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y I rra. Ny f VOLUME XLIII. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1853. NUMBER 40. lUcckln Ol)io State lonrnal IS TOBLISnKD AT COLUMBUS BVKUT TUJWDAr MORNING, IT ICOTT BASCOM, rotnufil iDitoutaB, man and run stmits wtbahci on etci. TKRM& fat-flrtnM, in ativann .-In Columbns, W 00 ft Jn by mall, 81.50; clubs of four and upwards, $l.'iit; often ami up- Tll K UA1I.Y JOURNAIi U ftirrdnhol lo city nubMriben it (6.00, .ml hy mull nt fpr, ()0 yenr. TUB Tlll-U-EEiaV JUURNtf, li S3.00 jou. KjlTES OF ADVERTISING IN THE WEEKLY JOURNAL jeS i Jd I jS In tii'lu'In So 1 Solfts So O liuai, W 76 1 001 aVjl 763 !W3 60 4 00 5 00 6 COS 00 B aquaraa, 761 251 762 268 604 00'6 000 008 O0'l2. 116. B squares, 1 001 762 263 604 606 006 608 0011. 17. squares, 1 252 268 604 00 6 OOti 00 8 0010. .14. ,23. jtB. 1 square, champal'le monthlr, 29a year; weekly 26. column, cbaiiiffHt'tfl quarterly 185. eolumu, elmntffnhl quarterly IflO. 1 erliuuo, chaogfHble qunrterly 100. 10 Hdm of this slaml tjfm In reckoned square. Advertisements orOsmi on tha lan-h nxi-tunivt-lr, tlmiblt tin. sbnvw ratsa. All U4l notices charirwl double, and QiMHured s If solid. BV AUTJIOK1T1. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES Panned .luring I lie eerand Nraalon of the Thirty- Hecond (Jong re a. Chap. XOIIL An Act providing forndmin.Blerinjthe Oath of Office lo William 11. King, Vice Prefcidout Elect of the United S'atos of Amot ion. Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Rcprctentativet vj ine unuca bia'et oj America in Vongret attemtifed. That William L. Sharkey, who wan appointed Consul of tho United States at Havana, bo, and liu is hereby authorized to administer at Havana, or any otlior place in tho IsUnd of Cuba, to William It. King, Vice Prodi-dent elect uf tho United Stales of America, tho onlh of nlfico prescribed by the sixth article of the Consti tution thereof, on tho .mirth dny of March next, or aomo subsequent day, in tho following terms, to wit : ".William R. Knifj. do solemnly swear that I will up port tho Constitution of tho United Siates." Inch niih, when thus iidministmed, it shall ho tho duty of the said William L. Sharkey, and he i hereby required to certify, under his hand, to tho Congress of tho U ailed Slates. Skc. II. And be it further enacted, by the authority npre-mid, That any judge, or in ighdruto in tho t'ni'ed SuiU h of America may administer tho outli of office nfore. said, to llio Vice-President elect, on tho fourth ot March next, or oil some d:iy MtihaitqiiPiit tln'nit; and theollicer l-?foro whom tho wame nhnll ho tultni, in hereby required lo certify tho ailmii.intration of tho Hid (inth a pi h bcTi'iuheloro provided. AprnovKti, March 2, 18;"3. Chap. CXL. An Act making up propria lions for Liiht-iiounci, Light-bouti, Uuoya, etc., mid providing for tho Erection and Establishment ul tho sume , nod for oilitjr I'urpcucn. Be it enaetetl by the Senate and Haute of Reprctentativei of the United titatca of Ameiica in Conffrcti ammblcd. That ihs tollowing Hppropriatioini bound tho name are hereby m ado and di reeled to bo paid, out of any money in tho Treasury not othHi wise appropriati'd, to enable the Secretary of tbo Treniury lo uirry tho provisions of this act into effect : Prodded, however, if a good titlo to any land, which it tmiy be mci isnry to use, cannot be obtained on remoiia'do terms, or the oxclusivo right to such laud cannot be ticqtiirrd by. cession, when the intercut of tho United tStntei de-mand it, b jfore tlie npprupriatiun would by law fall into tho surplus fund, in any and all such cases tho appropriations ahull bo applicable to ihoohjccis for which thoy are mado, at any time within two years alter tin first meeting of tho Lupislaturo in any Stiito wherein such land may ba situated, subnequoiii to the passage of this act, to wit : Maine For buoys, beacons, aud npindles, to bo placed at tho channels of Muscongu Hay, and nt othtr importaiit points in tho waters of said State, in addition to tho turn appropriated by the act of August ihirty.fint, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, throo thousand dollars. Alaiiachuiefts For buoys to mark tho channel of Taunton Kiver, five bundled dollars; For a beacon on " lec-Iolo ltock," in Vitioynrd Sjund.six huudred dollars. For i ho erection uf a liglii-liouna and kcqiei-'a house on or near the breakwater at Units Uiver, being ro-appropriation of the same sum nppropriatfd by th act ol September twenty-eiht, (-igliteen hundred and ; fifty, four thousand dollars. j Towards tho erection of a liglit-hointe on Iho rock called tho " Sow and Pis," neur tho entianco ol Itnz-tartf'i Hay, to tako tho place of thu light veo now taiioned there, being n reappropiiRijon uf tho same "in appropriated by the net of S.-ptendier twenty-aijht, eighteen hundred aud tilly, thirty ilmiMand dU lara, For a light-vessel to be moored oft" Minot's Lodge, in additiou to the sum appropriated nt tho hut hohmoii of Ciingress, six thousand dollars. Rhode Ittand For buoys to bo placed on the following points : "Old Nowton,""lho Sisters,1" llri Ledge." " (Narranaiiaett Huy,)" ' Sandy roiut' " (lllork Island,)1' and " Tuursou Point' (near Wick-ford,) live huudred dollars. For erecting n beacon light at " Seino l(ick," Newport Harbor, one thousand dollars. Connecticut For buoys in New Haven Harbor, two hundred dollars. For buoy on Pen field Reef, o tie hundred nnd fifty dollars. For beacon on Race Rork, Long Island Sound, aoven thousand dollars. For the erection of one or morn lionuondihts below Middlotown. ou the Connecticut River, and for the erection of buoys and spindles, three thousand di-IUrs. For the erectMnof a log-bell or whistle, as the liei t. ho u an hoard shall determine, on Pino Island, in Fisher's Island Sound, one thousand dollars. New York.'-' For a small lipht on or near Carlton, Head, and fop repal.ing or rebuilding Tibbitt's Point i light-houne, five thoiisniid dollars. For a fog-bell or wlihtlo, to he worked by machinery, to be placed on the Smuh Pier near iho lij;ht-h(nne : at Uullato, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a new lipht-v.nel to take tho pluco of that now moored oti' Sandy Hook, in addition to the sum appropriated nt the last session of Congress, iwo ttiinotnud dollars. Nev Jtruy.Yot buoys to bo placed on Abseeum Bw and in tho Inlet, (u harbor of refuge,) eiht hundred dollars. Delaware.' For beacons and huoya for Delaware Day, lo uompleto the necessary beacoiid;:u ond biuy-age in the lowor part of the river and b iy, tivo ihou-saud dollars. Michigan. For a licht-hnnse on Point Detcey, Like Mil hiftan, five ihousaiul dollars. Forn light-house at (irand island Harbor, Lake Superior, live thousand dollars. For a lijiht-house at Rock Harbm-, Islo R .ynl, Lake Superior, tivo thoiMand tlullnra. For a lo-bell, 1 1 h worked by msLhtory, f,r Thunder Hay island liht-h'uo, Lulto lltiroii, two thousand live limnlrrd dllara. For erecting u liglit-lioiuo ut tho moudi of Portico R'ver. live thousand dolUro. For tlm erection of a liht-hnuso nt Point Iroquois, or on the Island oil Point Anx-rhena, as tho Li lit-home Hoard ahull determine, live thousand dollnrs. For making the Inundations of two light housca, one to he a beacon light, ou the Saint Clair Flats, ten thouaaud dullnra; the places to be selected aud the work executed under tho direction of the Topogranhi. cal Bureau. (Mw. For a hearon of aolid masonry, to be placed on a reef lying in (he truck of vessels at the went end of Lake Erie, near the Suuih Shore, off Hois Hlnnc, and near Touiasant River, three thousand dollars. VirfisM For a tirst cla'S buoy to be placed on the upper iniunio in uuespeaKo May, anil huoys tor " Baud Shoal'' and ' Hog Island Inlet," Atlantic coast, eight hundred dollars. For buoy a to be nlnced in the Potomac River, ao lM. lows: lower end "Jones' Point," "Orcnquon fl its off " MstIow's Creek." lower n,ir: of ' Wu le's Hav." off " J.-nil -r'a Qiiarier,"MMpttthias Point," and " Dent's Shoal," hvo hundred and sixiy dollars. For a small light at "Stiugery Point," Rappahan nock, two hundred aud filly dollars. For a beacon nt Naylur'n Hole, Rappahannock, one , Duoureu aim ntty Uniiura. For twelve buoys for Rappahannock Rivor, six hun dred dollar. South Carottna.Var six large iron buoys for Charleston bar and channels, three Ihousand dollars. For a large bell buoy tor the entrance over Charleston bar, five thousand dollars. For a buny to be placed ou Middle Ground Skoal, Charleston harbor, five hundred dollars. For a light vessel, to he placed on Rillleaimke Shoal, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding beacon on Morria Ialatid, Gharlaton harbor, three thousand dollars. Forchanginjt the present liubt-hotiso nt Ci.rm Rj- main into a first class sea coast lq;lit, by elevating, improving, and refitting the same wiih the most ap-oroved illuminating apparatus, twenty thouaaud dil- Florida For an iron pile liplit-lmnso, tn tuko the lBi,a ui i no ngni-vessel italiuncd near K-y West, twelve tbnnaand doll,(ra. For making permanent the annals plaoed by thn coast aurvoy along th Florida reef, ton thousand dollar.For the erect Inn of a first class Hahi-house, and fit ting the tarna with a first order illuminating apparatus, naar Jupiter iDloLtwrtT-fivt thouaaud doliaw. Alabama. For a beacon to mark a shunt in Mobile Day channel, caused by a wreck, five hundred dollars.Lottirivna, For largest class iron buoys, to mark tho approaches to the principal passes at the mouth of Mississippi uivcr, three thousand dollars. Towards the erection of a first class lipht-honso, aa a substituto for tho liglit vessol at " Shin Shoal." to bu located at " Ship Shmil," or Raccoon point, as may bol oeiernimeu uy mo Becreiary ot tlm Treasury, alter the survey ot that locality nuthoHzod by the a'jt of thirty first August, eighteen hundred and iifty-two, ahull bo completed, twenty thousand dollars. Texai. For third class iron buoys, to be placpd nt limzoa oauiiago liar, tnoutti ot " (irand Kiver U ir, and the entrance to Matugorda Day, two thousand dol-lars.For n first class light-Iwusn at tho mouth of (he Sa bin Uiver, thirty thousand dollars. California. For a buoy to murk Commission Ledge, in Mare Inland Straits, five hundred dollars. For a buoy to mark "Middle Ground," in Suiaun Day, live hundred dollars. For largest clds buoy to mark entrance to barnt Han rraticisco, eight hundred dollars. For buoys to mark iho channel of tho Sacramento Itivor, two thouiand dollars. For bunye for Hnmb ildt harbor, live huudred dol lars. For buoys fop Umpnna, five humlrrd dollar. For a second cla lipht-house at Point Boneta, San tniuciscn nay, twenty-live iiiousaud dollars. For ihr en cti'm of a liht-houso in Sau Pedro Bay, ten thousand dollars. Oregon For additional buoys at Colnmhio River, rice lliousatid five hundred dollars. To tent iho adaptation of Jahez Stone's patent buoy nsu puide to river and other narrow chunnels, two bin dud and filty dollars. To enable tho Liglr.-Hui.so Board lo procure tho neeossary machinery and teat practically tho plan for distinguishing light by occultaiions, submitted by Charlos Babbago, Esq., and which was communicated to Congress at its last session, live thousand dollars. Sec. Si. And be it further enacted, That the sum oj three thousand live hundred dollars, appropriated by the ilrct seclion of tho net of eighteen hundred and filty-two, chapter turn hundred and twelve, to iho erection of a harbor liht on a point of lund lying west ol the eiitratieo to Buck's barb.ir, in Drodtville, muy bo applied lo the erection of a harbor light ou the northern extremity of Pumpkin Island, in conformity to tho recommendation of tho coast survey. Sec. U. And be it further enacUd, That the locnliotiof tho tw b'vicitn lii'.hi- nuthiinztd by the act ol eigh teen hundird aud fii'tj-ouo, to he placed near Fort Hnmiiii'ii, bo chang'.d lo iho oilier end of the range line of the m iin channel, on the New Jersey shore. ' Rfc. 4. And be it further rnartci, That Iho Secretary of tho Troaurr is hereby authorized to s 'h.ct, instead of iho miter Minot Ledge," m(y more suitable sito annmHl Ihf 0. htpnet vuviw, at iho t nlrituco o llimton harbor, on whie h I i er-ct lh liht-hoae authoiizod by iho first sertion of tho net id eighl.-cti hundred uml htiy-iwo, chapter one hundred and twelve, if iti his judgment mid m further surveys, it neei'9nry, nny mote tmitiihl" sito can be found. Six..1). And be. it father enacted, 'flint tho sum of fhren tiioiiMinl live hundred dollars, appropriated bv 'h first sect ion if Iho net of eightumi luiinlrcd anil hlt-lwo, chap'er one hundrfd nnd twelve, "for tho construction d' two ice-brenkorn," may bo anplied by tho Lighi-House Board for iho p.esrvaiion and protection of thu light liousu on Hratidvwino Shoal, in audi manner as limy bent secure th" object. HEfi. o. And be if further enacted. Thai the Srcrotarv of the Treasury is horeb nudiorized to npnly the sum of tivo iho'isntid dollar, appropriated by tho act of eighteen hundred nnd lil'ty-two, section one, chapter one hundred ami twelve, for a liiiht-hmise on tho Nub- blo, Capo Neddick, York, to the erection of a lighthouse at the entrance of York hirbor, if lhat location ill best Biibsnrve. the mterosl of rommerce. Sr.c. 7. And be it further enacted, That tho Secretary of tho Treasury be directed, if in his opinion the snlo ty of commerce demanded alight at Miuol's Ledge, at the entrance of Huston harbor, to replace that which was destroyed, to examine into tho claims ot K. II. Forbes ami othen, who kept a liplit-brmt there at their private ex peine j and, if ho is of opinion thut their Joiug4 were rscntial to iim salely o navigation, to allow thorn such a sum as under the circumstances ho deems reasonable, nnd lo nay the same out ol anv money in ihe Treasury not otherwise appropriated. AiM'iuivxii, mnreii j, irv,:t. Chap. CXLII. An Act making an appropriation for llio uoiii)l liou ol the rublic linUdiiifa ia the ler-ritnry of .Miniiesnti. Hi' it cnacc l 1" the Senate and Home of Rfprttcntalivet of the Untied Stuff of America in Conpretn antcmbted. That iho sum ot twenty-five thousand dollars be and the same ia hereby appropriated, out of any money in tho Treasury i.ot uiherwi impropriated, lor tho con-, timmtion of the pMilie buildings in the Territory of Mliitu'fmla, ono half of add sum to be applied lo the completion of the Capitol nt Saint Paul, and iho remainder to tho completion of the prisou buildings nt Stillwater, in said Territory, lo bo expended under the direction of tho Luuislulivo authority thereof: Provide J, That nothing herein contained shall bo con-slriied to iiuthori.o any farther expenditure by said Territorial authority for the purposes aforesaid than i provided for in tint net. j Appkuvui, Murclt J, lHoJ. i Chap. CL. An act authorizing tho Governor of ihe 1 orntory ot WcW Mexico to call nn extra Session ol ihe Legislative Assembly of said Territory, should the same be deemed ueceaaarv and expedient. Be it enacted ha the Senate and Haute of HcDrttentativct of the United State of America in Congm attembled, Iti itttto tioveinnr ot the territory of Eow .Mexico, I should ho deem tho Bamo necessary and expedient, be I ami be ii hereby authorized and empowered to call ono extra semion of tin Legislative Asaembly of said i i orniory, nut to exceed n unity clay m duraiion, any thing to Iho contrary notwithstanding which may be emit. nurd m iho art approved September ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An net proposing to ih Stale of Texn the establishment ol her northern and western boumlnriea, tlm rlinquihmeiit by said Siato of nil territory claimed by her exterior to at id b. "lindane, mid ol nil her claims upon the United SiatrB, und to establish a Territorial Government for New Mexico:" i'rerj did, said extra arasiim shall nol beheld during the sitting of any regular session ol sniil Legialniivo Assembly : And provided further, That ntd exlru session ih:ill be held and concluded prior to the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and fitiy-ihreo. APPRovnn, March 1110.1. RESOLUTIONS. Nn. 0 Joint R solution aiithnrir.ing tho Sattlemeut nt ttm Accotiiii ol the I uhhc rrinier, lor Taper used by him sineo iho first of November, eighteen hun dred aud lilty two. Retolvtd Ay Me Senate and Ifouie of Repretentative! of the United titatft of America it Congrttt aiumbied. I lint the account ot th" Public Printer, lor p .per fur nished ami used by him mirn the expiration of the limn sprcitied in tbe sixth section of the "Art making appropriation tor tho nanl service for the year end' ing too Unrtu ih ot Juno, eighteen huudred andtitty-thi'-e,"niitl nlso lor thu paper tube lurntdieil sml used by him ni.iil iho Suporiiiieinleiit of the Public Print-iug shall commence lariiisliing ami delivering to him pniN-r to bo used lor the public printiiH', be sttletl and p.iid as iho accounts of tho Publiu Primer have been at lilt d nnd f aid, tin ier the said sixth senium ol sanl ad, uml us 11 protnted lor in said Mxih seclioit. Arrn- viii, Dereinher tl't, III.VJ. No. :i.l A Resolution explanatory of the Act appro priating Money for tho Removal of the Rail of Rid River. Re wired by the Senate and Houte of Repretentatiret of ihe Lnittd istatrt of Amtttea in tonirren attembtnl, That so much ol the net entitled "An act making an propriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers, approved Awnat tlnrtti th, eighteen hundred and filty two, as rela'ea to Red River, be ao con aimed as to authorize ihe Secretary id' War to award tho contract lor tho removal of obstructions to ihe na - igntiou of Bnid rivor occnsimiM by Hie lit ft, to the person or p-TMitis who, (or lb nmount of tho nppro- pnaiion, will agree to remove said obstructions, and keep said iinvigatioii free from the same for the long-oat period of time ; said contract to be awarded oftor ' reasonnhle public notice. . Arrrtovx t. January 7, 1851, I No. 4 A Resolution in relation to the Census return Ir. tn ihe State of California. Retolved by the Stnate and Home of Reprttentatieet of the United State of America in Confrrit aenbted, 1 hat the Secretary ol the Inieitur lie required to a p. peud tlm census returns o the state ot Uahloruia, made by that Slate, to ihe report thereof, now iu course nf prepnraiiou at the Coniu Oilice. ArruovxD, January 7, lejj. No. fi, A Resolution allowing in certain ensoa to the owner 01 otenmer, turiher time to