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SOUTHERN TRIBUNE, W a. B. HAKHISO.V) aid S Editors. W.l. P. HARRISON, S [FOR THR SOUTHERN TRIBUNE.] Messrs. Editors .-—The Feds like a joke once Rod a while, whenever they can get a chance to advertise “the coffin regiment,” &c , and I biok the sachems will be very much gratified if they can have a song or so to regale with, while on the melancholy passage up Sal- River. The familiar legend below, will do ad mirably for the opening chant after the arriva) of the “Constitutional Union’' squad at the Cas tle of Oblivion, situated on the banks of the aforesaid stream. Please publish, and oblige those inclined to FUN. THE LEST EDITION OF T||e House that Jack built. L ruled Statu Government: This is the house that Jack built. The Public Treasury .- This is the malt that lav in the house That Jack built. H'kiggery : This is the rat that eat the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. Democracy : This is the cat that caught the rat That eat the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. Henry Clay .- This is the dog that worried the cat That caught the rat That oat the malt That lay in the house That Jack built. The Voice of the People . This is the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That caught the rat That eat the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. Union Humbug of 1850 : This is the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That caught the rat That eat the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. Hoieell Cobb : This is the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That caught the rat That eat the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. llamilcar Toombs : This is the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all faltered and torn Unto the maiden ell forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tosaed the dog That worried the cat That caught the rat That eat the mult That lay in the houso that Jack built. Omuibus Party's explosion : This it the cock that crowed in the morn That awoke the priest all shaven and shorn That married «he man all tattered and torn Unto the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That toased the dog That worried the cat That caught the rat That eat the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. From the Southern Pns». South Carolina ami her Position. In our paper of yesterday, we showed the futility of the causes assigned by the National Intelligencer for the “discontents” of South Carolina with the Union as it is. That there is a deep spirit of dissatisfaction pervading the whole South, and South Carolina especially, we do not doubt.— Whether it is a dissolution of the Union, or will be content with reforming the Gov ernment, by forcing it back within the li nutation of the Constitution, we will not pretend to determine. The Intelligencer says, that South Carolina has been in “a conspiracy” for twenty years to dissolve the Union. If so, it is a very curious sort of “o conspiracy for the Intelligencer im mediately after quotes, to prove, the open declarations of the people at public festi vals—of ministers in the pulpit—and of governors and statesmen in their addres ses tp open legislatures and conventions. Jtt i* certainly a conspiracy which has no secrets, and walks out in the open day. But admit the fact, that South Carolina is on breaking the Union—that is, going out of it herself—fur we suppose no one imagines that she intends to interfere with the free will of other States, which wiah to. remain united together. She wish es to dissolve the co-partnership for her self, not doubting that she has a perfect right to do so. Is not this a most startling fact in the history of the country ? One of the old thirteen States—that one of the old thirteen States,which suffered most in one revolution—which was most prosperous, wealthy and happy under the British rule, yet cast in her lot with Massachusetts and her sister States, and periled all, and lost all but liberty—that State, which by her ktatesmen did as much in framing the Con stitution of the United Slates, as any other in the Union (forfromthe draft of Charles PINCENEY in the convention the Constitu tion arose) —that State, which stood fore most in originating and maintaining by her statesman the second wat for indepen dence in 1512—and when thcTreasuiy of United State was exhausted, not only paid in advance all the direct taxes required of her people, but emptied her treasury to carry on the war and maintain the honor of the Union—that State, which in our very last contest with a foreign power, di*- piayed by her militia an unflinching valor, which veterans had cause to praise —that State is resolved to dissolve her connexion with the Unuin. The Intelligencer may stuff its columns with silly conjectures about her climate, geography, or