Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Local Affairs. A Leaf Fob Uncle Tom. —The fanatical ad- ; mirera of Mre. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her ; clique, wonld have been much astonished by the | facts elicited on an examination of a breach of ; trust case, in Recorder Winter’s Court, yesterday, j The parties implicated in the affair wore the mem- I bers of a negro Benevolent Society, as prosecutors i and a free man of color, named Raymond Masses j na, (ate, treasurer of the body, us defendant. The charge was that the latter had committed a ; breaehof trust, by appropriating the subscriptions of the members to the amount of §263,'J0, It ap peared that, in reality, the accused had no intention of committing a fraud, but, feeling somewhat hurt by the eleclioD of a rival in his place, determined to give the association some trouble in the arrange ment of their accounts, or, in his own words, “to make them dance a little,” (les fairs Janser ) for the money. We were rather struck by this novel proceeding, and took the pains to read o\or the constrilutiori of the society, which happened to be introduced in evidence by one of the counsel engaged in the cu-r. It was written in French, simply,clbarly, and with a methodic correctness which would do credit to as sociations of far greater pretensions and repute. The title of the organ was—“ The Society of the Friends of Order, under the protection of Saint Eucher.” As we do not profess to remember the list of canonizations accurately, we willjnot bo certain that we have given the saintly appellation in its au thentic shape ; but that b of little consequence.— The first rule was more intelligible. It provided that all sittings of the body should commence and close with praver. The particulars of admission, membership, and official power, were then stated, and the amount of fines, subscriptions, am! dues specified. The sum necessary to be paid before in itiation was fixed, if we remember rightly at §6, and the monthly dues of each person amount to Sl. The society numbers at present some eighteen or twents members, varying in appearance from twi light to midnight blackness. And this in New Orleans, where such hideous cruelties are practiced in the noonday, and negroes are prevented from distinguishing one letter of the alphabet from another ! Occurring, too, without the assistance of that supernatural genius and piety which characterized our “frieud and brother.” Un. cle Tom, and actually regarded without astonish ment by a respectable Recorder in the most impor. tant District of the accursed city I What a pity th Duchess of Devonshire, and .Mrs. C. Dickens can not get a copy of the Constitution, as a model for some such organization as a Starving Irish Peasants’ Benevolent Society, or a broken down Seamstress l Relief Association, or the Miners’Cieneral Educa tional Committee ! It would create sensation, and perhaps do some good. We have been in Ireland, and positively assert that such an effort of intellect and humanity, as the formation of the society existing in this city, to which we allude, having been attempted by the peasantry of Connemara or Skibbereen, at the present day, would make every landlord in the country state, and every patriot become hopeful fur the future. It is an evidence of education and kindly government-, which could not he found out side of the Irish cities. You might look fur it in the country districts in vain. And yet Mrs. C. Dick ens &. Cos. cannot understand iho (act. Wc have been in New York, where ladies of ice Mrs. Stowe class have sufficient opportunities lu realize their sentiments in practice and do some thing tor the elevation of these nigriferous “friends and brothers” who are wallowing in the hack streets and lanes of the city, but wo hate never heard that an association of tins kind exists, or lias existed in that quarter of the United States. Outlie con trary, wo have seen ihe negroes in New York uni versally shunned—avoided like a pestilence—and confined to the filthiest and most criminal portions of the town. Wo have seen them reduced from the attitude of reasoning animals to that of the most currish brute—stunted in body and mind— without religion, education, food, or hope—and ig nored, as existences by the elegant authoiesses who contrive to turn twenty-live thousand dollars by unscrupulous lies neatly hound in two volumes, and for sale at all the book-stores. But it is useless to say more on the subject.— Our object in writing these paragraphs was to com mend the “Society of the Order,” which in despite of temporary troubles, shows every symptom of a long and vigorous existence.—.V. ‘(). Della. Parliamentary Oration. We are indebted to a gentleman who has been on a brief visit to the province, for the following outlines of a speech, delivered by Motts. m the Provincial Legislature of New Brunswick, one of the colonies of B. M. Victoria : (Reported for the Courier Ac Enquirer.) Monsieur Guvnor and do peoples oil dis House et Monsieur Speakare—l’m very stranger on dis places, and dis am premier time 1 am on dis House ; but de peoples where I was belong gives me his confiience so much zit 1 feel gratefulness to dem for de honor dey refer on de top 6b me. Gentleman, you not spect great deal of learn for one people dat only sto - > two years wid one school on house him, derefnre, you sail scu/.c my Anglins very much. O-.e. ting I want to had a fair play. You had one priest on dis House an jour to make ade prayer, and dat time 1 will ho sail pray on de French when he sail pray, as de reason are de French prayer are non strong. Some people was told me we was to get some gold watch, and some gown for de vile of z -seas belong to dis House ; and some little ting more, as paper, de knife, de ting for pick tooth, and de ting for make smell good. 1 must have all dose litiit tings. I wants to have mv hoy anew collars, and 1 u nit to pass one laws for stop de dam march and for sharges so mosh ; mine cncle was told me de sharge was bomiualion high. Do mv law I want lo make will bo tostopdem dam witch ting—l forget what you call de tuesserizc—dat make de peoples look as dies. Some people was told me dem teller she’s able to make dead de people ; to make sing'; to make talk ; to make told every ting on de Hon e —de money dat von had on your pocket: dev make told some ting more as ten lousand mile. All wat people wat make de morize, dat is surelv one dan ger ting, very, and for a layv should make. Well, dere is one more kind. You may depen dem same foliar make rotten the points, vos dis live aud six year; make’lame de horse; make spile de cow ; make not grow all the gram verv mosh ; pinko kill elide peoples all same as one good doctor do it. Now we must hang all the whole of it. Now Monsieur Spekare, de next ting we sail in hands in dis Road Rail dat is speak so mosh about. I link for me dey will tenancy for spile nil do firm. Am tole tidy will cut open ali de ‘arm where was l belong: and de French people have small enough already. Buts’pose you makde Road Reailvou must stophis damage, and only way you could done dat,you must cut away all dem hits and let do water salt on de mash, de mash all now stop for mow de -rass My father was told me long as I am horn de hiv was grow so big, dc cock no: possible for stay nude mash. Dis arc bad law. Now, gentreman, 1 want yon look on your consid er, J tink We must try for stop de dam'Yankee tor raise de wooden pig. My cousin was bought one large shoulder behind ; I link lie weigh forty pound; well, for look she’ll do pretty well, but for eat shede devil. Sposede peoples have to eat dis kmd pork, dey not live much long. Dem rascal Yankee uius be kill. Now dis Hinder and lightnin road, some folks wasted me was more fast you san’t see. I link dey will be great danger ting, suppose one people have some steel on her pocket lor contraction de Hinder, dey mus be kill right away. Yes. dev’l! he made sonoff one bail puff I want to stop every ting as make de people 1 kill; dis. ting ] make speak about, dem is de ting I vote; for 1 tole you all on de House 1 hole my self responsibility to do peoples for all dc law made. Gentreinen, yon will 1 tank tor dc. contention ton been mako upon rue ; I’m lyal subiie and belong to de free restitutions. Hat’s all I could M iv = ilis time. Ihe brATt. Road- lhe Chattanooga GVt zclte, of the 25th iust., after noticing the Tesiuna- 1 tiou of Mr. Wadlf.y, Superintendent of°the ! State Road, says lie will be suceAded bv Mr. V ovng, of Atlanta, a gentleman of some experi- 1 encein the responsible duty that be will mulor- : take. Death of a student.