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The Yankee. Tilt REV. D, H. POJiEKOI’ ON THE CHARACTER OF THE £ gR YANKEE. Avery facetious and interesting lecture was delivered on Tuesday evening, in the Taberna cle, by Rev. D. R. Pomeroy, of Boston; sub- F’ st, “The Yankee.” JIo said that, in order to Cftini! understandingly on the subject of his lec ture, it would be necessary to call their atten tion to a ffiw historical facts. Those who dwell in houses and know sciences and literature are usually called civilized, and those who dwell in tents are called savage. The Assyrians, Chal deans, Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans had their frequent wars of plunder and conquest, and ‘whenever they came in contact with the northern tribes they have given us memorials of the people they have conquered. It has been satisfactorily ascertained that three races had passed Irom Asia into Europe. The first of these waves of emigration were the Celts or Cinnneri, who passed across the continent till they reached the British isles. The second wave of emigration was that of the Scythian or Gothic race, some six or eight centuries before the Christian era. The Celts vanished before them from the page of history, except those who had been in the west of the continent. The Scotch, Welsh, and Irish were the descen dants of these Celts. There is also more or less of the Scythian element in France, Italy, and Spain. The third wave of emigration into Europe was the Sclavonic. But our present purpose was with the second race, the Scythian. The lecturer traced their course through the various countries in Europe. In the second cen tury there were three tribes of the Scythian race in Jutland, who were called Anglo or Teutons, from whom have sprung the Westphalians, English, and Americans. Three hundred of them lauded in Thauet, in the river Thames, in the year 439, after the Romans had vacated Bri tain. On the island they met a party of Celts, when a scheme of intervention was made be tween them—they invited more of their country men. and afterwards erected the little kingdom of Kent. In two centuries more they extermi nated the Celts, and reduced them to bondage, with the exception of the Welsh and Scotch. Tho Saxon Heptarchy lasted till the eleventh century, when the Norman element became predominant after the battle of Hastings. These Anglo Saxon and Norman worthies were bold, hardy, indomitable, fierce, cruel and ferocious; they were kindred in Wood with Goths.and Y isi goths, Vandals and Ostrogoths, who had bat tered down the blood-cemented walls of old Rome. There is no evidence, however, that they were savages, like the American Indians. They had arts. They manufactured armor. In the third or fourth centuries of our era they ap peared in the page of history as pirates, and a more cruei, bloody, and relentless horde never disgraced humanity. They were the filibus ters of those dim ages. The terror of their name is hardly conceivable by us in these times of peace. The conquest of England led them to abandon their piratical habits; and then, in the middle of the eleventh century, came the Norman element; and finally,in the sixteenth century, came the Protestant Reformation, all sl of which had a great effect in civilizing them. The lecturer then came down to the .Mayflower emigration of the Pilgrims to the Plymouth rock. They must contemplate the institu tions—civil, social, political and religious—which they founded, and then they will understand how the people of New England are what they are. What is a genuine Yankee I—that is the question. He ns6d the term Yankee as deno ting all tlie natives of New England and all their descendants. lie would observe, in the first place, that a true son of New England is a very close observer. When lie travels he sees every thing within the range of his vision, and,; walking up Broadway for the first time, ho will bo seen carefully scanning tho names on the j signboards and on the doors. lie is very in quisitive, too—there is always a question at the : end of his tongue just to minister to his curiosi ty ; in a railroad car he is quite annoyed, from the fact that he can neither see nor hear to the best advantage; on the steamboat, too, he will tax his übiquity to the utmost prying into eve rything; find him where you will, ho is a true, well defined interrogation point. All the world may laugh at him, hut still he is no fool, and he will ask questions. Socrates was condemned to drink the poison cup because he had examin ed everything in heaven and earth; and if this ho a capital offence, alas for the Yankee! He is, however, capable of becoming a very gentle manly person, though no conceivable art could make him a Frenchman or a dandy. None but a Yankee could give such a definition to the word “dandy” as that which tnav he found in Webster's dmtionary, V Yankee may have a carriage and a servant, hut if you see that servant in livery, then you may. he sure he is not a Yankee. (Applause.) This love of plainness, j simplicity, directness, has shorn our courts of justice of all their ridiculous ceremonies. And j even a Governor, if he should put on airs, would find on the next general caucus that his friends on the whole, were rather in favor of the princi ple of rotation. In religion, too, he likes his minister to speak in plain intelligible Saxon. In dress, equipage, manners, speech, and religion, he is a decidedly plain, blunt, outspoken, uncere monious individual. In philosophy, the Yankee belongs to the utilitarian school —not that of: Jeremy Bentham. This philosophy be has not derived.from books or universities—it was bom with him, an integral part of liis nature. There is lodged with the Yankee race a very considerable amount of strong, plain, everyday good sense. A son of New England has no i special reverence for what is ancient merely be cause of its antiquity, though it must be admit ted he is often taken by anew theory or prin ciple because it is new. Idle theories or dreamy speculations are quite a drug in the market, and they cannot help saying “What is the use It is true, no doubt, that New England is in the habit of contributing money, and men and wo men, to some foolish idea; but then it is only what she has to spare, and she preserves the real gold for works of real value. The lecturer commented upon the discriminating qualities of the Yankee intellect; and for this sharp meta physical acumen they were indebted to the pul pit, the school house, and the open Bible. This characteristic has been acquired by the great j honor accorded to skill in figures; and there are undoubtedly at this moment hundreds of boys and girls striving to work out a difficult problem in the rule of three, or square root, who will hereafter be heard of in some grand j railroad or other scheme in China or Africa. A true A ankee has a strong sense of justice, which makes him keenly alive to the injuries himself j or others may suffer. If you touch him wrong- ) fully lie will make heaven and earth noisy with ! his clamors. This feature is Anglo