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THE CENTRAL G E O RGIA N.
THE .CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAOT’JL B. CBAFTOJi,
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SMDERSYILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY FEB. IT, 1852.
\From the New York Herald.']
Washington, Feb. 1 1842.
The Presidedtial Campaign—The Grow
ing Interest ia the Contest—The Present
Position of Both Parties—The Candi
dates^ &c.
The speculations in Saturday’s Herald,
upon the “Presidential Question,” have caus
ed quite a fluttering here among the various
aspirants and their friends.
From the developments which have come
to light during the past fortnight, the fol
lowing deductions may be made in relation
to the prospects of the whigs:—
1. That Mr. Webster is entirely out of
the question, as hia friends now admit, un
less the d—1 can be kicked up generally, be
tween this time and next fall, and a Union
party marshalled under cover of the dust,
for the Secretary’s special benfit. Proba
bilities of this, small.
2. That Mr. Fillmore has not tire most
remote intention of running on his own
hook. He will eventually surrender to W.
H. Seward, for the benefit of Gen. Scott;
and all he now hopes to do, is to sell out
the government influence as high as possi
ble to Seward & Co.
3. That Gen. Scott does expect to be nom
inated. Mr. Fillmore expects he will be;
Mr. Webster, ditto, Mr. Seward, ditto;
Messrs. Jones, of Tenn., Stephens and
Toombs, of Ga., Stanley, of North Carolina,
ditto. (The four la^t named have agreed
to support Scott, it is understood, although
he was the accepted candidate of the North
ern abolitionists more than a year ago.)
The whig party here, generally, expect he
will be; as dees likewise your humble ser
vant. *
4. Notwithstanding their total route in
the late State elections, the knowing ones
among the whigs are confidently expecting
to carry the next Presidency with Gen. Scott.
They are already working a shrewd game.
Depending upon the conscience of the dem
ocrats for success, and the existing conten
tion among democratic aspirants, they have
already gone seriously to work to use them
up. Mr. Seward is at present, pulling the
wires at the North, to concilate the free soil
influence. He rolls himself all over in the
Kossuth excitement, while General Scoot is
very carefully kept out of it—not appear
ing at the Congressional Banquet, not call
ing upon Kossuth, nor in any wise commit
ting himself either for or against his doc
trines of intervention. Seward takes care
of all this, and acts as committee man No. 1
at the North. Ex-Gov. Jones, of Tennessee,
now in this city, electioneering to be the
whig candidate for the Vice Presidency, has
taken upon himself to act as Gen. Scott
committee man No. 2, for the South. The
Governor said, in a public conversation with
Senator Douglas, at the National Hotel, the
other evening, that-he had been to see Gen
Scott, and inquired his views on the com
promise, stating distinctly, that he (Gen. S.)
could not carry Tennessee without he endor
sed it. Gen. Scott replied, that he should
sustain the compromise and the Union.—
However, he will probably write no letters
endorsing the compromise—that is, if Sew
ard can prevent it. Nor do Messrs. Jones,
Stephens & Co. wish him to.
1 have said that Governor Jones was ex
pecting the whig nomination for the Vice
Presidency. He has already succeeded in
procuring a nomination from the whigs in
the Maine Legislature—a very small en
dorsement, to be sure, if they acted inde
pendently of the free soilers—but neverthe
less, their number is large enough to get
up a caucus. Governor Jones may therefore
be said to have been first in nomination in
the East. He will, doubtles, have a strong
opponent in Abbot Lawrence, with the Bos
ton Atlas for his organ. This paper, you
will recollect, was the first in New England
to come out for General Scott more than a
year ago. Lawrence has the most money
and Jones the most brains; but as the whi
The Division of the Sons of Tern
perance of this place will have a celebra
tion on Saturday evening next, at which
there will be several addresses.
List of Acts.—W«e have been compel
led to omit the publication of most of the
local Acts, .giving only those referring to
counties and persons where our paper most
ly circulates.
