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Mirtejytiamt sriroaKgai iIHTMi AMI PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BV \V JI. IS . II A IS It I *O M , CITY PRINTER. [for the southern museum ] Lines to Mis* ••••••• ...... On the receipt of some Flowers , in December. The Sjiring-lime of verdure and beauty lias fled On lire wings of the wind to the realms of the past; The buds of the Summer are wither’d and dead, And the trees arc disrobed by the pitiless blast; The shouts of the reapers in harvesting hours Have died in the distance, and are buried in gloom : V l l winter has left me four beautiful flowers Afresh in their fragrance, in their beauty and bloom. Hail ! gentle fnementocs ! yc bring to my mind A bevy of pleasures 1 must never forget: The moments agonc when the wildwoods were twined With lilies and daisies in the marigolds met ; When wand’ring in silence the forest along, I gazed on the mantle of the beautiful (lueeu, Or heard tho sweet notes of the musical throng That in melody sung o'er the wide-spreading green. Yes, childhood, returning, salutes mo once more As I traze on your petals, sweet, beautiful flowers 1 I revel again in tiie moments of yore With the friends of my youth, in luxuriant bowers. But lessons of wisdom arc graven on you, For the young and the old, for the fair and the gray The scenes of my childhood, so pleasant and true, Like your friends and your kindred, have faded away ! Then, Ada, beware of the treacherous glow Os follies presuming, and nllurcmentsof earth, True pleasure and peace they ran never bestow, i For they fade in the blossom, and die at the birth; — Our years are escaping on Time's fleeting wingi As the dew on the grass, or the watery spray ; On the breath of the mum, our life's golden Spring, Like these beautiful flowers, must vauisli away ! Then, Ada, prepare for the cold, wintry blast, When the Spring, the Summer, and Au tumn have fled ; When earth and its joys, and its sorrows are past, And your body must visit the realms of the dead. Seek now to obtain the Omnipotent's hand Asa guide and a guard to that glorious day , Till crowned in tho triumph, you enter that land Where the Spring and the flowers ne'er van ish away W. IV 11 M aeon, Dec. SIO, 1611*. Mh.LEDGF.VII.I.E, Dec. IT, IS4‘J. Report ol tlie Committee ou tire State of tile Republic. The Joint Committee on the State of the Republic, to which was referred those portions of the Governor’s Message arid the several Hills and Resolutions relating to the subject of slavery, intro duced into cither Branch of the Legis lature, beg leave to REPORT: That they have given iho most deliber ate and solemn attention to the various suggestions embraced in propositions sub mitted to them, referring to the subject of slavery, and have with mindsfully impress ed w ith the great significance that must be given to any action whatever on this mat ter at the present hour, arrived at the con clusion that we should, as far as the State of Georgia is concerned, recommend such action as shall compose the public mind, suppress any further agitation of a contro versy in which for more than twenty years the South has been constantly worsted, or propose 6ome efficient and practical meas ures that shall prove the sincerity of our complaints, and at the same time redress our wrongs. It is vain to deny that we the injured party, have for a series of years by a vacillating and temporizing policy on ly assured the courage of our assailants, and invited by an excessive sensibility on the subject of the ultimate consequences of decisive action, further and still more ini quitous experiments upon our forbearance and patience. The best defence of liher «y is the first blow stricken in its defence and for the first right violated. With all the accumulated injury of fifteen years that we have had to endure from the anti slavery States, and that we so sensibly feel to-day, we yet do not feel more keenly, nor do we express more forcibly our sense of this outrage than did tire Legislature of Georgia twenty-two years ago, upon the bare proposition of the friends of co lonization to vote an appropriation for the removal of free negroes to Liberia. Yet the Joint Committee on the State of the Republic, in the year 1827, declared in re ference to this subject so harmless in the comparison with the audacity of recent legislation, “that they could not help re probating the cold blooded selfishness or unthinking zeal which actuates many of our follow-citizens in the other States to an interference with the local concerns and domestic relations; totally unwarran ted either by humanity or constitutional lightv. Such interference is becoming every day more determined and more alarming.