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— —7 * r - - - „) JiMr - - -- - '■ Uthiij €oiispttttxmialist. BY JAMES GARDNER. Additional by the Niagara. j mifnßjjX'uu'U sterling. Spain hasgrantedan amnesty for, all political - offences comraitted in her trans-Atlantic posses- The meeting of the Spanish Cortes has been postponed until the 10th of January. The ship William, Chase, from- Queenstown, Bngland, sailed for Charleston on the 121 b of De gpraoer. The news generally in the papers is mostly of a | monetary character. Commercial News. Daring the week specnlators took 3,000 bales of : aotton and exporters 1,200 bales. The quotations are for— Fair Orleans....« Md-1 Mid. Orleans.. .s^o. "Mobile 6d. “ Mobile syjd. " Uplands.. .6?*<i. 1 “ Uplands...s)tfd. Rice had slightly declined, and quoted at ISs. a 18s. «d. per cwt. - Rosin was dull for medium qualities, but fine was quoted at 14s. 6d, per cwt. In London Turpentine was dull at S2s. a 82s. Bd. Sarre Market.— The stock of cotton is 75,0"0 hales. _ Interesting News From Kansas, t* Sr. Louul Jaa. 4.—The Dsmocrat of this morn ing aunoanoes, on the authority of a passenger Who came dßwn the river last evening, that an „ engagement had taken place between the free State "•jbrccs under Lane, and the Dragoons; and that Hafir W.‘ fetired with a loss of three men. Botfr tide calling for re-iuforeemet.ts, and consid- Congresstonal. ’VABmxotos, Jan. 4.—ln the Senate to-day, on motion of the Hon. Best. Fitzpatrick, of AJe., all orders, correspondence and instructions issued b» any department of the Government, relative to die seiiure of Gen. ff». Wauur, were called for. The Hon. Gnomic E. Proa, of Ohio, introduced k Kansas compromise bill, proposing to admit Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution—sub mitting the slavery clause to the people; and au thorising the right of the people to amend the Constitution in a convention to be held on the 7tb of April next. Kansas affairs were generally discussed. In the HAuse, the Hon. Taos. L. Cungmab, of North Csripna, introduced a resolution which was amended ani passed, calling for all information, instructions, and correspondence in regard to Gen. Walkss’s arrest at Greytpwn. m» discussion which resulted was calm. The Hou Joan A, Quitmas, of Miss., asked the consent (whieh was refused) to introduce a bill to nrnguii Affaire in Virginia. Wasbixmos, Jan. 4.—Private advices from Richmond and Petersburg, announce that the Walker aud Nicaragua excitement is intense in those localities. At Richmond, resolutions were introduced in the legislature to-day, considering the arrest of Gen. Walker, aid censuring Com. Pacldixg for bis unwarranted interference. Market Reports. New York, Jan. 4.—Sales of cotton 2,000 bales; Good Middling Uplands 9 cents —the market ex hibits a declining tendency. Sales of flour 13,000 barrels, at an adranco of 5 to 10 cents. Wheat dull, red $1 10 a*l 15; white #1 25. Corn firm, sales of 38,000 bushels, and quoted ats7 a 61 cents. Sugar heavy, at 3 a decline. Coffee heavy at a *)£ cents. Molasses steady. New Orleans 35 cents. Turpentine firm at 87c. Rosin steady. Rice steady at 3 a 3% cents. Freights on cotton to Liverpool 3-16 d. Charleston, Jan. 4. —Sales of cotton to-day 2500 bales, at a % cent decline since the Niagara’s news. Middling B>£, and Middling Fair 9 cents. Savannah, Jan. 4.—Sales of cotton to-day 650 bales, at 7% a cents. The market has declined }{to since the Niagara’s news was received. We notice that some of the large grocers in Columbus, Oa., have determined to udopt the cash system. JjgTHon. Jas. H. Hammond, United States Sen ator from South Carolina, reached our city yester day morning, and took the morning train for Washington city. In the telegraphic dispatch from New Or leans on the 2d inst., published on Sunday morn ing, exchange on New York should have read “ eighth per cent, premium ” instead of eight per cent." The Registry List opens to-day. Persons who desire to have their names recorded early can be accommodated by calling on Mr. Akthont O. Hill, the Registration Clerk, who can be found at the Collector and Treasurer’s office. pg- Tho Selma (Ala.) Reporter, in a modest intimation to its patrons on the expectations cf the Ist of January, says: "Let no man say to us when we ask him for the very little amonnt he owes, that he can’t settle until he selle hie cotton. The idea of a man having to sell a cotton crop, be fore paying a small printing bill, won’t begin to do. If you have not sold, you ought to have done so when cotton was at a high price.” Specie in New York.—The New York papers say that there is more gold and silver in circula tion in that city at the present time than was ever before known. Bank Dividends— The Charleston Courier of yesterday, says : 11 The Bank of Charleston, People’s Bank, Planters’ and Mechanics’ *Bank, Union Bank,South Carolina Bank, and State Bank, have declared dividends amounting in the aggre gate to ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollai s. The whole amount of the divi dend of the People’s Bank—wbicb, as included in the above amount, is twenty thousand four hun dred dollars—is forty thousand dollars, or at the rate of eight per cent, per annum.” Shall Pox at Washington. —The States says: “ We are informed, from sourees entitled to belief, that the small pox is raging with fatal virulence in certain portions of Georgetown and the First Ward of Washington. It is currently rumored that in the former place twenty-five bodies, dying of this disease, have been interred by a single un dertaker.” ~ ' A I The MobttePress on the Nicaragna News, j I