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[Reported for the Baltimore Suu.]
Extra Session of the United States Senate.
Washington. March 26, 1853. °
Several resolutions of inquiry were passed,
when the Senate resumed the consideration of
the resolution Os Mr. Walker, authoring the a
committee on Indian Affairs to delegate one of f
theii number to proceed, during the recess ot
Congress, to take testimony in the matter now
on reterer ce to sr.id committee, touching certain
frauds alleged to have been committed by Alex- •
ander Ramsey and others, in making payment ol f
moneys to certain bands of Sioux Indians.
After debate, the resolution was laid upon the
table and the committee on Indian Affairs dis
charged trotfi the further consideration ot the
subject. , . ,
Mr. Seward offered a resolution, which was
adopted calling upon the President to communi- f
cate the correspondence (subject not stated) be- )
tween our Minister at the Court of Brazil and j
the American Secretary of State.
Further business, of no public importance, was
transacted, when the Senate went into an Exe
cutive session.
Washington. March 28.
Mr Hunter offered the following resolution :
jjesoirvd. That the Secretary ot the Treasury
be directed to report to the Senate, at its next
annual session, the average prices annually ot
bar iron, merchantable, manufactured by rolling;
bar iron, merchantable, manufactured otherwise
than by' rolling ; railroad iion, manufactured by
rolling, and pig iron, for the last ten years prece
ding 1853, in the foreign markets of production
or shipment. Also, the average prices, annually’
of the same descriptions of iron at New kork
and Pittsburg, for the same period, together
with the charges for freights, insurance and com
missions.
Mr. Hunter explained his object in offering
the resolution. It was, he said, with a view ot ,
effecting a compromise between the manufact- '
urers and consumers of iron, by fixing a price be- .
yond which no charges shall be made. Having ;
all the information before them at the next ses
sion. they could legislate understandingly. )
Mr. Broadhead expressed his regret that the
Senator did not support such a proposed compro
mise heietofore. when he voted to exempt rail
road iron from duty.
The resolution was adopted.
On motion ot Mr. Shields, it was resolved that
there be paid to Robert Beale, late sergeant-at
arms, out ot the contingent fund, his salary upto
the end of the present fiscal year.
Mr. Walker offered a resolution, proposing
just as thc» Cabinet cpineoutof session j and it
was necessary for Senators to transact business
with the heads of Departments, which they
could not now do for the reason stated.
Objections were made Co the consideration ot
the resolution.
The Senate ordered the purchase of a thousand
copies of Ringold's maps of the survey of the Pa
cific. and then went into an executive session,
and atterw ards adjourned.
Washington, March 29th, 1853.
Mr. Badger offered a resolution, which was
adopted, authorising the Sergeant-at-arms to
continue the messengers in the employment of
the Senate, for two months after the termination
of the present session, for the purpose of folding
and transmitting documents.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
resolution, authorising the Secretary of the Sen
ate to appoint a reading clerk; and after debate
the same was postponed until the first Monday
ol December next—yeas 25, noes 16.
The Senate, after an executive session, ad
journed.
■Washington, March 30.
The journal having been read, Mr. Seward
rose and said :—I wish to make a motion which
1 hope will receive the favorable consideration
ol the Senate. Intelligence has been received
here of the death of Mrs. Fillmore, wife of Mil
lard Fillmore, late President ofthe United States.
She died this morning. As a mark of respect to
her memory, I move the Senate do now adjourn.
The Senate adjourned unanimously.
Washington, March 31, 1853.
The Senate went into Executive session, and,
after the doors were opened, Mr. Houston sub
mitted the following resolution, which lies over :
Resolved, That the Secretary ol the Interior be
and he is hereby instructed to furnish the Senate
with the report of an examination (on file in the
Department of the Interior) made of the Patent
Office Bui'ding in 1851. under the direction of
the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
Mr. Hamlin submitted the following, which
lies over:
Resolved. That the Secretary of the Senate be
authorized to contract with John C. Rives for a
number of copies of the Congressional Globe and
Appendix equal to thirty-seven copies now re
ceived by them , and that the price per copy i
shall not exceed the sum paid under the existing
contract.
Several other resolutions, of no public import
ance, were submitted.
Mr. Houston offered the following:
Resolved. That unless the President of the U. i
States shall have further communication to make,
the Sena’e will adjourn on Saturday next.
Mr. Mason said that the President had other
communica’ions of an Executive character to
make, and thought they wou'd be able to ad
journ on Wednesday or Thursday next.
Mr. Houston remarked that he was tired of the
delay, and wished to be on his way home. {
The Senate adjourned.
Washington, April 1, 1853.
Mr. Mason a«ked and obtained leave to with
draw the memorial and accompanying papers of j
Francis W. Rice, late United States Consul at
Acapulco, rela ive to certain outrages committed
on him and other Americans by the Mexican
autboritis. These papers, he said, show’ that
great and cruel oppressions*were practised upon !
them, and the design was to present the docu
ments to the Executive for the purpose of ob
taining redress.
Mr. Brodhead submitted the following resolu
tion which, he said, he intended to call up in a
day or two:
Reso'ved, That the Secretary of the Treasury
be requested to procure, so far as practicable,
and furnish the same to the Senate, at the com-
mencement of "the next session of Congress, the
following information, viz: The aggregate
amount of federal, State, city, county, railroad,
canal and other corporation bonds, stocks, or
other evidence of debt, held in Europe or other
foreign countries, on the thirtieth of June, 1853,
specifying separately, so far as the same can be
ascertained, the amount of each of the above de
scription of bonds and stocks.
On motion of Mr. Shields, the Secretary of the
Senate was directed to pay certain clerks of com
mittees compensation for the time they have
been employed.
The Senate went into an Executive session,
and subsequently adjourned till Monday.
{Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington. March 26, 1853.
The President desires, as I learn, to detain the
Senate during the next week. There are several
nominations of importance yet to be decided
upon.
The Senate may, but with great difficulty, re
tained a quorum for a day or two longer. Mr.
Benjamin has left the city, which is an evidence
that the Tehuantepec resolutions are not to
be called up this season. Others will also
leave to-day or to-morrow. A number of Sena
tors are impatient to be gone. The whig Sena
tors do not feel bound, it seems, to remain here
for the purpose of giving their advice and con- i
sent to democratic nominations.
The great New York appointments were un- :
doubtedly finally resolved upon by the Cabinet, !
on Saturday morning. Though it is certein that ■
they are determined upon, no one out of the Ca- |
binet appears yet to know who are the lucky i
nominees. New names have been mentioned !
for the Collectorship—such as those of C. W. :
Lawrence and Judge Oakey. The President j
will certainly insist upon the selection of a man !
of character and respectability to fill an sffice i
wherein two-thirds of the whole revenue is re- j
ceived
The Ericsson is to be fitted with new cylin- i
ders. and is then to be sent across the Atlantic I
for the inspection of John Bull. Some motive I
more submissive than steam, and less expensive ,
will no doubt, lie ultimately discovered and ap- I
plied and generally adopted ; whether this is to
be through caloric or electricity, or some other j
rational object, is yet to be known, though calo- ;
ric has made a showing for it.
The principal appointments for the city of
Philadelphia are to be made this week. There
is a considerable competition for these places.—
The applicants for all these places might as well
save themselves the trouble of procuring or pro
ducing recormnemialtons ergned by their felfotv- i
citizen*. They are not looked at, and have no
weight whatever. lon.
[Telegraphed for the. Baltimore Sun ]
Washington, March 31.
Confirmations by the Senate—The Baltimore
Nominations—Gardiner Case, lye.— The Senate
were in executive session to-day two hours and
a half, and confirmed ail the Philadelphia nomi
nation- as before reported. The New York
nominations were also confirmed, except those
of General Dix, a* Sub-Treasurer, and Mr. Fowl
er as Postmaster, which were postponed.
The President sent in the following nomina
tions for Baltimore:—
Phillip Francis Thomas, for Collector.
Col. Jacob G. Davies, Postmaster.
John Kettiewell, Naval Officer.
J. H. Briscoe, Navy Agent.
James Polk, Surveyor.
There ha, been no appointments sent in for
Appraisers or District Attorneys.
The Hon. W iilis A. Gorman, of Indiana, was
nominated for Governor of Minnesota.
Several other appointments were also sent in.
In the Gardiner case, the entire day was occu
pied in arguments upon the admissibility of the
several papers to prove the non-existence of the
mines, all of which were ruled out.
Boston, March 21.
Ijitesl from the Jlfrir.un Syuadr on—Marine
Disaster, -The officers of the (J. 8. ship Ger
mantown report that when she left Port Praya
the John Adams was employed on the coast sur
vey, under Lieut. Lynch.
The brigs Perry and Bainbridge were on the
Southern coast, looking for slavers. Many ves
sels sailing under the American flag were en
gaged in the traffic.
The Germantown lost only four men during
ter absence. She parted with the brig Dale on
the 13th, off Bermuda.
The brig Sea Bird, from Nova Scotia for Bos
ton, struck a rock during a snow storm on the
10th, off Great Dover, and went to pieces. The
Captain and mate, and two seamen, perished.
New York, March 31.
Deliberate Murder.— At 11 o’clock this morn
ing a Frenci. man named Mulveen, called on a
man named DecdP, also a Frenchman, residing in
Greenwich street. IJe presented a bill of some
kind, whereupon Decon a ptffyl Rod shot
Jdulveen dead, and escaped.
Nkw York, March 31.