aristoc racy. He may call her mud—irresponsi bly mad ; but there is not a man in the U titon, who has any knowledge of human nature, or any knowledgesof history, who will not turn away with contempt at the display of such stolidity or hypocrisy. Does not every one know, that all men are more prone to bear evils in govern ment, than to resist them 1 It is this su pineness in the people, which has always tempted tyrants and oppressors of all kinds, by one encroachment after another, to sap and destroy their liberties. The spirit of resistance is hard to arouse— harder still to keep alive—and above all, difficult to bring into direct action for re dress. The cares and business and pleas ures of life absorb the attention of the peo ple ; whilst the hazards attending all* changes in the Government induce mis tule, so long as it is at all endurable.— When any people have made up their minds to throw off the Government under which they live—there must be deep arid vital causes for dissatisfaction. The evils of the Government must not only be intol erable, but plain and obvious. Now what are the evils, which have made the people of South Carolina deter mined, (according to the authority of the Intelligencer,) to break off their connection w ith the oilier States of the Union ? No one can look into their public proceedings, the columns of their press, or the speech es of their statesmen, but must see that this policy is advocated on the high and holy grounds of libeity and self protection. They affirm “that a gigantic and uncon stitutional fraud was perpetrated on them by the admission of California into the Union. At the motion of a few emigrants in a small corner of this magnificent tet ri tory, the whole territory, large enough for a dozen States, was admitted as a sin g!e Slate, for the plain and avowed pur pose of excluding the Southern States from occupying and settling any pottion of it with their institution ; and this fraud was committed in the House of Represen tatives, by admitting members to their seats, plainly in violation of the mandates of the Constitution. But it is not only a violation of the Constitution which marks the features of this atrocious transaction. The Constitution is violated, on account of their institutions, and in order that they may be ouerthroicn and rebuked. Their power, by art increase of States, is forev er suppressed, whilst the power of the free States by the addition of new States to the Union, is iorever secured. All a bility of self government—and hope of self-protection, is therefore forever gone in the Union. The Constitution in the hands of the majotity iri Congress is no lungor in existence ; and instead of its guarantees, the despotic will of the people ol the ftee States is the only bond of the Union. The Government of the Union is therefore no longer a free Government for them. Under the anti-slavery feelings and policy of the free States, it is no lon ger a safe Government. It is a dangerous despotism, to be resisted and overthrown. Liberty and self-protection, therefore, de mand that they shall secede from the Union. Now with such views and convictions on ihe part of ‘lie people of this State, what is done here to satisfy them that they have mistaken the true nature < f the ex isting Government in the Confederacy.— Why, at the opening of this Congress, the President of the United States recom mends that the tax by the tariff should be increased, in ot tier that the manufacturers of the North might, by the instrumentality of the Government, wrest from the peo pie of this State a pot tion of their proper ty for their benefit. The Intelligencer joins in the scheme of additional robbery. What next! Why the organs of the ad ministration, the Intelligencer and the Re public, plainly tell this State, in the tone of imperial authority, that she, who en tered into the Union of her free choice, shall not go out of it. That she is bound forever to the Union, as the majority in Congress shall think proper to make it, and shall stay in it forever by the power ,of bayonets and cannon. This is the coarse of things in Washingtan, by which the people of this State are to be induced to believe, that they live under a free Government, and that their liberties and institutions are safo under its sway. By such a course, slaves may be terrified, but i's only effect in our judgment will be to deepen the convictions of this people, that they must break the Union, or reform it from its very foundations. If they are resolved, as the Intelligencer affirms, to se cede from the Union—the Intelligencer and its associates are doing all they can to hasten the catastrophe. They may take | out a patent for producing revolutions.