We give the following extracts from the press | jof Mobile as an index to the public feeling. The I Advertiser says: I The news from Nicaragua yesterday created in j tense excitement in this community. The course | of the Government was commented upon in terms lof the utmost severity by all parties. “ What I right had the naval force of the United States to invade a foreign soil, capture its citizens, and hold them prisoners?” was asked in tones of indignant surprise, and no one could answer the question. For ourselves, we forbear comment for the present, and wait with no little curiosity the action of the party organs of the Buchanan Democracy. Will they stitTstand by the Administration in its per sistent warfare uponfche South ? The Register thus gives vent to its indignation: The most intense excitement was crentedthrough out this community, by the intelligence received yesterday, that Gen. Walker, and his men, had been arrested within the Territory of Nicaragua, and abducted therefrom, by our naval forces under the command of Commodore Paulding. There was bat one sentiment felt and expressed, and that was of unmeasured indignation at what all seem to consider a most uuparalleled and unpardonable outrage. We cannot see how our government could undertake to justify such a proceeding, which is manifestly in violation of the laws of na tions, even admiting that Walker’s expedition was an unlawful one. Was it not enough for our government to employ all its means to prevent Walker from embarkiug from our shores? Was it not enough that it pursued him on the high seas, and endeavored to intercept his landing at his des tination? Was not this itself a stretching of the right of our government to interfere to an extent or most questionable propriety and lawfulness, and far beyond the requirements or intention of the neutrality Uws? But to invade the Territory of a former jurisdiction, and forcibly abduct Walk er and party therefrom—this seems to us to be the climax of outrage, and a reckless defiance of the rules and decencies of public law, whieh we can not see how our Administration can possibly ex cuse or palliate. We wait for some explanation of this extraordinary proceeding. We give the Tribune's article without abridg ment : Some important news from Nicaragua was re ceived yesterday by telegraph. It will be found in another column. In brief, it is as follows: Walker and one hundred and fifty of his friends have been arrested on Nicaraguan territory by Commodore Paulding, U. S. N., and sent to this country. This is the essential fact of the news. • The question 19 first: By what authority did Commodore Paulding invade Nicaragua aud make war upon those Walker men ?—for the act is equivalent to making war. The authority was, perhaps, instructions from the government of the United States. Getting, then, to the principal, what right had the government of the United States to give these instructions? The authority is not to be found in the neutral ity laws, or in any reasonable construction of the “Monroe Doctrine,” of whieh Mr. Buchanan is, or was, greatly enamored. Where then did it come from ? That’s the pnzzle in this business. Oar readers are aware that a man named Yrssa ri, some two months since, after many futile at tempts, concluded a treaty with our Government in relation to the transit route through Nicaragua. This treaty has not been made public. It may give the united States full authority to invade Nicaragua, and make such arrests as it pleases within that country. But the question is, by what right did Yrssari proffer and make this treaty ? At the time it was made, there was no government in Nicaragua. •There was no head or. administration within it Yrssari himself, if %e are not misinformed, is not even a citizen of Nicaragua. It is a notabfce foe*, too, that onr Government repulsed this pseudo Minister of Nicaraugua. until it became almost certain that Gen. Walker would return to his country, and then the treaty was hastily patched up. Under it, perhaps, our Government is made the protector of Nicaragua, and is fully empowered to arrest, imprison, or shoot any man, or men, whom it may suspect of anything it pleased. In brief, then, the following seems to be the state of affairs, as far as our government relations with Nicaragua are concerned; Gen. Walker was elected President of that country by a large ma jority of its voters. He sent a Minister to the United States, who was recognised by our govern ment—thus fully recognising bis authority and position. Nicaragua was invaded by a foreign power—Costa Rica—and when, as the leader of the invaders has confessed, he was on the eve of driviog them out, Capt. Davis, U. S. N., by a de ception and show of U. S. authority, obliged him to abandon his country. He was brought to the United States under protest. He afterwards ap pealed to the sympathies of our people—raised men to return to Nicaragua—landed there safely, put himself in a position to resume his authority, which was not occupied, and against which there had been no revolt on the part of the people. The United States government again interposes and very coolly invades Nicaragua, and, by force of numbers and arms, captures Walker and his men again, and brings them to this country ! And yet there is not a solitary syllable of au thority for this extraordinary exercise of power either from Nicaragua or in the laws of this coun try. That section of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty which provide* that neither Great Britain nor the United States l nail interpose in the afftirs of Cen tral America, has been violated by