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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
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SAai’Ii B. GRAFTON,
COUNTY PRINTER.
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Ptrasejutted &o& daily morning news.]
Arrival of the Atlantic.
New-York, May 17, A. M.
The American mail steamship Atlantic
has. arrived at New York from Liverpool,
which port she left on the 5th inst. The
British Mail steamship Africa arrived at
Liverpoolon the morning of the 2d inst.
Messrs. Wight, Gandy A Co.’s Liverpool
Cotton Circular of the 4th, savs that since
the departure of the Canada, on the 1st
mst, the cotton market has been steady
and rather animated, notwithstanding the
heavy imports. Holders met the demand
readily, but evinced no disposition to aceept
lower rates. In consequence of the large
receipts purchasers have greater choice.
> sales for the last four days amount
to 45,000 bales. The prices of Tuesday,
the 4th, are as follows: Fair Orleans, five
and three-quarters; Fair Mobile, five and
three eights; Fair Uplands, five and a quar
ter; Middling Orleans, five and one-eighth;
Middling Mobile, five d; and Middling Up
land, four to four and fifteen-sixteenths.
Consols closed at 99 1 2. American
Stocks were quiet at previous quotations.
I® the business of Manchester there is a
of
decided improvement. All branches
trade were better, at higher prices.
Wheat was declining, and Flour was six
pence lower. Corn was firm and unchang
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY MAY SS, 1SSS.
Population op Sandersville.—Judge
S. Floyd who is engaged in taking the Cen
sus, as required by an act of the last Legis
lature, has furnished us with the following
□umber of inhabitants.
White Males 175
“ Females 175
Negroes 219
Making 509
There are seventy families residing within
the incorporation.
Drought,—The drought still continues
with us, and the want of rain is a matter of
general complaint. For a few days past
showers have been passing about, though
we have not had enough in this vicinity to
lay the dust. In the neighborhood of
Holcombe, in Bufrke, there was a fine rain
on Friday evening, with a small quantity of
hail. This rain extended but a few miles
above No. 10, on the Railroad. The weath
er continues very warm and garden vege
tation hereabouts are burning up.
ed.
Col. Fremont.
The English company who purchased
Col. Fremont’s gold mines in California,
and commenced a suit in Chancery, have
backed out.
France.
A large number of persons have refused
to take the oath of allegiance to the Presi
dent.
Later prom California.—Indian Mur
ders. Destructive Earthquake.
New-York, May 17, P. M.
The steamship' Daniel Webster has ar
rived from San Francisco with dates to the
16th April. Business in California was
brisk, and all descriptions of mining goods
had improved in prices. The mines con
tinued to yield abundantly.
It was reported at San Francisco that the
Indians in Scott’s valley had attacked and
murdered one hundred and fifty white per
sons.
I he Grampus Islands were swallowed up
by an earthquake in February last.
THREE DAYS LATER.
Arrival of the Africa.
advance in cotton.
New York, May 20, P. M.
The steamship Africa has arrived, with
Liverpool dates to the 8th inst. The sales
ot Cotton in the Liverpool market for the
week amounted to 88,000 bales, of which
speculators took 24,000 and exporters 11,-
'“ nrk bales. The market was active and
Cucumbers.—The first vegetable of this
kind that we have heard of this season was
sent us by Mrs. Ann Harris of this place on
Saturday last, they were well grown for the
season.
000
firm, with an advance of an eighth.
The quotations given are for fair Orleans
five seven-eights; for Middling Orleans, five
and a quarter ; for Fair Upland, five and
three-eighths; and for Middling Upland,
five. The market opened on Saturday
with a good demand and firm. The sales
were large.
Western Canal Flour was selling at 20
shillings, Ohio at 2i sbilliugs. Yellow
Corn was quoted at 30s., and white at 20s.
Breadstuffs declined; market- rather
dlooping. The demand for Rice had im
proved, and sales of Carolina were made at
17.6 to 18.6. Trade in the manufacturing
districts had greatly improved; the demand
for goods was good, at high prices. Am
erican securities were in good demand. U.