Fire on the Central Railroad.—The
Savannah Republican has the following
particulars of a fire which occurred at No. 2>
Central Railroad, on Thursday last:
“The down wav-freight train, about 1
o’clock, P. M., attempted to pass through
the fire which was burning in the woods
on both sides of the road; and, in doing so,
all the open cotton cars, six in number, with
274 bales of cotton, took fire and were
burned. The engine, with seven box cars,
(also filled with cotton)passedsafely through
the fire. In one of the cars destroyed, there
were ten fine hounds, the property of James
Holzendorff, Esq., of Camden county,
which could not be got out, and were burn-
Census.—The Inferior Court of this
county have appointed Judge Silas Floyd j e( j U p ? as a j s0 a small lot of hides.
“The cotton was taken on at Gordon, and
between that place and Tenneille, and the
owners can thus readily ascertain who are
and Maj. John Curry, to take the census
of this couuty, as required by an Act of
the lastLegislature.
Candy.—If any of our confectioners or
others, wish to purchase a fine article of
Candy, we refer them to J. G. Newcombe,
of Savannah, who manufactures it in a su
perior style. We acknowledge the receipt
of a nice parcel. See advertisement in an
other calumn.
The Church.—We have thought for
seveial weeks pa .t that we would call the
attention of the people of this vicinity to
the condition of the Church and burial
grounds adjacent. -It is really a melancholy
spectacle to look at either gof them; as a
matter of ordinary devotion, or common
respect for the dead, it is the imperative
duty of all to take steps for the repairing
and fitting up of these places. We hesi
tate not in saying that there is not a village
in the State whose place of public worship
receives less attention than the one at this
place. This is a lamentable fact, and speaks
badly for the taste of our villagers and
church-goers, who witness, Sabbath after
Sabbath, its miserable dilapidated, cobweb
situation, and never offer a hand towards
giving it a more decent appearance. We
have heard of a game, somewhere, called
the “Devil take the hindmost;” if this
church has not been into a game of that
sort, and come out last, it deceives its looks
mightily—but levity aside.There is a real
substantial necessity for something to be
done in the preirises. If the church can
not be suitably fitted up and the burial
grounder-larged, (forit is now too small)
Gen. Warthen proffers to give any location
on his lands suitable for it. We throw these
suggestions out with the hope that they
may be favorably considered and acted up
on by our people.
the sufferers. The loss, we believe, falls
upon the Road, as insurance is included with
the freight. $10,000 will probably cover
the loss—say $8,000 for the cotton, and
$2,000 for cars and. injury to the road.—
Some ten to fifteen yards of the superstruc-
were destroyed, but it will be repaired du
ring the night, and no interruption to trav
el or freight need be apprehended. The
fire approached so near Mr. Cassidy’s house
that it took fire, and was with difficulty sav
ed.”
Executor’s Sale—The Columbus Times
publishes the executor’s sale of the effects
of the Constitutional Union party, and
among other items enumerated, is a few
planks suitable for making a new platform.
We should like to know who got hold of
the valuables of the Southern Rights party?
It went oft’, it is true, without a will, but it
did leave something more than a name
that was subject to administration. We
have our eye on a few of the ‘Alberti tracts,’
some select specimens of letter writing in
the shape of ‘co-operation’ documents,
which have never been even appraised, ex
cept Che valuation set upon them at our Oc
tober elections.
If the Democratic party iias made itself
executor in its own wrong, in this matter,
we should like to know it.
France.—It will be seen in the accounts
brought by the Pacific, a report that Louis
Napoleon had threatened to invade'Eng-
land. This is doubtless an innocent hum
bug. He may be fool enough to talk it in
his drunken pride, but he will have sense
enough to keep him out of it; if he does
not it will be a small matter for John Bull
to give him a trouncing, which we should’nt
be sorry to see. He deserves the lash about
as much as any of the rulers of the present
day.
