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.Meiiing fcxcimugo.
The mode and manner of reckoning the rate
of exchange between tlie United States and
England is curiously contradictory, and conveys
the idea that the balance is invariably against
this country. We assume for the “par” as be
tween the two countries a medium of many per
cent, below the real “par.” The rates ot ex
change during the progress of the year should
show when the actual premium, the real “par”
and the absolute discount, exhibit themselves in
the quotations. It certainly appears a gross ab
surdity, when we are told that 0211 10, or about
0 1-4 percent, premium is the par between Lon.
don and New York. The report of the Secreta
ry of the Treasury, in May, 1838, states that
since the passage of the act of 1834, for reform
ing the American gold coinage, the true par of
exchange with England, estimating gold against
gold, is about 0 7-10 above the nominal par
The British sovereigns of lull weight contain 113
grains 18-1214 parts of a grain of pure gold,
worth, according to our mint valuation. 81 87.
In the Price Currents 84 11 4it are assum
ed as the par of Exchange on England. This
practice began when Spanish pillar dollars were
ia circulation, and the Exchange was regulated
by the market value of gold compared with that
of silvor. Mr. Gallatin, writing in ’2O, estimated
the par at 7 percent. Since then the par has
been altered by the new gold standard. It the
British sovereign,<or pound sterling, is 8187,
then the par is established at that price. Any
rale above that price is a premium, and below a
discount. But the sovereign, in commerce, goe3
for £l4 85 100, which makes the par value
about 9 1-4 loss a small fraction. We assume
9 1-4 for convenience, as the rate between the
United States and England. We thus appear
unceasingly as having a balance against us as a
higher premium is continually paid,
‘l’he rate of exchange by the last packet was
10 1-4. How much better would it lie if it
were quoted at the actual premium, which is 1
per cent? Should it recede to 91 -2 it would
then he quoted at par; and a further decline to
8 1-4, it would then heat I per cent, discount.
We should thus have plain sailing, and every one
would understand it. Formerly it was a mys
tery to comprehend the actual profit or loss ol
a shipment of specie except to the initiated.—
Since we have hail an largo a trade with • ’alifor
nia, and American gold has been shipped in con
siderable quantities, it is better understood, but
the community is still mystified by the existing
rules for calculating exchange. It is time it was
modified —[Bankers’ (Circular.
The Southern Commercial Convention, re
cently held in Baltimore, has met with a booty
response in Memphis, Tenn., where an unusually
large adjourned meeting was held oil the lotli
lilt., at which resolutions were passed express
ing pleasure at the action of the Convention,
uud gratification that the next meeting of that
body is to he held in Memphis, on the first Mom
day in June next. The hospitalities of the :it x
were tendered to all persons who night attend
the re assembling of the Convention in Mem
phis, mid a committee was appointed to make
arrangoinents tor it.
Rkv. Ai.huht B vknks. In reply to a letter
of inquiry, if it were true that his health requires
him to turn aside for the present from the mi i
istry : “It is even so !am sentenced tnnliiii-
Inte rest for two years. 1 semi in my re
signatiou of my pastoral charge to day. What
our people w ill do, 1 have no means of deter
mining. I shall probably go into tin* country
ftnd raise'potatoes. I bis is a great trial, and
especially at my time of life, when I hav e so lit
tie time, at any rate, to labor in doing good.—-
But 1 desire not to murmur and complain, for
there L a h ind above that directs nil my a Hairs,
and all affair*.”
Business txn Rhlwion.— A layman in Pro
vidence-, who occasionally exhorted at evening
meetings, thus exp! lined ids belief in tiie exis
tence of a Deity :.“Brethren, I am just as eon
livlent that there is a Supreme living, as 1 am
that there is flonr in Alexandria; and that I
know for certain, as I yesterday received from
there a lot of threw hundred barrels of fresh su
perfine, which I will sell as low as any other
• person in town.”
Tun Cos n, Fiki.os of Noktii (.'vkom.na.—
Professor Emmons has made an interesting re
port on the value of tho coal regions of Deep
River, in North Carolina. This coal, he states,
is of a qu-riitv to give it'tlio highest character in
the market, and the coal field is known to ex
tend thirty miles, in the direction of outcrop,
am) to lie workable lora breadth ofthiee miles.
A.xotuhu Fk.mai.k is M ai.k Attiuk.— Anoth
er youug woman in breeches has been discover
ed iu the Philadelphia watch house, where she
applied for lodging, a few nights ago, under
the name m Charles Lewis. >S!ie is from Sy
racuse, ,\. > , and lied from a hoarding school
to follow and kill her seducer i:i Baltimore.
The following anecdote illustrative of rail
road facility is very pointed : A traveller inquired
ot a negro the distance to a certain point. “Dat
‘pends on circumstance*,” replied the darky.
“It you gu iue afoot, ii'll take you about a day :
it you g-.iiue in de stage or do homneybuss, you
make it in half a day ; hut if you get in one ob
dose smoke-wagons, yon be almost dar note. 1 ’
--An Irishman, on nra iving ia this country,
took s fancy to tiie \ ankeo girls, and wrote to
bis wife-—“ Dear Norab : These melancholy lines
are to iafom you taut ! died yesterday, and
bo|K! you a.-e enjoying the same blessing. 1
recommend ton to marry Jemmy O’Rourke, and
take care ol trie cbilder. From your affectionate
husband fill death.”
A credulous peasant went to the clergy
uuiu of hi* parish, and told him, with symptoms
ol great consternation, that he had seen a ghost.
“Where did von sec rl ?” “Why,’’ said Diggerv,
“as I mu going, an’ please your reverence, by
the church, right up against the wall I sees the
ghost.” “In what shape did it appear?” “For
all tho world like a great donkey.” “Go home
arid hold your tniigur.” replied the clergyman ;
“you are a timid creature, and have been (l ight
ened iit Mint own shadow.”
Ai.aka.ua Insane llosci tai,.— The contract
for furnishing materials to erect an insane hos
pital iu Alabama has been given out. Mr.
John Stewart, of Philadelphia, is the architect
A Uorar of Pa boons.— A bill has passed the-
Nevv Jersey Legislature, organizing a (.hun t ot
Pardons and granting it the power of coniiim
ting the sentence of capital punishment to im
prisonment.
Mr. Waltei Golton saw at 1 io, a woman
only twelve years old, who had two children.
She v as married al the ege ol ten, ton man six
ty-five.
-- I hev say that “cabbage grow?, wild in
Sicily.” If tliis statement ho true, the tailors in
that country can afford to be honest.
MoTiißjt:-. Napoleon Bonaparte being asked
who was the most, beautiful among women ! is
sail to have replied, withs smack of the old
philosophy ot Greece, “olio who is mother of
the most chiidreu.”
