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VOL. XIV. THE GEORGIA JEFFERSONIAN IS PUBLISHED EVERT THCKSDaT MORNING BY WILLAM CLINE, t Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per an nual, or Two Dollars paid in advanco. At) VKRTISEM FNTS arc insr-rlet! lit ONE DOLT.AIt |>i-r square, for Ihe firpl insertion, and FIFTY CENTS per square-, for t-ntli’ insertion IN-rent ter. A reasonable dt'iliietmii will he made <o those who advertise !>y the year. All advertisements not <1 l;cnvisc mitred, wd i r root u:ued till forbid. fryjf SALKS OF LANDS by Administrators, Kxecdtorß rir Guardians are uqntrrU -|*j law to be heir! on the first Tuesday in tire month, between the hour* o’ ten in tiro forenoon and throe in tin afternoon, at the Court-flense, in tin- County in whir'll the land is situated. Notice of lluse sale, must l;e giver, in a public tit FORTY DAYS pr-”ions to the dav t.f sale. SdLKS OF .V£ GR (teS must lie made a! pnh •lie nm-tion on the first Tuesday of the month, be tween the. usual hours of sale, at lire place of pub lic a.ih-s i:i tin- county where the letters Testa nentary, of Admiuistr-lion or Guardianship may jave he. n granted; first FORTY DAYS r>n?*ce thereof in one of the public jiiixetteß of this . < 'iatc, and a! the court house wire c such sales are te lu Id. Notice for flic sale of Personal Property must he triven in like manner FORTY DAYS previous to the day of sale. Nonce to Debtors and Creditors of an estate m ist tie published FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must be pub itshe.l for Tli a MONTHS, Not u e tor leave to ski t. XECHOES must be published TWO MONTHS before any order ab solute shall lie made thereon bv the Court, CITATIONS for Letters of Administration, must tie pii'd'shed thirty pat-; for Dismission fro n Aeininistra'ion. monthly six mcfths; foi Jlismlssion from Guardianship. Forty Day , It ides for the foreclosure of Ylorljrss-e must he t-llidis ind MONTHLT FOR FOUR MONTHS, for OSlab *i'*!nar It*.-! paiiers. lor the fed space of three months; i*or compelling titles from Kxecrders or A ifininist.-ators, \i her ■ a borul has been given by he diseased the lull -pace of.THREF. MONTHS. Communication. SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS. Mr. Editor: —l have read, with much interest, a letter published in your paper of ITth February, from ,1. B. Jeter, D. D., of Richmond, Va., to Rev. J. IT. Camp bell, of Griffin, Ga., on the subject of spir itual communications. I am pleased with the spirit of honesty and candor which, in the main, seems to pervade his communi cation, but I conscientiously differ with him as to some conclusions at which he has arrived. lie certainly makes one important ad mission in iris letter, and that is, that de parted Spirits do now communicate with mortals: for, he says, speaking of the de velopments in St. Louis : “At first, I thought the whole a sheer imposture, but I was convinced, in spite of my prejudices, of tiie reality of the phenomena.” And again, speaking of some of the effects of the phe nomena, he says: “And that all these ef fects are produced, not by design or art, on the port of the mediums, but by some invisible and unknown agency, I must be lieve, or renounce all human testimony, and, in regard to some of the effects, the testimony of my own senses.” He then s-iys, that “the most rigid and prejudiced investigators have been compelled to ad mit the reality of t’.c phenomena, and, so far as I know, no man in that city, who has given any attention to the matter and j whose judgment is worth a rush, doubts I their reality.” Now what I ask, could the Dr. say more than the above to establish the fact which nearly all the clergy, and most of the laity and men of the world deny, that Spirits do communicate? And, if Spirits do in fact, communicate, who can with propriety •ay, reasoning from analogy or Scripture, that they are ail evil? A ndTtere is a point in Bro. Jeter’s letter, which, it strikes .me, is very vulnerable. He says, “The sim ple fact that so many of these singular communications are false and contradicto ry, will lead any considerate man to reject them all.” Here I would join issue with him. It seen*? to me that it is improper to come to this conclusion from such premises. That because a large majority of the communicating Spirits are evil, that therefore they all are, and none of them descrying of our attention. This does not, prove that all the Spirits that commu nicate arc evil or Pantheistic spirits; nor dots it furnish a proper ground to reject them all as evil. As well might you say that, because a majority of the members of any particular church, body or corpora tion are dishonest and corrupt, that there fore, none of them are men of integrity and virtue, and that the whole should be rejected as unworthy our association, confidence or regard. Adopting that mode of reasoning, honest inquirers after truth, jo Elijah’s time, would not have received the teachings of that inspired man of God, hot would hove said that, because four . ]r :d and fifty prophets are false, lying pvophoi therefore tic; doctrines of Elijah, ; only remaining prophet, should be re jactcd'a3 evil. — I Kings, if * ?2v. The ; ::'uae might also be sud of those in the Prophet-Miegh's day.