make I lie necessary pre para lions to bring 1 heir Vessels within the provisions of nu Act entitled "An Act tn amend an Act entitled 'An Act 10 provide lor the better Security of the Lives of Passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or In part by atenm, ami for other purposes,'" approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and liltylwo. Rrtolred by Ma Senate and Ihnt f Reprtttntativt of the United otatet of mrrsrn in C.?mi anembled. That any Inspector of Sienmers, appointed under the aui nioresam, 11 not nnniMied aeasonaniy wiin in necessary menus of discharging his duty, or who shad bo satisfied when nn enrolled, licensed or registered steamer is inspected by him, aud found deficient in tho requirements made b snid act, that am h omissions aro nol occasioned by any fun It or neglect of ihe owner or master, he may grant, upon application therefor, or of his own accord, su-ju further reasonable time after sid act goes into effect, a he may deem ullicieul, with due diliffenc) to muko all neceasirr ttrenarntion to I nmka any tuch yoiael, her machinery aud equipment conform to the provisions of said act: Provided, The time so allowed shall in no case exceed ninety days ""f 'o "tbi any ui January, eighteen hundred aud filty-three. Sec. 2. And be it further retohed, That no such vessel so allowed further time for preparation, nhall be liable to seizure or to any penalty under said act du ring tho time specified, for any deficiency intended to be covured by the extension of time granted by auch lUBpcciur. Ai'Piiovin, Janunry 7, 1853, No. fl. A Resolution for the Appointment of Regenta in the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and Home of Rcprettntatives vj utc vnue ataiet oj America in Vongren alternated, That the vacancies in the Board of Itogeni of iho Smithsonian Institution of iho class "other than mem bers of Congress." be filled by tho appointment of ieauuer uauas uacno, a member ol the National In siituto, nnd resident in tho City of Washington, and aioou ivwcrnerfiun uerrien, or tue state ol titorgia, ArPKoviu, January 13, 1853. No. 12 A nVsolatlnn to provide for straighten in k tlm Esitom Bciundirv Una of th Nvl IJospitnt Lands at Nw Y.irk. Ursolrv.il by the Senate and Hnuse of (ijircxcntattrcii of the United State of Amtricn in Otngrtu armtUti, Tint iho tjecreiarj ot the Navy ( hereby Buthurizd nnd empowered, on the part ol tho the cdlennlmiiis propriHtors wberel.v a certain uart ol the eit,-rii buundsry ui tho lands ol the Naval llotjiltil at Now York bfl strsljjht' ned, as will upuoir i y r-.dcrencn to a innp sinned ay Pie - u L,..r.ii. mm nun mr iiuuuiiniuiitjrp inr running un snia lino oa intj iweniy.ci(iim ui HuVKtnber, vlghtmn hundrnd and lortf' eifftit, and approved by thu tfccrelary ol tbn Navy on tba nlidt ti entn nt llucenilHT, elgbienn hundred and luriy-dfhl, so tht wiun.uiaiiy pnruniary tniifl Ji-rtion Irnrn tbe ono to tho other, the a'iiu ot J, ml on the south and west sliii-s nt ) lino. ai,.ril. Intt to suid plan, shall becomn thu property of the Unltud JtHioi. and so much on tho other sld as now belongs to the Unitod Sinti'i stmll bocomu ho property ol the abutliug proprietors rn- Approved Mir eli 8, 1B53. No, 13. A Resolution in Amendment of a Joint Res. oiution relating to the duties of Inspector oi Stonm ers, approved the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. Retolvtd bu the Senate and Houte of Renrrvntatim oj tne untiea atatet oj America in Uongrttt attembled That it shall bo tho duty of the Inspector of Steamers 10 exercise mo powers conferred upon them by a u resolution of Congress, approved iho seventh day of. jiHnmry, e.L'uieen iiunurou ami liliy-ilireo, suhjecl to mII the restrictions and limitations therein continued: Provided, Thut tho time gramed to applicant ahull in cam? extern, neyon l mo lust day ol June next. Bfc. 2. And he it further retolvcd. That the said In spectors may approve of boilers anil teum-pipe made prior to tho first day of July next, and subaenuent lo iho passage of the net approved tho thirtielli of August, eighteen hundred nnd fifty-two, entitled "An act to ain-iid nn not entitled mi a:t to provide for tlm better security of ihe lives of passengers on b iard of vessels propelled in whole or in part by men in, nnd for other purposes," if tho sumo ho not made wiih stumped iron: i roviiifii, ii a ii an appear ttmt Mumped iron cuuld not bw seasonality procured. Sf:c. :j. And be it further enacted. That tho said In-pectnri shall hereafter bo authorized and empowered, upon satisfactory proof that the owner or owners of a steamer are unahlo to obtain soasonably or upon reasonable terms, a metallic life-bnat. ua reouired bv said art, nr that such a boat is unsuited to the navigation in whit h a se uner is employed, to accept in any such cao n substitute or substitute for such metallic life-boat: Provided, such substitute shall in their judgmeut Bll'trd safe nnd suitable mean of preserving life in case ui liCLiut'in. Sec. 4. And he it further retolved, That no person interested a patentee, in any way. direct or indirect, in life-preservers, life-hoats or any other article rentnred for steamers by tbe law of August thirtielli, eighteen hundred and (ity-iwo. aloresaid, shall be deemed competent to Inild the office ol inspector or to discharge mo antte inereoi. Aprnovitn. March 3, 18."3. illtDCcIIani). HUMAN HAIR. Blackwood dropped n suggestion, a few monlhs aL'o, to Ihe effect that Human Hair would bo a cond sub jeci mr nn nrtieie, mm auueu, " Mow well otiie ot the writers in the Quarterly Review would doit." The Quarterly has acted upon the hint, nnd the result is an article na full of striking fact and pleasing fancy ns nny that has appeared in a review for years. A few of ihe writer' facts and lanciea we select lor tho edification and entertainment of our render. Since the world began, ihe hair has been a universal vanity. The mistress of Alcibiatles, no doubt, kept that nngnilicentdutuly wuitiug many a half honr while she arranged tho golden grasshopper; and whore is the modern youih who fails lo give his curls iho "flow ing touch " ere he ventures iuM ihe glare of ball room gun! In Puritanic times, a man' religion was deter mined by the Rtato ol ihe poll ; in still darker ages, long hair was the sign of freedom, nnd a crop pod head the mark of a slave. No wondor the hair hnshad a po litical and religious significance, for it is the only part 01 in ootiy wuicn a man can atiupo ana carvo to his fancy. R ice determines tho color of tho hair. Besinninc nt the most northern inhabited latitudes of Europe, ami journeying southward, tho color of tho people' hair deepens with every parallel, fiom tho Norwegian flux-en to the blue-black of tho nation on the shore of tlm Mediterranean Sea. Each hair is a tuhu, filbd with n fluid, and the color of that fluid is tho color of the hair. Tho reason why black hair i black, i aimply because ii coloring fluid contains more charcoal (carbon) than that of any other ; and hair become grny us ibis fountain of iis lil'o and benuty dries up. Henco the hair may, and does sometimes, become gray in au hour. As a rule, the lighter the color of tho hair, the finer its quality. An eminont German underwent the enormous la I tor nt counting the number ol hairs tn heads of four different colors. In a blonde one. he found ono hundred and forty thousand hairs; inn brown, one hundred aud nine thousand four hundred aud forty t in a oini'tt, ono hundred aud two thousand nine hundred and sixty-two; in a red, oiihty-eiaht thousand Mven hundred and forty: (he four scalps being about equal in weight, rrom their waving, sdkeu beauty, poets and artist delight in golden tresses. Shakespeare mentions 1 lack hair but twice in all hi writing, while his allusions to hair of lighter shades are to bo counted by Ihe score. In Iho Loudon National Galle ry there 1 not one b lurk -haired lema'e head, though the bends are exceedingly numerous. Yet the fathiona- hie shade fur hair hasdt-epeued of late years. In tbe lust century golden hair wu sold a a lavnrby dealers to their most important customers, at two dollar an ounce nearly twice the price of silver Tho dark shade now in vogue are procured in the south ol 1 ranee, where the peasant girl eagerly offer their luxuriant lock lo ihe hir-dealer' aheara, for twenty sous op a gaudy cotton handkerchief. For light huir, thu reaper of locks goes lo Germany. A huir merchant, "when hi nose is in," can till by tlm smell alouo, whether a sheaf of hair grew on French, English, Imh, Scotch, Welsh, or German heads. Women seldom become bold, because there 1 "a larger deposit of fat in the fmnalo scalp" than In the male ; but their hair become gmy a early in Lie as that of the other sex. " Hence," says our witty re viewer, "the plosjy ringlet which the poor peasant girl of Tour parted with for a few sons na a nest egg toward her dowry, hive douhtles aided iu procuring a uito.Me helpmate for Home blue pinsier or fast dowager of Maylair." Tho reviewer consulted his halter upon iha subject of men' buldneai. That luriuiiute m tn fortunate in having so delightful a customer expressed the opinion lhat the reason why tin n became balil nt nn earlier a?e now than forty euta ago, i the general use ol ilk hnta, which keep the head nt a higher temperature than beaver one. Whereupon the reviewer achieve ihocnpital observation lhat "we are. then, sacrificing ourown natural nap, in order that the heaver may recover his. History ha much to sy upon the hair and beard In the middle age lone hnir was highly esteemed aud was much worn among tho gentle classes though the clergy denounced it an a vanity, and even a "mortal sin." Whou Francis I. wn wounded in the bend, and was, in consequence, obliged to be cropped, all the French courtiers, in compliment to their kiim ubmitted to the aheara, ami short hair became, for a time, the fashion throughout Europe. In England short hnir came in with llio Reformation. Iu the time of the Tndors, both men and women wore iheir huir short, which gives to the portrait of lhat period a hard disngreenbleelVect. Aa tho hair hoTieued; the beard wn allowed to grow, and there ha never been a Hmo whou ihe hair and beard were both worn long. Wiih the smart, aa every one kiiowa, long hair renined its old ascendency, nnd tho beard diminished ; though the tiritnus invFiuhed ncntnsi Ihe Ho ing curls of the cav aliers, with more than tho ferocity of the earlier priest. 1 ho reign ol Loui All I. ol f ranee was the lime wheu perukes were invented those lofty and solemn monu menu of human folly a period iu the history of hair which tho reviower approaches with awe. Louis XIII , it appears, vWd wear his hnir long from childhood t ami in order lo enable those of his oi.uriier to whom nature had not been liberal in Its beat ow men t of hnir, to imitate their royal master, tho wig, tho peruke was devised. A very ludicrous entry in Pepys Diary, November 3rd, l(iii!l, mark the introduction of these portentous head-dresses into bugland. "Homo, by anil by come Chapman, ihe nerri win- maker, and upon my liking it(ihe wig), without more ado I wont up, and then lie cut off my hair, which went a little tu my heart at prenont lo part with it; but it being over, and my porriwig on, I paid him three pound, and away went he wiibj my own hair to makeup anotuerol: and l, by ami by, went abroad, after I had caused all my maid to look upon it. and they concluded It do become 11m, though June was nvghtiiy troubled for my parting wiih my hair, and ao w as nesie. "November R. 1(1(1:1 Lord' Dav. To rtmrrl, where t found that my cumin, in a perriwisr did not prove o t range a I wu afraid it would, lor 1 thought lhat all tho church would presently have cat their eye upon met but I find no such thing." Under Louis XIV. the m to which tho periwig had grown was such that" Ihe fuce appeared only as a mmi pnnpiu in uio iiuum oi avast sua ot hair. 1 er-iwig maker, the "great architect of this triumphant ago of perukes," had ilieir carriage, liveried ervant mm graaa nolo is, ana wero important personage in the Slate. Queen Marfe Antoiimtte herself invented a cotTum which represented all ihe refinement of land- scope gardening. mm tho altitude of thehead-dress-, in 1778, it wn found that they intercepted tho view 01 spectators in mo rear ot them at the opera, and the director was obliged to refuse admittance to thu amphitheatre to those person who wore such immoderate anfTuret. Such wh the art expended ou these tremendous head-dresses, and such the detail required in iheir different stage, that ludiei of quuliiy wore often under the hands of the artiite the entire day. Thus when thoy hail to attend entertainments nn sue. ceodiug evenings, they were forced to sleep in armchairs, lor fear of fiidaneorine the finish oftheeiT.i. The fem.do head-dres, having now arrived at it most mpmw Kiovuuoii, suoueiity toppieu over ana ten by iiicio uuviuniu ui me uoeu s nair coming on during her accouchement. The court, out of compliment 10 nor ir.ajeaty, wore uie imir ( enjant ; others lollow ed, and the fashion was nt nn end. Passing over much which wo should liko to pick a fow moras from, but cuntiot, for lack of space, we w.ujD 11, a u u un iuu imnaugo upon mo " Drill (ill Wilt- ker," which we must copy without condensation : " Of the modern beard and whisker," says the Review, " we desire to wri'e respectfully. A mutton chop seems to havo suggeated tho form of the nubslnntinl British whinkor. U;it of thia aimplo design countless varieties of forms havearison. How havo they arisen? Can any one give an account of his own whiskers from their birth upwards T To our mind there is nothing moro mysterious than tho growth of tli it maiily ap-pondage. Did nny far-seeing youth deliberately design his own whisker T Wn there evor known a hobbledehoy who saw a 'groat future in his silken down. and determined to train it in tho way it should go? Wo think not. British whiskers, in truth, have grown up like nil tho great institutions of iho country, noiselessly aud porsistoiiily an outward expression, as the Germans would say, of thu inner life of tho people; the general idea allowing of infinite variety according to iho individuality of tho wearer. Lot us tuko the next Imif-dozen men naasineby tho window a we write Tho first ha hi whisker tucked into iho corners of his mouth, ns thinih 10 wero hold ins them un with his teeth. The second whisker that wo descry has wandered into the middle of the cheek, and thorn stopped as though it did not know where to eo to. like a youth who ha ventured out into the middle of a ball-room with all eye upon turn. Yonder bunch of bristles (No. 3,) twists tho contrary way under tho owner ear: ho could not lor tho life nf him tell why it retrogaded i. That fourlh citizen, with the vast Pacific of a face, has liitlo whiskers, which acem tn have itopped short alter two indie of voyage, as though nghaat nt the prosper t of having lo double such a capo Morn 01 a chin, no perceive coming 0 tre-mondous pair, running over tho shirt-collar in luxuri- nut profusion. Yet wo see, n llio colonel or general takes oil his lint to that lady, that bo inumtebald those whiskers are, in fart, nothing but a tremendous inminiip iroiu me veteran s head! Upon thu expremon of tho hair, the reviewer ia brief. "Tho hair ot iho Phidian Jove iu tho Vuticun, which rises in spouts, as it were, from the forehead, and then falls in wavy curls, is like tho mane of tho lion, moat map'stic aiid imperial in appearance. Tito crisp curls il Hercules AL'uin remind us of ihe short locks between the horns o tho indomiiablo bull; whilst the hair of Neptune fulls ilowu wet und dank, like hi own seaweed. Tho benuiiful flowing lock of Apollo, full und free, represent perpetual yomh, and the genile, va-grunt, bewitching trt sse ot Venice denote most clear ly her peculiar characteristic and claim as u divinitv of Olympus. What give tho loose and wanton air to Uie portrait in Oharlea 11. a bedchamber at Hampton Court? Duchess nnd Countesa awoep along tho canvass with all tho dignity that Lely could duller them with; but on the disordered curls, and tho forehead fringed with Iovo-!ocks, Cyprian i plainly written. hven Nell Gwyn, retired into the deep shade of the alcove, beckon us with her sweet, soft redundance of ringlets. Curly hair bespeak ihe sanguine tempera ment, lank hair the phlegmatic Poets, for tho most pari, we behnvo, have had curly hair though our own age htsexhibited some notable exceptions in the rule." We reluctantly doie the Quarterly here, became other matter solicit our attention and our space. Wo shall despoil (he April number which is a brilliant ono fun her ou futuro occasions. Home Journal. 0ITT-D00R8 ATIDLEWILD; Or, Country-Life within City Reach- BT H. P. WILMS. There is a fresh country nir about the follow ing which. quiteatlractive. Warn ha a country real-deuce up among the hill on the Htids.m, thut afford him ft charming retreat, when ho desire to escape from tho dust and drudgery nf city life. Wo copy from the Home Journal : Queen Victoria has private theatricals nt Windanr but I have a private performance o! the under storms of Idlowild, better worth coming to son. These player of Nature, thunder over my two dam in the ravine, ior iwemy-iour Hours alter pouring their deluge upon the mountain; and water, foamias down through sunshine and listened to wiihout need of an umbrella, is as mucu moro ciurming than when seen performing where previously hoard and een, aa a phy i made more charming by the sunahino and privilege of a Queen' presence. nature, like love, cost money to appropriate and make iho most of; but I wn musini;. to-dnv u 1 tood looking at the swollen sheets of last night' heavy rain, plunging over ihe cloid-up chasm of one of our precipices on tho difference of value received for investment nominally equal. The building of the dam which changed these rapid into a waterfall of twenty feet, cost from twenty lo thirty dollars the price that win uo pniu mr a private uox next winter, to aee Cer ito dance the Huyndere. But that ia the last o Ceriio'a legs for that money, und hero i my waterlall, a lively as evor alter dancing six months day and uight nnd nothing extra to pay, either, for the " chorus and bl-let " added to the performance by every thunderstorm that come along. Tho cataract, moreover, after it twinkling feet have quivered in the air, come down into the meadow nnd uivo a drink lo hit burse ami cow (an afterpiece you will nut gt from Cento); dim 1 go 10 see u wueu 1 iiko; on loot or ou horseback ; in the morning mnud of hope, or in the evening mood of Badness t with friends or without them; at dawn or by moonlight; all winter and all u miner, ami with tbo pmruisu of tho sumo performance for a mauy more wiutora and Bummer as come round to Idlowild and mo. A private cataract for a lifetime or privato box to see a pair of legs for an hour both performer dancing to music, but Niblo and Nature 1 lie two managers, aud both sot ui"wiih nu reirard to expense " prico twenty dollnrs for either. What would a newly arrived angel ihiuk of a world where these two mouey's-worih wero aot down a euual ! But the morning has been, in many ways, one nf Intnritat ( mn 'PI.