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Picture oi the Senate Worthies,
A Washington Correspondent of the New
York Mirror is sad because the great lights of
the Senate have gone out and nothing but farth
ing candles are left. Over the absence of Clay,
Calhoun, Webster, Grundy, Forsyth, Southard,
Buchanan, &c., he mourns like Rachel, arid will
receive no comfort.
He then draws a picture of some of the chief
members, from which, without farther parley,
we compile the following:
The frosty head of John Davis is still visible ;
but except in the dignity which gray hairs give
to such a place, he adds but little to the useful
ness or interest of the body.
Near him sits Mangum—now almost broken
down with high living. He has been a long
time in Congress and is a brilliant debater; but
has always been wanting in industry and re
search.
General Cass is almost the only one of the
men of national reputation who seems to hold
his own, in good condition.
Old Judge Butler, of South Carolina, secures
the respect of every one, for his learning, as a
gentleman of the old school, and the sparkling
raciness of his occasional speeches.
Near him sits Hunter, of Virginia, who has
much influence, rarely making long speeches,
and always speaking to the point. With a great
deal of Virginia and South Carolina abstraction
ism, he possesses a clear head in examining busi
ness matters, is always punctual in fulfilling his
engagements ; and, if he cannot agree with you,
gives you at least the satisfaction of a decided
answer in the negative.
Hiscolleague, Mason, is a bitter Statesrights
man, of very contracted views, and expresses
himself occasionally, with fluency ; but he is des
titute of any business habits, and really has very
little influence.
Bright, of Indiana, is a man of of fair abilities;
but a mere party politician oftlie most ultra kind,
and lias no influence, except such as seven or
eight years’ experience gives him in his own
party.
Borland, of Arkansas, is small potatoes in eve
ry respect, and would boa fit companion for
Weller, of California, who must have succeeded
in realizing his present position by sheer impu
dence, of which he has a plentiful stock coupled
with the grossest vulgarity of manner and
speech.
Dr. Gwinti, of California, is a pleasant spoken
gentleman. Those who have had business with
him say that he will listen very attentively to all
you have to say, and the next day he as igno
rant oftlie subject as if be bad never heard of it.
Fish, of New York, is a thorough business
man, a good writer, arid very faithful in attend
ing to Committee business; but is generally re
garded as being destitute of all qualifications as
a speaker, so that lie cannot pilot a bill through,
although ho may understand it belter than
any one else.
Seward is admitted, with alibis demagogueism,
to be a man of talent, but his voice is not adap
ted for any large room, and benco what he says,
though generally logical and concise, is not lis
tened to with much attention.
Bell, of Tennessee, always commands respect,
and is worthy oftlie station. Jones, his col
league, is more made up of words than ideas.
Dawson, of Georgia, makes a very respec
table figure, as does also Badger, of North
Carolina.
Brooks and Adams, of Mississippi, Clemens,
of Alabama, the two Dodges (father and son,)
Brodhead and Cooper, of Pennsylvania, are all
third rate men. The first looks like a boy, and
speaks as if he were in a debating society.
Pearce and Pratt of Maryland are both finished
gentlemen and scholars.
Douglas and Shields, of Illinois, always ap
pear well in debate, and are generally well in
formed on the business before their Committees,
especially the latter—nothing one sees of the
former would lead you to pick him out as a can
didate for the Presidency, except his disposition
to ride every hobby that may catch voters.
Captain Stockton should have remained
in the navy. He shows his self-conceit in every
thing he does, and is laughed at a little.
Truman Smith, of Connecticut, is well inform
ed, but very heavy in debate and rather testy.
His colleague, Toucey.ouce Attorney General,
is a better lawyer than statesman.
Soule, always eloquent and brilliant, has rath
er lost influence by the erratic nullification
course he pursued on the compromise questions ;
but he must always rank among the first.
Mr. Morton, of Florida, is a tall, good-looking
man, always sensible; but not particularly dis
tinguished.
John P. Hale is briinfull of humor, and has,
on the whole, made a good figure, considering
the fact that he had to fight almost alone.
Chase is a good speaker—a good lawyer, but
has little influence, owing to his free-soil ten
dencies.
Sumner is oftlie transcendental literary school,
and will disappoint ail his friends in Massachu
setts, for lie has few qualifications for the Senate.
Although they average at a low figure for
talents—that Senate—they do not make up for it
by industry or attention to business. It is the
hardest thing in the world to get a quorum of a
Committee together; very hard to get a Senator
to give serious attention so as to understand ant
matter of business, and when you have suc
ceeded in that, it is harder still to gel him to at
tend to it.
And so forth, and so forth, all of which looks
like carping. But, really, the Senate lias some
what fallen both in dignity and public esteem.
From the Cliailoston Standard Jan. is
A Movement for Florida.
A meeting of a number of the business men ol
Charleston, was held yesterday morning,at the had
of the Charleston Insurance &. Trust Company, for
the purpose of considering a matter relating to our
tiade with East Florida.
W. M. Lawton, Esq., was called to lhe ehair. and
N. M. Porter, Esq., acted as Secretary.
Mr. Lawton, in opening the meeting, and explain
ing the importance of the object before it. stated
many interesting l'aeis connected with our Florida
trade, and showing the value, to us, of the proposed
plank road from Jacksonville to Alligator. Me
then introduced to the meeting M. Whit. Smith,
Esq., of Columbia county, Fla. -Mr. Smith is one
of the enterprising, go ahead spirits of that section.
He bore his hand there in the war, and .since then,
has considered it his adopted State for life. We
have frequently before heard ol him upon the stump
andjthere is doubt of the fact that he is to oc
cupy a prominent position in all that concerns the
interest ot a large portion ot Middle and ot Ea.-t
Florida. In ins remaks before themeeting, he fullv
and more than substantiated all that we have here -
tofore said about the growing importance of the
Florida trade. Ilis statistics sliow lhat the slock of
the proposed plank road must be profitable in i self
and would turn towards Cearleston a Dry Goods
and Grocery trade, which now goes to New-Vork
ofovet $200,000, and 15 to 20 thousand of Col
ton, besides other products. It would rurmsh to
our steamboat line more than double the ireight
which it can receive from the whole oftlie St. John’s
and also double the list of passengers.
Mr. O. J. Chafe®, who is a large stockholder in
the Hamburg and Edgefield Plank Road, stated
that he had a little experience in that sort of stock,
and the result was, that he was anxious for more.—
He would, therefore, say at once, that he would be
down tor a thousand dollars, and may be more
He moved the appointment of a committee, to wait
upon the other business men of the city, and lav
the matter before them. And accordingly Messrs.
Cliafee, C. Kerrisson, G. Cameron, were appointed
to this service. Several others present expressed
their determination to subscribe to the stock •
amougst others, N. A Cohen, Esq., resolved to have
a: least, the worth of SSOOO. We understand that
more than half the amount necessary has already
been subscribed in East Florida. Mr. Hall, an en*
terptising citizen of Jacksonville, subscribed $10.”
