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same conflicting viewg/nay unite ii sup port of tbatadininistration. In conclusion, we again express the hope that other counties whpfe there are st\\\ subsisting Democrajkic dissensions, will follow the example of FloytW Savannah Georgian. Democratic Meeting.— Our readers will find irt another place the proceedings of a Democratic meeting in Floyd County.— The resolution’s adopted by the meeting are well calculated to prodwc; harm my and concert in the ranks of the Democra cy, Our Whig friends, as usual, arc pre dicting discord and confusion in our par tv, but We think they will be disappointed. They may induce a few disappointed men, by the promise of large pay, to find fault and try to make mischief. But any Dem ocrat that attempts to ruin the party, will make a great mistake, instead of injuring the party, he will ruiu himself.— Federal Union. Flotd Meeting.— The resolutions adopted by the Democratic meeting in Floyd county are republished in this paper. An example so conciliatory in spirit *<nd so honorable to the Democra cy of Floyd commends itself to the De mocracy of other counties. We hope that a similar feeling will prerail else where, and that no obstacle will be thrown in the way of a cordial co-operation among ail who are really Democrats in principle. A difference of opinion upon an abstract question about which there is no practical issue, cannot, it would seem, produce a division among those who agree upon all practical questions now before the coun t y Marietta. Advocate. Spirit op tits. Democratic Press.— From all quarters of the State we have received the most gratifying responses to the action of the Democratic meeting in this county on the Ist inst. There may be a little carping and quibbling, but this we hope will speedily pass away, and the Democracy at last settle down quietly oh the basis of its cherished and long estab lished principles. The Whig Press, it is true, manifests its ancient hostility to any movement that promises to harmonize and consolidate the Democratic Party. They have an interest in pandering to the pre judices of the two sections of the Party, tind fostering those bitter feuds that have hitherto served but to distract and divide it. We, therefore, expected that they would curse and criticize the Floyd Coun ty Resolutions. Those resolutions present the only basis of an effective and pertna vent organization, and for that single rea son they have evoked the maledictions of the Whig Press of the State. With the Democratic Party united, it will inevitably carry the State and nearly all the Con gressional Districts, in the coming elcc tiens; but if Democrats will suffer them selves to influenced by Whig taunts or •cajoled by Whig promises, we look for no thing but disaster and defeat. We shall resume this subject in our next issue.— Home Courier. The Griffin Jeffersonian , first, through out the late attempts at re-organization, of the democracy of Georgia, and as ex treme an advocate of onr rights as any of our own presses, as unwearied in its exer tions to establish harmony and good will among the friends of Pierce and King.— The Editor says that the doctrine of seces sion is not a practical question, but one upon which different opinions may be held Avithor.t impairing the harmony of action. Jlc says: “We nvc our hand- fa each other on (he Balti more Platform-'e gave (hem far cordial recon ciliation—both Ddesjaiinns were admitted to that ■ platform with equal rights and privilege?; both par ticipated in the reconciliation—both rejarned home and so reported to their constituents. Wliat more docs any true and honest Democrat desire? Wliat does or can lie promise himselfby kecpin<r lip lli*t old feud—by keeping up the old quarrel when there is nothing fa quarrel about?” We were as anxious to terminate the quarrel, if we could have done so without a sacrifice of principle, as the Jeffcrconian. We were unwilling to go into an organi zation which asserted the doctrine of seces sion, and indeed, the Jefferconian told us we could not do so, without becoming “de moralized slaves.” There is now less dif ficulty. The party in Georgia must be re organized, and if the proper spirit is mani fested, all of the friends of the Baltimore Democratic platform may unite in the re organization. The Union men only ask fair play. Shall they have it? Will the southern rights men stand with ns on Pierce’s plat form as a common ground? We can unite upon that, as we have been from the first ready “to extend the right hand of fellow ship to all men, of whatever political per suasion heretofore, who agree with us on these fundamental princijdeg.” There we stand yet, resolved to sustain those in and out of the State who are true to these prin ciples.