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[From the New Orleans Del'a.]
The Twa Tojurpi.
As I lounged lasi night On my balcony.
In my old arm-chair reclining.
The breeze from the North came cod! and free.
And the sun’s last ray was shining;
As I looked adown on the co*y street,
Which a recent shower had flooded.
From contra ways twa topers met.
And the one to the other nodded —
They sat them down on a broken dray,
t And their words were deep and low.
As at night may he heard the fur-ofFsea,
With its murmuring ebb and flow.
The one was a man whose wintry sconce
And rubicund pbiz foretold
That he had paid homage more than once
To the wine-drinking God of old;
The other, if one might venture a guess,
Had sworn to tio watery vow, [dress d |
ITnt look’d like a pilgrim, whose prayers were ad-
To the shrine of Old Bacchus ere now.
“In add lang syne,” the first began,
“What a different sp here was ours;
With a well-siock’d purse and a flowing can.
Our paths were strewn with flowers,
31 y heart doth sicken, turd wy semi
Doth sadden at the mournful thought.
That Life’s dull tide must onward r<HL,
Without one hope or solace fraught/’
With drooping head, and heaving sigh.
The other, moefly, sat the w hile,
* Till tears,regretful, dimmed hiseyea.
And pall’d, for once, its Wonted smile.
Not long the cloud had, lingering, hung,
K’er happier thoughts their sunshine hue
Os merriest light and radiance flung
O’er the brow of that toper true.
“Cheer up, old friend, regrets are vain
A brighter dawn may yet arise;
The sick man’s groan ne er stifled pain.
Nor eased him of his miseries,
I’ve still a mite in this old purse,
W ill furnish us a mantling bowl;
’ I’is wiser far to drown than nurse
The vampvre-cares which haunt the soul. ’
Jake spark electric seem’d ihe thought
To penetrate the other’s brain;
And was, with such a magic fraught,
That smiles lit up his face again.
’Twas daw nos day—a plashing sound
Scared Fancy from her dreamy flight;
When, h»! I in the gutter found
The twa boon friends of yester night. EPtl.
Notim t. —15v Ann C. Lynch.
The honey-bee that wanders all daylong
The field, the woodland and the garden o’er,
To gather in his fragrant w inter store,
Humming in calm content his quiet song,
Seeks not alone the rose’s glowing breast,
The lily’s dainty cup, the violet’s lips.
But from all rank and noisome weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness ever placed
Within the poison-rhaiace. Thus if we
Seek only to draw forth the hidden sweet
In all the varied hidden flowers we meet
In the w ide garden of humanity:
And, like the bee, if borne the spoil we bear,
Hived in our hearts, it turns to nectar there.
[From the Savannah Georgian.]
GEORGIA,(Chatham Co.) Dec. 31, ISlfl.
lliberuniioii «f the Koclna UoMjpitl.
W. H. Bulloch, Ksq.
Dear !Sir—Having written to you many
a letter during the course of the past year,
1 may as well conclude it by writing you
another one, and wishing you a happy new
year, and the fulfilment of your good wishes
for youself and your numerious friends.—
That is a selfish do.-ire, for there is certainly
tme among them, as your obedient servant,
Hie writer; but J am sure you w ill excuse
ibis little iuterestedness, for you know per
fectly well, that self-interest is the main
spring of human activity, and contrivance is
certainly not the least of the many frailties
vs our race. But to my theme;
The hibernation of the cotton moth is still
a problem, the solution of which would be .
licnificial to Southern agriculture. The cir- 1
enmstance that the cotton caterpillar appears
only periodically, not in successive years, or :
at least very seldom, made me believe that it 1
did not hibernate, and I was confirmed in j
my opinion, when I saw late in the fall,
how the insect disappear® d at once, after the
third generation, and did only in a few'places
go over into a fourth crop, (as, for instance, 1
on Sappclo Island.) 1 would have firmly ad- i
he red to this opinion, for only in this way it
is to explain why we do not see any traces of
Ihe Noctna Gossypil early in the spring, why
it does not devour cotton plants when young,
and not make its appearance in our fields du
ring those years, the state of the atmosphere
and temperature of which, is incongenial to
it, had 1 not found the following passage in
Mr. W. C. Sea brook’s memoirs of the cotton
plant; “That the cotton moth frequently
survives that frosty season, is nearly cer
tain. An examination of the neighboring
woods, especially after a mid winter, has of
ten been successfully made for that purpose.
