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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN HUS CENTRAL GEORGIAN SAffl’L B. CRAFTOUf, • COUNTY PRINTER. TI511MS—For the paper in advance ’ If not paid in advance, $1 50 $2 00 TERMS TOB PUBLIsarSa LEGAL advertisements. SherifFs Levies, 30 days, per levy, $2 50 Executors, Administrators or Guardians’ sales, of Real Estate, or Negroes, per square of 12 lines. - - - - - $3 50 Executor, Administrators or Guardians’ sales, of personal Estat e, charged ac cording to number of insertions per square. Citations for Letters of Administration or Guardianship, - - - - - - $2 75 for Letters Dismissory from Adminis tration or Executorship, - - - - $4 60 Letters Dismissory from Guardianship, $3" 60 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, - $3 50 Application to sell Land or Negroes, $4 00 Rules Nisi (monthly) each insertion per square, - $100 SMDESSVILLE, GEORGIA- TUESDAY MARCH 2, 1852. Csteudoii of the South-Western Rail-Road. r Mr. Clark, of Stewart county, arrived in this city on Monday evening, and will re main a few days. He visits us at the in stance of the citizens of Barbour county. Alabama, and Stewart county, Georgia, to consult with the proper parties in regard to the extension of the South-Western Rail- ,Road. It is in contemplation by the citizens of Barbour county, Alabama, and of Stewart and Randolph counties, Georgia, to under take the building of the South-Western Rail-Road from Eufaula, in Barbour, to Richland, in Stewart, a distance of forty miles, and at a supposed cost of $400,000. This would leave a space between Richland and Oglethorpe of about forty miles, to be filled up by other parties. To build the proposed line, without some assurance that the intermediate space would be filled up, and a connection made with the South-Western Road at Oglethorpe, would be a useless expenditure of a large sum of money; hence, Mr. Clark wish© If possible, to obtain from the city of Sa vannah, or the Central Rail Road Company some guaranty that this gap will be closed Up within a reasonable time. It is his o- pinion, that the citizens on the route would aid materially m the work; so that the cost of sueh a work, on the part of the Central Rail-Ro&dyor of the city, would not be very considerable. Mr. Clark also wishes to know upon what terms the iron for the Road could be obtained; if upon time, what security would be required, and what time would be given. confidently believes that, if satisfactory jsenmgemenjs can be made for obtaining jfttA iron, and e reasonable assurance can be .given That the gap will be filled, the pro posed Road wrU be speedily built. The proper feeling is said to exist, among the people, and a very strong disposition a- URong every class of farmers, to subscribe IfoeraMy to the enterprise. They have fcrebort-taflring any decided action, until these Important preliminaries are settled. SartWhnafr has a very deep interest in the extension of the South Western Road to the Chattahoochee. When the Road is finish ed to this point, it will bring to us annu ally not lees than from 100,000 to 150,000 bales of cotton, which now go down the ’Chattahoochee and Alabama rivers. A Road to Enfaula will pass through and penetrate into the most interesting region •of the southern country. Stewart and Randolph are two of the wealthiest coun ties in this State; their aggregate real and personal estate is near $12,000,000. Bar bour and Pike are the second and third •counties in Alabama. The real estate of Barbour is valued on the tax bocks at $8,- 000,000, the personal estate at $12,00,000. A Road to Enfaula would draw cotton to It for sixty miles, and come directly into •competition with the Alabama river. Its tendency would also be, to bring cotton from down the Chattahoochee for more than two hundred miles. Eufaula is on one line to Pensacola, and if a Road is com pleted to that city, we may expect, within a few years, to have Savannah connected With Pensacola, by means of one of the tno6t important Roads in the United States. —Sav. Rep. Ho! for California;—There is a sudden and an unexpected flow of emigration from this port to Chagres and San Juan, the ulti mate destination of which Is California. The Meteor, Usually running in the regular Texas trade, has been taken out of it to meet this demand for transportation to the Isth mus. She is a superior vessel, and leaves to-day with three hundred passengers.— Another steamer or so could be profitably employed just now in the same trade. This sudden increase in this emigration from this port may be attributed to the an nouncement that it is of no use going to New York to secure transportation in the regular steamers to the Isthmus, as all the berths clear, through on the route are taken for some time to come. The New York Tribune advises persons bent on going to California not to go to New York, but to take the first vessel that offers anywhere to nail round Cape Horn.—-N. 0. Picayune. Rain.-—After a long drought, we were visited with refreshing' showers the" past week, some of whieh were quite heavy.— On Saturday evening they were accompan ied with a pretty severe gale, which we un derstand extended into the country and did some considerable injury to the fencing.