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Weekly Georgia Constitutionalist and Republic. —• r BY JAMES GARDNER, JE QFJ*CB on MeINTOSH-S'S’RKKT *HSRO BOOR FROM thh no#tu-whst corner of broad f. BTUKBT. d!an°« f L^ ND h? - Administrators or Guar- SgfftJE« roquireaijy law, to be held on the first th» iv! y to< * “'° nth > between the hours of ten in J lrßu ln at the Court l >ro f >orA 4l‘ ] * situate. Notice of I<ia , mU3t bo g lTOn ln a public Gazette, SIXTY a-v * ? HfcxM 1 * to the da J of sale- ’ must be at Public Auction, on the «f 6 LT“ e^t a tht f nK e m °, nth ’,'? etwocn the U3ual hour* Bal )*K„* place of public sales in the county Testamentary, or Administration » 'fcfXTY r i)AY^‘ I'’ 1 '’ Ti ay ’ir* b r° n Sraoted, first giving * v si*lau notion thereof, in bna of the public ‘ hia p at , a -and at the door of theCouit ’4-s-S.***® where suon sales are to be held. iwifir* * ha 3al *^? f I'ersonal'Property must be given, JftfiF* “anner, FORTY JtAYR previous to day o*sal e : * of an Estate, must be publuhed For FORTY DAYS. Notice thf*t application will bo made to the Court of fWTwS MONTHS 10 SBU LiND ’ miut be P ublishod N two vi 1 ?! 11 NEGROES, must be published ? iv. Tl^! b » for » ar *7 order absolute cau be given by the Court. TERMS OP ADVERTISING. One square, 12 lines, 76 cents the first insertion, and 60 cents afterwards. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sheriff's Levies. Jo days, $2 50 per levy; 60 days $5. Executor,, Administrator’s and Guardian's Sales, Real * _ Estate, (per square 121inos,) $4 75 ’■ Personal Estate. .3 23 Citation for Letters of Administration 2 75 '- ■ «rr Dismission. 4 50 . ..Notice to Debtors and Creditors 3 25 Two Months’Notices. *; 4 00 ••>>>Rulos Nisi, (monthly) $1 psr square, each insertion. * i iu o kituary Notices over six lines, will be charged * the same rates as advertisements LEGAL NOTICES. Ui/T N ctico of the sale of Land and Negroes by Ad nVhoSKCI xccu l® r » or OuardiaHH, must be publish e* *0 **?'•**P reviou * to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate must be published FORTY DAYS. Notice that application will ho made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to soil Land or Negroes, must he published TWO MONTHS, weekly. Notice of application for Letters of Administra tion, must be published THIRTY DAYS; andLet .P:iaW'Uwion of Kxecutors or Administrate vs. SIX V -l/ismis.iivA of 3uaruiail»* fltttßTi DAYS, m Sales of personal property of a perishable na ture, by the Act of 1852, by Executor* and Administra tors, at the diflcrotiou of the Ordinary, upon not less than TEN DAY’S notice. Sales by regular Administra te rs, at) under the old law, FORTY DAYS. O- ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL, are at our SUSHI. AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY MORNINO, FEBRUARY 5 Northern Exchange. Our Banks have advanced the rate of north thern exchange and are now asking haif per cent premium, for sight checks on New York and other northern cities The same rates are asked in Charleston. The Jerry Rescue Case. The New York Herald says : Enoch Reed the colored man whose case has occupied the attention of the United States Circuit Court at Albany during the past week, was yesterday morning declared guilty of assisting in the res* cue of the fugitive slave Jerry, from the officers who had him in charge at Syracuse. Notwith standing the combined efforts of the abolition ists of this and other States, headed by Gerrit Smith, to save Reed and his coadjutors from ~ punishment—and although they succeeded in staving off the trials until excitement upon the subject had entirely died away, except among themselves—the national constitution and the Congressional compromises of 1950 have, in this instance, been fully sustained by an enlighten ed and impartial jury. This is a glorious tri umph of the laws of the land over those agita r tors who would set them at defiance. It is a triumph of the principles of justice over fanati cism, that will be appreciated by the masses of the country, and one that will be of infinite ser- S vice in restoring that good feeling with our Southern brethren, which for a time had been disturbed by the groundless insinuations emana ting from rival States and cities. Expulsion of Jesuits from Ecuador. "The Panama Star states that an Ecuadorian national vessel had arrived there, from Guaya- • quil, 'Vitii a cargo of thirty-two Jesuits, who had keen expelled by the Ecuadorian Government. 1 They were consigned to the Governor of Pana -4 nia, with the request that he would put them through the Isthmus and out of the country,"with all commendable care and speed. On their ar il'. al they were informed offic'diy that they could not land, but would "bg subject to police sxiryelil.aiee during their s'.akohere, which was them under guard'. hV' latter was done, and tiu‘y w cre landed at the northern gate of Panama under a guard of soldiers and po lice. who then conducted them to the City Hall where their appeti. rance created some excitement among the population. At a later hour in the day, under charge of one ff two police officers, they were conducted t* she College, where they received such attentiod Jrom the authorities as it was possible, undeiftlfr circumstance, to ex tend to them. The Vext morning'the whole body started for CruceS(ftiidcrpire official guide, but no military or pdlice yrce accompanied them. tgu-. Railway Interests of New York. Ihe of flc;al reports, to Ist September last, made by the differs'* 1 * Railroad Companies to the State En gineer at Albany, show, that altogether the rEI inve'*** Shares is -$'13,575,662 Making a grand total oi • .$85,319,333 gross ANI ' VAr ' E ' lßJ ’ lN y' S^ c .2l2,2ls From passengers ..,4,115,529 Miscellaneous ] , $10,959,922 Iota! ' v Expenses 46.70 per cent ' 1 ■ Leaving net earnings $5,848,246 The sura returned for interest is $2,205,090, but this eanuot be the whole interest on a debt of $41,742,671 at 7 per cent., which is $2,921,386. The discrepancy arises from the fact that many news bonds were issued during the year, on .<onje of which little or no interest had accrued io the date by this Report, and on others only .. ; ix months. Deduct actual accruing interest from the net earnings as above, and we have left, for dividends on Capital Stock, $2,926,260, or • a trifle over 0 per cent. C UICITY OF Shad. —'■* The Savannah News <4 the fiays We are informed byone ~ experienced fishermen on our river, that for son.'* Shad have been very , t h U <riepy few, thus far, have been taken' Pther seasons. For the past three days they ba,v:e*lmost entirely stopped ninning, and lew been Yesterday morning choice shad brought piece in our market The scared of this fish is attributed by some to the late cold weather, particularly in I ■ v.-h —ft «4~-yh*-has chilled tha W> to sea. We r U that but few shad have been taken this eam any 0 f the rivers south of this city, Td that the fishermen here have received from • the NortMarge orders for them, which they are Vf.inable to fill. _ y. The failure of Messrs. Collman & Co.j of Lort afon occasions the return of bills drawn by two ■ souses of New-York, for the aggregate amount , h.£9o,ooo sterling, of which importing houses w 're she principal buyers. T he Sandy Hook Telegraph Line is now com rdete far as the Highlands; and will be in op eration to the Point of the Hook, in three or four weeks The news brought by vessels arriving below New-York can be telegraphed into the hity some two hours in advance of the vessel bringing it. A Feature in the Coal Trade.— The Har risburg Keystone, in noticing the arrival at that place of the fust cars loaded with coal from the Cold Springs Mines, says: " These arrivals are remarkable in several par r« They are the first coal ears that ever tic “ la -. from the mines ladened with anthracite arrived ] arge town on the Susquenanna coal, at a \ ury . They are the first cars that south of Sun central and southern portion ever supplied t. anthracite coal, fresh from the of this State with shipment. They are the mines, without tra*. carried coal from the first coal cars that e * 0 j janC aster, Columbia, mines in a few hours, in, s &c These ar- York, Carlisle, Chambers.. ngi f or they are rivals ere well worth’ wl *"i h ~* cite coal busi ‘ opening a new era m the anth. ness.” ' ' ■ , The annual commencement of the* Medical College took place in * be the 27th ult., before a crowded >n Musical Fund Hall. The lady graduates son nine or ten in number, occupied seats on the platform, and their appearance wasgreeted wi S applause. The degree were conferred by Fref. Cfer*l*od. * , ? : ' o . . ... The Great Speculation In Iron. D W e <leem it a matter of no slight importance r- to lay before our readers the following Circulai at fronrv.the Glasgow annual trade report on thi rt Bub ject of Iron. It will be seen that the con | sumption of iron in the United States and else where has nothing whatever to do with the enor ‘® mous increase in price within one year of more J *ban 100 per cent On the contrary, the stock £ °f P‘S i r °n on hand in Scotland is now 300,000 ic tons, against 330,000 tons at the end ot 1851, 4 an d against only 80,000 tons at the end of 1847. i, It is clearly in proof that speculators have been it the sole cause of all this extraordinary inflation. (f which is operating with such prejudicial effect d upor. our interests. What then is the duty of d American consumers'? Obviously to hold off e from giving new orders for a short time. Let them not send forward a single new order for 0 three or six months, and we shall see a tumble equal to that which took place not long ago in j England soon after the great speculating Rail -5 road mania. 