- .1....... ,.tl I..-. heavy thunder, cava ua a unrise fit for Eden. There ' " upriiiiiii in,, oiht iaai imkoi n are such day day when boy should bo let out of school the delicmusnes of the weather amounting to aSahbaih and this hi been one o them. It was a happiuesB to live only. Mro breathing and seeing tins ueen ion in surprise. Ho new seemed tho world 1 Everything out of door looked irresistibly bont on a holiday bird merrier, leave fresher, blossoms eaver- colored, sweet smelling plants joyously prodigal of iiluir Ingram o. in iho season when tho leave are on tho trees, this kind of Sunday of Naturo come amui.d, onco tn about seven days, I havo observed, though not with the exact regularity of the week in iho almanac. And I Ihiuk, tii, that one' natural spirit instinctively follow this same rotation the weary and cloudy Sitnrday ot the soul coming round, followed by ita bright Sunday of repitao and Monday of better courage. We are all happy, sometimes, we know not why. May we not oftenest put il down to this inward seventh-day' rest, and renewal of the joy uf existence, keeping time with Nature I To man y two brook wn my rrrntid out of door this beautiful morning. The meadow lawn, two hundred feet below our cottage-windows is the junction- porch ol two converging glen idiewiid and Home-shut and each hn its brook, brought from far apart sources, but joining lips within our fence upon the Hudson. Bo h glon-opening being included in ono tangled domain, ihe road out, towards Nowhurg, make a bend around ihe meadow, crossing below the projecting promontories of tlm twnt and, an wo must needs, of con mo, traverse their two streams, it was desirable to bring them a little sooner together, and span their united waters with one bridge. It required omo digging nnd damming Fuuuychitd tthe other brook), alter nil manner of noisy vagarie in it own glen, coming out to coquet capriciously with the swells of the meadow, nnd shin ing Idiewiid just whero nature intended they should meet to part no more but we made the new bed nmo day ng, and only waiiru lore uiunutrsinrm, 11 ueing au onect to remove tho barr.er just when tho swollen flood mioht give a mmro naiural turn to thelt meeting. I should mention that Home-shut, though directly opposite my study window, ia a glen so Intricately out of tho way 'hat no chance loot would ever cms it : aud. from its close-wooded ontraneout hemlocks, ihe demure stream, o sunny and merry the moment alter, come nut like veiled nun out of ihe dark porch of a cathedral funnycuuu oeing aisoa rivulet ol caprlrlou iay, and disapp-aring (gone to tho tpringt, perhaps), for two months of tho year. But we brought the two together breaking down the barrier with the startling celerity lhat nmko one gasp t innst wedding though, Irom the way they took to each other' bosoms, you would have thought they hail never been anywhere else. Tile long bother of our preparations, indeed, seemed to have been lime wasted. Awny thoy weitt,alons Idle- wild' every day track, astonishing Ihe old true, nn doubt, with Ihe freer fingering of the banks by the rising tipples, but making everything look brighter and fresher. It will ba almnnv union. I think. Idle- wild staying all tho year, Fuunycliild will not be iu mucn uiiwca in her summer absence. Only ber do aerted bed look, a littlo melancholy but that we must cover and forget. I shall remember this glorious morning and it pretty bridal, I am ure, ai long as I haunt hereabouts. From the Nw York Herald. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Their Patt and Prctent Condition and Future Protpeet Thu (Ihnrnetflr nt lU '...... ,.:,,; I The Character of the Country-Polal andXnrinl Condition of the People, frc. !- Dr. j.. iu to Li. r,i,i, . .iu,,. Montreal, Canada, dated Waii.ukc Ma.ii Suidwich Islands, January 7, 18';i. J I commenced 0 reply to your former favor Mo.m aiW il receipt, Ihiukinn I could put what vou reunited in. lo u compass small enough to be crowded into iho column of die Gazeite should you so wish I found I had been o short that I was uniutclli'-ihlo. I monced, determined to give myself sufficient scope, l.. , , " . ' '""""lNl "pe. both u to matter und words, but st .11 believing I could accomplish whit you wished, mid I intended, in a series nf letters, for which you miglii easily fitid a tilting vehicle. I am now afraid lhat our limiting he grow so 7 . . a " " "" T luu' l,,B woriu nuu ittKe his chance of it, droa.ed up in a full octavo suit, though I had rulher lie made his debut wrnpped in tho protecting omntloof some sale periodical sheet, broad or narrow. Whoa h- reaches you, you wdl do the best for "on you can. iso uouui there is a plane tor him in the reading world just now, If wo havo onlv wit aud dis cretion enough to fill it decently. in reamy, ine oumtwich Islands, as small ns they aro, have from their first discovery linen no nhioet nl curiosity, anil at the present moment aro turned to by very ninny wilhuu eye of peculiar interest. The original fact of our suddenly coming to the knowledge of Ihe existence, in the midst of these wide waters, of a now nnd partially civilized race of moo. their subse. quent conversion to Christianity, and assumption of the aspect of modern civilization, nnd now. mom ilmn Iheso, perhaps, the position itself uf tho islands in this mighty ocean, whoso monotonous quiet for so many ages is on the point of being broken in upon by great mercmtilo navies, bringing into communication, by a reciprocity of benefits, tho rich nnd vast region that border its coast, do nil tend to this effect. They are on the very routn lo China, and must be stopping pln-ces for thoso lines of steamships which the course of events and the spitit of enterprise of tho age will shortly establish. Thus shouted, there is a feeling of inquisitivri.es a to their enpaehie for forwarding those great themes that f.irward march of event of which tho present time is pregnant. You and oth-' or wish to know what aro their inherent resource, 1 aud what the probabilities of these rcsourcos being developed by the nativo race. Can the aborigines, you ask, be left, be trusted, to bring out iho riches of i iheir position i or, not beiug equal to tho ploco they I fill, will thoy, like o many other race, have to yiald I them up to the every where energetic Anglo Ssxou 1 I I will state how I am treat iuir tho aubiect for von. I commence by giving you an uccount ot the inherent i.ipauimies, iuo material iruoiure that is, thu aot . elimale, and productions of the islands. Ttiii leads ' me io lomo rainer inierotting geological vtaws: but 1 ; jun un (iriuni'B ury uieory, reserving till lor a communication I intend making to my friend Dr. Hull, of Montreal. If it shall be decided that I am right, my speculations will make a considerable sweep through geological science. I now come to tho natives to tho inquiry, what truly are tho capabiliiies and peculiarities of tho H-waiiansT a question U ia somewhat difficult for any one to treat, and perhup rather dolicato for a resident to discuss. The missionaries have cried them up, or rather they havo cried up the humanizing and improving influences of their own missionary exertions. Others havo run lliem down. What is the fuct? To answer is somewhat of a puzzle. You land say at Honolulu. It is Sunday. A Scotch Sabbath still-ne reign iu the little town. You go to the chief na-live church, a clumsy but large and massive stone strncttiro. You see tho natives all seated orderly in their pews, decently dressed in civilized stylo a display of silks among the women, and of broadcloth on tho men. By and by the King passes you, a small man for a Hawaiiao, aud quiet looking. Some of the members of his little court follow. You are impressed by the appearance of John Young, the premier, a half-caste. Iu any assembly iu London or Parts he would be noticed aa a handsome, well dressed, and gentlemanly looking man; yet I believe he has never been out of thu islands. The service proceeds singing passably good. You understand nothing, but see tho congregation regarding tho preacher with intelligent eye. Did you know the language, and were you to quctdiuu them on the subject of discourse, most of them could give you a good account of it, and some miht puzzlo you by tho extent of their Scriptural knowledge. Servico over, you are introduced lo some of the natives, and fiud them of pleasiog addresa, aud making good use of the little English they know. The evotting closes wiih the same decent propriety. On Monday it is different. You see the bustle aud some of iho disorder of a seaport; yon conclude, however, thai the latter i nothing moro than what one generally find iu auch reaort. In a day or two you ride into the country. Passiug by the impression mado on yon by tho novel scenery, productions, habitations and costume ot iho land, you are unavoidably struck by a cortain air of desolation and wreck that pervades it. You see large tracts, evidently recently cultivated, abandoned and going to decay; ruin and old foundation of bouse, mouldering fence, and other unequivocal signs of departing life and energy. You ask-rather you get n friend to ask why are these places abandoned f Where are the men who lived on them f A molancholy shako of the bead, and make (dead) is iho uniform reply. Such ia tho aspect nf thioua wher. evor I have been ; and the eatimato that the population of these islands i only one-eighth of what it was when Cook visited them is probably correct. You inquire of the while resident, perhap of some mission ary irieuu, wuai is the reason ot all this. Yuu are toid that imported disease, measles, fevers, &c, have frequently devastated Ihe islands. The reply, in part, account for what you see. You aro aware that diseases transmitted by the whites to oilier raqe. have very often raged among lh"e with excessive virulence. Still, on reflection, it only in part accounts for it, and is far from being altogether satisfactory. Plagues, pestilences, bloody war, famines, have often carried off vast multitudes in Europe and America. But the blank h been speedily filled tin. and life in fre.h irength ha sprung out of iho relict of death. Why is it not o here T Why are there no ymptom of revivifying energies! Why. in ihe midst ol frahlv v. cated and fertile Innd, with abundant rewards for la- nor, ana with no latnl epidemic fur years, does tho population not increusef Why ia it, on the contrary, stationary or dimiuishins 1 And. still mnm niir...r. diiiary, why are the races, by all accounts, Ihemselve uimiiiisiung in size ami vigor I In short, finally, whence the apathetic listfitssnes that atagnate over all the lair laud f When you ask your friends for a aolu-lion of your dillicultiea you get replies numerous and contradictory. You aro cast among the native ihem rive, and now you fancy yon will speedily lee whut is the mailer. For some time you aro moro and moro astray. At length, a you begiu to understand them, Iheir way ami inugiie, light commence to brenk in on yon. You find you are among n people of altogether a peculiar character, with virtue and vi nl tlw.ir own; and, beginning tn understand their springs of action, you begin, too, tn understand how il j that those springs are now relaxed. I ahull not attempt lo pivoyou oven u 'i miliary in me conclusion to which I havo come. They are drawn from a wido field; perhaps you will think il too wido. I may uy, however, that I hue found the wholo subject very IntT esiing. Tho language especially so. 1 am quite sulia-lied ihut on many account it deserve r more attention than has hitherto been bestowed on it. I hopo to make this plain, aud should I succeediin awakening the attention of thoso sufficiently qualified to truro out all its bearings, I nm confident it will thrnwcimaidern-hie light on the hiatory of language nnd of man. To do full justice lo the au'bject a knowledge of the Sans-crit and kindred tongues ia necessary, nnd in ihi I am deficient. I may nlso say here that 1 wish to collect an accurate account of what wn the real condition of the race lilty year ago. because it i a thing that has not yet been done, and which it i notyeltooiate to do. I know several native who recollect Captain Cook's coming, and lately conversed with a woman who wns then married. "Ah!" she aaid, "wo wero in ih-ise dayavery ignorant (na au po). Wa thought the ship waa n very big bird." Though having numerous descendants in the third, ami 1 believe fourth decree. ho is yet .mart enough .and showed mo lb - path tho j " ""e "' "' "'" correct remembrance iff tho old lime must, however, i inn few year., vanish. I next proceeded lo narrate tho new thing brought ; on by ihe foreigner, and tu discuss the changes thence , arising. Both are numerous firearms, nnd the mil) j jugation of the islands by Kamehnmeha llio First, goats, ahoep, cattle, horses, the obliteration of old j way and sport, and the beginning uf the assumption of new one. &c. Of all these, however, iho meat in- teresting on many account i the missionary. He and hi doing are matters that aome have troated with a liinid, other with a hot and hasty hand. I shall do my best to treat of both fully and lairly. I may tell you hero that, in my opinion, when they came to these islanda thoir hope aim aim were loo high, and now, from disappointment, thoy are too low. They, front the tirat held au elevated position. Ihe priesthood wn a constituent element of tho native government,! and not only did the missionary fill iho plaro of the 1 native priest, hut ho was 1 miked up to a a while teacher to be relied on in all the arcina of tho civilization of Ihe while. Though they lay behind hand, there fort, Ihe pledge they had given before leaving the United Slate forced this on them, ihey necessarily became, and have for the last thirty years, constituted the real government. All men, ol whatever party, who now come to these islands, aeo thai in all that relates to the material well being of the people the results of the policy of that government have beeu unhappy lamentably iinlinppv. Whether any one could, from the first, have predicated (hat tins would be tho case fiom the measure adopted is another que lion. But as to the fact nf the decaying energies of tho people, it i a thing before every eye. The oourse those gentlemen took was one at least natural to them, las missionaries ami American. Thev weut forih wiih the Bible in one hand nnd the American constitution in uie other, tn ths firm belief thut they grasped, aud vu,u uiaponae. 10 a HuumisMvo people, tho whole ele men 1 ol an eulighicned nnd happy civilization. It wa a devout imaginatinn, a day-dream, uch a mocks men Who hvo in a world nt' lliuii- nun i. i-.ll I ' ? VMl " bU,, of ' Without entering 1 Ul"11' 1 am iemPa to poiut to two or three Kiii:z7;jLTiT.j:: chair, and naturally princmir from the view thev entertained. The lint of these is the totui upsetting of ' " "u '"V" HI K'oninjo'", and tbe premuiure luiro-duclu.not iho American, or English constitution. It wero unfair, however, to lay this to the charge of the missionaries as missionaries. It is an error sometimes a very grave one which Englishmen and Americans ll&ve avurvwhem n aiirt ,if mnmo. t.. ..nm,iiti.,a can constiuiimnai government is every where j the hobby of Ihe Anglo-Saxon, unmindful that centm What he calls constitutional government is everywhere riea of atrllnn(a f (,, ti.ur f .1: . rn . . . . . 1 uiaiBier, o continual battling with atorma, and nicely trimming of aiis lo catch each favoring breeze, havo habituated him to its nature and use, aud made it b himself as it wero part and parcel of his very being ; ho everywhere and to every people holds it up as a blessing at all hazard to bo reached after by them a the one thing needful for thoir social snlvaiiun. And, everywhere, when the scheme fails, aud wreck and ruin are its results, he ever turns round on those he has unwittingly injured nnd lays all the fault on their intellectual and moral deficiencies. It were as wise a thing to press a crow of landsmen, ot them aboard a ship with chart, quadmut, compass, &c, and push them off to sou it wore as reasonable a thing, when they bud lost the vessel, to lie up all (he poor devils who had earn nod the wreck, and oivn oui-b r..nml dozen for being a lubber, aud not knowing the ropes. It is just so here ; tho Kanakas aro put down a a set of know-nothings nnd never-will know-onyihings, be-cause they have failed in a business to which, ns a nation, ihey never erved an apprenticeship. All this eems to me wrong, and I confess I regret the prema- . un, power oi me cniei. Even grunting that neither intellectually nor morally woro they superior to the commonality. I till b..l,l ib.t .....ll and politically their feelings were, so to say, higher toned. They held themselves as tho fathers of tiieir race, and the verv tact thut thou ur thr... h.,. ;,:.... descended from their high station of ruk-rs and judge,' and to a great extent divested themselves, id' n.,.i rights ot property, became they believed that litis was ior ino goou ot ineir people, is tn mo a pregnant proof that hud they retained these; as they were the natural, w. wooui uiey nuve neen the willing and efficient neonta in all that tended to their good in (.very inenstire ol social amelioration. Agtiu, the missiona'rie have mado tlm native, and not iho English language, ihe bam of their educational effort. Hero, also, In' my opinion, bus been a great, n grievous error. I hope, as I havo said, that I shall make it apparent to yon "!D ittwm.uu language, ttKe me Hawaiian rare, very singular ns t ia in it unwr nnd ii. ,L.i;.i.., desorve much moro attention than ha hiiherlo be. bestowed on it. But it was tho medium of coinmuni- eating thought among thoso to whom extreme licenso wu niton almost a virtue, nnd wno soem to have hud scarce any iden of what we call delicHcy or decency. nm viiiiuk tun ui wnai wo siioutd lertn most im proper eipressmns, and thousenlitis hostile to purity of thought. As a medium, therefore, for thu now ideas it was desirable to dill use, the English language wa infinitely In bo preferred. A knnw1.l.,n ..f ti... would, beside, have opened op lo the quick apprehou- ... ,.