The Sunday Delta from New Orleans, Louisiana • 1

IpARAUnArilS FOR HUB TIMKS. I KnirllOt In India" i Lets I nre for the Times the sh ine of common salt, and this seems to answer perfectly thy question. Another consideration presents Itself regarding the aea breeze. In my opinion, they an favoraliN to the long staple only, becanse they snpply rt with aalt In tho shape of spray, and for no other reason. This pl -nt I sown always, near the more salted irronuc! washed by tides, where the barilla, or sod plant, grow spontaneously Dy a stronger ssalmilation of the marine alkali.

Bnt If thia latter plant does not In any manner depend oa the ea hreeses, now can the cotton plant depend on It? The barilla, we know, grows anywhere, and at several bandred miles from th sea, prmMed that it (ads a soil supplied with the alkaline element that tt want. Tbua, It la found growing In the Interior NEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2 1353. ened by the smiles and dark, speaking eyes of When man a true, strong man mims, itnre feels an electrlo thrill. However thn hour may be for bin evangel, however ri and starless midnight may appear to hang ler him an hli came, let blm be nearo, ana world will be the better for It mannooa II In the stronger for It truth will imne an truer for It hndied, yon can nolailenee such a man you kilil. lie who baa aometntng to say mat is kith the aying, will always find utterance, lure acme how or other, ome wnere or icr, omc time or other, bin thought will wreak -If npon expreaelon It may be In sheet ugnt-.

It may be In earthquake throbs, or 1. may jme aa dew drop to the unfolding flower, or inshlne to expanding: vegetation. ItfThc truth is, the highest truth In life, the i la In hnrmsr gHi esi ana muni iiwimw from Mr. Emeraon Man Thinking. That uprerae, that is monarch that truly ia.

i ne pendent thinker is the only true ana rigut- autocrat. His empire 1 aa large as coneep- and his law aa universal as duly, oucii a i Is a great fact a unit only, but compre- llnr more real quantity than tne sum wiai nil the statistics of all the Pradgrlnd filed in the Clrcfhralncutlon Offices of all the Gov- bnents upon earth. genuine thinker is about to appear oetore John Mitchell Is announced to deliver a ire in the Odd Fellows' Hall on Monday subject, English In Indis." The Mer-ile Library Association have displayed much himiimtion in securing such a lecturer. A he is not the mere Index to books; udent of history, lie Is not the slave of the or the disseminator of ancient error, lie Li bibliomaniac 1 be acorns to acknowledge consecrated text of any man or set ef men's inns, and cramp Ills aoul to the Ignoble task ring Its Interpreter. But he reads not only I rrccords of olden time, b'lt keenly scans me I Lent and the history It Is enacting, cotempo- men and the books they are living.

We are not of those and pious men they are isjTaiitlmes who slander the justice of the i flighty by regarding Providence as always accomplice of visible, circumstantial sue-a 1. Whatever were Mr. Mitchell's sdversitles, I 1 1 ever bis failures as apolitical leader and title, we wish to leave them ont of the qncs-'l 1 and look at him, in a.blatant time, as one (ere thinker, and a manly utterer of the 4 k.glit that Is in hint if the hopes and spl- glit that II Ions, ay, am I Inse yearnii I (to the wn 1 Velnhisbr nd the honest hatred or wrong and ing for retribution and discomfit wrong-doer, which find an abiding breast. Of course he will not I terrors, the crimes and the nameless aboml-I Inns of cruelty and barbarlfy committed by IKngUsh in India. In no cuntry In modern I jrs, has the population died of by the fclcsnle, sure in India and Ireland both nn-4 the English rule.

That is an immense clr- (iitance, and Mr. Mitchell well knows how to I picciate and explain It. 1 e-nmafle. Beyond all question the interest felt in dra-Mtic amusements Is diminishing yearly. Pis-line it ss wc may, the Itinerant mountebank is Jslodging the genuine actor from his position, pill as a gentleman and aa a hlstrion worthy of aspect and encomium.

Stars are now aa com-non as blackberrice in summer, and managers, ye regret to say, pandering to a depraved puh- taste a taste that they, agisted by pliant m'-vendere, have assisted to form care but tie whether th stars are good or bad, so they aw a clamorous audience to their theaters, ice it that relying wholly npon the star-gr system, bad, clieap stock companies are mied and Bhakspeare delilieratety iniirdered, the theater disgraced by vile, trashy extrava anas. ho starring system baa nearly driven from honor, decency and ambition. Few a of pride and ability will consent to enter kick company, because bow ever much they lit strive to get forward they are conscious 4 the despotism of the starring sj'stem will Vent It. Kven good actors lose the spirit of hatlon, become careless, negligent and ne-larlly retrograde. The case would be aliered there but tew stars and these stars good la but the better plan, asanredly, would be txpel stars from the boarda as mere stars, compel them to take their stand aa leading in In Mrst class theaters.

If this could be ao. and each member of the stock given a At chance to rise or fall on bis or her own itrlts, we would have the drama In this coun-ry aa It waa many years ago in Great Britain, sell sustained and well represented. As it la, with a few exceptions, the stage Is die resort of reckless women and despairing ten, who nightly commit all sorts of foolish and ridiculous capers, which some misguided people call acting. We see the evil of which we speak illustrated very evening at the Gaiety. Relying upon a njr stars and some of them arrant humbugs that (the Drews, for example) Crisp got fether a company which Is positively dis-ccftd to New Orleans.

