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H -arl this resolution commenced the agt a_'
’ r md the signers of
ib.tr subject to its I
ostrac , . , •
Mr. Clay replied, defending his resolution,
and avowed himself a signer of the paper al
luded to. and his determination to carry out
the pledge
Mr. Foote followed, defending the paper
and avowing himself one of its signers.
The debate was further continued, and the
resolution was adopted—y- 15. nays 9. The
nine noes were Messrs. B-_nton, Borland.
Butler, Davis of Miss , Hale, Rhett, Soule,
Turney. Yulee.
The French Spoliation Bill was then taken
up. The eleventh section appropriating SSO
-to defray the expenses of the Board of
Commissioners was stricken out, so as to pre
vent the necessity of its being referred to the
Committee of the Whole in the House.
Mr. Rusk moved to amend it by providing
that none of the five millions should be paid to
any assignee or insurer, and after long debate
this was rejected ; yeas 25, nays 30
The Senate then adjourned.
house.
Another Land Bill, granting pre-emption to
persons settled on lands in Louisiana,
grants for which are at present con en e c
fore the Supreme Courtol the United State,
The object of the bill is to give the r ght of
pre-emption to the occupants of the land in
question, in case of adverse decision tn the
Suoreme Court, and to prevent other persons
in that case from settling and purchasing the
Ba s’he bill was then read a third time and
A joint resolution was read, which had been
reported by the Judiciary Committee, in favor
of priming aud binding the opinions of the
Attorney General of the Waited Stales subse
quent t<» 1850; the expedfe of which iseaiima
ted at $8 600.
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, submitted anoth
er resolution or amendment; the object of
which, he stated, was to have the opinion of
the Attorney Generals, since 1840, furnished
the House, precisely as they were for the pre
ceding period, upon a motion made by him
seif during a former session, and which were
supplied through the labors of a copying clerk,
to be deposited in the archives of the House.
He contended that the proper course of pro
ceeding would be, to have the opinions of the
Attorney Generals since 1840 furnished the
House in manuscript, and which would, in ail
probability, be ordered to be printed, qnd
could be done at a comparatively insignificant
expense.
At the conclusion of Mr. McLane’s remarks,
Mr. Bayley, of Virginia, moved that the House
resolve itself into committee of the whole on
the State of the Union, which was agreed to;
and Mr. Meade, of Va , took the chair of the
committee.
The deficiency bill was then taken up, and
Mr. Robinson, of Indiana, went into a general
review of the pension department; the gen
eral impression being, from what was to be
collected from explanations from other mem
bers, as well as from what was stated by that
gentleman, that the statement is in a very in
efficient state ; and it was asserted that the du
ties were formerly better performed by the
Secretary of War.
Mr. Hampton, of Pennsylvania, followed in
along speech, abounding in satisiic.il informa
tion connected with the iron interests of his
State where he stated about 600,000 persons
are dependent upon the ironworks fur sup
port. Os course his object was to recommend
an increase of the present tariff, which ha
said he wished modeled so as to improve all
other interests. Adjourned.
IN SENATE....Jam.23.
Mr. Seward presented a petition from Sha
ron, Ohio, praying the repeal of the fugitive
slave law. Laid on the table.
Mr. Walker presented a petition numerous
ly signed, praying the incorporation of a man
ufacturing company in this city.
A bill granting a pension to the heirs of
General William Barton was reported and was
passed.
The resolutions of inquiry in relation to the
cost of constructing the dry dock in the Pa
cific, and in relation to a suspension of sales of
public lands for a limited time, were taken up
and agreed to.
The Senate then took op the French Spolia
tion Bill
The vote in committee striking out the 11th
section, was concurred in, yeas 29, nays 26;
and, after some debate, the hill was ordred t >
be engrossed, yeas 30, nays 26.
Tho senate then proceeded to the considera
tion of Executive business, and after some
time, the Senate adjourned
HOUSE.
The Bill to encourage agriculture, com
merce and manufactures, by granting to every
head of a family a lot of land, to the extent of*
one hundred and sixty acres, was re d a first
and second time.
Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, spoke in fivor
of the Bill, and contended, that while bounty
lands were being given t;» soldiers, and was
appropriated for the benefit of corporations,
< ,p ges, schools, lunatic asylums, and various
u er purposes; those men who would receive
lauds and cultivate them, and become useful
and efficient citizens, had hitherto been neglec
ted.
Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, followed on the
same side, who expressed himself in favor of
giving the public lands to the people, in the
largest seme of the term.
Mr. Carey, of Pennsylvania opposed the
measure contemplated in the Bdl ; and thought
the proper course to be pursued, would he to
dispose of the public lands, and place the pro
ceeds in the United States Treasury : with a
view to aid in extending public improvements
.and in. ths d»*charg«t of th* National dubt. ll*
did not, he said, pledge himself to vote against
the Bill; but he wi-hed before he made up his
mind, to hear it fully discussed. His opinion
was, that in the first place a portion shall be
expended, as he had before said, in public im
provements, and diffusing the blessings of edu
cation.
Mr. Brown, of Miss., was not (hen prepared
to discuss the question fully, but said he inten
ded to move an amendment to the Bill ; which
the Speaker sta'ed would not he in order at
its present stage.
Mr. Grier, of Missouri, then addressed the
House, and the donate to k quite a discursive
range, involving the claims of the old 8 tali •<
to the public lands which it was now pro
posed to give away—political differences, and
other subjects quitj foreign to that contained in
tiie Bdi.
The morning hour having expired, the De
ficiency Bill came up for discussion.
Mr. Haymond, of Virginia, took the floor,
an entered into a defence of the conduct of the
Secretary of the interior, and the head of the
Pension Office and its clerks. Cou-<iderab!e
time was occupied in this way. and by repeated
attacks on the Pen-ion Office, which were
made in the shape of explanations, by which
the speech was interrup ed.
The object of the bill, it miy be as well
here to state, is to appropriate certain sums
u to supply deficiencies in the appropriations
for the service for the fiscal year ending the
30th June, 1851, out of moneys in the treasu
ry not otherwise appropriated."
The mam point al issue wa% whether any
additional force would be necessary in the
Pension Oflice, if th H which was there was
properly directed and efficiently and judicious
ly employed ; an opinion being very prevalent
in the House that such is not the case.
Mr. McClernand. of Illinois, submitted a
bill in amendment of that before the Commit
tee, for reorganizing the Dep irtment of Stale;
—providing for the appointment of an Assis
tant Secretary of State, four principal clerks,
and defining the duties of these ns well as the
more subordinate clerks. The last clause
of the bill fun her provides for the sus
pension and forfeiture of the salary ot
agents abroad, during their voluntary absence
from their pos s rhe said claims to the
amount of 5514.000 being at present before
Congress to defray the expense of subordinate
agents whn discharged the duties of the prin
cipals, during their absence on their own pri
vate affairs, showing the object of the bill
is retrenchment as well as oi reorganization.
He reviewed the duties of the Department
from the time when it was established in 1789,
when (he population of the Unfed States did
not exceed four millions, and which duties
had since been occasionally increased He
then traced the increase of the clerical force
which has taken place, and which had neither
kept pace with the increase of business ur
that which had occurred in other depart
ments.
After some further desultory discussion,
the Committee rose and the House adjourned.
IN SENATE Jan. 24
Mr. Seward presented the memorial of the
Quarterly Conference of the Wesleyan
Afethodist Communion of Hector Circuit,
New York, praying the repeal of the fugitive
slave law, which was on motion, laid on the
table.
A large number of petitions were presen-
Tho bill providing for the claims of Ameri
can citizens for spoliation by the French prior
to 1801. was read a third time and passed.
The Senate next look up a bill granting the
right of way and a donation of public lands la
Mississippi and Louisiana to aid in the con
struction of a Railroad from Madisonville, Lou
isiana, to Jackson, Mississippi, which, after
debate, was ordered to be engrossed. Several
private bills were also engrossed, when the sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House, in Commute, has to-dav been
occupied in the consideration of bills on the
private calen ar, to wmeh no objections were
made; and which,consequently, were favora
bly disposed of.
Most of the bills, however, which came up,
were for granting pensions to persons engaged
in the military and naval service of the L’uiud
States. Some of these it was intended shoud
have a retrospective operation; but amend
mtn b were adopted determining that the pen
•ions or allowance contemplated shall com
mence from Jiuuarv. 1850
lt l< d.thcul< t OCI ,- licene uponwhllt prillci
pie .uchameudm.,
tMM w«. mther . ..ruled lo a ‘
were not In iim> th .
bate .1 «t least .rum t he t„ ue when ..'p.pi’e.Uun
was made to Congress. antl ,,, !h „
ought not to have it at ad.
After about two hours had been spent u
comnniite of the whole, the House u ieu ad
jnurned till to-morrow.
Melancholy Svicide.— We regret to learn
that Mr. Tebeou Tutor in the College al Ox
ford in this Slate, committed suicide on Sun
day evening last, by shouting him.-e.f lii rough
ibe head with a Rifle
No cause ts known for the desperate deed,
beyond a note left on his table in wh.cn he
stated as the reason of bis determination. only,
that be wa* tired of life He war a voting
mao ol great promise much beloved, and
c i - med by all who knew r.; u.
lis remains paastd through th.s citv on
i esday morning for Ba*aunah, to h «
F. E- Tebeou. Esq . who bad teen a * r se<i
Telegraph of the me tnrhe’y occurrence
A tmana 22d tor.
AFiUCA GIOGM.» ICAL UISOOVEKIE •
Discoveries o' considerable mngm de uavc,
rvrardinc to the Cape Town Mail, been -m d
ver the geography of the interior of Africa. |
The substance of it is that the great lake be i
fore reported discovered in South Africa,
although receiving the waters of several rivers,
has no outlet to the ocean. About seven days
journey to the north of this lake a ru g <> ,
verv high mountains crosses the con ■» |
nd it a new -river system com
in.,.. ,»e streams all flowing to the north
and ultimately to the ocean.
It is on one of these streams, sav the ae
-11 ih ,t Mareleskatre and his tribe have
Satemp-n 'resting place. .This Chief,
, ome twenty live years ago. was in subjection I
to a Zaiu tyrant named Chaka, residing near t
the Eastern Coast, south of the latitude of 28
degrees. Escaping from the domination of
his merciless master, he fled with a large body
of adherents over the mountains to the north
west. spreading devastation around him as he
passed.