-j,ib on uie vai nun iroasuro heaped world of English and American literature. Tbi. was, on many accounts, to bo especially desired. In the old time tho soul of the Hnwaiinn chiefly expanded io festivals. There be listened lo the lalo of tbe bard, and tbe rmc of the wnmen ii,a . mark of tbe chief, und elder, and irihrnd ii,n ;.i,.u. aud the wisdom that bad floated from ago to one amotiir hi ocean compassed race. Atl this wa put down aa licentious, immoral aud beathchish. Aud au it certainly wa. But in takins from him what in ,.f .! I.:. i:p.. ..i uc. :...! .. . noB .... , u WUB ueiiroure to substi tute aometning that might till tho void, that might satisfy his excited curiosity, unfold to him other ...i.m.. of intellectual enjoyment, and lead him to new trains of thought aud action. Woman, set free from ihe restraint of her former hampered condition, and having new dutie and obligation imposed on her being re quired, in fact, to at-mne the place of the woman of mouern civilization needed to have a lively picture presented to hep of the dignity to which puriry of luuupi.i aim uuimu um rntsou iter ex in this civiliza tioo, this new phase, which humanity has put on. The powers of tho chiefs, na auperintondent of dome ic induatry, us supremo iu questions of policy and war. having como lo abeyance, uml the masses being required to take the p isition of self-acting freenmn in n free State to assume that is a character foreign to all their previous conceptions, and I may say natures, needed tho aid of every stimulus that could mus theirouergie to bestir themselves and master tho difficulties ol ihe new sphere of action in which they had to imive. Whnt more powerful aid and enconrngement could they have had than to know, and one may say to feel, how tho men they were required to emulate lived aud moved in similar spheres. Now, I do not siy that a knowledge of English language aud literature would necessarily have brought about all this, hut in my opinion it was a necessary preliminary to it. Aa iu me measure a proof of iho wisdom and surcoss of the plan, I may call yout attention to the very happy condition of the mixed race on Pitcafru's Island. Tiieir having been led to abandon their mother's tnuguo, and Hdopt that of their father's, was, I do not believe, main cause nf this. It must be acknowledged lhat the business wn a difficult one. None know the difficulty better than one who, like myself, has endeavored lo teach Kanaka English, aud ia now trying to master the Kan nka tongue. Still the fund wero large perhaps $0fl,-0(10 have been expended in educniiuu and I nm convinced that a comparatively small portion of this, ski) fully and energetically applied, would have enabled tho many who would wiliiogly have aided the effort, tu overcome the difficulty, Tho main positive cause was to bo found in the mind of tho missionary, in bis belief that the Bible was itself all sufficient, ami in ihe dread, almost tho abhorrence, with which he regarded what we call light reading, and all the unbounded li cense of tho modern press. Now, thia wa all well and right on the mure missionary i hut when his a ton ped beyond thi character, ami became politician, the head of a political party in a recognized kingdom, ho u-ppc-u nuu nun annuiar apnere oi action, in which nil bis doing are subjected lo the judgment, and mint be tried according to tho principle of other rule. Before such a tribunal it would bo hard for him t make good his cause. In point of fact, the dread of inniieiiiy, u such wns rineriaincu, w vam. Tile Km- akn require a positive religion, nnd seek for it. A to the other matter, that waa also a vmn dread. AH the arum of all the richest or smuttiest French novels would all on a Kanaka unheeding and unhurt. A well might you expect to injure a duck by sprinkling water upon it. It hna gambolled in it from tho very egg. I ouht not to omit, however, even here, to tell you that vnt i-oii religious, elementary nnd aome other works, have issued from the missionary press in the native language. They do not much attract the n' trillion of the Kanakas, nor are porltap of n character In do s -, and I often -v them Imn np for use vile. I must make one exception. John Banyan' Pilgrim I have found deposited in ilm coi ner ot many a hut, all complete, though over-marked, if that could bo, with tho glorious illumination of thumb pi ini and soils frmn Ireqnenl perusal. I suspect ho is read ns I read him when a child, more for his stnry und tho battle th in for ihonllegory. Another p.iint. You know tlul tho Paphiun goddess Seaborn had established ber idinuo in these oeeuii tiles and thai here (or i( long nil her rites, ordinary and extraordinary, have been du'y nnd fully celebrated All thi had lo bo reformed. Possibly the light of Chmiinuity. aub d by the resttunitsof laws judiciously mlapled to ihe p.. nit f things, might in lime have .Heeled Ihi. The missi.,muy givenimeut set about it iu tiKi hot nnd zealous hasto. Heavy fines and long imprisofinetii, aided by iho machinery of that power now nnd mystetiotis to the native, the written law. were brought into restless and harassing notion. A child born out of marriage cost iho mother fifty dollars or one year' imprisonment ; an unmirried man or wn-man caught iu sn.pieiotiscin iimstunces. fiht-nii dollars: n man and W iitian found out of dimr after H P. M , and nol aide to give a eouent leason for it. live dollar Th rh oi'k wn altogether too sudden and severe to be delonp.enrie winked at by Iho u'licinls, seino coming oenriH'oii or eitecui ,i. l ne laws were ovaden. manv ngni isniore ihem laid hold ol, nnd other vindictively pursued. Numerous evilsnroso from this state uf iliin". , lnVe been iho aim or u enlightened IrgisTa- tinn to tako with it the nid of public opinion, or nl leasi neor to go far ahead of it. Thus iho one would have helped llio oilier nnd both gained strength. Hern ihr 'wo set in oppositloiito each other. Heme the Kann kis, men and women, have learned that n thing may be nuin nnd a crime and notwithstanding that no shamo Those who are cnusht are laushed at. nnd I mud, il.em- selvr at ihrir bad luck, und at the good luck of the government and il officer, who havo pocketed o many of their dollar. That is all. An obtttaeliess ol feeling in ihi p-aped pervade nil rank lo an exent wnicn you can crre conceive. The particular trnna-gresaioua 1 speak of havo changed their character, but by no means their frequency. Krai, practical, heart less llCHiitmuaiiesais filer lhanntnnv ooriod. It mi )...ir er, indeed, come abroad in iov. umi.1 Uii nnd ,.,. and revelry, but It skulk in every corner, or hide i-ii uiiuor ine manmi ot nypocrtsy, a moro soul deforming sin ihnn even itself. This i what a those who have lived longest among them and beat know ihem tell you, whit one mixing nmons ihem I. led to conceive, and it i. conclusion at which any ono nc- '('iriiuiuu wiin inw pinna. na oi inn popuiailoil question ; niusi arrive irom me consideration nl the rhiiu !efnre him. Tho severity of tbe laws asroinst ilbgiiimnte birth wns a direct incentive! to abortion and child murder, which the previous practice of ihe native, tendered I'smilar to tiieir idea. I must, however, hurry to a conclusion, or I shall bo writing my book twice over. I will I ell you ol length in the book my opinion of the actual erudition aud prospects of the Island, and of tho plan and acheme which ibee suggest. Hero I my brit fly ay hat their splendid clinmio, commanding position end fertile soil, ought to nmko them a rich spot. What 'hey want is labor, and capital to elaborate that richness. The Kanakas, 1 am surry to swy it, for with all their faults I Iiko them still, wilt not or rather d i not w,rk. They lie on iheir nmis ull day, aud loll or sleep, only occasionally rousing themselves io provide lor pret- mc wants. This is nut mm h. so fur u I can see. from want of capacliy lo apprehend, or from want of ability or en-rgy to execute what lh y are convinced is for their good ; it is because there lias been a enm-plele boulevtrtement uf ull their idea, and thai when urged on by tiieir leaders in ihn new order of things. every iwo hteps ihey hove made lorwurd litis leiunera three steps behind. Wiihout labor, capital is powerless. A good deal has been accumulated here, but bus gone off with it owner to find a profitable investment. Moro might be got from other qnrter but without a commaiid of labor it cannot be profitably employed. Iu short, if anv sane man could have any doubt that an uc'ivo inductions population i tho only basis of national prosperity, ho inuy come here aud he will find lhat such prosperity exist not, ihnugh every element of its constitution, saving the essential ono, is present. Would indeed that Mime of those dealers in wise saws, such as "the desire to better ones condition left to Us own free wotking is ihe iu all for all men," would como hero- They might pel haps then pause befoio pressing forward to direct tho destinies of nations. Two aclieuios. sugar and enf fee plantation, have occupied ihe mii.d und sime-what exhausted llio purses of capitalists. I shall give you my reason for thinking that if ono considers everything these aro not the best for lhei-e lands, but it i clear thoy would succeed could n sunnU of labor be found. TliHt deft ct mars all. It has been attempted remedy it by ihe irnnorlaiion of Chinamen Coolie. These ore necessorilv of the lowest and most degraded class, and do not i.em lo answer. The late, iherelore, of iho plantations hangs at present iu doubtful scale. This is u cause of permanent action. Tho California excitement rnUing tbe price to threefold, and firing a seemingly inexhaustible market for many products, such as syrups, sugar and potatoi n, produced n great stir, ond made a large circulation of gold ; suddenly ceasing it left everything much duller and more dead ihnn belore. That ciird is pasi; and now il thing run right I see tint but what better lime may becoming to nil el users and colors. On looking over what I have written, T think I ought ' to have given you some particular facts n to tho pr a-eut wuut of em.rgy in the Kanakas 1 have room for one or two. Egg sell at L ili:nu nt .lOu per doyen t fowls, 50c. iipoue ; potk, le. to I8u. per pound; beef, Be. iu quantity, IOj. by retail. W are distant twenty-tivo miles from it by Jutid, which cmi h minlo on mules or liowe n a very p ismMo road; by canoe filty or sixty miles, or by cart uiht mile, nnd 'twenty by canoo or boat. Then is abundant (Ved Inr cattle alt the year round ; oxen weighing ni t l.fiUO pound are common. f hero in abundant land for knlo, of which uti aero would feed moro than five hundred fowls; half nn aero is more than sufficient for a family of five, a man, woman and threo children, and wiih a little fish und suit, makes n strong and heal'hy diet. It nlso, with very littlo addition, make good poik, hogs thriving on it. Under the old chief ull Ins region wrsb garden, full of people, poultry and hogs; now it does not contain one-tenth of nny of Iheso. nnd people who look nt it niter t -inly -live yenrs absence rub iheir eyes aa thoso out of a dream to seo whence alt hus vanished. Yours, most truly. Johsj Rat. CLIFTON HOUBENIAGARA FALLS. Wo tako groat pleasure in endorsing tho fol-lowiug, from the Cltvdand Herald, No one sec and eujoysnll the glories and pleasures of Niagara who neglect to visit tho Clifton House. o spoA of things we do know. No where in this wido world have wo over found ao magnificent a panorama a ia spread out before tho visitor a he look from tho verandah of Ihe Clifton: The season approaches for pleasure seeking, nnd all who have money and owe nodebt. nre in duty bound to lake a summer irip lor health and rccrtatmn. No jaunt in June, July or August, ia complete without aioppmg ni ihe uniion Mouse on the Uattnda side, at Niagara rails. Ooo long, lingftlni; look, from the spacious galleries which surround tho Clilton, out upon Ihe American Fall the Horse Shoe the Ferry the Rapids and (he majestic Hills, is mora self satisfying thin any one single view on the face of thi earth, Only pauso for a moment to think of the at tractions about that mighty waterfall; Lundy's Lane; Chippewa; Q leenntoii Ht ights; all renowned in story I at.d the tide from Leivistnn up to the falls, just a the sun is rising, the view fr m tho bill, wild Niagara liver now roaring and tumbling iu itsniod frenzy, tiow quietly stealing along like a vein ol molten silver, until its being is lost iti the bono in id' Ontario. This is the ride of ihe world; cross tho suspension bridge nt Lewiston, and bang sky hub between those evoilnst-i'lgbill; look down the river, way down io Fort Niagara and Fort George, with th nurs and tripp.aud ihe cros of St. George in friendly g'eo Healing jit the breeze tn peace "long may they wavo" and follow up to Quoenaloo Heights, whero in day gone by onr daring troops scaled the precipice; so p moment at the clof monument ot the noble Brock, and curse the ruffian whose saereligious hand wns laid upon the me. memo of Britain' gratitude; wind )our way along through the rich fields, and soon the deep-toned vnue of Niagara will wolroiue ou ; dash on, lor it e spray i alter yon; seek shelter in the Cit on; sit down to Shier' breakfast draw a long breadi, and thank for-tune you are of ihe privileged number permitted to rest your oyea upon tho fairy land of tint great cataract.Again we any, remember Niacnra, 'p nt ihe Clifton; it landlord, George fin-ars, Ins a delightful, quiet way of making In guest happy; don't do this, however, Utiles you ex poet each year ever idler, to tako one of ihoso templing collages and speed ihe dog day. The profuse expenditure iu ihe decoration of tho grounds about tho Clifton, contrast strongly wi b. the niggardly meanness and extortion on ihe Ameitrnn side at Goat Island. The property nil around ths Clifton is owned by an enterprising PlnUitelphian, who has a princely residence overlooking ihe cascade, nnd who, with a liberality of whirl, bis coiimrvn en should be proud, has embellished his private gro-mds, ns w II a tho public rites, for the especial gratification of the Utiest of Ihe Clilton, and lias secured the servicrs nf the Mrssr. Shear well known in this city for a term of years, in doing tho honor id this most attractive summer resort. Tus Artist n th Pitch ess Tlm Pari correspondent of the D uly Register tells an amusing anecdote uf a young painter, who is not yet celebrated, but whom a young dochrss consented 'o advance by allowing him to tnko her portrait for iho exhibition. She gave him several sittings, ai d when ihe picture wu finished, she took several of her friend lo llio studio, to have iheiropiniuu. As Usual, not two ngrod ; one thnneht the nose loo long, another, the eyes too blue, another, tho rmitnh too large 1 in short, it was decided that Ihe painter had failed. He, however, convinced lhat he had, on tbe contrary, succeeded most admirably, and being, therefore, totally averse lo imiking any change, proposed that the derision be lelt lo an imonrlia tndce. and aa Ilm duchess had a little King Charles which was ex-credingly attached In her, il was uflieed tli at the dog lioiild settle the question of roaomblancn or no re aemblauce. Accordingly, llie picture was sent to the hotel, the next day, and ihe p dtiter, die duchess and her fiiend usaembled iu the bdIool. The purtrait was pl-id'd upon ne n or, leaning ngiurisi mo wan; ihe Uuctiesa hid brst ll, nod ihe little sianii-l wna called in. He imnin- liately looked around lor h mistress, and not ceeim? her began n search. After smelling around a minute h npnronrhed tho portrait, but h had no sooner seen it it.n-i he sprang upon it, licked it nil over, and ahowed every demon stration of Ihe grrulest joy. The assembled friends, almost to tear, deduced ihe punters triumph, for when the diielifS showed herself, the little dog refuted to leave the picture. I lie critics hi gum that the art ist find retouched thn portrait during too niuht, ond were unanimous in iheir opinion ot its resemblance. The painter had. it is true, retouched the picture, but simply wiih a light coating laru t i ue nog s noso was sharper limn the critics' eyes, Mr. Paktikoton at tiii Opkr. " We ware atir. pried," ay iho facetious editor of the Boston Post, nt the opera last evening, by having a hand placed upon our shoulder. Ii was a g. nt!e touch t altogether unlike certoiu other touches on Ihe shoulder that delinquent men so much druad. It came at u time when we wore nil nhsorbed by tho melody of Ihe charming Soiling, and wero provoked at Ihe intrusion. 'Will yon bo kind enoujh to lend mo your observatory 1' asked a voice that we Ihonght we remember d. Looking round, '(treat henviui!' wo cried, Mrs Pitting-ton!' It win, indeed, llrd estitnuble dumo, but yet it was not; for ihe black bonnet had disappeared, and a new rigoleito adorned her venerahle poll, heu-ath which every sprig of wavy gray w curely tucked. Hut the smile was there, as warm a June inntiiing at nine o'clock. She repented tho n qiit-al in use li e pearl and diamond studded opera gta-ts that wo had hired at Fotridge's for twenty two n-nt denominating it an 'observatory.' ls this the rirht porur said she ; ' 1 spose i shall hnvo to digest it to my sight, for my poor visionary orcan aro giving out ' She levelled both barrel at the siiig 'r nl once, and brought them down lo her, nnd Pnrzoimi directed three mo-cessivo appeals lo ber tenderness. 'It nio'l no use, she snid, as ho handed the glu, 'I can't understand better with that I should have bnuyht one nf the fah'rutnties at the door.' Sim beat time gracefully to the music for a while upon the cover of her "miff box, and then went oat, like an exhausted Candle, to try aud light on Ike, w ho wn trading lor a jack-knife wiih another boy on ilm gnlUry iaiis." A country edib v drops tlm disinterested observation! "Blessed are they who do not advertise, for Ihoy will be rarely troubled with customer."