Steamer Star of the lUc«/.—The steamer Star
of the West has arrived, having left San Juan
on the 23d. She brings nothing later fiom Cal- >
ifornia, and reports the route healthy and in fine :
condition. She left in port the sloop of war Cy- i
ane awaiting orders. The Union also arrived ■ j
to-day from Aspinwall.
New London, Conn., March 30. i |
Burning of a Railway Station-House.— Tliede- | ,
pot of the New London, Willimantic and Palm- , <
er Railroad, at New London, was burned down |
to-day. The lire took place about 10 o’clock. I
There were four passenger cars and one baggage
car in it at the time. Loss SB,OOO to SlO 000.
Buffalo, March 30.
Effect in Buffalo of Mrs. Fillmore's Death. —
The announcement of Mrs. Fillmore's death has
created a great sensation and deep regret among
the citizens of Buffalo. Arrangements are to be
made to pay due respect on the arrival ot her
remains. *
Washington, March 31, P. M.
Washington Items Mr. Willis, a German, has
been nominated for Governor of Minnesota.
The Senate was engaged most ot to-day in
Executive session, discussing the resolution de
claring that the President has power to remove
Judges in the Territories. .
Several changes have been made in the • ecoiui
Comptroller’s office, taking effect to-day. |
Tobias Purrington, formerly a member ot Lie .
Senate in Maine, was made Chief Clerk in the
Comptroller's office.
Proceedings of the Senate on the New York Aonu- I
nations—TAc Baltimore Appointments—New ;
Clerkship Classifications, <sr. j
Washington. April I. Ihe Senate continued
in Executive session until halt past 4 o clock I
i this afternoon. The delay in the confirmation ;
i of Gen. Dix as Sub-Treasurer, and ot 1. * • I
Fowler, as Postmaster as New \ ork, and it is
I said of John Cochrane as surveyor ot that port, |
j had caused intense excitement and a renewal ot i
the struggle outside, pro and con. and a protract- I
■ i ed discussion arose thereon in the Senate to-day. I
| These three are all Barnburners, and it was on I
a I that ground that action had been postponed on (
- their confirmations.
Mr. Bright leadoff in the Senate to-day in '
opposition to the New York nominations, aud
the three named in particular, but they were all
t finally confirmed. Eight Senators, however,
- are reported to have voted against General Dix.
o The acceptance of two or three of the New
Yorkers is yet deemed doubtful.
g The President to-day nominated William
t have been withdrawn.
s Col. Polk has peremptorily refused to accept
f the Surveyorship of Baltimore. No nomination
in his place has yet been beard ot. Both dt the
f Maryland Senators are absent to-day, but the
other Senators state that the following Baltimore
-1 nominations were confirmed :
- Phillip Francis Thomas, for Collector,
i. Col. Jacob G. Davies, Postmaster.
I John Kettiewell, Nava! Agent.
I J. H. Briscoe, Navy Agent.
s It is thought that the principal changes among
o the subordinate clerks in the Executive Depart
if ments will be deferred until the Ist of J uly, w hen
n the new classification goes into effect. It is also
g reported that the Cabinet have decided to equal
ize the number of clerks from the different States,
e Washington, April 1.
Appointments Confirmed. — The Senate to-day
e confirmed all the tree-soil nominations which
y had been made, though there was a hard fight
against them. Gen. Dix, as Sub-Treasurer, at
- New York had eight votes thrown in opposition
to him. The nomination of Mr. Petitt for the
Mint at Philadelphia, was resisted on the same
:1 ground, but was finally confirmed, as was also
b that of Mr. Casey, of Kentucky, for U. S. Treas
i urer at Washington. Gov. Bigger, ot Indiana,
d is said to have been appointed Register ot the
- ; Treasury. lon-
I Washington. April 1.
o I Confirmations by the Senate, l’he follow
i. ; ing nominations were confirmed to-day ;—Samu
' el G. Cassy, of Kentucky, United States Treasu
j rer. Bigger, of Indiana. Register of the Treas-
I, i ury. Gov. Marcy’s son and Geo. H. Richie’s
- I son, Thomas Richie. Pursers in the Navy. Grey,
: I editor of the Plaindealer, Postmaster, Cleveland,
e I Ohio. Danforth, editor of the Sentinel, Post
e ■ master, Burlington. Vt. German, Governor, and
? J.T. Rosser,of Petersburg, Secretary
t Minnesota Territory.
f The following Maine nominations were sent
in a id confirmed :—Bradbury, Collector at East
-1 port; Capt. Bodfish, Collecor at Bath; Babson,
Collector at Wiscasset; Carter, Collector at Port
! land; N. L. Woodbury, Postmaster at Portland;
i Geo. H. Shepley, (of Portland district,) Attor
-1 i ney ; Stanly’, Marshall.
Providence, R. I, March 30.
’ : Declension.— Cyrus Harris, the Whig nominee
; ■ for Representative to Congress in the Western
i District of this State-, has declined having his
■ name used as a candidate for that office. It has
been decided by the Whigs not to run a candi-
1 date in that district.
Philadelphia, March 31.
, ! Sailing of the City of Glasgow.— The steamer
City of Glasgow sailed far Liverpool at nine
o'clock this Morning. She is full of freight, and
takes out 47 passengers, but no specie.
{Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.]
B. C. Pr ’ssley, Esq., has been confirmed as
Assistant Treasurer of the United States at
Charleston.
As far as regards the New-Orleans nomina
tions, it is believed that Maunseli White has
been appointed Collector, T. L. Carman Post
master, Mr. Marigny Superintendent of the
Mint, W. R-. Robinson United States Attorney,
Mr. Derieve Navy Agent, and Charles Bien
venne Surveyor.
Samuel Recor has beei» appointed Consul at
Glasgow.
The Senate has confirmed Mr. Elwood, as
Postmaster at Natchez and Mr. Prvos as Post
master at Vicksburg; also General John A. Dix,
after a spirited opposition, as Sub Treasurer at
New Yorx.
James G. Dell has likewise been confirmed as
Collector at St. Johns. Fla . and E. Blackburn
as U. S. Marshal for the Southern District of
Florida.
Baltimore, April 3, 7.45 P. M.
I It is now reported that M. Marigny has been
I appointed Naval Officer at New Orleans, Tborn-
I as C. Porter Surveyor, and Dr. Perewood as U.
IS. Marshal. T.ie other appointments are said
to be as before given.
' C. R. Dickinson has been confirmed as Post-
I master at Jackson, Mississippi. Nathaniel S.
' Price as U. S. Attorney for Mississippi, and
| Thomas Perry as Postmaster at Rome, Georgia.
[From the Savannah Republican, April Ist ]
Arrival of the Conway.
The British mail steamer Conway, Capt. Saw
yer, from Navy Bay via Jamaica, Inagua and
| Nassau, arrived offTybee night before last, and
| her passengers came up to the city yesterday by
I the steamboat Tybee.
' The Conway had twenty-seven passengers
j from Navy Bay to Kingston ; left Kingston with
i twenty-two cabin passengers, of whom thirteen
landed at Nassau, where she received a large
: accession, and brought to this city twenty-eight
I cabin passengers.
! We are well pleased with the improving pros
i pects of this enterprise, and sincerely congratu
late our citizens on the increasing probabilities
■of the continued visits of this ship. It is an en
’ terprise that deserves success. Tho;e who have
I made voyages by the Conway commend her fbr
j her comfortable accommodations, and heartily
' unite in Sounding their grateful praises of Cap-
I tain Sawyer and the officers associated with him,
i for their indefatigable efforts to promote their
: comfort and enjoyment.
1 The Conway left Navy Bay on the evening
lof the 18th ultimo. She left in port the Ameri-
I can steamers Georgia, Falcon and Union. The
latter passed the Conway on the evening of the
19th,supposed to be bound to Jamaica. At King
ston some anxiety was felt, by reason of her
non-arrival up to the time of the sailing of the
Conway. The Pacific mails had not reached
Navy Bay when the Conway left. We have
received our usual files of Nassau and Jamaica
papers.
Jamaica.—A singular and fatal disease hith
erto unknown in that region, had broken out
among the sheep of Salt Ponds, Jamaica. The
sheep (generally the best breeding ewes) a'e
turned out in the sleeping pastures apparently
in perfect health ; they are found on the follow
ing morning lying down as if asleep, and oh be
ing raised, they stagger about and die in a few
minutes. In some cases they are found dead.
An internal examination shows the heart to con
tain a quantity of congealed blood ; the brain is
sol L aud a amah quantity. of.reddish.fluid is luuud
in the skull. The disease is so rapid that even
after the first symptoms are detected, no treat
ment has time to show any effect. It seems to
have been brought on from exposure to the late
very severe weather, which commenced shortly
after the usual season for shearing.
A large number of coolies, of all ages and sexes,
had arrived in Jamaica, who it was thought
would return to India. Some evil disposed per
sons, (says the Standard) have advised them not
to enter into any contracts with the “ buckras”
without first having the money placed in their
hands.
A correspondent of the Jamaica Standard,
writing from Westmoreland says:
" I regret to state that the small pox prevails
to a fearful extent in this, the windward part of
the parish. The people are dying rapidly, all
without medical aid ; and many, particularly the
Africans located in the “ bush,” without any
assistance whatever being rendered them. Noth
ing has been done by the authorities to alleviate
the distress under which the people are laboring,
except sending such cases as occur at Savana-la-
Mar, to the poor house for treatment.
The Falmouth Chronicle states that small pox
still prevails at Savana-la-Mar, and some deaths
have occurred during the past fortnight.
