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riflopn I);ijs Later.
Advance in C Jlon- Louis Euona/nirtc
elected President of France—Flight of
the Pope of Rome, and his Refuge at
Naples—Abdication of the Empiror oj
Austria, in favor of lux Npheir—Chole
ra at Presburg—Riots in Press a—
'Tranquility in Ireland, ifc.
[ Telegraphedfor the Baltimore A 'nerican.~\
New York, Dec. 31, S, P. M.
The Cunaril steamer Eurupa, arrived
this afternoon from Liverpool, whence she
sailed on the lGrh nit. The most impor
tant intelligence by this arrival is the re
sult of the recent Presidential election in
France.
Louis Napoleon has been elected
President of France. The country is re
presented as tranquil.
The Pope has been compelled to leave
Italy, and was under the protection ot the
King of Naples.
FRANCE.
The latest intelligence from Paris is up
to 10 o’clock, P. M. on Thursday, the
13th, at which time tranquility prevailed.
The latest election returns show a majori
ty in favor of Prince Louis Bonaparte,
which, with those before given, leave
no doubt of his election.
Prince Louis Bonaparte has proposed
to raise Gen. Cuvaignac to the rank of
Marshal of Franee.
A partial amnesty is still spoken of as
likely to be presented tothe French Cham
ber, either by Gen. Cavaigaac or the Min
istry of Prince Louis Bonaparte, It is
understood that it will not include the pri
soners of Vincennes.
The intention of promoting the e'ection
of Defaure to the Presidency of the Cham
ber is renewed, and will probably be car
ried into effect.
Marshal Bugeaud made bis first ap
pearance in the Chamber on the thirteenth
and was received in the Salle-des-pas-dus
by M. Thiers and M. Mole. A great
number of members of the Assembly, on
the same day, left their card at his hotel.
Prince Louis Bonaparte’s proclamation
of President was to be issued about the
20th.
From the incomplete returns received,
the vote stood in the following proportions:
Louis Napoleon sixty-six per cent, Ca
vaignac twenty per cent, Rollin six per
cent, Raspail four per cent, Lamartine
three per cent. Commissioners will have
examined the vote by the 17tli, and on the
19th the Assembly will proclaim the
Prince President.
PRUSSIA.
At Meniil, on the 4th December, the
most alarming riots took place. On the
sth, the entire town was in possession of
the populace for four hours, during which
time great excesses were committed.
AUSTRIA.
The Emperor has abdicaled in favor of
his nephew. The new Ministry, by its
President, published an address contain
ing the policy of the new Emperor, in
which he pledges to maintain the liberty
of die conntry.
The military executions for political
offences still continue.
\ The Cholera is raging fearful ty at
Presburg.
IRELAND.
All is tranquil. Lord Clarendon was
formally received on his return to the Vice
Regal Lodge. The usual address of con
fidence was voted to him, coupled with
recommendations for a removal of griev
ances under which the country labors.
His Excellency’s reply is temperate, and
disclaims any design on the part of' the
Government to exclude Catholics from
Juries.
ITALY.
The revolution in Rome has terminated
by the flight of the Pope, the head of the
Roman Catholic Church. One of the
most powerful Princes that ever ascended
the Papal throne is now an exile and wan
derer. The Pope, it appears, after the
scenes last described, remained a prison
er in his palace, protected from personal
violence by the French Ambassador.
The Pope, in fleeing from Rome, took
refuge at Naples, and was under the pro
tection of the King. His Holiness refused
to go to France, and has signed a protest
declaring all the late acts void.
CO MME RCIA LIN TE L LIG ENC E -
Liverpool, Dec. 16. Cotton. —There
is a confirmed activity in the Colton mar
ket, and the large business recently trans
acted is giving more settled nee in
the article. Speculator<, until the last
two or three weeks, had completely aban
doned the market, having as sellers some
time ago cleared out ttiei-rclocks and re-
lieved their fears and necessities, being a
great means then of depressing prices to
the lowest point. They have now, how
ever, gatheied courage and turned round,
doing an active business of fair Uplands
and most kinds of American at the full
prices of the day. Fair Upland and Mo
bile quoted at 4]d. and Orleans at 4jd.
With these quotations for American Cot
ton, there is an increasing consumption.
Political disturbances on the Continent
seem to have lost their influence upon our
markets. 14.000 hales American and
1200 Surat have been taken on specula
tion, 1750 American and 300 Surat for
exp it. The sales of the week amount to
55,020 bales.
