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The llatiii! Conirovi !>y Seems to increase in warmth and interest in N<"’ York and Brooklyn. The Sunday Morning News has espoused the cause <1 Ins IJevereiice, and publishes a long lefts'! - from Mr. Mathtt to his wife, dated in Align it, I-547, shortly after a tern porary separation, which resulted tmm emir matrimonial squabble between them. It seems she did not come up to his notions “Ia 11 m ‘th! and obedient ” wile —me"., according to bis -lory, was rather refractoiy whenever he attempted to give her a Caudle lecture, or to enforce submis sion to his authority, lienee a “kiini.y jm and separation fora season ; but to pi. \o that he “as still a loving husband, he condescends to “ rile to her a lengthy epistle, and in the commencement brings to her rccnHecth-n some evidences of the ardent desire which she mamtested tor a muon with him. At one of their interviews before marriage, he says : “On my knees—you kneeling also—l told you, with tears in my eyes, the story ol my suffer ings—pointed out all the causes of my separation with my wife—warned yon, ngain and again, of the tremendous responsibility you were about to take upon you at your age —-bowed you the de ference between our ages, and tluj almost utter impossibility of so young a person being capable of making a lit companion for me, and that it was almost equally imptffc-ible, allowing that she now loved me, of that love’s continuing. I told you plainly how singular 1 was in my habits; what 1 would expect from a wife —and every thing, in a word, an honest man ought to Say, on the eve of so serious a matter as marriage. 1 implored you, at your feet, interrupted by sobs, to ponder the matter well —to search your heart to the core, and not to deceive me at your peril— declared, most distinctly, that to be unhappy the second time would bo my death, and that it you ever made me so, it would be better then to stab me to the heart. I even went further—indeed, perhaps, farther than any mortal man overwent before with a lady—and before I gave myself to you, I commissioned Mr. Green to sound you to the very quick-—to proceed as I had done in the matter, and to point out every thing clear, fair, open and overboard. To him, first, you most solemnly vowed that you loved me devotedly, dis tractedly, and forever 1 and that nothing under the heavens, on your part, should be left undone to make me a happy man ; find, before 1 uttered that word that seemed to make you happy, you made similar, only more fervent votes to me, of the same import, appealing to (• oil for your sin cerity. And on these conditions, feeling I loved you, and could, and would endeavor to make you happy as niv wife, we became engaged. We vve.ro married—and what lias followed? lias Frank kept one of her vows? her solemn, her re peatedly spoken, and sworn vows ? Far from it.” lie then charges her with making visits in the neighborhood, by herself; with not learning to play, as she ought, on the piano ; with being pouty, cross to him, and “unwilling to sacrifice heroint pleasure for liis comfort careless, lazy, abusing her clothes, tearing and ripping about tho house ; insulting to others ; and, finally, her conduct towards men was anything but becoming. If Mrs. Maflitt was guilty of all these misde meanors while her husband lived with her, it proves that she was governed by no feelings of affection nor principles of honor, and could hard ly have died of grief on account of her husband’s coldness and absence from home. Such an idea is irreconcilable with an entire want of morality and virtue. But the Rev. . Mr. Mallilt says she had acted thus, and lie therefore leels it his duty to name certain regulations for her future con duct, which, it adopted, would lead to a reunion of himself and “ ill - . Here they are—and wo j hope all such young wives (ifthere are any) will 1 study them—for, being the production of a cler- ! gyman of high moral distinction, they must he , the quintessence o! all that is pure in principle,’ and their practical observance lead to the hap piest degree of matrimonial felicity : “And no" - , il you “'ill accede to the following torms, not carelessly, Imt seriously—not to break thorn the next moment- I will remain with you, your loving, kind, and respectful husband till death ; if not, we part forthwith. “Aon will ask your mother’s and grandmoth er's pardon for your disobedient and disrespectful manner and conduct to them—promising never to repeat it again while you live with me.