Give the .!ei il Ids due. (.’• riaiuly, says a n>.i
----tmipora-v : but. it is hil r in have m’i dealings
*>'t. 1 ■’ *><- h.aal then th-rs will be noth’ng duo
him.
’1 lie satire assets of a recent Iwnikilipt were
nine small children! The e’clitnrs acted mag
nanimously, aud let him keep them.
A strange “emu*, iu desert .ing a lake io Minnr. j
sota, ss- it is SO ele .r that by looking into il you j
can see them making tea iu ('lnna.
All Irishman in lowa link just taught hi* ducks to j
swim in lint water, and with such success, ilnit iliev I
lay bl.iled egg.*. ‘ I
Sl)£ (Limes avto Sentinel
(Bmbls, FeorguTl
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1853.
Senator I!ad?cr ami the Vacant Judgeship*
The presses in the interest of tho Administration, at*
feet to feel much indignation at the refund of a Demo- j
erotic Senate to confirm tl*e nomination, l>y the Kxeeu- j
live, of Mr. Badger, of North Carolina, to the vacancy j
on the Bench qf the Supreme Court ot the United |
States.
We say “affect to feet much indignation,” because we j
can hardly believe that any unprejudiced mind can sur
vey the facts, and fail to be astonished that such a nom
ination was ever made.
Mr. Badger does not reside within five hundred miles
of the sphere of his duties, which will necessarily cause
great neglect of duty, and subject the community to
great inconvenience.
He is not read iu the civil law which he will be call
ed <u to administer iu Louisiana.
Silt the chief and fatal objection to the appointment j
of Mr. Badger to the Supreme Bench, is, in the lan
guage of the Union, an objection on principle—an. ob- !
jection which should suffice to determine the action of |
er* ry democrat, at least. Asa politician, Mr, Badger j
is distinguished for liis extreme federal notions, which j
lead him always so to interpret the constitution as tode j
rogate from the rights of the States and to augment the j
powers of the general government Timothy Pickering j
himself was not a more thorough and incorrigible fed- ;
era list than Mr. George E. Badger. Now, is it poasi- I
ble that any .stnet-construction Stale-rights republican j
democrat can consent that a consolidationisl should be j
intrusted with the power of determining the construction ;
of the constitution of this government ?
Would any democrat assist in making a person of j
Mr. Badger’s political principles President for four
years? Then, why make him Judge of tho Supreme
Court for life , and thus arm him with the power to
cant/ info effect his centralizing, federal doctrines ?
Ca i any man, of genuine devotion to the State
rights principles of the democratic party, consent to see j
the bitter antagonist of bis political faith interpreting j
the constitution in accordance with the creed which Mr. j
Badger professes? In other words, shall we submit
the. constitution to tiie mercy of one whom wc regard as
its deadly enemy ? Should any amiable disposition to
ratify the appointment of the Executive, or any appre
hension of the imputation of factiousness, persuade a
democrat to desert his principles, ot rather to surrender
them to the enemy ?
Southern School Hooks,
Mr. 15. E. Griffin, of Macon, Geo., has published a
scries of school Books, which we take great pleasure in
commending to the notice of the southern public. They
are : The Apalachian Primer ; Apalachian Reader, No.
1. 2. and 3.; Griffin’s United States; and Southern
Orator.
We are not sufficiently familiar with elementary
works to venture to pronounce authoritatively upon tho
relative merits of these publications. We think howev
or that they are adapted to tire purpose for which they
are designed. We have looked over the ‘‘Southern
Orator,” with some care. The selections are from’the
speeches of many of the favorite orators and divines of
tlso South. Calhoun, Clay, McDowell, Berrien, Rhett,
Cohpii.t, Toombs, Hammond, Stephens, Legate, Nisbet,
Hilliard, Yancey, Seddon, Bell, Graham, and others
among politicians j an J Thornwell, Pierce, Wightman,
Means, Baseom, Whilcford Smith, among divines, are
in the'list,-ftuni wlmsc speeches selections are made.
We rc;;T t to find that llavnc, McDuffie, Forsyth,and
Soule ; Fuller, < Min, Capers and others equally distin
guished, have be. n overlooked or excluded by the
compiler. Among the poets the cherished names of
Wilde, Lamar, Charlton, daeksou, Sims, Meek, Gil
more. and K*y adorn the pages of the “Orator.”
While we regie; tho absence of many cheerished j
names from the Southern Orator, we are proud of the J
array which is presented. The circulation of the book j
among our children, will give them confidence in south- :
ern genius, and excite a t.istc for nouthrrn productions. ‘
Wo do not however approve of the plan of tho work. !
We would not exclude rom our school books the clinic- i
cut productions of genius for the sake of giving the pub- j
lie effusions of second rate men. If it is error iu north- I
ern compilers to substitute the productions of northern i
men in place of southern ; it surely is not right in us to |
feed entirely on southern pasturage. Shakspeare, Mil- \
ton, Homer and Virgil, Dante and Ariosto, have said
and. sung some things which neither northern nor south
ern genius has equalled. Nor would we fling aside the
massive English of Burke, for the wordy speeches of ‘
third rate southern politicians. The Southern Orator
nevertheless is a good hook, and wc thank the publish- j
cr for this addition to southern literature. So little is!
contributed by southern enterprise to the world of let
ters that we would hail a much less valuable contribu i >n
than this with pleasure.
Plagiarism.
Iu looking over Dodge’s Literary Museum , we find I
a piece of poetry originally written for the Southern
Sentinel , by one of our fair correspondents, of Syra- j
euse, New York, and published by us in the issue of J
Friday, August tth, 1852, headed “Riding in a Stag.*,” ;
re-published in that journal and credited to tho Home !
Journal.
In the Southern Cultivator, for June, 1852, there 1
is an a. tide headed, ‘‘Origin of Fruits and Flowers,” ■
published under the editorial head as original matter, I
which we ourselves prepared from our own notes, made ;
many years before, while reading Gibbon’s Decline anl>
Fall, and published in the Southern Sentinel of March
12, 18: 2.
In this connection we take pleasure in copying and ’
endorsing the following article, which we find also in 1
the June No. of tho Southern Cultivator , 19.32 C
Copy ing without Credit. —lt always affords us
great pleasure t> see our articles copied by the news
paper press, aud widely disseminated over the country ;
hut that pleasure b .sometimes slightly diminished by
noticing our original communications and editorials
copied without a word ol credit or acknowledgment, j
A few of our exchanges are carrying this joke a little |
too far, and wo hope this mild remonstrance will induce
them to “render unto Caesar,” &e. &u-
Senatorial Vacancies*
Mississippi, Alabama and North Carolina will each !
have a vacancy in the Senate of the United States on the j
ith March next. This has resulted from the failure of j
their respective legislatures to hold elections for these
prospective vacancies. The very interesting question !
arises —can the Governors of States till vacancies occur
ring under such circumstances ? Gov. Foote, es Missis- ■
sippi, very strenuously, and even ably advocates the affir
mative, and will, it is said, exercise the power in the ap
pointment tit Mr. Kihyon. The constitution provides that
“if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during
the recess of the Legislature of any State, the executive
thereof may make temporary appointments, until the
next mooting <>f the Legislature, which shall then fill
such vacancies.”
