’ they might then be able to deluge the whole Western

SUPPLEMENT TO HASZARD’S GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 22.

Lirrran I-‘ROM cexaiuir. wiLr.i1iiiis.

The St. John Courier says:—We publish with pleasure the snbjoined letter from this gallant oﬂicer,, which ivas recently received in this city by his rcla-i tives. While in coirunon with his many admirers, in‘ this and the neiglihouring Provinces, we are glad to, know of the kindness which he experiences in hisi captivity, we earnestly hope that his detention at' Moscow will he of short duration, and that ere long his talents iriay be made available for his country's service, in which he has already distinguished himself in so eminent a degree.

Guaiai (Georgia), December 2d, 1855

Mr DEAR Sisrsns.—I wrote you a few lines fi-oin the Russian camp before Kara, on the 22d ultimo. On the following morning, we found the whole country covered with snow, and started for Russia reaching Gumri last night. “'0 have been received with the greatest kindness and hospitality—the Russian ollicers vieing with each other in evincing their respect. I told you in my last how kindly and nobly Gen. Mouraviefi had acted, and I feel sure, until we quit the Russian soil in full liberty, we shall experience the saino treatment. In two days we go off in carraiges to Tillis, and shall there prepare for our long journey to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Every care will be taken to ensure our safe passage across the Caucasian mountains. (The Russians lost two hundred and fifty oflicers on the day of’ our battle.) From Tiﬂis I will again write via Tabreez, so that the chain of your cor- respondence will be kept up. Do not write yourselves until I tell you to do so, as all your letters must be opened Yours affectionately,

W. F. WILLIAMS.

Foiissiotrr or Omvsii. Gor.nsm1;u.-—Nearly a hundred years ago, poor, simple Goldie thus wrote in " The Citizen of the World.” The allusion is to the Seven-Years War:

“ You tell me that the people of Europe are wise, but wherein lies their wisdom? They are engaged in war among each other, yet apply to the Russians, their neighbors and ours, for assistance. Cultivating such an alliance argues at once imprudence and timidity. I cannot avoid beholding the Russian empire as the natural enemy ofthe more Western parts of Europe; as an enemy ali-endy possessed ofgreat strength, and from the nature of its government, every day threat- uirig to become more powerful. It was long the wish of Peter, their great monarch, to haven fort in some of the Vllestern parts of Europe; many of his schemes and treaties were directed to tltis end; but happily for Europe he failed in them all. A fort in the power of the people would be like the possession ofn ﬂood-gate; and whenever ambition, interest, or necessity pronijted,

world with a barbarous inundation. Believe me, my friend, Ieunnot suﬂiciently ea-ntemn the politicians of Europe who thus make this powerful people arbitrators in their quarrel. If once they (the Russians) get footing in the Western parts of Europe it is not the feeble efforts of the sons of effeminacy and dissention that can serve to remove them.”

Niirouon I.—Napoleou was far from being a hand- some child. His head w.is too large for his body, ant his features were in no way very agreeable. His rip- pearance, as is well known, underwent, subsequently, ll great improvement. " What was particularly pleas- ing about him," says Madame d’ Abrantese, when he becamoa young man, was the expression he int'used into his countenance in his moments ol kindness.—His smile was captivating; but the forehead which was to be encircled by the crowns of the world—the hands, of which the most coquettish woman would have been vain, were never remarked in the child, and were scarcely discernnblo in the stripling. Of all the chil- dren of Madame Bonaparte, the Emperor was one who gave least expectation of ever attaining to extraordi- nary fortune.

Wrist is it Moaasotr.—-A Mormon is a living pa- tradox; liovsays grace before it cotillion, swears in his sermons, selects his texts indiﬂ‘erentl_v from the Bible, the Book of Mormon, an Almanac orthe President's Message, and is perpetually quarrelliug for the sake of poses-—lrlis religion is a joke, and he makes the bait jury taller the chief of the quorum. He assumes dig- nitics, but has not the slightest respect for them; and thacﬂisct of his piety is apparently to put him on a level with the greatest rcprobates of the time. In short ho‘ is the Latter Day Saint, or in other words, the last’ one on would think of calling a saint. ,=

-In oI'mt.l.l0lI is wanted, of the whereabouts of Enoch, Jewel, late of Wesley, who loft home the latter art oflast November, intending to go into the British ro- vinecs to be absent only a few ‘WOORI. Ha was on a’

" dlirig tour, esrrisil watches and jewelry, and his

' absence causes his family great anxiety, and ran-

Icrs tboir circuinstancos vary needy. He was of small

wise and dark complexion. Any information consorti-

ind liiinoas is directed to the cities of the Msclilaa Union, Me.