We Bay it with re-tt, butitia nevertheless our duty to say so. tiaiety to-day Is the worst-managed estnb-kment in the South perha pa In the country, id the manager coolly aat down and reflected the best plan to commit theatrical suicide, could not have bit upon a surer plan, flic bud example set by Crisp, the lack of an Went stock company and out-door and lull- management, the positive dearth of ordlna-managerial capacity any where, baa dimiu-td the iuterest usually felt in dramatic exhl- tms. He has greatly contributed to set back clock of the drama In New Orleans. The as a theater, being a hys-word and a re-jacb, a laughing stock, has Injured the pro-liun. After Booth leaves, it will not be rtu visiting at all, for though Miss Haven- ft has obtained, by long playing and news-ler puffing, something of a name, she can net fulled a great actrosa.

She wants voice and for, and her persouations are often extremely ak. We can see nothing but gloom and dark-as ahead for the tiaiety under the present management. So little Interest does Crisp cm to foal In his theater that he doea not even ndrscend to return tn the city, contenting mself with looking out for bis Memphis, Nash-lie and Vlsksburg theaters. The St. Charles is managed better, liellar, tough be failed signally in securing a highly Hnieteut leading lady, and auch others In the nale department as would give greater interest the dramas represented, has, for the moat rt, a good mule department.

Hence there Is it the same dramatic butchery perpetuated tghtly as at the Gaiety. Miss Cushman ap-tsred tn St. Louis on Monday evening last. believe she Is to be the next star at the St. Viailus.

With the male support which she Ell receive, there should be some great acting, is to be hoped, that next season, Deilur will iprove upon the bint we furnish, and give a a stock coinpauy which will be lu all res-(ccls an honor to his theater. We scarcely aliiuk that Crisp will be hereto Improve upon fy, thing the ensuing winter, and so we cant so pearl Define that astute, embiilous and Individual. If he will perish, let him a. Death I Every body remembers Col. Alexander K.

lli-Clung, or Mississippi, and his melancholy Every body knows bis reputation as a dueleat, and the intrepidity and chivalry which Med him to mount the ratr.parts of Monterey. Wearied of life, saya a eoteiaporary, dlsap- pointed and satiated, he wooed tut! embrace of NUMBER 9. una linen that arse tk nv n.l daal.inv noeiienss, mine eosjimoner texture destined for tn aerk and dusky sons of toil, thsre ar em ployed some sewing machines, of tho dif ferent manufaetnTM of drover A Baker, Wheeler A Wilson, and J. M. (singer the principal ma chines ased being the GrovesA Baker, aa better adapted to steam power.

The number of opera tives, (mostly female.) Americana, 100, who hoard and lodge In the building, and i.10 has ten, prtnolpslly native of the Island, employee" hy th day. Among the Americana, to perpe trate a Hlberntclsm, are aome of the rosiest-checked, Aill hraaatcd. aad merrtt-eyd dam sels or the Kmerald Isle, hsve aver seen or hiked with. They mannlactnr dally from 10)10 to lk) pieces In titer department devoted to plantation work, aad of law clothing, about to pieces daily. The machines are propelled hy steam power the engine aad machinery built ny Messrs.

MoCann A Patterson, of your city. The engine la of sis-horse power, and drive with perfect ease HO feet of two Inch shafting. The llrm Is DcHanal, Hermanns manufactory on rfe Vnlln VrMinn rWuirn'n, about fonr squares north of the Taron Theatre and the store for sal of goods on Calle de O'Reil ly, nearly opposite tli Hotel de Gardiner, one of the moat comfortable homes for strangers in the Havana. We ar promised by the clever and courteous superintendent of machinery, Cnnrad Green, and by the polite foreman, W. J.

Moore, the pleasure of testing, In pion-ia persona, the Imniity and fitness of things" manufactured of linen and hy steam at the Industrla Cubnna." Hut to leave the pleasant memories and delightful associations that linger around onr brief snd happy visit to the Isle of Ktornal Hummer, end 1 Tliouirh lost to slant, tn memory dear, Isle ul' beauty, fare tho well let iis return to scene present. We are softly and swiftly gliding o'er the dark hl.ie waters of the Gulf, feeling at home either In the luxurious enlilns or promenading the ipaeleua decks of the fleet, elegant and corn- mod ioss steamship Cahawba, with a large aud pleasant company nn board, brightened by the miles of some of the loveliest of Kve's fair Iniighter and cheered hy th lolly laughter and Joke of some of Adam's hirsute sour our wants anticipated and desire gratified by the kind, cordial and unremitting attentions or those accomplished seamen and true gentlemen, Captain Bulloch and Purser Rmlgers, causing Hie anticipated happiness of reaching horn again, from a foreign shore," to be In deed euhniiced and rendered almost perfect. We left Havana on Monday, at mam, and Wednesday's golden sunset gleams npon us at the South west Pas of the Father of Waters," surrounded hy a fleet of ships and vessels aground. After plowing our way around and among them and finding nn channel, wc steamed around to the Pass lOulre, and at daylight on Thursday morning crossed the bsr, and coursed np the bosom of the turbid Mlssls- Ippl, feasting onr eyes nn the orange groves, richly laden with their gulden fruit, and nostlina amid leaves of the brlghte emerald hues, which surrnunds the luxurious home of the princely eagar plantar. At ten o'clock, r.

we reached the steamer' dock at the laivee of the Crescent City. AdIoS, il'MK, Letter on (tit, I'ss. tf nlt ws Rtsititire'tiir lnimivlsg the IliiMlliy nhiI lnerraslii tile Murkulalile Pi-Ire or 0II011. Nkw Oiii.kjns, Jan. 1(1.

lb Kdilor iif tlit y. O. Ih lta Dear Kir 1 In your fapcr of the Jguuary you called public attention to a splendid specimen of cot ton from the plantation or It. A Htewart, at Hie mouth or the oontompluted Grand Junction Canal. It la tho 80a Island variety, grown on the prairie, without any prolrclwn from II" wulrri at ImIu Margin 1 and Mr.