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Full Text | y I rra. Ny f VOLUME XLIII. COLUMBUS, OHIO, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1853. NUMBER 40. lUcckln Ol)io State lonrnal IS TOBLISnKD AT COLUMBUS BVKUT TUJWDAr MORNING, IT ICOTT BASCOM, rotnufil iDitoutaB, man and run stmits wtbahci on etci. TKRM& fat-flrtnM, in ativann .-In Columbns, W 00 ft Jn by mall, 81.50; clubs of four and upwards, $l.'iit; often ami up- Tll K UA1I.Y JOURNAIi U ftirrdnhol lo city nubMriben it (6.00, .ml hy mull nt fpr, ()0 yenr. TUB Tlll-U-EEiaV JUURNtf, li S3.00 jou. KjlTES OF ADVERTISING IN THE WEEKLY JOURNAL jeS i Jd I jS In tii'lu'In So 1 Solfts So O liuai, W 76 1 001 aVjl 763 !W3 60 4 00 5 00 6 COS 00 B aquaraa, 761 251 762 268 604 00'6 000 008 O0'l2. 116. B squares, 1 001 762 263 604 606 006 608 0011. 17. squares, 1 252 268 604 00 6 OOti 00 8 0010. .14. ,23. jtB. 1 square, champal'le monthlr, 29a year; weekly 26. column, cbaiiiffHt'tfl quarterly 185. eolumu, elmntffnhl quarterly IflO. 1 erliuuo, chaogfHble qunrterly 100. 10 Hdm of this slaml tjfm In reckoned square. Advertisements orOsmi on tha lan-h nxi-tunivt-lr, tlmiblt tin. sbnvw ratsa. All U4l notices charirwl double, and QiMHured s If solid. BV AUTJIOK1T1. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES Panned .luring I lie eerand Nraalon of the Thirty- Hecond (Jong re a. Chap. XOIIL An Act providing forndmin.Blerinjthe Oath of Office lo William 11. King, Vice Prefcidout Elect of the United S'atos of Amot ion. Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Rcprctentativet vj ine unuca bia'et oj America in Vongret attemtifed. That William L. Sharkey, who wan appointed Consul of tho United States at Havana, bo, and liu is hereby authorized to administer at Havana, or any otlior place in tho IsUnd of Cuba, to William It. King, Vice Prodi-dent elect uf tho United Stales of America, tho onlh of nlfico prescribed by the sixth article of the Consti tution thereof, on tho .mirth dny of March next, or aomo subsequent day, in tho following terms, to wit : ".William R. Knifj. do solemnly swear that I will up port tho Constitution of tho United Siates." Inch niih, when thus iidministmed, it shall ho tho duty of the said William L. Sharkey, and he i hereby required to certify, under his hand, to tho Congress of tho U ailed Slates. Skc. II. And be it further enacted, by the authority npre-mid, That any judge, or in ighdruto in tho t'ni'ed SuiU h of America may administer tho outli of office nfore. said, to llio Vice-President elect, on tho fourth ot March next, or oil some d:iy MtihaitqiiPiit tln'nit; and theollicer l-?foro whom tho wame nhnll ho tultni, in hereby required lo certify tho ailmii.intration of tho Hid (inth a pi h bcTi'iuheloro provided. AprnovKti, March 2, 18;"3. Chap. CXL. An Act making up propria lions for Liiht-iiounci, Light-bouti, Uuoya, etc., mid providing for tho Erection and Establishment ul tho sume , nod for oilitjr I'urpcucn. Be it enaetetl by the Senate and Haute of Reprctentativei of the United titatca of Ameiica in Conffrcti ammblcd. That ihs tollowing Hppropriatioini bound tho name are hereby m ado and di reeled to bo paid, out of any money in tho Treasury not othHi wise appropriati'd, to enable the Secretary of tbo Treniury lo uirry tho provisions of this act into effect : Prodded, however, if a good titlo to any land, which it tmiy be mci isnry to use, cannot be obtained on remoiia'do terms, or the oxclusivo right to such laud cannot be ticqtiirrd by. cession, when the intercut of tho United tStntei de-mand it, b jfore tlie npprupriatiun would by law fall into tho surplus fund, in any and all such cases tho appropriations ahull bo applicable to ihoohjccis for which thoy are mado, at any time within two years alter tin first meeting of tho Lupislaturo in any Stiito wherein such land may ba situated, subnequoiii to the passage of this act, to wit : Maine For buoys, beacons, aud npindles, to bo placed at tho channels of Muscongu Hay, and nt othtr importaiit points in tho waters of said State, in addition to tho turn appropriated by the act of August ihirty.fint, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, throo thousand dollars. Alaiiachuiefts For buoys to mark tho channel of Taunton Kiver, five bundled dollars; For a beacon on " lec-Iolo ltock," in Vitioynrd Sjund.six huudred dollars. For i ho erection uf a liglii-liouna and kcqiei-'a house on or near the breakwater at Units Uiver, being ro-appropriation of the same sum nppropriatfd by th act ol September twenty-eiht, (-igliteen hundred and ; fifty, four thousand dollars. j Towards tho erection of a liglit-hointe on Iho rock called tho " Sow and Pis," neur tho entianco ol Itnz-tartf'i Hay, to tako tho place of thu light veo now taiioned there, being n reappropiiRijon uf tho same "in appropriated by the net of S.-ptendier twenty-aijht, eighteen hundred aud tilly, thirty ilmiMand dU lara, For a light-vessel to be moored oft" Minot's Lodge, in additiou to the sum appropriated nt tho hut hohmoii of Ciingress, six thousand dollars. Rhode Ittand For buoys to bo placed on the following points : "Old Nowton,""lho Sisters,1" llri Ledge." " (Narranaiiaett Huy,)" ' Sandy roiut' " (lllork Island,)1' and " Tuursou Point' (near Wick-ford,) live huudred dollars. For erecting n beacon light at " Seino l(ick," Newport Harbor, one thousand dollars. Connecticut For buoys in New Haven Harbor, two hundred dollars. For buoy on Pen field Reef, o tie hundred nnd fifty dollars. For beacon on Race Rork, Long Island Sound, aoven thousand dollars. For the erection of one or morn lionuondihts below Middlotown. ou the Connecticut River, and for the erection of buoys and spindles, three thousand di-IUrs. For the erectMnof a log-bell or whistle, as the liei t. ho u an hoard shall determine, on Pino Island, in Fisher's Island Sound, one thousand dollars. New York.'-' For a small lipht on or near Carlton, Head, and fop repal.ing or rebuilding Tibbitt's Point i light-houne, five thoiisniid dollars. For a fog-bell or wlihtlo, to he worked by machinery, to be placed on the Smuh Pier near iho lij;ht-h(nne : at Uullato, two thousand five hundred dollars. For a new lipht-v.nel to take tho pluco of that now moored oti' Sandy Hook, in addition to the sum appropriated nt the last session of Congress, iwo ttiinotnud dollars. Nev Jtruy.Yot buoys to bo placed on Abseeum Bw and in tho Inlet, (u harbor of refuge,) eiht hundred dollars. Delaware.' For beacons and huoya for Delaware Day, lo uompleto the necessary beacoiid;:u ond biuy-age in the lowor part of the river and b iy, tivo ihou-saud dollars. Michigan. For a licht-hnnse on Point Detcey, Like Mil hiftan, five ihousaiul dollars. Forn light-house at (irand island Harbor, Lake Superior, live thousand dollars. For a lijiht-house at Rock Harbm-, Islo R .ynl, Lake Superior, tivo thoiMand tlullnra. For a lo-bell, 1 1 h worked by msLhtory, f,r Thunder Hay island liht-h'uo, Lulto lltiroii, two thousand live limnlrrd dllara. For erecting u liglit-lioiuo ut tho moudi of Portico R'ver. live thousand dolUro. For tlm erection of a liht-hnuso nt Point Iroquois, or on the Island oil Point Anx-rhena, as tho Li lit-home Hoard ahull determine, live thousand dollnrs. For making the Inundations of two light housca, one to he a beacon light, ou the Saint Clair Flats, ten thouaaud dullnra; the places to be selected aud the work executed under tho direction of the Topogranhi. cal Bureau. (Mw. For a hearon of aolid masonry, to be placed on a reef lying in (he truck of vessels at the went end of Lake Erie, near the Suuih Shore, off Hois Hlnnc, and near Touiasant River, three thousand dollars. VirfisM For a tirst cla'S buoy to be placed on the upper iniunio in uuespeaKo May, anil huoys tor " Baud Shoal'' and ' Hog Island Inlet," Atlantic coast, eight hundred dollars. For buoy a to be nlnced in the Potomac River, ao lM. lows: lower end "Jones' Point," "Orcnquon fl its off " MstIow's Creek." lower n,ir: of ' Wu le's Hav." off " J.-nil -r'a Qiiarier,"MMpttthias Point," and " Dent's Shoal," hvo hundred and sixiy dollars. For a small light at "Stiugery Point," Rappahan nock, two hundred aud filly dollars. For a beacon nt Naylur'n Hole, Rappahannock, one , Duoureu aim ntty Uniiura. For twelve buoys for Rappahannock Rivor, six hun dred dollar. South Carottna.Var six large iron buoys for Charleston bar and channels, three Ihousand dollars. For a large bell buoy tor the entrance over Charleston bar, five thousand dollars. For a buny to be placed ou Middle Ground Skoal, Charleston harbor, five hundred dollars. For a light vessel, to he placed on Rillleaimke Shoal, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding beacon on Morria Ialatid, Gharlaton harbor, three thousand dollars. Forchanginjt the present liubt-hotiso nt Ci.rm Rj- main into a first class sea coast lq;lit, by elevating, improving, and refitting the same wiih the most ap-oroved illuminating apparatus, twenty thouaaud dil- Florida For an iron pile liplit-lmnso, tn tuko the lBi,a ui i no ngni-vessel italiuncd near K-y West, twelve tbnnaand doll,(ra. For making permanent the annals plaoed by thn coast aurvoy along th Florida reef, ton thousand dollar.For the erect Inn of a first class Hahi-house, and fit ting the tarna with a first order illuminating apparatus, naar Jupiter iDloLtwrtT-fivt thouaaud doliaw. Alabama. For a beacon to mark a shunt in Mobile Day channel, caused by a wreck, five hundred dollars.Lottirivna, For largest class iron buoys, to mark tho approaches to the principal passes at the mouth of Mississippi uivcr, three thousand dollars. Towards the erection of a first class lipht-honso, aa a substituto for tho liglit vessol at " Shin Shoal." to bu located at " Ship Shmil," or Raccoon point, as may bol oeiernimeu uy mo Becreiary ot tlm Treasury, alter the survey ot that locality nuthoHzod by the a'jt of thirty first August, eighteen hundred and iifty-two, ahull bo completed, twenty thousand dollars. Texai. For third class iron buoys, to be placpd nt limzoa oauiiago liar, tnoutti ot " (irand Kiver U ir, and the entrance to Matugorda Day, two thousand dol-lars.For n first class light-Iwusn at tho mouth of (he Sa bin Uiver, thirty thousand dollars. California. For a buoy to murk Commission Ledge, in Mare Inland Straits, five hundred dollars. For a buoy to mark "Middle Ground," in Suiaun Day, live hundred dollars. For largest clds buoy to mark entrance to barnt Han rraticisco, eight hundred dollars. For buoys to mark iho channel of tho Sacramento Itivor, two thouiand dollars. For bunye for Hnmb ildt harbor, live huudred dol lars. For buoys fop Umpnna, five humlrrd dollar. For a second cla lipht-house at Point Boneta, San tniuciscn nay, twenty-live iiiousaud dollars. For ihr en cti'm of a liht-houso in Sau Pedro Bay, ten thousand dollars. Oregon For additional buoys at Colnmhio River, rice lliousatid five hundred dollars. To tent iho adaptation of Jahez Stone's patent buoy nsu puide to river and other narrow chunnels, two bin dud and filty dollars. To enable tho Liglr.-Hui.so Board lo procure tho neeossary machinery and teat practically tho plan for distinguishing light by occultaiions, submitted by Charlos Babbago, Esq., and which was communicated to Congress at its last session, live thousand dollars. Sec. Si. And be it further enacted, That the sum oj three thousand live hundred dollars, appropriated by the ilrct seclion of tho net of eighteen hundred and filty-two, chapter turn hundred and twelve, to iho erection of a harbor liht on a point of lund lying west ol the eiitratieo to Buck's barb.ir, in Drodtville, muy bo applied lo the erection of a harbor light ou the northern extremity of Pumpkin Island, in conformity to tho recommendation of tho coast survey. Sec. U. And be it further enacUd, That the locnliotiof tho tw b'vicitn lii'.hi- nuthiinztd by the act ol eigh teen hundird aud fii'tj-ouo, to he placed near Fort Hnmiiii'ii, bo chang'.d lo iho oilier end of the range line of the m iin channel, on the New Jersey shore. ' Rfc. 4. And be it further rnartci, That Iho Secretary of tho Troaurr is hereby authorized to s 'h.ct, instead of iho miter Minot Ledge," m(y more suitable sito annmHl Ihf 0. htpnet vuviw, at iho t nlrituco o llimton harbor, on whie h I i er-ct lh liht-hoae authoiizod by iho first sertion of tho net id eighl.-cti hundred uml htiy-iwo, chapter one hundred and twelve, if iti his judgment mid m further surveys, it neei'9nry, nny mote tmitiihl" sito can be found. Six..1). And be. it father enacted, 'flint tho sum of fhren tiioiiMinl live hundred dollars, appropriated bv 'h first sect ion if Iho net of eightumi luiinlrcd anil hlt-lwo, chap'er one hundrfd nnd twelve, "for tho construction d' two ice-brenkorn," may bo anplied by tho Lighi-House Board for iho p.esrvaiion and protection of thu light liousu on Hratidvwino Shoal, in audi manner as limy bent secure th" object. HEfi. o. And be if further enacted. Thai the Srcrotarv of the Treasury is horeb nudiorized to npnly the sum of tivo iho'isntid dollar, appropriated by tho act of eighteen hundred nnd lil'ty-two, section one, chapter one hundred ami twelve, for a liiiht-hmise on tho Nub- blo, Capo Neddick, York, to the erection of a lighthouse at the entrance of York hirbor, if lhat location ill best Biibsnrve. the mterosl of rommerce. Sr.c. 7. And be it further enacted, That tho Secretary of tho Treasury be directed, if in his opinion the snlo ty of commerce demanded alight at Miuol's Ledge, at the entrance of Huston harbor, to replace that which was destroyed, to examine into tho claims ot K. II. Forbes ami othen, who kept a liplit-brmt there at their private ex peine j and, if ho is of opinion thut their Joiug4 were rscntial to iim salely o navigation, to allow thorn such a sum as under the circumstances ho deems reasonable, nnd lo nay the same out ol anv money in ihe Treasury not otherwise appropriated. AiM'iuivxii, mnreii j, irv,:t. Chap. CXLII. An Act making an appropriation for llio uoiii)l liou ol the rublic linUdiiifa ia the ler-ritnry of .Miniiesnti. Hi' it cnacc l 1" the Senate and Home of Rfprttcntalivet of the Untied Stuff of America in Conpretn antcmbted. That iho sum ot twenty-five thousand dollars be and the same ia hereby appropriated, out of any money in tho Treasury i.ot uiherwi impropriated, lor tho con-, timmtion of the pMilie buildings in the Territory of Mliitu'fmla, ono half of add sum to be applied lo the completion of the Capitol nt Saint Paul, and iho remainder to tho completion of the prisou buildings nt Stillwater, in said Territory, lo bo expended under the direction of tho Luuislulivo authority thereof: Provide J, That nothing herein contained shall bo con-slriied to iiuthori.o any farther expenditure by said Territorial authority for the purposes aforesaid than i provided for in tint net. j Appkuvui, Murclt J, lHoJ. i Chap. CL. An act authorizing tho Governor of ihe 1 orntory ot WcW Mexico to call nn extra Session ol ihe Legislative Assembly of said Territory, should the same be deemed ueceaaarv and expedient. Be it enacted ha the Senate and Haute of HcDrttentativct of the United State of America in Congm attembled, Iti itttto tioveinnr ot the territory of Eow .Mexico, I should ho deem tho Bamo necessary and expedient, be I ami be ii hereby authorized and empowered to call ono extra semion of tin Legislative Asaembly of said i i orniory, nut to exceed n unity clay m duraiion, any thing to Iho contrary notwithstanding which may be emit. nurd m iho art approved September ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An net proposing to ih Stale of Texn the establishment ol her northern and western boumlnriea, tlm rlinquihmeiit by said Siato of nil territory claimed by her exterior to at id b. "lindane, mid ol nil her claims upon the United SiatrB, und to establish a Territorial Government for New Mexico:" i'rerj did, said extra arasiim shall nol beheld during the sitting of any regular session ol sniil Legialniivo Assembly : And provided further, That ntd exlru session ih:ill be held and concluded prior to the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and fitiy-ihreo. APPRovnn, March 1110.1. RESOLUTIONS. Nn. 0 Joint R solution aiithnrir.ing tho Sattlemeut nt ttm Accotiiii ol the I uhhc rrinier, lor Taper used by him sineo iho first of November, eighteen hun dred aud lilty two. Retolvtd Ay Me Senate and Ifouie of Repretentative! of the United titatft of America it Congrttt aiumbied. I lint the account ot th" Public Printer, lor p .per fur nished ami used by him mirn the expiration of the limn sprcitied in tbe sixth section of the "Art making appropriation tor tho nanl service for the year end' ing too Unrtu ih ot Juno, eighteen huudred andtitty-thi'-e,"niitl nlso lor thu paper tube lurntdieil sml used by him ni.iil iho Suporiiiieinleiit of the Public Print-iug shall commence lariiisliing ami delivering to him pniN-r to bo used lor the public printiiH', be sttletl and p.iid as iho accounts of tho Publiu Primer have been at lilt d nnd f aid, tin ier the said sixth senium ol sanl ad, uml us 11 protnted lor in said Mxih seclioit. Arrn- viii, Dereinher tl't, III.VJ. No. :i.l A Resolution explanatory of the Act appro priating Money for tho Removal of the Rail of Rid River. Re wired by the Senate and Houte of Repretentatiret of ihe Lnittd istatrt of Amtttea in tonirren attembtnl, That so much ol the net entitled "An act making an propriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers, approved Awnat tlnrtti th, eighteen hundred and filty two, as rela'ea to Red River, be ao con aimed as to authorize ihe Secretary id' War to award tho contract lor tho removal of obstructions to ihe na - igntiou of Bnid rivor occnsimiM by Hie lit ft, to the person or p-TMitis who, (or lb nmount of tho nppro- pnaiion, will agree to remove said obstructions, and keep said iinvigatioii free from the same for the long-oat period of time ; said contract to be awarded oftor ' reasonnhle public notice. . Arrrtovx t. January 7, 1851, I No. 4 A Resolution in relation to the Census return Ir. tn ihe State of California. Retolved by the Stnate and Home of Reprttentatieet of the United State of America in Confrrit aenbted, 1 hat the Secretary ol the Inieitur lie required to a p. peud tlm census returns o the state ot Uahloruia, made by that Slate, to ihe report thereof, now iu course nf prepnraiiou at the Coniu Oilice. ArruovxD, January 7, lejj. No. fi, A Resolution allowing in certain ensoa to the owner 01 otenmer, turiher time to make I lie necessary