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[ From the Mobile Tribune ] Plutarch Pictures. <3fORG£ mc’dii fii:. Os all the distingoished men of .South Carolina, (hero was none more gifted than George McDuffie, fie was a star of the first magnitude. Honest and sincere in all his ac- ’ tions—a profound jurist—a statesman of the lar gest experience, lie represented his State for many years in the national councils with a de votion that endeared him to his constituents, ; and a fullness of knowledge, that placed him in the first rank of legislators. His speeches, and his reports as Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, not only established his repu tation hi America, hut in Europe he was hailed as the champion of free trade, and complimen ted by the statesmen of England, as one of the masterspirits of the age. His life, if written by a competent hand, would make a very interest ing biography. It would exhibit a poor boy in the bumble walks of life, environed with diffi culties, yet surmounting those difficulties with an iron will, that ultimately elevated him to a position t hat commanded the profound respect and admiration, pf his cotemporaries. His ca reer in Congress is too generally known for us to do more than give it a passing glance; and such was the estimation in which he was held by General Jackson that, notwithstanding the vio lence of the nullification controversy, the old President uniformly expressed the most aflec lionate regard for McDuffie, saying repeatedly “that if there was an honest man alive that man was George McDuffie.’’ lie was undoubtedly one of the inor>t intellectual men of the age ; his mind was eminently logical, and you shall try iin vain to find a flaw in his arguments. One might have differed wish him in tiie principles he expressed, but to grant ills premises was to con cede the argument, His contesls with Webster leave no doubt as to th<> splendor of his intellect; his report on the United States Rank, was the ablest argument ever made on that side of the question ; and his speeches on internal improve ments, the tariff', (he removal of the deposits, and on the expediency of amending the consti tution, are all masterly, and seem to exhaust those subjects. When he rose to speak, there was always a death-like silence in the House—you might have heard a pin drop. Hi3 burning enthusiasm, the sparkling of his splendid grey eye, the emphatic enunciation that accompanied every word, held you captive, and step by step ho hurried you along with him, from point to point, until you were subdued by tbe fascinating fervor of his transcendent genius. Nor was he deficient in sarcasm ; his speeches in reply to the attacks of that miserable compound of vulgarity and impu dence, Tristram Burgess, abound in wit and hu mor. His comparing General Jackson to Jupi ter Tonans, in which Jupiter is represented as seizing the arms of all the ,Gods, wielding the powers of the Pantheon, and giving “the stamp of Fate,” was one of the happiest illustrations of executive spoliation that lias ever been exhibi ted bv any orator of any ago or nation. It was worth y of Demosthenes! His seat in the convention was to the left of the President, and in the vicinity of Major Ham ilton, the revolutionary veteran. You could have recognized McDuffie at a glance. He was of the medium height, and dressed in a claret, colored coat that was much too large for him; but his intellectual face attracted you at once, especially when his splendid eye was tired by the excitement of discussion. His hair was black, and cut with mathematical precision, straight from temple to temple, and smoothed down so as to display tbe shape of his head, which was large and admirably formed. But, ! alas! there is a hectic flush upon his pale cheek ; j you perceive that he is daily dying from theim- ; medicable wound he received in bisvoqjli His I hands are trembling violently, lie is up! but! his voice is clear and calm, his enunciation dis- i tinet, and his manner emphatic. Uttering a bold proposition, he pauses, and his eagle eye glances round the assembly. All is hushed. You might hear your heart beat. But now he dashes into the argument, arid you see an intellectual war rior before you, brandishing the armor of truth, and wielding the hand ofjusuce for liberty and the rights ot man. He speaks like one inspired—l his thoughts, words and action, are sublime— and when he pauses, as if to make a mightier effort, you feel like one entranced, and gaze j with wonder at the man whose magic mind and eloquence have bound you captive to his trium phal car. M’Duflie rose rapidly from obscurity to emi nence,dividing the future,in the opinion of many, with Mr. Calhoun, who was the first to recog nise and to foster the fortunes ol the orphan boy. He stepped at once to the bend of the liar, aiid until his election to Congress he had no com petitor in South Carolina, as a lawyer. His prac tice was very lucrative, and perhaps no lawyer ever acquired so large a fortune in so short a time. In his marriage, too, he was fortunate, leading to the altar one of the wealthiest beauties til’ the land—a daughter of Colonel Richard Sin gleton. In his manners, M’Duflie had the simplicity of a child. AY e shall relate an instance which is characteristic of the man. “Your Mr. .M’Duflie is a very singular person I” said a young lady to us on one occasion, “flow so f’ “Why, 1 was at the Springs, a lew months since, and learning that the great Mr. M’Dntlie was in the house, 1 went into the corridor to catch a glimpse ! of him, when who should approach me bat the great man himself, saying Miss 1 have lost inv hat; won’t you help me to hunt for it“< >f course you did “Yes,” replied the lady, “and found it!” And his appearance, on ordinary oc casions, was anything but distingue. We shall relate an anecdote tbatoccurred only a few days : before his election as Governor of rhe State. Wo were standing by his side in the House of Rep. reseutafives, when a member from Charleston, Major John Huger, approached M’Duflie, and said, “Give me that chair; 1 wish it for Colonel i \\ a’Ten. “Certainly, sir, ‘ replied M'Dnffie, i and banded the chair to Major Huger, who took it i to old Colonel Warren, requesting him to relievo ■ himself from the pain of supporting himself on his crutch, for the old boro had lost a leg at the battle of Savannah. A gentleman—we think it was Pickens Butler, the present Senator in Con- I gross—who witnessed the occurrence, drew". Major Huger aside, saying, “What have you done;* “Who—what I exclaimed linger, for the tone of Butler apprised him that ho had com mitted some grievous blunder. “Done, why could you find no chair for Col. Warren, but the •me occupied by Mr. M'Dullie V’ “Mr. who ?’’ exclaimed Huger, almost petrified with aston ishment. “M’Duflie, >’ replied Butler. “Hoa veus cried Huger, “why 1 took him for a pi,i dar man 1” Asa public speaker—he never spolto in piivate —M’Dutfie was variable in his style. On some i occasions, he would be extremely rapid, dash ing on with the rapidity of a iacer under whip i and spur. At other times he would utter a j word or two in a low tone, and pause: lake up : a cardie and remove it, as if jealous of its light. He then would utter a sentence, and replace i the candle. Suddenly he would startle you bv giving vent to a bold axiom, and strike the table * with bis fist, inflicting a blow that was hard 1 enough to have demolished if. We heard him deliver his famous speech ill Charleston, in vin- i dication of his “forty bale, theory”—that he ! maintained the proposition that foity hales out ‘ ofi very hundred were lost to the producer, by the fraudulent operation of the protective syr tsm. II e spoke four hours, and very deliberate ly, seeming to think over, ami mould every thought before giving it utterance. He used considerable action, indeed it was rather dan gerous to have a seat in his vicinity, and more than once we saw General Hayne dodge to avoid a blow from the swapping arm of the ora tor. In the course of his argument, ho would j occasionally relate an anecdote that served j to amuse and relieve tho audience, and which ; afforded him a good opportunity to take a j fresh start in the great argument he was etabo- i rating. Poor M’Duffie! We see him in our mind’s j eye, as Itc stood on that occasion, uttering ; “thoughts that breathe and words that burn’’— j bold, impassioned, eloquent,—and now, alas! j ho sleeps the sleep that knows no waking, j but his memory will long be cherished by j his dear native land, and his name embalm- j ed in the brightest page of his beloved Caro- ! lina. Simcs antr Smtind, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. j TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1053. BY TELEGRAM! 1 F.XPIIE3SLY FOR THE TIMES & SENTINEL. New Orleans. April 30. I Yesterday's sates of cotton readied seven thousand I bales at previous quotations; receipts three thousand. 1 Stock on baud two hundred and thirty eisdit thousand j bates. Mobile, April 26—5:37 P. M. Yesterday there was some animation in our Cotton i market, and sales amounted to 2,0l)0 bates—Middlings | 9 3 4c. To day sale* reached 1,500 bales—no change in tho i market. Mobile, April 30. Receipts of cotton for the week amounted to four thousand bales; sales for the week 13,500. We quote Middling 9 3*4 to 10 cts.; G >od Middling, 10 3*4 ets.; Middling Fair 11 1-4 all 1-2. Ktock on hand, fifty nine thousand bale?. To-day’s sales leached two thousand bales. The Athens Banner. The least attentive reader of the columns of the Athens Banner cannot fail to discover the deep-seated discontent, with the condition of the things political of tho United States and especially of the State of Geor gia, which breathes in every emanation of the mind that conducts them. “Uneasy is tho head that wears a crown.” It is the opposite of this distress that chafes the spirit of the Athenian Editor. His crown has been removed, his sceptre of political influence has been tern Horn his grasp. The gaunt figures of a broken union, ’ a dislocated confederacy, once beautiful in its symmetry ; and glorious in its strength, “distinct as the billows, but j one a* the sea,’* but now tossed in ruined fragments, a • prey to anarchy, discord and civil strife, by the Evil Genii of S*cessionhrn. no longer avail him to people the fancies of his susceptible countrymen with images of terror—to frighten them f. om fidelity to country to craven submission to wrong, and from steadfastness to political principle into bargains and coalitions with polit ical enemies. The betrayer of the essence of State Rights Democracy ii 1850—the recipient for a brief period of a!! the joys of a triumphant victory, which his successful coalition with the Whigs could give him— one master stroke of tho Southern Rights Democracy, j toppled down the ephemeral edifice which lie vainly itn j agined was built on a rock, while at the same moment j the refluent wave of Whig support which had mounted j him aloft, left him high and dry on that barren shore j of discontent, where lie now ‘‘chews the end of bitter j fancies.’’ But tho Banner's Editor is a game politician. He j “lives in hope, though ho may die in despair.” He ! j fights on and fights ever, and mark our word for it, he i is deeply revolving in Ids mind, at this moment, a now ! , scheme of Whig coalition, and nurturing projects of j ! treason against the integrity and supremacy of thoDem ocratie party in Georgia. Ills motives areas apparent j as *he proofs furnished by his columns are clear and j ample to show his purpose. Tho motives are that his consolidation and passive submission Democracy is in a | lean majority of the Democracy of Georgia, and he and j his cannot rule ; and the proofs are that he openly and i undisguised!y labors to widen the breaches in the De* | moeraey occasioned by the discussions on tho eompro : miso, assuming as his pretext, the dutunionism of tho i State Rights wing of it; and that he does not attempt ! conceal his dissatisfaction with tho appointments and . the general spirit of (den. Pierce's administration. We j allude to the Banner's course, not to deprecate it—not i ! to beg it to forego iis purposes; not to pray it to halt i j and ponder ere it takes these fatal st< ps that will for- I ! ever separate it from the Democracy, and lapse it irre | trievably into Federal Whiggery—but simply for the | purpose of advising our political friends of its marked \ tendencies and warning them of the political abyss into | which he will lead those who follow him. Either the I Banner in moved by iimnno counsels, or it is rushing ! into tiie arms of the Whigs, and dragging j;s many I Union Democrats as it can, in its train, with the palpa ble object of breaking down the administration and Democratic party in Georgia. ‘‘Forewarned is fore armed.” We have made the prediction—mark its fui fi'ment ; and let the Banner remember the facilis de sccnsus Averni, and not foiget tho huge labor of retro gression. To show that wo ai t* not mistaken in the purjams of treason to the Democratic paity, cherished by the Ban ner, vve call attention to the spirit of the number of the 21st of this month. Ihe leader of that day introduces i and comments upon an article from the Rome Courier, highly defiant in its tone, and breathing nothing but : malevolflic© to the Southern Rights men. In this arti | v’.e, the Courier distinctly takes the ground that tho ‘‘Whiggerv of lJiay, Fillmore and Everett” ii less : ‘‘odious 5 to its tastes, than ‘‘the abominable creed of i such open-mouthed disonionists” as tho “Times” and | its friends. This passionate language wins tho eloquent j and exultant commendation and endorsement- oi’ tho : “Banner.” The next editorial is a labored and ingeni ! oils argument addressed to tho passions and prejudices : of Union Democrats, to dissuade them from ectingAvith 1 the Democratic party; r.od this argument is strung on ■ the thread that rn:is through tho whole political system j of the “Banner”—hatred towards Fire caters, and the j unpardonable sin and indigestible fact that they are tho j controlling majority of the party. We have not space j to-day for the extrat f.s from the ‘‘Banner” to show its | ! temper. Fi the next aiiid-Mvo haven very distinct onslaught j on Ctri Fin er, in whu-h the administration is smitten hip j ! and thigh, with n two edged sword : and doubly lal;tn to ! : task fdr favoring Fire, enters and. Fkee-Sc;lp.hs. Afu r ; : quoting front th - Nfiv York Post, an abolition organ, ; j an article evidently wriitea ilia passion and under tho j ’ same feel in trs of discontent with the administration, as that affiiot the Burntcr, the latter eseiainis; j ‘‘Thusit :.fe ti:at Gii. Fierce is nursing within his ho* ; sem, a faction at the North that threatens aci nsade.agaiust | the slave property of