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Kir.nr.—The Democratic Southern Rights
candidates for Tax Collector and Receiver have
succeeded in the following counties, viz : Bibb,
Chatham, Cobb, Pike and Muscogee. In all
these counties the Submissionists triumphed at
'the November election.
M. & W. Rail Road. —At a meeting of the
Stockholders of the Macon <Jfc Western Railroad
held in this city on the 7lh instant, Isaac Scott
was re elected President, and the Board of Di-
rectors of last year were also re-elected. On
motion of N. C. Munroe, Esq., the following
Resolution was unanimously adopted :
Besotted, That we, the Stockholders, are
highly gratified with the successful management
of the Road—its finances for the last twelve
months—and with the zeal and fidelity of each
Officer of the Company in the discharge of his
appropriate duty.
Central Rail Road —The annual electicu
for a Board of Directors of this Company took
place in Savannah on Monday last, and resulted
in the re-election of the old Board. The busi
ness of the Road has increased considerably of
late, and its affairs are represented as being in a
very prosperous condition.
VV out Acquiesce. —lt is said that the leaders
of neither the Whigs nor Democrats in Congress
will join the National Union Party.
Cadoiit.—An agent of tliePost Office Depart
ment arrested 11. 11. Kimbrough, of Columbus,
in tliiscity on Sunday evening last, charged with
robbing the mail of $6,000, which was mailed at
Cheraw on the 20th of November last. He
confessad the crime and gave up $5,320 of the
money—He had been engaged as a clerk iu the
office at Columbus, where he committed tile
theft.
Latest from Europe —The Niagara has ar
rived with Liverpool dates to the 21it ult.—
All descriptions of American cottons had ad
vanced from Jd to |d. per lb. The sales of the
week amount to 65,660 bales, of which specula
tors took fourteen thousand and exporters twelve
thousand bales—the remainder by the trade.
(CpThe London Times anticipates a pacific
solution of the German question, from the dis
cussion at the Conferences at Dresden, which
commenced on tho 18th ultimo, pursuant to the
treaty recently concluded at Olmutz. Orders
bad been issued for a reduction oft!ie armaments
both in Austria and Prussia.
Pork is Tennessee.— The Knoxville Regis
ter of the 28tb ultimo says “such has been the
amount of purk offered for sale in this market,
(much of which lias been sold at $4) that we
will not be surprised if,before the season closes
the price reduces to $3 50 per hundred pounds-
We have already heard of one or two sales at
$3 75.”
Pork is scarce in Macon and sells at 6i cent 8
per pound—Fresh Beef ten cents per lb. retail.
The Scabcjtv of Silver Coin. —The New
York Herald states that the withdrawal ofsilver
from circulation has been going on rapidly in
tile United States for some time past. Mexican
dollars are at a premium offive per cent. ; and
tho brokers in Wall street charge a shilling pre
mium on five dollars’ worth. Shopkeepers and
traders are iu consequence much incommoded
to their business. The English papers attempt
to account fur the scarcity which exists in the
old world, us well as in the new, of silver cur*
rency, by the large quantity which has gone to
California—the fact that gold coin to the amount
of four millions of pound sterling hasb.een with
drawn from circulation in Holland, and the de
mand that has arisen for it in consequence of the
threatening aspect of affairs in Germany
The scarcity ofsilver change is severely felt in
this section also, and our banks pay out gold
in preference to silver.
Bout it Carolina Atlantic Steam Naviga
tion Comp an v.—The Charleston Courier says ;
“The entire amount ofprivate subscriptions to
this company, one hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars, was taken up yesterday fore
boob, in a very short time after the books wore
opened. By the act of incorporation, a like
amount will be loaned to the company by the
State, and they have authority to extend their
capital to ore million of dollars. It l.s estimated
that the subscription, made yesterday, will build
the first ship, and that she may be put afloat by
the first of July next. One subscription only
went to the highest amount limited by the law,
(twelve thousaud dollars,) the rest was for
smaller sums, many being for a single share, one
thousand dollars.”
