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Additional by the Niagara.
Halifax, Feb. 14.—The R. M. steamship Niaga
ra, Capt. Millar, from Liverpool at about ten A. M.
of Saturday the SOth ult., arrived at Halifax at
half past seven A. M., of Sunday, the 14th inst
Among her passengers are his Excellency the
Right Hon. the Earl of Mulgrave, the newly ap
pointed Governor of Nova Scotia, his family jsoa
suite. ,
Tbe Niagara experienced heavy weather daring
the whole passage. , ,
JTShe reports passing on the SOth, the American
ships Henry Clay and Ann Hooper, and the barque
Statesman of Yarmouth, N. S., bound into Liver
pool: passed the steamship Africa, from New lorn,
Jan 20th, off Holyhead at half past six P. M. ofthe
SOth; on the 81st passed the Amenean ship Ben
v ares, off Kinsale. , v .
The Collins steamship Baltic, from New lore,
Jan. 16th, arrived at Liverpool at one P. 31. of the
“'The propeller New York, also from New York
on the 16th, arrived at Greenock, the same after
noon. ..
Great Britain.— Parliament would assemble on
the 4th of February. Lord Palmerston had as
usual, issued a circular soliciting the early atten
dance of the supporters of tbe government, as af
fairs of considerable importance will come under
discussion.
A numerous deputation had waited on Lord
Palmerston to urge the immediate abolition of the
Church rates. They met with such lukewarm en
couragement that they adopted an indignant reso
lution, and pledged themselves to press forward
an independent bill on the subject.
Prince Frederick William of Prussia had been
invested with the order of the garter.
The Leviathan had been pushed twenty-five feet
off the ends of the launching ways and her cradles
were being removed. She had over seventeen feet
of water under her and was expected to float on
the SOth or 31st.
A resolution pending before the general Court
of Directors of the East India Company deprecat
ing the proposed change in the government of In
dia, was carried by an almost unanimous vote.
The London Advertiser asserts that the Indian
bill will not bo really so sweeping as is generally
believed, and was at first intended. • Ministers
will consent to modifications m the measure in its
progress through parliament, and it will not pass
this year ; if not withdrawn, it will be shelved at
the end of the session.
Heavy drafts of troops were under orders to em
bark for India.
The Bank of England reduced the rate of dis
count on the 29th to four per cent. The reduction
had little or no effect on the money market or stock
exchange.
The London Times remarks on the subject that
there is a prospect that the tendency for a consid
erable period may be towards increased ease in the
money market. For the last week or two applica
tions at the bank for discount, have almost entire
ly ceased. They are still likely to be only of a
very moderate character since the minimum rate
in the open market has for some days not been
higher than three per cent., while in the stock ex
change the supply is abundant at two. The in
terest on deposits allowed by the discount houses
has been reduced to two and-a-half per cent.
The Daily News says that some persons are
disposed to look for a further reduction in the
bank minimum.
India. —The correspondence from Calcutta, to
Dec. 24th, adds nothing of importance to the tele
graphic dispatches, which anticipated the mail.
The Times correspondent gives a circumstantial
account of the Windham aftair, but the facts do
not differ from those already before the public.
The scenes after Windham’s defeat, are said to
have been fearful. The hospitals were crowded to
suffocation. The enemy directed their fire spiral
ly upon them, and it was not till Sir Colin Camp
bell returned, and with a dozen haughty wonis
-brought every man to his place, that order was re
stored.
Latest — London , Friday Rigid. —The Government
has received a telegram from Malta announcing
the arrival of the Bombay mail, of January 22nd,
at Suez. The news is of little importance. Sir
Colin Campbell was at Cawnpore at last advices,
but was shortly expected to move westward with
a powerful force.
Sir James Outram, at Alumbagb, attacked and
defeated the enemy on the 22nd of December,
captured four guns, and sustained but trifling loss.
General Roberts is appointed to command a full
force in Rajapotana, which is assembling at Deesa,
and which is to march on to 31usserabad.
No fresh disturbances have occurred in any part
of the Deccanor, Central India. The Punjaub is
tranquil.
China. —The correspondent of the Times, wri
ting from Canton river, under date of Dec. 16th,
says, that Yeh has returned un insolent answer to
the ultimatum of the English and French pleni
potentiaries, aud that the two forces would in a
few days attack Canton. Lord Elgin’s demand
was of the most temperate character; asked for no
more than that the treaty should be carried out;
that Canton should be put upon the same footing
as the other treaty ports; its gates open to com
merce; that compensation be given for the damage
to British merchants, aud that the occupation of
the island of Honan be acquiesced in as a material
guarantee until all matters are settled.
A letter from Hong Kong says that Yell’s answer
to Lord Elgin is couched in a sarcastic vein. He
tells his Lordship that the question of the treat
ment of strangers at Canton has been settled by
the decree of the Emperor; that Sir George Bon
ham was made a Baronet for respecting that de
cree, and recommends Lord Elgin to follow his
example; and that as to compensation, Yeh had de
manded of the English Government restitution for
losses suffered by China. A few days before this
answer was received, 3lr. Reed, the American Com
missioner, solicited an interview in the city; Yeh
replied that he would meet him outside of the city,
but that no barbarian should set foot within the
limits of Canton.
The Paris Pays publishes accounts from Cochin
China, dated Tonquin, 15th November. The per
secution of the Christians continued with unpar
alleled violence. The country was also in a great
state of confusion.
\%France. —The army of the line is to be divided
into five great commands confided to 31arshals
Castellane, Bosquet, Pellisier, Canrobert and Val
laint, and haring their headquarters at Paris, Nan
cy, Lyons, Toulouse and Towes.
Addresses from some of the regiments to the
Emperor are worded in such strong language as
to attract much attention. The Zouaves almost
regretted that they had no opportunity to manifest
their zeal in a s i iking manner, and the address of
the eighty-second regiment contains the following
sentence: “Aud if your majesty wants soldiers to
reach these men, even in their haunts, we humbly
pray you to designate the eighty-second regiment
as part of the advance guard of this army.
