would make you grievously rue your reckless in trusion on their domestic privacy. 1C weeks I spent After remmniog on the itland about a week, he was ordered to Texas, with a large draft of recraits, who went there to join different regiments, in preparation for the expedition t o the interior, Which resulted in the Mexican War. They embarked at Boston on the 17th of September, and after a merry voyage of sixteen days, arrived at Fort Pickens, on the bay of Pensacola. Here, they inaoghrate their new quarters hy a regular moonlight night, for that is the time in which it wurbles ite most melodious strains, is indescribably sweet. It is the pnlysreal geod singing bird in America; hnt I would prefer It to all the linnets, larks, thrushes, and blackbirds of the old world. The lagoon-like hays and creeks on the coast of Florida abound with many exceUent varieties of fish, and turtle are very numerous and easily caught. We often had turtle ip at Tampa Bay, as turtle could he bought at two or down for a .... . - ----- o ------------ ------ - wasnohard task to collect as many oysters as the whole of the two com dailies could consume. Nearly all parts of the coast of Florida furnish these excellent shell-fish in inexhaustible quantities. The author was in several battles under Gen. Scott, whose courage, discipline, and kindness, he frequently describes ki terms of just and expressive eulogy. Who ever would gain a distinct and lively idea of this great commander’s campaigns in Mexico, can hardly do better than to road the present unpretending, hut graphic narrative of a soldier in the ranks. FATHER GAVAZZI’S LECTURES. SECOND COURSE. --- NO. III. Tho Infallibility o f the Pope. Father Gavazzi delivered the third lecture of h course at the Tabernacle last evening. The house was well , and the e Italian] lip appearance upon the stage i was greeted with loud applause, and proceeded to speak as filled, and the proceeds of the evening were for the benefit he) ing hip OftlK iles, now on their way to New-York. Mak- irance upon the stage at 8 o’clock, the Padre follows: T’he subject of my lecture this evening is the Infallibility of the Pope. I shall prove that this Infallibility is against Scripture, against Reason, and against History. Allow me heie t« give notice, that the next lecture of this present course will he delivered in Metropolitan Hall, on Monday evening, on which occasion, with the blessing of God, I shall speak in reference to Cardinal Wiseman’s last lecture in Leeds; and, also, in answer to a certain Priest in New- York, who, a few days ago, had something to say about the knowledge of Roman Catholics. The Padre now came to speak of the Infallibility of the Pope, and remarked that the Church of Rome based their strongest argument in support of this doctiine upon the assertion that St. Peter was infallible; and as the Pope was the successor of St. Peter, the Pope must of necessity be infallible. But, said the lecturer, St. Peter was only a man, and possessed the weaknesses of m en; he denied Christ three times, and fell from his former estate; and therefore ho was not infallible. “ But,” says the Church of Rome, Church is not St Peter. The rock is Christ himsell they say that Peter is infallible, because Christ promised to he uutb Peter the consummation of all good. Butthis proves only that Christ will be also with His Charch^resent to His Church, preserving and maintaining His Church all temptations, and all snares of his enemie a strong, warm-hearted was’ also a man-^he was a man w?ien he denied not infallible. But is the present Pope the successor of St. eter 1 I maintain that the present Pope is ?iot th >r of St. Peter at all; because, in order to be his s ................ s a Bishop, or tha _ _____ the only conclusion at which we can arrive by Scripture, by Reason, or by Nature. In the Acts of the Apostles, where is h-aced the life of Paul, and Peter, you have St. Paul at “ome, me, hut St. r 'er, - St. Paul having [) Avill not n lyhy Scripti will then believe ir. n arrive ----- , . _ Peter, you have St. Paul at J hut St. Pet never. Four instances are mentioned of St. Paul hav been at Rome, hut not one of St. Peter. Wo Avill not receive St. Peter at Rome ay tradition, hut only by Scripture. Bring us testimony from the Bible, and IS in a torpid state, seldom making their appearance for „ or three months during that seaspn; but in spring and summer I never