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KOUTHEIiN TRIBUNE. F.DITED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY W ?I. R. II A nU!S OA. fer:r \ n wwTfi mmrwamn-trwtfr [eo.r the southern tribune.] TIIE L YNT SMILE. I A child's death-bed! list how it breathes With a low and stifled sound ; I Its little arm has lost its strength. And rest by its side hath found. ■ I The sparkling eye is shaded o'er, Death, grim monster, nestles there, — I The purple lip, and cheek proclaim Tli.it its parting time is near. I Now fold ihosc lily hands with / ’a?o I <)n its faint and panting breast, I Nor let a sound the silence mar As it sinks to glorious rest. I Away with dings! we can procure No longer the spirit's stay, I All earthly help hath foiled, it n >tv I .Must yield to a higher sway ! I It breathes no more ! the soul has tied I With its angel escort home, I Cut see ! a smile it leaves behind I As the seraph troopers come ! [ 'Tis thus it welcomes those that guard Its flight to the land of bliss ; [ llow plain the mark on life'ess lips, Two print of an angel's kiss ! I Oh »!nj ’ would it were mine to dia I I.ike this tplant s pleasant sleep, Estranged from woe, to earthly sin, And to error’s pathway steep. Ihy will he done ; guard Thou mv path lhrough life from each sinful wile, And when Death comes, grant that I gaze On his chilly form and smile. EULALIA. Macon, Dec. 3, 1850. A Splendid Description.— One Paul Duuton, a Methodist preacher in Texas, advertised a barbecue, with belter liquor limn was usually furnished. W hen the people were assembled, a desperado in the crowd cried out—-Mr. Paul Denton, yout tetetence lias lied. \ou promised us not only a good barbecue, but better liquor. V, here is the liquor ?” ihete ! answered the missionary in tones of thunder, and pointing iiis motion less finger at the matchless double spring, gushing up in two strong columns, with a sound like a shout of joy from the bosom of the earth. “ 1 here !” he repeated, with a look ter tih.e as the lightning, while his enemy ac tually trembled on his feet ; “there is the liquor wliicli God, the Eternal, bieivsfor all his children ! “Not in (lie simmering still, over smoky flies, choked wi'h poisonous gases, and surrounded with the stench of sickening odors and rank corruptions, doth your I’atlier in Heaven prepare the prech’us essence of life, the pure cold water. But in the green glade and glassy dell, where the red deer wanders, and the child loves to play, there God brews it ; and down, far down in the deepest valleys, where the f nintain murmurs and the rills sing ; and high upon the tall mountain tops, where the naked granite glitters like gold in the sun, where the storm-clouds brood and the thunder storms crash, and away out on the wide, wild sea, where the hurricane bow’s music, and the big waves roar the chorus, sweeping the march of God—there he brews it, that beverage of life, health giving water. And everywhere it is a tiling of beauty, gleaming in the dew drops, 6inging in the summer rain; shi ning in the icy gem, till tho trees all seem turned to living jewels, spreading a gold en vein over the setting sun, or a white gauze around the midnight moon ; sport ing in the cataract; sleeping in theglacicr ; dancing in the hail shower; folding its bright snow curtains softly about the win try world ; and weaving tiie many-colored iris, tiiat seraph’s zone of the sky, whose warp is the tain-drop of earth, whose roof is tiie sunbeam of heaven, all checked ocer with celestial flowers, by the mystic hand of refraction. Siill always it is beau tiful—that blessed life-water ! no poison bubbles on its brink ; its foam brings not madness and murder ; no blood stains its liquid glass ; pale widows and starving orphans weep not burning tears in its depths; no drunkard’s ghost from tiie grave curses it in words of eternal des pair! Speak out, my friends, would you exchange it for demon's drink, alcohol?” A shout like the roar of a tempest an swered “No !” Ax Able Father. —A common coach man’s lady paying her daughter a visit at cbool, and inquiring what progress she ad made in her education, tiie governess swered, “Pretty good, madam; Miss is •y attentive, if she wants anything it is acity; but for that deficiency, you know, must not blame her.” “No, madam,” ed her mother, “but I blame you for ot having mentioned it before. Her , thank God, can afford liis daughter city, and I beg she may have one ately, cost what it may.” The Hares and the Frogs. The hares once became extremely dis satisfied at their critical situation. “Do we not live,” said one of them, “in per petual fear of men, dogs, mid beas'.s and birds of prey ? Are we tiot the prey of these whenever, and as often as ii p eases them? And is ii not better, once for all to die, than to live in such continual dread, which is a greater plague than Death it self? 1 he words of the speaker found recep tion: it was agreed upon that they all, im mediately and together, should drown.