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Daily Chronicle & Sentinel!! BY W. S. JONtfe. [From the New York Tribune , 6/A m*/.] Arrival of Kossuth. At 1 o’clock this morning, the steamer Hum boldt. Capt. Lines, arrived opposite the Quaran tine Ground, and was immediately boarded. Just before she reached the Narrows, she began to fire signal guns, and more than 30 were fired between the Narrows and Pier No. 4, where the steamer hauled up. On the vessel approaching the Quarantine Ground, the engine was stopped, and immediate communication was had with the shore. This was prepared for by the firing of several rockets between that point and the Narrows, and when the vessel stopped, numbers of persons were on the shore anxiously waiting to see the Magyar. A salute of 31 guns was immediately fired, and during this operation, which was performed by one of the Hungarian Artillery, who arrived in the Mississippi, from the center of the Quaran tine Ground, Dr. Doane, with Col. Berzenscy and the Reporters of the Press, proceeded to the steamer and were admitted on board. The boat war decorated with the Hungarian and Ameri can flags, the latter bearing the inscription “Wel come Kossuth to the land of Freedom.” On the arrival of Dr. Doane in the saloon of the steamer, he met Kossuth, and after shaking hands with him. addressed him in the following words: Noble Magyar ! Illustrious Kossuth, we greet you from the Western World! Welcome to the land of freedom in speech and in action. Welcome to the American Republic, which demonstrates successfully to the world the capacity of man for self-government. Welcome, thi ice to our infant country, the hope and trust of the friends of liber ty in every nation or clime, and which rises as a memento to the world and to the lovers of free dom, of what Republican Principles can perform. You come not as a stranger among us, for from the pi ll ® forests of Maine to the canes of Texas, from the coal fields of Pennsylvania, to the golden regions of California, and in all that wide spread country which is washed on one side by the waves of the briny Atlantic, and on the other by the calm waters of the Pacific, your name is known. It will be a passport to every heart— every one will be open to receive you, and your coming will be the signal for the uprising of 20,000,000 of people, who will give you a cordial, a heartfelt and anjenthusiastic welcome. Governor : In your late desperate struggle for the liberty of yo ir own beloved native country, for the rigdts of your brother Hungarians, the American people took a deep, a solemn interest. Although a broad ocean rolled between your land and mine, and although your battle grounds were afar off, still your movements were watched with the greatest interest and your successes were greeted with the most enthusiastic joy, and were borne on our electrified shores, with the swift- : ness of lightning, and looked to with such delight, that they excited the highest degree of enthusi asm, and filled the American people with great hopes. When we found that you were unsuc cessful, we did not forget you, but animated with the spirit of Huger, who released Lafayette from the Castle of Olmutz, we looked with longing eve i to Kutahia, and even consulted upon a s -heme to set you free. We thank God that the time has come when you are free! We thank God that you are ar rived in our land of freedom, and in earnest we again welcome you to our free Republic, and trust that your coming here, and your efforts on behalf of liberty, will not only be useful to America, but that your words will echo through out Europe until you see Hungary free, elevated among the nations of the earth, and in conse quence of the late struggle, placed in a position of perfect independence. I now present you with a letter from the May or of the City of New York, which will inform you of the present momentary arrangements for your comfort. Kossuth said': 1 cordially thank you for your generous senti ments, and for the generous words in which they have been conveyed. I trust you and the peo ple of the United States of America will yet see Hungary free. lam glad to hear such an inter est was taken here in the struggles of my people, and she will yet be as free as she deserves to be. You offer me a free and generous welcome, and I | am proud to meet you and to thank you that I am at liberty by the generosity of the United States. I know that every man who longs for freedom in Europe, as well as in this nation, has a kind feeling for Hungary. lam thankful for the generous action taken for my liberation by America, which you say is an infant country, but I say no. She is a giant, and though she has only been a short time in her growth, some 75 years, she has done more than other nations who have been 1,000 years in existence, and as the power of steam has blotted the word distance from the dictionary, with regard to crossing the atlantic, I hope and trust that American generosity and American sympathy will not see the day far distant, when the word shall be given to all Eu rope, which shall make it free, and give it per fect liberty. I give you my hand, (there he ex tended his hand to Dr. Doane) and I hope you will not be disappointed in me. If I am a straight forward man, and have been true to those princi