5 I >IG Iron.—ln looking at the above statistics 3 for the causes of the great advance which has ta -5 ken place in the price of Pig Iron, being upwards D of one hundred per cent, in eight months, we j And an increase to the stock of 100,000 tons over last year—a production as large as ever known —and still increasing; and, on inquiring into the • state and prospects of the trade, we find that we ' commenced the year with the largest stock ever , known, as, notwithstanding the low prices rul ing since 1816, the stock had increased from 80,000 tons, at the end of 1847, to 350,000 at the ’ end of 1851, being for 1851 about 480.000 more than the average of the previous six years, prior to which period we have no correct statistical information; and their being 114.furnn.ees in blast, there appeared >io prospect ot any immediate improvement in prices, as it was evident slocks would continue to increase, unless the produc tion was curtailed. These facts—with the pros pect of considerable competition from the new ly discovered field of minerals in the north of England, where, in the face ot the miserable state of the trade here, a number of furnaces were in course of erection ; and several of our most intelligent Don masters having personally visited that district, the trade became satisfied that they could produce Iron there as cheaply as in Scotland, although not perhaps of equal quality—incr-ased the gloom which had so long prevailed; and the first four months of this year were, perhaps, the most disheartening our Iron trade ever experienced. The price gradually receded till the end of April, when it reached 35s a 35s 6d. for war rants, and 34s a 345. (3d. for scrip. In the mean time, the price being ss. to 10s. below the cost of production at most of the works, several of the Iron masters,seeing no end to this state of matters, as stocks, notwithstanding prices and freights, were as low as ever known—were supposed to be increasing—resolved to stop their works, and 12 to 14 furnaces were eventually put out; re poits WPre also circulated, that several large works must be stopped ere long, unless some change took place for the better. This induced several parties, who were convinced that before long the trade would work its own cure—by the masters being compelled to stop their works —to turn their attention to the article as a siffe investment, and in May several large purchases were made at about 365. to 375., with the view of being held over for several years, if necesary, till this anticipated reduction of the market was accomplished. This gave a firmness to the market, which, on the purchases being follow ed up by the trade and speculators, and a greatly increased demand for malleable Iron having taken place for ship-building, shipment and other purposes, and the general trade of the country rapidly improving, prices rose to about 455. in the month of June, when most of the dealers and brokers here, being of opinion that a farther advance was unwarranted, commenced to realize, and prices, consequently fluctuated between 445. to 403. till about the end of Au gust. The market afterwards got wholly into the hands of speculators ; prices advanced rapidly in September, and continued to do so till about ten days ago, when it reached 775. Gd , and we close the year at 735. to 745. for G. M. P. warrants. The arguments in favor of the speculation are, ; the cheapness and abundance of money; an ex pected rise in the rate of wages, every Od. per day adding 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. to the cost of pro ducing a ton of Iron ; the extraordinary demand for Bar Iron of all kinds, with every appearance of its lasting; and high prices being continued, as tho works erected cannot supply the demand ; (but it must not be overlooked, that the expe rience of the last seven years proves, that no article sympathizes less w’ith the manufactured fVinn Pinr Trnn tb** munne r\f nrndnnm/ it fur ov. lUtfii i hum, rue uicauo .’i n i«i pa* needing the consuming pow ers of the manufacto nes.nftW established and suppL'iu;: the ship •Ma it 9 ~lfcelihoo3 of * Ji’.«;c.l,cr hand, we have asi of- or 000 tons, arid 113 furnaces in blast,\ with tat probability Hiat before the shipping (season is fairly commenced thfe slock will i&e 500,000, mid the furnaces 120 to 122 in blast, as some six or-eight are preparing, and it is stated that arrangements are making to prepare a good many more, and should present prices last, there will in all probability be a number more built, two new works being already arranged for; and in addition, there are seventeen new furnaces erecting in the north of England, and many of the American and Belgian furnaces are also going into blast; the scarcity of shipping is also increasing, and freights have very much ad vanced ; the orders for heavy casting are taken out of the market, many of the founders com plaining that they have not had fewer orders on nand for four years, and there is little appear ance of many heavy orders being in the market this season. It is impossible to give an opinion as to the course of the market, but we trust spec ulation will not be carried farther during 1853, as it is ev : dent, unless there is some cause for the groat advance, which we do not perceive, that the result must, sooner or later, be similar to that produced by the speculations of 1845, which ended in disappointment and loss to al most every one connected with the trade; and this result appears more certain now than it did then, the furnaces erected being one.third more than at that period. Wm. Connal & Co. December 31. The subscriptions in Boston to purchase a car go of food, to send by the large barque Nautilus, to the starving inhabitants of the island of Ma deira, have been pretty successful. Over $2,000 have been raised. Nine gentlemen subscribed SIOO each, and many others SSO and $25 each. At the relief meeting held in New-York, the other evening, John Van Buren stated that he had spent some four months in the island of Ma deira; the people there are honest, simple, inde pendent and industrious; they accumulate but little property, and owing to the peculiarity of the climate, require but little. By changing their location from one part of the island to an ht\loT, they can always be in a climate where no houses, s.n4 hut light clothing is required. The crops of the vineyard have never failed before in 200 years. This last season the vineyards have entirely failed. This is the only means they have for support, and, unless they should receive foreign aid, many of them must starve. The Fishing Business ot the United States is a very heavy business, employing a large num ber of persons, and a large amount of tonnage, and a vast amount of capital. This capital, in IHO, was $16,429,620; the men were 36,584, and the actual value of the year $1,153,234. Still there has been a gradual falling off in the trade, and the export of codfish was just three times as much in 1804 as in 1815. In 1804, the codfish exported was valued at $2,400,000, and in 1845 the amount was $803,353. The ton nage employed in the mackerel fishery was 48,- 725 in 1833, and 50,539 in 1851, as follows : Maine,!?, 858 ; New Hampshire, 481; Massa chusetts, 39,416 ; Rhode Island, 190; Connecti cut, 594 —Total, 50,539. Massachusetts leads off every year in the mackerel trade, and there were 329,242 barrels inspected there in 1852, and 212.946 in 1835. The Ericsson Air Ship at New York is get ting ready for her trip South, which will be to Baltimore or Washington. The Express says the company are also waiting for the act of in corporation, which has been petitioned for at Albany. This secured, the keels of five new vessels will be immediately laid. The projec tors have unabated confidence in the success of their enterprise, notwithstanding the faithless ness of so many ip the community. Captain E., in reply to an invitation ot the Philadelphia Board of Trade, to bring his chip to that city, states that the vessel will shortly pro ’ ceed to Norfolk, in compliance with the wish of the Secretary of the Navy, and that if, on the return trip to New York, it shall not too much “interfere with the destination of the ship,” he will be happy to gratify the desire of the Phila delphians. An extensive conflagration occurred at Nash ville, Tenn., on Friday morning. The entire property destroyed was probably worth eighty or ninety thousand dollars. Byway of showing their appreciation of the services rendered by the firemen, each engine company was presented With the sum of two hundred dollars, half of which was given by the Union Bank, and the other half by Mwere. Fall and Caoninghaqa. Returns of the Charleston Post-office, 3 —We learn that the returns of the Post-office in r Charleston, for the last quarter of the year just 5 closed, amount to $9,703 80, which compared ■ with those of the corresponding quarter of 1851, • $9,047.95, exhibit a difference in favor of the ■ former of $655.85. We understand, however ■ that the reduction of the postage on newspapers, : which has taken place within the past six ' months, gives the corresponding quarter of 1851, , an advantage of some S4OO over that