— 2. You will promise never to address me in a i cross or pettish manner again, when I am advi sing you ; and, as you are very young, and not, ns yet, acquainted with the manners of society, you will be directed and counselled by me in all those particulars, that will educate you to appear among your compeers. “Aon will promise to Irani, which you never yet have done, to take care of your wardrobe, mending and making, at least a part of every day, and putting up carefully all the articles in your room—learning to be tidy and neat in every thing about you. “ Aon will promise to give up your vain and foolish manner ot dressing your head and skin, Tiotyoui person, and whitening your lace and neck like an actress rather than a lady; in a word, you have sense enough to do better than you do, and you can easily - learn to please me, if you will. All l ask is a companionable lady, tna! will -tody ihe duties ol a wife, and act up to them., 1 his 1 . can do, it she so pleases to do it. Finally, it F . loves her husband, he will now l.ave a psoot of her affection, bv answering this letter by Monday's stage. If she answers me like a wife and a lady, her husband will come to her arms, on Tuesday, please tied. But if it so please her to rebel, Sir. Maflitt bids her an ever lasting farewell! ” Mel], Mrs. M. or somebody else did answer ■“ like a wife,” according to direction. Tint it’s ■our humble opinion that the “wife” was no other than the same person who wrote the letter pur porting to come from Mr. Muffin. The similari ty of style is too striking to escape observation. For instance, “so help me. Heaven,” occurs in 1 both the same number of times, which is itsci< sufficient presumptive evidence that both are the coinage cf one head. But this Mrs. Maffill re plies : “I wish, most fervently wish. I was the wo man you desire : but I now know that l am not the right sort of a woman for Mr. Muffin's wife. But oh, I did not intend to deceive you, indeed I did not, when I married you. I thought I c. old make you happy; we did not know each other* I did not know myself. It was mv firm dctcrmil nation, so help me heaven, to endeavor to make yon happy, and I put too much reliance upon my °"H) strength : but 1 never intended to deceive you ; no, never. Hod knows ray sincerity, when ai the altar. I experienced a change of heart ‘ and, for a time, was very happy. I had no I thoughts of marry Infeoii at tlial time, but “ lien 1 ibat was talked of, attending it, ; made me forget my religion—made me lose iny love of devetie.ii. which,Jjofore, sweet. “ But i'.iii. 1 think 1 shnu!d£avc regained those feelings, had 1 but have been with you, to coun sel and iliiect me, for then my heart “as soften ed ; but left to myself, as 1 then was, 1 lost all love lor religion—a sort'of forgetfulness stole over me iqa a the subject < I’ heaven, and grad- ; u;illy I ceased to lead my Bible ; ceased—oh, shall I say il—to love (Jed as I should. “ But forgive me, my husband, again I say, forgive me for paining you as I have done.” A lie r reading these extracts, we have come (lie conclusion that Mr. Maflitt never penned the I letters—we think so, because it is not bis stylc4|fs writing; and, moreover, is in the West at present, and would hardly publish any such com munications to clear up his character in N. York. 1 Here is a short specimen of his wiiting, taken from the Camden (Ark.) paper of Nov. 8, 1848 : “ llitv. I’kof. Maffitt will deliver a Lec ture To-Morrow Evening. November 4th, in the Methodist E. Church, at 7 o’clock, on the GLO RY OF MECHANISM—the Mechanism* of ’ the Heavens and the Earth, of Man, Morals and Eternity—the lMiuuix Bird of Immortality 1 ” There is here a ‘comprehensive loftiness’ of style, perfectly characteristic of Maflitt, but not exhibited in ilie letters published. Hence our opinion that this “Phoenix bird ” never penned them. C incinnati (.aid. In this country there is one great abomina j trim. It is milling the digestive organs of the people and ought to be banished by statute.... He allude to grease —not ihe ancient republic | which ruled the world with art and civilization —but to tlie grease which presides over the i kitchen-. It insinuates itself into every - thing 1 and is a nuisance not only Id all unadulterated j tastes, but to the health of ihe entire people.— ;It ought, therefore, to be abolished. It makes j one (as the Scientilie American says,) feel grea ’ sy just to think of the lard made in Cincinnati, j Asa sample of its magnitude, we would state j that one house last year tried out thirty thou j sand bogs. To carry on this immense business, i it lra seven large circular tanks of sufficient ! capacity to hold fifteen thousand gallons of each. These receive the ‘entire carcase, with ihe cx -1 cep! ion of the hams, and the mass is subjected 1 to steam process under a pressure of seventy ! pounds to the square inch, the effect of which operation is lo reduce the whole to one consis i tonce, and every bone to powder. The fat is j drawn oil by cocks, and the residue), a mere earthly substance, as far as made use of, is ta -1 ken away for manure. Besides ihe hogs which j reach this factory in entire carcasses, the