—Died, suddenly, at this place on Sunday night 23. inst., Mr T. B.’J. Lam ak, of Bibb, a member of the Senior class of Franklin College. We learn that the de ceased attended prayers at the College Chapel on Snndav morning and died, at 1 o’clock of the i night of the same day, from hemorrhage of the , lunges. His remains were escorted on Tues- ! day morning last by the Demosthenean Society to the Rail Road depot, to be conveyed to his relatives in Bibb.— Sou. Banner. MINUTES OF POINTS, : Decided hi the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, at Columbus. January Term, 1853. J Retherfoko, Receiver, vs. Jones, from Muscogee. 1. The Clerk of the Superior Conrt is not authorized to ! demand the costs for making out the manuscript ot the j Record, before transmitting the same to the Supreme court. ! Dougherty for the Motion—ll. Holt, contra. Holliday & Wife, vs. Riokdon, Gar., from Dooly. 1 1. A party can take no advantage from an agreement, j to which he was no party and under which he was to take | no beneficial interest. 2. The reference in a bill in Equity, to the records ol the Court, in which the Bill is tiled, witnout making an exhibit hereof, does not make such records a part of die Bill. SUozier tor Plaintiff—Lyon for Defendant. Mercer vs. Mercer, from Sumter. 1. The action for use and occupation, does not lay ex cept jn cases ol contract, either express or implied. In case of a trespasser however, the owner may wave the trespass and rue upon an implied contract. In such case the Plain tiff must show his title—there being no proof of express te nancy . Sullivan, lor Plaintiffin Error. Larvvs. Hart,from Marion. 1. In an action for money, had and received, the Plain tiff'must show that the money, or its equivalent, has been received by the Defendant or his Agent. Proof of culpable neglect to the injury of the Plaintiff', will not authorize a recovery in this fomt of action. Downing, tor Plaintiff—Worrill,for Defendant. Guay vs, McNeal, from Talbot. 1. In a suit upon judgments rendered in a Justices’ court it is necessary tor the Plaintiff'to show, that the court ren dering the judgments had jurisdiction of the cases. The docket ot the Justices’, under the Act ot 1809, should show the issuing ot the summons, the service, the appearance, plea, and judgment. II the docket fails to show these sev eral tacts, it may be supplied by parol. Worrill, for Plff.—B. Hill, for Deft. Andrews vs. Murphy and another, from Harris. LA deed describing property. as “a House and Lot in, the town ot Whitesviile, in the county of Harris, lying on the fork of the road leading to LaGrange aud West i uint, and running back to Calhoun’s line,” is sufficiently certain. 2. Where land belonging to three tenants in common, is levied on and sold as the property of one of them, the purchaser obtains title only to the interest of the tenants, he defendant in fi fa. 3. The tact that the other tenants in common, were also defendants in the fi fa levied, does not convey to the pur chaser their interest, which was never levied on or sola. 4. One tenant in common, may appeal to a Court of Equity, to comixil his co-tenant to account tor the rents, is sues and profits ol the joint property. In such a Bill, the defendant may he called oh to accoent for any waste com mitted upon the common property—although he may have committed such an ouster as would have entitled the party toiiroeeedatl.iw: Wellborn for Piss.—Ramsey for Deft. Collier vs. Vason, from Baker. I. An advertisement describing the property levied on by a Sheriff, as “ Eight city lots in the city of Alhanv, number not recollected, but known as Joseph Shaw’s city lots —the same having Deensold at the. February sales, and purchased by David .V. Vason, ” Ac.; may or may not be sufficient compliance with the statute requiring the Sheriff to oive a full and complete djseriplion of the pronerty le vied on. ‘2. The statute requires the Sheriff to exercise ordinary diligence, and to give as accurate a description as the cir cumstances ot such ease will admit, so as to identify ,the property levied on. 3. Whether the Sheriff has given such a description, is a mixed question of law and fact, and should he submitted to the Jury under the direction of the court. Morgan, for Piff'.—R. Lyon, for Deft. Searcy vs. Stubbs, from Talbot. 1. Where a Receiver for the Ocmnlgee Bank, departed life life, the Judgeot the Superior Court had the right, in dependent of the Act of 1851, to appoint another Receiver and cause him to bo made a partv to all pending lit foation Penning for PJff—B. Hill & Worrill, for Deft. “ Wi lljs vs. the State, from Decatur. I. A Juror, sworn on his voire dire, in answer to the questions prescribed by the Act ot 1813, replied in the nega tive, bui from a knowledge ol'lu's general character, lie had formed a had opinion of ihe man. Held, that this did not disqualify the Juror, nor constitute a good ground of chal lenge. •2. The presiding Judge, on request of counsel for prisoner should instruct the triors—that the formation of a fixed opinion, unfavorable to the iuuocenee of the prisoner, tho’ the same had never been expressed, is not an impartial Ju ror. Morgan &R. Lyon for Pill—A. Allen & Sol. General Lyon, for Deft. The Japan Expedition. Tho following brief and explicit reply of the Emperor of Japan to a letter from the King of the Netherlands, requesting him to extend to all foreign nations the privileges hitherto enjoyed bv Iho Dutch only, would seem to indicate that the American exploring expedition to the do mains of this barbarian is not likely to meet with a hospitable reception. The emperor ap pears to have a pretty correct conception of the Anglo-American propensity for acquiring terri tory, and takes warning from the fate of China in permitting the “outside barbarism’’ to acquire a footing in that Empire. We give the letter entire: The Emperor of Japan to the. King of the Netherlands : I have watched with attention the-events which brought about the fundamental change in the policy of the Chinese Empire, and these very events, upon which you base the advice you gave me, are for tne the most evident proof that the kingdom can never enjoy a durable peace without the rigorous exclusion of all foreigners. If China had never permitted the English to estab lish themselves on a large scale at Canton, and to take root there, either the quarrels which caused the war would not have taken place, or the English would have found themselves so weak that they would have at once sunk in the conflict. But from the moment when China allowed her self to be touched on one point she rendered her self vulnerable on others. This was the rea soning of my great ancestor when he granted you the faculty of trading with Japan, and but for the proof of friendship which you bad fre quently given to our country it is certain you would have been excluded as all the nations of the Ui i have been. Now that von are in (tos ses: ion of this privilege, 1 am willing that you should continue to enjoy it; but I will take care not to extend it to any other nations, for it is easier to maintain a dyke in good preserva tion, than to prevent the enlargement of the breaches which are permitted m it. 1 have given orders to my officers in consequence, and the future will prove to you that our poliev is wiser than that of the Chinese Empire. -—— - Cut Married.