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{From the Charleston Courier-]
‘or Washimiton, Feb. 10.
We have rumors of General Pierce’s Cabinet
arrangements, every day, and they are very con
tradictory. The truth may be that nothing is
yet definitely settled. Mr. Flagg and all other
freesoilers are abandoned, and the New-Yorkers
here offer to bet that General .Marcy will re
present New-t ork in the Cabinet. Others again
believe that Mr. Hunter is to change his deter
mination, and accept the Department of State.
In this case, it is said that Mr. Cushing will take
the post of Attorney General. Mr. Campbell,
of Penn., Mr. McLelland, of Michigan, Mr.
Dobbin, of North-Carolina. and Mr. Jefferson
Davis, of Mississippi, are all talked of as promi
nent candidates for places in the Cabinet.
Ihe nomination of Mr. Micou, of Louisiana/
for the vacant seat on the bench of the Supreme
Court will be laid on tlie’table. Mr. Campbell,
of Mobile, a Democratic State Rights man, is
recommended bv the Democratic representatives
of nearly all the Southern States in Congress,
to Gen. Pierce, for the vacancy. Although Mr.
Dennis has been also recommended for the sta
tion, it is thought that Mr. Campbell will be the
nominee of Gen. Pierce. The Northern Senators
say that they will not vote for him, and to avoid
the diiiieulty would prefer to confirm Mr. Bad
ger- •
General Pierce is to be hereon Monday. lie
sent for General Shields to meet him in New
York, and the General is there accordingly.—
This is supposedto showjhat the Cabinet is not
yet settled.
Washington, Feb. 17.
The Pacific liail-Road bill reported by Gen
eral Rusk, finds so much favor in the Senate,
that it will probably pass that body to-morrow.
‘I lie bill is defective in detail and will be found
impracticable. Still, so strong is the feeling in
favor of some measures for the establishment
ol a road, through our own territory, to the Pa
cific, and so many the difficulties of maturing a
better plan than Gen. Rusk’s, that the Senate
will take it as it is. The House, acting under
the same influences, may also pass the hill.—
Capitalists will be found, in the present plentiful
condition ot the money market, to subscribe for
the stock, the Company availing themselves of
the loan of twenty millions from the govern
ment, and of a liberal donation of public lands
on the line of the road.
The bill would have passed the Senate to
day, had not its own friends occupied too much
time in its support.
Still the road will not be immediately com
menced under this hill. It will require a vear or
more tor the President to obtain a survey and
location ol the road in conformity with the act.
The Cabinet—A. C, Flags.
If the latest Cabinet conjecture be well found
id, New York State is still to be represented in
the Executive Councils. Mr. A. C. Flag*; would
honor any Cabinet, He has long been “known
as rt sale audskillui financier, an honest, plain
republican. W e believe lie is a native of North
ern New York, where, in Plattsburg, he first es
lablislied liimsell as an editor. With an ex
tended acquaintance among the people his in
fluence grew. He was returned to the Assem
bly. Wo believe it was then he became ac
quainted with die lamented Silas Wright, with
whom lie was on terms of intimacy to the day
ot his death. Mr. Flagg, as Comptroller, had
the management of the finances of New York,
during a long and critical period. After leaving
Albany lie was chosen cashier of the Hudson
River Railroad, but some jealousy arising, lie
resigned his post. He has been living the last
three years quite retired We believe the finan
ces of our country can safely be trusted to his
honesty and ability. He lias been tried in re
sponsible positions, is not involved in the fac
tions ol New York, is a plain republican, not
ashamed to confess that lie was once a poor
wood-chopper. We hope the day is not distant
when such hard-working, unpretending men,
true servants of the people, shall be placed in
responsible positions at Washington. We might
not then he reminded from time to time of what
is most contemptible and absurd, court etiquette
in America. We notice that the Washington
correspondent of the llaltimore Sun, intimates
that Mr. Flagg is a FYeosoiler. This we believe
to lie incorrect, from his personal and political
relations with Silas Wright.— Sac. Courier.
Stared at. —Willis is enamored of the way
the ladies of Havana stare at strangers. “The
Spanish lady,” lie says, “goes home very dis
contented from the promenade or public resort,
if she was no* walked up to and looked at. The
windows of their houses are like halves of birds
caws thrust out from the wall, and as they sit
out in the street, with only an iron grating be
tween them and the passer by, they feel slighted
il he does not slacken Ills pace and gaze delibe
rately into tlieir dark eyes open to him. It is
an innocent admission of wliat beauty issupposed
to be made for, and why jewels are worn and
bail-braided—to be seen. And this custom, I
think, partly gives the key to what strikes the
stranger as a peculiarity in the phisiognomy of
this people. There is no dodge in the Spanish
eye. In an an, or woman, it comes to you as
fair and square as the side of a decanter—fear
less and unwinking as an open inkstand. It has
nothing to conceal or avoid. It can receive no
offence from another’s l ink—it can give none by
its own. This seems to me a vciy great beau
ty. lam sorry for the twenty reasons that
why it cannot ho a peculiarit y of a “fast” coun
try like ours, with its exciting rivalries, and
highly civilized improvements upon nature. The
rarest thing in New York is a calm, trusting,
open, and unsuspicious eye.”
What is a Snob. —Thackeray, in one of his
lectures, said there were not as many snobs in
this country as in his, but there were some. If
the reader will follow us through his definition
of a snob, and then look round upon the com
munity, he will begin to think that the class is
“large and respectable ” Said Thackeray :
“ A Snob is that man or woman who are
always pretending, before the world, to be some
thing better—especially richer or more fashion
able—than they really are. It is one who thinks
his own position in life contemptible, and is al
ways yearning and striving to force himself in
to one above, without the education or charac
teristics which belong to it ; one who looks
down upon, despises, and over-iides his infe
riors, or even equals, of his own standing, and
is ever ready to worship, fawn upon, and flatter
a rich or titled man, not because lie is a good
man, a wise man, or a Christian man ; but be
cause he lias the luck to be rich or consequen
tial.”
Dome's Cold Mine. —Mr. J. J. Fields passed
through this city on Tuesday last, (says the At
lanta Intelligencer, of 10th inst, on his way to
the Dalilonega Mint, having in charge 810,000
worth of gold, from the mine of Mr. Win. Dome,
in Abbeville and Edgefield Districts, South
Carolina. This amount was the product of the
woik of eight hands, during the month of Jan
uary. Duiing twenty and a half days in De
cember, with the same number of bands, the
yield was 8-0,500. The aggregate yield of
gold since the commencement of work in the
mine, about ten months ago, has been upwards
of 8200,000, The quality of the gold from this
mine is said to lie ol a very superior order, and
we understand Mr. Dome lias some huge speci
mens in readiness for exhibition at the World's
Fair, next summer.— Con. <Sp Rep.
