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Nunhi Anna.
Among the numberless wonderful celebrities
that our sister Republic has given birth to in
her brief but stirring history, heroes of a single
skirmish, statesmen of a small diplomacy, im
mortals whose eternity of fame has reached its
occultation in from nine days to a year, there
has been no one so prominent, so able or s
fortunate, as the one-legged hero of San Jacin
to—that marvel of military science, who, in
his later conflict at Cerro Gordo, stuck to and
strengthened the old maxim—
“He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day.”
There may exist much latitude of opinion
with regard to the bravery, the skill, the states
manship and the patriotism of Santa Anna. It
may be doubted whether he loves Mexico and
it may be.doubted whether. Mexico loves him.
Os one thing, however, there can be no doubt,
and that is that the life he has led from the
time he first embarked in a revolution against
Iturbide to this present, has been remarkably
eventful and'full of incident.
He has seen all social positionsfrom the low
est to the highest ; all political positions trom
insignificance to practical imperially ; 11
military positions, from a foot soldier to the
commandership-in-chief. lie has climbed to
the topmost heights only to be knocked offand
driven out the country. He has returned and
taken up his old rank as if it had been resigned
by his own volition. He has made revolutions
and crushed revolutions, lie has banished
and been banished. In his person two great
extremes of fortune have met and struggled.—
As yet it is undecided which will come off vic
torious ; it is uncertain whether Santa Anna
will die at home or in exile, on the throne or
Jfn the scalfold.
We said that his lite has been eventful, and
soithas. There are probably lew men living
whose histories will exhibit a web of so strik
ingly varied and contrasted colors, who have
been so high and so low as the ex President.
Starting in life with a name wholly obscure
and unknown, he has rendered it familiar in
all corners of the world. Commencing as a
royalist, he has been a r epublican, a federalist
and a centralist, a democrat and an aristocrat,
as the emergencies of the moment seemed to
require. In 1821 he assisted in expelling the
royalists Jrom Vera Cruz, and obtained the
command of the city under Iturbide. in 18-’2
he was deposed,and began waragairrst his late
superior, and succeeded in overthrowing him.
Foiled in his personal aims by the final results
of this movement, he retired, but only to fo
ment another. In 1828 he supported Guerrero
against Pedrazza, and was made commander
of the army. In 1830 he went over to the side
of Pedrazza, fought|and conquered his former
iriends, and intrigued lor the Presidency. In
1833 he obtained the office ; he sought, and
was recognized as President. Thus tar his
life had been successful—his objects gained—
his ends secured. The changes lie made in
variably redounded to his benefit. The bat
tles he fought were always won. The party
he favored were sure of success, llis political
tergiversations W'ero inexcusable, but they
were gilded by victory, llis treacheries were
startling, but few cared to talk about them. He
was the favorite ot the army, and the army was
sovereign. In 1835 the reform party, uiulcrthe
leadership of Lacaleeos. proclaimed against
him, and four provinces joined the insurrec
tion. Lacatecos was conquered, the reform
party annihilated by death or exile, and .Santa
Anna became Dictator His star was still in the
ascendant, but it soon waned. The adhesion
he gave in to the c ntral party, and the subse
quent abrogation of the libetal constitution of
182 1, induced the American colonists in Texas
to proclaim their independence. Os the re
sults of that movement we need not speak.
‘l he success which had hitherto invariably
attended the military movements of Santa An
na failed him in the efforts he made tor their
subjugation. At San Jacinto he was conquered
and captured.
Out of the gloom of defeat and captivity—
marvelously preserved from a death ho rich y
merited this political changeling emerged on
ly to recoverthe .supremacy he had lost and
increase the lame he hail won. The mutilation
he suffered at Vera Cruz redouned to his good
and has ever since remained the incontestible
and incontrovertible evidence of a patriotism
that never existed, and a bravery .that was with
outbeing, In 1811, alter a series ot incidents
that would be deemed improbable in Perce
Forest, or the Romance ot the Cid, lie again
reached the Presidency and ruled imperially
for four years. The revolution ot Parades hur
led him irompower, and the Administration ot
Herrera made him a fugitive. The American
war recalled him to rank and importance. Its
close drove him once more into exile. An
other revolution lias paved the way for another
recall,and Santa .Anna may to-morrow sit su
preme over the fortunes of Mexico Indeed
all the indications tend to give assurance
of IPs speedy recall. From Chihauhah to
Yucatan, the sun shines only on tin: “broken
and dishonored fragments of a Union ; on
States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on
a land rent with civil feuds” amt distracted
with diverse councils. The demands of Gnail
alajara lor diminished taxation and a removal
of prohibitions has been made by State alter
State, city alter city', regiment after regiment.
Gen Uraga, the acknowledged leader and
head of the revolution, is]u strong lrieud ot
Santa Anna’s ; and Wool, who commands
Vera Cruz is Ins Jknown confidant. Put be
yond all these things, his return is rendered
probable by the conviction of the Mexicans
themselves, that he is the only man whoso
hand can educe order from out such a chaos,
mid restore public tranquility. That lie is
loved wo do not pretend to say. Indeed lie is
feared ; but the choice ot two evils will reseat
him in the Hall of tile Montozumas.
Upon the whole we rejoice at it. Santa An
na is a man possessed ot some positive traits
and qualities. He may be a liar, a rascal, a
gambler, an assassin—lie may bo whatever his
enemies proclaim him to he—and wo are in
clined to think that they are not tar from the
truth. But lie allows no one else to rob—he
strings up all other murderers and assassins.
Ho rules by means that are reprehensible, for
ends that are selfish, through tools that are
dyed in rascality'; but he maintains a Govern
ment, makes wars and treaties, quells revolts,
and gives to the nation a nationality she has
never possessed under other rulers. Our own
interests in the Tehuantepec and other ques
tions compel us to look with favor upon the re
turn of Santa Anna, however it may bo achiev
ed.
Whatever may be his future, and who dare
prophecy its course, the past has been to him
crowded with incident and fraught with adven
ture : to-day on the throne, to-morrow m ex
ile: now fighting armies and now lighting
chickctcocks: plunged into obscurity and
raised into prominence : ihe ruler of millions
—-the master of hardly’ a dozen dependents.—
In all these numberless vicissitudes and chan
ges of fortune he has so conducted himself that
it can hardly be determined whether he is pos
sessed ‘ offthe real elements ot greatness or
only aided and helped onward by the force of
circumstance. —Delta
How to Preserve the Liberties of the People.
BY JOHN C. CALHOUN.
