Carolina Watchman

              > 7fww*uumnmx xx . t , dollars paynble in l . b '■'. i l>"l t , , il mi for the first nnd 9,i on i ' '. lulwqu nt insertion c i r thiitt these rates alh.li '«•" by the year ■ £!..'■" i i l-ri'iil i>iivei"_il-oi-uu [ 5jjgy.v_t.lk sage of mon ricei-lo . ,,„. v york daily timet 1 | painted chiel justice mar n not at the lull length ol ins public a hut in ihe miniature of private for such i the whole scope which 1 i ' o myself in these limningsof re j jjble individuals were 1 to aim at jactiof ihrso sketches would swell hji ol me to a biography next to '''„.,, | hl of our law comes in my | fjl he whodidmorelhan lfrs i subvert or at least to con j j | nipiui ihe nu'lior ol ihe doc ' , of nullification of debt and char ,",,. i!ii.n of il.ui general system of i gibberish which has now obtain ie name ol virginia abstractions s alter nil quite as little abstruse jlogelhrr a practical as many a lu t kink of other regions which 1 will ,]... umri direct l specify it si i should 0jdh lues lhai 1 must respect ; your ,_:.. instance ibnost from infancy i was acoustomed r \|, 1 li'.i-i.n it wns with river a lor 1 was a son of ihose men of all ijg.niiises the very impersonation ol i.it statesmanship but it was ftout ntfeetinn for though possessed uettmordinsr degree ol the exterior l«bich conciliate the mature he had kof that naturalness those unstudied ipalhies inch please children ; to ne instinctive judgment wily people tjus less i.ii their guard usually be it ihe most iheir lack of heart a child ibe hreast would have nestled to the j of judge marshall i have seen lulialtlolph when at the height ol his k_stic i'iime in congress the favorite um,ve of my next elder brother seat bimsell b him on ihe door at his call entering with delight into ull his child b sports ; hut nobody i imagine ever l mr jefferson or mr calhoun pay liligblest attention to a child their tnlions were a matte i of the head not iii tilt v had bruins i think but no ; i ilnitht if ihey ever fell any strong lotion towards llieir own offspring save mill llieir nli-a — ihe fantastic procrea te llirir wils when in a vagary po mi illumination slillle later as the pupil of mr jef hn's favorite nephew peter carr and intj-by as youthful visitor at monlieel i bad opportunity enough to admire i o study hint captivated at once by i boundless reputation among those m whom my early opinions were de ul anil hy ihe remarkable charm ot i incessant conversation i heard and rvrd him with not less of reverence tool curiosity my inst and best oc hm tur lining so ocurred in 1823 du ig a stay ol iwo days which i then in p«ny willi hut an elder friend made iis mansion on the mountain lop from licbhe seemed so wide whs the pros w lo intik down irom bis abdicated ilmofvirginia a philosophic monarch o bad like charles v and dioclesian changed ihe crown for cloister and cab its in its size its shades its siligu *; of design iis exclusion the charao it's sniuiiils and every thing hut pi md fasts within its walls monticello d no little ihe monastery ; and as to ttabbages in the culture of which the an kinged unman placed his consola tlhey were supplied to the sage by tmodernfanoiesofhusbandary whioh ll not only him but all his neigh '•'■ hi one while upon some new con on of profit he laid down all his nation in irish potatoes ; at another ved it in black eyed peas making ' s excellent crops which he could aer sell nor consume meantime he obliged to buy bread com lor his tie " hi his oalless horses were by i lughing farmers around affirmed to ; 1 led with philosophy i cannot aver -!! such was iheir provender though i usual condition did not manliest any ttificence of vittle it could not be * ol him however as by uryden of j state reformer ' uhis kitchen though his brain wns lot mre was much good entertainment monticello tor man if not for horse iiospitality there was almost perpet j1 lie ebecr elegant but ml her skilful wprofuse th.-ir table was never one nicb dainties seemed to have been ed as if they were the master's wlicitude : but it was made up of '" kings and looked us one would ; '" ") unstudied though refined as if result of las and habit nol of a par p effort or expense in that realm w jiving where on many of the old *'*>' is an incessant feast i have seen j for trior lavish and luxurious than j but lew on ihe whole that ' it ibe mark of what just sufficient imsters tn ihe palate his learning *»« other matters to which classical . wientilic be made pretensions might u ioned but in eating be was oer d's dept admirably a friend ol the j .,'•' -™ nan in the couniry ever better n't "! stood all ihe french princi rifcwl-"hpr u('1'-"1 morals politics i hi | i he had materialized and1 i'*1 as far as he could every thing ' n civil to complete the total |. on il was only necessary to sen '.'