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Daffy, per annum, |
Tri-'.W-ki/, per annum, b I
If p?i<J in advance,
W tckly, per annum, °
If paid in advance ~
new t-übscripiLuus must be paid in advance. |
irtrP'isiag'e ninsi lie paid un ail Cuannuuu a.i. ns ;
Rad Lefers of misines*.
[Written for tin Llot'g S \:\u» by A!!. ; S. C. i—;
The \cw Vcar’» Bndal.
Why sister, why. that wilder**'! g:izv.
Why at ilu* gale Urns lingering yet,
Tiie wedding train have turned the road—
Are out of sight, forgive, i^rgei.
fume dearest, let u«» seek mir h< me.
This churchyard’* damp, exposed and drear,
The bleak, cold wind, with mournful wail,
Is ushering in this su«i new year.
l*e knew not, when beneath the porch,
He whispe ed gaily to his bride,
Yottr ear was strained to catch the tone—
Your form sluoJ trembling near his sine.
Nxy, wrap the mantle closer round.
Nor longer thus the tempest brave,
Let’ii shelter Tenth lids spreading tree,
Thai’s bending o'er our mother's grave.
Oh. rouse thee from this fearful trance.
The gathering clouds are rolling near;
Fm.tll flakes of snow beat o er your brow.
And slowly cha.-se the failing a-ir.
The storm still loud, and louder grows—
Nay start not from my feeble grasp;
Oh, Mary, sp<*ak, what means that shriek—
That frenzied look, that struggling gasp?
Ah. me! you hear the wedding peal—
Those sounds of joy Well inny’st thou Jreacl,
Kirn hears me not, her eyes are fixed.
Oh, powers of grace! her reason’s fled.
[From the Charleston Mercury, Jan. 27. j
Proposilioim of t*cacc.
The Union of Saturday night has a long |
article in reprobation of the Resolutions o'- '
sered by Mr. Ctlley, of New Hampshire, in ■
Ihe Senate, and by Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, |
in the House, on Friday. The-e resolves :
were published yesterday in our Washing- j
ion Correspondence. 1 lie Union says :
“ Two movements were made yesterday in
f’ongress, from the two extremities of the
Union —the one by Mr. CTey.of New Hamp
shire, in the Senate, and the other by Mr.
Stephens, of Georgia, in the House—plainly
adapted, if not designed, to disavow the war,
and discourage its pro.-eculion. Mr. Gilley
a-ked the Senate of the United Slates to re
solve that our army should now be ordered by
the President to skulk away from the enemy
in humiliating and shameful retreat ! Mr.
Stephens contented himself with asking the
house to repudiate all idea of an indemnifica
tion lor the expenses of 1 lie war, and fur our
claims against Mexico, bylhe acquisition of
‘any portion of her terr.lorv,’ and to again
proffer negotiation for the purpose of settling
the ‘rightful boundary of'l’exas and so ob
lii ning peace without such indemni'y.’
These proportions i re extraordinary ab
■imhtics —ut.d it is hard to say which of them
is the greatest. Mexico demands that we
ahould give up all the advantages ue iiave
gained by a series of brilliant victories—that
we should retreat out of her territory—that
we should assume the position of the con
quered country suing for peace—and then
she will condescend to treat about peace.— i
She bids us do this. Straightway a Senator t
rise* in his scat and proposes fnat v.c do as
Mexico orders. I? is an instance of polite- '
ppss more extreme than has ever been heard
r * T w.tk ia-**-.UvU «• l
pT. Kinr« 1 "
in the words
11 Hid him to hell, tu hell he goes.**
Mr. Stevens would have us goon fighting,
but to ass in x .Mexico that they hi * nooect- ,
eicn fur uneasiness about it, us we j.•••anise |
net to ref tin any of the fruits « t victory, in
the meantime, byway of variety, we are to j
off r what her public functionaries have just
publicly sworn not to accept,—•inoihiT cm- |
b 1 tsv. Every organ of the Mexican Gov- 1
eminent lias declared officially that they will
not treat for peace, while our arms dominate
over anv portion of their country, and i t the
lace of this Mr. Stevens proposes lo nego
tiate. Tney are pledging every source of j
revenue lo the very dregs, to raise means fur
the war—Mr. Stephens proposes that w c
(diouli solemnly renounce ■ > only hope of |
indemnity, by declaring ti.at wo wi'i appro- 1
priatc no part olMhe a.exican territory. And j
Congress is to deal with great qnes!inns in
tnis xyay! It would teem as if common
tense had fled the land.