ples which you in the U. States revere, and though my country is not so great as yours, nor are my people so happy and free, as you are, still I hope we shall meet with your favor and your sympathy in the cause of our nation. (Applause.) ' After this address, Kossuth and the members of his staff, together with Dr. Doane, proceeded to the shore, and a carriage being ready, they immediately moved to that gentleman’s residence, where the Magyar took possession of the suite of rooms prepared for him, and after taking refresh ments retired to rest. On leaving the Dock at Southampton, the Humboldt was cheered by countless thousands who assembled to bid farewell to Kossuth, and as the vessel moved from her moorings the last burst of enthusiasm almost rent the air. On getting out to sea, and at the first dinner party alter clearing the land, Capt. Tines drank to the health of Kossuth, and the whole company of cabin passengers who were at table, rose and cheered him vociferously. He did not make any speech in reply, but politely bowed to the company several times during the continuance of the cheering. During the voyage, which was very boister ous, no demonstration was made, as the Magyar was very sick during most of the time. He wrote a great deal during the passage, and re mained very select, not even intermingling in the least with the passengers. On the pilot-boat meeting the vessel, as it ap- Eroached Sandy Hook, the pilot handed the foL iwing letter from the Mayor of New-York to the illustrious Magyar. City Hall, Nov. 24,1851. D«ar Sir —In order that our city may have notice to assemble and welcome you gto our city and country, as they desire we would respectful ly request you to leave the steamer at the Quar antine, and remain a few hours with Dr. Doane, who will, with great cheerfulness, tender to you the hospitality of his house, and where we are assured every attention will be paid to your com fort during the time it may be necessary for you to continue his guest. We are, with great respect, A. C. Kingsland, Mayor, Geo. F. Franklin, Alderman. To Governor Kouuth , of Hungary. • The passengers on the Humboldt are not pre possessed in favor of the Magyar, as he has been what they call too aristocratic for them, but as we learned he was much occupied in composi tion during the passage, it is probable that he was too much occupied in mental labor, to be au fait in conversation with every one who aspired to his acquaintance. Kossuth is a good-looking man, about five feet seven or eight inches in Eight, and with great —l.„* ... expression of feature. His eye is all intelli gence, and his brow, though not so broad as it has been represented on many of his portraits, towers up to an extreme hight. and is somewhat expansive. He appears to be a slim man, rather than full in the chest, as often portrayed, and, as is the custom of his country, he wears a beard and moustachios which cover the lower part of his face. His hands are very small, and his costume, when he arrived, was the simple unadorned dress of his country, the great coat, the Hungarian hat, with its feather and dangling tassels. Altogether he has,a commanding figure, and the first impres- - sion which would strike an intelligent person on looking at him, would be one of respect, on ac count of the intelligence and philosophical ap pearance of his w r hole exterior man. Kossuth’s Departure from Southampton. M. Kossuth embarked from Southampton at 1 P. M. on the 20th ult., under a salute of twen ty-one guns, fired by the Southampton Battery, on board the stemship Jupiter, placed at his dis posal byjone of the large Steam-packet Companies at Southampton, for the puipose of conveying him to the Humboldt, in Cows Roads, a distance of about fifteen miles. He arrived from London the same morning, and was received by the Mayor and Corporation of Southampton, \v ho assembled on board the Jupiter, where a grand dejeune lafourchette was given, an address to Kossuth from the Corporation, congratulating him on the magnificent reception he had experi enced, and wishing him a pleasant voyage, being presented on board. Just before leaving the Jupiter, he briefly, in a language of great feeling, expressed his emotions at parting with his English friends. An immense concourse of people congregated in the Southampton Docks to witness Kossuth’s departure, and the utmost enthusiasm was mani fested. Several small steamers were chartered specially to accompany the Jupiter, to witness the sailing of the Humboldt. The parting be tween Kossuth and the numerous English friends who had accompanied him to Southampton was most affecting, and the Humboldt got under weigh amid the deafening cheers of thethousands of persons at Cow’s, who were watching the event with the deepest interest. Proceedings of the Southampton Corporation. A meeting of the Council of the borough of Southampton was held on the 18th November, at the Audit House, or Council Chamber, in Southampton. Richard Andrews, E q., the worshipful the Mayor, was in the chair. It wa; moved by Mr. Alderman Laishley, seconded by Mr. Alderman Polk, and resolved unanimously— That this Council, having received from the worshipful the Mayor a communication as to the intended departure of the illustrious Hungarian patriot. Louis Kossuth, from this port to the