this action. This treaty has not yet been ratified; but our gov ernment does not object to the clause which we refer to. If the United States can invade Nicara gua, so can Great Britain. A finer precedent for an illegal act cannot be found than tne oue given by this government. A treaty between the two powers is not necessary now. It is only a question of strength. Our government has made that the test with Walker, who is weak. We have no disposition to judge the Administra tion unkindly; but it is impossible to suppose that the news we are commenting on will not produce amazement*and disappointment everywhere among its friends, especially within the South. The Mercury says: The little “ grey-eyed man of destiny,” in the midst of a brilliant career of success in Nicaragua, has been suddenly arrested by a defeat from an enemy he did not expect to meet, at least upon the soil of Nicaragua. Our previous advices were that the gallant little band of three hundred were encamped upon Punta Arenas, within rauge of threatening guns from United States men-of-war, friends denied access in front and vague and unde fined dangers in the rear. Long and anxiously had we waited, with gloomy forebodings, for tid ings, never dreaming that, under such discourag ing and hopeless circumstances, he would dare to set out upon a career of conquest. At length the telegraph has spoken, and what do we hear ? “Fort Castillo and four steamers had been cap tured by Walker.” Great and glorious Walker! He dares to do, and does by daring. How we exult at the glorious tidings! The impregnable Castillo fallen! But how our joys are dashed to the earth at the an nouncement that “Commodore Paulding landed a force of three hundred and fifty men from the fri gate Wabash, and captured General Walker and his force of one hundred and fifty men I” We are for the Monroe doctrine, for Nicaragua and Walker, for the neutrality laws, for the honor of the United States navy, for Col. Anderson hold ing Castillo with his fifty men agaiust the Cosia Ricans, for freedom of emigration to Nicaragua or to the , for being permitted to depart hence for any other place under the sun aud fighting the next day after getiing there if it suits us, whether it suits President Buchanan or not; and finding ourself puzzled and mystified, we are for a meeting of citizens, believing that in the midst of councu there is wisdom. New Crop Molasses.—We understand, says the , Wilmington Journal, that the cargo of new crop ■ Molasses, from Cardenas, now landing here by 1 Messrs. J. &J. L. Hathaway k Co., is believed to ! be first importation of the new crop this year, ] made at any port in the United States. JYTJGUBTA, GA.., WEDNEiDAY, JANUARY 6, 1856. The Bank Veta Bill. Mr. Editor: The charge of “ iluljsralilp," which “Justice” makes on me, in the Constitutionalist of Sunday, may pass for what it is worth. It does not affect the Constitutional question, to which, alone, 1 addressed myself. I trust, for bis own sake, that “Justice” neTer read the whole case of Sturgss vs. Crowning shield. If he did, he is ob noxious to charge much more see ere than “ il liberalrty.” That case did decide that a State In solvent law, annnUng the debtor’s contrast, wna unconstitutional. “Justice” states this much cor rectly. But the Court also held that an insolyent law, discharging the debtor's person, was not un constitutional ; and on what principle was the dis tinction drawn ? Why, what I stated in my for mer article, and which has been, as I then said, set tled doctrine ever since , that a legislature could not annul a contract, but could take away a remedy. The act of 1840 is but a remedy at any rate j but it is a remedy in the hands of the State only—not in the hands of a bill holder. The retoed act does not affect any remedy of any bill holder, and if it did, would still be constitutional, aa it does not toaeh his contract Richmond. Among iha many reports going the rounds of the papers about Nicaraguan affairs, is one that Hoc. Humphrey Marshall, of Keutucky, will in troduce into Congress resolutions directing that Gen. Walker be sent back to Nicaragua in a gov ernment vessel. Another report says that Capt Chatard, of the Saratoga, has been deprived of his commission for failing to arrest Walker’s steamer, the Fashion, before she landed her pas sengers. Among the decorations of the Episcopal Church, at Greenfield, Mass., on Christmas eye, was a large and beautiful “ Star in the East,” set some forty feet above the pulpit, and lighted by a fluid lamp. In the midst of Rev. Mr. Flint’s sermon, the star took fire, the evergreens biqfing np in a very startling manner. Suddenly, the burning mass gave way and fell on the revered geutleman, the lamp striking him on the back, and scattering the blazing fluid in all directions. Fortunately, the fire was extinguished before it had done any dam age, and Mr. Fnint was unhurt. The weekly statement of the Treasury shows the amountsubjeettodrafttobefive million six hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and seventy seven dollars and three eenia; reduction from last week, sixty-five thousand nine hundred and seven ty-four dollars and eighty-two cents; receipts, four hundred and sixty-three thousand forty-one dollars and thirty-one ceDts; drafts drawn but not paid, one million nine hundred and ninety-six thousand six hundred and seventy-fire dollars and thirty-*even cents; drafts paid, one million eighty six thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and ninety-four cents; drafts issued, five hundred and twenty-mne thousand sixteen dollars and thir teen cents. Apology Maxing.