He was driven still further northward by tho
Booers, who, in their turn, were pushed for
ward by the advancing civilization of the
English. Thus Maraleskatre. with his fero
cious legions, have been retiring continually i
toward the Equator, leaving behind them a
deserted country, swept of inhabitants by hi-*
destroying march; he has now traversed at
least a thousand miles from the point at which
his wanderings commenced at least a quarter
of a century ago.
Still his indefatigable pursuers dog the steps
of the retreating lion, and have already began
to rout him from his latest lair in tho centre of
the continent. The Cape Town Mail hazards
the prediction, that before another quarter of
a century shall have elapsed, the whole interior
of Son h Africa to the Equator will be occupied
by civilized communities of the European
race, and probably under the dominion of
Great Britain. Among the discoveries in the
new land of promise are ivory in considerable
quantities, and many other articles of cominer
cial value
Some travellers have arrived at the Cape or
Good Hope from the Zula county. A party
came to the kraal of one of the principal Zula
chiefs, styled by the natives En Corz an. Cor
zan, the Chief, rejoiced in the possession ol
twenty wives, all of whom were daily dismissed
to the labors of the field, except one favorite
dark beauty, who seemed exempt from this
unfeminine occupation A cup bearer, too,
figured a*, the festive board, reminding the
travellers of Pharaoh and ancient
times—a tail, stalwart head was’
bound with a large blue shawl, in Oriental
style.
The natives use black earthenware cups.
These cups were so beautifully glazed and of
such curious workmanship, that the travellers
were surprised to find that they were manu
factured by the naives. The kraal or hut of
the chief was surrounded for miles with those
of his relatives. Large crops of mealies,
sweet potatoes and CafTri Corn were seen, as
well as immense quantities of sugar cane.
Mr. Lynton lately made a communication to
the Asiatic Societv of London, descriptive of
a mod* of punishment, peculiar to the crimi
nal cede of the Celestial Empire A Chinese
merchant accused and convicted of having
killed his wife, was sentenced to die by the
total depr'va’ion of sleep The execution
took place at Amoy, in the month of June
list The condemned was placed in prison
under the surveilance of three guardians, who
relieved each other at every alternate h'ur,
and who prevented him from taking any sleep
night or day. He lived thus for nineteen days
without having slept a single minute. Al the
commencement of the eighth day, his suffer
ings were so cruel, that he begged as a great
favor, that the}' would kill him by strangula
tion.
New York. —The debt of this State, accor
ding to Gov Hunt's Message, is $22 530 802,
48, exclusive of the stock loaned by the Slate
to certain Railroad corporations. The receipts
from canal tolls, tho pas* year, were about
$3,500,000. The school hinds of the State
amount to over six millions of dollars and last
yeax over one, and a quarter millions of dollars
were paids out to teacher* in common school-,
while three quarera of a million of children
were educated in those schools. There were
still left in the Siate one hundred thousand
children win* did not receive a month’s school
ing each in 1850 Great attention is paid
in the State to the building of school houses,
and the providing each scnool with a well mi*
leched library of books adapted to the wants
and capaci ies of the younz. Lectures are also
delivere I before the schools on astronomy ge
ology, chemistry, &.c., &c Probably no State
in the Union has made greater or more succes
ful efforts within the past few years, to im
prove her common school system, than the
State ol New York— Mobile Advertiser.
Maillard, nautical engineer, isolated
to bt.« inventing a new motive power engine,
by which he will obtain vapour from cold wa
ler more volatile and effective than in at pres
ent obtained from water heated to the highest
temperature. His model is to be submitted to
the Transatlantic Steam Packet Company
about to be established at Galway, to whom
Mr. Maillard proposes to give, for a certain
number of years a monopoly of his invention,
for the propulsion of ocean steamboats. So
far as relates to machinery, the invention, it is
said, will reduce the working expenses of the
company to the simple cost of construction.
The engine of twenty horse-power will occu
py only four cubic feet.
Extraordinary Surgical Operation.—
We learn, says the Boston Journal, that Dr.
Warren, of this city, recently took from the
stomach of an Irish girl, of the Massachusetts
general hospital, by means of an incision, a
tape worm forty-one feet and eleven inches in
length. Tne operation was performed while
the sufferer was under the influence of ether.
She observed, in coming to her senses, “ Oh !
1 have had a pleasant dream, and feel reliev
ed.” The wound wa< dressed with great care,
and she has scarcely complained of pain since
the operation. This, we arc told, is tne only
case <m record where the tape worm has been
literally cut from the human stomach.
Thk Encouragement of Home Industry,
(well and wisely sa>s the Nashville True
Whig.) is the ' pillar of r loud by day, and pil
lar of tire by night,’ that must guide the
Southern States of this Union safely through
the bewildering and h zardoits strife for m c
tional supremacy whichever and anon con
vulses and agitates the country. The time his
come when the Southern people inu-t act for
the development of their htiun iless industrial
resouicrs. or pay the hated penalty of con
scious inferiority and degradation in the scale
of empire. The danger may be remote—it is
at the worst only contingent—but by this
means only can it bo certainly averted. All
history proves that the best security for vested
rights, social, polric.il, or pecuniary, is the
power, as wellns the will and determination to
protect them. How is this to be bat done I
lias'onading resolutions and frothy declama
tion are as powerless to repel the threatening
tide of northern encroachment, as the idlecom
mand of the inflated monaich to the sea ‘to
stay its proud waves.” (*he sword might
destroy the North—it could not build up the
South Let us appeal from its destructive
agency to the arts of peace, and creative in
dustry Lot us improve our navigable
streams —build up our own railroads, schools
academies—fuse and work o r own min
erals—spin and weave as well as grow,
our ow n wool and cotton: in a word,
render the South independent of the North,
and the North dependent in turn upon tbe
South; and make ourselves numerically pow
erful in the halls of Congress, by giving pro
fiiab'e employment to the largest population
our prolific soil and genial climate can be made
to support.
Public Lands.— National Revenue — The
disposition seems to b ■ gaining ground in
Congress to grant away the public lands for
the benefit of tbe Western Slates, upon one
pretext or another, an-’ the final result vs this
policy of profusion bids fair to take tbe form
of an ultimate ces-ion of (he public domain to
the State within whose limits it may lie. We
speak from present indications
Such a spec tic appropriation of a common
property in which ail (lie States have an inter
est is palpably at variance v ith justice—unless
tn re be some equivalents which would be sat
isfactory to the older States. The General
Government has in its possession more than
one thousand millions cd acres—a properly to ,
which the new States h ive only their proper
donate claim. If this property is no longer to
yield revenue to the national Treasury a fair
distribution of its proceeds among all the
States would bo just and proper. Such a poli
cy did prevail once for a short time. At pres
ent, however, the public domain is pledged to
the redemption cm the public debt or portions
of it—so that neither the policy of distribution
nor the policy of cession to the new States can
be fairly resorted to.
The public deb: of the United States is now
some seventy millions or more. It seems to
escape 'he attention of our legislators that
some permanent provision for the liquidation
of this indebtedness ought to be made. If we
are to rely upon tbe receipts from the custom
houses for the bulk of our revenue, which
seems to he tbe case, a re adjustment of the
system of impost duties wi n a view to an in
crease of income should not be longer delayed.
We notice, indeed, that die Free Trade Asso
ciation, at the head of which is the late Sec
retary vs the Treasury, Mr. Walker, has
thrown off all disguise and has taken ground
in favor of the abolition oi all duties on imports
and the substitution of direct taxes as means
of revenue. This is an honest avowal which
consistency required long ago at the hands oi
thus-who. advocating free trade, were reluc
tant to follow out their own principles to their
application. To that point they must come—
for if duties are laid at all there is no free
trade. Duties tor revenue obstruct free trade
as much as duties for protec ion ; and all the
quibbling winch has b-nn resorted to. for the
purpose of distinguishing incidental protection
irom auv ether sort of protec ion. so tar us the
tree trade theory is concerned,, has be. n idle
in the extreme
VV e are chiefly anxious to know what Con
gress proposes to Jo in ltrs matter, if we are
not to resort to direct tex«>for revenue; if
dunes on imports are to ba continued—very
we 1 . In that case he present system of iui
p.<> s needs revision ; the war’s of the Treasu
ry cemati ’ ■ . H.d we hope that seme conoid
: avowed to those industrial in-
‘ , l! * > whicti -.rv now suffering from tbe want
Ol such rev.Mou.—Buft. Amr.
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.oeets, M . CUuseu’s flix
cot.on appear r be c, i . <.j. -p. v ,
doubt *b«u. :i,v nunn . n Tn mu7
proportion oi our present u. in ; c:ur-* . { •
be question now discussed by La: ei-tBrJ
papers is sin ply oi.e of price. I; s , un >r
-to xi that the cost of d <x in the straw is ra;nt r
es* t. an one half penny per .t> Three to:.>
of the straw according to M. Claussen s pro.
cots of bleaching, will make, it is said, at
•Ast 6 cwt. of dean dore, and tbe calculation
' is that this can bo produced ready for the blow
er or scutcher in a cotton mill at a cost of 2.jd
or not exceeding 3d per lb. In addition, it is
affirmed there will he a great saving in loss or
wa>te as compared with cotton, because when
•he flax enters the blower it will have been
already thoroughly cleaned, and canrot lose
I anything in the process of working beyond
some of the finest and lightest fibres.
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Laurenceville Factory.
Wf. find the following very interesting ac
count of the Factory in Laurenceville,
Gwinnett County, Georgia, in the correspon
dence of the Mobile Tribune. We knew that
the buildings were in progress of erection,
and indeed, chronicled the starting of the en
terprise, but we have not before seen so full
and satisfactory an account of them, as is con
tained in this letter :
Laurenceville, Ga., Jan 10,1650.
Georgia at no distant day is destined to become the
empire state of the American Union not only in ail
branches ol domestic manufactories, but also in the
arts and sciences. Her railroads encompass the
state and almost every plantation has risen in value
thereby (in some instances five hundred per cent )
opening to upper Georgia the greatest facilities lor
the encouragement of manufacturing on the most
extensive scale, and l»y this means she creates a
home market lor the produce of the planters at its
greatest value.
She is destined to go forward until every pound of
wool and cotton grown within the boundary of the
state, shall be manufacture I into yarns and cloth be
fore offering the same for sale in a foreign in rket.
Why should she not go forward in this enterprise?