At die election held in Eufauiaon the gist inst,
for Town -•-uociluieii, to serve for die ensuing
year, ihe following gentlemen were elected : N.
M. Hyato, G. L. Allen. John McNab, John Hart
and G. W. Whipple. We understand Mr. Dougald
McLean lias been elected Marshal.
Daring Burglary. —The Store oflland, Wil
liams & Cos., was entered just after dark Sat
urday night by a negro, who, with a crowbar,
forced the iron shutter open, bending a strong
iron bar and wrenching the screws which se
cured it, from their sockets. He examined the
premises and finding nothing more desirable
helped himself to a large bag of Sugar and a
lump of Tobacco and left. —Chronicle <3p Sen'i
nel, Feb. 23.
SljeClimeß a\v) Sentinel
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1853.
“ V ’ T TELEGRAPHIC.^
Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.
MoiAi.e, Feb. 26, 4 o’clock, P. M.
New Orleans Marketf-Salesyesterday 14,000 bales;
market closing firm. The (Remand to-day has been limit
ed. Sales up to 1, P. >l. amount to ]OOO bales. We quote
Middling at 9c. *
Mobile.—Mr. Sartds* post ofliee clerk, who was prose
cuted by the on a charge of embezzlement,
was released this morning, and O. S. Boars, Postmaster,
has been arrested ; examination takes place on the 14ih
March. •
Cotton Market.|— enquiry has been light—2ooo
bales sold at prices a littft easier.
The Southern School Journal.
The second number of this inestimable Journal is
on our table. We use a strong adjective, for no other
will convey our meaning. In a Republican Govern
ment, the education of the people is a matter of indis
pensable necessity. The people, whether educated or
uneducated, moral or immoral, pious or wicked, are the
depositaries of all power. Our lives, our liberties, our
property, are in their keeping. They pass upon them
at the ballot box ; they give them or take them in the
i jury box. Go where you will and you are in the hands
of the people. They press upon you in call the avenues
of life—in trade, in business, in* social intercourse, in
the court room, in the legislative hall, they give “form
and pressure” to all the issues of life. Our families,
our school houses, our churches, cannot be elevated
above the reach of the people. They constitute public
opinion, of which we may well say the highest is not too
exalted to brave its power, nor the lowest too abject to
escape its notice. It envelopes us like the circumam
bient air. A debased people ! how terrible in anger ;
how mean in calamity; how grovelling in lusts ■ how
abject in purpose 1 To day they will parade the head
of a monarch on a pike; to-morrow they will kiss the
foot of a victorious despot; to-day—but read the history
of the reign of terror in France, and learn to dread a
debased people.
. It is the fashion in this country to attribute all vir
tue, all wisdom, all parity, to the people ; and none are
more ready to do so than the heartless demagogue
who makes no pretension to either. Os course there
are many good and many wise men in the U. States;
| but it is a lamentable truth, that there are a great many
j had and silly people between the two oceans. Indeed,
| theieis an amount of ignorance at the SoHth which is
j alarming. In our own State of Georgia, containing in
| her borders 408,694 white inhabitants, there are about
50,000 who can neither read nor write; and only 24,-
061 pupils in all the schools and colleges in the Suite,
or something less than 1-7 of the children between 5
and 20 years of age. This is ample guaranty that the
race of uneducated and ignorant people will not decrease
in the State unless she put her shoulder to the wheel
of public education and propel it to a successful issue
with the indomitable purpose which sent the steam en
j gine from the seaboard to the mountains,
j Let us compare the condition of Georgia with that
| of Massachusetts and New* Yoik.
! The amount expended by the State of Georgia per
annum, for the education of the people, is $23,096. The
amount xpended by the State of New York p r an
num, for the same purpose, is $1,681,316. In Geor
gia, there arc only 1-7 of the children between 5 and
20 years of age who are receiving the benefits of an
education. In New York 1-4 of the entire popula
tion are receiving the education that is to fit them to
perform their duties as citizens of the Republic. And
in Massachusetts, it was the boast of Gov. Clifford, in
liis last message, that there was ‘‘no child of the two
hundred thousand living within her borders who mav
not, and there are few who do not, receive in the com
mon schools of the State, the rudiments of a common
education at the public charge.” It is thus apparent
that Georgia is literally doing nothing for the education
of her children, worthy of her high character, and that
her present system is utterly inadequate for the wants
of her people.
What shall or can be done? This is the great and
important question which the Southern School Journal
I proposes to answer. We must know what our wants
are; what are the defects of our system ; what other
States have done in the cause; and what success has
crowned their efforts. On all tlies.* important points
we have found very valuable information in the two
numbers of the Journal which have been issued ; and
look with confidence to the subsequent numbers fur a
full and complete developement of the whole matter.
We verily believe that the success of the elfots now
being made for the education of the people of Georgia,
j is involved in the circulation of the School Journal.
It is, therefore, the duty of every patriot, of every Chris
tian, of every business man in Georgia, to become an
active agent in the circulation of the work. It is published
in Columbus, Ga., and is edited by the Rev. Tiios. F.
Scott, to whom all communications must he addressed.
Price, $1 per annum.
Stir among the Mechanics.
The City Council of New Orleans, some time since,
imposed a corporation tax of $lO upon the mechanics of
various kinds residing in the city.
On the night of the 21st instant, a meeting was held
in the Arcade to organize opposition to the measure—
such a meeting as was never seen before in the Cres
cent City.
The resolutions adopted pronounce the tax unjust,
unequal, oppressive and in violation of the true princi
ples up n which taxation should be based—unjust, be
cause it taxes labor—unequal, because it confounds the
poorest workman with the richest manufacturers—op
pressive, because it takes from the poor man a portion of
the pittance he has earned, and which is barely suffi
cient for liis support. The resolutions further assert
that in all civilized States of the present enlightened
age, the taxation of the labor of the artisan who has no
capital has been abolished 1
We confess that these are novel, strange and unre
publican doctrines to us. The fundamental principle of
freedom, and upon which our fathers this fair
Temple in which we live, is, that taxation and represen
tation are correlative rights. The man who votes must
pay his taxes, is as souud an axiom as that the man who
is taxed shall vote- “Unjust because it taxes labor !”
and is not all property the result of labor and its repre
sentative? How are fortunes made but by brain-sweat
or body-sweat ? llow can you tax any one without
taking from him a portion of his earnings ? The doc
trine of the reiolutionsof the mechanics of New Orleans
are agrarian, if not Fourieritish. Once assert the
principle that a man must be taxed because he is rich,
and must not be taxed because he is poor, and you
destroy the bulwarks of property and place the hard
earninos of every honest industrious eitizeu in the hands
of the dishonest and lazy vagabonds who would do
nothing but vote if thereby they could transfer their
neighbors’ money into their own pockets.