Wilkes Countv Railroad— The corps of
Engineers who have been engaged for several
weeks past in locating the line of Railroad from
Washington to Double Wells, completed their
labors recently. The result of the survey is,
that while heavy work will be necessary aia few
points, the road generally is highly favorable.—
The Road will intersect the Georgia Railroad at
a point about Ij miles above Double Wells,and
the whole length of the line is 16J miles. The
■contractors expect to commence the work imme
diately and complete it during the year.
Cotton in India. —We see it is stated that
the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester, Eng >
has taken up the promotion of the growth
•of cotton in India with much earnestness. The
British Government could not be inducod, last
session of Parliament, to respond to the wishes
,of the Chamber, and appoint a Commissioner to
i proceed to India to inquire into the obstacles
which prevented an increased growth of cotton
in that country. The chamber .entertains an
i lea of sending n private commission to India.—
1 be gentleman to whom this important respon
sible service will be entrusted is, in all proaahil*
ity, Mr. Alexander Mackay.the author of“ The
Western world,” who is well known in the Uni
lid States.
Death of Rf.v. Dk. Neufville. —The Rev.
£ Neufville, for many years Rector of Christ
Church at Savannah,died in that city on the
I*l lDl>t
The British Mail Steamf.rs.— The Cu.
nard company are now having constructed in
the Clyde, two more vessels for their line of
Atlantic steamers. They are to be named the
“Arabia” and “Persia,” and will be of greater
length and have greater propelling power than
ally now in line. The Arabia is to be command
ed by Capt. Judkins, now of the Asia, and the
Persia, by Capt. Ryrie, now of the Africa.
“SiLVER-GraVS” AND ‘‘WoOLLy-lIEADS.”
New 1 ork has been famous for giving new
names to party politicians. The State has been
divided in “buck-tails,” “pewter-muggors,” and
“barnburners”— names all originating in New
York,
Two new parties have recently come into eaia
tence, dividing (lie whigs as the “hunkers” and
“barnhunners’divide the democrats ; and these
new parties are already christened “silver-grays”
and “woolly-heads ” The Utica Convention
Fillmore men are nicknamed “silver-grays" and
the Syracuse Seward inen are nicknamed “wool
ly-heads.”
HP The Crescent City lias arrrived at New
York from Chagress with 400 passengers, and
two millions in gold. A specie train was robbed
on the Isthmus of one hundred thousand dollars,
but all except six thousand dollars was subse
quently recovered.
(LpTlie trial of Gen. Henderson, accused of
being connected with the invading expedition
of General Lopez has commenced.
O’At Memphis Tenn. the Recorderhas been
shot dead by negroes.
(O’Dime Cotton from the plantation of 11. F.
Baldwin, of Putnam county, Ga., has been
sold in Charleston recently at 15 cents,
The Great Exhibitiot of 1851—The Em
peror of Russia has given $20,000 for the use of
the Star and Garter at Richmond, and the Em
peror of Austria has taken Mozart’s Hotel for
the season. House rents in London are rising
enormously, as much £|2 per week being offered
for a small house in Clarge’s street. There are
reports of most extraordinary contracts in the
provision line,one poulterer in the city having
arranged for $1,000,000 chickens.
We understand that Mr Harrison proposes to
establish a “Mechanics’ Home” for 1851, capa
ble of affording accommodation for 1000 persons
The building which it is proposed to arrange for
this purpose is situated in the Ranelagh.road,
near the Vauxliilt Bridge, on the Middlesex side
of the river, and occupies a space of two acres.
A Frigate for the World’s Fair —The
Portsmouth (Va ) Pilot of Thursday says: “This
morning’s mail from Washington brings us high
naval authority for saying that the Government
lias determined to send the frigate St. Laurence
to London, and that orders were issued on the
31st to have her gun-deck guns taken out, her
gun-deck ports well planked and caulked in
and the ship prepared without delay for that
object. She will not go as a maroef-war, but
will retain a part, if not all her spar-deck-guns.”
