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MORNING NEWS.
BIT JOHN M. COOPER.
W. T. THOMP90N, EDITOR
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Dinner of Tongues.—d-Csop was the servant
of tt philosopher named Xanthus., Ono day
his master being desirous of entertaining some
of his friends to dinner, ho ordered him to
provide tho best tilings ho could find in the
market. iKsop thereupon made u largo pro
vision of longues, which ho desired the cook
to serve up with different sauces. When din
ner came, tho first and second courses, the
side dishes, ami tho removes, were all tongues.
“Did 1 not order you,” said Xnnthns in a
violent passion, “to buy tho beat victuals the
market aifordod?"
“And have I not obeyed your orders i” said
ACsop. “Is there any thing better than tongues ?
Is not the tongue tho bond of civil society, the
key of science, and the organ of truth and ren-
son? By ineuns of tho tonguo cities are built,
and governments established and administer
ed: with it men instruct, persuade, and pre
side in assemblies; it. is tho instrument with
which wo ncipiit ourselves of tho chief of all
our duties, tho praising and adoring of the
gods.”
“Well, then,” replica Xanthus, “go to mar
ket to-morrow, und buy mu the worst things
you can find. This sumo company will dine
v.-ith me,, and I have a mind to change my en
tertainment.”
When Xanthus assembled his friends tho next
day, he was astonished io find that .'Ksop had
provided nothing but tne very same dishes.
“ Did I not tell you,” said Xanthus, “to pur
chase tho worst things for tills day’s fenst?
How comes it then, tlint you have placed before
us tho same food, which, only yesterday, you du-
olared to be tho very best?”
iEsop not at all abashed, replied. “ The
tougue is the worst thing in the world as well a«
the best, for it is the instrument of all strife and
contention, tho fometer of law-suits, tho source
of division and war, tho organ of error, of calum
ny, of falsehood and even ofprofanity."
Color of the Air,—Whon wo look at the
sky an a clenr day it appears like a largo blue
arch, set over our head, and seen through
(the supposed) invisible substance called uir.
But this is not the case ;. there is no blue dome
over us, and when the sky is viewed from any
olovatedTogion of the earth, ns the top of tho
high mountain or a balloon, and whore we
would expect that this supposed blue vault
would be more distinct and manifest, its blue
tint moro decided, it appears not more blue,
but dark or black. In proportion ns tho specta
tor risos above the surface of the earthy and lifts
less air above him and that every rare, the blue
tint gradually disappears; and if he could at
tain a height at which there is no air, the sky
would Ijp perfectly back; thore would bo total
darkness all around, except in the direction
which the sun’s rays fell upon hint.. This leads
to the inference that the air itself is of a blue
color. But how does it happen "that we see
this blue color of the air only when wo look ut
the sky or at a distunt mountain or forest?
Why is not the bluo color seen in tho air sur
rounding us when wo look towards a house or
a wall not so farremovod, or even in tho air
in a room, or in tho air contained in what wo
cull nn empty glass vessel ? A vory simple
experiment will explain tho reason of this ap
parent anomaly" If we take any largo glass
vessel, which contains several glnss tubes of
different diameters, from an inch to a tenth or
twentieth of un inch, and fill those tubes with
liquid out of u largo vessel, though wo liavo
the same liquid ill all. end hence in nil tho
matter which causes the color, it will be seen
that the tint will gradually become more faint
ip proportion as the diameter of the tube is
lost, until in llio smallest the liquid is clear
Pnd colorless like water.
The intensity of the color is just in proportion
to the mass at which the spectator looks, and a
very small quunlity of that which indarge quan
tities hus a strong color, does not present any
color at all; and thus, though the greut body of
tho air which is opposed to us, when wo
look at a clour sky or any distant object, trims-
mitts a sufficient quunlity of bluo rays to produce
un impression of that color on the eye", the small
quantity in a glass in a room,orovon in the com
pass of a few miles, cannot convey onongh of
bluo rays to the eyo to produce the color which
the air manifests in u large body.