We will not deny that the tax may be too high. We
cannot say whether this is the case or not in reference
to New Orleans. Such a tax is now levied, on a dif
ferent principle however, upon the mechanics of Geor
gia, and like good citizens they have cheerfully borne
the burthen the State lias imposed. A man who will
shrink from his share of taxation, will surely love his
own pitiful self too w?ll to bear the brunt of battle if he
is ever summoned to the field. The right to pay taxes
is part of our heritage of ficedom. It was won at Bun
ker Hill and Yorktown. We would as soon refuse to
supjjort our father or mother as to refuse to
pay our taxes. It gives a man consequence. lie feels
that he is a citizen and that the lax collector's reeipt is a
certificate of citizenship. He is useful to the Slat*.
Shame on the mechanics of New Orleans !
Peculiarities of Northern ;
We notice that Mbs Antoinette Brown has been
stumping the State of New York in favor of the Li
quor Law.
Singularly strange must be the state of society, which
can tolerate so wide a departure from the laws of na
ture and of manners as is implied in a woman’s becom
ing a stump speaker. We will suppose that Miss
Antoinette is a blooming virgin, with dimpled chin and
cheek, and on the sunny side of twenty ; whose smiles
and tears can win admiration or elicit sympathy ; whose
beautiful tresses are adorned with flowers, and whose
voice trills with melody as her ivory fingers trip over
the keys of her piano. What a pity that such a crea
ture should desert the hearthstone and all the quiet
j%s of home, where her affections would Mess father
and mother and her kindly care guide the tender hearts
of the little ones to purity and love; and fling away
the modesty which is the chiefest ornament and the
maidenly reserve which is its greatest attraction
of her sex ; and burning with rage, contend with
bearded men before a rude populace, which can but
laugh at her folly, insult her helplessness, and rob her of
her fair fame and gentle virtues by their rude jests
and brutal sarcasms! And what can she hope to ac
coniplish by her eloquence? “A woman- moved, is
like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming and bereft
of beauty.” True, crowds will assemble 10 witness her
performance, not, however, to be instructed by her logic,
or persuaded by her eloquence, but to laugh at her im
pertinences and mock at her failures. The just and
good who truly reverence woman can bat bang their
heads and weep, that there should be an end of ail per
fection.
There certainly is a class of women at the North,
who are stark mad- Not con ten fto wear the hat and
pantaloons which belong to the male sex by immemorial
usage, they have seized upon the scalpel of the
physician, and the stump of the demagogue : and we
presume they will not be satisfied until they clothe
themselves in the ermine of the judge and the robes of
the Senator, and their husbands put on the flowing
skirts and rock the baby’s cradle.
Thank God ! our Southern woman is content to occu
py the place assigned her by nature, as the presiding
genius of home and the Queen of hearts.
God bless every one of them, and give them hus
bands, fathers, brothers and children, worthy of their
love and heritous of their virtues ! As long as the Bi
ble is read and respected among us, we may have no
fear of this most loathsome of all fanaticism.
The Incoming Administration—What we may
Expect.
We confess that the incoming of anew ad ministra
ti >ll tills us with unalloyed pleasure, as it leads us to
hope that the ship of State will be put on the old Re
p ibiican track ; that corruption will hide its horrid vis
age from public view ; that economy will be introduced
into the departments ; that the rights of the States will
be respected ; that the power, patronage and influence
of the Federal Government will be curtailed 5 that abo
litionism will be rebuked and silenced in its senseless
clamor ; that the conservative principles of State Rights
Democracy will control the administration ; that the
sterling republicanism of Monroe will guide our con
duct with foreign nations and rebuke the insolence of
despotism. If this shall be the ease, then can a South
ern man bold up his head and feel again his manhood.
N< r are the signs uupropitious. Gen, Fierce is a
Republican without a spot on his escutcheon. He nev
er gave a vote which tended to enlarge the sphere of
the Federal Government, or to circumscribe the power
or lessen the dignity of the States, lie has, consistent
ly and sternly, resisted all extravagant expenditures.
He has exposed his own person to the bullets of the
foes of his country, and w.ll nt shrink from collision
with foreign nations if the honor or interests of the
Union demands a resort to arms. lie chose Huntur.
of Virginia, for his Premier, from the long array of dis
tinguished men who aided in his election, and would
have been proud to link their names with the glories
of his administration. Cushing, of Massachusetts, and
Davis, of Mississippi, will probably be members of bis
Cabinet—names as distinguished in the Senate as they
are terrible in the field—and who will as sternly oppose
the advances of Federalism, of Abolitionism, of corrup
tion in the Government, as did the gallant Mississippi
regiment stem the tide of battle at Buena Vista*
The only cloud of doubt which blackens this fair hor
izon, is the Flagg of frecsoilism which hangs upon the,
horizon of New York. And even if this one undistin
guished and influential freeeoiler shall, under a mistaken
polity, be allowed a seat in the Cabinet, we may still
congratulate the country upon our happy deliverance
from the rule ©f Scott, under whom, in ail human
probability, a majority of the heads of Departments
would have been freesoilers and some of them down
right abolitionists.
The 4th of March will put an end to these specula
tions, and turn our rejoicings into weeping or confirm
our most sanguine expectations. Till then, let us rest
in hope.
Mr. Mason’s Report on the Honduras Question.
The very decided tone of this report has created no
little excitement. With the lights before us, we hearti
ly sanction the conclusions of the committee. The Uni
ted States have a deep interest in all questions affecting
1 Central America. In all probability no safe and expe
ditious route to the Pacific can be opened in many years
across the continent South of Tehuantepec. Wo can
not, therefore, allow any maritime power to get the
control of Central America, and least of all Great Brit
ain. She is the only European nation whose policy
conflicts with ours in this question, and any encroach
ment of hers ought to be watched with extreme solici
tude ; and she should be held strictly to her treaty stipula
tions. It is the opinion of the committee : “That the Is
lands of Roatau, Bonacca, Utilla. Barbant, Helena, and
Morat, in and near the Bay of Honduras, constitute a
part of the territory of the Republic of Honduras, and
therefore form a part of ’Central America,’ and, in
consequence, that any occupation or colonization of these
Islands by Great Britain, would be a violation of the
treaty of the 19th of April, 1850.