We extract the following paragraph from the
County Union :
Gold in Jamaica —We state, on the most
perfect authority, that several lumps of metal,
pionounced by parties competent to form an
opinion to be gold, have been picked up in Hec
tor’s River, forming, we'believe, the boundaries
of Manchester and Trelawny, and that they
have been forwarded to be analysed. The Crown
Surveyor for Cornwall, who is our informant, is
about starting for the spot to investigate the
truth of the reports, and will explore the river,
over which, to prevent diggers, there has already
been placed a restrictive guard.
Albany Artesian Well.—A company of
citizens have made the necessary arrangements
to have an artesian well. The operators are on
the ground with the necessary implements, and
will commence work next week. At a meet
ing of citizens held last evening, resolutions
were passed authorizing the use of certain points
in the streets, for well* and reservoirs, in con
deration of the free use of tbs water for the city
jf‘ cases of fire.— patriot.
] From ths N. O. Picayune, 29th »/r.|
Lalor from Mexico.
By the schooner Edward Bernard we have
eceived full files ol papers from Vera Cruz to the
:9th, and from the city of Mexico to the 15t li
nst. The news contained in them is of little
nt erest.
With the exception of Vera Cruz, there seems ,
:o be little feeling produced in Mexico by the
publication of Seuor Escobar’s report of bis in
erview with Santa Anna. Several of the pa
pers published extracts from it after having had
it some days, but without editorial remarks of
»nv kind.
Tn an article on the government of Gen. Lom
bardini, the Siglo, of the 15th inst., has the fol
lowing:
•• In fact, as yet no one can tell the final result
ofthe revolution. Every thing depends on the
course of the Government of Santa Anna, and
until this is known we cannot know if domestic
peace will be consolidated, or if anarchy will be
prolonged until the country is consumed.”
The lady of Gen. Lombardini was seriously
ill. and he had left the palace and dispatched bu
siness in his own house, in order tn be near her.
Some difficulty having occurred in the forma
tion of a Cabinet. Gen. Lombardini determined
to carry on the Government through the clerks
of the departments, d: ring the short interval
that would intervene until the return of Santa
Anna.
Gen. Uraga had been appointed Minister to
Spain. It was said the Government had given
him the Cross of Angostura.
It was announced that Senor Robles had re
signed the command of his division.
Much ill-feeling existed between the Urnga
and the Robles divisions of the army, and it
was said that as soon as the vote for President
was counted, which was to be on the 17th inst.,
the former would be sent to Guadalajara and the
latter to Guanajuato.
The Monitor says that the cost ot the army is
now BIS'J.OOO monthly, being nearly the entire
revenue of the Republic. ,
The levies still go on, Gen. Lombardini hav
ing ordered the formation of four new corps.
Much complaint existed in regard to the man
ner of pressing recruits, and the President had
ordered those who had been taken by force to
be liberated.
i The agents of Mr. Sloo had paid into the trea-
1 sury the sum of $50,000, being the monthly pay
ment of March under the contract. Messrs.
Mora and Gonzalez, commissioners on the part
ofthe Government to make delivery of the line
to the Mixed Company, had left Vera Cruz for
n MitrattLUu. -asaiff Bonifacio G’uttnr™, -^ e
agent oi rue <,vni|Muy'. L.,4 passed through Oajac..
on his way to Tehuantepec. He had been very
well received in Oajaca.
Bishop Timon, of Buffalo, was in the city of
Mexico and would preach there. He had been
at Morelos, where lie confirmed many persons.
The sum of SSOO was collected for him by the
congregation, and $1,200 by the ayuntamiento.
Much feeling was excited in Mexico against
Mr. Falcon net, the banker, in consequence of
the publication by the London papers of a letter
I from him to the Mexican landholders, stating
! that in obtaining the exportation free of duty of
! the $2,500,000 last paid, it had cost $60,000 in
bribes to the members of Congress. The Uni
versal says the Government thought of giving
i him his passport.
The State of Yucatan has voted for Santa An
na as President, and the Territory of Colima lor
Gen. Uraga.
dt is proposed that Gen. Lambardini shall pub
lish a decree permitting the wearing of foreign
crosses and decorations. Santa Anna can then
wear the cross of Charles 111. received from the
King of Spain, and Gen. Herrera that which was
i given him by Pio IX , and several other persons
decorations given by other foreign monarchs.
i Gen Lombardini ordered the return ofthe es
cort which accompanied Gen. Arista to bis es
tate, and the Universal says had sent him his
i passport to leave the country.
It was said that Santa Anna’s first act on his
return to Mexico would be the laying of the first
; stone for the construction of the railroad to Ta
cubaya.
Don Manuel Gandara had taken possession as
Governor of the State of Sonora. His first act
was to order a collection of reports on the dam
ages caused by the Indians, in order that they
might be claimed of the United States under the
eleventh article ot the treaty.
The Permanent Commission of Chihuahua
had published a decree on the 16th'ot February,
declaring the country in danger, and granting
to the Governor legislative power.
The State authorities of Vera Cruz had order
ed a public reception for Santa Anna, who was
expected about the last of March.
In firing a salute on the arrival of Senor Es
cobar. one of the soldiers of the fortress was
killed.
Great complaints were made because the Su
preme Government demanded the payment of
the 6 per cent, export duty in Mexico on the
last conducta.
It is said the collector at Vera Cruz has about
$300,000 in hand, collected from duties, which
he refuses ’o nay to anyone except Santa Anna.
Several of the towns to the leeward of Vera
Cruz had rebelled against the tariff orders of
Senor Gamboa.
{Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun ]
Further per Steamer Niagara.
France.—lt is very doubtful if Napoleon will
concede any think in spiritual affairs to the
I Pope, if he does come to Paris.
Gen. Canobert has been again offered St. Ar
; naud’s portfolio, but declines unless Changarnier,
La Morceire, Bediare and Loflo be amnested.
i An entertainment is to be given on the 2d of
, April, by the city of Paris, to the Emperor and
I Eiworess.
Mons. Orfilla, the eminent chemist, is dead,
ag»d 70.
The Paris exhibition will open on the Ist of
I May. 1855.
; The Pensions heretofore paid by Government
■ to the Polish refugees have been withdrawn.—
No cause has been assigned for the act.
I All employers on public works have been re
quired to take the oath to uphold the present
■ constitution.
i Portugai -The news from Portugal isofsome
importance. Under date of Lisbon. March 12th,
we learn that Fintes, Minister of Finance, had
laid before the Deputies a bill authorising the
I Government to annul the monopoly of tobacco
and soap.
Twenty new Peers have been created to carry
through the new r government measures. *
The price of orqnges has advanced.
Belgium.—The Chamber of Deputies have
voted an annual income of 200,000 francs to the
Due de Brabant, heir presumptive to the throne,
aged 18. The export duties on several articles
have been reduced.
Germany.—The Diet have decided to enroll
only 50,000, instead of 200,000 troops.
The convention between France and Wur
temberg, for the mutual extradition of criminals,
has been officially published.
Denmark.—The Diet opened on the 7th inst.
Switzerland.—The old Switzer spirit seems
roused against Austria. From Berne, it is repor
ted that Austria, without occupying Ticini, will
maintain the blockade indefinitely—but no an
swer has yet been given in the note of the
Federal Council. Private accounts tell sad sto
ries of suffering of banished Ticinese women
and children perishing by the way, &c.
Austria.—The Emperor has completely re
covered, but his physicians have recommended
him to travel in Tyrol. The church ceremony,
in honor of the Emperor’s escape, passed off
quietly, on the 12th inst.
The government is said to be extremely dis
satisfied with the effect that England would not
expel the refugees. The Austrian government
thinks it would be quite useless to proseeute
Mazzini or Kossuth in England, as no jury would
find them guilty.
Our Vienna advices furnish no particulars of
the death of Marshal Haynau.
The firm of Mechane, Lola & Co., of Vienna,
has failed for 200,000 florins.
Late accounts from Moldavia state that the
resigning Prince had left Jassy, and that a Gov
ernment Council had been formed.
Italy.—The inhabitants of Milan have been
relieved from the order to illuminate their houses
at night, but on a signal of a cannon shot from
the Castle, the whole city must be illuminated,
the doors be closed and the streets be deserted.
The military are employed in strengthening the
fortifications and gates. The state of siege is
still rigidly enforced, and no officers go out with
out an escort. Der Eloyd states that the value
of the confiscated property is fifty millions sterl- I
ing. i
til".
Lloyd states that the new Genoa steamship
company, with a capital of thirty millions, de
signed to open steam communication between
the Mediterranean and American ports,
progressing, with a fair prospect of success.
Tuscany.—The conclusion ol a treaty of com
merce between France and Tuscany has been
officially announced.
Turkey.—The Turks have evacuated Monte
negro. and Omar Pasha had retired into Albania,
Rus Pasha to Niesitch, and Dervis Pasha to Ko
wine—the Montenegrins having attacked the
last named General, and completely routed him.
Prince Menchikoff, Russian Envoy, had an in
terview with the Sultan on the second instant.
Faud Effendi had resigned, and Riffat Pasha had
been appointed to fill his office.
The following dispach depresses the British
and French funds:
Marseilles, March 18.—The steamer Cara
dock, arrived from Constantinople, reports tha r
Menchikoff’s (the Russian minister) ultimatum
is repelled by the Divan, and the Sultan invokes
the assistance of France and England. The
British fleet have been ordered from Malta to
the Archipelago.
A new bank has been projected at Constanti
nople by French speculators.