great mass of heads, ribs, back bones, tail pieces, feet and other trimmings of tho hogs, cut up at dif j (event pork houses, are subjected to the same process, in order to extract every particle of j grease. This concern alone will turn out this j season three million six thousand pounds oflard, I live sixths of which are No. 1. Nothing can j surpass the (unity and beauty of this lard, which is refined as well as made under steam proecss ! es. Six hundred hogs per day pass through those tanks one day with another. j OiT'T nn Si, am; Tkadh is as brisk as ever, nud ; some of llie nautical men recently examined by the British committee on this subject, give the opinion (Imt no amount of naval force will extir l pate it. Some recommend that the captains of j every - slaver taken shall be hung at the yard arm. The trade is now be carried on along a | region of about 800 miles of Ihe African coast; : and Capt. Matson, afier visiting portions of the j coast, going 70 miles into the interior, states lhat 1 the ma jority of the slaves exported were not cap- I tured in wars expressly undertaken for that pur pose ; that those wars very seldom or ever take , place south of the equator, and that nearly one half of these slaves were children or young per | sons sold by their parents. Out of 1683 slaves captured by him, 1033 were children, a very 1 great majority of whom were sold by their pa rents! North of the Equator is the region of tin* slave hunts or wars, undertaken for the pur i pose of obtaining slaves for sale. Serfs of Russia. —lt is generally known lhat il a Russian noble buys an estate, be buys the serfs with it. Dr. Baird, in a lecture in New York, a fciv days ago, says : ‘lf the serfs acquire wealth fliey still remain in bondage.— j One of the nobles in Moscow has a serf who is ; richer than his master, but cannot purchase his j freedom because the noble prides himself on j the richest serf in Russia waiting at bis table. Ihe present Emperor desires to liberate this class but is opposed by some of the princes,’ A Pittsburg man recently offered a reward for the recovery of a valuable note which he 1 had lost. The advertisement had scarcely got i into circulation when he found the note in his hat. A lady in Bnllato, the other day adver tised for a husband, and in a short time receiv ed applications from filly old bachelors—and in , t' vo weeks thereafter, her marriage was an. j nouncod in the papers ! An old maid in New \ ork lately advertised ihe loss of a favorite cat, and the same night the lost cat returned, with about 150 other cats, and mustering beneath her chamber window, gavc”a charming sere, undo. These are but few of the fifteen liun died thousand million advantages of advertis j “fo’ - A Aloijkst Leader.— The following is the lea.ling article in the Western (Mo.) Frontier , Journal, of the 11th u?t. It is short, but ex pressive. and to the point. Such is not the : case with all the •leaders:’ II anted- -.1// his Office. Some of the crumbs ■ of comfort—such as beef, pork, lard, potatoes, meal, wood; in lact, most any tiling that will i contribute to the support and comfort of a coun try editor, liis wile, and —nothing else. 1 he .Marine and Eire Insurance Bank of the State of Georgia, lias established an Agency in Griffin, (.a., and appointed A. Fleming, Esq. Agent. Jlie Board ol Directors of the Planters’! L ink ol tho State ol Georgia have declared a dividend office percent, out of the profits of the !’ ast * u mouths, payable on and after the 7th inst. A perfumer in New Fork advertises ‘the i- ! deiit.cal pom mado divine which blackened! jibe Rex-. Mr. Ala (tit’s grey hair and whiskers j out ing his courtship and marriage.’ j © i m © © ©& p From the N. O. Crescent, Dec. J. ! A Visit lo Gen, Taylor. Yesterday was the time appointed for the Ex eeulivo- C. mmittee of the Central Hough and Bendy Club lo call upon Gen. Taylor, and ac-! cording!) - , at -4 o’clock in ihe afternoon, the members “ailed upon him at the St. Charles llolel. They were received by the General in a p'ivatc | nil2i. and allhough their reception 1 was highly (barring, t here was not. tho slight, j et osient-t.oiqßir formality on either side, it bavin gV’-n uisHerstooil to be Gen. Taylor’s they should, on Ihis occasion, be dis. poised “iih, in order that he might meet the g-ntfomen of ihe commillee as old friends. I lieie is a combined frankness and modesty* in whole manner, which at once witilflhe esteem and affection of any with w hom he may count in contact. After shaking hands with of tho committee he ex pressed regret that the people, in the ex eicise ofiheir sovereign power, had not caused thcii choice to devolve upon someone more worthy and capable of fulfilling t| lc duties of the high stalin’ which lie had been called, than be felt himself lo he. The responsibilities of the President of