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DAILY ('HRIim’LE & SENTINEL. BY WILLIAM S. JONES. OFFICE M RAIL ROAD BANK BUILDING. X*AII*Y, TRI• WBISK.LY tin WEEKLY) fEHM 8 * Daily Paper, to city subscribers, per annum, id advance* 16 Daily Paper, mailed to the country 7 Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ •• 4 Weekly (a mammoth sheet) “ “ •• 2 CASH fYSTEM. —In no case will an order for the paper be attended to, unless acrompanied with the money, and in every instance when the time for which the subscription may be paid, expires before the receint of funds to renew the same, the paper will be discontinued. Depreciated funds received la raiue in this city. THE HOPE OF THE HEART. BT LORD BYBQN. “No nobler theme ever engaged the pen of poet. It is the soul-elevating idea, that no man can consid er himsell entitled to complain of Pale, while, in his adversity, be still retains the unwavering love of woman.” — E. A. Poe. Though tne day of ray destiny’s over, And the star of ray fate hath oeclined, Thy soft he irt refused to discover The faults which so many could find ; Though thy soul with my grief was acquainted, It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath painted It never bad found but in thee. Then, when nature around me is smiling, The last smile which answers to mine, 1 do not believe it beguiling, Because it reminds me of thine ; And when winds are at war with the ccean, Aa the breasts I believed in with me, If the billows excite an emotion, It is that they bear rae from thee. Though the rock of my last hope is shivered, And its fragments are sunk in the wave, Though I feel that ray soul is delivered To pain—it shall not be its slave ; There is many a pang to pursue me ; They may crush, but they shall not contemn — They may torture but shall not sub ue me — ’T:S of thee that I think not of them. Though human, thou didst not deceive me, Though woman, thou didst not forsake, Though loved, thou forborest to grieve me, Though slandered, thou never couldst shake, f Though trusted, thou didst not declaim me, L Though parted, it was not to fly, w Though watchful, ’twas not to defame me, Nor mute, that the world might belie. Yet I blame not the world, nor depise it, Nor the war of the many with one — If my soul was not fitted to prize it, ’Twas folly not sooner to shun: And if dearly that error hath coa> me, And mere than I once could toresce, I have found that whatever it lost me, It could not deprive me of thee. Prom the wreck of the past, which hath perished) Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that which I most cherished Deserved to be dearest of all : In the desert a fountain is sonoging, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. . illlscciianß. Ascent of Popocatepetl. readers are aware that the stupendous known as the Popocatepetl is within w from the city of Mexio. The ascen effected in May last by Edward f^iWTton. Esq., attached to the British Lega- Mexico, In company with some of his HuHHHKIs The party passed their fi'st night at of Hamatas ” at the height of 12, Bgiish feet above the level of the ocean following morning they started at 7 hHB and in five hours and three-quarters, the lower lip of the crater. Here Rancho for the convenience of those collecting sulphur from the volcano. “From our feet, (says Mr. Thornton,) straight down to the limits of vegetation was one sheet of snow, without a rock or a stone to break its unity; then vast woods, then towns and villages dotted over the cultivated lands, but ail seen exceeding clear, even with the naked eye—a peculiarity which I have never observed in anv country so much as in the high table land of Mexico; the eye could even dis tinguish the different green of the sugar plan tations in the ‘Tierra Caliente,” far away.” The height of the mountain appears to have Iraen ascertained very satisfactorily—the ba- measurements of Mr. Thornton Being almost exactly with those of 31 r. ■^■^^Rrtie. next care was. to set up nay baremeter. One v of the thermo meters I found broken, how I cannot imagine, for 1 bad parked them very carefully, and had never let them out of my own hands; however, I considered myself very fortunate tba‘ I had brought up two of them. The height of the little house I have mentioned above, and which the Director en titled the “Rancho del Espejo,” is, according to mv barometer. 