Russia.—A St. Petersburg letter, of the
2d. stub’s that immense embezzlements have
been discovered in the army and navy adminis
tration. The adjutant general and other officers
were under tiial.
Cape or Good Hope.—Guerrilla bands of Caf
fres infest Zonsburg. The chiefs Moskesh and
Baskate seem friendly. Kriells’ adherence is
equivocal.
From the Plains.—The Independence, (Mo.)
Reporter, of the 11th inst., says :
We learn from Mr. Wm. Allison, who has
within the present week returned from Fort
Laramie with the mail, that the past has been
one of the coldest winters that has been known
in the region of Laramie by the oldest trappers,
though the quantity of snow has not been great
er than usual. He informed us that a Mr. Tutt,
a suttler in the army, at or about the south fork
of Platte river, had a large train of cattle to freeze
to death He sent another train of cattle out to
meet the hint one and assist in hauling the wa
gons, and that froze also.
Mr. Allison says he conversed with an old
man who had been in the mountains almost
Irom boyhood, and he could recollect of but one
Winter as cold as the one just past.
[ From the Charleston Standard.]
Gov. Talmadge and the Spirits.
Col. Perry, in Ins letters from Washington, to
the Southern Patriot, gives a'wonderttdlrceount
of certain interviews of Gov. Talmadge, with
the spirit of Mr. Calhoun. He is mindful to
warn us that—the narrator is ‘no old tsotnan, or
juggler, or mountebank, .but—a Governor and a
Senator." It was well that ho should be thus
careful, otherwise, some inyrediilo' s people af
ter seeing Col. Perry's story, might have been in
great error as to the Governor’- cllims in this
respect. And even now, there miy be room
lor mensurable cavil, inasmuch as the only proof
of the narrator’s bei g neither iuf“oSJ woman,”
nor a ‘ juggler,” < onsets in his having been a
Governor and a Senator, and it may well be
doubted whet er either or both these sta ions
constitute a complete def. nee agai' it the charge
which unbelievers will be sure to prefer in this
case. Nor are we sure that the other accom
paniments of the story will be irresistibly con
vincing to every one. We see that C<>l. Perry
himself, though he even believes Dr. Gardner to
be an innocent and an honest mart, yet doubts
the inspiration of these "post morteS" revela
tions. The following is an extract from his
letter:
Last night I went, in company witj General
Thompson and Mr. Colcock,to Gov, ialmadge’s
room, to see and hear the wonders e spiritual
rappings, writing medii ms, and spewing me
diums. Mr. Atchison, President" Senate,
Mr. Jennifer, former Minister to Atl'ia, and
Gov. Hamilton, were there also for be same
purpose. Gov. Talmadge has been s Senator
from New-York, and Governor of Wisconsin.
He is a gentleman ot high characteriireat ac
quirements and talents. He waslntSiute with
Mr. Calhoun whilst in Hie Seltehy He is a
good looking gentleman, with a larjhead, full
face, stout person, an I about the ordirf y height
He was distinguished for good pi-ajical hard
sense and great labor and So
much for the Governor’s character.? Now lor
his narrative and experience in fkr.si>ccu)t sci
ences and spirit rappings. I will ge it as he
gave it to me and the other gentljian above
named. Remember who they werastening to
these astounding revelations. Thefesident of
the United States Senate, an of
South-Carolina, an ex-Minister tojustria, an
ex-Minister to Mexico, a Congress
and my humble self. The narratwVs no old
woman, or juggler, or mountebank,# a Gover
nor and Senator.
Gov. Talmadge said he haff
• spiritual rappers, and laughed SF 4
. hotly else did ior a giSh’t white .Ur
'. it stated in the New-York
f Judge EdmondswpNKAsa believejj3h(*jjff&C. lt ;
in experiments, '"tris startled hfa, knew
f Judge Edmondson to lie one of tlTpureet, best
j! and most able men he had tv er Y 4 associated
i. with. Ifsuch a man could on, be
B desired to see the impostor, he
L wentto Mrs. Fish’s,in New-Yoir. lhere were
t four or five persons in the roan. He knew
,f none of them, and none of therf him. —
r Whilst seated at the table, a rapped and
» said. “My ok! friend, I wish I ctnmunicate
f with you—l am John C. Calhoh !’’ The com
ij pany said, “Is there any one aronjst us who
. knew Mr. Calhoun?” Gov. Ta|ad|e replied he
» did. The spirit was then aslra if tie message
’ w sto him, and the response wi, “ Yes.” Gov.
. Talmadge then asked Mr. Cajoun if he still
r believed in nullification a nd.recession. He
said, “Yes.” (Here Gov. Haalton remarked
. to us in an under tone,” “ lam glad Cal
i houn sticks to his in the world
j of spirits.” “ But,” said Mr- Tilhoun, “my
3 notions of public policy have thJergone some
s change.” From this time (j’v, Talmadge
3 became a constant visitor to Mrs,Ebh, and has a
volume of manuscripts which hdretd to us, con
. taining communications of the »o$ extraordi-
- nary character from Calhoun, Vebster and
3 others. These manuscripts the Sovernor in
tends publishing
s Next, the Governor informedus if his going
t to a speaking medium—a womaaylgnorant and
. uneducated, who possessed the po»er of with
drawing her own spirit from her bdy, and per
s mitting her clay tenement to bepccqpied by
t Calhoun, Webster, Gov. Talmaqe’s mother,
. uncle, and others. The first cor.niinication he
r received from this source, was froq his mother.
> She spoke fifteen or twenty roinies, and her
communication was taken down h short hand
i by Judge Edmondson, and this aN was read to
, us. In the same way, and tbrogh tie same
- medium of thisjold woman, Mr. Cuhoun address
ed Gov. Talmadge, and Judge Kdnondgon took
down his speech, which was alb rend to us.
; Mr. Calhoun commenced by sayiig. “ This is a
novel position for me to occupy.” (the body of
. an old woman,) and I thought iy, too. Whi'st
; speaking, this lady had all the runner and ges
ture of Mr. Calhoun, with bis ffilosophical con
densation of thought. My impassion was that
' the language was entirely to- figurative and
. scriptural for Mr. Calhoun, 'B t Gun. Hamil
ton remarked, that he was nowspeaking from
the world of spirits, which migh; very naturally
effect his style, and imbue with magery, &c.
Lastly. Gov. Talmadge told usof the writing
medium—a young man who hobs a pen in his
’ hand in any sort of way, and the spirit of Cal
houn, or some other spirit, will glide the pen and
make it write, with the rapiditybf lightning, the
most eloquent and profound diriourses. These
discourses were read to us, and tie handwriting
shown to us 1
Gov. Talmadge also informed as that he said
on one occasion he wished somj physical sign
given him of the presence ofi Mr. Chlhoun;
whereupon the spirit told him; to get on the
table, and it should rise up. •Undid so, and the
’ table rose up and jolted him ibotft pretty severe
ly. He was then told, to put pryer and pencil
under the table, fthd Mr».CalU£>uwy’/W« an the
( paper, “ I am with yon.” Thil writing was
shown to us, and both Gen. Hanflton and Gen.
' Thompson said they would swefr to the hand
writing. But I should not like V swear it was
written by Calhoun.
Deaih of General Hapau.
It is announced by telegraph 'rom Vienna of
the 14th inst., that General Ha/nau was dead.
Who has not heard of Haynau ? He was a Ba
ron and Field Marshal in the Austrian service,
and w.ell known by the part witch he took in
the Hungarian war. He waj lirn at Cassel, in
1786. He is said to have been the natural son
of the Duke of Hesse, by a goldsmith’s daugh
ter, and was long notorious for h's eccentricities,
which, while he was in the military command
of Gratz, led to his being considered insane. He !
does not appear to have distinguished himself by I
any great mili’ary exp’oits. He was comman
der of the Austrian forces which stormed Brescia
when that town revolted; and it was probably
owing to his efficient service ot this occasion,
that he was appointed to succeed Baron Wel
den in command ofthe forces acting against the
Hungarians. This appointment he received in
May, 1849, with the style and title of Comman
der-in Chief of the Austrian army in the king
dom of Hungary and the principality of Tran
sylvania, he being, at the same time, charged
with the government of both those countries,
declared in a state of seige. In August of the
same year, he captured the town of Szegedin,
and within a week he led the imperial army to
Temeswar, where a sanguinary conflict ensued,
which terminated in the utter defeat ofthe Hun
garians. The consequence of this battle was
the suriender of Gorgey, and the termination of
the war in favor of the Austrians. At the
close of the war, Haynau carried into effect the
exaction from the Hungarians with the most
unsparing cruelty. He is reported to have
avowed his intention to revenge through the
scaffold all the discomfitures of the Austrians in
arms, and that retribution had to be dealt for the
60,000 Austrians slain in the battle by the Mag
yars. After perpetrating acts of the greatest
cruelty, he would often spend liourelfnd Jays in
tears, in a wretched state of nervous excitement
with his eyes red with weeping. The inhabit
ants of Pesth, however, the scene ot his servi
ces to the Emperor, with strange inconsistency,
presented him with a most beautiful album, as a
“token of gratitude.” In July, 1850, he was
removed from his command in Hungary, having
fallen into disgrace with the imperial court at
Vienna, in consequence, it was said, of his chang
ing to the opposite extreme, and showing 100
great leniency to the rebels. Shortly after this
event, he set out upon a tour through Europe,
and arrived in London in September. On a
visit to Messrs. Barclay & Perkin’s brewery, in
that city, the Marshal was attacked by a mob
of draymen and others connected with the es
tablishment, and very severely handled, being
badly beaten, and dragged through the mud by
his immense moustache, until be was, with con
siderable difficultv. rescued bv tiio Os
siueraoie uimciiny, rescued by the police. <JI
i late he had b»en residing on El--
tia, and, it<ioeral in his
i nri■>.<••r'' ” .... e> B ' " '
t Phe value of the coral taken last year on the
Coast of Algeria was $100,000; a hundred and
fifty vessels were engaged in the faminess ; most
of the coral was sold at Naples.