— The rains were much needed and will do a vast amount of good to the grain crops^ besidesjgivi ng the farmers an opportunity of preparing theirJands and pitching their crops of corn. Improvements.—We are pleased to no tice that our county authorities are doing something for the outside improvement of the Court-house, by fencing it in, &c. The inside needs a floor. The present arrange ment of brick and dirtis anything butagree- able or comfortable for those who have to occupy the Court Room for the transaction of public business. We wish we could an nounce some alteration in that department. - V* Mr. Stephen’s Letter.—On our first page will be found the letter of this gei tie man, of which'we spoke last week. It will be seen that he takes decided and emphatic grounds against any coalescence with the Baltimore Convention, except they should incorporate the Georgia creed into their platform, of which he has no hopes. We take it that he regards the Union party pretty much in the same light in which our cotemporary, the Savannah Republican, was disposed to look upon it, several weeks since, when that paper was attempting to arrive at some definite conclusion as to what the Union party should do, and that was, Three Persons Killed.—Another dread- foil accident occurred on the Erie railroad on Wednesday. While the mail train from tfre west was stopping at Deposit for dinner, nod most of the passengers were in the sa loon, a freight train ran into the rear car, and eatireiy broke it up, killing almost in stantly three passengers and severely wound ing another. The persons killed were Miss Wisner, of Goshen, Orange county, a man the heads of the other two parties. If Geor gia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida are suspended in this character, the National Conventions will have to make their elec toral calculations outside of these States.— It is a prevailing opinion among politicians, now-a-days, that size has more to do in making up the respectability of a party, than any other element which can enter In to Its composition; and, for this reason, it is a hard matter for local parties to stand their hand in national straggles. jEven the terrorem policy, we are inclined to believe, will fall -a victim to this opinion before the canvass is half closed, or will have to sub mit ton milk and eider acknowledgement of their principles. National Officers re quire the support of national parties. The organization, however, of the Union party, may be fully effected at Washington, and thereby give ns three national parties—a matter which we do not look upon as strik ingly likely. Savannaii Republican Dancing As sociation—Under this head the Savannah News notices the first Cotillon party*which was given by the Association at Oglethorpe Hall, and came of handsomely, &c. We are somewhat surprised to learn that our cotemporary, the Republican, has gone into that sort of business. We thought it was doing a pretty thriving business in the printing line. Come, Mr. News, don’t be poking fun at the Republican in that style Gage that Animal.—The Macon Citi zen gives the particulars of a “Tiger fight” that came off in that city the past week, in which an old gentleman from the country uffered some injury. Singular that the authorities of Macon allow the managers of Manageries to turn their beasts loose, when it is perfectly certain that they always make fight at country gentlemen. You need not grumble about the Savannah Shad mono poly, when you serve countrymen in that style. *Cage your animals. The Yield op Gold prom the Califor nia Mines.—A Washington letter in the Baltimore Sun, says :—“The California me morial just presented to Congress presents a very able and lucid view of the rising greatness of the Pacific side of this conti nent, and it also suggests the proper legis lative measures which the interests of the country in relation to California require The public will be struck with the facts and views presented in the memorial in regard to the future gold product of California, While the product of gold dust will be one hundred and fifty millions a year, tha from the gold bearing quartz will be two hundred and twenty-five millions a year, As to the richness of the gold bearing quartz, there is now no room to dispute or doubt.” Political MTovement in Washington, -—A Washington letter says:. “The politi cians are by no means idle, Mr. Webster’s friends are engaged in concerting measures, for promoting bis nomination and election for the Presidency. The demonstration to be made in his favor on the 4th of March, in'New York, will, it is said, be strong and influential. Mr. Fillmore’s friends do no* consider that he is positively in the field, and some say that he will yet retire from it before the meeting of the Whig Conven tion, the day for which has not yet been Darned. Gen. Scott’s friends still claim the.nomination for him. On the other side, the adherents, of Gen. Cass are confident that he will be the nominee of the Balti more Convention. “It is not impossible that the two nom inees will be Gen. Cass and Mr. Webster— both natives of the same State—both bom in the year 1782—one always a Democrat, and the other of the original Federal school —one whose boast it is that he never tasted wine or ardent spirit in his life, and the other who has lived more like other people in that respect.” Hungary.