17.277 6 English feet, or 5,- aar 1826 the moun'ain I William Glennio and his ide, and a barometrical by ih« former on the an the west side of the tulated by him was 17- e conjectured that that higher than the lower te Rancho del Espejo t below the latter; so ion is a confirmation of Glennie. We did not e, on account of the ountain, it would have lore hard labor to have not think worth while a. ’ untain must be one of s when the volcano is il pit nearly two-thirds i almost perpendicular iepth of a quarter of a aore nearly probably on the surface of the ts cavities on the sur vealed by the telescope, pressiou which the first e, upon me, it is im any adequate descrip to it from Rancho del it we came upon it of a thing to the very brink, good head not to be a suddenly coming upon dar depth of 1 COO feet, jxaggeraiion of that of le lower lip; from the 1,500 feel. The form i circular, and the dis to west, about 3,000 iriy perpendicular all t side, however, there is ill terrace, upon which xed, on the very edge iirpose of letli.ig down n employed in getting ind of raising the sul s wninney is 230 mea alar depth, or 607 feet lottom of the crater is to 50 jets, from which ling, some more, some irge stones are boiling the bubbles of boiling es of a bright yellow r a moment and disap :ed has a most nameous this is accompanied with oise, like a heavy surf r shore. The director tream in the bottom so tea in the clothes of the >st itself in the bosom of the mountain. Large masses of stone are be ing constantly detached from the sides of ihe crater, which go thundering down to the bot tom, to the great risk of the workmen, one of whom had been killed some days before by a stone falling upon b)s head. This was the dan ger which principally deferred ns from de scending into the crater, which we could see very well from above. From conversations 1 have had with Mr. Frederick Glennie, who went np in 1826,1 should say the volcano has becoma much less active ; fur he tells me that besides the constant rumbling noise which I have described, there was occasionally a loud explosion, and that stones were thrown up above the crater, falling on the sides of the mountain. We saw nothing of this sort.” Vegetable Nutriment iu Rain, Gaseous as well as vegetable and mineral matters are brought by rain from the atmos phere. Nitrogen and hydrogen, in the form of ammonia and carbonic acid, (the two last forming the most essential elements in the food of plants,) are brougnt down by the rain. “The nitrogen of putrefied animals,” says Liebig, “is contained in the atmosphere as ammonia in the state of gas, which is capable of entering into combination with carbonic acid, and of forming a volatile salt. Ammonia in itb gaseous form, as well as all its volatile compounds, is of extreme solubility in water. Ammonia, therefore, cannot remain long in the atmosphere, as every shower of rain must ef fect its condensation, and convey it to the sur face of the earth. Hence, also, rain w*ter must at all times contain ammonia, though not always in equal quantity. It must contain more in Summer than in Spring and Win er, because the intervals of time between the showers are in Summer greater; and when several wet days occur; the rain of the first must contain more of it than that of the second. The rain of a thunderstorm after a long pro tracted drought, ought, for this reason, to con tain the greatest quantity conveyed to the earth at one time ” As regards the quantity of ammonia thus brought -own by the rain,—as 1132 cubic feet of air, saturated with aqueous vapor at fifty nine degrees Fahrenheit, should yield one pound of rain water, if tae pound contain only one fourth of a grain ol ammoni'i.—a piece of ground of 26 910 square feet—43 560 square feel being in an acre —must receive an nually upwards ol 801bs. of ammonia, orGolbs. of nitrogen, which is much more nitrogen man is contained, in the form of vege'able albu men and gluten, in 2650 ibs- of wood 2500 lbs. of hay, or 200 cwu of beet root, which are the yearly produce of such a piece of ground but it is le>-s than the straw, roots, and grain of corn, which might grow on the same surface, would contain. Snow water yields ammonia as well as rain water, and the snow which is next to the ground, and which fell first yields more than what lies above it. The ammonia con'ained in snow aud rain water possesses a smell es perspiration and putrefying matter, a fact which leaves no doubt of its origin ; for “the ammonia received from the atmosphere by rain and other causes is aa constantly replaced by putrefaction of animal aud vegetable mat ters. A certain portion of that which falls with the rain evaporates again with the water ; but another portion is, we suppose, taken up by the roots of plants, and entering into new combinations in the different organs aid of assimilation, produces by the action of these and of certain other conditions, albumen, gluten, The chemical characters of am monia render it capable of entering into such combinations and of undergoing numerous transformations.'’ From the Savannah Georgian. The May-Flower’s Bible* In the Republic of this morning, the editors request some information of the copy of the Bible which was exhibited at the recent New England festival in New York. This Bible was represented by the Orator on that occa sion to have been kept in Georgia for many years. The editors request to know how it came to Georgia, and who was i's possessor. 