— Young man, if you have ar rived at the right point in life for it, lot every I consideration give way to that of getting mar ried. Don’t think of any tiling else. Keep po king about the rubbish of the world, till you have stirred up a gem worth possessing, in the shape ot a wile. Never think ot delaying the matter; f‘>r you know delays are dangerous. A good wire is the most faithful and constant compan ion you can possibly have by your side, while peiforming the journey of life—a do*>- isn’t a touch to her. She can “smooth vouriinen and your cares” for you—mend your trowsers and perchance your manners—sweeten vour sour moments as well as your tea and coflee tor you —rutile, perhaps,your shirit bosom, but not your temper; and instead of sowing the seeds of sor row in your path, she will sew the buttons on your shirts, and plant happiness instead of sor row in your bosom. Yes; and if you are con foundedly lazy she will chop wood and dig po tatoes for dinner; for her love for her husband is such that she will do anything to please him —except receive company in her every day clothes- ‘ J When a woman loves, she loves with a double distilled devotedness: and when she hates it is on the high pressuo principle. Her love ’is as deep as the ocean,as strong iv as a hempen halter, and as immutable as the rock of ages, she wont change, except it is in a very strong fit of jeal ousy: and even then it lingers as if loth to de part, like evening twilight at the windows of the j west. Get married by all means. All the ex | cuses you can fish up against doing the deed, ! ain't worth a spoonful of pigeon’s milk. Get i mat tied, 1 lepeat, young men! Concentrate | your affections upon one object and do not distri i lmte them crumb by crumb among a host of Su | sans. Marys, Lauras, Olives, Elizas, Augustas, Betsies, and Dorothies. Solid Rock Slide, on the N. &C. R. R On Wednesday last a mass of rock, in almost one entire solid form slid into one of llie cuts on tins road about seven miles out from this | place, breaking iron, cross ties, and every thin-r i found in its way. On measurement by the Enoin. eers it was found to contain over 4,000 cubic yards. At the tune of the slide the report was heard iu the entire neighborhood around. This occurrence will retard the tracklaying on this end of the road fully six weeks if not two mouths.— Chartanooga Ad vertiser, 22 d inst. Murder — An awful murder was committed ; in Atlanta, on last Friday night,‘ilinst by John R. Humphries. It seems, from what we have heard ; of this case, that Humphries had heard that Eli sha Tiller had threatend to kill him. They met on the above mentioned evening, at Janies Kile’s grocery, when Humphries asked Tiller if he in-1 tended to kill him. He answered that he did not, j nor had he any thing against him. Humphries j then requested him to look towards him ; and as he turned to look, he shot him with a double barreled shot gun. Tiller was killed so dead as j not even to kick after he fell. Humphries hurst j the cap of the other barrel at Kile, tho grocer, but the gun missed fire. —Christian Telegraph. <Lkt ank Bmimd COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 1, 1853. The Cabinet—.lephthah and the Ephrairaites— Mr. Cobb. Mr. Pierce is a wise man; lie keeps his own seerets. No man can therefore say who will be cabinet officers. Still every body is on the qui cive ; and innumerable are the guesses, predictions aud positive declarations of hopeful aspirants, aud of disappointed grumblers. We belong to neither class, and have waited patiently for the developments of the future, resting with some con fidence upon tho prudence, good sense, and republican instincts of the President elect. We are not disposed to be captious. We do not expect the Southern Rights De mocracy to monopolize all the loaves and fishes: we are willing to nee a Union Democrat get a slice. Some of them are also hungry, and fought hard for the tri umph of Democratic principles and spoils. There is however a class of Uuion Democrats, who, when the Democracy under the lead of their Jepph than went up to battle against their enemies, refused like the LfVhriamites to deliver them out of their hands. These have no more right to office than the Ephraimites had to share the rich spoils of the Anunonitish war. They cannot pronounce ‘‘shibboleth.” We cannot believe, therefore, that Mr. Pierce will elevate to office any Dem ocrat who aided in distracting his party by running op position tickets, or who refused to take .an active part in the canvass. It is idle to suppose therefore that Mr. Cobb, or any of that ilk will receive office at the hands of the incoming administration. Indeed it would be the sheerest folly in Mr. Pierce to cumber himself with any politician against whom there exist well founded pre judices among a respectable portion of his party, when there are so many statesmen of equal ability, against whom no such objections exist. The Southern Rights party do not expect General Quitman to be offered a cabinet or any’other appointment. Yet he is as true a Democrat as Mr. Cobb or Mr. Dix, and surely be is their equal in point of talent, and by far their superior in point of services. Why then should he be excluded, and Cobb or Dix taken into the confidence of the ad ministration ? \\ e do not mean by these reflections to proscribe Mr. Cobb. \A o only object to having a horse in the lead who has bolted. We believe and hope that in the fu ture he may do good service at the wheel. And when the time comes to test the honesty of the dec larations contained in the Georgia Platform, we shall proudly follow in his lead again, if he is then true to himself, his State, and his section. There are a great many worse men in the Democratic Party than Mr. Cobb. Men who repudiate even the little leaven of State Rights, which keeps the Georgia Platform from spoiling. M e would prefer to see him in office, to all such sheep in wolves’ clothing. Among these are Dix, Van Buren, and many of the wild men of the west, who seem to regard the Federal Government as a great Corporation, whose only use is to build rail roads, dig canals, open rivers, and build up harbors for their ac commodation. The truth is that the appointment of any of these men to responsible office will weaken the administration and divide the party. Now Mr. Pierce is a State Rights man ; and if he wishes his administration to harmonize with his own political antecedents—to be a unit, around which all the sound elements of conservative democracy may and will rally, and a largo body also of State Rights whigs—he ought to appoint State Rights men to every office in his gift, except those which are offices of profit; thc-so he might fling to the thousand hungry mendicants who will besiege the