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CHROMCLE AND SENTINEL. av«us t a .| WEDNESDAY MORNING, INARCH 25. We are indebted to Messrs, ijiwson, Haber sham and King, for copies of a letlLr addressed by a portion of the Georgia delegaliolt to Governor McDonald, assigning their for declining to present the resolutions of the t|st Legislation on the Maine difficulty. It shdi fippear to-mor- j row - I A bill legalizing marriages betw jen blacks and whites, has passed to a second readpg in the Sen- | ate of Massachusetts by a vole of I*7 to 7. H Foot Race. | A rather novel race. Four Mi'ieti came off over the Mobile turf, on the last day of thfj Spring meet ing, between a Kentuckian and a ifong Islander, the latter proved the victor. Time of Ist mile 6m. 34a. 1 M “ 2d “ 6m. 38a. s « “ 3d “ 6m. 39a. f « “ 4th “ 6m.215. | Aggregate. 36m. 12s. For the Chronicle f Sent iel. Mr. Editor :—I hope the lab unpropitiou* state of the weather will not dete our citizens from attending the Lectures now iii progress at the Medical College. Besides, enco iraging those, by whose efforts this important Su|a Institution is rapidly requiring <t character; r.h<| subjects pre sented, and the manner in which |;hey are de monstrated by the Professor, arc w|;ll worth our attention. A rich entertainment is thro raised all who may attend; and it is with |i:grct I learn, and wish the fact impressed upon Uiis communi ty, that this will be the last opportunity ever of fered them from the same source. |l argues but a poor taste for science or literatur i among us, when such indifference is manifest* I cannot but hope to sec a belter attendance this evening at the College, when th< second Lec ture will be delivered. A Native O’itizejt. Correspondence of the Philadelphia No) sh American. New Y'okk, March S*>, 3 p. k. I am glad to notice a decided improvement in the exchanges between us and you. | The rate of discount to-day is but 4| a5. If wllile your Le gislature is wailing to make up their ininds abou 1 what shall be done with suspension,!you should float into specie payments, they wou ji find them selves at once out of the woods. The arrivals of Cotton have been irge yestcr day and to-day, and the sales quite Ii fitted in ex tent, and prices 4-ct lb. lower than lasfweek. Flour is dull, though sales are H iking more or less. Southern sorts are 5,12 a 5, :6. Gene see 5,50 a 5,62. There was a good sale of Teas t|-day at the Phoenix Sales Room—cargoes of Florida, Cashmere, dec. The company wa| large and bid with spirit. The prices obtained were quite equal to those of the last sale. Th e Florida’s cargo was chiefly withdrawn, the hollers having strong confidence that the affair belt een China and England, will produce more el ect on tea than has yet been developed. Manhattan Bank is rising under th \ expecta tion of good management hereafter. Exchange on Baltimore a4| ; 5 obile and New Orleans 4| a 5. Correspondence of the Baltimore P triot. Philadelphia, March 20— \a. m. As far as I have learned, the only eff ct the in telligence from Europe, per steami * British Queen, at New York, has had upon ot r market, j is that of causing nearly every desc iption of 1 Stocks to decline in price. U. S. Ba ik fell off full 2 perct. Wilmington R. R., somt hlng like fifty cts. a share; Girard bankremai edfirm at previous rates. Correspondence of the North Ame can. Harrisburg, Ms ,ch 19. Mr. McElwee gave notice, that he t*iould ask leave to bring in a bill to compel th»| hanks to resume specie payments, and to preveht the cir culation of foreign notes under $5. The Committee of Conference had i meeting this afternoon. There was nothing dont I think, if I am rightly’informed, that the Hoasi Commit tee insisted upon retaining the number t»f five, and as a matter of course the Committee o& the part of the Senate would not confer with it s this jus tifies my assertion that there was nolbitng done- It is now settled to a certainty that ml bill com pelling an immediate resumption, or b *bre Sep tember next, will be passed. The sanguine friends of the m asure give it up, cone ding that they are beaten out, and cannot ral y a force sufficient to the task, which at one tin a appear ed so easy to perform, A Post Office has been established t Chun alauski, Floyd county and John F. Price ap pointed Post Master. Hob. Thomas Butler King The correspondent of the Baltimon I Patriot speaking of the speech of the Hoa.l’uoxAS Butiei K.i*g, on the Treasury Note ijsil. savs : Mr. Kixg, of Georgia, addressed the Ofnmitlee for about two hours to-day. in a speech wjdch has i placed him m a high rank for intelligence and debating power. Redisplayed great acuteness and vigor of snind in arguing the coastslulional , question, and was no less felicitous m nxposin* the inexpediency of the Administration’! mode of 1 •apply! ig the deficit which had been j reduced I by their own prodigality and wasteful fitrava gance. By a very clear and cogent chain of r asoning on the nature, operation, and inevitable fleets of the policy, he demonstrated that the ns it would be, iu real ty, the establishment of a ( oters kist Baxk; and he charged the . dminis tratioi? with having that in view as tl sir true object. I In conclusion, Mr. Kixg offered a si ibstitute which proposes, in effect, to supply the necessa ry wants of the Government by a direct iioan. Mr. Kixr, was listened to throcglnut the whole of his speech with earnest aiteition by the House and a large audience, and wai honor ed also with the attendance of several of t ie most distinguished members of the Senate. A Russiav Embassy to Chika. It is sta ted that an em'-assy to ?t. Peotersborg i about to set out for Pekin, and th.v th- embassy Consists of military officers of distmctaoQ, whose faiasion may be presumed to be that of assisting t e Chi nese by their counsel in the approaching ;oaflict with Great Britain. ■ From the New Orleans Picayune,]ith inst. Destructive Fire.