Important Invention—The Washing
ton Telegraph states that Mr. De Bibery h$s
invented one of the most important life
saving and swimming apparatuses it has
eveUseen. Application has been made by
Mr. DeB. fora patent. It is a kind of
frock, or doublet, of ordinary dress material
made double, interlaid with small metalic
boxes, inflated. This doublet mny <be worn
as an overall on shipboard, and it is. im
possible for the wearer to sink below the
shoulders, and Mr. De B. asserts that a
person may remain in the water any length
of time, and the water has no effect what
ever on the buoyancy of the dress.
Congressional.—On the 9th inst., the
House by a vote of 108 to 60 refused to re
ceive the following resolution in relation to
the tariff, offered by Mr. Welch :
Resolved, That the Committee of Ways
and Means are instructed to report a bill
modifying and altering the tariff of 1846,
substituting, wherever practicable, specific
for ad valorem duties, with such rates of
duties as will yield a sufficient revenue, and
with such discriminations in favor ofiron
and other articles of domestic manufacture
and production as will afford adequate pro
tection to the labor of our own citizens a
gainst foreign competition.
jJST It is thought that nearly all of the
Delegates from the State of New York to
the Baltimore Convention, will go for Mar-
cy as the Democratic nominee. If the
Governor should get the nomination, his
friends had belter see to it, that he supplies
himself with good “trousers,” that old pair
is enough to beat him, even as against
Late from Havana.—The Diario de la
Marina received at New Orleans by the
Philadelphia has advices from Porto Rico
to the 24th ult. The island generally was
in a prosperous condition. On the 2d ult.
a fire occurred in Mendez-Vigo St. Maya-
guez, which destroyed thirty-two houses.—
The loss was estimated at $2001000. A
subscription was to be taken up for the re
lief of the sufferers.
In Porta Rico the coffee market was not
active. The article was selling at $8 a $9
per quintal. The sugar ciop will be a fair
average.
News from Venezuela states that on the
28th of November there was an earthquake
at Caracas, but fortunately very little dam
age was done.
The Body of Caft. McNelty Found.—
The Savannah News says that the steamer
Welaka, which arrived in that city on Tues
day last, from Palatka, had on board the
body of Capt. McNelty, late of the unfor
tunate steamer Magnolia. The body of
Capt, McNelty was found by Mr. Dunham,
on the beach on St. Simon’s Island, about
three miles from where the explosion took
place. His watch and purse were found
on his person, and have been delivered to
his family. The bodies of two or three of
the colored persons killed by the explosion,
were also found, and were buried on the Is
land.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Register has
a despatch dated at Washington 6th inst.,
which states that a defalcation had taken
place in the Custom House at San Francisco,
of one million of dollars, and that it is re
ported that the Hon. T. B. King is to be re
moved. The despatch also mentions that
Col. Doniphan had been appointed Govern
or of Utah, and that the Chief Judge and
Secretary are to go back with Doniphan,
and that troops are to be asked in order to
emove the Territorial seat of Government
from Salt Lake City.
We would mention, privately, that if therei*^eott s S0U P
is anv part of the world that has not been
supplied with any of the above tracts, we
will shoulder the responsibility of distribut
ing a few that were not (like our excellent
generally think more of the former than of I commander,) used up in the late campaign
the latter, and as Mr. Seward probably
fancies that he himself possesses brains e-
nouglfcto answer all the practical purposes
of the next administration, providing it
should be whig, I am rather inclined to pre
dict that Abbot will come out “first best”
and be the whig candidate for Vice Presi
dent.
French Speculation* in American
Coin.—The Philadelphia Inquirer has been
assured by a gentleman who recently re
turned from Europe, that large quantities of
American coin are imported into France
from the United States; and that by pecu
liar process; a considerable portion of gold
is extracted, while the value of the silver is
not impaired. Indeed, it is said that quite
an extensive business is carried on in this
way. The process is a peculiar one, and
known only to a few scientific men in France.
jggT Chevalier Hulsemann sailed from N.
Orleans for Mobile, on the 10th inst. The
Germans and foreigners of that city, gave
him a mock sernade, on the night previous
to his departure, which aroused much in
dignation among the more orderly inhabi
tants. No American citizen of New Or
leans took partin the serenade.