London, Dec. 15.—Consols for money
88 a *B] ; for account 87.] a 87 h ; U. S.
Six per cent. Loan, Dec. 7th, 95 a 99L
Thrilling News from tlie West.
Destructive Fire in Cincinnati—Bus ness
Prostrated on account of the Cholera —
Frightful Mortality on Board the West
ern S'eamere—Crcirs Dying—Boats
Deserted—Freshet in the I Vest.
j Telegraphed for the Baltimore American.]
Cincinnati, December 28, A. M.
Calhoun varnish factory, Barding A
Salein’s Cheese Wan-house, in which was
stored a heavy stock of cheese, and M itch
el & Rammalsburg Furniture Warehouse,
were destroyed by the fire last night.—
The adjoining buildings suffered conside
rable damage. 1 have not learned the
amount of the loss, hut it is very heavy.
The well authenticated rumors of the
prevalence of the Cholera as an epidemic
in New Orleans, has liadqui e a disastrous
effect on the mercantile community here.
All business is nearly pros'rated.
Cincinnati, Dec. 29 —ll A. M.
The steamer Peytona, from New Or
leans, arrived here a few minutes ago.
Fourteen deck passengers died with the
cholera, on board while coming up the
Mississippi.
The Captain states, that the steamer
St. Cloud was lying at Vicksburg, unable
to proceed any further on account of the
fearful ravages of the cholera on hoard the
boat while on the passage up. The Cap
tain, the mate, the clerk, and one of the
pilots of the St. Cloud, had all died with
the cholera ! The remainder of the crew
deserted at Vicksburg.
Cincinnati, Dec. 29—5 P. M.
The cholera reports from New Orleans
caused a general inactivity in the market.
A few sales of flour for city consumption
mostly have been made to-day at $3,75 pr
bill. Jn grain there is nothing doing.—
Hogs —Market dull and prices drooping
sales of 400 head at $3 25, $3 31 \ to $3
37.].. Whiskey—Market dull at I5& cents
per gallon. It lias been snowing all day.
The snow lies two inches deepen a level.
Cincinnati, Dec. 29—8 P. M.
Owing to the heavy freshets in the va
rious rivers, we have no communication
with St. Louis, either by mail or tele
graph, since the IStli inst.
Louisville, Ivy., Dec. 29 —4 P. M.
All the passengers on board the steam
er Bay State, bound down, left the boat
this morning and returned to Cincinnati.
Reports from New Orleans have reached
here, stating that the boats there are una
ble to discharge their freight, as no one
will pay the charges and receive it.
Pittsburgh, Dec. 31.
Passengers arrived here on the s'eamer
Diadem, state that there were 3 deaths
from cholera on board said steamer while
on her passage. They further report that
there ware 6 deaths from the same disease
on board the steamer Watkins, and 4 on
the Savannah.
General Taylor has consented to visit
Pittsburgh on his way to Washington.
A Novelty.— A project has been start
ed for bringing tbe Saratoga waters to this
city in glass pipes ! Notice has been giv
en that an application will be made to the
Legislature for an act of incorporation.
The capital desired is $300,000. It is
proposed to mould bricks with semi-cylin
drical grooves in their sides, and in those
grooves to place a glass tube, the space
between the glass and bricks being filled
with cement. ’J be estimated cost of the
work is SIOOO per mile, or SIBO,OOO in
the aggregate.
The project seems somewhat fantastic,
but it may not prove so in the end. The
object of it is to secure to the city the ben
efit of the mineral waters of Saratoga.—
N. Y. Courier.
Mirth and Wisdom. —Nobody can de
ny that there is truth in the old saying, ‘ It
is good to be merry and wise.’ Not only
is this simple truth, hut sound philosophy.
It is an excel'ent thing to be mirthful,
when you can ; to smile at what amuses
you; to laugh at what is ludicrous; in
short, to look at the sunny side of things,
and even in the gloom and cold of winter,
to recollect ‘there is a good time a com
ing,’ when the sunshine and warmth of
the glorious summer will make all things
glad.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. G, 1849.
[LpMcssrs J. P. Robinson, and J. K. Har
mon, are authorized to receive subscriptions for
the Southern Museum, in any of the South-
Western Counties of Georgia.
(p/AVe are indebted to the Augusta Republic
for a slip containing the highly interesting and
important foreign and domestic news to be found
in our first colemns.
