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added lo
the' par-
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I to show the superiority of
\o ant*>y or free over slave
i end in the
country** resources. The
‘ it a single point, »nd
of labor. Here we
r »e it I*, whether free or hired—
rof bnvine at a high price—wor-
in land, end suitable ltopic-
. and producing, in prop?, at
. on capital; and Geer-
»r free or bought, work-
of the mw« character in like
like pr liiucUnne, in gross,
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soffaWcw York Herald,
firs la Pa? aguajr*
f asrington. Jan. 12 1855.
etty well settled, that
nature are about to
and the United
r 39 per cent
‘ 1*, whether free
European Views of Cabatt Independence.
The desire for the acquisition of Cuba la Vary
ft»r from being confined In the Southern section
of the Union. Recently, more than one promi
nent Northern press baa spoken out in It* favor,
at the eatne time undertaking to expose the en
vious and mercenary policy which has dictated
the oppoeitlon of England and France. The fol-
lowing is extracted from an able article, which
appeared in the New York Tim— of the 30th
uit:
Europe secs the United Stales making a prog
ress. wholly unprecedented in he history of
Parh Exhibition.
The entyoinod regulations for the government
of the “ Exposition Universelle,” soon to bo
openod in Paris, have been decreed by the Im-
K rinl Commission. They aro now published,
■ the guidance of exhibitors from the State of
Georgia.
Articles Invited for competition, are, by these
regulations, limited to products of manufacture
and agriculture, and to works of art Whilst
it may be supposed that this Stats would com-
r ite flir medals chiefly in agricultural products,
am yet persuaded, that the exhibition of our
nations; ancient or modern. Europe ace* how. jsnsrte tUton iut*uufactum~«uuIJ he accepts hie
this country prospers under the republican to the sagacious spirit of commercial rivalry.
> read the official document*,
t brother of onr Consul at As-
■ riding pith a lady, waa struck
hya'soldicr with the flat othl* sword. Prcei
t est called upon for the punishment
ler, and he received three blunder-
form of Government which give* foir play to
the Intellect, the industry, the enterprise of its
Inhabitant*, and gives the lowliest man fair and
even chanco in the contest for wealth, reputa
tion. office. We have got on very well, In the
absence of the old fendnlitls which keep hon
esty and talent and industry and character al
most wholly in tha hack-ground In Bnrope.
There is a keen monarchal dread of onr exam
ple. Let ns once obtain Cuba, and develop its
gr at resources, as we certainly should, and ev
ery other of the islands which arc adjacent
.incline to the tnotivo cause of such prosperity,
and eventually become absorbed by the United
States. m
Kn land: as the largest Wast India proprietor,
is afraid of such a consummation, and would
(bin prevent whatever may he supposed to lead
to it. Thai is the reason, and not any abstract
objects of
ifrilly com*
for his impertinence. In the cones- friendship r „ r Sptht. why she Is now ‘intriguing
i naan ■ Tn— nnl nfshla aaeaMil |Va fvvn. ' . . » * ' » a t .
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pandencegrowing out of this assault, the Con
eul made some allusions to his own services in
behalf of Paraguay ; and the Secretary of Lo
pe* replied that those- services amounted to
. that the Consul and hi* friend* were
violating the police regulations of
. and that the American company
. Hopkins was the general agent,
> government already about $11,-
~ nothing but a segar
r information of an official character
ns; hot this we hear, that Mr,
i tbo farther course of the difficulty.
iwstsr revoked, and also resigned
He baa since attempted to withdraw
Mat probably because be
t strengthening by unexpected
Lopes, it seems, as a flnafe. ordered the Am-
* agents oof of the country, ti
ts detain Hopkins. The W»-
ige.happeningtobe“on hand”
. and taking, a position to destroy
Assumption if the Americans were not allowed
* ” ‘ embark, succeeded in that sr-
Sbc carried her passengers to
capital of the State of the same
of the Parana and Par
Bueaos Ayers. There
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a Mr. Hopkins and from Lt
- reached Washington, and a
"l has returned home to re-*
»of affairs t> the company.
i the matter considerably is
i government is about
steamers to Paraguay to
Ity about the boundaries
•in that quarter, and the English
' i a vessel or two “of observa-
i at Rio take the part of
it is understood, on his way
»river was consulted by tho Ernpe-
»those Tory boundaries. The American
he largo losers by this sudden
i their affairs, and will undoubtedly
‘1 of our government in obtaining
H tpkins has always been the great enlo-
, and was some years ago much in
. complaints about his concoct
i time to time, reached-the depart-
hut its the consulship was of no value,
> 'was taken of them- The passen-
> want out with him, and tho meeban-
: and engineers who came hack, speak very
_ . thim. It may be neeessary
to send a special agent to Paraguay to settle
this matter, as two thinss are now demonstra
ted; that the people of Paraguay offer no great
market for foreign products, and will not till
their social wants are much greater than they
-are now: and next, that without regular steam
ers upon tho Plate no trade can be profitably car-
ga§Rj£?:y.-' tied on by foreign nations.
At the latest dates not a single freightoffer
ed for the United o.'ates at Bnenoe Ay
res. '•
-; - - Extensive Swindling.
The New York Times of Saturday, says: For
some months past, merchants in different sec-
‘the country have been swindled ontof
“ sums of money by a person repre-
If as belonging to a firm engaged
and commission business both in
and San Francisco. The plan adop-
to send letters to differ-
-themofthe receipt of a
of the kind for them which
the remittance of money
The plan has succeeded ad-
Thnrsday last, this financier was
the strong ana of the law in the
Ohio, who bad been
informed the Chief of
Police in New York, and furnishing him with
» circular received, of which the following is a
Jtaw, SRcom A Mnror,
Tonvitmsc m commission merchants,
Sooth-street. New York;
. Front streets San Eraneisco. Cal.
J. G. Law, T. W. GrinaeU, W. R. Minot
New Yobk. Jan. 7 1855-
Sir: "We have received per steamer George
Law, a chest of valuables and trunk, which has
'arrived! in good condition.
Tbo freight from Shangha. China, amounts
to $7. on the receipts of which it will be fat-
warded to direction or order, panctually.
■Kg? fW Address fpost paid)
g IF. R. Mivot A Co.
