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4 President'* Pudding.—T1« up closely in ti
bit of very thin muslin u vanilla bcun cut iuiu
pieces, and a broken up sink of cinnamon ; and
pat the bag with its contents, intoa quirtol rich
cream (nut milk.) Boil urn cream tm liignly li t.
vored ; Ilian Inke it off llte (ire; remove the imp ;
and pour the Imt cream over half a pound of ul-
mond sponge-cake, sliced then, and !uid in u deep
dish. Cover tho dish, and leave th e cake to di»-
aolva in the cream; afterwaids set it in a cold
place’ Have ready two ounces or more of hitler
almonds that hare been blanched and pnuude . to a
amooth paste (one al n time) in a marble moriur;
adding frequently, (ns you pound them) o lew drops
«f rose-water to keep them from oiling. Bent
eight eggs till very light and thick ; and stir ihcm,
gradually, into tho mixture, in turn with the almond
Md half a pound of pounded loaf sugar; a little at
a time of each. Butter a deep dish, and pul in tho
mixture: Have ready a star cut out of a large
piece of citron, a number of smaller stars, ull of
equal sice, and a sufficiency of rays or long slips,
also cut out of citron. Lay the large star on the top
of the pudding, just in the centre place the strips
or rays so as to diverge from it towards the edge ;
within which, arrango the small stars at equal dis-
tances, in a circle. Set the pudding into n quick
oven, and hake it well. Send it to table cold, with
sugar grated over tho top.
This quantity of ingredients will make two smnll
puddings, soup plate size. You tnay ornament tho
broad edge of the plates or deep dishes, with a rim
of puff-paste, handsomely notched ; but nut no
paste in the bottom or sides.
A Farmer't Indian Pudding.—Boil a quart of
rich milk ; mix it while hot, with a pint of West
India molasses, and then set it away to cool. Chop
very fine half a pound of beef suet—(veal suet will
do,) and stir it gradually, into the milk a little ut a
time alternately with as much yellow Indian meal
•s will make a moderately thick batter. Add a
tea-spoonful of powdered cinnamon, or ginger, and
stir tho whole very hard. Have ready some dried
peaches, cut into very small pieces, mid dredged
thickly with (lour all over, to prcvonl their sinking
to the bottom of the pudding. Stir them gradually
Into the batter, a few bits at a time. Instead of
dried peaches, you may put in the ircsli yeilow lind
of a large lemon either grated, or pared as thin as
possible and cut into very little bits. 1 huso also
ohould be well floured. Dip a thick pudding-cloth
into hot water, and then shake it out and dredge it
with flour. Lay it spreud open in a deep pan, and
poor the batter into it. Tie it very tightly; leav.
fog room for the pudding to swell. Then plaster
the top of the lying-place with a small lump of
flour and water mixed to a thick paste. 1 his, if
carefully done, will prevent the water from getting
in, while boiling. Huve ready a pot of water, boil,
iug hard. Put the pudding into it, and keep it con.
•tantly boiling well between three and four hours ;
replenishing the pot from a kettle of boiling water
kept very hot for the purposo. ll you pour in cold
or lukewarm water tho pudding will be entirely
■polled, and rendered so heavy as to be unfit for
eating. The pudding must boil till a few moments
before it is to go to the table. Then turn it out of
the bag, into a dish. Eat it with butter and molas.
ses ; or with cream sweetened with sugar, and sea-
soiled with nutmeg.
Always use yellow Indian meal in preference to
white. It is much sweetor, nnd looks better.—
White Indian meal resembles inferior wheal flour
very coarsely ground.
Remarkable Operations for the cure of Con
sumption.—The London Medical Gazette contains
an article from the pens of Dr. Hastings nnd Mr.
Robert Storks, surgeon, descriptive of a remarka
ble operation for the cure of consumption by the
perioration of the cuvity of tho lungs through tho
walls of the chest. It consists in making an open-
ing into the ribs between the cavity which forms in
the lung during tho fuller singes of consumption.
The immediate effects of the operation, (which re
quires only a few seconds for ils performance, and
which causes but slight pain,) in the case in ques
tion was the diminuiion of the frequency of the
patient’s pulse, which fell in twenty-four hours
from 120 to 08, freedom of respiration, which had
been a very distressing symptom; loss of cough
and expectoration, both of which had been very sc.
vere. This operation, which has established the
possibility of curing this hitherto fatal disease, np-
pears to have been completely successful. The
report of the condition of the patient a month after
ils performance, being that ne was rapidly regain-
ing his flesh and strength, whilst his respiration
had become natural, and his pulse had fallen to 80,
and his cough and expectoration had wholly ceas
ed.
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The Cotton Trade anil Culture.—The Boston
Post, alluding to the excessive production of cot-
ion, says that the great staple wilt be still further
increased by the acquisition of Texas. Tiie able
Senator from Arkansas—Mr. Ashley said in u
speech to the Senate, at its late session, after aliu.
ding to the tide of emigration which wus pouring
into Texas tnroughliis Stale,’’Five years would not
pass away before Texas would be uble to grow cut-
ton enough to supply the whole world. Why, little
Arkansas, with iter population of 125 000, posses
sed cotton enough to supply two such worlds.—
That little State alone could produce double the
quantity of all the cotton now grown in the United
States. To accomplish this would require but fuur
millions of’ acres, und the State had from ten to
fifteen millions of good land for the production of
cotton.” If that article is worth but six cents now
•uch an addition to the productive power would re
duce ils value to a very low point. The annual re
port of Mr. Ellsworth estimates 872,207,000 lbs.
of cotton to have been grown lust year.
An Indian Widow.—A writer in the Cherokee
Advocate says that at the office of Governor But.
ler, the Cherokee agent of tho United Slates, lie
was introduced to the widow of Gen. McIntosh,
who, for affixing his signature to the treaty of ces
sion made hy the Creek Indians to the State of
Georgia, paid the penally of his life.
