Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

owiNßiDißit edited and published weekly, by W SI. li . 11 A1«561 SO A , CITY PItI.VT F. H ■ [ WKITftS FOH THE SItiTHtUS MUSEUM.] Mortal ’ beware of this world's gaudy show ! Tho glit'ring tinsel of b< ouTy's bright [!i,v. ' These farinatioiw lute thee away, And cuuse lliee from keaveu to go fur astray. Beware! O beware ' <f fame's dazzling glare ! N<> comfort « r good is exer found 11 1 er• •. ’Tu the beacon of sin, to tempt thy soul Vfn-'re the billows of wrath forever roll. Beware, the influence of .Mammon sf. 11 srvav ! (■littering gold cannot light up the way Which shrouded in darkness,shadowcd in »loom, Leads through the lone valley, on to the tomb. Beware! lit~sc pleasures will soon all th cay With the;?, a little while only they’ll stay ; Seek then, those pleasures that never will die And which, in reserve,are laid up on high. Beware all those things that lead thee from home, The joys of tills earth they want thee to roam forgetful of Go.J, unmindful of heaven. And scorn tho free grace the Gospel hath given Mortal! beware, of the world! turn away Destruction’s before lliee, turn while you may, Th : arm of vcngonce uplifted may swear Eternal ruin, if you persevere. PHILANTfIROPOS. Miuledueville, L’cc. 6, 1849. I herewith send you a copy of the cor respondence between the Governors of Georgia and Florida, in relation to the Found ary Lino between said States.— Also, the Report of the Trustees, Superin tendent and Resident Physician of the Lunatic Asylum of the State of Georgia, for the years 1818 and 1849. Also, the Semi-Annual Repor! of the Board of Com missioners for the Georgia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, The Committee re commend that in order to manifest the im provement of the scholars of this Institu tion, a class he invited to attend the pres ent session of the General Assembly, and its expenses be defrayed by legislative ap propriation. It also recommends the ap propriation of §4OOO, and the unexpended balance of former appropriations, in order to complete the buildings of the Institu tion. The following bills among others, have passed the House : To allow the South Western Railroad Company to build their Road through the Public Reserve near the cily of Macon, and to build adep it, &c. upon the Reserve. To incorporate the GritHn and West Point Railroad Company. To authorize the construction of a Plank ttni'l from Washington, Wilkes county, to Elberton, Elbert county. To repeal the 4'.h, sth and 6th sections of the act authorizing the further progress of the work on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, &c., approved Dec. 22, 1843. To authorize the construction of a Branch Railroad ftom some point on the South Western Railroad near MossvCreek to Perry, Houston county. Mr. Jones’ bill to regulate the price of freights and fare on the Railroads in this State, has been, on motion of Mr. Nisbet, laid upon the table, for the balance of the session, by a vote ofG9 to G. To incorporate the Griffin ami West Point Plank Railroad Company. The bill to sell the Macon Briilge and amend the City Charter, was lost on the 4th and reconsidered on the sth. To authorize the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Savannah to hold proper ty to the amount of $25,000. To define the rights of complainants in Equity, its certain cases. To incorporate the Second Baptist Church in Savannah. The bill to appropriate SIO,OOO for the im; rovement of the navigation of the Coo sa River, was lost in the House. The Woman’s Bill was lost in the Sen ate on the 4th, by a vote of 17 to 19—but > was reconsidered on the sth and made the order of the day for the 6:h, when it may pass that branch. A Dead Shot. —A physician, who re sides in the southern portion of New York city, upon visiting a patient who resided a< the extreme north, was asked by the sick man ‘ if he did not find it very incon venient to come such a distance V ‘Not at a'l, sir,’ replied the son of Es culapius: ‘for, having another patient in the next street, 1 can kill two birds with one stone.’ ‘Can you, sir?’ replied the invalid: ‘ then you are too good a shot for me,’ — and immediately dismissed him. OP The full that is most likely to injure a person’s brain is,—to fall in love with a I'reUy girl. | C7* A fellow in Arkansas is so short that ho his been often mistaken for pie crust! A Novel Cask.