this great and glorious Repub. lie„he knew immense, but at the same time he would, to the best of his ability, serve I hisVofmlry faithfully in his new capacity. He , -spoke of iff- lau4 of liis having passed so great a portion of liis life in the camp, and on the frontier, in consequence of which ho had had little opportunity - of mixing in political strife, or becoming acquainted with political nfiiiirs. He also alluded to the solicitude which he felt while in Mexico, on hearing that ihe people had do terinmed to nominate him for the Presidency. He did not desire civil office, and had hoped that someone more capable, and he knew sev. : oral such, would be selected. A half hour was i s | )p ut m social conversation, in the course of which the General alluded to his late campaign in Mexico, and the trying positions in which he was several times placed. The committee then look their leave, having derived much pleasure from the interview. From the South Carolinian. Statements of a I’ottou Planter. Ala. Editor : Iho question is frequently asked, can we afford to raise cotton at five cents per pound ? I answer that in South Carolina we cannot—the thing is impossible. To prove the truth of what I say, I submit, below a com paritive statement of the income, expenses, and loss for this year (1848) of what I conceive to be a well conducted and economically managed plantation in this .State. 1 will take occasion to remark here that the land is inferior to none in point of productivenss for cotton, and that the yield per hand is tar above the average for the whole State. On this place grain and provis ion of all kinds has been raised in sufficient a bundance to supply its wants, but nothing for sale. Jhe negro clothing, too, lor winter use, has also been manufactured for the place, but not for the summer, for the simple reason that it was thought more economical to buy at the present low prices. I call tho attention of my brother planters especially of South Carolina and Georgia, to tho comparison ; and ask, in all candor, if there is any thing extravagant in tlie expense, and jf the income is not above the av erage. This place contains in rtniiut numbers 550 1 acres, part of which, only four years ago, cost twenty-five dollars per acre, and has on it forty negroes, twenty of whom areabio bodied field hands, the rest aged and children, unable to work out. Now, it we estimate the negroes at three hundred dollars round, and the land at the moderate sum of twelve dollars per acre, with ihe stock and plantation utensils, the invest ment will amount to at least 20,000, which sum, at legal interest, would afford ihe nett income of fourteen hundred dollars—a sum far groatcr thuii is now yielded by cotton planting, as the annexed comparison “ ill show. Income for 1848. , HnlcH of cotton raised, 120; weight, 350 cnch ; *12,100 Ilia, at 5 cents per ll> $ JIOO Hit ths of young negroes 2, at SIOO each 200 j Whole income $-.MOO Expenses and Loss for 1*43. Wages for Overseer *3OO 00 1 Hlacksmiih’s uceo.mt, iron included ,35 00 j Medicine and medical attendance 30 00 B-tgeingt rope nijd twine for 120 halos cotton... 150 05 lilnukcts, 30 in number, at $1 12$ each 3;3 75 ! Shoes 25 pairs, nt $1 25 per pair ;;| op ! Cotton Osnoburgs, 300 y ards at 3 cts. per vard, 24 00 Taxes. (State, poor nud bridge,) 5ay.,....!.... 30 00 Salt, G sacks, at $2 each K> 00 1 Nails, 100 lbs. at 5 cents per lb 5 00 Hoes, 1 dozen 4 50 I Sugar and coflee for sick, 75 lbs. at 10 cents per pound 7 50 Annual wear nud tear of land, sny 5 per cent. upon estimated value. (0,000).. 330 00 , Contingencies, such as restocking the place with ! nuiles, wear and ion lof wagons, 200 00 Cost of transporting 120 hales cotton to market, at 75 rents per hale 90 00 Loss by death of old negro, say 100 00 Whole expenses arid loss for 1013 $1 383 00 I j If this latter sum be deducted from the in | come, we have a balance of $!)17 as clear pro. ! tit upon tin investment of §20.000, ora fraction | over 4J percent. Out of this my own labor: and trouble must be paid for, and a wife and | ; children supported, it, fbi these purposes, we j allow - four hundred - t>i I seventeen dollars, the income will be §SOO clear, or 21 per cent, on j the investment. Verily wo have fallen upon i prosperous times, and are engaged in a most profitable business ! I would sooneFpick up chips for a living, or even be an editor. A Specimen - of Ai dacity.—The Alessrs. ( atherwond, of Ffiiladelphia, received through : the post office, on the 20th Oct., a letter cnelo. 1 ‘ sing the eirtificates of loan, stock, and other ! valuable papers, stolen from their store on the j ; night of the 17th. The perpetrator of the vil i limy stated that he was passing through the city and being in want of funds, thought that it could lie furnished by the .Messrs. C. as well, if not I better, than others, and added that on his return he would call and claim the reward offered for : the stolen property. Compliment to an American Artist.