If England can keep herself from crumLhno into
atoms on the profi's of her manufactories, why not
manufacture all the raw materials in ti e south, and
Thereby save those large profits among themselves ?
Laurenceville is situated sixteen miles north of the
Ga R. 11. in Gwinuet county. Shelias broken the
spell of Van Winkle sleep and has put htr hands to
the work. The following are the dimensions of a
new cotton factory she is erecting, under the imme
diate directions of G. Guild, the chief engineer of
he works : Length of main building 208 n et, width
54 feet outside, three full stories high, each story 11
feet in the clear, with an attic story 28 feet wide
and 10 Icet high in the clear, with windows every
eight feet from centre to centre.
On the front is an entrance built out 21 feet squar
and five full stories high with a bellry on the lep of
this - engine and boiler houses on the north, sepa
ra'e from the main building, chimney 100 feet high.
Picker house on the north 18 feet firm the main
building ; this is 48 feet long and 36 feet wide—lß
feet north of the main building is a wood shed 230
feet long by 40 feet wide ; this is a framed building
—all the oilier manufacturing buildings are built of
the very ‘best of Georgia granite stone—style,
Gauged rule work ami will comp ire with any in the
U. States.
The total cost of the manufacturing build
ings is-... $30,010
Capable of holding six thousand spindles,
at a total cost delivered at the factory.. 90,006
Amount of capital required to carry on the
bu>iness to profit not less than 40,C00
Total amount of capital stock $lb() 000
Since this enterprise has started the real estate in
the county has risen in value already fifty per cent.
These evidences, which are springing up
in various sections of the State, of the rapid
growth and incrc. sing prosperity of Georgia,
and tier progress in the industrial pursuits of
the age, are most gratifying to us. Not among
the least of the sources of satisfaction, is the
effect which our example is producing upon
ihe other States, in inducing them to like efforts
hi the great movement of rendering the South
independent. Even in South Carolina, where
but n year or two since, such was the blind in
fatuation of sonio of her teachers, that every
nail driven in the erection of a factory, was
regarded as but another in the Coffin of their
political idol free trade, a new and a brighter
day will ere long break forth, and even she,
with all her absurdities, will learn that the
building of factories, the fostering of indus
trial pursuits and artizins, the improvement
of her soil, and the education of her poor
will accomplish more for die independence,
prosperity and happiness of her people than
all the vapid, blustering resolutions which
her Conventions and S uthern Congress
may adopt for the next half century. She
is now learning the fact, of which her
political leaders seem to have been ignorant,
that the surest means to attain prosperity and
power in a State, is to avoid a policy which
drives away her citizens; and ere long she
will have learned that important lesson. No
small degree of progress either, for her.
But we are being led oif from our purpose
tospeak of the cotton factories now tn pro
gress of erection in Georgia, which are to be
propelled by steam. Sparta, Greenesboro’
and Madison have each under way, factories
of large capacities, and we hope soon to an
nounce that their machinery is in operation;
when, like the LaureticeviLe, they will contri
bute much to improve the value of property,
increase the wealth of the people, and elevate
the condition and enlarge the comforts of the
poor in tSeir respective counties. These are
certain results They have been attained
every where in the South where factories have
been put in operation, and they will as cer
tainly be attained in the counties of Hancock,
Greene, Morgan and Gwinnett, whenever their
machinery is put in operation.
“The St. Louis Republican publishes a statistical
table, derived from the late census returns of the
productive end mechanical industry of that city.
tr< m which it appears that the amount of capital in
vested iss4 377.71 1, and the annual product am muts
’> ? 1',410,340. There are 7,321 males and 1,130
females employed in the various manufacturing es
tablishments m St. Louis.”
The average product of each person, per
annum, including the value of material, is
therefore one thousand, eight hundred and
twenty-two dol'ars, and thirty ecu’s.’ a fact
which speaks volumes in favor of the introduc
tion and apphea ion of steam and labor-saving
machinery to industrial pursuits. For without
tho aid of machinery, no class of mechanical
laborers could have accomplished such a re
sult in the city of St. Louis; and it wi I be
observed that nearly one-eighth of those em
ployed are fem des.
Will not intelligent, enterprising Southern
men deduce, from such Gets, arguments in fa
vor of the establishment of manufactures
throughout tho entire South I We have abun
dant water power ; and where tha* is deficient,
a sufficient amount of wood to propel ma
chinery, sufficient to give every man, woman
and child, who are dependant upon the labor
of their hands for their support, constant and
profitable employment. Indeed, if all our po
pulaiioQ shoold be thus employed (save those
engaged in agriculture.) the supply would be
wholly inadequate to the necessities and the
demand for labor; and we should soon find
the entire Soatii filling up with an enterprising,
hardy, laboring class, who would add greatly to
our productive capacities, and augment our
wealth, in a ratio aud to an extent which the
most sanguine has not dreamed of in the wild
est freaks of imagination.
Bishop of Florida.—The Convention of
the Pro estant Episcopal Church, ‘or the Dio-
Ctse o! FloriJa, at its late Annual Sees on,
elected Rev. Francis Rutledge, D. D . Rector
<f St. John’s Church, Taliahasste.
oi the Diocesa,
A Washington correspondent of the New
i York Express says; “ A number of applica
tions have been made by our foreign ministers
to be recalled ; but the President is inflexible
in refusing them thia privilege. I could name
five missions that would be vacant this mo
ment, had the President assented to their
wishes ; but he is resolved, so far ns is
consistent with duty ; that if men will accept
of outfit*, they shall pity their own expenses
home, or serve out the period of their appoint
ment. n
We are rejoiced to learn that the President
is inflexible in his determina'ion not Io permit
Ministers to perpetrate such frauds upon the
government: and that this practice, which has
been so long followed to the detriment of the
public interests, and the prejudice of the
i Treasury, is likely to be arrested, at least du
i ring the administration of Mr. Fillmore.
It has been but too common that men obtain
situations abroad—receive their outfit—arrive
at their post, and immediately ask to be recalled,
so as to secure their infit, thus pocketing the
handsome sum of twelve or fourteen thou
r sand dollars, without rendering tho country
r any essential benefit.
r This done, the administration has to make
’ a new appointment, aud the new recipient
desires to pass through the same routine, and
- in this way our representatives abroad are
ever changing—so frequent, indeed, h ive been
the changes, that their appointments have
scarcely been known to the country before
their successors were announced. Mr. Fill
more is, therefore, pursuirg the proper policy
5 to correct this growing abuse—let tho gentle
* men pay their own expenses home and they
a will not he so apt o return, nor indeed half
a soanxi ou s.
The Cuban Invaders.
Thf. trial of Gen. Henderson for a viola
rj tion of the laws of the United States, by par
k ticipaiingin the late Cuban invasion, has just
been terminated in New Orleans by a failure
■’ of the jury to agree on a verdict—eight being
it* in favor or a verdict of guilty xind four forsic
h quittai.
As this case has excited considerable interest
P throughout the country, a few extracts from the
testimony may not be uninteresting to our
readers. One of the witnesses for the prosecu
tion, Robert Geddes, who had been an own
t er of the steamer Crc’de. in which the troops
r- were conveyed, testified as follows :
e Was one of the joint owners of the Creole in April
last, and sol i her. N-go iated the sale with John
Hen 'erson. The title was made to William White.
?, Mr Henderson sent for me; I wen* to his office,
B he told rne he wanted to buy the Creole ; we spoke
of the price, and agreed upon $16,000. I stated to
him that I represented three-quarters of the boat,
e that he could pay me for that three-quarters, which
h would be $12,000, and pay Capt. Hiern, who own
ed the other quarter, forthe balance. He accordingly
o paid me SIO,OOO incash, and his note for six months
secured by a deed of trust, of property at Pa-s Chris
tian lor s2'oo. I should have stated that, in the
first place, M**. Henderson proposed to pay me in a
3 sort of paper signed by Gen. i opez, which I believe
were Cuban bonds, but 1 declined that at once, and
pai l very little a 1 tention to the offer. Mr. Hender
son said he wishe I to purchase the boat in the nau e
of some other person. I think, but am not certain,
J that While’s name was mentioned at the first intcr
i view. At the second interview, Mr. Henderson
’ requested me, however, to make out tlie bill in the
*' name of Mr. White, and we went to the custom
it house and had it so arranged. Mr. Henderson sta
I ted t> me that there was an expedition gelling up,
' and ma ie inquiries as to the fitness of the Creole to
go to sea. He requested me to nothing about
|| the expedition until it was gone. This was the first
knowledge I hid of the expedition, aud the fiist I
knew of the object of pu chasing the boat. 1 had no
interview with Mr. White in relation to the pur
chase, although he was, I *h:nk, present at both in
ie terviews; I had no conversation whatever with him
II unthesu -ject, and the negotiation was entirely be
lc tween myself and Mr. Henderson.”
K ‘ WhctiMr. Gf.ddes had concluded, General
ie
j Henderson, admitted to the court and jury
,r ihelru htf the testimony, and tint ho had
a bought the Creole for the use of the expedition,
is Gen Gonzales was the firs’ witness called
. for the defence, and as his testimony is rather
Ie minute and somewhat historical, we subjoin
j- its substance:
“ He stated he was a Cuban by birth, and lefi Cu
ba in IS4B tor New Orleans on account of political
differences. Gen. Lopez was charged, a month or
two before he left Cbua, with an attempt to separate
that island and Porto Rico from Spain and revolution
ize (hem. He was detected, escaped, end was con
demned to death ufier his flight. Since this lo| cz
and others formed a junta at New Y >rk to promote
the political interest of Cuba; Gen. Lopez was
President oi the junta. This was published, and was
the subject of corres|>ondence between Mr. Ci.-tyfon
and the Spat ish Minister. Tins junta con.-i>ted < f
Gen. Lopez end four others. Three of the four ac
companied Lopez to Cuba In the f Hurt of Lopez
and this junta to accomplish the project, the purpose
was to do it without violating tbe laws of the United
States. They published this, and took advice how
to du it without vi lating the law. They saw mem
bers of C )i»2res& ond officers of high station, and took
counsel of all persons as to the ex-ent to which they
could lawfully go in this matter. Witness became
acquainted with the accused at the President’s house
in Washington. Before witness ami Lopez siw the
accused they hud held counsel and made engage
ments with parties in the Wc*t, which looked to and
resulted in part us the ex|«sdi*ten to Cuba. Wie ac
cused had no participation in getting up the military
part of (he emigration by the Susan Loud, which
carried o ft the Louisiana battalion, nor any thing to
do with the financi d part i f it. The vessel carried
out no arms; the first order of the day was issued
fen days after leaving the c ast of Louisiana; and no
act of military organization occurred in the United
States, as far us witness’s conception goes of what is
n military organization.