We are in a fairway to be as bad < ff as
Mexico her of. The Senate has been b ith
eriog itself lor a week, with a rabble of
amendments to tlie Army X» I! —’he end of
which seemed lik« Iv to he, a grave dcci-ion
by that body that volunteers are better for a
foiyien war than regulars. Measures to in- ;
vignrate the credit of the Government ate
rclu-ed, and thus it will be compelled to pay
for depreciation, and to get. its means with
difficulty, even at that. The most expensive
and least efficient kind of troops are prefer
red, —and as if this multiplication ofthfiicu!-
ties on every side was not enough, it is pro
posed that we shou l.i be constantly sending
somebody to Mexico to give the enemy new
courage and hope by assuring them that we
are sick of lighting and beg them for God’s
cake lo grant us peace. The whole world
* will soon despise us, and then we may come
to our senses and despise ourselves.
[From the Savannah Georgian.]
SAPFJ.O ISLAND, Jan. 22, 1317.
(Jatcrpiflur.
Gentlemen: —Some letters have appeared in
the newspapers respecting the caterpillar sur
viving the winter, either in the butterfly or in
the cocoon, or chrysalis state. The sole ob
jection I can have lo such letters is, that they
may lull the planter into repose, and prevent
him from using all the vigilance he would use
in destroying the caterpillar by fire, either in ■
its egg, in its chrysal, or in its butterfly con
dition.
While in Savannah recently, my black man- j
agers found in the grass,along the roads and
around the fields, many butterflies of the
caterpillar species. My daughter’s driver
found suspended to the grass, in his fields,
several of the cocoons or chrysals quite alive,
which he brought to the house, not knowing
I was away.
These are facts I give, because I wish every
planter from here to Texas to burn up and i
clear around his fields, as far as his conve
nience will permit.
That it should have been doubted for a mo
ment that the caterpillar might survive the
winter, is only wonderful when all analogy
would have confirmed the fact..
The silk-worm lays its eggs in May, these
Y£gs are preserved on paper or cloth until
Janu*j, Vt ant | tlien to prevent too early hatch
•ftg, placed in «n Ice bouse—no cold injures
tUnniv
1 pm hi w tj>u»rinig>n.M kT.i—tfJHfvyrv
1 The cut-worm, so destructive to our In-
I H id corn crop-, from .Maine to Texas, dors
1 its work of ruin from April to June, accorJ
| ing to latitude. When its work of mi-chief
jis over, .1 u.~», becomes a y-a ; bnr“s it
i self in the earth, not more tinman inch deep.
I Many of them rotns out as foes, h it many
; remain «1»e year r und in I ills coudn ion, to
be ex need by the plough or boe in tiie winter
or spring, waiting to the spare;* of birds.
| And it is to Ibis gleaning of the birds that
| we often owe the preservation ui o.*r Indian
i corn crop.
j Afmr fifty-three years of c itf.on cub are,
and after more los-es than any other pi.tn er
I m the United Stales iia.- su.-otined by ca er
‘ pi lar, 1 believe tin* 1 isl bope of staying the
plague, in tint he found in tire. Tir.st clear
ing up and burning around our field—fires
lighted up, in every field, as tar as ( os-ibie,
of every dark night, as soon a- the caterpil
lars make their appearance in any part of tiie
country, however distant; for they comeim'y
like a thief in the r.ignf, and they fly like the
cHiniie moth, (wiiicii they greatly res* m Me.)
I) the light. A single molii destroyed in >bc
spring by lire, may slay the destruction ol
millions before lire month of August or Sep
tember.
Respectfully, your very ob’t. serv f.,
Tilt is. SCALDING.
'Srxituu I'tau <1 uic At av.
La Patna — tiie ilisli paper in New Or- j
leans—publishes a letter from a gonlieman j
ai tne city of Mexico, dated Dec. 2Sth. It j
gives winit purports lo be tne plan ui the
Mexican leaders in tiie present campaign.
Alter alluding to the new governmental!J
expressing some prejudice against the Vice-
President, it goes on thus. W e are indebted
to tne l)e ta for the transiadoi.:
j 'i’lie plan of tiie campaign, if we may so
| style it, or rather the menlhod of carrying on !
