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tf WE CONSTITUTIONALIST. j GARDNER, JR. V. STEEWS. fc. WSF Daily, per aptum $8 ..m fri-Weeklyfper annum ..... 6 00 If paid ia advance 5 '6O - vVeekly, per annum, if paid in "advance.... 200 These terms are offered io new subscribers and ' to old subscribers who pay up all arrearages. will the weekl} paper be sent at #2, unless the money accompanies the order. ' in no case will it be sent at % 2 to an old subscri; oer in arrears. (CP When the year paid f|r/at $2 expires, the paper, if not discontinued, orSaid for in advance, will je sent on the old if paid at the office within the year, or after the ex piration of the year. jnsll* IE? Postage must be communications and letters of business. Bjß (E?ALL REMITTANCjsJ PER MAIL ark AT OUR RISK. A CHRISTMAS HYMN. M By Prof. Longfellow. It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might And now was queen of land and sea! Jh No sound was heard of clashing wars — V „ Peace brooded o ; er the hushed domain; B. Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars, S* * field undisturbed their ancient reign, MBk. io the solemn midnight, fflr . ago! W'jM and silent night ' flßfr&kgugiuv Koine '/ {Hrhariot's flight, Htoihuu home ’ BKmioL’. -vr- li fSTn ■ on ii< S- Si'. ... . * BKmaii wnat beiei jHr far away, |Hfn midnight, §■£§.-’ * Eu2SEnP3*'r^-‘ | ago ? Bfthm that province far away, IllV'.vMP I Went plodding home a weary boorj streak ot light before him lay, m a haU shut stable door MHBr fcaMtpath. He paused, for nought on within; iflPKm only thought; OTfand coid, and thin. the'sSllmn midnight, - Centuries ago ! ' Oh, strange indifference !—low and high Drowsed over common joys and cares; ~J® The earth was still, but kne .v not why; |jj| The world was listening—unawares! How calm a moment may precede ! ■ One that shall thrill that world forever; To that still moment none would heed ‘ f Man’s doom was linked, no more to sever, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago! ft It is the calm audsiientnight! \ thousand bells ring out, and throw Ik 'i'?wir joyous peals abroad, and smite Vhe darkness— jharmed and holy now ! that erst no shame had woru, bapp ie r name is given; stable lay, new born, KBp, I'he peaceful Priuce ot earth and heaven, In the solemn midnight, J Centuries ago! {From the Baltimore Clipper , 29 th ult. ) ARRIVAL of the OHIO AT NORFOLK. Fearful and Perilous Voyage—Damage to the ssengers three days at the Pumps. ed briefly, yesterday, that the amship Ohio, bound to New w Orleans and Havana, with Baltimoreans and others on into Norfolk, on Thursday in most perilous voyage. Lavana la-t Wednesday week, pened to|her machinery, which day in the harbor, whence she ursday, with the perfect use her engines. tlavana it was noticed by those ne life, that the Ohio was bat ter the risks of a rthern shores. Her , in all likelihood, matering the vio .asts, and her frail afford but slender i to “ lay to,” or on a ice-snore or and prosperously when the breeze, shening, rose to a which the engine the ship broached mendous sea that the violent wind, iiately rescued her lat hour until the eeember, the Ohio nder the scantiest >f the hurricane, her unmanageable log in, the trough the wailiß of waves of her, and threa iction. of the gallant ship is destined to en- BfJcounter another danger. On Tuesday morn- Hing it was announced that she had si rung a Id that the rising water had extin the fires beneath the boilers. This announcement at once aroused the of the passengers, who manfully or n bands under the charge of General Howard, of Baltimore, and from that jjjuntil she passed Cape Henry, she er Providence, freed by their inces , patient labors, together with those icers and crew, and enabled to re- the use es her engines on the morning W of the 25th. A. This is but a brief and hasty summary of W the dangers encounrered by the nobie ship,and If is intended only as introductory to the fol lowing correspondence between the passen gers and Capt. J. F. Schenek, of the United States Navy, who cammands her. There were several la ly passengers on board * fche throughout the perils, their noble fortitude encouraged and nerved all who were in a condition to labor for the vessel’s •afety. ffoDieut. Schenek, S. U. Navy , commanding the jf U. S. Mail Steamship Ohio. Wednesday, Dec. 25th, 1850, > At sea, 12 o'clock, M. y Sir —The undersigned, passengers on board m your ship, have labored hard for the last two [ days and more, and have contributed their best exertions both by night and by day, to ~> nid you in saving the ship under circumstan ces of extreme peril. They conceive that this give them soma claim upon you to be heard now when the vessel is once more upon her jMuy ber engine at work, and the prospect of njtae safety more favorable. JHBiis claim upon you, by our partnership danger, and in the name of inhumanity, we respectfully but most to land us at Norfolk, the nea^stp®^^j ; 1 distant scarce one hundred miles, insteawm prosecuting the voyage to New York, a port distant between three and four hundred. You have now the use of but one engine, and even that has for the last three days, viz: since Sunday night, been to ■ within the last hour, and d torn partially from the ,t}d great exertions of the g you, your officers and > from water, is continued penning this address; it d their strength, and can- mot be expected to continue much longer.