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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.
EDITED AID PD 81.1911 El) WEEKLY, BY
WH. B . II Alt K I * o \ .
Correspondence Southern Tribune.
MILLEDGEVU.CE, Feb. 14, 1850.
The Legislature will probably adjourn
on Saturday next, although much business
will be left undone.
The Senate took up the resolutions of
the House of Representatives upon the
subject of slavery, and after some discus
sion, and the offering of several amend
ments (all of which were rejected,) the bill
passed. Yeas 31—Nays 8.
The bill to authorize the Railroads to
form a junction and pass around the city
of Macon, should the citizens refuse to let
them pass through, wa* passed by a largo
majority.
The following bills have passed since i
mv last :
The bill to alter and amend an act en
titled an act to alter and amend tbe
several acts incorporating tbe city of Ma
con, approved Dec. 27th, 1847. and to
abolish tho office and duty of assessor.
To alter the time of the meeting of the
Geneal assembly of the State of (iergia.
An act to amend the several acts rela
ting to the Western & Atlantic Rail-toad
and to provide a President fir the same.
The bill to change the line between the
counties Effingham and Chatham, so as to
include the residence of G. A. Keller, in
the county of Chatham.
To lay out and form anew county
from the counties of Ware and Lownds
The bill to incorporate the Eutonton
Branch Rail Road.
The bill to make a penal offence for
ar.y conductor, fireman, engineer, or other
officer or agent conducting any Rail Road
car in this State to allow a slave to enter
and travel on the same in the absence of
the owner, overseer, or employer, without
a written permit for that express pur
pose.
The bill of the Senate to amend the
third section of the first article of the Con
stitution of this Stato.
The bill to e.icorporate a Bank in the
city of Savannnah to be called the Bank
of Savannah.
The bill to incorporate the Central
Horticultural Association of this State.
The bill to compel all persons taking
up runaway slaves, to deliver the same up
to the Jailor ofthe county where taken up.
The bill to alter and amend an act en
titled an act to regulate the licensing phy-
sicians, in this State, and to prevent apoth
ecary's vending and exposing to sale with
in this State, drugs and medicines without
a license from the Board of Physicians,
and to prevent merchats, shop keepers,
and all persons from compounding and
preparing drugs and medicines or either,
approved Dec. 24th, 1525.
The bill to alter and amend an act to or
ganise tbe Lunatic Asylum of tbe State
of Georgia, and to provide for tbe govern
tnetu us the name, ami appropriate a sum
of money for the same, assented to the
lOib of Dec., IS4I.
The Bill to provide for the trial by the
Superior Court of this State of any slave
or slaves or free persons of color, charged
with any capital offence against the laws
of this State.
Mr. Gartrell’s substitute for the tax bill
for the years 1850 and 1851, was passed,
yeas 66 ; nay 44.
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Washington, Feb. 8.
I find it is.the general impression, that
Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, will be nomina
ted as Minister to Prussia, in tbe place of
Mr. Hannegat), recalled. Gov. Nell S.
Bro wn, lias been unquestionably selected
as Minister to Russia ; but the President
will not send in any more nominations,
until the Senate has disposed of those now
before them. The Senate lias not yet de
termined upon their course in regard to
nominations. If an opportunity had oc
cured to enable them to go into Executive
Session, this week, they would have dis
posed of Col. J. W. Webb’s case, in ad
vance of all others.
The statement in the papers that a treaty
has been made here, between the British
Minister and this Government, in regard
to Nicaragua, is premature, but the mat
ter is in such a train of settlement that it
will undoubtedly end in a speedy treaty.
Sir Henry Bulwer has, it is believed,
strongly expressed the disposition of his
government to consult the wishes of the
United Slates, in relation to the Oceanic
(’anal, or to Tigre Island. I learn, to day,
that Great Britan will ceartaiuly agree to
its cession to the United States.
So many objections are ugred to the
Clay compromise, on the part of the South,
that it is not likely that it can be effected.
It is now urged that the limits of Texas,
as proposed by Mr. Clay, would give to
the non-slaveholding region, bo h of the
great passes into the interior from the Rio
Grande.