Addresses from other regiments appear to have
been worded still stronger, for the Moniteur has
omitted some of the paragraphs.
It is.stated that Orsim was at Stuttgardt when
the Emperor was there last year, but that he and
two or three other Italians were expelled.
The Moniteur publishes a decree announcing
the intention of the Government to put down afi
religious controversy m the French press.
A Brussels paper affirms that the French foreign
Minister had addressed a note to the British, Bel
gian, Swiss, and Sardinian governments, demand
ing certain measures which may prevent renewed
attempts at assassination.
Latest. —The correspondence of the Times re
ports that no further measures of repression will
be directed against the press.
Addresses from the army continue to appear in
the Moniteur. Many call violently for leave to
pursue the conspirators to their haunts.
Italy. —A despatch from Naples announces the
death of Signor Lablanche at that place on the 23d
of January. ,
A plot against tbe life of the King of Naples had
been discovered. Ten persons, all Frenchmen,
are said to have been landed at Naples, to carry
out the design.
A conspiracy had also been discovered at Asco
li—design unknown.
It was stated that the Rothschilds were negotia
ting a loan for the Papal government.
An insurrectionarymovement in Rome was said
to have been planned for the 15th January, but the
police frustrated it.
Austria.—- A Vienna journal says the National
Bank contains a greater amount of specie by three
million florins thafi ever before.
Austria consents that the act of the Riveraine
states relative to the free navigation of the Danube
shall be submitted to the Paris conference.
- Denmark,.—— A new project from • Denmark, hav- ■
ing for its object to place the Duchies in an excep- :
tional position in the Danish monarchy, has been «
wken to Frankfort, but the members of the Diet
declared against it as insufficient.
Bussia.—-It is said that Russia intends to restore
all the marine stations on the Circassian coast, but
on a new system, which will evade Hie treaty of
Pans. A new Sebastopol is also in contempla
tion.
Turkey.—lt was asserted that the British Govern
ment had agreed to pay pecuniary indemnity to
the for occupation of the island of Perira,
themmount to be fixed amicably between tbe two
powers wfthowt the jnforremion of anv’ether.
Serious disturbances were said to have broken
out in Bosnia, and a force of three thousand men
had been sent to repress them.
THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH FROM LONDON TO
LIVERPOOL.
London , Saturday , A. M.— The Times City Arti
cle says:—The funds are moderately steady to
day but the market is without animation, and
manifestations encouraged in French led to
official and military quarters would probably have
further depression, but for investments on the
part of bankers and others who in the present
state of the discount market are unable to employ
their money except in Government stocks or Ex
change bills.
From the Mobile Mercury , Feb. 13.
United States vs. Steamer Fashion.
Some interesting proceedings were had yester
day before his Honor, Judge Gayle, in this case.
As heretofore stated in this paper, the Fashion
was sold by the United States Marshal, on 3londay
last, and knocked down to 3lajor Humphries, at
the sum of two hundred dollars. On the morning
of the sale, an article appeared in this paper sug
gesting to the people of Mobile that, as the owners
of the vessel had probably been deceived by a
false oracle, that is, had ventured her in the Nica
raguan expedition with the assurance of the high
est functionary of the government that it was
legal, and that as the vessel bad now been declared
forfeited, as we then supposed, by a competent
judicial tribunal, at the instance of the same gov
ernment functionary that misled them, inasmuch
as Mobile interests were to be subserved by it, it
would be a simple act of justice in the people of
Mobile to permit the owners to take her 'at a
nominal bid. The appearance of this article, and
some other circumstances coming to the ears of
the District Attorney, he thought it to be his duty
to file a motion to set the sale aside. Yesterday
the motion came on to be heard, Mr. Requier,
United States District Attorney, for, and Hon.
Percy Walker and R. H. Smith," contra. The mo
tion alleged a conspiracy to prevent the vessel
bringing a fair price, and irregularities in the or
der of sale and its execution. These, as we re
member them, were substantially the principal
charges.
J. H. Gindrat, Esq., one of the proprietors of the
Mercury , ,was introduced as Ja witness, and
questioned concerning the newspaper article of
Monday morning. He testified that lie was absent
at the time the article was written, and first saw it
in print upon a proof-sheet on Sunday night, which
was all he knew about it, except that he understood
it was written by Mr. Horn. Questioned by Mr.
Walker, he said that he had met with Major Hum
phries on the day of its publication, who com
plained of it to him.
A. G. Horn, sworn, and stated that he did not
write the article at the request of 3fajor Hum
phries. It was at his own suggestion, upon seeing
the notice of the sale in the Heaister. He conferred
with no person except W. W. McGuire, an associ
ate editor; who was present, and approved the sug
gestion. Had been introduced to Major Hum
phries for the first time since he came in the room.
Mr. J. Hessee testified that he had made a
speech to the people assembled to witness the sale,
and stated that the owners intended to bid the ves
sel in at any price, or to that effect.
There was no other testimony as to the point of
conspiracy.
After a* short argument, 3lr. Requier relying
principally upon irregularity of proceedings, the
Judge overruled the motion, and made an order
confirming the sale.
After the disposal of the motion, Colonel Walker
desired the Court to pass upon an objection filed
by the District Attorney to an application for a
dedimus potestatem to take the answers of James
Buchanan, President of the United States, Secreta
ries Floyd and Brown, to certain interrogatories
filed by the defendant in the same case, which were
read to the Court. [These interrogatories, as we
heard them read, seemed to go chiefly to the facts
of General Walker’s revelations in his speech at
the Amphitheatre.]
The District Attorney urged that a dedimus
ought not to issue, because the President and his
Secretaries could not be compelled to give testi
mony, and the interrogatories were in the highest
degree insulting to the Chief Executive of the na
tion.
Hon. Percy Walker thought that it was contrary
to usual practice to tile objections now. By the
usual practice the proper time is upon the return
of the commission.
The District Attorney pointed out the statute
which he thought sustained the regularity of the
proceeding.