— ln Fairfield district, S. C., recently, a man named Tidwell, and an accom plice of the name of Lawhorn, were tried and convicted of abducting and marrying a young girl of 13 years of age. The defendant (Tid well) is a'shoemaker, and had been employed as such in the family of the prosecutor, and it was supposed by many who heard the evidence, that some provocation or offence given by .Mr. Crankfield, the prosecutor and father of the young girl, to one or both of the defendants, was the motive of the abduction. The married miss is to remain in charge of her lather, until the age of 16, as it appears there is n statute in forco in Carolina against young girls taking upon themselves the duties attendant on the marriage state, until they arrive at that age. South Carolina is a singular State in more respects than one. The magistrates there do Hot allow the people to vote directly for Presi dent. And the above instance shows that the laws (b< not permit th" girls to marry w hen ihf y think they arc old enough ' M hat a Mate MACON, G A . SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 8, 1849. From Washington.— We learn by Tele* : graph tiial no Speaker had been elected up to | the adjournment yesterday afternoon. At the * last ballot Mr. Winthrop, (W.) received 100 l votes—Howell Cobb, (D.) 63—and blank 56 The Democrats were to assemble last evening for the purpose of making anew nomination in the place of Mr. Cobb, whom they could not elect. The difficulty appears to rest upon the slavery question. The Free Soil Democrats op pose Mr. Cobb—and the Free Soil Whigs oppose Mr. Winthrop—consequently neither will be elected.—The Free Soilers have nominated David Wilinot, and adhere to him. I*, is thought that a compromise will he made by which a Northern Democrat will be elected. This difficulty in electing the Speaker, isonly a beginning of the troubles that await the en suing Congress on the slavery question. 3 / George W. Hardwick, Associate Ed. i or of the Columbus Enquirer, died on the 26th ult. in the 31st year of his age. HU* Godoy’s Lady's Book for January is one of the best specimens of Literature and Art that we have ever seen. This is the specimen num. her for 1850, and from past experience we are inclined to believe that Godey will increase the value of his Ma gazine with each succeeding issue. Killed. — On Thursday night last, between 11 and 12o’clock, Patkick Barrett attempted a forcible entry into the house of Talbot Combsi in this cily, when the latter fired the contents of a musket in the left breast of the former, which caused his death in a few hours. An In quest was held over the body yesterday and a verdict rendered in accordance with the above. Combs surrendered himself and will ho exam ined this afternoon, before Justices Brown arid Gua.nms. HU* The attention of our readers is directed to the Prospectus of Holden’s Dollar Magazine, on our Fourth Page. It speaks for itself. Savannah —Tho entire Democratic Ticket for Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, was elected on Monday last. The Whigs had no ticket. At a meeting of the City Council on Thurs day last, a junction of the Railroads at Macon was respectfully and earnestly asked of the Le gislature, and in the event of a failure to form a connection here, they ask the right to be granted totho Central Railroad Company to cross the River and join the South Western Railroad, so as in no wise to impede the full and free naviga tion thereof, at a point below any possible cor porate rights or privileges of the .authorities o* Macon. The Mayor was appointed to pro ceed to Milledgeville to place their proceedings before both branches of the Legislature and to use all honorable means to carry out the wishes of the people of Savannah in this regard. The Cherokee. —This steamer has been re cently purchased by Messrs. Howland &, As. piswall, to run from New York direct to Cha. grci. She brought $200,000 cash, and will be delivered on her return to New York to-day, and will sail thence for Chagres on Thursday nrxt. Thus have both of the steamers recently plying between Savannah and New York been purchased for the California trade We learn that two new steamships will be built forthwith and placed on the line between Savannah and New York, in time for the sprnig and summer iiavul. Wc wish the enterprising proprietors abundant success. The keel is laid, and the frame got out, fur the first ship to replace the Tennessee, and all despatch possible w ill be used for her com pletion in May next- Contracts ore already in progress for the second one to replace the Che rokee. California Mails. —Notice has been given by the Postmaster General, that the mails for California and Oregon will be dispatched from New York on tlie 13th of December, from Charleston, (S. C.,) and Savannah, (Ga.,) on the 16th ; from New' Orleans on or about the loth. From Havana, at which point the steam-packet from New York and that from New Orleans will connect, the mail will depart on the 19th of December, direct for Chagres, reaching Panama overland in due time for the Pacific steam-packet to leave the port San Francisco on the Ist day nf January next. Fatal Rencontre. —The I.aurcnsville (S.C) Herald says a most unfortunate rencontre re cently occurred in the lower part of Laurens District, between two brothers named Samuel and Pinckney Workman, which resulted in the death ofthe former—and the latter