■'< nnd or this purpose the aptest .. were to bring about a revolution ? k'chen unteach the ancient do 7 ii its ld english ideas of roast inllei it down from joints and hog and hominy to dog fri ragout to give the last blow i z*'*0 our institutions and manners p°flcd a french cook taught tho 111 i } k my^u i*tc it tltt a witt a rt._tnlt ■" 1 mr _. m t ulli carolina watchman 1*1 bruner * editor y proprietor \ "*"" a ' j ;*™,°" l v°ur ( new series ij rills ann l.i nr it r v i s na.-r < o'n'l/iarrl.on ( volumb ix number 88 ' . salisbury n c thursday january 27 1853 \> galio science lo his own sable ministers of the mouth and setup that reform ol ihe larder which patrick henry dreaded as sure to lead to degeneracy and de nounced to the common people in the con est of ininetyeight when he told them as he was want in their own dialect that they should beware of this man who had got so many outlandish ways and ived in l'aris till he had so frenchified himself that lie could no longer eat the viltlesihey were all fetched upon and'1 so he had brought back to old virginny a white l'tenchman to cook lor him ll ille great patrick fittest of all men to ! deal wnh either usurping kings or perni l oious demagogues had lived a little long er the story ol niiiely-eight and the whole lellersonian history would probably have been a very different one no much lur the administrative order which reigned at monticello without and within the mansion stood half embo : somed in fine trees many ol tlutn the an ' ciem natives of the spot but mixed with others of exotic growth whose presence gave ihe necessary air of cultivated and arranged beauty to the scene the habi lation fronted the east and stretched north and bouth in a long low range termina ting ill ten aces wiih offices beneath ihem terminated in iheir turn each by a small pavilion ihul served at pleasure lor a still quieter place of retreat to the master on his lumily when studiously disposed these with a lawn occupied the arlili cially levelled crest of the mountain—a space of some six acres on the north and east this fell oil into abrupt und wild declivities on the south in a fulling gar den which was i think much better sit uated than worked for ihe sage was strong in projecting things and seldom failed except in executing them in the rear — a slight depression such ns the uplanders call a bench intervening where crosses a road to the neighboring townof charlottesville ihere joined by lhat to the mansion — rose the superior elevation of carter's mountain celebrated elsewhere in federalist ballads as the scene of the i sage's two military exploits his llight.as governor ol virginia from tarleton's dra goons his escapade at richmond be fore the hang dog array of arnold was his other warlike achievement of the re ' volution one may no doubt be a patri ot without being a hero for these were the only occasions during thai great and ; often forlorn struggle lor freedom which called up all the valor and virtue of our land when the " apostle of democracy ever saw the face of the foe ; and bolh limes he the apostle took lo his heels no mutter : he lived to denounce as sold to england as " lories traitors " mo narchists aristocrats " enemies of lib erty washington and nearly all ihe brave men who had won it for us on the battle field and confirmed it in a good and so ber government yea he not only lived to slander them out of the popular affec tions anil inlo llieir graves but to set his heels und ihose of every parasite of non sense and falsehood upon ihem in shock ing triumph from lhat day to this so much lor having served rather lhan nat tered the people ; who after all are quite as apt as kings to lake the wotst men for their favorites provided they make the loudest professions to them of admiring their power and adoring their persons — to proceed however : for i am playing the small historian and must not trench upon the province of the greater in pro nouncing the award of time on men's deeds there could be no spot more enchant ing than thai in winch the patriarch of political theorists had thus lixed the re treat of his old age it seemed designed by nature the very seat from which lift ed above the world's turmoil one who had exhausted what il can bestow of eminence might look widely down upon it with drawn from iis personal troubles but con templating ut pleasure the distant anima tion of ihe scene il was a place scarce ly less fit