“The committee, from the information before them,
entertain a decided opinion that the British settlements
at Belize, as defined by the treaties with Spain, lie within
the territory of the Republic of Guuteniala, and so equally
constitute a part of ‘Central America.’ Should such
be the fact, whilst the committee are not prepared to
say that the engagements of the treaty of 1850 would
require that those settlements shall be abandoned and
discontinued on the part of Great Britain, yet this gov
ernment would have just cause of complaint against any
extension of the limits of these settlements beyond those
prescribed by Spam, or as further allowed by the re
public where they may be found J and that in any man
ner to enlarge or change the character of these settle
ments by any mode of jurisdiction, would be in viola
tion of said treaty.”
Washington Rumors.
The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says, that
the selection of Caleb Cushing, as Secretary of State,
gives general satisfaction.
Mr. Flagg, he says, has informed his friends that he
has been offered the Treasury Department, and has
consulted them upon the expediency of accepting it.
We publish, in another column, an extract from the
Savannah Courier , in which the nomination of Mr.
Flagg is highly approved, and he is said to be free from
the taint of Abolitionism. The Sun's correspondent
is of a very different opinion. lie says: “This selec
tion is resisted, and the nomination, if made, will proba
bly be rejected by the Senate. Neither the State Rights
or Hunker Democrats of the Senate will advise and
consent to this nomination.
“Mr, Flagg was a free-soilcr upon principle and con
viction, whereas Mr. Dix was a free-soiler from policy.
Mr. Flagg led his party, while Mr. Dix followed it,
Mr, Flagg is honest in his eourse, though Mr.
Dix might be willing to compromise his principles
and abandon his free-soilism. If Mr. Dix was strongly
objected to, on account of his free-soilism, it is not like
ly that it will be considered a recommendation of Mr.
Flagg. It is admitted that Mr. Flagg is a man of in
tegrity and some abilities, though an old fogy sexa
genarian.”
The Escape of Mrs. \\ hile.
We learn through Dr. Green, the Superintendent,
that Mrs. White, formerly of this city, has made her
t-r-cape from the Asylum by means of a rope-ladder,
which she manufactured secretly. She is still derang
ed and is as desperate as ever. The community may
look out for her arrival.
Congressional Election-—Col. Pickens’ Letter
The people of South Carolina are very singular in
many things ; but there is one of their peculiarities
which strikes us as very praiseworthy, and which ought
tii be imitated by every State in the confederacy.
It is known that there is an election to be held in the
second Congressional district of that State, very shortly ;
1 hat there are three candidates in the field, one of whom
Ills but few equals as an orator 5 that the result of the
lection is exceedingly doubtful ; and that the most in
significant circumstance may turn the scale in favor of
one or the other of the candidates.
Under these circumstances, it is natural for us to
suppose that neither of the candidates would allow any
opportunity to remain unimproved to win popular fa
vor. Yet all of them have peremptorily declined to
! address the people, for reasons highly creditable to
themselves ; but which are too lofty, we fear, to be ap
[ predated by politicians of other sections of the Union.
Col. Pickens, oue of the candidates, in his letter to a
| committee of the citizens of Abbeville District, uses the
i following language:
I “I am deeply attached to the people of Abbeville from
all the associations of my life, as well as from all the histori
cal recollections connected with the early settlement and
defence oft he District by our forefathers, and I would do
anything that a man ought to do to meet their wishes.
*lf there was any great public question immediately in
issue upon which the country was divided into parties, I
would not hesitate as to my course—l would meet any
where in the discussion of those questions, and there should
he no voter who would be ignorant of any sentiment I en
tertained on the question at issue. But in your resolution
and invitation there is no such question intimated, and it
would result emphatically in an ‘active canvass’ for person
! al claims and merits between the candidates. Now, in
: such a contest at present, 1 confess nothing would be more
| unpleasant than to appear to become the solicitous adyo
j cate of my own claims. It strikes me, that the peculiar
fitness and merits of ail of us, who are now before the pub
lic for choice, is clearly a case, in the existing state of the
country, for the calm and deliberate judgment of the peo
ple.”
It certainly is very unusual for politicians to decline
“an active canvass for personal claims.” Little else is
thought of by most of them. They build up their fame
on the wreck of civil virtue,and prefer success to truth,
honesty, and their country’s welfare.
Further Particulars of the Late Eire.
Messrs. Dudley & Martin lost most of their carriages •
Messrs. Smith and others lost their tools and a quantity
of timber; Mrs. Ilall lost the whole of her provisions
and kitchen furniture ; Col. Spivey lost a valuable horse
and a quantity of forage : the woodwork of the cannon
of the Ringgold Artillery was .also consumed.
To the credit of our community, however, the flames
had hardly subsided before a committee was canvassing
the city in favor of the sufferers, and a largo amount
had been already raised before the list was pre
sented to us. We hope and believe that the sufferers
will find that their loss will be their gain.
We were somewhat surprised to find in the last En
quirer the following paragraph:
“Now this suggestion is our own. Would not our citi
zens take pleasure in contributing something to the sufferers?
No tire that ever happened, injured a m re honest, indus
trious and worthy set of men than this. When the rich
safer on such occasions everybody comes to the rescue.
The needy, generally do not, jure so well. In the case be
fore us, the small assistance granted and unfelt by the
many, in the aggregate, might prove o’ immense benefit to
the suffering few.”
We are perfectly willing that the Enquirer should
enjoy the felicity of having suggested the propriety of
relieving the sufferers, though we are of opinion that be
fore the article was written, the active benevolence of
our citizens had already gone to work. We cannot,
however, pass unnoticed the sentences italicized. Our
observation, at least in this city, is quite the reverse of
that of our neighbor. If there is one quality which
distinguishes the people of Columbus, it is the prompt
ness with which they respond to the cry of destitution.
The Orphan Asylum is a monument of their charity,
and the late fire which laid it in ashes but afforded an
opportunity cf showing that their benevolence was only
e |nailed by the demands which were made upon it.
Three thousand dollars were raised in three days to
rebuild it. It is a well known fact, too, that hundreds
of Factory operatives have been clothed and fed during
the past winter by this community. And the last fire
has not found them idle or indifferent spectators of the
calamities of the indigent.
But we are extending our remarks too far. We only
designed to correct the erroneous impressions of our
neighbor, and to render honor to whom honor is due.