pre para lions to bring 1 heir Vessels within the provisions of nu Act entitled "An Act tn amend an Act entitled 'An Act 10 provide lor the better Security of the Lives of Passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or In part by atenm, ami for other purposes,'" approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and liltylwo. Rrtolred by Ma Senate and Ihnt f Reprtttntativt of the United otatet of mrrsrn in C.?mi anembled. That any Inspector of Sienmers, appointed under the aui nioresam, 11 not nnniMied aeasonaniy wiin in necessary menus of discharging his duty, or who shad bo satisfied when nn enrolled, licensed or registered steamer is inspected by him, aud found deficient in tho requirements made b snid act, that am h omissions aro nol occasioned by any fun It or neglect of ihe owner or master, he may grant, upon application therefor, or of his own accord, su-ju further reasonable time after sid act goes into effect, a he may deem ullicieul, with due diliffenc) to muko all neceasirr ttrenarntion to I nmka any tuch yoiael, her machinery aud equipment conform to the provisions of said act: Provided, The time so allowed shall in no case exceed ninety days ""f 'o "tbi any ui January, eighteen hundred aud filty-three. Sec. 2. And be it further retohed, That no such vessel so allowed further time for preparation, nhall be liable to seizure or to any penalty under said act du ring tho time specified, for any deficiency intended to be covured by the extension of time granted by auch lUBpcciur. Ai'Piiovin, Janunry 7, 1853, No. fl. A Resolution for the Appointment of Regenta in the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and Home of Rcprettntatives vj utc vnue ataiet oj America in Vongren alternated, That the vacancies in the Board of Itogeni of iho Smithsonian Institution of iho class "other than mem bers of Congress." be filled by tho appointment of ieauuer uauas uacno, a member ol the National In siituto, nnd resident in tho City of Washington, and aioou ivwcrnerfiun uerrien, or tue state ol titorgia, ArPKoviu, January 13, 1853. No. 12 A nVsolatlnn to provide for straighten in k tlm Esitom Bciundirv Una of th Nvl IJospitnt Lands at Nw Y.irk. Ursolrv.il by the Senate and Hnuse of (ijircxcntattrcii of the United State of Amtricn in Otngrtu armtUti, Tint iho tjecreiarj ot the Navy ( hereby Buthurizd nnd empowered, on the part ol tho the cdlennlmiiis propriHtors wberel.v a certain uart ol the eit,-rii buundsry ui tho lands ol the Naval llotjiltil at Now York bfl strsljjht' ned, as will upuoir i y r-.dcrencn to a innp sinned ay Pie - u L,..r.ii. mm nun mr iiuuuiiniuiitjrp inr running un snia lino oa intj iweniy.ci(iim ui HuVKtnber, vlghtmn hundrnd and lortf' eifftit, and approved by thu tfccrelary ol tbn Navy on tba nlidt ti entn nt llucenilHT, elgbienn hundred and luriy-dfhl, so tht wiun.uiaiiy pnruniary tniifl Ji-rtion Irnrn tbe ono to tho other, the a'iiu ot J, ml on the south and west sliii-s nt ) lino. ai,.ril. Intt to suid plan, shall becomn thu property of the Unltud JtHioi. and so much on tho other sld as now belongs to the Unitod Sinti'i stmll bocomu ho property ol the abutliug proprietors rn- Approved Mir eli 8, 1B53. No, 13. A Resolution in Amendment of a Joint Res. oiution relating to the duties of Inspector oi Stonm ers, approved the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. Retolvtd bu the Senate and Houte of Renrrvntatim oj tne untiea atatet oj America in Uongrttt attembled That it shall bo tho duty of the Inspector of Steamers 10 exercise mo powers conferred upon them by a u resolution of Congress, approved iho seventh day of. jiHnmry, e.L'uieen iiunurou ami liliy-ilireo, suhjecl to mII the restrictions and limitations therein continued: Provided, Thut tho time gramed to applicant ahull in cam? extern, neyon l mo lust day ol June next. Bfc. 2. And he it further retolvcd. That the said In spectors may approve of boilers anil teum-pipe made prior to tho first day of July next, and subaenuent lo iho passage of the net approved tho thirtielli of August, eighteen hundred nnd fifty-two, entitled "An act to ain-iid nn not entitled mi a:t to provide for tlm better security of ihe lives of passengers on b iard of vessels propelled in whole or in part by men in, nnd for other purposes," if tho sumo ho not made wiih stumped iron: i roviiifii, ii a ii an appear ttmt Mumped iron cuuld not bw seasonality procured. Sf:c. :j. And be it further enacted. That tho said In-pectnri shall hereafter bo authorized and empowered, upon satisfactory proof that the owner or owners of a steamer are unahlo to obtain soasonably or upon reasonable terms, a metallic life-bnat. ua reouired bv said art, nr that such a boat is unsuited to the navigation in whit h a se uner is employed, to accept in any such cao n substitute or substitute for such metallic life-boat: Provided, such substitute shall in their judgmeut Bll'trd safe nnd suitable mean of preserving life in case ui liCLiut'in. Sec. 4. And he it further retolved, That no person interested a patentee, in any way. direct or indirect, in life-preservers, life-hoats or any other article rentnred for steamers by tbe law of August thirtielli, eighteen hundred and (ity-iwo. aloresaid, shall be deemed competent to Inild the office ol inspector or to discharge mo antte inereoi. Aprnovitn. March 3, 18."3. illtDCcIIani). HUMAN HAIR. Blackwood dropped n suggestion, a few monlhs aL'o, to Ihe effect that Human Hair would bo a cond sub jeci mr nn nrtieie, mm auueu, " Mow well otiie ot the writers in the Quarterly Review would doit." The Quarterly has acted upon the hint, nnd the result is an article na full of striking fact and pleasing fancy ns nny that has appeared in a review for years. A few of ihe writer' facts and lanciea we select lor tho edification and entertainment of our render. Since the world began, ihe hair has been a universal vanity. The mistress of Alcibiatles, no doubt, kept that nngnilicentdutuly wuitiug many a half honr while she arranged tho golden grasshopper; and whore is the modern youih who fails lo give his curls iho "flow ing touch " ere he ventures iuM ihe glare of ball room gun! In Puritanic times, a man' religion was deter mined by the Rtato ol ihe poll ; in still darker ages, long hair was the sign of freedom, nnd a crop pod head the mark of a slave. No wondor the hair hnshad a po litical and religious significance, for it is the only part 01 in ootiy wuicn a man can atiupo ana carvo to his fancy. R ice determines tho color of tho hair. Besinninc nt the most northern inhabited latitudes of Europe, ami journeying southward, tho color of tho people' hair deepens with every parallel, fiom tho Norwegian flux-en to the blue-black of tho nation on the shore of tlm Mediterranean Sea. Each hair is a tuhu, filbd with n fluid, and the color of that fluid is tho color of the hair. Tho reason why black hair i black, i aimply because ii coloring fluid contains more charcoal (carbon) than that of any other ; and hair become grny us ibis fountain of iis lil'o and benuty dries up. Henco the hair may, and does sometimes, become gray in au hour. As a rule, the lighter the color of tho hair, the finer its quality. An eminont German underwent the enormous la I tor nt counting the number ol hairs tn heads of four different colors. In a blonde one. he found ono hundred and forty thousand hairs; inn brown, one hundred aud nine thousand four hundred aud forty t in a oini'tt, ono hundred aud two thousand nine hundred and sixty-two; in a red, oiihty-eiaht thousand Mven hundred and forty: (he four scalps being about equal in weight, rrom their waving, sdkeu beauty, poets and artist delight in golden tresses. Shakespeare mentions 1 lack hair but twice in all hi writing, while his allusions to hair of lighter shades are to bo counted by Ihe score. In Iho Loudon National Galle ry there 1 not one b lurk -haired lema'e head, though the bends are exceedingly numerous. Yet the fathiona- hie shade fur hair hasdt-epeued of late years. In tbe lust century golden hair wu sold a a lavnrby dealers to their most important customers, at two dollar an ounce nearly twice the price of silver Tho dark shade now in vogue are procured in the south ol 1 ranee, where the peasant girl eagerly offer their luxuriant lock lo ihe hir-dealer' aheara, for twenty sous op a gaudy cotton handkerchief. For light huir, thu reaper of locks goes lo Germany. A huir merchant, "when hi nose is in," can till by tlm smell alouo, whether a sheaf of hair grew on French, English, Imh, Scotch, Welsh, or German heads. Women seldom become bold, because there 1 "a larger deposit of fat in the fmnalo scalp" than In the male ; but their hair become gmy a early in Lie as that of the other sex. " Hence," says our witty re viewer, "the plosjy ringlet which the poor peasant girl of Tour parted with for a few sons na a nest egg toward her dowry, hive douhtles aided iu procuring a uito.Me helpmate for Home blue pinsier or fast dowager of Maylair." Tho reviewer consulted his halter upon iha subject of men' buldneai. That luriuiiute m tn fortunate in having so delightful a customer expressed the opinion lhat the reason why tin n became balil nt nn earlier a?e now than forty euta ago, i the general use ol ilk hnta, which keep the head nt a higher temperature than beaver one. Whereupon the reviewer achieve ihocnpital observation lhat "we are. then, sacrificing ourown natural nap, in order that the heaver may recover his. History ha much to sy upon the hair and beard In the middle age lone hnir was highly esteemed aud was much worn among tho gentle classes though the clergy denounced it an a vanity, and even a "mortal sin." Whou Francis I. wn wounded in the bend, and was, in consequence, obliged to be cropped, all the French courtiers, in compliment to their kiim ubmitted to the aheara, ami short hair became, for a time, the fashion throughout Europe. In England short hnir came in with llio Reformation. Iu the time of the Tndors, both men and women wore iheir huir short, which gives to the portrait of lhat period a hard disngreenbleelVect. Aa tho hair hoTieued; the beard wn allowed to grow, and there ha never been a Hmo whou ihe hair and beard were both worn long. Wiih the smart, aa every one kiiowa, long hair renined its old ascendency, nnd tho beard diminished ; though the tiritnus invFiuhed ncntnsi Ihe Ho ing curls of the cav aliers, with more than tho ferocity of the earlier priest. 1 ho reign ol Loui All I. ol f ranee was the lime wheu perukes were invented those lofty and solemn monu menu of human folly a period iu the history of hair which tho reviower approaches with awe. Louis XIII , it appears, vWd wear his hnir long from childhood t ami in order lo enable those of his oi.uriier to whom nature had not been liberal in Its beat ow men t of hnir, to imitate their royal master, tho wig, tho peruke was devised. A very ludicrous entry in Pepys Diary, November 3rd, l(iii!l, mark the introduction of these portentous head-dresses into bugland. "Homo, by anil by come Chapman, ihe nerri win- maker, and upon my liking it(ihe wig), without more ado I wont up, and then lie cut off my hair, which went a little tu my heart at prenont lo part with it; but it being over, and my porriwig on, I paid him three pound, and away went he wiibj my own hair to makeup anotuerol: and l, by ami by, went abroad, after I had caused all my maid to look upon it. and they concluded It do become 11m, though June was nvghtiiy troubled for my parting wiih my hair, and ao w as nesie. "November R. 1(1(1:1 Lord' Dav. To rtmrrl, where t found that my cumin, in a perriwisr did not prove o t range a I wu afraid it would, lor 1 thought lhat all tho church would presently have cat their eye upon met but I find no such thing." Under Louis XIV. the m to which tho periwig had grown was such that" Ihe fuce appeared only as a mmi pnnpiu in uio iiuum oi avast sua ot hair. 1 er-iwig maker, the "great architect of this triumphant ago of perukes," had ilieir carriage, liveried ervant mm graaa nolo is, ana wero important personage in the Slate. Queen Marfe Antoiimtte herself invented a cotTum which represented all ihe refinement of land- scope gardening. mm tho altitude of thehead-dress-, in 1778, it wn found that they intercepted tho view 01 spectators in mo rear ot them at the opera, and the director was obliged to refuse admittance to thu amphitheatre to those person who wore such immoderate anfTuret. Such wh the art expended ou these tremendous head-dresses, and such the detail required in iheir different stage, that ludiei of quuliiy wore often under the hands of the artiite the entire day. Thus when thoy hail to attend entertainments nn sue. ceodiug evenings, they were forced to sleep in armchairs, lor fear of fiidaneorine the finish oftheeiT.i. The fem.do head-dres, having now arrived at it most mpmw Kiovuuoii, suoueiity toppieu over ana ten by iiicio uuviuniu ui me uoeu s nair coming on during her accouchement. The court, out of compliment 10 nor ir.ajeaty, wore uie imir ( enjant ; others lollow ed, and the fashion was nt nn end. Passing over much which wo should liko to pick a fow moras from, but cuntiot, for lack of space, we w.ujD 11, a u u un iuu imnaugo upon mo " Drill (ill Wilt- ker," which we must copy without condensation : " Of the modern beard and whisker," says the Review, " we desire to wri'e respectfully. A mutton chop seems to havo suggeated tho form of the nubslnntinl British whinkor. U;it of thia aimplo design countless varieties of forms havearison. How havo they arisen? Can any one give an account of his own whiskers from their birth upwards T To our mind there is nothing moro mysterious than tho growth of tli it maiily ap-pondage. Did nny far-seeing youth deliberately design his own whisker T Wn there evor known a hobbledehoy who saw a 'groat future in his silken down. and determined to train it in tho way it should go? Wo think not. British whiskers, in truth, have grown up like nil tho great institutions of iho country, noiselessly aud porsistoiiily an outward expression, as the Germans would say, of thu inner life of tho people; the general idea allowing of infinite variety according to iho individuality of tho wearer. Lot us tuko the next Imif-dozen men naasineby tho window a we write Tho first ha hi whisker tucked into iho corners of his mouth, ns thinih 10 wero hold ins them un with his teeth. The second whisker that wo descry has wandered into the middle of the cheek, and thorn stopped as though it did not know where to eo to. like a youth who ha ventured out into the middle of a ball-room with all eye upon turn. Yonder bunch of bristles (No. 3,) twists tho contrary way under tho owner ear: ho could not lor tho life nf him tell why it retrogaded i. That fourlh citizen, with the vast Pacific of a face, has liitlo whiskers, which acem tn have itopped short alter two indie of voyage, as though nghaat nt the prosper t of having lo double such a capo Morn 01 a chin, no perceive coming 0 tre-mondous pair, running over tho shirt-collar in luxuri- nut profusion. Yet wo see, n llio colonel or general takes oil his lint to that lady, that bo inumtebald those whiskers are, in fart, nothing but a tremendous inminiip iroiu me veteran s head! Upon thu expremon of tho hair, the reviewer ia brief. "Tho hair ot iho Phidian Jove iu tho Vuticun, which rises in spouts, as it were, from the forehead, and then falls in wavy curls, is like tho mane of tho lion, moat map'stic aiid imperial in appearance. Tito crisp curls il Hercules AL'uin remind us of ihe short locks between the horns o tho indomiiablo bull; whilst the hair of Neptune fulls ilowu wet und dank, like hi own seaweed. Tho benuiiful flowing lock of Apollo, full und free, represent perpetual yomh, and the genile, va-grunt, bewitching trt sse ot Venice denote most clear ly her peculiar characteristic and claim as u divinitv of Olympus. What give tho loose and wanton air to Uie portrait in Oharlea 11. a bedchamber at Hampton Court? Duchess nnd Countesa awoep along tho canvass with all tho dignity that Lely could duller them with; but on the disordered curls, and tho forehead fringed with Iovo-!ocks, Cyprian i plainly written. hven Nell Gwyn, retired into the deep shade of the alcove, beckon us with her sweet, soft redundance of ringlets. Curly hair bespeak ihe sanguine tempera ment, lank hair the phlegmatic Poets, for tho most pari, we behnvo, have had curly hair though our own age htsexhibited some notable exceptions in the rule." We reluctantly doie the Quarterly here, became other matter solicit our attention and our space. Wo shall despoil (he April number which is a brilliant ono fun her ou futuro occasions. Home Journal. 0ITT-D00R8 ATIDLEWILD; Or, Country-Life within City Reach- BT H. P. WILMS. There is a fresh country nir about the follow ing which. quiteatlractive. Warn ha a country real-deuce up among the hill on the Htids.m, thut afford him ft charming retreat, when ho desire to escape from tho dust and drudgery nf city life. Wo copy from the Home Journal : Queen Victoria has private theatricals nt Windanr but I have a private performance o! the under storms of Idlowild, better worth coming to son. These player of Nature, thunder over my two dam in the ravine, ior iwemy-iour Hours alter pouring their deluge upon the mountain; and water, foamias down through sunshine and listened to wiihout need of an umbrella, is as mucu moro ciurming than when seen performing where previously hoard and een, aa a phy i made more charming by the sunahino and privilege of a Queen' presence. nature, like love, cost money to appropriate and make iho most of; but I wn musini;. to-dnv u 1 tood looking at the swollen sheets of last night' heavy rain, plunging over ihe cloid-up chasm of one of our precipices on tho difference of value received for investment nominally equal. The building of the dam which changed these rapid into a waterfall of twenty feet, cost from twenty lo thirty dollars the price that win uo pniu mr a private uox next winter, to aee Cer ito dance the Huyndere. But that ia the last o Ceriio'a legs for that money, und hero i my waterlall, a lively as evor alter dancing six months day and uight nnd nothing extra to pay, either, for the " chorus and bl-let " added to the performance by every thunderstorm that come along. Tho cataract, moreover, after it twinkling feet have quivered in the air, come down into the meadow nnd uivo a drink lo hit burse ami cow (an afterpiece you will nut gt from Cento); dim 1 go 10 see u wueu 1 iiko; on loot or ou horseback ; in the morning mnud of hope, or in the evening mood of Badness t with friends or without them; at dawn or by moonlight; all winter and all u miner, ami with tbo pmruisu of tho sumo performance for a mauy more wiutora and Bummer as come round to Idlowild and mo. A private cataract for a lifetime or privato box to see a pair of legs for an hour both performer dancing to music, but Niblo and Nature 1 lie two managers, aud both sot ui"wiih nu reirard to expense " prico twenty dollnrs for either. What would a newly arrived angel ihiuk of a world where these two mouey's-worih wero aot down a euual ! But the morning has been, in many ways, one nf Intnritat ( mn 'PI.