United States of America on the 30th inst. The members of this committee cannot refrain from hereby recording their admiration of those patiiotic and strictly constitutional sentiments which he has everywhere and on all occasions enunciated to the people of this country, and of those prompt and unqualified denials which he has given to the unlounded calumnies of -the abettors of despotism and tyranny, whether re sident of this or other countries, as well as the surpassing eloquence and irresistable truthfulness with which he has placed before the British public the countless wrongs and the crushing oppressions of his beloved country, and the claims which it has on the sympathy, moral and ener getic influence of all lovers of freedom through out the world. Most gratifying has it been to this Council to have observed from day to day since the arrival of that great and distinguished man in our port since the 23d of October last, that the admiration of his t üblic good and private worth, and of his vast sacrifices for those great and undying principles of liberty which he so ably and so worthily represented, first publicly expressed to the Mayor and Corporation of Southampton, have been everywhere most en thusiastically reechoed by the millions ox the British people. For the purpose of further expressing our most profound and increased admiration of so illustri ous, high-minded and gifted an asserter of the rights of human freedom, and our deepest sym pathy with the people of whom he is so distin guished an ornament, and after having carefully read and considered the statements of his tradu ce rs. and the manly replications with which tin y have been instantly met, this Council re solves to invite his Excellency to a dejuner, on Thursday next, previously to his departure on his great mission to the United States of Ameri ca, hoping and believing that his visit to Eng land of the Old world, and to the United States of the New, will greatly tend, sooner or later, more closely to unite the two great sections of the Anglo-Saxon race in the vidication and maintenance of human rights and freedom; and trusting that, by the blessing of Providence, he will, ere long, be restored to his country and home, and there realize, in the emancipation of his beloved nation, the most anient wishes ot his noble and generous soul, and the complete and enduring consummation of his transcendant exertions and labors. Arrival of Lola Montes, Countess of Landsfeldt. This woman has obtained an unenviable no toriety throughout the world on account of her romantic disposition and singular conduct, ar rived this morning upon the Humboldt, accom panied by her agent, Mr. Edward Willis, broth er of N. P. Willis, and several servants. . She left Paris to meet the Humboldt, and traveled by way of Calais and Dover to London, where she remained two days to take leave ot her friends. She stated in conversation with us, that many bad things had been said of her by the American press, yet she is not the woman she has been re presented to be; if she were, her admirers, she believes, would be still more numerous. She has been very lively during the whole passage, and she does not appear to be very favorable to Kossuth, whom she thinks is an austere and dis tant man. Lola is not a masculine woman, but rather slim in her structure; she has a face of great beauty, and a pair of black Spanish eyes, which flash fire when she is speaking, and make her, with the sparkling wit of her conversation, a great favorite in company. She has black hair, which curls in ringlets by the sides of the face, and her nose is of a pure Grecian cast, while her cheek bones are high, and give a Moorish ap pearance to her face. She expresses herself fearful that she will not be properly considered in New-York, but hopes that a discriminating public will judge of her after having seen her, and not before.— Netv York Tribune. T»e Hu-eh,—-We are gratified to be able to state that our river is now in good boating con dition. During the week a number of steam boats—the New Boston, Franklin, (new, around the present season, well trimmed and found, of light draught,) Mary, Palmetto, Retrieve and Wynnton—have arrived at our wharves, giving to Water street a cheering and animated appear ance. We have reason to believe that, through the indomitable energy and perseverance of our citizens, Apalachicola has in a great measure re covered from the effect of late disasters, and will now go on, prospering and to prosper.—Apalach icola Advertiser , 9th ult. Mails across the Isthmus. —The contracts for conveying the U. S. mails acrossthe Isthmus was let at Panama on the 13th ult. It was awarded to a Mr. Parades, ho made the lowest bid-—SII 75 per hundred pounds. The discovery of gold on Q ueen Charlotte’s Island, off the coast of British Oregon, in latitude 54, in considerable quantities, is announced in the late news from Oregon. Several hundred bushels of rice have been raised this year new the borders of Henderson County, Texas. The average yield was about thirty bushels to the sere- I Correspondence of the Baltimore American.] Thirty Second OongresM—First Session. Washington, Dec, 8, 1851. SENATE. Messrs. Butler, Rusk, Rhett, Bell, Downs and Borland appeared to-day. Mr. Underwood presented a large number of petitions praying