of 1852. The Greenville Southern Patriot, of the 27th alt., is very happy to learn that the President of the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road has sue - ceeded to his entire satisfaction, in making all ■ his financial arrangements in this city, so that there will now be no pressure on the company for funds, provided the instalments called for are paid promptly—indeed,there is now every pro bability that the affairs of the road- will progres smoothly and successfully, and that the track will be finished to Greenville in the early part of the summer. Louis Nai-oleon’s Svveathkart. —The Paris correspondent of the New-York Albion gives an account of a flirtation going on between a very beautiful and wealthy Spanish girl and the French Emperor. He first saw her at the thea tre, and becoming enamored with her, invited her and her mother to the palace the next day, where they have been ever since. Bfce corres pondent adds: The best horses in his stables are placed at her 1 disposal to join the hunting parties; she is invi j ted wherever the Emperor goes; she gives a list of such ladies a; are to he asked tu the reunions *t St Cloud, Dud is. in short, in nM sueh matters, the sovereign for the time being. It is, howev er, but justice to add, that notwithstanding the perilous game she is playing, not the slightest suspicion of what, in such cases, is commonly called dishonor, attaches to it; her ambition and not her heart, being almost undisguisedly the motive in the whole affair ; and she even takes the insolent pleasure in displaying the chains of her captive, and her freedom from any such fet ters. Mr. Darius Davidson informs the public, through the New York papers, that he discover ed, ten years ago, a principle by which he can create a motive power, adapted to all uses to which steam is applicable, with a saving of 90 per cent, in the fuel required to produce any given amount of power. All this, he says, is to be done by the means of heat, air, steam and a vacuum. He invites offers for the sale of half his right in the invention in the various parts of this country and in all the principal countries of Europe, and he proposes to apply the proceeds of his sale to the construction of Iron Ocean steamers 700 feet in length, which will cost two millions of dollars, and will be capable of run ning to Liverpool in five days. On Dits on Parisian Fashions. —We see it stated that some very radical innovations on present styles have recently been announced. The principal change in gentlemen’s apparel is described as being a return to the short breeches, long stockings, buckles, and other features of the seventeenth century. Gentlemen’s full dress coats are made with large sleeves at the wrist, like the sleeves of ladies’ dresses, and worn with undersleeves puffed at the wrist, like those worn by the ladies. The ladies ot the Parisian court powdering their wigs, &c., and so on. Items. Gen Pierce’s Carriage.— -To the elegant carriage already announced as having been man ufactured at Pittsfield, Mass., for the President elect, the presenters have now added a fine pair of bay horses, which they procured for SBOO - carriage and horses are to be sent to Wash ington in a short time. Lake Freights.— The Oswego Time says some contracts are being negotiated foi freights on the opening of navigation at rates, we under stand, below those paid the past season. There is a prevailing belief that lake freights must rule lower next season, on account of the ’argg amqunfc of new tonnage to corr.e otft. V Dccv.-vration op V.'.r.-—Tne Gugyaaui* pa —Stitntu daCieCa dftte Ecuador Assembly, :ia.sMfcaJiliOSit ru unless aaHafaeifo., yf givx’ ji that tiic men engaged in Flores' tion lie proclaimed pirates, who have not joint.' l the national army, or delivered themselves up to the government before his defeat. The Shamokin Furnace —The anthiacite furnace and lands at Shainokin, Pa., which have been lying idle for the last six or eight years, have passed into new hands, or rather, a portion of the old stockholders have sold out. The price paid is $31,000. Mr. P. J. Teernon, a book-keeper in a store in Cincinnati, has just received intelligence that an estate and a title has been bequeathed to him in Ireland, in the will ol a relative, valued at £50,000. He will, when he is putin possession of his rights, be known as Lord McGilligan Maine U. S. Senator. —The democrats of the Senate of Maine on Thursday nominated Na than Clifford for U. S. Senator. The democrats of the House nominated John W. Dana for the same office. The whigs of both branches have nominated Wm. Pitt Fessenden. Quick Travelling. —The express train on the Fitchburg Railroad, on Thursday evening, ran from Fitchburg to Groton Junction, a dis tance of fourteen miles, in fourteen minutes and fifteen seconds. Hog Statistics. —Hog killing was nearly fin ished at St. Louis. The Intelligencer sets down the number at full 60,000 head at that point, which is an increase of full 13,000 on last year’s business. The deficiency in weight is estima ted at 10 to 12 per cent. Stopping the Supplies.— The New York city comptroller will pay no more tea bills, and has '«n notice accordingly. There is no law, he says, for eating and drinking at the city’s ex pense. The jury at Albany, in the case of Enoch Reed tried for aiding in the rescue of Jerry, a fugitive' slave, has brought in a verdict of guilty. The Cure for Dyspepsia. —Close all the outer doors of a four story house, open the inner doors, and take a long switch and chase a cat up and down stairs till you steam. It is a fact worthy of note that when cotton is well handled before it passes through the gin it pays thp planter a much better price than when raising an overgrown crop half matured and picked full of trash. O. L. Anderson, who was arrested on a charge of robbing the mail between Coffeevillo and Linden, (Alabama,) more than a year ago at the recent Term of the Federal Court in Mobile, plead guilty, and was sentenced to the Peniten tiary for five years. Mr. Evans, of Lowel, complained of his wife, whom he had recently married, charging her with cutting off the (head of his portrait and breaking glass. The lady was brought before a magistrate on Tuesday, and fined $3, which the husband had to pay. Spdden Death from Erysipelas. —A young lady residing in Boston, only 18 years of age died on Tuesday, of erysipelas, after a sickness of only two or three days. She was seized with the disorder while in the act of being measured lor a ball dress, and fainted away. Before the ball took place she was in her shroud. It is remored that Mr. Crittenden, is to go to France jn the place ot Mr. Rives. Miss M.ary Apn Atherton, sister of Senator Atherton, died at Amherst, N. H. on the 26th ult. The Tennessee Democratic Delegation in Congress has, it is said, unanimously recommen ded Mr. Nicholson for a seat in the Cabinet. Iji is said that the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means intends shortly to report an important bill for the regulation ql the coinage. It is said a number of the members of Congress and othsrp have held a meeting and resolved to make an effort to push the French Spoliation bill through. Sale of Cattle.— Jacob Vanmeter, Esq., of Hardy county, Va., sold, a few days ago, twenty head of cattle, to Daniel R. McNeill Esq., at the enormous price of ninety-seven dollars per head. The Gipsey’s Empress. —Mmlle. de Montigo, who is said to be looking towards the throne of France, is a Spanish beauty with golden hair, large black eyes, and SIOO,OOO a year. A gipsy has told her she would be an empress, and Paris begins tp credit the prophecy, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEB» 1? I From the Baltimore Simj.l ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER AFRICA. The mails last evening brought us the full ac counts by the Africa from Liverpool to 16th January. The Africa’s news is interesting in its general features, though not important. Cotton at Liv erpool keeps steadier; grain active as ever. The winter, both in France and England, has been extraordinarily mild. Similar account* come from Russia also. England. —The reported intention of M. Kossuth to visit the United States again has but little foundation beyond rumor. The London News asserts that the success of tho Democracy in the United States has induced him to believe that he can succeed better with his peculiar doc trines. The Times of the 14th inst says that one days detention of the Africa was at the instance of Lord John Russell, and is probably occasioned by a wish to send out late dispatches that may hasten any negotiations requiring to be brought to a close before the termination of Mr. Fill more’s Presidency. An event of political import this week is the statement made by Lord John Russell to the corps diplomatique that he holds office only ad interim , and will soon resign his office to the Earl of Clarendon. Lord Drumlaearg (Peelite) had been elected for Dumfrieshire,- in Scotland. Sir Wm. Jardine, the Naturalist, by whom he was opposed, having withdrawn. On the 12th a banquet was given at Southamp ton, to celebrate the selection of that port as the headquarters of the General Screw Steamship Company. Mr. Lankaster, Mayor of South ampton, Mr. J. R. Crcskey, American Consid, and several other gentlemen, made speeJ:. cu ! the occasion. Mr. Croskey’a speech in espccial was a good one. Should Mr. Ingersoll accept the invitation