Mobile Racfs.March 24.—The entries were
Charmer and Wade Hampton—two first rate
’ ” a g s 5 >t must be confessed, but for the mare the
, distance was too short, and her weight too
heavy Yet Wade Hampton had 18 lbs. on him
more than required by inle, and his stride was
as great and his speed as ready as ever; while his
i temper seemed entirely subdued. He took the
lead and kept it through both heats, and when
ever the mare came near enough to show herself,
he was on and away from her. Jockey Club
32—entries included—two mile heats.
S. M. Hill's ch. g. Wade Hampton, by Boston,
out of Margaret Woods—4 y. 0., (carried) 101
lbs - 1:1
B. m. Charmer, by Glencoe, out of Betsy
Malone—aged; 121 lbs 2:2
one I* irst neat-—first mile 1:55, second mile
I’ l '’;'' 3:50. Second heat—first mile—l:ss, sec
ond mile 1:54—3:49.
I here is no knowing how fast Wnde Hamp
ton can run. Like the purse of Forfunans. he
has ever something more left. Nor can it be
fairly said that he is best in the lead, or when
trailing—for open any gap, by the speed of op
ponents, or his own sulks, nnd he closes it as
with lightning speed. Wade seeing destined to
be at the very head of the American turf and
in this belief, a deputation wailed on Col. S. M.
Hill to request a change of his name to that of
Henry Clay.
In declining, the courteous Colonel stated
that the name oi Wade Hampton was given
him by the lamented Statesman, Henry Clay,
who deemed him the most promising colt ever
raised at Ashland ; and in so calling him, begged
there should be no change, as Margaret Woods,
by Priam, the dam of this horse, was presented
to him by his valued friend, Col. Wade Hamp
ton. Thus having pledged himself to fulfil the
request of the illustrious deceased, he was bound
to refuse any that interfered with it.
Drowned.—We understand that a young
man by the name of Davidson was drowned on
Friday last a few miles above this place, while
attempting to cross the Chattahoochee River in
a small boat. His body was found on Saturday
morning.— West Point Advocate, 31st ult.
| From the Savannah Georgian.]
Judge Douglas.
The Savannah Republican rarely Jets slip an
opportunity of making a fling at the gentleman
whose name we have just written. Yesterday
growing witty on the hackneyed theme of
“ Fillibusterism,” its Editor took occasion to
term him, “ that littlest of all little Giants Mr.
Douglas.”
Now, lest the Illinois Senator should feel too
badly, at finding himself estimated so lowly by
our neighbor, we must tell him that after all, he
is in very good company. But a few days have
passed since the same paper took occasion, from
its loftl v e:r inence. to sneer at Messrs. Hunter
and Cushing, as third or fourth rate men ! Judge
Douglas, when he learns that. wilTprobably feel
honored by a notice from such a source, however
disparaging may he the epithets applied to him.
In the case of Mr. Hunter, we brought for
ward, from the Congressional Globe, as an offset
to the opinion of the Republican, a most exalted
tribute to the ability of the Virginia Senator,
offered by Mr. Badger, of North Carolina.
We are sorry that we can’t on the spur of the
moment, quote quite so high authority in behalf
of our friend, the Judge. However, he shall re
ceive the benefit of such as we have at hand.
Let us then give the following extract, (which
has lain for a week or two on our table,) from
the able Washington correspondent (a Whig po
litician) ofthe New York Courier, (a Whig pa
per.) Here it is. We occasionally clip such pas
sages,not knowing when they may be useful:
“ The speech of Senator Douglas, on our rela
tions with Central America, in reply to Mr.
Clayton, was the ablest and clearest he has yet
delivered. He evinced a familiarity with the
facts which 1 did not suppose he possessed. He
differed from Mr. Clayton in respect to the mer
its of the unconfirmed treaties negotiated by
Messrs Hise and Squier, the agents in Guatema
la of the Polk and Taylor administrations. The
point is of no consequence, since neither was
ratified. Otherwise there was no material dif
ference between the two distinguished Senators.
On a comprehensive question of national policy
Judge Douglas has no superior in the Senate or
the c’ountry. Not attractive nor plausible in de
livery, not eloquent, and seldom entertaining, his
oratory has few admirers, and has not heretofore
been appreciated. But his mind is original and
logical. He seizes the great points of a subject,
and these he presents without any attention to
the impression they are likely to make upon an
auditory, but only in reference to their bearings
ar t? u rnenf, and the conclusions he wish
, Nothing that the rising western
01 'said has given color to
and there is no more
".i CUUr» s i®*\J o h>»^—r ■z? „ , -uil,
man chan jus apparent indiffcrei
ces. He will impress his idw? .the. lune,
and will continue his hold upon the confidence
of his party, and must retain his influence in the
directioMif public affairs as long as that party
remainsTn possession of power.”
Our fiiends across the way have doubtless
heard of the Hon. B. F. Perry, so distinguished
within the last two years as the High Priest of
Unionism and Fillrnoreism in South Carolina.
Suppose we ask his opinion of “ the littlest of all
Little Giants, Mr. Douglas?” Strongly preju
diced as he, in common with nearly all the
members of the late Union party, is against the
gentleman in whose favor he is to testify, we
cannot expect anything very complimentary
from him. However, having called him to the
stand, let us hear what he has to say. Speak
out, Mr. Witness:
“ After our consultation was over, [Mr. Perry,
oneof the counsel in the famous Gardiner case,
is writing to the Southern Patriot.] I went to the
Senate chamber and heard the greater part of
Judge Douglas’ speech in reply to Senator Clay
ton. It was a noble effort, and breathed the
proud spirit of an American Senator. From
this day my opinion of Stephen Douglas is
| changed. He is a great man, with proper Amer
i ican feelings, and is destined to be the standard
' bearer of the Democracy of the United States.
I confess 1 have been seriously prejudiced against
Judge Douglas, and a hundred times I have
asked the question why he should ever be
thought of for President of this Union. I am
now able to answer my own question. Judge
Douglas is one of the first men in .America, and he
embodies the spirit and feeling of the Republic.
He repudiates any spirit of aggression—which
I thought he entertained. But he avows a proud
defiance of the world in maintaining American
rights and American honor. Several times to
day he was applauded from the galleries for no
ble bursts of indignation against the insolence
and domineering spirit of England. He said
Great Britian had cause to hate us—we had hum
bled her pride, and were her rival on the seas ;
that she never would love us, and never could
love us, and that we did not love her.”
Stand aside Major Perry !
How they Live in Rome.
We make the following extracts from the cor
respondence of the Savannah Courier:
The style of living in Rome, as in all parts of
Europe, is very different from that in the Uni
ted states. A newij’ arrived American finds
difficulty id accomodating himself here : the En
glish never do. Their stiff, unaccommodating
character, follows them wherever they go
Consequently, Switzerland and Italy, their most
, . , ..... . :n. r- —,.-„k l
I frequent pilgrimages, are filled w ith English ho
tels. where they are treated by English servants
to English dishes, in English style. There is
nothing more absurd, even ridiculous, than the
aversion ol this stiff, wicked, ungainly people, to
doing in Rome as Romans do. To be awkward
where o|| are graceful, rough-mannered among
polished |<iople, ever calling for beef-steak amid
worlds of mountain game and tropical fruits ; in
a word, to bo John Bull among Italians, and per
sist in it ns though that were the highest style of
man ; this is what one is continually compelled
to see in Rome, indeed wherever tne rude Bre
ton wanders.
The usual hour foi rising in Rome is nine
o’clock. Common laborers are, of course, at
work at an ealier hour, but seldom are the streets
animated before ten. Every Italian break
fasts, if it can be called breakfasting, in his own
room. It consists of a cup of coffee or glass of
wine.with a crust of bread. This, among the low
er classes, is the ord v substance till five or six.
the dinner hour. The rich have an additional
breakfast, consisting of simple meats, at eleven
or twelve. But litrie value is placed upon it by
those for whom it is provided; an orange, string
of dried figs, or glass of wine, is more accepta
ble. This abstinence of all Italians, so different
from American voraciousness at the breakfast
: table, is peculiarly favorable to health of body,
! clearness of mind, and ever buoyant spirits, for
which all people are here distinguished. No
one indeed seems to care anything for the plea
sures ofthe table, except so tar as its sociality is
concerned; if dinner does not promise social
cheer, it is thought hardly worthy a passing no
tice. Edimusut uivamus, not the contrary, is
the motto still, as in ancient Rome.
It is really a treat to enjoy an Italian dinner.
It has no set form, style or course, as with us.
Sometimes it begins with one thing, and some
times with another. If the wine be particular
ly fine, the Falernian of old Horace,orthe white
wine of Capesi, for example, it leads out as often
as anything. Then follows a salad, if you
please, made of delicate grasses, fresh from the
Anio or Tiber, mingled with various meats,
sometimes horne-fed, again wild from the wood
ed Appenines. No people have greater variety
of wild game than the Italians, from the Alps to
Sicily. This favored people, too, for whom, as
in Herod’s golden age, all things grow sponta
neously, have ample time to hunt it. A buck
is doubtless taken by chase-loving travellers;
for nothing is more healthy and delightful than
here to chase the wild game on the hills. So
each town and market are filled with strings of
gaily-feathered birds, just caught in the neigh
boring mountains. Often the rude peasant of
fers them for sale in the street or at the door.
