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tS&jrbzKaRST EDITED AND PUBLISHED WfULT, BY HARRISON A ttYEBS. CITY P R I.YT ER 9. From the National Intelligencer. New Yore, February 10, 1849. The first Balloon from. Yew York for Califoma and a market— has not sailed yet, but will short ly have dispatch - accommodation* for passen gers all taken up—letter bag still open. “ I had a dream which was not all a dream;" nor is the above announcement all a joke, however much it mav have that appearance. There is a com pany’here seriously at work constructing a bal loon to carry passengers to California. Tho achievements of the human intellect are gener ally in some degree proportionate to tho stimu lus or strength of motive with which the object is pursued: and ifever so grand an achievement in *ro«tation is to’be accomplished, perhaps the eager desire of people to get to the land of gold may be the very stimulus or motive nece sary to produce so wonderiul a result. “ Hunger will break through a stone wallwho then shall sav that the love of gold may not enable a man to sail round the earth in an air-balloon ? The company to which I have referred have their model balloon and apparatus just completed, and intend to make a public exhibition of it in the Broadway Tabernacle in the course of the coming week. The model balloon is twenty four foet rn length, and two feet in diameter at the centre, running to a point at each end. It is to move horizontally, point foremost, like a fish in the water. The motive power is a small steam engine, connected with a sort of screw propeller at the stern, which acts upon the air something like the wings of a w ind-mill. The inventor promises that it shall sail round the in terior of the Tabernacle like a trout in a mill pond, or perhaps more like a goldfish in a glass globe. If the performance of the model prove satis factory, he will immediately construct his pas senger balloon for California, which he proposes shaft be five hundred feet in length, and forty feet in diameter at the centre, running to a point at each end, like a parabolic spindle in geometry. A long cabin or saloon is to be suspended below the balloon for passengers, machinery, &c The engine is to be about four-horse power. There arc to be two screw propellers, the fans of each to be twenty feet in diameter. The rudder is so arranged as to vary the direction of the balloon to the tight or left, or up or down, as circum stances may require. By calculation it is esti mated that the balloon, of the size, mentioned, filled with hydrogen gas, will carry about five tons besides its own weight and necessary ma chinery. This would enable it to carry perhaps fifty passengers with a reasonable amount of bag gage . The inventor says be can build bis grand bal loon in three or four weeks. He will make one or two trial trips, perhaps to Washington or Bos ton, before starting on his voyage across the Rocky mountains. It is hardly probable he wil get to Washington in time for the inauguration. The time estimated for a voyage to California is some four or five days, sailing only by daylight, and anchoring during tho night. Upwads of two hundred names are already booked to secure the right of precedence in passages if the expe riment is successful. Now, this will appear to most people to be a ridiculous visionary project, and 1 have no idea of asking nnv one to put the least faith in it, or expect anv tiling to come of it. But, after all, does its success look more improbable than a de scription of tho present achievements of steam on land and water would have appeared half a century ago? Oran account of the present tel egraphic communications ten years ago? I am not prepared to say that something great and stu pendous will not iet be accomplished in aerosta tion. It is not quite seventy years since all Bar is turned out with wonderment to see a balloon, filled with heated atmosphoric air, ascend a few hundred feet above their dwellings. This sug gested to philosophers the idea of using hydro gen gas for like purposes, the extreme lightness of which enabled it to sustain great weight in tlm atmosphere. The subject was pursued for a while in France and England with great zeal, and in some eases with grand results. People began to ascend with halloonsand make voyages of greater or less distance, till in one case they reached three hundred miles, and sometimes moved with a speed of seventy or eighty miles nn hour. If a sufficient propelling power and a mode of steering can be snecessfu’y attached to the balloon, the grand problem would of course be solved. Since the above was put in type, we have seen an account of the admirable working of the mo del of this /Erial Steamer, from the N. Y. Sun. “In tho model exhibited," says that paper, “the fans.cr propellers, were driven by a small chro nometer spring, as a substitute