P. S. None but bankable funds received in
payment and sneh money sent at onr risk.
Wright 110 lbs.
The party engaged in this business hailing
Trom Brooklyn, a few days since Offieer Reynor,
of the Chiefs Office, wa* not upon the trail,
and waited for him at the Brooklyn Post Office,
where, about 1 o’clock on Thursday last 'a man
-called for letter*for W. R. Minot ft Co., and five
were delivered to him. He left-the office fol
lowed hy Officer Reynor. and passed down Mir-
t’e avenue in Adams st. when he espied the of-
fo!!» wing him. and started off npon a ran.
> was soon overtaken, and when seised hold
a strenuous resistance, but was
/ captured and locked op for a bear-
Tbe pers a arrested is a young man. not more
> years of age, and says bis name
The fire letters taken
I were found upon him-—one
. r him before arrested. As
to where ho oune from of wbat bis business
Is, he tbos far keeps “muni.” It is erl-
Ideat •h^'Wcrer, that be has accomplices, and
tha police will probably overhaul them ere
mjm
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The Czar’s Design In Hmb War.
The Russian Court Journal, tbo month-piece
•of tbe Emperor, has an article on the design of
the war, which makes some avowals which
msv serve to torn fa* tide of sympathy, which
V* now setting rather in his favor, in the oppo
site direction. It sajs, and it is rather a bold
i mission is certainly great. She is
to limit fa* msterislism of England.
■* * secondary position. 8h» is a
mere hobbling whirlpool—not a durable and
•distinctive inundation. Russia mnat fight Eng
land, because she alone, and not France, i» the
focus and support of revolutionary principles,—
Russia hat England, who, imhned
with mercantilism, treads under
the rights of man. It is
lo protect Europe from fa*
the West. * • * »
the policy of the Western Powers,
war has assumed the character of a straggle
>en conservation and communist revein-
uonr, * * * The Emperor, as a strong
•defender of Europe, has to fulfill the lofty
mission of consolidating conservatism. To at-
-tain this object. Ennis most carry on an obsti
nate war, which will break down England's av-
i are not such as a free na-
? for freedom ought to bavo made,
f the design of the Czar he eneb as are
i people of this country will nothes
hich party to cast their .sympathies
—Pres. Ihrald. - ■ "
with Franco against any annexation of Cuba to
the Untied States. Six years ago, when Sir
Henry Bniwor was sent out of Spain, it was in
timated, hy Lord Palmerston to Signor Isturits,
that-England was much inclined to take up tho
question of Spanish indebtedness to English
men, and seise Cuba, in order to retain it until
the seventy to a hundred millions of Spanish
Bonds held in England were paid off, with se
en isolation of interest in fall. England does
not mnch rare Into whose monarchal bands Cu
ba may fall, her terror is lest it should be ab
sorbed hy republican American. She looks to
France, now the actual champion of despotism
in Europe, and solicits assistance in preventing
tho transfer of Cuha to the U. S. on any terms,
or even with the frillest concurrence of Spain
herself.
It wonld not surprise to find, as has been sna-
pected. that France and England are uniting for
the purpose of preventing onr acquisition of
Cubs. Nor is it improbable that at least owe
of the objects of Palmerston’s visits to Paris
has heen personally to comptete tho alliance on
this head. Just now, when France and England
are coming off only second best in tho contest
with Russia, one would think that they have
quite enough on their hands, without laying
the foundation for warfare with the United
States. Bnt, as the Scotch proverb says, " A
wilfn* man monn hto his way,” and” if Victoria
and Napoleon trill sow the wind, they may reap
the whirlwind by and hy.—o n lj» if Unde Sam
should sero nly desire to possess Cuba, it is not
in the power of combined Europe to prevent bis
obtaining it.
Washington Jan. 19,1855.
The Gallipagus Treaty ii a fixed fact, and
Tnrtiedom is ours. The treaty negotiated by
Mr. Philo White, with the government of Eq-
nador, is actually in the State Department,
though if has not yet been laid before the Sen
ate.
The provisions of the treaty are said to re
quire that the U.S. government shall loan three
millions of dollars to the republic of Eqnador,
without interest, taking a lien upon the Islands
for its re-payment. So it is not to bo a nom
inal. bnt a substantial acquisition.
The vessels from the United ^States are to
have free access to the Islands, 'and the gua
na deposits are to be free to onr people, at a
very low rate of doty:
The deposits, faongh called guano in the
treaty, are not so in fact They are deposits
not of birds, bnt of turtles, and aro approved,
it is said, upon experiment »« equally valuable
by chemists and agriculturalists. The supply
is represented as inexhaustible. If all these
conditions be true, the contract will be vastly
beneficial to onr agricultural interest and for
planters as well as farmers.
The terms of the contract may he objectiona
ble, faongh I presume it may bo made to ap
pear that as a matter of business, they are ad
vantageous to this country. There is a penal
colony on the the Islands, but we do not propose
to bring that away, though the government
of Eqnador, wonld be obliged to ns if we
would.
Our guano fleets will also be exposed to tbo
almost perpetual calms that prevail in that quar
ter, hut this will only gi ve employment for onr
steamtugs.
If the agricultural interest approve of this
contract, it pray he confirmed. It will employ
a great number of vessels and of seamen, os
well as laborers. It will break np the monopo
ly of the Peruvian guano, and bring the price
of this almost indispensible article within the
limits of the means of all our farmers on the
Atlantic coast, as well as of the cotton planters,
who begin to require it for their cotton.—Cor
respondent of tie Baltimore Sun.
Thrilling Accident of a Shipwreck.—Tho
schooner Albatras, of Kingston, Jamaica, CapL
Viguers, from Kingston, sailed on the 29fa Oct.
for Now York, with pimento, coffee, rum, bides,
copper and specie. She bad'also nine passen
gers, gentlemen and ladies. After a tempestu
ous passage, when within a hundred miles of
the Highlands,' she experienced a severe hurri
cane from W. N. W., lost all her sales, and the
vessel was driven on her beam ends, in which
state she lay four houra. The captain, mate and
crew finding it impossible to save faemselves.
were lashed to tho rails, where they remained
for three days, the passengers being fastened
down below- The vessel was then got before
the wind, when the weather moderated down
te a heavy gale which, lasted seven days. The
passengers all this time had no nourishment but
breadsnd water, which were passed down to
them from the deck. Everything was washed
from the deck, and tbo crew were placed on
short allowance. The Vessel was making from
4 to 5 feet water in the hold. All the crew
working at the pumps.