tnat no Chaplains be employ ed in the public service. Mr. Bright moved, the rules being suspended, that the committees be appointed without the necessity of balloting; and he sent up a list em bracing the committees of tbe last session, which he moved be declared the committees for this session, and the motion was agreed to. Mr. Hunter gave notice of a bill for the relief of the Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Com pany. Mr. Rhett gave notice of a bill to indemnify South Carolina for expenditures during the Semi nole war. Mr. Bright gave notice of an amendment to the rules requiring the election of the officers of the Senate. Mr. Hale gave notice of a joint resolution, di recting the President to open a correspondence with the President of France, with a view to ef fect the liberation of Abdel Kader. The resolution providing for the election of Chaplain was taken up and agreed to. A large number of bills were introduced and re ferred. Mr. Seward introduced a joint resolution, de claring that Kossuth was welcome to the nation. Mr. Shields offered an amendment providing for the appointment of a committee of three Sena tors to introduce Kossuth to the Senate. Objection being made, the subject was laid over. Mr. Clemens introduced a joint resolution, au thorising the President to confer the brevet rank of Lieutenant General for distinguished services. ,si|Mr. Foote’s resolutions, declaring the series of measures known as the Compromise Acts to be a definite settlement of the slavery question, was then taken up. Mr. F. addressed the Senate in support of it. He thought it desirable that both Houses of Congress sholud unite in a de claration like that twice made by the President, that the series of measures known as the Com promise Acts should be regarded as a final settle ment. Jlis resolution had been misrepresented already and his motives questioned, in quarters and by persons for which he and any honorable man could have but little respect.—He desired to avoid any occasion to return revilement, whether it came from north or south of Mason & Dixon’s line. His recent success had satisfied him that wicked men, wherever situated, were his enemies. No person was disposed to question the pro priety of the declarations made by the President, and he considered the obligation much stronger upon Congress to declare its opinion of that set tlement than it could be upon the Executive. The number opposed to the Compromise was not contemptible.—Opposition had been made— armed opposition and other combinations had been made to one part of it. Factious persons were still engaged in influencing the public mind in both sections. He had entertained the confi dent hope that these measures would receive ultimately the sanction of the whole people. He believed his countrymen would yet be satisfied with these measures. But still he be lieved there was something to be done to recon cile that feeling which a long course of agitation had engendered. Coming from all quarters of the nation, he hopedihey were prepared to re port the opinions of their constituents, and thus shew to the South it had no fear of the adjust ment being carried out in good faith by the North, and the North that the Sauth would stand by it. He did not approve of making this a par ty question; no measure having for its object the public tranquillity, should be a mere party issue. Free-soilism still existed, as well as discontent, in other quarters. Many at the North were pledged to endeavor to repeal or modify the fu gitive slave law. Fear of this existed at the South. Hence the necessity for assuring all sec tions that the thing was settled, and could not be disturbed. Mr. Butler considered the resolution unwise and unnecessary. It was an ex-post review of legislation. If the legislation was wise, this re solution was unnecessary. If it was wicked, this resolution could not purify it. He had de nounced the compromise and would continue to do so. He considered all compromises danger ous. They made it certain that this Union would survive the Constitution, and everything at the will of the majority. He could not en dorse now what he had condemned. He could not kiss the rod. Could not worship at the tree which brought forth fruit of bitterness for his posterity. This compromise had determined the question of amending the constitution. The constitution could never be amended. A ma jority would compromise everything. He con sidered the people of the South a doomed people, unless her citizens and Senators became united. Mr. Foote replied. He reviewed the several acts and contended that the South had lost noth ing. He maintained they were a settlement of the whole subject. He detailed the action of Mississippi and the other Southern States, and contended that tho decision of the South had been made. Mr. Butler and Mr. Foote continued the de bate; and the Senate adjourned. (Telegraphed, for the Baltimore American.) Virginia Election. The election in Virginia yesterday, was for Governor, Members of the Legislature, and State officers, under the new Constitution, by which the basis of suffrage has been enlarged. At a late hour last night we received the following leturns: Richmond, Dec. B—Summers, the Whig can didate for Governor, has 759 majority in this city. The polls will be kept open three days, which will increase his majority. Taylors maj. in 1848 was 719. Henrico county gives Sum mers a small majority.