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[From the New York Tribune.]
THE REMOVAL OF MIL EWBANK.
The fact that Thomas Ewbank who had
held the responsible post of Commissioner of
Patents since the incoming of Gen. Taylor’s
administration, was recently removed by
President Fillmore, and Mr. Silas Hodges, of
Vermont, appointed in his stead, is already
well known. It has been very generally, but
erroneously, spoken of as a resignation ; but
it was just sqc'i a resignation as Mr. Fill
more’s on the 3d of March will be. In es
sence, if not in terms, (we believe in both,)
Mr. Ewbank was removed, and for reasons
which the public has not been permitted otti
cially to know.
Why was it deemed advisable to appoint a
new Commissioner for the last five or six
months of the present Administration! Had
Mr. E. proved unfaithful ? Was there ap
prehension that the public interests commit
ted to his charge would suffer by bi3 contin
uance? Was lie in any respect less qualified
to hold the office during these closing six
months than during Mr. Fillmore’s twenty
eight months preceding? Nothing ot tiie
sort is pretended. Why, then, was he remo
ved? We answer. Because he would not
consent to lavish the Public Money in his
charge on a personal favorite of the President
in violation of law. This statement we shall
now proceed to substantiate.
Soon after taking charge of the Patent
Office, Mr. Ewbank began to look around
him for some person to aid him in compiling
and editing flie Agricultural Statistics which,
in the absence of any Agricultural Bereau of
the Government, have gradually grown into
an important element of each Annual Report
from that office. After much inquiry and
hesitation, he finally decided to entrust this
work to Dr. Daniel Lee, formerly of Buffalo,
in our State, just then editing the Southern
Cultivator, at Augusta, Ga.; and on Mr. Ew
bank’s recommendation, Secretary Ewing
appointed Dc Lee a Clerk in the Patent Of
fice to collate and prepare Agricultural mat
ter for the Commissioner’s forthcoming Re
port. Dr. Lee accepted the place, stipula
ting for a much larger compensation than
had ever before been paid for the service,
did the work, and received his money.
There, it was supposed by Mr. Ewbank, j
the engagement was at an end. The duties j
which Dr. Lee was employed to perform, j
were in their nature occasional; they were j
entirely suspended through the greater por- j
tion of the year; and Mr. Ewbank wished to i
be at liberty to choose his assistant in prepa- j
ring his Agricultural matter as maturer expe
rience and fuller knowledge of the duties of j
his position should dictate. But no ! Dr. Lee j
had tasted the sweets of office, and he fully j
determined not to surrender them. He could I
write for his Southern Cultivator, and for the j
one or two Rochester papers with which he j
already was, or soon after became connect- ,
ed, about as well from the Patent Office as ;
any where; tiie first use of the Agricultural
■Statistics transmitted from ail parts of the i
Jcountry to the Patent Office, in reply to the ;
circular requests for information, could lie |
rendered of decid’ and to him in his voca
tion ; and the tact that was nothing for
him to do officially for eight cu’ nine months
of each year, rather commendtai die post
-than otherwise. And this detoimmaiiqn ol
Dr. Lee to draw $2,000 (after unsuccessful- j
ly trying to get 2,500) from the Inventors’ I
Fund year after year, with a perfect knowl* i
edge that the Commissioner w hom he was i
to aid did not want him, but was j
greatly desirous to get rid of him, has been ;
the main cause of ail the trouble encountered ;
by Mr. Ewbank, and of his ultimate removal. I
The Patent pirates and cormorants who prey j
on the life blood of Inventors, (under pre
tence of aiding them at the Patent Office,
where they often do them more harm than
good,) have of.'course been his natural and
indefatigable enemies ; but their annoyance
*vould have amounted to very little but for
the powerful “aid and comfort’ that the la
mented death of Gen. Taylor afforded them
from the inside of the office.
On Mr. Fillmore’s accession to office, Dr.
Lee (as a former resident of Buffalo.) became
a frequent visitor at the White House. When
in the Legislature of our State, he was the
wildest and most sweeping Radical ever sent
there, and so advertised himself through va
rious journals for a considerable time. Now-,
however, he had become a most intense Con
servative, and soon became a partner in the
Rochester American newspaper, originally
started as a “Native” organ, and since sub
siding naturally into the most malignant type
ofHunkoiism. For this establishment, Dr.
Lee soon began to purvey jolts from the Pa
tent Office, of printing labels, &c , w ithout
shadow-of authority from the Commissioner;
and at length, in March last, an advertise
ment from the Patent Office making its ap
pearance, he caused a grave complaint to he
lodged against Mr. Ew bank, with the Secre
tary of the Interior, that it Jiad not been or
dered to be published in that superlative ad
ministration journal, the Rochester Ameri
can, although the papers authorized to pub
lish it in this Stato were all as “Conserva
tive” as could be desired—namely, the’ State
Register, Albany, Commercial Advertiser,
New York, and Commercial Advertiser, Buf
falo. Yes, Mr. Ewbank, on the formal com
plaint of Hon. A. M. Sehermerhorn, M. C.,
was required to justify to ids official superior,
his neglect to order an official advertisement
to be published in the paper owned in part
by one of the clerks 1
This is not a solitary case. Early in Jan
uary last, Mr. Ewbank had to meet a com
plaint made directly to the President by his
clerk, Lee, that he had ordered an advertise
ment to be published in the Rochester Dem
ocrat, the oldest and most influential Whig
paper in its section, but w hich, not being Sil
ver Grev, was denounced in the charge as
being bitterly hostile to the Administration.