—lt commenced with a few un thinking zealots, who formed themselves into abolition societies; was seized upon by more cunning and designing men for political purposes, and is supported by more than one of the States, as is evident from the amendments to the Constitution proposed by legislative bodies, and so fre quently and indeed insultingly picscr.ted for our approbation. The result of such interference if perseveted in, is awful and inevitable. The people of Georgia know and strongly feel the advantages of the Federal Union; as members of that Uni on, they are proud of its greatness; as children born under that Union, they will ever defend it from foes internal as well as external; but they cannot and will not even for the preservation of the Union, per mit their rights to be assailed; they will not permit their property to be rendered worthless; they will not permit their wives and children to be driven as wander ers into strange lands ; they will not per mit their country to be made w'aste and desolate by those who come among us un de! the cloak of a time serving and hypo critical benevolence. How then is the evil to be remedied ! Only by a firm and determined union of the people and the States of the South declaring through their legislative bodies in a voice which must be heard, that they are ready and willing to make any sacrifice rather than submitlonger to such ruinous interference, and warning their enemies that they are unwittingly preparing a mine which once exploded, will lay our much beloved coun try in one common ruin.” Such language as this the patriotic guardians of our State thought thocrisisof IS'27 justified.—Who now with the lights of 1849 before him, and the enormities of northern aggression since the days of this remonstrance but feels that cither the grievances of twenty years ago were vastly exaggerated, or we have suffered that quick resentment and sensibility to wrong to fall into decay, and our minds to become patient and calm un der inflictions which would have been in tolerable to tho high spirits of that day. 13ut it may be urged in defence of the long suffering of the South, that her attachment to this union lias been akin to a sacred de votedness. That from no huckstering spirit of profit or of lucre loving have w e clung to it with such tenacity, that aquar- ter of a century of outrage upon our rights and of paltering with our capability of endurance has barely been enough to in duce us to count the value of i\ With the whole South this Union lias been re garded as dear to us from a higher, a no bler appreciation than because it ‘‘pro moted the general welfare.” It lias been dear to us because purchased with the blood of our fathers, because transmitted to us with their benedictions, and because we bad hoped under its sway to see hu man liberty and human progress advance to that point that should give the name of American freedom as a guarantee for any future experiments in self-government. Though often charged with a reckless and restless spirit, which was not submis sive to constitutional restraints, the South boldly meets ibis charge by asking, when did we over cause collision between mem bers ot this Union by any aggressive leg islation—by a distrustful, a self-seeking, or a domineering policy ? When did the South, by stretching the powers of the CJovernment, excite alarm or jealousy? When did she insult the self-respect of any , I •> member ol this Confederacy by contemp tuous comparisons, or by a pragmatical and patronising interference with the in ternal policy and interests of any State ? Or when did her pulpit lend itself to fan the flame of civil discord; or when in our borders was the temple of the living God, made the theatre of display for the rancorous hate of brother against his brother? Let those reproaches fall where they are deserved, the South has no dread of them. From the earliest date of the slavery controversy, the South has evinced a yielding and conciliatory spirit. For it will be hard, indeed, for any one to show the slightest mutuality in the concession made on the part of the South, of all re presentation of two-fifths of her slave population. Can any fair reason he urged why the South should not have entered into this Confederacy claiming a full re presentation for this species of property. If taxation implies a correlative right of representation, then was the Southern slaveholder unjustly treated, when it was demanded of him that before he could en ter this Union as a citizen, he must first surrender the right of having two-fifths of his salves represented, when that two fifths weie as certainly taxed on all articles of their consumption as were their mas ters. But yet the South yielding ibis point. She consented also to abolish the foreign slave trade, by which she might have cheaply supplied herself with slave labor, and when the northernmost slave States thought fit to