went out to take a walk without seeing a number of them. The rattlesnake, adder and moccasin, are 'three different species found there, whose bite is ex ceedingly dangerous, and, in many cases, fatal; but they all luckily possess a very quick sense, of hearing, and gene ra ll y contrive to get out of the way before they are trod upon. I never heard of a single person being bitten while we lay thpre, though m summer we seldom went ‘ ' \ exhibiting in the most undisguised inanner the natural dOi p r a v it y and apparently incorrigibly vicious propensities of the alligator family, by snapping at dogs, children, and all who came near it, ne was forced to destroy it as nuisance. . • , riven a, de^cpplioir of this bird, which I h a f road, and could scarcely help thinking must have been rather too highly ic 9 loreaandfaudatory,untillhadhearda few ofits oxtra- necause me unair oi oi. x-eiui is iii jiome. uarainai Wiseman, you are aware, is regarded as a sort of Goliah ; hut there some time ago arose against him a female David, in the person of Lady Morgan, who gave him some pretty hard blows, which he could not well get over. Besides I proved to you in a former lecture, that this famous Chair was made in A'enice, some 400 years subsequent to the birth of St. Peter; so that he could not very well have occupied it. Therefore the present Popes are not infallible, because they are not successors of St. Peter. Remember, the present Pope claims infallibility because he is successor of St. Peter iu tlie Bishoiirio of Rome. But remember also that as St. Peter never was at Rome, therefore, Pius IX. is not his successor. [Applause.] Is Pius the Ninth a Pope? Y^ou are not certain that be is a cau^e 1° G^riiffallihk.’’ “ [Apflause.]' ThtriftL brief of their argument. Furthei-more, the Church of Rome says that the Bible may he vaiiously interpreted; and therefore is not infallible evidence. VVell, wh ' ' cTrisbMcl his resun-ection. But the Bible does not need taken according to tbe» truth, and not according to the ideas of those who were its interpreters. these Councils, you have but half a church, as the laity were not admitted, and as Christ did not grant infallibity to the whole Church, he certainly did not grant it to half a church. But are all these ..Ecumenical Councils good? Are they all inspired of God ? O, n o ! The great Council of Nice could not agree with the General Council of Con stantinople; and the Council of Trent could not agree with the Council of Constantinople. And how coffid they all Uihle ?_ The Bibk is^ the only t o e interpretation of •this book it is said that into no had soul shall enter the wis dom of God. Therefore the wisdom of God can never be found inthe heart of Popes, because Popes are not always saints. “ But the Popes are holy,” say the Church of Bomet The Pope, is called as “His Holiness.” If you come with me to Rome, and enter the Vatican Palace, you -will find _ ____________“ ihc. here attempt to introduce some human anthority, instead ol the authority of the Bible, Americans beware! He is Satan, introducing Pope and Popery into your country. [Great applause.] _________ _________ Ch*lexa at San Dieso—Capture of a Slaver-Papers of Lopez. Correipmidence of Tho N. Y. Trihuno. HAVANA, Thuradoy, April 21, 1853. In this fine city we have little news with which to re- gale our friends at present. The weather is fine, the public health is good, and all is quiet. At g\an public health is good, and all is quiet. A t S Diego de los Banos, however, a place some forty leagues to the stward of this, the Cholera has broken out suddenly, i carried off almost every body it has attacked. On Sunday morning H. B. M.’s steamer brought in a e schooner called the Cora. It appears that the vessel mght a cargo of negroes firom Africa about nine months since, and had been for some time at San Juan de los Remedios and lately left that port for Cardenas, to be fitted out for another voyage, and on the way was to make her a lawful pi no more landings having been m ^ e since my last. The news about giving liberty to all the emancipados has caused no excitement. Perhaps you remember having seen a letter in the papers, some time after the execution o f Lopez, in rela tion to the papers of that unfortunate man, from Count Pozas Dnlces to Mr. Sigur who gave it publicity. His reasons for doing so, I could not divine. The act ap peared to me uifeiendly, or at least