has been bailed in a bond of $2,000. The following are said to be the facts of the case, as elicited on the application for bail. Some difficulty had arisen between the parties, concerning the measure ment of wheat, w hen Samuel presented a load ed and cocked gun at the breast of Pinckney who was standing near his brother, with a com mon pocket knife open in his hand, with which he was trimming a stick to serve as a tally fo r the wheat,and when Samuel presented thegun he struck him two blows on the neck with th e knife, one of which, severing the carotid artery caused his death in a short time. Canada. —We find the following item in the news by the Caledonia. It is important, if true : It is said that Government has intimated to the Governor of Canada that no coercive meas ures will he adopted to prevent an annexation to the UniJod States, if the popular will be de. cidedly expressed in favor of that measure. Results of Gambling. —There is now living iu New York City, in extreme want, a inan, who at one time had one hundred and eighty thou sand dollars, amassed by a few weeks success ful gambling. For some years ire lived in the utmost luxury, having over four hundred suits of clothes, but the smiles of fbrtune deserted him, and at last ho has been reduced to beggary. \ In thread-bare coat, and without either energy or character, lie is daily seen in Broadway An Elopement in Contemplation. —The Rochester (N. Y.) American is responsible for the following : Courting Scene — Miss Canada. —Please, sir. will you marry tne ? Uncle Sum —l cannot disguise my affection for so amiable and beautiful a young lady ; but your papa must tie consulted, and 1 must procure his consent. Miss C —O, nevermind. I'll ask him my self, and if he refuses we’ll get up an elopement. Now, is it not shameful, that in this land of ! religion and morals, folks should permit such a | match as the one above named ? Borue years I ago “Uncle San” took unto himself several I voung ladies in confederate union, viz: Miss | issippi, Miss-ouri, Miss Louisiana, Miss Flori j da, Miss Texas, and divers others—and now j lie has a “sneakin’ notion” of Miss Canada ! I; is horrible to think of the example that such a course is setting for “foreign powers,” and indi vidual “sovereigns” at borne. At least, sueh ' is the opinion of an old maid of our acquaint ance, who declares iier intention to indict “Un cle Sam” for polygamy, if he dares to say ano i tlier word about it—especially as be won’t pro- \ vide for the families under Lis charge at prerent —Miss California’s for instance ! Wonderful. —A very remarkable rock, it is stated by the Detroit Free Press, lias been dis- | covered in the middle of Lake Superior. It rises only about four feet above the surface and extends down to an interminable depth. The discoverers relate that the rock appears to be a place of general resort for the salmon trout of those lakes, as they found them in almost incal culable numbers, having, during their short stay, caught several barrels with no other instrument than a rod of iron, on one end of which they turned a hook. Laughter. —Taylor, in his description of Greece, says: “Sardinia is free front all kinds of poisonous and deadly herbs excepting one herb, which resembles parsley, and which, they say, causes those who eat it to die laughing.” Homer first, and others after him, call laughter, which conceals some noxious design, Sardoni can. The Mistake —We noticed, once, a queer typographical error, which shows what a change a type may make. A newspaper, alluding to the official conduct of a public man,intended to say, that he had “lived down his enemies.” The compositor left out the v from “fired,” and the sentence read, “He lias lied down his ene mies.” Pork Packing. —The Chattanooga Gazette says the Pork Packing Business in that place, has regularly commenced. We ate not inform ed how many are slaughtered daily, but from a lew minutes notice of the operations, we should suppose that several hundred wore despatched. Mr. Turner lias bought five orsix thousand Hog s at $2,50 per hundred pounds, gross, which is a very fair price, to say the least of it. The Crops in Florida. — The Tallahessee Floridian, of the 17th ult., speaks in glowing terms of the prospects of Florida. It says that the cotton crop will be fully an average one, while the tobacco crop will be a mine of wealth to the planters who raise it. Nor is this all says the Floridian. As we have already shown in a former number, the experiments in turpentine, enough most abundantly to test the matter, sat isfy the expectations and calculations of the most sanguine in regard to the profits which may certainly ho secured from this department of business. Induced by the prospects thus held out,citizens of North Carolina are already on the road to reap this harvest of wealth. 