— Cuch of us as are members of the bar, and Vnown by you to be so,(would also suggest, as a consideration which for the interests ot your owners you should by no means lose sight of Ineir distinct and unanimous opinion, that ■•ur making for any other than the nearest jjprt, under the present circumstances, will any insurance on the vessel in the case of loss. We do - not however, make the suggestion from any apprehension that you may not con sider the reasons already presented as suffi cient, jbut from a belief that it is our duty to mention it in view of the relations in which we now stand .toward you. We have wit nessed with pleasure and admiration the skill and firmness which yourself, your officers and men, have displayed in exerting your selves in the hour of peril to save a the ship and pasengers; and for this, we return to you and those under your command our warmest thanks. (Signed) by Reverdy Johnson, Baltimore; Benj. C. How ard, Baltimore; and others. U. S. Mail SteamsJSip Ohio. > At Sea, Dec. 25th, 1850. > Gentlemen I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your letter of this date, and have determined to comply with your request to “land you at Norfolk." In pur suing this course I feel that I am not only performing an act of justice to you, but at the same time consulting the best interests of the owners of the ship, and all others in any way concerned in her safety; a reason in addition to (those already stated in your letter, which induced me to take this step, is one which I have just ascertained, that in the storm which we have come out of, a large proportion of my provisions were destroyed by water getting into the store rooms, so that I am left with but two days’ provisions. I beg leave, gentlemen, ti return to you my sincere thanks for the cheerful and efficient service you rendered me during the gale, and afterwards in freeing the ship from water. — lam well aware that to your extraordinary exertions I am mainly indebted for the pre servation of the ship and the lives of all on board. I also thank you for the eompli mentory manner in which you have been pleased to notice the services of myself and the officers and crew of my ship. It may be proper also to state that my officers, without an exception, agree with me as to the pro priety of my going into Norfolk. I am, very respectfully, you ob’tserv’t. Jas, Findlay Schenck. The damage to the vessel will amount to $30,000, and will require her to be taken in to the Dry Dock at Norfolk. It appears she sprung aleak at 2 o’clock on Tuesday morn ing, and leaked so fast the passengers had to be called on to assist at the pumps, there be ing ten feet of water in the hold. Bailing was also res .ored to, so that by these contri vances the water was sufficiently lowered by noon on Wednesday, to enable theciewto rekindle the fires in the engine room, which had been extinguished by the rapidity of the leak on the first day. Steam was thus got up again, but until reaching Norfolk on Thursday afternoon, the ‘pumps had to be kept going to prevent the fires from being again extinguished. Her hull is greatly dam aged, and her furniture nearly boken to pieces. The Ohio has on board about 450 passen gers, 250 of whom were from California. The Norfolk boat brought up to this dity, yester day, 150 of her passengers, and the California maisl. ( Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.') Benicia, Cal., Oct. 26, 1850. Mb. Editor find that most of the pa pers of our Eastern cities are filled with news from California, and that news consists mainly in intelligence from the gold diggings. The gold is now sufficiently settled, and understood; and I think it high time that the more important interests of commerce and agriculture should be attended to. A general impression has gone abroad, that from the fact that there is no rain for 6 to 8 months, nothing could be raised here without irrigation; but the few experiments which have been made, have abundantly proven that, not only the finest vegetables in the