imprudent, as the following extract from the sentence of the lately tried prisoners will convince you. The Fiscal says; “In short it only remains for me to no ' hupg the rick and c^lyum fon^ h m a ^ t r ^ ] ^ pings of o n ^ f the most expensive corps of w citiz’^ soldiery, did not move me to tears. I have frequently seea the lady since in the streets, habited in silks, and bedecked' with ji-welry, ivhich certainly was beyond my means to fur nish my own better half. Among the numerous applicants for work, daily, are* many of my own country people; ladies, who, in satin bon nets, crape shawls, silk and de laine dresses, ■with gold chains, finger-rings and breastpins, “ merely call in to see.”* They haveahu^and away at “ his office down town all day,'*’ and they are so lonesome, they “ merely wish some thing to do to help pass the time.;” or they have “ a nurs» or a governess in me family, who, from having hut ono’ Child to attend, has too much idle time,” and they “don’t like to pay folks for nothing.” T need hardly say that I never employ any. of the. above-mentioned ladies. But there are others who “ do n’t like to ask their husbands for money,” and yet wish to “ earn a little to spend.” This sounds honest. I cannot now pall to mind one American girl who ever asked for work 'because she herself needed it, altboogli ’tis often on account of “ a sick firiend at home.” 1 ff-equently had occasion to visit one lady by whom I ’ was always greeted with apologies, partly for her want o f punctuality, but principally for the disarray of her rooms* thus contriving to bring forcibly to my notice the elegant furniture-which “ took the shine out” of anything she had observed in my own domicile. ’Tis needless to say that- she was bom and bred here. I have seen a few cases of real undoubted poverty, h u t they have been very rare. And now one word as to the customers. The least charit able and the most exacting are generally ladies. The prico. is seldom satisfactory; the work never. Except a very few whom it is a pleasure to work for, I never take an order from a w o m ^ if it can possibly he avoided. Again, what ?o“y n ” S T p r i c e ”^ trade,” but “ it is too often the death of the trader.” But I am running off the track, and must put oi Etion th£ traitor Lopez, the Count was sent f cording to his own confession, asked him among other favors, that of requesting of Mr. Sigur, a resident of the United States, to deliver up the papers that had been left in his charge by Lopez, for the purpose of hurning all that might compromise some per sons of this island on account of the part they had taken in the expedition and his projects and piracy. The Count complied -with this request, writing to the said Sigur, informing him that he would name a party to assist in destroying the papers, which letter was imblished in the said Republic, and which is copied into this process. These papers might have been very useful to our Government. The ordering of the Count de Pozas Dulces to their being reduced to ashes, showed that his patriotism, his love tor the constituted id that loyalty of which so much has rernment—^he mabie, hut showing in this evasion, induct so coutrary to his first and ’ 'e act; and I found no inconvenience, should it be considered worthy of punish ment, to form a separate charge, that what might be due to justice might be done in its proper time, but that in this prosecution it could only he considered as au ante cedent, that although it might give room for a penalty, I have translated a suflicient part of the lawyer’s argu ment to show how dangerous it is to trust communica tions of importance in the hands of certain gentlemen in the United States, who measure things in Cuba by things in the Union. Surely Mr. Sigur would never have pub lished the letter, had he foreseen how it woifld nave been used; still this does not free that gentleman from censure; and being a lawyer, and having some idea of Spanish government, he might have been more prudent. Yours, F r a n k . m a r k e t s ....................... April 21, 1853. pain and the United Lur_v»ywcH * wants tae iaccer, lor o reat ^ExcH A ^ E ^ n London is 91^pr^um,^and (m Ne-w-York 2J'®2f, and i worth noticing. In your last Monday’s issue, a writer under the head of “ Schools of Design” says that those who make shirts the country are perfectly satisfied -with the compensation re ceived, while those who sell them make good profits. 