—A great desire for emigra tion is said to exist in Hungary. Some 300 or 400 families have expressed a wish to come to America in the spring. Besides the usual difficulties which beset persons under the Austrian rule, who may have a desire to travel, Government has rendered it compulsory upon all Hungarians wishing to emigrate, to go to Vienna, and procure from the American Minister a “certificate of permission,” or a written leave, to come to the United States. This permit is, of course never refused them; but in many that it should be held up *» terrorem over 03869 necessity of obtaining it will doubtless act as a barrier to emigration. Commendable.—Dr. A. H. Wilder, of Springfield, Mass., failed tome time since and went to California, leaving his wife and' family to earn their daily bread for the time. A few days since, the several credi tor of the bankrupt met at the residence of their debtor’s wife, in compliance with her invitation, when each found under his plate the amount of his claim. The husband had taken this method of paying his liabilities out of the first of his earnings on the Paci fic. . Telegraph to Cuba.—Joaquin Gurid eogo, of Cardenas, proposes, in a letter to New Orleans Courier, the construction of a floating snip-marine Telegraph from Cape Sable, in Fla., to Key West, and from thence to Hicacas, to Cuba. The distance from whose name could not be ascertained, and 0&pe Sable to II., is 150 miles; and the an Indian girl. Mr. Mooney was severely cost of the wire is estimated at $300,000. if not fatally wounded. The cause of the Mr. G. says “the execution of this project acadeot w*> tbe grass oa-elessn** and neg- wouM angnMnt business and commereia i lect of positive orders by the engine man and the conductor of the freight train, who VO * "" ' ■■'***** gj relation between Cuba immensely. the United States and 'ysSSP Attempt to Assassinate the Queen of Spain.—The accounts from Madrid brought by the Cambria, state that the Queen took her first airing on the 2d ulfc. On her way to church an assassin fired a pistol at her carriage, which struck the Queen on the shoulder. The assasin was arrested. The Queen at the,latest dates, was rapidly re covering fromher wound. Arrival of the Cambria.—The Cam bria arrived at Halifax on the 21st ult., with Liverpool dates to the 7 th. Cotton was i n moderate demand, and prices were in favor of buyers. The sales of the week were forty-three thousand bales. American Consul at Acapulco.—A letter from Acapulco, Mexico, makes serf ous charges against the American Consul at that port, particularly in relation to his con duct in regard to the seizure and sale of American vessels, some of which are said to have been unlawfully taken possession of and sold at a ruinous ^sacrifice. A Martyr in the Nineteenth Centu Correction.—-Mr. Clay has written the following note to the editors of the Nation al Intelligencer, in ; reference to the report which has been going the rounds of the press in relation to the reception of Gen. LaFayette: “A paragraph is going the round of news papers stating that the answer of General Lafayette to the address which, as speaker of the House of Representatives, I made to him upon the occasion of his last visit to this country, was prepared by me, though pronounced by him. This is a mistake, which, in justice both to his memory and myself,jiught to be corrected. It was com posed by himself, as the style abundantly shows. On the morning of his reception by the House of Representatives he break fasted with me alone, and I stated or read to him the address which I intended to make to him on that day. The expression occurs in it that he was in the midst of pos terity ; on reading which I remarked to him that it would afford him a fine opportunity to pay us a handsome compliment, which he might do by saying: No, and that he found himself surrounded by . the same pa triotic men, attached to liberty, devoted to free institutions, and with all the higher at tributes which distinguished his revolution ary compatriots. The General seemed plea sed with the idea, adopted it, and incorpor ated it in his answer. This trivial incident could have been the only foundation of the paragraph. H. CLAY. Washington, February 20. BSP Speaking of the Congressional ban quet in celebration of Washington’s Birth day, a Washington letter says General Scott responded to a toast com- plimentory to the Army, and took especial care not to allude to any political topics His remarks are noticed and commented on not on account of what they did, but what they did not contain. The public have been led to expect of lateJ that Gen.^gcott would at some time avow, as Gen. Butler has lately done, his sentiments on the sub ject of the recent adjustment of sectional questions, and it was thought likely that he might avail himself of this occasion for the purpose. Many say that &en. Scott intends to stand his hand as it is, making no explanations nor professions. Masonic.—Kossuth has been made a member of the Ciucinatti Lodge of Free Masons, and has taken all of the Degrees. ry.—-Intelligence has just reached Amster dam that M. Schceffler, a young Dutch Cath olic Missionary in Cochin China, has been put to death, for preaching Christianity.