Steam Between Antwerp and New York.
Measures are in progress for the organization of
a regular steam communication between Ant
werp and Now York. The Anziegar Zietung
says : “The requisite capital, estimated at £300,-
000, has already been subscribed in England.—
A requisition has been sent to all the manufac
tures in the Prusian Rhenish provinces to co
operate in the undertaking, and to transport
their goods and manufactures through this chan,
nel. Five new vessels are to he built, and are
to be fitted up expressly for emigrants. The
success of the enterprise is looked upon as se
cure, as the Belgium Government has guaran
teed four per cent.”
A Cupious Clock. — An ingenious townsman
of Dudley is engaged in constructing a very cu
rious clock, which is intended for the Great Ex
hibition of 1851, its chief peculiarly being the
length of time it runs without winding. The
clock occupies, in standing, only eight su
perficial inches ; the motive power isonly2B lbs,
and yet the machinery is so nicely adjusted that
jt will take 426 days to rundown. Consequent
ly, the second hand will make 613,440 revolu
tions, and the balance 147,225,600 vibrations, in
the above time.
Fa ■ lures in Glasgow.— Glasgow letters hn
nounce the failure of Aitkin, Mathie & Cos., iron
founders, with liabilities of about £30,000, and
assets estimated at £IO,OOO to £13,000; the al.
leged cause being speculative purchases of pig
iron. Another firm, Rankin, Bmith & Cos., en
gaged in the New Y ork trade, had also su-pen
ded, with liabilities to the amount of 30,000 or
£40,000, believed to have arisen in a great
measure from losses on breadstuff's. One or two
other firms were named, hut their debts were
trifling.
Lower California.— The New York Herald
states that by the last arrival from California,
the editor of that paper has received private des
patches of a roost important character, which in
duces ibe belief tliat it is, and has been medita.
ted, for a Jong time past, by some of the most
influential and leading men of that new State, to
organize an expedition of Americans, and to
proceed to that portion of Mexico known as
Lower California, with the view of assisting the
people of that Territory, in declaring their in
dependence of the central government, and
afterwards seeking incorporation with this Re
public, in precisely the same manner as the
American adventurers in Texas acted. The
Herald adds that this intelligence is derived
from such sources as place its reliance almost
beyond doubt.
Reverse, of Fortune. — Mrs. Bell Martin,
daughter and heir of Thomas Martin, M.P.,
of BallinaliinckCastle, county of Galway, in
Ireland, recently died in New York, in utmest
penury. Five years ago she was the possessor
of an income of $25,000 annually,—but ip two
years’ time the potato rot, famine, pestilence,
the claims of money lenders, and the agency of
British laws had reduced her to absolute want.
I Remedy for Short Sight.—Dr. Turnbull
has discovered a remedy for short sight, which
he has communicated to the medical publica
tions. The learned doctor thus describes the
process:—“ln the first instsnee I applied the
extract of ginger, which was rubbed for five o r
ten minutes over the whole forehead, with the
view of acting upon tho fifth pair of nerves
Afterwards I substituted a concentrated tincture
of ginger, of the strength of one part of ginger
to two parts of of spirit of wine, decolourised by
animal charcoal. In many cases it had the ef
fect of doubling the length of vision. In some
cases I found the iris was not much dilated but
torpid. In these cases I applied the concentra
ted tincture of pepper made of the same strength,
and in the same manner ns the tincture of ginger-
This used until I observed that the iris had ob
tained a great power of contraction and dilation,
after which I had again recourse to the tincture
of ginger. This plan of treatment has been at
tended with the most signal success, and persona
who were extremely short sighted have very
soon been enabled to permanently lay aside their
concave glasses.”
Debt of Texas, —According to the report of
the Comptroller and Auditor made by the Legis
lature ot Texas at its late extra session, the total
ostensible debt of Texas is $6,812,926.