S. sixes of 6800 are quoted at 10 1-4 a 10-
3 4.
Havre.—The sales of Cotton for the
week amounted to 12,000 bales—market
firm at last quotations.
The. escape of the Cuban prisoners from
Africa is confirmed.
Lord John Russell dealared in Parlia
ment that there was no just ground to ap
prehend an invasion of England by France.
At Paris the anniversary of the Emperor
Napoieou’s death was commemorated with
a great banquet.
A New; Movement.
Within the past week a new movement
has appeared upon the surface of the politi
cal affairs of this^State, which amounts to a
total disbanding of the Constitutional
Union party; a few presses, we believe
hold to it by way of consistency. The new
movement proposes that all who are friend
ly to the^re-election of Mr. Fillmore shall
meet in their respective counties aud'ap-
point some one to a represent them in the
National Whig Convention. This is'the
plan proposed by the Milledgeville people,
who seem to have originated the'matter.—
The Macon Journal & Messenger, however,
suggests that a State Convention be^held
on the Second/Tuesday in June. Whatever
plan they adopt must be speedy, as the
time for holding the National Convention is
the 16th of June. In another column will
be seen acall for a meeting in this county
to beheld at this place on Saturday next.
How this matter will take, a few weeks
will determine. From the calls we see in
the newspapers for such meetings, and from
the manner in which the friends of Mr.
Fillmore in this section seems to have been
fired up with the call, we should suppose
that it will go down with much “good
cheer” and smacking of lips. The fact is,
it is the only sensible move that the Fill-
morefmen could make; they wanted him
as their candidate ; he was their first choice,
and until nowj the idea never seemed to
have entered their brain that the only
way they could get’him was to go where
he would be run for the candidacy, and
give him the support to which they say he
is entitled, and if they cannot nominate
him they could at least see him a fair fight
and an honorable grave.
Difficulty with Mexico.
The rumors from Washington say that
there is some prospect of a difficulty be
tween the U. States and Mexico, growing
out of the Teh uantepec Treaty. The Mex
ican authorities are likely to refuse to ratify
the grant, and disown it from a want of au
thority at the time it was made. President
Arista, it is said, is in favor of complying
with the demands of this Government, but
s utterly powerless to do anything, as the
people and Congress are utterly opposed to
granting the U. States any privileges on
her shores. In the meantime the Minister
of our Government to Mexico, has been
using all possible means to sustain the
rights of this Government and its citizens,
and had at the last accounts, presented his
ultimatum and was preparing to withdraw
and return home in case it was refused.
The mulish obstinacy of the Mexican Gov
ernment may again make a rupture between
the two countries.
The Steamer Fanny Seized.—The Stea
mer Fanny, (says the Savannah Republi
can of 17th as we have heretofore stated,
bound from New-Orleans for San Francisco
via Rio de Janeiro, with 350 passengers,
put into this port Saturday last for coal and
provisions. It appeared that she had a
greater number of passengers than is al
lowed by the laws of the United States,
she haa been seized by the direction of the
U. S. Distiict Attorney, Henry Williams,
Esq., and will be libelled for forfeiture.
This is a particularly hard case on the
passengers.—They had paid their passage
money in New Orleans to the owners of the
Fanny, to the amount of sixty to seventy
thousand dollars. The jteamer is an old
craft, not worth more than ten or twelve
thousand dollars, and the owners can very
well afford, with $60,000 or more in their
pockets, to have her forfeited. The pas
sengers are left to whistle for their money.
Of course the District Attorney did right to
proceed against her. The greatest wonder
is, not that she had 350 passengers, but
that she had any. ’
~ The
Quakerism is favorable to longevity
t seems. According to late English census
returns, the average age attained by mem
bers of this peaceful sect in Great Britian,
is fifty one years, two months and twenty-
one days. Half of the population of the
country, as is seen by the same returns, die
’before reaching the age of twenty-one, and
the average duration of human life the
world over, is but thirty three years:
Quakers, therefore, live a third lofiger than
the rest of us. The reason are Obvious
The Milledgeville Recorder, says: “The
Governor has appointed the Hon. Marshal
J. Wellborn of Columbus, and Hon. Asbury
Hull of Athens, under a resolution of the
General Assembly, to “attend a meeting of
Delegates from the thirteen original States
of the Union to be held in the City of Phil
adelphia, on the fourth day of July next*
to take into consideration, and delibeiate
upon a plan for carrying into effect the
Resolutions of the select and common coun
cils of Philadelphia, relative to the consecra
tion of Independence Hall, and the erection
of monuments in the groves near the place
and spot where the declaration of Indepen
dence was framed and signed.”
