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[From the Richmond Examiner.] David and Shimei. Among the books of the pious, not one has attracted more of the writer’s attention than Sterne’s Sermon “On the Character of Shimei. ’’ Shimei was one of King David’s especial friends and courtiers. He bad originally belonged to the Saul party : hut David generously forgave his political sins when he got to be King—kept him in office perhaps—but certainly made his fortune, raised him from the dunghill, and fa vored him in many ways. Shimei was extrava gant in his gratitude. He basked in his prince’s smiles, and he daily swore that the sun saw never such king as David in the whole of his diurnal race. Isut there came a time when dim eclipse fell on Batlisheba’s splendid lover. All Israel was in flat mutiny against the man after God’s heart. Absalom and Attritophel had triumphed. The king had fled his capital, ab dicated his throne. All seemed over with Da vid—and where was the loyal Shimei when his glorious friend was clambering up the rocks of Olivet, attended by a half dozen old fogie fol lowers, weeping bitterly, with ashes on his head, and his hairs out of curl ? Shimei saw him and came out to meet him—but not with ointments, oils, or cologne—not to bind up bis wounds and give him wine to drink. Time and troubles bad tilled a cup for David, but Shimei came to add his portion: “As he came,” says the holy text, “he cursed “and threw stones, and cast dust at him; and “thus said Shimei when he cursed ; Go, thou “man of Belial, thou lias sought blood, and be “hokl thou art caught in thy own mischief.” “And as David and his men went by the way, “Shimei went along on the hill-side over against “him, and still cursed as he went and cast dust “at him.” Thus at the time when David’s troubles fail upon him and he is leaving his house in des pair, Shimei is the first man we hear of who comes out against him. But the wheel turns again. Absalom goes to the douce, and David returns in triumph, with all the people hallooing at his heels and a variety of priests capering and dancing before his face. Then again we hear of Shimei. He is again the first man who conies to meet him. With a thousand men he comes to kiss the king’s toe and swear his unchangeable affection and fidelity to the best of masters, the kindest of Kings. He lias a hundred explanations of his seeming inconsis tency, and defines his position with a dexterity which Hives and Clayton might envy. He makes peace with David ; but Abishal who stands behind the throne, grimly asks, “shall not Shimei the son of Gera be put to death for this?” David answered “No; Absalom, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeketh my life!—how much more may Shimei do it!—let him alone!” So Shimei went scathless. and without doubt lived prospe rously all the daysofbislife—such people always do ; —but the preacher concludes the sermon, of which we have given an outline, with this sig nificant sentence— "O Shimei, Shimei / would to Heaven thou “hafl.it been slain, and all thy family slain with “t.liee, and not one of thy resemblance, left ! But “ye hare increased and multiplied exceedingly, “and replenished the earth,and if 1 prophesy righl “ly, ye will, in the end subdue it.” Such is Sterne’s Sermon on the Character of Shimei. Who cannot sympathize with the hope less melancholy of that concluding apostrophe ? Who has not seen Shimei, or some of Shimei’s kindred? llow many who read these lines arc at this moment in their heart of hearts acknowl edging their own close ties of consangunity, if not of lineal descent, from that extensive connec tion? In David’s time there was one Shimei. fu our day there are millions. Shimei sits at your ta ble, Shimei meets you in the street, Shimei stands behind that counter—writes in that office— pleads in that court—sits on yonder bench— figures in the Senate—perorates on that platform. Shimei is an “able editor Shimei is a “distin guished divine;” he is a physician in extensive practice; he is your protege, commencing busi ness under your countenance ; he is your grate ful dependant, your poor relation, the man to whom you gave an office, the friend whom you helped out of that difficulty. In all the walks of life, life, in all the countries of the world, the family of Shimei multipliesexceedingiy.— Ilis sons have a stronghold in the learned professions, are fond of the arts and sci ences, and do not disdain mechanical trades.— His daughters frequent ball-rooms, and are a marrying set. Who does not know them ? If you have not made acquaintance with Shimei, then be a prosperous merchant and break, and you will do so ; be a President, or a Governor, or any other great political person—leave of fice with small chance of getting hack—have either wealth or power, and lose it—exercise extensive influence, have talent, have honor, have troops ol friends, and begin to he shady, sickly, unsuccessful—and you will see Shimei. ! Just so certainly as the man goes down the mountain side, weeping with ashes on his head, so certainly will Shimei come out to meet him, “and curse still as he comc3, throwing stones and casting dust.” [From the N. O. Picayune.] Forest Funeral. She was fair, with tresses of long black hair lying over her pillow. Her eye was dark and piercing, and as it met mine, she started slightly, hut looking up she smiled. I spoke to her lather and then turned to her, and asked if she knew her condition. “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” said she in a voice whose melody was like the sweetest strains of the seolian. 1 ou-may imagine the answer startled me, and with a few lines of like import, I turned from her. A hall hour elapsed and she spoke in the same deep, rich and melodious voice. “bather, I am cold, lie down beside me,” and the old man laid down beside his dying child, and she twined her arms around his neck, and murmured in a dreamy 7 voice, “dear, dear father.” “My child,” said the old man, “does the flood seem deep to thee ?” “Xa v, father, my soul is strong.*’ “See’st thou the thither shore ?” “I see it, father, and its banks are green with immortal verdure.” “H ear’s t thou the voice of its inhabitants ?’> “1 hear them, father, the voice of angels cal ling Ironi afar in the still and solemn night-time and they call me. Her voice, father—oh, 1 heard it then!” “Does she speak to thee ?” “£>he speaks in tones most heavenly’.” “Does she smile ?” “An angel—hut a cold, calm, smile? But I am cold, cold ! Father there is a mist in the room. You'll be lonely. Is this death, fa ther?” “It is death, my Mary !” “Thank God!” Sabbath evening came, and a slow proces sion wound through the forest to the little school house. There, with simple rites, the clergy man performed his duty, and went to the rrrave. The procession was short. There were hardy men and rough, in shooting jackets, and some with rifles on their shoulders. But their warm hearts gave beauty to their unshaven faces, and they stood in reverent silence by the grave. The river murmured, the birds sang, and so we bu ried her. 1 saw the sun go down from the same spot, and stars were bright before I left, for I always had an idea that a grave yard was the nearest to heaven of any place on earth; and with old Thomas Brown/* I love to see a Churcli in the grave-yard, for even as we pass through the place of God on earth, so we must pass the tem ple of God on high.” The Louisiana Bank Law: —The Louisiana Fiee Banking Law has passed the Senate. (Times