The fourth ntght the vessel was going down
by the bead. They then threw the cargo over
board at one o’clock, A. if. The crew were
worn out and forced the male passengers to
work, in order to save life, the ladies being in
the water all the time nearly famished. Killed
the goat, and fed on that. They were then
within 100 miles of Bnrmoda. The gale abated.
On the ninth day fell in with the British seboon-
ner Port of Spain, bound to Halifax. It was
then blowing a heavy gale of wfad from E. N*
E. The crew of the schooner manned their
boats to take the passengors off. The ladies
had tobeibrown in the boats ; they were in
their wet clothes for seven or eight days. One
lady refused to leave the vessel, on account of
illness, preferring to die rather than be remov
ed. Relieved tho ship by pnmping. The next
day, a British bark from Hull, bound to Charles
ton, foil* in wi]h the JAlbairos, .rod the Captain
of her kindly offered to take off the lady pas
senger, bnt she still objecting, it was found no-
eessery to remove her by force. She fainted on
deck, and'in this state was thrown into the
bark’s boot, a heavy sea running at the time.—
The name of the lady is Lopez. She is a native
of Philadelphia, very wealthy, and had been to
Jamaica for her health.
The barque supplied the Aibatros with provi
sions and water, and took charge of her letter-
bag. They repaired their sails, and tried inef
fectually to reach Bermuda, on account of con-
tinnors gal*«. They then bore away for
Charleston with a fair wind. When within a
hundred and fifty miles of that city the vessel
encountered a severe gale from the westward,
wlib-h struck her abaft, tore the sales, broko
the bowsprit and fore-boom, and blew her so
far out of her course that, as a last resort, Capt,
Nigures resolved upon coming to Nassau. She
received assistance from a wrecking vessel, and
arrived here on Sunday last.
“The same Contain was wrecked on these
•bores about four years ago in the brig Erie,
when be wa* lashed to a spar for four days.”—
JfaMtau Guardian of the 27th nit.
A correspondent of tho Atlanta Intcligencer
says, that the neighborhood of Villa Rica pro
mises lofae a mining region, not inferior to any
Bnoxr. .four,.,—Lust night the jail was relieved other now in Georgia. New mines of copper
of rix uegroiMb They ri,.vle their esespe by o&d tin hare been discovered,'and it is not
sawing off three oftbc iron bars of their cell in doubted, hut that the gold vein* in the vicinity,
the back part of the jail, and then making a when sunk to a'sufficient depth, will yield the
rope out of their bed r loihlet them down to 'yeOow sidpbaret of capper. There are two
the ground. The while prisoners in (ho jail itcatn mills near tho town working gold and
. operating
In the predominant commercial
rice and cotton*, Georgia may auccessf
pete. Select samples of these article*, of ten
and twenty pounds each, would, probably, belt
suit the purpose* of tho exhibition and the de
sign of the exhibitor.
Planters should be reminded in the security
of monopoly which they may indnlge, fast ex
traordinary efforts are being made by fat French
Government to introduce, auocessftilly, the cul
ture of long staple cotton into tie entlonial pos
sessions. Already, two thousand bales of Soa
Island Cotton have heen reported a* the product
of Algeria, for the last year; and tho prices at
which this cotton wa* quoted, ranged from fifty
cento to one dollar. The facts indicate great
adaptation of roll and climate, and skill j man-
Ipnlation of tbe cultivator. Tbe comparison
of wage* earned by labor In this culture, with
tbe interest earned by capital, under our own
eyatem, would be a valuable atudy for statistics,
and political economy.
The fertile plains of Lombardy will send
rice for exhibition, which, in the market of the
world, baa preaedence of ail for excellence.
Whilst I have seen the waters of the Po and
Adige, made to fertilise and irrigate tbe rieo 1
fields of Lombardy, I could not but refloat on
the productive p wdr of hydraulic engineering,
if applied to onr own rivera and canals. The
sections and levels made, by onr Florida road
might bavo been made to combine with an in
valuable system of draina'ge and irrigation, of
lands now repelling culture.
WM. B. HODGSON.
REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE I.
The Universal Exhibition, appointed to he
held in Paris, in the year 1855, will receive the
agricultural an<^manufacturing products as well
as the works of art. of all nations.'
It will open on the 1st of March, and close
on tho 31st of October of the same year.
ARTICLE VIII.
No article will be admitted to the Exhibition,
except under the seal of the Department of
Foreign Committees.
articlr xn.
Lists of exhibitors mast be sent to the Im
perial Commission at Paris, presenting the
names, professions, and address of the parties
applying; the nature, number, and qnality of
tbe articles to he exhibited; and the space re
quired.
article XVIII.
Committ es of each country arc requested,
if possible, to send in one consignment the pro
ducts of their division.
article xx.
Foreign artirlos.will be conveyed to Paris at
the cost of the State, from the French frontiers
or ports, and likewise sept back.
$rticlk xti.
They mast be addressed to the Commissioner
of Arrangement, at the Exhibition Palace.
The address of each package should indi-
@1)8 $lomc (gourtcr
ROME GA.,
Tuesday Horning! January 80,1855.
During the past week we have had some
forty or fifty new subscribers. Wo would in
form those of the number who requested ns to
republish the principles of the Native Ameri
can party, that, their request shall be complied
with next week. W* have not tho room in this
week’s issue.
1. —The place whence it comes.
2. —The name of the exhibitor.
3. —The nature of its contents.
In this form:—
OOOOOOOOOO 0.0 000000009
o O
o A Monsieur lo Cammissaire da o
o Classement dc l’Exposition Universelle, o
o Paris, o
o Envoi da (sent by) o
o Demenrant a (residing at) o
o Exposant de (exhibitor of) o
o o
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ARTICLE XXIV
Separate packages of less than half a cubic
metre should not be sent.
ARTICLE XXVI.
The admmission of all articles to bh gratu
itous, and not’subject to payment of any kind,
daring the exhibition.
ARTICLE XLn.
The ports (at which articles from the United
States wonld probably be received,) are Havre
and Bonrdeaux.