000, and offers to build ten miles of the road for that
sunt. If the committee will only roll on the ball.
Charleston will diminish considerably the balance
necessary to complete the road.
Mr.calhoun on Cuv^,
We extract from Mr. Venable’s excellent
speech the following paragraph in reference to
>lr. Calhoun’s opinions on the annexation of
•Juba to the L r . S. : “fi ’*?,
And here, sir, 1 would with pious and rever
ential care, perform a duty which I owe to the
memory of a distinguished statesman, vvh ose
unclouded and unequalled mind constantly re
flected upon and studied the interests of his
country generally and his section in particular
—whose pure heart to its latest throb was filled
with love to his country, and whose matured
judgment made him the safest guide. I refer to
the great South Carolinian, who but two days
before his death charged me that should he be
misrepresented upon this subject, to give to the
world his true opinion. It has been said that
Mr. Calhoun was in favor of the annexation ol
Cuba; that he was for annexation at all events.
Phis is not true. f feel bound by a oromise
made to him to correct the statement. He said
if Cuba ever comes to us it must be by treaty,
honorable and satisfactory to both countries;
otherwise it is forbidden fruit to the United States.
I his was said in reference to the indirect mode
of acquiring it by annexation after a revolution,
rendered successlul chiefly by adventurers from
this country'. The conversation related to an
interview with certain persous, inhabitants of
Cuba, who called upon him a few days before
A gentleman now present in this House was
with me when they called on Mr. Calhoun ; we
rose to leave the room ; he requested us to remain
and witness the conversation. They spoke to
hirn of the expected revolution and the operations
of Gen Lopez; he said what we all know to be
true—“ Gentlemen, you are mistaken ; Cuba is
not ripe for revolution ; her people are not rea
dy for such a state of things ; and if Lopez in
vades Cuba the enterprise will be a failure, and
under no circumstances can this Government
be complicated with this revolution.” He of
ten said to me—Cuba, from her situation, can
never be alienated to any other power than the
United States, and Spain, the owner, is the best
stakeholder ; best for us and best for the world.
Nothing but unavoidable necessity’ could justify
force in taking it. Ihe purchase is improbable,
and we now have most ol the commercial ad
vantages without the expense of administering
the government. These were the words and
opinions ol one whose bright name will ever ir
radiate the pages of our annals. Pure, wise,
patriotic, and just; one who cherished nonar
row views, and whose opinions and conclusions
were the result of profound thought and impar
tial investigation ; a statesman as contradistin
guished from a mere politician ; a man who had
the firmness to be just amidst the out breakings
ol senseless clamor, and whose expectations of
the future almost amounted to prescience.
[From the German of Richter.]
The New Year's Night.
An old matt stood at his window at twelve
o’clock of the night which ushered in the New
Year, and gazed with a look oflong despair up
into the fixed, starlit heavens, and down upon
the still, clean white earth, whereon now there
was no one so joyless and sleepless as he. For
his grave stood close by him, only concealed by
the snow of age, not by the green of youth;
ami he brought with him out of a whole rich
life nothing but errors, sins, and weakness, a
body in ruins, a desolate soul, a breast full of
poison, and an old age full of remorse.
His beautiful y'outhful days returned to him
now as the spectres, and brought him back
again to that fair morning on which his father
placed him at the diverging point in life’s road,
which to the right leads upon the sunpath of
virtue into a wide and quiet land full of light, full
of harvest, full of angels ; and which to the left
leads down into the mole-tracks of vice, into a
dark cavern lull of dripping poison, full of ser
pents ready to dart on their prey, and full of dis
mal, close exultations.
Alas! the serpents hung around his breast,
and drops of poison were upon his tongue, and
he knew now where ho was.
Madly and with unspeakable grief he called
out to Heaven: “Give me my youth again!
Place me again at the diverging point, that 1
may make a different choice!”
But iiis father and his youth were past long
ago. He saw will-’o-the-wisps dance upon the
marshes and become extinct over the burying
ground, and he said -. “They are my foolish
days.” Ho saw a star shooting from heaven,
glimmering in its lull, and vanishing as it reach
ed the earth. “That am 1!” said his bleading
heart, and remorse sunk its serpent fangs deeper
into his bosom.
His disordered imagination pointed out to him
spectres walking upon the roofs, and the wind
mill raised its threatening arms to crush him,
and a mask which had been left in tiie emptv
charnel-house gradually assumed his own fea
tures.
In the midst ot the conflict, the music for the
New A ear suddenly flowed down from the tow
er as a church hymn heard in thedisiance. His
mind became calmer, he looked around the ho
rizon, and over the wide earth, and he thought o!
the triends ot his youth, who now, happier and
better than he, were teachers of the earth, fath
ers of happy children, men whom the world call
ed blessed, and he said, “O! I could also have
slept this first night of the year with drv eyes,
as you do, it I had willed it. Alas, 1 could have
been happy, dear parents, had 1 fulfilled your
New Year’s wish and teachings.”
Amid these feverish remembrances of his
youth, it appeared to him as if the mask which
had assumed his features in the charnel house
stood up, and through that superstition which on
New Year’s eves sees ghosts and future events,
it was at last changed into a living youth.
He could see no more ;he covered his t ves;
a thousand hot tears streamed forth, disappear*
ing in the snow; ail comfortless and despairing,
he sighed gently, “Come again, O! my youth,
come again !”
And it came sgain ! For the tearful experi.
ence was only a dream oftlie New Year’s night-
He was still a youth, his errors had been only a
dream. But he thanked God that he, still young,
could turn aside from the filthy courses of vice,
and enter upon the sunny path Which leads into
the bright land of harvest.
Turn with him, young reader, if thou standest
upon the error road. This frightful dream will
one day become thy judge; but if thou shouidst
once, full of anguish, call out “Come again, beau
tiful youth,” remember it will not come again.
Peruvian Luxnrv.