Jirm) Sentinel COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, APRIIf26, 1853. BY TELEGRAPH. EXPRESSLY FOR THE TIMES & SENTINEL. Mobile, April 19. Transactions light ; sales one thousand bales. Mid dling ten cents* Mobile, 21--5 P. M. In New Orleans on yesterday and to day, sales of j cotton were very light. No change, however, has oc curred in prices. In Mobile the sales yesterday reached 3000 bales, and fell off to day to H 00. Cotton is firm at previous quotations. We have also received by telegraph, accounts by the Arabia; but they had reached us before in the Sa vannah papers: New Orleans, April 19. Sales four thousand five hundred, Middling 10 I*4 a 10 1-2, market quiet. Death of William It. Ring. Intelligence was received by telegraph in this city, on the 19th inst., that William R. King, Vi3e President of the United States, breathed his last, at his residence in Dallas county, on Monday night, the 18th inst. Although the country had been looking for this sad event for some time past as a probable contingency, yet we never have been enabled to realize fully its effects until now that he is gone. Alabama feels that she lias lost almost her father, and her heart throbs sad and heavily “at the portals of his grave.” For thirty odd years—ever since her admission into the Union—Col. King, excepting a very brief interval, has been in the service of this State ; which is a sufficient commentary upon his devotion to her interest and welfare. Without possessing the first order of talent, his high and honora ble bearing—his chivalric and gentlemanly deportment —his integrity, honesty, and love of truth—which leave his character without a spot or blemish, gave him a very high rank with those with whom he came in contact and acted ; for few men in the Senate exerted as much influence upon all grave and important subjects as lie. * It is not necessary that we should enter into a biog raphy of Col. King. This task was amply performed during the late canvass, and bis li.e and public services are too well known to our whole people to need repeti tion. I 4 ull of years and full of honors he has gone down to the grave. The places that lately knew him, will know him no more forever ; but his memory will be long cherished in the hearts of the people of his adopted State, and in those of the people of the whole country. M ould that this truly good man and unyielding patriot could have been spared to wear the honors so recently bestowed on him by his grateful countrymen !—Adver tiser <s• Gazette. Uncle Tomituiles—Aortli and South. M ere we disposed to do so, we might fill our columns with details of horrible murders, at the recital of which the hair of many of our readers would stand on end, and their cheeks blanch with fear. It is a lamentable fact, that while the whole civilized world is weeping in gn agony of grief over the fictitious, woes of Uncle Tom the horrid cruelties which arc of daily occurrence in the land, are barely mentioned in the spare corners of the daily press. James Shiriy has been recently convicted at Hollidays* burg, Pa., of the murder of his wife ; John Murphy, of Fall River, Mass , lately seized his wife, and after tying both her hands and feet, poured oil of vitriol down her throat, and thus murdered her; a man named Nears, in the city of New York, deliberately took a mallet and beat bis wife’s brains out in the presence of his chil dren ; a few days ago a man killed two women in Philadelphia, in the most barbarous manner. We might I enlarge this fearful list ad infinitum ; for every paper that we open eontains the report of some such dreadful ; tragedy. - Nor is the South exempt from scenes of bloodshed j and murder. There were no less than seven capital eases on docket at the last session of the Superior Court at Decatur ; and our own docket will present a fearful array at our next term. Hardly a month passes over our lovely city that is not stained with blood. Ilcre is abundant food for thought, for sympathy, and reform. In the presence of the unnumbered dead whose blood was shed by the hand of violence, it is wicked to spend our energies and tears over imaginary woes. Crime lias increased with fearful rapidity within a few years in the United States. AY hat is the cause of it ? what is the cure of it ? These arc grave questions which address themselves with urgent force to the Legislator and Clergyman, and which we are incompetent to answer. Unquestion ably the increase in tippling houses and the habit of j drinking immoderately, which has increased to a fearful j extent, notwithstanding the supposed triumphs of the | j Temperance Reform, arc prolific sources of crime. The i doors of the Gin Palace are open day and night, and even the stillness of the Sabbath morn is disturbed by the drunken orgies of the devotees of the wine cup. They are the only places of public resort, and thither the tired laborer and the homeless inhabitants of our city collect together where the labors of the day and week are ended. Ry frequent draughts the passions are ex cited, the reason dethroned, the means of living squandered, and the poor victim of appetite falls beneath the stroke of his companion, or reels to his desolate home to vent his rage upon the helpless beings ho has degraded and impoverished. We have carefully noted for some time past the precedents and circumstance which accompany crime ; and in almost eve ry instance the grog shop has either been the cause of violence, or the place last visit ed by the murderer. If, therefore, the grogshops were closed,much would be done to reform society in this regard. Whether it is constitutional and right to do so, we will not now un dertake to say. That question is not now in issue. Much unquestionably may be done to counteract their iniluence, and refine and harmonise the rising genera tion, by a change in the manners and habits of our pie. Too much liberty is allowed to boys ; as soon as they reach their teens, they generally throw off paternal au thority, and may bo seen swaggering through the streets, in the hotels and bar rooms, not unfrequemly smoking segars and drinking liquor, not only at night but during the Sabbath day—with pockets loaded with powder and shot and pistols. The end of children bred under such a system is inevitable ruin. Before they reach man hood, they are drunkards, gamblers, and not unfroqueut ly murderers. Another reform is equally needed—children must not only be kept at home, but home must be made at tractive. A writer in the Delta very pithily says—“the secret way to close the bar, is to open the parlors.” So cial relations must, therefore, be cultivated ; the sexes be brougl.t into frequent association ; all innocent sports encouraged ; nay, even the dance tolerated within cer tain bounds ; the taste for music and poetry carefully cultivated ; and above all a reverence for female chat* acter and love for female society sedulously developed. It is almost impossible for a man or boy truly in love with a virtuous woman to do a mean thing. As society is at present organised, nothing is done to humanise the youth of the land—except at the church. Each family lives alone and shirks the amenities of life. The father confines himself to his counter and the moth er to her household cares. No thought is given to social intercourse, and even the occasional visits of a friend are not unfrequently regarded as an intrusion. We content ourselves with giving one Party a season, and think we have thereby done our