*• The witness further deposed that orders were
ex pre s'y given to the officers net to open the boxes
or distribute arms and ammunition, <Jfcc., until they not
beyond'■ he jurisdiction of the United Sta>es. The
point of dei arlure was a subject of long discussion.
He and ins (ri< n Is l elieved that Americans bad the
right to emigrate with or without arms. This was
tile basisut their combination. In the discussion he
suggested the I lunl of Lobos or Mugueres fertile
remit zvotH. He was supported in this by Mr. H- u
derson, < n the ground that the two LlanJs were out
of the Un’ted States and within the territory of
Mexico. Tint, being there under the American
flag, lli?y couhl not be s-.ized by Spanish <Tui«eis,
their papers being regularly taken out from New
Orkana to Chagres. To this all assented. The
was tneii, of the two islands was the
best. Mugucres was chosen, because nearer Cuba
and because it allowed of a descent on the northern
or southern shores of Cuba ut their pleasure. The
articles furnished for the expedition, so far as Mr.
Henderson is concerned, were provided for by th-
Fale of Cuban bonds Gen. Lopez was at the head
of the expedi ion. Since tbe expedition to Cardenas
witness his been sentenced to death by tlie Spanish
authorities.
“G n. Gonzales was cross-examined by the pros
ecution. Th? cross-examination was very minute
and strict as regards a’l the acts and participation ol
(he accus 'd with the expedition. Points werefre
q i'-nt!y r used and debated with great warm’ll by
the p-execution and the accuse I. From SIOO,OOO to
$150,000 <>f Cuban bouds were sold in New Orbans
at ten cents on the dollar. Abuuts4o,ooo 0r550,-
000 raised on these bond by Mr. Henderson.
Tbe first meeting Mt. Henderson had with Gen.
Lopez was at Vicksburg.”
NoW-Interooursb. —The Charleston Evening
News says that Mr. Calhoun, some years before his
death, affirmed, in conversation with a gentleman by
whom the fact was told to the editor, that tbe right io
establi'b non-intercourse could be sustained under
that provision of the Constitution wh ch gave to the
Slates the privilege of instituting quarantine regula
tions. He wasofopinion (hit it fell clearly within
the spirit and intent, as it was part of the letter of the
Constitution - the provision being one of domestic
policy, of safety, of self protection, ar well as of san
atory cant <n. There were few things (says the New
Orleans Bulletin) that the sub’le mind of John C.
Calhoun could not have ‘‘sustained” very plausibly,
ii be chose to undertake the task. It would be, how
ever, ie the eye oi comm m sense, a difficult matter
for even him to deduce this conclusion, without
showing that th? States had surrendered no powers
at a’l to tne G neral Government. We think it
would be found that all-conceivable subject-matter
of legislation is one of “domestic policy,” of “safe
ty,” of “self-protection,” or of “sanatory camion ”
If the Cons itutim is to be thus construed, if should
have teen originally ongr<wsed ou gum elastic, and
made to cover every considerable proposition in or
out of Bedlam.
The beauty of this most novel and abaard
deduction of power under he Constitution,
is, that it should have been suggested and en
dorsed by those who claim to be, par excel
lence, “ Strict Constructionists !’* It is, how
ever, a melancholy fact, that no proposition
in political theories and transcendentalism is
100 absurd to obtain advocates in South Caro
lina, if it can by any possibility be shown that
Mr. Calhoun had ever intimated its existence
or truth.
The Movement in Washington*
The subjoined copy of th*? pledge, signed
by members of the present Congress, a notice
of wh ch we received a few days since by Tel
egraph, will attract attention, and commend
itself to the favorable considera.ion of every
American Patriot:
“The undersigned, members cf the thirty-first
Congress of the United States, believing that a re
newal of sectional contro er>y upon the s ibject of
shvery would be both dangerous to the Uo'vn and
destructive of its o‘ jec s and seeing uo nixie by
which such controversy can be avoided except by a
strict adherence to the settlement thereof effected by
the C m premise acts passed at the last session of
Congress do hereby de'laretbeir inen'i in to main
tain the stme set dement inviolate, and to resist all
attempts to rereal or after the acts a oresaid, unless
by the general consent of (he friends > f ’.he mea
sures and to remedy such evils, if any, as ii ne and
ex. erience may develope ; and for the purpose of
making this resolution effective, thev further declare
that 'hey will no* support for the oihee vs President,
or of Vice President, or Senator, or o' Representa
tive in Congress, or as member of a Stale Legisla
lure, any min. of whatever party, who is not known
to be opposed io the disturbance of the settlement
aforesaid, and to me renewal in any form «f agitation
upon the subject of slavery.”
Steam Ships between Savannah and
Philadelphia —We are indebted to the po
liteness of a mercantile friend in this city, says
the Savannah Republican, for the perusal of a
letter from a mercantile house of excellent
standing in Philadelphia, suggesting that stock
be taken here and in Philadelphia, for
the creation of two steam propellers, to ply
between the two cities. It is proposed that
these steam-ships be of the burden of 600 or
700 tons, casting from $60,000 to $70,000
each. The letter states mat $150,000 ut the
very outside will amply sufice for their con
struction ; and it adds that if the efforts of the
business men ol Philadelphia are seconded
here, there will be no dificulty in Stirling them
as soon as they can be put afloat.
New Books*
‘•Andrews’ Latin-English Lexicon.”--Haqer
& Brothers; pp. 1G63.
i’ms valuable compilation of Dr. Andrews
is founded on tho larger Latin-German Lexi
con of Dr. Freund, with additions and cor
rections from those of Gesner, Facciolati,
Scheller, Georges and others, and is altogether
the most complete, copious and critical work
oi its character ever issued from the American
press.
This work, which evinces much labor and
extensive research and scholarship, is dislin
gtii»hed from all others, in the number of au
thorities cited, the copiousness of the notes, and
the full reference to those authorities. The
student and scholar is not only presented with
a mere definition of words, but also with the
difTerent shades of meaning and their peculiar
and nice adaptation to the expression of ideas
by various authors, which cannot fail to render
it a most valuable acquisiuoi l to the cause of
classical literature, and highly prized by the
student and scholar.
It is for sale by J, A. Carrie & Co.
“Tallulah, and other Poems'’— Henry R.
Jackson : Jno. M. Cooper, Savannah, pp. 235.
With the high reputation of Judge Jackson
as a writer of verse, the people of Georgia
particularly, and to some extent the whole
Union, have been made familiar through the
newspaper and periodical press, and we rejoice
to perceive that he has collected and presented
in an enduring form “the offspring of moments
of leisure from engrossing pursuits.” Apart
from the literary merits of the volume, it is
emphatically a Georgia book. It may be had
of J. A. Carrie & Co.
“ The Island World of the Pacific,” by the Rev.
H. F. Uheever: Harper & Brothers.
Whatever is calculated to enlighten or in
struct the public mind in relation to the man
ners, customs and habits of the people, or the
capacities of (he Sandwich Islands, or as our
author terms them, the Island World of the
Pacific, is naturally enough, in this progressive
age, sought avidity; for such has
b.een the ra*pidiiTof change there that every ;
thing connected with them necessarily excites a
livt ly interest This volume is a personal nar
rative, and results of travel through these
Islands, accompanied with illustrations of
scenery and productions, in a style at once
fascinating and instructive.
For sale by T. Richards & Son.
“Bards of the Bible,” by George Gilfillan : D.
Appleton & Co.
A volume like this, with much literary cri
ticism, biographical and religious matter, as
an argument in support of the truth and divi
nity of the Bible, designed as a “ Prose Poem
or Hymn, in honor of the Poetry and Poets of
the inspired volume,” will commend itself to
the favorable consideration of the pious and
contemplative. From the fact that much of
tho Scripture is written in the language of
poetry, the author deduces its genuineness,
power and divinity, and the inspiration of the
writers.
The volume may be had of T. Richards
& Son.
11 Practical Mercantile Correspondence,” by
W. Anderson : O Appleton &. Co.
This is a sort of practical treatise on com
mercial correspondence, Book-keeping &,c.,
with a collection of modern letters of business,
together with much other matter of value to
commercial men. which may be studied with
profit, especially by young men who are pre
paring themselves to enter upon the wide
field of commerce.
For sale by T. Richards & Son.
Me’srs. Carrie & Co., aud Richards &
Son, have laid on our table several very enter
taining v ’lames in the world of fiction, among
which are: “ The Mother's Reco'npense," a se
quel to “ Home Influence," by Grace Aguilar;
“ To Lt vc and to be Loved," by A. S. Roe ;
“ Henry Smeaton," a Jacobite S cry of the
reign of Georga the first, by G. P. R James;
and “ Stiannvndale." by Miss Southworth,
&c , &c., from which the lovers of romance
may derive much pleasure and profit.
Monk’s Map of North America.
Professor Monk of Baltimore ins rendered
a most acceptable service to the public in he
compilation and publication of a new Map ol
“Noith America, n exhibiting the United States
and their Territories complete, Irom the Allan
tic *o the P.icific, the Canadas, New’ Bruns
wick. Nova Scotia, Mexico. Central America
and the West India Islands, which has been
compiled from the moat authentic sources and
the latest surveys of the •‘far West;” among
which are those of Fremont, Emery, Wilkes.
Abert"anflT r Hic boufTdazics of Tex
as, California and the Territories are accu
rately laid down according to the recent acts
of Congress. When completed (the speci
men shown is incomplete) the map will pre
sent, in addition to the usual matter, a correct
delineation of all the Railroads and Canals,
the Territories occupied by the various Indian
tribes, together with the principal routes, with
their stopping places, to California, Oregon,
&c , accompanied by a complete table of dis
tances by land and waler.
Such a Map is peculiarly desirable now,
when all arc so anxious for nlbr(nation in re
ference to our new y acquired posse*sions on
the Pacific; and we think the work, as well
for the style of its execution as the valuable
iiiferina ion it will impart, will comm :nd itsel
to the favorable consideration of an intelligent
public.