Saxon, and j Norman, and Scythian, too. Akin to this ele ment in the New England character in his love ! of liberty. Our ancestors never bowed their necks to the yoke of bondage. They knew how to subjugate and rob, and make merchan dise of other men, but they never were slaves themselves. What would have been the con dition of Ireland for the last hundred years if shelnid only contained three millions of A ankees? He strongly suspected Ireland would not now be as she is. This love of liberty enters large ly into the elements of the New England char acter. A true son of New England has a clus ter of qualities which passes under the name of enterprise. There is a well known Yankee word, which is very significant of his enterpris ing qualities, and that word is “gumption.” When you see a young man, the morning when : he is of age. starting into the world, with all his goods, real and personal, tied in a bandana, and not having the slightest doubt of his success, j you may depend he is a Yankee. Who are j —and when a President is wanted for any of the Western colleges, whom do they send for ? A Yankee. Subtract the Yankee from the commerce and manufactures of the United States, and what nave you left ? Give a Yan kee, trained in the common school, it few acres of granite rock, and he will not only make a living, but grow rich and become a munificent founder of colleges and institutions. From the restless, roving Scythian propensity of the Yankees, one might think they cared little for their country, or for the graves of their fathers; and yet, strange ns it may appear, they love their New England home. Her rocks and val leys, her streams and snows and piercing winds, are ail very dear to them. They love to recall the little babbling brooks, and the mountain for est, and though impelled by a restless enterprise to the farthest bounds of the green earth, there is not one of them who does not hope to lie down in death in some quiet nook of their own New England. A villainous Yankee is one of the most villainous ruffians in the world—prob ably the worst men in the city, as well as some of the best, are of New England origin. He might, refer to otiicr traits of the Yankee, but he knew that among their other qualities they were by no means remarkable for their patience under a long discourse. The lecturer then concluded. (Times anti Sentinel COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1853. A Falsehood Exposed. Montgomery, March 30, 1853. Editors Times and Sentinel ; Sirs : I understand from Mr. Wm. B. Wiley, Agent Charleston and New York steamers, that small pox prevails in Columbus, Ga., and gives as his authority, the Editor of the Times and Sentinel. Mr. Wiley is interested in diverting tho travel that might pass over the Columbus route to Savannah and New York, arid the above report is freely circulated here on the arrival of the steamers from Mobile and at tho railroad cars. Yours, fcc. We do not know Mr. Wiley ; but wo beg leave to in form him that if he is circulating the report that Small Pox exists in Columbus, Geo., on our authority, he is guilty of an unmitigated falsehood ; there is no case of Small Pox iu this city and there has been none here for several years. Will the Montgomery papers please copy this article. The Second Congressional District, Our little article on this subject has created quite a flutter in the Alabama Journal office. We did re gret the use of the epithet “ babbling Journal,” as we feared it might he understood in a bad sense ; but the reply in question so fully confirms the appropriateness of the term, that we are quite relieved from all uneasiness as to its propriety. Instead of answeriugour questions, we are told that we will ‘ ; be informed as soon as we have any business to know,” —and the public are then | advised in extenso of the history of one of the Editors of the tmes and Sentinel for some yeai-3 past —all of which gossip may well be classed under the head of vain babblings . The Journal seems to think we have grown to be “a wise man,” and a “modest’ since we settled in Columbus ; we are sorry we cannot return the compli ment to the junior of the Journal. Il is residence in j Montgomery has had no perceptible influence on his | temper, or his politics—perhaps he was too old an of | fender. We will, however, extend the courtesies of our refined city to the young gentleman, and hope he may prove as susceptible to its elevating influences as he seems to think we have been. Come over Ben! Tho Journal is very particular to inform the public that Mr. Hilliard will not be a candidate for Congress j —but does not say a word about the aspiring Moss. The j Journal thinks this paper has no business to be asking ! tough questions about the 2d Congressional District, and I as it is very lame at giving categorical answers, we will j not trouble it with another—but will somebody be good enough to explain this silence? Is Mr. Moss to run on | the ticket of the Scott Party? Capt. Abercrombie, we | believe, is not a favorite with this class of politicians, as lie refused 10 vote for the ‘‘Old Hero.” The Journal seems to think it the duty of an Editor ! t> confine his attention entirely to his own district and : Slate, and that any reference to elections in adjoining j States is an improper intermeddling with “the affairs j of otliers.” This is a very narrow view of editorial du ! ties, and was no doubt acquired by too Jong a residence in a small place and will be corrected by a longer resi* i deuce in Montgomery—a city almost as large as Col umbus—a residence in which has, according to the Journal, produced so happy an effect upon us. We will %rthcr apologise for our rudeness in med dling “with the affairs of others” by stating that we have a very large circulation in the Chattahoochee river counties of the 2d congressional district in Alabama, where Capt. Abercrombie is deservedly very popular, and will be almost unanimously supported in the next j race for Congress, whether he is nominated by the con- I volition of the*Scott whigs or not. We are sorry we are in such a humor for asking j questions, hut we must repeat our query: what has be come of the Whig Convention in the 2d Congressional District, to nominate a candidate for Congress when there is one already in the field ? Will nobody answer ? Our Book Table. Villettk, is the title of anew novel by the accom plished author of “Jane Eyre.” The London Ex atniner pronounces it to be a most admirably written novel, every where original, every where shrewd, and iat heart, every where kindly. For sale by A. C. Flew- ; ellen. Putnam's Monthly for April has come to hand. We ; I think the present number fully equal to its predecessors, j i The most interesting article perhaps is the further dis- j ; mission of the identity of the Rev. Mr. Williams and Louis XVll—by Mr. Hanson. Call at D. F. Will cox's ! Book Store and get a copy. The North British Review for February is filled with solid, interesting and ably written articles. The Illustrated Magazine of Art is anew monthly j work which has