German Emigration to Texas. —The Gal*
veston Journal says:—“The total number of
German immigrants arrived in this city, this sea
son, is about seven or eight hundred, and two
more vessels from Hamburg, and one from Bre
men, are yet eipected. A large portion of those
we have seen are of the better classes of Ger
mans, and some of them bring a considerable
amount of capital with them. An old German
gentleman was pointed out to us the other day«
as the possessor of $60,000 in hard cash. There
are also a number of young men amongst the
newly arrived, who have the snug little sum of
from five to ten thousand dollars each, to invest
in farming. On such beginnings, with the in
dustry characteristic of their nation, they are
bound to become wealthy and substantial citi*
zens.”
Mr. Calhoun's Manuscripts. —Tho Legis
lature of South Carolina appropriated the sum
of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of stereo
typing and publishing the two manuscript works
of the late John C. Calaoun, comprising a
treatise on Government, and a discourse on the
Constitution of the United States. Tho act
appoints an editor and agent of tho work, who
is to retain for the State five hundred copies,
and then to place the stereotype plates and the
entire proceeds of sales at the disposal of the
family of Mr. Calhoun.
Arrested. —The Paulding (Miss ) Clarion,
says :“W. Mitchell Clark, who put out the
eyes of a man by the name of Dodd, about six
teen years ago, in Wayne county, passed thro’
Paulding recently, in custody of the proper offL
cer*,and has been safely lodged in the jail of
Wayne county, Miss., to await his trial at the
next Term of the Circuit Court of that county
The poor, unfortunate being who was thus de
prived of his sight and compelled to grope his
way in darkness through the remainder of his
life, has been a charge on Wayne county for
fifteen years ; and the arrest of Clarke, after
the lapse of go long a period, is evidence that
justice, although slow, is almost always certain
to overtake the wicked in thejr career."
Tho law in force at the time of the commis
sion of the deed provided no adequate penalty
for a crime ofsucli magnitude. Clarke, should
he be convicted, will he only subject to a fine
of one thousand dollars, and to stand exposed in
the pillory for the term of three days.
An Excellent Custom. —ln Munich,Germa_
ny, all hoys found in the streets askingalms, are
taken to an assy lam established fur ine purpose
Soon as they enter the doors, and before having
cleaned or their dirty clothes removed, a por
trait of each one is taken, representing him in
the same form as when found begging. When
the portrait is finished, he is cleaned, and pre
sented with anew and neat suit of clothes.—
After going through a regular course of educa
tion appointed by the directors of the asylum,
they are put to learn a trade, at which they have
earned enough liquidate all their expenses from
the day they entered the institution- When this
is completed they are dismissed from tfie insli.
tution to gain their own livelihood. At the
same time the portrait taken when they first en
tered, is presemented to them, which they swear
hey will preseive as long as they live, in order
that they may remember the abject condition
from which they have been redeemed, and the
oh igations which they are under to the institu
tion for having saved them from misery, and
giving them the means of feeding themselves
for the future. Such an institution might do
good in this country.
The Storm at the Eastward The Ports
mouth Journal says that the floating dry dock at
the navy yard at Portsmouth, broke partially
from its moorings in the violent storm on Sun
day night and Monday last, and that the snow
poll to a depth of about fifteen incites. The rail
road tram from Portland to jiath, on Monday
afternoon, with ten passengers, was interrupted
in a snow-drift, two miles beyond Bruswick,
and detained there through the night.
Verv True. —To make people smart, all
that's necessary is to throw them on their own
resources. A wild turkey knows more in a
moment, than a tame ono would dream of in a
year, and all because he has to depend for safe*
ty on his own ingenuity rather than on the in.
genuity of a farmer. Safety and plenty are the
worst friends that genius ever associated with.
Go it Boots. —A Mrs. Boots, of Pennsylva.
nia, has left her husband, Mr. Boots, anil stray
ed to parts unknown. We presume that a pair
of Boots are rights and lefts. We cannot say,
however, that Mrs. Boots is right; but there is
no mistake that Boots is left.
A (leaf and dumb child when asked
to describe lightning, said it wus the
“opening and shutting of God's eye.”