— Air. John Ilanvard, with his panorama of the Mississippi and .Missouri rivers, amoved at Liv. j erpool in tho steamship Europa on the 7th ulti mo. W'c have seen a letter dated Liverpool, October 12, which says that (ho custom-house authorities remitted the duties (JCI8) on his I panorama, charging merely a nominal sum, one penny per roll. This act of the authorities was regarded in Liverpool ns a high compliment to the artist and to his country. I [Scientific American, 1 Important if tri e.— The Philadelphia cor respondent of the New Y'ork Evening Post gives the following paragraph : ‘A great discovery is alleged to have been made of the Governor’s election in Schuylkill county, in the returns as.made out ; some six hundred votes cast lor Morris Longstrcth, were placed to the credit, as the informant says, of William F. Johnson, and if this error can he corrected,mi opening the returns in the Leg. Mature next January, Morris Lognstreth will still be proclaimed Governor for three years from that period.’ H asiiinc.to.m, Nov. 22.—1 t may not be gen erally known that a committed of gentlemen of this city have contracted for the construction of a largo equestrian statue of Gen. Jackson, to be placed in Lafayette Square. The statue is to lie of bronze and made from camion captured by the General. Wo were favored to-day with a view of Ihe plaster cast of tho horse, by Clark Mills, Esq., the talented sculptor. The horse is rearing, stands upon its hind legs, which are so placed us lo form tho centre of gravity. It is ton feet high. The statue of'Peter the Great, of Russia, is considered the greatest work of art extant, but Air. Mills’ will excel, from the fact that his horse stands alone, unsupported, except, ing by its bind legs—w hereas that of Peter the Grout i- fastened by its tail, in addition to its logs. xlr. .Mills lias overcome the great diffi. cully in his work, namely , the placing the horse so as to stand unsupported, excepting by its own gravity - , and the life and spirit he has infused in to it. The weight of the whole statue will be six tons, and liie cost exclusive of the bronze, 812,000. It is expected it. will be completed in about a year. If Air. Mills succeeds as well will] the bronze as he has so far with the plas ler cast, lie will establish for himself an envia ble name, as well as to add to the already hi-h character of American sculptors. jAcic / elegraphic Invention. —Charleston and Mobile were communicating directly with each other on Saturday last, bv menus of anew instrument invented by .Mr. C. S. Bit.ki.ky.— ihe I elegrapic offices at those two points, a distance of 879 miles from each other, were holding instantaneous communications with each other without the aid of any intermediate office. This invention of our friend Bulkley is of incalculable value, and when employed on tho whole line, as it eventually will be, New ) ork can talk to New Orleans direct, and in. stantly.— Ala. Journal. Dr at ii of Coi,. \V M . Poi.k. —Negro Ex riiemcnl.— We find the following paragraph in the Memphis Evening Herald, of the 24th ult. We learn from (ho “Appeal” of yesterday, lhat a gentleman arrived hero from Walnut Bend, Arkansas, the residence of the late Col. Wm. Polk, who gives information of tho decease ! , * lat g , ’iilcieu on the morning of Saturday last, and that his negroes amounting to some tliioo hundred, are in open rebellion. After liis death, they broke into tho store-house, and j freelyJielped themselves to its contents, consist ing of clothing and groceries of various kinds. Some efforts were made by Ihe few white per sons around the premises to restrain them, but these were of no avail. The negroes allege that their master promised them if they served , him faithfully during liis life-time, they should j 1,0 ft-ee at his death, and expressed a determi- I nation t.o free themselves. This is a sparsely j settled neighborhood, there not being a eufli cient number of whites within many miles to \ I’" 1 them down : hence, we learn, that informa. ! lion of ihe condition of affairs has been convey, j ed to our fellow.cilizen, Wardlaw H ward, Esq., and lo Dr. Taylor, son-in-laws to the de ceased, in order that the proper steps be taken j to icstore quiet and subordination among them. linpoi Unit Movement among the Chippewa In i dians. — Ihe steamer Alondiana arrived at St. ! Louis on the 13th inst. from the Upper Alissis -1 sippi, wilh a delegation twelve Chippewa lu ! dians, six of whom are chief's, and from the Lake Superior country. The Republican says: ‘This delegation, under the care of Major J. B. Alariell, of Sault St. Marie, are on their way to Washington, for the purpose of interce ding with the President foi the purpose of se eming either by grant or purchase, a portion of the lauds sold to the Government some time since, and thus to retain possession of their vil lages. They desire to permanently settle, build houses, cultivate the soil, and become setiled j industrious citizens of tbo'United States, instead ; of roaming hunters of tho forest. ‘W lien they reach W ashington, they will have traveled nearly three thousand miles.