part in the work of social improvement. This is unquestionably all wrong. But we are treading on ticklish ground, and must, there fore, close this article with the assertion, that without a heartier and habitual social intercourse, we have no hope that our future will be any brighter then our present. Fijth District. —A communication ;n the Dalton Times mentions Col. Lewis Tumlin, as a suitable can didate for Congress, in the Fifth District, Mr. Rives, the United States Minister in France, has tendered his resignation to Gen. Pierce. The Supreme Court. We are amazed to find that there is an organised effort in at least two counties in the State, to abolish the Supreme Court; and as we do not know but that this grave heresy may have some adherents in the cir cle of our influence, we feel constrained to attack it thus early and strangle the monster in its cradle. The State of Georgia, more perhaps than any other in the Union, is in need of a Court of Errors and Ap- | peals, and itieally amazes us to learn that any man who • has a stake its the community should desire to abolish it. j Our Judges hold their office for but four years, and j in our variable and constantly shifting population, it is ! almost certain that but few of them can retain their ! seats for more than one term. Abolish the Supreme | | Court, therefore, and every four years we will be cursed j with a now judge, anew code of laws, and anew ju dicial procedure. The Superior Court Judge will be supreme,jand the law, instead of being sought for in vol umes of reports, must be issued fresh from the mind of every new occupant of the bench. No two lawyers, it is well known, are agreed upon hardly any difficult point of law. When, therefore, it is considered that the opinions and decisions of a superior court judge of to-day have no binding efficacy upon the judge of to morrow 7, the community can form some opinion of the dreadful uncertainty which will necessarily rest upon titles to property, when there will be such frequent changes in the court of last resort, as is ceitain to be the case under our system, if the supreme court is abolished. It is a frequent source of complaint even now that the supreme court occasionally reverses some of its deci sions. We imagine, however, that this is rarely the ease, and that many of the instances cited to prove this point, would, upon careful examination, be found to be mere variations of the application of a principle to suit new and different facts. Be this as it may, it is certain that a court composed of three judges who hold office for a long series of years, and which reports its deci sions in well hound calf skin covers, will be more cer tain and uniform than those of a court composed of one judge for a short period, and then of another, and an other, every four years, whose decisions are forgotten the moment the case is decided in which they are de livered. Nor is this uncertainty a small evil. So great indeed is it, that one of the wisest and best judges that ever lived, has left it on record as his opinion, that “bad laws which were certain, were preferable to good laws which were uncertain.’* It is a fruitful source of litiga tion ; it fills the docket with cases, and the lawyers’ pockets with fees ; but it embarrasses the transfer of property, dampens enterprise, and stops up live channels of trade. But this is not the most cogent argument against the i abolition of the supreme court, though in itself it ought ; to be sufficient to silence every caviller. Under our system the judge is elected directly by the people, and is compelled to ride his oirn circuit \ continuously. Now it cannot be disguised that every man has his friends and his enemies, his prejudices and his atfec- ! lions : and that it is impossible for weak human nature : not to yield more or less to such influences. Add to thU the fact that our elections for judges are mixed up with the passions and animosities of political contests 5 that the judge knows who voted for and who against him ; and that he is compelled continually to pass judgments upon cases in which the pecuniary interests of his personal and political friends and enemies are in volved, and it is demonstrated that In* must be more than man if he can rise above tho influences by which he is surrounded and hold the scales of justice with an even hand. The decisions of a court und.r such eir-. cumstances cannot be respected by unfortunate lit\ gants; the law will lie brought into contempt, and its mandates, instead of being cheerfully and willingly obey ed by a contented community, will be resisted or evaded, and society will suffer all the dreadful evils which curse a semi-barbarous people. Under our present system, the errors into which the superior judge is led by fa vor and affection, or passion and prejudice, are carefully put on record by learned counsel, and are referred to tho three judges of the supreme court, who, far removed from tho parties, their prejudices and strifes, enter upon their investigation with unclouded minds, and decide as to law and equity shall appertain. Wo do not pretend that their decisions are always right. The attribute of unerring wisdom appertains to God alone. But wo do insist that they are more likely to be, right than those of the judge of the superior court can be surrounded as he necessarily is, by so many circum stances adverse to a full, fair and impartial decision. It is objected to the supreme court that it imposes | the necessity for increased taxation upon the people ! The argument is so contemptible that we would not notice it, if it were not seriously urged by a very res pectable meeting of our fellow citizens. In reply, we have only to say, that the citizen has a right to demand of the state “sure and speedy justice,” and if it be once established that the supreme court is necessary to this result, lie has a right to demand it, even though it in creased the burthen of taxation four-fold But the ad ditional tax is so small that no man feels it, and would j not turn on his heel to get rid of it. We will not pretend that our present judicial sys j tem is by any means perfect. The court ought to be j made stationary so as to be able to command the use of j the best authorities and more time ought to be given for j I decision after a cause is argued. In this reform we will cheerfully co-operate. We have not time to elaborate j these points now. We may refer to them again here- 1 after. Col. A. .1. Pickett. We publish in another column an interesting letter from this accomplished scholar and gentleman, in j which he declines to allow his name to go before the | convention of the Alabama Democracy as a candidate for nomination as Governor ; preferring to devote 1113 time to the completion of his history of the country from the Savannah to the Itio Grande, to the honors of office. In view of the noble work in which he is engaged, we cannot regret his determination. We delight, however, to hold him up before the people as a specimen of man- ! ly virtue, who prefers to benefit his age and nation to the gaudy honors of political lif#. Such men are rare, and when found, ought not to be forgotten and passed by, for noisy demagogues who only love the people be cause they hold the spoils. We wish Col. Pickett a happy and successful voyage to the old world, and hope he may return laden with the hidden treasures of which he is in search. Shooting and Stubbing in the city. On Sunday morning 17th inst., Joseph Updegraff was