R. H. Smith, Esq., made a short argument to
the point, that it is not for a judicial officer to de
termine whether the disclosure of the facts intend
ed to be elicted by tbe interrogatories are incon
sistent with the public interest, and to refuse to
permit them to be propounded, but that the Presi
dent may, or may not disclose them, at his discre
tion. The Preei'deat might deem that the public
interest could be promoted by disclosing a project
for bringing about a war between Spain ana Mexi
co. He instanced the non-concealment of Mr.
Polk’s intentions when Gen. Taylor was operating
on the Mexican frontiers, and said that they were
known to be so warlike that before Congress bad
touched the matter, a force was raised in this city
under Gen. Desha, and went to Gen. Taylor’s as
sistance.
His Honor took the matter under advisement.
From Ihe Charleston Mercury.
Annual Convention of the Stockholders of
the South Carolina Railroad Company
and ol the Southwestern Railroad Rank.
Wednesday', Feb. 10,1858.
Pursuant to adjournment, the meeting convened
in the Bank Hall, at 11 o’clock a. m., J. H. Honour,
Esq., in the Chair.
The minutes of Tuesday, the 9th inst., were read
and confirmed.
Col. W. J. Alston, Chairman of the Committee
on the report of the Railroad Company, submitted
the following report, which was read and adopted:
To the Stockholders of the South Carolina BaUroad
Companf:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: The Committee
to whom was referred the annual report of the
PresidenCaud Directors of the South Carolina Rail
road Company, respectfully report:
That they conveued in the Auditor's office, and
upon examining his books, and comparing the
statements contained therein, with those in the
report of the President, they found them to cor
respond. The committee concur in the views ex
pressed in the report, and recommend its adop
tion. They deem it unnecessaiw to add any sug
gestions indicating the line of poliev to be pur
sued by the Board, for the purpose of providing
the means of paying the debts of the Company,
because the wisdom of the measures which they
should adopt will depend upon circumstances
which time alone will develope. Having confi
dence In the ability and integrity of those into
whose hands the management of the road and
the finances of the Company are entrusted, the
stockholders should leave it to them to adopt such
measures as they, in their wisdom, may deem best
calculated to enable them to pay the debts of the
Company as they may become due. This, and the
economical administration of the affairs of the
Company generally, with a view' to the dimin
ution of expenses, and the increase of the nett
income of the road, are subjects of the highest im
portance, which should, and no doubt will, com
mand the constant attention and the best efforts
of the officers of the Company.
Respectfully submitted.
Wm. J. Allston, Chairman.
George Gibbon.
Thomas B. Clarkson.
James K. Robinson.
T. L. Wragg.
Richard Yeadon, Esq., Chairman of Committee
on the report of the bank, submitted the following
report, which, on motion of Mr. Holmes, was ac
cepted and adopted:
The committee to whom was referred the annual
report of the President of the South-western Rail
road Bank, respectfully report:
That they have examined and considered the re
port, and verified its statements, in great part, by
an actual investigation of the affairs ana opera
tions of the bank, the results of which, your com
mittee are glad to say, are quite satisfactory.
The profits of the fiscal year ending
Jan. 1, 1857, were $72,981 21
The profits of the past fiscal year, end
ing Jan. 1,1858, were. 64,432 75
Comparative deficiency for 1858 $8,498 46
This comparative difference between the two
years is readily accounted for by the moneyed
crisis which, during the past year, embarrassed
and still embarrasses the mercantile world, and,
on the whole, indicates a healthy condition of the
bank.
From the profits of the past year.... 564,432 75
Deduct the July Dividend. r... 26,174 25
And there is left a surplus of. 3 $38,258 50
From this surplus there might have been paid a
January dividend of the same amount as that of
July, $26,174 25, which would left a clear
surplus of $12,084 25. .
The Bank, however, having susiained the heavy
loss of $41,63019, by the defalcation last summer,
of a teller, it was properly deemed advisable to
declare no dividend in January, and to place tbe
whole surplus profit of $88,258 40 to the account
of profit and loss.
The loss, by the desalting teller, $41,63019,
has been diminished by the sum of SIO,OOO se
cured, to be paid by two of his sureties, and is ex
pected to be further reduced by $5,000 in suit
against the third surety, making the nett Joss, on
this score, $26,63019.
Your Committee have looked carefully into the
discount line, amounting to about $6<>0,090, and
regard it as reliable and safe, and they have been
gratified to perceive that it consists, in great mea
sure, of small loans to numerous individuals and
firms, greatly adding to the business accommoda
tion of the community. Notes under protest
amount to but $6,667 51, and of this sum only
$1,825 88 is regarded as bad. Notes in suit have
been diminished by $9,976 64, and thus reduced
to but $4,782 28, all of which is considered bad.
Exchange under protest has been increased by
sundry bills on New Orleans, amounting to $12,-
000, which have been placed in suit and are held
to be amply secured. This reduction of notes in
suit and increase of Exchange under protest,
makes the total increase of the suspended debt
$2,023 36.
In regard to the administration and operations
of the bank, it is to be kept in remembrance that
the original capital of $872,475 was, at an early
stage of the existence of the bank, largely reduced
by the losses sustained from its unfortunate con
nection with the Ocmulgee Bank. The diminution
of capital, from this source alone, amounts to $145,-
000, besides a loss of $108,161 78 in Ocmulgee
bank stock, and $47,381 20, by Robert Collins,
paid out of surplus income, making a total loss, on
the Ocmulgee account, cf $300,623 10.
The actual diminution or deficiency of capital
may be seen from the following statement:
Loss by Ocmulgee bank $125,000 00
Bonds Ocmulgee bank 20,000 00
Notes under protest 1,825
Notes in suit 4,782 28
Exchange in suit 5,560 97
Exchange under protest 12,936 89
French Exchange.! 4,161 75
Branch Bank, Knoxville, $20,000, less
$5,000 expected to be recovered... 15,000 00
Agent 105 05
Defaulting teller .. 26,630 19
Defaulting debtors 20,000 00
$236,002 51
CR.