Htewart challenges the growers of the host Hos Island cotton In America to produce a aample equal to his. Now, It I my Intention to explain tli looul and natural causes of this superior staple new, perhaps, In Louisiana and will show bow, by the artificial employment of the name agenoy, similar and equal producU msy be easily obtuiued on every plantation where the application of salt as manure was properly oouductsd. This conclusion, however, I entirely my own, and only drawn from uudeiiiuhle facU that I have observed during several mouths among He Islsud cotton planters. Consequently, aa re gards their upland rivals, this aoncluslun re. main still a men theory and require to tie practically tried.

But th trial Is also grounded on principles 01 agricultural cuemisti-y, anu sci-ent Ideally deserves the closest attention of Lou isiana plantsrs. llesldes, It Is al band for every one, and promises, by the Improved quality of the upland staple, to Increase, and double, perhaps, the luarkelulile price of this sovereign article. Here, at first, let me recall th leaning facta, foi uotu by most of th upland planters, and which ar to become the ground of my ex amination. The cotton plant, us every He Island planter know very well, la slngnlaily Influenced by peculiarities of soil and effects of cllmale, which produce a great many varieties of the artlcla. flue of them, now called the Hea Island, or long- slsple, la alwaysuffectcd by the locality In which iU black sued Is planted, elthor in the Interior land far from the suliue atmosphere, or near the seaboard and with salt niud employed to nisnui It, This latter situation la decidedly favorable to IU growth and quality, to Its texture, softness and color.

Aud why doe this staple ther ettalu superiority? Ihriiuu ttilmhlt in ua air and tta toil. Hucb is the testimony of all nt-a isianu planters 01 noutu Carolina, so well kuown by the superiority of thulr uroduct. All these facta prove that aalt, 111 a manner and uusntlty to be determined hereafter, Is necSMSary to III loug stspie, 1 111s couviusiob is undoubtedly csrrect) lor tne same piunt, unsluced lioin Hea Island cotton seed, degen erate from IU list quality as soon a It Is grown far from th saline luMuence. lor lu-stance, at forty, sixty or one bandred mile fruui the sea, It become so coarse aa to be scarcely distinguished the green seed or short staple, termed, fur this reason, uplsuu, because upland planters have never used the saline elements wanted fur its growth. But tlutt Is not all and the case, whan reversed, makes the same conclusion still more obvious, urov us that the Kisen seed cotton, traiuiiluuted to the sen-cuust, becoming ltir uf a lauger staple, aud much II nor In lu teitura.

Then. 1 ask ths practical plauUis, la it not possible fast the same shurt staple could be imi.roved lulls uuallty, without moviiig It from the interior land towards the coast, If the healthy aud Invigorating iolluelice of ths ana leauh It, or be transported In any way Tin sea bttwsea osrUluly can not luauufao- tuied fur ths wauU of thla plant, but the seagull gud salt-weed can very easily be nupplied In VOLUME 3. death, and with the hope of being slain, he enlisted In the Mexican war. His gallantry upon the battle field at Monterey Is knowa to all. He was seriously wounded, bnt death came not to hls relief.

At Bnena Vista he was carried on a litter to the battle-Beld, and exposed his life again but death eluded him, and atlll refused to recognise his earnest votary, despairing finding death on the battle-field, he returned to Mississippi and lived nntll life became a burthen to bim, and then committed suicide by blowing ont his own brains." We know not how much truth there is in a part of this statement, yet the suicide was doubtless determined npon long before the fatal hour. Why his sky of life was darkened la a mstter of conjecture. But few months before his aeatn, uoionei McClung wrote the following beautiful invoca tion to Death. It has been Justly termed the melody of despair. 'r Swlrtly speed o'er the wsves of time, Hplrll or death I In msnhood's morn, In youlhfsl prime, I woo thy breath For the fsSinir hues of hope have fled Mke the dolphin's Ms-lit, And dark nre ihs clouds ahovo my kosd As the starless night I vainly the voyas-er slabs for ths rest Or the haven Ike pllarlm saint for the home of the blest ABa (ha culm of Heaven The sslley Slavs for the iiht- mil's breath, At tho burning noon Bui more siad'y I'd sprins thy cold arms, Dent il I comosoonl the llmale of Simla.

toliirthfnl. and strange as delightful, Is tne romantic region around Wmla, In Northern Hln-dostan. Edward Coate Pinckncy apoke of Italy thus Nature is aeucais Rrnw. the plseo 's senius, fiailnine and fair i The winds areawo nor dare to brsathe aloud The air sooins never lo have borne a cloud." Krlv akin, we are told, to that "dimple on the face of the earth is the spot npon which Simla resta. It differ only tn th character of the clouds.

Among the remarkable things In Its climste Is the uniformity of the temperature and the absence of winds. bean In Simla for more man nvo mmitns. says a late writer, and have nevor known the wind miuWatelv hard the most I havo felt i. rsrv aenilo current, and even Ibis Is very rsre. The general stale of the sir Is what In America would be called psriect nir tho smoke end clonus, we mar a.ru.i0 there Is some motion.