1 wish that all literary curiosities could be as easily and readily explained aa this. The Puritan Bible is now and has ever been in the fami'y of Mr. Jeremiah Cowles, lately of Macon. Mr. Cowles was present at the re cent New England festival, and took with him this precious volume, at the request of mem bers of the Society. Mr. Cowles is a direct descendant from the pilgrims of the Mayflow er. He was many years known in Macon for his large operations in commerce, and for his liberal spirit of enterprise. He now resides in New York. Bu‘, may there not be another copy of the Bible belonging to the early pilgrims in Liberty county? In the Journal Commerce of last week, there is an account of the early settle ment of the Puritan Colony in Liberty Coun ty, highly honorable to the character of those settlers II is quite likely that a May- Flower Bibie may be found there. Historical Socids. From the Journal of Commerce. The speech of Mr. Webster, at the New England festival, has reminded me of a mem orable fact in the early history of Georgia It is intimately and honorably connected with that of the Pilgrim fathers, and I desire to publish it now, for the benefit of ihose mem bers of the New England Society who may have forgotten nr never known U. In the year 1695, a colony of Pilgrim de scendants sailed from Dorchester by Boston, and settled near Charleston, South Carolina, on the Ashley river. They remained there until 1752, when the whole colony, the pastor and his church, removed to what was called St. John’s parish in Georgia, but whose name has since been changed to Liberty County. This name of Lioerty is connected with a historical fact, eminently honorable to the Puritain char acter. The historian of Georgia says, that the spec tacle of the departure of those Puritansfrom Dorchester, was morally sublime. It was the mission of a whole church. The distance from Boston to Charleston was not geographically great ; but this enterprise, a century and a half ago, was attended with as much peril as a voy age to India, at this day. On the eighth day of the voyage, true to their re igous sentiment, they kept a fast. On the fifteenth day, they landed in Carolina, and celebrated the holy Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper To their new home, they gave the name of their former settlement, Dorchester. In 1752 they guessed that they could “do better,” and the whole Church removed to a ' district in Georgia, between the Ogeechee and Altamaha rivers, its equal distance from which suggested the name of Midway. Their first care was to provide for the servi ces of religion, and a log but was erected into a church. Acting upon their early principles, these Puritans convened at the log meeting house in 1754 for the purpose of entering into a mutual compact, and framing articles for the civil and religious government of their territory. This proceeding was similar to the articles of civil and religious government mutually agreed to by the Pilgrims of the May-Flower, which was so beautifully introduced in the speech of Mr. Webster. The substance of this mutual compact was, the erection of a meeting-house ; the support of a ministry and its ordinances; the settle ment of disputes by arbitration; the commit ment of pubhc affairs to three selcc* men, annu al y chosen ; secular matter to be decided by a majority, and in church matter a double vote to be given to church members. This was, at once, an example ol self-government, and the genu of republicanism, which was afterwards so strikingly and vigorously developed. Alan early period of our revo.utionary movement, a meeting was held in Savannah, to decide whether duputies should be sent to' the Provincial General Gengross, to be held at Philadelphia. It was decided in the negative; but the deputies from St. John’s parish dis sented, and resolved to send delegates, and faithfully to abide by any resolutions adopted by the General Congress. The articles of continental association adopted by that body, were accepted by the people of St John’s. Dr. Lyman Hall, who suosequently signed the “ Declaration of Independence,” was their delegate. This prompt patriotism induced the Legislature of Georgia, at a later period, to comroemora’e the act, by changing St. John’s parish into “ Liberty County.” In the chroni cles of the time, inis Puritan settlement was called a "Pharos of Liberty, in England’s most loyal province of Georgia, renouncing every fellowship that savored not of freedom, and refusing every luxury which contributed to ministerial coffers.” Among the names of 'he settlers in Liberty country are found the New England names of Osgood, Bacon, Baker, Q,uarterman and Sum ner. The descendants of these patriots were found in the late Convention of the State at Mtlledgeville. rr ’hey said, w ith the Conven tion, to their New England brethren, and the world, that the ** Union of these Slates was second only in importance, to the rights and principles