Mr. Curtis, the author of a verv pleasin'’
work upon Peru, informs us that in the almost
inaccessible regions of the Cordilleras, every
imported luxury is very dear; but the nec
essaries of life, including lama mutton, are
reasonable enough,—with the exception of
fuel. But the came con is the great luxury of a
South American gourmand. , which is thus descri
bed:—The moment a bullock is killed, the flesh
on each side the spine is cut out, with enough of
the hide to meet or lap over, so as to prevent the
juice from escaping ; it is then covered with em
bers, and roasted like a potatoe.” *Sausages,
hams, and bacon, though imported, are much in
use. Sweetmeats and rum are served together
at dinner-parties. Tobacco is in universal use;
all smoke cigars, but a person is not expected to
accept one from the mouth of another, as is the
case in Mexico (even from the mouth of a do
mestic,) where the declining of such a compli
ment is a grievous offence against friendship
and good breeding ; but you must accept with
grateful acknowledgment the remains of a
glass of rum ; the more lips it has touched the
more cordiality in the dram—off with it! and be
ware of wiping your mouth either before or af
ter it. Should you be induced to wipe the brim
of the glass before drinking, or turning it be
tween yourself and the light to seek a little
space from humidity, your reputation is gone
forever? When a lady selects a gentleman
from the company, by beckoning or calling him
to take a glass and sip after her, the compliment
is then highly enviable; and whether her lips be
pale and shrivelled by the wintry effects of years,
or cherry-ripe and pouting in the fragrance o
summer, he is bound by the well-understood
laws ot respect, etiquette, gallantry, love, am
all their little jealousies, to imprint bis own lip
upon the precise spot where those were placed
who preceded him, and then to take off the very
last drop in the glass.
(£lie dimes a n't) Sentinel
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY. 25, 1352
VOTI ( E .
Finding it impossible to attend to my office engage
ments, and collect my bills also, I have placed all the
city accounts of the Southern Sentinel office in the
hands of R. 4Y ytso.v Denton, for collection, who is
hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the same.
Persons having bills against me will present them
immediately for payment.
TENNENT LOMAX.
The Infant Drummer,
M e are requested to announce that the Infant Drum
mer will .shortly visit our eit} r , and aliord us an oppor
tunity of witnessing his wonderful performances. Wc
cannot speak advisedly as to his capacity, but the con
current voice of the press is eulogistic in the higher
degree. We refer our readers particularly to the fol
lowing flattering notice of his performance in Savannah
Tiie Infant Drummer—ls a prodigy beyond a shad
ow of a doubt. On Saturday evening, at St. Andrew’s
1 Jail, w 0 could imagine that Old k 'Dominic Sampson
could lie have stepped out from the “wizard's page’
which records his history, into the form and perception
ot a living inan, would have articulated “pro-di-gious!’ :
with an energy and frequency that would have taxed his
antiquated jaws to the utmost of their power. In truth
the child s every performance is prodigious : in the geni
us exhibited by this mere baby, just from his mother’*
arms, in his perfect command of time; his kindling en
thusiasm under the inspiration of music ; in the torrent*
of sounds, (and sound that is ever melodious) which arc
drawn Irom the drum by his tiny arms. We are com
pletely at fault; we do not understand it; we can not de
scribe it : we could not have believed it had we not seen it,
The child is a wonder !He is something more—he is i
study for the mental philosopher. Reader, if you arc
desirous, once in your life, to behold an unquestionable
prodigy, go and see the Infant three year old Drummer
Savannah Georgian.
‘1 emperance Movement.
A meeting ot the friends of Temperance was held in tliii
ciu on Friday, :21st itist., for the purpose of appointing
delegates to the Convention, to be held at Atlanta oi
the 22d February next, with a view of petitioning tin
next Legislature to repeal the present license law, and o
leaving it to the voters of each county to say witethe:
intoxicating drinks shall be sold in their respective
counties or not. The meeting was organized by calling
Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce to the ehair, who, in a brie
speech, explained the objects of the meeting.
After a few remarks from Rev-. James K. Evans, i
motion was made and carried to appoint ten delegate
to represent the county of Muscogee in said Conven
tion, whom the Chairman was directed to appoint, a
his leisure, and report to an adjonrned meeting, to b;
held in Temperance Hall the Bth February next.
Change Bills.
We are informed that a large number of cluing,
bills, of the denomination of one dollar, are in circula
tion on the river below us. Some of them have fount
their way into our community. They purport to b.
issued by the Winsted Bank, of Connecticut. Thest
little strangers are a long way from home, and the
sooner they return the better for our community. Tlx
parties engaged in issuing them, would do well toawaii
the issue of the State of Georgia, <fce. vs. the Bank o
St. Mary's before they proceed further in violating tin
laws. It is astonishing that this community will en
courage a shinplaster currency. It is a great nuisanci
and ought to be abated.
The Southern .SchooßJournal.
YVe arc much gratified to announce that this valua
ble Monthly has been laid upon our table. We hail its
appearance as an omen of a brighter day at the Soutii,
Wo aru not only cursed with hundreds of thousands
of citizens who can neither read nor write, but with many
teachers whose intellectual and moral want of culture
wholly disqualifies them for the important trust confided
to their charge. There are also many imperfections in
our system of education ; the right things are not taught,
and often wrong tilings aro taught in the wrong way :
defective and often injurious books are used as text
books, and false impressions are made upon the suscep
tible mind of youth, which are never removed. But
worse than all, a large part of our population are de
prived ot the opportunity oi acquiring education : there
are no schools convenient, and they have not the means
of availing themselves of the advantages offered by dis
tant institutions of learning.
To all these defects in Southern society, the School
Journal will earnestly derate itself, and point out not
only’ the evil, but the remedy.
The School Journal is published in Columbus, Ga.,
and edited by Rev. Thomas I • Scott, than whom a
mote enlightened, public spirited and competent person
does not live in the South.
It is, with him, a labor of love : but we hope it will
prove a harvest field from which lie will reap not only
golden opinions from the philanthropic and good men of
the South, and that silver dollars will fall into his pock
ets in bach anal profusion. ’ Let every lover of good
order, public virtue, wholesome government, sound ed
ucation and Christian morals, sustain this noble enter
prise, by sending up his name and dollar to the School
Journal.
It is a very handsome octavo, of sixteen pages. Price
one dollar, invariably in advance.
Council Proceedings— City Officers.
_ We have not the priviledge of printing the proceedings of
Council officially. Nevertheless, wc take pleasure in trans
ferring to our columns such ot their action as will be of
general interest.
Mr. YYiley YY illiams has been elected Alderman of the
sth Ward, in which there was no choice at the general
election.
I'.dgar G. Dawson, Esq., elected City Attorney.
Wm. Bosworth has been elected Clerk of the market.
Jeremiah Terry has been elected Sexton.
Dr. T. J. Brooks, do do City Physician.
E. C. Bandy, do do BriJge Keeper.
Burnett Ingram, do do liospiial Keeper.
Thoms Ragland, do do City Printer.
I ho salaries ol the ioilowiug officers have boon raised by
the present Council:
Salaries for 1852. Salaries fur 18;>a.
Clerk of Council.... 5550 | Clerk of Council.... S6OO
ireusurer 650 j x reasurer 700
Marshal....... 650 | Marshal 700
Deputy Marshal 650 ! Deputv Marshal.... 700
City Physician 350 City Physician 450
City Printer 150 [ City Printer 200
$3,350
3,000
It will thus be seen that the salaries of officers are three
hundred and fifty dollars higher this year than they were
last; though we find the names of ten of the Council (the
Mayor included) on the ticket headed—
“ People’s Ticket—Low Taxes !
