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< :cN*4.*is k im.—The followicg iu*ro
kimibr Aita's intelligence, would seem
*# Ww tint the Hungarian spirit is not yet
§wto : awd that Austria may again
W M<grd to call ta the Russian police of-
Secr to keep peace in her household:
“Am £imsmam T**atesino.—Tbe
t ewa canerpcodeat of the London Times
to aihsdinr to the policy of tbe Austrian
whan m re&• fence to Hungary, stales
thto firings oimm he carried on as they
.aw tor any tenyth al time, it being next
to nariarrhl ~ i Germanize tbe Magyars.
The moat deep seated discontent prevails
thntogiwtol Hungary, pad an explosion is
Mhr di-tanl. Whenever an opportuni
ty {resents itself, tbe national feeling is
-Ntoktof since tbe Hungarian airs play
ed by * rewow tied Gipsey hand of Pres
burgled to *Wh *l< rmv demonstrations
that the authorities considered it necessa
ry to order Ihe p\ |*ie* In quit the city. A
nabarrifst, a foie, not long since, pwi
and a natrrtr in tbe Hungarian Thtow
•V Peath, sad hie melancholy appeanimte,
cwbinrd with the peculiar rythm of the
awk, produced such an effect upon the
pwhiar that there war a general crv of “•El
gon m hngytd y/.” (God save yjF Pol-./’
The rnaw iai im was that the musician
received m older not to play fiy more in
th*tbra<fe. ’I h-s* occurrence* won Id harjj*.
Ij he worthy and mention did the^im e
to show that the national sjd I ''* l*r from
Wring crashed, is not eve* partially suh-
Thc SacmanaA bUcan say?—“The
dostrwSion of the Constitutional Union
flirty woo'd piece the State in the swift
rnseer nf difaiuon.” O dear! Well my
irised:, nnbt dy wants to destroy your
thMudiMMl Uaim Party, aha* revam
ped Whig Party, alia* President Making
party. Why da you not go ahead with
tiff Who is troubling you? Your new
Part) has o-er been formed yet. Bob
Toombs and Elite Stephens are not the
poopiealTh*’ United States, even if they
•to hacked by some sixty or seventy mem.
bets of the Convention of the State of Geor
gia. Yoar great Constitutional Union
Party is in yoar own bands, and if you and
ant bring it out upon your
asfeca and yoar coadjutors will fall the
hViiais of this swiit career of disunion.—-
Rtnsirr away, gentlemen, and you may
yut aake • Mir or a sermon of it; queer
and aaprawriling as it looks at present
Bui quit this prating about disunion. The
pewple know what it men ns now, and the
iir lor humbugging them with such non.
scans has gone by. Just tell them in
pat terms, that if they do n< t give you
• lift with the Constitutional Union Party,
you have no hope of another Whig Presi
dent. As to the old Democratic party,
they always baee been a Constitutional
Ctoaa Party, and they see no necessity of
fsnug another to elect a Whig President.
But aeser mind; hammer away, tve say,
goiitScifiea, you panuot make the matter
waras than it is under the woru-out cog
•amau at Wbiggery.—f Griffin Jefferson
sun.
phenomena or death.
Ta V shot dead is one of the easiest
modes of terminating life ; yet, rapid as it
m, the body has leisure to feel and time to
inflect. On the first attempt by one of the
frantic adherents of Spain to assassinate
William, Prince of Orange, who took the
lead ia the revolt of tbe Netherlands, the
hall paawd through the bones of his face,
•ad hraaght him to the ground. In the
tualaai that proceeded stupefaction, hewns
able ta frame the notion that the ceiling of
aha ream had fallen and crushed him. The
aaanoa shot which plunged into the brain
of Charles XII, did not prevent him from
aout:ng his sword by tbe hilt. The idea
•fas attack, and the necessity for defence
was impressed upon him by a blow which
mu should have supposed 100 tremendous
to Wave an snteiv.il for thought. But it
by no means follows that the infliction of
fatal valence noti a accompanied by a pang.
,Fna what ia known of the first effect of
gunshot wounds, it is probable that the
•mptoaaion is rather stunning than acute.
Unless death hr immediate, the pain is as
varied as the nature of the injuries, and
them are put counting up. But there is
nothing singular in tin* dying sensations,
though Lord Byron remarked the physi
nfogncai peculiarity, that the expression is
invariably that of laugour. while in death
from a stab, tbe countenance icflects the
tram *4 natural character of gentleness or
hweity, to the last breath. Some of these
cues am at interest, to show with what
•light disturbance life may go on under h
mortal wound, till it suddenly comes to a
final atop.
A foet soldier at Waterloo, pierced by a
musket hall in the hip, begged water from
• trroper who chanced to possess a can
toea of beer. The wounded man drank,
returned his heartiest thanks, mentioned
that tk regiment was nearly extermina
ted. and having proceeded a dozen yards
•U his way to the rear, fell to the earih,
sad with ewe convulsive movement of his
Umba concluded his career. “Yet his
vmee .say* the trooper, who himself tells
the story .) gave scarcely the smallest sign
V weakne-s.” Captain Basil Hall, who
, his early youth was present at the baW
** f CGrunfM, has singled out InyiLlfie
vuusn,* whiAh consigns to oblivion the
•v* sod fullanV^oT'tva^ 1 ' 1101 her > n * iti * nce
fcimiLr- whp.cn occurred on that
***ion. An obLeofficer, *ho was shot in
** bead, qiaiKved pak* and faint at the tern
capita I, and begged the surgeon
*u> look at his wound, which was pronounc
ed ta be mortal. “Indeed, I leared so. pie
f *#p n.!rd with impeded and
vet I should like very much to live a little
•wiper, if it were possible.” He laid his
sward upon a stone at his side, “as gently
(says Hilt] ai if its steal hil been turn
to glass, and almost immediately sank dead
apra the turf.” —Quarterly Review.
Gn Fmtk In .Mississippi —The Mo
ki# Tribune says i.
There hnu greater error than the prev
•teat ©pinkwi that Foote is sustained by a
Majority tis the people of Mississippi. So
•be ttf the repeated assertion that the next
will contain a large majority
at those wb approve his conduct and the
OMRpnanae bills. As far as we can judge
a ©thing is wore erroneous.—-Nearly all the
latent in Mississippi is against Foote. The
people, instead ol relaxing in their disap
probation of him, have became more con*
in**4 ia the certainty of his unworthiuess
and every thing indicates that the new
tegtatenre will be fully as hostile to him
it waa the old one.
Foetr has greater reputation without the
bnrdera state that within them.