—2 (“iron. IBe. 37v. No, we are not to form our judgment upon such an unsubstantial basis of reason ing as this, bu from JJie signs, that attend them, the effects they produce and their agreement with the word of God. And I now a is ther* any tirug ihaf forbids t . 13 ii ; a of R u hned H;communica ting w.di mortals? Do: - Bible or rea son forbid it? If it does, i should like to know it. When, f ask; del evil Spirits communicate to earth’s inhabitant*, while no Augei messc;i'.‘ n were sent forth?— And where can we tin 1 a iy authority, in Scripture, to warrant the conclusion that such is the fact in this our day? No! no! Go o i Bro. Jeter and convince the skeptic world tliat Spirits do now commune and converse with mortals, and urge them to p thorough investigation, arid soon, we think, they will be able to assure you that while one under demoniac influence, or by an evil spirit, may be driven “among the tombs,” like one of old, another will, like old Cornelius, be visited and directed by a Heavenly messenger and pointed to the way of salvation. While one may be led a way by seducing spirits teaching doctrine of devils, others will most certainly be in structed in the way of holiness, if not ta ken from prison and loci to the house of prayer by the Guardian Angel. Again, we would warn’ all who may read this communication to wake up nod “fry the Spirits and see if they be of God.” But i be assured that while one man in high sta- I tion has had the candor to acknowledge j his prejudices against truth, you will find hundreds who, through fear of (that mon i stcr) public opiniou, or through self-eonfi | deuce and bigotry, will not dare to inves tigate and acknowledge the truth. It is too low for them: they are learned men, and therefore cannot become teachable lilt little children. They are ready to say, like one of old, ‘how can these things be?’ and will not believe, fearing that their party or denomination will be broken down. Alas 1 alas ! when and liow shall we be led to see eye to eye and speak the same thing? Will it not take Angels accompa nied with the Spirit of God, to convince the world of truth and bring the different Christian denominations together? For, while party and rivalry are apparently gaining strength every day, when will these things end? I will now take up another point, which seems to me to be an inconsistency, or to be more charitable, I may say oversight, in Dr. Jeter’s letter. After assuring us of the truth that Spirits do communicate, and says that candor requires him to confess its spiritual origin to be most plausible, he turns round, in the close, and calls it a de lusion. How strange this is. In the first place, an incontrovertible fact, which can dor requires him to acknowledge, and then a/lelusior. —Wishes to know how the delu sion comes on in Griffin, or does he allude to what he considers the delusive and dan gerous tendency of the doctrine of decep tive spirits? If he mean the belief that Spiri ts communicate, we answer that we regard it progressing. Many, as believers, from the churches of the different denom inations, meet together from week to week, for the purpose of endeavoring to elevate the standard of piety—to promote personal holiness and purify themselves in anticipation of soon enjoying the reap pearing of their Lord and Savior. They too are now led to search narrowly their own hearts and the teachings of the Ho ly Scriptures, in order to discover and root out their idols and besetting sins and to exercise an enlarged degree of charity for suffering humanity. These are some of the effects ofVhat many would consider the delusion in Griffin. And we would to God that this kind of delusion, under the influence of the Spirits, would j spread throughout the world, until the Lord shall tiring again Zion. There is another point in Dr. Jeter’s letter which I must notice. He says, “In the city of New A ork the police, in conse quence of their manifest tendency to pro duce insanity, have been directed to break np all Spiritual circles.” We dispute that fact, though we will readily admit that Bro. J. was misinformed on that subject. What ! a city police or any civil officer break up a peaceable meeting held for the purpose of investigating a phenomena, or I may say a meeting to enquire into the soul’s immortality and destiny? As well might the authorities of Richmond attempt to put a stop to Dr. Jeter’s preaching in the town and break up all prayer meetings; as well might an officer attempt to break up an association or camp-meeting, because some become deranged on religious sub jects. No !no ! this can’t be done while our liberties are preserved, and we ought to be thankful for it. If, as facts say, six men should become lunatics and destroy their lives in the city of New York, in the space of two weeks, by communing with ardent spirits, without any effort to stop the delusion by authority, they will hardly take notice of one who, by being out of balance, put an end to liis life, not know ingly, but alledged, by spiritual influences. I have seen the circumstance to which Dr. Jeter refers, contradicted in a letter from a respectable friend in the city of New York. There is another item in the D’s. letter that I think objectionable. It is this : “But admitting that the communications proceed from good and wise spirits, (which admission can hardly be made, except for argument, but by a iuind fit for bedlam;) then we inquire, are these mediums a safe channel of communication? It may be so, but certainly the man who can believe it, without investigation and without proof, has a marvelous credulity. The method of communing is altogether too obscure, too uncertain and too deceptions to command my faith.” If he mean that there is no method by which Spirits now commune with mortals that is clear and reliable, it is disputed. For if it is not reliable, how am I to receive a large part of Divine Re velation? for there are portions of it that were communicated by Angels, under the direction of the Lord, to the Prophets.