The power to till a vacancy in the Senate, no matter
how it occurs, is therefore clearly vested in the Gover- ;
nor. I; is very important that the south should be ful - ;
iv represented in the Senate at all times, but more es- |
peoiaily at the beginning of anew administration. Andi
when the po.ver is so clearly vested in the Governor, as j
in this case it would seem to us to be aerimmal neglect of I
duty for him to refuse to exercise it.
. Martial .Music.
The Infant 1 )runm.r wi 1 soon be here, and enliven !
us with his spirit stirring drum. He has enchanted the j
East, and will undoubtedly take us by st. rin. Wc j
promise the iltle fellow a cordial*welcouu* to our city.
The following card will be read with interest.
CARD.
Having witnessed the astonishing performances of
Master Bcnsou A. English, tho Inftut Drummer, we
take great pleasure in bearing our testim uv to the high
tributes of appreciation which have every where been
awarded to him* He may justly be regarded as ti e eighth
wonder of the world.
Howell Cobb. Gov. Rev. Joshua Kowles.
A. C. Barnett, See. of State. Rev. C. R. Jewett.
\Y. If. Mitch. U, State Treio. Capt* W. 8. Rockwell.
E. S. Chandler, Compt. Dr. G. \V. Forte.
P. M. Compton, Survey. Gen. W. W. Paine,See. Gov.
Arthur Hood,Sec. Gov. Wm. Steele, Sec. Gov.
Wylie If. pope. \J*~* nger ?
I
C-'oiigrcssional—Our Foreign Population.
Mr. Soulf/s great speech on the Cuban question has
excited much enthusiasm, and some of his hot shot must
have penetrated the hull of the Administration’s ship, {
as the hands on board are very busy at the pumpa. Un
able to meet him in fair debate, the Republic has tie
| scended so low as to east imputation upon him on ae-
I count of his foreign birth. After ridiculing the style,
| idiom, accent and manner of this distinguished orator
j and profound statesman, the Republic uses the follow
j ing sneering language in reference to his foreign birth :
| “We submit that it is not modest ior an importation from
I Paris, for a gentleman waited to our shores by the same
j wind which brings us Stewart’s silks ancl Alexandre’s
! gloves, to assuil an American Administration lor an uiledg
j ed want of American spirit. It does not become an exotic
Democrat to appeal to 4 Southern Senators/ with the in
sinuation that a Whig Administration is indifferent to
Southern rights, or insidiously hostile to Southern institu
tions. It does not become any such gentleman to insult
men and patriots like those who till the high places ot our
Government, with the implication that Spain can now
‘trample’ with impunity ‘on American rights and privileges
—individual or national/ and the averment that all this will
he changed when an administration shall come in which
was the ‘creation and choice’ ot Nashville Secessionists and
Buffalo Freesoilers.”
“It is not modest for an importation from Paris ,”
| “it does not become an Exotic Democrat!” If he had
I been an importation from Ireland , or from Germany,
would it have been less modest F In the late canvass,
j General Scott “loved to hear that rich brogue and
| the Republic pretended to hear the sound with noun*
! pleasant reminiscences. Why, then, is ii now nau
j seated ?
{ Such sneers are contrary to the principles of our con
| stitution and the spirit of our institutions, which place
i the adopted citizen upon a level with ,the native born.
\ If a man is born in a stable, is h? therefore a horse ?
i Was not Arnold, the traitor, native born ? Shall such
i as he be allowed privileges which are denied to La Fay
ette, “a foreign importation,” or Gallatin, an “Exotic
j Democrat,” and their countrymen t Shame upon the
i Americanism of an American, who attaches importance
to the place of a man’s birth ! It is the spirit of aris
tocracy, which finds merit in the blood, no matter how
long or low the descent.
The closing paragraph of the following extract will,
perhaps, explain the reason of this indecent diatribe.
! It is taken from the Union :
\ “The speech delivered by Mr. Soule in the Senate, on
j yesterday, was perhaps the greatest of his oratorical efforts.
1 Profound research, a comprehensive and thorough mastery
| of his subject, originality of view, brilliancy ol diction, lire
j and energy of declamation—-all the qualities of the states
j man and the graces of the orator—characterized thiseioquent
speech. That passage in which the orator vindicated the
memory of the unfortunate followers of Crittenden from the
reproach of being impelled by a thirst of plunder, was a
I noble instance of touching pathos. Equally striking was
j his scathing denunciation ot the conduct of the administra
j tion in that deplorable juncture.”
\ Blackwood’s Magazine and Southern Slavery.
We have received the January number of this popu
lar magazine. Its first and lending article is entitled,
“Slavery and the Slave Power in the United States.”
The article is labored and long, but as full of errors,
aye, of slanders upon t lie South, as are Uncle Tom’s
Cabin and the White Slave, which tho writer is fool
enough to quote as authority. We wi.l p -int out a few
! of his many errors.
| lie gravely states that the white population of the
; slavtholding States was 7,21)0,71!) in IS-10, and only
| fi,393,758 in 1850: thus gravely proving by the Arm r
j iean Almanac for 1852, to which he refers, that the
| population of the Southern States had decreased nine
j hundred thousand in the last ten years, though Texas
was in the meantime annexed. There is some excuse
for this mistake, as the figures are given as he found
them iu his authority. But if lie had been solicitous
for the truth, ho would have informed his readers
that the returns of the census of 1850 were confessedly
| incomplete at the date of the publication of tiie Ameri
can Almanac, and that the publishers distinctly statu
this fact in the very section from which he quotes.
The facts are, that the free white population in the
sl.iveholdmg States was, in I S to, 4,632,6-10, and in
! 1850, 6/22?,-109 ; which shows an increase in ten years
|of 1,589,76 ,or 31 per cent. Indeed, deducting the
j foreign immigration into the Northern States, and the
j census returns will show a greater increase of popula
; tion at the South than at the North.
, Into these statistical errors the writer in the magazine
might have been betrayed by bis authorities. What
: will our readers say to the following extract !
• “We suppose it is upon some such calculation as this
f that Mr. Hildreth founds his statement that ‘at least
j half of those who cull themselves Ministers of the Gos
! pel. sedulously inculcate that the negroes are in nature,
j mere animals , intended to be used as horses , to be kept
forever under the yoke, and not capable of being any
thing but slaves.’ ”
The authority quoted, we are sorry to say, is Ameri
| can, and though granted to be an exaggeration by the
| vvtiter in the Magazine, yet he draws a most unfavor
j able influence us to the purity and the fidelity of the
! American pulpit, from the fact that an author can ven
ture to publish, and a wide American public can read
and approve of, such statements as these.