They were seen by the writer in May last,
(1843.) at the edge of a strip of pines, within
a few yards ot a cotton field. In the winter
of 1825, Benjamin Reynolds, of St. John’s,
Colleton, deceased, found them in the woods,
principally on the ceder bush, encased alive
in their cover, impervious to water, and se
cured to a twig by a thread.
1 thought a hibernation of the insect might
nevertheless be possible, and I concluded to
examine the subject myself. 1 have spent
about a fortnight in the country amidst ex
tensive fields of Sea Island and Upland Cot-,
ton, which have all been ravaged by the cot
ton caterpillar, but the closest examination
had no success whatever, although the sea
son has been uncommonly mild. I found
everywhere plenty of butterflies, especially of
the Noctuo tribe, enjoying the mild weather,
but not a single specimen of the Noctna Gos
eypii. During my sojourn here in the coun
try, the weather was extremely mild, and a
few days and evenings were so warm and
pleasant that if cocoons of the cotton cater
pillar had been alive, I am sure they, or at
least some of them, would have hatched or
some of the moths, if they had been alive,
would have left their hiding places. I am,
therefore, convinced that Noctna Gossypii
does not hibernate in our climate, espicially
as my friend Mr. R. K* * *, from Liberty
county, an experienced cotton planter, and an
intelligent man, who had paid a great deal of
attention to that noxious insect, wrote me at
the same time:
“Your letter, etc. reached me just as I was
leaving this place for St. Simons’ Island, and
as all the cotton plantations on that Island
had been ravaged by the caterpillar, I con
cluded to examine the fields and try if I
could find the insect alive. The field was a
good one for examination, but neither there
or at this place have I been able to find cat
erpillars in the cucoon or any other form,”
lam very far from contradicting the intel
hgent author of the “Memoir of the Cotton
riant, but he himself does not pretend that
these facts stated by him establish a rule; he
only pretends that the cotton-moth frequently
survives the frosty season—not always, and
that seems in be beyond doubt; but those are
only exception from the general rule. In
those cases where the moth appeared during
the winter, nr even in May, late caterpillars
seem to have hidden themselves in a well
protected place; the hatching ot the cocoons,
which generally takes place in from six to
ten days, must have been delayed by the cold
weather, and the moth, which generally dies
after the fifib or six day of his existence, may
have been preserved longer by a slower pro
cess of life in a co'der season.
A great deal depends on the solution of
the question of the hibernation of the cottun
motii. It can lead to a certain way of des
troying the insect, and protect the cotton
fields; every planter should, therefore, pay at
tention to it, especially as this winter is a very
favorable one for making observations of that j
kind. Vale, dear sir.
Vuurs, most respectfully and devotedly,
[From Niles’s Register of 1815.]
Th® Fair Honoring ih® Brave.
We have been politely favored with the ;
following copy of a fetter from a lady at New j
Orleans to a female friend, in which there j
will be found a more particular description j
than has yet been published of the ceremo
nies which took place in honor of Gen. Jack- ,
son, after his gallant and successful defence ;
of that place,— Trenton True American.
New' Orleans, February 3, 1815.
On the 24th, Gen. Jackson was compli- ;
mented in a w ay that only Gen. Washington
had before been honored in America —by a ;
triumphal entry. I have been .waiting from
day to day, in hopes that some regular ac
count of the ceremony would be printed, of
which I could avail myself to supply the de
ficiencies of my style and observation, but in j
vain—the invasion put a sudden stop to peri
odical printing, and it has nut yet been re
sumed.
I The ceremony sprung from female grati
! (tide, and tv as arranged entirely by the ladies. ,
I Be it known, then, that in this grand empo- ;
1 riurh, there is one handsome square which
! fronts tire levee; on the opposite side there
is a range of handsome buildings called the
Principal-, the centre of vvliicti is a chapel.—
hi the middle of the square, and facing the
grand entrance into the chapel, an elegant
arch was erected, around which was closely
twined, (so as entirely to conceal the wood
work,) wreathes of laurels, and festoons of
the same kind of weatbs continued from each
side of the arch to the entrance of the square.