— He was denounced by the mandarins, ar rested, bound hand and foot, conveyed to the capitol, Hue Fo, and condemned to death by a sort of judicial commission. He was banged on a very lofty gibbet. More than 10,000 troops attended the execution to prevent any hostile demonstration on the part of the numerous Christians at Hue Fo Gen. Butler and the Compromise.—-A correspondent in the New York Herald, in a recent letter from Washington, states that Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, has received a letter from Gen. William *0. But ler, defining his position on the compro mise measures, and repudiating all free-soil predilections. Mr. Breckenridge will en deavor to obtain an opportunity of reading the letter to the House to-day. It has caused great excitement amongst the resi dent candidates for the Presidency. ESP A train of ninety-five ears, drawn by two locomotives, passed over the Hud son River Railroad on the 10th ult. It was more than a mile in length. We notice that A.G. Ware has been appointed by Mr. Wadlry, Superin- tendant of Transportation on the State Road at Atlanta, Vi cc Reynolds removed MSP The Whig Convention of the State of Kentucky, has instructed its delegates to the. National Convention, to vote for Mr- Fillmore for the Presidency. What Next?—A petition is before the Legislature of Maine, to prohibit the use of Tobacco, Gen. Concha has resigned his post as Captain General 4 of Cuba. It is thought that the Spanish Government will accept his resignation. The Cuban Prisoners.—The Hon. D. M. Barringer, U. S. Minister to Spain, has received a flattering card of thanks from the Cuban prisoners, for his successful ef forts in procuring their liberation. Congress.—Nothing of much impor tance was done in either House on Tues day. Mr. Borland introduced the follow ing joint resolution in the Senate : Joint resolution in relation to thf number of electoral votes each State will be en titled to in, the Presidential election of 1852. Be it Resolved, <&c. t That the number of electoral votes to which each State shall be entitled, in the election of President and Vice President of the United States, in 18- 52, shall be equal to the number of Sena tors and Representatives to which each of said States will be found entitled by the ap portionment under the enumeration of I8 60, as provided by the act for “taking the 7th and subsequent censuses,” approved May 23d, 1850. so disgusted with the pretentious quackery of itinerant lecturers on Animal Magnetism and kindred subjects, of their intentional and unintentional admixture of rhodomon- tade and positive falsehoods with actual truths which they had discovered ot adop ted, and of their vulgarity of speech and coarseness of manner, that I had determin ed to give up all idea of attending to the subject, until it fell into the hands of gen tlemen and men of truth. Another reason for my disliking to patronize by ray pre sence, this class of lecturers, is, that I am what may be called, in one sense, strietly orthodox in my religious belief;—that is, I believe that God can, literally, create a world or a thousand worlds, if he choose, in six days, and that a man can, literally, make a mountain move, if he have Faith enough. Now nearly every phrenologist and mes- meriser with whom I have been acquainted, has been, to all intents and purposes, an atheist, or what amounts, practically, to the same thing, a pantheist. While, therefore, I admitted the iucontrovertibility of many of the new facts in science, which they : dis covered and developed before me, I was quite unwilling to assent to their illogical deductions, from those admitted facts, and other facts that I did not admit, of the falsi ty of Divine Revelation. Being strongly urged, however, by sever al editorial friends, to go and hear Doctor Williams, I at length consented; but so [CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BALTIMOBE SuN.1 rpi m , Washington, Feb. 19. * The Tehuantepec Railroad Company have now ready for publication, and will sue in a few days, the result of the scientific- commission, which explored tha Isthmus of Tehuantepec, under the direction of, Maior J, G. Barnard, of the U. S. Engineer, pre pared for the company, by J. J. Williams, Ksq., Principal. Assistant Engineer of the he Now York Correspondence of the Central Georgian. New York, Feb. 20, 1852. Mr. Editor :—We have had clear frosty weather, for several days, and Broadway been thronged with pedestrians of every age, clime and color, as it always is in fine weather. There is a good deal of excitement among the people in the vicinity of the New York Medical College; It is stated that a girl was seen to enter a portion of the building in which there were a good many medical students, for the purpose of begging, and that she never left the place again. The inhabitants of the houses in the neighbor hood searched the building, but she could not be found. The police are endeavoring to solve the mystery. The theatres are all doing a good busi ness. Mrs. Forrest has cleared $4000, dur • ing her engagement. She has only been playing two weeks ; $2,000 a week is very fair pay. Dr. B. Brown Williams, of North Caroli na, is now lecturing in this city, on Mental Alchiiny, a new theory, of which he is the