—Con. Union. In noticing the Rome resolutions, the Constitutional Union makes the following remarks: The motive and object of these resolution! we equally approve. When Gen. Fierce was nominated, we united with a number of Southern Rights men and presses, in en treating a re-organization, at once, of his friends in Georgia, upon the Baltimore Democratic Platform. Nothing but stu pid enmity prevented that consummation in September last. The necessity again a rise.s. Shall it not be done? Will a majority of the Southern Rights party again listen to the bitter passion of a few leaders, or allow itself to be governed by the narrow selfish ness of a few men whose conduct is at war with the success of democratic principles in Georgia? Or will the masses of the southern rights men, meet the friends of Gen. Pierce in Georgia, upon terms of equality, and refusing to make the doctrine of secession a test of democracy, invite a free and cor dial Union of those who have at heart the success of the principles embraced in the democratic platform? The time is perhaps now more propitious, and wo assure the men of the opposite wing, that if they come fairly and frankly up to the mark, Cherokee Georgia will not fail to meet them in all its strength and with its accus tomed spirit. Rut'juojf of the Democracy.—Wc note with pleasure, efforts on the part of leading men ot both the Union and Southern Rights wmgs of the Democratic party, in different parts of the State, to unite again, in solid column, the Democracy of Georgia/ prom all sections, the signs are fayorable to such a result —and now that important elections are just ahead, aud much good work to perform, in behalf of Democratic principles, during the current year, wc hope that 40 obstacle will be interposed. to prevent the full and complete accom plishment of this “labor of love.” At a meeting Democracy of Floyd, on the lst/mst. at Rome, Hon. John 11. presiding, we notice that all the proceedings arc characterized by a spirit of conciliation, which canuofefail, if pursu ed every where, throughout the State, to restore harmony and the best good feel ings amongst the ranks of the party.— The approaching Spring Courts will afford favorable opportunity for a movement of the people in relation to this matter—and we would respectfully suggest that meet ings be held in every comity in the State, during some time of their Superior Courts, to take iuto consideration measures for harmonizing the party. At that time, too, steps should be taken for the appointment of delegates to a Democratic State Con vention for the - nomination of a candidate for Governor, as well as fur District Con ventions for the nomination of candidates for Congress, &c. &e. And, then, with the Democracy reunited, all will go on “merrily 4 ” as in days of yore. —Georgia Banner. Health of Vice-Piesident King. Our Key West letter of the Bth says: The health of lion. Wm. It. King has improved since he left Norfolk, lie is ev idently stronger, his appetite has increas ed and his voice is restored. Several times he has been driven about the Island, ri ding pleasant days as far as six or seven miles. The weather since his arrival has not been as pleasant as usual, but still it has not prevented him from taking exer cise in the open air. We cannot say that his health has been permanently improved, but there can be no doubt that he is far better and stronger and coughs less than when lie left Washington. On Thursday Col. King and party went on board the Fulton and started for Havana, but the weather looking bad and a heavy sea run ning outside, they returned, and anchoring remained uutil the morning of the 6th, when they sailed. It is the intention of the Vice President to visit Santa Cruz, and return to Key West if the climate of that Island is not suited to his complaint. Sav. Courier. A letter from Key West, of the Ith inst. published in the Savannah Republican, I states that “ Vice President King left here on the Gth for Havana, after a visit among us of two weeks. His health had some what improved, though he was still very feeble. We understand it is his design to go upon a sugar plantation of a gentleman near Havana, who had invited him.” The New Orleans Picayune learns from a gentleman, just from Havana, that the Captain General has sent a special messen ger to Key West inviting Mr. King, Vice President elect, in ease he visited Hava na, to take up his quarters in the Cap tain General’s palace. The Captain Gen eral also requested the American Consul, Judge Sharkey, to give him immediate no tice the moment Mr. King should arrive in the harbor of Havana. Correspondence of the Savannah Courier. Key West, Jan. 22, 1853. Mr. Editor , —The wrecking season has set in, and ships, brigs and schooners, with their rich cargoes, are being brought down daily from the reef by the hardy wrecker, and we are beginning to reap the benefit of their arrival by increased business and an unusual activity in every line of pursuit. The lawyer has the salvage case to present to the judge, and a good round sum is his fee. Hein all cases receives the sum of sl7 for filing the libel, ana then three per cent on every dollar of salvage decreed by the Judge. In cases involving large amounts of property as high as S3OO falls to his share of the wreck. The Commission Merchant or Ship’s Consignee has many competitors in the field. He has friends on the wrecking vessels and the first boarder of the stranded ship presents to the master the claims of his merchant, and receives for his zeal a handsome reward if he secures the consign ment. The rates of wharfage and storage on a bale of cotton are sl. The commis sion allowed for receiving and disbursing money on account of vessels and cargo is 5 per cent, and when the