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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.