— | Do wrong—persist—abuse the oppressed | —threaten—then fire the cannon—and j the thing is done. A Horse Story. — The Nashua Tele graph tells the story of a horse belonging to Joseph Haldwin, who one slippery day last week, had much difficulty in maintain ing his standing in society, owing to the smoothness of his shoes, and came to some little, bodily barm in consqirerice. When he was unharnessed, the teamster left him to his head, not doubting that he would go directly to the stable, as be always did. Instead-of doing so, however, he passed by the stable, and went directly to the blacksmith shop of Vincent & YVood-ward where he had been shod some months be fore ; in order to be shod again. Veterinary Institutions. In relation to this subject, Mr. Ladd, of Boston, says: “Let us look for a moment on what this science has accomplished in England.— We will take a single department. I lefer to that ol shoeing horses. Mr. Percival tells us that previous to the establishment of a Veterinary College, great numbers of horses became prematurely quite unser viceable; I lie natui al consequence of which ! was, heavy and continual etpenditure. In : die course <*t a long experience,it has been ascertained that by a skilful performance of shoeing, many of the formidable disea ses of the loot rnay be prevented, and others so improved as to enable the horse i to go with ease to himself and safety to his rider; and also preserve the animal for use to a much longer period. On the other hand, look at the melancholy effects result ing from shoeing in the hands of unscien tific rnen. Thousands of the East ludia Company’s horses were yearly cast off for deatli because their feet were incurably diseased. Thrush, and its sequel, canker, corns, greese, and all those various disor ganzatiuus induced by mal treated disea ses of parts within the hoof, consigned thousands of them to the knife; whereas, since the eye of science has guided the hand of the smith, not a single horse has been lost to that company through the disease 1 have just named, and many of them are entirely unknown. “J ust look at the ignorance that is often displayed in this country, in the manage ment ol the foot, and tell me, is there no need of reform ! How often do we see the base totally cut away, the frog or sole pared so thin, that the animal is liable to be injured by the first hard substance he treads on. I have seen the foot mangled Htid cut to fit the shoe, and what is still worse, the latter applied red hot. This destructive system dries up the na'ural moisture of the hoof and sole,prevents the egress of morbific matter, and finally pro ducing disorganization, incurable contrac tion and lameness. Some men suppose that a horse's foot is an insensible piece of mechanism, and when they see tlie smith cutting off large slices, and applying red hot iron, it would seem to justify such a conclusion. 1 grant that the horny cover ing is void of sensibility, hut must recollect that it setves principally as a defence to the sensitive parts within, and that it is en dowed with elasticity, which enables it, in some degree to yield to the impulse of those sensitive parts in the various mo tions ol the animal. Hence the direct tendency of the hot shoe is to contract the horny covering, and of course the sensi tive parts will be more or less compressed. You will find, on an examination of the loot, that it is a vvondeiful and delicate piece of mechanism. The inside of the hoof is lined with a beautiful set of la minae ; these receive a similar 6et situated on the external portion of the coffin-bone. 1 he number of laminae on these two sur laces have been computed at one thou sand ; each lamina lias two sides and an edge—making three thousand articulatory surfaces, —giving to each foot a surface of four square feet. Hence it follows that a horse stands oil sixteen square feet of surface, within four hoofs. So wisely, however, isevery part of the foot contrived by the Divine Artist, that when it is pro perly managed, judiciously paved, and the shoe properly adapted to it, and when em ployed only by a humane man, the fool may be preserved as long as the animal is worth using. Hence, ift lie veterinary art be estimated as benificial and important, in exact ratio to the value of the noble animals to whose well-being all its objects are directed, then your efforts should be turned towards educating your young men and making them acquainted with the fun damental principles of this art. A Great Artesian’ Well. —The fa mous Artesian Well commenced in 1832, at Kissengen, a city of Klieuish Bavaiiu, is just finished. I bis immense work, of which the workmen began to despair has given results never before known. Kis sengen is situated in a saline valley, at nearly 300 metres above the level of the Baltic sea. In the month of June, 1546, after seventeen years of labor, they had succeeded in reaching a depth of 500 metres; (a metre is about thirty-nine in cites,) before getting to this it was neces sary to cut through