The California Senators are announced
as having arrived at New Orleans. Os
course, the application for tiio admission
of California will be urged and become the
sole and exciting topic of discussion in
Congress. The two Senators, Col. Fre
mont and Dr. Gvvin, are southern men,
with southern sympathies, and will add to
the weight of the South in the Senate.—
They are both free trade men.
The Wilmot proviso party, though bea
ten in the House, have not abandoned the
field, and will make efforts in the House
and in the country. It is rumored that
they intend to call a general Convention,
to meet in Buffalo in June next, foi the
purpose of adopting measures to count' r*
act the influence of the proceed'. 12 of
Naslu ille Convention, on the northern
States and people.
[ Correspondence of the Hatannah Republican]
View from Lookout Mountain.
Nashville, (Term.,) J in. 27, 1650.
You are aware. Gentlemen, that the
Georgialine, which bounds on Tennessee,
passes over this magnificent mountain, so
that at one step you are in Georgia, anti
another in Tennessee, so that l cannot say
she is separated or divided from Tennes
see, and hope a continued Railroad will
unite, not only her, but the whole West;
for as you cast your eyes around from its
lofty summit, you behold poitions ofthe
following six great S'ates ; Georgia, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Kentucky, V irginia
an 1 N. Carolina. Look along the chores of
the Tennessee, said now to be 30 or 40
feet above its low state, you see flatboats.
50 feet long, and 12 to 15 feet wide, with
snug cabins on them, loaded with flour,
corn, bacon, cotton, castings, pig iron and
even potatoes and cabbages, fowls, turkies,
and geese, from some ofthe above named
States, waiting for a passage way ; a con
necting Railroad across the Tunnel llill.
I asked a gentleman why he was carrying
his cotton to Charleston, rather than Sa
vannah, hich, was m >re convenient to
him, and where I thought he could get as
much as iu Charleston. lie said they had
an Alabama and Tennessee house in
Charleston, as none in Savannah thought it j
worth their while to come among us, to
form such a connection ; I offered them
a letter to two factors, who I assured them
would give them entire satisfaction.
At Chattanooga, even a Baltimore house
has established an immense factory for the
curing f bacon, to be shipped to London
and Liverpool, and as tbe preparation is
peculiar, it is said, to this establishment, 1
will give you a brief sketch of it. They
give §2 50 per 100 lbs. for the hogs, gross,
from 2 to 400 are killed every cold day ;
beingdriven into a pen covered with broom
grass, to avoid the mud. they are knocked
down with a long handled hammer by one
man,while two put them on a table, where
they are bled and then placed in a row on
the broom-straw, and covered over with
other straw and set fire to when the hair is
singed off and cleaned, the feet and offals
taken out, the feet and head cut off, and the
whole sides, hams, and shoulders, in one
entire piece, is salted, piled up in packs as
high as the roof ofthe house, to be put in
boxes and shipped. Tbe lard is prepared
in the factory and may be bought for sc,
per lb.
At Atlanta they were building a slone
depot on the plan of tbe London depot,
340 feet long, a parallelogram with a spaci
ous circle at the end, ofgranite quarried
at the Little Stone Mountain, 16 miles dis
tant, in Delvalb county, which Mr. Alex
ander, a most skilful superintendant, con
siders superior to the (Quincy graite ; lie
had worked 3000 miles from where it was
quarried. The very rocks of Alabama
and Tennessee will be valuable. We
found many ofthe houses at Guntersville
and Whitesburgh under water, while
Huntsville is a most beautiful and elevated
city, ami its public buildings are an honor
to its wealthy citizens. But here is a city
of rocks and mountains, deep valleys and
flowing streams, one ofthe most romantic
and splendid l have ever seen. As we
ascended Capitol Hill, where, they are
building a magnificent stone State House,
estimated at a cost of §BOO,OOO or §1,000,-
000, wo saw the roofs of houses just above
the water, as tbe great Cumberland has
overflowed a portion of Nashville. 1 was
gratifieil to hear to day, from a member of
the Legislature, now in session, that the
bill appropriating $1,800,000 would pass ;
as the objection to the 84,000,000 bill was
its enormous amount; but told him, as 1
jourttyed along the toad 1 heard one of
her distinguished men say, that in passing
the some road, he had been invited to stop
at a cottagers house to dinner, and as they
sat down to a small piece of bacon, with a
plenty of other things, the kind hearted la
dy (as the Tennessee ladies arc generally)
said, do Bir, help yourself to a hit of bacon,
and do not he afraid, although it’3 small.
