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. ~ nrw^iriWiteWB^Mft - '--Av'" ’’ THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN. =Sk- SAai’Ii B. GRAFTON, COUNTY PRINTER. TERMS—Fo r the paper in advance if not paid ip advance, $1 50 $2 00 Magnetic Telegraph. 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. ■ j m - 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.