— Their travelling expenses will be no trifle, which they design raising by exhibitions being j thoroughly acquainted with the principal dances ! of many tribes.’ The Gold hunting mania in California still : continues, and vessels that arrive on the coast I stand but a poor chance of getting back again, as ihe crews immediately desert, and coasters ; are compelled to give as high as #IOO per month for men. All the ships at San Francis, jeo have stripped and laid up. The captain of the Isaac Walton, writing to the owners in New.York, says : ‘A sailor will be up at tho mines for two months, work on his own account ami come down with from two three thousand dollars, and those, that go in parties do much bet ! ter. 00” A quarrel took place in Washington county, Ga. a week or so since, between Jas. Morris and Benj. S. Brantlv, in which the lat. ter struck the former a severe blow on the head with a heavy bludgeon. Morris, howev er walked two miles home, but was soon seized with oppression of the brain, and died before morning. Another result of liquor. Gov. Chapman, lias appointed lion. Benj. I - itzpati iek, of South Alabama, to fill the va cancy occasioned by the death of Senator Lew is. l'he Synod of Georgia, in closing their sessions— Resolved, That we return our thanks to the Pastor and Brethren of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this city for the use of their Lecture Room, and for their kindness in preparing it for the comfort and convenience of the Synod. Resolved, That we return our thanks to the Breth ren of other Churches, and to the community gen erally. for their kindness and Christian hospitality extended to the Members of the Synod during their stay among them. Resolved, That these Resolutions be published in < the city Gazettes. Columbus, Nov. 27,1818. The contract for completing the East Icn nessee and Georgia Railroad to Knoxville, has Keen concluded between Duff Green and other northern men, ami the directors ot the sail! road. The road is to he completed and equipped to Knoxville for 81,200,000. A large number of hands are to be put upon the road forthwith. MUSCOGEE BEMOCMtT BY L. F. W. ANDREWS. As little government os pastille; that little emanating from and controlled bg the People, nnd unijorm in its application to alt.” Columbus, Thursday, Urc. ?, 18 SS. cr We expected a Telegraphic Despatch this morning, from the East, but were disappointed. Cotton Market.— The receipts this week have been heavy, and a brisk business doing. Prices this morning are about the same as last week, ranging from 4 to 4{ ; principal sales. 4J to li. A Political Dilemma. Notwithstanding the people, by their free and unencumbered suffrages, have determined that Gen. Taylor shall be President of the United States for the next four years, yet no man was I ever elected to fill any office, of whom so many opposite hopes,wore entertained. It will rcquWe a degree of political acumen to guide the ship of State safely amid so many shea's, that no states man living possesses, or could possess, when we consider the elements which have been united to elect Gen. T. Should he veto the Wilinot Pro viso, as we sincerely trust he will, he must ne cessarily call down the “avengeful wrath” of his Northern constituents, who have given him their undecided support under the supposition that he is in favor of that Proviso. Should he, however, approve of the Proviso, those who are allied with him in intercut, and who look to him to kill, at once, the hydra-headed monster that threatens ruin to the institutions of the South, would con demn him as a Traitor of so deep a dye that even Judas Iscariot would be a relief in comparison. How then shall Gen. Taylor act, to avoid the obloquy of at least one half of his constituents? There must be no vacillation on his part, no in termediate course ; tor the hopes and anticipa tions of both parts of the Union are so strong that he will favor their view of the dangerous question, that au intermediate course will disgust | both factions. “ Ant Cwsar ant nihil.” Wil ’ mot proviso or no Wilmot proviso ; that is the ! question at issue. And Gen. T. mint take one ! horn of the dilemma. To suppose, then, that he 1 can favor both views, is to suppose a contradic | tion. Yet the supporters of both these views of ! this political question have united, strange as it may appear, to elect him to fill the office ofChief ‘Magistrate! An oil and water union, which, although a temporary amalgamation may have | been effected, will yet resolve itself into its ’ original* elements. We have mentioned this question merely ns nn example ; hut there arc others of great im port, upon one side of which Taylor must battle’ ; nnd whatever side he may take, the wrath “full and strong,” of the supporters of the opposite view, will descend on his bead. To marshal his allies, of such different discipline and character, , will be a task more difficult than an extrication from any of the dilemmas which have marked his J i eventful career as a General. A Hint to the Democracy of Georgia.