for the visionary abode of the philosophic speculatist than by its far spread and shifting beauties of the land scape to inspire a poet's senses with per petual delight 1 am familiar with the wildest views which our mountain ranges the softest picture which our vales afford from maine to ihe mississippi nowhere have i seen ihem more charmingly at once blended and contrasted than in the pros pect which on all sides greets the eye from monticello had you ever looked forth as i have often done from ihe clo ven diadem of vast rocks that crown the eiinical peak of oiler like monticello an outwork hut a siill greater one of the blue rulge projecting into tho plan of lowland virginia — i could only tell you that this does not exceed it except in the height from which you gave but you are no doubt acquainted with ihe valley of the hudson as beheld from ihe alls kill mountain house : i do not think the view thence though from a much loftier elevation by any means as wide or as variously picturesque as that from this appalachian watch lower of virginia — at a single point only is ill prospect shut jn_!>y carter's mountain on the west [ iii every other direction ihe nearest limit of ihe vision is the fantastic range ol tbe blue ridge in its closest approach some twenty ave miles off but visible north east nnd south west until full eight miles away the airy line ol its bold pinnacle i is at last lost in the clouds along its base stretches a sylvan scene the most agreeable that vale of the famous red lands of the old dominion noted for its fertility of ihe i wo plants by many es teemed to have been anything hut bless ! ings to ihe soil tobacco and presidents nome three miles off in this vale lies the pretty town of charlottesville j behind winch rise in a long quadrangle on a flattened hill the many columned porticos ! ami domes of tbe university from this sule comes wandering along by tho moun j tains foot the quiet stream of the rivan j na seen here and there only in an occa ' tonal gleam through the trees that bor j tier its course straying on by.shadwell the sages birth place now alas dese crated hy a oottonmill and though the he small town of milton which is in spite i us name a very tinpoetical place the nver in a very indolent kind of a way us i like a genuine virginian it neither knew nor cared where it was going or had lost itself in some abstraction pro ceeds to disappear in the vast champaign which stretching away from east to south m endless perspective till it fades in the dim distance lies spread before you like an immense garden laid out with a fan cilul avoidance of regularity dolled with pigmy habitations and woods and lie ids in gay variety that look like interminable pleasure grounds the country is not dat but a gently waving one ; yet from above anil alar iis inequalities ol'surfare vanish into a map like smoothness and are trace able only in the light and shade cast by hill and plain the prospect here has a diameter ol near a hundred miles its scope is iherefore such that atmospheric1 effects are constantly dickering over it,1 even in the cloudless days of a climate as bright if not quite so soft as lhat of ll i aly : and thus each varying aspect of the weather is refleoted all the while from lite features ni the landscape as the pus [ sions over the face of some capricious beauty that laughs and frowns and weeps almost in the same breath near you perhaps all is smiling in the sunlight yonder broods or bursts a storm ; while in a third quarter darkness and light con j tend upon the prospect and chase each i other the sky itself is thus not more j shifting than the scene you may have be ' lore you it takes a new aspect at al i most every moment and bewitches you with a perpetual novelty among these novelties is often seen about sunrise the phenomena which science calls mirage i and sailors " looming | never witnessed and have only been told the fact for i indulge in lew of the popular errors and least of all in that of early rising the ! distant and detached pinnacle of willis's mountain — which alone some fifty miles off due bouth cuts with its singularly sharp cone the otherwise unbroken lino of the sea-like horizon — is the object on whioh is chielly exhibited the oplical il ; lusion in question through it that in i sulated peak takes a hundred fantastic shapes sometimes shooting up into the air like a tower or a column ; then sud dimly dissolving away or perhaps chang j ing to the figure of huge tree or a mun ' slrous giant or a big wind will such as , don quixote himself would nol have dar i ed tilt with 1 am inclined to think that there was also