And this in the face of the untiring labor of South*
J ern Missionaries among the blacks; of the comfortable
j accommodations which are provided for the negroes in all
our county churches; and of the large and eommoJi
| <us African churches which adorn all our cities, which
j are filled weekly by the purest and wisest of our eler
! gymen. Such unmitigated lies weary out our patience.
The next slander which we shall notice is the gross
j misrepresentation which the writer in the magazine
i makes of the poorer classes in the South. The writer
■ says :
“Manual labor is beneath the dignity of a white man,
; so that if he is too poor to buy land and negroes, only
I the meanest pursuits of life are open to hi.n, and he
gradually sinks into misery and degradation, and his
children into a brutal ignorance, which are only less
■ profound than among tho mass of slaves.” /
The whole history of the S null is a refutation o/ this
slander. Many of oar greatest aud most distinguished
men were sons of very poor men, and labored with their
own hands for their daily bread. There is no man in
the South who is too poor to buy land. Such arc the
wages paid for labor, that two years’ labor will secure a
comfortable farm at the South. “Manual labor is Wo
i neath the dignity of the white limn !” an ab-
I surdity, when the great mass of our population live by
it ! “Only the meanest aud lowest pursuits of life are 1
open to them.” It may be that the farm and the work
“hop are low and mean pursuits, and the boot-black, the
I waiter and the lackey are high and honorable inem-
I bers of society. These are not Amerio..n ideas; and
i consequently the “poor man” at the South may be
1 found making fortunes in the first, and the free negroes
and the slave universally filling the offices assigned to
( the latter.
There are several other passages of like character
which we have marked for comment, and would like
’ to expose, but our limits are exhausted.
Black wood's Magazine, notwithstanding its Tory
ism, has enjoyed a large circulation in the South on
account of its literary merits. But now that it has
defiled itself with the pitch of abolitionism, wo hope it
will he excluded from every habitation, as a pestilent
miasma, wlii.-h will taint the purity of our social at
mosphere.
t
Richard F. Lyon—South Western Circuit..
A Democratic Convention of tho South Western
i Circuit was held in Albany, Ga., on the Ist inst., for the
purpose of nominating a candidate fur Judge. Ail the
i counties composing the Circuit were represented ex
j e**pt Sumter. The Convention was organized by eall-
I ig Col. Thomas Coleman, of Randolph, to the chair,
and appointing M. E. Williams, of Lee, Secretary,
j The utmost harmony prevailed among the members ot
I the Convention, and Richard F. Lyon, Esq., of Ba
! krr, was nominated by acclamation.
M e have already given our opinions as to the policy
of such conventions. But objections to the mode of a
candidate's nomination, will constitute no objection to
the candidate himselt, if he is worthy. In this instance,
we believe, the selection is eminently judicious. Mr.
Lyon is a lawyer ts experience, and a man of high
character, on whose shoulders the ermine of justice
will be preserved without spot or stain, and in whose
hands the scale of justice will bo fairly and firmly held.
No higher testimonial could be given to his worth, than
the spontaneous sek etion of him as a candidate for so
high and responsible a trust, iu a convention composed
indiscriminately of intelligent men from all portions of
the Circuit, whose local prejudices would have inclined
tb m them to urge tho claims of their neighbors, in
i preference to those of any other, unless his qualifiea
j lion* were pre-eminent.
llayjie uiiil Webster’s .Speeches.
Reddish Cos., Boston, have published, in a neat
pamphlet of S-t pages, the . speech of Getl. Hayne,
of S. C., in the LT. S, Senate, on Foot’s Resolution,
and Mr. Webster's speech in reply to it. It may be
Ordered from Boston by mail. Tho price U 25 cents.
In a little slip accompanying the pamphlet, there is an
editorial prepared to baud for such Editors as “have not
the leisure to write a notice of them,” in which the
following sentence occurs :
This, (the speech,) it is generally known, has ever been
regarded, and spoken of, as “the great speech of the Mas
sachusetts Statesman ; as a profound and luminous expo
sition ol the fundamental principles of the Federal Consti
tution.”
Unquestionably, this speech of Mr. Webster is his
greatest forensic effort; it is equal iu pathos, in elo
quence, in retort, in sarcasm, in the measured flow of
language, to the finest productions of the classic ages;
but instead of being “a profound and luminous exposi
tion of the fundamental principles of the Federal Con
stitution,” it is avast magazine of Federalism from which
the pup.v soldiers of that school have drawn their mili
tary stores and accoutrements for the last 20 years ;
and wc can, therefore, but regard it as a whited sepul
chre, adorned without by graceful festoons of oratory,
but within, full of dead men’s bones.
We have not room, in a short editorial, to expose the
vital objections which exist to the circulation of this
speech in the South, ns “a profound and luminous ex
position of the principles of the Federal Constitution.”
It attacks “slavery as one of the greatest of evils, both
moral and political.”
It advocates Internal Improvement, by the general
government, in its most odious and objectionable form.
A road over the Alleghany, a canal round the falls of
the Ohio, or a rail road from the Atlantic to the Missis
sippi, are legitimate projects of improvement, according
to Mr. Webster, and embraced in the purview of the
constitution.
The supremacy of the Supreme Court, in all cases,
over the Sovereign States of the confederacy, is the
crowning feature of this great speech. The Supreme
Court, though but a eo ordinate branch of the Federal
Government, is, in Mr. Webster’s polities, the last re
sort for relief, under the constitution, from the oppres
sion of a law, which is plainly, palpably and dangerous
ly unconstitutional—all other resistance, by States or
people, is revolutionary and unconstitutional. This
doctrine is in the teeth of the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions of J 9S and ’99, which have been so recently
introduced into the Democratic Platform—and is in
truth and verity, the heart and soul of Federalism.
Admit it, and the last vestige of State Rights is swept
from the constitution. When did the Supreme Court
ever pronounce a decision curtailing the powers of the
Federal Government? It is part and parcel of that
Government. All its officers are of Federal appoint
ment; they draw their pay from the Federal Treasu
ry ; they are impeachable before a Federal tribunal;
the Slates have no control over them. To surrender
the reserved rights of the States to such a tribunal,
would be as wise as to commit the lamb to the tender
cave of the wolf.
The Republican doctrine regards the States as sove
reign ; they, therefore, have no superior; tho Federal
Govern incut itself is but their creation; they do not
acknowledge it as over them, much less the Supreme
Court, which is but a department of the Federal Gov
ernment. \\ hen, therefore, the Federal Government
overleaps the boundaries of the constitution, with the
sanction of the Supreme Court, and tramples upon the
reserved rights of the States or people, the ? tales may
and of right ought to interpose a shield of protection.
In such ease, a convention of States is tho only umpire
to which a State can, with dignity, submit.