stabbed by Brittain M’Cullers, and has since died. M’Cullers has made his escape. By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that a reward of one hundred dollars is offered for his apprehension. On Wednesday, 20tli inst., Air. J. J. Walton fired a pistol at Barnard Dolan. The ball grazed Dolan's check. Walton has been held to bail in ihe sum of seven hundred dollars to appear at our next Superior Court to answer to a bill of indictment. Chumienuggee Fair. The next meeting of this delightful association will be held on the first Thursday in May. We invite attention to the advertisement of the Messrs. Holland, offering for sale, at a great bargain, their well known Plantation and valuable Mi ls, situated two and a half miles west of this city. These gentle men are determined and anxious to sell, and the public may do well to look after the “bargain.” Col. S. R. Adams lias been nominated by the Democ racy of Jasper county as their candidate for Congrsss. They have also unanimously recommended lion. and. J. Mcßae for United States Senator. Beers Discharged. —The Case of Beers, the Post mas ter at Mobile, charged with defalcation, lias been carried before the Grand Jury. The evidence was iusuffioent to find bill, and his discharge has been ordered. We learn by a telegraphic dispatch to the Charles ton Courier, that George S. Walden, of Centre, Chero kee county, has been appointed United States Attor ney for the Northern District of Alabama, vice Jef ferson F. Jackson, of this city, removed. The Democrats of Carroll county have held a meet ing, approved of the sentiments of President Pierce's Inaugural, and appointed delegates to a State Conven tion, with instructions to support Gen. Haralson for Governor. Anti-Slavery Literature. RENEWAL OK THE ABOLITION AGWAfION. Are we never to have peace? Will the abolition agi tation never end ? We believe not, at least until the Southern people shall cease to wage war upon one an other, and turn their serried array in full front upon the foe. The success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin has induced the author to publish 80,000 copies of a “Key to Uncle j Tom’s Cabin,” which. In the language of the New York i Herald , “opens the door and discloses to our mortal 1 vision such scenes of horror, atrocity and heartless I cruelty in southern slavery, as are without a parallel in ! the most chilling atrocities of the Romans, the Spaniards ; in South America, the Turks, or the piratical Beys of j Algiers.” * * “In this view of the subject,” says , I the same paper, “we apprehend the people of the South may prepare for a more ferocious, systematic and des perate warfare upon the slavery question than anything which they have heretofore experienced from the wrath of the abolitionists. Heretofore, the war upon South ern slavery lias been more largely directed against its political tendencies and influences in the legislation ot Congress, than against its imaginary enormiti-s as a social and domestic institution. But, hereafter, the criminal records, of the South, their statistics, their newspaper reports, their neighborhood traditions, their current stories and rumors of murders, outrages, and cruelties of all kinds, real or fictitious, inflicted by slave holders and slave drivers, upon men, women and chil dren, arc to be trumped up, and, with all the exaggera tions that may be required to render them appalling to the last degree, they are to be published in catch-penny pamphlets, to glut the ravenous stomachs of English and Northern abolition philanthropy, and to lil! the empty pockets of unprincipled hucksters upon popular credulity.” Another Rail Road. Georgia has done much to bind the extremes cf the country together with the iron bands of railroads —but her noble work is not yet accomplished—and will not be, until the whistle of the steam car is heard in every county in the State, and an easy and direct transit for freight and passengers is opened to Savannah from every corner of her splendid domain. Memphis is des tined to be the great centre of the immense trade which lies on either side of the rocky mountains. It is almost certain that that city will be the terminus of the great line of rail way which will be constructed to the Pacific coast. It is, therefore, a matter of capital im portance to connect our magnificent lines with that city. And we are gratified to learn that this can be done at ; small expense, and that our noble eitv of Savannah is I the nearest point from Memphis to the sea. The ful ! lowing estimate of distances arc from the Savannah I Georgian : “From Decatur to Savannah by the proposed road, we i have estimated the distance at 424 miles. From I lecatur | to Savannah by Memphis and Charleston road, extended ‘as it is proposed that it shall be to Chattanooga, the dis* ! tanee is about 560 miles—making the difference in favor j of the direct route to Griffin a large fraction over 100 ’ miles : a fraction which must be increased when the comparison is made with reference to Charleston.*’ Tho prospects of the road and the means of build ing it are thus set forth by a correspondent of the Jef fersonian : “The road will run through about forty miles of the public lands in Alabama, it is contemplated that Con gress will readily grant us lands to the same extent, as they do to the Mobile A: Ohio Railroad, which at per i acre, would yield about $400,000. There is a strong 1 probability that Alabama will, at the next session of the ‘ ! Legislature, do something for this route, because it opens f S upon the most direct communication from North Alabama j j to Mobile Bay, and public sentiment in the State is very ! much in favor of having a law enacted the same as Ten- j j nessee, granting SB,OOO per mile fur rail road improve- I 1 incuts. I “The road will run over about 36 miles of the Selma j | Railroad in Alabama ; thus Alabama will have to build j but 65 or 70 miles onlv. Morgan and Marshall counties ! will stand a tax of $200,000, and although the road runs ! through a poor section of the country for some distance, j vou perceive the project is lar from being “hopeless” as to capital: but 1 maintain that if Georgia had t<> build every foot of the road, it would be the best investment she ever made in railroads, and would yield her a golden harvest .” Mrs. Tyler's letter in Ireland. —At the recent cele bration of St. Patrick’s day in Dublin, Rev. Dr. Cahill i tlius enthusiastically expressed himself with regard to Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler : “1 long to stand in the presence of the patriot, the! accomplished Mrs. Tyler, and the incomparable ladies of j America, that I may offer to them the deep homage ! of my grateful heart—that I may present to them the j respect and enthusiasm of the people of Ireland for the j withering chastisement they have inflicted on the sain- j ted cruelty of the Duchess of Sutherland, and for the | graceful dignity with which they have exposed the well meaning hypocrisy of her noble committee.” A Robber Chief in Cuba. —A late letter from Ha- I vana to the New Orleans Delta, says : “I have to inform you that news has been received I from the country, that a famous robber called “El Man- | * co,** that is, One-armed, is causing quite a consterna* ’ tion. He is at the head of upwards of a hundred j j men, and is setting all at defiance, killing the Spaniards ! in all directions.” Temperance in Indiana. —New Albany city and i township have voted against license by a