—Petersburg gives 120 maj. for Johnson, Dem., lor Governor. It gave Taylor 59 maj. Norfolk, Dec. B—ln this city Summers, Whig, has 133 maj.; Watts, for Lieut. Governor, 178; Baxter, for Attorney General, 126; Tabb, for the Senate, 143; and Robertson, for the House of Delegates, 126—a1l Whigs. In Portsmouth Johnson, Dem , has 327 maj.; Leake for Lt. Gov ernor, 349; and Bocock, for Attorney General, 327. Martinsburo, Dec. B—ln Berkely county, Johnson Dem., has 200 maj. A Fine Body of Emigrants. —The ship Glenlyon, Capt. Jamison, from New Ross, ar rived here on Monday, consigned to Mr. Graves, owner, with two hundred and twenty emigrants from Waxford, Ireland. We have never seen a finer body of people from the old country than the passengers ol the Glenlyon.—They are all healthy looking and well clad, having the air and manners of worthy and industrious people. Many of them come highly recommended in their various occupations.— Savannah Newt , 10th intt, Hog Trade. —The Cincinnati Commercial of Friday says— We stated a few days since, that the hogs slaughtered this season would reach to almost 300,000. It is now thought by those who are booked up in our pork affairs, that the number killed will go beyond that figue. We never saw better hogs than those now coming to market. The free Banking Law in Alabama, which was passed last session, has, it appears, never been acted on; and the Governor of the State deems the law to be a failure. The minutes of the last annual conference of the Methodist Church North, just published, state, according to the synopsis of the Christian Advocate, the total number of members, in regu lar meeting, to be 721, 4—an increase of 32,14? during the last year. AUGUSTA, iiA. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12. The Compromise* u Compromise Resolutions were rejected in the Congressional Caucus of Democratic Repre sentatives, but adopted in the Whig Caucus. It should be borne in mind that the only feature of the Compromise that is at all likely to be brought into discussion is .the Fugitive Slave law. A declaration to maintain the Compromise is, then, a declaration to sustain the Fugitive Slave law. No party of the South can have any objection to the enfcfrcement of a law framed expressly to carijjnut a Constitutional provision, adopted for thelecthrity of the South. It is in this sense thatfsorthern Democrats sustain the Compro mise. The adoption of the Compromise resolu tion by the Whig caucus, was denounced by Mr. Meade, of Virginia, as designed in its whole ob ject to deceive and gull the Southern people ; that it was made only for political capital at the South to gain Presidential votes. Mr. M. allu ded to the notorious fact, that a very considera ble portion of the Northern Whigs are opposed to carrying out the Fugitive Slave Law, and stated that the resolution passed by the Whigs, was taken up to make the South believe that the Democrats are opposed, and they in favor of the Compromise, and thus impose their rotten party upon the South. The adoption or rejec tion of resolutions approving the Compromise, is of no sort of consequence to the peace of the country and the preservation of the Union, when compared with acts showing a determination to repudiate all anti-slavery agitation, and everj one who is in favor of it. This is what the South wants. And with or without pledges and caucus resolutions, the democratic party is the party of strict construction, is the constitu tional party, and as such the party to be relied on for the protection of the rights of the South, by upholding and enforcing the provisions of the Constitution. This is what is necessary for the tranquility of the country and the safety of the South, and not Whig resolutions pretending to adopt the Compromise as a part of the Whig creed; for the purpose of gulling the Southern people.” The above extract, from the Marieita Advo cate, is in character w’ith the general tone of the disunion organs in Georgia, in reference to the action of the two Congressional caucuses. A few short months ago, they denounced both the Whig and Democratic parties of the North as unsound, rotten on the slavery question ; and most cor dially approved the recommendation of the Nashville Convention, of no alliance with the North in a National Convention. Having dis covered, by the recent elections throughout the South, that their disorganizing doctrines had beer, repudiated by the people, the party sudden ly abandon the Nashville Convention suggestion, their own oft proclaimed principles, and become zealous advocates of a Union with the National Democracy, for the purpose of nominating a can didate for the Presidency; and that too, in the face of the fact, that the Democratic Congres sional caucus repudiated the Compromise as a final settlement of the Slavery question. What must every honest hearted southern patriot think of the political morals of a party, and its organs, who are thus willing to sacrifice the rights of the South for the spoils ? The conservative men of the Whig party were in the ascendant in the Whig caucus, they adopted a resolution adhering to the compromise as a finality of the question, and