world, but rye, oats, barley and wheat, can be raised here, to greater perfection, and in larger quantities to the same amount of labor, than in any other part of'he world; and that, too, from the fact that there is no rain in summer, either to hurry the farmer or spoil his crops when made. We sow small grain from the commencement of the rainy season, say No vember, until the first of March, and gather it from July till October. The grain will not fall out or spoil in the field, for two months after it is ripe, whi ;h enables the farmer to gather more than five times as much as he could in the Eastern States, where the harvest time is so short, and the necessity exists for saving his crop the very day it is ripe. It has also been said that a very small pro portion of the State is susceptible of any kind of cultivation. This, tob, is equally a mis take. I have been nearly six years in Cali fornia, have been engaged in cultivation, and have traveled over much of the country. I have no hesitation in saying that, from the foot of the Sierra Nevada to the sea shore, the proportion of valuable lands is greater than that of Ohio, and will yield a better average, in quantity and quality, to say nothing of the greatly superior market, and the facilities for reaching the market, there being always 1 home market, from the inexhaustible miner als. Much of the best land is covered by old Mexican claims, which are now in market, and as we are at last admitted, it is to be hoped that Congress will soon provide for the survey and sale of the public lands. When this is done, the next great interest is that of commerce. The commercial men of the eastern cities have looked upon California as a temporary place for the wildest speculations, to last for a short time; and when the gold gives out— which they think in a year or two —to be abandoned. These notions are as unfounded as those which I have already explained. What are the elements of commerce ? They are, first, the productions of the earth; and second, the manufacture of those productions. California possesses inexhaustible mines of gold, silver, quicksilver, iron, copper, lead and and coal, and agricultural lands superior in quality and amount to any other State of the Union and is supplied with a greater amount of water-power, better distributed through the State, and more easily applied to machinery, and more convenient to navigable waters than any other State, with a great variety and a su perabundance of timber and stone. Thus much for the elements of commerce; and we have as great a superiority in the FACILITIES. The Bay of San Diego is safe and sufficient ly large. San Padro is a good landing place. Santa Barbara has been used for many years, as a landing place. San Louis is also a gcod bay. The Bay of Monterey has, under the Mexican Government, been the Port of Entry; and the Bay of San Francisco is one of the most commodious and safe bays in the world. The Sacramento, San Joaquin, Feather River, Yuba, Stanislaus, Mercedes. Tualumne, Sali nus, Suisun.Napa, Sonoma, Petaluma, Guada loupe, Russian and Trinidad Rivers, furnish navigation to almost every neighborhood be tween the foot of the Sierra Nevada and the sea-board. So far from California being a place to come I to for a hand-full of gold, to be spent in the snowy regions of New England, or the relax ing suns of the South, her superior climate, and the facts above stated, will justify the steady farmers to bring their wives and daugh ters, and the merchants to make permanent arrangements, to live in California. I will allude to one other fact. Most of your ships bound to China go out in ballast. Sup pose they bring a cargo to Benicia, and from here to China, both ways instead of one.— Yours truly, CALIFORNIA. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST, Augusta, Georgia. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN- 1- The Northern Mail SCHEDULE TIME. Due at Augusta 8 P. M SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD SCHEDULE. Due at Hamburg 6 P.M. ARRIVED DEC. 31. At Augusta 6:45 P. M. 13?