which it was designed to perpetuate; and that they would adhere to it, so long as it continued to be the safe guard of those rights and principles. A Georgian. Chronicle emit Sentinel. AUfIU STAG A ■ SATURDAY CORNING JAN. ll* The Eclectic Magazine. This elegant Monthly, and to the Scholar one of the most valuable &nd interesting periodicals pub lished in this country, embracing as it does the choicest selections from the Reviews and Magazines of (he Old World, has been laid on our table by Mr. David Ritter, Agent, who is now in the city for the purpose of introducing the work and obtaining subscribers. The number before us, for January, is enriched by selections from the Quarterly, Eclectic, English, and Edingburgh Reviews; The People’s, Bentley’s, Sharpe’s, and the New Monthly Magazines, and several other transatlantic literary Works of high reputation. The Mobile Embezzlement Case.—The examination of S. W. Cochran, charged with receiving the assets of the Fireman’s Insurance Company, knowing them to be fraudulently abstracted from their possession by Mr. Greene* their late Secretary, commenced in that city on Thursday. This charge placed Mr. Coch ran on his examination as principal with Mr. Greene in the crime of embezzlement. After a patient investigalion the Court ex pressed the opinion that the transactions be tween Greene and Cochrane were not of such an out of the way character as to author ze hia being held to bail, and he was accordingly discharged. No time has been fixed for the examination of Mr. Greene himself. He has been placed for close confinement, in a cell of the prison, and his person ordered to be searched. The company has brought an action to get possession of his (Mr. Greene’s) household furniture—valued at three thousand dollars— assigned to them, but which is detained by other persons on a previous arrangement. Another Revolutionary Soldier Gone.— Died at his plantation in Madison county, Ga. on the morning of the 25;b day of December, 1850, Mr. James Pittman, a revolutionary soldier in the 95:h year of his age. Vessel on Fire. — Toe steamer Crescent City, arrived at New York from Chagres on the 7th instant, reports; — Last night at 10 o'clock, in latitude 35 7. longitude 63, a brilliant light bearing N rth East was seen from the Crescent City. The steamer was immediately directed that way. and it was soon found to proceed from a ves sel or* fire. At half-past 12 o’clock the Cres cent City came up with the wreck, going as close to it as prudence would allow, passing by under the stern, and lying by sufficiently t » ascertain that there were no boats immediately about the wreck A half circle was then made to windward, with a like result. The wreck was about two hundred and thirty tons burthen. The deck frame was en tirely burned off. and the sides and stern in many places burned nearly to the water s edge The bowsprit and other spats were hanging to tne rigging about the bows. From appearance the vessel was American, and Eas tern built. Preserving Wild Fowl.—Remove the in testines carefully, and wipe out all the blood wLhunoid ofttowel, until the flesh is quite dry ; then diist flour over the inside and scalar two or thiee drops of creosote upon a piece of blotting paper, and put that in and tie thl) bird up light in another piece of similar paper, upon which put a few drops more cre osote,. then hang up each carcass separate in a cool, dry place, and it will keep sweet for a longtime. Never remove the feathers from a biro you wish to preserve. Stkphknson in Egypt.—Mr. Robert Ste phenson, the celebrated engineer, has gone up the Nile to inspect the barrage of that river, which* has been carried on for many years, and take ti survey of the Suez desert, with regard to thi3 prac*i*abilitv of a railroad between Cairo and Suez. Any suggestion from Mr. Stephenson would be very valuable in this count ry. The Disputed Boundary between Mis souri and lowa, dtc —A dispatch from Wash ington states that the Supreme Court, on Friday, made their decision iu the case of Missouri against lowa, that the boundary made by the Commissioners should stand. This gives lowa the disputed territory, and upsets the re-election of Willard P. Hall to tne next Congress, who beats his opponent, Bowman, by votes in the disputed territory. New Hampshire and the Compromise.— Resolutions m favor of sustaining the compro mise measures adopted by Congress, offered in the New Hampshire State Convention, have been adopted —only eighteen votes in the negative. Abstract of Earnings of the Central Railroad for December , 1850, cam-pared with Dec. 1849: 1949. 1850. Up thro’freight 11.57 U 5 17 659.27 6,088.12 inc. “ way “ 3 967 97 8.838.66 2.920.69 inc. Down thro’“ 33,467 07 32 096 63 3,370 24 dec. “way “ 11,466.22 14 734 46 3,268.24 inc. Up thro’ pas’ge 2,233 62 2 870 64 '637 02 inc. Down “ “ 1,36048 2,094 59 734.11 inc. Up way “ 1,736 85 3,095.83 1 358.93 ioc. Down “ “ 1,650 50 2,691.70 1,041.20 inc. Mails ... 