they are charged by the Advocate as trying to gull the South, to obtain Southern support for a Presidential candi date. Let us apply the same rule to the demo cratic caucus, and see whose support they bid for. They certainly did not manifest any de sire to obtain Southern support, although they have not been able by their action to shake off or kick loose the Advocate and its associates. They must then have been bidding for the sup port of the Freesoilers and Abolitionists of the North, and those organs and leaders at the South who justify or vindicate, and they do both, the action of this caucus, may look forward with high anticipations to the fraternal embrace of Hale, Sumner, Chase, Giddings, Preston King, and a host of other such spirits in the national democratic party, which the Advocate is pleased to term “the strict construction party.” That extremes meet, there can be no doubt? as well in the political as natural world. Hence, no one farniliar with the course of political events in Georgia, will express any surprise at seeing Colquitt and Chase, McDonald and Sumner, Day and Giddings, J. W. Jackson and Preston King, and a host of other such spirits, “cheek by jowl” in the National Democratic Coveution. What the honest unsophisticated people of Geor gia may think of such alliances and associations, we know not, and we leave them to make up their opinions from the facts before them. We hope, however, in the formation of their decis ion, they will not omit a reference to the mo tives of those journals in Georgia, that favor and recommend the coalition of the South with the Northern Democracy, a party whose design to fraternise with Freesoilism, is as distinctly man ifested as it is bold and shameless. Who has been cheated. —We wish our friends throughout the State to remember that Mr. Toombs did pot vote for the Democratic candidate for Speaker or Clerk of Congress, as it was promised he would do, when he was elec ted Senator. We wish them also to notice the important fact, that neither of the Union men from this State voted for the National Democra tic candidate for Speaker, whilst Mr. Jackson and Mr. Bailey the two Southern Rights Demo crats did vote for him. It can now be seen very plainly which is the real Democratic party in the .State, and which acts with the National Demo cracy.—Federal Union , 9th intt. By an oversight, in making up the first page of this day’s Tri-Weekly, which was imposed at the office of the Constitutionalist and Repub lic, the above paragraph, set for that paper, was inserted among other matter without any comment. Mr. Toombs needs no vindication against any such vile slander or insinuation, as it contains, and we should npt notice it, hqt for the fact men tioned above. "Where, when, by whom and to whom was any promise ever made, that “Mr. Toombs would vote for the democratic candidate for Speaker or Clerk ot Congress, when be was elected Senator ?** Let the Federal Union answer, or frankly ac knowledge that it has perpetrated a vile calum ny. * „ It was quite sufficient for Mr. Toombs and the other Union men from Georgia, that Messrs. Boyd, and Forney were nominated by a caucus that not only refused to adopt, but actually re jected a proposition to regat d the Compwuiso Measures as a final settlement of the several questions it involved, and they washed their hfmds of such a corrupt coalition with Freesoil ers and their candidates, as every Southern man would whose heart beat responsive to southern rights and interests. No one familiar with the political course of Messrs. Bailey and Jackson, expected jutything else of them, than to sue them cordially unite with the Freesoilers in making and •usttßning their nominations. It matters not what may have been the course of Messrs. Boyd and Forney heretofore, they wanted office, and they acquiesced in the contamina ting coalition, hence they did not de serve the support of any true Southern man. and we rejoice to know that many Southern Democrats, men elected as Democrats under the old regime, refused to vote for them, because they were the nominees of such a caucus. We would call attention to the advertisement of Messrs. Daily & Finch, in another column. They are young men, remarkable for their steady, industrious and persevering habits, and no doubt will receive what thev ask, a share of public patronage. Fine Telescope. —We take pleasure in call ing the attention of the public to the advertise ment, in another colum, proposing to reffle for a very superior Telescope. It, is a n instrument of fine power and is in good preservtftion—and we should be pleased to see it retained in the city. The Bank 1 of Hamburg, South Carolina, has declared Dividend of $3.50 per .Share (of SSO each) for the half year, ending Ist January next. Making 15 per cent, for the current year. Match Splitting Machine. We were quite interested a few days since, at witnessing the operation of a new machine, the invention of Mr. Decoin, of this city, for splitting timber for matches. It is of very simple con struction, performs its work with great ease, per fect regularity, and such facility, that we think one hundred and fifty to two hundred gross of matches might easily be split in the day by a single hand. The machine may be seen at Mr. Goodrich’s shop. John K. Jackson, Esq., of this