majority of 107. Indianapolis has voted against license by a 111a | jority of 196. Lafayette has voted against license by i a majority of 201. Rushville has voted against license jby a majority of Go. Evansville lias voted for license jby a majority of 219. New burg has voted against li j cense by a large majority. Soil of the South. —We have received the April! number of this valuable agricultural paper. We no- ! tice among the articles a premium essay on Agricultural Education. It is a valuable article and should be widely read, particularly bv the planting community of ; the south. It is filled with instruction and useful hints Ito the planter. No fanner should be without this cx ] cellent paper. —Mobile Tribune. Soil of the South for April. —This number of this invaluable agricultural paper is filled, as usual, with useful, practical and most interesting articles. No one, after a while, who pretends to cultivate the soil, will be without this paper. —Montgomery Advertiser. Gov. Foote has revoked his proclamation ordering the election of five members of Congress by the people of the State at large, and has issued another proclama tion, ordering an election for a member from each of the four districts, in accordance with the act of 1846‘ and one—the fifth, or additional member under the new apportionment—by the people of the State at largo, as provided for by the act of 1850. The newly appointed U. S. District Attorney for New i Mexico is a native Mexican, who, after being educated i in the United States, practised law with considerable j success in St, Louis, Mo. So lie is a capital selection. ! Gold Discovered in Texas. —Rich Gold deposits! have been discovered in the streams and gullies west of the Colorado river. Texas. Many persons are now I working them at a fair profit. Lola Montcz. —Lola Montcz, charged by the stage manager of the Varieties with assault and battery, had a heal ing to-day before the Recorder, and was bound over to appear at the next sitting of the Criminal Court for trial. The Maine Law. —Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ver mont, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota have all given popular majorities against the stile of ardent spirits. Appointment. —Denison, of South Carolina, has been installed as Chief Clerk of the Census Office at Wash ington. Awful Murder. — Boston, April 11.—An awful murder was committed at Fall Kiver, on Saturday even ing. A man named Joint Murphy seized his wife, and after tying both her hands and feet, poured oil of vitriol down her throat, burning her to death. Whaling by Electricity.—Mr. H. Riebten, of Bre men, the inventor of the process of killing whales by electricity,, has -arrived at New Bedford, from a whal ing cruise upon the north-west coast, during -- which he is said to have successfully tested his invention. Type Setting lor Girls. We learn from the New York Daily Times , that in consequence of the late strikes among the printers in that city, one of the daily papers has employed girls to do its type-setting. The Editor says : “If this should be the means of opening anew field ot labor to those young women in our city who are compell ed to’earn a livelihood by their daily toil, affd who have far severer struggles with poverty and want than any other class of our laboring population, we shall be heartily and profoundly rejoiced. The number of this class is far great 4 ’ or than is gi ner.dlv supposed ; and the difficulties they encounter, the sufferings they endure; the toils and priva tions they meet, are suspected by very few. There are thousands of young women in this city who, besides sup porting themselv*s, are compelled to support infirm or invalid parents, and infant brothers and sisters. And how few departments of labor are open to them? Even those kinds ot labor for which they would seem to.be es pecially fitted, such as shop-tending, the sale of fancy <vondS'*ot gloves, laces, etc., etc., are monopolized by men, and closed, by prejudice almost as much as by custom, against females. The needle , teaching, and domestic service, seem to be almost the only means bv which this very larox*class of our population can obtain a living; and of these, the last is not only filled, but over-crowded, from abroad, by those whose physical strength and habits of life give them advantages lor it which they cannot rival Very few. comparatively, are qualified to teach; and so the needle is the sole r source. “And whit kind of a resource it is, no one who is at all acquainted with the number, hard labor, and pitiful earnings of the seamstresses in tins city, needs to be in formed. Even with steady employment, it is almost iiu*’ possible even to support life, at the paltry prices to which excessive competition and the relentless cupidity of em- ( ployers, have reduced wages in this department.” More important results will follow in the tiain of this reform. It is much to be hoped, that it will im prove the moral tone of tho New York daily press, which is conceded on all hands to be the lowest in the Uniofi. No gentleman could put in the hands of a blooming maiden the filthy copy, which but too often disfigures these sheet 4. What a pleasant place the of fice of an Editor will be when this precedent is followed. A Challenge. The Columbus ‘Tunes and. Sentinel boasts that the foreman of that office set sixteen thousand f.ms in a ; single day, and triumphantly asks, “who can heat this If modesty did not forbid, we could name a typo in this place who can beat it “all to tarn.-.l smash,” without hav ing a “blacksmith proof*’ or reading his “sticks” either. He can put up 20,000 ems, or 2000 an hour, just as easy as nothing, and never thought about boasting of it either, Sam. Ivins, editor of the Athens (Term.) Post, can, we believe, do the same thing.— Southern Herald. Sam is not willing to give it up so; and challenges the Athens “typo” to a trial of skill- What say you, Mr. Christy ? The Abbeville S. C. Banner* Our old friend, C. 11. Ai.len, has retired from the Editorial control of this paper, and has been succeeded by Lt. F. W, Selleck, of whom lie speaks as follows : “Inhis hands I fee! satisfied it will lose nothing, and that he who so nobly followed the flag of his country over the ensanguined fields of Mexico, and triumphantly placed it upon the walls of her capital, will as gallantly bear aloft and sustain the Banner of bis adopted District. For the “Hero of the Garetu,” then, I bespeak the same liberal patronage extended to myself, and trust that lie may boas well sustained in his new vocation of Editor, as he was under more trying times as a soldier, and by hearts as true.” COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Pierre Soule. The Editor of the Enquirer fairly confesses that he i has stood by and witnessed the distribution of the pat | ronage of the Democratic administration, just as long as ; his human Whig patience could stand it; and is now ! forced to vent his bile in one yell of savage passion over j the appointment of the gallant and accomplished Soule, |of Louisiana. We are told that he has stood still and i seen the guillotine falling on the necks of his faithful allies with “an unflinching and tearless eye;” (we have heard of blinking eyes and blanched cheeks—but nev er before of flinching eye or cheek ;) but now a point has arrived when he can no longer keep silence, and when his political virtue forces him to express his pro found dissatisfaction at the appointment of the