Oh Madam, said her distinguished guest, I
would not he afraid of it, if it was twice
as large. So, said I, you must not be a
fraid of it, if it were twice as large an appro
pi iation, when you think ofthe millions it
will scatter broad-cast over your produc
tive country, for even now you have 100,-
000, bales of cotton to go to market from
Davidson, Rutherford, and Bradford, and
along the road I have come, that at 15
cents per lb. in Savanah, would bring you
from 4 so $6,000,000, for an appropriation
of less than 82,000,000 !
The fertile imagination of man cannot
conceive so romantic and beautiful a view
as from Capitol Hill.
Mobile and Girard Rail Road.—
Maj. 1L S. Hardaway, accompanied by
Mr. 11. Blackmon, is now passing over the
contemplated route of this great work, in
view to enlist tiie citizens along the line
in the enterprize. On the ninth inst., he
writes from Greenville, Butler county, that
they have succeeded in getting the stock
taken for the grading and superstructure,
through Russell and Macon counties, en
tire, and nearly through the counties of
Pike and Montgomery; responsible and re
spectable citizens assuring them that they
will cat ty it through the latter counties.—
Through the county of Lownds all hut 5
or six miles are taken, and 16 miles in But
ler had been taken, although the party had
been there, less than 24 hours. He adds,
if the people of Baldwin county take it up
with the same spirit, as he has assurances,
they are prepared to do, he confidently be
lieves they will he able to put an Er girteer
on the road immediately on their return
tV-cn Mobile. The people along tlso line,
according to Mi. H., take Isold nunc read'
ly than he has ever known in regard to • t v
similar enterprise—because the, at- ,it
out from market otherwise.— Cd'usl'
M A CON, G A ,
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 16, 1850.
Qj* We publish in another column, as a tribute
to the memory of our deceased friend, \V m. 11.
Anderson, Esq., the proceedings in relation
thereto, of the Supreme Court and the Sous of
Temperance.
Rossiter's Great I'ain TiNGS.-4-Tliese fine!
Paintings will be exhibited at the new hall in
the Floyd House buildings, for several days next
week, commencing on Monday. We have seen
letters from several clergymen oftliis State, who
testify toils being an Exhibition of great merit
and one that has great claims on the moral and
religious portion ofthe community, as such pro*
ductions are calculated to purify the mind, refine
the taste, gratify the eye and move the heart.
Supreme Court. —This Court commenced
its session in this city on Monday last—present
j Judges Lumpkin, Nisbet and Warner. We
! learn there were some twenty-five cases to be
I decided,which will probably prolong the session
; all next week. In the case ofthe slave belong.
itig to Mr. Root. Fref.man, convicted of murder
. in Houston last year, the Supreme Court have
decided that the ciltorari sued out and refused
by Judge Floyd, ought to have been allowed—
also thntthe Inferior Court erred in allowingthe
Prosecution to introduce the evidence of the
preliminary proceedings before the Magistrates,
after the evidence had closed and the case was
submitted to tbe jury—also, tint the preliminary
proceedings before the Magistrates, is a necessa
ry part of tho o vidence in the case, and thal there
could not he a conviction without it. Tho de
cision will give the prisoner anew trial.
Several other decisions have beeu made, but
owingtoan arrangement having Icpn entered
into between tbe Journal &. Meisenger and
Clerk, which gives that paper the preference, we
could not copy them from the record.