A New Firm.
The former Editor and Proprietor of the “ Mu
seum ” having associated with himself Mr. O.
A.- Mv eks, the business of the office will hence
forth be conducted by the firm of Harrison &
Myers.
The Junior Editor and Proprietor, in making
his half the bow editorial to the readers of the
“Museum,” (our Senior made his some time
ago,) would respectfully inform them, that he i
not a briefless lawyer, nor a retired politician,
nor an ambitious schoolmaster, rising troin the
throne pedagogical to the throne editorial—hut
a practical printer, who has written a little, read
more, and composed a great deal. 11l tine, he is
a youw' man, (not in the sense in which the term
is received in Cupid's court, hut in the literal
sense), with some responsibilities about him,
ami who is seeking to make his wav in the world
by honest means. He feels assured, therefore,
that a generous public,especially that portion ot
hem who hare known the fierce encounter ol
will and necessity, anil determination, with ad
verse circumstances, will extend to his partner
and himself that encouragement which every
man has a right ‘.o hope for, so long as he tries
to prove worthy of general confidence, whether
he receive it or riot.
With such views, we are neither afraid nor
ashamed to bespeak a generous patronage, in
subscriptions, advertisements, and job printing
of every kind.
In a few days we will have moved our office
to a central and public portion of the city, and
will then be prepaid! to execute all work in out
line with neatness arid despatch. We say thus
much first, on business matters, because it essen
tially concerns us, our physical well-being de
pending in some sort upon the business encour
agement we receive.
Our journal will maintain its neutrality in all
those subjects of a political character dividing
the two great parties of the Union, and distinc
tively known ns Wli g or Democratic, policy.—
While its neutrality shall not be violated, the
most faithful and strenuous exertion shall be put
forth for the promotion of Literature, Agricul
ture, the Sciences, the Arts, and general Moral
ity.
Saturday Post. —We are indebted to the
publishers of this valuable paper for an ex
change. The “ Post” is a mammoth weekly,
filled with original matter of the highest older,
and numerous selections from the best Literary
periodicals and newspapers. There is one pe
culiar feature in this journal, which is wanting
in many other Literary papers. We allude to
its instructive tales, and solid, genuine, sen.-i
--ble reading matter. Asa specimen, we refer to
the story on our First Page. Messrs. Deacon
&. Peterson publish the “Post” in Philadel
phia, at $2 per annum, payable in advance.
Ladies’ Dollar Newspaper. —ls any of our
fair readers desire a good Northern newspaper,
suited to their own taste, we recommend them
to take this one It is well printed, and to in
timate that it is ably edited, we need only state
that a Lady edits it.
To Advertisers. —The arrangements now
making to extend the circulation of our paper in
this city and the surrounding country, already
warrant the filling up of our advertising co
lii in us. ’Plie success ol our enterprise has far
exceeded our most sanguine expectations, and,
in the first two weeks of its existence, our edi
tion is as large as we contemplated publishing
in the first volume. This is cheering to us, and
we need but the aid of the advertising public, to
make our paper of more interest to the mass of
the people, and to improve its size and appear
ance. No pains shall he spared on our part to
lender all of our patrons an abundant return for
their support. We do not wish the public to
judge of the Museum from the published issues
—there aro many leading features which we
have, as yet, been unable to present to our read
ers, by which we expect to enhance the value
of our paper. Nor have we been furnished with
an exchange list, to make our selections, which,
together with oilier circumstances, needless
now to mention, have prevented a variety in
the news department. In order to make these
additions, it is desirable that we be aided hy
the mercantile class. Still, we do not beg for
their patronage ; we are confident that the pub
licity given to their advertisements will amply
justify the expense, and wc think that our mer
chants need but the knowledge oftlicir interests,
to act in accordance with them.
Central Railroad. —Atari election for Di
rectors of the Central Railroad and Hanking
Company of Georgia, held at Savannah on the
first of January, the following gentlemen were
elected, viz : Messrs. John W. Anderson, Wm.
Crabtree, Solomon Cohen, Richard R. Cuyler,
Joseph S. Fay, Henry McAlpin; Win. B. John
son, of Macon ; Jacob Waldhurg, and John It.
Wilder, (new Director.)
At a meeting of the Hoard on Tuesday last,
It. It. Cuyler, Esq. was unanimously re-elected
President of the Company for the ensuing year.