— near a pond should be th eir burial place; and immediately t hey all moved withgreat celerity to it. The great noise of their running, and their appearance itself, also, frightened a number of frogs, which were sitting on the bank, at once they quickly sprang into the water. “Ha what was that?” exclaimed one of the most respectful of the hares; “1 see ihat there are yet other creatures, which are as much afraid of us, as we arc of our enemies. Then, our situation is not quite sO dflsperafe! We might well, 1 think, clleaytliis water-death of ours!" A resolution which was agreed to, am! the race of hares is thus prserved to the present day. In severe afflictions, let not discontent overcome thee; look around among thv fellow men, and thou wilt certainly find same, with whose fortunes thou would'st not exchange. \\ ith these compare thine own, by these he thou comforted ! Tiie Russian Peasantry.— A nume rous family is quite a treasure to a Russian peasant. Ihe number of his sons increas es the number of acres of land which he farms, and his daughters are married off hand. He is not a-ked to provide them with a marriage portion ; nay, lie is some times paid for them. The lower classes in almost every part of Europe think it a curse to have many children : in Russia, they are partly a royal road to wealth.— Hence the population increases very fast, and would do so much faster if the child - ren were not killed by overfeeding. 'J en or twelve children are what one inigh call the usual allowance of a married cou ple in Russia, but one-third of them die in their infancy.- The extraordinary a bundauce of the necessaries of life is a powerful inducement to marriage, and old bachelorship and old maidship are things one scarcely ever hears of. 1 wo in a Bed. —Ned and Ciiailey were two room mates, but they occupied clif fetent beds. Ned’s eteeplric. apparatus was so situated, tiiat lie cou!|i get into either side—tiiat is, tliene i\ ere two fore sides to liia bed, and no back side—which Ned found very convenient on certain oc casions. One night Ned and Charley had been out, and on returning, which they did near morning both were considerably el evated. However, they walked up to their room with an air which seemed to say, “Not so very darned drunk after ail,” and sought long and patiently for matches .and a lamp. After knocking the pitcher off t he wash-stand to the looking-glass,they finally gave up tiie search, and w ent to bed. Went to bed—yes, that's tiie word but owing to the darkness, and tiie slight con fusion of their eyes,they made a slight mis take. In short, Ned’s bed had the honor of receiving the two friends, Charley get ting in one side,and his companion rolling in on tiie other. “I say, Ned,” cried Charley, touching somebody’s calf, “there's a fellow in my bed !” __ Wonderful coincidence !” exclaimed Ned, feeling a strange elbow in the region of bis ribs, ‘'there’s somebody in my lied too!" “Is there, though?” cried Charley; “let’s kick them out!” “Agreed,” said Ned. And accordingly the two friends began to kick. It lasted about a minute and a half Ned was sprawling on the floor —Char ley was left in possession of the bed. For a moment after the fall, all was si lent. “I say Ned,” cried Charley. “ W hut! asked Ned sulkily. “I’ve kicked my fellow out.” You’re a plaguey sight luckier than I am then,” said Ned, “for mine has kicked me out.” The term “Brother Jonathan.” General Washington placed great confid ence in the good sense and patriotism of Jonathan Trumbull, who at an early period of the American revolution, was Governor of the State of Connecticut. In a certain emergency, when a measure of great importance was under discussion, Wash ington remarked, ‘ we must consult Bto jher Jonathan on the subject.” The result