a backward illusion by winch ilmse below saw the philosopher of the mountain himself in the same misty magnified multiformity oi shapes for nobody among us ever knew belter than he the use lo be made of airy doctrines — the advantage ot a politician's showing himself through a vapor lie was an able cloud-compeller and certainly befogged mankind with not a litile success i have been minute in my description the rare beauty of the scene never i think so exactly delineated — must justify me nor less the oelehrily which ihe spot has borrowed irom the muster were it but a common one it would still be full of in terest as the habitation of one of the most remarkable men ever produced by litis country exuberant as it is of remarkable produotions — especially in ihe line of self sacrificing patriots and philusophicstates men led away by ihe natural wonders of ihe place i have only said of the build ing that it was long and low it was of red brick ; the main entrance by a hand | mime enough portico while a sort of cu pola half dome surmounted and lighted the central hull its gallery and stairs — to ihis ihe access was by i lie purlieu — lis floor was lesselated ; ils siiles adorned wiih some works of art and many ohjects of natural history conspicuous among which were bones of mammoth und gi gantic horns of the elk mou.se cv.e be hind it lay a reception room ils walls cov ered with pictures portraits and lofty mirrors corridors from the hall led right and left lo other apartments and ihe wings — lo other parlors a , lining saloon the library the sage's workshop he tink ered much iu oilier wheels levers balan j ces cheeks and curriosities of motion be j sides those of political mechanism his chambers and ihose for visitors — more than it would please either me or you to describe as for the upper story the only other of the house it was indescri '. liable nnd indeed from ils peculiarity of structure 1 may say uninhabitable for — doubtless upon the great projector's favorite principle of sacrificing all orders and gradations to the lowest — he had in i building his lirst story had no regard to the secondi but giving to each room ol the ground hour a height of ceiling pro portioned to ils size had of course made j the superior door all up and down high j and low a mere series of break necks ; from one room of which to another 1 hough in the same story could only get by clam bering the very rats who only could agree to dwell there must have cursetl this philosophic improvement in architec ture 1 have led you with some delays into the presence of the sage himself hut when ihe principal object is grand its ac cessories that should be previously exam ined must be many to a noble resi dence the approach can filly be only by a long avenue when you visit a renown ed general in his camp you cannot ex pect io be carried to headquarters with out calling at the out posis it would be both provoking and stupid if in going to see an obscure person one were detained by ushers anil a ceremonial ; but when you are about to pay your court to a sov ereign you jike to see him in all hisstale and you judge ol his dignity in proportion to your detention dressed within doors as i s.-.w him last no longer in the red breeches which were once famous as his favorite and rather conspicuous attire ; but still vindi cating by a sanguine waistcoat his at tachment to that republican color in gray shorts small silver kneebuckles.gray woollen stockings black slippers a blue body coat surmounted by a gray spencer ; tail and though little of person and deci dedly graceful and agile of motion and carriage yet lung and ill limbed mr jef ferson's ligure was commanding ami strik ing though bad and his face most ani mated and agreeable although remarka bly ugly his legs you perceive by nu means shunned observation ; yet they were scarcely larger at the knee than in lite ankle and had never been conscious of a calf still though without strength ihey had always borne him along with vigor and suppleness these bodily qual ities and a health almost unlading he preserved in a singular degree to ihe very close of his long life at the time i speak of when he was in his eighty first year he not only mounted his horse with out assistance and rode habitually some ten miles a day but dismounting at a fence breast-high would leap over it by only placing his hand on the topmost raii lie then walked not only well and swift ly but with lightness and springliness of tread such as lew young men even have it was a restless activity ol mind which informed all ihis unusual mobility of bo dy ; and the two i think were in him