03“ YVe understand that the Legislature of Tennessee, has decided in favor of the Gover nor’s issuing the Bonds to the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad Company. More Inventions for Killing. — Monsieur Vandenberg of Brussels lias invented anew gun, said to be far better than the famous Prus sian fircncedlt gun. From six to eight dischar. ges can bo made in a minute; the carrying dis tance is from 2000 to 2300 feet; the hall weighs about one ounce and a quarter, and the powder is one twelfth the weight of the ball. An ordin ary gun requires three times more powder, al though the hall does not weigh half an ounc? The new gun is loaded from the breech. The shape of the ball is round, not conical as in the Prussian gun. It is not consoling to think that so much ingenuity is spent by men in devising the best means to kill each other, but if men will fight lot them be assured that they will lose their lives. The courageous men of the middle ages would not have fought one fiftieth part so much, if they had not been so well protected by heavy armour that they could hack a long time at each other without being hurt. Solar Gas. —The Boston Courier says: Eas t Boston is soon to be splendidly illuminated with Solar Gas. The gas is manufactured from fish oil, which runs by a small stream into the mouth of an inverted syphon, from which it enters the boiler, where it is decomposed by the heat, and the gas passes off into the receiver, which is a large iron tube upside down, floating in a cistern of water; the weight of the iron pressing upon .he gas within, w hich can find no escape, forces it along the pipe to its destination. (UP A singular accident occurred a few days since at New Orleans. A fine little boy, the only son of Mr. George 11. Dubois, living in Burgundy street, in carrying an earthen pitcher from one house to another—the family was re moving—fell on the pavement, when the fragile vessel breaking, one fragment 'came across liis outstretched neck and severed the carotid arte ry. He bled to death on the spot. The Typos. —The Printers of Washington City are about to contribute towards the Nation al Monument. They are the right sort of men “to set vp a cobemn!” Heavy Damages. —At Staunton, Va., in the case ofH. Eidson, Sr., vs. T. Shumate, for slan der, the jury recently rendered a verdict of $1,895. I Wonders of the Telegraph. —Scarcely a day passes that we do not hear some new and i wonderful use to which the telegraph is adap -1 ted. The following, from the National Intelli gencer, is the latest: We were present a few evenings ago at the I Coast Survey Astronomical Station, on Capitol I Mill, which was put in telegraphic connexion | with Cincinnati, for the purpose of determining | the longitude between the two places. The | electrical clocks in this city and Cincinnati hav- I mg been introduced into the completed circuit, | rcerij Leal at Cincinnati was recorded at almost the same instant on Saxton’s revolving cylinder in this city, and every heat of the clock here was recorded in like manner upon Mitchell’s j revolving plate at Cincinnati. At the moment a star passed the meridian at Washington, by ; the touch of a key the record of the passage was i made upon the disk at Cincinnati, as well as upon the cylinder at the Washington station, and the difference of the time of the two clocks would of course indicate the differenco of longi. ; Hide. The distance between the two cities, it must be recollected, is upwards of five hundred miles; this distance was annihilated,and events happening at the one were instantly recorded by automatic machinery at the other. The in terchange of star-signals was soon interrupted, however, by the intervention of a cloud at Cin cinnati, and the remainder of the evening was occupied by the gentlemen present in a philoso phical discussion on the subject of the velocity of the transmission of electricity. We were never more impressed with the power of the tel egraph to annihilate space, and bring into in stant mental communication individuals sepera ted by hundreds of miles, Large Claim.— The interesting case of Sirs Myra Gaines, widow of Gen. Gaines, will conic up for final decision before Judge Mc- Caleb, of the U. S. District Court at New Or leans during the present month. Ssiart. —Some of the New Orleans boys have recently been rendering night hideous, by sere nading a citizen who has performed the remark able feat of marrying three wives in thirteen months. The Delta remarks that the man who can do that can stand a great many tin pans and broken horns. Accident. —A passenger came on board the Albatros, at Memphis, says the Cincinnati Com mercial, and placed a shot gun he had with him standing against the side of the cabin. Soon after starting out the gun fell down and discharg ed itself towards the persons sitting in the main hall, six of whom were wounded by the shot, three of whom it was supposed would die from their wounds. Fires. —The mansion of Mrs. Anna