— Abont ten o’clock last night, a fire broke out in the bookstore and sta tionery warehouse of D. I elt & Co., No. -4 Chartres street. The flames rapidly extended to the houses on either side, viz: to Ami stead & j Spring’s foreign and domestic dry good store No. 23, and to L. Chittenden’s importing silk and fancy store No. 26. Notwithstand the indefati- | gabie exertions of the firemen, the flames took a \ northerly direction and rapidly consumed the j clothing store of Paul Tulane, & Co., No. 28, ; j and tiic saddlery and harness warehouse of Smilo ! Cantzon & Co., No. 30. corner of Chartres and j Customhouse streets, and here the firemen stop- j ■ ped the ravages of the devouring element. j We know not the loss sustained, nor the amount insured ; it must have been over a hundred thou- j ] sand. We have heard that some persons were f injured by the falling of the walls, hut for the present we must decline giving particulars. Texas. From the N. O. Picayune of the 12th in a t., we cut the following items of news from the Re public. Yesterday the steam packet ship Col'intbia, , Henry Windle master, arrived from Galveston. To the politeness of Captain W. we are indebt- j cd for dates from Houston to the 3d, and from j Galveston to the 7th inst. The Austin Gazette of the 19th ult. says, “By ; the arrival of Col. H. M’Leod, direct from Bex- j ar, we are enabled to contradict the rumors which j have been so prevalent the last few days, of a Mexican force having crossed the Rio Grande. The Mexicans are assembling «n army at Mon teray, but it would appear that it is rather for the purpose of establishing a military post on the Rio Grande to prevent their own territory from invasion, than to invade the territory of Texas.” The Treasury has stopped issuing, and will not in future issue any new Promissory Notes of , the Republic; the amount at present in circula- i tion being deemed sufficient to meet all necessa ry expenses of (he Government. [The following items, which are the latest news from Western Texas, we glean from a pri vate communication addressed to us by Colonel Geo. Fisher. We regret that our limits will not allow us to publish more of his communica tion.] “ The Federal Army of Mexico after making an unsuccessful attack on Monterey, retired to the towns of Guerrero (Revilla) and Laredo, on the Rio Grande. A Convention was held at La redo, (a town on the left bank of the Rio Grande) which declared its independence from Mexico, or ganized a provisional government for the “ lie public of Rio Grande'' and installed a General Council. Jesus de Cardenas, a lawyer by pro fession, and lately Political Chief of the North ern department of Tamaulipas, was elected Pre sident of the Republic; Gen. Antonio Caaalles was invested with the command in chief of the army. “ The new government is calling for volunteer aid. and expects to receive it from Texas and the United States; it is said that it will be more lib eral with the quantum of bounty land than any other government ever was. The property of the Church and Convents, including their large landed estates, will be appropriated for the pay and the bounty of the volunteers. “ The Convention at Laredo, declaring their independence from the Republic of Mexico, and j organizing the provisional Government of the I Republic of Rio Grande, claim all the country ! formerly known as Taraaulipas, as far as the Me dina rivers, and into the interior so far as the Mountains, (La Sierra Madre.) embracing New ; Leon, Zacatacas. Durango, Chihuahua and New Mexico-—for which purpose they met at Laredo, ! within the limits of Texas, according to the es tablished limits of our laws. “The Central troops, under the command of General Mariano Arista, left Monterey in pursuit i of the Federalists, and were marching in several smull divisions to the Kio Grande. The Coman che Indians, to the number of about 500 warriors made an incursion into Mexico, and penetrated so far as the “ Real de Catorce,” (in the state of ; San Louis Potosi.) committing great deprada- i tions upon the lives and property of the Mexi- j cans. On their return from the interior, they fell i in at Salinas with a division of 200 infantry, of General Arista’s force, and attacked and killed every man. The Federal, or rather the indepen dent army at Laredo, Guerrero, and Casa Blan ca, amount to the number of from 1000 to 1200 ■ men. General Arista’s force was, previous to i the Indian attack, 300 men. Gen. Canalizo is ; still at Matainoras, with about 600 men of the Central forces. From the New York Herald. Foreign Items. The Affairs or Ikjha asd East—The relative positions of Russia axdExglaxd. —lt appears