Auottier very smaular tiling is the character of lu clou.ls and their movements. yoa may suppose, snrracs or in term fog but It Is remsrkable to obscrvs how well di llned In many cases this fog Is joinellmas. for esample, we observe a small tree, the lower part of ablch Is completely while the on Is perfectly clear. In lie! I should scarcely esasnerate If I said that a man might frcaiientlt slick his head Into a cloud, as easily (and more pleasantly) as be could do Into a tub of water Sometimes a cloud Is observed completely lo All small valley, slowly piurlng Itself over that side whtrh happens 10 be the lowest, exactlu like water. Vrisjuenlly the air Is so still that It requires some mtl.

time before can perceive that these fnj. clouds move at all. Of course nigtier up (above thr mountains, where tne air u.u. scan always Fki. ta nnite different from the hot breath which Nature sends from her capacious month i u.j...

where the sun beats down both beast and man," aa Eestu. Bayley has It. and atoms send the boiling water blgh upon the hare, burning, white-glittering aand. Nevertheless, UUi veam for Simla, like the mratnated youth who thM Maranesas Islands. went thither to find Melville's beautiful Typee -ill.

her liquid eyes, streaming locks. and alrdle and robe of colored tappa, standing f. boat In the lake of the Hoppy Vallev Vatadises of the Simla and Typee tU irivo not heart-happiness. Somebody believe It was I. Heaven lies aoouv u.

True enough only It continue aa long aa hn-manltv will 11 Heavon within us, around ns and above us, If we will have It That is all. Mrs. Lydia n. "7. known as a awe dub is most voluminous of American writers, having pu --'J 'iy volumes to prose and verse.

Her poetical efforts poasesa energy and variety, of quiet re-linked with earnest thoftght. The lateat production of this gifted author la I ucv Howard's Journal," a volume of brief parage some of. which sparkle with thought anal Here la a paragrapn on niagara, a grauu monument of the omnipotence of the Sky hnllder." sneaklug with the Apocalyptio voice of many water, and dashing over tne great rock with the velocity ana power 01 a uiousanu Lodoree: Vlntrara God's voice I Ood's voice 1 Let man keep sllonc. In all the cliangoasi usni ua.aua, aMr liuht. by glimmering moon, er under the storm cloud, It grows upon you ss a mysterious and awful ureaonco.

an embassador irem mm wuo poureui out the waters with ths hollow of His baud." "Tho voyage to the Canadian shore was to me m.loueand llnpieblivs. As ws reneuea 1110 nimuic of the current we wore seuslhle of Its giant fores, bearing up the boat like au eKgl.Mi upon lu ler rlble tide. The view or tho Kalis Is here magnld-t A slnnendous eolumn, with fathomless bass, hid Us head among ths oiuuus. 11 um.ra uai, i.ae Unmuon's slutue, musical arllculatlons, but, with ihunder-vlce, warns you not to approach. Unable turn away your eyos from the besuly si.d ,1..

tarror. vou gasa at It, siniu iragini u.s 01 rain bows until you are kllndel bv the bapllsm or Its spray, forgetting all the apprehension that at Ursl oppressed you, you are hist In humility, and feel what you really are an atom In the great creation of 110J. These are full, sound, healthy thoughts, envoi oued In a drapery of smooth, elegant language thoughts, often, that grow majestic iu their poetic proportions. For th Sunday Pelu, A Helef He view. The Delta has presented these last two weeks several chanters of Interest to Its 01a contiibu tors.

Accusers and defender alike are arraigned before that unequal bar of Justice, publlo opin ion. Pollv. the most continually Inspired ad herent, baa truck a new vein, discovered that she was born for something better than local newa reporter and observer of men' coats, with tli Index of character thereto attached, and has, accordingly, turned critic. In order to rarity her eomuton thought iuto dignity proper for tlte occasion, ah dreams. In this dream which was not all a dream "aha wanders Iuto the groves of some Parnassus, permitted and known only to select spirits In New Orleans.

There she sees thing no mortal aver saw bo-fore. Th burled beauty, atrengtb and deformity of the past were partly lifting their heads to the dim gas of a memory that looked through a most deceptive twilight, bo tne familiar funua of Franca and Germany, near th salt works, where th asllferons strata aad briny springs snpply It with IU natural food, and where not only the ses braerea, hot the smallest alin lament raised hy evaporation froaa th sea, can never reach it. This example, think, show again that the- npland cotton, In order to fan pro vs la quality. does not want all th marine atmosphere, bnt. only IU saihie element or the ses-eoll supplied! by an equivalent of sR manor.

Then, what wnnld be the resnlt of this las provement In qnallty or Ike great lainltlana atnpl A eorrespotMi-Ing racrease of IU comawrelal valne, doubling perhsps th marketable prlr of million at bale, and sooner or later rewarding with hundred of million of dottara the saM ef the salt manure, aw especially adapted for tho upland cotton soil. It irmat be also rermrked that th nrrsiiea ef agricultural at-ennmy doe not omsist at all Id the nee of mannrc too csstly by the expenses of management, but hi the na 'heir assaHt-tial lensent cosoentrated In powerful isera, of easy application and cheap portability. Tits common aalt la one of these cenoentratew fertilisers, incomparably superior to salt mad, barn yard or marsh manures, so often used by cotton planter, but not always paying the coat of carriage and rewarding trie trouble of their application. In this economical respect, aalt rivals the gintno, phosphate at lime, or any other concentrated fertilisers 1 and, like them, It I now to be applies more and mora to agri cultural piirsalte. Hut mark well thla point 1 lis application ought to be always systematic; mad In due pro portion, according to localities, aessons and various kinds of crops; thus requiring an Intelli gent agriculturist, In order to prevent, by th misuse nf It, any Injury to cultivation-.

Th almse of what Is good I the worst of abase. Let this motto guide all new txparimeut oa It applied a manure. As to th advantnge of till application. there la not a doubt rcsieotlng tbem among the ftea Island cotton planters; but they ar atlll doubtful how mora aalt per acre ahnuld be applied. The quantity to be used and the application Itself ought to be regulated with the greatest rare.