same is re-ship ped or forwarded in the same vessel l-4th per cent on the valuation of the cargo is always ruleable. So the strife for these fat pickings sometimes ranges high, even to a fighting pitch. The consignmeut of a ship no tv ashore on the reef will pay the Consignee over $9,000. The clerk of the Admiralty Court also gets his fees, which are large when salvage is great —h 9 receiving as much as the lawyer. The District Attor ney gets a fee. The United States Mar shal, if cargo is sold, gets his per centage, and the mechanic is paid well for his work, cut of the cargo. All classes of our population are directly or indiiectly bene fited by the wrecks; and when news arrives in town that a ship is ashore, you will see more happy faces than in Wall street when the Fancies have advanced. Bishop Boone and the China Man. —We have before announced the arrival in our cily of the Right Rev. Bishop Boone, accompanied by Tong Choo- Keung, a young Chinaman. The Bishop sailed from China in October, and after a voyage of 115 days arrived in New York, whence he sailed for this cily. We are happy to state that his health has been greatly improved by his voyage, but his nervous system has been so seriously deranged that his physicians positively iorbid him to speak in public. 1 ong C hoo-Keung, who accompanies the Bishop, is a very interesting young man. He is twenty-one years of are— is a native of 100 Chow, one of the lar gest cities cf China, situated in the pro vince of Keang-Soo, and is the son of a Mandarin, recently deceased. This young gentleman was brought by his father to Shanghae, and placed with an English meiehant, who seeing the capacity of the boy, recommended his father to send him to the Mission School, under the charge of Bishop Boone. After being at school two or three years he was baptised, and has ever since lived a consistent Christian life. When his course in the school was completed, about twelve months since, he became a candidate for Orders. He is whofly unaccustomed to speaking, as the Chinese never have any public addresses, but bp Ims bpfn prevailed upqn lo speak this evening, at Christ Church, with the hope that hi* simple appeal to this Chris tian community, io behalf of his country* men, may not be in vain. We bespeak for him a large audieucf.— Sav. Courier. Coast Survey Office, January 27, 1853. Sir : Having reported, as the result of a survey of Pot Rock at Hell Gate, New York, after the blasting there, that the rocks had been reduced from eight feet mean low water to twenty and a half feet, 1 have now the honor to state that a subsequent survey by Mojo*- Fraser, o! the Corps of Engineers, in charge of the removal of the rocks in IIel! G.Ue untlet the appropriation contained in a bill ap proved August 1, 1852, showed but eigh teen feet on this rook; and that me made recently, and after additional blasting, gives a depth at three points of less than twenty feet; and the present lei.st depth at mean low water on the rock a little over nineteen feet. According to Major Fra ser, “there is probably now but a very small part of the rock higher than the plane of twenty feet reference.” 1 would respectfully request au horitv to publish this statement. Yours, respectfully, (Signed) A. D. BACHE, Superintendent. Hon. Thos. Corwin, Sec’y Treasury. Freshet in the Tennessee. —The in cessant and violent rains of Friday and Saturday last, caused a very sudden and we fear destructive rise in thfe river. On Saturday night the water rose with great rapidity, so that on Sunday it was neces sary to employ all the force obtainable, both men and horses, to remove the cot ton from the reach of the water. Every thing was hurry and bustle on the whul during the whole day, and crowds of peo ple were witnessing the exciting scene. In spite of a few bales were swept off, or as a bystander remarked, were taken at current rates, but we be lieve they were all, or nearly all overtaken by the Molly Garth and secured below. At 6 o’clock last evening the water was within about 11 feet of high water mark and within three feet of the freshet of ’oo, and still rising slowly. A few tenements on the banks have been invaded and the occupants driven out, but we hoar of no serious loss yet —Chattanooga Advertiser, Bth inst. Sailors Flogging Themselves —The Norfolk correspondent of the New York Herald lias the following : The United States frigate Raritan is here, of which you are aware. I have learned from one of her officers, since the abolition of flog ging in the navy, the men who were dis posed to do their duty, seeing they were compelled to do more than their own, in consequence of a large portion of the men being confined as punishment for neg lect of duty, and various other offences, took it into their heads that something must be done to prevent the continuance of such a state of things. They thete fore formed themselves into vigilance committees, and took upon themselves the punishment ot all offenders by tuck ing them up and giving them half a dozen or a dozen with the cat, as the case re quired, the officer of the deck being par ticularly oblivious just about the time the operation was performed. De learn that a project is in agitation at Tallahassee for dividing the State of Florida. It is proposed by the advocates of the plan, to unite that portion of the State lying west of the Chattahoochee river tq, Alabama, and that portion lying between the Chattahoochee and Suwanee rivers to Georgia, the balance to consti tute the future .State of Florida. We ap prehend the project will meet with siren uous opposition, and that nothing will come of it. —Albany Patriot. From a very general expression of opinion on this subject, to which we have lately listened, we believe that if the question was put to a vote, three-fourths ‘ of the voters of Middle Florida would be found in favor of uniting that portion of the State to Georgia. By Middle Flori da our readers will always understand us to mean thesection between the Suwanee and Apalachicola rivers.