Trjckirt and the Tariff —The New Or.
leans Courier says: A few weeks since the
cotton Lords at Fall River, Massachusetts,com
bined together to turn the screw a little tighter,
by reducing the wages of the operatives. Many
of the workmen and women opposed this reduc
tion of their wages and refused to work. By
the last accounts we peicieve that capital has
conquered labor, and that those who turned out
have been compelled to resume their work a t
the reduced prices, and the owners are chuckt
ling that “their factories are in operation again.”
This is one of the mean devices resorted to,
to swindle the working man. The manufactur
ers raise a concerted cry about low duties, and
foreign competition, blame the Government for
not protecting them, and then suddenly stop,
throwing their operatives out of employ inent.—
1 liese poor people never receieve more than
enough to keep soul and body together ; they
work virtually for hoard and lodging; tliev sel
dom Or never accumlate ; they are, iq fact, in
a state ot quasi-slavery, and when out of em
ployment, of absolute suffering. When the man
ufacturer has reduced them to a starving point,
he says: “I sympathise with you, we will put
our looms iu operation again, but I cannot afford
to pay the former wages; the rate must bo re
duced.”
What can the operatives say ? They have
no roof over their heads but the cottages attach
ed to tho mill, where they have no right to re
main but as laborers ; they have no money to
remove elsewhere-} there are no public lands to
settlo upon rent-free; they get no employment
at another mill without credentails from their
present employer; they see their wives dejected;
their children suffering lor bread, and are forced
to accept the reduced wages proposed to them.
And then the mill drives on again—merrily sing
the spindles—fast flies the snowy lint—hale af
ter bale ol “Lowels” is shipped away the
manufacturer grows rich end richer every day
upon the tears and wretchedness and wearing
labor ol his white fellow citizen,a freeman him.
self, cast in as fine a mould, with a nobler heart
hut cursed with poverty and thus compelled to
crouch.
Southern Manufacturers.— Tho Fhiladel.
phia Evening Bulletin, remarking on the capa
city of the Southern Slates for manufacturing
collnn goods, says : “Labor can he had cheaper
there, water power is plentiful, and the fabric
grows at tho floor ; there is no reason, therefore,
why the South should not rival, and even out
strip New England in manufacturing. More
than one shrewd Northern capitalist, has already
begun to invest largely at the South. In twenty
years, when practice shall have placed the two
■ectionson a fairer footing as to skill, the South
will be able to undersell the North in a)I cotton
fabrics.’
1 HE Reason Why —The New York Tribune
explains the reason why it and its politico-Abo
lition friends ‘'acquiesce,” for tho present, in
the “peace measures.’’ The cry of the compro
misers that the bill will not be repealed, and
iliat therefore “our Northern friends,” are actu
ated by a returning sense of justice, is all rigma
role—and they know it, as well as Senator Sew
ard or the Iribunedo The Tribune says :
“It is tho truth that the Fugitive slave law is
obnotious here, whenever it is attempted to be
enforced, (as General Cass and his friend Buel
can bear witness,) and that, if the South
were to really hunt up and arrest even half the
fugitives now living in the free States, not twen
ty members would be chosen from all the free
Slates, not positively pledged to vote for that
law’i repeal. So long as it is rarely enforced,
its existence may be endured, and no longe.r”
Heavy Forgery.— A heavy forgery was de
tects in the Phoinix Bank, Hartford, a short
time mice. Thu Tunes says ihe forged paper
amounted to upwards of SIO,OOO, arid was in
doiaol in good faith by Mr. Allen, of Middle,
town, who must be the Riifferer. He probably
purclased the paper, which has proved bad.
Ihe totes originated in New York.
We are informed, adds the Times, that ono
Towner, who forged paper to tho amount of
fifteat thousand dollars, lately found in the PhYt.
pix lank of Hartford, has recently tnado some
bold operations in Boston. He forged a note for
eight hundred dollars on Ives, Hooker & Cos.,
Harford, and endorsed it in tho name of D. F.