Balance for the year ending
Jan. 1, 1857 $65,016 46
Surplus profits for the yeiar
ending Jan. 1, 1858 88,258 50
Total to cr. of profit and 1055.5108,274 96
Stock purchased, 760
shares, at $3 per
share below mar
ket value $2,250
Premium on $11,500 of
Exchange 4,000—6,280 00
Estimated deficiency of capital... .$126,447 55
To this may properly be added for di
in inishea value of a lot in Hayne
street, purchased for $25,000, and
now estimated at but SIO,OOO at
least 15,000 00
Total deficiency of capital $141,447 55
Deducting that sum from the subscribed
capital 872,475 00
Actual Capital $731,027 55
Making the stock now worth in round numbers,
s2l per, share, a depreciation of about $4 per
share.
The matter of the lot in Hayne street requires
further exposition. It was originally purchased,
on the 24th January, 1839, under the administra
tion of President lilanding, from the Charleston
Land Company, for the sum of $25,000 (which has
been paid in full), for the purpose of erecting on
it a banking house. The scheme proved chimeri
cal, and the contemplated banking house was never
built, and the lot, one hundred and thirty-two feet
front by one hundred deep, has remained vacant
ever since, save a small brick buildmgon it, renting
for but S2OO per annum. It is said that there was
an understanding that, if a banking house was
not erected on the lot, it was, although paid for, to
be forfeited to the Land Company, but there is no
such covenant in the title deed, iior does any such
agreement exist in writing, and your committee
regard it as idle and nugatory. The retaining of
this lot, costing $25,000, valued at but slo,ooo, and
yielding an annual rent of but S2OO, and subject to
taxes, is an annual loss t.o the bank, and your com
mittee recommend its sale, as soon as the existing
money pressure shall be relieved.
Most of the above stated deductions from the
capital of the bank occurred during admin
istration, and are not at all chargablfl to the sub
sequent and present administration, which appears
to your committee to merit the confidence of the
stockholders. In further proof of this, your com
mittee would ask especial attention to the fact, that
the semi-annual dividends of the bank have been
at the rate of eight per cent, and six per cent, per
annum, on a nominal capital of $872,475, but a real
one of $757,657 64, not including the recent loss
by the defaulting teller. Your committee also take
pleasure in stating that they learn from the Presi
dent and Cashier tbat'the business of the present
year augurs well for the usual dividend m July
next.
At the date of the last official monthly statement,
the circulation of the bank was $356,607, deposited
$213,614 70, specie $51,950 67, domestic exchange
$329,373 86, foreign exchange $01,484 84, notes
discounted on personal security $577,125 43. At
present, the same items stand in round numbers,
as follows: circulation $640,000, depositssl 30,000,
specie $70,818 05, domestic exchange $490,000,
foreign exchange $30,000, discounted notes $600,-
000—exhibiting a large increase of the circulation
for the accommodation of the community and a
simultaneous increase of the specie basis. *
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Richard Yeadox,
Abraham Moise,
Johx Mcßae,
B. D. Lazarus.
Straws show which way the Wind Blows.
Most of our readers are doubtless aware, not only
that there was to have been a great anti-Lecomp
ton meeting in New York city on Friday night
last, but that it turned out to be—lake it all iu all—
the most notable popular abortion known to the
history of these excited times. The expected thou
sands dwindled down to hundreds, and the Em
pire city Democrats who were expected to lend
countenance to the success of the schemes of the
Republican party getters-up of the affair, if they
reaiy promised to do so, quietly slunk aw’ay ere
they could be seen, leaving the affair wholly in the
hands of the most ultra, persistent and notorious
Republican party politicians of whom New York
boasts. But we have not to do, now, with the
aforesaid meeting, further than to say—and we
were in New York at the time—that’ it simply
served to open the eyes of all to the fact that in the
great commercial capital of the country, the op
position to the admission of Kansas into the Union
on the Lecompton Constitution can probably count
no supporters outside of the Republican party
ranks.
The afterclap of this shocking “failure to draw,”
however, was decidedly the point of interest. Mr.
Fredrick P. Stanton was the trumpeted orator for
the occasion. The Tribune was eloquent over his
abilities and virtues through various columns for
days previous to the advent of the mttnentous oc
casion, until it struck us that the redoubtable
Horace had come to love him, politically, with the
ardor of an unfledged youth, for his first mistress.
This opinion was borne out to the letter by the
scene that came off in Mr. Stanton’s parlor, at the
New York hotel, after the mass of the mourners
had dispersed. A few hundred of the choicest
spirits repaired there and formally paid their re
spects to the lion; no other than the redoubtable
Horace acting as the chaperon —the grand marshal
of the occasion. Horace Greeley it was, who in
troduced the guests, seriatim, to Mr. Stanton
throughout this fraternization! So they go! Liberte!
Egalite !/ Fraternite !!!
Washington Evening Star , loth inst.
We were shown, yesterday, the MSS copy of the
State bonds to be issued for the Atlantic A Gulf
railroad, as it was prepared for the engraver. It
was executed by Mr. Henry C. Freeman, of this
city, without the aid of anything but the common
writing fluid and pen, but so skillfully is it done
that it would be readily mistaken for an engraving.
There are few who can equal Mr. F. in chirogra
pby, and in this specimen he seems to have ex
celledhimself. We desired to have it remain in
our office for a few days on exhibition, but it was
sent by the last steamer to the engravers.
S'-ivannafi Republican, 1824 inst.
Washington, Feb. 16.—The War Department
has received letters from Lieut. Ives, in command
of the Colorado Exploring Expedition, dated Fort
! Yuma-, Jau. sth. The party left the steamer be
low, and were about to proceed up the river. They
found the navigation difficult and the channel |
chan gable.
From the Savannah Georgian, Feb. 17.
Supreme Court.
M acon*, Feb. 15, ISSB.
The following cases have been decided during
the January term of the Supreme Court at this
place up to the present time :
PATAULA CIRCUIT.
W. Livingstone vs. J. Livingstone—certiorari
from Chattahoochee—affirmed.
R. C. Corbett vs. Gilbert—case from Early—re
versed. _ . _ _
J. Southwick vs. C. A. Evans—caveat from
Stewart—reversed.
D. Matthis vs. W. B. Colbert—ejectment from
Stewart —affirmed.