now to be no 1 mger doubted that the soldiers of England and Russia will soon meet, and have a bloody fihgt. in the plains be tween Persia and Affighnistan. The operations of Russia toward-, Khiva, as a preparatory step, we have elsewhere detailed. The movements of England in this quarter, so far have been most prosperous. Russia is coming down with nearly 100,000 men round the eastern shores of the Caspian to ; Knava. England is marching on towards Herat with an equally large force, in a double front, as it were. The northern army under Sir John Keane has captured Cabul, Candahar, and Ghiznee, and subdued all Affghnistan, and the extreme out post of this part of the army is now at Herat, which place although nominally governed by the Sultan of Herat, is defended, fortified and controlled by British officers, and munitions of war supplied by England. But, as the British troops would be liable to be harrassed ia their war, if any part of the adjacent country was left unconquered, a quarrel was pick ed with the reigning prince of Bulochistan, Sleh reb Khan his capital city Kelat was stormed and taken, himself and all his principal soldiers killed, and the whole of the important province of Bulo chistan, (of which Kelat is the capital) reduced and placed under British control. So that now i Great Britain governs and possesses all Hindostan, I Bulochistan, and Affghistan.from Chinese Tartary ! up to the very confines of Western Persia, and j Knava, and from the Bay of Bengal almost to the ; sandy shores of the sea of Aral and the Caspian I ea. i Such is the exact position of the great rival j powers in the east. Two mere puppets, Shah j Soojah, anc Kamram, tools of England, are crown -1 ed kings of Affghnis'an and Herat; neither of these ; places are strongly fortified ; neither of these two , kings hold any communication with Persia or ' Russia. Dost Mahommed has been driven into . .he mountains ofTartary.but stands ready to come down at a favorable period, “like a wolf oa the field.” Persia is in a state of rebellion, and the Schah is in a helpless state at Teheran, wishing to assist Russia against Khiva, but fearful of being invaded by the British, if be does. So England has also completely subjected Nepaul, or lower Hindostan, and is preparing for another war with the Burmese. And a great decisive blow for "more empire will be struck very soon, and Khiva will be the battle ground. IxPORTAXT FROM COXSTAWTIXOPLE.— The French Ambassador M. dePontois, ha* thought fit to demand explanation on the subject of the immense preparations made at Odessa, and in the ports of the Black bca. The Porte did not reply in a satisfactory manner. The french envoy signified to the Divan that he was aware of the intention of the Porte to call in Russia u» iu aid ; and that, in the name of France, he pro tested against a disembarcatioa of Russian troops • on any point of the Ottoman territories. Tbo 1 Porte it is said refused to receive bis note. ( On Monday last, the American diver, Samuel Scntt. took hia second leap from the main-top-gal- i gallantyard arm of the San Josef, in Plymouth I Sound, being a height of 190 feet, without any injury. The Fnr.xca Ministry. —A postscript in a Paris letter in the New York Courier, says: The great probability is, that this night the ' Moniteur Parisien will announce the formation of a Ministry, of which M. 1 hiers, as Minister ; for Foreign Affairs, and President of the Coun cil, will be the head. For the others you care ! nothing. They will be Cubieres, Rerausat Palet de la Lozere, J, Vivien. &c. The Theirs minis try will be a strong one, but it is one forced on | the King. Extract from the Washington Correspondence of the Louisville Journal. It has been proposed in the Pennsylvania Le gislature to invite Gen. Jackson to visit that State next summer. The old Hero’s dry bones arc to j he waggoned about in the coming contest, as a sort of specific against Whiggery. He is to go about working miracles, and casting out devils, ! in the name of the party,- —he will cleanse politi j cal lepers, —and. doubtless, many will come unto j him to be baptized m the true faith. W hen this ! old man dies, we may expect to bear, that his | body is made into a mummy :—a sort of deified i democrat —to whose tomb, like that of Mahomet, I pilgrims will repair, to be purified trotn their po ' litical sins. But it will not do! the presence of Gen. Jackson in Ohio and Pennsylvania will act like the Ghost on Hamlet, to nerve the purpose of the people for speedy and certain revenge. Maxhattax Bank.—lt affords us great plea sure to announce the election of William M. "V cr milye, Esq. as casnier of the Manhattan Bank. I Mr. Vermilye has been for many years cashier of I the Merchants’ Exchange Bank, and is a gentle man universally esteemed. We may add that his integrity and financial ability afford good as surance that under his management the affairs of the Manhattan Bank will be ictrieved. —A”. Y. Com, Fives axd Fifties.