Small Pox.—Dr. Wm. Fields, of Wil
mington, Delaware, ( says in a letter to the
“Blue Hen's Chicken,"—a newspaper so
called—that one tablespoonful of good
brewer’s yeast, mixed with two table spoon
fuls of cold water, and given from three to
four tunes a day to an adult, and in less | fi ce
quantities to children, is a certain cure, for
the small pox.
LITERARY NOTICES..
Herald of the Union.—This is the
name of a monthly publication recently com
menced in New York City by C. Edwards
Lester. It is devoted to the” furtherance
and maintainance of the Compromise of
1850, is a large and handsome sheet well
edited, and culls largely from the literary
and political'world. Price $2 per year in
advaned, address the Editor.
The Water Cure and Phrenological
Journals, for February received. Publish
ed by Fowler & Wells 120 Nassau st. N.
York, at $1 each in advance.
American Whtg Review.—The Feb
ruary No. is before us. It has a portrait
of the Hon. N. K. Hall, P. M. General, sev
efal interesting articles on the policy and
measures of the Whig party—a review of
the life and times of Wm, H. Crawfordi
besides a variety of other interesting matter.
Price $5 per year. Address the Publisher*
120, Nansau street, New York City.
Further accounts by the Pacific!
ADVANCE IN COTTON!
New York, Feb. 13, 7 P. M.
The Pacific's mails are at hand. The
quotations of the Liverpool cotton market
on the ’28th, the day of the sailing of the
steamer, were for New Orleans Fair, five
and a quarter (5 l-4d.) ; for Middling, four
and seven eighths (4 7-8d.) ; for Upland,
Fair, five (5d.) ; and for Middling, four and
three-fourths (4 3-4d.) The sales of the
four days amounted to 45,000 bales—of
which speculators took 8,000, and expor
ters 5,000 bales—the demand good.
Cqn s °l s closed at 96 1-4.
Latest by Telegraph from London.—Ac
counts received from London on the morn
ing of the sailing of the steamer (the 28th)
report that rumors of a threatened inva
sion of England, by the French, were quite
prevalent. The government had ordered
30,000 stand of arms from Birmingham,
and 25,000 to be sent to London. The
Daily News says that orders had been dis
patched by the Admiralty recalling the
three principal ships-of-war stationed on
the coast of England.
The steamer City of Glasgow had re
turned to England, having been disabled in
a storm.
From France.—The Monileur publish
es the name of the persons composing the
new Senate. Mr Bareefie.is Vice President
to act as President, in the absence of the
Prince President. Arrests continue to be
made, and transportations are still the or
der of the day.
From California.
The steamer Daniel Webster arrived to
day with San Francisco dates to the 18th
Jan. The market remained unchanged,
with a moderate business doing. More ex
tensive discoveries of gold yielding quartz
had been made. The yield was very
mild—Flowers in bloom. Good order pre
vailed throughout the country.
The Legislature was m session at Sacra
mento. Gov. Bigler, in his inaugural, says
the Gold Mines should be as free as air.
The Indian difficulties were all settled.
Southern California was very prosperous,
the mines yielding extensively.—-Savannah
Morning News.
Intelligence from California.
Our New Orleans exchanges contain
late accounts from California, brought by
the steamer.
We give some items. As to the politi
cal aspects of the country, the following
from the San Francisco Picayune, may suf-
The ladies are determined to be no lon
ger shut out from the secrets of Odd Fel
lowship. By virtue of the authority given
by the Grand Lodge of the United States
the* Atlantic Lodge of Philadelphia recent
ly performed the ceremony of initiation for
the wires of certain members of the order.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the New
Y'ork Herald writes as follows :
“The fortunate ones are greatly envied
by their fair friends; and those formerly
most oppose to secret societies are determ
ined to marry odd fellows, for the purpose
of satisfying their intense curiosity with re
gard to the mysteries of the order. Their
dread of riding the goat, which according
to common rumor in one of the initiatory
rites, has been calmed by the assurance
that the animal is to have a side saddle, on.
which a ladv is to mouut.”