B. May vs. W. E. Paramour—ejectmont from
Ste vart —affirmed.
H. Williams vs. J. Fitzgerald—ejectment from
Stewart —affirmed.
J. E. Jordon vs. A. Dors—Equity from Randolph
—reversed.
CHATTAHOOCHEE CIRCUIT.
State of Georgia vs. Carswell—claim from Marion
—affirmed.
State of Georgia vs. Lockhart—sci. fa. from Tay
lor—affirmed.
Jessee Stallings vs. Carson—assumpsit from
Taylor—affirmed.
Williamson vs. Walker—certiorari from Taylor
—reversed.
Cook vs. Walker—Equity from Harris—af
firmed.
Buchanan vs. the State—murder from Harris
affirmed. .
Bowen vs. Slaughter—Equity from Marion—af
firmed.
Cobbett vs. the State of Georgia—demanding
pavmenton forged note from Muscogee—reversed.
Watkins vs. Watkins—Equity from Muscogee
reversed.
Rogan vs. Cuyler—Debt from Muscogee—af
firmed.
Bancroft vs. Stone—Appeal from Muscogee—re
versed.
Brown vs. Ayer—Sci. fa. from Muscogee—af
firmed.
Peter A Forbes vs. Haviland, Reese A Co., —As-
sumpsit from Marion—affirmed.
McGehee vs. Polk—Equity from Muscogee—af
firmed.
McLaren vs. Birdsong A Sledge—Case from
Muscogee—reversed.
Bush vs. Lindsey—Ejectment from Muscogee—
affirmed.
Downing vs. Bain—Equity from Muscogee—new
trial.
Guilford vs. the State—Murder from Muscogee
reversed.
Thompson vs. the State—Murder from Musco
gee —affirmed.
Powell vs. Harrison A McGehee—Covenant from
Muscogee—affirmed.
Banks vs. Dixon—Motion from Muscogee—re
versed.
Stocks vs. Yonge—Equity from Muscogee—af
firmed.
Crawford and others vs. Jones and others—Equi
ty from Muscogee—affirmed.
* Schley and others vs. Dixon and others—Equity
from Muscogee—reversed.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Thirty-Fifth Congress—First Session.
Washington, Feb. 15.— Senate. —Mr.Seward pre
sented the memorial of the New York emigration
commissioners, complaining of the abuses expe
rienced by female passengers from the officers of
the ships* and gave notice of the introduction of a
bill relating to the subject.
Mr. Wilson presented a resolution calling for
the President’s instructions to Mr. Meade, Minis
ter to Brazil, previous to liis departure.
Mr. Houston presented the resolutions of the
Texan legislature, praying for an investigation of
the charges against J udge Watrous during the
present session of Congress.
On motion of Mr. Uumlin, the Indiana contested
senatorial election was taken up.
Mr. Hamlm urged the importance of immediate
action.
Mr. Gwin made a motion, which was
instructing the finance committee to inquire into
the expediency of reporting a bill for increasing
the facilities for refining gold for coinage at the
San Franciso mint.
House. —Mr. Warren asked, but the House re
fused, to suspend the rules to enable him to intro
duce a resolution confining the debates in commit
tee of the whole strictly to the subject pending,
and setting apart three evenings in the week for
general discussion.
The resolution of the committee on wavs and
means appropriating thirty thousand doflars to
meet the expenses of the* several investigation
committees, was passed.
Mr. Campbell asked leave to introduce a bill re
questing the President to negotiate for the pur
chase of the British North American provinces
<fu<i Cub*, the peopre of said provinces to regulate
their institutions their own way.
Mr. Clingman suggested adding “ and the rest
of mankind.”
The House refused to suspend the rules—ayes in.
A further answer was then received from Mr. J.
W. Walcott, a witness in the case of alleged cor
ruption of members of Congress. He submitted
a written Statement, in which, after disclaiming
any intention to contemn the authority of the
House, he says he denies tbe right of the commit
tee of investigation to require answers to questions
not within the scope of its duties, namely: the in
vestigation of charges against members of the last
House, in connection with the tariff bill. He said
he had been legally advised not to answer ques
tions criminating himself, unless opportunity was
granted him to be heard. He defended his posi
tion at great length.
Mr. Burroughs interrupted the reading and said
he had heard enough.
Mr. Clemens asked whether the opinion which
had been read was signed by Reverdy Johnson.
Mr. Stanton offered a resolution declaring that
Mr. Walcott had failed to answer satisfactorily,
and orders him to be committed to jail by the ser
geant-at-arms, and to be kept in close custody
until he is willing to answer all legal and proper
questions.
Mr. Stanton said that the power to inquire ne
cessarily implied the power to compel witnesses
to produce all essential evidence. The House had
the common law right to punish witnesses for con
tempt. It was proved that fifty-eight thousand
dollars came into the hands of Mr. Walcott—per
haps innocently. But subsequently it might have
been applied for corrupt purposes, and the com
mittee have the right of knowing what became of
the money.
Billiards.—Extraordinary Rux.—Yesterday
Mr. John W. Hester was playing a game of bil
liards, and by an adroit play brought the tw’o reds
together about eighteen inches from the cushion at
the foot of the table. He then “nursed” them so
skilfully that he marked two thousand one hundred
and fifty-seven points bv seven hundred and nineteen
consecutive caroms! without making a cusliin ! The
time occupied in making this run of two thousand
one hundred and fifty-seven points, was nearly two
hours; and it was only terminated when the plav
er, feeling that he had accomplished a feat in bil
liards which, possibly, the world never saw’ before,
became pardonably excited, lost his steadiness of
nerve, and made a false play. This account might
well be doubted were its correctness not attested
by eight persons who were absorbed spectators
throughout the run.
The papers of all the other great cities* Boston,
New \ork, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, boast their
big games of billiards, but we are much mista
ken if they have, or ever will have, anything,,to I
equal the New Orleans run of two thousand ofce r I
hundred and fifty-seven points. We advise Hester
to quit the game now and never risk his laurels by
playing agaiD,— E. O. True Delta, Feb. 12.