TWf* beta considered more in the light
*4 aa adventurer than otherwise. He has
so material interest at stake within it and
bangs -l-rwe. from a _love of notoriety
•tmutated by ambition and necessity,
tew ferst taupwice to his present course was
taM||4eare of a national reputation, and
th* expectant reward of higher office—
that of the Vico I'residency—with a re
mt&e chance for the Presidency ; and we
;btk It is very Hkely that if a national
can van tt on of the democratic party be
hnid, be artll receive a nomination by iU
Mr. James 8. * adswortb, who is a pas
: 9 r<m tewnJ the mtawng steamer Atlan
c. ts of the wealthiest men in the
*, ~. >Vw-Yfk. A letter from his sis
, „ ihwtend, Mrs. Murray, states that
b^AtUi^c.
4 SPMW.C- * ptent
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Female Colleges. —ln the Georgia
Female College, the first class is called the’
‘‘Freshman” and the secord “Sopho
more.” Hotv a young lady can be a fresh
man, and wbat gallantry there is in calling
one of the divine sex a wise fuel, which
is the meaning of the word Sophomore,
we leave to the learned professors of the
Georgia College to explain.
Tbe thir&class is called the “Junior,”
which very well; as it includes the
idea of mAith, a charge acceptable to a
lady at ffty age, but the last class is the
worst rjili. Tins is the “Senior.” Spi
rit of /ivalry ! what an insult to the sex,
toapm a term indicative, though it be on
ly comparatively, of age and experience.
Know, ungallant professors, that all la
dies. up to a “certain age,” are of the
same age, and that there cannot possibly,
by the very constitution of the sex, be any
seniority among them.
Now, if we were about to organize a Fe.
male College, and to divide the pupils ac
cording to academic usage into four class
es, • e think we woul.l adopt a different
nomenclature.
Our first ciass, which would in a 6‘*’
measure consist of those rn mP i **’ ros y*
ch**eked eaters nl Iqi nil *llll mnn i who
were should be the class
of
sec.<*d class, who possibly have got
beyond the bread and butter, but had not
yet given up the romping, should be call
ed “Hoyd* ns.”
Our third class, who would of come be
advanced far beyond the region of girldom,
and be beginning to know and use their
charms, should be the “Angels.”
But for our fourth and highest class, the
budders into lovey womanhood, we should
go to the very top oflhe angelic liierachv
and style them “ Seraphs .”
And thus it is that we would form our
Fein ile College. But as we never expect
to be called upon to organize such an in
stitution, we can only propose our plan to
the respectable gentlemen, who are the
trustees of such delightful seminaries.
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
A writer in the New York Journal of
Commerce furnishes the following inter
esting and important information, in rela
tion to the Republic of St. Domingo, in
the Island of Hayii.
‘ The Is'and ol St. Domingo formerly be
longed, the eastern part to Spain, the wes
tern part to France. Under a low system
of morality, a considerable population of
free people of color had sprung up in the
French part of tbe Island, when the
French revolution began. One of the
early results of that revolution, was the de
cree of the Constituent Assembly of France,
of the 15th May, 1791, declaring that men
of mixed blood, ol all shades, born of free
persons, should be admissible to the colo
nial assemblies. This admission of free
people of color to a political equality with
themselves, was resisted by the white in
habitants, who, rather than submit thereto,
made proposals to Sir Adam Williamson,
then Governor of Jamaica, to place the
island, or rather the French part of it, un
der British protection. Their propositions
were accepted, and a British force sent to
occupy the posts of Jeremi and St. Niolas
Mole. Santhonax, the French commis
sioner, alarmed at the prospects of the colo
ny falling into the hands of Great Britain
proclaimed the general emancipation of all
the slaves. This was followed by a coal!-
lion of the fice people of color with the
blacks, to murderand drive out the whites.
The ntrocities committed on u tiering age,
helpless infancy, and womanhood, have
given to the island a terrible interest.
The people of color, who united with
and encouraged the blacks in these atroci
ties, have since met with their merited
punishment in the oppression, banishment,
and massacre of which they have in turn
become the victims.
It is a greaterror, into which many have
fallen, to suppose that the inhabitqnts of
the eastern or Hpnuish part of the Island
had any part in these scenes of vice and
crime, and which have rendered infamous
the very name of that beautiful island. —
Those excesses were confined entirely to
the French part. The Spanish part of
the Island remained undisturbed, and, un
til 1821, in quiet submission to Spain, of
whose colonies it was, in climate, soil and
mineral productions, perhaps the most
valuable, though most neglected. Over
looked and neglected by the cabinet at
Vudn'd, and th ir only source of prosperi
ty, their commerce with the other Spanish
American colonies, being cutoff by the re
volt of those colonies tn December, 1821,
the Dominicans declared their indepen
dence of Spain, and hoisting the Columbian
flag, sent commissioneis jo ask admis
sion as one of the States of the Columbian
Republic. That Republic was at that
time too much engaged in the organiza
tion of its own government and affairs at
home to attend to the application of the
Dominicans. Spain engaged with her
other colonies, left the Dominican revolu
tionists to themselves. Boyer, then Presi
dent of Hayti, under pretence of marching
to their assistance, took possession of the
country- The Dominicans, few in num
ber and unprepared for resistance, were
compelled to submit, and found that they
exchanged the neglect and the restretive
commercial policy of Spain for the far
more oppressive tyranny of the blacks.—
Under this yoke they suffered till 1843.
In that year, driven by desperation, a few
persons, not over a hundred, rose in the
Highland took possession of the principal
gates of the city ol St. Donungo. By the
influeuce of some of the foreign residents
whose sympathies were with tin in, and
who went between them and the Haytien
garrison in the citadel, exaggerating their
numbers and strength, the garrison was in
duced to surrender before morning came
to disclose the weakness of the movement.
As fast as the unexpected news spread
through the country, the Dominicans flock
ed to the standard of independence, drove
out the Haytiens, and established a repub
lican form of government.
The Dominican Republic contains from
160,000 to 200,000 souls. The Haytiens
nutnoer from 800,000 to 1,000,000. The
latter admit no white person to hold any
nal estate, or enjoy any of the privileges
of a citizen. The former is essentially a
while government, with about the same
intermixture of other blood as in the Span
ish Main and Brazil, The government
always has been, and still is, in the hands
of the whiles. The immigration of blacks
is piohibiled, and white colonists are invi
ted by grants of lands, the government
paying their expenses and subsistence till
established in their new homes.
The Dominicans hamade repeated ap
plications to the U. S. to interfere, to put
an end to the invasions of the blacks.—
Learning thatsuch an application had been
made, the English, to anticipate the tardy
action of our slower moving Government,
proffered their mediation. The Domini
cans, suspicions of the negrophrly of Eng
land, hesitated to accept the offer, lest their
domgxo might afford a pretext for English
influence to compel them to submit to the
black Emperor Sooluqur. The offer was
therefore accepted, only on the condition
that the United JSiates and France should
join in the mediation.