Robinson, and deposited it in the New England
Banl, Boston, lie then procured a telegraphic
envelope and accompanying blank letter sheet,
and wrote a “dispatch” from New York to Mat.
tliev BoJles, a broker of Boston, sipning the dis
pute 1 Spear, (Bolles’ N. York correspondent.)
It was in substance as follows :
“Matthew Bolles.—Take up the note of
eigls hundred dollars In New England Bank,
sigred Ives, Hoaker &. Cos., and endorsed by D.
F. tobinson. SPEAR.”
Nr. Bolles, on receiving this dispatch, at
oniß sent to the Bank and took up the note; the
muicy was placed to Towner’s credit. Town
er then called on Bolles, and by a well.told
stoiy succeeded in borrowing fivo hundred dol.
lars more ; making thirteen hundred dollars
tratsfeired from Bolles' pocket to his own in
ihecourse of a few hours. Towner then forged
anrther note for six hundred dollars, and by re*
peNing the telegraphic operation got E. W.
Cl.rke, Dodge & Cos., to take it up, he pock
etirg the cash. It was not long, of course, be
fort he was missing, with nineteen hundred dol
larsin cash, procured by forgery, impudence
andadroit management.
ti®k"Mons. Edmond Lafayette arrived in
Savannah a few weeks since, and during
his short sojourn in the city, visited the
spot where the French attack was made
undir Couut D’Estaiug, at the siege of
Savtnnah. Some twenty-six years have
elapsed since his father and grandfather
inspected ihe same ground, the most of
whitli is now buliit over. M. Lafayette
afte'remaining a day or two,left for Florida,
to examine the township of land presented
by Congress to his grandfather.
ITEMS.
lO™ Gambling is said to pervade a
mong the laboring classes of Cincinnati to
a terrible degree. Efforts are being made
to check the vice.
Niagara Falls Iris says a por
tion of the rock at the Horse Shoe Fall,
on the Canabaside, fell with a tremendous
’crash some time since. The Iris says it
seems “providential that it fell at this
season of the year ; for it is precisely the
spot where so many contiunally passed to
behold the waters of the cataract rushing
i terrifically over their heads, that is now
filled with the huge masses of rock w hich
have fallen.” The appearance of the
Falls is said to be not in the least im
paired.
63™ The names ofone hundred return
ed Calforniatis are appended to a lengthy
article in the New Orleans Delta, caution
ing adventurers after gold to be eatiafied (
that mineteen in every twenty will bring
away with them from the mines, less than
they started with.
The original MSS. of Wavorly,
wholly in the handwriting of Sir Walter
Scott—the same MSS. which were sold at
Evans’s in 1811—with the other MSS. of
thu noble series of novels and romances,
have just henn presented tothe Advocates’
Library of Edimburgb.
lO™ The “South Alabamian” published
at Greenville, Butler Cos., has passed into
the hands of Thomas C. Smith, Esq., and
in doing so, has doffed the badge of sub
mission aud donned the armor and insignia
of Sauthern Rights.
During a single day, recently, 2173
hogs were slaughtered at the pork-house
of Messrs. Owsley & Cos. of Louisville
They avetaged 2151bs.each. Itisestimat
ed that during the season, no less than
178,000 hogs will be slaughtered at Lou
isville, aud its immediate neigborhood.
OCrThe Philadelphia Inquirer states
that eight of the leading banking ioatitin
tions of tliat city, on the Ist instant, com
menced paying their clerks increased sal
aries, varying from 10 to 20 per cent.
CF* According to a recent statement
from the Post Office Department there
are at the present time eighty-one females
holding the office of post-master—of these
thirty-one are in Pennsylvania.
The Liverpool Mail, roceived by
the Baltic, states that Jenny Lind will
sing in London in June next, and also
that site will not be accompnied by Mr.
Barnum or any of his agents.
The Delaware papers say that thoir
corn crop is short. Throughout the Eas
tern Shore of Maryland, the Cenlrovillo
Timas adds, the crop is deficient fully one
third.