for a steam en gine. On being inflated and set in motion, the little steamer flew rapidly around the ball, in every direction, as steered by the rudder. No demonstration could be more convincing, and nil present expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the exhibition of the model. The rate of speed was fifty feet in five seconds. A large Aerial, to carry sixty passengers, it is estimated will travel at the rate of one hundred miles an hour in calm weather, and at the rate of seventy miles an hour against an ordinary breeze.” The World’s Chances —lt is a sad, but in structive thought, that we live in a world of change. From the cradle to the grave, tho evi dences of this painful truth are ever impressing themselves on the mind. Os all the varied ob jects that twine themselves round our hearts in youth, how few cling to its maturer years ! —how fe w of our precious hopes are not wrecked and borne away on the resistless waves of change I Y'et, sad ns are the other effects of change, it contains in its full quiver one arrow more keen and deadly than the rest. When he whom vve have cherished as “ our heart’s core, aye, in our heart of hearts,” meets us with a cold and aver ted gaze—when the eye that used to beam on us with a tender and mellow lustre, no longer re turns our glances, and the face of him that was dearest to us wears “the look of a stranger,”— then has change done its worst work for us, and we may smile at its further visitations. It is hard to lose our friends by separations—and yet more painful and solemn is it to lose them hy death ; but still we lose them as friends—we lose them while affection is reciprocal ; and, as our spirits may still commingle, their memory is “pleasant, though mournful to the soul.” But when the being we love lives, and is estranged, “ there is,” as one has truly said, “ a gap be tween us, deep and wide, which we can neither fill up nor cross over.” Then the past is deso lation, the present is bitterness, the future is a blank, and the only iodyne the crushed heart can hope to find is the lethargy of forgetfulness. Yankee Blade. (O’“How strange it is,” said a lady, “that fashionable parties should thus be culled routs! — Why rout formerly signified the defeat of an army; and when all the soldiers were potto flight or the sword, they were said to he routed This title has some propriety, too ; for, at these meetings, whole families are routed out of house and home." What lock is designed to secure the highest benefits to mankind ? Wed-lock. A New Species of Cotton.— Gen G. D. Mitchell, of Warren county, Mississippi, now in this city, bas with bim specimens of anew kind of Cotton which he calls the Prolific Pome granate, surpassing any ol the gossypium family we have ever seen. The General has brought with him the tops and side branches, just as they were taken from the plant, all thickly stud ded with open bolls to show the growth of the stalk, disposition of the bolls, Ac., and wilh the evidences thus presented, every intelligent plan ter will at once acknowledge its superiority over all other kinds. The stalk does not attain a height tinsually of more than four or five feet, but every portion of the plant, is literally cover ed with "bolls, which are sustained in !.n upright position by the strength and vigor of the slem and branches.—The chief peculiarity of this plant is that the stem nnd branches have no joints as in other kinds—and although the bolls are so numerous there can he no inconvenience in picking. In fact, an expert picker might at one grab gather half a dozen at a time. This advan tage will be well understood and appreciated by planters—We are free to acknowledge that the Prolific Pomegranate is a superior kind of Cot ton. The staple is beautiful,and far more silky than the best Petit Gulf. All this can he satis factorily illustrated by Geii. M. with the sam ples—ginned, in the boll and on the stock— which he has with him. lie is nn intelligent and experienced planter, and is therefore able to speak from his own knowledge. From one-third of an acre, measured, lie gath ered nnd weighed thb past season two thousand one hundred and forty-two pounds of superior Cotton. One hundred pounds of the seed Cot ton yielded thirty-two and a half pounds lint, and by an accurate test lie found that sixtv-five bolls made one pound of lint. Gen. Mitchell Vvill remain in the city a few davs, and may be -sen at the counting room of M essrs. Baker, Williams & Cos. where samples of the Cotton may be inspected. —Motile Herald. O’ In a recent discourse on the Life and Character of the late Hon. Jeremiah Mason, Mr. Webs’er gave the following views on the sub ject of Religion : But—political eminence and professional fame fade away and die with all things earthly Noth ing of character is really permanent, but virtue and personal worth. They remain.