at Birmingham, to a dinner, which it was thought he would, the entertainment in all probability 1 would take place on th? SOfu Jarn:£S contiguous mta district' of South Staffordshire | and East Wercestershi'e, that are so l r’dy j benefited by the American trade, will doubtles;. . contribute a large company on the occasion. On board ship Guy Mandering, while lying in the Mersey, Wm. Christie, a New Yorker, kill ed Meziada Costa, a Portuguese, by stabbing— in self-defence as he says. Christie is commit- | ted for trial. France. —Mr. Rives, Minister of the Unites States presented his credentials, on Monday, at the Tuileries, to the Emperor. The presenta tion too place with the same ceremonial as on late similar occasions. The Ottoman p. 3 well as the Prussian and Austrian Ministers also pre sented themselves officially near the Emperor. The following abjudications on tenders tor the supply of Leaf Tobacco to the Government,were made on the 18th inst.; M. Fescotore for 1,200,- 000 kilogrammes Virginia at 96 fr. 97c. per hun dred ki logs; 120,000 kilogs, Kentucky at 71 fr. 31c.; 309,000 kilogs, Brazilian at 106 fr.soc.j --1.200,000 kilogs. Dutch at 192 fr.: M. Gaiine, 350,000 kilogs, Maryland at 85fr. 33c.; and M. Nanguada 150,000 killogs, Havana at 234 fr. There is a report that the Minister of State has fallen into discredit with his colleagues, who feel bound to disclaim his encouragement of the excessive speculation on the Bourse, that has re sulted in the ruin of many. Political on <lies are, however, crowded out lor the moment by the great excitement of the first Imperial Ball,which took place on Wednesday evening. The invi tations were limited to 2.000, of which 240 were set aside for English. His Majesty and Court came out in the glories of short breeches, and silk stockings, having for the occasion laid aside their long pantaloons and holies a veatyere. The Emperor had danced with Lady Cowley, the Princes Mathilde, and the Countess of Telia— the last one of the most beautiful woman in Spain. It appears the Court is in commotion respect ing the strictness of the observances of State.— The orderly officers and aid-de-camp who were allowed to approach the Presidentof the Republic with the familiarity of equals, now find them* selves thrust back into tbe ante-chamber of the Emperor Napoleon 111. The affair is said to have become so embarrassing that Napoleon finds bis household give him moret rouble to gov ern than the rest of his empire. The new coinage of the Empire had come largely into circulation, but was deemed inferior in execution to * fiat of the First Napoleon. Italy. —The reported death of Francis Madiai is not confirmed. In fact great doubt is thrown on the statement of his decease. It has, how ever, evoked numerous leading articles in the Christian press. Portugal. —The Cortez assembled on the -.1 inst. The Duke de Saidanha informed the House that the dispute respecting the Gene: -! Armstrong claims, which was "referred to arbitration of the French Republic, had been <!■;- 'cfueifln favor of Port- ;»nh On acca'4iLqUi“ —-,jß uecree is published, permitting, lor one yearir* Mtivember last, vessifs (whether sailing steamers) to land pj*e-enge»«tiu ca’ft'., .x«4H : ~t wM «x«urXt Ire. a.jspgtptn-boii ’« ance, as well as lr Cfi>.rgds 'iui Thv; ' office and goveic.mTot visits. The import on salt hsli is also reduced to 15 per cent ad yAH pa ifcty, rern, and potatoes and pearl barley are aurtli duty free through the custom-bouse at IjAHf Spain. —The Madrid Gazette ot the publishes the new law regulating the |ka is less stringent than some of its predecesst. -J, 1 M. Jose del Y.al had submitted to the Minister of War a plan for the protection of the Island of Cuba, which is to consist in the establishment ofthree “ flying columns” ot volunteers, charged with watching over the security es the Island, and promptly repelling all attacks. Turkey. —The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says: From Vienna Bth, great ex citement prevails among the Christians in Bos nia and Servia. In Albania the standard ot the Prophet has been raised, and large numbers rallied round it. The number enrolled amount- j ed to 8,000 men. Der Lloyd says: Among the j irregulars are several Hungarian renegades, who j are eager for the combat with their former bretheren in the faith. Denmark. —lt is well known that much at- , tention has been attracted in Denmark to the j question of the compensation to the owners ot the ; emancipated slaves of the Danish West Indies, j Last year the finance minister offered 40 Span- | ish dollars for each slave, the owners demand- j ing seventy-five. This year he has brought in a bill, raising the compensation to fifty dollars a ; head. It is expected that the sum will be ac- j cepted by the House, and a disagreeable question be thus set at rest. Edelin, the historical painter, is dead, aged 49. Switzef.land. —Letters fiom Belliozona and Vienna state that the Austrian Government is disposed to pick a quarrel with Switzerland, on the ground of the expulsion of the Capuchin Monks from the Canton of Tincino. Austria claims these Monks as her subjects, and has ad dressed a domineering note to the confederation, threatening to resort to extreme measures,unless they be restored. Australia. —By the steamship Australian, dates are from Sydney .Sept. 8, and Adelaide Oct. 5. On board the Australian, is a nugget from the Bendigo diggings, which weighs 28 pounds, and and Was purchased at j£4Q6s. per ounce by the Government authorities at Melbourne, as a pres ent to the Queen. The gold on freight by the Australian, weighed 222,293 ounces, about eight and a half tons, in addition to which the pas sengers had considerable quantities. At the gold mines, 28 miles from Adelaide,4oo people were at work, gathering, it was said,from two to three ounces per oay each, the deposit being of a similar quantity, and realizing the same price as at Melbourne. Flour was 38 a .£49 per ton; beef 4s. per lb.; pork 65.; mutton 4s. Seamen employed in ships engaged solely in intercolonial trade get $5 per week, and are saucy at that. It is stated in London that the British Govern ment had sent despatches per Adelaide steamer, to the Governor General of New South Whales and the Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, au thorizing the Legislative Councils in both these Colonies to form themselves into a Parliament of an Upper and Lower House, it being at the same time intimated that so soon as this ariange ment shall have been brought into operation, the Crown will concede to them the management of their own affairs, including the entire re ceipts from the public lands, so as to assimilate their position to that of Canada. These dis patches are said otherwise to have contained an assurance that the transportation of criminals to these Colonies shall positively cease within a short period, which will be named as soon as the necessary plan for a different disposal of con victs can be completed. News received via Adelaide confirms the death of Leicharet, the Australian traveler. C4PEOF Good Hope.—The steamership Aus tralian from Sidney, has dates from the Cape of Good Hope to Ist December, eleven days later than previous advices. The General scope of the news appears to be that the war is drawing to a termination, but whenever the Loops are temporarily withdrawn, predatory bands of the enemy spring up and make successful inroads into the country proper. Jn the meantime Governor Cathcert had ar rived at the Orange River Sovereignty with 3,Q.0Q mpn, and bad issued a peace proclamation. Is4)XA.—-A telegraphic despatch fyorvi Trieste announces the arrival there of the overland In dia mail of the Bth December. Pegu was taken on the 21st of November, and will be annexed. The campaign may be considered at an end, un less the Burmeso forces should invade the new tejrrjtory, which they will probably do. In such a case tne English shoujd nru,rch on A.ya. From China we hear that tne ‘insurrection gains ground. The Africa’s Money News. —The confi dence of speculators and the rates of money val ues l}Ptb in London and Paris have been serious ly disturbed by the repent change in the rate of interest by the Bank of England. That great and controlling money power found it necessary to interpose this conservative and timely check, as well ibf the jrpneediate arrest of the large and rapidly increasing demands upon its vaults from the continent, as to put a stop to speculation up on English means in Paris and Vienna. As much as ten millions dollars in French ac ceptances were offered to the Bank in the single ymjs previews to the sailing of the rtejyoer, and •>: this ,t v-.0.c0 ’or about tiß millions were taker by the Bgard kWhreeticn, and th remainder throws forclisrfS nels. At th*; same tim/ wens receive) from Vienna to ths eflhy a new Austria) i loan lor .C10.090.9J0, 4 of dollar: would be offered in Kn thi late ulet H>t3 i qjLondic» r ?ket, am the asto ..shii r .-ounts ond ship | ments of gol .jft Ai (W. A 1 Somethingupmovehinfs ; f took place ot the Paris Bourse, on the ; change of poiicj in the Es§» v k, while ii London the : .i ; against '*■-Mlntsoa fur ther aggravated by the -hr ofthr Bank, showing r bat its , below the los#i * Week £762,- 041. —And al.bw«gtr, at the Boarc of Directors it « A itftd* i*. Senary to ad van * the rat" ct inter** -agan/Jnoney wai more SMWjorgtimong the i ■«’» ass discount hous es, in Lombard : treet, aod 'neaß bffer a week of feverish duct ations ) <lo ■ Livr pfo\ J. t. ll■ —i ‘ r > t circular adrioei wore prepared f« tho KsnipAriflHpbtngti, and roportod our Coi on m#ko'Ss dosing quietly on thatdi.y, vrith or bales. On Saturday holdnr avtneedlLitre dseifo to realize, and the 4c*a»L-v*L'-gsiqtlL; buy**, were enabled t0,.”'