Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-10
LITERARY Notice


LITERARY Notice
Tux cHnlsrlAs WORLD UsMAsgFD By John Bsr
ridge, A. M. Vicar Of Everton &c With Life
Of the Author, by Rev. Thomas Guthrie. In vol
! PIP POT Boston published by Gould 4 Lincoln.
Sold by Gray Ballantyne, and BY Taylor Maury,
Washington, D. 9.
| Here is an old acquaintance, whom we have
not seen for score Of years--a man of deep
pety and never-failing fnnd Of piqnant hu-
NOR, not to be depressed. The readers Of the
recent Review Of the Life and Times OF Lady
| Huntingdon in the London Quarterly, have
had touch Of his humor. This unmaskng
of the Christian world as it existed century
since, will stand for tho present day, We
have wonderfully improved in our stage-coach-
es turnpike roads, and invented some things
which were not dreamed Of in the times of
old John Barridge; but nothing SO entirely
novel in the way Of piety and the profession
Of piety, that the pictures drawn by him are
not now quite we'll suited to the times,
| Berridge was q great scholar, as well as d.
vine. He studied fifteen hours q day, in order
t, enrich his strong mind with oil the riches
Of ancient literature. But drollery and divn-
| ity were combined with all his attachments, SO
naturally, that the one could not subsist with
out tho other. John Berrdgc is q familiar
name in Old England, and we hops he may
find gracious and smiling welcome to the
homes Of the New World w.
STANLEY, THE ARTIST This gentleman, we
perceive by the latest accounts, was at Fort
Vancouver on the 18th Of December with GOV.
stevens. These long rambles among the wild
forests Of the West are familiar to whim He
once devoted many years to such jaunts, IN
protected and alone, when engaged in making
the collection Of paintings on exhibition at the
Smithsonian. Now that the story Of Catlin's
Imprisonment in England, and consequent will
ingness to sell his collection at any price, has
proved to be a fiction, we suppose that Stan
ley's works will soon find purchaser in the
Government.
A QUAINT CRITicIsM.--A newspaper before
us states, that at the breaking of the ground
for the commencement Of the Lynchburg and
Tennessee Railroad at Lynchbnrg, clergyman
slowly and solemnly read.a manuscript prayer
ut the conclusion of which an old negro man,
who had been resting with one foot on bis
spade and his arms on the handle, looking in
tently in the chaplain's face, straig htened him.
self up and remarked, very audibly, Web,
reckon dat's de fnst time do Lords cher bin
writ to on de suhjic OBJ railroads.
UNITED STATES MINsTERs.--Mr McLane
and his private Secretary, Mr.. lie Roy, were
in France at last advicss on their way to Can
ton and Nankn, China, pia Constantinop.e,
whittier they were to sail with MIR. Spence and
suite in the Saranac, which was at Marseilles
Mr.. McLane, after visiting the celestial capital,
will return to Macao, and embark on board
the Snsquchanna, and 90 with Com. Perry to
Japan in the spring. 50 all the newspapers
state.
\ DIsAsTERs.--So many disasters aby food
and fieldn have probably never before occurred
in this Republic within a single month--dis-
asters by FIRE and by water. A countless mum
Der Of ships have been lost, burned, or injured,
valued with their cargoes at millions Of dollars,
And the losses by fire on shore may also be
reckoned by millions, while many OF these have
also been attended with terrific loss OF life.
EDWIN CRosweLL, Esa.-We learn with
regret from New York papers that this gentle.
man is suffering from severe stroke of paraly-
sis, which leaves little room to hope for his re-
covery. Theatta.k occurred on "Wednesday
I..at Ioft Ia
The Times remarks:
Mr.. Croswel has long been known
throughout the Union az the Editor of the Al
bany argus and as one OF the ablest and mot
influential politicians in the State For some
years past, he has been Secretary Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, aud resident Of
New York city"
u. \. Consul AT GENoA.--Mr. + Foresti,
upon whom this appointment was conferred by
the President has been rejected by The Gov
eminent at Turin. They refuse to recognise
him. because OF his having been concerned in
the Italian movement in New York, last spring,
in the affair Of the refugees brought by the
frigate San Giovanni. Another ground OF
ofsnce is that Foresti is said to BIO implicated
with the friends Of Mazzini in their hostility
against the present Government Of Sardinia
| FILIBusTERIEG The last rumors relative to
the "March Mareh Morthin party, are
FIRST that an expedition is to be fitted out, 70
proceed TO the Peruvian coast, and, taking ad-
vantage Of tho state Of war betwcen Bolivia
and Peru, are TO hoist the Bolivian flag and
conquer the Peruvian feet The fiIibusters
are TO be Immediately followed by an immense
feet Of merchantmen, who are to make an at
tack on the deposits Of guano ON the Lobos
Islands, and remove them to the cotton lands
Of the Southern States. lt il Supposed that the
guano will pay large profit above the cost Of
the expedition.
The second march is t. be executed upon
the Mosquito coast This country is to he
possessed for the purpose Of transporting