LATEST Returned Gets Digger.—The N.
Y. .lournul of Commerce, of Saturday evening,
says:
We have just seen a returned miner from Califor
nia, wlio, with hie own bands, hns dug and delivered
here, aboveliia expenses, nbout25 lbs. of gold, which
lias netted him $5,500. He spent but six months at
the diggings, and claims no extraordinary luck, his
success being bused entirely upon daily industry and
habits of thrift. His health is unbroken, and he con
firms the previous reports of tho gold region, that the
same industry and sagacity are requisite to success
there, which attend profitable labor all over the
world.
The North West Passage.—A letter in tho
Courier and Enquirer, dutjjd nt Mazatlan on the
22U of November, in noticing the arrival there
of the British frigate A mphitrite, gays :—“They
have discovered u N. W. passage in iat. 73 and
about 80^, and gone one degreo and a half far
ther North than any vessel has previously been.
They liavo discovered a new continent—hut on
account of ice could not approach nearer thnn
fifteen miles to land. Did not find Sir John
Franklin, and on account of ice were forced to
leave.
A Suspicions Vessel.—By tho schr.Catharine, arrived
last evening from Curacao, wo learn that a Spanish
brig, the Quauartania, which had been lying in Cururao
some four months, undergoing repairs, sailed from that
port on the 3d Deoember, as was supposed for I.aguira,
hut aa some suspicion was entertained, arising from
her taking on board 30 kegs of powder (her sole cargo,
with the exception of provisions and ballast,) a Dutch
Man-of-war was despatched to I.aguira, and on her
arrival no such vessel had arrived there. She then
' proceeded to Coro, where they were informed she had
■topped and taken 70 men and arms, and proceeded to
the West.—The rest is a mystery. The vessel was a
fine clipper brig cf jNout 240 tons, and mounted nine
13 pounders. The Quangrtama will brobably turn
out to be a slaver.—tt. Y. Erprtss.
Very Handsome.—The Hon. Elisha Whittle-
soy, General Agent of the Washington Monu
ment, has received a letter from Capt. George
VV. 8ton r, commanding the U. S. frigate Bran
dywine, at Rio de Janeiro, enclosing the sun, of
three! hundred and twelve dollars, contributed
bv flie officers and crew of that ship to the Wash
ingion Monument. This liberal and patriotic
subscription won headed by Commodore Storor
ltimscl with $30, and pnvcrul of the oiew sub-
scrib -d "$5 eacfiV * •• *
The Gold Bearing Quart* of California.
—Wcbcgiu to think that the wonders of Cali
fornia will never ceuse. Tho latest and most
extraordinary discovery has been tho almost in
exhaustible masses or quarries of gold bearing
quartz, through tho whole mountainous region
which forms the western slope of tho Sierra Ne
vada.
It appears by nn account in the Pacific News,
that, the Hon. T. Butler King devoted two entire
months to tho exploration of the regiou, and
would make a full and comprehensive report to
tho Dcpurlmcnt of State at Washington with re
gard to it. Tho editor of the News thus de
scribes some specimens of tho qunrtz that he
hod scon in the possession of Mr. Wright, one
of the members of Congress elect from Califor
nia :—
They consist for most pnrt, of small pieces
of quartz rock, generally of a brownish tinge,
nnd, in the same instances, presenting the ap
pearance of a slight incipient decay, or de
composition, of tho rock formation. In all
these specimens tho gold points, or particle's
are very slightly, if at all, visible to tho naked
eye. The microscope, however, reveals tho
gold more dourly. Beside these pieces,
which Mr. Wright has himself selected, with
great care, as the fairest average samples of
tho general appcaranco of enormous und very
numerous veins, or quarries, of quartz, there is
also ono larger fragment of tho sumo rock,
weighing, we should suppose, some ten or
twelve pounds, from all parts of which the
gold protrudes pluinly, in a state almost pure.