We are willing t> commend Mr. Webster’s speech
as a great intellectual display; but we stamp upon it
the brand of “Federalism.”
Southern and Northern Industry.
The cotton bale is the only source of income to the
great mass of Southern Planters; and muny of them
would be ashamed to sell a fat pig or a pound of butter.
With Northern farmers, every surplus article is sent to
the market, and the income of many of them, on very
small farms, will far exceed that of many of our very
wealthy agriculturists.
There is a market in New York known as the Wash
ington Market, Only twenty thousand persons are* de
pendent upon it. Yet the revenue derived from thej
trade of this number of persons, by the corporation, is
£31,000 per annum. It will astonish many of our read
ers to learn that £*28,432,000 worth of provisions were
•sold in this market in one year. Os this sum, $5,900,-
000 were realized by the meat trade ; $2,800,000 by the
fruit; $2,800,000 by the fruit trade ; $480,000 the but
ter trade; $9,000 honey trade; $618,000 fish trade;
£1,000,000 the egg trade; $17,590,000 vegetable trade ;
$1,000,000 the poultry trade; and $15,000 the nut
trade.
t These statistics very clearly prove that there is money
in butter, in eggs, in poultry, in fruit, in fish, ns well as
in cotton bales.
We desire to call the attention of farmers, in our
neighborhood, to the foregoing, in the hope of directing
their attention to anew branch of trade. There are,
say 5,000 people in Columbus, who are dependent upon
the market for provisions. If we eat in proportion to
our Northern population, we ought to consume 87,000,
000 worth Os food per annum. This, however, strikes
us as extravagant. We pay, however, s*2l6 per an
num for board. We will give our hotel keepers a profit
of 05 dollars on each boarder. This will leave slsl
for provisions. And we, therefore, conclude that 750,-
000 dollars are annually spent for provisions in this city.
If you wish to pocket a part of this sum of money,
bring in your fat pigs, lambs, kids, turkeys and chick
ens j your r c!i yellow butter; your hoiley-coinb; your
fruit and vegetables, and convert them into gold at very
good prices.
NORTH AND SOUTH,
Or, Slavery and its Contrasts.
We have hastily run over this very entertaining
work. It is, professodly, a reply to Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The author very properly “carries the war into Afri
ca and in the by-lanes, alleys and prisons of the No;|'i,
finds examples of poverty, of suffering, of wrong, which put
to shame the pictures of misery which the heated imagin
ation of Mrs. Stowe has found among the lowly at the
South.
Frank Iliuley, a wealthy merchant, marries the
daughter of a wealthy New England gentleman, and
brings her to New Ycrk. For years the lovely Ga
zella llarley is a leader of fashionable society, and Frank
stood high in the commercial world, with a reputation
of the most unblemished integrity. Years rolled on,
and our pretty bride has changed to the blooming ma
tron—the mother of nine lovely children, most of whom
were girls.
Hut Frank was living too fast. He drank too much ;
and in a fatal hour lie ventured his all upon a hazard
and lost. It is announced in the public prints that
Frank Harley is a bankrupt. His sunshine friends de
sert him. Beggared in purse, deserted by heartless
friends, burthened with a large family—the slave of ap
petite—and stricken by disease, he sinks under the
weight of accumulated misfortunes, and throws upon
his tender wife the burthen of supporting his family.
The history of the struggles of this tender mother
and her children, with the money-loving and grasping
traders of the North, is the burthen of this pathetic story,
Mrs. Rush, the author, is now in this city soliciting
subscriptions, and we take great pleasure in commend
ing her work to the favorable consideration of our com
munity.
Governor of Alabama.
lion. Geo. W. Stone, than whom a better man scarce
ly lives, has withdrawn his name from the list of com
petitors for Governor. He suggests that the Demo
eratic party assemble in convention on the first Tues
day in .June, and select a candidate. In a letter to the
Advertiser & Gazette, he uses the following striking
language in reference to the position of the south, which
we endorse and commend to the consideration of our
readers.
‘‘The election of 1852 has checked the Northern
freebooters in their campaign of p Huge and plunder.—
Let not the shouts of victory lull us to false security.
Let us keep our armor on, until we force these ene
mies to our lives, and peace, and prosperity, to relinquish
their insulting assumptions, and concede to us in fact as
well as in theory, Constitutional equality. Let us wield
the power’ of the ballot-box, and all the intellectual,
moral, social, and commercial power we possess, until
Northern legislation against our prosperity is swept from
the statute books, and in its stead are enacted wholesome
provisions for the security of our property.** ..j
The Corner Stone.
We welcome to our sanctum this new candidate for
public favor, and hope it will receive a liberal share ot
public patronage.
We were somewhat surprised to find one of the two
leadin'* articles devoted exclusively, to ourselves ; and
were forcibly reminded of a playful witticism of one of
our friends in reference to this new enterprise. On
hearing that General Bkthune had determined to start
a paper, lie asked what would be its name, and on be
ing told, suggested that The Battering Ram would he
n much more appropriate appellation.
The specimen number convinces us of the pro
priety of the suggestion; and if the Publishers
will excuse the liberty, we would respectfully ad
vise them to substitute The Battering Ram for The ’
Corner Stone, and to procure an illustrated head with
appropriate embellishments.
In the notice taken of the Prospectus, which we
cheerfully published in our columns, we designed to give
no offence. We expressed, in as few words as possi
ble, the true character of its politics, commended the
Editor, and quoted from the Bible a passage which we
thought peculiarly appropriate io designate an Editor,
who stood on his bottom against the world. *
Wc have neither time, space nor inclination to enter
into tho wide field of discussion, which the article re
ferred to opens to us. We have no disposition to throw
an obstacle in the way of the success of the Corner
Stone. We have other uses for our columns.
But if the Editor of that valuable paper is inneed of “a
text for a commentary,” we have no earthly objections*!©
his so using anything we write.
Spiritual Rapping* and Electric Currents.
Mr. Editor —My object in this communication is not
to apologise for the one, or to attempt an explanation of
the principles of the other, of the subjects above men
tioned ; but simply to state a fact, somewhat connected,
at least in common acception, with both. I was one of
a party of six gentlemen who last night tried the experi
ment of “ making the table move The modus ope
rand! was this ; We sat round a common mahogany
centre table, say about three feet six inches square,
each one putting his right hand flat upon the table, and
his left hand flat on the back of his left neighbor’s
band. We sat in that position fifty-eight minutes,
when the table began to move round from right to left
slowly but very perceptibly at first, afterwards with so
much force that two of us, at opposite corners of the
table, pressing against it, could not stop it. Three of
us were unbelievers, when wc commenced, as were
three ladies and one gentleman who were present, wit
nessing the experiment, until such perfect success ,
when every one in the room was perfectly satisfied.