Near to the coast the plant seems tn he very much benefitted by two three bushels per acre, but the quantity depends on a wot nr dry season, and on the more or less permeability of soil. A soil where clay prevails over the sand, being more oonaervativ of the brln, must receive leas salt than Bandy land, through which this fertiliser, after being dissolved, Is In great part carried away by rains, and can be advantageously renewed every year, Aa to the soil where aand prevails near the Bealsmrds, it Is tfie most propitious for the long staple, and thongh supplied with alks- llue elements from the earliest marine deposits nd from the sea hrerscs, tt receives aa averagn from the Hea Island planters of tern bushels of salt per acre, and always to the great profit of th crop. Hut a trial, th fair trial that I am wish-' Ing tn see can lt on ss regards th application or aalt to the green seed or npland cotton la atlll to be made for giving to these considera tions all their practical value, return to the Sieclmens of flea Islnnd variety grown on the alluvial plantation of Mr. Mewart, between tea) Mlsstsssppi and La tasrgsss. Ttssre th soil baa been formed by th alternating overtlnwa of the Itlver and of the sea, and ther consequently must be saline elements under groun 1.

The sea breraea also afford their dally supply of bi lue I and this manuring food suffl-rteully explains bow a ailected seed has produced the wnnderlul production of bulla that you speak of. You add that tills resnlt hoJtn ubtaiued without any protection from th waters of latke llorgne) but In my opinion It la because these wsters, always brackish, and often suited, have, perhaps, a fesyears ago, overflowed the prairie where the aald cotton was planted, that It has grown ao beautifully, as to suthorl Mr. Htewart to challauge the Hea Island plautera to produce a aample equal to bub remain, Vo, AI'M Nil THUHASKY, Hotiee or new Issuers. and 7Vsus at Aarvn Burr, By Tartan. Mason, Brothers, New York.

We have received from th publisher a volume bearing the above title. It I full of InUr-est, containing much thst ha not been hitherto generally known of tire distinguished man of whom it speuks. A fortnight ago we gay two extracts from the "Life and Time," which show l'arlon's style to be ey, rigorous, and generally elegant. l.ury Joantil. Mra.L.

H.HIgourney. Miirper A Brothers, New York. The reader will find, In nnother column, an entrant from thla word. It Is gotten up Is handsome style, but this la IU least merit for th volume, In a literary point of view, I well worth purchasing and perusing. HuGlnnls haa II.

Vrb.l and Vi tilil A oetl. HyL. L.C. Harper A Brothers, Nsw York. Th same house has furnished as with this work, translated front the German of Gustuv Freytag, with a prefac by Christian ('.

Bun-. sen. Amtrleua Almanar fur 1iH. Crosby, Nichols A Boston This Is the twenty-ninth volom of tills valuable work. It Is mainly a digest of a mas of official d'x-uinanU rslstlng to government, nimnce, legislation, public Institutions, Internal ImprovemeuU, nnd the resources of Has Unites) tttutesand several HUtea.

Norman haa It, My Wilis audi I. VBNBVSOB. As through ihs Isnd st svs ws want, And plucked ths rlpeaial Bars, We fall i.ul my wife and I Wo fell out I 1 know not why, And kissed agaiu with Usrs. I'or whau ws taints whsrs hsa ths ebltd We tost lu oilier rears, There, abovs Ihs Utile grave Ob, there above Ihs llttls grsvs, ws kissed again with tsars. We are ludebted to Raiuuel Bard for a copy of th Annual llepurt of the Auditor of Public Accounts, from which ws xtracl tli following statistic of Louisiana 1 Total value of properly Ml 0 Total amount of Tales asssssed.

or Tales l.aiui.'iM Uuculllvsual nuw acres UNO IN (JUl.TIVATIOS. Ibas OHlun Cora Hum 17T11 est so mutst LsuAaal Total land in cultivation ranwoTiohS. sugar hbds las sea Muluaaaa hula itilg.Oog Cultou bales I'smi bushuis gas hhl. Ion LtTlos. F.eeWiuu Fraedilurod 0J Hlaves HallSrt Number uf educatila yontli Ws also parcel' by lu na report that about ous-lulf of th Blate Tax Colleclora la th HtaU are In the list of dsfaulura a yraUical vouimeutary a lit hard tiate." float before her" things of beauty and joys forever." Other remained beside in shapes distorted, size msgnllled, snd colors which her unaccustomed eve mistakes in the arttnciai light of this Parnassus oT her dream.

Hut wh were the condemned, and over whom did her charity spread the wlnga of protection Dr.Sljrur. sweet Mny-Kic, Xanfla, vt. 11. 1. and many other deserving ones received their Just dues, honor and praise.

Then Dorothea, being too stroni for her, she takes care to give offense, but conciliates her on the score of relationship of tilnds through difference of feature. So she shakes cousinly hands witn her. Rut. alas I the unfortunate victim of her satire are the moro nnmsrons. Mrs.

C. F. Windle, howevor, is the one most maltreated. It matters not for sentimental, lackadaisical," Alice. Her faulta and errors mentioned are con ceded bnt only as the youthful imperfections of the head, for which yoars or experience will no wonders, as they have already done for all the Delta's Polllcs.

But Mrs. Windle, a lady true and gentle, superior In her accomplishments, and possessed of virtues known to few of our scribbling sisterhood, ought to have been kindly dealt with. Mrs. Windle has ideas, though it la true she wrltoa lengthily. To the skimming, superficial reader her idea is lost in a rather tedious expression.