Mrs, McIntosh is a Cherokee by birth, and a res
ident of the Cherokee nation- Allusion was made,
during tho intorview, to the fate of Iter husband,
•nd some one casually observed that she could not
entertain n very friendly feeling toward those who
bad taken his life. The writer of tho letter says :
"Thu remark was repeated, before site appeared
to notice it; suddenly, however, the shawl, which
covered her shoulders and partly enveloped hur
form, wus loosed, and with a sparkling eye, and a
voice full of tremulous emotion, site broke out into
an iadignnnl rebuke of that government which had
beggared her children and left hor, portionless und
• widow, to the cold, heartless nnd uncertain chari
ly of tile world. Destitute, desolate, holpless, a
mother, a widow, and worse than all an Indian, an
other relic of a once powerful people fast fading
from ilia pages of the present, and it may he ere
long only to be found on the records of the pas’.
‘No, (site exclaimed) no, I do nut blame these
people for these things—I do not blame the Creeks
—the Creeks treat me well, the Clterokees treat
me well—it was the Government causod mo to
euffer, it was by the Government mv husband lost bis
life. Go vi rnment say to my husband, ‘Go to Ar
kansas, gu io Arkansaw and you will be hotter off.’
Ify husband wished to please tho Government—
my husband lie lost his life to please the Govern
ment—my Inline is burned, myself and children run
—my children nuked—no bread—one blanket is all
—like some stray dog, I suffer—with one blanket
I cover my lliroo children end myself—the Gov-
ernmout say, Go—the Indians kill him—between
two fires my husband dies—I wander—Govern-
ment doos not feod mo—Creek does not feed mo—
no homo, no bread, nothing! nothing! till Gen.
Were gives me a home, 1 suffer like soino etray
Indian dug,”
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[raeM tmx cnaaiMtov iixacunr-l • Oxhck and Ovricit.iioLDiaa.—One of lira Court
Tnasaatiks late BssMnu of Cuirou. jjuurniile at Washington (Mr. Polk rejoices In so
However faithless are the oilier growl questions J many, that we gel confused in trying to keep tho
" — * ““ ‘ truck of them) said the other day tbit there was no
.to one at tho South seemed to doubt that the Do-
noorntie party would prove true on Texts—and
lie settlement of that great question was even to
,'onsolu us und make amends for the loss of thu
•liters. If we huve guined neither fruu trade nor
•’reedum from fanatical brawling in Congress, we
tail at least gained Tcxus. There wus unu vital
issim on which wo should find Democracy firm mid
faithful to ils word. Tho Whigs might rave nboiit
shivery nnd Southern ascendancy,—they hud griev.
itticus to justify it. 'i’ltu South iiud of old, hurled
them from power, and in tho South it wus due timt
they lind never hut for n briefuud tautuliziug mo
ment, tasted it again. We ’’never gave them king
doms—culled them friends.”
But with the Northern Denincrals It was fnrolh-
urwise. At thu election of 1840, five of the seven
Stales that voted for Mr. Van Huron, were of the
South. And if, since tho dnys of Jefferson, we had
directed tlie policy of the Democratic parly, we iiud
also given it ascendancy. Wo had a right then, to
expect tliul both interest ami honor would arouse
ilieir sympathy and support, in u grout measure,
which whilst it promised the South peaco only—a
peace which they, as a portion nf the Federal Union,
hud disturbed,—gave them the real acquisitions of
commercial and national prosperity and power.
But the snmo motives lliut hud controlled the
Northern Democrats on the 2isi Rule und on tho
Tariff, controlled them oil this also. Again the
Baltimore Resolutions were found to bo just wide
enough to udmil of arty construction that a perva
ding impulse to evasion might find it convenient to
put upon them.
The terms of tho Treaty, reported by Joint Re.
solutions from the Committee on Foreign Alfuirs,
would not do. Every sort of project of partition,
hy which the North should get the lion’s share of
Texas, wus offered by Democrats. The great
body of the party from the North voted for that
New York project brought forward Ly Mr. Robin,
son, which allowed to the Smith one slave State,
and took the other four for the North. Another
proposition was offered by Mr. Elmer of New Jer
sey, to divide Texus between the Slave States and
the Free. The most hitter denunciations of slave-
ry, during the debate, were made hy Democrats.
BriukerhufT, Robinson and Hamlen, were more
violent even limn Giddings and Adams.
Al length, after all other projects hud failed Mr.
Brown’s Resolutions was offered, and with nine
Whigs to aid it, was carried in tho House in spile
of the opposition of tile greater part of the North
ern Democrats.
In llte Senate the question met still greater dif
ficulties. It nppeurs now, the House Resolution
could not huve passed that body. But two incon
sistent propositions were tacked together—the one
admitting Texas and tile other proposing to nego-
tiate for it—theono prescribing terms, and the oth
er leaving all terms open for future agitation.—
and the two sections of the Democratic party a-
greed to refer these conflicting schemes to the dis.
cretion of the Executive,—each professing to be.
lieve that the one they favored would he adopted.
Ono or the other must he deceived; and in the suc
cess of either it is thus clear that the wishes of a
minority only ol the Congress lliut passed the Re
solutions will be gratified. After tho greatest ugi-
tatiun and fiercest struggle, the Annexation Reso
lutions were ndopted under a misconception, big
with the worst elements of future strife.