—Whatever of excellence is wrought into the soul itself, be longs to both worlds. Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this iife, it points to a notlier world. Political or professional fame cannot last forever, but a conscience void ot of fence before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity. Religion, therefore, is a necessary, an indispensibln element in anv great human char acter. There is no living without it. Religion is the tie that connects man wilh his Creator and holds him to his throne. If that tie be sun dered, and broken, lie floats away, a worthless atom in the universe, its proper attractions all gone, its destiny thwarted, and its whole future nothing but darkness, desolation and death. A man with no sense ofreligious duty, is lie whom the scriptures describe, — in such terse hut terri fic manner, —as “ living without God in the world.” Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the cir cle of all his happiness, and away from the pur poses of liis creation. A mind like Mr. Mason’s, active, thoughtful, penetrating, sedate, could not hut meditate deep ly on the condition of man below and feel its re sponsibilities. He could not look on his won drous frame— “ The universal frame thus wondrous fair," without feeling that it was created and upheld by an intelligence to which all other intelligen ces must be responsible. lam bound to say that in the course of my life I never met with an in dividual in any profession or condition in life, who always spoke and always thought with such awful reverence of the power and presence of God. No irreverence, no lightness, even on too familiar allusion to G«d mid his attributes, ever escaped his lips. The very notion of a Supreme Being was with him made up of awe and solemnity. It filled the whole of liis great mind with the strongest emotions. A man, like him, with all his proper sentiments alive in him, must in this state of existence, have something to believe and something to hope for, nr else ns life is advancing to its close and parting, all is heart sinking and oppression. Depend upon it —whatever else may be the mind of an old man —old age is only really happvwhen, on feeling too enjoyments ot tins world pass awav it be gins to lay a strong hold on those of another. Guizot’s last compliment to Washington. —This celebrated minister of Louis I’hillippe has devoted liis leisure moments to the composition of a work which lie has recently published. It is a treatise on French democracy There is one passage, ns it appears in the English papers, which shows how truly he continues to estimate the character of Washington. He formerly pro nounred a splendid eulogium upon that distin guished man. “ Washington has no resemblance to Napole on. lie was not a despot. lie founded the po litical liberty at the same time as the national independence of liis country. He used war on ly as a means to peace. Raised to the supreme power without amuition lie descended from it without regret, as soon as the safety of liis coun try permitted. lie is the model for all demo cratic chiefs. Now you have only to examine his life, liis soul, his acts, his thoughts, his words; you will not find a single mark of con descension, a single moment of indulgence, for the favorite ideas of democracy He constantly struggled—struggled even to weariness and sad ness —against its slightest exactions. No man was ever more profoundly imbued with the spirit of government or with respeet for authori ty. He never exceeded the right of power, ac cording to the laws of his country ; hut he con firmed and maintained them, in principle as well as in practice, os firmly, as loftily as he could have done in an old monarchical or aristocratic al state. He was one of those who knew that it is no more possible to govern from below, in a republic than in a monarchy—in a democratic than in an aristocratic society ” Orators and Newspapers.—Compare the orator, one of the noblest vehicles for the diffu sion of thought, with the newspaper, and we may gain a faint glimpse of the übiquitous power of the latter. The orator speaks but to a few hundreds, the newspaper addresses millions. The words of the orator may die in the air, the language of the newspaper is stamped on tablets imperishable as marble. The arguments of the orator may follow each other so rapidly that a majority of the audience may struggle in a net of ratiocination—the reasoning of the newspa per may be scanned at leisure without a fear of perplexity. The passion of the orator influences an assembly, the feelings of a newspaper elec trifies a continent. The orator is for an edifice, the newspaper for tho world—the one shines for an hour, the other grows for all time—the orator may be compared to lightning which flashes over a valley for a moment, but it leaves it again in darkness; the newspaper to a sun blazing stea dily over the whole earth, and “fixed outlie basis of its own entprnily.” Printing has been happily defined, “the art which preserves all arts.” Printing makes the orator more than an orator. It catches up his dying words, and breathes into them the breath of life. It is the -peaking gallery through which the orator thun ders in the ears of ages. He leans from the tomb over tho cradle of rising generations. MACON, G A_. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1849 NOTIC E.- The “MU THKHN SHTSEI M” Office has hern removed to the Brick Build in". at the Corner of Cotton Avrnne nnd I-’irst Street, formerly occupied as the “Re public’’ Office. |pr*\Ve are indebted to the Editors of the Sa vannah Republican for an extra containing the news per steamer Cherokee, which vessel arriv ed at Savannah on Saturday morning last, from New York, having made the trip from bar to bar in fifty-eight hours, bringing fifty-five passengers, fourteen of whom w ere for Montgomery, Ala. YW Mr C. A. F. Irving, of this city, was on the 27th ult. chosen Agent of Transportation of the Central Rail Road at Savannah. Mr. Har daway is appointed Agent of Transportation at Macon,to supply the place vacated by Mr. Irving Mr Polk.—lt is supposed that Mr. Polk will leave Washington on the 6th of March, after witnessing the inauguration of Gen. Taylor, and return home tia Richmond, Charleston, Savan nah and Macon, spending a day in each city. California not ancient Ophir.—A doubt about the correctness of Major Noah's opinion, that California was the Ophir from whence Solo mon obtained his gold, having been expressed in our presence, we were led to examine the sub ject. The Major assumes that the final disper sion of the ten tribes took place before Solomon built his Temple, and states that a portion of them inhabited California when the ships of Solomon made their three years’ voyaga to Ophir (California,) and furnished the gold for the Temple. On examining the history of the ten tribes, it will be found that their separation from Judah, whence their independent existence dates, was effected in the days of Rehoboam, son of Solomon, and that their first considerable captivity occurred two hundred and fifty years, and their final captivity, two hundred and eighty years, after the building of the Temple. And, moreover, ancient Ophir was known long before the days of Solomon, or even of Moses, or per haps even of Abraham himself, if the critics are correct in their views of the antiquity of Job. We respectfully refer the Major to the twenty eighth chapter and sixteenth verse of that anci ent book, where lie will find the “ gold of Ophir” mentioned. Besides, someone lias lately asked the question, “ whether the apes and peacocks brought to Solomon in his Ophir ships, were na tives of California, and if so, why are they not found there at this time ?” Wo suppose the whole matter will resolve itself into a case similar to one we have some where met with, and as it will hear a second reading, we will venture to give it. A relic- Monger exhibiting nn ancient sword, declared it to be the identical one with which Balaam smote the speaking ass. L T pon its being suggested, that Balaam only wished for a sword, he still main tained the value of his relic, by stating it to be “ the very sword Balaam wished for." So, if the Jews never did obtain gold from California, they wish they had done so. ITOur familiar, Pete, (all Editors have one, who lets them into a thousand secrets,) is an in veterate punster. Here are a pair of his latest. Meeting Tom B. in the street, with a hand kerchief round his jaws, a swollen face and a lu gubrous countenance, Pete’s sympathies were excited, and he wislir.d to know from Tom the occasion of his suffering. “Ah' hoy,” says Tom, “ did you ever have the Tic Donloureaux ?” “ No and yes,” answered Pete ; “ tick 1 have not, hut dollar oice , I am afraid, will he inscrib ed on my tomb stone.” The oilier day, Pete saw Squire B.’s bov Har ry, trudging along with an artn full of law books, the centre of gravity of which he maintained ‘‘over the base,” with some difficulty, and he accosted him with, “ Well, Harry, I see you are hard at work steadying law.” Harry let the books full on the spot. It was too much for him to hear. (O’We learn from the Athens Post that at a meeting of the new Board of Directors of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, on the 21st ult., A. D. Keyes was re-elected President and R C Jackson Secretary. The new route by Cleveland has been decided upon, and several thousand dollars worth of stqck subscribed for. The point of intersection with the Western and Atlantic Railroad had not been determined upon hut it was thought Dalton would be the place. S. A. Smith, Esq. of Cleveland, has been ap pointed special agent to procure subscriptions to fill up the remainder of the $150,000 of stock to be taken by the people of East Tennessee. The probability is that this Road will he completed. A Good Retort.