The celebrated society of the “Amis des
noirs,” was established about the com
mencement of the French revolution, for
the purpose of ameliorating the condition
I of the black popti ilation in the West Indies.
Its leading members were Brissot, Petion,
Mira beau. Ciaviere, Condoreei. and most
distinguished of all, the Abbe Gregorio,
To their misdirected seal may’fcy attribu
.ed all the crimes and horrors, which have
desolated the island of Santo Mingo, re
duced its inhabitants to a condition ol slave
’ ry for wor*ethan that which it was propo
sed to improve, and plunged them again
into barbarism and idolatry.*
This society still exists in Paris, largely
increased in members and influence, and
acts in concert with the abolition societies
of Great Britain and the United States.
Adopting their views of humanity—that it
is much better that the Haytiens should
have undisputed possession of the whole,
than that tbe island should be divided be
tween two constantly conflicting govern
ments. England and France, have been
for some tune endeavoring to procure the
submission of the Dominicans to Soulou
que. We have recently been informed
that this view of the subject, has also been
adopted by the Government of the United
Stales, and that a special agent is about to
sail in the Saranac to unite with the French
aud English agents to accomplish this ob
ject.
If these rumors be true, and the
nican Republic should thus
into a province of E’ n P' r, ‘
past ex| points out what
will K-* ine affifiappy fate of its white in
tidbUants.
•Many of the Macks of Hayii. have lapsed i ita
idolatry, worshipping serpents ami other Fetish.
Brevity is Woman. —We find in a
California diary the following glorification
ofa quality we should like. “A man of
few wor Is” is very well, but “a woman of
few word'” is a matter open to argument:
“1 encountered, to-day,in a ravine, some
three miles distant,among the gold wash
ers, a woman from San Jose. She was at
work with a large wooden bowl by the
side of the st,eam. tasked her how long
she had been there, and how much gold
she averaged a day. She replied. “Three
weeks and an ounce.” Her reply remin
ded rne of an anecdote of the late fudge
B , who met a girl returning from
market, and asked her,‘how deep did you
find the stream? what did you get for your
butter?’ ‘Unto the knee and ninepence,’
was the reply. *Ah!’ said the judge to
himself:—‘she is the girl for me; no words
lost there;’ turned hack, proposed, was ac
cepted, and married next week; and more
happy couple the conjugal bonds never
united; the nuptial lamp never waned; its
rav was steady and clear to the last. Ye
who paddle off and on for seven years, and
are at last, perhaps, capsized, take a It
of the judge. That‘up to the knee and
ninepence’ is worth all the rose letters and
melancholy rhymes ever penn and.
Free-Soil Regrets. —The New York
Evening Post, a hot anti.slavery paper of
New York city,says:
The Defeat of Col. Benton.—The
telegraph announces the election of Henry
S Geyer, of Missouri, a Whig,tot’ne Sen
ate of the U. States, in the place ot M.n
as H. Benton, whose term expires al \
close of the present session. We iiWcf
not say that we record this intelligence
with profound regret.”
No doubt of it ! May it have many
more such, as successively, Southern rnen
unfaithful to their section, are made “to
walk the plank. '"[Augusta Constitution
alist.
Perilous Adventure of a Dog —We
understand that a dog belonging to tbe is
tablishment ol the Messrs. M Intosh, on
Front street, was carried over the falls a
few days since, and strange to say is now
alive and as well as usual. The dog was
playing upon the Railroad bridge, when
by some accident he fell into the water,
that was rushing swiftly bv, and was im
mediately carried over the Upper Falls,
a perpendicular descent of 90 feet. All
supp; osed the dog was lost, and no one
ever tookthe trouble to look into the loam
ing waters below to see whether the poor
animal floated away. The next day the
dog returned to his master, not a great
deal the worse for the adventure. He
bore some marks of contact with the ice and
rocks, but roon recovered, and is now as
smart as anybody’s dog.—]/? ‘Chester .Ad
vertiser.
“Breaking thf. News.” —Some of our
“Union,” contemporaries, have begun to
break the news to their readers of the ’’per
fect smash up” of the Nuliona! Constiiu
tional Union Party. They have not vet
proceeded into the entire argument,” Tiie
following anecdote illustrates the mode of
iht ir proceeding :
Cuff had been out with the cart and ox
en, and returning his master asked him
what was the trouble?
“ Why, massa, de wheel is broke,’,
“Is that allCuff?’’
“No, massa, the tongue broke too.”
“What, did the oxen run away?”
“Yes. massa,and killed de nigh ox.”
“Is it possible, Cuff?”
“And de off ox, too, massa.
“So, you black rascal, you have a per
fect smash up, and that is the reason why
you come back—Why didn’t you tell me
so?
“Why, massa, said Cu(£scratching his
wool.
“I’ spose that one wheel broke be ,fi
cient of itself individoolly; without proceed
ing into de entire argument ob de cart and
ox uni.”
Wet Feet. —We will give our readers,
a receipt for making boots water proof,
which is worth more than our subscription
price to nny person who will try it. M >is.
lure generally penetrates the sole of the
bo-1-, &11 e u per leather is not easily dried.
To rendi r them impervious to water order
your boot-maker to cut pieces of canvass in
the proper shape, dip them in melted pitch
or tar, and lay them upon the inner soles
before putting on the outer soles ol the boots.
This simple process will ensure dry feet
without making the boot clumsy, We
havs tried the experiment, and would ad
vise all whose sole are afflicted with cold or
dampness, to do the same. —Montg [Ala.)
Atlas.
Accident to Sir R. Peel. —Sir Rob
ert Peel, the son an dsuccessor of the late
distinguished English Premier, met with
an alarming accident on the Bth ult. He
was hunting in the neighborhood of Faz
elcy; the horse stumbled, threw his rider,
and fell on him in such a way as to seri
ously injure Sir Robert’s head. He was.
taken up senseless, and at last accounts
was in a very precarious state. It will he
remembered that the father was killed last
summer in a similar wav.
Race across the Atlantic. —The Un
ion Club and some large ship owners ol
New-Ynrk have started a subscription of
-#IOO,OOO to build a clipper costing that
sum, to sail from Liverpool to New-York
and back with any similar vessel built
in England and on the completion of the
voyage both ships are to belong to the
winning party.
Monument to Major Twiggs and Son.
—An elegant monument has just been erect
ed at Laurel Hill Cemetry, Philadelphia,
to Maj, Levi Twiggs, (brother of Geti Da
vid E. Twiggs, U. S. A.) ot the U S Ma
rine Corps, and his eldest son, George
Decatur Twiggs, aeUag Lieutenant U. S.
A,
Public Documents, —Our thanks are
due to the Hon. H. A. Haralson for a copy
of the message and accompanying docu
ment, for the session of 1856-61; and to
the Hon. Thomas L. Harris for a copy ot
his letter on the repeal ol the Fugitive
Slave Law. _____
Trenton, Jan. 31.