Free Trade and no Connection.”
Now we are in favor of paying officers well, and am right
glad that some of them will have 50 to 100 dollars more
jingling in their pockets at the end of this year, than they
found there at the end of last year, but if this be the mean
ing of “Low Taxes,” .Mr. Webster has sadly erred in his
definition, and his publisher would confer a favor on the
public by issuing an amended edition of this standard woik.
Small Pox. ~~
The citizens of Fort Valley state, in a card published
in the Telegraph , that there is no case of small pox in
seven miles of that village, and assure the public that
the authorities of Maeon county have taken special care
to prevent the spread of the disease.
JR" dispatch to the Charleston Courier says that
\ ice-President King left for Havana on the 15th inst.
Captainj-Ericssou’s Caloric Ship,
We cannot content ourselves with a mere announce
ment of the success of Captain Ericsson’s experiment in
atmospheric air as an agent, in propelling ships (across
the ocean. It is justly regarded as an invention equal
to the discovery of the expansive power of steam, and of
the invention of the steam Engine. Our readers will
doubtless be ’pleased to know who Ericsson is 5 and
the history of his invention. This information, we pro
pose to supply in a very few w ords :
Captain Ericsson is a Swede by birth, but the Uuited
States is his adopted country. We are proud that he
has identified his name and fame with our institutions,
and that it is to the energy, judgment, and liberality of
ani American citizen, Mr. John B. Hitching, of New
York, that he has been indebted for the means to car
ry out this great enterprise in a style corresponding to
its importance.
The late Professor llawefeldt of Sweden, first suggest
ed the idea of a Caloric ship to his mind, by declaring
that “there was nothing in the theory of heat which
proves that a common spirit lamp may not be sufiicient
to drive 311 engine of a hundred horse power.” Acting
upon this idea, he invented his Engine. He exhibi
ted his invention before the scientific world of London
in 1833. With the exception of Ure and Faraday, nearly
all the leading seentific men of the day united in condemn
ing the principle, on which it was based as untenable, and
even Faraday, in a public lecture acknowledged that
he did not understand why the engine acted at all.
Mr. Brunei!, the constructor of the Thames Tunnel,
was sent to examine the invention by the British Gov
ernment, but he misconceived the motive power, it is said,
and would not allow himself to be corrected by expla
nations. Notwithstanding these discouragements, Capt.
Ericsson steadily persued his experiments, and after the
labor of 25 years, of unappreciated and unproductive
toil, he has succeeded with the generous aid of Mr.
Hitching of New York, in seeing his labors crowned
with complete success, in the late trial trips of the Er
icsson, upon the bay of New Y'ork.
The advantages of the invention are : Ist., that only
one fifth the amount of fuel is needed, as is consumed
by a steam engine of the same power : 2d., there is no
danger from explosion, fire or the thousand other acci
dents which beset navigation by steam.
We learn from the Herald that Captain Ericsson will
not accompany the ship in her first trip to Europe, ut
that he will remain in New York to superintend Ihe
building of other Caloric ships for the parties interested
in the vessel already constructed.
The English in Central America.
The late discussions in the Senate in reference to the
Clayton-Bulvver Treaty, have directed the public mind
to the history of British encroachments, by which the
Belize fell under the dominion of the British Flag. The
I following details will show that for two hundred years, the
pirates, people and Government, have steadily persisted
■ in the determination to annex this important naval sta
tion to the British Empire,
The islands in question are very important in a mili
tary point of view. The power that holds them, if
strong enough in ships, controls the Spanish Main. Ac
cordingly in 1642 the English buccaneers seized them.
The Spaniards reasserted their dominion and drove the
buccaneers out. In ] 742 the forces of the British Gov
ernment again took possession. A war ensued with
Spain, at the end of which England agree and to abandon
the islands : but it was not done, and in 1780 Spain
again declared war. The English were now forcibly
expelled from Ruatau, and in 1783 made another Vrea-
I (y, agreeing to quit the whole coast, except a certain
I place (the present British Honduras or Belize) where
I they were allowed to cut dye-woods. In 1780 still
I another and more stringent treaty was made and the
I English now really abandoned the coast. Ten year*
I later, during another war, they again occupied Ruatan.
I but on May 17, 1707, the Spanish expelled them. In
I 1811 the last treaty was made between Spain and Kng-
I land, containing the same stipulations with regard to
I this coast as that of 1783. * * * *
I brom 1797 forward the islands of Ruatan, Bonaca,
ITtilla, Barbarette, Helena and Morat remained in the
possession of Spain until the revolution of 1821, when
I ffiey passed over to Honduras. In 1830 the Sueerin
j tendent at Belize seized Ruaian, but hie act was disa-
I vowed by the British Government and the islands sur
I rendered to their lawful owner. In 1841 Col. Maodon
j aid, then Superintendent at Belize, again seized them,
J sending off a platoon of Honduras troops lie found there
j and hauling down the flag of the Republic. The in
| habitants of the island preferred to remain as citizens
lof Honduras, but he overawed them. This time the
I British Government did not disavow the act, but in
j 1840 directed Mr. Chatfield, their Representative in
I Central America, to say to Honduras, weak and pro-
I testing at the robbery, that it had been performed by
I* orders from London ’
Still nothing was done toward organizing any English
■ authority on the islands. Some liberated slaves from
the Cayman Islands (British) were established there,
I but suffered to manage their own affairs, till August,
I 1851, a year after the Clayton and Bulwer Treaty,
j when they were subjected to a British magistrate, as a
dependency of the “Settlement of Belize,’’ and finally
I in July last, were made into an independent colony, as
I above stated.
Slavery in New York.
I When the-constitution of the United States was
adopted, New York was a slaveholding State. In 1795
the work of abolition began ; but the eminent states
men of that day who had assisted in laying the corner
j stone of our liberties, had too much respect for the
rights of the federated States, to interfere with their
social relations. Accordingly a statute was allowed to
remain in force in the State which gave permission to
slaveholders to retain their right to slaves for nine
months after their removal into the State. In 1841 the
arch-demagogue and abolitionist, William H. Seward,
procured its repeal. The vote in the Senate stood
yeas 11, noes 8. Not a Democrat voted in the affirma
tive, and but one Whig voted in the negative ; his name
was John W. Taylor.
Mr. Daniel B. Taylor, a Democratic representa
tive from the city of New York, has lately offered a
bill before the Legislature of New York re-establishing
the old law which was repealed under Seward’s influ
ence. The Lemmon outrage is no doubt the cause of
this re-action in Northern sentiment. It is thought,
however, that the bill will not pass.