.!:;. .-el tern* be tpoMaottona reach ing 3060 bo. lona*' -‘tho Africa’s advices were to bead, vq bring k ’ range of uioos in the American - ,'ki ts (dot f f‘-.standing the bad account fro p ■ •,) tlk .Vgdther with i bpttsf attendance ■*' c to e trade, ii ' -a a somewhat iarg ■rl iin i- amin'•unjyw sflilti bales at firm-"' rate?. On Tuami'w boluatsagain loeh the market freckL-i I >ue p rand being moderate, pricc-r w re B*les 4606‘bhles. On V. - t-y 1 'oar, a larger j tfipav tention of the tia: ‘ do took about 6000 bales. \cc 6 can Is, but l.otV'f |ln ILeHr.aPpi, or "HfMtT* * ai.Fto speculators I 2,360 MWipori-srs, 85,760 bales of American of 1,300 to exporters, lea» ire i, .80 bales of all kinds to the trade, J r Tho hno' rt for same si ,e is 48,411 bales, of which 43,‘ d, tdre Atuoriiia ’ I Ptioes to ay. ! New orteai.iFair.6J. Middlin' das|d. Ordinary Id.add. I Mobile “ 5| “ t “ 4<l.asd. : Atlantic / li sjd “ , >|a»>Jd. “ 4d.asd. To-d.-ylhe markot has -cen much more satis ffetory t'te derjaml beii* general, [and tho offer itg more in j.r-iporucn t</t a inquiry. Tho sales amount jo 7,0(0 bales, ofir.-dich 2,010 are to specu lators art. exporter.*, tho r-v ket closing firmly at prices rqthor higher than-t >.• quotations of Friday last. J . AlinutMfo Points. Decide(i by the S trireme C ,-u tof the State of Geor gia, at Columbia. ■Je.marti Term, 1853. Rutherford, Receiver,-- *. Jones from Musco gee.—l. Tae Clerk of th Superior Court is not authorized so demand the eost for making out the manuscript of the Ilec»i I, belore transmitting the same to the Suprep a Court. Dougherty for the ip «tion ; 1' t * u<tra. Hollflay & V/ife, f Riordon, Gar., from Dooly.-el. A party cao -uke no advantage from an agreement, to which be was no party and under which he was to) lie no beneficial inter est. 2. The refeience in-a ' ill ot Equity, to the re cords of the Court, in k hieh the Bill is filed, without making ahuihit thereof, does not make such recoil's a pgji ol lha Bill. Stozier for pi’ff; Lyon dsf’t Merclr vs. Marcori rom Sumpter.—l. The action for nse and ocejji tion, does not lay ex cept in cases of contra* either express or im plied. In cr.se of atrei iss, however, the own er may waive the tr* 'ass and sue upon im p'ied contract. In suo case the plantiff must show his title—there .1 ing no proof express of tenancy. Sullivan forf Vff. in Error. Liiry vs. Hart fgvnj^aiion. —1. In an action For noney, hail end it eived, the plaintiff must sho v that the money, t* its equivalent, has been rec* : ved by the defend niorhis agent. Proof of volpable neglect to C fflnjury of the Plantiff, will cot authorize a t* j»ry In this form of ac tion. Downing for pf f; Worriil for deft. Gray vs, McNca!,' cam Taibot.—ln a suit upon judgments rendej-j! in a Justices’ court, it is necessary for the pi#! Iff to show,that the court rendering the juilgnf -its had jurisdiction of under ■of the i, and these Wor i Har- ; House ;eoun- I lead mS#*- CT*flO. mb in iff I s title iU, the i, weie ot con ch was Tl , o v,, ■ • Hf* xaeir interest, wnica was >< / >crr \ Jfa. common, may appeal to a compel his co-tenant to ac- nfs, issues and profits of the joint property, hi ucft a Bill, the defendant may be called on to \v count for any waste committed upon the eomrton property—although he may have committe {such an ouster as would have entitled the pa. Vto proceed at law. Wellborn for pl’ff.-, Ranutt for deft. Colliers vs. Varon, from Baker.—l. An ad vertisement describing the property levied on by a Sheriff, bj “ Eight city lots in the city of Albany, numbers not recollected, but known as Joseph Shaw’s city lots—the same having been sold at the February sales, and purchased by David A. Vascn,” &c.; may or may not be suffi cient compliance with the statute requiring the Sheriff to give 4 lull and complete description of the property levied on. 2. The statute requires the Sheriff to exercise ordinary diligenea, and to give as accurate a de scription as the circumstances of such case will admit, so as to initentify the property levied on. 3. Whether the Sheriff has given such a de scription, is a mixed question of law and fact, and should be submitted to the Jury under the direction of ti" Court. Morgan for pl’ff.; R. Lyon for def t- Searcy vs. Stubts, from Talbot.—l. Where a Receiver for ti e Ocmulgee Bank, departed this life, the Judge of the superior Court had the right, independent of the Act of 1851, to appoint another Receiver, and cause him to be made a party to all pending litigation. Benning for pl’ff.; B. Hill and Worriil for deft. Wills vs. thy Htate, from Decatur—l. A Juror sworn on his voire dire, in answer to the question prescribed by Lie Act of 1843, replied in the negative, but from a knowledge of his general character, he had formed a bad opinion of the man. Held, that this did not disqualify the Juror, nor consritute a good ground ot challenge. 2. The presiding Judge, on request of counsel for prisoner should instruct the triors—that the formation of a fixed opinion, unfavorable to the innocence cf the prisoner, though the same had never been expressed, is not an impartial Juror. Morgan & Lyon, for pl’ff.; Allen & Sol. General Lyon for deft. Brunswick City Land Company. —This stock, sales of which, in the New York market, we reported last Monday, is spoken of, in the papers of that city, as belonging to a Georgia Company. This is a mistake. The speculation is a Northern, njt a Georgia speculation. If the projectors succeed in building up a large town by means of great works of internal improve ment, the credit of their success will belong not to Georgia but to a region much farther North. If on the ciber hand they fail—the disgrace of the failure rbould not fall upon Georgia or her ftfizens. If uc*uspecting or heedless parties take stock in the scheme and find themselves ruined by it, let not this State, nor its people, share an v of the blame which must rightly fall upon tic authors of the catastrophe. Our New York exchanges report sales of the stock of the Ca«,*any as having been made, in larger or smaller amounts, at the Board of Bro kers, on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th of last month. The amount of sales reported is be tween six and seven thousand shares, at from 23 per cent, (the quotations on the 2flth,) to 21 per cent.j (the report on the 291 h.) the tendency seeming to be downwards. Though if, as re ported, the Company only paid $35,000 for their property, they can well afford to continue the sales even at much lower figures than these. For it will l>e remembered that there are thirty thousand shares of stock. This at 30 per cent, gives six hundred thousand dollars, —a handsome return on a much ’arger investment than thirty five thoueand dollars. In relation to the projected Brunswick Rail road, (for this land and lot speculation is nomi nally a separate scheme,) the people along the line of the proposed road seem to have acted with due discretion. All their subscriptions are said to be conditional. When the road is built they will pay ia their stock. If it is net built they pay nothing. How much of this condi tional subscription has been made we are not advised, xn one county, the wealthiest county on the line —Thomas—we have learned, on reli able authority, that the stock taken amounts to about fifty thousand dollars. For the sake of our friends in Southern Geor gia, many of whom feel deeply interested in the enterprise we cpulji wish that we hat} better reasons Jbr believing that the road will be built than any which we can offer them. The latest information which has reached us, instead of strengthening our impression that the promises of the Company and of the contractors are to be fulfilled, ha* materially weafceqed them. If, however, qaytjung of a different character shall at any time reach us, we shall not be slow in laying it before-our readers. —Savannah Georgi an, 2 d »'«#. A young dandy about starting on a sea voy age, went to a store to purchase his life preser ver. ♦Oh, you will not want it,’ suggested the eletk, ‘bags cf wind won’t sink V \ Regime, in antneetim with the Search after Sit I John Frank/in, and the Discovery of cm Open Po lar Sea ft The attendance, at the lowest esti calls upon him as a matter of necessity, in order ; to expisss pubhdy- his syfnpahty for the lost navigators, and to.explain the grounds for his bflief in their possible existence, and of the ex istence of an open sea at the North Tole, the closest attention and interest' Was manifested throughout the delivery of his argumentative dis course, which reflects high credit upon bin as ‘a geographer and man of letters. Doctor Ka Reopened hrs lecture with a brief sketch of the progress ol geographical science. He remarked that there were, at this day, great areas awaiting the exploration of civilized man. He instanced the region of the Arctic search. After calling the attention of the audience to the discovered features of this region and to the deductions from the grind generalizations of phy sical geography as to its area and configuration, he dwelt more at length upon the arguments in favor of the existence