Now we ask any impartial Democrat in the
South—was this what he expected ? Is this wlmt
is meant by Democratic fidelity,—thus to thrust us
on the Wnigs in the House for support, and to sub-
ject either the Southern or the Northern men in
the Senate, to the position uf sustaining a proposi
tion to which they are opposed? If in a struggle
where our very life was jeoparded,—when the bus-
tile machinations of a great Foreign Tower, in
concert with traitors and fanatics in their own see.
lion, were luid open and scarcely even pretended to
bo concealed,—if in such un emergency the De
mocratic party of the North wus not true to its
plighted faith and party fraternity, nnd the aid of
Southern Whigs and of dishonest, double-faced
propositions wus necessary to save this great mea
sure—what, in the name of sense and honesty! is
the use of such adherents? And who that values
his rights or his liberties, will he content to surren
der them up to such treacherous custody?
If tho 21st Rule had not been swept away, and
the protective system had been,—still the course of
the party on tho Texas question could have inspir
ed only indignation and distrust. But this was only
tho finale to a series of gross breaches of faith giv.
ing character to the whole Session, and all direct,
ed against the South.
We do not wish to magnify these things, but we
8hallnotbe deterred from exposing litem in their
true light, and our conclusion from the whole, is,
(hat there is but one consistent and dignified course
for all who value libcriy and the Constitution nbove
parly ties or personal advancement. Act with
the Democratic party when it is true to our princi
ples, but hold ourselves in a position to oppose
them, as we oppose the Whigs, whenever they de.
part from the true faith. Whatever we may wislt
or hope from them, confidence nnd tru9t should be
only in those who have never broken the one, and
betrayed tho other. The whole battle for our
rights we may be compelled to fight over again.—
The taxing nnd tho appropriating powers of the
Government—incomparatively its greatest—are
perverted to our ruin and the aggrandisement of
other sections. On one or both of these, all par
ties at the North are found with the wrong doers.
To affird any hope of reforming the Government
there must be some, who, contemning mere party,
will stand fast hy the great principles of truth and
justice, and without fear or favor make incessant
war against wrong and oppression, no matter who
upholds them.
We have met with the following anecdote of
Henry Clay, in ’Fisher’s Colonial Mugazine ;’ and
give it a place as illustrating u prominent trait in
the character of this great man, namely—his firm
ness and untiring perseverance ;—
"A singulur tule is told of tho indefatigable per-
severance and determination of Henry Clay to rise
superior to the most inconvenient obstacles. Chun,
oellor Wythe, forgetting the simple education of
his protege, gave him u Greek MS. to copy, udding
n sufficient number of cautiuns as to accuracy.
Young Clay bowed respectfully, retired to his stu
dy, and .-ut down to his task. At the appointed
time, the copy was presented, and Mr. Wythe, hav.
ing complimented his amanuensis upon his luste
for writing Greek, inquired where lie laid learned
that language? ‘Sir,’ lie replied, ‘since you gave
me your MS. to copy.’ The energy, industry, and
determination exhibited in this single instance was
a sufficient guarantee for his future conduct; and it
is fully ascertained, that in thu single your 1797,
he acquired all lliut vast accumulation of legal
knowledge which was the foundation of his present
fortune, und his future lumo. In that yenr it was
that ho Cer*»assk out a license to practice ; and
from his 4i« prospects at that po-
riod, self-..oiiudonco, not a very useless commodi
ty to the profession, was not amongst his qualifica
tions.
‘I was without patrons, without friends, destitute
of means of paying my weekly hoard. 1 remem
ber how comfortable I thought I should be ifl could
make £100 Virginiu money per annum, nnd with
what delight I received llte first fifteen shilling fee.
My hopes were more than renlized ; I immediate
ly rushed intoa lucrative practice.'
Lexington, Kentucky appears to have been the
scene uf his first debut, uud he wns admitted to
practice hy tho Virginia Court of Appenls."
Com, Adr.
Galvanic Vegetables.—Tomatoes and oliior vegeta
hies, produced by Galvanism from seed sown on the
19th March, were exhibited at the New York Agricul
tural Association on the 8th inat.
Inundation for the suspension that the friends of
purticulnr leaders were proacribed, nnd titosu of
others favored. We ure out particularly iiiiero»t.
ed in thu matter except so lar us the proscription
and favoritism indicuto the principles und public
policy of the Administration. In lliut light they are
of deep interest' Now, without positively contra,
dieting the assertion of tho Washington paper, wo
have as yet scon no evidence uf its truth, mid un
fortunately much to the contrary. Tuke this para
graph for instunce, from a lute Madisonian,
We leuro lliut Mr. Willimns, Collector at Boston,
tins been removed from office. Mr. W. is a warm
friend of Mr. Calhoun’s, and we understand, in eon.
sequence of lus intimate personal and political re.
Intluns with Mr. W.of long standing, he departed
from his general rulo and expressed his desire to
Ties ideal Tyler, lu have Mr. W. appointed. Mr.
W. is a gentleman of high standing; und os nei.
thur his liunesiy nor eupucily cun he questioned, we
must express our regret lliut lie was removed.”
Mr. Calhoun und Mr. Williams were College
Ciussmnics und warm puisonal friends. The Int-
ler was a thorough free.trade and Stuie-Riglits man
—a faithful and competent officer,—and neither lie
nor Mr. Cullioun had uny thing to do witli creating
the vacancy which lie was invited to fill. We have
not seen u reason given for his removal. But ox.
Gov. Morton, a most persevering Van Burcn man,
is pul in his place. lie is n man, who ought in
mere policy, to receive no fuvors from n Democrat,
ic President—for Ills violent abolition opinions,
coarsely expressed us often as lie had a chance,
have beeu u perfect pest to the party in the South
—trumpeted ugaiusi us hy all the Whig press
es at every election, as proof lliat tho Democrats
and Abolitionists of the North were all of a family.
But ha wa9 a Van Burcn man.