YY bother this movement is bona Jide or a niero ruse
to allay the excitement which the foul wrong perpetrat
ed upon Mr. Lemmon has produced in Maryland and
Y'irginia, we have no means of determining for the
present. YVe will, however, keep an eye upon the
movement and report progress. A correspondent
of the New York Tribune, in referring to this bill
(January 10.) says :
“Dan Taylor’s Slave transit movement will be kicked
out ot the House almost before it gets into it. Mr. Ely of
Broome, as you will remember, is anxious to be associated
with l'aylor m this new effort to save the Union, and
brought in a set ot resolutions cutting so low to Slavery as
even to disgust the Dough-taees. This double bid for
Southern smiles disgusted Champlin, a progressive Demo
crat oi Alleghany, and he brought in a counter resolution
this morning availing himself of the occasion to show that
there was one Loco-F'oeo at least who would refuse to
make concession to our task-masters. The House seemed
to be with him, for when Littlejohn, of Oswego, with an
expression ot contempt lorthe whole thing, moved its refer
ence to the Judiciary Committee, it was sent there bv an -il
most unanimous Aye. Your Mr. D. B. Taylor will find
his bill very summarily snubbed by the Representatives from
the rural districts.”
“The Comer Stone.”
Our readers will find in our paper to-day the Pros
pectus of anew weekly Paper, which General James
N. Bethune proposes to publish in this city, at two dol
lars per annum in advance. YVe learn from the Pros
pectus that the General claims fellowship with no par
ty. He regards them all alike corrupt. He will ad
vocate no measures of policy in the administration oftlie
government, except such as will bring it into contempt.
He will labor for its dissolution; like Ishmael, therefore,
“ his hand (pen) will be against every man, and every
man’s hand (pen) will be against him.”
Genetal Beihune has had some experience in the
business in which he proposes to engage ; is a vigorous
writer; a bold and independent thinker ; and will make,
we doubt not, a very readable paper. YVe give him a
cordial welcome to the Editorial corps ; and wish him
personally a long and happy and prosperous life.
Additional Per Arabia.—The British ministry had
entered upon their official duties.
Napsleon returned to Paris on the 28th ult., but was
received with no enthusiasm. The Empire has not
yet been recognized by Austria, Russia and Prussia.
Fraudulent Claims.
The discussion upon the Bill, which makes it a Peni
tentiary offence, for a Cabinet offioer, or member of Con
gress, to trade in claims upon the Government, elicited
some curious facts and opinions, from members of
the House.
Mr. Preston King, stated that Mr. Corwin, purchased
one fourth of the Gardiner claim, before ho went into
the Cabinet, and subsequently, sold it for SBO,OOO. Mr.
Stanton of Tennessee, thinks Mr. Corwin, ought to re
fund the money ; and is informed that he has expressed
his willingness to do so, whetever the claim is proven to
be fraudulent. Now that the proof is made, we wait
with some anxiety to see whether ho will redeem his
pledge. YY T e hope he will no; be another example of
the homely maxim,
•‘A man convinced agiinst his will,
Is of the same opinion till.”
Mr. Johnson of Tennessee, who it seems, is a plain
I spoken man, asked, “whether, if it should turn out that
I the whole claim was fabricated, Y’r. YVaddy Thompson,
I would return tho $42,000 of stolei money which lie now
has in his pocket 2” That is a dumper, which it is
l ight li3rd to get round. Ylr. Orr.who is Mr. Thomp
son's immediate representative, “wa not prepared to say
what course Mr. Thompson would pirsue ; but ha opin
ion was that Mr. Thompson ought to return the monev,
if the claim tunic out to he a fraui.’
“Turns out to be a fraud,” nov) tiiat is rich. YY’ho
doubts it now, but the parties the have fobbed the
money ‘? And if they are not yz convinced, we fear
“they would not be convinced, tliobli one rose from
the dead.’’ “They have Moses ati the Prophets; let
(them) hear them.”
Not a few bright reputations have teen sullied during
the short rule of Federalism, in thelWhite House. —
Crawford, Corwin, Thompson, and tinny others not
so distinguished, have indissolubly associated their
names with Galphin and Gardiner. Ve will not say
that they have participated in fraud. are all Honor
able men, but the suspicion of foul plathas seized upon
the public mind ; and “ all the perfdies of Arabia,”
wilt not remove it. YY ith the passagfef the law above
referred to, and the incoming of a purendministration ;
we may look for better times; and a clifer wateh upon
the public treasure.
Louisiana Senator.
Quito a stir has been produced by thesJbosed discov
ery, that tho Election of Benjamin as Snator by the
last Legislature of La., is rendered void bithe adoption
of the new constitution. The new law ofjlie State on
this subject is in these words ;
Be it further enacted, He., That on tharst Monday
following the', meeting of the Legislature, ij the session
thereof, commencing in the year in whiclkhe term of
office of any Senator or Senators chosen to itrresent the
State in the Congress of the United State *>/ America,
shall expire, or in case there is no session of tit Legislature
in such year, then in the next preceding sucli Far, the two
Houses shall meet in the Hail of the House oftepresenta
tives, and proceed to a choice of a Senator or Senators to
represent the State in the Congress of the Unite! States, in
place ofthe Senator or Senators going out of Mice ; and
the person or persons having the. greater numba of votes,
shall be declared duly elected Senator or Seniors: Pro
vided such number be a majority of all tho membts present.
Senator Downs, term does not expire uni the 4th
March, next. Now it is evident that at that time of
Benjamin’s eleelioti there was not any vacant). It is
thought that the next Legislature, which will coivene on
Monday next, 24th inst., will elect anothq Sena
tor. The Senate will be compelled in that ovei to de
cide who is entitled to the seat. It will be a 4d mis
chance ifSenator Benjamin is thus summarily fcprived
of his blushing honors before they have budded.! “The
best laid schemes of mice and men, gang aft aglk”
Hon. YVm. K. King and Mr. Ctaytoi.
Tho newspapers have been very busy in jushing
before the pubiio an issue of veracity between Bessrs.
Kino and Clayton- YVe have been surprise) that
Col. King’s friends have not long sinee givenln ex
planation of the misunderstanding. YY'e. arts non
pleased to find that the supposed inaccuracy’ j Col.
King’s statement to Mr. Cass, is fully accounted jbr in
the following letter from Judge Bragg, of Alabama,
which was first published in tho National Intelligencer.
“It is now clear that,” in the emphatic language of
tine Washington Union, “the commercial privileges
which England lias long enjoyed in a portion of Hon
duras, fully set forth by us yesterday, were only alluded
to by Col. King when he wrote Mr- Clayton that the
Senate did not understand that British Honduras was
included in the treaty. Before writing that note be
had informed Mr. Clayton that if the condition which
the British government proposed was sent to the Sen
ate, it would not receive a single vote. The course of
Mr. Clay ton in accepting the British condition, after
having received that information, is utterly indefensi
ble ; but not more so than the manner in which he has
attempted to shield himself from the just responsibilities
he lias incurred.”