Choose which you like, grouse from the low
lands, partriges, from the thicket, merle, thrush,
or pigeon from the hills. Immense quantities
of quail are found in the neighboring islands of
Elba. Corsica, Sardinia, and brought for sale to
the cities of the continent. Among the nume
rous species of water-fowl from the islands, es
pecially Sardinia and Corsica, is the finisottcro
rosso, a bird of rich, gay plumage, and delicious
flavor. This feathered beauty migrates in win
ter to the south, though, as if reluctant to leave
its native home, it lingers late among the trees,
end thickets of the Tuscod islands.
Among the luxuries of the Italian table, nas
the attraction of all travellers, is the wild board’
flesh, or cinghiale, taken in the Appenines, or
the island mountains. It differs much from the
species of Northern Europe, in greater shortness
of body and more delicate texture. These ano-
” malics are constantly observed in the greater
part ol 14kJa»«i due prostbly to food
s and climate, i o MWTtlie cinghiale in the A|>-
peniues is the chosen sport of such Romans as
e seek the fresh mountain air. Parties of twenty
d and thirty are often made, strangers from all na
t tions invited, to spend two weeks, a month, on
the Saline Hills, or the rugged mountains of
B Abruzzo. In the opening spring, parties some
-3 times penetrate the wild regions of Calabria, or
? cross over to the neighboring islands. The wild
j boar’s flesh is tender and delicate, like that of
1 fowl or rabbit. It is also rich and nutritious, of
-5 ten pfbvided for invalids.
3 The fruits of the Italian table are of course
> the choicest of the most favored climes. The
varieties of figs, cured by the peasantry and
equal to the figs of Smyrna, are numerous.—
J Grapes and raisons from Orvieto, lemons and
oranges from the Elysian fields, or Sicilian
groves, are within the reach of all. The more
delicate species of the orange, such as the man
darin of Malta and Cozzo Calypo’s Isle, are
. also found throughout the Italian, as also the
. Grecian Peninsula. S : x oranges, too, for a pen
ny, large, full and luscious, from the gardens of
Palermo; two penny’s worth will overload
you.
To Americans and English travelling here the
want of butter is at first a serious inconvenience.
The Italian substitute in cooking is oil trom the I
olive, pure and healthy, but bitter to the taste.— •
Butler, as we use it, for bread and pastry, is here
quite unknown. In large cities frequented by ‘
I foreigners, necessity has introduced it from
j northern countries, but rates enormous. In the ,
country however, where perhaps the first article ,
was never seen, the traveller soon learns to use .
the substitute. The oil extracted from the olive 1
is often but a few days or weeks old; by long c
use it proves delicious. For two weeks, wan- 6
dering amid the Etrurian ruins of Central Italy, ,
I found it the only means of cooking. The 1
custom is to lix the chicken or game upon a c
rude revolving spit, fixed ollenest in open air.— e
The oil is poured slowly on as it revolves above r
the blazing fire. .
This is the peasant s custom ; the Romans
and Florentines have made some advance be- t
yond rude mountain life. t
Governor or Washington Territory.—The it
Boston Post slates t hat Gov. Stevens, the newly y
appointed Governor of Washington Territory, is .
to be put in charge of one of the three surveying 11
parties which will be sent out to explore the P
several routes for the Pacific railroad. a
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AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6.
Judge Jackson’s Letter.
We transfer, with pleasure, to our columns,
the following letter from Judge Jackson, which
we find in the Savannah Georgian of the 29th
ult:
[From the Savannah Georgian, 291 h ult.]
Judge Jackson’s Letter.
It is with much pleasure that we place before
the Democratic party of Georgia the following
letter of Judge Jackson. We are gratified that
Mr. Gardner has, by his editorial in relation to
Gov. Cobb, drawn forth the communications of
Messrs. Hull and Jackson. To us, Gov. C.'s po
sition in the late canvass was not unknown.
Knowing it, we have been not a little surprised
that his more immediate friends have suffered
him to be so greatly, and as regards himself no
less than the Democratic party, so injuriously
misrepresented. Gov. Cobb’s wish is, and has
been. “to see a cordial reconciliation between
the two wings of the democratic party.” That
wbh of his and of ourselves, we sincerely hope
is now to be gratified. We are confident that
these letters of Judge Jackson and Mr. Hull
will do much to bring about a consummation so
much to be desired :
Savannah, March 28th, 1853.
Mr. Hilton, editor of the Georgian :
Dear Sir:—l have read, with no ordinary
pleasure, the extract from Mr. Hull’s letter to the
Augusta Constitutionalist, which appeared in
your columns this morning.
I agree with its writer in the opinion that
“ the time has come" when the friends of Gov
ernor Cobb “ owe it to him to make his true po
sition known.” in reference to the political
movements of the late Presidential canvass. I
therefore take this early opportunity of publicly
saying that from my own personal knowlegde,
from confidential interviews ofthe freest charac
ter, lr->m an almost daily correspondence, during
-MB tunjr enrn^ee q'-ot’ Mr.
“ the tWWIWnch was an,-,-
the Atlanta meeting, was brought out against-
Governor Cobb’s wishes and advice, and against
his earnest effort to prevent it."
Mr. Hull has correctly defined his views as to
the true policy of that meeting ; a policy which
he would have adopted as the best means of
bringing together the discordant wings ot the
Democratic party. “ When the convention act
ed on the subject,” to use his own language, in a
letter to me, of September 29th, 1852, “aud with
great unanimity determined upon a different
policy, I acquiesced in their decision, and have
uniformly discountenanced any at?d every move
ment which was inconsistent with the action of
the convention. Before I went to Atlanta I de
termined to abide the decision of that conven
tion : I have done so."
I am fully cognizant of the fact that, from the
date of the Baltimore Convention, Gov. Cobb,
was most anxious to unite the supporters of
Gen. Pierce upon the same electoral ticket.
He wished the vote of the State to be east, if
possible, as a unit, believing that the moral effect
of such a vote upon Northern sentiment, would
be most happy. Failing that, he still wished
to see a cordial reconciliation between the two
wings ofthe Democratic party. In accordance
with these views, he urged his friends to attend
the Atlanta Convention, (myself among the
number.) and during the entire session of that
body, his mind was anxiously looking to this
great object. Yet further, I know the fact that
from its adjournment down to the present mo
ment, that object has never ceased to be near to
his heart, and, together with the natural and
honorable feeling of attachment to his life-long
friends referred to by Mr. Hull, will account for
whatever in his conduct may have subjected
him to suspicions like those which appeared in
the Constitutionalist.
I have addressed these lines to you because
they contain nothing which is novel to your
mind. From our interchange of thought in the
past, you have been familiarized with the true
position of Gov. Cobb, his policy and his hopes.
But for this consideration, I should have ad
dressed them t •my friend, Mr. Gardner, who
has already expressed pleasure in dismissing the
suspicion which had rested upon his mind. This
honorable course upon his part, and rhe kind
feeling which accompanies it, must be recipro
cated by the many and warmly attached
friends of Gov. Cobb—and we may now trust
that the time has arrived which shall see all
the supporters of the present administration
warmly united in Georgia; forgetful of past
differences and personal jealousies, looking alone
to the advancement of true principle and the
successful government of the country.
Yours, &c., Henry R. Jackson.
Spanish Outrages on the American Flag.
Another outrage has been added to the long
list of outrages, which for the last few years
have been perpetrated upon the American Flag
by the Spanish officials ill Cuba. We allude, of
lourse, to the treatment ofthe American schoon-
Manchester, Captain Sterling, a notice of
which we have already published. The follow
ing are some further particulars :
Another Spanish Outrage on the Ameri
can Flag.—The schooner Manchester, (of Bal
timore, 1 Captain Sterling, which arrived at this
port yesterday from Kingston. Jamaica, informs
us of one of the most high-handed outrages upon
our flag that has yet been committed by the
loyal subjects of Queen Isabella in Cuba.
According to Captain Sterling’s account,
which is authenticated by his consignees, he
was peacefully pursuing his course homewards
from Jamaica, when, on the 15th inst., oft’ the
Island of Cuba, and about twenty miles east of
Cane Antonio, he was boarded by twelve armed
men, under the command ofa negro second lieu
tenant, from a Spanish cruiser of twelve guns,
who took possession of the vessel in spite of
his remonstrances, and carried her inside the
reef there. They then demanded the schooner’s
papers, which the captain had to take on board
the cruiser for examination. The Spanish com
mander was even going so far as to break open
the letters of the consignees, but desisted when
Captain S. insisted upon his returning them in
tact. They also broke open the hatches, and
took out about a third of the schooner’s cargo ;
but not finding any ammunition or guns on board,
put it back again. This was done after the pa
pers had been examined and found correct. Af
ter detaining her twenty-four hours, anchored
close under their guns, the schooner was allow
ed to proceed, and get out of the reef the best
way she could. This, however, was not allowed,
until Captain S. had promised to satisfy a de
mand of thirty dollars for safely piloting him in
side the reef. The only Wcuse given for this
wanton injustice, was their suspicion of her be
ing bound to Cuba with arms for the revolu
tionists.