* This being New Year’s Day, and holi day to Printers throughout the world, no paper will be issued from this office to-morrow. Our Carriers !We must say a word for them. Being disappointed in obtaining a New Year’s Address in time, they are forced to content themselves with furnishing the pat rons of the Constitutionalist with a neatly executed Calendar for 1851. They have been faithful in their services during the year, and hope to be remembered. The New Year. We cordially greet our readers and friends with the compliments of the season, and wish them, on this the first day of a new year, health, prosperity and happiness. May they realize and enjoy, and rightly appreciate, all these blessings, not only during the year just commenced, but during the remainder of the nineteenth century, and longer still if they wish it. It would be 4 pieasing to see this day honored amongst us as in larger communities, and made the occasion of social visiting. In New York and in other larger cities, every body in pantaloons is expected to be out visiting, and the whole society of petticoat-dom is at home to receive visits. It is found by experience to be a pleasant and desirable feature in social life. It serves many good purposes, and be sides renders New Year’s day, in truth and in practice, a social, happy, merry holiday. Jenny Lind in Charleston. Last week will long be memorable in Charleston and to the Charleston visitors by the visit to that city of the world renowned JenNt Lind. Indeed it may, and will be re ferred to hereafter as the Jenny Lind Christ mas. Infected by the prevalent mania, we were among the numerous visitors from Geor gia, who went to Charleston solely to see and hear the divine songstress. We not only wit nessed, but partook largely of the enthusiasm created by her presence and her singing. We listened and talked, and talked and listened of J»nny Lind. Her name and her praises were on every tongue, and eager and credulous curiosity was busily oatphiug, while idle gossip and mischievous waggery were vieing with each other in circulating anecdotes of personal incidents, traits and habits of Jenny Lind. In the parlors of fashionable hotels and private houses, in the stores and in the streets, in banks and bar-rooms, the theme was Jenny Lind , and nothing but Jenny Lind. We doubt if a conversation among high or low, refined or ignorant, rich or poor, among men of luck and leisure, or of business and bustle, was commenced and sustained five minutes, with out introducing the name and the fame of Jenny Lind. Generally conversations, even among the men, cold, cynic il unimpressible men, began and ended with Jenny Lind. — While the ladies, Goi bless them, who are al ways susceptible to enthusiasm, in their ad miration of the beautiful and good, were quite wild with excitement. It was honorable to them, as it was to the distinguished object of their encomiums, that such a character as Jenny Lind, so pure, so good, so benovelent— such an angel of charity and kindness of heart» should find such fervent admiration in her own gentle sex. As a Georgian, and especially as a citizen of Augusta, was I proud and gra tified to see both our native State and native City, send such fair and lovely d. legations to worship at the shrine of Jenny Lind’s virtues, and listen to the enrapturing melody of her notes. It was not alone Jenny Lind the vo calist; that drew to Charleston, so many of the good and beautiful daughters of Georgia and of Augusta: but it was, Jenny Lind the wo man, Jenny Lind the pride and glory of her sex—the pure, irreproachable and exalted ereature who though devoted from six years old to the tempting and too often corrupting career of a public singer, the object of the gaze of millions, and the flatteries of the world, has yet not only retained the beautiful simplicity of her character, but presents to mankind one ol the most exalted patterns of human excellence —a character that approaches that ideal of human perfection which existed hitherto only in the dream of the enthusiast. It was to see the best woman in the world, and not wholly to hear the greatest vocalist, which carried us on our pilgrimage, and no doubt did many others to Charleston. It was the consciousness of gazing on that best woman, and not that greatest vocalist which was uppermost in our mind, and caused our heart to flutter with strong emotion, on Thursday evening last, when Miss Lind came forward to receive the enthusiastic greetings of a Charleston audience. It was not a cold reception, as has been stated. It was a greet ing approaching nearer to tumultuous enthusiasm, than is often, if ever, wit nessed in that theatre. There was doubtless an effort, on the part of many, to withhold the audible expression of their enthusiasm.