- .1....... ,.tl I..-. heavy thunder, cava ua a unrise fit for Eden. There ' " upriiiiiii in,, oiht iaai imkoi n are such day day when boy should bo let out of school the delicmusnes of the weather amounting to aSahbaih and this hi been one o them. It was a happiuesB to live only. Mro breathing and seeing tins ueen ion in surprise. Ho new seemed tho world 1 Everything out of door looked irresistibly bont on a holiday bird merrier, leave fresher, blossoms eaver- colored, sweet smelling plants joyously prodigal of iiluir Ingram o. in iho season when tho leave are on tho trees, this kind of Sunday of Naturo come amui.d, onco tn about seven days, I havo observed, though not with the exact regularity of the week in iho almanac. And I Ihiuk, tii, that one' natural spirit instinctively follow this same rotation the weary and cloudy Sitnrday ot the soul coming round, followed by ita bright Sunday of repitao and Monday of better courage. We are all happy, sometimes, we know not why. May we not oftenest put il down to this inward seventh-day' rest, and renewal of the joy uf existence, keeping time with Nature I To man y two brook wn my rrrntid out of door this beautiful morning. The meadow lawn, two hundred feet below our cottage-windows is the junction- porch ol two converging glen idiewiid and Home-shut and each hn its brook, brought from far apart sources, but joining lips within our fence upon the Hudson. Bo h glon-opening being included in ono tangled domain, ihe road out, towards Nowhurg, make a bend around ihe meadow, crossing below the projecting promontories of tlm twnt and, an wo must needs, of con mo, traverse their two streams, it was desirable to bring them a little sooner together, and span their united waters with one bridge. It required omo digging nnd damming Fuuuychitd tthe other brook), alter nil manner of noisy vagarie in it own glen, coming out to coquet capriciously with the swells of the meadow, nnd shin ing Idiewiid just whero nature intended they should meet to part no more but we made the new bed nmo day ng, and only waiiru lore uiunutrsinrm, 11 ueing au onect to remove tho barr.er just when tho swollen flood mioht give a mmro naiural turn to thelt meeting. I should mention that Home-shut, though directly opposite my study window, ia a glen so Intricately out of tho way 'hat no chance loot would ever cms it : aud. from its close-wooded ontraneout hemlocks, ihe demure stream, o sunny and merry the moment alter, come nut like veiled nun out of ihe dark porch of a cathedral funnycuuu oeing aisoa rivulet ol caprlrlou iay, and disapp-aring (gone to tho tpringt, perhaps), for two months of tho year. But we brought the two together breaking down the barrier with the startling celerity lhat nmko one gasp t innst wedding though, Irom the way they took to each other' bosoms, you would have thought they hail never been anywhere else. Tile long bother of our preparations, indeed, seemed to have been lime wasted. Awny thoy weitt,alons Idle- wild' every day track, astonishing Ihe old true, nn doubt, with Ihe freer fingering of the banks by the rising tipples, but making everything look brighter and fresher. It will ba almnnv union. I think. Idle- wild staying all tho year, Fuunycliild will not be iu mucn uiiwca in her summer absence. Only ber do aerted bed look, a littlo melancholy but that we must cover and forget. I shall remember this glorious morning and it pretty bridal, I am ure, ai long as I haunt hereabouts. From the Nw York Herald. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Their Patt and Prctent Condition and Future Protpeet Thu (Ihnrnetflr nt lU '...... ,.:,,; I The Character of the Country-Polal andXnrinl Condition of the People, frc. !- Dr. j.. iu to Li. r,i,i, . .iu,,. Montreal, Canada, dated Waii.ukc Ma.ii Suidwich Islands, January 7, 18';i. J I commenced 0 reply to your former favor Mo.m aiW il receipt, Ihiukinn I could put what vou reunited in. lo u compass small enough to be crowded into iho column of die Gazeite should you so wish I found I had been o short that I was uniutclli'-ihlo. I monced, determined to give myself sufficient scope, l.. , , " . ' '""""lNl "pe. both u to matter und words, but st .11 believing I could accomplish whit you wished, mid I intended, in a series nf letters, for which you miglii easily fitid a tilting vehicle. I am now afraid lhat our limiting he grow so 7 . . a " " "" T luu' l,,B woriu nuu ittKe his chance of it, droa.ed up in a full octavo suit, though I had rulher lie made his debut wrnpped in tho protecting omntloof some sale periodical sheet, broad or narrow. Whoa h- reaches you, you wdl do the best for "on you can. iso uouui there is a plane tor him in the reading world just now, If wo havo onlv wit aud dis cretion enough to fill it decently. in reamy, ine oumtwich Islands, as small ns they aro, have from their first discovery linen no nhioet nl curiosity, anil at the present moment aro turned to by very ninny wilhuu eye of peculiar interest. The original fact of our suddenly coming to the knowledge of Ihe existence, in the midst of these wide waters, of a now nnd partially civilized race of moo. their subse. quent conversion to Christianity, and assumption of the aspect of modern civilization, nnd now. mom ilmn Iheso, perhaps, the position itself uf tho islands in this mighty ocean, whoso monotonous quiet for so many ages is on the point of being broken in upon by great mercmtilo navies, bringing into communication, by a reciprocity of benefits, tho rich nnd vast region that border its coast, do nil tend to this effect. They are on the very routn lo China, and must be stopping pln-ces for thoso lines of steamships which the course of events and the spitit of enterprise of tho age will shortly establish. Thus shouted, there is a feeling of inquisitivri.es a to their enpaehie for forwarding those great themes that f.irward march of event of which tho present time is pregnant. You and oth-' or wish to know what aro their inherent resource, 1 aud what the probabilities of these rcsourcos being developed by the nativo race. Can the aborigines, you ask, be left, be trusted, to bring out iho riches of i iheir position i or, not beiug equal to tho ploco they I fill, will thoy, like o many other race, have to yiald I them up to the every where energetic Anglo Ssxou 1 I I will state how I am treat iuir tho aubiect for von. I commence by giving you an uccount ot the inherent i.ipauimies, iuo material iruoiure that is, thu aot . elimale, and productions of the islands. Ttiii leads ' me io lomo rainer inierotting geological vtaws: but 1 ; jun un (iriuni'B ury uieory, reserving till lor a communication I intend making to my friend Dr. Hull, of Montreal. If it shall be decided that I am right, my speculations will make a considerable sweep through geological science. I now come to tho natives to tho inquiry, what truly are tho capabiliiies and peculiarities of tho H-waiiansT a question U ia somewhat difficult for any one to treat, and perhup rather dolicato for a resident to discuss. The missionaries have cried them up, or rather they havo cried up the humanizing and improving influences of their own missionary exertions. Others havo run lliem down. What is the fuct? To answer is somewhat of a puzzle. You land say at Honolulu. It is Sunday. A Scotch Sabbath still-ne reign iu the little town. You go to the chief na-live church, a clumsy but large and massive stone strncttiro. You see tho natives all seated orderly in their pews, decently dressed in civilized stylo a display of silks among the women, and of broadcloth on tho men. By and by the King passes you, a small man for a Hawaiiao, aud quiet looking. Some of the members of his little court follow. You are impressed by the appearance of John Young, the premier, a half-caste. Iu any assembly iu London or Parts he would be noticed aa a handsome, well dressed, and gentlemanly looking man; yet I believe he has never been out of thu islands. The service proceeds singing passably good. You understand nothing, but see tho congregation regarding tho preacher with intelligent eye. Did you know the language, and were you to quctdiuu them on the subject of discourse, most of them could give you a good account of it, and some miht puzzlo you by tho extent of their Scriptural knowledge. Servico over, you are introduced lo some of the natives, and fiud them of pleasiog addresa, aud making good use of the little English they know. The evotting closes wiih the same decent propriety. On Monday it is different. You see the bustle aud some of iho disorder of a seaport; yon conclude, however, thai the latter i nothing moro than what one generally find iu auch reaort. In a day or two you ride into the country. Passiug by the impression mado on yon by tho novel scenery, productions, habitations and costume ot iho land, you are unavoidably struck by a cortain air of desolation and wreck that pervades it. You see large tracts, evidently recently cultivated, abandoned and going to decay; ruin and old foundation of bouse, mouldering fence, and other unequivocal signs of departing life and energy. You ask-rather you get n friend to ask why are these places abandoned f Where are the men who lived on them f A molancholy shako of the bead, and make (dead) is iho uniform reply. Such ia tho aspect nf thioua wher. evor I have been ; and the eatimato that the population of these islands i only one-eighth of what it was when Cook visited them is probably correct. You inquire of the while resident, perhap of some mission ary irieuu, wuai is the reason ot all this. Yuu are toid that imported disease, measles, fevers, &c, have frequently devastated Ihe islands. The reply, in part, account for what you see. You aro aware that diseases transmitted by the whites to oilier raqe. have very often raged among lh"e with excessive virulence. Still, on reflection, it only in part accounts for it, and is far from being altogether satisfactory. Plagues, pestilences, bloody war, famines, have often carried off vast multitudes in Europe and America. But the blank h been speedily filled tin. and life in fre.h irength ha sprung out of iho relict of death. Why is it not o here T Why are there no ymptom of revivifying energies! Why. in ihe midst ol frahlv v. cated and fertile Innd, with abundant rewards for la- nor, ana with no latnl epidemic fur years, does tho population not increusef Why ia it, on the contrary, stationary or dimiuishins 1 And. still mnm niir...r. diiiary, why are the races, by all accounts, Ihemselve uimiiiisiung in size ami vigor I In short, finally, whence the apathetic listfitssnes that atagnate over all the lair laud f When you ask your friends for a aolu-lion of your dillicultiea you get replies numerous and contradictory. You aro cast among the native ihem rive, and now you fancy yon will speedily lee whut is the mailer. For some time you aro moro and moro astray. At length, a you begiu to understand them, Iheir way ami inugiie, light commence to brenk in on yon. You find you are among n people of altogether a peculiar character, with virtue and vi nl tlw.ir own; and, beginning tn understand their springs of action, you begin, too, tn understand how il j that those springs are now relaxed. I ahull not attempt lo pivoyou oven u 'i miliary in me conclusion to which I havo come. They are drawn from a wido field; perhaps you will think il too wido. I may uy, however, that I hue found the wholo subject very IntT esiing. Tho language especially so. 1 am quite sulia-lied ihut on many account it deserve r more attention than has hitherto been bestowed on it. I hopo to make this plain, aud should I succeediin awakening the attention of thoso sufficiently qualified to truro out all its bearings, I nm confident it will thrnwcimaidern-hie light on the hiatory of language nnd of man. To do full justice lo the au'bject a knowledge of the Sans-crit and kindred tongues ia necessary, nnd in ihi I am deficient. I may nlso say here that 1 wish to collect an accurate account of what wn the real condition of the race lilty year ago. because it i a thing that has not yet been done, and which it i notyeltooiate to do. I know several native who recollect Captain Cook's coming, and lately conversed with a woman who wns then married. "Ah!" she aaid, "wo wero in ih-ise dayavery ignorant (na au po). Wa thought the ship waa n very big bird." Though having numerous descendants in the third, ami 1 believe fourth decree. ho is yet .mart enough .and showed mo lb - path tho j " ""e "' "' "'" correct remembrance iff tho old lime must, however, i inn few year., vanish. I next proceeded lo narrate tho new thing brought ; on by ihe foreigner, and tu discuss the changes thence , arising. Both are numerous firearms, nnd the mil) j jugation of the islands by Kamehnmeha llio First, goats, ahoep, cattle, horses, the obliteration of old j way and sport, and the beginning uf the assumption of new one. &c. Of all these, however, iho meat in- teresting on many account i the missionary. He and hi doing are matters that aome have troated with a liinid, other with a hot and hasty hand. I shall do my best to treat of both fully and lairly. I may tell you hero that, in my opinion, when they came to these islanda thoir hope aim aim were loo high, and now, from disappointment, thoy are too low. They, front the tirat held au elevated position. Ihe priesthood wn a constituent element of tho native government,! and not only did the missionary fill iho plaro of the 1 native priest, hut ho was 1 miked up to a a while teacher to be relied on in all the arcina of tho civilization of Ihe while. Though they lay behind hand, there fort, Ihe pledge they had given before leaving the United Slate forced this on them, ihey necessarily became, and have for the last thirty years, constituted the real government. All men, ol whatever party, who now come to these islands, aeo thai in all that relates to the material well being of the people the results of the policy of that government have beeu unhappy lamentably iinlinppv. Whether any one could, from the first, have predicated (hat tins would be tho case fiom the measure adopted is another que lion. But as to the fact nf the decaying energies of tho people, it i a thing before every eye. The oourse those gentlemen took was one at least natural to them, las missionaries ami American. Thev weut forih wiih the Bible in one hand nnd the American constitution in uie other, tn ths firm belief thut they grasped, aud vu,u uiaponae. 10 a HuumisMvo people, tho whole ele men 1 ol an eulighicned nnd happy civilization. It wa a devout imaginatinn, a day-dream, uch a mocks men Who hvo in a world nt' lliuii- nun i. i-.ll I ' ? VMl " bU,, of ' Without entering 1 Ul"11' 1 am iemPa to poiut to two or three Kiii:z7;jLTiT.j:: chair, and naturally princmir from the view thev entertained. The lint of these is the totui upsetting of ' " "u '"V" HI K'oninjo'", and tbe premuiure luiro-duclu.not iho American, or English constitution. It wero unfair, however, to lay this to the charge of the missionaries as missionaries. It is an error sometimes a very grave one which Englishmen and Americans ll&ve avurvwhem n aiirt ,if mnmo. t.. ..nm,iiti.,a can constiuiimnai government is every where j the hobby of Ihe Anglo-Saxon, unmindful that centm What he calls constitutional government is everywhere riea of atrllnn(a f (,, ti.ur f .1: . rn . . . . . 1 uiaiBier, o continual battling with atorma, and nicely trimming of aiis lo catch each favoring breeze, havo habituated him to its nature and use, aud made it b himself as it wero part and parcel of his very being ; ho everywhere and to every people holds it up as a blessing at all hazard to bo reached after by them a the one thing needful for thoir social snlvaiiun. And, everywhere, when the scheme fails, aud wreck and ruin are its results, he ever turns round on those he has unwittingly injured nnd lays all the fault on their intellectual and moral deficiencies. It were as wise a thing to press a crow of landsmen, ot them aboard a ship with chart, quadmut, compass, &c, and push them off to sou it wore as reasonable a thing, when they bud lost the vessel, to lie up all (he poor devils who had earn nod the wreck, and oivn oui-b r..nml dozen for being a lubber, aud not knowing the ropes. It is just so here ; tho Kanakas aro put down a a set of know-nothings nnd never-will know-onyihings, be-cause they have failed in a business to which, ns a nation, ihey never erved an apprenticeship. All this eems to me wrong, and I confess I regret the prema- . un, power oi me cniei. Even grunting that neither intellectually nor morally woro they superior to the commonality. I till b..l,l ib.t .....ll and politically their feelings were, so to say, higher toned. They held themselves as tho fathers of tiieir race, and the verv tact thut thou ur thr... h.,. ;,:.... descended from their high station of ruk-rs and judge,' and to a great extent divested themselves, id' n.,.i rights ot property, became they believed that litis was ior ino goou ot ineir people, is tn mo a pregnant proof that hud they retained these; as they were the natural, w. wooui uiey nuve neen the willing and efficient neonta in all that tended to their good in (.very inenstire ol social amelioration. Agtiu, the missiona'rie have mado tlm native, and not iho English language, ihe bam of their educational effort. Hero, also, In' my opinion, bus been a great, n grievous error. I hope, as I havo said, that I shall make it apparent to yon "!D ittwm.uu language, ttKe me Hawaiian rare, very singular ns t ia in it unwr nnd ii. ,L.i;.i.., desorve much moro attention than ha hiiherlo be. bestowed on it. But it was tho medium of coinmuni- eating thought among thoso to whom extreme licenso wu niton almost a virtue, nnd wno soem to have hud scarce any iden of what we call delicHcy or decency. nm viiiiuk tun ui wnai wo siioutd lertn most im proper eipressmns, and thousenlitis hostile to purity of thought. As a medium, therefore, for thu now ideas it was desirable to dill use, the English language wa infinitely In bo preferred. A knnw1.l.,n ..f ti... would, beside, have opened op lo the quick apprehou- ... ,.