— The Legislature of Indiana has authorized the issue of a million and a half of dollars in the form of State notes —half of the denomination of $5 and half of SSO. From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, March 14. Stockdale vs. Hansard. —We do not know ! that a more absoiuute legal and legislative smrl j has ever come to our knowledge, than the one in which the British House of Commons has invol ved itself, on the question of privilege growing out of the libel suits above entitled. A brief his tory of the affair, as intelligible as we can make it from the complicated nature of the various pro ceedings, may serve at least to entertain our rea ders. M. Stockdale is a publisher in London. His I principal business is, or was at the time when f the writer of this article was in England, the publication of immoral books. The man himself “enjoyed a bad reputation,” as Paddy said. It happened, some years ago. that certain re turns were called for, and ordered, in the House of Commons, relating, we believe, to the influ ; ence of immoral publications—or perhaps it was the report of a committee—in which of course : Mr. Stockdale’s name held a conspicuous situa tion. The documents were ordered to be printed; | and Hansard, the printer to both Houses, of course obeyed the order. Copies were furnished 1 to the members, and as usual some were offered i for sale, and sold, to any who thought proper to buy. In the mean time Stockdale had become a I bankrupt and either his own good genius or ' some keen and unscrupulous lawyer suggested to , him that funds might be raised by a prosecution : for libel against Hansard. The idea was eager ly caught at, and the suit commenced. Hansard applied to the House of Commons, which di ' reeled the suit to be defended, and the law -offi | cers of the Crown appeared in it as Hansard's ; counsel. The defence relied on was “ privilege of the House,” but the Judge pronounced it in sufficient on the trial, and his decision was con firmed. after solemn agrument, by the Court of . Queen Bench. Judgement was therefore rendered in favor of riockdale on the verdict found by the ' jury, and execution was issued against Hansard* by virtue of which the sheriffs levied on his prin ; ting establishment, he tefused to nay the amount of the judgement. On the day l»efore the re turn of the writ however, somebody called at the • sheriff’s office and paid the amount, and so that matter ended for the time. If it had so ended absolutely the House of i Commons might perhaps have been willing to let it pass and say no more about it although the decision of the Justices against the immunity of “ privilege” was exceedingly unpleasant, and gave rise to much dissatisfaction. But Stockdale encouraged by his first success, immediately com menced another libel suit against Hansard, lav j ing his damages at £50,01(0 —This time the suit was not defended, and judgement of course was i taken by default, the amount of damages to be j assessed by a jury on a writ of inquiry.— Finding his course thus easy and promising, Stockdale commenced more suits, and the number, at the dale our last advices had got up to five. Thus goaded to action, the House perceived the necessity of doing something vigorous and effective; and it began, we believe,with a com mitment of Stockdale for contempt and breach of privilege. But this did not stop him from going on with his suits, and then the House attacked j sheriffs for levying on Hansard’s premises; j they were arrested and committed to the custo dy ot the sergeant at arms. Still the suits went on, and the House next proceeded to battle with Mr. Howard, Slockdale’s attorney ; but as he had wriggled himself somewhere out of the way, and i could not be laid hands on easily', his son and another young man, his clerks, were called to the l>ar of the House and thence consigned to prison for serving certain notices in the progress of the actions. Subsequently Howard made his appear | ance, and was committed to Newgate; and so the matter stood when the Great Western left England, one of the sheriffs, Stockdale, Howard | the two young men being in close confine ment, and the suits still going on. The other sheriff, Mr. VV heelt, was released on the certificate I of bis medical attendant that his health was se riously endangered by his imprisonment. But as yet we have given only one branch of the many ramifications into which this curious affair has divided. The Courts too have had their fingers in trie pie. Stockdale’s creditors leak measures to obtain possession of the money in ; the hands of the sheriffs, who therefore refixsed to pay it over to him, for which he commerced 1 proceedings against them, by attachment* i direct - , ed to the coroner, which the coroner re fus«J to serve. The creditors also sued out attachmeals. Howard and Stockdale commenced suits against the sergeant-at-arms, for false imprisonment, and we believe there was some talk also of prc»ceed ing against the Speaker. Writs of habeas corpus i were applied for, and granted by tha Court of . Queen’s Bench, against the jailor, who had, the • sheriffs in custody, and on thase and the House almost came directly into confhe t- The jail<>r returned generally to the writs, that ! die held the sheriffs in custody under the process » of the House or the Speaker, for contempt; aod i on tiii- return the Court was obliged to dismiss the writs, there being no question that the House had power to commit. But the Ch ief Justice, Lord Denman, took occasion to read t'ae House a sharp and stinging lecture, by implication, say Lag that suspicion