abolish the institution in their borders, she interposed no obstacles or vexatious hindrances, though it might have been clearly foreseen that this result would have been fruitful of trouble to those States that would find their necessities or their convenience demanding a continua tion of the system. In every interference with the question of domestic slavery by the North, she has failed and failed sig nally to justify her course by any reasons of a purely political characterer, and much less by such political reasons as are to he found in or tolerated by our Constitution. There could he no other complaint rea sonably urged by the North against the ex istence or the extension of the slave pro perly of the South, hut that the federal representation claimed for it was unequal, and therefore unjust towards the North. Rut as we have seen the only inequality in this thing is against the South, and not in her favor; it then resolves itself into this, that tills government, so restricted in the exercise of all power, is to be allowed to turn propagandist and devote its best energies to the driving through, against all resistance of plighted faith, of constitu tional law; against all claims of right, jus tice or fraternity, a moral reform, that has first and last for its object, a forcible eject metit from our midst of what is denounced as a gross immorality, and a determination to give practical effect to tlie idea that this Government, as a Government, enter tains of the sin of slavery. It is the first and last nstunce furnished by our history, in which this government has thought it rightful or expedient to sub sidise religious agencies by the strong arm of political power. It would require but one short step further in thi3 attempt to regulate a matter of conscience, to sec our duty clearly dictating a union of Church and State. We feel it to be un necessary to trace this controversy step by step to its present critical, if not peril ous stage. If we should do so with the minutest fidelity, its history would at every turn on ly shew, how reluctant the South has been to bring the grave matters in issue to that extremity which would leave the true friends of harmony and Union nothing to hope. It has been our fault that we have in every instance invited imposition hy indicating a yelding disposition, which on ly required to be hard pressed, to grant the most extravagant requisitions. iSo it was in the controversy with the anti-sla very titates which gave birth to thq Mis souri Compromise. In this mis-nametl surrender of Southern rights, who can shew a particle of consideration passing to the South'? Where, in this one sided compromise, is there to be found the least reciprocity ? Yet we gave in to this un reasonable and unjust requirement, and avowed a love for this Union which would not suffer us to part with it, though the North was seeking to make us pay in val uable and unrighteousconcessionsforevery day of its existence. This compromise, by which we bought our peace for more than a quarter of a century, we observed with punctilious honor, and when in the course of events it came to the turn of this por tion of Union to bebenefuted by the opera tion of that law, we find the Northern States unblushingly repudiating their own contract, and when called upon to reaffirm their own long expressed ratification of this compromise, they refused to do so; and as evincive of their deliberate purpose to evade their plighted faith, they sought to organ ize a territory embraced in the spirit of this compromise (by which every thing had been for years securedto them,) upon the anti-slavery basis, in the unmitigated and obnoxious shape of the Wilmot Pro viso. The North now disavows the Mis souri Compromise, because of the inevita ble implication involved it: that law, that if north of 36 30 slavery is prohibited, south of that line it may exist. Passing over the insincerity now so traisparent, with which the anti-slavery Stales opposed the 21st Rule of the House of Representatives, their specious attacks against that whole some and conservative check upon fanatic ism, under the guise of a zeal for the right of petition, we come to the more recent legislation of Congress on the subject of slavery. And nowean any Southern man, at all conversant with the history of the abolition movement from its inception, longer doubt that the fiist aim of that agita tion was a total and final emancipuli. nos ourslave property. Why should we doubt it?