The Rumored Cuba Expedition.
Wilmington (Del.) Republican, in noticing
the rumor of another expedition for Cuba,
mentions the fact that Captain Lewis, who
commanded the steamer Pampero, which
carried General Lopez out to Cuba some
time since, purchased the Cornelia, a fast
sailing schooner, belonging to Brandywine,
for the purpose, as was then alleged, oftra-
ding between New Orleans and the Rio
Grande. It was said at the time that
twelve more vessels of that class were wan
ted and could be sold at New York. Per
haps this may throw some light on the ex
pedition in prospect.
Who wants a chance.—Ayoung Duch-
man named Charles Yonder Choux, twenty-1
nine years of age, having in the space of ten
Arrest of Dr. Bayne.
The Paducah Democrat contains the fol-
„ . , . „ , . „ .. . , lowing account of the arrest of Dr. Hayne,
years dissipated a large fortune left him by | in that plac6j already referred to in 0U r tel-
his father, and being now absolutely with- egraphic despatches :
out a thaler, has resorted to the following At no time in the history of Paducah
original method of replenishing his impov-1 was there ever experienced such an excited
erished treasury He nute himself un in a and fier ? stafce of P ublic feelin g as that
ensued treasury, lie puts himselt up m a which has pervaded the minds of our ^
lottery. One hundred thousand tickets, at m unity within the last few days.
ten francs each, amount to a million, in A man calling himself Dr. Charles
round numbers. The prospectus accompa- Hayne, who says he hails from Virginia,
nving each ticket acquaints the public with an< ^ ^ obov ! s the business of speculating in
J T* i .. cotton, principally on the Alabama rive*-,
the details of the operate: andintL neighborhood of Mobile and
“Up in a lottery, a young man, twenty- Montgomery, came to Paducah some few
eight years and a half of age, four feet eight weeks since. Whilst here he made the ac-
inches high, of agreeable face—which has, quaintance of a young lady, the daughter
by the way already pleased on several oc- 0 f one of our most worthy citizens She
casions. The winning ticket will be evi- fc beautiful, accomplished, amiable and a
dently a man or a woman. If a man, the g rea t favorite, with all who know her
million produced by the sale will be divi- Hayne at once became enamoured of her
ded between him and M. Yan der Choux. and soon a courtship, engagement and mar-
therefore realize a clear gain of riage took place, The time intervening
490,990 francs. If it is a woman, she will between the acquaintance and marriage be
have her choice between the person of M. i ng ver y short, some ten days—the fact
Van der Choux and 500,000 francs. Who- that Dr. Hayne was an entire stranger to
evershemay be, with as many years as the young lady, her family and the column
hairs, M. Van der Choux engages to marry nity, an d the great wealth of the Doctor
her, unless she prefers 500,000 francs. In aC cordmg to his own statement, aroused the
one of the other hypothesis, her profit is distrust of the community; the universal
Secure your tickets early.” opinion prevailed that all was not right.
The Pulaski Monument.— We learn |. well to state here, that Dr. Hayne
Terrible Storm.