could not be entertained of a pro ceeding so dishonest and coat unptible as the roa- e: king of a general return —that is, a return not w specifying the causes of commitment —for the o purpose of preventing the Court from properly o investigating a case in which subjects and officers of the Court, had been deprived of their liberty ; p his lordship meaning all the while that the House s had been guilty of this very dishonesty and mean- j » ness. ~ I This article is already too long, or we could go p on and describe the meetings of the Common s Council and of citizens, the votes, resolutions, d processions, visits of condolence or cong-atula ijon. the proposed pieces of plate, &c. 6cc., wit j c which the public feeling in behalf of the sheriffs v has been manifested; but the story is droll t enough as it stands, and here we bring it to a r close. ' V \ Fight—Sx are axd Dogs— Prom iht e Memoirs of a Cadet. The dogs united in a General howl; and when we cams up with them, j wc found them scratching almost madly in the * neighborhood of one of the above mentioned J holes, but at a very respectful distance from it, t for from its interior issued an indescribable sound, i i which might have appalled a lion. As near as I can convey the idea of it, it was a fierce hissing r mingled with a growl. Conceiving that the ten ant of this asvlum might be a weasel, or some other animal of that tribe, we poked at the aper- j * tore with our sticks, and cheered the poor dogs on loan assault, At length, an enormous cobra de capello burst forth, furiously enraged. On the first appearance of his head, the four-footed j tribe retreated a few yards, then halted, turned, < and held the foe at bay, whilst the rational por- j t tion of the party commended themselves to the ‘ protection of those locomotive engines so well i spoken of in Hud bias, and so naturally referred I to on such occasions. Our ignominious flight j i continued to the full distance of twenty paces, : when we halted and faced about. We then wit- J ncssed a most extraordinary spectacle. In the ( centre of a large circle formed by the dogs, rose , the snak3, with hood distended, and about a yard j of his body erect.gracefully curved like the neck ( of a swan. In this attitude he wheeled rapidly ! about, fixing his diamond eyes, quickly as light, j on his antagonist, which, bolder than the rest, j attempted to draw the circle closer around him. This war of “ demonstrations” lasted for perhaps a quarter of an houi, the dogs barking furiously all the lime, when one o. them made a spring upon the reptile, when his head was turned in another direction ; but he underrated the activity of his foe, and was bitten. A general attack now commenced, nnd the snake was soon torn to pie- i res. He died not unavenged as Byron says. 1 Two dogs received their death wounds, each bit j ten in the upper lip. For about ten minutes as- 1 terwards their spirits appeared to be unnaturally j excited ; they then began to sicken and retch, though they were unable to vomit; violent con vulsions and death soon succeeded. The Fire Ststem of Paris.—The firemen of Paris are picked men. none l>eing ail milled who have not given proofs of probity and cour rage. They have a military organization, and the grades regulations and pay, are upon the same foaling as those of the army. They exercise every day, and new members are not embodied ! with them, until thoroughly conversant, not only with the eng ne but with gymnastics in which thev are so drilled that ladders are seldom used, as they boldly climb the highest walls without their aid. When they receive a command from their chief, they stop not to ask if it is possible, • but execute it. They use a species of boat-hook with a rope attached to aid in scaling walls, wear 1 copper caps to protect their heads, and each man carries an axe. The Paris engines are very large and rough in make, powerful enough to throw a large stream of water over the highest houses. Amateurs are not suffered to embarrass the firemen—upon the first alarm, a regiment of troops from the first station hasten to the spot, j surround the building and none save the firemen arc allowed to pass. Sailor’s Instruction for Dancing. We understand the following directions and instructions for the information of all sailors who may be inclined to trip it. as ad sailors from time immemorial are wont, on the light fantastic too, were recently found among the papers of the late Sir Joseph Yorke, of facetious memory’. They form a perfect vade mecuni for the valiant defend ers of our wooden walls, when they are capering j ashore; and by carefully studying this manual of •dancing made easy’ to tars’capacities, the ascen sus from the gun room to the bail room will be facilis indeed. FIRST FIGURE. Le pantaloon. —Haul up the starboard tack. ' let the other craft pass, then bear up and get your j head on the other tack, regain your berth on the larboard tack, back and fill with your partner, box haul her, wear round twice against ihe sun, in company with the opposite craft and your own ; afterwards box-haul her again, and bring up. SECOND FIGURE. L'ele. —Shoot ahead about two fathoms till ; you nearly come stetn of the other craft under weigh; then make a stern hoard towards your berth, side out for a bend, first