—lt is said to be one of the “fixed facts” of the late elec tion, that in Marshfield and three other towns of Massachusetts, where .Daniel Webster delivered his most powerful speeches, the vote of the Whigs lias fallen off considerably, and there his opponents have made their largest, gains. Would it not be well for the Democracy of Georgia to hire Webster to deliver whig speeches through the State, just prior to the I next election ? Georgia must be “ redeemed.” Consolatory i on Southern Whigs. —lt is said that the Vice President elect, as soon as he saw the returns from the South were sufficient to i elect him, exultingly exclaimed, “These Southern Whigs are noble fellows, indeed !” He was taken by surprise at such an unlocked for result. The Philadelphia North American, however, ex plains what all this transport ot joy means.— Hear him : i “The election ot Taylor and Fillmore has placed the entire slavery question at the will of the free States. No wonder Mr. Fillmore de clares that ‘ the Southern whigs are noble fel lows ’ —‘true,noble and high-minded associates.’ j He might have seen in their action, as well as |in the event ot the election—in their frank wil lingness to support him w ith a casting vote, and Gen. Taylor without a veto—the evidence that there was ‘an end to all ideas of disunion.”’ Will the M higs ot the South give their sanc tion to have the “entire slavery question” dispos ed ot at the “will” of the free States, as intimated by this organ of whiggery ? We guess, not Appropos, of this North American paper, didn’t some of the Whig representatives in Congress from Georgia once recommend it to the support of their constituency? We guess they did ! Abolition Propagandists. —We find the following notice ot Ex-Governor Slade’s opera tions in the New York Express. The people of the slaveholding states should be on their guard against these Abolition missionaries.— X. O. Courier. “The origin and objects of the ‘Hoard of Na tional Popular Education,’ of which Gov. Slade ot Middlebury, is the Corresponding Secretary and General Agent, is to explore the West, for the raising up of Schools and making arrange ments for the reception and competent support ot female teachers; while it receives applications for supplies, invites such teachers from the East, and collects companies of them,semi-annually at Ilartlord, Conn., where it carries them through a six weeks special training—a sort of Teach ers Institute—and thence under proper escort, sends them to the places provided. The Board sent out 110 teachers in two years, mostly from New England.” Me seo nothing like abolitionism in this, un less it is tho abolition of the slavery of Bachelor. ‘ ism ; for it is suid these nnltec school-marms I have an oyo on getting at least one pupil pretty well advuiiccd in years! OCT A great many papers are busy just now, in manufacturing Gen. Taylor’s Cabinet for him. Some of them have Mr. Webster’s name at the head—some at the foot of the list. We protest against this placing Cass men in old Whitey’s Cabinet—for if the country has been “ ruined ” under Polk’s administration, let’s redeem it by keeping out of office all those who voted for his successor. If this is followed, Mr. Webster can’t have a place among Taylor’s counsellors, for, the South Boston Gazette says : “ Just a* w e expected, although we forgot to ‘ an nounce ’ it last week, Daniel Webster voted for Gass. We saw the ballot deposited and therefore know whereof we affirm.” Pitii.aukLi*nia. —During the recent election, there weie different counties and Slates that were claimed by both pa: ties as “banner” coun ties and States. Politics aside, we are of the opinion that the Quaker city can claim the “ban ner” of banners, on the score of having the larg est number of votes in proportion to its popula. tion. Just read the following statement, mado by an intelligent gentleman of that city ; “The whole number of taxable persons in that city I and county, is a little over 4ft,000 —of which, at i least, 2000 are women and aliens, who cannot vote leaving at the outside, only 47,600 entitled to vote. The recent vote being more than 53.000, it follow* i that at least six thousand illegal ballots w ere cast.