—Because of the bad faith involved? Was ever treachery and selfishness so blended before in the public conduct of any civilized States as is shown in the course the North has pursued in regard to this compromise we have just spoken of? Because of the daring violation of private rights or Constitutional provisions and guarantees? Can the perfidy of man go farther tlianseveral of the Northern States have gone in their practical nullification of the laws securing to the South the privi lege of reclaiming her refugee slaves ; or can any vandalism improve upon the sav age proposition of the last Congress to permit the slaves of the District of Colum bia to vote themselves the equals of their masters. This brings our enemies in one step of the goal they have kept their eyes Steadily fixed upon for twenty years, and lias brought us, too, in one step of the last dishonor that can be reserved for us. '1 hey have hut to lay their hands on slavery in the States, and we make one more sub missive and feeble remonstrance, and the great work is finished. In view therefore of the past history of this war upon the peace, the rights, and thesafety of the South—in view of its pres ent aspects, and in anticipation of its fu ture progress, we report to the House fol ks action the following Preamble and Resolutions, accompanied by a Bill pro viding for the call of a Convention of the sovereign people of this State, \v here as, The people of the non-slave holding States have commenced and are persisting in a system of encroachment upon the Constitution and the rights of a portion of the people of this Confederacy, which is alike unjust and dangerous to the peace and perpetuity of our cherished Union, Be it Ist. Resolved, Rtf the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly convened, That the Government of the United States is one of limited powers, and cannot rightfully exercise any authority not conferred by the Constitution. 2d. Resolved, That the the Constitution grants no power to Congress to prohibit the introduction of slavery into any tet ri tory belonging to the United States. 3d. Resolved, That the several States of the Union acceded to theConfoderacy upon terms of perfect equality, and that the rights, privileges and immunities secured by the Constitution, belong alike to the people of each State. 4th. Resolved, That any and all Terri tory acquired by the United States, wheth er by discovery, purchase or conquest, be longs in common to the people of each State, and thither the people of each State and every State have a common right to emigrate with any property they may pos sess, and that any restriction upon this right, which will operate in favor of the people of one section to the exclusion of those of another, is unjust, oppressive and unwarranted by the Constitution. sth. Resolved, That slaves are recog nised by the Constitution as property, and that the Wilmot Proviso, whether applied to any territory at any time herefore ac quired, or which may bo hereafter acquir ed, is unconstitutional. Gth. Resolved, That Congress lias no power either directly or indirectly to in terfere with the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia. 7tli. Resolved, That the refusal on the part of the nonslaveholding States to deliv er up fugitive slaves, who have escaped to said States, upon proper demand being made therefor, is a plain and palpable violation of the letter of the Constitution, and an intolerable outrage upon South ern rights. Bth. Resolved, That in the event of the passage of the Wilmot Proviso by Congress, the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia, the admission of California as aState, in its present pretend ed organization, or the continued refusal of the non-slaveholding States to deliver fugitive slaves as provided in the Consti tution, it will become the immediate and imperative duly of the people of this State to meet in Convention to take into con sideration the mode and measure of re dress. 9tb. Resolved, That the people of Georgia entertain an ardent feeling of de votion of the Union of these States, and that nothing short of a persistence in the present system of encroachment upon our rights by the non-slaveholding States, can induce us to contemplate the possibility of a dissolution. 10th. Resolved, That bis Excellency the Governor be requested to forward co pies of these resolutions to each of our Sen ators and Representatives in Congress, to the Legislatures of the several Slates, and to the President of the United States. A BILL To be entitled an act to authorize atid re quire the Governor of the State of Georgia to call a convention of the peo ple of this State. Wheueas, For series of years there has been displayed a manifest disposition on the part of the non-slaveholding Slates of the Union, to interfere with the Institu tion of Slavery at the South, by aggressive measures of intolerance as to render it no longer a question of doubt that the Fed eral Legislature will soon adopt such res trictive measures against the Institution of Slavery, as to trammel, fetter, and con fine it within certain Territorial limits, never contemplated by the