— Large portions of Zechariah, Ezekiel and some of Isaiah were communicated by the Spirits to the Prophets, by an Angel affirming himsfelf to be one of the Proph ets, (as also was’ a portion of the book of Revelation ) We believe there are those whose interior sight is now opened as was the case in the days of the Prophets and Apostles, so that they can see and converse with the Spirits face to face, which Spirits say that they come undei the direction of the Lord supreme, as they did of old, for a wise and gracious pur pose, for the benefit of erring man and for the accomplishment of the purposes of (he Almighty. And why should they not communicate with as much certainty and clearness now as they did anciently? There are other points that I would like to notice, but time and space at pre sent forbid; perhaps at some future time I may write more on this subject. And now in conclusion: We will say that we believe that most of tbe communications now being made are from evil spirits, who are teaching doctrines of devils; and may it not be true that the manifestations by which Dr. Jeter became convinced of the truth of spirit communications, were of evil origin? But while the evil spirits are doing their work, the Redeemed are drawing near us, here and there, do prove by words and doctrine that thtjy aye” 1 rooted and grounded iu Christ, and fid monish all to prepare to meet him in his coming Kingdom. A BELIEVER. Peopling the Pacific. —Nearly fif teen hundred men, women and children, leit New York on Saturday for Califor nia. Twice a month a like number leave our shores for those of the Pacific. GRIFFIN, (GA.) THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH *24, 1853. fttisfcllancoits. From tin; Cohun'i< B m- i, ; The New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad. m We have received a copy of the Re ’ port of the President and Directors of this Company to the Stockholders at the first Annual meeting,24th January, 1853. From it we learn that, “In June last, Mr. James G. Gibbes, of South Carolina, a gentleman well ac credited for his high professional attain ments and practical knowledge, was e lected Chief Engineer. Upon his arri val here in the latter part of July, a corps was organized, and the surveys prepara tory to location immediately begun. Up to this moment, four hundred miles of a line of levels have been run, and in a few days the entire line of route to two, points on the Sabine Boundary, between this State and the State of Texas, a dis tance of 350 miles, will have been ac complished.” The extent of this groat enterprise as proposed to he carried out, can he under stood from the foregoing and following paragraphs: “The line of road after reaching the parallel of 32 deg. either on this or the opposite .side of the Sabine River, as may be hereafter determined upon, running westwardly upon that parallel, is repre sented as passing through the most fertile and magnificent portion of the State of Texas, adapted for the production of cotton and grain, and offering no obsta cles in i.'p general surface to the con struction of a road. It is but partially populated, and'requires only the facili ties of Railway access and communica tion, to render it both wealthy and popu lous. A liberal policy on the part of that State, which we confidently antici pate to tiiis or like enterprises, will make her, as she is justly entitled to be, the Empire State of the South. The dis tance from New Orleans to Logansport, on the Sabine, is 340 miles. The dis tance across the State of Texas to the Rio Grande, allowing for probable de fects, is estimated at 704 miles, and from the Rio Grande to San Diego, 566 miles—making the whole distance from New Orleans to the Pacific Ocean 1610 miles. The latter portion of the route, from reliable sources of information, may be regarded as presenting no great phys ical difficulties whatever, even less, it is said, than are to be met with upon most of the Railroads already constructed in the United States.” The corporation was chartered with a capital of $3,000,000, as the probable cost of the Road to the Texan boundary, to be increased as contingencies might demand. The road is ptogressing favor ably, and it is expected to have 82 miles iu working order during next winter.