several beds of salt separated by masses of granite. They thru an iveil at a first bed of carbonic acid ga«, followed by new masses of granite, final ly the 11th of this month, a violent concus sion knocked away, without injuring any body, the scaffolding which masked the or ifice of the well, and then was immediate ly presented the curious spectacle of a column of water twelve centimetres in diameter, which rose with prodigious force to the height of thirty metres, spreading then on all sides like the branches of a magnificent palm ire«v, and iim* fuming the most extraodinary jet d’eau imaginable 1 lie water, clear as crystal, comes front a soil of a temprature of sixty-six degrees Fahrenheit, and givers a volume of twelve cubic metres a minute. It is forced by an atmosphere subterranean of carboic gas acting with the force of fifty almos pheres. Cruel. —There was n great horse race in Delaware, lately from Christiana to Dover and back - distance S4 mi ! es.— The downward run (42 miles) was marie in 2 bouts and 15 minutes. On the re turn, one of the horses dropped dead twenty five miles from the starting place. The other came in and died three hours afer, making the distance in about five hors. There was a bet pending of SIOO a side. This was no great profit to the iowners of the animals. MACON, G A • SATURDAY .MORNING, JANUARY 25. O' The steamers Cherokee and Prometheus arrived in New York on the 21st inst., with a large number of passengers, and $”,250,000 in gold, from California. Another fire at San Francisco find consumed property to the amount of $2011,000. Col. Fremont's chances for re -1 election to the Senate are considered desperate, w hile the friends of Col. Well i r are sanguine. A party of seven Americans had been killed by tile Indians. Latest from Europe.—The Asia has ar rived with Liverpool dates to the 4th inst.— The cotton market wns steady and Baring's circular of Jan. 3, quotes Fair Uplands at 7jd. > Fair Mobile 8d ; Fair Orleans BJd. The sales from the Ist to 3d, amounted to 11,000 bates. The stock on hand wa5521,000 bales. (UP Benton has not been elected Senator from Missouri as yet. The last account says his chances are waning. Flour—The Inspector of Flour in Charles* ton has detected, of 3,203 bhla of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Petersburg Flour received in that city, 387 bbls. to be deficient either in quality or weight. 100 bbls. were de ficient from 8 to 43 lbs. per bbl. “How vv* Apples swim !”—The Messenger calls the “Constitutional Union Par ty” the party of the Democrats' “oten creation"! This is something new to us. The Meeting of the Delegates to the late Convention was un. doubtedly held at the instigation of Messrs Toombs and Stephens, and addressed bv them, the resolution to form a Union Party, was in troduced by Judge Underwood, of Floyd, a Whig, and notwithstanding this, we are told that it is the Party of Democratic creation ! I t is easy to understand the kindness and brother* ly affection all at once entertained towards the Union Democrats—but it is a hopeless effort productive of nothing to the Federalists hutdis’ appointment and defeat. 1 he New Craft Befogged.—The Colum bus Times, of the 21st inst., says : “The ‘Nine ty-five’ self-constituted delegates to attend, a ‘Union Constitutional' convention to be held somewhere, will be like‘Japhet in seach of a Father.’ It seems they will have to go further or shorter than Washington city to find the Mec. ca of their adoration. We have all seen a kit ten chasing its tail in a never ending and never tail-catching circle. From present seeming, our 05 delegates, will bo equally as successful as Puss. The “Nashville Convention” was the favorite butt of submission wit ; but nothing has happened in modern times so comically droll as this flash in the pan of the Milledgeville blun derbuss. Here is formed a party, as a Western member of Congress, wittily said, ‘like a Mexi can army, with more officer* than soldiers.’ In stead of a meeting of hosts, we have nothing but a preliminary council of war. The plan of campaign, the order of battle and the disposi tion of the spoils are all admirably arranged; but alas ! there is no rank and file to come up to do the work always a» aniecedent to victory. ’’ Northern fiiior.s.—Southern people seem to think that because Northern manufactures may be bought for less money, that they must oj course be cheaper. This is far from the fact.— A good article, even though the price may he higher is always cheaper than an inferior quali ty for less cost. The Cherokee Advocate says that a gentleman of Marietta found the soles ol some negro shoes which were made at the North composed of a thin piece of leather on the out side, and a thick layer of wood between it and the inner sole ! That gentleman did then, that which he should have done at first, purchase his supply of home manufacture Jennv Lind.