1,600.00 1,600 00 71,053.86 $33,731.98 inc. No. up thro’ passengers, 473 654 181 increase, down “ “ 350 416 66 11 up way “ 1,167 1,901 734 “ down “ “ 973 1,743 770 “ Bales of Cotton, Down, through, 19,434 18,746 738 decrease. Way 7,076 6,699 1,623 increase. T0ta1......26,560 27,445 885 “ from the Baltimore American. CALIFORNIA INTELLIGENCE. The mails of yesterday furnish details of • intelligence to the Ist of December, brought by the steamer Georgia, at New York from Chagres. The passengers of the Georgia report that the Express, having the Gold for the Empire City, was robbed on the Isthmus of over $200,000. The cholera has almost or entirely disap peared from Sacramento city, where it h«d rageo for several weeks with great malignity. Since the ' disappearance of this terrible scourge, business in Sacramento has revived, and at last accounts dial flourishing city was in the full tide of success and prosperity. Among the passengers by the sieamer Cali fornia. from San Francisco to Panama, we • find Co!. Fremont and family. The general news is of no very special in terest. A very considerable portion of the miners will winter at the placers, and the con sequence is that the floa iug population- of San Francisco is considerably less than last ye r. Great complaints are made of the large immigration cf convicts from the penal colonies of the Pacific, which is producing a fearful increase of crime in the mines and towns and cities. The prisons and station houses are full of these hardened criminals, and their influence every where is represented as peculiarly demoralizing and pernicious. The interposition of Congress is earnestly in voked. Many new veins of auriferous stone have been discovered, and various companies have embarked and are engaging in mining opera tions with good prospects of success. Among these operadons, in addition to those on the Mariposa, Mercer, and in the Northern mines, great hopes and expectations are entertained of those farther South, generally known as the Los Angelos Company mines, several com panies being engaged in that section either in mining or exp oring that great and almost unknown region for its treasures. The result of ihe S ate election is still doubt ful, both parties claiming majorities in the next Legislature The matter excites no little in leres', on account of the election to be made of United Stages Senator, The Indian dis turbances in £1 Dorado county prove to have ; been much less serious than first imagined, and at the last accounts complete quietness prevail ed on the Colorado river. A large emigration has taken place south ward, and Los Angelos and other southern towns are reported full of persons, and lively with a stirring trade. The newspaper press of California is rapid ly multiplying. In Sacramento there are three newspapers, and an additional Whig organ is contemplated. In Stockton two; in Sonora one; in Marysville one; in San Francisco, six dailies, one semi-monthly, and another adver tised to appear on the 6th inst. In Monterey, one; in San Jose one Whig paper, and two more threatened in San Diego, twenty in all The Alta Californian affirms that California society is advancing not only in commerce and trade, and mining and agriculture, and popu lation and wealth, but in all its intellectual, moral and religious interests. Friendly Inter course is increasing; decency of deportment and honesty of action find supporters and ex amples, in all departments; mental improve ment begins to gain devotees, and religious observances and institutions are honored and respected. Many gambling saloons have ceased to be such, some by the death of their custom, and othtrs through the file of an increasing moral sense. Men dare to praise decency and condemn whatever is disgraceful to individuals and to society. The paper assures the friends of California elsewhere “ that the ■ real moral costume which graces the limbs of our best organized sister S.ates, is gradually but surely becoming our most fashionable garment.” The French sloop-of-vrar Sericuse, sailed from San Francisco on the 23:h ult , with Mons. Pessin, the French Consul, on board, who goes to the Sandwich l-lands to effect a definite settlement of the difficulties between the French Government and Hawaii. The Stockton Journal reports a fight be tween the Indians and Americans, io the vicin ity of Mokeiumne in which fifteen of the latter were killed, and probably as many of the Indians. No particulars are gv'en, and the rumor needs confirmation. There had been a battle between the force under the command of Gen. Morehead ana rhe Ynuma Indians, near Colorado city, en the Gila, in which the General, after one hour and a half fighting, was glad to retreat beneath tne guns of the little fort, the Indians having lost ten men. The American force under Morehead was 104, their loss not stated. Subsequently they had coorapletely vanquished the Indians, none being found within fifty miles cf the old planting grounds. Largest Yet. —Two gentlemen of our ac quaintance passed thiacity a few days since on 'heir way to New York, with an amount of gold which we believe to be unequalled in the records of individual success in mining.