greatly alike for his intellect had like hi person more size than shape more suppleness lhan solidity and effected its ends by continuity ol action not mass of : power by manipulation not muscularity you may batter to pieces with a small hammer that which a cannonball would not shiver lie was never idle : nay hard ' iy a moment slid lie rose early anil j was up late through his lile and was ! all day whenever out on foot or a horse back al study at work or in conversa tion if bis legs and lingers were at rest his tongue was sure to be a going in deed even when seated in his library in a low spanish chair he held forlh to his j visitors in an almost endless how of ine ] discourse ; his body seemed impatient of keeping still for his mind shifted his posi tion all ihe while and so twisted itself lhat you might almost have thought he was attitudinizing meantime ins face ■ expressive as it was ugly was not much less busy than his limbs in bearing its part in the conversation and kept up all the while the most speaking by play an eloquence ol the countenance as great as ugly features could well have ll stood to his conversation like the artful help of i well imagined illustrations to the text of a bunk : a graphic commentary on every word that wus ns convincing to ihe eyes ns wns his discourse to the ears the im pression which il conveyed was a strong auxiliary of all be uttered ; for il begat in you an almost unavoidable persuasion of his sincerity — a virtue of the appearance of which be made great use and hud vast ll'eil you have seen his portraits his busts the bronze statute — faithful enough ex cept as to the limbs — which the israelite navy captain bought in l'aris nt the price of old clothes and offered lo congress but which it put by with disdain us a stroke ofspeculation meant o procure pro fessionnl advancement not earned in any other way from all these one gets a jusl enough idea of the mere mould of his physiognomy ; but none of course of that nobility which was its only line quality nor ol the oddity of his complexion this wns much in its general lint of ihe color of creum ; bul as that substance is one of which you good people of the great city ol gotham conceive only as a modifica tion of prepared chalk let me explain by what they have oflener seen — the fruity part of a pumpkin pie the face looked us if it were buttered with such a paste ; but iu addition lo this ghastliness of hue it was besprinkled with small pox pits ■ all ol which were of a lively purple had ; as was the iiitconlrasted you may ima j gine what ils beauty became when set off by such a foil as to features he hud j not one whal was good ; except the eyes ————— ———___________ ________ __ r ibey were a greyish blue clear and spark '! ling his head was well set and well carried hut had the jacobinical shape and " air his hair wns originally reddish bul d turned tonn ill bleached foxiness ; hislore b head was large hut not well modelled in l hose main frontal regions which bespeak h loftiness of thought and crealiveness „ his brows were neither strong nor soft e hut irregular and uncertain as those of ., one who was wanting in will and yet had not much feeling his nose was mean " a small tuhe ending in a sudden bulb ; it '' was much cocked up and derived irom "' j that shape a character of pertness and "> j vulgarity his mouth was rather large e but the lips thin and not well cut ; the ex i c pression sitting on them bland but not be ,| nevolent conciliating rather than kindly ; ()| ; ils meaning assigned his emotions lo ihe ' " < manners not the heart lo policy not tho " temper the chin was like the forehead " broader than it was strong such were '" his lineaments in detail : quite indifferent ei separately : and yet altogether very ex i "»' pressive and agreeable as his motions j c light and easy were the contradiction ol 8 his ill made limbs so was his pleasing and j i animated countenance that of features of . themselves ignoble apart lastly his conversation lie certainly was one of ihe best talkers i have ever °[ listenetl to ; copious in the extreme wiih si | out ever growing tedious easy yet com w pact ; lowing but never louse ; very va a riously and to all appearance soundly in tl formed and continually dealing out his i it information but rather as if to gratify you i sl not himself his mind seemed tome then a great repository of the knowledge that is gotten from others and of lite wisdom " ' that must come from one's self trained ; '" in what was once its best school — the pa "' risian saloons he understood conversa i o tion thoroughly as an art ; and he made j sl ihe most of