A vouxa MAN‘:-i cusrucrsn.

No young man who has ajust sense of his mvn value will sport with his own cliaracter. A watchful regard to his character in early youth, will be ofinconceivable \'aluo to him in all the remaining years of his life. VVlien tempted to deviate from strict propriety ofdeportnient, he should ask hirnso-lf, canl afford this? can Iendure hereafter to look back upon this?

It is of aniazing worth to a young man to have a pure character. The mind, in order to be kept pure, must be employed in topics ofthought which are themselves lovely, ehastened, aml elevating. Thus the mind hath in its own power the selection ot' its themes of irieditatioii. If youth only knew hoiv durable and how dismal is the injury pro- duced by the indulgence of dt-graded thoughts, if they only realized how frightful are the moral depravilies which a cherished habit of loose imagination produces on the son|— they would shun them as the bite of a serpent. The power

of books to excite the imagination, is a fearful element of:

moral death when employed in the service of vice.

The cultivation of an amiable, elevated, and glowing lienrt, alive to all the beauties of nature, and all the subli- inities of truth, iuvigorates the intellect, gives to the will independence of baser passions, and to tho affections that power of adhesion to wluilever is pure, and good, and grand, which is adapted to lead out the whole nature o man into those scenes of action and impression by which its energies may most appropriately be employed, and by which its high destination may be most effectually reached.

The opportunities of exciting these faculties in benevolent and self-denying efforts for the welfare of our felloiv-men, are so many iind great, that it really is worth while to live. The heart which is truly evangelically benevolent, may luxuriate in an age like this. The premises ofGod are inexpressibly rich, the main tendencies of things so manifestly in accordance with them, the extent of moral in- ﬂttence is so great, and the effects of its employment so visible, that whoever aspires aller benevolent action, and reaches forth things that remain for us, to the true dignity orhiu nature, can find free scope for his intellect, and all- aspiring themes for the heart.

Rorrrscuir.n.—Baron Anselm Rotchschild, of Frankfort, is said to have left a fortune of from 40,000,000 to 50,000,- 000 ﬂorins. He has left the stun of l.200,t)00 ﬂorins to continue the aims which he was in the linbit of distributing every week, as well as for the distribution of wood to the

oor in winter. To the fund for giving a dower to Jewish maidens he has left 50,000 ﬂorins; to the fund for the sick as well as the Jewish hospital, l0.000 ﬂorinii each; to the Jewish school, 50,000 floi-ins, and sums of 3000 florins tothe several Christian establishments. 'l‘o the clerks who have been more than twenty years in the firm he has left ‘£000 ﬂorins each: to the others 1000; to the juniors from 300 to 500 florins, and many legacies to servants. It is said that he has left to his godson, Sir Anthony Rothschild, ofLondon, £2,000,000, and an equal share with the other nephews and nieces of the residue of his estate.

POPULAII RBADlNO.—-The Ilaily Mus, at the close of an iirticle on the propriety of sending good books to the East instead of deluging the hospitals and camps with “ tracts," says: “ VVhi|e the world in general supposes the popular rage to be exclusively for fiction. the booksellers can tell that the money of the working classes is spent mainly in scientific works. VVe ourselves lnippen to know that in the same space oftiine which it took to sell little more than two thousand copies of ‘ ii highly popular novel,’ by one of our most successful novelists, twelve thousand copies were sold of an expensive illustrated geological work in five volumes.”

Bciiurirur. Sss'ri.\iss'r.-Shortly before the departure of the lamented Heber for India he preached it sertiion which contained this beautiful illustration;

“ Life bears us on like a stream of a mighty river. Our boat at first glides down the narrow chsnnel—through the playful murmuring ofthe little brook and the winding of its grassy borders. The trees shed their blossoms over our young heads, the ﬂowers on the brink seem to offer them- selves to our young hands; we are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the beauties around us—-but the stream hurries on, and still our hands are empty. Our course in youth and manhood is along a wider and deeper ﬂood, amid objects more striking and magnificent. We are animated at the moving picture of enjo meat and industry passing III: we are excited at some a ort lived dissppoiritinent. The stream bears us on, and our joys and griefs are alike left behind us. We may be shipwrecked, we cannot be delayed; whether rough or smooth, the river hastens to its borne till the roar of the ocean is in our cars, and the tossing ofths waves is beneath our feet, and then land lessons from our eyes, and the floods are lifted up around us, and we take our leave of earth and its inhabitants, until of our further voy- age there is no witness save the infinite and eternal!"