— They had with them dust to ihe value of $15(9 - 000, all obiained during the summer from two cl- ima on the Yuba river. These Iqcky individuals are Messrs Thomas J. and Daniel H Ferguson, formerly of Danbury, Conn. They carried their treasure to Bi-ni* ia upon the mules which brought it from the mountains, and it is probably the heaviest importation that will be made for tome lime into that grand port of entry. — Placer limes. A Melancholy Accident. — All Gone. —There is a singular and lamentable history connected with the barque Abby Baker, of Yarmouth, Me., now lying at our levee. She was com manded bv Capt. Timothy Pratt; bis wife and family were also on board with him. Capt. Pratt died a short time before she arrival of the barque at San Fraiici>co. Augustus Pratt, his son, who had been acting as mate, then took charge and brought the bark into Bay and up to Sacramento. On the 30th of last month he became one of the victims of the cholera. One hour after his brother Enos died On the Ist instant, his brother William died of the game disease. On the 3J. a Dutch boy belonging to the ship died. On the sth Mrs. Jane Pratt, the wife of captain Timotny Pratt, died leaving a little boy nine years of age, who has been kindly taken charge of and will be sent to the States by the earliest conveyance* Others « were taken sick on board the barquTand sent to the hospital, until the vessel was entirely deserted. The final of the matter is, that she has fallen into the hands of the Public Admin istrator. — Sacramento Transcript. Loss of the Prince Albert. —From Her Bri tannic Majesty’s Consul, we learn that the Brit ish ship Priuce Albert which sailed from New port on the 10th July for California with a cargo of coals, was wrecked in the Straits of Magellan, on the 7lh October, near Sandy Bay. There of the crew were killed by the Indians and one apprentice was badly wound ed. The remainder of the crew escaped. The men killed were Robert McPherson, Barnaby and James Atkins; Henry Hoskins was wounded, and with another remained prisoner. The Captain, John Rossiter, with the rest of the crew, walked to Sandy Bay, 150 miles. Thence some of them returned to the ship in the American steamer G. W. Hunt, they found the Indians plundering the wreck. The crew es the steamer fired on the savages, drove tnem away, apd rescued the two prison ers. A portion of the crew arrived at this port in the W. G. Hunt, others in the Cora. Preble, and others still went to Rio Janeiro from Sandy Bay. Havana. —The Georgia sailed from Havana on the Ist January, in the evening at 6 o’clock. Tne Falcon hid not arrived, but the Geor gia passed her on the 2d, off Cape Florida. Everything was quiet at Havana, the new Captain Gener 1 acting with great energy in putting a stop to gambling and other impro prieties. Five or six Californians were left in prison for |violatiog Spanish law— drawing their bowie knives and revolvers, and com mitting other indecencies too numerous to mention. Ihe Captain General has determined to make an example of such characters, who have too long been permitted to disgrace the name of America. Americans were permitted logo on t*hore freely, and treated with respect and kindness whenever they merited it. No American vessel of war was in port when the Georgia left. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS, Correspondence es the Baltimore American. IN SENATE Ja*. 7. Mr. Felch from the Committee on Public Lands reported back the joint resolution of the House which declares that the Bounty Land given by the of last session to soldiers and others, shall be assignable before location, with a recommendation that it do not pass. Mr. Yulee introduced a bill granting land to Florida to aid in the construction of a rail road from the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Bradbury’s resolution concerning re movals fiom office was again taken up. Mr. Ewing addressed the Senate _in defence of the removal of Colonel Weller and Gen eral Lane. The cause for the removal of Co louei Weller was stated to be among others, his intemperate habits unfitting him for the discharge of his duties; and his being a de faulter in the State of Ohio. Mr. Cass and Mr. Bradbury replied. Mr. Downs aluded to some removals in New Orleans. After which the Senate ad adjourned. HOUSE. Immediately after the reading of the josrna! this morning, Mr. Julian, of Indiana, moved for leave to amend the entry made therein, rehtive to the memori il from a society of Friends in Indiana, which was the subject of discussion yesterday by the adding words “and to refer the same to a committee, with instruc tions to prepare