Afpeal.— Brinkley Bishop, who was sen
tenced by his Honor Judge Starke, at the late
Term of Bibb Superior Court, to Ire hung on the
29th of March next, lias appealed lo tire Supreme
Court, which, in consequence of its session in
this city within ten days after tbe adjournment
of the Superior Court, will delay the decision
in the case until the session at Decatur in Au
gust next —which being after the next Superior
Court here, whatever the decision may he, will
so far as the law is concerned, protect his life
until January next, nt least.
Geo. Baker was also sentenced to four years’
imprisonment in the Penitentiary, for Larceny
from the house. He kud served a term there
before, it is said.
Negro Emigrants.— We learn that one hun
dred and sixty-four negroes, manumitted by
the late Major Jacob Wood, were taken from
Hawkinsville about a week ago, on hoard the
steamboat Robert Collins, Capt. Taylor, bound
to Savannah, where a vessel is ready to take
them to Liberia. Five thousand dollars were
lelt to send them to Hayti, hut for good reasons,
Liberia Iras been chosen for them, and they
went to work and earned a sum of money
sufficient to defray their expenses lo their new
home, which tire recent high price of cotton lias
enabled them to do, and have a surplus beside.
They arc represented as being in comforable
circumstances, the result of their own labor, not
having received a dollar from their Northern
friends, notwithstanding the appeal which we
recollect to have seen in some of the Northern
papers,some time since, made in their behalf, by
some of their professed friends.
Election. —The follow ing is the result of the
election for member to Congress from tho First
District, as far as heard from, viz: For J. YV.
Jackson, (D.) 1941 ; W. B. Fleming, (VV.I 1902.
Wayne and Ware to hear from which will prob
ably increase the majority of Col. Jackson.
State Bank. — We learn that the decision of
the United States Supreme Court in the case of
Shultz vs. The Bank State of Georgia, will not
be given for several days to come, and when
made will only decide the question whether he
has the right to com nenre suit against the Bank;
and not the final settlement of the question, as
some persons suppose.
[CFThe original manuscript copy of General
Washington’s Farewell Address was sold at
auction in Philadelphia on the 13th inst., to tiie
Rev. I)r. Boardman, for $2,300 !
ffjTAmong the passengers in the steamer Em
pire City at New- York, are the Hon. Geo. W.
Wright and E. Gilbert, Representatives, nnd Dr.
Gvvy nn, Senator elect from California ; and Hon.
Thos. Butler King, of this State. Col. Fremont
has been detained at Panama, by the illness of
his wife. The Empire City brought $1,133,648
in gold—The Oregon, at Fanania, Lad about
$2,000,000 —and the Cherokee at New York has
$1 (10,000 in gold.
tLrWe are pleased lo learn that the health of
Mr. Cai .iioun has so far improved, that he would 1
he enabled in a few days, to resume his duties in
the Senate, where his counsel is so much need
ed at the present time.
(U'The New York packet ship Ilottinguer,
Capt. Bursley, has fallen a prey to the fury of
the elements. The Ilottinguer sailed from Liv
erpool for New York on the 10th day of Janu
ary. She had 290 cabin and steerage passen
gers, with the captain and crew of 30 men and
boys. She had only passed as far as Black wa
ter Bank, which is off tho coast of Wexford,
when she struck on one of those dangerous ledges
of rock. On the occurrence of this mishap a
part of the ere w and all the passengers were sent
on shore and saved—-Capt. B. and thirteen of his
men remained on board and were lost.
ffjp Two men, named Olin and Allen Revel,
have beeu .ken up at Ruthcrfurdton, 'N. C.)
A number of counterfeit bills wi re four.d in
their possess and among them Three Dol
lar Bills on tuts Bank of Cape Fear; Fives on
the Plantes’ Ac Mechanic’s Bank of Charleston;
1 Twenties on the Bank of Georgetown,
, C.)
The Half Century Problem.
We copy the following article from a late num
ber of the New Orleans Crescent: “The news
papers continue (o keep up an active discussion
of the question, whether we are in the first or
second half of the nineteenth century —in other
words, whether the Ist of January commenced
the last year of the first half-century, or the first
year of the second half. Many columns have
been writen, and yet tbe question appears to he
unsettled in many minds. A great deal of learn
ing has been brought forth on both sides, and
yet it seems to us to be a very simple matter,
when separated from the extraneous matter
which lias been mixed up with it.