Minister to Spain. Now, it is a question for the curious to de cide, whether or no, it is because Mr. Soule is the “Jacobin, Filibuster and Disunionist,’* for which he denounces him, or is it because Mr, Soule belongs to a school of Southern State lights patriotism, into whose sacred portals that Editor has never dared even to peep, that this anathema is thundered from the Whig Vatican at Columbus, Georgia ? It is a question, whether the appointment of the spotless and fearless J eff. Davis to Ia seat in tho Cabinet, was one whit less distasteful to this Editor? whether lie liked the signs of the times j better, when the pure and upright R. M. T. Hunter was the first man whom the President elect called to ! his confidence, on the threshold of the great trust the : American people had confided in him? It is Pierre Soule's political color that is gall and wormwood to your neigh - | bor— hinc illtp larhrymae —and he is pounced upon, and Davis and Hunter were not, precisely because, in the one | ease there was hope of making a point against a gallant i foreigner, the adopted son of this Republic; while the ; other two, in their native strength, but with no brighter ! personal and political escutcheons than Pierre Soule, ’ stood far beyond the reach of the pigmy shafts of this professional grumbler. And now, who is Pierre Soule, in whose appointment to tile Court of Spain, this Government has forfeited the respect of the Columbus Enquirer 1 By long odds, one of the mast remarkable men now moving on th& great stage of-public life in America—an unrivalled ora tor -, in person, spirit and manners, by far the most ad mired Statesman who sits in either blanch of the Ameri can Legislature ; no less remarkable sot his polished i intellect and shilling parts, than he has been for his strangely adventurous and romantic life, and his undy ing love of liberty and right, whether in his native or adopted country ; a man of energetic action, as well as brilliant speech; in short, a man almost without ap proach, whether you regard him in the characters of orator, statesman nr gentleman. And now what is the crime of this man ? A “Jacobin,” because his hatred of, and resistance to oppression made hint an exile from his own country : a “Fillibuster,” because like every true American, he finds it impossible to behold that choice garden of the earth, lying at our very doors, oil the highway of our domestic commerce, the key to the nar row door which affords the only passage to connect the Eastern & Western slopes of this great republic ; acotin trv, too, inhabited by a race, who are dozing away their lives in unconscious ignorance of the mighty talent which nature has intrusted to their care, and living under a government more oppressive titan any people even of their own degenerate blood have ever borne • a “Filli bustcr,” we say, because he cannot look abroad upon this peerless landscape, this necessary appanage to his country, without coveting its possession, and without wishing to open it to the march of freedom and the bless ings of onr own institutions; and a “Disunionist,” be cause, when cowards trembled, traitors Iteld back and politicians trimmed, be threw himself with all his soul into the arena of 1850-1, in defence of the constitu tion. Too late, Mr. Editor, totalkabout the disunionism of the Southern Rights party. The light of time has put the very ghosts of that humbug to flight, and it is a hardened political hack, blindly confidentin the gullibility of his party, who in 1853, will recall to the “glimpses of the moon” the gaunt spectres with which they frightened the nation in 1850. There is no proposi tion more true or demonstrable, than that the political combat of 1850—1, strengthened and gave permanency to the Union, invigorated the constitution and put back for a quarter of a century the Vandal hordes who, as sailing from without, were let in from within by the timid and time-serving of the South. And, ifthe/eto, who composed the Southern Rights party have been able by courage and devotion to effect this much, what, I ask, in the name of God and my country, might not have been accomplished, if the South had stood as one man, in defence of the constitution and the rights of the Stales! The ease is a short one, and lies in a nutshell. The North assailed the constitution and the feebler States, the Southern Rights party rushed to the rescue of both, and the Union party not only refused to defend the citadel, but abetted the aggressors, Pierre Soule belonged to the band of defenders ; his eloquence, his political fortunes, his whole energy of soul were thrown unreservedly into the fight—and now when a New Eng land President—a State Rights Democrat from the granite hills and frozen atmosphere of New Hampshire, comprehending the motives and appreciating the spirited patriotism that struck so nobly for the States of his seo tion and the rights of the whole— what is the surprising contrast tosee a Georgia Editor, a man born away down j in a latitude where a hot sun is supposed to breed a natural geniality of sympathy for patriotic effort to resist wrong and uphold the right, taking the Northern Presi dent to task for honoring the Southern Patriot ? F. FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Messrs. Editors :—I notice in your journal of the 12th inst., under head of “Second Congressional Dis trict,” some remarks in reference to our candidate for the next campaign. This is well enough, as we should begin to prepare for the contest. And I am glad to know that in your editorial, to which I allude, you are able to number in the ranks of our party such gentle men as you have there been pleased to mention. Yes, every Democrat, every true-hearted Southern man in the District, should be proud of the brilliant names of Benning, Lawton, Tucker and a host of others. Now, without dictating, or saying anything at all against the wdl merited worth of other gentlemen spoken of, suffer me to say, that hundreds of the party in this section would be gratified to see, after the nomi nation, every Democratic newspaper in the district headed with (“For Congress”) the name of John A. Tucker, of Stewart. It is not my purpose at present .to herald forth his claims ; suffice it to say that to the interest of his party none are more awakened, to the South none more devoted. But as unanimity of action is requisite to ensure success, rest assured that if he is not nominated, the boys in this beat will give tho par ty’s nominee, be he who lie may, a unanimous support. South -W est. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] The Convention at Montgomery. Wynnton, Ga., 23d April, 1853. Messrs. Editors:— By letters which I have just re ceived from Ex-Governor G. U. Gilmer and Dr. W. C. Danjell, l learn that talented and competent gentle men have been engaged to make addresses at the Con vention in Montgomery, commencing on next Monday, on the following subjects : Negro Slavery, the Cultiva tion of Cotton, the connection between Chemistry and | Agriculture, the Cultivation of Rice, and probably the 1 Cereal Crops and Grasses, the Culture of the Sugar Cane, and the manufacturing of Sugar, with various j other appropriate topics, all looking to the development ; of the resources and great industrial interests of the j South. That in these addresses, South Carolinia, Geor- j gia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are entitled j certainly to be represented ; and distinguished gentle- j 1 men from other States have been invited to participate. I A rich, instructive treat may be anticipated, and it is to be hoped that the attendance will he large. Let no weak excuses keep planters away, when all are interested, and ought to join in the formation of ob jects of so great importance. All are invited to come. Very Respectfully, JAMES M. CHAMBERS. FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Temperance Hall. Messrs. Editors : —I see in your Tri-Weekly of the 16th inst., that you make an appeal to the Ladies for aid to pay off tho balance of the debt now standing against the Hall, which debt l should he much pleased to see paid off. My object in this communication is not to throw any obstacles in the way that you propose, but to correct an error that you were authorised to make, i viz.: that in the event of a forfeiting of our charter, the | Hall reverts to the Grand Division. There your infor mant is in error—the forfeiture alluded to in article 5, section 6, of By Laws of Grand Division does not con template real estate, but only minor property belonging to subordinate Divisions. I have no fears about a for feiture of our charter ; we have a large brotherhood, besides the constitutional number that are determined to hold on and to hand the good cause of Temperance down to our posterity. A S. of T. Bunker Hill Monument Struck by Lightning. —The j Bunker Hill Monument was twice struck by lightning, j on Wednesday afternoon, during the thunder storm. • Fortunately the lightning was drawn to the rod, and j probably has done no damage to the structure. Per- 1 sons who were in the monument at the time were con - j siderably alarmed at the concussion, and “thought the ! monument was going over.” The bottom of one of the rods where it entered the earth, was slightly melted ; i and a gentleman near the top, who was passing * down j and holding by the rail, received a shock from which lie Hiii not recover entirely for a couple of hours. The J second shock, Mr. Goodenow says, sounded like the crash of a large quantity of glass thrown down the in side of the monument. — Aurora. Governor Foote, iu a card, states that he has been re quested by General J. I). Freeman, (who is now feeling the weight of domestic affliction,) to say for him that he I has long since determined list to be a candidate for re j election to Congress. A. G. Brown publishes a card in the last Mississippian, j declining to be a candidate for re-election to Congress. [From the Advertiser and Gazette ] Messrs. Editors: Before making known mv determination in reference to undistinguished posi tion which my friends are desirous for me to at tain, I feci it due to myself to stale in what man ner my name has been brought before the public, in the month of January lust, several gentlemen of the city ot VVetumpka, who belong to the Demo cratic parly, resolved to suggest my name itt con-j nection with the office of Governor. They pre pared an article over the signature of a “Coosa ! Democrat,’’ which made its appearance in the pa per of that place, and which lias been copied by other journals in different parts of the State. I knew nothing of this generous movement on the part of these friends until I saw tneir article in the Gazettes. The names of these gentlemen have since become known to me, and they have my Grate ful acknowledgments. Not long afterwards, a public meeting in Aulaugaville adopted resolutions recommending me to the favorable consideration of the people of Alabama. These spontaneous proofs of regard were succeeded by anonymous communi cations in several papers, witten in a spirit of ardent friendship. Many of the Democratic editors of Alabama have endorsed these pieces. In Missis sippi and Georgia several able journals have advis ed our people upon the borders of their respective States to support me lor the gubernatorial office. Even to one long connected with political life, such demonstrations of tegard and confidence, it would seem, would be gratifying : but they nre especially so to me, who have never been an aspirant for office. I perceive that a Court House meeting in Autau ga, in which delegates to attend the approaching Convention were appointed, have expressed a pre” ference for me. Such has been the decision of a similar meeting in the county of Bibb. I under eland that other counties have held meetings, and although some of them have remained silenT as to ! their choice, their delegates are knownto be for me. ! I certainly feel very much flattered and very much j honored by these testimonials of public esteem. It appears that my friends intend to use my name i in the Convention. Their affluence of friendship, j the gratitude I feel for that friendship, and the res pect which I have tor it in connection with my ! own desires, which I shall presently make known, render my situation extremely embarrassing. For the last nine months I have been engaged in the preparation ot a literary work of considerable magnitude, embracing the history of the country from the river of Savannah to the liver of the Rio Grande. As I progress with that work, I am, day by day, more convinced that I ought not to relin- ! quish it. For its successful completion, it is neces. j sary that I should go to Europe. It is important, that I should remain some time in Madrid, Rome ! and Paris. It is my intention to visit Europe in j the early parqofthe ensuing year as a private Ameri- ! can citizen, on my own means, relying opon what address I command to be permitted to explore the colonial records which relate to this country. Ala bama has much of her history locked up in the ar chives of France, Italy and Spain. While I am abroad, it all shall be embraced in the great work, to which T have referred. When I return to Alabama and after I shall have accomplished all for her that I can, ts then, mv follow countrymen choose to honor me with a distinguished position, it will be accepted. It, on the other hand, thev should deter mine that I am ty rema.n in private life, I shall bow with respect to their decision. For these reasons, I desire that tny friends should not present tny name as a candidate before the Democratic Convention for a nomination. I tbi i: it proper also to take this occasion to announce it as my determination to support the nominee of the Convention. For each and all of the distin guished gentlemen who are said to he aspirants for the office of Governor, I entertain no other feeling than that of kindness, and I have, much respect for their talents and worth. I hope that harmony may pervade the deliberations of the lespectable body which is to decide between them. Respectfully, A. J. PICKETT. A Political Judiciary. A short editorial which we published some time since against the policy of making party nominations for the responsible office of Judge, lias, we are informed, cre ated some dissatisfaction among a portion of our party friends, and has caused us to lose one or two highly esteemed subscribers. We have deemed it prudent to remain silent heretofore on the subject, and give the public mind time to cool before we entered upon our defense. Hoping that the time has now arrived, we earnestly appeal to every right miiuLd man, to read and carefully meditate upon this short article before lie finally makes up bis opinion upon this subject. We will be allowed to preface what we have to say with a few operations upon the position and duty of an Editor in respect to his party and his country. His first allegiance is due to his