General Intelligence

Taking the Veil.- We learn from the Baltimore Sun, that the imposing ceremony of taking the white veil. was on Tuesday performed at the Carmelite Nunnery, n the chapel attochedto the rostitution, which was witnessed by a large concours of spectators The caiuüdate for the vci!, Miss Courtney oí Charles county, RIarylond, al tended by Mif-s Ellen Louisa Jenkins, of this city, in the capacity of bridesmaid, entered the chapel about 9 o'clock, both dressed in pure white, with embroif'erod veils thrown over their headf, taking thèir seats directly in front of the altar, among ïhe aiidience. The sacrament of high mass was thcn performed by Rev. Mr. Gildea, nnd also administered to the applicant for hoiy orders. The Rev. Archbishnp Eccleton entered ; arrayed ín the pontificáis of his station, when the curtains behind the grating of the cloitors, were drawn, and aboat L0 sisters, all dressed in white, with heavy black veils thrown over their heads and shoul ders, each bearing in her hand a lighted taper, were perceived walking two and two towards door leading into the chnpel. The candidate for the veil was received by the reverend mother, a lighted faper wreatbed with flowers placed in her hand, and conducted within the precincts of the nunnery, ihe sisters with their lighted tapers following, which was visiLle to the auoience through the gratings. The Archbishop read a possage of sciipture, pro- claiming the reward of those who forsake the world and all the ties of kindred to follow Christ, as the authonty of the church for the dedication which was about to be performed and dflivered an eloquent nddress directed principally to the young noviciate. TheSuu says: "She then approached the railings, and the Archbishop questioned her as folio ws: "My child, what do you demand?" to which she ansvvered, "The mercy of God, nnd the holy habit of religión." Q. "Is it of your own free will tbat you demand the holy faith of religión." A. "Yes, it is." Q. 'My child have yon a firm intention to pers? rere in religión to the end of your Üfe, and do you hope to have sufïïcient strength to carrv conetantly the sweet yoke of our Lord Jesus Christ solely for the love and fear of God?" A. "Relying on the mercy of God, I hope to be able so to do." The novice then arose, and retired, conducted by the stiperioress and assistants, to put off her secular dress, and returned in n few minutes arrayed in the religious habit of the order. She then kneeled down, and her secular veil being removed by the assistent s. she was girded with a cincture by the superiores?, and received the veil of the church, previously prostrating herself before the altar. She was then raised and ealtited by the superioress, after which she saluted all the sisiers present, when tiey retired in the precise order in which thcy had entered, chaunting the same low and solemn hymn which had been heard throughout thegreafer part of the ceremony. The extreme beauty of the novice, the solemnity of the ceremony, and her firm and unfaltering carriage and manner, rendered the scène one of unusual interest."Fvnerah.- The N. Y. correspondent of the National Intelligencer says that funerala are rather more expensive in New York and Boston than in any other city, except New Orleana, (wheie they eay a man may afford lo live who cannot afford to die.) A respectable funeral in New York costs frotn two hundred to eight hundred dollars. They line their coffins more expensively in Philadelphia (han clsewhere - wilh satin or veWef. instead oT ffarinel- and bury the dead in silk etockings and white gloves. We havo not yetarrived at the céremony of hired ;nourners, as in England; nor of plumea to the henrse and horses. The writer%;ays he liad a conversation wit!) a Mr. D , of New York, a most respectablo undertaker', relaiive to Hiñerais, cóffins, burying aüve, preserving dead bodies unchanged. etc. He bnried from six to eight hundred persons onnually, and never had-infered thesatne gentleman twice, orknó'wn of a perso being bnried alive. He had Fpent much time and money, howéver, lo keep people de:id (dead pnoplc. He thotiglit that in ah éxhaus.ted receiver, made of an iVon cylinder to resist the presare of iheair, the body could be kepl unchnnged for ftftv yenrs, drid tl.trt, immersed in spirits, and enclo.=ed in ead, the face would be rccognizable after twenty yearé.Miisstichvsct's.- The official canvass of the vofes for Cenofees elects only Mr. Grinnell n tlie Burnstable district. In tlie eixtii district, Barker, Whig, Jacks only 78 votés of an election, Iti thé seventh, Rockwel!, Whlg, wants 205. In the thiid district, AbbtTt, Whig-, hfia n plurality, bUt is 512 short óf an election. - Adv. The Altori Telegraph say tliat a contract Tor 1,000 head of Hogs hns been made at that place at Si' 75 to %l per hundred, according lo weiht. Btiyers are unwilling to' gwe more, and seller are unwiliing lo take #Lper hundred- the Jatter iliinkirjor (ó géi moré' at the heel of thó'seasón". Great Sale of U. 8. Muskets.-Messrs.L. M. Hoffman & Co. advertised Í4.000 muskets to be sold in New York, on the L3d, by order of the WW Dejiártments.The femaíe dynasty is gaining ground. I mentioned in a previous Jelter that a Ladies' Oysler Shop was opened in New York and a Ladies Reading Room projected. The latter 3 since orjranized and about going into ope ration, and meantime another masculine privilege has gone over to the ladie. A Chh Bolding Jiuey jlas Deen eitabüshedün Bro.idway, nenr Franklin street, musí iuxurious in all lts appointments - carpet?, cttomans, c!reLsing-rooms, k.c. The families eub.cribjng are oftlie mosl fashionable diques, ond no male foot is suffpred to enter this gynecian gymnasium - the pins being set up by girls and the ottendance excluseively feminine. The loxuries remaining to our sex up to the pressent time are fenc:ng and boxng-lbo usurpations of wliich ate probably under consideralion. The fahion you wculJ suppose would sCdrcely gain by maRCulinifyinï, but the ladies are weiring hroadcloths cloaks for a beginning. There is another amele which they have long boen said lo wear occasionallyjbut 1 am increduIouF. Seeing would be believing-. -WilUslothe. JYat.1,,1, A Neto Qwesiion. - It is pow suggested that Mr. Dorr cannot bï indicted for treason in Rhode Island, because the old charter government agoinst which ho rebelled has been abolished. The aulhor of the sugestión adds "A government can only punish treason againát itself. One governmentTcannot pnnish any man for trenson against another government". He calis for a habeos corpus. The Female eye.--A modern writcr gives the following enumeration of the various cxpreseions of the female eye: - 'The glare, the stare, the sneer, the invitation, the defiance, the denial, the consent, the glance of love, the flash of rage, the eparkling of hope, the lanuishment of eoftness, the squint of suspicion, the fire of jealousy, and the lustre of pleasure.'l he blale of Mame owes a debt of $1,700,f'00- There is now in hs treasury a snplus of which, the last legislnture, directed the Treasorer to piirchasethe script at par, but it cannot be obtained wilhout paying a considerable premium, and consequently the inoney lays idle. Fourteen daily newspapers are now published in Cmcinnati, Ohio, of wliich five (two Germán) are democrar, and five (one Gerraan) whigr, one liberty, and three neutral in poli- !ics. Mr. Severance of the Kennebec Journal c íme from Wasliinston a few years ao a jour neyman printer. He now goes back a ftiem ber of Congress. One thousand one hnndred and eighteen buildings have been erected in Boston since the first of January last.' Time. - It is estimated that 500,000 wooden clocks have been made during the last year, in Connecticuf . To dissuade nis followers from acts of vioJence, O'Connell tells thermthat one live Repealer is worth one hundred dead ones. Rosolulions in favor of Jinnexing Texas to the Union, have been adopted at a public meeting in Belleville, Illinois, Gov. Reynolds advocating them.