j the war, which, according to what I have ’
! learned, Santa Anna has adopted, is an ad
i mtrable one, and perhaps the only one which
! may serve to punish the North Americans as •
j they deserve. 1, who am well acquainted 1
! with their character, and have been able to
: study well their inclinations during my resi
i deuce in the United States, tiiink tiie jilan a
j feasible and practical).e one, and entitles the
Commander-in-Chief or tiie Mexican forces
to high praise. Here it is, in a few words:
‘•Every means of precaution will be tak* n
in order to fortify weil one point of tiie Re
public, with all tiie necessary reinforcements
within a rad.us not very extended, hut well
lraced,distracting in every possible manner
the enemy, and calling ins attention to in
significant movements. Bv these means, it I
is imped, that much precious time uiji he
lost by the troops of the United States, and
tints, at tiie beginning of tiie summer, they |
will be scattered all about the country, at
different points, so that at no siimie place
they may have a force as large a- tiie Cen
tral Division of the Mexican army. 'Thus
the advance info the country will cost the
North Americans a large sum of dollars,
! which will be touching them in a tender
’ point, as they value dollars more than lives, i
and money more than the blood of their citi
zens. Resides tiie 10-s of time and the ex
orbitant expenses of the North America).s,
which are three times as great as those of the
Mexican army, the summer season will fail
upon them unexpected!} 7 , with its numerous
■ diseases and epidemics, so perilou- to tiie nn
; acclimated, and thus, without a sing e shot
from the Mexican ranks, they will peri-h 1
daily by hundreds, both men and be s's. who
i will not iiave strength to resist oar ebonite.
and in a short time their n T .'n's v
~ , 0
dcounuU:!
I in that season of toe r, vvk: 1 ..? native
i Mexican belter fined for war, the Mexican
j army will ' ’ able, by on<* baid and c.e' vi
; trate ! ir .vement, to suddenly fall upon, and 1
I tear to p’occ - , the remnant of Taylor’s anev.
And in case the North Americans should '
wish U retire, their retreat will prove as fatal j
: Jo as- any death-bearing epidemic; for
thev will find no resources on the iino of the r
retreat, and will i»e exposed to attack from
roving bauds of highwaymen and banditti,
which the miseries ol war are calculated to
| increase.
This is in brief flie plan which, according 1
to information gathered from several per.-ons,
. who 1 believe l<» be well acquainted with j
i such affair.-. ! have been able to trace our,
hut I must remark, that tiie whole complot
i- not d v edged. It is said iliar Santa Am.a
uni not leave San Luis. I hit os i, although |
some Ino cements and app rent matches will
be practiced, so that the enemy may believe •
that Lie i-s about to leave. Th it \v*>rj •'ene
my” is tiie «n 1 ;v ore l;y whit >■ ilic Noidi ,
Aine; icans can h * pr*>; 1 rly do- g .a ed here;
lor it would be difiicnh tor *:. g lo i xpkiin to
you the mortal hni n.d, and hnruing desire for
Vvmgeance, which lire all Me x'can bosoms.
Everv necessary precaution lias been taken, ;
and all means are daily used, to coiled at !
San Luis Futosi all possible provisions and
munitions of war. It is believed that too ■
North Americans arc determined to leave
Salti lo and 'l’ampicn; they wiil come to
wards San Luis, and there fight the great de
cisive battle, as Santa Anna will not leave
that city, and will keep there constantly about
25,000 men.
There are at present, in a distance ofabout
150 miles or le.ss, nearly 45,000 men of ail
arms, and it is expected to raise, during the
month of January, about 8000 more of infan-
I try and cavalry. A considerable number of
troops are stationed at [ r p r points to cut off
tiie North Americans on ti.eir retreat, incase
they should come a? far as San Luis, where
they will not be able to su=lain tfie resistance j
of ihe Mexicans.
Character of (fueni Kliaatocth.
The following eloquent paragraph is from
Bronghan’s “Lives of Men of Letters
ll is undeniable that Elizabeth did not
cause Mary to be executed until she bad re
peatedly endeavored to make Sir Amyas I
! Panleft and Sir Drue Drury, who had the cus- i
I tody of her person, lake her off by assassina- !
! lion. When those two gallant cavaliers re
-1 jected the infamous proposition with indig- i
I nation and with scorn, she attacked them as ;
; “dainty” and “precise fellows,” “men pro
mising so much and performing nothing;”
nav, she was with difficulty dissuaded from
displacing them, and employing one Wing
field in their stead, “who had both courage
and inclination to strike the blow.”
finding she could not commit murder, she
j signed the warrant for Mary’s execution;
and immediately perpetrated a crime only
less foul than murder, treacherously denying
tier handwriting, and destroying by heavy j
fine and imprisonment the secretary of state •
whom she had herself employed to use the
fatal warrant. History, fertile in its records
of royal crimes, offers lo our execution few
such characters as that of this great, suc
cessful. and popular princess. An assassin
in her heart, nay, in her councils and her or
ders; an oppressor of the most unrelenting
cruelly in her whole conduct; a hypocritical
dissembler, to whom falsehood was habitual,
honest frankness strange. Such is the light
in which she ought iu bo ever held up, a
lonir a, humanity and truth skull Lear any
value ia the eyed of man,
[Reported for the Baltimore Sn n.l
mVi'WISIU CONGRESS.
second sr;ssio\.