a bill in conformity with the prayer of the memorial,” Some discussion ensued, but the motion of Mr. Julian to amend the journals was ulti mately negatived without a division. Mr. Pouer, of Ohi , made an ineffectual at tempt to get the House into a committee of the who'e on the state of the Union, for the pur pose of taking up the cheap postage bill, which under the two hours’ rule tna- was adopted on Saturday, must be decided the next time it comes up fur discussion. Mr. Stone of Pen,, chairman of the com* mittee on elections, moved a privilege ques tion, and the House took up the New Hamp shire contested election. After four speeches, the hour for adjourn ment having arrived, the House adjourned till to-morrow. A claimant for the honor of the invention of the eUctric telegraph has appeared ia France. The proof is thus put forth in a French journal: A few days since took place the public sale of the I brary of M. Derault In the collection was found a dusty old manuscript entitled Dissertation sur L'electricite applique a la transmission dies nouvslles. It b ars date 1765; is over ih signature of Louis Lesage: and is said to he ennehea with a valuable por trait of Charles Bonnet, the celebrated Gene vese metapbysican and natural philosopher The manuscript was knocked down to a pro fessor of the University of Glasgow. The physicau Lesage was the son of a Frenchman settled in Switzerland. A Frenchman by birth, his medical and scientific studies were completed at Paris, which was for several years his residence. In 1750 he returned to Switzerland: and in 1774, as the account goes, he actually estab ished in Gen- va an e ectric telegraph. This telegraph was com posed of twenty-four separate wires, answer ing to the twenty-four letters of the alphabet. His apparatus, all imperfect as it was, is aver red to have contained and illustrated the prin np!e of that which is now in such general use If the MSS. proves o bo genuine, we shall doubtless hear more, as it would greatly grati fv French vanitv to establish in favor of a Frenchman, priority of invention, barren though it proved to b . Our Inland Waters.—The aggregate val uation of the lake trade of the United Slates, for the year 1848. (imports and exports) a mounts to she iaiate sun of $186,484 905, or more by S4O 000 000 than the whole foreign export trade of the country. The aggregate tonnage employed on the lakes of :he United States, is equal to 203,041 tons, of which 167,- 137 tone are American, and 35,904 tons British The commerce of the lakes is apportioned aipoug them, as follows: Total value of exports and import*-. Lake Erie 1*115,795,048 Lake Huron 843,152 Lake Michigan 24 320,481 l>«ke Ontario 28.141 OUO Lake Champlain 16,750,700 Lake and River St. Clair- 639,524 $166,484,905 To this must be added the passenger trade of ihe Likes, valued at $1 000,000 The aggregate value of the tonnage of Like Erie is $5 308 085: of Lake Huron $75,000, and of Lake Michigan $564,435. “STAR” CLOTHING EMPORIUM No. 258 Broad Street. ALL persons of taste and refinement —those Lav ing a duo regard for comfurt and personal ap pearance —may at . 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From This.— A letter published in the San Antonio Ledger says: Judge Rollins effected everything which could be desired with the Indians, notwithstan ding some very embarrassing circumstances, among which was the total failure of his beef contractor, Capt. Ross, of Wacoe Village. The Indians present have manifested every de sire for peace, and have accepted promptly, and with apparent cordiality, every article proposed by tho U. S. Agent, among which was the restitution of ail stolen pioperty and property and prisoners in their possession, and a disclosure of such as refused to deliver to the United States authorities. They have deliver red the little German girl lately taken near Lamar, and have pledged themselves to give up for punishment the persons engaged in her capture. These restitutions and disclosures are to lake place at another meeting, to be held near the same place, forty five days from the dale of the treaty, (the 10th insl ) I believe the place is called the Comanche Spring, be tween the San Saba and the San Fernando branches of the Colorado. Buffalo Hump, Yellow Wolf, and, Cotumpse were the princi pal chiefs of the Camauches ; Nechochilios for the Tawacconys ; Acaquosh for the Wacoes; Chippie and Chiceto for the Lipans —the Cad do chiefs not collected. These of course are not all the Northern Indians, nor were the Ca manches represented Among the absentees were also the K>echis and Wichitas, and some Wacoe bands considered as among the most troublesome. Bui ii cannot be doubted that these must succumb. If those present adhere to their pledges of exposing those depreda tors they cannot continue. Georgia. Conference —The Georgia An nual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Clinch. South, met in this city