Considered as tiie simple inquiry, bow many
years must elapse before a half-century is compu
ted, there is no ground for dispute. As the firsi
fitly of a hundred dollars is not paid until the
last cent of the fiftieth dollar is counted out, so
the fiftieth year ofa century is not completed un
lil the last day ofthe year is over; and as the
second fifty commences with the fiist cent of
the fifty-first dollar, so the second half-century
commences with the first day of tho fifty-first
year. We say the fiftieth year has commenced
on the day after the forty-nine years are com
pleted—just as a man begins paying his fiftieth
dollar after he tins told one hundred cents over
forty-nine times, and begun to pay on the last;
but in both cases it takes full fifty to make eith
er half-hundred. That is a plain statement o
a simple problem, and not to be disputed.
But to this is opposed an attricate discussion
about the date of the birth of Christ, and the
manner iti which the era of his birth is com
putad. Some write elaberately about the year
ofo, and the year of one, ttnd make nice die
tlnctions about the day of the month in which
the Saviour was born, and the query, whether
the Era should, or rather does, from the January
preceding, or the January immediately after—
and hence a dispute is raised upon the rule to bo
observed in commencing the Era.
All there are speculations, which have really
nothing to do with the single qestion ofthe com
mencement and the close of the century. The
Christian era is not n date originally fixed, or
fixed at a period from which his chronology was
traced backward, so as to leave no doubt of the
correctness of the computation. It was not used
as an Era at all until several centuries had e
lapsed ; and after it had been used, partially a t
least, for more than a thousand years, it was dis.
covered that error certainly had been made in
the computation; and chronologists for a long
time had argued that the error amounted to four
years. A later computation, approved by men of
eminent science, makes the error in the common
era six years. According to Dr. Jarvis’s tables,
in his introduction to History of the Church, 'lie
year after the Crucifixion was in the 28th \ ear
of the present era, and it should have been the
34th. The year of the vulgar era, 1850, should
he 1856, so that in fact, we have already enter
ed on the last half of the true nineteenth centu
ry, if the calender were rectified exactly.—
The various rectifications of the year, fiom that
of Julias Cresar which made one year of fifteen
months, and 445 days, down to that of Pope Gre
gory, one of only 355, have all searched for the
era of the birth of Christ by computation back
wards—not by receiving a regular succession of
constantly authenticated years, lienee‘.lie dis
pute how this particular year, as the first or the
last half of a century, in n:i exact series from the
birth of the Saviour, is idle, because it is neither
tho one nor the other; but several yearsnevanc
ed in the second half of the real nineteenth
century.
The other question, that of the mere system
of counting under the Christion era as fixed in
the sixteenth century, is only a matter of figures
whether the half of a hundred is forty-nine or
any thing less than fifty—and there is not much
ground for a difference of opinion about that.
[ff An account is published of the surprising
performance of a locomotive on the New York
and Buffalo Road, performing the entire distance
from Utica to Syracuse (fifty-three miles) in
seventy-five minutes, with seven loaded eight
wheel freight cars, through a falling wet snow
of six inches upon the rail, without scrapers
and brushes.
Cotton Shipped from Griffin. —The Griffin
Whig of the 14th instant, says: There is so lit
tle Cotton here for sale, that it is impossible to
"ive correct quotations. There was not as much
Cotton received hero last week as there was in
one day of the corresponding week last year.
Cotton shipped from September 1,1849, to
January 1,1850, 18,290
Cotton shipped from January 1, 1850, to
February 1, 1850, 4,800
Total, 23,090
Amount shipped in same time last 5ea50n,28,789
Decrease this year, 5,699
The Trial of Professor Wf.bster —llhas
been arranged, the Boston Traveller says, that
the trial of Prfessor Webster, on the charge of
the murder of Dr. Parktnan, will take place
about th.e middle of March, and lie will not be
arraigned until! that time. It also adds that a
more particular examination ofthe ashes found
underneath the grate of Prof. Webster s room
at the Medical College has brought to light ano
ther tooth, several human bones, and 11 wedge of
gold of the value of about $3. The lengthy
statement lately published as to the evidence be
fore the coroner’s jury, it also pronounced full
of inaccuracies prejudicial to the accused.