“Where the diversity of interests exists, in
separate and distinct classes of the community,
as in the case of England, and was formerly the
case in Sparta, Rome, and most of the free states
of antiquity, the rational constitutional provision
is that each should he represented in the gov
ernment, as a separate estate, with a distinct
voice, and a negative on the acts of its co-es
tates, in order to check their encroachments.—
In England the constitution has assumed ex
pressly this form, while in the governments of
Sparta and Rome the same thing was effected
under different, but not much less efficacious
forms. The perfection of their organization, in
this particular, was that which gave to the con
stitutions of these renowned states ail their ce
lebrity, which secured their liberty for so many
centuries, and raised them to so great a height
of power and prospciity. In teed, a constitu
tional provision, giving to the great a id sperale
interests of the community the right of self
protection, must appear, to those who will duly
reflect on the subject, not less essential to the
preservation of liberty than the right of suffrage
itself. They, in fact, have a common object,
to effect which the one is as necessary as die
other to sc c u re’ res pons ibi/ily; that is, that those
who make and execute the hues should he accoun
table to those on whom the hues in reality operate
the only solid and durable foundation of liber
ty. if, without the right of suffrage, our ru
lers would oppress us, so without the right of
elf-protection, the major would equally op
press the minor interests of the community.
The absence of the former would make the
governed the slaves of die rulers—and the lat
ter, the feebler interests, the victim of the stron
ger. * * * * To realize its perfection, we
must view the general government and those ol
the states as a whole, each in its proper sphere
independent, each perfectly adapted to its re
spective objects; die states acting separately,
representing and protecting the local and pecu
liar interests; actingl v jointly through one gene
ral government, with the weight respectively as
signed to each by the constitution, representing
and protecting the interests of the whole, and
thus perfecting, by an admirable but simple ar
rangement, the great principle ol representation
and responsibility, without which no govern
ment can ho free or just. To preserve this sa
cred distribution, as originally settled, by co
ercing each to move in its proscribed orb, is
the great and difficult problem, on the solution
of which the duration of our constitution, of our
Union, and, in all propability, our liberty de
pends. How is this to be effected ? The ques
tion is new when applied to our peculiar politi
cal organization, where the separate and con
flicting interests of society are represented by
distinct but connected governments; but it is,
in reality, ail old question under anew form,
long since perfectly solved. Whenever separate
and dissimilar interests have been-separately rep
resented in any government; whenever the
sovereign power has been divided in its exercise,
the experience and wisdom of ages have devised
hut one mode by which such political organiza
tion can be preserved—the inode adopted in
England, and by all governments, ancient and
modern, blessed with constitutions deserving to
be called free—to give to each co-estate the
right to judge of its powers, with a negative or
veto on the acts of the others, in order
to protect against encroachments the interests it
particularly represents; a principle which all of
our constitutions recognize in the distribution of
power among their respective departments, as
essential to maintain the independence of each,
but which, to all who will duly reflect on the
subject, must appear far more essential, for the
same object, in that great and fundamental dis
tribution of powers betwen the general and
state governments. So essential is the princi
ple, that to withhold the right from either, where
the sovereign power is divided, is, in fact, to
annul the division itself, and to consolidate, in
the one left in the exclusive possession of the
right, all powers of government: for it is not pos
sible to distinguish, practically, between a gov
ernment having all power, and one having the
right to lake what power it pleases. Nor does
it in the least vary the principle, whether the dis
tiibtition of power between co-estates, as in
England, or between distinctly organized but
connected governments, as with us. The rea
son is the same in Loth cases, while the necessi
ty is greater in one case, as the danger of con
flict is greater where the interests of society are
divided geographically’ than in any other.”
l'r Xigro .s a 1 the \orlh. —We find in Noah-’*
Sunday Tunes the following description of the
Free Negro m the North :
fussing down Nassau street, ilnec or four per
sons were standing inside of a store talking to a
black man, and ilico invited us to come in.
“Here is a black man,” said one of the gentle
men. “who wishes to sell himself as a slave for
#15).”
We entered the store, and saw a short, stout fel
low In lags, with a good countenance, and no indi
cation of vice.
“Where do voii belong?”
“To New York. I was horn here.”
“Don’t you know that you connot sell yourself
as a slave in this State i”
“What am Itodo 1 1 can get no woik ; 1 have
had m> breakfast ; lan almost naked ;no one
cares f.r me, and I have no friend. Is it not better
to have a good master whom I can work for, and who
u ill c ue for me ?”
Here was an illuslration of the practical benev
olence of domestic African slavery, while it exhib
ited the rank hypocrisy of the Abolitionist. They
could raise #'3,000 to purchase the liberty of two
mulatto girls, and yet allowed a poor black to offer
to sell himself as a slave to save himself from
starving in a free Northern Stale.
FutAiiL'ji in’s Conundrum.—“ What reason is
there for supposing that Joshua, the successor
of Msecs, had no parents.”
“One of the editors of the N. Y. 0 r de
sires to express his profound commiseration
for the heathenism that manifestly prevails in
the l’ost Office, where the editors do not read
the Bibles enough to know that Joshua was
the son of Nun, and of course had no parents
if nun is here phonugraphically spelled, and
the text teaches that he'was the son of none,
as Friar Lubin in his deep r searches lias
doubtless discovered. Who Joshua’s mother
was may nut bo so easy to tied out, but we are
sure ihat,
-Y a n knew tier but to love her.
iXun named her hut to praise.
Easy Soil. —Anjauctioneer wasselling alot ol
land for agricultural purposes. “Gentlemen,
s id he, “this is the most delight ul land. It is
the easiest land to cultivate in Massachusetts—
it is s i light.—so very light. Mr. Parker, here,
will corroborate my statement—he owns the
next patch, and he will tell you how easy it is
worked.” “Yes, gentlemen,” said Mr. Park
er, “it is very < asy to work it, but it’s a plaguy
sight easier to gather the crop.”
Another Wai;n: v—We are pained to learn that
a highly respectable and amiable young Indy, of
Fulton, Lauderdale county, in tliis State, has been
rendered insane by the “Spirit rappings.” Again
wa say —lt -lire of this strange mania.— Memphis
Eniptiier.
A Caloric Enuixe on the Ohio.—We are
informed that a responsible business house in this
city lias contracted for the building of a first
class packet boat, to run hence tost. Louis or
New Orleans, which is to be propelled by a
c aloric engine. All honor to the men who first
introduce Ericsson engines on the Ohio. —Gin
Guz, 25th.
OCT An anecdote is told of a Scotch shop
keeper who declined some request made by a
customer. “Do you know,” said the customer,
“that I am the Bishop’s lady?” “Hoot, wo
man,” was the answer, “1 would not do it if you
was his wife, much less his leddy.” Lady is a
beautiful word in its place, and female is a
proper word, but either of them employed for
wife or woman, is■ in shocking taste.— Prov.
Journal.
A Good Story.—John Runyan, while in
Bedford jail, was called upon by a Quaker de
sirous of making a convert of him.
“Friend John,” said lie, “I came to thee with a
message from the Lord, and after having search
ed for fliee in all the prisons in England, I am
glad 1 have found thee at last.”
“If the Lord had sent you,” returned Bunyan,
‘you need not have taken so much pains to find
me out, for the Lord knows I have been here
these twelve years.”