I will simply add that the same table was acted upon
some months ago, by two of the same party, with eight
others, in twenty-two minutes, and I am perfectly con
vinced that were the table an unvarnished one, the ac
tion could be produced with ten persons in fifteen min
utes. If you don’t believe it, try it yourself.— Saw
Courier .
Macon and Western Rail Road.
The earnings of this Road, for the past year, have
been $269,955 93; and the expenses $116,358 74.
There is a balance in hand of $72,579 53 to be ap
propriated to dividend and reserve fund. There wa* a
decrease in passenger earnings, as compared with 1851,
of 10 1-2 per cent , and an increase of freight earnings
of 72 per cent. The aggregate increase of earnings
was 27 1-2 per cent. Thu whole expenditure for the
year is about 4 3 per cent, of the gross earnings.” jP
The Thomastoii and Bartlesville Rail Road Company
have completed the location of their Roadjiiou) Thom
aston to Bartlesville, and have eontraetudjpth Jno. D.
Gray, Esq., for grading the whole lincjV
The Rome Tri-Weekly Advocate.
Wc have received the first nuipkdr of this paper. It
is edited with ability by I). Usings Mason, and de
serves, and will, wc doubt not. receive the liberal pat
louage of the people of Qjjprokee Georgia.
The of St. Mary’s.
It will be seen, by reference to the abstract, of the de
cision in the case of of Georgia, upon the infor
mation of # P. A. Clwion, against the Bank of St.
Mary’s, published in F nu ‘ columns to day, and for which
wc are indebted politeness of Chief Justice
Lumpkin, that the Supreme Court has reversed the
decision of the Court below, by which a judgment was
rendered against the Bank for $47,500 dollars.
Another Musical Festival.
The Infant Drummer will be in town on the Tth
inst., and commence a series of Concerts, assisted by
Madame and Prof. Louie.
lion. Howell Cobb and others have pronounced this
Infant Prodigy the eighth wonder of the world. His
performances have been greeted everywhere with rap
ture.
Madame Louie and Prof. Louie are represented as
accomplished musicians, and will vary the entertain
ment with comic and sentimental songs and instrumen
tal music. Everybody, of course, will attend and give
encouragement to Georgia’s little Prodigy.
Death ol Dr. Junius Smith.
This distinguished gentleman lias lately died in New
York, in the 72d year of his age. He was born in
Plymouth, Connecticut, but has been long a resident of
South Carolina, where he was engaged in agriculture,
and is principally distinguished ut the South for his zealous
efforts to introduce the culture of the Tea Plant. His
death was caused by a fructuro of the skull, received
in an assault made upon him some years ago, on his
Tea plantation. Ilis loss will be much regretted.
Texan Items.
It is understood that near 500 square miles of terri
tory, supposed to be covered by Austin’s grant, is not
embraced under it. The Governor advises that the
titles of occupants be confirmed. The citizens of San
Antonio are urging the government to open a road from
that place to the Rio Grande, in the direction of Chi
huahua.
Maj. Wood, of the U. S. Army, was badly hurt on
the 11th ult., by the upsetting of the stage.
Election ol U. S. Senator.
Baton llouoe, Jan. 27, a. m.—A mass meeting of
the democrats was held here in the Court House, last
night, in relation to the election of a U. S. Senator.
The Court House was crowded, and the greatest ex
citement prevailed.
Col. Porter, of Caddo, was called to the chair, Samuel
P. Groves, Judge Burke and Capt. Searls, of Baton
Rouge, were chosen Vice Presidents, and Dennis Cor
coran, of New Orleans, and Robt. Mcllatton, of Baton
Rouge, acted as Secretaries.
Speeches were delivered by Seth Barton and others,
and resolutions unanimously adopted that both Houses
of the Legislature should eloot a United States Senator.
The greatest enthusiasm prevailed throughout.
The Campbell Minstrels.
This favorite Ethiopian Band has met with very
brilliant success in our city. Their Concerts
have been well attended, and “mirth and fun grow
fast and furious” under their lively songs and funny jests.
Their exhibitions will be continued nightly during the
week.
Melancholy Accident.
We learn from the Constitutionalist , that C. VV.
Bedell, of Harris county, Ga.—a medical student
was accidentally shot on the 29th ult., by the discharge
of a revolver. He was lying in a precarious condition
at latest dates, and very slight hopes were entertained
of his recovery.
Marion Hail Hoad.
The people of Perry county are moving energeti
cally, for the construction of a Rail Road from Marion
to the Alabama River. A meeting was held on the
24th ult , which at once subscribed SBO,OOO, the amount
deemed sufficient for the completion of the work. The
stockholders organized by electing W. N. Wyatt, Esq.,
President, with a strong Board of Directors. The
route, heretofore surveyed and partly graded, for the
Marion and Caliaba Rail Road, was selected as the
route for the new Road, to the Catluy plantation/ and
the President was instructed to secure the right of
way. Cuininittoec wore appointed to select the site for
a depot, and to ascertain from the Alabama and Missis
sippi Rivers Rail Road Company, the terms upon which
the two Rail Roads can be united. The stockholders
are to pay three per oent. of their subscriptions <>u the
I si of Marsh next/ — Mobile Register,
I iits isl ati vc I*rocec ?J i ugs.
Baton Rouge, Jan. 25.-—The resolution logo into
an election for a U. S. Senator, came up to-day in the
House, when Mr. King, of St. Landry, moved that it b
postponed indefinitely. The motion was lost by a vote
of 32 yeas against 54 nays.
The resolution was then made the special order of the
day for Friday next.
Mr. Marks introduced a resolution to instruct our
Senators, to use their powers in favor of the annexation
of Cuba.
Mr, Wilder introduced a resolution to amend the act
of Consolidation of New Orleans.
Mr. Ranney offered a resolution to establish Fret-
Banking.
A resolution to borrow fifty thouiaud dollars was
adopted.
In the Senate, the Citizens’ Bank Report was presen
ted, and ordered to be printed.
Mr, Kenner offered a resolution, which was adopted,
appropriating two hundred thousand dollars for school
funds.
It is now pretty certain, that a United States Senator
will he elected. — Daily Delta.
The Soil of tub South. —This most excellent agri
cultural periodical has entered upon its third volume
with brightening prospects—the first number of which
is now before us, and is filled, as heretofore, with a large
amount of interesting and valuable reading matter.—
, The present number has a “premium essay on drain
ing,” from the pen of Mr. Nelson Clayton, of Oak
Bowery, worth ten times the cost of the third volume
of the Soil of the South to every planter who reads
and carries into practice the plan indicated. The Soil
of the South ought to be in the hands of every planter
in the South. It will cost you only one dollar for the
year 1553, and the trouble of writing, enclosing the dol
lar, and directing the letter to Messrs. Lomax fc Cos.,
Columbus, Ga. Now, won’t you do it ? Say ?—Cham
bers Tribune.