The Stature of Men.
N. P. Willis, in a very graphic description of Sa
vannah. indulges in the following remarks in reference
to the relative size of Georgians and Cubans:
“Beginning with mine host of the Pulaski, who would
cut up into quite a committee of the largest men in Cuba, 1
was immediately struck with the contrast between Havana
and Savannah, in the stature of the men. A few minutes
after our arrival, the gong sounded and the crowd poured
from all quarters of the house to the Sunday evening ‘tea
and the sudden change in the average levt 1 of the heads ;
around me, affected my comparative consciousness, in a
way which, for a moment, 1 was at a loss to understand.
I felt suddenly pulled under, like a cork with ‘a bite.’ It is
curious how soon the general angle with which one looks
at people becomes a habit. Most of the faces I had met
for a couple of months had been seen down a declivity of
forty-five degrees. 1 now felt strange at being obliged to
look off at my own horizontal and above it—almost every
man in the hou-e standing six feet and over, in his stock
ings. The Georgians are doubtless a tall race—walking
rifles to the little pistols of Cuba—and, with so slight a dif
ference of latitude. and longitude in the respective soils
that produce them, it would, by the way.be a pretty study
of physiology to inquire into tiie reasons of the contrast.”
South-Western Circuit.
The Albany Patriot wins: “While wo believe that
we have in the Circuit many oilier gcntleim-n of the
legal ptofcssiiMi c<>in]>etr-nt to fill the office with credit
and ability, we think a better w more judicious selec
tion could not have been made. Mr. Lyon is emi
nently a s-uiu-i and practical Dwyer, and an honorable,
high-iiii.id and man—.very way worthy the trust which
i we beln ve will s u he committed to his hands by the
* voters of the Sou’h-Western Circuit.”
Tele/rapls to the Pacific.
Mr. Henry O’Ueillv proposes to erect a line of tele
graph from .St. Louis to San Francisco, without any j
compensation fro in the government either in land or
money.
His plan is for the government to establish a chain of
stockades from St. Louis to the Pacific, twenty miles
apart, and protected by United States dragoons. The
soldiers will convey the mail, and protect emigrant
trains. A line of telegraph is to be constructed on this
I route by Mr. O'Reilly, without any compensation from
I the government, cither in land or money. This project
j can be completed iu a twelvemonth.
i abint't Rumors Again.
The very latest Cabinet reports assume the following
shape : Secretary of State, Caleb Cushing; Secretary
of War, Jefferson Davis; Post-Office. R. McClelland;
Interior, James Outline, —which are regarded nearly
certain. The Treasury lies between Messrs. Marcy,
Flagg and Dix ; the Navy between Coni, Stockton and
James C. Dobbin; and the Attorney Generalship be
tween Judges Campbell and Black.
W. 11, Wynn not Head.
The Florida Sentinel , by mistake, published the
death of the Senator from Calhoun before his time had
come. We arc very much gratified to sec him in our
city, this week, quite as well as usual, though a little*
saddened by the melancholy news from Tallahassee.
Our friends in Florida will be pleased, also, to learn
that they may still command the services #f a distin
guished citizen in the office he has adorned.
Thirty Negroes for Sale.
Our readers will notice in our advertising col
umns, that Messrs. Howard, Sons & Cos. will sell, on
the first day of March , in front of C. S. Harrison A
Co.’s Auction Rooms, in this city, thirty likely negroes,
some for cash and some on time. A more favorable
time to purchase this kind of property will hardly again
occur this season.
Jethro Cotton.
Twenty-two bales of Jethro Cotton, from the planta
tion of Wilds Robb, Esq, of Morgan county, were
sold in the Augusta mnricet, on the 21st Feb., for 16
c-nts per lb.
Desitli of Col. N. L. Griffin.
This estimable citizen died at his residence, in Edge
field District, S. C., on the 19th instant. lie was high
ly esteemed, and at the time of his death, represented
his district in the Senate of South Carolina.
Thackeray.
Tiffs distinguished writer will deliver a series of lec
tures in Charleston, S. C., on the 7th, 9th and lltli
March next.
Counterfeiters.
We learn from the Georgia Courier , that seven or
eight SSO counterfeit bills, on the Marine and Fire In
surance Bank of Savannah, have been circulated in
Stewart eaunty, by a couple of fellows who are travel
ling through the country with a few horses as horse
dealers, and embracing every convenient opportunity to
palm off their spurious money, it gives the following
description of one of them : He is about six feet high,
weighs about 180 lbs., lias light hair and rather light
complexion. The bills circulated in Stewart arc*
lettered K, made payable to C-F. Mills, dated Jan.
Ist, 1850, signed J. Olmstead, Cashier, Edw’d Padel
ford. President, and numbered over 1100.
Jenny Lind.
It is announced in the New York Commercial , that
Jenny Lind will visit the United States next season,
and remain here two or three years, giving concerts in
the principal cities.
Homicide.
A dispute about a trifling affair between Capt. Jones
and Col. Ware, both of Greenville District, S. C., re
sulted in the death of the former. Ware was his son
in-law.
More Huaios.
A correspondent of the Savannah Republican says :
“Mr. Pierce is expected here about the 20th inst. Who
will go into his Cabinet is still a matter of uncertainty
and conjecture. Public opinion, however, seems
to be settling down into the conclusion, that Mr. Cush
ing, of Massachusetts, is to bo Secretary of State, and
Col. Davis, of Mississippi, Secretary of War. These
two appointments, by some,are considered ‘fixedfacts’
For the other places, some conjecture that Commodore
Stocktou is to be Secretary of the Navy, Mr. McLellan,
of Michigan, Post Master General, and Mr. Flagg, of
New York, Secretary of the Treasury, &c. All this,
however, is rumor. A few weeks will settle the mat
ter by a disclosure, which, perhaps, may show all these
speculators how little they know about it.”
Fatal Accident.
Mr. Kelly, a mechanic connected with the Variety
Works, of this city, died on Friday evening last, lSth,
from hurts received a few days before in accidentally
falling from a platform, some ten or twelve feet high,
upon a pile of rock below. The deceased was a native
of Ireland, and had secured the friendship and esteem cf
a large circle of acquaintances bv bis ihdustry, sobriety
and general good conduct. His death is consequently
much regretted, not only by the natives of his own birth
place, but by all who knew him. The death of such a
man is a peculiar loss to our city, a great deal of whose
prosperity depends on the success of her manufactures,
and the prosecution of the mechanic arts. — Columbus
Enquirer.