Mr. Ewbank, as soon as lie could find time
to look into the case, responded that he had
nothing whatever to do with the matter in
question—that the advertisement had been
given out by bis elerb, whose duty it was to
attend to that business, who had selected the
papers to be employed in this instance from
the offieiai list long ago furnished him from
the Department of the Interior, and knew no
more whose corns he was excoriating than
Mr. Ewbank himself! And these are but
specimens of the paltry annoyances and dis
creditable tittle-tattle to which Mr. Ewbank
has been exposed by his greedy and malicious
One of the gravest charges preferred from
time to tifne against Mr. Ewbank was that
of altering Dr. Lee’s manuscripts !-Mhat is to
sav, theßCommissioner of Patents, in an offi
cial document of the gravest importance, to
be issued under his own signature, and on his
official responsibility, saw fit to modify some
expressions prepared for hint by one of the
jclerksrand not allow- that clerk, employed
expressly to prepare matter for his use, to
dictate precisely what he should use or what
terms he should employ in using it. These
aifeStations were in no respect material, so far
*3 the public interests were concerned, but
k they were sometimes quite important to the
thriftv clerk—for instance, the following, pre
pared by him to be inserted in Mr. Ewbank’s
last Report, but respectfully declined by the
Commissioner, viz.:
“Os this, it is believed that a better service
will be done to the Cotton-growing interest
to copy from the Southern Cultivator, (a
monthly journal •published at Augusta, Ga.,
at a dollar a year, which should be in the
hands of every planter.) some practical re
marks on the preparation of Seed and Land.’
We very cheerfully give Mr. Lee a most
extensive circulation of this puff of one of
his papers, i.i order to let the public see what!
sort of matter it was that Mr. Ew bank elimi- j
nated from his Agricultural Report, He did
not feel authorized to give the Southern Cul
tivator the benefit of the circulation of this
strong official puff in 140,000 copies pub
lished by Congress of his Annual Report, to
the disparagement and detriment of all other
Agricultural papers; and this has been the
subject of grave and formal complaint against
the Commissioner!
111. IU II HH II i I‘ll I“l 111 Mil
Southern SurntituL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA:
THURSDAY MORNING,...DEC. 30,1852.
The Closing Year.
“To man’s false optics * * * *
Time in advance behind him hides his wings,
And seems to creep decrepid with his ago.
Behold him when past by ; what then is seen
But his broad pinions swifter than tiie wind !
And all mankind, in contradiction strange,
Rueful, aghast, cry out on his career.” Young.
That this picture is truthful as well as graphic,
we are all witnesses as we approach the close of
another year. Wyh its lights and shadows—with
its hopes and fears—that year is now entombed with
ail tiie past. Many entered upon it with buoyant
spirits—with unclouded hearts—but they now sit
down at its close to weep in sad mss.
The season is appropriate to strict reflection. We
read memoirs of other men’s lives, but seldom read
our own. Now here is anew volume, just com
pleted—it is tha new volume for 1852. Tiie an
nualists mishad us by sending us their volumes in
advance of the year, all radiant with hope as their
exterior is adorned with every charm of art. But
retrospection opens a graver, wiser volume, and it
is already paid for—very dearly, no doubt—but all
the better for that, if it now be carefully read and
studied.
When wo laid down the volume for 1851. it was
not only with a feeling of sadness and disappoint
ment, but with an inviolable purpose, as we suppos
ed, of ami mimerit and improvement for the future.
Now we should examine this new record, whether
we have been true to these better aspirations, faith
ful to this purpose.
Perhaps there is no one thing in which we are
more radically at fault. It is much easier to propose
an amendment than to make it. The fault ins in
our procrastination. We purpose a great revolution
during the year, but each day, as it comes and goes,
is not that year, and is suffered to glide away with
out bearing any part in the purposed amendment.
And, h< nee, when the year closes, it brings with it
the same feeling of sadness and disappointment.
Now, the way to avoid this folly is, to make each
day as it pusses bear its full part in the appropriate
business of an earnest life, “No day without a line,”
was the pool’s maxim. A dav suffered to pass
without its line, is what mathematicians call a neg
ative quantity in the sum of life—not merely no
addition, but a real subtraction.
It is sad when one i§, unable, at the close of the
year, to balance his accounts. Nor is it less disas
trous that we suffer the debtor side of life’s account
to accumulate upon ns. For one day the settlement
must come. It was not without good reason, therc
i fore, that a writer, some time before Senega, deliv
| cred this rule—“ Whatsoever thy hand nrkktii to
■ do. do it with thy might.” ‘ :a
The City Officers.
In selecting an agent to manage his business, a
prudent man always inquires into his business qual
ifications, before he entrusts his interests into his
hands. If he is a man of capacity, of experience, of
tact ; if lie has managed his own business well; if
he is honest, he is preferred before his competitors,
who are deficient in any of these qualifications.
By similar considerations should we be governed
in selecting officers to manage the public interests.
The names of a number of excellent citizens have
been proposed in connection with the offices of May
or and Aldermen. It is difficult to decide be
tween some of them, but if each voter will select
the best men proposed in each ward, and give them
their hearty support, the public interest will be
promoted, and the well being of every resident in
the city enhanced. In a local election like this, no
respect should be paid to the political opinions of
candidates. Talent, character, energy and public
spirit, are the only tests of fitness for the offices, and
all extraneous influences ought to be disregarded.
Christmas Greetings.
Better late than never. A merry Christmas,
then, to you all. And pray excuse us for not greeting
you earlier. We only speak to you once a week,
and as Christmas would not come on Thursday, we
have been compelled to la’. ‘hrough a week with
hearts full of good wishes, v ’ n we now rejoice to
utter, even at the close of the old year. A happy
Christmas to you all—and tnay you all see three
score and ten of these happy reunions before you
“shufflo off this mortal coil,” and enter upon the
fruition of a Christmas that will mver end.
Christmas ‘ it is an inspiring t|icmc, and conjures
up a thousand blessed memories. The big Christ
mas log, how cheerily it blazed jn life’s early morn,
when the old arm chairs were graced by the vener
able forms of father and mother, and we “young
folk” prattled about their kneep, and basked in the
sunshine of their benignant smiles ! It is a holy
time, and is hallowed not only by the kindly greet
ings of the living, but by the pleasingly mourn r ul
memory of the dead, upon whose gravis the hand
of love will scatter flowers, for want of power to con
fer more costly gifis upon the noble hearts which
moulder beneath. Thank God for Christmas, and
all the blessings which it brings in its train.
Professor McCay.
The press iu Georgia lias been making loud lamen
tation over thji imported death of this accomplished
scholar and gentleman. We would also have robed
our paper in mourning over the melancholy event
aud paid a passing tribute to his memory, if we had
not had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman and
shaking him cordially by the hand after the period
cf his supposed decease. We are happy to be able
to contradict the report. The Professor has return
ed to Athens with renewed health, and we hope will
be spared for many years to adorn the station he so
ably fills in the State Univeisity.