New Jersy U, S, Senator. —The
Democrats in joint session adjourned until
the 14th of February, .without acting on
®J)t ©mes.
COLUMBU?, Ga., TUESDAY, FEB. 11. 1861.
“ The doctrine of free t'ade, as it is;
popularly called, ia one ot the most ruin
ous humbugs that ever emanated from the
brain ofa visionary political economist.”
—Columbus Enquirer.
Sosaith, the organ of Yankee Nabob
manufacturing interests in the city of Col
umbus, Georgia; and so he speaketh on
the authority of— whom 1 Why, Abbot
Lawrence, the Prince of the spindle aqd.
the loom, who has made an
tune out ot the south,
ing Protective e 4a6i**'^“®® enera * 0V *
prnpy.n> the most ruinous
at ever emanated from the
brain of a visionary political economist”;
Shad.- of Adam Smith—hear! Spirit of nul
lification in 1832—hear! Columns of the
Columbus Enquirer twenty years ago—
hear! Mr Flournoy Men, Mr Flournoy now
—hear!
We marvel how a southern editor at this
juncture of the relations between the north
and the south, can have the face to raise
his voice in favor of renewing the rob
beries ofa Protective Tariff. Surely, it
manifests either a profound contempt for
the intelligence of the people ot the south
—deep Conviction of their gullibility and
poverty of spirit; and an immoveable
confidence in their blind attachment to
worn out party fallacies. In the name of
Heaven, will the morbid appetite of the
Enquirer for southern degradation and op
pression never be satisfied 1 Is it not
enough that we have been robbed of our
land*, our fquality, our good name, and that
reputation for impatience under wrong
a nd ardent love of liberty for which the
People of the south have heretofore been
distinguished I Are these sacrifices not
enough ; that the Enquirer now comes
with a sneei and an imbecile argument
taken from the mouth of the chief of the
crew who have fattened on our taxation,
and proposes to surrender ourpifrses to the
mercies of the north! The Enquirer knows
that a Protective Tariff is a machine to
enrich cotton spinning by taxing agricul
ture. It knows that three-fourths of the
people of the United States are engaged
in the cultivation of the soil; and eight
tenths of the people of the south. It knows
that the burthens ol Restriction fall upon
this vast majority of Producers and Con
sumers. It knows that the south has no
interest that has ever been benefitted by
Protection, except the small sugar inter
est; and that the south lias always been
the plucked pigeon of the system. We
say the Enquirer knows all this —because,
its columns have uttered the facts a thou
sand times, and its files in.its past, better
days, have time and again, taken the
sting out of its present sneers at the
“humbug of Free Trade*” We want to
know if this is a part ot the programme ot
the new “Constitutional Union Party’ !
How is it Mr Cobb ! What say you Judge
Wellborn, and Mr Holsey, of the “Athens
Bannei”! Do you all subscribe to the doc
trine that “ Free Trade is a humbug” ?
And you, the good “Union” people of
Georgia—is this a part of the “peace mea
sures”! Was it understood that in addition
to giving up California, slavery in the
District of Columbia, Utah and New Mexi
co, and a big slice of Texas to Free Soil,
that you were to pay also 40 per cent ad
tional duty on iron, cotton and woollen
goods, salt, coffee, sugar and the long list
of et ceterras that enter into your daily
wants! Why, the foremost ot the southern
Whig newspapers have cried out against
the iniquity. The Richmond.-Virginia
Whig, the heretofore leading Tariff ergan
at the south has kicked up at it, and told
Horace Greeley that after what has pass
ed, the southern back will not bear any
longer the Tariff burden. The North Caro
lina Legislature has solemnly repudiated
it, as a thing, unconscionable and un
bearable; while the entire public mind of
Virginia is now agitated by a discussion
of the question of taxing Northern pro
ducts, in lieu of the old system of taxing
the south for the benefit ot the north.
But our neighbor is utterly disdainful of
all these new lights bursting on the south
ern mind. Mr Fillmore has issued his
ukase for protection, and the party faith
fuls are hound to obey. No paper is more
prompt to answer to the blast of the party
bugle than the Columbus Enquirer.
If Mr Fillmore were to blow a blast in
favor ofa “Bank” as well as a Tariff, no
doubt, anti-bank would be sneered at as a
“ruinous humbug.” But are the people
of the south willing to pay the score and
foot the bill of all this party dance? Are
they willing that their labor should be tax
ed as a premium to northern capital in
vested in manufactures! And will the
fni in view o! making an Erie abolitionist,
lately and violently converted to Union
ism, President for another term, compen
sate for the exactions which Protection
levies on the many for the benefit of the
few!
We copy for the perusal of our readers,
a sketch of Mr Fillmore’s tariff crudities,
taken from the Glasgow (Scotland) Citi
zen of the 28th December. It will repay
perusal.
DISTINGUISHED STRANGERS.
Amin Bey, the Turkish Envoy and suite,
arrived in this city from Montgomery on
Wednesday, and remained a day or two.
Gen Mirabeau B Lamar and lady also
passed through the city, on a short trip to
Eufaula. We are happy to learn that there
is some reason to hope that Gen Lamar
will resume his residence in this city.
George W. Kendall,the travell.ng, book
making and clever (both in the English
and Yankee sense) editor ot the “Picay
une” stopped a day en route for the Cres
cent city. We regret that he was gone,
before we heard he had come.
A. G. Gonzalez, Adjutant General of
helat.: liberating Cuba expedition, pass
ed through this city, going east, having
just got through one act of the farce going
on in the New Orleans Federal Courts,
wherein the United States are prosecutors
and the friends of liberty generally,
wherever a suspicion of such crime can be
located, are defendants. We hope to
live, one day to see this gallant gentleman
restored to the native laud from which ty
ranny has exiled him; and restored too,
as tine ofthe patriot liberators of his coun
try from a cruel and heartless despotism.