White House, irrespective of party. In tliis hope we advocated Mr. Pierce ; and hope tile re sult will not disappoint our expectations. General Dix and the Cabinet. Independently of his abolitionism, we have a very high regard for Senator Dix ; ho is unquestionably an able statesman, a patritio citizen as exhibited upon the field, and a good and true Republican. But the plague spot of Abolition is on his brow, and like the leper, he should be excluded from the camps of our Israel as un clean, until he is cured of his leprosy. The slavery question is not settled ; every administra tion will have some questions directly or indirectly con nected with slavery, under its consideration. The South therefore never can give full confidence to an ad ministration which lias a freesoiler in its confidence. Now General Dix is known to be a freesoiler. In the canvass of 1818, ho held quite ns ultra positions on the slavery questions as John Van Huron, though his de meanor was far more dignified and gentlemanly ; and no man doubts but that if these issues were again to arise, that he would pursue the same course. We therefore oppose his appointment, and warn the Democ racy of the South against the ruinous effects of his deie vatiou to the leadership of the party. There are Mar cy and Dicinkson, in New Y’ork, quite as able and far loss objectionable than Dix. Indeed we are surprised that any questionable man has been thought of for a cabinet appointment. All such men wiil be dead weight upon the administration. We utterly deny and reprobate the doctrine that any party or clique, as sueh, have any claim to posts of honor or profit iu the Government. And we earnestly hope, that Mr. Pierce wilt select only those men for of ficers under him. of known ability and honesty, and of tile faith of Jefferson. Adherence to an “ism,” ought to be a fatal objection, to an aspirant for office. We confess that we look forward to the action of General Pierce in the premises with much apprehen sion, though not without hope. He is in a great strait; ho is pressed from every side ; aud by men who prefer their own interests to the good of the country, or the suc cess of his administration ; it will not surprise us if he does not make some unfortunate appointments; hut we ; rely upon his Democratic Republican instincts to guide j him safely through all the perils and temptations that | beset him ; and look forward to a bright and prosperous future. We are confident that if the dangers of the j coast navigation are once cleared, and the ship of state ! is once out on the broad sea we shall have a safe, pros- | perous and profitable voyage. Teiian Items. Charles Fenton .fiercer. The Galveston News urges upon the Legislature of I Texas the propriety of paying this distinguished Gentle- i man for his services to tile State. Gen. Mercer is especially known to Texas as a con- i tractor with ist former government to colonize a portion j of the territory of the State in the region of the upper Trinity, and who had faithfully complied with his con tract up to the day of his estoppel by the constitutional authorities of the government for reasons of state with which no defalcation of his had any connection. Up to the period when he was prohibited from the further prose cution of his enterprise of colonization, he had introduced some six hundred families, for which he was entitled to receive a certain compensation in lands, the titles to which have hitherto been withheld from him. General Mercer says the News, is non’ a poverty stricken, negleoted sexogenarian, confined by disease to the garret of a third rate Hotel in Alexandria. Hon. Mendeth P. Gentry, of Tenn. This gentleman has deeliued a re-election to Congress. j He is a whig, but refused to support General Scott for ! tho Presidency,and to his influence may attributed to part the amazing defection from the whig ranks during that elect ion. A poiitieiancan give no higher evidence of lion esty and patriotism than to refuse to support the nomi nees of his party for high offices. We therefore re gret to see Mr. Gentry withdraw from Congress ; as it is now evident that these are scarce qualities in the lati- I tudoof the Federal oily. Wreckers at Key West. We find in the Sav. Courier , a very graphio discrip- j tion of the trade of Key West. It will bo read with j interest by our merchants, whose rich cargoes are so | frequently exposed to the hazzard9 of the Florida Keys. ; Key West. Jan, 22,1853. Mr. Editor :—The wrecking season has set in and | ships, brigs and shooners with their rich cargoes are being j brought down daily from the reef by the hardy wrecker, and we are begining to reap the benefit of their arrival j by increased business and an unusual activity in every j line of pursuit. The lawyer has the salvage case to present to the judge and a good round sum is his fee. He in all caees receives the sum of sl7 for filing the libel, and then three per cent on every dollar of salvage deereed by the judge. In cases involving large amounts of property as high as SBOO falls to his share of the wreck. The Commission Merchant or Ships Consignee has many competitors in the field. He has friends on the , wrecking vessels and the first boarder of the stranded ship presents to the master the claims of his merchant, and receives for his zeal a handsome reward if he se cures the consignment. The rates of wharfage and storage on a bale of Cotton are sl. The commission allowed for receiving and disbursing money on account of vessel and cargo is 5 per cent, and when the same is re-shipped or forwarded in the same vessel 1-4 per cent on the valuation of the cargo is always ruleable,— So the strife for these fat pickings sometimes rages high, even to a fighting pitch. The consignment of a ship now ashore on the reef will pay the Consignee over $9,000. The Clerk of the Admirality Court also gets his fees, which arc large when salvage is great—he receiv ing as much as the lawyer. The District Attorney gets a fee. The TJnited Suites Marshal, if cargo is sold, gets his per eentage, and the mechanic is paid well for his work, and the laborers get $2 per day lor storing the cargo. All classes of our population arc directly or in directly benefitted by the wrecks ; and when news ar rives in town that a ship is ashore you will see more happy faces than in Wall street when tlic Fancies have advanced. A correspondent of the Sav, News of the 23d, states that within the past 20 days, 10 vessels have been wrecked, or arrived in distress, which, with their cargo es, were valued at over $500,000, and that the larger portion of this amount will be saved through the instru mentality of the wreckers. lie then very gravely an nounces that, “Tho new year has opened with an abun dance of fine wrecks, and our only fear is, that after those now in port are settled we shall have no more.’