Sometimes she Indulges In a plurality of thought In the eamo sentence, and thus deprives it of Its merited effect. Ah, Polly, be gentle, be gentle, If thon art a woman, and Judgest thy sister I tiertrude Ooldpen'a note were generally strict analysis of Polly's discourse, and her de-fenceef the assailed was spirited and charitable. But in Its tiersonal reference, the Idea of anni hilation by nnth Is not acknowledged. Other circumstances and occupations form hindrances to pursuing the paths of llteratiir for which criticism, so far from Impeding, Is only an incentive to further emulation. And Polly, If she hsd possessed penetration, might have recognised, still afloat, the same "lackadaisical strain under a different cognomen.

In rcaard to however. It la not easy atto- a-ether to agree with (iertrude. H. haa mental nowerasuch as described; and sometimes great beauty of style and of poetic thought but she says that" if his writings were turned Into a different channel, the plcnsnre she derives could not be enhanced." How can thia bsf If a sparkling crown sit on a lordly brow of error nd unbelief In which we have no faith, how much more pleasure ought to give us to tee It nn the head of a worthier king. So It la, L'lirlstionity is rightful king.

Spiritualism, and all the host 01 false nronheta In our day, are but the pretenders to the throne 1 and we ahall yet aoe the time recorded when These passing vapors shall dissolve awnv, And leave lu glory's unobstructed Tay." Bv wav of postscript it la to be hoped that In Pollv's next she will suargest which of the old contributors, ought to write, aa she ha Invoked hem all indiscriminately I and we, being at her mercy, will tremble lest she re enter on ground that is now forbidden. Without such knowledge In our adventurea, her frown magic-wand of criticism might change ns into Verv tongues, that svllable men's names taa sands, and shores, and desert iWcruosaes, A LICK. Orltam, Jan.20,lW. (For the Sunday Delta. A neverle nv J.

Rous a. sarins. I drentn the long, long uliflit uway, And all the day mv Inncy roams. The hour I pray loruevercomei My life Is but gloomy day. When childhood blest my fleeting hours, And coming years revealed their streugth, -My soul was full, I knew st length Each thought would yield IU pleasant powers.

I met her there the dowy sir Was full of sunset's dying bus. Just mingled with the spangling blue Thus did i wslt her presence there. The sun had drawn his dimming light ghe cam sdown tho woodland aisle, liar ruby hjis wreathed Willi a smile, And there ws talked beaoath the night. Our loves we told our plodges given Ws parted then, we mat no mor, From home I sought a foreign shore, I came again she dwelt in ueavoo. Life teems with ssdder things than these, And other hearu than mine have bled, Hut yet no drop that mine balh ehod, Hath yielded tta moment's ease.

This shadowy life, my blinding tours In falling tell the grler I feel Will nothing soothe, no balm cones tl Ab I dark will be my future years eths waits, I know, beyond this shore, Yet dwells wherever I chance lo dwell, In crowded town or silent dell-Yet 'tis ths half sung song of yore, She waits, I know, beyoud this shore. And when llio hour I pray for oomes, I'll luka my place amid those homes, l'rejsired by her who went before. JWtc Orliant, January Hi, IBS. For the tsuuday Helta, Lecture In New Orleaii ar pleased to see the announcement that the newly organized Mercantile Library Assoc! tion have made arrangcniente for the delivery of a course of lecture during-the remainder of the winter. But while reading this announce ment, we have been Impressed with the ques tion, which has so often before occurred In similar cases why haa the lecture system so gen erally failed in New Orleans The answer I obvious.

It is complained that there exists among us less intellectual taste aud leas desire for literary or scientific entertainment than Is found lu some other communities. Whethor this ue true or not, we bellve that the chief and greatest difrl culty Is that those portions of our community who would be most disposed to seek such enter tainment, are prevented from doing ao by the simple and homely fact thai they can not enurd the expense. There Is cultivation enough among us to sus tain auy well-orgauhted course of lectures, the cost of which adapted to our means. The number Is great of those wh would gladly pat ronise the leclure-rooiri, not only alone, but ac companied by their wives and chlldien, pro vided it could be done at any reasonable coat while the number I comparatively small of those who feel tiieiuaelv is perfectly able to pur chase such entertainment fur themselves aud families at the euoriaoua prices common among us. If lecturers from a distance choose to play the uart of literary showmen, aud to exhibit before us at euorinous aud absurd price, they should be left to do so entirely on their own account If tbeycome preceded by a great reputation like a Urowusua or a Thackeray, perhaps they may succeed, (yen though they discourse but obsolete dogmas, or trifling persousllti.

But we who reside here, and who are, or should lie, Interested, not In the encouragement of foreign celebrities, but In the improvement of our home society, are pointed to a belter policy. Our home loi'tnrca, of which we might easily have excellent courses every winter, should be provided at the smallest pnaslhl charge a charge whic ahnuld place them within th reach of all portiona of our Ac cording to the current prices of the teal litera ture, twenty-five cents Is a full equivalent for any lecture of the usual length, whether spoken or printed. A nd at this price lectures can easily be offered to the public, If gotten up on the plan adopted in other communities. The Impression exists that a lecturer must be hired and paid. And this, perhsps, Is right, If he la expected to deliver a course, or if he Is brought from a distance.

But neither of these ia necessary. New Orleans would perhaps scorn to admit that she haa not men of capacity and learning of her own, as capable of entertaining or Instructing as those that are commonly brought from a distance. And certainly there Is generosity enough among our own men to Incline them to contribute occasionally to the entertainment of the public, without thought of psy. The contribution wonld be easily and cheerfully made when It la a contribution of hut a single lecture. And no Individual should be requested to deliver more than one discourse of a series for a continuous course by the same lecturer, ot- on the anme subject, generally wearies and disap points an audience, while different suldccta, by different persons, afford a pleasing variety, which support the Interest to the end.