original par ties to the constitutional compact. And whereas, Georgia in her sovereign capaci ty as a State, has delegated no other pow ers to the Federal Government than those found in the Constitution of the United States. Ami believing that her best in terest and her honor as a sovereign and independent Government requires that she should meet all encroachments in a calm and manly spirit of resistance. Sec. Ist. lie it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That should the Congress of the United States pass any law prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory of the United States, or any law abolishing slavery in the Districtof Columbia, or any law prohibiting the slave trade between the Slates where slavery may exist, orad mit into the United Slates as a State of this Confederacy, the extensive and unpeopled Territory of California and New Mexico, with a constitution prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude; —Or should the Governor of this State receive at any time satisfactory evidence, that any slave or slaves having escaped from this Stale to a non-slaveholding State, and that such slave or slaves is or are refused to be given up to the proper owner by the authorities of the State in which such fugitive or fugitives may be found,then or in either of the fore going events, it shall be and it is hereby made iheduty ofthe Governor ofthis Slate, within sixty days thereafter, to issue his proclamation ordering an election to be held in each and every county, to a Con vention of the people of this State, to con vene at the Seat of Government within twenty days after said election. Sec. 2d. And be it further enacted, That the counties now entitled to two Represen tatives in the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of this State, shall each be entitled and shall elect four Dele gates in said Convention, and the counties which arc entitled to one Representative, shall each elect two Delegates to said Con vention. Sec. 3d. And be it further enacted, That before entering on the duties of their office as delegates, the delegates shall take the following oath, which shall be administer ed by some Judicial officer of the State: I do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God that I will to the best of my ability demean myself as a delegate of tha people of this State, and act for the honor and interest of the people of Georgia. Sec. 4th. And be it further enacted, That said election for delegates shall ho conduc ted and held in the same manner as elec tions for members of the Legcslaturc are now held in this S'a'e. And that all returns of the elections he forwarded to the Governor of this State, whosball upon application furnish each deligate elected with a certificate of election. Sec. sth. Andie it further enacted, That said Convention shall elect all officers no ccssury to their organization. MACON, G A . SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. 22, 1849. Tiie Legislate re. —Both Houses took a re cess on Thursday last, until the 14 tli of January next. The very able Report of the Committee on the State of the Republic, was presented on Wednesday, and 5,000 copies ordered to he printed—it will be acted upon in January. The threatening aspect of public affairs at present, as well as its own merit induces us to give it to our readers, to the exclusion ofmore varied hut less important matter, and commend it to their care ful consideration. We have so often expressed our sentiments on tliis question that we consider it unnecessary to reiterate them. The time is fast approaching when it will be necessary for tlie South to act—when it docs come, we dould not she will present an unbroken phalanx in opposition to the encroachments of the North upon her rights. The Report is from the pen of Col. T. C. Howard, of Crawford, and takes high and patriotic ground, and will well repay perusal. No Speaker Yet.— We learn by Telegraph that no Speaker of the House of Representatives had been elected up to 1 o’clock yesterday. A meeting takes place to-day to receive the report ofthe conference committee, and try an election again. The endeavor to elect a Speaker has al ready cost Uncle Sam upwards of $50,000. Muscogee Railroad. —The Muscogee Dem ocrat of the 20th inst. states that Major Howard the President of this Road, has eflected an ar rangement by which the. Central and South Western, will unite with the Muscogee Railroad at a point in Talbot county, fifty miles east of Columbus, in the direction of Fort Valley. At a meeting of the City Council of Columbus on the 18th inst. Resolutions were introduced to he acted upon at the next meeting, to allow the city to withdraw $50,000 of its subscription to the Muscogee, and invest the same in the Girard and Mobile Railroad. J. G. Winter has