A Resemblakce. —“Colonel Wilson is a line
lookin'; man,” said a friend, of ours the other day.
“Vos,” replied another, ”1 was taken for him
one” ”
on ! why you are the ugliest tnan lever saw.”
“1 don't care for that; I was taken for him ; 1
endorse.l his nole, anil was taken for him—by the
sheriff's officer.”
Exchange of Compliments.—A lady ofn it very
amiable temperament rudely discharged her scr
vr.nl girl. •
“1 will not only send you away,” said she, “hut
1 will no! even allow you lo refer to me fora char
acter.”
“Thank you, ma’am,” said the gitl, “thejonly fa- 1
vor Tc m ask. you is, that ycu will never mention I
my having lived with you ; for if you do, I fear no
one else will give men place.” ” I
Life Like. —A certain lawyer had his por
trait taken in his favorite attitude—standing
with his hands in his pockets. His friends and
clients all went to see it, and everybody ex- \
claimed, “oh ! how like ! it’s the very picture
of him!” An old farmer only dissented.—
“’Taint like?” everybody exclaimed, “just
show us wherein ’taint like.’’ “’Taint, no
’taint,” responded the farmer ; “ don’t you see
hehas got his hands in his own pocket ? ’Twould
be as like again, if he had it in somebody
else’s ”
<L\)t (Times anta Stmiimi
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, FEB. 15, 1853.
telegraphicT
Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.
Mobile, Feb. 12, 4 o’clock, P. M.
The Mobile Cotton Market is dull. Sales up to 2
o’clock amounted to 1000 bales. We quote Middlings
at 8 3-4 to 9 cents. Sales for the week reached 19,-
000. Receipts for the week amount to 21,710,
New Orleans, Feb. 12.
The New Orleans Cotton Market is active, and the
demand good. Sales to 2 o’clock amounted to 4000
bales.
Our Steam Power Press.
We are happy to announce to our patrons and friends
that henceforth the Times J- Sentinel will be printed
on a Steam Power Press. Our Engine was constructed
by Mr. E. Mer&hon, a young Machinist of this city,
and is as perfect a specimen of workmanship as ever
was constructed, it is a little thing, but does the work
of four strong hands in quicker time and much more
elegantly.
Mr. Mersiion is a native of Columbus, and has just
reached his 21st year. lie has mechanical genius of a
very high order, and richly deserves the patronage of
the public. We take great pleasure in commending
him to our brethren of the press who are in need of an
engine. We would not exchange our engine for the
best negro fellow in the market. Hereafter our paper
will be better printed than heretofore, and mailed at an
earlier hour, so as to secure its arrival regularly and in
good time at distant post offices; provided , always,
that postmasters do their duty.
Ours is the first Steam Power Press ever erected in
Western Georgia, and we hope our enterprise will be
appreciated and rewarded by our enterprising fellow
citizens. We would not object to a large increase to
our subscription list, as it would not be a burthen to us
to publish 10,000 copies on our new and elegant press.
The Young .Uarconers.
Mr. D. F. Wilcox, will please except our thanks for
a copy of the above work. It is written by F. R. Goul
dkn, formerly of this city. We have read it from be
ginning to end with increasing interest, and do not hesi
tate to pronounce it one of the very best fictions which has
been issued from the American press this season. The
only earthly objection to the work, is that it is modeled
upon Robinson Cruso.
In simplicity and perspeeuity of style, it is fully equal
to that renowned book. There is nothing forced in the
incidents; all the characters are natural, and the ro
mance of the story consists entirely in the incidents.
Dr. Gordon, was the father of u lovely family. The
only draw back to their happiness was that Mrs. Gor
don was in feeble health. A change to a warmer cli
mate was recommended- lie accordingly determins to
move to Tampa bay, and goes in advance of his wife to
prepare a suitable residence for an invalid, accompanied
by bis two sons, a daughter, and nephew. After his
arrival he prepares to go on a Marooning excursion, and
just as he had got all necessary preparations for such a
frolic, and the boys and girls were on board, he was
suddenly called back to his cabin. In the mean time a
shoal of devil fish rushed into the* bay, and one huge
fellow seized hold of the anchor, and before assistance
could be rendered, sped the little craft with its precious
cargo out into the gulf.
During the succeeding night the boys drove the boat
upon a deserted Island. In the mean time a storm
arose, and forced the craft from her mooring, and the
children are left for weeks m a howling wilderness,
surrounded by savages and wild beast. Their devices
arc quite as ingenious as Robinson Crusos. and to us,
by far, more interesting. The amount if information
intended for children, conveyed in this little book is
very great; and we hope to see it in the hands of all our
little folks. It will be a source of instruction, and of
amusement to them ; while it inculcates self reliance,
heroism, and an humble trust in Providence*
The book can be had at D. F. Wilcox's Book Store,
and is worth double the money.
In these days of Uncle Tomitudes, it is a great relief
to find a novel writer who looks up to the starry hea
vens with admiration and sees somewhat to admire in
the green woods—who discribes man as be is, and is
content to leave him in the position which God has as
signed him—sueh a work is “The Young Marooners*”
Girard Rail Road.
Between Girard and Colbert, a distance of twenty
two and a half miles, five hundred and fifty bands
are employed in grading ; the bridging and superstruc
ture are contracted for by energetic and responsible
men. Much of the work of grading is already comple
ted under contract of last year, and the entire distance
of 22 1-2 miles will be put in running order by next
winter. Contracts for grading are now being discharg
ed as far as Union Springs, in Macon county, a distance
of 52 miles. The road is constructed upon a liberal
plan and the curvature is very small. Between this
place and Union Springs, a tangent of fourteen miles
occurs, and tangents of four and five miles connect the
curves at many places. The rails of the most approved
pattern, weighing eighty tons to the mile, will be secur
ed upon large cross ties, dispensing with the wooden
stringer.
Very favorable contracts for the first locomotive and
ears were concluded by Mr. llolcomd, while in charge
of the Engineer department. The Savannah and Al
bany road having been placed in Mr. Holcomifs charge
caused him to resign his offices on the Girard and
South Western, and George S. Runev, a gentleman, as
we are informed, of science and ample experience, is the
present chief. The line of this road falls entirely below
the granite region and occupies a ridge route for the
greater part of the distance from Girard to Mobile bay.
This will enable the company to construct a first class
road at moderate’ cost.