—Not long since a gentle man, well know'n to the Bar in this State, en gaged in a case in Court, was proceeding with his rejoinder to the argument of Counsel on the oiherside, when the Judge suddenly interrupted him : “ 1 opinion of the Court has been given on this point, and further argument is unnecessary.” “ A,a y please your Honor,” replied the Counsel, “ I will cite but one more authority, which, w ith deference to the Court, 1 conceive to be conclusive.” “The gentleman will desist, —the Court has decided the point-” “ May I ask the indulgence of the Court?” said the Counsel, enquiringly, as he laid his hand on a volume of Blackstone. “ No, sir ; do you expect to change the opin ion of the Court ? asked the Judge in an angry tone. “By no means, may it please your Honor,” replied the Counsel, as he took his seat, “ I wished merely to shew what an ass Blackstone tens O* Tho Maysvillc (Ky ) Morning Herald says: “ Dr. Graham, the well-known proprie tor of the Springs of Harrodsburgh, in this State, is having a three-story hotel made in Louisville, which he intends taking to San Francisco, where he will open tavern for the accommodation of tho Californians. ’’ SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES. We are gratified to learn that several leading papers of the South and Southwest, are advoca ting the true interests of thisseclion of the Union by recommending the establishment of manufac tories. The South will never reach the height ofprosperity of which she is susceptible, until her industrial pursuits become more diversified. Were it not for that insatiate propensity for land and negroes, which characterizes most of our people, the Southern States would soon attain a degree of prosperity hitherto unknown, provi ded the large capital thus used should be invest ed in manufactories and other profitable employ ments. We have authentic information to prove that manufactories at the South have invariably paid large dividends, where the business lias been properly managed whilst the like amount of capital invested in land and negroes has ofton been left for the Sheriffs to declare the diridends. What we would ask, but the industrial pursuits, commerce and diversity of labor of the people of Boston, has made that city worth as much as the whole State of North Carolina ? What else beside the miserable spirit of dependancc upon others for almost every thing we consume, has kept our people as mere producers of the raw material for our more enterprising rivals abroad? Why should so much of the cotton of the South be sent to the Northern and Eastern States, as well as to Great Britain, to he manufactured into goods of various kinds, and to the injury, indi rectly at least, of the great body of Southern capitalists and citizens ? Why, also,should the South buy breadstuff’s from the West, to feed her working population, while, to a very considera ble extent at least, she could raise these bread stuffs herself? We coincide with the New Or leans Times, that there is no fair reciprocity in this trade—that the Western people do not take our cotton in exchange for their flour and pork, but exact coin. The editor of the Times states that South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis sippi and Louisiana, pay out more than two fifths of the entire proceeds of their staple for pork, flour, lard, mules, bagging and rope —all, or the most of which, could be produced at home. The value of the cotton crop in the States named, he estimates at $54,000,000 per annum : and the expenses at somewhat over $22,000,000. A large portion of the surplus, he urges, goes to the West for provisions. Hence the policy of a change of labor in the South is earnestly advo cated. The Nashville Banner say* that the im mense force now employed in the culture of cot ton must he reduced—that the producer must be come the consumer to a greater extent. Manu facturers must be encouraged, and a diversity of employment is essential. The Montgomery ( Ala.) Advertiser follows out the argument still further, thus : “ Massachusetts has about 800,000 inhabitants. Alabama about 700,000. The former is rich in wealth, and is looking forward to a rapidly in creasing prosperity. The latter is rich in pro ductive labor, rich in virgin soil, and can see no clear vision of prosperity ahead. Why is this ? Alabama has at least 300,000 producers ; Massa chusetts has not a much greater number. The true reason is, that the people of Massachusetts ( we mean the great body of the people ) produce everything they consume except, perhaps cotton, sugar and coffee; the people of Alabama buy from other States everything they consume. The product of labor is in the one case retained at home —in the other sent abroad A