— With many, it was perhaps a reluctant but irrepressible testimony of their homage. This was for no want of good feeling for Miss Lind. But it was in part from dislike to Barnum. §§}The Fee Jee Mermaid humbug, of which the Charleston community was selected by Barnum, to be the first victims, still sticks like an irritating blister, and nothing that Barnum had anything to do with, could have unalloyed popularity and welcome in Charles ton. Many of large means actually staid away on that account. They would not pay high prices for tickets, half of which Barnum was to pocket. This was rather “ a small potatoe” feel ing, particularly when it is remembered that Charleston came off measurably victor in that experiment on their credulity; for Dr. Bach man, a distinguished naturalist, resident in Charleston, triumphantly reduced that hum bug into its constituent elements of a Mon key’s head and Shoulders, and a Cod Fish’s body and tail. But the triumph of Jenny Lind, the vocalist, was complete almost the moment her first note was heard, and long before her first song was finished, she had won the unqualified admi ration of her discriminating audience. The first Concert was a signal triumph. It won the applause of an audience, which was de termined not to applaud and approve simply because other audiences had applauded: but which approved because it was really charmed, delighted and wonder stricken, and applaud ed because it could not help it. We attended each of the three Concerts, and noticed with what marked and increased enthusiasm song after song, and Concert after Concert, were greeted. At the closing Con cert, on Saturday evening, which, notwith standing the inclemency of the weather, was to a brilliant and full house, the enthusiasm was remarkable. It rose to the point of furore, and was yet decorous in expression, in the midst of the tumult of plaudits and loud re sounding cheers. It was hearty and joyous, without being riotous and vulgar. Great praise is due the Charlestonians—per haps we should say Carolinians and Geor gians —for there was a very pleritiful sprink ling of the latter at each Concert, for their very respectful and decorous deportment through out. Whenever admiration for a specially beau tiful part broke forth in spontaneous plaudits at a point which would disturb the comple tion of the passage, a slight hush from a few lips would still the audience into a silence profound enough almost to make the beatings of one’s own heart audible. We have now to express our opinion as to Jenny Lind, the Yocalist. We think her by far the greatest and most wonderful vocal ist we have yet heard. We cannot doubt that she is unsurpassed and peerless in the world of music—the unquestioned Queen of Song—the very incarnation of the divine soul of melody. To say that she sings like an angel is to use a trite and figurative expression: yet our ima gination has not yet compassed a conception of melody, save such as may be struck from golden harps in Paradise, or warbled from seraphic lips, which could surpass the ineffa bly touching and sublime tones of Jenny Lind. It is not her artistic skill, her nice taste, the flexibility of her voice, her full and perfect notes, and the lofty and daring flights on which she ventures in her operatic pieces, or even the wonders of the Echo Song and the Mountaineer’s Song, which charmed us only or charmed us most. It was the soul of music breathing through her voice and thril ling the heart and drawing tears to the eyes in her sacred pieces and simple bal lads. She felt what she sung, and made her auditors feel it with her. She was blithe and joyous as a bird, in the Bird Song. She was sad and poetically tender in “The last rose of summer.” She thought of her native land, and fondly sighed for “ home, sweet home,” in the exquisitely pathetic and true song of that name. What “ exile from home” did not sympathize with her as she sang, and feel a responsive chord in his heart vibrating to her plaintive tones ? In the glorious anthems, “ 1 know that my Redeemer liveth,” and “ On mighty pens," she was a caristian. No one who listeneo could doubt it, and it must have inspired, even in the Theatre, the most thoughtless with reveren tial feelings. j He who doubts that Jenny Lind is a musi cian in every fibre of her heart and body, and that the very genius of music dwells in her inmost soul, is himself an outside barbarian— he has never felt the first thrill of the di vine afflatus, and is only “ fit for treason, stratagems and spoils.” There are voices possessing qualities differ ent from that of Jenny Lind. There are some sopranos that pour forth a full clarion like and golden flood of melody which, in some passages, cause every drop of blood in the veins to tingle and the hair to stand on end. Jenny Lind’s is not one of these. It is clear, soft, flute-like, musical, and there is a silvery ring in it which makes it all pervading in its penetrating power. At times it seems not of earth, earthly, but capable of speeding on and up to realms beyond the sky, and in its flight to carry the imagination captive into the spirit land. In short, we are a Jenny Lind man, out and out. We believe that nature has yet to pro duce a voice that can compare with it in glo rious power, brilliancy and beauty. We might write still more rhapsodically of