Again there was Gen. Harden, the Collector of
Savannah—a man praised by all parties, as a cour
teous, efficient and fuillilul officer, turned out of of.
fice, mid Mr. Bullock put in his place. The former
was an old Slute Rights man—the latter an old
Union man. In qualifications and character we bo-
lieve they arc equally unexceptionable.
There is another curious coincidence that de-
serves to be nuted here. There were three men in
the Baltimore Convention who were conspicuous
for fighting for Van Buren after the battle wast lost,
who would not give him up, and could not abide the
nomination of Mr. Polk. These three men were
Messrs. Bancroft, and Morton of Mass., mid Mr.
Shields of Ala. The first is in the Cabinet, the
second Collector of Boston, and the third sent on
a Foreign Mission. Strange, is it not ? Does Mr.
Polk mean to say that it was a very nasty business-
making him President, or does he wish us to under
stand that he punishes his supporters and rewards
Ills opposers, because he is compelled to act nt the
dictation of others. One or the other seems the:
natural conclusion.
There was another gentleman in the Baltimore;
Convention, who, besides being Mr. Van Burcn’s
spokesman there, was conspicuous for the threat
which lie hurled nt that body, that they would get
enough of Texas Annexation before they had done
with it.—Yet Mr. B. F. Butler iv;us pressed to take
a seat in the Cabinet, and oh his refusing was ap
pointed to an office in New York, worth $8000 a
year.—Charleston Mercury.
An Odd Federalist in the seat first occupied
by the great apostle of Democracy, 2 hos. Jejfer,
son.
The most hitter and senseless cry .that lias been
raised against the Whig parly by our opponents, is
tliut of "Federalism,” while they clafm for their
party, the entire monopoly of the principio of "De.
mocracy.” Nothing can ho more false. And
this their Leaders well know ; yet we find that the
great mass of the Locofoco party suffer themselves
to he gulled hy this miserable subterfuge.
The in coming of n now President commences
a new era in the political schools; and parlies must
stand or fall by tho acts of their leaders. Sense,
less declamations will no longer servo to catch and
sustain the popular support; it is actions now—not
words.
Mr. Polk lias been put forward by his followers
as ilia very concentrated essence of pare Democ
racy in comparison with whom Thomas Jefferson
was a mere tyro in ilia! ascetic political school, und
even the knotty and gnarled old tree at the Hermi-
tago, maybe considered but brash timber beside
this thrifty young sapling. Yet. on the first in
coming of this pure ‘Democratic President,’ all mists
have been dispelled from the political atmosphere,
nnd old Federalism is once more in the ascendant.
Wo should not he surprised to hear the organs of
of that party in a few days proclaiming to the world
tliut the Hartford Convention wns one of the must
patriotic and dignified hodios that the world ever
saw.
If Mr. Polk but gives the watchword, it will he
immediately echoed hy every locofoco paper in the
country. Tile very first act of Mr. Polk's admin
istration is proof of this; fordid he not bestow the
highest office in his gift, that of Secretary of Stato,
upon one of the most inveterate nnd straitlaced fed
eralists uf the land—n mail who went further ill an
any member of the Hartford Convention thought of
going, in his opposition to old fnsliioncd Democ ra
cy—a man who ransncltcd the English language to
find !crm9 bitter enough to express his hatred of l lie
measures and principles of Jefferson nnd Madiso n;
nnd who openly nail publicly declared thut "if he
had a drop of Democratic blood in his body, ke icon Id
open a vein and let it out ?"
This man is James Buchanan, now Secretary of
Stale under the administration of that pinltof De
mocracy—James Knox Polk!—Cin. Atlas.
An Extraordinary Fact.—A case lias been
communicated to the Liverpool Puttrological Socb-
ety, hy Dr. Gill, of an altogether extraordinary
kind. A mini hy the name of Mc.Ivor wus dying,
and the nurse who was tending him, made the
following statement :
"Nov. 10th, 11 P’ M.—Nurse observed a “red
hot coal like streak on M’s mouth, and (playing) on
liis right cheek and top lip,” ns lie lay in the insciu-
sibility of approaching dissolution. This flame
lusted for abuut twenty minutes—i. e., until death.
The impression on the mind of the nurse was, that
he was insensible during the whole of this luminous
combustion ot his brcutli. Hu luy with his eyes
open, on his back. The "flame was red. just like
red hot coal fire;” to which the nurse and the
other man (Mclvor) both compared it. Nurse
pointed to the centre of the clear fire then burning
in the ward when these notes were taken ; it was
"not blue,” it was persistent with the breulli of expi
ration, ("when lie breuilied out;” and not lambent,
‘‘.lot flickering, coming and going.”) There was
in the room a common “rukeci” fire in the fireplace
nt one end, close to which the nurse stood, and u
gas jet burning low, (very low,’) suspended from a
rafter in the middle of the rooom,and about twelve
fuel from the dying man’s hod. Mercer had not
been luking any phosphoric medicine at all, or uuy
alcoholic stimulant during tliut duy ; or for six
weeks previous, though lie bore tlie character of be
ing a drunkurd. Nurse and Mclvor were both ter
rified so much tlint they dured not stir from tlietr
place until tile flames hud ceased.
The Baltimore American says : “Two impor
tant improvements in printing presses were patent
ed in this country last year, One of them con
sists in six pressing cylinders, revolving ahuut uir
axis, with an ingenious arrangement of fingers.
The sheets of paper nre seized by the fingers, car
ried around and over the bed by the cylinders, which
perforin the pressure, and then deliver the sheets
m a rapid and beautiful manner. A press con
structed in this way requlroa four Attendants, and
leiivers the sheets as fust at they can be fed in hy
them. Tho other improvement is for printing the
sheets on belli sides before ihev are delivered from
is. Perfect operating models of both these | (
inventions are in the Putcm Office at Washington.