of that consultation was favorable. Thus, from tiie constant use of tiie expression, “we must consult Brother Jonathan,” which soon passed from the army to tiie people at large, we received that appella tion which lias stuck to us as closely as •‘John Bull” tire English. From the Southern Press Lnioii fleeting*. We ha*e attached but little importance, a! hough we have paid considerable a ten lion to the piiiceediiigs of the s ■ called ‘Union meetings' in several of the North ern cities, one of which has been held at j New York, another at Cincinnati, ami an other at Pfiiladephia, and yet another to i come off shortly m the law-abiding city of 1 Boston. J lie cheapest things in the vv.ithi | are professions—when we see them reduc -leJ to practice, we will place some con ! Alienee in their sincerity—for even Sew : aid and his cry profess to respect the rights of the South under the Constitution, I with a mental reservation—anil no man has proclaimed more loudly than the arch panics of Abolition his love and reverence for “this glo ions Union.” and derided more the idea that it could be dissolved for any cause. If this Union platform is to be bai t up for the benefit of the gentle men most lauded at these meetings, i 1 is too late—for their places have been pre occupied long ago by Benton, :he “ great l did,” who mounted it when ho first com menced to desert the South, and assail as “ nnllifiers” all that were true to it. We doubt not, that some few of those who figure in those meetings are sincere in their convictions—and would muzzle tuts itenion of Abolition, if they could.— We know there are a few even among their publicans who are friendly to us— but the but drops in the mighty billows that surge and ivvn upon tlie South, tinea'ening to sweep over her ieitile fields, to leave on the subsidence of the flood the slime of Abolition everywhere. Os the thousands that assemble at these Union demonstrations, does any candid man believe that a handfu'd w mid a<<l in the arrest of fugitive .-laves ? Does jn\ one doubt, tha it. Would have been worth the life of any man to have sought to re-rapture one, even iti the midst of the Philadelphia meeting ? When we see the laws executed uud the Abolitionists repudiated through the ballot-box, and by the voice of public opinion, at the North— j then we shall place confidence in such professions, but not till then. Why, even in Ohio, the very festering focus of Abolition —the city of refuge for fugitives, whose two Senate!s in Congress are its exponents—even tnere m their capital city they have held ain nsternu-et ing, and passed resolutions which take the most national ground, and give us our righ; to reclamation —ttu paper —nugt fully. Yet what a miserable mockery in such a dU e, whose sentiment is so well kuftwti, us that ■ f Ohio—must such idle professions seem, to every man of common sense. Yet the O ie State Journal, with most refreshing coolness, thus refers to the meeting as “utiecessaiy," the loyalty of Ohio being so well understood, and so un iversally admitted! Ye , tliev will be Union men as long as all the bo dens are to In borne by the South and the- acquisitions monopolized by the North. Well can they afibrd it : 'i’nt; Union Mes. ri.vu at {Cincinnati yesterday we received ihe Cincinnati Commercial containing the icport of the proceedings of the “i ni u ’ meeting at Cincinnati. It will he found in anodic column. ' We have no objection to persons expres sing their attachment to the Union. Slut we doubt the expediency of getting up such an affair at Cincinnati. It carries with it tiie idea ti.at theie are persons of number- and influ nee enough to make them formidable here, who are ojtpostd l<> the Uni n; and. that,'to counteract heir labors, it was necessary to make a demon stration on the other side. Such, we yen ture to say, is not the case. Howeve foolish and unthinking someofotir people may t dk when they say they will oppose and trample on the laws of Congress, and thus jtrar.tice disunion; they do no mean any such thing. There can hardly be found a man in Ohio who is willing to avow himself an advocte of divission Hence we think that meetings of this kind and with this name create a false and in jurious impression abroad, and are inex peident. The“Higuf,i{ Law. Those politicians who appeal to “a higher law than the con stitutinn” were happily ta .11 off by u cab man in