Eighteen pillars (nine on each side) sup
ported the festoons and a medallion bearing
the name of a Slate, surrounded by wreaths
of various lines. The States were represent
i cd by eighteen young ladies dressed in while
j —laced veils on their heads tastefully con
i fined by a white satin bandeau, finished on
; the left by a golden star—on their left arms
: they carried white baskets with blue orna
ments filled with artificial flowers. The four
j States which have been conspicuous in the
! late contest, were distinguished by white silk
* banners, supported on blue and white stalls
and bearing appropriate mottos in large gold
letters —Louisiana, glory and safety—Mis
sissippi Territory, valor and generosity—
Tennessee, Jackson and bis heroes—Ken
tucky, bravery and patriotism—(these to the ;
! best of my recollection, were the mottos.) i
—The’young ladies who represented the j
i .States stood nearest the arch in front of the j
pillars bearing the names of those States.—
Beneath the arch on each side, pedestals
were erected on which were placed little
irirls, whose business it was to suspend
wreaths of laurels over the general's head as
be passed, which they performed to adm ra
tion. Liberty and Justice were personified
i by small girls—behind the Slates the matrons
were arranged, (of course 1 was there,) and
I a short distance back of us several very
i handsome uniform companies were drawn
, up to prevent the people from incommoding
| ns. A full band of military music announced
i the approach of the beloved general, followed
; by Ids staff officers —the little girls managed
their wreaths to admiration—Louisiana step
ped forward and presented an address hand
somely ornamented, the composition of a
lady of this city, which the general deposi
: ted in bis bosom, and that is all that I can tell
' about it yet; passing down the line, he bowed
i on each side; the Flowers were liberally
distributed in bis path. As the Slates, who
joined from opposite sides, followed by the
matrons, and walked in procession after our
hereto the entrance of the chapel, where he
j was received by the priest, who gave him a
I hough of (consecrated, I suppose) laurel.—
|We then entered the chapel. Te deum
i was sung, after which we had some music
l composed fur the occasion, which was very
fine, I dare say, if 1 could understood
if; but I was seated in the very place I would
have selected, if my choice had been offered
me of all the seats in the chape!—one per
son separated me from dear old general, who
sat on a chair rather apart, and 1 bad a fine
opportunity of contemplating bis profile. I
did not give the general one flower, but I could
have given him a good may tears. One of
the ladies reproved me laughingly, for de
frauding the general, whlist I stood unron-
I scions grasping the flowers which had been
given me to strew.
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A ICcrcipt for Elippinesia.
It is simply when you rise in the morning
to form the resolution to make the day a hap
py one to a fellow creature. It is easily done
| —a left-off garment totheman who needs it;
a kind word to the sorrowful; an encourag
ing expression to the striving—trifles in
themselves as light as air—will do at least
for the twenty-four hours, and if you are
young,depend upon it, it will tell when you
are old; and if yon are old, rest assured it
will send you gently and happiily down the
stream of human time to eternity. Look at
the result: You send one person—only one
—happily through the day; that is three hun
dred and sixty-five in the course of the year
—and supposing you live forty years only af
ter you commence this course, you have
made fourteen thousand six hundred human
beings at all events happy for a time. Now,
worthy reader, is not this simple? and is it
not worthy accomplishing? We do not of
ten indulge in a moral dose—but this is so
small a pill, one that needs no red current
jelly to disguise its flavor, and requires to be
taken but once a day, that we feel warranted
in prescribing it. It is most excellent for di
gestion, and a producer of pleasant slumber.
Death of a Man of 142 Years.— Late
papers from the Island of Jamaica announce
the death, at Spanish-Town of a black man
named John Crawford Ricketts, at the ex
traordinary age of one hundred and forlytwo
years; and, what may be considered as very
unusual, he was in good health till within
about two weeks of his death.
iflarriage ia Swt tleu.
Miss Bremer, ia one of her pleasant
tales, states that it is customary in Sweden ’
when a couple have been married twenty- :
five years to hold a festival in commem
oration of what they style the silver mar- I
riage , and when this period has been
doubled to commemorate the half century
of married life by a fete or what is called
tb e golden marriage. These are pleasant j
occurrences and customs; but if a writer ;
from Stockholm, in the New York Adver- S
tiser is reliable authoiily, it would appear {
that litis nation has another nuptial custom
which is far less agreeable. ‘No secret'
says this correspondent, is made in Swe
den of an engagement between a young
couple, [in my opinien there ought never
to bej but when the wedding day comes,
the bride is subjected to a cruel ceremony.