[from the savannah republican ]
The Central Railroad.
Wo feel assured that our reader* will not com
plain of the large space which we have allowed in
our pupor this morning loan exposition of the af
fairs of the Central Kuilroud and Bunking Compa
ny. The Reports of the President and Engineer
are so full and explicit that we cannot hope to add
anything to their force hy remarks uf our own.—
We fuel nssured tliut the public, ns well as the
Stockholders, will be most ugrecubly surprised with
the favorable results which lltuse papers develops.
Not only Ivivo the enrnings of the Rond (328,424-
01) greatly exceeded the estimates of the officers,
but the expenses fur repairs machinery, and trans
portation have fallen below their calculation in a
corresponding degree. They liuvu only reached
$147,710 52, and leave the net profits of the road
during tiie first year of Us operations since its com.
pletiun equal to $180,138 27 !!
The entire receipts of tho Company from all
sources, viz: from the Rend, Bank, &e. &c., for
tiie year amount to $455,212 38. Ils expenditures
including expenses, a bullunce of $45,000 for con
struction from lust yenr, interest upon debts, re
demption of Bank circulation, uud about $60,000
for an increase uf motive power, &c. &c., are
$415,058 15. leaving ail unexpended buluuce on
hand of $39,554 23 !
Tho Liabilities ol the Company, including $29,-
099, Bunk circulation, Deposits on hand, Bills and
Bonds payable, are $690 948 91, Its resources
independent of the Road are $270,108 18—more
than $200,000, of which are regarded by the Board
us good uud available. The Road uud its fixtures
entire are pul down at their cost, viz : $2,653,202
01.
Taking the present receipts of the Rond nnd the
profits from tiie Bankas a basis, il is estimated tliut
in addition to the current expenses, the Company
can hereafter pay annually about $250,090 of its
present debt; or in other words that by the first day
of December 1848 the entire debt of the Company
may he extinguished and the Road with its fixtures
he cleared of incumherance. If, however, a loan
of $500,000 could he obtained at fair interest, pay
able in ten years, interest payable annually, the
President thinks that the Company could nut only
make u dividend of 6 per cent., hut set apart semi,
annually as a sinking fund an amount sufficient to
puv tlm entire debt of the Company hy the expire
tion of even eight years !
It may ho asked liovv this debt of $696,000 has
been incurred! We answer simply from the fact
tliut the persons intrusted with the construction of
the work were furnished with only 2.000,000 of
money to complete a task which required nn expen
diture of more than two and a half millions. The
difference between the money furnished und the
cost of the work done is the indebtedness of the
Company. It is not at all remarkable then that the
Board should not feel themselves justified in declar
ing dividends, notwithstanding the road lias been
doing such an unexpectedly large business. It will
bo remembered that these estimates in regard to
tho extinguishment of the Company’s debts, nre
based upon the present receipts uud not upon any
prospective increase. These, the very competent
nnd judicious Engineer of tiie work estimates, will
be materially increased, say from 20 to 30 per cent.
Should the Monroe Railroad Company gel into
successful operation nnd the contemplated exten
sion to the Cliattahoocliie he accomplished 50 per
cent, increase at least on the present receipts of the
Company may safely he calculated upon. That
the hopns of the most ardent, in regard to this mat
ter, will ultimately he realized, we iinve not tho
shadow of a doubt. Tho people of Columbus,
will be compelled in self-defence, to avail them
selves of the advantages proposed in the Resolu
tion of llte slock.holders. Ifthey do not act, their
neighbors of West Foint, or Eul'ala, will, and the
Road cun he carried to either Point, with advantage
to ull concerned.
We cannot close this brief review of these re
ports without uiluding to the Bunk statement, which
accompanies them. The circulation of the Bank
is under $30,009—its hills are redeemed in specie
at its counter, and yet we find in sumo of the pa
purs of the interior that they are quoted at 3 to 5
per cent, discount! Why this discrimination?—
We trust that it is not the result ol any feeling of
envy at the progress ntid prosperity of this great
work. It is true that the Company lias been cm-
barrassed—its stock und bills depreciated ; but
these gentlemen ought to understand the causes of
that embarrassment und depreciation : they ought
to be aware that during the past year no Company
in the Country—none in the South al least—has
done moro than this one to redeem her credit. As
an evidence of this, her stock bus advanced from
twenty to fifty dollars per share, her bonds from
seventy-five cents on the dollar to par, and her bills
from twenty per cent, discount, to specie vulue.—
We suggest, whether under such circumstances,
these quotations of five per cent, discount, are fair
and honorable.
The other subjects touched upon, in these re.
ports, are all of great interest to our renders, hut
not oi sufficient importance to require special no-
j lice in this brief article. Upon tho whole, wc re
gard the exposition of the nffiiirs of the Company
I as exceedingly satisfactory. It shows what may
i he done hy the industry and enterprise of even a
few public spirited men. This enterprise when
, first commenced, was laughed at us visionary—
j even within tho last two years wo have lieurd it
j spoken of, us"asplended failure,"—The day of
l triumph to its friends has at lust come, and wc con-
; grand,-no, not only them, but the whole state upon
| the success of un enterprise which reflects honor
alike upon our city and upon the men who have
been and are at the head of its affairs.