New York, a few and ays ago. “ What’s to pay!” asked a passenger, as he alighted. “Fifty cents,” was the answer. '‘lndeed !” said the passenger, “tiie law allows you but twenty five cents.” “Well,” said whip, “but I goes for the rui'JiCt' / CitC, ’ Pleasant Ttii*. —To stub your toeand fall into the lap of a good looking girl. Somebody says that a young lady should always ask tiie four following questions before accepting tho hand of a young man: Is lie honest ? Is he kind of heart ? can he support me comfortably ? D.»e~ lie take a Newspaper and pay for it in ad vance ? Waterloo Medal. —A Frenchman meeting an English soldier with a Water 100 medal, began stiecringly to animadvert on tire British Government for bestowing such a trifle, which did not cost them three francs. “ That is true, to be sure,” replied the soldier; ‘ it did not cost the English Gov ernment three francs, hut cost tire French : a Xopolson ! ’ Singular Defence of a Pl.ayf.r —An itineraut player, possessed of more wit than m.mey, was a few a days ago driven by the hard ouster, hunger, to commit the high crime of poaching in the neighbor hood of iJirmiughim, England.-and being unluckily detected in the act, was-carried forthwith before a bench of magistrates, when the offence was fully proved. The knight of the buskin, however, being call, eil upon far his defense, astonished the learned justices by adapting “Brutus’ speech to the romans on the death of Ca: sar, ’ to his case, in the following man ner; “Britons, hungry men and epicures ! hear me for my cause, and he silent that you may hear; believe mine honor, and have respeect for mine honor, that you may believe; censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may bet* erjudne. Iff ere beany in this assembly, any dear friend of this hare, to him l sav, that a player’s love for hare, is nolessthan his. If, then that friend demand why a player rose against a hare, this is rnv an swer:— Not that i loved her less, but that l loved eating mue Hid you rather this hare was living and l had die I starving, | than that this hare were dead, that I might five a j dly fellow ? As this hare was pret ty, I vveep for him ; as he was nimble, I rejoice ar it ; as ue was plump, 1 him; hut as he was eatible, 1 slew him.’’ Hero the gravity of the court was o bliged to give way, prosecutors, specta tors and all burst into laughter at the rea dy vvi; displayed by the “poor actor.’’ The information was withdrawn, and the knight of the sock and buskin left the court with pockets much heavier than when he enter ed it. wi h the intention of appearing on the stage tit at evening in an entire! ynew character.” “Gentlemen of the jury,” said a Wes tern lawyer, “ you are met here on one of the (post solemn occasions that ovet happened sin e I had a Inief. The de fendant, being a stout, able bodied man, rushed like an assassin upon my client, vv hois a young widow; and why did not the thunder nf heaven blast him when hestoop ed towards her, s’re died forth his arms liked the forked lightnings of Jupiter, and gave her a kiss on the mouth. Useful Hint. —The infusion of roasted coffee acquires a far superior taste, is ren dered more concern rated, and Consequent lv a much larger amount of beverage can be prepared from the same quatiti y of coffee, by adding to the holing water, jus before pouring it over the c ffee, one grain of erystalized cat bonate of soda of every up. or two and a half grains for every half ounce of coffee. MACON , G A SATURDAY .MORNING, DECEMBER 7. JUSST VTEMEXT CORRECTED. In tiie isst Journal iv Messenger vve notice a communication ou-r tin- signature of “Justice,’’ which endeavors 10 produce, ns w e believe, ;i iirlse impression upon the community, in relation to Mr II renus’ efforts to recover the fugitive slaves from tins city. The author says lliut ‘•Hughes left on Friday. On Saturday following one of the fire-eating organs of this city published the whole affair, accompanied with sundry taunts directed to the Union men !” It is evident that the is the paper design Ued, arid vve hesitate not to say tiiat the assertion is wholly untrue. We did not publish a line in relation to Mr. Hughes’ departure at all ! On Saturday, October 19, the following paragraph appeared in our paper: OT We learn that J. A. Ntsnr.T, Esq., left this city last week for the North, to demand the two fugitive slaves from Macon held tli- re.