The marriage lakes place in the evening,
and two hours previous to its consumma
tion, the bride is placed in the centrcof the
room in her wedding attire.—Candles are
placed in a circle around her, the curtains j
of the windows are raised, and every one, :
friend or foe, acquaintance and stranger, j
is permitted to enter the house, and gaze |
upon the victim, and make any remaik |
he choses to intlici upon her, concerning
herself and intended husband. Men come i
in undisguised, hut the- ladies with their
natural refinement and a little sympathy,
conceal their faces by dominoes. Against
this custom some have waged an unequal ;
warfare. —The despotism of the mob pre- ;
vails over the good sense or modesty of
the parties interested, and marriage is es- !
fueled through a sort of martyrdom.
Strength *>fn sf;iti (Habit.
! The following horrible illustration of
the force with which the habit of intem
perance clings to its victims, was given
j Ijy Mr. Gough at a late temperance meet- I
: ing in New York, and vouched for by
j Mr. G. as having come within his own
j observation. A young man had broken
I the heart of his wife by his intemperate
; habits, and she was lying on her bed of
I death, lie was kneeling by her, watch
ing the breath which was fast fleeting
I away, as she besought him with impas
sioned agony to indulge no longer in that
intoxicating draught w hich had killed her
j and was fast hurrying him to tfie drunk
ard’s grave. 11 is heart was melted by
her entreaties, and he promised that he
would drink no more till ire received the
cup from her hand. She died, but scarce
ly bad the breath departed when the
maddening desire for liquor returned.—
lie poured out the draught, but the
i thought of the oath so solemnly pledged
flitted across his mind, and he desisted.
l»ut the habit was 100 strong to he over
come. He returned to the chamber of
death, filled a cup with the liquid fire,
I raised the inanimate arm of his wife,
clasped her cold fingers around the cup
and drained its contents to the very dreg-*.
fITE-Tl!*,
A Spooney who was looking vacantly
over a newspaper, seeing “cotton gin” in
capitals at the head of a paragraph, mutter- I
ed to himself, “cotton powder and cotton
„in, in t lit? name of wonder what wont they
make out of cotton next?'*
\Ve hko to see a young lady walk as
though a Ilea was biting iicr on each hip—
it is so facinaling: She is just the match
lor a dandy who steps like an open-winged
turkey travelling over a bed ot hot ashes.
The Hog Crop of the United States,
tliis year, is said to be worth three times the
worth of the cotton crop. The “standing
army” of swine consumes annually two
hundred million bushels of corn.
A gentleman jus* returned to this country i
from a tour in Europe, was asked how he :
liked the ruins of Pompeii ? “Not very
well,” was the reply, “they are so much out
of repair ?”
Coleman, the dramatist, was asked if iie
knew Theodore Hook? “Yes,’’ replied the
wit, “ilouk and Eye are old associates.”
Among the marriages out West, we per
ceive one of a Mr. Schnicheukoofen to a
lady by the name ot Schregengost.
A western preacher, in his efforts to give j
his hearers the most enchanting ideas of j
heaven, held forth thus: ‘Be assured, breth- I
ren, any description of it tails short of the |
reality,as Little Mud Creek is transcended by 1
the Mississippi! Heaven is—Heaven; Heav
en is—oh my dear hearers, it is a real Ken- ‘
lucky of a place?’
Richard M. Young (formerly a Senator of
the United States) has been appointed by the
President of the United States, with the ad
vice and consent of the Senate, to be Com
missioner of the Land Office, in place of Gen.
Shields.
A Miss Dernier, who has been dancing
second to Madame Augusta, has found an
uncle in Louisiana very rich, and at his
special request she has left the turmoil of the j
stage’for the ease and elegance of private
life, in the house of iier wealthy relative^
In New York, in 1834, the Assessor’s I
valuation of real estate was ,$123,249,280. |
In 134(5 it was $283,480,934. Increase in j
twelve years $160,231,654. in other words,
the value of real estate in that city has a
good deal more than doubled in tire lasi twelve
years.