— Dr. Franklin, we are told, once had a servant who was never in the wrong. At last, the devices to which the servant resorted to cover up his deficiencies became too mucth for t.hc fihitpsopher. “My good friend,” wan his final and T must ..pact, i treyw UEew' a. ' man wbo'was good at an excusetobe gooiTCit any thing else.” Nic. Longwortb, the great “ Catawba ” man of Cincinnati, celebrated his golden wedding on Christmas eve, just fifty years from the time of his marriage with the daughter of Major Silas How. ell, of New Jersey. The bridesmaid who parti cipated in the ceremony was present, as were a large company of friends and relatives. The Presiobnt’s Levee on New Year’s Day.— Among the notabilities at the levee was Dr. Mackay, the editor of the London Illustrated yews, and who lingered for some time in the ova! room, a quiet, but apparently much interested, spectator of the truly Republican spectacle presented. The Galveston yews says that an express ar rived in Galveston on the 18th Dec., from Houston, bringing to his son the sad intelligence of the death of Governor Hiram G. Runnels, in Houston, on the 17th. It appears that Gov. Runnels died of consumption, and that he had been confined to his bed for several months. The New York Journal of Commsrcs estimates that there are eight hundred and fifty thousand and nine barrels of flour in that city. Affairs Improving in Europe.— Letters from London, by the Arago, represented thutthe gener al progress of improvement in financial affairs is steudy. The position of the bank was rapidly strengthening; it would soon he able to repay the two millions of over-issue, and reduce the rate of interest to nine or eight per cent. The N. Y. Jour, nal of Commerce thus alludes to the subject: “The financial intelligence from Europe is far more favorable than was expected, and has given quite a cheerful aspect to our money market. In London money was easier and the apprehension of increased trouble had subsided. At Paris there was also a further improvement, but the greatest change was at Hamburg and Frankfort. “The large houses which had been distrusted and seemed to be tottering on the brink of rain have been sustained, and will now go on without fur ther difficulty. This is a great relief, especially in re gard to Hamburg, where important American con nections were liable to be involved in a general crash. In tbe South-east of Europe the pressure has just culminated, tbe suspension of some Eng lish wool and produce dealers having created an excitement in that unusually quiet quarter. At Smyrna the crisis was severely felt, but relief was hoped for in a few days. In Sweden tbe effect of tbe English failures was at its height. The com mercial intelligence from Gteat Britain is less fa vorable titan the financial. Trade aDd manufac tures were much depressed, and not likely soon to recover. This is especially noticeable at Liverpool where a reaction was soonest expected.” ’ Senator Douglas and his Wivb.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer , says: “ 1 called on Senator Douglas last evening for a short time, and found him busy in his study franking copies of his speech all over the Union. Diligently engaged iu directing the speeches as , they were franked, was Mrs. Douglas, radiant and . beautiful in her elegant evening attire. She wrote rapidly a bold, firm hand, which evinced energy and decision of character; while she earned on a part in the conversation at the same time. She is 1 truly a very beautiful lady in form and figure, 1 with a countenance expressive not only of intellect \ and energv, but affection and pure womanly syro- ‘ p&thies. She has evidently tne mind to investi gate aud comprehend questions of politics, for 1 some of her remarks exhibited considerable feel ing concerning the position of Kansas affairs. A 1 gentleman had just brought in some three hun- * dred names of citizens of Cincinnati, and she pro- * eeeded at once to direct each a copy of her bus- . band’s speech, while Mr. Douglas added his frank. 1 Those who receive the speeches will, therefore, 1 have a specimen oi the chirography of Mr. and c Mrs. Douglas,” t t , e t!ie Baltimore Sun. Atrt-momical Phenomenon. viwtiHMlives to see the evening before the full moon«f thigmontb, if he sits op till midnight, may sOe, if night be blear, an astronomical phe nomenon w&bh will not again occur for nineteen years, wffan’wo thirds of the people now upon the earth will Jtare passed to their final rest. At twelve oTgfockJhat night the moon, so near the full as to *Pl>4gJk pet feet orb, will approach within ten degrelpvtae meridian—five degrees nearer to it than tbe Ttu comes on tbe 21st of June. Seen from an eWe'cd position commanding tbe whole horizon, it .V'i fie a splendid sight. The moon will almost in the zenith, the ten de grees b«JSjL.'u uch diminished in appearance at that far kelspt. The sun is never vertical in any part of tßfeJTnited States. On the 21st of June it comes witfjpi one degree of the zenith and tbe ex treme point of Florida. The moon, on tbe otheflßnd, will, at tbj next lull, pass vertically over theinftidii- of the Isthmus, and be vertical at and neafeil* bay of Espiritu Santo. It will be nearly vettSeal at the southern extremity of Louisi anaf near Sic- mouth of the Mississippi. At the cities of iMnle and New Orleans the moon, on that night, will he so nearly overhead that the people who are ogSat midnight will not be able to discern the differed if they chance to look up. It will there, of jlourse, be a more beautiful sight than it will be iH Baltimore. The next morning, those who enough to see the