Jenkins, Providence, R. 1., was destroyed by fire on Tuesday week, and, sad to relate, Mrs. Jenkins and her eldest daughter perished in the flames. On Sunday, 18th ult , two houses, occupied by miners, at the mines of Mr. J. G. Lawton, near New Castle, Schuylkill co., Pa., took fire and were entirely consumed. The most painful part of the occurrence is that in one of the hou ses, occupied by Thomas Barry, his niece, a girl about 14 years of age, was burned to death. O’ The number of licenses to sell liquor in New York, issued from the 9th of May last, (the day from which they date) up to the loth ult., was 3779. This give on an average more than one liquor shop for every one hundred men, women and children in the city. O’A telegraphic despatch from St. Louis, dated 20th» says:—The steamer St Paul, with a heavy freight, bound to New Orleans, struck “a sawyer” on Sunday evening, when off Flat Island. The concussion broke almost every timber on the larboard side. The wreck of the boat wns run on the bar, where she sunk to the main deck. The boat is valued at $20,000. [UP The value of the Real Estate in N.York, as returned by the assessors, is $197,761,919, and of tiio Personal Estate $58,455,174 48. HP Mr. Thomas Powell, a gentleman, who though but a short resident in New Y’ork, has been making no liitle stir in the literary world, lias commenced a libel suit against the editor of the Tribune, for publishing a bitter attack upon him, over the signatures of Charles Dickens and Lewis Gaylord Clark. We suppose this is the gentleman who lately dedicated a volume to Dr. Terri 11, of Sparta, Georgia. Served him right. —Joseph Barker, the street preacher, who has been on trial in Pittsburg, for “ attracting crowds in the streets of that city, by using loud, violent and indecent language,” has ieerusenteneed. M, pay a fine of $250, undergo an imprisonment during 12 months,and pay the costs of prosecution. [O’As a proof of the religious toleration en joyed in Turkey, a firman has been issued a* Constantinople, inviting the communities who do not profess Muhomcdanism to choose their own members for the Divan ( Municipal Coun cil.) Jews and Christians are the participators in the civil privileges. [HP The State of Kentucky has appropriated the sum of $15,000 for the erection of an ap propriate monument in testimony of the gallant ry, daring, and valor of her chivalrous sons, who fell in the wars of her country. It is to be an obelisk, sixty feet in height, and is to be con structed of the finest Italian marble. O’ From an official statement just made by the City Comptroller, it appears that the taxa tion of the citizens of New Y'ork during the last year, was equal to 110 cents, on the $100; this year it will reach 118 cents! An Egg Story. —Mr. Glinkinger, of Allen, town, Pa., has in his possession an egg, layed by one of his hens, which measures 63 inches in circumference one way, and 84 the other. The egg was accidentally broken, and in the middle was found another egg, with a shell as hard as its companion Extraordinary Discovery in California. The following is an extract from a letter writ ten to his wife by a New Yorker, now working in the mines of California. The letter bears date, August 26;1t, 1849. There w is a gold mine discovered here (what is called Murphy's Diggins) one week to-dav, it is evidently the work of ancient times—2lo feet deep, situated on Jthc summit of a very high mountain —lt has made a great excitement here, as it was several days before preparations could be made to descend the bottom. There was found in it the hones of a human being, also an altar for worship, and some other evidence of human labor. From present indications it is doubtful vvhetherit will “pay to be worked,as it is mostly all rock, and will require a great out lay for tools and machinery to work it. This discovery, if properly pursued by com petent observers, may prove of the highest his torical importance. It will establish the fact that the mineral wealth of that region had been known to proceeding generations, and the relics which have survived, may enlighten us as to the nationality of the people who first pierced this mountain two hundred and ten feet, and wi!| doubtless suggest an inquiry into the reason for abandoning the pursuit of gold in a country in which it seems to abound, and where its dis coverers had found encouragement to make such extensive excavations in former times. Fun in Baltimore — ln August last, Mrs. Levin, wife of L. C. Levin, Esq , assisted by her servant,cowhidcd a young tnan named Fite, for the alleged offence of repeatedly staring rudely iuto the lady's carriage. For this Mr. Fite instituted proceedings, and the Court last week found them guilty, and fined Mrs. Levin §3O and her servant $lO and the costs of prose cution. Fight with tiif. Pawnees.