— Appended to the Report is a sketch of the route of the road through Louisiana, by H. Erskine Barnes, Assistant Engi neer, and another of the proposed route to San Diego Pacific by the Chief Engineer. The meeting was a veiy harmonious one, and we obseive a resolution was passed, unanimously, tendering the thanks of the Stockholders, “to the President, Directors, and Ufficers of the Company, for the efficient and satisfactory manner in which they have performed the duties of their respective stations, and for the exceedingly interesting and very able re ports submitted to the meeting by the Board and Chief Engineer.” The enterprise seems to he considered settled, as. appears from the Daily Or leanian: “ The Opelousas Railroad. —Yesterday, we published the lucid and very satisfac tory report of the courteous Judge Over '.ou, President of the Opelousas railroad company. To-day, w* give that of Mr. Gibbes, the engineer; they will arrest the attention of the reader, while the pleasing facts which they embody, cannot fail to gratify aII who feel an interest in a rail road from which our city expects to be so mainly benefitted. A railroad, which is likely, we may well pronounce, of be ing the nucleus of one of the most impor tant undertakings ever witnessed in the republic the great Pacific railroad. As surely as the road will be completed to Opelousas, as surely will it pass through the heart of fertile Texas on to El Passo, and then be continued, until a chain of communication is formed and a line com pleted, which will render New Orleans, one of the first, if not the first and great est cities of the republic.- There is nothing visionary in this: the country demands such a road, and necessi ty, an economic and a true policy, will cause it to be assuredly carried out. — Besides, no route that could possibly be chosen, is as advantageous or as facile, as cheap and direct, as a continuous route from the southern emporium to the shores of the Pacific, through our Slate. But independent of so desirable a consumma tion, the construction of a road, even through our own State, the interior of which is a very terra incognita to us, would tend vastly to our city’s increase and our people’s comfort. That such a road will be completed within a year, we have the guarantee of gentlemen who are immensely identified with it—who have subscribed largely to it, and who will permit no obstacle to interfere with its accomplishment, liberally aided as they are by a discerning public. From the principal depot, at’ Algiers, the road is uow being made, and is progressing rap idly upwards and onwards. On other sections of the road, workmen are busily employed, so tha{ the Opelousas road may uow be said to be a fixed fact.*’ Immense Shipment of Gold from Austra lia.— Boston, March 9. The barque Lady Suffolk reports that the ship Rox hurg Castle., from Melbourne, Australia, <iqr London, put into Cape Town on tbe 6th of*. lanuary. She has on freight 8 tons of gold—valued at over five millions of dollars, being the largest lot ever ship ped from Australia. No one has more enemies iu this world lhau an upright, proud and sensible man, disposed to take persons and things for what they really are and not for what they pretend to b. [From the New York Fx;>res".j | Uncle Tom in the Free State* We would respectfully invoke the at tention of our Nofthofii Abolitionists, and particularly the disciples of Uhcletoins cabinism, who profess a never-dying sympa thy for the black man, (if he be a slave) to the fact that the “free white” State of j Illinois has just passed a law, to parallel which, in absolute cruelty to the African, the Southern statute book; raav be search ed in vain. What does this bill enact? — Let us see. w First. It prohibits the bringing any ne gro or mulatto into this State—no matter whether they be bond or free —on pain of heavy fine or imprisonment,: besides pay ing costs of prosecution. .The apparent effect of such a provision is, practically, to cut off all communication! whatever be tween the negro and Illinois white man. The black race is altogether proscribed. Second. If a negro -or mulatto is brought into the State through the instrumentality of a person or persons not residing within its boundaries, due provision is made for bringing them to punishment by process of requisition upon the Governor of the State of which the offending party may be a re- i sident. Third. It is adjudged a hi&h misdemea nor, for a negro or mulatto,, bond or free, to come into the State and remain ten days, with an intention to reside 1 there.— The punishment prescribed is a fine of fifty dollars; and if the money is not paid,-that is, if the negro has no moiiey—the Sheriff of the county is to advertise him to be sold at public auction. On the day of sale he shall be transfered to any person who, for the shortest term of service, will pay the ~ aforesaid fine and costs “and (we quote verbatim here) said purchaser shall have the right to compel said, u.'gro or mulatto to work for and serve out *ai4 time.” If there is any acceptable dfffci’enee here be tween the “ peculiar institution” South and the Illinois imitation of it North, it is certainly on the side of the former. In the South the African is only a slave; in Il linois he is made both a slave and vagabond. Fourth. If a negro or mulatto don’t leave the State within ten days of the ex piration of his time of seryice, he shall be liable for a second prosecution, involving a penalty doubly severe, to be exacted by means of a re-sale at public auction. Fifth. Oue half of the fine goes to the party or witness making complaint. The other half goes to what is called a Charily Fund—a fund for the relief of the (it is presumed white) poor of-tee county. Sixth. If any Justice of the Peace re fuse to issue the necessary process for