moon set, will see it sink beneath tbe horizon so far to the North-east that it wHJ seem to have wandered off from it* path, and 4-) be drifting at large towards the North pole. Is it asked, what is the cause of this phenome non 7—why does the moon exhibit such irregular appearances? The answer is, that she does not revolve round the earth in the same plane in which the earth revolves round the sun. The plane of the mooajnt orbit cuts the plane of the earth’s orbit at tangle of five degrees. If the planes were th'ejame, there would he two eclipses every month, -ipe of the sun and one of the moon. At the eqnawsr both eclipses would be total. As it is, thore oajfl.e an eclipse only when the sun and the uioon pafi each other at the time when the moon is in ih&fpart of her orbit which is near the points of Here there can be Only four, five or at Xhtfßost six eclipses in one year, instead ot twentydPn- or live, as there otherwise might be. For thejkme cause eclipses vary in magnitude from a Were point of contact to a total obscuration But whjf.does the moon obtain such a high north ern iUuaoe only once in nineteen years ? The answer re this is, that the points of intersection of the mr.ya’s orbit and the sun’s apparent path threngk ihe heavens are continually shifting and mane a cycle once in nineteen years. Twice in nineteen years these points of intersection coincide with the poiuts of the equinoxes. But one half of the tim* the five degrees of the moon’s deviation from the ecliptic are subtracted from the twenty three and a half degrees of tbe inclination of the earth’* prbit, and then the moon never comes so far North as the sun by fire degrees. This was the e**o in 1848. Then the moon, at the full near est to the 21st of December, did not approach withief twenty degrees of the zenith; not as near by j’ve degrees as the sun does on the 21st At the completion of half the cycle the points of infiysectiou coincide with the equinoxes, and tbe fivi degrees are added to the sun's declination, and vs have the moon as we do this month, mount ing ujlwithin ten degrees of the zenith, and pre sentii. [, at the full moon, nearest tho winter sol stice, phenomena, both beautiful and sublime. In co! oboration of this explanation every one may refer > the almanacs of this year, and he wul find that t i principal eclipses fall in March and Sep tetn h*l, when the earth is in those parts of her orbit where the plane of the equator cuts the has been much discussed among . naturalists aud astronomers if the moon has any CJWgjing influence over the weather, thequamity -v«wPw!ire |n the atmosphere, the measure of . heat frit the fi-i.ioeucy and copiousness of shon'er* and fains" Both sides of Uria qtto»!H«n hare been ably and pwtio4K>»«o»ly mninraftTPcT' • All persons who have made pretensions to skill in predicting the changes of the weather, hare pro fessed to be guided more or less in their prognos tications by tbe positions of the moon. Nothing is more common among our agricultural popula tion than the confident assertion that there can be no change from dry to wet, or from wet to dry, be fore there is a change in tbe moon. It would scarcely seem possible that an impression so uni versal should be whopy without fcrtnduth a. ( It is certain that the moon sways with prodigious force the immense mass of the ocean, causing the tides to swell under attraction to a greut height and pour themselves upon the shore. Why, then, may she not cause similar surges in the atmos phere, which is a fluid by no means imponderable m itself, but bears upon the earth by a pressure of fifteen pounds to the inch, besides being at times loaded with all the might of moisture which de scends in the shape of rain and saturates the eurth and fills the rivers. Recent observation and his torical investigation have been running against this traditionary connection of the moon with the weather and the course of the seasons. It the moon has any considerable effect upon the sea sons it ought to be visible in the correspondence of successive cycles, and nineteen years to bring about a recurrence of similar variations. But no such uniformity has hitherto been discov ered. [ Gov. Brown’s Veto. We have laid before our readers the veto mes sage of Gov. Brown on the bank bill, and while 1 we subscribe to its sentiments in regard to the ab ■ stract principle of banking, we are not prepared to ( say that the veto was a w ise and judicious act in tho present crisis of financial atf'airs. We are no apologists for extravagant specula tion on the part of the banks, and deprecate the r existence of a single one in the State, yet as the y , have been chartered by the legislature, and sus pended specie payment as a measure of protection to the people as well as themselves, we were dis posed to grant them the indulgence asked by the bill which passed tho two branches of the legisla , ture. That bill engrafted new provisions in the existing chartors of the bauks, which we think will secure a sound paper currency for the future, proportioned in amount to the wants of the peo ple. It merely asks that the Governor should stay proceedings against the forfeiture of their charters for the space of one year, without interfering with the rights of the bill holder, or parenting him from obtaining specie when demanded. There was nothing unconstitutional in the provisions of the bill, and a defeat of it at this time irould have been felt by all classes of the community. The people were in debt to the banks more than the banks to the people. Indulgence became a matter of interest to the creditor, as add" ing to the chances of eventual payment; and of favor to the debtors, as giving time to collect the means of payment. To whom, then, was the relief extended, to the banks or their customers ? The banks could pay if they could collect, and if compelled to pay, they would be compelled to collect. Their power to indulge depended upon the indulgence extended to them, and a measure granting them one year to resume specie payment surely was not a measure confined to their protection without regard to the relief of the people. We have no censure, however, for Gov. Brown, in vetoing the bill, entertaining, as he did, contrary views from us with regard to its constitutionality. I We believe him to be a firm, consistent advocate of the truib, and what he regards the interest of a great and growing State. Oolunthus Times dt Sentinel, Jan. 2. ] New Orleans, Dec. 3o.