— Sav. Georgian, Sth inst. To the Reidets of the Gazette. Ihe “ Georgia Home Gazelle ” appears this week in anew and elegant dress— attractive in appearance and greatly im proved over, the former series. This ar rangement has been made at much ex pense, and with a view to render our pa per more worth}’ of the increasing patron age of the public. Our list is constantly and steadily progressing. In all quarters we have the highest assurance of good will; —assurances, that cheer us on in our efforts to give permanency to a Family Journal at the South, worthy of the sec tion, and of its intelligent and enterprising population. We have entered upon the present year with bright prospects —“auspicious omens cheer us”—and we intend to merit the continued good will and good deeds of our readers, by putting forth every ex ertion to make the “Home Gazette” n pleasant and readable Journal, free from political pratizanship, and high toned ia character. We hope to make the columns of the paper interesting and valuable—to render it a welcome weekly visitor to the home and firesides of its readers. Our “old subscribers”—the tried friends of the paper, who have done so much forit in the past —we trust will still continue their patronage;—new subscribers are invited to give us a trial and judge for themselves ofthe quality of our entertain ment and companionship. If they are pleased, it will affird us pleasure to continue the relation formed between us; —if they find more to disapprove than to approve, they can leave us at “the parting of the ways.” And once more, we would express our grateful thanks for the manifestation of kindness, which have so constantly been bestowed upon us, and sincerely trust that our paper may ever be found deseiv ing of them in the future. We can only say that every effort will be made on the part of the Editor and Proprietors to merit the approbation and secure the pat ronaga of the public. To our editorial friends in Georgia and other Southern Slates, who have so gener ally and so cordially recommended our paper as being all it is intended to be—a Family Journal and Home Newspaper —we are under many and weighty obli gations. We duly appreciate their kind ness, and trust that the newspapers over which they preside may each and all secure a patronage commensurate with their merits. The press of Geoigia and of the Pouth have done much for us, and to them we are deeply indebted for re peated manifestations of good will.—Jiu guata “ Georgia Home Gazelle.” THE JEFFERSONIAN GRIFFIN, FEBRUARY 17 1853. Union of the Democracy. Under this head we have selected the sentiments of all the Democratic papers which have spoken o:t the subject, pub lished in this state, and which have come to hand since our last issue. They are commenced on the first page, and contin uned over on the second. It will be seen they embrace tQjfcjprinorc Democratic pa pers, besides our own and the Southerner and Courier, ajt Rome, whose sentiments wc gave last week; and out of the whole there is not one that does not heartily ap prove the Rome resolutions. These pa pers, without doubt, utter the sentiments of the body of the Deinacracy of the State, and should settle the question of union and harmony in the Democratic ranks. Marriage Notices. There have been a number of marriages in and about Griffin lately, as we under stand, and some of onr readers may won der why they have not appeared in our paper. The cause is simply, they have not been written out and handed to us. We have reiterated again and again our determination, not to run about town after a marriage, hunting up the names of the parties, the parson or justice, the time, and all the other el ceteras that make up a marriage notice. Whenever they are handed to us, properly written out, they are always published, if accompanied by a responsible name. Otherwise, the parti** need not it, The Tennesseeans. This talented and very genteel compa ny of singers visited our city last week, and gave a Concert of music on Saturday night. Their singing was of a chaste and polished style, free from the vulgarisms of the day. There were no sable melodies nor sable characters; the performance was of a high and refined order. “The Child’s Wish,” a solo by the, lady was exquisite. Wc recommend them to the patronage of an enlightened public. Temperance Meeting. We are requested to state that there will be a meeting of the friends of Tem perance, at the City flail, on Saturday next,at 1 o’clock, P. M. to appoint del egates to the Atlanta Convention of the 