Planters’ Dana. —’Flic following gentlemen
were elected Directors of the Planters' Hank at
Savannah on Monday last, viz . Messrs. G. W.
Anderson, \V. 11. Cuyler, Geoige Jones, Isaac
'Cohen, John C. Nicoll, F. Sorrel, J. William
son, and J. Stoddard, (new Director.)
At a meeting ofllic Board on the ltd inst. G.
W. Anderson, Esq., was unanimously re-clect
e I President for the ensuing y ear.
Stock for a railroad across the Isthmus of Pan
ama has been rapidly taken.
Tlie Past—Present—and Future.
Since our last issue, we have been called to
bid adieu to a friend of many days. On the last
day of the last month, just as the iron tongue of
Krotsos thundered forth the midnight hour, the
year Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Eight,
sunk into the grave of the past, where he now
sleeps with a long line of foregone brothers. Our
departed friend was the latest survivor of the
many sons which Mother Earth has brought
forth to Old Time. The following
ten by a Poet Latin ate in the court of the Old
.Monarch, are touchingly descriptive of liis last
moments:
“llow hard he breathes!—over the snow
I heard just now tlie crowing cock ;
The shadows Wicker to and fro ;
The cricket chirps; the light burns low ;
’’Pis nearly one o’clock.
Shake hands before y-ou die,
Old Year, —we’ll dearly rue for you;
What is it we can do for you ?
Speak out before you die.
“ His face is growing sharp and thin—
Alack ! our friend is gone !
Close up his eyes; tie up his chin;
Step from the corpse; and let him in
That stundeth there alone,
And waiteth at the door; —
There's anew foot oil the floor, my friend)
And anew face at the door, my friend—
Anew face at the door.”
Much may he said of the virtues, and some
thing, too, if truth he told, of the vices of the de
parted Monarch. True, he was not personally
conspicuous in many of the events of his reign;
for he surrendered the control of his kingdom to
his twelve sons, all of whom, save the youngest,
died before himself, and he did not survive Ii is
father.
Some of these sons were satisfied to die, hav
ing accomplished only the very ordinary feats of
blustering up and down the earth ; now making
their subjects shudder at their freezing looks;
now scorching them in the fires of their anger;
now setting before them a feast of fruits, and
now bringing desolation and decay upon their
verdant fields. Occasionally, however, they
entered more particularly into the minutiae of
governmental affairs—calling conventions, hold
ing legislative assemblies, pushing forward po
litical campaigns with energy, presiding at elec
tions—with one hand demolishing the hopes of
the ins, and with the other, building airv castles
for the outs.
While tiiey were thus, alternately exciting
tbe hopes and fears—the pleasures and pains of
their subjects, they left to their children, of
which each had a goodly number, (say', some
thirty, or thereabout,) the task of ministering ex
quisite pleasure, or poignant grief, to the family
and social circle. Some, by the hand of their
minister, Death, they robbed of their cherished
idols; the hearts of others, they linked together
in affection’s * bonds; became witnesses and
attestors of :hc faith of others, plighted at Hy
men’s altar; and whilom presided over the na
tivity of sons and daughters, horn to bliss or
curse the world.
While these very ordinary events marked the
rule of some of the sons of our old Monarch,
others of them became eminent for producing
mighty events .luring their short reign. One of
them brought the memorable Mexican war to a
Close; and from the spoils of victory, made a
munificent donation to our noted relative, Uncle
.Samuel, —though our worthy brother Jonatitau
is disposed to claim heirship of the whole, al
lowing ourselves neither part nor lot in prairies,
wild horses, buffalo, rancheros, or gold diggings
Another one of these sous, in conjunction
with his immediate successor, play ed a long and
brilliant game of ball vvi Ii the kiitgs, crowns,
thrones and cabinets of Europe. Monarchs were
made beggars —palaces were turned into barracks
—citizens became soldiers—soldiers grew into
rulers ; and so great was tbe confusion in tbe po
litical tennis-court, that but few men knew which
s ide they were upon, or whether they were on
any side.
Another one of these sons, studious of change,
passed a decree which is designed to take the
guardianship of our aforementioned relative)
Uncle Samuel, (who, by reason of his great in
firmity, and the multiplicity of his cares, is ne
cessarily consigned to a keeper,) out of the hands
of the political family to which it has been for
some time entrusted, and to give it in charge of
one for a few years past aspiring to that distin
guished honor. It cannot be denied that this
contest and the resulting change occasioned a
good deal of nccriinony between these two dis
tinguished families; and a controversy is in pro
gress between them, the merits of which we will
not pretend to decide.