Father Mathew. —This gentleman probably
arrived in Columbus yesterday, where he will
remain several days, before his departure for
Mobile and New Orleans.
(JjPThc bark Velocity, from Savannah, was
wrecked off Long Island on Sunday last. Pas
sengers nnd crew saved.
Muscogee Road —The Columbus Times
says: We arc gratified to learn that tf,-> addi_
tional subscription, asked of ihe, t:r.,.n.s,the
Directors, has been prompt v mac e.
Ip The exports of Lo 1 • t- . ih he
present season are 7 ,' 30,7 . ;c> - : . -,-
800 feet during same time last year.
North and South. —The following facts are
taken from Mr. F.lwood Fisher's Lecture. It
purports to show by statistics,in a few words, that
the South is a more porsperous section of the
country than the North; and that all the elements
which constitute a great, prosperous and happy
people, in the South far excel those of the North.
To begin the relative wealth ofthe two sections.
In 1840 the average wealth ofa free person in Ma
ryland was $531, while in Massachusetts in her
palmiest days, it was only 406, making the free
man in Maryland, 25 per cent richer. Tbe ave
rage property of a free white person in Virginia, is
$758, in New York it is only $260 a little
more than one-third The average value of
property to each free person in Kentucky is $456,
and in Ohio, it is only $276. In Ohio there are
50,000 pleasure wagons—Virginia, with only a
third as many whites has 19,000. The white
people of Virginia are about the same in num
ber as Massachusetts, yet in 1840, Virginia
built 402 brick houses, nnd the old Bay State
374. Virginia had the same number of hogs in
1840 that Ohio had, yet Ohio exports large quan
tities of pork, while Virginia, on the other hand
imports large quantities, and the white popula
tion of Ohio is twice as large as that of Virgina.
The wheat crop in Virginia, in 1840, was 10,100,
716 bushels, while in New York it was 12,286,-
418. The natural increase of the population is
60 percent, that ofthe South is 65 per cent. In
1843, in New York, there was one pauper to ev
ery seventeen individuals; in the city in 1847,
there was one to every five dependant, more or
less upon public charity. In the South papuper
ism is almost unknown. In New York there
are 2,000 convicts in the Penitentiaries, in Vir
ginia 111 whites and 90 blacks, which indicates
the amount of crime corresponding with the
population. There are many other statistics,
showing that with the reputed blight and curse
of slavery, that the free white people of the
South are richer upon an average than those of
the North—have less pauperism, and more
morality.
Honey.— Honey is, according to Mr. Milton,
who has lately published n treatise on Lees in
England, a universal specific; and among its
other valuable properties he declares that it pre
vents consumption, and states that that destroy
er of human life is not known in countries
where honey is regulariy taken as an article of
food. Those who have less faith in the spcci.
fie, may perhaps attribute (because to difference
of climate rather than to honey. The Italian
singers, make a practice to sharpen it with
a few drops of acid, though they sometimes
take it in a pure slate.
Hog Statistics. —The hog slaughtering sea
son is now about elosed at Louisville, all the
pork-houses having suspended operation but one.
The number of hogs killed this season, including
Jeffersonville and Now Albany, is 184,000, esti
mating the number put up at New Albany at
16,000 bead. This is a small excess over last
season’s operations, the number killed last sea
son being 178 It is estimated that at Cincinna
ti this season there will be a falling off of about
60,000 hogs from the number slaughtered there
last season. At every other point that we have
heard from there appears to be a gain on the
amount of the previous season.
