The evils which afflict the United States are the joint
productions of all parties and all classes. They have been protium' by over-banking over-trading, over-spending, over-dashing, over-driving, over-reaching, over-cheating, over. burrowing,, over-eating, over-drink Mg, over-praying, over-sinning, over-thinking, over-playing, over-riding, over-tipling, over-fidling, and over-acting, of every kind and description—except over. ploughing, which alone is the foundation of society, and the corner-stone of civilization. In such a country as this, with millions of acres of fine rich land, and plenty of room to move in, we cannot over-plough; and, by a very natural consequence, we cannot over- marry, unless a man is mad enough to take two wives, and in that ease the crime always carries its own punishment with it. Neither can we over-love the beauteous sex, if we educate them properly, dress them up elegantly and simply, teach them piety and love, and make them tit companions for immortal beings either in this world or that which is to come.—New York Paper.
The steamer Ben Sherrod, Captain Castleman, left New Orleans on Sunday morning, the 7th of May, bieind to Louisville; and on the night of the Sth, when about thirty miles below Natchez, she was found to be enveloped in flames, and out of nearly two hundred persons on board, only about fifty or sixty were saved. In a few lll i l lutes after the fire was discovered, the whole boat was enveloped in flames. So rapid was the spread of the fire, and so destitute were those on board of all means of escape, that nothing could be saved, not even the register of the boat ; so that it is impossible to say how inany were lost, or what were their names. The passengers and crew amounted to over 160. One scene was distressing in the extreme. A young and beautiful lady, on hearing the cry of fire, rushed out of the ladies' cabin, in her loose dress, in search of her husband, at the same time holding her infant to her bosom. In endeavouring to go forward, her dress caught fire, and was torn from her back to save her life. After witnessing her husband full into the flames in the forward part of the boat, unable to reach him, she leaped with her child into the water, seized a plank, and was carried by the eurrent width' eight yards of the Columbus; but just as she had seized a rope thrown front the steam- boat, both mother and child sunk to rise no more.—New York Paper.
It is under consideration to despatch the French mail by powerful steam-boats from Greenwich every evening at • o'clock. They will reach Boulogne the following morning about seven o'clock, and the letters will then be delivered in Paris within thirty hours from the time they start from Greenwich.
Mr. Jesse, one of the principals in the outrage at Windsor, is fond of practical jokes ; as, if we have been truly informed, it was Mr. Jesse and Mr. C. Sheridan that carried Dr. —, nolens edam, in an omnibus, about two miles, in his dressing-gown and nightcap; we will not say more.—Morning Post.
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