Jenny Lind the woman, but our space will not permit. We will not forbear to say, how ever, that in the ordinary sense, she is any thing but beautiful, or even pretty. But there is a beauty of expression—a charm about the benevolent brow, and clear mild eye—and a witchery of refinement, innocence and purity of thought and feeling, that play over her features and nestle in her dimples, as she ap pears on the stage, and under the animating influence of the melody she is pouring forth from her lips, that invest her with a spir itual loveliness which purifies while it wins. Wild Fowl. —We learn from the Snow Hill Shield, that wild fowl, such as geese, brant, canvassback and other wild ducks, are now abounding in the Synepuxent Bay and tributary waters, and are taken in large unm bers. The market at Snow Hill was over stocked with them during the past week.— Terrapins too, and oysters, were never finer or more plantiful. United States Statistics. —Value of wool ens, cottons, hemp, and hempen goods, iron and iron manufactures, sugar, salt, and coal, imported during 1850, $61,835,321; duties, $16,980,698. In 1849 the va.ue of such im ports was $48,204,750; duties $13,162,751. Value of the imports for 1850, $178,136,318; exports $151,898,720. Domestic produce, ex clusive of specie, $134,900,233. Foreign merchandise exported, exclusive of specie, $9,475,493. Madeira wine imported in 1840, 303,125 gallons; in 1849, 193,791 gallons. In no pre vious year since did the quantity exceed 117,- 000 gallons; in 1843 and in 1844 it was only 16,000 gallons. In 1843 the average cost was $2,29 per gallon; in 1850 it was less than fif ty cents. Sherry wine imported in 1850, 212,092 gallons; in 1848, 215,935; and in no previous years since 1843 did it exceed 77,- 000 gallons. The cost in 1843 was $1,38 per gallon; in 1850 it was 56 cents. For the World's Fair in London. —Ar- ticle No. 2, sent to the New York Navy Yard to be forwarded to the World’s Fair, is a lot of American Champagne. The Richmond Enquirer also says:—On Saturday we saw, in the store of B. M. Burton on Main street, two handsome boxes of Virginia Oak, elegant ly varnished and decorated,They had just come out of the factory of Poitaux Robinson, Esq., and were filled with the finest Chewing To bacco, marked “For the World’s Convention* London.” The tobacco is of very superior character, and was purchased at S3O in the hogshead, from Tucker Carrington, Esq., the excellent Senator from Mecklenburg, by whom it was grown. The whole affair will do credit to the planter,the manufacturer and the State. A Revolutionary Soldier. —Mr. Ephraim Gandy,a resident of Darlington District, says the Camden (S. C.) u Journal, arrived at the age of one hundred and eight years on the Hth of September last. He served through the revolutionary war, and is yet living as a monument of the past. He visited our town a few days ago, and was then in the enjoyment of good health. It is now quite unusual to man, as there are but few who lived and acted in the days that tried men’s souls. Jenny Lind and the Swedish Schools. — The Lorgnette, a recent number, in alluding to the generosity of the Nightingale, says: “Think of it for a moment, Fritz, that your ticket,and your seat is to give a desk to some poor Swedish scholar, and that the echoes of the Nightingale are to re-echo through theii whole life time in the hearts and voices of ten thousand blue-eyed Scandinavian children.” New Methodist College.— From a corres pondent’s letter in the Pickens Courier, we learn that the late Mr. Wofford, of Spartan burg, who had long been a minister of the denomination, has devised the sum of $50,000, to be held by thirteen gentlemen, mostly ministers, in trust for the South Carolina Conference, to found a College in Spartan burg District: “ The College, when completed, is to be transferred by these Trustees to the same number of Trustees, who shall be appointed by the South Carolina Conference of the Meth odist Episcopal Church, under whose charge and supervision it was designed by the testa tor the Institution should be placed, and the appointment of these Trustees by that body to be made biennially. The further sum of fifty thousand dollars (SSO,O(Jb) is also given by the Testator, to the same gentlemen, (or perhaps to the Trustees to be appointed by the Conference) in trust, to be by them invested in such stocks or in such manner as shall be deemed most advantageous, the interest and profit of which is to be appropriated annually to the payment of the expenses of professor ship,” See. On a late trial, which turned on the quality of a certain supply of milk, the following evi dence wa3 given by a physician and chemist, who had analyzed that which is sent out