.Military.
At an election, held on Monday night last, at the
company room of the City Light Guards, Mr. Thom
as W. Schoonmaker was elected 2d Lieutenant,
and Mr. Thomas J. Nuckolls was elected 4th Lieu-,
tenant. We congratulate our young friends upon
their promotion. And now that the company is ably
officered, we appeal to the members of the company
to furnish themselves immediately with the new aud
splendid uniform which the company has adopted,
and make the City Light Guard* the crack company
in Georgia.
President Pierce's Cabinet.
We do not know that the New Hampshire
Patriot is the recognized organ of President Pierce
At any rate, the President’s law office is in the
building occupied a3 the printing office of the Pat
riot. and we may reasonably suppose that the in
timate association which such cloe contact forces
upon the parties, and the known kiud feelings which
the President elect cherishes for the editor of the
Patriot, have given him a clearer knowledge of lus
views and designs in reference to Cabinet appoint
ments, titan any one else possesses at this time. We
have therefore read with considerable interest a very
full article which has lately appeared in the Patriot.
The editor ridicules the confident predictions of
the opposition press, as to who will or who will not
be cabinet officers, and while he thinks the Presi
dent will receive kindly, all suggestions from his
party friends in the various sections of the country,
and deliberately canvass the claims of the distin
guished individuals recommended, ho will act upon
the principle that “Ais Cabinet must be a unit, ful
ly harmonizing in all their views, cordially second
ing t'-e determinations of the President, and vigo
rously laboring to carry out every measure of pub
lic policy to which the Administration may be com
mitted.”
If tliis rule is adhered to, the whole country will
be satisfied. No Protective Tariff man. no advo
cate of Internal Improvements by the Federal Gov
ernment, no W’ilmot Proviso man or Abolitionist,
and no Federalist or national Democrat, will have a
place in the Cabinet. The Cabinet must be a unit.
President Pierce is opposed to all these hateful
men and measures.
The correspondent of the New York Herald
says :
It is said that Genera! Pierce has determined
upon five members of his cabinet. The pro
babilities are, or rather the truth is, that R, M.
T. Mu liter, of Virginia, Charles G. Greene, of
the Boston Post, John A. Dix, of New-York,
James Guthrie, of Kentucky, Jefferson Davis,
of Mississippi, and David Tod, of Cincinnati,
are the unfortunate men. Rusk, of Texas,
Slidell, of Louisiana, and W. M. Gv, in, and Me-
Callister and Weller, of California, are spoken
of for the other two places. Cass, Buchanan,
Marcy, and the old fogy stock generally, is down.
Young America and State Rights say they are
highly gratified.
If the Cabinet is indeed to be a “unit,” John - A.
Dix, of Now York, will baldly find a place in it.
The State Rights Democracy will be delighted with
Hunter and Davis. They arc able and true men.
With some of the others we have but slight knowl
edge.
Murder.
A man by the name of Hancock was killed in this
city, during the Christmas Holidays, by a mail named
Macklerath. Homicides are too common in our
community. Our lives are not safe. Shooting, stab
bing and other outrages on the person are too fre
quent. The remedy consists in a fearless enforcement
of the law*. Macki.kratii has been arrested an.l
safely lodged in jail.
Washington Correspondence of the Sentinel.
Washington, December, 1852.
The health of Col. King has been such for the
last week as to cause ids friends some apprehension,
as he has been confined to his room for several days
past. He is reported better to-dav, but iiis malady
!>■ ing of a pulmonary character, only hopes are en
tertained of a speedy recovery. Already tiie quid
mines are ominously shaking their empty heads, and
arranging the succession, for in the event of his
death, tiie Presidency of the Senate would he tilled
by a vote in that body, and the pe: son selected
would be de facto Vice President of the Urnted
States.
The Cass or Oid Hunker faction of the party
have already named their man, Mr. Bright, of 1n...-
ana, and the canvassing has been active for liim.it
is said. The Southern men are not disposed to an
ticipate the decrees of Providence, or kill Colonel
King prematurely*, and they therefore very quietly
await his restoration to health, or any other result.
The North having the President, ill tiie event of any
such calamity as is apprehended, the South would of
course be entitled to supply his place with a South-
ern man. But such speculations are not. in good
taste, and the premature action of some of the Old
Fogies has rather disgusted less p-ogressive orantie
ipative politicians. As regards wire working for of
fices. either in the Cabinet or out of it, Gen. Pierce
?givcs cold comfort to over anxious patriots. Sever
at letters of advice that have been written to letii
have been consigned to the Dead Letter Office, and
all the cliques and cabals have made nothing out of
him. If you ever witnessed the pertinacity off the
spider in renewing his broken web, time after time,
you can form a faint idea of the resolution displayed
by sundry schemers in making Cabinets and parti
tioning out offices for the President, “nolus vnlusfi
as Gen. Taylor classically observed. They will pro
bnbly get their labor for. their pains, and nothing
else. The assurances of the few in his confidence,
and a recent editorial in the Concord Pahiot, indi
cate his fixed purpose of acting independently;
while earnestly seeking information from every
proper source, he does not and will not commit him
self to any’ man or set of men, but intends t<> eon
suit his own individual judgment, without reference
to the rules of action laid down for his government
by bis self-constituted guardians, whether coming
from New York, Virginia, or elsewhere.
So much for a topic which occupies much of men’s
(aye and women’s) minds here. VYith reference to
the doings of Congress, you will observe that they
are most diligently and discreetly doing nothing. If
“the best Government is that which governs least,”
according to the motto of the old Democratic Re
view, then carrying out the principle and demonstra
ting that that is better still which does not govern at
all, Mr. Fillmore’s Administration must be regarded
as the climax of good government. The Adminis
tration is not even a cipher. Its net valito cannot
be -estimated even at 0. It simply is a negation, and
nobody minds the Message or the accompanying
documents except for the estimates and statements
they contain. Every body in and out of Congress,
except the Cabinet officers, wait impatiently for the
installation of the new powers that are to sweep
away the old rubbish, and in the interval, Congress
amuses itself with such speculative questions as Mr.