ARTICLE LVIII.
The examination of articles exhibited, and
decisions for rewards or premiums, will be con
fided to a great international mixed joiy.
ARTICLE LXXVT.
The'natare of the rewards to be distributed
and the principles on which they are to be ba
aed will bo determined by the Imperial Com
mission.
Hard of Hearrig—Doiuo a Dux.—“I have
a small bill against yon,” said the pertinacious
looking collector, as he entered tbe store of one
who bad acquired the character of a hard cus
tomer.
“Yes, sir, a very fine day, indeed,” was the
reply.
“I am not speaking of the weather, hut your
bill,” riplied Peter in a loud key.
“ It would be better if we had a little rain.”
“Confound the ^ain,’ - continued tlie'collector,
and raising his voice: •* Have you any money
to pay on the hill?”
“Beg yonr pardon, I’m hard of hearing. I
have made it a rale not to loan my fonda to
strangersand I really don't recognize you.”
“I’m collector for the Philadelphia Daily
Extinguisher, Sir, and have a bill against yon,”
persisted tbe collector at the top of his voice,
producing bis bill and. thrusting it into tbe face
of bis debtor.
“ Fro determined to endorse for no ono, yon
may pnt that note back in yonr pocket book, I
really can’t endorse it.”
“Confound your endorsements—will yon pay
it?”
“Yen'll pay it, no donbt, sir, but there's al
ways a risk about these matters you know, so I
must decline it.”
“ The money mnst come to-day.”
“Ob, yes—ninety days, but I would not en
dorse for you' for a week; so clear out of my
store. It’s seldom that I'm pressed up- n for an
endorsement, even by my friends; on the part
-of a stranger, sir, yonr conduct is inexplicable.
Du not force me to pnt you out; leavo the
premises.”
And the bill was returned to the Extingusbor
officer, endorsed—“so confounded deaf ho
couldn’t understand.”—Illuttrated Newt.
Fallixc off ix the Revenue.—It is stated
that the entire receipts of customs for the month
of December, are estimated at the Treasury
Department at not more than two millions of
dollars, against four millions and a half for De
cember, 1853, The available surplus in the
Treasury has fallen off already seven millions
of dollars since September. The payments of
this month will farther reduce the surplus fire
tnilGons of dollars.
To Yooxo Men.—We extract the following
beautiful paragraph from the Baccalanrente Ad
dress, lately delivered before the Graduating
Class ef Rutgers College by the Hon. Theodore
Frelinghnysen, and commend it to the perasal
of the young:
Resolve to do something nsefnl, honorable,
dutiful, and do it heartily. Repeal the thought
that yon can and therefore .may, live above la
bor and witboatwork. Among tbe most pitiful
objects in society, is tbe man whose mind has
been trained by the discipline of education—
who has learned how to think, and the value of
his immortal powers, and with nil these noble
faculties cultivated and prepared for an honora
ble activity, ignobly sits down to nothing ; and,
ofconrse, to be nothing ; with no influence over
the pnblie mind—with no interest in the con
cerns of his country or even his neighborhood —
to be regarded as a drono, without object nr
character, with no hand to lift and with no effort
to pnt forth to help tbe right or defeat the wrong.
Who can think with any calmness of such a
miserable career. And however it may be with
you in active enterprise, neverpermit your influ
ence to goin hostility to the cause of truth and
virtue. So live, that with the Christian poet,
you may truthfully ray that
“ If yonr country stands n«t hyy*nr skill.
At least your follies have not wrought her fall.”
Failures.—New Orleaue, Jan. 13.—It is
Page ft Bacon, of Sr. Lonis, who have failed,
and not Page, Bacon ft Co., of New York, as
stated in my dispatch of yesterday. Their as
sets will probably exceed their liabilities.
Sweeny. Green ft Co., cotton factors, of this
city, bare failed. Fellows ft Co, cotton and
tobacco merchants here, bavo also suspended.
New Phases of Moumoniuh.—Joe Smith,
it will be remembered, was rather a bellicose
kind of a prophet. Some times he was remon-
stated with and pretry closely questioned. Mr.
Quincy told a good joke about Joe, a* illustra
tive of b!» ingenuity and dignity. Says Joe,
“If n man smlght thee on the righteheek, tnrn
to him the other also,, bnt If he should then
strike face on tbe loft cheek, pitch into the fel
low.!” -
are indobted to the Hon. E. W.
Chastain for a copy of the President’s lost
Message to Congress.
JBff' Attention is called to tha advertisement
of Mr. Robbins nt Care Spring. Those desi
rous of purchasing a good house and lot in a
healthy and thriving section of the country
would do well to negotiate with him.
pB* u Farrago” ie informed that wo publish
no communications, unless their author is mode
known to us. Such is the established rale of
all Newspaper offices, and he cannot therefor#
wonder nt the non-appearance of hie article.
Godet’s Lady’s Book, for February has been
reoeivod and contains its usnal amount of use
ful and interesting reading. This is among fas
oldest if not the veiy oldest Magazine in the
United States: the best’commendation of it lice
in the fact that very few of its nnmorona Lady
readers find it convenient to do withoat it
Now is the time for Farmers to economise
and they pretty generally feel determined to
make their outgoet ns small as possible—lot ns
suggest that one of tho most effectual ways of
doing this is hy manufacturing your own coar
ser fabrics and Negro cloth. This yon can do
with ease and facility by buying one of Mr.
Wisdom’s cheap patent Looms—see advertise
ment
The Naturalizatiox Laws.—Tbe cardinal
maxim ofevery well regulated government should
be the adoption of sneh laws as will result in •’tile
greatett postible good to the greatett partible
number.” The principles of such laws are high
ly oonservatistic in their nature. They alone
are the chief criterion by which to solve with
any degree of precision the problem of a nation's
perpetuity on tbe one hand, or of its prematura
declension on the other. La?s which meet the
wants of a people, meet their support likewise;
and hence it may be said tbe laws of a country
are an infallib'e exponent of its patriotism.—
YetJ how much soever a legislative enactment
may embody the principles and the spirit of jus
tice, right and good, it is a rare occurrence that
it does not come in collision with interests
either local or individual, in their nature. We
can claim for hardly any rule of civil, judicia
ry or legislative policy an entire exemption from
anomalies.