Tiie Soil of the South.—This excellent agricultu
ral paper, which should be in the hands of every agri
culturaist, comes to us this week in anew. and we think
an improved form, large octavo, 32 pages. It is pub
lished at Columbus, Ga., Inonthly,by James M. Cham
bers, Agricultural Editor, and Charles A. 1 I*abody,
Horticultural Editor, at the l.w price of $1 annum.
The present Xo, is a very, interesting on oM—So. Ch.
Advocate.
South Western Circuit-*
The Hon. Wm. IL Crawford is A candidate for
Judge of the Superior Court, in this Cifcuit.
Mr. Stiles and the Deinocrajje Review.
W e are not honored with an Exchange with this
fierce organ of Young America. | We understand,
however, that the January No. contains a very severe
criticism upon Mr. Stiles’ work ons Austria, in which
“he is openly denounced as an ofd fogy, as playing
the sycophant to Royalty, as runnitug with the hare and
hunting with the hounds, as misrepresenting facts, and
murdering the King’s English.”
In explanation of this severe- criticism, which our
judgment, upon a hasty reading of the ponderous work
in question, by no means sanctions, wo give to our
readers the following staten .ents, which we find in the
Savannah Courier , without vouching for their correct
ness or sanctioning tho very broad inferences drawn
from them. The facts may all be true, and neither
-X'ugi.n. or his friends/generally, be at all blaineable for
the very rash Z l *. uisV.-vrlest bourse of the Review, whose
editor is evidently a man of his own head and does liis
own thinking.
[From the Suvammh Courier.]
THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW.
article in question is evidently illiberal and unjust.
1 lie intention ot the author is patent upon the face of the
paper, and it is but an act ol justice to expose the true mo
tives ot the writer. This article developes a part of the
history ot the late Democratic Convention at Baltimore
winch ought to be placed plainly before the honest men o
all parties.
We have not received the facts directly from Mr. Stiles,
hut stand ready to substantiate the lbllowing statements.
1 ney explain the character ol the article, and the motives
ol the writer.
Mr. Stiles was one of the Baltimore Democratic Con
vention in nominating the candidate of the party for the
ljesidency. It will be mmeinhered that both wings of thn
DVmocratiJWy ol Georgia had delegates in that body,
viz.: I lie Union Democrats, numbering 17, and the South
ern Rights, numbering 20. It so happened that ot the South
ern Rights party there were 17 who had expressed them
selves favorable to Judge Douglas as their choice, with
a determination to support his nomination. Mr. Stiles
(who was ot the Southern Rights wing of the party) was
in favor ot Mr. Buchanan as the nominee. Tne Union
Democrats were altogether in favor of Mr. Buchanan. Mr.
tiles and two others, therefore, held the vote in their hands.
It was during this period that the Editor of the Demo
cratic Review, who, understanding the position ol the
Georgia delegation, approached Mr. Stiles, and in the
presence of Major Lally and Mr. F. Doyle, of Washing
ton, told Mr. Stiles that he had written and published his
work on Austria, that if Stiles wouid go for Douglas he
would give it such a favorable notice and criticism as would
ensure its entire success, but it he persisted in the support of
Buchanan, he would give him such a skinning that would
damn his work forever. Mr. Stiles replied to him by ask
ing the price of his skinning, which he would freely
pay, being satisfied that his skinning would do his book
more good than harm*-’
This is the promised skinning, end it is a nice conuneii
tary upon the character of the Review and the purity of the
Douglas wing of the Democratic party. It is but proper
to state that these articles are all written with great ability,
and with a degree of fervor and unction well calculated
to command public attention.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE..
CONTINUED.
1 have devoted so much space to domestic matters as
to leave but little for outside polities. A summary must
therefore suffice.
Inside of Congress debates on foreign policy, the
true construction of the Monroe Dootrine, as to wheth
er its application was intended or ought to be general or
special, and the Cuban question, have been the chief
topics. The California Senator’s Rail Road to the Pa
cific, and other projects, the Texas debt, and the con
firmation of Badger as U. S. Supreme Judge, have
been the additionalthemes of interest.
In the House, the foreign questions have also been
raked up and some showing of hands made, and but lit
tle else done thus far.
Both Houses have done an act of grace and justice
in the appropriation to Mills, whose Jackson Statue is a
great triumph, standing now like
“The Statue that enchants the world,”
only of a tougher material and a tougher subject. Nei
ther the Graces, nor the Muses, had much to
do with Andrew Jaokson, and his proper position is, as.
the artist lias placed him, astride of his War-Horse.
Outside, Cabinet contrivances aio the order of the
day. New York and Virginia figure conspiouously
therein. The former strains every nerve to get one of
her sons in. The Dickinson, Dix, and Marey men are
equally strenuous. Virginia, on the contrary, has strain
ed every nerve, and successfully, to keep her ablest ex
ponent, out in the hope of getting some second-rate man
in, who will subserve personal projects better.
Out of the thousand and one lies circulated about
Mr. Hunter, this small grain of truth may be extracted :
He was invited and went to see Gen. Pierce, at Boston
—was tendered the Premiership and declined—partly
from personal considerations, connected with his com
fortable seat in the Senate—partly from ulterior hopes
of ill-judging friends—and partly because hostile in
fluences in Virginia had embarrassed him. The sto
ries about his objections to persons proposed to be as
sociated with him, are ’humbugs of the first water, and
circulated for an especial purpose, which you iu Geor
gia will easily perceive. The compromisers, par ex
cellence, are trying their old game—raising an outcry
about the extremes, and saving the Union over again
by denouncing ‘ fanatics North and South.” The
boldest of them couple in the same category “Seces
sionists,” as they style the State Rights men, and
Barnburners—denounce in one breath Dix, in the other
Davis. Now, we of the South, of course, can have no
sympathy or community of feeling with the Barnburn
ers, mid don’t want them to have a finger in the pie if
we can help it. But this wholesale kind of had faith,
after treaties, may suit “Union Democrats,” but won’t
suit high-toned State Rights men. As Soule says,
did v.o unite in battle to be separated in victory—co
operate but to betray .’” No 1 that game is too open
to cheat the country twice. A* an indication, the Ks
public thus speaks up for its old friends, the “Union
Savers, ‘ in an editorial having special reference to your
Stale, thus:
The strife already begun between the two sections of
the Democracy foreshadows the more general struggle
that must follow the threatened course of proceeding—
-1 he 1 [linkers and Barnburners are battling with onuuouu
anger in anticipation of the appointment of General Dix,
who is aptly iW'rihcd us “an uarenouncing and unleash*
ed seclionalisl.” lie ha* counterpart* the South 0 ,„1
not a feu-, and to them there will be | ike re-siatm.ee, unles,
all ordinary shall toil. Iu Georgia where
sionist journals have boldly excommunicated Governor
Cobb and all other Union Democrats who refused to bow
the knee to Baal, there arc indications aiu | wal . n ; llf „
winch should lead General Pittite* to pause i„ ,| ie pa j|,
marked out tor him. The Marrietta (Ga.) P , lils
sounded a timely note, which is echoed with significant
promptitude hy the Athens Banner. The totter undj
the head “Secession Advancing,” thus notices the posir
tion assumed by one of the leading organs of the South
ern Rights (tarty.