[From tbs National Intelligencer.]
Washington, Jan. 10, 1853.
Gentlemen: several Senators had had
interviews with Colonel King, sinee the statement made in
the Senate by General Cass on Thursday last, and the pub
lication in the Intelligencer of Col. King’s note, to Mr.
Clayton ol the 4th oi July, 1850, in refereneo to the Clay
ton and Bulwer treaty, I went to the’ Senate this morning,
confidently expecting to hear such an explanation oi
the apparent inconsistency between the statement and the
note as would.be satisfactory to all parties, and place tiie
whole matter in a proper light before the country.
No such explanation having been made in the Senate,
(perhaps from a want of proper information on the sub
ject,) and it having been my privilege, as well as my duty,
to be very frequently with Colonel King during his present
distressing illness, and thus to have had opportunities to
understand his views not open to others, it seems to me
that justice to him requires that there should be no longer
delay in placing this matter in its true and proper posi
tion. I lie propriety oi this is deemed to be tho more urgent
trom the tact General Cass ro-iterated, to-day, -his state
ment in the Senate. It is as follows:
“I conversed with Colonel King, and lie authorized me
to say that there is an entire mistake upon this point. He
toldl me that after this quasi ratification came from Eng
land, on the 29th of June, he had an interview with Mr.
Clayton, who desired to know if the treaty should be sent
back to Senate for its action upon this conditional ratifica
tion. He told Mr. Clayton that if it came there for that
purpose it would not get a vote in the Senate : and that all
this day he supposed the project of accepting this declara
tion had been abandoned, and that the treaty stood upon
its provisions. Colonel King further said he had some
general idea oi a claim in England to cut logwood in Hon
duras, but he never thought ot its being set up as the ioun
da tion of a pretension to establish a colony.”
The following is the note of July 4th:
Mr. King to Mr. Clayton,
July 4, 1850.
My Dear Sir: The Senate perfectly understood that
the treaty did not include British Honduras. Frankness
becomes our government; but you should be careful not to
use any expression which would seem to recognise the
right ot England to any portion of Honduras.
r aithfully, your obedient servant,
„ , ~ YVM. R. KING,
lo lion. John M. Clayton,
Secretary ol State.
Now, this whole difficulty is susceptible of explanation
m a very tew words. Col. King’s language to Mr. Ca=s
was based upon a supposed statement of lacts, very differ
ent from the lacts as they actually exist.
After tiie negotiation and ratification of the treaty by the
feonate it was sent to England, and returned with a propo
sition that it should be considered as ratified on the part of
the British government, provided a condition should be an
nexed to it recognising title and jurisdiction in that gov
ernment over a certain portion of Honduras. Col. King
never saw the proposed provision in writing, but under
stood it was insisted on by Lord Palmerston. He verv
promptly told both Mr. Clayton and Sir Henry Bulwer
that with such a condition the treaty could not get a vote
in the Senate. Mr. Clayton afterwards informed him that
the provision had been abandoned, and he corisidereed the
treaty ratified by the British government precisely as it had
been ratified by the Senate.
YY’hen Gen. Cass called on Col. King for his recollec
tions upon the subject, the latter supposed that tho docu
ments furnished by the State Department showed that Lord
I almerston s domand had been yielded to in all its extent
instead of abandoned, as he had been told by Mr. Clayton
Upon this supposition he did say what Gen. Cass repre
sents him to have said in his statement.
In reference to British Honduras, Col. King was well
aware, as every schoolboy is, that Great Britain has long
had certain privileges there, and from these he did not sup
pose, nor until very recently did he imagine, that anybodv
supposed, she was to be summarily ousted by the Bulwer
and Clayton Treaty.
In making this explanation, I have no desire to obtrude
mvselt beloro the public. Senator Clemens, I learn, has
been tor some time detained from his seat by indisposition,
and Alabama has no representative in tiie Senate. The
character ot Col. King is too dear to his friends and his
State for them to stand by and see it even remotely impli
cated, without once coming to his vindication. Had it
comported with parliamentary rules, this should have been
done irom my seat in the House of Representatives. As it
is, I have to a6k a .place for this communication ill your
columns.
Y’eiy respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. BRAGG.
o"The Beacon of Cuba, so lately commenced in
New Orleans, has gone the way of numberless new
newspapers. The last number announces its demise
but Mr. Thrasher states that causes beyond his oontrol
“render this (the suspension) necessary to the interest
and true progress of the k cguse of Cuban emancipation.”
Monument* in Independence Square*
We are indebted to the Hon. M. J. Wellborn for a
copy of tho proceedings of a convention held in Inde
pendence Hall, sth and 6th July last, for the purpose
of erecting Monuments in Independence Square, Phila
delphia, in commemoration of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, and in honor of the signers thereof. We will
not trouble our readers with the uaines of the officers or
the dry detail of the proceedings of the convention.
It was resolved, at this convention, to erect a monu
ment with thirteen sides, united upon an entablature,
upon which the Declaration of Independence shall be
cut into the solid stone, surmounted by a tower ; the
thirteen faces to contain such inscriptions and embla
zonings as each State shall direct, commemorative of
some citizens of her own who took part in tho respon
sibility of that Declaration.
Georgia was represented by lion. Marshall J.
Wellborn and Hon. Asbury Hull. No other South
ern State was represented ; an ominous fact, which the
North, so zealous to commemorate the heroism of the
past, would do well to note. The occasion was a glori
ous one ; the associations were hallowed ; the spot was
consecrated ground. Virginia, Maryland, North Caro
lina, South Carolina Lad cherished memories there,
and their gallant sons were not backward in ’76 to
show their faces either in Independence Hall or to the
foe. It is in vain to give other excuses for their ab
sence. They did know of the convention. They did
not attend because they felt in their hearts, that by ac
quiescence in the compromise they had submitted to
wrong, and could feel no joy in tho memories of Inde
pendence Ilall. Rut we will not pursue this subject
further. We heartily approve the labors of the con
vention, and shall zealousy advocate the objects propos
ed to be accomplished. The convention resolved that
each of the old thirteen States may contribute to the
monument in proportion to its Representation in the
House of Representatives.