Massachu setts village presents a lively scene of activity. The men, and the women, too, are as busy as bees. Trades ofall kinds are followed ; and by their skill and industry there is added to the whole value of the raw materials produced mainly by the farmer from 50 to 200 per cent, value. Iron ore, cotton, flax, hemp, wool, hides, and innumerable other raw materials, arc mer chantable goods. The aggregate wealth of the country is thus advanced by every man’s becom ing a producer. In our Southern villages there is little known of artizan skill. ’Tis true we have mechanics engaged in their respective cal lings; but they are not encouraged, and they have not the facilities of Northern mechanics for labor, because they are not encouraged. Hence we have among u< a sickly system of mechanic al industry. This can be corrected by our own people. If they will encourage home labor they will bring it among them. Until this done, the advantages of mechanical labor will he unknown among us.” The Natchez Courier also says: “One thing is positively clear; the cotton growing States must possess themselves of a portion of the pro fits attendant upon the fabiication of their great staple into the various descriptions of cloth, be fore they can flourish as the God of Nature in tended them to flourish. They must awake to their true interests, and vie with their Northern brethren in enterprise and energy, before they can hope to receive remunerating prices for their labor. If vast fortunes can be made in the man ufacture of cotton, two or or five thousand miles from the States in which it is grown, how pro fitable will it become when carried on in the very midst of the cotton fields? But vve have sufficiently adverted to this portion of the sub ject in former numbers, and will dismiss it, hop ing that the price of cotton will not have to de preciate further, before our planters will awake to the overwhelming importance of Home Man ufactures.” The reader will perceive that this movement is one of no little interest and importance. It is rapidly acquiring strength in the Soutli and South-West, and promises, before long, to be come the leading topic of the day. As having a decided hearing upon the case, vve may state that according to the best informa tion at onr command, the aggregate values of the crops and manufactures of the Eastern and Middle States, in 1848, were as follow's: Crops, .... $215,300,000 Manufactures, - - - 252,000,000 In the Southern and Western States, the ag gregates were as follows: Crops, .... $336,000,000 Manufactures, • - . 51,100,000 In the Eastern and Middle States, the excess of goods overcrops amounted to $36,700,000- while in the Southern and Western, the crops exceeded the manufactures, to the enormous amount of $26-1,900,000. The News by the Kuropsu The New York paper of the 23d inst. contain some additional news by the Europa, front which we extract the following : The demand for Cotton has continued exten sive during the past fortnight, and sales to a very large extent have taken place. The prices of American remain without much, if any change, hut Brazil or South American kinds being in very active request, both for con sumption or on speculation, have advanced one eighth of a penny per pound. The import during the two weeks is 65,000, of which 52,000 is from the United States, and the stock now in this port is estimated at 407,- 000 against 232,000 at same period last season. The stock of American is about 245,000, being an increase of 102,000 bales. Money at call may be said to rangdat about I.J per ct. Tiie pacific tone of our government, the improved condition of the public revenue, and perhaps the increasing prospects of large remit tances of gold from California, have tended to this result. The Bank of France has now a large amount of notes in circulation, and in spite of their en deavors to keepvvitliin the limits of 450 millions allowed by law, the necessities of the Govern ment will probably compel some encroachment upon the principles generally practised by the Directors. The stock of bullion, bovver, still increases as well as the account on the government, hut this arises from the receipt of the last installment of the loan. The Europa arrived at New York early on the morning of the 24th. She lias made a win. ter passage in less than fourteen days. The packet ships Waterloo and Queen of the West, arrived out after the extraordinary short run of fifteen days. The gold excitement in England is intense— the people were literally mad. Irelaud. —The writs of Erroi to the House of Lords, in the cases of Smith O’Brien, McManus, and O’Donehue, have been issued from the writ office of the Court of Chancery. It is the opinion of some of the best legal au thorities, that the appeal cannot fail of being successful. Mr. Meagher has taken no steps for an appeal. His own means being