The Anti-Renters in Columbia County,
N. Y., are beginning to resume their lawless ;
proceedings. The sheriff, while attempting
to serve process, was resisted by a body of
men, about seventy in number, driven back
and compelled to abandon his purpose.
The American Bible Society issued last
month 43,401 copies of Bibles and Testa- j
ments, making the issues for nine months
604,509. The receipts of the month were j
$17,112 —making during the last nine months
$139.217 -less than last year by about
S6OOO.
The New York Bible Society has employed
the Rev. Calv in Walcott to visit every family
in the city, and to supply those who are
without the Bible with a copy, by either giv
ing or selling it to them at cost.—A V. Post.
The Biggest Steer Yet.— Daniel Wunder
killed a steer lor new year’s, six years old,
raised by Wm. Gill, near Circleville, Ohio,
which weighed on foot, 3.660 lbs. The nett
beef weighed 2,684 lbs., which is said by the
Cincinnati Chronicle to be 296 lbs heavier
than any other beef on record. He sent
President Polk a fifty pound roast.
Love Letters The Lowell Courier says
the number of letters dropped into the Post
1 Utlice of that city, between Sunday night and
| Monday morning averages, over tilleea han
dred.
i A son of Auly McCauley, Cashier of the
Camden Bank, in Camden, N. J., fell from bas
erected in his father’s yard for gymnastic ex
ercises, dislocated his neck, and died in
| stantly.
j Fashions in New York. —The Tribune of
■ a late date, lias the following:
White Thibet,trimmed with cygnet down,
i (vulgarly called eider,) is to be the “irresisti
i hie” lor opera cloaks this season. They are J
i made short and crisp, and the rogueishesf,
; most mischievous looking articles (always
excepting the enclosed) that we have seen
this maay a bright evening.
Two Lives in One.—A man by the name
of Etienne Courcille, recently found guilty
of murder in Louisiana, has been sentenced
to the Penitentiary for ninety-nine years.—
lie will have need of a “second birth.”
AUGUSTA. GEO..
SATURDAY MORNING, JANI ARY 16, 1847. J
Democratic uj»oii our State 1
Fiiiiinces.
We do not think that the newspapers in
Georgia at this lime can add to their attrac
tiveness, by discussing the financiering in
times past of the two political parties. We
i have borne our part in such discussions, and
! when the time arrives for it, we will take
our share again. But the Savannah Repub
j lican does not seem willing to wait. It is
' so eager fur the contest that it has provoked
j discussion, by arrogating to its own party
j all the honor and credit of the present pros
-1 porous state of (he finances. In denying the
correctness of tliis assumption, we have
j aroused the mettle of the Republican: and
the Chronicle 100, is prompt to copy into its
editorial columns, the editorial of the Repub
lican calling upon us for proofs that ourpre
i s*mt financial prosperity received (nun De
mocratic legislation its onward impulse. We
have a very accommodating disposition, when
a.-ked to sustain any assertion we make by
facts, and vve will therefore cite a few,for tiie
double purpose of doing this, and of refreshing
the memories of onr Whig cotemporaries.
Wedo this the more cheerfully since shortness
i of memory is a disease with which some of
the Whig editors in Georgia are so sorely
atllicted, as almost to inspire the belief that
it is peculiarly incident to Georgia Vv higery j
—or perhaps may be cultivated as a vir
tue. A good memory must recall to them
some mortifying inconsistencies and absur
dities.
We will now refer in a few words to the
Democratic legislation jual preceding the ad
vent of Governor Crawford to the Executive
Chair.
In 1841, the legislature was Democratic.
That legislature adopted a rigid system of
i retrenchment and economy. It reduced the
pay of its members from what the Whig le
gislature of 1840 enjoyed.
It reduced the salaries of the various
officers of the Slate, who were paid out ot
the public Treasury, from that of the Gov
ernor down.
It suspended the work on the greatest
j part of the .State Rail Road—it reduced
I the number of Engineers, and abolished the
Board of Commissioners—all salaried officers.
It passed an act making the Sessions
triennial—thus making a saving to the State,
for each session dispensed with, of about
eighty thousand dollars.