Mr. E C. Mayhew, the Agent for Georgia,
is now in this city for the purpose of introduc
ing the map to our citizens, and through his
assistants to the people throughout the State,
at the earliest practicable day.
Arrest of Gov. Quitman. —It is now as
certained to be a positive fact that Judge
Gholson has issued a warrant for the arrest of
Governor with participating
in the Cuba invasion. The warran: will be
executed as soon as the United States Mar
shal, Mr. Fielding Davis, reached Jackson,
whither he has gone. It is believed that an
application will be made to the Judge of the
High Court of Errors and Appeals, for a writ
of habea-i corpus, which, the impression is,
will not be granted The affair has produced
considerable speculation.
A Havre Steamer.—At Williamsburg, N.
Y . on Saturday, the Lafayette, a steamship op
I'2oo tons burthen, intended fora Havre pack
et. was launched from the yard of Messrs.
Perrine, Patterson & Stack. The Lafayette
is said to be the largest vessel of her kind ever
built in the United States for the merchant
service. She is *2lO feel long, 33 wide, with
feet depth of hold. She has three entire
decks.
Adam Jones, Esq., has been elected Clerk
of the Court of Ordinary of Warren county,
to succeed P. N. .Maddux, Esq., who, incon
sequence of feeble heal h, declined a re-elec
tion. In parting with Mr. M , who has dis
charged the duties ©f the office for bixteen
years with the highest credit to himself and
the entire sati»faction of all whose fortune it
was to have business with him, we are pleased
to know that his has fallen upon so
worthy a successor.
The Glass Palace in Hyde Park, though
not quite completed was formally surrendered
to the Royal Commissioners on the Ist Janua
ry. Tens of thousands of people flocked to
see it, and pronounced it to be tbe most won
derful structure ever beheld.
Her Majesty’s Commissioners Lave invited
bids tor .he privilege of selling refreshments in
certain prescribed parts of tne building devo
ted to this exhibition. One of the conditions
is. that “no wines, spirits, beer, or intoxicating
drinks, can be sold or admitted by the contrac
tor.” Very good.
Tbe New York, Albany and Buffalo Tele
graph Co. (Morse’s line. 1G Wall street,) are
operating direct to Montreal. Parties can
now send communications through to the above
place without re-writing.
A Hungarian Postmaster —Among the
post offices recently established is that of New
Bnda, Decatur Co. lowa, of which Gen. La
dislaus Ujnazy laie Governor oi Comoro, has
been appointed posi-master.
An English paper makes the following cb
nervations: “The United States sends us four
fifths of the raw material, which this immense
population works on, and without which th.s
immense population seems destined to be
thrown out of employ. Our yearly supply i f
cotton from other quarters has been steadily
decreasing, and in fact America is substantially
tbe source by which, and by which alone our
cotton manufacturers can be kept in healthy
activity.”
The Liverpool Times states that the Ca
nard steamer Asia, on her recent trip from
New York to Liverpool, steamed in three suc
cessive days, respectively, 3*23, 321 and 300
miles.
Ashland, — is the nameof a New Post Office
established in Forsyth coan:y« of which Nim
rod Cross is postmaster.
Strange Sympathy*
No one can fail io be imprensed. say? the
Journal <!y Messenger, wit’i the remarkable
sympathy winch has recently been displayed
between the disunion prints of the South and
the abolition presses of the North. The South
ern Press is little more tha a reprint of the
Boston Chronotype; an-J the Fire Eating or
gans of Carolina and Georgia quote most ex
tensively from the same source. How is this?
Why this coincidence of feeling? Why this
manifestation of a common sympathy ? Is it
not because they both hate the Union and are
striving together for its destruction ? Is it not
apparent that they understand each other, and
that they are co-operating to produce the same
dread results. It is true they are using dif
ferent means for the accomplishment of their
purpjses; but the end will be the same—dis
union, civil war and intestine strife and the
final overthrow of Republicanism in the New
World.
An apt ilhistrition of the purposes of these
two factions is furnished in the following:
“ I'he Higher I aw.” —By reference to our tele
graphic new j it will he seen that, southern Senators
h ive commenced the work of secession from the
Union. Would to Heaven they would all carry it
<».it so far as to refuse to vote on the fugitive slave
law, and that there might be enough Hales, Sew
ards, Clmiscs and Summers in the Senate to repeal
t— Boston Commonwealth.
The Winnsboro (South Carolina) Register,
copies the above paragraph from the Boston
abolition organ, and appends the fallowing
comments :
‘‘Amen! say we, and the sooner the better, for
then we would beable to ascertain whether Georgia,
Virginia, Alabama and the rest ofthe Southern States
meant what they said, or whether they are truly
Submissionists in tin strongest sen e; and another
thing, it would bring abou. united, instantaneous ac
tion in South Carolina.”
It is a remarkable fact, that the disunion or
gans of the South are now-a.days filled with
the fanatical rantingsof the abolitionists of the
North. The Boston CArono/ype and Common
wealth, and such other abolition organs afford
them an abundant supply of material, on which
they are constantly endeavoring to rally their
scattered forces, by seeking to make the impres
sion that such is southern sentiment generally.
And it is by such means and aids that they
hope to accomplish their treasonable purposes
of dissolving the Union, and establishing a
Southern Confederacy. That such is the ob
ject of the leaders no candid man will deny
who reads their speeches, resolutions and or
gans. We submit a little testimony:
Ata recent meeting of a “Southern Rights”
Club of Dal’as county, Alabama, the following
change of the Constitution was proposed by
Dr. Gunn* and adopted, with only two dissent
ing voices:
"Rosclted, That the second clause of our consti
tution be so altered as to read thus: The object of
this Association shall be “.Secession,” as early as it
can be effected J. R. Sommbrvillb, President.
W. Franklin Crumpton, Secretary.
Similar opinions are openly avowed by the
leadersand organs of the party in Alabama
and also in M ississippi, as will be seen by the
following extracts:
“Th? deed is done that must inevitably result in a
dissolution of the Union at no distant day.”— J :.ck
sun Mississippian.
“We will vote fir secession ; let a majority vo?e
with us, and then we will see who will fight.—
Natchez Free 7 racier.
‘ We must and we will Recede from this Union.
Either we must submit \o disgrace, and soon to Abo
lition, with all its horrors, or we must prevent it. and
that is by secession.”— Wbidville (Miss.) Repub.
Appropriate Compliment.— The publish
ers of the New York Sun, Messrs Beach,
have recently put in operation a printing ma
chine of extraordinary capacity and perform
ance. It has eight printing cylinders, and
prints about eigh ecn thousand sheets per hour
—’he machine itself disposing of the printed
sheets. It is the latest improvement of Col.
Hoe, of New York, and is a w onderful
achievement of inventive genius. Messrs.
Beach were to compliment the Colonel with a
dinner at the Astor House, yesterday, which
was to be a gathering of distinguished authors,
editors, publishers and inventors.
Alabama. —The Florence Gazette suggests
the name of Frank Lyon, of Marengo Coun
ty, as a suitable candidate of the Union party
for Governor of that State, to which the
Huntsvide Advocate responds thus : “There
is no man more worthy of the post—none
who has labored more efli jiently for ‘.he pub
lic welfare, ami who has contributed more to
the extrication of the Stata from its financial
difficulties—and no one who is more deserved
ly popular with al! parties. He occupies, too,
the correct position—he stands upon the
Georgia platform, if he can be induced to
serve the people, his election will be a matter
of certainty.”
Outrageous.—The Dalton Times of the
23d inst. "On yesterday morning the
passenger train from Chattanooga was delay
ed near an hour at the Tunnel, in removing
some timber and rocks which had been laid
across the track by some base hearted villain,
tor the purpose of throwing the car off the
track. The perpetrators of ibis diabolical hc:,
it is hoped, will not escape the punishment
which they deserve, for thus endangering the
lives of so many innocent individuals. The
perpetrators are known, and the officers are
already on the track of them.”
A Curiosity.—The name of a colored wo
man in Crawford county, Penusylvanh, is
Vine Davis. Stic is eighty-nine years old
She cm see to pick up a needle in the dark,
and in the daytime cannot see across the room
So writes the marshal upon hi* cen-us schedule.
Fugitive Slave Law in Pennsylvania.—
The following’is a copy of the bill introduced
on the 9th instant, into the Senate of Penn
sylvania by Mr McCallin, late Speaker of the
Senate, and Representative from the counties
of Fayette and Green. It is thought :t will
pass:
“ lie, it enacted. Sfc. That the act entitled an
act to prevent kidnapping, preserve the public
peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers
heretofore granted to judge?, justices of the
peace, aldermen, and jailors in this Common
wealth, and to repeal certain slave laws, ap
proved the third of March, 1847, be and the
same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to
the 31. 4th, sth and 6ih sections of said act,
leaving inform the Ist and 2d sections ; pro
vided hey impose no barrier to prevent the
proper execution of the late act of Congress
passed by authority of the third danse second
section and fourth article of the Constitution
of the United States, which provides for the
recovery of fugitives frou labor escaping from
one State to another, approved the 28ih of
September, 1850.
The N. O. Bulletin of the 20ili inst. says:
‘The loss by the Conti igation—so far as the
loss by the awful Jire of S iturday can be as
certained pecuniarily considered, we believe
that the following estimate is reliable. Wo
have taken great pains to verify it by getting
the opinions of some of our oldest and most
experienced citilizens. Wo think ourselves
that the value affixed to the two churches de
stroyed is above the mark, but it is said that it
would require that amount of money to re
place them:
St. Charles H0te1,3350,000
Brick House adjoi ing in Common street, •• 7.000
Dr. Clapp’s Church, 30.000
Pelican Coffeehouse, 4 000
Methodist Church 50,000
Two three-story frame houses adjoining •• • 3 500
Two three-story frame hous s a*ij uning*. • 3.500
One-story double fr«me tenement, 2,500
One two-story frame dwelling on Caron Jelet
street •• • • - 4.1 00
One two-story irame dwelling, damaged, •• • 25‘ tl
One two story three tenements do. ... 4,000
Mudge & Wilson, loss of fixtures, furniture,
liquors, stores, etc., etc., 100 0 0
1). G. Wilson, basement Dr. Clapp's C'nuroh B,ooj
W. W. Herbert, basement of St. Charles^.. 1500
$570,500
Os this amount, §IBO,OOO was coveted by
insurance.