The Gold Coinage op the United States.—
Since the establishment of the mint in 1792, ac
cording to the American Almanac, the amount of
gold coin* issued, to the close of 1849, was $79,-
923,202; from 1850 to the close of 1857, it was
$424,889;758, making a total gold coinage of $505,-
812,940. At the commencement of 1850 the
amount of specie in the United State? was estima
ted to be $114,000,000; the amount of gold re
ceived from California, to the* close of 1857, has
been estimated to be $630,000,000; the amount of
specie brought into the country by emigrants* dur
ing the last eight years, is estimated to be SIOO,-
000,000, making a total of $844,000,000. Within
the last eight rears, according to the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, there have been export
ed in specie (less imports) $200,983,860; leaving
the amount existing at the present time in the
United States, in the shape of coin, bullion, plate,
jewelry, Ac., Ac,, of $643,016,140. Prior to the
discovery of the California mines, the United
States were importers of the precious metals, but
since that event the position has been reversed.
Good Time Coming. —Since the 21st of January
last, the Bank of Newberry has discounted bills*
to purchase cotton to the extent of one hundred
and fifty-three thousand dollars for three thousand
nine hundred and twenty bales. During the same
time the applicatioe for Joans from the people of
I the district nas not amounted to five thousand dol
lars .—Columbia Tines, Feb. 17. *
A French W ill Story.
“Is she dead, then ?”
“Yes madam,” replied a little gentleman in
brown coat and short breeches.
“And her will?”
“Is going to be opended here immediately by
her sofictor.”
“Shall we inherit anything?”
“It must be supposed so; we have claims.”
“Who is that miserably dressed personage who
intrudes herself here ?”
“Ob, she,” said the little man, sneering—“she
won’t have much in the will; ihe is sister to the
deceased.”
“What, that Anne, who wedded in 1812 a man of
nothing—an officer ?”
“Precisely so.”
“She must have no small amount of impudence
to present herselfh ere, before a respectable fam
ily.”
“The more so aa sister Egerie, of noble birth,
had never forgiven her that mesalliance.”
Anne moved at this time across the room in
which the family of the deceased were assembled.
She was pale ; her fine eyes were filled with tears,
and her face was furrowed by care with precocious
wrinkles.
“What do you come for?” said, with great
haughtiness, Madame de Villeboys, the lady who,
a moment before, had been interrogating the little
man who inherited with her.
“Madam,” the poor la ly replied, with humility.
“I do not come here to claim a part of what does
not belong to me; I come solely to see M. Dubois,
my poor sister’s solicitor, to inquire if she spoke
of me at her last hour.”
“What! do you think people busy themselves
about you ?” arrogantly observed Madame de Ville
boys ; “the disgrace of a great house—you, who
wedded a man of nothing, a soldier ofßonaparte’s!”
“Madam, my husband, although a child of the
people, was a brave soldier, and what is better, an
honest man,” observed Anne.
At this moment a venerable personage, the no
tary Dubois, made his appearance.
“Cease,” he said, “to reproach Anne with a union
which her sister has forgiven her. Anne loved
a generous, brave, and good man, who had no
other crime to reproach himself with than his pov
erty and the obscurity of his name. Nevertheless,
had he lived, if his family had known him as I
knew him, I, his old friend, Anne would be at
this time happy and respected.”
“But why is this woman here ?”
“Because it is her place to be here,” said the no
tary gravely; “I myself requested her to attend
here.’ 7
M. Dubois then proceeded to open tbe will:
“I, being sound m my mind and heart, Egerie
de Damfreming, retired as a boader.in the convent
of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart 6f Jesus, dictate
the following wishes as the expression of my formal
desire and principal clause ot my testament:
“After my decease, there will be found two hun
dred thousand francs, in money, at my notaries,
besides jewelry, clothes, and furniture, as also a
chateau worth two hundred thousand francs.
“In the convent where I have been residing,
there will only be found my book, |Heures de la
Vierge,’ holy volume, which remains as it was
when I took it with me time of the emigra
tion. I desire that thesfwhree objects be divided
into three lots.
“The first lot, the two hundred thousand francs
in money.
“The second lot, the chateau, furniture and
jewels.
“The third lot, my book, ‘Heures de la Vierge.’
“I have patdoned my sister Anne the grief which
she has caused to us, and I would have comforted
her in her sorrows if I had known sooner of her
return to France. I compromise her in my will.
“Madame de Villeboys, much my beloved cousin,
shall have the first choice.
“M. Vatry, my brother-in-law, shall have the sec
ond choice!
“Anne will take the remaining lot.”
“Ah ! ah!” said Vatry, “Sister Egerie was a
good one ; that is rather clever on her part!”
“Anne will only have the prayer-book!” exclaim
ed Madame de Villeboys, laughing aloud. The no
tary interrupted herjocularitv.
“Madame,” he said, “which lot do you choose?”
“The two hundred thousand francs in money.”
“Have you quite made up your mind ?”
“Perfectly so.”
The man of law, addressing himself then to
the good feeling of the lady', said, “Madame, you
are rich, and Anne has nothing. Could you not
leave her this lot, and take the book of prayers,
which the eccentricity of the deceased has placed
on a par with the other lots?” .
“You must be joking, M. Dubois!” exclaimed
Madame de Villeboys; “you must really be very
dull not to see the intention of Sister Egerie in all
this. Our honored cousin foresaw full well that
her book of prayers would fall to the lot of Anne,
who had the last choice,”
“And what do you couclude from that?” in
quired the notary.
“I conclude, that she meant to intimate to her
sister that repentance and prayer were the only
help that she had to expect in this world.
As she finished these words, Madame de Ville
boys made a definite selection of the ready money
for her share. Monsieur Yatry, as may easily be
imagined, selected the chateau, furniture and
jewels, as his lot. 1.
“Monsieur Yatry,” said M. Dubois to that gen
tleman, “even suppose it had been the intention of
the deceased to punish her sister, it would be no
ble on your part, millionaire as you are, to give
up at least a portion of your share to Anne, who
wants it so much.”