The boarding officer gratuitously informed
Capt. Sterling that it was utterly impossible
owing to the strict guard kept, for any one to,
attempt to surreptitiously’ land upon the Cuban
coast, and that any one caught in the attempt
would immediately “have a rope around his
neck.” a hint of what probably might have been
the fate of Capt. S. if any article they could
have constructed into “arms” or “amunition”
had been found on board.
In justice to our name and character as a nation,
it is necessary that such outrages should be im
mediately checked. If immediate notice is not
taken of this at Washington, very serious trou
ble will possibly ensue, as the Spanish authori
ties have a fleet of twelve men of war continu
ally cruising around Cuba, to intercept real or
pretended supplies for the malcontents on the
island, the commanders of which will gladly
seize hold of the slightest shadow of suspicion
as an excuse to molest every America i vessel
they may fall in with, to gratify their combined
fear and hatred of the Americans.
The following is the authentication by the
consignees, of some of the leading facts here
given :
The Report of Cast. Sterling, of the
Schooner Manchester.—Schooner Manches
ter, of Baltimore, Capt. Sterling, from Falmouth,
Jamaica, arrived yesterday. On the 15th inst.,
off the Island of Cuba, about twenty miles east
of Cape Antonio, was boarded by a Spanish
cruiser of twelve guns. They sent on board
twelve men, well armed, who took possession of
the vessel and carried her inside the reef. They
then demanded her papers, broke open her hatch
es, and took out about a third of the cargo; but
not finding amongst it any guns or ammunition,
put the cargo back again. They then threaten
ed to take the vessel into Havana; but alter
keep.ng her twenty-four hours they decided to
allow her to depart, getting out of the reef the
best way she could.
Isaac Sterling.
New York, March 25,1853.
The above statement we know to be correct.
Dawson & Co., 160 Pearl-st., consignees.
That such conduct will not be suffered to pass
with impunity by the Administration, we feel
assured from the character of Gen. Pierce and
the pledges he has given to the country. It is
high time to put an abrupt stop to these insults.
Ihe people will watch with some interest the
movements of the government in the premises.
It is stated that the Japan expedition will be
countermanded and repudiated by the Adminis
tration. It is but proper and wise to do so, for
it looks absurd for our government to be sending
oil our most effective naval force to the other
side of the world, while our flag is liable every
day to be insulted almost within sight of our
own shores. The countermanding this Japan
expedition, may have reference to this very out
rage on the Coast of Cuba, and the consequences
that may grow out of the demented arrogance of
the Spanish authorities. They seem either to
think our government too spiritless to vindicate
its honor, and the rights of its citizens, or
yielding to a blind hatred of our people and our
republican institutions,perpetrate acts intended to
provoke a war between the two countries. At
all events, our government should hold its naval
arm ready, at any moment, to strike an effective
blow, when it becomes convinced that nothing
short of such a demonstration will meet the
emergencies Spanish fatuity is precipitating
upon us.
Office-Seeking.
Below is some very excellent advice on the
above subject. It will particularly suit the large
cities of the North and the citizens of the North
ern and Middle States, for they furnish the great
body of the seekers of clerkships and subordinate
offices about Washington City. Comparatively
little competition comes from the South for fa
vors of that kind. The Southern States have
furnished but a small portion of the throng of
hungry seekersand expectants that thronged the
Federal city at the Inauguration, We think
this fact creditable to the good sense of our peo
ple, and felt pleased when we saw the .‘tatement
made in the Washington letters.
We do not feel surprised however, that the
editor ofthe Boston Journal would be particularly
willing to depart f-om the advice he tenders to
others, in case an office of SSOOO a year should
go a-beggin*t But this would not be likely even
among as modest a set as the Boston editors, if
the office now so worthily held by Col. Greene
should become a settled editorial perquisite.—
Long may the gallant Colonel live to enjoy it ?
Office-seeking.—One of the unaccountable
phenomena connected with political matters, is
the very prevalent desire of obtaining office un
der the Government. Men who are doing a re
spectable and profitable private business are an
xious to quit the same and take upon themselves
the duties of an inferior Government employ
ment, the emoluments of which are no greater.
They are ready and willing to sacrifice all ad
vantages present and prospective of a lucrative
business, where the chances are in their favor of
indefinite continuance and increased success, and
accept instead a place under the Government,
the tenure ol which is dependent upon the insta
bility of party ascendency. How many in
stances can be called to mind of individuals who,
having been so fortunate in their estimation as
to get an appointment,have, surendered a business
which, with prudent management, would in the
end have insured them a competence ; and then,
after serving the public for a few yearsat a salary
just sufficient to afford them a maintenance
without being able to accumulate any property,
have been unceremoniously removed to make
•"’onq for a successful political rival.
cit;«,»"^?i. or^..y)ousail d s °f clerks in our principal
opportunity of
ton rlcrli’Tii^u rsfr n~ cpmoel,"d.
tion perhaps as they now receive : ann yet,Hi
doing so, they are sure to increase their expenses,
lessen their chances of promotion, and their
prospects of continued employment and of ulti
mate success ; for if they expect to retain their
places upon a change of administration, it must
be done at a sacrifice of political independence.
A man is compelled to sink the identity of his
political citizenship in an undivided attention to
the duties of his office ; and if his place is one of
the few which are particularly lucrative, even
this line of conduct will not save him from de
capitation.
There is no class of men more poorly paid than
the mass of inferior public officers. The enter
prising merchant, the active mechanic, the in
dustrious farmer, will thrive and grow rich,
while their neighbor, with equal talents and in
dustry in a public office, in pecuniary matters
may barely manage to keep his head above
water.
We do not of course intend to apply these re
marks to our friend, the senior editor ot the Post,
who has, very properly we think, consented to
undertake the performance of the duties of na
val orfilcer—an office the labors of which are
light and the emolument heavy. It is an office
peculiarly calculated for a patriotic editor, and
the colonel will be able to serve his country
with zeal and fidelity, without any material ne
glect of his editorial labors. This office, we trust,
will in future be regarded as belonging to the
editorial fraternity ; and when the change in the
administration takes place in 1857, if no editor
can be found sufficiently patriotic to acc-pt of it,
we may possibly be induced, if strongly pressed,
to accept of its ourself.— Boston Journal.
Good Dividends.
The Board of Directors of the Mechanics’
Bank, have declared a dividend of Six Dollars
per share out of the piofits ofthe past six months;
and the Bank of Brunswick Five Dollars per
share.
The Flank Road.
It is with pleasure that we learn, that at the
last meeting of our Council, they subscribed
twenty thousand dollars to the stock of the Plank
Road Company. This road will run through
Burke and Jefferson, by the way of Louisville
to Sandersville, and a branch will extend to
Bark Camp, on the lower edge of Burke county.
Fire.
About two o’clock yesterday morning,our cit
izens were alarmed by the .cry of Fire, which
was found to proceed from the two-story wood
en tenement on Campbell street, owned by R.
Moore, and occupied by Mr. O’Neil, as a Board
ing House and Dyeing establishment. When
the firemen reiwhed the scene of confiaßratfon,
the whole roof of the building was in a bright
blaze, and the adjoining buildings, which were
also of wood, were in imminent danger; but
having at hand a good supply of water, after
half an hour's hard struggle, they succeeded in
confining the frre to the building in which it
originated, saving the first story from the de-
vouring flames.
Great credit is due to our Fire Companies, for
their exertions on this occasion, and the building
as it now stands, is a monument to their indomi
table energy.
How the fire originated we could not learn.—
One story is, that a spirit gas lamp, in the hands
of one of the boarders was upset and ignited,
thus setting fire to the building ; another that it
caught from the chimney. When discovered, it
was so far under way, that two or three of the
boarders jumped from the second story' win
dows, and received serious injuries. But little
of the furniture was saved. The building, we
understand, was insured for 82,000, and the fur
niture at about the same amount.
The wind, fortunately, was light at the time;
had it been otherwise, we no doubt would
have had to record a serious conflagration, as
there were a number of wooden buildings in
the vicinity, and two Cotton Warehouses.
The Manufacture of Umbrellas, Parasols, &c.,
is carried on extensively in New York, accord
ing to a statement in the Journal of Commerce.
It is chiefly confined to seven different firms,
who by the aid of machinery, manufacture an
nually about $1,500,000 worth. One of the
largest firms employs 325 persons, including 250
girls. During a considerable part of the year,
from 1,200 to 1,500 umbrellas and parasols are
turned out daily, and 875,000 worth of silks and
ginghams are sometimes consumed in the course
of three months. There are in an umbtella 112
different parts, and before being perfected, the
umbrella passes through nearly as many differ
ent hands. The average wages received by
sewers of umbrellas is $4 50 per week.
Maryland Coal Trade.—We learn from
the Cumberland Telegraph that, for the week
ending the 26th, 41 boats, ladened with 4,-
195 14.30 tons of coal, descended the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal. This is a slight falling off
compared with the previous week, and may be
attributed to the sinking ot two canal boats a few
days since, which prevented boats from ascen
ding. There were transported over the Mount
Savage Railroad, during the week, 5,446 tons of
coal, and over the road of the Cumberland Coal
and Iron Company 4,549 tons. Total transpor
tation for the week, 9,995 tons, and since the Ist
of January last, 72,656 tons, of which 55,030
were transported over the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, and 17,636 descended the canal.
Artesian Well.—The contractors for the
Artesian Well, now boring near the Court
House, at Montgomery, have reached a depth
of over 400 feet, and have again struck a hard
sand rock, beneath which, says the journal, there
is every reasonable expectation of finding a boun
tiful supply of water. The water at present, on
the withdrawal of the rods, from the tube, rises
within a few feet of the surface.