A valuable discovery of the uso nf ground Plas
ter ofl’aris as a disinfecting agent has been made
hy the keeper of the New York Slate Prison ai
Auburn. His communication on the subject, pub-
I lished in tiie Albany Argus, is ns follows:
I Mr. Editor—An improvement has been made
j nl the State Prison in Auburn, which is calculated
I to promote the health and comfort of the officers
j and convicts, and which may be applied to so many
vuluuble uses, that I think it ought to he authorita
tively communicated to the public.
ilydi'osulphute of Calcium, common unprepared
ground Plaster, lias the power of attracting the of-
fensivo parts of ail animal effluvia, forming two
new substances, Sulpltule of Ammonia and Curbon-
ale of lime, which ure inodorous and harmless.—
Ry sprinkling a very small quantity of Piaster in
places lliut generate foul uir. the adjacent atmos
phere is rendered pure and who'csnnie. The con-
victs come out of their cells in the morning freo
from smell. Exhalations from tho lungs, tV.c.nre
corrected by a very light sprinkling of Plaster on
the floars and galleries after sweeping. It may he
mixed with whitewash, hut causes il to dry slowly,
i Its use will bo found a harmless,cheap, and effect,
i ual means of correcting all foul exhalations front
■ animal substances, whether in prisons, jails, poor
i houses, barnreks, or other places. By it stables
| and other nuisances about public and private houses
I in cities und villages, may he kept from odor, and
I die farmer muy keep his stables and manure heaps
| salubrious, whilst lie provents the cscupu of much
j fertilizing matter in the form of gas. Tiie atmos
I phere in the streets of populous pluces, may be pu-
* rifted by occasionally sowing plaster nt the rate of
a bushel to the acre, and in the crowded dwellings
of llio poor, by mixing it in whitewush, spriuklirg it
on the floors, or setting il out moistened, in sliulluw
1 vessels.
Its action on malaria is nut known, hut I have lit
| lie doubt that if rightly used, it will check the pro-
j gross of yellow fever, plague, and other contagious
I diseases.
ture af seudrsite. it Is nol Improbable that its vslua-
bin props riles msy be known to many. To prevent
misapprehension, however, arising from erroneous
pbblicaiiuns on theeubjeCI of chemistry, I will mute
that for the gradual decomposition of plaster by nn.
imaleffluvia.no more woteris required than will
be absorbed in a moist atmosphere. Willing to he
held responsible for the correctness ol tho ubove
communication, and desirous that it may be made
beneficial to a portion of the human family, I hope 1
shall not he considered wanting in delicacy, for of.
fering it over my own signature.
8 U. F. DOUBLEDAY, Keeper
of the State Prison at Auburn.
New Orleans, April 10.
Fbom Mexico.—By the way of Havana we have
advices somewhat later 1 rom VernCruz. ll would
appear from the hurried glance which we have giv-
eu to our files, that Sumn Anna holds out bravely
in hit defence before tho new authorities of the
country, although he has nol yet been put upon his
trial. The Chambers have decided tliut there was
ample ground for putting Santa Anna on trial for
his life, and upon grounds which have been so of
ten slated in our columns, tlint it would not bo worth
while to enumerate them again. Santa Anna np.
pears to direct all his exertions towards saving a
portion of his own property and that of his wife,
for any ulterior operations which lie may have in
view.
Tho chances appeared daily more fuvorable for
the escupe of the lute Dictator, Santu Anna.
The resignation of Gen. Cortezar, as Governor
of llte Department of Guanajuato, lias been accept,
ed by Congress.
Gen. Bravo has been nominated as nn honorary
member of the Council of Government; very much
to his own displeasure.
As the sclir. Water Witch is in the river, with
advices of a later dale, we do not deem it necessu.
ry to repeat all which we find in our Havana files.
Picayune.
The Washington Correspondent of the N. Y.
Herald mukes tho following interesting 9tulemcnt.
We hope lie will keep liis eye on the matter some
time longer.
With considerable difficulty, (only surmounted
by a determination to huve it,) I have succeeded in
preparing a list of the Senators who have drawn
money from the public treasury for journeys which
they were supposed (!) to have performed to their
homes and back, between 2 A. M.on tho morning
of tho 4'h of March, when the Congress adjourned,
and the reassembling of llte Senate at 12 noon the
same day. These constructive journeys, which
Mr. Vice President Dallas authorized to be paid
for, and decided should he paid for out of the pub.
lie money, nre on item in liis account with tho pub
lic for which he will bo held to a strict accounta
bility. A mure profligate expenditure of the pub
lic money has not been made for a long time. The
following Senators have received the sums set
against their names respectively :
Whigs. Democrats.
Barrow, La. $1,840 Ashley, Ark.
Johnson, La. 1,840 Sevier, Ark.
Berrien, Ga* 608 Atchinson, M
Dayton N. J. 164 80 Bagby, Ala.
Evans, Me. 514 Lewis, Ala.
Jurnagin.T.say 1,200 Breese, 111.
Morehead, Ky.
Pearce, Md.
Phelps Vt.
Upliam, Vt;
Simmons, K. I.
640
104
424
424
360
1,680
1,680
1,336
900
969
1,480
1,480
608
Semple, 111.
Colquitt, Ga
Dickinson, N.Y. say 500
Dix, N. Y. say 500
Ilunnegun, I nd. say 800
“■ ' 300
240
\Voodbridge,Mh. 903 20 Niles, Conn
Sturgeon, Penn,
12 Senators, $9,052 13 Senators, $12,524
Whole amount, $21,576'
The following Senators have not yet drawn the
sums to which, by this strange decision, they are
entitled :
Whigs.
Archer, Vu. $132
J. Clayton, Del. 96
Crittenden, Ky. 640
Mungum, N. C, 264
Huntington, Con,300
Miller, N J.
shearing, or perhaps to purchase a husband with
[ 1 claim accredit as an ir.vsntor. In view of the hermoney. An American girl prefers to let her
j present state of chemical science, and the use which hair turn to ailver on her own head, or if il must bo
Locos.
Allen,Ohio, 323 20
Atherton, N H. 436
Woodbury, N.H. 436
Benton, Mo. 1,336
Buchanan. Penn. 86 40
225 60 Fuir-'rold, Mo. 544
Haywdnd, N. C. 284
Ilmer, S'. V. "’18 40
MiDuffie, S. C. 480
Walker, Miss. %074 40
Six Senators $1,657 60 juniors, $6,738 40
Whole amount no! _ awn, $8,396.
