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HEW uwm>lr MIm UaHe.i 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. < vwm .wt>i<ki0ffe 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,” mmssm [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.