it as an engine of personal 0 , influence and for ihe propagation of his party opinions towards the inculcation i of these his conversation whatever the subject was usually bent except when j a scientific mailer was in question ei l , ther he knew no literature law history e ! philosophy morals nor theology or he |> could not talk of them unless as connect ed in some direct or indirect way with a democratic theories his power indeed „ of winning and of controlling men always u lay chielly in his skill of personal com munication ; for even in public bodies " , he rarely made speeches : nor have we 8 j nny record of his having ever shone as an s j orator in short not feeling strong enough i e ; to attack men's convictions by the front t gate of manful eloquence he stole in by , the back door of addresses and ol insinu t 1 alion in private at least however he got in ; which is : no doubt the great end and when the end is greal lew people are delicate about ' the means his were perhaps a little * burglarious ; but then i must confess that f the picklock ol his talk was admirable ' 11 secretario " from the ashevillo m-s-cngor c complain not i ' whatever may be your condition in j ' wardly or outwardly let not a complaint ' fall irom your lips you may be poor and be compelled to toil from day to day bul what ol lhat — il is nothing but a duty that you owe to your country and toyourheav t enly master lie persevering in whal , ever your hands call you to do and good . will inevitably attend you this world is a placeof toil ; millionshave toiled belore ' you who are now at rest in the kingdom ' above are you abused ; so was the ' must perfect man the world ever saw ' abuse will not injure a sterling cliarac r ter harsh words rebound to ihe speaker's 1 own hurt are you cheated ; so is every . honest man if you complain al every | mishap at every slander at every dog at i your heels you will pass a life of misery ; _ lite best course is lo suffer without coin j plaining and to discharge all your duties •< i'athfully — let this bo your aim at all times t the man who has a snarl always on his ** brow a scorn on his lip and a mountain " on his back not one of which he can mus ' ter courage to remove is ol all men must " miserable if you complain at the tulles " now before you die you will embitter ev ', ery hour of existence by your unhappy . disposition therefore cheer up and cum plain not take all things easy though at u limes you may find this hard lo do bul always meet your misfortunes with a smile and still faithfully strive lo overcome them . — but complain not j heroism rewarded — the life saving i benevolent association of new york at m llieir meeting on thursday voted a gold '' medal to captain nye of the american ' mail steam ship pacific and a silver me '' dal lo the male mr thompson and to each of the seamen who bravely manned their life boal during a terrible gale and ., thereby rescued ihe entire crew uf tbe ( british ship jessie stevens jusl as she | was sinking and took them safely iuio , liverpool ., ! ii earthquake it mii.i.r.m.in ii.i.e — we i learn from ihe milledgevilla paper ihul m 20 h minute before 8 o'clock suturday night lad it a sliglii shock ul an earthquake ivai luntibly r felt ut thai plane thi is ihe int-onil ot iluril it earthquake lhai has occurred in the central pur h tion of georgia within the past lew month iii shanghai and cochin china fowls the experienced editor of lha penns)lvnnla i'ai.n journal holds lha following discount on iho merits of lha shanghai nnd other lowls : " shanghai and cochin china full-is v limit hill — much hm heen laid and written lor uml nguin.1 the different varieties ol iu)|irov ed low l now claiming n large a share of pub lie attention the extravagant pricei asked antl frequently niil fur mpnrlor epecinirns of ihe various breedi have led many paraoni lo reguid ibaallempl to introduce tl t to our fur men generally an a mailer of speculation und hut it will li.no a termination similar to tho norus tniillicaiilis mania nf by gone days we io not think so the liulu experience wo have tail in brooding iho new varieties induce in 0 believe lh.it tho sooner the ciiinmiiii iliing till fowli aro diapomed with and iheir places lupplled by some ol the largerbreeda the soon ir will our farmers begin to realize profll from heir chickens although five or ten dollars nay at fin i appear an extravagant price liir a inir of chickens it is really nol so when iho idvailtsgee that will follow iheir purchase are aken into consideration no person who has ver seen lair specimens of thnishanghiii or ochin china fowls will or a