oi a Poiynya or iceless sea, shut in-by an annulus of circum-polar ice. He presented a i arguments' were illustrated by diagram? suspend i ed sbova the platform, and led to mosj interest- I iftg ip>d satisfactory inferences to -Null!) —a ?v" its of noithern travsifeatteined by naau. The flight of birds, of the ducks, auks and petrels— the movement northward of the mammels of the sea, the tusky walrus, the polar bear, and the reindeer travelling in herds, u a forest of moving antlers.” He alluded to Lieutenant Maury, as an early and eloquent advocate of the existence of the Poiynya, a gentleman who possessed that rare union of powers of generalization with the technical labors of official routine. Dr. Kane said that, more than a year ago, be came before the Institute as a suiter on behalf of the crews of Sir John Frankliu. That since then practical sympathy and liberality had not been idle, and that he now appeared before them on the eve ot a second departure for the Arctic sea. That engrossed as he was with the cares of organizing this second expedition, nothing could have induced him to accept the invitation of the Maryland Institute, but his anxiety to state before his fellow-members of that body, how much was due to their association, and more especially to two of its members. The nice relations, he said, which should sub sist between an officer of the Navy and his chief, forbade him to allude to one of these gentlemen in other terms than those of simple personal grat itude—of the other he could speak with more freedem. Mr. George Peabody had contributed ten thousand dollars in aid of the expedition a gentleman whose unostentatious liberality was too well known to require a notice at his hands. Dr. Kane here read a portion of a letter from Mr. Peabody, in which he, with characteristic modesty, expressed himself as 1 proud to follow in the footsteps of Henry Grinnell ” |This was received by the large audience with deatemng applause.] „ .... The point ol departure of the new expedition in search of Sir John Franklin would be Smith’s Sound, a point recommended by many advan tages which the lecturer enumerated, and was two hundred and twenty miles further north than the starting point of Sir Edward Belcher. The party would consist ol some thirty men, a couple of launches, sledges, dogs and gutta-per cha boats. The provisions would he composed mainly of pemmican, a concentrated animal food, the preparation of which the lecturer de scribed, packed in cases impregnable, to the as saults of the polar bear. . . Leaving the United States in the brig furnish ed by Mr. Grinnell, the Advance, at the earliest period of navigation, they would enter the ice of Melville Bay, force their way to the extreme navigable point, and tbere-secure the vessel for the winter. They would then press forward with sledge and launch. The sledge (large drawings of whiclrwere shown to the audience) would constitute a most important leature oi the lecturer’s plan of search. Each of these, constructed principally of hickory, and with great care,- would carry the blankets, furs and a measured allowance of food for six men. A | of InJivrubLer-cVnli would be added , lor wwiir-r She tnair -tiepen«te <6T ‘‘- e nig/jfTy halt, the Show-noust or the Esquimaux, j miAht not be desirable . \ ■ on lie march. The gnarQd apd bristling exJSKS C.e- water lexis, black t 'he frost smoke. ’ Six men harnessed to eacil -ledge, moving v ith steady gate—in fiont, some twenty paces, compass in hand, their leader. A ridge of ice stops their way, risiug some twenty feet in air, the sledge is unladen, and piece by piece its freight is carried over. A stream of water crosses their path, the gutta-percha boats are brought into requisition, and the water pass ed. The party halt for the night—-their day’s journey, long in hours, has brought them some ten miles on their way—ten miles in a straight line—a good day’s performance for an Arctic sledging party. The snow house is built, or the tent is pitched—upon the snow is spread a cov ering, water-proof, on that a wolt’s skin—Pem mican soup makes the chief dish for the sup per. Pipes are lit, and each man, covered to the hips by a blanket bag, draWs a second wolf ski* over him, and seeks in sleep the rest which is to support him on the morrow. The greatest sledge-journey on record was that of his friend Mr. Kennedy, late commander of the “Prince Albert,” who accomplished nearly 1,400 miles—most of it in mid-winter, his only food Penamican—his only shelter the snow house. Mr. Kennedy was now a volunteer to serve upon the expedition. The line of travel which the lecturer hoped to pursue, was one due north beyond the limits ol recorded travel—a line of travel rendered most valuable by the light to be thrown upon many undetermined points of the distribution of heat upon the surface of our planet—upon the great questions of the amount and direction of the earth’s magnetic forces—upon the great mystery of northern migratory life. He noticed the interest shown by Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution, by Professor Bache, of the coast survey, and by the Secretary of the Navy, himself a votarv of science in the or ganization of a scientific corps in connection with the expedition. The qestion, Dr. Kane concluded, whether the party of Sir John Franklin be dead or alive, was not to be considered in connection with the obligations of a second search—the duty of at tempting to solve the mystery of their fate rests with us. The gallant speaker was often interrupted by loud applause as he proceeded, and the conclusion of his lecture was followed by long continued marks of approbation. larch. President Polk’s Retirement from Washington. Washington, Jan. 22, 1853. My Dear Sir :—Your note of yesterday came to hand this morning, and I hasten to do justice to a political opponent, who is now in his grave. You say that it was stated in your presence, that President Polk was heartless and cold, and that one of his coldest acts was, that he vacated the White House several days before the President elect came to Washington, for fear of opening his heart so as to ask him to his house and table. It is due to Mr. Polk to say that I know this to be untrue. General Taylor and myself were both invited to dine with him, and did dine with him before he left the White House, and I have no doubt all the civilities ordinarily extended to the incoming administration, were extended by President Polk to General Taylor, and, accord ing to my recollection he did not leave the White House till the 4th, or rather the sth of March, which was Monday. The confusion in cident to the close of a session of Congress, and the breaking up of housekeeping by the Presi dent’s family, must necessarily prevent any President from doing more than Mr. Polk did in the case of Gen. Taylor, and, if I am rightly in formed, many of his predecessors did not do as much. I am, respectfully, yours, Millard Fillmore. Pricks in Florence. —A correspondent of the Boston Traveller gives the following ac count of living in Florence: “ One word more as to prices. I have already written you ot the cost of living in a palace. Since then 1 have learned that a fine palace as large as the Tremont House, with a large gar den, stables, &c., can be bought for $35,000 ! The Riccardi, one of the finest private palaces in Europe, sold for only $45,000. A beautiful villa and estate under a high state of cultivation, can be had for SIO,OO0 —a good one with fifty or more acres, for S4OOO, and farms in propor tion. A friend of mine has this year, from his estate, which is cultivated on halves, 1500 bar rels of wing, besides wool, olives, silk, cattle, cheese, milk, butter and poultry. The Tuscan Government are very liberal to foreigners, al lowing them to hold land in fee simple, without restrictions of any kind, and their heirs abroad to inherit from them. But if their heirs are not blood relatives, there is a duty of about five per cent, on the conveyance of the property to them. I know of but one other Government as liberal, and that is that of the Sandw,ch Isl ands. Stopping Papers —An exchange says: ‘when a man gets mad and stops his paper he always borrows the next number of his neighbor to sea if the withdrawal of his patronage hasn’t killed the editor and dreat the columns in mourn ing This grows out of the fact that none try to show their spite but the kind of people who imagine that the world r»»ts on thair should- I' V VOL. 32—NEW SERIES--VOL-8 —NO I Expulsion of Jmits from Eucador—The Net Granadian Confytp ■ Panama Rad "-•ail- *V< The st«ai a orUriited States. liom Aspiuwa! Jan. 19th and Kingston 22d, arrived at New York on Saturday, bringing 100 passengers.- The steamers Oregon and Northerner arrived a Panama on the 16tb. The Georgia was to leave Kingston on the 23d. The steamer Isthmus arrived at Panama on the 14th from San Fran cisoo. The health of Aspinwall was very good, and The Panama Star of the 13th instant says that day from Barbacoas or Cruces, stating that an , accident had happened to the railroad in the H Sst ish mails and specie had to be transported down to Chagres, where all would be era- Carmen arrived at Panama on the 4th of Janu ary, from Guayaquil, with thirty-two Jesuits as “We are tokHhat they were consigned to the Governor of Panama, with the request that he would put th m through the Isthmus and out of the country with commendable care and speed. On their afrii ad at'Panama, says common ru mor, they were informed officially that they could not land, but would be subjected to police Surveillance during "their stay here, which was limited, to a daV. They returned answer that . they had no resistance to make tp tiie law, but if the Governor wished them to land as prisoners, ha would have to send oil' and tie them, or put them under guard. The latter was done, and ladled at the Northern gate, umlera . 