\'. A SUING TON Jail, 25, 1547.
SENATE.
Mr. Archer presented the credentials of his
Ct >. eagae. lion. J. M. '.Jason, who was sworn
and took ins seal..
A ter the reception of some exeent ive com- j
mnn cations, reports were called from com- I
mil tees.
Mr. Video, from the Naval Committee, re- ;
ported back the lull tor the construct ion of a
I), y Dock at Pensacola, without amendment.
Mr. Ashley, from she Judiciary Committee,
j reported back the House hi 1 to organize a
i territorial government iu Oregon, w tin sun
i drv amendments,
Mr. Denton asked and rb'ained leave to
make an exposition in vindication of the
President, for having proposed too office of j
Lieut. Genera!.
Mr. Lew is, f om the Finance Committee,
reported back the Loan bill, without amend
ment. lie observed that unless if were pass
ed immediately, the Senate cornu not meet its
liabilities.
Mr. Denton, as chairman of the military
committee, said that under these circum
stances, he would yield the army bill, until
the loan biil shall have been disposed of.
Mr. Huntington expressed his doubts as
to whet iter toe .senate had had sufficient 1
, time to examine Ihe biil.
! Dv the casting vole of the Vice President, I
the loan bill was then taken up.
; Mr. Evans hoped that the chairman of the ;
finance committee would at least inform the j
Senate of the actual state ol the i reasury,
and how i.h : s .-midi n emergency had arisen.
Mr. Lewis did not reply, but moved an
amendment to ‘-trike out that portion of the >
Ihih section wha’-'i hunts tiie price at what
tin' Secretary Mia 11 buy mine notes or slock,
when able so to do.
•Mr. Speight was very indignant at the idea
that this government could have any difficul
ty in borrowing even a hundred miliums, lie
saiii that money in Europe was gomg a beg
ging.
After a few words from Mr. Sevier, hir.
Lewis withdrew nis amendment.
Mr. J. M. Clayton renewed the inquiry as
to tiie actual condition of the Tie isury.
Mr. Lewis replied that tiie financial policy !
of tiie Administration would well compare;
with that of the opposition. He was confi
dent tiie government couid borrow any i
amount it needed.
Mr. Evans dal not believe anv such tiling.
He went on to argue that tiie power to bur
row money hv 1 1 1 * hypothecation of tiie trea- >
surv notes was a dangerous power, and which
might be abused by a corrupt man.
Mr. Huntington then made a powerful
speech in ex no-it ion of tne bid, and of the ,
financial measures of the government, the \
or.e he thought dangerous and the other ali
en nl.
After nn ineffectual motion to adjourn,
Mr. the floor and gave iiis views, i
Mr. Badger tiien renewed tiie motion to
adjourn. ’1 lie result was yeas 21, nays 20.
hso tiie Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Gdes presented the memorial of tiie
reeling of the Society of Frit * Is, h* Id in the
. t" of Bffl ino;e, 19th December. 1 S-iti, on
the subject oi me present war, ami praying j
that every measure may 1,. i = ;:• a. to ensure |
;• spee.lv rent in to ]■■■■■■ Referred to the j
Committee on Military Abors.
Mr. Schenck moved to postpone the con-
I slderation of tiie previous order, loenable him
\ to introduce a long series of resolutions in
! f ivor of a speedy peace, of wi hdrawing our
troops to the east oi ihe Dto Grande, of dis
b Hiding tiie volunteers, and prov-ding for
t»elr return hone, leaving only sufficient
troops on ihe frontier to repel invasion, of
prosecnting the war against Mexico by hlock
ad ng her ports, of levying duties on arlic’e.-
tiiereinto imported, and decianug it to be in
expedient lo Carry on u war of conquest, The
I l.iii.-e refused to post pone the order, and Mr.
; Sciienck gave* notice ili.it ho silnu !d to-m »r
--row itiuv e :i suspension of Ihe rules, with a
view (" ini reduce the resolution*’.
A message was rece.ved from the Prr-i
--dein oi tin- Imbed Stales, by ins private Se
cretary, Mr. J. Knox V a uer.
The special order of the dav, fining the
amendatory hill from tiie committee on nidi
fary affairs* to increase the pay of non-com
missioned officers, muslchuis, and privates of
the army of the United States, and the mili
tia ami vo iiHirers in the service <d the same,
and allowing them bounty land in certain
cases, was then taken up, and the amend
ments debated in committee of ihe whole,
Mr. McClelland in tiie chair. The commit
tee rose without coming to any conclusion
l hereon, and a resolution was adopted to close
the debate to-morrow at three o’clock.
Mr. ll iralson. from tiie military commit
tee, reported a hill to increase tiie number of
light artillery companies, which was twice
read and referred to toe committee of the
whole on the slate of the Union.