Having said thus much of the reign of our old
King, we must now speak of the closing scene.
While our duty, as chroniclers of public events,
requires perfect truthfulness on our part; and,
therefore, leads us, however unwillingly, to ex
pose the follies of one to whom we owe so much,
we hope that upon these follies the gracious
reader will drop a tear of regret. For it is a lam
entable fact that our venerable friend spent his
closing days in childish sports and undignified
carousal; incited thereto by one of his frolic
some grand-children, a certain Kris —or Kris
mas-Krinklc. During these days of debauch,
the reins of government hung loosely. Boys
and girls broke away from the restraints of
school, dived into the mysteries of Santa-Claus’
pockets, rifled those of their elders of their dimes
and dollars, illuminated night with wheels,
rockets and Roman candles—and tortured Si
lence by the continued discharge of squibs,
crackers and fire-arms. Servants were released
from restraint, and tbe merry song, and loud
guffaw attested tbe pleasure brought them by
the Old Mail’s revelry. And thus he died
Alas ! alas !
“Close up his eyes; tie up his pilin',
Step from the corpse, and let him in
That standetli there alone ”
But who is lie that intrudes upon the chamber
of the dead so unceremoniously ? Who? His
successor, who assumes the sceptre that has fall
en from the hand cold in death. He meets us
with a smile. A kindly warmth glows upon his
brow. He is rich in promises of future good ;
but who can tell whether lie will fulfil or falsify
them? We cannot; but we promise the public
that we will look closely to the measures this
new Ruler of our destinies, the year Eighteen
Hundred and forty-nine, and chronicle the
same so faithfully, that it will confide in our
weekly sheet as the record of truth, and extend
to ns a fair portion of its patronage.
In closing this obituary of tbe departed year,
we know not what better New Year’s blessing
we can ask for our patrons than a mind cherishing
and adopting, as a rule of action, the following
truthful sentiment:
“Time was, is past; thou canst not it recall :
Time is, thou hast; employ the portion small;
Time future is not, and may never be ;
Time present is the only time for thee.”
A word more for ourselves. But yesterday
we were standing amidst the graves of unre
warded labors and crushed hopes. To-day our
mind gladly turns from these sad mementos of
past enterprise, and begins to revel in dreams of
tiie future.
The first hour of u new year seems to ho the
birth-lime of new enterprise and new hope?
We have launched our little hark, the “Mu
seum," manned by Perseverance and Industry,
with Hope for our compass, the uncertain winds
and tides of the sea of adventure. If we read
our future destiny in the log-book of the past,
we shall encounter the furious storm and the
perilous reef. But the needle of Hope points
not to the past —the future is its magnet; and
we challenge our fellow-adventurers to a test of
speed to the haven of success.
Changes. —The Albany Courier lias been
merged in the dour mil Messenger.
John Forsyth, Esq., editor o'” the Columbus
Times, has resigned the editorial chair to James
N. Bcthune, Esq.
A. G. Summer, Esq., editor of the South Caro
linian, has turned over the editorial management
of that print to Wm. B. Johnson, Esq.
N. M. Calder, Esq., editor of the Cherokee Ad
vocate, has disposed of his interest in that paper
to M essrs. Hunt &. Campbell.
Messrs. Sibley ft. Dyke have disposed of their
interest in the Tallahassee Floridian, to Messrs.
A. E. Maxwell and R. fi. Smith.
ITT We clip the following from the Columbus
Enquirer:
“ Our City— Its Prospects—Railroad—Capi
tal—.Manufactures, S, c. —At the commencement
of the Now Year, we look at home and around
us with lively hopes and expectations of tbe fu
ture.
“ The Muscogee Railroad is now fairly in
progress of construction, not upon paper but oeer
ground. Suffice it to say, that the capital and
energy now brought to this work ran accomplish
anything. Our Factory improvements are go
ing up beyond our most sanguine expectations,
and their success is equaling the most sanguine
expectations of those engaged in them. All that
is wanting to make our city not only the Lowell
of the South, Imt of the United States, is capital,
and that is rapidly tending tow ards it.