-j,ib on uie vai nun iroasuro heaped world of English and American literature. Tbi. was, on many accounts, to bo especially desired. In the old time tho soul of the Hnwaiinn chiefly expanded io festivals. There be listened lo the lalo of tbe bard, and tbe rmc of the wnmen ii,a . mark of tbe chief, und elder, and irihrnd ii,n ;.i,.u. aud the wisdom that bad floated from ago to one amotiir hi ocean compassed race. Atl this wa put down aa licentious, immoral aud beathchish. Aud au it certainly wa. But in takins from him what in ,.f .! I.:. i:p.. ..i uc. :...! .. . noB .... , u WUB ueiiroure to substi tute aometning that might till tho void, that might satisfy his excited curiosity, unfold to him other ...i.m.. of intellectual enjoyment, and lead him to new trains of thought aud action. Woman, set free from ihe restraint of her former hampered condition, and having new dutie and obligation imposed on her being re quired, in fact, to at-mne the place of the woman of mouern civilization needed to have a lively picture presented to hep of the dignity to which puriry of luuupi.i aim uuimu um rntsou iter ex in this civiliza tioo, this new phase, which humanity has put on. The powers of tho chiefs, na auperintondent of dome ic induatry, us supremo iu questions of policy and war. having como lo abeyance, uml the masses being required to take the p isition of self-acting freenmn in n free State to assume that is a character foreign to all their previous conceptions, and I may say natures, needed tho aid of every stimulus that could mus theirouergie to bestir themselves and master tho difficulties ol ihe new sphere of action in which they had to imive. Whnt more powerful aid and enconrngement could they have had than to know, and one may say to feel, how tho men they were required to emulate lived aud moved in similar spheres. Now, I do not siy that a knowledge of English language aud literature would necessarily have brought about all this, hut in my opinion it was a necessary preliminary to it. Aa iu me measure a proof of iho wisdom and surcoss of the plan, I may call yout attention to the very happy condition of the mixed race on Pitcafru's Island. Tiieir having been led to abandon their mother's tnuguo, and Hdopt that of their father's, was, I do not believe, main cause nf this. It must be acknowledged lhat the business wn a difficult one. None know the difficulty better than one who, like myself, has endeavored lo teach Kanaka English, aud ia now trying to master the Kan nka tongue. Still the fund wero large perhaps $0fl,-0(10 have been expended in educniiuu and I nm convinced that a comparatively small portion of this, ski) fully and energetically applied, would have enabled tho many who would wiliiogly have aided the effort, tu overcome the difficulty, Tho main positive cause was to bo found in the mind of tho missionary, in bis belief that the Bible was itself all sufficient, ami in ihe dread, almost tho abhorrence, with which he regarded what we call light reading, and all the unbounded li cense of tho modern press. Now, thia wa all well and right on the mure missionary i hut when his a ton ped beyond thi character, ami became politician, the head of a political party in a recognized kingdom, ho u-ppc-u nuu nun annuiar apnere oi action, in which nil bis doing are subjected lo the judgment, and mint be tried according to tho principle of other rule. Before such a tribunal it would bo hard for him t make good his cause. In point of fact, the dread of inniieiiiy, u such wns rineriaincu, w vam. Tile Km- akn require a positive religion, nnd seek for it. A to the other matter, that waa also a vmn dread. AH the arum of all the richest or smuttiest French novels would all on a Kanaka unheeding and unhurt. A well might you expect to injure a duck by sprinkling water upon it. It hna gambolled in it from tho very egg. I ouht not to omit, however, even here, to tell you that vnt i-oii religious, elementary nnd aome other works, have issued from the missionary press in the native language. They do not much attract the n' trillion of the Kanakas, nor are porltap of n character In do s -, and I often -v them Imn np for use vile. I must make one exception. John Banyan' Pilgrim I have found deposited in ilm coi ner ot many a hut, all complete, though over-marked, if that could bo, with tho glorious illumination of thumb pi ini and soils frmn Ireqnenl perusal. I suspect ho is read ns I read him when a child, more for his stnry und tho battle th in for ihonllegory. Another p.iint. You know tlul tho Paphiun goddess Seaborn had established ber idinuo in these oeeuii tiles and thai here (or i( long nil her rites, ordinary and extraordinary, have been du'y nnd fully celebrated All thi had lo bo reformed. Possibly the light of Chmiinuity. aub d by the resttunitsof laws judiciously mlapled to ihe p.. nit f things, might in lime have .Heeled Ihi. The missi.,muy givenimeut set about it iu tiKi hot nnd zealous hasto. Heavy fines and long imprisofinetii, aided by iho machinery of that power now nnd mystetiotis to the native, the written law. were brought into restless and harassing notion. A child born out of marriage cost iho mother fifty dollars or one year' imprisonment ; an unmirried man or wn-man caught iu sn.pieiotiscin iimstunces. fiht-nii dollars: n man and W iitian found out of dimr after H P. M , and nol aide to give a eouent leason for it. live dollar Th rh oi'k wn altogether too sudden and severe to be delonp.enrie winked at by Iho u'licinls, seino coming oenriH'oii or eitecui ,i. l ne laws were ovaden. manv ngni isniore ihem laid hold ol, nnd other vindictively pursued. Numerous evilsnroso from this state uf iliin". , lnVe been iho aim or u enlightened IrgisTa- tinn to tako with it the nid of public opinion, or nl leasi neor to go far ahead of it. Thus iho one would have helped llio oilier nnd both gained strength. Hern ihr 'wo set in oppositloiito each other. Heme the Kann kis, men and women, have learned that n thing may be nuin nnd a crime and notwithstanding that no shamo Those who are cnusht are laushed at. nnd I mud, il.em- selvr at ihrir bad luck, und at the good luck of the government and il officer, who havo pocketed o many of their dollar. That is all. An obtttaeliess ol feeling in ihi p-aped pervade nil rank lo an exent wnicn you can crre conceive. The particular trnna-gresaioua 1 speak of havo changed their character, but by no means their frequency. Krai, practical, heart less llCHiitmuaiiesais filer lhanntnnv ooriod. It mi )...ir er, indeed, come abroad in iov. umi.1 Uii nnd ,.,. and revelry, but It skulk in every corner, or hide i-ii uiiuor ine manmi ot nypocrtsy, a moro soul deforming sin ihnn even itself. This i what a those who have lived longest among them and beat know ihem tell you, whit one mixing nmons ihem I. led to conceive, and it i. conclusion at which any ono nc- '('iriiuiuu wiin inw pinna. na oi inn popuiailoil question ; niusi arrive irom me consideration nl the rhiiu !efnre him. Tho severity of tbe laws asroinst ilbgiiimnte birth wns a direct incentive! to abortion and child murder, which the previous practice of ihe native, tendered I'smilar to tiieir idea. I must, however, hurry to a conclusion, or I shall bo writing my book twice over. I will I ell you ol length in the book my opinion of the actual erudition aud prospects of the Island, and of tho plan and acheme which ibee suggest. Hero I my brit fly ay hat their splendid clinmio, commanding position end fertile soil, ought to nmko them a rich spot. What 'hey want is labor, and capital to elaborate that richness. The Kanakas, 1 am surry to swy it, for with all their faults I Iiko them still, wilt not or rather d i not w,rk. They lie on iheir nmis ull day, aud loll or sleep, only occasionally rousing themselves io provide lor pret- mc wants. This is nut mm h. so fur u I can see. from want of capacliy lo apprehend, or from want of ability or en-rgy to execute what lh y are convinced is for their good ; it is because there lias been a enm-plele boulevtrtement uf ull their idea, and thai when urged on by tiieir leaders in ihn new order of things. every iwo hteps ihey hove made lorwurd litis leiunera three steps behind. Wiihout labor, capital is powerless. A good deal has been accumulated here, but bus gone off with it owner to find a profitable investment. Moro might be got from other qnrter but without a commaiid of labor it cannot be profitably employed. Iu short, if anv sane man could have any doubt that an uc'ivo inductions population i tho only basis of national prosperity, ho inuy come here aud he will find lhat such prosperity exist not, ihnugh every element of its constitution, saving the essential ono, is present. Would indeed that Mime of those dealers in wise saws, such as "the desire to better ones condition left to Us own free wotking is ihe iu all for all men," would como hero- They might pel haps then pause befoio pressing forward to direct tho destinies of nations. Two aclieuios. sugar and enf fee plantation, have occupied ihe mii.d und sime-what exhausted llio purses of capitalists. I shall give you my reason for thinking that if ono considers everything these aro not the best for lhei-e lands, but it i clear thoy would succeed could n sunnU of labor be found. TliHt deft ct mars all. It has been attempted remedy it by ihe irnnorlaiion of Chinamen Coolie. These ore necessorilv of the lowest and most degraded class, and do not i.em lo answer. The late, iherelore, of iho plantations hangs at present iu doubtful scale. This is u cause of permanent action. Tho California excitement rnUing tbe price to threefold, and firing a seemingly inexhaustible market for many products, such as syrups, sugar and potatoi n, produced n great stir, ond made a large circulation of gold ; suddenly ceasing it left everything much duller and more dead ihnn belore. That ciird is pasi; and now il thing run right I see tint but what better lime may becoming to nil el users and colors. On looking over what I have written, T think I ought ' to have given you some particular facts n to tho pr a-eut wuut of em.rgy in the Kanakas 1 have room for one or two. Egg sell at L ili:nu nt .lOu per doyen t fowls, 50c. iipoue ; potk, le. to I8u. per pound; beef, Be. iu quantity, IOj. by retail. W are distant twenty-tivo miles from it by Jutid, which cmi h minlo on mules or liowe n a very p ismMo road; by canoe filty or sixty miles, or by cart uiht mile, nnd 'twenty by canoo or boat. Then is abundant (Ved Inr cattle alt the year round ; oxen weighing ni t l.fiUO pound are common. f hero in abundant land for knlo, of which uti aero would feed moro than five hundred fowls; half nn aero is more than sufficient for a family of five, a man, woman and threo children, and wiih a little fish und suit, makes n strong and heal'hy diet. It nlso, with very littlo addition, make good poik, hogs thriving on it. Under the old chief ull Ins region wrsb garden, full of people, poultry and hogs; now it does not contain one-tenth of nny of Iheso. nnd people who look nt it niter t -inly -live yenrs absence rub iheir eyes aa thoso out of a dream to seo whence alt hus vanished. Yours, most truly. Johsj Rat. CLIFTON HOUBENIAGARA FALLS. Wo tako groat pleasure in endorsing tho fol-lowiug, from the Cltvdand Herald, No one sec and eujoysnll the glories and pleasures of Niagara who neglect to visit tho Clifton House. o spoA of things we do know. No where in this wido world have wo over found ao magnificent a panorama a ia spread out before tho visitor a he look from tho verandah of Ihe Clifton: The season approaches for pleasure seeking, nnd all who have money and owe nodebt. nre in duty bound to lake a summer irip lor health and rccrtatmn. No jaunt in June, July or August, ia complete without aioppmg ni ihe uniion Mouse on the Uattnda side, at Niagara rails. Ooo long, lingftlni; look, from the spacious galleries which surround tho Clilton, out upon Ihe American Fall the Horse Shoe the Ferry the Rapids and (he majestic Hills, is mora self satisfying thin any one single view on the face of thi earth, Only pauso for a moment to think of the at tractions about that mighty waterfall; Lundy's Lane; Chippewa; Q leenntoii Ht ights; all renowned in story I at.d the tide from Leivistnn up to the falls, just a the sun is rising, the view fr m tho bill, wild Niagara liver now roaring and tumbling iu itsniod frenzy, tiow quietly stealing along like a vein ol molten silver, until its being is lost iti the bono in id' Ontario. This is the ride of ihe world; cross tho suspension bridge nt Lewiston, and bang sky hub between those evoilnst-i'lgbill; look down the river, way down io Fort Niagara and Fort George, with th nurs and tripp.aud ihe cros of St. George in friendly g'eo Healing jit the breeze tn peace "long may they wavo" and follow up to Quoenaloo Heights, whero in day gone by onr daring troops scaled the precipice; so p moment at the clof monument ot the noble Brock, and curse the ruffian whose saereligious hand wns laid upon the me. memo of Britain' gratitude; wind )our way along through the rich fields, and soon the deep-toned vnue of Niagara will wolroiue ou ; dash on, lor it e spray i alter yon; seek shelter in the Cit on; sit down to Shier' breakfast draw a long breadi, and thank for-tune you are of ihe privileged number permitted to rest your oyea upon tho fairy land of tint great cataract.Again we any, remember Niacnra, 'p nt ihe Clifton; it landlord, George fin-ars, Ins a delightful, quiet way of making In guest happy; don't do this, however, Utiles you ex poet each year ever idler, to tako one of ihoso templing collages and speed ihe dog day. The profuse expenditure iu ihe decoration of tho grounds about tho Clifton, contrast strongly wi b. the niggardly meanness and extortion on ihe Ameitrnn side at Goat Island. The property nil around ths Clifton is owned by an enterprising PlnUitelphian, who has a princely residence overlooking ihe cascade, nnd who, with a liberality of whirl, bis coiimrvn en should be proud, has embellished his private gro-mds, ns w II a tho public rites, for the especial gratification of the Utiest of Ihe Clilton, and lias secured the servicrs nf the Mrssr. Shear well known in this city for a term of years, in doing tho honor id this most attractive summer resort. Tus Artist n th Pitch ess Tlm Pari correspondent of the D uly Register tells an amusing anecdote uf a young painter, who is not yet celebrated, but whom a young dochrss consented 'o advance by allowing him to tnko her portrait for iho exhibition. She gave him several sittings, ai d when ihe picture wu finished, she took several of her friend lo llio studio, to have iheiropiniuu. As Usual, not two ngrod ; one thnneht the nose loo long, another, the eyes too blue, another, tho rmitnh too large 1 in short, it was decided that Ihe painter had failed. He, however, convinced lhat he had, on tbe contrary, succeeded most admirably, and being, therefore, totally averse lo imiking any change, proposed that the derision be lelt lo an imonrlia tndce. and aa Ilm duchess had a little King Charles which was ex-credingly attached In her, il was uflieed tli at the dog lioiild settle the question of roaomblancn or no re aemblauce. Accordingly, llie picture was sent to the hotel, the next day, and ihe p dtiter, die duchess and her fiiend usaembled iu the bdIool. The purtrait was pl-id'd upon ne n or, leaning ngiurisi mo wan; ihe Uuctiesa hid brst ll, nod ihe little sianii-l wna called in. He imnin- liately looked around lor h mistress, and not ceeim? her began n search. After smelling around a minute h npnronrhed tho portrait, but h had no sooner seen it it.n-i he sprang upon it, licked it nil over, and ahowed every demon stration of Ihe grrulest joy. The assembled friends, almost to tear, deduced ihe punters triumph, for when the diielifS showed herself, the little dog refuted to leave the picture. I lie critics hi gum that the art ist find retouched thn portrait during too niuht, ond were unanimous in iheir opinion ot its resemblance. The painter had. it is true, retouched the picture, but simply wiih a light coating laru t i ue nog s noso was sharper limn the critics' eyes, Mr. Paktikoton at tiii Opkr. " We ware atir. pried," ay iho facetious editor of the Boston Post, nt the opera last evening, by having a hand placed upon our shoulder. Ii was a g. nt!e touch t altogether unlike certoiu other touches on Ihe shoulder that delinquent men so much druad. It came at u time when we wore nil nhsorbed by tho melody of Ihe charming Soiling, and wero provoked at Ihe intrusion. 'Will yon bo kind enoujh to lend mo your observatory 1' asked a voice that we Ihonght we remember d. Looking round, '(treat henviui!' wo cried, Mrs Pitting-ton!' It win, indeed, llrd estitnuble dumo, but yet it was not; for ihe black bonnet had disappeared, and a new rigoleito adorned her venerahle poll, heu-ath which every sprig of wavy gray w curely tucked. Hut the smile was there, as warm a June inntiiing at nine o'clock. She repented tho n qiit-al in use li e pearl and diamond studded opera gta-ts that wo had hired at Fotridge's for twenty two n-nt denominating it an 'observatory.' ls this the rirht porur said she ; ' 1 spose i shall hnvo to digest it to my sight, for my poor visionary orcan aro giving out ' She levelled both barrel at the siiig 'r nl once, and brought them down lo her, nnd Pnrzoimi directed three mo-cessivo appeals lo ber tenderness. 'It nio'l no use, she snid, as ho handed the glu, 'I can't understand better with that I should have bnuyht one nf the fah'rutnties at the door.' Sim beat time gracefully to the music for a while upon the cover of her "miff box, and then went oat, like an exhausted Candle, to try aud light on Ike, w ho wn trading lor a jack-knife wiih another boy on ilm gnlUry iaiis." A country edib v drops tlm disinterested observation! "Blessed are they who do not advertise, for Ihoy will be rarely troubled with customer." |
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