attained a well deserved reputation. The illustrations are numerous and pleasing, and the I reading matter is of average merit. Published by Alex. Montgomery, IT Spruce st, N. Y., at $3 per annum. The United States Review is a monthly Democratic paper which is designed to take the winds out of the sails of the old Democratic Review, which has lost caste with the old Fogies of the party by its violent and pro scriptive course. Published at New York by T. A. Foster, at $3 per annum. Blackwood for March contains its usual variety. It has dropped the slavery question for the present. Editorial Convention. We would be delighted to meet our brethren in Ma con in May next, and cordially sanction and approve of , the call for a convention of Publishers and Editors. We would, however, suggest the propriety of discussing before hand, the objects and purposes of the convention. What can the convention do to advance the interests of i the craft ? This is an important question, and demands more j thought for its solution than we can give it just now. We will suggest, however, one or two reflections which : may call forth the sentiments of better informed persons, j The crying evil in our profession is the credit system. This ought at once to be abandoned. Another drawback is the character and habits of Journeymen Printers. The sober and industrious ought to be protected against the idle, vicious and roaming ; and we would suggest the propriety of employing no Journeyman who cannot produce satisfactory evidence of capacity aud character. There are many other subjects of interest which con cern us. but which are beyond the control, cs we con ceive, of a convention. Among these are the rates of advertising and sub scription. Amount of circulation, size and location, must necessarily produce a difference in charges. Nor do we think any good result can flow from rules of eti quette. If a man Ills not the sentiments, feelings and culture of a gentleman, it is impossible to infuse them into him by formal rules.. All such matters must be left to individuals to settle between themselves, in the various modes recognised by society as legitimate. Who cun beat this ? Our worthy Foreman, Mr. Samuel B. Harwell, on Wednesday last, set up sixteen thousand ems, in ten hours, in minion and brevier type —twelve thousand solid and four thousand leaded. We think that a day’s work to he proud of, and defy any Printer in Georgia to beat it. This, however, is Sam’s ‘‘first jump,” and no one need enter the lists of competitors, unless he desires to be beaten, who cannot go 1000 better. Don't all speak at once. Air. James Hamilton, ol Columbus, Ga., Again. The very able and interesting letter of this talented young gentleman, which we copied some weeks ago from the New Ilnven Register, aud in which was ex posed the rottenness of Yale College n the subject of slavery, has been published in the leading papers of the South, and has attracted very universal notice and commendation. We expected some verdant young Southern gentle man would be cajoled into the defense of “Alma mater,” and have been constantly on the yui vive since the appearance of Mr. Hamilton’s letter in an ticipation of the fire of the enemy. It has at last taken place and the match was applied by a Mississippi, whose modesty or timidity lias induced him to conceal his name. Quere : Is he a protege of Gov. Foote ? “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” The sentiments are the sentiments of Foote, nut the modesty which declines the pa- ternity of the bantling belongs to a worthier man— per j haps only a younger one. Tlie reply would be unwor : thy of notice, coming as it docs from an anonymous j correspondent who exhibits ueither talent nor tact in his production; but r.s we may fairly assume that the ! grounds of defense arc those which the learned Faculty | of Yale have assumed, it may deserve a passing notice. The first point made in defense of Y r ale is that “the Faculties of New England colleges are almost without exception made up of New England clergy !” The second is that “New England has youth of her own to educate at this Institution.” The third is that 4 "we knew before we left the South that we were coming to a Northern Institution—an Institution which, if it does not oppose slavery, certainly cannot approve of it. Our well read parents knew this.” The facts stated by Mr. Hamilton are not denied.— Yale is therefore a fount of Abolitionism. Her Pro fessors will oppose the extension of slavery ever to a dissolution of the Union, and have habitually of late made it a practice to denounce slavery and the institu tions of the South. This is the great fact which we desire to hold up to the view of the Southern people. Let them remember it and profit by it. But what of tlie defense of this recreant son of the South ? “ The Faculties of the New England Colleges are almost without exception made up of New England I clergy /” And why are clergymen excused for their , j abolitionism ? Is it not written in Ephesians, chap. 6, . ! verse s—“ Servants, be obedient to them that are your . masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, I*, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ?” And shall j these hoary hypocrites be indulged in perverting the word of God, and denying its truth, that they may gain profit . by their false teachings ? God forbid! What then is , the meaning of this excuse for the abolitionism of T ale. , Would the recreant “Southron” assert that tlie Holy I Scriptures condemn Slavery ? C “New England has youth of her own to educate at this institution .” And why, pray, should New England youth be , taught different principles from Southern youth ? The Bible sanctions slavery, and the constitution protects it. , The gtcutest and best divines and statesmen of New j England have so taught. The names of Stuart and Webster are quite as weighty authority on divine and political questions as any on the catalogue of Y’ale Col lege. What docs this excuse mean, unless it be intend ed to convey the idea that truth and right are to be I discarded by Presidents and Professors, in their work of instruction, for what is popular and profitable ? . i “We knew before we left the South that ice were . j coming to a Northern Institution ” —that may be true, but we will not believe that you knew you were going j to an abolition conventicle where doctrines were i taught which are alike destructive to the South and the i Union. It is very true that “Northern” and “Aboli ’ tion” have become almost synonymous, but there were I “a few names even in Sardis which had not defiled their, garments” and the honored name of Yale was : always regarded as first and foremost in this little gal axy. But the glory has departed from Israel and ; Ichabod la written upon her door posts. And who is this Mississippian who boldly defends the -abominable practices of Y ale ? Where was he born ? What is his name? He writes as coldly and cautious ly as if he had spent the better portion of his life at the North Pole ; or had had the genial