originator, and by which he accounts for the phenomena of Animal Magnetism, the Rochester knocking?, &c. Dr. Williams produces the results hitherto arrived at by magnetizers, biologists, and others, but without touching the “subjects” upon which he operates, looking at them, or directing them to look at him or at anything. He simply asks those persons in the audience who desire to become “electrified,” as he calls it, to wish to be so; and, in about twerty minutes after, he desires them to rise, when over a hundred sometimes get up, aiid remain, during the evening, under his entire control,—laughing, crying, mak ing speeches, dancing, mistaking themselves for each other, "or for some great personage, and imagining themselves.to be ^whoever •he tells them they are, and fo be doing whatever he tells them they are doing. The greatest curiosity is, that the “subjects” of Dr. W. have perfect control over every fac ulty of the mind and body, except the par ticular one that the Doctor chooses specially to influence. , ' : ' I regard with great interest all develop ments of science ; but I have al ways been crowded are his lectures, even when speaks in Metropolitan Hall, which seats over five thousand persons, that it was not until the fourth attempt, that I was able to get admission. The result of my visit is firm belief that he is the man of the age,, in mental science, and that he will do more to harmonize physical laws with the Mosaic record, than all others who have preceded him have done to place them antagonistic to each other. You know that I am some what skilled in Phonography, and will not be surprised, therefore, to learn that I often use it with intellectual, as well as pecuniary, profit to myself. By its aid, I reported Dr William’s lecture of last night, verbatim, for future study and reference. I know that religious and moral subjects are often deemed out of place in a secular periodical; but I cannot refrain from send ing you the following extract from the Doc tor’s discourse. It will be gratefully appre dated by your religious readers, who, trust, are numerous: “Many persons will fall back upon the progress of "what is termed in the books science,’ and particularly upon its geologi cal unfoldings, and answer that I have no authority therefor my peculiar deductions. They will answer that the deductions of ‘science’ make the Mosaic account of crea tion literally untenable, and show the globe to be millions of years old, and the result of some long continued distillating process, inherent in itself. I would simply remark, however, that I have yet to learn the first discovery in geology, or any other science, which disproves the special creation of the globe, as recorded by Moses. I- grant that the globe appears, geologically inspected by finite minds, to be millions of years old, and that the gradual condensations of fluids and solids, which now takes place, would seem to forbid us to think otherwise ; but I repeat that there is not, after all, a single discovery in science that disproves the re cord of Moses. Let us examine one of the most pointed discoveries in vegetative crea tion, and apply it to the case in point. Take a few mustard seeds, steep them fora few days in diluted oxymuriate acid, sow them in garden pots, place over them a metaiic cover, and then bring them in contact with the prime conductor of an electrical ma chine. The seed will spring up, as if by magic, and in the course of a few minutes, a crop will be ready to cut; and we are told by men of science that 'the experimenter will have a salad fit to put upon the table.’ Here, their, is an instantaneous creation, by finite wisdom and power, through electrical agency. “Yet it is strange that even the men of science who perform these experiments do not see their force, and set aside the ac count of Moses as utterly untenable. They do not appear to see that ‘if a human being can thds suddenly convert a seed to a plant, by his puny wisdom and skill, Infinite Wis dom could have certainly produced a globe and its appendages, as recorded in the scriptures. The appearance of the globe apd the solidity of its strata? do not prove its existence millions of years ago, any more than the plant and the firmness of its-tex- ture prove that it mast have grown for monihs. No developments of science stand in the way of the creation of the world in six days, if we admit the supremacy of the Almighty.” Yours truly, PULASKI. The Gaines Case.—The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier says: I have reason to believe that the Supreme Court have decided the case of Myra Clarke Gaines appellant vs. Relf et al. and that the decree of the Court below is affirmed. Mrs. Gaines’ counsel informed her yesterday that the decision, as they were led to believe, would be against her. They "advised her to prepare her mind for that result. The dis- appointaient was certainly wholly unexpec ted to her, and her counsel were, at one time, confident of gaining the case. I Rave no doubt, from what I Darn,.that the case is decided against Mrs. Gaines, and th at Justice Catbon has been deputed to prepare the opinion of the Court. This opinion finally disposes of Mrs. Gaines’ title as the heiress of Daniel Clarke’s estate; for it involves the decision that her