* Abolition Entertainment. ‘‘Senator Seward, on Wednesday, gave a large din ner party in Washington to Gen. Scott, John M. Botts, Fitz Henry Warren, General Hale and others.” We are not surprised that John P. Hale, the Abo litionist, and Fitz Henry Warren, the desperate parti san and office hunter, should sit down to the table of William 11. Seward ; but we confess that we were cha grined to see it announced in the public prints, that Gen. Scott, the leader of the armies of the Republic, and J. M. Botts, tho honored Representative of a southern State, and both sons of Ya., should partake of the hospitalities of an arch-demagogue and Abolitionist. It is no excuse to allege private friendship existing between the parties as the cause of the intimacy. The existence of friend ship between the parties, is the foundation of our cen sure. An honest man cannot take the hand of a rogue ; a patriot cannot receive a traitor to his bosom ; neither can a sound true hearted southern man partake of the hospitalities of an abolitionist, who unites in his own person the traitor, the robber, and the incendiary; the traitor, because he tramples under foot tho constitution aud laws of his country, which guarantee the rights of the south in slave property; the robber, because ho would if he could, take our property away from us by violence; j the incendiary, because his schemes if carried out, would convert this fair garden of the South into a parched des olation. Can any man conceive of a thing so absurd as Calhoun’s sitting down to a social board with on one hand, and Seward on the other! He never so much as spoke to them. And why should Scott and Botts feel less acutely, the foul wrongs and insults which these men daily heap upon tho South ? It may be that theso views will be regarded as nar row and sectional, by some of our readers. We are sorry if such is the case. Wc havo been bred in that school of Republicanism which regards an insult to our country as a personal injury ; a wrong to our section as ‘a persona! wrong ; and the agents concerned in inflic ting it as personal enemies with whom we are to have no intercourse. And we confess that we doubt the sectional soundness of any southern statesman who aots upon different principles or cherishes, different feelings. The sentinel who exchanges courtesy with the foe, is derelict in liis duty, and ought, to be watched. He may betray his trust. Objections to the Spirit Happing-s. The clergy of New York have takou this Bull by the horns. The Rev. Professor Mattison, in a lecture delivered at the Tabernacle, said, “the time was come to examine this shrieking, shivering ghost of infidelity,” to seize upon this fire-ship and scuttle her, and send her down to the regions whero tho “Age of Reason,” and the “Book of Mormon,” sleep together. The worthy Professor lias evidently come to the desperate resolve of the Prince of Denmark. Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring with the airs from heaven, or-blasufrom hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com’st in such a a questionable shape, That I will speak to the. And right plainly does the Reverend gentleman ex press his opinions upon the merits of “Rapology.”— Money, he said, was at tho bottom of Ghostology ; and the overthrow of the church, the great object of its pro fessors. Some of his objections are however curious and amusing. He thinks it a great outrage, that one of the spirits should assign old John Banyan, the place of a grog shop keeper in the other world; and will not countenance the revelation, that the ladies are to have the privilege of selecting husbands without waiting to be asked—that the Bloomer costume is to be tho pre vailing dress—aud that the vulgar custom of eating and drinking is to be done away with altogether. Wo confess eur inability to comprehend why old John Banyan should keeep a grog shop, if there is to be no drinking. The old man had a bad time in this world, tinkering and lying in prison together, and if the spirit rappers report truly', he is still worse off in the next ; to keep a grog shop, and have no customers is certainly worse than tinkering, or even answering to Bench warrants for preaching on the commons of Eng land. Another objection of the Reve aed speaker is, that Napoleon and Wellington, are according to the spiritual rappers quarreling over tho battle of Waterloo, and propose to have the fight over again when all tho broken arms, legs and heads are reunited after the gone- I ral resurrection. This objection we think is not so well founded, as they were both exceeding fond of hard kuooks while living, and would reasonably indulge in | the same sport in the next world if opportunity offers. As spiritual rappers have appeared at Griffin, Geo., ; we hope this brief notice of the objections, which have j been made to their revelations will not be considered ir j relevant. Arrival of the Isabel. | i Health of Mb. King—The Small Pox—Havanna ’ Market. The Isabel has arrived, and brings dates from Havan na up to tho 22d inst. The Steamer Fulton arrived at Key West the Saturday preceding, with Vice President King on board, whose health is said to be hotter than when he left Norfolk. He will remain in the city seve ral days if the weather is congenial. The returns from the Hospital of Sail Juan de Dios show that the Small Pox is on the deoreas© in the city. The number of cases in December were 71 ; and in January, up to 21st inst., only 26 ; of these 21 occurred iu the twelve first days of the month, leaving only five i cases for the remaining nine days. YV e learn from the correspondent of the Sar. Courier , ; that Rice has advanced. The Galnaces cargo was re | tailed at 11 1-4 rials. Tho Sugar crop of the Island j is promising and anticipations are in favor of buyers.— Sales of Lumber have taken place at $29 for scantling and boards, and $26 for Timber. The Campbells. We refer our roaders, to the announcement of thoso Gelebrated Minstrels, in our advertising columns. They will commenoe their concerts on Monday, 31st, inst. We anticipate a rich feast of song from them. From the N. Y’ Tribune. The Electic Telegraph—Sounds rs Signs. The great feature of Prof. Morse’s invention, and that which distinguished it from the electro-magnetic tele graphs in England and other parts of Europe, called the “Needle Telegraph,” was this—the electro-magnetic bar or needle had been used merely to point to letters or make signs for telegraphic purposes. It occurred to Prof. Morse that the motion thus obtained might be used to make dots and straight lines of unequal lengths on paper, moved by clock-work, and that these marks might stand as representatives of the letters of the alphabet. The Company owning the Telegraplqrunning from Buf falo to Milwaukee, called “the Erie and Michigan Tele graph Company,” working uuder Morse's patent, have for some times past discontinued tho practice of record ing the signs produced by the process above mentioned, and have instead thereof received their messages by sound. This they have done for the last two years, without in terruption, having found that they could receive three messages by sound in the same time which would be oc cupied in receiving two under the other system ; and moreover, that in receiving by sound they made fewer mistakes than they were liable to in the use of the dots aud dashes, and also dispensed with half the number of operators. The mode of receiving messages by sound is very sim pie, and one operator is sufficient instead of two, who are required when the signs are recorded. The operator sits by his table in any part of the room where the message is received, and writes it down as the sounds are produced.