22d instant. The Cabinet. After all the speculations and arrange ments which have been going on for the last two moflhths, to form a Cabinet for Mr. Pierce, a late Washington writer says, under date of February 6th, that “as re cently as a week ago, the President elect had occasion to state, that he had not fixed upon a single member of his Cabinet.” But this too may be as false as the thousand other rumors which have catenated from Washington, all going to prove that if the Cabinet is formed, Mr. Pierce has confided his council to a very few, if any of his friends. “Spiiitual Rapping* ” Wc refer our readers to an excellent let ter on this subject, from the pen of Dr. J. B. Jeter, of Richmond, Virginia, commu nicated by Rev. J. 11. Campbell, pastor of the Baptist Church in this city. It will bo found on the first page, and read with interest by all who have considered this subject. We do not agree with the doc tor in his deductions. While we both n gree that there is something in tlicsc “man ifestations,” we differ in this: The doctor believes -thfife is something spiritual in them, and it comes from the father of lies; we believe there is nothing but pure elec tricity, and the “manifestations” are bro’t about by that subtle fluid, which pervades all matter, not yet fully understood or comprehended. Mesmerism is of precise ly the same character, and wc as much be lieve that Mcsmcr acted through the agen cy of the spirits as any of the Mountaiu Cove brethren. Why cannot the medi ums write with a goose pen? It is said they cannot, and yet the spirits, while in this world, with few exceptions, never used any other. The goose quill is no conduct or of electricity. A late New York letter, under date of the 2d inst. to the Savannah Republican, shows off this new* invention, ordiscovery if you please, as follows: As an every day proof of the popular favor, which that most monstrous of all modern humbugs—the spiritual rappings —still manages to meet with in this city, I cut the following advertisement from the New York Tribunt of to-day: SrmitoAL Mission.— Throe mediums on a spi ritual mission lo Hiis city for a few days, arc now stopping at Mengcrford’a Hotel in Duane st. near Hudson st. They examine diseases, and prescribe for the aam'qpHce SJ, For spiritual investigations No matter how much of a humbug these spiritual mediums may be, there is no hum bug about the brisk business they are dri ving at Hungerford’s. They have scores of calls every day, I am assured, from full grown men and women, who hand over the dollars with an unsuspicious readiness pe culiar to the Victims of misplaced confi dence. It need hardly be added, that the “mediums” in question are cute Maine Yankees, and no more believe in the non sense they dole out by the dollar’s worth, than they believe that the moon is made of green cheese. Fools and their money are soon parted, you know, and as “alj tlm fqols are uqk dead yet,” there is a good prospect for an active business in the Rap ping line for sonic time to come. The editor of the Savannah Courier, in noticing the celebration of the ■! anniversa ry of the landing of Gen. Oglethorpe and his party at Yamacraw Bluff, which was the first permanent settlement of the whites in Georgia, makes the following reflec tions: A century an£ a quarter has not yet elapsed, and yet what a change has taken place! Then, countless tribes of savages held dominion over the mountains and valleys. Now, not one of the Aborigines remains within our borders. The last red man in Georgia was a fireman on the first locomotive that went dashing into the mountains of Cherokee. The forests bare fallen beneath the steady blows of tlie new race, and Georgia now furnishes one-sixth of the raw material which clothes the world and has a taxable property’ valued at four hundred millions of dollars. The wigwams of the savage have given place to the splendid palaces, magnificent man sions, thrifty cities and lovely villages.— With our steamboats, our locomotives and our railroads we have abundant reason to be thankful, and to look back to the “day of small things” with hearts full of grati tude to the far-sighted, sagacious and good man who planned and executed the first settlement of our now great and growing State. The Southern Democrat, printed at Oglethorpe, of the Bth inst. says—“ The editor is still confined to his room from a severe attack of the Small-Pox. We can not say with any degree of certainty at what time he will be able to be at his post. In the meantime the printers in the office will exert every energy to make the paper interesting to its readers. The heavy afflictions which have visited the ed itor and his family recently, are such as to demand the sympathy of his friends and the generous forbearance of his patrons, for any short coming which may occur in the publication of his paper.” On the 10th instant, Mrs. Mary F. W. May, consort of the Rev. P. L. J. May, died at Oglethorpe, of Small Pox, aged 32 year:, i months and 21 days—and on the day previous, Martha Leonora, infant daughter of P. I* A and M, F, W. May, aged 12 days. Temperance Meeting in Henry. At a meeting of a portion of the citizens of Henry county, held on the Ith inst. the following gentlemen were appointed dele gates to tlie Temperance