—This lady has arrived at Hava na, without creating much excitement or curi osity, and was to perform on the 10th inst.—the price oftickets varied front sl7 to $2 each. Tire.—The St. Charles Hotel, together with the Methodist and Mr. Clapp’s Church were destroyed by fire in New Orleans on the 11th inst. The loss is very heavy. O’ Rev. Francis Rutledge, Rector of St. John's Church, Tallahassee, lias been elected Bishop of the Diocese of Florida. Elections.—Stephen R. Mallory, of Key West, has been elected United States Senator from Florida for six years, in the place of Air. Y’ufee. Mr. Mallory differs in no particular, in politics, with his predecessor. Maj. John Beard has been elected Comptrol ler ; Air. Hayward Treasurer ; John F. K. Sav age Clerk Supreme Court ; Hon. Walker An derson, Chief Justice, and Hon A. G. Semrnes Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; and the former Circuit Bench has been elected in Florida, with the exception of the Judge of the Middle Circuit, whose place has been filled by the election of Gen. J. Wayles Baker. Improvement —The Ohio State Journal say s that stones only 2-i feet in diameter are used in the Steam Flour Mills at Columbus, which are of the best French Burr, and grind just as fast, and perhaps better than those of4£ fiet. Corn meal is ground very white, and not half the ordinary power is required for them. Caution.— A bale ofcotton was recently car ried into one of the Boston factories, which was in part saturated with Linseed oil, on the voy age from New Orleans,which caused it to ignite. We mention this circumstance, to caution per sons from plaeitig linseed oil and cotton togethe r as combustion may ensue. Oglethorpe UsivEßsny —The Milledge ville Recorder says that this Institution has commenced the present year under the mos* cheering auspices. Already, we understand, some forty new students havo been admitted into the college, and the number will be increas. ed in tire e.oursn of the present week, probably to fifty. This is a cheerinn evidence of the public confidence in this institution. Who are the Traitors ! The intelligence of the demits of the great “National Union Party," that was to »ave the Union, and immortalize itselfby doing—nothing has thrown the Union press of Georgia into perfect consternation. The idea of success at the National ballot-box was so captivating, and these deluded and disappointed seekers had in dulged such brilliant imaginations of office and power, that the disastrous news came to them attended by ail the fatal effects of political para lysis. To be defeated in these hopes and ex pectations right upon the verge of the accom plishment of the glorious humbug, was a stroke too hard to be endured without wry faces and sundry pointed maledictions directed at the au thors of this misfortune. Immediately some of them began to coax and wheedle the Union Democrats, begging them not to desert them in this hour of their calamity—others addressed pretty sage advice to the politicians at Washing ton, who had refused to fall into ranks—and then they all began to talk about traitors and disunionists, trying to get up a fa'sc issue some where, to take the popular side of it, and then the battle would be won. Now, as we happen to belong to that class among the people which cannot he either capti vated or frightened by names, we desire verv calmly to look into this subject of treason and disunion, in order that the old adage may be justified that “a rogue is first to suspicion a man of roguery.” One of the organs of Federal loy alty, makes the issue in its Inst paper, of treason or disunion upon the part of every man who de sires a return to old party lines, or who will not join the “Constitutional Union Party.” It is certainly a very charitable aspersion to cast a gainst that class of our people whom the Mil ledgevilla Recorder pictures as numerous, intelli gent and patriotic ! Avery ambiguous expres sion, too, proceeding from a source that main tained Liberty and Whiggery to be “one and Inseparable," even w hen Southern Rights wer„ slandered by the Unionists and upheld by the “Fire F.aters." The same print that so tena. ciously field on to the old organization of the Whigs, now declares that all are “Traitors or Disunionists” who wish to return to these “old distinctions.” Knowing that they have lost a number of their former adherents, by advocating a course of policy for the South, disastrous and u nworthy, they now desire to keep a firm hold upon the Democrats who were cheated into ap. proval of their measures by the syren song ol “Union.” But let us see, first, who are the Traitors ? Before betrayal, there must be confidence en irusted. Now, what is the confidence which a fi-ee people repose in any party or principles? Is it not that their rights and privileges under a Republican Government