Compound interest. —Few persons have a
correct idea of the effect which unwisely accu.
mulated debt, and quarterly dividends of inter
est paid thereon have upon the fortunes of a na
tion, a family or individual- A bottle of wine
four hundred years old was drank one day at pre
sident Tiyler’s table, and a’ealculation made of
its cost, on the supposition that the price was
halfadollar at first, and that the interest on
that half dollar had been collected once every
three months, and also laid out at interest, du
ring the 400 years, by which mode the principal
would double every eleven years. The resuM
was that 400 years compound iuterestori 50 cents
amounted to some $40,000,000,000 —enough to
pay tho public debt of Britian ten times over.
Compound Interest. —Tho following simple
rule will show tho number of years in which a
single sum will become double in amount, by
the accumulation of compound internet, for nlj
rates of interest not exceeding 10 per cent. Di.
vide 70 by the rate of interest per cent., and the
quotient is the numberofyears required. Thus
70 divided by 10 will give 7 years; by 5,14
years ; by 4 nearly 18 years ; by 3, 21 years near
ly ; by 2, 35 years
Villainous Acts.— A correspondent of tbe
Cincinnati Central Herald says, that in a certain
village in tbe State of Indiana, on tbe Ohio rev
er, there is a Society for the purpose of taking
and returning to their masters, runaway slaves.
It is said, that they have agents in Kentucky to
persuade the slaves to run away, and who give
them such directions as to theircoursc after lea
ving the river, as will certainly lead to their
being apprehended. Some of these slaves have,
it is belies od, been sold by their captors, and
sent to the South.
Electro-Magnetic Power. — We have been
shown says tho Washington City Globe, a min
iature model’ of a very ingenious machine, the
invention of Mr. John 11. Lillie, for propelling
machinery by electro-magnetic power. From a
limited acquaintance with the subject, we are
inclined to believe that this will prove a highly
useful invention. Wo understand that Mr. L.
has filed nn application for a patent.
John M. Barrett. — the correspondent of the
Columbia Telegraph, writing from Washing
ton City, says that in a paper edited by the no
torious W. 11. Brisbane, in Cincinnati, be finds
two editorials, from wliieli be infers the follow
ing facts:
“ That Barrett will not return to stand his
trial in Spartanburg, and that there will bean
effort made to evade the payment of the forfeit
of bis non-appearance.”
The Kentucky U. S. Senators. —A Mr.
Arnold, in the Kentucky House of Representa
tives, on 26th ult. offered a resolution calling on
their Senators in Congress to resign, as their
views, he says, on the Wilinot Proviso are
known to be at variance witli those of a largo
majority of the people of Kentucky, whoop
pose that measure.
Good News from the Seminole I*b, an
The Floridian and Journal of the 9th i ug .
says : “We are enabled to communicate to
readers, highly gratifying intelligence f ro ,^.'
F.orida Peninsula. When we assure them t|
it is entirely reliable, we know that they w
feel the same pleasure it: reading, w hich «
in publishing it. '
The Council at Choko-Nikla on the 2l«-
was attonded by Billy Bowlegs and eight or
sub-chiefs of the different tribes. The result
tiie conference was highly satisfactory f
all consented to leave the Country as soon
they can collect their people, on the terms oifi,
cd by the Government Bowlegs left the co
cil for tbe purpose of collecting his tribe 8r
there were to be about thirty warriors, wifi,
corresponding proportion of women and chi
dren of the Tallahassee and Miccasukie trib
at Fort Meade on Peas Creek, about the 7th t
this month. It is believed that the Indians wil
all bo out of the Country by the last of May-
Great credit is given Gen. Twigg f or ,j )e
doin with w hich lie has conducted both the mili
tary and diplomatic matters entrusted to him
His speecli at the Council is said to haTe been ir
the highest degree judicious and eioqucnt-hu
tone being just what was most effectivc-both
menacing and persuasive.
The following are the terms upon which ts,,
Indians consent to Emigrate : each warrior is in
receive (before he goes on bourd the boat;
SSOO, each woman SIOO, each child SIOO. Bow.
legs himself will receive about SIO,OOO, and t« 0
or three sub-Chiefs about $5,000 each. Thty
are to be provided with rations for one year after
their arrival in Arkansas, and to be guarrantied
in the possession of their negroes. It is estimj.
ted that the whole cost of the removal will be
about $225,000.”