currents of life frozen by the winter of age. No young Mississippian ever wrote such a production. No doubt some boot lick, whose prospects for Collegiate honors rest rather upon Ills toadyism than his talents, lias consented to adopt , I tlie frozen bantling of one of the Professors of Yale, as his own brain-child, and has thus doubly forfeited the ) confidence of the South. In this point of view several innuendoes and assertions otherwise unworthy of notice demand a rebuke at our hands. The Professor, shall we call him —says, “we have no accusations of ingratitude or impropriety to urge against the gentieraan’s views.” Gratitude ? Does tho cold academician know noth ing of gratitude to home, kindred, country, that he thus talks about gratitude to Alma mater ? Are her claims higher than heaven’s, country’s, truth’s ? Gratitude for what ? He paid you for your instruction ; you deceived him by your open false professions of loyalty to the Bi ble aud the Constitution; you allured him into your : lecture room and in the seclusion of that quiet retreat, attempted to make him a traitor to his home and kin , dred by imparting to him your infamous and deoeitful fanaticism. He has exposed your hypocrisy —hinc ilia lacryma. i The learned Professor again says—“we are not de : pendent on you ; we must have our inalienable rights of free thought and free speech, even if we have to sacri flee your small patronage,” Certainly, my dear sir, but let vour “free thought and free speech” be honest thought and honest speech; let the South know that Yale is an abolition seminary, and we make no complaint. It is this deception that Mr. Hamilton has exposed, and for which we thank him. It is somewhat singular that this most prominent part of his letter is not so ! much as alluded to by “A Southerner.” “He strains at a cate and swallows a saw mill.” lie laboriously at tempts to explain why Yale is abolition, but entirely forgets even to apologize for the hypocrisy of seeming to be otherwise. Again “A Southerner” says, “our j very presence in New England is “prima facie ” evi dence that we are not afraid of anti-slavery arguments and influences.” The fourteen and sixteen year old boys of Y'ale must be remarkably precocious young sters! Not afraid of anti-slavery arguments. The taunt is worthy of a Professor who has betrayed the trust reposed in him by confiding Southern parents, and is conscious of his own dereliction of duty aud unable to ex cuse or apologize for it. What opinion of a youth of sixteen is so well grounded that it cannot be undermined by the larger experience of venerable Professors whose I every word is received with the deference due to varied j learning and exalted position 1 | We now leave this subject, with the fervent hope | that Yale has forfeited the confidence of the South ; 1 and that in future our young men will be educated in i our own colleges. Nomination for Whig State Officers of Rhode Island. Providence, March 24, 1553. A whig ticket for State officers is announced this morning by the committee appointed at the late Whig State convention. The nominations are as follows ; For Governor —William W. Iloppin, of Providence, -For Lieutenant Governor —Samuel Robinson, of South Kensington. For Secretary ofState—William R. Watson, of Pro vidence. For Attorney General—-Christopher Robinson, of Cumberland. For General Treasurer—Samuel B. Vernon, of New port. The nominations give very general satisfaction, and the ticket is decidedly the strongest in the field, as it perfectly unites and harmonises the whig party. — N. Y. Herald. The Death of Mrs. Fillmore, •‘What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue 1” The dreadful calamities which have followed swift upon the heels of success in the lives of our public men, teach, and were intended no doubt, by a kind Providence, to teach, the American people the vanity of all earthly pursuits. Harrison and Taylor, hardy veterans, who had marched unscathed through storms of kails in the front of battle to the glittering pinnacle of earthly grandeur, suuk into the cold grave as soon as the laurel wreath was placed upon their brows. The applause of admiring millions had not died upon the ear of Polk, before he was stunned by the hollow voice of death, before whose pestilential breath his green honors were nipped as by an untimely frost. • The swift winged lightning had hardly announced to Pierce his election to the Presi dency—aye, even among the congratulations of his friends on his success, and when his heart beat high with exultation, his darling boy, his “Absalom,” was torn from his embrace, and his hearth and heart made deso late, by a blow as unexpected as it was crushing. And last of all, the grim monster li3s snatched from Fill- MORe’s fond embrace the lovely form of her whose smiles to him were light and life, and left him crushed and beggared to plod his lonely way through a dark and gloomy future, to tho tomb, even aimd the loud notes of preparation to do him honor throughout this broad laud. What te him*now is fame! The voice of praise as well as of censure falls heavy and unmeaning upon the ear of grief. . The hallucination of life is dispelled— its honors are withered leaves—its wealth, the toys of childhood—its hopes, delusions—its bright sunshine a glittering mockery—there is nothing real but death— it looms up before him—a horrid monster whose bale ful shadow darkens the whole horizon of life—he sees I it in the glittering lightning—he hears it in the rolling thunder—and every passing breeze whispers death ! death ! 4 in whose dread presence the mightiest exclaim with Wolsey— “ This is the state ofman ; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And—when lie thinks, good easy man, full surely, His greatness is a ripening—nips his root, And then he falls as I do— - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service,to the mercy, Os a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pompe and glory of this world, I hate ye.” The Temperance Movement. Every friend of the Temperance Reform, whether he be for, or against the action of the Atlanta Convention, must deprecate any movement which tends to bring it before the people as a political issue, upon which par ties and candidates shall divide and quarrel. We un derstand that a proposition of this sort was submitted to the Atlanta Convention, but that it was voted down with great unanimity. In this, as in most other respects, the Convention acted discreetly 5 and we understand from , the leaders of the movement, that the greatest care will be taken to prevent a squabble upon this question in 1 the coming canvass. Such a squabble we should re l gard as a public calamity, and will set our faces stern * ly against any candidate or party which shall attempt • to lug it before the people. The question of license T or no license, of liquor or no liquor, is not now in issue— and it will be time enough to test the popularity of ! “Jonny Barleycorn,” when the people shall be called on to vote for his banishment. This time may never ‘ come, and we