to star-board and then to port, make sail and pass the other craft, get your head round on the other tack, another bend to starboard and port, make sail to regain your berth, wear round, back and fill, and box haul your partner, and heave to. THIRD FIGURE. La poulc. —Heave ahead, and pass your adver sary yard-arm and yard-arm, regain your berth on the other tack; in the same order take your station in the line with your partner, back and fill, ■ fall on yaur heel and bring up with your partner; | she then manoeuvres ahead, heaves all back, shoots | ahead again and pays off alongside, you then i make all sail in company with her till nearly i stern with the other line; make a stern board, and i cast her off to shift for herself; regain your berth by the best means in your power, and let go your ' anchor. FOURTH FIGURE. La Trenise. —Wear round as before against the sun; twice box haul the lady; range up along side her, and make sail in company; when half wav across to the other shore, drop astern with the tide short, and cast off the craft; now back and fill as before, and box-haul her and yourself into your berth and bring up. Life—A Trial—The following stanzas were written by Frances Kemble Butler, during a re cent visit to Berkshire County, Mass., upon at tending an exhibition of the Lenox Academy. The Valedictory Address to the Scholars com menced “Life is before ye!” and on this senti ment as a text she wrote the following lines. • # * * * • * ♦ Life is before ye !—from the fated road Ye cannot turn ; —then take ye up the loa '. Not yours to tread or lead the unknown way— Ye must go o’er it, meet ye what ye may. , Gird up your souls within you to the deed ! 1 Angels and fellow spirits bid ye speed- What tlio’ the brightness wane, the pleasure fade, The glory dim ? Oh, not of these, is made The awful life that to yourtru«t is given. Children of God ! Inheritors of Heaven ! Mourn not the perishing of each toy. Ye were ordained t » do, not to enjoy’.- To suffer, which is nobler than to dare: A holy burthen is this life ye bear; Look on it, lift it, bear it so'cmnly. Stand upau-i wrilt beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for -a. row. tVter not for sin. But onward, upward, till the goa! ye win ! Go d guide ye, and God guard ye on your way, J Young warrior pi! gtims who set forth to day. ’ T«* Log-Book or Lirs.—The foßorag w >itracted from the journal of Thomas F&rlte , who was an active English naval officer during ,ur war with Great Britain, and who died in this I country: , , . f . r % ‘•First part of the voyage—(through hie) peasant, with line breezes and free wind?; a.l sails set; spoke many vessels in want of provi- g sions ; supplied them freely. -I Middle passage—Weather variable; short ot , provisions ; spoke several of the above vessels ; our ( supplies bad; enabled to refit; made signals ot , distress they up helm and bore away. ; Latter part —Boisterous, with contrary winds, current of adversity setting hard to leeward ; to- ; wards the end of the passage it cleared up; with ] the quadrant of poverty had an observation ; cor- , reeled and made up my reckoning, and alter a passage offifty years came to in mortality road , with the calm, unruffled surface of the ocean ot - » eternity in view. Earlv on the morning of the 4th the extensive Flouring Mills and Cotton Factory belonging to Mr. A. Caldwell, at Lexington, Ky., weredistroved by fire. It is supposed to be the work Oi an incendiary. The loss is estimated at $ 30,000. Insurance SIO,OOO. About a year ago the j mills on the same spot were destroyed by fire. How to .make leeches bite. — Bind them apprentices to a broker for a week, and they will bite through a brass boiler. — _ i Jealoust. —A beautiful gir! was recently kil led in a church at Cadiz, immediately at the feet of the officiating priest. The perpetrator of the deed was anohter girl, who was instigated by jeal ousy to stab her rival to the heart. 1 hey bad met in the street, when, in consequence of some threats, the unfortunate girl fled to the altar for support. Perseverance. —“ Sir, ’ said a creditor, en deavoring to collect a bill. “ Can you not name a time when you will he ready to pay it 1 “ Now, my dear fellow, don t as troublesome questions. Call to-morrow —call to-morrow. ’ “ Call to-morrow !” Sir, I have called on you every day for the last eighteen months !” “ Persevere, persevere, my dear fellow ; perse verance is the most valuable ot virtues! —Pic aynne. Tall Cottox. —A friend in Texas has sent us a specimen of cotton stalk, the growth of San Antonia de Bexar, which he informs us was originally thirteen feelin height. The specimen now in our office was cut off about three feet from the ground, and is as large as a man’s wrist. — Picayune. The Ladies. —An exchange paper says, “Na ture has made the ladies handsome enough, with out their trying to improve their beauty.” Per haps it has; hut you can not make them believe so. —New Orleans San. A Sensi bu con res pox d ext. —The following is the conclu'ion of a letter received by the edi tor of the Boston Post from New York :—“ If you ever enjoy all the comfort I wish you may, you will be tat. rich, honored and lieloved; in health i continue through this life, and after an enviable sojourn under the sun, be put under the earth