the South if they are not shielded by | the .Kgis of the Xatiouii! ] democracy, nnd allowed to pro | pagate their doctrines under tin* cover <t their guns. In eider to sustain him in that policy, ho has found it ueees i sary to subsidize the Som hern iScces so:lists into a fatal and unprincipled coalition with them. By this course he has , struck ab! *w again >l that Union which ho professes i much to cherish, under which F is destined to reel and rock to its oeuire, at no distantciav. The event may not • ttL- ur durdig liis admiuisiratio!?, but. he has tendered it i sure by the policy he has pursue*Wo see the cloud | gathering in the distance—when the coalition between tho j two extremes shall have beaten down the middle grounded j men—ar.d when the two extremes will stand face to face 1 jin mortal arbitrament. The only way avert it is, for the niiddle-gi’oundt and meu to rally under a distinct organ- : j izatioc. as they d:d in 1850 and a lßsl, that shall stand aloof j from all national party conventions, upon a platiarm of | sound republican principles, arid equally opposed to Xorth ; ern Freesoilism on the one hand, and BonthtrnSeces j sionism on the other. Here, iu onr humbie (pinion, is J the true path of safety for all the friends of the rights of ! the States, and the union of the States.” Here, then, is the card of the. Banner party —it is ! played openly and above-board, and it is clear to every eye that it will oppose the administration, because Gen* j < sal Piereo did not put up at the “Union Hotel” instead j cf the White House, aud did not give the reins of his government into tho hands of a set of soap-tail politi cians who flee from their principles os from a pestilence. : whenever and wherever the t xperim*nturn cruets is ap- i phed to them. Here we have an open bid to the Whigs t help the sore-heads of the Banner clique break down General Pierce and the Democracy; and a tender of the right hand of fellowship, cemented by a common hatred to State Rights men. And if any body will look at the Whig papers, they will see how the lead of \ the Banner is followed. The Coiumbus Enquirer of ; yesterday, (April 26.) after a political starvation of long j | duration, jumps at the bait, like a trout at a fly, and j spins us out an article,lugubrious with compromise woes, | i and rampant against the wicked administration that takes j horrid Fire caters into its confidence ! What a change | has come over these men ! We remember how they ! both sneered and chuckled when a Southern Rights | gentleman characterised General Pierce as the “crea* lion and choice’’ of Ins political party. We remember j how they Bwore he was a compromise man, and a Un* j ion man, and how he would nick the necks of the vile ’ Fire eaters. But there has been “voa grand” disap pointment in all this. The President belongs to a dif ferent species of animated Nature from that very low one in which these gentlemen chose to class him. He id neither a jelly fish nor a sea urchin, but a strong-back ed and vetebralcd animal, with the spinel column erect, and a soul under its ribs that cannot but admire men everywhere, who stand up fir the rights of their firesides and altars. And now because he is this man, the \ whole tribe of jelly fishes are banding against him. He ’ is to be hooted down because ho will not do the oid ! dings of vengeance of a clique, fresh and reeking from the meretricious embraces of a Whig coalition, upon the j true Democracy of Georgia who have never swerved ; I from tluir State Rights integrity. We think the Athens i j Banner,on the whole, is one of the small stars destined to j be !os: to*, he Democratic constellation. It is traveling Whig ward, just as fast as the seven-leagued boots of passion ; and affinity can carry it. The sooner the better. Ten ! enemies beleaguering the citadel outside, in preference to one Judas within. But. while that paper can go to the Whigs, it is not Titan enough to compass the great feat of pushing the King Demos from the throne. The Democratic party will survive its defection, as it has done that of many better men. Lucifer with his party storming the battlements of Heaven, had a hopeful time of it, in comparison with the Athens Banner and its pigmy clique, shooting split peas us tho bulwarks of the Great Democracy. The Coalition* We have heretofore indicated that there was a fixed purpose on the part of certain Union Democrats who refused, in the last election, to support tho Democratic Pierce and Kingelectoral ticket, to form a coalition with i Federal Whigg< ry. This, however, is n-H their avowed j purpose: but their covering with which they at- j tempt to disguise their designs is perfectly transparent. I The Union humbug is to be kept up, the profession of! Democratic principles is boldly to be persisted in—but ■ the votes of the faction are to bo given to the nominee j of the whig paily at every election, when a State j Rights man is the candidate of the Democratic party. ; We hav e no word of expostulation to throw away j : upon the leaders of this movement. They are blinded ! j by passion, enraged by defeat, and are more intent upon j ! vengeance than solicitous for the success of their prin ! eiplcs or the good of their country. But to the honest voters, whom these men are trying to mk.iead, from the j old Democratic track, into the devious courses of whig- j gery, we desire to make an earn >st appeal, and to a- | dress.'i word of warning. What is whiggery ! It is very hard to describe the j camelion, us its hues change with every pha.se of public j sentiment. At one time it was in favor of a National • Bank, a High Protective Tariff, tho abolition of the Veto j Power, a genera! system of Internal Improvements by ; the Federal Government, the distribution of the proceeds i of the sales of the Public Lands among tho Status—all 1 of which measures bad a direct tendency to merge the i States as separate sovereignties into a great and corrupt national consolidated government, to transfer ail power into tin? hands of the northern majority, and to build up the north out of the spoils which they could, by devious legislation, wrest from the south, Th : s was Clay whig- j | gery. this was Webster wh'-ggorv, and this is northern j ; whiggery to-day. ; Against this coriupt policy the great body of lit.’ j Democratic party has waged unceasing war for 20 years . —and the very leaders of this new coalition party have : won ab their laurels in opposing it, in tho terrible parly j conflicts which it has engendered. And now they eoun- j scl the following of Jackson who gained his political re- [ no vn by vetoing internal improvement bills and crush ing the National Bank, and reducing the tariff, and in ! the exercise of the veto power, to insult the memory of j the old Hero by co-operating with a party which op* : posed him in every net of his administration and follow ed him with Hyena instincts even to the grave ! Un blushing, indeed, is their effrontery, to make such a pro- ; position toii *n* st men. But tills is not all. The Northern whig party is fa- j tally tainted with the leprosy of abolition. All its great i leaders arc*cither abolitionists or Frcesoileis. There is j not an exception in the party north of the Potomac. — j Nay, even the National convention which assembled last year to nominate a candidate for President, selected a man whom the great body of the whig party at the j south regarded ns unsound on this vital question, and j thousands on thousands of as devoted party men as ever ! Jived, actually refused to support him. So striking is the contrast between the Democratic j and Whig parties in this regard, that distinguished whig i politicians who have devoted the strength of their j manhood in advocating whig principles, now actually | spurn the proposition to reorganise the whig party. They ; see and lament that the arch demagogue and abolition ist William 11. Seward is the leading spirit hi the or- ‘ gauization, .and will in all probability be tho whig can- : didale in 1856. Can Union Democaats pr-fer such associates to the* ‘ State Rights Democracy of the South ? God forbid 1 But it is alleged in extenuation that State Rights j Democrats arc Nullifiers and DimuioriUts. What ■ then? Has not the good whig State of Vermont nulii- ? fied the Fugitive Slave Law ? Th.