Have we a Rogers Among Us ?—The edi
tor of the Yazoo City Whig, Mrs. Harriet N.
Prewett, jlaims kin to Rev. John Rogers, of
Smithfield, and says her great ancestor was
Johnny, one of the “nine small children” that
was carried in the arms of his mother to see his
father burnt to death at the stake in 1555, —
Other members of the family are spread over
England. There were fifteen or twenty of the
name and blood, including the father of Mrs.
Prewett, in the Revolutionary war. The crest
of the family is a crown and a sword—emble
matic of the martyr and soldiers. The family
is even more remarkable for longevity than
anything else, excepting piety. Their days are
long in the land. It is the fulfilment of the
Scripture, promise that the seed of the righteous
shall live from generation to generation, while
the wicked live out only half their days.
Death of an American Lady.—We learn by
a letter from Valparaiso that Mrs. Eckel, the
wife of our Consul, Samuel Eckel, Esq., at Tal
cahuano, Chili, died on the 17th of Febiiary, and
was interred the day following. Mrs. Eckel
was formerly a resident of New York, and was
well known in this city. Her husband resided
nt Washington previous to hi, going abroad ns
consul,
A Blow Ur.—On Monday night, some rogue
entered the depot of the Old Colony Railroad
Company at Plymouth, Mass., charged the lock
ofthe safe in the ticket office with a very heavy
charge of powder, and then fired it. The explo
sion which followed was terrific. The whole ot
the ticket office was torn to safe was
blown into fragments, some of which were
forced through the roof overhead. The rogues
after the explosion stole sl6 and a large quanti
ty of tickets from the safe.
New York Crystal Palace. —It is said
buildings are going up like magic in the vicini
ty ofthe Crystal Palace, New York, and enor
mous rents are demanded for mere shells. .A
room in one of the wooden buildings, opposite
the palace, 25 feet front by 60 or 70 feet deep,
was rented at thirty-five hundred dollars per yeat •
The Palace itself is getting along very slowly,
and it is said that the projectors care more about
selling the lots than they do for the exhibition.
On the 10th ult., there arrived at St. Louis,
vituNew Oileans, about three hundred and thirty
persons. Mormons, on their way to Salt Lake,
chiefly from England. The St. Louis Republi
can learns from Mr. Wheelock, late presiding
elder of the Church in that city, and just re
turned from England, that there are six more
ships on the way, chiefly freighted with mem
bers of this Church and their families. He es
timates the number expected by those ships at
from twenty-five hundred to three thousand.—
He is advised of the arrival of a ship at the
Balize with about three hundred persons from
Denmark. Arrangements are making for the
transportation from Europe next year, of about
ten thousand. The growth of this body is one
of the most singular novelties of the day.
Fast Sailer.—The dippper ship Flying
Cloud, now undergoing some trifling repairs on
the sectional dock, Wiilia msburgh, N. Y. has
proved herself the fleetest vessel that ever
plowed the waters of the great deep. Her last
trip between San Francisco and New York was
made in eighty-nine days. She ran three hun
dred and eighty-nine miles in a single day—a
speed never before attained by either a steamer
or a sailing vessel. If we recollect rightly the
Flying Cloud belongs to Messrs. Grinnell, Min
turn & Co’s line of California clippers.
’ r 'L“ aLaK- F.vyrjng.says that in the eyes
.ome mol ,„ Tu-~L of
Turkey is rapidly Sj»fL’iß<r into a ,, J
uu.l <l»cay. The Porte has been jaH
more to give way—once more to surrender A
of its ancient dominions—once more 1q contract
the circle of its ancient rights. It has se«q
virtually lost to it, and the Crimea occupy)
a European race. It has allowed Russia t,
tablish a protectorate in the two provinces
nearest its western frontiers—Moldavia aw
Wallachia. It has beheld Greece wrested front
it, and witnessed the extinction of its naval pow-\
er at Narvarino; and now it has been called up.
on, and has been obliged to make, still further
concessions upon the Black Sea, to prevent what
was demanded by diplomacy, and perhaps more
with it, from being seized by force.
Indemnity for a Slave.—A report has been
made in the Maryland Legislature endorsing the
course of Dr. Allen Thomas, of Howard county,
in demanding from the State of New York in
demnity for the loss of his fugitive slave, who
was sent to Sing Sing prison in 1849 for two
years, and pardoned cut at the instance of the
abolitionists three days before his term of im
prisonment expired, by which means he man
aged to reach Canada before his ofcner could
make a demand for him. A copy of tie report
is to be sent by the Governor of Marylarfl to the
Governor of New York, to be laid befoe the
legislature of that State.
A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier s,g.
gests a new kind of life preservers. He propw.
ses that every door should be hung upon such
hinges as window shutters are, so that it could
be lifted off and used as a float. As there are 200
or 300 doors on every lake steamer, and as each
would support two or three persons, the safety of
the whole would be secured. It has at least
cheapness and simplicity to recommend it.
A Veteran Postmaster.—John Macßae,
' Esq , Postmaster of Fayetteville, N. C , has de
i chned a re-appointment. He has been connect
ed with the office for the long period of fifty-two
years, seventeen years as clerk under his father,
the late Duncan Mcßae, and thirty-five J’ears as
postmaster.
Homicide.—On Sunday morning last, a diffi
culty took place in Columbus between Charnot
Newberry and Lewis Jernigan, which led to
the use of pistols and resulted in the death of »
Newberry. Jernigan surrendered himself.
Connecticut Election'—The "election in
Connecticut for State officers, a Legislature and
four members of Congress, takes place on Mon- •
day next. There are three tickets in the fieH
whig, democrat, and free soil.
New Orleans Municipal Election.
At an election held at New Orleans on the
28th ult., for Aidermen and Assistant Aidermen
the Democrats made almost entire sweep
throughout the city, having carried every one of
their candidates with the exception of two.
Rev. Dr Wayland, President of Brown Uni
versity, has been examining the tabla tipping
experiments, usually attributed to electricity or
spirits. He decides that it is not electricity, but
thinks it is governed by some heretofore undis
covered law of nature.
The report of the harbor master of Shajghai
(Mr. Nicholas Baylies,) shows that from Jan.
Ist to December 31st, 1852, the American ton
nage exceeded that of any other nation. Ifie
number of British vessels was one hundred aid
two, with a tonnage of thirty-two thousand
seven hundred ; of American vessels seventy!
one, with a tonage of 40,365. The whole amount
oftonnage was 76,900, and the number of ves
sels one hundred and eighty-seven ; the remaind
er, besides English and American, being almost
equally divided between French, Danish, Ham
burg, Spanish, Hawaiian, and Dutch. The ex
ports of tea from Shanghai in 1852 were 57.675,-
000 pounds, which is about equal in amount to
the exports of the two previous years. The ex
ports of Tea from Shanghai, to Great Britain,
from July Ist to December 31st, 1852, were 17 -
825,000 ; to the United States 15,400,900.
Jenny Lind.—The N. Y. Express states that
it has assurances from those who have good op
portunity to know, that “Jenny Lind does in- ’’M
tend appearing again in opera; that she is a 1
great admirer of America, and may possibly vis- 1
it it again, but has not determined when; and,
finally, that her relations with her busband are
the very opposite of newspaper rumor—an un
pleasant word having never been exchanged be- f
tween them since their marriage.” This it
described as coming directly from Madame her- 9
self, in a letter to a friend.
Indian Foray.—The Austin (Texas)
Gazette learns from the express rider+itm
Crogan that, on the night of the rjth ult
Indians stole twelve horses from that post.— *
Four of the hoises escaped from the Indians and
returned to the post, the others have not since «•!
been heard of. It is believed the theft was com
mitted by a band of the Wichitas, as they were
seen at Fort Belknap on their way towards Fort '
Croghan a few days previously.
— •
The Gaston and Weldon Railroad, it is sa ,d
will be completed by the middle of this month ’
when Norfolk will be placed in daily communi ’
cation with Raleigh, the capital of North Caro
lina. The Seaboard Rail Road, too, is > n f me
trim and under excellent management. The
passenger train makes the run between Ports
mouth and Weldon, N. C., (80 miles,) in 3 j
hours, with perfect regularity. At Portsmouth
they connect with the splendid steamers of the
Baltimore Bay Line, so well known for their
speed, comfort and safety.
Mr. A. Robb, of Baltimore, has on the stocks
at his shipyard a side wheel steamship of superior
model, which he is constructing for the Balti
more and Southern Steam Packet Company and
which is intended to ply between Baltimore and
Charleston in connection with the Palmetto
Its extreme length is 220 feet, length between
perpendiculars 210 feet, beam 33 feet, depth of
hold 19 feet, burthen 1100 tons. It is to be fit
ted up for the accommodation of passengers, and
will be ready for launching in about three
months.
Small Pox in Oglethorpe.—The Democrat
says: “ This disease is on the wane in this vici
nity. 1 here is but one case now on the sick
list, and that one, of a very mild form, an d con
valescing We have good reasons to hope for
its extinction with the caw on hand, and that
in ten days to be able to announce that there is
no small pox in the vicinity of Oglethorpe.”
'Good Friday and Lad'v Daythis year, fell on
the same day. Au ancient prophecy, nlluding
to this very rare occurrence, says :
h x? °V r '? r< J shall lio in our lady's lap,
1 hou England shall meet with some great mishap,**