Mr. McDowell reported a bill granting the
assent of Congress to an act of Maryland in
relation to ihe Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
Head twice and referred.
Mr. Trumbo presente ! tiie resolutions of
the Kentucky legislature fur an increase of
I pay to volunteers serving against Mexico.
Sundry resolutions of inquiry were offered, i
hut objection being made, were not received.
Adjourned.
[ Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington, Jan. 25, 1847.
As I predicted in my letter of yesterday,
and was generally expected, Col. Benton
made to-day a personal explanation in regard
to the Lieutenant Generalship. ihe Benate
listened with profound attention—the galleries
were crowded lo suffocation, and Col. Benton
spoke in a voice so perfectly senatorial that
it was scarcely audible.
Col. Benton acknowledged, without hesita
tion, and with becoming frankness, that he
was indeed the man whom tiie President had
intended for the Lieutenant General; but that
intiiis there was really little tube surprised
or astonished at. Col. Benton was, in 1812,
a Colonel in the regular army, and outranks
all the Generals now engaged in the war
i against Mexico. I understand this to mean
that Colonel Benton would have outranked
the General now commanding our army in
Mexico, had he remained in ttie army. He
also denied that in appointing iion Lieutenant
General, the President intended to appoint
him his successor. The President, he ob.
served, tendered him the mission to France,
for which he thanked him then, and for
which he would thank him now; but pending I
to France, fie inferred, wa* no means of mak
ing him President of the Unned Mates.
As to the Lieutenant Generalsh p, it had
been offered him by General Jackson in case
of a war with Mex co. in 1836. am! the in
ference was, that what General Jackson uf
ferrd in 1836, Col, P«»k could, without im
propnety, offer in 1846. under similar cir
cumstances. He apprehend 'd that Mexico
was divided into two parlies;—one for peace,
and the oilier for war,in the toil. Had lie been |
appointed Lieutenant General, he would
nave held out the olive branch to the one,
j and made war on the other, until it should
! have been willing to treat.
I behove few genilemon in the country
j couid have made a similar explanation, and
! commanded its respectful attention us Col. ,
Benton; hut the lari is, however g?n lumen
may object on other grounds to Col. Denton,
neither the powers ot h s mind, ids courage,
or energy of character uie doubted, and he
j sat down, after having commanded the breath
less attention of the Senate for mure than
half an hour.
AUGUSTA GEOg I
I : j
FRIDAY MORNING, J ANUARY 29, 1847. 1
All. McphciH’ Siesui uiimi..
The views expressed by the Charleston
Mercury of tiie resolutions of Mr. Cilley in
tiie Senate, and of Mr. Stephens in tiie
House, in a great measure anticipate what
vve wished to say on the subject. We de
precate tiie resolutions of Mr. Stephens corn- |
inor ns they d > from a Southern man. To
call the positions there assumed absurdities ,
simply, is not to use language strong enough.
If they would have tiie effect only to place our
country in a ridiculous altitude, ior tiie jeers i
and laughter of the world, we might depre- ;
cate them lor the mortification they would ;
bring on the proud spirit of our people. But ;
I.hey were summarily rejected by a de
ci-ive vote. At least we infer from the vote :
of 7G yeas to 83 nays on tiie question to re
ceive and refer to the Committee of tiie !
Whole, from which we infer that the House
is not prepared ior the humiliation to Mexi- !
can gasconade on the one hand, or life Ami !
Slavery usurpations of the North on the
other.
There were several votes in favor of re- |
ceiving and referring, \vh ich vve doubt not
were given either iu courtesy to the mover,
or with a view to bring on a discussion on
their merits, yet which would he imhosital
iio'ly given against their adoption by tne j
House.
'i'iie Chronicle & Sentinel however with
a naivete which seems to be real, nut the af
fectation of it,intimates that po-Mbiy Messis.
Lumpkin and (Job!) of this Stale, because
they voted in the affirmative are t n favour
of the resolutions, without knowing the fact, j
vve venture to predict that never was infer’ j
once more wide of the mark.
We cannot conceive of more verdant pu
rility than Die language fought to be ad
dress'd to Mexico iu these resolutions. \\ e
are called on to reiterate to her that vve arc
willing and anxious to make peace, at tiie |
vo r v lime fir has in I lie most mail- j
ner and in every variety of form declared |
that she will listen to no accommodatjon
except on terms that it would be a burning ■
shame upon us to submit to. Mexico lias ;
given us her ultimatum. Side wi 1 not treat j
ot her own free will and accmd, with a view j
to peace —she will hold no intercourse with I
us, and scorns, as Hie has hitherto scorned j
every overture. Site declares her prefer
ence for war to tiie knife, unless we inglori- ;
onsly back out —evacuate her territory as a !
necessary preliminary Jo becoming - a sue- |
cessful suppliant for peace. Mr. Stephens i
ought to know too well the martial spirit of |
the American people to suppose that such an 1
altiiud * would be assumed for an instant.