The completion of the first section of twenty-two and
a half miles, will place Columbus in connection with the
rich valleys of the Cbwikce and Hatchee-chubbee, and
will turn to our market, cotton Chunnenuggee which
has always gone to rival cities. The extension of the
road to Union Springs which may be anticipated iu 1854
or carlv iu 1555, will more than double our cotton re
ceipts, tapping as it does, the best cotton lands of Ala
bama. In the southern part of Russell, in north wes
tern Barbour, in Macon and Pike counties for ten miles
on each side of the road, most of the best lands have in
two years past been brought into cultivation, and at
Union Springs, the population has been largely increased,
a large carriage factory erected, and other improvements
made in anticipation of the road. And the citizens of
that town have recently placed a company of hands
upon the work to do the grading from Stewart’s mill’s
at Chunnenuggee to Union Springs, a distance of nine,
miles,
4.Thus far, the cost of obtaining the right of way, a
heavy item on most roads, has, owing to the liberality
of those through whose lands the road pusses, been
merely nominal, the company having paid for the right
in only one instance.
The history of similar enterprises ia the South must
lead us to anticipate very important results from this
work—increased business to our own city, and large
profits to the stockholders. Not long since we noticed
in our paper the dividend of cent, in cash,
paid to the stockholders, and three per cent, retained
for repairs and improvements by tbc Soutli Western
Rail road. From an intimate acquaintance with the
country and its productiveness, as far at least as Pike
county, we must expect a larger business on the Girard
than tlic South western Rail road.
The lion. Mr. Dixon, Senator from Kentucky, left
Washington eu routes for Havana on Tuesday his physi- |
cians having reeomended him immediately remove to a I
warm climate. I
General Mirabeait B. Lamar.
We were much pleased to observe in the Mobile
Register of the 4th inst., the name of this chivalrous
soldier and pure patriot suggested for the War Depart
ment, in the Cabinet of Gen. Pierce. While we fully
endorse, we can add nothing to the commendation be
stowed apon him by the accomplished Editor of that
paper, except that the appointment avouM be properly
appreciated by the people of Georgia. The Register
says : “Gen. Lamar, apart from being a distinguished
soldier, tried in all the leading incidents of the Texan
Revolution, and of the Mexican war, upon the northern
line, under Gen. Taylor, is an able and experienced
statesman, as was evinced in his management of the
affairs of the young Republic of the Lone Star, during
liis Presidency, the most trying period of her existence.
His capacity to overcome difficulties, his comprehensive
sagacity, and his unswerving integrity, were abundantly
evinced at that time. To liis influence and exertions
is mainly attributable the pacific relations which were
established with the wild Indian tribes of that frontier,
and his name is even now a potent spell with the Ca
manches, Apaches, and other contiguous tribes.
“This intimate knowledge of the condition of the trou
blesome savages on the borders of Texas, Arkansas and
New Mexico, and this influence over them, are strong
arguments in favor of Gen. Lamar’s appointment to the
War Department, or at least to some official position in
which his services in that quarter could be secured to
the Government. Experience, general ability, military
knowledge, and administrative talent are combined in
bis person.
“Asa politician, Gen. Lamar has ever been a Demo
cratic State Rights Republican, of decided but concilia
tory views, and, like the estimable President elect, has
never been an office-seeker. We trust that eminent
abilities may be employed by the incoming Administra
tion, if not in the Cabinet, at least in some prominent
position upon our Mexican or Indian frontier, for which
he is so evidently well adapted. Just such men we
should be pleased to see in the responsible offices of our
Government.”
“Democratic Harmony,”—The Washington
Republic.
The Washigton Rebublic , does us the honor to
transfer to its columns a long article of ours in reference
to the propriety of giving Mr. Dix, a cabinet appoint
ment, as evidence and illustration of Democratic harmo
ny ; and alleges upon this proo*, that “General Pierce,
according to his warmest southern advocates, is to ad
mit none but “State Rights men,” to every office of
honor and influence—excluding Union Democrats as
well as Free Sellers, lor,” says the Republic, “the
Times , while shutting the door in the face of General
, Dix, takes pains to say, “it is idle to suppose that Mr.
5 Cobb or any of that” (the Union) “ilk will receive of
fice at the hands of the incoming administration.”
We will not disguise that we jjesire no union with
free soilers, unless they will recant their heresy and
. give a hearty endorsement to the platform of the party,
. on the subject of slavery. It is sheer hypocracy for a
statesman to pretend to belong to the derncratic fold,
while he “spits upon the party platform.”
; In referance to the union democrats, the Republic
. misrepresents us. Our objections to Mr. Cobb were
placed distinctly upon the ground that ho had refused
to co-operate with the democratic party in the election
of General Pierce ; and that bis friends nominated and
, run an opposition ticket to that which was triumphantly
elected, and aided in the elevation of General Pierce to
the Presidency by giving him the vote of Georgia. The
“ilk,” referred to was “the Tugaloo ilk,” not “the union
ilk.” While we shall ever regret tho defection of “the
union ilk” in the terrible contest of 1850, as the most
i fatal and dangerous blow which wns qver inflicted upon
the independence and safety of the south, we are not
prepared to proscribe them. Thousands of them are
good and true State Rights men, and we confidently re
ly upon them in our future contests with the embattled
host of consolidation's who are straining every nerve
to trample under foot the sovreignty of the states, and
to build up a great central government which shall
domineer over the liberties of the people, and fatten its
favorites with the spoils of nations.
News of the Day.
The Bill to reorganize the navy has passed the
Senate ; and also a bill granting land to Arkansas and
Missouri for rail road purposes.
The slaver Venus, lately captured at Havana, was
sentenced to be burned. No one claimed her.
It is said that Canedo, Governor of Cuba, a short
time since had a meeting of the principal slave traders,
and urged them in future to observe greater seoresy in
the disembarkation of negroes from Africa, so as to es
cape the vigilance of the English.
The steamer Fulton returned to Key West on
the 29th ult., for the purpose of conveying the Vice
President elect to Havana.
General Lopez, commander-in-chief of the Mexi
can naval forces, died in Havana on the 23d ult., in
destitute circumstances. His funeral expenses, amount
ing to S3O, were paid by tho Mexican consul.
It is reported that 600 slaves were lately landed
in Cuba westward of Havana.
Vessels from Charleston and New Orleans are sub
ject to quarantine at Genoa.
A company has been organized at Genoa to run
steamships from that city to New York and South
America.
The reported death of Francisco Madiai has been
contradicted by the Tuscan papers.
The total receipts for the Washington Monument
for the last month were $2,452 86.
It is the opinion of gentlemen of the highest intelli
gence, in Charleston, says the Constitutionalist, that
there is no necessity for the Rabun Gap Rail Road,
and that it will not be built.
The subscriptions for the Brunswick and Florida
Rail Road Company, along the line, amount to $830,-
0(50, and the subscriptions in New York and Boston
amount to $1,2511,000. A locomotive and a quantity
of platform ears will be shipped for Brunswick in Feb
ruary, to meet the first cargo of iron from England.
The Supreme Court.
This Court adjourned on the Bth instant, after dis
posing of a very large number of interesting and intricate
cases, to the entire satisfaction, we believe, of everybody
but the unfortunate suitors and their lawyers.