“Thanks for your kind advice, dear sir,” replied
Yatry; “the mansion is situated on the very con
fines of the woods, and suits me admirably, aIL
the more so, that it is ready Jurnished. As to the
jewels of Sister Egerie, they are
which one ought never to part with.”
“Since it is so,” said the notary, “my poor Mad
ame Anne, here .s the prayer-book that remains to
you.”
Anne, attended by her son, a handsome boy
with blue-eyes, took her sister’s old prayer-book,
and making her son kiss it after her, she said:
“Hector, kiss this book which belonged to your
poor aunt, who is dead, but who would have loved
You well had she known you. When you have
learned to read you will pray to Heaven to make
you wise and good as your father was, and happier
than your unfortnnate mother.”
The eyes of those who were present wenTfilled
with tears, notwithstanding their efforts to pre
serve an appearance of indifference.
. The boy embraced the old book with boyish
fervor, and opening it afterward—
“o ! mamma,” he said, “what pretty pictures.”
“Indeed!” said the mother, happy in the glad
ness of her boy.
“Yes. The good Virgin, m a red dress, bold
ing the infant Jesus in her arms. But why, mam
ma, has silk been put upon the pictures?”
“So that they might not be injured, my dear.”
“But, mamma, why are there ten silk papers to
each ?”
The mother looked, and uttering a sudden
shriek, she fell into the arms of M. Dubois, the no
tary, who, addressing those present, said:
“Leave her alone; it won’t be much; people
don’t die of these shocks. As for you, little one,”
addressing Hector, “give me that prayer book;
you will tear the engravings.”
The inheritors .withdrew', making various con
jectures as to the cause of Anne’s sudden illness,
and the interest which the notary took in her. A
month afterward they met Anne and her son, ex
ceedingly well, yet not extravagantly dressed*
taking aii airing in a two-horse chariot. This lea
to make inquiries, and they ascertained that
Anne had recently purchased a hotel for
and eighty thousand francs, and that
she was giving a,first rate' education to her son.
The new's came like a thunderbolt uporif them.
Madame de Villeboys and M. de Vatry hastened
to call upon the notary to ask for explanations.
The good Dubois was working at his desk.
“Perhaps we are disturbing you?” said the ar
rogant ola lady.
“No matter. I was in the act of settling a pur
chase in the state funds for Madame Anne,”
“What!” exclaimed Vatry, “after purchasing
house and epuipages, she has still money to in
vest ?’,
“Undoubtedly so.”
“But where qid the money come from ?”
“What! fiid you not see ?”
“When?”
“When she shrieked upon seeing what the
prayer book contained, what she inherited.”
“We observed nothing?”
“Oh! I thought that you saw it,” said the sar
castic notary. “That prayer-book contained sixty
engravings, and each engraving was covered by
ten notes of a thousand francs each.”
“Good heavens!” exclaimed Yatry, thunder
struck. •
“If I had only known it,” shouted Madame de
Villeboys.
“You had the choice.” added the notary, “and I
myself urged you to take the prayer-book, but you
refused.”
“But who could have expected to find a fortune
in a breviary.”
The two baffled old egotists withdrew, their
hearts swollen with passionate envy.
Madame Anne is still m Paris. If you pass by
the Rue Lafitte on a fine summer evening, you
will see a charming picture on the first floor, illu
minated by the pale reflection of wax lights— .
a lady who has joined the two hands of her*
son, a fair child of six years of age, in prayer be- ‘
fore an old book of “Heures de la Vierge,” and
for which a case in gold has been made.
“Pray for me child,” said the mother.
“And for who else,” inquired the child.”
“For your father, your dear father, who per
ished without knowing you, without being able to*
love you.”
“Must I pray to the saint, my patron ?”
“Yes, my little son; but do not forget a saint
who watches us from heaven, and who smiles upon*
us from above the clouds.”
“What is the name of that saint, mamma,
dear?”
The mother, then watering the fair child’s headi
with tears, answered :
“Her name is—Sister Egerie.”
“Postponing” A Goose.
I took passage in one of the packet ships that .
run between Mobile and New York. She was .
commanded by a sharp fellow, who was inter—
ested in making the trips as profitable as pos- -
sible. As a general thing, a meaner table was -
never provided in a cheap boarding-honse.
During the passage, we were becalmed one
day on a part of the coast which was excellent
fishing ground; and the captain, with a view oi '
saving a dollar or two, ordered the men to get
out their fishing tackle and try their luck. This
was done; and a quantity of the finny tribe were
soon transferred from their aqueous abode to the
deck of the ship.
The cafftain enlarged upon the delicacy of the
fish, and closed by asking, “ What say you to tu.
fish dinner to-day, ladies and gentlemen ?” Every---
body said, “ By all means !”
Attached to the ship was a negro cook, called *
Centaur.
“Centaur!” cried the captain.
“ Aye, aye, sa!”
“ Cook a mess of fish for the passengers’ dinner
and, d’ye hear, postpone that goose!”
“ All right, sa!”
Centaur seemed troubled, and scratched kis ~
wool vigorously. “What de mean" by cooking
de fish and postponin' 1 de goose? I ben on seberal
voyages, if not more—l ben in big hotels and
little hotels, man and boy, for eber so long if no
longer dan dat, and dis de fust time I eber beam
ob postponin' a goose. Der’s pickin a goose, an
drawin’ a goose, an’ stuiiiin’ a goose, au’ roastin’ a
goose, an’ bakin’ a goose, an’ boilin’ a goose, but
postponin' a goose I uon’t believe dat eben Mrs..
Glass,Me dey talk’bout, eber hearn of it. .
It must be done, though. Wonder if Jimmy
Ducks eber heard of it! He knows eberyting.
Just as Centaur concluded, Jimmy and two •
others of the crew passed the galley door, and
the bewildered cook anxiously inquired of the
oracle if he knew “ how to postpone-a goose ?”
“De case is dis, you see. Cap’n says to me jis
now, says he, ‘Cook a large mess ob fish for de
passengers’ dinner to-day, and postpone’ de goose.'