Tiie new Senators who actually travelled from
their homes to reach Washington nre not includ
ed in either of the above lints.
Twenty-one thnusurid five hundred and seventy-
six dollars paid for travelling, of which the first
mile was never performed, und if il had ull been
taken, it would huve been thirty thousand dollars !
A tolerable sweet douceur for Mr. Dallas to give to
the United States Senate.
The "Spoils."—"There is not," said the late
Mr. Leguie, of this State, in a Speech delivered hy
him in New York in 1839, “among tiie most odious
maxims of Muchiavelism u sentence so replete with
cold blooded and nccursed wickedness- more steep
ed m shameless and sinful profligacy—more utterly
inconsistent with the dignity of government or
the obligations of the social suite, llian that
which lias been accredited to u person who
ha9 held a high official office in New York,
(Governor Murcy.) ’To the victors, belong the
spoils.’ in no collection of the data of the syslem-
ized malignity, in no record nf thu ravings of those
hold, had men who have regularly trampled on their
fellow citizens as if they were predestined dupes
und slaves, is there a sentence more infamous than
litis, which represents the powers and dignities and
trusts of a great nation as plunder and booty, to lie
won as hy u camp of bandits or a crew of pirates.
Let it once be adopted and carried out, in the na.
lion,and who could foretell tho consequences?
Columbians. C.) Chronicle.
Unproductive Land.—How many are there
who own from 300 to 500, und even more acres of
land,of which one-third, or at least one-sixtli part
lies unproductive in useless brushwood, in unclear
ed swumps, or in land rendered w orse than profit,
less; for want uf proper draining ; thu owner not
seeming to remember tlint for every such ucro r.ot
yielding something in grass pasturage, in tillage,
orin growing timber, he should charge himself with
so much lost or thrown into the flic or the sen.
There is no mistake more common than tliut uf
supposing that the more laud u man lias, the greater
must he ins profits—forgetting that the profits arise
not from the land itself, any mure limit from an
idle mill or ship, hut from the skill and manner of
using it. nnd so indispensable is capital in the bu
siness of farming, that in general it may he luid
down as un axiom, that money employed in ngri.
culture, will yield in uu inverse ratio to the ratio
to which it is upplied.—Skinner's Address.
Female Shearing.—A correspondent nf the New-
ark Daily udvertisior at Paris, relates the following
instance of barbarism.
“At Caen, but a short distance from Rouen, the re
is n market, whither young girls rcsoit, and stand
hour ufler hour with their fluwing ituir, rich und
glossy, deriving additional mstro I rom the contrast
with their naked shoulders. This is the resort of
(lie merchant barbers, somo of whom come evon
from England. The merchants pass among them,
examine the color, texture, cvennoss, und other
qualities of the beautiful fleccu, haggle for a sous,
and finally buy. The hair then, after being cut ns
closely us possible to the head, is weighed and paid
for, and the girl goeahomu to prepare for anolhor
baa already been made of gypsum in the minufae-1 cdl off, to enjoy the ctop herself.”
Ifsoai ths H. o. SEE iltbix.rV
mo* Mexico. ,T J
By the anival of the Water Witch wc
l M ”"“- , »*ioii or paper* from the Capital ,V*'
ull., and from Vero.Cruz, to a *ij|| | ale . ®*»
I hough we have quite a large batch of public£ta
imls before u«, a pretty careful inspection „fT*J
add* bill little to onr knowledge of affair* u |
ico. The coumry seems tranquil under i|,
administration, at least we sliouldcoui lude a*' '
from the lone or the press. Of Simla \ lin ,'
linpers say u good deni but nothing defi'nita*
laid not been tried nt the lust accounts_||, nl '- *
absolute judgment had been pronounced i
His written defence had betn sent before Hief
Jury and is feel)’ commented upon by llicjoS-
it is spoken of us insolent in ils lone, and bo|i*
Imrd) in its defiance. On the 8d March, 8*"
Anna addressed a note to the minister nf
marine, Don Pedro Garcia Condc, In ,| 11( *
sive he justifies his efforts to secure Ids orivsui--
tune, and complains bitterly of the iiilercc|iti 0 ,.2|
breaking open of Ins letters to his agents, fjl
language of Ids note is extremely liaughty-lnkT
tliut of n dictator than a prisoner. €urmne*S
upon it, '.lie Siglio XIX observes Hint it j, j "
striking contrast to the humble tone of hienniL
letters, as to warrunt the belief tliut Santa A
expects to he restored to liberty nnd power!
now revolution. The ultimate safely ol lliefUt
tyrant is more than hinted at, for the snrne pan
a Inter dale alluding to the letter in question, *„
ils insolent tone remarks that if Santa Annati*
not perfectly certain thut neither the Governa*!?
nor Supremo Court will place liis penoo in
slightest danger, lie would renew the disguitio.^l
cow urdly scenes which occurred when captured ul
Sun Jacinto, I
O.i the 24th Feb., the Grand Jury and both bn, I
dies of Congress presented furir.nl article* oiiej
cusntion against Santa Anna, It is an exceeding*!
prolix document, examining nnd analysingth EC *J[l
duct of the Ex-President nl great length and „ ( |
elaborate care, ll concludes by decluring tb,,l
there is full ground for proceeding nguinat him. I
A joint Commission of the two Houses was'aa.I
pointed to examineand reply to the request of 8ii!|
ta Anna to be permitted to leave the Republic ind|
to be allowed to abdioute the Presidency. qi^l
majority uf tile Commission refuse both requast*i»|
direct and positive terms. A separate report *i||
submitted hy the minority, in wliiah they contend,I
not only was it expedient to grant the prayer ofl
Santa Anna, hut thut they had no constitution rigbil
to examine the question. * I
The Generals and Chiefs who accompani.'dSifrl
ta Anna in his last struggle against the Governnotl
have been ordered to Puebla, to be tried there.