Firrssrr Ciiinnarir A1‘ A I"esriut..——Mr. Otis Russell, who died in Marlboro’ last week, was the father of sixteen children, all of them by one wife. One of them is s ro- aidcnt of one of the Women States; the other fifteen, with their mother, were present at the funeral.

rm: Gai:.i'r l)t.\MOND IN 'rur: aunsu.

In the first volume of the quarto edition of “ I’. S. “ l’all:is's Travels tlirougli the Southern Provinces of “ the Russian Empire in the years I793 and 1794," which was taken from a wreck on the coast of Cape Cod, we ﬁnd a very full and interesting account of “The Moon ofthe Mountain"-—tlic celebrated diamond of Rus- sian Royalty.

Pallas was Counsellor of State to the Czar Alexander, and during his stay at Astrokan became acquainted with heirs of Grigori Safarov Shnfrass, the Armenian who sold the precious gear to Russia.

Shah Nadir lllltl in his ilirone, with this diamond, an- other of equal splz.-ndor called the “Sun of the Sea.”

At the time of his assassination the soldiers secured and secretly sold many of the richest ornaments belong- ing to the Persian Croivn.

Shafrass, also named Millionshik, or the Man of Mil- lions, resided at Bassora. One day an Arganian Chief visited him, and proposed to sell the diarriond, with other precious stones. lie was surprised at the low price de- manded, and affirming that he had not money enough to buy the jewels, asking time to consult two brothers who were in business with him. The suspiciousCliiefdid not appear again. The Armenian, with the approval of his brothers, went in pursuit of the vender. He wandered in vain in search of the treasure. Shafrass at length ac- cidentally niet the Arganian in Bagdatl, and bought all the jewels in his possession for 50,000 piastres.

The gem of the first water, with a large emerald and ruby, was laid away in brilliant seclusion for twelve years. Then the Armenian, whose fears of losing the Royal plunder were overcome by the love of money, set off with the jewels for a market. Passing through lhatn and Constantinople, he directed his course across Hungary and Silesia to Amsterdam, where he made the ﬁrst public display of the beautiful stones. and oﬂ'ered them for sale. It is said that the English Government was among the bidders. Russia sent for the “ Moon of the Mountain,” promising to pay the expenses of transmitting it if not purchased. The Russian Minister, Count l’anin, through M.Laseref, court jeiveller, made the following oﬂ'er: Sha- frass was to have the patent of hereditary nobility, an annual pension of 6,000 rubles, i. c., 34,500 during life, and 500,000 rubles or $375,000 in cash. The Armenian feeling that “ blessings brighten as they take their ﬂight}: became so extravagant in his demands, that the negotia- tion wus broken oﬂ'nnd the diamond returned.

Shafrass was now in trouble. His outliiy had been great, and he had lrorrowed large amounts. He abscond- ed, and went back to Asirakan. Afterward, Count Gri- goricritsli Orlof renewed the Russian offer to pttrchasd; and Shafrass accepted 450,000 rubles. or $337,500, ready money, together with the grant of Russian nobility. About one quarter oftlie sum was paid to the negotiators, and the rest, which at the death of the Armenian was the dower of his daughters, was squandered by the extrava- gance of their husbands. The diamond was secure, and shines on. though Royal eyes ivliicli hclield its liglit with pride of power have lost their fire forever. '

Such is the story of the Moon of the l\lountain—lhe ornament ofa sceptre which is shalcn now in its nice over the doniain of the Sultan. Who shall tell its Iris- iory in the future?

IMPERIAL ECEPTER OI‘

Dir. Vcr.i-i.i:Au nan iris I.tiVl-2 Pownt-:as.—-.I.C. Merrill, alias Dr. VI.Ilplt‘ﬂll, the love-powder man, whose arrest and subsequent discharge was noticed by us about six weeks ago, was yestrrday arrested by Policeman Farley,

charged with ileframling various parties in the West, by advertising in the Western newspapers that if any one

would send 32 he would furnish them wiili a powder, by the use ot which they could win the affections of any of the opposite sex who would be induced to swallow the powder. By these advertisements it appears he has re- ceived from 30 to 40 letters per day, many of which con- tained money ; and several persons who have bought and tried the powder, and found it wanting in the qualities attributed to it by the Dr. have written to the Mayor about it, and Mr. Wood says he is determined to stop the love- powder business. When the Dr. was first arrested, he promised to. malie. more powders, and to return the mo- ne_v that he should receive to the senders. The Mayor locked him up to await examination.--New-York Tri- buns.

A pious minister after lecturing a ragged Sunday school class in a most edifying manner, proposed to close the exercise by singing, “Jordan;” meaning the hymn “On Jordan’s stormy banks 1 stand.” 'l'he worthy man was horrified by hearing the whole school immedi- ately strike up’ “Jordan am a hard road to travel, I believe.”