Florida Legislature.—The bill establish
ing a Supreme Court has passed both houses
and was before the Governor for his signature.
The bill for the removal of the Indians has
also passed both houses. The Senate had
adopted a resolution to adjourn on the 18lh,
last Saturday. We are indebted to the Florida
Republican for the following synopsis of the
Indian removal bill :
The Indian Removal bill., instructs the Gov
ernor to urge upon the President of the Uni
ted States Hie necessity of removing the In
dians. tn fulfilment of the treaty of Payne’s
Land.ng. and un.il this can be effected of ■
maintaining the force and po*:s designated by |
the Secretary of War in 1842; and also au- j
hor.z s hi h :o rai.-e and equip a regiment of !
mounted Volunteer*, to consist of ten com- i
pan.es of eighty rank and file each, and to in- i
create the same if need be io two regiments.
It also invests the Governor with power to
uses>id force to co-operate with any L’. S.
troops tii- President nny order to Florida for
the removal of the Indians, or if in hi* judg
ment it become necessary, to use them
as an independent force. Said troops to have |
t tie same pay and ratior.s as allowed to the I
U- S. troops, and tha* the Governor be re- j
qiiired to make application to Congress to j
make prov>iou for the payment of the ex- ‘
penses so incurred.
The bill further enacts that §SO <oobe ap [
preprinted, subject to toe control of the
Governor, to provide for the necessary sup
plies arid munitions, and authorizes the Gov
ernor to pledge the Slate for the payment of
the sum of money so appropriated. The bill
also provides Jut if the United States dechne
or refuse to take prompt s eps fur the removal
of th* Indians, that the Governor is empow
ered io prooosH to undertake their removal
for the atim of §2 UUO.I’UV. provided the Ui i
ted States wiii furnuo a: Tampa Bay or some
other suitable point means of t.ieir tranship
meu’w — Sac. Republican,
For the Chronicle Sentinel.
THERE’S MUSIC IN THE PARLOR.
There’s music in the parlor,
Glad voices in the hall,
Bright fares beam around me, —
I’m Rad est of them all;
For mein’ry leads me back again
To scenes now fled for aye.
When in my own loved cottage home
I spent this lioly-day.
Ah ! happiness is transient,
It dawned upon my youth,
And cheered my girlhood’s early days
L’ke flowers of love and truth.
I think upon the forms i loved
Which now have parsed away
As mow before the sunbeams —
Earth’s hopes must all decay.
“ The fl >werets of feeling”
Still bloom within my he irt,
Neglect has chilled tneir growth—but
Not caused them to depart;
Fond memory will roam again
O’er buried hopes arid dre-iins,
Though all is joy ’round me
And cac ■ one happy seems.
Columbia co., Go., Dec. 25, 1850. Virginia.
The Scott Al edal. —The Legislature of
Virginia at its last session, voted a massive
gold medal to her distingni.-ihed son Gen.
Winfield Scott, in token of their appro
bation of bis gallantry and generalship during
the Mexican war. The medal h»n just been
completed, and the Governor of Virginia has
appointed a cornmitiee of the members of the
present Legislature, to repair to Washington
City and make the presentation, which inte
resting ceremony was performed on Saturday
lust. This beautiful memento of Virginia’s
munificent gratitude to her favorite son, which
is represented as being one of the most ex
quisite specimens of American art ever manu
factured, is thus described:
The medal is 3.J inches in diameter, five-sixteenths
of an inch thick, and is of course ver . massive and
rich. On one side is an admirable life like bust of
the General, with the words “Winfield Scott” ii
capitals sb*>ve. The bust stands upon an oblcng
pedestal—fl inked by two noble eagles, sprigs of
laurel and oak touching their wings—a number of
flags, (two Mexican banners among them,) guns,
pikes, mortarsand field-pieces forming an appropri
ate back ground. Ou the pedestal is the following
inscription ; “The commonwealth of Virginia pre
sents this medal to Major General Winfield Scott,
as a memorial of her admiration for the great and
distinguished services of her son, whilst command
er in ch’ef of the American Armies in the war with
Mexico, 1847.” <’n the reverse side in the centre
stands a beautiful fl ned column, with “1812” on
the base and “1843 ’on the capital A spread ea
gle, holding aa olive branch in its mouth, is on its
top —and the column Is entwined with leaves of
laurel, inscribed with the words “Vera Cruz, Uerro
Gordo, Contreras. Churubusco, Del Rey Chapuke
pec, Mexico.” Above the column are the words
“Fecit Quod Cogitavil” ; below ‘From Virginia,”
and an escutcheon with (he coat of arm* of the
State. In the back ground are the principal build
ings in or nenr the city of Mexico, the Cj&tleofsan
Juan (as we take it,) with the peculiar and striking
ly peaked mountains, batteries at work, &c.—the
whole encircled by a very rich wreath of laurel and
oak intertwined. The medal is one us great beauty
and magnificence, and does great credit to the ex
quisite skill and taste of Mr. C. C. Wlight, an old
sol licr under Gen. Scott, and now of New Yo»k.
The Remington Bridge.—The zXmsierdam
Intelligencer states, that the bridge built the
last season, and recently finished, across the
Mohawk, at Tribes Hill, New York, on the
Remington plan, went down last week, being
unable to sustain its weight from its immense
length. We understand the cost to the compa
ny, so far, in erecting this and another bridge
that fell down last year, is about $1’2.000.
The Compromise.—The Washington cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, under
date of the 23d Inst., says: “The Compromise
pledge has received about 90 signatures—in
cluding Southern Whigs—and a portion of the
Northern Conservative Whigs—and a very
limited number of Southern Democrats, but no
Northern Democrats.”
From Panama.
By the arrival of the Falcon at New York
from Chagres, whence she sailed on the 7th,
the Commercial Advertiser has received a copy
of the Panama Star of that date. It contains a
lull account of the late robbery of gold dust on
the Isthmus. It does not differ materially from
the narrative forwarded to the board of under
writers in New York, but contains a few addi
tional particulars.
The American, arrested on the Panama
road on suspicion of being implicated in the
robbery, had proved himself innocent, Mid was
discharged. The day after the letter despatch
ed here was closed, two more of the robbers
were arrested. They were both Chilians,one
white, and the other of Indian blood The lat
ter confessed that they were two of the baud.
They said that the negro, of whose capture we
have already had the account, was their cap
tain, and that there were ten in the band
which comprised only Chilians and Peruvians,
no Americans being among them. One other
arrest was subsequently made—a man who
had been wounded by a pistol shot,by M. Pare
des, at the time when the gold was recovered
The negro captain was at the hospital under
treatment for his wound. He had been con
demned to be shot, and the other participants
in the Jobbery, to confinement in the chain
gang for life.
The work on the line of the railroad from
Panama to Limon bay, is pushed forward with
great energy. The Star says that within thir
ty to forty-five days, upwards oi seven him
dred laborers from New York had been sent
forward by the Company on their different
steamers, and put to work.
Steamships Between Philadelphia and
Rio.—The Philadelphia board of trade have
resolved to request the numbers of Congress
fruin that district to use their influence in ob
taining the contract from the U. S. Govern
ment for carrying the mails between Philadel
phia and Rio Janeiro, iu a monthly line of new
steamships, to be built without government aid
and to touch al Pernambuco going and return
ing.
The Calhoun Manuscripts,—The legisla
ture of South Carolina appropriated SIO,OOO
for the publication of Mr. Calhoun’s manu
scripts, comprising a Treatise on Government
and a Discourse on the Constitution of the
United States.
Eclipses in 1851 —There will be four
eclipses in 1851—two of the sun and two of
the moon. A partial eclipse of the moon,
on the 17ih of January will be invisible on
this continent. An annular eclipse of ihe sun
on the Ist of February, invisible in North
America, but central and vertical in the Indian
U»’ean, near the Isle of Java. A partial eclipse
of the moon, of the 18th of July, visible
throughout the United Slates; first contact
with shadow, 1 o’clock. 6 min ; middle of
eclipse, 2 o’clock, 35 min.; last contact with
shadow, 4 o’clock, 82 5 digits on moon’s
soti'hern limb. A total eclipse of sun. on the
28 hos July partially visible. This eclipse
will be total at Baffin’s Bay, Labrador, a part
of Greenland, and in the Atlantic Ocean, east
of Newfoundland.
The First Printed Book —lt is a remark
able and mostinteres inc fact that the very first
use to which the discovery of Printing was ap
plied whs the production of the Holy Bible.
This was first accomplished at Mentz between
the years of 1450 and 1455 Ol the first printed
Bible, eighteen copies are now known to be
in existence, four of which are printed on vel
lorn Two of these are in England, one being
in the Greenville collection. One is in the
Royal Library of Paris. Os the fourteen re
maining copies, ten are in England—there being
copies in the libraries of Oxford. Edinburgh
and London, and seven in the collections of
different noblemen. The vellum copy has
been sold as high as $1 300.
Catholic Bishop of Georgia.—The papers
Charleston, of Friday last, announce the arri
val in that city of Bishop Gartland, of
Philade’phia, who has been appointed Bishop
of the new Diocese of Georgia.
Bi-hop G. is expected to arrive here during
the present week, and intends making Savan
nah his future home.— S iv. Geor t ian.
New York and Erie Railroad.— The section
of the Erie Railroad between Dunkirk and
Forestville, eight miles, was open for travel
on the 8-h inst. Fifty mile* more of the western
division will be completed and in running or
der on the first d-ty of February, and on the
first of May the whole line from Dunkirk to
Piermont.
Speaking oi the American census, the Lon
don Time» says that from what has already
appeared, the returns will “exhibit an instance
of material and indu-trial developetnent tin
parailed in the annals of nations ; ” and con
cludes an article on the subject by the direct
assertion th it ten yearsher.ee the population
of America will exceed that of tne British
isles.
Messrs. Baring issued a circular on the Ist
inst., announcing that they have admit ed as
a partner, Mr Russeil Sturgis, of Boston,
United States, formerly of Canton.
The whole number of persons, accor
ding to the R< port of the Secretary of the
Interior, who. if Jiving, would be entitled to
the benefit of the Bounty Land Law o! Sep
tember, 1850, would exceed half a million.
But it is supposed that one-half are dead, leav
mg no person entitled to claim under them.
By (his estimate the whole number of claim
ants will be about two hundred and fifty thou
sand.