— By an arrival at St. Louis, from Fort Laramie to the 23d of Octo ber, vve learn that Lieutenant Ogle, with a com mand of 20 dragoons, had recently encountered a company of 100 hostile Pawnee Indians, on Little Blue River, when an action took place, in which the Indians were defeated and many of them killed. Lieut. Ogle and sis dragoons were wounded—two of them it was feared, mortally. Important from Canada.— The French pa pers state that Lord Elgin has written an auto, graph to the Catholic bishop, promising to give up the Jesuit estates to that church, providing they will stifle the annexation movement now in progress. The tiling seems almost incredi ble, says the American Courier, but it is, never theless, believed by well-informed persons. Electrical Velocity. —A writer in a foreign journal says: The exact velocity of electricity along a copper wire is 288,000 miles in a se cond ; it is calculated, accordingly, that wc could telegraph to our antipodes in rather !< ss than the 500th part of one second of time. Tiie II ouse of Bishops. —The Bishops of Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey and Western New Y’ork, have, it is stated, requested a special meeting of the House of Bishops— probably with a view to consider the case of Bishop Ouderdonk, of New Y’ork. Rights of Gold Diggers. — A letter from California say s : A person digging forgold dust has 18 feet allowed on the river, and may run back as far ns he chooses. No one will infringe upon him so long as his tools are left on the spot. [O’ A mob was recently dispersed iu Pitts, burgli by a clergyman, who asked the sheriff to let him pray with them. After the prayer he pronounced the benediction, and the assemblage quietly dispersed. O’ Blackwood’s Magazine has discovered the reason why the Canadians are discontented: “They have nothing in their pockets, and what is worse, they are afraid if they go on much lon ger as they are now doing, they will soon be without pockets too.” Logical. —A paper, in speaking of a temper ance address, says, “itabounded with oceans of sentiment, rivers of love, torrents of feeling, and a perfect deluge of sense.” Quite Probable. —“ Union is not strength, as the old toper said when he put water in his brandy.” Very true. Such a union produces neither strength of mind, strength of body, strength of happiness, strength of purse, nor strength of soul. It does, however, give strength to disease, strength to want, strength to shame, and strength to the grave. Novel Plea. —From the American Courier, Philadelphia, we learn that in a trial for breach of promise, which came before the District Court, the counsel for defendant urged the fact, that the contract of marriage between the par ties was void because made on the Sabbath The Judge charged the Jury on this point, that the law in regard to Sunday contracts, did not extend to the contracts of marriage, which, by many religious sects, were considered as solemn sacraments, to be only sanctioned by impressive ceremonies. The contracts made on Sunday, which are void, are those relating to worldly business. To hold that marriages solemnized on that day were void, would be to disturb thou sands of marriages which have been contracted, and to render illegitimate a very large number of citizens. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for S3OO. Pacific Rail Road. — The financial writer for tiie Boston Post says, that many of the most influential and respectable men ofthatcity have signed a petition tof Congress, for the Pacific Rail-Road charter, on the planofMr. Dcgrand— s2,ooo,ooo private, and $98,000,000 national, subscription. Avery modest petition, truly. Explosion. —The extensive powder mill near Xenia, Ohio, exploded with a terrific noise on the 26th ultimo. Two men employed in the es tablishment were killed. Their bodies were blown to atoms. This is the fourth time this null has exploded within the past two years Alligator’s Nest.— They resemble, * av Lyell in his Second Visit to America, haycocks about four feet high, and five in diameter at their buses, being constructed with grass anj herbage. First they doposite one layer of egg t on a floor of mortar, aud having covered this w ith it second stratum of mud and herbage, eight inches thick, lay another set of eggs upon that and so on to the top, there being coirimnnlJ from one to two hundred eggs in a nest. With their tails they then bent down round the neat the dense grass and reeds live feet high, to p rt vent the approach of unseen enemies. The f e male watches her eggs until they are all hatched by the heat of the sun, and then takes her brood under her care, defending them and ptoviding for theirsubsistance. Dr. Luzenberger, of N ew Orleans, told me that he once packed up one of these nests, with the eggs, in a box for the Mu seum of St. Petersburg!!, but was recommended before he closed it to see, that there was no dan ger of any of the eggs being hatched on the voyage. On opening one, a young alligator walked out, and was soon followed by the rest about a hundred, which he fed in his house’ where they went up and down the stairs, whin' ing and harking like young pupies. They ate voraciously, yet their grow th was slow as to con firm him in the opinion, that individuals which have attained the largest size, are of very grew, age, though whether they live for three cento, ries, as some pretend, must be decided by future observation. Alleged Burying Alive.