-rc are whig nuliHUrs ; as well democratic nulhfiers ; whig Jisunionists ns w., M • as democratic disnuiouists ; with this difl'rence, that! the whig nuliificrs and tlisnniouists are endeavoring t.> : rob tlie south of her properly, while the democratic j nnlliflcrs and disnnionisrs arc attempting, it mav he j rashly and fndsscreetly, to preserve and defend if. It is further alleged that the Union democrat are in a minority in the democratic party, and that the spoils jof office will be monopolised by the fire-eaters. This i*> , a miserable appeal to a very sordi .1 Shall a ‘ man g.ve up f:i# principles because ho cannot, obtain . office ? The argument ought only to be addressed t Arnolds and Judases, But wo deny the aflegation. ! Tho Southern Rights Democracy are not proscriptive, j Uvcu now the most prominent candidates far tiie norni- J j nation for Governor of Georgia, the higfictt office in ! i tho gilt of tho people, tue Union Democrats, and bon- ! | orable mention has been made of another in connection i with Congress in this district.. If the party lias erred at | | ail it is in the facility with which it Ivis forgotten the } defection of 1850, and the cordiality with which it re- Iceived back into tho wigwam, its tiuant members. — The gentlemen who make the charge arc to well ex- ‘ • perivuced in party hiatory not to know that t>:ic fig hi J j and victory conciliates all enmities, find caucus aii rc j collections of former feuds. Tho history of Georgia 1 j abounds in instances “to our purpose quite.” j But will the Union Democrats acquire the ascendancy ) j in the whig party by their treason to the Democracy ! ; ’ Will Toombs and Stephens give the truncheon of p.dit- \ j icol power to Holsey and Vvoflihiv] ? | 2s ay, further, can the feeble ban*l of Union Demo j era Is push Seward, and Corwin, and Fillmore from | their neats, and infuse into the corrupt system of : j northern wliiggery/ihe pure and healt!;y blood of the De . mecracy? The task were as hopeless ns to revive the decay- ! ing corpse by a few drops from the veins of a healthy man. ! t The result of the coalition cannot b doubted. AH histo- i j ry provts that the larger poii'ivrl body will infuse in- ‘ |to the smaller, its principles and sentiments. In view ; of these stubborn facts, we entertain no fears as to tho result of tho movement now being made to effect a coalition with tho whigs. No honest democrat, who is not blinded with rage, can entertain the proposition, and tue end of the moment will be that n few fishy leaders ; of the Union democracy will go over to the enemy.’ while the great body of the party will stand firmly by j their time-honored standard. Attorney General Cushing has made a report in re ference to papers belonging to the Census Bureau, which ; were seized by Mr. Kennedy, the last superintendent, ; under a writ of replevin: the report sustains Mr. I Deßovv in relusing to give up the papers, and denies ! the right of the court to grant a writ of replevin in the j cose. j j It is said that there are slight hopes of tho recovery ; of Mike Walsh, Esq., who is lying ill ia New York. j Our next Governor. The following communication which we clip from the j Georgia Telegraph, expresses the convictions of the great body of the Democratic party as to the character and talents of our distinguished townsman, lion. Al fred Iverson. No man in Georgia would make a better Governor, and if his services are demanded in that station, we have no doubt he would consent to serve. We have, however, accustomed ourselves for . some time past to connect his name with the Senate of the United States, on which theatre he in peculhuly fitted to shine. As an orator, he has few equals in the United States, and we need just such qualities at this time in the Senate. Since the death of Calhoun*, and the resignation of Davis and Soule, the Demociaey of j the South has no representative in tho Senate who can j tfive utterance to her sentiments in “thoughts that j breathe and words that burn.” Mo tcf the southern j Senators arc { lain, practical men, who have rot the ! gifts and graces of the orator. They need a spokes- < man. Wo can furnish them with the man they want, j What says “Baker” to our suggestion? ILro ia the ; article referred to: (From the Georgia Telegraph.] The time is fast approaching when tho Democracy of ; Georgia are to meet in Convention to fix upon n standard bearer for the coming Gubernatorial contest. 1> the present aspwctol politics in our State, much de- j pends upon that selection, and it is particularly necessary ; | for the triumph of the party that the choice be a judicious j j one—one that combines the confidence of the party to so- ] i cure h s election, with the ability, when elected, to fulfil I the duties of the office. Indeed, it i only requisite to e- \ cure a leader possessing these qualifications to insure a j triumphant *uece<w. and open tor the Democracy of Gcor- ! gia a brilliant future. Such a man, Messrs. Editors, is the lion. Alfred Ivor- j son. of Muscogee, th?m whom none in the Democratic ‘ ranks are more d* serving that honor. llis high moral character and purity of hie, coupled \ with undoubted abilities, have long since endowed him to the people; and his firm, unswerving devotion to the principles of the Democratic party renders his claim of no ordinary character. Always identified with the Detn< - I i• racy, he never yet has faltered, hut in defeat as in eue [ cf’SK !dis remained true to its principles,and stood firm and ; unflinching to its policy, and contributed, t*y wise and j cocbiliaiory counsels, 33 much as ony other to its past i strength and triumphs, and is present flattering prospects. | His nomination would give entire satisfaction ; and ; with him as a leader, we could not suffer defeat,and when j elected he would make just such a Governor as Georgia | needs, end of whom the Democracy would be proud. ; BAKER. ; I The Girard Hail Road— A new Western i Terminus. j Tho people of Columbus and the aur: ounding country j ! have heretofore been compelled to bear upon their ■ shoulders the whole burthen of this stupendous enter ! prise. Unquestionably, when completed, it will add 1 j much more to the trade of Mobile than it will to ours ; \ J yet Mobile lues, from the beginning of the work, given ; j U3 the cold shoulder, and with the exception of the \ ; contribution of very small sums by a few of her more I /enterprising citizen*, she has done nothing to forward j i the undertaking. Iler hopes and resources are turned ! i in another direction, and to all our conning she has only ; ! responded “no, no.’’ .■?'!:ail we prosecute our suit j ‘ after so many rebuffs, or sock another and more facile j j connection ? This is an important question arid ivej) J • worthy of our consideration. The following, among nth- I j er reasons ,may bo urged in favor of another terminus. r j By the completion of the Opelika branch road we will j j be in communication by tfie Alabama River with Mobile, ! i and will reap most of the advantages of a more direct j j communication with that port. Furthermore, there is j j every reason to believe thet the gap between Montgomo- j ; ry and Brandon, Mir.s,, will be filled up in a very few ! years under the supervision of Mr. Marshall, President j of the Southern (Mississippi) Rail Road, who i* actively \ j engaged in forwarding tho enterprise; and by this 1 | means we will have a direct communication with tho ! i Mississippi River, aud will be in great iKgree ht-Vpmi- ! • dent of Mobile. i Under these circumstances, would it not be well for ; ! the President and Directors of the Girard Road to turn ! ! their attention to Pensacola ? We believe it is generally j conceded that a Rail Road will ho built from Montgomo- I ry to Pensacola, which will cross the track of tho Girard | Rond about 75 miles from .Mobile; and by uniting with that road, we can have opened to us the port of j Pensacola, und thus enjoy tho benefits of u connection j with the Gulf at much loss expense, than we can, if we ! arocompelled to push the Girard road to .Mobile bay I unaided by liberal contributions from Mobile. Let Mo ! Idle look to her interests. It is true, Pensacola is as yet a small city, but when that splendid port i o connected j with Savannah and Brunswick by Railroad, and the i j golden flood of trade and trace] of the Isthmus is poured j | into he r lap, she will in all probability bo the Queen city • on the Gulf, and a connection with her may be of more j benefit to us than one with Mobile. j The Savannah and Pensacola Hail Hoad. We learn from the Savannah News that nearly one j million of dollars, bona fide subscriptions, have been i j made to the st<ek of the road in Savannah and vicinity, j ! which will be largely increased. The Engineers have j been engaged, for more than a month pact in surveying j | the route, which they have nearly completed between | Savannah and Albany. The company are waiting for } tiie report of their Engineer which is to determine them ! iin the location of the road. When this important m‘- j tor is definitely fixed, the work will ho commenced and • prosecuted with the energy and perseverance which ! j lias characterized ail the important undertakings in J which our city has ever embarked. Nominations Lor Congress. The Enquirer publishes the statement oft Sic Citizen, that we have mentioned the name of no man in eon i nection with Congress in this District, xvho was not j known to be a Disiinlor.ist. Tho statcmenGs untrue, I and we are surprised that our neighbor should give eir | dilation to it. We have held up to the people of this j ; District the name of Marshall J. Wellborn, a Union ’ Democrat, in connection with others, as a t'ii;.able can* i didato for this high office; aud we now .sav one a (or j all, that we will support any honest man for this or any | oih r office who endorses the Baltimore I’iatform, in its ] “plain meaning and import” end enter 1 cordially into I the support of Pierce and King. Will the Enquirer and Citizen be libera! enough to ! publish t;is article. .Nomination lo Congress. i The Georgia Citizen and Columbus Enquirer have j | suggested to the Democracy that Hoe. A.C. Morton n • i the finest man they can run for Congress in this District. We imagine that they wiTrc-coive small th ink*? from i ! him for their deceitful praise, as nothing eojht befall him j ’ which would more surely defeat his aspirations as a ; ; politician as to be pitted by two such backers against the j other game cocks of the Democratic party. W ashing ton Jfouiimcuf. < This great work is steadily to its com* 1 • p! el ion ; and it should bo the pride of every citizen to : contribute hia mite to erect a monument worthy of the , fame of him who is universally regarded aa the firtt of i mankind. We are pleased to learn that Messrs. Gray, j Puce a and Wilkins have been appointed a committee to receive contributions fur this purpose. They nro all ; gentlemen of character and will be sate depositaries vs i the donations which may be committed to their charge. ‘ Washington National Monument Office, ) April 19, 1533. $ , The Board of manager* of the Washington F itionnl Monument Society do hereby appoint Messrs. Wm. C. ; Gray, Peter Freer and F. G. Wilkins, of Columbus, • Georgia, a committee to collect funds to complete the j ! erection of the Great National Monument to tiie memory I i of tho “Father of his Country” and we t*ioi*t respectfully j : commend this Committee to our fl-dow citizens, a* having ! given ample security for the faithful performance >f their j trus , and as patriotic men who do this work without fee i or reward. ‘GEORGE Vv ATTESON. S.Urv. Gin Ilonse Burnt. We learn from the Vademecum that Col. W:z. M. ] ! Brown’s Gin House, nt his lower plantation in Marion 1 • c*unty, was entirely coneamtd by fire, on Sunday night \ i ast. together with two valuable gins, a patent Mil!, and j : a Thresher. As there had been no fire near the | 1 house during the day, it was evidently the work of an I incendiary. Murderer Arrested. The \ademecum informs us that a man named | | W Orshacd, who lately killed Samuel Brannon in Dale j i county, Ala., has been arrested near old Fort Perry in j Marion county, by a party of gentlemen from* Alabama, ! who have taken him back to stand his trial. Worthard • tesisted the arrest and severely, if not mortally, wound- j ed n brother of Brannon and a man named Clark. The Vice Presidency. By the death of William Rufus Lino, the Vice Presidency is vacant, and will remain so until the next election for President and Vice President. Mr. Atchison, the temporary President of the Senate, is not Vice President; ho continues in his office of Senator, and only receives his eight dollars per day ; though if the President should die he would suc ceed him in his office. This is an anomaly in our con- j btitution, and is clearly a casus omissus. The Vico Presidency has been vacant b fire this 1 time,on tin* following occasions, viz.: Twice by the | death of the Vice Presidents, viz. : George Clinton, j April, 1812; hi* term expiring March 3, 1813. El- i bridge Gerry, November. IS! ; his term expiring 1 March 3, 1817. Once by tho resignation of John C. Calhoun, December i.-8, 1832; his term expiring March j o, 1833. Twice by the death of PrcMdents Harrison and Taylor, and the consequent accession of Vice Preei- j dents Tyler and Fillmore l<> the Presidency—the for mer in April, 18** I : the latter in July, 1850—leaving j the Vice Presidency vacant for the remainder of their ! respective terms, and the President of the Senate with j the right of succession to the Pri sidonev. The oowers j ami duties of the Vie • President and tho !