(£r In ISOO, the area of the United
States was only about 1,000,000 square
miles. It is now over 3,350,000 square
miles. In 1800 the population was 5,30.5,-
925. It is now over 23,000,000.
A messenger arrived inNew-York
on the 2d inst. from Rockaway, who
reports that the barque Cabasa, from
Naples and Sicily, with a cargo of wine,
fruit &c. is ashore near that place. At
the time the messenger left the wreck
master was about leaving to render all the
assistance in his power.
|C7* The anticipated constrnction of
the Nashville and Chattanooga Kail
read had a tendency to increase the asses
sed value es properly in four counties in
Tennessee to an amount exceeding the
estimated cost of tho entire road.
JO™ It is said that Capt. Eiricson is
engaged in producing a steam Carriage
sot use upon plank roads, by which im
mense laods may be transported at
a good speed. Fifteen years ago, many
attempts were made in England to pro
duce a steam cariiage suitable to use on
common roads, but no experiment result
ed profitably. Either the expense of the
power, or the softness of the roads prevent
ed the practical introduction of the ma
chines, though many successful steam
jourtries were performed. There seems to
he no good reason why steam power can
not be successfully used on our plank roads
and we have no doubt it soon will be.
resolution has been introduced in
the Legislature of Kestucky, in favor of
an appropriation of SSOO to Mr. Barlow,
to enable him to convey his Planetarium
tothe world’s convention, at London. Mr.
Barlow is a plain man who lives in Lex
ington. He lias by at! assiduous devotion
to mechanics and the itudy of astronomy,
put into operation a machine to which
is attached the earth, the sun, and all the
heavenly bodies, cask revolving in its
sphere, relatively distant from each other
It is a great work,pronounced by scientific
men the bes invention of the kind.
The Baltimore American says thst
arrangements are in progress to establish
a line of Steam Packets between Balti.
more and Charleston.
|C7*Tbe New York Express ftayee —
The ladies are wearing scarcely anything
eleso this winter for outside garments but
velvet and the style is Certainly so neat
and beautiful, that nothing could be con
ceived more desirable.
Tut Right of Secession.— The Southern
Pres* save the Louisville Journal has contained
several articles denying the right of Secession,
but admitting the right of Revolution. When
Mr. Webster was pressed l>y Mr. Hatxe and
Mr. Calhoun to explain what was meant by the
right reserved by several States to resume the
powers they had granted to the Federal Govern
ment—what was meant by the right asserted in
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of ’9B<
for the Stales to interpose against Federal usur
pation—what was meant in the Declaration of
Independence, when it asserted the right of a
people to alter or abolish their governments at
1 pleasure—he said it was the right of Revolution
which he admitted also.
This was simply a retreat into a high sounding
phraso which meant nothing, for it is a contra
diction of terms. There in no such thing as a
right of Revolution. A Revolution is a mere
trial of strength, in which might and not right
decides. According Iq Mr. Webster, a State
has a right to resist, if she thinks herself op
pressed, hut the oppressor has the right of resist
ing her resistance. The Declaration asserted
tho right of a people to ulter or abolish Govern
ments at pleasure. It asserted that right for
these Colonies, and consequently l|ie attempt of
Great Britain to resist that light was a wrong.—
Mr. Webster meant the right of might. The
Declaration of Independence meant no such
thing, for if it had, it would have been a defence
of tho British forces us much as of our own.
MACON MARKET, JAN. 11.
COTTON—Our market is rather brisk end
prices liavo advanced about half a cent ainco
the receipt of the late Foreign account!. \Vq
quote 12J a 13 cents.
COTTON STATEMENT:
Receipts in Warehouses, in Dee. 1650, 20,128
Received previously, 50,223
Entire Receipts to January 1,1851, 70,350
Stock in Warehouses, 28,919
1850, Jan I, Total Receipt*, 59,931
Stock in Warehouses, 21,407
Increase of Receipts over last year, 10,419
Receipts in Dec’r, 1849, were 16,450 bales.