with a graceful grave stone at your bead, and an epitaph—brief—but not without a moral,that shall develope thy goodness to rising generations— wuew !” Pigs feet. —The Cincinnati News says a well dressed, witty fellow, went into a pork butch er’s shoo in Spring Carden, last week, and, think ing to puzzle the butcher, asked him for a yard of pork, when the latter, without hesitation, cut ‘ him off three feet, {Pig's feet .) An unusual large unmber of letters were ta ken out by the Great Western. One of the pa pers slates that Gilpin alone took upwards of two thousand dollars in postages. Letters from London, dated on the morning of the Ist inst. received by the British Queen” on Wednes day, have been answered by the Great Western, and will reach England on the first of April— . only one month from London to New York a d back again ! Iwo years ago, the time occupied was two months and more. “ I say. Bill, does you sleep in that ’ere stall m the market yet 1” “ That aiiit no business ofyours Tora, no how.” “Yes it is; I knowa feller that would take it . on shares with you. “O, he may have it all. I have removed for the summer months to Lafayette Square. The commodations are far better.”— Picayune. According to the Washington Blue Book, the number oi officers attached to the New York custom house, including those at Staten Island and Brooklyn, is 494, drawing an amount of pay j annually ol ss42,393,averaging nearly $1290 a head. From the National Intelligencer. The Capitol. Stet Capitoliutn Fulgens. Horace. Came ye to see the Capitol ? Go, at the noon of night; When Cassiopea mounts her throne. And Orion’s band is bright: It stands, with lofty* dome, alone, A form if shadowy light Hush’d is the noise of revelry, Ti e Avenue is still: Naught, but the watch-dog’s echoing note. Is heard from lh’ distant hill ; And where th’ tremulous star-beams float, Potomac glides at will. The Heavens now shed a splendor Magnificently grand ; An arch of deep, ethereal blue Rests on this holy land ; While yon bold outline charms the view, i Touched by* a master’s hand. There, when your starry banner Waves o’er lh’ imperial seat, Where Eloquence its thunder rods. And th’ World’s great actors meet. And galleries fill’d, a thousand souls Look down in beauty sweet. The Greek, at sight of Marathon, Thrills cot with such a sped ; Doom’d on those mountain-tops to tread Where tower and temple fell. For th’ banner, which our fathers led, The stars of empire sweil. Moriah, thus wrapt in glory, Gleam’d on the Hebrew’s eves. Where now. Oh, lost Jerusalem ! The Turkish standard flies ; And th’ light which once illumin’d them Points us to holier skies ! Lo ! from Mount Vernon’s solitudes Tne mighty dead appear ; They sought, at th’ lonely shrine of One To all the world so dear, A monument of Washington ; . When Glory crid, “Tis here !” Here, how su passing beautiful To lift th’ adoring eye : Deep snadows rest on yonder heights, And splendors fill the sky. His dwelling peace, who iit those fights In dark Eternity ! Washington, February 22, 1840. Arion. COMM I Laiat dates from Liverpool „—| Latest dates from Havre S 9 B New OrlfTvc IK- Cotton Arrived since the6th in«tent *75 11 i ana and Mississippi 22,010 balec mi 01 Lou »i* K North Alabama 7^Olirkan™H I Florida 127, Texas 25; toother fit Cleared intbe same time; f ol - Live-won/-^ e! " I vre 7410, Marseilles OS^GenoaSKJ 1 * 72 ’ Hl ' I New York 1003, Boston i »66 at’, , aiU <3OB ■ Baltimore 221, oilier parts 2M- I bales—making an addition to stock of -T I and "leaving on hand, inclusive of a i ' b ' 4 Dale h I not cleared on the 13th instant a ? h, P!>oard 1 ba.es. ’ W 154,7 i3 B There have not for many rears K I unengaged vessels m port at ihL n* \ , sofe » 1 son, as at the present time a n ->' £ of tlj «sea- I freight consequent upon this rate!i of I greatly lo depress our cotton raa r £ r ■ **’ ten(i I as a necessary result, that, as the co*-, r I? ' dliows I increase, prices for cotton must r shl^er -t V ratio, the limits of orders £ “ tbe invariably made to include ■ *r “• the <£„"* v * I The verv important . p°itot de iverv. | creased rates of freight eWrtu’ Wk ' h in- L lately been fully P ° Q h *‘ rnarkct . h « I advance has ,f ach ? u ‘ c I dine in the prices of cotton. Wtd b * a I aboiu atclowcStho*quotum* at of tnat morning, W hic> cav* » 1 OUr reTievr | with some spirit, the sales up tl' U £ t 0 op€rate I having amounted to 10,0C9 brie* *, n t T °, veiun S demand slacker.e I in ship-mastc.-s and ageDtsck r m.- a “ cf in ffio rates of freight, but onifAJers vS mg to a shgnt reduclion io prices, operations wt-r resumed though not with much JS fiS? ” S T e havc Dot averaged more than 2,8 A ba : es. The market is about a l c lower on tins day- week to which reduction our q u cta t.ons have been made to conform. The r a t continue large, and the stock L therefore verv S p.e. ihe sa;es during the week amount to 22 ivin Laies. jWW Late last evening, alter the above report w-, made up, several large sales were closed, amoun mg to 50 .0 bales winch will swell the week's mV ness to 27,000 bales. LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS. Louisiana and Histissippi —Ordinary, 5 a 54. Midd iaz, a 6.4 Fair, 7- a8; Good fair, w a 9; Goo 1 and line, lo a—. Tennessee and V ma— Ordinary, middling, fair, good fa’ V‘ fine, o a Bs, extremes. STATEMENT OF COTTON. 