If the Cubans generally possessed his in
elligent republican spirit, it would not
take them long to pitch the Captain Gen
ergl and all his imps,ithe soldiers of tyran
ny and the minions of Royalty, in a heap
into the ocean, and raise that flag of liber
ty given by their countrymen in N. York
to Gen Lopez, on which is inscribed “TAc
Daughters of Cuba.” That blessed little
Island, 300 miles long by 56 broad, pays
in doubloons and hard dollars 24 millions
of taxes. Her white population is about
600,000. and the per capita tax on men,
worr.eniand babies is Six or seven
mi illions ot this goes to pamper the Span
ish court and buy palfreys and sugar plums
for the Queen of Spain, while the rest is
expended on the despotic military Gov
ernment ot the Island. The people thus
pay about 18 millions of Dollars for the
bayonets which are always at their throats
and for the Governmental machinery that
makes them slaves. The
eral’s office in four years iso be
worth a millipn f^P***—^ is salary by
late, is annum. The rest
in hush money and bribe
“money. The African slave traders payj
him per annum for winking ati
the open violation of the law of the land,
which makes that trade piracy. What anj
interesting country ! Howlovely and love
able a Government! And who can doub
that the Cuban born who tries to overturi
this corrupt and grinding despotism is r
“ traitor Tobe sure ! Was’nt Kossuth a
“traitor” to Austria! to say nothing of
that notorious rebel ot our own, onA
George Washington. He once bore Kin{
George’s commission. He threw it up am
struck for liberty, and was a “traitor. 1
Every body, in these days, who takes i
foolish freak in favor of justice and rig!
and freedom, are called “traitors,” in th
fashionable dialect, borrowed from kin&fo
tongues and oppression’s vocabulariesJ-
Well, God Almighty settles all these thiigrs
at last. The tyrants of the earth have hp!
a.long swing at the poor, down troddin
human masses; but the day star of ho|>e
has risen on man in the old as welt its
th” hew world ; and crowned heads trem
ble at the rappel which Liberty is beating
around the civilized world. It is certain,
that although the axiom be not yet estab
lished that “man can govern himself,”
will soon be shown that he cannot be gov
erned by puppets with crowns on their
heads, whether in breeches or petticoats-
SOUTHERN RIGHTS.
It has been decided for the present, that
the south is to tight the battle of its rights
in the Union. That is to say, it hag so
been decided by all the States, except.S.
Carolina. It is well known to ourreadjjrs,
that this decision is contrary to ourj, j*lg
im nt of what is right and prudent. |t Jut,
so far as Georgia is concerned, the aafc is
tor the present, decided. And it iit'fow
understood, that we are to forgive jPlthe
past and having put another chip i e lour
shoulders, just let the north knock ffj® off
if it dares. We bow to the necessijjj but
not to the wisdom of the decision LM we
wait with commendable patience fjtißiuch
time as the north will find it consilient
and prudent to knock off the at 1 * :said
chip. Just now, the attitude of 1 outh
Carolina induces the north to tlf t the
,o
operation not quite prudent. l ! it south
Carolina, like Georgia, hadenterei nto a
general amnesty for the past, pacj :ated
forthesakeof the “glorious unijli ’and
put a chip on her shoulder too, f fl y the
north would not take long to and< ’ rmine
what to do. She would have wfitf ced it
’ off in a trice, and snapped her fr ers in
i the entire southern face, with a 4 sh” at
! her valiant paper resolutions, i lit the
j courage of Carolina is a lion in pde path
!of the evildoers. They dread thdulxperi
j merit of driving one outraged andßaring
j State to the wall, when they knowiiat the
j simple proceeding of her stepping out of
j the union and setting un busines*m her
j own sovereign hook, will open
| ra’s box of evils,which they will ijot know
; how to cope with. For ifletalone,l|erexam
-1 pie of isolated independence, grow
| ing population and wealth under we ope
! ration ofan unrestricted Free Trail, would
| prove horribly contagious to ccltiguous
States, laboring under an averajl import
| duty of 80 per cent. It would relay the
: wild with Uncle Sam’s system oflfevenue
I and protection,and’would induc/A system
’ of border smuggling that woufAbe awful
, to the Custom House, and pjifmiorhern
! protected articles into a'paroxylp. On the
| hand other ifthey were to use coercion,they
i know that it would bring sectional antago
nisms to a head, and a union of consent
i .would fall to pieces in the effort at mak
| ing it a union of force. In this dilemma
are the high handed powers at Washing
ton ; and the better opinion among them
. is, that if the stiff necked and, stiff-willed
little Palmetto State chooses to go out, she
must be allowed to go, with hearty male
; dictions on her obstinacy for giving the
| plunderers so much troubldjand a most
fervent prayer to Heaven tijat she may
get tired of being out of the family and
speedily petition for re-admission. In the
| meantime, the slavery agitation is kept
: dow-n to see what she will dq, and it is ex
ceedingly difficult for the saulfe reason, for
the Protectionists to get through some
1 prottv schemes ot plunder pushed upon
Congress by hordes of paid emissaries
from the Spinning and Iron Districts of the
north. If one gallant and true-hearted State
can accomplish this much in the face of
unscrupulous power, and ia the midst of
general submission on the part of her fel
low sufferers, what terms as so high, that
the united south might not have command
ed in the late “peace” sfttlemept 1 We
submit this question to of the south
ern submission members cj Congress.
But while South Carotin l is trying one
remedy, we.of Georgia hive elected an
other. IVe are to fight oif battles in the
Union. Well, how is th|is to be done!
Shall we follow the old pltfn of merger in
the political parties having their strength
and governing power at ihe north ! Shall
we go into National Convention, and
pledge ourselves to vote lor a Presidential
candidate who is eithejlwam about our
rights, or gives D'Jphit? guaranties that
mean one thing before and another after
the election ? Wo fancy that past.experi
soulh. Under these National organiza
tibn& we hate been to our present
strait. Under them we hjive been the vic
tims of Tariffs, of unequal taxes and par
tial distribution of Government favors; we
have lost our territorial rights, and endur
ed the brand of reprobation op our proper
ty. And under it, too, tithe prolific source
of aM southern wrongs) our own Repre
sentatives have beerf*>y4aijy bought up by
Federal blandishments to betray us. That
system has failed. That system then is
condemned by its bitter fruits. Suppose
we try another. Let us form a Southern
party (ddnt be alarmed, our submission
friends, for this is a remedy in the Union)
and organize it, purpoiely, to make fight
with the northern part] inthe maintenance
of our equal rights in the Government.—
Let us eschew all National conventions—
put up a southern candidate for the Presi
dency ; unite on him, and send him, if
need be, to the House of Representatives,
where the States each having one vote,
Georgia will be as powerful as the great
Abolition States of New York and Ohio,
and where we will be in the best condition
to struggle for the control of.the Executive
branch of the Government. Now there is
“nothingqmconsti^^^ial^C^un--unionish
in this. It is a mrode of fighting the battle
ofthe south Whe union. It is the only
mode that poornises success. Any other
is eertain drefeat. It hasan equal cbanceto
succeed/fbut if it fails, the south can exer
cise th/tpower of deciding between the op
posing candidates, and choose the least
objectionable of the two.
, PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY.
Da. Crane, the distinguished lecturer,
extensively and favorably known through
out the country, will deliver a free lecture
at Temperance Hall this evening on these
sciences.
Dr Crane has his room at the Oglethorpe
Hotel, where he will delineate character
from Phrenological observation ; and may
be consulted professionally. The flatter
ing testimonials of the press from all quar
ters, leave no doubt ot the ability of this
gentleman as a lecturer, and ot his sur
prising skill in the practical application of
the principles of his science to the sub
jects who present themselves for exami
nation.