daily in New York, from one establishment of one thousand cows : “Question: What are the effects of this slop milk in the human system? Answer—My opinion is formed from what I have heard from other physicians; they have told me that one drop of this milk given to a child would pro duce sickness. I have seen cases myself where it has produced deleterious consequences; I have no doubt it is decidedly unhealthy, par ticularly to children whose digestive organs are delicate and slow. I have seen cases where my opinion was that diseases of cholera in fantum and marasmus have been produced by this sort of milk. Marasmus is a general ema ciation; I have not personally known it to pro duce consumption, but it is so stated in me dical books, and it is the general opinion of physicians that it does. I have noticed that this milk did not coagulate in the stomach as the pure milk does; the emulative quality is one that it must possess to be digestive in a reasonable time. The kind of food spoken of increases the quantity of milk, but diminishes the nutriment; there is a reduction in the legitimate nutritious parts of from ten to thirty per cent.” The Cotton Crop.— From the~Cireular of Messrs. Taleott & Brothers, of New York, which was transmitted by the Africa, we quote the following paragraphs : “A correspondent at New Orleans informs us that ‘the Factors' tables are well supplied with red Cottonsthis proves not only the correctness of the frost accounts, but also that they have reached the frost Cotton in pick ing. “ When we estimated the crop on the sth ultimo at 2,075 a 2,155,000 bale*, we fully expected to see the receipts on or before the first of January, 50 to 75,000 bales in excess of last season, for we knew that the compara tively high prices ruling would induce every planter to use his utmost exertions to market his crop. “ Contrary to expectation, the receipts, as will be seen by the annexed table, are mate rially behind those of the last season, (58,565 bales) the deficiency being now greater in the aggregate than before the rise in the Alabama rivers, the lowness of which had previously delayed the receipts at Mobile; and the stocks at the interior towns were also light. With all the facts before us bearing upon the ques tion, and guided only by the desire to furnish reliable information, we reiterate our full and unmistaken confidence in the opinion that our estimate will prove a full one.” Fugitive Slave Excitement. —Attempted Murder.— At Parkersburg, Chester county, Fa., on the night of the 14th instant, Hiram Maginnis, a woodsawyer on the Columbia Railroad, was shot and badly wounded by some unknown assassin, who is supposed to be a negro named Lewis: Maginnis, it ap pears, had threatened to inform on Lewis as a fugitive slave and have him sent back to sla very* Ther® was # and still is much excite ment in the neighborhood, on the subject. A. correspondentjfrom Charleston, "writing to the editor of the Richmond Whig, says: “I have just had a conversation with Jenny Lind, and she has determined to drop the name of Swedish Nightingale. She says that, after her trip from Wilmington to Charleston, she does not desire to be a night in gale again. Jenny Lind’s Charity Concert.-— We give below a statement of the distribution of the nett proceeds of the Charity Concert given by Jenny Lind, on Saturday evening last,amoun ting to 53,440. It gives ua great pleasure that such a dispensation has been made, as will, we are sure, create general satisfaction. The donations are given to institutions that depend alone on contributions; and will reach and relieve those of the poverty-stricken who are truly deserving. Had it been the case, that this lady had drawn by her transcendant talent, tens of thousands from the pockets of the rich, the thousands that she has thus de voted to the necessities of the poor, will cause her \ isit to this city even to be remembered with gratitude : Firemens’ Charitable Association 500 Ladies' Benevolent Society 500 Sisters of our Lady of Mercy, with. Orphans under their charge 500 Charleston Port Society .500 Apprentices’Lib rry 300 Ladies’ Fuel Society 200 Ladies’ Garment Society 200 Female Charitable Association, Charleston Neck 200 Total Abstinence Soiety 200 French Benevolent Society 100 Hebrew Benevolent Society.... * 100 Mosonic Benevolent Society 100 Private Charity • • 40 ... .. . $3440 Charleston Courier , 31 si ult. From Texas.