— ln the midst of exaggeration and invention says the Quarterly Review, there is one undoubted circumstance which formerly excited tho worst apprehensions: the fact that bodies were often found turned in their coffins and the grave-clothes disarranged. But what was ascribed, with seeming reason to the throes of vitality, is now known to be due to the agency of corruption. A gas is developed in the decayed body which mimics by its me chanical force, many of tlie movements of life. So powerful is this gas in corpses that have lain lung in the water, that M . Devergie, the physi. cian to the Morgue at Paris, and the author of a text-hook on legal medicine says : that unless secured to the table, they are often heaved up and thrown to the ground. Frequently, stran gers seeing the motion of the limbs, run to the keeper of the Morgue, and announce with horror that a person is alive. All bodies, sooner or later, generate gas in the grave ; and it constant ly twists about the corpse, blows out the skin till it rends with distention, and sometimes bursts the coffin itself. When the gass explodes with a noise, imagination has converted it into an outcry or groan; the grave has been re-opened; the position of the body confirmed the suspicion, and the laceration been taken for evidencetha t the wretch gnawed his flesh in the frenzy of despair. So many are the circumstances which will constantly occur to support a conclu sion that is more unsubstantial, than the fabric of a dream. Austrian Atrocities.— The atrocities of Austria in relation to the Hungarian leaders, aro everywhere commented upon in language of bitter and burning indignation. The name of llaynau will be odious and execrated for ages to come. A more relentless monster never dis graced any civilized age or nation.—The details of his deeds of blood are calculated to excites thrill of horror A London correspondent of the New York Commercial says :—“ The object <>f the Austrian Ministry seems to be to hang or shoot every man whose rank, ability or enthu siasm lor tiie national cause may make biro dan gerous iu future. Among the last victims, I noiice the names of Perenyi, a venerable mas of seventy years of age, Madarasz, iate chief «f police, Szacsvay, author of the Hungarian Dec laration of Independence, the gallant prir.ee Woronewski, Avancoux, one of Dembirf» most efficient aids-de-camp, and Giron,comma# - der of the German Legion. These wholesale massacres are carried out under the snperr/sion of llaynau, and with the full approbation ofthe Austrian Ministry. They are demanded by \UM offended military pride of Austria, beaten inw ft many encounters by the gallant Magyars,tel shock the sense of humanity of the people- K Not a single press, except the official one l B Vienna, neglects to protest against acts «" ■ stain the name of Austria. It is but fair ß that the only persons who approve the gore ll ' B merit in this matter are the high militaryaad B civil functionaries, whose mortification fordcWß demands hecatombs of victims.” I From the Sandwich Islands.— The C' llloll Traveller learns that despatches of grea tiirp 01 ' tancehave been received in this country,^ onl \ the Sandwich Islands Government, and fotwst'l deil to Washington, to he laid before the cedi tary of State. They rela’e to the recent Ff« I piratical outrage at the Islands. Jones and the other U. S. officers at Cahf |l,sl l are understood to have expressed the utmof|i dignation at the unprovoked violence > ! *l French Admiral, against the defenceless lk' l j ians. M. Dillon, the French Consul atH# I has the credit of getting up this disgraceful # ! 1 He has been busy for some time with j embroil the Hawaiian government in "I 1 "* with Fiance, probably to give her a pr c!l, ‘ ■ taking possession of these Islands— however, by this movement is believed t° violated her solemn convention with Hr in which she pledged herself not to session of the Islands herself, nor to af other nation to do it, under any pretext cr. By the protest of the British an<U ( can Consuls, it seems England and will now have a voice in this business- In a Fix.— S. R. Thurston, Esq-i "J 1 elected Delegate from Oregon rßcenl four other candidates, according to , Post, lost his trunk in crossing the I st^‘nJ his clothes, credentials and papers. j H’ I ‘Simon Suggs’ promoted. —Johnso ■ cr, the well-known author of 1 ®' n,< ! eCte jl I and ‘Captain MeSpadden,’ has been « I licitoi of the Ninth Judicial Di*9' hnina. :