—The filibuster excite ment is still going on, one hundred and thirty-two men having offered their services to-day. Over fourteen hundred men are now in this city and Mobile, awaiting shipment. Th?- men from the lower part of Texas, eight hundred in number, sailed on the 26th inst. It is impossible to imagine the feeling here, as well as throughout the entire South, so for as heard from, upon this question. The people are “in arms and eager for the fray.” 30me persons express themselves in favor of re inforcing Col. Anderson in spite of the Govern ment. Over a thousand stand of arms have been collected, and a thousand men are willing to tender their services. Items. Hon. H. S. Foote, late of Mississippi, and later of California, intends to settle m Memphis, Tenn. The rich “Sat Lovengood Sketches” are written by Captain George W. Harris, the qniet, sedate, and universally popular postmaster at Knoxville, in Tennessee. The Cleveland Plaindsaler states that the emi nent tragedian, Edwin Forrest, who has been quite ill at the American House, for tile post few cays, is rapidly recovering. The Austrain Consul at New York has sued the N. Y. Express, laying his damages at fifty thousand dollars, for copying from a Philadelphia paper an erroneous statement concerning him. The venerable Josiah Quincy is writing a life of John Quincy Adams, and all the volumnious pa pers left by the latter have been placed in his hands for that purpose. The first part is to be ready in February. The plates for the treasury notes will be in readi ness in about ten days. Gen. Walker’s present intention is said to be to s proceed to New Orleans and challenge a trial. i The Texas legislature has passed a bill which allows free colored persons who may desire it to select masters and become slaves. Nine new route agents for the through mail be tween New York and Cincinnati have been appoint ed, at a salary of one thousand dollars a piece per annum. The child's idea of ice—“water gone to sleep.” The Kentucky State Agricultural Society offer four premiums, of one hundred dollars each, for four kinds of the best leaf tobacco of this year's crop. A little while ago the Providence, R. 1., market was almost bare of corn, but for the last week the importations exceed one hundred and twenty-six thousand bushels. Measures are being taken in Stockton, California, to test the cultivation of rice, on swamp and over flowed lands, through the employment of China men. Tbe artesian well now in progress at Louisville, Kentucky, has been bored to tbe depth of one thou sand five hundred and forty-six foet. The drill is through grey lime-stone of alternate hard aud soft strata. Editorial Injustice. The New York Post has repeatedly published the following sentence as an extract from the Pre sident's instructions to Gov. Walker: “I repeat, then, as my clear conviction, that un less the Convention submit tbe Constitution to the vote of all the actual settlers of Kansas, and the election be fairly and justly conducted, the Con stitution tritt be, and ought to be, rejected by Con gress /” Upon this alleged extract from the instructions, the Post has charged the President with “official disingenuousnessj”because in his message he uses the following language: “I merely said that when a Constitution shall be submitted to the people of the Territory, they must be protected in the exercise o( their right of voting for or against that instrument, and the fair expression of the popular will must not be inter rupted by fraud or violence.” A similar charge upon the same basis has been made in the New York Tribune , and has been re peated in other Republican journals. We took oc casion some days ago to call the attention of these journals to the Injustice which they had thus done the President, by attributing to him language which be had never used, but which had only been employed by Gov. Walker, and we took it for granted that they would correct their error with out delay. We have not observed the correction, . however, either in the Post , or elsewhere, and we again call attention to the subject, in the hope that • it will still be made. No respectable journal can ’ desire to persist in a gross error, especially when r u|K>n that error it has built up a false charge of f “disingenuousness” against the Chief Magistrate f of thelf»:tsd Btates.-r- Wash . Union. ;fWealhef North and West. . thick and fast. Rutland, Vt., 9:30, A. M.—Blustering, but not very cold—about an inch of snow fell. Burlington, Yt., 10, A. M.—Mild, scarcely any wind—about three inches of snow fell during the night. Toronto, C. W., 11, A. M.—Raining and snow ing. j L nocKviLLE, C. W., 10:10, A. M.—\'ery wet— .mow foiling. Kingston, C. W., 10:35, A. M.—Snowing and raining. Portland, Me., 10:20, A. M.