. ar ticle from the Athens Banner is then quoted
and the admmstratiofi organ resumes ;
Th w are Democratic print* Jwhich give utterance to
these anticipations of n conflict now not distant, and tin v
Will rejeive an unequivocal on orsement throughout the
South.
It is the tat.- ot fanatic sill to be blind to . vervtli ing that
does not eotii|K.rt with its own ends. Perhajw to this
cause nrrv b-ascribed, in part, the extraor.iinai v disre
gard of an obvious national will, which w lonalists
Aorth and 8 uitli, ate pressinjr upon Gtu. Pi. rn- This’
is not the tirsi occasion, however, in which ma.ln.-ss has
been the lor.runner ot destruction.
It ts uiiikcessary to comment on these things. You
understand tin.-points and can make them. Only our
friends had better k.-ep -.vide awatsc.
Tiie Badg r movement will probably fail; f„ r Mr.
Fitzpatrick is no-.v here, and gone to work. “The iron
hecl.-d old fog) will come very near slipping in if
not quite. ‘ AXON*.
NKWS ITEMS.
Bishop Ives’ Conversion to Romanism.—The
Ur.ictrs: says a general subject of conversation at
Rome is the recent conversion to the Catholic faith
of Dr. Ives, the Anglican Bishop of Carolina, in the
U. States. Dr. Ives hud for a long time embraced
Puseyite opinions, and felt strong sympathies for the
Catholic religion, which had subjected him to much
remonstrance. Since he has been at R.-me he has
put himself in relation with Monsignor Gill, the
Catholic. Bishop of Virginia, U. S., and addressed
himself to Monsignor Talbot, the private cameriere
of the Pope, in order to make his solemn adjura
tion and •‘Ublioly profess Catholicism. This cere
mony took place on the 26th of December, the
pope, in person, administering the sacrament to :he
convert. Dr. Ives, in abandoning the Episcopal
Church of the United States, has given up a very
advantageous position. His wife at first warmly
opposed his intention, but it is said that she now
begins to defend him against the attacks of the Pro
testant ministers who accompanied the bishop to
Rome.
Peabody’s Lectures.— The Mobile Advertiser
of the 2Gih ult. says : We are pleased to learn that
it is in contemplation among the horticulturists
of our city, to ondeavor to induce Mr Peabody to
deliver one or more lectures, upon the beautiful
aud invaluable branches of culture, to which he
has devoted so much successful attention, and
which, like the lamented Downing in a kindred de.
partment, he has linked with his own name and
reputation.
Misnomer! Why will all theatrical newspaper quo.
* ers na y n theatrical bill-writers or stage managt-is
who should know better, invariably cull The hero 0 f
Shakspeate’s “Mach Ado,” by the name of Benedict,
when the hard himself has him designated, Benedick
DICK. Dick!
Such inexcusable errors have, from habit, almost driv
en truth out of the field. So frequently do ignorant
people print, “a looker on, here, iu Venice,” that few
believe it should be, “Vienna ! A thousand bets have
been won and lost on—
“ The man that hath no music in himself.”
which none but tho true reader, will believe correct
and we have been “set right” by a supposed authority!
in this city for citing, as lie deemed erroneously,
“Alas, poor Yorick 1 I knew him, Horatio.”
Register.
(D-In Massachusetts a petition to the legislature for
the repeal of tho liquor law has received a laroe num
ber of signatures. Among the signature, is Abbot.
Lawrence, who requests its repeal on the ground of its
inconsistency with the rights of American citizens.
O’ Rev. A. A. Livermore, of the UnitariaD Church
in Cincinnati, has received a call to become pastor of the
Unitarian Church, in-San Francisco, California, with
the terms of one thousand dollars for passage out aud
five thousand dollars salary per annum, in the place of
Rev. Joseph Harrington, lately deceased.
Bishop O’Connor, the Catholic prelate of Pitts
burg, has addressed n long letter to Gov. Bio] er
complaining that the present free-school system’
u not acceptable to the Catholic population.
The Turpentine Business— The Fayetteville,
(N. C.) Observer, states that the population of that
county has increased about 1,000 since the first of
the present month—about 300 whites and 700 slaves
having arrived there from other parts of the State
to engage in the turpentine business.
The London Quarterly, in answer to the question
•What is man ?” says, “Chemically speaking, a
man is 45 pounds of carbon and nitrogen, diffused
through five and a half pailsful of water.
Hun. Robert J. Walker is in Washington and
is tapidly declining in health. His disease is an
affection of the thigh bone. He is extremely ema
ciated. having changed very much during the last
fortnight.
lemperance in Savannah.—At a meeting of the Sav
annah Total Abstinence Society, Jan. 29th, the following
gentlemen were chosen delegates to the State Convention,
to be held at Atlanta on the 23d February :—Wm. King,
R, R. Cuyler, John Carruthers, Thee. W.jLaue, and M*
Gufburrow, Ksqs. The object of the Convention is” to
memorialize the Legislature to pass a law prohibiting tbe
traffic in spirtiuotm^iquom.
Rev. Du. Duller.— The Baltimore correspondent of
the Washington Republic of the 27th ult., says :
Rev. Dr. Fuller, of the Seventh Baptist Church of
this eity, is about to retire for a time from his charge in
consequence of the impaired health of his eldest daughter
—a southern clime having been recommended by her
physician.
Rather Expensive Travelling. —A Mexican paper,
the Ordcn, states that the American boundary corn mis
sion have paid during the year no less than eighty thou,
sand dollars for corn alone.
Mr. Buchanan— Groundless Rumor. — A dispatch free*
Concord, says, the report tKat Gen. Pierce bad written t
Mr. Buclianan to name a member of bis cabinet, is pro
nounced without foundation by the beet authority.
The celebrated Texan Rvnger, Col. Jack Hayes, was
murdered lately in California by a man named Jones, who
was seized by the people and lynched.
England owns more than double the number of war
steam ships possessed by any other nation ; there being
in the British navy ouo hundred and forty-one ; in tbs
t rench sixty-eight; in the Russian thirty-two; and in h*
United .States but fifteen.
r I he second annual commencement of the Female Medi
cal College (Pa.) was to have taken place on Thursday
last. -It is said to be rapidly gaining in prosperity srd
popularity.
By the 1 aris fashion plates, gentlemen's fuff drem coats
are now made in Paris with sleeve Inigo at the w.iat,
I ke the sleeves of tiidies’dresin-s, ?vad arc worn with uu*
de. Sleeves puffed at the wrist, like those worn ly 1 i.liv* |