The ability, impartiality, and legal learning of the
Court have commended it to the confidence ot fc the com
munity, Under its decisions the laws of Georgia are
becoming certain and uniform ; citizens are beginning to
know what their rights are, and how to preserve them.
The praotice and fundamental principles of the law are
on file in the reports, and are no longer subject to be
changed, modified, or misunderstood by every new
Judge whom popular favor may invest with the ermine
of Justice.
It would probably be impertinent in us to describe the
personal appearance of the Court. We cannot, how
ever, avoid a remark or tw o upon the striking contrasts
which they exhibit.
Judge Lumpkin, who presides over the Court, is of
medium height, but large and of a full habit, with bland
manners and an affluence of thought, feeling and lan
guage, which is indeed wonderful. He is very proper
ly the mouth-piece of the Court.
Judge Warner is a tall, slender man—apparently a
laborious man—who has obtained eminence by the ex
ercise of a strong will and a steady pupo6e. He lifts the
reputation of being the ablest lawyer in Georgia.
Judge Nisbet is a small man, of delicate organiza
tion, acute sensibilities, and quick and aotive mind,
which, we would suppose, would find the muse a more
agreeable companion than the law, if he had chosen to
cultivate her friendship. This is no uncommon thing
with members of the bar. Blackstone had high poeti
cal qualities, which ho crushed “i’ the bud” at the
bidding of his sterner mistress. Judge Nisbet has
the character of being a sound lawyer and a very amia
ble gentleman.
(LT We have been requested to insert the following
communication, which we do with pleasure :
“The Managers of the Parochial School of Trinity
Church desire to present their most grateful acknowl
edgments to the honorable society of ‘E Clampsus Vi-
for their liberal and timely gift of $25 00- They
also beg leave to add their unanimous and hearty good
wishes for the benevolent institution to whom they are
indebted, that they may receive in return a hundred
fold of all manner of blessings, and may fully realize
the truth of our Divine Master’s own words: ‘that it 1
is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Feh, 9th, 1853. I
Local Items,
The sale of goods per annum in Eufaula amounts to
$450,000.
The Alabama law against the circulation of small
bills is likely to prove a dead letter,
A negro named Moses entered the house of the
Misses Cook, of Twiggs county, on the night of the 29th
ult., and made a murderous assault upon the young la
dies and was only prevented from committing murder by
the timely interference, of another negro from an ad
joining plantation. The villain has been apprehended,
confined in jail, and now awaits his trial.
Apalachicola, up to the latest dates, had received 83,-
900 bales of cotton, it being an increase of 26,269 over
last year. Total exports 43,107 ; on hand 40,793 bales.
News from the West.
Mexican dates have been received up to January
15th. Congress has granted to Ceballos the extraordi
naary powers refused to Arista. The first use he made
of liis power was to release a number of political pris
oners incarcerated by Arista.
The Governor of San Luis Potosi has been publicly
assassinated in the streets of the capital, by six armed
men ; and the rumor was current that Prieto, provision
al Governor of Tamaulipas, had been killed in Victoria
It is thought that nothing short of an absolute change of
government, sueh as is desired by the revolutionists,
who now embrace two thirds of the population, includ
ing a majority of the army, can allay the present dis
turbances.
The revolutionists have succeeded in overthrowing
the Federal authorities in Matarnoras, and the
whole State is revolutionized. This is a distinct move
ment from that which Carvajal has for some time, been
carrying on. His is regarded as a (filibuster or free
booting effort. On the 22d ult., he had, after an ex
cursion into Tamaulipas, in which he had pillaged many
trains of merchandise, and carried off’ largo stocks of
cattle, returned to the American side of the Rio Grande,
crossing at Reynosa, and taking up his position at the
village ofCruillas, near San Francisco, at the head of a
considerable force. lie was holding some Mexican of
ficers ns hostages against the execution of his men, in
the hands of General Avalos.
Later from Mexico.
The schooner Aquilla arrived at New Orleans from
Vera Cruz on the 11th inst. We learn from the New
Orleans papers, that Ceballos, President of the Repulic
of Mexico, made a coup d'etat on the night of the 19th
. ult., and closed the Congress after the manner of Crom
_ well. The Senor Marin entered the Hall with one
hundred soldiers of the National Guard and cleared the
I seats at the point of the bayonet. The members after
wards met at the Convent of Espiriu Sancto and drew
up a manifesto and protest.
The President has ordered the Federal Troops to
( cease hostilities with those of Gen. Uraga.
Two papers at the Capital urge the recall of Santa
Anna.
Advices had been received in Vera Cruz that the
city of Mexico had pronounced in favor of the plan of
’ Guadalajara; aud the Castle of San Juan de Ulan was
; firing a salute in honor of the event when the Aquilla
was leaving the port*
’ Improved Patent Spring Candle Stiek.
We are indebted to Mulford & Cos., of this city, for
an improved patent candle stick. The stick is a brass
tube into which the entire candfe is inserted, and as the
candle is consumed, a concealed spring forces it up to
the mouth of the tube. All running of the spurni
is thus prevented, and the light is kept up at the same
’ position. It is said that one candle in this stick will last
us long as two in the ordinary stick. It is also a very
’ trusty pattern, and will indeed ornament even a fashion
able parlor. Call and see them.
Mr. Dickinson and the Barnburners.
The Buffalo Republic is fulfilling its duty to the
j Barnburners by assailing Mr. Dickinson, as also all
I that portion of the New York Democracy that did not
support the Buffalo Platform. It accuses Mr. Dickin
son of “proving himself as recreant to truth as he was
to duty,” because he did not vote for the Wilniot Pro
viso and against the compromise measures.
Abuse from sueh a quarter will only endear him to
men of worth in every part of the -Union. The Ro
chester Advertiser says that, “the old leaven of Buffa
lo platformism is still at work disgorging its venom with
its most offensive effluvia.”
The American Giant Girl.
1 Miss Hannah C. Crouse, the American Giant Girl,
has arrived in our city; her levees will be held on the
west side of Broad street, in the building formerly occu
pied by the Times Office. We cannot better convey an
1 idea of her vast proportions than by copying the follow
ing graphic description of her which we find in the Citi
zen alluding very happily to the great big wonder, and
the great little wonder whose performances in this city
1 have elicited such hearty applause.
The editor of the Citizen says: “The former is Miss
Hannah C. Crouse, the American Giant Girl, at sight
of whom we were forcibly reminded of the old couplet,
‘‘Some are horn to greatness,
Others have greatness thrust upon them.”
She is a native of the Buckeye State—is a very in
telligent, agreeable and magnificent looking young lady,
only 18 years of age, measures 2 feet 4 inches around
the arm ; 5 feet around the waist—and weighing 512 lbs.