shall he held inviolate ? Os what advantage is the name of Liberty, if we possess it not ? How much satisfaction would we receive in having an Executive officer enti tled the President, when his power was abso lutely that of a despot? What benefit would representation in Congress he to us, when our Congressmen could ntd cffretisTHy rontend lor our rights ? Does the feet that Louis Napoleon bears the soubriquet of President, make him any the lese a Monarch, except in name ? By no means. The object then, of the people, is not to preserve names hut living realities —they do not want theoretical nomenclatures, n.ir nominal freedom, but the practical, enjoyments flowing from their own actual sovereignty. These are their principles, and fur these purposes they repose the confidence of power and office. The mail then, who adv ocatcs any cause that will tend in anywise to destroy these privileges, is a Traitor, because he deceives the people, and injures them at the same moment that lie pro fesses a reliable friendship for them. VVe have told the people time and again, that there is a fearful tendency in the present course of public allairs. We have uttered our candid belief that the centralization of the Government is proceeding with such alarming velocity, that, ere we are aware of it, we shall be plunged into the fellers of a resistless monarchy. The bribes of office and the lust of authority, when within the reach of dishonesty and disaffection, are, to a large number of those who look to- the public stations at the disposal of the appointing power tempalions llrat will not bn overcome. This train of dependents upon the Government is annually increasing, fearfully extending its per nicious influences broadcast over the land, and, unless there be sonve remedy applied,the day is not far drstant wherr this class will bold the balance of power in this country. Almost at every session ofCongress,some new Department or Bureau is added to the present number, each tending to swell the power of the President, and to throw around his office a charm that will se duce two-thirds of those who aspire to the posi tion, into reprehensible means for obtaining it. Even the Press, the palladium of Liberty, breathes this infectious spirit, and participates in the emoluments of success, and the losses of defeat. Men are bought lip, by these hopes of subsistence from the Federal Treasury, into the advocacy of any measures that the parly leaders may see fit to dictate, and lend the aid of their pens to establish the firm and indissoluble ties of a consolidated confederacy. VVe. look with amazement and sorrow at the courage aaid wanton effrontery which the iner tia of the South is daily giving to this course of policy, so rapidly lending to the subversion of Republicanism among us. When Southern men are chanting the praises of a Union under the control of Free Soilersaud fanatics; when the presses of'the South denounce that class of our citizens who are hauling manfully for our rights, as traitors and foes to the country ; when aboli tionists find apologists in our own land, what can we say ? To see the Flag of the South trailing in the dust beneath the unhallowed feet of aggression, must indeed chill the heart of any man born to Freedom's sympathies or a Patriot’s emotions. VVhenGEORGEIII, and his Parliament, de sired tofasten the provinces of America secure- j ly in his royal embrace, there were many men i among Hie- inhabitants of this country at that time who justified the requision, and condemned j resistance to it. Very many, in the language of John Dickinson, thought that “in popular Re- ' publics themselves, so necessary is cement human society, it 1.., been requ„j,e , institute monarchical powers, more or less tensive, under the names of Arcbons, Cons" Doges, Gonfaloniers and Kings.*’ There wer,’ men found in that day ready to extol the “.| 0 rious Union” with the oligarchy of England ~ and to inculcate the most abject submisi.onu, any and ail the exactions of the British Crown There were men willing to give of their sub! stance an enormous per cent, into the Treasury of the mother country for the sake of peace But the tax on tea, which extracted from the colonies but SBO,OOO yearly revenue, caused a Revolution in America which tfirew the foreign fetters off. Yet we of the Houtli have paid an nually, since the adoption of the Federal Con atitution, $9,008,180 into the Federal Treasury more than the North; and during that entirepe riod, the immense sum of $316,492,083 more than the Constitutional apportionment to the South ! So we have paid above $700,000 000 to about $200,000,000 by the North, to secure the existence of the Government, and to enable the crusaders to persecute us, hunt us down, and finally to exclude us from a territory secured by our own blood and treasure ! Now, ts we demur at this course of policy : ts