This single fragment of quartz, which Mr.
Wriglil by no meuns regards as an average
sample of tho quarries, but which ho pronoun
ces to bo the richest rock specimen ho has
seen, is found by tho most careful specific
giuvily test, as applied to it by Mr. Wright, to
contain pure gold to the amount of about six
hundred dollars.
Mr. Wright has subjected some specimens
to most rigorous tests, with tho following rc-
murkablc results:—
In u particular and very extensive vein four
pounds ot this rock yielded, upon the average,
$11 worth of pure gold, valued ut $16 to the
ounce; that is to sny, tire yield of gold from
there average samples of the rocks in this partic
ular vein is nearly $3 for euch pound of quartz.
Mr. Wright exhibited to us two small masses
of gold, euch about the size uml shape of a large
musket ball, nnd both presenting the granulated
appearance of gold extracted nnd collected by
the aid of quicksilver. One of these contains
about $12 of pure gold, nnd is the largest yield
which lias been obtained from four pounds of the
rock in question. 1 ho other contains about $10
und isjtho smallest yield which has been obtain
ed from nny of tho experiments upon the rock
of this vein.
The samples of the rock which Mr. Wright
has tested, hnve been tnken from many different
veins. In no sample tested, has the yield been
less than one dollar to tho pounds of quartz.
Tho average yield of the different vcinshns been,
ns determined by the sumples, from one dollar
and a half to two dollars to the pound of rock.
Horrible Death of Insane ^Prisoners
by Fir*.— The Victims Chained to tne Floor.
—Tho jail nt Gettysburg, Pa., wn 3 consumed
by fire on Monday morning Inst,with two pris
oners. The Sentinel gives the following nf-
llicting account, of the sad disaster r
“There were but two persons confined in
the prison ut tho time, Isaac Mussulman and
John Toner—both insnne, nnd confined for
safekeeping. The fire is supposed to have
originated in the room of the former, but in
whin; manner is not nnd never can be known.
It was first discovered by a gentleman residing
near tho prison, whose attention was attract
ed by the loitd mid continued cries of Mussto-
ninn, and who, up- "! rising from his bed, found
the flames already bursting from one of the
windows of Mussulman's room. From tho
progress tho fire had made, it is inferred that
it must have been burning for some time—
probably an hour. As soon ns an entrance to
the building vvi^s effected, every possible effort
was made to suvo tho two unfortunate beings
confined in it, hut in vain. The flames hud
progressed so far as to render it impossible to
reach the room of Musselman,who,it is thought
fella victim to tho devouring element boforc the
alarm was fairly given, as his erics ceased im
mediately ufter the first discovery of tho fire.
A portion of his burned body was recovered
after tho fulling in of the building, and the re
mains have sineo been interred in the cemetery
of St. James’ church. The dense volume of
smoke issuing from the burning apartments
rendered it difficult to reach the room in which
Tonor was confined, such ns attempted to en
ter being driven hack by tho suffocating vol-
umo of smoko. The poor victim being chained
to the floor rendered his release the moro dif
ficult. The body was nt length recovered, hut
life was extinct—every effort to restore anima
tion failing.
Silk Cotton.—The Augusta Republic of
19th inst., stiys—
A hale of Silk cotton, raised by Mr. J. V.
Jones, of Burke, woighing 470 pounds, was
sold in this city, by Adams, Hopkins & Co., at
14 cents. We understand that it was grown
from tho genuine sued, on three quarters of ail
acre of land.
Two Colleges United.—Franklin College nt
Loncanstcr, and Marshall College at Mercers-
liurg, Pu.,—representing the German and Lu
theran Churches—liavo been united by their
respective Boards of Trustees under the name
of Franklin Marshall College—which is to he
located at Luiienstcr. The property und funds
now uinuunt to some $150,000. Marshall Col
lege, of which Dr. Ncvin is President, bus 150
students, nnd 7 professors. It will be remov
ed as soon as practicable.