exhausted, he refuses all pecuniary aid from his friends. The New York Tribune, in alluding to the effect of the news by the Europa, says : “ The effect of the present condition of business in England must be highly favorable upon the trade of this country. Our products are selling freely, and at fair prices; and the demand for our stocks will prevent any rise in the price of hills, so that no disturbance of our monetary af fairs can be apprehended from a renewal of the export of specie. Even with the large importa tions of foreign goods into this country, we ap pear at present to be much more likely to im port than to export coin. There lias not been, for a series of years, so healthy a condition of the general business of the country as at pres ent.” The Ex-King of the French. —“La Cor saire,” a Paris paper, says : “Louis Pliillippe lias written a letter to M. Louis Bonaparte, and to M. Odillon Barrot, President of the Council, in which he declares the purity of his intentions, and his desire not to occupy himself with politics in case he shall be permitted to return to France. “All my ambition,” says be, “will be to live as a good citizen.’’ Louis Pliillippe does not ask the chateau of Neuillyr for a residence, on ac count of its proximity to Paris, he desires per mission only to occupy the chateau of Randan in Auvergne On returning to France, he and his sons will take an oath by which they will bind themselves to renounce all pretensions to the French crown. Neither the President oflhe Republic nor the President of the Council, it is added, have as yet taken this strange epistle in to consideration.” The Sox of Louis xvi in Wisconsin. —Rev. Mr. Porter, of Green Bay, in writing to Rev, Mr. Peet, makes the following remark : “We have all been surprised at developments which go to prove that Rev Mr. Williams, of this vi cinity, is the son of Louis XVI of France. Colonel Jack llavs. —This officer, so distin guished as a partisan in the recent war, who was supposed to have lost his life in a skirmish with a party of Mexicans, has returned with his com panions to San Antonio. The cause of their long detention was, that they—Hays and his party—had been led astray by their Indians, and got lost in the mountains, among which they wandered a long time, without being able to find their way out, and were in danger of starvation. They killed their mules and subsisted on the flesh ; and one of the party perished of thirst, water being as scarce as food. The party met some Indians, whose horses they took, or they might not have got back ; and they recoved from them a small white Mexican boy, that they had stolen in some of their inroads into the settle ment. Kissing with a Will. —The Louisville Journal, in its account of the reception by Gen. Tavlor of the Ladies at the Galt House, says : “Many of them offered their bright and beauti ful lips and received as hearty kisses as lips could possibly desire. Some of the jealous young gen tlemen thought that the old chieftain, instead of kissing as a mere matter of form, kissed with a very decided appetite.” Post Office in Old Time — A Cincinnati Editor, in writing home from Washington, com municates the following antiquarian intelligence “l was shown by the chief clerk in the inter ior department of the P. Office the first ledger opened by the United States during the Admin istration of Dr. Franklin, the first Postmaster General in the service. It is a blank book of some three or four quires, very little superior to any day-blotter of the present age : but it suf fices to hold all the post office accounts in June, 19,1775. 1 observe Dr. Franklin charges I imself with one year’s salary from that date, $t 1000. It serves to give a forcible impression of the pro gress of this department since that time. All the entries are made in his own hand wriring, while at this time there are over one hundred and twenty persons employed in various capac ities in this Department. Slave Trading.—The Southern Recorder of the 27th ult. says : “ The progress of this illegal practice has met with a check, and has indeed, we presume, so far as this vicinage is concerned been decisively arrested, in a case which has just occurred. Two slave speculators reached, this place some days ago, with a number of ne groes for sale. The owners were promptly ar rested at the instance of the Mayor, and brought before the Council. The parties were saved from going to jail by giving bond and security for their appearance next morning, in the sum of one thousand dollars. At the time for their ap. pearance it seems the parties arrested had judg. ed it best to forfeit their bond and pay the penal ty ( which vve presume they had secured to their security ) rather than abide the issue of the law they had violated. We presume that the pro ceedings in this case, will in future turn the di. rection of these dealing in negroes, in violation of law, to any other quarter rather than this.” High and Dry.