country ; he cannot there fore do any thing which would injuriously affect the people, nor suffer it to he done by others, if in his pow er to prevent it, without committing treason against his native land ; and this treason is aggravated by the ele vated position he occupies. No matter how mean and low an Editor may be, he has an influence of no or | diuarv character. Thousands on thousands, weekly j read what he writes, and iu spite of themselves, imbibe ; his sentiments and opinions. lie enters the bouses of ! his patrons with the sniile and receives the welcome of a friend. Their wives and children are introduced to his acquaintance, and he is permitted to hold familiar intercourse with them. lie ought therefore to he an honest and true man. If he be such, lie will approve what he thinks right, and condemn what he thinks wrong. There is no alternative, and what is wrong in itself is not made right because it is endorsed by his party. In respect to the Judiciary, it has long been our ! solemn conviction that the prosperity, happiness and freedom of the people were in their keeping. We j have seen the baleful influence of a corrupt Judiciary upon the morals of a community ; under it, crime went | unpunished, life became insecure, the good and indus j trious citizen trembled under the anger of the dissolute ! and vagabond, until, outraged by the grossest perversion I of justice, the community arose in their might, and as ! serted the supremacy of law. God forbid that our eyes should ever look upon the like again ! YY hen the angry passions of men once break loose from tlie re straints of law, there is no limit to their violence, but the freaks of their leaders ; and life, prosperity, and all else that men hold dear are held at the sufferance of a mob! A corrupt Legislator is an intolerable curse, but he is but one among many, and his evil machinations may be counteracted by the purity and patriotism of his as sociates. But a Judge reigns supreme in the Court House ; from his decisions there is in many eases no appeal; and the hopeless victims of his tyranny, injus tice, and corruption are robbed or murdered at his pleasure. Where so much is at stake, it is a crime to consult party expediency. We cannot ask ourselves whether a candidate for this high office be whig or democrat. Is he honest ? is he capable ? yea ; then a good citizen is bound by the most sacred obligations to vote for him. Is he dishonest ? is he incapable ? yea ; then a patriotic man cannot vote for him even if his re fusal is at the sacrifice of his life. There are duties higher than the obligations to party ; there arc interests more sacred than party triumphs; and when party calls upon a citizen to betray them, it forfeits its claims to respect, and prostitutes its powers to corruption. Upon this general survey we might rest our defense ; and would do so in perfect confidence that our motives and conduct would be appreciated and approved by an honest people : but that we desired to call attention to i an article upon this important subject which we find in that sterling Democratic Journal, the Southern Stan : dard, published in Columbus, Miss. In it, our position j is fully sustained, and the deplorable evils which will in j evitably flow from an attempt to drag our Judicial sys i tern into the political arena, are exhibited with a force, ! and power, and truthfulness which cannot fail to carry I conviction to every candid mind. [ From the Southern (Columbus, Miss.) Standard. J A POLITICAL JUDICIARY. The question of making our Judicial system of election of Judges and District Attorneys a political issue, lias been boldly announced in this State. It lias been recommended to the Democratic party of Mississippi, in the year of our Lord, 1853, that the “true policy is to sub mit the question as to who shall be the candi date, to the arbitrament of a fairly constituted j Convention of the party”—that is, who shall be i candidates for Judges, District Attorneys, &c. We shall meet this question at the thresh hold, and while we have a voice to raise against it, and a hand capable of writing a line in opposi* j lion to it, both shall be exercised to crush now, j and we hope forever, every attempt to bring the Judicial Bench and the Bar into the arena of ‘politics. It becomes every man who desires an independent Judiciary—one of talent and learn ! ing, one above the caprice of the times, the whim of a party majority, and above and be yond all, free from the leprosy and corruptions , of party and the influence of the party dema gogue—and yet, more independent of the ma j lign slang, the wit and the passion of a mere party press—we say, that it becomes those who desire an elevated Judiciary, to crush while they may, the attempt to drag our Judicial system into the political arena. No one dare go beyond us in relying upon the wisdom and patriotism of the people. We believe they intend to do right, and the history of Republics prove that when left to themselves and their ow n good sense, that they have with a sagacity as clear as it was methodical, em ployed the very means designed by a higher than earthly wisdom apparently, to work out a result best adapted to their necessities. It is on ly when the voice ot the consummate political hack is heard in their counsels, that they are liable to sieze upon the plausible, and usually dangerous systems, and are, by them, betrayed into errors, which for years after they are only enabled to rid themselves of, by patient labor and suffering. This question of Political Judi cial elections, has some points to commend it to party approbation, hut none to those who look beyond its immediate influence upon party-. W e are told that our opponents concentrate up on the man who represents then opinions, and, | muler die specious cry of no-Partvism, draw ! off ft olll die Democracy votes enough to defeat | die Democrat and elect the Whig. If this | ptoves anything, it shows that even now, our I judicial elections are too much the subjects of bargain, and that instead of drawing them still further into the vortex of party sound sense and an enlightened patriotism, would endeavor to separate the Judicial from the Political election by a distance still wider. The legislature has on several occasions attempted this, but the party press, fearing that one of its lovers was to be stricken away, was either sullen or silent, and hencethe people were uninformed of the real issue. But now we have the question sprung in di rect form, and we are deliberately recommen ded to nominate by conventions, our candidates for Judges, District Attorneys, &c. This, and we call upon the people to note it, is to he a Party move. The Judge is to be selected bv the Convention because he is a party man ! He is dependent upoti Parly for an election, and must, ol course, administer the law- according to the party usage. Alone responsible to his party lor his conduct, he is wholly beyond ob ligation to the minority, and as a partisan, he must mete to the opponents of his party, no mote justice than the interests of the majority would seem to warrant. If told that this is pushing the system to extremes, wo answer truly that it is ; but we ask, when was the time in the history of men that they have, as a peo ple, voluntarily abnegated a power they posses sed, or where they have yielded profitable pow er, without an equivalent? If told that this ex treme is not what is desired, we answer, well, it may not be, hut then, these are the recorded