But his resolutions seek to emblazon to I
the world our domestic differences of opinion j
as to the aims and objects of tiie war, as a
reason (or desiring peace. This i.-, lo say
the least, not the biosl likely mode of indu
cin’'-the Mexicans to yield to the entreaties
thus pathetically made to her fur peace.
We would tliii k it much more sensible to 1
have offered a resolution declaring it as Ihe
opinion of Dio American Congress Dial it
was expedient to make an entire and uncon
ditional conquest ol the whole territory of
Mexico, and to annex it as a conquered coun
try to the United States, unless site should
offer terms of pacification, and pledge her
seif to make Die most ample reparation for
past wrongs, and lor tiie expenses to which
she has subjected this government. Such a
resolution would, vve have no doubt, be enthu
siastically responded to by a large portion of
the American people, and would have a salu
tary effect on tiie people of Mexico. Mr.
Stephens’ resolutions would place us in the
anomalous attitude of being frightened at our
own successes, while Mexico grows more
insolent and courageous with continued de
feat.
But, tne third resolution which declares in
terms that this government relinquishes all
idea of conquering and keeping as a con
quest, or for indemnification any portion
of Mexican territory is not only impoli
tic and humiliating, but vve look upon it as
a manifest shrinking from the maintenance
of Southern rights. It is to our view a
downright recoil from the bold tiireats of the
Anti Slavery members, who bully the South
with the declaration that no more territory
hereafter, in all time to come, lo be annexed
to the Union, shall be open to Southern emi
gration. It is to be reserved for tiie espe
cial benefit of the non slaveholding popula
tion of the Union, and to be carved up here
after into free Stales, while the slaveholder
with his slates is to be hemmed in forever
in i.is present limits. This is practically
the threat, and would practically be the re
sult if the Anti Slavery fanaticism should
have its own way. Mr. Stephens is unwit
lingly playing into the hands of this parly, ,
and may be their cats;.aw. He may fancy j
that he is yielding to very high and pat riot ic
notions,and the Northern Ami Slavery mem
bers may stuff hi in with the idea that they
think ihe same tiling of his course. Bufghey i
wi 1 laugh iu their sleeves at the Quixotism
Dial indulges mi romantic a sentiment at the
expense of the most vital rights of toe South.
7<Z r. Aai'crsou Otlidfo.
This was a .-p mined performance. Vv e
know not how more fi'lv lo gi,\e expression
to our admiration of Anderson's acting on
Wednesday night. Perhaps no character
in Die whole range of the drama more severe
j ly tests the histrionic abilities of the actor
than does that of Othello. There is none
I which requires a greater combination of
powers and opposite qualities. Love, jeal
ousy, rage, remorse are all brought out iu
. boid relief bv the immortal author, in that
powerful delineation of human passion. It
: requires a m ister of his profession to pour
| tray upon the stage an i to bring as it were
I into real, living existence, m all its grand
proportions, this lofty conception of the poet.
Vv e felt that Anderson vindicated his claim
to be among the very first of his profession —
worthy to appear before the must critical ad
j mirers of Shakspeare as tiie impersonation
1 of his most highly wrought imaginings.
| ** 3 * .
i Next to tiie creative genius tout produces a
i , '
j splendid fiction, to illustrate a great moral .
truth, or lo pourtray the workings of human j
passion, must come the sympathetic genius j
j that enters fully into tiie spirit of the author,
' and by bis own impersonation impresses it '
upon others with the vividness of reality.
|* . i
This was done Ly Anderson in Oihello. :
' Alike in scenes of melting tenderness, and
| of phrenzied rage, and of agonizing remorse ,
j and seif abandonment, did lie display a power
| of so identifying himself with the part, that
I the spectator feit for the time not that he
I acted Othello, hut that ho was Othello—the
: brave, Die fiery and ingenuous Moor, whose
| trusting soul had bv d; momac arts, been con- i
i verted into a boiling can dnm of fury and
! phreuzy, which swallowed up every senli- ;
j mbnl of pity mid distorted the powers of Die
i intellect,
Mr, Anderson’s acting is an intellectual
treat. Ho possesses Die true fire and en
thusiasm of genius. It speaks in the fervor
of his tones and in the energy of his action*
iHe lias til q }ihysi [lie too. to give efficiency to
h.s readings. Nature lias bestowed upon
him a handsome figure, and cultivation has
given him case and grace of attitude and
gesture. His voice is powerful and well
; modulated; vet these advantages do not
J tempt him into rant and declamation,
i Crowded and atttcntive houses have tpsfi
fieri during all Dus week the high apprecia
tion placed upon ids acting.