— The Cincinnati Commer cial is responsible for the following : The popular steamer Albatross, Capt. C. D. Rohinsor, arrived yesterday afternoon from New Orleans. During the trip up, the Albatross had occasion to stop at the mouth of Green River to put out two hogsheads of sugar. She reached that point at night—no light to be seen, and the river was at high flood—the town at the mouth being almost entirely inundated. “ Hallo !” cried the captain, “ who keeps this town ?” “ Hallo ! yourself, ’ sang out a voice from the midst of the darkness. “ Where’s your wharf-boat ? Show your light we’ve got freight for you,” cried the captain. “ The wharf-boat’s drifted off—there a’nt no lights about—and you can’t land any freight ” was the categorical reply. “ Strike a light,” shouted the captain,—“ s e t us see to get in.’’ “ Show a light yourself, lyid let me see to get out.” “Where are you?” cried the captain. “ Up a tree !’’ answered the voice. The boat sent in her yawl, and sure enough found a man with a bundle under his arm, perch ed in a tree, the rising waters stealing slowly upon his resting nlarp. Gold Gallop.—The New York Express sums up the Californin excitement by saying r Gold is in everybody’s mouth, on everybody’s tongue, in everybody’s face. Every thing looks yellow. Walk from the battery up to Grace Church, nnd one hears nothing but “ when are you off?”—“ lend a hundred dollars,” —« work passage,” “ Jones went off yesterday,*’ “Smith starts to-night,”—“ wife provided for,’' “ twenty pound lumps,” “ pickaxes,’* “shovels,"—“sifters,” —“jack knives,” —« Sa. ernmentn," —“ twenty earrats fine,” —“ got u letter from Jenkins yesterday—Jenkins has dug up a couple of millions,"—“ the real dust,”— “ Cape Horn too tedious,” —“ over land,” or “ through that monumental canal just discovered, you know, at the Isthmus,"—“ Chihunhun,”— “ Santa Fe,” —“ Big Fork,’’—“ Feather River,” —“ Sutter’s Fort,”—“ brandy,”—*’ whisky,”— “ Seidlets powders,”—“ bowie knives,” —“re- volvers.” Important from Santa Fe.— Dates from San ta Fe to the 1 Gtli Dec. have been received at St. Louis, iMo. Major Beall was soon to take the field against a large party of Indians in the vi cinity of Red River, with the view of compell ing them to make a treaty of peace. The In dians were constantly committing depredations on the inhabitants of Chihuahua. Kit Carson was at Santa Fe on the Ist of No vember. A judicial envoy from Texas had ar rived at Santa Fe with the intention of entering upon office. Tho Republican ridicules the pro tension of Texas to sovereignty over any por* tion of New Mexico. H. M. Smith, District Attorney, has arrived at Santa Fe. (ET It is stated that the Pass discovered across the mountains of California, by Capt. Lawson, lias been pronounced by a meeting of Oregon and California emigrants from the United States, to be one of the “finest in the world.” They say they found the ascent and descent to and from the mountains very gradual and easy. In the opinion of the meeting, a most practicable road can be made, with very little labor, through this pass; and this route, they say, will prove of lasting benefit to parties travelling to and from Oregon and California, and from the Uni ted States, as it has proved to them. A vote of thanks, in the form of “ three cheers,” was pre sented to Capt. Lawson. An Extraordinary Development—Diplo matic Smuggling.—The New York Commer cial Advertiser, says. “ We have seen a letter from one of the Northern European capitals, in which is disclosed a fact most humiliating to our country. It is alleged that the diplomatic re presentative of the United States, at one of tbo Northern courts, have been for some time suspet’ ted, has at length been detected in smuggling British goods—laces, calicoes, Ac., —to the mount of .$20,000 rix-dollurs, supposed to be a joint concorn with some traders in the capita 1 refered to. The ten large boxes containing the goods we< 6 represented by the diplomatic gentleman. t° con ' tain only supplies for his own family, such »» sugars, Ac. : but one of them was aceidentall) broken open in the custom-house, and the dis covery was made. The custom-house authori ties took possession of the whale. The discovery is said to have produced tl> e deepest modification among the American res'- dents.” (jjp A Mr Forbes, from Aberdeen, Scotlnnil, || has become possessed of one of the richest quick- a silver mines in the world in California. J flasks, of 75 lbs. each had been got in a vd* M short time, at an expense of ten to twelve d" l ' lars per 100 lbs. (Tr*lt is stated that the salt found in the g rc ‘'' J salt lake in California, is superior to any no"' >n |n use, for preserving butter, beef, A-c. It ■* l * l '. strongest ever yet discovered. Three barre water make one of salt.