The activity and sprightliness of this young lady arc as
tonishing. considering her enormous size and tremendous
weight. Os her it maybe said, with truth, that she is
destined to fill a larger space in the public eye than any
one we have ever seen or heard of before. Her uSpe
cific Gravity ” is at the maximum standard, constitut
ing her a personage of great weight of character in the
extensive sphere in which she revolves. And if it bo
true that “wonders will never cease,” Miss Hannah will
yet increase her magnitude to au indefinite extent, mak
ing it questionable, whether, iu our expression of good
/wishes for her health, happiness and prosperity, a ten
der to her of the oriental salutation, “May your shadow
never be less,” would be deemed a very desirable tri
bute. She has probubly attained to the summit level
of her earthly ambition, in this regard.”
The Infant Drummer’s Concert,
The performance of this little prodigy, in Temper
ance Hall, on the night of the 7th inst., surpassed our
most sanguine expectations. He is of sueh tender age that
your sympathies are painfully excited when he is brought
in and set upon a table, and a large, heavy drum is
swung round his neck, and great drum sticks, quite as
large as his arm, are placed in his hands. Tho first
roll, however, dispells your fears ; the face of the baby
genius lights up with enthusiasm and the whole frame
is excited with his music. You even forget the tiny
performer in rapturous admiration of his performance.
We never heard or saw his equal before. He is indeed a
wonder, lie surpassed the highest anticipations of his
audience.
Professor and Madame Louie, who accompany the
Infant Drummer are highly accomplished musicians.
We were particularly pleased with Madame Louie’s
songs. She has a sweet voice, and sings with taste and
spirit. Prof. Louie is a good comic actor and singer,
and adds much to the amusement of the audience by
his dry humor. The concerts of the Infant Drummer
will be continued for several flights, and we urge upon
all our citizens to avail themselves of the opportunity af
forded of seeing the “Eighth Wonder of the world.”
Theatricals.
We are gratified to announce that Mr. Crisp and
company will visit our city probably as early as the
13th inst., for the purpose of giving a series of theatri
cal entertainments. This company have given great
satisfaction wherever they have performed. An ex
change paper of high character thus notices them:
“We have attended their representations and have
always come away delighted and instructed. The
acting of Mr. Crisp, in this city, would do honor to any
boards. A deep, musical voice, a gesticulation which
models grace, an unequalled mobility of feature, aud a
perfect appreciation of the sentiment of the author, com
bine to endow him with qualities not possessed hy any
but a favored few. He reminds us very stiongly of
Forrest.
11c is well supported by Mrs. Crisp. Her silvery
intonation rung iu our ears for hours after Pauline was
happy and Mrs. Haller had ceased to weep. Her per
sonation of this latter character lias met with the high
est applause from our best judges. We are inclii.oj to
think it her best role as far aa wo have seen her.”
Musical Festival.
Ole Bull, the greatest performer on the violin in
the world, and a noble hearted American citizen, will
give one concert in this city on the 14th inst. He will
be assisted by M. Strakosch, whose ability on the Piano
is scarcely inferior to that of Ole Bull on the Violin,
and by Signorina Amalia Patti Strakosch. We an
ticipate a rich and rare entertainment, and hope to
see our entire population at Temperance Hall on the
night of the concert. It is not often that our commun
ity is permitted lo enjoy so pure and intellectual an
entertainment.
The Great Circus and Menagarie.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 21st, 22d
and 23rd inst., Robinson & Eldred’s great combined
Circus and Menagarie, will be exhibited in this city. Their
bill of fare is exceedingly attractive. The most brilliant
arena sports ami entertainments will be combined with
the largest collection of animals ever exhibited in
this section of country, and all under one canvass.
Price of admission fifty cents. For further particulars,
see advertisement in another column.
A Beautiful Present.
We have been shown a splendid Gold Watch, which
the Chatham Artillery presented to the Infant Drum
mer as a testimonial of their appreciation of his extra
ordinary gem as. It bears the following inscription :
“Presented, by the Chatham Artillery, lo Benson
A. English, the Infant Drummer. Savannah, Jan.
26th, 1853,”
Henry Clay and the Infant Drummer.
The public can witness many of the valuable presents
made to the Musical Champion of Georgia, the Infant
Drummer, in the window of Whittelsey & Co.’s Music
and Jewelry Store, among which is a unique and val
uable Gold Seal, presented to the Infant Drummer by
the late Henry Clay. This seal represents the Sage
of Ashland, as he appeared, resting himself under a
tree, with his favorite dog beside him.
No Georgian cau look on these distinguished testi
monials without feeling a spirit of exultation for his na
tive State, w hich claims the honor of producing this un
paralleled musical wonder, the Infant Drummer.
Ole Bull’s
Great and positively only musical entertainment will
come off'on Monday evening, 14th inst., at Temper
ance Hall. lie will be assisted by M. Strakosch, the
eminent Pianist, and by Senorina Adelina Patti, the
musical phenomenon, only eight years of age.
This is the first, and probably the last, time Ole Bull
will visit Columbus. He is retiring from bis his artis
tic career, and his object in his present tour is to raise
motley for the purpose of establishing schools and
churches in his Norwegian Colony in Pennsylvania.
Ole Bull is no needy adventurer. He is an Ameri
can citizen, and a stout-hearted and strong-headed man
—engaged in a noble enterprise, which entitles him to
the regard and admiration of his fellow-citizens.
Unquestionably, he is the most perfect master of the
Violin in the United States, and probably in the world.
M. Strakosch has heretofore visited our city, and
won the esteem of all who made his acquaintance, and
the admiration of those who can be “moved with the
concord of sweet sounds.”
Senorina Patti is a stranger to us, but papers of the
highest character speak of her with enthusiasm, as “the
child of song.”
For further particulars, we refer our readers to ad
vertisement.
The following is a short history of the great Norwe
gian Violinist, during the seven years which have
elapsed since his former visit to the United States:
Alter leaving America, Ole Bull directed his course to
ward Paris, where he gave concerts with great success, and
thence continued his journey through the Southern pro
vinces of France, visiting Lyons, Bayonne, Bordeaux and
Marseilles, whence he embarked for Algiers, for the pur
pose of studying military tactics as applied to mountain
warfare. He accompanied his friend, Gen. Yusuf, in an
important expedition into the mountains of Africa, and was
soon engaged fighting with the wild Kabyls. This excit
ing employment, amid the mountain passes, afforded him
not only pleasure, but valuable instruction, which he hoped
some day to use to the advantage ol his country. On his
return, he passed through the South of France to Spain,
where he gave concerts during the celebration of the mar
riages of Isabella 11. with Francisco de Assiz, and Donna
Fernanda with the Duke de Montpensier ; and during this
visit to Madrid lie composed his celebrated piece entitled
La Yelena de San Juan, in compliment fr which the
Queen proposed to give him a General’s commission,
thinking, no doubt, that the brilliant dress, of a staff officer
would show to much advantage on his magnificent figure;
but, like Beethoven and other great artists before him. he de
clined such empty honors. The Queen then presented him
a flower, formed of diamonds and other precious stones, to
represent the Verbena , which was accepted.