The Vice President elect, the Hon. Win. R. King,
arrived at Havana on the 6th instant. Great attention
is paid him, wofunderstand, by the authorities. On the
arrival of the Fulton with him on board, the British
man-of-war Vestal sent a boat to her to know if Mr.
King would accept a salute. This, however, Mr.
King declined.
A Man Shot.
We learn that John Wade was shot by Simpson
Clem, on Tuesday, 18th inst., in Augusta, Ga., and is
lying in a dangerous condition. The difficulty origin
ated in the reprehensible practice of throwing brick
bats at houses. Clem was arrested, and, after exam
ination before a Magistrate, was discharged.
Circus and Menagerie.
We have been requested to state that Raymond,
Maibie & Co.’s Circus and Menagerie will not visit
Oglethorpe or any other place afflicted with Small Pox.
They are now on their way to their next appointment,
and will be careful to avoid all infected places, so that
the public need feel under no apprehensions from their
visit to our city.
Progress.
The Delta, in speaking of Progress, says: “And
even if the sword must be the indispensable companion
of its course, we must not forget that sometimes, ‘like
the patriarch’s wound, it may blossom into flowers tb
deck the conquerors brow.’ ”
Letter from Oxford, Ca.
Emory College—lts Progress and Prosperity —Judge
Eongstreely if-e.
Messrs. Editors: Do you never grow weary with
the noise and confusion of “the pent city where men
do congregate,” and long—if not with Cowper, for “a
lodge in some vast wilderness”—yet for a quiet sojourn
in some sequestered village, w here you may enjoy both
the rus in urbe and the urbs in rure ? Does frolic
Fancy, while she essays in her sportive gambols to cheer
the flagging spirits of the men of “the scissors and the
quill,” never decoy you from your sanctum, and conduct
you to some such blissful retreat, where tranquility
reigns undisturbed—the presiding genius of the sylvan
scene ? And when the printer’s call for “ more copy ”
awakens you from the fond reverie, arc you tempted to
abjure the wanton maid and “all her vagrant train”—
to deny that there is such an Elysium on earth—affirm
ing, vrith a sigh, that not in all the land of your idola
try—not in all the broad and sunny South—can such
a delightful spot be found ? If so, visit but once our
quiet town of Oxford, reposing in undisturbed calm
amid her forest groves, and tarry long enough among
her classic shades to imbibe the sweet and sacred in
fluences of the place ; and your correspondent pledges
that you will confess and deny no: ; but confess that in
our own Empire State exists a village fully realizing the
poet’s idea —nay, outrivalling in attraction even Gold
smith's fancied Auburn. But “the village of shade,”
unlike that of “the plain,” has found as yet no inspired
bard to publish its praises to an admiring world. We
indulge, however, the hope that its beauties will not
long remain unsung, I low we would rejoice to be hon
ored with a visit from the accomplished Editress of the
Literary Department of the Times ij* Sentinel! Gifted
as she is, with a refined and discriminating taste, and
readily susceptible of impressions from the beautiful in
both the physical and moral world, she could not, on
such an occasion, fail “to strike her harp.” We should
hear “entranced,” and our Oxford be “married to im
mortal verse-*’ In the notable phrase of the Masonic
Brotherhood, your correspondent exclaims, ex animo—
“so mote it be !”
Oxford is, as you are doubtless aware, the seat of
Emory College. This institution, founded in 1837,
owed not. its origin to the rnillionary bequest of an in
fidel Girard, nor to the liberal donation of a pious Mer
cer. Its projectors, recognizing the necessity of its ex
istence, remembered the injunction of the Wise Man of
Old, and did not “despise the day of small beginnings.”
They commenced operations not only without an en
dowment for the support of the Faculty, but even with
out the necessary buildings for the use of the students.
But the enterprise was consecrated to God, and it lived
—lived through years of dark disasters—and lived to
bless the people who cherished and supported it, in sup
plying the country with cultivated minds—the children
of the coming generation with able teachers—the State
with worthy Legislators—the church with exemplary
Ministers, and the Missionary field with ardent and de
voted laborers. The College is now in full and success
ful experiment, and with no fear of future failure to
shackle its energies and retard its progress, bids fair
soon to rival the proudest institutions of the land. The
first President of Emory College was the Rev. Ignatius
A. Few—a man of vast erudition, but of child-like do
cility and sweetness of temper. The great statesman,
John C. Calhoun, was wont to say of him, that in va
riety and profundity of learning, he had, in his day, no
equal south of the Potomac. But, notwithstanding his
wonderful acquirements, he was a poor financier, and
fortunately for the College on this account, his adminis
tration was one of short duration. After his resigna
tion, Doctor Few removed to Athens, Ga., where he
deceased a few years since. At his request his re
mains were interred in the Oxford burial-ground. The
Masonic Fraternity of the State of Georgia have erected
a beautiful marble monument to bis memory, which,
tastefully enclosed and suitably inscribed, constitutes an
imposing, and, at the same time, a chaste and appropri
ate ornament to the Coll- ge ground His successor to
the Presidency of the College was the Rev. Augustus j
B. Longstreet, LL. D.—the politician aid the lawyer,
the scholar and the Divine—a man Os volatile genius, j
simple manners and eccentric habits. An encyclopo- |
dist in learning, he was an admirable critic in every
department of study. Accurate in his knowledge and
felicitous in its communication to his pupils, he was an
excel!, nt teacher. Under life able supervision, the in
stitution rose rapidly in public favor. Attracted by his
fame, students flocked to the College from nearly, if not
all the S*'Uth*rn States, to listen to his teachings and
learn less.nts of wisdom from the cou; s. Is that fl oved
from his lips. Disciplined iu mind and heart—trained
in intellect and morals by his wonderful skill and un
der his fostering care, annually went forth from the
halls of Emory, young men who were to become at
once ornaments and blessings to society. These are
and will continue to be his “epistles of commendation,”
and as “bright and burning lights in church and State,”
will speak his praises and keep green his memory long
after his venerable form shall have passed away from
earth and mingled with the dust of the valley! His
honored name is one which life pupils “w ill not willing
ly let die.” In the summer of 1848. Judge Longstreet,
in obedience to what he deemed an imperious necessity,
resigned the office of President, and the Trustees im
mediately proceeded to supply the vacancy by the election
of the Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, D. D., to that important
trust. This was, without doubt, a judicious selection.