Nothing, then, should be easier than to organise one or more courses of voluntary lectures every winter, In a community where talent and generosity abound, as they do, la New Orleans. Something should be charged for admission to such lectures, enough to defray expenses, and perhaps to leave some benefit to the institution concerned In getting them up. But the admission could be so moderate as to place the advantages within the reach of all, of adults and children, of the rich and the poor. One further suggestion should be made, which Is, that proprietors of assembly rooma ihould not be so eager, aa they generally are, to speculate on the public In a mutter relating to the moral and intellectual good of the community. What greater alianrdlly can be imagined than that of demanding one hundred, fifty, or even twenty-live dollars, for the use of an assembly room for a purpose of charity or generosity a room, perhaps, that stands bablt-nally Idle, and for the Identical reason that none will engage it at the exorbitant pay required.

Let this evil lie relormed. In application cf these remarks, we feel com pelled to say, that we greatly fear the Mercan tile Library lectures are destined to fall, for the reasons Indicated aliove. The member of the Association are not ao numerous aa of them selves tq fill a respectably large room. And It la doubtful if many of them will take more than themselves and one companion at fifty cents per head; while the additional twenty live cents inflicted npon others aa a sort of penalty for not belonging tn the Association, will certainly keep away many who might otherwise be tempted to pay the fifty cents. Such discrimination will not do.

And even without such discrimination, nlty cents is entirely too much for our Association to charge, If they at all propose to make their lectures popular or useful. It may be, huwever, that these lecture are designed to raise money for the purchase of bonks for the library, or tn meet other expenaes of the Association. Should this be the case, then let the gentlemen of the Association, the next time, pass around the subscription paper let donation be solicited under their true name, and let ua not be anhjerted to an Indirect tax in the form of exorbitant and absard charges for lectures, for all people have an olwtlnate way of not liking to pay for a thing more than It ia worth, even though their money go to an object of generosity or charity. ltKVKKa. Notes of raveler In the Tropics.

Correspondence of the N. O. pelt. ttoTM. na tt akw git, Havana, Cuba, January 14, The hotels are all pretty full, and at most of them the best rooms are engaged.

We have found very comfortable quartets and excellent entertainment at the Gardiner House, No. 1H8 Call de O'Reilly, kept by Mr.Oardiner, from New York State, who poaesses the uiamter in siodo with the fortittr in rt, so essential to the oourtcou landlord, as well as the true gentle man. We commend the hospitalities of the bouse to either the invalid or pleasure seeker who will alwaya obtain from the proprietor any Information they may desire, and, If nncewary, his service as Interpreter, aa well aa unremitting and asaiduona attention to their person al comfort while sojourning at his pleasant home. Business is quits brisk, although the monetary panic ha affected the general trade at this point, aa It has all th commercial marls In the States, and also on the continent. The city is generally healthy, although Dr.

WHson, tli principal physician here, Informed this morning that there wa considerable yellow fever confined mostly, howevor, the lower classes and those of intemperate habits. The news market ia quito dull. The Spanish fleet of war left this harbor on Tuesday desti nation only known to Her Catholic Majeaty's (lovernment, Home think It has gone to Mex Ico, aud not on a peaceful cruise, though perhaps bound for Vera Crux while others aay It has only gone on a sailing voyage. The opening of the New Exchange was cele brated a few days since, and the meeting honor ed by the presence of the Captain (leneral, Jose de la Concha, who proved himseil quite an ora tor on the occasion, and closed his speech by saying he wished we were only in as good a financial condition as we were In July lust." Maretsek ha at ths Turon Theater the largest and best operatic troupe ever collected at one time on this side the Atlantic. Ifis own crimps ny numbers soma seventy, and with those employed here combines a force of over one hun dred and seventy perfiirmeis.

He ia doing well with r'rezxollni and (iujusanlg as prima donnas, aud closes the seasou ia about three weeks, go ing bene to Philadelphia. Maurice Htrakosrh and bis beautiful wife are stopping at the Hotel Le Grand and luxuriating on the reward of their labors aud enjoying their otturn cum ifigni-latt as only th.aie who are well to do In ths world can afford. They go hence, Mr, 8. Informed us, In a few weeks to your city, where tliey will give, lu uouuocth a with a star of the hi st luagnituds, some of their delightful and rtckcrrhi musical entertainments. To al tempt a deserlptiun of this gay and lively city of tiie picturesque aud beautiful ooimtry that environs tlie capit.d of ths Gem of the Antilles," the Lie of Eternal Summer of lu luveiy moonlit ulghts, balmy air, and soft, blight skies list luxurious magnolia, palm and orange groves IU sparkling fountains aud gorgeous palace decked lo Oriental splendor, aui light gay and lovely Senorlta and handsome Cane! leros all combining a conp d'orll worthy the days of chivalry and romance In Spain of yore is beyond the power ef my feeble pen.