Webster’s eulogies, Mr. Clay's vacant seat in the
Senate, and the tariff question in the House. The
President’s recommendations, most cf which were
embraced in bis last Message, will share the same
fate this time. They will not even be deemed wor
thy of notice, but will be allowed quietly to sink into
the depths of old papers, unregarded and unretnem
bered, except by the public printer.
The Census Report is about the most interesting
of all these documents; but it is not new, for the en
terprise of the New York Herald gave it to the pub
lic in advance, long ago. In that document are to
be found the most striking and irrefragible proofs of
the progress of the people in ail the pursuits of ac
tive life and natural comfort. Spiritualities of course
it don’t deal with, but these are considered seconda
ry in this new age of mingled grid and iron.
A summary of Congressional proceedings during
the period they have been in session, would not re
quire more titan two paragraphs, but they may yet
get to work after the Christmas holydays. The fa
ther of the Homestead Bill, Mr. Bennett, of New
York, has pitched into Col. Benton, and handled
that portentous old pedagogue without gloves. lie
shows up the Ynsimerity, the inconsistency, and the
humbug of that “Pater Senatus,” (as he loves t<>
style himself.) and proves by extracts from his own
speeches, that he (Benton) has advocated measures
precisely similar to those ho now so bitterly denoun
ces. Mr. Bennett has also addressed a second letter
to Hon. A. C. Dodge, of Wisconsin, who backed
Benton in his onslaught, which i* equally ©xcrucia
ting. We who are opposed to all these land appro- j
printing propositions, of course have no sympathies j
to squander upon any of these combatants ; but if a j
grand stealing match is to be entered upon, justice j
demands at least an equitable division ot the public !
spoils, on the principle of “honor among thieves.” j
These Western gentlemen desire a monopoly of tiie !
public plunder which Bennett’s Bill proposes divi- ‘■
ding. If we have more land than we know what
to do with, it is rather curious that tiie cry should
be for more annexation. Yet so it is, and our exi
gencies seem to render it imperative. The encroach
meats of foreign powers, and the active intervention
of England and France in the West Indies and the
Mexican possessions, wiil force on the incoming Ad
ministration the assertion of the Monroe doctrine, as
to the imperative duty of preventing the interposi
tion of such foreign powers in the afiairs of this con
tinent. The movements of England in Mexico, and
of France, with the connivance of England, in San
Domingo, and Sonora, show a foregone conclusion.
There is evidently an entente cordials between those
powers, the consequences of which immediately or
mediately wo will feel, and therefore it will be best
for us to take tiie initiative, and let thos- powers
know that we comprehend their policy, and stand
prepared to frustrate it, peaceably if we can, forcibly
if we must.
This is a far different matter from Fillibustering, i
for that is all on the side of these foreign powers, i
Let any intelligent man examine the proceedings in
the places designated and reflect on their ultimate !
consequences, and lie will see the necessity of prompt !
and decided frustration. If tins Union is to endure,
(and such seems the popular verdict.,) what edecton
the general prosperity must he produced by allow
ing foreign nations to obtain that foothold on this
continent, which President. Monroe so solemnly pro
bated against. The most cautious conservative
(even stitching that term to cowardice) never accu
sed him of fillibusterisin. Yet even in his day, such
insolent interference would not bet Aerated. We
c rtainiy have progressed far beyond the stand point
of bis day. li remains to be seen whether the men
of this time possess less foresight or less nerve than
their ancestors. The French interposition is intend
ed to stop tiie Westward flight of American Em
pire. by intervening a colony between the Mississip
pi and the Pacific. Count Boulton is not tiie “mere
adventurer” lie is flippantly styled, nor is the Sono
ra movement a mere outside one. On tiie contrary,
an abundance of proof exists to show it to be the
last one of a series of movements, the object of which
is to cluck the United States in their expansive de
velopment ; and France in this is but tiie conveni
ent cat’s paw of Great Britain, whose sagacious and
farseeing policy compasseth the globe itself, as it
boasts its drum-heat dots.
The San Domingo operation touches us yet more
nearly, and here France and England move in con
cert. The evidences of this you shall have very
shortly, the necessity of expediting this letter to catch
the mail conveyance, preventing it at present. The
future is big with important events. The lull in
our domestic disturbances—scarcely a lull, however,
though apparently so—seems to have loosened the
elements of foreign disturbance, as that rash wight
who opened the bags in the caves of Eolus sent
forth the prisoned winds. In two months’ time, we
shall have anew order of tilings, and then these
matters will no longer be left to the uncertain and
timid diplomacy of an effete faction, and imbecile
Administration. In these new movements tiie
South must either take a prominent part, or expect
to perform tiie ridiculous and degrading function of
tiie tin kettle pendant to the canine caudal extremity.
ANON.
[TOR the sentinel.]
Quincy, December 13, 1852.
Col. Lomax —We were reminded, last Friday
night, of some delightful evenings spent in Concert
Hall last winter, when the voting gentlemen .of Co
lumbps exhibited their Histrionic powers to crowded
and admiring audiences. A Thespian Corps has
been formed in tliis village, which might vie in tal
ent with any amateur company whose performances
we have had the pleasure of witnessing. Gold
smith's admirable comedy of “She Stoops to O n
quer” was chosen for their debut, and though the
night was dark and rainy, threatening to Ue more
dark and rainy still, a goodly audience was gathered,
‘whose unbounded applause testified their appreciation
of the talents of tiie performers.
Every part was well sustained from good, honest,
hustling Mr. Newcastle, whose character was most
inimitably personated, to the waiters he so care
fully drilled. The bashful, yet graceful lover
and Hold, “agreeable Rattle,”-so different and yet
the same, won bright opinions from others, besides
the spirited and mischievous Kate Ilardeastle. Bur
ton linns; if could not have perform'd Tony Lump
kins wi h more irresistible humor than did his repre
sentative on that evening. Every look and action
was comic and apropos. Indeed, every part was
so well sustained, it seems difficult to individualize
Mrs. Ilurdciisile, Hastings and Miss Neville shared
the honors of the evening, not forgetting tiie inimit
able Diggery.