would save the community from the i long train of evils which will inevitably flow from a . canvass in which the grog shop will be the central ques ’ tion, until there are other and better reasons for it than I the success of this or that demagogue. The Atlanta 1 Conventionists will not ask the next Legislature to abolish the liquor traffic— that question will be left in • abeyance until tho people are permitted by Legislative * action to vote directly upon it. The issue now before the people, is whether the Legislature shall continue to 1 regulate tho system of liquor license, or whether it shall be referred to the people in their corporate county ca , paeity. This is the only question which can be legiti mately made at present, and the community may well f suspect the motives of a candidate for any office who thrusts himself before them as the special friend either of cold water, or hot liquor. Be sure, he is more inte rested in his own aggrandisement than in the publio welfare. Wo are the more solicitous on this matter as tho next election is one of the most important ever held in Georgia. A Governor is to be elected—a United States Senator is to be elected—a Judge of the Superior Court is to be elected—three of the most responsible officers in tho Government. To the first, the honor of our great State is committed, and many of her highest interests. The second, represents the sovereignty of Georgia in the Senate of tho United States, and the critical condition of the country and of the South de , mauds that he be a sound Republican and a true man. 1 To the third, are committed tho lives, liberties and pro perty of the people, and none but an able lawyer, and ; an upright man, can worthily wear the pure ermine of ; justice. In such an election, a citizen ought to be 1 permitted to go to tlie polls and vote for the best men and the soundest principles, untrammeled and uncon trolled by any Tninor or local question. i If the liquor question is dragged into the canvass, it will swallow ? up all other issues, and the black bottle and the pint cup will decide, in all probability, who shall be Governor, Senator, and Judge. We have therefore of set purpose avoided the discussion of the ; liquor question since our connection with this paper. We are sorry our example has had no effect upou our cotemporaries, and that sonic of our leading and most influential papers are continually “Harping on my Daughter.” We beg them to let the question rest un til it is properly before tho country, and warn all aspi rants for office to follow their example. In the coming canvass our party will need its whole strength. Our enemies will leave no art untried to divide and conquer us. But if our legions will march with locked shields to the contest, we are assured of victory. Fire. On Sunday, between 8 and 9 P. M., an alarm of fire was given, and in a short time flames were discover ed issuing from the Brick buildings, owned by Capt. John Dillon, northeast corner of Jefferson and Brough ton Streets ; and occupied as follows ; On Jefferson Street. — A. Mero, Baker shop ; Lew ell 11. Fiske, Shoe store; and John Riley, Grocery Store. On Broughton Street. — J. 11. & T. Bishop, Tin ware Store; Neill McHugh, Dry Goods: and W. J. j Hunt, as a Barber shop. The fire, it is supposed, originated iu the store of Mr. Fiske. The goods and furniture, generally, were saved in a damaged state. The upper part of the buildings were occupied as dwellings. Mr. McHugh and Mr. Fiske were insured in the Mutual Company of this city ; and Mr. Riley had an insurance of $3,000 in the Liverpool and London Fire Insurance Company. We did not learn whether the others were insured. There was no insurance on the buildings. The fire was confined to the block. — av . Courier. Western News. We have New Orleans dates to the 25th inst., and Mobile to the 26th inst. Complete quiet has been restored west of the Sierra Madre. except the state of Tamaulipas where Governor Prieto has been deposed and Villa Sana made constitu tional Governor by the State Legislature. Gov. Prieto, however, holds on to his authority and has declared the action of the Legislature null and void. Three companies of Rangers have been discharged recently on the Rio Grande, and it is said that many of them have joined Carvajal, and that this scoundrel will again invade the Mexican territory. An arrangement had been made between the au thorities of Vera Cruz and the General Government, by which the former recognized the Presidency of Gen. Lombardini. Over two hundred of the leading men of Louisiana, including Grimes, Miaou, Bradford and other distin guished lawyers (whig and democratic) have recom mended Judge Slidell for Chief Justice of the State. The rates of fare from San Francisco to New York, by the steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, have been reduced to SIOO in the cabin, and SSO in the \ steerage. j Reorganization of the Union Party—Position of Got. Cobb. A few disaffected Democrats who have forfeited their position with their own party by a renunciation of some of its fundamental principles and a long continued and bitter denunciation of its prominent leaders at the South, and the unprincipled of the old whig party who play the card that wins, no matter whether it is taken from the hand or sleeve , have been attempting to galvanise into life the effete body of the Inion Party iu Georgia. The Journal $ Messenger very truly and forcibly re marks in this connection that “there are as yet, in the as pects of State and national polities, no issue upon which such a party can be formed, and no necessity lor its formation. The name of Union, prejudice against the Southern Rights Democracy, and the dead issues of 1850, are the basis upon which it is proposed to reconstruct a Union Party. We will have nothing to do with such a skinless, bloodless and lifeless organization.” ■ * “We do not believe that such a re-organization can be accomplished. The letter of Mr. Hull (in relation to Gov. Cobb’s position) confirms our previously formed opinion that the Union Democracy did not desire it, and a large portion of the whig party, we know, never have ceased to repent the first organization of the Union Party. Where are the elements to give strength to the resuscitated corpse of the Union Party ? ’ We take it that these hot shot will utterly demolish the tottering walls of the “Union Hotel,” and that if its doors are again re-opened by Holsey and Sanford, its I customers will be invited to feast on empty dishes, and that, unless they beat a swift retreat, they will be bur ied beneath its tottering walls. Governor Cobb was tho Atlas upon whose broad j shoulders the Union organization rested. We learn from Mr. Hull’s letter, an extract from which we pub- ; lish below, that [he has withdrawn from the odious | task and “now stands prepared to sustain the great Democratic party to which he has always belonged, and to fight as a private in the ranks, for the imperisha ble principles of Jefferson, Jackson and Polk, and which he hopes and believes will derive