The Secretary of War orders, that the com
minding officer at each military post si all, if
possible, annually cultivate a kitchen garden
w ith rhe soldiers under his command, to enable
him to supply the hospital and men with ne
cessary vegetables throughout the year. Thi
is putting the army to a useful purpose.
Collision.— Tne ship Gen Parkhill, bound
to Liverpool, in crossing the Bar, yesterday
mormnir, in tow of a steamer, parted her haw
ser, and swinging round came in contact with
the Br. ship Home, list from New York, bound
in. Boih vessels received injury, and the for
mer put back in consequence — Charleston
Courier of yesterday.
The Briti-h ship Arabia, from Liverpool,
arrived at Quarantine thi- rnorniug, af:er a
passage of nearly Seventy days ohe his on
board two hundred passengers, about thirty of
whom are sick with the ship fever. Twelve
died on the passage.— N. York Com. Ado.
S O U T II E R N CULTIVATOR. |
Opinions of the Presu.
Southern Cultivator.— The January number
of this popular Agricultural paper comes la
den with its varied treasures of scientific lore,
and highly useful intelligence, on subjects of
interests to every citizen. The planners of
the South should encourage a work so ably
conducted and handsomely illustrated.— Macon
Citizen.
Southern Cultivator.— lt is a long time since
we have said anything in favor of this sterling
agricultural publication, because it has got to be
considered, among our leading indispensables.
The January number of the Cultivator shows
nothing like falling off. Its pages are rich with
original and selected ar icles of interest to the >
farmer ; and subjects requiring illustration are :
embellished with handsome wood cuts. This
advantage the Cultivator alone, at the South,
possesses. — Chamber s Tribune.
Southern Cultivator. —We have received the
January number of this valuable Agricultural
work. It has a large circulation in the South
ern Slates—but not as large as it deserves. Its
articles are Ronthern in their character and
generally of the highest order of merit in their
respective departments. It is therefore doubly
valuable to the Southern farmer, and we are
satisfied tha* each ufthem but consults his own
interest in becoming a subscriber— Marietta
Union.
**'lhe Southern Cultivator ” —We have j s’,
received lie J inuary number of this well es
tablished and deservedly popular agricultural
monthly. It has b en remarked that “agricul
ture as an art, hia reached to perfection, and
its future attainments must be in the discover
ies of science.’’ Be this as it may, there is no
doubt that book farming, as it is called, is be
coming more popular, and that it is doing won
d« rs in the improvement of soils and crons
We do rot know of any better insirumentali
tv for the furtherance of this cause in the
South, than the Cultivator, which we cordial
ly recommend to oil who till the soil. Colum
bus (Ga .) Sentinel.
Southern Cu tivotor.—We have had occa
sion io notice th: excellent Agricultural Jour
nal before, and do so again with pleasure.
We have received the January number which
is the beginning of the ninth volume. No
one who cuhivates an acre of land should be
without it. It is a Southern-Journal, adapted
to Southern Agriculture, and no man can ob
serve its teachings oi.e year without being
henefi ted more than it costs on each acre cul
tivated.—Alabama Tribune.
The Southern Cultivator.— A new volume
of this ably conducted journal, coinmem ed
with the present month. Ii is decidedly the
best pubiica.ioii of the kind for Southern Plan
ters, that es'ei grace’our table.— South Caro
lina Miscellany.
From the Huntsville Advocate.
The Memphis &> Charleston Railroad
will be Unit.
The develop nents of the past few days
justify this emphatic caption. Since our last
issue, the Directors have held their meeting,
and after careful and laborious investigation
have located the whole road. When the data
which guided them in the location is made
known to the public, as it will soon be, there
will be a general feeling of satisfaction at the
result, and of full concurrence in their action.
Col. Garnett’s Report contains a flood of light,
as to the advantages, relative cost, &c., of the
routes. And no unscientific man wili question
what be says.
The Memphis and Charleston Road has
been located thus: From Memphis to La
grange, thence to Tuscumbia, thence to De
catur, thence to Huntsville, thence through
Jackson to the Nashvil'e and Chattanooga Road
near Crow Creek. This hue “has been found
equal iu economy of construcion and in
adaptation to the purposes of transporta’ion
to any road of simitar extension yet projected.”
From Huntsville to Crow Creek is “60 miles,
and will cost $617,619 —no grades exceeding
4’2 1-5 r eet per mile need be used, and abounds
in timber of the best quality for railroad pur
poses.”
From Crow Crock to Memphis, via Brown’s
ferrv, Tuscumbia and Lagrange, was t e short
est and cheapest line surveyed—being 281£
miles, at a cost of $2,893291. The line via
Decatur does not exceed this distance by m ire
than one mile and $50,000 in cost, valuing
the Valley Road at $130,000. “If that com
pany would take $60,000 for their road the
two lines would be equal in value.” The
Valley road was bought for $75,000 in stock,
and the road located on the D. catur route.
So that, Wi st the road is located on the line
which is equal to the “shortest and cheapest
hue surveyed ”
The estimates made for Depots, Locomo
tive-, Car-, &c., and every thing necessary to
equip the road fully is $570 000, which would
make the whole capital stock f the company
less than $3,500 000 ” If the capital neces
sary to construct the road were secured,,po
difficulty would*be found in obtaining the c'Jkt
of motive power. &c.” “As a line of travel,
the Memphis & Charleston Railroad possesses
an importance which can scarcely be too high
ly estimated. There are now, finished and in
process of construction, railroads forming one
unbroken line from Boston to Memphis—and
this line may be called practical.y straight.
There is now no route travelled between these
points which is no’ longer by more than 400
miles than lira. by this road. There is no
portion of this line which is not chartered, and
but 30 miles which are not now in process of
construction. All .he roads now proposed in
the vicinity ol' the Charleston & Memphis
road will act as feeders—as a line of travel it
will certainly be the most important in the
Union. This alone would make it a profitable
road. But as a freight road also, it will occu
py the highest rank. Any road of this length,
passit g through a rich country, will s upport
itself. This road for its emire length does
, pass over a country which cannot be excelled
infertility. There are but 50 miles of poor
land on the whole road. The local trade and
travel on this line would support it/’ We
have thus given the location of the road—its
length, its cost, its importance as a great line
of trade and travel, as derived from Col. Gar
nett's Report—a document, which, when
published, must carry conviction to the minds
of the most sceptical, and which we shall take
great pleasure iu publishing in our next. It
is a paper which will attract the attention of
men of capital elsewhere, and also of the
Argus-eyed votaries of commerce.
Such being the route of this road, such its
importance, such its certain profitableness, the
next question is, Can it be built I We answer
yes! and that soon. No enterprise of the
same magnitude ever made such rapid strides
m the public favor* In about nine months, an
organization has been effected ; two corps of
engineers have been placed in the field, a very
thorough survey of the whole country having
been made and 539 miles of line rim; and
belter than all. in that time $1,700 000 or more
of good slock has been obiained to the road.
Indeed, the stock may now be said to amount
to upwards of $’2,000,000 —for great acces
sions have been made to it during the past
week. The purchase of the Valley Road in
creases the stock $75,000 —f r that road is
cheap a: that in cash. New subscriptions were
made here last week of about $45 000, inclu
ding $25 000 by the Madison T'urnpike Com
pany. The Commissioners of Revenue of
Madison county have subscribed, for the
county, SIOO,OO0 —subject to the vote of the
people and the sanction of the Legislature—
which w e doubt not will meet with the popu
lar approval. The tract (40 miles) of the
Lagrange and Memphis road has been pur
chased ; and wili he at once put under con
tract, ready for the iron. The Valley Road
100, we trust the Directors will be able soon to
re-construct substantially, so that it may be
bringing in handsome dividends and also show
the people whal benefits a real railroad can
and will confer.
Active exertions will be used all «long the
line to procure new stock The rich Valley,
from Tuscumbia to Decatnr, has not respon
ded io tliis work—now there is no excuse—
and Messrs Davis and Mills will, we trust,
make handsome acquisitions. Gov. Jones and
Col. Garnett will try the Cities, and the
moneyed men of the places deeply interested
in this work. Every exertion is to be and will
be used to further the great enterprise. Now
i? the time for action Every friend of im
provement, every citizen on the line interested
in the prosperity of his country should come
up to the rescue, and let the Road be built at
once,that its vast benefits may at once be
diffused.
South Carolina Railroad.—The gross
receipts of the Road, it appears from the Au
ditor’s statement have been for the year, 8912 720 25
And the expenses of management 384,040 00
Net pr0fit§523.679 40
Less interest on Sterling and other Bonds,
and other charges including $11,791 31
interest on Instalments pud in advance
and on Notes and Scrip now paid off.. 188 991 16
Leaving for net income 339,688 24
From these profits, two dividends of 3 per
cent, each hive been declared, amount-
ing t 0174,600 00
Leaving a surplus 0f165.083 24
to the credit of the Reserved Fund Account.”
A Paris letter in the New York Commercial
Advertiser says: Eugene Roujet, son of one
of the Socialist representatives, has just taken
out a patent for a new tppographical machine,
which appears to be an improvement destined
to compete with our countryman Hoe. Its
chief advantage is the rapidity and cheapness
with which it strikes (.If the impressions. At
present the cost of press work is ten francs a
thousand. This is reduced more than half by
the new machine. Besides, one of these
presses now in use, kept constantly going
from midnight to six in the morning, strikes
off only fro n rento twelve thousand. Uoujet’s
pre*?, strikes off at the rate of twenty-five thou
sand an hour, in this invention the forms are
cylindrical. Its value cannot be overestimated
as an auxiliary to the cause oi knowledge and
progress.
President Bonaparte’s friends are said to he
negotiating a marriage for him with th..- In
fanta Amelia, oi Spam. As the young lady is
sweet seven een. pretty, accomplished and
rich, it is to be hoped that the match will take
place. I am more inclined to believe in the
earnestness of the President in his intentions
to marry, from the fact that, in the last lew
months, certain matters wnich afforded ground
tor scandal have disappeared.
It is said here that M Keon Gozlan. a popu
lar wri er of novels, novellettes and pl-iys, was
pleaantly surprised the other day. by a note
frem Mr. Rives, informing him that a sum of
several ibou.and tranc. had been bequeathed
to him by J >i.n McDonough, ul New Orleans,
and that the motley was in Mr K. s hand.. It
sterns that lhe eceentn ■ instate had been
pleased with one oi Mr. Gozlan’s novels, and
5,0 k this agreeable way ol his admi
ration.