We invite the attention of our readers to the fullow
addresses, which bear upon the subject already alluded
to. The spirit and eloquence of Mr. llofkman are
genial and kindling. The reply of Mr. Wellborn,
though it does not contain all that our “ardent and
sensitive” feelings would have dictated in response to
the splendid allusion to the “old Maryland lino”—“to
that noblest of our land, whose statue stands before ns”—
and to the “descendants of tho Sumpters and Ma
rions,” who “swept the fiery footed Tarleton from
their plains,” is judicious and appropriate, and sparkles
with an eloquence worthy of the time, the place, and
the occasion:
Mr. Hoffman, of New Y'ork, spoke as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen :—I beg to detain the
Convention a few moments more, while I advert to one
or two topics connected with this occasion. You, sir.
on the part ofthe State of Pennsylvania, have declared
her wish and her pleasure that she stands on this great
occasion in union with her sister States, with no higher
claim, and no other voice. The city of Philadelphia has
pledged itself that it seeks no more. I am persuaded
that I do but echo the strong conviction of every Dele
gate present, when I utter my faith in tho sincerity o!
these declarations, and the hope that no invidious
thought or feeling will mar the harmony of all in realiz
ing the grand conception wc have discussed. Sir, then
can be no place where a memorial to Independence
should be raised, but on the spot which was its bith
place!
Sir, when we look upon this stong delegation from ten
of the confederated States, we may well feel the inspira
tion of hope, and hail an augury of success. Yet our re
joicings must be mingled with regret, as we look upon
the places of three great States unfilled, whose services
and traditions should have made them among tho fore
most here. We will not say with the poet, as he gazed
upon a star-covered sky, without a moon,
“Non mille quod absens,’’
But we may deplore that those Southern lights which
shone so brightly when the stars of Independence were
\first set in the heavens, are now veiled from our sight,
jhe children of the old North State should be here with
fie story of her Borrows and her struggles in the cause
jhe decendants of the Sumters, and the Marions, should
4 here to tell us that spirit, swept the fierv
tinted Tarleton from their plains, still lives. The eons o;
mryland should not bo wanting to; attest that the same
roolution now dwells in them, whUrh, amid the disasters
ail shame of Camden, covered the Maryland line with
a lory exceeding that of the victor. And where is Vir
gin ? Me thinks I see the brow of that noblest of our
lanL whose statue stands before us—that same majestic
brat, shaded with regret, and the mantle raised to con
census sorrow.
ft*—All the Grecians who fought at Platea, sent de-
to the feast of Liberty annually held on the battle
i fieldlto commemorate their deliverance, and to annoint
the imb-stones of the dead. Let us invoke tho spirit
of Ulon which seventy-six years ago on this spot, so
reveiticed by Liberty, hushed every other feeling, to
makehs united now.
I J
Mri Wellborn, of Georgia, next occupied tho fioor,
and s£l;
Mr.President.: —The course the discussion lias taken,
i has indeed me to depart from the silence I had pro
posed i myself. The gentleman from New York who
has ju.4concluded his remarks, (Mr, Hoffman) has ex
pressecßin kind terms, his regret that so many of the
States J the South are unrepresented here. Allow me
in replylto hazard the opinion that the fact iq not owing
to oppokion either to the object of the Convention, or
to the uson ofthe States—an apprehension possible to
arise, I rpret to say, in the known condition of public
feeling, ft should be remembered that the project be
fore ushabeen but lately proposed, very little discussed,
and indeq, throughout the country has received only a
degree ofutention, far below the weight and solemnity
of it. It fay be allowable to add, moreover, that as a
young peefe we are not much accustomed to enterpris
es of the ml. [ shall not affect to conceal, however, I
that a ceran distrust pervades the minds of many of
the eitizei*of the section referred to by the gentleman
of New Yrk, of the power to continue tho connection
of the Sta|s now embraced within the Union, without
subjecting {portion of them to intolerable wrongs, if not
final overtjrow. Yet, were the assurance attainable
that our pulic affairs would be administered by the Fede
ral autliorivs for the future as favorable to all parties
as they had. been in the past, even, there is little reason
to doubt tbl a large majority of every State in the con
federacy wild be found favorable to its indefinite con
tinuance, wjile its overthrow, if foreseen, would constitute,
|n.my liumlje judgment, no argument whatsoever against
the work 4are invited to enter upon. It is manifest
that no neissity exists in the nature of the case for
such an evejt, and that it can be brought about only bv
bad filth tot he Constitution on the part of unscrupulous
members oft. This much, Mr. President, seemed to me
proper to biaid in answer to what, though not express
ed, is perliah implied in the circumstances by which
we are surrounded, and the remarks made upon them.
If I be not itetaken, when the address to the legisla
tures and pople of the several States interested, and
prepared in he strong and burning language of the
respected Cllirman of the Committee, shall be read by
them, an undiimous concurrence of opinion and senti
ment as to tlfe propriety, fitness and utility of tho work
will be found o exist.
There veal a period, Mr. President, in our history, I
beg to say, wlen the doctrines and events of revolution
ary times mi l with something more than a cold and un
speaking assit on the part of the people, and were de
fended, alio wine to add, at somewhat heavier cost than
trivial eontribltions of superfluous wealth. We read of
times, too, in American history, when there was em
phatically “no {forth &'n) South,” —Washington hold'Mg
up in his gilpt arms the strong heights of the
Hudson again* [the invaiding armies North and East—
the well intend tied, though unfortunate Lincoln, of Mas
sachusetts, het ling a perilous attempt to recover tin
lost Capital of 1 ieorgia from the desecration of a foreign
enemy—and t e able, disinterested and faithful Greene,
of Rhode Island displaying some of the noblest examples
of American vaor and tactics on the Plains of the Caro
linas. The lan page of a reply on one occasion to a sug
gestion mado Ifni to save himself and army by retiring
and abandoning South Carolina to the occupation of her
enemies, must ever excite the gratitude of her ardent
and sensitive population,—“l will reoover South Carolina,
or die in the attempt.”
Allusion, Mr. President, has been made to the par
ticipation of the colony of Georgia in the proceedings of
the Revolution. The youngest of her sisters, containing
a population one might almost hold in the hollow of one’s
skirted on three sides by hostile tribes of In
dians, threatened by Spain, and oourted by the Crown,
she gave notice, prior to tile event of the ladepenuaaee,
of her concurrence in the justice of it, and in the policy
of a concerted movement of the Colonies to effect it
Sdie communicated, at the same early period, supplies
of gun powder, arrested by her citizens f rom a British
ship in the Savannah river, at the peril of a u„ va ] j,.,j
ter, to the famed Boston Patriots. F’eeling practically
little of the presure of Royal authority upon her inte
rests, she was a severe sufferer in a common m 9,.
Now, in prosperity and peace, she stands by the prim,;,
pies of the past—rejoices in revolutionary memories,
revolutionary events and revolutionary sypathies. She
stands in good faith to the present —true to the Consti
tution, true to the Union, true to her confederates, and
true to herself. She has brought you one pr.of of this
in the promptitude and gratification with which she met
the invitation of the city of Philadelphia to unite with
her original allies in the noble and praiseworthy work
before us.