[From the Mobile Tribune.]
AFRICAN COLONIZATION.
All the attempts made by ihe combined
efforts of the United S'.Ue and foreign gov
ernments to suppress the slave trade have
thus far proved worse than useless, and
there is evidently a growing disposition rl
present in and out of Congress to abandon
the old plan and to general gov
ernment in a great
The reasons urged lor tlfif ‘•flfoeme ar<- the
suppression of the aboyeVMpde, the im
provement of the condiw'u yfour free ne
groes, and through thenflU qivilization of
the continent of Africa. all sounds
very plausible, but we may Jook in vain
over the history oi negro races from the
time of Alexander the Great to the present
day for some evidence of their capacity for
aivilization or self-government. The ne
gro lias every where in all ages, been the
moral and intellectual slave of the inferior
organization which the Almighty has
stamped upon him, and no man who calm
ly investigates his history for the last 2000
years can for a moment believe that any
system of education or government can
change his intellectual grade. Education
or any known causes never did within the
period of history, transform one race into
another.
The following extract from an essay re
cently vead by Dr. Nott before the Mobile
Southern Rights Association, may prove
interesting to some of our readers :
“ll is utterly inconceivable to my mind,
how so many men of intelligence could be
led to favor a scheme so impracticable, with
the history of the two r ces open before
them. There Africa stands with her fifty
millions of blacks, and there she has stood
for the last five thousand years, with this
people occupying thesame countries, with
out one step towards civilization ; and all
the experiments in the United Slates, the
West Indies, &c., have failed. The boon
has been presented to them in every pos
sible shape, and they have never been able
to grasp it. Is not the delusion the more
extraordinary, when we see sensible men
in this country and Europe fostering, with
confident hopes, the Republic of Liberia—
while they laugh at the absurdily of the
French nation, one of the most intellectu
al in the world, in attempting to make a
Republican, or any <-ther rational form of
Government ?
It is far from my feelings, or des'gn, to
misrepresent the facts connected with this
scheme of colonization, for it has beert a| -
proved by many of the wiser and best
men of our country; but still I fear we have
been grossly deceived; not only by bad,
hut by well-meaning imn, at home, as
well as in Africa. Letters and statements
are published from Liberia ; speeches are
made before the colonization Society in
Washington., arid published in the Nation
al Intelligencer, giving the most poetic ac
counts of the intelligence, morality and re
finement of the Biack Colonists, and the
rapid progress of civilization in Liberia.—
I have good reason to believe that these
sta ements are utterly untrue, and a mo
ment’s reflection would bring any think
ing man to the same conclusion Can
any one believe that such a change would
come over four or five thousand ignorant,
stupid, and for the most part, vicious Free
Negroes, in a few years ? “The first set
tlement was made by Free Negroes from
the United States, under the auspices of
the American colonization Society, in the
year 1820,” and this class there is the
same as we see it around us /tereeverv day;
and we know full well the nature of the
material on which these mighty changes
are to be wrought. Some of them have
made their way back to the United States
in disgust, and contradict ihe statements
given. A lamented frienj, who died in
Mobile a few years ago, ('Dr, Mechlin) and
who lived in Liberia five years—a part of
which time he was Governor of that Col
ony—told me that he regarded the hope of
ever rendering the Negro Race fit for self
government; ants no one who knew this
gentleman ever doubted his honesty or in
telligence.
The Colony, so far, has only been held
together by the fostering care of the colo
nization Society, and support of foreign
Governments. It is governed, too, direct
ly by the white Agents of the Society, and
by the white blood coursmq through the
veins of the Mulatto leaders amongst the
colonists. President Roberts, who was
once a blacksmith in Petersburg, Virginia,
I am informed by those who know him
well, is three-fourths white blood, with
florid complexion, red hair, and disagree
able expression of countenance. He is
represented as “a keen, shrewd, design
ing fellow, who is turning matters in Li
beria to his own account.” Most of the
oilier leading men are also Mulattoes.—
The colonists have had many difficulties to
contend with, butts the history of races
teaches any thing, the delusion will proba
bly not last much longer.
From the Glasgow Citizen.
FILLMORE AND FREE-TRADE
Last Saturday we briefly announced the
arrival ot President Fillmore’s message:
but the economical doctrines set forth in
that document are too remarkable, to be
dismissed as unceremoniously as a bowie
knife duel, or the last explosion on the
Mississippi. We therefore return to its
consideration.
Brother Jonathan boasts of being the
most go-ahead fe!Lw inthe world. In all
matters of civilization, more especially in
all things pertaining to enlightened legis
lation, he calculates he can stump the uni
verse. In him alone, he would have us
believe, is combined the energy of the
New World with the wisdom of the Old.
We therefore approach with reverent cu
riosity, his Sta'e papers, and more especu
ally those emanating from hi3 chief magis
trate; because in them we naturally hope
to find the double distilled extract of Yan
kee enlightenment—the concentrated es
sence of the wisdom of the model repub
lic. A
In taking up, with these feelings, the
President’s Message, we naturally expect
ed to find some reflex of those economical
ideas which are now regarded as the touch
stone of enlightened European statesman
ship. It was not too much to hope that a
model President might have profited by
the lessons of a Peel. We have been wo
fully disappointed, Instead of any large
and generous principles of polity-—instead
of any statesmanlike application of modern
science to the practical affairs of nations,
we find, in President Fillmore’s economi
cal confession offaith, nothing buta warm
ed-up bash of stale protectionist fallacies,
- — — - —:— --
such as in this country are now left in
the peaceable possession ofTory newspa.
pers and Protectionists clubs. The whole
of the President’s message, as far as it
treats of Trade and taxation, might have
been cut out of any old volume of Black
wood's Magazine ; and for that matter,
may be reprinted as a Protectionists arti
cle in the next number of that valuable
storehouse pf economical science. Clear
ly, President Fillmore has studied political
economy under Mr. Ferrand and Col. Sib
thorp, rather than Huskisson or Peel.
1 he President opines, that “a duty laid
on an article that may be produced here,
stimulates the skill and industry ofour own
country to produce the same article.” 1 i
this country we are of a different opinio
V\ e hold that protective duties cramp an
paralyse exertion; and that nothing reall
stimulates industry but the.free compeii
lion ofthe world We have seen our silk
trade languish under pr< teetion, and re
vive with competition. Under our corn
liws, the farmers were the only spiritless
and stupid producers amongst us; and in
them free trade has already awakened en
ergy and skill. On this side ofthe Allnn
lantic, therefore, we set small store by the
■‘encouragement” to be given to industry
by tidewaiters and custom house officers.