In 1842, the legislature, being again De
mocrat ic, added 25 per cent to the State taxes
in order to furnish additional means to meet
the public liabilities. It was Democratic le
gislation too that year which diminished the
j number of Central Bank Directors to one—
that prohibited the further issue of Central
Bank notes and ordered them to be burned
as thev were paid in to the Treasury.
'
It passed an act requiring the drawers
1 of land, within a prescribed lime to take oul
their grants. If not done, the lots reverted to
: the State.
These various measures resuscitated the
credit of the State. Central Bank money rose
nearly to par, before LI over nor Cranford icent
into office, and before the Whig legislature of
1843 convened. Slate Bonds had also pari
passu appreciated. This was “ the elastic
rebound” which “neither a Whig Governor
nor any other sort of a Governor” could have
prevented.
We might say much more on this subject.
; We might go back to the incipiency of the
Central Bank, a Whig bantling, the source
| of so much disaster to State credit. We
j might show that it was in the power of the
Whigs to have shortened its career, but in
1838, they extended its charter to 1850. We
might show that it was the Whigs who first
, & I
created a distaste to taxation in Georgia by i
j holding out the idea that by Banking on the j
money in the Treasury by means of the ;
Central Bank, the State affairs could be car
ried on with the profits alone, and have
“something over” for various schemes. We
could show how it was Whig legislation in
1840, which imposed enormous burthens on
; the Central Bank by its appropriation acts
which depreciated its bills, added to which
was the ceaseless hostility of the Whigs to this
institution, after it could no longer be a party
' tool in their hands. But we have contented
ourself with pointing out some Democratic le
gislation, which did give the first recupera
tive impulse to the finances of the State.
The whole State is now enjoying the benefit
and the gratification, but the Whigs are dis
posed to appropriate to themselves all the
credit. This we are resolved they shall not
do, and shall on all proper occasions point
out by argument and facts, to whom the honor
is due for that “ elastic rebound ” given to the
financial credit of the State.
O'We acknowledge the receipt of public
Documents on several recent occasions, from #
Messrs. Toombs, Cobb and Lumpkin.
ICosigitittioii of
At the opening of the Court yesterday
morning Judjje Cainble notified the bar,in the
course of a few valedictory remarks express
ed with much feeling, that he had concluded
to forward his resignation to the Governor.
The infirm stale of bis health was assigned
as the reason.
General Flournoy, in behalf of the Bar,
tendered to the Judge the kind and respect
ful sympathies of his brother Attorneys, and i
their regrets at parting with a .1 edge to whom
they were sincerely attached,and with whom
their professional intercourse had been of the
most agreeable and harmonious character.
In the afternoon, after the Grand Jury had
made their presentments, the Court was ad
journed to the first Monday in February next.
By that time it is presumed the vacancy will
be filled by appointment of the Governor.
l.ieutenaiit (Jeueial.
Tl.is question, it seems, is not yet set at rest, i
Though the proposition for the appointment of sueh
an officer was voted down by a majority of thirty 1
in the House.it was introduced into tlie Senate by
31 r. Dix.of the Committee on 3lilitary Affairs, on
the llthinst. Some, of the Washington letter wri
ters give it as their opinion that it will yet become |
a htw —that it will pass the Senate, and that the
House will finally be. dragooned into acquiescence. '
We do not believe tbe 120 members voting against, |
will prove of such pliable stuff.
We have seen no sufficient reason assigned for :
the creation of such an office at this juncture, and
in the absence of the most cogent reasons in favor i
of it. hope the measure will stay defeated.
The Baltimore Patriot aptly quotes the lines,
“The times have been
That when the brains were out, the man would die, j
And then an end.”
But it seems that this measure, after being
twice killed in the House, is to have another
chance for its life in the Senate.
TluMatiiuieU* Leginla'urc.
In the House,on Friday, Bth mat., Messrs, j
Cushing, of Newburyport, (Lies, of Boston, ■
Boswell, of Groton, Stevens, of Andover, and
Bulloch, of Worcester, were appointed a
special committee upon the petition asking j
the Legislature to make an appropriation in
i aid of the regiment of Volunteers raised in
i Massachusetts fur the Mexican war. A res-
I elution appropriating $20,000 for the purpose* |
j offered by Mr. Cushing on the previous day,
i was referred to the same committee.
j
Peiinnylrania lirginlatiii'?.
j Resolutions of thanks to Gen. Taylor,
i and the officers and men in the U. X. army
in Mexico, volunteers as well as regulars,
were adopted in the House,on Friday week,
by a vole of 96 to 0.