The telegraph has given u S a brief ac
count of the storm which a few days aeo
passed over Leavenworth, Indiana. The
LouisviUe Courier has fuller particulars,
ihe force of the wind was terrific. More
than half the inhabitants were rendered
houseless, and their escape from destruction
was most providential. Shingles, rafters
bricks, beds, bedding, furniture, limbs of
trees and fence rails were blown about like
chaff in the wind. Just before the storm
a good sized skiff was tied to the shore, and
after the storm it was found all shattered to
pieces, back of the town hundreds of yards
from the river. The steamer, Col. Dickin
son, on her way to Nashville, was blown to
the shore, but escaped with the loss only of
her chimneys. The storm was accompa
nied with a heavy fall of rain and hail; and
some of the hail-stones were as large as
hen-eggs. Along the Frankfort railroad a
great many trees were blown down across
the track. The top of the dwelling of a
Mr. G. Kendall was blown off, just as the
family sat down to supper, and every thing
in the house demolished. Mr. Kendall
had taken off his coat, in which there was
several hundred dollars, and hung it up a -
gainst the wall before he sat down to sup
per. It was blown away, and
standing the most diligent
made it could not be found.
, . . , dignified ana gen
been adopted for the Monument to be erec tlemanly in his manner ; and possessing in
ted in that city to the memory of Count b * s exterior all the appearances and ac
Pulaski, the gallant Polish nobleman whose com P bsb “ 1 ents of a perfect gentleman and
. . , . a man of business.
name occupies so conspicuous a place m Thus qualified, he soon won the eonfi-
the revolutionary history of our country, dence and esteem of the parents of the
The Monument is to be fifty-five feet in young lady, and the marriage rites were
height; the two steps and the lower plinth {celebrated by their entire consent. Joy
to be of granite; and the rest of the finest P erva( kd l he fa “ ll ^ u c f 1 reie » wbllsfc doubts
and best Italian marble, m solid bloeks, turbed the public mind,
weighing fiom one to six' tons; the whole On Wednesday last the bridal pair start-
to be erected in the most artistical and e d f° r Ihe South, by way of Nashville. On
workmanlike manner. It is to rest on a | Thursday morning the steamer Fanny
Smith landed at our wharf, and the father
solid stow foundationsix feet deep, or more I feir bride wae struck’ dumb bvthe
if the soil requires it; and it is to be deliv- a nnouncement of Cant. Dunham that Dr
ered and erected in Savannah in two years; Charles Hayne was an arrant impostor, a
say before the 1st of July, 1854, and to I common swindler, and a consumate villain
cost $17,000. now havin S tbree wives—one at Cincinnati
— lone in the South, and the-one here.
Emigrants.—The New York Herald | As quick as thought, a thrill of fiery in-
Cape Hatteras.—The Philadelphia cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun says that
Messrs. Merrick & Son are constructing for
the government a curious structure, in the
shape of an iron boat, which is to be moor'
ed off Cape Hatteras, and sustain a bell
which the motion of the waves will cause
to ring, and in that way give notice to the
mariners apprbaching that coast ouring the
fogs that frequently occur, of their proxim
ity to danger.
The National Intelligencer strongly ob
jects to the Homestead Bill, as it* passed
the House of Representatives, and calls up
on the Senate to exercise its conservative
power in interposition. Seventy members
of the House were absent or did not vote on
the passage of the bill.
enough—Quakers, are temperate and pru
(lent U A —• ’il'~ J •-
t are seldom in a hurry, and never in a
passion. Quakers in the very midst of the
week’s business, (on Wednesday morning)
retire from the world, and spend an hour
or two in silent meditation at the meeting
house. Quakers are diligent; they help
one another, and the fear of want
does not corrode Iherr minds. The journey
of life to them is a walk of peaceful medi
tation. They neither suffer uor enjoy in
tensely, but preserve a composed demeanor
always. Is it surprising that their days
should be long in the land ?
Family Poisoned.—A young miss nam
ed Mary Ablehurst, has been arrested in
Cincinnati for poisoning the family of Wm.
Hammond, consisting of himself, wife, four
children and a servant girl. They have re
covered.
Mr. Thomas Clay, son of Henry Clay,
arrived in Washington City.'
Deaths at Washington.—Mrs. Louisa
C. Adams, the venerable relict of the late
John Quincy Adams, died at Washington
on 15th inst., where she has resided since
the death of her husband. She was in the
seventy-seventh year of her age.
On the same day Wm. S. Derrick, Esq.