VVe trust to ourselves, and not to govern
ments. Ihe only “fostering care” we
want is that of the policeman. We only
a-k our rulers to keep the peace,and ieave
us alone to work our work. That is the
only “encouragement” we seek, or would
submit to.
Ihe so Man of the West is further
of opinion that by a dexterous legerde
main of custom ftouse regulations ,he can
manage to juggle his duties out of John
Bull s pocket into his own. The import
er, he tells us, will be “compelled to re
duce his price to that at,which the domes
tic article can be sold, thereby throwing a
part of the duty upon the producer of the
foreign article ” Not so, ‘-Jr. President
The Gins gow manufacturer must have his
usual price for his muslins, else he will
not send them to you. He cannot afford
to sacrifice five and twenty per cent to pay
your dividends, and estahl sh your theory
of import duties. If, therefore, your ladies
choose to have his goods, they must pay
the usual price, the plus duty. However
sorry we are to rob a worthy gentleman
of so agreeable an illusion, we must beg to
inform the President, that an import duty
does not lower the pi ice to the foreign
producer, but raises it to the home consu
mer.
Not sat'sfied with making us reduce our
price, Mr. Fillmore hopes to compel us to
send him nothing but our best articles.
This he promises to effect by substituting
specific lor ad valorem duties. Specific
duties he says, “ offer a strong inducement
to the importer to bring the best article.”
Now, the “lest articls” is also the dear
est article; and it does seem stnMijte. that
the chief magistrate of a democratic com
munity should legislate for the avowed
purpose of excluding the comforts and
necessaries of the poor, and admitting on
easy terms the luxuries of the rich. But
the explanation is at hand. The Ameri
can mill owner manufactures the poor
man’s “ domestics,” but not the rich lady’s
muslins. The “specific duty” dodge,
therefore, is, simply a roundabout, and not
very honest way of protecting the “domes
,tic’’ industry ofLowell. In this country we
sometimes hear of the tyranny of capital ;
but what British statesman would dare'o
propose a tax on the fustian jackets of our
artisans, to swell the profiis of the millow
ners of Manchester?
Thus far the President legislates for the
special behoof of Lowell and Pittsburgh.
But suddenly he remembers,'that there
are buyers as well as sellers in the United
States—people who use cotton ai.d cut
lery, as well as people who make them ;
nay, that “ more than three-fourths of onr
plantation are engaged in the cultivation
of the soil,” and therefore purchasers, not
producers, of the article he proposes to
burden with fiscal duties, The interests
of so large a majority of the nation can
not be overlooked even by a protectionist
President; an injustice done to “ more
than three-fourths” of the population
sticks in the throat even of a Fillmore,
■Something it behooves a paternal chief
magistrate to do. And first he tries the
e Sect of a little soft sawder. He assures
the agricultural ('whom he is aboul to tax
lor the benefit of the manufacturers) that
theirs is “ the most important interest of
the nation, and has a just claim to the
fostering care and protection of the Gov
ernment.” Who would not gladly he
robbed in such mellifluous accents?—who
would grudge a 50 per cent duty to so
fair-spoken a gentleman! But, failing flat
tery the President has a sugar-plum in his
pocket. If the planters of the south and
the farmers of the west are good hoys, and
submit, without whimpering, to be mulct
ed for the behoof of the manufacturing cli
que of the north, and ‘President promises
them—“an Agricultural Bureau!” Only
think! an Agricultural Bureau, with alive
“chemist and mineralogist” who is to an
alyse soils, and dis'ribute “rare seeds!”—
We earnestly commend this Yankee “no
tion” to those affectionate grandmammas,
who have presents to make to giol little
boys, next Wednesday morning. It is
quite worthy (if their age and sex.
And now we must take ourleave of Pre
sident Fillmore and his political economy.
In the race of enlightened leg : slation, the
practi :al sagacity of England has enabled
her to take the lead, and keep it. The
European nations'are now following—lan
go intervaf/o —in her wake. Even Spain.
Russia, and Austria, are creeping slowly
after her. If Brother Jonathan wishes to
join the race—still more, if he would lake
a lead in it, he must mount some nohleran
imal than the spavined old hack “Protec
tion,” and seek better guidance than that
of President Fillmore, whose state jockey
ship seems to have been learned in the
Jockey-race school, where the great ob
ject is to urge yur rivals forward, and to
come in last vonrself.
• TELEGRAPHIC.
[Tplpgrnj.hril Inr llir> Daily Georgian]
Washington. Feb. 1.
Kaufman member off Congress from Texas died
yesterday of disease of the heart.
Baltimore, Feb. I-
A man named Childs, was arrested here to-day
for robbing Adam’s Express of three hundred dol
lars,
New Yoiik, Feh, 2.
Late advices from Vera Cruz state that Gen Aris
ta was inaugurated on the'2oth ult. It ia rumored
that he will recommend annexation to ihe (.foiled
States.
Charleston, Feb 2
Tbo Capt. ofthe ship Tarquin reports having
seen a large American Rteamer without bowsprit
probable she is the Atlantic a* she has no bow
[Telegraphed for the Daily Georgian.]
The Canada arrived at Boston this morning.-
The captain states that he encountered an im
mense field of ice and a heavy storm in the voy
age. Accounts have been received from Rio to
the 23d ult.
War between Bueno* Ayres and Brazil is less
probable. A.
Coffee it reported firm , -
Ohio Legislature.
The Legislature has adjourned sine die without
being able to elect a senator.
Congressional.
Washinoton, Feb. 5.
To-day the bill for establishing a Branch Mint
at New York, was laid on the. table- The Ca!-
fornia Laud Bill wa* brdctlcd to be engrossed,
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Latest dates from Liverpool,.... .Jan 19
Latest dates from Havre,
Latest dates from Havana,
DEPARTUIIB OF STEAMER*.
CUN ARP LINE.
| FROM LIVERPOOL. rSU* SEW r*K, F*M iil-TOli
Canada, Jan IS .Kcb 15..
Europa, F"b 15. a
Asia... .Ma-cli 1 March Hi
Canada, March 15 April 9,.
Africa, March 29..... .April 23
America. April 5 April 3u, .
Asia Aprii 12 May 7.
COLLINS LINK.
FROM LIVERPI OL. 1 FROM HEW TOR*.
Saturday.....Keh 22d |
Saturday,....March-th ( Wednesday,..Keb I9tl
Saturday,....M&rch22d I W ilnesda^..Marrluil,
Saturday April sth j WcdncsdaflpMar I9tb
NEW YORK AND HAVRE LINE.
FROM HAVRE. FROM SEW TORE.
Franklin, March 12 Keb 8..
Ha in holt April 9 March S..
Franklin Miv 7 April 5..
PHILAOKLPH.A AND UVBItPO L LINK.