Extraordinary Invention —A Mr. Appold
has invented a remarkable machine, called the
“Centrifugal Pump,” for draining marshes, itc
and a most ingenious affair it is. You have heard
of the turbine—a small box water-wheel,posse,,
sing extraordinary capabilities for work. Well,
Mr. Appold’s model contains such a wheel made
of tin, a little thicker but no larger than a half
penny'. This is fitted at the bottom ofa square
tube dipping into a small cistern containing
water, which may represent a lake, &c. The
little wheel, being made to rotate with great
velocity, throws up water rapidly into the tube
above itself until it overflows in a continuous
stream at the top, nnd the volume of tlicstream
is such as to deliver eight gallons per minute;
and, on applying a nozzle, the stream is driven
to the distance of twenty feet. This, you will
say, is a marvellous effect from so appearantly
insignificant acause ; but a wheel, about fifteen
inches in diameter, exhibited at the same timr,
will deliver 1800 gallons per minute ; it requires
to be worked by an engine offour horse power.
Mr. Appold base lately proposed to the engineer
ol tiie Dutch Government to fix a similar wheel
oil the Haarlem Sea, nowin process ofbeing
drained, by forty pumps driven by steam. A
centrifugal pump of forty feet in diameter would
do more work than all others put together, would
deliver, so the inventor asserts, 1,500,000 gallor!
per minute. With such power at command, one
would think we ought never more to hearof
ships foundering at sea ; and Jtheir filling with
water a possibility.
Cotton grown in Spain.— The editor of,
Barcelona newspaper says be has bad an oppor
tunity of seeing some samples of cotton which
was cultivated on the banks of the Guadalquivir,
the superior quality of which can compete with
the best that is imported from the American con
tinent. He recommends that the cultivation of
this most useful plant he extended to cverv part
of tho peninsula ofSpain ; the soil and tempera
ture of which, he says, arc calculated to give
rich results. The editor flatters hiniselfthat an
inteligont speech lately made by Don Felix Rival
before the agricultural society, at Madrid, may
produce the effect of extending the cultivation
of cotton.
Mesmerism.— Three children of Mr. Josi*
near Clearspring, Md. were recently affected
with singular symptoms, resembling mesmerized
subjects. The Sentinel soys,it is ascertuinedlo
be the effects of mesmerism, but how communi
cated, is unknown. By reversing the passes,ns
used by mesmerizers to bring subjects out of the
somnambulic state, they were restored to wake
fulness in a lew minutes. The children allege
they tvere put into the state mentioned by a ped
lar, who visited the house the day before they
exhibited the symptoms. The Sentinel saya:
The little girl, the day before she became en
tirely relived, stated that she would be well;
and true to her prediction, at tho precise time)
the symptoms all disappeared. Two of the
children remain affected, and one, it is fcaied j
will die, as his legs are becoming perfectly par
alizrd, so as to prevent his walking.
The ediior of the Sentinel in company with
Dr. Garry, visited them a few days ago, and
adds :
“ They appear to delight lo be asleep, as lliey
term it, during which time they laugh, dance,
run, and strive by every means in their power
to get out. \Vc took the mesmeric fluid off of
them, probably eight or ten times, which requir
ed not exceeding ten to thirty seconds each time-
Any person can relieve them with the reversed
passes, provided they are willing, otherwise
they cannot be awakened. At the lime of > n '
diting this, which lias been about two hours
since last arousing them, we feel a considerable
relaxation of the nervous system, together with
pains in the head, arms, and extremities, w hich
we alone attibute to our having extracted the
nervous fluid from them. Numerous person* etc
daily visting them.”
Havii.—The present state of llayti, and in
fact its condition ever since the abolition ol
slavery, is a standing answer to the cant about
the capacity of the blacks for self government-
They must have a master, either nominally 89
President like Boyer, or confessedly a king hk®
Faustin. This is the second time llayti has he ll
under avowedly kingly rule, and, whilo a K e
public, was so but in name, Iter government he
ing essentially that of a President nnd t‘ ,
with little if anv responsibility to the people-