The Half Century Question.—Rev. W. F.
Chnnning writes :—"We understand that the
hull' century question lias been agitated among
the Cambridge astronomers, and that they have
decided that, whether for better or for worse,
tho world found itself on tho 1st. inst., ill u
new hulf century of its career.”
Dark and Cold.—In nn account of the recent
expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, it is
stated they were eighty days without seeing the
sun, and laid the thermometer 50° below zero.
They served out their lotions of fifth proof bran
dy by chopping it up with" a hatch'd, it being
frozen sol'd.
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1850.
Supreme Court of Georgia.—The Janu
ary term of this Court was concluded on Satur
day. In our paper to-day will he found the de
cisions made subsequent to those published
in our last. It is worthy of remark, and not a
little creditable to our Georgia Judciary, that in
tho appeal cases brought before them the Jus-
ccs have in every instance affirmed tho Judge
ment of tho Courts below.
During the term tho Hon. Wm. B. Fleming
nnd Jacob De La Motta, Esq. were nddmit-
ted to practice in the Supreme Court.
From Tampa—The Jacksonville, Flo., pa
pers state that a letter has been received at that
place from Tampa, dated 26th Dec., which
states that en Indian by tho name Capa-Chu
Chee end of Sum Jones’ principal men, was
then ut Pens Creek station, for the purpose of
explaining tho reason why the Scminoles did
not meet Gen. Twiggs on the 15th ult. The
mission of Cnpa-Chu-Chee is regarded os indi
cating a disposition on tho part of the Indians
to aviod hostilities.
State Road.—It is stated in tho Cassville
Standard, on tho authority of Capt. Grar, the
contractor, thut the Turinal on this road will
be completed by tho last of February.
Col. K. Hargroves, has been appointed
agent nt Dalton ; Gen. W. N. Bishop is agent
at Chntnnoogn, and Col. E. R. Harden at
Ringgold.
Nomination of the Whig Convention.—
Wo nre indebted to a friend for the bolloting
of the Whig Convention which nsscmhlcd at
Lumber city, on Wednesday last, for tho pur
pose of nominating a candidate to fill the va
cancy in tho present Congress, occasioned by
the resignation of the Hon. Thos. Butleii
King. It will he soen that the Hon. Wm. B.
I LEMING, of this city was nominated on the
second bullot. Tho Bullotings wore ns follows:
First Ballot.
W. B. Fleming, of Chatham, 16
J. P. Love, of Thomas, 8
C. B. Guyton, of Lawrens, 3
Chas. II. Hopkins, of McIntosh, 8
Total, .... 35
Second Ballot.
W. B. Fleming, jg
J. P. Lovo, 5
C. B. Guyton, jo
Mujority for Fleming 1.
Stations of the Preachers of the Me
thodist Conference.—Wo hnve received
tho schedule of the Georgia Annual Confer
ence which has just concluded its session nt
Mnrietta, indicating the stntion of the Preaceh-
ers liir tho ensuingy car. We observe that the
Rev. J. Lewis, is appointed Presiding Elder
of this District, tho Rev. James E. Evans,
Pastor of tho Wesley Chapel, nnd the Rev.
Charles A. Fulwood of Andrew Chapel, in
this city. We will give the entire list of ap
pointments in our next.
Funeral Honors.—-The funeral of Mr. T.
T. Wilmot, who died in this city on Thursday
last, was attended with military honors yester
day, by the Chatham Artillery,, of which corps
ho was a highly respocteil member.
Melancholy Affair.-—The Atlanta Intel-
ligoncer of Friday lost contains nn account of
n inorst shocking affair which occurred in that
city a few days since. It appears that some
difficulty hail existed between a Mr. Fannin
and his son-in-law Mr. Godfrey, in relation
to certain slaves, und that the father, Mr. F.,
had boenforbidden access to the house of the
son-in-law. During the fore part of last week,
however, he attempted to gain an entrance into
tho house, and being opposed, a fight ensued
between himself and son-in-law, when the wife
of Mr. G., in endeavoring to quiet the parties,
received a stab in the abdomen, from a knife
in the hands of her father, which caused her
death, two days after. Mrs. Godfrey was an-
ccint and with in a few weeks of confinement.