— The democratic vote is no larger than usual.” We leave our Whig friends to solve tho niys i ,e O'* Gkn. Taylor at New Orleans.-— The in habitants of the Creole City have been paying great respect to the old Chieftain for the last week, by firing salutes, parading troops, and inviting him to theatres, &c. &c. Hut the most inter esting ceremony, according to the Delta, seems to have been his visit io one of the Female High Schools there. A young lady, the daughter of a democrat, welcomed him in a very neat and ap propriate speech, to which the General replied “with much fervor of feeling.” There was au admirable suggestion made by the young speak er, which we hope may yet be carried into suc cessful operation ; that, during the reign of Gen. Taylor, “at least one bureau may he estaldislied at the seat of government for the cause of Kiln cation.” After some further ceremonies, one of the lit. tie girls presented the General w ith a boquet, for which he kissed her; after which one of the older ones kissed his hand, and he “gallantly put his arm around her waist, and kissed her lips, saying, ‘Oil, then, let it be a kiss in earn, est !’ ” They then opened a volley of kisses, by platoons, upon the old man’s war-worn feature* ; but, true to his first principles, he “never surren dered. ’ The editor of tho Delta offered to take “a few of the same sort,” but there was not “one more left” for him. Poor fellow ! (£r The Legislatures of South and North Car. olinas, ami Florida, have already convened— tho former electing Democratic speakers—the latter Whig, of course. The message of Got. John soil, of S. C., says that the “ordinary revenues of the State are in such a condition ns to render it necessary to increase the public burthens.”— This is hard—particularly at the presenttime; cotton bringing only 4or 5 cents. He also de precates the existence of the State Hank, but thinks it cannot lie wound up at present ( without serious injury to its creditors. It never can Ho wound up w ithout injury to somebody—and this, will ever form a strong argument fin- the perpe tuity of such an institution. He thinks the State College “a matter of pride,” and at the same time gives a gloomy account of the success of Free Schools in that State. He concludes hi* mes sage by recommending a “Southern Conven tion ” in reference to the slavery question. Tun Irish Exiles. —The N. Y. Tribune of I the 21st has a leader extending a warm welcome to the Irish patriots who have been forced by late events in their country to adopt this for their | home. We copy a good portion of this article : William 11. Mitchell, brother to the beloved Irish martyr, leaves our city to-morrow for tho West. He has despaired of the liberty of Ire. land tor the present, and has therefore resolved !to become a citizen of this country. That noble 1 spirit of independence which he inherits with I his brother, makes him rely upon himself alone 1 for his support in life, lie intends, therefore, to 1 goto Wisconsin; to purchase for himself a piece of land in the neighborhood of Sheboygan,and to become a tiller of the soil and a citizen of that young State. Though very young—being scarce, ly twenty years of age—yet he is a man of large experience, maturity of intellect, integrity of character and independence of spirit, which will, we trust, carry him to the highest station of re spect and honor among his fellow men. Wher ever he may choose to live he will be an orna. ’ ment and an advantage to society. Mr. McClenahan, former editor of the Lime rick Reporter, has also arrived in this country, ’ and comes highly recommended by Mr. Duffy, ’ one of the patriots now in Newgate Prison, and who was formerly editor of the Dublin Nation. Mr. McC., by the failure of the Irish revolution, has been cast upon the world, without means *r occupation for the support of his wife and chil dren. Curiosity Punished We have heard much of the Paul Pry-ism of females, hut never heard of any being punished so effectually, as is re. corded of the lady in the following paragraph, i from the N. Y. True Sun : “ The only female Tree Mason we ever heard of, was the Hon. Miss St. Leger, who, having been detected in the act of overlooking the pro ceedings ot a lodge in her father’s house, was forced to take the degrees. She used afterwards to walk in the Masonic processions, and her por trait is to he seen in almost every lodire in Ire ’ land.” We are gratified at being able to state (says j tho Washington Union of the Ist.,) that the dif ficulties which have heretofore existed between the Post office Department and the Railroad and j Steamboat companies between Washington city and Richmond, and which have prevented for ! the past year tho conveyance of the mails on that route, have been adjusted satisfactorily to j both parties; and that that important service will he resumed on the 4th instant.