LF.AVCLIVF.RP >ll. I.EAVC PHILADELPHIA
City ut Glasgow,.. Keb 12 MircU 13..
COTTON MARKET.
Correspondence of the Time*.
Apalachicola, Jan. 31, 1851.
‘I he sales since Tiic-dnv ia lieen light
f'lie news per Steamer has caused irthough
something has In on done nl 11 j for Midiliinita.
We now have clear cold Weather and there ia
■iiui-li activity in shipping and otherwise di*po-ing
ot cotton* that have suffered from Ihe long rontinu
tiacp o! dump, fogey, and rainy weather.
Quite a fleet of vessels are it, from New York
and New Orleans, and all the boats ate obtaining
full freights. Freights to Liverpool \d; to all roaal
vvise ports > c. Exchange 2 |>er eelit discount
60 days Sight Cheeks on New York, pat —1 j pre.
miutn on New Orleans.
- Dado.
New Oiilkan* Jan 29.
The colton market was active yeslenlay and t
due. the sales reaching 13,000 b#lc, mostly for
England. Prices are firmer. Whiskey, 27).
Now York. Jan 30.
The cotton market to-day has been dull; aalr*
400 hales ; Fair Upland ijuotcd at I3J. Sterling
Exchange 10).
New York Jaa, 30.
Cotton.—The mark tt is dull, operator* are •
waiting steamers’ accounts, sale* limited to 100
bales. The weather is intmisclv cold at Baltimore
in this city, ar.d further north as far a* heard from.
Ai’oi’*TA 4 Feh. 1 P’ M.
80TTON. — There is little or no cotton offering
at pie-ent prices. Buyers seem disposed to give
12 j els (or Fair lots hut holders refuse jo sell at this
rate where it is left discretionary with them todoao
or not. The next steameis advice* are anxiously
ooked for.
... *—“■—York Feb. 1.
Tin transactions in 41 pi-i >
li’lns—urn ket steady. F.urf
the week GOOO bales. The sale* of Hire in Ihe
same time, foot up 900 tierces, Prime 2 9-16. Wa
have no change to notice in other articles.
New York, Feb. 2.
Cotton. — Ycsterdtv the market wa* ateady
sales 1000 halos. Fair Uplands are quoted at
I3J Sales of the week amount to hut 6000 bale*
Savannah, Fel 4
Cotton a —The markotcontinue* quiet with our
change in quotations. Sales y, sterday 735 hale
as'follows 34 at 11) 20 at 12) 1 22 *1 I2jj ;8b at
12); 174 at I2J ; 68 ot 12); 31 at 12 15 16; 75
at 13; 221 at 13) ; 5 at 13); and I2at 13) cents
per pound.
('olum his, Bfh Feb. 1851.
Cotton. — VVc have to not- a good deal of a? i
mation in this market. Buyers yesterday were
anxious to operate, and holders stiff'in their, ft/r
----tension*. Good Middling* were freely taken at
11) cents, whenever the seller would make the
concession. The price was generally refused,
parties prefering to. store and wait. The marke i
closed last evening, brisk with a decided upward
tendency
Savannah. Feb. 6.
Cotton.— The market continues unsettled.
Sale* yesterday 29S hale* as follows : 17 at 10) ;
39 at 11 ; 11 at II); 14 at 11) ; 62 at 12; 34
at 12) ; 14 at 12) ; and 8 at 12) eta. per pound,
Alucsta, Felt. 4. p.m.
Cotton. —The past week iu the cotton trade ha*
been very quiet, and price* show a falling off from ,
) to )c. from those current before the rcceptiatnof
the accounts by the Arctic.
- Chahi.kktox Feb. 4.
Cotton.—A good demand vsterday was appa
rently met freely by holder* at former prices. The
transactions footed 1900 hales, a t extremes of 11
to 13)
Charleston, Feb. 5.
Cotton. —There wt., quite ai animate J de
mand yesterday. The sales footed, near 3400
bales, at prices ranging firm 10) to Wr
quote Middling Fair to Fair, 12) a 12),<1*.
New York, Feb.
Cotton —The mirket had declined tgotq; half
rent,
Rice is qiin'ed at 6) to 3 9 iq.
Flour has declined 1-16.
[F ‘ll ili harlri-bp Mercery.}
PROSPECTS OF COTTON- STOCK IN fiREAy.
BRITAIN.
The Idle acumnU from Liverpool furnish lire an
nual statement of the rotlon trade for the pant year
in Groat Qritain. (}n the whole, wc think they
jusli y, not Q|i|y the maintenance, of. the present
Jir.ceo in this country, hut promise an-advance.
Ihe im ot into the United Kingdom, ,nl all de
scriptions of cotton, has been 1.749.Q00 bales,
against the prcyiou* ye,ar, a decrease of
157,000 ha lea. The consumption has been 1,5 H
000 bales, against 1,590,000 the pe ious year, a
decregsp of but 76,000 hale*, The are
972,000 bales against 254.000 the previous yea’
being an excess of 18,000 bales. Taking the con
sumption and exports together, tire difference be
tween the two years is but 59,000 bales. This -r
----stilt is highly fuvnrab’e to the growers of Gotten,
and is an ejfcclusl answer to thn dismal forelm
dings and unfounded conclusion* of many on tl *
either side of the Atlantic, that any considerable ad
vance in prices would materially reduce the cot
sumption, and prove disastrous to the
ring interests. The far*, however,-has I'ernJHj
t-ildished, thar at an advanced range of prices, avera
ging for the past year 50 per ci nl, over those
1849, the consumption of Great Britain has fallen
oir but 3 per cent ! and the manufacturing inter
ests were never more prosperous. past history
of cotton shows that an advance /ts-price to 8jd t
has never materially atTerted ctfnsumption-
In entering into any consideration*of the future
prospects ol cotton, the stock on hand.is an impor
tant element, and we regret to say-that we hs*f
no faith in the accuracy of the reel nt*report of the
stock on hand in Great Britain, on the Ist of J
uarv last. On the contrary, we cannot but belie**
that it liaa been intentionally over-stated, and tlu'<
for the purpose of unfavorably influencing pru’'”
in this country. It is not the first tune that ►’ 1
game has been played. On the Ist of Janus”
1850, a professed recount of stock added
bale* to t!ie previous estimate*. ’Flki* dW‘> ,,rr .*
a cheap remedy fyr short prop bears date h“
1, 1850, and success of-thu first p r ' ,n
baa, doubtless, prompted its repetition- B,nc<
year 1816, the eetiingte* of -stocks? l t* l * - ‘ ,W ’ *
thetveaf have alwayu fcceti ’rnsije up from i t ' P “
ular weekly market reports, and their accuracy
never liefore been ijiyeationed;’P ,oh,Wv
the anticipation of a tdiort supply had ne*cr
been sufficiently vivid to aiouc <bc in'* llll