An amendment of the naturalization laws
wonld, undoubtedly, be conducive to the dissa
tisfaction of many, yet there are many cnnatnralii
ed foreigners, whom, were it possible to consider
tbeir admissibility to the rights of citizenship, as
exceptions to a general rale debaring the foreign
er, we would gladly recognize as entitled to all
tbe privileges of elective franchise. Those aliens
who have already been in the United States
five years, and hsve become citizens by virtue
of their residence and the abjuration of allegis
ance to foreign powers, certainly have little or
no reason to mnrmnr at the anticipated change
of the law relative to immigrants. An ex poet
facto law cannot be made, hi< ving efficacy in di-
Testing them of immunities heretofore granted to
them. Sneh being the case, it can only bea sym
pathy for people from the land oftheimatirity that
wonld arouse tbe spirit ef opposition on theii
port. Opposition based upon sneh a principle
would render the question highly problematical
whether those who indnlge- themselves in it
had proved themselves worthy of naturalization
or not—the more so when sympathy for the
foreigner would seem paramount or superior to
a desire for national good. If they bare no
better reason then, than that alluded to, bow
much less cogent must be tbe incentives of na
tive-born Americans to oppose nn amendment,
if tbe aim of that amendment be self-protection.
It most be conceded that the only class of peo
ple who could, witb any tolerable degree of con
sistency, denounce it, is tho one which embra
ces cxcln : irely the newly arrived, and still un
naturalized foreigner. It is a project in which
the North, tho South, tbo East and the Wes*
may unite with spontaneity ns well ns with un
animity. It is hota question of local bnt gener
al interest—not one that should aronso partis
anship, but allay it—not one that should engen
der the poignancy of party feeling, and tho in
vective raUlcry’ofdemagogueism, but one which
should induce fraternity of fooling, harmony of
thought, and unity of action. Its legitimate
aim is republican, patriotic, national.
Yet, if an amendment of the naturalization
laws would enhance the political well-being of
any one portion af tho Union, more than that
of another, that fortunate portion is assuredly
the Sonth. It has every thing to gain with
little or nothing to loso.
The rich and exhuberantsoil of newly acquir
ed territories in the west is rapidly being peo
pled with foreigners. They land in New York
withoat means of purchasing land in tbe older
settled States, and are consequently directed
Westward where land is cheap, and the means
-of gaining a livelihood, feasible. Those who di
rect them thither are actuated by a two-fold
motive—to free faemselves of crime and pau
perism, and to lessen tho chances of the exten
sion of slave territory. This clone, to say
nothing of a thousand other equally as valid
reasons, is a sufficient inducement for ‘any un
prejudiced man to adopt, and abide by the first
article in tbe Native American platform, viz:
Firtt. We shall advocate a repeal of tho
laws of naturalization, or if that cannot he ac
complished then such a modification of those
laws, ns will prevent future immigrants from be
coming citizens, short of a residence of twenty-
one yenra after taking tho oath of allegiance to
the United States, and of abjuration of all oth
er powers, potentates, and princes.
^HET“On onr first pngo will be foand the
Speech of the Hon. A. H. Stephens in reply to
Mr. Campbell of Ohio. Tbe reader will perceive
that Mr. Stephens perfectly demolishes every
position of the distinguished Representative from
Ohio. We earnestly recommend this speech to
the careful perusal of every subscriber if he
would ho the more fully satisfied that <he re
sources and products of Georgia, are superior
in value, to those of one of the most flourishing
Northern States.
Ax Honest Max.—On Tuesday evening, a
gentleman who had jnst arrived at the City
Hotel, Baltimore, by the Philadelphia ean, sud
denly missed a bag containing $3,000 in gold.
While be was inquiring of tbe hotel folks about
tbo hack that had brought him from tbe dopot,
honest “Mickey Dougherty," tho driver, brought
him tho bog, safe and sound, and received from
tho grateful owner $200, with the remark, that
“it wonld help to get him a new hack.”
Catholic Statistics.—Tha Catholic Alma
nac for 1855 gives tbe following statistics of the
Roman Catholio Church in the United States;
There are 7 Archbishops, 33 Bishops, 2 Vi
ears Apostolic, 1704 Priests, and 1824 Cburobos
—showing the increase of the past year to have
been 2 Bishops, 120 Priests, and 112 Churches.
There are also 098 Missionary stations, 28 Col-
leges, 117 Female Academies, and 37 Theolo
gical Seminaries, which (inolnding those who
are studying abroad) are training np to tbe
priesthood nearly 700 young mm.
The Messilla Valley, reeently pnrchaeed from
Mexieo, waa formally taken possession of, on
tbe 15th November, by a military foreo under
Col. Miles, who had been despatched for tha*
purpose from Santa Fe by Gen. Garland. Tbe
Stars and Stripes were hoisted on a cotton tree,
and saluted by two 121b howitzers. The inhab
itant# seemed pleased with tbe change.
Rehabkablb Instances of Modestt.—Itis
said that a lady once asked Lord Brougham,
the great English orator and author, who waa
the best debater in tbe House of Lords. The
peer modestly replied: “ Lord Stanley is the
second, madam.” His Lordship’s modesty is
eqnal to fast .of a distingnshed Northern lec
turer on Phrenology. He told his audienoe fast
there was three remarkable beads in fae United
States: one was that of Calhoun; fae other
that of Daniel Webster; fae third ladies and
gentlemen,” said the lecturer, “modettg forbids
me to mention.”
The Tribnne states that in tho sixth ward
of New York alone six. thousand persons
were fed by charity od Friday last, and on Sat
urday fae number wa# equally large. At fa#
doors of Lindenmnllers, Stewarts, and nt the
Fivo Points Mission, where soup is distributed,
the Police hare to he in constant attendance to
keep order. The Tribune furthor says that no
Americans are among those applying for this
kind of charity. .
-According to the lntst ncconnts Mr. Mason,
onr Minister: to France^ Is not, dead bnt was
visited by a stroke of apoplexy and is stUi la a
ritical condition.
Southern Manufactures.—An article in
fae Galveston Commercial shows fae increase
in Sontbera Manufactures. It appears that in
fae Southern States fae consumption of Cotton
for fae last four years was as follows: 1851. fid-
000 bales; 1852, 75.000; 1853. 90.000: 185^
105,000. These facts mnst be gratifying to
every friend to the prosperity and commercial
independence of the South.