—ls they lid not lie surrendered w 1 Is.mus ofki, . ing whether the “T nion party” will con sider dial -‘no -wrori ' lias been done the South'’ and a 1 ly "■acquit see" or not :‘ We shall see. And this paragraph appeared, too, the very tiny Mr. Hughes arrived in lloston ! and nottli c Saturday after lie left Macon. We are not at a loss to divine the reason for this unprovoked and outrageous attack upon Mr. Hughes He is a candidate for office, and if“ Justice," nr the Union party can put him down they will do it. Sue 1 ' gross insinuations and manifestly unfounded in' ferences as “Justice” produces, are only eqalled by impudence with which he appeals to falsehood to sustain him in his assertions. As far as Mr. Hughes is concerned, vve know that he is able t defend himself, and we have volun tarily, without Ins know ledge, proven the insin uation that the Editor of this paper and Mr Hughes co-operated in producing capital for the recent election false. “Justice* - is doubtless ex. pert in such wilful misrepresentations and pro ducing falsehood for polititieal capital, but* vve can appeal to our past course to prove ourselves free from such attacks. Wo hope our cotempor. ary of the Journal & Messenger will be candid enough to copy this article, as the misstatement of Justice appeared in its columns. The Clothing Trade—The Richmond (Va.) Despatels, in the course of a long article, remarks:—“From all the information we can gather, we are to estimate the value readv-riinde clothing imported into this from the North, at not less than $.’00,000. So great has it become ndeed, of la'c years, that our tailors have almost been compelld to close tlicir doors.” Xj’ Major Moseley, superintendent of the Mississippi Penitentiary, bus succeed-in manii. f.iclirring ilie important article of cotton baggi out of (Jie lung innsf of the southern forests. It is cslioii ed that it may lie-made nt S cents per yard The sale of baggi m Mississippi alone will this year amount to at lea-1 s32<>,t.l/O, so that the success of the new experiment will be an important matter to the cotton states. [O’ A tanner near Swanham, in Norfolk, I England, invited the supervisor to dine with him, and after pushing the bottles about briskly >the supervisor took his leave; but in passing through the tan-yard, he unfortunately fell into a vat,and railed lustily for the tanner's ussist- I ance to get him out, but to no purpose ; “for," said ilie tanner, “if I draw any (tides without giving twelve hours' notice, 1 shall he exche. quered and ruined ; but I’ll go and inform the exciseman.’’ XJ* One Addison Ware is defaulter to the Western Railroad Company, in Massachusetts to the amount of 64,000, exclusive of his secu rity bonds, [Tf* The Population of the Sandwich Islands appears to be on tiie decrease. The Polynesian remarks, that though Captain Cook estimated it at 400,000, it is now less than 80,000, and still diminishing The same paper remarks that, were there a sufficient supply of laborers, the productions of the Island- could lie increased to $20,000,000 in value. Itubflcu. ions of the >rea ty with tho United States were exchanged at the Palace, Aug. 21st. Union Convention. —lt is said to be in ron_ temptation to hold a National Union Convention in Washington City, D C , on tlic22d of Febru. ruary next. Terrible Steam Boat Disaster. The Steamer Antoinette Douglass was blown up on the Alabama River, on her passage from Mont gomery to Mobile. She was grounded on Tale's Shoals, and in making an effort to get her off, one nt her boilers bursled, with a terrible explosion. There were 125 passengers on board, only 95 of whom have been accounted for,and the missing are, consequently supposed to have been killed at ilie moment of the calamity, or to have been drowned in the confusion and terror that ensued. About 38 lives were lost—among them, Mr.N.M King, of Georgia. A. J Freeman, Hays Jollv lady and twoochild en, W. Holland, J \V. Rol and, R. Me Muster, lady and Uyo children, A. Perdue, E. Perdue, and Alexander Webster, lady and child, of Georgia, escaped uninjured. XJ’ The Election for Mayor and Aldermen in, the City of Savannah < n Monday last, resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket entire. Tii k Fair. —The great palace of glass in which the World s Fair in Loudon is to he held next spring, will he placed under roof iu the course of [next month. The following proposal has been submitted by an American to give the finishing touch to this sitpundous st‘ ucture. Benjamin llardinge, of Cincinnati, has pro. posed to cover the iron columns, palasters, en ablaturcs, Jko., with a kind of porcelain or va riegated enamel, giving them ail the richness and beauty of the t: aoisest polished marble and precious siones, viz: the Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, arid other selieioiis formations. He also proposes to apply liquid silicates to the glass in va.negated colored crystals, in prismatic or softly blended rainbow tints, w hich arc said to he very translucent and beautiful ; giving a mellow light which supersedes the heretofore contemplated blinds. The expense is comparative!) small, the material being composed of quartz or white sand dissolved in large quantities through the agency of hydro.fluoric acid ansi other solvents, the cdors of the oxyde* of minerals, &c. ](| s said to be the cheapest finish upon iron or othe.. substances ever before known; and is applied witltgreat facility, and so hard us not to he moved by a file. Among the articles at this indusirial exhibi tion, will he a garland ofartifieial flowers, whieh will not he less than 1851 feet in circumference, and will contain 10-'fl varieties of flowers and fruits. This monstrous garland will he com posed of materials from all the manufacturers of flowers in the English metropolis and the coun ties It will he dedicated to i’rince Albert, to the Dutchess of Southerland, the Countess of Carlisle, the royal commissioners and all the subscribers who have centril*uted to this project It will he enclosed in a glass case, on the sides which will be inscriptions to commemorate the exhibition. Tit anksg 1 viNG. —Gov. Collier, of AI a ham a and Gov Haines, of New Jersey, have appoint ed Thursday next, 12th inst., as a day of public Thanksgiving in their respective Stales. The Election —We learn from the Federal Union, that the aggregate vote for members of the Convention will probably not exceed 75,000, being less than the last Gubernatorial vote by 14,196. The entire vote for the “Union” or submission ticket, is not so large as that receiv ed either by Gov. Towns or Judge Hill, last fall- The “Union” majority will ho from 15 to 17,000. It is thus appears that thousands of the voters of Georgia having not made up their minds, have taken no pait in this contest. The Southern Rights delegates, so fur elected as surh , are about 40. Rut many men, South ern Rights in feeling, aro elected on the ticket, as we think the proceedings of the Convention will show. VW" The Augusta Constitutionalist says tha* the Editor is informed that the census of Augiu ( . la will show, when completed, a population o between twelve and thirteen thousand souls Good Dividend.— The Hank of llamburg» S C., has declared a dividend of three dollars per share for the Inst six months, being at th e rale of twelve per cent, per annum, payable on or after the Ist day of January, 1851. ITT* The Central Railroad Company have de. ' dared a dividend of four dollars per share Onto Bridge. — Mr. Pope, from the Commit tee on the Judiciary, in lie Senate of Kentucky, has reported a bill providing for the incorpora tion of a company to construct a bridge across the Ohio river at Louisville. To avoid any in. terference with navigation, the bridge is re quired to be 1110 feet above (he highest known point of high water, which will make the sUnc* :ure 132 feet above low water mark, sufficient it is alledged, to clear the largest chimney of any steamboat upon the river at all tunes and stages of the water. The piers, also, are to he 700 feel apart. Nothing New under the Sun. — Mr. Lav. a. and, the antiquarian, hag discovered amon<» the ruins of Nineveh, or the neighborhood, a print ing office, filled with terracotta tablets, with in scriptions stamped in This was probably done with movable type. No fewer than 25 cases are on their way to England. In the pyramid at Nimrotid, a unique statue has been discover, ed. It is from four to five feet in height in gypsum, elaborately carved and very perfect.