given notice that he will apply to the Legislature to authorise the changing of the Muscogee Railroad into a Plank Road. Accidents. — On Wednesday last, the passen ger train on the Central Railroad, ran off the track near Mr- Oliver’s, in consequence ofthe improper position of the “switch,” which caus ed material injury to the engine,and baggage and passenger cars. There were a largo number of passengers, all of whom escaped unhurt. They arrived here at 5 o’clock on Thursday morning We believe no accident has ever occurred by the cars running olftbe track on tins road, which lias cither caused serious bodily injury or the loss of life, since it went into operation. The freight train on the Georgia Railroad, was into the creek near Covington, on the 1 3tli inst., by the falling of the bridge. The loco motive and tender were nearly over the bridge, when the accident occured, and almost the en tire train of cars was destroyed. The conduc tor, Mr. McCann, was killed, and the engineer, we understand, was seriously injured. Fire.— A fire broke out in Savannah on Mon day last, ill the old wooden buildings on the Trust Lot at the corner of St. Julien and Bryan streets, North West ofthe Market, which were consumed. They were owned by Mr. McCalla, of Washington City, and insured for $'2,000. — The occupants saved nearly all their goods, &c. Election.— Gov. Towns has issued a procla mation announcing the resignation of the lion. T. B. King, and ordering an election for a mem ber to Congress to he held at the various pre cincts in the First Congressional District of this State, on the 41li of February next, to fill the va cancy. Judge William Law is mentioned ns the Whig, and Col. Josevii W. Jackson the Democratic candidate. The MurderCase.— The Coroner’s Jury in thecaseol Dr. Pa rk man , at Boston, have return ed a verdict of “guilty” against “ Dr. John W. Webster, by whom he was killed.” The pri soner has been committed to jail to await his trial for the oll'encc at the Court in January next. The New York Sun ventures the follow ing in the matter of the supposed murder of Dr. Parknian by prof. Webster. Ii Professor Webster took the life ofParkman and sought to destroy the body, he used the worst means for the purpose. Instead of burning the body several days, and only partially con suming it at that, he might, by an application of quick lime, have powdered flesh and bones in forty-eight hours. Such a course would most naturally have suggested itself to a chemist’s mind. If he thought to remove the body, or such portions as were not destroyed, in a box, why were portions cast into the refuse vault of his laboratory, liable at any moment to rise in testimony against him. Ilow flic ideality of the public, which runs suspicious into certainties, will be shocked if it should turn out that Dr. I’arknmn, and Professor Webster, are mutual victims of a deep laid con spiracy ; tbe one, that his property might be secured, and the other to save the conspirator s from the penalty due their crime. There was a double interest in finding a body, or parts of a body some where, on account of administering to tlio rnillioniar’s estate, and ifsorne other body Ilian the Doctor's must be used in the tragedy, the more mutilated, and unidentifiable to all but the relatives, the better. Dr. Parkman was an eccentric man—bis relatives unco thought him insane—is there no private madhouse about Bos ton, where eccentricity that stands in tho way of money grabbers, can be quietly and securely lodged ? A Model Town.—There is a model town in Wisconsin, called Cercsco, which has not now, and never had, a drunkard or a pauper in it. It has been incorporated five years, and during that period not one drop of ardent spirits had been retailed within its borders, nor have any suits of law occurred between the inhabitants. The}' all live by labor, and are a happy and contented people. How few such towns are to be found in the republic! li It is said that the Colunbus and Carolina, propellers, are going to form a line from New Voik to Savannah Too Bust to be Married. — A New York correspondent of the Sun tells the following f uil ny story : “On Friday last, a young and pretty Du td, girl entered the Marine Court, and requested one of the officials in attendance to inform her ‘lf dat vas vere dey married de people?’ Bei n » told that it was, she looked smilingly upon the officer, and holding up her head as if impressed with the responsibility of her position, address cd him with “ Vi I you marry me, den ?” “M ar ry you,” said the officer, “ oh, I can’t do that 1 have a wife already.” “1 don’t vant to be mar ried to you, but I vant you to marry me,’ icpli c d she. “Oh I all, that is a different case; butwha do you want to be married to?’