• OP The Washington Globe contradicts the
report of the death of Com. Connor. It was
Capt. Connor, of tho Revenue service, who
died at Erie, Pa.
Cotton Manufactures in Florida.—A
subscription is on foot in Tallahassee, Florida,
for tho foundation of a cotton manufacturing
Company in that place. Factories are also talk
ed of in Jefferson and Madison comities.
' A Luxury in the Shoe Line.—A friend
has just exhibited to us a pair of light hand
some shoes, which ho regards us the perfection
of their kind. Being afflicted with a very
luxurient crop of corns, he has found it next to
impossible to accommodate himself with any
thing in the boot or shoe line, that did not give
him excrutiuting pain, until ho met with the
article alluded to at the store of our friends
Messrs. Verstiluc, LuFBURnow & Butler,
No. 161 Congress Street. They are mndeof
what is called crimped kip have a fine polish, are
soft and light, and in the best style of work
manship. And, what is a still rarer,’ recom
mendation, they are exceedingly cheap.
CF" The Secretory of the Navy hns ordered a
portion of the Home Squadron to extend’ its
cruise along the coast of South America, for the
purpose of exercising a proper supervision of
the national interests in that quarter. The move
ment has no reference whatever to our relations
with England.
[Correspondence of tile Mnrniug News.|
Washington, Jun. 15, 1850.
Mr. Clay made a brief but flowing and ap-
proprinte^ddress to the Colonization Society
to-night.- Mr. Clay is still eloquent and im
posing, and commands the closest attention.
Tho American Colonization Society fin's suc
ceeded in its objects, to a remarkable degree,
nnd they now, as 1 learned from the speech
of Mr. Scott, of Virginiu, look forward to the
time when they send out, as colonists, n num
ber of free colored persons equal to the in
crease of the whole number in the U. States,
which is estimated at eleven thousand a year.
The Society, I notice, are preparing to usk
some aid from the Government,
The Hungarian exiles arrived here last' eve
ning, and haVo received the most polite atten
tion from our Mayor, Col. Seaton. Col, Sea
ton accompanied them, to-day, on a visit to
several public places, including the Supreme
Court, the Senate Chamber, the House of Rep
resentatives, the Congress Library, &c.
While they were in the Senate Chnmbcr they
received marked attention from Gen. Hous
ton,'Gen. Sheilds, Mr. King, Mr. Clay, and
others. Gen. Cass was not present.
Ujahazy appears to ho about sixty, and
wears a long and rather grey beard. Ho hus
u fine, intellectual countenance. He was in
plain clothes,wore a large fur cape,and a round,
wide-brimmed, low-crowned hat, with a single
small red feather. Two of the military men
were in undress uniform, and one who com
manded the left wing in the brilliunt sally from
Comorn, displayed n white feather, though he
showed none in the field or in the face of the
foe. In truth, they are very soldier-like and
gentlemanly looking men.
The House is going on slowly towards a
complete organization. To-day, they succeed
ed, after two days’ lubor, in electing a Ser-
geant-nt-arma. To-morrow, they will endeavor
to choose a Door-Keeper.
The caucus caudidnto of tho Democratic
party do not succeed. Col. Forney, the De
mocratic candidate for the Clerkship, proba
bly expended at least the amount of tho yearly
sulary of the office in pursuit, of it, and yet was
beaten. Mr. Lane, the caucus candidate for
Sergeant-at-arms, is beaten by a Pennsylvania
Democrat who got Whig votes. Mr. Brown,
the candidate for the office of Door-Keeper,
has, to use a term emphatic and pertinent, ab
squatulated—run away—having been charged
with a falsification of certain papers upon
which he obtained money from the War De
partment. The Second Auditor, Mr. Clay
ton, who is from yourStnte, first disclosed the
fuel of the forgeries; but ho was put on the
track by the MayorofPittsburg,asI understand.