- There is also a high relief of tiie king, very beautifully executed, standingjn an arch eigh t feet high, and covered with minute inscriptions. The Boston Marshal. —The opinion of At torney General Crittenden, to whom was re. ferred the charge of neglect of duty against C. Devens, Jr , U. 8. Marshal in .Massachusetts, preferred by Sir. Collins, of Georgia, is pub lished in ue \\ ushington Republic. The At torney General thinks that there appears no cause to warrant censure or dismissal, though more activity and energy might well have been expected on the part of the Marshal iu the dis charge of liis duties. XT’ Accounts from tne City of St. Domingo, of the 41li nil. state that everything there was quiet. The Government was making prepara tions to drive back the expected invasion of the Emperor Faustin. The people of the Dominican Republic are expecting an expedition from the United States to attack the llavtiens, in which event, a strong force of Dominicans will march to assist the enterprise. XT’ We announce with regret, says the Sa vaauah Georgian of the 3rd inst., the death of Capt. Elijah Broughton, an old and much res pected citizen of Savannah, which took place at liis residence on Broughton street, on Saturday last, lie was tho oldest pilot in our city, hav. ing served in t hat capacity over fifty years. ITEM S. Some of the principle firms it) Manchester, England, are trying an experiment rnUeJi desired by the wareliousinen viz : working throughou t lie day without the usual dinner hour at one o clock, and closing their establishments at five Tiie nett receipts into the Provincial Treasury in Ca.nada for customs alone, for ten months ending October 31, 1850, were $2,083,608. — This sum exceeds the entire revenue of 1848 by $866,176, and that of 184 J by $433,104. A party of six gentlemen lately took a hunt "li the Alapalla, in Irwin county, Ga., and killed within six days thirly deer. One of the men alone killed seventeen in 20 shots. A letter from Liverpool says that for the fort* night ending Nov. Ist, no less than 156,800 bar rels of American flour arrived at that port, jirin. cipally from New York, all valued at near a million of dollars. Id Baltimore county, west of the York turn pi ke, the census man found family of five sisters, whose ages were as follows : 91, 89, 87, 84, and 78 ; joint ages 429. 9he New Orleans Bulletin of the lOtli ult. says, that on the previous day the sales of Cot ton in that city amounted to over 10,000 hales. The Russian Emperor is about to have a tunnel bored under toe Neva, similar to that tinder the Thames, Anew electric light is exhibiting in London., at the Polytcchuic. A strip ofsilver foil pasted on the ceiling, gives a light eqirql to two tiious. and candles. A Convention of Medical gentlemen from dif ferent parts of .Missouri, met recently in St Louis, —the first meeting of the kind ever held in the State—and formed a State Medical Asso ciation. Dr Thomas, of Boonvillo, was elected the first President. A lady, named Smith, recently recovered a verdict of S3OOO in the Superior Court of Cin cinnati, for defamatory expressions used in eon uection with her name lay a man worth $60,000 Mr. Pomeroy, lately in moderate circumstan ces, in Covington, Ky., has just realized $500,- 000 by a sale of a patent right ofhis own inven tion, for coating iron with copper. Edward Smith Sayers lias been appointed vice consul of Por ugal for Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Jersey, to reside at Philadelphia. Governor Ford, of Illinois, died at Peora, nn the 3d instant, of consumption. Ilis wife died only a few days before. Thomas S Allison, Esq., has been appointed Secretary ofSlaleol New Jersey. A New York paper states that in the poor house of that ciJy is a man, dying by inches of old age and neglect, whose portrait can be seen in the Governor's room at the City Hall, in a painting placed there as an honor to an honored name, and a relic of the most glorious pages of American history. Such things should not be. Mr. George Thompson is likely to be in hot water during his stay in Boston. The press ara almost all denouncing hi in for his approval of Lynch law, as applied to the reactionists of Eu rope, as he did in the speech which he delivered through the newspapers Mississippi— The House of Representatives lias passed the resolutions disapproving of the course of Gen. Foote by a majority of 14. t Cov. Quitman has transmitted a message to the Legislature advising tho immediate organi zation of the militia. The New Governor of Havana is to receive an annual salary 0f550,000, and to realizs aB claim to perquisite^.