Dentil <>f .Viialor £/*«'si ny barker.
By reference to Congressional proceedings
it will be seen that the Hon. J. S. Pennyback
er, United States Senator from V irginia died,
at Washington on the 12th inst. Thus, in
j the course of a few weeks, two members of
the Senate have been called to their last ac
count— both in the vigor and prime of life.— j
Judeo Fenny hacker has been confined to his
room for a month past, and notwithstanding I
all the best medical skill was in requisition, it
proved of no avail.
Vermont.
Mr. 1 jucius B. Feck (Dem.) has been
elected to Congress in the 4th district in j
Vermont, on the third trial. His plurality
over the Whig candidate is about 500. The
Abolition candidate received about 1300
votes; but as a plurality elects on the third
trial these votes were thrown away. The j
district is represented in the present Con
gress by Paul Dillingham, Jr., (Dorn )
l iiiaai rs of iVew Vos U. —Oovrraur's 31es
na^e.
The Message of the Governor of New York
is brief, and to the point. He sums up the
statistics of the Slate as follows :
The entire debt of the State, both direct
and contingent, from information derived
from the books of the Comptroller, amounted
at the close of the last fiscal year, to $24,-
734,089 95. Deducting contingent liabili
ties, it will be found to be $23,021,080 85.
The aggregate of the debts contracted, on
account of all the canals, from information
derived from the same source, amounted, at
the same tune, to $10,028,250 17.
The whole amount received from all the ■
canals for the year ending 29th September
last, was $2,842,214 83, and is made up as j
follows: Amount received from tolls, $2,-
788,134 76; rents of surplus water, $10,715;
interest oh cash canal revenues,s 13,364 37,
making $2,842,214 13. The sum above
mentioned, as received from toll, embraces
railroad toll amounting to $23,201 89; out of
the moneys arising from the canals, there j
have been paid during the last fiscal year for
interest upon the Slate debt, $576,552 58;
out of the general fund $400,000, making
$136,552 58 fur collection, repairs and su
perintendents, and fur all other purposes con
nected with canals, including the sum of sl,-
104 47; for toll refunded, $229,353 01, ma
king the aggregate $2,015,904 49, and leav
ing a balance of the moneys arising from the
canals, of $826,308 64.
The capital of the common school fund is
$2,133,843 01; the United States deposit fund
$4,014,520 71; the literature fund $285,-
196 51; whole amount $6,613,660 23. The
annual revenue from the common school fund
is $117,180 68; from the United Slates de
posit fund is $276,667 71; literature fund
$17,363 93; whole revenue $411,202 14.
During the year ending on the first of July,
1846, 740,723 children have been taught in
our common schools. 'Litis number exceeds,
by 40,243, the whole number of children in
the State between the ages of 4 and 16 years
inclusive.
(CTAt an election for Tax Collector of !
Charleston District, held on 14th inst., 2194 \
votes were polled. j
I mporlmit.
Undorthis head,the Savannah Republican
of the 14th inst., says—“We yesterday
ceived from a friend, who resides at Macon,
now in New \ ork, a letter stating that the
Stockholders of the Macon & estern Road
have determined, in conjunction with the
people of Columbus, to construct the Rail
Road to Columbus forthwith. It is to be
built for cash, and to be completed by the Ist
Jan. 1848, if possible. Our informant says
there is mistake," 1 and authorizes us to
announce the fact. Three or four directors
were to leave New York immediately, to
meet the Columbus Stockholders on the Flint
River. The point of departure from the
Macon & W estern Road, is not indicated.—
W r e assume, however, for obvious reasons,
that it will be Bartlesville.
“It will now belong to the citizens of
Savannah, and the Central Rail-Road, to
build two thorough sea-going steamers, to
run hence to New-York, of which it is proba
ble much of the Stock would he taken in the
latter place. The Road to Waynesborougli
is now sure to be built beyond a peradveu
ture, and its extension to Augusta may be re
garded as certain. So shall public and pri
vate interests in Georgia fie subserved.”