additional strength and lustre from the administration of Franklin Pierce.” Mr. Hull says — “But my object in writing is nut to discuss these mat ters, but to disabuse your mind, and those of your readers, as to the position of Gov. Cobb in that matter. Your article gives me the opportunity of doing Gov. Cobb what his magnanimity prevented his doing lor himself. I write 1 without his knowledge, and possibly what he would not | permit if he knew it. But it is due to truth and justice j that iiis position should be known. The writer of this ; professes to be as well informed as any other man, as to j the opinions, sentiments and views of Gov. Cobb, and 1 ■ affirm that which I know, when I say that the ticket j which was put up alter the Atlanta meeting was brought out against his wishes and advice, and against his car'- nest efforts to prevent it. “I know that he wrote urgent letters to Judge Janies .Jackson, at Carnesville, where General Wofford was du ring Court, pressing upon him to see General W “fiord, and endeavor by every argument to induce him to decline running on that ticket, and accept the place on the regu lar ticket, which he was then advised would be tendered to him. So tar from his “sympathy and secret efforts,” being for the “Tugalo Ticket,” he disapproved of the movement from first to last, and his friends knew it. “It is true that Gov. Cobb was in favor at Atlanta of a different course from the one pursued. From the day when the Union eleetoraf ticket was nominated at Mil ledgeville, he had labored to bring about a compromise of the ticket on terms which would secure cordiality and harmony all the friends of Pierce and King. “The Atlanta meeting was called at his suggestion, aud for the purpose of promoting that object. Before assem bled it had become obvious that our proposals of com promise would not be responded to. Gov. Cobb proposed in that case to nominate a ticket composed of those gen tlemen of the other ticket, who had evinced a willingness to arrange the matter, and to fill up the other places with the names of Union Democrats, and call on the whole Democracy of the State to rebuke by their votes the spirit of proscription and persecution which had been manifested by some of our Southern Rights brethern. This was his whole course in the matter. The Atlanta meeting deci ded differently, and in their decision Gov. Cobb acquies ced, and gave, as 1 said before, no eneonargement what ever to those who did not. “Is it asked why he did not publicly announce that dis approbation ? It would have been policy in him to do so, but the noble and generous heart of Howell Cobb shrunk from striking a blow that would wound his friends, even though he thought them in the wrong. The list of names advocating the movement included many who were his best and nearest friends. They had stood by him through sterm and sunshine, and though his sense of duty preveir ted his aiding them, he was not the man to lift up his hand against them. He has patiently borne all the vitu peration and obloquy which has been heaped upon him on that account, and still bears it. “The time has come—now when then the election is over—now when the new Administration is fully formed, and the suspicion of seeking Cabinet offices can no lon ger be aroused in the minds of the most uncharitable; that his friends owe it to him to make his true position known Gov. Cobb now stands prepared to sustain the great De mocratic party to which he has always belonged, and to ■ fight as a private in the ranks, for the imperishable prin ciples of Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk, and which lie hopes and believes will derive additional stredgth and lustre from the Administration of Franklin Pierce. Respectfully. WM. 11. HULL. Later Irom Mexico. By the schooner Edward Bernard, the Picayune re ceived full files of papers from \ era Cruz to the 19th, and from the city of Mexico to the 15th inst. With the exception of Vera Cruz, there seems to he little feeling produced in Mexico by the publication of Senor Escobar's report of his interview with Santa An na. Several of the papers published extracts from it after having had it some days, but without editorial re marks of any kind. In an article on the government of Gen. Lombardini, the Siglo of the 15tli instant has the following : “In fact, as yet no one can tell tlie final result of the revolu tion. Every things depends on the course of the Gov ernment of Santa Anna, and until this is known we cannot know if domestic peace will be consolidated, or if anarchy will be prolonged until the country is consumed.” Some difficulty having occurred in the formation of a Cabinet, Gen. Lombardini determined to carry on the Government through the clerks of the departments, during the short interval that would intervene until the return of Santa Anna. Gen. Uraga had been appointed Minister to Spain. It was said the Government had given him the Cross of Angostura. It was announced that Senor Robles hud resigned the command of his division. Pauperism in Massachusetts. —A new system for the support of paupers is about to be adopted in Massa chusetts. Each applicant is furnished with anew suit 1 of clothes, and told to go to work. If he pleads sick ness, he is dispatched to the hospital, where, if he is shamming, hospital diet soon brings him to his strength. If he runs off with his new clothes, a description of the fugitive is dsipatelied to the other almshouses, and if he applies for relief to them, he is taken in and compell ed to work, till he has paid for his outfit. This plan seems to be well devised to keep persons out “f the almshouse. From Havana. —The Havana correspondent of the Charleston Courier, under date of 21st inst*. says : Your readers will regret to learn that out much es teemed Vice President, Mr. King, is still in a very bad state. In fact it is said that he has not materially im proved since he went into the Interior, although as is, I believe, generally the case with the diseases similiar to that with which he is afflicted, some days he has been far better than on others The Jacksonville, Fla., Republican says that a diffi culty occurred in Columbia county, Fla., about a fort night ago, which resulted in some respects seriously and fatally. It is related that Mr. John S. Goodbread and A. S. Goodbread had a dispute with Mr. Henry Pratt, about the latter setting a fence on fire and enter ing the land of one of the Goodbreads. Shots were ex changed between A, S. Goodbread and Henry Pratt, and a second shot fired by the former entered among a crowd of negroes and children, killing a negro woman and wounding one of Pratt’s children. Later from Buenos Ayres. —Accounts from Buenos Ayres to the 20th of January have been received. The city was still besieged, and the whole population was under arms, endeavoring to drive off the insurgents. There was no prospect of raising the siege. Washington Affairs. —Capt. Easly will retain the post of Commissioner of Public Buildings, in conse quence of the active part taken by him in exposing the Capitol