Chief Clerk in the Department of State, al
so died. He had been connecied with the
Department since 1827, and was greatly es.
teemed for the ability and conscientious rec.
titude with which he discharged the duties
of his post.
Mr. Pleasanton, late Auditor of the Treas
ury, also died at Washington on Sunday.
Pennsylvania Embezzlements. — The
State Treasurer of Pennsylvania has official
ly reported to the Legislature a list of three
hundred and fifty public defaulters, who
have in the aggregate robbed that heavily
indebted and well-taxed State of over three
millions of dollars!
considers that European immigration adds} dignation pervaded the mind of the entire
to that city alone $15,300,000 per month, c ?“ m ^ nit 7- Despatches were sent toNash
. , .. , ., i \ xx. . ville, Clarksville, and other points, and
to be scattered throughout the country; j- ’ •, -, X71 . T
» ^ J ’ men started m pursuit. When the boat on
and that the whole migration from Europe which the bridal pair reached ICarksville,
would be probably nearly doable this I the proper officers were in waiting, and Dr,
amount, which would make the entire value Hayne was arrested,
to us of European emigration, about thirty I,. informed of the charges against
.... „ . „ ’ J him, he offered L —‘ 1 "
one millions of dollars per month, and for I ed> birtsaidat D ° °^ CCt ’ on . to anestr
. . once he would return to Pa-
year would exceed three-hundred millions dueah and vindicate himself against all and
additional accession to the money and labor every charge alleged against him
and living population of the country. The { tbe care of the proper officers he was
Herald bases its calculations on the as- back night; and now here
.. . , . with his sorrow-stricken bride in the bosom
sumption that each emigrant, on an aver- of her aln30St beart-broken family, all half
age, as an article of stock or labor, is worth doubting, but still hoping that the honor
* and that the average of money aQ d reputation of the man to whom she had
brought is $10 a head. It also says that j g‘ ven her heart and band, and with whose
this constant tide of emigration, flowing [“ tu ™ fortttnesshe , >*“ liuked
e v xxt xTi . „ , her late, may yet be vindicated,
from Europe to New York, is one of the Amid the sLm of publie indignation
chief means of its rapid increase in growth which surrounds, Dr. Hayne stands firm and
population, prosperity, and wonderful de- unshaken, firmly and loudly declaring his
velopment; and there seems to be no end to ^ nQocence i an< * asks that public opinion
jj. may be suspended until he can vindicate
himself from the foul aspersions upon his
From California—The Alta Califomi- character. He requests us to say that all
an says, “The Fugitive Slave bill has been be as ^ “ tim ®> in which he ma J vindicate
passed, much to the regret of all who watch f him - 8el t f fr ° m t ^. char S es *
’ v n for justice—nothing more—a fair and im-
witn zealous scrutiny the slow and insidi- partial trial, and fears no danger. This
ous attempt going on in this State to fasten ought, this will be given him, we know, in
slavery upon us. The cooley bill has been tbe intelligent an d law-abiding community
killed in the Senate by a vote of 16 to 2.” ° f i nz, .. ,
We are not advised of the provisions of Th ® 0r ! eans says:-“A tele-
thia K;n m r , . graphic dispatch to the Memphis Eagle, da-
thisbill The measure was passed by a ted Paduca ^ April the 30th ^ t f at ’ this
vote m the Senate of 14 ayes to 9 noes. accomplished scamp has been found guilty
We see it stated that the bill has an amend- there of the charge of bigamy—the only one
ment restricting its operation to one year fhe catalogue of his crimes on which he
from the day of passage, and providing that . wa i tr * et * an< * tbat he has been sentenced
• 1 ° 1 O I rn tiuw uoorc arm ai v rriAnt hi?’ i
tbe proceeds of the labor of .Zav* in the | “ ^XrW>“ OTthS ’
meantime shall not revert to their masters.
At Vallecit, a few days ago, a party of
Ice in June.—The Troy Whig says that
the stages which arrived in that city on the
14th inst., from Bellows Falls, Vermont,
came sixteen miles of the route on runners,
and it was the opinion of the driver that he
should continue to do so at least two weeks
longer.