1839. Oct. 1, stock on hand, 15^ Receipts last three days 30440 “ previously, 601113 6315-53 i Exports last three days, 2475 S C4<o> ' do. previously. 4579-,i2 5126.5 s Btock on hand 134719 Comparative Arrivals, Exports and Stocks of Col t< n at New Orleans, fjr the last nine years— from October 1, to date. Years. Arr'h Exp'ts Stocks. 1843 631553 512658 131719 1839 37XU55 253502 133156 IS3B 476661 361161 13-Sl2 1837 424308 339784 93276 1536 351254 245299 100737 1 5 35 395556 308674 95345 1534 3 7531 212420 102517 1533 303929 231365 78,337 1532 195213 142314 6D596 Sugar — Louisiana —The Levee has been well supplied this week with ordinary to good fairqual ities, but prime sugars continue scarce. The de mand lor all descriptions, however, is confined to li mited parcels, and we now quote the range of ths market at 3 a 4 j cents, which is a further decline. 1 We aie not advised cf any transactions of impor ' tance on plantation. Most of the shipments, both I to the Atlantic ports and to the upper country,are : made on Planters’ account. Molasses —This article has been in very fair de j rnand throughout the week, at 20 a 21 cents per gallon in barrels, most of the sales being at the former figures. The markt t k as been well supp i ed. and there is still a fair stock on the Levee.— There is no change in the rates on plantation 55 e still quote at 15 a 1(5 cents per gallon, at which 1 juices there have been some sales. Flour —In our report of last week we quoted i the market dull it 25 for superfine, wth a tec ; deucy to a further decline, as buyers for export had j decontinued purchasing atthat rate, and wereof : feringonly $4. This reduction was yielded them, ; and 00 Saturday and Monday $4 for superfine was the prevai ing rate, at which price large parcels j were taken for shipment to the North, to England, and to Lie sS*est Indies. These purchase* rouchre j duccd the stoc k on sale, and on Tuesday holders ! were demanding $4 124 as 4 25. These prices were obtained, however, for but limited parcels as : the advance demanded, and the difficulty of effect- I ing shipments, even at further increased rates 0* i freight, caused of the buyers for shipmeut ■ again to cease operations, and the market, during the last three days, has been dull, with an a< cu mulating stock. 55'e quote superfine at $4 *- 6* a $4 12r. mo>t of the sales being at the latter price, though we are advised ol one sale of about 500 barrels at a small fraction le*s than our lowest fig ures. The receipts of the week amount to about 25,f>00 bids. Whiskey— The receipt* have been on y moderate this week, and holders have obtained a furthei slight advance, though the demand is still connned to limited parcels \Ve quote Cincinnati Reclined 27 a2B cents p°r gallon. Common 25 a2o cents. Coffee— The market is well supplied with Hava na and ilio. and the prime qualities enjoy a lair de mand at a 11 cent*. The sales ai tne latter .ig ures are mostly* on time. The inferior and mid dfing qualities of Havana we quote at a ificts, with but little demand. Bagging and Bale Rope —There is only a very limited demand, and we further reduce our quota tion* fir all descriptions. Grain —Considerable supplies of shelled Com in | sacks have been coming in daring the week, and j the increased cost of shipment, has rendered the j article dull, at a further decline. \Ve quote at 3-5 a cents per bushel, for parcels from the Levee; the latter being the prevailing rate. Baltimore, March 20. Flour —The news by the British Queen is re garded here as being calculated to sustain prices, without producing an advance. Howard Street Flour —The market for Howard street flour closed last week at $4 73 from stores, with an active demand. On Monday last some im provement took pi ice, and holders advanced their rates to $4 and sales to some extent were made at that rate and at $4 81. Since Monday the de mand has not been so active, and the sales that have been made from stores have gf-neially been at $4 SI cash to $4 on short credit, principally at $4 SI. Holders are generally asking $4 87 to-day, but theonly transaction that has come to our know ledge has been at $4 81. The car price is $4 62j, and for lots bv wagons $4 75 i* paid. City Mills'Flour —We hear of no transactions this week—stock very small. Susquehanna Flour —Sales have been made $4 *sa $4 SU cash, and at $4 87) on tirna with interest added. Cotton —There is not much doing in this article, and prices are a shade lower. We note sale? o* Florida at 9 a cent*; and of Georgia at9j cent*. Whiskey —The sales of hhds throughout the week have been m ide at 22 a 22$ cents, and we quote those rate* to-day —stock light. The sate* of bbls from stores have generally been at 23 ct«. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, March 22. Cleared —Ship Olive Branch, Sedrick. Liverpool sebrs South Carolina,Goodwin, Philadelphia; Eliz abeth, Reynolds, New York. Charleston. Mirch 24. Arrived yesterday —Brig Grand I ur *G ( * ll - n - ,er3 » New Y ( t!c. A’Vivii \pw In ths OJjing —Line ship Anson, - ’ York; 'lso brig Ac ion, from Boston. ■^Cleared —Line brig Gen 'umter, more; *chr Atlantic, Steves Ypal^cr* Went to sea yesterday— Brig Catharine, K°--> Havana; schr Susan, Hardy, Malanza?.