extension frauds. Elisha Whittlesey is also entitled to retain the eomp trollership of the Treasury in consideration of his faith ful guardianship of tho public moneys. Mad. Dost wick’s Concert on Monday Night. A large and fashionable audience was in attendance, and every person present was much entertained by the performances. Our most sanguine expectations were more than realized. Mad. Bostwick’s voice ie rich, melodious, of great compass and sweetness, and thor oughly cultivated. Her assistants are accomplished musicians. Mr. Thilow is a clever Pianist, Mr. Siedr an excellent Flutist, and Mr. Apfy a splendid Violinist. Little Miss Oliver astonished every body by the grace, accuracy and brilliancy of her performances. We hope Mad. Bostwick will favor us with another concert. Native Poetry. We do not often trouble our readers with the rich poetical gems of native growth, which it may surprise them to learn are furnished in bacchanal prolusion from the teeming minds of American Genius. But the fol lowing are too good to be lost. “Lieut. W.D* b. i s evidently an original hardy native breed, and only re quires judicious cropping and culture to make an entire ly new variety of the genus Poet. W e cheerfully do our part by this rubbing to develope this native produc tion, and hope our efforts in this direction will be duly appreciated and seconded by our readers. Here are the “lines.” Disappointment of Man. BY LIEUT. W. D. (i. Dear woman like the butterfly, Looks best before she is caught; For then the tinsel of her wings, Is changed as quick as thought. Ah! the squalling of a baby, And the scolding of wife ; Must be the witching music, Os all my future life. Your flattery is delicious quite, But then ? tis spread so thick ; It chokes me ere I get a bit, And makes my soul sick. Man’s Folly. BY LIEUT. W. D. O. ‘Twill take a wiser chap than you. To trap the girl you’re after; For at your nonsense when alcne, She puffs her sides with laughter. You’ve ridiculed time and again, The very girl you’ll marry ; But if you are a prudent man, She’ll make you happy, very. You think it very nice indeed, To have a gay flirtation ; But oh! beware, it often bring, An old bachelor’s chilly station. Corpus Giiribti Emigrants.—By the arrival of the ships Golconda and Howard, from Glasgow and Liver pool, over one hundred emigrants have arrived in this city for Corpus Christi, Texas, having purchased lands from Col. 11. L. Kinney’s agent in London. These emigrants are of the first class, being emphatically an agricultural people, and their improvement of the lands in the Nueces Valley, which are the finest in Texas, must greatly increase their value. Corpus Christi, we understand, has improved, within the few past years as rapidly as any town in Texas, and the greatest induce ments are offered to emigrants to settle on these lands, which are daily increasing in value. Col. Kinney is now in this city, stopping at the City Hotel, where he may be consulted by those who wish to purchase.— : Delta, Flection at New Orleans. At the late charter election in New Orleans, for six j Aldermen, and 26 Assistant Aldermen, there were but j two whig assistant aldermen elected. Salary of Judges. The Legislature of La. has fixed the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court at $4500. — This is an example of liberality which we commend to 1 our next Legislature. The salary for a Judge of the j Supreme Court ought to be high enough to command the best legal talent in the State. Our present rates : cannot tempt a first rate lawyer from his practice, if he is a poor man—poor salaries will insure a succession of poor Judges, and poor Judges give ample guarantee of incorrect decisions. Mr. G. P. Putnam has written an able and convinc ing letter to the National Intelligencer , in favor of in ternational copyright. Sucli a law, he urges, would not increase the price of books, and would benefit American authors quite as much as it would those of England. He also thinks it would bo advantageous to American pub lishers, who, as ho remarks, are generally in favor of international copyright. S\ Mshington Humor*. George M. Dallas (ex-Yice l’uesident l it is said, j will be made District Attorney of Philadelphia. The i post is very lucrative. Beth Barton, it is said, is likely, to get the plaeo of j District Attorney at New Orleans, i Mr, Reed,'a son-in-law of Gen. DntV Green, received i his dismissal on the 12th. We learn that our late Representative in Congress, | Hon. James Abercrombie, passed through town on Sun- j day last on his way to Pike court. — Spirit, of the I South. Pork. —A writer in a Cincinnati paper estimates that unless pork rules above §l6 50 a sl7 per bbl. in Now York city, from two to three dollars will be lost on every hog packed in the Mississippi Valley this j season. The cost of running a passenger train from New ! York to Albany (one hundred and fifty miles) is about j thirty-two dollars. Tiie Methodists of this country have built churches I i nearly at the rate of une per week during the eighty- j j seven years of their existence as a denomination. I A Washington correspondent of the Columbia Caro- ! linian says : ‘‘The Palmetto Armory, built to manufac ture arms to fight the General Government, has re ceived a contract from the War Department to make arms for Uncle Sam.” Numbers of Jamaica planters, impoverished by the decline of property in tlio Island, have emigrated to Australia. Gen. I J . J. >" emmes has been unanimously elected captain of the Columbus Guards, to fill the vacancy oc casioned by the resignation ofCapt. Jons Forsyth. Collector of Savannah. —John Boston has been confirmed by the Senate as Collector of Savannah. i Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, lias signified his intention to j attend the Southern Commercial Convention, which is to j be held at Memphis on the first Monday in June. He ! also appointed over two hundred delegates to represent! the State in that body. lif” Charles Lever, the Irish author, is at present ill Florence, It is stated that there is scarcely a capita! of Europe where he has not been, and where he does not owe a bill 1 He is a lit tie over fifty years of age, and the ahrewdest “Jeremy Diddler” of the ago. N. P. Willis, it is said is a disappointed applicant for the jiost of Secretary of Legation at Paris. It iB said that a son of Senator Soule will be appointed Secretary of Legation at Paris. M. Caussidiere, prefect of the pelice of Paris for several months, in the beginning of the French revolution of 1848 arrived at New A ork in the steamer Africa. He was elected representative of Paris by 247,000 votes, and ex iled in August JIB4B. The French citizens were to give him a dinner last Saturday. Dr. 11. Stone,an artißt of Washington, has nearly com- I pleted a marble bust of Cbiet Justice Tanev, tor presen- j tation by the members of the bar. General Ilaskcll declines being the whig candidate for Governor of Tennessee. Thu New York Tribune says it has lieen suggests) that a World’s Temperance Convention lie held in that