tijiiienl dispute heir superiority lo iho dung hill low i in point if size lingo fowls if young will rerlainly iwuys command a heller price in inarkol than mailer ones hut they possess oilier advan ages well cared lor shanghai attain a lurg r sizo al live months than the common fowls t twelve we have now in our luck a pair of ochin chinas three months old which weigh ij lbs the cock .. and tin pullet 3 j lbs but l is contended by those who stand opposed lo log chickens that the greuler umoinil of food hey consume than tho smaller ones more lhan verbalunces the advantage of their increased ize this loo however we conceive to he a nistako we havo a few common fowls which ie kept or hatching — llieir small size giving hem lur hut purpose a decided advantage over he shanghai careful observation has folly aiisfied us iliiii they consume as much food as be larger ones tho common lowl is a much nine ravenous feeder than the shanghai ii nvnrile food is given nothing short of a rcple ion will satisfy ihem nol so with the shanghai ir cochin china they feed us ihey move — lowly and appear lo turn every grain of corn ir wheal lo an advantage " much has been said in regard lo ihe super ir egg producing qualities of tho shanghais or aochin chinas i'o a limited extent we have ested ibis point also and so ar as our experi nee goes unhesitatingly yield lo them the nilm our common owls are as good specimens is any we have ever seen we paid a high nice for them for the special purposo ol lest ng llieir egg producing qualities as compared willi our litter lowls and hatching as liefore ated tho result bus been that with the ■ nine food same lodging and same attention in very particular iho shanghais havo beaten wo lo one " another point in favor of the shanghai is ihul they are more sociable not neatly so much inclined lo be mischievous nnd if even thus inclined far less capable of doing damage ; as iho remarkable shortness of iheir wing and the great size of their bodies prevent them irom ft ing over fences into ihe garden or fields or injuring the grain in the stacks or mows fur these and other reasons we feel inclined to give the impioved breeds the preh-rence over tho common ones and believe it would be econo my on the pari ol our farmers generally lo in troduce them es-en at a cost of ten d-llars lor tbe first pair another triumph of american steamers — a gentleman who came over from llver i in iho baltic tells us that when he lefl everybody in iho city was rejoicing over the new cunaid steamship arabia which had been built ex pressly in heal the collins steamers and was considered the mosl superb as well as ihe fast est vessel afloat loud were the exultations over the anticipated triumph and the lowering ul the american flag in this contest of speed whin has been ihe issue ? the baltic which ► ailed december 29lh arrived sale and snug al her wharfin now york january lllh making iho trip in less lhan iliiileen days in spile uf stormy weather tim arabia which sailed january 1st niter running nearly thine lays nml exhausting her fuel in pflbrls lo make a rapid trip has io put into a way port fiir cnnla mil repairs and will probably be fifteen days ir mote in making ihe tun lo new yink we rejoice ovet our defeat of our cousins over the water in ibe honorable competition for ibe mastery of the sens the collin steamers remain unapproached by ihe cunarders and he english company will have lo labor long lel'ure ihey can i_el a vessel lu heal in a lair ace eliher the baltic pacific atlantic or arc ic — 1'hiluili iphia bulletin inter-oceanic circulation lieut m !•'. miiiiiv delivered a lecture iu new vi.ik recent v ii the il iv oi ihe inter.oceanlc circulation d water on the globe and supported wiih mueh nleresliug inhumation ihe hypothesis that ihe iiiier which is found in one portion uf the aiih i ilnv.inav bo found in anuiherlo morrow bvery drop nf water he argued is as obedient n greal and general laws as are the planets ol leaven ii ii were nnl so nml il ihere were io channels of circulation by which the water niilil pass irom occean lo ocean the waters of b tceans in the course of lime would be mind completely different rum each other i'lie waters nl ihe dead sea nre nearly the mine in quality a thing which can only be iienniiteil lor mi ihis hypothesis of circulation md il they limit a single drop nf water from ihe i'aeific ocean and ilyzed it nml another iiiiii the atlantic nml analyzed il ihey would io loiind perfectly the same the winds cur rents temperature uf the waters and aniinalcu e which ii.hnl.it ihem weie all de«c i in having their agency in promoting ibis ci.cula ion