The circular of the Secretary of the Treasu
ry in relation to the revenue, dated 31st Dec.,
will produce groat alarm among those who
hold office in tho customs. But a joint reso
lution has passed tho Senate and will pass the
House, which will enable the Secretary to re
scind that order. But still the expenditures in
tho collection of the revenue nVo to be greatly
curtailed, and tho number of offices dimin
ished.
The Democratic Senators have held several
private consultations lately, upon the subject
of tho nominations before them ; bnt no definite
conclusion has been arrived at. Tho Senate
shows some disposition to pass Mr. Brad
bury’s resolution. They refused to lay it on tho
table ; bnt that was partly for the purpose of
enabling Mr. B. to speuk upon it. The Presi
dent will consider it as an insult if it should
pass. Of cour^, he will refuse to state the
reasons which influenced his removnls in every
case.
New-York, Jun. 15, 1850.
We Now Yorkers, I believe, absolutely re
quire nn atmosphere charged with a certain
quantity of excitement, to enable us to exist;
and in truth so accustomed have wo become
to it, that habit, which is said to bo second
nature, hns created in us a nature, I may term
artificially real, made of such material that
“fire-eating” would scarcely be too stimulating.
Under this state of things you may be sure we
are, just now, in a high state of. existence, for
excitement has been increasing upon un with
lightning speed, and “horror upon horror’s
head accumulates.” To be sure we have had
no frightful and mysterious murder, but ‘"con
spiracies,” “awful dovolopmonts,” “sanguina
ry machinations,” &c„ are of daily and almost
hourly occurrence. The case of Drury, senior
and junior, for attempting the life of Mr. War
ner and family by means of a torpedo, is still
in abeyance. Ho is rich, and money will be
freely scatcred where it can he mude useful.—
He sent $200 to one of the judges last week,
and asked him to use his influence in his be
half. All the papers connected with his case
have been stolen in two instances, but all his
efforts in this way will not avail, though he may
escape by some other nefarious means yet. I
will give you some particulars of this man
hereafter. J. Chestley, an ex-inember of a
Methodist church, 1ms been connected with
Drury, and yesterday this fellow was given up
by his bail (no other than Drury himself, by the
bye,) nnd it is said mndo some strange reve
lations to tho District Attorney, still further
unfolding an astounding mystery which will
asto n ish the country. That there has been a
deep and ingenious system of villainy practised
here by certain parties for years past, is be
yond doubt, hut fortunately a discovery 1ms
been made, and now each is anxious to he the
first to “peach” upon his fellows. The arrest of
the Mormon General, Arlington Bennett, last
week, who was one of them, evidently caused
great surprise. lie Is a tall, raw-boned Scotch
man, of near sixty years of age, and u “blow
er” of the most extensive kind. Those
worthies arts all in' prison, and lookout for
startling events very soon, for it is said that
others, who have held their bends high in the
community—lawyers, merchants, and pursons
even—are implicated in this affair.
1 he trials of the Astor Place rioters nro now
proceeding in our Court of Oyer nnd Termi*"
tier. Yesterday, Miller alius Long, was con
victed of arson in the third degree, for at
tempting to burn the Astor Opera House, and
will have three years at Sing Sing at least.
Kynders, Thiner, Johnny Austin, O’Donnell,
and Johnny Walker, nil villains known tounen-
viabio fume, are on trial to-day, for inciting the
riot, nnd we hope to discover who were tho
really guilty parties in this horrible affair—it
may come out in the trial, for theso fellows
were activo in the matter, but there avis yet
others behind the curtain.- Tho above, and
particularly Rynders, has- the satisfaction of
knowing that he has the best wishes of all re
spectable and well disposed persons for his
speedy and long incarceration. He and liis 1
entire club have been n disgrace to the city too'
long, and tho terror of the community. More
of them anon.