—Snowed all right —some sleighs commenced running this A. 31. Ottawat City, C. W., 10:50, X. M.—Some puow —looks like rain. Boston, 10, A. 31.—Raining hard. Bellows Falls, Vt., 10:30, A. M.—Mild—snow ing ; nearly a foot fell since last eve. Quebec, 11, A. 31.—Snowstorm; drifting hard, and has been so all night. Mfudlebury, Vt., 10:30, A. 31.—Snowing hard. 3lontreal, 10:39, A. 31.—Thermometer above zero. Very heavy snow storm—commenced yes terday noon, and still continues; about two feet of snow fell. Cincinnati, Dec. 80.—A heavy storm of rain has prevailed all this afternoon. The river is not stationary, with sixteen feet of water in the canal at Louisville, Ky. Executive Appointments. —We find the follow i ing appointments by Gov. Brown, in the Georgian , • of Sunday: 1 Dr. John W. Lewis, of Cherokee, Superintendent 1 of the State Road. Geo. Kellogg, of Forsyth, Treasurer. Eli McConnell, of Cherokee, Keeper of thePeni -1 tentiary. Lemuel Aland, of Cherokee, Messenger. John C. Waters, Esq., of Cherokee, Secretary of 1 the Executive Department, in place of Maj. John H. Steel, resigned. Mr. Nellbourne, of Union, Librarian. 3lr. Broibs, of Carroll, Compiler of the Laws. 3lr. Camden, of Cherokee, agent of the Western <& Atlantic road at Chattanooga. . The Lifetime of a Kansas Governor. —The Governors of Kansas are a short-lived race—real political ephemera. Governor No. 1, A. H. Reeder, “ reached Kansas October 6, 1854; removed July 31, 1855—terra of service ten months. Governor | No. 2, Wilson Shannon, reached Kansas Septem ; ber 1, 1855; removed August 21, 1856—term of ' service eleven months. Governor No. 3, John ! W. Geary, reached Kansas September 11, 1856; | returned in March, 1857 —term of service about ; seven months. Governor No. 4, Robert J. Walker, ■. reached Kansas 3lay 24, 1857; resigned December 7, 1857—term of service a little over seven months. ! Exchange. Head Work.— Literarjv labor is undervalued, chiefly because the tools wherewith it is done are invisible. If the brain made as mnch noise as a mill, or if thongbt-sowing followed hard after a breaking-up plough, the produce of the mind would at once assert a place in the prices current. If a wi iter could be so equipped with wheels and pinions as to entirely conceal the man within, like the automaton chess-player, and sentences were recorded by a wooden, instead of a living hand, the expression of thought would be at a premium, because the clock-work would seem to show that 1 It cost something to make it.— Exchange. j Boston, Dec. 29.—Thus for less than half a mil- ’ lion of specie is engaged for tbe Canada to-morrow. ] It is reported that the Rhode Island banks will I resume the redemption of their bills at the Suffolk bank by the middle of January. j International Copyright. —The British Minis I ter has in course of preparation an internationa 1 copyright treaty, which he designs submiting to our Government at an early day. President or the South Carolina College.— ! The Columbia Times, of Ist inst, says: “We are : pleased to announce that the Hon. A. B. Long- j street has formally accepted. Presidency oi the College, and will be id this cky on or about , the 15th inst.” VOL. 37-3STO. 2. Trials of a Fat Mao. The Buffalo Republic has a fat correspondent which writes that paper frankly thus; As I intimated to yoo, haring come to the con clusion that there was nothing at to eat in Buffalo, I stalled for New York on Friday last, on the Central Rrilroad. I had no idea that a man with a respectable quantity of flesh, was looked upon with any degree of surprise outside of your city limits. I ooiy weigh two hundred orU 'birtf; one pound*, and if I am said to he as broad as lam long, it certainly was no reason for the ticket agent at the Buffalo depot inquiring " do mo u.yA to so asfreight, or as a passenger s ” I t»l.d hfm with considerable asperity “ ss a passenger of course,” when he charged me for tickets for two, and upon my expostulating with him, he very impudently inquired if I supposed that anv one else could sit in the same seat I occupied, feeing aware that it was a matter of some doubt, I said no more, but heard him mutter something to himself about hogs alwayß going as freight, as I walked off, which re mark was made, I presume, to an omnibus driver, standing near. It certainly could bare had no reference to me. Do you think it could? I got on the cars somewhat ruffled tn temper and after crushing two or three women from* diameter of ten feet into about six inches, and flat* tening out an apple boy and pop-corn vender, m that their identity become a matter of consider* ble research, I finally obtained a seat opposite am old scraggy lady and her unmarried daughter. They screamed as I sat down, and I was temptda to expand my lungs in the same manner, for the whole seat gare way with me and deposited me with my wig in a pool of tobacco juice, and mjr feet in tbe bonr, unmarried girl’s lap. Upon ex tricating myself from the wreck, I discovered to my horror that I had split the back of my coot, had utterly crushed out of existence three band boxes, and obtained tho eternal hate of the scraggy woman and her bony daughter forerer. f tried to make my apologies, but think I failed. My failure is easlv explained, for whoever heard of any man making a decent apology in a fractured coat, and a head saturated with tobacco juice ? I then went into another car, in consequence of the indignation of the passengers haring been aroused by tbe two women alluded to, and espe cially as I heard a gentleman with short hair and not rent placid face, inquiring if he hadn’t bstter punch Aim. Having no doubtthat the Aim