In surveying closely, Mr. President, the principles and
events of the Revolution, they are seen to teach a deeper
and weightier philosophy than the simple right of the
people to resist oppression and misrule. Indeed, this
right, happily for man, is laid in instinct. The great
moral of the new and American school of polities is found
in the alleged right of self, or popular government, af
firmed ill the Declaration of Independence, and iilustva
ted by the historical triumphs and final success of the war
of the Revolution. The stress, in principle, of the con
test between Great Britian and the Colonies, turned,
then, mainly, noton the right to resist the abuses of a
government geographically foreign to them, but on their
righ, inherent and underived—numbers, wealth enligh
tenment, aud power conspiring—to choose and enforce
whatever government might be found in correspondence
with their own will. The existence of the right found
its solution, it is conceded, in the sword. If limited to
the power to make it good, it is at all events co-exten
sive with the power itself. The eontest over oppressions
and abuses, then, affirmed on tiie one side and denied on
the other, was carried on over the surface. The grand
movement that bore the colonies to independence was
supported on the strength of a more secret but more
poweiful current and carried forward upon the impulse of
a higher, nobler, and more inspiring principle. It is
this essence of revolutionary history, now become a liv
ing principle, we may symbolize and consecrate by the
material structure proposed.
Touching the cost, I will say nothing. It could be
raised, probably, by contributions from the friends of
free principles in the most despotio state of Europe. I
conclude, Mr. President, with the sentiment that—due
to tiie past, were we without a future, the work should
ba dona.
Letter from I)r. Powell.
Ciiunnenuggee, Ala., Jan. 14, 1853.
Col. Lomax : 1 have now upon my table the amal
gamated “ Weekly Times ts- Sentinel,’’ “They two
are no more twain, but one.” That being the case, all
anticipate an improvement; and none would more
regret a deterioration than myself, for reasons that have
not hitherto been revealed. With tile Editorial de
partment of tile new sheet. I am well pleased. I feel
assured, from a knowledge of your magnanimity, my
motives will be duly appreciated when informed of mv
agency in establishing the first Democratic paper in
Western Georgia, of which you are now tho honored
head. Your immediate predecessor, in bis graphic
style, gave a history’ of the origin and progress of the
Republican press of your city. So far ns he was in
formed, he knew the successive changes, its mutations,
but had no knowledge of the original proprietors, for
they have nearly’ all past away. “ The workmen are
gone, hut the work goes on.” And in the retrospec
tion of the past, it is a source of pleasure to know, that
the principles of that press have never been perverted,
but have always advocated the doctrine of the Jeffer
sonian school of politicians; and though not quite so
ultra as your illustrious predecessor, none need doubt
yoor orthodoxy in the Democratic creed.
Having retired from the duties of a laborous profes
sion, I left Monticello, and located in the county of Tal
bot, in the year 1828 ; soon after which, I entered the
political arena. Your city then, almost in its infancy,
was an inconsiderable frontier town, and tile newly ac
quired territory between the Flint and Chattahoochee
Rivers but sparsely inhabited ; yet the natural advan
tages possessed by Columbus rendered it famous, and to
all discriminating minds, it was apparent that at no dis
tant day, a great and flourishing commercial town would
stand at the head of steamboat navigation. All who
feel an interest in the prosperity of your city, must now
deplore the policy pursued by her authorities of depend
ing alone upon her natural advantages ; while other lo
calities, less favored by a more enlightened and enter
prising course, have far outstripped her. Had the
counsels of her more enterprising citizens, such as How
ard, Hall, Ware, and others, been earlier heeded
tilings would have worn quite a different aspect; by
this a bright day would have dawned upon the destinies
of your city ; she would have been the great thorough
fare between the empire cities of the east and west;
that triangular route through the mountains via Atlan
ta would never have been dreamed of. But it is never
too late to do good ; like old Rip Wail YY'inkle, your peo
ple are waking up, and when once aroused, they go
ahead. Tho completion of the Girard and Mobile Rail
Road, uniting at the latter city with the Mobile and
Ohio Rail Road, would yes place Columbus on the
great high way of the nation—the direct route from
New York via Mobile, New Orleans, and so on, to. Ca
lifornia, Oregon and the YY'estern Pacific, But my
purpose was to allude to the press, and not write an
essay upon that favorite hobby of mine, rail roads. As
before stated, having engaged in politics, the late Col.
Blackrnen and myself determined to establish a Demo
cratic paper in the eity of Columbus, to advocate the
principles of the party to which we belonged. For sev
eral years Cossum Emir Bartlett had edited, at the
seat of government, a spirited partisan paper. We in
duced him to leave tho Capital and establish an inde
pendent political journal in Columbus, which he con
ducted with great ability. He was an honest man, ra
ther ultra, and impracticable, too much so for a politi
cian ; like the storm Petrel, he rode the political whirl
wind. lie wielded the pen of a Junius; he asked no
quarters of his political opponents and gave none. Fie
feared no responsibility and shrunk from no danger. In
private life, Mr. Bartlett was altogether amicable, unas
suming, retiring and modest; indeed it was difficult to
realize the idea lhat one so mild, so pacific, could be
aroused to such deeds of daring ; or that the heart of
a lion throbbed in the bosom of one who evinced so
much humility. I learn a great change came over the
spirit of bis dream, in which lie was called to his to his
accountability, and trust he has found a resting place in
our Heavenly Father’s mansion.
Now, Mr. Editor, as you have the control and man
agement of what was a pet of mine in its infancy, you may
readily imagine that, even in mature age, the kindest
feelings are Btill cherished ; and suffer me to hope that
your paper will be the medium of diffusing not only
political intelligence, but the great principles of Morali
ty, Temperance and Virtue.
YY ith my best wishes for your health and prosperitv.
I remain yours, truly,
N. B. POWELL.
The Cholera. — The Brig Zebra, from New Orleans,
bound for Liberia wittl emigrants, put into the river
yesterday and is now at auchor in Cockspur Roads.
Site sailed on the Ist iust. with 110 negroes, who were
shipped under the auspi.-ea of the Colonization Society.
On tile third day out the Cholera made its appearance
on board in a most malignant form. The Captain and
twenty-seven of the negroes have died, and others of
the officers, crew and passengers are seriously ill. We
presume, of course, that the authorities will take imme
diate measures to have them landed on some of the ad
jacent islands and properly cared for.— Sav. Courier.
Jan. 16.
Cholera at the Bav The Apalachicola Commer
cial Advertiser, of the 6th inst., makes the gratifying
announcement that the cholera has nearly, if not en
tirely, subsided in that city. The Advertiser adds :
But one case has happened in the last eight or tea
days, and the clear, cold weather and the improved
state of the atmosphere bid fair that it has winged its
flight from our midst. Tho reports circulated itt refer
ence to it have from the first been exaggerated, but this
might bo expected, as all diseases are reported worse
than they really are.
ZW By the recent lamented demise ol Ins t. ther, the
lion. Charles C, Atherton, of New Hampshire, will - outs
into possession of a fortune of about $200,000.