Moore somewhere describe It when he says 1 Anil oh Mr ther be a Paradise on earth. It Is this, II Is this. '1 Of th fair Cuban Creoles, we can not write and do their many charms Justice. On mast see tbm In ordor to feel the magle effects of their soft black eyes when glancing at night from the crowded boxes that encircle the Inside of the Teatro Tacon. Beaumont saya The ble.ikeat rnrlt upon the loneliest liaalh.

reels In Its barrenness som touch of spring And In the April dew, or beam of May, ILs moss and lichen freshttn and revive; And thus the heart most seared In human pleasure, elu at tho tear, Joys In the smile of woman I And Bonument had never seen Cuban girl smile, as though her whole heart was In that wondrous expression of that soft, tuatmit black eye, mercifully shaded by the longest and most silk-like lashes I ever beheld I tresses long as those of the Circassian maidena, black, ton, as the raven'a wing; classically formed counte nances, a clear, olive-tainted complexion, exquisitely formed persons and fully developed busts, rendered still more attractive by the care and taste with which they adorn and blend harmoni ously the twin sisters, Art and Nat nre. But, kind reader, let us go and dream of them. Good night," and as sweet repose and rest come Into thy heart a that which reigne with in an angel's breast." We must not omit to mention tho onurtesies and kindly attentions received at the hands of Col. Myers, an old resident and worthy represenUtive of American pollteuess, and our esteemed Consul, Mr. Blythe.

The letter talks of resigning In the spring, as the expenses living here draws npon bis pri vate resources some five thousand dollar above the Income of the Consulship. Adlos, Ol'ILtAI'MI. Hnmi. na AMnmim, Havana, Cuba, Jan. 11, Thla morning, after our accustomed cup of nje, we strolled down Calle taking one of the numeroua Ball-boats moored in the hiirlsir, we crossed the beautiful bay and walked up the paved oarrlage-wuy leading to the fortlltcutioiiB south of Moro Castle, Not having obtained a permit" from the rsptaln-(leneral, although we applied for on through onr but receiving no reply to onr request of the latter, concluded to run the risk of gaining admittance, itorn vcltni.

After treading between high wall a distance of er hap half a mil, we arrived at a gale guarded hy soldiers, and making signs of a desire tn progress further showing our custom-house pass port, and Invoking all the Espanlola we could possibly think of at the moment a soldier beck oned us to accompsny him. We passed flies of soldiers, anme exercising a la mltitatrt, and others lounging In front of their comfortable-looking quarters) while In the center of an open space, streams of exquisite harmony proceeded from a baud of musicians. On arriving at what we took lo be th rest deuce of the Captain or Commander of the fort, a mseteaehaoting aad picturesque view of the It and bay, with the dark blue water of Me Gulf lining the horizon on the north, burst upon our enraptured sight. It is from near this point that the finest vlewa of Havana and the harbor are taken, one of which we aawca stiasl engraving, In the counting room of a merchant during our ramble through the narrow and crowded streets of the city. After feasting our eyes and imagination until the former had become almost dim and the lut-ter surfeited, we rewarded our clrcemne with a arrncloa, Senor and a quatre rials, and after a mutual sdios retraced our steps and feasted the Inner man to a well-earned aud excellent breakfast.

Aa the steamer Cahawba reached this port last evening, and tail at noon to day for your city, will finish this letter on hoard, with permission of Him who rule the wind and waves, ana; proviuea tue latter element uo not lay us as we were on the voyage thither. We enjoyed the pieaaure ana nonor or break tasting yesterday with Commodore Paulding, on board the U. S. flag-ahlp ateamer Wabash, which arrived In the harbor on Friday lost, from Ureytown, with Col. J.

P. Anderson and aome forty of Gen, Walker's men, who were captured up the river, near Greytown, and are being held in custody until the Commodore receive Instructions as to their disposal. Col. Anderson complain very much of the treatment on board, anil suys that they are sub jected to Indignity and Insult. Whatever may be the political opinions entertainou North and South, respecting the course pursued by Com.

Pauhllng.irr must say mat ins politeness, urbanity aud kindness, during the hour's stay we made on board ship, fully entitle him, In our opinion, to the appellation of a man and a gentleman." Col. Anderson himself contlimed tl opinion we hsve expressed, in regard to the Column- dure' treatment of his own nftlcers and men, as well aa those who visit tne snip. It is unite certain that Hants Anna has lutclv been III lluvoua, and Com. Paulding staled to ua he had heard tliat Hit Kjcrtllrnry had gone out Ith the Spanish squsdnin, which left here lus week. It msy have been this report which caused the ruinur of the fleet having lulled for Mexico.

We have seen a circular, uddresscd to the jieople of Mexico, proposing another chango in the government of that Ill-sUrred with Santa Anna aa uoneral In-Chief I Malar would he a more appropo tills to suit his ambl tinus daslroa. It ia well kuown tlutt his cousin, Don Jos de Hants Anns, has been living In Havana for some time past, although the latter uaea every precaution to keep his piesence, aa well aa quarters, Incognita to thus not In his cniifldeuce, and the circular referred to undoubt edlr emanates from or through him. The Mexi can people nave certainly liau euougii 01 tne Iralaicile government of a man whose past life affords nothing upon which to build a hop that he would even endeavor to lend them to a poal tlon among the Itepubllcs of the Ear th. The fuueral yeslurduy of the lata Conde Villa Nueva, a grandee of Spain, and Aid to the Captain General, was an Immense affair I although, from tiie fact tlutt lis died of the epidemic small pox which is now raging to a considerable extent among the higher classes, be was no', buried with the honor usually shown to on who had occupied bis rank, title aud wealth yet, the concourse was vast, and th procession of citlsen aud military on foot, followed by tunaulless voiautu aud car- riaaes, miles In length. During our rambles In search of objects of Interest," we visiUd the Industrie Cubans, an extensive sewing manufactory, which, from IU uuvslty, nuiiiber of enipluyuea, aud Import ance to the residents and planters ol the "Queen of the Antilles," dcerve more than a mere passing notice, Jt ha only been iu operation some six months, and, consequently, its capacity as wall as Importance has not yet been fully developed.

In th aisuu fai ture ol all description! of clothing, from lb tlusst alvlU.