N r ow, dat is jis what dis nigger can’t git through
his wool, no how, what * postponin ” a goose is!”
“Oh!” said Jimmy, winking at his companions, .
“ that is easy enough. I thought every fool knew
that.”
“ I tought so, too,” said Centaur, “ an’ so I say
to myself, Jimmy Ducks ’ll know.”
“ Well, you see,” said Jimmy, looking serious; .
“ it isn’t a common way of cooking a goose; but
ven it is served up after fish, at the nobility’s din
ners, they “postpone ” it. Now, this is the mode:
After drawing the bird, staff it with mixture of
’ard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, onions ditto; apples
ditto; biscuit pounded into bits, and portions of a •
fish previously browned on the fire. Then put
the goose into* the pot, boil it for ’alfan our; place
it in the oven, and bake it for ’alf an onr, then put
it on your spit, roast it until done, and serve it
with gravy.”
Centaur* listened with attention, and noting
upon the tablet of his brain Jimmy’s directions, .
startedjfor the galley, highly elated.
Dinner time arrived, and Centaur won honors .
by the style in which he served the fish. Dish
after dish appeared; and when every one
supposed the meal to bo concluded, another dish
was placed before the captain, who, orr removing
the cover, to his indignation, discovered the goose 1 "/*
His wrath was not to be suppressed, and in a.. j
passion, he shouted—“ Send that iufernal cook (
aft.”
Centaur entered the cabin, very good-humoredly,
having no suspicion of anything wrong, and was J
startled by the question—
“ What do j'ou mean, scoundrel, by disobedience j
of orders?”
“ Beyed orders, sa; done jest what von said,sa.” j
“ Obeyed orders, you rascal!” Didn’t I tell you
to postpone the goose?”
“ Course you aid, sa; and I did it.” #
“ Did wlmtshouted the captain. w *
“ Postponed de goor-e, sa, cordis to direction*.
The passengers saw the joke, arffl burst into a
laugh. The captain was somewhat mollified and
requested Centaur to explain himself.
“ Well, sa,” said he, “ you ordered me to cook
de fish and postpone de goose. Now I nebber
postpone in all my life, an’ on bourse didn’t know
nothing ’bout it; but Jimmy Ducks ’lighten me
on the subjeck, on’ I follow exactlyfhis description.
I had trouble enough; don’t want to postpone
another, no how.”
Everybody laughed at Centaur’s explanation •
and even the captaiu smiled. *
•' Be off', you blockhead!” he said, “and send
Jimmy Duclls here.”
The darkey was ofFin a twinkling, and there
being some curiosity as to this new style of
cooking, we tried the goose, but could not tell*
whether we were eating fish, flesh or fowh-
Jeminy soon appeared ana was compelled to re
peat the directions he had given to the cook ;
forgiveness only being extended'to him on con
dition that he should eat the whole of the goose. -
The punishment was not very severe, for in fifteen
minutes noting but a skeleton remained of that
goose.
“My heyes!” was his exclamation, wehn he had
completed, the task; “if that’s a postponed goose, I
vish the captain ud ave one postponed every week i
The dressin owsever, might be waned, so as to
be a little more palatable/’
JcDXSB Dooly ANT) TIIE LANDLORD.— HARPER’S
Matfdztnrh&s a correspondent in Georgia who over- -
flows with good things. .He gets'off the following * .
anecdote:
Judge l)ooly, an eminent jusist*in Georgia, foriy
years ago, \vm# u.greatjwag as well as a great Judge -
—witty as wUn as wise. His gravity gave effect
even to his jokes, and these were more frequent
than his decisions. One of his fancies was to “ttike
people down” who were in the habit of* exaggera
tion. The way he used up Austin Edwards, keep
er of the hotel at Elberton, is a 'caution to all story
ellers, of whom Austin was the prince. He always
told the whole truth, and more. “It was material,”
he said, “he liked uncommon things better than
common ones—’(was a heap mare amu in’ anyhow.”''
Oue morning at breakfast, this long bow landlord
had been relating one of his extraordinary yarns,,
and Judge Dooly being at the hotel and listening*
to the story, sat in solemn silence until it was over,
and then remarked that he had an awful dream in
the night and was very much depressed this morn
ing. The landlord was awake in a moment, and
begged the Judge, if it would be no violence to his
feelings, to relate the dream, as all would like to
hear it. The judge still declined, as it might hurt
the feelings of others.
“ Oli, do tell it, Judge—we must have it,’ r urged
the landlord, and the companyjoining in the Ju§gy
proceeded as if he were about to sentence a crimi
nal to be hung: • !
“ Well, I* dreamed last night two lawyers and
myself had retired to a private room to divide
among us a fee received from ft hard case, which
had been carried thro’ with a mighty deal of lying
on all bands. While we were settling the divi— J
sion, in steps the devil, who, without a ns formali
ty, said he had come for us—we had * told lies
enough, and if he left us any longer we might re
pent, and so he’d lose us. We did our best to
persuade him to let us off, but he was inexorable,.,
till at last I ventured to ask if he ‘would take a
substitute. ,
“ 4 Whom do you offer ?* he asked.
u 4 Austin fid.wards,’ I said, 4 keeper of the El
berton Hotel.’ •!
“ 4 Good! he’ll do,’ said he, 4 send him downy
I’ll take him for all three of you ?’ ”
The table was in a roar, and the landlord was
cured, for a time at least, of his nabits of over- -
drawing. He passed away years since, and Judge -
Dooly is gone, too, so there is no harm done m
telling the story. _
Washington, Feb. 15.—Senator Seward hae
given notice of an intention to introduce a bill to "
re-organise the United States Supreme and Circuit
Courts, scKhat the several States shall be represent- -
ed by judges in those counts rifcire nearly on 'the
basis of federal population, while the admin
istration of justice shall be made more speedy afid
efficient, it is understood that Mr. Seward thinks
the Supreme Court is the slavery ciutdel to be •
stormed.
Boston, Feb. 15.—Judge Thomas, of the Su
preme Court, has granted a perpetual injunct Ton
against the Bay State Mills, and the creditors tc
appoint a receiver.