. “Massa says you must sartin pay de bill
to-day,” said a negro to a New Orleans
shop-keeper. “Why, he isn’t afraid I’m
going to run away, is he ?” was the reply.
“Not zackly dat; but look heea,” said the
darkey, slyly andj mysteriously, “he’s
gwoin to run away lieself, and darfor wants
fcp make a big raise !”
The maiden wept; and I said, “why
weepstthou maiden.” She answered not,
neither did she speak, but sobbed exceed
ingly, and again I asked why weepest thou?
she said, “what’s that to you? mind vour
own business !”
if application be made immediately
The~uew editor of the Journal &
Messenger, Mr. Nesbit, makes a very grace
ful entrance upon bis duties, and intimates
his determination to adhere to the organiza
tion of the Union party ; maintaining that
its necessity is as urgent as ever. He dis
owns friend Chapman’s bantling, which,
from present appearances, will be left on
the hands of the Athens Banner and Cass-
ville Standard.
The Union party of this county have a
meeting called fur the first Tuesday in next
month, and wm should judge from what we
can gather of their movements, that they
will bounce the Alabama resolutions. The
Milledgeville caucus did not give satisfac
tion to many of the leading Union men of
this county, and we suppose that the action
of the meeting in March, will give utter
ance to this feeling ; they seem to think
that there is a cat in that meal tub.
AST The New York Tribune says that
there is a steam ploughing machine on ex
hibit in that city. It is intended to plotigh
twelve furrows, and performs the operations
of ploughing, sowing and harrowing simul
taneously.
Apart from its multiform operations, it
would be decidedly the thing in these parts
just about tyj\v, when corn and horse feed
are ko scarce.
Pardon of Thrasher.-—information has
been received at the State Department, at
Washington, of the release and pardon of
Thrasher, by the Queen of Spain.
N3T Louis Napoleon has discarded Mad
ame Bonaparte, his mistress and the moth
er of his children, (a woman said to has-
been born in Baltimore,) prepartory to jlie.
espousal of a Royal Princess, from one of
the reigning houses of Europe. It is said
she has been banished from France like a
fellon—expelled from Paris by force, with
the children of the Usurper in her arms,
and compelled to seek an asylum in En
gland.
$3T The stockholders in the Ogeecliee
Plank Road, met at the Exchange in Savan
nah, on the 13th inst., and elected Directors
to manage the concerns of the Company.—
The Directors were empowered to petition
the City Council for a bonafide subscription
of $5000.
33T Local politics run high in the Wes
tern country. A candidate for county clerk,
in Texas, offered to register marriages for
nothing. His opponent, undismayed, prom
ised to do the same and throw in a cradle,
But who can describe the present condi
tion of things in our own State.!- No one
can tell who is Governor of California, who
is Mayor of San Francisco, where the seat
of government is—at San Jose or at Valle
jo, what set of claimants has the. best right
to upwards of half a dozen contested seats
in the next Legislature, what party has the
best title to the municipal government of
San Francisco, and whether “New York’or
the “Chivalry” have the controlling power
over the Democracy.
With regard to the governorship, there
is little doubt but gross fraud has been
several
Ho for California.—That fine Steam
ship the Isabel, Captain Rollins, sailed yes
terday for Key West and Havana, with 53
Cabin Passengers, and 332 in the Steerage;
in all 385—the greater portion of whom
are botmd for the auriferious shores of the
Pacific, and have come, principally, from
the Upper Districts of Georgia, and the
Counties of Burke, Catawba, Rutherford
and McDowell, North Carolina. On her
last trip the Isabel took out thirty-nine
slaves belonging to some of the passengers
bound for the gold diggings; on this she
bad fifty-five, and the number on her next
is, as we have been informed, likely to be
further increased; that is to say if the ac
counts from the mines continue to be as fa
vorable as they haye been recently.—
Charleston Courier. .