Tiie farce of “Lend me Five Shillings !” closed
the entertainment. Hi re, again, our triond “Tony,”
as Mr. Golightiy, surpassed himself. Those who
remember it, as performed by tiie Histrionics last
winter, can imagine the mirth and ‘laughter its rep
resentation excited.
The corps will continue these exhibitions during
tiie season—and tiie Christmas holidays are to be
enlivened by the brilliant sallies of Thalicr, as well
as enriched by the more splendid but darker genius
of Melpomene. The next time tiie curtain rises,
tragedy in ‘"gorgeous robes will come sweeping by,”
for we understand Coleridge's great drama of “Re
morse” is to be the subject of representation. Re
morse was the last word on which the expiring eyes
of John Randolph rested, with that long, lingering
gaze, which, once seen, can never he forgotten. If
the genius of tiie poet and the talent of the actor can
give us even a faint i ha of what remorse really is.
they will achieve a great moral work. Dramatic
exhibitions like these, made bv til. sc whose charac
ter we honor and esteem, may be made subservient
to morality, as well us amusement. Tiie bow must
be relaxed, lest the chord break from too long a
tension. Business should not occupy all the thoughts
nor the cares of life—engross the mind too exclusive
ly. Even duty, though the handmaid of Heaven,
may become a severe taskmistress, if site convert
into a sin, all tiie rational and intellectual enjoyments
of earth.
God made tiie flower as well as the wheat. Di
vest earth of all its ornaments, reserving alone what
is indispensable to utility, and tiie footprints of the
Deity would seem almost blotted out.
A little amusement now and then, is “not a very
dangerous thing.” C. L. JI.
Sonthorn and Western Trade Convention.
Baltimore, Doc. 19
The Southern and Western Trade Conven
tion met at Baltimore on Saturday. Two hun
dred delegates were in attendance. Senatoi
Dawson presided. An address cf welcome to
the strangers on the part of Baltimore, and re
commending a concentration of trade in that
city, was adopted. Resolutions conforming to
the principles contained in the address were
adopted, and the Convention adjourned to meet
in Memphis or the first Monday in June. A
splendid dinner was given after the adjourn
ment, in the Hall of the Maryland institute, at
which five hundred persons were present. —
Speeches were made bv Dawson, Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, Orr and others. The parly broke
up at about ten o’clock.
“Speeches were made by Dawson. Bredken
ridge, Orr and others !” the usual finale of South
ern conventions. Wo have long been convinced that
commercial conventions were great absurdities. The
course of trade can no more be turned by resolution*
than the current of the Mississippi can be by a darn
of mud ; but in one case as in the other, where the
currents show an inclination to form anew channel,
a very slight labor <vill pour through it in one in
stance the mighty flood of the father of waters, and
in the other the golden tide of commercial inter
course. A mile of railway, anew steamer, some
times a single bridge, will do more to direct trade
( into new channels than will all the commercial con
| volitions in the United States. The experience of
[ tile South on this subject is full to overflowing. It is
’ time to cease windwork, and to unite in pushing
forward our great works of internal improvements,
by which we propose to connect the waters of the
Gulf with those of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
In this connection, we desire,at an early day, to call
the attention of the public generally, and of the peo
ple of Savannah particularly, to the importance of
extending the Girard Kail Road.
Southern Quarterly Review.
We insert, at the instance of a warm friend of the
Southern Quarterly Review , and from a responsive
sympathy for that literary enterprise, the appeal of
its talented Editor in a private circular to its patrons,
and to the friends of Southern Literature.
We would add some comments if we thought we
could strengthen then by the appeal thus plainly and
forcibly made. Read it. and decide for yourselves,
men of the South ; shall this able Review, so cred
itable to the South—so useful—so valuable, go down,
another monument of Southern inertness, arid in
difference to Southern Literature, or shall it be sus
tained as a monument of Southern intellect and cul
tivation ?—Constitutionalist <j- Republic.
Dear Sir : As one of the friends and patrons of
the Southern Quarterly Review, l feel it due to
you to state, that, unless some active influence is ex
ercised in behalf of this work, its publication must be
arrested. At present, it compensates neither the
Publishers, the Contributors, nor the Editor. Not
that its subscription is inadequate for the purpose,
for its circulation is quite respectable ; but because
of the great-difficulty of c-. fleeting small and scat
tered sums from remote distances. It seems to be
necessary that the subscription, at home, should be
such as should place the work beyond contingency.
If the friends of the Review, some twenty or thirty
gentlemen, would take the matter in hand, and
make it a point to use their influence in their re
spective walks, so as to procure, each, ten or fi'teen
subscribers, the end would he attained, fl his is the
only effectual plan. To assess individuals, every
now and then, to the tone of SIHO. or more, is un
reasonable, and a practice rather injurious than oth
erwise, to a healthy publication. To diffuse the
work at a moderate rate, and increase its e rcu
lation, is the proper process. It appears to me, that
none of our public men, our politicians and oth rs.
can object to the moderate subscription of s.'> per an
num. We 1 amented when the original Southern Re
view failed ; it lib ral subscription sustained the revival
of it. In my hands, it has called for no assessments,
and now that the risk of its failure is imminent, ]
should prefer that til re should bo no assessment.
Better let it perish than that a few gentlemen should
be perpetually taxed for the benefit of all. If you
and your friends wll take the matter in hand, and
add three hundred names to the subscription list
within the State, the work will go <>n prosperously.
Let me add, that, whatever is done, it should be
done quickly, and whenever possible, let the sub
scription be procured in advance. 1 luve spoken
to you frankly, as the necessity seems to justify ;
and I trust 1 have spoken reasonably. It is, I think,
in your power, and that of your friends, to relieve
the work, by the process I suggest, and to enable it
to pursue its career with vigor It is only necessa
ry, I am sure, to tiring tli • case properly before our
public men, and the enterprising among our citizens, to
secure the success of a periodical which is admitted
to be cssenti and to our public and sectional objects,
honorable to our character, and particularly useful
in the development of the talents of our young men.
Yours, very truly. &e.,
W. GILMORE SIMMS.
Congressional.
Baltimore, Dec. 21.