To night lie appears as Richard 3d.
o*We would call Die attention of our ag
ricultural friends to the communication of
> Thomas Spalding. Esq. of Aid.ito»h county,
j winch will Jh.* l.MJiui iii fids day paper.
Vv’c would t ail the attention of (Capitalists
to the advertisement of (tie Fresitlent of die Geur-
J gia bteura Boat toinpanv, iu this day’s pa per.
i ILTThe W ealein mmi due yesterday morn
| dig, did not come lo hand until 4 o’clock in
i the afternoon. The do ay was caused bv Dg
j cars running off ; ha toad—hut vvearegraD-
I tied to learn no serious injury wo.s sustained
| by any one. No papers were received from
I New Orleans.
J. ik v I
A little as or 12 o'clock list n : glit, the
! bells g ive the alarm of lire, which was found
: to proceed from the residence of Mrs. yims
• on ilevuolds-street, just above Market-st.
j Too inmates vveie aroused by a dense
; smoke in their room* - , and tiie fire was ids
covered in Die ceiling between the two chi;n
ii *ys on the first siory, and was evidently the
win k of an incendi i y.
The engines were promptly on the spot,
1 and as soon us limy got to work the dimes
j was subdued. 'Fite furniture of Mrs. iSmis
i was materially damaged by the quantity of
j water iteeesssarily thrown in the front and
1 hack rooms, and we regret to learn siie had
; no insu|hnce cm her property:
Augusta Comyanr,
i Tiiis is the last day lor subsenh ng to
stock in the above company. Already vve
understand about one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars of the stock is I a ken. The en
terpr ze is speeding on handsomely. \Ve
: should bo pleased to be able lo report in our
next paper that another hundred thousand
has been taken.
A (iauil .Mil:tve
il is not always considered a luxury, lite
rally or figuratively, to undergo Die opera
tion. But vve are indebted lo Dr. Win. 11.
Tutt for a box of Harrel’s Ambrosial Shav
ing Cream; an article which seems capable
i of robbing a dull razor of half its terrors.
[lirThe Richmond Enquirer of the 2Gth
inst, announces James A Fed Jon, Esq., as a
candidate for re-election from Richmond dis
trict. Mr. Bolts is the Whig candidate.
Magnetic Telegraph. —We learn (says the
| Savannah Georgian) that the subscription to the
j Stock fur a Telegraph between this city and Au
i gusta lias been taken up.
'Die Savannah Republican of 271 h inst.
says;—'Flic cars from Macon, due here yes
; lenlay morning at one o’clock, ii d not arrive
until about six o’clock, P. M. The delay was
occasioned by a collision between a .-ingle
engine and a freight train loaded with cotton,
which occurred about 4 o’clock on Monday
evening, near the 130 Mile Station, about
five miles this side of Franklin’s. 'Fhe en
gines were considerably damaged, and sev
j ml of the Engineers and hands were badly
injured. It is said that Air. Guiding, the
Engineer on the single engine, cannot re
cover. We forbear lospeak of particulars,
asthe case will probably be fully investigated.
lly TtlSuelic Trlcgraph.
f For the Bill in jre Sun. I
Arrival of liic Steamer Hibernia.
IMPORTANT raO-I EI’ROPE.
Great Adi ance in C»!'on, Flmr and Grain —•
Immense Importation j Specie—Ureal Suf
fering in Ireland—l nund-alion in Rome —
Gaulish Specula!ion on the President';
Message —Ojj nsiliim to the Annexation of
California, t\’.
The steamer Hibernia arrived at Boston
at G o'clock yesterday morning, the news by
which was forwarded to Baltimore, by tele
graph, during the day and evening, and is
sued by ns in an “extra Sun'’ slip. Bho
sailed on the s’.ii inst., and consequently
: brings dates more than twenty days later
than any which have yet been received.—
: The f<dlowing'are the despatches received at
the “Sun” office, from which a pretty accu
raie synopsis of the new can be obtained :
New York, 12, M.
The cotton market had advanced at an un
precedeiited rate. Georgia bowed was sell
ing at from throe-sou ribs to one penny higher
than it uas on the dt!i ultimo; .Mobile a half
penny higher. Alabama aiid/lVnnessoe three
quarters to seven e gluh; atid New Orleans
' three-eight Its to a half penny.
Fl<>ur had advanced from live to six shil-
I lings; corn twelve to fourteen shillings*
wheat three to four shillings, and corn meal
live shillings.