\v*'..denfc of j the Senate pro Icm ., arc precisely ’ esin;- , except that j the latte r votes as a Senator and has the casting vote, i Hcpiv to AS. of T.” We were no little surprised to find * 4 A S c-f T.” i objecting to onr article about Temperance Hall, and de | nving the position that i; would revert to the Grand ! Division In case the charter of the Sub ordinate Division were forfeited. Oar article was written at the request i and upon the Information of well informed Sons of Tein- I peranee, in the hope of stimulating aetivo efforts to li ; quidate tho debts hanging over the Hall, and securing : tho use of it to tiie community. And by reference to the By-Laws of the erder page 68, Section 6, we find that our statement was literally true. The following is a copy of the by-law referred to : Section 6. Whenever a Subordinate Division \< sus pended, or its charter declared forfeited, it shall be the j duty of tin- last instaliV-d officers, on demand, to surrender ; to the Croud Worthy Patriarch, th Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch, oi a special l)pu:y. all bools, pa~ j ; pers. property and J/mds Irion*in? to the Division ; j ! and every officer re!using to make Mich surrender, shall ] 1 thereat tor be perpetually excluded from membership, even I j though the Division to which he belonged, shad be re- j j stored to good standing in the Order. j Tite words italiciz'd arc too explicit to be tn is under ! stood. R makes it apparent that if the Subotdiuate j j Divisions forfeit their charters, that “all tho property,” ; : aye, even vt lhe funds” of the Subordinate Divisions, ; must be surrendered to the Grand Division, j We are very much gratified at tho assurance of “A ■ 8. ofT.” that there is no danger of a forfeiture of ehar | tors here. Still this docs not lessen our obligations to j | aid them in discharging the heavy debt which they have assumed for the benefit of the community. Wo hope ’ j our suggestions will not fall to the ground without fruit, j Loiii-iatio ! . . Senator. i A dispatch received from Baton Rouge to-day, says j tlufl the Democratic Caucus nominated lion. John Sli- : ! well, for U. .'•fi Senator, to succeed Hon. P. Soule, ; | by a majority of three votes. Ciipt. Abercrombie’s Position. , Wo fin lin the Spirit of the Snath the following ! paragraph defining the present position of Cant. Abkr ; cao.Mf.if:. In the lower counties of tl * district there is \ | very great unanimity ia his support. Several largo j and enthusiastic rm clings hove been hold in Dale, Oof j fee, and Henry counties, in which whig and democrat., I and union men and secession if ts cheerfully co-operated Sin giving him a hearty endorsement. If the Spirit is j correctly informed as to hie* political sentiments, wo can j see no good reason for r mining opposition to him. The Spirit of the South says : “Capt. Abercrombie (and we are not speaking at ran- : | dom,) is pivparcJ to resist to the lu>t extremity my fur- ; | ther aggressions upon the rghwet the South. Ho is in j favor of reducing the tariff to the point requisite Ifiran j economical administration of the government; he is op-| {W’scd to that profligate system of appropriations for inter nal improvements and other uncoiistitution.d purpose*, by . which the public treasury ia regularly plundered by both national partk. He sots his face immovably against the roorpanr/aitioli of the whig pat ty, and while iio ulliee him- • self with no national organization, lie approves substantial- ! iy the principles avowed by thepresent ndminHrßtion and • i- prepared to offer it no factious oppo:t:o::.” Tho Savannah News. i Tho Savannah press have charged that the News makes extracts without giving credits. Wo urge a j j different accusation. Tt credits the Times and Scnti- \ j nel with every article it cop.es from ;i Columbus paper. | Wo tender cur sincere acknowledgment to ‘M j Jones” for the compliment implied in this course, but ‘ I beg leave to decline the Peacock feathers with which ; ; ho bedecks u*. | We are not responsible for the article entitled ‘"ls an : ! air Line a Wind. Line /” • No “demonstration” U needed to convince us of the . j enterprise, intelligence, hospitality, or future prospects j jof Savannah. We rejoice in her prosperity, applaud her ; j generosity and exult in her enterprise, which has done • j more to develops tho resources of Georgia, aud give her 1 ! a name and character in the Union than all the windy | editorials of all our cotemporaries. Advertiser and Gazette. Col. J. J. Sf.ibels has retired from the Editorial j j chair of this able paper. We part with him with deep ■ ! regret. Me has conducted Ins paper with eminent abili- j ty, and t*> his foresight and tact the Democracy of | Alabama are indebted for their triumphant success I at the last election. He carries with him to his retirement the best wish- ! es of the party. God bless him. The Charleston and Augusta Jlail.-. j Wurccvi’e the Charleston and Augusta mails via 1 ’ Montgomery. Ala. By this route they are delayed j 22 hours. They ought to be distributed at LaGrange. | Wc do not know where the fault lies, and only call pub j lie attention to the matter in tho hope that the evil may : ! br remedied. Our Charleston and Augusta exchanges • j would do well to enquire into the nuisance and lave it j : abated. VVcrccsivo papers from Savannah on the day j I they are published, and if the Augusta and Charleston I j mails were put on tho same route, wo picsume they ! would reach thi* point in good time. Bar bo nr Comity, Alabama 'l rst‘ Southern Rights Democracy in this county have i I nominated Jefteraon Jiutbrd for Senate, and John | | C •ebran, Paul McCall and -I. F. Comer for tho House i jof Representatives. Under the old division of parties ■ | they were all whips but Cochran. The ticket is a very ; able one a:id will be triumphantly elected. Washington Itews —F. Burt, Esq., of South Car- i olios, has entered upon his duties as* Third Auditor of ; the Treasury. Gov Foote has been mentioned as likely to bo the | s nsv/ Minister to France, M.O. Goode has been nominated ns the democratic j : candidate for Congress in the 4th Congressional Dis- j triet of Virginia, by a meeting in Mecklenburg county. : Me is a brilliant orator, and a noble heart and genii man, and we hope the Mecklenburg nomination will be cor- ■ ! and sally responded to bv the other caun?U* com no? ji. *• the i | district. It is said that Genera! Arista, tho former President of ! j the Republic us Mexico, has arrived at New Orleans in j a hr;j, the captain of which was bribed, f,r a large ; ! amount, to bring him to that port. Th© Norfolk Argus says it h-w good auihcrity for | stating that Mr. Robert G. Scott,of Richmond, Va., has : ; received the appointment of Consul to Rio do Janeiro, j ; It is said that the Huu, Boion Borland hns declined ! i tho appointment he recently received of Governor cf j • New Mexico, vie© W. Crr Lone, removed. j The Bey of Tunis is expected in Pam on a visit, in | ’ the course of next month. ‘’ -j George Morrow has been arrested in Hickman coun- I • ty, Kentucky, on the charge of killing his own son. i Gov. Farvvell, of W iseonsin, declines a l o-election. * Washisgtox, April 23. | i Soion Borland lias been appointed Minister i to Central America [communications.] FOR THE TIMES AST) SENTINEL. Messrs Editors : In your last Tri-Weekly issue ap pears a paragraph from tho Litchfield Republican at- j tributiug the hymn, “I would not lice alway,” to Hs r.r Ward, of that office. Perhaps this is nr. error, for in ; th e Literary World, March 26, 1853, there appears an article copied from J>r. Muhlenberg’s Evangelical ; Catholic, ill which the J>r. claims the hymn as his own ; production ; and states further, that he was one of a com mittee which was appointed on hymns by the General Convention, who, upon a satirical criticism being made upon it, earnestly voted agaiust its adoption into tiie col lection. U. FOR THE TIMES AXO SENTINEL. Messrs. Editorc Permit me to sa_v a word to the j voters of Uusse! county, Ala., through your columns, j which ore extensively read here, tbougti published ill an | ad joining State. Vour August elections are approaching, and by the Legislature to be elected then, two United fjntlvsSenators are to be app .inted. These Senators will either oppose or support the administration of General Pierce. General Pierce is now in office, has come before tho American ! people vvi.h it programme of what we arc to expect from j him ar.d l.ff aJmiuistnuieii. 