Clairvoyance.—Our readers will recollect
eight unearthed and secured a lump of gold I that some years ago. we had a “Miss Mar-
which weighs twenty-six pounds. It is tha” here as a mesmeric “subject”—one of
nearly pure, there not being more than a-1 ^ e T ™®^ ers ^ nown b J the name
bout half a pound-of rock in it.
notwith-
search was
At the vill
age of Fredonia the storm was also very de
structive, and six houses were prostrated,
or partially demolished. In the neigh
borhood of Cincinnatti the storm was very
severe, and mueh damage was done. A
horticulturist there lost over seven thousand
panes of glass by- the hail. On Mount Au
burn, a portion of tbe roof of a new Meth
odist church was torn off and blown some
distance. The hail storm frightened the
horses in a funeral procession, which had
just stopped at the Roman- Catholic Ceme
tery, on the hill west of the city. Out of
the ten carriages the horses to eight of
them ran away ; one carriage was dashed
to pieces, and three or four others were
much injured. A great deal of other dam
age was also done^
of Loomis. By one of our exchanges wo
see that “Miss Martha” is still in the land
We learn that in the Massachusetts tbe hving, and has lately been flourish-
Fire in Macon.—A fire occurred in Ma
con on the 14th inst., which consumed sev
en houses, on the corner of third and Cherry
streets. Amount of insurance $8,500.
A Large Claim to Property.—The
Natches Free Trader sfates, that Jefferson
College at Washington, in Adams county,
Miss., is about to lay claim to a very valua
ble property consisting of twenty acres of
ground in the center of the business portion
of Mobile.
House of Representatives on Satuiday
morning, the bill for the further protection
of personal liberty (so called) came up on
its engrossment and was defeated by 11
majority. This Bill, had it become a law,
would have conflicted directly with the Fu
gitive Slave Law. “That,” says the N. Y.
Express, “was the effect its concoctors de
signed it should have, and to bring to it the
binding authority of law, no influence was
left untried^
Gov. Calhoun op New Mexico.—The
Occidental Messenger of the 1st of Mav,
learns by a private letter from Santa Fe, that
Gov. Calhoun was not expected to live o-
ver a day or two. He had been in ill
health.
Warren Felt of Walpole, N. H.,
has been carried to the Insane Asylum at
Brattleboro’, raving mad—a victim of tbe
spiritual rappingsexcitement.
Virginia and the Presidency.—If
seems to be conceded that a majority of the
delegates from Virginia to the democratic
National convention will be composed of
the friends of Mr. Buchanan. It is said he
has secured nearly all the delegates in the
first’second, fourth, ninth, and tenth dis-
Ir icts.
The editor of the Charleston Couri
er was shown, recently, an egg weighing a
quarter of a pound, and having three large
and perfect yolks. It was laid by a pullet;
a cross between a Black Canton, and a
Cochin China—the property of Dr. S. I*
Lockwood, of that city,
FMT The New York Evening Post says
that it is now a settled point that the Ja
panese, are the “rest of mankind” referred
to by President Taylor in his celebrated
message.
&W The reception of Kossuth at Boston
cost the State of Massachusetts $10,000.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
vetoed the Liquor Bill, at which there was
great rejoicing.
Mr. Superintendaut Wadley has returned
from the North, having purchased twenty
new Engines for the State Road.
Fitz Henry Warren, Esq., assistant
Post Master General has resigned.
ing at the town uf Warren, in Ohio. The
Transcript, of that place, gives the follow
ing as and one of the specimens of her
wonderful sight-seeing, while in the clair
voyant state and blindfolded; but more to
describe “a true woman” in the defence of
a husband;
A store in Warren had been robbed, and
the clairvoyant was called upon to tell who
was the thief. The “subject” was accor
dingly putin the “proper state,” her eyes
tightly bandaged, and everybody was
breathless with anxiety to hear the won
derful revelation. She went on to describe
very minutely, a resident of the town, who
was a married man. Every one knew him,
and the poor fellow was about to become
the victim of humbug, when his wife, a wo
man af sense and spirit, took the stand in
defence of her husband, and appealed to
the citizens to know whether a man’s char
acter should be forever blasted in the minds
of rhe community on such evidence ? She
defended her husband, says the Transcript,
in a manner worthy the wife of a Trojan.