1 rd eeaui . 6x«.bera»nt . amoug Aba later bout 1 in the v- v* in the afternoon, under charge clone orWo po'!ce wore conduct* ed to the College, receive r¥M attention from the authorities as it was possible under the circumstances to extend to them.— Yesterday morning the whole body started for Cruces, under one official guide, but we saw no military or police force accompanying them.” The arrival of Col. Totten, and other engin eers connected with the railroad, is noticed at Panama. The object of this visit was to com mence operations on the road on that side of the Isthmus. Don Justo Arosemena and Gen. Thomas Herrera left Panama on the Cth inst. for Bogota, the lirst as representative in Congress from Pau ama, ami the second as Senator from the adjoin ing province of Azacro. Congress was to meet on the Ist of March, and would remain in sess ion until about the middle of June. Among the subjects which will come before it is a proposi iion to divide the Republic of New Greuada in to ten sovereign aud independent states, for the purpose of internal legislation, under one federal head, on the principle adopted by the United States—and to adopt the name for it of the Co lumbian Confederation.” {From the N. Y. Evening Ericsson Engine—A Test of Faith. A friend from Ohio, who has seen the articles in the Evening Post upon the subject of Erics son’s Caloric-Engine, alludes to the subject as follows, in the course of a recent letter: “ Is it possible that you have been humbugged into the belief that heat can be used twice, or that Ericsson can ever bring his patent to any practical result?” We answer that we have not been humbug ged into the belief that heat can be used twice; nor does Ericsson pretend to use any heat twice, but simply to use all but about thirty per cent of what he makes once, instead of throwing away three-fifths of it, as is done by the steam engine. In the next place, we have the most implicit confidence in his ability to bring his 1 patent to a practical result, because we have al- ! ready seen it in successful operation. The strength of our faith may be judged from the fact, that we have contracted with Capt. Ericsson to furnish us with a Caloric Engine, as soon as it can be made, for the use of the Eve ning Post, and it is already in a state of con siderable forwardness. The patterns are pre pared by Capt. Ericsson, and the machinery is making by Messrs. Hogg &i Delamater. It is to have sufficient power to drive one of Hoe’s rota represses at the rate of JO,OOO impressions an. hour, gpd four job-presses, with a reserve force of 2 of. tlifee horse power, and yet it is to occupy only the space enclosed in a cast iron box six feet-fquare and between five and six feet high. It is to be finished, and in operation by the mid dle offVpril. If it succeeds, of which, of course we hi e ljo doubt, we shall feel proud oi the distinction which will properly belong to the jourm to.!,st "rst avails itself of so impettant an impro jlemenc. If it fails, we mean the world shall jA,i>w i f ant the rtasens why, if vve can \riii them. , . pit gratify us to !>; instrument'*' m intro- i substitute for the Tartarean tor- ! contest too, that we shall feel a little easier at our da ay avocations, when we come to realise that tie cellar beneath us is no longer tenanted by one of those powers of darkness which the most trilling imprudence, or neglect, on the part of its attendants, might provoke to a fearful and disastrous vengeance upon all its co-tenants.— We would also gladly make some sacrifice to protect our engineers from the distressing expo sure of a heated subterranean engine-room, which at all seasons is sufficiently trying, but in the summer is past human endurance. We also anticipate substantial advantages from the great er simplicity of the machinery, which will ren der fewer repairs necessary, from the great du rability of the combination, and from the dimin ished consumption of fuel. These are advan tages which we anticipate from the substitution, which we propose, of a Caloric for our steam engine. If we are disappointed in any particu lar, we promise that our readers shall be advised of it promptly, and if on the other hand we realise any or all of our expectations, of that also they shall be duly apprised, and every op portunity afforded them of profiting by our ex perience. jJr. Rabe and California. We had the pleasure ol seeing our old friend and client the other day, Dr. Rabe, from the golden State of California. He moved there some seven or eight years since, and has grown with the country, and become rich with the country. His appearance certainly indicated that he was from a golden region. Every thing about him seemed to be of massive gold. On the head of his walking stick he had seventy live dollars worth of pure virgin gold ! His watch, guard chain, seals, &c., would be almost as oppressive, from their size and weight, to a modern dandy,as a heavy coat of mail was, in ancient days, to a knight-errant. His buttons were solid gold. His spectacles massive gold. We suggested to the doctor that in case the traces of his buggy or carriage should at any time break, he could very well substitute his guard chain, which would be strong enough to pull him to the next village. Dr. Rabe spoke in unmeasured terms of the fertility, richness and prosperity of California. He says the mines are inexhaustible, and that the whole mountains are filled with gold He thinks labor will never be worth less than lour or five dollars a day in California, because a la borer can always make that much digging tor gold. The doctor says the lands of California are as rich as it is possible for lands to he. Their productions in wheat, oats, rye, &c„ &c., were almost incredible. Indian corn will not grow there in consequence of the earlier abscence of rain during the summer months. Oats grow wild all over the country. Dr. Rabe stated that he had driven a buggy twenty-five miles through one entire oat field, as it were, and the oats growing as high as his bead. For grasses, there is no country in the world which surpass es or equals California. There is no rain to in jure grass after being mowed. The only dan ger to be apprehended was from fire. When fire broke out in summer, it was terriVle and awful. In regard to lue society and manners of San Francisco, Dr. Rabe said they were as good as could be found in any city. Thieving or rob bing was unknown in that city. We supppse every thing is so plenty that he would be a stu pid fellow, indeed, who should think of risking his back by stealing. House rents are very high. The Doctor’s rents, from a small build ing, amount to fifteen thousand dollars, paid quarterly in advance! Lawyer’s fees are very exorbitant, and the Doctor has given up the mortar and the pestle, and gone to issuing writs and practicing in the Courts. He told us that for the collection of debts he charged about one third of the amount collected, in the way of fees and commissions! Dr. Rabe says that Northern men in Califor nia are pretty generally in favor <»f introducing slavery in that State, and, tha Southern men op posed to it. This seemed to us a very strange condition of things, and we inquired why it was so. He said that Northern men of sub stance had tp pay so high for white labor about their houses and farms that they preferred saving their money and purchasing slaves. On the other hand, the Southern men, being more lib eral, and not so much devoted to making and saving money, did not care about the high prices paid for helps or white servants. The Doctor thinks slavery will never be introduced into California, and that public sentiment w more de cidedly opposed to it now than it was two or three years ago. This may, however, be doubt ful.—ih-eniuille Southern Patriot , 27/A ult. When the Hon. Mrs. Norton was applied to on Hood’s death, for his destitute widow, and headed by Sir Robert Peel with the magnificent donation of £SO, she promptly «ent a liberal subscription, with tW allowing lines (never be fore published): To cheer the widow’s heart in hor distress, To make provision for tho fatherless, Is but a ohriatian’s duty, and none should Resist tho heart appeal of Widow Hood- Poetry, punning, and piety, all of the genuine are hut often thus happily Was it Providence ? Take, for example, a young girl, bred delicate ly in town, shut up in a nursery In her child hood, in a boarding school through her youth, never accustomed to ait, and exercise—two thing* that the law of God makes essential to health. She marries; her strength is inadequate to the demand upon it. Her l)jssety fades early. ' What a strange providence tlrat a mother should be taken In the midst of life from her children?