Col Furisli Carter, long and favorably known
to the people of Georgia, not only as a large cap
italis', but as a man of >:reat caution and pru
dence, has now near completion one of the larg
est ( lass of Factory buildings, and ft is said in
tends immediately to erect another. In these
it is his purpose to employ slave labor, thus di
verting a per ion of this from the production to
the manufacture of our great staple 51
Shall the South he forever dependant upon
Northern capitalists and factories? What has
been and is now being accomplished by enter
prising Southern men furnish us the answer
Georgia lias some reason to boast of her rapid
advancement towards iiulcpender.ee of foreign
labor and capital. Rush forward the good work.
We are not of those who, like the cur in the
manger, will not allow others to do that which
we are not prepared to do ourselves. Therefore
we say, success to our enterprising fellow-citi
zens ol Coiumbus. But why may not Macon
outstrip our sister city in enterprise ? There is
no assignable reason.
The wealth of a State consists not merely in
tlie discovery of its resources, hut in their ma
ture development, and in making them profita
ble to ourselves. Its resources will remain un
discovered and undeveloped,and its wealth will
diminish, so long ns it depends upon others for
what its own labor and skill can very readily
prod lice.
We have as good streams and steam as any —
the materials tire at our doors, and capital can
be drawn from the strong boxes iff the wealthy
by proper inducements.
Some may object that it is impracticable to
procure operatives. There is no real objection
here. Experience lias attested the efficiency of
black operatives In tbe Factory of Forsyth iV
Cos., at, or near, Milton, Fla., from which large
quantities ofcotton fabrics aro annually shipped
to New Orleans, as we are informed, slaves are
advantageously employed.
But our minds look beyond the minor barriers
presented to the ultimate good to bo reached.
No great object is attained without difficulty ;
and the incalculable benefits resulting to those
who invest their capital in manufactures and
products of every kind—to trade—to cities, and
to the State generally—will more than compen
sate for the difficulty of the undertaking.
Duties of Parents.— Under the claims of so
cial organization, no parent has a right to cast
his children upon the world. He is hound to
provide for his children to the utmost of his
power, with the means of obtaining a livelihood,
so that they may not become a burden upon so
ciety, or be led into vice through the rugged
avenues of poverty. This ran only he done
either by funding for each child such a sum that
his interest of it will provide for his or her life,
or the “ more excellent way” of furnishing them
with the knowledge and habits of industry which
are even more inalienable and more productive
than funded wealth. Habits of industry and ca
pacity for labor are by fur the most reliable re
sources and means of livelihood. It is therefore
the two-fold duty of every man—his duty ns a
parent and as a citizen—to provide his children
with these whether he gives them wealth or no.”
,V. Y. Commercial .
The Cholera.
By Telegraph to the Savannah Georgian, of
Jan. Ist, it is stated that three new cases and
one death by cholera occurred at the New York
U'larantine on the 28th ult. On the foll ow i n „
day three more new cases occurred, all anion!
old residents at the hospital.
Cholera in New Orleans.—The deaths b v
cholera in New Orleans Charity Hospital 01,
the 22d were 22 ; the new cases admitted, fort,,
one- The interments in the city on the 22d
were sixty-nine, of which forty-five were by
cholera.
The Crescent City of Monday, received by
last night's mail, says : “ We regret to say that
the epedemic has not decreased since our last
hut on the contrary has become more extended!
The interments in the city for the 24 hours end
ing at 12 o’clock yesterday, were over 100, of
which 84 were of cholera. This does not in.
elude Lafayette, and is almost equal tothe high
cst number in any one day during the terrible
epidemic of 1847.” Georgian.
Later papers bring the cheering intelligence
that the mortality in Now Orleans is rapidly
abating.
Tbe following letter «as received bv a ge*.
llcinan in Charleston :
“ New Orleans, Dec. 23,1848.
“Tlie cholera has paralyzed business to « u
enormous extent. Our hotels are nearly vacant
all that-could leave are gone. Within two day s
that epidemic has taken not only the poor and
exposed, hut some of our best citizens.”
By Telegraph to the Mobile Register g,- Jour
nal from Now Orleans, Dec. 28, 9 p. M . j, „
stated that the interments for twenty-four hours -1
numbered ninety-two. Total number of cases 9
one hundred and fourteen.
