Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-11
May 11th 1881.

We copy in this days paper, publication in the form If a letter, which, it seems, Mi Branch, late Secretary of the Navy, trans mitted to North Carolina, to make its frs appearance in the Raleigh STAR It speak. an altered tone from ttat of the writer's late correspondence with the President.
 In his note, resgning his office, MT Branch seemed at first, to consider that 1T was the Presidents design to insulate him, and to&x press, as it regarded him particularly, Ca wish" for his retirement. ''I understand, ' says MT Branch. "hat as TO MYSELF it 70as your vvish that / should retire." Slc. 8sc. In reply the President said:-" dA! not, as TO YOURSELF, eIfre'8 TviSh fh0t Yoy shouid retire. The Sec'rtary of Sate ana of Tar haVing tendered their resignations, / remarked 70 you, that / feh 10 Dc inds- hensable 10 re-organize my cabnrt hro- her; That H had cone in harmonioUSiy, and as an nni, and as q hart zoaS about to leape me, zuhich on to-mo1ro7v avouid De annonnc- ed, reorganization 7vas necessary, to guard aga nst misrehrescntation. 7hese Ivere my remarks, made 70 you in candor and Sincerity."
 MT Branch responds to this in the kndcst manner, saying 1T regret that / miSmder- stood you in the siightest degree. /, hoVeUer, STAND CORRECTED, and CHEERrULLY AC- cEPT he interhretati"n zvhich you hape Si- Uen 70 your ozvn e1'hresSions.
 II shall FREELY CONTINUE my BEST EX- ERTIoNs, 10 discharge the dutirs of the De- hartment nntH you Frovide successor" In the amcabe relation thus voluntarily as- sumed by Mir Branch, he remained near the President until the 18th instant, the day be- fore hls publication in the North Carolina Star reached this city in the regular course of the mail. On that day he addressed d note to the President barely stating, that ur- gent necessity required that he should leave the city that evening, but intimating not the slightest degree of dssatsfacticn. With a knowledge of these facts, we confess it Was a matter of some surprise to find in the Raleigh Star, such an attack on the President as that contained in the publication signed John Branch, and dated as far back as the 3rd of May. At the time of writing it, and for days afterwards, the author of d paper thus imbu- ed with the deepest hostility to the President, was in friendly intercourse with him, dis charging the duties of member of his ad- minstration! At a moment, when as it now seems, he considered himself marked by a dishonorable dismission by the President, and while he was endeavourng to excite preju- dice against him in North Carolina, MT Branch still continued to participate in his couI cls!
 He had admitted, and still admits, in his publication, that "A CHANCE" was necessary that he locked for it from the character rt the Chief Magistratc-and yet he arraigns the President for injustice, goant of goiSdom and .frMness, and denounces him for having discarded from "his councils his old and long fried Sufforters!" Here we are given to understand wherein 'fhe change" is con sidered by him "a matter o f deeh concern as ofecting the character of the Government. J MT Branch, it appears, IS impressed with the idea that he ought to have been retained to form the nucleus of new ca5lnet The Pre- sident thought otherwise. If Mir Branch has any other ground on which to base his con- plaints and accusations against the President, he is undoubtedly bound to show 1t. The nation will expect it of hm.-Giobe.
 A Miss MENGLr, of Reading, Penn, was dancing with number of young persons and fell suddenly dead, caused, as lis said, by tight facing and exces sive fatigue. Why will not these repea ed and aw ful warnings lead Co moderation in the indulgence of any pleasure? How frequently do we hear young ladies declare that they danced in every coton tla is from 9 probably until 12 or l o'clock Is it no reasonable to infer that four five hours tie floor occupied in the iatiyueing mazes of the dance, mus produce great excitement and consequent prostra ton of strength-that the head must be giddy-tht muscles unbraced-the limbs jaded, and, (when wt see the detached refreshments eaten at intervals the stomach overloaded and dlsordered2 Why will mol young ladies agree to dance every other or third CO tillonl Why, when the music ceases. do they persist in occupying the same place with another partner, and going through the same figures-tht same steps-the same fatigueing exertions. In ole times was to guard against such boiserous, hoyder and jadng exercise, that minnets invented ant II ade fashionable and nothing could be more grace fnl than an elegant couple walking mnuet with taste and deicacy. If we were to introduce the Spanisl contra ddnce We should avoid the fatigue of the Eng | fish or French cotill0n.
 | But of all sins which mothers stand accountable for, that of permitting their daughters to lace inor dlnatey tight is the most crying. If mothers would attend Il lew lectures on practical anatomy and the
 formation of the chest they would be shocked at tn, inevitable destructive results of compression tigh lacing and be convinced that every pull of the ata cord Is as rulnous to life as the moose is to the con demned maleiactor. But what is intended by tiah lacing? To exhibit fine person. What constitutes a fine person? A shape naturally delicate and fine ly proportioned. Such shape requires no artifcia pressure. Take young lady in robust health, in clined to obesity, and lace her uncommonly tight
 instead Of improving the figure it g' es it the appear ance of an Hour Glass; \. which bulges ou. at tho top and bottom-the circulation of the blood is stop ped, the whole system deranged, and then dancin, drives the blood to the head, and appoplexy ant death cnsues. This fashion is a great despot ant possesses dangerous eccentricity. In Turkey it ii the fashion for ladies to be fat, consequently the, take no pains to check dame nature in her free ant successful course-there, they all fat not propor tonab'y so; but our ladies are only thin-theY thin their waist the most dangerous par of the human structure, and thus walk or dance moving monument or statue, composed of whale bone, stay, tape, and buckram.-N. Y. Courier
 A letter from Missina, dated March, says: "Afte having for several days experienced several shock of an earthquake, of more or less violence, we hay