The Courier Francois, of the 12tli March,its
that General Reyes, ex-minister of war, under I
administration of the ex president Cumulizo I
been found guilty of signing the order which,»
out the permission of Congress, conferredu
Santa Anna the command of thu army. Bi
wns condemned lobe cashiered, deprived of _
rank, dignities and salary, and confined tenyeanii
u fortress tc, be chosen by the government, Hi
was likewise declared incapable liereuftor offi
filling any of the offices heretofore oxerciredb
him.
A law for the liberty of the press is under dsj
cussion in the Chamber of Deputies, und is rpohi
of favorably hy many of the Mexicun journal*.
Senor Gomez Pedrazu lias been declared Minina
Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France,loot.I
tie with that kingdom a ireuty between the ttrs-l
countries. I
A letter from Ojaca, dated IStli March, slitsl
tlint on the nllernoun of tho Dili inst„ a frightMl
earthquake was experienced in that cilv, which loll
ed hut two minutes, produced considerable inji
and destruction. Not n single edifice, public
private, hut was overthrown or damaged hy the vio.|
lence of llte shock. Fortunately, very few per>|
sous were injured. Tire next day, the shock wnl
lignin felt, hut more slightly. The escape of ihtl
city from absolute destruciien is ascribed to lls|
short period which the oonvolsinn lasted. J
The Texus question, as may he supposed, creit,I
ed soma excitement in Mexico. At the lustse*|
counts, the news of the passage of the resohiihal
through the Senate hud been received, hut their |J
nal passage through the House, as amended, (il
unknown. The press uppeured disposed to Ibitkl
tliut the House would not accept liiein. There al
of course, much indignation expressed nt the idol
of annexation, and many harsh tilings said of iu-1
government, I
The question of making Tampico a port ofds-l
posite is discussed at considerable length, and it
advnntnges exhibited in several able nrliclei, “
subject will doubtless be brought before iht*
enn Congress.
[From the Picayune ]
The Mexican Goveriuneut hud received inlclt-l
gcnco of the pussuge ol'llie Annexation resolutioitl
by both Houses of congress, but they hud no official
notice that President Tyler hud given liis anentwl
them. However,, they entertained liule doubtal
ilieir receiving liis approval. Our files from ikl
capital are not so late as due, but we infer tintlh»[
Government wus really in possession nfihclitssl
intelligence, and that the departure of iheBrilWI
vessel uf war for Galveston was consequent upol
the information* 1
On ihe tUst of March, the chamber of Di'ptii*|
took into consideration the subject of lire \ ""'-•I
lion of Texas. Resolutions were iiiiroduuaLfl
warmly supported, fur declaring the provision**!
the Treaty, of 1831 (ratified in 1632) at nn eof||
for closing the ports of Mexico ngniust ull teWra
of the United States, and prohibiting l!>o iiilroducl
lion of our manufactures and, finally, that no fir I
position from our Government for the rrslorili*l
of friendly relations should ho listened to. savethHB
llte United States should renounce uitogetherhs|
plan of annexation.
New Orleans, April It I
Mexican hems. — I), Crescendo Chico Seta, * *1
tinguished.citizen of Mexico, and the warm advocSHl
liberal opinions, died on the 2Ut ult. I
1). Sebastian Camacho has been appointed IhasHI
of the Supreme Court of Justice.
In annoiiuciitg to the Mexican Congress the p**
of tho measure of Annexation,; Senor Cuevas tool
ension to express tho views of the ndministrsli*
Gl'D. llcrars. Ho Bald that tho Government «o»>
once address an energetic protest to aii Irtendlf*
lions, as well as to the United States, against
tion; that diplomatic relatipns with tins country•«
thereupon terminate. lie said the Government
itself strong enough for the emergency, wilhoat,
grant of additional powers, and trusted that, in*
a grievous calamity, Annexation might really P
blessing to Mexico, by uniting her people in a
iui'd efiiirl to maintain their rights and preserve IS*
tegrily of the territory of tho Republic, 'flier 1-
dents of the two chambers responded in inuclilke*
stra i n. — Picayune.
The whole press of Mexico are extremely P u S ni ^
as w as tu have been expected, especially in viec®
encouragement, which their warlike propeniiu**■
received.from this country. E) MonitorCoastiW*
a journal commenced immediately alter tin 1 l* pl "
lu'.iun, in support of the existing Guverinn"nl, WJJ
in a pbillipic, particularly violent. It is sadly »i •‘‘J
know Imw "a miserable majority of two vote*, '*
Senate, should be allowed to plunge theuaimn H
with so redoubtable a country as .Mexico. AotMl
declares, can prevent hostilities; and it areflfi
exhort sail Mexicans to die together, rstherlhMJ
degradation and loss of honor—says the Monitor-
• The moment could not bo more fortunate— 1 **"
eminent having Milled her difficulties w i'b (
England will), prudence and harmony, Inis noil""* ^
absorb her attention but this one point. 'I' 1 ***
from day to day more and moro our only and esc ,
thought. Texas is the anxious otjcci "I '"I,
Mexican. Texas, indeed, we all demand *■
voice and one tliought.”—Bulletin.
A writer in tlx National Intelligencer
Arkansas is irretrievably insolvent,and will
ability never pay a dollar eilher uf principal or '
of her debt. A fsrgs portioB of the *toek of IN
is held by the general government, hiving been
ed in Arkaaaes bonds, during Mr. Vsn Bures *
titration.