- The different sounds are made by the striking of the pen lever upon a piece of brass: thus, three raps in rapid sue** cession are made for the letter A, two raps, an interval, and then two raps more, are made for B, and so forth. Mobile ancl Ohio Rail Road. It has taken three years to extend this road thirty - two miles ; and though the road has received a magnifi cent donation of lands from the Government of the United States, we learn from the Mobile Evening Jour nal that the company has determined to build the road gradually, surely, safely, by subscriptions, and then sell the land donated at a price equivalent to the whole cost of the road. There seems to us, to be a great deal more shrewdness than honesty in this determination of the company. The lands were donated because the early completion of the road was thought to be impor tant to the public; and the company is therefore bound to hold and dispose of the public property for the ad vancement of the public interest by making it available in the speedy completion of the road ; and not in en hancing the private fortunes of the stockholders. If the work progresses in future, only at the rate of 11 miles a year as heretofore, the grand children of the present generation will hardly-live long enough to en oy its benefits. Puplic Charity. We are requested to call public attention to the cor respondence between the Mayor, and the “Fakir of Siva” who proposes to give an exhibition for tho Benefit of the Factory operotors on Friday night, 28th, inst. We would also invite attention to tho “Fakirs” advertise ment for Satnrday (29th, inst.,) night. He offers large inducement to those who will attend his exhibition on that occasion. To His Honor , the Mayor of the City of Columhus : Sir:—Having been informed that a considerable num ber of male and female operatives lately engaged in the Factories of your city, have by the serious calamity of a freshet, and the consequent stoppage of the works, been placed in needy circumstances, and learning the ac tive part, ihe generosity and good feelings, that yourself and the citizens of Columbus have taken in their behalf, and ever appreciating the motives of kindness that have prompted you thus to act, and to facilitate your opera tions of Benevolence, I cheerfully tender to you in their behalf, my professional services, any night this week 3ou may select as the most desirable or convenient to give a Benefit for the abovo cause. With high conside rations of respect, I remain, sir, , Respectfully, your o’bed’t serv’t. 4 FAKIR OF SIVA. Oglethorpe House, January 27th, 1853. To the “Fakir op Siva”— Present. Columbus, Jan. 27, 1553. Sir : I acknowledge tho receipt of your note of this date, in which you generously offer a benefit for the poor Factory operatives of this city, and desire me to designate a night when the same shall take place. I appoint to-morrow night for that purposo; and shall select some of our citizens to act as a committee and superintend said Charity Benefit. With a duo appreciation of the motives which have induced you to make tho tender alluded to, l am yours, &e. JOSEPH L. MORTON, Mayor. [From tho Chareston Papers.] A rrival ofthe Empire City at New Orleans Later fiom Mexico, &c. New Orleans, Jan. 24. The U. S. mail steamship Empire City arrived at New Orleans at seven o’clock on Monday morning, from New York via Havana, with forty passengers. She left Havana on the 20th inst., but brings no news from Cuba, with the exception that the Secretary of the Captain General has been removed, and that his successor was expected by the next steamer. Tho Empire City brings us advices from Vera Cruz to the 13th inst., wliiohjstate that Arista finding Congress re fused to grant him extraordinary power had resigned the left the city of Mexico Carvallos, President of the Supreme Court of Justice had been made President ad interim , and had named the following as Ministers : Gen era] Blanco, Minister of War; Aterbide, Minister of the Treasury ;[J. Guerara, Minister of Foreign Relations, and laantey, Minister of Justice. Thu Govennent troops under General Miren had been entirely routed by Uraga, and the revolutionists were everywhere triumphant. The new Ministry will probably be of short duration Bounty Lund Act. We learn from a letter of Hon. Junius Hillyer to the Southern Banner, that the Commissioner of Pensions has reversed the interpretation first given to the act of 1852, so that the widows and minor children of officers and soldiers who died before the passage of the act, can now obtain bounty land upon making application there for. The following is the reply of the Commissioner to Mr. Hillyor’s letter to him on the subject Pension Office, Jan. 13, 1853. Sir : Iu answer to the inquiry in your letter of the 3d. inst. I have to reply that the act of March 22, 1852, has Ibeen construed by the Department to include the widows and minor children of deceased officers and sol diers, as under the net of September 28,1850. I have tho tionor to be. Very respectfully, Your ob’t. servant, J. E. HEATH. Comm. Hon. Junius llillytk, H. R. In noticing the return of the Commissioners who were sent to Mexico to search for the mines of Dr. Gardiner and Mr. Mears, the Alexandria Gazette says : “We understand that “Lagumllias,” the township in which the pretended mines were located, has been thor oughly explored ; and not only has no mine been discov ered, buqno person could ho found who had ever heard of a mine of silver or queiksilver within tile entire, De partment of Rio \ r erde,to which department the township of Ligunillias (less in extent than the District of Colum bia) belongs. The result of this mission confirms in everv partielar the official 1 report of Mr. George W. Slocum, United States Agent, to the Department of State, on the ITthofMay last and recently published by tho select Com mitteeof the House of Represetatfves - ” Gas Light. At a meeting of the Gas Light Company, held on the 27th inst., Mr, Henry T. Hall was elected President, to supply the vacancy occasioned by tho resignation of John Forsyth, Esq. Tho Company will commence operations immediately. The Engineer is in town, and the greater part of the Gas works are now on the way. We are informed that the city will bo lighted with Gas by the first of July. Fclo de sc. —W# learn from the Vade Mecum, that the oorenors inquest, composed principally of Editors, which was held over the dead body of the South-West Georgian, returned a verdict that the deceased came to its death “fclo de se,” by taking too a large dose of Cred it System, which, in the opinion of said inquest, is more poisonous to newspapers than arsenic and prussic acid combined. Another Rail Road. —The Virginia House of Dele gates, has passed by a decided vote, tho bill incorpo rating the Board of Public Works for the construction of a rail road from Covington to the Ohio River, at a point not lower than the mouth of Big Sandy nor higher than Point Pleasant. The bill apprpriates a million of dollars for tho purpose. Sleet in Savannah, The Evening News says, that there was a slight fall of sleet at Savannah on the evening of the 23d inst. We have enjoyed here a pure, bracing atmosphere, and “glorious” sunshine for a week past, Ice is abundant, but no Snow or Sleet. Governor of Alabama. 