11 is coii.-titutioual advisers | ix'tore taking office are said to hate endorsed it. Are i you satisff.jd with the showing he has made? Is it not ill \ tall accordance with what those of you expected who vot- ed lor him ! Does it not perfectly agree with ail his ante, cedents ! Has not this programme, declaring that South ern constitutional rights arc of equal dignity and bindiug toree with aii other constitutional rights, provoked the dis ;t raore . i'your enemies at home ami abroad ? You must have observed, Messrs. Editors, the gusto it seemed to give your neighbor to show to their readers in wuat con tempt our J )emocrat'a: President is held in 1 -oh ioa on ae j count of hr principles. Now! wish to ask the voters cf Russel county if they j are satisfied with their President, what b their duty in \ tile premises ’ Will you sustain him ? or will you passive- j ly permit, under the delusive cry of peace, peace, an or- i ganization formed for the purpose of hurling him from ; office or checkmating him in the Senate ? Patriotism, i gratitude, self-interest a!! seem to me to forbid it. He is quite a stiauger to party profligacy who dors not know, ■ that while abolitionists are assaulting him for these decta- ! 1 rations, he will not be defended south but by his political ] j friends. : Then let them come up to the mark; let them rally to i ; the standard of their patriotic aud taicnled leader, and ; show hin and your political brethren that you nobly dare j to espouse the eacso of un Ann-rieau President in a jam 1 discharge us his eonstitution-il duties, though the London Times may mock and fcxiu'hern Editors re-eho the : mockery. Let tiie young, the gallant, of the friends of Pierce come forward and show tluir mettle, not in liiwsel only, but in every county, and ii'we no not scooted hi every eounv. vve shall have toree..l his eine-i ‘S to unmask, and that i halfa victory, for, from ‘'iii'j.ked buff.good L uni de liver IIS. A Voter or Ilrsssn county. FOR WE TIMES AND SENTINEL. Messrs. Editors :—Allow mo to suggest the name oi Maj. Alfred H. Colquitt, as suitable candidate to ■ represent this Congressional District iti the coining elec | lion. Wo nerd a candidate who is personally popular, nnd is an able stump speaker. T'tte contest will be a severe one, nnd all the tnleiif of the \\ ing party will be brought into i the field. Johnson, Warren nnd Crawford must benirton I the stump and vanquished. \Y ho can do it ’ In rny judg ; ment Maj. Colquitt is the man. He ardently sympathises j w ilh the mass, s, and is a- ne.-inl favorite with them wherev ier known. Hissei vie, sin Mex : eo has proven to the peo j j.le that his prof, xxiop.s of patriotism are not all empty words i signifying nothin;-, but the true no, ranees of a noble j heart which is-ready to make any saotifiee of himself for | the good of the country. He is, besides, a brilliant orator, i aud has perhaps no equal in the District, in this regard, | except his illimitable father, whom he much resembles in 1 character and gilts. He is also a true hearted Southern i man, identified with the Southern people in interest and : feeling, nnd i • to a child lias been taught the principles of ; Democracy. With th- v sinning advantages we are sure Maj. Col quitt will b.-nblo to command the whole strength of the j party find lord our cohorts to victory in tho coining elec i tion. Manv Voters. j Georgia Baptist Convention. —This body lias ! just closed its Thirty-Third Annual Meeting at j Atlanta, as we learn front a delegate who arrived last evening in the cars. The Hon. Thomas Stocks presided, and with ’■ his usual urbanity and business promptness, accomplished a very large amount of business. The details of the Convention’s interests in the funds of Mercer University, College patronage, and circulation of the “Christian Index,'’ exhih j it the great strength and growing prosperity of tho denomination. Os the matters ofgeneral interest transacted at 1 (his meeting, we would chiefly notice the trans fer ol the Board for the Distribution of the Scrip , litres in Georgia from LaGrange to Savannah, to act in concert with the Savannah Baptist Pub lication Society—a resolution of sympathy with ! the efforts making to put an end to the retail li ; quor traffic—the appointment of a committee to memorialize Congress to Heat with friendly ; foreign nations for the religious liberty of American citizens within their jurisdiction, j The next Anniversary of the Georgia Baptist j State Convention will beheld in Washington, Wilkes. By that time the Wilkes Rail Road ; will be completed, and Washington ceases to occupy her isolated position. Cincinnati, April 20. The Anti-Slavery Convention continues in - session. A resolution is now under considera tion declaring, ntnong other things, that aboli- | ! tionistsseek the true interest of the S< utb, and that the pro-slavery men at the North are great ; enemies to Southern interests. Samuel Lewis, i on introducing Garrison, and referring to the charges of infidelity against him, said he him ; self is an infidet if pro-slavery men are to ex j pound Christianity. lie dvmed the idea tVe ! mon may he slaveholders ami Christians more odious than any of the notions called infidelity in anti-slavery men. Extension of the S. W. Kail road. —Several j companies have concentrated their hands along the line of the extension of the S. \V. Railroad from Oglethorpe to Americas. The grading 1 has commenced in good earnest, and the work, vve are informed, will be prosecuted to a speedy : completion. We congratulate the citizens of the interior of ; , South V\ estern Georgia upon their good fortune, j ; notwithstanding the loss of the terminus to Ogle- j thorpe will baa serious, if not fatal blow to iter : | former business operations. —Oglethorpe Demo crat. Raiekoad Mketint; in Savannah.—The town meeting ordered to-day by his honor the Mayor, to decide upon the question of tho city’s subscribing 8300,000. to the Southern (Missisip pi) Railroad, was held in the Exchange, at 12 oeloek. We have only time to say of it that it was a very small meeting in point of members, j and that after listening to an able lengtlyy and interesting speech from the Hon. Thomas A. Marshall, President of tho Southern Railroad in favor of the proposal, tho meeting respectfully declined at this time to extend its aid to the scheme. Remarks were made by Dr Screven, Dr. Arnold, Hon Jos. W. Jackson, and others. Hi< H onor Mayor \\ ay no, presided, and, (’. A. ; L. Lamar Esq., acted as Secretary. —Eicnina Journal. Louisiana Judicial Elkctions.