The health of the Hon. W. R. Iking is no better.
In the U. S. Senate on Tuesday, toe resolutions to
confer the rank of Lieutenant General on Major
General Scott bring under consideration, were sup
ported by the Hon. Lewis Cass of Michigan,
James Shields of Illinois, and ‘he lion. Solon Bor
land of Arkansas, and opposed by the lion. S. P.
Chase of Ohio, and the Hon. Stephen Glams of
Mississippi. The resolutions were ultimately pass
ed by a vote of 3 l to 12. The Hon. W. F. DeSaus
sure and the 11011. A. P. Butler, of South Carolina,
voted in the affirmative.
The House of Representatives took up in Com
mittee of the whole that, portion of the President’s
Message relative to the Tariff. Mr. Clingman’s
motion to adroit railroad iron free of duty was de
feated.
Tt is at length reputed that an effort will be made
in th ■ House to take notice of tile acquisition of S:i
rnana by the French, and the annexation of Sonora.
Baltimore, Dec. 22.
111 the IT. S. Senate on Wednesday, the bill for
the construction of a railroad to the Pacific was made
the special order of the day for the 10th of January.
In the House of Representatives, that portion of
the President’s Message relative to Commerce, arnl
Rivers and Harbors, was taken up and referred to
the appropriate committee. The bill for fixing the
compensation of members of Congress at S2OOO was
also taken up.
The health of the lion. W. R. King has slightly
improved.
Baltimore, Dec. 23.
In the U. S. Senate on Thursday, the Hon. James
M. Mason, of Virginia, offered a resolution calling
on the President for the notes from France and
England proposing a tripartite treaty relative to Ctt
ba. Mr. Mason said that he opposed any itjtei ference
with the existing relations between Spain and Cuba,
but that the time w< nld come when annexation
would be inevitable. The Hon. Lewis Cass, of
Michigan, concurred in Mr. .Mason's views, anil re
probated a stand-still policy.
Meeting of English Femal Abolitionists. —
On lho 26th ult.. :i meeting of “the ladies of Eng
land” was convened by the Duchess of utherland.
at Stafford House, for the purpose of addressing a
memorial to the ladies of the United States, cal linn
on them to use their influence for the abolition of
negro slavery. The address agreed to disclaim any
political motives —acknowledging the share Britain
had in the introduction of slavery into her colonies
—deplores the interdiction of religious instruction
to her slaves, and suggests as the means of abolish
ing the institution that the ladies of America, “as
sisters, as wives, and as mothers, raise their voices
to their fellow citizens, and their prayers to God,
for the removal of this affliction from the Christian
world/’ It transpires, however, that a subscription
is to be collected as an auxiliary to this end.
It may be interesting to know that the names of
the ladies present, or who signified their concurrence
with the meeting were the Duchesses of Sutherland,
Bedford, Argyll, Dowager, of Beaufort, Countesses
of Derby. Carisle, Shaftsbury, Litchfield ; Viscoun
tesses Palmerston, Melbourne; Ladies Constance,
Grovsvenor, Dover, Cowley, Ruthven, Belbriven,
Trevelzan, Parke, Ilathorton,. Blantyre, Lufferin.
East hope, Paxton, Caye, Shuttleworth, Buxton,
Engles, Mayoress ; Mesdams Charles Dickens, Al
fred Tennyson, Mary Ilowitt, Charles Knight. Mur
ray Macaulay, Rowland llill, with others of lesser
position.
The reader will concur with us, that ‘‘the ladies
of England” can find objects of charity nearer
home —white slaves—who stand in greater seed of
their “philanthropy” than the sleek, well-fed ne
groes of America. J
[From the Southern Herald Extra, 23d inst. ]
Georgia Annual Conference.
This body adjourned yesterday evening about 6
o’clock—at which time the Bishop announced as
follows the stations of the Preachers :
Augusta District- -G. W. Glenn, P. E.
Savannah Triiiiti Church—Win. M Crumley.
Andrew Chapel and Is!.- of Hope—To be supplied.
Chatham and Byran— -Wm. B. Mellan.
Springfield—Daniel J. Myers.
Seri veil —Alexander Averrtt.
Waynesboro—Daniel Kelsey.
Burke colored Mission—Alfred B. Smith.
Fail haven Mission—Alexander Gordon.
Richmond —Robt. A. Conner.
Louisville —T. S. L. Harwell.
Augusta —-J. P. Turner.
Colored Charge-—J. M. Austin.
Columbia — Edwin White.
Liueolnton —John S. Dunn.
Washington —Caleb W. Key.
Wilkes--Wesley P. Arnold.
Warrenton —F. F. Reynolds.
Sparta —.Josiah Lewis.
Jeff. Colored Mission—R. J. Harwell.
Hancock Mission —To be supplied.
Athens District —Wm. J. Parks, P. E.
Athens Station-—Alfred T. Mann.
Colored Charge—. John 11. Grogan.
Lexington —Albert Gray, W. S. Baker.
Watkinsvillc —W. J. Cotter, -T. R. Littlejohn.
Factory Mission —W. 11. C. Cone.
Elberton —W. H. Hebbard.
Broad River Mission—A. J. Devors.
i Carnesville —11. 11. Parks. J. 11. Harris.
Greensboro —J. W. Yarborough.
Madison St. —Joseph S. Key.
Morgan Ct. —John 13. V\ ardlaw.
Kingston Mission —11. Cranford.
Covington and Oxford —W .A. Florence, J. S.
Ford.
Monroe —D. Crenshaw.
Emory College—G. F. Pierce, A. Means, and W.
J. Sasin tt.
Madison Female College —J. 11. Echols.
G. Jeff. Pearce, Agt. Am. Bible Society.
Gainesville Dist.—Geo. Bright, P. E.
Gainesville —J. R. Owen.
Lawrenceville —W. 11. Thomas.
Canton—J. D. Pitehford.
Dahlom-ga—D. Blaylock. W. P. Clontz.
Clarkesville f. H Mashburn.
Clayton Mission —To be supplied.
Murphy—E. L. Stephens.
Blairsville—J. \V . Carroll.
State Lim—Win. Lively.
Ellijay— W. Graham, (one to be supplied.)