Insinuating in manners, and yet dignified in deport
ment, accomplished in person and yet more richly en
dowed iu intellect, Dr. Pierce is one of the few gifted
beings, of whose genius fame is an inalienable birth
right, and of whose every enterprise success is the un
failing guerdon. Captivating without effort, and great
without exertion, the students love and obey, the coun
try honors and admires, and the church almost idolizes
this talented gentleman and eloquent divine. Under
his popular administration, Emory College has gone 011
from prospering to prosper until it has attained its pres
ent position. At the opening of the present term, one
hundred and thirty students crowded the College prop
er, the Preparatory Department numbers thirty or forty
more, and we are told “the cry is, still they come.”
With the village of Oxford and the prosperity of
Emory College are inseparably associated the name and
fame of yet another distinguished worthy of Georgia—
a great and good man, the honor of whose acquaintance
and friendship we have had the highly esteemed privi
lege of enjoying for many years. We allude to the
Professor of Physical Science, the Rev. Alexander
Means, A. M., M. D. Facile in manner, eloquent in
speech and kind in action, this accomplished gentleman
and Minister of God wins and retains the love and ad
miration of all, who are so happy as to come within the
sphere of his influence. An enthusiastic devotee at
the shrine of Religion and Science, the altar whereon
were laid the earliest offerings of his genius ; and with
al, modest and unassuming as he is gifted and good,
Dr. Means has uniformly declined to occupy other posts
of honor than those which he has so long and ably
filled. A nomination of Representative of this District
in the American Congress, has, if we are not mistaken,
been more than once tendered him, and the Trustees
of Emory College have repeatedly solicited his accep
tance of the Presidency of the Institution, of which he
lias been an abiding pillar of support and a constant
ornament from its earliest infancy to the present hour.
Prompted by motives of duty and impelled by the force
of circumstances, the gifted Professor, endowed with
every quality of mind and heart to adorn either station,
lias resisted the importunities of devoted friends, and
continued with untiring zeal to investigate the arena of
science and unfold the strains of unrivalled eloquence,
“the laws which lead from Nature up to Nature’s
God.”
There are other residents of our wood-land village,
who are not unknown to fame, and whose characters
and lives are well worthy of a sketch from a more
graphic pen than that of your correspondent. The citi
zens generally are noted for their piety and intelligence,
and are eminently sociable and hospitable. There are
in all some 45 or 50 families—not dwelling together in
a crowded space of a few acres, but scattered over an
area extending from three-quarters of a mile in one
direction to half a mile in the other. The streets are
broad and adorned with shade trees of native growth.
Each lot has its grove of forest trees, and when Spring,
“veiled in a shower of shadowing roses, on our plains
descends,” or ardent summer crowns the world with
glory and beauty, no lovelier village can be found than
our own rural Oxford. SIGMA.
Col.CincinnnatusTrousdale, nephew we believeofGov.
Trousdale, of Tennessee, died at Helena, Arkansas, on
jtiie 3d inst., after a long and painful illness, aged thirty
two years. He was a native of Tennessee, but had re
sided in Arkansas eleven years, where he had won high
position as a lawyer and as an exemplary citizen, lie
served with distinction in the Mexican war and was
honorably mentioned in the official reports of the battle
of Buena Vista.
Carolina Liberality. —The Charleston Mercury an
nounces that the City Council have liberally contributed
the sum of SIO,OOO, towards the building of a Hall of
Exhibition for the South Carolina Institute, and also an
additional sum of fifteen thousand dollars, as a loan for
the same purpose. This, together with the sum of
SIO,OOO previously granted by the State, is deemed am
ply sufficient to carry out the contemplated design.
National Prize Poem. —R. W. Latham, Esq., the
well known banker of Washington city, publishes a card
in the \\ ashingtun Union of Saturday last, iu which he
offers a prize of SSOO for the best national poem, ode or
epic, to b. determined by a committee of gentlemen,
comprising the President of the United States, members
of tiie Senate, House of Representatives, press and clergy,
of Washington city.
iTTThu Supreme Court of Georgia was opened in this
city on Monday morning, and adjourned over to Tues
day, by .Judge Nisbet, on account of the non-arrival
of Judges Lumpkin and Warner. On Tuesday morn
ing all the judges were in attendance, and proceeded
with tiie business of the term. There are thirty-two
eases on docket, and the Court will be in session pro
bably for two weeks.— Journal ij- Messenger.
Mr. Randall, of Athens county, Ohio, has recovered
a verdict in the Superior court at Cincinnati, of §1,500
damages against tiie New Orleans Telegraph Company,
for personal injuries caused by his being thrown out of
his carriage, tiie horses having taken fright at the tele
graph wires, which had fallen across tiie road.
Two monks of the Order of St. Benoit—MM. Ulrick
Christine de Strauz and Bedu Conner—have left their
conveut of Notre Dame d’Eitisiedten, at Paris, to go to
New York. They are called to the State of Indiana,
to establish a convent in the same style as that in Switz
erland.
Gov. Reid, of North Carolina, lias appointed Hon.
Jas. C. Dobbin, IT. S. Senator, in place of Mr, Mangum,
whose term expires on tiie 4th of March. Tiie Legis
lature failed to make a choice at the recent session.—
The validity of tiie appointment will, it is said, be con
tested.
Tiie Louisiana Conference of the M. E. Church South,
at its recent session, reported a membership of 4,872
whites, and 4,790 colored. Its missionary contributions
amount to upwards of $ll,OO0 —which is considerably
over $2 for every member within its bounds.
Col. Jack Hays, of “Texas Ranger” notoriety, now
sheriff of San Francisco, is a passenger on the steamship
Ohio, now due at New York. He is en route for Tex
as, the old scene of his daring exploits, via Wash
ington.
The Rulcighy, (N. C.) Standard, of Wednesday, states
“on the very best authority, that Gov. R,-id lias made
no appointment of a Senator to succeed Mr. Mangum.”
Census of Stewart County. —Tiie census of Stewart !
county for 1852 is as follows :
Total number of whites, 9816 !
Slaves, 8081
Free pcKons of color, 7
Lunatics, 3 j
Deaf and dumb, 3
Gen. Blake lias returned to Washington from Florida.
It is understood that he anticipates no serious difficulties
with tiie Indians.
Tiie new Code of Alabama requires every planter to
have his initials, and the initials of his county, upon every
bale of cotton he sends from his gin.
A cariosity, in the shape of natural “gas works,” has
been discovered in Holmes county, Ohio.
Mr. Micou, of Louisiana, lues been nominated to ‘i;;, ,
vacant Jtfdgeship on the Supreme Beuch by Mr. Fill,
more.
General Pierce's Movements. —General Pierce
string in Philadelphia, and will not reach Washington
before Monday, 21st.