The weather in the North, on Friday, was in
tensely cold.
The New Testament Panorama is on exhibi
tion in Charleston.
Tuesday next, the 25th lost, is fae anniver
sary of fapfairth-day of Robert Baras. *
Th*” Canada brought no intelligence from
Paris relative to the death of Judge Mason—
strange!
The great volcanic mountain, Cotopaxi, is in
a highly active state of eruption.
It is said that New York has a non-resident
floating population of 305,000
The Supreme Court of Ftorida has heen abol
ished by a bill which has jnst passed the Legis
lature of that State.
Gen.. Scott apprehends a very troublesome,
if not protracted war with the Indians,
John Wells has heen appointed U. S. Senator
from New Mampshire, to fill the unexpected
term of Moses Norris, Jr.
At Buffalo, en the 12th inst, Lake Erie was
free from ice, and steamboats were departing
for Western porta.
It is said in New York npon the authority of
letters from Havana, by the Cahawba, that Gen
eral Zalaba will he appointed Governor General
of Cuba. '
The panic in St. Louis has subsided. Three
of the houses which have suspended wrll short
ly resume business again.
Robert Howard, an extensive iron mannfae*
tarer in Baltimore, is reported to have failed for
a large amonnt-
The Know Nothin’- convention for the nom
ination of State officers assembled at Louisville
on Thursday.
Know Nothings, is Virotxa.—The election
in Parkersburg, Va. for Couneilmen. resulted in
the entfre^suceess of the Know Nothing ticket
by a majority of 113 to 17.
At Fairfax Court Ilonso, Va., at the election
of Commissioner of Revenue for that county,
tbe Know Nothing candidate beat his opponent
more than four votes to one.
Steah Sloop|of War.—The Secretary of the
Navy has recommended to the Committee on
Naval Affairs, the batiding of seven new steam
sloops of war,
Swift, the Know Nothing Candidate for May
or of Lexington, Ky., was elected.
Between eleven and twelve thousand emi
grant passeneers arrived at New York on
Thursday 20th nit
W. J. Smith, of the firm of Smith ft Gale,
Cotton brokers at New Orleans, committed su
icide on the 8th in£t
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of
Samnel E. Lecomte of Maryland as Governor
of Kansas.
James Tnfnell died in the Poor House of An
derson District S. C. lately, at fae advanced
age of one hundred and twenty years.
An extraordinary surgical operation was late
ly performed which killed the patient .The
physician is doing well.
There are nt preset one hundred and sixty-
two stores “ to let” in Broadway.. Many will be
“letalone,” on acconnt of fae high rents.
The Editor of the New Hampshire Journal
says that he expects to grow fat as long as he
lives. Ah, yes f bat when he dies, will not the
fat bo in the fire ?
A bill has heen introduced into the legisla
ture of Pennsylvania granting political and civ
il rights to persons of color, now residing, or
who may hereafter reside, in that State.
Specie is so scarce in Schenectady, that a
man was arrested on suspicion of being a hank
robber, because he had three and six pence in
his pocket.
Cost of Cigars.—It is said to be nn indispu
table fact that, taking fae whole United States
together, mnch more money is expended for fae
single article of cigars, than for all fae eommon
schools in the Union.
They are having mild weather in Newfound
land, neither snow, iee, nor any indications o
winter ; nn fae contrary, thunder showers that
were evidently intended for last summer are
coming down npon the astonished people.
Assessment of Cirr Property.—The real
estate of the city of Colnmbus Is appraised by
the city Assessors, Messrs. Meeler, Toby and
Guthrie at $2,025,000, against $1,885,000 last
year.
Home Manufacture.—Tho Boston Evening
Telegraph says that Gov. Gnardinor wore,
dnring his innngnrntinn, an entire soft of Amer
ican manufacture. Every article of his dress
was “homcjnndo.”
To remove dirt from linen-*-Jerk a dandy out
of his shirt
Rather a Poor Showing.—The cashier of
the Lewis county bonk, New York safety fund,
which exploded in November, has $2 in specie;
circulation $125,000; assets neither here nor
there.
:
Fire in ChahlesTon, S. C.—The old Chapel
together with its Ea?t wing were entirely de
stroyed on fae morning of fae 2fith inst The
furniture of fae students was principally saved.
Loss «stimated at $20,000.
’I hate to hear people talk behind one’s hock’
as tbe robber said when fae constable called
“stop thief l”
*1 expect’ said a young physician,on his way to
New York, on hearing exaggerated rumors of
fae cholera, “to witness a great many death-bed
scenes this summer.”
’Doubtless,' replied a friend, “If yohget much
practice.”
When has • man a right to scold his wife
about his coffee ? When he has more than suf
ficient groundt.
An editor out West complains that tbe milk
which he buys is too mueb like mercy, Which as
Shakspeare baa it “is not strained.”
What our_W<ves Lots.
A wife onee kiss’d her husband, and, said she
’My Own sweet William, how dearly I love thee”
“Who ever knew a lady, good or ill,
Who would not dearly love her own sweet will?”
Advices from the seat of war and diplomacy
are of bnt little general interest, ^jie most in
teresting features are summoned np with fae
following point:
The Allies at the latest advices hare 300
.* * ■ •’
guns in a position ready to open a fire npon Se
vastopol, and are only waiting a favorable mo
ment. After bombarding the city 48 hours,
day and night they will then storm the city fa
fae sonth side, while Menchikoff is attacked in
fae field on the north. Tho whole programme
is arranged, and the determination arrived at to
make a grand attack immediately. The result
is looked for with interest as the fate of the Al
lies dependson it
Negotiations at Vienna are postponed four
teen days, to give tbe Czar one more ebanee to
come to terms.
Turning the Ague to Account.—The Belle-
fountaine (Ohio) Republican says the boosters
on the Wabash tarn their “ngy shakes” to some
acconnt They climb into the top of a “shell
bark” jnst as the chill come son, and by fae time
fae “personal earthquake” leaves them, there
is not a hickory nnt left on the tree.
' At a recent election in » Northern State, a
lad presented himself at the polls to chum the
benefit of fa* elective franchise.