we seek to check a government which is fed by ourmoney-and which is used a. an instru ment to fleece us of every privilege, moral or political ; if we desire to have the foul, putrid malaria of Abolition dissipated ; if we wish to see the Federal Monarchy dethroned, and the Republic preserved in its primitive grandeur, tl.e black cockade, blue-light Hartford Conven! lion Federalists call us—Traitors ! ! There is an infamy, conferred by the corrupt and time serving, which the honest man will covet; there is a detestation possessed by those reeking with political leprosy of all holy and pure mo tives, which is a recommendation for him that receives it, to the hearts and the consciences of the good and just ; there is a scorn of the vile which the immaculate will merit ; and a stigma pronounced by the dastard, which the patriot will ever secure. We shall not be frightened from the expression of our opinions, by the fla ming denunciations of “treason and disunion !” We have represented the political affairs of the country in no false light. Nor do we proclaim disunion as the present remedy for our grievan ces. But we believe that the time is corning, when the policy of cowardly submission will place us where we must become either a sepa rate nation, or in a condition of absolute and unmitigated subserviency to Northern Monarch ical rule. Who the Traitors are now, or the disunionists, we leave the people to judge. Counterfeit —The Savannah Republican of the 18th inst. says ; “A friend showed ua yes terday a ten dollar bill of the Bank of Charles ton, which the officers of the Bank of the State of Georgia, in tfiis city, had pron-ounced a coun terfeit. I lie one shown to us was verv well executed, and had the appearance of having been used for somo time.” The .Morning News of the 22H, says : Patrick McAvoy was arrested by the City Watch on Sunday night, • barged with passing counterfeit half dollars. Four piece* of the spurious coin were found on his person. His partner, Hart, was also arrested on Monday night, on a similar charge. The two were turned over to Justice Thomas forfurther examination. The pieces were new, and had the appearance of having been recently coined. They are lighter than the U. S. half dollars, but arc well executed. Accident.—Six brick buildings which were being erected fell in New York on the 15th inst. causing the death of si* laborers and the injury of several others, fn removing the bricks a little girl was found in a vault unharmed. The lack of lime in the mortar was supposed to be j '.he cause of the accident. The U. S. Bank.—ln the District Court at- Philadelphia a verdict was recently given in favor of the Common wealth against the United States Bank, for $1,203,750, with cost and inte rest, in round numbers, $1,300,000 The suit was brought to recover the hundred thousand dollars annually, which the bank, by its charter, agreed to pay as a bonus to the School Fund for twenty years. The Bank has defaulted for twelve years- The Ledger says the suit will be carried to the Supreme Court, and will no doubt be warmly contested, as fhose will be an effort to make this judgment take precedence of the assignments. For the poor »hareholders there seems to be but littfe hope. Caution to Smokers.—The case of John l Daly vs. The People’s Mutual Insurance Com pany, wliieli was recently tried in the Supreme Judicial Court at Boston, turned, in part, upon the question whether tFie plaintiff had not vio lated a provision in his policy against smoking in or about his building, being a cabinet maker's shop. The proviso also extending to book binders, carpenter's shops, &c. The policy was for SI,OOO. But it appeared in evidence, that the plaintiff and others were in the habit of smoking pipes in the shop ; and although it was proved that there had been neither fire, smoking nor lights in the shop for many fmnrsbefore the fire, yet Judge Bigelow instructed the jury that the evidence of smoking during the existence of the policy had rendered it null and void ; where upon, they returned a verdict for the defend ants. Disasters.—The St. Louis fntelligencer of the 7th inst. contains a list of the steamboat disasters on the Western and Southwestern! waters during the year 1850. The whole num ber of accidents sum up 124, of which 49 o°' curred from sinking, by striking snag* andothef obstructions in the river ; 13 from, collapses flues ; 9 from explosions ; 8 fVofR collision*; 14 from fire, and 26 from other causes. The num ber of boats lost sum up 53. Lives, (as near a» ascertained) 324, of which 8 were the result of collisions, 45 from collapsing flues, 115 I’ Fon> explosions, and 156 from fire. Terrible. —A young lady, on opening a fifir was shocked to find an insect burrowing in th» core, and instantly threw the fruit into the grate “There," exclaimed alts, “ I have burnt tS* creature in r-i-o