city, has been admitted to practice Law in the Courts of South Carolina. President’s Message • The Columbus Enquirer thus introduces the Message to its readers: “The President treats every subject he touches upon with a clearness and oandor that will se cure the respect of even the opponents of his Ad ministration. His language in regard to the pro jectors of the late Lopez expedition is severe, but just; and his declaration that hereafter our neu trality laws shall be rigidly enforced, will meet the honest approval of every lover of national honor and national tranquility. No country, however strong in military force or naval power, can sustain itself in peace and security, that wil fully disregards this great principle of universal law. But while our Chief Magistrate thus con siders a stern compliance with these laws, as a sacred official duty, he is not chargeable with a want of humane feelings or a proper srnypathy for the condition of the American prisoners who are drudging within the mines of Spain. On the contrary, he assures the country that no mea sures, consistent with our obligations, will be spared for their early release from confinement. What more could be demanded by the worst enemies of Millard Fillmore 1 But one thing he has not done. He has forgotten to enter into a lengthy argument about the abstract right of State secession! Probably he considers, as a majority of his constituents do, that this idea, so far as it is practically concerned at present, has been exploded by the voice of the people, every where. And besides, more weighty matters demand his attention. His remarks upon his determination to main tain the letter and spirit of the fugitive slave law, are clear and unmistakable, whilst his ex pressed determination to use all the means in his power to punish any violation, will com mand the admiration of every law-abiding man. In short, the President’s comments on every sub ject that properly comes before him, are charac terized by an elevated tone, liberal sentiment; and an unyielding fidelity to the honor, peace and welfare of the whole country.” Legislative Proceedings. Milledgeville, Deo. 8, 1851. Unsuccessful efforts were made by several members attached to the minority, opposed to the contemplated legislative visit to Savannah, to re-consider various portions of the proceed ings of Saturday last, bearing on that point. The House also refused, by a vote of 90 to 90> to re-consider the bill passed, organizing Spauld ing county. This vote was a great relief to the several citizens of the new county, who have been here, during nearly the whole session, Watching with intense anxiety, the progress of the bill through both branches of the Legisla ture. There is no prospect of an Executive in terdiction, hence its friends may rejoice in safety. Mr, Fanning has laid on the table, a resolu tion, that the Legislature will adjourn sine dit y on the 23d inst. The following bills were introduced : By Mr. Tift—-To authorise parties litigant, in civil cases, tp testify, in any of the Courts of this State, on certain conditions, and to author ise plaintiffs to procure the testimony of the op posing party, or any party in interest. By Mr, Merrell —To amend the Judiciary act of December, 1799, to prevent the enforcement of dormant judgments. By Mr, Latimer, of Cobb—To fix the times for holding the Superior Courts in the Blue Ridge Circuit. By Mr. Cobb, of Dooly—To prescribe and point out the mode of proof in cases of forcible detainer. By Mr. Harrison—To amend the Road laws, so far as they relate to Columbia county. By Mr. Picket—To form a new county from Gilmer and Union, to be called Buchanaip By Mr. McDougald—To incorporate the Co lumbus & West Point Railroad & Plank Road Company, By Mr. Harper—To exempt the Faculty and Students of Emory College, and of the Prepara tory department thereof, from militia, road and street duty. By Mr. Walker—To add a section to the 3d art. of the Constitution. It proposes to change the venue in civil cases, under certain circum stances. By Mr. Wallace—Tu incorporate the Talbot ton Railroad Company. By Mr- Seward-'-To amend the Claim laws of this State, By Mr. Merrell—To authorise Attorneys at Law, to perform the Marriage Ordinance. The special order of the day being the bill re lating to the importation of negroes, was post poned, and the bill to lay out a new county from Murray, taken up, and during discussion on its Christian name, (the Heathen name, Conasau™ being discarded,) the House adjourned. The following bills were introduced in 1}„. Senate: By Mr. Foster—To prescribe the conditions under which Marriage Licenses may be issued The consent of the parents, or one standing i* loco parentis , shall be necessary to authorise the issue of a license to marry, for any female under the age of 20 years. The violation of this law is made felony, and punishable by imprisonment in the Penitentiary, from one to five years. By Mr. Harman—To fix the times for holding the Superior Courts in the Macon Circuit. By Mr. Cone—To alter Ist par. Ist sec. Ist art. of the Constitution of this State—restoring annual sessions of the Legislature. By Mr. Hardeman—To re-organise the Con gressional Districts of this State. The follow, ing counties compose the several Districts : Ist District.