England.— -Visj-ouut Melbourne is dead.
The venerable Bishop .Soule leit Nashville on
tiie Sltli inst. Cor California.
Destructive Fire in Charleston.
Charleston, Feb. 20, P. M.
A fire broke out at 3 o'clock this morning at ii l( .
Northeast corner of King and Mary streets, by uhi.-h
Cook’s Grocery Store, Hafkeasehieki's Bar-room, in
the same building, and Hummel’s Apothecary stor.■
were consumed. Cook’s building was also insured.
Mr. Cook was insured S4OOO on his groceries in the
Agency of the Protection Insurance Company, and s2ot)ii
on tiie building iu tiie South Carolina Insurance Com
pany. Tiie bar-room was insured for SSOO in the
j South Carolina Mutual Insurance Company. John
l Tolle’s building, occupied by Mr. Hummel, was insures!
j for $1,500 in tiie Soutli Carolina Mutual Insurance
| Company, Mr. Hummel’s stock was insured. Mr.
| Cook's dwelling was insured in the South Carolina of
; fice for SIOOO, the full amount necessary for repairs,
j Tiie front of the building on the northeast corner of
King and Morris streets, owned and occupied bv Levi
Moses, is much charred. The building is insured in
the Georgia Mutual Insurance Company.
Mr. F. A. Bonneau, clerk of tiie Board of Eire Mas
ters, and Mr. T. H. Whitney, Fire Master, was injured,
but not seriously.
More of the Capitol Extension Fraud.
Mr. Borland moved to add the appropriation r or the ex
elision of tiie capitol, a proviso that hereafter til oney
expended on this work shall be disbursed by tiie eomn.is*
sioner of public buildings, lie said that it was necessary,
from what had taken place, that there sliouli be tome
safeguard placed over the disbursement of the public
moneys. He was a member of tiie select committee on
tills subject, before which there was a mass of testimony
showing that there had been a total disregard oi the pub
lic interest, and a fraudulent misuse of the public H.on
to an extent unheard of before in this country.
When the first appropriation for this work was before
the Senate, he called attention to what he considered was
fraud in the matter, and yet he had been denounced fi r
it by the special organ of the administration. There w:
ample evidence before the committee of large embezzle
ments. Tiie evidence of commissioner of public buildings
had shown that tiie architect when informed ofthe frauds
of tiie superintendent refused to notice them. Large
sums had been embezzled during tiie past year.
Sn's quently he said that it was sliowu that the archi
tect had made contracts for pieces of marble containing
over thirty cubic feet at $1.98 per cubic foot, and at '.5
cents |>eT cubic foot for pieces containing less tlian thirty
cubic feet. That result that tiie large were brought here
at great expense, and after they had go; here they wr.
broken up into small pieces to be used. In litis way
$05,000 had been lost.
Mr. Brooke protested against this divulging ex-parte
evidence before the committee.
Mr. Cooper defended the character of Mr. Walter, the
architect
Theuim-udinent was agreed to, 11s also was an item for
s2o,ottO for the Library of Congress.
Texas Items.
Tiie Legislature has adjourned sine die.
The apportionment till has become a law with
out the signature of the Governor. The internal
improvement bill was indefinitely postponed—ayes
28, noes 20. A bill was passed making an appro
priation for improving tiie principal livers ju the
State. This law will have to be ratified bv a vote
of the people, at the next August genera! election,
before it can go into efiect. Several new railrt ad
charters were granted.
The Legislature refused to pass tiie bill allowing
s4lioo per mile to railroad companies for each mile
of road built ; but raised the land donation to six
teen sect’ons, each of 640 acres, or 10,240 acres
for eieh mile of railroad actually constructed
This is certainly a munificent donation, and must
tell favorably on our internal improvement
questions.
The Light;house at Matagorda Pass, sixteen
miles frem Indii nola, is noiw seen at ail hours of
the night. It has been seen, we learn, at the dis
tance of thirty miles. The light revolves, and is
seen about once per minute, to distinguish it from
tiie light at Galveston, which is stationary.
Later from Havana.
Baltimore, Feb. 23.—The steamship B::.ck
Warriorhas arrived at New York from Mobile via
Havana. She leftjthe latter port on the 18th in.-i..
and was fired at as siie was going out before .-he
could hoist her colors. The bark Martha Ann, from
Savannah, for Havana, was fired into oft Cuba bv
the Britisli frigate Ve.-tal, on suspicion that she was
a slaver. Tiie general health of Havana was good,
j ‘Die IIOII.W. ft. King was no better. He had
gone to Matanzas, and despairs, it is said, of recov
ery. Prior to his departure he hid a slight mis
understanding with the Captain General, who, walv
ing etiquette, agreed to visit him, and appointed a
j time for tiie interview, but tailed to keep Ids ap
poir.tment; whereupon, Mr. King reminded him of
the circumstance, and General Canedo immediate*
ly called, but was refused admittance. Before Mr.
King left for Matanzas, however, cards wer.- inter
changed, thus settling the difficulty. The contract
for the erection of a Tele, taj h line in Cuba, has
been awarded to Mr. Kennedy, of Philadelphia, at
8225 per mile. The deman t for Sugars at the
departuie of the B.'a k Wariior was g oJ, a:id tiie
st >ek 0.1 hand comprised 30,C00 boxes.
j
Baltimore, Fob. 22.
The brig Emily, Captain Davis, from New York
for Charleston, has been ashore off Sandy Hook.
She was got off, however, on Tuesday, and her
cargo is not damaged.
Baltimore, Feb. 22
Ihe President Elect. —Gen. Pierce keeps I im
self very retired in Washington He was closeted
on Tuesday with Messrs. Guthrie, Douglas and
Everett.
Think of if—A Humming-bird once met a
butterfly, and being pleased with the beauty of
its person and the glory of its wings, made an
oiler of perpetual friendship. “1 cannot think of
it, was the reply, “as you once spumed me,
and called me a crawling dolt.’’ “Impossible,”
exclaimed tlie humming-bird; “I always enter
tained the highest respect for such beautiful
creatures as you.” “Perhaps vou do now.”
said the other ; “hut when you insulted me, I
was a caterpillar. So let me give vou this piece
ot advice: never insult the humble, as they mav
one day become your superiors.’’
The State Rami. —lmmense quantities of pro
duce have been coming down the State Road
for a number of weeks past. During the same
time (lie daily average of Cotton transported
over the ftoad lias been six hundred bales per
day. Other articles ot Western produce have
been constantly arriving in abundance, —Atlanta
Intelligencer, 10/A inst.