- -By the arrival of the steam ship Maria Burt,we have received papers from Galveston of the 17th inst. We learn that the health of Galveston con tinues very good. During the week end ing on 16th inst. there were only six inter ments. Sugar making on the Brakes is now nearly over. The official returns of the vote on the ten million proposition show but 8,488 votes for, and 3,167 against .the hill. Many counties made no returns, and the vote in most was small, owing to the fact that the acceptance of the proposal was generally looked upon as certain. Capt. Murray, of the schooner Hornet, died on the 7th inst, the second day out from New Orleans, bound to Matagorda. The mate an chored the vessel this side of Velasco, and went on shore for medicine for another man on board who was supposed to be dying. The Houston Telegraph informs us that Judge Joseph P. Portia died suddenly at the Old Capitol in Houston, on the 29fch ult. He had only arrived in town two days pre vious. According to the report of the Comptroller and Auditor, made to the Legislature of Tex as at its late extra session, the total ostensi ble debt ofTexas is $12,322,44, and the real or par value of the same $6,812,926. The late cold weather covered Turtle Bay, which connects with Galveston Bay, with a continuous sheet of ice, and destroyed lage numbers of cattle in the vicinity of the mouths of the Trinity. Liken and Cotton. — Ve referred some days ago to an invention said to have been success fully tested in England for converting flax by a cheap and summary process into the form of what is styled flax cotton, which may be wo ven by the same machinery now used in cot ton factories. It is said that samples of this fabric will be exhibited at the World’s Fair. Some of the Kentucky papers are showing an earnest desire that the account of this in vention may be correct. The price of hemp being some four and a half cents, while that of raw cotton is nearly three times as much, the successful introduction of a cheap and expeditious mode of manufacturing the former material would indeed form an era in the cul ture of hemp in the U. States.—The invention of the cotton-gin had a great deal to do with the rapid increase of the cotton crop from year to year in the Southern States; and a similar result might be expected with regird to hemp and flax, particularly the former, if science and machinery could be made equally available in preparing it for manufacture. The superiority of linen over cotton fabrics—to say nothing of the difference of price in the raw material—would give to linen goods a su perior demand if the expenses of manufac turing in both cases could be equalized.—Bal timore American. From Yucatan. — We have before us the Campeachy Razon of December 3d, from which we learn that the state of affairs in Yucatan by no means favors the cause of the whites. The war with the Indians, which for so long a period has distracted the country, so far from approaching a termination, appears to be more undecided than ever. The papers are filled with official reports of marches and countermarches, in ail of which manoeuvres the whites claim the advantage, but nothing definitive has occurred, and the general result of recent operations seems to favor the insur gents. With this bad prospect before them, the Spaniards cannot preserve harmony among themselves. They are constantly quarreling even in the face of their savage foes. At Valladolid great discontent was manifested in the army, and it was supposed that a pro~ nunciamento against the Supreme Government was in preparation. On the other hand, the Governor of the State, the Commandant Gen eral, the Commissary General, and Gen. Lo pez de Llergo, had amicably arranged their difficulties, and had announced a determina tion to work together in future. On the whole it appears to us that Yucatan is in a bad way.— N. &. Fieapune, 2 6th ult. Quaxbs’s Courtship.— “ Martha, does thee love me?” asked a Quaker youth of one at whose shrine his heart's fondest feelings had been offered up. “Why, Seth,” answered she, “we are commanded to love one another, are we not?' 5 “Ah, Martha! but doest thou regard me with that feeling the world calls love?” “I hardly know what to tell thee Seth; I have tried to bestow my love on all* but I may have sometimes thought, perhaps* that thee was getting more than thy share.’’ Tkial Trips.—Two steamships were tried yesterday. The Alabama, commanded by Capt. Ludlow, and the Independence. The Alabama is owned by Samuel L. Mitchell, and is intended for the Savannah line. She was built by W. H. Brown, machine ry by Stillman. Allen & Co. Her lenghtis 222 feet; beam, 35 feet: hold 22 feet. SLo regis ters 1,450 tons. The cylinders have a diame ter of 75 inches, with eight feet stroke. The Independence is designed for the California trade. She was launched from the yard >£ W. H. Brown with her steam on, and everj - think prepared for the excursion, not omitting a large party of guests. Her trip was consi dered very successful.— N. Y. Commercial .