ar rest and sale, as already described, special provision is made for his punishment and the execution of the law by other officers. Seventh. Every person who shall have one-fourth negro blood shall be deemed a mulatto. There’s a law for you! The vote on it stood—Senate: Yeas 13, Nays o—House: Yeas 41, Nays 26. Only one affirmative vote in each house from Northern lUlnoikl. It went into effect on tbe 12th of last ult-. and is now, therefore if? full operation. The first that strikes one, on pursuing this enactment, is the unanimity with which it seems to have passed; and the next is very likely to resolve itself into the query, what is or where was the necessity for putting such an enactment on the sta tute book. Illinois, it should be understood, then, has for a long while back been overrun by a class of so called free negroes, the most of them fugitives from the adjoining slave States, of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mis souri, of the most worthless description.— The poor houses of the State, we are - told, have been filled with them; for it seems they have neither the physical ability nor the disposition to earn a living for them selves. The alms-houses, consequently, have been their only refuge, and the peo ple have been so heavily taxed for their support, that at length, it seems, they came to the conclusion to endure it no longer. Poor white men, among others, said they found it a hard matter to got a living- for themselves and families, and did not want to be compelled to support * runaway ne groes. Hence the bill in question. It re lates only, to negroes coming into the State it will be seen, and not to those already domiciled omits soil. TJsjg fact ought to j be borne in mind, for it disrobes, the en actment of that appearance of inhumanity which, on a first view, it would seem to have. Indiana, it ought to bo turned, hav ing been a severe sufferer from like incur sions, had already a law operating very nearly with like severity. The Illinois law is, on its face, unconstitutional; but the fact that it is a law, for the time being, indicates a state of the public mind there to which we have thought it proper to iu vite attention. When we have time to spare, we may take occasion to examine the causesjsvhich have led to this extraordinary yet perfect ly natural and might-to-have-bcen-expeet cd hostility of the Northwestern States to free negroisra Meanwhile we turn the Illinois enactment over to the kindest re gards of the Northern Abolitionists and their tender-hearted colleagues, the women of Stafford House, with the suggestion that their guns ought to be turned away from the South a little while, in order to demolish this bold attempt to re-establish slavery in the North. For Uncle Tom in Ilfinois, as things now stand, is likely to be infinitely worse off, among the “suckers” there, than he would be in. the tobacco, rice or cottou fields a little further South. One Hundred Miles per'Hour. --“A Maine Yankee” announces, through the National Intelligencer,, the invention of a form of road and improved locomotive, which, he says, will safely transport the mails and passengers, at the rate of one hundred miles per hour! ‘The writer further says he has been made acquaint ed with the detiils of these improvements, “which are so palpably correct in theory, and feasible in practice, that every civil engineer and railtoad- man will, on exam ination, at once- recognise and admit, as the .desideratum, even to the extent of safety and speed above indicated-.** The next Congress, it is said, is to be invited to secure its adoption, and give “’to the world the result of the first experiment. The construction of a post railroad be tween Washington and New -York, we think, will be hastened by this invention- Th-* Gardiner C'-.se. ; This case came up for trial at Washing ton o;i Tuesday the Sth inst. Tiie indict ment charges Dr. Gardne r with having undo a false affidavit before F. ,S. M vers, a justice of the pence, in support of his (Gardiner’*) claim, by which the sum of $428 750 was awarded him by tiie late Board of Commissioners for the adjust ment of claims against Mexico. Mr. FfjhJall, the District Attorney, and Hen ry May t Esq. of Baltimore, are the prose cuting officers And tiie following letter gives am account of the opening of the . case: Wa-iuvot-x, March 11.— Tbe case of the United S ales versus Ur. o'orgo A. Gardiner, for -false swearing in order to obtain an award from the \f< xicau Board of Commissioners, came tip m the criminal court to-day. District Attorney Fendall, and Mr. May, of Baltimore, appeared for the United States, and J. 11. Bradley, and J “lines M. Garble, of this city, and B. F. Perry, of South Carolina, for the de fendant. There being three distinct cases docketed, Mr. Fendall proposed to take up the case of John Charles Gardiner, fi r st, which was objected to, on the ground that they were not ready for this case, and that it was only accessory, to that of G. A. Gardiner. The court decided that the case of George A. Gardiner must first be tried, and tbe jury was qaiynTnelh'd. At 2 o’clock, Henry !sJay, Eaq, associate of the District Attorney, opened a very eloquent and argumentative speech to the jury, for the prosecution. They declared that they would prove that Dr. Gardiner’s title to a mine, and all the evidence ad