'With \ -'this statement I have nothir ’ ’ r Bcem annual, Bj-nonymoua icrius. xne pnuancnropic men of The Express WDdJour7ial advocate among paa.aceas, voluntary domestic servitude, the -which, however, desirable and satisfactory to the benevolent feel ings of the would-be benefactors of the poor, is to the low est degree, degrading in the eyes of the wiil-not-be bene ficiaries. And these last are right. Under the arbitrary laws of Democratic caiie, such a proposition must seem to a poor Yankee giiilike adding insult to injury. To every general rule there are exceptions, is as old and as true an axiom as that there are two sides to a question; and may your humble correspondent attempt to show that there are exceptions even in tne lamentable situation of the seamstresses, which are almost sufficient of themselves to prove that there may be another side of the question. I speak for myself alone, knowing notbin'g of the business of others; but X presume that I cannot fairly suppose that the fruits of my experience during the last seven years are but exceptions. At any rate, I am willing to leave the proba bility of the truth or falsity of the following instances to the judgment of any one similarly situated. It must, how ever, he premised that I am not a “heavy dealer,” but a small shopkeeper, • one of the “ little men” in trade who counts by units instead of hundreds, both in dozens and dollars. - fomance are as nmeh unlike as^theory but ------------- -- — -------- ^ - - and most faithful employees. disregard __ r 'v—'wii'— community.. After steps) to the imminent fangerof mjfown°limhs welfas tbo^ of children, puppies and kittens, I reached “thede- . The Bible CoBventlon and the Clergy o f Hartford., TotheE iitorqf Tfielt. Y. Hribun' __ others to attend a four days' “Bible Convention’’ in i this city, next June, and you assign your reasons for de- f dining the invitation. The reasons you assign are eer- J tainly sufficient, and I think all reasonable men will com- ' mend your decision in the case, whatever may be theW views on the sulfiectproposed to be discussed. B u t. 1 'am not so well satisfied as to the propriely of your recoimmen- ! dationthat “ the Clergy of Hartford” should take up tho controversy, and meet the challenge thrown out. .Possibly they, as well as others, have other and more valuable en- 1 gagements than such a Convention wiU offer, to occupy meir attention. It is indeed the duty of the Clergy to meet every demand made from a respectable quarter, for proof of the validity of the claims set up in behalf ^of the Bible;, but no reasonable person wiU contend that they ought to turn aside from their duties to strive with self-conceited ig norance, whenever such may choose to give the challenge- It is denied that further “ discussion” may be demandedby those who have neglected to examine the common evi- ‘ lin m e prim a ry quesuuxj. m e mai. n uuio uj v.<iirisLiai 'ean Swift somewhere remarks, that to he perpetu _i 00 ting the question of the truth of revelation is m more likely to unsettle the faith of the simple than to coim- teract the progress of infidelity ; and Robert Hall adds that “ it is degrading to the dignity of a revelation established. be times- XiJfcy nav«ut5siguitLeu tuo ciialo «*nu. uiao ui tuc without any attempt to ascertain what may he the wishe conveniences of any other parties. Under such cire __ stances there can certainly be no obligation, rest^g on. parties, to meet them To the challenged p a ^ be- sure as t Vv’illiams sialiste ipearance on t Bucy Slone’s dress (of a pattern at which always revolted,) when she made her appea stand. Not long, however, had her low, sweet, searching: tone (‘that excellent thing in woman’) fallen upon our ear, and into our heart, before every particle of our hostility was melted away, at least for the time, and her sujn'emaey ’ i\ nlearned ih either’ •easonable, then, to ■ 'ects the studies T h e F e m a l e A d v o c a t e s o f W obian ’ s R ig h t s .— I5ic: Syracuse Chronicle has the following forcible remarks oh the two foremost Lecturing women o f our tim e: We defy anybody to produce a wornan in any position wbatever, who presents a better model of feminine g r a c e and propriety, than Antoinette L. Brown in her public ad dresses. Before Mrs. Lucretia Mott, in her D o ric dignity The WomBn>» New,York State Tempenwee Serfeiy^ their counsel, and S xanton - , President. ;