Receipts by Alacon and Western Railroad du
ring the last month, wore 9,449 bales, of which
7,983 wero sent direct to tho Central Railroad,
and 1,466 to the Warehouses.
Total Receipts by Macon Si Western Railroad
this season, 23,557.
Forwarded by the Central Railroad from tha
Warehouses, during the month of December,
10,927 bales.
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POTA'IUES —50 this Mercer and Planting
Potatoes, in fine order ; 10 Hampers Eng
lish Potatoes. For sale by
J»n 11 GEO. T. ROGERS.
4 LE AND CIDER.—IS bbls. Cream Ale ;
•aA. 20 bbis. Champaign Cider- Just received
and for sale by GEO. T. ROGERS,
jan 11
rriAcoN iiiuit school.
fI'MIE Subscriber having associated with bim-
X self, the Rev GEORGE H. HANCOCK,
late Professor of Languages in the Wesleyan
Female College, will open on tho FIRST
MONDAY IN JANUARY, 1851 , in connec
tion with the Bibb County Academy, a HIGH
SCHOOL, in which will be taught, all the
branches of a thorough English and Classical
Education. Prof. Hancock will have charge of
the Department of Languages■ Prof. J. Ryan.
late of the Liverpool Mechanic's Institution!
will superintend the Department of Mathematics.
Prof. E. Grimmf. will give instruction in ths
French and other Modern Languages.
Tho following will lie the Kates of Tuition —-
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.
Primary Class, per Scholastic Veer, $25
Fourth “ “ «• 28
Third “ « “ 30
Second “ •« •• 40
First “ “ “ 69
CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT.
Third Class, per Scholastic Year, $36
Second “ “ “ 49
First “ «« ti 50
There will be no extra charges , except for the
Modern Languages, and One Dollar from each
Pupil during the Winter Term.
The instruction in the Mathematical Depart
ment, will embrace everything usually taught
in a Col legiate course, together with practical
Surveying and Engineering, Book-Keeping by
single and double entry ; principles of Archi
tecture, etc.
The institution will be completely re-organiz
ed. No Student will be admitted, whouoes not
bear a good character, and every ono guilty of
disorderly or immoral conduct will be suspend,
ed or expelled. Special care will be paid to tho
moral, as well as the intellectual training of the
Pupils. Suitable Lectures and explanations,
will accompany each recitation. Mopthly He
ports will he made to Parents and Guardians, of
tho deportment and progress of each Pupil.
N 11. Payments will be required at the expi,
ration of one linlfof each term.
O’ Arrangements will be made to have
Students from a distance, provided with sued
Board in respectable families, at moderate terms.
Circulars containing further i.nfnr;nati.nii, yriil
be luriiished on application to the subscriber
P A STROBEL, Rector.
Macon, Gp., Nov. 9, 1860.
There will be hut one Vacation in the year,
commencing on the 15th of July, and ending an
the 31st of August. ~
The following Gentlemen constitute the
Board of Trustees— Hon. A. H. Chappell, Na
than C. Munroe, Esq., Major James i-uiiUi, Col.
R. A. L. Atkinson and S. Rose, Esq.
The following gentlemen have consented tq
act as a Board pf Vinter s——Hon. E■ A Aisbet,
Hon. Washington Poe, Hon. T. G. ilolt, Hon.
G M Logan, (jen.J W. Arrustjoag, Rev. IV.
H. Elliaon, D. D., Thomas Hardeman, E»q-,
Charles Campbell, Esq., Col. 8. T. Bailey, Dr.
C. B. Nottingham, Dr. E. L. Strohecker, S. T.
Chapman, Esq , Key. S. Landrum, Dr. W. S.
Lighifoot, Dr. J. B. Wiley, Rev. R. Hooker,
Dr. T. R Lamar, Rev. J. A Shankiin, Joseph
M. Boerdman, Esq., Dr. J. M. Green and V. W.
Wise, Esq.
tUTThe Central Georgian, Albany Patriot,
Temperance Banner and Griffin Jeffersonian,
will insert four time*, and fend bills to the
Rector.
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