—Chatham, Effingham, Bryan Liberty, Mclntosh, Tattnall, Bulloch, Emanuel Montgomery, Lowndes, Telfair, Appling, Glynn Camden, Wayne, Ware, Laurens, Clinch, Thorn.! as, Irwin. 2d District.—Muscogee, Stewart, Randolph, Early, Decatur, Baker, Lee, Dooly, Sumter, Ma con, Pulaski, Marion. 3d District.—Harris, Talbot, Upson, Pike, Butts, Monroe, Bibb, Houston, Crawford, Spald ing. 4th District.—Troup, Meriwether. Coweta, Heard, Campbell, Fayette, Henry, DeKalb Cobb. sth District.—Dade, Walker, Murray, Gilmer Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Cass. Cherokee, Paulding, Carroll. 6th District.—Union, Lumpkin, Rabun, Ha bersham, Hall, Forsyth,Gwinnett, Walton, Clark, Jackson, Madison, Franklin. 7th District.—Newton, Morgan, Greene, Jaa per, Putnam, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock, Wash ington, Wilkinson, Twiggs. t ( Bth District.—Elbert, OglethogJlb (Lincoln, Wilkes,Taliaferro,Warren, Columbia, Richmond, Burke, Jefferson, Scriven. The Senate having read all its own bills the second time, proceeded to the consideration of the following bills of the H ouse : To incorporate the town of Alexander in the county of Burke. Passed. To alter Ist part, 7th section, Ist article of the constitution, giving one representative to every county in the State. Passed. To limit the bringing bills of Review, to three? years. Passed. For the relief of Executors, Administrators and Guardians, authorise them to receive Let* ters dismissory, before full administration, in, cers. tain cases. Passed. Three o’clock, p. m The Senate is not in session this aftern-jea. The House resumed the consideration of the bill to form a new county from Murray. From among the several names proposed, that of “ Whitfield’ 1 was adopted. Messrs. Bail)'-, Me- Dougald, Russell and Wofford addressed the House, in favor of the passage of the bill, and Mr Mobley against it. On the call for the yeas and nays, the bill was carried. 53 to 51. The House took up the bill and substitute, im relation to the introduction of negroes into this State, and had not made much progress in con sidering it, when it adjourned to 7 o'clock this evening, for the purpose of reading bills the 2d time, and Senate bilJs the Ist time. Dec 9, 1851. The House refused, by a vote of 54 to 60, to reconsider the bill passed on yesterday, organis ing ** Whitfield” county. Messrs. Bailey and Wofford spoke against the motion, and Messrs. Seward, Harper and Hill in favor of it. Mr. Fuller introduced a bill to carry into elTeci the amended Constitution, in relation to the ol fice of “ Ordinary.” Mr. Walker presented a memoral from the City Council of Augusta, which wiw referred io the Military Committee without being read. The House took up the bill to prohibit the in troduction of negroes into this State. It was ar gued at length, by Messrs. Tift and Seward in opposition, and by Mr. Dawson, of Greene, j*, favor. The original bill introduced by Mr. > Dougald, and amended by the House, was th' ;n passed by yeas 57, nays 44. As follows : Yeas. —Allrod, Anderson of Franklin, Ari a strong, Bailey, Bartow, Bivins, Blackwell, Boi n, Brinson, Bulloch, Clark, of Stewart, Cobb of IJ ar ris, Dawson of Greene, Dawson of Putnam, ad wylor Dorminy Dyer, Edwards, Erwin of Fo mt b, Fall, Fannin, Floyd Fuller, Hackney, Hall. Han i son, Harris of Cltuko, Hendrick, Honl v HiV> Janes, Knox Langmado, Latimer of Warren. Loehhn, Loveless, Lowe, McAfoo. MolWald McFarland, Mobley Moreland, Morris, Niuwofthj, Pierce, Pnce Keberto. Robinson, of Laurens. Shew make, Thornton. Tillman of Tattnall. Trippo Wal ker, Williford, Wofford, Wooldridgo, WinnofGwin nett, 57, Nays. —Atkinson, Barr, Barnott of Butts, Bar low, Bellinger, Bloodworth, Byrd, Cannon, Carr, Chastain, Christie, Cobb of Dooly, Culler, Daniel. Fowler, Gilbort, Grant, Gray Harris, of Mclntosh, Honry, Hiwsoy, Irwin of Wilk r ackoivay, Latimer of Cobb, Lewis, McLain, Moon, Morel, Patterson. Phillips, Pickett. Ramsev, Raulor son, Richardson, Scarlett, Seward, Staten, Thur mond, Tift, Waldhour, Wall, Wallace, Watts, Woodward, 44, The Tax bill was made the special order foi Tuesday next. The bill to amend the Attachment Laws ol this State. Passed. Also, the bill to incorporate the Magnolia Steam Packet Company of Savan-. nah. In the Senate, Mr. McCune introduced a Ml to prevent the continuance of cases by appeal more than ouco by each party. The bill to alter and amend the 27th sectio’ ,i, 10th division of the Penal Code, in reference to retailing spirituous liquors in less quantities t jia one quart. Passed. To give painters a lien on buildings paint* J- Lost. To make four years possession of real p to pert! and two years possession of personal, * . bar to lien by judgment. Passed. To incorporate the Georgia M ,ical ana Manufacturing Institute. Passr To incorporate the Griffin *1 Folios' 1 - Passed. The following bills were > introduced : By Mr. Moore—To r r the Just ice* ol 1 u Inferior Courts to hire ou t f ree j*erse* s ot f 0 or ’ for certain offences tVrein named.. By Mr. Harmaa- ~To require pei -sorts applying for writs of Corpus to give notice to th? prosecutor. The Senate had acted on all its biWs, read oth ers the second time, and bills of the House "the first time, prior to adjournment at 1 o’clock. The House employed the most of the a' W noon in passing local bills.