* Was it Providence? No? Provi dence has assigned her three score and ten years, a term long enough to rear her children, and to see her,children’s children ; bptsbe did not obey the laws on which life depends, and of course lost it. ■/ A father, too, is cut off in the midst of his days. He is a useful and distinguished citizen, and eminent in his profession. A general bu2K rises on every side, of ‘ What a striking provi dence P This man has been in the habit of stu dying half the night, of passing his days, in his office and the courts, of eating luxurious din ners, and of drinking Various wines. He has every day violated the law on which health de pends. Did providence cut birooff? This evil rarely ends here. The diseases of the.father are >ften transmitted; and a feeble mother rarely leaves behind her vigorous children. It has been customary in some of our cities for young ladies to walk in thin shoes and delicate stockings in mid-winter. A heaitfay, blooming girl who thus dresses, in violation of Heaven’s laws, pays the penalty—a checked circulation, cold, fever, and death. ‘What a sad Providence P exclaimed hpf friends. Wasrt.Provldene, or her own useless und sad folly ? A beautiful bride goes, night after night, to parties made in honor of her mania go. She has a slight sore throat perhaps, and the weather f inclement [ but she must wear her neck and •arms bear; for who ever heard of a bride in a close evening dress ? She is consequently seized with inflammation of the lungs, and the grave receives r.WTistaproVitfenc#!'exchttHßVde wor.u. jtiasy Did she not cut the thread of Ufa hex own self*' f A girl in the couptn, exposed to cur change fii;l i mat*: fret* a dpv bnninstead of flatting with the idea that Providence usm sti'- ■•P • mutism upon her, or should she charge it to her own vanity,and avoid the folly in future f Look, my young friends, at the mass of diseases that are incurred by intemperance in eating, drinking, in study or business; by neglect of exercise, cleanliness, and pure air; by indiscreet dressing, tight lacing, &c., and all is quietly imputed tt> Providence! Is there not impiety as well a ignorance in this? Were the physical laws strictly observed from generation to generation, there would be an end of the frightful diseases that cut life short, and a long list that make life a torment or a trial. It is the opinion of those who best understand the physical system, that this wonderful machine, the body, 'goodly Ipin pie, would gradually decay, and men would die as if falling asleep.’ An Interesting Incident. —A writer in the Alabama Journal, published at Montgomery, is treating the readers of that Journal to sketch es and traditionary tales of Georgia History From a sketch called wahaka — rocky creek, or talking water, we make the following ex. tract relative to our near neighbor, Col. Farish Carter, of Scottsboro. A beautiful incident, associated with the hab its of the primitive settlers of our Southern coun - try, and of their patient life, surrounded by scenery both wild and picturesque, fell under the writer’s notice this summer, during a temporary sojourn amidst the highlands of Gedfcgia. It) conveys a moral which should strike deep into the venomed heart of all Abolitionists, if they would visit the spot referred to, and particular ly of such vile slanders of slavery as presented in the case of Mis. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and at the same time forms a romantic tale of sylvan happiness in the life of the now expatriated Aborigines. On the banks of the Coosuwattee, which, with the Conasauga, forms the Oousta nolla, in Murray county, Georgia, and for miles in length, stretches the plantation and summer lesidence of Col. Parish Carter, of Scottsboro’, Baldwin county, Ga. This romantic spot, amid the dells and valleys of the Cohulta mountains, was once the residence of several Indian chiefs, each located on a grassy knoll, or in the nook of a verdant hill, and these surrounded by tbeii families and their tribes with flocks of herds in<- numerable, they led a life of peace and happi ness, until the progressive law of nature drove them to afar Western home. By the force of circumstances, these sylvan farms became !’>« property of Col. Carter, embracing in the whole many thousand acres, now in a high state of cul tivation, pasturage, meadows and grain lands and surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills that ri*p in or an d<"jir in the vision. Hare he has removed from the low country his numerous families of | neuroes, and divided into clan« each occupy 'fin [ identical farms that were once cultivated by i.be red chiefs and their subjects, and under sirruLu Ji'fc t. ~ tr: i. support, subject to the direction of each respect ive chief, happy in their vocation and devoid of care. But over all there is a paternal rqlcr, who t guides Ine dEninery -of gov'eminent, supplies? til if. 1| :, 1; 1 —4. I of old age, the decrepid and the maimed.—Jlit ledgcoille Federal Union. What Mrs. Smith Said. —“ Saint Agatha ! Not been out of the city this summer ?” “ No. Jones said he could'nt afford it.” “My dear, innocent Abigail! Mr. Jones smokes his forty-nine cigars a day, as usual, dont he ?” “Yes.” “ Well; he resides horseback every morning.” “ Well; he plays billiards and takes his sherry and all that sort o’ thing down town. Don’t he?” “ Yes.” “Well; put that and that together! Just so Smith told me—couldn’t afford it I didn’t dis pute the point; it was too much trouble, f smiled just as sweetly at him as if I didn’t know it was all a humbug; but I very quietly went to my boudoir and dispatched a note to that jewel of a doctor , saying that I should be taken suddenly ill about the time Smith came home to dinner, and shouldn’t probably recover till after a trip to Saratoga or Niagara, or some other of those quiet places. Well, he is as keen as a briar; and when Smith sent for him, he came in. and found mein, a state of“ foreordained exhaus tion,” in the hands ot my maid Libby. He felt my pulse, looked wise and oracular and sa : d I must have a change of air. Os course, I object ed, declared I never could bear to be moved, was quite entirely run down, &c. Doctor said, “He wouldn’t be answerable for the eui. e quences,’ and finally to oblige Mr. Smith, 1 gave, in! Understand! —Nothing like a little diplo macy. Always use the cheekrein ! my dear, it you want to start Jones in a new direction Men are little contrary, that’s all! They’d be “perfect treasures,” every mother’s son of them, if it wasn’t for that!” Fanny Fern. English and American Bkauties.-A lady cor respondence of the National Intelligencer gives quite an interesting account of a ball given to the Queen by the city of Lon Jon,from which we clip the following in regard to the beauties ol England and America : “In the quadrille was the most famed unmar ■ ried beauty of England, Lady Clementina Vil liers, daughter of the Earl of Jersey. She ha classically chiseled features, delicately pure hair, and is what we should describe,with our expres sive Americanism, as exceedingly lowly ; but I really remember to have seen in Washington several of my young countrywomen who might safely contest with her the palm of beauty. As I have told you, there are few pretty wo men; but in cast of feature, figure and carriage’ they are vastly superior to Americans. Accus tomed to the dignified soberness of dress for mid dle age customary in my own country, the gor geous and inappropriate apparel of the old per sons in a ball room here is really painful. The toilets generally, though so rich in material , are so very dowdy , so badly put on, that one Wonders i* the race of French dressing maids is extinct.— Why, even her Majesty's gown u<qs abominably laced, not meeting behind. In grace, especially in dancing, 1 think them not comparable to Americans, they want the litheness and ease of movement almost universal with us; the gentlemen, in deed, dance better than their partners, having a careless sort ol swinging way, which is rather attractive.” Directions for Fainting. Never faint when you are alone. Always select some good opportunity. The more persons there are about you the more successfully will bo your fit. A friend’s house, when there is a dinner party go ing on, is lar from a bad opportunity. Never faint more than once in the same evening, as there may be a falling off in the sympathy on the second experiment. A woman should not only faint well, but be above suspicion. Be very careful, therefore, never to risk a faint unless you have some object in view, such as going out of town—or a new gown—or a box at the op« ra—or being taken to some sete —or any other little caprice which your husband may have ob stinately refused you. In such cases hysterics are justifiable.— Punch. Curious Experiment. —A correspondent of Arthur’s Home Gazette states that having fas tened a key to a thread, and holding the lat ter between his thumb and finger over a twen ty dollar gold peice, placed on the floor, the key began to swing with a circular, or rather with an elliptical motion; and when gold was buried in the earth, he could find itout without difficul- Sfrom the motions ol the key. When the faced south, and held it over silver, it had an east and west pendulum motion, over copper, brass, tip, &c., a southeast aad northwest pendulum motion; over iron and steel, a north and soutli pendulum motion. The writer thinks that gold may be discovered any where by this simple ap paratus. An old lady once said, that her idea of a great man was, ‘a man who was keerful of his clothes, don’t drink spirits, kin read the Bible without spelling the words, and kin eat a cold dinner on wash day, to save the wimmen folks the trouble oj cookio|.’ '>- f :