Finances of S*e»i«» ybanin (SoTcrnor’i
Jtvn.iii;**.
The Pennsylvania Inquirer gives the fol
lowing summary of the statistical portions of
Governor Shunk’s Message ;
The State debt out fie Ist of December was
as follows.
Total funded debt $38,858,970 52
Relief noles in circulation 1,684,664 00
Interest certificates outstanding.. 703,810 69
Interest certificates, unclaimed... 4,433 II
1 Interest on certificates, to August
j Ist, 1815, when funded 41,423 21
i Domestic creditors, 96,275 47
Total public debt, on tbe Ist De
cember, 181fi $40,789,577 00
Being $196,816 22 less than it was on the Ist of
i December, 1313.
The balance in the Treasury, on the Ist
| inst., was only $438,986 68. It is, therefore,
altogether probable, that it may become ne
cessary to make some arrangements to an
ticipate a small portion of the revenue of the
! year to meet the interest which will fall due
i on the Ist of February next. He recom
mends some legal provision for the purpose,
j From the canal commissioner’s report it
appears, that the receipts from canal and rail
j road toils, and charges fur motive power,
j were:
For the year 18-13, $1,017,811 12
i “ “ 1844, 1.167,603 42
“ “ 1845, 1,196.979 43
“ “ 1846, 1,295,494 76
Showing a gradual and steady increase du
ring the above period. Even last year, not
| withstanding llte delay in opening naviga
! lion, they exceeded those of JBl5, by the
sum of $98,515 33.
'Lite Governor expresses an opinion that
the taxes assessed under existing laws, on
real and personal property, with the ordina
ry revenues, and an amount from the public
improvements, equal to that received during
i the past year, will prove sufficient to pay the
interest on the public debt, and other de
i mauds npon the Treasury; the annual in
crease of tolls upon the public works, may
be added to llte present sinking fund of two
hundred thousand dollars a year.
A Eiml to S*u*t mauler*.
| A Post-Master in the interior of' Pennsyl
vania recently had judgment given against
him for the price of a subscription of several
years to a distant newspaper, on the plea
: that he had not given sujjicienl legal notice id
the publisher to stop it, and had continued to
i receive the number for several years, and sell
! them for the postage 1 The magistrate de
cided that merely returning a copy of “John
Smith’s” paper, with ‘‘slop/his'’ written on
it, without post mark, or other indication of
locality, was not sufficient or legal notice,
but a written notice , with name, place, date ,
and reason , must be sent to the publisher
and “franked,” that it may be taken out by
him.
'Lite Cassville Pioneer says—“ Rail Roads
are going ahead in Cherokee, and no mis
take. The Memphis Branch Road is now
under contract, and the contractors are busi
ly engaged in grading the same. But what
is more surprising, Messrs. Wyiy, Cooper &,
Stroup, are about commencing the construc
tion of a Road from their works on Stamp
Creek, to Cartersville, a distance of about
five miles. In a few years the Iron Works
will be a Lowell, —so much for the enterpris
ing citizens of Cass.”
The Richmond Enquirer, of Tuesday last
says: —“The Northern cars were ve»terday
detained three hours by the snow on the track.
At.Fredericksburg it was nine inches, and at
Washington twelve incites deep. Yesterday
morning our streets were covered with snow
—but most of it disappeared before the even
ing, Last night was clear and cold.”
A Washington letter in the Boston Atlas
says :
A reciprocity Treaty with Hanover, which
has been some time before the Senate, was
ratified to-day by a very close vote. It was
opposed principally on a clause leaving its
advantages open to the adoption of the Ger
man Stales. It is about time we had got
rid of these reciprocities, which are altogeth
er one-sided in their operation. A large
portion ofour carrying trade is now done in
foreign bottoms, under Treaties based upon
the principle of the most “favored nations.”
'Lite New York Herald has the following
paragraph on the subject :
Commercial Treaties—Ratification of
the Zoll Verein Treaty.—We learn
from 'Washington, that the Senate have final
ly ratified the commercial treaty made with
the Zoll Verein by our late minister, Mr.
Wheaton, at the Court of Austria. This
treaty was rejected by our government when
it was first presented,and has since lain dor
mant. We do not know how the obstruc
tions to its passage through the Senate have
been removed, or what changes have been
been made ensuring its ratification, as the