4 meeting of the citizens of Autauga, was held at Autaugaville, at which resolutions were adopted, recom mending Col. Albert J. Picket as a suitable person to be run as a candidate for Governor of the State. Colonel Picket is the well known author of the “History of Alabama.” He is a sound and true South ern man ; is a native of the state, a planter, and posses ses every necessary qualification for the office. We know of no man whom we would prefer to see succeed the present incumbent. Artificial Teeth. We have been shown an entire jaw of artificial teeth, the manufacture of Mr. Cushman, D. D. S., of this city, which we think worthy of special notice. The ease we are told was a very nice one, and had been refused on account of the peculiar difficulties to be overcome. There was great devastation of the bone of the jaw which in the specimen was supplied by raising the bed in which the teeth are set so as exactly to resemble nature. The teeth arc not riveted upon a plate, but each separate tooth is firmly attached to a piece of gold which runs up its side and gives great strength and finish to the manufacture. Indeed we have never seen so finished, natural and elegant a piece of dental manufacture as this of Dr. Cushman, and cheerfully commend him to those who need his services as a most skillful and finished operator. This workmanship is natural, elegant, strong, and scientific, and we take it upon ourselves to warrant that a complete set of his artificial teeth will grind quite as well and briskly as the best natural mill. J. M. 11. Beale. Ibis gentleman, who has for some time represented the 14th Congressional District ofVa„ has declined an other election. The Union says, he was “unobtrusive in his pretensions.” So much so, that most people, never heard of him before, though he says ho has de voted his “earnest, but humble efforts to keep within the pale of the written Constitution, to sustain the Union of our Fathers, and to claim that Virginia has a common property in the Public lands. Sic transit gioria mundi. Gerritt .Smith. A Correspondent of the Delta thus describes this famous Abolitionist, who has paid out more money, in the fartherance of his philanthropic whims, than any man of his day. “Gerritt Smith made his appearance in the Hall to day, in woolly-head corner. He is a large, jolly look ing, red faced man, with nothing of the malice of his notorious abolitionism visible in his eye, the cast of his countenance or demeanor, lie looks far more like a “tuokyhoe” (Va.) planter, than like just what he is.” The Fakir of Siva. We understand that the exhibition of the Fakir, was largely attended, notwithstanding the discouraging cir cumstances under which he appeared in our communi ty ; and that his performances gavo general satisfaction. SsjpM-orwxf The Supreme Court commenced its session in this city, on Monday tho 24th, inst. Judges Lumpkin, Warner and Nisbet, presiding. There are forty cases on tho Docket, and a large num ber of Attornies in attendance. It will probably re quire two weeks to dispose of the Docket- We expect to report the head notes of the decisions as they are made. Louisiana. E. R. Moise, of New Orleans, lias been elected Spea ker of the House of Representatives, and Le Sere, of the Courier, State Printer. Gov. Walker is opposed to the negro basis, and recommends the passage of free Banking Laws. Opinions ol the Press. Soil of the South, This work for Jan. sustains it good character, and merits the patronage of our planting community, who no doubt will send on their dollar and procure the work lor 1852.— State Guard. Soil [of the South. Our book table has been so crowded lately that we have overlooked our agricultural visitors. But the Soil still maintains its high character, and the high estimation in which it is held. There can be no better time than the commencement of anew year to commence a subscrip tion tea good agricultural work, which every farmer and planter should make it a point to subscribe for. They will find the Soil all that it professes to’be. The price is on ly $1 a year, and we are glad to see that the publishers, cash principle. It is the only one that does well in any thing, and it is the only one that will do at all in any sor of a publication at one dollar a year. Reader, go and subscribe for it.— Macon Republican. Soil of the South. Die number of this periodical for January comes to us with an aspect strikingly improved, and as both the edi tors are engaged in the cultivation of the soil ofthe South, as well as in the conduct of the journal that bears that name, every Southern man will find it an invaluable com panion,— Southerner. The Soil ofthe South. For January ofthe new year, comes to us in anew and improved form, whiehspeaks well for the prosperity ofthat excellent planter’s^Journal. We have hastily run through ts pages, and find it teeming with original articles from home contributors. Now is the time to subscribe'for the new volume. $1 sent toT. Lomax & Cos., Columbus Ga., will secure the work.— Chattanooga Adt. Soil of the South. We have received the^January numberof the Soil of the South. It is well filled with interesting agricullural in formation, Th is paper cannot be too highly recommend cd,to, or patronised by the southern farmer, and sl.outhem people. It is a work which strikes home to their interest. Were we farmers,; we would not be without the Soil of the South for twenty times the price |of subscription. As it is. we miss it from our table, when it fails to arrive punctually, more than any of our exchanges It has been enlarged and improved in form. The Soil gives information about gardening that should be secured and treasured by every person whojdesires to hare fine vegetables and plenty of them. .Jas. M. Chambers, Esq., is the Agricultural editor. Mr. Charles A. Peabody edits the Horticultural department. Termes SI.OO per year in advanco. Sub scribe liberally ; deserves it. Shocking. —The Cairo. Illinois, correspondent of the Evansville Journal, relates the following : “Not many months ago, a small boy, belonging to a German family in this county, took sick and died. His step-father purchased at the nearest store a boot box in which to bury him. It proved too short by six inches, so one ot the two tilings had to bo done to make it answer—lenghten the box or shorten the corpse. The inhuman step father choose the latter alternative, and dis regarding the remonstrances of the mother, sawed off six l nches of the child’s legs!. We will let the reader comment. Correspondence of the Times & Sentinel. Washington, Jan. 22d, 1853. Although opposed, generally, to all projects of amat gat,on or coalitions, I cannot bnt congratulate vou and your reader, on the nuptials of the Tones and Sentinel lor many reason, the union w## a ‘ must be a happy one ; and though divided, both man aged not to fall, yet united, they 4 f , 4 - , fail to Stand strongly and in a healthy condition. The 011 j v r which the change excites in the minds of arises from the loss of one of the able Editors, q,, ‘ John Forsyth, or dwell on his high tide to .v™’ ~ speet, confidence and admiration of every trne li-JL” Southron, would be indeed superfluous. Though er filling so high a National position as his distinguish, ed father, of whom he has proved a worthy son ), yet has had the superior fortune of stamping his nam e and fame more permanently on the records of his ow„ State aud section. Ilis labors have filled even a wider space, and hereafter, when the fruits of this compromise quarrel more fnlly develope themselves, his labors, and those of the “few, but faithful,” who co-operated in the same cause will be properly appreciated. But though Mr Forsyth is out of the ring just at present, his South ern friend, cannot permit him to remain so. Talent, and acquirements, such as his, and an experience so thorough, would be wasted in the privacy of such a life as that he has chosen. His political friends as well as the public, properly appreciate his services and his claims upon them. The mantle he has dropped will be worthily worn, we all know; but you will have a hard fight yet, though, upparently, tho beat of the bat tie is over. Indication, of this grow more palpable each day. Not alone do tho abolitionists keep up their warfare with a stubborn pertinacity in a political way, but that fell fanaticism gathers strength every day. Mrs. Stowe s book has sapped and ruined some of our strtmg. est supports. The Northern mind, as well as foreign sympathies, have been saturated with that poison ad ministered in all the honey of a seductive style. The re-action and recoil are already coming back upon us in the shape of appeals from the Ladies of Great Britain of inumerable protests against slavery in foreign domes tic papers in the shape of critiques of Uncle Tom’s Cabin—of public meetings in Ireland—of stampedes ot slave, from the border State.