Feeling a deep interest in a favorite 'candi
date. the father was evidently opposed to fae
hoy’s preference, stood at fae ballot box, and
challenged his right to vote, on fae ground of
bis not being of age. The young man declared
that he was twenty-one years old; that he knew
it, and that be insisted npon bis right The
father becoming indignant end wishing, as fae
saying is, to “bluff him off,” before the inspec
tors :
“Now, Bob, will you stand np there and con
tradict me ? Don’t I know how old you are ?
was I there?”,
Boh looked bis contempt for fae old man as
he replied—
“Thm,deration ! 'spose you was, was’nt I
there too?/ •
This settled tbe sire, and in went fae aeion’a
vote.
A Challenger Indicted.—Mr. Butt Hew-
son, who challenged Prentice, the editor of the
Lonisvtiie Journal, to a duel, has heen indicted
hy fae grand jury in Little Rock, Ark. His.
second, Major Davis, is indicted also.
The Robins and Lawrence Company, of Wind
sor, Mass., have recently executed for fae Royal
armory of Woolwich. England, an order to the
extent of $80,009 for fae manufacture of Minie
rifles, guns, ftc.
Cholera ix the WestTidieies.—The Island
of St. Kitte was, at the last accounts, suffering
a heavy mortality from cholera. In a popula
tion of 24,000 no less than 2,655 deaths had oc
curred.
A plonsihle swindler, who represents himself
to he a clergymen In distress, has been prac
tising upon the people of Charleston, and has
obtained several sums of money from benevo
lent gentlemen.
'It is said Hint Lady Franklin has resolved to
expend the laat remnant of her fortune infitting
ont another Arctic expedition. ’Tis a pity that
sneh noble devotion and sacrifice cannot he re
warded hy the restoration of her long lost and
loved hnshond.
A Forthcoming Wonder.—According to a
correspondent of Herapath’s (English) Jnnranl,
(team power is to he superseded by “Ponlson’s
Patent Pendnlnm T Lever.” which will he
brought before the public in about a month.—
Two men. in a sitting position, will he able with
ease to propel a railway engine of twenty-five
horse power with its foil complement of carria
ges, at any speed attainable hv steam power.—
[For fae Courier.]
Messrs Editors.—During the week ending
21st inst we had almost rummer weather nnd on
Snnday 21st it was little short of opprettioe,'
fae thermometer indicating 67 degrees as fae
temperature. At fi o’clock A. M. the wind rose
with vivid lightning and distant thunder in’the
East accompanied with a slight rain and at 6
o’clock on the morning of fae 22nd the tber-,
mom eter indicated 87 degrees, falling 30
degrees in sixteen honrs. It remained quite
cold np to last night 25th and the morning at 3
o’clock it commenced blowing and raining and
now at 11 o’clock A. M. there is every prospect
of clear warm weather. Summer will bud
again to be again niped by Jack Frott. “ So
here we go np, np, np and here we go down,
down, Ac. Those fond of fun and frolich have
the most ample means of gratification—the Op
era—Theatre—Peak Family of Vocalists, ac
companied by the Germnnian Bell Ringers—fae
Historical Panorama of fae New Testament, nnd
latt though not leaet “Waugh’s Italia” * Those
who cannot visit Italy and behold “in propria
persona” (I believe that is the*Latin ?) the
glorious seenery of that Magic Land and de
lightful clime, ought by all menus to visit
Waugh’s Italia.” It is true you necessarily
call to mind the Pope’s real"Big Toe as well as St
Peter’s in bronxo, kissed by a sot of craven j
sensless, soal-less, Priest-ridden ignoramuses
and scamps, and this makes one’s Republican
and Protestant blood coarse more rapidly:—
But never mind, “we trill rule onr country”
and “ they mag tide thelre.” Our Fathers fled,
yes fled, from oppression end bigotry to estab
lish themselves where they «onl<i enjoy civil
and religions liberty untmmmel’d by Popes
Bithopt and Prieiti with their disgusting mum
meries and every True American will stand by
the doctrine or die—Some of the tame sort Here.
Mr. Meagher the Irish Patriot was in Charles
ton last week—on the 15th inst he delivered an
address on the “menand womon of S. Carolina
dnring fae Revolution”—I did not hear bis ad
dress ns I was too unwell to go out; hut all who
did were delightod—Mr. Meghear is'decldodly
tho most modest and meritorious Foreigner we
hare had in our midst—He is a Protestant and
has no work to do for his immaculate holiness
tho Pope. Fires often occur here, thongh by
the activity and promptness of the Firemen
they are soon checked—some suppose the two
lost were the acts of Incondiaries.
Money matters are said to be more stringent
here than they hnre been sinco 1837—In this
connection lot mo ask why don’t the Farmer*
sell their cotton?—those whoare indobt aremor*
ally hound to do so, and thoso who are not in
debt ought in pursuanco of their own interests!
to sell—Cotton must reach a lower point.—All
the world on the other side of “sunrise” are at
sixes and sevens and the great Southern Sinew
mnst relax still farther—He who soils his cotton
immediately although fae price is low will do
better than fae who bolds on for a belter price.
Yours very respectfully, SAM.
Charleston, 26th January, 1855.
While Buggies, the young post office
robber, was In custody nt Northfield, Vermont,
he asked Mr. Holbrook, the post office agent, by
whom the nfrest hod been made, to step up
stairs to bis room a moment. After entering
and closing the door, fae prisoner took down
his rifle and very deliberately proceeded to cock
the piece. By this time Mr. H. began to think
that be bad to deal with a desperate character j
but before be could decide upon any plan of
action, the yonng man took from the lock of his
gun a piece of paper and banded it to Mr. Hoi'*
brook, which on inspection, proved to both*
missing sum, $600.
Another New Paper Material*—A paper
maker of Lee, Massachusetts, has several saru-f
pies of paper from fae weed known as “everlas-*
ting,” and which fae farmers have a great dread
of. It is said to be easily converted into pulp,
Tbe paper made from it has yellowish tinge,
but a smooth, firm snrfoce. Doubtless tbe veg
etable kingdom can supply many different ma
terials, beside straw, from which this tsry nec
essary article might be produced.