Marietta District —Jaqies 13. Paine, P E.
Marietta Station —-Charles \. Full wood.
Circuit —Alfred Durnatu, Win. D. Sh a.
Cassville—M. A. Clontz.
Rome Station —D. B. Cox.
Circuit—And. Neese, W. P. Pledger.
CJhoun—John Strickland.
Spring Place — l 11. Clark.
Dalton —(one to he sup.) R. H. Maters.
Lafayette—A. C. Bruner.
Summerville —S. C. Qudlian.
Subligna —Lewis 13. Pay lie.
Dade Mission—J. W. Brady.
Dallas Mission—W. J. Wardlaw.
J. 11. Ewing, Agent Cherokee VS esh-yan In
stitute.
EaGrange Dist. J. C. Simmons, P. E.
LaGrange St.—SV. It. Foote.
Troup Ct.—-J. SV. Talley.
Greenville Ct.—SV. P. Mathews.
Franklin —L. N. Craven.
Zebulon —Noah Smith, L. Q. Allen.
Griffin —J. 13. Jackson.
Fayetteville—M. Bellah.
McDonald and Jackson—Sid. N T . Smith, J. G
Paine.
Atlanta—SSL 11. Evans.
Decatur —J L. Davies, Wm. M. SS atts.
New nan —George C. Clark, -J. Simmons.
Carrollton Miss.—C. Trussell.J. G. SVolsey.
Macon Dist. —Sami Anthony, P. E.
Macon and Vinoville —E. SV . Spar, ilios. 11,
Jordan.
Colored Charge—John M. Bright,
llethel Colored Mission —F L. Brantley.
Milledgevillc and Bethel —Charles it. Jewett.
Eato iton —J. W. Kn ghl.
Clinton—J L. Pierce.
Putnam Colored Mission—To be supplied.
Mon tied lo—Richard Lane.
Forsyth—• J. W. Fai mer, (one to be supplied.)
Culloden—Robert D. Lester.
Fort Valley—-lames Jones.
Colored Mission —C. L. Hays.
Perry—E. P. Bureh.
Wesleyan Female College—E. 11. Myers, O. L.
Smith, and J. M. Bonn II
Columbus Dist.—fas. E. Evans. P. E.
Columbus St. —SV. G. Conner, SV. It. Branham,
(sup.)
Colored Charge—To be supplied.
Factory Mission—Wyatt It. Brooks.
Taliiotton St.—l. SV. llinton.
Circuit —Tims. 11. Whitby.
Thiunaton—J. P. Dickinson.
Hamilton—J. P. Duncan, M. SV. Arnold.
Buena Vista—J. Blakely Smith.
Lanier—-I. M- Marshail.
Oglethorpe—J. Bradford Smith.
Loviek Pierce, S. S. Agent.
Lumpkin Dist. —SV . Knox, P. E.
Lumpkin St. —C. SV . 1 human.
Florence —-J. T. Turner.
Launahassoe —-Jus. O. Varner.
Amcricus —1). Williamson,
gtarkville—Y F. T.'gnor.
Culhbert —J. 11. Caldwell.
Fort Gaines—T. It. Stewart, 11. Mellan.
Dooly Mission —Dennis O'Driscoll.
Colored Mission —To be supplied.
Cliatt liooohee Mission —Joseph D. Adams.
Jeffersonville Dist —SS . G. Parks, P. E.
Jeffersonville —J. T. Smith.
SandersvdL— M. C. Smith. P. C. Harris.
Irwinton—SV. F. Conley.
Vienna and Flint C<>l. Mission —Win. T. Nor
man. and J. 13. McGebee.
Telfair—Silas It. Cooper.
Reidsvilie -John K. Sentell.
j llinesville—J. W . Irawick.
Dublin Mission —James M. Dickey.
Mclntosh and Darien Mission — A. J. Reynolds.
Emanuel Mission —To be supplied.
Jesse Boring, A. M. Winn, Win. A. Simmons,
J. C. Simmons, Jr., and R. W. Bigham, transferred
i to Pacific Conference.
Samuel J. Bella!), Wm. D. Bussey, Tbos C.
’ Coleman, Church well A. Crowell, and James Har
ris, left without appointment on account of ill
health or severe family affliction.
Thus. C. Stanley, Chaplain L T . S Navy.
Next Conference at Macon, Dec. 14th, lSi3.
j
O” An affray took place in our village on ! he
! 29th ult., between William Welsh, Samuel Banks
and John Byrd, in which Byrd received a severe
wound in the left side, penetrating the hollow, by a
knife in the hands of Welsh. The parties (Welsh
and Banks) were examined before Justice Mans
fVJ, and Welsh discharged under a recognizance
in the sum of four hundred dollars. Hanks, in de
fault of bail, was committed, arid is now in jail.
Byrd has since died of the wound, and Justice
Mansfield promptly issued his wan ant for the ar
rest of Welsh, and, while we write, the case is un
dergoing examination.— Ga. Courier.
North Carolina. —The Legislature of North !
Carolina adjourned sine die on Thursday last,'with- |
out making choice of United States Senator.
NEWS OFjmii WEEK.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
Cotton declined 1-4 a 3 8(1.
Charleston, Dec. 24
The steamer Canada arrived at Halifax at r„ MI
on Friday with advices from Liverpool to the i)th
The steamer Pacific arrived at Liverpool at mid
night on the 10th.
Liverpool Market —Cotton of ail qualities bad
declined ohe-Fu-tbing tof three, eighths —fair Coit m
was in most demand. The sal sos the week reach
25.001) bales of which speculators took 3,000 and
exporters KlO bales. Fair Orleans quoted at six ■
Middling five seven-sixteenths; Fair Upland five
penoe thr © farthings.
From Washington. —lt was rumored at Wash
ington that Senator Hunter had gone to Concord by
the invitation of Gen. 1 ierce.
ICT The late advices from England have caused
a good deal of excitement in iron Common bars
have sold as high as SO2 50 per ton, and rails S7O
O” Ice was made on Tuesday night on the
1 J, rsey shores even, and it is said that tire Hudson in
the in ighborhood of Albany w ill soon be “naviga
ble for foot passengers.”