The population of Missouri, according io
the census just completed, is 681,547, having
nearly doubled in the last ten years.
News of tljc ttkek
From California.
The steamer Cherokee left Chagres on the
Bth, and Kingston, (la.) on the 14th inst. She
bring, $1,161 287 on freight and in passen- ->?
gers’ hands.
lhe steamer Prometheus left Chagres and
Sanjuan on the 10th inst. with 244 passen
gers and $500,(00 in gold.
Ihe steamer Isthmus, from San Francisco
Dec. 14th, did not arrive at Panama till the 7ih
inst, the day before the Cherokee left Chagres.
Her treasure may be expected by the Falcon,
( „ h „'T leave Chagres Jan. 13:h, for _
New York, direct.
The San Francisco Balance, of Dec. 14,
■ says—
Nearly every vessel that leaves our shores,
by sails or steam, for Panama or Realijo, takes
i its complement of passengers bound lor “the
I States.” The regular intercourse to and fro
’ between the Pacific and the Atlantic, now en
gages continually a large number of these
| travellers, and a great many are going east
ward, to return in the Spring. Others, and
these hundreds, go “home,” perfectly satisfied
with their earnings in this country. But it is
undoubted that besides all these, there are very
many who return to the Atlantic States, utterly
disappointed, broke dowa and soured with all
the world, and especially with California.
The loss by the late fire in San Francisco is
estimated at 40 to $50,000.
We have also another account of the fire
from the San Francisco Courier office. It dif
fers from the above, in estimatig the total loss
al only fifty thousand dollars. Cook. Bake: &
Co’s it puts down at $lO 000. The San
Francisco Herald savs the whole loss is about
$40,000. of which SIO,OOO falls on DeLong,
McNeil & Co.
The cholera, though it has not entirely dis
appeared from California, appears to have
abated, without being distinguished by the ter
rible mortality which marked its course on the
Atlantic side of the continent.
Mercantile bus ness in California is much
depressed, not only on account of the rainy
seasons but by th.- great glut in the ma.ket
in consequence of the recent arrivalsofa fleet
of Atlantic vessels with full cargoes. Trade
in California in its present immature state, is
peculiarly sensa'ive to these fluctuations in the
supply of the ma. ket.
Trie election of United States Senator, to
succeed Col. Fremont is engaging a large
share of public attention. Several candidates
are in the field, the most prominent of whom
are Col. Callier, the Collector of San Francis
co, and Marshal Douglass, of the Northern
Diet ict, on the Whig side ; and on the Demo
cratic, Colonel Fremont, Judge Heydenfelt,
Hon. Thos. J. Henley, and Col, Weller The
Senatorial canvass at San Jose this winter
promisesto be a very exciting one. The Cal
ifornia Courier, a Whig paper, affirms that a
Whig majority exists in the Legislature, and
that the election of a Whig successor to Col.
Fremont is a thing of absolute certainty.
The Cholera had entirely disappeared from
San Francisco, and also from Sacrament'-; -
and business at the lat er city is revivin’ fast,
especially since the rising of the river has
opened the t>=ual winter trade between that--
. city and the towns and settlements above. The
i accounts from the mining districts generally
wear a favorable aspect. The rains have en
. abled the miners to resume their operations
. at the dry diggings with considerable energy
. and success. The quartz mines are attracting
i more attention, but they are chiefly worked by
i associations, since they require too much capi
j tai for successful individual efforts.
) The Public Balance, a new paper, states
I that at no period since the first lump of gold
’ was picked up in the race of Sutter’s saw mill,
, at Colema, have the mines been woiked
r with so much energy and industry as at pre
, sent. What are termed the “dry diggins” are
. now receiving the whole attention of the mi
ners; the recent rains having enabled them to
S find sufficient water to wash the large quanti
. ty of earth thrown up during the late summer
I months. The emigrants of this year, over the
! plains have been mostly engaged in this mode
3 of mining since their arrival, and their success
; has been fair, though not extraordinary.
' In the neighborhood of Georgetown and
a Greenwood Valley, some hundreds of indus
» trious emigrants, having erected winter quar
, ters, are pursuing their labors with good ave
. rage success.
a The U. S. brig Dolphin waste leave San
t Francisco on the 15th December for Valpar
aiso and Rio de Janeiro
One hundred and fifty of the “garde mobile,”
, lately arrived from France, had reached Stock
-1 ton on their way to the mines.
, From Ortgon.— The steamer California had
arrived from Astoria, and brought files of the
( Oregon Spectator to the 21st of November,
t and the Western Star, published at Milwaukie*
Oregon, of the same date. The Star of Mil-
4 waukie savs that the place is only one year old
and already has a population of five hundred
i inhabitants, with a fair prospect of a rapid in
. crease.
i The country is prosperous. What the in
habitants appear topride themselves greatly
, upon, is that the entrance to the mouth of
I Columbia river is now considered perfectly
safe. Not an accident of any moment has
occurred since Cap.. White has been stationed
f at Asteria. The rivers are undergoing irn
, provetnents, and navigation will soon be uu
, obstructed.
From Jamaica.— The dates are to the 13;h
, instant.
The cholera seems to be upon the decreaSß
in Kingston, although in lhe interior of the
Island it ia still fatal. It would stem from a
' long article, in lhe Standard, that the carbon
, and carbonic acid had been found the most
I effectual remedy for the disease.
r The d seaae is disappearing generally ; at
I Lucis, however, it continued with virulence,
> from 15 to 20 deaths per day.
From Texas.— By the steamship Louisiana,
Captain Law !.-•«, we have received last even
ing Texas papers to the 16th instant We
gather from them the following particulars of
the loss of the steamer Palmetto. We have
conversed, says the Galveston Journal, w.th
some of the officers of the Palmetto, who re
turned to this city by the Louisiana this morn
ing. They state that the Palmetto in crossing
the bar at the entrance to Matagorda bay,
struck, in eight feet water, about three o’clock
on Thursday the 9th instant, and afterwards
drifted towards the shore, despite ail attempts
to get her off. The wind was blowing from
the South at the time and a heavy sea rolling.
Finally, when the vessel became fast on shore
a line was passed from the lee side to the beach,
and the crew and passengers were safely land
ed, together with the lighter portion of the bag
gage. On Friday the Palmetto went to pieces,
leaving the machinery and that portion of the
hull supporting it standing. Ti e engine will
probably be saved. The place where the pas
sengers landed is about six miles South of
Saluria. 'The bench was strewed with portions
of the wreck and cargo. The Pa’melto bad a
pilot on board at the time of the accident, but
whether it was althbuteble, as some think, to
his want of skill, we have no information
whereby to determine.
The Palmetto was estimated to he worth
§70,000. One-fourth interest, we believe, be
longed to Capt. Jeremiah Smith, and the bal
ance to Messrs Harris &. Morgan. We un
derstandshe was not insured. The cargo was
doubtless all covered by insurance, but we
have no knowledge of its value
The German brig Joan Ercdcriek, from Ger
many. with emigrants, arrived at Matagorda
bay on the 29(h ult
A party of Indians recently visited the
neighborhood of Goliad and were pursued by
Capt. McCulloch’s Rangers, when a fight
ensued, in which the Indian’s horses were all
taken, together with their trappings. Seven
Indians escaped, and probably two or three
were killed or wounded, so that the whole
number was about ten. The horses stolen by
the Indians were restored to the o\a ners.
Lieut King, of the Rangers, was wounded.—
N. O. Bee.
Eromthc Charleston Evening News of Saturday.
Arrival of the Isabel.
The steam packet Isabel, Capt. Rollins,
reached our port this morning. We have re
ceived a file of the Diaro De La Marino to
the22d uh. They contain no political intelli
gence.
Jenny Lind has been received at Havana
with great indifference. The peop'.e of that
city were much opposed to the high prices of
the seats. The fourth and last Concert had
been advertised to take place on the 17ih inst.
’This Concert was given for the benefit of the
Insane, which was on that night very crowded.
She sung on that night with great applause
and received high praise from the critics.
Our Key West correspondent states that the
hull of the Swedish brig Sylphide, which was
stranded near the Tortugas on the night of the
31st ult. was sold as it lay on the reef. She
was from New Orleans for Trieste, with cotton,
and bilged soon after she struck. Her cotton,
net, sold for from 40 to 50 dollars per bale.
The cargo and materials have been libelled for
salvage and are awaiting the decree of the
Court.
Correspondence of the News.
HAVANA, Jan. 22.—Our Sugar market since
my last has shown little activity, and 'ransaetkns
have chiefly confined to the purchases of Span
iards, at high rates. The pretensions of planters are
still very high, consi lerably over what the limits
from Euroj e and from the United States can author
ize, and transactions would be of little note, were it
n>t lor the demand for Spain. The stock, however,
ix increasing, a d prices wiii no doubt soo.i be on a
scale more propt rtioned to the views of the majority
oPbujers. The rates hitherto paid would establish
the following quotatisns:
Cucuruchos and ordinary, Yellows 6 3-4 rials f
Good a fin- Yebows, 7 to7 1-2 rials; Whites, 9to
10 rials. Muscovadoes have been taken at 5 rs. to
6 rials for good up to 7 rials, for prime qualities.
Molasses, contrary to the general expectation, has
declined, and I now quote 2 rs. at the outports and
21 in this harbor. This decline may be attribu
ted to the scarci-y of arrivals and consequent limited
demand. The arrival, of vesseib have, indeed,
been very few, and unless they increase soon, this
article, which will soon be very abundant, will have
toUO down. .
Muscovado Molasses has been selling at 3| rials.
Ccffee. under the influence of a demand from the
United S ates, Ins advanced, and present quotaticns
J, av be placed at 9| for ordinary to good 2’ds
-310 to lOj for fine quality
Sale or Henry Long —Henry Long, the
reclaimed fugitive, was sold at auction in
Richmond on Saturday last, to a gentleman
from the South, for the sum of §7 50. The
purchaser was die only tidder, and was re
quired io give bond and secuiity in the amount
oi $3 000 that he would remove Henry to the
South, incompliance with the terms of sale.—
CtiuTleaton Courier.
Some fifty of the citizens of Noxubee court
ly, Miu., have published an advertisement
utfering SSOOO reward for the apprehe'tsion
and conviction of a man who on the night of
tne 24. h ult. attempted to assassinate Thomas
J. Moore, of Noxubee.