* “To Fritz but lie was so busy lie couldn’t come, and said dat I might get it done.” When informed that this marrying by proxy would not answer, the poor girl left, and the next day returned with Fritz, who had managed to quit liis work to get married, and the happy pair were made one by liis honor, the Mayor. A Pits vchological Fact.— Kaspail, (| )e French socialist, has pointed out, the Mcdicaj Journal says, one of the powers of camphor which, in a psychological point of view, is most important—that of putting a stop to that fearful insoiniiolcncc which accompanies the incubation and first dcvelopcmcut of insanity; opium, hysocyamus, conlium, stramonium, and “ all the drowsy syrups of the East” fail to pio. duce any ellcct, a grain of camphor, formed into a pill, and followed by a draught of an ounce and a half of the infusion of hops, mixed with five drops of sulphuric ether, is liis usual reme dy for procuring sleep. ttjp Dr. Kimball, of the Lowell (Mass.) Hog. pital, lias successfully performed an operation which it is sum uppears uy luv rucuiuN of surge ry to have been attempted but four or live times The operation consisted in tying the internal iiiac artery. Another “Idea.” —A New Yorker, says the Washington Republic, proposes to connect the President’s house and the Capitol, and the seve ral Departments, with gutta-percha speakin” tubes, laid under the ground, and to guarantee that ordinary conversation can bo carried on be. tween these remote points with as much facility as if the different parties were in the same room (Lr In the State Penitentiary of Tennessee there arc at present confined 192 persons, 3 on ly of whom are female. 15 are in for life, and 1G others for li years and over. U* A bale of Cotton weighing 1010 pound-, was recently brought to the Griffin market.- This is decidedly the largest hale on record. From California. —By the. late arrival at M. York, we learn that order and tranquility pre vailed throughout the country. Thirteen hundred passengers passed through Chngrcs in two days, and there were one hun dred more there ready to embark for Cnlifornit Many were leaving the country in disgust it the hard labor necessary to success at the dip gings, but the tide of integration continued ut checked. The health is generally good. The Hon. T. 15. King and Col. Fremont wen the most prominent candidates for U 8. Senate Cnpt. Herman Thorn,U. S. A., was accide tally drowned, with two dragoons, while cross irig the Rio Colorado. From England.— Thackeray is recoveris; fioin his illness. His usual Christmas M will he published at the regular time. The Board of Poor-law Gtiardiunsat Swims have introduced the phonetic systemjof rcaiiitf ( that is, by sound, and a totally new systes of spelling,) into their schools. Messrs. Hoyle & Sons, of Manchester, in’* covorted one of their dwellings into decorated reading rooms for their work-people, at Ik* printworks, at Mayfield. The old Lane bridge, near Tebay, supposed to have been built by the Romans in the !" nci Aurelius, was washed away by a flood, teccni, 1 and completely disappeared. New Revolution in Europe. —Private k# received in London from Geneva, refer D extensive organization for a new Revoluti*! uio\ cmeiit, which will he commenced in Ik* l and Paris on the same day. Such a sclici®" been for a long time in preparation, butth*<* spirators are narrowly watched by llieF ,i ® government, and any fresh attempt to de* public tranquility would he immediately down. OrKNINGTIIEOvSTEIt.—Tho N. u. Bll | i'l« says; Our readers are all no do ut t;u>Ai'< r "ft he anecdote in law proceedings (hat the kfl yers and officials took the oyster nail J» ve '■ clients each shell. We think the follow!® cent case in one of our courts is about a one in point as has for some lime come i"V knowledge. The original amount of was $33,33; the costs $33,40. Execution® issued and seizure made of timber, pin*"’' I &c. to the value of $l3O. They were - I ' M the sheriff, and produced S2O 50. costs on tho sale for advertising, sforngfij were sll7 70, leaving him minus the original debt and costs, and the final return is made “no other property ,uU 'M ter due demand of all the parties.” YVIi (l ’ n l not go to law ? K An Ink Bottle Burst its Boiler— lar accident, says the Boston Allas," 1 ' the office of the Register of Deeds, a si' ol .iiicc, namely, the explosion of aniuk' was one of tbe old fashioned black wood’’ stands, holding nearly a pin l l,l was probably about half-tilled. Ti |C °' of tho desk upon which this stood, another part of the building, was astoua a report from his room, like that On going thither lie perceived smoke, hut a tremendous rivulet °G' which creates so much good and oG ft over the desk, and doing immense some late records, in the iulci'iui, have to be ro-written. Upon stand, a vertical lissurc wus fbu n > I limit top to bottom, being about lour 1 I