Passage to California.—The N. York
Tribune of the 6th inst. says :—“It is idle,
worse than idle, to visit this city with the
idea of engaging a passage by steam across
the Isthmus to California. All the vessels
(both Panama and Nicaragua) are full up
to April, and those for that month are rap
idly fillino- up. Either engage your passage
weeks beforehand or take your way around
the Horn or over the Sierra—there is no
help for it.”
The latest news from England state
the appointment of Lord Crampton, as Min
ister to this Government, and Sir H. L.
Bulwer, Minister to Naples.
SST Gen. Cass’s, intervention speech in
the Senate, was more moderate than was
expected, from the tone of his feelings at
the Kossuth banquet.
President Roberts has received from
the Prussian Minister at the Court of St.
James, a despatch containing a formal re
cognition of the independence of Liberia
by his his government.
S3T The Rhode Island Senate has abol
ished the punishment of death, and sub
stituted imprisonment for life.
The Hon. Daniel Webster, has con
sented to deliver an address at New York
city, on the 23d inst., when Washington’s
birth day is to be celebrated.
Kossuth met with an enthusiastic
reception at Cincinnati. About $1000 wa-
given him between Columbus, O., and that
city, aDd about 500 muskets were tendered
him at Hamilton, in the same State.
iST A meeting to nominate Mr. Web
ster far the Presidency, is to take place at
New York, on the 4th prox.
themselves, and-such advantage to the city-
will of course,, adopt every legal and con
stitutional means in their power to resist
these unjust pretensions, and they depend
for success on the change which is to take
place in the constitution of the Supreme
Bench, at the next term, by the substitution •
of Chief Justice Solomon HeydenfeJdt for
Chief Justice Hastings, the gentleman
whose decison in the case of Harris vs.
Brenhamhas lately excited so much as
tonishment.
The Democratic party are torn assunder
by dissensions, and from the animosity ex
hibited on both sides, there is little pros
pect of a union among them. One portion
who came principally from New York,
were anxious to have a preponderance for
their section, by the choice of delegates to a
State Convention, to be held shortly for
the appointment of delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention, and for the
nomination of candidates for electors of
President and Vice President, while the
other party, who hail from the more South
ern States, were influenced by similar mo
tives. Both parties are unyielding, and
both will send delegates to the State Con-
veusion.
The intelligence of the suppression of
the Indian disturbances in Southern Cali
fornia is fully confirmed, but it is feared
the peace is only temporary. The Alta,
California, of the 18th December, says :
“Antonio Garra, the chief who has or
ganized the hostile Indians, has been ta
ken prisoner, and will, as soon as possible
be tried by the civil authorities. He had
not reached Los Angeles yet, but there is
no doubt that he would be “ried, condemn
ed and executed. It is thought that his
execution will cause a more "serious out
break on the part of the Indians. Bill
Marsh cl 1, and the California, Bera, who
were on trirl at our latest advices from San
Diego, were found guilty and condemned
to death. They were executed on the 13th
inst.
It is said that Gara the chief who has
been captured, charges certain Californians
with instigating him to the revolt. His ob
ject was, as he is reported to have asserted,
to destroy those who impose the enormous
taxes.
Major Hientzelman with eighty soldiers,
including the fifty taken down on the Sea
Bird, was to leave San Diego early on the
morning of the 14th /or Aguas Calientes.
ibe Indian commissioner Dr. Wozencraft,
would accompany him. to try the effect of
peaceful overtures. The geueral impress
ion is, however, ^hat there can be no lasting
peace unil the the Indians are souudlv bea
ten.
A letter to the Alta California, dated
San Diego, Dec. 13th says :
“The arrest of the principal leader, An
tonio, also’of Bill Marshall. Juan Bera and
an Indian, have shown to us a deep aud
well laid plan of geueral massacre, which
would have done credit to efficient officer
much more to an Indian. They were all
to kill the troops at the Gila, and before an
express could reach this place—fall upon
Lcs Angeles, murder the inhabitants, pro
cure their arms, and full upon this place,
thereby having possession of the whole of
Southern California, from Los Angeles to
the boundory line.”