—and the denial of recog nition of the rights of slaveholders even during a passage in transitu through the “infected districts” of the entire North. This social danger is the deepest and it taints the actions of otherwise conscientious individuals i sl their private relations, while powerfully exhibiting it. self in legislation. A proof of this is given in the recent attempts to in troduce some mitigation in the rule which was so strin gently enforced in the Lemmon case. A Hunker Democrat in the New York Legislature, a Mr. Tay lor, as much for the purpose of embarrassing his Barn burner foes as for any other, introduced 3 proposition re-enacting the law abrogated during the Governor ship of Seward, allowing the right of pnssage in transi tu. But even he added a proviso that the limit of time during which the slave should be retained in cus tody if his master should be thirty days. If longer re tained within the limits of the State, lie should be free. Thus denying the vital principle which alone was worth anything to us. But the Barnburners declaring it to be a mere political trick, played back in similar style. They introduced the resolutions of the Balti more Convention, denunciatory of a re-opening of any questions connected with slavery, and brought the Hunkers to a check-mate. And so things stand there. Even were such a resolution passed, how ever. as proposed by Mr. Taylor, every sensible man in the South knows it would practically be worth just about as much as the Fugitive Slave law—the net val ue of which may be estimated at 0. Laws, in this country are not worth the paper they are written up on, if antagonistic to the settled convictions and senti ments of the communities which are to put them in ex ecution. And so with all these slave-eatching and slave* holding enactments of the North. Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom are “higher laws” than those of Congress, from Ohio, East, and from New York down to Mason & Dixon’s line. One distinct indication of the condi tion of publio sentiment at the Mprth afforded by the palmy condition of the central Abolition press k the National .Era—which is now bolder aud more in fluential than ever, while the Southern Press ha3 been permitted to burn out for lack of fuel, and not even a glimmering spark can be raked up from its cold ashes— much less a Phenix—The rival press, the organ of Abo lition, has doubled its subscription list in the last year, and now numbers 28,000 paying subscribers, with daily increments aud increasing popularity. One signifi- cant fact may also be stated which may startle the more reflecting persons ht the North. It is the fact, that in Southern circulation is steadily and rapidly increasing —and the last number contains not only correspondence from the South, but contributions also. Further than this, a native North Carolinian, now a resident of that State, answers a South Caroiinian’B comments on Mrs. Stowe’s incendiary publication, and boldly preaches doctrines which would once have been dangerous for any Southern man to avow. This is progress with a vengeance. Yet we are daily called upon by the offi ciating High Priests, who sold us to our enemies, to offer up thanksgiving to them for the peace and safety their patriotic efforts hare given to the South—aud called on to denounce and proscribe the men who warned tile South of the danger, and resisted the surrender to the last. Seed-time is well over, but harvesting has not come. \Y hen it does, we shall see and can judge of the actual character of the crop. The National Era, which now represents what calls itself the “Free Democracy,” made up of the Hale and Chase coalition, backed by all the Abolitionistß of ali sects and colors, goes in for the indefinite extension of free territory. Its first grab is at Canada. Senator Hale led off in a speech on the subject the other day, and said we must and would have it. The N. Y. Tribune waiving the question of extension, to which it is oppos ed. goes iu for the choking process at home, and thus defines the Abolition faith, in an article part of which will suffice to show its spirits. The Tribune says: YY e have probably a hundred times disclaimed all right of Legislative intermeddling, whether by Congress or the tree States, with the domestic institutions of the Slave Suites. YY’e have again and again explained that each State makes and changes its own Constitution and laws at pleasure, and that other States, having no control over its actions iu the premises, are uowise responsible for the character ofthat action. YY e have as often remonstrated against the mischief and wrong, in view of the nature and spirit of our Federal Compact, of voting against a candidate for President because he resides in a Slave State, or even is personally a slaveholder. YVe have wor ried out the patience of some of our readers in explaining that we seek to exert no other than a moral influence up on Slavery in the States that cherish it, and that we only invoke Political opposition to the establishment of Slavery in Territories where it had previously no legal existence or the increase of its power in onr Union by ike annexa tion of territory in which it is already planted. And thus concludes its confession of Faith ; YY e never proposed to build up a national party on Sla very or Anti-Slavery. YY’hat we did and do insist on is. liberty for every YY'hig to hold sueh opinions respecting Slavery, as to him shall seem just, and to act on those opinions without being therefore, put under the ban ofthe party. Perhaps this may be refused, but we do not hope to live long enough to see the YiY'hig party triumph on any narrower platform. Keep cool and see 1 All that tho burglar asks is the largest liberty of ac tion. YY’e don’t want you to legalize house-breaking, but don’t “put us under the ban” of your laws—that’s all 1 YY’hiie our Northern “friends” are moving one way. taking steps forwards, onr Southern friends see moving too—taking steps backwards, ns usual. Virgin ia leads the van. She is showing symptoms of shirki ness to the audacious and advancing enemy, by ignor ing the Lemmon case, and legislating against her own free negroes—poor devils that they are. Tho Union, of this morning, contains a pargTJfh to this effect: It is stated that the house of delegates of Virginia has belt re it a bill providing for the appointment of overseers who arc to be required to hire ont, at pnbiic auction, si free persons of color, to the highest bidder, and to pay into the State treasury the sums acoruiug from such hire. These sums are to bo devoted iu future to sending free persons of color beyond tho limits of the State. At the expiration of five years, all free persons of color runain ing in the State are to be sold into slavery to the highest bidder, at public auction, the proceeds of such sales to be paid into the public treasury, provided that said free per sons of color shall bo allowed the privilege of becoming the slaves of any free white persons whom they may so“ ect, on the payment by such persons of a fair price. “I ean’t lick you,” said the aggressive urchid to bis aggressor, “but I will make mouths at your sister 1 *ee if don’t I”