convention to be held in Atlanta on the 22d instant : Col. L. T. Doyal, Col. L. J. Glenn, Rev. D. D. Duffy, Samuel R. Weems, .John S. Bruce, Nelson Gray, William S. Darby, A. Y. Paul, Rev. Solomon Odell, Adam C. Sloan, Thomas M. Speer, Esq. Henry Stokes, James L. Gaddy, James P. Glass, James Patillo, Phillip Wolf, Elijah Poster, F. M. Hail, David Knott, P. B. Turner, Timothy S. Barham, W. W. Cochran,, Billy Bowlegs says he cannot comply with his promises made at Washington, because he was intoxicated during all that time. Billy may apply the follow ing fable : “A mouse, ranging about a brewery, happening to fall into a vat of beer, was in imminent danger of drowning, and ap pealed to a cat to help him out. The cat replied : ‘lt is a foolish request, for as soon as 1 get you out 1 shall eat you.* The mouse piteously replied, that would be far better than to be drowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, but the fume of the beer caused puss to sneeze, and the mouse took refuge in a hole. The cat called upon the mouse to come out : ‘Did you n<>t promise that 1 should eat you ?’ ‘Ah,’ replied the mouse, ‘1 did, but 1 teas in liquor at the time.' 1 ” Official Announcement. —The Wash ington Republic of the 10th inst. says t the certificates of the electors for Presi dent and Vice President of the United States were yesterday read, counted, and registered in the House of Representa tives, in the presence of the members of the two branches of Congress The President pro leva, of the Senate, who presided on the occasion, announced that Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was duly electe I President, and Wm. R King, Vice President of the United Stales, for four years, commencing on the fourth day of March next. In pur suance of a joint resolution, subsequently adopted,*Mr. Hunter whs appointed on j - the part of the Senate, and Messrs Jones, of Tennessee, and Hibbard, on the part of the House of Representatives,. as a committee to wait upon General Pierce and inform him of his election.” Dorne’s Gold Mine. —Mr. J. J. Fields passed through this city on Tues day last, on his way to the Dahlonega Mint, having in charge $19,000 worth of gold, from the mine of Wm. Dome, in Ahbeville and Edgefield Districts, South Carolina. This amount was the product of the work of eight hands during the month of January. During twenty and a half days in December with, the same number of hands, the yield was $20,590. The aggregate yield of gold since the commencement of the work in the mine, about ten months ago, has been upwards of $200,000. The quality of the gold from this mine is said to be of a very su perior order, and we understand that Mr. Dome has some huge specimens in readi ness for exhibition at the World’s Fair next Summer. —Mania Intelligencer. Tiie State Road —lmmense quanti ties of produce have been coming down the State Road for a number of weeks past. During the last three weeks the amount of corn transported over the Road has averaged three thousand bushels per day. During the same time the average of Cotton transported over the Road has been six hundred bales per day. Other articles of western produce have been constantly arriving in abundance. —Ibid The Lemmon Slave Case. —The com mittee of the Virginia Legislature, to whom was referred the documents in relation to the Lemmon slave case, have reported that inasmuch as the decision of Judge Paine is about to come before the Supreme Court of New Yoik, and as the legislature of the latter State has a bill before it to repeal the law upou which the decision is founded, they deem it un advisable to express any opinion on the merits of the decision at issue, but re commend that the Attorney General of Virginia, together with such other council as the Governor may direct, prosecute the appeal taken to the New York Su pmiie Court. 1 The North Alabama Railroad. On the first page of to-day’s Courier will be found an important communica tion, which appeared in yesterday’s Re publican, suggesting the construction of a railroad from Griffin, Georgia, in the di rection of Decatur, Alabama, and Mem phis, Tennessee. We copy the article not only because of the soundness of its reasonings, and the coirfcti ess of its facts, hut because it developes identically the same project which we have been urging at intervals, for the last four or five years, both in the columns of the Macon Journal 4* Messenqtr and of the Savannah Courier. It is the evident policy of the Macon and Western and Central companies, to urge the proposed work forward with all possible dispatch. The completion of the Atlanta and West Point road, even as far as LaGrange, has diverted from Savannah almost the entire trade of some of the richest counties of the State.