A New Rifle.—.Many experiments are Itt
progress designed to effect Improvements in tbe
celebrated minie rifle. The x Daily Wisconsin
tolls of a rifle which has been invented hy Mr.
Howe, of Milwaukee and which promises great
results. It is a modification of fae minie, hut
has not Vet been perfected in its details. It
loads at the breech, fae base of which is some
what larger than the muzzle. Tha one which
Mr. Howe is experimenting with, drove a hall .
thirteen inches deep into solid pine forty yards
distance. The Wisconsin says “it is proved
that this rifle will cany a mile and a half iritis
& tone aim!”,
The Seventeen Year Locusts.—Dr. Gid-
don B. Smith, who is well-informed on the sub
ject, announces through the Baltimore Patriot
the places at wnieh the seventeen-year looasts
will nppear this year, viz :
In Massachusetts, about Barnstable and adja
cent towns. This is a very small district.
In Maryland tho whole of the Eastern Shore,
and also on the Old Liberty nnd Windsor Mill
roads, commencing about five miles from Balti
more and extending to Carlisle, Pa. I* other
parts of tho State they will appear In small
numbers.
Virginia, in Kenawa county. This is a very
small district unless it is connected with the
next district in Kentucky, fte.
In Kentucky, about Lexington, Frankfort,
Flemingsburg, and extending In Meiga and Gal
lia county, Ohio. - •
V.
THE CANADA’S MAILS.
AS AttHY WITHTCT A HEIDI
a Hob before Sevastopol.
The Canada’s mails reached N. York Friday
at midnight. The English papers make no
mention of tbe illness of Mr. Mason, our Min
ister to Paris, and we hear of no private advices
on fae subject. The presumption is, therefore,
that he had recovered from his attack. Tho
very latest advices state that. Austria has de
clared to Protsia that if peace be not folly as
sured hy fae first of June next, Prussia will he
compelled to mobiles not less than two hundred
thousand men. or’raise a force to that amount
within sixty dnys/wfajch must be prepared for
decisive action. The Russians have assumed s
position north of Sevastopol, and made them
selves almost invincible. They were fully hr
expectation of an attack and another terrible-
battle.
Tbe London Times of fae 3d last, continu
ing its comments on fae management of fae
war in the East and the siege of Sevastopol,
makes fae following’ humiliating confession:
Tbe case is so flagrant—so manifest to friend
and foe, and so confessed and proclaimed to all
the world, that it would be ridiculous to slur over
tbe fact that the British-army is found to be no
army at all in the general military sense of the-
word. It is a mob of brave men, not more-
than a mob, and rather less, inasmuch as it ir
evidently commanded by those who should not
command it, and so deprived of its rmle natur
al efficiency. AH the accounts that we pulbisb,
and many more that for one reason er other wo
donotpablisb, bnt which lie in envelopes, loose-
heaps, and elastic bands allabout us, aares in -
this—that fae organization of the army is eith
er none, or worse than none.
Again, alluding to tbe pitifal state of tho-
camp, the Times says:
We confess that we cannot look at tho hor
rors of Dalaklava and Inkerman as we once did,
for it is plainly better that man and horse
should die gloriously, selling their lives dear,
and affording a spectacle to the world, than that
they should perish unseen, unpitied, unarmed,
almost unnumbered—for it has .come to that.
We confess, when we are told the British cavalry
is no more—that the horses after gnawing one
another’s mains and tails have SNnet of thsm
perished on the fatal route to the camp some*in
the act of dragging their (lead comrades out of
the way—we do indeed confess that we could
wish that they who aro thns dead bad all died
in the battle field, even in somejmud charge
into the heart of tbe Russian army. ■* --
Speaking of the ineompetency of Lord 1 ag
ism and the loss ofSir DeLpcy Evans, the best
general of the army, the Times continues:
Now. are we to sacrifice what remains of the
50,000 sent already, and th'e 20,1)00 or 30,009
more told off for tbe Crimea. .to a name that, by
fae concurrent and uncontradicted testimony
of the whole army is only & name, and even'
worse than a name ?
We are aware that itis a painful act to hon
ors and years—bnt if fae noble ship is to be sa
ved at ail, it mnst be by sending its masts over
board, to substitute jurymasts, at whatever de
sightments, or damage, or risk. Sevastopol' is
the Marathon, the Thermopylae, tha Salamie
of these modern times, and a thousand years
will look hack on the present struggle as we look
back ou those and some other cardinal points in
the country, of the world. Surely there are
men, in this country, or in the Crimea, who cun
fight a battle and manage a siege or a campaign.
If there arc, let tho filigree rules of of (he Horse
Guards be cast away with the 10.COO tawdry
uniforms that lie in a rage on the surface of
the Crimea, and let the working soldier, the
tried and proved commander, under whatever
name, be put at the head of the army.
Facts about the United States.—Tbe Uni
ted States are composed of thirty-one States
and nino Territories.
They contain a population of 25,000,000, of
whom 21,000,000 are white.
The extent of sea coast 12,639 miles.
The length of its fen principal rivers is 20,-
000 miles. . - .........- >r '‘-J
The number of miles of Railway in operation
is 20,000, which cost $600,000,000.
The length of canals is 5,000 miles.
It contains the longest railway on the globe
—tho Illinois Central—which is 734 miles.
The annual value of its agricultural produc
tions is $200,000,000.
Its most valuable production is Indian corn,
which yields annually 400,000,000 bushels.
The amount of registered and enrolled ton
nage is 5,407,010 tons.
The amount of capital invested in mannfiac-
ture is $609,000,000.
Tfie amount of foreign imports in 1853, was
$267,97S,947—and of its exports $230,971,-
087*'
Tbo annual amount of its internal trade is
$600,000,000.
The annual value of the products of la
bor (other than agriculture) is $1,500,000,-
000.
Tho value of its farms and live stock is $600-
000,000.
Itsminesof gold, copper, lead, and iron, are
among the richest in the world.
Tho value of gold produced is $100,006,-
000.
The surface of its coal fields is 138,131 square
acres. ’ • _ '■ • \ ' • - - t
Its receipts for customs,’ftc., 4c., in 1852, waa.
$51,472,274, and its expenditures $43,743,-
105.
Within her borders ore 80,000 schools, 20,-
000 academies, 234 colleges, and 3,800 church*
V
V.