duced for the existence of one belonging to him iu Mexico, were fabricated, to get the large amount awarded to him; that all tiie efforts of the government had failed to find such a mine; that the testimony of every one in that country where he pre tended to l ave owned the mine, is that no such mine was worked there; that, during the time he alleges that he was engaged in working his mine, with 500 laborers, with machine, steam engines, horses, and meu of science, at an expense of some $12,000 per month, and receipts of $20,- 000 and probable receipts thereafter of $50,000 per month, it could be proved by incontestable witnesses that he was en gaged iu his profession of dentist travell ing through the cities of Mexico, and ped dling small wares upon the Pacific. A Missi&eippi Editor in Washington. Our obi friend. Mr. D. Walker, of the Vicksburg Sentinel, is being chaperoned through .some of the gaieties of the Fed eial capitol. His primitive ideas of fe male propriety seem dreadfully shocked at ihe dressing and dancing ot the lair daughters, wives and sisters of the Sa lons of this great and glorious Republic, the dance he speaks of we think is the same we saw elaborated last winter at the soirees at the St Louis and Verandah ■hotels in New ,raft‘JlrlliJ described by Ben. Jutising, called the tied IVar dance—and in Tut*', on able cir cles the Redowa Dear, austere friend Walker, you should do as Jonathan Sue* did at the opera, put your red a>ik ban daiiiia handkerchief before your eyes, and be sure not to pe#p between the fingers of your yellow, gloves. We give an ex tract : “There was only one -hi g in which all seemed to agrep—tiral was, to leave uncovered as much of their bust:, as pos sible. It appeared to one just from the land of al igators, musquioes and Mtn rshtnev witete ladies have kept up iheoid fashion oi dressing all o- er, that the, uad pul Ujeii drtsStf* on in a gr.e-.tt itu-rry, and had oiolrudi-d tbeir bo-ii-v. ru i eight inches U*o t*i „uugh; at-'l ‘;e:r.e, 4S UU bid lady ‘d go■ -i- : tC inorKed, “they ca.ne tu-> b, .v , ami ‘didn’t come trigd an o n u-y,” tin- msiii ners, too, careless, c?* ao.c-. ■ ng.n to j put sleeves to the hre-,res, an ‘ all had .ic txtren e .isofiffT-pool things, os appeal mg fb a very targe crowd ‘ of gentlemen with --.eir anus bn re u-p to their should'--,! ilo.vid in those miili ner ! i he. gentlemen — kind, modest creature-, as -bey at*r —blushed a iittls at lb ■>,, and held •heir sceuted cambrics be foic.iueir eyes, but tney soon recovered fro.u tiittiv e.noarrusr .neui, and it all soon seemed to be uotuiug after they got used io it. “Ait igether, from the haste of the la dies in sboving themseives tniuugh their dresses, and ttie culpable neglect of the milliners in not putting in.the sleeves, 1 would say that the bodies of the ladies were not over halt covered; and what is singular, and sustains my idea of their having crept a little 100 far through, iu their haste to dress and neat the ball last, is, that tiie skins of all the short ladies, and a few of tbe tall ones, were from eight t<> twelve inches long and swept tire lloor for yards beniud the wearer. There was another thing which a plain back woodsman like myself could not exactly understand. Some of the ladies, while dancing, would seize hold oi the .skirts of their dresses and raise them about eigh teen inches; and stretch them out at arm’s length, reminding one of a buzzard iu wet weather,, thus exposing to view a handsomely ornamented second skirt and thea swing around at an amazing rale. “ The oniy other peculiarity of Hie hall was anew dance, called the “Scottiche Dance,” which 1 saw for the first time, i will give, as near as words can, a de scription of it. The gentleman lakes the lady’s right band in his left, places his hand and arm around her. waist, drawing her close against his breast; sbe places her left hand anil chiu on his right shoulder, and leans her cheek gently against his whiskers, if he lias any; they ttieu pitch off’ in a leap-frog fashion, slop and keep time by a sort of jig-ajrg, jig-ajig motion; then leap-frog again, and so, alternately, leap-frog aud jig-, jig, j'g-ajig. It is, by dar, the most ungraceful, unbecoming, and ridiculous dance t ever saw r or airy body else.”— Yazoo IVhij. The Cushing Guard, at Newbury port, Mass, liftfd a salute of thirty-one gnus on orv the occasion‘of Gen eral Cushing taking a* seat- in- the Cabi 'net. I ‘‘The World Owe* me a Living. No such thing, Mr. FoUl-up-)'Our-hands; ; the world owes you not a single cent!— ! You have done nothing these twenty years j hut consume the products earned by the | sweat of other men’s brows. “You tmve cut, and drank and nirpi? what then? ] W r*v, * ar,anij <lr.i nh. and slept agair.’’ I And this is the sum total of your life.— ! And the world “owes you a living?” For what? How comes it indebted to you for that trilling amount? What hare you done for it? What family in distress have you befriended? What products have you j created? What misery have you allevia ; ted? What acts perfected? The world j owes you a living! idle man! Never was | there a more absurd idea! You hare been ! tax—a sponge upon the world ever ; since you came into it. It is your creditor to a vast amount. Your liabilities are immense, your assets are nothing, and yet you say the world is owing you. Go to! The amount in which yon stand indebted to the world is greater than you will ever ! have the power to liquidate. You owe the world the labor of your two strong arms, and all the skill in the work they might have gained; you owe the world the labor of that brain of fours, the sympa thies of that heart, the energies of that being; you owe the world the whole moral and intellectual capabilities of a man!