At the conclusion of her remarks she was
loudly cheered by the audience.
“What do you see now, Miss Martha ?”
“How do you feel. Miss Mary ?”
The Alagou Grant.
Tbe Jacksonville News,thus-gives the-his
tory of this grant, whose validity is to be
tried before the U. S. District Court,, this
week.
Aboat the period of tbe- negotiatk>» be
tween the United, States and Spain for the
cession of “the Florklas,” in 1818, a grant,
of land in Florida,, embraekigaaout ten mil-
lions of aeres T was made by the Spanish
Government to the Duke of Alagon. By
the 8th article of the treaty with Spain r
all grants of land made before the 24th of
January, 1818, in the said territories shall
be ratified” &c. But “all grants made
since the 24th January, 1818, are hereby
declared null and void.” This 8th article
of the treaty weald appear te- be sufficient,
of itself to nullify the Alagon grant, provi
provided it was made subsequent to the
24th January, 1818. But the U. S. Com
missioner, John Q, Adams in order to place
the exclusion ol the Alagon grant beyond-
a doubt, had a clause inserted in the ratifi
cation of the treaty by the King of Spain,
which declares the grant to the Duke of
Alagon “entirely annulledaod invalid and
that neitbeir he, nor those who may have-
title or interest through him, can*avail him
self of the said grant at any time,, or in any
manner.
We understand that the plea set up by
those who claim under the grant to the-
Duke of Alagon is, that at the time the
grant was made to the Duke of Alagony
by the King of Spain, he was an absolute
monarch, and had a perfect right to dispose
of the Territory of Florida accordino- to his-
sovereign will; But that before the ratifica
tion of the treaty, and the annulling of the
grant, a revolution in Spam had changed
the position of tbe King, from a despotic
prince to that of a constitutional monarch
and in the exercise of his now limited pow
er, he had no right to annul the grant
without the consent of ! he Cortez. But in
the article ratifying, the treaty, dated 24th
October, 1820, the King declares that “be
fore ratifying, it, he had first obtained the
consent and authority of the Cortez.”
An action of ejectment has been brought
by the claimants against an individual re-
siding on the grant. And holding under
a title from the United States, with a view
to test the validity of the grant. Counsel
for the claimants—Charlss F. Mayer, of
^ Thom P son > of Tallahissee,
and McQ. McIntosh, of Jacksonville, Esqrs.
For the defence—The Hon. D. L. YuTee
George W. Call, and C. C. Younge, Esqrs!
i °TJ he correspondent of
the Philadelphia North American makes
the following confident prediction as to the
result of the coming election:
“It is as fixed as the decrees of fate, that
Winfield Scott will be nominated for Presi
dent by the Whig National Convention al
Baltimore, and will be elected in November
next by a vote North and South, and Fast
and West, that will astound even his most
sanguine supporters. In less than six months
this prediction will be fulfilled or falsified.
In the fullness of faith I abide the result;
and if our Democratic friends are skeptical
on thi* subject, and will name any candidate
on their side in opposition, they can have
the chance of improving their fortunes by
certifying their confidence.”
JSrThe Whigs on Wednesday, carried
the municipal election in Providence, R. I.,
without serious opposition. The Democrats
preferred that those who passed the Maine
(law should enforce it.
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Most Astounding Freak of Nature.—
On Friday, the 7th inst., a post mortem ex
amination was held by Dr. Parkhurst on
the body of the widow of Amos Eddy, in
the town of Frankfort, Herkimer county,
N. Y., aged 77 years, and to tbe utter as
tonishment of all present a full grown child
was found, which she had carried for the
term of forty-six years. It was cased in a
sort of bony or cartilaginous structure, ex
cept one leg and foot and one elbow, which
were almost entirely ossified.
Twenty-five clerks were dismissed from
he Census Burea oh the 28tb ufc.