mother was never legally married to Daniel Clarke. try, fauna and flora-of that region. This is- a most thoroughly scientific work, accom panied by numerous engravings, charts, &e. r containing by way of appendix, all the po litical documents establishing the rights of the company as guaranteed by the 'respec tive governments of Mexico and tha United States. The above work contains a mass of valu able information, not only to- those direetly interested in the rapid transit from the At lantic to the Pacific Ocean and vice versa 9 but also to-the scholar and general reader. It shows the value aad importance ofthe rights acquired by American citizens which} it is now: the duty of our government to pro tect, and their vast influence on our com merce in the Pacific and on the shores of In dia and China. The work also exhibits the- feasibility of constructing a temporary road across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the- advantages of such an enterprise in shorten ing time and distance between our Atlantic and Pacific possessions. In the present position of Europe,, where,, in spite of the peaceable professions of Louis Napoleon, the elements of strife are daily accumulating and a -war possible at any mo ment, it is of the greatest national impor tance to secure that rente across the Isth mus which, in geographical point of view* is least exposed to annoyance from a mari time enemy, and which, for that reason, is the least expensive to protect by oar govern ment. The Tehuantepec route is, par excel lence, the American route across the Isth mus, and. must be thro wn open to- the com merce of the world, in a very short time, un less Mexico pretends, in the face of treaty stipulations, to shut herself up hermetically, like the Emperor of Japan. There is a way, however, of drawing the cork from a bottle, even if the fatter be hermetically sealed. The consolidation of parties, (whig and democrat) is going on very rapidly, and the- old affinities are reviving, North and South. It is now sheer nonsense to talk of any other jarty than the Democratic party or the- Whig party, and of any other nominees than the Democratic nominees and the Whig noraiuees for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. There will be a regular stand-up fight between the two parties in the fall, and the victors will capture fifty millions of dollars. “Rather rich!” X. [by telegraph for savannah press] Arrival of-Ute Atlantic. Baltimore, Feb. 26. The Atlantic has arrived, reporting a re duction in the Liverpool market of one- eight d. on ordinary and lower qualities of Cotton since the sailing of the Cambria. Other descriptions remained unchanged. Ihe sales of Monday and Tuesday were 16,000 bales, of which speculators took 5,000. Further by the Atlantic. Spain.—-The attempt to assassinate the Queen of Spain, - was made while she was leaving the Church with the Royal infant in her arms, by a Jesuit priest, named Me rino. He made two poignard wounds, but they were slight. The villain was arrested and executed at Madrid. France.—Political affairs unchanged. The Government has published an article in the Patrie, telling the electors that they must elect Bonapartists to the assembly ; that if they elected others,' they would not be allowed seats. In Paris, Madame Pauhne Taland, and sixty journeymen primers have been arres ted. Austria.—Potizzei, said to be an agent of Kossuth, was executed; he was charged, with attempting to seduce tbe Hungarian soldiers. LIVERPOOL MARKET. Liverpool, Feb. 11.—-Cotton—10,000> bales sold; market buoyant—export trad© active. Rice unchanged, Henry’s Circu lar says that Breadstuff, are unchanged, but to effect sales a reduction of one shilling oa Flour, and three pence on Corn, must b© conceded. Washington, Feb. 26th. Mr. Clays’ health is improving, he is able to ride out. In the Senate, Mr, Rhett gave notice that he would ask leave to-morrow to vindicate himself against the personal attacks of Cas& and ^Clemens, in their speeches on the Compromise, delivered during his absence. The Senate elected a special Committee on the decisions of the Mexican claims board. The House voted on the amendatory to the bounty land bill. A Heartless Wretch.—A base wretch in the form of a man, was a few weeks since, introduced to a lovely and confiding girl of sixteen. He pressed her hand and said in a thrilling tone that he thought the “re cent sleighing had rendered the ladies more lovely than ever.” She blushed and Cotton Factory Burnt.—The Carolinian of the 26th, says : The Laurel Falls Cotton Factory, situate in Lexington District, was. consumed by fire yesterday morning about 3 o’clock. The total loss is supposed to be. $10,000—with insurance amounting to $7,- 000. . The fire is supposed to have been the work of anJaaendiary. said, “very.” Her parents considered the matter as Settled, but he basely deserted the young lady, after addressing this point ed language to her and has never called at her house since. . ■ To Clear at Well of Foul Air.—Put a quart or two of uusfacked lime info a buck et, and before lowering it info the well, pour a sufficient quantity of water on the lime to slack it; then let it down to the water but not so, as to go mto it. In a' few minutes. forcing it out of the well—London Builrer.