The defalcation of Mr. Wefrrrbre, late Navy
Agent here, lias cansed still more excitomcnt.,-
for he is so gentlemanly, so respectable, be
longs to so many societies,- and moves in such-
distinguished circles,- that people could not
believe it. But when men rob the Govern
ment, it is only callod defalcation; and a yet
milder term is applied to this affuir. He is
short in liis uccount $170,000; hut then, ho'
thinks Government owes him money for his
services, and foe fear he shouldn’t got it from
them, he helps himself to sufficient funds to J
more thnn cover his demands ! What would
this be termed, if a clerk in the counting house
shofild do the same thing?
Wo a e to liuvc a great time on Thursday
evening, at Nihlo’s, at the celebration of Frank
lin’s birth-day. The affair hns been got up
by tho typos, and every thing looks brightly'
promising. The festival is to consist of three'
parts: Part 1. Orations, addresses, and mu
sic. Part 2. Supper, songs, speeches, and
toasts. Part 3. Ball. Isn’t that something
like a festival? I will tell you all about it by
and bye.
The Cherokee was to have left to-day with
the California mail, but she has sprung a leak,
and will be detained until Thursday.
We have been expecting some snow for tho
last day or two, but it did not get further than
Philadelphia, where the sleighing is said to bo
glorious. '
We have still some of tho Hungarians with
us, but Ushazy and Mile- Ingello hwra.Joft
for Washington, fancy jackets and vests, short
petticoats, and all. She does not wear those'
articles now, but exhibits them to the curious
as those she wore when mixing in the struggle
of her countrymen. She is a nice, good look--
ing, plump piece of goods, very unromantic in
face and figure, and not at. all Amazonianish.
We ure very gay in New York at present,-
and tlio California fever, I think, is returning—
the story about the mountains of gold has
caused many u sigh from those who haven’t got
the means to gratify their longings.
You must excuse the hurried nature of this
epistle, as I have not had time to collect and
arrange my material. I shall endeavor in fu
ture to give you a brief view of passing events
in tmr city, and endeavor to spice them to the
tastes of your readers generally, and hopo I
may succeed to tho satisfaction of tho majori
ty at least- Yours,
CIIARLEMAC.
CF A duel was fought a few days since at
Fort McHenry near Baltimore, between two
privates, one a veteran dragoon and the other a
member of Ringgold’s Artilery corps, both of
whom had sem service in Mexico. The weap
ons used were heavy sabres. After dealing euch
other a series of cuts and thrusts-, one of tho
wenpons broke in twain. Another wus-immedi
ately provided, and the bloody work renewed
with increased ferocity, which resulted in one
receiving a soveree gash across the face, and
who will also run the risk of losing an eye.
His wound was such as required the skill and
attention of the surgeon, who keeps him confin
ed to the moss room. <
Atlanta Advancing—Demand for Lum
ber.—The Atlanta Iutclligenccr of the 18tl
inst. says;
We hear almost daily in different ports o
our city, of the scarcity of Lumber in the mar
ket, There is a constant demand for material:
for building. Houses are rapidly going up or
all sides,but the operations of builders arealmos
constantly crippled nn account of the difficult;
of obtaining the nccessrry supply of lumber
Mu-y also are desirous and ready to build, bn
are prevented by this same difficulty. Is then
no lumber in the country? We are certain thn
our friends throughout the country who may bi
in possesion of the article, would find it profit
able to bring it to market, commanding us i
does, ut nil times a high price.
Cannot cur lumber merchants meet this de
mand.
CF A Washington letter says.—No qufistio
can arise in Congress, at this session, whic
will not ran at once into the great question <
the future relative power between the Norl
and South.
The St. Louis papers of the 5th inst stnte
that during the previous week several cases of
cholera hud occurred in that city, some of which
terminated fatullv.