ye-terday— Bishop Paine presiding. This is the first visit of the Bishop to the Georgia Conference. The morning hour yesterday was devoted to the preliminary business oftbe Conference, the appointment of committees, &c.; after which an adjournment was moved tilt this morning. There will be service in tho Methodist Church at A. M. and at 3J$ and 7 o'clock, P. M. during the week. On S Uurday even ing at 7 o’clock, the Georgia Missionary Socie ty will hold its anniversary in Trinity Church, when there will be several addresses delivered. It is expected that there will be a large atten dance on this occasion, as it is perhaps the most interesting public meeting of this body. A missionary sermon will be delivered Friday night by the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce. D. D. The ordination of Deacons and Elders will take place Sunday morning and afternoon, when it is expected Bishop Paine will preach —perhaps in the forenosn. It is probable he may favor the congregation with an address at the missionary meeting Saturday evening.— Sav. Rep. Loss or the Ship Toronto.— The brig VandeUia ., Capt. Pendleton, from New Or leans, arrived here yesterday, brought in tho officers, crew and passengers of the ship T«- ronto, Capt, Packer, from New Orleans bound to New York, which vessel ran ashore ou Mat aniila Reef on the 2d inst. When taken fr«aa the wreck, they had been exposed for forty hours to the severity of the weather. At the time the ship went on the reef the weather was thick and the wind blowing heavy from the S. W. Capt. Parker gives the following account o the loss ofhis ship :—Charleston Courier. “At 12 o’clock, (noon ) I was in Lat. 25 deg. 33 rain. Lou. 79 deg. 45 min., bad a fresh breeze from S. S. W., and clear weather. At 3 P, M. the wind hauled around to the S. W., and increased, accompanied with rain. At 7P. M. ell the light sails were in. At 8 furled mainsail and jib, and double-reefed raizen topsail, clewed the fore topsail down, and were in the act of hauling out the geer, when the ship struck very hfcrd, but did not bring to. The helm was instantly put to star board, the yards braced up, and the ship brought to the witsd. Tne ship went along through the water at the rate of five knots for about five minutes, when she struck again very heavy, and brought up all standing. There was a very heavy sea on, and the ship contin ued rolling and striking so heavy, that I con cluded that it was best to cut a»-ay lha masts, which was done as soon as possible. Finding that she was driving farther on to the reef at every heave of the aea, both an chors were let go. Sounded ihe pumps, and found eighteen inches of water in her hold. Got the boats all ready w ith bread and water in them, to leave the wreck as soon as she broke up. She continued sinking very heavy until day light, when the pumps were souoded again arid thirteen feel of water found in her. We stuck by the wreck all day, hoping that some wrecker would come to our assistance, but eight again shut upon us. and nothing like a sail appeared in sight. We concluded to stay by the wreck another nigh-, if she held togther so long, and to leave in the boats early on Sat urday morning, for the Bahama Islands. At 5 o’clock on Saturday, the boats were both launched, and we were getting into them to leave, when we saw a sail to windward. Signals of distress were set, and we soon had the sa’isfactien of seeing her keep away for us. She run down to wi»hin one Haifa mile of us, when finding ihe water very shoal, they care not come any nearer. The mate and four men jumped into the boat and puMed so her. As soon as Capt. Pendleton, ot tiie brig Van daiia, found that there was water enough for him on the bank, he kep‘ off and came down Hndar our stern, and let go his anchor. We got die crew and passengers on board the brig as soon as possible, and left the wreck. “When we left, there was two feet of water on the forward part of the deck, and nothing above water aft but the houses. u Passengers^ —Nathan Ravitsch, lady and child. New York ; Samuel Feiheimer, d• ; Albert Sbmeds, do.; A. L Pacht, do ; Philip Dorman, do ; James Murphy, do.; Hugh Ca» dron, d>.; CatherineJ. Nelson, do. E, J. Parker, Master of ship Toronto.” Vessfts Ash*re.—The Br. barque Rock shire, B.jaktn mas’er, from Liverpool for t iis port, is ashore on the South breaker of Ship Bar, in a bad position The Rockshire has on board about 4000 sacks of sab, and is con signed to Messrs. C. T. Mitehell &- Co.— Ch. Cour. Havana , Dec . 31 1850.—The cholera still exists in some pans of the Island, both on the North and South side. 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MOISE. jas-d&w2w Sole A 'em for Augusta. Augusta, Jan. 1, 1951. Or D. B. Plumb «fc Co., have just opened their S cck, for the pre-.e it season, of GAR DEN SEED. Wholesale Dealers supplied on rea -1 sonable terms. All Seeds sold by us this season are warranted cr®? 1850,