city at some during the approaching World’s Fair—say in August next. l.ater front Washington. Washington, March 25. Tiie U. >S. Senate adjourned for want of a quo nun. It is reported that President Pierce has requested Mr. Whittelsey to withdraw his resignation as comp troller of the Treasury. Inm Fuundery Destroyed. — The IrotiFoumlery oi, xtomstead & Cos., at Dorchester, Mass., has been destroyed by lire. Toe loss is estimated at 9W -000. Death of Dr. Duncan. —lD. Duncan, ex-mornber of Congress, from Ohio, died at Cincinnati, in conse quence of injuries received by being run over by a wagon. Political I\ewsfrom Europe. —There had been a great many executions at Pesth and Manfred. The sequestration of property was being follow ed up on an extensive scale in Lombardy ; the re fugees had sought the protection of the Piedmon tese government which had protested to the court of Vienna. The Queens of Eoglaud, France, Spain, Portugal and Greece, were reported encienie. Too Pope will positively go to Paris, to erovni the Emperor, on the first of May. The King of Naples was so severely wounded by an assassin, that it was necessary to amputate his leg. Democratic Convention in Georgia. ‘Pile following suggestions from ihe Federal Union meets with our approval : It lias been the established usage of (he party to leave with its Executive Committee the duly of calling its Conventions. But, during the two years pist, now issues have broken into the ancient par ty organizations and temporarily disarranged their system and government. The Executive Com mittee that was appointed last year by the Conven tion, held in this city for the purpose of nominating an Electoral Ticket, is in some doubt as lo the fur ther exercise of the power delegated to it by that Convention. If such be true, in that event the duty devolves upon the press, to bring the matter before the Party for consideration. Believing that ihere will be no official call for this Convention, and con fident that the public mind is ready for the question. we beg leave to suggest, that the Convention meet in this city on the 2nd Wednesday in June next.— We select this time as being most favorable to every section of (he State, but are perfectly willing to unite with the sentiment of the parly in this respect. We hope our cotemporaries of the press will speak out, and give us their views and suggestions in the premises. In making a call for a Convention of the Party, wo hope the doors will be thrown open to all sin cere friends of the present Administration, who are disposed to act with it in good faith in the support of a Democratic candidale for Governor. New Applicant for the New York Collect orship. Washington, March 24. Wilson G. Hunt was to-day proposed to the President for the collectorship of New Y ork I The struggle now lies between him and Au ; gustns Schell—sure. NOMINATIONS AND CONHK.M ITIONS—APPLI CANTS FOlt OFFICII WORK IN THE CENSES OFFICE, ETC. Washington, March 24, 1853. The President to-day nominated John Sli dell, of Louisiana, as Minister to Central America; Joseph Laire, as Collector at Pensa cola, and Mr. Humphries, of Tennessee, as Judge of that State. Ihe Satiate confirmed Mr. Money penny, of Ohio, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and Judge Mason, of lowa, as Commissioner of Patents. A considerable number of postmas ters. registers and receivers of office were also confirmed. • “e hear of several removals of clerks in the different departments. Major Edward Cantwell, of \V ilmington, is a prominent candidate for District Attorney of North Carolina. Ihere is but one other candi date, Gen. Mcßae, the former incumbent. It is now said Col. Gorman will not be nomi nated to the Land office this season. The five examiners appointed to investigate the affairs ot the Census office have reported work enough yet to employ fifty clerks until the next session of Congress, at least. The President’s last public levee, this evening, is thronged, and is a brilliant affair. [From the N. Y. Tribune.] Tlie Vacant Judgeship—The Spanish Embassy —New York Appointments. W ashington, March 22. ‘ Much to the disappointment of the Southern ( Union Savers, the Supreme Court vacant seat has fallen to the lot ot the other wing of the party. John A. Campbell, Esq., of Mobile, who carries off that prize, was about the most ultra Secessionist in all the Southern States during j the late struggle in that quarter over the Gom- I promise questions. I may truthfully add, that j though comparatively unknown north of the ! Potomac, (for he has never been in either I branch of Congress,) lie is about the ablest man I connected with the ultra State Rights organiza tion anywhere. That is, he is chock full of , talent, genius, industry and energy, to say ; n °thing of his proverbial shrewdness as a pol’i ; tician, yet lie is sadly deficient in ballast. He I fai ! B woefully to carry that in proportion to his sail. Mr C. is about 45 years of age, not older and was born in Georgia, whence he emigra ted to Mobile on entering manhood. For the last ten years he has been, deservedly, at the head of the Alabama bar. During the \ash- I ville Convention times he contributed to the : 0 T . T cumnDUiea to the i southern Rights Press the ablest, bitterest, and most violent articles against the Union {perse ; if I am not much mistaken,) which grew out of that never-to-be-forgotten controversy. If lam | not greatly mistaken, Mr. Campbell was not an applicant for the position, being urged on the President in all probability chiefly by Col. Jes ferson Davis His appointment will take cani i tal, y m his Judicial District, wherein he is ex ceedingly popular, and as a jurist and as a man : lie commands the respect and confidence of j eve T ony -notwithstanding theultraism ofhislate j secessionist sentiments. Gen. Downs, of Lou isiana, desired the place, in case he could not command the Mission to Spain. The appoint, ment of Campbell to it satisfies me that D will obtain his first choice, as he is about the oulv leading Union party Democrat in all the ex treme South, who deserves and really enjoys the entire confidence of the President. I have no idea that Senator Soule entertains the slightest notion of going abroad ; nor can I con ceive that he would be sent to Spain under any pressure in his favor, however enthusiastic the resident may he in his admiration for certain peculiar traits in his (Soule’s) public character. He is decidedly too much of a genius for the Administration’s purposes at the Spanish Court, uhere our Representatives for the ensuing four years may expect to have a far more exciting time than will be encountered by either of his colleagues at other European capitals. We want no dashing diplomatist in that quarter— no nmn of peculiarly brilliant points—but a steady, safe going, long-headed, patient and plodding man—one who carefully lpoks after small matters appertaining to his duties, and will, therefore, busy himself in uoting, collat ing and keeping alive the little items of the ac cruing account against Spain, which, in time,