— Awake, then, fFoin-the dreaming, do-noth ing state of slothfulness in which you live, and let us no longer hear that false asser tion thal the world is owing you, until you have done something. Death from the Waut of Sleep. How long can one live without sleep: This question we have never seen an swered. But an authentic communica tion has been made to a British society whose fisdd of on-rations are io Asia, descriptive of a punishment which i* pe culiar to the original code of China, it appears from this communication, that a Chinese merchant had been convicted of murdering his wife, and was sentenced to die hy being totally deprired of the privilege of going to sleep. This singu lar and painful mode of quitting an earth ly existence was carried into execution at Amoy under the following circumstan ces: The condemned was placed in prison under the ct're of three of the police guard, who relieved each other every alternate hour, and who prevented the prisoner from falling asleep for a single moment, night or day. He thus lived for nineteen days, without enjoying any sleep. At the commencement of the eighth day his sufferings were so cruel that he implored the authorities to grant him the blessed opportunity of being strangulated, parroted, gullotined,'burned to death, drowned, quartered, shot, blown up with gunpowder, or put to death in any con ceivable way which their humanity or ferocity could invent. This will give us some idea of the horror of dying because you cannot go to sleep. ’ Tie New setma. The Washington correspondent of tha New York Express, speaking of the pre sent Senate, says: The Senate Chamber, under the new organization, exhibits the usual disposi tion to establish strong party lines. The ‘•Miigs are all on the left of the presiding officer, but the Democratic Senators be ing the most numerous, lap ovor consid erably on the Whig side. .dr. Everett takes the place of his pre decessor, John Davis, with Senator Bad ger on his left and Mr. Toombs on his fight. Mr. John M. Clayton, who has been so many years in the Senate, re sumes-his place after an absence of four years. The Whigs on the whole are bet ter represented this week than last, though perhaps, numerically weaker. Maine goes unrepresented with North Carolina asid Mississippi, owing to defection in the Legislatures of these several States. There is much regret at the loss of Senator Mile, who was always the pre lude and ;!ta; piece to the tragedies of the Senile Chamber. He has made more ‘lien laugh here during ihe six years past than a!i his associates beside, but whai tiie Senate has iost in dignity, it has gained in /good temper. Mr. Atherton, his successor, is an amiable, but rather sedate, gentleman. I ‘lie Whigs, with Everett, CLyiuti, so nibs, Phelps, and Benjamin, among tiie old Senators, and the strong men who hold over, are a fair match for their op ponents, though much the most numer ous- the Whigs, too, present physically some of the finest specimens of men in the country, such as Morton, of Florida; t oombs, of Georgia; Clayton, of Dela ware; Phelps, of Vermont; Badger, of North Carolina, &c. &.c. Tlsc Election. Our readers are Well awaie that it will not te long before they will be called up on to elect a Governor, a Representative, a Judge and county officers. It is there fore time that the matter should be agita ted. The voters of this county, of this Congressional District,and of the State, should ba well posted as to the ability and views of those who are likely to be before the convention, so that they may he able to choose from among the num ber, those that are best qualified to fill the different offices. When you meet in con vention, meet as Democrats, don’t go there as Southern Rights or Union men, but go as men belonging to the same brotherhood, believing in the souud prin ciples of the Democratic party, and with a firm determination to carry thorn out. Let each county he represented in the convention. Let your delegates be firm and true; confide to them the power ot choosing your candidates, and let the choice of the convention be the choice ot the Democratic party. Let no dissen sions be known among you,only enquire of the man who’ may be nominated, and find if he is sound upon the principles < f the Democratic party; it so, give him \our vote and your influence. < We have as yet seen no time proposed for holding a convention How would the first Monday in June do? We should like to hear from others on this subject. Let this question he settled so that the different counties may know how to act. ), Puflon Tunes. NEWS FROM MEXICO. Santa Ana for President. I M’e have received Vera Cruz papp># to the 26th ultimo, and Mexico papers to the 20th. In It a Union of the former place, we find no item of any interest.—* Prom the capita! we have some news. It seems to be a settled point that Santa Ana will be elected President.