He returned to Paris a short time previous to the revolu
tion of February, 1848, which interrupted his series of con
certs. We next hear of him at the head of the Norwe
gians, in Paris, marching to the headquarters ot Lamartine,
and addressing him a congratulatory address upon the es
tablishment of the republic; Lamartine's answer, very in
teresting by the way, may be found in his Trois nioie de
pouvoir. llis next course was to Holland, where he was
again interrupted by the revolution there, and returned to
Paris to witness another revolution—that of June. He
now applied himself to making experiments in the manu
facture of stringed instruments, extending the compass
down to C—a third lower than the ordinary scale of that
instrument, and also facilitating the execution of difficult
passages. In the course of these experiments he collected
a number of curious violins, of all kinds and ages, which
he has deposited in his museum on the island whi6h he
purchased in the south of Norway—the island of Andoe,
where he resided for some time, until taking into view the
oppressed condition of his fellow countrymen, lie went to
Bergen for the purpose ot establishing a national theatre.
It might here l)e mentioned that in Norway, the theatres as
well as Pall important government offices, were in the
hands of the Danes. There was, properly speaking, no
Norwegian stage; the plays were written and performed
by the Danes in their own language, to the exclusion of
Norwegian talent. This Ole Bull endeavored to correct,
and finally succeeded, and to this day the National Thea
tre of Bergen continues in operation.
While in this country the mind of Ole Bull was naturally
impressed with the blessing of republican principles, and he
longed to direct the attention of his countrymen to this point,
and knowing the popular influence of the drama and arts,
he sought by these means to instruct them in a knowUdge of
American republican doctrines. He brought peasants Irom
the distant country to give the national dances, and procured
the assistance of the old Norwegian violinist, named Andun
80ii, who was induced to leave his mountain home to give
concerts in Bergen ; he besides had dramas written in Nor
wegian, by a poet—Henrick Wergeland—whose neglect and
bad treatment by government nearly broke his heart, and
carried him to an early grave. He established schools of
art, and formed clubs of artists —all tending to the same end
—the political disentliralment of the people. It was no
easy task ; it was anything but reclining upon a bed of ros
es ; the government annoyed him in all possible ways, and
finally asked for seats to be reserved for the police, which
were at first refused by Ole Bull, but at length granted upon
compulsion. But he did it in a way to cast ridicule upon the
government; he directed a large placard to be placed over
the reserved seats with these words: “ These seats reserved
for the police” which caused a great deal of amusement
and merriment to the-audience.
Ole Bull was arrested, and to make the disgrace more
marked, it was done on his birth-day—an occasion of con
gratulations and festivities among the Norwegians ; his
friends, however, to the number of several thousand, accom
panied him to thepolice office, and by their numbers, inti
midated the Prefect, who declined to imprison him. But
harassing lawsuits were commenced against him, which
involved him in heavy losses, and greatly reduced the large
fortune he had accumulated by liis artistic labors, and near
ly disheartened him.
The next chapter of his eventful life opens with his jour
ney to this country, to buy lands for the establishment of a
Norwegian colony, which was proposed by liis countrymen,
who, seeing the possibility of succeeding in their political
extremes, have resolved to shelter themselves beneath the
protecting wings of the American Eagle ! In this he has
been successful. While in Washington, be had the satis
faction of cheering his venerable and esteemed friend, Hen
ry Clay, with the strains which he would know so well how
to adapt to the chamber of sickness and declining life.—
Having performed by invitation in Washington, Philadel
phia, Baltimore and New York, he has come to our city
to give us some of his magic touches.
The Slave Trade—Com. Lavallette.
In reply to a communication, addressed to him by
the Editor # of tho Colonization Herald , Com. Lav
allette very strenuously opposes the withdrawal of the
U. S. Squadron from the coast of Africa, and gives it as
his decided opinion, that the Slave trade will be largely
increased thereby. He says :
It is proposed, I understand, to withdraw’ the squadron
from the coast of Africa, and I believe upon the grounds < f
the opinion tl at “the efforts of the combined squadrons to
suppress the slave trade have been a failure; that no good or
important object has been effected whan, to the contrary,
the slave trade is completely checked, and will be entirely
suppressed by a continuance of a sufficient naval force on
the coast. Let it be withdrawn, and lam very certain that
the trade will become as rife as ever it was, and the legitimate
trade on the coastgreatly injured; for what trader will ven
ture on the coast with the prospect of being plundered Hy
the lawless state trader, who will fearlessly rove about the
coast without apprehension of molestation from a cruiser l
I trust the squadron may not be withdrawal, but that it will
he kept up, and, instead of half a dozen sailing vessels being
employed in this service, there may be sent to the station
three or four steam vessels, that will more effectually pro
tect our commercial interests in this quarter, as well as more
certainly suppress the slave trade.
With respect and esteem, I am your obedient servant,
E. A. F. Lavallette.
The joint resolution reported from the Committee on
Printing, to provide for the execution of the printing
and binding of the returns of the seventh census, has
been discussed and passed without amendment.
Mr. Stiles and the Democratic Review again.
Col. S* T. Bailey, denies in extense , the accuracy of
the communication which we published last week, in
reference to Mr. Stilkb and the Democratic Review.
His letter will be found in the Savannah Courier of the
9th, inst.
After doubting the alleged charge, that the Editor of
lhe Review threatened toskinn Mr. Stiles book, unless
he would consent to vote for Douglass, he suggests that
“ a work which has called forth the approval of the
Tory press of England, and has been thought worthy
above all other Southern books of an elaborate and com
mendatory article in that Federal Abolition Journal,
the North American Review could hardly escape,
“ the vataghan of this terrible old cossaek, who seems
to entertain a fixed belief, that he has a special call from
heaven, which lie may not eschew, to make bloody and
fiery forays into the sleepy territories of old Fogydom ”
Col. Bailey, then denies the facts of the communi
cation in the Courier ass Hows :
“It is error to say that the Southern Rights delegates
numbered twenty in that Convention, it should have been
twenty one. It is utterly untrue that seventeen of that
Delegation, or any other number at Baltimore, “ had fin the
beginning) expressed themselves lavorable to Judge Doug
lass as their choice with a determination to support liis
nomination.”
It is utterly untrue that the Union Democrats were alto
gether in favor of Mr. Buchanan. It is utterly untie that
“Mr. Stiles and two others, therefore held the vote in
their hands.”
The truth of the matter is thus presented by Col.
Bailey.