— These counties formerly traded at Griffin now they go directly to Atlanta, Au gusta, and Charleston. The immediate effect of constructing the proposed new road, would be to hring back the trade and travel of those counties to the Cen tral and Macon and Western roads, be cause it would place them uinety miles nearer by railroad to an Atlantic port, and an equally good market. The same argument W'ould hold good in regard to a large portion of Northeast Alabama. In deed the proposed road would open to Savannah the entire trade and travel of East Alabama, on a scale which would defy competition from any quarter. Our object at present, however, is not to write an aiticle, but simply to call atten tion to the one on our first page, and to i beg the friends of railroad enterprise, to weigh well the cogent arguments which it embodies —A’ar. Courier. In reference to this subject the Savan nah Republican says:— It gives us much pleasure to lay before our readers this morning, the communication with the above heading It is proper to state, (though it is hardly necessary, in order to strengthen the conclusion of this wri ter,) that a friend oi ours has inspected maps of the contemplated rou’e, with every conviction of the feasibility of the project. We do not propose to repeal any of the arguments of this wtiler. Our object is to draw the special attention of the readers of the Republican to his com-’ munication. Probably even our mercan tile men will find in it facts of great in terest, of which some of them had hardly befoie suspected the existence. All will agree, we suppose, that the commanding position of this port is becoming more apparent, the more our maps are exam ined. Scarcely anew enterprise can be suggested in this or adjacent States, which is not in some way destined to bring tribute to our doors. Aud as time goes on and our country is developed, new branches of railroad, secondary to the great lines, will gradually hut surely swell the tide of our commercial pios perity. Savannah has made, and is ma king vast sacrifices for railroads, hut they are destined to pour into her lap more treasures than have ever gone out of it. Washington Irving, (says a- eiyrula-* ting paragraph,) while at jVroUMt Vernon the other day, remarked that hir remem bered seeing Gen. Washington 1 iii l New York, when he was a child five years of age, and while the General was passing through the street, accompanied by a crowd, young Irving was attended by his nurse, an honest Scotch woman. ‘l'he woman forced her way up to the Gene ral, leading her child by ike hand, and approaching, addressed him—“ Your hon or, here is a bairn that is called after you.” The General paused, and placing his haml upon the hoy’s* bead, gave him his blessing. Mr. Irving states that he has a distinct recollection of the whole scene.— which occurred in the year 1787. This is a very pretty tale. It is a great pity its chronology interferes so sadly with its truth. It states that Mr. Irving was then five years old, and that it oc curred in 1787. That would make him more than seventy yeais of age at this time. He cannot be more than sixty-six, if so old. Singular Fact. —lt is a very remark able fact in the history of the United Stales, that none of the names among the American elected Presidents had children. No one who was ever re-elected- has- had a son. Washington had no cUiiUVen—he held office eight years. John Adams had children—he was not re-elected. Jeffer son had no children —he was re-elected, and held office eight years. Madison had no children, held the Presidency eight years. Monroe had no son—held office eight years. John Quincy Adams had sons—-he was not re-elected. Jack son had no children—he was re-elected. Van Buren had children—not le-elected. Harrison died. Polk had no children. Taylor died. And now, among the great names without children, is the next elec", ed President after Taylor, President Pierce, who, by an accident, is childless. The Cotton Crop. —lt will be recol lected that a certain firm in New’ York last fall, advertised for estimates of the Cotton crop. Each person sending an estimate was required to enclose a five dollar bill. The whole purse was to he the property of the individual whoso es timate comes nearest the actual result on the first of September next. A New York cotemporary says : “The written opinions of 207 parties scattered all over the United States, were on the first inst. opened and recorded; between the lowest and highest there was found to be a range of 1,500,000 bales, while the average on the whole was 3,119,000.” Ireland is literally “going to grass.” The great landlords are turning out their tenants in order to lay the land down in grass, for flocks and herJs. Sheep are more profitable than men— sq i|iq latter are turned out to die, while the former are turned out to grow fat. The reclaimed lands in Arkansas, from leveeing the Mississippi, are enough for a small Smte, or principality. More than four millions of acres have been re claimed, and the work done this season and yet to be done, will give entire secu rity, says the Memphis Enquirer, to the whole coast, from the line to St. Helena.’’ “• * ‘ * ’ “• ! * • ■•/ The Liquor Question in a Nut Shell. —The position is this: “If the sale of spirituous liquors is right, then it is wrong to tax venders, and every man ought to be as free to sell Spirits as he is to sell Sugar, or Coff e, or anything else.- But if the retailing is an evil, then the Legislature is wrong in fastening the evil on the people without their approval.