Death ok Jidge Taylor. —We regret to learn
that a private letter was received in the city day
j before yesterday, announcing the decease of thi
j lion. SS m. Taylor, of Randolph county, Judge of
J the South Western Circuit of this State.
IT Vice President King, it is said, has so far re
covered that he nt) longer requires the attendance
of a physician, Rinl it is confidently hoped that he
may soon appear in the Senate chamber.
Important Trial. —On Wednesday, in the Su
perior Court of this county, Hon. A. Iverson prtsi
ding, was tried a case of much interest ami involving
a considerable amount of money. The case and points
are as follows :
The State of Georgia, Ex-relatione, Philip \,
Clayton, vs. the Bank of St. Mary's. Case to re
cover penalty for circulating Change Bids.
Verdict for the Plaintiff, for the use of Philip A.
Clayton, for $47,500, with costs of s#!t.
On the trial of this case, plaintiff proved that the
Bank had paid away Iso of these bills. The pen
alty was SSOO for each bill so paid away.
At the sessmn of the Legislature ot 1851, the State
pardoned or remitted the penalty. The Court held!
that this pardon or remission only extended to (fa
part, and did not affect the part going to the Relator,
consequently Ihe verdict was rendered for that, por
tion of the penalty belonging, by the act of the
Legislature, to the Relator.
B -sides this case we un lerstand there are several
others pending. —Columbus Times.
OCT Another ballot was hi! fora U. S Smotor
in the Legislature of North Carolina on Friday last,
when Mr. Dobbin came within o:tc vote of being
elected. Previous to the ballot, the Wings with
drew Mr. Raynor an 1 n miiuat and Mr. Woodpin,
who received 7fi voles, against 8J for Mr. Dobbin.
Decline of Property in New Orleans. —Ac-
cording to the returns of tin- assessors of Ne.v Orl
eans, there has been a decline in the value of prop
erty ill the city of three millions three hundred and
ninety-two thousand three hundred and forty iws
dollars within the past year.
Death of Horatio Grkenougii. — We learn
from the Boston Trims ri/>t that the death ol Ho
ratio Greenough, whose serious illness was announ
ced a short time since, took place on Saturday morn
ing after a severe attack of brain fever. Mr. Green*
ongh was well known as a sculptor of distinguish
ed genius. He was horn in Boston, in the year
1805, and took his first degree at Harvard Univer
sity in 1825. 1 Lis principal pro lueti ms are the
colossal statue of Washington, in the capitof; the
Chanting G 1 eruhs. executed in 1828, for Mr. Ft-m
----more Cooper ; the Medora, finished in 1851, f>r
Mr. Robert Gilmore, of Baltimore ; the Rescue, and
busts of .John Quincy Adams, -Jo-iali Quincy, and
several other eminent personages. Ho had re
cent'}’ been engaged on the eqiiesturiau statue of
Washington, to be erected in Union Park, Xw
York. Mr. Greenough was a man of liberal
and varied accoruplishmen’s, of aitraetive manners,
and vigorous intellect. His loss will be deeply felt
in the private circles, of which lie was an ornament,
no less than in the world of Art, where he had at
tained to such a wide celebrity.
Convicti n and Suic — The trial of young
: Byrd, of Albany, in this State, for killing Newton
! Jones las’ fill, came off’ at the late term of Baker
j Court, and occupied nine days. The jury return
j eda verdict of Voluntary manslaughter. Byrd listened
: to the verdict in silence, returned to prison, shaved
| himself, wrote to his father and other friends, aid
then took prussic acid, from which he died immedi
atcly.— Sno. Republican.
Mr. Wadlev. —The Chattanooga Advertiser
j contradicts, on the authority of Mr. Wadlev himself,
; the statement in the Atlanta papers of his contem
plated resignation as Superintendent of the State
! Road.
SLP It will be seen that the Rev. W . G. Conner,
’ who has been stationed in this city the past two
| yea a, has b. en transferred to Columbus, and tbo
Rev. J. P. Turner appointed to fill his place in this
city. It is with deep regret bis c-mgn-gatiou will
part with him, for he has been a faithful and hard
worker in the good cause, and has been instrumen
tal, bv his z< a! and eloquence, in bringing many a
sinner among us to a sense of the dreadful verge on
whi.-h they were standing.— Con. *J- Rep.
Theatre.— The famous Countess of Lrndsfeldt
made her first appearance last night to a very crow
ds 1 house. She is graceful well formed, light
enough of loot, and may be called comely.
Asa dancer litis not any very striding point*.
She has sufficient command of her well turned
limbs, but does not throw them about at that feariul
rate wh.ch excites tin- alarm of an inexperienced
spectator. What the French call tours de force sho
do s not at all attempt.
The first dance was not so much admired, ihe
second, the “Spider dance,” is a unique and express
iv -dance, and w is executed, wo think, with a very
high degree of skill.
At the close of each piece the applause -as quite
boisterous, ami the fair performer had to come twice
before the curtain, at the last call making a brief
expression of her thanks, which was exceedingly ‘ -
egant and touching, and delivered in very choice
language. This was the and -elded “hit of the n.ght.
Lola Monte/, has a very attractive person and eves
of singular clearness and dept ) of expression.
These, we imagine, wi h lier soft and feeling
voice, are the source of those wonderful fascinations
which, it is said, she exerts over those who approach
her, when she is in the vein.
To-night she repeats the spider dance; aml to
morrow night it is understood that site will make
her appearance inn play that embodies some ot tie
striking adventures of her own h |e - Ain ‘.t.e
Tribune.
Hr ii Price of Negroes. —On last sale day ;!1
this place, some thirty Negroes were sold at enor
mous prices, ranging from five hundred dollars . -r
children, to one thousaud and fifty dollars l |,r a
[Cassville Standard.
PRESERVING EGGS.
Why are eggs preserved by rubbing them
with butter? Because the butter closes the
pores in the shell, by which the communicat or
ot the embryo with the external air takes !'y.“ •
The embryo, however, is not thus killed. *
tiish has a similar effect. Reaumur coverea
effir S with spirit varnish, and found them ca P‘
producing chickens alter two ’’ears, i•*
the varnish was carefully removed