It is certainly true that personally a large majority, per
haps, “all but three” of our delegation preferred Judge
Douglass to any one, believing the safety of the South re
quired his nomination, and we still have no doubt that fu
ture events will amply vindicate our judgment. Yet we,
looking to the lamentable division in Georgia felt that we
were bound to so act, so far as in us lay. as to bring about
the triumph of the Democratic party in this State and aa
Mr. Buchanan was very favorably known to the people of
Georgia, as one of the ministers of the lamented Polk, and
for whom many whigs had pledged themselves to vote if
he were nominated ; as Judge Douglass was especially ob
noxious to the Union leaders, we believed Buchanan the
strongest man ; and in a meeting of our Delegation at Bal
timore, early on Monday evening before the Convention, at
which neither Mr. Stiles nor the Union Delegates were
present, we resolved unanimously to vote for the nomina
tion of Buchanan, until all hope of his nomination should
fail, and then to determine who should be our next candi
date, and the Journal of that Convention funishes ample
proof of our fidelity to that resolve. For four wearisome
days, and though thirty-four balloting*?, we repeated the
name of “James Buchanan,” and yet there was no moment
in those tour days in which we did not have it our power, if
we had chosen, to vote for Douglass; “ Mr. Stiles and the
two others” to the contrary notwithstanding ; for there was
no time when we had not a clear majority of at least one.
Our Delegation being 21, deduct “Mr. Stiles and tw’o oth
ers” 3, leaves 18, to that add Judge Morton of the Union
Delegation, the w'armest Douglass man from Georgia and
it gives to us 19, and leaves them 16, from which deduct
Col. Kennan who was dropped before the committee on
credentials, on account of his being an open and avowed
Scott man, and it leaves them 15, to which add “Mr. Stiles
and two others” and they have 18 to our 19.
Who then Mr. Editor has had the impudence to inform
vou that ‘Mr. Stiles and two others held the vote of this
State in their hands.”
f Now as to the assertion, “the Union Delegates being al
together for Mr. Buchanan,” I can only say that your in
formant was either not at Baltimore and knows nothing of
what took place there, or else is totally regardless of the
truth. It was well known to everybody at Baltimore that
a majority of that Delegation were all the time and “aho
together” for Gen. Cass. On Saturday morning, when all
hands despaired of Mr. Buchanan, both Delegations met to
consult as to who next w r as to be run. We proposed
Douglass, the Union Delegates and perhaps our “Three”
objected. They remarked that we were aware that Ca.-s
was their favorite,and yet we prevented them from giving him
the vote of the State, and they thought as a compromise we
should yield our favorite Douglass, and take a third man
and proposedjMarcy; we replied that the established maxim
o Democracy is that the majority must govern,that we had
the majority, yet were not acting for ourselves ; but lor the
majority of the Democratic party of Georgia, and we knew
that majority preferod Douglass to any New York politician,
and that they must sutler us to vote for him nevertheless,
out of regard to their feelings, after three ballotings for
Douglass, and his prospects should not brighten, we would
then take up Marcy. This was agreed to, and yet
w>hen Judge Morton announced the vote of Georgia for
Stephen A. Douglass, Judge Jackson happened upon a
bench and proclaimed what he termed the protest of the
Union Delegates and the people of Georgia against that
vote, adding that they, and the people of Georgia wished
the nomination of Gen. Cass; this of course surprised the
Convention and called forth a counter protest from Judge
Morton, and he was the only one of that Delegation who
uttered onv dissent to Jackson, assertion.
S.T. BAILEY.
New Music.
Mr. J. L. Truux will please aceept our thanks for a
Polka, composed by himself and dedicated to Miss Julia
Flewellen, called “Carnival de Nouvelle Orleans, ”
and for “ The Look-Out Mountain WalfzJ* A musi
cal friend of ours is much pleased with the composi
tions, particularly the first piece, and upon his judgment
we recommend them to the public.
Valentine’s Day.
The 14th of February is consecrated to St. Valeo*
tine. It is an old notion that on this day the feathered
songsters eftbose their mates, and hence, perhaps, arose
the custom of interchanging love tokens on this day
amoug those young persons whose heaits are touched
with the tender passion.
The Lemon Slave Case. —The committee of the
Virginia Legislature, to whom w f a6 referred the docu
ments in relation to the Lemon slave ease, have repor
ted that inasmuch as the decision of Judge Paine is about
to come before the Supreme Court of New York, and
as the legislature of the latter State nas a bill before it
to repeal the law upon which the decision is founded,
they deem it unadvisable to express any opinion on the
merits of the decision at issue, bu recommend that the
Attorney General of Virginia together with such coun
sel as the Governor may direct, prosecute the appeal
taken to the New York Supreme Court.
Testimony of an Infidel Ruled Out.—The trial of
Loring Prince, of Douglass, charged with the manalaogh •
®f John L. Howard, was suddenly terminaied at
Worcester, Mass., a few’ days ago, by the ruling out of
the dying declarations of the deceased, on the ground
that he was an infidel.
Samuel Medary.
The Washington Republic says that the nomination
of Mr. Medary for the Post-master Generalship, under
Mr. Pierce, is bitterly opposed by the Allen wing of the
Ohio Democracy.
The Washington “Union ” expresses itself in the
following terms of the “Democratic Review :”
In the last week of January the November and De
cember numbers of the Democratic Review—and organ
of the self-styled progressive and fast men, came to us
freighted with its usual cargo of buccaneer morality and
savage denunciation. The semi -occasional appearance
of this piratical print is in keeping with the irregular and
illegitimate purposes of the plunder party which it repre
sents, and whose interests it seeks to promote by its un
principled forays on the field of polities. The style, too
in which it is written, partakes, by analogy, of the char
acter of its ethics ; uud as the one is but a profligate dia*
regard ol the principles of common honesty, so the other
treats with contemptuous acorn the rulesof common sense.
The half educated writer who makes up its articles
conveys liis contraband sentiments by the disguises and
concealments of the guilty smuggler, aud contrives either
from incapacity to speak with an honest candor or with
the design of masking his illieitaim to obscure his mean
ing iu a cloud of violent anti these*, far-fetched illusions,
swelling epithets, and ridiculous solecisms.
Conoiess.—lu the Senate, Feb. 4, the bill to amend
the warehousing system by establishing private bonded
warehouses, &c., was debated, amended, and passed.
The Pacific Railroad bill was debated bv Messrs. Davis
Dawson, and Douglas. A resolution prescribing the
manner for counting the votes for President and Vice
President, on Wednesday next, was adopted.
The House of Representatives concurred in the report
of the Joint Committee prescribing the mode of* counting
and announcing the electoral votes for President and Vice
President of the United States, on Wednesday next.—
Uhc remainder of the day was unprofitable consumed in
a parliamentary struggle between the friends and oppo
nents ot certain bilis grunting hinds for raiho&d purpose*,
I*oua Hundred and *ItVKLVE Stvdkmti were enter
ed at the L Diversity of \ irginia the present session—
twelve more than ever before, of whom nearly one hun
dred arc professors of religion.
Mr. William Pitts, an eminent lawyer of Wheeling,
died very suddontly in that place on Wednesday.
In consequeuce of the scarcity of small change, the
merchants of Portland, Me,, have resolved teceivod and
pay out United States postage stamps.