Major Andrews, of the U. S. Army, has
received orders to leave on the 1st of Jan
uary for San Diego, thence to take a small
vessel and ten men and proceed up the
Gtili of California to the post established at
the junction of the Colorada and Gila. It
is designed to establish a gairiaon perma
nently at that port, to proteet the emi
grants ami keep the Yumas in check. The
crossing of the Colorado has come to bo
dreaded not only on accouut of the desert
country in the vicinity, but from the treat
ment and hostile dispositiun of the .tribes
who inhabit that section of the country. It
ocintended that the garrison about to be
is ated there, will hereafter effectually pro
tect emigrant mu may select the Gila,
troute into California.
A letter from Rich Bar, North Fork
feather River, states that on .the 1st of De
cember, a man by the name of David
Brown, a native of Amsterdam, was arrest
ed here by some of the citizens, upon the
charge of having stolen from two of his
companions the sum of $1,600. The pris
oner was taken to El Dorado to undergo a
trial. A judge was appointed by the citi-
eommitted with the ballot box in
counties—and although it may be difficult, zens aud a jury of twelve men * selected
if not possible to prove it legally, it i?not Counsel were appointed to prosecute, and
the less a fact, from the investigations re- also counsel to defend the prisoner. The
cently made, that Major Reading received
a majority of all the votes cast for Governor
at the late election.
With regard to the Mayoralty, a majority
of the Supreme Court, to the astonishmeut
of the legal profession and citizens gener
ally, have lately decided that Dr. Harris
was the Mayor of San Francisco "Since Sep
tember last, although Capt. Brenham has
been acting in that capacity.
The location of the seat of governmentis
involved in as deep mystery its ever—the
partizans of San Jose and Vallejo sparing
no exertions on either side to secure it. On
the 30th ult., a meeting, consisting of forty
one members elected to the Legislature,
was held in San Francisco, for the purpose
of consulting together as to the place where
the next Legislature should be held ; when
the question was decided in favor of Vallejo
by a majority of twenty-eight to thirteen.
But as the whole meeting did not constitute
one half of the members of the Legislature,
it is impossible, of course, to consider that
vote as setting the question at rest.
The claimants to contested seats in the
Legislature, must of course, await the ac
tion of that body upon their j respective ca
ses. -
In the city of San Francisco we have
now two sets of civic rulers in full blast.
The gentlemen elected in December were
sworn in on Monday last, 29th inst., by
Mayor Harris, and they held their first
mteting on the same evening. Ihe gen
tleman who have hitherto administered the
municipal government with such credit to
evidence was heard, which was strong a-
gainst'.him. He was then called upon to
make his statement, when he confessed that
he was guilty. The jury retired and re
turned in a few minutes with a verdict
that the man Brown should be' hung in a
half an hour. Ihrough the intercession of
his council, a respite of an hour and a quar
ter was granted him to settle his wordly af
fairs, after which he was taken to the place
of execution and hung. From the time of
his sentence till the very moment he was
hung, he remained perfectly composed and
apparently indiflerent to his fate.
Loss of A Charleston Steamer.—The
Charleston papers of yesterday inform us
that the Steamer Pilot, Capt. JoDes, of
that city, left her wharf on Sunday after
noon last, with the purpose of proceeding
to the wreck of the Br. bark Larch, now a-
shore on Stouo Breakers. After passing
Ship Bar, Capt. Jones stood to the South
ward until about 8 1-2 P. M., when ob
serving breakers ahead he ordered the
helmsman to starboad the wheel, and
stepped into the wheel house to assist him,
when, to Lis surprise he-found the boat had
been heading S. W. by W. instead of S W.
The propeller was immediately reversed,
but before it. could act on the boat, she
took the bottom in twelve feet of water, on
Stono Breakers. She filled with water in
a few hours after she struck, and the offi
cers and men had to secure themselves in
thj wheel-house, &c., the sea making a
complete breach over the boat. They were