Later.— By a Telegraphic despatch, dated •
Dec. 31—8 p. M., to the Register Journal, ws ■
learn that to 1 o'clock of that day, the Board of I
Health reported a sensible decline of tile epi- 1
domic. Interments of cholera, 21 —total 87 fi
The Charity Hospital admitted of cholera na- 9
tients. 34; other diseases, 32. Discharged of I
cholera, IG; deaths by cholera, 2(».
Cholera in Mobile.— “A few ca-os or tin.
disease,” says the same paper, “ made their ap. M
pea ranee in this city on Friday night and Batiir. nj
day morning. Os the eight persons atlai-kni 1
by cholera, up to the morning of the Ist., feir B
were convalescent.
Effect of Loin PnrimiNr.—
of a village congregation, in a neighborin'!
State, was completely upset lately by the folle».
ing circums’nncc :
An eccentric preacher, intending to illnstmtJ
the superior ( ffn iency ol loud and earnest prentli-l
ing over that which was calm and deliberate ini
tone and manner, turned to one of his brctitrenl
and said—“ Brollic r M ,if I w ere to say in
von, in a very low tone of voice and unexcited|
manner, 1 Your home is on fire, —your house is!
on fire;’ would you not suppose that I was jest- \
ing with you, and the (.Velar:.lion would produo:
no effect? But if I were to cry out, ‘Brother!
M , your house is on fire ! 1 snv, sir,
Just at this moment one of his auditors who u«
C(l tin ear-trumpet, not having caught any pars
of the sentence except tbe cry of fire, uttered in
tbm and r tones and w ith accordant look and jes-l
Dire, and supposing some part of tlie village i
be in flames, started from bis seat, drnj prd I Ii
ear-trumpet, and without hut or benedictie: 1
rushed down the aisle, shouting at the lopnfl i
voice—“ li. if.rs ' J:re !" The effect of tii,
unexpected scene upon the congn gntion m
truly moling ; and the preacher sat down, tie
roughly satisfied with ibis practical illustrate
of I be influence of loud and earnest preaching t
The \Y AsmxcToN National MosuHEin-l
J lie . \utionul Intel. tgtncir ,s:t\s :—i lice tin®
closing of the masonry work of tlie IbundatiMiK
of >his great structure, and securing the wort
trom injury during the winter months, the mi
blu blocks have been put upon the banker?
be rut, preparatory to being set in the spring,:"
rearing the obelisk which is to surmount theseß
foundations. Some of these marble blocks tm m
sure thirty cubic feet, and are pure w liite, will m
out a discoloring vein. Its effect in mass w 9
he splendid, arid, when meeting the sun’s n»- S
brilliant to the ey e. The foundations for il'fl
marble pillar are of solid musoiirv, eight-.-
feet square tit the base, and twenty-four fedthi:<
—seventeen feet of w liieli show above the groin
The position of the Monument commands wjfl
of the most picturesque and interesting vie"
that can he imagined. To the north and
the eye takes in the public buildings, to f jS|
south it looks down a long rerch of water, i:
noble Potomac, terminated by Alexandria ’
Fort Washington ; and to the west rise the: M
turesque highlands of Potomac.
Florida Senator. — Gen. J. Morton, * M
elected United States Senator on the Ist if; -
by the Legislature of Florida, to succeed IF 'ajj
J. I). YVestcott, Jr.
(FJ’Tlic cars are now running daily bctwet’JS
Kingston and Rome. The completion of and ?
branch of our State road, w ill be quite an i ; 9
provemeut to the commerce of Macon, ipig uil 9
and other cities.
Moral Greatness. —Moral greatness ft 1
sists not in the office a man fills, or in the *
vation he lias reached by the zeal of his Iriet*
The humblest individual in our ncighborli ol **-
may in reality be tbe greatest man into"*' ®
He is unknown by the crowd ; but in cjrrh j|?
principles, moral habits, unbending integrity,
shows grandeur of character, which no Bis* hr
power can boast. His talents lind exertion*'
forming and fixing the habits of multitudes
are not sensible of tlie influence he has us
them. lie works silently, judiciously and c( |
stonily. This is moral gre <tness. When . |
find a man leading you along imperceptihl), |
by silken cords and silent resistless appeals,.' .|
may be sure he possesses in a pre-eminent
grec the elements of real greatness.
(UP Thu Latireusville Herald, of the the- 1
ult. says : “We are pleased to learn that the
gislatnre has taken from the Rail Road G" 11
ny the Charter to the Bridge, and given !t |
Henry Bliultz and John McKiiiuie.’