-—- They ought to say whether they will sub mit to the evil or remove it.” On Christmas eve a young girl, in the district of Inverness, assembled her fiiends to witness the celebration of her nuptials with the lad who had wooed and won her. At the appointed hour she received the intelligence that her lover had altered his mind. She was about to he attacked with hysterics, when another popped the question, was accepted, the marriage rite was performed, and the lassie went on re joicing iu Burns’ old stave, A man’s a man fora’that. Eve r y arrival from Europe brings fur-’ ther news of the strange spread of Mor rnonism The sect is certainly bent ypon following out the injunction, to “go into all the world and preach the Gospel [of Smith]’ to every creature.” The last number of the English Mormon organ is much gratified to hear of the faithfulness and zeal of Elder Matthew McCune aud Teacher tVilliartl Adams, in spreading the truth in Rangoon, by lecturing, social conversation, anil the circulation of the printed word. Stopping Papers. —An Exchange says:* “When a man gets mad and stops his pa per, he always borrows the next number’ of his neighbor, to see if the withdrawal of his patronage hasn’t killed the editdt and diessed the columns in mourning. This grows out of the fact that none try to show their spite in this way but tho’ kind of people wflb iinagihti’ that theP world rests on their shoulders ” Satan Has Come !—A mechanic in Russia is said to have succeeded in ma king a steam man. It is probably one of 1 the most interesting inventions ever offer-’ ed to the public. It is a large colossal statue, the feet of which are placed upon wheels on a railroad, and he goes thun dering over the couise, the smoke pufln-g ----out of his nostrils in a manner to give’ the appearance of Satan as pictured out iu Revelations. A Remarkable Family. —The Mauft Intelligencer says, Mr. John Kennedy, who resides some eight miles north of Columbia, has 28 children living—al?‘ fully grown —74 grand children and 51 gresrt grandcbHdrerv— inall 143-! There has not been a single death in the family 4- since the year 1806. Dobbs thinks that “Young America” will “progress” until some “fast man” invents a gun for shooting men from’ ibe Atlantic to California; where another gun or guns will he ready to distribute them to Oregon, the Sandwich Islands,’ Japan, and China. Balloons will be 100 slow. Dreadful Mortality at Sea. —The. ship Atlantic, of anil hound for New York, from Liverpool, is in Hampton Ivoads, having snflbred the most dreadful mortality finsm* small pok, during the’ passage, among the'etnigrants on board. There have been sixty'deaths, and a number still suffering from the disease. Accident on the Georgia R-ah.ro a i*. to the passenger train on the Georgia Railroad, broke on Wednesday week a few miles from Augusta, by which the engine, tender and bagage were thrown off the track, and a negro fireman killed. Severe Col O' —At Quebec on Thun*] play week, the thermometers ranged 22 to 3f below zero, the latter being the lowest point indicated by a registering tlieimo-’ meter upou the Cpe. In other exposed places, the low piint of 31 degrees, is said to have heer. reached. Spirit Mappings. — According to report of the Superintendent of the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, there are at present confined in that institution twenty-six victims of the “spirit rappings” delusion, the number being equally divided between’ males and females. Washington, Feb. 11th.—John R Thompson, Esq has been elected to tho United States Senate 4 to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Com. Stockton. The Senate to day discussed .in fbfl the Texas claims,and Sinner I Houston* denounced in unmeasured term s the speculation in the Bonds of the State. There are nine first-class vessels now loading at New York for Australia; and five others have cleared within a week, there are not many passengers offering, hut large quantities of provisions are going out. Twenty-eight ships left the port for Liverpool in the month of December last for Australia, carrying out 8,200 passen gers, of whom 800 were cabin an i the rest steerage paasengers. The vast east ern emigration sensibly diminishes that, to America. The U. S. Mail steamship Georgia ,. which sailed from New York for Aspinivalf on Sunday, took out no less tliau nine hundred and sixty passengers. Were any serious accident to happen to her what use would l)e her boats with such a crowd T Nothing short of a miracle could perserve the lives of hundreds. Evils of Smoking.— A leading medi cal practitioner at Brighton, England has lately given a list of sixteen cases of pa-* ralysis, pioduoed by amoving, which came under his own, knowledge, within the last six months. Doctors Differ.—The Scientific Ameri can doubts the success, of! the Ericsson, ljofe air ship. It must he recollected that sci entific men doubted the. practicability of navigating the ocean by steam. Col. May, U. S. A. who distinguished himself iu the Mexican war, it is said is about to marry one of the most wealthy aud accomplished daughters of New York —the scion of one of the steam, kings. The Wire Suspension Bridge over the. Falls of St. Johns river, at St. Johns, N. B. has been completed. It is about an eighth of a mile in length, and about 90 feet above high water. Gen. l’ierco, it is said, will leave CQucprd for Washington, qn the 16th iupt, He will proceed directly to the Seat of Govcrq ! ..Vi ) t ‘l~ s • • . *. incut. I■ I’ ‘i! * .