— The districts of Queretaro, Michoaeau, Oajaca, Tarnauiipas, and Vera Cruz had voted in his favor. San Luis was also sa dto have voted for him. The Trait d’ Union thinks that Santa Ana will h elected unanimously. Jalapa had joined Vera Cruz, to ask that Santa Ana be invited, hy a commit tee, to return as soon as possible into the Republic. Vera Cruz appointed Casa nova and Serrano, the committee from Mexico was to meet it, to go and look for the General. Santa Aua was expect ed daily. The Siglo of the 17th ulh says that Santa Ana had declared he would join the liberal party. Rlancarte reached RWelia on the 6th with a division composed of 1500 foot and 13 pieces of artilery. It was report ed that several inhabitants had been in carcerated in Morelia for political causes. An amount of $9,770 was raised by sub scription in Morelia to aid the Govern ment in its financial embarrassment. Yucatan had joined the Jalisco plan. Barbacheno was re-elected Governor. Gear. Wall had been called to Mexico, where he was expected daily. Canales is at Mexico, Cardenas is a prisoner at Vera Cruz, and Avalos ha# just been driven from Matamorfls. The house which is intended far Santa Ana’ii residence is already secured, and being furnished ready to receive him.— Puebla ia in a state of exiun*iit, owing to the opposition shown there against any thing but the exact application of ihe Jalisco plan. The convention of the 6th, and the provisional selection of Lombar- Jini for the Presidency, did not meet with the approbation of its inhabitants, and rumors of discontent and turmoil were rife. The Government of the State of Mex ico is also among those who refuse to en dorse the present stale of things. The Governor, Luis Madrid, declared, in a correspondence addressed on the 10’di u!t. to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that he would not admit the convention of the 6th. He does not support Santa Ana. Some opposition also came from Guanajuato. I'he civil war is still raging in several quarters. In Sinaloa, Valdes was prepar ing to advance to Cuiiacan and drive on* Vega. By a decree of the 27iii of Janu ary, he ordered the ports of Albala and Navachislc to be blockaded. Matamoros has adhered to the resolu tion with the other parts of Tarnauiipas. it is said that Carvaja! has sworn to a venge the murder of Rufino Rodriguez, which caused such a sensation in Mata moVws If was rumored tViai Carvajat had. routed 100 men under Ciuz and ta ken two pieces of artilery from them'. Ignacio Martinez is elected Governor of Oajaca. General Uraga addressed a circular on the 16th u!t. to the States, showing what he has do:ie to put an end to the civil war. The Claim op the Custom House Officers. —lt is stated that Mr. Guthrie, the new Secretary of the Treasury, has issued an order peremptorily revoking the instructions of .Vlr. Corwin, by which the half of a targe amount of money collected since 184'), for violations of ihe revenue laws, in the shape of pena! duties, was about to be divided among the the customs al the several ports of entry. The amount proposed to be divided is a bout $200,000, cue half of which it is said would have gone into the pockets of the three chief revenue officers at New Turk, under the administrations oF Mes srs. Polk, Taylor and Fillmore. Mr. Maxwell, the present collector, would have received about $25,000, Mr. Law-< renee $12,000, and Mr. Hone’s heirs SIO,OOO or $12,000. Mr. King, also of New York, would have been entitled to $25,000, and his predecessor the sum of $12,000. Interesting; from Havana, by the Isabel The numerous friends of the Tice Pre sideot of the United States will be grati fied to learn from the subjoined extract from a letter written by T. JVf. Rodney, Esj , Vice Consul at Matanzas, w hie by at our solicitation, has been handed to us for publication, that his heahh is improving, aad his prospects of recovery brightening: Matanzas, March 6,1653'. My Dear Sir —W’e changed the resi dence of our esteemed Vice President ou Thursday last, from the “Curnbre” to the sugar estate of Col. John Chart land*, leaving the Curnbre at half-past twelve nod (rining at the delightful ‘‘Ariadne” at about four. The Vice President was considerably fatigued with the journey, but slept that night better, he informed me, than’ since he has been on the Is land; he seems delighted with the change and is more hopeful and of better heart than since he reached Matanzas, and at present unquestionably better than when he came here; don’t be surprised if the Colonel sends him home a tolerably well man. 1 am, in haste, yours truly, T. M. Rodney. Baptist Colleges and Seminaries.— There aro in the Urated States, it is said, 27 Baptist Colleges and Theological Sem inaries, the total value of the property of which is estimated at $2,900,000. During the last five years, the sums subscribed ou their behalf amounted to $1,515,000. The subscriptions to Columbia College, I>. C. during that period, amount to $40,000; and the value of its property is set down at SBO,OOO, and that of Richmond Col-- lege Virginia, at $120,000, of which SIOO,OOO have been subscribed within five’ years. A subscription of $25,000 for the endowment of a professorship in the Lcw isburg University, Pennsylvania, was made by three gentlemen of Philadelphia, a few days since, viz: Dr. David Jayne, $13,500, J. P. Crozier, Esq. $7,500; and William Buekncll, Esq. $5,000. No. 12.