— Toe elec tion for Judges of tho Sujure.de Court of Lou- j >sia“a has taken place throughout five State, j Sufficient returns hau> been received to in.ii ; cate tne choice ol tho fallowing persons t —- ■ ; Chief Justice, Thomas Slidell Esq.; Associate Justices, .V. M. Buchanan, Esq., Miles Taylor, . \ oorhies and W. Du"har. The election ; turned, to a great extent, on political preferen ces, and the successful candidates are all j Democrats. tl.™ \ iee President King, it is said, owned j an estate of 2,000 acres of rich land in Dallas ! ; courtly, Ala., with 150 slave. It is also stated | j that ho itas left the hulk of his property to the j : poorest of his relations, though ail are comfort- ! 1 ably provided for. | _ ! On the 30th, tho Papal government conclud ; | ed tho loan with Rothschilds Brothers for tvven i ty million of francs. THREE D.Vxci LATER FRu.VI EUROiL . arrival or the stuameb HC-HBOLiIT. New Yon;, April 23. The steamship Humboldt arrived yesterday, bring. ! ing Liverpool dates to the lltn last., wbieb is three | days later than that brought by the A rnbia. The Liverpool market was unchanged. The sales for tbe two preceding days amounted to 13,000 bales. Liverpool Market.— The Liverpool cotton circulars of tiie*l2th inst., say that the sales of cotton for the two days amounted to 20,000 ! bales, speculators taking 9,000 and exporters i 2,000 hales. The demand was fair, and hold it rs firm, with moderate sales to the trade. The quotations are: Fair Orleans, 6 5-8d; Middling, 5 7-8d: Fair 1 pland, 61-4d; and Middling 5 3-4d. The trade in Manchester remained unchang ed. A despatch says that all qualities have slight ly advanced, although the quotations given are the same as those that ruled at the departure ot the Arabia on the 9th insf. Foreign Items.— Queen Victoria is rapidly recovering. The French Funds have improved. Advices from Constantinople to the 25th ult., state that affairs between Russia and Turkey are unsettled. Prince Menschikoff had demanded an interview with the Sultan, which the latt.-r I had declined to grant, as he refuses to negotiate ; respecting certain questions until the arrival of i the English and French Ambassadors, j supposed that Russia desires to tiegmi:: ! cret treaty with Turkey, and if he fa: ~ that the Emperor will take Constm. i- ; coup du main. Two Turkisk ii- - • a French and English vessel of war, v la ti - j vicinity of Constaiiiinoplo. j Nothing of importance .ms truuspi v-i jor on the Con: < Aof • hit ;e. The insun ec - sttrent, j creating const. Havre Cos <• ton at IJavt ! r !i inst., wot •’ .-I i lor the same ji. i■.E -i . va-j 7-t JMK) b; :; - ; oiiitioo.- w, t 1 Orleans £2 to It • : i : iat-ds feu to ... ; .. ■i’;cs 0 di aiie 55 fratn-s. ‘Fite sales of cotton <••.. - -J.: v were I,o’ bales, at a decline of on e-gitth ol a cent. Lew (■...-leans, April 27. Tiie excess at •i! km t-’ Potts, to *!>•. latest dates, is d.O bales. Mi., diings ;tre quoted I , , ; .s. FOUR DAYS LATi-iR tRuM EUROPE Arrival of the Cacnthi. New Vonk. April Tbe Ufiticb if.-..’ rt.-.mnsbip Canada, C.ipl. - arrive.l at Halifax, N. S . th ; moi uiug, tu-inepuy i pm 1 i’alea to Satiii'aay. tin- llilh iavL Liverpool Cotton Market. —The favorable rC ■i per sieanu-r Utillic, unused an advance of one-eiabtii iof n per.ny, Tbe lower qualities improved most, but ‘ all qualites were dearer. The sales of the week com prise 60,000 bales, of which speculators took 11,000 | and exporters 12,000 bales, leaving 37,000 bales to the i trade The quotations are as follows: Fair Orleans, 6 5-Bd.; j Middling 5 J5-16d.; Fair Uplands 6 l-4d.; Middling | 5 7-Bd. Tho imports at Liverpool for the week were 42,000 bales, and the Stock 818,000 bales. LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. Loss of the Steamship Independence ! DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE ! New Orleans, April 23. Ily an arrival here, we learn that the steamship In dependence, with four hundred passengers on board ran ashore at Lower California, and alter b. ing backed off 1 , it was ascertained that she bad ten feet water in her hold, when it was deemed advisable to put her ashore again, and in attempting to do so from some cause or o her the vessel canted on one side thereby setting fire to the magazine, which blew up, causing the loss of one hundred and twenty-five lives’ The remainder were all saved after being exposed for fifiv-si* hours on a barren island. Indian Ravages. —The Indians are committing more of their ravages in California. The San Francisco markets are being overstocked with every article of commodity. ! Later from ifuenos Ayres—Yellow Fever at Kingston. New York. April 27. Later accounts from Uuent* Ayres have bet n re i oeived to-day, which state that all tho troubles i ! quarter have been satisfactorily settled, i The steamships Uncle Sam and Gears; ■: ;ve . . | from Aspinwall, with three millions .■ ’ j ,j t! . j SSO passengers. The yellow fever was still raging at Kin f .- ;oi . . i ca, and many deaths had tak. n place amon - to. | masters in port. late.: yico. SANTA We have r?i \ -of the 2] ■ Bnnta Anna .a: rive. ; ; <oi inst. y’ ; ‘.‘.'as i.,-eiu - knilid;in flu : . ing ■ ‘ tjii >tibj le* Court of •! city, \\iU-re he vv.at vi-• :iuAJie rrfci'.e.i coil-:..'.nkuioiis , t’ ; - id.-ttieii ;.:tii iti- i gui.d)- -.1 nvr.-Olle. Atfei , L g • . ~ illumitiittimi. skyrocket... miff iiiuic.’- -On tl - 14(it be ; u-.b ff : wards a gmml ilffitig of i old customhouse ... It was said tiia : >- ;! .■ Lombardi: was going to Gum ie: • v .-<> of the minis j try and it commitn-e :■> cm.-. -. n.-late the Presi -1 dent elect, and |.res t iiiin v. iii. ti .-dccoratioit of 1 the Ca;tain-Gi‘oerii!. The mtin:.• l-.a . b -. cni.-ff t1,.-: a se- fi Mexico trim.... in i. amt.iaa !.. <1 i.- a i n.ut 1 L those which can.e fNew Mexico to 1. possession of that State, which the Governor ■ New Mexico wished to annex to the Caitiff States. Sr. Vivo has been appointed Minister Plenipo tentiary from the Republic cf Mexico to the : Court of Her Catholic Majesty. It appears that the Government presented its ; claims to Judge Conkling, our representative, i for what transpired in Chihuahua ; and Judge ; Conkling declared that his Government disap i proved of tbe conduct of the Governor of New i Mexico, having ordered the withdrawal of the troops which occupied tiie Mexican territory. Sr. Lotnbardini having offered Santa Anna the title of Captain-General, the latter declined the honor, saying that the people had already repaid him overmuch for whatever service ho may have rendered his country. Santa Alina arrived at Guadalupe on the IGth, i and was enthusiastically received. Santa Anna arrived in the city of Mexico on ["Sunday morning, the 17th inst., amidst the re | joinings of the inhabitants, who testified by their manners tiie great joy they experienced at his return. Tho whole city was brilliantly illumi nated at night, and amidst ihe booming of can non and bring of rockets, their new chief re sumed his power. Interesting from Mexico. New Orleans, April 25. 1 We have advices from Vera Cruz to the 22d | inst., by which we learn that the steams!: in Al ii batross has been lost on tho reef, near that port. \ The crew were saved. Gov. Lane's proclamation, claiming an ex-en* t aiou of boundary, has excited intense feeling in ! Mexico, and a determination to resist. Santa Anna was expected arrive in tne i-.iv i of Mexico on the 16th