New York, 4 o'clock, I’. M.
I send yon some additional intelligence re-
I ■
i ceived hv the Hibern a.
i 'JMie Hibernia brought out the Governor of
Canada and suite.
I The money market was quiet. From two
to three hundred thousand pounds, in specie,
came in the steamer to Boston.
Liverpool, Jan. 4. —Sales of corn are
making at GSs. to 72-? per quarter. Flour m
bond commands 375. to GSs.
Colton, ordinary Orleans and Mobile, C% x
i 7d.; fair 7A- « 7gd.; good, 8t u hT.
'i’liere iiad been large sale.- of *. d, in kegs
; at 435. and 50s.
American beef and pork in demand. Large
i supplies, and prices iirm.
Arrived at i/vvtyoo! December 10, the
New World; 12 a. tiie Great We.-tern; and
17th, tae Nicholas Divide, \\ •iicrioo ami
I Montezuma.
New York. 3 o’clock, V. M.
i The President’s message was regarded in
England as giving toil assurac-c- iir.it low du
lies on the manuiacU' cs oi'lna. country will
! be maintained, w »ic.i has given English
m uiufac urers i cm -enui prospect lor their
i trade the ensuing spi .eg.
The Fans papers a.-.-etl that the French
government intends pr- posmg arc unction of
I the du'v on foreign corn.
I HI! V\D.
j The distress in Ireland was on the in
crea.-e, and tin? search v o r pro. isions was re
i ridliii'g in dea’ 1 irvation. J’eople
■ were going over to iv Jane to avoid starva
i lion. Great distress pr< . .>;hd in theliigh
lands. ihe Govern;;, a.I I.<»u offered an
annui" v* to r ui..di .aaul.Ovi o» lUd per uu
| mini.
1 There lias been a terrible inundation in
1 the Homan Slates, causing great distress—
loss of property is extensive. The new IVpe
) is mitigating hardships by the use of bin
purse, n- u m a.l I): per••mal exeiiions.—-
The Pope was reduced duties on foreign
Grain.
Too I’resid nit’s message is assailed by
the whole E.t J i nro.ii, and ah kinds of
I jtbn.-e and ugly names iieaped on lua.l por
tion of it sustaining the Mexican war. The
; proposed annexation of ( * ihforn.a is in ,re.
unpopular in Lug.and than that of Texas
1 was when, first proposed. They make
severe comments upon the President’*, dc
clai iiion tfuit the v. 11- was not undertaken
1 v, nil u view id conquest.
LIVER. FOUL, Jan. 4—(lotion.—Ordi
j nary Orleans' ami .Mobile was selling at Gjd,
Id 7 ; lair do. at 7.\i. to 7 x good do. b 4 d. to
I B|d.
J'he money market was quiet, with I*.
? little fiuctuation.
j ___
The News and ti:k M oi.w i —The Hibernia**
news hai bad a den led ell et on the Bukitnoro
luarUei fir breadstiiTi. The sales of Flour show
an advance, at the close, of 7f cciUs per bbl; and
Corn is also iuateriili> h.gher.
Mr. Win. Darin’, lias published a letter in
the Washington Union, in reply to some in
quiries made by a United Slates Senator,
in which lie remarks, among other thing*,
that the population of the United Stales has
: increased annually, since 1790, at the rale
; of three per cent. The following result?,
1 demonstrate the existence of this great law
I with mathematical precision:
I Fupuhuiou of the Uni- Population of the U. S.
Kit Slates by the cen- decennially,from 1790
1 sus of to 1840,by an increase
! 1790 3.929,927 of3perct. |>erannura,
j 1800 5,305.925 5,281,453
j 1810 7.239,814 7.095,964
1 1320 9.038.131 9.535,182
! 1830 12,856.407 12,811,118
1 1810. 17,093,353 17,217,700
I 1850. 23,027,694
i iB6O 31,596,562
| 1870 41.839.538
1980 : 5,822.519
| 1890 73,977.990
; 1900 102,840,201
Mr. Darby further states, in the conclu
i sion of his letter, that—
“ The zone of North America between
North latitude 30 and 50 degrees, exclusive
of water surface, rather exceeds than falls
j short of three millions of square miles, and
; does not to any great extent, vary from an
eqality to all Europe. Os this expanse, the
! United Stales territory already embraces up
wards of two million five hundred thousand
i of square miles, and consequently, when the
population rises tonne hundred million, the*
mean density would then be under 5 ) to the
square mile—a density (ar below th. lof sev
eral of the existing Stales at the pie m \ \
When we have thus means to decide the lu
ture, why not provide for it* foreseen and in
evitable results? With California,the Uni
ted States territorv would exceed that of ai;
! Europe,”