referr ed to meant me, I made myself ss teliom as possi ble, and got into the next car. The seats in the car were all weak, frail things, as four of them fell to pieces as 1 sat down on them. Upon mak ing my cpmplaint to the conductor—who asked if there woe more than one of me —he suggested that I had better go into Hie baggage car, and sit on one of the express trunks. They being iron-bound he thought thty’d stand it, if nothing else would. I did go in there. The baggage-man who waa not rery polite, asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted to stay in there. He said It couldn’t be did; as, if I came in, he would hare to go out; there wasn’t room “ for them two trunks and both of us in that there baggage ear.” I accommoda ted matters with him by giving him a dollar, (on* of twenty I had borrowed,! and he agreed torida on the outside of the car, while I occupied the in side. I got upon two express trunks, and waa rery comfortable. Indeed, I should hare been perfectly so, if the baggage-man hadn’t kept an noying me. He kept airing his head into the car, and asking if I was going to New York, and upon my replying that I was, he would conrey my reply to the brakeman, who eridently had been talking of me all the way from Rochester. Finally, tha baggage-man drore his head in again, as if to end some argument, and asked if I Intended to go to Barminas I got to New York. I told him I information he recon vt-yed 11> the ejaculated, “Thought meant. They '“Seen him sblllin’s in New 1 York”—when I end to their con ! vernation, by putting my head out of the car door, and enquiring who waa “him” what “ would cost two shillings in New York,” and what they had 1 T Wtiaki' l 111i : ' I bc was some "l >r Bur." This saswv aßsni’i^’mt uiaiinn w hatever, I backed into the car again, much puzzled as to what they meant Dreaming that I was being broiled on an immense gridiron, for the purpose of “frying” me ont, and that the fat was running from me in inumerable rim lets, which was being caught in little tin cups; and sold by tradesmen of all descriptions, I arrir ed in .Syracuse, and there awoke, delighted to find that 1 retained my accustomed flesh, and that gongs were sounding ecstatic announcements of “dinner.” I will write to you again soon. Till then belieye me yoor much annoyed. Fat CoKTßiatrroß. Caught the Panic. A tall, lank, Jerusalem sort of a fellow, pretty well under the intiuence of Mr. Alcohol, was ob served swinging to a lamp post on Fifth street last night. He was talking quite loudly to the afore said post, when a guardian es the night approach ed him. “ Come, sir, you are making too much noise 1" said the watchman. “ Noise? who's that said noise?” asked the postholder, as he skewed his head and endeavored in vain to give the intruder a sober look. “It was me,” replied the watchman, as he ex posed his silver numbers to full view. “ Yon ? and who are you? It taint me that’s a making of the noise. No, sir. It’s the banks that’g making all the noise. They are a breakin’, a crushin’, and a smasbin’ of things to an incredible amount. Noise ? It’s the bankers that are mak ing of the noise. They are a cnssin’, a ripin’, and a starvin’ all ’round. It’s the brokers that are makin' of the noise. They are a hollerin’, an’ yelpin’, and a scretchin’, like wild injons’ over the times, that worscrs everybody but themselves. No, sir, it aint me that’s a’ makin’ of the noise,” " You are tight as a brick in a well wall,” said the officer, amused at the good nature of the indi vidual. “Me tight? Who said I am tight ? No, sir, you are mistaken. It’s not me that’s tight. It’s money that’s tight. 60 down on Third street, an’ they’ll tell you there that money is tight. Go into the workshops, an’you’ll find money is tight. Read the newspapers, an’ you’ll find out that it’s money that’s tight. Me tight ? I’ve got nary a red, but Kanahwa, and nobody could gel tight on that. No, sir, I’m not tight.” “ Then you are drunk. “Drank? Stranger, ye’r out of it agin. The world’s drunk. The hull community is a stagger in’ round, buttin’ their heads agin stone walls and a skinnin’ of their noses on the curbstone of ad versity. Yes sir, we’re all drunk—that is, every body’s drunk but me. I’m sober, sober as a po lice judge on a rainy day. 1 ain’t drunk; no, sir, stranger, I ain’t drunk.” “ What are you maxing such a fool of yourself for, then?” ‘ Fool ? Sir, I’m no fool. I’m distressed. Iv’e catched the contagion. I’m afflicted.” “ Aro you sick ?” “Exactly.” “ Whatsis the matter with yon?” “ Tve got the panics." •! The what?” '■ The panics, sir; its’s going’ to carry off this town. I tried to escape by hard drink, but it’s no use. The panics have got me sure.” The watchman, more amused than ever, tend ered his sympathy, and, what was better, his aid, to the panic stricken individual. In the course of half an hour he had the pleasure of put ting him into the door of his boarding house and * pointing out to him the remedy—a Boft bed and * long slumber. —Cincinnati Timet. The first bonnet worn in England was brought from Italy in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and its form was a compromise between the peasant hat and the French hood. Wm. Ferguson, postmaster of Mattville, Mich., has been arrested, charged with embezzling letters. It is said that Senator Douglas will take ground in favor of Gen. Walker. Jessie Meriton White, the girl imprisoned at Genoa for her enthusiasm in the cause of Mazzini and Italian liberty, has been released. It is an extraordinary fact that when people come to what is commonly called high words they generally use low language.